The Hoya: April 13, 2018

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The spring 2018 fashion issue mirrors Georgetown’s international energy.

EDITORIAL Administrators must approve a pilot program for one-credit language courses.

BREAKING WEINSTEIN Journalist Megan Twohey argued for critical coverage of male-dominated industries.

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DC Council Bill Police Investigate Israel, Palestine Flag Theft Proposes Historic Student groups file bias-related incident reports amid renewed tension 16-Year Voting Age Sarah Mendelsohn Hoya Staff Writer

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A bill that would allow 16and 17-year-olds to vote in Washington, D.C. elections for local and federal candidates was introduced in the D.C. Council by Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) on Tuesday.

If passed, the bill would allow 16 and 17-year-old D.C. residents to cast ballots not only for local candidates, but also for president and the District’s nonvoting representative in Congress. The bill would make D.C. the first municipality in the country to allow this age group to vote in all elections.

Advocates say the bill already has the support of a majority of councilmembers, including the six councilmembers who introduced it: Councilmembers Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1), Trayon White, Sr. (D-Ward 8), Robert White Jr. (D-At Large), David Grosso (I-At Large), Anita Bonds (D-At Large) and Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7).

Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has also voiced her support for the bill, according to Allen’s communications director, Erik Salmi.

Allen said it makes sense to give 16-year-olds a voice in the legal process because they already receive several important legal responsibilities by

that age, including the ability to drive, work and pay taxes.

“Ironically, they pay fees to get a license plate that reads ‘Taxation Without Representation.’ I think it’s time to change that,” Allen said in an April 10 news release.

“It’s pretty hard for anyone to watch the events of the last couple of months and not understand the ... maturity of incredibly young voices.”

Charles allen D.C. Councilmember (D-Ward 6)

Three Maryland cities – Takoma Park, Greenbelt and Hyattsville – already allow 16-year-olds to vote only in local elections. Legislators in Virginia and New York have proposed similar legislation, but neither state has voted on the issue, according to Brandon Klugman, campaign coordinator of Vote16USA, a group that advocates voting rights for minors.

Decreasing the voting age in the District would also increase voter See VOTING AGE, A8

An Israeli flag and a Palestinian flag, both hung in Red Square as part of pro-Palestine group Students for Justice in Palestine’s Israel Apartheid Week, were removed multiple times between April 3 and April 8, culminating in the Georgetown University Police Department apprehending one of the perpetrators who stole the Israeli flag.

GUPD is continuing to investigate the incidents, according to Matt Hill, the university’s media relations manager.

“As GUPD investigates these incidents, it has identified a suspect who has been referred to student conduct,” Hill wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Israel Apartheid Week is an annual protest on college campuses that aims to raise awareness of the continued IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

A Palestinian flag, hung in Red Square on April 1, was taken down once on April 3 and again on April 6 by unknown individuals, resulting in SJP filing two bias-related incident reports with the university.

Members of both SJP and the Georgetown Israel Alliance have called on the university to take a stronger stance on incidents that infringe on the rights of student groups to demonstrate in Red Square.

GIA has filed five incident reports with GUPD regarding the theft of the Israeli flag. GIA President Tanner Larkin (SFS ’20), who is also a member of The

Hoya’s editorial board, said the Israeli flag was taken down on five separate occasions on April 3, April 4, April 6 and twice on April 8.

GIA Cultural Chair Andrew Boas (SFS ’20), who witnessed the most recent theft of the Israeli flag, said GUPD may classify the thefts as bias-related incidents through the Division of Student Affairs as GUPD pushes for punishment for the suspect.

GUPD has not identified a suspect for the theft of the Palestinian flag, according to SJP Treasurer Olivia Vita (COL ’19).

GUPD did not respond to The Hoya’s request for comment on Boas’ and Vita’s statements as of 1:30 a.m.

SJP President Ahmad Al-Husseini (NHS ’20) and Vita both said the Georgetown Program Board removed both flags to post their flyers for its April 6 spring concert, featuring rapper Waka Flocka Flame.

After the Palestinian flag was hung once more in another location in Red Square, it was torn down along with Israel Apartheid Week fact sheets, according to Al-Husseini.

Al-Husseini said SJP chose to hang the Palestinian flag in a display of solidarity with those injured and killed in recent protests on Gaza’s border with Israel and as part of SJP’s Israel Apartheid Week, which is organized to draw attention to the 70 years of Palestinian popular resistance against the continued conflict in the IsraelPalestine region since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. “We hung the Palestinian

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Two flags hung in Red Square were removed multiple times this week, leading GUPD to investigate alleged bias. flag on Sunday out of solidarity and support for that weekend’s events in Gaza,” Al-Husseini wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians protested along the Gaza Strip on March 30 against Israel’s and Egypt’s continued blockade of Gaza since 2007, according to the New York Times.

The protests, which involved around 30,000 people, aimed to stage a peaceful sit-in for six weeks before protesters were met with Israeli military force.

Health ministry officials from Gaza said 34 Palestinians had been killed in an escalation of violence between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protestors, with thousands more

wounded, including 293 by live fire, according to Al-Jazeera.

The United Nations Human Rights Council said it has evidence that Israeli forces used “excessive force” during last week’s crackdown, according to The Independent.

Anti-Palestinian sentiments were posted on the wall near the Palestinian flag and on social media shortly after the Palestinian flag went up, AlHusseini said.

“Less than two hours later, the GIA put up an Israel flag right next to it with individuals responsible for this writing captions such as ‘clap back season’ See FLAG, A6

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Administrators are targetting a 2019-2020 completion date for the renovation of Kehoe Field, which was shuttered in February 2016 over safety concerns, leaving club athletes without a dedicated practice field.

Kehoe Fix Planned for Late 2018 Start Will Cassou Hoya Staff Writer

A renovated Kehoe Field, the athletics field located on the roof of the Yates Field House, is projected to open before the start of the 20192020 school year, returning playing space to club sports for the first time since the field was closed in 2016.

Detailed plans are taking shape for the renovation of Kehoe Field, the athletics

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field located on the roof of the Yates Field House that was shuttered in 2016, with construction expected to begin later this year.

Yates hosted an event last Friday displaying current progress on renovations for Kehoe Field and inviting input from students and campus leaders on the type of turf and infill used for the field.

The event marks the first time the Georgetown community has been invited to contribute

to the ongoing design study, which was approved by the university’s board of directors last October.

The board identified funding for the renovations in the five-year budget plan approved in February, according to Vice President of Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey.

The design study is expected to continue for the next six to nine months, with construction expected to begin in

late 2018, according to Morey.

The completed renovation would restore up to three acres of recreational space for the Georgetown community, particularly club and intramural sports teams, according to Meghan Dimsa, the director of Yates Field House.

The field’s structural problems began when it was rebuilt on the roof of Yates in 1979.

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Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus defended President Donald Trump’s unorthodox leadership style Tuesday.

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Celebrating Life GU Right to Life sought to diversify and expand its offering of events during its annual Life Week.

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Journey to the Hilltop An incoming Hoya explores the sacrifices his parents made to enable his success.

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More Than a Club The Georgetown boxing team won 3 belts at the National Championships in March.

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A petition to reduce aircraft noise in Georgetown was dismissed last month.

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Georgetown must stop lobbying against protections for its employees.

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The Georgetown baseball team won its series against Xavier and a mid-week game against Navy.

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Pilot 1-Credit Language Courses To uphold its reputation as a leader in international education and incorporate the demands of students into its curriculum, Georgetown University should run a pilot program across all four undergraduate schools to test the viability of one-credit language classes.

Last October, School of Foreign Service Senior Associate Dean Daniel Byman presented the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics with a plan to establish language classes worth one academic credit; current language classes are typically worth three credits for standard language-learning courses or six credits for intensive courses.

Despite demonstrated student interest and the strong backing of the SFS Academic Council, the FLL refused — and has continued to refuse — to adopt the program on the grounds that the program would not sufficiently teach language to students.

“We don’t think enough can be accomplished in one hour a week or the equivalent to make them worthwhile,” FLL convener Joseph Osgood wrote in a February email to The Hoya.

The proposed classes would not replace three- or six-credit courses, which this editorial board believes are necessary in pursuit of language learning and proficiency. Rather, these classes would provide an opportunity for already-conversational students to learn about the social and political issues of the language.

For example, SFSAC representative Ines Oulamine (SFS ’20) suggested the program, which would be available to students in all four undergraduate schools, could include classes in “the French presidency or the crisis in Venezuela” in a February interview with The Hoya.

In addition to the backing of the dean’s office, the proposal has strong support among students.

“One-credit language courses are consistently the one issue that SFS students want us to push for,” Roopa Mulpuri (SFS ’18), the president of the SFSAC, said in an interview with The Hoya.

According to Mulpuri, students are looking for an opportunity to maintain the fruits of the work they put into learning a language without losing too much time in their already-full schedules.

One-credit language programs serve the SFS’s particular emphasis on understanding international cultures and politics, in addition to fostering international communication.

Despite support from the SFS Dean’s Office, the FLL has employed misguided reasoning in its continued rejection of a pilot program.

In a February interview with The Hoya, Osgood argued already available “language tables,” which are gatherings for students of all levels to practice speaking their foreign language, provide an opportunity for students to maintain proficiency. However, these programs lack the structure and educational capability of one-credit courses.

Osgood has argued one-credit courses are ill-suited for learning languages, ignoring that the proposed courses would be designed primarily — although not exclusively — for the benefit of students at the advanced levels. The FLL is not meaningfully engaging with the core argument proposed by the many students pushing for this academic reform.

In a survey conducted by Oulamine and completed by 175 students, 61.7 percent of students who indicated interest in the program had already achieved proficiency. The survey’s results prove the proposed program would serve the cultural education of many students without detracting from enrollment in existing language classes.

The Georgetown student body, the SFS Dean’s Office and the SFSAC have effectively argued the merits of one-credit language courses, whereas the FLL has mainly posited arguments that crumble under examination.

The SFS Dean’s Office is prepared to oversee the courses’ implementation. Students are interested in enrolling in one-credit courses. The FLL must introduce a pilot program for the fall 2018 semester.

Zuckerboost — While testifying on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, sat on a cushion resembling a booster seat. A Facebook spokesperson stated that the seat was a standard practice of the committee.

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Basket of Payable Students — U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel finalized a $25 million settlement for students of Trump University, a fraudulent real estate program. The plaintiffs claimed they were misled, as the “university” was not an accredited school.

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Life From New York — Late-night television host and former Saturday Night Live star Seth Meyers’ baby boy Axel was born in his apartment lobby on Sunday. Meyers joked that his wife “looked like someone who was hiding a baby in a pair of sweatpants.”

Flyoverkill — A former Chicago aviation security officer who was fired for using force while dragging a passenger off a plane is now suing United Airlines and the city of Chicago. The officer claims he was never trained to handle such a situation.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Adam Semprevivo

Commit Resources to Muslim Life Muslim students at Georgetown University are too often required to sacrifice elements of their practiced faith. Georgetown must provide its Muslim community with the resources it needs to practice Islam in their day-to-day lives, particularly by providing halal food options and designating a sufficiently large prayer space for Muslim students.

Georgetown’s Muslim community has a strong presence on campus, including an active Muslim Life ministry and a Muslim Interest Living Community under the Office of Residential Living.

The university’s commitment to creating a space conducive to practicing Islam has not yet extended to everyday life. For example, Georgetown’s Muslim students too often must deviate from Muslim practices because of improper food preparation or a lack of properly prepared food at O’Donovan Hall and other on-campus dining locations.

As thoroughly discussed in Hiba Ahmad’s (MSB ’21) recent viewpoint in The Hoya, Hoya Hospitality, the company that manages Leo’s, has made well-intentioned efforts to provide halal-friendly options, but has thus far failed in its execution (“Cater to Halal Restrictions,” The Hoya, April 6, 2018, A3).

The few stations offering halal services — Grill at Fresh Food Company, which serves the lower level of Leo’s, LEO|MKT Olive Branch and Bulldog Tavern — rarely deliver on their promises. Georgetown should follow Ahmad’s advice in offering a single separate station that offers all-halal options for students.

Muslim students also face difficulties at Leo’s when observing Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month in the Islamic calendar.

During Ramadan, many Muslim students fast during daylight hours, meaning the regular operating hours of dining services often may not accommodate students’ religious practice.

In 2019, Ramadan will begin on May 5, meaning many Muslim students will take their finals while fasting. Georgetown should consider the comfort of these students when planning services around exam schedules. However, Rajia Arbab (COL ’18), the vice president of the Muslim Students Association, said she was concerned Leo’s will not be sympathetic to these concerns.

“Next year, with Ramadan earlier in the academic year, in addition to the lack of halal options, I’m worried that the dining hall will close before fasting students are even able to eat,” Arbab wrote in an email to The Hoya.

To ensure an environment conducive to Muslims students’ success — and to signal a commitment to accommodating the religious needs of a community on

campus — Georgetown and Hoya Hospitality should promise current and incoming Muslim students a halal-friendly dining option at night or at another time recommended by Georgetown’s Muslim community.

Georgetown’s insufficient resources for Muslim students are also evident in the inadequate universitydesignated prayer space.

Currently, the Muslim prayer space is located in the basement of Copley Hall. The most egregious flaw of the space, which does not have a kitchen to make halal food, is its size, according to Afras Sial (SFS ’19), the MSA’s director of communications. Students are able to practice daily prayer, but the space is not large enough to accommodate Friday’s weekly group prayer — a sign Georgetown’s Muslim community has outgrown its university-allotted means.

While the university has continuously failed to provide a much-needed religious space for Muslim undergraduate students, the Georgetown University Law Center established a prayer space for Muslim students this fall, according to Senior Director for Strategic Communications Rachel Pugh.

“Muslim Law students advocated for a designated space for Muslim prayer on campus,” Pugh noted in an email to The Hoya.

While the establishment of this space is a positive step, the university must acknowledge that Muslim undergraduates need a prayer space of their own.

Efforts to dedicate a larger space for Muslim students have been stalled for years. Sial has been waiting for university administrators to follow through on their promises for his entire Georgetown career.

“When I was a freshman, the seniors told me that they had been told since they were freshman that the new prayer space was almost complete. Since last time I asked, it should be completed next year, but this has been the official status for several years,” Sial said in an interview with The Hoya.

Stalling the progress of a much-needed religious space is inexcusable. In addition to providing culinary options suitable for a halal diet and reaffirming a commitment to the needs of Muslim students, Georgetown must accelerate the progress of this space.

Interreligious understanding is essential to Georgetown’s Jesuit identity, according to the university’s mission and ministry website.

In 1999, the pursuit of this understanding motivated Georgetown to hire the first Muslim chaplain — Imam Yahya Hendi — at a major U.S. university. Today, that same spirit must spur a redoubling of Georgetown’s commitment to the Muslim community by providing the resources students need to practice religion in their daily lives.

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HOYA HISTORY: April 15, 1983

Campaign Begins Against Drinking Bill As a result of a meeting last Thursday with student representatives from Georgetown University, the University of the District of Columbia, Howard University, and Catholic University, the Association Against Age Discrimination plans to launch a full-scale campaign against the proposed bill to raise the drinking age in Washington to 21.

Bart Edes (CAS ’84), founder and director operations of AAAD, outlined the campaign as having a three-part focus: letter writing, petition gathering and the registering of students in the D.C. area, who as residents of the city for more than half the year are eligible to register and vote in D.C. elections.

Kathy McShea (CAS ’85), assistant director operations and director of lobbying of AAAD, cited the

registration as the most important aspect of the protest. Said McShea said: “Our aim is to make the student voice in D.C. heard. We want to show the City Council by our registration lists that they must listen to us and if they don’t then they’ll hear from us at the polls.”

The voting pressure holds particular significance at this time, as the two council members who co-sponsored Bill #5-85, Charlene Jarvis and John Wilson, will be up for re-election next year.

The dimensions of the bill promise to be far-reaching, and on Tuesday presidents from the D.C. college consortium met to weigh the consequences of the bill and to discuss their stance on the matter. The AAAD is currently encouraging college student government leaders citywide to ask questions about the possible effects

the age raise would bring, such as the loss of revenue and jobs from on-campus pubs and taverns. Furthermore, AAAD hopes that student government representatives will appear before the Committee on Consumer and Regulatory Affairs when hearings for the bill are scheduled sometimes in the next two months.

Because four of the eight D.C. wards include large student populations, the impact of student awareness and activity is expected to be considerable. Edes pointed out, “The effort must be city-wide to be successful and I encourage everyone to put in his or her two cents by taking the time to write a letter, sign a petition and register to vote.”

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lub culture” is one of Georgetown University’s most profound social crises — but it is also our most solvable.

Our community has been denouncing club culture since at least 2013, when the studentmade film “Sleep When You’re Dead” highlighted the central role of exclusive clubs in Georgetown’s social life and the stress of trying to join them.

Amid all this attention, however, the problem has been worsening. Students seem more stressed and depressed than they were before, and acceptance rates for Students of Georgetown, Inc., the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, the Blue & Gray Tour Guide Society and many pre-professional organizations are lower than when I first arrived on the Hilltop four years ago. Blue & Gray’s acceptance rate, for example, dropped to 10.2 percent in fall 2016 from 17.7 percent in fall 2012.

Our community desperately needs a new approach. After spending a year exploring the issue as a co-chair of the Club Culture Working Group, convened

by Assistant Dean for Student Engagement Erika Cohen Derr last spring, I believe the solution lies in creating more opportunities for students — particularly first-year students — to build social capital outside the context of exclusive clubs.

Students should be able to make friends and find community in classrooms, in residence halls and elsewhere on campus without having to submit an application to their peers.

The university’s first step in this direction should be establishing new pre-orientation programs for freshmen. Participants in the eight existing programs widely report having built a sense of community through them: I know I certainly did on my pre-orientation backpacking trip. Yet there is far more demand than supply, so many students are denied the opportunity every year.

Creating new pre-orientation programs run by groups like Campus Ministry, Lauinger Library, StartupHoyas, a group that runs entrepreneurship programs for the McDonough School of Business, and the Department of Performing Arts would give more incoming students the opportunity to build community as they begin their journeys on the Hilltop.

The university should also establish new Living Learning Communities, which, much like pre-orientation programs, are already effective at providing space for students to build community outside of a club context.

Create a Hindu LLC to comple-

ment the existing Jewish and Muslim LLCs, and a Chinese language floor alongside the French and Spanish ones. Designate more LLCs specifically for first-year students as well, focused on common intellectual and cultural interests. Doing so would facilitate more friendships in the residence halls, mitigating students’ need to join exclusive clubs.

In addition to the pre-orientation and residential spaces, Georgetown should expand opportunities for communitybuilding in the classroom.

Small seminars can be great places to develop friendships, but more often than not, firstyear students find themselves in large, impersonal lectures as they attempt to fulfill core requirements. The SFS and the NHS have universal first-year seminar programs, but similar programs in the College and the MSB are small and exclusive.

There should be semesterlong seminars for all first-year students, designed to introduce them to the Georgetown community and impart the skills needed to navigate four years on the Hilltop — and to build community along the way.

The sociology course “Flourishing in College and Community,” which focuses on individual well-being within a campus community, would provide a good model on which to base a universitywide seminar.

Lastly, the university should liberalize its alcohol policies.

Whether or not administrators are willing to acknowledge it, alcohol will always play a significant role in college social life. Alcohol is thus a primary reason why so many first-year students seek out clubs and why so many older students stay in them.

If there were school-sponsored social events where alcohol was served to students of age, and if spaces like the Leavey Esplanade were transformed into open social spaces, then clubs would become much less important to the process of building and retaining social capital at Georgetown.

These ideas matter because the toxic social hierarchy of club culture is a direct affront to Georgetown’s Jesuit identity, which touts “care for the whole person.” Our shared values give us a collective obligation either to take these steps or find other ways to fix club culture.

We should keep our eyes on the prize: creating more opportunities for students to build social capital outside the context of exclusive clubs.

Ari Goldstein is a senior in the

College and a leader of a working group on club culture that has hosted events and discussion groups over the past year.

I am determined to infuse my Georgetown education with the values my parents demonstrated to help those around me: migrants, the hopeful and the ones who live in the shadows.

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never imagined I would one day have the opportunity to attend my dream college.

My parents migrated to a small border town in southern Arizona from northern Mexico in the late 1990s, when they were fortunately granted a visa. Like other immigrants, they left behind their previous life as they travelled to the United States with only their few belongings and many hopes that their future children could have access to both an exceptional education and a happier life.

My acceptance into Georgetown University’s Class of 2022 is both a long-awaited validation of my parents’ hard work and a motivating force for me to learn from their trials as I transition into college and pursue my passion of helping others.

Life in the United States has always been more difficult than my parents anticipated.

Their lifestyle has been rooted in enervating labor and a constant concern of being belittled because of their faint grasp of the English language.

My parents gave up a happy life in Mexico so that I may have greater opportunities.

For as long as I can remember, my father has always had the most upright work ethic.

I occasionally catch a glimpse of him in the late afternoon when he gets home from working 14 hours in the scorching Arizona heat. I watch him, his slim figure hunched over his dinner, eating quietly before going to sleep, so he can wake up in a few hours and repeat the same routine he has diligently maintained each day for the past 15 years — his subdued personality an outcome of the constant fatigue he has endured.

As for my selfless mother, she has somehow been able to raise my brother and me and tend to the house while also working as a custodian at a local grocery store. As the years pass, her once-young hands have become increasingly frail from her long hours of physical work.

For all the stresses it brought upon my parents, this rigorous lifestyle also helped cultivate my ambitious dreams.

Together, my parents prioritized my education and gave me the best life I could have asked for. When I was accepted to Georgetown in late March, I felt their longheld dream had finally been fulfilled: My acceptance letter validated the harsh life they chose to endure as a sacrifice for my own.

As I begin to transition into college, I hope to exemplify the traits my parents constantly instilled in all of my endeavors. Their work ethic, diligence and selflessness are values I dream of developing in my own life, so I may follow in their footsteps as I continue pursuing my passions and seeking personal growth during my study at Georgetown.

I wait with excitement to join a community of passionate individuals and to form friendships with those who have faced similar adversities.

In this pursuit, I look forward to joining the Latin American Student Association so that I can discuss these upbringings and struggles that are predominant within Latin cultures with others who

have also lived them and are a result of them.

Furthermore, I wish to use my experiences as a first-generation college student and a son of immigrants to disprove the many stereotypes surrounding my nationality, and to show that a MexicanAmerican student is capable of attending college and contributing back to society. We do not all fit the negative portrayal that is commonly broadcast of us.

Moreover, I am determined to infuse my Georgetown education with the values my parents demonstrated to help those around me: migrants, the hopeful and the ones who live in the shadows, because within them I see my family.

My passion of helping others was fostered by my parents’ unconditional love, and I hope to spread it to others.

I am indebted to my parents and the country that has provided me every opportunity. I look forward to giving back.

J. Martin Peralta is a mem-

ber of the Class of 2022. He will begin attending Georgetown in fall 2018.

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upport for Palestinian rights and pro-Palestine student organizations at Georgetown University is too often unnecessarily and undeservedly derided.

And while this problem is not exclusive to Georgetown, what is unjust beyond our campus remains unjust within it.

Last week, a Palestinian flag was hung in Red Square by proPalestine student organization Students for Justice in Palestine to honor the 17 lives lost during the peaceful protests in Gaza and to commemorate Israeli Apartheid Week, a series of events, lectures and rallies meant to raise awareness of Israel’s apartheid system over the Palestinian people. The flag was torn down, only to be found by the side of the road a few hours later. This desecration is, of course, a bias incident. However, this problem reaches far beyond a single act — or even a short-term pattern.

At Georgetown, support for Palestine is often treated as a lost cause. Indeed, it has come to my attention, and the attention of many Palestine-supporters on campus, that little to no attention is paid to Palestine-related bias incidents. After all, it is one thing to tear down a flag, but quite another thing to leave it on the side of the road, or to equate support for Palestine in its entirety on campus to anti-Semitism, or to spread false accusations about a student organization or to send death threats to the leaders of those organizations — which Eman Abdelfadeel (COL ’17), former president of SJP, has received in the past — and not be penalized.

When pro-Palestine student organizations — such as SJP or GU Forming a Radically Ethical Endowment, a group of students and faculty that have held

Georgetown accountable for the university’s role in perpetuating state violence as it refuses to divest from companies that enable and profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine — hosts a public event about Palestinian rights, the result is almost always the same: Vandalism and a reminder about the impossibility of speaking about Palestinian rights on our campus without receiving a hard slap in the face in return.

It is one thing to tear down a flag, but quite another thing to leave it on the side of the road, or to equate support for Palestine in its entirety on campus to anti-Semitism, or to send death threats.

The most prevalent example of this bigotry arose during Israeli Apartheid Week in 2016, when a group of students sabotaged the Israeli Apartheid bulletin board, which was placed in front of the Dean’s Office in the Intercultural Center to symbolize apartheid.

The posters on the board were not only defaced, but were also tarnished with a series of offensive slurs and hateful, anti-Palestine messages. While the incident was addressed by Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber and was covered by several news outlets, it did not receive administrative attention and was ultimately overlooked.

Another example occurred soon after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel last Decem-

ber — an action not only reversing seven decades of American foreign policy, but also denying Palestinians the right to their native land. A group of students poured water over the statements chalked on Red Square tiles in support of Palestine and Palestinians. Members of SJP had to re-chalk the statements the next day to show Palestinian students on campus they were not alone. Even as they were doing so, the members were verbally harassed by passers-by.

To further examine the Georgetown community’s fear of and intolerance toward pro-Palestine activity, I finally turn to SJP’s recent Facebook post asking Georgetown to “act on the principles to which it owes its clout by enacting a zero tolerance policy for petty actions that directly target Georgetown’s student population.”

This plea — which, in the cases of other bias incidents, such as last semester’s abhorrent anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts, has been heard and responded to — has today been swept under the rug by the university’s general antipathy toward Palestinian rights organizations. As a result, SJP revealed in a recent statement that it is now “seeking outside legal aid.”

While I want to believe in Georgetown’s commitment to social justice and free speech, I have time and time again seen the university systematically disdain Palestinian Georgetown students and supporters of Palestine. And while I believe that the lines must be drawn at some point, let us be reminded that this is only a gist of what it is like to be Palestinian, where your cause is constantly devalued and your voice is unheard.

Natascha Tahabsem is a

junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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eorgetown University’s employees should not have to choose between risking their jobs and caring for their sick family members. Yet, the Georgetown administration may be creating this impossible choice for many of its employees — and workers throughout D.C. — by lobbying for harmful, anti-worker changes to the Universal Paid Family Leave Act. In February 2017, the D.C. Council passed the Universal Paid Family Leave Act, which guarantees all individuals who work in the District eight weeks of paid parental or maternal leave, six weeks of paid family leave and two weeks of paid sick leave for every 52 weeks worked.

Although Georgetown likes to present itself as an advocate for worker rights, the university is turning its back on workers by pushing for changes to this legislation that would make family leave pay difficult for workers to obtain.

As it stands, the act is one of the most comprehensive pieces of paid family leave legislation in the nation and will provide muchneeded paid leave for workers once implemented in July 2020.

In its current form, the act will be funded by an employee payroll tax collected by the D.C. Department of Employment Services. Workers would file a leave claim, notify their employee of their leave requests and receive leave payments directly from DOES. Rather than allowing the act to go into effect as is, Georgetown’s administration, alongside other unnamed D.C. universities, is lobbying to change the bill to allow large employers — such as universities — to opt out of the social insurance system. Rather than paying the standard tax, employers who opt out would pay a reduced tax

and be responsible for administering leave policies of their own, under the condition those policies meet the requirements set by the Act. Although this proposal may seem reasonable, these changes are deeply concerning and would be harmful to both Georgetown employees and D.C. workers.

First, any proposed changes to the act would delay its implementation by up to a year, as DOES would have to spend more time preparing for the act’s implementation and would have to undo some of the work it has already accomplished.

Georgetown must stop lobbying to make life harder for workers, and instead prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable among us.

Such a delay would mean one more year of workers having to choose between a paycheck and spending time with their newborn children, taking care of an elderly family member or staying home while sick.

Additionally, the changes Georgetown is lobbying for would create more challenges for workers with multiple employers. Rather than receive their leave pay from one central location, employees would have to file with each of their employers and receive multiple partial payments, which puts a logistical burden on workers and decreases their financial stability. For many of the subcontracted and part-time workers at Georgetown, this change would mean

more time spent on paperwork and making sure leave payments arrive, and less time taking care of themselves and their families.

Georgetown’s proposed changes would also incentivize employers to punish or not hire workers who request leave. Under the current proposal, the number of workers who take leave does not change their employer’s bottom line, as the employers are not directly responsible for the compensation. If businesses were permitted to opt out and pay leave claims directly, employers would have incentive to discourage workers from filing leave and engage in discriminatory practicing hires against women who may become pregnant, individuals with chronic illness or other individuals who may need to file claims.

Georgetown claims the opt-out option would only be available to employers with “a proven track record of offering these benefits.”

Georgetown includes itself in that category, despite not offering leave meeting the act’s standards to its adjunct faculty, graduate assistants, subcontracted employees, part-time university employees, full-time male university employees and male-tenured faculty.

Georgetown should remember its commitment to its values and to its workers. Strong workers’ rights are not a marketing technique to be traded away whenever it is convenient, but a goal this university should be consistently pursuing.

Georgetown must stop lobbying to make life harder for workers, and instead prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable among us.

Logan Arkema and Jessica RICHARDs are sophomores in the College. Esmi Huerta is a

senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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An unused streetcar bridge in Glover-Archbold Park in danger of collapse may be demolished by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, raising concerns from local historical preservation advocates.

The streetcar line that the bridge supports used to service an amusement park in the area until Washington, D.C.’s streetcar service was halted in the 1960s. Since then, the bridge has fallen into disrepair; WMATA, which opens the bridge, worries it may soon collapse, endangering pedestrians who use the footpath below.

Concern over the soundness of the bridge prompted inspections that found “several structural deficiencies,” leading WMATA to plan for demolition, according to WMATA spokeswoman Sherri Ly. The bridge, called the Foundry Branch Trolley Trestle, is one of just two bridges left standing from the old trolley line that linked the Georgetown neighborhood and Glen Echo, Md., according to the D.C. Preservation League website. The organization describes the structure as “one of the few remaining early transportation bridges in the city.”

“WMATA’s highest priority is repairing its own system that is facing a $15 million backlog of construction.”

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The D.C. Preservation League, a group that advocates for the maintenance and restoration of historical sites in the District, has voiced concerns over the expected demolition. D.C. Preservation League Executive Director Rebecca Miller said in an interview with The Hoya that the bridge’s condition amounts to “demolition by neglect,” after WMATA made little effort to stabilize the bridge since acquiring it in the 1990s.

The District Department of Transportation has offered to conduct a study on possible methods to stabilize the trestle without destroying it. However, WMATA filed an application for demolition without waiting for the results of the study.

“DDOT has offered to do a

study on keeping the trestle and [assessing] its current condition, and WMATA’s response to that was to file this application for demolition,” Miller said in an April 5 WTOP article. “So, we don’t see that as working in good faith with the other parties involved.”

However, Ly said WMATA has made efforts in the past to save the bridge by transferring the property, but no other group has taken it on.

“Over the past several years, WMATA has explored many options to transfer the bridge to other parties, without success,” Ly wrote in an email to The Hoya.

WMATA has other more pressing budgetary concerns and has done what it can to try to save the bridge, according to Ly; now it is up to other groups or agencies to save the bridge if they choose.

“WMATA’s highest priority is repairing its own system that is facing a $15 billion backlog of construction and maintenance needs as a result of deferred maintenance,” Ly wrote. “Repairing the WMATA system is critical to ensure safety for those who ride us every day.”

WMATA may face legal challenge regarding the expedited push for demolition, according to Miller.

“Also, under the [D.C. Historic] Preservation Act, there is a requirement to show alternatives to demolition, and obviously WMATA has not looked at that, given that DDOT hasn’t had the opportunity to do their study yet,” Miller said in the April 5 WTOP article.

The bridge sits within the Glover-Archbold Park Historic Area, making the Preservation Act applicable, according to Miller. The park contains an expansive trail system, into which preservation advocates say the trestle could be incorporated as an alternative to simply tearing it down.

“We recognize that WMATA has other priorities with regard to the rail system,” Miller said in an interview with The Hoya.

“However, they do have this piece of infrastructure that could be incorporated and made into a very interesting piece of history for the city.”

While WMATA has filed for a permit for the demolition, that permit has not yet been granted.

Despite the filing, DDOT still plans to carry out the study on the feasibility of alternatives.

A public hearing on the issue with the Historic Preservation Review Board is scheduled for May 24.

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NYT Reporter Advocates Role of Journalism in Combating Misconduct will cassou and sarah mendelsohn Hoya Staff Writers

Reporting on sexual assault and harassment can not only expose predators, but also combat systemic injustice, Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times reporter Megan Twohey explained at an event in Lohrfink Auditorium on Tuesday.

At an event titled “Breaking Weinstein,” hosted by the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, Twohey spoke about her work with The New York Times’ Jodi Kantor reporting the dozens of sexual assault allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein, cofounder of Miramax and the Weinstein Company.

Twohey, who has worked at publications like The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, has also reported on systemic mishandling of rape kits as evidence in Illinois police departments and the multiple sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump during the presidential election of 2016.

In October, The New York Times

published accounts of nearly three decades of previously undisclosed sexual harassment allegations against Weinstein. Over 80 women, including actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan, accused Weinstein of harassment and rape in the days following the initial report, which spurred the start of the viral #MeToo movement that highlighted the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, particularly in the workplace.

The phrase “Me Too” was initially employed by Tarana Burke, a civil rights activist who began using it to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault in society. Time named Burke, among a group of other prominent female activists dubbed “the silence breakers,” the Time Person of the Year for 2017.

Twohey said she believes journalism can empower the public to become engaged with issues related to sexual violence.

“I really have found — and it’s one of the reasons I’m so committed to journalism, and the due diligence, and the gathering of the facts and making sure you

apply fairness and accuracy to the reporting,” Twohey said, “When you do that, you do bring about change and open people’s eyes and get people to care.”

Twohey said that, though there was doubt about the impact the story would have, she remained determined to continue reporting on it.

“When we started our investigation, Jodi and I heard over and over that even if we succeeded, no one would care. Everyone knows men behave like this in Hollywood and elsewhere. Even if we were able to publish our story, it wouldn’t make a difference. They were wrong,” Twohey said. “Three days after our first story, Weinstein was fired. What’s happened in the past six months, you know, men in a variety of industries were exposed as predators and ejected from their jobs. There was a genuine shift in power, a collective strength in women’s voices.”

Even though Weinstein and his public influence intimidated many of his alleged victims into silence, Twohey said past survivors laid the foundation on which she could build the story.

“The settlement trail and these

other internal company records were so significant. They created a safer platform for women to go on the record with their stories of harassment and abuse,” Twohey said. “What happened next is wellknown. Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and countless other women shared their stories in the pages of The New York Times, others in The New Yorker.

It was remarkable.”

Twohey said the Weinstein investigations led to a flood of new allegations of sexual assault that garnered unprecedented attention.

“What started off as sort of a small group of reporters doing sexual harassment coverage at The New York Times [as] primarily investigative reporters expanded into a whole army of reporters that stretched into our culture department where people who cover Hollywood and the entertainment industry,” Twohey said.

Despite the public reaction against Weinstein and the emergence of the #MeToo movement in response, Twohey said that the biggest implications of the Weinstein story still require attention.

“The moral horror of the Weinstein

story was that he was able to allegedly pray on countless women year after year for four decades and that other individuals and institutions enabled his behavior,” Twohey said.

Weinstein succeeded in avoiding prosecution because of systemic complicity, which included that of his brother, the board and human resources department of the Weinstein company, talent agents and journalists who sought to use his public influence, Twohey said.

“Some aided his actions without realizing what he was doing.

Many knew something or detected hints, though few understood the scale of his sexual misconduct.

Almost everyone had incentives to look the other way,” Twohey said.

Other prominent figures in the media industry have fallen from grace, as accusations of sexual misconduct circulated in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. Matt Lauer, co-host of NBC’s “Today,” was fired after allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior in November, and television host Charlie Rose was fired

by CBS after allegations of sexual harassment and lewd phone calls

in November.

Twohey said though bringing the actions of predators to public attention is important, she hopes in the coming year, reporting will shift to focus on the systems that allow for sexual misconduct in the first place.

“It’s so important, especially when you’re doing investigative journalism, to move beyond the individual predator to the institution and the individuals who enabled that to happen,” Twohey said. “As we’re learning more about that — the failed HR departments and these flawed settlements that locked women into silence so they could never, ever say what happened to them — I think that we’re starting to see some of the systemic failures that occurred.”

Twohey said that she is dedicated to reporting on sexual misconduct because she believes that journalism can inspire people to care about the issue.

“You can be sure that I’m going to continue to be reporting on it, with a belief that people — if you do respect the facts — that people will care,” Twohey said.

Priebus Defends Trump’s Style, Administration’s Successes

GU Right to Life Diversifies Events for Annual Life Week

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President Donald Trump’s unconventional governing style has led to conflicts within his administration but ultimately contributed to his success, former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said at an event hosted Tuesday evening by Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service.

At the event, Priebus acknowledged his attempt to maintain order as the chief of staff in Trump’s White House was often thwarted

by Trump’s loose managerial style.

“He likes to stay loose and see what happens and make decisions by putting people around him on a particular subject that don’t agree with each other,” Priebus said.

“He wants the smartest people to fight it out, and then he makes a decision. And I think the decisions have been good.”

Priebus spoke on Trump’s political philosophy and unorthodox governing style in an event in the Healey Family Student Center Social Room.

The event was moderated by GU Politics Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94) and former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh Shields, a GU Politics fellow.

Priebus cited Trump’s accomplishments, which appeal to his Republican base, as evidence his unconventional leadership style has not impeded his success.

“You have the tax cuts, you’ve got the Supreme Court

and you have a total deregulation and a dismantling of almost everything that Obama did by executive order,” Priebus said. “Those, if you’re a Republican, are great things.

The decisions that he’s made have made him a pretty historic president in only a year.”

Priebus acknowledged Trump is, in some ways, not like any other Republican president. Trump is “extremely unique” in his personal style, Priebus said, and his campaign themes refocused the Republican Party on a populist message.

“President Trump’s been very good for the party in the sense that it’s returned to the idea that the American workers are worth fighting for.

That we’re not about Wall Street — we’re about people that are making tools and working with their hands and have been forgotten,” Priebus said.

However, Priebus also said the president’s actions in office fall in line with the conventional Republican Party ideals of restraining the federal government.

“Look at what the president did in the first few weeks through executive order, forcing every department to look at itself and cut out wasteful regulations and wasteful spending, to reduce its size, to have a hiring freeze,” Priebus said. “That’s the type of care and feeding that someone like me would actually see as caring for big institutions.”

Discussing Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election, Priebus said the campaign won in part by reaching

out to minority communities and staying faithful to the Republican Party’s traditional base.

“The president and the campaign funded an operation on the ground in Hispanic, black and Asian communities for not just a six-month period before the election, but for four straight years,” Priebus said. “It’s just a fact of life that you cannot grow a party by subtracting people out the door.”

Trump performed slightly better with minority voters than the last Republican nominee, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, did in the 2012 election. However, Trump also received widespread condemnation for inflammatory rhetoric concerning immigrants, saying of Mexican immigrants in a June 2015 speech launching his campaign: “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

But despite all that is different about Trump, Priebus said not much is different about the Republican Party or the country than before Trump landed in the political arena. He said much of the media narrative about Trump is overstated.

The Trump administration will not redefine the political positions of the Republican Party permanently, Priebus said.

“I think post-Trump, the party returns to its traditional role and its traditional platform. It’s a Trump brand and he owns it and he has a way of protecting it,” Priebus said.

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Georgetown University Right to Life, a student group that advocates against abortion and the death penalty, celebrated its annual Life Week April 8 to 14 to encourage discourse on pro-life issues ranging from the death penalty to abortion.

The student group hosted six events throughout the week, each focusing on a different aspect of what it means to be “pro-life.” The events included a talk on ableism; a bake sale to raise funds for the Northwest Center, a center founded by Georgetown alumni to support mothers and pregnant women in need to preserve the dignity of human life; and a screening of “I Lived on Parker Avenue,” a proadoption movie.

GU Right to Life President Havens Clark (SFS ’20) said the diversity of issues discussed during Life Week go far beyond the antiabortion stance the group is often associated with.

“During Life Week, we try to focus on a number of the aspects of the pro-life movement that our club supports, but we usually aren’t known for,” Clark wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Life Week has featured a bake sale to benefit a pregnancy center every year since it was established. However, the film screening, discussion events, diaper drive and Flag Day — which used a visual display to depict the magnitude of abortion in the United States — differed from previous years’ programming.

In a talk titled “What is Ableism?” Dawn Parkot, a speaker and disability rights advocate, spoke about the connections between the pro-life movement and disability. Parkot was born with cerebral palsy, a neural condition that affects motor function.

Parkot studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.

The talk focused on the ways the disabled community is discriminated against in the United States, the high abortion rate of fetuses with genetic disorders and Parkot’s own story of living a full, meaningful life.

Life Week typically features a film screening, but the movie and its theme vary each year.

This year, the group showed “I

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GU Right to Life members placed 2,374 flags to reflect the number of abortions that occur every day in the United States.

Lived on Parker Avenue,” a documentary that depicts the reunion between an adopted man and his biological parents and promotes adoption.

A signature Life Week event, Flag Day incorporated a visual display to showcase the frequency of abortion. The group placed 2,374 flags on Copley Lawn to represent the number of abortions that take place each day in the United States, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a think tank.

Nicholas Cote, who sits on the board of directors for Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, discussed the conservative case against the death penalty on Wednesday evening’s talk.

Melvin Thomas (COL ’18), vice president of Right to Life, said the talk offered a different narrative concerning conservatives’ opinions about the death penalty.

“Typically, people think of conservatives as pro-death penalty, so we thought it’d be interesting to have a conservative speak against it,” Thomas said.

Though the first half of the week spotlighted discussion of pro-life issues, the second half of the week was centered on action,

according to Clark.

“Life Week also has a large service component to it,” Clark wrote.

The group is also running a diaper drive on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to benefit HOPE, a pregnancy resource center in northern Virginia. Right to Life members plan to go to Safeway and ask customers to purchase diapers and baby formula to donate to the campaign.

The diversity of topics covered in Life Week 2018 reflect Thomas and Clark’s goals for Right to Life.

Thomas said the pair have tried to explore a wider range of prolife issues.

“Our theme for this year was basically centered around overcoming or dispelling misconceptions about the pro-life movement,” Thomas said.

As Life Week comes to a close, Thomas said he was pleased with the diversity of the week’s events.

“It’s a really great time especially as the year ends for members to see the full plethora of things we do as a club, between our service events, our speaker events, and our social events,” Thomas said. “It’s a great time for people just to see everything we do.”

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Howard Students Protest Administration Mismanagement Elizabeth Douglas Hoya Staff Writer

Students at Howard University in northwest Washington, D.C., occupied an on-campus administrative building for nine days in protest of the current president and vice president of the university, as well as university policies regarding student housing, financial aid and the arming of campus police, among other issues.

The protests occurred after a since-deleted article published by the blogging platform Medium anonymously alleged large-scale misappropriation of financial aid funds in Howard’s Office of Financial Aid. In response, Howard released a report Monday admitting to an ongoing investigation into the misappropriation of funds, which led to the termination of six financial aid office student-employees. Howard has declined to name any of the six employees.

Howard announced Monday that, in total, $369,000 in financial aid money had been misappropriated, according to an April 9 article from The Washington Post.

The students occupied the Mordecai Wyatt Johnson administration building from March 29 through April 6.

About 600 to 700 were in the building at any given time during the occupation, according to Howard University Student Association President Jade Agudosi.

Protesters’ list of demands included the resignation of the university president and vice president, extension of the

campus housing deadline, the disarming of campus police, transport to D.C. hospitals for victims of sexual assault, improved campus mental health services, a food pantry and a dedication to opposition to gentrification.

The protests were the culmination of long-simmering frustration among students at Howard, said Agudosi.

“Every year there are seasons of Howard scandal that arise,” Agudosi said in an interview with The Hoya. “Not oftentimes are there huge financial aid scandals like this, but there are issues like Homeless at Howard, with students who aren’t guaranteed their housing assignments, although they should have been.”

The frustration is frequently directed at Howard University President Wayne Frederick, whose resignation was a demand of the protesters. Agudosi cited Frederick’s response to students’ housing concerns, which has become infamous on campus, as an example of poor leadership that has contributed to long-term student anger.

“The university president responded to students who had reached out to him over email about their housing situation with ‘Watch your tone and tenor,’ as opposed to giving them an adequate response or at least having some form of compassion or care for the concerns that those students had outlined in that email,” Agudosi said.

Amos Jackson III, the president of the Howard College of Arts and Sciences and HUSA President-Elect, noted that HU Resist, the student group that

organized the protest, released its list of demands before the publication of the Medium article; the article expanded the movement that was already brewing.

“HU Resist has been organizing, has been protesting, has been demonstrating for a year and a half now,” Jackson said in an interview with The Hoya.

“Those demands are based on all the research they had conducted. They seized this opportunity to gain more support.”

Jackson said most of the demands of the protest have been met, except for the resignation of university president.

“We didn’t get the resignation of the board and the president, but we knew from the beginning that was going to be a hard feat,” Jackson said. “I think what we got will serve the university well and bring about a lot of change to the university.”

Agudosi said that the main goals of the protest have been achieved and that moving forward there will be more outlets for grievances to be heard in the campus community.

“Our main goal was for there to be transparency, accountability, accessibility to the administrators of the university, the president of the university and the board of trustees.

I think that was established,” Agudosi said. “There’s going to be a grievance committee comprised of students, faculty and some of the administrative staff as well. It’s about having that pipeline, where you have that connection to the students, so we don’t have to occupy a building for our voices to be heard.”

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Howard University students occupied an administration building March 29 to April 6, demanding administrators’ resignations and reforms to student housing, financial aid and campus safety.

Students Host Israel Apartheid Week Police Detain Flag Suspect Elizabeth Ash Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine hosted its annual Israel Apartheid Week from April 2 to 6 to draw attention to the 70 years of Palestinian popular resistance against the continued “process of dispossession” and conflict in the Israel-Palestine region since the 1948 Israeli War of Independence.

In its 14th year, Israel Apartheid Week is an international movement on college campuses that aims to provide a platform for events in cities to raise awareness of “Israel’s apartheid system over the Palestinian people and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,” according to the IAW website. The Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for international companies and governments to withdraw support for, divest from and sanction Israeli companies “that are involved in the violation of Palestinian human rights,” according to the BDS movement website.

Andrew Kadi, a BDS movement leader, was invited to explain the BDS movement to students April 3. BDS encourages the international community to stop “a regime of settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation” by exerting financial pressure on Israel, according to the BDS website.

Part of a nationwide federation of Palestinian advocacy groups, Georgetown’s SJP organized events to support the ongoing dialogue about selfdetermination of Palestinian people.

Other events SJP hosted throughout the week included a film screening of “The Wanted 18,” an animated documentary about the efforts of Palestinians to start a small local dairy industry, and a talk

by Georgetown department of anthropology professor Laurie King, who discussed the importance of Palestinian media and journalism. King co-founded a Palestine-focused, online news source called the Electronic Intifada in 2001. SJP also tabled and wrote letters to Palestinian political prisoners in Red Square.

SJP President Ahmad Al-Husseini (NHS ’20) said Israel Apartheid Week, which has taken place on Georgetown’s campus since 2011, is SJP’s number one priority for the year.

“Our goal in doing this week is simply just raising awareness and reminding the world that this struggle still exists and is not going away until immediate and severe action is taken to hold Israel accountable,” AlHusseini wrote in an email to The Hoya.

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As part of the Students for Justice in Palestine’s Israel Apartheid Week, Andrew Kadi, a “BoycottDivest-Sanction” movement leader, argued for an international response to Israeli actions in Gaza. out incident. A Palestinian flag, hung in Red Square on April 1, was taken down April 3 and April 6 by unknown individuals. This resulted in SJP filing two bias incident reports with the university administration.

Georgetown Israel Alliance (GIA) also reported five separate incidents concerning its Israeli flag, which also hung in Red Square. Its flag was removed April 3, 4 and 6, and GIA filed bias reports with the administration. Georgetown University Police Department apprehended the April 6 perpetrator.

SJP Treasurer Olivia Vita (COL ’19) said recent conflicts on the border between Gaza Strip and Israel have added significance to on-campus events.

“This year we didn’t have a particular theme, but the current happenings in Gaza have added another layer of heartfelt sensitivity,” Vita wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians protested along the Gaza Strip on March 30 against Israel’s Gaza Blockade — a land, air, and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt from 2007 to present — according to The New York Times.

The protests, which involved around 30,000 people, aimed to stage a peaceful sit-in for six weeks before protesters were met with Israeli military force. Gazan health ministry officials said 29 Palestinians have been killed in an escalation of violence between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protestors, with thousands more wounded, including 293 by live fire. The UN Human Rights office said it has indications that Israeli forces used “excessive force” during last week’s

crackdown, according to The Independent.

GIA, a club dedicated to Israel’s right to exist as a state, disputes SJP’s definition of the nature of Israel Apartheid Week.

Despite individual friendships between some members of GIA and SJP, tensions rise between the two groups every year during Israel Apartheid Week, according to GIA Cultural Chair Andrew Boas (SFS ’20).

“Around Israel Apartheid Week, it obviously gets very tense,” Boas wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I think for better or for worse, SJP has not been particularly active this year.

They come out sort of during Israel Apartheid Week. But as far as it relates to Israel or Palestine, there’s very little cooperation between the groups.”

A main source of tension between the groups has arisen over the meaning of “apartheid” in the week’s title.

Al-Husseini said the use of “apartheid” in the campaign is meant to represent SJP’s view of the relationship between the Israeli government and Palestinians.

“We use the word apartheid in this week’s title because we truly do believe that the current policies carried out by Israeli government represent a system that treat Palestinians like second-class citizens in all aspects of life,” Al-Husseini wrote.

GIA President Tanner Larkin (SFS ’20), who is also a current member of The Hoya’s editorial board, pushed back on the label apartheid as a false characterization of Israel’s political climate.

“If ‘apartheid’ is meant literally, apartheid has a legal

definition whose criteria are not met by the situation in Israel. If it is meant metaphorically, then Israel is nothing like apartheid South Africa,” Larkin wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Arab Israelis, unlike non-white South Africans, enjoy the same privileges and rights as Jewish Israelis and are integral members of Israel’s political, economic, and cultural life. They live and work alongside non-Arab Israelis, sit in the Israeli parliament, and serve bravely in the Israel Defense Forces at ever-higher rates.”

GIA plans to host Georgetown’s first-ever Israel Peace Week from April 13 to 19, though its week’s purpose is not to rebut Israel Apartheid Week, Larkin said.

“I hope that Israel Peace Week will be a chance for Georgetown students to do their part to move us closer to the vision that many of individuals in both GIA and SJP share, of two states, one Jewish and one Arab, living sideby-side in peace, cooperation, and mutual respect,” Larkin wrote.

Next week, SJP plans to set up a mock apartheid wall in the Intercultural Center Galleria to showcase ongoing instances of “human rights violations conducted by Israel,” Al-Husseini said. Two years ago, the wall was vandalized with anti-Palestinian messages.

A final Israel Apartheid Week event, a charity dinner to benefit a humanitarian aid organization Helping Hand, has not yet been scheduled.

SJP may postpone the dinner until next semester because of logistical and scheduling issues, according to Al-Husseini.

and other disrespectful captions on social media,” Al-Husseini wrote.

The Georgetown Israel Alliance hung the Israeli flag beside the Palestinian flag to protest the Israel Apartheid Week, according to Boas.

“GIA put up the Israeli flag in response to Israel Apartheid Week, a week-long series of events planned by SJP with the purpose of denying Israel’s right to exist,” Boas wrote. “We feel that the Israeli flag, along with our banner advocating for two-sided dialogue, was a good way to remind Georgetown that we too are on campus and are always willing to dialogue.”

GIA is a pro-Israel group that supports bilateral dialogue and believes in Israel’s right to exist. Boas said that Israel Apartheid Week is a clear denial of Israel’s right to exist.

“The issue with Israel Apartheid Week is that it’s an absolute one-sided denial of Israel’s right to exist,” Boas wrote.

“Students For Justice in Palestine goes to great lengths to explain that it is actually about Palestine and not Israel.

It’s not an attack on Israel; it’s a protection of Palestine, when in reality we can tell, even by the name of the event Israel Apartheid Week, that it’s an attack on Israel that has no basis on history or reality.”

Vita said there are instances of personal harassment and other anti-Palestinian acts such as theft of Palestinian flags every year.

Boas said GIA has also faced harassment in the past. Boas referenced an incident in March last year when signs with American support for the existence of Israel were defaced.

“They were just pro-Israel messages of peace and coex-

istence. They were flyers that had been distributed and torn down and also things were written on them that were offensive,” Boas said.

Al-Husseini called on the university to take a stronger stance against the thefts of the Israeli and Palestinian flags, asking them to release a statement condemning the actions.

“These events have become far too common place and do not attract enough attention, as it goes directly against Georgetown’s free speech rights,” Al-Husseini wrote. “Red Square is such a cherished space because it is central to our campus’s idea of promoting free speech and I hate to see these type of vandalism on all sides, so I hope to see the campus issue a formal response to these far too common-place incidents.”

Boas also called for a statement from the university in response to the thefts.

“The university absolutely should issue a statement saying that discrimination or crimes on the basis of national identity, in this case Israeli identity, are obviously condemned by the university and unacceptable in much the same way that they did a statement when swastikas were drawn in LXR,” Boas said.

Hill said Georgetown remains committed to tolerance and the administration supports free speech on campus.

“As a Catholic and Jesuit university, Georgetown is an inclusive community that supports the free and open exchange of ideas and welcomes people of all faiths and racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Georgetown does not tolerate vandalism that attempts to silence the speech of our community,” Hill wrote in an email to The Hoya.

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The Georgetown University Police Department apprehended a suspect following the theft of an Israeli flag April 8 in Red Square.

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Kehoe Field Renovation Colorado Governor Advocates Projected to Finish by 2019 Clean Politics in Campaigns Kehoe field, from A1 of the gymnasium does not properly drain rainwater, leading the field and the roof itself to deteriorate from pooling water. The field has been repaired twice since 1979, first in 1987 for $1.8 million and again in 2002 for $7 million.

Kehoe was shuttered indefinitely in February 2016 due to safety concerns about the field’s structure. The closure has left club and intramural sports teams without a dedicated practice field, since Kehoe had previously been the main field for club sports teams. These teams now have to share Cooper Field with varsity teams or use off-campus fields at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School east of campus and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts north of campus.

Aidan Delaney, chair of the Advisory Board for Club Sports, said the loss of Kehoe has resulted in a shortage of field space.

“Varsity has been very generous in terms of letting us use [Cooper Field], but it’s tough to have three different organizations, whether its varsity athletics, intramural leagues and club teams rotating on one field,” Delaney said in an interview with The Hoya. “So, when we do go off campus, we have to rent space at Georgetown Visita-

tion center or Duke Ellington.”

While Duke Ellington School of the Arts has been allowing club sports teams to use the fields for free so far, Delaney said he expects it might begin charging fees in the near future. Delaney also said the restorations would allow club sports teams to decrease team dues, making the teams more financially accessible, as well as opening more field space for the clubs.

“It would help us increase our access and really lower our external expenses. At this point we probably pay, by the end of the year it will probably hit $55,000 in external field rentals, whether it’s soccer, lacrosse, hockey, baseball, softball,” Delaney said.

Many students made major contributions to the approval of the Kehoe renovations, according to Ricardo Mondolfi (SFS ’19), the Georgetown University Student Association representative to the board of directors, who gave particular credit to Daniel Fain (COL ’18), former chair of the Advisory Board for Club Sports, which allocates funding to club sports, for his dedication to the project.

“ABCS was involved through their Chair at the time, Daniel B. Fain, who took the lead in the advocacy effort and helped Board representatives raise this issue over

a two-year period. A lot of people worked on this, but Dan is definitely the individual with the most responsibility for getting this new field,” Mondolfi wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Fain said he was motivated to advocate for the restoration of Kehoe after it was closed, leaving the Club Frisbee Team, of which he was a member, and the larger community of club and intramural sports without the primary practice area.

“Advocacy took the form of petitions, letters to the Board of Directors, and physical protests to raise awareness of the issue. All the energy the community has poured into the projects helped to communicate the importance of the field to Georgetown and this importance undoubtedly played a huge role in the university’s decision to renovate the field,” Fain wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Fain said he is pleased to the see the project beginning to take form.

“What is exciting is that campus recreation and student leaders are beginning to delve into the details of the renovation, discussing the design, turf selection, lighting, etc. We are finally starting to see this project we have advocated for so long become a reality,” Fain wrote.

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Construction on Kehoe Field, the athletics field located on the roof of Yates Field House, is expected to begin later this year following community input during its planning and design phase.

Rep. Fears Social Safety Net Deconstruction Under Trump Noah Berman Hoya Staff Writer

The dismantling of social safety net programs and federal agencies under President Donald Trump’s administration has disproportionately harmed workingclass women, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said at an event hosted Tuesday evening by Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

DeLauro, the U.S. Representative for Connecticut’s third district since 1991 and a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, expressed her concerns over the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Department of Labor and Department of Agriculture.

“We are witnessing the hollowing out of our federal agencies,” DeLauro said. “In my view, this is a fundamental failure to govern.”

The congresswoman also warned that the administration is specifically targeting social safety net programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, social security and unemployment compensation.

“Social safety net programs make sure that children are not punished for their parents’ poverty

and that they do not go hungry,” DeLauro said at the event.

The event was cosponsored by the Georgetown College Democrats, the Georgetown Women’s Alliance, the Georgetown Solidarity Committee and the Georgetown University Office of Federal Relations.

DeLauro’s office released a congressional report in March arguing that regulations withdrawn during Trump’s presidency are “destroying government programs and policies critical to protecting and advancing women’s economic security, health care, education and quality of life.” DeLauro cites regulations that decreased nursing home protections for seniors, decreased overtime pay for minimum-wage workers and limited women’s access to anti-hunger programs.

For DeLauro, the rollbacks of the social safety programs put vulnerable American populations at risk as they will not receive any assistance or care from the government.

“I cannot overstate the chilling effect this will have on the American public,” DeLauro said. “It’s crippling the ability of government to serve people and families.”

DeLauro noted that although social safety net programs have been threatened in the past, the Trump

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Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) expressed concerns about dismantling social safety net programs at an event Tuesday evening.

administration and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) are putting such programs at particularly high risk.

“It is, today — with President Trump and Speaker Ryan — the most massive assault on the social safety net that we have seen,” DeLauro said.

Support for social safety net programs was not always partisan as it is today, DeLauro said. She cited bipartisan support after World War II for programs to help Americans who had fallen on tough times.

“When it came to these programs, real leaders on both sides of the aisle put people in need before politics,” DeLauro said. “There were men and women who understood why they were elected to the United States Congress.”

Following the election of former president Ronald Reagan in 1980, however, tax cuts created a deficit that laid the groundwork for the current administration’s stance on social safety net programs, according to DeLauro.

“Today, the tax bill that was passed sets the stage for Speaker Ryan and President Trump to slash the very social safety net programs that were once met with bipartisan support,” DeLauro said.

DeLauro said that the Republican tax reform bill signed into law

by Trump last December, which lowered the corporate income tax by 14 percent and the top individual income tax rate by 2.6 percent, prioritizes the wealthy over social programs.

“This is the ugly truth of the Republican tax law — giving money to the wealthy through tax cuts — and they’re going to gut the programs that help hardworking Americans,” DeLauro said.

Rather than looking for ways to decrease the gender wage gap or increase protections for workingclass families, the Trump administration is looking to make it more difficult for the working class to access services that could help them, DeLauro said.

“Destroying government programs and policies is about playing fast and loose with people’s economic security, healthcare, education, quality of life,” DeLauro said.

Instead of harming women and the working class, DeLauro said, Congress should be hoisting them up.

“We are fighting for the soul of this country, and everyone who is a part of this country is worth that fight,” DeLauro said.

Elizabeth Douglas Hoya Staff Writer

Colorado’s positive political climate should serve as an example to national politicians who rely on negative and combative rhetoric during their campaigns, according to Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) at an April 5 event, “The Possibility of Politics: A Conversation With Governor John Hickenlooper.”

The event, which was hosted by the Institute of Politics and Public Service, featured a conversation between Hickenlooper and moderator Jackie Kucinich, Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast and a former fellow for GU Politics.

Previously a geologist and entrepreneur, Hickenlooper began his political career when he became the governor of Colorado in 2011.

Hickenlooper discussed campaign advertisements that attack the other candidates, saying they ultimately negatively affect the nature of politics in the country, which is especially prevalent in today’s political climate.

“Politicians define themselves by who’s different from them; they define themselves by how they can put down their opponent,” Hickenlooper said. “They think there’s a great margin in having enemies, and in differentiating between different groups of people.”

Hickenlooper said that the use of negative ads encourages ad consumers to pay less attention to politics, as the negative rhetoric clouds the message of the politicians who are running.

“Those attack ads make people just tune out, and not read the newspapers, not pay attention to podcasts, not get involved in the details of policy,” Hickenlooper said. “American democracy is the best form of government that has been invented yet, but also one of the most fragile forms. It’s completely dependent on people listening to each other and getting involved in the real issues of the day.”

Hickenlooper drew on the

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Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) advocated the need for increased bipartisan cooperation and clean campaigns in politics in an event April 5.

The Republican Kasich and Democrat Hickenlooper even considered entering the 2016 presidential election on a “unity ticket,” demonstrating an alliance of candidates that have different political ideologies. The idea was ultimately discarded because of concerns over how practical the ticket would be.

“In terms of real political possibilities, it just won’t happen,” Hickenlooper said, referring to the prospect of a twoparty ticket.

Hickenlooper, who was an entrepreneur in the brewing industry before entering politics, joked that to fix the divisive quality of today’s national politics, every major politician should be required to work in the fast-paced world of the restaurant industry to learn the value of collaboration.

“When you’re in a restaurant and you’re in the weeds, when there’s a big rush and people can’t get the food out of the kitchen fast enough, you learn that it doesn’t matter whether you’re tall or short, black or white, straight or gay — everybody’s a part of the team,” Hickenlooper said “Everybody’s the same. Everybody is equally valuable.”

political campaign climate in Colorado, which employs consensus-oriented strategies to govern, to show the positive impacts that ads of this nature can have. Hickenlooper cited a 2004 sales tax increase in metropolitan Denver to highlight the cooperative nature of Colorado’s politics.

“In this metropolitan area, 34 municipalities, every single mayor — Republican and Democrat — all 34 unanimously supported the four-tenths of a percent sales tax increase,” Hickenlooper said. “Try to imagine that happening almost anywhere else.”

Hickenlooper described his efforts to bring Colorado’s spirit of cooperation to the national political stage in his 2017 partnership with John Kasich (R-Ohio). The pair led a bipartisan task force of governors that sought to halt Republican efforts in 2017 to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “We needed a Republican governor, and we needed to sit down and find a bipartisan set of compromises that we could both agree on that would stand the test, that we could go out publicly and say, ‘Here’s what we’re both willing to live with,’” Hickenlooper said.

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Petition Against Flight Paths Dimissed by Court of Appeals EMMA KOTFICA Hoya Staff Writer

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced her districtwide initiative to repair city roads in poor condition, PaveDC, at the kickoff event for the 10th annual “Potholepalooza” last Friday.

District Launches Initiative To Repair All City Roads by 2024 DEEPIKA JONNALAGADDA Hoya Staff Writer

A long-term initiative to repair all Washington, D.C. city roads in poor condition by 2024 is underway, according to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), who announced her initiative for PaveDC last Friday.

The plan consists of road rehabilitation and maintenance, alley repair and construction and sidewalk reconstruction across the city, according to an April 6 news release.

“With PaveDC, we are looking beyond our annual repairs and taking the steps necessary to ensure that by 2024, no roads in Washington, D.C. are in poor condition,” Bowser said, according to the news release. “Our goal is to create a safer, stronger D.C. by building more reliable roads across all eight wards.”

As part of the PaveDC launch Friday, Bowser kicked off the 10th annual Potholepalooza, a monthlong initiative led by the District Department of Transportation to expedite pothole repairs in the city.

Ten DDOT pothole crews have pledged to respond to identified potholes within 48 hours of a submitted request through the end of the month.

The normal response time of 72 hours has been shortened by the process of using hot box equipment to keep asphalt at the proper temperature. Eight new boxes

will be used to perform work previously contracted to external companies.

DDOT has filled 1,060 potholes since the launch Friday, according to DDOT Communications Specialist Michelle Phipps-Evans.

Approximately 25 percent of all streets in D.C. have been classified as “poor condition” for the 2018 paving season because of potholes and severe pavement damage, according to DDOT’s website.

DDOT conducts annual assessments to determine efficient work plans for roadways that address the needs of the public, Phipps-Evans said.

“DDOT conducts a pavement condition assessment every year on all federal roadways and every other year on local roads,” PhippsEvans wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This results in a cost-effective use of funds, and provides maximum benefit to the traveling public by enhancing the safety of the roadway, and improving the drivability of the road surface.”

The annual assessment combines road quality data and community requests to prioritize the roads in need of rehabilitation according to greatest need and highest value to the community.

Assessments — categorizing roads as poor, fair, good or excellent — are held following pavement deterioration because of low temperatures and precipitation in the winter. All roads are visually assessed by DDOT staff to determine the extent of rehabilitation

and need for sidewalk repairs before being placed on the list of rehabilitation.

Two hundred ninety-eight street segments are set to be paved during the 2018 paving season and 26 are currently under construction as of April 10, according to the PaveDC website launched

by DDOT. The road segments due for resurfacing this season across all wards can be viewed online on the interactive PaveDC map.

The 2018 paving season will only address a portion of the roads assessed to be in poor condition, according to Phipps-Evans.

“By both proactively maintaining the roads currently in good condition while repaving those that are in poor condition over the next six years, DDOT plans to eliminate all poor roads,” PhippsEvans wrote.

Notices containing information on the repairs and “No Parking” signs will be posted 72 hours prior to the start of scheduled resurfacing work on affected streets.

City residents and commuters are encouraged to submit pothole repair service requests through the mayor’s call center at 311, the online service request website, the District’s DC311 smartphone application or social media using the hashtag #potholepalooza.

Residents can track the progress of reported potholes online as crews will use mobile geographic information system mapping technology to update their status within the hour.

A petition to reduce aircraft noise in the Georgetown neighborhood resulting from recently altered flight paths at Ronald Reagan National Airport was dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on March 27.

Proposed by the D.C. Fair Skies Coalition, a group of neighborhood activists from around Washington, D.C., the petition came in response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s revision of flight patterns around D.C. airports and across the country.

The flight paths have been revised based on the NextGen plan, which utilizes satellitebased navigation to increase fuel efficiency, save time and increase airplane capacity at airports, according to a March 28 WTOP article. The increased efficiency causes planes to take off more often and at lower altitudes, leading to an increase in the volume and frequency of airplane noise all over the country.

The D.C. Fair Skies Coalition, with the help of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), filed the initial petition to the FAA in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2015. The appeals court ruled the petition to be untimely, saying its “final order” had come

in 2013. The petition had come after the 60-day statutory time limit, and there were “no reasonable grounds for delay,” according to the court.

“Federal law requires that petitions seeking review of FAA actions be filed within sixty days of the agency’s final order,” the court said. “We dismiss the petition as untimely.”

The D.C. Fair Skies Coalition said that it does not believe the FAA provided adequate notice to District residents that the organization would be revising flight plans, and that it is considering requesting a rehearing from the court and directly petitioning the FAA, according to an April 2 news release.

Georgetown University students and faculty have noticed the increased air traffic. Charlotte Lindsay (COL ’20) said excessive airplane noise has bothered her during her time at Georgetown, which lies on flight paths to and from Ronald Reagan National Airport.

“I think it’s definitely excessive in our area, and especially in class sometimes it’s hard to hear what your teacher is saying because of all the noise, or trying to go to sleep at night can be difficult,” Lindsay said.

In September 2017, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) directed Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh to sue the FAA over the flight patterns to and from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. The

order was made “on behalf of all Marylanders suffering from the adverse effects of the implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System,” according to a September 2017 article from The Baltimore Sun. “This program has made many Maryland families miserable in their own homes with louder and more frequent flights which now rattle windows and doors,” Hogan wrote in his letter to Frosh. “As elected leaders of this state, we cannot allow this situation to stand.”

In a response letter to Hogan, the FAA said “reverting to the flight paths and procedures that existed prior to the implementation of the DC Metroplex project is not possible,” according to the Baltimore Sun article. The D.C. Metroplex consists of BWI, Reagan and Dulles International Airport.

While frustrated with the level of airplane noise, Lindsay also said she understood why the NextGen plan is more favorable to travellers and why the FAA may be reluctant to change flight paths.

“As somebody who would be on a plane, I would be annoyed if I had to take a longer flight path just because of a few people complaining about noise,” Lindsay said. “I feel like a big part of it is the nature of living in a city. It’s the sacrifice we have to make.”

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turnout later in life by getting people involved in the political process at a young age, Klugman said in an interview with The Hoya.

“We know that voting is a habit, and 16 is a much better time to establish that habit than 18,” Klugman said. “So if D.C. were to extend voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds, it would go a long way to make sure that young people in D.C. vote in the first election they’re eligible for, and then establish voting as a habit and become lifelong voters and active citizens.”

In November 2015, Allen introduced a similar bill that failed to pass. This time around, Allen said recent activism among young people, particularly in the gun control movement after February’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., may push this iteration of the bill to success.

“It’s pretty hard for anyone to watch the events of the last couple of months and not understand the pure power and maturity of incredibly young voices,” Allen said in an April 10 article from The Washington Post.

In addition to support from several councilmembers, the bill has been backed by many local and national organizations including the Young Women’s Project, a D.C. organization working to build youth leadership through civic engagement and education about important issues such as sexual health.

Alik Schier, a 16-year-old youth advocate for the Young Women’s Project and sophomore at Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest D.C., said granting 16-year-olds voting rights is necessary to ensure the group is properly represented.

“I work in a restaurant so I pay local and income taxes, and the mayor and the D.C. council get to decide not only how to spend that money, but I get to pay those people sitting in office,” Schier said in an interview with The Hoya. “I don’t really think that’s fair. I get to pay them and they get to spend my money, so why don’t I get to vote for who I want to do that?”

Takoma Park, a small town in the Maryland suburbs outside Washington, D.C., became the first city in the United States to allow 16-year-olds to vote in local elections in May 2013. Since the law was passed, the city has seen high

voter turnout among the youngest demographic, according to Takoma Park Mayor Kate Stewart (I).

“When we look at the percentage of registered voters who actually turn out — people who register to vote and then actually do vote — that our 16 and 17-year-olds actually turn out at higher numbers than older voters,” Stewart said in an interview with The Hoya.

Hyattsville has seen similar success in voter turnout among 16 and 17-year-old voters since granting them suffrage in 2015. In the one election the city has held since granting these rights, the percentage of voter turnout in this age group was double that of previously eligible high school residents, according to Hyattsville Mayor Candace Hollingsworth (D).

“That’s one of the things we were particularly happy about, because they’re registering and they’re voting, which is the most important part,” Hollingsworth said in an interview with The Hoya.

The bill has been referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety for debate.

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Conservative Panelists Advocate for Prison Reform MEENA MORAR Hoya Staff Writer

The criminal justice system must be reformed at the state level through increased education programming for prisoners and less harsh penalties for minor crimes, a panel of conservative criminal justice advocates said at an event Tuesday evening.

The panel, hosted by the Prisons and Justice Initiative, featured Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; Gerard Robinson, executive director of the Center for Advancing Opportunity; Shon Hopwood, associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center; Heather Rice-Minus, vice president of government affairs at Prison Fellowship; and Marc Levin, vice president of criminal justice policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

“The more innocent people you send to prison, the more nonthreatening people you send to prison, the less likely they are to come back.”

GROVER NORQUIST President, Americans for Tax Reform

The event was moderated

by Georgetown University government professor and Director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative Marc Howard and featured a discussion on the role of bipartisan coalitions in reforming the U.S. prison system.

Panelists at the event discussed prison system reforms that would reduce prison populations and recidivism, including reforming mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines. Hopwood said mandatory minimums, which require judges to impose sentences of a set length for crimes that may be minor, lead to a vicious cycle of im-

prisonment.

“Mandatory minimums are not going to solve any problems with crime,” Hopwood said. “You can reduce the number of people in prison, and crime will still go down.

We can’t solve crime by just locking up more people.”

Hopwood emphasized the need to address recidivism, the tendency of convicted criminals to reoffend after leaving prison, which he said often occurs as a result of mandatory minimums.

“On the one hand, we say we put people in corrections,” Hopwood said. “On the other hand, our recidivism rate now ranges from 40 percent up to 75 percent. How many government programs do you know where they fail three out of four times, and they just keep plugging along?”

Norquist echoed Hopwood’s point, saying that after people are sent to prison for minor offenses or offenses they may not have committed, they are more likely they stay in the prison system for years after.

“The more innocent people you send to prison, the more nonthreatening people you send to prison, the less likely they are to come back,” Norquist said. “They didn’t want to commit another crime anyway — because they either didn’t commit the crime or they did something that they’re not going to do again.”

To address the recidivism cycle, the panelists advocated for increased education and social programs within prisons, led primarily by the private sector. These reforms transcend partisan lines, according to Robinson, as they are aimed at trying to assist all individuals in the prison system and are not directed at a particular group.

“I am equally committed to the idea that education makes sense for criminal justice reform,” Robinson said.

“It’s not the left wing or the right wing; what we’re trying to do is give people wings to fly away from situations that do not work and land in situations that do. The government should have a role,

but there is surely a need for private-sector and for faithbased communities to come in place.”

Rice-Minus works with Prison Fellowship, a Christian nonprofit that includes educating prisoners through a program called “The Academy.” Implemented in 78 prisons and 26 states, the program provides prisoners with financial literacy tutoring and parenting skills.

“Our graduates from our programs have shown drastic drops in recidivism rates,” Rice-Minus said. “We want a more constructive prison culture; we want people to

reflect the social norms that we want to see when they get out.”

To refocus the purpose of the criminal justice system to assist prisoners and increase social programs, Levin and Rice-Minus both proposed integrating restorative justice approaches within prisons, which emphasize reforming prisoners rather than punishing them. They noted the importance of imprisoning people who pose a threat to society, but also the need to reduce arbitrary or unnecessary arrests.

“We have to lock up the people we’re afraid of, not the

ones that we’re mad at,” Levin said. “We have incarcerated so many people for low-level drug offenses in which people could pay restitution. One of the things we support is restorative justice approach, as a form of mediation.”

Rice-Minus explained the potential opportunity for mediation between the victim and the offender as a way to address the root cause of conflicts.

“Crime, at the heart of it, is about the breaking of relationships, not the breaking of the law,” Rice-Minus said. “It’s about what happens between the person who was harmed and the person who was re-

sponsible, and the community it impacted.”

Despite the potential for reform, the panelists expressed little faith in the ability of the federal government to seriously change the criminal justice system because of a lack of resources and incentive.

“I would love to see meaningful federal prison reform happen, but I don’t see it happening,” Hopwood said. “The core of [the proposed reform] is right: The core of it is to rehabilitate people and incentivize them by getting them out of prison early — the problem is the implementation.”

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Director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative and panel moderator Marc Howard, left, and conservative criminal justice advocates Grover Norquist, Gerard Robinson, Heather Rice-Minus, Marc Levin and Shon Hopwood took part in a panel about prison reform Tuesday evening.

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Chaos Detracts From Superleague Women Lose Drew Sewall

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reek soccer has taken on some dark undertones in recent years.

Greece’s historic run to become the 2004 European Cup champion with 80-1 odds is no longer a fresh thought in people’s minds. Rather, the joy that manifested itself in the heroic performances of Theodoros Zagorakis, the team’s captain, and Angelos Charisteas, who scored the deciding goal in the final, has long been forgotten.

Now, a once proud footballing nation has been completely stripped of its identity because of the rampant dysfunction throughout Superleague Greece, the top division of soccer in Greece, that distracts from the games.

Most significantly, the chaos in Superleague has distracted from the stellar season of first-place AEK Athens, a team chasing its first championship since 1993-94. They sit first in the league table with 60 points, eight points clear of second-placed PAOK Salonika.

In a league normally dominated by Olympiakos Piraeus and PAOK, AEK’s run to the top has been a revelation. They haven’t lost a league match in 2018, with their last loss coming on Oct. 23, 2017. Although their attack has been decent, it is their defense that has really shined. They have only conceded 12 goals in 26 matches,

averaging .46 goals given up per game. This stout defense has enabled them to shoot up to the top of the table.

On March 11, Superleague Greece finally reached its boiling point after an incident during a match between AEK Athens and PAOK. Late in the match, it appeared PAOK closed the gap in the title race as they scored in the 89th minute to make it 1-0. However, after numerous protests by AEK defenders, the goal was disallowed and ruled offside.

PAOK players were instantly furious and crowded around the referee pleading their case. PAOK’s owner and president, Ivan Savvidis, entered the pitch carrying a gun in a holster with his group of bodyguards and approached the referee. Before Savvidis could cause any more trouble, he was restrained and eventually escorted off the pitch.

The AEK players immediately left the pitch and refused to come back. The game was abandoned and will only be resumed at a later date. Immediately after the match, an arrest warrant was issued for Savvidis because he invaded the pitch.

Following the match, Greece’s sports minister, Giorgos Vasileiadis, announced Superleague Greece would be suspended indefinitely until “a new, clear framework [is] agreed to by all so we can move forward with conditions and regulations.”

Vasileiadis’s response is not the first time the league has been suspended recently.

In 2015, the league was suspended on three different occasions following violence amongst fans that led to one

person being killed and multiple others, including the assistant director of the refereeing committee, being injured.

PAOK has also faced uproar in the past. Just two weeks before the Savvidis incident, the disciplinary board announced PAOK would be docked three points and would have to play their next two home matches without any fans. The decision followed an incident involving fan violence during a match between PAOK and Olympiakos Piraeus. During this match, Olympiakos’ manager was hit with an object thrown from the stands by PAOK supporters.

This year’s suspension of Superleague Greece ended after two weeks on March 27 after each club in the league accepted new changes to both reform the league’s disciplinary code and to enact other changes to further improve the quality of the league.

Immediately after announcing the resumption of the league, the disciplinary board also announced the punishment for the parties involved. PAOK and Savvidis were both fined. Savvidis was also banned from entering stadiums for three years while PAOK were docked three points in the table. All of these punishments were subject to appeal.

Despite being 20-time champions of Greece, PAOK have recently dealt with a difficult financial situation. Earlier this season, PAOK were docked three points for failing to pay out the full contract of a former defender, Jens Wemmer, who is owed over 498,322 ($615,981).

However, this incident in-

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volving Savvidis only highlights the underlying issues in Superleague Greece. Recently, PAOK players went on strike and failed to show up to training because of unpaid wages.

They have not been paid their wages since October and have said they will not show up to training until they are paid at least through December.

In another incident at the end of February 2018, a Greek court finally ruled on a matchfixing incident dating back to 2011. People with ownership shares or administrative positions in four clubs, Olympiakos Volou, Levadiakos, Asteras Tripolis and Ilioupoli, were found guilty of various charges involving match-fixing and bribery. In addition, various players and managers for the clubs were also found guilty of illegal betting. The fact that matchfixing is commonplace is one of Greece’s worse kept secrets.

Yet, these incidents overshadow one of the most interesting seasons in Greek domestic football in recent memory.

Olympiakos Piraeus, the team who has won the past seven Superleague Greece championships, sits third in the table.

AEK Athens currently sit first in the table, five points clear of PAOK. PAOK would be even closer to the top if they had not been docked points as a result of disciplinary actions.

But alas, AEK’s potential run to win their first league championship since the 1993-94 season has been greatly overshadowed by the issues plaguing Greek soccer as a whole.

Drew Sewall is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. kicking and screaming appears every other Friday.

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As the Big East Championships approach, the Georgetown women’s tennis team will have no shortage of competitive matches from which to draw inspiration.

Georgetown, for the fifth time this season, dropped a match by a score of 4-3, this time against crosstown rival The George Washington University.

Going forward, the key for the Blue and Gray (3-11, 0-1 Big East) will be converting those close affairs into victories.

The women’s team competed at the GW Tennis Center last Wednesday, where their three wins came from the bottom of their singles lineup. Senior Drew Spinosa collected a point in the No. 3 slot

with a straight set 6-4, 6-4 win. Two more upperclassmen earned victories in the Nos. 4 and 6 positions, as senior Daphne de Chatellus triumphed in a length 6-7, 7-6, 10-6 affair, while junior Sydney Goodson prevailed in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3.

GWU swept the doubles matches and earned three singles wins, setting them up for a decisive fourpoint total.

Georgetown’s men’s tennis squad was scheduled to host St. Francis Brooklyn on April 4 before the match was cancelled April 2.

GU will be back in action this week when the men host George Washington on Saturday. The women will travel to Fairfax, Va. next week to battle George Mason on April 19 in the squad’s final non-conference match of the season.

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Junior Cecilia Lynham is 0-2 this year in singles play. Lynham and her doubles partner, senior Drew Spinosa, are 8-2 on the season.

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Hoyas Win 2-of-3 in Chicago VIKRAM SUD

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Last weekend the Georgetown women’s softball team travelled to Chicago for a three-game series against DePaul, in which the Hoyas won two out of three games.

Georgetown then travelled to Fairfax, Va., and suffered a narrow loss to George Mason on Wednesday.

On Saturday, the Hoyas (1127, 3-5 Big East) won the opener over the Blue Demons (2413, 7-2 Big East) with a score of 8-6. Sophomore pitcher Anna Brooks Pacha pitched a complete game. On offense, Georgetown was powered by sophomore Noelle Holiday, who hit two home runs, including a go-ahead home run in the top of the seventh inning to give the Hoyas the lead.

Georgetown struggled

offensively for the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader and was shut out for the ninth time this season, leading to a 2-0 loss. Freshman pitcher London Diller took the mound and gave up just two earned runs in a complete game. However, the Hoyas struggled offensively, managing just four hits in the defeat.

On Sunday, Georgetown closed the three-game series with a 5-4 win in extra innings. Once again, Brooks Pacha took the mound, pitching another complete game and earning another win.

The traditional seven innings were not enough to decide the game, but in the eighth inning, junior catcher Sarah Bennett hit the go-ahead home run, giving the Hoyas a 5-4 lead that they did not relent.

Following two days off, the

Hoyas were back in action, traveling to Fairfax, Va., to play George Mason (12-23, 2-7 Atlantic 10). The game once again went to extra innings, with the Hoyas losing 4-3. Diller took the mound again and gave up one run in four innings before being replaced by sophomore pitcher Katie Vannicola, who pitched the rest of the game.

Offensively, Bennett hit a home run for the second consecutive game, while Holiday drove in the other two runs.

The Hoyas were up 3-2 heading into the bottom of the seventh, but Vannicola was unable to close it out, giving up a home run to send the game into extra innings. In the bottom of the eighth, Vannicola gave up another run, giving George Mason a walk-off win.

The Hoyas are back in action Saturday, hosting Butler in a threegame series at Nats Academy.

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Senior catcher Richie O'Reilly went 0-3 with two walks in the series finale against Xavier. He is hitting .298 with one home run and 10 runs batted in, good for second on the team.

GU Wins Series Against Xavier HIRO MOTTA

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After dropping the first game of its home series against Xavier, the Georgetown baseball team won two consecutive extra-inning games last weekend and followed up with an away victory against the Naval Academy on Wednesday.

The Hoyas (10-20, 2-1 Big East) opened Big East play with a 6-2 loss to the Xavier Musketeers (11-21, 1-2 Big East). Playing at Shirley Povich Field, their home field, in Bethesda, Md., the Hoyas were outhit 15-6 and never possessed the lead.

Junior starting pitcher Jack Cushing held the Musketeers at bay for five innings, giving up one run on seven hits and one walk. The Hoyas’ three relievers — sophomore righthander Nick Morreale, senior right-hander Matt Randolph and freshman right-hander Beau Dana — gave up five runs on eight hits and three walks in four innings of work as a group.

The Hoyas redeemed themselves with their performance in the final two games of the home series. Sophomore ace

pitcher Brent Killam had another strong performance on the mound in the second game, allowing one hit and one earned run over 7 1/3 innings. The outing lowered his season’s earned run average to 2.16.

Senior closer Jimmy Swad came in relief for Killam and continued the strong pitching effort, allowing no hits and one walk to earn the win. Freshman catcher Ryan P. Davis drove in the walk off run in the 10th inning to win the game 2-1, capping off his three-hit effort for the day.

The last game of the series was a comeback victory for the Hoyas, who scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth frame to tie the score up at three. After both teams scored a run in the 10th inning, senior first baseman Alex Bernauer hit a walk off single — only his second RBI of the season — to end the game. Swad was again credited for the win after pitching the last three innings and allowing one hit and one earned run.

On Monday, Swad was awarded Big East Pitcher of the Week honors for his performance against Xavier.

Swad is the second Georgetown pitcher to receive this honor this year: Killam received Pitcher of the Week honors in March.

In their most recent game on Wednesday, the Hoyas took on the Navy Midshipmen (25-10) in Annapolis, Md., for another close game. Georgetown jumped out to a 3-0 lead as a result of freshman shortstop Eddie McCabe’s two hits and junior third baseman Ryan Weisenberg’s three hits.

McCabe and Weisenberg both scored hits on Wednesday. McCabe’s effort aligned with his early season success, upping his batting average to a team-leading .308 on the season.

While the Midshipmen scored two runs in the sixth inning, the Hoyas held on to win the game 3-2. Freshman left-hander Jacob Grzebinski earned the win, allowing four hits, three walks and two earned runs in five innings.

Morreale was credited with his first save of the season.

Georgetown will look to keep its momentum going as it takes on George Mason (1417) at Shirley Povich Field in a three-game series from Friday to Sunday.

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Junior catcher Sarah Bennett leads the team with six home runs to go along with 20 runs batted in. Bennett is batting .277 with a .368 on-base percentage on the season.

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For Burkly and Vannier, the victories marked the second time each has won a national title. Junior fighter and club co-president Theresa Romualdez lauded their efforts at the national championships, as well as how the fighters support each other.

“It’s been really cool to see them progress with me,” Romualdez said. “They were both there for my first fight, so the support among the junior class especially has been really great these past three years.”

Romualdez serves as co-president of the club alongside Vannier.

“Being able to work with him, both inside and outside of the gym, has been great,” Romualdez said. “Watching him in nationals, he was really fast.

I always watch his fights and think that it’s at a completely different level from where I’m at. I want to be able to fight like that someday.”

For Hou, the championship fight was his last for Georgetown. This season, Hou won all three of his fights. Yet the senior’s success contrast with his experiences freshman year, when Hou fell short in the national competition.

Nevertheless, Hou felt that losing in his freshman year was essential for his further development as a fighter.

“Even though I lost, it was good for me,” Hou said. “It taught me that losing is not as bad as I was catastrophizing it to be going into the fight.”

This year’s championships proved different for Hou. Not only did the senior win in his weight class, but he felt that his performance in the final fight was his absolute best.

“I thought it was my best fight ever,” Hou said. “I’ve seen plenty of fights where club members graduate, and by no means is there last fight their best fight. I can proudly say that I ended my run on a great note.”

Other schools participating in the championships included the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, Kansas University, the University of Florida and Florida State University. Illinois won the male team title with seven individual wins, while Michigan secured the female team title with six individual wins.

Although Georgetown came short of a team title this year,

Hankel believes Georgetown could win a team victory at the national championships in the years to come.

“It’s hard for us to compete against teams that have so many boxers, but based on the fact that nearly half of our boxers win when we go, it’s still within the realm of possibility. That’s something we’re working towards,” Hankel said.

In addition to having fewer fighters than other schools, the club is also hindered by certain logistical shortcomings. For example, the team cannot regularly practice in a ring, which puts the club at a significant disadvantage against schools who do. Instead, the team practices in the Bulldog Alley dance studio, which fails to recreate the setting of an actual fight.

“Some of these other schools have their own boxing ring they can practice in, and when they have 30 girls who spar, they get a lot more variety in their competition,” Hankel said. “It’s is a luxury that we don’t have, both because the size of our team but also our resources here not being able to sustain such a big team because of the space.”

However, Hankel feels the club’s success could improve the resources allotted to it by the university.

“Hopefully, the more we sort of succeed, the more the school will respond to that,” Hankel said.

While the club’s weaknesses may be in its size and practice space, its strengths rest in a strong team community supported by a group of diverse, talented members.

“Our team is pretty unique among student activities at Georgetown,” Hankel said.

“We’re probably one of the most inclusive spaces I’ve seen in that there are no tryouts.

We tend to attract a very diverse group, ethnically, interest-wise and any other aspect you can think of.”

For Hankel, boxing calls for a team dynamic unlike any other.

“It’s the fact that we really push ourselves together, we punch each other, we’re in the ring together, we’re tired, we’re sweaty, we’re losing weight to make our weight together,” Hankel said. “It becomes a very natural and effective bonding and welcoming environment.”

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the face of the 2016 “Make Baseball Fun Again” movement. Outspoken, outwardly confident young players like him were supposed to make baseball more celebratory and lighthearted and encourage it to engage with social media. However, Harper’s movement was stunted by controversial on-field actions, from showboating to publicizing arguments with other players.

Since Harper, there have been many other attempts to make baseball fun again: The Baez “I’ll do what I want” mentality, the bat flip frenzy and even the mentality of the humble, lovable home-run machine Aaron Judge have all offered vehicles for making baseball fun.

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ing baseball fun, from Ruth in the 1920s who helped make baseball fun in the first place to Harper in the 2010s who attempted to bring that spark back, Ohtani has created a media frenzy surrounding his on-field ability alone — with no mention of his personality whatsoever.

Moreover, Ohtani is drawing insurmountable baseball intrigue to the Los Angeles Angels — a feat not even superstar Mike Trout has accomplished.

Perhaps the formula to make baseball fun again consists of players who are accomplishing something new and exciting on the field.

Because of the code of unwritten rules players are taught beginning in their little league years, MLB will never have the

flamboyant dramatics of the NBA or even the off-field fields of the NFL; the Lou Gehrig vs.

Ruth and Derek Jeter vs. Alex Rodriguez feuds being two rare exceptions.

Rather than making its players into something they are not, MLB should focus on marketing the plentiful on-field accomplishments.

Human interest stories and strong personalities are always a great way to connect fan bases to players. But what might truly make baseball fun again a focus on the players whose on-field successes speak for themselves.

Move over, Harper.

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In the second half, Butler scored first, seeking to cut its deficit. The closest the Bulldogs got to the Hoyas was within five points at a score of 13-8 with just under 21 minutes left to play.

The second half saw nine more Hoya goals, including some new scorers. Junior defender Josie Zinn scored her first career goal. Freshmen midfielders Caroline Frock and Madison Ascione also each chipped in one. Ascione’s was also her first career goal.

Freshmen attackers Cameron McGee and Anna Farley and graduate student Christina Farley each had one assist each in the second half.

In the second half, Seibel and Lynch each added another goal for two apiece on the day. Rausa scored twice more for a hat trick while Gebhardt and Bruno finished with four goals apiece on Saturday. Gebhardt leads the Hoyas this season with 39 points; Bruno is right behind her with 38.

Bruno was also named to the Big East weekly honor roll for the first time in her career. Before scoring four goals against Butler on Saturday, Bruno also dominated against Denver and the Pioneers.

Overall, Georgetown outshot Butler, 38-23 on Satur-

day. The Hoyas secured 18 ground balls to the Bulldogs’ 13, and 20 draw controls to 15. The final score was 20-13 for the Hoyas.

Fried was pleased with the Hoyas’ performance.

“It’s always good to get a

win in the Big East,” Fried said. “We’re at a really good spot at this point in the season, but we need to continue to get better.”

The squad is set to face another conference team this Saturday. The Hoyas return

to action when they travel to Nashville to take on Vanderbilt University for a 2 p.m. Big East game against the Commodores.

Live stats and a webcast of the matchup will be available at GUHoyas.com.

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avail: In fact, baseball is so not fun that Commissioner Rob Manfred has taken it upon himself to reinvent the pace of the game to in an attempt to draw new fans in a way the players couldn’t.

Ohtani might be changing that fact.

Ohtani, besides his stellar onfield abilities, possesses none of the qualities previously thought to be the key ingredients for a “fun” player. He has neither extravagantly coiffed hair nor a unique media persona. He is soft-spoken and only exerts emotion in the form of a few well-placed fist pumps and curtain calls.

In fact, almost nothing has been written about Ohtani off the field at all. Unlike any of the players charged with mak-

game, Berge notched his 100th career point: He is the 22nd player at Georgetown to have achieved this benchmark and is now 14th all-time in assists.

Against Loyola (8-3, 5-1 Big East), the offense scored again eight goals. Bucaro struck first, scoring the first goal of the game. He led the charge throughout the game with two goals and three assists. When Georgetown conceded two consecutive goals, McDonald and Berge responded with two goals of their own just 90 sec-

onds apart.

Both McDonald and Behrens notched three goals in the contest. Berge and Carraway added an assist each, while Berge also scored a goal.

A quiet second quarter hurt Georgetown, and Loyola jumped to a 7-4 lead at halftime. The Greyhounds maintained their three-goal lead throughout the match despite a late surge from the Hoyas, and won 11-8.

Defensively, senior goalie Nick Marrocco had two impressive performances in the cage. He collected 12 saves

against the Friars on Saturday, allowing only four goals.

He followed that performance up with six saves against the Greyhounds on Tuesday. For the sixth time in his career and the second time this season, Marrocco was awarded Big East Defensive Player of the Week for his play against Providence.

Freshman defenseman Gibson Smith scooped a teamhigh six ground balls against Loyola alone. He leads all Hoya defenders with 42 on the season. However, the Georgetown defense that stifled Providence

faltered when facing one of the nation’s most powerful offenses in Loyola. The Greyhound attack — led by junior Pat Spencer and senior Jay Drapeau who combined for six goals and five assists — found the back of the net 11 times.

Georgetown will go on the road to face No. 13 Villanova (8-3, 1-1 Big East) in Big East action on Saturday. With the Big East tournament quickly approaching, the matchup against Villanova will be a pivotal match as Georgetown seeks to make a final push in its last three games.

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After picking up its first Big East victory of the year over Providence at home last Saturday, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team dropped a close nonconference battle to No. 9 Loyola Maryland at home Tuesday. The Hoyas have dropped four of their last five games, despite a 6-0 start to the season.

Against the Providence Friars (4-7, 1-1 Big East), sophomore attack Jake Carraway scored four of Georgetown’s (7-4, 1-2 Big East) eight goals.

Senior midfielder Craig Berge added a goal and two assists,

while junior attack Daniel Bucaro assisted three Georgetown goals. Junior midfielder Lucas Wittenberg, senior attack Matt Behrens and junior attack Austin McDonald each tallied a goal. Wittenberg and Behrens also had an assist apiece.

McDonald’s goal came just 41 seconds after the opening faceoff. The Hoyas then traded six straight goals with the Friars, leading 4-3 at the half.

Out of the break, Georgetown took command, scoring four of the five goals in the final 30 minutes to win 8-4.

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Senior midfielder Craig Berge is third in the team with 14 goals and second in the team with 16 assists this season.

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team continued its winning ways last weekend, securing its third victory in a row with another conference win against Butler at home.

Georgetown is now 4-1 in conference play, with its only Big East loss coming against Florida.

On Saturday, the Blue and Gray came out strong against the Bulldogs (1-12, 0-5 Big East), scoring the first two goals of the game, both of which were unassisted. Junior attacker Taylor Gebhardt notched the first just around 30 seconds into the game. She was followed less than a minute later by sophomore midfielder Natalia Lynch.

For the first 15 or so minutes, the game was closely contested. After Georgetown’s first two goals, Butler came back to score two of its own.

Georgetown answered with one from sophomore attacker Michaela Bruno, and Butler retaliated to even it out once more.

Georgetown soon regained the lead, scoring on a free position opportunity. The free position goal, scored by sophomore attacker Emily Ehle sent the Hoyas on an unanswered eight goal run to finish out the first half up 11-3.

During the eight-goal advance, six Hoyas scored, including Ehle, Bruno and Gebhardt.

Junior attacker Morgan Ryan, senior midfielder Hannah Seibel and senior midfielder Rachel Rausa also chipped in one apiece.

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Sophomore attack Michaela Bruno scored four goals in Georgetown’s 20-13 victory over Butler. She is second on the team with 29 goals and 38 points this season. unassisted or scored on free position opportunities, except for Gebhardt’s. Her goal — the final of the half — was made possible with an assist by freshman defender Mollie Miller.

Miller was named Big East Freshman of the Week for her efforts against both Denver and Butler. Against Denver, she was tasked with guarding

Kendra Lanuza. Miller kept her to one goal off of three shots.

The award is Miller’s first career weekly accolade.

In addition to her assist on Saturday, Miller raked in two ground balls in both conference contests.

Head Coach Ricky Fried felt Saturday’s effort, while solid, could have been better. 000

“We had some good moments, and we had some average moments, so we need to focus and make sure we’re playing to our level on a consistent basis,” Fried said.

The first half’s close highlighted the Hoyas’ strong early performance.

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Georgetown Boxing: More Than a Club MITCHELL TAylor Hoya Staff Writer

Every fall, crowds gather outside Harbin Hall for an unusual spectacle: students fighting other students. But unlike typical schoolyard showdowns, these fights are clean, clinical and hosted by Georgetown University Club Boxing.

In October, the club hosted its

sixth such showcase on campus, where local fighters gathered to compete in the ring. Five months later, on March 18, the club’s season culminated in three national titles as the team returned from the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association Championships.

Led by Head Coach John Garry, three Georgetown fighters won titles in the event, hosted by the

University of Illinois from March 16 to 18. Junior Hana Burkly, senior Michael Hou and junior Aaron Vannier all won belts for the Hoyas, in the 125-pound novice, 152-pound novice and the 165-pound novice weight classes, respectively. Burkly won one fight to secure a title, while Hou and Vannier each won two.

Although the club did not claim any belts last season, senior

fighter and team captain Camille Hankel had high expectations for the team going into the competition.

“In my mind, I have a high standard that we’ll walk away with belts every year,” Hankel said. “But it’s certainly nothing to be taken for granted, especially in such a subjective sport.”

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Amanda Christovich

Sho-Time in LA: Ohtani Excites Fans

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Georgetown university club boxing team

Georgetown Club Boxing won three titles at the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association Championships from March 16 to 18. Senior Michael Hou and juniors Hana Burkly and Aaron Vannier all won belts in their respective weight classes.

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f you follow baseball, social media or the news in any capacity, you probably have heard of the Major League Baseball’s rookie phenom, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani — MLB’s first two-way player since Babe Ruth. Only one week into the season, Ohtani sported a wins above replacement R of 1.000, hit homers in three consecutive games as a designated hitter and then pitched seven perfect innings the next day.

Sportswriters and fans alike have collectively lost their minds over the Japanese rookie, proclaiming no amount of over-exaggerating is unwarranted for Ohtani and deeming him the next Babe Ruth.

They have declared they were wrong to write Ohtani off during his horrendous spring training performance; to them, Ohtani is undoubtedly, even after one short week, every bit the star everyone hoped he would be.

Logically, a week’s worth of performance is hardly an accurate metric for measuring the success of any athlete. The headlines are so flashy that no one — myself included — wants to be the party-crasher who writes about how Ohtani cannot possibly have already

locked down a Hall of Fame spot after only one week.

Rather, I’d like to draw our attention to one accomplishment Ohtani’s success may be pioneering — a new approach to making baseball fun again.

Ohtani is similar to Ruth in his ability to create a media frenzy: After all, Ruth was probably the first huge baseball personality in MLB history who combined an outlandish personality with indescribable talent.

Ruth was one of the first athletes to hire a public relations agent and one of the first prominent multi-endorsement athletes. He pioneered the larger-than-life, deified sports persona by sharing his childhood history, interacting with young fans and playing the game with an outward passion that many other stars, such as Joe DiMaggio, lacked.

Where Ohtani and Ruth differ, however, is that neither Ohtani’s personality nor his public life have fueled his instant stardom. In the public persona department, Ruth has more in common with Bryce Harper or Javier Baez than he does with Ohtani.

Harper, for example, was See Christovich, A11