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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016

BULLDOG BATTLE

The men’s basketball team takes to the road to play Butler on Tuesday.

EDITORIAL To have their voices heard, students must vote in national elections.

GUSA EXECUTIVES REFLECT In a Q&A, GUSA leaders Luther and Rohan look back on their term.

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NEWS, A4

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Survey Draws Low Student Response IAN SCOVILLE Hoya Staff Writer

Twenty-seven percent of students have completed the Georgetown Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey as of Monday morning, currently falling short of the university’s 50 percent participation rate goal, according to an email from Vice President of Institutional Diversity and Equality Rosemary Kilkenny.

The university has extended the survey completion deadline from Feb. 6 to Feb. 15 in an effort to boost participation numbers.

The survey was originally released to the student body Jan. 14, and is based on a template developed by the Association of American Universities in late 2014. Twenty-seven other universities, including Harvard University, Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania use the survey.

The Sexual Assault Working Group and a misconduct climate survey working group tailored the survey specifically to be used at Georgetown.

University President John J. DeGioia stressed the importance in assuring

that as many students as possible respond to the survey.

“I wish to thank all of our students who have contributed to this survey, and I would like to encourage all students who have not yet taken it to participate over the next two weeks,” DeGioia wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Every response gives us important insights into how we can shape our ongoing efforts to build an environment where everyone can thrive.”

The survey has an average 19 percent participation rate among participating schools. Harvard had a 53 percent participation rate when it took the survey, Yale had 52 percent, the University of Pennsylvania JOE LUTHER (COL ’16) GUSA President had 27 percent, Brown University had 36 percent and the University of Arizona had 8 percent.

The School of Foreign Service holds the highest participation rate among Georgetown schools, with participation from 50 percent of its students.

Georgetown’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences holds the lowest participation rate at around 13 percent as of Jan. 28.

“That survey is critical for years to come in terms of informing how we talk about sexual assault policy.”

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Students and faculty members gathered at a watch party hosted by IPPS to see the results of the Iowa caucus, with a victory for Cruz and a close call between Clinton and Sanders.

Georgetown Watches Iowa IPPS watch party attracts significant student interest IAN HARKNESS AND ALY PACHTER Hoya Staff Writers

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Ari Goldstein (SFS ’18) chalks Red Square at a summer event geared toward garnering university administrators’ attention on sexual assault.

Around 60 Georgetown University students, faculty and members of college political groups gathered for the Iowa caucus watch party in Old North hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service on Monday night.

The caucus culminated in a Republican Party victory for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-T.X.), whose 27.7 percent of delegate votes — corresponding to eight delegates

— beat out Donald Trump, who received 24.4 percent of delegate votes, corresponding to seven delegates.

The Democrats saw a much closer match, as 99 percent of precincts reported Hillary Clinton as the winner as of 2:14 a.m.

Tuesday morning, beating out Bernie Sanders (I-V.T.) with 49.9 percent of the delegate votes to Sanders’ 49.6 percent.

Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who received the support of less than 1 percent of caucus-goers, announced the suspension of his campaign

Report on China Donor Prompts Concern LISA BURGOA

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FEATURED OPINION DIVERSITY AT SFS-Q

The SFS-Q campus provides a unique, enriching educational opportunity for students.

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Hoya Staff Writer

A group that backed a $10 million gift to Georgetown University in January has been linked with slavery and human trafficking in the Thai fishing industry, according to a report by the Guardian newspaper, prompting concern among students.

OPINION CELEBRATE JESUITS

Jesuit Heritage Week offers a chance to understand the university’s history.

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“CP is actively doing the right things in addressing the issue and improving the local context.”

NEWS LEADERSHIP TRANSITION

The Corp and GUASFCU welcomed new CEOs, Taylor Tobin and Chris Grillo.

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SHANG ZHANG (GRD ’11) Investment Banker for CP Group Subsidiary, CT Bright Holdings

The Charoen Pokphand Group, a Thai conglomerate, created the Hong Kong-based Spring Breeze Foundation in 2015 in order to expedite its charitable donation process. The foundation announced Jan. 14 that it would donate $10 million over 10 years to the university for the creation of an Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues.

A 2014 investigation conducted by the Guardian newspaper found that the CP Group fed its shrimp with fishmeal supplied by fishing trawlers operated with slave labor.

In a 2014 Guardian editorial responding to the investigation, CP Foods Chairman Dhanin Chearava-

in the midst of the caucus. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who received 1.8 percent of the vote and no delegates, also announced the suspension of his campaign.

Former Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and IPPS 2015 fall fellow Buffy Wicks, who also served as senior staff on President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, joined former Republican National Committee Political Director and Iowa

COURTESY BUISNESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTER

According to a report published by the Guardian in 2014, the CP Group, which recently backed a $10 million gift to Georgetown, has been linked to working with suppliers using slave labor. They have since addressed concerns. nont condemned slavery in the Thai fishing industry and emphasized the corporation’s commitment to combatting the use of slave labor in food production. According to the editorial, the CP Group eliminated suppli-

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ers suspected of human trafficking or slavery involvement. The Group also said it would conduct an audit on its suppliers and assist law enforcement authorities in these investigations.

“Through our research and dePublished Tuesdays and Fridays

velopment of alternative protein sources, CPF could walk away from fishmeal,” Chearavanont wrote.

“However, doing so would shift the

SPORTS Weekend on the Road

Women’s basketball Head Coach Adair has created a winning culture for the team.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

TUESday, FEBRuary 2, 2016

THE VERDICT

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Vote to Be Heard There is no shortage of political discourse on Georgetown’s campus. The popularity of the government major and minor is a testament to the political culture on campus. The university has consistently hosted political speakers including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and Bill Clinton with students lining up to enter Gaston Hall hours before the events. Many students also engage in political activism and intern on the Hill.

In many ways, it is impossible to be a Georgetown student and be removed from the political process.

However, as the data has revealed, college students nationally are the least likely demographic to vote. According to U.S. Census Bureau voting data, young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 have voted at lower rates than all other age groups in every presidential election since 1962, with less than half of eligible young adult voters casting a vote.

Young adult voters could have a huge impact on the election of our political leaders, but this impact is contingent upon turnout. Beyond raw numbers, young voters also have a powerful impact on the issues discussed during election seasons. They have the power to drive headlines, dominate social media, organize and mobilize their communities and raise funds. Furthermore, Rock the Vote and NBC News found that millennials aged 18 to 33 are the most racially diverse generation in U.S. history: 61 percent of millennials identify as white, 17 percent as Hispanic, 15 percent as black and 4 percent as Asian.

This range of political viewpoints and experiences speaks to the potential of our democracy to represent an incredibly diverse perspective if that population were to be meaningfully engaged.

Theories and explanations abound to explain the lack of voter participation among college students. Experts argue that college students often don’t feel like they have a stake in a particular city or community and are thus less likely to register to vote. Many young people reportedly abstain from voting because of strong feelings of apathy and general disillusionment with politics. Many campaigns also tend to cater their message to older voters, who consistently turn out to vote in high numbers; as a result, Social Security, the economy and foreign policy take the fore over “social issues” which, according to political analysts, tend to be more important to college voters.

Any discussion of low voter turnout among college students, however, must be far more nuanced than the cliche argument that young people have no faith in the political process and are solely concerned with gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana. Such stereotypes are not only lazy and dismissive, but also lose sight of the real obstacles that make voter registration a challenge not only for young people, but also for workers, communities of color and other groups across the country. College students face many

practical challenges with voter registration, having to rely upon overburdened, underfunded and outdated systems to register out of state or to request absentee ballots. Many new voters simply don’t know how or where to register and might be unaware of registration deadlines. States vary widely in their rules regarding registering for primaries, requirements for identification and whether or not same-day or election-day registration is available. In some cases, college students even face deliberate efforts to suppress the young vote, such as decisions by North Carolina county election boards in 2014 that required voters to present photo identification, ended same-day voter registration and contributed to the disenfranchisement of college students. As college students at a university, that places such heavy emphasis on political engagement, we should care about efforts at other colleges, which might separate students from the democratic process.

Colleges and universities are uniquely situated to help clarify this process. At Georgetown, the College Democrats and College Republicans student groups have held events in the past helping students register to vote, along with specific student campaign groups such as Hoyas for Hillary and GU Students for Rubio. Other easily accessible resources, such as Rock the Vote and the Campus Vote Project, provide information about the voter registration rules in each state and links to register.

Our education and numerous political opportunities at Georgetown compel us not only to be aware, but to act. No amount of discussions, panels, events or debate watches on campus can substitute for actual participation in the political process. As a Jesuit community, we are called not to engage in abstract intellectual exercises merely for the sake of knowledge, but to translate our knowledge into concrete action within the political community. By actively engaging with political life on the local, state and national levels, we embody the call to community and participation, one of the seven core themes of Catholic social teaching.

Youth voter turnout is of particular concern given the historic implications of the 2016 presidential elections, in which both parties will decide among fundamentally different visions of the future, with long-term implications for the national political landscape. Furthermore, the issues upon which this election will turn are the issues that impact young people most directly: the massive debt loads of college graduates, the ability of young and working people to access health care and above all else, the economic prospects of the first generation not to be guaranteed a better life than their parents. Endlessly discussing and debating these issues does nothing to change them. Only concrete political action can address these injustices, and this action must include voting among young people.

Engage With Our History For all the talk of Jesuit values, Jesuit traditions and Jesuit heritage that can be heard almost daily on this campus, many students still lack a substantial education of the history and practices of all three counts. In order to fully understand Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit past, it is necessary to listen to the stories of early Jesuit leaders as well as contemporary ones, from Ignatius of Loyola to Francis of Buenos Aires, and to understand the aims and practices of the order. That way, students, regardless of their connection to Jesuit tradition, can have a better understanding of how to navigate Georgetown’s tradition when working to reform its practices. This week’s annual commemoration of Jesuit Heritage Week offers a chance to engage with and learn about the history of the Society of Jesus, — good and bad, political and spiritual..

The Jesuits at Georgetown will offer reflections about interfaith connections between at Hindu, Jewish, Orthodox and Muslim religious services.

While there will be more informal events like Jesuit Trivia in Bulldog Tavern, Volleyball with Jesuits and Jesuits at Leo’s, there will also be academic dialogues on interfaith conceptions of Mercy and the Society’s interaction with education and social justice. The week will be, for many, the best opportunity to connect the 34 “black robes” who call the Hilltop home.

Fr. Charles Gonzalez, S.J., will open up his class on Jesuit history and spirituality to any comersall on Wednesday, and, on Thursday, professor. John Glavin (CAS ’ 64) will lead a tour around the campus to talk about its Jesuit legacy. For students who participated in discussions about Georgetown’s mixed history this fall when debating the names of Freedom and Remembrance Halls, both events will deepen the conversation beyond the name of a building.

Wednesday and Thursday will also feature panels on the work that Jesuits have undertaken at home and abroad. “Jesuits and Justice in D.C.: Race, Poverty and Peacemaking at Home from the 1960s Until the Present” offers faculty and staff insights on some of the most prominent Jesuit social workers and the legacy they have left, while “Contemplation in Action: The Many Faces of Jesuit Service in Latin America” brings the Jesuit community and Georgetown’s Latin American Student Association together to reflect on the impact that Georgetown students have had in the developing world. These and other events will highlight the strong emphasis that Ignatian spirituality places on service, as well as how that emphasis is reflected across the globe.

For those who desire to learn why Georgetown is the way it is today, Jesuit Heritage Week may be the best opportunity to do so.

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Founded January 14, 1920

Sky High — Arlington County contributed $35,000 toward feasibility study of passenger gondolas connecting Rosslyn and Georgetown.

Password Problems — University Information Services informed Georgetown students of impending Feb. 14 mandatory password change.

Chocolate Controversy — University of Maryland backpedaled after publishing study claiming chocolate milk helps athletes recover from concussions. The study was sponsored by a chocolate milk company.

Groceries, Underground — Metro partnered with supermarket chain Giant to create new online grocery shopping system. Riders order online and pick up as they exit the Metro during rush hour.

Snow Snafu — A week after the blizzard, intersections and off-ramps are still congested with snow banks. Pedestrians and drivers are at risk.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Derek Nelson

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Stephen Cacace (msb ’16) discusses his experience with mental health services at Georgetown: For every story like mine, where CAPS was able to provide support, there are countless stories of others who suffer from their own mental illnesses and cannot find help or a person who is there to listen when they turn to this university’s services. I have a friend who was told by a CAPS counselor that all of his problems were his fault and that he needs to just ‘get over it.’ Another friend made a strong effort to seek help, but she was lost in the shuffle of patients and found it difficult to find an appointment. Most alarmingly, a third friend called on behalf of his friend who was struggling and having a very difficult time emotionally. Even after multiple attempts and leaving a number of messages, he never received a call back and was forced to find assistance elsewhere.”

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OPINION

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016

POP POLITICS

THE HOYA

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VIEWPOINT • LoPrete

Serving Georgetown, Serving Qatar

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Femi Sobowale

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n Jan. 6, 2016, Nicki Minaj won Favorite Hip-Hop Artist at the People’s Choice Awards.

On Jan. 7, while double-tapping the picture she posted on Instagram to announce that win, I saw a poorlyworded comment that offended my sensibilities as both a feminist and as someone who likes comprehensible sentences. The comment on Minaj’s celebratory picture essentially said this: that the award should have gone to a more masculine rapper, and that Minaj did not deserve the award because she won it by selling her body.

In less than 24 hours, someone had already posted a rude, misogynistic and undermining comment about Minaj’s success. In the six days since, that picture accumulated 7,000 more comments, and I am pretty sure I do not want to know how many of those are just like the one I saw on that first day — or worse.

There are a few things I take issue with in that train of thought, but what hit closest to home was the last part, which accuses Minaj of “selling her body.” At first I was confused, because, well, she doesn’t — at least not in the traditional sense. After some reflection I realized the commenter probably meant that she was using her body as advertising in order to get attention and sell her music. That method of putting oneself out there may seem like a superficial tactic at first glance — and it is, even though it is a very smart and socially-conscious strategy — but it goes much deeper than that.

Minaj embodies, emphasizes and dramatizes the body type considered stereotypical of black women. As natural as her assets may or may not be, they make her both remarkable and unable to be ignored. Minaj’s body was a hot topic of conversation in pop culture long before the cover art for the now iconic song “Anaconda” was first made public, and the conversation has only gotten hotter since its release. She has received love, hate and everything in between for the way she appreciates and flaunts her body, but in the discussion of her body itself, many people overlook what is special about what she does with it.

Minaj publicly and sincerely promotes body image positivity. That in and of itself is important for girls everywhere, but what makes her brand of body positivity especially important is that it supports black women.

Popular culture — and most of American society — holds white men and women as the standard for beauty. Female celebrities’ workout plans and diets are on the front of every supermarket magazine; natural hair is considered “nappy” and “unattractive”; and all shades of brown skin tones are made as light as a J.J. Abrams lens flare with Photoshop.

Black women are either considered too “thick” or are overly sexualized because of their proportions and features. Conversely, those same features are hailed as sexy on other bodies — RIP to everyone who tried the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge. All in all, there is not much room for women who are “little in the middle but got much back” in pop culture outside of music videos or performances at sporting events.

Minaj puts an end to those standards. Not only does she demonstrate her comfort with and confidence in her body type, but also glorifies it, which is hugely significant. There are few celebrities or public figures who uplift the body of the black woman as being beautiful and desirable in a way that is not purely sexual, so to hear a successful, confident woman doing just that — publicly and unabashedly — is a welcome and necessary change from the usual. As someone who, despite being mixed, has struggled with what it means to have the body of a black woman in a society that either sexualizes me or pretends I do not exist, Minaj’s composition of songs that make it sound awesome to be built the way I am was a turning point in the recent development of my own confidence. And yes, “Anaconda” was my anthem in 2014.

You do not have to like Minaj’s music or like her as a person. But you should recognize that she has created an image for herself that is based on confidence, self acceptance and empowerment. By sharing that image with women everywhere, she has truly left her (pink) print on both pop culture and music in our time.

Femi Sobowale is a senior in the College. POP POLITICS appears every other Tuesday.

hen one searches “SFS Qatar” on Google, the third search result that pops up is Ari Goldstein’s op-ed in THE HOYA from October 2014 stating that the campus is subject to a brutal regime. After spending my fall semester at the School of Foreign Service campus in Qatar, I can confidently say that this portrayal of SFS-Q is highly inaccurate and unfair.

Since, regrettably, a response to the initial article has yet to be published, I will attempt to set the story straight from a firsthand perspective. I’m not going to spend my time deconstructing Goldstein’s argument or even defending the state of Qatar itself. But the argument that SFS-Q should not partner with the Qatar Foundation because it ultimately aids a “brutal dictatorship” is a poor one. I would argue that SFS-Q, which is celebrating its tenth year in Qatar, enhances the prospects for liberalization in the country and is doing the region — and the world — a service by being there.

When I first arrived in Doha in August I could immediately tell I had landed in the country with the highest wealth per capita in the world. From the horseracing academy outside my window to the Bentleys and Bugattis dropping students off at school, I knew I would witness immeasurable levels of wealth, the likes of which I had never seen before. However, wealth in and of itself does not have to be problematic, if money is put toward a good cause such as SFS-Q. In my opinion, Qatar’s transition from a relatively unknown tribal state to a regional powerhouse has been mostly positive. More than 2 million people currently live in Qatar. Only 250,000 are Qatari; the rest are expatriates and migrant workers. An Islamic state run by Sharia Law, all religions are welcome as long as the Islamic tradition is respected.

With heavy investment from the in-

SFS Qatar enhances the prospects of the region’s liberalization and is doing the region a service. ternational community, Qatar has had no choice but to allow for multiculturalism and different points of view. For example, a few years ago the government allowed the construction of a few churches to accommodate Christian expats and migrant workers. With increased globalization, additional liberalization follows.

SFS-Q is part of a wider educational community in Qatar called Education City, an initiative launched by the Qatar Foundation to foster education in the Persian Gulf. Education City is an example of how Qatar’s leaders have recognized the importance of geopolitical and socioeconomic diversity. Now not only do Qataris have access to a renowned education, but so do some of the brightest students in the region.

Instead of travelling all the way to Washington, D.C., students from countries like Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan can

travel to Doha for a fantastic Jesuit education with some of the best professors and brightest students in the world.

I was already receiving a tremendous Middle East education on the main SFS campus in D.C., but there is no substitute for having students from the actual nations in the regions we’re studying in our classes. For example, my water politics class in Doha was completely transformed when the Israel-Palestine dispute took over our discussion about the Jordan River basin. I had never seen individuals so passionate about an issue before. The class that followed, “Nuclear Proliferation,” heated up when a Pakistani and an Indian student fiercely debated the pros and cons of nuclear deterrence. My classroom experience demonstrated the challenges of international cooperation: when studying policy, it’s easy to forget that real people with real emotions are the ones ulti-

VIEWPOINT • Levites

Rush: Better Than Club Admissions

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n September, as my manag- can learn something from our ing editor and I read through Greek organizations and the The Heckler applications one multi-week acclimation period final time, two things occurred to known as “rush”. This is not to me. First, this school is funny. So stop Innovo Solutions from only funny, in fact, that you would not admitting the chillest prospecguess how good-looking everyone tive management consultants. is. Second, we need to rethink Rather, despite its superficial, how we handle club admissions beer-bellied reputation, rush will as a university. Club applications at least give the organization time at Georgetown can be just as ar- to measure the commitment of bitrary as the Sorting Hat from an aspiring member, who in turn Hogwarts. Yet somehow, they are will have time to figure out if the even more determinative of one’s club is the right fit for him. social life.

I can only think of upsides to The Heckler is only 13 years old — applying this way of thinking just an angsty club beaming with about admissions to non-Greek brand new smells and wondering clubs. New members who make what it is going to look like on the their way onto a club roster other side of its growth spurt. As through their own persistence such, we need during a trial writers who period, rather are committhan through Club applications at ted to usheromething Georgetown can be just sresembling ing it into the a proud, unwavlottery, would as arbitrary as the ering stature get a sense Sorting Hat from of a 14 year that they truly old. But how “bought into” Hogwarts. can someone the organizapossibly show tion, even if this commitment on a written ap- this trial period follows a preplication alone? By writing, “I am liminary application. A stronger committed”? Or, perhaps more sense of belonging and a greater convincingly, “I AM COMMIT- appreciation for applicants’ demTED”? I would be skeptical. onstrated work ethic will help How many clubs on campus ensure that new members will told Applicant #143 she could continue to put their best foot fornot do what she wanted to do be- ward throughout the rest of their cause they already heard all they time in the club. needed to hear 142 times? And Arbitrary club admissions is a what if Applicant #143 has a blaz- problem that we should all look ing, to-the-core passion for activity to address as soon as possible. I “A” that would have made her the have already spoken to several president of the Georgetown A talented, hard-working freshClub (GAC)? And what if that were men that claimed to have simply to springboard her long and fruit- “done nothing” last semester beful career as a professional A-er? cause the “apply-to-as-many-clubsAnd what if she were to marry as-possible-and-hope-one-of-themanother professional A-er from a sticks” method did not work out different A firm, whom she met for them. Obviously, the diversity at a regional A conference in Car- of the extracurricular scene preson City? If none of this happens, vents me, or anyone, from offerthen who, I ask, will teach Appli- ing a specific model that would cant #143’s five starry-eyed grand- work for everyone. Performance kids about how people used to get groups will always need audipaid to do activity A? tions. Pre-professional groups will My limited creativity with anal- always require a baseline level of ogies aside, I am truly frightened technical knowledge. by how many Applicant #143’s Still, at the very least, I encourI might have let slip by during age all other club leaders to rerecruitment for The Heckler last evaluate their admissions format September. Luckily, we are taking and to move toward a model that steps to correct this. With the ex- can gain from the benefits of a ception of our core staff writers, lengthier process. Do what you The Heckler is now crowd-sourc- can to make sure you being as fair ing its material from anyone on to aspiring members as possible. campus with an idea. Students Take the time to see who is a right who want to get onto our core fit for your group, to separate staff will have to do so by contrib- those who are passionate from uting regularly, by demonstrat- those who might see your organiing the drive and willingness to zation as a backup plan. Everyone improve. However, students who wins — your club, those who most just thought of a good idea on the would want to be in it and Applitreadmill are more than welcome cant #143’s grandkids. to chip in as well.

Recruitment is the one area CRAIG LEVITES is a junior in where our Olson Okay’d® clubs the College.

mately making the decisions.

International cooperation will only come if individuals can come together for a common cause and learn about the other side’s perspective. With globalization, each member in the world community brings something different to the table. At the same time, it shows that we all share common values despite our different skill sets and backgrounds.

SFS-Q is the epitome of pluralism, one of the key tenets of a Jesuit education. Seeing women in abayas and men in thobes was a little difficult to get used to at first. But, a couple weeks in, I felt comfortable talking to every member of the Georgetown community, whether they were Qatari nationals, migrant workers from Nepal or students from India. Any stereotype that had previously defined these regions was thrown out the window.

At the same time, the students from other nations can get a glimpse of what a western liberal education stands for. Students at SFS-Q see that Americans at Georgetown can put up an extremely large Christmas tree in Qatar in December, but nevertheless respect Muslim traditions. As I see some women walk into the university, slightly loosen their headscarves, and immediately find friends to talk to in the small, close-knit Georgetown community, I realize that SFS-Q really is a haven in the desert.

As these students grow up to become political leaders in their native countries, I guarantee Georgetown will have played at least a small role in successful policy reforms in some of the most illiberal or violent regions in the world.

Georgetown, Qatar and the world are better off with the SFS-Q than without it.

MATT LOPRETE is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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ne of the most common criticisms State group and encouraged to bolster the of the current United States strategy war effort through either direct participain Iraq is that President Obama does tion or considerable financial contributions. not have any strategy.

Most dubious is the task of soliciting KurdThis is false. Though by no means suf- ish support for this endeavor. The Kurdish ficient, some measures — military aid, air- Peshmerga army has proven an indispensstrikes against Islamic State group targets, able partner in the coalition against the economic sanctions and the promotion of Islamic State group; however, the Kurds regional cooperation — have been under- understandably prefer an independent taken. What the United States lacks in Iraq is state governed from Erbil to continued assonot a strategy but rather a tangible objective ciation with a political entity by which they toward which all policies are oriented and were subjugated for decades. by whose logic all diplomatic and military Consequently, to enlist Kurdish support, tactics are guided. Without a central goal, two promises from the United States are necesany foreign policy initiative is inevitably sary. First, if Kurdistan Regional Government doomed, a phenomenon witnessed from President Masoud Barzani agreed to back a Vietnam to Syria. unified, federal Iraq, Kurdish regions would be If the United States is to successfully promised a degree of autonomy, particularly achieve stability in the Arab world, it must concerning profit from oil sales. Secondly, the reaffirm its commitment United States would expoto one fundamental vision: nentially increase direct milia unified, multiethnic Iraq tary aid to the KRG, a policy which comprehensively less likely to provoke friction represents the interests of with Baghdad and Ankara its Kurdish, Shia and Sunni if Barzani renounced ampopulations. bitions of an independent In 2007 and again in 2014, Kurdistan. proposals emerged regardIf the aforementioned ing the division of Iraq into parties adopt the given obMatthew Gregory three independent entities: jective, next would come a northern Kurdish region a coordinated military centered on Mosul and Erbil, a western strategy to eradicate the Islamic State group Sunni sector containing Ramadi and Fal- from Iraqi territory. After victory in Ramadi, lujah and a Shia state in the east stretching the Iraqi army would need to maintain its from Baghdad to Basra. In the model of Yu- momentum and move farther into Anbar goslavia, division along ethno-religious lines towards Fallujah, while the Kurds sweep would avert tensions between hostile com- south and westward before eventually conmunities. centrating on Mosul. These forces, however, This scenario, however, would be an will not succeed unless the United States unmitigated disaster. If independent, the significantly increases the quantity of its Kurdish nation would exist in a state of per- airstrikes and expands its adversarial and petual animosity with Turkey, which sees target-spotting capacities to assist both Iraqi the Kurds as a potent threat to its national and Peshmerga units. security. The Sunni portion of old Iraq, The fight would be treacherous and gruelmeanwhile, would be inherently disadvan- ing — one town, road or refinery at a time — taged by its lack of oil resources and the and the situation may be further complicated costs of rebuilding, potentially becoming a by fighters fleeing to Syria or by Islamic State breeding ground for radical jihadism once group targeting foreign cities as its territoagain. Lastly, the eastern Shiite-dominated rial holdings begin to shrink. But if such events region would fall into the Iranian sphere of transpire, they should only harden the resolve influence, a nightmare situation for United of the coalition as it approaches its final target.

States and Arab leaders alike.

While the military campaign is underDetermining the necessity of preserving way, representatives of the Kurdish, Shia and Iraq as a multiethnic state, however, raises Sunni factions must collaborate to make vithe more problematic question of how this tal changes to the country’s 2005 constitucan be feasibly achieved. tion and design a federal administrative sysThe first step would entail convincing key tem to enforce security in a post-Islamic State regional players to pursue the requisite poli- group future. Just as planning for postwar cies to achieve the designated goal. The Iraqi Europe was addressed long before the congovernment would be an enthusiastic part- clusion of World War II, the defeat of Islamic ner but would need to demonstrate its in- State group should be treated as a question clusiveness and ability to unite the country’s of when, rather than if. diverse ethnicities and religious sects. Iraqi The road to stability in Iraq will be paved President Fuad Masum, a Kurd, would need with diplomatic, economic and military to fulfill a crucial intermediary role, while pitfalls, and victory could incite the advent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi might be re- of authoritarianism rather than democracy. quired to downplay his Shia background in Nevertheless, such a prospect is markedly favor of nationalism and solidarity. preferable to the currently untenable status The United States would then need to en- quo. And while delineating an objective will gage in a robust diplomatic effort designed not resolve the situation, aligning United to convince Arab Gulf states that a united States and coalition partners’ tactics toward Iraq would be in their best interests con- a common aim is imperative if there is to be sidering the potential perils of the eastern hope for peace in the heart of the Middle region falling under Iranian influence. Gulf East. states such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar would need to be both incentivized to crack down Matthew Gregory is a junior in the School on wealthy domestic jihadist sympathizers of Foreign Service. SENSE OF THE MIDDLE funneling considerable sums to the Islamic EAST appears every other Tuesday.

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Q&A: Luther and Rohan Reflect on Term, Future of GUSA IAN SCOVILLE Hoya Staff Writer

Since running and winning Georgetown University Student Association’s first satirical campaign, GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) have sought to create a more representative and open GUSA while pursuing a series of specific initiatives focusing on sexual assault and mental health policy.

The Luther-Rohan administration had both the largest and most representative cabinet in history, with 67 cabinet members. In creating the cabinet, Luther and Rohan approached student groups representing students who were typically not involved in GUSA and had open applications.

Luther and Rohan advanced a series of sexual assault and mental illness initiatives during their term. In September of this year, GUSA reached a memorandum of understanding with the administration to address issues of sexual assault on campus, including implementing a campus-wide survey on Georgetown’s sexual misconduct climate and expediting the hiring of a dedicated Title IX coordinator.

In January, the GUSA Mental Health Committee launched Project Lighthouse, a project that will implement a peer-to-peer online chat for Georgetown students to anonymously discuss mental health problems with trained supporters.

The Luther-Rohan administration made progress in other policy areas too.

The GUSA Campus Plan Subcommittee launched “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again,” an online petition calling for greater student voice in the campus master-planning process, last March.

Progress on the campus plan has been made since the petition’s launch. The university appointed Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners Kendyl Clausen (SFS ’16) and Reed Howard (SFS ’17) as representatives on the Georgetown Community Partnership Steering Committee in July to serve alongside Luther.

On Jan. 22, the Committee agreed to expedite the creation of a draft campus plan to allow greater opportunity for student input.

In an interview with THE HOYA, Luther and Rohan discussed their experience leading GUSA and their thoughts on GUSA moving forward.

As a collective administration and as individuals, what are you most proud of from your term?

Luther: I guess what I’m most proud of what we’ve done is a lot of the messaging that we’ve been able to get across.

When we ran, we ran simply on “we are just [interacting with students] a different way,” and I think by now speaking towards the end of it we’ve come a long way in terms of changing how GUSA

interacts and engages with the student body. So I know that’s kind of intangible, and I can talk about policy stuff too, but I think what we ran on and what I most enjoyed about this is being able to have fun with it and reach people in a different way.

Rohan: Probably the piece of policy I’m most proud of is the sexual assault MOU, which was really big. But I think, I don’t know, I have my personal things, the fact that I even just got through it is incredible.

Luther: The fact we’re still alive!

Rohan: The fact that I’m still alive, yeah. Our work on campus planning has been pretty exceptional, I think.

Luther: Campus planning we’ve made a lot of great strides in. We’ve spent so much time on it. But also things like Project Lighthouse, I think there’s a really a cool future for that.

Your mental health and sexual assault platforms were initially your only formal policies. Have you made the progress you hoped for in these areas? What more is there to do?

Rohan: I said this to somebody in our midterm meeting who took it very much the wrong way, so I’m going to say it again because I was right. No one will ever be satisfied no matter what.

So we’ve made some great progress and I think some necessary progress.

The thing is, there’s always more to be done. You can’t do it all at once, you can’t expect two people to come in and revolutionize the world because there are real constraints financially, and at times you do experience just a general unwillingness to move forward with certain issues, because they always have to be weighed against everything else. It’s all coming from a few pools of money.

So we always want to expand resources, and, of course, more resources are always a positive thing, but I don’t think there’s any point where we can say we’re absolutely positively satisfied, and this is the end.

Luther: I don’t think there’s any way we could have solved it in one year, and I don’t think this is going to be solved for many years to come.

Rohan: It’ll never be solved, no one’s ever going to be like, “uh, we’re good!”

No one, ever, even if it’s as close as it’s going to get to perfect, people will not be satisfied.

Luther: I guess that we’re working in a large, cumbersome bureaucracy, and so there’s just so many meetings and holdups that you essentially can’t get around, and so I think we did as best we could to keep things moving.

Rohan: I think we did a damn good job, too.

As a collective administration and as individuals, what are your biggest regrets from your term?

Luther: I guess my biggest regret is

that we stopped being true to ourselves, at least at the beginning. I think we were overwhelmed with the amount we had to learn and the institutional knowledge that we just didn’t have. And so a lot of what we did at the beginning was just playing catch-up, and I think we got too wrapped up in that, and that ultimately detracted from the reason why we were elected, which was to create a student government that is fun, that is down-toearth and that communicates in a way that is unorthodox but that gets information across.

Rohan: And I think we eventually got to that point as well as we can. But the first half was very policy-oriented, very much like any GUSA leadership. We were probably a little more aggressive with things than a lot of other GUSA leadership has been in the past just because we had that wiggle room and we could kind of grow in somewhat unorthodox ways. But, yeah, the first half was not fun.

Have you satisfied your goal of creating a GUSA that represents all students?

Rohan: That’s been very difficult because we tried our best and to a certain extent, it’s not GUSA that’s preventing the organization from being totally inclusive and totally representative.

Because our first few weeks what we did was we went into a ton of cultural groups, groups of people of color, and said, “please, please, apply, apply.” And we just did not get the number of apps that we were hoping for. It’s certainly a much more inclusive and diverse cabinet than any administration’s had in the past. But it’s not perfectly representative yet. And we opened up applications in a way that’s never been done before because people just come in with their cabinets set, and we didn’t have that at all. We had us and a chief of staff, and we opened it up, and we lobbied, lobbied, lobbied, lobbied, lobbied these organizations, which we hoped would have a greater interest. And a lot of people did apply and a lot of people did get positions. But is it representative? No. Did we try our best and could we have tried harder? No. Luther: That sums it up. I’m not sure you’ll ever get to a student government that totally represents Georgetown but at the same time we had a couple weeks where we did our absolute best to reach out to different groups that are not historically involved with GUSA, and I think we were disappointed that we didn’t get a higher response.

Your GUSA cabinet was the biggest and most representative in history. Looking back, would you create such a large cabinet again? Was it effective?

Rohan: Parts of it were. Parts of it were not. The way that I like to think about it is it’s like sifting for gold in a lot of ways.

Because some people just did drop off.

But some people are really, really hard workers. And we have a lot of really hard workers. So you’ve just got to find the golden nuggets. But I don’t think there were any drawbacks to having such a large cabinet. Maybe it made it a little more impersonal for people, but at the end of the day having that many people meant that we’re going to have a good number of very dedicated, very knowledgeable, very passionate people in the room. And I think we definitely have that. We have a lot of those people in our cabinet.

Luther: Looking back on it, I think what’s more important than the size of the cabinet is cultivating a group dynamic and a team environment. And because we came in with no experience we were, again, walking on eggshells essentially. So we tried to look for the people that we thought are the leaders in their fields for this area, and kind of let them do their thing, let them spread their wings. That’s what we thought would be the most effective way to get the best results out of our cabinet. But I think [that was discounted slightly] by not creating a stronger dynamic and a team environment, and a family feel essentially working towards a shared vision.

What are your plans for after Georgetown?

Rohan: We want to do TV writing.

Luther: We want to be comedy writers.

Do you know anyone in comedy writing? I think we’re very nontraditional in

that aspect of what we want to do, too.

I think this job is great if you’re looking to go into business or law school. I don’t know if it was super helpful for us on that front, on a professional front.

Rohan: I feel like I gained some skills through it, though.

Luther: Gained some skills, got some cool experiences. Cost a lot of time, though.

Rohan: I feel like I’m more focused and ... I’m more confident about certain things.

Luther: I feel like I speak a different language now.

Rohan: A language that we’ll never use.

Luther: Bureaucrat talk.

What advice will you be giving your successors in the transition meeting?

Luther: Our biggest lesson is to be down-to-earth, at the end of the day this is just student government. And going back to what I said earlier, make it fun for the people involved. Really try to cultivate that team feel. But also don’t be exclusive. Find the balance.

Rohan: Don’t take yourself seriously, because if you do that, everyone’s going to hate you. The worst people in GUSA are the people who take themselves really seriously. The people who are just administrators in training. Sometimes they can be the most effective, though, but the worst to work with. They’re going to know exactly who they are as soon as they read that!

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Former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani outlined suggestions for ideological and political reforms in Pakistan on Wednesday.

Haqqani Shares Vision For Progressive Pakistan Syed Humza Moinuddin

ues to see competition with India as one of the primary purposes of its existence.

He argued that the government and leadFormer Pakistani Ambassador to the ers are obsessed with establishing domiUnited States Husain Haqqani advocated nance over India, though such thinking is for an overhaul of ideologies and para- unsustainable. digms within Pakistan, including the ways “Does [Pakistan] want to be a country Pakistanis study and learn their history as that derives its pride from the size of its well as their relationship with Islam, in nuclear arsenal, or are we going to derive a panel discussion titled “Reimagining pride from having a nation that actually Pakistan” held in the Mortara Center for looks after its people?” Haqqani asked.

International Studies on Wednesday.

“Pakistan cannot achieve any of that until Along with Hamad bin Khalifa Al- it ends this perennial competition it has Thani, a member of the ruling Qatari with our much larger neighbor [India].” royal family, Professor in the History of IsFair reiterated this point during her lam Tamara Sonn and Professor Christine own remarks. She said it is important to Fair, the ambassador highlighted ways to explore how to deal with such misbeliefs confront the ideologies fueling instabil- and fallacies in light of the Internet, jourity within Pakistan and the surrounding nalism and public discourse. region.

“Pakistani textbooks and media keep Haqqani was exiled from Pakistan in claiming that India has started every war 1999 following his criticisms against the and Pakistan has won every war,” Fair government. He then taught as a profes- said. “So what accounts for this enduring sor at Boston University from 2004 to accumulation of fiction that so many Pak2008 before serving as Pakistan’s Ambas- istanis rehearse in their curriculum and sador to the U.S. in 2008. He resigned elsewhere as fact, despite empiricism? after pressure from officials in Pakistan, How do you puncture the bubble of nonwho alleged the ambassador attempted to sense?” solicit support from the U.S. military if a One method for changing such views military coup took place and ideology lies in revisin Pakistan. He left Pakiiting the ways Pakistanis stan in 2012 and has not are taught about their returned since. history and their nationHaqqani’s remarks al identity. Haqanni adfirst focused on the ways vocated for changing the extreme Islamic ideolways Pakistani citizens ogy continues to plague view themselves in relaPakistan’s own population to the world. tion as well as the coun“The reimagined Pakitry’s stability. stan would tell our young Haqqani said Islam — people that you are Pakionce a uniting force folstanis because you were lowing Pakistan’s indeborn in a country called pendence in 1947 — has Pakistan … Surely Pakibeen utilized by leaders stan can revisit its own in Pakistan to exert conhistory and say ‘We did trol over regions and ethsomething wrong someHusain Haqqani nic groups within the where and this is how we Former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States nation. can change it’ and that is “Islamic ideology has what I think is needed,” been used essentially to be able to perpet- Haqqani said. uate the ethnic domination of groups inMoez Hayat (SFS ’19), who is ethnically stead of uniting a federation of partners,” Pakistani and attended the event, said the Haqqani said. “Pakistan needs to morph ambassador’s comments reflected ideas into a more fair federation that accepts its that were too dismissive of the idea of Isdiversity instead of insisting that we will lam as a uniting force. try to create one nation by enforcing ev“As a Pakistani and as a Muslim, I found erything from the top.” this conversation interesting, but unhelpMany minority groups within the coun- ful at its best and insulting at its worst,” try have suffered from such domination, Hayat said. “While everyone agrees many particularly Ahmadi Muslims. Ahmadis of Pakistan’s problems lie with its military belong to a specific sect of Islam, but offi- and security institutions, the idea that cials within Pakistan consistently oppress Pakistan as an idea should be changed is the group. When filing official documen- laughable.” tation, other Pakistanis are required to deHayat said instead that Islam should be nounce Ahmadis as well. a unifying factor in Pakistan.

“Every Pakistani who applies for a pass“No matter how many times it fails, port as a Muslim, in order to perform a the actual idea of Pakistan will always be pilgrimage to Mecca, is required to sign a just,” Hayat said. “The idea of Pakistan as declaration that disavows Ahmadi beliefs a state based in Islam is part of the soluand disavows them as Muslims,” Haqqani tion, not part of the problem. The idea of said. “Instead of uniting, [religion] has be- Pakistan may need repair, but it does not come a divisive factor.” need to be reimagined.”

Later in the discussion, Sonn noted Ali Rehman (COL ’17) also disagreed Haqqani’s desire to see religious ideol- with some of Haqqani’s specific ideas, ogy move out of the Pakistani legislature. though she said she appreciated his efShe raised questions as to whether it was forts to spur progressive thinking among Islam itself that contributed to the suffer- Pakistani communities both in America ing of minorities or if it was the way reli- and in Pakistan. gion played out in public discussion.

“He presented a more progressive view, “In particular, your proposition is that something a lot of my friends [from Pakiit is very important for Pakistan to give up stan] discuss here in the U.S.,” Rehman its ideological paradigm when it comes to said. “While some of his viewpoints may [Islam],” Sonn said. “Could it not be said not be agreeable, they are still good startthat there would be a reimagining of pub- ing ground for the future of Pakistan and lic discourse about Islam [instead]? the improvement of the [Pakistani] peoHaqqani said the Pakistani state contin- ple.”

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“Islamic ideology has been used essentially to be able to perpetuate the ethnic domination of groups instead of uniting a federation of partners.”

Former Governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman promoted a bipartisan approach to resolving foreign and domestic issues to a crowd of about 80 people in Old North Thursday.

Huntsman, who serves as the national co-chair of No Labels, an organization dedicated to bipartisan engagement and solution-building, was hosted by No Labels Georgetown along with the Institute of Politics and Public Service, College Republicans and the International Relations Club.

Huntsman began the discussion by emphasizing the everincreasing levels of gridlock in U.S. politics. Huntsman said future generations need to resolve gridlock in order for the government to become more effective.

“My generation has brought you gridlock. And I feel badly about that,” Huntsman said.

“Your generation is going to have to bring us problem solving and that means crossing the impenetrable divides of politics and anything else you want to throw between humankind.”

No Labels Georgetown President Max Rosner (COL ’18) led the conversation with Huntsman and focused on foreign policy and the Islamic State group.

“How can our leaders begin to forge a bipartisan strategy to deal with this problem and what might that strategy look like?” Rosner asked.

Huntsman advocated for increasing educational opportunities, believing that learning institutions are vital to changing violent ideologies.

“How do you change the hearts and minds of people who have fallen into radicalization?”

Hunstman asked. “I only know one way; it is called education.

You open the doors of institutions like this one, like other great institutions of higher learning in the world.”

Huntsman also addressed rhetoric from the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, arguing that candidates’ statements on fighting terrorism are detrimental to the country as a whole.

“We are not going to make the sand glow in the dark, we are not going to carpet bomb people. This is just nonsense that does no good whatsoever

for this country of 320 million great people,” Huntsman said.

Huntsman also emphasized the importance of bipartisanship in his own life. A Republican, Huntsman served as ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011 under President Barack Obama.

“It is always America first. It is not your party first — it is American first,” Huntsman said.

Huntsman added that the mission of No Labels embodies the direction U.S. politics should follow.

“We are trying to move the nation[al] debate from anger, acrimony and finger-pointing to problem solving,” Huntsman said.

“Your generation is going to have to bring us problem solving and that means crossing the impenetrable divides of politics.”

Jon huntsman Former Governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to China

No Labels aims to have all presidential candidates sign the Problem Solver Promise, agreeing to help find bipartisan solutions to one of four goals, including the creation of 25 million jobs over ten years, securing Socia Security and Medicare for 75 years, balancing the federal budget by 2050 and securing U.S. energy by 2024.

“Within thirty days of getting elected president of the United States, you will meet a bipartisan group of leaders from Capitol Hill and you will choose one of the four silos around the National Strategic Agenda and you will lead out and make it happen,” Huntsman said.

Huntsman said that he predicts deep divisions to form among Republicans, potentially leading to the formation of a new party.

“We are drifting today and I think we are seeing fissures within the party that have created the rise of populism,” Huntsman said. “It is as if you are seeing a new party being born even as we sit here tonight.”

Huntsman warned that the current state of campaign finance is destroying the trust that citizens have in representatives and encouraged reform.

“We’ve got to ameliorate the trust deficit, because in the long-term campaign finance and gerrymandering is corrosive,” Huntsman said. “We can tinker around all day and let that metastasize and kill the body politic or we can say ‘instead of complaining, instead of cutting somebody else down, we are going to step up and find a solution.’”

Huntsman also stressed the importance of environmental protection and conservation, acknowledging that conservation was originally a core Republican tenant dating back to former President Theodore Roosevelt’s term.

“It ain’t the party of Roosevelt anymore,” he said.

As the event drew to a close, Huntsman said the nation’s populace needs more confidence to make effective change.

“We have become way too cynical as a people. We’ve lost our blue sky sense of optimism and our can-do spirit,” Huntsman said.

Jenny Liang (SFS ’18) said that she agreed with Huntsman’s promotion of bipartisanship and how such dialogue increases the effectiveness of policy.

“It was great, especially when he talks about No Labels and how bipartisan cooperation between both parties is essential for future American policy both domestic and foreign,” Liang said.

Sami Scheetz (COL ’18) found Huntsman’s views to be a reprieve from politics surrounding the current election cycle.

“What he is saying today really resonated with what I think and is my general opinion of where politics is today,” Scheetz said. “It was very refreshing break from what we have been hearing in the 2016 election year.”

Simon Wu (SFS ’16) admired Huntsman’s proposed policy measures and dedication to bipartisan doctrine.

“I have always been a huge fan of Jon Huntsman and I think that it is incredible that everything that comes out of his mouth is so reasonable and measured and that’s something that does not exist anymore in sufficient quantity in government,” Wu said.

SFS-Q Appoints New Dean Aly Pachter Hoya Staff Writer

Dean of the School of Foreign Service in Qatar Gerd Nonneman will step down as dean at the end of his term in June, as announced by University President John DeGioia in an email to the Georgetown community sent Jan. 29. Senior Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Service James Reardon-Anderson will replace Nonneman and serve from July 2016 to July 2018.

Nonneman has served as the dean of SFS-Q since 2011, prior to which he served as director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and the Center for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. Nonneman also formally served as executive director of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and is a councilmember of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies.

He will return to the SFS-Q faculty as a professor of international relations and Gulf studies.

Nonneman was unavailable for comment at press time.

DeGioia expressed his gratitude for Nonneman’s work as dean in his statement to the Georgetown community.

“During his time as dean, he increased the number of students and faculty on our GU-Q campus, supported the research of our faculty and enriched our engagement with Qatari society and culture,” DeGioia wrote in the email sent to the university community. “We are deeply grateful for the service and leadership he has provided our community, and we look forward to honoring his tenure as dean later this year.”

Reardon-Anderson, who played an instrumental role in the development of SFS-Q during his tenure as founding dean, has served as a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1985, first as director of Asian studies from 1992 to 1995 and then as director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service from 2002 to 2005. Reardon-Anderson will serve for two years rather than the standard five-year term while an international search is conducted for a future dean, ac-

cording to DeGioia’s email.

Reardon-Anderson became interim SFS dean in November 2013 after Dean Carol Lancaster (SFS ’64) stepped down after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Lancaster passed away Oct. 22, 2014 at the age of 72.

Reardon-Anderson remained SFS dean until 2015 when a committee formed by DeGioia selected Joel Hellman as SFS dean.

Hellman said that although Georgetown will be losing a passionate professor, the Doha, Qatar campus will gain a dean dedicated to SFS-Q. Hellman highlighted Reardon-Anderson’s continued relationship with SFSQ even as he remained in D.C. “He’s been a part of SFS-Q for so many years and I think he’s really been an integral part of SFSQ,” Hellman said. “Even over the last year, he was serving as the SFS-Q liaison here on campus.

So, he’s always kept one very important foot on the ground in Qatar and Doha because that’s where, I think, his passion has been.”

Hellman predicted that despite the leadership transition, students at SFS-Q will not experience any major changes.

“Both Dean Nonneman and Dean Reardon-Anderson know the place extremely well, have been an important part of its path over the last ten years,” Hellman said. “I suspect that Dean Reardon-Anderson will continue a lot of the work that he first started when he was dean and that Dean Nonneman continued when he took over.”

Provost Robert Groves agreed that the Qatar campus is prepared for the change in administration and added that the transition will allow for new possibilities for the school.

“Deans at Georgetown are appointed for five-year terms.

School administration and faculty processes are designed for rotation of deans keyed to the five-year term,” Groves wrote in an email to The Hoya. “With all the changes in deans there are opportunities for new initiatives for the school.”

Reardon-Anderson said that although personal reasons led him to leave SFS-Q, he has always

felt an attachment to Doha.

“I was the first dean and I really enjoyed it,” Reardon-Anderson said. “I had to come home for personal reasons, my parents were not well, and I’ve always wanted to go back. This is an opportunity to go back so that’s why I’m going. I really like the place, I like the school, I like the kids. I’m looking forward to it.”

Reardon-Anderson went on to describe the differences between SFS-Q and SFS on the Hilltop, emphasizing the close-knit nature of the Doha community.

“The relations between the faculty and the students are much closer, I think because it’s a smaller place. The student body is much more cosmopolitan, it’s a much more international, diverse student body,” Reardon-Anderson said. “All in all, it’s a really good experience for the students that have been there.”

Office of the President Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara expressed gratitude to both Nonneman and Reardon-Anderson.

“We are very grateful to both Gerd Nonneman for all he has done to lead our Doha campus since 2011, and to Jim ReardonAnderson for agreeing to serve as our new dean there, starting this July,” Ferrara wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Hellman stressed the importance of Nonneman’s legacy at SFS-Q. “I think that Dean Nonneman did a really fabulous job in Doha and I think that we all really appreciate all of the effort, enthusiasm, dynamism he brought to SFS-Q,” Hellman said.

Hellman emphasized Nonneman’s passion for scholarship, a field to which he is returning.

“I understand his desire to go back to teaching and research because he was and remains a really strong scholar of the Middle East,” Hellman said. “That’s why we were so excited to recruit him to SFS-Q. So, he’s going back to his scholarship and I’m sure that he’s going to continue to play a really big role in SFS-Q as a senior faculty member and as an important scholar in that area.

We really do appreciate all the work that he did.”

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Clinton, Cruz Lead Iowa Caucus CAUCUS, from A1 Republican Party Executive Director Gentry Collins in answering questions from the audience while results from the Iowa caucus were projected on a screen in the room. The two drew on their personal experiences in past caucuses. Additionally, another screen was set up to allow Georgetown students currently in Iowa to Skype in to discuss the updates.

The event was co-hosted by the Georgetown Public Policy Student Association, the Georgetown Public Policy Review, the Georgetown University College Democrats and the Georgetown University College Republicans.

IPPS Executive Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94), who also served as communications director for the Democratic National Party and as senior spokesperson for Clinton’s 2008 campaign, opened the event by expressing excitement for the caucus itself and its ability to answer questions that the nation has wondered about for over a year.

He then introduced Wicks and Collins as veterans of the Iowa caucus to the audience.

“It is an exciting night for all who are even remotely interested in politics as we explore many of the questions that we have been asking for a year and a half — including ‘Can Donald Trump actually win anything?’” Elleithee said.

The Iowa Caucus differs from other state primaries. In each of Iowa’s 1,682 precincts, voters gather at a set location to cast their votes. Iowa then allocates delegates based on how Iowans cast their votes. Iowa is also known for the small size of its caucuses — certain precincts decide the winners by a coin toss when the race is tight.

Additionally, certain caucuses are held in voters’ homes.

The Republican and Democratic caucuses themselves differ in that Republicans indicate their preferences by a show of hands or by secret ballot. Democrats gather in “preference groups,” and at each location, each candidate must garner a certain amount of votes, which in most cases is 15 percent. If they do not receive that number, the members must realign with other candidates for a final vote.

Collins emphasized the historical successes of the Republican and Democratic Iowa caucuses in predicting how the national election will play out. Since 1972, the Iowa caucus has had a 42 percent success rate in predicting the Democratic nominee for president and a 50-percent success rate in predicting the Republican nominee.

“On both sides, Iowa has a long history of either picking the eventual nominee or, more often in the Republican case, winnowing out the field of candidates and providing more clarity for subsequent states about what the decision really is,” Collins said. “The winnowing process is the first major step on the road to the White House.”

Elleithee highlighted the importance of the Iowa caucus as not only the first major electoral event of the presidential nominating process but also as a means for candidates to gain attention and support from other voters.

“There’s two things at stake tonight,” Elleithee said. “There’s the number of delegates but there’s also the claim to momentum.”

The three speakers shared their thoughts as developments, such as O’Malley’s decision to suspend his campaign, were revealed. Collins commented that several O’Malley supporters decided to re-register as Republican voters in order to cast their votes for Republican candidates.

Wicks said in the panel discussion that the Iowa caucus is not so much about delegates, but about its psychological impact.

“The biggest thing about Iowa is just the expectations,” Wicks said. “I was at a precinct, Des Moines 46th, watching a campaign that I worked on for a year unravel in front of my eyes, watching my candidate [Howard Dean] lose, and it was really hard to watch because you literally are watching it as it’s happening. And I got back to the headquarters in Des Moines and was walking into the war room, and the campaign manager was almost in tears.”

Wicks expressed excitement about the success of the watch party, especially given that students stayed for the duration of the caucus.

“It’s great that there are so many students interested in this. Georgetown is a very active student body. I think it’s great that after three hours and no one’s leaving, in fact more people are coming,” Wicks said. “I think it’s great that the students are so politically minded, which gives me hope for the future.”

Collins agreed that the students contributed greatly to the success of the event, especially given that supporters of a variety of candidates made a showing.

“I enjoyed it enormously. First of all it was a really impressive turnout, even though we’re stuck here in a hot, crowded room students seem to be sticking with it mostly,” Collins said. “What’s really exciting to me is to see the range of support across both parties for a variety of candidates.”

Collins went on to express how impressed and excited he was by the commitment of the audience that attended the watch party.

“To see a group of young people this engaged across both parties and supporting a whole range of candidates taking it this seriously, showing a lot of commitment to be here — and not for credit by the way — is really impressive,” Collins said. “It’s exciting to be a part of it.”

D.C. Students for Rubio Board Member Zach Hughbanks (COL ’18) said the event was a success because of the variety of viewpoints represented by the attendants and the experience of the panelists.

“It’s great to get people who’ve actually been in the trenches and understand what’s going on to moderate,” Hughbanks said. “It’s great seeing all these people who are politically involved on Georgetown’s campus come together; seeing Hillary supporters here, Sanders supporters here and us [Rubio supporters] enjoying the event together.”

Hoya Staff Writers Ian Scoville and Syed Humza Moinuddin contributed reporting.

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Students of Georgetown, Inc., and the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union chose their new CEOs last week: Taylor Tobin (COL ’17) and Chris Grillo (SFS ’17), respectively.

Nonprofits Select Leaders

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Hoya Staff Writer

Students of Georgetown, Inc. and the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union both selected their new leadership teams for 2016 this past week.

Taylor Tobin (COL ’17) will serve as chief executive officer of The Corp.

Chris Grillo (SFS ’17) will serve as chief executive officer of GUASFCU. Both Tobin and Grillo will begin their terms in early March.

Joining Tobin on The Corp’s leadership team will be Chief Financial Officer Katie Smith (MSB ’18) and Chief Operating Officer Alex Donovan (SFS ’17). The leadership team of Tobin, Smith and Donovan is the first allfemale executive team in Corp history.

Samin Rai (MSB ’17) has been appointed as COO of GUASFCU and Tony Pezzullo (MSB ’17) has been made CFO, joining eight other members on the board of directors.

GUASFCU introduced a new leadership position this year: chief strategy officer. Ashish Pandya (MSB ’18) will be the first GUASFCU intern to hold the position, which will focus on mapping out GUASFCU’s long-term goals and expanding the credit union’s outlook past the four-year undergraduate period.

Pandya said the position will help GUASFCU plan for the future.

“Ideally, the addition of the CSO spot to the board will really help with continuity and knowledge transfer,” Pandya said.

Tobin joined The Corp in the fall of her sophomore year, shortly after transferring to Georgetown from New York University. Tobin started out as a barista in Uncommon Grounds and

soon branched out to other parts of the company.

Over the past year and a half, Tobin has worked shifts at other Corp storefronts, including The Hilltoss and Vital Vittles, and has worked with The Corp’s marketing department. Tobin is also a part of The Corp’s “Green Team,” a working group of Corp employees that focuses on sustainability issues.

Tobin said she is eager to embrace some of the particularly complicated and unique aspects of a student-run company.

“I think what makes The Corp special is that it’s always going to change, because all of our employees turn over every four years,” Tobin said.

Tobin said she sees her role as facilitating the goals and ambitions of Corp employees, ensuring that they can have a positive impact on the company during their time at Georgetown.

“I think the officers are in this lucky position where we get to talk with all the employees and kind of see where people want to push change towards,” Tobin said.

According to Tobin, The Hilltoss and Kickback are examples of employee-driven projects that have become reality. But while major changes are always possible, Tobin said she and the rest of the new Corp leadership are especially focused on making The Corp’s current services as efficient as possible.

“I think we’re in a position to take a year and really strengthen what we already do, to strengthen our day-today and our operations so that we can serve the Georgetown community to the best of our ability,” Tobin said.

Grillo joined GUASFCU as a teller in the fall of his freshman year. After a semester at GUASFCU, Grillo joined the credit department, eventually working his way up to credit chair.

During his time in the credit department, Grillo developed a new product called 3L, a loan program for students transitioning from law school to employment in the workforce.

Grillo’s main goals for the next year are to further expand on some of the credit union’s success in the past year, including expanding GUASFCU’s credit builder program, a secure loan system that helps students build their credit score.

Grillo said he also hopes to increase GUASFCU’s brand awareness among both undergraduate and graduate students.

“Deeper engagement with the community is going to be our first and foremost priority,” Grillo said.

Grillo wants to fully realize GUASFCU’s role in the Georgetown community as both a financial service provider and a philanthropic organization.

“Above all else we’re a not-for-profit that runs like a business. It’s not an investment banking experience and it’s not a common banking experience,” Grillo said.

Pandya, who worked under Grillo in the GUASFCU credit department, said Grillo’s ambition and persistence are evidence of his preparedness for the CEO position.

“He has the ability to think longterm and enact his plans, but I think the most impressive thing on Chris is really his work ethic and his ability to follow through on projects that he helped originate,” Pandya said.

walking away and shirking responsibility,” Zhang wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Vice President of Global Affairs Thomas Banchoff said that although the university was aware of the claims before accepting the gift, it was satisfied with the CP Group’s response to the slavery allegations.

“In our background research we examined a June 2014 report of slave labor on some of the fishing boats in CP Food’s shrimp industry supply chain,” Banchoff wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We were reassured by the CP Group’s immediate response to the report – to reiterate its opposition to all aspects of human trafficking and slavery and to invite independent NGOs to routinely audit its suppliers.”

Celeste Chen (COL ’14, GRD ’17) was among a group of current Georgetown students who first called attention to the potential unethical practices of the donor group in a letter to The Hoya. Chen drew parallels between Georgetown’s acceptance of the donation and the renaming of McSherry and Mulledy Halls last November in light of lingering racial sensitivities associated with their namesakes’ involvement with slavery.

“The fact that we’re now accepting money that is connected and supported by a company that not only runs modern-day slavery, but also has acknowledged it and said that it can’t really do anything to stop it because it is what it is, is just incredibly hypocritical,” Chen said. “It needs to be re-examined, like what our motives are and if we really learned anything from the fact that we decided to rename the residence halls. Did we learn anything from the media coverage, from the student sit-ins, did the administration actually consider that?”

Chen also questioned whether the CP Group’s link to the Chinese gov-

ernment as its first foreign investor threatens the autonomy of the initiative’s research. However, Banchoff said that academic independence is a foundational aspect of the new program.

“Georgetown maintains full independence to manage the initiative consistent with our mission and values– a principle that the donor fully acknowledges,” Banchoff wrote.

“Independence is one of four foundational principles for the initiative, alongside transparency, balance and academic excellence. All four are designed to ensure that the initiative upholds academic freedom and promotes the open exchange of ideas.”

Amin Gherad (COL ’16), former president of Georgetown’s chapter of Amnesty International, said the university should examine the moral implications of accepting the gift.

“If these things are true, those are serious moral considerations that need to be looked at if the university decides to go through with this [initiative],” Gherad said. “From what I know, this is a very serious thing that should be investigated, and if it’s found to be true, I would like to think the very least you could do is not participate and not give any credence to the immoral activities of these human trafficking syndicates.”

Gherad said he is weary of the selective outrage that accompanies human rights abuses.

“When these things happen in Nigeria or in Iraq at the hands of groups that are enemies of the state and rightfully so, we have no problem not only condemning it but also taking deliberate action to have nothing to do with it in terms of incentivizing it.” Gherad said. “I don’t see why this would be any different, considering it was done under the auspices of the Thai government or a big fancy corporation that has billions and billions of dollars just turning a blind eye.”

Climate Survey Participation Lacking Chinese Firm Tied to Slavery SURVEY, from A1 Only 16.3 percent of McDonough School of Business undergraduate students have taken the survey, while 32.9 percent of students in the College and 43 percent of students in the School of Nursing and Health Studies have taken the survey.

Kilkenny, who previously served as the university’s Title IX coordinator and on the Sexual Assault Working Group, said it would be difficult to predict the final participation rate.

“We have never collected this kind of data so it is hard to say what the impact of participation will be when the survey closes on Feb. 15,” Kilkenny wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Reaching this aspirational goal [of 50 percent] as a campus, or among the representative sample, will be tremendously helpful to our work.”

Georgetown University Student Association Secretary Maddy Moore (SFS ’17), who is also a member of the Sexual Assault Working Group, said that even though the school is falling short of the 50 percent participation rate, the survey has still done well.

“We were obviously shooting for something higher than the national average, so I’m glad that we’ve surpassed it, but it would be great if we got more people to participate and it would be great if we could break 50 percent,” Moore said.

Kilkenny said she is hopeful that the final participation rate will climb.

“Given that we have extended the survey by a week and that it takes most students less than 20 minutes to complete the survey, I am hopeful our undergraduate, graduate and professional students and their allies will rally to make sure as many people as possible participate in the next two weeks to give us the most data,” Kilkenny wrote.

The university has employed various marketing strategies to encourage student participation, including hanging posters around campus and encouraging clubs to email their members. GUSA has also started advertising in the past week.

Moore said student marketing has helped the participation rate.

“I think that student drives towards the marketing effort has made a difference,” Moore said. “I think sometimes people have seen all these posters and gotten emails that can be very passive, whereas hearing from students they start to realize why this survey is something that they should participate in.”

Health Education Services is also offering walk-in sessions for students who want support in the vicinity while taking the survey.

Moore said she hopes all students will realize the importance of participating.

“What I’ve been telling people is really urging them that sexual violence is a community issue, it’s something that impacts the entire community, you might not know it, but it can impact your roommate, it can impact a loved one, someone on your floor, and it’s something that we should all work toward ending and raising awareness around,” Moore said.

According to GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16), it is important for as many students as possible to participate in order to ensure the survey’s accuracy.

“That survey is critical for years to come in terms of informing how we talk about sexual assault policy and how the campus climate is. So, the more responses we get, the more accurate this can be,” Luther said.

Francesca Sacchi (COL ’18) said she has not taken the survey because of its length.

“It takes half an hour and I could be doing homework and other stuff at that time,” Sacchi said. “They advertised it for 15 minutes, but then it took people 25. My friends have done it.”

According to Kilkenny, the survey has taken an average of 20 minutes.

Marjorie Fuchs (COL ’16) said she took the survey to help make a difference.

“I took the survey because I thought sexual assault is an extremely important issue on campus and I thought that it was really important to have my own voice and the voices of my peers heard to make a difference in something that is often seen as taboo,” Fuchs said.

CHINA, from A1 problem to the fishing industry, which is mostly comprised of fishermen earning their living in legal ways.

The products of the fishing boats involved in human trafficking and slavery will continue to be purchased by other factories, and the issues around slavery will remain unchanged.”

The CP Group’s production accounts for 10 percent of the 50,000 tons of shrimp annually exported from Thailand and sold to foreign retailers such as Wal-mart and Costco.

The report described the experiences of Burmese and Cambodian migrants coerced into human trafficking rings.

“Those are serious moral considerations that need to be looked at.”

AMIN GHERAD (COL ’16) GU Amnesty International Former President

“Men who managed to escape from boats supplying CP Foods and other companies like it told the Guardian of horrific conditions, including 20hour shifts, regular beatings, torture and execution-style killings,” the Guardian reported June 10.

Shang Zhang (GRD ’11), an investment manager for CP Group’s subsidiary CT Bright Holdings, stressed the measures taken by the corporation to combat human trafficking. The CP Group founded the Shrimp Sustainable Supply Chain Task Force in 2014, which seeks to eliminate forced labor from Thailand’s seafood industry.

“CP is actively doing the right things in addressing the issue and improving the local context instead of

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MEN’s Basketball commentary

Defense Struggles Against Star Guards C

overing two star players proved to cover Georgetown’s deficit, but reto be too much for a defense moving them would also have helped that has struggled most of the break Dunn out of his rhythm even season against elite guards, as the more.

Normally Dunn is a playmaker, Georgetown men’s basketball team (13-9, 6-3 Big East) could not rally racking up assists — he averages 6.9 against No. 10 Providence (18-4, 6-3 Big on the season — but the Hoyas manEast) in a home loss Saturday night. aged to slow down his passing. Bentil The Hoyas fell 73-69 and the Friars’ and his rebounding, however, were junior guard Kris Dunn finished with another story. The Friars’ forward a game-high 26 points and four steals. pulled down nine boards and made His counterpart on the court and ar- the Hoyas pay down low, making five guably the most improved player in of his seven shots at the rim.

Still, despite the Hoyas’ fouling the Big East, sophomore forward Ben Bentil, matched Dunn with 26 points, and inability to contain any aspect of shooting 9-of-10 from the free-throw Bentil’s game, they had their chance at the end. With senior guard and coline.

Bentil’s free-throw shooting proved captain D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera and to be Georgetown’s undoing at the end sophomore guard L.J. Peak leading of the game, highlighting a problem the charge with 18 and 19 points, rethat has plagued the Hoyas for much spectively, the team drew within two of their season: fouling. Out of the 351 points with just a few seconds left Division I teams, the Hoyas rank 328 in in the game after a deep three from opposing free-throw rate — that is, the Smith-Rivera.

In the last moments of the game, percentage of free throws attempted the Friars ran their inbound to field goals attempted. plays for Dunn or Georgetown, accordBentil, and while the ing to KenPom.com, Hoyas denied Dunn, comes in at 46 perthey may have been cent for the season. better off focusing In other words, if an on guarding Benopponent takes 40 til. Fouling in lateshots, Georgetown game situations is is likely to let them all about picking shoot nearly 20 free Paolo Santamaria the worst free-throw throws. shooter to increase It is important to note that the excessive fouling is not the odds of one or two misses.

Bentil, however, shoots 82 percent because of what many fans claim be a refereeing problem. The Hoyas strug- from the line on the season, in comgle to stay on their toes on defense, parison to just 69 percent for Dunn. It and often try to make up for getting was without a doubt that Providence beat by aggressively contesting shots — Head Coach Ed Cooley was looking to a tactic that leads to fouls against the hit Bentil and take advantage of the big man’s adept free-throw shooting defense more often than not.

Taking advantage of an eight-foul late in the game.

“There’s no secret. Ben [Bentil] and disparity, the Friars shot 20 more free throws than the Hoyas, knocking Kris [Dunn] played well,” Cooley said in down 14-of-20. Not only would those reference to his end-of-game strategy.

Throughout this season, the Hoyas points have been more than enough

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Sophomore guard L.J. Peak led Georgetown with 19 points in the team’s 73-69 loss to Providence. He averages 10.3 points per game. have had many excuses made for them — be it poor coaching, injuries or inexperience — but it seems increasingly apparent that the Hoyas’ real problem thus far has simply been a lack of talent.

The Hoyas have had no defense against talented guards, from senior guard Rashun Davis of Radford, to junior guard Maurice Watson Jr. of Creighton, to sophomore guard Grayson Allen of Duke to junior guard Kris Dunn. From Davis’ 28 points and game-winner in the season opener to Dunn’s 26 points, four steals and late game heroics, opposing teams’ star guards have had their way with Georgetown’s defense.

Davis, Allen and Watson all recorded their career highs against the Hoyas’ defense, and the problem extends beyond just defensive schemes.

Smith-Rivera lacks the overall lateral quickness to keep up with the speed of faster guards. Peak is foul prone, leaves his feet too often and recklessly closes out on shooters. Senior center and co-

captain Bradley Hayes and freshman center Jessie Govan get beat on defense and then come down on guards when they fail to recover.

The Hoyas lost their two best perimeter defenders, Jabril Trawick (COL ’15) and Aaron Bowen (COL ’15), along with their most ardent rim protector, Joshua Smith, last season and have yet to find anything close to a suitable replacement for either position. Freshman guard Kaleb Johnson has his moments on defense, but he missed rebounds and free throws on Saturday. The team’s youths are likely to improve, but as of now, the Hoyas can rarely handle an elite guard.

Unfortunately, the team has no rest against stellar guard play, as the Hoyas will face off against senior guard Kellen Dunham and the Butler Bulldogs (14-7, 3-6 Big East) on Tuesday. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m., and the game will be televised on Fox Sports 1.

Paolo Santamaria is a sophomore in the College.

Tennis

GU Splits Results at Navy Dual Match Isabelle Perciballi Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams traveled to Baltimore last Friday to face Navy, with the men’s team emerging victorious and the women’s team falling short.

The men’s team (1-3) outplayed the Midshipmen 4-3 in its fourth match of the 2016 season. Sophomores Peter Beatty and Marco Lam started the day strong with their 6-2 victory in the No. 2 doubles position. Shortly after, juniors Yannik Mahlangu and Jack Murphy were defeated 6-3, leaving it to freshman Michael Chen and junior Jordan Portner to clinch the doubles point. Ultimately, Chen and Portner triumphed 6-4.

“The doubles were fantastic,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said, commenting on the men’s play. “They were as good of doubles as I’ve seen in years.”

In the singles competition, Mahlangu and Chen both defeated the Midshipmen in straight sets, 6-2, 6-0 and 6-4, 6-3, respectively. The match came down to sophomore Mac Rechan’s match in the fifth singles slot.

Ultimately, he won 6-3, 7-6 to clinch the win for the Hoyas.

“When the match is on the line, Mac is comfortable trying to get it done for us,” Ernst said.

“When the match is on the line, Mac [Rechan] is comfortable trying to get it done for us.”

GORDIE ERNST Head Coach, Tennis

Rechan attributed his calmness under pressure to experience.

“I don’t know if being a clincher is my role, but I can definitely say that I’ve been put into quite a few pressure situations,” Rechan said. “Last year in the Big East tournament I won a close match for us, and I think that’s what pushed me into the role of being a closer.”

After two weeks of intense practice coming off of a loss to Virginia Commonwealth, this win was an important shift in momentum for the men’s team. It also displayed the fresh talent of five-star recruit freshman Michael Chen, who stepped up and won in both his singles and doubles matches.

“He’s got a great serve, a good feel, and he knows how to impose his game on his opponents,” Rechan said. “I’m expecting big things from him this year, and Navy was just the beginning.”

The women’s team (0-1) was less successful, falling to the Midshipmen 4-3 in its first match of the season. Navy’s home-court advantage was crucial in the matchup because the Hoyas were not used to playing on the indoor hard courts of Navy’s Brigade Sports Complex.

“We just got outrun,” Ernst said.

“They had a few girls who could run faster than we could, especially at number four and number five.”

This shortcoming cost them the doubles point, and ultimately the match. Though junior captain Victoire Saperstein and freshman Risa Nakagawa won their doubles match 6-3, the

team could not manage to come out on top.

In singles play, however, the Hoyas won the majority of the matches.

Freshman Cecilia Lynham won three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, in the second singles position and Nakagawa won three sets, 6-0, 4-6, 6-2, in the third singles position. Sophomore Casey Marx earned the last point for the Blue and Gray in her 6-4, 6-4 victory.

It was a tough loss for the women, with the only point lost from the doubles competition barring them from the win. Doubles play will be key to the women’s future success, especially in the Big East tournament.

Going forward, Ernst says he wants the women’s team to focus on “running, playing defense, putting balls away when they have the opportunity, and being looser and tougher on big points”.

The women’s team hopes to bounce back from its defeat just as the men did on Friday. This upcoming weekend it will have that chance, as both the women’s and the men’s teams travel to Princeton, N.J., to take on the Princeton Tigers.

track & field

Hoyas Break Top Times at Penn State Daniel Baldwin Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s and No. 11 women’s indoor track and field teams started off the weekend strong with impressive performances in the distance medley relay on both sides at the Penn State National Invitational on Jan. 29 and 30.

The women’s team broke the school record in the DMR, while the men’s team captured the third-fastest time in school history. The weekend saw many Georgetown runners create new personal records as well.

The women’s DMR relay, consisting of graduate student Andrea Keklak, senior Heather Martin, junior Sabrina Southerland and graduate student Katrina Coogan, set a new school record of 10:54.77, breaking the previous time of 10:55.63 set at the 2014 Big East Championship.

“I think we did great,” freshman Audrey Belf said. “It was so much fun on Friday night getting to watch the DMR. It was so inspiring how they all put forth their best effort. It was such a team effort.”

The men’s DMR squad finished with a time of 9:29.78, notching third place behind Penn State and Stanford, which took first and second place, respectively. Junior Amos Bartelsmeyer ran the 1200-meter event, sophomore Joe White ran the 400m, graduate student Cole Williams ran the 800m and senior Ahmed Bile anchored the relay. Director of Cross Coun-

a level playing field

try and Track and Field Michael personal record time of 4:45.46 to Smith praised the teams’ perfor- claim second overall in the event. mances, particularly Bile’s and Belf, running the event for the Southerland’s performances in first time in her collegiate career, the relay. was the only freshman to finish “That was the primary objec- among the top five. She crossed tive heading into this meet, was the finish line with a time of to get those two relays qualified 9:21.13 — second best in the Big with marks we thought would be East at the moment — and the secure for the NCAA Champion- 12th-fastest time recorded this ship,” Smith said. “So you are ask- season nationally. While she was ing them to execute in a big way pleased with her performance, and they did that. Both of those Belf was not completely satisfied. times should “I’ve never be safe, secure run a 3000, to head to the that was the meet. They did first time I’ve it in a big way done that, and we had big just to see me splits on both post the 12thsides.” fastest time Keklak ran a just pushes me time of 2:04.38 to work harder in the 800m and harder to race, a persontry to get that al record, on time up and the second day have a shot SOPHOMORE JOE WHITE of competition. at the NCAA Keklak led formeet,” Belf mer Hoya Chelsea Cox (2:04.68), said. junior Emma Keenan (2:06.18) Sophomore Madeline Perez and Martin (2:06.72). They crossed clocked a time of 9:54.89 in the the finish line in fourth, sixth open women’s 3000m race, anand seventh places, respectively. other personal record.

Keenan and Martin each recorded The Georgetown men’s indoor personal records. track and field team saw junior The Hoyas also saw impressive Jonathan Green build off of his performances from sophomore impressive cross country season Piper Donaghu in the women’s by capturing third place in the invitational mile and Belf in the men’s invitational mile. Green women’s 3000m invitational. ran a time of 4:04.68, a personal Donaghu finished the mile with a record by more than 11 seconds.

“I’m not really chasing any records.

I’m just thinking about pushing myself as hard as I can.”

Junior Scott Carpenter finished in seventh place overall with a time of 4:06.97, a personal record.

Sophomore Joe White claimed third place in the men’s invitational 800m race, clocking 1:47.44, an indoor personal record for him. White’s time is currently the sixth-fastest collegiate 800m time recorded this season.

However, White is more focused on improving his own time rather than chasing records.

“It is much nicer to push myself, it’s obviously nice to get records, but it’s nice pushing yourself and knowing that you can go a little bit faster,” White said. “I’m not really chasing any records. I’m just thinking about pushing myself as hard as I can.”

Sophomore Charles Cooper competed in the men’s 1000m invitational and finished with a time of 2:25.33.

“I think we are on a mission and are concerned with putting Georgetown in the place it should be in national track and field,” Smith said. “People are looking at doing their job for their team, putting their individual marks aside and really making sure we are doing our job as a team.”

Next for the Hoyas, both the men’s and women’s teams will travel to Boston and Staten Island, N.Y. to compete in the Boston University Scarlet and White Invitational meet and the Villanova Open on Feb. 6 and 7.

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y first injury happened just before my sophomore year of high school.

I unknowingly strained my quadriceps by taking multiple practice penalty kicks without proper stretching, which rendered me unable to run during tryouts. Unsurprisingly, I subsequently did not make varsity that year. I was put on the JV team and sidelined for almost two months.

That was only the beginning. What followed was a seemingly endless string of injuries: a torn ACL and meniscus in the right knee that spring, a stress fracture in the sacrum the following winter, a re-torn meniscus two months later and finally, a torn MCL, ACL and meniscus in the left knee on Saint Patrick’s Day of my senior year. So much for luck of the Irish.

To put it simply, being injured sucks. You’re benched for at least half a season — if you’re lucky, and when you return, you must work twice as hard to make up for lost time. There’s simply no way around it and you inevitably fall behind. The circumstances leading to an injury are often unpredictable and usually inevitable. My first torn ACL resulted from an awkward fall on the field, and my second from getting my foot stuck in the mud. Some people are lucky and avoid such flukes. I have a friend who never experienced serious setbacks, and she still plays soccer injury-free, excelling in the sport that has caused me so much heartache and physical strain.

Granted, countless numbers of top-class athletes have suffered fates similar to mine and have been able to rebound with considerable success. A Pitchside Report found that two-thirds of the women’s national soccer team experienced some form of serious injury in the past, mostly ACL tears, and each of them has returned and excelled. Regardless of their successful recoveries, I have personally found it extremely difficult to repeatedly return to soccer. It seemed like every time I came back, I was almost immediately back on the bench. I received an injury less than a week after returning from another. It was only upon entering college that I switched to boxing because my knees simply couldn’t take any further abuse from playing soccer.

Some injuries are preventable with proper strength and conditioning, but certain sports encourage aggressive play in which the chances of getting hurt are extremely high.

The NFL, for example, has a “100% injury rate.” It is only in recent years that people finally have begun to understand the damage that this type of aggression can cause, as highlighted in the recent movie “Concussion.”

At the same time, an NFL report released on Friday stated that the number of concussions diagnosed in 2015 increased by 32 percent from the previous year. A recent Associated Press survey of 100 NFL players revealed that fewer than half believed that their teams prioritized their safety. However, in a CBS news article, Detroit Lions safety Don Carey acknowledged the conflict of interest between a team’s doctors and trainers: “It’s their job is to make you playable. There’s a lot of pressure on them to keep guys on the field.” The value of a player also factors into the equation. The bigger the paycheck, the better the player is treated and the quicker he is encouraged to return to the game, regardless of whether or not he has fully recovered.

It is not just the professional leagues that are having these problems. They are happening at all levels of play. A CNN article reported that in New York alone, the number of ACL repairs performed on children aged three to 20 more than doubled from 1990 to 2009.

The article also pointed out the risks of early specialization in one sport. Junior elite tennis players are 50 percent more likely to suffer an injury than those who play in multiple sports at once, and young adolescent women who specialize in one sport are 1.5 times more likely to report anterior knee pain than those who do not.

So why continue this abuse of athletes’ bodies? It’s often out of necessity, as many athletes feel the need to specialize in one sport to get into competitive colleges or professional programs later on. Their well-being is put on the back burner, leading to endless new and recurring injuries.

It’s a fight to get back into the game after an injury, and for some, that fight is not always successful. It’s a huge problem for college and professional athletes whose livelihoods depend on their bodies working well.

But the show must go on, and those unable to keep up are left behind. Unfair? Yes. Avoidable? Unfortunately not. It would be ideal if we could find a solution to the problem of injuries, but they are simply part and parcel of playing sports, and they befall some athletes disproportionately more than others. It is important that such circumstances be acknowledged, treated and respected because these setbacks make the accomplishments of athletes who have faced them all the more impressive — and if we ignore them, we only add insult to injury.

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Vitalis said. “It’s just the overarching theme for this year now. Just being together, being comfortable with each other and just really executing.”

The pack defense has made an immediate impact this year. Last season, the Hoyas allowed 73.4 points per game, which ranked ninth out of 10 Big East teams. This season, they are allowing just 61.9 points per game, good for fourth in the conference and representing an improvement of 11.5 points per game.

Georgetown has allowed its opponents to make just 36.5 percent of their field goal attempts, which is down from 41.9 percent last season.

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I remember losing the championship game in a Little League baseball tournament. It was painful to lose as a kid, and I remember wanting never to lose at anything again. I also remember how satisfying it felt to win. This competitiveness, which I developed at a very young age, helped me succeed in sports, in school and in building perseverance.

Life is competitive. The college admissions process is competitive. Grades are competitive. The job market is competitive. Sheltering children from this reality by telling them there is no difference between winners and losers is not only foolish but dishonest.

Kobe Bryant is renowned for his work ethic. There are legendary stories about his personal dedication, including one by a member of the Olympic training staff who recounted how Bryant would wake him up at 3:30 a.m. to pass to him while Bryant took shots. That kind of work ethic would be admirable even if Bryant had not won five NBA titles. However, if there were no difference between winning an NBA title and finishing last in the league, Bryant would have no reason to sacrifice his sleep.

Moreover, General George S. Patton was the sort of leader America needed when faced with one of its greatest challenges. His speech to the Third Army in 1944 showed that he knew the value of recognizing a winner: “When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. The very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. [Winning] brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.”

Everyone who has ever entered a final exam, a job interview or an election knows the value of winning.

Throughout all of history, winners have been honored, and losers have been dishonored — rightly so. So how could it possibly be that participation trophies, which neither honor winners nor dishonor losers, are a good thing?

Some claim it is because children are not yet mature enough to deal with the harsh realities of losing a Pop Warner football game or a third grade volleyball match. I have two problems with this logic. First, I doubt that not getting a trophy in a youth sports league has ever been a significant factor in any sort of long-term psychological damage, and I would even go so far as to say there is often great benefit in this happening, as in my case.

Second, habits are extremely hard to change. Developing helpful values and habits early in life is essential to living a good life. As ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt said in reference to the WIAA chant decision, “Shielding kids from things that aren’t even harmful makes them feeble and weak-minded.” Of course there are things from which children should be shielded, but the alleged adverse effect of losing a few youth sports games is not one of them.

Ancient philosophy from Proverbs to Plato emphasizes the importance of instilling good values and habits at a young age. We disregard this wisdom at our peril.

We shouldn’t devalue winning and competitiveness, which is what participation trophies do, but instead use the positive lessons gained from losing to instill the values that participation trophies actually discourage: hard work, teamwork, effort and improvement. Not allowing children to lose denies them those lessons.

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another key contributor to Georgetown’s improvement. White, a 5-foot5 guard from Milford Mill Academy in Maryland, was a highly regarded prospect who ranked No. 100 in ESPN’s rankings of the prospects in the high school Class of 2015. She has immediately made her mark on the GeorgeTyler town program as the team leader in points, rebounds, assists, three-pointers made and free throws made.

White leads an offense that features several tall and athletic wing

players, including 6-foot-1 sophomore guard Dorothy Adomako, 6-foot-2 junior forward Faith Woodard and 6-foot-2 junior forward/ guard Logan Battle.

Adomako, Georgetown’s second leading scorer this season, averages 14.0 points per game and consistently acts Park as an offensive threat with her ability to attack the basket. Woodard and Battle are the Hoyas’ third and fourth leading scorers, respectively, and are the team’s two most accurate three-

point shooters by percentage.

This season, the team has executed more precisely on offense, recording more assists per game than before and taking better care of the ball. Last season, Georgetown averaged 18.3 turnovers per game.

It has lowered that number to 14.7 per game this year, giving the team 3.6 extra possessions per game, a critical number for a team that lost 11 games by less than 10 points last season.

There is still room for improvement as conference play is still underway, but the Hoyas have taken the first crucial steps toward restoring the program to its former glory.

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The Hoyas did not let up in the fourth quarter and maintained at least a 25-point lead for the final 10 minutes. Providence never managed to mount any kind of serious comeback, and when the final buzzer sounded, Georgetown came away with a 31-point victory.

“To be able to keep our foot on the pedal and to play everyone on the team integral minutes, while not losing sight of the goal, was great,” Adair said.

Adomako shined offensively for the Hoyas, scoring a seasonhigh 24 points on a career-high 10 made field goals. The sophomore also managed to pull down seven rebounds to go along with three assists and two steals. “[Adomako] came out of the locker room and was a spark at the start of the game,” Adair said. “She wanted it. Her teammates were feeding her. We were putting her in a position to get those touches and get those looks, and she was knocking them down. She was just on fire, and she started the run for us that gave us the momentum right out of the gate.”

Following Friday’s contest in Providence, the Hoyas traveled to Omaha for their matchup with the Creighton Bluejays. Once again, Georgetown jumped out to an early lead, going on a 12-2 run to take a 10-point lead with 6:47 remaining in the first quarter.

However, Creighton battled back, stifling Georgetown’s offense and giving up only four points over the course of the final six minutes of the quarter. After 10 minutes of play, the Hoyas held a narrow 16-15

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“Creighton is a really good team, and if you’re not focused on defense they can rattle you,” Adomako said. “Coach had to call a timeout and bring us back together to close out the quarter.”

Georgetown came out strong in the second quarter, maintaining its lead and using a 10-point run during the final four minutes of the half to extend its advantage to 13 points before the break. The Hoyas played a solid third quarter as well, never allowing their lead to dip below nine points. Heading into the final period, Georgetown led 45-36.

Even though the Hoyas had led for the entirety of the preceding 30 minutes of play, the Blue Jays would not go down without a fight. Creighton managed to cut the deficit to five points with 2:37 remaining on the clock.

“They went on a run, but we didn’t lose our composure,” Burton said. “We had worked very hard to get to that point, and we knew if we didn’t execute it would have been all for nothing, so we all locked in and fortunately came out with the win.”

Georgetown managed to stay composed down the stretch. A layup and a jump shot on consecutive offensive possessions by Burton kicked off an 8-0 run for the Hoyas to close out the game.

When time expired, Georgetown led 57-44.

“I thought we showed really good poise down the stretch. We did not panic,” Adair said. “We just had to withstand that lastminute push, and I thought we did that beautifully.”

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The Hoyas were paced by senior forward Dominique Vitalis, who recorded a team-high 12 points and grabbed seven boards. Adomako and senior guard/forward Logan Battle each chipped in seven points. Adomako also had a game-high nine rebounds.

“I am proud of every person on this team,” Adair said. “They’re getting it. That light bulb is on, and they are hungry. They are talking about winning.”

The Hoyas have won three straight games and will look to extend that streak to four this Friday when they take on the Marquette Golden Eagles (11-11, 6-5 Big East) at home.

“We’ve done a good job this season holding home court. We don’t want to let go of that, and we need that momentum to carry us through next week,” Adair said.

Tipoff is set for 7:05 p.m. at McDonough Arena.

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seventh in defense. Georgetown, coming off its worst three-point shooting performance of conference play thus far, will look to rebound against an inconsistent Butler team.

“I don’t want to equate sense of urgency with panic, but you know, we got nine games left and we are … two games out of first place. [We’ve] got to win,” Head Coach John Thompson III said of the team beginning the second half of conference play.

Similarly to its game against Providence, Georgetown will likely need to focus on stifling two star players in the Butler matchup: senior guard Roosevelt Jones and senior guard Kellen Dunham.

However, unlike the Friars, the Bulldogs boast a third option on their roster who has made a sizeable leap in his performance from last season to this season.

“Both of those two kids are so poised,” Thompson said. “You put around them, a kid like [Kelan Martin] … he’s made a significant jump; he’s playing with extreme confidence right now. They score in bunches.”

In its nonconference games, Butler was one of the most efficient offenses in the country. In fact, despite scoring 1.03 points per possession in nine games, the Bulldogs’ offense overall is still at 1.15 points per possession, placing them among the top 20 in the country.

While Jones and Dunham are consistent threats, averaging a combined 30.7 points between them, Martin has been Butler’s spark off the bench, anchoring its starting lineup with nearly 15 points per game, 49 percent shooting from the field and an efficient 40 percent shooting from three. Martin also pulls down 6.2 rebounds per game and averages about 25 minutes per game.

However, the Bulldogs have been missing a key piece of their offense for the past few games. Junior guard Tyler Lewis suffered a concussion a few weeks ago and sat out the past three games. Before he was injured, Lewis had helped to initiate the team’s offense and get Dunham and Jones open looks over the course of the

season.

A team like Butler, which relies heavily on guard play and has no real interior presence, runs the risk of a big game from the Hoyas’ big men, senior center and cocaptain Bradley Hayes and freshman center Jessie Govan.

“We’ve got to start looking at getting to the inside more. Not just throwing it into the post, but also attacking the rim and not just from our bigs, but from our forwards as well,” Hayes said.

In a matchup where the Hoyas’ size can be an overall advantage, sophomore forward Isaac Copeland can take this opportunity to rebound from a slew of inefficient games. Though he has performed well defensively, his scoring has left much to be desired. Copeland scored in double

figures in 12 of the Hoyas’ first 14 games, but has only done so once in their last seven games.

Copeland’s strength comes from attacking the rim, where he has shot 79 percent on the season. However, he has not built on that figure in three of the past four games, attempting zero shots at the rim.

Copeland, who many pundits and fans expected to make a leap during his sophomore season, has regressed since his hot start to the year. However, Georgetown’s last home matchup against Butler marks a special place in the career of the young forward, who notched 10 points, grabbed six rebounds and drained the game-winning three-pointer in a 61-59 win.

Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be shown on Fox Sports 1.

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Senior center and co-captain Bradley Hayes, left, averages 8.7 points per game and leads the team with 6.8 rebounds per game this season.

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The Georgetown women’s basketball team (12-9, 5-6 Big East) returned home Sunday night after picking up two victories on the road against conference opponents. The Hoyas kicked off the weekend with a decisive 31-point victory over the Providence Friars (417, 0-11 Big East) before downing the Creighton Blue Jays (11-12, 5-6 Big East) 57-44.

“Closing out January, heading into February, I feel like we are definitely in a good place,” Head Coach Natasha Adair said.

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a 16-point advantage at the end of the first 10 minutes.

“I think our biggest advantage was starting out good. We came in with the intention of having a good start,” sophomore guard DiDi Burton said.

The Hoyas remained in control throughout the second quarter, never allowing their lead to dip below double digits. At the end of the first half, the Friars trailed 52-34.

Georgetown’s advantage continued to grow over the course of the second half. A layup DIDI BURTON by sophomore guard Sophomore Guard Dorothy Adomako with 4:03 left to play in the third quarter ignited a 10-0 run for the Hoyas that gave them a 25-point advantage going into the final period.

“We came in with the intention of having a good start.”

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Sophomore guard Dorothy Adomako scored a season-high 24 points in Georgetown’s 82-51 victory over Creighton. She averages 14 points per game.

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team (12-9, 5-6 Big East) has seen a significant and surprisingly quick uptick in wins this year.

The Hoyas beat the Creighton Bluejays (11-12, 5-6 Big East) Sunday to earn their third straight Big East

win. In earning its 12th win, Georgetown tripled its win total from last season. The Hoyas won more Big East games in the eight-day span from Jan. 24 to Jan. 31 than they won in the entire 2014-15 season.

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ometimes we take good ideas too far.

I am all for good sportsmanship and making other people feel good about themselves, but even those ideas have their limits. Recently the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association banned fans at high school sports games from chanting anything deemed “insensitive.” Among the banned chants are “air ball,” “we can’t hear you,” and “you can’t do that.” This is an excellent example of taking a good idea — encouraging sportsmanship by fans at games — to a level that takes away from the point of the game in the first place.

Here’s another example: participation trophies. Participation trophies, according to Cornell psychology professor Kenneth Barish, are a way to emphasize other values in sports that come alongside winning, such as effort, improvement and hard work. Those are great values. But do participation trophies really emphasize those? And if they do, at what cost?

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The Bulldogs rank in the middle of the pack of the Big East in most major statistics. They are an average three-point shooting team within the conference and defend the three at an average rate as well — ranking fourth in offense and

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as No. 10 in the country entering Big East play. The Georgetown men’s basketball team (13-9, 6-3 Big East) will head to Indianapolis to face the struggling Butler squad in an effort to reclaim a grasp on second place in the conference after dropping a close home game to No. 11 Providence (18-4, 7-2 Big

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Freshman guard Dionna White leads Georgetown in points per game with 14.6, assists per game with 3.8 and rebounds per game with 5.9. White had 17 points in Georgetown’s win over Creighton on Friday.

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Last year, Natasha Adair became the fourth head coach of the team in a span of four seasons. She took over following a period of turmoil in the program that included allegations of verbal abuse against former Head Coach Keith Brown, who resigned in October 2013. Jim Lewis took over as interim coach after Brown’s resignation and stayed with the program until the season ended.

For the first time since longtime Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy departed in 2012, the Hoyas have had the same coach for two consecutive seasons. In addition, all six of the players who started at least 17 games last season returned for this season.

Entering the season, the team was eager to move on from the past and re-establish a winning culture.

“I want to be able for them to have a clean slate, so they can know that they can grow, know that they can achieve,” Adair said. “In such a short time, it can happen.”

Last season, the Hoyas were a team with no seniors, playing for a firstyear coach. This season, they have a roster that includes four seniors, a graduate student and a coach who has now had a full season to implement her offensive and defensive systems and establish a new culture in the program.

Senior forward Dominique Vitalis said she was excited about the team’s continuity entering this season, particularly on defense.

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