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SPRING FASHION

Transition into the new season with neutral tones and pops of color in formalwear.

COMMENTARY By taking Brown House, the administration betrayed students.

EDITORIAL The abortion debate lacked collaborative dialogue.

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Former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director and anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson condemned the abortion services offered by the women’s health care provider at an event organized by Georgetown University Right to Life in Dahlgren Chapel on Wednesday night.

Johnson, who resigned from Planned Parenthood in 2009 after witnessing an abortion through an ultrasound, said her experiences working as a clinic director for eight years in Bryan, Texas, shifted her views on abortion. She was named Planned Parenthood’s employee of the year in 2008.

“I remember looking at the ultrasound screen and I was feeling apprehensive. Because it really did look like a baby,” Johnson said.

Since leaving Planned Parenthood, Johnson has become an anti-abortion activist, volunteering with the Coalition for Life, an anti-abortion group, and writing Unplanned, a novel about her becoming an anti-abortion activist.

Johnson said she first learned about Planned Parenthood while in college when she visited its table on campus and spoke to a representative about the organization’s work.

“I was an easy target for them because I knew nothing about the organization,” Johnsonsaid.“Whatevershefedme,Ibelieved.”

Johnson said she realized she did not consider the consequences of her work until the fall of 2009. When she met with her supervisor to compare her budget for the past fiscal year and the upcoming fiscal year, she noticed that the clinic’s number of performed abortions doubled the quota — the number of abortions that the clinic was required to perform each month.

“I knew that couldn’t be right,” Johnson said. “‘Because at Planned Parenthood, we are about reducing the number of See JOHNSON, A6

COURTESY LECTURE FUND

In a conversation moderated by GU Lecture Fund Finance Chair Elizabeth Rich (COL ’16), left, and Chair Helen Brosnan (COL ’16), Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards discussed the importance of protecting women’s reproductive rights.

Georgetown Hosts Cecile Richards Planned Parenthood president advocates for reproductive rights

Lecture Fund event faced Jesuit, anti-abortion activist opposition

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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards spoke in Lohrfink Auditorium at Georgetown University, the United States’ oldest Catholic university, Wednesday to call for abortion rights and access to contraception, punctuating a week stacked with anti-abortion panels and discussions for Georgetown’s Life Week.

Speaking by invitation of Lecture Fund, which is funded by the university, Richards first spoke directly to the packed room on the history and importance of Planned Parenthood’s services, before engaging in a dialogue with co-planners and moderators Lecture Fund Chair Helen Brosnan (COL ’16) and Finance Chair Elizabeth Rich

(COL ’16).

Since its founding in 1916, Planned Parenthood has provided health services, including affordable sexually transmitted diseases testing, birth control, Pap smears, cancer screenings and legal abortion.

Richards’ visit was met with controversy. The day of the event, Georgetown University Right to Life, George Mason’s Students for Life group and a group of young Catholic men belonging to the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property protested around campus.

Richards said increased access to birth control in the country has contributed to the advancement of women’s rights.

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Inciting campus-wide dialogue and protest surrounding abortion rights, the Georgetown University Lecture Fund’s decision to invite Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards to speak Thursday was met with formal opposition from several Georgetown Jesuits, Catholic officials and anti-abortion student groups.

Associate professor Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J., and visiting professor of law Fr. Ladislas Orsy, S.J., presented a proposal to introduce an anti-abortion counterview into the event, a culmination of a fouryearslong effort by the Lecture Fund to bring Richards to campus, but it was rejected by Lecture Fund at its open-forum meeting March 29.

In addition to attempts to pre-

Students Arrested In Political Protest aly pachter Hoya Staff Writer

At least two Georgetown University students were arrested Monday during this week’s Democracy Spring protests, which began April 12. The protests were focused on ending voting discrimination and U.S. government corruption including special interest contributions in politics, and these arrests added to the nearly 1,300 others apprehended.

The weeklong protests, along with a 10-day march from Philadelphia to the U.S. Capitol, represented part of a larger progressive movement organized by Democracy Awakening, a coalition of over 200 organizations ranging from immigration policy to climate change advocacy groups.

Eleven of the 3,500 people who participated in the protests were Georgetown students.

Democracy Initiative, a progressive national coalition supporting campaign finance reform and voters’ rights, attended the protests and hosted several events prior to the rallies, including a letter-writing campaign to members of Congress in opposition and support of various pieces of legislation. The initiative is headed by the National Education Association, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Communications Workers of America and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The initiative also organized a panel on campus co-hosted by the Georgetown NAACP, the

Georgetown program on justice and peace and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund featuring NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks titled “Democracy Awakening: Panel and Discussion” in Reiss on March 31.

The Georgetown students, who attended the rally along with peers from Howard University, American University and the University of Maryland, were arrested while protesting in front of the Capitol, according to Democracy Initiative Communications and Organizing intern Katharine Viles (SFS ’16).

Viles, who was not arrested, said the purpose of the protests was to garner attention and visibility for the cause rather than initiate plans for any federal policy changes.

“I think there was an understanding in the progressive community that we are not going to be able to pass anything at the national level,” Viles said. “This is really the only way that we would be able to get the ball rolling, and this was not so much about actually passing anything. This was about momentum and this was about raising the visibility of a movement.”

According to the Democracy Spring website, the movement aims to tackle citizen frustrations with the role of large corporations in politics.

“American elections are dominated by billionaires and big money interests who can spend See DEMOCRACY, A7

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vent Richards from speaking or altering the format of the event, initial efforts to see the event held in Gaston Hall were met with resistance by the university, according to leaders of the Lecture Fund and Georgetown University Right to Life.

Georgetown University Right to Life President Michael Khan (COL ’18) said following a meeting between Vita Saxa, the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life and university administrators Feb. 29, Vice President of Mission and ministry Father Kevin O’Brien, S.J., approached the Lecture Fund to express concerns about holding the event in Gaston Hall.

According to Vice Chair of Finance for the Lecture Fund Elizabeth Rich (COL ’16), a co-planner and moderator of the event, See OPPOSITION, A6

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Despite efforts to improve accessibility, the hilly layout of campus and older buildings still pose challenges for students.

Accessibility Push Faces Tricky Terrain ANDREW WALLENDER Hoya Staff Writer

When Rachel Anderson (COL ’17) broke her leg on a spring night in 2015, she soon realized that getting in and out of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital would be the easy part.

It was navigating campus in the following weeks that proved to be much more difficult.

On her first night with the injury, Anderson left the hospital and returned to her apartment in Henle Village in a SafeRides van.

As she limped to the area outside Henle, she realized the challenges in store for her.

“I remember getting out of the SafeRides van and just looking up,” Anderson said. “My heart just sank, because it was just so difficult.”

She hobbled home, and what Published Tuesdays and Fridays

was usually a few minutes’ walk took nearly an hour. Anderson crutched up the ramp into Henle, up the two flights of stairs to her apartment and down another flight of stairs to her room.

Henle Village is one of the 11 student dormitories at the university built before the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in 1990, requiring student housing to include accessible rooms and pathways. Although Anderson’s injury was only temporary, she said it opened her eyes to the experiences students with disabilities live every day at Georgetown.

Georgetown’s elevated location on a hilltop and numerous historic buildings uniquely exacerbate the challenges ordinarily faced by students with physical disabilities. Despite these built-in

Bulldog Battle The baseball team will travel to Indianapolis to play a three-game series against Butler this weekend.

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NEWS Address from Ambassadors Georgetown Institute for the Study of Diplomacy hosted a panel of ambassadors to discuss the value of diplomacy.

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news Referendum on Statehood Mayor Bowser has proposed holding a November citywide referendum to fight for D.C. statehood.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Friday, April 22, 2016

THE VERDICT

We Can Do Better, Too When it comes to issues that affect our community, campus media can be an essential tool to bring attention and pressure. However, when such bodies, including this independent editorial board, do not provide sufficient ways to resolve the issues others raise, we fail to fulfill our purpose as a body that prescribes policy prescriptions, causing the community and issues it raises to be let down. Most of our time is spent critiquing other institutions, but as the term of this editorial board comes to an end, we would like to reflect on where we can do better.

When the university announced that three additional staff members would be added to Counseling and Psychiatric Services, the editorial board responded by calling for even more action to support mental health on campus and wide structural reform.

However, we did so without providing specific policy proposals beyond asking for a louder student voice on the issue and that more resources be allocated to CAPS. This kind of suggestion demonstrates that we only were only tenacious enough to identify the problem and stopped short of finding potential solutions.

If we are to critique the undeniably passionate efforts of students and administrators, we must supplement our found shortcomings with wellresearched and feasible solutions. As our term as an editorial board ends, we hope the incoming board can accommodate greater detail into its calls to action.

Furthermore, all campus media can aid the work of this editorial board by launching investigative efforts into the questions raised by the community.

To do this, student journalists must continue pushing university offices to be more transparent by exposing the issues that go on behind closed doors and by asking tough questions of our administrators. With these efforts, campus media can hold administrators more accountable.

Editorials are responsible for highlighting the central issues, failures and successes of a community, and it should seek to expose topics hidden underneath the surface. In the case of The Hoya’s editorial board, we have not fully lived up to the tasks required of us as members of campus media, and we will seek to bring more insight and nuance to issues in the future.

A Man’s Game — Jonathan Niccola, a 6-foot-9 17-year-old high school student playing varsity basketball at Catholic Central High School in Ontario, Canada, has been hiding a secret. Niccola was revealed to be a 30-year-old man from South Sudan posing as a teenager on Wednesday.

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Founded January 14, 1920

Tubman on the 20 — Harriet Tubman, abolitionist and leader of the Underground Railroad, will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill. Tubman will be the first black woman to appear on any U.S. currency.

Snapchat Under Fire — Snapchat tried, and failed, to honor reggae musician Bob Marley on April 20 with a Snapchat filter that would significantly darken the user’s skin. Backlash against Snapchat followed quickly with many people on Twitter calling the filter racist and evocative of blackface.

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Up High — Thursday was National High-Five Day. People across the country uploaded their best high five pictures, videos and GIFs to social media to celebrate.

‘Cribs’ is Back — “MTV Cribs,” the 2000s reality show where celebrities showed off their homes to viewers, will soon get a second life. MTV announced that “Cribs” will air weekly on Snapchat starting in June.

Go Green — Union Station will host activities, events and panelists to celebrate Earth Day and raise environmental awareness today.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Angela Qi

A Loss for Students In a secretive bait-and-switch this month, the university administration quietly took the famous Brown House — 3616 N St. NW — out of the housing lottery, assigning it for renovation and repurposing it as faculty housing in the coming year. Over 500 students have reacted strongly to this cloak-and-dagger move, which is all too consistent with the university’s decisions in recent years to remove beloved housing policies, such as ones that permitted juniors to live off campus, and repurpose traditional student space for administrative use. We applaud the decision by D.J. Angelini (MSB ‘17) to start a petition — later endorsed by the Georgetown University Student Association — to protest the university’s decision and push back against its encroachment on student housing.

The removal of Brown House is a particularly worrying step, given its centrality to the social experience of many students, and the tradition of the 3600 block of N Street as a center for offcampus social life. As one of the only houses with enough space to support student social life, taking Brown House

from students is a disappointment to students, and putting a faculty home there will remove the last neighborhood block comprised of all student homes in the Georgetown area. The 2010 Campus Plan removed 18 student townhouses in Georgetown — one of the most contested moves in the plan — and the repurposing of Brown House threatens to continue this deeply unpopular pattern.

But perhaps what is most offensive about this move by the administration is the way the removal of Brown House was slipped under the rug — violating prior promises to the student body to be transparent about housing modifications and inform the student body in advance.

Furthermore, it is unclear why the university is spending money renovating Brown House for administrative use when much-needed renovations to Village A, Darnall Hall and Henle Village go unheeded. We urge the university to reverse its decision to take Brown House, and further urge it to commit to a transparent process when repurposing student townhouses in the future.

Georgetown students and community members this week had an unprecedented opportunity to engage deeply with issues of reproductive justice and Catholic teachings on life.

Following the Georgetown University Lecture Fund’s invitation to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, numerous Catholic and anti-abortion organizations demonstrated against what they viewed as a disregard for Georgetown’s Catholic values. Richards’ campus visit occurred during Georgetown University Right to Life’s annual Life Week, a series of events focusing on the Catholic commitment to life, including a speech by anti-abortion activist and former Planned Parenthood employee Abby Johnson.

Georgetown’s Catholic identity does demand certain adherence to Catholic doctrine, but the university also has a responsibility to its students to welcome the exchange of ideas and perspectives with which the Catholic Church might disagree. Far from at odds with Georgetown’s mission, inviting a pro-abortion rights activist to speak in the midst of anti-abortion

advocates fulfills its Jesuit values of interreligious understanding and community in diversity. However, the Life Week programming and Richards’ lecture were hosted separately. There was not a single event, discussion or lecture that presented the views of both anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights supporters.

Richards’ speech and Life Week’s events presented diametrically opposed positions in relation to abortion, but a chance for progressive dialogue and debate was ultimately lost. In order to sustain and encourage greater dialogue on issues not only limited to abortion, we urge students and the university to host and sponsor events bridging contrary views.

It is only through the spirit of free speech and open discussion that students will be able to learn from a variety of perspectives and come to their own understandings on such controversial moral questions. We urge students and the university to value constructive dialogue over belligerent debate when faced with contentious issues in the future.

Debate Over Division

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Remembering the 272 in Deed, Not Just Word To the Editor, In its editorial, (“Remember the 272,” The Hoya, A2, April 19, 2016), the board quotes a working group member who asks, “What can you do to make amends?” The editorial board’s suggestion of making a public apology and commitment to the descendants of the victims does not go far enough.

If Georgetown is serious about making amends, why not devote money and resources to freeing slaves

who live in the modern world? At this moment, there are millions of people who are living in slavery.

One recent report from BBC estimated the figure at 36 million people.

Whether using money to buy the freedom of those currently enslaved, or committing some of our vast expertise in international relations to pressure governments to prevent slavery within their borders -- many of these enslaved people live in countries the United States counts as al-

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lies and, at least theoretically, are subject to pressures we might put on them.

Our efforts should not be limited to using words to remember wrongs, but instead should include taking actions to create justice. There is no making up for Georgetown’s profiting from the slave trade, but there is an opportunity to do some good as a living memorial to those who suffered at our community’s hands.

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OPINION

Friday, april 22, 2016

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Brown House: an Institution of Student Life

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Parth Shah and Charlie Lowe

Rethinking Our Cura Personalis

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ow many times does a high school student on a Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program weekend hear the phrase cura personalis before beginning the process of becoming a zombie Hoya, rushing to Lauinger Library in order to finish a paper after a Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union networking event, preceded by a Goldman Sachs information session — itself preceded by an interest meeting for Students of Georgetown, Inc.?

We have strayed from the intended meaning of cura personalis and conflated it to mean check off all the boxes or you are screwed. Charlie Lowe (SFS ’16) and I, among many others, find ourselves inundated with the need to study, advance professionally, achieve leadership positions in clubs we find engaging, make friends and be social.

And how many times during New Student Orientation did new Hoyas hear that students like to be involved while living balanced lives, but how it was okay if you choose not to be involved? All the while, orientation advisors dispel the knowledge of running on less than five hours of sleep from the night before, amped up on burnt Corp coffee, pretending to be peppy for 12 hours a day in the hopes that their group of 11 students decide to apply to become OAs themselves.

There is a disconnect between perception and reality when dealing with Georgetown’s culture. Most students on campus are looking for a breadth of experiences rather than a few focused ones.

We need to do away with this mentality, because it does not breed success as much as it does stress. The current system is also not an individual student’s fault, because it is an institutional issue. From the moment we arrive at Georgetown, we recalibrate our expectations of involvement.

Our advice is this: Choose your own path, embrace what you love to do and put aside what you can. If you feel during a semester that your academics are not offering you as much development as your extracurricular activities, it is alright to de-emphasize them and focus on the activities that are enriching you more.

We spoke to a friend of ours who was in the upper management of The Corp. The Corp was clearly his main focus, and he found value in all the time it took him to reach his high-level position, but he acknowledged he often set aside his studies in the process. While cramming material a week before exams detracted from his academic journey, he found meaning in the work he did, and there is intrinsic value in this manifesting these efforts as well as the mastery that comes with it. One needs not regret following such a path.

And when speaking to another friend of ours in Georgetown University Grilling Society, he mentioned how he loved GUGS insofar as the limited time commitments allowed him to focus on his studies, which he prioritized. These two individuals reinforced to us the importance of directing one’s energies where they can best be used and building an experience that fosters the most fulfillment.

It is okay to step away from something if it no longer suits your priorities or if you are unhappy. It is okay to be pragmatic when making choices rather than holding an overflowing bucket over your head. Let us abandon the pretense that everyone can do everything and still flourish. Let us recognize also the stark reality that mental health issues have become increasingly prevalent in our campus discourse. We should allocate more resources to help those who feel overwhelmed.

Yet this still does not address systemic causes, only symptoms.

More broadly, life is not about checking off all the boxes but rather understanding and accepting that our decisions have tradeoffs. If I have an extremely demanding career, I may have to contend with fewer hours for my hobbies. If I choose to have a child, I might forego my ability to travel the world, drink with my college friends, engage in service and run a marathon in the same year. Our culture of overbooking can lead to habits and expectations of excess in later life, which is surely unsustainable. There is no need to dilute our efforts to such an end.

By dispelling this unrealistic notion that we can and should do everything, we need to re-evaluate what we think cura personalis really is. No longer should it be to accomplish the most activities and experiences in the most varied of settings.

Going forward, we need to embrace a cura personalis mindset that lets us learn the most about ourselves in a context we find invigorating. Let us remember that this involves care for the whole person, which inevitably should urge us to be mindful of our own limitations.

Parth Shah is a senior in the College.

Charlie Lowe is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. many georgetowns appears every other Friday.

s of fall 2016, 3616 N St. NW will no longer be used for undergraduate student housing. Instead, Brown House is slated to be repurposed for Office of the Provost “strategic needs,” the purpose of which is unknown to students. Despite student activists regularly engaging with knowledgeable administrators on the future of undergraduate residential living space in biweekly meetings spanning over a year, the topic of repurposing the largest and most iconic student residence into administrative space somehow failed to arise in our extensive conversations.

The conspicuous silence surrounding the repurposing of Brown House calls into question Georgetown’s commitment to enhancing undergraduate residential space and reflects a troublesome multiyear trend of administrators quietly and deliberately eroding student life outside the front gates.

It is difficult to imagine a Georgetown without Brown House. For many, ascending the home’s iconic wooden stairs and entering its vacuumpacked dance floor for the first time feels like an initiation into Georgetown — convocation, take note. Brown House feels like college. Or a primordial soup. Underclassmen view it as a reliable hub in an otherwise fickle social landscape.

Upperclassmen speak of it in equal parts scorn and nostal-

gia. At a school where one’s social life is heavily predicated upon membership in largely exclusive clubs and organizations, Brown House is the only university-owned residence that consistently offers an active and welcoming social environment. It is a defining characteristic of the undergraduate student experience at Georgetown.

And yet administrators have deemed the repurposing of Brown House an issue unworthy of student engagement. Reminiscent of the way in which the abhorrent 2010 Campus Plan was drafted without student input, administrators have once again shown themselves to be blissfully compliant in advancing the neighborhood interest of quashing off-campus life. From enforcing uniquely draconian

language in the Code of Student Conduct equating offcampus noise with “disorderly conduct” to squandering hundreds of thousands of increasingly scant dollars on a bloated Office of Neighborhood Life, one needs to look no further than the streets of Georgetown on a Saturday night to see the university’s misallocation of time, money and human capital in full-flagrant force.

The only difference is that now, with the repurposing of Brown House, there is little left to take. Brown House has no equal. It has no alternative.

As we move closer to another campus plan, I am deeply concerned that the administration is not committed to providing students with quality housing and a livable campus. The implementation of a third-year housing requirement is proof

VIEWPOINT • Pepi-Lewis & Kleyman

Provide a Space For Every View

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e are going to open by saying something that everyone knows about us: We are ardently, openly and unabashedly pro-choice.

We are writing this as the president and vice president of H*yas for Choice, but also as pro-choice students sick of an endless, pointless battle at Georgetown taking place under the guise of free speech, or lack thereof.

On Wednesday we had the opportunity to meet Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and introduce her to 400 of our peers. We do not overstate our excitement when we say it was the highlight of our time at Georgetown. We found Richards’ speech on the need for Planned Parenthood’s services and the importance of pro-choice activism to be inspiring, provocative and accessible.

Wherever one stands on the abortion question, surely there was something to glean from her wisdom and experience.

This does not mean, however, that the conversation was not geared toward pro-choice students. It was.

And that is OK. The majority of students in the room were pro-choice, and the applause, cheers and standing ovations came almost entirely from pro-choice students.

This was very much a pro-choice event. This truth is unavoidable.

And that is absolutely OK. There are those who believe Richards’ talk did not foster the free exchange of ideas, that there was not a strong enough pro-life voice at the event to balance out the speaker’s messages.

They are absolutely right. To ask her to profess any viewpoint on reproductive justice except that of a pro-choice woman in the field would be asking her to censor, to lie or not to speak at all.

We cannot stress this enough: Listening is a part of conversation.

Conversation does not entail a perfect one-to-one ratio of pro-life to pro-choice voices.

It does not mean quieting prochoice voices to placate pro-life students. It certainly does not mean every pro-life event should go forth as an uncontested soliloquy while pro-choice ones should be relegated to panels where speakers from both sides are present. This empty, gestural need for “genuine dialogue” seems to have conveniently arisen the day Richards’ visit was announced and is nothing more than a smoke screen. It is a clear and undisputable double standard.

We are not trying to change your mind.

There was no pro-choice voice present at Abby Johnson’s talk on Wednesday evening. H*yas for Choice members went.

There was no pro-choice voice present at congresswoman Mar-

sha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) talk on Tuesday or at the subsequent panel of crisis pregnancy center workers. H*yas for Choice members went. There has never been, and arguably never will be, a pro-choice voice present at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, the largest student-run pro-life conference in the world hosted in Gaston Hall every year.

While we do attend events running counter to our pro-choice beliefs, we do not expect to change the minds of the speakers or those who go to support them.

Pro-life spaces are not our spaces.

When Georgetown hosts a pro-life speaker on campus, we usually do not have any desire to attend. When we do go, we do so knowing we are a minority. We show up or we do not, we ask questions or we listen. But at the end of the day, pro-life spaces are not our spaces. And if pro-life students find themselves in a pro-choice space, we invite them to sit with that discomfort.

Divisive speakers are going to come to campus again. The good news is that if there is an event you do not agree with, you find yourself in a lucky situation. There are many things you can do.

You can come, listen and maybe learn something. You can come, listen, learn nothing, go home and write an opinion about it. You can come, listen and then ask a question at the end. You can even ask a sassy question.

Or you can just not come.

We say this not to criticize the reaction to Richards’ speech but to make it known that the pro-choice community will not apologize. We will not apologize for our views or for the spaces in which we present them. We say this now so the next time there is an event like Richards’ speech, we can abandon this facade of dialogue and do something revolutionary.

We can allow future events to proceed in their intended forms and take it from there.

Events of this nature, which contradict traditional Catholic teachings, do not need to be seen as anti-Catholic or antiGeorgetown. This is a university claiming to pride itself on diversity, on the plurality of the views its students hold and the richness of our dialogues. We can start making that true. Yet dialogue does not mean voices that do not represent the voice of the university should never get the floor to themselves.

Michaela Pepi-Lewis is a sophomore in the College.

Sophia Kleyman is a senior in the College. They are the vice president and president, respectively, of H*yas for Choice.

that Georgetown does not offer a desirable living environment, as the administration had to force unwilling students to live on campus in second-rate spaces rather than offering attractive and affordable residences. Henle is crumbling, Kehoe Field is closed and reinvestment in existing infrastructure is severely underfunded.

By transferring Brown House to the Office of the Provost, Georgetown has taken another step back in providing students with desirable residential space and an accommodating campus. The repurposing of Brown House both diminishes the aggregate quality of university-owned student housing properties and seriously wounds social life off campus.

Georgetown’s student body is active and intelligent. There is no excuse for a decision as consequential as repurposing Brown House to be made without consulting students.

At best, the decision to convert Brown House reveals a deep ignorance among administrators of what social life at Georgetown entails. At worst, it reveals a disregard for the opinions and values of students. If repurposing Brown House is the administration’s idea of improving the state of undergraduate residential space, I fear the regression it will champion next; that is, of course, if there is anything left to regress.

Connor Rohan is a senior in the College.

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When Pro-Choice Is Anti-Choice

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am pro-life because our world today is broken and hurting, and I want to love the broken and the hurting. The fact is many women in our society are in pain. They live in an oppressive, unloving society. Planned Parenthood says it wants to serve women and even wants fewer abortions to occur in the United States. However, the facts prove otherwise.

In order to present an alternative to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards’ speech on April 20, Georgetown Right to Life invited pro-life activist Abby Johnson to speak on campus. Not only did Johnson work for Planned Parenthood, she also directed a Planned Parenthood clinic and was named employee of the year in 2008.

Planned Parenthood lies to women, and Johnson saw it firsthand.

Johnson got involved with Planned Parenthood because, as an organization, it claims to want fewer abortions to occur.

This is a fair and reasonable goal for Planned Parenthood to have.

Yet Johnson was told by her supervisor that this is a lie. When discussing the budget, Johnson noticed how the group doubled the amount of yearly required abortions for her clinic. Johnson asked her supervisor why this was so if the organization tried to reduce the number of abortions occurring in the United States.

Johnson’s supervisor laughed in her face and said, “Abby, why would we want fewer abortions?

That’s how we make our money.”

This is exploitation.

As a feminist — and yes, a prolife feminist — I am filled with anger at the exploitation of society’s most vulnerable members.

Poor women, likely minorities, are counseled into receiving abortions as a solution for unplanned pregnancies. At Planned Parenthood, for every woman who is given an adoption referral, 174 women receive abortions. This statistic, and the fact that Planned Parenthood enforces abortion quotas, suggests the group views abortion as the best option for the women who come to its clinics with an unplanned pregnancy.

The anecdotal evidence put forth

by Johnson suggests a dark twist to the narrative: Planned Parenthood steers women toward abortion because abortion is how it makes money.

Women deserve better.

When I found out Richards was coming to speak at Georgetown, I was shocked. I was concerned about the use of Lecture Fund’s university-provided funding to sponsor a biased speaker.

Truth be told, Richards’ speech was unchallenged, as supposedly nonpartisan Lecture Fund moderators gushed about how much they loved Richards and how pro-choice they were. The Lecture Fund had the opportunity

to open up a real dialogue about reproductive rights, but it chose not to.

The Richards event also opposed Georgetown’s Jesuit values.

This week Georgetown Right to Life offered a stark contrast to the “throwaway culture” message put forth by Richards, offering a message consistent with our school’s mission and values. I am not Catholic, but I have a deep respect for our university’s principles and its dedication to the dignity of human life. Richards represents an institution that exploits people who should be protected, and I am not just talking about unborn children. Richards might truly believe she is helping women, but as the president of Planned Parenthood, she surely knows about the hypocrisy within her own organization.

Richards is a prominent figure in the pro-choice movement, but her organization is anti-choice.

It does not want to give women options. It wants to give women abortions. It does not want women to choose for themselves. The disparity between Planned Parenthood’s supposed mission and its actual intentions astounds me.

The pro-life movement provides a clear contrast to Planned Parenthood. I want the best for pregnant women everywhere, and I believe women choose abortion when they do not feel that they have any other options. I admit the pro-life movement seeks to remove an option for women, but this is because abortion is not a viable option. An abortion forces a mother to destroy another life, often because she is put in a vulnerable and desperate state.

Former President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Ezra Taft Benson once said, “You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.” An abortion is not like other choices. The consequences are too high. In a society with a rule of law, you are not free to choose in every situation. You are not free to make a decision that hurts another person or one that commits a crime against society. Abortion is both a personal crime and a crime against humanity. It is the destruction of an innocent life and it creates a culture that is dulled to injustice.

The heart of the pro-life movement is in rectifying injustice. My heart breaks for women everywhere, because I love them and think they deserve better. I ache for children who will never know life outside the womb because I believe every human deserves the opportunity to have life. I want to love both the mother and the child, but Planned Parenthood wants to do neither.

Amelia Irvine is a freshman in the College. She is the media co-chair for Georgetown Right to Life.

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In the latest of a series of actions to foster statehood for Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) called for a November citywide vote to make D.C. the nation’s 51st state in a speech delivered on Emancipation Day, on April 16.

Despite progress in District independence, including a March 18 ruling upholding the city’s right to make budgetary decisions without congressional approval, Bowser conveyed her frustration at D.C.’s continued lack of voting representation.

According to The Washington Post, Bowser expressed this discontent and her plans for attaining statehood at a breakfast meeting with city residents, Democratic members of Congress and civil rights leaders April 15.

“It’s going to require that we send a bold message to the Congress and the rest of the country that we demand not only a vote in the House of Representatives,” Bowser said. “We demand two senators — the full rights of citizenship in this great nation” The District currently appoints two nonvoting shadow senators, Paul Strauss and Michael Brown, to represent it in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) represents D.C., and although she can introduce legislation, she does not possess the right to vote on the final passage of legislation.

The D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 granted a step toward sovereignty by allocating certain congressional powers to the District’s local government. However, the only vote on D.C. statehood occurred in 1993 and was defeated in the

House after a floor debate.

To achieve statehood, Bowser is proposing a revision of the District’s 1982 constitution to emulate the Tennessee Model based on how Tennessee became the 16th state, which provides an abbreviated path toward statehood that does not require ratification from existing states. According to The Washington Post, constitutional scholars have also advised Bowser to consider allowing voters to decide whether to repeal the U.S. Constitution’s 23rd Amendment, which gives D.C. residents the ability to vote for president but not congressional representatives.

Though the revisions would provide a fairly swift path to independence from federal jurisdiction, the District’s constitution still contains amendments dictating various requirements should statehood be obtained.

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Washington, D.C. officials, including Mayor Muriel Bowser, are advocating for D.C. statehood through budget autonomy acts, a potential vote in November and a potential license plate slogan change.

For example, the constitution would require the new state to supply jobs or sufficient salaries to all residents.

On Emancipation Day — which marks the anniversary of the end of slavery in D.C. — Bowser expressed frustration at the lack of representation D.C. has within the federal government due to its position as a federal district and not a state.

“We demand two senators — the full rights of citizenship in this great nation.”

MURIEL BOWSER Mayor, Washington, D.C.

“One hundred and fifty-four years after President Lincoln abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, we remain at the mercy of those we did not elect to office,” Bowser said. “It is just not right, and we must stand together until our rights are recognized.”

Republicans in the Senate oppose the District’s inclusion as the 51st state because the District’s two senators would most likely be Democrats due to D.C.’s large liberal population, thus tipping the balance in the Senate to a liberal majority.

Georgetown government professor Stephen Wayne expressed skepticism about D.C.’s ability to achieve statehood given the current polarized political environment.

“In the foreseeable future, the District is not going to get two senators.

If the District had two senators, that would increase to 102 the number of senators and that would give the Democrats two more. Republicans are going to oppose that,” Wayne said. “Every one of the states would feel that they’re going to be losing a little power if two more senators are added.”

In addition to advocating statehood, Bowser’s office is also working for budget autonomy. After Superior Court Judge Brian Holeman ruled in favor of the District’s control over their budget March 18, Bowser and the D.C. Council began plans to spend the city’s $13 billion budget without waiting for congressional approval.

Christopher Murphy, Georgetown’s government relations and community engagement vice president, voiced his concerns on budget autonomy as the District waits to see if federal lawmakers will implement action to stop the spending.

“I’m excited that the District

in theory has such autonomy. I think that’s terrific, but I’m anxious about how this is going to play out in the future,” Murphy said. “If Congress doesn’t overturn it, then it’s going to look like a really brave move. On the other hand if Congress does overturn it, it would be the first time in many years that Congress has decided to be adversarial with the District.”

The D.C. Council is also attempting to change its license plates, which have displayed the slogan “Taxation Without Representation” for 16 years, an allusion to Congress’ ability to spend D.C. tax money without representation from District voters.

D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) introduced a bill April 19 to make “End Taxation Without Representation” the new D.C. slogan. License plates would include the phrase “We Demand Statehood” for $51 apiece.

Dylan Hughes (COL ’19), secretary of administrative affairs in the new Georgetown University Student Association federal relations office — which is supporting D.C. statehood by reaching out to federal institutions for collaboration — took part in an Emancipation Day march on April 16 advocating District independence.

Hughes said he was doubtful that the District would successfully achieve statehood status, but highlighted District officials’ efforts to spur momentum on the issue.

“I think it is unlikely because of the institutional stickiness of it. Even when Democrats had the Senate and the House, there was a minor push there, but it still didn’t quite catch fire,” Hughes said. “Seeing this much of a push from the government of the District of Columbia is interesting, because it has always been on the backburner.”

Georgetown Students for D.C. Statehood founder and President Annie Mason (COL ’18) highlighted the potential for university students to become involved in the campaign for statehood, which she stressed as central to the fair representation of D.C. residents.

“Georgetown Students for D.C. Statehood is hoping to actually work with Mayor Bowser’s office directly in the future to help her,” Mason said. “I think it’s very important that Mayor Bowser is uniting a front of D.C. residents and people all across the country to show that in order for D.C. residents to get full rights as U.S. citizens, statehood is a necessity.”

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provide service for the students so they feel safe when they are out in the neighborhoods,” Gruber said. “I think it’s interHoya Staff Writers esting. [University of Southern California] Students who request a SafeRide van does it, University of Florida does it, there on the LiveSafe application in the next are several schools that are doing it and two weekends will receive a $5 Uber Uber has a model for it.”

Ari Goldstein (COL ’18), GUSA deputy discount code if the wait time for a van exceeds 15 minutes, as part of a pilot pro- chief of staff for master planning and gram to help more students get to cam- community engagement, said GUSA is repus safely announced by Georgetown sponding to student concerns about the University Police Department Chief Jay SafeRides program.

“Students for years have been saying Gruber on Wednesday.

The program, which was a collabora- SafeRides is broken and we all know that tive effort by GUPD, Uber and the George- it’s not that well utilized or it’s utilized by the wrong people, town University Stuthere are not enough dent Association, will vans, the wait times be applicable to rides can be long,” Goldthat start and end stein said. “It’s not an within the SafeRides efficient system and zone that includes it hasn’t been fulfillBurleith, Foxhall and ing the purpose to most of west Georgethe extent that it was town. intended to.”

During the two GUSA Dining and trial weekends, the Auxiliary Services PolBurleith loop and icy Team Chair Mark the west Georgetown Jay gruber Camilli (COL ’19) said loop, which run conChief, Georgetown University Police GUSA wants to entinuously between Department sure the program is a these areas and camsuccess. pus, will not operate.

“I know GUSA really wants to push The SafeRides point-to-point van will opthis program out hard over the next two erate as usual.

According to Gruber, the university weekends, and they really want to make had a limited amount of promo codes sure students know its available,” Camilli available to use throughout the pilot pro- said.

Emily Belson (SFS ’18) said she believes gram.

Vice President of Public Affairs Erik the university is making strides to imSmulson said the program was designed prove the SafeRides program.

“I have experienced long wait times for to help more students get back to campus SafeRides in the past, so I appreciate the safely.

“Our goal in the pilot program is to re- efforts of the University to try to combat duce the wait times and to provide more this issue,” Belson said.

Gabe Bolio (SFS ’18), who has used Safstudents with safe transportation options late at night,” Smulson wrote in a state- eRides in the past, said he supports the ment to The Hoya. “We’ve worked hard changes.

“It just makes sense. I like that Georgewith Uber and the GUSA leadership to develop a pilot program that is easy for stu- town cares enough about its students to partner up with Uber on this,” Bolio said, dents to use and gets them home safely.”

Gruber said he is excited for the pro- “I like how this system gives you the option to choose to wait [for SafeRides] or gram to launch.

“I’m very excited about that. I want to just go ahead and take an Uber.”

“I want to provide service for the students so they feel safe when they are out in the neighborhoods.”

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A panel of ambassadors emphasized the importance of diplomatic efforts abroad in a film screening and questionand-answer session for the film, “America’s Diplomats” in an event hosted by the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in Reiss Hall on Thursday.

Panelists included former Ambassador to Turkey Marc Grossman, former Ambassador to Georgia Richard B. Norland, former Ambassador to Panama Barbara J. Stephenson and foreign service officers Bernadette Meehan and Ramon Escobar.

The event began with an introduction given by the ISD Director Barbara K. Bowdine.

Bowdine stressed the lack of information the American public has on the nature of diplomacy.

“America’s Diplomats,” a film chronicling the challenges of American diplomacy, stresses that without diplomacy, the United States would not exist as a nation, citing Benjamin Franklin’s successful efforts to involve France in the Revolutionary War. Meehan said issues with Congressional approval has slowed the diplomatic process down in Cuba.

“Unfortunately, because the Congress has not yet acted, we do not have an ambassador,” Meehan said.

According to Meehan, the priority now is on economic opportunity and pushing the boundaries to ensure that U.S. businesses have free access to markets in Cuba that will benefit the U.S. economy.

“We also have done a lot to lift up human rights, to lift up an independent press, to

allow Cubans to have an independent voice, all with the singular goal of saying we believe it’s important to support changing Cuba,” Meehan said.

“That change has to come from the Cuban people, it can’t be something that’s imposed by the United States.”

Norland said diplomats still have vital responsibilities in modern society.

“The job of diplomats is still to provide the context for that kind of engagement, to set the stage for productive discussions and meetings,” Norland said. “Whether it’s through the advanced work that they do or briefing papers, there’s still a role for diplomats.”

“We also have done a lot to lift up human rights, to lift up an independent press.”

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According to Stephenson, diplomats have become more important in recent times.

“There’s so much noise now that actually you need your diplomats again to actually make sense of the noise to provide context,” Stephenson said.

Meehan said diplomats are able to deal with countries in a sensitive and delicate manner to find compromise and make progress on issues.

“When you are speaking to people in your host country, you are hopefully not doing so from a place of condescen-

sion and/or lecturing and/or arrogance. You are doing from a place of understanding and hopefully searching for a commonality,” Meehan said.

Meehan said it is important to allow countries to arrive at solutions on their own, a process in which diplomats play an important role.

“Helping them find their own path and being a little humbler about it: that is where diplomats really have value,” Meehan said.

Norland said a common issue with diplomats is forming too strong of a relationship with heads of state and losing sight of a country’s direction as a whole.

“I think one mistake that diplomats make is that they develop a wonderful relationship with the prime minister, the foreign minister, and it is almost inconceivable to them that there will be a change,” Norland said. “This is one thing we learned with the Shah in Iran. We had a wonderful relationship with him and then he was gone and we were being held literally hostage.”

Gabriela Barrera (SFS ’19) said she thought the film did a good job at explaining the sacrifices made by diplomats.

“I think this particular film did a fantastic job in explaining the sacrifices that you make but also the rewards that you get back,” Barrera said.

Maeve Healy (SFS ’18) said she was thankful to be able to participate at the event and listen to the insights of the panelist.

“About halfway through the film I realized how grateful and how lucky I am to be at a school where sitting in a classroom with four extremely distinguished foreign service officers who have all had pretty incredible careers,” Healy said.

Duncan Talks School Finance Report Anticipates DC Private Sector Job Growth Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writer

Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stressed the importance of transparency in education policy at the keynote for the McCourt School of Public Policy’s fourth annual Leadership, Evidence, Analysis and Debate conference in Fisher Colloquium on Monday.

This year’s LEAD conference focused primarily on education finance. Spending in education has seen significant changes since the Every Student Succeeds Act, which alters accountability for spending, was passed in December 2015.

According to McCourt School Dean Edward Montgomery, the theme of this year’s conference was inspired by the work of Director of the Edunomics Lab Dr. Marguerite Roza.

“The Edunomics Lab’s innovative research on education finance is changing policy at all levels,” Montgomery said.

“When Marguerite and her team came to us with a host of ideas on how to build strong schools within the context of education finance, we jumped at the chance.”

Prior to his seven years as Secretary of Education from 2009 to 2016, Duncan served as the head of Chicago Public Schools for seven years.

Since leaving the Obama Administration, Duncan has worked at Laurene Powell Jobs’ education group, Emerson Collective, as a managing partner.

Duncan said an effective budget is one of the main pillars of strong schools.

“Every school has 50 different issues. You can’t work on all 50, so what are the few for this budget year that you are going to focus on?” Duncan said. “Budget is important, but it’s one step out of this process. If we start with budget and don’t think about facts, don’t think about strategy, we’re not going to get to where we need to go.”

According to Duncan, finance has become a critical issue given what she called a lack of transparency around spending in education.

“You should have absolute transparency. There’s so much opaqueness in school finance.

Forget the public, if you ask teachers in their own school, ‘how is your budget spent?’ They can’t tell you,” Duncan said. “The lack of transparency is part of why I think we aren’t getting better as fast as we should.”

Duncan said increasing transparency is one of the first steps toward improving the education system.

“You can’t get to thinking about how to allocate not just dollars but human talent and technology if you don’t have

transparency. The fact that not one school district does it, you should be ashamed and uncomfortable of where we are,” Duncan said. “Transparency is a gateway, not the end.”

Duncan said while the government is gradually making efforts to address these systemic issues within the education system, there needs to be more research and more data, and parents and community groups must be empowered to spur change.

According to Duncan, one of the biggest hurdles in education policy is the general lack of awareness and accountability.

“People don’t vote on education. The biggest thing we could do to change the nation is if every citizen voted around early childhood or K-12 policy,” Duncan said.

“If education was one of our top three issues, our country would change overnight; it wouldn’t matter who was in office.”

Duncan said that while he doesn’t miss the internal politics of Washington, D.C., politicians should take more steps to address education.

“Every politician gets a pass.

They all visit schools, they all get a photo op, but almost none of them walk the walk,” Duncan said. “For any of the lead candidates: what’s their college completion goal? What’s their strategy to get there? Nobody knows.

We haven’t asked and that’s on us.”

Duncan said communities need to build movements to put

pressure on the government to act.

“I wish parents were banging down our doors demanding more. Until then we will continue to putter along,” Duncan said.

“I think we are moving way too slow. Without the political will, without the demand, without the push on both sides, I think we will continue to get better at a rate that is insufficient.”

Duncan said a grassroots effort to make education more affordable is especially important in the current economic climate, where higher education is becoming more critical for success.

“The economy has changed.

The cost of a lack of education, socially, economically, is massive,” Duncan said. “When I was growing up in Chicago, my friends could drop out of high school and still have a pretty good life, support their family. In our society, if you don’t have at least a high school diploma and some form of training, you don’t have a chance.”

Anastasia Sendoun (COL ’18), who attended the event, said she felt Duncan was surprisingly aware of the struggles facing minority students.

“What I really liked was his general attitude toward education and how much he talks about low-income communities and groups of students that have for a really long time been marginalized in terms of the rhetoric that people use to talk about education,” Sendoun said.

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The Washington, D.C., region could add up to 170,000 new jobs over the next decade through expanded industries in the private sector, according to a report released April 13 by Inforum, a policy analysis organization at the University of Maryland.

The report, written by Inforum Executive Director Douglas Meade and titled “The Roadmap for the Washington Region’s Economic Future,” also highlights key challenges and opportunities for the District to advance economically and compete globally.

The growth in jobs is anticipated to cluster in seven key industries, including information and communications technology, science and security technology, biological and health technology, business and financial services, media and business, advocacy and leisure travel.

According to the study, these expanding industries — which in 2014 provided nearly 800,000 of the region’s 3 million jobs — will comprise 981,005 of the region’s 3.4 million jobs by 2025. The clusters are expected to expand at a 20 percent rate during this period, double the national average growth in the same industries.

The report states that too much of the D.C. area’s economy depends on the federal government and stresses the importance of diversification of employment among different sectors for continued economic growth.

Inforum economist Jeffrey Lemieux noted that for years, much of the regional economy has been dictated by the budget of the federal government. If private sector clusters grow as Inforum predicts, this trend will be mitigated.

“When the federal government spends a lot of money, the D.C. area will prosper and grow,” Lemieux said.

“One of the points of this report is to highlight the private sector areas we focus on in order to prevent federal cutbacks from spilling over into a general region-wide slowdown.”

Inforum economist Troy Wittek said that while the federal government’s role in determining the region’s overall economic growth may be diminished, it will remain an important source of employment.

“The goal of the project is to identify ways the region can pivot away from a general overreliance on the federal government,” Wittek said.

“We’re not talking about completely turning our back on this business source. It’s always going to be very important.”

To measure the area’s anticipated job growth, Inforum created a variable called a location quotient. The location quotient is a number calculated by taking the percentage of local jobs in an industry and dividing that by the percentage of the industry’s national jobs. While not every

one of the seven industries had a substantially higher location quotient than those in larger regions, each cluster stood out for its appeal to potential residents.

“In some of the cases, the clusters we highlighted aren’t necessarily growing faster locally than nationally,” Lemieux said. “But we singled it out for a lot of reasons, including not only their location quotient, but a lot of potential activity here that would attract people in those industries to this area.”

The report also highlights five areas for improvement in the District region: transportation, housing, workforce, rebranding and collaboration. To advance transportation, the study suggests the District consider forming a regional transportation authority in addition to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which contains representatives from D.C., Virginia, Maryland and the federal government.

As presented in the report, the main challenges faced in the housing sector are primarily centered on affordability, whereas the problems in the workforce include a lack of strong collaboration between academic and business communities.

In terms of rebranding, the study recommends that the region develop a brand that portrays the area as a global center of business. The report also proposes opportunities for interregional collaboration, including a non-compete alliance between local economic development efforts.

Lemieux noted that many of the jobs in the seven clusters appeal to highly educated individuals, meaning much of the growth will not include the creation of lower level service jobs.

“Some of the sectors are not necessarily high wage, but most of them are,” Lemieux said. “For example, the business travel sector has pretty ordinary wage levels, but most of the others are pretty high wage tech oriented sectors that we’re focusing on.”

Wittek said the D.C. area is unique for the number of people it attracts, and identifies the region’s many institutions as giving D.C. an advantage over other areas of the country.

“We have at least 14 pretty big universities with close to quarter of a million students, and the quality of life in the region attracts a lot of people,” Wittek said. “It’s a power center.

People gravitate to this area.”

Lemieux said that the aim of the report and Inforum’s work is to highlight the role these diverse industries can play in D.C.’s continued economic growth. Lemieux expressed confidence that by focusing on these clusters, the regional economy can remain healthy going forward.

“The theme of the report is to try to make these job clusters work together in a way that it becomes an attracting force,” Lemieux said. “Make things more than the sum of their parts, so you can attract talent.”

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Richards Event Sees GU, DC Backlash OPPOSITION, from A1 the organization was pressured by the Catholic community on campus to change the venue of the event to the McDonough School of Business’ Lohrfink Auditorium.

“I do know that it was Fr. O’Brien who definitely brought that to their attention,” Khan said.

O’Brien has not replied to a request for comment as of press time.

Khan said anti-abortion advocates’ major concern with holding the event in Gaston Hall regarded the hall’s extensive history and its cross and Georgetown seal, maintaining that providing the venue as a backdrop for a pro-abortion rights speaker would resemble an implicit endorsement by the university.

A Jesuit Proposal Rejected Fields and Orsy proposed that the Lecture Fund invite an anti-abortion speaker of equal caliber to Richards to the event, such as George Mason University School of Law professor and anti-abortion advocate Helen Alvaré or anti-abortion liberal columnist Kirsten Powers.

“We thought that [the Lecture Fund] would surely be interested in a full, free exchange of ideas, so we suggested that they have someone like Helen Alvaré or Kirsten Powers come, not as a debate, but perhaps as two speakers,” Fields said. “Then both of them together would field questions from everybody in the audience and that way both sides of the issue could be aired and the opinions of our students could be helpfully informed on the spot.”

Fields and Orsy met in the Jesuit Residence at Wolfington Hall on March 18 with three university administrators and the 16 available members of the Lecture Fund’s Associate Board to deliver the proposal.

The result of the vote — after concluding deliberations that began at the previous Lecture Fund Associate Board meeting March 22 — was clear.

The board voted by a majority to keep the event as planned.

Chair of the executive board for the Lecture Fund Helen Brosnan (COL ’16), who co-planned the event, said obligations grounded in the group’s policy and constitution to honor previous invitations to Richards to speak unchallenged, were the major motivations

behind rejecting the proposal.

According to Rich, logistical concerns also played a role in the vote’s outcome.

“We were so far along in planning and the logistics of this event, it just did not seem appropriate, and the whole entire Lecture Fund board agreed that we wanted to keep the event as it was,” Rich said.

Khan said logistical concerns aside, the Lecture Fund’s denial of a proposal for a balanced program illustrates its lack of commitment to genuine discourse.

“To host this event, and even worse to hold this speaker unchallenged, really shows to me that the Lecture Fund is not committed to true dialogue,” Khan said.

While a joint-speaker event was not realized, Vita Saxa did host antiabortion advocate Abby Johnson — a former Planned-Parenthood-clinicdirector-turned-activist — for an event in Dahlgren Chapel on Thursday.

ing large venues on campus such as Gaston Hall and notifying the university of its plans formally in midJanuary.

Later, in early February, Brosnan met with numerous administrators from around campus, confirming in person that the event was scheduled and asking for their input, concerns and suggestions.

“I must have had in February — the first weeks of February alone — 10 different meetings with people from all over the university, like upper level administrators,” Brosnan said.

After notifying both H*yas for choice and GU Right to Life of the plan for the event later in February, the Lecture Fund released a press statement announcing the event to the public March 3, the same day that the university issued a public statement supporting both the “free exchange of ideas” and “the sanctity and human dignity of every life at every stage.”

An Idea Long in the Making The conversation with Richards was in development long before the Jesuit proposal in March. The idea for the event had been simmering in both Brosnan and Rich’s minds since their freshman years. On their applications they had each marked Richards’ name on their ‘dream list’ of speakers.

“This has been one of my career goals at Georgetown, to bring her, so it’s been a long process,” Brosnan said.

Brosnan met with the two prior presidents of the student group H*yas for Choice Laura Narefsky (COL ’14) and Abigail Grace (SFS ’16) over her sophomore and junior years to strategize.

According to Rich, the Lecture Fund had extended official invitations to Richards without success in past semesters.

Then, early in October 2015, Rich contacted Richards again, emailing a formal letter of invitation to Planned Parenthood’s generic contact email address.

Richards’ team quickly replied, requesting the Lecture Fund to follow up in Jan.uary or February. Following a subsequent letter from Brosnan in December and a third from Rich in January, Richards officially accepted the invitation and the Lecture Fund began preparing for her arrival, book-

Disagreement Off Campus In addition to Fields and Orsy’s objections to the format of the event, Richards’ speech on campus was formally opposed by the Catholic Daughters of America, The Cardinal Newman Society, the Archdiocese of Washington and the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property.

Vice President of the Catholic Daughters of America Julie Reiter (NHS ’17) raised strong objections during the regularly scheduled meeting of the university’s Speech and Expression Committee on March 30.

At the meeting, Reiter, supported by two other students from GU Right to Life, argued under the university’s Speech and Expression Policy that Richards’ views could be judged “grossly obscene” and therefore be impermissible on campus, and under the university’s Access to Benefits policy, that the Lecture Fund’s invitation of Richards “substantially [advocated] positions inconsistent with Roman Catholic moral tradition” and should therefore halt her speech.

Assistant Dean for Student Engagement Erika Cohen Derr, who serves on the committee, said it understood the students’ concerns and gave them feedback about the committee’s interpretation of university policy.

Reiter said the committee in-

formed her that her objections did not stand.

“We received an explanation in the meeting as to why our proposal did not hold ground,” Reiter said. “I thought that the administrators were very thoughtful, but in the end that we agreed to disagree.”

Directly following the March 3 announcement, the Archdiocese of Washington issued a statement urging the Jesuit community to better impart Catholic values on campus.

The Cardinal Newman Society, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Catholic values, also created an online petition against the event that garnered over 14,700 signatures as of April 18.

Additionally, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, a network that serves to promote Catholic ideals, demonstrated against the event at the campus gates on April 4 and on Thursday.

Director of Student Activities for the TFP John Ritchie said in allowing Richard to come to campus, Georgetown disgraced its reputation as the oldest Catholic university in the country.

“We think it’s a real shame to see Cecile Richards come to campus and disgrace the honor of the Catholic Church,” Ritchie said. “I think the only circumstance that would allow Cecile Richards to come to campus would be if she came to ask for pardon for the 2.8 million babies she saw killed under her direction as president of Planned Parenthood. We’re praying that Georgetown will be able to restore and recover its identity.”

At least two other petitions in opposition to the event circulated, one published by Maya M. Noronha (COL ’05, LAW ’10) on March 7 in conjunction with GU Right to Life that gained over 230 signatures from university community members and another co-sponsored by Students for Life of America and GU Right to Life last month with over 9,800 signatures as of press time.

University Responses On April 8, university president John J. DeGioia hosted a group of antiabortion student leaders and activists for about an hour in his office in Healy Hall, listening to their concerns about Richards’ coming speech.

Khan, who attended the meeting, said that while DeGioia seemed sym-

pathetic to the students’ concerns, no action occurred as a result of the meeting.

“He really wanted to listen, so we expressed our objections, our concerns and how we think this not only violates the mission of our school but the free speech codes,” Khan said.

“We got out of that [meeting] probably what we expected to, which was not much.”

Rich said the Lecture Fund is surprised by the intensity of the response, which culminates in GU Right to Life’s “Life Week” events from April 18 to 22. Vita Saxa’s annual Life Week corresponds to Richards’ visit.

“I don’t think we anticipated the amount of attention that we got … [but] it has raised awareness that this conversation is happening and I think it has engaged more of campus,” Rich said. “It’s good to see our work is paying off.”

President of H*yas for Choice Sophia Kleyman (COL ’16) said she is disappointed in the university’s response to the event.

“It’s a little disappointing that the university or that administrators are in such strong opposition to this,” Kleyman said.

A Path to Further Dialogue Looking ahead, Hunter Estes (SFS ’19), tabling co-chair for GU Right to Life, said he hopes the Lecture Fund will work with the university in the future to host a more balanced event around this debate in the coming semester.

“I would really hope that in the coming semester that the Lecture Fund and the administration can work together in a combined effort to bring two speakers of equal caliber who can equally explain and pronounce their views rationally to the community and then have a dialogue,” Estes said.

Brosnan said a balanced event could be valuable to Georgetown’s campus in a future semester, perhaps this coming fall.

“I would love [a balanced dialogue] and I frankly would love that among students,” Brosnan said. “And I think it would be a great follow-up to this event in the fall.”

Hoya Staff Writers Ashwin Puri, Toby Hung and Christian Paz contributed reporting.

Johnson Speaks Out Against Abortion and move around as if to try and escape the abortion instrument. abortions.’ That’s what I said. That’s what “Some people think that what came I said to the media. That’s what I said to next would be the worst part, seeing a my friends, to my family, to myself. ‘We’re child become dismembered in his mothnot about selling abortions.’” er’s womb,” Johnson said. “But I knew The Planned Parenthood Federal Associ- that was coming. The worst part was that ation provides protocol for medical proce- when I had the opportunity to intervene, dures at 700 health care centers operated I just stood there and I did nothing. I reby 90 individual affiliates. According to member wanting to sit this woman up Johnson, each facility across the country and say ‘Look. Look what’s happening will perform a first trimester abortion the to your baby.’ But I just stood there and same way. watched.”

“We have the woman lie on the table According to Johnson, she resigned that and we pretty much immediately get day and began advocating for the rights of sedation going for her for two reasons,” the unborn. In 2012, she founded “And Johnson said. “First, the sedation keeps Then There Were None,” which encourthem quiet. Physicians don’t want to have ages abortion workers to leave the industo answer questions while the woman is try. The organizations has facilitated 218 having an abortion. The other reason is people, including six full-time abortion because of the uldoctors, leaving the trasound.” industry in three “That it is a unique, Johnson said years. before every abor- individual, unrepeatable, “My goal is not tion procedure, scientifically human being just to make aborclinicians perform tion illegal,” Johnan ultrasound to with a heartbeat. ... And son said. “My goal determine exactly is to make abortion how far along we didn’t want the woman unthinkable.” the woman is in to see her child. Because Tabling Co-Chair her pregnancy for Georgetown Uniand how much to then she might choose life, versity Right to Life charge. However, and that would impact our Hunter Estes (SFS Johnson explained ’19), who attended that they did not bottom line.” the talk, agreed want the woman to with her cause.

ABBY JOHNSON sit up and see what “She demonstratAnti-Abortion Advocate, Former was shown on the ed how the basis of Planned Parenthood Clinic Director ultrasound. pro-life opinion is “Because what rooted in love,” he was on that ultrasound machine exposes said. “It’s not just about ending abortion, the lie of the abortion industry: that it’s but about ending the culture that necesnot a blob of tissue, it’s not a mass of cells. sitates abortion.”

That it is a unique, individual, unrepeatOther students said they appreciated able, scientifically human being with a the personal experiences that Johnson — heartbeat,” she said. “And we didn’t want who herself admitted to having two aborthe woman to see her child. Because then tions — shared. she might choose life, and that would im“To listen to someone who understands pact our bottom line in a negative way.” and has had experience in the abortion Johnson then explained the abortion industry and really knows how it works procedures she conducted daily. was powerful,” Gabriella Munoz (COL ’18) Johnson said she specifically remem- said. bers being called in to assist with an aborAlexandra Williams (SFS ’19) agreed, tion by holding the ultrasound probe saying she was fascinated by Johnson’s in place on the woman’s abdomen. The transition from directing a clinic to praydoctors first took the measurement and ing outside of it. found out that the baby was 13 weeks “At one point Abby said, ‘I see two hualong. mans walking in [to the clinic] and only Johnson said she recalls telling the one human walking out,’” Williams said. mother that the baby would not feel any “That reminded me that the pro-life movepain, reciting a scripted answer Planned ment is about making sure that both of Parenthood had provided all employees in those humans can one day be happy and a memo. healthy, together or apart.”

“I knew it was a lie,” Johnson said. “BaJohnson ended her story with her goal bies begin to suck their thumb in the for the future. womb at 12 weeks because it soothes “I have faith that one day, it won’t be them. It makes them feel better — because me standing here, speaking and defendthey can feel.” ing the sanctity of human life,” she said.

Johnson described watching the ultra- “I believe that one day, it will be Cecile sound monitor and seeing the fetus jump Richards.”

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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards spoke about the future of her organization and its new initiatives in Lohrfink Auditorium on Wednesday.

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RICHARDS, from A1 “In the early 1960s before birth control was legal, women were not expected to build careers — much less finish school,” Richards said. “Today, it’s unimaginable that pregnancy would alone determine your future, your career or your education.”

Richards noted the importance of the current administration’s support in advancing the progress on women’s reproductive rights.

“I’ll never forget the day President Obama called Planned Parenthood and told me he was about to announce at the White House that from here on out, women would get all forms of birth control fully covered under their insurance plans — a t $0 copay, no matter where they work,” Richards said. “It was revolutionary.”

After reflecting on the history and the political journey of the organization, Richards emphasized that women’s healthcare has made significant progress, expedited by technological advancements.

“You can now book appointments 24/7 on a mobile phone —l ike at midnight when our offices are closed but birth control might just really be on your mind. And just last month we launched Spot On — a period tracker that is incredibly cool and helps young women track your menstrual cycle and also learn everything about birth control options. And we are even in clinical trials for

a self-injectable birth control shot that lasts three months,” Richards said. “There’s just so much opportunity out there — new medicine and new ways to help prevent unintended pregnancy.”

Richards said while significant progress has been made, there are still important obstacles that must be overcome, including Congress’ attempt to defund Planned Parenthood.

“In my home state of Texas, the legislature and Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) and Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) have been hell bent on shutting down Planned Parenthood and ending access to safe and legal abortion. They’ve shuttered 82 women’s health centers, most not even Planned Parenthood,” Richards said.

“But our folks in Texas will simply not quit. Despite the assault by the governor and the state legislature in the last year, we’ve opened three brand-new health centers in Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio, and I could not be prouder.”

Richards also responded to the increased hostility the organization and its clinics faced following the circulation of a video that claimed Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue to medical organizations — the footage in video has since been revealed to be heavily edited.

“Planned Parenthood has never sold fetal tissue and never would,” Richards said.

Despite reported cases of vandalism and attacks on its

clinics, Richards stressed that Planned Parenthood will always provide care.

“At Planned Parenthood, our motto is care, no matter what. That’s either a promise or a threat, depending on where you sit,” Richards said.

“What it means is providing care even when it’s hard, even when folks are picketing your health centers, threatening your staff or patients — because often that’s where women are counting on us more than ever.”

According to Richards, the activism of millennials has been instrumental in fighting back against attempts to stall reproductive justice.

“As we launch our second century, we still have a lot to do, and it’s good we’re here because the single most important group of people to determine our future is you,” Richards said. “I’m constantly blown away by the young people who are taking on topics that sometimes have been taboo for too many years.”

Kory Stuer (COL ’19), a member of the student group H*yas for Choice, attended the event and supported the university’s decision to allow Richard to speak on campus.

“I was incredibly proud of Georgetown for making the commitment to free speech in order to bring in somebody who has an institution they don’t always agree with, but they recognize that this is an important political and social conversation that needs to be happening,” Stuer said.

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Students Call for Improved Campus Accessibility Policy ACCESSIBILITY, from A1 challenges and the burden placed by omnipresent construction, the university is pivoting toward a more accessible campus. Although the construction of the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall and the Thompson Athletic Center currently obstructs easy passage of the tricky terrain, the eventual completion of these projects will aim to make cross-campus navigation easier.

A CHALLENGED PAST Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey did not hesitate to assign the university a C grade for its history with accessibility because of the university’s challenging terrain.

“In the past we have not done a very good job of really trying to make the campus more accessible,” Morey said. “We’ve made some significant improvements over the past few years, but I think we do have a long way to go.”

From the time Georgetown’s oldest buildings were constructed in the 1790s to the latter part of the 20th century, accessibility for mobilityimpaired students was not a major concern. Even in the 1970s and 1980s with the completion of student housing in Village A, Alumni Square and Henle Village, little attention was paid to creating what would be considered ADA-compliant housing by today’s standards.

The age of many of the university’s buildings — the average age of a building on the main campus is 70 years old — has forced administrators to play catch-up to make the campus more accessible. Features such as ramps and automatic door buttons have been added retroactively to allow mobility-impaired students to get around more easily.

White-Gravenor Hall, completed in 1933, is the latest site of efforts to make historic buildings on campus easier to access for people with physical disabilities, according to Morey. “[White-Gravenor] is on our historic quad, and the accessibility there is questionable,” Morey said. “So we’re trying to make repairs to that to make that a more pleasing entrance to get into the admissions office.”

Despite the university’s best efforts to make campus easier to navigate for individuals with mobility impairments, a majority of the apartment units in Henle Village, Village A and Village B require stair usage to access and are thus likely to remain partially or fully inaccessible for the foreseeable future.

“There’s not a whole lot you can do unless you demolish the facilities,”

Morey said. “But we’re not demolishing Village A anytime soon.”

A QUESTION OF DOORWAYS No matter how accessible the university’s rooms or exterior pathways may be, this means nothing if individuals with disabilities cannot get to them through an accessible doorway.

Disability rights advocate Taylor Price (MSB ’10, GRD ’12), who is a quadriplegic and uses a wheelchair, learned this first-hand as a student at Georgetown. He often attended class in Healy Hall at a time when the doors into Healy from Dahlgren Quad lacked an automatic-opening function. Unable to open the doors, he was forced to wait for passersby to help him into the building.

“Thankfully, there was all this traffic, and someone would generally be coming in and out,” Price said. “But what if they weren’t? I would just kind of wait.”

Since Price’s days as a student, the historic building was retrofitted to include an automated door on its Dahlgren Quad entrance, but a number of other campus locations still lack retrofitted, accessible entryways.

Katie Lee (SFS ’16) was drawn to this topic in her “Cartography and Social Justice” class. For her final project, she walked Georgetown’s main campus, analyzing the number of accessible entryways. The results did not surprise her. Out of 108 surveyed entryways, 51 entrances — less than half surveyed — were fully accessible, meaning that the entryway was level to the ground and had an automaticopening door.

Another 23 entryways were partially accessible, where the entry was even to the ground but did not have an automatic-opening door, and 34 entryways — about 31 percent — were completely inaccessible with a door uneven to the ground that did not automatically open.

“It’s admirable that the new buildings are certainly a little more socially conscious,” Lee said. “But I don’t think that’s enough. I think that when this institution is built so much on history and tradition, and you want everybody to be able to enjoy that history and that tradition, there shouldn’t be a reason why a building like WhiteGravenor or Healy is so limiting to students.”

Despite the obstacles of inaccessible entryways, the university has made significant upgrades to its automatic doors, retrofitting previously inaccessible doors and installing a remote control system that allows students in wheelchairs to wirelessly open doors.

“Having the clicker is super help-

ful,” Pryce Bevan (COL ’17), who uses a motorized wheelchair, said. “Things would be way harder to get around without it.”

As the university continues to upgrade its network of automatic entryways, Price said that able-bodied people often punch or even karate kick the blue buttons that open doors around campus, resulting in overuse.

“All the time, people use blue buttons when they don’t need it,” Price said. “But not only do they use them, they abuse them.”

A MORE ACCESSIBLE CAMPUS The more than $130 million dollars of construction projects on Georgetown’s campus over the last couple of years have presented the university with an opportunity to attempt to improve accessibility on campus.

The addition of the Northeast Triangle will add four new ADA-compliant rooms to the university’s 53 existing handicap-accessible dorms, according to Residential Services Executive Director Patrick Killilee.

The new residential building also allowed the university to make the current pathway between Reiss Science Building and Leavey Center easier to navigate, according to Morey.

The construction of the centralized bus turnaround near the McDonough Arena enabled the university to add a mini-shuttle to help individuals with mobility impairments get from south campus to north campus.

Despite the forthcoming accessibility benefits of the new infrastructure on campus, a number of students expressed frustration at the construction’s effect on limiting routes around the university.

“With the construction, that’s something we’re really aware of because it can cause some really big challenges for people who already kind of need to plan a little bit more about how [they’re] going around campus,” GUSA Accessibility Policy Team Vice Chair Ken Marrs (COL ’19) said.

A CULTURE OF NORMALCY Disability rights advocate Lydia X. Z. Brown (COL ’15), while an undergraduate at Georgetown, tried for years to get the administration to support the establishment of a disability cultural center on campus. Brown said that after three years of working on the proposal, the university never offered any support, even after the GUSA executive branch endorsed the center in early 2015.

The center would serve as a conduit for communication between different offices handling disability is-

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Uphill terrain naturally complicates efforts to make Georgetown’s campus friendly to students with physical disabilities. sues, according to Brown. Only three universities — Syracuse University, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois at Chicago — currently have such a center that works with disabled students and their allies.

“Overall, the biggest problem is institutional non-recognition of ableism on this campus,” Brown said. “And that covers a lot of sub-things or subpoints such as there’s no coordinated set of resources or support system for people with disabilities or for people who want to practice allyship.”

In October, during Georgetown’s celebration of Disability Cultural Month, the university announced the new formation of a disability studies course cluster, a move that sets the stage for a future creation of a disability studies minor.

Disability studies professor Libbie Rifkin said that around 1,000 students have taken disability courses over the past eight years with demand growing in recent years. The increased interest in disability studies has helped break some of the stigma surrounding disabilities on Georgetown’s campus, according to Rifkin.

“I think that Georgetown’s campus is characterized by a hyper-aspiration towards normality and perfection,” Rifkin said. “And I think that this is particularly paralyzing for students who learn differently and think differently.”

UNDERUTILIZATION OF RESOURCES According to a GUSA survey from the fall, the university has failed to adequately inform students about existing resources and accommodations.

“The vast majority of complaints that we got could be handled by the resources that we already have,” GUSA disability policy team leader Dani Zamalin (NHS ’18) said. “So, it was a big problem with not knowing what’s available.”

When Rifkin had her students pull out all of the syllabi from other classes one semester, she said that less than half had accommodation statements encouraging students to seek support from the Academic Resource Center if needed.

“If we’re not including statements about disability on our syllabi,” Rifkin said, “how are we making clear that we have a commitment to supporting students? I think it’s a problem.”

In the fall of 2015, the university hired Anisha Thadani to serve as Georgetown’s first access coordinator and events manager within the Office of Campus Activity Facilities to handle accommodation requests for events, but Thadani said many people within the university do not know that her position exists.

“People don’t know who to contact when they have event-related issues,” Thadani said.

Because of the knowledge gap, Marrs said that GUSA has a lot of work in the coming years to communicate to students what resources exist.

“We’re going to make sure that students know [resources] are there,” Marrs said. “We’re going to make it public. We’re going to over-compensate if we have to. I think that’s what we’re trying to work for and hopefully, as time goes on, that’s how it’s framed.”

Protests Rock Capitol Hill Bowser’s Minimum Wage Proposal Sparks Backlash DEMOCRACY, from A1

unlimited sums of money on political campaigns to protect their special interests at the general expense,” the website reads. “Meanwhile, as the super-rich dominate the ‘money primary’ that decides who can run for office, almost half of the states in the union have passed new laws that disenfranchise everyday voters, especially people of color and the poor.”

According to Democracy Awakening’s website, the group’s demands include fair consideration of chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the approval of acts to increase voting rights and combat voting discrimination as well as amendments to overturn the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, which allows unlimited independent political spending by individuals and corporations.

Participants of the movement expressed willingness to be arrested on the official misdemeanor charge of “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding,” after which they had the option of paying a $50 charge rather than appear in court.

The U.S. Capitol Police acting Communications Director Eva

Malecki confirmed that the federal enforcement agency, which protects Congressional facilities, made 1,240 arrests since April 11 in association with the ongoing Democracy Springs demonstrations.

“When demonstrations occur in the restricted areas, individuals are given warnings to leave that area,” Malecki wrote in an email to The Hoya. “If they do not leave voluntarily, they will be arrested.”

Viles said that although the risk of arrest was high, protestors could easily post bail and forfeit the charge after they were taken into custody. Viles highlighted the sense of urgency spurred by an atmosphere created by arrests occurring in the hundreds.

“It was a low-risk situation overall, but there is something about being in a situation with any risk at all that makes people feel it in a much more real way that these issues are important and this is something that is urgent for all of us,” Viles said.

In addition to student arrests, actress Rosario Dawson and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were also apprehended at the demonstration.

According to a press release on the Ben & Jerry’s blog, prior

to being taken into custody, Cohen said he was willing to face arrest to see governmental change.

“The history of our country is that nothing happens until people start putting their bodies on the line and risk getting arrested,” Cohen said.

Viles said that despite the high number of arrests, the atmosphere was lighthearted.

“I think it was a very powerful event,” Viles said. “A lot of people think of risking arrest as this serious thing but the founders of Ben & Jerry’s were dancing when they got arrested, so it was actually a fun event, which is something that not a lot of people get.”

Tanner Hinkel (SFS ’18), who also attended the march Sunday but was not arrested, said he was optimistic about the civic engagement exemplified in the protests.

“It was really good to see a bunch of people who were engaged and felt very passionate about voting rights and campaign finance reform and believed that it had a larger and greater impact than just within those communities,” Hinkel said. “It was really good to see a lot of people from various places coming together and getting involved and uniting over these issues.”

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Eleven Georgetown students participated in weeklong Democracy Spring protests at Capitol Hill against government corrruption and voting discrimination.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) April 19 proposal for a citywide minimum wage hike to $15 per hour by 2020 has drawn fire from labor activists challenging its policies for tipped workers.

Under Bowser’s proposal, the minimum wage for tipped workers would increase from the current $2.77 per hour to $7.50 by 2022, falling short of advocates’ hopes that the tipped wage system would be overhauled in favor of a universal $15 per hour minimum pay.

“As I stated in the State of the District Address, we are going to answer the President’s call to raise the minimum wage,” Bowser wrote in the proposal. “Cities and states across the country are proving that decent wages and strong business climates are not mutually exclusive. This Administration is committed to providing District residents with a fair shot and creating a worker and business friendly environment in which we maintain our regional competitiveness.”

A survey conducted by the Washington City Paper in January found 87 percent of D.C. adults support a $15 minimum wage in the District.

The legislation further imposes fines of up to thousands of dollars and imprisonment for employers who fail to comply with at least the general minimum wage after gratuities, based on mandatory quarterly reports submitted to the District’s Department of Employment Services.

Bowser’s proposal coincides with a ballot measure pushed by advocates who must now gather 25,000 signatures by July for the $15 minimum wage to be put to a vote in a District-wide Nov. 8 referendum. If passed, the initiative would maintain Bowser’s $15 by 2020 plan but phase in a $15-per-hour wage for tipped-workers by 2024.

D.C.’s Restaurant Opportunities Center Director Gaby Madriz said in an April 19 press release that the ballot measure better represented the public’s interests than Bowser’s proposal.

“Mayor Bowser’s heart is in the right place but she’s completely out of sync with the people of D.C. on this proposal,” Madriz said. “Our initiative calls for $15 for all. That means every single D.C. work-

ers with no exceptions, and polls suggest that’s more popular than the mayor herself. If she can’t get the entire job done and establish one fair wage for all low-wage workers in D.C., then Mayor Bowser should get out of the way and let the people act.”

Nicole Smith, chief economist of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, said the most visible impact of bolstering the minimum wage will likely be inflation in the economy, and that lower-skilled workers may be shut out of the small businesses that drive the local economy.

“With many improvements in someone’s income, it improves their purchasing power and gives them the opportunity to become inflationary, and that’s really the negative aspect of it,” Smith said. “There are going to be some small businesses that won’t be able to hire that extra dish washer as a result of a jump in wages.”

Nevertheless, Smith said the current expansionary trajectory of the economy since the 2008 financial crisis is equipped to accommodate a $15 minimum wage with little ecoKory stuer (col ’19) nomic detriment.

“When you look at a city like Washington, D.C., something has to be done about the wage disparity that exists between the haves and the have-nots,” Smith said.

“Fifteen dollars by 2020 might seem like a difficult goal, but for the individuals who benefit from the additional money it could mean everything from affordable housing to better nutrition for lowincome families.”

According to a living wage calculator created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the living wage for a household comprised of one adult is $14.84.

Kory Stuer (COL ’19), a member of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee stressed the importance of including tipped workers in the conversations surrounding the minimum wage hike.

“Tipped workers are particularly vulnerable to wage theft, and just not knowing how much money they’re going to make in a day leads to a lot of economic instability,” Stuer said. “It’s important for them to have that same level of economic stability, and I think the [Restaurant Opportunities Center] makes it clear that we need to help all workers and not just some workers.”

“It’s important for them to have that same level of economic stablility.”

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Hoyas Close Against Wildcats GU Sends Runners To Split Locations Madeline Auerbach Hoya Staff Writer

Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams will compete against squads from Villanova in the program’s last matches of the regular season today in the Washington area. The women’s team (11-4, 1-3 Big East) will play at the Arlington YMCA courts in Arlington, Va., while the men’s team (7-8, 1-1 Big East) will compete at the Georgetown Visitation Courts if weather permits.

The matches against Villanova will take place just a week after the women’s tennis team defeated the Richmond Spiders (12-9, 3-4 Atlantic Ten), which was its ninth win in its last 10 matchups.

“We all came into the match and everyone said ‘Yeah, Richmond is good, we’re all going to need to play well,’” sophomore transfer Sara Swift said. “We [have] struggled with the doubles point this year, and to come out and just to take the doubles point pretty, not easily, but we definitely did some work in doubles and transitioning to singles, we all just had a ton of momentum.”

The men’s team has not played since April 9, when it defeated Bryant (10-11, 3-0 Northeast Conference) in a 5-1 decision. The Hoyas came out strong in doubles play against the Bulldogs, notching close wins in the first and second doubles slots. Junior Jordan Portner and freshman Michael Chen won 6-6 (3-1), while junior Yannik Mahlangu and sophomore Peter Beatty won 7-6 (7-5).

Singles play saw senior Daniel Khanin lose in the first singles slot, but sophomore Marco Lam, Beatty, Chen and freshman Will Sharton all won their singles matches. Sharton went down 6-2 in the first set, but rebounded in the second set to win 6-2.

The match concluded in a 10-point tiebreaker, which Sharton won 10-4.

“Both Will and Mike Chen have really practiced hard, played well. Mike has had great results this year which is very impressive … and Will has done great too, it’s never easy coming into college and playing, so I’ve been very impressed by both those guys,” Khanin said.

As the team has not played since the beginning of the month, the hiatus from play has allowed them to gain much-needed rest. However, at this point in the season, Head Coach Gordie Ernst said consistent competition is important to prepare the teams for Big East play.

“The guys need to play otherwise they seem to get a little stale. So it’s always 4-3, and we usually win 4-3 so I’m just hoping that that continues.”

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Coast and some countries don’t even do indoor,” Bile said of the upcoming competition.

After a week off, both the men’s “Universally everyone does outand women’s outdoor track and door, so you know that you are gofield teams will resume competi- ing to look forward to some great tion by traveling to split sites this competition.” weekend, with some athletes travOn the women’s side, junior eling across the country to Palo Sabrina Southerland has helped Alto, Calif., to participate in the the Hoyas get off to a running Stanford Twilight meet while oth- start. Southerland, competing at ers race in the UVA Challenge in the Hurricane Alumni meet, won Charlottesville, Va. the 1500m event by clocking in The Hoyas’ last stretch of compe- at 4:21.51. Sophomore Kennedy tition was the weekend of April 9, Weisner followed Southerland to when the teams split competition a second place finish, crossing the between the Hurricane Alumni finish line at 4:22.14.

Invitational at the University of MiWeisner continued her wellami and at the rounded perMason Spring “Universally formance at Invitational the Hurricane in Fairfax, Va., everyone does Alumni meet by where several in two outdoor, so you know competing athletes earned other events. She top finishes. that you are going to finished in secAt the Hurond place in the ricane Alumni look forward to some women’s 800m meet, senior event, running a Ahmed Bile great competition.” time of 2:09.40. ran a time of Weisner also 1:48.48 in the helped her 4x400 men’s 800-merelay team, comSENIOR AHMED BILE ter invitational posed of senior to claim first Mirabel Nkenke, place overall in the event. Bile, run- sophomore Piper Donaghu and ning in the 1500m event at the sophomore Jody-Ann Knight, win Stanford Twilight Invitational this the second heat. The relay squad weekend, said he hopes to carry clocked in at 3:48.82. over his strong outings so far into Knight credited Director of that race.

Track and Field Michael Smith and “I know it’ll be a fast race,” Bile assistant coach Olu Olamigoke for said. “There is going to be a pace helping her run a strong split in maker. So definitely the goal is to the relay. [set a personal record], and my PR “Beforehand, Coach Mike and is a 3:40 so definitely as far under Coach Olu both just told me to that as possible.” have fun,” Knight said. “And they Sophomore Joe White has also gave me the tip of running it as recorded some strong performanc- a 400 runner, because last week es so far this outdoor season. White I was in the mindset of ‘I am runclocked in at 48.42 in the men’s ning the 400 as a 200 runner,’ so I 400m race at the Hurricane Alum- got out a little too fast. And so this ni meet, placing seventh overall. At week I thought about getting out the Colonial Relays, White ran a a little more conservative then totime of 3:47.37 in the men’s 1500m wards the end having a really good race, capturing fourth place overall kick.” in the event.

Knight also competed in the Junior Amos Bartelsmeyer has women’s 200m event, running a also helped lead the Hoyas to a time of 25.09, a personal record, to strong outdoor season start. In the win her heat. men’s 5000m event, Bartelsmeyer Both competitions take place claimed fifth place overall with today, with the UVA Challenge exa time of 14:05.05 at the Colonial tending into Saturday as well. After Relays. this weekend, both the women “Universally, [the outdoor sea- and men’s outdoor track and field son] is a much bigger deal than in- teams will travel to Philadelphia to doors with the schools on the West compete in the Penn Relays.

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In the men’s tennis team’s last competition against Bryant, senior Daniel Khanin fell at first singles in a 6-4, 6-2 decision.

While breaks from play can sometimes hurt teams, Khanin said he feels that the Hoyas are still motivated and energized enough to do well against the Wildcats.

“I don’t think it’s really going to hurt us in the end because we still practice and everyone’s really into playing big games and looking forward to those, motivation is high, and everyone was able to stay focused over the weekend,” Khanin said.

Although the men’s team has defeated Villanova (8-11) in each of the teams’ last five meetings, each match has been close. The Hoyas had a slow start in last year’s match against the Wildcats, losing all three doubles matches. However, Georgetown went on to win four of the six singles matches to capture a conference win.

“Last year we lost the doubles point and we were still able to win, and I think it’s just important for us to get that doubles point early and that kind of sets the tone for the rest of the match,” Khanin said. “If we can do that then I think the match will go our way pretty quickly.”

The match in the team’s 2013-14 campaign saw a more lopsided finish, as Georgetown won 6-1. However, in the previous two years, the Hoyas beat the Wildcats in 4-3 and 5-2 finishes.

“I think the guys will have a good test,” Ernst said. “We always play the

guys like 4-3, it’s always tight, so … like St. John’s on the men’s side and DePaul on the women’s side, we shoot for them, they’re always shooting for us to knock us off. I’m just hoping our guys can respond.”

The women’s team will also compete with Villanova (11-8, 0-2 Big East), a team that it has been dominant over in recent years. Georgetown has a 7-1 record in the teams’ last eight meetings.

Ernst explained that regardless of Georgetown’s recent dominance over Villanova, today’s match will still be a tough one for the Hoyas. Last year, then-sophomore Victoire Saperstein won her first singles match 6-1, 6-1.

Then-senior Sophie Panarese (COL ’15), then-freshmen Daphne de Chatellus and Casey Marx and then-sophomore Madeline Foley all won their matches in straight sets. Georgetown also notched the doubles point in that match.

“This is a good match for us before the Big East because we should win, but to play with pressure against a team that seems to be playing with some confidence themselves is a great way to get ready for Big East,” Ernst said. “I like our chances though because this group is so confident right now. They don’t care who we play right now, they just believe they can win, that’s a good way to be.”

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NFL Should Suspend Manziel for Actions W hat goes up must come down.

Such is the law of gravity, and apparently, the career arc of former quarterback Johnny Manziel, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2012. While many teams and fans prepare for the upcoming draft or simply divert their attention to other sports, Manziel has constantly ensured that the spotlight is on him for all of the wrong reasons.

Many people are concerned about the former Texas A&M prodigy — and rightfully so — because before all else he is a person, not an athlete. If the NFL cares about him, it must officially suspend him because it has cause and it will be in his long-term best interest.

Just this month, Manziel was accused of getting into a hit-and-run car accident, trashing a multimillion-dollar house he rented for a weekend of partying in Los Angeles with “shrooms” and cocaine in plain sight, partied at Coachella with former and still suspended Cleveland Browns teammate Josh Gordon and was dropped by mega-agent Drew Rosenhouse and Nike.

And that is just this month. When he was still Michael a player for the Cleveland Browns, he showed up late for training, was reportedly drunk in meetings and showed up drunk to a practice.

The NFL is not the comedy series “Blue Mountain State,” or at least it should not be.

Commissioner of the NFL Roger Goodell has suspended and disciplined NFL players for far less severe things, and in this case, Goodell has a more than legitimate reason to act.

Aside from the drinking and partying, Manziel was also accused of hitting and subsequently threatening to kill his now ex-girlfriend. While the case is soon going before a grand jury, the NFL should not tolerate these actions.

Manziel is innocent until proven guilty in the court of law, but there is absolutely no reason as to why the NFL should not suspend him until all of these legal or other matters are resolved. If facts proving Manziel’s innocence emerge, then the suspension can simply be terminated, just as if he were placed on administrative leave in any workplace setting.

More than anything, Manziel seems to need some sort of real-world discipline. It is largely unclear if he ever received it growing up, considering his family has had Texas oil

money for generations and his family’s companies are worth millions of dollars. Plenty of fantastic NFL players and athletes as a whole have come from similar backgrounds, but with them, something clicked that just has not for Manziel.

Suspending Manziel does not necessarily require the cold shoulder treatment. His friends on other teams in the league — like fellow Texas A&M grad and Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller — and the NFL can still support him and offer him help with his personal life, but if Manziel is unwilling to take it, there is nothing the league and his friends can do.

The NFL may as well divorce itself from him and avoid any guilt by association.

For about two months in 2015, Manziel did choose to enter some sort of treatment facility, but it is clear that he has ceded whatever progress he has made at that time. During his stint with the Browns, Manziel repeatedly vowed to own his mistakes and ensure that they would not happen again.

It may be too harsh to say that he lied, but he did not act on his words.

In February of this year, his father Paul told media outlets that Manziel twice refused to enter rehab and Ippolito that he was concerned his son would not live to see his 24th birthday.

Manziel, who said on Tuesday that he still hopes to play in the NFL in 2016, clearly needs help and refuses to acknowledge what is in his best interests — if he will not voluntarily enter rehab, the NFL must condition it or suspend him otherwise.

At this point, it is difficult to tell if Manziel is even trying. His recent actions suggest otherwise, and even if he is not suspended, there is little reason for an NFL team to spend the money and PR capital to sign him; no team needs a quarterback this bad. Even if one did, there are plenty of better veterans who are far less likely to end up on TMZ or the sixth page of the New York Post.

Manziel displayed promising talent, and there is undoubtedly plenty of blame to go around. But the person ultimately responsible for Manziel is himself. The privilege of playing in a grown man’s league requires one to be a grown man both physically and mentally. Unfortunately, Johnny is still a boy.

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After six seasons coaching the Georgetown men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, Head Coach Jamie Holder will leave to coach at Dartmouth beginning next academic year, announced by Dartmouth Director of Athletics and Recreation Harry Sheehy on Tuesday.

Holder joined the Georgetown coaching staff in July 2010 after swimming at Princeton as an undergraduate and serving as an assistant coach for the program for five seasons. While Holder was on the Princeton coaching staff, the Tigers won four Ivy League championships.

During Holder’s time at the helm of the program, his

teams have broken over 60 school records, earned three consecutive silver medals at the Big East swimming and diving championships from the 2014 through the 2016 seasons and earned numerous allconference recognitions.

This year, a program-high 28 athletes were selected to the All-Big East team following their top-three finishes in their respective events at the Big East championships. Twentyone of the 28 earned a topthree recognition in multiple events, and both the men’s and women’s teams earned second place overall on each side of the competition.

After the 2014-15 season, Holder was a co-recipient of the swimming and diving Big East Coach of the Year award.

2015 also marked the gradua-

tion of Holder’s first recruiting class at Georgetown.

In December 2015, Holder coached sophomore Molly Fitzpatrick to an Olympic Trials qualifying time of 2:34.32 in the 200-meter breaststroke event, the first time a Georgetown swimmer has registered a trial-qualifying time.

“I’m extremely excited and thankful for the opportunity to lead the Dartmouth swimming and diving teams,” Holder said in a statement released by the Dartmouth athletics department Tuesday. “The balance between academics and athletics that Dartmouth offers is second to none. I can’t wait to work with the team to achieve new heights in the future.”

Holder could not be reached for comment by The Hoya.

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of power hitters and base runners, they do have some strong arms that can pose a threat to Hoyas’ hitter. Butler junior pitcher Jeff Schank currently boasts a 3.2 ERA with 38 strikeouts this season. Georgetown has two players batting well over .300, Bushor and sophomore outfielder Michael DeRenzi. Six other players are batting over

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it has been four years since Durant has played in the NBA Finals, and time marches on.

Washington is built to be an above average team, and the addition of Durant — with tweaks elsewhere in the roster — would certainly boost the Wizards into the upper echelon of the NBA. But it just is not enough of a sure thing. I am confident that at some point in his career, Durant will come home to play for his city. He is too much of a Washington fan not to — he is seen on the sidelines of seemingly every Redskins game or wearing Nationals gear. But it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for that to happen now.

I still lend credence to the idea that Durant will spend another year in Oklahoma City with Russell Westbrook and play the free agent game next summer, when more money will be on the table thanks to changes to NBA contract and cap rules. That line of thought stems from my hope that the Wizards can prove themselves worthy of Durant given one more year, but I also like to think it is reasonable.

The first step for the Wizards in terms of proving themselves is hiring a quality coach. I agreed with the line that seemed to be coming from management and ownership on this front, that what the team needed was an experienced, defensively minded leader. Former Oklahoma City Head Coach Scott Brooks, now stepping up to the helm, checks both of those boxes.

Brooks caught flak during his time with the Thunder for lacking a dynamic offense and inefficiently using talent, but his defenses consistently ranked among the best in the league, and he ultimately made relative success out of an often difficult situation in Oklahoma City. Brooks also has the Durant connection, which cannot hurt in a future pursuit of the player. The Washington Post has reported that Durant enjoyed his time with Brooks and respected the coach.

Signing Brooks on a five-year, $35 million deal proves that Washington is committed to spending on and building a defensively respectable team that can improve on this year’s disappointing performance.

The Wizards must confront their roster. Beal is the first concern. Despite injury risks, he needs to be re-signed. He has shown that he works extremely well with Wall when healthy, and provides stability on a team that will be otherwise marked by turnover. Beal, Wall, center Marcin Gortat, forward Markieff Morris, forward Otto Porter and a few others will stick around.

However, the Washington Post explained last week how much change will occur deeper in the roster: “Washington has, by design, eight players that will become unrestricted free agents this summer. ” The Wizards have a chance to define themselves as a team this offseason. The money is there. Talent is already present. The outlook does not have to be grim for these Wizards.

At the same time, when so much is up in the air, it cannot be said with any certainty that things will work out. Bad choices lurk. Next fall, the Washington roster could again be populated by past-their-prime vets who always have a shot at a strong season but continue to leave the future in jeopardy. Wall is a luxury who needs to be appreciated and well employed while he is here.

The time has come to invest in talent that will stay in the District, more than just Band-Aids while we pursue greater things. If the current foundation is well complemented, this team can make some sustainable runs at success.

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“They do have a couple of pretty damn good arms. I think we’re going to have to scratch for some runs, but overall, I like the matchup,” Wilk added.

Mathews said the team in its current form is aiming to compete in the Big East Tournament.

“We can make some noise in the Big East Tournament if we keep playing the way we are and keep improving,” Mathews said.

Last season, the team finished 0-2 in the Big East tournament, a double-elimination format competition with four of the top seven teams in the conference, based on in-conference record.

Georgetown is currently tied with Villanova (15-21, 3-3 Big East) for third with a 3-3 conference record, putting it in playoff position as of today’s standings.

For now, the Hoyas are focused on their series against the

Bulldogs.

“We preach to the team, one game, one inning, one pitch at a time. I’m not looking past this weekend,” Wilk said. “We have a weekend ahead of us that’s going to be a dogfight.”

The series will take place in Indianapolis, the first game will take place on Friday at 3 p.m. and the second on Saturday at 1 p.m. The series will conclude on Sunday at 12 p.m.

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we want to pick it up as well. So it’ll be a battle every time the ball is on the ground,” Warne said.

This will be the second matchup in a recently renewed rivalry between the Hoyas and the Cavaliers.

The teams took a hiatus in competition after a 2006 showdown in the NCAA quarterfinals that Virginia won en route to a national championship and undefeated season.

In its regular-season matchup last year, the first since 2006, Virginia was able to fight back against an early Georgetown lead and wrestle away a victory with

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a score of 12-9.

“Certainly, I know for a lot of the local kids they’ve been watching teams like Georgetown, Villanova and Virginia play since they were children. So it’s definitely a big game, we’re excited, and obviously a chance to play a team that has won a few national championships is something we’re all looking forward to. It’s a great opportunity,” Parke said.

For Senior Night, Georgetown will honor four graduating players: Parke, defender Curt Brooks, graduate student midfielder Joe Bucci, and defender Nic Mahaney.

Parke said the program has been a focal point of the

seniors’ college careers and has shaped their Georgetown experience. “[Lacrosse has] been everything. From the second I got here until the second I leave, it’s been my main priority and something I spend almost all my time thinking about. … It’s going to be sad to let go of a game I’ve played, really since I could walk, but I’m excited for the game. I couldn’t ask for a better game to play on Senior Night,” Parke said.

Warne emphasized the importance of placing the focus of the game on Georgetown rather than its opponent.

“We really want to make [Senior Night] special for those guys. Hopefully there will be a great crowd on a Saturday

night and they’ll have a great atmosphere to play their last game on the field [at home].

We’ll take that energy, and as we’ve told the guys all week, do a little extra for those four guys because they’ve done a lot for you for the four years that they’ve been here,” Warne said. “They’ve really cemented themselves here in a lot of ways, for the better of Georgetown lacrosse. So Saturday will be a great way to repay them.”

The Hoyas host the Cavaliers at Cooper Field this Saturday. Opening faceoff is set for 7 p.m. with the Senior Night ceremony beginning at 6:30 p.m. before the start of the game. The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network.

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Graduate student midfielder and co-captain Joe Bucci tallied one assist in Georgetown’s 16-4 loss to Villanova. Bucci has scored 13 goals and recorded six assists this season, and he is second on the team in points with 19.

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with a 2-0 lead with senior attack Kelsey Perselay scoring in the first 16 seconds and Bandos adding another goal a minute later. UConn got on the board at 22:33 after Nolan scored her first of three off a free position shot. After a goal from freshman attack Taylor Gebhardt increased the lead to 3-1, the Huskies put together a 4-0 run to take their first lead of the game.

UConn was up 5-4 entering the second half. Junior attack Jacqueline Jordan opened the second half by scoring to increase UConn’s lead. After Georgetown cut the deficit, Nolan tallied her second goal of the day to make it 7-5. Georgetown responded with a 3-0 run, but another goal from Nolan tied the score with three minutes left to play. After freshman midfielder Morgan Ryan was penalized with 24 seconds left, the Huskies were man-up and Nolan found the back of the goal to score the game-winner.

Georgetown will play Marquette (6-9, 3-2 Big East) next in the Hoyas’ final home game of the season. Marquette is coming off a recent 11-7 win over Vanderbilt (5-10, 1-5 Big East).

In the matchup, the Golden Eagles were down by one with 81/2 minutes remaining in the second half but led a five-goal resurgence in the remaining minutes to pull away with the win.

Marquette is paced by junior attack Julianna Shearer, who currently leads the team in goals with 32 this season. Shearer scored a hat trick in Marquette’s victory over Vanderbilt.

Junior attack Amanda Bochniak also poses an offensive threat; she tops her team in points this season with 37, 21

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Senior attack Kelsey Perselay had one goal in Georgetown’s 9-8 loss to UConn on Wednesday. She has eight goals this season. of which are assists, another team high. Bochniak scored one goal and tallied three assists in the Vanderbilt win.

As the season comes to a close, Fried stressed the importance of finishing out games and performing well before the Big East tournament begins in early May. “We want to try and make sure we are playing here in the

Big East tournament. We need to continue to secure what we set out to do at the beginning of the game. We need to focus on the fundamentals: just catching, throwing and shooting. If we can improve in those areas, that will serve us really well, and it will be a positive outcome,” Fried said.

The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Cooper Field.

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GU Falls 9-8 in Final Seconds Pitching Shines In Local Matchup CLAIRE SCHANSINGER Hoya Staff Writer

With just 17 seconds on the clock, the Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (5-9, 3-2 Big East) let in a tie-breaking goal from University of Connecticut (12-2, 6-0 Big East) sophomore Grace Nolan, losing 9-8 in a close and hard-fought game Wednesday afternoon.

The Hoyas and Huskies have a history of one-goal games. Last season, the Hoyas were able to hang on and beat the Huskies 13-2 but then lost 11-10 in the Big East semifinals.

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midfielder Francesca Whitehurst made two goals and recorded an assist while senior attack Corinne Etchinson and senior midfielder Kristen Bandos also scored two goals each.

The Hoyas had 27 shots compared to the Huskies’ 23 and 13 draw controls compared to the Huskeis’ six.

Both teams picked up an equal number of ground balls and Georgetown’s goalies — junior Maddy Fisher and senior Megan McDonald — combined to make seven saves. UConn’s senior goalie Shannon Nee played the whole game and recorded 10 saves to pick up the win.

Nolan scored a hat trick during the game, which put her at 40 goals for the season, second to UConn’s senior attack Katherine Finkelston whose three goals raised her total to 43.

Head Coach Ricky Fried said his team played well and kept its composure, but the squad’s level of play just was not enough.

“We were poised and had a lot of shots. I thought we fought hard for the whole game, but at the end of the day, we make too many mistakes,” Fried said.

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Senior goalkeeper Megan McDonald recorded five saves in the second half of Georgetown’s 9-8 loss to Villanova on Wednesday. McDonald has recorded 54 saves this season in 426 minutes in the cage.

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“The defense has been great recently. That’s another example of guys taking it upon themselves to Following a series win against improve and be better,” Mathews Xavier (14-25, 1-2 Big East) this past said.

After starting the season with weekend, the Georgetown baseball team (18-20, 3-3 Big East) pitched mixed results, the team has now and defended its way to a 2-1 win won four out of five games and against crosstown rival George greatly improved its play since getWashington (17-22, 6-3 Big East) ting swept in a three-game series on the road against the University Wednesday.

Four different pitchers took the of North Carolina-Greensboro (28mound Wednesday, including re- 11, 7-2 Southern) in late March. lief pitchers senior Tim Davis and Since then, Georgetown has avoidfreshman Jack Cushing, who each ed getting swept in every series and pitched perfect innings, as well as played to its strengths.

“We’re not beating ourselves,” closer David Ellingson. Sophomore Head Coach Pete pitcher Jimmy Swad earned “The whole pitching Wilk said. “The last time we beat his fourth win ourselves down of the season staff has taken it at UNC [Greensand pitched upon ourselves to boro] in terms two no-hit inof bad pitching nings, giving be a little bit better or defense. This up just one than we had been.” last little streak walk. we’ve been on, we “The whole haven’t beaten pitching staff SIMON MATHEWS Junior Pitcher ourselves.” has taken it With the Hoyas upon ourselves to be a little bit better than we playing to their strengths and a had been,” junior pitcher Simon memorable stretch of games in Mathews, who pitched a complete tow, the team will now head to Ingame against Xavier last Saturday, dianapolis, Ind., to face off against said. “I tried to reset against Xavier, the Butler Bulldogs (10-27, 1-5 Big you know, take it easy, be relaxed, East). “[Butler is] struggling a little bit. and just go out there and play. The whole pitching staff’s been like But every game in the conference is a dog fight. If you overlook anythat. We’ve been throwing well.”

The Hoyas supported their pitch- body, they’re going to kick you in ers’ efforts with strong defensive the butt,” Wilk said. “Offensively, efforts. Junior centerfielder Beau they don’t have a lot of power. … I Hall, along with two sophomores like our pitching matchup against shortstop Chase Bushor and sec- their hitters.”

While the Bulldogs face a dearth ond baseman Jake Bernstein, made key plays over the course of the game.

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his summer will be a transformative one for the Washington Wizards. Whether that transformation is positive or negative will depend on the choices of a front office that is at its biggest crossroads since the waning years of Gilbert Arenas and the arrival of point guard John Wall. Cap space is open, older veterans’ contracts are up and the remaining talent is enough to inspire some confidence for next seasons. Yesterday’s official hiring of Scott Brooks as head coach is a step in the right direction, but more decisions need to be made correctly for this team to grow properly.

But ultimately, questions remain. Re-signing guard Bradley Beal will be an expensive risk for ownership, but a tempting one if he can stay healthy. The head coaching position is not a place where the franchise appears comfortable taking a risk. And finally, to round out the pressing issues, the Wizards have ostensibly cleared the aforementioned cap space in the pursuit of a marquee free agent — including one in particular whose time in Oklahoma is coming to an end — and it is unclear how the front office will fill that cap space.

That last issue is the elephant in the room, the debate that has swirled around the Wizards for years. Will Kevin Durant come to D.C.? I hesitate to say no. I will put my bias out front — I am a D.C. fan through and through, and superstitious enough that I do not want to give a definitive answer. But the odds are stacked against the Wizards. If Durant does decide to leave Oklahoma City, it will be because he sees a better shot at a championship elsewhere. The 2012 season was a great run, but See RAAB, A9

The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (2-10, 1-3 Big East) will honor its seniors Saturday before a contest with perennial regional powerhouse, the University of Virginia (6-7, 0-4 ACC).

The Hoyas are looking to rebound after their 16-4 loss to the Villanova Wildcats (7-4, 1-2 Big East) last weekend, in which they played out an even first half before losing the possession battle in the second half and getting shut out on the offensive end.

Senior midfielder and co-captain Corey Parke said moving on and taking lessons from the loss is key to understanding some of the flaws the team can address.

“It’s similar to any other game where you don’t come out on top you just look back, you look at what you did wrong and try to fix it. [Head] Coach [Kevin Warne] always says you either win or you learn, so we’re trying to learn everything we can from that loss and fix what we can,” Parke said.

The Hoyas move on to face a Cavalier squad that is coming off a tough stretch with back-toback losses to the No. 13 North Carolina Tar Heels (7-5, 1-1 ACC) and No. 16 Duke Blue Devils (86, 2-2 ACC). But the Cavaliers, who have filtered in and out of the top 20 rankings this season, are led by a decorated head coach in Dom Starsia and senior attack James Pannell, the younger brother of the former Cornell great and current New York Lizards attack Rob Pannell. James Pannell leads Virginia on offense and is coming in to the game as a top-50 goal scorer nationwide netting 26 goals on the year.

While Virginia is no slacker on either side of the ball, where

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Senior midfielder and co-captain Corey Parke scored one goal in Georgetown’s 16-4 loss to Villanova last Saturday. Parke has scored three goals this season. it shines is in key effort statistics such as ground balls, ranking second in the nation by picking up 36.7 ground balls per game.

In comparison, Georgetown averages 22.25 ground balls per game.

Warne addressed the need

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for hustle against a competitive and persistent UVA squad. He said the team will be focusing on mentality throughout the game and especially in ground balls.

“Ground balls isn’t really a skill, it’s a mindset. When

you go get the ball, you got to go get the ball. We got to know that we can’t give up on it, and if you’re chasing a ball we have to understand that they have a mindset of, See CAVALIERS, A9