The Hoya: January 20, 2017

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EDITORIAL Students should remain politically engaged on Inauguration Day.

ACADEMIC FREEDOM ABROAD An SFS graduate student speaks out against her treatment in Qatar.

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Inauguration, Protests Take Center Stage in the District Ben Goodman

lege Republicans President Allie Williams (SFS ’19) said the GUCR body will be demonstrating support for both Trump and equality during inauguration weekend.

“We were fortunate enough to receive tickets from the Office of Federal Relations and Institute of Politics and Public Service, so many of our members will be attending and celebrating the swearing in of our new president,” Williams said. “However, we also do have some members who will be attending the Women’s’ March to continue advocacy for equal rights, which we, of course, support.”

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President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration today sees a tepid welcome from both the Georgetown and greater Washington, D.C. community, with wounds still unhealed 11 weeks after the divisive presidential election.

In addition to the official inauguration events, this weekend will see several protests in response to Trump’s presidency, including the Women’s March on Washington, which is expected to feature more than 200,000 attendees Saturday.

“MPD is prepared to protect the rights of individuals to exercise their First Amendment rights.”

“You don’t have to be a woman to march. You don’t have to be a Democrat to march.”

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Security measures from both local and campus security and police departments have been upgraded to prepare for about 1 million people to attend, celebrate or protest in and around the District.

Madison Thomas (COL ’19), who is the National Coordinator for College Engagement for the Women’s March, said she is expecting a turnout of 20,000 to 50,000 college students alone.

The inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump takes place today at the United States Capitol, with more than one million people expected to attend both official inauguration events and protests.

The Georgetown University College Democrats have been arranging for Georgetown students to host students from other colleges for the weekend.

GUCD Chair Meredith Forsyth (SFS ’19) said she plans to bring club members and other Georgetown students to the march, regardless of their political affiliation. GUCD is sponsoring the march.

“I really do feel like it is an inclusive event. You don’t have to

be a woman to march. You don’t have to be a Democrat to march.

You don’t have to necessarily be against Trump to march,” Forsyth said. “It’s really for anyone who is for women’s rights. Not only women’s rights, but for people of color, trans rights and LGBTQ+ rights.”

Thomas said the protest is not intended as a demonstration against Trump, but to rally support for women’s rights.

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ington. We are not marching at Donald Trump. We are marching at the United States,” Thomas said. “We are saying that women’s rights are human rights, and this is something we have noticed in recent years — that women are increasingly feeling marginalized in their communities, alienated from politics and media. And it’s not something we are willing to stand by and be silent about anymore.”

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Forsyth said she hopes the march will act as a spark for GUCD in the future.

“It’s important for us, as GUCD, to lead people to this march, because it will kind of set the tone for us for the rest of the semester,” Forsyth said. “It sets the stage for the role we want to play on campus and in D.C. — hopefully leading the charge for advocacy and holding Trump accountable to being See INAUGURATION, A6

‘Exorcist’ Creator, 89, Dies Professors Analyze Trump’s Policies Emily Tu

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As he sat in a theology class at Georgetown taught by Fr. Eugene Gallagher, S.J., a young student learned of an exorcism that occurred in the Washington area. Inspired by the inci-

dent, William Peter Blatty (CAS ’50) went on to write a novel that would serve as the foundation of an internationally renowned franchise —“The Exorcist.”

Blatty died Jan. 12 in Bethesda, Md., from multiple myeloma, passing away just five days after his 89th birthday Jan. 7.

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William Peter Blatty (CAS ’50) was most well-known for writing “The Exorcist,” which was set largely in the Georgetown neighborhood.

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“The Exorcist” helped raise the profile of both horror films and Georgetown. The film includes shots of Dahlgren Chapel, Healy Hall and “The Exorcist Steps,” the 97 steps located next to Car Barn where a priest is possessed to jump from a window and tumbles to his death in the film.

By the end of his career, Blatty had accrued numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Exorcist,” two Golden Globes for Best Screenplay for “The Exorcist” and “The Ninth Configuration” and the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

“The Exorcist” is mainly set in Georgetown, and one of its most famous scenes being shot on the “Exorcist stairs” on Prospect and 36th streets.

The son of Lebanese immigrant parents, Blatty was born in New York City, N.Y., in 1928, and was raised by his mother. In a 1972 interview with The Washington Post, Blatty recounted a childhood marked by unpaid bills and frequent moves that led him to accumulate 28 different addresses.

“We never lived at the same address in New York for longer

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President-elect Donald Trump’s term will consist of four years of policy conflicting with Republicans and Democrats alike, including the renegotiation of free trade agreements, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the building of a border wall, according to Georgetown professors interviewed by The Hoya.

“He keeps saying he has a plan and that plan will be revealed soon, but in fact, that plan has not been revealed.”

MARK ROM Associate Dean, McCourt School of Public Policy

Government professor Michele Swers, whose research focuses on Congress and the role of women in politics, said Trump is poised to

clash with Republican leadership in Congress on his stated positions on trade, which contradict typical free trade-oriented Republican policies.

Trump pledged throughout his campaign to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement — a trade deal ratified in 1994 between the United States, Canada and Mexico — and to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement including 12 Pacific Rim countries, the United States and Canada.

“In the past, Republicans have been the more free trade party.

[Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan [RWis.] has already stated that he’s opposed to placing additional tariffs on our country,” Swers said. “He’s very much a supporter of free trade and trade deals. And so there is going to be some conflict between Trump and some of the free trade Republicans in the House over plans that he has, and I think that he’ll have a difficult time getting tariffs, additional sort of taxes.”

In an interview with The Hoya, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the McCourt School of Public Policy Mark Rom, whose research focuses on social welfare policy, said that See PREDICTIONS, A7

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Hungry Bears — Footage surfaced this weekend of emaciated sun bears begging visitors for food at Indonesia’s Bandung Zoo. The video is just one of many accusations of animal neglect against the zoo, following the death of a Sumatran elephant there last year.

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To Infinity and Beyond — Last night, the U.S. military launched a missilewarning satellite from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The satellite is the third of its type to be launched.

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No Flip, Just Flop — HGTV announced that its hit show, “Flip or Flop”, will end after the 2017 season. The news followed reports of the impending divorce of the show’s stars, Tarek and Christina El Moussa.

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Streaming Stays Strong — Netflix is experiencing an all-time high in stock prices and earnings, due to increases in its subscriber bases this quarter.

The success follows the release of many Netflix Originals this year, such as “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and “The Crown.”

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Chili on Chilly Days — Several local restaurants will be participating in the third annual cook-off, the Chilly Days Chili Fundraiser, in Ashburn, Va. All proceeds from the event will go to the Ashburn Volunteer Fire Rescue Department.

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These first days of the Trump administration serve to cement his agenda for the rest of his term, and by participating early on, the public signals a message to the president about which issues they value most.

One such opportunity is presented by the Women’s March on Washington this Saturday, which has been met with anticipation from many within the Georgetown community and is estimated to draw 200,000 advocating for the protection of reproductive and women’s rights in a Republicanmajority Congress.

Elsewhere in the District, the Equality Coalition plans to protest Trump’s stance on issues ranging from immigration to climate change at Meridian Hill Park, the anti-war ANSWER Coalition looks to storm the Navy Memorial and the cannabis community will gather at Dupont Circle to demand federal deregulation of marijuana.

With the flurry of activity around the city, Georgetown students should capitalize on our unique proximity to the nucleus of American politics and strive to send a message about the issues with which they are engaged. The stakes in this political cycle are simply too high to descend into a pattern of passivity — or, even worse, fatalism — as the country hurtles through a symbolic threshold when Trump is sworn in as president.

Soon enough, the cycle will begin again: Congressional representatives will start to scramble to defend their seats or recoup their losses before midterm elections, and the Georgetown community will once again be in the full thrall of political debate and discussion. But it is imperative that students do not wait until after the inauguration to participate in the political process, as the first days set the tone for the rest of the Trump presidency.

The inauguration does not just signal the end of an era. Instead, it presents a fresh start to work toward our vision for the future with renewed fervor. Whether participating in the inauguration as a protester or spectator, students should involve themselves in the political process and shape the future of the country.

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With President-elect Donald Trump set to recite the Oath of Office today, campuswide excitement for the inauguration has been tempered by the many students reluctant to attend the ceremony. Rather than the typical fanfare, many have trudged toward Jan. 20 with a sense of resignation, viewing participation in the ceremony — for better or for worse— as a sign of compliance or tacit endorsement of Trump’s new administration and the explosive remarks he made on the campaign trail.

Regardless of the prevailing attitudes toward the president-elect on campus, Georgetown students should not deny themselves the chance to witness history. With Washington, D.C., at the epicenter of both Inauguration Day programming and protesting, the only wrong we could commit during inauguration weekend is to do nothing at all.

By suspending classes for today, the university has given the opportunity for students to shed their academic obligations and fully participate in a rite of passage most graduates experience only once in their four years on the Hilltop. Even those left despondent by the result of November’s election should not squander the chance to witness a presidential inauguration firsthand. Washington, much like the rest of the country, buzzes with a distinct blend of hope and fear in the face of the uncertain future that waits at the precipice of this historic transfer of power.

Some may decide to join the company of the over 50 members of Congress who are boycotting the inauguration amid questions of Russian intervention in the election and Trump’s recent attacks on civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). The city is replete with demonstrations and rallies representing virtually every form of social activism, and one would be remiss to withdraw from this advocacy in the first few crucial days Trump spends crystallizing his policies.

Today is not the day to withdraw from political engagement and hunker down in the isolating bubble of the university. Rather, the inauguration should inspire students to confront an outside world vulnerable to even more seismic change over the next four years under Trump’s America.

Facing Justice — It was confirmed Thursday that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the infamous leader of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, would be extradited from Mexico to the United States. El Chapo is known for his two previous escapes from high-security prisons in Mexico.

Heating Up — Scientists reported on Wednesday that 2016 was the hottest year on record, marking the third straight year in which the record has been broken.

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Safety Must Guide Protests Half a dozen protesters representing RefuseFascism.org, an organization dedicated to disputing the legitimacy of the November election, were escorted off campus by the Georgetown University Police Department on Jan. 11 after disrupting classes in the Intercultural Center and Reiss Building to denounce President-elect Donald J. Trump.

The protesters, who were not Georgetown students, chanted and distributed flyers in Red Square and the ICC Galleria to promote an anti-Trump demonstration being Jan. 14 in McPherson Square. In addition to barging into classrooms, members of the group also singled out passing students, including decrying a self-identified Republican student as “equivalent to Satan.” After their removal from campus Jan. 11, the group returned to protest in Red Square as recently as Jan. 17.

While protesters outside of the university community have a right to contribute to diversifying campus dialogue and fostering the university as a center for self-expansion, their free speech protections should neither come at the expense of classroom learning nor extend so far as the outright harassment of students. To prevent this, the university must enact measures to ensure a productive and safe platform for expression.

The university’s current Speech and Expression Policy stipulates that certain areas of campus are designated for the express purpose of exchanging ideas: Red Square, the lobby of Leavey Center and parts of the Healey Family Student Center foyer. Only protesters from the university community are permitted to access university buildings, though they are not permitted to disrupt classes.

But the fact that these protesters were able to gain access to classrooms to voice their beliefs demonstrates a crucial shortcoming of the policy: security. With the close proximity to classrooms to designated free speech zones, it is fortunate the RefuseFacism.org protesters

were armed with nothing more than a sign, pamphlets and strong opinions.

The fact that these protesters were young and virtually indistinguishable from possible Georgetown students further complicates the issue of security, as the Department of Public Safety cannot easily identify them as demonstrators from an external organization.

This could be remedied by amending the university’s Speech and Expression Policy to more closely resemble the District of Columbia’s citywide protest permit process, which grants permits on a first-come, first-serve basis and often provides a police escort to a group to diffuse tensions to ensure compliance.

Implementing such a policy and mandating a police escort would facilitate greater security when external groups protest on campus, as the Department of Public Safety could monitor groups and ensure they abide by other provisions of the Speech and Expression Policy. In addition to ensuring compliance with free speech zones, assigning a Georgetown University Police Department escort to these groups can deter both students and protesters from devolving into harassment or violence.

While external groups could still breach this policy and attempt to demonstrate on campus without prior approval from GUPD, demanding a permit would provide a streamlined process for distinguishing between approved protesters and violators of the policy.

Demonstrators from beyond the university gates provide an indelible facet of the university’s discourse, but not if their contributions descend into harassment and trespassing, as RefuseFacism.org demonstrated this past week. By modeling current university policy after Washington, D.C.’s, municipal regulations requiring permits for protests, Georgetown could champion student safety while preserving a climate of free expression.

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FROM THE DEAN’S DESK

Daniel Byman

Finding Your Place In Government

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he allure of public service led many of us to come to Washington, D.C. and to Georgetown. After graduating from college way back in the Precambrian Era, I joined the U.S. government with a vague goal of doing good.

After a few twists and turns, I ended up working on foreign policy and found a passion that has continued ever since.

Years later, I was lucky enough to find a job at Georgetown where I could teach students interested in public service in all its forms.

I have always urged my students to consider joining the government regardless of whether or not a Democrat or Republican was in office. But the unfortunate reality is that politics does and should affect students’ decisions on a career in public service. After the election of Donald Trump, I have never heard as many students voice concerns about joining the government.

A number of students flatly disagree with the presidentelect’s policies and values, while others worry that his various pronouncements, such as calls for a hiring freeze or angry tweets at the intelligence community, will make joining and working for the government impossible and even nightmarish.

Yet even if students object strongly to the policies and principles of a new administration, public service is still an honorable path they should seriously consider — with a few caveats.

Much depends on where students hope to work. For example, if a student is opposed to Trump’s calls to deport migrants without documentation, the student should not seek work in the Departments of Justice nor Homeland Security that might manage such a program.

Graduates who are unsure of entering public service should remember a bit of good news: When you take a job in government, you will usually begin your career at, or near, the bottom of the

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ladder. You will initially have little say over the big, morally fraught decisions, where senior officials will bear the personal culpability.

Indeed, most new graduates will spend some time learning their craft as new hires relegated to minor issues or placed under heavy supervision. As they prove themselves, they will spread their wings — but that will take time.

What this means is that you will be better positioned for a more substantive and senior job in four years, when a new administration may enter. In fact, if bright young men and women do not enter government now, there will be a lack of mid-level talent in years to come with potentially disastrous results for America.

Finally, as I hope you have learned at Georgetown, the government is not just the president. We have already seen in confirmation hearings important figures such as the secretary of defense and secretary of state nominees assume stances that differ markedly from other presidential advisers and Trump’s own remarks on the campaign trail. It remains unclear whose views will win out, but policy is likely to reflect a mix of views, not just those that receive the most headlines.

Many of you who oppose Trump’s agenda may still have legitimate concerns about your role in a new administration. I would urge you to think hard about what you would not be willing to do and the conditions under which you would resign.

Write them down. Share them with friends. And then look them over from time to time to make sure you have not crossed your own red lines. No one knows what the future will hold, and you should be prepared to leave as well as to serve.

Daniel Byman is the Senior Associate Dean in the School of Foreign Service.

From the dean’s desk is a rotating column that appears every other Friday.

Mrs. Obama has embraced her own identities as a highly educated woman, a successful lawyer, a black woman, a wife and a mother.

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ichelle Obama’s legacy cannot be written down. Her legacy is not stagnant and cannot be encapsulated solely in the accomplishments that are recorded on paper.

It is neither confined to the White House vegetable garden that she planted to launch the “Let’s Move” initiative nor limited to her continued support for girls’ education globally. It does not live in her degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and although her fashion has sparked both praise and critique, Mrs. Obama’s legacy is not sewn into the hems of her dresses.

Rather, it breathes in the countless number of girls and women of color whom she has inspired and affirmed. Despite the criticisms and resistance she has had to endure as the first black first lady, Mrs. Obama has taken it all in stride with grace, wit and composure — her rhythm never disrupted.

Mrs. Obama leaves the White House the same way she came in — amid calls to change Washington, D.C. But through her legacy, it’s evident that the first lady has forged a new path for what women of color can

First Lady of Grace achieve.

Mrs. Obama’s legacy is so much more than I will ever be able to put on paper, and I am excited to see how that legacy manifests in the lives of others, particularly girls of color. There are millions of children around the world, my little sister included, who have only ever known a black family to live in the world’s most powerful house.

Mrs. Obama’s legacy has blossomed from this ability to unapologetically be herself.

When I was a young teenager, even before President Barack Obama was elected, something particular struck me about Mrs. Obama. I admired her powerful presence and the way she carried herself — commanding a room without dominating the space.

In addition to being one of only three first ladies to have a graduate degree and the first black first lady, Michelle Obama has consistently

forged her own path in her role in the White House. At the United State of Women summit in June 2016, she explained, “I specifically did not read other first ladies’ books because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to define this role very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.”

She has an air of familiarity that I recognized from the most influential women in my own life: my mother, grandmothers and other women of color who have molded my own understanding of womanhood and black womanhood. With them, Michelle Obama shares a sense of self-assuredness, an awareness of how some perceive her and the confidence to be herself anyway.

Over the past eight years, Mrs. Obama’s legacy has blossomed from this ability to unapologetically be herself, a quality the media often does not present as positive in women of color.

Rather than lauding her innovative boldness in pushing the boundaries of a First Lady’s role, critics have labelled her as an “angry black woman,” reducing her to a caricature to discredit her

more easily.

Regardless, however, she has not allowed herself to be restricted by the expectations that others have imposed on her and instead dictated her own course.

Mrs. Obama has embraced her own identities as a highly educated woman, a successful lawyer, a black person, a woman, a black woman, a wife and a mother.

Mrs. Obama has also demonstrated with poise that she is intertwined with many communities, including several that are neither frequently nor consistently represented on a national stage.

As Mrs. Obama eloquently stated in her farewell speech, “That is what moves this country forward every single day: our hope for the future and the hard work that hope inspires. So that’s my final message to young people as first lady. It is simple.”

More than anything, those who have grown up concurrent to Obama’s presidency have grown up on a message of hope, a hope that I believe, no matter what, will persist in generations to come.

Shola Powell is a senior in

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VIEWPOINT • GONZALEZ

PLAYING POLITICS

An Uncertain Future

Federal Fantasy Draft

hen Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming approached UndocuHoyas last semester to see if anyone wanted to share their story with Congressman Dick Durbin (D–Ill.), I never imagined that, on Jan. 4, the senator would give voice to my journey from Mexico to California on the Senate floor.

As surreal as the experience was, I hope my story can help change the hearts and minds that see undocumented immigrants like me as a threat.

With the help of Sen. Durbin, I am advocating for the bipartisan Bar Removal of Individuals who Dream and Grow our Economy Act, or BRIDGE Act, which would allow close to 800,000 undocumented youth to continue living as they have since President Obama introduced his executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, in 2012.

Under DACA, certain undocumented students can obtain a renewable two-year work authorization and deferral from deportation, allowing me to come to Georgetown, a place where I knew I could flourish, a place where students, no matter their background, would be accepted.

After the general election, my feelings of happiness, appreciation and reflection on campus have been replaced by uncertainty and fear. As an undocumented student, the election results made me scared of what tomorrow will look like for people who are part of any marginalized community.

In 2005, my brother and I immigrated to the United States and joined my parents, who were both already living

here. Like millions before us, we came on a journey north for a better life. At eight years old, I had to push myself to navigate an environment I was unfamiliar with, where I did not know the language and found it hard to communicate with my teacher and peers.

I distinctly remember that when I first enrolled in second grade, my teacher began using a pocket Spanish-English dictionary. Despite her willingness to help me, I often cried in the middle of class and felt alone, unable to communicate with my teacher and my peers.

Yet by the end of third grade, I was able to communicate with others, and by seventh grade, I was reclassified as proficient in English and began taking honors classes. Yet my life took a turn as my parents separated and my mom began working as a dishwasher at a local restaurant, a job she continues to hold to this day.

After school, I would babysit my siblings and would wait until my mom was home from her evening shift.

The buses did not run when she got off work, so each day she would walk 40 minutes back home. When she arrived, I would see her sacrifice.

It fueled me.

Once in high school, I took advantage of every opportunity that came my way. While I was initially shy, I came to understand that I was the voice my mom did not have. I had the opportunity to be in high school: I had the opportunity to get an education. She did not. Her sacrifices pushed me forward. In the end, I graduated from high school in the top 1 percent of my class with

straight As and a passing score on all nine AP exams I took.

When I was accepted to Georgetown, I no longer felt fearful about my status, as DACA gave me the confidence and security I never had. I lived in fear and in the shadows, but thanks to the program, I was able to do things I otherwise would not have been able to do, like going through TSA to catch a flight home.

Yet this temporary protection is now threatened by the president-elect, who vowed during the campaign trail to terminate DACA and create a deportation force. We had just begun to come out of the shadows and now it seems we will be forced back into the darkness.

To make matters worse, those who have applied for DACA have given their information to the Department of Homeland Security. This personal information, which includes our addresses, could for the first time be used under the president-elect’s administration by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

While many, including President DeGioia, my mentors at the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access and so many others, have personally demonstrated their support for me, I continue to be scared about what could potentially happen.

As Hoyas, I ask that you continue to stand with me and with people from my community. The election might be over, but our ability to stand together as one is something we can continue to strive for on a day-to-day basis.

LUIS GONZALEZ is a sopho-

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he new political season in Washington, D.C. is ushering in a fresh series of legislative battles as the 115th Congress grapples with various high-profile issues.

To track the impact players, we decided to square off in a semester long game of “Federal Fantasy”, in which we draft teams of our top contenders in the U.S. Senate.

We will score the game as such: 1) 20 points for passing a piece of sponsored legislation in the Senate, with a 10-point bonus if it is signed by the president, 2) 10-point deductions for indecency and 3) 10 bonus points for style.

These rules allow flexibility to reward senators for a powerful floor speech or casting a critical vote as well as to punish them for political malpractice or missed opportunities.

We each drafted a team of three top senators we believe will have the most impact on national politics: Aaron’s Power Trio John McCain, R-Ariz.

The newly re-elected senator will turn 81 this year, fueling rumors that he may forgo the 2022 cycle. With little to lose, he has already ferociously committed to investigating Russian interference in the recent election. As chairman of Senate Committee on Armed Services, McCain plans to create a subcommittee to hold hearings on Russian cyberattacks and recommend further action. By refusing to back down or align with the Trump camp, it appears that this maverick is in top form.

Dean Heller, R-Nev. Heller faces a complicated path to re-election in 2018.

Clinton carried his state by

2.4 percent, meaning he will likely have to win over her supporters to hold off a credible challenge for his seat. To make gains with traditionally blue groups, Heller has introduced bills that support science, technology, engineering and math outreach for women and withhold congressional salaries if a budget bill doesn’t pass — revealing his ability to identify popular issues and capitalize.

Heller appears primed for an active session; expect him to be machine-like in both proposing and supporting trendy ideas.

Christian Mesa and Aaron Bennett Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. While Manchin is not up for re-election for six more years, this conservative Democrat is widely considered to be a Trump favorite — and was even considered for a cabinet post. This makes him a choke point for legislation proposed on both sides — all big bills will go through him. This clout in the Senate makes him a valuable pick, as all eyes will be on Manchin to see who can win his pivotal vote.

Christian’s Big Three Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Ever the political player, McConnell looks to make serious political moves as majority leader with Trump in the White House. His control over

the schedule and procedure of confirmation hearings only adds to his clout. With these powers, McConnell has Trump’s legacy in the palm of his hand.

Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. The new leader of the Democratic opposition in the Senate, Schumer represents the future of the Democrats following Harry Reid’s retirement. Schumer’s relationship with Trump has been a question mark so far, with Trump both praising and denouncing the senator. Early signs indicate Schumer is willing to play ball, but either way, he will be a force in Democratic politics this year.

Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa As the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Grassley is about to see his name in the spotlight. With a historically high number of federal judge vacancies, Grassley might be the most influential Republican senator whose last name does not begin with M. We each have three rosters moves, meaning we will be able to replace a dud pick with a new senator three times over the next few months. We will periodically update our readers with the scores so that they are able to root for one or both of us.

Because neither of us won our fantasy football leagues, we are both on the hunt for a victory. Let the games begin.

Christian Mesa and Aaron Bennett are sophomores in the College. Playing Politics appears every other Friday.

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Academic Freedom Concerns Raised at SFS-Q CHRISTIAN PAZ Hoya Staff Writer

Concerns over limitations of academic freedom in American universities in the Middle East have surfaced following the rejection of a School of Foreign Service graduate student’s request to research migrant labor issues in the Persian Gulf region.

In an interview with THE HOYA, Arab Studies master’s student Kristina Bogos (GRD ’17) claimed she was denied a student visa by the Qatari government to spend the fall 2016 semester abroad at the SFS Qatar campus, due to her research of issues the Qatari government strictly controls.

Bogos further said that she was detained repeatedly while entering the country during her summer 2016 semester in Doha and surveilled electronically and visually by United Arab Emirates agents in 2013 while an undergraduate at New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi and Qatari security officials while a student at SFS-Q. Bogos said she was detained for five hours during her first arrival to Qatar in June 2016 and subsequently detained on two separate occasions – for one hour and seven hours – upon returning to Qatar from trips to South Korea and Greece to renew her travel visa.

During her first detention, Bogos said Qatari immigration officials told her that the state’s security officials had placed her on a blacklist for “security-related reasons.”

She then contacted the State Department through the U.S. Embassy and SFS Dean Joel Hellman.

“I was told by a GU-Q administrator that my visa rejection was because I am on a blacklist and that the Qatari state could not override the blacklist,” Bogos said in an interview with THE HOYA. According to Bogos, the blacklist the immigration official referred to belongs to the intelligence communities of the Gulf Cooperation Council, of which both Qatar and the UAE members.

Bogos wrote critically of NYU’s treatment of workers involved in the construction of its Abu Dhabi campus after studying abroad in the UAE as an undergraduate student

at NYU. The university maintains that Middle Eastern countries have a right to express their sovereignty through their immigration policies.

Bogos said her case shared similarities with that of NYU academic Andrew Ross, who like Bogos studies migrant labor rights and was denied permission to board an airplane bound for Abu Dhabi in 2015.

Ross was subject to surveillance from a private investigator and is still barred from traveling to the UAE. His ban prompted the American Association of University Professors to publically condemn NYU and the UAE. The Middle East Studies Association President Beth Baron and MESA Executive Director Amy Newhall responded similarly to Bogos’ situation with condemnations of the Qatari and Emirati governments and have called for Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and NYU President Andrew Hamilton to condemn Bogos’ treatment.

“I was told by a GU-Q administrator that my visa rejection was because I am on a blacklist.”

KRISTINA BOGOS (GRD ’17)

“We further call on both of you to denounce the hacking of private e-mails belonging to members of the academic community, as well as the compilation by the UAE, Qatar and, presumably, other GCC member states of blacklists of students and scholars who are to be denied entry for political reasons,” Baron and Newhall wrote in an open letter sent to DeGioia and Hamilton.

MESA Chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom Laurie Brand wrote in an email to THE HOYA that the organization has not received a response from either university. DeGioia’s office did not respond to request for comment as of press time.

Bogos said that like Ross, she received little support from

NYU when she found out UAE authorities had hacked her email accounts.

NYU spokesman John Beckman told Inside Higher Ed in a statement that although the university regrets Bogos’ experience, the university is confident in its Abu Dhabi campus’ independence.

“We’re sorry to hear about our alumna’s experience.

We have no information or awareness about it beyond her written account. Abu Dhabi chose NYU to establish a campus there knowing that the traditions of the liberal arts and the principles of academic freedom are at our core,” Beckman said. “On the key question of whether the guarantees of academic freedom have been honored, the answer is that they absolutely have, including scholarship on issues related to labor.”

Bogos said though she has not been contacted by either NYU or Georgetown, she had seen Beckman’s comments on Inside Higher Ed. “NYU has not said anything either,” Bogos said. “But the Inside Higher Ed piece has their statements and I wasn’t surprised to see that that was the line they were taking.”

Hellman said this case is reflective of the U.S. State Department’s own policy and tendency to reject a far greater number of student visa request from foreign countries, including Qatar and other Middle East countries.

“Generally when visas are denied, there is no reason provided. The United States isn’t obligated to provide reasons as to why a visa was denied.

Qatar isn’t obligated to provide reasons as to why a visa was denied,” Hellman said in an interview with THE HOYA. “This is something that they don’t give up by having a relationship with the university.”

Bogos said she understands Qatar has a right as a sovereign nation to exercise its own immigration policy but believes this right can conflict with the values of free expression and academic freedom that define a university.

“If you are going to open up a campus in Qatar, for instance, like Georgetown did, you should be able to say the same academic freedom principles that are being upheld in D.C. should be upheld there, meaning that the

SFS QATAR

The SFS Qatar program is facing academic freedom complaints from Kristina Bogos (GRD ’17) after her student visa was denied and she was detained overseas. university should be able to secure the free movement of both students and faculty between campuses,” Bogos said.

Hellman also noted immigration policy is a sovereign right and Qatar has the discretion to adjudicate regardless of external influence.

“The relationship of academic freedom does not necessarily entail a reduction in sovereignty of a country’s borders.

That applies not only to Qatar but to all countries that have universities in them,” Hellman said.

Rachel Pugh, senior director for strategic communications at Georgetown, said Georgetown regrets Bogos’ experience but accepts the authority of sovereign nations to determine immigration policy.

“Last summer, the School of Foreign Service in Qatar welcomed master’s candidate Kristina Bogos to campus as part of her studies and supported her research, as they would any scholar.

Georgetown continues to support Kristina in her studies and research,” Pugh wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Hellman said that he communicated with Bogos regarding her visa denial, and noted that although he is concerned

by Bogos’ experience, the incident is not representative of a larger issue with academic freedom.

“There’s no consistent restriction that we’ve seen on our faculty,” Hellman said. “It

doesn’t mean that we’re not concerned about her case.”

Hellman cited the academic work conducted by other students and faculty in Qatar as evidence of the absence of any kind of external pressure or resistance.

“Our faculty and students in Qatar routinely work in very sensitive areas, and they haven’t faced any kind of resistance as far as we know,” Hellman said. “We haven’t necessarily seen some kind of blanket restriction on the freedom to deal with these politically sensitive issues, including the migrant labor issues.”

Bogos said she requested that Hellman and SFS-Q Dean James Reardon-Anderson raise her visa case with Qatari officials to determine if they might re-evaluate her case.

According to Hellman, he has not received a response from Qatari authorities.

Reardon-Anderson said he is unable to comment on Bogos’ case.

“I and other members of the SFS-Q staff supported her request to enroll as a student in SFS-Q and to gain access to student housing and other facilities,” Reardon-Anderson wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “I would describe our relationship as positive on both sides.”

Bogos said she plans to continue to press her case with the Georgetown Task Force on Academic Freedom in a Global Context and with both Hellman and Reardon-Anderson,

but said she believes there could be more cases of academics involved in research being denied student visas.

When she raised concerns with Georgetown administrators last year, she was told “access to study and residence visas varies across individuals and over time,” which Bogos said could imply prior student or faculty visa denials or travel bans.

Hellman emphasized that the campus in Qatar reflects Georgetown’s commitment to foreign service.

“It’s also critical that we have a strong partner, and we do have a strong partner in the Qatar Foundation who shares our values,” Hellman said. “We share a commitment to building a campus that educates a generation of students.”

Regardless, Bogos remains critical of the presence of Western universities in regions that may offer resistance to critical research.

“NYU Abu Dhabi and Georgetown Qatar, they’re both funded by the government. So, to accept that money and then to sit back and not fight to support your students, then what are you doing? Why are you over there?” Bogos said. “The message I feel now is that they’re only there for the money and just to elevate the university on the international stage, rather than actually ensuring that they’re doing what a university is doing in the first place.”

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D.C. GOVERNMENT

Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has expressed dissatisfaction with D.C.’s paid family leave bill, which the D.C. Council passed Dec. 20, due to concern about the way it is funded and the payroll tax raise for District employers.

DC Passes Expansive Paid Leave Bill JOE EGLER

Hoya Staff Writer

Passing by a vote of nine to four on Dec. 20, the Washington, D.C. Council approved a new payroll tax to fund an expansive family and medical leave benefits plan for the city’s private sector employees.

If the bill is signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), it moves to Congress for review.

The Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016 ensures paid leave of eight weeks to parents of newborns, six weeks to workers tending to an ill relative and two paid weeks in sick time.

The council’s approval of the bill imposes a new 0.62 percent payroll tax on all District employers. The tax is expected to create $250 million annually, which will be allocated by the mayor’s office.

Councilmembers David Grosso (I-At Large) and Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) cosponsored the bill. Grosso said he expects the bill to help the entire community, regardless of concerns from across the aisle. Grosso also said the bill’s passage marks a major success for the District’s progressive lawmakers.

“I think it’s going to be beneficial mostly for the entire city,” Grosso said in an interview with THE HOYA. “This is a challenge, but I think people will come to realize that

when workers get to come home to care for their loved ones, it’s better for business, it’s better for the workers and ultimately it’s better for the entire community.”

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), who championed the bill, explained its significance at a council meeting in November.

“We worked hard to develop a workable, affordable and appropriate paid family leave approach.”

JIM DINEGAR President and CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade

“This bill will be the most generous in the nation by providing eight weeks paid leave for family care such as a sick child or parent, and 11 weeks paid parental leave such as for bonding with a newborn child,” Mendelson said.

The benefits established by the bill do not extend to federal and District employees as the city cannot tax federal workers and city workers already benefit from a paid leave program. According to a statement from Mendelson’s office, the payroll tax will

go into effect in January 2019, and the benefits will be available in January 2020.

Bowser took issue with an earlier version of the bill and claimed she would not sign it into law. However, after the bill went through amendments including reducing the amount of leave time from 16 weeks to 14 weeks, Bowser said she would consider it.

Bowser’s office did not respond to a request for comment as of 2:30 a.m.

Grosso said he believes Bowser disputed the original version because of the way it was funded.

“She didn’t like the way we were paying for this legislation, and frankly she didn’t come up with a great alternative,” Grosso said of Bowser’s initial reaction. “I am convinced that she and the others who have disagreed with this approach agree that it’s important to give paid leave.”

However, Grosso said the bill could ultimately help small businesses as well, creating a healthier workforce in the long term.

“It will also have a benefit to the businesses directly,” Grosso said.

“They will have a stronger workforce. They will have a broader base to recruit from for their workers. And they won’t have to train somebody when

somebody has to go out for a couple days to care for someone.”

Many business leaders in the District have stated opposition to the bill, stating they previously offered various forms of family and sick leave to their employees, but object to the tax increase that comes with this bill.

Greater Washington Board of Trade President and CEO Jim Dinegar said the board is not opposed to paid family and medical leave, but they have concerns over its funding.

“We worked hard to develop a workable, affordable and appropriate paid family leave approach,” Dinegar said. “We have been vocal proponents of paid leave and represent countless businesses that provide even more leave than called for in this legislation, which is why we were disappointed to be charged a tax to provide benefits our members already provide, often at far better levels.”

However, Mendelson expressed his belief that the bill will bring workers to D.C. “Most businesses see benefits as a means to attract and retain workers.

Looked at from this perspective, the bill makes the District a more attractive place for workers, and therefore becomes a benefit to District employers,” Mendelson said.

Undergraduate tuition rates for the 2017-2018 academic year will rise from $49,968 to $51,720, a 3.5 percent increase over the previous year, according to a campuswide email sent

by University Provost Robert Groves yesterday.

The increase comes after a strong student reaction to previous hikes, including the creation of protest group Hoyas Against the Hike in September.

Groves said tuition increases were necessary to meet the university’s funding demands.

“In setting tuition rates, we must balance the competing needs of academic programs, students, faculty, staff, facilities and infrastructure,” Groves said.

“We are actively working to minimize tuition increases, and we maintain our deep commitment to attracting the brightest students regardless of their financial circumstances.”

Along with the tuition charge increase, Groves wrote, the university will implement modest increases to room and board charges.

The university has increased tuition every year since 2012. In recent years, the rate of increase has slowed: this year’s 3.5 percent hike follows a 4 percent increase in 2016 and a 4.3 percent increase in 2015. The hike also undercuts earlier university expectations of a steady four percent annual increase through 2020.

Tuition has increased 22 percent from the 2012-2013 academic year to the 20172018 academic year.

Georgetown University Student Association President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) said the hikes may be unpopular, but are necessary and minimal.

“Realistically speaking, no one wants to see their tuition go up. That being said, understanding our financial strains — especially with our need for renovations, for example — increases in

staff, things that the student body would tangibly benefit from with an increase,” Khan said. “I think, based on engagement with Provost Groves, that he was committed to keeping tuition as low as possible. The university seems to be on the same page as students.”

After last year’s hike, Khan and GUSA Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17) wrote an article for THE HOYA in August 2016 criticizing the administration for a “lack of transparency” in approving the rate increase “without the consultation of any students.” They also called for administrators to “address the ongoing trend of tuition hikes” in a town hall with students.

In response to the article and significant student opposition, administrators participated in a Hoya Roundtable discussion hosted by GUSA in November.

Groves told students at the event that tuition hikes were a necessary response to the university’s funding requirements. He pointed to Georgetown’s relatively small endowment as contributing to the university’s reliance on tuition funds.

Georgetown’s $1.5 billion endowment is smaller than other top-ranked universities — Notre Dame has a $10.4 billion endowment, while Duke has an endowment of around $7.3 billion.

Groves also highlighted student-focused uses of tuition funds, including construction projects and improvement to residential buildings.

Khan said Groves’ email shows a positive step by the university towards increasing transparency around tuition increases.

“This is something that’s a big win for students to finally see some transparency,” Khan said. “That’s been a really big frustration. I think the university has been more willing to engage thanks to student activism and advocacy on this. At least from the GUSA end, we’ve been working really hard on this, so it’s just great to see an outcome.”

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‘Let Freedom Ring’ Celebration Honors MLK Legacy MARINA PITOFSKY Hoya Staff Writer

Executive Director of the immigrant resource organization Central American Resource Center Abel Núñez received the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award at the 15th annual “Let Freedom Ring Celebration” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday.

The John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award, named for the Georgetown men’s basketball coach from 1972-1999, is given each year at the event to honor an individual whose work furthers Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of social justice and tolerance.

The “Let Freedom Ring Celebration” is one of 18 events the university will host this year to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Georgetown will also confer an honorary degree on Lonnie Bunch III, the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture as part of the series.

The event featured performances from Grammy Award-winning singer Gladys Knight, the “Let Freedom Ring Celebration” Choir featuring Georgetown students and community members, the Georgetown Black Theatre Ensemble and the spoken word group Corpus Collective.

Knight sang hits such as “Midnight Train to Georgia,” several hymns and modern pieces such as Sam Smith’s “Stay with Me.” Knight, whose family knew King when she was growing up in Atlanta, said King’s work had a profound impact on her life.

“I want to make sure that the development that occurs in this city lifts all boats.”

ABEL NUÑEZ Executive Director, Central American Resource Center

“Throughout my life, I walked with Dr. King, I supported him in his rallies, I’ve sung for him many times,” Knight said. “I think about his speech, ‘I Have a Dream,’ and to me, there was resolve in that speech. To me, he was ready, he was ready for the challenge.”

CARECEN provides a range of support services to the Latino community in the District, including citizenship courses and legal aid to recent immigrants. According to the CARECEN website, the organization has served over 87,000 Latino residents since 1981.

University President John J. DeGioia said Núñez’s work represented a contribution to a larger struggle for justice.

“In our nation and in our world, there are many great challenges and many persistent injustices that summon us to action, to answer the calling, to respond with hope, to engage with solidarity. Let us heed Dr. King’s call,” DeGioia said. “Tonight, we honor an individual who has dedicated himself to this beautiful struggle.”

DeGioia also remembered the 272 black slaves who, in 1838, were sold to a Louisiana plantation to benefit Georgetown University. All known descendants of the 272 were invited to the event.

“This year, as you have heard already tonight, we place a special recognition on our community’s efforts to reflect on our own past and the importance of remembrance,” DeGioia said.

Núñez said his primary inspiration to work in the Latino community came from his childhood.

As the first person in his family to learn English, he often found himself helping his parents and neighbors with tasks that required English-language skills. This experience showed him that connecting underserved communities to resources can be an important tool in aiding these populations.

“I want to make sure that the development that occurs in this city lifts all boats.

You know, I see an incredible wealth and the incredible amenities that exist and not everyone has a chance to utilize them,” Núñez said. “What I want to be able to see, if I’m lucky enough to look back on my body of work, is a work that brought to people. I want to look back and see work that impacted a community and then took appropriate action to make that change, but it

was systemic.”

Lauren Finkenthal (COL ’19), who performed in the choir, said she enjoyed working with the other choir members to honor King’s work.

“The community members were also fantastic. They completely anchored the entire group,” Finkenthal said.

“It’s really great, and also, of course, it was for an amazing cause that I think we all feel really strong about.”

Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) said

he appreciated Georgetown’s dedication to honoring the work of so many influential leaders in the District and across the nation.

“Gladys Knight’s performance was unreal. The work that Abel Núñez does in unreal, and so it’s a pretty spectacular combo as part of a really spectacular event that I’m really proud to say that Georgetown hosts every year,” Goldstein said. “It’s awesome that we get to do this.”

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Seven-time Grammy Award winning artist Gladys Knight performed at the Let Freedom Ring Celebration honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Multiple monuments, including the Lincoln Memorial, will play host to inauguration weekend events. From a concert with musical performances such as Toby Keith to Three Doors Down, the official swearing-in of President-elect Donald Trump today at 12 p.m has attracted thousands to the District.

University, District Prepare Ahead of Trump Inauguration INAUGURATION, from A1 a president for all Americans.”

The weekend begins with a concert Thursday, followed by the inauguration Friday, the swearing-in of Trump and Pence, his inaugural address and the inaugural parade all throughout Friday.

The total inauguration costs could top $200 million based on past celebrations and estimates by officials planning the week’s events. Costs will be divided between the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, a government office, the Presidential Inaugural Committee, organized by private donors and

friends of the president-elect and individual federal, state and local departments.

As part of the D.C. Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the Georgetown University Police Department’s preparations, 28,000 personnel from three dozen state, local and federal agencies have been on duty in the District this week, according to The Washington Post.

Molly Dunlap (SFS ’20), who plans on attending the Women’s March, said she would not let any fear of backlash stop her from attending.

“Obviously the city will be really polarized, but I really

don’t think anything is going to happen at the Women’s March,” Dunlap said.

Trump’s inauguration has already spurred protests in the District. About 200 protesters marched to Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s home in Chevy Chase, Md., last night to protest against his policies toward LGBTQ communities.

Emily Paciulla (MSB ’18), who attended the protest, said it is important for the LGBTQ community and allies to demonstrate their opposition against the Trump administration.

“I think it’s very important that we have the united

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The total cost for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration could top $200 million, based on past celebration and estimates by officials planning the event.

front considering that our vice president has a very staunch anti-LGBT history. I think it’s important that we make ourselves visible and known, and like obviously Pence wasn’t there,” Paciulla said. “I think it’s more about the message we are sending that we’re already out of the closet and we’re not going back and just kind of creating the space for people to feel welcome and unafraid of who they are.”

Metropolitan Police Department Public Affairs Specialist Aquita Brown said MPD has been coordinating with other law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of all participators.

“We do anticipate large crowds and are aware of various groups planning on exercising their First Amendment rights,” Brown wrote in an email to The Hoya. “MPD is prepared to both protect the rights of individuals to exercise their First Amendment rights and ensure public safety.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, Georgetown University Police Department Chief of Police Jay Gruber and Assistant Vice President for Emergency Management Tonya Coultas sent an email informing students of rules and safety guidelines for the inauguration weekend.

Olson said students going off campus should exercise caution during a period of heightened tensions.

“I know there could be confrontations and heated exchanges around the city, throughout this weekend,” Olson wrote in a statement to The Hoya. “Just use good judgment, avoid confrontations

that may involve some risk, and treat others (even those with whom you may disagree) with respect.”

Gruber said students planning to attend the Inauguration should prepare adequately. The average temperature in the District at noon is around 37 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

“You’re probably going to be walking everywhere you go; because of the exclusion zones, Ubers, buses and taxis won’t be running to a lot of those areas. Make sure you dress appropriately for the weather and wear proper footwear,” Gruber said.

Gruber said students should limit the valuables they carry, due to an expected increase in pickpockets and petty crime.

“Other concerns we have are making sure you don’t have a lot of cash on you and making sure you only bring one credit card with you,” Gruber said.

Coultas said while she encourages students to go out and attend the weekend’s events, students must look out for their own safety.

“Just be smart. As you’re walking around, have situational awareness,” Coultas said. “Pay attention to road signs. Understand where the evacuation routes are, so if you have to evacuate for some reason, you know where you need to go.”

In the event that emergency does strike, Gruber said students can use the LiveSafe app that is free for all students to download and use.

Coultas said students should be wary of their safety on campus in addition to at the inauguration events.

“Just because you’re on campus, don’t think that there are not going to be people here, so make sure no one follows you in or out of your dorm,” Coultas said.

“MPD is prepared to both protect the rights of individuals to exercise their First Amendment rights and ensure public safety.”

AQUITA BROWN Public Affairs Specialist, Metropolitan Police Department

Given the amount of people visiting D.C. for the inauguration, Executive Director for Residential Services Patrick Killilee said students must follow the housing regulations set out by the university in order to ensure their safety.

“Anything that is universityowned, which could include university-owned townhouses — [students] cannot sublet that property,” Killilee said. “We had heard back in 2009 [for President Obama’s first Inauguration] that [The George Washington University] was having some issues with students trying to sublet their rooms.”

For students who choose to stay on campus during Friday’s events, the university is offering services for those looking for self-care, including free Counseling and Psychiatrics Services from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Campus Ministry will be open all day.

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“Eviction was the order of the day.”

Blatty attended Brooklyn Preparatory, an all-male Jesuit high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., on a scholarship and graduated as valedictorian in 1946 of his class. For a while, he was uncertain as to whether he would able to afford a university education, writing “it was out of the question” in his 2015 memoir “Finding Peter.”

Blatty met Georgetown professor Neil Sullivan during a chance dinner with his mother in high school.

It was this meeting that prompted Blatty’s mother to declare, “Willie, you gonna go to Georgetown!”

Encouraged by his mother, Blatty applied for and received a full-ride scholarship to the university, arriving in the fall of 1946 with only a footlocker, a briar pipe and a copy of “The Confessions of St. Augustine” in tow.

“Terrors has never been my day job. When I was writing [‘The Exorcist’], scaring people was the furthest thing from my mind.”

WILLIAM BLATTY Author

On the Hilltop, Blatty majored in English, contributed to literary journal The Georgetown Journal and performed lead roles in Mask and Bauble plays.

He lived in Ryan Hall and attended mass in Dahlgren Chapel every morning, where he would later marry his fourth wife, Julie Witbrodt Blatty, in 1983.

In an October 2015 profile in the Washingtonian magazine, Blatty characterized Georgetown as both academically rigorous and

an environment that cultivated close relationships with fellow classmates at Georgetown, which was an all-male school when he attended.

“It was a hard-ass school,” Blatty said. “We had a unique kind of camaraderie, and we shared a gallows humor that grows between confined men. It was wonderful.”

This humor was perhaps most prominent when Blatty led a group of Hoyas to Villanova University two weeks before a GeorgetownVillanova football game.

Disguised as a priest, Blatty stole the rival school’s mascot, an untamed wildcat.

Blatty would later recall his time at Georgetown with fondness.

“Those years at Georgetown were probably the best years of my life,” Blatty said to Washingtonian.

“Until then, I’d never had a home.”

In a statement to The Hoya, University President John J. DeGioia said Blatty left a deep-rooted legacy at Georgetown and a lasting impact in the creative field.

“Our University community was deeply saddened to learn of Bill’s passing,” DeGioia wrote. “Bill’s extraordinary faith and creativity has made an enduring impact — he was a longtime friend and will be missed.”

In his acknowledgements in “The Exorcist,” Blatty thanked Georgetown professor Bernard Wagner “for teaching me to write” and the Jesuits “for teaching me to think.”

Upon graduating from Georgetown, Blatty received a master’s degree in English literature from George Washington University before working a range of jobs, including as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, beer truck driver and ticket agent for United Airlines.

He also served as the public relations director at Loyola University of Los Angeles and the director of publicity at the University of Southern California.

In 1961, Blatty appeared as a contestant on the Groucho Marx quiz show “You Bet Your Life.” His winnings of $10,000 enabled him to quit his job and fo-

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Though considered a leading figure in the genre of theological horror, Blatty’s early beginnings as a novelist were rooted in comedy. Inspired by his time in the Psychological Warfare Division of the U.S. Air Force, Blatty authored the comedic autobiography “Which Way to Mecca, Jack?” in 1960.

However, following the publication of “The Exorcist” in 1971 — which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide to date — and the subsequent film adaptation two years later, for which he wrote the screenplay, Blatty found his status as a horror writer firmly cemented.

In a 2003 address at Georgetown hosted by the Lecture Fund, Blatty said his foray into horror was not a deliberate decision.

“Terror has never been my day job,” Blatty said.

“When I was writing [‘The Exorcist’], scaring people was the furthest thing from my mind.”

Though Georgetown served as the backdrop for “The Exorcist,” Blatty’s relationship with his alma

mater was not without conflict.

In October 2013, the writer spearheaded a petition calling on the Vatican to strip Georgetown of its Catholic and Jesuit identity, citing that the university did not uphold Catholic morals. The petition, which garnered over 2,000 signatures, urged Pope Francis to require that Georgetown implement Ex Corde Ecclesiae, a 1990 papal decree governing Catholic universities’ teachings in communion with the Church.

Prior to petitioning the Vatican, Blatty had filed a similar appeal with Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington in May 2013.

The appeal was rejected.

“The exercise of the authority vested in Your Eminence … to remove the privilege of Georgetown University to represent itself as ‘Catholic’ is now required,” Blatty wrote in the petition, which was released to The Hoya by Blatty’s counsel Manuel Miranda (SFS ’82).

In April 2014, the Vatican responded to the petition, but did not pursue further action in the process of hi-

erarchic recourse.

In 1995, Blatty was involved in the movement protesting proposed changes to Georgetown’s English department. The curricular restructuring, which was ultimately implemented in 1996, came under fire for its elimination of the requirement for English majors to study at least two of three canonical writers —Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton.

English professor Henry Schwarz, who was present during the time of the controversy, said Blatty played an important role in the resistance to the reforms.

“Many of us who were coming had been educated with African-American, Latin American and AsianAmerican literature, and our teachers had encouraged us strongly to revise what we saw as a very old-fashioned and exclusive, divisive kind of curriculum,” Schwarz said. “Mr. Blatty was a strong opponent of that.”

Following his death, Blatty was commemorated for his wide-ranging accomplishments in horror fiction.

“RIP William Peter Blatty, who wrote the great horror

novel of our time,” author Stephen King tweeted Jan. 13. “So long, Old Bill.”

Actress Linda Blair, who played the character of Regan MacNeil in the first “Exorcist” film, paid tribute to Blatty in an interview with KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles.

“This is really about how special Bill Blatty was because he was intense when I was young. I was a little nervous around him, but when I got to know him later in life he was a teddy bear, he would laugh, and he was funny, and he was interesting and he was special that’s what I think the world doesn’t know about him,” Blair said.

Blatty is survived by his wife, six children, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. The 2006 death of his son Peter at age 19 inspired Blatty to write a memoir, “Finding Peter,” in 2015.

“Death is not a separation,” Blatty wrote in the book. “When our loved one dies, they do not leave us.

They remain. They do not go to some distant place.

They simply begin their eternity.”

Professors Predict Progress Along Party Lines PREDICTIONS, from A1 Republicans in Congress may also be skeptical of Trump’s campaign proposal to guarantee six paid weeks of maternity leave for new mothers.

“This is not a typical Republican proposal. This is typically a Democratic proposal. This is a big thing for the Republicans,” Rom said. “I don’t think Congress wants to give him that. Congress doesn’t want to create a national policy of paid maternity child leave.”

However, Rom said he doubts maternity leave is one of Trump’s highest priorities, saying the proposal was primarily inspired by his daughter Ivanka, not

Trump himself.

“Mainly it’s coming through Ivanka’s mouth,” Rom said of the policy.

“She’s important, so I think it’s probably on his list of things to do, but probably not at the top of the list.”

On health care policy, Rom said the Republican Congress and Trump are unified in their resolve to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. He said that the lack of a replacement plan from the Trump transition team leaves an open question.

“He keeps saying he has a plan and that plan will be revealed soon, but in fact, that plan has not been revealed,” Rom said. “It’s a concept, and the concept is every-

body will be covered, it will be great, it won’t cost very much and everybody will have great care. That’s not a plan. That’s nirvana. Until he tells us exactly how he plans to attain nirvana, then we don’t know what he’s really going to do. “A Congressional Budget Office report released Tuesday said 18 million Americans could lose health insurance if certain parts of the Affordable Care Act, which subsidizes insurance for many Americans, were to be repealed without a replacement.

Dean of Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies Patricia Ann Cloonan said she hopes the benefits of the ACA will

continue, regardless of the Republican Congress.

“The Affordable Care Act expanded coverage for millions of people and emphasized the importance of health care providers collaborating with the communities they serve in the delivery of care. More insured individuals and more community engagement are two very good things that I hope will continue,” Cloonan said.

Trump made increasing restrictions on immigration a focal point of his campaign. He called for a full ban on Muslim immigration in December 2015, before beginning to walk back the policy in May 2016. Swers said she expects Trump’s

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Some Georgetown professors, including associate government professor Matthew Kroenig, are predicting Presidentelect Donald Trump’s presidency to be marked by progress around Republican policies.

pick for Attorney General Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to help implement a hardline stance on immigration.

“Trump has made immigration a priority issue that he’s talked about a lot,” Swers said. “By appointing Jeff Sessions, who’s also very hard-line on immigration, very law and order, I would expect that they’re going to go after things like sanctuary cities, look to step up deportations. We know that they’re already looking as a way to build his border wall, so that they’ll be focused on those things.”

Swers added that the long-promised border wall between the United States and Mexico looks likely and may not even require any new Congressional action to be built. However, she said it would likely be paid for by U.S. tax dollars first, which contradicts with Trump’s frequent campaign promises that Mexico would pay for the wall. Trump said Jan. 6 that he would ask Congress to pay for the wall, with Mexico paying back the United States at a later date.

Building the wall could cost up to $25 billion, according to The Washington Post. “Right now they’re saying that they’re going to use legislation that had already been passed in previous Congresses related to border security, and then you’re just looking to get funding for the appropriations process,” Swers said. “So that means that we would be paying for it and not Mexico right now.”

Associate government professor Matthew Kroenig, who specializes in international relations and was a foreign policy advisor for former Republican Presidential Candidate Marco Rubio (RFl.), said Trump will take an aggressive foreign policy approach to China, contrasting that of outgoing President Barack Obama. Obama’s foreign policy has been marked by a focus on Asia, includ-

ing the negotiation of the TPP and the United States’ participation in the regional East Asia Summit.

“Trump has made immigration a priority issue that he’s talked about a lot.”

Michele swers Professor, Department of Government

“Trump has indicated that he plans a tougher approach to China, look[s] to strengthen relations with Taiwan and promise[s] to push back against China’s illegal island building campaign in the South China Sea,” Kroenig wrote in an email to The Hoya. “A move in this direction would be welcome as the Obama administration’s soft approach has allowed Beijing to use coercion to take contested territory from U.S. treaty allies and challenge the rulesbased order in Asia.”

Kroenig also said he expects Trump to pursue a friendlier relationship with Russia, but added that this relationship should not preclude holding Russia accountable for the nation’s apparent interference in the presidential election. The Office of the Director on National Intelligence released a report Jan. 6 detailing a Russian campaign to influence the United States election in Trump’s favor.

“Improved relations with Russia is a priority for Trump,” Kroenig said. “There is no doubt that a better relationship with Russia is desirable, but we must also be clear-eyed about the threat Moscow poses and realize that much of the blame for the recent downturn in relations falls squarely on [Vladimir] Putin’s shoulders.”

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DC Homelessness Rate Georgetown Students Is Highest in Nation Win Marshall Scholarship Marina Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C., finished 2016 with the highest rate of homelessness of any U.S. metropolitan area with 124 out of every 10,000 residents experiencing homelessness, according to a Dec. 14 report from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

The Hunger and Homelessness survey used data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as the National Alliance to End Homelessness to analyze both homelessness rates and homelessness growth since 2009 in the nation’s 32 largest metropolitan areas.

The District also saw one of the most significant increases in homelessness between 2009 and 2016, ranking fourth in the nation with a 34.1 percent gain, trailing only behind New York City, Wichita, Kan., and Honolulu, Hawaii.

Samantha Batko, director of the Homelessness Research Institute at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said a lack of affordable housing was the main contributor to homelessness rates both in the District and across the county.

“The District, like many other cities included in the survey report, faces the challenge of affordable housing,” Batko wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“While the report shows that many of the cities are able to reduce homelessness, the national lack of affordable housing is likely to have a chilling effect on their efforts over the coming years.”

However, District Interagency Council on Homelessness Policy Advisor Theresa Silla said D.C.’s high rates of homelessness and homelessness growth are due to the area’s right-to-shelter laws implemented in 2015, which expand access to homeless services year round instead of only during hypothermia season, which is between Nov. 1 and March 31.

Due to this year-round law, Silla said resources for the homeless are used at a quicker rate by the Department of Human Services, as they are

providing services for an additional seven months per year.

“These right-to-shelter laws are something that’s really distinct from a lot of other communities in the nation,” Silla said. “So, factors like affordable housing and other resources can play into these rates, but this to us explains why something or other is happening.”

The report did highlight some successful programs the District has implemented in addressing homelessness.

“While the report shows that many of the cities are able to reduce homelessness, the national lack of affordable housing is likely to have a chilling effect.” samantha batko Director, Homelessness Research Institute

For example, author Eugene Lowe, USCOM assistant executive director, praised the District’s Capital Area Food Bank for its online social search engine, which connects area residents with free and reduced-price food services. “[It is| unique among search engines in that it is designed to make human services information accessible so that people can find the help that they need easily, quickly, and anonymously,” Lowe wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Silla said the District Interagency Council on Homelessness was pleased to see that these programs garnered notice and their success indicates D.C. is on the right track on helping individuals affected by homelessness.

“We’ve put in a lot of work to really look at our system and how we’re working to connect people who are experiencing homelessness in the

area to permanent housing and resources so that they can end their experience with homelessness,” Silla said. “We want to show that ending homelessness is possible, it is a reality.”

D.C. Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director Michael Ferrell said a more comprehensive look at factors contributing to homelessness is necessary to lowering area rates, especially because of the effect of rightto-shelter laws.

“When you just look at the numbers without any further explanation, the numbers are what they are,” Ferrell said. “They certainly show an increase in the District’s homeless population last year compared to the year before, but understanding what those numbers represent is critically important.

We’ve made a lot of progress in the last year, even if an initial look doesn’t tell you that.”

Georgetown University Homeless Outreach Programs and Education member Mandy Brouillard (NHS ’18) said these numbers show a profound need for more homelessness efforts.

“It’s a little bit ironic almost because I think people associate the capital with a place where everyone can fulfill the American Dream, but what we see is really different from that,” Brouillard said. “There’s a lot of poverty here and a lot of inequality and I think that translates into higher rates of homelessness.”

Christian Collier (COL ’19), who has worked with homeless initiatives in New York City such as the Saint Francis Xavier Food Pantry, said the numbers could serve as a call to action for area officials.

“It’s definitely a sign that the city needs to work on fixing this and working to provide more jobs are more opportunities for these homelessness individuals,” Collier said. “However, I think this is a sign to officials that they need to improve and hopefully they will.”

Scholars to spend two years studying abroad Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writer

Three Georgetown students were among the 40 Marshall Scholars chosen this year, with Seamus Caragher (COL ’16), Devika Ranjan (SFS ’17) and Erika Raven (GRD ’17) earning the fellowship to spend two years studying in the United Kingdom while pursuing a postdoctoral research topic of their choice.

The three follow in the footsteps of Matthew Quallen (SFS ’16), who was Georgetown’s 11th Marshall Scholar.

Caragher studied neurobiology before graduating from Georgetown last year. Now a 22-year-old research technologist at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Caragher said he plans to use his scholarship for a one-year master’s degree in cancer sciences at the University of Glasgow, followed by a one-year master’s degree in technology policy at the University of Cambridge.

After studying abroad, Caragher said he wants to pursue a medical degree and hopes for a residency in neurosurgery or neuro-oncology.

“I want to blend translational research and clinical practice,” Caragher said in a statement on the Georgetown website. “To successfully serve as a clinician, I must have deep connections to research.

In order to meaningfully contribute to patient-focused research, I need to confront cancer each day.

Ranjan, who is set to graduate from Georgetown with a degree in culture and politics this spring, aims to pursue a master’s degree in refugee and forced migration at the University of Oxford for a year and a second one-year master’s degree in devised theater at the university.

Ranjan said the Marshall Scholarship was a unique fellowship opportunity.

“I loved that I could combine my interest in refugee advocacy with formal theatre

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Seamus Caragher is one of three Hoyas among 40 students across the nation chosen as Marshall Scholars. training — the Marshall supports this interdisciplinary creativity,” Ranjan said.

Through her studies, Ranjan said she has found similarities between theater and politics, which she hopes to explore further with this scholarship.

“Theater and politics are both based on performance.

On the political side, each diplomatic interaction and event is inherently theatrical — we are performing and representing the essence of our country to the rest of the world,” Ranjan said in an interview with The Hoya. “Performance is an entertaining, organic, grassroots way of teaching us about the world around us. Theater is unique because of its physicality.”

University President John.

J. DeGioia said in a university press release that Ranjan’s work addressing refugee issues through theatre exemplifies the spirit of Georgetown.

“Devika’s extraordinary efforts to engage marginalized communities through performance reflect our University’s most deeply-held values,” DeGioia said. “We are so proud that Devika has won the Marshall.”

Raven, this year’s third Marshall Scholar, is a Ph.D. candidate in Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program for Neuroscience.

With the scholarship, Raven plans to continue her research on the long term behavioral and cognitive effects of iron deficiency at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre.

Ultimately, Raven’s research aims to provide a more specific and sensitive way to track developmental change and facilitate diagnosis.

In the university press release, William Rebeck, a professor of neuroscience, said that Raven deserves the scholarship given the research she has done so far.

“Erika’s selection as a Marshall Sherfield Fellow ensures the continuation of her important research on brain development and her dedicated efforts to share the sciences more widely,” DeGioia said with regard to Raven. “We look forward to following the development of her work in the time ahead.”

Hoya Staff Writer Tala Al-Rajjal contributed reporting.

Panel Urges Catholic Values in Trump Administration Jack Segelstein Hoya Staff Writer

President-elect Donald Trump’s administration should embrace certain Catholic social values in order to help the poor and protect refugees, according to a panel discussion of Catholic leaders in Gaston Hall on Thursday.

Some of Trump’s economic and immigration policies came under fire during his campaign and following his November election victory.

Trump was criticized by some people after he called for a full ban on Muslim immigration in December 2015, while a Congressional Budget Office report

released today said 18 million Americans could lose health insurance if certain parts of the Affordable Care Act, which subsidizes insurance for many Americans, were to be repealed.

Trump has called for the ACA to be repealed and replaced with a new law to help insure all Americans.

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life hosted the event, “Faithful in a Time of Trump,” a week ahead of Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

Catholic Social Thought and Public Life Founder and Director John Carr moderated the event, which featured Francis Rooney (R-Fla., COL ’75, LAW ’78), a member of the

U.S. House of Representatives and four other Catholic leaders.

Despite reservations with some of Trump’s rhetoric, Monsignor John Enzler, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, said he hopes Catholic social principles might be given credence under a Trump presidency.

“I’m hopeful, knowing this is going to be a huge uphill climb, that we can find a way to listen, that we can find a way to make sure the things we believe in every day and live every day, we live that also under our new president, who will be challenged hopefully to follow the gifts of

our Church, the gifts of our teaching and the gifts of life itself,” Enzler said.

Joan Rosenhauer, executive vice president of U.S. operations for Catholic Relief Services, said in order for the Catholic community to interact with the government effectively, faithful citizens must be fully informed about Catholic teachings.

“To stand up for a government that is willing to be a leader in the world on development, and on refugees and on building peace — for our community to play that role, we have to be clear among ourselves and our bishops,” Rosenhauer said. “Our leaders have to speak out about

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Six panelists, including Francis Rooney (R-Fl., COL ’75, LAW ’78), center, encouraged President-elect Donald Trump to consider Catholic social values in developing policy towards the poor and refugees.

what we teach and what the implications are for U.S. foreign policy and the role the United States can play in the world.”

According to Enzler, a fundamental principle of Catholic social teaching known as the preferential option for the poor can apply to policies addressing homelessness. This tenet requires Catholics to promote social justice and actively assist the poor in both prayer and action.

Enzler said Pope Francis’ visit to his parish, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, during his 2015 papal visit to Washington, D.C., embodied this principle. Pope Francis chose to eat lunch with the homeless during his visit.

“He taught us a lot about how we’re called to live, and how we’re called to love,” Enzler said.

Catholic lobbying group NETWORK Executive Director Sister Simone Campbell said the working poor is often overlooked and exploited by businesses.

“What we lose sight of is 64 percent of the households living in poverty have at least one adult working full time. The issue is not poverty, the issue is wages,” Campbell said. “Our social safety net is built for those who have fallen on hard times, but is being used as a business subsidy.”

Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor Administrator Jessica Chilin-Hernández said a future Trump administration also puts Catholic teachings that promote the protection of refugees at risk. Trump said during his campaign he would repeal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive action that Trump can overturn without needing Congressional approval.

President Barack Obama introduced DACA in 2012 to increase the number of deportation exemptions for immigrants who were brought to the country illegally before their 16th

birthday.

“If we are to take seriously the idea of Imago Dei, that is, the image of God is reflected in our human likeness in all of its diversity, then we are called to care for our refugee, asylumseeking and migrant neighbors in the same way we would also care for God,” Chilin-Hernández said.

“Our leaders have to speak out about what we teach and what the implications are for U.S. foreign policy and the role the U.S. can play in the world.”

Joan rosenhauer Executive Vice President, U.S. Operations for Catholic Relief Services

Policymaking around immigration requires the mediation of two Catholic values, according to Rooney.

“How do we balance the conflicting values of protection of human rights, protection of migrants and unifying families, which is at the core of Catholic social teaching, with an equally important concept of state sovereignty, the Westphalian state and respect of territorial boundaries, which the Vatican also supports and has ever since Charlemagne?”

Rooney said.

Erica Lizza (COL ’19), who attended the event, said the event emphasized the importance of working together to create progress during the Trump administration.

“We need to find the areas we agree on and can work towards with the new president and the new Congress,” Lizza said. “And not give up on the areas in which there are serious disagreements.”

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Several restaurants in the Georgetown neighborhood, including Wingo’s participate in Elevate’s meal plan.

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service to Georgetown because of the similarities between UVA and Georgetown: Both have good restaurants in the surrounding area.

“We both live in D.C. and felt Georgetown was most similar to UVA. So many good restaurants right off campus, just like at UVA. A big reason we went Georgetown was because of the current meal options,” Kramer said.

Cohen and Kramer decided to expand to Georgetown because of proximity and awareness of dining complaints. They also believed that the culinary richness of the Georgetown neighborhood could provide exciting opportunities.

According to Kramer, Elevate is also very popular with parents, as it is cheaper and allows their money to be spent on quality food for their kids.

“Parents like it, because it’s less expensive, and they know their kid is going to enjoy eating really good food,” Kramer said. “This is a way for parents to allocate money for food and know it’s going to food.”

In comparison with Georgetown’s dining plan, Elevate’s 45 meal plan is cheaper on a per meal basis. The average meal at the O’Donovan Hall is worth roughly $14.50 compared to Elevate’s $12.40.

Bret Reinking (SFS ’19), a member of Georgetown University Student Association’s Dining Policy Team, said he plans to stick with meal plans offered by Georgetown.

He has high expectations for the upcoming expansion of the meal exchange program and the renovations of Leo’s and Hoya Court, and he is not impressed with Elevate’s

offerings.

“I’ve seen Elevate ads on Facebook, but they don’t really stand out to me, because, even though I’m not completely satisfied with the current meal plan, I’m optimistic for the upcoming dining hall changes that will have positive impacts,” Reinking said.

A student at UVA, Nicole Cantarelli, said Elevate allows her to pick up easily, food at nearby restaurants and the program fits well with her schedule.

“It’s so easy, because I can just pick food up on my way from my apartment to class or the library,” Cantarelli wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Elevate now aims to establish a relationship with large chains to allow the company to expand with more ease, opening in areas with already operating chains. Cohen and Kramer remain hopeful of an eventual breakthrough.

There are plans for Elevate to continue expanding to other campuses in the near future, as well as expansion to other groups on campus, such as office employees.

Elevate has reached out to Georgetown students through advertisements on Facebook, in which they highlight features such as advance ordering, meal variety and cheaper prices.

Despite the advertising, students like Fax Victor (COL ’19) said they were not aware of the service and still rely on cooking or existing campus food locations like Leo’s or Epicurean and Company.

“I’ve never heard of Elevate,” Victor said. “For me, it’s either Leo’s, the restaurants on campus or cooking in my dorm.”

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both rural and urban areas in Southern Africa attests to how popular and seamless this process can be. What can result is an economy that allows its participants more equal means of access.

Demonetization might be a move in the right direction, but its immediate adverse effects need to be better understood and addressed.

Developing countries looking to make a leap from cashbased economies to creditbased economies should not just look to the West. The Indian case study is well worth noting.

Looked upon closely, it is more than just a system for financial expediency; it allows developing countries to set up the security apparatus, for bet-

ter or worse, that will later allow them to trace transactions from Point A of the globe to Point B, helping to fight crime and money laundering.

Any such transition by developing countries will likely mirror that of India rather than that of the West in hardship and victory.

Demonetization is an inevitable change that many developing countries will undergo; those looking at the Indian model should seek to extend the transition period, to reach out to rural populations with cellphone technology, to mitigate these changes before the changes are well in place and, more importantly, to assess the necessity of reintroducing higher-value currency notes.

Demonetization might be a move in the right direction, but its immediate adverse effects need to be better understood and addressed so as not to harm those one seeks to benefit.

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a refined and personalized coffee house experience.

“We wanted to create something a little more personal in case someone wanted to take it slow and actually talk to someone.

We like to describe it to our customers as a similar feeling you’ll get at a wine tasting except it’s with coffee.”

Williams said they hoped to add to Georgetown’s vibrant food scene by offering a products and services of a quality unseen in other conventional coffee chains.

“We wanted to create something a little more personal in case someone wanted to take it slow.”

are cultivated.

“They’ll start the pour over while answering any questions you may have, and they walk you through the process so that you may repeat it at home if you choose,” Williams said.

“They will talk to you about the farm, the soil, why the specific bean tastes the way it does.”

When it comes to potential partnerships between Georgetown University and Peet’s Coffee, Fonteyne said she and her team could not come to any final conclusions since the opening was so close to the University’s winter break. However, Fon-

teyne said there are plans to engage with more students and the administration to form a partnership for the University.

“My local district team, my local team leaders and my store manager have been sort of waiting for the school to get back in action ,and then they are going to partner with the school to figure out what is the best service for Georgetown students,” Fonteyne said.

Regardless, Fonteyne and Williams said they hope students come out and explore the new setting to familiarize themselves with Peet’s comfortable

ambiance, versatile menu and retail bay, where coffee brewing equipment can be purchased.

Jennifer Yates (MSB ’20) said that, while she has not visited Peet’s shop at Georgetown, she has had good experiences with the chain in the past and looks forward to coming to the new Peet’s Coffee.

“I haven’t been to the Peet’s here, but I have been to one at home, and I’ve really enjoyed their coffee in the past and their breakfast sandwiches look really good,” Yates said. “I’m excited to try something new.”

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“We have the freshest beans and the freshest pastries. That’s kind of what we wanted to incorporate here and, moreso, we wanted to create a customer connection,” Williams said.

Customers who visited the “slow bar” would be allowed to choose the way their coffee is brewed, as well as the type of bean it is made out of. There are also three options for how the coffee is to be brewed: a pour over, a siphon or a press pot.

Williams said while employees are preparing the custom coffee order they plan to walk customers through how the coffee is made and how the beans

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to the streets of India to protest the liquidation of their assets and the ensuing currency shortage.

The demonetization left the informal sector devastated, as the generally financially illiterate farmers and street workers now had to prove that their earnings had been taxed. Proving this is almost impossible for a population that keeps its money in trunks and under beds as opposed to in banks.

Forbes estimated that almost 50 percent of the demonetized currency is held by small businesses, and, therefore, there will be a disproportionate impact on them due to the policy. Several deaths were reported from civilians not getting ambulances because of currency shortages, and the Indian economy came to a standstill with the World Bank cutting down its Indian GDP projections for the year 2017 by almost one percent.

There are strong arguments for the Modi government’s demonetization policy, as it allows India to set itself on a path to an economy with less paper — much like in most

Western countries where electronic transactions are the norm. Today Western consumers have access to a myriad of credit cards, Visa cards, PayPal, Venmo and Apple and Samsung Pay as well as Facebook Pay, all of which can benefit Indian consumers.

By embracing online payment methods, most Indians will be able to participate in the international market on par with the West. The currency cut down will force millions to open bank accounts, download mobile apps and use other means that allow for the electronic exchange of currency.

The redirection of these consumers into a more connected and globalized world can only demystify the online world as well as banking and financial technology. The country’s commercial financial apparatus will need to develop user-friendly strategies and platforms to reach the rural, financially and technologically illiterate as well as the old, integrating them into the global economy.

The rapid spread of cellphone banking across consumers of different ages from

we noticed that we had a common problem,” Ambrosio said. “It’s hard to transition from working out to being presentable and ready to go to class or to a meeting.

It’s hard to find apparel.”

Rosen and Ambrosio noticed that finding affordable athletic clothing is a challenge, especially as college students on a tight budget.

Ambrosio said popular brands like Nike and lululemon were too expensive, despite offering comfortable items.

Besides marketing the brand through social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, the students also relied on campus representatives at Brown University, in the United Kingdom and Italy, according to Ambrosio.

“I have a bunch of friends in Italy that are doing it, two guys in the U.K. and then there’s a guy at Brown,” Ambrosio said. “We’re trying to get it out there and get people to know it; it’s word

of mouth.”

Rosen explained that the company places an emphasis on the functionality of their product and the freedom it provides its wearers.

“We’ve come to realize is it’s less about the shorts and more about the things you can do in the shorts. It’s not about our product: It’s more about the lifestyle it allows you to have,” Rosen said.

Fifty customers placed preorders before launch.

Now, orders continue coming in and the company’s clothing stocks continue to increase. Rosen noted that they currently do most business online and through their partnerships with small retailers.

“We have a website. That’s where we do most of our business, and we also do some wholesale to retail stores, smaller-end stores,” Rosen said.

Rosen pointed out that despite its intentions of establishing ties with larger retailers, the firm must overcome its current high production

costs.

“We were considering going to a bigger sporting goods store, but it doesn’t make sense right now because our cost is so high, so it makes more sense to sell retail,” Rosen said.

In addition, Rosen said UApparel plans to expand to women’s clothing next fall, while keeping with its signature creative patterns.

“We’ve been approached by a bunch of girls that said they think the patterns work well for men,” Rosen said. “I have a few patterns in mind from previous samples that will look good for girls and I think girls’ shorts is a big market as well in these cool patterns, it could be fun to get into.”

Rosen, Ambrosio and Orts also infused a philanthropic element into their company. UApparel donates all proceeds to the Boys and Girls Club, a nonprofit that aspires to help children in America reach their potential as integral citizens, according to Rosen.

“We donate proceeds to the Boys and Girls Club.

That was something Evan and I did when we were younger,” Rosen said. “Helping those kids, crazy patterns, ties together.”

Ambrosio said that the original goal of helping fellow students remains at the core of the company’s philosophy.

“It’s a small thing, giving students; we felt it was something we needed,” Ambrosio said.“We’re not the only students, so we want to help the students and give them this possibility.”

Christopher Holshouser (MSB ’19) has bought clothing from UApparel and he praised its low prices and versatility.

“It’s finally nice to be able to have men’s athleisure that is both affordable and comfortable, that I can work out in and wear casually,” Holshouser said.

Hoya Staff Writer Alfredo Carrillo Obregon contributed reporting.

Business & Tech FRIDAY, january 20, 2017

Tech Tips SpaceX Launch is Successful after Launchpad explosion last year On Jan. 14, private space exploration company SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket and delivered a payload of 10 satellites to the satellite communications company, Iridium, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. According to SpaceX’s website, the first stage rocket booster was also able successfully to return and land on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” in the Pacific Ocean.

This successful launch comes after a previous Falcon 9 rocket exploded while being refueled on the launch pad Sept. 1, 2016. According to a SpaceX press release, the subsequent investigation conducted by company officials, the U.S. Air Force, the Federal Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board concluded a ruptured liquid oxygen tank caused the explosion. “One of the three composite overwrapped pressure vessels inside the second strange liquid oxygen failed,” the press release said. SpaceX aims to expand space travel capabilities and allow for the eventual colonization of planets.

NASA and NOAA data indicates 2016 was the hottest year on record Data recorded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed 2016 to be the hottest year on record since the start of record-keeping in 1880.

This makes 2016 the third recordbreaking year in a row in terms of highest temperature.

According to the director for the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin Schmidt, the recent years of record-breaking heat are emblematic of an overall global warming. “We don’t expect record years every year, but the ongoing long-term warming trend is clear,” Schmidt said in a NASA press release. The scientific consensus attributes the warming trend to human induced climate change. The Trump administration, due to take charge on Jan. 20, has not yet fully elaborated a plan to deal with the consequences of a global warming.

Scientists and public health experts advocate for better pandemic readiness On Jan. 12, Speakers at the Georgetown-hosted “Pandemic Preparedness in the Next U.S. Presidential Administration” forum agreed that the United States is ill-prepared for dealing with future pandemics.

The speakers included researchers and global health experts who have worked in the fields of academia, policymaking and advocacy, and they recommended President-elect Trump lay the groundwork for new methods of disease outbreak response. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, who was one of the speakers, said the Trump administration will likely contend with an infectious-diseaserelated issue during its term. “There is no question that here will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases,” Fauci said. The speakers also urged for the creation of a funding mechanism to pay in advance for a response to an infectious disease outbreak.

Peet’s Coffee Opens First Shop in Georgetown

Paula Hong

Hoya Staff Writer

Peet’s Coffee introduced a new take on the coffee shop experience when it added its first retail location in Georgetown, located on the corner of 33rd and M Street, on Dec. 20.

From an interior design that exhibits pictures depicting historical moments and current features of the Georgetown area — including the construction of the Key Bridge and Gaston Hall — to the inclusion of the first “slow bar,” an exclusive one-on-one experience that engages customers with the barista while providing an education on the specific type of bean used in the roasting process, in the chain and in the area.

“It’s also an opportunity for tourists to feel a real part of the Georgetown community.”

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Peet’s Coffee offers a new kind of coffee experience through the addition of an all-new slow bar and a unique interior design complete with images of both current and historical Georgetown. supposed to have favorites, but whenever I walk into the Georgetown location, it’s hard not to love it,” Ricardo said. “We took a lot of care to make sure that we represented the history of the community that we were joining.”

According to the Assistant Manager of the Georgetown Peet’s Coffee retail store Rebecca Williams, the “slow bar” represents a new concept not only for coffee shops at Georgetown, but for the whole

company as well.

“There’s not another slow bar at any other Peet’s coffee retail in the nation,” Williams said. “It’s separate from our service up front where you get drip coffee and espresso. At the slow bar you come down and enjoy more of a restaurant experience.”

The aim of Peet’s Coffee, according to Williams, is to provide

Off-Campus Meal Plan Launches

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Mieke fonteyne Peet’s Coffee District Manager

District Manager Mieke Fonteyne took pride particularly in the addition of the “slow bar.”

“It’s a real opportunity to engage what’s around and what makes Peet’s different from a roast perspective but also from a service [perspective],” Fonteyne said. “The slow bar is an opportunity for cus-

tomers that are really passionate about coffee to get an education and it’s also an opportunity for tourists to feel a real part of the Georgetown community.”

Public Relations Manager Elizabeth Ricardo said both the unique history of Georgetown and the store’s design make this Peet’s Coffee a very special location amongst all of their stores.

“I have about 50 stores in my region and you definitely are not

Adam Shlomi Hoya Staff Writer

Elevate, a startup founded by two graduates from the University of Virginia, is offering an alternative meal plan that allows students to receive meals from a variety of restaurants off-campus the at the start of this spring semester.

UVA graduates Josh Cohen and Seth Kramer founded Elevate during their time as undergraduates. The idea came as Cohen and Kramer worked together as caterers, providing bulk meals to UVA fraternities which avoided meal plans in order to save money.

This opportunity gave these entrepreneurs the idea to provide food to students while bypassing catering. Cohen, a software designer, developed the mobile app. Kramer, a financial analyst, reached out to restaurants and marketed the company while also overseeing operations.

Participating restaurants in Elevate’s meal plan include but are not limited to Wingo’s, Flavio and Mr. Smith’s. According to Kramer, Elevate provides a cheaper, less cumbersome and tastier meal plan then what Georgetown Dining can offer.

“We have better food that is less expensive and more convenient. You can order ahead from our app, letting you skip ahead. A better meal plan and better food,” Kramer said.

Students participating can buy meals and eat them at restaurants around the Georgetown area. Meals carry over from week to week throughout the course

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Elevate’s off-campus meal provides Georgetown students an alternative to current campus dining plans offered by the university. of a semester. Similar to the Tapingo meal ordering app meal used on campus, students may order meals through Elevate’s mobile app and later pick them up without having to pay an additional fee.

The 45 meal plan is priced at $600, at $12.40 a meal, though this price falls below $12 with the

larger meal plan options. The 75 and 105 meal plan are each worth $925 and $1,350 respectively. Firsttime students can try the service before enrolling by purchasing two meals for $25.

Kramer said they decided to bring the off-campus meal plan See DINING, A9

Students Start Online Apparel Business Haley Snyder Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown undergraduate students Ethan Rosen (MSB ’19), Emmett Orts (MSB ’19) and Francesco Ambrosio (MSB ’19) are offering cheap and accessible athletic clothing through the online clothing startup UApparel, which launched at the beginning of this year.

Rosen and Orts, members of the University’s crew team, founded the company during the summer of 2016, while studying abroad in Taiwan. According to Rosen, the country’s hot, humid weather helped them identify a need for cheaper alternatives to the major athletic retailers that currently dominate the market.

“It’s 100 degrees with humidity, so you’d walk outside, and, basically, you were just drenched in sweat,” Rosen said.

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Rosen said the rowers were able to start their business successfully after meeting local Taiwanese manufacturers and establishing a relationship with them.

“We made a good relationship with one of the manufacturers there,” Rosen said. “They really like that we came to their factory and talked with them in person.”

The manufacturers agreed to produce a small line of clothing, which consisted of lightweight athletic shorts. Rosen and Orts remained heavily involved in the process of designing the clothing.

Upon returning to the United States, the rowers partnered with Ambrosio and launched their apparel brand. Ambrosio explained the need to find apparel with was suitable for both exercise and casual wear.

“We’re all student athletes, and See STARTUP, A9

Courtesy Ethan Rosen

Ethan Rosen (MSB ’19) created a clothing company with two other friends to sell cheap and comfortable clothing to college students.

n Nov. 8 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonetized India overnight, announcing that the old 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee notes from the Mahatma Gandhi Series would be obsolete except for a few essential services such as hospitals, pharmaceutical shops, gasoline stations, etc., which could still accept the currency.

Modi then instituted a 250,000-rupee cap on the value of rupees that could be changed into the new 500- and 2,000-rupee notes. Lastly, he gave civilians a deadline of Dec. 30 for when currency holders could last change their money.

In effect, Modi’s demonetization policy, according to the BBC, removed 86 percent in total value of the circulating currency, some of which has not and will not been reinstated into the economy.

The Modi government said despite the deleterious effects, the demonetization was a necessary step to reduce counterfeit currency, mostly inflowing from Nepal and Bangladesh, which made up more than 20 percent of the money in circulation and often sponsored terrorism in both India and Pakistan.

While it is true that such a move assumes the beneficiaries of dark money keep their money in cash as opposed to credit, the demonetization should be seen as more than just an anti-dark money policy. It is, in fact, a liberalization of India’s base economy. This will allow for more opportunities for everyone in India to participate in the economy in an equal capacity.

The demonetization is a positive step forward to further develop India’s economy in the long run; however, it is undeniable that the short-term effects have been ugly and costly. As expected, the anti-dark money directive brought chaos as protesters took See OUTSIDER, A9