The Hoya: February 19, 2016

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FRIDAY, FEBRUary 19, 2016

MULANEY, KROLL RETURN

With a show at the Warner Theater, Georgetown’s alumni prove that a comedy career is possible.

EDITORIAL In the wake of Scalia’s death, his legal skills should not be forgotten.

GUPD ADDRESSES CONCERNS In a roundtable this week, GUPD Chief Jay Gruber discussed safety.

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Election Results Delayed

GUSA’s Election Commission cites issues with procedures ASHWIN PURI Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association Election Commission postponed the release of the 2016 GUSA executive election results Friday, citing procedural issues that questioned the integrity of the election.

The race, which included the ticket of Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) as the only ticket on the official ballot after the ticket of Tony Pezzullo (MSB ’17) and A.J. Serlemitsos (COL ’17) dropped out on Feb. 9, was contested by the writein campaigns of Reed Howard (SFS

’17) and Courtney Maduike (SFS ’17) and the joke ticket of the Wisemiller’s Hot Chick and Chicken Madness sandwiches.

More than 33 percent of the undergraduate student body voted in the 2016 election, a total of around 2,500 voters. GUSA Election Commissioner Minji Doh (SFS ’19) was unable to confirm the official number of voters as of press time.

The 2016 election also included a referendum that asked students to vote between the current system of pre-registration and live registration, which resulted in 83 percent of students favoring the current system of pre-registration, 7 percent

of students favoring live registration and 9 percent selecting no preference.

This year’s voter turnout of 33 percent is markedly lower than the 51 percent of students who voted last year, with 3,637 votes cast in the 2015 GUSA election, and 3,733 votes in 2013, an all-time election record.

The 2016 executive election is the first time in recent memory that a ticket has run unopposed on the official election ballot and the first time since 2008 that the Election Commission has delayed the release of election results. In the 2008 GUSA

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Justice Scalia (CAS ’57), who died Saturday, was highly involved in Georgetown groups, here pictured, center, with the Who’s Who club.

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Georgetown Reflects On Scalia’s Legacy Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

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The campaign staff for the Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) ticket held a campaign party to wait for the results, but instead were told the announcement would be delayed.

O’Neill Institute Article Questions Zika Response Lisa Burgoa Hoya Staff Writer

In the midst of the spread of the Zika virus, which might cause birth defects, an article published Feb. 1 by Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law encouraged the World Health Organization to promote birth control and abortion in response to the crisis, sparking a backlash from anti-abortion advocates.

The mosquito-borne disease has been linked to birth defects, namely microcephaly, a condition that causes abnormally small heads and brains in babies with afflicted mothers, throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The WHO designated the illness, projected to afflict four million people in the Americas this year, as a public health emergency of national concern, a classification reserved for cases requiring immediate international action.

In their article, O’Neill Institute Faculty Director Lawrence Gostin and Georgetown global health law adjunct professor Alexandra Phelan urged WHO Director-General Margaret Chan to incorporate directives aimed at decriminalizing abortion to affected countries. According to their piece, nearly all countries in the Americas suffering from the crisis enforce laws that prevent women from accessing reproductive services.

“To truly respect the dignity and health of women of childbearing age, the WHO Director-General should formally recommend that States Parties ensure access to contraception and safe abortions,” Phelan and Gostin wrote. “A government’s duty to guarantee the health and safety of women and their reproductive freedoms is an ethical and human rights imperative in the ongoing Zika pandemic.”

The WHO’s recommendations, released the same day as the article in an address

by Chan, included no such directives and

advised governments to counsel pregnant women according to national practices and policies.

Of the 22 countries afflicted by the Zika virus, six, including the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Haiti, ban abortion without exception.

The governments of afflicted countries have issued statements alerting women of the risk of birth defects and advising them to avoid pregnancy for the next two years, a decision Phelan and Gostin denounced.

“Calls by countries that women simply avoid getting pregnant – including those by the governments of Brazil, Honduras, Colombia, and El Salvador – without providing access to reproductive rights services, are not only ineffective and naive but dangerous to both women’s and public health,” Phelan and Gostin wrote.

The professors’ stances have provoked backlash from the pro-life community, which opposes pregnancy termination. Local Catholic churches around the Americas have maintained a strong stance against abortion, although pleas for the church to relax its doctrine escalated in advance of Pope Francis’ six-day trip to Mexico beginning Feb. 12.

When asked whether the Catholic Church should consider contraceptive use in relation to the abortion of fetuses infected with the Zika virus during a press conference on Thursday, the pope suggested that contraceptives could be used to prevent fetal infection, several news sources reported.

“It is to kill someone in order to save another. This is what the Mafia does,” Francis said. “On the other hand, avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.”

Lifenews.com, an independent anti-abortion news outlet, published an editorial by Emily Derois accusing the authors of compromising the university’s Jesuit values.

“Abortion activists have been using the

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In many ways, he fit the archetype of the contemporary Georgetown student.

He originated from New Jersey; he attended a Jesuit high school in New York; and he was rejected from his dream Ivy League university.

Multitalented and overly committed to extracurricular activities while at the Hilltop — from theater to debate — he admitted in a 2008 interview on 60 Minutes, “I was never cool.”

While his ambition and career took him from Harvard to Chicago, Antonin Scalia (CAS ’57) never strayed too far from his Georgetown roots, presiding for over 20 years as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, just over a mile away on the National Mall.

“He was a larger-than-life person who

really enjoyed being himself,” University President John J. DeGioia said to The Hoya.

“He valued his Georgetown experience greatly and was attentive to what unfolded over the course of the years that followed.”

A polarizing and outspoken giant of the Supreme Court, Scalia died Saturday in Shafter, Texas, of an apparent heart attack at the age of 79.

“Head the Quest for Truth” Born in 1936 in Trenton, N.J., to Italian parents, Antonin Gregory Scalia, affectionately referred to as “Nino,” attended Xavier High School, an all-male Jesuit preparatory school in Manhattan, where he graduated first in his class. Despite his stellar grades, Scalia was rejected by his top choice, Princeton University, after which he chose to enroll at Georgetown.

At the Hilltop, Scalia majored in history, See SCALIA, A6

Pre-Registration Wins Votes Students voted to keep the current system in referendum molly cooke Hoya Staff Writer

The campus-wide referendum on course registration closed this morning with 83 percent of students voting to “keep pre-registration,” 7 percent voting to “switch to live registration” and 9 percent of votes indicating “no preference.”

Thirty-three percent of students participated in the referendum, which was attached to the election ballot for the Georgetown University Student Association executive office.

GUSA senators approved the resolution to hold the referendum Jan. 24 after a December announcement by former Registrar John Q. Pierce (CAS ’72) at a town hall that the univer-

sity was considering upgrading its registration software, a process that requires the university to decide between software that offers live registration or a more expensive option that will keep pre-registration.

Chair of GUSA Senate Outreach Committee Richie Mullaney (COL ’18), who led student outreach for the referendum, said the goal of the referendum was for GUSA to be able to better represent its student constituency.

“We provided objective information to the student body so that they could decide what they wanted. One of the biggest criticisms of GUSA is that we advocate for issues without knowing what students want, so we had this referendum to understand how students felt,”

Mullaney said. “Now with the overwhelming mandate for pre-registration, I expect GUSA to have a full-fledged campaign to keep pre-registration.”

The Intellectual Life Committee of the GUSA senate is now expected to further advocate updating to Banner 9, the new pre-registration software option.

According to GUSA Senator for Alumni Square & Nevils Roopa Mulpuri (SFS ’18), who co-sponsored the referendum resolution, the change in registrar may complicate GUSA’s advocacy efforts.

“At this point, we’re just hoping to start the dialogue with the interim registrar, sit down, talk to him See REGISTRATION, A6

FEATURED sports Clock Hand Records

NEWS Comedy Legends Return

Nick Kroll (COL ’01) and John Mulaney (COL ’04) spoke took to Gaston Stage Tuesday.

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news Survey Draws Responses

The university reported a 51% response rate to its Sexual Assault survey.

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Students have started a record label to bolster the profile of on-campus acts.

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Sports 2016 Debut

The No. 14 men’s lacrosse team will begin its season against No. 1 Notre Dame.

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opinion Election Issue

Students share their perspectives on the state of the national presidential race.

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS

Scalia’s Legal Lessons On Saturday, a small local newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News, reported that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at a west Texas ranch. A Georgetown alumnus and Supreme Court justice known for his intellect and wit, Scalia’s death immediately sparked a political firestorm. Due to his record as one of the most conservative justices on the Supreme Court, such a politicized reaction was perhaps inevitable.

The 5-4 conservative majority on the Supreme Court has been thrown into jeopardy: If President Barack Obama nominates a liberal justice to fill Scalia’s vacancy, the Court’s jurisprudence will shift radically. In the context of unprecedented levels of polarization between the Democrat and Republican Parties and the high stakes of the upcoming presidential election, conservatives have found such a prospect unbearable.

Within hours of the justice’s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

Such a statement was problematic but telling — by promising to reject President Obama’s appointment out of hand, without any knowledge of the nominee’s qualifications or ideological leanings, McConnell cast a grim shadow on the Republican Party’s reputation for collaborative

work and progress. Republican congressmen are refusing to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities — to provide “advice and consent” on a judicial nomination — out of dislike for the president, with strong vocal support from the Republican frontrunners in the presidential race. This sends a clear message to voters that partisan obstructionism is the tactic of the hour. The issue is not whether the Republican-controlled Senate would confirm President Obama’s nominee, as no one would be surprised if they did not, but that they pre-emptively rejected any Obama-appointed replacement.

Aside from the dictates of the United States Constitution itself, precedent is not on McConnell’s side.

Since 1900, the Senate has voted on eight Supreme Court nominees during an election year, with six ultimately confirmed. President Obama has 336 days remaining in his term; the Senate has never taken longer than 125 days to vote on a successor from the time of nomination, and on average, the confirmation decision takes 25 days. The Constitution is painfully clear on the procedure to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. Until President Obama leaves office, he is required to fulfill his duty and nominate someone to the Court; the Senate, in turn, is required to convene the standard hearings for the nominee. If nothing else, Scalia was a strict Constitutionalist – this editorial board doubts he would be impressed to see such political games waged in the wake of his death.

Never Too Late to Run After last year’s chaotic elections, many students celebrated this season’s single-ticket ballot.

Although the consolidation of talented, battletested students into one ticket reflected the ticket’s combined competence, experience and appeal, this campaign season has not been without its faults. The one-ticket race revealed to Georgetown’s student body that there are significant problems with the policies of the Georgetown University Student Administration Election Commission that place write-in candidates at an ample, unfair disadvantage. To address the systemic setbacks that these often qualified and appealing, but late, tickets face, the Election Commission should modify the eligibility requirements and remove — with some conditions — the strict deadline for when a ticket can officially join the race.

Students should always have a choice between candidates. However, this election cycle has proven that this choice may be inhibited by the one of two information sessions the Electoral Commission requires potential candidates to attend. This is not to say that those sessions are without merit — a better race is run when all candidates are fully aware of the requirements of and limitations to running a GUSA presidential campaign. However, this rule may disqualify many otherwise eligi-

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ble, competent students simply because they did not start planning out their campaign months in advance. These late tickets face disadvantages that range from access to publicity to being given a place on the ballot box.

It should never be too late to start a campaign.

In addition to the modification above, the Election Commission should remove the deadline for when a ticket can be placed on the ballot box in favor of a rolling process that would require tickets to submit a serious budget proposal and garner the signature of 250 students, a number representing 10 percent of likely voters in any given GUSA presidential election. As long as the ticket can deliver on these two items, it should be given a position on the ballot box, as opposed to being written in. Often, students do not know how to correctly writein candidates, and their votes get disqualified. For students who already feel that their votes count very little in the overall race, this is a dismal thought.

This Editorial Board hopes that, in future campaigns, students will have the opportunity to choose between highly qualified tickets. But for this to happen, it is necessary that the Election Commission modify its practices to promote a better, fairer democratic process.

SFS ’16

“It seems like Enushe and Chris are nice people, but the fact that they are the only ones running really troubles me, because it makes it feel like all the GUSA people are trying to shore up their own positions. It’s all basically become a joke.

When a sandwich can get more than 10 percent of Garrett Hinck the vote — that’s how democracy dies.”

SFS ’18

“In this year’s election, I support Enushe and Chris. As a senator, I have had the privilege to work closely with Enushe during her time as speaker of the house. She has consistently demonstrated a desire to serve our William MorriS campus and bring people together.”

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“Well, it seems like Enushe and Chris are a lot like Hillary Clinton — they’re probably the best for the job, but no one really feels very inspired by them. They seem to have every single issue as a ‘focus,’ while not actually providing much in the way of creative policy. They’re going for the mile-wide, inch-deep approach. And that has paved the way for the writein ballots, because they’re easy to criticize. Also, this analogy Danny Watson makes Hot Chick the Bernie Sanders, which seems fitting.

Freshman GUSA Senator, COL ’19

“I think the lack of tickets reflects poorly on how GUSA seems unproductive and futile in their efforts to influence Georgetown.”

Michael Marsh MSB ’19

“I wish there were more options for president so this didn’t feel so much like a coronation, but also I’m glad that I didn’t have to deal with drama like last year. In terms of student engagement, though, this is probably not a good sign. Also, the Election Commission clearly biases the process against write-ins by requiring an inane format and then not publicizing it, ensuring Nick shedd that lots of votes (like my top 5) won’t be counted.”

SFS ’18

“This year’s GUSA election season marks another exciting round of door-todoor campaigning at freshman and sophomore dorms, which occasionally involves soliciting votes by means of brownie bribing. The plethora of quotable memes from campaign ads are also amusing ... not so far off from the current presidential election. Jokes aside, it’s quite refreshing and fun to see the new ideas and platforms offered by and debated among the candidates.”

KHOA TRAN COL ’16

“I truly have no comment other than I admire the commitment Anirudha Vadaddi put into the Chicken Madness campaign.” nAMAN TRIVEDI SFS ’16

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

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Michael whelan (COL ’16) speaks about the national reaction to the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia :

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But over on First Street, no one is celebrating, so neither will I. The Supreme Court is home to nine justices with the peculiar duty to ‘say what the law is,’ earning the jubilation and consternation of 320 million Americans in the process. It does not take a keen legal mind to imagine the camaraderie that must exist in such a pressure cooker.

By all accounts, Scalia was the very model of professional courtesy. When Justice Elena Kagan was first appointed to the court, Scalia wasted no time asking his new colleague and fellow New Yorker to go duck hunting. She wrote after his death, ‘I treasured Nino’s friendship: I will always remember, and greatly miss, his warmth, charm, and generosity.’”

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My Choice Voting: An Ethical Dilemma for Servicemen To Quit A GUSA L ast year, I had the pleasure of serving under the Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Connor Rohan (COL ’16) administration. As one of six deputy chiefs of staff, I had a portfolio that included “What’s a Hoya?,” mental health and arts. Before that I was in the senate, representing Village A and serving on the Intellectual Life Committee and the Intellectual Health Subcommittee.

In the span of a year and a half, the Georgetown University Student Association became a life-consuming endeavor, and I thrived under it. I enjoyed changing my profile picture every two weeks with a new logo, flyering across campus and talking about my new initiatives.

I joined GUSA and continued with GUSA because I truly believed I was making Georgetown a better place for myself and the future generation.

With the introduction of a winning parody ticket last year, GUSA lost its legitimacy.

I sent in my resignation letter to Luther and Rohan in October of last year. While I used my internship and coursework as an excuse, it was only partly true. I was frustrated with what I saw GUSA had become and no longer made it a priority.

Student government, at its core, is desperately needed on any college campus. Anyone who says differently is misinformed and misguided.

Students need some type of representation while at college. Their interests can only be fully articulated to administrators when a student representative is in the room to speak about it. Thus, it largely matters who that student representative is and how he carries himself.

I worked on the Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) and Will Simons (COL ’16) campaign last year and was disappointed along with the rest of the team when the ticket lost. But like the general student body, I was optimistic — albeit hesitantly — for a new type of administration and a new type of GUSA. The present shows that this is far from the case. Luther and Rohan have not created a new GUSA but rather have perpetuated an older version. GUSA still fails to connect with the student body, does not communicate its purpose and is without a grand strategy of goals and achievable objectives.

The decision of choosing the best representative was a battle of egos hidden in the GUSA office.

GUSA has lost its meaning and purpose. And with the introduction of a winning parody ticket last year, GUSA lost its legitimacy. Apparent from the plethora of opinion editorials and Facebook posts, the executive race this year is no longer about best representing Georgetown. The race has devolved into a fight of personalities and personal choices rather than a productive discourse over policy and vision. The introduction of a viable satirical ticket last year created a situation in which people are now afraid of creating another Luther and Rohan, allowing another student president and vice president to be chosen out of apathy rather than policy.

I quit GUSA because I became frustrated with the system in front of me. I became exasperated with the student administration that has no direction and little incentive to better Georgetown. And in turn, I was utterly disgusted with the rhetoric surrounding the executive election. Student government, in whatever form, has the potential to do so much good for students. But the decision of choosing the best representative was not a decision for the student body to make. It was a battle of egos hidden in the GUSA office, Leavey Center fourth floor and beyond. GUSA is broken, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. If the student body truly wishes to have the change that was promised this year and last, we, elected officials and the general body alike, must all come together and find a long-term and sustainable solution that does not revolve around electing a Wisemiller’s chicken sandwich.

Annie Aleman is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

s a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet, my personal growth in college has not only focused on development of my intellectual capabilities, but also on my conceptions of duty and professionalism.

Both are integral parts of being a U.S. Army officer. When Americans think of an officer, these are two of the foremost ideas that come to mind. Civil society holds officers — both commissioned and noncommissioned — to the highest standards of ethics and morality. They are the leaders of the military and represent the best of society when our country engages with other nations abroad. In this sense, duty signifies an obligation not only to serve, but to do so in a way that is becoming of society.

The duty of U.S. military personnel is not only tied to our foreign missions.

Our domestic duties have carried importance since before the United States’ founding. The long-standing tradition of the American citizen-soldier continues to this day. Since before the Revolutionary War, America’s force has relied heavily on locals, ranging from local militiamen to reservists to the National Guard, to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. The complexity of the U.S. military is diverse and tied to its local communities. With this in mind, a conflict of interest arises when personnel, coming from a history of the citizen-soldier, face the voting process.

In the political maelstrom of a general election, the serviceman faces an ethical dilemma different from other sectors of society. If he votes, he is voting for his commander in chief. As a citizen, the voting serviceman has the right to do just that — vote. However, the different set of voting incentives — or criteria — he has that the average citizen does not can create a conflict of interest. As a citizen voter, he can vote based off his opinions of candidates’ stances on domestic social issues or their foreign policies. Unlike the civilian citizen, however, the voting serviceman is affected differently by the results of the general election because it will also affect the structure of his superiors. The conflict of interest: The voting serviceman shapes the authority to which he reports.

In the political maelstrom of a general election, the voting serviceman faces a conflict of interest: He shapes the authority to which he reports.

This dilemma of the voting soldier usually divides the military into two camps. Camp One believes that the voting serviceman’s conflict of interest should result in complete abstention from voting. This school of thought uses the civil-military divide as its grounding principle. In the language of duty, since the military has a duty to the civilian contingent of society, it should be impartial in political matters — both domestic and international. It sees the ethical dilemma as insurmountable, usually citing subordinates’ discontent with a president for whom they did not vote as being detrimental to unit cohesion.

Many soldiers happily abstain under this conviction.

On the Camp Two side of the debate, the logic is a little more convoluted and the implementation is trickier. Those personnel who choose to vote in the face of this ethical dilemma must do so with the acknowledgement that they will follow the orders and directives of a president whether they voted for that candidate or not. In this case, military personnel must distance their personal politics from the commitment they have made to serve their country. Some do this by voting based on domestic policies that do not in-

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corporate the military. Some simply acknowledge the dilemma and vote knowing they may have to carry out orders from someone for whom they did not vote. In the end, it is the individual’s choice whether voting or abstention is the more professional option in the election.

Another layer of complexity comes into play when we consider how this affects the military’s leaders. The military’s officers, both commissioned and noncommissioned, are charged with developing the professionalism of the force. They influence their subordinates and their professional development. Very few professions offer the opportunity to vote your boss into office. Bringing politics into your unit as a leader is a dicey decision.

For cadets, this ethical dilemma has even more complicated implications, as we have yet to receive our commissions. If all goes well, I will receive mine under the administration of the next commander in chief. This means that we face an election that determines the president who will dictate U.S. foreign policy and the military’s use in it.

In this election, one filled with much bombastic rhetoric, it is often hard to distinguish between the signal and the noise of the policies that make up candidates’ platforms. As a cadet in the Hoya Battalion, I don’t want to argue for either Camp One or Camp Two. That should be for the reader to grapple with and decide on. What I would recommend to my fellow cadets, service personnel and citizens is this: The voting-abstention decision is a choice — make it. Be deliberate about it. Approach the election cycle with a critical mind.

Educate yourself on the policies of candidates. Evaluate whether you think abstention is the best option.

If you have already decided that it is, reconsider. We are fluid beings, and capable of changing our minds. That is the beauty of the American system.

We have the freedom to repeatedly express our voices. If that means not speaking, that is fine. But be sure that is what you want. Be deliberate.

Noah Taylor is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

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Politics Are Nasty, What It Will Take But This Is Too Far To Stop Donald Trump

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few weeks ago, the Institute of Politics and Public Service hosted a mock Iowa caucus event where students could go and learn how caucusing works while advocating for their favorite presidential candidates. After hearing experts from both sides of the political aisle explain the process, the room was divided into two different sections: Republicans and Democrats.

On the Democratic side, student leaders were asked to give speeches for each of the — then three — candidates, after which we would separate into groups depending on the candidate we chose to support. It was at this point in the evening, when the Hoyas for Hillary and Georgetown for Bernie students shouted each other down to try and win people to their sides, when nasty comments were flung across the room, when I found myself wishing to leave rather than engage in the hostile debate, that I really began to understand how ugly this election was getting.

It would be naive to say that politics are kind. I have had my fair share of discussions with Republicans about social, economic and foreign policy issues that have escalated into heated arguments. I have seen the tension between liberal and conservative groups on campus, and the way that political inclination can affect friendships. On a national level, I have seen countless attack ads produced by Democratic and Republican candidates bashing each other to get ahead. I understand this, because our two parties have fundamentally different perspectives on how our country should be run. But never in my life have I seen a caucus so vicious, or seen my party be so savagely ripped in two.

While Sen. Bernie Sanders (IVt.) himself continues to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her close ties to Wall Street and her support of big banks, Sanders’ supporter base has turned viciously sexist, belittling and cruel. The comment section on Clinton’s latest video, an attack ad against Sanders, contains statements like “Crash and Bern, bitch” and “Her one claim to the White House is that she has a vagina.” Comments about her wardrobe are only just outnumbered by vitriolic statements about her hair, appearance and

inability to be “personable.”

On the other hand, Clinton has turned more and more toward negative campaigning, calling Sanders a “one-issue candidate” and denouncing his stances on gun violence and his poor relationship with President Barack Obama. Clinton supporters, for their part, have characterized Sanders as an old man with no experience and little grasp on economics.

There are many differences between the two candidates, and it is important to have viable options when choosing a party’s nominee. Sanders’ rapid rise in popularity has pushed Clinton left, made her a more vocal proponent of LGBTQ rights and the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced her confront her wealthy roots. Having to face off against the former secretary of state has caused Sanders to have to defend his voting record and create more specific platform proposals. These are the positives of a contentious race, things that we see in nearly every primary; it is the deeply hateful consequences of this cycle that have been so unique.

I want to go back to those first few debates when Sanders urged us to stop talking about Clinton’s emails and when the two candidates would shake hands and laugh. I want to return to the time when we remembered that we all want the same thing: for a Democrat to stay in the White House in 2016. I want us to engage in meaningful dialogue about the differences between candidates but to stop forgetting that we are fighting for a better America, not a meaner one.

I want us to step back and look at the 2016 presidential race for what it is: a place for us to choose the man or woman that we think is the most fit to serve as our chief executive.

Most of all, I do not want half of Democratic voters to disappear when the nominee is announced because of the environment of hate and mistrust that we have fostered within our party. When that moment comes, I hope we can set aside our pride and vote with purpose. I do not want to imagine what will happen if we fail.

Mattie Haag is a sophomore in the College. She is the chair of the College Democrats.

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hen Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) de- gia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virfeated billionaire business mo- ginia are closer to the demographics and gul Donald Trump in the Iowa political leanings of voters in Iowa, rather caucus, pundits were quick to cite the sen- than the moderate voters in New Hampator’s superior ground game and heavy shire. It is hard to imagine that southern, turnout from social conservatives and socially conservative and evangelical evangelical voters. Donald Trump, unlike Christians will elect a loud and arrogant the other Republican Party presidential New Yorker who has been divorced twice candidates, only held large rallies in the over a Texan who is the son of a pastor state of Iowa and did not embrace Iowa’s and who has been endorsed by both the “retail politicking,” where candidates visit National Organization for Marriage and local restaurants, coffee shops and com- Gun Owners of America. munity centers. Cruz was the only top-tier If Trump wins these eight states on SuGOP candidate to visit all 99 counties in per Tuesday in addition to winning the Iowa prior to the caucus, and Cruz won South Carolina primary and the Nevada Iowa by the highest margin in the state’s caucus, he will have more delegates than history with 51,666 votes. This is 21,827 any other GOP candidate, and will be on votes more than the 2012 Iowa Republican track to win the Republican nomination. caucus winner, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) Having Trump as the 2016 GOP nominee and 10,712 votes more than the 2008 Iowa would be a disaster. Trump’s controverRepublican caucus winner, former Arkan- sial comments on Mexicans and Muslims sas Gov. Mike Huckabee. have made him more Like Iowa, New polarizing than former Hampshire is over 90 Sen. Barry Goldwater (RCruz may not be percent white, but is Ariz.) in 1964 and former much more moderSen. George McGovern the most electable ate than the Hawkeye (D-S.D.) in 1972. Trump’s Republican, but he State. Political analysts candidacy would guarcorrectly predicted that stands the best chance antee a landslide electorsince Gov. of Ohio John al victory for Democrats, of ousting Trump.

Kasich, former Gov. of even if the far-left Sen. Florida Jeb Bush and Sanders (I-Vt.) were the Gov. of New Jersey Chris Democratic nominee.

Christie were all campaigning heavily In a general election matchup against in New Hampshire, the three moderate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republicans would split the “establish- Public Policy Polling reports that Clinment” vote and deliver a win to the New ton would narrowly defeat Cruz. Unlike York billionaire. Trump took first place Trump, Cruz is a gifted orator who holds with 35 percent of the vote, Kasich placed a place in the Princeton Debate Panel second with 15.7 percent of the vote, Cruz Hall of Fame. Cruz would be able to hold placed third with 11.7 percent of the vote, his own against Clinton, who is also a Bush placed fourth with 11 percent of the skilled debater, on economic issues and vote, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) placed fifth questions about U.S. foreign policy. As the with 10.6 percent of the vote and Christie GOP nominee, Cruz would be competiplaced sixth with 7.4 percent of the vote. tive against Clinton in swing states like What was most surprising was that the Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio with anti-establishment Cruz placed ahead of blue collar and socially conservative votBush, who spent over $36 million in New ers.

Hampshire, and both of them beat Rubio.

Cruz may not be the most electable ReThe Florida senator campaigned on being publican, but he stands the best chance the “most electable Republican” in a state of removing the bulging wart from that chose establishment George H.W. the face of the GOP that is Trump. This Bush over conservative Ronald Reagan would go a long way in terms of softenin 1980 and moderate John McCain over ing the party’s image toward Latinos and socially conservative George W. Bush in other minority groups that Trump has 2000. offended — groups that Republicans will In every South Carolina poll, Cruz falls need to win over to be able to compete in a distant second place behind Trump. in diverse and competitive swing states.

While Kasich, Bush and Rubio are fighting However, if New Hampshire is any indifor third place in South Carolina and the cation, two out of the three remaining establishment mantle, Cruz is bracing for establishment Republicans need to drop a fierce Super Tuesday. On March 1, 2016, out after the South Carolina primary and 13 states will hold primaries and caucuses back the candidate who can defeat Cruz to select the GOP nominee. and Trump, assuming they do not want to Cruz is the only candidate running who see Clinton in the White House in January can beat Trump on Super Tuesday. Cruz 2017. can narrowly win eight of the 13 Super Tuesday states because the demographics Jeff Naft is a junior in the College. and political leanings of Republican vot- He is on the board of the College ers in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Geor- Republicans.

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In honor of Black History Month, civil rights authors Andrew Aydin (GRD ’12) and Edward Peeples explored their published works and articulated personal stories of activism within the civil rights movement in a discussion hosted

by Georgetown University’s graduate liberal studies department, titled “Civil Rights in Black and White: Two Stories of the 1960s Struggle” in the Leavey Conference Center on Feb. 10.

Aydin co-authored the graphic novel series “March,” a story detailing the involvement of civil rights activist John Lewis (D-Ga.) in the civil rights movement, with Lewis. Peeples wrote “Scalawag: A White Southerner’s Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism,” chronicling his life and activism against institutional racism.

The event was part of a larger ensemble of forums, celebrations and discussions on the nature of Black History Month and the individuals who have contributed to racial equality and combatted racial injustices.

After a reception and book signing, John Dolan and Ann Ritter, associate deans of the graduate liberal studies program, introduced the evening’s panelists. Ritter spoke briefly of Georgetown’s role in the larger history of civil rights while also noting the university’s recent developments to address its history with slavery.

Ritter acknowledged the work of Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation, including its involvement in changing the names of two buildings to Freedom and Remembrance Halls, previously known as Mulledy and McSherry Halls, respectively.

“Their work enlightens us on the reality of slavery right here on campus in the 1800s to the present time as the university creates more concrete and interesting ways to fulfill the Jesuit mission, a service of faith in which the promotion of justice is an absolute requirement,” Ritter said.

Aydin began by speaking on his research and relationship with the civil rights movement. Through the success of “March,” Aydin believes graphic novels will drastically improve and enhance childhood knowledge of the civil rights movement in the United States.

He added that popular visual communication tools such as memes should not be barred from use in education. Aydin argued that the teaching of major historical events and stories, especially Lewis’ story, should be told through mediums young readers can engage with more easily than a typical

novel or textbook. Aydin mentioned the “nine-word problem,” in which the average American graduates from high school knowing only nine words about the civil rights movement.

“John Lewis believes, just as Dr. [Martin Luther King Jr.] did, that you have to use creative solutions to solve difficult problems, and so now we’ve got this book in circulation around this country and we are solving this nine-word problem,” Aydin said.

Following Aydin’s remarks, Peeples took the podium to discuss his book and activist history after an introduction from his publicist, James Hirshman.

Peeples explained how, during his involvement in civil rights, individuals would refer to him as a “scalawag,” a derogatory term for a Southerner who sympathized with the cause of the civil rights movement.

Peeples read a few selections from his book and spoke of his efforts as a young man to advance the cause of the civil rights movement, both through his involvement in academia and in researching institutional slavery in Virginia.

In one reading, he described seeing a black bus driver with Gallaudet University be denied service at a cafeteria after driving the collegiate team to play a basketball game against Virginia Commonwealth University. Peeples not only brought the man food from the cafeteria, but ensured he received the same number of choices that the white clientele were receiving that day.

Peeples said it was difficult trying to remove himself from the racist ideology prevalent throughout his upbringing.

“I had spent the last year and a half trying to wrench myself intellectually from the clutches of a racist upbringing, and watching him being debased like that brought home how profoundly evil white supremacy was and that I must do something to protest,” Peeples said.

Following Peeple’s concluding remarks, audience members praised the discussion and expressed appreciation for the panelists’ openness on their involvement with the Civil Rights Movement.

Phyllis Gilchrist (GRD ’16), who attended the event, commended the panelists and pointed out similarities between their experiences and the ongoing activism in current events.

“In order to understand what’s going on in our present society in regard to social issues, we have to understand in context how we got to this place, and that’s by always going back to our history,” Gilchrist said.

Georgetown University’s first Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey, which closed at midnight on Monday, Feb. 15, saw participation from 51 percent of the entire student body according to recently released figures, meeting the university’s 50 percent participation rate goal.

“I am very encouraged by the strong response from our students to this vital survey. The results and insights from this survey will be valuable in more fully understanding sexual assault on campus, and will help us to shape our programs and policies effectively as we go forward. I’m grateful to all the students and colleagues who have worked hard on this project,” Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson wrote in a statement to THE HOYA. Released to graduate and undergraduate students Jan. 14, the survey was based on a template developed by the Association of American Universities in late 2014. The Sexual Assault Working Group, made up of students and administrators, then specifically tailored the template to fit Georgetown’s unique collegiate climate.

Twenty seven other universities, including Harvard University, Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania have used the survey to measure sexual violence and misconduct on their campuses.

Once the university extended the survey deadline from Feb. 6 to Feb. 15 following initially low yields, participation began rising steadily with 40 percent of the overall student body completing the survey

by Feb. 11. At the survey’s close, 62 percent of all undergraduates and 40 percent of graduate students are reported to have participated. The

survey’s average participation rate is 19 percent among participating institutions. Harvard obtained a 53 percent participation rate, Yale had 52 percent, and Brown University had 36 percent. In an email to the student body Wednesday, University President John J. DeGioia applauded the community in its participation while emphasizing the importance of data in addressing sexual misconduct.

“Your efforts will have a distinct impact on our ability to better address instances of sexual assault and strengthen our culture of care for all members of our community,” DeGioia wrote. “We look forward to sharing the results of the survey with our community in May and to working together on the best ways to use this data to inform our future efforts.”

According to the results released by the university, the most participants came from the School of Nursing and Health Studies, which saw a completion rate of 76 percent, followed by the School of Foreign Service at 69 percent. The two schools with the lowest participation rates included the McDonough School of Business at 41 percent and the School of Continuing Studies at 34 percent.

University Title IX Coordinator Laura Cutway said the data is relevant in establishing future initiatives to address policies aimed at targeting sexual assault.

“I couldn’t have asked for better results,” Cutway wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “I am very proud of Georgetown and how we have all come together to encourage one another to take part in this important endeavor. The depth of this feedback will inform our initiatives moving forward and will be felt all over campus.”

Georgetown University Student Association President Joe Luther

(COL ’16) also praised the community for its help and contribution to the survey.

“We’re very happy with the turnout from the survey. With such a high participation rate in the future, GUSA and the administration will be able to use the data to craft more effective policies regarding sexual assault,” Luther wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Students across the community praised the survey’s results, calling it a welcome step forward in addressing issues of sexual misconduct on campus.

Brett Voyles (SFS ’19) said she appreciated the survey as a medium and platform for students to voice their personal opinions.

“I think we sometimes feel uncomfortable sometimes asking these questions, so I think it was important that they asked them. I felt like it was a good way for people to voice their opinions on what is actually going on,” Voyles said.

Jason Yoo (MSB ’18), said he thought that the low turnout from MSB students most likely stems from the timing of spring recruitment season for business internships.

“A lot of juniors and sophomores are more focused on getting internships for the summer,” he said. In response to the significant participation rate among members of the NHS, Alondra Navarro (COL ’19) said NHS students may have a greater interest in student health than students in other schools at Georgetown.

“A lot of the NHS students are in health, their objective is health, and I guess they have more of a passion for that,” Navarro said. “Whereas MSB students are more interested in business and not really interested in that topic or they don’t know much about it.”

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Nationally acclaimed comedians Nick Kroll (COL ’01) and John Mulaney (COL ’04) spoke in Gaston Hall on Tuesday morning about their experiences as part of Georgetown’s comedy scene, their advice for aspiring comedians and their most memorable stories about vomiting at Georgetown.

“I was leaving [Lauinger] and I was on my way to ‘Euro Civ’, and I threw up in those hedges right near the stairs. I didn’t just email my professor and say ‘I’m feeling sick, I can’t make it to class.’ I emailed her and said, ‘You will never believe what happened,’” Mulaney said, noting that he had the flu at the time.

Kroll’s most noteworthy vomit-related story took place during his freshman year, the morning after he had fallen down the stairs in New South and hit his head.

“I wake up the next morning with a huge bruise on the back of my head and I can’t stand up and then my friend comes in and she’s like, ‘We have a Spanish test.’ And I’m like, ‘I can’t go.’ And then my mom calls and is like, ‘We’re here!’” Kroll recalled.

Kroll said that his friend took him to the Leavey Center to get juice when he began to feel sick.

“I run to look for the bathroom, and I run to the bathroom and puke all over the door to the women’s bathroom,” Kroll said.

Georgetown University Student Association President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16), who are both members of the Georgetown Improv Association, introduced Mulaney and Kroll at the start of the event, which was sponsored by the Lecture Fund and moderated by associate board member Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17).

“Over the past decade, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have boarded a rocket ship to stardom. They are now two of the most recognizable names in comedy. They have truly set the world on fire,” Rohan said. “But not in the way that the Jesuits had hoped.”

Gaston Hall’s main seating area was nearly full with students, with no one sitting in the balcony. Kroll and Mulaney gestured to the empty balcony as they stepped on stage.

Kroll and Mulaney came to Gaston Hall while they were in D.C. to perform their twoman show “Oh, Hello,” which ran in Warner Theater on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Kroll and Mulaney play quirky old New Yorkers named Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland who, among other things, are known for pranking people by giving them sandwiches with “too much tuna.”

Kroll and Mulaney performed the offBroadway show in New York City in December and have since been touring the country.

The pair said that they have been working on the characters for a decade and were initially met with rejection.

“We were doing those guys 10 years ago and we were trying desperately to get into the Aspen Comedy Festival and they wouldn’t accept the show. They thought it was too old,” Kroll said. “It was pretty decimating to not get in. … But the other side of it was that we believed that this was funny and we needed to keep doing it.”

Kroll, the star of “The League” and “Kroll Show,” and Mulaney, a former “Saturday Night Live” writer known for his standup and his short-lived eponymous sitcom “Mulaney,” met while at Georgetown in 2001. Kroll, who was a senior at the time, said that he was immediately impressed by Mulaney’s audition for the Georgetown Improv Association.

“John was fantastic. As usual, good first impression and downhill after that,” Kroll quipped. “We cast him in the group and within a few weeks I was like, ‘This is the funniest person I’ve ever met.’”

“And I thought Nick was nice,” Mulaney added.

Mulaney said that it wasn’t until he saw the success of fellow alumni Kroll and comedian Mike Birbiglia (COL ’00), known for his standup and for his film “Sleepwalk with Me,” that he realized that a career in comedy was viable.

“Watching Nick and Birbiglia do comedy and get some sort of wage for it, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a real thing that can happen,’” Mulaney said.

Kroll encouraged students to not be scared off by the pre-professional tone set at Georgetown and to consider all their options.

“The time after college is a time to take some risks and do whatever it is that’s in your heart. The main philosophy that I took upon graduating was that I was more scared of regret than rejection,” Kroll said. “That was a huge thing for me. Like, whether I make it in comedy or not, I feel like I tried to do it. I didn’t want to look back and feel like I didn’t try.”

Kroll told aspiring comedians that they should fully commit to comedy if they hope to be successful.

“If you have a backup plan, instead of comedy … go do it. If you can’t commit entirely to the thing you want to do, then you’re not going to follow through,” Kroll said.

Much of what Kroll and Mulaney said during the event was met with laughter and applause. Some attendees said that they enjoyed both the comedic aspect of the discussion and the advice that Kroll and Mulaney offered.

Robert Kem (COL ’18) praised Mulaney and Kroll, noting their fondness for one another and their advice to individuals who aspire for careers in comedy.

“They were exciting speakers and I definitely appreciated their dedication to one another and their emphasis on perseverance when it comes to breaking into comedy,” Kem said.

The District of Columbia Universal Paid Leave Act, which would give people working in D.C. paid leave to care for a baby or ill relative, received the endorsement of D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) on Feb. 11, a major step forward for the bill.

The bill was spearheaded by Council members David Grosso (I-At Large) and Elissa Silverman (I-At Large), and if implemented, would allow workers in the District paid time off to care for a newborn, ailing relative or themselves if they were to fall ill.

Despite the newfound support, Mayor Muriel Bowser has expressed opposition to the bill because of its cost to taxpayers and the lack of decision-making input given to the mayor’s office by the D.C. Council.

Mendelson issued a new draft of the legislation at a council hearing Feb. 11, which reworked the bill to make it more economically viable and more attractive to taxpayers. His changes include reducing the amount of paid leave from 16 weeks to 12 weeks, decreasing the percentage that high-income earners are eligible to receive and restricting the leave of those with chronic and mental illnesses. Additionally, Mendelson’s draft requires employees to prove a legal relationship with the person for whom they are caring.

If enacted, the act would make D.C. a more generous place in the United States for workers to take time off, even with Mendelson’s cuts. According to The Washington Post, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both signaled support for the bill.

Grosso said the bill plays a pivotal role in demonstrating the District’s regard for its workers.

“This is something I think is very important and necessary for our city.

In fact, in the long run I think it’s important for our entire country,” Grosso said. “This is the next step for creating a country and a city that respects families for real.”

In addition to Bowser’s objections to the bill, other critics fear a negative impact on businesses. According to the proposal, District employers and residents would be required to pay 1 percent of payroll or income in taxes for the program. As an insurancebased model, the tax revenues would be put into a fund, into which employees could tap when in need.

In a testimony addressing the act at the council hearing, D.C. Chamber of Commerce Interim President and CEO Margaret Singleton expressed appreciation for the amendments

made to the legislation but also raised new concerns.

“We note that it still creates a new paid time off entitlement program administered by the government; it still makes the District of Columbia less competitive and attractive for businesses; it still supports itself by enforcing a maximum 1-percent tax on D.C. businesses; and it does not credit the businesses who already offer paid leave and benefit programs equal to or greater than what the program mandates,” Singleton said.

“These concerns, the bill’s costs, and its negative impact on the business community have yet to be fully addressed.”

Singleton also expressed concern for D.C. businesses and employers, who would be required to pay the 1 percent tax.

“The D.C. Chamber of Commerce and its members want to ensure that their employees are able to take care of themselves and their families,” Singleton said. “We consider our employees our most valuable assets and resources.”

However, D.C. Paid Family Leave campaign manager Joanna Blotner maintained that businesses would benefit from the legislation, citing increased incentives for workers to seek employment in the District because of the generous leave.

“I think we’ve heard from the small businesses who are supporting our campaign that it really has the opposite impact to what the chamber claims,” Blotner said.

“With D.C. being on the front lines of providing really strong paid family medical programs, we’re creating an economy where D.C. jobs now provide the best benefits in the country.

That increases the talent pool, the competitiveness and the market for these businesses. When we’re talking about recruitment and retention, this gives our D.C. economy a huge leg up.”

Mendelson similarly expressed hope that the act will attract new workers to the District in a press release published Feb. 11.

“I think the preferred perspective on the legislation is that we should be looking at what we can do that is business-friendly for the District and maximizes benefit for workers,” Mendelson said. “We have the opportunity, through this legislation, that if we strike the right balance, it will make the city more attractive to employers because it will be more attractive to employees through the benefit package that this bill would provide.”

However, Blotner also criticized various aspects of Mendelson’s cuts, including the strict definitions of a legal relationship with family mem-

bers receiving care from employees.

“On the family definition side, the bill currently says that a family member is defined by legal custody, domestic partnership or marriage or a foster child. While that is all well and good for people that fall into those boundaries, it still excludes a lot of people,” Blotner said. “Siblings, grandparents and adult children are left out.”

According to current D.C. job-protection laws, employers cannot replace an employee on leave for at least 16 weeks after the worker begins his time off, a policy upon which Grosso builds in his proposal.

“This is just creating a mechanism so that when workers are out for that time, which they already have a right to be out for, they don’t go bankrupt,” Grosso said.

In its current state, the bill would cover the entirety of the private sector workforce.

The pay replacement would be 90 percent for those making up to double minimum wage and would scale down for those making above that point. This mechanism ensures that the people who are most in need of financial resources have their highest pay replaced.

Blotner emphasized the importance of the act in providing security to families going through difficult times.

“The situation that we’re facing in the District is one where people are making these terrible choices between caring for themselves and their loved ones, or earning the money they need for providing for themselves, and we have an opportunity and a solution, a policy that can fix that,” Blotner said.

“The paid family leave policy is about creating a system that really allows people to take the time that they need to care for their families and care for themselves without risking the financial security that they need to be members of society and of the workforce.”

Despite the opposition, Grosso expressed continued confidence that the bill will pass, as it will benefit both employers and employees in the District.

“I think the business community is going to have to make an adjustment, but the fact is that this won’t be an enormous cost to them and they’ll get enormous benefit from it,” Grosso said.

“Employees will be able to be paid to take time off and take care of the situations that they find themselves in, whether it’s a new baby or caring for their elderly parent, and that I think is a greater benefit than the loss that they’ll face having to pay into this fund.”

GUPD Talks Safety Initiatives Julia Anastos

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Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber highlighted GUPD’s new Sexual Assault Response Team and addressed student concerns in light of the D.C. Policing Bill at a roundtable discussion in the Leavey Program Room on Feb. 10.

The proposed bill will increase GUPD jurisdiction and allow officers to handle student conduct situations off campus. As of press time, there is no scheduled date for the bill’s vote.

Gruber began the discussion by highlighting new safety initiatives GUPD has implemented, including the installation of card readers in residence halls and overall increased security.

GUPD continues to facilitate new “Run. Hide. Fight.” trainings for students, faculty and campus groups. These trainings outline how to deal with active shooter situations on campus. GUPD is also offering self-defense classes for both men and women.

“We put a lot of programs in place recently that I think sort of enhance the safety and security on campus,” Gruber said.

Gruber continued the discussion on GUPD initiatives by highlighting efforts addressing sexual misconduct. Gruber noted the assembly of the new Sexual Assault Response Team, and explained how the care needed to address cases involving survivors of sexual assault needed a specially trained team.

“If we screw this up, if we treat them badly, if we don’t provide them with the resources that they need, we have failed them,” Gruber said. “Getting the [SART] together was extremely important to me, and I am really happy we have that resource for survivors.”

A trained SART officer is available to the community 24 hours a day at GUPD, and Gruber encouraged survivors of sexual assault to take advantage of these specifically trained officers if they want to contact the police about their situation.

The roundtable soon turned to focus on the new bill proposed by the D.C. City Council, known as the D.C. Policing Bill. Many students at the roundtable expressed

their concerns about the bill, which would increase jurisdiction for GUPD and give officers the freedom to handle student conduct issues offcampus. Gruber, in an attempt to assuage fears and concerns, discussed the bill and dispelled myths surrounding it.

“It provides absolutely zero criminal jurisdiction. We can’t enforce laws offcampus, we can’t enforce traffic law, criminal law, we can’t write criminal citations, any of that,” Gruber said. “What it provides for us is the ability for us to go offcampus for some sort of student conduct violation.”

If the bill is passed in its current state, GUPD would have to submit a safety plan to the Metropolitan Police Department for approval.

Gruber believed such a relationship with MPD would provide oversight for GUPD’s increased jurisdiction as well as its actions in off-campus situations.

“The safety plan would be confirmed by MPD,” Guber said. “So there are some checks and balances.”

Gruber also emphasized how he hoped there would be a collaborative approach taken to creating the safety plan, which would include input from students, faculty, administrators and all members of the Georgetown community.

Gruber also said he does not intend to use the bill to simply crack down on the social lives of students living offcampus.

“I never want to see a lot of my police officers offcampus,” he said.

Following Gruber’s remarks on the bill, many students remain concerned with the bill’s potential effects on off-campus student living.

Off-campus Senator of the Georgetown University Student Association Senate and Intellectual Life Chair Eric Henshall (COL ’16) said he was concerned about the new pressures on students the bill would create.

“I think the big issue is that even if GUPD doesn’t want to use a lot of the expanded jurisdiction they have, I’m more concerned about pressure from the neighbors, pressure that may be coming from Chief Gruber’s superiors or future Chiefs of Police who

would be looking to crack down on student life,” Henshall said.

Speaker of the GUSA senate and 2016 GUSA presidential candidate Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) noted there are strong elements of the bill, but GUSA and student government bodies at other D.C. universities, such as American University and The George Washington University, would like to see amendments and further revision to the authority of campus officers.

“The bill does have some great elements to it,” Khan said. “The main concern of course is administrative authority on off-campus matters.”

Director of the Student Advocacy Office Ryan Shymansky (COL ’16) also supports some of the provisions of the bill, but said the increased jurisdiction of GUPD could affect students in the longterm future.

“There are parts of this that make a lot of sense, increased training for special police officers, allowing special police officers to assist Metro in certain situations, but just extending jurisdiction is wrong,” Shymansky said.

Shymansky emphasized working in collaboration with Gruber and GUPD can create safer living environments for students in the short and long term.

“I think that working with Chief Gruber on this is something we can look to after the bill is passed,” Shymansky said. “On the immediate term, the focus needs to be on changing it so that it protects students and neighbors.”

Both Henshall and Khan noted Gruber’s willingness to engage with students on this issue. Henshall spoke highly of the SSAB as a reliable venue to voice student concerns to GUPD. “It would be nice to see more departments in the university adopting that model,” Henshall said.

Toward the end of the roundtable, Gruber noted how GUPD does not exist to get students in trouble, but it is there to keep all students safe.

“The bottom line is, I’m here for the students. I’m not here for the police department to run an interdisciplinary program, I’m here to keep the students safe,” Gruber said.

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According to Doh, the results of the election may be released after a special session of the GUSA senate on Friday or Saturday, where the procedural issues that the Election Commission raised will be presented.

“We’re not telling the senate our results when we’re going into the briefing. We’re getting checked on our procedures, and then if they say it’s okay then will release them right away,” Doh said.

Doh said the commission’s decision to delay the release of the results, which was made Thursday afternoon, was made to ensure that the election followed GUSA’s bylaws.

“We will be counting votes today but we will not be releasing results, and we will not tell the senate either,” Doh said.

“The decision was made today, and we decided among ourselves to wait for the Senate’s hearing.”

GUSA Election Commissioner Grady Willard (SFS ’18) said that although the commissioners would not specify the procedural issues in question, the 2016 race’s inclusion of multiple write-in tickets may have influenced the procedural details of the election.

“Rather than get into the specifics, we would rather have the senate decide and make it a little fairer than us deciding,” Willard said. “It’s just different in the fact that there was one set of candidates who filed and there were many write-ins.”

Khan and Fisk, led by campaign manager Alex Bobroske (SFS ’17) and a campaign team of over 200 students — one of the largest in GUSA history — received endorsements from the editorial boards of The Hoya and The Georgetown Voice.

The Khan-Fisk ticket campaigned on a 23-issue, comprehensive platform that highlighted inclusivity, restructuring GUSA and socio-economic inclusion as the principal topics of their campaign. If elected, early priorities for the Khan-Fisk ticket include addressing campus dining quality and contract options, as well as campus planning and the D.C. Policing Bill that would extend the Georgetown University Police Department’s jurisdiction to outside the front gates.

The Howard-Maduike ticket, led by campaign manager Bserat Ghebremicael (MSB ’17), announced its write-in campaign Monday through social media and an informal town hall.

Howard and Maduike decided to run in response to news that the race was uncontested and that Khan would be in New York over the summer interning for Goldman Sach’s, preventing Khan from fulfilling her presidential duties to stay on campus to interact with administrators and negotiate the campus plan.

Howard and Maduike appealed unsuccessfully to the Election Commission and GUSA Constitutional Council to be placed on the official ballot. The HowardMaduike campaign focused on three core issues: college affordability, race issues on the Hilltop and advocacy on behalf of students on the 2017-2037 Campus Plan.

On Thursday — in response to a second petition from Howard and Maduike — the GUSA Constitutional Council ruled to include five write-in slots on the ballot, which in years past has only included one slot for write-in candidates.

GUSA Constitutional Council Chief Justice Josh Shinbrot (COL ’16) said that the unique circumstances of the 2016 election necessitated the addition of extra write-in slots.

“A ballot with one write-in slot would have severely limited student choice,” Shinbrot wrote in a message to The Hoya on Wednesday. “Given the ambiguity of the bylaws, the [Constitutional Council] chose to protect choice and instruct the [Election Commission] to add more writein slots.”

Khan said the addition of five write-in slots to the ballot might have prompted the Election Commission’s decision Friday to delay the release of election results.

“I think it’s no surprise because there were five write-in slots. But this doesn’t change anything for us, we’re just happy to be together,” Khan said.

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14.03 and 13.14, the Election Commission is strongly suggested to report the results of the election the day after, but must report the results within 72 hours of the election’s conclusion. Additionally, the GUSA senate is required to confirm the results of the selection with a two-thirds majority, or vote for a new election to be held within two weeks.

In reaction to the postponement of election results, Howard said students should explore the reasons behind his and Maduike’s candidacy.

“I think Georgetown students are going to be much more interested in looking into the reasons behind why there was only one ticket, why another ticket decided to get into the race so late so that Georgetown students could have a viable credible alternative.”

Howard also questioned the validity of a senate confirmation on the results of the election, citing Khan’s position as speaker of the senate as a source of contention.

“I think it’s interesting that the senate would have to affirm the results of the election and Enushe is the speaker of that body, and everyone including the vice speaker has an incentive for them to win the election,” Howard said. “When we’re looking at the fairness in all of this, we have to consider the fact that institutionally everything points to favor Enushe.

And I think that there are some significant problems with that.”

Maduike said the current election system places students who are not involved with GUSA at a disadvantage.

“These GUSA elections are skewed in favor of people who are already GUSA insiders. The way that the system is set up is not welcoming or easy for students outside of this GUSA system to fairly and effectively break in and bring in more voices like so many candidates have been saying for the past however many years,” Maduike said. “I think that’s something important to consider moving forward: that perhaps it’s the system itself that is broken, not the individuals making it so.”

Maduike also said write-in candidates, like her and Howard, were at a fundamental disadvantage because of the election commissioner’s rules.

“Write-in candidates were systematically disadvantaged from so-called ‘official candidates,’” Maduike said. “Any candidate who wants to exercise their right to be a leader on this campus, if they put in the work and they present themselves well, should not be disadvantaged just because of traditions and arbitrary rules that were set up that aren’t found in the bylaws.”

Howard also noted that specific formatting rules in voting may have prevented some write-in votes from being counted.

“The reason that I’m upset about the write-in formatting rules is that they’re gonna throw out votes from students who were just trying to have their voice represented, but might have misspelled a name or might have formatted something incorrectly,” Howard said. “I think that’s disrespectful to the Georgetown students who voted, and not consistent with the mission of GUSA to represent students.”

Samantha Granville (COL ’17), who serves as co-director of outreach for the Khan-Fisk ticket, said their campaign is hopeful for a positive result Sunday.

“I’m still really optimistic about everything. We worked really hard. I’m disappointed we are not going to know tonight, our adrenaline has been going for the past 48 hours for the final push,” Granville said. “I’m still really optimistic that it will turn out in our favor.”

Anirudha Vaddadi (SFS ’16), who serves as a translator for the Hot Chick-Chicken Madness ticket, said on behalf of the Chicken Madness sandwich that the campaign remains optimistic.

“I think it’s a good sign. I think it’s a very close race and the GUSA commissioners will consider candidates very closely. They would not have held off the election result until Sunday if it were an outright victory for [Enushe and Chris],” Vaddadi said. “We have been very patient this election and we want the right leader to be chosen.”

Hoya Staff Writers Syed Humza Moinuddin, Ian Scoville, Molly Cooke and Jack Lynch contributed reporting.

making the Dean’s List all four years and graduating summa cum laude as valedictorian of his class. After a junior year abroad in Fribourg, Switzerland, Scalia was named as part of the Who’s Who his senior year, a list of students who left an impact on campus through their leadership in both academics and extracurricular commitments.

The appellation was fitting for Scalia, who dove into drama and debate during his college years. As a freshman, Scalia joined the Gaston-White Debating Society, the now-defunct underclassman wing of the Philodemic Society. He quickly displayed his argumentative skill, winning the Edward Douglass White Medal — named for the other Supreme Court justice who was a member of Philodemic — as the best debater in a 1954 tournament held among freshmen and sophomores in the society.

Throughout his four years, Scalia was one of the best debaters in the society: He held leadership positions, including the presidency of the GastonWhite Society his sophomore year, and often propelled the team to victories at travel tournaments, including the prestigious Hall of Fame tournament at New York University in both his sophomore and senior years.

A lover of the opera with a flair for the dramatic — a June 2015 dissenting opinion related to a ruling on the Affordable Care Act featuring “jiggery-pokery” and “pure applesauce” comes to mind — Scalia was also president of the Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society as a sophomore and performed with the troupe throughout his years on campus.

In his senior year for a performance of “The First Legion,” a play about the Jesuits, Scalia played the role of Rev. Mark Ahern, S.J., who was described as “a vigorous and virile character who is something of a romantic individual” (The Hoya, Oct. 23, 1956, A1) — a description that would likely have amused the notoriously self-deprecating Scalia.

The part was fitting, though, as Scalia — a staunch, lifelong Catholic — had himself considered the priesthood at one point.

“I was in a class with him taught by a Jesuit who would later go on to be dean of the school,” said Walt Reilly (CAS ’57), who lived across the hall from Scalia as a freshman in Ryan Hall. “Nino challenged him on some religious dogma, and it was fascinating to see that Nino knew more about the history of the church law than the Jesuit did.”

Scalia’s Catholic upbringing collided with his interest in the law, playing a large role in his firm belief in conservative principles from an early age. Kevin Robb (CAS ’58), a friend of Scalia’s who succeeded him as valedictorian and a captain in the Philodemic Society, said the two frequently discussed St. Thomas Aquinas and his structured theology.

“It was a very intellectual interest in Nino’s case. He was interested in theological history, distinctions in Thomas Aquinas between existence and essence,” Robb said. “Although he went to mass, and he prayed, he wasn’t ostentatious about it.”

As valedictorian, Scalia gave the Cohonguroton Oration, reprinted in the Georgetown University College Journal with the editors offering only the simple inscription, “We feel that it is one of the finest in recent years.”

In the address, a plea for the graduates to “head the quest for truth,” Scalia lingered — already — on the impact of the past.

“We have not been alone in our hunt,” Scalia said. “We have been aided by the stories of the hunts that others made, the great pathfinders in the forest of the mind, long, long ago and far away from us. From their successes we have learned, and from their failures profited.”

“Get Over It” Upon graduation, Scalia ventured north to Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor for the Harvard Law Review, graduating magna cum laude in 1960. After a stint at an international law firm and as a law professor at the University of Virginia, Scalia served in the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before returning to academia at the University of Chicago Law School in 1977.

Scalia taught at the university for five years, taking brief visiting professorships at Stanford and Georgetown

University Law Center.

In 1982, Ronald Reagan nominated Scalia for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, generally considered a breeding ground for future Supreme Court justices. Scalia fulfilled this destiny in 1986 when the Senate unanimously confirmed him to the nation’s highest court in a 98-0 vote during Reagan’s presidency.

True to his debating and theater roots, Scalia injected the often-sedate oral arguments with vibrant discussion, dissecting lawyers’ arguments from the bench.

“Oral arguments are a little bit like theater and a little bit like debate.

There’s the gamesmanship of the stylized encounter, and he loved it,” government professor Douglas Reed said.

As an originalist in Constitutional interpretation and textualist in legal interpretation, Scalia established himself as the intellectual leader of the conservative bloc of the court, according to GULC professor Paul Rothstein, much of whose work centers on judicial processes.

“Scalia was the most articulate and the cleverest of the conservatives on the court, and moved the court more in the direction of his thinking, which is that the Constitution is less flexible than the liberals think, and that you should stick a little closer to what the drafters thought fairly literally, and not just trying to determine the spirit of what the drafters wanted,” Rothstein said.

Scalia’s contribution to originalism culminated with the case of District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, where he wrote the majority opinion interpreting the Second Amendment as a protection of the individual’s ability to possess firearms for self-defense.

“It’s not up to me to decide what is justice and what is law,” Scalia said in a November 2015 address at GULC on the role of judges. “I can’t tell you how often I reach results that I don’t like.”

However, Scalia drew criticism for a perceived inconsistency in his application of originalist principles, claiming that he only used it in support of decisions he politically supported.

Beyond inconsistency, Scalia, even after death, remains an intensely polarizing figure, criticized for his positions that often cleanly line up with conservative politics: rejection of gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, criticism of affirmative action in the hearings on Fisher v.

University of Texas and the certification of the 2000 election in Bush v. Gore. Scalia was asked about the latter so many times at law schools that in a 2012 CNN interview he said, “Get over it.”

Ideologically, Scalia justified his regular application of conservative principles through an appeal to democracy over what he thought was an undemocratic judicial process: In the Cruzan v. Missouri case, the justice famously argued that the nine Supreme Court justices had no more informed opinion that nine people chosen at random in a Kansas City phone book.

“He articulated that there are many issues judges shouldn’t be involved in, that the political process should be allowed to go forward, even if that might have intruded on the rights of political minorities,” Reed said.

In an email to the GULC community, law professor Gary Peller criticized the lionization of Scalia. “[Scalia] was not a legal figure to be lionized or emulated by our students.

He bullied lawyers, trafficked in the personal humiliation of advocates and openly sided with the party of intolerance in the ‘culture wars’ he often invoked,” Peller wrote. “As an academic institution, I believe that we should be wary of contributing to the mystification of people because of the lofty official positions they achieved.”

“Why Don’t You Go Quietly?”

Scalia always believed that his rejection from Princeton was a result of his Sicilian and Catholic background, rather than failure on his part — although this never translated into support for affirmative action. Despite the perceived slight, Scalia was reportedly never unhappy with his time at Georgetown, instead crediting it as playing an instrumental role in his development.

“He always expressed his gratitude for his Jesuit education,” former Georgetown President Fr. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., (CAS ’57) said. “He thought he had been offered a very

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Never afraid to speak his mind, Scalia expressed worry about the integrity of Georgetown’s Catholic identity, wondering, for example, why students were no longer required to go on retreats.

“He was not shy about his criticism of Georgetown over a long period of time, and he was never shy about letting me know about a variety of issues regarding our Catholic identity. But he was unfailingly respectful and polite to me in sharing those perspectives,” DeGioia said. “I always knew where I stood with him.”

As associate justice, Scalia paid special attention to law students, particularly in his vigorous dissents. In his November address at GULC, Scalia claimed dissents at the Supreme Court were only useful as tools of study and thus tried to make them “clear” and “interesting.”

“You’ve had your chance. You’ve lost.

Why don’t you go quietly?” Scalia said.

“The kids in law school, I think there’s still a chance. That’s who I write my dissents for.”

GULC professor Randy Barnett took his “Originalism in Theory and Practice” students to visit Scalia in his chambers for the past few summers and was also planning a weeklong originalism “boot camp” for May of this year, which would have featured discussions with Scalia and fellow Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Scalia frequently visited classes as a guest speaker and gave lectures to the university community on multiple occasions, both on campus and at the GULC. “I am deeply grateful for his remarkably generous involvement in our community,” Treanor said in a statement.

“He cared passionately about the profession, about the law and about the future, and the students who were fortunate enough to hear him will never forget the experience.”

“Sundays in Lent Don’t Count” Scalia died only weeks short of his 80th birthday and is survived by his wife, Maureen, and nine children. One of the most touching tributes in the wake of his passing came from his closest friend on the court and ideological opposite, Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

“We were best buddies,” Ginsburg wrote in her public tribute to Scalia.

“He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh.”

Descriptions of Scalia universally touch on these two points: The man was brilliant, and the man was funny.

The former has thus far been easy to illustrate; his wit, on the other hand, is more difficult to capture.

As two Italians, DeGioia recalled being seated with Scalia frequently at St. Patrick’s Day dinners; Scalia, whose wife is Irish, once gave the opening speech and justified his appearance by referencing his “four-and-a-half Irish children.”

Perhaps the best summation of Scalia came from a dinner O’Donovan had with the justice and his wife on a Sunday in Lent — the most important day of the week during the season. Having given up alcohol for Lent, O’Donovan asked for water.

“He said, ‘Oh, Sundays in Lent don’t count!’” O’Donovan recalled. “He was never a man uncertain of his opinions.”

Hoya Staff Writers Suzanne Monyak and Mallika Sen contributed reporting.

Students Reject Live Registration Article Urges Contraceptive Care REGISTRATION, from A1 about the results and let him know that this is where student opinion is now,” Mulpuri said. “We’re hoping to continue that conversation over the summer with the replacement for the registrar which they said should be named by July.”

GUSA Senator for the Village A District Samantha Granville (COL ’17), who supported live registration, said there is still a chance the university could opt to adopt live registration, though it is unlikely.

“I think they’re definitely going to consider [live registration] just because it was the senate that first put it up for a vote, more in the interests of what students want,” Granville said. “Eighty-three percent definitely says something, but then again they are considering [live registration] for a reason, but as I said before, it was

a huge, huge majority of people who want to keep it.”

This year’s referendum participation, estimated at around 2,500 votes, fell lower than the 2,996 votes reached in the last referendum in 2013 over the potential expansion of a satellite campus.

According to GUSA Election Commissioner Grady Willard (SFS ’18), this could be due to the lack of interest in the singleticket executive race as well as the issue itself.

“I think it’s obvious that the GUSA election is dominated not by the referendum, but by the candidates, and this race only had one candidate, so that influenced the fact that turnout was a whole lot lower,” Willard said. “I wasn’t here, but I’m sure a lot of people did not like the idea of having a satellite campus somewhere in Virginia ... more than the idea of live registration.”

ZIKA, from A1 virus to push abortion on the largely Catholic, pro-life countries in South America,” Doris wrote.

“Advising women to have an abortion goes directly against the teaching of the Catholic Church, and therefore the very principles that Georgetown was founded upon.”

Phelan and Gostin declined to comment further on the issue.

Michael Khan (COL ’18), president of the secular Georgetown Right to Life, criticized Phelan and Gostin for representing a departure from church doctrine.

“Frankly, I thought it was outrageous. Ending a child’s life is never the solution to a problem,

and the fact that Georgetown professors would advocate widespread abortion as a solution to a health epidemic is truly unconscionable,” Khan said.

However, Sophia Kleyman (COL ’16), president of pro-abortion rights student group H*yas for Choice, which is unaffiliated with the university, defended the authors’ position, arguing the virus highlights the abysmal situation of women’s rights and health care around the world. ”It’s completely hypocritical that countries that make abortion completely illegal and birth control functionally inaccessible, are asking women to somehow magically not get pregnant,” Kleyman wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Declara-

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tions like this are exceptionally insulting and offensive to women, completely ignoring the astronomically high rates of sexual assault.

Khan agreed current dialogue on pregnant women’s options toward microcephaly is inadequate, but he contended this is because abortion is presented as the only alternative.

“The conversation we should be having is that there definitely should be more clinics with child care resources for these women, not only in the United States, but in these affected places in Latin America,” Khan said.

Georgetown University Official Spokesperson Stacy Kerr did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.

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Georgetown students hailing from states around the country registered to vote by way of absentee ballots in anticipation of upcoming presidential primaries at a voter registration drive called GU Votes: Absentee Voter Registration Party in Sellinger Lounge on Wednesday.

Hosted by GU Votes, a subcommittee with the Institute of Politics and Public Service, along with the College Democrats and College Republicans, the event aimed to register Georgetown students to vote before the fast-approaching deadlines, especially those from states that will be participating in the upcoming Super Tuesday primaries.

The event lasted two hours and in that time, over 30 students from more than seven different states including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas and Virginia, each with their own distinct voter registration process, registered to vote.

IPPS Director of Programming Sophie Goldmacher said the event was initiated by the institute’s desire to encourage more students to vote despite a complicated registration process.

“As a hub of political activity and engagement on campus, GU Politics felt like it was our responsibility to help Hoyas navigate the sometimes confusing world of registering to vote and absentee balloting,” Goldmacher said. “The best part is, GU Votes is totally driven and managed

by Georgetown students – Hoyas helping Hoyas have a voice in the political process.”

TurboVote, a nonprofit voter registration organization used at college campuses across the country that recently forged a relationship with Georgetown, provided technological support for the event. The nonprofit aids students in navigating their states’ voting process by helping them register, obtain absentee ballots and vote by mail.

Zach Esber (COL ’19) emphasized the impact TurboVote had on streamlining registration.

“It really expedited the process. Our system of registering to vote in general is pretty convoluted so I was surprised with how simple it was to use TurboVote,” Esber said. “Anything that makes voting easier, especially on a college campus, is worthwhile.”

For GU Votes, getting students to register themselves and vote is of paramount importance. The program takes aim at

political apathy on campus by encouraging students to take time in their busy schedules to register.

Goldmacher highlighted the power of voting, especially for students, as a means of ensuring representation.

“Voting is one of our most fundamental rights as Americans, and we encourage students to vote no matter their political party,” Goldmacher said.

IPPS Student Advisory Board member Madwa-Nika Cadet (MPP ’17), who volunteered at the event, said registering is a necessary step to take in enacting change.

“Being registered is the first step towards exercising your right as a citizen to express yourself. I think young people don’t want to vote, they say that the system is broken and they don’t want to participate,” Cadet said. “If that’s true, that the system is already broken, voting can help make it better.”

GU Votes member Gabriela Barrera (SFS ’19), who helped register other students, acknowledged the difficulty of absentee voting, but encouraged all students to take the time to register.

“Voting is an extremely important process, but I can testify to the fact that when you have to worry about extracurriculars and academics it’s really easy to forget to register absentee and get your ballot in,” Barrera said. “Our project is to make sure that with all the hustle and bustle of college life, students are still able to vote.”

Luc Woodard (MSB ’18), who registered to vote by absentee ballot during the event, agreed that voting provides him, and other students, the best option to participate in the political process.

“I think any time that you push to get younger people to vote it’s good. Historically young people have been one of the least represented groups,” Woodard said.

“I decided to register to vote today because I feel that right now I’m really disappointed in the current political state of the U.S. and if I didn’t register and didn’t make my voice heard then I wouldn’t have the right to be disappointed in the results of the election.”

Barrera said that in light of the currently tumultuous presidential elections, the success of the event, as well as the creation of GU Votes itself, can be attributed to the collective value of voter registration.

“Spring break is coming up in a few weeks, go back home and register to vote,” Barrera said. “Do whatever you can to make sure that your voice as a college student, your voice as a millennial, is heard.”

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The Institute of Politics and Public Service hosted its Voter Registration Party for students to register by absentee ballot for upcoming primaries.

The Northeast Triangle Residence Hall is expected to be completed on schedule this summer and will house sophomores beginning in the fall.

Students will be able to preview the building beginning Feb. 26 in Sellinger Lounge, where they will also be able to vote on the furniture for the building’s common areas.

The building had a construction cost of $36.5 million and an overall project cost of $46 million.

Located between the Henle Village apartments and the Reiss Science Building, the eight-story, 81,220-square-foot residence hall will house 225 beds in semi-suite arrangements capable of holding two, four or six students in double bedrooms with shared bathrooms.

Each floor includes a kitchen, lounge and study room. Public amenities on the first floor will also include a multi-purpose space, a study space, a demonstration kitchen and an outdoor space with seating and a grilling area.

According to Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey, planning for the building began in fall 2012 as part of the 2010 Campus Plan’s requirement that 450 beds be moved on campus by 2017. Construction officially began in the spring of 2014.

“The technical piece of it was the new campus plan,” Morey said. “The bigger and broader picture as part of our master planning efforts is that we wanted to develop a living and learning campus.”

Morey noted that the goal to find more on-campus living arrangements for students spurred the university to make the north side of campus more populated.

“We heard complaints from students who live in Darnall and Henle that they felt isolated,” Morey said.

“The Northeast Triangle was an opportunity to better utilize some open space that did not have the highest and best land use.”

Morey said that receiving authorization from the Old Georgetown Board, a regulatory body that approves architecture, construction and renovations in the Georgetown district, was the most challenging part of the process. Composed of three architects, the board is run by the Commission of Fine Arts, a federal entity.

Tasked with preserving the historic nature of Georgetown neighborhoods, the Old Georgetown Board had reservations about the early designs of the Northeast Triangle, criticizing them for not fitting in with the surrounding aesthetic of university buildings.

“We originally tried to get more of a modern style of building with a transition from the historic to the more modern,” Morey said. “We went through several iterations of that process. We changed the design pretty significantly to what you see now.”

When the plan for the building was first put into motion, the university formed a design committee of administrators and students to give feedback on the early designs.

Georgetown University Student Association Secretary for Residential Living Connor Maytnier (COL ‘17) served

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Construction of the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall is expected to be completed this summer, ready for residents in the fall. on this committee his freshman year, weighed in on the early designs put forth by the design architecture firm, Sasaki Associates.

“Sasaki had shown a couple different options, and the exterior of the building went through some changes with the towers, brick versus stone, et cetera,” Maytnier said.

“It went through a couple iterations.

We were just giving some general feedback in terms of what students like when we think about the exterior of buildings.”

The glass exterior of the first floor will be open to the campus community, and a glass tower on the north side of the building will contain glass-floor lounges on each story. The rest of the building will be stone and brick to create private spaces for bedrooms.

“What this building tries to do is pull all of that materiality together and make a transition from the historic stone of the Healy quad to the more modern brick and glass of [Rafik B. Hariri Building] and Regents [Hall],” Morey said.

Assistant Vice President of Design and Construction Gina Bleck, who has overseen the project from the beginning, emphasized how the building’s materials strive to combine the university’s future with its historic past.

“Materiality was about bridging between the historic campus and more modern elements,” Bleck said.

“That’s how we got to something that is very modern but respects the historic properties of White Gravenor.

We tried to get a stone that would be compatible and articulate it in a way that was modern but reminiscent of the historic.”

Bleck said the building will include a wide, grand staircase and a new ramp for students with physical disabilities, replacing a previous ramp that did not meet the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The newly opened space between the Northeast Triangle and Red Square will also include cafe tables and chairs. The currently closed

Leavey Center Bridge will also be reopened, giving students a direct route from the Northeast Triangle plaza to the Leavey Center.

“Architecturally and from a planning perspective, the experience of the space between Reiss and Northeast Triangle enhances the campus experience,tiBleck said. aid. lly and from a planning perspective, the experience of the spa I am very confident that the space will be lovely and well used by students.”

Senior Architect in the Office of Design and Construction Amy Sanderson encouraged rising sophomores to attend the preview Feb. 26.

“It’s great,” Sanderson said. “It gives you a great idea of what the building will be like, what the rooms will look like, and whether or not you will be interested in living there.

It’s really beneficial for students.”

The new dorm will house the French Floor and the Global Living Community as well as a chaplain-inresidence and a faculty-in-residence, Assistant Dean for Residential Living Stephanie Lynch confirmed in an email to The Hoya.

GUSA Secretary of Campus Planning Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) said that although the dorm would be a nice residence hall, he is uneasy about the mandatory three-year housing requirement now placed on upperclassmen.

Where I have pause is the fact that the Northeast Triangle I don’t think is an inherently necessary positive addition to student life on campus,” Goldstein said. “It’s a building that we built practically because of the neighbors.

It was never a necessary expenditure of money and space on campus, but, given the restrictions imposed by the last campus plan, Residential Living is doing their best to put together a good residence hall.”

Morey expressed enthusiasm for the project’s completion.

“When it’s done we’re going to have improved accessibility on campus, we’re going to have strengthened a walkway and fortified it, and we’re going to have more community on the north side,” Morey said.

GUMC Researcher Studies HIV-Positive Communities Gaia Mattiace Hoya Staff Writer

The National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities recently awarded Michael Plankey, associate professor of medicine and an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Georgetown University Medical Center, with a $2.1 million dollar grant over five years to study healthy aging among HIV-positive gay and bisexual males.

Professor and Director of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Ron Stall will work with Plankey to conduct the longitudinal study, which involves 1,600 participants.

Participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study are gay or bisexual men aged 40 or older gay, with and without HIV. MACS, which started in 1983, has so far studied 7,000 gay men nationwide.

The research will require participants to return every six months for the next three years to undergo physical examinations, give blood specimens and answer demographic, medical and behavioral questionnaires.

Plankey and Stall developed the idea in 2013 in response to a lack of studies that investigated strengths and countermeasures that can be taken to help HIV sufferers, as most studies conducted examined their health risks only.

Stall emphasized the impact this largely negative outlook has on those afflicted with HIV in preventing the discovery of helpful measures.

“One of the big themes in the study that we are looking at is that

the overarching trope for describing gay men in general, but for sure older gay men, ... ‘We don’t have enough knowledge, we have too much sex, we use too many drugs, we engage in too many bad behaviors’ and that all of these things need to be fixed,” Stall said.

According to Stall, the study is particularly timely, as currently more than half of all people living with HIV are older than age 50. Stall said that this demographic group has been allowed to live with their disease and age because of great medical advancements, but research into ways to help this aging population suffering from multiple afflictions remains deficient.

Stall noted that although many have thrived despite being HIVpositive, there are new challenges presented by aging that add to the difficulties of living with the virus.

“You’ve got a whole cohort of people who are older, gay men who have lived with the effects of homophobia their entire lives, some of whom are also HIV-positive and fighting from the effects of a serious disease who are also fighting with the many health problems that are concomitant of aging itself and the social aspects of aging,” Stall said.

Stall said this group of participants is ideal for the study seeing as they represent both the HIV-positive and negative populations and are all facing the challenges of aging.

“We do not know how to take care of all of these multiple health and social issues with a new cohort of HIV-positive people who are now entering old age,” Stall said. “And so this cohort is perfectly set up to help us answer those questions.”

Plankey said the project will allow

for the identification of resiliencies, which are healthy living conditions that can improve medical care for both infected and uninfected gay and bisexual men.

“A good part of this grant is to identify what those resiliencies are,” Plankey said. “This particular grant is to discover the full compass of resiliencies that keep men from risky behaviors and poor health outcomes.”

Stall emphasized the study’s aim in gaining insight into these resiliencies to truly help those who are struggling.

“Many of these guys are balancing and dealing with the challenges of aging, homophobia, HIV and they are doing spectacularly well and so maybe if we focused on what are the strengths of this population and what are the resiliencies,” Stall said. “Then we would also be able to export these resiliencies to other men who aren’t doing as well and raise the levels of health in the whole population. So that’s the hope and the excitement of this study.”

Stall expressed excitement to be able to partake in one of the principal studies on this age group.

“There haven’t been very many studies on aging among gay people, and this will for sure be one of the largest and one of the first and so it’s a remarkable opportunity to be part of this,” Stall said.

Program Director of the National HIV/AIDS Initiative at Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Jeffrey S. Crowley said the study truly hits at the heart of the problem and comes at the right time to provide the necessary support for

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Georgetown University Medical Center researcher Michael Plankey received a $2.1 million grant to study HIV-positive males. the population participating in the study.

“If we are to realize our goal and the vision for the country’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy in which all people living with HIV are well supported in systems of care that enable them to lead long and healthy lives, then we must glean lessons from the men of the MACS cohort that have been heroes of

the HIV response for more than 30 years,” Crowley wrote in an email to The Hoya . “This study is being led by visionary leaders in the field and as we increasingly acknowledge the need to promote resiliency within the LGBT community as a primary strategy for reducing the impact of HIV on gay and bisexual men, it cannot come at a more opportune time.”

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Gravitational Waves Detected GRAVITY, from A10

Observatory announced the detection of honest-to-God gravitational waves, confirming Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

A wave is a repeated pattern of movement travelling through some medium. A stadium wave is the travelling pattern of rising and falling hands. A tidal wave is the travelling pattern of water rising and falling through the ocean. A gravity wave is the travelling pattern of the fabric of “spacetime” vibrating through existence. These vibrations in the four-dimensional spacetime fabric are caused when an object with mass distorts the fabric by mere virtue of its mass. This is a bit like vibrations in a twodimensional trampoline fabric when your feet distort that fabric by mere virtue of your body’s mass. Spacetime is the paper on which the universe is drawn, and the universe can be wrinkled just as a picture drawn on a piece of paper can be.

When it comes to observing things in deep space, we have been limited to what we can see. Since space is big and light does not go everywhere we would like it to, there is a lot we cannot see. With the ability to detect gravity waves, we now have the ability to find signs of theoretically everything in the universe that has mass, like black holes.

The innovation required to get to this point, though, was extensive. As you can imagine, detecting ripples in the fabric of spacetime is not something you can do with a compass and a yardstick. An interferometer, which was used by LIGO to detect gravitational waves, is a device that combines two light waves on top of each other to gather information about the waves, such as the phase of the waves, at a data collection point. The phase of a wave at a point is, loosely, the pattern that the wave is taking at that point.

In the interferometer, one beam of light was split down two 2.5 mile-long tubes that were perpendicular to each other, each with a mirror at the end. Both beams would return to the detection point at the center out of phase --that is, one beam would have a trough, the low part of the wave, at the detection point while the other had a peak, the high part. The trough and the peak would cancel each other out to create no light.

When spacetime ripples through the long tubes, it changes the distance the light has to travel. One tube changes more than the other, giving that beam of light a longer path to follow. As a result, the two beams do not arrive back at the detection point completely in phase. The beams do not cancel each other out and light is therefore detected. Scientists at LIGO, who found a delay in the time the light took to get from one detector to the other, announced the delay was caused by a ripple in spacetime.

While experimenters have used interferometers before, never before has such a large or precise one been required.

The project racked up a cost of $620 million.

Since the revolutionary shakings of Einstein and Bohr in the early 20th century died down, physics has seemed a little slow in comparison. But, at midnight before the morning LIGO announced their discovery, Dr. Joseph Serene, the professor of my “Introduction to Quantum Physics” course last semester, alerted the class about the news by email.

“I know what they will announce, and it gives me goose bumps,” he said.

The news gives students of all the natural sciences a boost in morale; we may very well be training for an age of explosive discovery. Instead of making do with consulting gigs and computer chip optimization research, we may uncover secrets of the universe never before imagined. Regardless of what you study, I can assure you that there is something left in your field to discover. So, mass-containing being, let’s start making waves. Wait, you already are.

Patrick Soltis is a sophomore in the College. innovation smack talk appears every Friday.

CALTREK, from A10

the classroom and in front of alumni who truly embody the ‘Hoyas helping Hoyas’ spirit,” Young said. “It is a chance for students to explore classroom theories in corporate boardrooms with industry professionals. It is also valuable for students to hear from alumni who share stories about their careers and inspire the next generation of business leaders.”

Charles Gallo (GRD ’17), an MBA student from South Africa with an interest in financial technology and entrepreneurship, attended this year’s CalTrek to learn more about California business culture and gain an understanding of what working in different business-related industries entails. Gallo said he learned that big, innovative ideas are widely accepted in the California business world.

“One of the key takeaways is that they want to change the world,” Gallo said. “If you are an absolute dreamer that wants to do something radically different, a lot of other places will shoot you down, whereas in California, they love that.”

Cheryl Liu Staff Writer

A new study published and co-authored by Chris Rider, assistant professor of strategy at the McDonough School of Business, found that racial diversity is drastically lacking among National Football League head coaches.

The new research found that white coaches are more than twice as likely to get promoted to head coach than minority coaches, even if they have equivalent experience, equivalent performance and identical career paths. The study was coauthored by James B. Wade, professor of strategy and leadership at The George Washington University, Anand Swaminathan, professor of organization and management at Emory University Goizueta Business School and Andreas Schwab, associate professor at Iowa State University.

According to Rider, the researchers did not expect to find such telling results.

“We were surprised by the magnitude; it’s very large,” Rider said.

While previous research has shown that leaders of large business organizations are disproportionately white, the authors were interested in studying this trend in a controlled setting.

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The CBA CalTrek is just one of the many “Tech Treks” that pass through Silicon Valley, run by MBA programs such as London Business School, Oxford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. MBA students on these treks are constantly evaluated and compared to other MBA students who are competing for the limited, but highly coveted, internships available at these companies.

However, according to Tang, with efforts like CalTrek, an expanding alumni base in the Bay Area and the high quality of the Georgetown MBA program, Hoya success is on the rise.

“When companies hear ‘Georgetown,’ they think, ‘Wow, that is a great school!’ and they get excited to host us,” Tang said.

“They have their core California schools that they recruit from, but most companies are very receptive to Hoyas.”

Young said CalTrek should be used to maximize success not just in California, but everywhere.

“As amazing as the Hilltop is,

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Thirty-seven MBA students travelled to Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area in January on the CBA’s annual CalTrek. students need to get off campus,” Young said. “They should meet some alumni, employers and businesses in their headquarters.

It complements what they learn in the classroom, but students

should take any opportunity they can to see what else is out there.

It will broaden their network, horizons and ultimately help them find jobs that match who they are.”

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Rider and his co-authors chose to study the NFL because of its hierarchical structure and the clear, high standard of performance, allowing the researchers to more easily follow the career path of an NFL coach and to control for non-racial factors.

Rider and his co-authors found that white coaches may have an advantage over minority coaches because minority candidates are often given entry-level positions that provide little opportunity for upward mobility when they start working for the NFL. In the past, over 70 percent of NFL head coach positions have been filled by an offensive or defensive coordinator, while lower ranked positions like running back coaches or defensive line coaches rarely become head coaches.

The Rooney Rule, established in 2003, requires all NFL organizations to interview at least one minority candidate when hiring a new head coach. Although the number of minority head coaches has increased, Rider and his co-authors could not clearly conclude whether or not the Rooney Rule has been effective in increasing the diversity among NFL head coaches.

“The lesson for us is that any organization that wants to implement a Rooney Rule-style intervention has to be very specific

about what they would expect if they don’t do this, what the objective is, and what the current levels are,” Rider said. “Absent that information, you’re going to be debating for years to come whether or not it worked.”

Rider said more organizations should turn to the NFL as an example when deciding how to best diversify.

“My co-authors and I believe that the NFL is at the forefront of acknowledging and addressing racial disparity,” Rider said.

“The Rooney Rule is considered a model for many organizations to follow. We think that other organizations and industries might want to look to the NFL. ... But in implementing these kinds of interventions, the most important thing, from our perspective, is to establish an expectation for what would have happened if you don’t implement this.”

However, according to Rider, diversification methods would be more effective if they encompassed the whole organization, and were not just concentrated on the top positions.

“Our research suggests that it’s going to be even more effective if it’s accompanied by lower level interventions that raise the rate at which minorities are not only included on the interview list, but also in the candidate

pool,” Rider said.

Jake Moran (SFS ’19), a longtime NFL fan, said that that the NFL still has a long way to go in achieving diversity among its coaches. According to USA Today, only 17 non-white candidates were chosen to be head coaches between 1963 and 2012, while 124 white head coaches were hired.

“It’s getting more diverse as time goes on, but I still wouldn’t consider it diverse,” Moran said.

“For example, an African American didn’t head coach the Super Bowl until Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith in 2007. The [Buffalo] Bills just hired the first full-time female coach so teams are making progress.”

Robert Brook (MSB ‘18), a New England Patriots fan, said it is surprising that although the diversity of players in the NFL has increased in recent years, diversity still lacks among NFL head coaches.

“In a league that is increasingly more diverse that trend has not been met with an increasingly diverse hiring of head coaches … Whether it is a calculated decision or not, it is simply hard to ignore the fact that all too often African American candidates who are perfectly qualified for the job are looked over in the favor of white coaches,” Brook said.

MBA Program Eateries Expands to DC Value DARDEN, from A10

“Over the past year, the faculty has been intensively studying what Darden’s relationship with the greater Washington, D.C. area should be. The faculty’s decision to bring our programs to the banks of the Potomac in Rosslyn will bring Darden’s executive MBA to a market with which we are already closely aligned,” he said.

While many schools in the D.C. area already offer Executive MBA programs, Venkarataman said Darden will offer a unique experience to its students as it does at its Charlottesville campus. The Darden School of Business was ranked second by The Economist in the 10th annual ranking of top international business programs and first in student satisfaction among business school graduates by Forbes Magazine in 2015.

Darden students will divide their studies between the new Rosslyn campus, Darden’s Charlottesville campus and one other global location. While all students will study at the Charlottesville and Rosslyn campuses, students also have the opportunity to study in all four global locations offered by the program.

“Our students in the D.C. area location will also spend time on the Darden Grounds at UVA in Charlottesville, and in at least one global location: Brazil, China, India or Europe.

And those whose choose the more intensive global option will spend time in all four.” Venkarataman said.

According to Venkarataman, the school’s new campus will make it more accessible for commuting students and visiting executives from Washington.

“Over 21 months, our students will experience an unparalleled

depth of learning and preparation,” he said. “The once-a-month residencies from Friday to Sunday make the program convenient for executives who live in the D.C. area and the new location’s proximity to Union Station and the D.C. area airports make it easily accessible to those who wish to commute in from most U.S. metropolitan areas or international gateway cities.”

Kathryn Shortsleeve (MSB ’18), an entrepreneurship student at Georgetown, said programs like these are incredibly enticing because of the opportunities they can offer.

“I think that Darden’s decision to open in Rosslyn is a great one because big cities like D.C. have such a wide network of businesses and business students, so integrating schools from other areas is a great idea,” Shortseelve said.

Venkarataman also said opening a campus near the District will give students more flexibility and a better MBA experience.

“More choice. More flexibility.

A D.C. area location plus the beautiful Darden Grounds. And more global options than ever before.

That’s what we’re offering through the executive MBA format,” he said.

Kris Muzzi (COL’18), a biology of global health major interested in the intersection of science and business, praised the program for giving its students access to Fortune 500 companies in Rosslyn and Arlington.

“Being around larger companies can do nothing but good for the business school. As a student I would love the opportunity to work with students at other schools, and I think the potential for professors within the D.C. network of schools to share ideas is a great one,” Muzzi said.

Employees DINING, from A10

Sam Blum, communications manager of &pizza, said the passionate and excited team of employees, or “tribe members” as &pizza refers to them, has inspired his own personal growth.

“Really since the very beginning, the company has taken an interest in my own career growth and has made sure that they kind of set me up with opportunities to learn and develop throughout my time with them,” Blum said.

Will McDonald (MSB ’18), who attended the event, said the individuality and personal connections the panelists had with their companies was inspiring.

“What was probably most striking was everyone’s passion for their restaurants. I think it’s easy to look at one of these companies and see it just as a collection of different ideas, and seeing how closely it connects to the identities of these guys was striking and pretty unique,” McDonald said.

In response to a question about fundraising, the panelists also described some of the more technical aspects of starting a business. In particular, the restaurant CEOs and founders said finding sources of funding can be challenging, especially when a business is just getting started. They emphasized that at these stages, investments often come from friends and family, but with continuing success and the right goals, financing becomes easier.

Schulman stressed the importance of ensuring that investors are aligned with the core goals and values of the business.

“I think if you focus on building a great brand and the matter at hand, those opportunities kind of present themselves,” Schulman said. “And they did for us, we were fortunate and then it became a question of — we were in a great position where we had a lot of great people looking to partner with us. The most important thing is philosophically, culturally, who is aligned with you.”

Business & Tech FRIDAY, february 19, 2016

business Students Venture to California on Tech Trek bits Ben Uchimura Hoya Staff Writer

MSB Professor advises on How to Avoid Hiring a Toxic Employee Christine Porath, an associate professor in Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, recently wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review offering advice for employers to avoid hiring “toxic” employees. According to the article, a “superstar” employee, who is in the first percentile for productivity, can add $5,000 per year to a company’s profit. Alternatively, rude or otherwise unpleasant employees can cost up to $12,000 per year, lower company morale and lead to upset customers. To avoid hiring “toxic” employees, Porath recommends asking standardized interview questions that reference civility, observing how a job candidate treats office or restaurant staff and checking references for the red flags of a difficult personality.

student research featured in msb undergraduate journal The McDonough School of Business announced its creation of a journal of undergraduate scholarship this semester called the McDonough Undergraduate Research Journal. The publication will feature student research from the 2015 McDonough Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows program. Students accepted to the SURF program are awarded grants of $2,500 for a five-week span or $5,000 for a 10 week span to conduct research projects during the summer with faculty guidance. Past SURF grants have funded research in diverse topics, such as the factors contributing to career choice. Students contributing to the journal will collaborate with MSB faculty to hone their writing skills and contribute to Georgetown’s intellectual life.

MSB Marks 20th Anniversary of Telecommunications act The McDonough School of Business commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act with a moderated discussion last week.

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy officially hosted the event.

John Mayo, executive director of the center, said the 1996 act was extremely important. “The 1996 act was very important and we should not lose sight of the fact that it was the first full-throated embrace of a pro-competitive deregulated environment,” Mayo said in a press release. According to the website of the Federal Communications Commission, the 1996 Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68), had the goal “to let anyone enter any communications business --- to let any communications business compete in any market against any other.”

bloomberg features MSB professor on adult diaper market Marlene Morris Towns, a teaching professor of marketing in the McDonough School of Business, was featured in a Bloomberg Businessweek article last week for her research on the rise in sales for adult incontinence products, or diapers. According to the article, the adult diaper industry is projected to grow to $2.7 billion in 2020, up from $1.8 billion in 2015, a 48 percent increase. Advertisement campaigns in recent years have helped normalize the adult product. “They’re driving home the point that attractive people in their 40s and 50s or even younger, not just nursing home residents, can be wearing this under their clothing,” Towns said in an interview for Bloomberg Businessweek.

Master of Business Administration students from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business travelled to California this January through an annual student-funded program, CalTrek, to visit companies and alumni centered in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The two-day trip, organized by Georgetown’s MBA California Business Alliance, an organization of Georgetown MBA students interested in internships and employment in California, started over 15 years ago with the aim of educating stu-

“It will broaden their network, horizons and ultimately help them find jobs that match who they are.” eric young Director, MBA Career Center

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dents and giving them networking and recruitment opportunities in California. Admission to the trek is on a first-come, first-serve basis, and admitted students must pay for their accommodations and the CBA’s membership fee to attend.

This year, 37 CBA members participated in the organization’s immersive trek to California.

This year’s CalTrek trip was planned by CBA’s President Valaree Tang (MBA ’16) and Eric Young, director of entertainment, media,

Master of Business Administration students from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business discussed technology with Sanjay Jain (MSB ’92), managing director of technology and investment banking at J.P. Morgan in California. sports, manufacturing, transportation and technology for the MBA Career Center. Together, Tang and Young planned a comprehensive schedule that offered attendees a choice between two companies per time slot, allowing them to tailor the schedule to their own interests.

During visits to the companies, the MBA students had the opportunity to meet with current employees of

each company, as well as Georgetown alumni. Each visit lasted roughly an hour and consisted of a presentation on the company, its work culture and recruitment process, and a questionand-answer session or panel discussion. According to the MSB website, attendees visited major companies such as Adobe, Chegg, FreeWheel, Andreessen Horowitz, Google, HP, J.P. Morgan and Kaiser Permanente.

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Young said the local Georgetown alumni in California were vital resources for planning the trip, as they helped coordinate each visit and gave attendees a firsthand perspective on how California’s tech-related industries and unique business culture work.

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Innovation Smack Talk

Gracie Hochberg Hoya Staff Writer

Industry leaders from four casual D.C. restaurants sat on a panel in Fisher Colloquium, a lecture hall in the Rafik B. Hariri Building, last Wednesday to share their experiences working for the hospitality, customer service and restaurant industries. The event, titled “The ‘Four Fathers’ of Casual Dining,” was hosted by the Georgetown Hospitality Club.

Panelists included Michael Lastoria, co-founder of &pizza; Brett Schulman, CEO of Cava Mezze Grill; Casey Patten, co-owner of Taylor Gourmet; and Burton Heiss, CEO of Nando’s U.S. The panelists began by describing their professional backgrounds, which, for many of them, included their experiences working in the restaurant and hospitality industry before working for their current companies.

While Schulman spent a decade on Ali Rehman For The hoya Wall Street before deciding to pursue a career about which he was more Leaders from four D.C. restaurants sat on a panel in Fisher Colloquium passionate, Patten has worked almost on Wednesday to share their experiences of the restaurant industry. exclusively in the food service industry since the age of 13. profit should not overshadow the liefs while staying relevant.

“I quickly figured out there was “I think if you find yourself with a need for individualism in building a something about customer service and brand that has to make a left turn in company. hospitality I really enjoyed — watching order to stay relevant, it didn’t have “I think my advice would be to be the excitement on people’s faces when a good foundation to begin with. It fearlessly weird about it. There are they had a good meal, watching fami- didn’t really resonate, it was a fad, a so many companies out there in the lies dine together,” Patten said. business because they’re motivated one-time deal,” Heiss said.

The restaurateurs took turns deOffering their advice for succeed- by profit and success and they have scribing their unique brands, stress- ing in hospitality and the greater no idea what is about to happen to ing the importance of staying true to business arena, the panelists stressed them. It’s a long journey,” Lastoria a company’s core values. The panelists the importance of building a team said. offered their perspectives on reconcil- composed of passionate, positive ining loyalty to a fundamental set of be- dividuals. Lastoria said the desire for See DINING, A9

UVA Business School to Open DC Campus Sarah Smith

sion to implement the program in Rosslyn stemmed from the intersection of government, the military and business in UVA’s The University of Virginia Darden School MBA program in recent years. The expanof Business will expand to the Washington, sion of the MBA program was also largely D.C. area from its campus supported by UVA’s growin Charlottesville, Va., this ing alumni network in August, offering its Exthe District. ecutive MBA and Global “For 60 years, Darden Executive MBA programs has been developing busiat its new campus in ness and government and Rosslyn, Va. The UVA MBA military leaders --- many program expects about 50 from the D.C. area --- in our students at its new camMBA and executive educapus in August and plans tion programs. Darden to collaborate with the and UVA have dynamic other business schools in alumni networks in the sankaran venkataraman Washington such as Howarea and so we are buildDarden Senior Associate Dean ard University School of ing on our natural ties to Business, The George Washington Univer- the capital region,” Venkataraman said. sity School of Business and Georgetown’s Venkataraman said Darden’s MBA faculty McDonough School of Business. has been preparing for the program’s move According to Sankaran Venkataraman, se- for the past couple of months. nior associate dean for faculty and research at the Darden School of Business, the deciSee DARDEN, A9

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“We are building on our natural ties to the capital region.”

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UVA Darden School of Business will open its new campus in Rosslyn in August, expecting 50 students.

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or most of us, the mention of “technological innovation” brings to mind images of the technologies that have become useful for our everyday lives. We imagine aspiring app developers lounging about the coffee shops of San Francisco, Bill Gates camping out in his office overnight or, as a throwback, Thomas Edison and his crew developing the electric lightbulb. Although innovative in their own time and originally rather expensive as prototypes, the innovations we remember most fondly are those that were eventually released to the masses. These technologies are featured in storefronts around the world at competitive prices and are probably updated every one or two years with some vague, marginally useful improvement to secure sales, even when the company has run out of any actual ideas. I am thinking about a fruit that starts with the letter “A.” Some of the greatest innovations known to mankind, though, are the niche tools that are only utilized by people working in very specific professions. Long before personal computers were available to the average person to use for average tasks, the early precursors of computers enabled scientists to make complex calculations at an appreciably faster rate. However, this fascinating innovation was not very useful for highly technical fields like spaceflight until the 1970s. All of the calculations to build the Apollo 11 spacecraft, which launched Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969, were done by hand. The machine calculations for the Apollo 11 mission were verified by hand because people did not yet trust the accuracy of the numbercrunching done by the newfangled computers.

Recently, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave See GRAVITY, A9