The Hoya: February 7, 2017

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Tuesday, FEBRUARY 7, 2017

RIVALRY RESTORED

The men’s basketball team travels to Philadelphia to face No. 2 Villanova tonight.

EDITORIAL The university must uphold free speech values during divisive times.

HIRING SEASON GUASFCU and Blue and Gray completed their spring recruitment.

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NEWS, A7

SPORTS, A10

GULC Alumnus Suspends Trump Immigration Ban Christian Paz Hoya Staff Writer

On Friday night, United States District Court Judge James Robart (LAW ’73), a Georgetown University Law Center alumnus, suspended President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order temporarily barring entry to refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.

Intervening in an ongoing legal clash between immigration activists and the Trump administration, Robart’s ruling blocked the implementation of the president’s executive order nationwide. The Department of Homeland Security immediately returned to its regular screening procedures for all travelers to the United States. The Department of State also began to reissue visas it had cancelled after Trump signed the order.

GSC Sanctioned for Sit-InViolations Jeff Cirillo AND Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writers

After Robart’s ruling, the Trump administration asked the appeals court for a temporary stay before hearing from the plaintiffs. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined to issue the stay.

Today, the Ninth Circuit plans to hear oral arguments concerning the Trump administration’s appeal of the suspension.

Robart’s ruling in the case, which spawned from an appeal made by state attorney generals from Washington and Minnesota, marked the most comprehensive ruling compared to previous decisions by federal judges, which either temporarily blocked parts of the order or restricted its implementation on travelers already in the United States. No previous ruling reached See RULING, A6

WHITMAN COLLEGE

United States District Court Judge James Robart (LAW ’73) suspended President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday.

The Student Activities Commission voted last night to sanction workers’ rights group Georgetown Solidarity Committee by admitting the group into a restoration process that removes GSC control over their budget.

The restoration sanction, announced at a public hearing in the Healey Family Student Center, was approved by a seven-to-three vote.

As a result, GSC leadership will lose control over its own budget and will be forced to request funding on a case-by-case basis. The group will retain all other rights as an established club.

GSC will be in restoration until spring 2018, with the opportunity to file an appeal to SAC to lift the sanctions in December.

The sanctions come after the students ignored multiple requests from Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara to vacate university premises at the close of business hours Dec. 8.

Eight members of GSC remained in DeGioia’s suite of offices overnight until Dec. 9, when the university announced that it would not renew the university’s contract with Nike unless the company allowed independent workers rights monitoring group Worker Rights Consortium independent access and reporting of complaints regarding factory condition.

The students who remained in the suite overnight also received personal sanctions, given their violations of the university’s Code of Student Conduct. They have been put on disciplinary probation until the fall 2017 semester, are required to pay a $50 fine, serve five work sanction hours and send a formal letter of apology to Ferrara, according to an Office of Student Conduct letter sent to GSC members Friday.

According to SAC Chair Ricardo Mondolfi (SFS ’19), restoration is one step below full access.

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The Student Activities Commission imposed budgetary sanctions on the Georgetown Solidarity Committee on Monday night.

“A club in restoration has every right that a club under access to benefits has, but they lose a budget,” Mondolfi said. “As a group under SAC we want to make sure that they succeed and thrive.”

SAC, which is responsible for club funding, called a hearing after a complaint was filed with the Center for Student Engagement alleging that GSC disrupted the functions of the university and used

university space without permission, both of which are prohibited under the Student Organization Standards, set by the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs.

All clubs are required to adhere to the Student Organization Standards in order to receive university funding.

GSC members Joseph Gomez (SFS ’19), Maddy Rice (COL ’20) and See SANCTIONS, A6

Former Employee’s Lawsuit Reveals Mold Hazards William Zhu Hoya Staff Writer

When Aleta Mack, a former executive assistant to Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber, started experiencing breathing difficulties and headaches while in Village C West in August 2014, Mack filed an external complaint for a health hazard evaluation while requesting a accommodation from the university.

Mack’s was not able to come to an agreement with the university on her work and was ultimately put on suspension and terminated from the university’s employment March 5, 2015.

Two years later, Mack is now in litigation against Georgetown on the grounds that the university failed to properly accommodate her when she was experiencing medical issues caused by mold.

Mack’s lawsuit is one in a series of complaints from students and faculty related to mold at Georgetown. Mack’s case specifically refers to whether the university is found to have violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law guaranteeing equal employment opportunities and other rights for disabled people in the United States.

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Some students were forced to temporarily move out of housing this fall after discovering mold in their room.

A CASE UNRESOLVED In the lawsuit filed May 2015, Mack said the university violated the ADA by failing to accommodate her respiratory issues stemming from mold exposure.

“Mold is really everywhere. It is impossible to avoid. We are all exposed to it all the time.”

DORI GERMOLEC Researcher, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

On Aug. 4, 2014, Mack filed her first complaint with the university after she suspected that her medical issues were caused by the mold. In response, the university conducted remediation work and air sampling Aug. 21, 2014 to demonstrate that there was no more

harmful mold left.

However, Mack and other GUPD employees whose names cannot be disclosed were not satisfied and filed an external complaint Aug. 27, 2014 with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

NIOSH epidemiologist Sandra White conducted a health hazard evaluation in response to the complaints and sent a close-out letter, a summary of NIOSH’s findings, to the university in October 2014.

White wrote in the letter that air sample methods used by the university’s contractor were ineffective at precisely analyzing mold levels in the air. White added that the university needed to further clean the mold damage and add dehumidifiers in the office where the mold developed.

In an interview with The Hoya, White said she spoke to several members of the facilities and environmental safety offices during the health hazard evaluation. White confirmed that there were concerns that the university had improperly addressed issues stemming from mold, including not repairing the mold-damaged drywall and only cleaning it with disinfectant.

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The Office of Facilities Management received the most work requests for mold from the Village A and Village C dorms.

NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

No Muslim Ban Around 5000 demonstrators rallied against President Trump’s executive order in D.C. on Saturday.

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Fowl Play The satirical Chicken Madness campaign contrasts with the seriousness of Trump’s election.

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Gunners Slipping Premier League team Arsenal has recently slipped in the standings after looking like a title contender.

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NEWS DeGioia Signs in Solidarity

opinion American Dreams

SPORTS Welcome, Class of 2021 Athletes

University President John J. DeGioia signed two open letters condemning the immigration ban.

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Despite the immigration ban, Muslims can take hope in the mass outcry nationwide.

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The Georgetown’s football team signed 28 Class of 2021 recruits for National Signing Day. A10

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 7, 2017

THE VERDICT

Barring Invitees Stifles Speech Although university administrators at the University of California, Berkeley, cancelled a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos last Wednesday following an eruption of violent protest on the campus, the right-wing provocateur found reason to be triumphant about the incident.

In a CNN interview the next day, Yiannopoulos remarked, “I always prefer to do the show, but all the headlines today and tomorrow will simply demonstrate what I have been saying: that the progressive, social justice side is incapable of debate, is incapable of rational response to the opinions with which it disagrees.”

This distortion is typical of Yiannopoulos, who among other stances claimed President Donald Trump was “blacker” than former President Barack Obama, declared his birthday World Patriarchy Day and claimed gay rights “made us dumber.” In fact, few, if any, of the 1,500 UC Berkeley students who protested were responsible for the violence and roughly $100,000 worth of property damage on Wednesday night. The damage has instead been attributed to 150 masked members of an anarchist group known as the “Black Bloc.”

The protests were counterproductive and destructive, ultimately garnering Yiannopoulos far more attention than he would have received had he given his speech without incident. Thus, universities are presented with a perplexing Catch-22: Give hatred a platform, or else affirm his narrative that colleges stifle certain voices and silence free speech. As Yiannopoulos says himself, he wins either way.

But for once Yiannopoulos — a senior editor at the far-right Breitbart News Network and selfproclaimed showman who claims radically abhorrent views toward women, transgender individuals, Muslims, undocumented immigrants and other groups — may be right.

Although Yiannopoulos himself has not always served as a model of respectful discourse,

the university should not subvert its own commitment to free speech by barring a speaker invited to the university, even if they are as repugnant as Yiannopoulos. Of course, the university itself should not sanitize the hate speech espoused by speakers like Yiannopoulos with a university-sponsored invitation.

In the case of UC Berkeley, it was not the institution itself that extended the invite, but rather a student organization — the Berkeley College Republicans. This distinction is significant, because while the university can refrain from providing Yiannopoulos a platform, it should not deny student organizations the ability to invite a speaker to campus. As such, this Editorial Board believes Georgetown University should always protect free speech rights within student groups so long as they remain respectful and permit students to peaceably assemble to protest outside.

Moreover, Georgetown has previously hosted contested speakers, including feminism critic Christina Hoff Sommers in April 2015 and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards in 2016.

But each time, the university upheld the ability of its students to invite these speakers and assured those who disagreed had the ability to protest — and campus discourse was made all the richer as a result.

If invited by a student organization, Yiannopoulos ought to be permitted to speak on campus, but not because he is intellectually stimulating or worthwhile in any capacity. He should be permitted on campus because denying his worldview is not the same as defeating it.

Yiannopoulos strives to radically affirm free speech with his incendiary comments, and by denying him a platform provided at the invitation of a student group, the university would only be playing into his narrative of academia as incompatible with freedom of expression.

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Avocad-Oh No — Guacamole was one of the country’s most popular snacks this past Super Bowl Sunday, accounting for nearly 12 percent of annual U.S. avocado consumption just this week. Yet, new trade barriers between the United States and Mexico — the source of 80 percent of the American avocado supply — are expected to cause the prices of avocados to soar.

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Upcoming Vows — It was reported last week that one of the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing, Roseann Sdoia, who suffered an amputation of her right leg due to the attack, is engaged to one of the firefighters who helped save her during the bombing, Mike Materia. The two plan to marry later this year.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Elinor Walker

Avoid Forking Over for Meals The past academic year has seen the successful implementation of long-anticipated dining reforms and the promise of further renovations by fall of 2017. However, students continue to skewer Auxiliary Business Services over the limitations of its campus meal plan. The university needs to deliver more than just upgraded menus to appease students whose distaste for Georgetown Dining stems from the program’s financial and procedural inefficiencies.

Thanks largely to the efforts of the Georgetown University Student Association, the dining program’s features include a meal exchange option at Cosi, Hoya Court and Market Pod, reusable to-go containers at O’Donovan Hall and the ability to pre-order meals with the mobile app Tapingo at Aramark locations.

These changes, which resulted from negotiations between GUSA and Georgetown Dining, are only a sample of the measures planned for the debut of the new Georgetown Dining program next fall, which will transform the upper level of Leo’s into a rotating set of dining cafes, reinvent Hoya Court to include more meal exchange options and further expand mobile ordering locations.

Yet while these reforms signify advances in the variety and versatility of campus cuisine, they do little to satiate demands for financially congruous meal options. Despite the increased options, students — especially freshmen and sophomores in residence halls who are obligated to purchase meal plans — experience a value gap as large as $8.67 per meal under the program.

Under the current prices, the $2,726 standard 18 weekly meal plan yields a $9.28 cost per meal, assuming all meal swipes are used every week. But upon closer inspection, the per-meal cost of meal swipes swells with other plans, as the 10 weekly plan and 150 block plan — consisting of 150 meal swipes that can be used as a student wishes — cost $13.79 per meal, the 115 block plan costs $14.44 per meal, the 75 block plan costs $14.51 and the 60 block plan costs $15.27.

Compared to the $6.60 average price of the 6-inch sandwich, chips and beverage combo offered with Subway’s meal exchange program or the $11.86 value of a Taste Two combo at Cosi, an evident chasm emerges between the value of the meal exchange and the price many students

must pay for the program.

Moreover, students face further procedural restraints, as they are only permitted one meal swipe from Hoya Court on any given day and cannot use a meal swipe at Elevation Burger, Subway, Salad Creations or Cosi until after 3 p.m.

Freshmen and sophomores who are contractually required to have a meal plan may find this does not provide the most economical option despite the reforms Georgetown has touted in the program.

This is particularly frustrating for students given the paucity of affordable meal options around campus, with Safeway nearly a 20-minute walk away from campus and few restaurants in the affluent Georgetown neighborhood aside from Wingo’s, Sweetgreen and Wisemiller’s Deli from offering food under $10, though admittedly these are not be sustainable for healthy, everyday consumption by students.

Rather than exploit this scarcity of readily available and affordable options surrounding campus with a prohibitive meal exchange program, the university needs to develop ways to ensure parity between the amount of food students pay for and the amount of food students actually receive.

Currently, the GUSA Dining and Auxiliary Services Team, along with other stakeholders in the university’s Dining Committee, are prioritizing issues including healthy eating and structural updates by pushing for dishes labeled with portions and foods groups at Leo’s and developing a centralized dining complaint system.

But Georgetown’s dining reforms also warrant further investigation of the financial viability of meal plans, especially as students could potentially be paying over double the value of their meal exchange per swipe. If the university does not directly equate Hoya Court’s meal exchange value to the price of guest swipes, then at the very least it should be transparent in assuring students comprehend the per-meal value of their dining plan.

Although the university is making tremendous strides in making the variety of dining options more palatable to the student body, without reforming the financial parity of its meal exchange programs, students may find these changes difficult to swallow.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Hate Speech Is Not Harmless The notion that Georgetown, a university that promotes cura personalis, should host someone like Milo Yiannopoulos is both absurd and insulting to communities on campus who would have to bear that indignity. Many well-intentioned people want to justify Milo’s problematic views by arguing that he’s a champion of free speech, a purposeful provocateur meant to anger leftists with “harmless” insensitivities.

However, we should know better than to think that a man whose army of Twitter trolls racially harassed a black female comedian after he viciously mocked her appearance is simply fighting for free speech. “Comically villainous bogeyman” doesn’t scratch

the surface. Among his antics include instructing New Mexico students to “purge your local illegals” by calling the Immigration and Customs Enforcement on undocumented families.

His hindsight in the history of exclusion of nonwhites from top universities clearly lacking, he’s taken to offering a scholarship exclusively for white men. One might mistake his statements about African-American crime rates with those of former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke, but Yiannopoulos claims he is not racist because he exclusively dates black men. Such an absurd conclusion is only trumped by his justification for his beliefs that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice detrimental to humanity: he him-

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self is gay. Anyone who tries to argue that Milo is nothing more than a troll clearly isn’t paying attention to the things he says and does.

Let’s be real here: Milo’s shtick purposely masks a dark intent. Listen to any of his screeds against Islam, and you will find not a defender of free speech but a hate-spewing bigot. After a year in which our university has taken steps towards becoming a more open and welcoming environment for minorities through the enactment of the diversity requirement and the renaming of Mulledy Hall, we shouldn’t take steps back by allowing someone like Milo to grace our campus.

Jawad Pullin (COL ’18)

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VIEWPOINT • GREGORY

Emma Lux

Focus Efforts to Fight for Women

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onservative Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote this weekend that “to review the left’s reaction to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is to infer he’s the spawn of Dracula — a cruel and bloodless beast who shrinks from the light and plays havoc with history.”

Though Parker is dismissive of the negative feedback toward Gorsuch’s nomination, Democrats do have a right to be frustrated. Had it not been for Republican antics during the Obama administration — namely, refusing to hold a hearing for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee for a recordbreaking 293 days — there would not even be a seat for Gorsuch to fill. But let us bracket that for a moment.

Parker attempts to dismiss liberal objections against Gorsuch as “a distortion.” But liberals are not distorting the facts; they are simply reading his work. Gorsuch has written that he is opposed to assisted suicide for the terminally ill, and he argued in the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. case that corporations could deny contraception coverage to employees based on religious objections.

It is true that Gorsuch has never explicitly ruled on abortion, but it does not require mental gymnastics to say that if Gorsuch does not believe in a right to die, he probably does not believe in a woman’s right to choose an abortion. To be fair, that is speculation, but it is still not “distortion.”

Republicans can say that Gorsuch is qualified for the seat. Parker is unfounded in her dismissal of their disappointment.

However, while Democrats have every right to be upset, there is essentially nothing they can do to stop Gorsuch from being confirmed.

While they could filibuster, that would likely cause Republicans in Congress to “invoke the nuclear option,” which, in Capitol Hill parlance, means voting to permanently change the Supreme Court confirmation threshold from 60

votes to a 51-Senator simple majority vote to confirm the nominee. With 52 members, Republicans could easily vote in Gorsuch.

So what should Democrats do?

Democrats can bring back the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.

An Equal Rights Amendment has been introduced every session since 1982, but, with the exception of one nearpassage in the 1980s, Congress has infuriatingly left the ERA to die in committee year after year.

Though the language of the Equal Rights Amendment has changed slightly over time, it basically states that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

According to a recent ERA coalition poll, 94 percent of Americans would support an amendment that declares equal rights for men and women. While women have gained certain rights over the years, no constitutional guarantee of equality leaves women vulnerable to changes in the law, and, as is the case today, changes in the composition of the Supreme Court.

So, Democratic members of Congress should stop complaining about Gorsuch’s nomination, which is beyond their control, and act to make meaningful change for women, channeling all the rage for Gorsuch’s stolen seat into fighting to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

In a 2016 speech honoring Justice Scalia, Gorsuch stated that he believes that “judges should strive — if humanly and so imperfectly — to apply to law as it is ... looking to text, structure, and history.” If Gorsuch wants to spend the next 40 years looking specifically to the text of the Constitution, Democrats in Congress should fight to add some words that force him to consider women, too.

Emma Lux is a junior in the College. STILL HERE appears every other Tuesday.

While Chicken Madness was light-heartedly satirical, Trump’s fear-mongering stirred a poisonous concoction of hatred, bigotry and paranoia.

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pearheaded by a group of seniors who have since graduated and me, the traditional writein “joke” ticket of two popular sandwiches from Wisemiller’s Deli — Hot Chick and Chicken Madness — saw unprecedented success in last year’s race for the Georgetown University Student Association presidency.

Though it usually amounted to no more than a fringe movement garnering only a miniscule share of the votes cast, last year, the ticket rode a wave of anti-establishment sentiment to finish in close second to victors Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17).

Indeed, the final tally, 878 to 1383, remains disputed to this day because of the Election Commission’s refusal to count improperly formatted write-in submissions, and was likely much closer in reality.

Upon assuming de facto control of the movement, I hoped to build on this impressive showing and translate our newfound momentum into further success. In September 2016, Chicken Madness garnered widespread attention by earning a seat in the GUSA senate, only to be replaced after a vote of exclusion held by the non-sandwich members of the body.

Though frustrating at the time, the ticket’s dismissal

only served to increase campus dissatisfaction with GUSA’s insularity, offering a window for a more professionalized campaign to perform even better in the executive race. The goal was not merely to exceed expectations; the goal was to win.

Then, on Nov. 8, everything changed.

Up to that point, Chicken Madness had drawn numerous comparisons, however unwanted, to the candidacy of President Donald Trump, due to the former reality television star’s penchant for populism and rhetorical condemnations of governmental elitism and inaccessibility.

When asked, we rebuked these associations in the strongest possible terms. While Chicken Madness was lightheartedly satirical, poking fun at those who took their political ambitions too seriously, Trump’s fear-mongering stirred a poisonous concoction of hatred, bigotry and paranoia.

Moreover, we believed that the stark difference in importance between issues addressed at the federal and student levels of governance would be enough to disprove any linkages between the two campaigns. The president of the United States can impact the lives of millions with the stroke of a pen; GUSA, unless it is hiding something big in

that budget, cannot.

Trump’s victory irreparably altered the political climate.

Jokes that dominated the cultural scene suddenly were not funny anymore: they became terrifying predictors of what was to come — heart-wrenching reminders of what could have been.

Conceptions of outsider tickets underwent a similarly profound shift. Before Trump’s victory, witnessing the success of a candidate with an overt disdain for stuffy norms was a source of hilarity and excitement. But the thrill of an absurdist victory evaporated the moment a campaign of this nature succeeded when the stakes were at their highest.

Nov. 8 did not change my perception of GUSA. I still consider the institution intrinsically flawed and categorically unrepresentative of a campus population that views it with apathy and disdain.

The December referendum is the most recent example of GUSA’s unabashed advancement of its own priorities over those genuinely sought by its constituents. Where would “reorganize the senate and policy teams” rank among the average student’s suggestions to improve life at Georgetown? It is certainly not on my list.

Still, now is not the time for divisiveness. The ethos of the United States is fractured

along racial, religious and ideological fault lines that pit classmates, friends and family members against one another.

Recent constitutional crises jeopardize not only short-term security but also the lasting viability of the most fundamental American values.

In this context, it would be far easier to continue riling public antipathy and mocking the present administration than to undertake the difficult task of promoting constructive change. But petty obstructionism and the avoidance of engagement are luxuries inherent to periods when our leadership can be trusted to consistently put the best interests of the American people first and faithfully execute the foundational laws of the state.

Now is not that time.

It is with this sobering acknowledgment that I pledge to refrain from actively managing the operations of the Chicken Madness campaign during this election season.

We will hopefully again face a moment when political contests can be the target of satirical ridicule, when the enjoyment derived from upsetting the established order produces no harm for those affected by a failure of the system. But now is not the time.

is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

Matthew Gregory

VIEWPOINT • SHAKFEH

FIRESIDE CHATS

Hope in American Ambition

One Story, One Stereotype

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y signing an executive order banning the entry of individuals to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trump has perpetuated Islamophobia at the government level.

Domestically, the ban raises concern among foreign nationals, and their families, who have made it to the United States and productively contribute to society while others question their humanity and the compatibility of their religious beliefs with American ideals. The situation appears dismal, but in the power of the people and the story of my own family, I find hope.

At 10 years old, a boy in Syria fell in love with the United States when he watched John F. Kennedy on television. At age 26, as the first in his family to earn more than a high school education, he traveled to the United States on his own.

He did not speak a word of English, but with a medical degree from the University of Damascus and the determination to make it in the United States, he memorized the dictionary, retaught himself his entire medical training in English, and became doublecertified in obstetrics/gynecology and pathology.

Along the way, he met his wife, a fellow Syrian in the United States. Despite the discrimination they faced, going back to Syria was never an option. They knew they belonged in the United States, and after the 1982 Hama massacre, they knew the United States would be a safe place for them and to raise their children, including me. Today, he has delivered more than 10,000 babies in his county, treats patients for free

and has been recognized by multiple bodies for his excellent patient care.

That man is my father.

Growing up in the United States, I distinctly remember learning about “America, the Melting Pot” in my Islamic primary school and confirming to me that I belonged. Yet as I grew older, I began to realize that I was not so welcome.

The people have demonstrated ambition to protect American ideals from this executive order.

In college, people would remark that I was oppressed and misguided for covering my hair, a choice I had personally made. I was teased in my work place and told that my headscarf would greatly inhibit my upward mobility and professional success. Even then, I was still a proud American. I knew that I had inalienable rights protected by the government and that my religious freedom was one of them — until the Presidential election.

Throughout last year, both candidates used inflammatory rhetoric on Syria and Muslims to gain political points.

While these comments may have brought popular support, they also diminished my humanity in the eyes of my fellow Americans.

Muslims and Syrians were no longer humans; instead, we became the “eyes and ears on the front lines” and the “Trojan horses allowing terrorism into the country.” When

President Donald Trump took office, I hoped he would leave his rhetoric on the campaign trail and change his stance. I was wrong. Yet, I remain optimistic because of the activism that has begun to sweep the country, including the Women’s March on Washington and the nationwide protests against the travel ban.

James Madison famously wrote, “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” referring to the competing ambitions within our branches of government. However, I would like to believe that his words would apply to the newest travel ban, which was struck down by a federal judge in Seattle last Friday. The people have demonstrated ambition to protect American ideals from this executive order.

The law intervened to protect American ideals from the divisive political order, but just as important, the people have demonstrated ambition to protect American values through demonstrations and vigilance.

These last few weeks have brought to life the United States I learned about in primary school. I believe in the American people. I believe in their strength, ingenuity and our “ambition to counteract ambition.” I believe that we will overcome.

Fifty-four years ago, a boy fell in love with the United States because of one of its most charismatic presidents. Today, the world will fall in love with the United States because of the ambition of its people to stand up for what is right.

Noor Shakfeh is a student

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n Jan. 5, 2017, four African-American teens in Chicago kidnapped and tortured their disabled white friend, who survived the attack. They were immediately brought into custody, charged with a hate crime and are now awaiting trial.

Despite being in no way affiliated with the brutal actions of these teens, activist movement Black Lives Matter was falsely implicated within 24 hours, with the hashtag “#BLMkidnapping” mentioned approximately 480,000 times on Twitter and quickly emerging as a top trending topic. The use of #BLMkidnapping following this event revealed how outliers in a community can aggravate stereotypes against marginalized groups.

The event rekindled stereotypical dialogue in mainstream media and was the catalyst to an outpouring of racialized generalizations and rhetoric on the internet, including #BLMkidnapping.

Many people took the horrific actions of these four black youths, who had no affiliation with the Black Lives Matter movement, and associated them with BLM anyway.

Although the incident was despicable, the resulting #BLMkidnapping helped to reveal an ugly truth about society’s expectations for minorities to renounce other members of their group. There is a tacit expectation ignited by prejudicial undertones that pressures the average law-abiding individual to overcompensate, forcing the many AfricanAmerican college students or Muslim-American teens to disavow these obviously grotesque crimes of the few.

During times like this, the silence of a minority group is equated with complacency. As a Muslim, I cringe when terrorist attacks occur. That is often followed by the pressure of feeling as though I must speak out against such an injustice simply because I am Muslim.

Anu Osibajo and Isatou Bah Instead of giving us the benefit of the doubt based on our common humanity, the actions of a few are used to label the character of an entire group. The media painted the actions of these four black youths as a problem within the black community — as if black students regularly harass and physically harm disabled white students.

This portrayal parallels the characterization of Islamic fundamentalism as a “vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet” which “has to be excised,” according to National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn back in August. I cower at these descriptions, knowing that they only add to the racial tensions and Islamophobia in the United States.

As important as it is to speak on injustice, when the average law-abiding citizen is expected to disavow every terrible action committed by someone of their race or religion, it per-

mits stereotypes. I should not feel obliged to disavow a terrorist attack solely to avoid being labeled as a fundamentalist.

In her 2009 TED talk, author Chimamanda Adichie spoke on the media’s inherent bias in creating these simplistic portrayals, saying: “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete” — incomplete because terrorism is not a cancer within every Muslim, nor is every black youth a thug.

Some stereotypes are simply stronger than others.

As Adichie noted, we do not read “American Psycho” and think all white men are serial killers — rather, how our stories are told depends upon who holds power. White men are not defined by the serial killer image because power has given them multiple stories; the serial killer is not “the definitive story of that person.”

It is clear that the single story is powerful and allowing outliers to reinforce drastically incorrect stereotypes strengthens it. However, when this story is used to reinforce a narrative — and demands groups to denounce the misbehavior of others within the group — we encounter the innate hypocrisy of this expectation, applied hurriedly to minorities but not to the privileged. We ought to seek a more complex representation of all people, to realize our common humanity instead of allowing differences to divide us.

Anu Osibajo and Bah are freshmen College. Fireside appears every Tuesday.

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Over 5000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting individuals from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States.

Peace for Iran, a worldwide organization dedicated to promoting Iranian voices, organized the protest of Trump’s Jan. 28 order, which bans individuals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from coming into the country for 90 days.

The organization’s founder, Negar Mortazavi, said it was important to the group to organize the demonstration because they did not feel previous protests were large enough to send a message to the Trump administration.

“I went to a couple of protests after the executive order was signed, and I thought they just weren’t big enough. There were only a few hundred people, and there’s a lot more people affected, especially in the D.C. area,” Mortazavi said.

The rally began in front of the White House, and protesters then marched to the Supreme Court, stopping along the way to chant in front of Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.

According to the National Iranian American Council, a D.C.-based nonprofit, in 2003 there were about 28,000 Iranian Americans in Maryland and Virginia. The organization published these numbers in an Iran Census Report entitled “Strength in Numbers;” however, they did not include the District’s population of Iranian Americans and have not conducted a census since.

Mortazavi said now the District has one of the largest Iranian-American populations in the country.

“We just needed to mobilize more people, especially Iranian Americans. We need to communicate how we feel this is unfair,” Mortazavi said.

Mortazavi also said it was important for the group to hold the protest because they wanted to bring together the various groups that have reached out in support since

the signing of the executive order. Mortazavi listed the Jewish community, the LGBTQ community and Black Lives Matter protesters among his group’s supporters.

“I went to a couple of protests after the executive order was signed, and I thought they just weren’t big enough.”

NEGAR MORTAZAVI Founder, Peace for Iran

“This is unjust and unfair and discriminatory, but we as Iranians and Iranian Americans are directly affected by the travel ban — the Muslim ban,” Mortazavi said. “Obviously, we feel that it’s our responsibility more than anybody else to come together and organize, but we’ve had the support of not only those from the other six countries affected by the ban, but also many Muslims of other countries and other Americans who were not even Muslim.”

Bella Stenvall, a speaker at the event who called for young people to stand up for vulnerable communities, said in an interview with THE HOYA that she was motivated to speak to demonstrators because of the time she spent in refugee camps in Greece.

“It was the impact on so many families because of this executive order. It really felt like it was a personal attack on so many of my friends, as well as the people I have worked with,” Stenvall said.

“The ability to say that in front of thousands of protesters was really rewarding.”

During her speech, Stenvall urged listeners to protest the executive order, no matter their background.

“I send a message to every adult that is here and that is living here. It does not matter what your age is or what religion you identify with.

This is a call to action right now,” Stenvall said. “We cannot afford to be apathetic.

We cannot afford to be complacent. We cannot afford to sit behind our cell phones and sit behind our comput-

er screens and think that is enough.”

Tony Hack, a photographer who attended Saturday’s demonstration, said he was inspired to protest because he feels it is necessary for everyone to support diversity and inclusiveness in response to Trump’s order.

“In this country, if one isn’t white, male, affluent and Christian, one is under assault, and it’s only a matter of time before a person finds themselves in the crosshairs of this administration,” Hack said.

“I’m not inspired by blind resistance, and there’s an opportunity to come together and find common ground. But, on these kinds of issues, we all have to resist this administration.”

Seema Shaw-Nelson, who came from Baltimore,Md., to attend the protest with her children, ages six and nine, and said she was inspired by the energetic, hopeful nature of the event.

“The tone of the protest wasn’t angry at all. It was a very positive, fun and energetic environment,” ShawNelson said. “It felt like were all on the same side participating in something big, participating in democracy.

It was a very safe environment where even my kids felt included.”

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For about 20 hours, the Georgetown community was unaware that a student had been kidnapped Jan. 26 due to a communication lapse between the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police and the Georgetown University Police Department.

Although the kidnapping reportedly occurred about three blocks from the front gates of Georgetown — outside Saxbys coffee shop — MPD did not notify GUPD, as the crime did not occur on campus.

According to the MPD police report on the incident, the Georgetown student was walking along the 3400 block of O Steet when an unarmed suspect forced the student into a light gray or silver SUV. The suspect then drove the victim to several stores and ATMs and tried to force the victim to withdraw money or make large purchases, according to the victim’s account. The victim was released unharmed.

The incident took place at about 3:20 p.m. on Thursday and was reported to MPD later that afternoon.

In an email to The Hoya, GUPD Chief of Police Jay Gruber said MPD never informed campus police of the kidnapping and GUPD heard about it late the following morning from a university staff member who had spoken with the victim.

“The Georgetown University Police Department has always shared a strong partnership and open communication with the Metropolitan Police Department, especially the Second District leadership,” Gruber wrote. “While we understand that a case such as the reported kidnapping involves a number of MPD units and personnel, which

can slow the dissemination of information, GUPD reiterated its request for timely notifications. In this particular case, MPD failed to notify GUPD of this crime.”

After campus police learned of the kidnapping Friday morning, they worked to confirm details and sent out a Public Safety Alert, via email and text message, to the campus community by early afternoon.

MPD spokesperson Karimah Bilal wrote in an email to The Hoya that D.C. police are not required by law to notify campus police of crimes that occur off campus and do not represent a safety threat to the university. Bilal did not acknowledge wrongdoing on behalf of the department.

“MPD has followed the proper protocol for notifying District residents of this incident,” Bilal wrote.

“Based on circumstances of the offense not occurring on campus nor being within a certain proximity, MPD was not required to contact the Georgetown University Police Department.”

In response, Gruber maintained that his department should have been informed of the nearby kidnapping.

“I really have nothing to say about Mr. Bilal’s statement,” Gruber wrote. “I strongly feel GUPD should have been notified in order to alert and better protect our community and, in fact, we were not.”

Georgetown University Student Association President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) said the fact that MPD did not violate any formal law may be part of the problem.

“There is clearly some chaos when it comes to GUPD and MPD’s relationship,” Khan said. “For something involving a Georgetown student, the fact that we were not immediately

notified is very concerning.

There needs to be a written form agreement on MPD notifying the university of any incident within a certain radius of our campus, especially when it is pertaining to a student.”

Media Relations Manager Ryan King wrote in an email to The Hoya that the university has a positive and improving relationship with D.C. police.

“We have a strong relationship with MPD and are in regular communication to continually strengthen it. In addition, when images of the suspect became available we notified our community of this new information along with a reminder of safety tips,” King wrote.

The principal and headmaster of Georgetown Visitation Mary Kate Blaine did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but an administrative assistant confirmed the school also had not been directly contacted by MPD. Harriet Winslow, assistant to Holy Trinity Principal Charlie Hennessy, said Holy Trinity often uses the HOYAlert and Public Safety Alert services offered by GUPD for neighborhood safety information, meaning the communication failure with GUPD also impacted the nearby elementary school.

Winslow added the school was never directly contacted about the kidnapping but later received word from three Georgetown University sources. Winslow said Holy Trinity maintains a strong relationship with MPD but echoed Gruber’s call for direct notifications in the future.

“It certainly would be appropriate for them to contact us directly,” Winslow said. “In the future that would be nice.”

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Georgetown University and Georgetown University Medical Center saw a slight decline in federal funding for the fiscal year 2016 from fiscal year 2015.

The Medical Center received $76.68 million in federal funding, a decrease from 2015.

Researchers on the main campus received less money as well, although numbers were not immediately available on the amount received from Vice Provost for Research Janet Mann.

Together, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, government programs that provide much of the funding for science programs, gave out nearly $40 billion in total grants and funding to institutions during fiscal year 2016, a $2 billion dollar increase over fiscal year 2015.

Mann said faculty on the main campus were able to retain much of the funding they had received despite the slight decrease in federal money.

“We’re holding strong,” Mann said. “But, people are a little nervous, because it’s been going down in real dollars and some people are just hoping that the government will continue to support the sciences.”

Mann noted that main campus science programs, which receive the bulk of the federal research funds that the university receives, have had to diversify their funding sources by applying for grants from multiple federal agencies this year.

NIH applicants who request funding have only a 4 percent chance of receiving it, necessitating requests to different agencies, according to Mann.

“Our faculty in the sciences on the main campus have diversified a bit because there’s not just NSF and NIH, there’s other agencies, there’s Department of Energy and Department of

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“We have a number of community philanthropists called ‘Partners in Research’ who provide seed funding for the exploration of early scientific ideas,” Clarke wrote. “These are critical dollars for researchers to generate data that then helps to apply for larger grants.”

Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said that part of the difficulty in getting grants is that Georgetown’s funding comes from a pool of money that is appropriated by Congress to a number of federal agencies.

“One of the big challenges, though, is that the

“These are critical dollars for researchers to generate data.” robert clarke Dean of Reseach, Georgetown University Medical Center

Fleming also noted that there has not yet been a fiscal year 2017 budget passed.

Instead, Congress passed a continuing resolution to keep fiscal year 2016’s budget until late April, when they will potentially pass a new budget.

According to Fleming, there is new uncertainty involved for future spending on research, despite bipartisan concerns. With potential tax cuts and new proposed spending, Georgetown’s federal funding may suffer.

“We just don’t know how it’s going to play out,” Fleming said. “You can imagine if those who want to balance the budget prevail, they’ll raise defense spending, build the wall and cut taxes — there will be dramatic cuts in other areas of spending.”

Clarke said that past cuts to research funding have caused the GUMC to diversify its funding resources, but uncertainty still remains due to continuing dependency on the NIH. He warned against cutting spending for grants, especially for the sciences.

“We have serious issues right now with an aging Baby Boomer population that will experience the Silver Tsunami of disorders including Alzheimer’s and cancer,” Clarke wrote. “We can’t afford to go backwards.”

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“Our faculty in the sciences on the main campus have diversified a bit.”

funding for the departments of labor, education, health and human services, which includes the NIH, all come from the same appropriations bill,” Fleming said. “Hence, they compete against one another.”

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Defense,” Mann said. “They can have fairly deeper pockets than some of the other agencies.”

Robert Clarke, the dean of research at the Medical Center, said that most of the funding for the Medical Center came from the NIH. However, he said that the amount received, despite being a slight decrease from fiscal year 2015, was still greater than in fiscal year 2014.

“That is down from the previous year, but up from the one before that, reflecting the uncertainty of funding sources,” Clarke wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Clarke said that due to the funding decrease, the role of private funding for research has increased. In order to have a better chance for bigger grants in the future, researchers often request and receive smaller grants from private individuals or companies to bolster their research.

About 40 workers at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. voted to join the labor union Unite Here, which represents about 6,500 hospitality workers in the Washington area.

Trump can appoint members of the National Labor Relations Board, which enforces United States federal labor law, including the oversight of collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.

Georgetown University history professor Joseph McCartin, who specializes in labor issues, suggested this situation is unique in that it involves a president who is financially reliant on the decision making of his political inferiors.

“This is really an unprecedented situation. Those facilities are all subject to labor law and yet the presi-

dent can appoint people who have every power over determining how the labor law is interpreted,” McCartin said.

Trump International Hotel Director of Sales and Marketing Patricia Tang declined to comment.

Last fall, Unite Here organized protests at the hotel’s opening with more than 400 demonstrators in attendance, demanding that Donald Trump recognize the unionization efforts of workers at the Trump Hotel in Los Vegas, in addition to organizing a nation-wide boycott of Trump products in response to his stance on labor issues.

Unite Here’s D.C. chapter Executive Secretary and Treasurer John Boardman told The Washington Post that 95 percent of Trump housekeepers and guestroom workers voted to join the union, which will push to adopt the same benefits and protections offered

to workers at other downtown Washington hotels.

The move presents the possibility of tense labor negotiations involving newly-elected President Trump, who has yet to divest from his real estate business. This marks the first unionization at the Trump International Hotel, as well as the first unionization of Trump workers since the inauguration.

McCartin said workers often vote to unionize based on the increased benefits and pay that are inherent in doing so.

“No doubt they are aware of the fact that unionized workers earn more in wages and benefits than [non-]unionized workers,” McCartin said.

“No doubt they are aware that unionized workers, through union contract, get more due process on the job if they have a grievance.”

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The Georgetown Solidarity Committee lost its right to a budget and will now have to file individual funding requests with the Student Activities Commission after a hearing found it violated funding guidelines.

GSC Loses SAC Budgeting Rights SANCTIONS, from A1 Lily Ryan (COL ’17) attended the hearing.

Rice said the sanctions are inconvenient but not excessive.

“It’s definitely an inconvenience for us, it’s not an unmanageable convenience and we respect the decision to put that restriction on us,” Rice said. “As far as the GSC board, we’re satisfied with the actions taken. We understand why they were taken and we look forward to working with SAC.” Restoration was pitched as a relatively mild sanction compared to fines or being stripped of university funding for club trips.

Mondolfi said he is glad the committee was able to agree on a sanction that GSC accepts.

“It’s good both that we think these sanctions are appropriate, and that they do think that the sanctions are appropriate, and we look forward to helping

them work and succeed as a SAC organization,” Mondolfi said. “Our intention was always to educate and repair rather than punish, and I think they understand that.”

During the SAC hearing, the GSC representatives argued that the eight GSC members who stayed overnight in the president’s office acted as individuals, and their protest did not constitute a GSC event. As such, they argued it would be inappropriate to sanction the entire group.

Several commissioners expressed skepticism at this argument. During the hearing, SAC Vice Chair Thaameran Sarveswaran (SFS ’18) emphasized that the sit-in was a GSC group event.

“I fail to see how it is at all in question that this is a group event,” Sarveswaran said. “It’s absolutely appropriate for us to sanction them as an organization.”

Mondolfi said that the language used by GSC in

promoting and publicizing the event make it clear that it was a group event, and that GSC is therefore responsible for the rules violations.

“Even if we considered that this was a GSC event until close of business and then it wasn’t, the language GSC used in their social media campaign and even in the banner that they threw over the office was ‘occupied until DeGioia cuts Nike,’ ‘we are staying here until the contract is ended,” Mondolfi said. “The commission found that even if we agree to their point that they didn’t personally disrupt it, the language they were using was an imminent threat of disruption. When you say ‘we aren’t leaving until you do this,’ that is threatening disruption.”

In addition to violating the Student Organization Standards, Mondolfi said GSC failed to comply with certain aspects of SAC policy, including failing to request SAC approval to hold

the event when using university space.

The SAC hearing came after the Georgetown University Student Association voted Sunday in support of a resolution condemning the university for oversanctioning the individual GSC members, claiming it restrained student activism.

Twelve senators voted for the resolution, and seven abstained from voting. No senators voted against the resolution.

“It discourages future student activism and kind of ignores how instrumental student activism has been on the campus before in the past and probably will be moving forward,” GUSA Sen. Jasmin Ouseph (SFS ’19), who introduced the motion, said. “We just wanted to express that we as GUSA, and kind of on behalf of the student body, are recognizing the value of student protest and the work they did and probably will continue to do.”

Mold Health Effects Detailed MOLD, from A1 The employees all reported headaches that abated within an hour of leaving the affected area, according to the letter.

The university reported to White that they had followed through on her recommendations, including cleaning mold damage and installing dehumidifiers.

The letter is a non-binding set of recommendations.

However, problems persisted as Mack continued to experience symptoms related to mold.

“She inadvertently left a cup of tea on her desk when she left work due to sudden illness on 11/10/14. The photo showed the cup of tea was still there with several groups of colored matter floating in the fluid, consistent with presence of mold,” a Nov. 19, 2014 letter from Mack’s allergist, Sheryl Lucas, reads.

Mack and the university continued to negotiate terms or her employment and workplace accommodation in 2015. Court documents show the university offered Mack a new job position, but Mack failed to respond to the offer and the university terminated her employment on March 5, 2015. Mack claims she was fired in retaliation for her original complaints of mold.

Outside of Court Issues of mold at Georgetown extend beyond Mack’s lawsuit and into the dormitories of undergraduate students.

Village A, Village C West and Village C East have the highest frequency of reported mold issues on campus.

Last year, 54 cases of mold were reported to Facilities and Management from Village A, while 50 cases of mold were reported from Village C last year, according to data provided to The Hoya

by Facilities and Management.

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August and September see the highest number of mold-related work requests, due to the increase in heat and humidity, two factors known to contribute to mold growth. ber, when humidity is high.

Around half of the mold work requests actually turn out to be mold; the other half of cases is surface dirt and dust.

Executive Director for Residential Services Patrick Killilee wrote in an email to The Hoya that if mold remediation work is extensive and disruptive, students would be relocated to temporary housing provided by the university.

“The biggest challenges tend to be with people with pre-existing respiratory conditions.”

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Vice President of Facilities and Management Robin Morey said when a complaint about mold is received, trained facilities workers are sent to clean up the mold damage. For more serious cases, outside technicians are called to remove the mold growths.

Morey said mold tends to either involve carpets with water damage from rain, a leaky air conditioning unit or improper sanitation of living quarters and bathrooms — a preventable cause. Mold is caused by a combination of high levels of humidity and warm temperatures allowing fungi sports to germinate.

“Many of such complaints are minor conditions which can be addressed with appropriate cleaning. Regular cleaning of such areas would prevent the minor mold growth from occurring,” Morey wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Health Effects of Mold While mold does not usually cause people in affected areas to develop new medical conditions, it can exacerbate the symptoms of those already suffering from respiratory conditions, such as allergies or asthma, according to Dori Germolec, a toxicology researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

“The biggest challenges tend to be with people with preexisting respiratory conditions. So individuals that have asthma or allergies may be more sensitive to

the effects of mold and it can exacerbate their asthma symptoms,” Germolec said.

According to Germolec, mold can be found almost everywhere and is generally not dangerous to people.

“Mold is really everywhere. It is impossible to avoid. We are all exposed to it all the time. In normal concentrations it’s not harmful,” Germolec said.

But when someone has pre-existing respiratory conditions, the effects can be detrimental.

“About 15 minutes after arriving at work she had onset of difficulty breathing with postnasal drainage, itchy throat, chest tightness, feeling of pressure and pain in the crown and occipital areas of the head and burning sensation in the eyes,” the November 2014 letter from Mack’s allergist wrote.

The lawsuit is still in litigation and no court date has been set. The university’s legal counsel has attempted to have the case dismissed.

Outside of court, Facilities and Management continues to respond to mold requests.

Faculties and Management responded to 357 mold-related requests in 2016.

an appeals court.

Last night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals announced it would hear oral arguments Tuesday challenging and supporting the travel ban. The court will not determine whether the ban is constitutional, which is what brought it before Robart in the first place, but whether it should be temporarily suspended.

The Washington and Minnesota attorneys general argue that the ban violates the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment, since it requires the government grant preference to one religion over another. They also cite violations to the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits federal discrimination based on religion and national origin.

According to CNN, the Justice Department argues that Robart’s order should be lifted and the executive order be allowed to go back into effect while the legal process continues due to national security concerns.

Robart, who was nominated by former President George W. Bush to preside over legal matters in the Western District of Washington, had represented refugees and disadvantaged minority groups in court prior to his appointment, which was confirmed by a 99 to 0 Senate vote.

As a student at GULC, Robart worked as an editor at the Georgetown Law Journal.

Georgetown University Law Center professor Phillip Schrag, who teaches classes on representing refugees who are seeking asylum in the United States, said Robart had to consider his position as a member of the judicial branch compared to Trump’s authority to pass executive orders as president.

“The president has the most authority in terms of the courts deferring to him when he deals with national security,” Schrag, who also serves as the director for the GULC Center for Applied Legal Studies, said. “They are very reluctant to interfere with his authority in that area, and especially when Congress has spoken and given him some authority.”

Schrag referred to the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, which grants the president the authority to deny entry to “any class of aliens the president deems detrimental to the national interest.”

“That’s pretty broad language. It’s hard to imagine more sweeping language than that. That’s the language the president is relying on,” Schrag said. “However, there’s something to be said on the other side, too. A president’s order, in fact any governmental action, isn’t valid under the Fifth Amendment if it doesn’t have some rational basis.”

Georgetown Law’s Student Bar Association, the GULC student government, passed a resolution Jan. 31 in support of students affected by the executive order.

Ata Akiner (LAW ’19), a delegate in the SBA, said part of his reasoning for voting for the resolution was the

knowledge that his fellow GULC students were directly affected by the ban.

“Before proposing this resolution, I did confirm with the school’s administration that we do have students affected by the Immigration Executive Order that was passed,” Akiner wrote in an email to The Hoya. “They are very few in number, but in my view, even if one student were affected that is too many.”

Akiner said the resolution was passed with support from members of the SBA Diversity Committee as well as 27 GULC student groups, including the Georgetown Law Democrats, the Republican Law Students Association, an LGBTQ student group named Outlaw, the Muslim Law Students Association, the Jewish Law Students Association, the Christian Legal Society and the National Security Law Society.

Richard Hand (LAW ’18), who is also a delegate in the SBA, said he supported the resolution because diversity is a key part of a legal education.

“Many of us pride ourselves on the school’s international standing and the diversity of the student body.”

Richard hand (LAW ’18) Delegate, Student Bar Association

“The reactions within the student body have ranged from outrage to concern,” Hand wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Many of us pride ourselves on the school’s international standing and the diversity of the student body.

GULC is a tight knit community, so when we see our classmates afraid of traveling or lamenting the fact that their parents may not be able to attend Commencement, everyone is affected.”

According to Shrag, Robart had to analyze certain factors before making the decision, including how much harm would be done to companies, students and professors who were abroad during the time of the order.

Joshua Branch (LAW ’18), a delegate in the SBA and member of the Black Law Student Association, said he supported the resolution because of the tangible effects it has on GULC students.

“Speaking to the general response of law students, I think that a majority of law students have been concerned about the executive order both for our colleagues, families and friends, as well as what it means for what the United States stands for as a beacon of democracy to the world,” Branch wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Akiner expressed happiness to partake in activism at GULC. “I can’t tell you how proud I am to be a student at Georgetown Law,” Akiner wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Our motto is ‘Law is but the means, justice is the end,’ and I strongly believe that we are living up to that.”

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Law Center students are taking action against President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order.

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DeGioia Signs Letters Denouncing Trump Order YASMINE SALAM Hoya Staff Writer

University President John J. DeGioia announced Friday that he had joined hundreds of university presidents in signing two open letters attempting to dissuade President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly (GRD ’84) from enforcing the Jan. 27 executive order restricting immigration and refugee entry.

The signings came the same weekend the judicial branch struck down the executive order. The Ninth Circuit of Appeals denied an appeal from the Trump administration to reinstate the ban Sunday, after U.S. District Court Judge James Robart (LAW ’73) suspended the order Saturday.

The order had suspended immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and refugees from Syria indefinitely.

DeGioia announced he had signed the letters in a post to his Facebook page Friday.

“American higher education has benefited tremendously from this country’s long history of embracing immigrants.”

LETTER TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

“Earlier this week, I joined other college and university presidents in signing letters regarding the January 27, 2017 Executive Order on ‘Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United

States,’” DeGioia wrote.

The first letter, organized by Princeton University, was addressed to Trump and signed by the presidents of 48 American universities, including Vanderbilt University, Columbia University and Stanford University.

“International exchange is a core value and strength of American higher education.”

LETTER TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION

The second letter was addressed to Kelly and signed by hundreds of institutions, all members of the American Council on Education. DeGioia has been Chair of the Board of Directors of ACE since March 2016.

The Princeton letter recommended that Trump take immediate action to change his decision to ban Muslims from seven majority-Muslim countries.

“We write as presidents of leading American colleges and universities to urge you to rectify or rescind the recent executive order closing our country’s borders to immigrants and others from seven majority-Muslim countries and to refugees from throughout the world,” the letter reads.

The letter also asserts America’s reputation as a free nation will be harmed globally if Trump does not take immediate action.

“American higher education has benefited tremendously from this country’s long history of embracing immigrants from around the world. Their innovations and scholarship have en-

hanced American learning.

Many who have returned to their own countries have taken with them the values that are the lifeblood of our democracy,” they wrote.

“This executive order is dimming the lamp of liberty and staining the country’s reputation. We respectfully urge you to rectify the damage done by this order.”

The second letter echoed much of the same sentiment as the first, with a focus on how international students benefit the domestic population.

“International exchange is a core value and strength of American higher education. Moreover, our nation’s welcoming stance to scholars and scientists has benefited the U.S. through goodwill and a long history of scientific and technological advances that have been essential to the economic growth our country has experienced for decades.”

In his initial campuswide email Jan. 29 denouncing Trump’s decision, DeGioia wrote about the need for interfaith cohesion on Georgetown’s campus.

“Guided by our mission, we have placed a special emphasis on interreligious dialogue and our openness to different faith traditions and cultures,” DeGioia wrote. “This includes our efforts to support a diverse and vibrant Muslim community on campus.”

DeGioia’s actions have been joined by other senior administrators.

Professor Charles King, who is the chair of the government department, said in a Jan. 29 email the department is working to support students and faculty affected by the order.

Additionally, School of Foreign Service Dean Joel Hellman wrote in a Jan. 29 email to SFS faculty that Trump’s order is “a challenge to the very values upon which the SFS was created and for which we have championed for nearly a century.”

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The Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union and the Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society received 167 and 265 applications this spring.

Clubs Complete Spring Hiring BEN GOODMAN Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union and the Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society received 167 and 265 applications for their spring hiring classes.

GUASFCU fell one short of its spring applicant pool record, hiring 23 tellers out of the 167, at a rate of 13.8 percent, while Blue and Gray accepted 32 new tour guides, or 12.1 percent, from the 265.

Students of Georgetown, Inc. could not be reached for comment as of press time.

Each student group either tweaked or substantially changed its application process this semester in an effort to increase diversity.

Incoming GUASFCU CEO Rupert Kingshott (MSB ’18) said GUASFCU’s new hires are balanced in terms of gender and fell along usual school lines.

“The current teller class has a roughly even split between males and females.

About half come from the MSB, with the rest being from the College or SFS. This is a similar proportion to our application pool,” Kingshott wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Blue and Gray President Prayuj Pushkarna (SFS ’17) said

that Blue and Gray reduced the importance of the written element of its application and allowed general tour guides to interview prospective applicants in order to expand the number of voices participating in hiring.

The application has changed significantly since the fall, according to Pushkarna. In the fall hiring season, Blue and Gray offered the top 30 percent of written applications a first round interview, while in the spring, all applicants were offered an interview, with the top 30 percent of averaged written applications and first round interviews receiving second round interviews.

Pushkarna said Blue and Gray concluded that the nature of its role mandated that it give all applicants an interview.

“We realized it did not make as much sense to cut people after just the written application because as tour guides, our primary role is face-to-face contact,” Pushkarna said.

Outgoing GUASFCU CEO Chris Grillo (SFS ’17) said GUASFCU plans to continue to widen its outreach efforts.

“We’ve reached out to specific clubs and groups on campus that traditionally have not been very well represented within the intern ranks,” Grillo said.

One tangible step GUASFCU plans to take is to outreach to the office of the Georgetown Scholarship Program, which aids academically distinguished Georgetown students with financial needs.

“Next fall we’re going to fixate on holding office hours in the GSP office. That was a plan we did a little rollout on late into the application process this time around,” Grillo said. “There are plans to get everything scheduled so next year we will be in the GSP office as well.”

Rodrigo Ko (MSB ’20), who was rejected from Corp Accounting in the fall and was hired by Corp Marketing last week, said he did not perceive a huge change in The Corp’s application process from the fall to the spring.

“I don’t think it changed much, honestly. I was greeted with happy, energetic people,” Ko said. “All the interviewers were great, and I didn’t feel much pressure at all. Just my attitude toward the interview changed.”

Even considering the large applicant pool and supposedly imposing process, Ko said he had a great experience — through rejection and acceptance — with The Corp.

“I haven’t gone to an interview where I felt more at home,” Ko said.

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Between the pipes

Capitals Knock off 3 Straight Playoff Contenders I

t has been an average week for Washington hockey. Unfortunately for the rest of the league, soundly defeating three playoff contenders in a row has become “average” for this year’s Capitals team.

Coming out of a frustrating 3-2 loss to the Islanders on Tuesday, the Caps went on to beat the Bruins 5-3 at home Wednesday, travel to Montreal for a 3-2 Saturday matinee victory over the Canadiens and return home for a 5-0 shutout of L.A. on Super Bowl Sunday.

The Bruins swaggered into the Verizon Center riding the momentum of a three-game winning streak, hoping to play the fatigued Caps they watched lose to one of the weakest teams in the Metropolitan division just

a day before. Instead, the Bruins found the Caps doing what they do so well recently: scoring goals.

A nifty breakaway goal

by T.J. Oshie, a wicked wrist shot from Alex Ovechkin and a game-winner by Brett Connolly all contributed to a decisive win for the Caps against an increasingly desperate Boston team.

Wednesday’s win was satisfying, and yet supremely unsurprising, especially on home ice. The Caps have now won nine straight at the Verizon Center, outscoring their opponents 4512 in that stretch. An exciting win on NBC Wednesday Night Rivalry over a playoff-contender still fighting for their spot was just a regular day for the Caps.

Saturday’s win was a bit less run-of-the-mill. Facing

up against the leader of the Atlantic Division on the road appeared to be quite the challenge, but the Caps eventually pulled out a victory the way they have been winning every other game: depth scoring and reliable goaltending.

Kyle Parisi Goals from fourth-liner Jay Beagle and third-liner Andre Burakovsky, backed up by a solid night from goaltender Braden Holtby, secured the win for Wash-

ington. Head Coach Barry Trotz noted the importance of secondary scoring in the Capitals’ dominant play.

“When teams are shutting down our some of our other lines, the Lars Eller line or the Beagle line steps up. That’s been the secret for us, the depth of our team. Those guys are stepping up when other guys are getting shut down,” Trotz said.

Speaking of depth, Connolly tallied an assist on Burakovsky’s goal, extending his point streak to two games.

The Caps then decided the party should not stop there. It is understandable that in back-to-back games against two of the league’s top teams, a team may slow down a bit. It is even more understandable if

the back half is against a team coming in with a five-game winning streak, three of which have been shutout victories.

Someone forgot to relay these excuses onto the Caps, however, who handled the Kings in a 5-0 victory. Goals from bottom six liners like Lars Eller and — you guessed it — Brett Connolly, in addition to Oshie, Justin Williams and Marcus Johansson made the victory a decisive one. A 38-save performance by Philipp Grubauer sealed it, as he earned his third shutout of the season. At 16-2-1 in their last 19 games, it is becoming clear that this is not just a good team hitting their stride — this is a team with a purpose. With key players like Oshie,

Karl Alzner and Williams becoming unrestricted free agents this summer, it is plain to see that this team feels a sense of immediacy to finally win a Cup this season.

“I’ve played on other teams where you could win three, four in a row, then you could get maybe a little satisfied and feel too good about yourself,” Eller, a newcomer to the Caps this season, noted. “It doesn’t seem like this team is sitting back and feeling too good about themselves.”

And from where I am sitting, it does not look like it either. I am just happy to be along for the ride.

Kyle Parisi is a sophomore in the College. Between the pipes appears every Tuesday.

Women’s basketball

Hoyas Defeat Friars in Overtime, Fall to Bluejays at Home Allie Babyak Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s basketball team extended its conference game-winning streak to five games before it snapped Sunday. The Hoyas defeated Providence 72-70 on Friday for their second overtime win of the season, but suffered a disappointing loss to Creighton (17-6, 11-2 Big East) two days later.

Heading into the weekend, the Hoyas (14-8, 6-6 Big East) were cruising on a five-game winning streak capped by a 54-49 victory against rival Villanova, a team Georgetown had previously lost to by 21 points.

Carrying that momentum, the Hoyas fought for a close win against the Friars (10-14, 2-11 Big East). In the previous Jan. 10 matchup, the Hoyas routed the Friars 71-39, but Friday’s game was a different story as Providence protected a lead for 25:19 compared to Georgetown leading for 12:46.

“We knew it was a tough game. We knew it was going to be gritty,” senior forward Faith Woodard said. “We beat them

by a lot of points last game, but we knew they were going to come strong this game. We just fought the whole game and we just never gave up.”

Georgetown led 30-28 at the half, but Providence came back to score 24 points in the third quarter. The fourth quarter was close; with 00:13 remaining in regulation, Providence made two free throws to go up 6461. With 00:07 remaining, Woodard grabbed a rebound off sophomore guard Dionna White’s missed three-pointer.

She took it to the line and hit a three with two seconds remaining, sending the game into overtime.

With 1:35 left in overtime, Woodard grabbed an offensive rebound and made a layup to tie the game at 70. The Friars did not have a response for senior guard Tyshell King’s jumper at 00:50, which sealed the 72-70 win for the Hoyas. King came off the bench to score 13 points and grab five rebounds for the Hoyas.

Despite accumulating 10 steals, the team was unable to

shut down senior guard Sarah Beal, who poured in 24 points against the Hoyas.

“It’s always hard guarding someone like that who can get to basket and has a pretty good mid-range shot. But we knew even if she was hot tonight, everybody else can’t go off,” Woodard said.

The Hoyas had a day to recover, and then went on to play Creighton on Sunday at home. When the two teams played Jan. 8 at Creighton, Georgetown lost 70-68 in overtime. Creighton won that game with senior guard Lauren Works’ three-pointer with 00:11 remaining in overtime.

Once again, the difference in the game came from beyond the arc. Creighton shot 9-of-19 from the three. At the end of the first quarter, the Bluejays were only up by two, but by the end of the half, they held a 37-29 lead.

“I think they continued to push, and they came. … We got caught on some bad screens out there, and next thing you know, you got a 4-point lead — now it’s a 10-point lead — and you’re playing from behind,”

Associate Head Coach James Howard said.

Every time the Hoyas began to climb out of the deficit, the Bluejays responded with a three. Senior guard Marissa Janning made a big difference in the game for Creighton, leading the team with 18 points — nine of which came from threepointers. Creighton had Janning play off-ball screens to get her open looks.

“And Marissa Janning played well off of it, she had a good game for them versus us [at Creighton] she didn’t score as much. Tonight, I think she had 18, that was big,” Howard said.

Despite being behind, the Hoyas fought defensively to try for opportunity to shorten the lead, forcing 11 steals and recording four blocks.

“At least we kept fighting, we didn’t let down, so that was still good. We’ll just keep doing that and bounce back,” junior forward Cynthia Petke said.

Georgetown will play away at Seton Hall on Friday at 7 p.m. followed by a game at St. John’s on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Three-point shootout

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Senior forward Faith Woodard scored 17 points on 3-of6 three-point shooting in Friday’s victory over Providence.

THE ZONE

Powerhouse Teams Struggle Gonzaga Earns Top Spot L Big 12 Struggles The Big 12 experienced a stunning Saturday when No. 3 Kansas (20-3 8-2 Big 12), thenNo. 2, Baylor (20-3, 7-3 Big 12) and then-No. 7 West Virginia (18-5, 6-4 Big 12) all lost on their home courts. Each of these teams also lost to unranked opponents — Iowa State (14-8, 6-4 Big 12), Kansas State (167, 5-5 Big 12) and Oklahoma State (15-8, 4-6 Big 12) each took down their respective opponent.

A series of off-the-court investigations and injuries have left the Jayhawks woefully shorthanded, leading to the team’s first home loss in 51 games. No starter played fewer than 33 minutes of Saturday’s overtime game, and the Jayhawks looked gassed in the second half as Iowa State charged back from a 14-point halftime deficit. If Kansas is going to win the Big 12, it must make dealing with distractions part of its norm.

Fortunately for Kansas, Kansas State was the filling in the Big 12 front-runner sandwich of destruction, beating a Baylor team that now has plenty of skeptics. After spending weeks both unranked and at No. 1, the Bears dug themselves into an early 19-point hole. Kansas State dominated Baylor in the paint — outscoring them 26-22 — and forced 16 turnovers. The Bears now carry a two-game losing streak into Stillwater for their next game Wednesday against Oklahoma State.

Of the Big 12 teams mentioned, West Virginia has the most to worry about. The Mountaineers have dropped home games to both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, and all of the team’s losses have come to unranked teams.

Despite keeping its turnovers down and forcing 19 against Oklahoma State, no West Virginia starter reached double figures. The Mountaineers defense allowed the red-hot Cowboys to shoot 62.5 percent from the field, 61.5 percent

from three-point range and 88.9 percent from the freethrow line. West Virginia remains two full games behind Kansas and Baylor, and looks to bounce back with a road game against Oklahoma on Wednesday.

Carter Owen

These teams are vulnerable, and the Big 12 is not the three-headed race everyone expected.

The 1-2-3 punch delivered Saturday does not change the conference standings; the Jayhawks, Bears and Mountaineers all remain in order.

It does, however, prove that these teams are vulnerable, and that maybe the league is not the three-headed race everyone expected.

Not So Fast, Wildcats Kentucky (18-5, 8-2 SEC) — a team many thought would cakewalk to the Southeastern conference title — were run out of the gym by then-No. 24 Florida (18-5, 8-2 SEC) 88-66 on Saturday and suffered in the most recent polls, dropping seven spots to No. 15. It was the Wildcats’ third loss in four games, and were it not for a Malik Monk hero shot against Georgia, they would be on a four-game skid. Now, the team that usually dominates conference play sits behind red-hot No. 19 South Carolina (19-4, 9-1 SEC) and the Gators.

Simply put, Kentucky was

defeated because the Gators played harder. The Wildcats turned the ball over 13 timesand outrebounded by 22 to the 119th-ranked team in rebounding margin. The Wildcats have plenty of time to make things right with a schedule that works in their favor, as Florida is the only ranked opponent they face the rest of the season. However, they do need to turn up their effort levels in their contests next week against LSU (9-13, 1-9 SEC) and Alabama (13-9, 6-4 SEC) to prepare themselves for March.

The Ducks are Back Attention, college basketball: Watch out for the Ducks.

Facing a then-No.5 Arizona (21-3, 10-1 PAC 12) team on the heels of their most impressive win of the year against thenNo. 3 UCLA (21-3, 8-3 PAC 12), a surging Oregon (21-3, 10-1 PAC-12) team made an arenarecord 16 three-pointers — including 10 in the first half — in an 85-58 demolition of the nation’s best statistical defensive team.

Arizona came into the game boasting the best threepoint defense in the Pac-12, allowing just 29.4 percent from range before Saturday, but the Ducks did not care about prior statistics and shot 64 percent from downtown, sending a resounding message to the rest of the conference — and country — that the team that took a trip to the Elite Eight a season ago is primed and ready to do so again this year. With the expected February chaos breaking out all over the country, the Ducks have proven their potential. Their highly contested matchup with the No. 10 Bruins on Thursday gives them yet another chance to do so on a national stage.

Carter Owen is a freshman in the McDonough School of Business. Three-point Shootout appears every Tuesday.

ast week’s Associated Press NCAA men’s college basketball poll ranked Gonzaga University as the No.1 team in the nation. Yet, despite being the only undefeated team in the Top 25, Gonzaga did not receive the entirety of the first-place votes. Inexplicably, the writers were split between Gonzaga, Baylor, Kansas and Villanova.

Kansas and Villanova were both two-loss teams at the time, while Baylor had just one loss. The writers who voted for Baylor and Kansas are probably feeling a little silly at this point; Baylor has lost twice and Kansas once in the past week. As for the writers who voted for Villanova over Gonzaga, one of the Wildcats’ losses was against unranked Marquette — a decent team overall and a game on the road, but still.

Do not get me wrong: The Big East is a brutally hard conference to play in, especially this year. But it makes no sense to have any discussion about Villanova being ranked above Gonzaga, and to argue otherwise is plain-and-simple East Coast bias.

The reason that writers are so hesitant to grant the Zags the respect they deserve is due to the weakness of the conference they play in: the West Coast Conference. The WCC has just one other ranked team — the No. 20 St. Mary’s Gaels — with no other teams receiving votes for an AP ranking.

Gonzaga coach Mark Few knew this coming into the season, however, and scheduled non-conference games against Iowa State, No. 9 Arizona, Washington, No. 17 Florida, Tennessee and San Diego State. While three of those — Washington, Tennessee and SDSU — have had disappointing seasons thus far, road wins against

Iowa State and Florida are nothing to sneeze at. Even more impressive is its Dec. 3 victory against Arizona, a team now ranked fifth in the country, with only one loss besides the Gonzaga contest.

Hugh Ramlow Interestingly, all three of those signature non-conference wins have taken place on neutral courts, with the Florida and ISU games coming at the AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando, which may as well have been a home game for Florida. The Arizona game was played at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, a truly neutral location. It seems that Few is preparing his team for the NCAA tournament atmosphere by reaching outside his own conference for tournament-like games.

Although TV commentators often criticize the Bulldogs for early tournament exits, Gonzaga has performed admirably the past two years. In 2015, the Zags reached the Elite Eight and in 2016, the Sweet Sixteen.

Those teams were good, but not as good as this year’s squad.

Nigel Williams-Goss, Gonzaga’s leading scorer, probably will not win the Wooden Award. He does not play like Lonzo Ball, Markelle Fultz or Dillon Brooks. He’s not flashy.

Instead, he has the mature savvy to make the right decision with the ball nearly every time.

The Washington transfer’s patience, body control

and quick first step allows him to frustrate defenders and put up big numbers in the scoring column. And by keeping his head up he is able to find big man Przemek Karnowski for mid-range jumpers or easy lay-ins on the block.

Karnowski, a 7-foot-1, 300-pound giant, complements his huge frame with surprising agility and excellent hands — not to mention a nice little jump shot he has developed late in his college career. Karnowski is complemented on the inside by another 7-foot freshman Zach Collins, who averages doubledigit scoring and is the third-leading scorer on the team.

These two, who both shoot over 60 percent from the floor, collapse defenses and allow plenty of room for shooters like WilliamsGoss, Jordan Mathews, Johnathan Williams and Josh Perkins. The Zags also receive quality minutes from bench players such as Silas Melson and Killian Tillie. All in all, they run eight-deep, each one a scoring threat and a solid defender.

With Few’s reputable in-game coaching skills, Gonzaga has very few weaknesses. In fact, the undefeated Bulldogs have a real shot at going undefeated on the season, a feat rarely accomplished in the college game.

If Gonzaga is able to run the table, Few will join prestigious company, among the likes of John Wooden, Bob Knight and John Calipari. But they are not there quite yet. As Wooden himself said, “It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.”

Hugh Ramlow is a junior in the College. The zone appears every other Tuesday.

SPORTS

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Women Endure First Loss Arsenal Upset, Falls in Table TENNIS, from A10

CRAIGE, from A10

Hoyas’ singles lineup struggled to compete with the opponent.

The trio of juniors Peter Beatty (6-4, 6-0), Marco Lam (7-5, 6-3) and Rechan (6-2, 6-4), No. 1-3 respectively, all fell in straight sets. Rounding out the disappointing day for Georgetown were senior Yannik Mahlangu and freshman Ian Witmer, both of whom suffered defeat in the No. 5 and 6 matches, respectively. Mahlangu’s Eagle adversary triumphed 6-1, 6-3, while Witmer dropped his match in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2.

In the women’s match the next day, the Hoyas (1-1 Big East) auspiciously started the match against the Crimson (3-4) — Georgetown took the doubles point to begin the day.

Sophomore-senior combination Victoire Saperstein and Risa Nakagawa took the No. 1 doubles match 6-4, and a 6-2 win from Drew Spinosa and Cecilia Lynham cemented the duo’s victory.

In singles play, however, the Hoyas’ fortune reversed, as an impressive effort from the Crimson singles’ troupe provided the four necessary points to claim the match. The back end of the singles lineup, which had earlier found success in the doubles match, earned a pair of hard-fought victories in the No. 5 and 6 matches. Lynham continued her already successful performance, prevailing 7-5, 6-4

only reason that Arsenal did not lose by a heavier score, and while Alex Iwobi was able to get a consolation goal, it looked as though Arsenal had simply been stunned into mediocrity.

In fact, Arsenal did not register a single goal for the entire first half. For a team with title-winning aspirations, that is simply unacceptable. Considering that Watford had not won in seven games, it was also highly embarrassing for Arsenal to lose this game.

Manager Arsène Wenger was unavailable for both matches due to a fourgame touchline ban that he is currently serving.

With the Frenchman’s contract expiring at the end of the season, questions are rightly being asked as to whether Arsenal should keep Wenger on staff.

Considering that the team has finished fourth an astonishing six times in the last 11 seasons, the answer to that question is starting to look more and more like a no.

Like the Watford game, the Gunners looked utterly lifeless against Chelsea.

Once again, Arsenal was already losing before the

COURTESY GUHOYAS

Junior Drew Spinosa won her No. 6 singles match in two straight 6-4 sets against Harvard on Saturday. against her Crimson counterpart, and Spinosa won a pair of 6-4 sets to take the No. 6 match.

Unfortunately for Georgetown, the top four all fell, highlighted by a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 loss from Saperstein, whose firstset victory was not enough to earn Blue and Gray its decisive fourth point. In addition to Saperstein, Harvard defeated the trio of Nakagawa (6-1, 6-2),

junior Sara Swift (6-0, 6-1) and sophomore Sydney Goodson (6-2, 7-6) in the No. 2-4 matches.

The Hoyas will look to avenge this pair of defeats this week as the men host Morgan State on Wednesday and the women will battle The University of Massachusetts on Friday.

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15th minute had passed, thanks to a Marcos Alonso goal that Wenger later criticized as illegal.

Wenger perhaps had a point: En route to heading the ball, Alonso delivered a stinging blow to the head of Hector Bellerin, causing the Arsenal defender to be substituted.

Arsenal has now lost four of its last nine games, equal to the losses suffered in the previous 35 matches.

While the first goal is excusable, there is no excuse for either the second or the third. Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard was easily able to blow past three defenders on his way to scoring, leaving Cech helpless once again Olivier Giroud’s goal at the end of the game was essentially meaningless, a poor consolation prize for a team that just saw its best hopes of winning a title get snuffed out once more.

Arsenal has now lost four of its last nine games — the same number of losses it had in all of the previous 35 games. It is a

clear sign that something is going wrong in London and, once again, Wenger seems incapable of fixing the problem.

Arsenal has enormous difficulties overcoming slow starts, and when teams manage to score against them within the first 15 minutes, it heightens Arsenal’s sluggishness.

Unlike Liverpool, which lacks a certain depth to its squad, Arsenal is teeming with brilliant players.

There is no reason that a team with Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Özil should be playing so poorly, but it appears that the uncertainty over the future of the duo is affecting the entire team.

There is a very real risk that the Gunners will be unable to hang onto both players, leaving the team with a gaping hole that Wenger will not be able to fill on his own.

Arsenal faces Hull City next — the final game of Wenger’s absence — and if the team is not careful, it will find itself with a similar fate to rival Liverpool, struggling to turn around a season that once held so much promise.

Vanessa Craige is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. The Beautiful Game appears every Tuesday.

fOOTBALL

Georgetown Signs 28 Recruits on National Signing Day FOOTBALL, from A10

— actually broke the singleseason sack record at Westfield High School this year with 16 sacks,” Kolt said.

In addition to Jewell, the Hoyas welcome in defensive end Owen Kessler who recorded 56 solo tackles in addition to 15 sacks his senior year, according to MaxPreps.com.

Kessler received preferred walk-on offers from Rutgers and Penn State before signing with Georgetown. The defensive end had 79 tackles and 15 sacks during his senior season.

“We added a couple other really big impact guys on the front on both sides of the ball. Owen Kessler is another defensive end from New Jersey who is a state champion, and some other guys inside as well,” he said.

Both Kolt and Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said the staff really focused on recruiting well in the local area,

with a quarter of the Class of 2021 coming from the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area.

“We did put a big emphasis this year on recruiting well locally in the DMV. There’s a lot of really talented players here, and we would like them to play for us,” Kolt said.

“When we looked at the class, one of the goals was to make sure we did a good job defending the District, do a great job in our own backyard,” Sgarlata said.

“In our own backyard, what we did is we split up each one of the local areas — D.C., Maryland and Virginia — by county. We really attacked that in spring recruiting so we could identify student-athletes in the local area that we thought would make an impact for us.”

While there was a focus on the local area, the incoming class still represents a large part of the country.

“Our name recognition is awesome across the country because of the school, and men’s basketball really helps the overall reputation of Georgetown. I’m really happy that we did that, and also not taking away from the national efforts that our coaches put in. That’s the beauty of being at Georgetown,” Sgarlata said.

The hope is that the newest Hoya football players will help the Georgetown football team improve on its disappointing 3-8 record in 2016.

“The goal here is to win the Patriot League,” Sgarlata said. “What we sold the kids on was that the Class of 2021 is going to be that class that everybody looks back on and says, ‘Hey, that’s the third recruiting class in this process. They continue to upgrade the talent.’ We have to make the results show in our record after the 2017 season.”

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lot of their offense.”

As a team, Villanova plays sound basketball, shooting efficiently from the floor and the free-throw line. The Wildcats rank 11th in NCAA Division I in field goal shooting with 49.4 percent, in addition to their 80 percent free throw percentage that ranks No. 5 in the nation.

“We can beat them. We know that, the guys know that, they see what we can do.”

John Thompson iii Head Coach

In order to slow down Villanova’s consistent scoring, Georgetown needs to improve its 46.4 percent field goal percentage to keep pace in the game. However, the Wildcats’ defense — which holds their opponents to a conferencebest 62.9 points per game — can make shooting inside extremely difficult for the Hoyas.

“It’s crucial,” Thompson said of his team’s ability to finish in the paint against the Wildcats. “They are a very physical team, and they do a good job of when you get it in the paint, you’re going to get bumped, you’re go-

ing to get hit.”

The Blue and Gray have the pieces to slow down Villanova’s star power. Junior guard L.J. Peak and graduate student guard Rodney Pryor — both listed at 6’5” — match up well defensively with the 6’6” Hart and Jenkins. The Hoya duo averages 18.2 and 16.3 points, respectively, and make up the bulk of the team’s offensive momentum, carrying a large part of the scoring load for the team this season.

In addition to their veteran players, the Wildcats boast an impressive set of sophomore guards in Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges. Brunson is second on the team in scoring at 14.4 points per game, and Bridges shoots just under 42 percent from three-point range. Freshman guard Donte DiVincenzo, who notched the buzzer-beater tip-in over Virginia (17-5, 7-3 ACC), had a career high 20 points in the team’s last win.

The matchup looks to be the most challenging for Georgetown for the remainder of the season — the Hoyas come into the game with a 9 percent chance of winning according to KenPom.com, and have little room for error if they look to make the NCAA Tournament. With seven games before the Big East tournament, every game has playoff implications.

“There’s a lot of history there. Whether they won the national championship last year or not, it’s a big

game for us,” Thompson said y. “We can beat them.

We know that, the guys know that, they see what we can do, but now we have to go do it.”

Tipoff for Tuesday night’s game is set for 7 p.m. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1 and can be heard locally on 106.7 FM.

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Junior guard L.J. Peak scored a team-high 18 points against Seton Hall in Saturday’s overtime loss.

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Junior Mac Rechan, pictured, along with senior Jordan Portner defeated Boston College in the No. 1 doubles match.

Squads Suffer Losses in Boston Evan Morgan Hoya Staff Writer

After a weeklong hiatus, the Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams travelled to Boston to compete against Boston College and Harvard University, respectively. The Eagles captured their first victory of the season at the expense of the Blue and Gray, as the men fell 1-6, while the women lost a tight 3-4 decision to the Crimson at the Murr Center in Cambridge, Mass.

On Saturday, the Georgetown men’s team (1-2) battled Boston College (0-2) at the Flynn Recreation Complex in Chestnut Hill. On a day that proved to be challenging from the start, the Hoyas continued a discouraging trend that has plagued the squad for all

three of their matches this season: losing the doubles point.

Although the upperclassmen duo of junior Mac Rechan and senior Jordan Portner took the No. 1 doubles match 6-4, the Eagles battled back in the pair of subsequent competitions — including a 7-6 No. 3 match — to take the day’s first point.

In singles play, the Hoyas failed to demonstrate the same competitive grit; Boston College dominated the six matches with five wins to one loss. Sophomore Michael Chen claimed the Blue and Gray’s solitary triumph, prevailing in a tough, three-set affair 7-6, 4-6, 10-7.

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After watching its threegame conference winning streak get snapped in overtime Saturday, the Georgetown men’s basketball team looks to put its name back in the NCAA tournament conversation as it travels to Philadelphia to take on bitter conference rival No. 2 Villanova Wildcats.

Georgetown (13-11, 4-7 Big East) narrowly lost the rebounding battle in its previous game but struggled tremendously from the three-point line. The Hoyas made only one of 19 shots from deep, despite shooting close to 38 percent on the season. Georgetown looks to turn its performance around against a confident Villanova (22-2, 9-2 Big East) squad.

“They do everything well,” Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III said of the reigning national champions. “You have to meet their energy, meet their aggression; you have to meet their cohesiveness.

They play so well together.”

Villanova, one of the premier teams in the nation, has previously been ranked No.1, but fell in the ranks after its loss to No. 18 Butler (18-5, 7-4 Big East). The Wildcats rebounded this past week with a 30-point victory over Seton Hall (14-8, 4-6 Big East) and a 20-point win against Providence (14-10, 3-7 Big East), and remain in good position to earn a No.1 seed for the NCAA Tournament.

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Freshman guard Jagan Mosely averages 4.8 points per game and dishes out 2.5 assists per game. Mosely played 27 minutes off the bench in Saturday’s loss.

Senior guard Josh Hart leads the Wildcats in scoring and rebounds with 18.9 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. Hart’s season performance has elevated him to a top contender for the Naismith College Player of the Year. Senior guard Kris Jen-

kins — the hero of last season’s championship game — contributes 13.2 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.

“We have to do a good job tomorrow standing in front of our guys,” Georgetown sophomore center Jessie Govan said. “That’s

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The Georgetown football team had a total of 28 recruits sign their letter of intent to play for the Hoyas last Wednesday on National Signing Day. Seven members from the Class of 2021 hail from the D.C. area.

GU Welcomes Class of 2021 Recruits DAN CROSSON Hoya Staff Writer

Last Wednesday marked this year’s National Signing Day — a day in which the Georgetown football team announced its newest recruiting class set to graduate in 2021. The recruits hail from 12 different states — seven from the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area and five from Texas — and include 12 offensive players, 15 defensive players and one on special teams.

Quarterback Joseph Brunell and defensive end Zach Jewell highlight the Class of 2021 recruits.

Brunell passed for 1,907

yards and 22 touchdowns as a senior, and his father, Mark Brunell, played 19 seasons in the NFL as a quarterback.

With Tim Barnes set to graduate in May, the quarterback position was the most important role to fill.

Recruiting coordinator Alex Kolt discussed the goal of recruiting key positions early on in the recruiting process.

“The most important position in football is quarterback, so on offense you’ve got to have a guy who can play there and then you’ve got to have guys to protect him. On defense, you’ve got to have some guys who can get after the quarterback,”

Kolt said.

“On defense you’ve got to have some guys who can get after the quarterback.”

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Complimenting Brunell offensively is running back Jayvonta Tolliver.

Tolliver was a three-time state champion in track &

field and a 2014 USA Track and Field All-American who finished his senior football season with 340 yards and 4 touchdowns in five games.

As for the key defensive recruits, Jewell won two state championships in high school and finished his high school career with 25 sacks and 156 tackles.

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helsea’s march toward the title — a stunning reversal of fortune when compared to the previous season — is looking even more inevitable thanks to yet another potential title contender’s meltdown.

With 14 games left, the Blues already have a staggering nine-point lead over their next competitor.

Thanks to stumbles by Liverpool — which lost to relegation candidate Hull City — and now Arsenal, Tottenham looks like the only team with the slightest chance of catching Chelsea.

For every Gunners fan out there, each season begins with the same question: Will Arsenal blow its title chances yet again?

And the answer to that question, more often than not, is yes.

I would imagine being an Arsenal fan is much like being a fan of the Washington Nationals. Both teams have the firepower, ability and burning desire to win a title, yet for some reason, both teams inevitably come up short when it counts.

It seems as though that fire suddenly burns out, leaving both teams sputter-

ing towards the end.

Arsenal has suffered a rather unfortunate past week with losses to both Watford and Chelsea.

While the defeat at the hands of the mighty Chelsea is perhaps excusable, a 2-1 loss to 10th-place Watford is not.

Arsenal has suffered an unfortunate past week, losing to Chelsea and 10thplace Watford.

It was a game that was a must-win for the Gunners. A win in both matches would have narrowed the gap between Chelsea and Arsenal to just three points, instead of the 12 points that now stand between them.

Watford scored two goals in three minutes, and Arsenal was already down two goals before the 15 minutes had passed. Goalkeeper Petr ČCech was perhaps the See CRAIGE, A9