The Hoya: February 28, 2017

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Tuesday, FEBRUARY 28, 2017

SENIOR DAY SPREAD

Bring our ‘BEAT ’NOVA’ pullout to the men’s basketball game against Villanova on Saturday.

EDITORIAL Georgetown’s free speech policy only suffers from its ambiguity.

CONWAY SCRUTINIZED Two GULC professors filed a complaint against Kellyanne Conway.

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NEWS, A8

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From Syria to Safety: A Family’s Journey to D.C. Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

The children had been pulled out of school. Belongings were stuffed into four suitcases and the long flights were booked. After fleeing conflict in Syria and finding brief refuge in Erbil, Iraq, the family — mother, father and six children ranging from seven months to 12 years old — was ready for its new start.

On Feb. 6, following years of screening and a longawaited green light to enter as refugees, they would land in Washington, D.C. The president of the United States had different plans.

“One of the ways to combat fear is with faith and justice, working together.”

FR. KEVIN GILLESPIE, S.J. Pastor, Holy Trinity Parish

The now-infamous “travel ban” executive order, signed Jan. 27, blocked all refugees from entering the United States, placing this family — and thousands of others — in limbo.

Over 6,000 miles away, its sponsoring community, the Holy Trinity parish in Georgetown, scrambled to respond, drawing up contingency plans and lobby-

ing to permit the family’s entry.

Four weeks later, the fallout settled into a happy ending. A federal judge overturned the ban, and the family — whose name is withheld at Holy Trinity’s request to protect its safety and privacy — safely arrived in Virginia on Feb. 16, beginning the task of adjusting to its new home.

However, as the White House plans to release an updated executive order to replicate the ban this week, these family members may be the rare lucky ones. This family’s story provides a look into the grueling refugee admission process and the desperate uncertainty provoked by the ban, but it also demonstrates the ability of a robust civil society to inspire change in a democracy.

A POPe’s call Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, more than 450,000 people have died. The war has displaced more than 12 million people from their homes, and about 5 million have left the country as refugees.

While neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan house the vast majority of refugees, the extent of the crisis has spilled into Europe and the United States.

Concern peaked in summer 2015, particularly when the picture of a drowned Syrian child washed ashore on a See PARISH, A8

COURTESY STUDENTS OF GEORGETOWN, INC.

Upon its relocation to the second floor of the bookstore, Uncommon Groudns, The Corp’s oldest coffee shop, will feature expanded space and seating areas, as shown in an artist’s rendering (top) and blueprint.

Coffee Shop Moves to Higher Ground

Corp storefront to relocate to bookstore with outdoor seating

Caroline hyer Special to The Hoya

Students of Georgetown, Inc. is planning to move Uncommon Grounds, its oldest coffee shop, from Sellinger Lounge to within the university bookstore on the second floor of the Leavey

Center.

The relocation, which is scheduled to be completed

by Aug. 15, marks the first partnership between Barnes & Noble, the university’s new bookstore vendor, and a non-Starbucks company, according to The Corp’s incoming President and CEO

Melina Hsiao (COL ’18).

The new storefront will serve as an entrance to the bookstore from the esplanade and will include an outdoor seating area on the esplanade level of the Leavey Center.

The blueprints and mockups for the new Uncommon

Grounds show a rectangular space with doors leading into the second floor of Barnes & Noble and a staircase to the new location and seating areas.

According to Hsiao, the new location will feature See CORP, A8

Student Health Advisory Board To Broaden Scope on Concerns Jeff Cirillo

Hoya Staff Writer

COURTESY HOLY TRINIITY PARISH

Following Pope Francis’ call to action, Georgetown’s Holy Trinity parish is housing a family of Syrian refugees.

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The university plans to launch a general Student Health/Wellness Advisory Board in the fall semester to replace the Mental Health Advisory Board, which shut down in January, causing some student mental health advocates to raise concerns about the future of mental health policy on campus.

The new advisory board will be responsible for handling mental health issues, in addition to physical health and other concerns related to overall student wellness.

The composition of the board has not yet been decided.

The Mental Health Advisory Board held its final meeting in late January to provide suggestions for

the new board and its future members. The board was chartered in fall 2015

by Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson to explore and address policy for mental health issues on campus.

“There will now be more of a challenge advocating for mental health.”

WILL EMERY (COL ’19) Former Co-Chair, Mental Health Advisory Board

Assistant Vice President for Student Health Vincent WinklerPrins, who will lead the new board, See HEALTH, A8

FILE PHOTO: KARLA LEYJA/THE HOYA

The Student Health/Wellness Advisory Board is set to launch in the fall, focusing on general health concerns.

NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

A Fresh Start Kamar Mack and Jessica Andino will be the second sophomore president and the third vice president in GSP. A6

Care With a Conscience The university should publicly endorse the Affordable Care Act to signal its commitment to health care.

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Hoyas Finish 2nd The men’s and women’s swimming and diving team claimed second place at the Big East championship.

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NEWS Beloved Worker Celebrated

opinion Perfect Cents

SPORTS Lax Drops Close Bout

Einstein Bros. Bagel worker Frankie Capers is receiving a birthday surprise today via Unsung Heroes.

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Georgetown can collaborate with GUSA to assure affordability with a few key cost-saving measures.

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Published Tuesdays and Fridays

Sophomore attack Daniel Bucaro’s six goals were not enough for the team, which lost to Towson.

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OPINION

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THE VERDICT

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EDITORIALS

Clarify Free Speech Policy Georgetown University received a dubious distinction last Wednesday after landing on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech.

For a university that has, in the past two years, hosted speakers of every ilk and creed, from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and feminism skeptic Christina Hoff Sommers to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, this categorization seems hyperbolic. Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy contains provisions that allow any student group to host an event or peacefully protest for demonstrators.

Regardless of if the university deserves the distinction of FIRE’s “worst of the worst” list for campus free speech policy, the report spotlights how the ambiguities in the Speech and Expression Policy are sometimes liable to misinterpretation and confusion by administrators and students alike.

According to the report, the ranking is largely predicated by an incident in September 2015, in which the Georgetown University Law Center’s Office of Student Life prevented a group of law students from campaigning for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign on campus.

The university claimed that its tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization precluded the university’s engagement in partisan political activity, but later acknowledged in a February 2016 letter to a congressional subcommittee that the GULC had “applied an overly cautious interpretation of the legal requirements governing the use of university resources.”

Similarly, another incident cited by FIRE’s list also stemmed from a misunderstanding, after the Georgetown University Police Department removed condom envelopes from the doors of students volunteering for H*yas for Choice after reportedly mistaking them for vandalism.

These events in the past year do not represent insidious, systemic attempts by the university to muzzle free speech and expression on campus. Rather, the incidents cited by FIRE to justify its ranking all arise from the vague and obscure language of an otherwise permissive and accepting policy.

For instance, even after issuing a swift revi-

sion of its policy that clearly permits students to table for campaigns, GULC expressly prohibited the use of “university-sponsored resources, including Georgetown’s phone system, email lists, computer networks or servers, or postal service, for partisan political campaign activity.” But as FIRE points out, other university resources — including classrooms, bulletin boards and even campus Wi-Fi — are absent from the policy, leaving it to the university’s discretion as to how to enforce expression policy.

These ambiguities persist on the main campus, where confusion abounds among students and administration about the regulation of free speech. In 2014, GUPD removed students tabling for H*yas for Choice in Healy Circle outside a Right to Life event because H*yas for Choice strayed outside the confines of Red Square’s designated free speech zone, despite Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson reassuring the group in a Jan. 16, 2014 free speech forum that it was not confined to the area.

The conflicting reports from campus law enforcement, administration and students about free speech rights demonstrate that although the university remains committed to free expression and the exchange of ideas, the exact provisions of the policy remain subject to interpretation. This is easily remediable through the consolidation of a definitive Bill of Rights for student free speech, with specific language about space and resources that administrators can show to students who violate the terms, or, alternately, students can point to when disputing their right to expression.

Despite FIRE’s ranking, Georgetown will demonstrate its commitment to free speech this week by hosting two contentious speakers, Nonie Darwish and Asra Nomani, who proclaim inflammatory views about radical Islam.

At the same time, Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative will host a conversation on Islamophobia and anti-Semitism with Rabbi Rachel Gartner and Imam Yahya Hendi. This campus climate is a far cry from FIRE’s ranking Georgetown as a repressive university for free speech. But in order to assure this continued commitment, the university needs to clearly delineate its expectations regarding free speech for both students and campus officials.

We’re Not in Maryland Anymore — A tornado uprooted trees, tore down power lines and ripped up roofs in southern Maryland this weekend, a rare occurrence according to the National Weather Service.

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Fly Me to the Moon — SpaceX announced its plans to fly two private citizens around the moon by late next year. The journey will venture deeper into space than any human has travelled before.

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Stranger Than Fiction — In a bizarre end to the Academy Awards, “La La Land” was wrongly announced as Best Picture — even though “Moonlight” was the true winner. “La La Land” producers had given acceptance speeches before the mistake was rectified.

Prayers in Protest — A mock “Pray for Sweden” vigil was held in Denmark following President Donald Trump’s comments about a terror attack in Sweden. There was no such attack.

You Can Hear Me Now — AT&T lowered the price of its unlimited data plans, which now cost $90 per month. The plans begin Thursday and are open to new and existing customers.

Rewriting Life — CureDuchenne, a California-based charity, is backing geneediting technology as a “home run” cure for muscular dystrophy. The group plans to spend $5 million in funding research.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Elinor Walker

Reconcile Through Restoration Since the reopening of then-Mulledy Hall in 2015 called into question a past steeped with the horrors of the slave trade, Georgetown has struggled to reconcile its Jesuit values with the sale of 272 enslaved men, women and children to a plantation in Louisiana in 1838.

The legacy of the trade intractably links the history of the university, which used the $3.3 million in today’s dollars to pay off debts during times of financial duress, and the town of Maringouin, La., whose population of 1,100 contains 900 direct descendants of the Georgetown slaves.

The university can never truly amend the irreversible pain it inflicted on these individuals or hope to fully atone for its sins. But the grassroots efforts to commemorate the memory of those enslaved is a great opportunity for everyone in the Georgetown community to confront the dark history of the university.

One example of this effort is Georgetown students Ayodele Aruleba (COL ’17) and Milan Chang (COL ’17) launching the Tombstone Restoration Initiative to raise $1,200 within the next two months to restore the identifiable tombstones of some of the slaves at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Graveyard in Maringouin. The project is to start with Lucy Merrick, a slave sold at age 10, who lived until 1903, but had no direct descendants to tend to her gravesite.

At the heart of this project is an attempt to rectify the erasure of people like Merrick, who were robbed of their future and shipped to a new land at the height of the antebellum south.

Yet in addition to humanizing the victims of Georgetown’s tortured past, the project also enhances the significance of the gesture by diffusing the responsibility for atonement to the entire community.

The Tombstone Restoration Initiative will raise the money by selling wristbands provided by the Georgetown Memory project — which helps identify the living descendants of the 272 slaves — for $2.72, which could potentially involve 500 people to reach the fundraising goal. Thus, rather

than relegating the responsibility of memorial to the university, everyone in the Georgetown community — students, alumni and faculty — have the opportunity to commemorate those individuals who were sacrificed to finance the operations of the university.

Already, the university has made strides at the institutional level to make amends, including creating a committee last summer to establish a public memorial of the sale, offering admissions preference to the descendants of the 272 slaves and designing an Institute for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies to support researching and teaching a public history of the sale. The university also acquiesced to student demands to rename Mulledy Hall and McSherry Hall — named after two former university presidents complicit in the trade — to Freedom Hall and Remembrance Hall, signaling its commitment to upholding the memory of the slaves.

While these steps are commendable, particularly when compared to the fraught racial tensions that accompany similar ties to slavery at Yale University, Princeton University and the University of Missouri, these movements are incomplete if they do not force everyone at the intersection of the university to grapple with the community’s ongoing response to its history.

Aruleba and Chang’s project, then, is a welcome and particularly poignant change from other schools’ efforts – each $2.72 wristband serves as more than a contribution to the restoration of a grave, but as a reminder that behind the story there were 272 individuals whose lives were upended as a result of the sale.

This editorial board believes contributing to the project restores some of the dignity to the slaves by offering respect and humility as a means of reparation. While no amount of atonement can approximate the level of suffering inflicted by the sale, the involvement of students and alumni in the project helps restore the humanity to the 272 individuals intractable in the history of the university.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Losing Streak Demands Action I am writing this in response to the article titled “Students Lose Faith in Basketball Team” [The Hoya, A10, Feb. 24, 2017].

As much as it pains me to type this, I must say I wholeheartedly agree with virtually everything said and believe the time for change is here. I am a 1984 graduate of Georgetown and was fortunate enough to be the sports editor of The Hoya at a time when Georgetown basketball was not only respected, but also feared. Today, the fear is gone. The respect remains, but our hold on it is increasingly tenuous.

The decline of the program over the last four years is head-scratching at best. The questions range from in-game coaching to player development to recruiting. Perhaps even more puzzling is people

questioning the team’s toughness, its willingness to compete and its desire to defend and rebound. [Head Coach] John Thompson III and his staff must take their fair share of the blame. But it is not only the students being alienated. It is loyal alumni who have religiously attended games and donated dollars to support a program that has been a big part of their adult lives.

By all accounts, Thompson is a fine man and a great representative of the university. But a fine basketball coach? If Yankee Stadium is the “House that Ruth Built,” then the Georgetown basketball program is quite clearly the house that Thompson built. That, however, does not mean the current coach has a lifetime contract.

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business. To argue otherwise is delusional at best. In business, the buck stops at the top, and Thompson is being paid extremely well to produce results both on and off the court.

It pains me to say this, but I believe the on-court results speak for themselves and it is time to move in another direction. We need to re-energize both the student body and the alumni base and bring Georgetown basketball back to respectability. It is time for the administration to act or risk an ever-growing apathy among the students and the die-hard alumni who support both the program and Georgetown University.

Respectfully, Jeff Scharpf Class of 1984

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Anu Osibajo and Isatou Bah

The Myth of The American Dream

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t the turn of the 20th century, the notion of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” infiltrated American ideology. Because of men like Horatio Alger, who wrote novels on achieving this great social advancement and popularized the rags-to-riches narrative, the United States became a mass consumer of the “self-made man.”

By romanticizing these success stories of people who have accumulated an immense amount of wealth and ascended to the top of the social hierarchy, we have mythologized the American dream.

But, sadly, hard work does not guarantee such socio-economic strides. For the average person, there is a glass ceiling.

In the long run, this romanticism of the self-made man encourages unhealthy rhetoric toward income disparities with the implications that if low-income earners only worked harder, they would overcome struggle.

Much of the limitation on upward mobility comes from the relationship between class, college education and job opportunity, which is present on the Hilltop. In January 2017, The New York Times ranked Georgetown 12th out of 38 universities with more students from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60 percent. The Huffington Post revealed that, on average, college graduates from richer families make two-thirds more than do college graduates from lowincome households.

These statistics are jarring because college is assumed to be the great equalizer. However, these figures also reveal a deeper phenomenon among students at American universities. These disparities are influential not only as we join the workforce, but also in our campus life and our academics.

The truth is that top colleges and universities are not making enough effort to admit more low-income students.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation revealed that low-income students account for a mere 3 percent of the enrollment at

elite institutions nationwide.

Unsurprisingly, only 3.1 percent of Georgetown students come from the bottom 20 percent of the income bracket.

Low-income students face many challenges before they can enroll in an elite institution; the probability of even attending college is not in their favor. High performance on standardized tests has been linked to higher income. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of students from low-income families that matriculate to higher education immediately after high school has declined by 10 percent between 2008 and 2015, from 56 to 46 percent.

Class disparities also play a role in the activity gap on campuses. Often, club participation is a luxury that low-income students cannot afford because they must work and study more than their peers.

Further, with Georgetown’s elitist club culture, some lowincome students feel intimidated, as if they have no place in these groups. An internal audit by Students of Georgetown, Inc. showed that minorities were less likely to apply and be admitted to the elite student group at Georgetown.

However, this semester many Georgetown clubs — including Students of Georgetown, Inc., Blue and Gray and the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union — have revamped their application processes.

For all the Bill Gateses and Sonya Sotomayors of the world, who overcame underprivileged backgrounds to reach prosperity, there are many more members of the low-income population who are unable to transcend socioeconomic barriers.

Hard work, unfortunately, is not always enough to surmount income disparities, and we must ensure that our romanticized American dream does not allow us to forget that.

Anu Osibajo and Isatou Bah are freshmen in the College.

Fireside Chats appears every other Tuesday.

“Obamacare” deserves a strong defense. Georgetown should denounce repeal efforts and stand by patients with the same compassion the school instilled in us.

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Assure the Protection of Our Patients

n uncertain times, conviction is the currency by which we judge the worth of an institution.

To that end, Georgetown should act boldly by publicly endorsing efforts to save and augment former President Barack Obama’s health care law, the Affordable Care Act. You are likely familiar with the fundamentals of the law. Its most appealing characteristic is an affordable route to health insurance. For tens of millions of patients, this means the difference between sickness and health, and even life and death.

Estimates suggest that increased coverage prevents at least 50,000 deaths every year, while actually slowing the growth of health care expenditure. The law also does away with the barbaric notion of denying insurance for pre-existing conditions and offers profound advantages for women’s health care. And you might be particularly interested in the feature that lets you stay on your parent’s insurance plan until age 26, saving you hundreds or thousands of dollars.

To a greater or lesser extent, this is common knowledge. But the perspective held by a growing number of medical students is somewhat foreign to most people

outside the profession, and even to some people within.

To understand it, you have to know how the United States approached medicine up until just a few years ago.

Most developed countries have a national health care system. For them, medicine is something of a social creed. But in the United States, health care is an individual aspiration. There is no overarching societal desire to ensure everyone has access.

That mentality also defines the practice of medicine. We focus on the patient in front of us and lose track of the larger world beyond the office or hospital walls.

If a patient does not have insurance, that is just the way it is, and we move on.

However, because of the Affordable Care Act, we are the first generation of medical students “raised” with a different mentality. Our classes reverberate with a new conceptual framework that is to drive our era of medicine: the idea that health care, rather a distant dream for many, might actually be there for everyone. It suggests, finally, a national alignment with the philosophy of endless compassion intrinsic to medicine.

That is why we rose to the Affordable Care Act’s defense so quickly. Within

weeks of President Donald Trump’s election, a studentled movement called #ProtectOurPatients claimed nearly 5,000 members and supporters across 100 medical schools, including Georgetown. We delivered petitions to Congress, laid siege to congressional phone lines and staged graphic dieins to support our patients.

So why do we ask Georgetown to support the Affordable Care Act? Because something as simple as a public statement, seemingly mere words on paper, gathers energies that cannot otherwise be harnessed.

We saw this just days ago when the administration finally came out against the executive order on immigration, explicitly calling for a unified front against that abomination. It is always eye-catching when a major institution breaks from seasoned neutrality to explicitly defend its values.

Of course, you might think “Obamacare” is a less clear-cut ideological battle.

To some extent, this is true.

There is ample room to debate its flaws and how they should be mended. But the cold, indifferent idea of repeal or crafting an anemic replacement is just as incompatible with the university’s principles. There is a reason this law fit so neatly into

our classes. In every corner of Georgetown’s philosophical foundation is a call to serve and elevate the neediest among us. Thirty million people suddenly robbed of their health care does not exactly align with that mission.

Moreover, there is no requirement to support the Affordable Care Act in its current incarnation. But there is an indisputable moral obligation for an institution like ours to oppose grievous violations of decency.

The outrage you feel when Trump slanders Mexicans as criminals and rapists, or when Muslims are the subject of ruthless discrimination — that is how we have felt for years as the Affordable Care Act’s opponents spread lies about death panels and mythical economic destruction, lies that may literally cost tens of thousands of people their lives.

The university can stay neutral when rational debate flourishes on all sides.

But until then, “Obamacare” deserves a strong defense.

Georgetown should denounce repeal efforts and stand by patients with the same compassion the school instilled in us.

Jonathan weil is a student at

the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

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Unaffordability Calls for Reform

Amplifying Black Voices

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n this year’s Georgetown University Student Association election, issues of tuition and college affordability took center stage. While Hoyas perennially doubt that GUSA can effect change within our bureaucratic university, it can help bring about meaningful reform — but only if it first understands the real issues influencing tuition. So, what do we need to tackle in the fight to make Georgetown affordable?

One area for affordability reform is administrative bloat. A key cause behind increased tuition is the expansion of university administrators and their out-of-control salaries. A study conducted by the University of Arkansas found that between 1993 and 2007, administrator salaries and budgets grew twice as much as did the amount of spending on research and teaching at the top 200 universities in the United States.

This issue of administrative bloat is clearly present at Georgetown. Why is Head Coach John Thompson III paid $2.8 million a year? Although his salary is fun to single out given our current basketball streak, Georgetown has a real issue with overpaying high level administrators and adding unnecessary positions.

For example, in 2015, the campus plan negotiations were coordinated by Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Lauralyn Lee. When she left, the university hired Chris Murphy to step into her role, but gave him a newly created position titled vice president for government relations and com-

munity engagement. He has largely the same portfolio as did Lee, but receives higher pay due to the distinction between associate vice president and vice president.

To be fair, Murphy was also given oversight of the Office of Federal Relations — but this demonstrates the problem with administrative bloat in the first place. Why did the university need to create a new vice president position to which the associate vice president of federal relations must report? Examples like this exist all across the university. If we want to get serious about addressing affordability, we must rein in administrative bloat.

Another area for affordability reform is transparency in choosing university spending projects, as well as its capital improvement plan. We pay exorbitant rates for university housing in relation to its quality and renovations for Henle Village and Village A are chronically under-prioritized by the administration.

Students should be able to give input on how the university spends its tuition dollars to address these quality-of-life issues. The GUSA president should have a quarterly meeting with Georgetown’s vice president of finance, currently David Rubenstein, to review the prioritization of capital improvement projects. Further, the student representative to the board of directors should be given a seat on the BOD Committee on Finance and Administration with the ability to provide a presentation before the committee votes to increase tuition.

There should also be in-

stitutionalized student engagement with the Office of Advancement. On an annual basis, GUSA should prepare a proposal of two to three recommended spending projects, such as the longneglected Kehoe Field. When Advancement pitches gift ideas to potential donors, it can include the student body’s wish list along with the university’s.

A third area for potential affordability reform is the expected family contribution.

GUSA should encourage the Office of Student Financial Services, currently overseen

by Dean Patricia McWade, to adjust how the expected family contribution is calculated.

Georgetown’s EFC should be more generous when calculating the cost of transportation to and from campus, laundry, printing and textbooks, just to name a few categories. These costs should at least be included in tuition so they can be covered under financial aid.

There are many ways to approach tuition reduction and college affordability. Georgetown is certainly not alone on this issue, but as a university, we can show leadership for peer institutions to follow. As we begin to discuss the way forward, students would be wise to consider a multilayered, long-term approach that can address the roots of the affordability problem: administrative bloat, university spending and calculations for expected family contribution.

REED HOWARD is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. He is a former GUSA deputy chief of staff.

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his was arguably the year of Beyoncé.

Her visual album “Lemonade” was widely acclaimed for its originality.

She dominated the headlines after announcing earlier this month that she is pregnant with twins. But when it came time for the Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, The Recording Academy passed up Beyoncé for all three of the major awards for which it nominated her.

Instead, Beyoncé took home the urban contemporary award, which normally is not even televised. Even Adele, who won album of the year for “25” over Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” said she “could not possibly accept this award” and acknowledged “Lemonade” was “so wellthought-out, and so beautiful and soul-baring.” To audiences, it seemed unjust: Beyoncé had produced, in Adele’s words, a “monumental” album.

Now, it is easy to be frustrated solely on the basis that Beyoncé did not win.

However, the problem at the Grammys this year was greater than just the fact that it overlooked Beyoncé, or even that it has overlooked many black artists over the years — only 10 black artists have ever won album of the year. The problem is that this year, the awards failed to recognize an artist who made history by performing specifically for black audiences.

“Lemonade” was monumental not only because it was performed by a strong black woman, but also because it was performed for black audiences. Beyoncé acknowledged this in her accep-

tance speech for the urban contemporary award, saying, “It is important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty, so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror … and have no doubt they’re beautiful, intelligent and capable.”

Her songs begin with poetry about the nature of oppression. The scenes in her visual album depict black dancers performing in black communities. Her lyrics speak to the black experience in the United States. In “Lemonade,” Beyoncé makes black bodies visible and black voices heard.

Emma Lux What people do not often realize, most likely as a result of white privilege, is that the Grammys tends to honor music that is written by and for white people. One common critique hurled at the Grammys is that it is too “mainstream,” which inevitably refers to a white mainstream.

Even when the Grammys awards black artists, it has historically awarded those artists who created music that catered to white audiences. In 2008, Herbie Hancock, a black jazz musician, won album of the year for an album of Joni Mitchell covers. Hancock is the only jazz musician to have ever won album of the year.

Ironically, though, the Academy honored him the only time he was not playing real jazz music, a genre steeped in black history and culture. Instead, it selected the time that he created an album filled with songs by a white artist and normally geared toward white people.

Other black artists who have won album of the year include Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Outkast, Natalie Cole and Lionel Richie. While it is admirable to award black artists, all of these artists produced not in the jazz or rap genres historically associated with black musicians, but in pop music that catered to a largely white audience.

It is true that Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and Adele’s “25” were relatively evenly situated to win the award; both had comparably high ratings and sales figures. But what was so monumental about “Lemonade,” and what the Grammys failed to recognize, was that it asserted a place for black bodies and black voices in the mainstream.

Beyoncé was not just a black artist who did not receive an award; she was representative of an entire group of people who, again, were ignored. The Grammys had a remarkable opportunity this year to assert that black audiences are constituent of the mainstream.

Instead, the Academy sent the message that music for black fans is relegated into its own category of “urban contemporary,” while music that plays primarily to white audiences deserves album of the year.

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Law Center Professors File Complaint Against Conway Marina pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

Fifteen law professors from across the country, including two from the Georgetown University Law Center, signed a letter sent to the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals’ Office of Disciplinary Counsel Feb. 20 to file a professional misconduct complaint against Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump.

The law professors cite multiple incidents in which Conway’s public actions have suggested “an inability to fulfill the professional role of lawyers.” These incidents include appearances on network television news shows citing a fictitious terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Ky., claims of supposed immigration bans the Obama administration implemented and her endorsement of Ivanka Trump’s fashion line in interviews with members of the press.

The letter argues that Conway, who graduated from The George Washington University Law School in 1992 and was admitted to the D.C. Bar Association in 1995, violated the association’s rule that lawyers not engage in any public activity of “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”

Conway is currently suspended from the association for nonpayment of dues.

Law Center professor Abbe Smith, who signed

the letter and whose stationary the letter was sent, said although the rule is interpreted broadly, lawyers should work to maintain professional standards.

“We believe in the integrity of the legal profession,” Smith said. “That, coupled with repeated, clearly intentional falsehoods by high-ranking members of the administration who are lawyers, got us to thinking that there are rules that every member of the legal profession must comply with, and they apply to public office holders as well.”

William Montross, a visiting professor at the University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law who signed the letter, wrote in an email to The Hoya that the immediate goal of the letter is to request that the District Bar Association conduct an investigation and, depending on its findings, sanction Conway.

“In the face of mendacity and falsehood by lawyers, there is legal recourse. When a public official lies, the opportunity to address that lie rests in a contested election that may not be held for years,” Montross wrote. “But when a lawyer lies, immediate redress is possible because the profession views truth as a principal value.”

Smith said the signees also wanted to inspire other lawyers and law professors to hold lawyers who have membership in bar associations, including those in the Trump ad-

ministration, accountable to the profession’s ethical standards.

“The current administration has lawyers who hold positions of authority,” Smith said. “There is a handful of lawyers, there aren’t that many, but there is a handful, and we’re hoping that now they’ll be a little more responsible and a little more mindful of the responsibilities of the legal profession. So,

maybe it’ll be contagious.”

Montross said that as a professor, it is especially important to outline Conway’s errors as a signal to students entering the law profession.

“We spend so much time and so much effort — as law professors — teaching people entering this profession that there are serious ethical and professional responsibilities in our field,” Montross wrote. “It

is shameful when a member of the bar repeatedly stands before the national media and openly misrepresents. So the impetus for my participation in this letter was simple: When you are a lawyer, the truth matters; if the truth does not matter to you, don’t be a lawyer.”

Montross said the role of professors is to model behavior for future lawyers and part of this job entails

checking other members of the profession.

“Professors and academics model appropriate behavior to those whom we teach,” Montrose wrote. “It would be odd, to say the least, for law professors to repeatedly preach ethics and responsibilities to our students and, yet, do nothing when one of our colleagues in the bar violates the most basic of professional responsibilities.”

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Two Georgetown University Law Center professors joined 13 law professors from across the country to file a professional misconduct complaint against Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump.

Mack Elected as 2nd Presidential Speechwriters Sophomore to Lead GUSA Reflect on Past Addresses

Andino to serve as third GSP executive Tara SubramaniaM Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University Student Association President-elect Kamar Mack (COL ’19) will be the second sophomore to serve as president when he is inaugurated March 18. In addition, his running mate, GUSA Vice President-elect Jessica Andino (COL ’18) will be the third member of the Georgetown Scholarship Program to serve as an executive officer upon entering office next month.

“I really appreciate the student body for rallying around our vision and having faith in both me and Jessica.”

Kamar mack President-Elect, Georgetown University Student Association

Before Mack, the only other sophomore president in GUSA history was Calen Angert (MSB ’11). Angert and his vice president, Jason Kluger (MSB ’11), who was also a sophomore when they were first elected, served two terms.

Mack said the grade difference will not affect what GUSA can achieve.

“I really appreciate the student body for rallying around our vision and having faith in both me and Jessica. Knowing that with our passion and our excitement to work hand in hand with the student body, the fact that I am a sophomore would not inhibit the work that GUSA needs to do,” Mack said.

Andino follows former Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) and current Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17) as the third GSP executive.

According to Andino, as a member of GSP, she understands the importance of making the Georgetown experience more affordable.

“That speaks to how much it doesn’t matter where students start, but it’s the journey they go through during their college experience and how much GSP students care about the university and making it a better place for future students,” Andino said.

Maura McDonough (COL ’18) said having someone from GSP in the executive is important for helping the organization better reflect the diversity of Georgetown’s student population.

“It shows that people want other input in the student body,” McDonough said. “It helps GUSA a lot, too. GUSA has an insular culture so it shows that there’s this need to address that.”

“It shows that people want other input in the student body. GUSA has an insular culture so it shows that there’s this need to address that.” maura mcdonough (COL ’18)

The candidates’ backgrounds translate to their initial policy initiatives.

Mack and Andino want to focus on affordability.

“If you look at our affordability plan from the campaign, a lot of it was datacentered, so we have a plan for creating what, for lack of better words, will be GUSA’s R&D,” Mack said. “So doing cost-benefit analyses, engaging with groups like Office of Sustainability and fundamentally doing the grunt work of identifying ways we students can save the university money.”

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The address to the joint session of Congress will be President Donald Trump’s opportunity to extend an olive branch to democrats, according to two former presidential speechwriters speaking at a Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Institute of Politics and Public Service event yesterday afternoon.

On the eve of Trump’s address, former presidential speechwriters reflected on their time crafting speeches heard by the nation, as well as discussing how Trump could successfully speak to the American people.

“He’s got a chance to reach those people who are still deciding where the clay is still soft and he can make an impression.”

Marc thiessen Former Chief Speechwriter, Bush Administration

Former President Barack Obama’s White House Director of Speechwriting Cody Keenan joined Marc Thiessen, the White House chief speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, at the event in Old North entitled “Channeling the President: A Conversation on Presidential Speechwriting.”

The two spoke about their experiences preparing addresses for former chief executives and discussed the prospects of Trump’s first address to a joint session, which will take place today at 9 p.m.

Robert Schlesinger, the managing opinion editor at U.S. News & World Report, moderated the discussion.

Keenan, who began his career as a campaign intern and rose to director of speechwriting in 2013, said the State of the Union speechwriting process for Obama usually began around Thanksgiving, when the president and his speechwriters would brainstorm what elements and ideas a perfect speech would include.

Though State of the Union addresses typically occur around this time of year, Trump’s speech will not be categorized as a State of the Union address, which tend

to occur when a president is a year into his term.

In a statement released Monday, the White House said the president plans to outline his vision for the future of the country.

The State of the Union speechwriting timeline included research beginning in December, while the actual wording of the speech materialized over Christmas break, Keenan said. The final iteration of the speech would be finalized the day of the address.

“This was probably the most annoying moment of the whole process,” Keenan said. “Tonight would be the part where it’s pretty much done, I would probably only start sharing it with a broad group of staff and with the agencies maybe two or three days before, so at this point now I have to compile everyone’s edits.”

Thiessen, who is a contributor for FOX News and was named one of the 100 most influential conservatives in America by The Daily Telegraph in 2010, said that Bush’s speechwriters stressed teamwork and getting a finished product early in the game so Bush would have sufficient time for delivery practice.

Thiessen said the difficulty of the State of the Union address is maintaining a coherent theme throughout the speech while addressing the concerns of various agencies and keeping the president’s priorities at the core.

“The State of the Union Address is the single most watched speech by the President of the United States, but it is also, unless it’s done really well, the worst speech the president gives, because it is by definition a laundry list of policy initiatives,” Thiessen said.

Thiessen said that as viewership of the State of the Union address decreases year to year, Trump must utilize this venue to communicate his message for the rest of his administration right out of the gate.

“This is probably the most people Donald Trump will be speaking to in his Presidency,” Thiessen said. “He should think of this as an hour-long tweet where he can speak directly to the American people, over the heads of the fake news media.”

Thiessen said this is an opportunity for Trump to mold the minds of those still unconvinced about his policies.

“He can speak not just to his followers, but to those Americans who are still trying to decide what to think of him,” Thiessen said. “He’s got a chance to reach those people who are still deciding where the clay is still soft and he can make an impression.”

Keenan echoed Thiessen’s point that this speech has the capability to sway those who are not otherwise particularly invested in politics.

“This is your biggest opportunity, this is your biggest stage,” Keenan said.

“People tune into this, this is your one chance to speak to people who might otherwise not listen to you and might tune you out year after year after year after year.”

This speech also presents itself as an opportunity to put the opposition in a difficult position, according to Thiessen. By extending an olive branch to the democrats, Trump can either initiate bipartisanship or frame the democrat’s refusal to work with him as the reason behind any of his administration’s failures.

“The Democratic Party right now is in a miasma of anger over Donald Trump,” Thiessen said. “What’s the way to harness that? It’s to reach out his hand to the other party and say, ‘I want to make America great again’, and lay out his vision, a positive vision, unlike the one in his Inaugural Address.”

“When he is now the least popular incoming president in American history, you have a limited amount of time to shore that up.”

CODY KEENAN Former Director of Speechwriting, Obama Administration

Trump could show an effort to sow bipartisanship by saying he is willing to work together to reform the Affordable Care Act, which he has promised to repeal and replace, and retain the best ideas from both sides of the aisle, according to Thiessen.

“When he is now the least popular incoming president in American history, you have a limited amount of time to shore that up,” Keenan said. “To show people you actually have plans.”

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Faith, Students Motivate Einstein’s Frankie Capers Alfredo Carrillo Hoya Staff Writer

Frankie Capers, who has served as a cashier at Einstein Bros. Bagels stores on campus for three years, would be turning 57 tomorrow — if tomorrow were Feb. 29.

Even though Capers will have to wait another three years for her official birthday, Unsung Heroes intends to gift her the present of her dreams well in advance.

Unsung Heroes, which recently announced plans to expand to 10 college campuses across the United States by the end of March, intends to set up an online fund in the coming weeks to finance a trip for Capers and her grandson to visit Disney World.

“I love the commmunity of Georgetown. It’s a lot of energy with you all. I just love you, every day you make my day.”

FRANKIE CASPERS Cashier, Einstein Bros. Bagels

The trip would be Capers’ first formal vacation in more than 12 years. After a lengthy period of service in the Navy, Capers was forced to leave in order to take care of her mother, who developed Alzheimer’s disease. Her father, too, soon fell ill.

“After I took care of my mom for 12 years, then my dad got sick also. I was flying back from Washington, D.C., to Memphis, Tenn., to North Carolina, to take care of the sick and elderly people. So, that’s what I do, and I’ve never had a vacation,” Capers said. “I’ve never had a vacation in 12 or 13 years.”

Capers’ life fell into a downward spiral. She lost both her parents, fell into debt after being unemployed for a pro-

longed period of time and separated from her husband.

It was her unmovable faith that inspired her to walk on.

“I thought I would commit suicide, when me and my husband separated, but God didn’t see it. And it made me stronger, after that, to see that God was holding me up no matter what,” Capers said.

This belief has provided a constant source of optimism for Capers.

“When I didn’t work for the summer, and didn’t know who I was going to pay my bills, or when I took care of my mom for 12 years and I didn’t work for those 12 because she had Alzheimer’s.

All the money was gone, and I had no help from nowhere,” Capers said. “I trusted and believed in God, and He’s seen me through, even though I didn’t think I had enough, but what I did have is Him stay in me.”

Capers arrived at Georgetown three years ago when her sister, who worked at the university at the time, suggested she look for a job. She has worked at Einstein Bros.

Bagels ever since.

“I love the community of Georgetown. It’s a lot of energy with you all. I just love you, every day you make my day,” Capers said. “If it weren’t for you all, I wouldn’t be here, so I just love Georgetown students. You all are my babies, that’s what I call you: ‘My babies, away from home.’”

Students who enter the Einstein’s at Car Barn are inevitably greeted by Capers’ warm enthusiasm.

“I tell all of you all when you come in to Einstein’s, ‘Have a great day,’ ‘Good morning,’ just to make your day,” Capers said. “You never know what will make another person’s day. When I see a different face, or frown on their face, I come from ‘round the register and just hug them. And they say, ‘How do you know?’”

Just as Capers looks to motivate students, she is also motivated by them.

“As much as I encourage the students, you all encourage me also to keep my day going,” Capers said. “Just a

smile, a smile can just brighten my day up, because standing behind that register every day is not great, sometimes I don’t have a great day, but I do when I just see you all coming in and just smile at me, and I give a smile back.”

Capers’ faith extends beyond the Georgetown community. A minister at New Samaritan Baptist Church, Capers picks up students on Sunday mornings and spends the day’s services with them.

“That touches my heart,” Capers said. “Now, that is the greatest thing of all, to lead somebody to Christ.”

Capers emphasized her belief in a life grounded in faith and a commitment to the good of others.

“I live by integrity. To trust in the Lord, and leave that to thy own understanding, acknowledge him in all thy ways, and He shall direct your path,” Capers said. “As long as God give me the strength to, I keep going, even though my

body tired, my feet hurting, but I’m still good with it.”

Capers said she envisions herself owning a funeral home in the future in order to provide families in need with accessible services and spiritual counsel.

“I just love people, and it doesn’t matter about the color of your skin. It’s that we are all people and we are all God’s people, so I would love to own my own business where I can help somebody else,” Capers said. “So if I’m

not at Einstein’s, I would love to just own a funeral home, where I can help people in need at all times.”

Despite her ambition, Capers lives life day by day, her faith in God’s word and will unshaken.

“I’m just waiting on another miracle, that’s all, to see what God will do next,” Capers said. “’Cause everything I do I try to do it in faith, in Jesus’s name, not me, I try to walk the right way and do the right things at all times.”

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Refugee Family Arrives After Ban Holy Trinity Church sponsors a Syrian family of six PARISH, from A1 Turkish beach featured across the front pages of most major newspapers.

In this fervor, Pope Francis delivered a call to Catholics, asking “every” religious community and parish to take in one refugee family, according to The Washington Post in September 2015.

“Give them a concrete hope,” the pope said in a speech to a crowd gathered in Vatican City last September.

A PARISH’S RESPONSE At the corner of 36th and N streets NW, the parish of Holy Trinity Catholic Church heard its fellow Jesuit’s appeal.

“I’ve been really moved since the beginning of Pope Francis’ papacy,” Chris Crawford, a parishioner and one of two coordinators of the family’s resettlement effort, said.

“We’re called to accompany people in need; not just provide for them, but to be with them.”

A few families in the community contacted Kate Tromble, the parish’s pastoral associate for social justice, who began contacting organizations to orchrstrate a response. By summer 2016, the parish found Lutheran Social Services, one of nine resettlement agencies in the United States, and its Good Neighbor program, which allows communities to provide support to refugee families throughout the first year of their arrival in the United States.

“We had a huge response [from our community] and just started organizing from there,” said Lauren Foy, the other coordinator of the resettlement effort. “We picked the highest level [of assistance], which is housing the family and providing 12 months of support, housing, furnishings – everything they need to get started.”

The parish did not know when exactly a family would be assigned to them, but they would have a month’s notice.

In preparation, more than 100 volunteers pitched in, organizing themselves into seven teams to provide for needs from transportation to housing to employment.

In early January, they received a call from Lutheran Social Services. The family was ready. But, while Holy Trinity had been preparing for a family of four, this one was larger.

“Six children and mom and dad, and dad has a disability,” Foy said. “They knew it was a big ask, but our team leadership overwhelmingly came back with support. This is our family, and we said, ‘Yes.’” A GOVERNMENT’S APPROVAL On the other side of the planet, the family had successfully passed a strenuous application process.

After a refugee family is registered by the United Nations Refugee Agency and referred to the U.S. Department of State, it then undergoes a series of security checks by major law enforcement and intelligence agencies, in-person interviews, biometric checks, a cultural orientation and a final medical check. The process from registration with UNHCR to final approval usually takes 18 to 24 months.

While there are currently 21.3 million refugees in the world, according to UNHCR, the United States caps its annual refugee intake at 110,000 refugees. In the past four

months, about 10,000 have been approved from Iraq and Syria.

One of those was the eightmember family sponsored by Holy Trinity. Then came the travel ban.

A PRESIDENT’S BAN “We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and deeply love our people,” Trump said during the signing ceremony for an executive order that, among other restrictions, indefinitely suspended the Syrian refugee program.

“They really can’t believe it. They’ve compared [the experience] to being in hell and now being in paradise.” chris crawford Parishioner, Holy Trinity Church

The family had passed every screening and interview, but, in a sudden late-Friday move, it was stranded. It soon became clear that Holy Trinity’s welcoming ceremony Feb. 6 would have no one to welcome.

“We had to quickly prepare for a plan B,” said Fr. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., the pastor at Holy Trinity,.

More accurately, plans B, C and D. On the night of Feb. 6, what would have been a celebratory Mass instead turned into a vigil for the family. Earlier in the day, children from the Holy Trinity school — from four to 14 years old — marched through the Georgetown neighborhood, including on university grounds, singing songs and holding signs to support refugees and immigrants.

The next day, 10 adult parishioners — some of whom work for government agencies — attended meetings on Capitol Hill to lobby members of Congress, including Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ben Cardin (R-Md.) and Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.).

“We just laid out the story about how this impacts not only these families but also religious organizations who accompany these families when they come here,” Foy said.

“People took the day off work to come together and tell those stories.”

In case the ban was upheld, the parish contacted Lutheran Social Services to find a possible backup country for the family, exploring options in Canada and Afghanistan.

“It was a really sad few days,” Crawford said. “We really felt like we were not going to have this family get here.”

Then, news from across the country: The ban had been temporarily struck down nationally by Judge James Robart (LAW ’73) in the state of Washington on Feb. 4, a decision that was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 9. Travel was possible once more.

“We were counting the hours and days to get them on that plane,” Gillespie said.

In Erbil, the family took off, stopping over in Amman, Jordan, before arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, where the family went through customs.

“We actually have parishioners who had a law firm in New York City that sent two young lawyers to spy on the arrivals terminal to know that they were able to walk through,” Foy said.

At 11:25 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, after 30 hours of travel, weeks of stress and unthinkable months of struggle, the family members landed at Dulles International Airport.

Holy Trinity parishioners were there to greet them, and their new life was ready to begin.

A FAMILY’S NEW START Over the next 12 months, Holy Trinity plans to support the family throughout its adjustment: excursions to the grocery store, meals, explanation of the electronic benefits card provided by the government, transportation to any appointment, English as a second language classes and networks to find employment.

For now, though, the family, which communicates with parishioners through WhatsApp and Google Translate, is

resting with a “great sense of peace and joy,” Gillespie said.

“They really can’t believe it,” Crawford said. “They’ve compared [the experience] to being in hell and now being in paradise.”

Currently, they are residing for free in an Airbnb for two weeks through Airbnb’s refugee program as they wait to move into their new house in Virginia. Their lease begins March 1 — Ash Wednesday.

“This is a real interfaith effort for us. It is a Muslim family being processed by Lutheran Social Services with a Catholic parish, and we’re getting potential support from a Jewish temple,” Gillespie said.

“There’s a lot of fear in the culture now. And one of the ways to combat fear is with faith and justice, working together.”

After hearing the story, other parishes have gotten in contact about organizing similar efforts; Georgetown University students, through the advocacy group Heed the Call, launched a petition last week for the university to sponsor a family. A well-organized and flexible group is indispensable for resettlement agencies, according to Foy. “They are processing hundreds of refugees from all over the world,” Foy said of the resettlement agencies. “They can process more if they have more help and volunteer work.”

How many refugees will be allowed into the United States remains an open question.

According to POLITICO, the Trump administration is expected to sign a new executive order this week leaving open the Syrian refugee program but increasing the stringency of an already rigorous vetting process.

The overwhelming response to the original travel ban demonstrated the capacity of civil society to organize in response to perceived injustice from its government.

At a smaller level, the efforts of Holy Trinity showed something similar.

“It’s the beginning of a new chapter in the family’s lives,” Fr. Gillespie said. “Through them we’re learning so much of how we’re part of a response — a small response but a significant one, nevertheless.”

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The Holy Trinity students marched to support a Syrian refugee family whose travel to resettle in the United States was delayed by the Jan. 27 executive order.

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The Students of Georgetown, Inc. is planning to move Uncommon Grounds to the bookstore’s second floor.

Uncommon Grounds to Move, Expand CORP, from A1

more study space and a seating area, making the under-utilized esplanade more accessible to students.

“Moving upstairs into a new space gives us an opportunity to really revamp and rebrand what Uncommon Grounds is,” Hsiao said.

Hsiao said the move is significant for both The Corp and Barnes & Noble.

“Doing the partnership with Barnes & Noble is a really big thing for us, it’s a really big deal for Barnes & Noble as well,” Hsiao said. “We’re doing it in-house, so it’s the first time with a student-run business.”

Barnes & Noble College Regional Manager Chris Colbert said the company is optimistic about this new venture.

“We are thrilled that The Corp will begin operating the Uncommon Grounds cafe inside the Georgetown Bookstore this summer. The Corp is an exceptional organization that is similarly dedicated to supporting and creating opportunities for Georgetown students to succeed both in and out of the classroom,” Colbert wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The university announced Barnes & Noble as the new vendor for its bookstore last April, replacing its current vendor, Follett.

After the renovation, the current location of Uncommon Grounds will become additional space in Sellinger Lounge.

According to The Corp’s incoming Chief Financial Officer Jared D’Sa (COL ’19), the move, which is entirely financed by The Corp, will be a large but rewarding investment.

“Though it is clearly a large initial investment, we believe that Uncom-

mon Grounds will be profitable and help propel the company forward in the new year by reaching out to new parts of the Georgetown community,” D’Sa wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Furthermore, I think this gives us a great opportunity to perfect our operations and truly embody our motto of ‘students serving students.’”

“Moving upstairs into a new space gives us an opportunity to really revamp and rebrand what Uncommon Grounds is.”

MELINA HSIAO (COL ’18) Incoming President and CEO, Students of Georgetown, Inc.

D’Sa did not provide exact figures on how much it plans to invest.

Uncommon Grounds is planning to operate normal hours through Senior Week from May 13 to May 18, and will be closed over the summer for renovations before planning to reopen in September 2017, according to a press release sent to The Hoya.

The coffeehouse will also likely change its hours after the relocation.

Uncommon Grounds Director Leia Idliby (COL ’18) said although the staff will miss the current location, the move is necessary.

“We love the current space, and we have a lot of memories there, but this is overall an extremely positive move,” Idliby wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It’s time for us to move, and the best part is that we’re still going to be the same Uncommon Grounds, just a floor up.”

University to Replace Mental Health Advisory Board HEALTH, from A1 said the MHAB was always meant to be a temporary committee addressing key mental health concerns. The new board will exist indefinitely, he said, and will be able to address the matter of student wellness more holistically.

“It was never the intent to have the MHAB exist indefinitely,” WinklerPrins wrote in an email to The Hoya. “My focus is on student health and wellness comprehensively. Siloed discussions of physiologic health versus mental health or wellness are sometimes useful but I believe that a forum for more comprehensive thinking will be beneficial.”

Olson said the MHAB effectively completed its goals over its two year charter.

“The Mental Health Advisory Board has done great work,

and helped set the context for important improvements in CAPS and in our work with mental health issues overall,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I am grateful for all their work.”

The MHAB advised Emeritus Director of the University of Delaware Counseling Center Dr. John Bishop in his report on Georgetown’s medical leave of absence process, which called for changes including increasing communication between students on an medical leave of absence and the university and increasing training for university staff.

Former student members of the MHAB, which included eight students and eight administrators, have expressed support for the change, although some raised concerns about the future of campus mental health policy with no

advisory board dedicated to the issue.

Former MHAB co-chair Ben Johnson (NHS ’17) said the new board could decrease the attention and resources dedicated to mental health concerns by the administration.

“Something that mental health has always struggled with is being mentioned in the same sentence with physical health and being taken with the same seriousness,” Johnson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I only hope that the new board will not decrease resources and attention being paid to mental health on campus as it gets mixed in with the many other topics that fall under student health.”

Project Lighthouse Executive Director Will Emery (COL ’19), who formerly co-chaired the MHAB, said the shuttering of the board will leave a

gap in mental health advocacy to be filled by students, particularly the Georgetown University Student Association.

“Something that mental health has always struggled with is being mentioned in the same sentence with physical health.”

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“In the absence of the Mental Health Advisory Board,

it’s really the responsibility of the Student Association to really pick up the slack. It’s important that we in the Student Association recognize that there will now be more of a challenge advocating for mental health,” Emery said.

“And we will rise to that challenge to ensure that students with disabilities continue to be represented within administrative conversations and within administrative advocacy.”

These challenges notwithstanding, Emery said he supports the transition to a more general approach to student health as a validation of the MHAB’s success.

“While it’s disappointing that we no longer have an administrative board focused on mental health, I think that really it’s a point of reflection in that we accom-

plished our goals,” Emery said. “There is of course still a lot of work to be done, but now the work that needs to be done needs to be done on a holistic level.”

GUSA Mental Health Policy Team Chair Sylvia Levy (SFS ’18) praised the success of the MHAB, though she said there is still work to be done.

“There is still progress to be made on issues of student wellness and mental health, particularly around cultural competency and staff diversity,” Levy wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The Mental Health Advisory Board was successful in forming critical relationships between students, administrators, and staff, which will be invaluable as we continue to work to change policies, and improve campus resource awareness and access.”

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Faith has been consistent for the most part this year. She started off [the season] by saying, ‘Hey coach, I want that role. I want to be that leader. I want the team to follow me,’ and how befitting is it for her to finish her last regular season game at DePaul in such a big way,” Adair said.

Still, Woodard’s effort was not enough against a DePaul team that has dominated most of its conference schedule. Woodard was the sole Georgetown player to reach double-digit points, as White, Adomako and junior forward Cynthia Petke combined to convert on five of 28 field goal attempts.

The Blue Demons got off to a very fast start, quickly jumping out to a 14-2 lead and eventually stretching it to 31-13 late in the first quarter. Georgetown went on a 7-0 run to close the lead to 48-34 at halftime, but was still facing a steep uphill climb entering the second half.

The Hoyas continued to fight in the second half, going on an 11-1 run to get within four points late in the third quarter. However, Georgetown was unable to get any closer than that, as the team’s early deficit proved to be too much to overcome.

Having played them twice already this season, the Hoyas are going to be familiar with whatever game plan the Gold-

en Eagles use against them Sunday. Despite losing to them in both games, Adair has faith that her team can pull out the victory.

“Our players are hungry, and we’re still talking about what we want to do to get this Big East Championship, and what we want to do for postseason play, and play our best basketball heading into March … it’s hard to beat a team three times, especially if we’re locked in and know what to do,” Adair said.

Georgetown travels back to Milwaukee to face Marquette again next Sunday at 3:30 p.m. for the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 2.

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Senior foward Faith Woodard scored a career-high 31 points in Sunday’s loss to DePaul.

Woodard averages 14.7 points per game and 47.5 percent from the field on the season.

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struggles, Georgetown’s lackadaisical defense has been problematic throughout Big East play. After the DePaul loss, senior guard Billy Garrett Jr. took a shot at Georgetown’s defense.

“They got a sense that they kind of didn’t want to play that hard,” Garrett said.

Following the December loss to Marquette, senior guard Jajuan Johnson took a swipe at Georgetown’s defensive effort.

In probably their best defensive game of the year, the Hoyas stifled the Golden Eagles’ offense during their rematch. After the game, Thompson alluded to Johnson’s comments as extra motivation.

“They heard a lot from me behind closed doors, but I thought our defense today was really good,” Thompson said.

Georgetown’s defense has been excellent in several games throughout the year, holding Marquette and Creighton to 20 and 33 points below their

season averages, respectively.

But Georgetown’s No. 174 ranking in opponent scoring demonstrates its inability to play consistent, sound defense.

This Tuesday will show if the combination of Georgetown players’ willingness to compete and the questioning of its coach’s job provide enough extra motivation for the Hoyas to contest Seton Hall.

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There was also the matter of the unfortunate feud of sorts with disgruntled striker Leonardo Ulloa, who claimed that Ranieri betrayed him over a lack of playing time.

There have been reports that Ranieri lost the support of his dressing room,

Leicester publicly voiced support for Ranieri just two weeks before firing him.

In all likelihood, Leicester City will go down this season, and its so-called stars Vardy and Mahrez will leave the club, paving the way for a mass exodus.

The decision to fire Ranieri also comes at a bit of a strange time. Leicester owed it to Ranieri to let him finish out the season, considering all that Ranieri has done for the club.

Instead, everyone is left unhappy and facing a period of upheaval.

Ranieri deserved better.

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at the beginning of the season, and we can definitely make a run,” Bucaro said.

Warne admired his star player’s work ethic and selfless commitment to the program’s success.

“He’ll be the first one to tell you that he’s disappointed that we lost. He couldn’t care less about

individual accolades and he’d rather have a ‘W.’ And he’d do anything for a win even if it meant he didn’t score a single point,” Warne said.

Georgetown continues its search for a victory when it faces Hofstra (20) on Saturday at Cooper Field. Opening faceoff is set for noon.

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in regulation, senior midfielder Eduardo White and Conley scored on back-to-back strikes from in front of the cage, bringing the Hoyas within one goal.

Down by one, the defense weathered five consecutive shots in one Tow-

son possession. The Hoyas got the ball back with 1:17 left, but ultimately could not create a shot for Bucaro, who had his attempt blocked. Towson ran down the clock and escaped with a narrow 1110 victory.

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lieved in Ranieri.

It is a move that will ultimately backfire. The supporters are disgruntled, and caretaker manager Craig Shakespeare has the unseemly job of motivating a squad that has been utterly lifeless to perform well enough not only in the regular league, but also in Champions League.

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As it has been mentioned many times, Leicester has sorely missed N’Golo Kanté, who left this summer for Chelsea.

Coupled with the fact that Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez seem far removed from the players who tore up the league last year, it is no wonder that Leicester is looking like a very different team.

Ranieri tried his best with the squad he was given. Some things, such as Kasper Schmeichel’s hand injury, were utterly beyond Ranieri’s control.

And, like every manager, the Italian made questionable lineup decisions at times.

a tale that is eerily similar to the one that saw reigning champion Jose Mourinho get fired by Chelsea last year. It is a telling sign that practically no Leicester player has spoken out in support of Ranieri since the news broke that he was fired.

Frankly, it is disappointing and rather disgusting.

Ranieri defied the odds last year to lead the unlikely bunch to its first Premier League title in history. Beloved by the fans and even other managers, Ranieri is a highly likeable man.

It is utterly heartbreaking to hear Ranieri say that his dream died as a result of being fired and many supporters absolutely do not agree with the actions taken by the board. This was the Italian’s only title in his career, and it has always been very evident that Ranieri loved the Fox fans just as much as they loved him.

What I find most troubling is that Leicester City publicly voiced support for its beleaguered manager — giving Ranieri confidence and belief — only to pull a complete turnaround and let him go.

If Leicester knew that it was going to fire Ranieri, the club should not have made such a statement.

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history, at least from a diving perspective,” Cooper-Vespa said. “We just have a kind of swagger in practice on the pool deck that we just bring, and it just helps us train really well.”

In his seventh season with Georgetown, Head Diving Coach Michael Tober won Men’s Diving Coach of the Year and shared the award for Women’s Diving Coach of the Year with Coach Todd Michael of Villanova.

“That is just a testament to what Mike does with them day in and day out. He’s a great coach; he gets the absolute best out of the divers,” Leavitt said.

The relay events kicked off on the first day of the championship, with both the men’s and women’s 800-yard freestyle and 200 medley

teams competing.

The women’s 200 medley team, composed of senior Katie Duncalf, junior Molly Fitzpatrick, senior Molly Gaynor and freshman Morgan Conley, finished third behind Villanova and Xavier with a time of 1:41.83.

“We just have a kind of swagger in practice on the pool deck that we just bring, and it just helps us train really well.”

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Freshman Terry Johnson, junior Chandler Hinson, junior Daniel Ross and sophomore Jacob Kohlhoff led the men’s 800-freestyle relay

team to a third-place finish, touching the wall at 6:40.58.

The Blue and Gray accumulated more individual medals over the second day of competition, with secondand third-place finishes in the women’s 200 individual medley. Sophomore Laine Morgan earned silver with a 2:02.78, and Fitzpatrick finished third with a 2:03.15.

Morgan and Fitzpatrick continued their winning ways the next days, with Fitzpatrick rallying to victory in the 100 breaststroke in 1:01.27. Morgan added a thirdplace finish with a 54:90 time in the 100 butterfly.

Capping off a long competition, Fitzpatrick managed to defend her gold in the women’s 200 breaststroke, claiming the medal for the second-straight year with a time of 2:11.16 in the final — more than three seconds

faster than the second-place finisher.

“There is definitely an aspect that feels good to have all the months of grueling practices pay off and feel that you swam to your potential,” Fitzpatrick said. “Much more importantly though, the entire team trained incredibly hard this year, so I was grateful that I could go out there, show the Big East the work we’ve been putting in and get a win for Georgetown.”

Still chasing the Big East Championship, next season’s senior class will begin the season with the motivation to reach the next step on the podium, and Leavitt is ready to lead them there.

“The great thing after a meet like this is we did a lot of things well, and we swam great. However, there is still a lot more to do,” Leavitt said.

“Our best is still out there.”

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Facing its second NCAA quarterfinalist in a week, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (0-3) dropped its third straight game to the Towson Tigers (2-0), suffering an 11-10 home loss Saturday.

The game started off sunny and bright, and Towson shot out a five-goal lead, but as the rain came, the Hoyas found their pace, allowing only one goal in the final two quarters and ending the game within one point of the Tigers.

“It’s tough because we lost, but we showed a lot of heart. And we left everything on the field. The message throughout this game was never give up, and fight back hard. We just gotta finish a game,” sophomore attack Daniel Bucaro said.

The opening half was all Towson, as the team came out strong scoring two goals, one by sophomore faceoff specialist Alex Woodall. Bucaro answered back with the first of his career-best six goals halfway through the period. However, that would be the sole Hoya goal in the half, as the Tigers nursed a 10-1 lead at half.

Head Coach Kevin Warne noted that the momentum shifts in the first half were partly due to the Hoyas adjusting to Woodall’s

fast play, and gaining possession by changing its faceoff strategy.

“Faceoff dictates the flow of the game and we were not successful early on. If you’re not winning the ball, one of the things that you want to accomplish is making it a 3-on-3 game, and not allowing clean breaks, and we did that pretty well to get possession and get back in the game,” Warne said.

In the second half, Georgetown’s defense buckled down, allowing one Towson goal in the entire half. Led by senior defensemen and captains Charlie Ford and Michael Meyer, the defense forced 21 Towson turnovers and limited the Tigers to just 15 shots in the second half, a stark contrast to the 26 shots Towson took in the first half.

The Hoyas’ zone defense gave the Tigers trouble, and allowed the Hoya offense a chance to chip away at the lead. In the third period, Bucaro scored his fifth goal of the game, and redshirt junior attack Peter Conley added a laser shot to bring the game to within four going into the final quarter.

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In its biggest team competition of the season, the Georgetown swimming and diving team claimed second place in both the men’s and women’s side at the Big East Championship this past week at Seton Hall University.

The women’s team earned 685 points to Villanova’s 1,017 points, which put it in silver-medal position for the fourth straight year. It was also the fourth consecutive year the men’s team came in second, racking up 677.5 points to finish behind Seton Hall’s 872.5-point championship mark.

“We talked all year about process and not results,” first-year Georgetown Head Coach Jack Leavitt said. “We knew that if we took care of the little things in the pool and the weight room from September to February that the results would handle themselves.”

Georgetown’s success on the diving side helped formulate its second-place finish for both sides.

Freshman Margaret Barnhorst took first in women’s 3-meter diving with a score of 527.75 and second in women’s 1-meter diving with a 513.80, earning her the title of Most Outstanding Women’s Diver. Fellow freshman Elizabeth Miller finished second in the 3-meter diving and placed third in the 1-meter.

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Senior diver Jared Cooper-Vespa defended his title in the 3-meter dive. In addition to the gold medal, Cooper-Vespa claimed second place in the 1-meter dive. competitions, and I knew I just had to do my dives the way that I knew how to do them and the way I had been practicing them all season, and then I ended up having a good finals meet, and I ended up winning the 3-meter,” Barnhorst said.

The Hoyas’ diving success was reciprocated on the men’s side. Senior Jared Cooper-Vespa won the 3-meter dive for the second year

in a row with a 584.55, and sophomore Ryan Blom came in second. Cooper-Vespa spoke of the expectations to defend his title.

“Yeah, it was good. It was a little stressful definitely because there’s an added pressure,” Cooper-Vespa said. “I had a lot of adrenaline, and I was able to channel that adrenaline to perform to the best of my ability.”

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Fresh off a turnoverplagued 86-80 loss against the St. John’s Red Storm this last Saturday, the Georgetown men’s basketball team heads to Newark, N.J. on Tuesday to face the Seton Hall Pirates.

Georgetown (14-15, 5-11 Big East) enters Tuesday on a three-game skid, including its last two losses to DePaul (9-20, 2-14 Big East) and St. John’s (13-16, 7-9 Big East), ranked 10th and eighth in the Big East standings.

Seton Hall (18-10, 8-8 Big East) enters the final week of Big East regular-season play looking to improve

its NCAA Tournament resume. The Pirates are neckand-neck with conference rivals Providence (18-11, 8-8 Big East) and Marquette (17-11. 8-8 Big East) in the standings. Seton Hall hosts Georgetown in its final home game before heading to Indianapolis, where it looks to steal a game against No. 13 Butler (23-6, 12-5 Big East) to improve the likelihood of an NCAA Tournament at-large bid.

Seton Hall is anchored by junior forward Angel Delgado’s 15.7 points per game and an NCAA-leading 13 rebounds per game. Junior guard Khadeen Carrington commands the Pirates offense, averaging a team-

high 17.4 points per game.

Having lost five of its last six games, Georgetown’s first loss of its recent slide came in overtime against Seton Hall, falling 68-66 on Feb. 4. Delgado dominated the Hoyas, putting up 26 points and bringing down 17 rebounds. The Hoyas also benefitted from a rough shooting night from junior forward Desi Rodriguez who made 3-of-17 shots from the floor before netting the eventual gamewinner.

Georgetown continues to lean on the scoring of graduate student guard Rodney Pryor and junior guard L.J. Peak, who average 18.2 and 16.6 points per game,

respectively. Pryor was one of few bright spots for the Hoyas on Saturday, shooting 5-of-10 on three-pointers and 8-of-16 overall, finishing with 22 points. Peak finished with 20, but a seasonhigh six turnovers proved too costly for Georgetown.

With the insertion of sophomore guard Kaleb Johnson into the starting lineup Saturday, the Hoyas reached their 10th starting lineup combination. Despite spurts from sophomore center Jessie Govan, the Hoyas have been unable to find consistent scoring anywhere else in their lineup.

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After an up-and-down regular season, the Georgetown women’s basketball team finished its Big East slate on a skid, losing a pair of road games to two of the conference’s top teams.

The Hoyas (17-11, 9-9 Big East) fell to the Marquette Golden Eagles (22-7, 13-5 Big East) by a score of 80-70 on Friday night before losing 79-70 to the No. 18 DePaul Blue Demons (24-6, 16-2 Big East) on Sunday afternoon.

“To play two of the top [teams], you have to put together a full 40-minute game,” Georgetown Head Coach Natasha Adair said.

“On the road against a

tough opponent, your room for error is minimal.”

Georgetown finishes the season with an even 9-9 record in conference play, earning the No. 6 seed in next week’s Big East Tournament. The Hoyas will have a bye in the first round of the tournament before a rematch against the Golden Eagles in the quarterfinals.

In Friday’s game against Marquette, Georgetown’s top three scorers produced high-scoring outputs: junior guard Dorothy Adomako posted a game-high 21 points while sophomore guard Dionna White and senior forward Faith Woodard added 18 points each. However, the rest of the Hoyas’ roster posted 13 points, fail-

ing to support the likes of the team’s big three. Meanwhile, Marquette’s offensive output was more balanced, as it had six players score at least eight points, including four with 14 or more.

“They have talent in all five positions. They play about six to seven people.

They’re going to score.

They’re high octane, and they’re going to score. We want to make it hard for them, but I don’t think you make it hard for them if you give them 16 second-chance points,” Adair said.

Georgetown kept the score close for most of the contest, but struggled to build enough momentum to gain a significant lead.

The Golden Eagles held

the edge in rebounding and fouls, out-rebounding the Hoyas 49-36 and committing just 12 fouls to the Hoyas’ 20.

“As a coach and with my staff, our job is to come up with some adjustments but still promote the winning spirit and still encourage them. It’s 0-0 when we get to Milwaukee [on Sunday]. It’s a new season,” Adair said.

Woodard was dominant in Sunday’s game, posting a career-high 31 points and adding 11 rebounds in her final regular season game.

The senior played all 40 minutes and converted 13of-16 free throw attempts.

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nal, Cooper-Vespa and Blom again finished first and second, as Blom defended his Big East title with a 508.35 score and Cooper-Vespa finished second with a score of 501.40. At the conclusion of the meet, CooperVespa won the title of Most Outstanding Men’s Diver.

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wo hundred and ninety-eight days were all it took for Leicester City to go from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. Two hundred and ninety-eight days between pulling off a shocking title upset to being locked in a relegation battle, desperately trying to avoid the drop.

To say that Leicester has been terrible this season is an understatement, much like saying that Head Coach John Thompson III has done a poor job with the Georgetown basketball team this season.

But more importantly, 298 days were all that Claudio Ranieri had left as manager of that wonderfully spirited team.

A mere two weeks after being publicly told that he had the full support of the Leicester City Board of Directors, its players and its supporters, Ranieri was sacked. His final game in charge was the 2-1 loss to Sevilla in the Champions League on Feb. 22.

With the loss of Ranieri, it appears that Leicester’s slim Champions League title hopes have vanished as well.

It certainly is an inter-

esting move on the part of Leicester City to part ways with its charming manager.

Ranieri was one of the most well-liked individuals within the entire Premier League, and his cheerful demeanor on the pitch will be missed.

Leicester needed to make a change to avoid relegation, but firing Ranieri is not the answer.

While it is true that some drastic action needed to be taken in order to prevent Leicester from becoming the first reigning champion since Manchester City in the 1937-38 season to get relegated, I wholeheartedly disagree with the decision to fire Ranieri.

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