The Hoya: March 28, 2017

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Tuesday, MARCH 28, 2017

SAFETY FIRST

Advocate Sandra Fluke called on Georgetown to provide greater access to contraceptives.

EDITORIAL Promoting diversity in clubs requires outreach to minority communities.

CHOICE WEEK RETURNS H*yas for Choice looks to include new programming for the weeklong event.

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NEWS, A8

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FederallyMandated Gun Control Law Comes Under Fire Lily Steinberg Hoya Staff Writer

Republicans in Congress introduced a bill this month to weaken gun control laws in Washington, D.C., sparking criticism from District officials concerned with federal meddling in local policies.

Freshman Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) introduced legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives to weaken D.C.’s gun regulations March 15. Currently, the District prohibits assault weapons and high-capacity magazine clips.

“Our message to any member of Congress wanting to try and write our local laws is they should keep their hands off D.C.” CHARLES ALLEN (D-ward 6) D.C. Councilmember

The bill, titled the Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2017, would do away with this ban, as well as make it easier to obtain a concealed carry permit. Additionally, the legislation would prohibit the District from passing any future local gun laws.

Garrett’s legislation is the House counterpart to legislation introduced in the Senate by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in January of this year.

In Virginia, Garrett’s home state, open carry is allowed for anyone over the age of 18, and con-

cealed carry is allowed for those with permits. Neither high-capacity magazines nor assault weapons are prohibited.

In an email to The Hoya, Garrett’s Communications Director Andrew Griffin explained that the legislation was inspired by FBI data showing a higher rate of violent crime and murders in the District compared to Virginia, even though D.C. has stricter gun regulations and fewer gun owners.

Griffin also wrote that several constituents in Virginia with legally owned firearms and concealed carry permits complain about feeling unsafe and unable to defend themselves when visiting D.C. According to The Washington Post, there were 105 fatal shootings in the District compared to 26 in northern Virginia last year.

D.C. is classified as a federal district by law, allowing Congress to constitutionally void District laws and manage the use of local tax dollars.

Various D.C. leaders voiced their concern over the legislation, including Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) in an interview with The Hoya.

“Congressman Garrett is pretty wrong in thinking that putting semi-automatic weapons and large magazine clips and conceal carry weapons would somehow make D.C. safe.

It will do the exact opposite,” Allen said. “But more importantly, I’m pretty sure that the voters of Virginia did not send him to See GUN CONTROL, A6

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Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) addressed the audience in her keynote speech at the second annual BRAVE Summit on Saturday, which addressed a variey of issues pertaining to black women in the United States.

Summit Offers Intersectional Dialogue Student-organized event features more than 30 speakers Ian Scoville Hoya Staff Writer

The second annual BRAVE Summit, hosted on Saturday, offered black women a space to promote dialogue on issues of feminism with a series of panels and a keynote by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D).

BRAVE — Black. Resilient. Artistic. Vigilant.

Enough. — was organized by 14 undergraduate female students and saw a

40 percent increase in attendance from last year, with about 350 attendees.

“I really think the momentum from the inaugural conference carried through to this year in terms of interest,” BRAVE Board Co-chair Ashlie Williams (MSB ’17) wrote in an email to The Hoya.

BRAVE was founded last year to specifically address issues affecting black women in the United States, which are often excluded from discussions

of feminism, according to Williams.

“BRAVE’s purpose is to create an environment to celebrate and educate,” Williams wrote. “Many of the topics that were discussed are often left out of the mainstream narrative and I hope that attendees felt fulfilled from participating in dialogues that they may not normally be able to.”

Over 30 speakers presented at the summit, including former D.C.

Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and Erika Totten, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement in Washington, D.C. This year’s conference featured two panels and six breakout sessions.

Breakout session topics ranged from black female sexuality to the representation of black history in Washington, D.C.’s public education system.

The morning panel, See BRAVE, A6

Former Executives Reflect on Term Khan, Fisk discuss accomplishments, advice for successors Ian Scoville Hoya Staff Writer

TOM GARRETT FOR CONGRESS

Tom Garrett (R-Va.) introduced legislation seeking to weaken D.C. gun control laws March 15.

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Former Georgetown University Student Association President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17) entered office 373 days ago on a campaign platform of creating a more inclusive GUSA, reforming dining and completing the 2036 campus plan.

The Khan-Fisk administration had the largest GUSA executive in recent history, with over 200 members, after restructuring the executive in March to create policy teams, which advocate on issue areas in conjunction with the senate.

The term saw a series of successes in dining and campus planning. In September, the university, residents and GUSA signed a 20-year campus plan that pledged renovations to campus residence halls, and in November, the university signed a new 10year dining contract with

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Former GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17) cited dining and outreach to minority groups as their primary achievements.

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A week after leaving office, Khan and Fisk discussed their proudest accomplishments, the path to creating a more diverse and inclusive GUSA and what they took away from their experience.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What are you most proud of from your term, as a collective administration and as individuals?

Khan: What I am person-

ally most proud of our term is the fact that the new way that we chose to run our administration allowed for different people, who traditionally would not be involved in GUSA, to play a See REFLECTION, A6

NEWS

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SPORTS

Metro Fare Steepens WMATA’s board of directors approved fare hikes and reduced services, which will go into effect July 1.

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Art Smarts President Donald Trump’s budget slahes to the National Endowment for the Arts are detrimental to the country.

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Skid Continues The men’s lacrosse team suffered its second straight loss, extending its losing streak to three games.

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NEWS Foreign Correspondents

opinion Hallmarks of History

SPORTS Hoyas Avoid Sweep

Reporter Mary Jordan (COL ’83) discussed the responsibility of journalists under President Trump.

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History provides us with insights that allow us to cope during troubling times.

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The baseball team escaped its trip to Brown with Series One win, avoiding a three-game series sweep.

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OPINION

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Tuesday, march 28, 2017

THE VERDICT

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a global issue, with both sides drawing sympathy and ire from all corners of the world. Here at Georgetown, on-campus dialogue on the subject has had a less-than-shining history and attracts perennial interest from the university community.

Last year, Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine placed a display wall in the Intercultural Center that was defaced by both Israeli and Palestinian sympathizers. Just last week, a swastika was found graffitied in Village C West, and a viewpoint published in The Hoya argued that campus discourse on the conflict is marked by implicit antiSemitism [“Subtle Anti-Semitism,” The Hoya, March 24, 2017, A3].

Currently, SJP operates on campus in accordance with an anti-normalization policy, refusing to engage pro-Israel groups such as Georgetown Israel Alliance for fear of “normalizing” the political situation in the Palestinian territories and tacitly accepting Israeli sovereignty. SJP President Eman Abdelfadeel explained in a 2016 interview with The Hoya that “We don’t think it’s fair and it’s actually really, really absurd for anyone to suggest that an occupied people negotiate or talk or dialogue with the occupier” [“Pro-Palestine ICC Wall Vandalized,” The Hoya, March 22, 2016, A1].

This editorial board believes that SJP’s policy is antithetical to the development and sustainability of healthy campus discourse. First, the anti-normalization policy makes it difficult for students, particularly Israel’s sympathizers, to ascertain the group’s beliefs because dialogue is discouraged in the first place; an issue as nuanced as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires dialogue and interpersonal engagement, or else risks devolving into an echo chamber.

We understand the SJP’s rationale for the policy, which calls for ceasing interactions between groups that do not subscribe to the tenet of ending the occupation. They contend that dialogue creates a false equiva-

lency between the two parties in which one serves as an oppressor to the other. However, this argument undercuts that a peaceful resolution to the conflict requires mutual coexistence and cooperation.

Further, the policy represents SJP to the broader campus, for better or worse, as an insular group that has no interest in participating in bipartisan solution building.

This measure proves damaging for the GIA, as it cannot co-sponsor events with the SJP that challenge the organization’s views and hold it accountable. Rather than pursuing new solutions, both organizations follow the paths of the region’s leaders and refuse to engage with challenging truths presented by the other side.

Fortunately, J Street U, a centrist group identifying as both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine, occupies a crucial ideological space in which it can facilitate conversation between differing viewpoints and endeavor to build consensus across camps. However, its work, like that of GIA, is impinged by the insularity of SJP’s anti-normalization policy.

As has been true for many years, both SJP and GIA are polarized and fail to generate nearly as much substantive dialogue as they could given the chance to mutually engage each other.

This change would not be immediate – rather, the process must take form first through individual members seeking to genuinely understand the other side and attend its events before this dialogue can expand to a systemic level. A constructive discussion begins in finding common ground between two beliefs and then working to expand this shared understanding, little by little, by conversation and joint projects.

Instead of simulating the obstinacy of the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace process that both groups lament, SJP and GIA must work to bridge the divide. It falls to SJP to take the first step by normalizing constructive dialogue.

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Bathroom Ban — North Carolina will lose $3.76 billion over 12 years because of lost business associated with the House Bill 2 “bathroom bill,” according to an Associated Press analysis.

Spaced Out — A group of planetary scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference last week are seeking to expand the definition of a planet to include Pluto. The International Astronomical Union declassified Pluto from full planetary status in 2006.

Bumbling Move — General Mills, the parent company of Cheerio’s, came under fire after mailing out wildflower seeds to customers that included non-native and invasive plant species. The seeds were part of the company’s #BringBackTheBees campaign to highlight bees’ plummeting numbers.

Leg Up — United Airlines was heavily criticized after prohibiting two teenagers from boarding a flight for wearing leggings, a violation of the company’s dress code policy.

Stand Firm — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced the “Fearless Girl” statue will remain in place across the Financial District’s famous Charging Bull statue through February 2018. The statue, originally installed for International Women’s Day on March 8, is meant to highlight the need for more women in the finance industry.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Elinor Walker

Diversify Club Outreach For students applying to Georgetown’s host of exclusive student groups, surmounting the extensive applications and multiple rounds of interviews is hard enough. For students of color, this proves even harder.

In a viewpoint for The Hoya published last Friday [“Correcting GUASFCU’s Closed Culture,” The Hoya, March 24, 2017, A3], Cole Brown, a member of Georgetown University’s Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union’s Diversity and Inclusion committee, called for his organization to accept a greater proportion of students of color. According to Brown, of the 64 nonwhite applicants to GUASFCU this semester, only three were accepted at a rate of 4.7 percent, compared with the 20 percent acceptance rate of their white counterparts.

Yet in addition to striving for diversity of admission, student organizations ought to strive for diversity of application. It is not enough for admissions boards and personnel managers to disproportionately admit nonwhite applicants to balance otherwise homogeneous student groups. These clubs should work to foster a culture that actually appeals to nonwhite students and entices those students of color to apply at similar rates to their white peers.

In the past several years, these groups have made a conscious effort to diversify their ranks and ensure that they do not become social havens solely for white students. The Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society overhauled its application process, The Corp launched a diversity working group and GUASFCU created an auxiliary committee focused on inclusion. Both Blue and Gray and The Corp saw more diverse hiring classes as a result of these new policies and had historically high number of nonwhite students accepted into their ranks in the past year.

While these measures are to be applauded, they do not address the fact that students of color may be deterred from applying in the first place.

In the most recent admission cycle, Blue and Gray accepted a commendably diverse group into its class of 32 students. However, the applicants were starkly less diverse than the acceptance rate would suggest – the number of applications from black students were significantly dwarfed by those of white applicants. Blue and Gray’s admissions panel laudably ensured the group’s diversity by assuming a racially conscious approach and accepting a greater proportion of black students. At the same time, further progress could be made to ensure that organizations receive applicant pools that are representative of the student body in the first place.

Diversity problems in The Corp, GUASFCU and other student groups are not limited to just their admissions processes. These clubs foster specific cultures and attitudes that, to a certain degree, alienate students of color. Organizations that claim to represent the student body have a responsibility to make minority groups at Georgetown feel accepted and welcomed. Although having more people of color in these organizations is an important step in encouraging more racial minorities to apply, outreach to these groups and internal reform is even more important.

This editorial board maintains that organizations should assume a targeted strategy to club recruitment, approaching specific clubs and communities on campus and encouraging them to apply. Organizing joint events, roundtables and other programming for outreach could encourage minority groups to apply to these clubs in greater numbers.

With a more diverse applicant pool, discriminatory hiring patterns would be easier to spot and clubs would not be forced to hire disproportionately to include minorities in their organizations — ultimately making the application process more fair for students of every race.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Nuance Necessary in Examining Conflict It is not often that I choose to respond to op-eds that attempt to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But what seeps through the cracks in Mr. Tanner Larkin’s “Subtle Anti-Semitism” [“Subtle Anti-Semitism,” The Hoya, March 24, 2017, A3] is a subconscious appeal to partiality that I cannot simply disregard.

Two things must be established before I delve into Mr. Larkin’s claims. The first is the fact that Israelis, Jews and Palestinians all have an equal right to exist, and that the politics of where they should exist is the emblem of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, which must not be overlooked and should be studied extensively before it is written of.

The second is the fact that questioning the legitimacy

of Israel as a state may arise as anti-Zionist but does not equal anti-Semitism.

Now to turn to Mr. Larkin’s criticism of student groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine and GU Forming a Radically Ethical Endowment; it is a stretch and indeed a dangerous endeavor to, in all blatancy, deem their enthusiasm anti-Semitic. Natan Sharansky’s “3D Test” is enigmatic and must not be used as lightly as it was in “Subtle Anti-Semitism” to assess the support for Palestine on campus.

Furthermore, to suggest that “Israeli policies” — which have promoted the marginalization of an entire race and the perpetuation of B-class and even C-class citizenry — deserve only “scrutiny” because

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“all countries [do],” is to devalue the lives of those who have suffered and died under the Israeli regime, including Ethiopian Jews.

It is also crucial — and I cannot stress this enough — to understand that just as Israelis regard that piece of land their homeland, Palestinians do so as well.

This concept may prove difficult to grasp to some, but it is a reality.

That said, I will not attest to the tarnishing of the image of Palestine supporters in the name of favoritism on this campus. After all, in the words of Mr. Larkin: “If progress toward peace is to be made, both sides must learn to acknowledge each other’s point of view.”

Natascha Tahabsem, SFS ’19

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OPINION

TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017

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VIEWPOINT • MCKAIG

MILLENNIAL’S CORNER

Martha Petrocheilos

The Dangers Of Generalization

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indless acts of terror do not surprise us anymore. The tragedy in London last Wednesday killed four people, among them an unarmed police officer, and injured 12 others: one German, one Pole, two Greeks, two Romanians, four South Koreans, one Irish, one Chinese, three French, one American and one Italian.

As a former Londoner, but most importantly as a millennial observing the atrocities that happen around the world in the name of religion, I wish I could say I was surprised that London has now joined the recent string of locations threatened by terrorism. Instead, I feel dread for where our tolerance and otherwise globalized perspective is headed.

There are no religions that are entirely pacifistic, as there are no conflict-free societies.

Some who read sacred texts literally and with no critical mind, find their religion guides them toward murder. Equally, that same text can advocate for peace, brotherhood and selfsacrificing love. What makes a difference is which parts of the text will speak to believers and urge them to action.

Ultimately, it all is a matter of perspective. The Bible that symbolized hope and liberation for the black slaves in the United States and the Caribbean was the same Bible that the slave owners read to justify their actions. Arguably, jihad and the Christian crusades might seem similar in concept, although readers of those religious texts might not immediately realize it.

These acts of terror are and will continue to be committed by a minority of people.

They do not represent an entire religion. In that, we should be careful not to allow the recent terrorist attacks to divide us further. Emotive and spontaneous responses

to big events like this threaten our power.

And the power lies in us to say “him,” rather than “them,” when we refer to Khalid Masood, born Adrian Elms, who carried out these attacks. We should label him as a murderer and a sociopath and a terrorist, not just a Muslim.

Incendiary language, fingerpointing and blame-shifting all have the same effect. A simplified narrative of good and evil simply fosters fear in a modern society, where our differences should instead be celebrated, not curbed.

We have a choice as to how to respond to those events and face them together. It is easy to divide by faith. It is easy to label “us against them.” It should not be Muslims versus Christians, or the West versus the Muslim world. History has shown us time and again that we are stronger together, not apart.

When the terror attack occurred in Westminster, nurses and doctors that happened to be in the scene rushed to help with an admirable calmness and solidarity. The police were remarkably swift and competent. Other European countries showed overwhelming support, even with the imminent Brexit. Religious leaders from across the world urged us to speak against fundamentalism, raise awareness and start a long-awaited discussion condemning such actions as extremist, not as stemming from a particular religion.

The way that communities came together in light of the London terrorist attack gives me some hope. This is the power of together. This is what will defeat terrorism.

Martha Petrocheilos is a student at the Law Center.

MILLENNIAL’S CORNER appears every other Tuesday.

Nevertheless, suppressing the arts’ role in a democracy suppresses more than just art. The insidious side to oppression is its capacity to render citizens speechless, reducing them to props.

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Prioritize American Art and Soul

n 1965, the U.S. Congress established the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Besides funding arts and humanities projects, the agencies support art education, international cooperative initiatives and research. However, both agencies have regularly faced criticism and threats of demise.

Trump’s current cost-cutting budget proposal would eliminate both agencies, saving $300 million from their combined budgets, which is .024 percent of federal discretionary spending, or approximately 92 cents per citizen.

Comparatively, some of Trump’s lifestyle choices, including twice-monthly trips to Florida and his family’s stay in New York City, will cost $1.42 per citizen by year’s end.

The relative financial burden of supporting the NEA/ NEH also pales by international comparisons. Around the world, public investment in the arts far surpasses that of the United States: Germany invests $20 per citizen, England invests $77 per citizen and Australia $269 per citizen.

Eliminating the NEA/NEH might sound enticing to fiscal conservatives, but the numbers are too small to believe that the choice is based on budget priorities. The proposed border wall would cost nearly

73 times more than the combined NEA/NEH budgets. The numbers are inconvenient, but the economic significance of eliminating these two agencies pales in comparison to the disregard for equity, sustainability and democracy itself.

Georgetown University professors Evan Reed, Allison Hilton and Shana Klein, from the department of art and art history, have all received NEA or NEH support in recognition of their work as artists and scholars. Each of their independent projects involved uniting human beings around issues and concerns that affect the quality of life, in these cases teenage students, international scholars or students completing dissertation work.

Uniting people and directly improving the quality of life are priorities – not indulgences. Our society suffers from anxiety, insecurity, social phobia and anger. The results include isolation, fear, illness and violence.

Nevertheless, the art world is not united in support of the NEA/NEH. David Marcus, with the Blue Box World theater project in Brooklyn, suggests their demise would be “the best thing for the arts in decades,” claiming that public subsidies prevent “creative destruction,” and place grant approval above audience engagement.

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Even some supporters of the NEA/NEH – myself included – criticize some of their policies and practices, without suggesting that they be eliminated. The agencies ought to be improved upon, with increased funding, rather than eliminated.

If, instead of art, we were disputing problematic American diets, would we suggest withholding food from people?

Though hard to believe, that suggestion is in Trump’s proposed budget.

If government support for the arts evaporates, will other sources step in? Historically, this has not been the case.

Low government funding and insufficient private and corporate support have historically resulted in curating art based on economic priorities and sharing it with people based on economic parameters.

Moreover, rural areas, lowincome communities, smaller cultural institutions and underserved demographics such as veterans or senior citizens would suffer disproportionately from the demise of the NEA/NEH. Market dynamics, philanthropy and sustainable donor support favor larger institutions with bigger footprints that – for the work they achieve – cannot serve the general population from coast to coast.

The old-school, bottom-line,

profit-drives-the-story framework is not working – not in many industries, and certainly not in the arts. To foster research and development, both producers and consumers of art need to be able to take risks.

The quality of life should not be measured by profit.

All art is subversive. It constantly struggles to redefine itself, to replace previous norms with new experiments that will themselves become norms to be replaced. This living laboratory, though illuminating for healthy and vital development, is constantly shifting and often frustrating.

Nevertheless, suppressing the arts’ role in a democracy suppresses more than just art.

The insidious side to oppression is its capacity to render citizens speechless, reducing them to props.

As federal agencies, the NEA/NEH cannot advocate for their own survival. Numerous petitions exist to speak out against eliminating the NEA/ NEH. More effective is citizens directly contacting representatives and speaking out. Most effective is celebrating the role of the arts and humanities in life and voicing the recognition of our collective coexistence.

BRUCE MCKAIG is a professor in the department of art and art history at Georgetown University.

FROM THE DEAN’S DESK

Barriers to Representation Look Forward by Looking Back

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or decades, politicians have bellowed that all are equal, that racial barriers are relics of the past and that anyone can be anything in the land of opportunity. The inauguration of our first black president eight years ago was a dazzling affirmation of such a promise; if there was ever a testament to the power of the American dream and personal ingenuity, this was the pinnacle. We had shown the world that through uncompromising grit and hard work, anyone can help lead our government — or so we thought.

For millions of minority Americans, structural poverty and systemic issues still keep many from achieving the highest ideals of their dreams. Although there is no law explicitly barring minorities from running for office, the issues of campaign finance, gerrymandered districts and structural poverty foster an environment in which too many minorities are excluded from participating in our electoral process.

The Obama outlier is not indicative of the reality many people of color face, and in fact, public office is still an elusive goal for many. If we truly believe the American promise that hard work and following the rules elicits success, then we must do better.

Amid all the fanfare of the 2017 presidential inauguration, The United States welcomed the most diverse Congress in its history. However, such hollow proclamations of diversity fall flat once one steps away from the brush strokes and analyzes the whole painting.

Although black Americans make up around 13.2

percent of the total U.S. population, there are only three black Senators, or 3 percent of the U.S. Senate.

Likewise, Hispanics make up 17.8 percent of the U.S. population, yet only 7.8 percent of representatives are Hispanic. Similar compositions are found around the country in state legislatures, city halls and in courts.

If we believe that the role of representative democracy is to properly reflect the people, it is clear that we are falling short.

One may argue that such is the nature of the beast, and that we should not worry about the demographics of our legislators; however, if we believe that representative democracy’s role is to properly reflect the people, it is clear that we are falling short.

Why don’t we have more minority legislators? One key factor is finances. The average cost of a Senate race is $10.5 million per candidate, and in 2016, key races in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire cost more than $100 million each.

In the House, the average race costs $1.5 million. Most Americans do not have such financial resources or networking at their disposal, and these matters are further compounded by the fact that decades of unequal opportunity and systemic discrimination have economically disadvantaged

minority Americans.

According to a recent Forbes article, “the typical black household now has just 6 percent of the wealth of the typical white household; the typical Latino household has just 8 percent.” It is clear that a system that gives an advantage to those with financial resources harms communities of color.

These barriers are further entrenched by gerrymandered districts, which consistently disenfranchise minority populations. This is evidenced by a host of Supreme Court decisions, most notably the 2016 decision to strike down North Carolina’s redistricting map for suppressing the minority vote.

Incumbents in Congress also have more resources to fundraise, network and have free name recognition, meaning that those in power tend to stay in power, in fact at an average 90 percent re-election rate.

Solving these problems will not be easy, but it is necessary. We must address the underlying issues: investing in our public schools to increase social mobility, improving our public safety net, restoring the 1965 Voting Rights Act and reforming our campaign finance and congressional districting laws.

Although having more minorities in Congress is not the be-all, end-all for racial justice, it is one step we must take toward truly having a representative democracy. If we tell our children that with hard work and determination, anyone can become anything in this country, then we must ensure that such a promise is upheld.

O’CONNOR is freshman in the College.

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n February of 1798, there was a fight in the House of Representatives. Not a “fight” over bills and proposals, but a real full-on, bare-knuckled, fist-throwing brawl – with Connecticut Rep. Roger Griswold beating Vermont Rep. Matthew Lyon with his walking stick after Lyon had spit in Griswold’s face. Even worse was the House fight of 1858, when Wisconsin Rep. John “Bowie Knife” Potter ripped off Mississippi Rep. William Barksdale’s toupee smack in the middle of a debate about Kansas’s constitution.

Until recently, such surreal spectacles seemed to be confined to the past. But anyone watching the evening news knows the political climate in the United States has become increasingly toxic. Vertiginous headlines, crude online commentary and vitriolic partisanship have all introduced an unexpected instability to our lives. Our democracy seems less stable, our political discourse less civil, our futures less certain than we thought.

Following the news every day takes an emotional toll on us.

But studying history can help. Immersing ourselves in the past and studying how the world has changed over time gives us perspective. It teaches us the limitations of our own views. It warns us. It gives us hope.

By expanding our narrow ken, history reminds us that people have struggled before – sometimes more painfully than we could possibly imagine. Ours is just a small chapter in a much larger tale.

This is not to minimize our problems. We should absolutely be worried about the state of affairs, both foreign and domestic, particularly about global warming, which poses an existential threat to our planet. But history helps us stay out of the news-feed trap, which tethers our happiness to every headline. It

helps us focus on the issues that matter.

By extension, history helps us see the limits of our own perspective. Most of the students on campus are part of a post-9/11 generation, a generation that grew up in the shadow of terrorism and two American-led wars in the Middle East, a generation that matured under a socially liberal Obama administration and voted for the first time in one of the most contentious elections in memory. These experiences shape how we see the world and what we assume to be normal.

Anthony Pirrotti During the past 16 years, we have been inured to believe that a state of ongoing warfare is natural, that aggressive executive actions are acceptable if we agree with their intended outcome, that covert drone strikes and government spying are necessary means to secure public safety. These assumptions may or may not be correct, but history reminds us that these ideas are relatively new. And before we can decide whether to accept them, we must recognize that our internalized assumptions exist.

Understanding these assumptions helps us better appreciate why democracies are so fragile. It is easy to assume that voting is enough; our political system can run on autopilot and we will eventually work things out. But history warns us of the need to be vigilant. The lack of meaningful civic engagement, the acceptance of cronyism and corruption, and the spread of

propaganda all help to erode democratic institutions.

Perhaps even more importantly, though, history warns us that truth matters. In the past decade, we have seen a public assault on rationality itself – not just specific facts and figures, but on the very ability to know facts and figures at all.

Intellectuals who have spent decades learning and studying and honing their expertise have been dismissed in favor of those who embrace, almost gleefully, their ignorance and disdain for knowledge. The lines between truth, opinion and outright falsehood have been so blurred, we seem to be questioning whether reality itself exists.

Finally, history gives us hope. Sometimes it seems like history books and the news are dominated by the big players: kings and presidents, armies and battles, elections and coups. But real progress happens on the sidelines: parents raising children, teachers teaching, scientists testing, students studying, engineers designing, workers building – good people doing good things, little by little, one day at a time. This is where real progress is made.

None of this means we should stop caring about what is happening in the news. Nor does it mean we should stop being engaged citizens. But it does mean that we can keep our perspective by putting our individual contributions to history in context.

Do not get caught up in the headlines: focus on the big picture, the things that matter. Progress depends on people living and working and contributing positively every day. Focus on doing good. After all, the world needs you.

Anthony Pirrotti is an associate dean at the School of Foreign Service.

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Advocate Criticizes Lack of Contraceptive Coverage EMMA KOTFICA Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown students should have access to contraception under their university insurance, Sandra Fluke (LAW ’12), a reproductive justice advocate, said at an address in Healy Hall yesterday, The university’s insurance plan for students does not currently cover students’ access to contraception for the purpose of birth control. According to Fluke, the university is preventing students from accessing a resource that they pay for.

“The university is putting restrictions on what your insurance can cover even though they don’t pay for it.”

SANDRA FLUKE (LAW ’12) Advocate

“The university is putting restrictions on what your insurance can cover, even though they don’t even pay for it,” Fluke said.

Fluke has advocated for students’ reproductive coverage in various capacities as a student and an alumna, most notably appearing before Democratic Congressional representatives in February 2012 to advocate for increased student contraceptive coverage.

After the appearance, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” and criticized her promotion of birth control coverage.

Fluke said she could have argued against Limbaugh’s comment, but decided not to do so in order to defend all women.

“It doesn’t matter who you’ve been with or how long you’ve been with a person, you don’t get to be called a slut in the public press because you talked

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Sandra Fluke (LAW ’12) said Georgetown students should have better access to contraception during the first event in H*yas for Choice’s Choice Week, which was co-sponsored by Lecture Fund, the College Democrats, United Feminists and Georgetown University Student Association. about birth control policy,” Fluke said. “We wanted to make sure that we were standing up for all women, no matter their circumstances, rather than litigating this about my own personal life, because it’s not relevant.”

The event, the first in H*yas for Choice’s annual Choice Week, was co-sponsored by Lecture Fund, Georgetown University College Democrats, feminist advocacy group United Feminists and the Georgetown University Student Association.

According to Fluke, repro-

ductive justice encompasses not only legal barriers, but also economic barriers.

“That means that our reproductive health issues are addressed, so that there is not some sort of challenge that means that we’re not able to have children physically, that there are not legal barriers saying that since you’re a gay couple you are not allowed to, that there are not economic barriers so that you cannot afford to have an abortion,” Fluke said.

Fluke said reproductive health is an issue that affects people from a diverse

array of backgrounds.

“We tried to use a reproductive justice framework as we made those decisions. One of the reasons that I believe in and I am so committed to the reproductive justice framework is because it actually allows us to broaden our tent and bring more people into the movement,” Fluke said.

Fluke said she aims to apply the concept of intersectionality to bring the interests of groups such as Latinas for Reproductive Justice and Black Women for Wellness into the dis-

cussion of reproductive rights.

“I also try to think about who is playing the role of the spokesperson in various settings, and we need to make sure it’s not all white wealthy women who are the ones who are in the press, because that is the perception that a lot of America has,” Fluke said.

Fluke said the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s health care legislation that protects women’s access to birth control, is the best path to providing effective health care for women. On

Friday, the Republican Party failed in its attempt to repeal and replace the ACA with a new health care program that would have no longer guaranteed access to birth control.

“What I am certain of is that we are very much under a threat of legislation through Congress signed by the president that would expand on the concept of religious liberty for a whole host of things, and that would cover things like insurance for reproductive health care,” Fluke said. “The best path forward is through the ACA.”

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Metro Increases Fares in Effort to Lower Deficit Christian Paz Hoya Staff Writer

Metro fare will increase July 1 following the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board of directors’ approval of fare hikes and reduced services last Thursday.

In an effort to avoid a $1.1 billion budget deficit by 2020, Metro will increase rush hour Metrorail fares by 10 cents, making the one-way minimum fare $2.25 and the new maximum $6. Non-rush hour fares will rise 25 cents to $2.

“This is a very large system.

It hasn’t been invested in at the level we should have been investing over the years.”

Paul wiedefeld General Manager, WMATA

Metrobus fares will also increase by 25 cents. Airport bus fees will increase to $7.50.

This marks Metro’s first fare increases to its rail system in three years amid declining ridership.

In addition to the fare hikes, WMATA’s 2018 fiscal year budget of $3.1 billion proposes eliminating 14 low-traffic Metrobus lines, reducing service hours, cutting nearly 1,000 jobs and requesting additional funding from the local governments of the District, Virginia and Maryland.

Trains running during

rush hour will now be scheduled to run every eight minutes at the end of the line instead of the current six minutes.

Additionally, Metro plans to cut hours of operation every day of the week starting in July, with train stations open from 5 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, open from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and operating from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday. Currently, the Metro begins services at 5 a.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. on weekends, closing at midnight every day.

The 2017-18 fiscal year was marked by declining ridership revenue from Metrorail and Metrobus, which makes up over 89 percent of total revenue.

Total Metrorail ridership is projected to reach 177.1 million trips in 2017-18, a 13 percent decrease from the 2016-17 projection of 203.5 million trips. Total Metrobus ridership is projected to reach 115.2 million trips, down 15 percent from 135.6 million trips in 2016-17.

According to WMATA General Manager Paul Wiedefeld, these projections demonstrate customer dissatisfaction. Wiedefeld attributed the decline in ridership to the system’s “safety surges,” scheduled outages on the rail system during intense maintenance. WMATA plans to complete three years’ worth of renovations in one year.

The series of safety-related incidents on Metrorail is also a reason for declining ridership, according to Widefeld.

Specifically, WMATA has recorded an uptick in crimes committed on trains, with a security report presented to the Metro board Dec. 1, recording 5.4 crimes for every million riders, in addition

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Rush hour fares on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authory will increase July 1 by 10 cents to a minimum of $2.25, as WMATA seeks avoid a $1.1 billion budget deficit by 2020. to delays and malfunctions caused by old tracks or train cars over the past few years.

At a press conference last Thursday, Wiedefeld explained that the financial situation he inherited has made repairs and renovations difficult.

“When I came on board, my focus was on service and the safety issues and that’s what I was doing,” Wiedefeld said. “This is a very large system. It hasn’t been invested in at the level we should have been investing over the years.”

The decision has been met with resistance from local businesses and pro-growth organizations, which focus on walkable and transit-oriented cities, concerned that

the Metro board’s decision will further reduce ridership and ultimately drive the utility out of business.

The Metro board defends the changes as necessary to sustain WMATA in the longrun and avoid a nearly $300 million budget shortfall for this year alone.

The Coalition for Smarter Growth, a pro-growth group, argues for a more Metro funding from the local governments that rely on WMATA, such the District of Columbia, Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax County, Fairfax City and Falls Church.

According to Coalition for Smarter Growth Deputy Director Aimee Custis, since the budget is not decided by elected officials, WMATA

has competing obligations to both Metro riders and the board members’ individual jurisdictions.

Custis said the leading alternative to funding Metro could be a regional sales tax.

Still, Wiedefeld said this approach is necessary for long-run stability in Washington and the surrounding metropolitan region.

“What this system means to the region into the future is huge,” Wiedefeld said March 23. “A lot of the focus has been on the here and now and we have to continue to do that, but we also have to think about what this system means for this region and the economy and the mobility of this region.”

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Student Association President Kamar Mack (COL ’19) said many students rely on WMATA being an affordable resource and GUSA is working on efforts to maintain accessibility.

“When students do use public transportation, they primarily utilize the routes that are closer to downtown D.C., which are less likely to be cut due to high ridership,” Mack wrote in an email to The Hoya. “GUSA, in conjunction with the university, has recently added Saturday GUTS routes, and we are also in talks with WMATA to push for a weekend student pass on the Metro, as well as looking into further GUTS improvements.”

Candidate Advocates Virginia State Values Candidate urges local action against Trump Gaia Mattiace Hoya Staff Writer

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Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan (COL ’83), left, participated in a discussion moderated

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Journalists Urge Increased Trump-Era Responsibility Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writer

Foreign correspondents have a greater responsibility in light of President Donald Trump’s administration and growing conflict around the world, said Anne Garrels, former senior foreign correspondent at NPR, and Mary Jordan (COL ’83), a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, in a panel discussion at the Mortara Center for International Studies on Monday.

“When the president of the United States stands up and says that we are the enemy of the people, it energizes you in a different way. It’s a particularly important time for foreign news,” Jordan said. “I think people get that there’s an appetite for global news.

Worldwide, people are hungry for more information.”

Ned Price (SFS ’05), who was the special assistant to former President Barack Obama, moderated the panel. The panel was hosted by the Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by The Hoya.

According to Garrels, increasing numbers of long-term military commitments, such as the Iraq War, conflicts in the Middle East and tensions between Russia and Ukraine, have raised the stakes for foreign correspondents.

“When I covered Central America, we walked around with T-shirts on that said, ‘Don’t shoot, I’m a journalist,’ with some confidence that actually that would work,” Garrels said. “It has become much more dangerous around the world for foreign correspondents.”

Garrels, who is a member of the nonprofit journalist advocacy group Committee to Protect Journalists, said Trump’s administration poses a threat to journalists.

The Trump administration barred several media outlets, including The New York Times and the BBC, from a press conference Feb. 24.

“I’m also on the Committee to Protect Journalists, we are really worried about the fate of journalists,” Garrels said. “Apart from creating an animosity against the mainstream press, I’m concerned that they’re going to go after leakers and journalists.”

Garrels said the role of a foreign correspondent has evolved as a result of the internet.

“We are no longer needed as an impartial witness by both sides because they can go online and they can do their own public relations. That’s what we’ve seen with ISIS,” Garrels said. “We are really more valuable now either as a source of income because we’ve been kidnapped, or dead.”

Jordan, who also served as a foreign correspondent for 14 years, said it is imperative now more than ever that foreign correspondents relay the truth about the news as it is unfolding on the ground, given the rise of sources such as Twitter that can have unverified information.

“I think being a foreign correspondent is arguably more important now than ever,” Jordan said. “There’s no substitute for eyes on the ground, there’s no substitute for smart minds on the ground, especially in the era where there’s

skewed news, fake news or just misinformation.”

According to Price, in the age of the internet, news organizations must make a concerted effort to separate fake or biased stories from the real news.

“We need to be cognizant that not everything that is labeled as fake news truly is,” Price said. “Lately we’ve seen a trend where, especially from this administration, fake news is the moniker they apply to everything they disagree with. I think we have to be careful to differentiate what is actual fake news and what the far left or the far right is pushing out intentionally to mislead the public.”

Jordan said technology has allowed foreign correspondents to expand their coverage, especially in zones traditionally not journalist-friendly.

“Our person in North Korea got in and had tens of thousands of people on Facebook Live; people hungry for a look at North Korea,” Jordan said.

“Technology I think is fantastic. It is expanding exponentially the numbers of people and the kinds of people we are reaching. In the older days, you’d bring a camera into a difficult place and it was easy to spot. But now, the phone is just bringing you places.”

Garrels warned that technology, while beneficial, opens up a new series of challenges.

“There’s a downside to this, I think, now in terms of 24hour news we can get access to everybody. You can have an awful lot of blah-blah that is deceptive,” Garrels said. “It just makes it all much easier to have fake news too.”

The next governor of Virginia must protect the state’s local values and resist President Donald Trump’s federal policies when necessary, argued Tom Perriello, a Democratic Party candidate for Virginia’s governorship Monday night.

Speaking at an event sponsored by the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Institute of Politics and Public Service in Old North last night, Perriello explained his campaign platform and the political climate.

Perriello stressed the importance of maintaining Virginia’s values in the face of the new administration.

“There rests a moral and constitutional obligation on the governor to look at the legal means available for noncompliance,” Perriello said.

Virginia is one of only two states that will hold offyear elections, taking place in 2017. Perriello, who is the former U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 5th district, is currently running a primary campaign against Democrat Ralph Northam, the lieutenant governor of Virginia.

“I am very confident that the campaign we have put together would give the Democrats the best chance to win.”

Tom perriello (D-Va.) Gubernatorial Candidate

“Virginia is often seen as a very important state that is a bellwether for getting a sense of what the broader electorate thinks a year into the president’s term,” Perriello said. “It is a way that we can sort of sense where things are going, or are likely to go, in the midterm elections in 2018.”

Michael Shear, The New York Times’ White House correspondent who moderated the discussion, said Perriello

faces some opposition from other members of the Democratic Party.

“You want to be the next Democratic governor of Virginia, the current Democratic governor wants someone else, the former Democratic governor of Virginia wants someone else, the one before that wants someone else, all the state delegates and state senators of Virginia want someone else,” Shear said.

Perriello said he would have potentially received more support if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016.

However, Perriello said he now feels he has a strong chance for Virginia’s Democrats to win the gubernatorial seat.

“As someone who cares a great deal about Virginia politics, I wasn’t going to look at an election that determined the next 10 years or generation of politics in Virginia and allow Democrats to have less than the best chance we could,” Perriello said. “I am very confident that the campaign we have put together would give Democrats the best chance to win.”

According to Perriello, establishment Democrats were slow to realize Trump’s chances of winning the election. He said he can bring a more nuanced view of the Trump administration’s policies.

“This was a much bigger deal in our country than some change to Ds to Rs, this is an actual threat to our deepest values and institutions in a way that has become clear in the way President Trump is governing,” Perriello said.

Perriello said the country continues to face an unemployment problem and persistent racism.

“Trump is not the creator of those dynamics, he is the result of those dynamics,” Perriello said. “I believe that my state of Virginia is actually the forefront of pushing against this and I believe that if we run the type of campaign that is bold about that, we can think bigger than just winning a governor’s seat.”

After House Republicans halted a repeal of the Affordable Care Act last Friday because of a lack of support,

Perriello said Democrats have an opportunity to cooperate with Republicans at the state level. This is because Republican plans in the federal government have mostly sought to shift the burden of health care from the federal government to state and local governments.

“Virginia is often seen as a very important state that is a bellwether for getting a sense of what the broader electorate thinks a year into the president’s term.”

Tom perriello (D-Va.) Gubernatorial Candidate

“One of the several divisions that developed in this was the realization of many Republicans at the state level that Republicans in Congress were going to throw them under the bus,” Perriello said. “It is pretty clear that they were shifting the tough decisions to Richmond and other capitals around the country.”

Perriello said if Democrats are able to cultivate the desire for change that can be seen in social movements taking place against the Trump administration in their political campaigns, they may be able to regain majorities in a significant manner.

“The movement that has responded to the Trump administration is a genuinely diverse, pluralistic and progressive movement in a way that I haven’t seen in my lifetime,” Perriello said. “If we can combine that with campaigns that actually understand this moment, we will actually see transformations and breakthroughs over the next two years that will put us in a position to see Trump’s election not as the beginning of an unraveling, but as the last gasp of a dying, racist ideology.”

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BRAVE Aims to Spark Dialogue Congress Looks Bowser speaks against mistreatment of female candidates

BRAVE, from A1 #BlackLivesMatter, focused on how black women are often excluded from conversations around police violence and the role they are playing in the movement, while the afternoon panel A Seat at the Political Table advocated black women’s involvement in politics.

The District faces a series of challenges as it becomes gentrified, Bowser said in her keynote address, which was sponsored by GU Women of Color and the Lecture Fund.

“People often ask me, ‘Why is it important?’ or, ‘What do you see as your role as mayor right now?’ and I think I have a special role in Washington right now because I stand in the middle of the Washington that I grew up in and the Washington that our city is becoming,” Bowser said.

Bowser said the District must make a concerted effort to ensure the city addresses inequality as it modernizes.

“If we’re going to be a city like the one that I grew up with, and was richly diverse, the government has to be intentional and focused on how we can maintain our diversity,” Bowser said. “We have been focused on affordable housing, for example, investing $100 million each and every year in government funding to create more affordable housing units. We’ve been focused on ending homelessness in the District of Columbia as well.”

Donald Trump’s presidency poses a threat to women, Bowser said in reference to the tape of

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Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) spoke against the treatment of women in political campaigns in the keynote address at the second annual BRAVE summit Saturday.

Trump’s remarks about his treatment of women that was leaked during the campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“Women in a lot of ways felt threatened or attacked following those days,” Bowser said. “First of all, you had a woman who almost became president, and many of us were

concerned with Secretary Clinton’s loss that women would see the negativity in the campaign, they would see how tough the press is with female candidates, they would see that she had to almost be perfect and they would stop aspiring to office.”

Bowser said women are held to a higher standard than men when running

for elected office.

“I know and I’ve always recognized in my five campaigns, and certainly it was on display in the most recent presidential election, that women are more often, more wrongly and more harshly criticized for the work that they do in office — by men and by women,” Bowser said.

Congress to be working on local issues in Washington, D.C., but to be working on the issues for Virginia.”

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who represents D.C. as a nonvoting delegate in Congress, criticized Garrett for his proposal the day after it was introduced.

“Wherever his constituents stand on guns, it is hard to believe that they would prefer their representative, who has only introduced three prior bills, devote time to interfering with another Member’s district, rather than focus on their needs,” Norton wrote in a March 16 press release.

When asked about tensions between congressional members and District leaders, Allen recalled the recent increase in proposed legislation pertaining to D.C., health care and homeland security.

In February, the House’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a formal markup of disapproval of D.C.’s Death With Dignity Act, the fourth time Congress has voted down a D.C. law since the passing of the Home Rule Act of 1973. Despite this, the bill became law because neither a full House nor Senate voted down the act within the allotted 30day review period.

In response, Allen launched the Hands Off D.C. initiative, which organizes District residents and leaders to resist federal interven-

tion in District policies.

“Our message to him is the same as it is to any member of Congress wanting to try to write our local laws, and that is they should keep their hands off D.C. and focus on their own districts,” Allen said.

“It can be resolved.

The most straightforward way would be for the District to become a state.”

CHARLES ALLEN (D-Ward 6) D.C. Councilmember

Allen added that a possible solution would be to grant the District statehood. Holmes Norton introduced legislation in the House on March 1 to make D.C. the 51st state.

“It can be resolved,” Allen said. “The most straightforward way would be for the District to become a state. If we had statehood, then we would have representation in Congress, and members of Congress from whether it’s Virginia, Utah, Florida or wherever wouldn’t be trying to interfere with local legislation and local budgets.”

According to Allen, hundreds of D.C. citizens plan on marching to the Capitol this Friday in a demonstration to send a message to members of Congress to not get involved in local legislation.

Khan, Fisk Reflect on Shared Progress, Challenges in Office REFLECTION, from A1 part and be able to be in the room and make important policy changes.

That is something I am really proud of, that this long list of accomplishments is reflective of a different way of engagement of administration and our being able to work with students from across campus and bring them in the room. That has a lot to do with restructuring, but also our trying to reach out to students: ‘We feel like this is your issue area, we want you in the room to speak on behalf of it.’

Fisk: The biggest personal takeaway is understanding what really constitutes leadership. That’s supporting and empowering and respecting people, because if that’s what you’re building — relationships — then everyone has room to be themselves and succeed versus kind of fighting for the limelight or power, so supporting and empowering people as the definition of leadership for me has been the biggest personal takeaway for me.

What are your biggest regrets from your term, as a collective administration and as individuals?

Khan: We would both agree that our shortcoming was something every GUSA administration has struggled with: communicating to the student body, because the general student doesn’t recognize that all this great work happened this year, and people associate GUSA with self-serving individuals who just talk but don’t actually get anything done. But this was really a year, and I am not even talking about me and Chris. There were individuals who genuinely were working day and night to make real changes happen that the student body does not associate with GUSA. There are great things happening that are impacting their daily lives, but they don’t know it was because of GUSA. That’s a struggle, because obviously we wish we communicated it better, but on the other hand, it’s tough to balance why you are doing this work in a way that’s not to make yourself look better and say look what we did, and bal-

ancing that with genuinely wanting people’s days to be better even if people don’t know we did it.

What do you see as your legacy?

Khan: Food might be associated with our administration just because it is something that GUSA did not focus on as much as it could have in past years. When it comes to smaller, under-represented communities like undocumented students, Muslim students, students of color, LGBTQ students, students in [Georgetown Scholarship Program] for example, they are communities that are not traditionally heard.

I hope they will associate our administration as one that vouched for them after years of not being vouched for.

What were your biggest surprises during your term?

How do you think you handled them?

Khan: November’s election was the biggest surprise, because when we ran there were obviously issues that were connected to things that we have advocated for before November, but not to the extent we have since November. We didn’t foresee the impact of federal action on students on our campus. We realized that, shoot, this does change a lot of what we have to work on this year, and suddenly we found ourselves diving even more into those issues of inclusivity. How do we make sure our marginalized populations and vulnerable and literally unsafe populations are getting the resources that they need and beyond a, ‘You can come into this room and talk to this person,’ but rather ‘OK, this person needs legal services. Are you going to provide them for free? Are you going to provide housing if they can’t go home?’

These are all things we did behind closed doors, because the nature of this is something that should not be on Breitbart but rather things that we recognize should be internal conversations. We could protect those students before anything else. That is something that again we had to give up the communication part to make sure

that people were literally safe.

What is the biggest challenge GUSA President Kamar Mack and Vice President Jessica Andino face entering office and the biggest thing they have working in their favor?

Khan: One advantage is the structure. They’ve inherited a structure that clearly worked, if you ask us, and based on how the senate voted, they tended to agree with that. They’re inheriting a really good structure that will allow for this to be continued. It has institutionalized other voices being in the room, which is why we’re really happy with the structure that we have. They will inherit relationships that GUSA has built and strengthened over this past year that either did not exist before or were very weak in the past.

Jessica was a member of the cabinet, and has experience working through an issue area that succeeded.

Her having an understanding of the structure also helps there. In terms of things that they will have to struggle with and work through, it’s a bigger GUSA now, having to work with more people and having

to be patient because there are going to be different opinions and there are going to be clashing opinions.

We had a positive relationship with the senate, but because the senate is still trying to figure out what they are and what their purpose is on campus, I could foresee there being some tension, similar to how there was in past years.

You had one of the largest GUSA executive branches in recent memory with the new policy teams. Did they prove effective? What is the right way to create a more inclusive and diverse GUSA? Fisk: When we were underclassmen, GUSA was an exclusive nebulous group of people. You didn’t know what they did, and you were pretty darn sure there were like 10 people in there. If you weren’t friends with someone who was in GUSA, you had a hard time participating in that process. By making it so that any student can contribute, offer their thoughts and ideas, it becomes a more effective body, and it becomes a body that is better able to advocate for students, because it has a more stream-

lined process of getting their feedback and getting their contributions. We are maybe biased, but by making it easier for students to contribute, you’re making a more diversified GUSA. You’re making a GUSA that advocates on behalf of the most students of very different backgrounds.

What are your plans for after Georgetown?

Khan: We’re both hired.

How awkward would it be if we weren’t? I’ll be going back to New York. At this point, I can say that my visa is in a good enough place; I can say that it renewed over spring break. So I am hopefully going to be in New York at Goldman Sachs. I’ve switched over to the investment banking side from merchant banking, which is where I was this summer.

Fisk: I’ll be doing Teach for America in Miami-Dade, in the community that was so important in getting me here. I’ll be working on getting a master’s at the same time.

How has GUSA changed your perception of or feelings toward Georgetown?

Khan: I’ve learned what it means to be a leader and to be empathetic, especial-

ly this year, having to be in the position that I was, learning about what the needs of others are with no prejudgment, with no personal stake, with no, ‘This is what I think you want so therefore this is what you should want.’ But being sensitive to people’s issues and taking them as seriously as they feel they are, and really feeling their pains and frustrations, and using that as fuel to get things done.

In the process, I learned about empathy and understanding other people’s experiences that maybe don’t apply to me, but recognizing that they are just as valid. Empathy has been a big part of it.

On the leadership side, I learned what it means to be a woman in leadership and how my gender has influenced my own style of leadership, and how I’ve tried to change certain things and recognizing the gender factor, the color factor, all of that. To all of that, I’ve personally learned that empowering other people is an incredibly effective way of leadership and being humble and recognizing that you don’t know everything is crucial to outcome.

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Former GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17), left, and former GUSA Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17), left office March 18, after winning the first GUSA election to have one official ticket in February 2016.

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Hacking for Defense Course Less Than Half of New Launches at Georgetown Club Applications Accepted Students learning hands-on approach

Yasmine Salam

Patricja Okuniewska

Twelve new clubs launched this semester, with the Student Activities Commission approving fewer than 50 percent of the 34 student groups that applied this semester for university recognition.

The clubs, including the Hong Kong Student Association, Lebanese Student Association and Hoya Teahouse, join over 300 student groups on campus. These groups now enter into the new club development process, which provides them with a budget, and the ability to use the Georgetown name and to book physical space on campus.

In previous semesters, the application process was similarly competitive. Of the 26 applicants last spring, only 11 were accepted. Last fall, 29 clubs applied and 16 were accepted.

In order to apply for recognition as a new student organization, members must attend one of three information sessions offered by the Student Activities Commission.

According to Council of Advisory Boards Chair Janhvi Bhojwani (SFS ’18), SAC’s application review process is extensive. There are three possible outcomes after a weekend of application review. The applicant can be approved, rejected or receive a request for a presentation.

Bhojwani said a presentation is simply SAC requesting more information, meaning the applicant will meet with SAC leadership to discuss their organization or address any questions.

Groups that are rejected can also appeal the decision to SAC. Despite existing for more than a year and a half, raising thousands of dollars and having plans to expand to 10 different college campuses by the end of the month, Unsung Heroes lacks the status necessary to be officially recognized by Georgetown University.

The initiative was denied recognition by the Student Activities Commission, even after a subsequent appeal. Febin Bellamy (MSB ’17), who founded Unsung Heroes in Spring 2015 to highlight the stories and voices of Georgetown employees, has found himself featured in The Washington Post, CNN and NBC News for his efforts.

Hoya Staff Writer

Twenty-one graduate students are participating in a new “Hacking for Defense” course this semester to find solutions to the country’s national security problems using handson approaches.

The course, which is the first of its kind at Georgetown, allows groups of three-to-five students to tackle projects such as adapting facial recognition software to identify terrorists in crowds. It is sponsored by MD5, a public-private partnership between the Department of Defense and research universities launched October 2016 to facilitate defense education.

“Hacking for Defense” is modeled after programs at other universities, including Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh. It uses Lean Launchpad Method, an interdisciplinary approach merging business, entrepreneurship and security concepts to address current issues within the U.S. military, government and private organizations.

School of Foreign Service Center for Security Studies Director Bruce Hoffman praised the course as cutting-edge and innovative.

“It completely embodies the theory and practice ethos that is at the heart of the School of Foreign Service’s mission and perfectly encapsulates the Security Studies Program’s mission of producing a new generation of analysts, policymakers and scholars fully knowledgeable about the range of international and national security problems and foreign policy issues of the 21st century,” Hoffman wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Two-time defense industry CEO Chris Taylor and the U.S. Army Cyber Command Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives Matt Zais serve as co-instructors of “Hacking for Defense.”

Also contributing to the teaching team are military liaisons, mentors, advisers and research assistants.

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The Security Studies Program launched Georgetown’s first Hacking for Defense course for graduate students.

Paige Tsiumis (GRD ’17), a master’s candidate in the SFS Security Studies Program and a research assistant for the course, said students are responsible for watching lectures online before attending classes on Monday nights.

The classes are also live streamed on Facebook for the public.

Students present on their weekly accomplishments, including the results of their minimum 10 weekly interviews conducted to contribute to their projects.

“The class is structured in a way to provide students with a simulated experience of working within the chaos of the startup culture, but gearing entrepreneurship skills towards finding solutions for problems facing the U.S. Government,” Tsiumis said. “The class is set up in a flipped style, where much of the student learning is done outside of the classroom.”

Donna Artusy (GRD ’17), a graduate student in the Security Studies Program and another research assistant for the course, said students play a large role in how the class is designed.

“Students have a great

deal of input into the course. Their weekly presentations bring up constructive feedback from the professors, Christopher Taylor and Matt Zais, who are able to lend both insight and suggestions into what students may or may not need to work on in order to improve their presentations to outside sponsors and mentors,” Artusy said.

The course requires an application process, in which applicants indicate what projects they are interested in working on.

Alexander Kravets (GRD ’18), a student in the Security Studies Program, is working on a project on neutralizing Group 1 Unmanned Aerial Systems.

Kravets said he decided to take H4D to get a crash course in defense innovation.

“The experience has been extremely positive,” Kravetz wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The most compelling aspect of the course has been getting to meet and work with people throughout DoD, at all levels, who are dedicated to solving critical problems in pursuit of making America stronger and safer.”

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Bellamy said he had hoped to get club status to facilitate the creation of chapters in other universities across the country.

“We want to do this because that is how we can create chapters, but also because it allows us to get funding and to have access to other benefits on campus,” Bellamy said. “It also allows to create a longer lasting impression on the campus.”

One of the recently accepted groups, the Hong Kong Student Association, had to go through the appeal process not once, but twice.

Hong Kong Student Association founder Joanne Lai (MSB ’19) said the club had to thoroughly convince SAC that they would cater to enough of the student population on campus.

“They were concerned there was not a large enough audience, and the sustainability of our club, so we had really had to show that there is a lot of interest about Hong Kong on campus,” Lai said. “We showed them that there is a good amount of people from the Hong Kong area, and the MSB program in Hong Kong has almost doubled in size over the past three years.”

When the Lebanese Student Association applied to become a new club, Co-President Tala Anchassi (SFS ’18) said they had to highlight that no current student group was catering to their needs.

“There is another cultural club that might represent the Arab culture, but we saw that the way the university academics is set up, it really fosters this stereotypical view of the Middle East,” Anchassi said. “You don’t really see the differences of cultures broken down, so because of that we really wanted to break this view and provide our interest and perspective to the people who are interested.”

Bhojwani said duplicity is the main obstacle new groups often face when trying to become officially recognized by the university.

“As a school that already has many different organizations, oftentimes we have clubs that are already doing whatever a new student is trying to propose — maybe not in the same scale or structure that the student is proposing, but it already exists on campus,” Bhojwani said. “We are unable to accept these groups into

the new club development process because these spaces already exist and are active on campus.”

Co-President of LSA Layla Najjar (SFS ’18) said the process of creating a new student club is more complex and involved than the group originally thought.

“It was much more of a bureaucratic process than we thought,” Najjar said. “Georgetown is very much initially open to having you start your organizations, but you really have to work for it.”

Hoya Teahouse Founder Alison Hsu (MSB ’19) said the purpose of the club is to bring students from different cultures together through a shared appreciation of tea.

“I came to Georgetown as an international student expecting there to be a really diverse student body, and after coming here I saw all the presence of student cultural groups, but I didn’t really see a platform for all of the students from different cultural backgrounds to interact with each other,” Hsu said. “My vision is to have people interact with each other through tea. It is something that every culture shares, but ended up being developed into a very different culture in each culture’s perspective.”

To showcase international cultures and traditions, Hsu said Hoya Teahouse plans to host traditional tea performances in the future.

“We are planning to have our first tea performance in April.

Just like a dance performance where people dance and show the move, tea performance is where people pour tea and show the move too,” Hsu said.

“It is combination of tea-ism and zen: basically letting go of a lot unnecessary trouble, a lot of doubt in your life, but you are focusing on that cup of tea and drinking it.”

While this semester will conclude with Unsung Heroes still lacking the official recognition that provides clubs with funding to operate, Bellamy said rejection has not prevented Unsung Heroes from thriving on campus.

“It doesn’t really inhibit us from doing anything on campus, because we have never been in a club on campus until now — it has always been a student initiative,” Bellamy said “It is huge to have that recognition on campus, but we have been fortunate enough to be able to operate without it.”

H*yas for Choice Launches 5th Annual Choice Week Hannah Urtz Hoya Staff Writer

H*yas for Choice began its fifth annual Choice Week yesterday, aiming to cultivate a sex-positive culture on campus through a series of discussions throughout the week.

The events for this week include talks from women’s rights attorney and Georgetown Law graduate Sandra Fluke (LAW ’12), who testified to House Oversight Committee Democrats in 2012 on the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act.

“If these events are not put on by students, they will not happen at all. That’s disappointing.”

EMILY stephens (SFS ’17) Co-President, H*yas for Choice

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Inc. CEO Laura Meyers will speak on the impact of President Donald Trump’s election on the organization Tuesday, while Casa Latina is hosting an event on reproductive justice in the Latinx community.

“This year more than ever, we feel having events that destigmatize abortion, emphasize the intersecting identities of Georgetown community members, and create optimism in the face of virulently anti-choice politics and state-sanctioned hatred is imperative to creating supportive, compassionate, and inspired com-

munities,” HFC said in a statement sent to The Hoya.

While the speakers and larger themes vary from year to year, according to H*yas for Choice Co-President Emily Stephens (SFS ’17), the Abortion Story Share-Out has been a foundational component of Choice Week since its inception. In the share-out, HFC members read stories of experiences with abortion submitted anonymously by members of the Georgetown community.

According to Stephens, the event is inspired by the 1 in 3 Campaign, in reference to the statistic that one in three women has an abortion at some point in her life.

“The only way to reduce the stigma surrounding abortion is to talk about it openly, and we hope reading these stories will empower other students to speak up about their own experiences, and inspire everyone to continue advocating for safe, legal, and accessible abortion,” Stephens wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Stephens said Choice Week events are designed to create a comfortable and inclusive environment.

“Our abortion story share is typically a more intimate affair, and our event on Thursday is also deliberately small, to hold space for people in the Latinx community who wrestle with their Catholic/Christian identity and reproductive justice issues, to share their views in a small, community setting,” Stephens wrote.

Stephens said Choice Week allows students to participate in dialogue around issues often overlooked by the university administration.

“If these events are not put on by students, they will not happen at all,” Stephens said.

“That’s disappointing and unfortunate, because the vast majority of students on cam-

pus are pro-choice and pro-reproductive justice, and their views are not represented by the Georgetown administration. We fill in that gap.”

Kate Toner (NHS ’20), who is a member of H*yas for Choice, said the week is an opportunity for students to increase their awareness on the dialogue surrounding health issues.

“Choice Week is integral in destigmatizing a lot of issues that are becoming increasingly more relevant and important, especially in the context of our newly elected government,” Toner said. “As of now there is a lot of public contempt toward abortion, but I think if people hear the personal reasoning behind why a woman chooses to get an abortion, it could create a more supportive culture and decrease those negative feelings.”

ALLIE FREI FOR THE HOYA

H*yas for Choice launched its annual Choice Week on Monday, which seeks to create a sex-positive culture on campus through a series of discussions and events throughout the week.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017

SOFTBALL

Coach Options Emerge Hoyas Drop 1st Home Series W

ith the news of John Thompson III’s firing, the next step in bringing Georgetown men’s basketball back to prominence is hiring his successor. While the NCAA Tournament is still going, the college head coach carousel is well underway among teams not playing for the championship.

Indiana University recently announced the hiring of Dayton University’s Archie Miller as its new head coach, replacing the fired Tom Crean. With the Indiana job filled, the Georgetown position is one of the most attractive options open right now, leaving the Georgetown administration plenty of options to choose from.

TOMMY AMAKER Tommy Amaker was one of the first names that popped up following Thompson’s firing. The Falls Church native is currently the head coach at Harvard University, with previous stops at Michigan and Seton Hall. Amaker started out as a point guard at Duke University, coached

by Mike Krzyzewski, and then joined Coach K’s staff as a graduate assistant after he graduated.

MIKE BREY On paper, Brey seems like a great fit for Georgetown.

Coming from a similar, elite academic institution at Notre Dame, Brey has had a lot of success recently, with Notre Dame winning the ACC Tournament and getting a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament this season.

Brey is a Washington, D.C. native, attending high school at DeMatha Catholic in Maryland and graduating from The George Washington University. To add to the intrigue, Brey’s top assistant coach, Anthony Solomon, left his staff for Georgetown last season.

Brey carries an exceptional coaching pedigree with him, coming from the Mike Krzyzewski coaching tree, having been an assistant coach for him from 1987-1995. His leaving the established program at Notre Dame, a similar academic institution in a superior basketball conference, for a diminished Georgetown basketball program that is projected to experience a significant amount of upheaval in the short term is tough to see.

However, Notre Dame has recently been noncommittal on building a practice facility for the basketball team, while Georgetown just built the state-of-the-art, $65 million Thompson Athletic Center.

In 2016, Brey netted $1.7 million, so Georgetown may be able to entice the D.C. native to come home with a hefty salary raise.

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On paper, Brey, a D.C. native, seems like a great fit for Georgetown, coming from a similar elite academic institution at Notre Dame.

Like Thompson did before he came to Georgetown, Amaker has experienced success at an Ivy League school and has shown he can recruit well.

Amaker is represented by David Falk, who is also the agent for the Thompsons, along with several notable Georgetown alumni in the NBA. One mark against Amaker is the minor recruiting violations that Harvard has committed during Amaker’s tenure. In the summer of 2010, the NCAA ruled that Amaker committed recruiting violations in 2008, resulting in NCAA-mandated recruiting restrictions, the university’s first NCAA penalty of the men’s basketball program.

Recruiting slip-ups aside, Amaker has brought a level of success to Harvard basketball that the program has never seen before. The 2012-13 team gave Harvard its first NCAA tournament victory and the 2013-14 team posted a record 27 wins.

Harvard has taken a step back in recent years due to a university-wide cheat-

ing scandal that saw two senior co-captains leave the team before the 201213 season. For a university that emphasizes running a clean program, it would be interesting to see if Georgetown would hire a coach who has a history of academic and recruiting violations.

PATRICK EWING During a recent appearance on the Dan Patrick Show, Patrick Ewing stated his support for Thompson, but when asked if he would consider taking the job if Thompson leaves, he kept an open mind.

“If they call, if something happens and they call, I would listen, but my goal is to be a head coach in the NBA. But I would definitely listen to what they have to say,” Ewing said.

For some, hiring Patrick Ewing — arguably the greatest player in Georgetown basketball history — would signify a return to the glory days. For others, bringing Ewing would mean that Georgetown is not ready to fully depart from the Thompson family era.

Hiring Ewing would bring a lot more questions than answers. Ewing has been an NBA assistant coach for 15 years and has no college coaching experience. He has stated his desire to be an NBA coach several times, and has interviewed for multiple NBA head coaching vacancies in recent years.

It could very well be that Georgetown decides to hire Ewing as a way to maintain the connection with the Thompson family, and as a way to excite the fans by bringing back an all-time great Georgetown player to help resurrect the program that he helped bring to national prominence. However, hiring Ewing as head coach of Georgetown basketball could be a risk given Ewing’s dreams of being an NBA coach. Georgetown should think very carefully before bringing back its prodigal son to help put Georgetown back atop the Big East and into the national conversation.

OLIVIA CALLIS

Special to The Hoya

Beginning conference play for the season, the Georgetown softball team hosted the Creighton Bluejays at Guy Mason Field this weekend, dropping two of the three games in the series.

The series remained split after Georgetown (8-19, 1-2 Big East) took the first Saturday game with a 5-2 victory, and Creighton (11-17, 2-1 Big East) rallied to win the second game 11-6.

“Sports is all about momentum and setting the tone,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said.

“Creighton did that in my Game 2. It is very difficult to come back from a 5-0 deficit.

When a team takes a commanding early lead it takes the wind out of your sails which was unfortunate seeing that we had just won Game 1.”

Entering Sunday’s finale, both teams had the chance to clinch the series. In a tight game, the Bluejays scored in the last two innings and won 3-2.

Freshman pitcher Anna Brooks Pacha started things on the mound for the Hoyas at the series opener, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out 10 batters in the seven

innings she pitched. Georgetown took an early lead at the bottom of the first inning with runs by sophomore infielder Mallory Belknap and junior outfielder Theresa Kane.

Due to Georgetown’s offensive showing in the third inning, Creighton’s two runs in the top of the seventh inning were not enough to chip at Georgetown’s lead. Pacha again made her pitching presence known, keeping the Bluejays in to their two runs.

Senior outfielder Hannah Ramsey’s efforts led the Blue and Gray offensively, as she wrapped up the Hoyas’ victory with two hits.

In a rematch later that day, Georgetown failed to repeat its successful first game, falling to Creighton 11-6. Building momentum early on, the Bluejays kicked off the first inning with five runs. Freshman pitcher Katie Vannicola got the start on the rubber for Georgetown in the second matchup, allowing eight runs on nine hits.

Freshman pitcher Casey Kozak took over in the circle for Georgetown in the fourth inning, but Creighton managed to score in the second, third, fifth and seventh innings.

Georgetown managed to fight its way onto the score-

board, with two points in the first inning and sophomore first baseman Sarah Bennett scoring her fourth home run of the season in the third. Unable to overcome their scoring deficit, the Blue and Gray finished the game with six points to Creighton’s 11.

In the third game, Pacha again was the starting pitcher for the Hoyas, going seven innings and striking out nine.

Freshman outfielder Alexa Dolby scored first in the game, hitting an RBI single in the bottom of the second inning.

Entering the fourth inning tied 1-1 with Creighton, Georgetown took advantage of the opportunity to take the lead with another score from Dolby. The Bluejays rallied to score twice in the last two innings and won after Georgetown failed to tie them in the seventh inning.

“I believe if we keep the momentum and continue to play the way we did against Creighton than we will find ourselves on the side of victory more often than not,” Conlan said.

The Hoyas have another chance to capture Big East wins at home this Saturday when Providence College makes the trip for a doubleheader against Georgetown.

Aidan Curran is a junior in the McDonough School of Business.

BETWEEN THE PIPES

Ovechkin Joins Elite Club

T

he NHL season has finally reached the home stretch to the playoffs. Several teams have already clinched a spot – Washington, Minnesota, Columbus, Pittsburgh and Chicago – while others like New York, Montreal and San Jose are all but guaranteed a spot. On the other side of the equation, many teams are close to mathematical elimination: notably Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Tampa Bay. As the playoff picture is becoming clearer, some early season contenders have been experiencing serious slumps. San Jose is now on a seven-game losing streak, while the Minnesota Wild have been 3-10-0 since the trade deadline. The Washington Capitals, on the other hand, have been forced to practically play at playoff level intensity to retain their No. 1 spot in the Metropolitan. They have also been making a lot of noise as of late.

First line forward T.J. Oshie made headlines in the Capitals’ 4-2 victory over Calgary this past Tuesday, scoring his 30th goal of the season. In doing so, not only did Oshie set a personal record — being his first season ever to reach the 30 goal mark — but he also joins an elite group of only 17 players to do the same so far this season, including Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Patrick Kane. He currently is tied for the Caps’ lead in goals scorer with Alex Ovechkin.

This is good news for Os-

hie, but bad news, however, for Caps fans that are feeling bittersweet about Oshie having his best season right before becoming an unrestricted free agent this summer. With every beautiful goal, his new contract goes a few dollars further out of reach for the Capitals front office, if they seek to resign him after the playoffs.

Kyle Parisi

By scoring over 30 goals each season for his first 12 seasons in the NHL, Ovechkin joins Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy as the only players to achieve such a feat.

Speaking of scoring 30 goals, Alex Ovechkin also reached that milestone this week Saturday night in a 4-1 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. But this is nothing new for the Capitals’ captain; in fact, this is the 12th time he’s done it in his 12-year career. By scoring over 30 goals each season for his first 12 seasons in the NHL, he joins only two other players to ever achieve such a feat: Mike Gartner and Wayne Gretzky.

By Ovechkin’s standards, this seems to be a

down season compared to several 50-goal seasons and one 65-goal season.

But this accomplishment is truly remarkable nonetheless. With his powerplay goal, he also reached his 400th career power play point, making him the 28th player in NHL history to do so. He is also now one goal shy of being 26th in the list of all-time goal scorers — just another average night for the Russian Machine.

And finally, Washington’s win over Arizona marked its 31st victory on home ice this season – a franchise record for most wins at home. Washington currently leads the NHL for most wins at home with a 31-6-2 record and still has two home games left to further its advantage. It has been an exciting and memorable run for the Capitals in their fight to keep their advantageous playoff spot.

Meanwhile, their firstround opponents remain as up in the air as ever.

Currently, the Bruins hold the wild card spot after falling from third in the Atlantic to out of the playoffs entirely. The Islanders are now two points behind the Bruins in their fight for the coveted wild card spot, and the Bruins are only one point behind the Toronto Maple Leafs for third in the Atlantic.

It should be a wild ride to the finish, and I could not be more excited to watch it play out.

Kyle Parisi is a sophomore in the College. BETWEEN THE PIPES appears every Tuesday.

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Senior infielder Alessandra Gargicevich-Almeida has appeared in 17 games this season, starting six of them, driving in a total of three runs on three hits.

SAILING

GU Claims 2 Top-3 Finishes LUKE DJAVAHARIEN Hoya Staff Writer

Fresh off of a secondplace finish in the Graham Hall Interconference Match a week ago, the Georgetown sailing team battled for another pair of top three finishes in two separate team races over the weekend.

The crew of sophomores Haley Shea and Rebecca Fung, along with junior Meaghan MacRae, headed to the East River in New York for the Admiral Moore Team Race event, hosted by the SUNY Maritime Cadets.

Junior Roger Dorr, sophomore Campbell D’Eliscu and senior AJ Reiter served as skippers for the team’s top boat in the competition.

Georgetown raced well in the light conditions, finishing just under the U.S. Naval Academy and Stanford University for third place. The top three finishers, including Georgetown, went 10-4 on the day, leaving head-onhead tiebreakers to decide the rankings in the end.

Georgetown Head Coach Michael Callahan had high praise for the team’s competition and was excited to get the top-team experience on the Big East

championship course.

“Those were all good teams and the races were hard-fought. Our conference championships are going to be in the same venue as the Admiral Moore so that’s why we sent to the top group there to learn about the currents and get used to the boats,” Callahan wrote in an email to THE HOYA. In its second match race, Georgetown sent its second set of sailors to the Aaron Szambecki Team Race in Virginia. Taking advantage of the warm temperatures and consistent winds Saturday, the Hoyas had an early advantage, and the crew of senior Albert Kraus, sophomores Claire Mohun and Yusuf Mallick and freshman Macey McCann lead the field going into Sunday’s competition.

Sunday, however, presented a stark contrast in conditions and the Hoyas gradually lost a grip of their once-commanding lead, struggling to adjust to the rapidly changing conditions. A Round Three loss at the hands of Tufts put Georgetown in a must win final race with regatta host Old Dominion.

In the final race of the regatta, ODU pulled ahead of Georgetown to take the

lead in points and win the regatta in dramatic fashion. “[The] bad loss to Tufts set up a winner-take-all race versus Old Dominion and we didn’t start well and trailed the whole race. It was the top team from ODU and they have improved all semester, but I would have liked to have seen us sail better,” Callahan said.

So far this spring, the Hoyas combined record in top-level competitions is 68-26, compared to the 86-13 record last year at this point in the season.

Despite the drop in winning percentage, Callahan remains confident in his team and alludes to the inexperience of the team as reason for the decline in record.

“We lost two-thirds of our team [last year] to graduation,” Callahan said. “We are still learning and hopefully we will be good enough to make Nationals.”

The sailing team now turns its focus to the MAISA Team Race Championships in Throggs Neck, N.Y., on April 8.

The race will be Georgetown’s first national qualifier competition for team racing.

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Men’s Lacrosse

Slow Start, Defensive Struggles Plague GU in Loss MARQUETTE, from A10

balls during the game.

Mayer sets the pace for the Hoyas’ defense with a team-high 39 ground balls on the season.

Carraway and sophomore attack Dan Bucaro each tallied one goal before senior attack and Tewaaraton Watch List player Ryan McNamara scored his only goal of the game for the Golden Eagles. The final goal of the third quarter was the result of a look by Carraway to McDonald, who quickly finessed a shot into the back of the net.

In the fourth quarter, 26 shots were fired during the final 15 minutes of play. Lewis, Bucaro, Conley and sophomore midfielder Patrick Aslanian netted one goal each, but

the Hoyas failed to tie the game despite a last-second opportunity. While Warne was impressed by his team’s ability to generate opportunities, he stressed the importance of being more selective with shots.

“We have to find a way to be better scorers, not just shooters. We tend to allow goalies double-digit saves every game. So that means we’re getting shots which is great, but scoring is even better. So, we have to figure out a way to not let goalies have really good games against us,” Warne said.

Georgetown outshot Marquette by 13 in Saturday’s game, but Marquette’s junior goalie Cole Blazer had a solid showing with 14 saves. Georgetown’s junior goalie Nick Marrocco rivaled Blazer

with another impressive performance for the Hoyas. The match gave Marrocco his seventh double-digit save game of the season, adding 10 saves to his career total of 475. In addition, Marrocco played strong defense and raked in four ground balls. However, Warne noted that the rest of the Hoyas’ defense needs to improve.

“We have to make Nick’s job easier at times. We just have to execute our game plan a little bit better,” Warne said.

Georgetown prepares to take on its next conference opponent, No. 7 Denver (6-2), this Saturday at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium in Denver, Colo.

Opening faceoff is set for 3 p.m. The game will be aired on Altitude Sports and Entertainment.

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Sophomore attack Daniel Bucaro scored two goals on a team-high 12 shots in Saturday’s loss to Marquette. Bucaro ranks first on the team with 34 points and 26 goals.

Three-point shootout

Tennis

Squads Bested by Red Storm Maye Hits Historic Winner BATES, from A10

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match, Ernst stressed the importance of the Bates win as a moral victory for the team.

Prior to Sunday’s match, the Hoyas had not won a match since March 5.

“Winning takes care of everything,” Ernst said. “If you’re winning two, three, four matches in a row, all of a sudden it changes your confidence level. I’m not giving up on these guys; there’s still hope here for the rest of the season. It’s just that we’re running out of time.

Now is the time.”

Georgetown looks to build upon its most recent victory when the team takes on the George Mason Patriots (7-6, 1-2 Atlantic 10) on Thursday, March 30 at 2 p.m.

The Georgetown women’s tennis team (8-4, 0-1 Big East) visited St. John’s (12-3, 4-0 Big East) on Friday, losing 4-3 in its first conference game of the season.

St. John’s got off to a strong start by sweeping the doubles matches. The Red Storm’s Jessica Livianu — who is ranked number 67 in the Oracle/ITA women’s singles rankings — defeated the Hoyas’ No. 1 player, senior Victoire Saperstein, 6-0, 6-4. After junior Sara Swift defeated the St. John’s No. 3 player 6-0, 6-2, Georgetown lost the number two and number five matches, which clinched the victory for St. John’s.

This is the Ducks’ first trip to the Final Four since 1939, breaking the longest current drought between Final Four appearances in Division I basketball.

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Junior Mac Rechan defeated his No. 4 counterpart 6-1, 6-3 in Sunday’s 6-1 victory over Bates.

Although St. John’s had already emerged victorious, Georgetown took the remaining two singles matches in very tight, competitive matches. After dropping the first set 7-6, sophomore Cecilia Lynham won the second set 6-1, setting up a third-set tiebreaker. Lynham emerged victorious in a tightly fought tiebreaker, defeating her opponent 10-8.

Similarly, junior Drew Spinosa dropped the first set in her match but responded with a 6-3 victory in the second set. Spinosa then won the third set tiebreaker 106. Lynham and Spinosa’s strong play against St. John’s is indicative of their successful seasons so far.

Despite both the men’s and women’s struggles

against St. John’s this past weekend, Ernst remained confident for the remainder of Big East play.

“It’s just the same thing with St. John’s. It’s just a couple of points every time we play them, but we’re not letting down. We’re fired up.

And we’re looking forward to the Big East if we have to play them again,” Ernst said.

The results for the women’s match against George Mason (9-6, 0-3 A10) were not available as of press time.

The women next travel to take on Towson (7-5 1-1, CAA) on Wednesday at 5 p.m. The men’s upcoming match is this Saturday at home against the Naval Academy (15-16, 1-1 Patriot League).

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Junior forward Jordan Bell nearly had a triple double, finishing with 11 points, 13 rebounds and an absurd eight blocks, establishing a stronghold in the paint from tipoff and ensuring Kansas got no easy looks at the basket. This, along with a mix of zone and man-to-man defense utilized by Oregon, resulted in the Jayhawks shooting 35 percent from the field and scoring 20 points below its tournament average. Bell has maintained the Ducks’ status of having the top shotblocking percentage in the nation in Boucher’s absence and played himself into NBA Draft consideration, should he choose to declare. The Ducks will now take on the No. 1 seed North Carolina (317, 14-4 ACC) in what should

Maye Day In shocking fashion, the North Carolina Tar Heels prevailed over the No. 2 seed Kentucky Wildcats 75-73, booking its spot in the program’s 20th Final Four. The victory was fueled by walk-on sophomore forward Luke Maye, who scored a career-high 17 points and sunk the game-winning jump shot from just inside the arc with 0.3 seconds left to play.

Just 48 hours after setting his previous career-high 16 points against Butler (25-6, 12-6 Big East) in the Sweet 16, Maye was everywhere for Carolina, becoming the unexpected hero it desperately needed against a hungry Kentucky (32-6, 16-2 SEC) team.

Unfortunately, John Calipari’s team fell victim to the power of March Madness that turns unknowns into legends in just one play.

The Other Carolina Until this March, No. 7 seed South Carolina had recorded zero NCAA Tournament wins since 1973, but it turns out it was just waiting to buy them in bulk. The Gamecocks continued their improbable run Sunday, topping No. 4 Florida (27-9, 14-4 SEC) 77-70 to earn a national semifinal date with Gonzaga on April 1.

Backed by a cultish following of fans from Columbia who brought their Southern charm and snarl to Madison Square Garden, the Gamecocks did to

the Gators what they’ve done to every opponent they’ve faced thus far in the tournament — wear them down. SEC Player of the Year, senior guard Sindarius Thornwell, who was little-known outside of his league three weeks ago, continued his Shabazz Napier-like run as a budding tournament star, scoring 26 points to take his home-state school to a pinnacle that nobody envisioned them reaching.

Sindarius Thornwell continued his Shabazz Napierlike run, scoring 26 points in the Elite Eight game.

Long known as one of the “other teams” in the SEC — besides Kentucky of course — the Gamecocks were picked to reach the Final Four in just 0.6 percent of NCAA Tournament brackets and have proven all of America wrong by becoming this year’s Cinderella story.

They are currently 6.5-point underdogs in their next game against the Bulldogs, but we have absolutely no reason to doubt the Gamecocks.

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runs in the bottom of the ninth to fall 11-10. The Hoyas jumped out to a 5-0 lead through two innings, but saw their lead deteriorate to an 8-7 advantage by the end of the eighth.

Sophomore third baseman Ryan Weisenberg, who entered the game as a defensive replacement in the bottom of the seventh, gave Georgetown a three-run cushion heading into the final frame with a tworun single. The lead would not be enough: An error, a passed ball and a wild pitch resulted in four runs for Brown and the comeback victory. Wilk voiced his displeasure over the team’s inability to hold its lead.

“It was horrendous. Four runs without the benefit of a hit. Absolutely horrible. One of the worst losses I’ve ever been through,” Wilk said.

Pitcher Jimmy Swad took the loss, tossing one and onethird innings, walking five batters and giving up four runs, only one of which was earned.

Stevens and DeRenzi led the offensive charge again, with Stevens driving in three runs on a double and DeRenzi collecting three hits and scoring three runs. Stevens and DeRenzi are batting .333 and .413 on the year, respectively. DeRenzi’s batting average, 28 runs batted in and a .615 slugging percentage are all team-highs.

The final matchup on Sunday between the two squads ended in the sole weekend victory for the Hoyas, as they won 3-2. Georgetown survived

a scare in the bottom of the eighth, holding Brown to just one run after the Bears loaded the bases to start the inning.

Junior starting pitcher Kevin Superko spoke of the added motivation Georgetown played with in the series finale.

“There seemed to be a greater sense of urgency and it was more of a complete game that I felt we played. … I thought from an energy standpoint on Sunday, we were there from the first pitch of the game all the way until the last, and it translated into a win,” Superko said.

Superko went seven innings on the hill, allowing one run on four hits and getting the win. Superko is now 4-1 on the year with a 4.21 earned run average and .253 opposing batting average, in addition to 28 strikeouts. The starter noted the significance of the moral victory for Georgetown to avoid the series sweep.

“I know that after dropping those two, there’s a lot of importance on that Sunday one.

So I just want to go out there and throw strikes and let the defense work, and I know they’ll pick me up on the offensive side,” Superko said.

At the plate, junior second baseman Jake Bernstein led the charge with two hits and two RBIs. Wilk was impressed with his team’s ability to bounce back from the two losses the day before.

“That was a gut-wrenching, awful loss. And 18 hours later we’re on a field again and we regrouped and we did what we had to do. I think that’s a

tremendous step forward. It was a great character win. It was a team win. ... Great win after just a horrible loss,” Wilk said.

Georgetown’s next game is on Wednesday at 3 p.m., a home matchup at Shirley Povich Field against the Navy Midshipmen (15-9).

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Senior pitcher Nick Leonard is 2-0 in seven appearances this season, posting an ERA of 3.81 with 18 strikeouts.

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CHRISTOPHER GAY Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s tennis team completed a busy weekend in which it played three matches in three days, dropping two matches and winning one, while the women’s team fell in its conference opener.

On Friday, the men’s team traveled to Flushing, N.Y., to compete against St. John’s (8-12, 1-0 Big East). The Hoyas (4-9, 0-2 Big East) lost by a score of 4-0, losing the doubles point and the first three singles matches. The remaining three matches — two of which were close — went unfinished.

“The guys were just outgunned. St. John’s had some real weapons in their lineup, and they just were a little too big for us,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said.

After its loss to St. John’s, Georgetown continued its recent slide with a loss to Marist (8-2, 1-0 MAAC) on Saturday. The Blue and Gray lost 5-0, as the team once again failed to capture a point in the match.

The team’s loss to Marist marked its sixth consecutive defeat, as the men have struggled to find consistent production for much of the season.

“We have a real confidence issue with our guys. They get out there, and they start doubting themselves. They start

playing as the favorites, but we’re the underdogs.

They need to release the pressure and stop acting so afraid out there,” Ernst said.

“We have a real confidence issue with our guys. They get out there, and they start doubting themselves.”

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However, the Hoyas ended their six-game skid against Bates College (1-7, 1-1 NESCAC) the following day. Against Bates, Georgetown grabbed the doubles point early and never looked back. The Hoyas won five out of the six singles matches, including several straight-set wins.

Senior Yannik Mahlangu, junior Mac Rechan and sophomore Will Sharton cruised to comfortable, straight-set victories in the No. 3, 4 and 5 positions, respectively. Junior Bart Panarese, playing at the No. 6 position, lost the first set 4-6 but picked up a victory after his opponent retired early in the second set.

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Junior pitcher Kevin Superko gave up four hits in seven innings Sunday on his way to his fourth win of the season. Superko ranks third on the team with 28 strikeouts this season.

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Unable to build upon the momentum from its previous two victories, the Georgetown baseball team dropped two out of three games against Brown (67) over the weekend, with each contest decided by two runs or fewer.

After an offensive showcase against Coppin State University (5-13) — in which The Hoyas (14-10) scored 14 runs — Georgetown looked to maintain its winning ways heading into the threegame series in Providence.

However, the Blue and Gray was shut out 2-0 in game one. Senior pitcher Simon Matthews went seven innings on the rubber, giving up two earned runs on six hits while striking out 10. The Hoyas out-hit the Bears, but Georgetown failed to drive in any runners in scoring position, leaving seven runners stranded. Junior outfielder Michael DeRenzi and junior catcher Sammy Stevens contributed two hits each.

“Game one was just a great matchup between two really good pitchers,” Georgetown Head Coach Peter Wilk said. “There wasn’t anything tough about it. It was a great game of baseball. They came up with two big two-out hits, and we didn’t.”

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Redshirt junior attack Peter Conley tallied two goals on nine shots and picked up four ground balls in Saturday’s 11-10 loss to Marquette. Conley leads the team with 13 assists and ranks second with 19 goals this season.

Hoyas Drop 3rd Straight Game BRIDGET MCELROY Hoya Staff Writer

In its first conference game of the season, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team suffered its second straight one-goal loss, falling 11-10 to the Marquette Golden Eagles on Saturday.

Georgetown (2-7, 0-1 Big East) has now lost three straight games, two of them 11-10. Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne turned to the team’s slow start as the reason for losing these close games.

“We need to change our warmup up, we have to do

something to get the guys kick-started because once we get into the groove of the game, we’re fine, but, it just seems like we put ourselves behind the eight ball,” Warne said.

Georgetown and Marquette (4-2, 1-0 Big East) are now tied 3-3 in their competitive all-time series. In addition to the Jesuit identity, the Big East status and similar levels of play demonstrated by each team, the rivalry is heightened by the fact that Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne and Marquette Head Coach Joe Amplo are longtime friends,

teammates and competitors who played at rival high schools and then together at Hofstra.

The Blue and Gray got off to a slow start, giving the Golden Eagles a 5-0 lead in the first quarter. Despite the deficit, the team started the second quarter hot with a goal by senior midfielder Devon Lewis assisted by redshirt junior attack Peter Conley. Sophomore attack Austin McDonald intercepted a Golden Eagles’ pass, leading to the Hoyas’ second goal by freshman attack Jake Carraway.

Marquette answered with

its sixth goal to put the Golden Eagles up by four.

Conley converted on a pass from junior attack Matt Behrens during a man-up opportunity to tighten the gap, but Marquette fired back to reclaim its four-goal lead before halftime.

Georgetown dominated the third quarter with three goals to Marquette’s one and four face-off wins to Marquette’s one. Senior defenseman Michael Mayer played a pivotal role to the Hoyas’ possession success, pulling in seven ground See MARQUETTE, A9

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#ZAGUP With its dismantling of the No. 11 seed Xavier 83-59, the No. 1 seed Gonzaga Bulldogs earned their trip to its first Final Four in program history. Against an underrated Musketeers (24-14, 9-9 Big East) team that upset three ranked teams, the Bulldogs held an offensive clinic, scoring 83 points in just 71 possessions.

Gonzaga (39-1, 17-1 WCC) shot 12-of-24 three-point attempts, spearheaded by All-American junior guard Nigel Williams-Goss’ 4-of-7 performance from beyond the arc. Sophomore Josh Perkins went 3-of-7 from distance as well, and junior Johnathan Williams was could not be stopped with the ball on his way to 19 points.

It was an outstanding team effort by the Zags and a remarkable display of the other side of their 36-1 record this season, proving that there is nothing this team cannot do on either end of the floor. However, although they have avenged their past tournament losses, including two losses in the Elite 8 in 2015 and 1999, Mark Few’s squad still has two more games to win.

Gonzaga’s next matchup will be against the No. 7 seed South Carolina (26-10, 12-6 SEC), this tournament’s Cinderella story, that is playing as well as any team in the country. Gonzaga should be favored in that matchup, and a championship win would tie the record for most wins in a single season in Division I basketball.

With two more wins, Gonzaga would tie the Division I basketball record for wins in a single season at 38.

DUCKS KEEP QUACKING Despite legitimate concerns about tournament prospects after senior defensive anchor and leading shot-blocker Chris Boucher tore his ACL days before the tournament began, the No. 3 seed Oregon (33-5, 16-2 PAC 12) erased all doubts about its ability to contend with a 74-60 win over No. 1 seed Kansas (31-5, 16-2 Big 12).

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