The Hoya: April 11, 2017

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

CLIMATE AND CONFLICT

PEACH STATE HOYAS Six Georgetown students followed campaigns for Congress in Georgia.

EDITORIAL The senate reform referendum aims to bolster full-scale representation.

International policy experts spoke on the effects of climate change on security April 6.

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NEWS, A5

OPINION, A2

Construction Begins For Dining Overhaul, New Chick-fil-A Joe Egler

Hoya Staff Writer

To prepare for summer renovations that include the opening of an on-campus Chick-fil-A, several main campus dining locations are slated to close for the summer beginning in April and May. As part of the Hoya Hospitality dining initiative, renovations to O’Donovan Hall began Thursday with the placement of temporary walls blocking the normal entrance to the top floor, though both floors of the hall remain open. More renovations are set to occur across campus, including in the Leavey Center and Hoya Court.

The dining initiative plans to close the Leavey Center Così

on April 20, to be replaced by a new “sandwich concept” called Royal Jacket, according to a campuswide email by Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese.

The changes are part of plans approved under the university’s 10-yearlong contract with Aramark, renewed in November, which includes plans to expand and improve options for students with meal plans. The new contract followed a yearlong deliberation process by university officials and students.

Hoya Court is slated to close May 14 to begin construction for Crop Chop, a salad and smoothie dining venue, and Chick-fil-A. See RENOVATIONS, A6

HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH

Holy Trinity Catholic Church is one of the 60 religious congregations in the Washington, D.C.-MarylandVirginia area that joined the DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network, a new initiative in support of immigrants.

Religious Congregations Launch Immigrant Protection Network Lily Steinberg Hoya Staff Writer

FILE PHOTO: LAUREN SEIBEL/THE HOYA

Renovations to the top floor of O’Donovan Hall began last week and are slated to continue through the summer.

More than 60 different religious congregations have launched the DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network, a local initiative to provide support and resources to immigrants at risk of being detained or deported.

The group, based in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area and made up of Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other faith traditions, gathered March 21 at the Foundry United Methodist Church on 16th St. NW to announce the new coalition before marching to the White House to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Among the network’s goals are preserving and expanding Washington, D.C.’s sanctuary city status and providing legal information to immigrants in the DMV area who fear raids from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Sanctuary cities are local municipalities that prohibit local law enforcement from assisting federal immigration agencies in apprehending individuals who have entered the country illegally when they are arrested for unrelated charges.

According to a statement from the Sanctuary DMV website, sanctuary cities should not comply with the Trump administration’s proposed immigration

policies.

“They should actively and politically protect its most vulnerable populations, including those who are immigrants, undocumented, indigenous, Black, Muslim, Latino, women and LGBTQ+,” the statement reads.

The District has been a sanctuary city since former Mayor Vincent Gray (D) issued a declaration in 2011. In D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department is limited from cooperating with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

MPD officers are also prohibited from ask about people’s immigration status and do not detain See CONGREGATION, A6

District Ranked 5th-Best Region for Millenials Matthew Larson Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C., is the fifthbest U.S. region for millennials, ranking No. 1 in education, civic engagement and health, as well as No. 2 for quality of life, according to an April 4 ranking by WalletHub. WalletHub, a D.C.-based personal finance website, compared all 50 states and the District based on 24 categories, including average monthly earnings, the number of reported depression cases and voter turnout rates.

“D.C. is quite restrictive when it comes to affordability, but it still continues to offer some of the best opportunities for millenials.”

JILL GONZALEZ Analyst, WalletHub

The study found the average levels of education and health in the District make it an ideal region for millennials, an age group characterized as individu-

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als born between 1981 and 1997.

However, the District performed poorly in affordability and economic health, ranking No. 46 and No. 20 in those categories, respectively.

States received a grade out of 100, with D.C. scoring 61.75, placing behind North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa.

West Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama were ranked as the three worst states for millennials.

WalletHub used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Housing and Urban Development to accumulate data to score the regions.

Richie Bernardo, the senior writer at WalletHub who authored the report, said millennials are now the largest generation in the United States and account for 21 percent of all consumer discretionary spending.

The report said millennials are less economically stable than their parents were at a similar age, a contributing factor in where millennials decide to live.

WalletHub’s research found that millennials are earning 20 percent less than the Baby Boomer See RANKING, A6

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Washington, D.C., was ranked as the No. 1 city in the United States for millenials, according to WalletHub. The city was found to be ideal for this group of people, born between 1981 and 1997, due to its overall quality of life.

NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

Commemorating MLK A daylong series of events hosted by the university honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. A7

The Making of Memory Through the memory and reflection, we can uncover the narrative of our self-formation.

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Conley’s Comeback After two seasons plagued by injuries, Peter Conley returns as a leader for the men’s lacrosse team.

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NEWS Slices For All

opinion A Fond Farewell

SPORTS GU Sweeps Series

Students are working toward delivering free pizza to people experiencing homelessness in D.C. A7

The finality of a “goodbye” allows us to appreciate the value of our experiences.

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Published Tuesdays and Fridays

With its three-game sweep of NYIT, the baseball team extended its winning streak to six games.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Tuesday, april 11, 2017

THE VERDICT

After December’s unsuccessful referendum to replace the Georgetown University Student Association senate with a new assembly, some may balk at another vote aimed at GUSA senate reform. But the initiative up for election April 25 to 28 represents welcome — and necessary — change to a system struggling to better represent the student body.

The sweeping change would have senatorial candidates run based on class year rather than location of residence halls, in addition to protecting candidates from discrimination and shifting most senate elections from fall to spring. Besides being the more intuitive choice for students, shifting from geographic to class representation will bolster the effectiveness of GUSA’s elected body.

While GUSA’s last referendum also focused on internally reforming the organization, this referendum has the potential to substantially improve the way GUSA operates and ensure its initiatives better reflect the interests of the university community.

As such, students should turn out to vote for this proposed improvement.

Aside from freshmen, students have much more in common with their class than their residence hall, particularly on an academic basis. Students of different years confront different requirements in their professional and personal development, and ensuring each year is accounted for in the GUSA senate allows the body to broadly track interests across years.

Despite the promise of greater inclusion, the proposed measures have nevertheless encountered discord within the senate by detractors who argue that one of the proposals — dropping the number of senate seats from 29 to 24 — would achieve the opposite effect. While this change would

make getting elected more difficult, this is not necessarily to the detriment of the legislature’s inclusivity.

In fact, this editorial board believes that expanding voting districts will instead allow senators to better represent the needs of their constituents. Currently, GUSA senate elections suffer from abysmally low turnout rates, meaning senators can virtually guarantee the election by shoring up the votes of a handful of neighboring apartments. In the last senate elections in September, the off-campus turnout rate was a measly 9 percent; in the central, east, at-large, north, west and south districts, turnout fell to 26 percent or less.

Now, instead of knocking on nearby doors, candidates must appeal more broadly to the needs and desires of their class, requiring them to better represent larger and more diverse swaths of the student body. This reduction may very well result in more substantive platforms that better cater to students groups beyond their location.

Even with voting sprawled over four days, the referendum could encounter difficulty meeting the 25 percent threshold of voters, a majority of whom must approve the measure. For this reason, it is important to acknowledge that the responsibility to assure a more representative GUSA not only falls on the organization itself, but also on the student body to mobilize in support of this measure.

The senate should be applauded for looking inward and seeking to prioritize inclusivity by using the common-sense measure of class to represent the student body. But now that the organization has advanced its own proposal to bolster representation, the mantle of responsibility falls on students to hit the polls and approve the measure.

Playing Ball — This Monday, the United States, Canada and Mexico all launched a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup. Planet Parents — NASA has sectioned off 64,000 pieces of Earth this Earth Day to be adopted by supporters. Segments are 55 miles, but adopters will not actually receive property rights — rather, they will receive individualized information about their segment and the ability to virtually explore.

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Prom Queen — This weekend, Kylie Jenner appeared at a Sacramento high school’s prom as the date of a high school junior. This was her first time attending prom, as she chose to be homeschooled after the ninth grade.

Lottery Loss — A Florida man asked his friend to push a slot machine button for good luck and won $100,000, but, according to casino rules, the money belongs to his friend. His friend then left with all of the money.

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Reform GUSA Senate

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Democracy of Duelling — In the next general election, Oregon voters will get the chance to reverse a 172-year-old ban on duels between public officials.

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EDITORIALS

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Founded January 14, 1920

The Almost Sweet Escape — Australian rapper 2Pec tried to swim away from a restaurant after racking up a $450 bill. Police used Jet Skis to chase him down.

Not-So-Egg-cellent Behavior — The Norco Fire Company in North Coventry Township, Pa., has cancelled its annual children’s Easter egg hunt due to the “unruly” behavior of parents in previous years.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Elinor Walker

Security Merits Scrutiny A new university policy gives the Georgetown University Police Department sole discretion over security costs.

This policy will prove detrimental to groups that shoulder the financial burden of these events, to students whose Student Activity Fee is unduly allocated to these costs and to the community that will be potentially deprived of speakers.

On April 2, the Georgetown University Student Association senate unanimously approved a bill expressing concerns about the GUPD policy, which requires officers for events that exceed 200 attendees or any other event they deem to require extra security. Student groups are expected to finance the security detail from their own club funds but have little choice as to how much money they spend.

Under the current policy, events that expect attendance exceeding 200 people are automatically assigned a minimum of two GUPD officers and are charged for a minimum of four hours of service per officer. This $50 hourly cost per officer amounts to a total minimum of $400 for a single event, which while accounting for nearly one-third of the average budget allocated to groups by the Student Activities Commission, may only be one of several costs in organizing an event.

The GUSA senate is correct – these new GUPD policies place an exorbitant burden on student and administrative groups whose programming is contingent upon limited resources from the university.

This system could potentially dissuade student groups from organizing large or high-profile events, depriving the university of occasions crucial to encouraging vigorous campus discourse. Moreover, it perpetuates resource inequality among student groups, as the most financially strapped organizations seeking to grow from highly attended events are prevented from doing so.

As indicated by SAC Chair Ricardo Mondolfi (SFS ’19), the policy also reveals the university unduly dipping into the

student activities fee, which ostensibly should be directed toward students. This money, which is extracted from each student’s tuition bill, should be funneled into students’ activities rather than university salaries.

Much of the problem stems from the fact that the university does not pay for GUPD to provide security at individual groups’ events, and groups must pay for the security themselves. But even if the university cannot shoulder the entire expense of security costs, it should at least partially subsidize the cost of GUPD as the responsibility falls on the university to keep its campus secure and students safe. Otherwise, the costs of organizing these events will prove prohibitively expensive for most groups.

But more importantly, students should at the very least have some say if or to what extent their events require security.

The four-hour minimum requirement is particularly indefensible, considering many events last fewer than two hours.

Students have a better understanding of the security needs of their events, as they are better aware of their audience.

Of course, the GUPD should ultimately use its expertise to consult students about what security their event must entail.

However, considering how astronomical the costs of an event may be, students should be able to negotiate the hours and extent of their security details.

Already, GUSA has made the laudable move to form a task force in conjunction with club representatives and advisory boards to open communications with GUPD. But more than an overarching commission, the issue of security needs to be a discussion between GUPD and individual student groups that can apply the proper nuance and deliberation when planning their events. In a time when affordability is increasingly an issue at the forefront of campus discussion, cost increases – particularly those that have the potential to shutter student activities – must be scrutinized.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, APRIL 11 2017

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VIEWPOINT • METZGER

MILLENIAL’S CORNER

Martha Petrocheilos

Divisions Hinder Bipartisanship

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ast week, the US Senate employed the “nuclear option” to confirm Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Instead of the 60 votes needed to confirm the candidate to a lifetime position in the highest court of the United States, Republicans only needed 51, or a simple majority.

In an action orchestrated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R — Ky.), the Senate rules changed so that lawmakers in the minority party are no longer able to block presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. This move is so extreme that it is colloquially known as the “nuclear option.”

There is a strong case for demanding a supermajority when the Constitution is at stake, one which has been replicated in many countries with written constitutions. Without this threshold, concerns that the recent change of rules will place less importance on how a judge has ruled prior to his nomination to the Supreme Court abound.

Instead, the focus will shift toward judges acting more like political appointees. At first glance, there seems to be a danger that Supreme Court justices will now be idealists representing political interests, as opposed to moderate judges who could achieve a bipartisan backing with 60 votes.

However, the system of constitutional checks and balances between the judicial and the executive still stands strong. The authority by which a federal judge blocked two of President Donald Trump’s travel bans still exists.

The Constitution makes no reference to either legislative or judicial filibusters,

and, in fact, the judicial filibuster never existed before 2003, when it was created by the Democratic Party to defeat many of President George W. Bush’s conservative nominees to the federal appeals court. Thus, for some, any change to the filibuster would merely return the United States to the system used when the country was founded before it was altered by Democrats.

In this case, the nuclear option was only invoked after a Democrat-led filibuster left Gorsuch with only four Democrat votes, six short of the 60-vote threshold. Interestingly enough, Gorsuch, confirmed 54 to 45, got more votes than did Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas at 52 to 48, but Thomas had not even been filibustered.

After the failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Washington, D.C., is less bipartisan than ever. The focus in the legislative branch seems to lie less in choosing a high-quality judge and more with sending the president a message. Democrats want to fight back every aspect of his agenda and nominations, even in the Supreme Court, which has traditionally been void of partisan play.

Partisan rancor has no place within the Supreme Court. It is a shame that Democrats fought so hard against a perfectly moderate judge. Denying a candidate, not because of his lack of qualifications, but simply because he came from the opposite political party, is dangerous. At the end of the day, the victims of this mindless political bickering will only be the American people.

Martha Petrocheilos is a student at the Law Center.

MILLENNIAL’S CORNER appears every other Tuesday.

Increased polarization means people are unlikely to cross into the opposing camp, and in doing so, refuse to even consider a different perspective, no matter how similar it may be to their own.

Affirm Life Above Discord

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ach year, Georgetown Right to Life, a group on campus that opposes abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty, among other issues that threaten the value of human life, hosts Life Week in the spring.

Although it was a pleasure to coordinate this year’s Life Week as the group’s vice president, the campus political climate was disappointing as it failed to yield any true and effective form of dialogue.

Like many other groups on campus, Georgetown Right to Life believes that dedicating a week of the year to our cause is effective not only to raise awareness but also to serve our community. Over the course of Life Week, we host speaking events, participate in service projects and hold our annual Flag Day, during which we cover Copley Lawn with 2537 flags: one for each child aborted in a day, the drastic loss of life being just one of many negative consequences of abortion.

It is important to note that Life Week, much like the “prolife” movement, is not only about abortion. Because our group believes that human dignity is at the core of our social justice movement and extends throughout the life of

an individual, we host events on a variety topics, from euthanasia to the death penalty.

During this year’s Life Week, for example, we hosted Mary Forr, the founder of Teaching Together, to talk about the intersection of disability and life issues, especially as they relate to physician-assisted suicide.

Although during Life Week, we successfully raised awareness and resources for women in need, I am disappointed that it did not promote a greater dialogue about life issues on campus. As a Democrat who supports the dignity of every human life, I believe that there are many progressive and conservative values that fit naturally together to create a culture of life.

The best way to accomplish this synthesis is through dialogue, but the increasingly polarized political spectrum has made this virtually impossible, especially at Georgetown. After THE HOYA reported on our Life Week events, H*yas for Choice, a student-run reproductive rights group on campus, issued a statement calling all of our events “appalling.” Although many people who identify as proabortion rights may have reservations about attending our events, simply dismissing

each one as “appalling” demonstrates an unwillingness to engage in dialogue. Indeed, such charged language and harsh rhetoric leaves no room for common ground.

H*yas for Choice’s destructive comment shocked me, particularly because the group recently published an article titled “Zika, Fear, and Recycle Oppression” about the intersection of disability and abortion, specifically in relation to the Zika virus.

Although the blog post was written by Brinna Ludwig, the president of H*yas for Choice, it discussed several points about the stigma that abortion casts on people with disabilities that resonated with me as the vice president of Right to Life, and were discussed by Forr at our Life Week event. That event had the potential to provide the common ground needed to better understand each other, but it, along with the bake sale and diaper drive we organized to support women and children in need, were dismissed by H*yas for Choice as “appalling.”

I, on the other hand, attended two of the Choice Week events in late March.

I have many fundamental disagreements with the D.C.

Planned Parenthood CEO Laura Meyers, but I attended her talk because I wanted to learn more and to voice my opinion through civil discourse. I believe that this is the political model we need at Georgetown. I am not afraid to stand up for my beliefs in the face of blatant hostility, but I think it would be more productive if both sides could learn from each other and find ways to work together for common causes, such as supporting single mothers or those with disabilities.

Yet, we still cannot come together because of a strict adherence to a “side.” I am a Democrat and a member of the “pro-life” moevement, but I see fewer and fewer people like me who hold beliefs that cross party lines. Increased polarization means people are unlikely to cross into the supposedly opposing camp, and in so doing, refuse to even consider a different perspective, no matter how similar it may be to their own. This behavior is not only destructive to dialogue on campus, but it also spells further conflict in our country’s wider political culture.

METZGER is a sophomore in the College.

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SENIOR COMPASS SERIES

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT

Getting Through Goodbyes

What We Carry With Us

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hate saying goodbye.

The world has too many thoughts, experiences and emotions for that one little word to convey. Or, at least, I have too many emotions for that one little word.

Personally, I prefer departures in other languages.

The Danes say, “Vi ses.”

When I hug my mom at the airport, I say in Chinese, “Zaijian.” Both convey a sense of “see you again” compared to the finality expressed within a goodbye.

Nonetheless, our lives are filled with goodbyes.

Graduating high school, leaving home behind, shattering the freshman friend group as required by the Office of Residential Living’s rooming politics, ending a long-term relationship or the coming and going of a budding friendship. I hate those moments, those endings. As a kid, I would cry to my parents every year before beginning a new school year.

“Mom, I’m going to be in fifth grade now. Next year I’ll be in sixth. Before you know it, I’ll be working, and then…

I’ll be dead.”

My fear of mortality aside, I struggle to say goodbye due to the happiness that comes with these friendships and places.

With graduation looming, the prospect of friends and acquaintances spreading across the country — across the world — forces all of us to confront a number of potential goodbyes.

I confronted one just yesterday, lying on Copley Lawn with friends during the farmers market. One of my best friends told me that he was likely accepting a job on an opposite coast.

Suddenly, the thought of not seeing one of my closest friends every day dawned

on me. We are both entering the workforce as little cogs in the capitalist machine. Years will pass. We will start families, become busy with those new lives.

And 50 or so years down the line, we will look back on where the time has gone, unsure when the friendship had changed, or possibly even disappeared.

Justin Fang I floundered around the sunny lawn for a bit, pacing back and forth with my worries and thoughts about good times gone by. Maybe those types of memories would never happen again after we graduated.

So why do I try to keep these relationships? Why am I trying to make new friends with a month and a half of college left? I suppose the answer comes precisely from the pain accompanying a goodbye. The pain derives from the joy and happiness of being with others, from making myself vulnerable, ready to embark on a new adventure with a new person or place. And those goodbyes are not really final.

There is something to be said for living in the present, for enjoying someone’s presence even with the prospect of the moment never happening again. For living as if that moment with someone is the last experience together. And when we are hurt, I think we should embrace those emotions.

Learning to sit with the pain of a goodbye — an ending — helps us celebrate the very real joy we shared with others. Acknowledging finality also helps us move forward knowing what we want from future relationships and experiences.

But acknowledging the potential finality of a goodbye does not mean that a relationship truly ends. When I say goodbye to my friend the day we graduate, I want to do so with the full acceptance that I may very well never see them again. I want to know that I have loved them as fully as I can. At the same time, I say goodbye realizing that our paths could cross again.

Another city, another time, another adventure.

When we acknowledge the potential finality of a goodbye, when we realize the pain that can result from the end of a platonic or romantic relationship, saying hello turns into a more meaningful and intentional act.

It has been four years of learning to say goodbye, and given all the lessons I have learned, I think a “zaijian” or “vi ses” is more appropriate. With all that in mind, I want to convey some things to the people that have come and gone from my life. To my friends, you have shaped who I am in every way through our daily interactions. To those I have hurt, I am sorry; I realize we may have said our goodbyes, but I also hope and believe that we can say hello again in the future. To those I love, we will say goodbye when we graduate, but that makes the hellos even more special for me.

Justin Fang is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. THE SENIOR COMPASS SERIES appears every week.

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bout four years ago, on a late April afternoon, I found myself racing through Dahlgren Quadrangle when I saw two students sitting on a bench.

As I got closer, I recognized them as seniors who I had once taught and often saw around campus.

I approached them to say hello, until I noticed it looked like maybe they were crying. I awkwardly tried to look like I had not seen them, but it was too late.

They meekly waved.

When I got to them, I nonchalantly tried to ask how they were doing. They looked at me and said — and now I saw there really were tears in their eyes — “This week we’re making a point of going to all of our places.

Each day we’re going to a favorite place that made our Georgetown experience and spending a while remembering what happened there.”

They mentioned a few: their freshmen rooms — they actually let you do that during Senior Week, a classroom where they had a seminar, each of their favorite spots in Lauinger Library, and now here they were in Dahlgren Quad.

They did not need to say anything more, as suddenly the tears in their eyes made sense — a kind of happy and sad, life-embracing and person-forming sense. And I could not help but feel a tear come to my eyes as well.

St. Ignatius, in one of his most famous prayers, suggests that our memory is sacred. The ability to remember is a gift from God, one that allows us to recall and relive the panoply of our experiences. It also allows us to see our own history afresh and to reinterpret and reappropriate it as not just a series of events, but as a narra-

tive of who we are and who we are becoming. Memory helps us tell our story and see how the pieces fit together. And here these students were, engaging their memory to tell their story to themselves and to each other.

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. As we come to the close of this year, what will be the story we will tell? Which memories will we carry with us, and which will we let fade? Let’s face it — we have seen and experienced so much, individually and as a community. What will we choose to carry with us, and how will it fit into our story?

We carry memories of concrete events — some daily and mundane, some historic — and the many feelings of highs and lows associated with them. We recall our accomplishments and failings and hurts. We feel the reality of our world in all its brokenness and all its needs and all its potential, made even sharper in this year of election and inauguration, marches and resistance, refugees and travel bans.

We carry the experience of our loves and longings, simmering in our hearts even if we do not always speak of them. For some, it may have been the thrill of someone noticing us, perhaps romantically … or in the Georgetown context, perhaps intellectually — I once had a student who spoke of “intellectual crushes”!

Or maybe we found ourselves connecting on a profound level with others who shared our commitments and passions. With them, we poured ourselves into conversations and dates and adventures and projects and service and retreats. To our surprise and delight, with them we came out of ourselves and felt marvelously alive.

And, importantly, we carry in our memory the first signposts of the path ahead. We carry our hopes and our fears about jobs and summers and future friendships. Deep inside, our dreams for eventual marriages and families and vocations that will give meaning to our lives — even if seemingly beyond the horizon — are nurtured. Our memories help shape the narrative of the kinds of parents and servants and contributors we want to be; they inspire us in our continued growth and our ongoing journey.

Ultimately, as those two seniors knew, our memory — and the process of remembering — helps us discover the narrative of who we are and who we are becoming.

Our experiences themselves do not define us; we are neither our best nor our worst accomplishments. Instead, we are people discerning a sacred narrative, one that emerges as we look backward and forward.

So, find a friend and a bench, and take some time in the coming days to remember. If an awkward tear or uneasy laugh or smile comes along, or if you feel your heart rising or beating a bit faster, you are probably doing it right.

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is an associate professor of government. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT is a rotating column that appears every other Tuesday.

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Experts Stress Link Between Climate Change, Security JESUS RODRIGUEZ Hoya Staff Writer

States must understand the linkages between climate change and security to foster better cooperation in climate change efforts, according to five international affairs experts at a summit in Gaston Hall on April 6.

The conference, organized by the Georgetown Initiative for Diplomatic Engagement and the School of Foreign Service, brought together five international practitioners to evaluate both the progress and future of international cooperation in mitigating climate change.

The summit opened with a keynote address from former National Security Adviser Gen. James L. Jones (SFS ’66), who underscored the role of today’s diverse military methods in controlling climateinduced conflict.

“I will submit that the nexus between climate change and national security is the case study in the evolving nature of threats to which our country and our allies must adjust,” Jones said. “A new and more complicated global environment demands that we modernize our national security thinking.”

One of the priorities that must be at the forefront of this modernization, Jones said, “is updating the U.S. national security architecture and strategy to account for the pivotal role of food and energy, sufficiency and climate — and even human dignity — will play in our present and future of security.”

Jones, who led the United States’ military tours in Afghanistan and Iraq under former President Barack Obama from 2009 until 2010, also warned against the dangers of ideology when coupled with climate-induced conflict.

“The reality is that extreme poverty and extreme ideology make a lethal cocktail,” Jones said. “This interplay causes major challenges to every single one of our United States institutions stationed overseas.”

A panel of ambassadors examined recent efforts to reduce the adverse consequences of climate change following James’ address. The discussion included Ambassador of Barbados to the United States Selwin Hart, Ambassa-

dor of Denmark to the United States Lars Gert Lose and Ambassador of Germany to the United States Peter Wittig, and was moderated by Senior Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Kathleen Hicks.

In their opening remarks, each ambassador explained the situation of their respective countries and their position vis-a-vis the international climate change regime, which is currently governed by the 2015 Paris Agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which requires countries to significantly reduce their carbon emissions.

The Paris Agreement was ratified at the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris in April 2016 and focused on individualized commitments from 55 signatory nations as opposed to a one-size-fits-all solution.

Wittig emphasized the role Germany played in addressing climate change during its one-monthlong rotating term as president of the United Nations Security Council.

“I decided that I wanted to introduce this topic of climate change and its repercussions on international peace and security,” Wittig said. “It’s not self evident that it can be introduced on the agenda of the Security Council.”

Along with a bloc of African nations and small island developing states, Wittig helped to negotiate a UN Security Council presidential statement calling on states to address the threat of climate in conflict.

Lose said the 1973 oil crisis in Denmark, in which the country’s oil industry faced a sudden supply shock, is evidence of the effects of climate change on the economy and security.

“We had the major oil crisis and it spurred a security concern in Denmark because back then, 99 percent of our energy consumption was covered by imported fossil fuels and it led to a major economic recession,” Lose said. “We had major unemployment; we even had car-free Sundays and — trust me — this is when it became a security issue.”

Lose also emphasized the disproportionate effect of climate change on indigenous people living in Greenland.

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“If you’re ever in doubt whether climate change is real go to Greenland, go to the arctic,” Lose said. “The ice cap is receding, ice poles are melting and this is completely changing the livelihoods of the indigenous population up there.”

Barbados has been hit especially hard by climate change due to its geography as a lowlying small island in the Caribbean, according to Hart.

“Ninety percent of all economic activity takes place within one mile of the coast line. So therefore, sea level rise, the increase in frequency of

extreme weather events, has a devastating impact on the Caribbean,” Hart said. “And for those who think climate change is some future event, I’m here to say it’s happening now and it is getting worse.”

Hart also said state defense against climate change comes with a large price tag.

“Nineteen of the major cities in the Caribbean are extremely vulnerable to sea level rise and for us to protect those cities it will require building 300 kilometers of sea walls and levees costing over $4.5 billion with an annual estimated maintenance cost of over $150 million,” Hart said. “These are resources that could be invested in health, education and other

social goods.”

Collaboration from other countries with U.S. leadership has been vital to advancing the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement, according to Hart.

“There is no other country that can drive innovation and technological change and development like the United States,” Hart said. “I’m hopeful the new administration will weigh the costs and benefits of its leadership and participation in this universal global move towards addressing climate change.”

The panelists also addressed the increased involvement of China on the international stage.

“China is very assertive in wanting to assume a leader-

ship role,” Wittig said. “If the United States thinks of leaving its position, then China will step into the room and will act as a leading protagonist in the climate policy.”

According to Hart, it is in the global interest for the United States to maintain its involvement in climate change efforts.

“It is very concerning — and I can’t say this diplomatically — that there is this consideration of the United States not participating in the implementation of the Paris Agreement or developing the rulebook for the Paris Agreement,” Hart said. “We want the United States at the table to ensure that those rules remain strong.”

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Online Sexual Misconduct Training Course Launched Maddi Charbonneau Hoya Staff Writer

The university is introducing a new online training course about sexual assault and misconduct prevention for students this week as part of the university’s response to last year’s Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey.

The training program, launched as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, looks to increase education and bystander intervention.

The survey showed 50.7 percent of respondents reported they did nothing to intervene when they witnessed a drunk person heading for a sexual encounter; 24.2 percent of respondents who witnessed such a situation indicated they did not know what to do.

All Georgetown undergraduates are expected to complete this course centering on sexual misconduct prevention on campus by April 21. The new course builds upon the training each first year student undergoes at the beginning of their first fall semester.

University President John J. DeGioia said the university must deepen its commit-

ment to addressing sexual assault on campus.

“As members of the Georgetown community, each of us is responsible for establishing and maintaining an environment for everyone on our campus to thrive as they engage in their professional and academic pursuits and in their own personal growth,” DeGioia wrote in a campuswide email regarding this new training course.

The online format provides examples and scenarios more relevant to students who have lived on campus as well as allows a broader range of Georgetown students to learn more about sexual misconduct and the resources available on campus, according to Title IX Coordinator Laura Cutway.

“Now that students have more experience on campus, and given that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the University felt this was an appropriate time to share this training, reiterating our commitment to educating students on this important topic and reminding students of the resources available to them,” Cutway wrote in an email to The Hoya.

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and Sexual Assault Policy Team Chair Nina Young (SFS ’19) said she hopes the course will raise more awareness and encourage discussion of the issue on campus.

“Sexual assault, harassment, and relationship violence are issues that pervade all of our lives deeply, whether we recognize them or not, and deserve a closer look than a rushed training session for freshmen,” Young wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“While we now have great programs through SAPE and our new Bystander Intervention courses, a lot of students still manage to rid themselves of the responsibility — and value — of this dialogue for various reasons.”

Young said the course demonstrates the work that Georgetown has yet to do in addressing sexual assault.

“What the student outside of these circles may not realize is that there is absolutely always more work to be done regarding campus and sexual misconduct,” Young wrote. “What may seem strangely-timed or overblown is simply an expression of the way sexual assault and relationship violence cuts deep into the heart of this campus.”

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Six Georgetown University students traveled to Georgia’s 6th Congressional District to observe local campaigns for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service’s #HoyasInGA trip this month.

The three-day trip connected the students to campaign staffers, party leaders and media figures focused on the district’s special election to replace Tom Price’s seat, who was appointed secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by President Donald Trump.

Georgetown alumnus Jon Ossoff (SFS ’09) is running as a Democrat in the special election to fill the seat. Ossoff has come under fire for videos from his time at Georgetown that have resurfaced.

Ossoff has raised $8.3 million for the election, more than any other candidate has ever raised for an election in the 6th Congressional District, according to the Chicago Tribune. A Democrat has not held the seat for nearly four decades.

The students, who were selected through an application process, met with campaign staffers, attended a debate amongst the top five Republican contenders for the party nomination and met candidates including Ossoff and Judson Hill, a Republican.

GU Politics Chief of Staff Hanna Hope, who organized the trip, said a big reason for the project was to allow students to take part in a unique campaign process.

“Since the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District is the first competitive race after the 2016 Presidential election, coupled with a Hoya as one of the candidates, it seemed like a great opportunity to take a group of Georgetown students to Georgia and give them the chance to experience the energy and excitement of a hotly contested special election first hand,” Hope wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Jack Dobkin (SFS ’19), one of the students who participated in the trip, said he has previously volunteered in other Georgia political campaigns, including Michelle Nunn’s 2014 Senate run in Georgia and Jason Carter’s 2014 gubernatorial race.

“While I was home for spring break, I was able to volunteer with Jon Ossoff’s campaign and went out canvassing for him as much as I could before heading back up to D.C.,” Dobkin wrote in an email to The Hoya. “When I heard about the opportunity to return to the district and get greater insight into the race, the campaigns and the candidates, I couldn’t have jumped at the chance faster.”

Hope said the trip was a unique learning opportunity for students who have been focusing on government in their academic careers, but perhaps have not had the chance to participate in the field.

“This was a great opportunity for students to take what they learn in the classroom about campaigns and elections, and see how that measures up on the ground. It was also an exciting chance to see how the American electorate is responding to everything, since we’re living within the D.C. bubble,” Hope wrote.

Dobkin said the race is surprisingly competitive because Trump’s victory in the district was a smaller margin than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s margin of victory in 2012.

“What normally might not get much attention due to the safely-conservative nature of the district has turned into a heated race that people nationwide have their eyes on because of the unusually tight vote this November,” Dobkin wrote.

According to Dobkin, the rushed nature of the campaigns is one of the main obstacles campaign staffers and candidates must overcome in order to run a successful campaign.

“The operations of the campaigns, as well as the press, all had to launch into everything they would normally do over a

span of months or even a year in just a few weeks,” Dobkin wrote. “And further, given the national attention that this race has been getting, there is unusually high activity in this race as compared to a ‘typical’ special election, meaning that all of these actors are dealing with more demands than usual in a special election, even though they still have that same short amount of time.”

Samantha Granville (COL ’17), another student who attended the trip, said that encouraging turnout during special elections can be problematic.

“Voter turnout is always the biggest challenge in elections. However, factoring in that this was a special election in an off year, each campaign has even a bigger challenge,” Granville wrote in an email to The Hoya. “With such a toxic campaign season in 2016, many people want to take a break from politics and have little to no interest in local politics.”

Hope also said students could witness the importance of races and campaigns beyond the presidential election.

“I’d argue that students should be paying attention to all elections, not just Presidential elections,” Hope wrote.

“There are elections happening across the country all the time on a variety of levels, and they are all important. I’d encourage students to be constantly engaged, and not just in a Presidential Election year.”

Granville noted that the highlight of the trip was having a dynamic discussion and collaborating with a diverse group of students.

“My favorite part of the trip was spending time with my fellow Hoyas,” Granville wrote.

“We all come from different backgrounds and have different political perspectives, but were able to discuss issues in a respectful manner to learn more about the current political scene and we challenged each other to defend our beliefs. It was proof that we can think differently about issues, but still maintain friendships to get work done.”

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DC Ranks 5th-Best for Millennials in United States RANKING, from A1 generation, which are adults between 53 and 71, did at the same age.

“The financial crisis remains a big part of the reason,” Bernardo wrote in the report.

“Millennials have come of age and entered the workforce in the shadow of the Great Recession, significantly reducing their job prospects.”

“We’re rapidly expanding private sector jobs, and the District has all the elements that attract millennials.”

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WalletHub analyst Jill Gonzalez noted this inability to improve one’s personal economic situation has resulted in more millennials living at home.

“That’s why more and more of them are still living with their parents, on average, about a third of them,” Gonzalez said in an interview with The Hoya.

Gonzalez said D.C.’s low affordability hurt its ranking,

but said there were reasons for optimism for millennials.

“D.C. is quite restrictive when it comes to affordability, but it still continues to offer some of the best opportunities for millennials when it comes to education, health and quality of life,” Gonzalez said. “D.C. will continue to attract millennials, even though it has a high cost of living.”

Joaquin McPeek, communications director for the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, said the mayor’s office expected the result.

“We can point to a number of reasons, but most importantly because our economy is strong and we have good paying jobs,” McPeek said. “We’re rapidly expanding private sector jobs, and the District has all the elements that attract millennials.”

McPeek also said factors like easy access to public transportation and the ability to walk and bike to major attractions explain the millennial appeal of D.C., showing the city is no longer simply a government town.

“Millennials are opting less for ownership — home ownership and vehicles,” McPeek said. “We have one of the highest per capita park land in the country as well. It’s green, walkable, transit-friendly and bike-friendly, too.”

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Washington, D.C., ranks fifth-best for millennials in the United States, but has the fourth-highest housing cost for millennials, ranking less expensive than only Hawaii, California and New Jersey.

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The university has started renovations on O’Donovan Hall and other dining locations as part of a series of dining reforms announced Nov. 4, including expanded meal exchange options and a renovated Hoya Court.

Eight days later, on May 22, Students of Georgetown, Inc. coffee shop Uncommon Grounds plans to close at its current location and begin relocation to the second floor of the Barnes & Noble bookstore, which will remain open during renovations.

The new location for Uncommon Grounds will connect the bookstore and the esplanade and include a performance space and outdoor seating. When it opens, it will mark the first partnership between Barnes & Noble and a nonStarbucks company. The Corp CEO Melina Hsiao (COL ’18) previously raised concerns about traffic flow to Corp businesses during and after construction.

Leo’s will fully close for construction May 22, with a food service tent outside the entrance of McDonough Gymnasium providing food for students. The air-conditioned

tent will serve visitors and students with the same options currently offered at Leo’s.

Students and visitors will be permitted to use meal plan swipes, debit dollars, credit cards and cash there. The tent is scheduled to operate from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. throughout the summer.

Three food trucks will also provide service to the Georgetown community this summer outside Harbin Hall on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays starting June 6.

Among the dining operations remaining open for service throughout the summer are Bulldog Tavern, Epicurean, Starbucks, Vital Vittles, The Hilltoss, the Faculty Club Restaurant, Marketplace Express, More Uncommon Grounds and Provisions on Demand Market at the medical center.

Construction on these projects is expected to be completed before the beginning of the fall semester, according to Wiese.

Faith Groups Unite to Offer Legal Aid to Immigrants CONGREGATION, from A1 people for ICE unless a serious crime is involved, according to Sanctuary DMV. Still, Sanctuary DMV maintains that sanctuary city status is not enough because of loopholes exempting federal agencies in D.C. from adhering to local law enforcement policies, resulting in both immigrants with and without documentation being deported.

Recent statements from Trump and increased ICE raids in major metropolitan areas including Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., have motivated these religious congregations to offer aid, including physical shelter, free legal counsel and to host Know Your Rights workshops to educate people on how to handle interactions with the ICE. Asma Hanif, a chaplain at member congregation Muslimat Al Nisaa Shelter, said her domestic violence and refugee ministry provides Muslim women experiencing homelessness or abuse a safe place to live. Hanif has been working on providing shelter to those in need for over three decades.

“I started out with that as a goal in mind,” Hanif said. “When I saw that there were so many individuals whose needs were not being met, that they were silent victims — that society was really not concerned about sheltering them because they had no family, no status, no resources, no nothing. That’s why I don’t get government money and I open up my home to be able to help them.”

In the District alone, ICE

reported it had arrested 82 individuals over the course of five days in the DMV area, according to Fusion, a media company owned by Univision.

ICE announced that within the course of last week, it detained at least 367 individuals across the country.

Congressional Democrats last week introduced a bill to prohibit immigration officers from wearing any clothing that could identify them as “police.” The ban on using the term would apply to ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents to distinguish local police departments from federal agencies in sanctuary cities.

Julia Jarvis, an ordained minister at the United Church of Christ, has participated in Sanctuary DMV’s meetings to help organize.

“I’ve been working with Sanctuary DMV, the organizing vehicle that supports, works with and tries to get a lot of clergy of all different faiths to come together to support and stand up for people who are going to the ICE check-ins and are worried that they are going to be deported in this climate, where people even without criminal backgrounds are being deported,” Jarvis said.

According to Jarvis, Sanctuary DMV currently has seven active cases.

Three to four of them have ICE check-in meetings scheduled in May. Laura Cunningham, pastor and head of staff at Western Presbyterian Church, said joining DMV Sanctuary was not a difficult decision for her congregation.

“It actually was not very

controversial,” Cunningham said of the decision.

“Once our congregation found out more, they realized it fit very well with our understanding of who we’re called to be as faithful people.”

In addition to working with Lutheran Social Services to help resettle refugees, Temple Sinai has also

joined DMV Sanctuary. According to Rabbi Jonathan Roos, the congregation has already held Know Your Rights workshops and provided free legal aid.

Jarvis said people can provide aid to immigrants by getting trained in Know Your Rights programs, writing to Congress, raising money for legal fees,

donating supplies to sanctuary communities and providing food and medical support.

“It’d be great if Georgetown and universities got involved,” Jarvis said.

“Come to sanctuary meetings, find out when they are going to be and come to vigils to stand with these undocumented peo-

ple. You don’t have to be ordained, you don’t have to be a lawyer, you don’t have to have any title, but just showing up is very powerful.”

The next DMV Sanctuary approved event will take place April 12 at Gravelly Point Park to protest the low wages of D.C. airport workers.

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Speakers Urge Greater Student Launches Charity Role in Social Justice DAN BALDWIN Hoya Staff Writer

JEANINE SANTUCCI Hoya Staff Writer

On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech, speakers called for a greater awareness of the university’s role in addressing racism in the United States in a series of events hosted by the Program on Justice and Peace and the Center for Social Justice.

Sponsored by the Office of the President’s Let Freedom Ring initiative and cosponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, the daylong April 4 program featured speakers involved in organizing the civil rights movements of the 1960s and ’70s and today.

In afternoon presentations in the Healey Family Student Center and an evening panel in Lohrfink Auditorium, speakers centered on the imperative to depart from the evils of society King identified in his speech, including war and racism, to achieve social transformation.

André Keet, director of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State in South Africa, said Georgetown is complicit in the “giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism.” In examining the relationship between student activism at U.S. universities and at South African universities, he said a goal for universities must be to diversify curriculums.

“Higher education as an institution is complicit in producing the challenges we are facing today,” Keet said.

“Scholars have identified a number of common themes across the globe. One: This generation of students is profoundly disillusioned with the democratic processes at play in our respective countries. Two: They are angry with neoliberalism’s capture of higher education and the consequences of fees and increasing inequality.

And three: They are critical of the ways in which Eurocentric, white, middle-class culture is unquestionably the norm in universities.”

Keet said Georgetown’s implementation of the recommendations made by the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation will be telling of its commitment to social justice. University President John J. DeGioia established the working group in August 2015 in an effort to address the university’s benefit from the sale of 272 slaves to a Louisiana plantation in 1838.

“Higher education as an institution is complicit in producing the challenges we are facing today.”

ANDRÉ KEET Director, Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State

DeGioia announced Sept.

1 the university would provide legacy status in the admissions process to descendants of the 272. The university will also rename Freedom and Remembrance Halls on April 18 as Isaac Hawkins Hall — after the first enslaved person named in records of the 1838 sale — and Anne Marie Becraft Hall — after a Catholic sister and educator in the Georgetown neighborhood during the 19th century.

In a discussion between civil rights activists and Black Lives Matter activists on historical lessons for activists today, panelists stressed the importance of grassroots organization in their communities.

“Two years from now will be the 400th anniversary of the first slaves brought to British North America, and for just as long there’s been resistance to those institutions and to the broader structures of white supremacy that define our society,” justice and peace studies and philosophy professor Mark Lance, one of the event organizers, said in an introduction of the panel.

Associate professor of history Marcia Chatelain moderated the discussion, which featured civil rights activists Mandy Carter, Sekou Mgobozi Abdullah Odinga and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons. The panelists spoke on the lessons they value from their experiences as lifelong organizers.

Carter, a black lesbian social justice activist and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, discouraged modern activists from misremembering civil rights activism and the messages in “Beyond Vietnam,” which included the struggle for economic justice.

“One of the things he was working on last before he got assassinated was called the ‘Poor People’s Campaign’,” Carter said. “That speech can be so relevant to where we are today. One of the points he’s making is that with all the struggles that went on about the right to sit at that lunch table, a question: When you got up there, did you have any money in your pocket to buy anything?”

Black Lives Matter activists Anthony Grimes, David Ragland, April Goggans and Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou offered advice to students interested in organizing in the ongoing struggle for social justice.

“Don’t shame each other and don’t have purity tests for who can do the work,” Sekou said. “Don’t shame.

Don’t take yourself too seriously. Do your homework.”

The speakers encouraged Georgetown students to examine the institutions in which students are complicit. Goggans noted that being educated at Georgetown University is a privilege, and called for students to engage with the disparities the city of Washington, D.C., faces.

“In this city you have every intersection, every issue you can ever dream of,” Goggan said. “We’ve got to expand our understanding of what this moment demands from us. And how far are you really willing to go? Have you thought about how expansive your personal power is? That is the moment that we’re in.”

Reno Carlitti (MSB ’19) opted for a different spring break than many of his peers, spending part of his vacation founding a philanthropic project, Pizza 4 Others. The project aims to help feed people currently experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C. The independent organization Pizza 4 Others aims to deliver 38 pizzas every week for one year to people living in homelessness in D.C. The pizzas will be provided by Manny & Olga’s Pizza restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue, and distributed through the Father McKenna Food Center.

Carlitti said he thought of the initiative after hearing about a promotional offer at Manny & Olga’s.

“I heard about this deal with Manny & Olga’s, where if you buy 1,000 pizzas, they will give you 1,000 pizzas for free. I thought this was a great idea.

I figured we could raise the money and then give the 2,000 pizzas away,” Carlitti said.

According to Carlitti, Pizza 4 Others, which is sponsored by the Zeta Psi fraternity, has been a collaborative effort among Georgetown students.

“Pizza 4 Others is a bunch of D.C. college students coming together to donate 2,000 pizzas to the hungry in D.C. over the

next year,” Carlitti said.

Carlitti created a GoFundMe page to raise the $16,500 needed to finance his project.

The project has raised $3,015 from 48 people since its launch March 23, mainly from students affiliated with social fraternity Zeta Psi. Ned Hogan, director of development and volunteer coordinator at the Father McKenna Food Center, said Carlitti’s efforts to help feed the hungry have the capacity to make a real difference in homeless people’s lives.

“Reno Carlitti has created a unique partnership between a pizza restaurant and feeding the hungry,” Hogan said. “We applaud his efforts to help us to serve those who have so little.

We definitely are rooting for him to succeed in this effort to mobilize the Georgetown community to support So Others May Eat and the Father McKenna Center.”

Andrew Ward (COL ’19), a member of Pizza 4 Others, said Carlitti’s determination propelled the initiative.

“Reno and I serve on executive board for the fraternity, and he brought this idea and we talk every week about philanthropy and nothing ever happens,” Ward said. “And then Reno came in and had this entire plan completely fleshed out immediately and was like it’s $16,000. Initially I

laughed because I didn’t think it was possible, but then realized how much work and how much thought had gone into it and I decided that it was something I wanted to help with and try to accomplish.”

Carlitti said Zeta Psi’s sponsorship has been vital to the project.

“The International Zeta Psi Headquarters has given me so much help by giving me their network and providing ideas on how to get some publicity.”

Carlitti said.

Reaching out to other student organizations is crucial to reaching their goal, Ward said.

“With any sort of movement or drive, the more the merrier,” Ward said. “The more people you have, the easier it is to accomplish a goal. So at Georgetown, everyone has their own personal network, which is why I think it was critical to reach out to some groups on campus to see if they could blast through their listserv.”

Carlitti said Pizza 4 Others is an important initiative to create stronger ties between Georgetown students and the greater D.C. community.

“This would be a great step forward to say that the Georgetown community cares about its neighborhood, cares about the people of D.C., and is willing to help and come together and unify over this donation,” Carlitti said.

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NCAA Lacks Diversity Hoyas Drop Road Series C ollege is all about fostering diversity — or at least it is supposed to be. The NCAA received the lowest score among all sports that were graded for racial and gender diversity by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports this past week. It was given a C+ in a report in which the primary author, Richard Lapchick, called the NCAA “disheartening.” He reported that the only other area in which gender and racial equity is worse is in sports media.

To list some figures, about 90 percent of all men and women’s head coaches are white, as are athletic directors, faculty and sports information directors. The number of AfricanAmerican head coaches in Divisions I and II even decreased from the 2014-15 season to the 2015-16 season.

Not surprisingly, there is also a significant racial disparity between student-athletes and coaches. White men make up 58 percent of the Division I student-athlete population and 85 percent of Division I head coaches. In terms of gender disparity, men coach over 60 percent of women NCAA teams, while women coach only 3 to 4 percent of men’s college sports teams.

These results are indeed “disheartening.” The only good news that came from the report is that the NCAA earned the higher grade of a B for race in senior leadership and professional positions and an A- and A+ for gender

in those same areas. However, the athletic leadership fails to represent the populations that play the sports, and this shows a lack of advancement toward racial parity.

Sinead Schenk As founder of the Rainbow PUSH organization and enduring civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson said, “If we are dominant at the bottom and don’t rise to the top as coaches and GMs, we have gone from picking cotton to basketballs – it’s just not acceptable.” Power still resides largely in the hands of white men, and without a critical mass of minorities in leadership positions, they will continue to lack a strong voice in the decision making processes.

Similarly, Title IX was passed over 45 years ago, and yet women coach less than half of female NCAA teams. South Carolina won the national championship with Dawn Staley at the helm, which highlighted the fact that female teams usually do not have female coaches.

African-American women in particular only made up 10.9 percent of coaching positions in 2015-16, and the overall num-

ber of women hired in college sports declined in 2016.

Lapchik did propose a few solutions that might not completely erase the problem but could certainly help it. One is applying something called the Eddie Robinson rule. First proposed by the National Association for Coaching Equity and Development two months ago, this directive would require NCAA institutions to interview at least one minority person for all head coaching and leadership positions before hiring a candidate.

His other suggestion was to apply the Judy Sweet rule, which would similarly require that two-thirds of candidates interviewed for women’s teams would be women. These proposals could potentially become required. Even having schools voluntarily follow these guidelines could encourage the improvement of racial and gender disparity at the top levels of college athletics.

It is an issue that direly needs to be addressed. As we see the incredible accomplishments of people like Dawn Staley, it is clear that minorities and women have an equal chance of succeeding as white men when given the opportunity to do so. They just need that opportunity, and it is the responsibility of NCAA leaders to provide them with it.

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As part of a five-game road trip, the Georgetown women’s softball team dropped two out of three games to conference rival Seton Hall this weekend.

The Hoyas (11-23, 4-5 Big East) notched a win in the first matchup of the series on Saturday before losing the second game to the Pirates (18-15-1, 5-4 Big East) later that day. Unable to rally in the final game on Sunday, the Blue and Gray fell to Seton Hall, and the Pirates took the series 2-1.

The Hoyas returned to Big East play Saturday after a mid-week defeat to Towson.

As play commenced for the weekend, several Georgetown players held statistical leads in the Big East.

Sophomore infielder Mallory Belknap led the conference with 46 hits and a batting average of .430, junior outfielder Theresa Kane led with four triples and freshman first baseman Noelle Holiday was named to the Big East Honor Roll on Monday for her game against Providence, which included three home runs.

Saturday’s game, which the Hoyas won 6-1, featured a familiar face on the rubber in freshman Anna Brooks Pacha. In seven innings pitched, she gave up just one run and struck out nine batters.

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Senior Victoire Saperstein captured a 6-3, 6-1 victory in her No. 1 singles match against her DePaul counterpart in Georgetown’s 4-3 victory Saturday.

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For the second weekend in a row, the Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams swept their matches, as each squad increased its winning streak to three.

Playing its only match in a 21-day span, the Georgetown women (11-4, 1-1 Big East) earned their first conference win of the season on Saturday with a 4-3 victory over DePaul (10-7, 2-2 Big East) at Yates Fieldhouse.

The Blue and Gray relied on its depth to earn the gritty victory, as contributions came from the doubles lineup and the top, bottom and middle of Georgetown’s singles team.

Following a loss in the first doubles match, the Hoyas rallied to capture the point with wins in the No. 2 and 3 doubles positions.

Led by senior standout Victoire Saperstein — who also won her No. 1 singles match in straight sets 6-3, 6-1 against a nationally ranked opponent — the combination of Saperstein and junior Casey Marx swept the No. 2 match 6-0. Head Coach Gordie Ernst offered high praise of Saperstein and Marx when asked about their weekend performance.

“She played her best tennis of the year. By far her best doubles — she and Casey were just on another level. It was unbelievable, they could not miss, and it was great to see,” Ernst said about Saperstein.

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were junior Drew Spinosa and sophomore Cecilia Lynham, who won 6-2 in the No. 3 slot.

In singles competition, Spinosa continued her successful day in the No. 6 singles slot, where she secured Georgetown’s third point in a straight set, 6-0, 6-3 victory. Capping off the Blue and Gray’s victory, sophomore Risa Nakagawa triumphed 6-4, 6-4 to secure the match-deciding point.

The win marked the third in the row for Georgetown — its longest streak in the 11win campaign since the Blue and Gray earned five consecutive victories between February and April. As Georgetown begins a period of extended rest, Ernst looks forward to using the period to recover and prepare for the Big East championships.

“This is a good time to catch up — we got some girls with some nagging injuries. It’s a long season, so you want to be fresh and fired up for the Big East,” Ernst said.

On Friday, the men added a third victory to their sole winning streak of the season with a 4-3 triumph over Temple (14-9, 1-3 AAC) in Philadelphia. Leading up to the Big East championships, the Hoyas (7-10, 0-2 Big East) continued to gain momentum as the back of the singles and doubles lineup led the charge against the Owls.

Georgetown earned its fifth consecutive doubles victory, dating back to March 25. After dropping the No. 1 match 6-4, Georgetown’s

the scoring with a six-run sixth inning. Georgetown failed to respond, coming up with just two runs to Seton Hall’s 10.

With a win and a loss apiece, Georgetown and Seton Hall entered Sunday’s finale each looking to take the series. Ultimately, the Pirates came out on top, notching a single run as the Hoyas were unable to score.

Pacha again started on the rubber for the Hoyas, managing to strike out twelve while falling to 8-9 on the season.

On the offensive end, Elvina and Holiday each had two hits for Georgetown.

Ultimately, the Hoyas struggled to convert hits into points on the scoreboard.

While Georgetown outhit Seton Hall, it notched just one run in the game. After this tough conference defeat, the Hoyas look to improve and continue to progress.

“I think we are playing very well,” Conlan said. “I’m pleased with our effort and performance. We have had some heartbreaking losses in conference, but I love what this group is doing.

They have a ton of heart and fight, and I’m really proud of the games they are putting together.”

The Hoyas are slated to face Mount St. Mary’s (1020, 3-1 NEC) at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12 in Emmitsburg, Md.

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“AB is having a terrific freshmen year. Every time she steps on the mound she gives us an opportunity to win ball games. She is a competitor, and I’m excited to see how she develops over her career at Georgetown,” Georgetown Head Coach Pat Conlan said.

In addition to Pacha’s contributions, the Hoyas’ victory saw Holiday drive in Kane in the fourth inning to start off scoring for the game. Senior Hannah Ramsey then hit her third home run of the season to build a solid lead for the Blue and Gray.

After a fifth-inning score from Seton Hall, Georgetown expanded its lead with three additional runs, with Ramsey grabbing an RBI to score senior teammate Gabriela Elvina. Tying up the Georgetown victory, senior Alessandra Gargicevich-Almeida hit a single to score both Ramsey and freshman Alexa Dolby.

After the win, the team faced a quick turnaround for the second game of the doubleheader on Saturday.

“We talk to the team about being in the moment — playing one pitch and one inning at a time. Game one is our focus and when that game is complete we regroup for game two,” Conlan said.

However, the team was unable to convert its early win into another victory, as the Pirates started off

rally began with the duo of junior Marco Lam and senior Jordan Portner, who triumphed 6-2 in the No. 2 slot. Junior Mac Rechan and freshman Ian Witmer, who proved to be big contributors in the victory, secured the Hoyas’ double point with a 6-4, 7-5 victory in the No. 3 position.

While the top of the singles team — No. 1 through 3 — were swept by their Temple opponents, Georgetown showcased the depth of the men’s team with an impressive rally. Sophomore Michael Chen, competing in the No. 4 position in the Blue and Gray’s lineup, ignited Georgetown’s comeback with a 6-2, 6-4 victory.

Rechan, battling at No. 5, also won in straight sets, securing a point for the Hoyas with a 6-3, 6-2 win, while Witmer — who won his fourth consecutive match — continued his promising development by taking his No. 6 match 6-4, 7-5. Coach Ernst remarked on Witmer’s rapid path to success.

“He’s been so solid the last few weeks, winning matches when the match is on the line. That’s not common for a freshman. He’s really stepped up and dealt with the pressure,” Ernst said.

Georgetown looks to extend its winning streak to four when it battles Emory (10-4) on Thursday in Washington, before taking on conferencerival Villanova (10-7, 0-1 Big East) in the last match of the season April 22.

Seeking its first conference win, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team traveled to Rhode Island to take on the Providence Friars, falling 13-7 in the team’s fifth consecutive loss.

Sophomore attack Austin McDonald highlighted the Hoya offense by tallying his first career hat trick. The sophomore attack has been a contributor all season and is now finding his rhythm as a scorer, scoring five of his nine goals in the last two games, enough to land him on the Big East Honor Roll of the Week.

Leading scorer sophomore attack Daniel Bucaro was held to a relatively quiet game for his standards, but still notched a goal and an assist, as did junior midfielder Craig Berge.

Initially, both teams’ offenses were stymied, with both sides scoring one goal in the first quarter. Heading into the second quarter, both teams found some offensive rhythm,

but the Friars began winning possessions from the Hoyas and staged a four-goal run. The Hoyas responded with back-toback goals to finish the second and trailed 5-3 at halftime.

A McDonald strike brought Georgetown to within one goal to begin the half, but Providence once again found a way to reclaim momentum, winning the ground ball game and scoring three in a row following the Georgetown goal. The Hoyas would not go quietly, however, as McDonald completed his hat trick to keep Georgetown within striking distance at 8-5 moving into the fourth.

As the momentum shifted towards Georgetown, Providence took advantage of a lingering slashing penalty to score on an uneven situation, pushing the lead to 9-5 only 23 seconds into the final quarter.

Two more Friar goals extended the lead further, but the defiant Hoyas kept peppering Providence’s sophomore goalie Tate Boyce with shots. Boyce recorded 17 saves against the

Hoyas and earned Big East Defensive Player of the week honors for his performance.

While Boyce made it difficult for the Hoyas to find an opening, Bucaro and Berge put in two goals within a minute of each other to keep the Hoyas alive, at 117. But the Friars proved too strong with the lead and scored two more goals to seal their 13-7 victory.

Georgetown’s recent woes in the faceoff battle came to an end against Providence as junior Peter Tagliaferri won 11-of-19 trips to the Faceoff X. However, Georgetown struggled to take advantage of Providence’s penalties, scoring one goal in six manup opportunities.

Georgetown looks to put together a complete game against archrival Villanova (6-5, 1-1 Big East) in its second Big East home match of the season. Opening faceoff is set for this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on Cooper Field. The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network.

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he Washington Capitals’s playoff fate has been determined, as it will face the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round of the 2017 NHL playoffs.

On Sunday, the last day of regulation hockey before the playoffs begin, Toronto needed at least one regulation point over Columbus to secure the third spot in the Atlantic division, knocking the Boston Bruins down into the final wild card spot. Unfortunately for Toronto, a two-goal lead turned in to a 3-2 defeat at home, leaving the Bruins to match up against the Ottawa Senators and putting the Leafs into the Capitals’ line of fire.

Going into the weekend, most Capitals fans were not all that anxious to find out who they would be playing.

Considering that Pittsburgh and Columbus were once potential playoff matchups, playing against either Boston or Toronto would be optimal.

The general apathy translated into the Capitals’ last regulation home game of the season against the Florida Panthers, who trounced the Capitals 2-0.

This was a highly predictable loss: the Panthers, who will not make it to the playoffs this year, were looking for a high note to finish out their season while the Caps had absolutely no stake in the game, resulting in sloppy, scrimmage-pace play.

But of course the loss didn’t

really matter. The Capitals had already won the President’s Trophy for the second year in a row — marking their top regular season record — in addition to the Jennings Trophy for fewest goals against. Now they’re looking toward the playoffs, and I think Caps fans have a lot to be happy about.

Kyle Parisi The Caps have beaten the Leafs in three out of four regular season matchups, and have won seven out of eight over the past two seasons. This is primarily due to depth and experience.

The best thing that hockey fans have been saying about Toronto this season is simultaneously its biggest weakness: youth.

Toronto is shaping up to be a true juggernaut in years to come with a lot of young talent — especially rookie center Auston Matthews who just recently scored his 40th goal— but unfortunately it has just begun its rebuilding process. For a team that has not made the

playoffs since 2013, experience will be a key determinant against Washington, who has been to the playoffs many times before and has its eyes fixed on the Cup. Another weakness for Toronto has been defense. The Maple Leafs boast only one core, top-pairing duo in defensemen Jake Gardiner and Morgan Rielly, and beyond that not much else to speak of. Their second pairing of defensemen in Connor Carrick and Nikita Zaitsev is decent, but that is only provided that Zaitsev recovers from an injury he sustained earlier this month. And even then, only one solid defense pairing will be no match for the Capitals’ offense, which has proven time and time again that it can score no matter which line is on the ice.

With an effective, yet inexperienced offensive core, scant defense and a goaltender who is currently day-today from a hit in Toronto’s game against Pittsburgh last week, the Capitals could not have asked for a better matchup. But at the same time, playoff hockey never disappoints, and with coach Mike Babcock behind the bench, things could get interesting. But I sure hope they don’t.

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The Hoyas dominated at the plate, with five different starters collecting two or more hits. Three hits and three RBIs made graduate student left fielder Zach Racusin the standout hitter of the day.

Racusin’s batting average is third best on the team at .368.

The team best of .388 goes to junior right fielder Michael DeRenzi, who added two hits and two runs in the contest.

The offensive efforts from the previous two games culminated in a nine-run explosion in the eighth inning of the third game to propel Georgetown to the win and the series sweep.

Nine different Hoyas had runs, and eight had hits. Senior designated hitter Jake Kuzbel had three hits and three RBIs, junior catcher Sammy Stevens blasted a two-run homer and Racusin added three hits to steer the offense. Garza contributed two hits as well, marking the fourth-straight multi-hit game for the senior.

Coach Pete Wilk spoke highly of the immediate impact Garza has made to the lineup after being inserted into the lineup in the middle of the series against George Mason.

“We just need to go out there and play our kind of baseball each and every pitch.”

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“He’s kind of settled down the second half of the order.

He’s really provided some pop and consistently good at-bats. Some days we’d get them; some days we wouldn’t. [Garza’s] done a great job of coming in and he’s done a nice job at second base too,” Wilk said.

Junior starting pitcher Kevin Superko had another solid outing for his sixth straight victory, giving up two runs and five hits in six innings on the mound. Superko left the

hill with a 4-2 lead, which was cut to 4-3 by the end of the seventh.

However, Georgetown blew the game open with its largest scoring inning of the season, collecting nine runs on seven hits to beat the Bears 13-3.

Next, Georgetown begins its conference schedule, opening with a three-game home stand against the Creighton Bluejays (10-16, 2-1 Big East).

With Big East play set to begin, the team turns its attention toward preparing for the Big East tournament and beyond.

“We’re looking to get into the Big East tournament, to get our chance to go to Regionals. We have a saying, ‘Regional or Bust’, so the first step is winning conference play. Coming in to Creighton, they have a pretty good team.

Their program is pretty rich in history. We just need to go out there and play our kind of baseball each and every pitch,” Cushing said.

The first game of the Creighton series is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Thursday in Omaha, Neb.

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Senior defender Candace Pallitto notched one ground ball and two caused turnovers in Georgetown’s victory Saturday. Pallitto has 17 ground balls this season.

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however, was relentless, outshooting Vanderbilt 3924. After trading a pair of goals, the Hoyas went on a 3-0 run to close the half with a 9-6 lead.

Fried said that the Hoyas made a small adjustment when Vanderbilt changed goalkeepers but focused more on playing their own game.

“We told them in the second half we need to shoot to the net better, and they made that adjustment,” Fried said. “It doesn’t really matter who the goalie is; it’s about what we’re doing shooting-wise.”

In the second half, the Hoyas maintained at least a two-goal lead, with the two teams trading two and three goal runs. With seven minutes left in the game and the score 14-10, sophomore attack Morgan Ryan began the 4-0 run that would bury Vanderbilt by flipping the ball backward over her shoulder.

“On that, me and my player were both trying to go for that ground ball, and once

it was loose in the air, I just tried to kind of bat it down.

It went over the goalie’s head and I was like, alright, I’ll take it,” Ryan said.

A total of ten different Hoyas scored on Saturday, showcasing the team’s depth. Sophomore attack Taylor Gebhardt and Ryan led the Hoyas with four and three goals, respectively.

Freshman attack Emily Ehle and sophomore midfielder Francesca Whitehurst had two each. Freshman midfielder Natalia Lynch, senior midfielder Kate Snouffer, junior midfielder Hannah Seibel, junior midfielder Georgia Tunney and junior midfielder Rachel Rausa all scored one goal each.

“It was just playing offensively as a unit. When we move the ball quickly and find the two-versus-ones on the backside, that’s where a lot of goals came from. So, playing as a unit finally on the offense was the success for the team today,” Ryan said.

Defensively, senior goalie Maddie Fisher had two saves and allowed nine goals in 39 minutes. Sophomore goalie

Haelle Chomo had three saves and allowed two goals in nearly 21 minutes.

Georgetown’s next game is home against Cincinnati (5-8, 1-4 Big East) on Wednesday.

With four remaining games — including two against No. 13 Denver (10-2, 4-1 Big East) and No. 3 Florida (11-2, 5-0 Big East) — and the top four teams advancing to the Big East Championship in May, each win is crucial for the Hoyas.

Coach Fried said that to transfer the intense energy from Saturday to Wednesday, the team has to remember to do the little things right.

“It’s just a matter of recognizing what we’re doing well, and we corrected a lot of mistakes today,” Fried said. “We’ve got to make sure that we continue to focus on getting better and not take this win for granted, but enjoy it and make sure that we continue do the things that made us successful today — and they were a lot of little things, not anything spectacular.”

The Hoyas’ game against Cincinnati is on Wednesday at 1 p.m. on Cooper Field.

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Since being promoted from the Championship last year — the first time the team had accomplished that feat in seven years — Middlesbrough started off in the classic “new-team-defies-all-odds” tale that has become a Premier League staple, only to see it all come crashing down.

Striker Alvardo Negredo, who became a must-have on all fantasy teams, has seen his form disappear to the point that he was benched in last weekend’s defeat against Burnley. Goalkeeper Victor Valdes has become more infamously known for his disastrous slip-up against Manchester United.

Hoping to spur the team into action, Middlesbrough fired manager Aitor Karanka, but, to the team’s dismay, it has yet to show improvements. At this point, Middlesbrough needs a miracle to keep its Premiership hopes alive, and the team will most likely go back down once more, reminiscing about the season that could have been.

While two of the three relegation spots seem fairly

locked in at this point, there are still several teams in contention for the unwanted third.

Currently, Swansea City is in possession of 18th place, with Hull City only two points ahead and Crystal Palace only three points ahead of the Premier League’s only Welsh team.

This is a scenario that Swansea has faced many times before. After a disastrous start to the season, in which American manager Bob Bradley replaced Francesco Guidolin before being fired only 85 days later, things seem to have settled under Paul Clement.

Notable wins over Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Southampton, Leicester and Burnley had many thinking that Swansea would be safe yet again. Unfortunately for the Swans, the team had a dismal March slide that has continued into April.

In my opinion, the fight for safety is really between Swansea and Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace is a team that has had so much potential in the last few seasons.

At one point, the team was actually in contention for European football.

This season, however, Palace has done rather poorly.

Manager Alan Pardew was sacked around the midpoint of the season, making way for the disgraced Sam Allardyce.

Say what you will about Allardyce, but the man known as “Big Sam” does have the distinction of never having been relegated, which likely is what motivated Crystal Palace to hire him.

While Palace seemed doomed for relegation, things have really changed in the last month or so. Over that period, Crystal Palace has beaten Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion, Watford and most notably Chelsea.

While it certainly made things more comfortable for Palace, but the question is now whether or not Allardyce’s men have done enough to stay safe. It looked as though Crystal Palace’s luck was finally up, recent wins against both Chelsea and Arsenal seem to have guaranteed the team safety, meaning that Allardyce’s record of never having gone down is still intact.

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A promising leader both on the field and on the stat sheet, Conley was now forced to re-evaluate his role on the team — the second time in his career that he had to figure out his place in the Georgetown system.

At the beginning of his freshman year, Conley said he faced a learning curve as a newcomer to the Georgetown program.

“Coming in and trying to get my bearings, I didn’t really know how to play a system or a team offense at all,” Conley said. “At my high school it was kind of random dodges to the goal or taking your guy one on one. Coming here was a bit of an adjustment in the fall, learning how to play with guys who I could have faith in to catch the ball and finish it.

That was new for me.”

After the initial cultural adjustment, Conley produced on the offensive end, scoring two goals in each of Georgetown’s first three games of the season.

Head Coach Kevin Warne said it was important for Conley to stay focused early on and continue adapting after his first few breakout performances.

“Once he had early success as a freshman, teams started to [develop] a game plan around him, and he had to evolve. If he didn’t evolve, he would have struggled,” Warne said.

The 2015 season saw a promising start for both Conley and the entire Georgetown program. The team earned sev-

eral important wins and Conley was again paving the way for the Hoyas on offense.

“I was feeling really confident in my sophomore year,” Conley said. “We were playing really well. … We rattled off a few good wins in a row, and I personally had never felt as confident playing lacrosse as I did [then].”

However, the fateful Duke game marked a significant turning point for Conley on the team. Injured too far into the season to redshirt, he tried to recover in time for the Big East tournament but ultimately required surgery and missed the postseason.

Though he once led the charge on offense, Conley now had to step back and assume a different kind of leadership position.

“I switched my focus more towards viewing the game from an outside perspective and trying to move into more of a coach role,” Conley said.

“I tried to help out in any way I could on offense. It gave me a better understanding of the game and a better understanding of different looks, how to read slides and really analyze defenses in a way that I never had before as a player.”

The following season started on a note of uncertainty.

Despite undergoing surgery successfully for his left foot, another stress fracture in his right foot prevented Conley from returning in full form.

“When you’re thinking about an injury or thinking about something other than the game in front of you, it definitely takes away from your

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Redshirt junior attack Peter Conley became the 21st player in Georgetown history to reach 100 career points. ability to play effectively and play confidently,” Conley said.

Four games into the season, Conley learned that he would need another surgery and made the cutoff for redshirting the 2015-16 season.

Once again forced to take a step back, Conley turned his attention to helping on the offensive end.

Though Conley found himself in a familiar place in 2016, Georgetown did not, finishing 2-12. But with a more definitive surgery and recovery timeline this time around, Conley gave himself enough time to strengthen his injury and make a full recovery ahead of 2017.

Now at full health, Conley is back to leading the Hoyas on the field. Conley only trails sophomore attack Daniel Bucaro in scoring with 22 goals this season to

Bucaro’s 30.

Warne said Conley’s natural abilities, combined with his leadership skills, has been an asset to the team this season.

“Peter’s one of our more talented players, there’s no question about it,” Warne said. “He has done a great job of finding the balance of being a competitor, being a leader and being a really good teammate.”

Despite the team’s record, Conley insists that this year is different. After the four onegoal losses the team has had this season, he says that the team is close to putting all the pieces together.

“We’re a really dangerous team and everyone else in the country knows we’re a dangerous team,” Conley said.

“We’ve just got to keep our heads down — no one’s given up yet, that’s all we can really ask for.”

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Baseball Georgetown (2-5) vs. Creighton (10-16) Thursday, 3 p.m.

Shirley Povich Field

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017

TALKING POINTS

MEN’S LACROSSE The men’s lacrosse team suffered its fifth consecutive loss, losing 13-7 to Providence on Saturday.

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Everyone else in the country knows we’re a dangerous team.”

JUNIOR ATTACK PETER CONLEY

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The number of Hoyas who scored a run in Georgetown’s 13-3 win over NYIT on Sunday.

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Conley Conquers GU Sweeps Series, Wins 6th Game Major Injuries JOSH ROSSON

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ELIZABETH CAVACOS Hoya Staff Writer

On March 22, in the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team’s 11-10 loss to Loyola Maryland, redshirt junior attack and co-captain Peter Conley broke two major career milestones. With his two goals and three assists in the effort, Conley both notched his 100th career point — becoming the 21st Hoya to do so in the program’s history — and moved into the 19th spot on the alltime scoring list with his 67 career goals.

His performance was made all the more striking given that for a majority of the past two years, Conley

has been watching his teammates from the sidelines.

After a breakout freshman season in 2014 — marked by 24 goals, 13 assists and an All-Big East recognition — Conley’s career stalled when he sustained a devastating injury to his left foot in a tight game against Duke partway into his sophomore year.

“It just crushed me,” Conley said. “I remember sitting around right after it happened in my apartment with my roommates — Devon Lewis and Eduardo White — and I’m looking at my foot, and I’m like, ‘I’m done — no redshirt, I’m just See CONLEY, A9

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Redshirt junior attack Peter Conley ranks second on the team with 22 goals and 35 points this season.

This weekend, the Georgetown baseball team swept its home series, extending the team’s winning streak to six games and building momentum as it prepares for Big East play.

Coincidentally, yet appropriately scheduled right after Patrick Ewing’s (COL ’85) return to the Hilltop to coach the men’s basketball program, the Blue and Gray (20-12) hosted former players and families for its Alumni Weekend as it played a three-game series against the New York Institute of Technology Bears (3-22-1).

Strong starting pitching continued to be the key driver for Georgetown’s success, holding NYIT to seven total runs, while a rejuvenated Hoya offense drove in 28 to defeat the Bears in all three contests.

The series opener Friday at Shirley Povich Field proved to be the most competitive of the three, with the Hoyas coming out on top 6-4 after scoring five runs in the bottom of the fifth to take the lead for good.

Senior pitcher Simon Mathews notched his third win of the season on the back of an eight-inning outing in which he surrendered one earned run and five hits. Facing pressure with the bases loaded and no outs in the top of the ninth up two runs, freshman pitcher Noah Abdalla came in to retire all three

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Junior first basemen Alex Bernauer scored two runs and recorded one RBI in this weekend’s series against NYIT. Bernauer is hitting .250 this season. batters he faced to earn the save.

Senior second baseman Eric Garza and junior shortstop Jake Bernstein led the offensive charge with a single, double and run scored each. Garza finished with three RBIs as well.

The Blue and Gray led wire to wire in the second game to cruise to a 9-0 vic-

tory. Georgetown was aided by another strong pitching performance, this time from sophomore Jack Cushing, who pitched seven innings on the rubber and struck out nine, tying a career high. Cushing attributed his success on the mound to the defense that backed him.

“Knowing, as a pitcher,

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that I have a solid defense that can play allows me to focus on my job and throwing strikes. To be a successful pitcher, that’s what it comes down to, throwing strikes. The game plan was to fill up the zone with fastballs, locate spots and let that do the work,” Cushing See BEARS, A9

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Sophomore attack Taylor Gebhardt scored a team-high four goals in Georgetown’s 18-11 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday. Gebhardt leads the team with 27 goals and has recorded seven assists this season.

Hoyas Withstand Commodores DAN CROSSON Hoya Staff Writer

In a high-scoring affair, the Georgetown women’s lacrosse team triumphed 18-11 over conference rival Vanderbilt on Saturday.

With the win, Georgetown remains tied for second in the Big East standings.

“We played pretty well on both ends of the field.

The ball movement on the offense was really key, and at the end of the day,

the draw controls in the second half really picked us up,” Georgetown Head Coach Rickey Fried said.

The Hoyas (6-7, 4-1 Big East) held an 18-13 advantage over the Commodores (6-5, 3-2 Big East) in draw controls, which Fried noted the importance of in controlling the flow of the game.

“We were also pretty resilient,” Fried said. “When we made mistakes we didn’t give up goals in the

second half. We were able to come up with a stop and a clear and then another positive possession on our end.”

Vanderbilt opened scoring just two minutes into the game before Georgetown answered with two back-to-back goals three minutes later. At the 25-minute mark, Vanderbilt began a 3-0 run to take a 4-2 lead. Georgetown answered with its own 3-0 run just a minute later.

After the sixth Hoya goal, Vanderbilt changed goalkeepers. The replacement, redshirt freshman Lily Argyle, gave a strong performance after freshman Madison Foglio — who had one save and allowed six goals in just 12 minutes — stepped off.

Argyle had nine saves and allowed 12 goals the rest of the game.

The Georgetown offense, See COMMODORES, A9

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ith just over a month left in this season’s Premier League, the race for the title has begun to heat up. Chelsea sits comfortably atop the standings with a seven-point lead, but a lateseason push by Tottenham could give Chelsea a run for its money.

Barring some epic catastrophes, the current top four teams – Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City – will likely hold on to their positions.

It is time to turn our attention to another race that is just as packed: the race to the bottom.

As has been the case for the last few seasons, parts of the bottom half of the table are still tightly stacked, meaning that some teams are still in jeopardy.

In fact, Sunderland is the only team at this point that is truly doomed for relegation back to the Championship. With only 20 points to show for the entire season, it is highly improbable that the Black Cats suddenly go on an unbeaten run from now to the end of the season.

Sunderland is one of those teams that is always on the bubble: too good for

the Championship, but not quite good enough for the Premier League. This season, manager David Moyes’ players have continued to struggle, with the only true exception being striker Jermain Defoe.

Chelsea currently occupies first place, but a surging Tottenham could challenge Chelsea’s spot.

Watching Sunderland play, one questions the Black Cats’ passion for soccer. The team has looked completely lifeless under former Manchester United manager Moyes, and while Sunderland will likely keep its manager through the summer, management should begin wondering if it is time to look in a different direction.

Another team that is sadly on pace for relegation is the tiny Middlesbrough, which sits firmly in control of 19th place with only 24 See CRAIGE, A9