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SPRING FASHION ISSUE

Just as people should not be limited by their clothes, clothes should not be limited by gender.

EDITORIAL In a tumultuous year, it is important to acknowledge students’ voices.

GU CLINCHES BIG EAST BID The women’s golf team will play in its first Big East Tournament.

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GUSAReferendum Fails to Meet Voter Turnout Threshold Yasmine Salam Hoya Staff Writer

A Georgetown University Student Association referendum on senate electoral reform failed to pass last night after receiving support from less than 25 percent of the student body – the minimum threshold required for the vote to pass.

The referendum, conducted over a three-day period, included two major reforms to the GUSA senate: the election of senators by class year rather than geographic district and codifying outreach to underrepresented communities to encourage participation in student government.

The first proposed reform would have reduced the size of the senate from 29 to 24.

Other changes included in this question included moving senate elections to the spring.

The second reform proposed codifying existing GUSA diversity programs, including ElectHer, which seeks to recruit female students for elected positions, and A GUSA That Looks Like Georgetown, which seeks to encourage students from underrepresented populations to run for elected positions. The reform also proposed updating GUSA bylaws to prevent exclusion on the basis of identity.

The two questions received 88 percent and 93 percent support of voters,

respectively, but total turnout was 23 percent of the student body. The most recent constitutional referendum in December saw 38 percent turnout before it was invalidated by the GUSA Constitutional Council for violating GUSA bylaws. The Dec. 1 referendum sought to abolish the GUSA senate and replace it with a smaller assembly with a narrower legislative focus on club funding.

Twenty-five percent of the student body needed to vote “Yes” for the referendum to pass. Voter turnout surged to 11 percent on the first day of the referendum, according to the GUSA Elections Twitter account, and crept up to 14 percent by the end of the second day.

Turnout picked up again on the final day, in part due to a voting booth set up in Red Square.

The impartial voting booth was one of the reforms instituted by the GUSA senate following the council’s decision to invalidate the December referendum. Reforms sought to make the election and referendum process transparent and unbiased.

GUSA President Kamar Mack (COL ’19) said the executive can focus on policy goals now that the internal structure of the senate has been settled.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke out against gender discrimination and called on women to pursue their ambitions in a discussion with her biographers in Gaston Hall yesterday.

Ginsburg Calls for Equal Protections Justice denounces unconscious gender biases, discrimination Tara subramaniam Hoya Staff Writers

The law should not prevent women from pursuing their aspirations, said Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during a discussion in Gaston Hall yesterday.

Society’s perception of women has evolved but certain underlying challenges remain toward achieving full gender equity, Ginsburg said.

“The challenge is more daunting then the one we

faced. I spoke before about explicit gender-biased laws. What’s left is what’s called ‘unconscious bias.’

My best illustration of that is the symphony orchestra. When I grew up, you never saw a woman in the orchestra. The music critics thought that a violin sounded different played by a woman,” Ginsburg said. “It’s getting over that unconscious bias that remains a problem.”

Ginsburg was joined by her two authorized biographers, adjunct profes-

sor of law Mary Hartnett and Georgetown University Law Center professor emerita Wendy Williams, to discuss her new book “My Own Words” as part of the Marver H. Bernstein Symposium, which seeks to stimulate discussion on public policy issues. Ginsburg also addressed GULC students Sept. 8 last year.

Ginsburg recommended women seek allies of all genders in an effort to fight gender discrimination.

“For you, the challenge

is more daunting than the one that we faced,” Ginsburg said at Georgetown on Thursday. “My advice is find allies among men as well as women who want to change things.

And think of yourself ... as a teacher. So don’t react in anger because that’s going to be counter-productive.”

According to Ginsburg, when she joined the Supreme Court, gender-based discrimination was not considered an issue.

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College Approves New Sexual Assault Bill Proposed Disability Studies Minor Proposal aims to expand survivor resources alfredo carrilo obregón Hoya Staff Writer

After about three years of advocacy by the Disability Studies Minor Working Group, Georgetown is set to offer a new minor on disability studies this fall after it was approved by the Georgetown College Executive Council on Monday.

With the introduction of the minor, the university is set to join 42 higher-level institutions offering programs in this field in the United States and Canada.

Students interested in declaring the 18-credit minor will have to take three core courses: “Introduction to Disability Studies” and two approved elective courses.

The electives will span a range of different departments, including English, Theology and Anthropology.

The university currently offers courses in the disability studies course cluster, which was formed by the

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Disability Studies Minor Working Group, an ad hoc faculty body formed in 2013.

The cluster institutionalized relevant courses across different departments in the College and School of Nursing and Health Studies.

“Disability studies is the critical interrogation of this notion of normalcy and deviance.”

JULIA WATTS BELSER Member, Disability Studies Minor Working Group

After the cluster was created, students were able to explore disability studies in more depth but still could not receive accreditation.

Associate professor of theology Julia Watts Belser, a member of the working group, said the minor would lead to a greater com-

mitment to the field.

“We’re doing tremendous work for the disability studies cluster, but it was always a bit of a regret for me that the kind of intellectual work that happened there wasn’t recognized in students’ transcripts,” Belser said. “Having the minor makes it possible for students to make a more sustained, deeper commitment to disability studies as a field and then to come out of it with a credential that I think signals this kind of intellectual commitment.”

Georgetown College Dean Chester Gillis said students and faculty deserve academic programs that pertain to current social issues.

“Clearly this is an emerging field of study. Our students deserve a curriculum that reflects national trends. Many faculty members work in this area and now have a curricular outlet for their research and expertise,” Gillis wrote in an email to The Hoya.

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montana boone Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) plans to expand the pool of confidential advocates for survivors of sexual assault, codify the duties of the District’s Sexual Assault Response Team and clarify the rights of survivors when they access emergency care in legislation proposed April 3.

Announced April 13, the legislation also requires prosecutors to explain their decisions to survivors if they choose not to prosecute an accused perpetrator, prohibits the removal of a person’s clothes without consent and clarifies the right of a survivor to compensation under individual insurance policies.

Interim Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham, who served on the Sexual Assault Victims Rights Task Force, a group of representatives from local law enforcement, sexual assault victim advocates, treatment providers and

legal experts convened in October 2014, said the legislation focuses on better serving survivors of sexual assault and addressing their needs in a comprehensive way.

“Ensuring the safety of every Washingtonian has been my administration’s top priority since day one.”

MURIEL BOWSER (D) Mayor, Washington, D.C.

“We talked about our experience with survivors, how we feel we could — in a way — we could successfully navigate cases through the criminal justice system, which is not always the easy thing,” Newsham said in an interview with The Hoya.

“But when you’re talking about sexual assault, when-

ever you’re dealing with a sexual assault survivor, the focus has to be on the survivor and making sure that they control the process.”

Resources would be available to any sexual assault survivor who is at least 12 years old, ensuring that are minors receive the same resources as those who are adults, under the legislation proposed to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D).

Bowser and the D.C. Sexual Assault Victims Rights Task Force drafted the legislation to amend the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Act of 2014 and better study incidents of sexual assault in D.C. In a January 2016 report, the task force concluded the District should expand resources available for survivors after a 2013 Human Rights Watch report criticized MPD for mishandling sexual assault cases.

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NEWS

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SPORTS

Lavender Graduation The LGBTQ Resource Center and Tagliabue Initiative hosted the annual Lavender Graduation last night.

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From Prayer to Protest The invitation of Sebastian Gorka to campus is a disgrace on the Jewish Day of Mourning.

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Hoyas End Skid The men’s lacrosse team looks to finish the 2017 campaign on a high note with a win against St. John’s.

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NEWS From Prison to Classroom

opinion Four Years of Reflection

SPORTS Team Makes Strides

A former convict, Shon Hopwood will begin teaching at the GULC as a professor of criminal law.

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Our time at Georgetown allows us to learn how to appreciate the divine within the everyday.

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The track and field team built momentum by notching personal records at the Virginia Challenge.

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OPINION

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Friday, april 28, 2017

THE VERDICT

In an eventful year for the university, Washington, D.C., and nation, topics from the protection of free speech to ensuring affordability to the basketball program to the university’s role in the current political landscape predominated campus dialogue.

As the editorial board reflects on these issues, one thing is clear: It is imperative for student voices to be heard and, more importantly, to be taken into account.

Defending Free Expression

This year, Georgetown made commendable strides toward defending free speech on campus. In March, administrators announced that the Free Speech and Expression Policy would be officially extended to faculty and would be included in the faculty handbook, making it easily available online.

However, the university still has a long way to go in protecting free speech. The most obvious examples are its limitations on student groups such as H*yas for Choice and Greek life organizations which are intended to discourage their on campus presence.

More importantly, however, the university’s free speech policy is vague and unclear to the student body. A range of contentious speakers this year — from Nonie Darwish, a noted critic of Islam and director of Former Muslims United, to Sebastian Gorka, a member of Hungarian neo-Nazi group Vitézi Rend — have also called into question the limits of the free speech policy.

In addition, the confusing free speech policy often creates incidents in which expression is muzzled without justification. For example, last year, students at the Georgetown University Law Center were prevented from campaigning for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on campus; the university cited its tax-exempt status, saying that it could not engage in partisan political campaign activities. Incidents such as this, caused by the complexity of the policy, even earned Georgetown a spot on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech.

Both students and administrators must work to protect free speech by creating and adhering to a clear policy. Further, they must also ensure that free speech is not used to justify hate, but rather to promote constructive dialogue.

Assuring Affordability

Next year, tuition will for the first time exceed $50,000 — a 3.5 percent increase from 2016-17. Accounting for room, board and D.C.’s high living costs, the total annual cost for Georgetown now exceeds $70,000 for the average student.

The urgency of affordability is clear from this year’s Georgetown University Student Association presidential election, in which all tickets named affordability as the most pressing issue on campus. In polling by The Hoya, 33 percent of likely voters said that affordability was the most important topic of that race.

As the university raises tuition, it must be mindful of how this will discourage applicants from lower socioeconomic brackets. This impediment is particularly important given a report published in The New York Times in January, which revealed that 20.8 percent of Georgetown students come from families in the top 1 percent of the income scale.

Rising tuition most significantly disadvantages middle-class families, who can neither fully afford a Georgetown education nor qualify for full financial aid. The tuition hikes also hurt international students, who are allocated minimal financial aid as they are ineligible for federal funding.

Commendably, the university has taken strides toward greater tuition transparency this year. Due to efforts by the administration of former GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17), administration devoted a town hallstyle Hoya Roundtable specifically to the issue of tuition transparency.

However, transparency is insufficient.

The administration must rein in tuition rates, as well as living costs, to make attendance more affordable.

Administrative efforts at transparency

must also be accompanied by strides toward accountability. Students — the university’s most important stakeholders — should be included in discussions regarding tuition increases. As such, GUSA President Kamar Mack (COL ’19) and Vice President Jessica Andino (COL ’18) must advocate for student involvement in these discussions, as the Khan-Fisk administration did. Progress in cost-cutting spearheaded by Khan and Fisk this year, such as the inclusion of the price of 24 loads of laundry in room and board costs, demonstrates the potential of GUSA initiatives to achieve substantive change.

Going forward, the university should continue hosting Hoya Roundtables on tuition transparency. It must clarify the role of the Student Advisory Committee for the Provost — the central mechanism for student participation in the tuitionsetting process — and ensure that the committee’s work is also transparent. Finally, administrators should work with the Mack-Andino administration to prioritize controlling the cost of Georgetown tuition. Only in this way can the university work toward affordability.

Jeff Cirillo, News Editor Christian Paz, News Editor Cynthia Karnezis, Sports Editor Dani Guerrero, Guide Editor Meena Raman, Guide Editor Maya Gandhi, Opinion Editor Stephanie Yuan, Photography Editor Peter Shamamian, Design Editor Emma Wenzinger, Copy Chief Tara Subramaniam, Social Media Editor Mike Radice, Blog Editor

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Maya Gandhi, Chair CC Borzilleri, Laila Brothers, Daria Etezadi, Ellie Goonetillake, Jack Lynch, Jack Segelstein, Bennett Stehr, Annabelle Timsit

No Time for Change — South Korea is starting an experiment in which it attempts to eliminate mostly worthless coins from circulation in the economy.

Out of This World — On April 26, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft came back into contact with Earth after travelling the gap between Saturn and its rings, the first successful trek of its kind.

Hold My Beer — The Sioux Falls Police Department in South Dakota arrested a 56-year-old man for disobeying its directions and running back into a burning building twice to “save [his] beer.”

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Swipe Right — The last remaining male white Rhino received a Tinder profile to try to find a mate to sustain the species.

Flashback — A Virginia man turned himself into the FBI for being a “timetravelling assassin,” claiming that he has killed over 30 people, including President Abraham Lincoln.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Jonathan Compo

Rebuilding the Hoyas’ Prominence

In particular, this year was marked by upheaval within Georgetown’s basketball program. Ending the 2016-17 season with a 14-18 record, the Hoyas saw a drastic change when, after months of student frustration, the university fired Head Coach John Thompson III on March 23. On April 3, the university hired former Georgetown star player Patrick Ewing, who led the Hoyas to their only championship in 1984.

Though this personnel change is a step forward, the university must ensure it is accompanied by systemic shift. Ewing should assert his position as coach to create real change, despite his close relationship with former coach John Thompson Jr., who remains heavily, though unofficially, involved in the program.

Thompson Jr. — a legend of Georgetown basketball — is unlikely to cease involvement with the program anytime soon, nor should he; he is an important resource and mentor for Ewing.

Yet, to achieve meaningful change, Ewing must be the undisputed leader of his team.

As such, he must seek to distance himself from the cultural issues — including the secrecy and the censorship of fans — that emerged during the tenure of Thompson III. Such change is needed to ensure Ewing does not repeat his predecessor’s mistakes.

Reaffirming Our National Role

Amid a year of national divisiveness, the university must operate in an entirely new context, one in which an action by President Donald Trump — whether it is the travel ban or the uncertain future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — can drastically affect the daily lives of Georgetown students.

Nevertheless, the role of the university remains the same: to protect its students and to foster an environment in which all students feel comfortable and can learn effectively. In the era of Trump, that will particularly include support for international student and students without documentation, who are most directly affected by the administration’s policies. The university has lived up to its obligation thus far, with President John J. DeGioia’s signing onto the amicus brief that condemned Trump’s travel ban; it must continue to do so.

As Georgetown students, we devote our time, efforts and money to this institution; in return we are promised not only an education, but also an ally within the school.

The university must remember this obligation, and prioritize students’ safety, wellbeing and sense of security on their own campus.

Georgetown, for the most part, upholds its side of this promise. Yet, these are new times for everyone: Students and administrators all face the same uncertainty of this political moment.

Together, we must reaffirm our role in support of each other and in our solidarity within the broader international context.

Toby Hung, Editor-in-Chief Ian Scoville, Executive Editor Marina Tian, Executive Editor Jesus Rodriguez, Managing Editor

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This information is critical to students as they reach out and request help for another student, a friend or themselves.

GERMS is a student-run volunteer emergency medical services organization that respects patient privacy and confidentiality. No information about a patient is shared with the uni-

versity by GERMS. The Code of Student Conduct states: “The Medical Amnesty and Good Samaritan Policy is designed to enable students and their guests to seek professional medical treatment in an alcohol or other drug-related emergency by reducing the possible barrier of disciplinary consequences.”

Statement of Policy: When a student or other individual seeks aid for an individual experiencing an alcohol or other drug-related emergency by contacting emergency services, such as [GERMS] or the Georgetown University Police Department, the patient and the individual(s) reporting the emergency will not be subject to disciplinary action for the following violations in the

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THE ROUND TABLE

Jared Ison

The Undergraduate Examen

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ooking back on my time at Georgetown, I see it as an extended Examen, a reflection and appreciation upon God’s work in my life.

The Examen is a spiritual practice in which Jesuits are called to pray twice daily in order to better detect God’s presence in their lives. By reflecting on even the most mundane encounters of their day, practitioners of the Examen can recognize the divine within the everyday.

As Fr. Ryan Maher, S.J., remarked, “That’s exactly what a Georgetown education is meant to do: teach us to listen, amid the noise of our life, for the very music for which the human heart was created.”

What allows Georgetown to be such an integral part of our personal development is its motivation to cultivate people’s talents and nourish their souls. We are called to reflect on the relationship between the world’s needs, our academic passions and our social experiences. A Georgetown education not only recognizes scholastic achievement, but also asks its recipients to commit their lives to the pursuit of justice and the greater glory of God. Archbishop Oscar Romero exemplified this mission through his service to the marginalized populations of El Salvador. He was martyred while celebrating Mass in 1980, the culmination of a life committed to a faith that does justice.

Romero, to me, exemplifies a martyr who had clearly discerned his vocation and died in the name of faith and justice. However, I often struggle to understand how such a significant vocation translates to my relatively modest experience at Georgetown.

Studying Romero has helped me in this regard. He reminds us that we are called to “plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.” We are each called to a vocation of our own, because a vocation is fundamentally a call from God for us to love and serve Him in our own unique way.

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a class of students eminently qualified and yet simultaneously focused on viewing their studies as part of their larger vocation. I am forever grateful to this university for providing this intellectual and spiritual cultivation over these last four years.

As I reflect on my time at Georgetown, I have found myself taking a cue from Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., by asking myself a few simple questions: What did I fall in love with? What kept me up at night? What broke my heart? God was lovingly present in all of these moments, and I am called to pay attention to that love.

Now I see that my time at Georgetown has become a four-year Examen: I constantly found myself called to recognize the work of God in my life and in the world.

Georgetown and the Jesuits provide the framework necessary to understand the greater purpose of these four years and of our lives.

We have heard the symphony, but only now can we fully listen.

Yet, after only four years on the Hilltop, we must take the lessons learned here, walk through the front gates and perhaps return only occasionally. For many, this is a welcome change. But for others, there is much left unsaid and undone as graduation approaches.

It is easy to feel incomplete as we near the end of our Georgetown careers; Romero’s prayer reminds us that our time at Georgetown “may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.”

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam — let us leave Georgetown with the ability to better detect God within our lives, trusting in the experiences of these last four years and with faith in what the future will hold.

Jared Ison is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

This is the final installment of The Round Table, a rotating column by members of the Knights of Columbus.

These names have faces. Their unheard voices tell stories that are just as entitled to be part of the grand narrative of our world as your story and mine.

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Lifting Up the Voices of the Forgotten

t was the summer of 2014. I was sitting in the living room of my mother’s childhood home in the West Bank of Palestine, playing cards and drinking tea with my cousins. The news was playing in the background, but we were not paying much attention. Our TV was always on, haunting us with videos of the Israeli bombings in Gaza and lists of the names of the dead. We were trying to distract ourselves, distantly listening to the names in case we were to recognize one.

Then we did.

Nadeem Nawara. This is the name that caused my cousin to drop her cards and point to the TV. The news anchors were talking about a court case currently unfolding and showing a clip of the murder of 17-yearold Nadeem by an Israeli soldier, which had happened two months earlier. Nadeem had been my cousin’s childhood friend.

The video of Nadeem’s death was followed by that of another death, then another and another, as the images on the TV rotated through the 1,462 Palestinian civilian deaths from the bombings that summer. But Nadeem’s story, like those of others killed since the start of the conflict, failed to puncture the global consciousness, lost in a list of names that scrolled across a screen.

Two centuries earlier, in the fall of 1832, Maryland Jesuits

sold 272 slaves to help keep Georgetown financially afloat.

These 272 names were listed in the Georgetown archives, left untouched and unnoticed for nearly two centuries until 2015, when the resurfacing of these events spurred national outcry. These events eventually led to the creation of the Georgetown Memory Project in 2016, a group dedicated to chronicling the living descendants of the 272.

Cornelius Hawkins. This is the name that Louisiana native Maxine Crump was told over the phone as she drove home one day last February.

On the other end of the line was Richard Cellini (CAS ’84, LAW ’88), the founder of the Georgetown Memory Project.

Hawkins was about 13 years old when, in 1832, he was forced onto a slave ship and sold by Maryland Jesuits to a plantation just a few miles from where Crump grew up.

He was her great-great-grandfather.

Nadeem and Cornelius lived in different times and faced different injustices, but they share at least one thing to this day: They are both among the many oft-forgotten names whose stories go untold due to institutional oppression. Aside from those who are personally connected to them, very few fight to preserve the voices of people like Nadeem and Cornelius. Few pay mind to the stories of the oppressed.

We tend to see those who are institutionally marginal-

ized not as individuals but rather as a collective — a group with no composition outside of whatever shared characteristic has led to its degradation.

The lists that our divisive political and social climate produce — whether of the dead, the attacked, the deported or the oppressed — are adopted as singular, impersonal collectives.

When disconnected from an issue, it is easy for us to talk about the innocent lives lost in terms of buzzwords and numbers. The “Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” “The 272.” In doing so, we support a system that mutes the voices of the forgotten and robs the silenced of their stories.

But these names have faces.

Their unheard voices tell stories that are just as entitled to be part of the grand narrative of our world as your story and mine. Their story is part of our story. Yet, the narrative that we are exposed to in our daily lives is monopolized by the stories of the privileged, which, whether intentional or not, produces an inherent disconnect between “us” and “them,” the favored and the forgotten.

This disconnect leads to an absence of empathy on the part of those whose voices are heard. For many, there is no link between them and the names on these lists. As a result, these names remain no more than words on paper, and the stories behind these names remain untold. Their struggles have been erased from our consciousness as we

continue to live comfortably in the confines of our safe, protected bubble.

We are far too comfortable in our privilege, so comfortable that we have turned a blind eye to the very real plights of others who do not have the same luxury of comfort. This is especially evident at Georgetown, where many students come from particularly privileged backgrounds; 20.8 percent of Georgetown students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale.

Students always talk about breaking the “Georgetown bubble,” but this bubble is not confined to just the Hilltop. Although we are not always aware of it, this bubble extends as far as we allow.

The responsibility falls upon us to break the bubble by paying attention to the human side of issues that we typically see as black and white, facts and figures and concepts and generalities.

Pay attention to the names.

Nadeem. Cornelius. Their names have faces. Their unheard voices tell stories that now you know — but so few others do, just as so few others in situations similar to theirs are allowed a voice.

It is our job to seek the stories of those whose voices are silenced.

And it is our job to listen.

El-Hasan is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service.

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Mourning, Interrupted

The ‘Federal Fantasy’ Finale

n Monday morning, I joined hands with fellow members of the Jewish community outside of Healy Hall to recite the mourner’s kaddish for those murdered in the Holocaust.

It was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Less than an hour later, I protested a man who was a proud member of Hungarian neo-Nazi group Vitézi Rend and a virulent Islamophobe.

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, was invited by the School of Foreign Service to speak on a panel on propaganda and “alternative facts” at the International Project on Cyber Engagement.

I stood with fellow Jewish, Muslim and allied students in silent protest at Gorka’s panel. The protest proved to be an incredible moment of solidarity between the Jewish and Muslim communities, affirming that our struggles to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are linked.

Gorka is indeed well-versed in the topic on which he was speaking. As a former editor of Breitbart, he has created and disseminated his fair share of “alternative facts,” such as a July 2014 article in which he accuses The New York Times and The Washington Post of “shilling for the jihadis.” Yet, instead of contextualizing Gorka or using his presence on the panel to challenge his views, the coordinators of the conference presented him as an expert, effectively normalizing his racism and bigotry.

A Google search of Gorka immediately reveals the

words “Nazi” and “Islamophobia.” Clearly, those who invited him to speak failed to do their due diligence.

Moreover, when other students and I met with SFS Senior Associate Dean Anthony Arend (SFS ’80) the night before the event to present our concerns about Gorka, we were told that the university would not disinvite him, seeking to present Georgetown as a haven of free speech.

In his statement emailed to the Georgetown student body April 26, SFS Dean Joel Hellman painted over Gorka’s affiliations with groups considered by the State Department to have Nazi ties, instead calling them “chauvinist groups.” Though Hellman admitted in an interview with The Hoya that he “would not have invited” Gorka due to his lack of relevant experience, Hellman ended his written statement merely by reiterating the university’s commitment to free speech. Perhaps most importantly, Hellman has failed to acknowledge that this event happened on Yom Hashoah.

Although I am grateful for the support offered by Arend, Hellman and others, the university must carefully consider the platform it provides to its speakers, and how these speakers affect minority communities. There is a difference between hosting speakers who promote dialogue as part of free speech and those who misinform the public through “alternative facts.”

Furthermore, what admin-

istrators failed to recognize is that supporting this event and Gorka as a speaker created a real question of student safety. During the event, a student was shoved aside and stepped on by a Gorka supporter, and pictures of student protesters on Twitter have already been met with threats.

Gorka’s appearance must be a call to action for the university. In the age of Trump, inviting a White House official is not the same as it once was. Georgetown must establish new vetting protocols, including more thorough examinations of speakers’ backgrounds, to ensure hateful individuals like Gorka are not given such a public platform.

In doing so, the university must create a student advisory panel to provide necessary perspectives. That a figure with ties to neo-Nazi groups was invited to speak on Yom Hashoah speaks to the lackluster representation of diverse student voices within the administration.

I am ashamed that my university put me in the position of choosing between mourning my family and bearing witness to the genocide of my people, and protesting a neo-Nazi and Islamophobe on my campus. The administration must take responsibility for what happened and ensure that our communities will not have to suffer through a similar situation again.

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n our first column — amid new Republican control of all three government branches and rapidly changing power structures in Washington, D.C. — we created a game called “Federal Fantasy,” each picking who we believed would be the most influential senators in this new political arena. Below, we evaluated how each performed.

Aaron’s Power Duo:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.): AMcCain has by far been President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critic within the GOP. From out-hawking him in foreign affairs to outflanking him by refusing to accept a stopgap solution to the impending government shutdown, McCain has maintained his conservative credentials while also critiquing the president’s policies. Especially given the international crises early in this administration, the senator from Arizona proved a worthy top fantasy pick.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.): B “Quiet” was the name of the game for Manchin — but this is not the worst situation for him. Manchin has kept a low profile but has maintained his role as a centrist Democrat, casting the least “no” votes for Trump nominees among Democrats and attempting to negotiate a last-minute deal to preserve the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. Although he is not championing legislation or party doctrine, Manchin has positioned himself as a key player for Republicans, Democrats and the White House. Overall, his con-

sistency and long-term thinking earn him solid marks.

Christian Mesa & Aaron Bennett Christian’s Big Two:

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.): A The majority leader has struggled to preserve the party voting bloc due to the slim Republican majority. McConnell lacks the Republican votes to pass partisan legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act repeal-and-replace measure.

More importantly, however, he made the most politically daunting move of the year: killing the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees to confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch. The jury is still out on how much this will affect the long-term character of the Senate, but the minority’s diminished influence over the confirmation process will likely lead to more politically polarizing Supreme Court nominees in the future.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.): ARepublicans simply lack the votes to make substantive achievements in the Senate, making the minority leader the most influential Democrat in politics and the bane of McConnell’s existence.

Schumer has held his caucus in place remarkably considering moderate Democrats

like Manchin and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) are up for re-election in red states in 2018 and hesitant to stick to the party line. Schumer has also convinced Republicans like Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to vote with the Democrats on progressive issues such as Planned Parenthood funding.

Overall, we did not pick perfectly. With new power players emerging every day, it was impossible in January to see where we would be today.

For example, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has a surprisingly strong presence in the Senate, largely due to his partnership with McCain. Together, this dynamic duo has disagreed with the Trump administration in a number of areas, including Russian interference in the 2016 election. We give him a B+.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (DMass.) also stole the spotlight as the de facto leader of the “resistance.” When McConnell rebuked Warren’s behavior at Sessions’ confirmation — saying, “nevertheless, she persisted” — the phrase became a rallying cry for the progressive movement and catapulted Warren, a potential 2020 nominee, to the front lines against the administration. We give her an A-.

Politics is all about influence and how you use it. As we close the first 100 days of the Trump administration, all eyes are on Washington to see who will make the next move.

Christian Mesa and Aaron Bennett are sophomores in the College. This is the final installment of Playing Politics.

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Incoming GULC Professor, Former Convict Reflects CHARLIE TREPANY Hoya Staff Writer

At first glance, Shon Hopwood appears to be a typical American and an average lawyer — he has a wife and two children, served in the U.S. Navy and earned his J.D. from the University of Washington Law School.

But Hopwood’s path to studying law is different from most. The incoming Georgetown University Law Center professor of criminal law began studying the law while serving 11 years in federal prison in Pekin, Ill., for a string of bank robberies he committed in his home state of Nebraska.

Hopwood cites immaturity and impulse control issues as the factors that led him to robbing banks when he was 22.

“I had no purpose in life. I woke up every day and had no idea what I wanted to do with life or even what I should be doing,” Hopwood said.

“Then a bunch of other guys who were in similar circumstances to me, who had no purpose in life and drug and alcohol addiction, and you throw all of that together, along with depression, and the result was a bunch of us deciding to go rob these banks.”

Hopwood began teaching at Georgetown in 2015 as a graduate teaching fellow in GULC’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, while he pursued his Master of Laws degree.

Hopwood will teach criminal procedure to first-year law students in the coming fall semester, a choice he said was influenced by his time in prison.

Hopwood said he hopes this experience will aid him as he embarks on training future lawyers.

“It impacted me in that I saw injustices almost every single day, whether it was prison guards abusing prisoners or people that came into the system on nonviolent drug offenses that had been charged with possessing a handful of crack and received 20-year mandatory

minimum sentences,” he said. “It didn’t make much sense that the federal prison system was just warehousing people and not providing them with any sort of job skills or life training and then kicking them out into the world and expecting a miracle to happen, which is why the recidivism rate is so high.”

Hopwood is a secondyear fellow at the Appellate Litigation Clinic, where he guides thirdyear law students as they take on professional assignments from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Professor Erica Hashimoto has worked with Hopwood as co-director of the ALC. “The amazing thing about Shon is that he is the perfect combination between really, really bright and a good lawyer, but also just a real human being,” Hashimoto said.

“He’s very practical and nice and really good with the students and really good with the clients that we represent.”

During his sentence, Hopwood said he read law books in the prison library as an escape from the violence and grimness around him.

“Your movements and your entire personal liberty can be violated at any time by prison authorities or by physical attacks from other prisoners,” Hopwood said. “You have to remain vigilant at all times when you’re in a serious prison like I was.

I found solace in the law and reading books and education. That sustained me throughout my time in prison.”

After teaching himself law for 18 months, Hopwood became a jailhouse lawyer, typing out two certiorari petitions to the United States Supreme Court on the prison typewriter. He argued for a judicial review of the inmates’ cases.

John Fellers, one of these inmates, had not been provided Miranda rights, constitutionally protected rights for inmates including freedom from self-incrimination,

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Shon Hopwood, who will teach at the Georgetown University Law Center in the fall 2017 semester, was convicted of a string of bank robberies in Nebraska when he was 22 years old and served 11 years in a federal prison. during his arrest, in violation of the Sixth Amendment.

Ultimately, the Supreme Court granted hearings to both of his petitions.

Hashimoto said the Supreme Court granting a certiorari petition — let alone that of a self-taught, federal inmate — is extremely rare.

“He had researched just as a lawyer would do and could present the issue in a way that the United States Supreme Court could understand it and understand why he was right,” Hashimoto said.

“That’s pretty amazing for somebody who hadn’t at that point even graduated from college, let alone law school.”

Upon his release from prison in 2009, Hopwood

said he struggled to find lasting employment. After working briefly as a telemarketer, he landed his first legal job at Cockle Printing in Omaha, Neb., where lawyers from all over the country filed briefs to the Supreme Court.

Following his wife’s urging, Hopwood returned to school, earning an undergraduate degree from Bellevue University in Nebraska, and a law degree from the University of Washington. Upon graduation, he worked multiple clerkships for well-known judges, and passed the bar examination in 2014. In 2015, he applied for a fellowship with the Georgetown Appellate Litigation Clinic.

Professor Steven Goldblatt, the clinic’s other co-

director, said Hopwood’s analytical abilities set him apart from other applicants.

“My first impressions were that he was very interesting, very talented,” Goldblatt said. “It was clear to me that his analytical skills were off the charts. He has a knack and a talent with the law that he can be very creative, and it comes very naturally.”

Hashimoto said she is confident Hopwood will be an incredible professor.

“The students will learn so much from him, just as the clinic students have learned from him,” Hashimoto said. “They will certainly learn the basics of lawyering that they need from the classes he teaches, but they also will understand the ways in

which law affects people.

That’s one of the most important things that we can help our students understand when they’re in law school. When they go out and become practicing lawyers, law is not a game.”

Hopwood said the main lesson he hopes to impart on his future students is that the law has real-world consequences.

“Law is not just words on a page,” he said. “It impacts people sometimes for life. One wrong mistake can impact someone’s life forever. I would hope that they would see me as having a lot of passion towards criminal law and trying to make society better, and maybe that would inspire them to go into the same field.”

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Report Finds Press Freedom Decline Lavender Graduation Draws Hundreds Hannah Urtz Hoya Staff Writer

Press freedoms have declined in the United States and around the world as authoritarian governments and strongmen erode journalist protections, according to Reporters Without Borders’ 2017 World Press Freedom Index that was announced yesterday.

Compiled in partnership with The Washington Post and presented at the paper’s office, the report concludes that press freedoms around the world have reached a tipping point, with attacks on the media becoming common and the protection of journalists worsening in democracies. The United States in particular fell from 41st to 43rd in Reporters Without Borders’ ratings, now ranked behind France, the United Kingdom, Belize and Burkina Faso.

Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands were in the top five nations for press freedom, based on analysis of opinion pluralism, media independence, transparency, infrastructure quality, legislative restrictions and general editorial environment.

Washington Post Managing Editor Cameron Barr said journalism faces a uniquely difficult time in modern history.

“This conversation comes at a complex time for journalism. Governments and non-state groups are restricting the ability for reporters to do their jobs, in some cases through the use of intimidation and violence,” Barr said in the event introduction.

“Fake news is proliferating, making it harder for readers to discern what is truth and what is fiction. And just about anyone with access to the In-

ternet can practice journalism, or claim to.”

Since the start of his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked the news media in the United States, referring to major news outlets as “fake news” and labelling the press the “enemy of the American people” in a Feb. 17 tweet.

Presented by Reporters Without Borders’ North America Director Delphine Halgand, the event featured a conversation with a panel of journalists from Turkey, Syria and Canada, who discussed the state of press freedom around the globe.

Reporters Without Borders has published the World Press Freedom Index annually since 2002. The index measures the level of freedom of information in 180 countries and reflects the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations and citizens enjoy in each country, and the efforts made by authorities to respect and protect this freedom.

The U.S. rank has varied significantly over the last decade, typically standing between the high 30s and 40s.

Halgand said the United States’ fall in rankings reflects dwindling media freedom and animosity from the government.

“This year’s index reflects a world in which attacks on the media have become commonplace, and strong men are on the rise. This index highlights the danger of a tipping point in the state of media freedom, especially in leading democracies,” Halgand said.

Reporters Without Borders listed the relationship between Trump and the media, as well as the lack of legal protection for journalists both at home and abroad, as the main reasons for this lower ranking.

“Despite the bleak outlook

under Trump, it bears repeating that his predecessor left behind a flimsy legacy for press freedom and access to information,” Reporters Without Borders stated in their online report.

The Reporters Without Borders report emphasized the fact that American journalists are still not protected by a federal “shield law,” which would guarantee their right to protect their sources and other confidential work-related information. A number of states with better scores than the U.S. have shield laws, including France, the U.K. and Norway.

According to the Freedom Index Report, prolonged searches of journalists and their devices at the U.S. border have increased, with some foreign journalists being prevented from traveling to the United States. after covering sensitive topics such as Colombia’s insurgent Revolutionary Armed Forces or the Kurdish ethnic group in Syria, Turkey and Iraq.

For example, in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has led a crackdown on journalists and dissidents, jailing 81 reporters in 2016 — more than any other country — according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Turkey ranks 155th out of 180 in the Reporters Without Borders report.

Prior to presenting the Freedom Index, Halgand called attention to the many journalists who have been persecuted and detained in conflict zones, including journalist and Georgetown graduate Austin Tice (SFS ’02), who went missing in Syria in 2012. Georgetown and the GULC Bar Association have provided aid and support to Tice’s family, and a group of students started a petition to urge former President Barack Obama free Tice last

November.

“Here today, I am thinking especially of one American journalist. His name is Austin Tice. Thank you for not forgetting him, and for working with us to do everything possible to bring him home,” Halgand said.

Tice, a former Georgetown Law student and Marine Corps veteran, went missing in Syria in 2012 while working as a freelance journalist covering the conflict there for McClatchy Newspapers, The Washington Post, CBS and other media outlets. RSF believes that Tice is still alive, currently being held captive in the Middle East.

Reporters Without Borders launched a pro bono campaign to #FreeAustinTice in February 2015. This campaign, motivated by the nonprofit’s desire to raise awareness for captured journalists and assist their family members, encouraged supporters to sign a petition addressed to Obama and to spread awareness through social media. Supporters posted photos of themselves blindfolded on social media as part of The Blindfold Pledge, acknowledging Austin’s unanswered kidnapping.

According to Reporters Without Borders, the blindfold symbolizes the fact that when journalists are silenced, all people are all deprived of information.

Georgetown University journalism professor and former reporter for The Washington Post Athelia Knight attended the event and said she appreciated the mention of Tice.

“I am pleased that Austin Tice was mentioned in the opening remarks by Delphine Halgand. Clearly, he has not been forgotten by the world press,” Halgand said. “I hope he is released soon.”

Hoya Staff Writer Molly Cooke contributed reporting.

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The United States fell from 41st to 43rd place in Reporters Without Borders’ 2017 World Press Freedom Index, which cited increased government hostility toward the press and the continued lack of legal protections for journalists.

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Three hundred members of the LGBTQ community and allies gathered at the ninth annual Lavender Graduation ceremony to celebrate the accomplishments of the class of 2017 in the Healey Family Student Center Great Room last night.

Organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBTQ Life, the celebration recognized 113 students from all undergraduate and graduate schools of Georgetown University. It featured speeches from Dean of Students and Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Jeanne Lord, University President John J. DeGioia, Fr. Michael A. Zampelli, S.J. (CAS ’82) and senior speaker Luke Brown (COL ’17).

Additional awards were presented to six students and one faculty member for their work with the LGBTQ community, as well as to the center’s 10 undergraduate Out for Change fellows, who participated in a yearlong initiative to explore “queer masculinities.”

With standing room only and attendance by numerous staff and faculty, this year’s ceremony is an example of how LGBTQ initiatives on campus have grown since the first official Lavender Graduation in 2009, according to LGBTQ Resource Center Director Shiva Subbaraman.

Although students had been hosting their own ceremonies for many years before, the event has expanded in size and support every year it has been held, Subbaraman said.

“The most joyful thing about this has been the numbers and numbers of faculty and staff and other administrators who come out to show love and support for our students. It’s quite amazing. President DeGioia has come since 2012. It’s one ceremony he will not miss no matter what happens,” Subbaraman said in an interview with The Hoya.

DeGioia said Lavender Graduation is an important tradition to recognize the roles members of the LGBTQ community play on campus.

“Each of you has made your own unique and lasting contributions to our univer-

sity. You’ve enlivened our mission with your passion and talents. You’ve enriched and strengthened our university in countless ways,” DeGioia said in his address to the graduates.

Zampelli, who was an executive producer of the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society during his time at Georgetown, is the first Jesuit to speak at Lavender Graduation. He has done pastoral work with LGBTQ Catholics through the Catholic Association for Lesbian and Gay Ministry.

At the ceremony, Zampelli reflected on his experience at Georgetown when he faced the decision to stand with LGBTQ friends. He said his commitment to the LGBTQ community today was “born out of a failure.”

“Something deep inside pulled me toward the conversation in which people were laboring to understand more adequately a range of identities, sexual, religious, political. Something deep inside pulled me, and I did nothing,” he said.

Brown reflected on being the fourth white cisgender male to address the audience, saying his experience at Georgetown has come with significant privilege.

“I have been welcomed here on the Hilltop in the fullness of my gay identity, yet I know not everyone can point to such a cookie-cutter, picture-perfect narrative as mine,” Brown said. “We, white people, men, cis people and other privileged identities especially, must remember that marginalization and oppression do not exist somewhere out in the world.

Rather they work through us and in us, whether or not we acknowledge that fact.”

Lavender Graduation was held during the final week of classes because many LGBTQidentified students or allies are unable to celebrate their identities with their families, according to LGBTQ Resource Center Assistant Director Julian Haas.

“In response to that shame and guilt, this large ceremony of the entire campus community is really our way of saying, ‘We are proud of you despite what other things go on in our life,” Haas said in an interview with The Hoya.

Metro Proposes Budget Increase, Worker Benefit Cuts Marina Pitofsky and Madeline Charbonneau Hoya Staff Writers

Amid recent criticism for its labor policies and a meltdown on the Red line Thursday morning, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority General Manager Paul Wiedefeld announced plans to implement a new business model to increase WMATA’s budget by $500 million per year and cut worker retirement benefits April 19.

The proposal calls for WMATA’s Capital Investment, the organization’s funding from local governments, to be available for use on a multi-year basis until Metro’s budget is stabilized, calling the current annual plan stifling for the organization. Local governments that use WMATA rail and bus services would also provide $500 million in extra funding each year.

WMATA has already announced fare hikes and reduced services beginning in July as part of Metro’s efforts to avoid a $1.1 billion budget deficit by 2020. In addition to the fare hikes, WMATA’s 2018 fiscal year budget of $3.1 billion proposes eliminating 14 low-traffic Metrobus lines, reducing service hours, cutting nearly 1,000 jobs and requesting additional funding from the local governments of the District, Virginia and Maryland.

The plan also proposes a sales tax for local jurisdictions to pay for the expanded funding, though each jurisdiction is free to raise the necessary funds in any way it chooses.

Wiedefeld said the proposal is necessary for WMATA’s future because current operating expenses are nearly double what the organization gains in revenue.

“WMATA has completed

a detailed analysis of the financial challenges it faces and practical requirements necessary to keep Metro safe, reliable and affordable,” Wiedefeld wrote in the plan.

Metro has faced a series of malfunctions and safety hazards on its rail service. Most recently, riders on the Red line faced delays for several hours Thursday and evacuated following reports of smoke between the Metro Center and Farragut North stations.

The smoke was detected at approximately 7:30 a.m., according to WMATA spokesman Richard Jordan. Following protocol, trains in the affected area between Dupont Circle and Gallery Place were suspended and the fire department was notified. Metro service on the Red line was restored at approximately 11 a.m., according to Metro.

The proposal also outlines methods of limiting WMATA’s operations costs, which includes limiting resources to WMATA employees, such as “strengthening management of absenteeism, overtime, and workers’ compensation;” reducing “reliance on overtime and prevent fatigue by staffing up key operating positions” and providing all new WMATA employees with 401(k) retirement benefit plans instead of the current pension plans primarily funded by Metro.

401(k) plans, on average, are largely funded by employees, as employer contributions are not required.

Wiedefeld said though the new plan may provide fewer resources to employees, addressing WMATA’s financial realities is critical.

“I think that the union, and all of our employees, need to understand the conditions we’re under,” Wiedefeld said

in a press conference April 20. “They may not agree with it, but that isn’t because I’m trying to do anything against them personally.”

Over the next 10 years, WMATA is looking to raise a total of $15.5 billion dollars to renovate and maintain the Metrorail and Metrobus system for riders across the District, Virginia and Maryland.

Wiedefeld addressed this budget issue at a press conference Thursday afternoon, saying that Metro is taking steps to conduct preventative maintenance and update the system beginning July 1, with funding from his business proposal.

“The issues that we had this morning are ones that we’ve been clear about that are not going to disappear overnight. They were not made overnight and we have to continue to work through those. And that’s why we’ve requested and received the ability to get more hours into the system starting July 1,” Wiedefeld said.

Labor union leaders oppose the budget plan. Shortly after the announcement, WMATA leaders received nearly 500 absence requests for Friday from workers in the local Amalgamated Transit Union 689, which represents WMATA transit employees.

WMATA rejected all of the requests.

Though ATU Local 689 President Jackie Jeter said the organization is not planning a “sick-out,” or an organized event in which workers abstain from coming in to work, she emphasized that individuals are free to protest in whatever way they see fit.

“There is a possibility that members have taken it upon themselves to start following

the directives that WMATA has given,” Jeter told The Washington Post. “Local 689 supports the actions of the members 100 percent. We support what they’re doing.”

However, Jeter was critical of WMATA leadership for not granting the absence requests, as workers are typically granted these requests so long as they are submitted three days before an absence.

“Will WMATA accept the responsibility of refusing a person who is legitimately sick from getting a doctor’s care Friday?” Jeter wrote in an email to Wiedefeld on Thursday.

A WMATA memorandum on the high volume of ab-

sence requests said employees who do not report to work on Friday will receive negative marks on their individual disciplinary records.

The critiques come amidst an already tense relationship between WMATA employees and its leadership.

After Rep. John Delaney (DMd.) introduced the WMATA Improvement Act of 2017 on Feb. 16, which aims to grant Metro management greater power in reassigning workers and relying on outside contractors to complete the work typically completed by WMATA employees, ATU International President Lawrence Hanley called the plan heartless, cruel

and “among the most outrageous proposals ever put forth by a Democratic member of Congress in recent memory.”

The House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law is currently reviewing this legislation.

“The bill holds hostage hundreds of millions of sorely-needed dollars from WMATA until our collective bargaining agreement is changed to allow the transit authority to ‘implement all necessary operational changes required’ and lower costs by outsourcing our work,” Hanley told WMATA management Monday.

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GU to Offer Disabilities Studies Minor in Fall MINOR, from A1 has the potential to reinforce the university’s broader mission of nurturing the individual’s mind, body and spirit, according to Libbie Rifkin, professor of English and head of the working group.

“What I think Georgetown is poised to contribute to this array of existing programs is the relationship that the field of disability studies has to our mission,” Rifkin said. “The notion of educating the whole person and really thinking about what it means to educate the whole person and what are our notions of the healthy body, the normative mind, the worthwhile life — those are all questions that disabilities studies asks.”

Working group member and professor Sylvia Önden said the group is confident that interested students will also engage in some form of community-based learning, particularly due to their access to D.C. institutions.

“We would have a list of placements where students could work in organizations and do the work that is intimately connected to disability studies but we weren’t going to make it a requirement of the minor,” Önden said. “We expect that most of our students would want to do community-based learning, which seems to be a natural fit with the topic.”

Belser emphasized that

the minor would encourage students to engage with deeper questions about disability, such as its significance across time and cultures and the broader notions of social power.

“The fact that Georgetown students can train to make a difference in the larger world, that’s great.”

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“If we recognize that cultures develop a certain sense of what constitutes normal, disability is really those human experiences that fall outside the boundaries of the norm,” Belser said. “So, in many ways I think disability studies is the critical interrogation of this notion of normalcy and deviance.”

The active support of the student body was crucial in getting the minor approved, according to the members of the working group. Last spring, the Georgetown University Student Association ran an online petition in support of approving the minor, which garnered 618 signatures.

Former GUSA Accessibility Policy Chair Danielle

Zamalin (NHS ’18) said that GUSA recognized the need to become more involved in supporting academic initiatives related to disability studies.

“GUSA has always cosponsored the Disability Studies Lecture Series, and been part of important accessibility discussions on campus and throughout the campus-plan, but we knew we could do more in terms of student engagement on the academic side,” Zamalin wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The recognition of the field is important in light of the need to advance intellectual engagement with disability and promote greater tolerance than that displayed by current leaders, according to Zamalin.

“Our own president has mocked a disabled reporter.

Let that register. The example of leadership that generations of young people will witness is a figure shrouded in ableism and simultaneously completely unlearned in Disability Studies,” Zamalin wrote.

“As an educational institution we are the country’s only resource to combat such prejudice and ignorance; we have the opportunity to teach. So the attainment of a minor, especially in this climate, is good. The fact that Georgetown students can train to make a difference in the larger world, that’s great.”

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Professor Julia Watts Belser has helped to lead the development of the disability studies minor, which willl be introduced this fall after a successful student-led petition.

Ginsburg Cautions Against Unconscious Gender Biases JUSTICE, from A1

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Wendy Willliams, left, Mary Hartnett, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Robert A. Katzmann discuss Ginsburg’s career in Gaston Hall on Thursday.

“There was the woman who took care of the home and children and the man who took care of the family’s economic wellbeing.

And many laws were written with that picture of the world in mind,” Ginsburg said. “So the effort was to say there’s something wrong with that picture of the world. The object was to break down all those explicit genderbased distinctions so people could be free to be you and me.”

Ginsburg, who has served more than two decades on the Supreme Court, said she believes in the power of the law to evolve as times change.

“The great thing about our constitution is that, like our society, it can evolve,” Ginsburg said.

Currently, Ginsburg is one of three women on the Supreme Court. In 1993, when she was sworn in, she was the second female justice to be confirmed, joining former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who resigned from the court in 2006.

Ginsburg said O’Connor’s departure

from the court led to the most significant shift in the Supreme Court in her time on the bench.

“The biggest change in the 24 years I’ve been there is when Justice O’Connor retired. Before, there were the two of us.

We didn’t talk alike, we didn’t walk alike,” Ginsburg said. “But when Justice O’Connor left, there were these eight, most of them rather wealthy, men, and then this small little woman.”

Ginsburg said her husband Martin Ginsburg, a former GULC professor, was her biggest supporter and showed her what a partnership could look like. Ginsburg often referred to her Martin Ginsburg as a life partner, rather than husband.

“Marty was the first boy, probably the only boy, who cared that I had a brain,” Ginsburg said.

While Ginsburg’s “dissent jabot” has gained her a reputation as an avid dissenter, according to legal scholars, she said she aims to exercise that right only when necessary.

“I do not take every opportunity to dissent. I do try to save them for when

it counts, when it really matters,” Ginsburg said.

“I keep on my desk the unpublished opinions of Justice Brandeis. His view was his voice would be all the more compelling if he only dissented when it really mattered.”

Ginsburg hopes her work helps improve individuals’ state of living and ultimately contributes to a better world.

“I would like to be thought of as a person who cares about people and does the best she can with the talents she has to make a contribution to a better world,” Ginsburg said.

The Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, chief judge for the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, who moderated the discussion, said Ginsburg has made enormous contributions to American society.

“Justice Ginsburg is celebrated for her impact as a judge on this country’s highest court, the secondlongest member on the court, for her path marking contributions to laws’ developments, for her methodical, brilliant analyses and concise, elegant prose,” Katzmann said.

2 Referendum Questions Bowser Proposes New Fail After Low Turnout Sexual Assault Resources REFERENDUM, from A1 the student body to decide who represents them and how they are represented,” Mack said. “Now that the question of the internal structure is sort of settled, I am definitely excited to get to work with on issues such as affordability, student health and many other ways to help the student body.”

No one was to blame for low voter turnout, according to Mack.

“Now is just the end of April and a lot of people are turning their vision to finals and Georgetown Day is a big event happening tomorrow. I don’t know who the blame is for the turnout. I don’t think anyone is to blame for the turnout,” Mack said.

GUSA Election Commissioner Grady Willard (SFS ’18) said the time of year and nature of the referendum topic prevented voter turnout from reaching 25 percent.

“This referendum was a low turnout referendum in part because it was done in April and we are obviously

not used to doing elections in April and it was a very arcane topic: GUSA restructuring,” Willard said. “It was held over three days to try to get more votes out.”

The polling station in Red Square, which ran from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., was one of the highest sources of votes, garnering about 100 to 150 votes on the last day, according to Willard. There were no irregularities with voting on Hoyalink.

GUSA Senate Speaker Richard Mullaney (COL ’18) said voter turnout was an initial concern and that the senate needs to improve its outreach efforts.

“Students clearly support this type of reform but GUSA still has a lot of work to do engaging students,” Mullaney wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I’m extremely proud of the senate’s ability to address its own problems and seek to improve them. This senate is not too keen on giving up. I expect that we will continue to move forward with our efforts to better serve the students of Georgetown.”

Students were able to

vote for 72 hours and were able to vote on both referendum questions or just one.

GUSA Sen. Scott Lowder (COL ’17) said the 7 percent of voters who voted against the anti-inclusivity referendum should alarm all students.

“The fact that 113 students voted against basic non-discrimination protections should shock and disgust every decent Hoya on this campus and encourage all of us to stay vigilant in support of the marginalized communities among us,” Lowder wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Mack said the executive will continue to work with the senate to achieve policy objectives.

“We still want to work hand in hand with the senate. For us all we care about is improving the student experience, we are definitely going to zone in on working on the issues,” Mack said. “The referendum is time for us to reflect on what are the good things and what are the bad things about the structure.”

PROPOSAL, from A1 not properly investigated and that victims often faced cold and inconsiderate treatment, discouraging victims from reporting assaults.

Bowser said the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Amendment Act of 2017 provides support and help to sexual assault survivors.

“Ensuring the safety of every Washingtonian has been my administration’s top priority since day one, and this legislation will help us do more to provide critical support for the victims of sexual assault,” Bowser said in an April 13 press conference. “Through this legislation, we can ensure that every victim of sexual assault — no matter their background — is treated with fairness and dignity.”

Newsham said the new act will work to improve current police and District government officials’ practices.

“In policing, we have evolved quite a bit in how we approach sexual assault investigations. This is

an evolution. I don’t think we’re done. I think there will be also additional legislation in the future that will help us provide better service to the victims. I would call this one step forward in the right direction,” Newsham said.

Taskforce member Michelle Garcia, the director of the D.C. Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants, said the legislation’s strength lies in its specific programs dedicated to survivors of sexual assault, such as expanding the number of sexual assault advocates across the District.

“Right now, sexual assault victims have a right to a confidential advocate in very narrow circumstances,” Garcia said. “They can also provide information about what their options are and assist victims in making informed decisions about what choices they want to make [and] how they want to move forward, whether that’s through the criminal or civil justice systems or other directions.”

The task force worked for over a year and a half to examine the systems that

were already in place in the District to look at best practices and develop recommendations, according to Garcia.

“This package of the legislation reflects that very thoughtful and deliberate process, and we absolutely believe that this package will contribute to a better response for victims and survivors, more accountability for offenders and an overall safer and stronger District of Columbia,” Garcia said.

Laura Kovach, the director of the Georgetown University Women’s Center, said the additional support for advocates is key in encouraging survivors to report instances of sexual assault.

“A sexual assault advocate can help survivors navigate processes, advocate on their behalf with healthcare and law enforcement and be a supportive presence for them from start to finish,” Kovach wrote in an email to The Hoya. “If our community resources are strong and survivors have access to advocates they are more likely to get the care they need and possibly pursue the criminal justice system.”

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Student Launches Book, Sports Advisory Firm yasmine salam Hoya Staff Writer

When Shiv Jhangiani (MSB ’19) registered for a McDonough School of Business class last year billed as a course on entrepreneurship and venture capitalism, he did not expect he would end up a published author.

Jhangiani is one of 15 students whose books were published by New Degree Press after taking an McDonough School of Business course last semester. He released his book, “1.3 Billion: A Football Revolution in the Making” to contribute to the development of football in India and launch his career in the sports industry in the Healey Family Student Center on Tuesday.

The 15 students had their books published after taking “Launching the Venture,” a course in the MSB that taught students how to launch their own businesses and write books on subjects about which they were most passionate.

Jhangiani presented his book at the annual Sant Jordi celebration, a Catalan celebration similar to Valentine’s Day, organized by the Spanish department last Monday.

Since the release of his book, Jhangiani has launched his own firm, Billion Dollar Food, a sports advisory company that aims to connect an interested party, whether a European football team, a worldwide brand

or an individual investor, to Indian football.

Jhangiani said he has been passionate about football since he was young, when he aspired to be a professional football player. Serious knee injuries prevented his football career from materializing while young, but his passion for football and his homeland remains.

The book focuses on potential ways to develop football in India.

“The main parts to the book are where football is currently in India, where it needs to go, why the world needs Indian football and why India needs football,” Jhangiani said. “It looks at the issue from the outside: how European clubs, if they were to invest in Indian football, how they can do that, the different ways a big club can do it, a smaller club can do it and how that can impact Indian football.”

Jhangiani said his personal experience with football in India urged him to recognize the lack of development in the sport.

“I moved to India when I was 11, which is an age where you need to be playing football day in, day out if you want to be making it professionally. I found it really tough to find a place to play because there wasn’t a structure where the teams had youth clubs where people can come in to train every day,” Jhangiani said.

Luck and the right connections enabled him to play at the right level, according to Jhangiani.

“I didn’t really get anything through the football system in India. I just got very lucky in the people that I met and was really in the right place in the right time and that is how I got my opportunity to move to France,” Jhangiani said. “I was given a trial by a football team in France through an agent who is Indian.”

Jhangiani said he wants to develop a more formal structure for Indian football players to access resources to play professionally.

“There isn’t a whole infrastructure. There isn’t a whole setup for it and that is what needs to be developed right now,” Jhangiani said.

Jhangiani said the lack of academic material on Indian football was a source of difficulty.

“There are literally no books on football in India so I just did not know where to start,” Jhangiani said. “There is not a lot of material about Indian football apart from news articles which have come up very, very recently.”

Jhangiani has partnered with multiple departments on campus to promote the recent launch of his book, including the French and Spanish language departments and entrepreneurship groups at Georgetown.

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portune time as India prepares to host the [FIFA] U-17 Football World Cup. There is a tremendous push by the government and businesses to gain the footballing world’s attention; one hopes that Jhangiani’s work also gets attention and that he can jump onto the bandwagon of world football’s next revolution,” Johri said.

The U-17 Football World Cup is a competition for football players under 17 years of age.

So far, Jhangiani has sold over 100 e-books on pre-release through Amazon and is hoping to sell as many paperbacks as possible. He intends to pursue partnerships with consulting firms Deloitte and Credit

Vilardell, who managed the question-and-answer section of his book presentation, said the intersection between Indian football and international football interested her.

“We need more books like Shiv’s book because I think it gives you an image not only of Indian football, but also how it compares to all other leagues in the world,” Vilardell said.

“It will probably be the first of many books about Indian football because it is a topic that a lot of people are interested in.”

Vilardell said Jhangiani’s research about the Spanish soccer team F.C. Barcelona made his book presentation pertinent to the Spanish department.

“I thought we should do something with the department because he is interested in La Masia and F.C. Barcelona.

He had done some interviews with people who are part of the directive leadership of Barca. This is a very interesting link because of the heavy football culture Spain has,” Vilardell said.

Jhangiani has also sought links with India Initiative, a student and faculty-organized effort at Georgetown to advance teaching and research about India and world affairs.

India Initiative student fellow Yash Johri (SFS ’17) said Jhangiani’s book launch came at an opportune time for Indian sports. “[The book] comes at an op-

Suisse to buy mass numbers of books.

Jhangiani said he wants to use his book to help him break into the sports management industry, setting himself apart from most of his MSB peers.

“I wanted to use the book to get my foot into the sports industry because it’s not an industry like banking or consulting where there is a path drawn out for you and you just follow it,” he said. “I want to prove to the world of sports why I deserve to have my place in that world. But I want to sell as many copies as possible to raise awareness about Indian football.”

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Shiv Jhangiani (MSB ’19) launched an entrepreneurship career after publishing a book through an MSB course.

The Hoya Transitions to New Staff, Online Format william zhu Hoya Staff Writer

The Hoya published its first issue today after transitioning to a new editorial and publishing staff for the fall semester.

This issue will be the first print issue of The Hoya after its transition to an online daily, print weekly publication.

Toby Hung (COL ’18), will continue to serve as the 143rd editor-in-chief of The Hoya, beginning the second half of his yearlong term. Daniel Almeida (MSB ’18), The Hoya’s business director, will also remain in his

position to finish the second half of his term next semester.

Ian Scoville (COL ’19) and Marina Tian (NHS ’19), who served as campus news editor and Guide editor, respectively, during the spring, will begin their semesterlong terms as executive editors.

Scoville expressed enthusiasm for The Hoya’s expansion to a daily publication.

“It’s an exciting time for The Hoya,” Scoville said. “Marina and I look forward to expanding our coverage to be more inclusive of typically underrepresented populations and

to better suit the evolving nature of journalism.”

Jesus Rodriguez (SFS ’19), who was managing editor in the spring, will continue serving as the managing editor for the upcoming semester. Rodriguez said he looks forward to working with the new staff in continuing The Hoya’s work.

“The one constant task of our jobs as part of The Hoya’s leadership is to continually look for ways to improve and innovate,” Rodriguez said.

“I am thrilled to keep doing that for another term along-

side our most talented: Marina, Ian and Toby.”

Matthew Trunko (MSB ’18) will be taking over from Kristen Fedor (COL ’17) as chair of the board of directors for a yearlong term. Trunko said he is eager to further his work for The Hoya, which has played a pivotal role in his time at Georgetown.

“I am very honored and excited to have been elected the new chairman. The Hoya has been the hallmark of my Georgetown career,” Trunko said. “By working with our talented team, I want to en-

sure that future generations of staffers and readers have access to The Hoya’s unique experience.”

Maura McDonough (COL ’18) will be serving as Vice President of Technical Operations. McDonough said she is eager to bring to bear her extensive experience to enhance The Hoya’s staff and the publishing division.

“I plan to bring along insight and skills that will add to an already incredibly hardworking and revolutionary staff,” McDonough said. “My goal is to bring

Panelists Examine Trump Trade Policy patricja okuniewska Hoya Staff Writer

President Donald Trump is challenging standing trade rules and agreements, but the extent to which he will continue to do so is uncertain, according to the speakers at the International Trade Under Trump event in Healy Hall 105 on April 25.

The event, hosted by the Alexander Hamilton Society, featured panelists Michael J. Smart, former director for international trade on the National Security Council, and Rodney D. Ludema, Ph.D, Georgetown professor and former chief economist of the U.S. Department of State. Georgetown professor Robert Lieber moderated the event.

Lieber introduced the panel and said Trump’s policies have been characterized by a populist spirit.

“The issues and positions that [Trump] took during the election campaign were highly controversial,” Lieber said. “The positions he and his administration have adopted since that time often represent considerable changes from what transpired during the campaign, like the impulses of nationalism and populism which were expressed by President Trump during the campaign and were expressed by many of his supporters and voters.”

Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump has criticized existing trade deals and proposed expansions to the free trade regime former President Barack Obama pursued during his term. POLITICO first reported Trump was considering signing an executive order to initiate the United States’ withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement, a multilateral deal between Canada, Mexico and the United States which removes tariffs on trade between the three nations.

Ludema said the uncertainty surrounding Trump’s actions will have a negative effect on international trade.

“I think it’s part of the prob-

lem from an economic standpoint that we really don’t know the answers to these questions, and that’s actually by itself extremely bad for international trade. International trade relies on investments. Uncertainty itself kills that,” Ludema said.

“We’re already in this protectionist climate simply because of the guessing game between Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the one hand, and what he’ll actually do.”

Lieber noted that 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major United States-led trade agreement. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton did so as well, though after calling the agreement the “gold standard” as secretary of state in 2012.

The TPP was a multilateral trade agreement between 11 Asian, North and South American countries including the United States which reduced tariffs and other barriers to free trade between the 12 nations, including a mechanism for countries to settle commercial disputes.

Lieber said this opposition from both sides of the political spectrum demonstrated the challenges free trade proponents faced during the election campaign.

“The challenges to an open political trading regime become very evident well before the election,” Lieber said.

Smart noted Trump’s criticism of existing trade agreements, namely NAFTA, which Trump has criticized and signaled support for a potential withdrawal as early as this week, as he approaches his 100th day in office.

“What do we see as we approach the 100-day mark of the administration? Well, I think what you see is a deceleration of his ambition to get out there and renegotiate,” Smart said.

The Trump administration is receiving significant pushback from trading partners and the private sector, according to Smart. Smart added the administration may face difficulties negotiating with other

parties to the agreements.

“I think one of the biggest flaws in the thinking of this administration is that the U.S. has all the leverage — when we say we want to renegotiate and essentially set the terms. And while the U.S. does have a lot of leverage, the other side has some too. I think they’re starting to discover that,” Smart said.

Smart also said the administration has signaled intent to use trade remedies, including the pursuit of anti-dumping and safeguard policies, even more so than previous administrations. Throughout his campaign, Trump signaled support for stricter WTO regulation of Chinese economic policy.

“The United States has never been bashful about using these trade remedies; to listen to the campaign rhetoric, you’d think that they were.” Smart said. “But the administration came in and they were even more determined to be even more aggressive — and China is really their target.”

Ludema said he believes the administration’s protectionist campaign rhetoric will be limited by its powers under current World Trade Organization rules.

“I expect reality to come crashing in and I expect rationality to prevail. As a result, what I think is going to happen is that in order to make good on campaign promises, the Trump administration is going to have to take some protectionist actions,” Ludema said, “but they’ll do those things that are already legal to do under existing rules.”

Smart said he is less hopeful about the administration’s harm to the present system and order.

“The more aggressive use of trade remedies is something this administration is absolutely going to do,” Smart said.

“About half of all WTO decisions have been about trade remedies, and so the way we administer these rules has come under heavy international scrutiny.”

even more efficiency and inclusivity to the already very well-run publishing division. “ Gabriella Cerio (COL ’18), who now serves as Vice President of corporate communications, said she is looking forward to helping The Hoya in its transition to an online daily.

“I am looking forward to being part of such a transformative year at The Hoya and working and learning with some of the most talented, passionate students on campus,” Cerio said.

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After three years as runners-up in the Big East Tournament, the women’s golf team captures the title and three players are named to the Big East All-Tournament Team.

culture is very strong, and I say a huge majority of that is because of Jacquelyn.

She’s a very natural leader,” Head Coach Katie Brophy said.

Freshman Ashley Fitzgibbons and sophomore Christina Parsells also had strong performances that helped the Blue and Gray clinch their championship victory.

Fitzgibbons finished No. 10 in the field and had eight birdies, and Parsells tied for No. 18 at 20-overpar 236. Overall, Georgetown led all teams in pars and birdies with 164 and 34, respectively.

“There’s something extremely special about this group of girls,” Eleey said.

With the win, the Hoyas move on to their first NCAA Championship. To the players, going into the

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“It’s all about peaking at the right time and putting together three great rounds.”

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“We all have the talent and the skills. We just have to not get in our own ways to let that talent shine on the golf course,” Popowitz said.

Aside from the mental game, Brophy looks to work on some fundamentals with the team before it begins in regionals.

“We’re going to work a lot on our short game, we

saw down in South Carolina that the play around the greens really determined who the winner was,” Brophy said.

With the stakes at their highest, the players feel now is the right time for them to play their best golf.

“All of our hard work all fall and spring has led up to this point, and now that it’s paid off, we still have more work to do because I know we still have three more awesome rounds in us, and I don’t think we peaked yet. It’s all about peaking at the right time and putting together three great rounds, so the team is really excited to represent Georgetown in their first ever regionals,” Eleey said.

Georgetown will play in the NCAA Tournament Lubbock Regional from May 7-9.

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Ewing has met with another impressive Class of 2017 recruit, Tremont Waters, who had signed a letter of intent to play for the Hoyas before de-committing amid uncertainty surrounding the program’s future. Waters has said that Georgetown remains in the mix as he chooses a school for next season.

Long-term recruiting also appears to be a priority. Last weekend, during the first live-recruiting period of Ewing’s tenure, Georgetown staff members were spotted at major AAU tournaments in New York City, Dallas and Hampton, Va., and were rumored to be talking with a number of top prospects in the Classes of 2018 and 2019.

Ewing himself was spotted in Hampton taking in the action at the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League.

In order to assist him in this area, Ewing has expressed a desire to add an experienced staff of assistant coaches. Two of Georgetown’s rumored hires, both of whom have been reportedly finalized, are former Seton Hall Head Coach Louis Orr and current LSU Assistant Coach Robert Kirby.

Orr, a former teammate of Ewing’s with the New York Knicks, has 13 years of experience as a college head coach,

including five seasons at Georgetown’s Big East rival, Seton Hall. Orr’s experience should allow him to provide guidance on running a program and navigating the NCAA, as well as assisting with in-game strategy.

Kirby, an assistant coach at Georgetown from 201012, is known as an excellent recruiter, particularly in the Southern states. During his tenure at Georgetown, he was instrumental in recruiting Otto Porter Jr., who starred at Georgetown before being selected by the Washington Wizards in the 2013 NBA Draft In addition, Central Florida’s Jamill Jones and Louisiana Tech’s Tony Skinn have been discussed as potential assistant coach candidates. Both have experience coaching with Team Takeover, a premier AAU program in the Washington, D.C. area, and hiring either Jones or Skinn could provide additional advantages related to recruiting.

Finally, Ewing and his staff have also been successful in convincing current players to stay. When college programs make a coaching change, it is fairly common that players transfer to other schools, as their relationships with the coaches who recruited them are often an important component of their decision to attend a certain

school.

In Georgetown’s case, however, it appears that all current players will stay. Ewing has said that he plans to meet with each player individually, and it seems that he has been successful in selling his vision to them for the program. Additionally, junior forward Trey Mourning, who had been rumored to be transferring, is listed on the updated Georgetown roster, and Class of 2017 recruit Antwan Walker has reaffirmed his commitment to the Hoyas. With Blair’s addition, it appears that Georgetown has 10 scholarship players on board for next season. While there is still work to be done to fill some of the three remaining scholarships, Ewing has made a promising start for next season.

Unquestionably, we are in the very early stages of Ewing’s tenure on the Hilltop. There is still a great deal of work to be done in the areas of fan engagement, recruiting and staffing. Nonetheless, the promising signs in Ewing’s early weeks appear to overcome his areas of inexperience and seem to place the historic Georgetown program back on track.

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Continuing a strong outdoor season, junior Jody-Ann Knight ran yet another personal record in the women’s 400-meter dash. With a time of 56.53, she won her heat and secured the No. 19 spot in all sections of the event. Seniors Emma Keenan and Nathaniel Gordon also had impressive performances, finishing 13th and No. 26 in the men’s and women’s 800m event, respectively.

Freshman Eion Nohilly earned a personal record of

9:01.66 in the men’s 3000m steeplechase, outrunning his previous collegiate steeplechase of 9:09.54 on the first day of competition.

The second day of competition brought yet another string of Hoya successes. Junior Madeline Perez earned a personal record in the women’s 5000m run, clocking 16:21.59, a near 15-second improvement from her time at the start of this season. Other notable personal records came in the men’s 200m event by junior Nick Sullivan with a 22.48 run and in the

men’s long jump by senior Kenneth Armstrong with a 6.85m jump.

As the Hoyas continue through their outdoor season, they will travel to Philadelphia this weekend for the three-daylong Penn Relays.

In preparation for the upcoming competition, Eastman plans on building on her strong steeplechase debut.

“I will be racing again this coming Thursday at Penn Relays. It will be another test to get some miles under my belt going over hurdles,” Eastman said.

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Senior middle distance runner Sabrina Southerland helped the Hoyas win the Penn Relays last season in the 4x800m. The Hoyas compete again in the Penn Relays this weekend.

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balance of having fun, getting better, developing the young guys and making sure that we’re prepared for Saturday,” Warne said. “At the end of the day it’s still a conference game and it matters.”

Warne said the day marks an important celebration for the entire program; in addition to the Senior Day tributes, the team will also dedicate a locker room to former Head Coach Dave Urick, Warne’s predecessor. Urick posted a .733 win percentage through his 33 seasons coaching at the collegiate level, 23 of

which were at the helm of the Georgetown program. Urick came to Georgetown after 10 years coaching at Hobart College in New York.

“There’s a lot going on, and we want to make sure we feel good about what we do on the field, and make sure we understand that everything we’re doing is bigger than us,” Warne said. “We’re doing it for the program and making sure that the seniors leave their legacy.”

St. John’s (1-12, 0-4 Big East) enters Saturday’s matchup hungry for a win. The Red Storm have been winless since early March, with their last

loss coming at the hands of the Villanova Wildcats in an 18-3 decision last weekend. The contest marks the last opportunity for both Georgetown and St. John’s to earn a single win in conference play.

Georgetown also faced off against St. John’s in its 2016 season finale, a road contest that ended in a 9-6 loss. Bucaro, then a freshman, led the Hoyas on offense with three goals and one assist.

If the Hoyas finish with a win Saturday, they will have doubled their total wins from the 2016 season. Warne said a victory would establish a good foundation for the team’s

preparations in the months ahead.

“If we handle this game the right way, we’re going to feel good about going into the offseason on a good note,” Warne said.

Amidst all the program’s planned events for Saturday, the Georgetown athletic department is also hosting a “Cargo Shorts Retirement Party at the game. The promotion will be marked by a retirement speech-writing contest, donation boxes for used cargo shorts and other related activities.

Opening faceoff is scheduled for 12 p.m. at Cooper Field.

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With the Big East Championships three weeks away, the Georgetown men and women’s track and field teams built momentum by notching several personal records on April 21 and 22 at the Virginia Challenge, hosted by the University of Virginia.

The Blue and Gray impressed with top-10 performances in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, 1,500m run and long jump.

The Hoyas’ significant presence has persisted since the beginning of the 2017 outdoor track and field season. While some athletes have continued to thrive in their usual events,

others have ventured into new challenges.

Despite having trained little, junior Autumn Eastman finished 11th in her debut collegiate steeplechase with a time of 10:33.74.

Eastman put her best foot forward and entered her debut race with ease, not thinking about her limited preparation before the race.

“I haven’t had much practice or training in the steeple leading up to this debut race.

So I was going in with a really calm mindset: just have fun out there and see what I can do,” Eastman said. “It adds a different complexity and level to the sport.”

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All-American senior middle distance runner Scott Carpenter boasts a personal mile record of 4:05.06.

The Georgetown women’s golf team continued its season-long dominance with a return to the Hilltop as Big East champions for the first time in school history. The victory comes after three consecutive runner-up finishes.

“Each runner-up finish we learned something, and we were really able to put that together this time. We were hungry, and that was the big difference of why we were able to close this year,” junior Lauren Gros said.

The Hoyas finished first out of six Big East teams at the Dogwood and Magnolia Courses in Callawassie, S.C. Georgetown led the entire tournament with an eightshot lead going into the final round and held on to win by nine strokes. Its final score of 32-over-par 896 led second place Butler, who finished 41-over-par 905.

Three players — Gros, sophomore Alexa Popowitz and junior captain Jacquelyn Eleey — led Georgetown’s efforts. The trio finished in the top five in the field, and each player was selected to the Big East All-Tournament Team.

Gros finished first for Georgetown and second in the field at 6-over-par 222.

She had nine birdies in the tournament, tied for second among all scorers.

“I really think my game came together last week. My ball striking has been really great throughout the spring season, and that’s been a

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Sophomore Alexa Popowitiz finished fourth overall in the tournament and was named to the All-Tournament Team. huge positive for me because I was out all of last year due to a series of injuries. It was something I had been struggling to get back since I had been out of practice, so having confidence with [striking the ball] was really important,” Gros said.

Popowitz finished in fourth place with a score of 7-over-par 223. She led all

players in pars with 42, and at one point, she led all players on the field in the final round.

“This spring season has probably been my best at Georgetown. I had a couple good finishes at some tough tournaments and I won the Hoya [Invitational], so that was a good motivating thing to go into the Big East [Cham-

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Eleey tied for fifth place and also had nine birdies over the weekend. Her best round came Saturday when she shot a 2-over-par 74.

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Senior defender Charlie Ford, left, has started all 13 of the team’s games this season and ties for second on the team with 25 ground balls. He also ranks second with nine caused turnovers.

GU Faces SJU in Senior Day Contest ELIZABETH CAVACOS Hoya Staff Wrtier

Coming off a victory that snapped its six-game losing skid, the men’s lacrosse team hopes to finish its 2017 campaign on a high note when it hosts St. John’s on Saturday for Senior Day. Georgetown’s (3-10, 0-4 Big East) last test was an 11-9 road win over Mount St. Mary’s (49, 1-4 NEC), which put an end to a streak of losses spanning back to early March.

Head Coach Kevin Warne said the win gives the team a boost of confidence as it prepares for its season finale.

“It was good for the guys to bounce back after a tough loss at [No. 15] Villanova (8-5, 3-1 Big East), which basically ended our Big East hopes,” Warne said. “It was good for them to get a win, and I think that’s really important. We went through some adversity in that game as well, but I think the guys handled it pretty well and fought back.”

Sophomore attack Daniel Bucaro, redshirt senior attack Peter Conley and sophomore attack Austin McDonald each posted hat tricks in the victory. Bucaro’s four-goal performance, the seventh hat trick of his career, was a game-high.

Sophomore attack Craig Berge rounded out the scoring for Georgetown with a goal of his own and contributed a gamehigh three assists.

Conley was named to the Big East weekly honor roll for his efforts in the win, as well as

freshman goalkeeper Jack Stephenson, who recorded a .500 save percentage in the net.

Since Georgetown did not qualify for postseason play, this Saturday’s game will mark the final competition of the team’s 2017 season. With an 11-day break between the Mount St. Mary’s win and Senior Day, Warne said the team is using its ample practice time to prepare for a win.

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n April 3, Georgetown hired former player Patrick Ewing as its new men’s basketball head coach. He received a warm reception from students, fans and alumni around the nation. Still, there were enduring questions about his lack of experience as a head coach at the collegiate level.

There have been several promising signs about the second Ewing era on the Hilltop, however. There is still a lot of work to be done, but positive developments in media, fan engagement, recruiting and staffing have been made in his first three weeks.

Beginning with his introductory press conference at the Thompson Athletic Center on April 5, Ewing has conducted a series of interviews on many television and radio stations. He has been refreshingly candid and engaging in addressing his vision for the program, his coaching career and his return to Georgetown.

He has openly discussed his plans for recruiting, working with the returning players, on-court style of play and assistant coaching hires. On Wednesday, Ewing even made an appearance in O’Donovan Hall to meet with Hoya Blue members and other students.

These appearances are particularly significant in the context of a Georgetown program that is notoriously reluctant to open itself up to the public, and the transparency bodes well for the team’s fan base moving forward.

Ewing has also made some important steps toward recruiting and roster management. Since he has not been involved in college basketball recruiting since his own college days, recruiting was expected to be a learning experience for Ewing. In recent years, the increasing importance of factors like Amateur Athletic Union programs, shoe company sponsorships and NBA ambitions have greatly changed the recruiting landscape, making it far more complicated than it was in the 1980s.

Still, early returns are promising in this area as well. On Friday, Class of 2017 guard Jahvon Blair committed to Georgetown after making an official visit last week. Blair is not ranked among the top 100 prospects on the major recruiting outlets, but the 6-foot-4 guard boasts impr2essive high school statistics and a successful track record. In addition, See EWING, A9