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CRUCIAL STRETCH
The men’s basketball team is entering a string of must-win games.
EDITORIAL The referendum on live registration deserves student attention.
DEGIOIA COMMENTS ON RACE President DeGioia announced several new initiatives on Thursday.
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NEWS, A4
SPORTS, A10
Regular Application Numbers Hold Steady Emily Tu
Hoya Staff Writer
Regular decision applications rose by 2.46 percent this year, increasing from 19,478 for the Class of 2019 to 19,958 for the Class of 2020. The slight increase marks a departure from the stable number of applicants over the past few years. This is the secondlargest pool of regular applications the university has received since the 20,100 collected in 2012. However, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon emphasized the relatively predictable overall trends in the total application pool. “Generally there aren’t many changes you can see from year to year,” Deacon
said. “Our applicant pool has been in the 19,000s all along. For a lot of places, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You have to look beneath that to see all the changes that are going on.” Georgetown College received 11,657 applications, compared to 11,461 for the Class of 2019; the School of Foreign Service collected 3,771, up from 3,597; the McDonough School of Business saw 3,294 applications, a decrease from 3,373; and the School of Nursing and Health Studies received 1,236 applications, a rise from last year’s 1,047 applications. Black applicants increased from 1,886 to 1,975, Latino and Hispanic applicants rose See APPLICATIONS, A6
Georgetown Applicants See SURVEY, A6
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The restructuring of the GUSA senate and executive will form a central part of Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk’s (COL ’17) platform, with plans to create new policy teams for efficiency.
Ticket Plans Restructuring Khan, Fisk propose changes to GUSA executive and senate CHRISTIAN PAZ Hoya Staff Writer
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The College, School of Foreign Service and the School of Nursing and Health Studies received a slight increase in applications.
After years of serving the student body in both the Georgetown University Student Association senate and executive respectively, Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) have made restructuring GUSA a key plank of their campaign platform. Under the proposed restructuring, the executive and senate would have combined responsi-
bilities under new “executive-senate policy teams,” which would assume the roles of current senate committees and subcommittees that work on specific issue areas. Secretaries and undersecretaries would be phased out and replaced by “policy team chairs” appointed by the president and vice president, who would lead the policy teams in conjunction with co-chairs chosen from the senate. The finance and appropria-
tions committee would be the only committee kept from the original model, but it would be required to have liaisons that keep policy teams updated on committee decisions. A minimum of four policy teams would be commissioned, with team members reviewed by the GUSA president, vice president, speaker of the senate and vice speaker. Members of these See GUSA, A6
Past GUSA Executives Reflect on One-Ticket Race PATRICJA OKUNIEWSKA Hoya Staff Writer
This year’s Georgetown University Student Association executive race — comprised only of the Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) ticket after Tony
Pezzullo (MSB ’17) and A.J. Serlemitsos (COL ’17) dropped out of the race yesterday — marks a significant departure from past GUSA elections as potentially the first race with a single ticket in GUSA history. See TICKET A6
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The GULC received a letter from FIRE, a nonprofit advocating for individual rights at American universities on behalf of students restricted from political campaigning on campus.
Free Speech Issue Tested
GU Law Center bans political campaign activity Lisa Burgoa
Special to The Hoya
Georgetown University Law Center Dean William Treanor received an open letter from the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education Feb. 1 urging the university to revise its student organization policy after the center banned students from campaigning for presidential candidates. The GULC cites its taxexempt status as grounds to prohibit political campaignrelated activities on campus. FIRE, a nonprofit that seeks to promote individual rights at American colleges
and universities, wrote its letter on behalf of Alexander Atkins (LAW ’17) and other law students who comprised an informal grass-roots group supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The Office of Student Life rejected the student group’s request for a table outside of Georgetown Law’s McDonough Hall in September. The group then opted for cafeteria tables but was asked to leave on the day of the first Democratic debate on October 13 by university officials who cited the center’s policy governing partisan political speech. According to the GULC’s
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Student Organization Policy on Partisan Political Activities, under the 501(c)(3) category of the Internal Revenue Code that grants tax exemption to nonprofit organizations, the university cannot engage in political campaign activity. “Georgetown University and the Law Center must generally avoid engaging in partisan political campaign activity and must restrict the use of University resources in support of such activity,” the policy reads. In FIRE’s letter, Senior Program Officer Marieke Tuthill
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This year’s Georgetown University Student Association executive race will be comprised of one ticket, a sharp drop from last year’s fiercely contested six tickets.
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NEWS Zika Report
Students in countries with cases of the virus receive university warnings. A5
NEWS Single-Ticket Race
Pezzullo and Serlemitsos have dropped out of the GUSA executive race. A4
A Georgetown grad’s ridesharing app forms user communities. A10
Sports White’s Stellar Season
Dionna White has led Georgetown to success in her freshman season. A10
OPINION Bowing Out
Pezzullo explains why his ticket is leaving the GUSA executive race. A3
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Registration Referedum This year’s Georgetown University Student Association executive presidential and vice presidential election, to be held Feb. 18, will also include a referendum on changes to the course registration system, as the university considers switching from a preregistration to a live registration model. Students should make their voices heard by voting in favor of the current preregistration model. As the registrar’s office changes digital systems, it will also consider several technical changes to the registration process, including a live registration system that would stagger entry to courses by class year and leave courses open in a first-come, first-serve manner within the time given to register. Seats would be reserved in specific classes for majors and underclassmen, but on the whole, the system would largely resemble the current completion process that occurs after initial preregistration. When the GUSA senate held a town hall on the future of registration in December, the recently retired registrar, John Q. Pierce, enumerated a number of benefits that could arise from switching systems: decreased financial costs, technical benefits and quicker feedback. However, student responses at the town hall were strongly against live registration and in favor of keeping the current system, given that it allows students to prioritize and complete schedules in advance. While both routes offer benefits and drawbacks, a decisive vote in the referendum will allow GUSA to craft a comprehensive position based on popular support through discussions with the administration. This editorial board urges students to educate themselves about the ben-
efits of both live and preregistration systems, including the use of both by peer institutions. But above all, it is imperative to come out and vote so that a sizable student opinion may be clearly articulated. This is the only way to make sure the registrar’s office does not proceed with huge changes to an important part of academic organization without widely consulting student experiences and viewpoints. Ultimately, the current preregistration model offers a form of class organization that most benefits the Georgetown lifestyle. For students who need to plan internships and employment timelines months in advance, the live model would stymie the ability to prioritize a thought-out and organized schedule. It will prioritize classbased seniority and classes within an academic major far above the ability to take a wide variety of classes in diverse subjects. And perhaps most pertinently, it would introduce a dangerous level of uncertainty and instability into the current registration model that is already sufficiently stressful for students, given the already-existing competition to get in to classes. Based on existing student opinion that has supported the current system for all reasons previously stated, we exhort the entire student body to participate in the upcoming election to have their voices be heard and to vote in favor of preregistration. Unless and until the registrar’s office can articulate a clear plan for how to mitigate the concerns associated with a live registration system, the school should stick with the current model and GUSA should advocate forcefully for that position. What we say to the entire student body is this: Read up, come out and above all, vote!
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The Queen B Show — Beyoncé stole the Super Bowl 50 halftime show with a spectacular rendition of her new song “Formation.” The social justicethemed performance, done alongside Coldplay and Bruno Mars, preceded the announcement of Beyoncé’s “Formation” tour. Bei Bei Climbs A Tree — Bei Bei, one of the baby panda bears at the National Zoo, went outside for the first time this week and was caught on tape by zoo staff climbing a tree with the help of his mother. Add this to the list of adorable viral videos of the zoo’s pandas. Bern Your Enthusiasm — Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) appeared on “Saturday Night Live” alongside comedian Larry David who has impersonated the senator on the show before. Free Burritos — As part of its comeback plan, Chipotle is offering free burritos to customers who text “rain check” to 888-222. White House Wi-Fi — In a CBS News interview Sunday, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama revealed that the Wi-Fi connection is less than stellar in the White House and that there are many dead zones in the building. Apparently, even presidents struggle with problems like slow internet.
EDITORIAL CARTOON by Jinwoo Chong
The Price of Politics In the midst of this campaign season, the significant power of the Georgetown University Student Association presidential and vice presidential positions have been a topic of campus discussions. Over the past year, the two students filling these positions, Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Connor Rohan (COL ’16), have used their power to create sweeping change on several issues, including sexual assault and mental health. Yet, we should consider the time that is required from these individuals to create significant change. With such a tremendous time commitment, students filling the positions may find it difficult to support themselves monetarily through other paying jobs. Therefore, monetary compensation should be administered in a way that continues to promote the selflessness behind the job. Students who join GUSA on workstudy have taken on the time commitment in exchange for advocating on behalf of the student body. Connor Rohan is a work-study student who decreased his work time to three hours per week as a result of his commitment to GUSA. However, for positions like president and vice president that carry so much opportunity to reform the campus, students should not have to spend out of their savings or reduce their own costs significantly in order to adequately meet the time requirements of the position. These students should get paid so that they are not deterred from running because of concerns about how they will balance a job and their office duties. GUSA executives would not be the first students to be paid for taking on a time
commitment in service to the university and student body. New Student Orientation coordinators receive D.C. minimum wage — $10.50 an hour — for their work throughout the year. They may be paid up to 15 hours a week for time that they self-report. While the president and vice president already receive a small stipend of $1205 for their work, the stipend cannot always sustain a student’s costs throughout the semester. The costs of providing additional stipends to the executive are relatively small when considered in comparison to five NSO coordinators each receiving up to $157.50 per week. However, the commitment to advocating on behalf of the student body is a selfless one, and it should remain so. Payment could be limited to students on work-study. This should be distributed on a monthly basis at minimum to remain in accordance with the work-study limitations that the student must be paid at least once per month. As the extra pay would only be given to students on work-study, it would be partially funded by the government, which would further reduce the costs to the university. The stipend could be administered through the Center for Student Engagement, in a similar way that NSO coordinators receive pay for their work through the CSE. In the future, the administration may want to consider expanding the pay beyond only students who are on workstudy, as many students who do not have work-study rely on income from their on-campus jobs.
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Be sure to check Chatter, The Hoya’s online opinion section, throughout the week for additional opinion pieces. Grace Wydeven (COL ’18) speaks on her perspective of what the “point” is: What’s the point — I mean seriously — what is the point of being alive?” complains Will, a character from the British sitcom, “The Inbetweeners.” His question is taken comically rather than existentially, as it stems from a night of final exam “revising,” otherwise known as studying. He’s hopped up on adrenaline and energy drinks — a strategy that ultimately proves to be his downfall — but he raises an important question that has yet to be answered simply despite centuries of thought and provocation.
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Stress Culture: A Georgetown Tradition
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he Google Life Sciences Division is up to something powerful and concerning. A newly independent sector of the transformed Alphabet, a multinational conglomerate and Google’s parent company, Google Life Sciences attracts top scientists from across America, seeking the company’s extensive funding, experience with big data and lack of bureaucracy. Additionally, these scientists are buying in to Google’s mission to shift health care from a reactive paradigm to a proactive paradigm.
Researchers envision a world where people wear technologies that constantly monitor their health. Once something goes amiss, the gadget notifies its wearer. What does this mean? Currently, doctors respond to a problem once a patient starts to show symptoms of that problem. Although you go to your doctor’s office for an annual checkup, most of the time, you end up in the hospital because something feels wrong. The problem with this approach is that the disease you have just started to show symptoms of could have been manifesting for quite some time. This happens with Alzheimer’s disease: A man will see a neurologist after he has noticed that he has been having trouble remembering things, even though neurobiological evidence suggests that the disease starts much earlier than the symptoms. The earlier a disease can be detected, the better, but because doctors react to symptoms rather than predict them, early diagnosis of a disease depends quite heavily on chance. Researchers at the Google Life Sciences Division want to solve this problem by rethinking health care. These researchers envision a world where people wear technologies that constantly monitor their health. Therefore, once something goes amiss, the gadget will notify its wearer and a person could immediately meet with a doctor. This person would have a much better chance of recovering effectively than if he waited for the symptoms. Inspired by this approach, Dr. Thomas Insel, former director of the National Institutes of Mental Health, decided to move to Google. He is currently thinking of a project designed to detect psychosis — a symptom of schizophrenia — early through language analytics. Essentially, this project would include developing an algorithm that could detect the disorganized reasoning of a schizophrenic patient’s speech. Such an algorithm could hasten the diagnosis of psychosis tremendously, potentially improving outcomes for people with schizophrenia.
Because doctors react to symptoms rather than predict them, early diagnosis of a disease depends quite heavily on chance. However, while such a project is purely hypothetical for now, it is worth considering the privacy issues at stake in implementing such a plan. Would Google be monitoring literally everything we say, searching for semantic inconsistencies? Might this lead to people feeling reluctant to share their thoughts, in fear of being diagnosed as schizophrenic? It does not seem problematic to me for a company to be monitoring my glucose levels to manage diabetes, but once it starts peeking at my use of language, my privacy could be at risk. Interestingly, a parallel debate already exists within the realm of terrorism and privacy. Are we willing to sacrifice our privacy for the sake of national security? I think yes, although I recognize the potential for abuse of such power. I think similarly about healthcare; big data has the potential to make us safer and healthier. However, what do we do when that data overlaps with our personal information?
Ayan Mandal is a junior in the College. grey matter appears every other Tuesday.
wo weeks ago, I had an existential crisis. It started at about 2 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon and lasted about a week. I am a naturally existential person, so crises come easily to me, but this crisis had a very real and tangible cause. It was caused by words and phrases like these: Georgetown University Student Association, Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society, a capella, Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, Georgetown University Student Investment Fund, sports, Students of Georgetown, Inc. Committees and positions and meetings. Community service. It seems that every student here is involved in umpteen different clubs and activities, has a constantly full schedule and is getting his hands dirty in something productive and impressive. The cause of the crisis, however, was not that everyone does something, but how much it feels like people here do. On one hand, I realized that I wanted to expand and spread my wings and try new things so I can discover my interests and find out what I want to do in life, but on the other hand, I felt majorly overwhelmed and majorly behind. Being over-involved felt like what I ought to be doing. Suddenly I couldn’t get the thought out of my head: I’m in college, I have to be one of those college students who does stuff. College students participate in tons of clubs. That’s the culture here. That’s the culture all other freshmen already got started on last semester. The constant activity here on the Hilltop, the activity that is such an impressive hallmark of Georgetown, started to exert an enormous pressure. But at the same time I began to ask a bigger question: Why? Why do I have to do so much? Where
Where is the line between being active for the sake of learning and just liking the feeling of being busy? does doing so much bring me? I started to question the value of activity. College is a difficult place to find who you are and clubs are supposed to help with that, but maybe they just impede us from being able to have the freedom to figure out what we want. Students at Georgetown seem to live under the notion — a sort of golden rule — that free time is a bad thing. I know that when I have free time, I start to feel like I
am doing something wrong. This carries over into classes and the frequently talked-about stress culture. Students are valiantly trying to make the most of their education and their time, but maybe some of us are going overboard. Where is the line between being active for the sake of learning and just liking the feeling of being busy? There is the aura that rests over Lau, one that provokes this reaction to someone saying that they are headed to Lau:
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“Oh, I’m so sorry.” Going to Healey Family Student Center to do work or going to Regents Hall does not have the same aura of “I’m doing so much, I’m working so hard.” There is this instant guilt that sinks in when someone is going to Lau when you are not, a shame that you are not working as hard as you ought to be. Our parents are paying exorbitant amounts for us to be able to study here — a topic that is its own can of worms and deserves a lot of attention and discussion — but there is a way to honor that without burying ourselves in activities and proving that we do everything and do it perfectly — giving ourselves the space to be and exist and not fill our calendars to the brim. As a freshman I don’t want to think ahead just yet. Sure, this is real life, I am an adult, I have to take life seriously and think about getting a job out of college, but what is the opportunity cost of that? I’m not talking about the time missed being social or bingeing Netflix. What does it do to our minds and selves to be constantly overexerting ourselves? Clubs and activities are ways we can find our niche here; they are ways to establish an identity in college. But are our identities becoming too much about what we do and not about who we are? I realized that my relatively empty clubs calendar had started to impose a feeling of an empty self. The culture of college life, and especially the culture of busy Georgetown life, is easy to get caught up in, but it’s not necessary. You can try to do it all if you want to, but it is completely okay to do things your own way.
Joosje Lupa is a freshman in the College.
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ince The Hoya announced are informed on the issues our candidacy last week, and passionate about student my trusty steed A.J. Ser- government, and as much as I lemitsos and I have been in- wish we were, A.J. and I are not undated with questions about those people. our campaign staff, platform In short, we want to make and plan to build a wall around sure Georgetown’s student The George Washington Uni- body picks the right pair of versity — and make them pay candidates to be the GUSA exfor it. Listen, everyone famil- ecutives, and we want to make iar with A.J. and sure no joke camme know that paign robs this we have not been campus of the running a seri- As much as A.J. and leaders they deous campaign. serve. I would have loved We got into this So without race because we beating around to remain in the knew Enushe the bush further, race and entertain A.J. Serlemitsos and Chris would be running unI would like the readers, the past and contested othto formally anerwise, and we success of joke and nounce that we wanted to raise are withdrawing the campus-wide satirical campaigns our bid for the interest level in made us realize we GUSA presidency the campaign. and vice presimay accidentally dency. Who was going to be excited to We gave the become honest read about an decision a lot challengers to the of thought, and unopposed race? There are imporall more committed considered tant issues to be the issues above, discussed here, as well as many ticket. and we wanted others. In the all Hoyas to be end, we were aware of them. soundly conWe hope we got at least a few vinced that Enushe and Chris more people interested and are the right people to take on invested in the big decisions these challenges. They are goto be made under this next ad- ing to make an incredible presministration. ident/vice president team — it The next Georgetown Uni- is obvious that they have the versity Student Association skills, ideas and passion necesexecutive team will need to sary to make a positive impact provide input on the Aramark on this campus, and we look contract renewal. forward to seeing what they We hope they will be advo- will get done this year. cates for students against the We encourage all students expansion of Georgetown Uni- to come out to the debates and versity Police Department/Stu- ask the important questions. dent Neighborhood Assistance Keep these two on their toes. Program jurisdiction and the They are here to represent tightening of enforcement your interests, so make your protocols. Perhaps most im- viewpoints known. portantly, they must respond Take ownership of this race. to the results of the Sexual As- You may have only one ticket sault and Misconduct Climate to vote for, but that does not Survey. mean you cannot help decide There are far too many is- the issues that the ticket will sues to list. And as much as focus on. A.J. and I would have loved A.J. and I regret we will never to remain in the race and en- be able to unveil our plans to tertain the readers, the past build a playground slide down success of joke and satirical Lauinger Library steps for safe campaigns made us realize we late-night travel on weekends. may accidentally become honThe ball pit at the bottom est challengers to the clearly would have been especially more serious and committed nice. But we know that we are ticket. All jokes aside, we love leaving the steps, the library this campus, and at the end of and all of the Hilltop in comthe day we want what is best petent hands. for all of Georgetown. We know that Enushe and If somehow A.J. were I Chris will do everything they elected, Georgetown would be can … to make Georgetown missing out on two incredible great again. leaders, Enushe and Chris. We want to ensure the student Tony Pezzullo is a junior in the body elects executives that College.
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n our way back from New ever, I believe also that as a society, York City over Christmas we are failing to address the probbreak, my family and I wait- lems of masculinity and what we ed in line for gas at a major stop teach young boys about manhood. in Delaware. At one of the pumps From an early age, boys are told was a pickup truck with six peo- never to cry, to show emotions, to ple — all Caucasian — three men, be vulnerable or to let girls make two women and one teenage boy. the first move. We are told to play They had, quite obviously, finished sports and to never show or admit pumping gas, but were hanging pain; we are told that artistic exout in the spot, smoking, laugh- pression is feminine and lacking ing loudly and spitting. In the car value; we are told to pick up girls behind them was a Middle Eastern and pay for their dates; we are told family of four — mom, dad, son that sexual conquest, wealth and and grandmother. The father po- material acquisition validate life. litely asked the group if they would I cannot begin to count the nummind moving so that others in line ber of boys I knew in elementary, could get gas. The three men were middle and high school who felt instantly enraged and started to pressure to hide their feelings and throw every curse never express their and racial slur in expain. istence at this man. Because we have When the grandfostered a culture of mother stepped out masculinity that ideof the car and asked alizes being “tough” them to be more or “macho” and hidpolite, the guys lost ing or ridding ourit: They screamed, selves of all traces of cursed, threatened Isaiah Fleming-Klink weakness or pain, it to fight her and her comes as no surprise family, claiming they to me that men are owned her “like a dog.” They spit at more likely to have a drug or alher and told her they would make cohol problem, are more likely to sure she “went back to where she commit suicide, are more likely to came from” for daring to ask them commit violent crimes, are more to move, for inconveniencing them. likely to own guns and are more Carl Jung, the founder of analyti- likely to commit sexual assault. It is cal psychology, believed that men no surprise that for decades upon and women come into the world decades, our country’s military with both masculine and feminine policy was dictated by military braqualities. Men are the physical em- vado and shows of brute force on bodiment of masculinity, but have other nations and peoples. Neither the feminine archetype — anima — is it a surprise that candidates who within themselves. Likewise, wom- have proposed bombing the famien are the physical embodiment lies of terrorists or carpet bombing of femininity, but have the mascu- the Middle East as actual foreign line archetype — animus — within policy solutions are leading in the themselves. Each of us thus has the 2016 Republican primary polls. ability to attain a balance of masUntil we fundamentally address culinity and femininity in our lives these issues of masculinity, we will and to create a harmonized society. not achieve gender equality. Conversely, though, an imbalance We must teach boys that pain, of masculinity or femininity, Jung suffering and weakness are norsaid, led to societal problems of mal and healthy parts of life. We grave consequence. must teach them that crying and This latter situation of gender im- showing emotion allow us to fully balance and inequity plagues our so- heal from negative experiences; we ciety and culture. Not only do women must teach them that there exists hold only 4.6 percent of executive of- immense intrinsic value in things fices in Fortune 500 companies, only other than sports, sex and money; 16 percent hold directing and pro- we must teach boys to be vulnerable ducing roles in cinematography and and express themselves in artistic only 19.4 percent hold congressional ways. offices. Values associated traditionWe must teach the boy in the ally with masculinity — competition, pickup truck that the actions of strength, boldness and action — have his older friends or brothers were come to supersede those associated not “cool” or “manly,” but instead, with femininity — communication, despicable. We must teach him reintuition and emotional expression. straint, patience, compassion, symMoreover, these values have become pathy and emotion. If we fail to do ever-increasingly mutually exclu- so, he will soon be the one brashly sive: Boys must embody a certain set belittling grandmothers on stops of qualities, while girls embody an- off I-95. other. As a man and a proud feminist, Isaiah Fleming-Klink is a freshman I believe swift and deep-seated ac- in the School of Foreign Service. tion must be taken to move into vanguard voices appears every a culture of gender equality. How- other Tuesday.
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DeGioia Addresses Racial Injustice MOLLY COOKE Hoya Staff Writer
University President John J. DeGioia announced four new commitments to address Georgetown’s engagement with race, including the expansion of African American studies to include a major, during his “Racial Injustice in America: A Framework for Georgetown’s Future Engagement” address in Lohrfink Auditorium last Thursday. DeGioia enumerated four explicit commitments, beginning with an expansion of the AAS program to a full department and major as well as the establishment of a research center dedicated to studying racial injustice. He also noted that a substantial recruitment effort will be made to hire the faculty needed for the department and center along with the appointment of a new senior officer to support the aforementioned initiatives. DeGioia said the formation of the AAS department will revolve around interactions between a variety of different fields and departments. He asserted that the committees involved with the initiatives will ensure that the new department will flourish through such interdisciplinary efforts. “We recognize that to draw from the full resources of our community it will be important to determine how best to capture the ‘interdisciplinary’ character of this work.” DeGioia said in his speech. “Our working group will need to explore whether the structure of a traditional department will support interdisciplinary work that crosses the full range of schools and disciplines that can contribute to this effort.” For students planning to major in African American studies, and for others who want to take classes within the program, the addition of a new department comes after a lobbying effort begun last year with a petition and meeting with Dean of the College Chester Gillis. The African American studies program also conducted a survey of students regarding the potential feasibility of an AAS department, major and students’ interest in specific classes in 2015. The AAS program was initially formed in 2004 for students hoping to minor in AAS and is now being transitioned to a full academic department. According to Olivia Holmes (COL ’16), the effort has been years in the making, with the demand of students to take classes within the program measured by waitlist
counts of 30 or more. “With the creation of [an AAS] program, students have had the opportunity to take classes with professor of English and African American Studies Angelyn Mitchell, who helped found it, and it geared a lot of interest in creating a major,” Holmes said. “Since I’ve been here, the advocacy started with the Last Campaign for Academic Reform, which created the diversity [requirement], and from that push there’s also been a movement behind creating an African American studies department here, since the program is such an interesting thing and has so much depth.” In order to continue to facilitate the development and progress of the commitments, DeGioia also authorized the recruitment of four professors for the upcoming school year and another four for the following year. Holmes noted how such an effort to increase faculty should also increase interdisciplinary study and the overall success of
the initiatives. “That’s the real push that I think a lot of students wanted across the country when it comes to African American studies, and just diversity of faculty,” Holmes said. “More faculty would be the best thing that the major’s doing, and it also gives us more options for interdisciplinary study and … we don’t have the opportunity to do so currently.” While DeGioia did not provide a timeline for the commitments’ implementation, Bria Wade (COL ’19), a student interested in the program and excited for the new initiatives, hopes to be able to officially declare her major some time next year. “From what I am aware of, hearing last semester and more recently, I expect the major to be solidified by next year, and that’s what I’m banking on,” Wade said. Wade said she appreciated the commitment to make sure the programs are interdisciplinary, arguing that an AAS program needs to encompass a wide variety of different academic fields in order to be a
program with depth. “I can definitely see something that requires a deeper exploration of the African diaspora, so maybe an African studies course, an anthropology [class],” Wade said. “A little bit of everything. African American studies isn’t just African history in the U.S. or the Caribbean; it’s much more expansive.” DeGioia stressed that the formation of the department and major, along with the planning of the other initiatives, will be careful, but it will not slow the process of innovation. “I commit Georgetown to making these important new investments,” DeGioia said. “These will happen. But we will do so as we do all important, successful work —together, listening to one another, letting all who can contribute to participate in the new endeavors and working together to achieve our goals. These discussions will not be about whether we do these things, but how best to do them in the urgency of the moment.”
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GUSA Executive Field Narrows MOLLY COOKE Hoya Staff Writer
Candidates Tony Pezzullo (MSB ’17) and A.J. Serlemitsos (COL ’17) announced the withdrawal of their campaign from the race for executive office of the Georgetown University Student Association in [“Why We Are Ending Our GUSA Campaign” (THE HOYA, A3, Feb.9, 2016)]. With only two campaigns officially declared, the remaining presidential-vice presidential pairing of Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) will run in a de facto single ticket race. Pezzullo and Serlemitsos were running a selfidentified joke campaign, but wanted to draw attention to campaign issues and the low participation in the race itself. “We got into this race because we knew otherwise Enushe and Chris were going to be running uncontested, and we wanted to raise the campuswide interest level in the campaign,” Pezzullo wrote in the viewpoint. “There are important issues to be discussed here, and we wanted all Hoyas to be aware of them — we hope we got at least a few more people interested and invested in the big decisions to be made under this next administration.” Pezzullo cited issues the next GUSA executives will have to address, including the Aramark contract renewal and actions to take with results from the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey, and commended Khan and Fisk for tackling them. “They have the skills, ideas and passion necessary to make a great positive impact on this campus, and we look forward to seeing what they will get done this year. We encourage all students to come out to the debates and ask the important questions — keep these two on their toes,” Pezzullo wrote. “We know that we are leaving the Hilltop in competent hands, we know that Enushe and Chris will do everything they can … to make Georgetown great again.” The dynamics of the election will change, as will the format of the vice presidential debate scheduled for tomorrow, Feb. 10, and the presidential debate scheduled for next Monday, Feb. 15. GUSA Election Commissioner Grady Willard (SFS ’18) said the debates will take on more of a town hall style and will likely be combined on Feb. 15. “Should a candidate drop out, it is likely that we would hold some form of a town hall wherein the election commission, campus media and students would be able to ask candidates questions,” Willard said. “In a one candidate scenario, a oneteam scenario, we would combine the presidential and vice presidential debates into one.” Khan said a single-ticket race would have no impact on her and Fisk’s campaign. “Over the course of the next week and a half, our goal is to engage people and really sit down with them and to hear from them on their perspectives in terms of what GUSA can do better to serve them as a resource,” Khan said.
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The university is considering consolidating all mail services to one central location in the Leavey Center beginning in fall 2016 as part of Georgetown’s 2017 campus plan, a proposal that has come under scrutiny from on-campus student workers. Under the proposal, packages for students would be held and distributed from a single office that may also provide printing services and a new mailbox system. According to Senior Director for Strategic Communications Rachel Pugh, the university has assembled a committee composed of students and administrators to evaluate the pros and cons of such a system, which has been discussed since 2014. “Benefits of this model include efficiency, streamlined services, better use of the limited space on campus, improved customer service and more utilization of technology, all of which are the best practices that we’ve seen utilized at peer institutions,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. Another possible benefit of the proposed system includes the reduction of mail trucks and vehicles driving through campus to drop off packages at each RHO, decreasing overall traffic and congestion. Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services Joelle Wiese, who has led the conversation over mail consolidation since 2014, said she is unable to comment on the topic until March. As the university continues the planning process for this system, the administration has faced criticism for its lack of communication with students regarding the future plan. Georgetown University Student Association Secretary of Campus Planning Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) argued students who work within the current RHO offices need to be better informed on the plans. Without proper communication from the administration, students are left not knowing their future as workers in the current mail system. “There’s been a real lack of transparency from the administration throughout this conversation, which has been frustrating for students who have a significant stake in the issue,” Goldstein said. “The conversation has shifted from ‘this is a possibility’ to ‘this is a plan’ without any real details or deadlines having been provided.” Goldstein also claimed the drawbacks of centralized mail outweigh the benefits. These drawbacks include longer lines and poorer service, especially during textbook season, lack of accessibility for physically disabled students and job losses for several student employees, many of whom are employed through federal work-study programs. “The proposal has merit, but until we hear really specific answers to the concerns that I mentioned, I can’t
lend support to it,” Goldstein said. “The student worker, accessibility and service issues present much larger concerns than centralized mail presents excitement.” GUSA Secretary for Residential Living Connor Maytnier (COL ’17), who is also a member of the mail committee, said the conversation on a centralized system is still ongoing, but has yet to produce any finalized goals. “As far as my involvement with it and where we left it, it was clear that they were very interested in exploring it and in moving us to that system, but at every step of the way there were real concerns related to the loss of student jobs, the overall customer satisfaction and what it means for mailing packages on campus,” Maytnier said. Maytnier also acknowledged that communication from the administration to students is lacking, adding that there needs to be a future commitment to making sure all relevant parties are informed. “I would say it’s just overall something that’s got serious questions that have got to be answered. If they can’t be answered, or if they can’t be answered satisfactorily, then we’ve got a serious problem with this,” Maytnier continued. “If we can come to a solution, there’s hope for it, but I don’t know.” Co-chair of the GUSA Office for the Student Worker Advocate Esmeralda Huerta (SFS ’17) said that RHO workers concerned about losing their jobs should take the annual “The State of the GU Student Worker” survey in order to present an accurate depiction of their concerns. A total of 89 responses have been recorded as of press time.
“These decisions are going to be made regardless of whether they are informed or not, and it’s best for RHO workers to stand together now and fight back before any decisions get made,” Huerta said. “I ask RHO workers to take our survey so we have more information and are able to push back against this decision.” New South RHO employee Taylor Oster (SFS ’17), who has worked at an RHO since the beginning of the fall semester of her sophomore year, said that RHO employees have not been made formally aware of the proposal, and she only became aware of the proposal because of her friends in GUSA. “The problem that I personally have is that it doesn’t necessarily allow for input on the student level and, more importantly, on the student worker level,” Oster said. “People who have actually worked at an RHO should be in there. It boggles my mind that some of these people are administrators who may have never worked as a student in college or who may have forgotten what it’s like to work as a student or who have never been under the same socio-economic pressure that a lot of my friends and I are under.” Oster’s RHO position is part of her federal work-study package, and she relies on it to help cover the cost of her tuition. If a centralized mail system eliminated her position, Oster said she would not know what to do next. “I started at the RHO with the understanding that I would work at the RHO until I graduated,” Oster said. “I really love working here. I can’t imagine not working here. I literally would be in shock.”
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The university is considering centralizing all mail services in Leavey Center as part of the 2017 Campus Plan.
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Georgetown’s Interim Chief Public Health Officer Ranit Mishori recommended precautionary measures for students traveling in Latin America and the Caribbean as a result of the outbreak of the mosquito-born Zika virus, in a campus-wide email sent February 2, as well as for students studying abroad in affected countries. “I am writing to share information and current guidance about an emerging health threat called the Zika virus,” Mishori wrote. “This information is particularly important for those who are currently visiting one of the countries where Zika virus transmission has been documented, or are planning a trip to one of the regions or countries affected.” The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention has issued a Level 2 travel alert, cautioning visitors to countries across the region, including Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico. The World Health Organization has also designated the virus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a distinction reserved for cases that require immediate international action and pose threats beyond national boundaries. The disease, which is transmitted through infected mosquitoes, has reportedly infected three people in Washington, D.C., including one pregnant woman. Aside from symptoms such as fevers, rashes and joint pains, the Zika virus has been linked to causing babies to be born with head and brain anomalies, a condition known as microcephaly. The virus has no known cure and a vaccine is yet to be developed. The CDC is still investigating the possibility of the virus’ transmission through sexual contact and blood transfusions, as well as its possible connection to a paralysis-inducing disease known as Guillain-Barré syndrome. The Office of Global Education, which is responsible for the university’s study abroad program, is monitoring and alerting the seven students preparing to or currently studying in the CDC Travel Alert Level 2 areas about the situation. Students were contacted by the OGE and by their local programs with information about risks, symptoms and prevention techniques. Director of Global Education Craig Rinker stressed the importance of keeping students who are abroad safe. “The health and safety of study abroad participants is of the highest importance, not just to the Office of Global Education but to the entire Georgetown community,” Rinker wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are monitoring the progression of the Zika Virus through CDC and WHO for all regions and locations.” Rinker said that the OGE has taken the necessary precautions in communicating with students and ensuring their safety. “We have been in direct communication with students who may be impacted by the
GUWIL Continues To Empower, Advocate Simon Carroll Special to The Hoya
DC Council Approves Crime Bill Marina Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer
Despite financial concerns and a lack of support from Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Council of the District of Columbia unanimously approved a first reading of the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act of 2016 in a legislative meeting February 2, which seeks to approach crime in the District as a public health issue. The NEAR Act proposes the creation of several offices that focus on identifying at-risk or potentially dangerous individuals. Any bill introduced in the District must be read by the Council twice, or brought up in two different legislative sessions and approved both times, before it goes to mayoral consideration and is implemented. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), who sponsored the act, cited these offices as methods of crime prevention at the grassroots level in a press release published Feb. 2. “This critical legislation is a step in the right direction and will address the root causes of violent crime in an effective and sustainable way,” McDuffie said. “One homicide in the District is too many. We know that we cannot simply arrest our way out of crime, we have to take bold and innovative steps like those in the NEAR Act to help prevent crime. I thank the residents, advocates and experts for their active engagement throughout this entire process. We are all in this together.” The bill seeks to create an Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement that would identify at-risk individuals in all eight wards of the city and involve them in a paid program teaching life planning, trauma informed therapy and mentorship skills. The ONSE is based on a similar program in Richmond, Calif., which saw a 76 percent decrease in firearmrelated homicides after implementing its version of the program. At the legislative meeting, Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) expressed his support for the bill and the pro-
posed ONSE. “This is focused on gun violence prevention. This connects in novel and strong ways behavioral and mental health to our Metropolitan Police Department. It focuses on neighborhood engagement and interventions,” Allen said. “So for me, in short, this bill helps ensure accountability when a crime occurs, but more importantly it focuses on proven strategies that prevent the crime from occurring in the first place. And that’s ultimately what we’re trying to get at.” The bill would also establish an Office of Violence Prevention and Health Equity within the District of Columbia Department of Health that would collaborate with local police and hospitals to provide greater mental health support within these institutions. The Act plans to create a Community Crime Prevention Team in order to connect mental health professionals with housing specialists and police officers to identify at-risk and homeless individuals with greater services. Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) expressed admiration for the bill and McDuffie’s efforts to install innovative preventative measures at the legislative meeting. “I wanted to commend Councilman McDuffie on the work he’s done with this legislation. It’s been a long haul to get to a place that I think the District of Columbia should have been years ago,” Grosso said. “I’m proud to be on a council, as we move the legislation forward, that commits to a health care approach to crime prevention and moves our city in a new direction where we have greater community policing and a commitment to people every day trying to do the right thing.” Although the first reading of the bill was unanimously approved, some councilmembers expressed a desire to incorporate more components from Bowser’s 2015 “Safer, Stronger D.C.” crime proposal, which highlights increased police presence on the streets as a primary goal. Bowser’s spokesman Michael Czin
criticized the bill for failing to address crime directly. “Councilmember McDuffie’s package failed to include any provisions to combat crime,” Czin wrote in a statement to The Washington Post. Bowser’s office did not respond to requests for comment. Tom Lipinsky, director of communications for Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), also highlighted the councilmember’s focus on the need for increased security on the Metro. “Our biggest concern was how the Council is acting to address crime on Metro,” Evans said. “There was a provision in the Mayor’s proposal to enhance penalties for any attacks on Metro with the understanding that our public transit facilities are some of the highest priority areas for residents to feel safe, especially now that we are putting schoolchildren on Metro rail and on Metro buses as a means to get them to school safely, that everything that can be done to make those areas safe should be done.” Several councilmembers also expressed concern about the finances of the bill, which would cost $3.9 million in the 2016 fiscal year and $25.6 million over the next four years. In the bill’s committee report, D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt stated that Washington would not have sufficient funds for the bill in this financial year, meaning that its programs would need to wait until 2017 to be sufficiently appropriated in a new budget. Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber praised the bill and its approach to city crime while also encouraging the Council to incorporate some of Bowser’s crime prevention initiatives. “I think you need both things in order to successfully police a city or community. You need a strong law enforcement presence,” Gruber said to The Hoya. “At the same time, you need to look at your community makeup. “
Zika Virus,” Rinker wrote. “Not much information about the virus is known at this time. Therefore, we are strongly encouraging students to stay informed through the information at the CDC and WHO as well as their local program contacts.” Barbara Anne Kozee (SFS ’17), who is studying abroad in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, said that aside from the presence of new public health posters, business goes on as usual for most city residents. Kozee said that she is not too concerned about becoming infected, expressing more worry about the Dengue and Chikungunya viruses, which can also be carried by the same mosquitoes that carry Zika. “It is definitely a possibility, but I am not worrying too much about it,” Kozee wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As someone who doesn’t plan on becoming pregnant, the virus is just like any other, with vomiting, fevers, and diarrhea. I’m actually more concerned about Dengue, because this virus poses the threat of hemorrhagic fever and death.” Despite the adverse impact on health in the region, Kozee credits the Zika virus with sparking conversations that could potentially positively affect the region. Controversy has surrounded the policies of countries such as El Salvador, which has advised women to avoid getting pregnant in the next two years because of the risk of birth defects in babies afflicted with the virus. “The Zika virus has helped illuminate the burden put on women when public health officials release formal statements essentially saying, ‘Just don’t get pregnant’ while denying access to these resources. In the Dominican Republic, as in many countries in Central America, abortion is illegal and contraception is not readily available,” Kozee wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I think this has sparked important conversations in Latin America about women’s reproductive rights and machista culture.” Carolyn Viter (COL ’17), who is taking a leave of absence this semester to intern at the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, said she is taking precautions against the virus. “I’m planning to wear insect repellent whenever I leave the city, and I’ve treated some of my clothing with insect repellent so I’ll be better-protected when travelling and hiking,” Vilter wrote in an email to The Hoya. “My dad put ‘Don’t get bitten’ on my trip todo list, and that’s pretty much the goal.” However, Viter said she believes the issue is not confined to Latin America and stressed the need to treat the spread of the virus as an international concern. “Pretty early in the crisis, airlines began refunding tickets and many people, including my parents, on my behalf, began doubting the wisdom of travelling to Zika-affected countries,” Viter wrote. “The problem isn’t Latin America’s alone. Areas as far North as D.C. and beyond seasonally harbor the mosquitoes that carry Zika. In the long term, this is a global issue.”
Georgetown University Women in Leadership founders Alana Snyder (COL ’16) and Ava Arroyo (SFS ’16) are stepping down as GUWIL president and vice president following the end of the current semester after forming the organization in 2013. A new executive board will replace their roles, led by Lauren Casale (COL ’17) as president and Lauren Stricker (SFS ’18) as vice president. Founded in 2013, GUWIL serves as a network devoted to female professional development. With a group email list of 1500 students and a core membership of 200, GUWIL encourages growth and learning experiences through programs designed to bridge undergraduate and post-graduate life for female students. Such initiatives include a mentorship program for its members along with resume workshops, networking events and lectures from guest speakers. The inception of GUWIL began in Dec. 2012 when Snyder and Arroyo, freshmen at the time, met for coffee to discuss what they viewed as a problem on Georgetown’s campus: the absence of an organization devoted to female professional development. “My freshman year, I started going to GW Women in Business events and other organizations’ events that have a women’s leadership focus,” Arroyo said. “A lot of peer institutions have [women’s leadership organizations] and I was wondering: why doesn’t Georgetown have anything like this?” After further discussion and planning, Snyder and Arroyo created GUWIL and utilized personal funds to facilitate the organization’s first events. Despite having initial trouble attracting corporate sponsorship, GUWIL quickly grew in popularity among the student body. During the fall of 2013, Snyder and Arroyo submitted to become part of the new club development process. Associate Director of Student Engagement Amanda Carlton said that the founding and arrival of GUWIL as a formal club provided a significant space for the female student body to engage with and be inspired by one another. “GUWIL came in at a pertinent time where across campus there’s been a larger conversation about women within the Georgetown community,” Carlton said. “So what they’ve really been able to do is provide an overarching space for conversation and a space for exploration to empower women in a lot of different realms.” One program that GUWIL leaders regard as the key to bridging relationships between all classes of the student body is the mentorship program. The program
pairs together older students with experience and younger students seeking ways to further their professional development. Mentors help mentees with important processes such as resume-writing, internship searches and other professional tasks. Former GUWIL Vice President Nishaat Shaik (SFS ’16) noted that the relationships established through the mentorship programs have created a sense of inclusiveness within GUWIL. “[The mentorship program] has been incredibly important,” Shaik said. “Since it was brought into GUWIL, it has pushed a community feel.” As the current GUWIL executive board transitions out of its founding leadership, Casale and Stricker are looking to continue improving all aspects of GUWIL. Specific efforts include diversifying corporate sponsorship along with encouraging involvement from men on campus. Currently, GUWIL maintains sponsorships from companies including Goldman Sachs and Loft, but the group hopes to further diversify its corporate sponsorship outside of companies in the financial service industry. As part of this effort, GUWIL has made forays into the retail industry and partnered up with local Georgetown businesses such as Mai Thai. One of GUWIL’s most popular events has been its Bring Your Own Boy event, the most recent of which took place Feb. 2. The goal of BYOB is for women in GUWIL to bring a male friend to a discussion on women’s issues in order to expand the impact of GUWIL’s mission and events. “One thing that we’re really working on is trying to involve men into our program,” Stricker said. “The idea is to engage men and women in this discussion about female empowerment and gender inequality so that men know they can help support women in their search for equality.” Aside from its BYOB event, GUWIL continues to promote male involvement in the organization through other means. In the past, the organization promoted the idea of “manbassadors,” a name for male allies of female empowerment efforts, through the distribution of laptop stickers. Though the transition in leadership means GUWIL will be without a pair of leaders who have guided the organization since its inception, the old executive board members remain optimistic about GUWIL’s future. “It’s sad to be leaving just because I’ve been involved in GUWIL for so long, and I’ve seen it grow,” Shaik said. “But each new board member seems really, really passionate about their new position, and they all have identified amazing goals that we’ve been trying to achieve for so long.”
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TUESday, FEBRuary 9, 2016
Applicant Pool Ticket Talks GUSA Changes Trends Upward GUSA, from A1
APPLICATIONS, from A1 from 2,364 to 2,469, Asian applicants increased slightly from 3,263 to 3,298 and white applicants rose from 11,073 to 11,568. Applications from international students remained relatively stable from 2,258 to 2,276. In comparison to five years ago, there has been a significant increase in the percentage of regular applicants who are minorities. In 2011, 1,773 applicants were black, 2,058 were Latino and Hispanic and 2,786 were Asian. This year’s applicant pool marked an 11 percent increase in black applicants, a 20 percent rise in Latino applicants and an 18 percent growth in Asian applicants. Continuing with the trend of past years, the largest number of applicants came from, in descending order, California, New York and New Jersey. Deacon highlighted the change in demographic patterns in terms of geography, particularly noting the rise in applications from states outside the Northeast region and the West Coast. “While our largest historical markets, New York and New Jersey, are lower, we’re higher in other places to offset that,” Deacon said. “We certainly see Florida and Texas rising as mega-states.” Deacon emphasized the need for the university to focus on meeting the financial requirements of students who are neither in the top socio-economic share of the population that can cover the full cost of tuition nor in the portion that receives full scholarship. Deacon pointed to the impact this challenge has on the university’s yield rate. “There’s a part of the mix where we really do not do
as well, what I call middleincome. While we meet their need for financial aid, there’s still a good amount that they still have to pay,” Deacon said. “Georgetown’s challenge going forward — and it hurts us, our yield is lower — in admissions is to figure out a way to build a financial resource that more adequately meets the needs of those students.” Deacon also pointed to the university’s consistent recruitment strategies, even in the face of increased competition from peer institutions. “We are kind of unusual, in the sense that we are not in a marketing frenzy, like some schools are. We are pretty much following the national trends,” Deacon said. “We’re competing, for better or worse, for a very narrow part of the high school graduate pool, the very top four or five percent, these students who get good scores and get good grades and have high aspirations.” The overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2020 is expected to stabilize at a similar level to last year’s 16.4 percent. Deacon said the university does not employ strategies to reduce its admissions rate in order to increase its appearance of selectivity. “In the admissions world, the Holy Grail of numbers are your admit rate and your yield,” Deacon said. “We’re in a fairly steady state, we would like to see the yield go higher, above 50 percent. But we don’t do anything to artificially create that, like early decision. We don’t try to admit people because we think they’ll come. We admit the best people and hope they’ll come.” Regular application decisions will be released at the end of March.
GULC Under Fire For Speech Policy within the bounds that our 501(c) (3) status imposes.” Beck-Coon asked the GULC to Beck-Coon stressed that the situreview its broad interpretation ation at Georgetown is not unprecof the policy, emphasizing the edented, pointing to the letters nonprofit’s disagreement with FIRE has sent to universities in the university’s decision to extend previous election cycles, including the restrictions to student groups Michigan State University in 2012, who campaign for a candidate. Montclair State University in 2014 “We are asking Georgetown Law and American University in 2015. to re-evaluate its policies and be Beck-Coon said that, in genmore permissive of students’ po- eral, private universities are more litical speech and campaigning on susceptible to a broader applicacampus, because it’s not necessary tion of 501(c)(3), because private under 501(c)(3) for them to inter- institutions do not operate under pret such a broad ban,” Beck-Coon the state and therefore are not acsaid to The Hoya. “They’re taking an countable to the First Amendment over-cautious and over-broad ap- as public institutions are. proach that they clearly need to re“Most likely because public instievaluate in light of what is clearly tutions know that they have to reimportant to their students and spect the First Amendment rights the values that the school claims of their students, which absolutely to hold.” protect political speech and partiAtkins said his student group san political speech, I think they discovered FIRE as it was further are more aware of the tension investigating 501(c)(3). FIRE offered between free speech and an overto write a letter to Treanor on the broad interpretation of 501(c)(3),” students’ behalf, and though they Beck-Coon said to The Hoya. “Priwere initially reluctant, they even- vate institutions are technically tually agreed after communica- not required under the law to retion with GULC administrators spect the rights of these students, began to falter. because they’re not state actors.” “I would say the initial reactions Beck-Coon also stressed that where I was seeking out what the the restriction of students’ parpolicy was and the rationale be- tisan speech is not conducive to hind it was, I would characterize fostering a rich academic comthe responses as prompt and con- munity. cise and respectful, just kind of “Political and civic engagein very concrete terms explaining ment are a huge part of educawhat the policy was,” Atkins said. tion and a huge part of the aca“As I tried to seek greater clarity as demic community that is meant to what the exact rationale, or jus- to promote discussion, learning, tification behind the policy was, engagement,” Beck-Coon said. it was a little bit harder to get real “This is when students should be answers. If we had it our way, we discussing their issues, should be wouldn’t have had FIRE intervene discussing their candidates, and on our behalf at all. We reached a an institution of higher educapoint where we tion has an felt we weren’t obligation to being respondpromote that ed to.” kind of diaIn an email logue rather to The Hoya, the than supGULC stated press it.” that, after reAtkins exceiving FIRE’s pressed the letter, it is exbelief that the MARIEKE TUTHILL BECK-COON ploring new issue is indicaFIRE Senior Program Officer ways to recontive of a broadcile student poer cultural litical expression and the parame- shortcoming in the United States. ters established by the university’s “Frankly, I think this is a tiny tax-exempt status. example of a much larger prob“Georgetown Law values politi- lem that the larger country faces cal expression, and is committed where for whatever reason, we’ve to encouraging it while remaining gotten into this national cliche true to our obligation as a nonprof- where the one thing you don’t talk it to remain politically neutral. As about in public is politics, when in such we place limits on the use of reality it is one of the most imporuniversity resources to distribute tant things to our society,” Atkins campaign materials,” the state- said. “I do think it’s ironic that in ment reads. “The Law Center is the best law school in the nation’s currently working on new ways to capital, the political center of the protect our students’ right to advo- country, students are being precate for the political candidates of vented from advocating on behalf their choice, while still remaining of specific candidates for office.” GULC, from A1
“They’re taking an over-broad and over-cautious approach.”
policy teams would be chosen through a rolling application process and would be required to include at least one freshman each year. The Khan-Fisk campaign is currently proposing 22 policy teams, but anticipates the number will drop as GUSA is restructured. The president and vice president would lead the executive and keep the chief of staff and deputy chiefs of staff to oversee the work of policy team chairs. The executive would also continue to manage groups like the Student Advocacy Office, “What’s a Hoya?,” Office of the Student Worker Advocate and the GU Farmers Market. The GUSA Fund, Constitutional Council and Election Commission would not be affected. Khan, who is the current speaker of the senate and has served in the senate for three years, said the proposed structure for GUSA is meant to minimize redundancies in GUSA advocacy, eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and break down the air of exclusivity that surrounds GUSA members. “When we decided we wanted to run for GUSA, a big thing that we agreed on was that we needed to change what GUSA is,” Khan said. “We realized as an organization we were ineffective, because GUSA within itself is exclusive. Not only do we exclude those who are outside in the student body, but also inside GUSA. It’s a total mess.” Khan said the current structure of GUSA has caused redundancies in advocacy due to the division between executive secretaries and senate subcommittees. “My three years in the senate have shown me how ineffective as an advocacy body we are with division of the two bodies,” Khan said. “You have the executive with a secretary-cabinet structure working on policy issues, and then a senate, with people running on policy issues, but because they are elected later, they don’t really have much of a stake in driving policy initiatives.” Fisk, a deputy chief of staff in the executive, also believes the division between executive and senate has contributed to a degree of tension between both branches, and an air of exclusivity which has contributed to the student body viewing GUSA as a club instead of an advocacy group. “When we first met, we talked about how we didn’t want to do this in the constraints of a framework that is inefficient, not collaborative and exclusive,” Fisk said. “We want to reverse the three of those words.” The size of subcommittees is also a concern for Khan and Fisk, as they believe the bloated size of the senate contributes to inefficiency and lack of involvement by underclassmen. “The subcommittees are really big, larger than in my previous years in the senate, but I saw that largely freshmen wanted to get involved in subcommittees,” Khan said. “So we want freshmen working on policy areas that they care about, who are people who aren’t necessarily elected.” To preserve freshman participation, Khan hopes that combining the executive and the senate will alleviate the tensions between what subcommittees want to accomplish and what secretaries are already working on.
“We realized that the subcommittees work, but rather [than] having a secretary here and a subcommittee there, why don’t we just bring them together in policy teams, working together, and have exec and senate representatives? That way policy is shared and you still have the primary administrative contact in the traditional executive form,” Khan said. According to Khan, the idea to restructure GUSA preceded her campaign with Fisk, developing from her involvement in the senate redistricting process led by the Vice Speaker of the Senate Theo Montgomery (SFS ’18) and Off-Campus Senator Eric Henshall (COL ’16). The senate is required by the GUSA constitution to geographically redistrict senate seats every three years. This year, the construction of the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall, the remodeling of the Former Jesuit Residence and the decision to house students in the Georgetown University Hotel raised questions as to whether geographic redistricting was still a feasible requirement. “Last semester, under the charge to redistrict, I decided to have a parallel process to see how GUSA functions,” Montgomery said. “Student government at Georgetown is primarily an advocacy body, and in light of that, we have separate branches of an advocacy body. That doesn’t make a lot of sense, to be splitting your advocacy body in half and have it be working on the same issues.” Following discussion in the senate, Montgomery and Henshall determined that any major changes to how senators are elected geographically would require ratification by the entire student body. “What we are trying to do is rewrite
the rules that we govern ourselves by to become more efficient, to work better for the student body, to be more effective in negotiating with administrators and putting the needs of the students first,” Montgomery said. Those restructuring changes would not require a school-wide vote, and would only require changes to the bylaws of the constitution, which are voted on by the senate. “We have been discussing this with Enushe. We were discussing this long before she suggested to us she was going to run,” Henshall said. “We intend to pursue this no matter who is elected, although she is campaigning on the same plan.” Still, Montgomery and Henshall endorse Khan and Fisk’s plan. Fisk said he believes opening up GUSA to the entire student body through policy teams will bring the students who care most about certain issues together. “There are a huge number of students on this campus who care about issues, and having [GUSA] opened up for a team framework, for students to collaborate and for people who are experts to be in the same room, driving policy, is what we are looking for,” Fisk said. Khan and Fisk plan on pursuing these changes as a top priority during the ongoing executive elections. “If anything, we both are super excited. We’ve dealt with this bureaucracy for too long. Sometimes, it’s disillusioning,” Khan said. “It’s frustrating to see there aren’t a lot of ways to engage. And just thinking that this can be done structurally gives a lot of hope in terms of a brand new GUSA and having the ability to change what GUSA means on this campus is what we care about most.”
Courtesy Enushe Khan and Chris Fisk
The GUSA executive ticket of Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) proposes a restructuring of the senate-executive relationship in its platform.
Khan, Fisk Run Unopposed TICKET, from A1 Six presidential and vice presidential pairings ran in the 2015 executive election, three pairs ran in 2014 and five pairs ran in 2013 According to past and present GUSA presidents and vice presidents, this year’s single-ticket election cannot be attributed to any one cause. Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), former GUSA president in 2013-14, said election seasons seem to be cyclical. “Things get very, very intense for a while and then for a variety of reasons, it ends up being a situation like you have this year, where maybe one larger team and that larger team will have a lot of different people working with them, and eventually they will all run against each other in future years,” Tisa said. Tisa also noted the difficult nature of campaigning as a potential factor for this year’s single-ticket election. “I think campaigning is very, very difficult. You are students, and grades are still important. People want to go to grad school, to law school, do things in the future and everyone knows, because it has been so competitive, people know that grades are going to suffer and that you might get into fights with friends, that the campus media will write mean things about you,” Tisa said. Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15), GUSA president in 2014-15, said he anticipates that the campaign this year will be vastly different from last year’s as a result of the student body’s choice of a satirical ticket. “What I think happened last year was that that model [of election] suddenly showed some kind of structural problems in terms of students viewing it as an inappropriate way for student government to be interacting with students through the election process,” Tezel said. “I think they said ‘let’s go back to the drawing board’ in terms of how GUSA is reaching out to the students, and I think they chose the Luther-Rohan ticket in part because they wanted to change the way that GUSA
communicated with the student body.” Current GUSA Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) said a series of factors led to other campaigns choosing not to run. “I know of a ticket that fell apart. I know of a ticket that decided to run and then decided it wouldn’t be good for his social relationships. I know somebody who decided that it would be too much work to put in,” Rohan said. Current GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) said this year’s single-ticket election could not be confirmed as a consequence of one particular factor. “I think it’s just an anomaly. I’ve heard some people say that the satirical victory last year made people disinterested in putting in all the work to run a campaign for the executive and others say that it made those already in GUSA put aside their differences and join together,” Luther said. “That’s all purely speculative though and I’m inclined to think it boils down to chance.” According to Rohan, the single-ticket race was likely the result of the Khan-Fisk ticket managing to develop and consolidate a strong following early on. “I think Chris and Enushe got in the door so early that they consolidated. Their campaign staff is over 200 — that’s huge. Last year, the biggest ticket was in the 70s and that was even really big. The people that would have been spread across the various campaigns have already been centralized,” Rohan said. Khan said the smaller amount of tickets seen in the 2016 election is a reflection of past GUSA contests. “I think that in terms of low turnout, and or having seen a decrease in tickets this year, it’s not surprising after seeing what happened last year,” Khan said. “I think it reflects in some ways a lot of the things we want to address with what we’re not liking about GUSA.” Tezel said strong organization has also been an important factor in making this year’s election a single ticket, a quality that could translate well into the future GUSA administration.
“There is always a possibility, and I think a very real one, that they started at the right time to consolidate support among many of the student organizations and student interest groups in order to create a really effective candidacy and ticket that wasn’t going to be challenged,” Tezel said. “If that is the case, I think we as students should be really looking forward to them taking that organizational prowess and translating it into a GUSA administration and to administrative advocacy.” Tezel said the preparation for his campaign began early. He found his running mate Omika Jikaria (SFS ’14) by November and started to put together a core team at the end of the fall semester. “Really, that was out of necessity and around the same time that all the other tickets started to form. It was important to do that because there is a lot that needs to be done beforehand like getting input from student groups in order to craft a policy,” Tezel said. “It’s not something that you can really do in just a couple of weeks time.” According to Tezel, the single-ticket election has both positive and negative consequences, citing unity in the student body as well as a decrease in dialogue. “I think it’s positive that there won’t be some of the division among students around a particular issue that you see during campaigns, because I think it’s really important to have a united front when pushing ideas toward the administration and sometimes the scars of a campaign can make that less effective,” Tezel said. “Will it mean that there’s fewer ideas being exchanged? Yes, I think that is where students probably lose the most.” Tisa said the impact on students depends on how Khan and Fisk run their campaign. “They are clearly in a leading position so that means they can really decide on how they want to proceed. They can be as detailed as they want, and they can give voters things to think about,” Tezel said. “Choice is always important.”
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TENNIS
Men’s Team Shows Strong Performance Despite Loss Madeline Auerbach Hoya Staff Writer
In its first and only matchup with an Ivy League team in its spring season, the Georgetown men’s tennis team (1-4) fell to No. 45 Princeton (3-2) in a 5-2 finish Saturday, which included two singles wins and a single doubles victory for Georgetown. The Tigers headed into the matchup coming off of a 7-0 sweep of Navy (2-2), a team that Georgetown edged 4-3 on Jan. 29. “I’m not that disappointed,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said. “We were right there with them, unfortunately. I thought they played very well, especially their top two guys. … These guys played great doubles, both of them, and then in the singles, they won in straight sets against [senior] Danny [Khanin] and [sophomore] Marco [Lam] and that kind of set the tone.”
“I’m not that disappointed. We were right there with them, unfortunately.” GORDIE ERNST Head Coach
Matches in the first and second doubles slots were not close, with both Georgetown pairs falling in 6-1 results. Princeton junior Thomas Colautti and sophomore Luke Gamble defeated Georgetown freshman Michael Chen and junior Jordan Portner, while sophomores Lam and Peter Beatty fell to Princeton junior Alexander Day and sophomore Kial Kaiser. Hoya juniors Yannik Mahlangu and Jack Murphy topped senior Florin Radu and freshman Jimmy Wasserman in a 6-5 (5) finish, but as Princeton won the majority of the doubles matches, it captured the doubles point and secured a 1-0 lead. Khanin, Lam, Chen and sophomore Mac Rechnan all fell in their singles matches. They were all defeated in fairly similar fashions; Khanin and Chen were both defeated in 6-3, 6-3 finishes. Lam fell to Colautti 6-2, 6-4. Beatty and freshman Will Sharton notched the only singles victo-
ries for the Hoyas in two competitive three-set matches in the third and sixth singles slots, respectively. Beatty downed Wasserman in a 6-7, 6-4, 1-0 battle. Meanwhile, Sharton defeated junior Jonathan Carcione in a 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 finish. Because the final result was already decided before Beatty and Sharton concluded their matches, the pair only played a ten-point tiebreak instead of a full third set. “The positives are Peter Beatty and Will Sharton winning their matches against very highly ranked juniors. Both those guys they beat were much higher ranked than those two in the junior [rankings], so that’s always good to see,” Ernst said. The men’s team will take a break from play for two weeks. However, those two weeks will be key, as the Hoyas’ next match is against Big East foe DePaul (2-5). Despite DePaul’s dominant history over the Hoyas — Georgetown fell 7-0 to DePaul last season — the Blue Demons are currently on a four-match losing streak. Before they meet with the Hoyas, they will play the Wisconsin Badgers (5-0) on Feb. 13. Meanwhile, the Georgetown women’s tennis team (0-1) has been preparing for its match against Towson (3-1, 0-1 Colonial Athletic Association), which will take place Tuesday at noon. Thus far, Towson has routed three of its opponents in 6-1, 7-0 and 7-0 finishes. Its lone loss was at the hands of James Madison (3-2, 1-0 CAA) on Jan. 31. Since then, the Tigers have swept both St. Peter’s (36, 1-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) and Rhode Island (2-3). Ernst explained that one of Georgetown’s particular strengths is its depth, which will play an important role in the Hoyas’ match against the Tigers, as some of the Georgetown women’s tennis players have been sick recently. “I have a lot of girls and guys that are kind of even, so if you do have an injury or something, you have someone else who can go in. In the past I haven’t had that,” Ernst said. The women’s team’s only match of the season finished in a loss to Navy (7-3, 0-1 Patriot League) in a 4-3 finish Jan. 29. The first doubles team, led by senior Victoire Saperstein and freshman Risa Nakagawa, defeated Navy’s Kristine Rojo and Rozel Hernandez 6-3. However, Navy won in the second and third
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Sophomore Peter Beatty won one of Georgetown’s two singles victories in the third singles slot in the team’s 5-2 loss to Princeton on Saturday. Beatty defeated Princeton freshman Jimmy Wasserman 6-7, 6-4, 1-0. doubles slot, capturing the doubles point. Freshmen Cecelia Lynham and Nakagawa and sophomore Casey Marx all won their singles matches. However, it wasn’t enough to win the match, as Saperstein, junior Sophia Barnard and sophomore Sara
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Swift all lost their singles matches. “This is what you want your freshmen to do,” Ernst said, in reference to Lynham and Nakagawa’s play. “You want them to be in the fire right in the beginning, and this helps for the future. And they’re also high-ranked, experienced
juniors who have been through tough matches, so to have them in the lineup is a good thing.” The women’s team will compete with Towson (3-1) Tuesday at noon in Arlington, Va., and the men’s team’s will play against DePaul (25) in Chicago on Feb. 20.
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GU Tops Personal Records Daniel Baldwin Hoya Staff Writer
The Georgetown men’s and No. 8 women’s indoor track and field teams divided their athletes between the Boston University Scarlet and White Invitational, the Villanova Invitational at Ocean Breeze in Staten Island and the USA Track and Field Junior Cross Country Championships (USATF) in Bend, Ore. last weekend. Both squads saw multiple athletes break personal records at each meet. At the BU Scarlet and White Invitational, the men’s indoor team saw four of its runners clock a subfour-minute time in the invitational mile. Senior Ahmed Bile captured first place in the event, finishing with a time of 3:57.84. This was Bile’s fourth sub-four-minute mile in his career. Graduate student Cole Williams, junior Amos Bartelsmeyer, and senior Michael Lederhouse followed Bile’s lead, snagging second, third and fourth places, respectively. Williams recorded a time of 3:57.88, Bartelsmeyer set a personal record with a time of 3:58.22 and Lederhouse clocked in at 3:58.42, another personal record. Bile was pleased with his level of performance after the meet. “It just showed consistency,” Bile said. “The NCAAs are getting faster every year. You might need to run a 3:57 just to qualify for the meet. Last year I was the last one to make the meet with a time of 3:58.5. So definitely breaking that was important, but also that it will definitely make the NCAA meet. I was excited about that.” Freshman Spencer Brown led all Hoyas in the men’s invitational 800-meter race. Brown claimed second place overall with a personal record of 1:50.24. Sophomore Charles Cooper and senior Andrew Ogle finished fifth and sixth with times of 1:51.47 and 1:51.69, respectively; both set personal
records. Sophomore Christian Alvarado shaved about two seconds off of his previous personal record in the men’s 1000m race, running a time of 2:27.43. Bile said that the Hoyas have displayed mental grit and determination thus far. “I think it is definitely the mental aspect. The team is very confident. We know that we can do it, and we know we can do it consistently. So overall, the confidence of the team is a lot higher. We expect more from ourselves,” Bile said.
“The team is very confident. We know that we can do it, and we know that we can do it consistently.” AHMED BILE Senior Runner
The No. 8 Georgetown women’s squad, led by junior Sabrina Southerland, continued its impressive season in Staten Island at the Villanova Invitation at Ocean Breeze. Southerland broke the Georgetown women’s 800m record, previously set by herself last February, with a time of 2:03.10. Southerland claimed first place in the race while recording the best time for the 800m in the country at the moment. Junior Emma Keenan followed Southerland’s lead with a time of 2:05.06 for third place in the event. Southerland said she believes that a change in mental attitude has helped her this season. “I don’t know. I just got tired of losing,” Southerland said. “So I’m just trying not to lose as much.” The Hoyas also had a strong outing in the women’s invita-
tional mile. Sophomore Kennedy Weisner finished with a personal record in sixth place with a time of 4:44.36, while sophomore Autumn Eastman also ran a personal record, finishing in seventh place in 4:47.12. Sophomore Aleta Looker followed her fellow classmates, crossing the finish line with a time of 4:55.73, another personal record. Senior Samantha Nadel continued her impressive indoor season thus far with a performance that put her in fifth place overall in 4:44.01, while senior Heather Martin claimed eighth in 4:49.49. In addition to the two meets, three Hoyas traveled across the country to Bend, Ore. to compete in USATF. Freshman Reilly Bloomer secured fourth place overall. Bloomer’s performance qualified her to represent Team USA in the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association Cross Country Championships in Venezuela. Freshman Nick Wareham claimed sixth place while freshman Adam Barnard took eighth place. Director of Track and Field and Cross-Country Michael Smith praised the trio of freshmen for their performances. “When you are a high school senior and you choose to come to a really competitive program, you can be doing a great job as a freshman and really making progress, but that national level is so far away,” Smith said. “So what we try to do is create these intermediate goals that people can shoot for and shows them down the right path. For those guys, 19 years old, to make the team and race people their own age in the college level and compete gives them a chance to capture what we are about as a program when that national level is so far away.” The Hoyas will travel to Ames, Iowa for the Iowa State Classic and Geneva, Ohio for the Spire Invitational on Feb. 12-13.
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nless you live under a rock, by now you have surely heard the news that one of the soccer world’s biggest managers is coming to the Premier League next season. That’s right, folks: Pep Guardiola is coming to town. After much speculation, Guardiola has revealed that Manchester City will be his destination. Given the fact that Manchester City was just crushed 3-1 by Leicester City on Saturday, this might not be a bad thing. It makes you feel slightly bad for the current manager Manuel Pellegrini, under whom Manchester City won the title in 2014. However, when one of the best managers in the world is up for grabs, it is understandable that even successful coaches like Pellegrini are pushed aside. Pellegrini has accepted this turn of events with remarkable grace, stating that he is just focused on the remainder of the season. With the arrival of Guardiola — a master innovator best known for his “tiki-taka” rapid passing style — and manager Jose Mourinho’s likely move to Manchester United, the Premier League will find itself suddenly graced by the presence of most of the best managers in the world. With the exception of Carlo Ancelotti, who will be taking over for Guardiola at Bayern Munich, the prominent coaching names will be at the prominent English clubs: Guardiola at Manchester City, Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, potentially Mourinho at Manchester United and current Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone over at troubled Chelsea. It is an exciting prospect. Klopp and Guardiola have over 600 wins between them. Add Mourinho into the mix and that is another 500 wins. All three of these coaches are wellknown for their distinct coaching styles and personalities. Mourinho, of course, is a very polarizing figure who focuses mainly on defense. While he knows how to get results, he frequently leaves chaos and tension in his wake, as evidenced by Chelsea’s epic meltdown this season. It is undetermined whether a club like Manchester United would be a good fit for someone like Mourinho, who is very good with short-term results but less so with long-term planning. Klopp is well-known for his “gegenpressing” style, which emphasizes high-energy attacking and ball pressure. He used this to great effect over at Borussia Dortmund, and it appears to
be catching on over at Anfield. Furthermore, Klopp’s personality has completely galvanized Liverpool’s spirits. Guardiola, of course, is a master tactician who is not afraid to change up his style. While he did not achieve the same level of greatness at Bayern Munich as he did at FC Barcelona — 14 trophies in four years — Guardiola is still expected to have an enormous impact at Manchester City. What does the arrival of Guardiola mean for the Premier League? Certainly, we can expect even more exciting games, especially when the bigger teams clash. It is also very likely that big-name signings will be more attracted to the Premier League now. In the past week alone, it has been rumored that Guardiola will lure Luis Suarez, Neymar and Paul Pogba to join him over at the Etihad Stadium. While most of these potential signings are just rumors so far, it would not be surprising at all to see Manchester City land at least one of these players. One thing is for sure: it is going to be a very exciting year for soccer. The next few weeks will see the return of Champions League, as well as a very important Premier League clash. On Valentine’s Day, league-leader Leicester City takes on second-place Arsenal in a game that has title implications. Arsenal is one of only two teams to beat Leicester City this season – the other being Liverpool, which Leicester City just avenged. If Leicester prevails — which I sincerely hope it does — it provides yet another reason the Foxes could very well win the title. The key Champions League matches are between Arsenal-Barcelona, Paris Saint-GermainChelsea and Juventus-Bayern Munich. It will be interesting to see whether Chelsea thrives internationally under the new interim manager, although it is highly unlikely that it will beat a PSG side that is unbeaten thus far domestically. Guardiola will surely be motivated to try to capture the Champions League crown in his final attempt with a strong Bayern Munich side, so I do not particularly like Juventus’ chances. The odds that Arsenal gets out of its matchup with Barcelona are very slim, but it should prove to be a good series regardless.
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White is also a key contributor on defense, as she leads the Hoyas in rebounds and steals. Adair also praised White’s rebounding — at 5-foot-5, White would not seem to have strong rebounding ability at first glance. “It just speaks to who she is,” Adair said. “I mean, she is tough. And so she’s not afraid to go in there and get hit; she’s not afraid to battle, and she has the athletic ability to get in there and leap. But I just attribute that to her toughness. Whatever this team needs, Dionna can do.” White said she has also had a smooth adjustment to college off the court.
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hold their positions, with no consequences for their deplorable actions. Even if Pitino and Jurich were not the ones who set the recruits up with the escorts, it is difficult to believe that both the coach and athletic director had no knowledge of the illegal activities involving their future Louisville athletes. More often than not, people forget that college athletes are students. Even more frequently, we forget that these athletes are humans. Louisville made this decision with no regard for any of the players on their roster. They made a decision that diminishes the hard work and effort it took for the team to start the season 18-4. It is clear that Louisville President James Ramsey, Jurich and Pitino only cared about the impact a postseason ban next year would have on the program. Pitino completely turned his back on his two fifth-year seniors. Damion Lee and Trey Lewis, graduates of Drexel and Cleveland State, respectively, transferred to Louisville over other prestigious basketball programs with the hopes of winning a national championship. Now neither will get that opportunity. The worst part is that it appears that Pitino will remain the head coach of the Cardinals. Under Pitino’s watch, a multitude of players have supposedly been allowed to engage in illegal activities. If the NCAA had any gall, it would ban Pitino from coaching. The NCAA’s obsession with money drives many coaches to break the rules and, in this instance, the law. The avarice displayed by these institutions muddles the purpose of college athletics. The purpose of a college basketball program is not to generate money for the school, but to provide star athletes with the opportunity to pursue their dream of playing basketball professionally while also receiving an education. Recruiting should be clean, but we often see coaches involved in these scandals because winning seems to mean more to them than the development of young men as students and as athletes. I hope that the Louisville administrators who made this decision go to sleep every night happy with their choice. I hope they think about how they chose the university’s brand over the players who helped build that brand. I hope they are happy that when they watch every game for the rest of the season, they will see Pitino, a man who used sex to pitch their university to recruits, pacing up the sidelines. I hope they enjoy watching Lee and Lewis play their hearts out for a university who denied them their dream. The major problem in all of this is that the punishment may cost the institution millions, but the real victims are the players on the Louisville roster, most of whom did not partake in any of the alleged activities that led to this investigation. None of the people who may have permitted these recruiting violations will receive any punishment. The NCAA needs to take a hard look in the mirror and overhaul the flawed system in place.
“Academics are very important to her and her family and also us,” Adair said. “And so, you know, she’s a smart kid, and she just gets it academically, gets it athletically — like I mentioned before, just very high IQ.” True to form, however, the freshman credits her older teammates with helping her adjust to college life. “They help me with my homework,” White said. “And some of the
classes that they took already, they help tutor me. So that helps a lot.” Adair said that White has begun to reveal more of her personality, including her witty sense of humor, as she grows closer with her teammates. “What a lot of people don’t know about her is she has NATASHA ADAIR this funny wit,” Head Coach Adair said. “She’s quiet, but as she warms up to you, she’s not at all. She has this dry sense of humor, she’s always laughing and
“[White is] a player that any coach in the country would be blessed to have, and she’s a Hoya.”
smiling about something. She’s kind of a jokester, and so it’s been great to see that personality come out.” Adair said she is excited about the future of Georgetown women’s basketball, particularly with White and sophomore guard Dorothy Adomako, who is second on the team with 14 points per game, leading the team for the next few seasons. “She’s a player that any coach in the country would be blessed to have, and she’s a Hoya,” Adair said. “And I’m thankful for it, I’m excited to see her grow, and she will help put this team on her back for banner seasons. And, I’m just looking forward to seeing how far she goes, individually, and what accolades she accomplishes.”
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take the lead with 7:52 left to play, never relinquishing it. After struggling offensively for most of the game, White led the way for the Hoyas in the fourth quarter, scoring 11 points and recording three steals. “[Dionna] is resilient. I remember bringing her over and telling her, ‘I want you to shoot until your arm falls off. It’s going to fall. They are great shots,’” Adair said. “And then, she just made big plays down the stretch.” Marquette cut Georgetown’s lead to one point with 17 seconds left on the clock. However, the Hoyas were able to remain composed down the stretch in spite of the Golden Eagle’s full court pressure. “In the last couple of minutes, we knew [Marquette] was either trying to get jump balls or fouls or steals, so it was a matter of taking care of the ball and getting it up through the middle so they can’t trap us on the wings,” Battle said. “It was a matter of thinking and being calm.” White hit two free throws with 10 seconds remaining to put the Hoyas up by three. Marquette got a three pointer off just before time expired, but it missed the mark, clinching the comeback victory for Georgetown. “We were never going to lay down and just quit. We wanted this win pretty bad, and we got it done,” junior forward Faith Woodard said. “We feel like we can beat anybody if we set our minds to it.” Woodard and Battle both finished the game with 19 points. White chipped in 15, and sophomore center Yazmine Belk added
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another 10. Woodard and Belk each had a double-double as well — the junior pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds, and the sophomore grabbed ten boards. “I don’t think any team in this league has the depth that we do. I think they have key players for sure, but we can go 12 deep, and on any given night, it doesn’t matter who gets the credit,” Adair said. “That is what a team is supposed to be, and that is what we are.” Despite their comeback on Friday, the Hoyas were unable to carry the momentum of Friday’s win into Sunday’s contest with the Blue Demons. DePaul opened the game with a three pointer and went on to hit four more before the quarter ended to take an 18-14 lead after 10 minutes of play. DePaul extended its lead in the second quarter, going on a 10-2 run to establish a double-digit advantage with 6:20 remaining in the half. Adair called a timeout to regroup, and the Hoyas answered with a 6-0 run of their own. However, senior guard Chanise Jenkins hit her sixth three pointer of the game to end Georgetown’s run and put DePaul up by seven. When the half ended, the Hoyas trailed 37-28. Georgetown came out of the locker room determined to claw its way back into the game. With 2:30 remaining in the third quarter, a made foul shot by Woodard tied the game at 50. Jenkins hit another three to put DePaul back on top. The Blue Demons closed out the period with a 7-2 run to take a 57-52 lead heading into the final quarter. Jenkins opened the fourth period with back-to-back threes — her ninth and tenth of the game — and
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put DePaul up by 11 points. The senior finished the contest with a game-high 30 points — all of which came from beyond the arc. “[Jenkins] made some tough shots. I felt like our kids were there. I felt like they contested for the most part, but my hat goes off to her. She was in a zone. She was unconscious,” Adair said. “She stepped up big for them, and she was part of the reason why they played so well and why they got the victory.” The Hoyas did not manage to close the gap in the final minutes of play and when time expired, they trailed 80-66. Despite the loss, Adair commended her team for playing hard until the final buzzer.
“We win together. We fall short together. We rally; we learn. We’re going to do all this as a team, and so I’m still proud of how they fought.” Georgetown was paced by White, who scored a career-high 24 points. White played an impressive 79 of 80 minutes for the Hoyas over the course of the weekend. “[Dionna] is a competitor. She is fearless. She tried to put the team on her back and make up for not having Dorothy,” Adair said. “You feel good as a coach having the ball in her hands.” The Hoyas will return to action Friday on the road against Seton Hall (17-5, 7-4 Big East). Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
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considered crucial to this team’s success at the start of the season, started off red hot, averaging more than 15 points through the Hoyas first few games. He then entered a slump that saw him shoot inefficiently and seemingly disappear from games despite playing in 77.9 percent of the team’s total minutes this season, per KenPom. Copeland was ignoring his athletic gifts and ability to take it to — and score at — the rim. The sophomore forward is shooting nearly 74 percent on all of his attempts at the rim this year. While he has a technically sound shooting motion, and did shoot 39 percent from three his freshman year, he is best when he is using his leaping ability and finishing ability close to the basket. After his performance at Seton Hall, Copeland ought to have a greater level of confidence going forward. The same can be said for Peak, who despite his early season inconsistencies and foul troubles, has found great success coming off the bench. Peak has reached double figures in six straight games, and over his last three, shot 51 percent from the field and averaged 19.3 points per game and four rebounds per game. Peak has undoubtedly been the Hoyas’ most consistent player over the past three games, which have all been losses despite his stellar play. Much of the Hoyas’ struggles, then, can be attributed to sophomore guard Tre Campbell. Many fans and pundits thought Campbell had finally broken out onto the scene after a career-high 21 points against No. 5 Xavier in the Hoyas’ signature win of the season. However, in the five games since then, Campbell has averaged two points per game, going scoreless in the last three contests, all losses for the Hoyas. The sophomore guard, while not known for his scoring, is a crucial part of initiating the offense and feeding the ball to the right spots for players like Copeland and Govan to get their looks. Even more concerning than Camp-
bell’s lack of scoring is his hesitation when shooting the ball. He has attempted just three three pointers over the last three games. As the season draws to a close and Georgetown enters into must-win mode for every single game, one thing is becoming more and more evident. While the Hoyas have defensive inadequacies that are based mostly on lack of quickness, athleticism and discipline across the board, their offensive struggles are inexcusable. A team that struggles on defense must make up for it with a high-powered offense, which the Hoyas have, in theory. In addition to Campbell’s shooting ability, Peak and Copeland’s slashing ability and Hayes and Govan’s post play, the team still has senior guard and co-captain D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera. Moreover, they have two more shooters in junior forward Reggie Cameron and freshman forward Marcus Derrickson. Every single one of the aforementioned players has led the
Hoyas in scoring at least once this season. There is no excuse for a team as offensively talented as the Hoyas to consistently be shooting under 50 percent from two-point range, and more recently, under 35 percent from deep. The defensive struggles — contesting shots, defensive rebounding and contesting without fouling – have been unavoidable. But the offensive struggles will doom this team from making any sort of push for the NCAA tournament, and if the team fails to finish with a winning record, maybe even the National Invitation Tournament. The Hoyas have more than their share of offensive talent. Now is the time for them to show it — and all of it — because with the way the team plays defense, only an offense firing on all cylinders can save their season.
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Sophomore guard L.J. Peak scored 11, 19 and 22 points in Georgetown’s consecutive games against Creighton, Providence and Butler, respectively.
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The Georgetown women’s basketball team (13-10, 6-7 Big East) came back from a 17-point deficit to beat Marquette (11-13, 6-7 Big East) Friday night before falling to DePaul (19-7, 11-2 Big East) Sunday afternoon. Both Georgetown and Marquette entered Friday’s matchup with momentum. The Golden Eagles came into the contest on a five-game winning streak, while the Hoyas had won three games straight. Three ties and four lead changes in the first five minutes of play appeared to indicate that a closely matched contest was ahead. However, a layup with 5:03 left in the first quarter ignited a 9-0 run for Marquette. The Golden Eagles remained in control and held a 28-19 lead at the end of the first period. In the second quarter, Marquette expanded its advantage as Georgetown struggled to find a rhythm offensively. The Hoyas’ leading scorer, freshman guard Dionna White, who averages 15 points per game, went 1-of-11 from the field and scored only four points in the first half. Sophomore guard Dorothy Adomako, who averages 14 points per game for the Hoyas, missed both of the weekend’s
games with an illness. “When you have one of the top players in the league, and they’re not out on the court, the rotations are little different,” Head Coach Natasha Adair said of Adomako’s absence. “Not having her — that’s 16 to 20 points a game. But we don’t hang our heads or make excuses for whatever the situation may be, and that is the beauty of this team.” The Golden Eagles managed to extend their lead to as many as NATASHA ADAIR 17 points in the second Head Coach quarter. At the break, the Hoyas trailed 35-47. Marquette maintained its lead throughout the third quarter and led by 10 points with 3:00 remaining. However, in the final minutes of the period, senior guard/ forward Logan Battle scored seven straight points and took a charge on the defensive end to swing the momentum in the Hoyas’ favor, heading into the final 10 minutes of play. “Logan Battle was huge. If I had to give a most valuable player of the game, it would go to Logan Battle. She just made play after play after play,” Adair said. “She’s doing it on both sides of the floor.” Georgetown entered the final quarter trailing by three points but managed to
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Sophomore forward Isaac Copeland led Georgetown with 18 points in the team’s 69-61 loss to Seton Hall on Saturday night. It was Copeland’s second double-digit performance in the past seven games.
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Senior guard/forward Logan Battle scored seven straight points in the third quarter of Georgetown’s 75-72 win over Marquette on Friday night.
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Freshman basketball players face a challenging adjustment. In addition to having to adapt to a higher level of competition, players have to adjust to college academics, a new social atmosphere and life away from home. Moreover, the college season is longer and includes more travel, which can sometimes lead younger players to experience a drop in production as the season continues.
Georgetown freshman guard Dionna White has had no such issues. “People talk about in the second half of the season, sometimes freshman players hit the wall,” Head Coach Natasha Adair said. “I think she has knocked the wall down. I think she has already run through the wall.” White has immediately established herself as one of the top players in the Big East. A 5-foot-5 guard, she leads the Georgetown women’s basketball team (13-10,
6-7 Big East) in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals. Among Big East players, she ranks sixth with 15 points per game, second with 2.2 steals per game and sixth with 3.9 assists per game. On Monday, she was named the Big East Freshman of the Week for the fifth time this season. Still, White prefers to talk about how her teammates have helped her rather than her own accomplishments. “On a couple of my fouls, they would be like, ‘Play smart.’
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he No. 13 Louisville men’s basketball team (19-4, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) self-imposed a ban for tournament play for this upcoming postseason Friday afternoon. The news comes with only eight games left in the regular season. Every college athlete’s career passes in the blink of an eye, with only so many opportunities to win championships and create memories. The players of Louisville have now lost the opportunity to play for the national championship, which is not only heartbreaking but also unjust. The self-imposed ban comes as a result of recruiting violations that Louisville allegedly committed between 2010 and 2014. The accusations come from self-described former escort Katina Powell, who claims that she and others were paid to have sex with recruits. This type of action from a university is inexcusable, and firing Head Coach Rick Pitino and Athletic Director Tom Jurich would seem appropriate. Yet both men still See BARTON, A9
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as often as the numbers say they should. Not only did the Hoyas’ offense fail them on Saturday, but its inability to consistently secure defensive rebounds also gave the Pirates 15 offensive rebounds, leading to 10 putbacks, which is defined as a shot attempt within four seconds of an offensive rebound, per hoopmath. Seton Hall scored 12 points off its putback attempts, compared to Georgetown’s two. Despite a stellar performance after seemingly disappearing from the scoring column for the majority of Big East play, Copeland’s 18 points were in vain. Copeland, a player who many
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For much of this season, the Georgetown men’s basketball team (14-11, 6-5 Big East) has attributed its inconsistencies to its defensive shortcomings. While that has held true most of the time, this team has once again failed offensively, losing 69-61 to the Seton Hall Pirates (17-6, 7-4 Big East) Saturday night when the Hoyas shot an inefficient 34 percent from the field. Not only does the team still repeatedly take contested threes, it also settles for contested long two-point jumpers, the most inefficient shot in basketball in terms of the ratio of distance to points produced. Georgetown shot 20 two-
point jumpers, 20 three-pointers and just 16 shots at the rim against Seton Hall on Saturday. For a team that boasts two true big men in senior center and co-captain Bradley Hayes and freshman center Jessie Govan, this is an underuse of the team’s strengths. Even the Hoyas’ two best slashers, sophomore guard L.J. Peak and sophomore forward Isaac Copeland — who have combined to shoot 63 percent at the rim this season — shot a combined 15 jump shots against the Pirates. While they made six of their 10 attempted three-pointers, en route to a combined 35 points, the Hoyas’ offense is decidedly more inefficient when the team’s slashers and post players are not attacking the rim
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Or, ‘Time to score,’” White said. “They teach me throughout the game.” White has led the team to rapid improvement this season. Last season, the team finished 4-27, winning just two Big East games. Adair said she has enjoyed coaching White early in her career. “She’s a coach’s dream,” Adair said. “And I say that because she’s a kid that comes in and works. What boss doesn’t like that? I mean, she comes in, and she gives 110 percent every day.” Individually, White brings a balanced skill set to the court. Offensively, she has blazing speed in the open court and is willing to attack the rim in transition, which is a part of the game that she enjoys. “It’s intense,” White said. “It’s like a thrill, running in transition.” White is also comfortable scoring in a variety of other ways. She leads Georgetown with 19 threepointers made and refers to her jump shot as a key aspect of her smooth transition to the college game. “It’s very important, because sometimes they’ll be blocking the hole, so I have to shoot,” White said of her jump shot. “And [the defenders] are taller, so I can’t keep going to the hole and finish all the time, so I have to pull up and shoot the open shot instead of making it harder.” See WHITE, A9