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MAKING A MURDERER

Georgetown debates the Netflix documentary and the controversial case of Steven Avery.

EDITORIAL The bill to extend GUPD jurisdiction poses a problem for students.

GREEK COUNCIL PROPOSED Khan, Fisk will form an unofficial Greek Council once in office.

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NEWS, A5

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GULC Clarifies Early Assurance Gaia Mattiace

Law Advisor Victoria Turco said the program will continue, with Hoya Staff Writer one key change to the testing reGeorgetown University Law Center quirements.

Dean of Admissions Andrew Corn“Georgetown juniors may apply blatt announced that the center’s to the Law Center without taking Early Assurance Program will not the LSAT, but must submit their be terminated, but instead contin- ACT or SAT scores. Admissions deued under a modified format, at an cisions will be made without an event hosted by the Pre-Law Society in LSAT score, as has been the case White-Gravenor Hall on Wednesday. since the program was instituted Since 1984, in 1984,” Turco GULC has allowed wrote.

“HowGeorgetown unever, admitted dergraduate stustudents must dents to apply to sit for the LSAT the law school and submit their during the spring scores to the Law of their junior Center prior to year without havANDREW CORNBLATT matriculation.

Dean of Admissions, GULC ing to first take While students the Law School are now required Admission Test, a standardized exam to take the LSAT prior to entering used by many law schools in the ad- the Law Center, the actual LSAT missions process. In past years, the score will not be grounds for reprogram typically accepted 15 to 20 voking an acceptance that was exstudents from an applicant pool of tended pursuant to this program.” up to 60 students.

As before, students may apply The Cawley Career Education March of their junior years and Center initially announced the will be notified of decisions by late GULC’s termination of the pro- April. gram in an email Jan. 20, stating At the event Wednesday, Cornthat Georgetown students would blatt explained to prospective apnow need to apply to the law plicants that he fought to maintain school along with the general ap- the Early Assurance Program in its plicant pool. However, in a letter original form, but that the ultimate sent to undergraduate students See GULC, A6 Feb. 25, Cawley Career Center Pre-

“The program is in place and alive and well.”

GU Launches Jewish Center New research and teaching center will replace White’s program

IAN SCOVILLE AND Jesse Jacobs Hoya Staff Writers

Boosted by a $10 million donation from the Braman family, Georgetown University officially launched the Center for Jewish Civilization, announced by University President John J. DeGioia in a campus-wide email Wednesday.

The CJC serves as an interdisciplinary teaching and research unit within the School of Foreign Service, with a focus on Jewish history, culture and civilization. The center will replace the Program for Jewish Civilization, which was originally launched in September 2003 under the leadership of Rabbi Harold White in an effort to promote an increased understanding of Jewish civilization at the university.

CJC Director Jacques Berlinerblau, who previously led the PJC, said the center will act to facilitate the study of Jewish civilization on campus.

“We see ourselves as a hub. We want to encourage and make possible the study of Judaism on the Georgetown campus, and we view ourselves almost as like the convener,” Berlinerblau said.

The center is the result of 12 years of a fundraising effort by Georgetown faculty and administrators, in which the university raised almost $11 million in endowed funds for the center from more than 500 families, and another $10 million from

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The Braman family’s $10 million donation has enabled Georgetown to launch the new Center for Jewish Civilization, part of the SFS. the Braman family to establish the Braman Endowed Professorship of the Practice of the Forensic Study of the Holocaust, a new position within the center that will be filled

by Rev. Patrick Desbois, previously an adjunct professor.

The Braman family is personally connected to the study of Jewish civilization and the Holocaust, as do-

nor Norman Braman of Miami, Fla., is the son of Holocaust survivors.

“I have decided to make this gift, now, and to Georgetown, in part as a sign of my appreciation for the leadership of Pope Francis and the priority he so clearly attaches to fostering closer relations between See JEWISH, A6

DeGioia Announces HeForShe Partnership Christian Paz

port HeForShe and its mission.

“Georgetown is proud to stand with HeForShe and its work to empower Georgetown University will partner women and girls worldwide,” DeGioia with the United Nations HeForShe wrote. “Many in our world community, campaign and pursue initiatives and especially women, are faced with to advance gender significant challenges equality on its camto the basic right to sopus and in society, cial justice and to the University President conditions that allow John J. DeGioia anfor human flourishnounced at a launch ing.” event Tuesday.

As a partner, the HeForShe is an university will use its international moveInstitute for Women, ment that encourages Peace and Security to John J. DEGIOIA President, Georgetown University men and boys to advopublish and exhibit cate for gender equalarticles on issues that ity. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon relate to peace and security studies, and U.N. Women Global Goodwill Am- launch a new study on the impact of bassador Emma Watson launched the women’s roles in resolving political campaign in 2014. conflict and pursuing sustainable peace In a university statement, DeGioia wrote that Georgetown is proud to supSee PARTNERSHIP, A6

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“Georgetown is proud to stand with HeForShe and its work.”

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U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura received the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security.

UN Addresses Sexual Violence Bangura speaks on abuse of women in conflict zones

Elisabeth Neylan Hoya Staff Writer

United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura advocated for the increased participation of women in international affairs and presented strategies to combat sexual violence in conflict zones during an address in Gaston Hall on Monday.

The Office of the President, the Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the Global Futures Initiative and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs hosted Bangura. During the event, Bangura also received the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security, an award established

by GIWPS and Clinton in 2014, during the event. The New York

Times Paris Bureau Chief Alissa Rubin moderated the discussion.

Bangura began her conversation by outlining her role in the U.N. and her work addressing the misconception of sexual violence as an unavoidable consequence in conflicts.

“We all know that rape in war is as old as war itself.”

ZAINAB BANGURA U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict

“My mission is to make sure sexual violence is no longer sidelined as a stigma to be borne in silence but is brought into the center of international relations,” Bangura said. “We

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all know that rape in war is as old as war itself. Historically the issue has been framed as a byproduct of war — merely collateral damage and simply boys being boys.”

Bangura argued that sexual violence is used deliberately by terrorist organizations as a means to control and subjugate local populations during conflicts. Bangura said such violence is a form of terror that is ineffectively addressed by institutions seeking to combat terrorist groups.

“When we think of terrorism, we tend to think of destruction, killing, kidnapping and abduction. Rape and other forms of sexual violence are not mentioned in any national counterterrorism [agendas],” Bangura said.

FEATURED NEWS Alito Addresses GULC

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. gave career advice to law students at the Dean’s Lecture.

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NEWS Union Defends Dues

Sports Senior Day

OPINION Lessons From OCD

SPORTS DMV Rivalry

Originial negotiator of SEIU Local 500 union deal defends payment of dues amid Devost controversy.

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To reduce the stigma of mental health, those who suffer should share their stories.

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Both the men and women’s basketball teams will host Senior Days this weekend.

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The men’s lacrosse team will play on the road against Towson on Saturday.

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OPINION

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FRIday, february 26, 2016

THE VERDICT

Serve and Protect D.C. City Council’s Judiciary Committee is currently reviewing a bill that would extend the jurisdiction of the Georgetown University Police Department to off-campus areas. At first, the bill may seem to have a small impact on students; however, if this bill were implemented, it would offer the potential for neighbors in the Georgetown community to affect off-campus students in significant and inconvenient ways.

Currently, the Metro Police Department patrols the off-campus areas around Georgetown, leaving the neighbors with minimal ability to affect how students are policed.

Yet, if the jurisdiction change takes effect, neighborhood leaders could use campus plan negotiations as a political tool to pressure the university into tightening GUPD policies off campus.

This concern is not hypothetical; students have already been affected by neighborhood influence on university policies, including those of GUPD. Last year, as a result of neighborhood concerns, all students in university-owned townhouses lost the right to have personal trash cans and now must bring their trash to centralized dumpsters up to a block away.

With the extension of GUPD’s jurisdiction, neighbors could continue their fight by asking GUPD to enforce a similar centralized trash system for students living off campus.

Additionally, the university has steadily increased its spending on the Student Neighborhood Assistance Program, a service coordinated by the Office of Neighborhood Life that responds to neighbors’ complaints about student conduct off campus, since signing the 2010 Campus Plan, result-

ing in more SNAP drivers, stricter off-campus noise policies and harsher citations.

With the extension of GUPD’s jurisdiction, neighbors would have an additional tool to increase noise restrictions for off-campus students.

Furthermore, the expansion of GUPD’s jurisdiction would either require the university to increase its funding for the police department or to spread the same resources across a much broader area. Limited funding already restricts GUPD from expanding SafeRides and supporting other programs that would directly and positively impact students.

Funding should sometimes be used to make neighbors more comfortable in their own community, but not at the direct expense of programs that improve the personal security of students, like SafeRides.

While we acknowledge that neighbors’ concerns about trash and noise are warranted, we oppose any bill that gives them additional power to dictate the off-campus student experience.

As we saw when GUSA successfully secured two additional student positions on the Georgetown Community Partnership, only direct student engagement in the political process will ultimately protect student interests.

Students and neighbors should work together to resolve these issues, without any intervention by the D.C. City Council to increase neighbors’ political tools or require our campus police resources to be spread even more thinly.

All students should sign the petition located here and write to the D.C. City Council to express discontent before the bill is considered in March.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Noah Taylor

Mystic Benefits In September 2015, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ted Leonsis, owner of the NBA’s Washington Wizards and the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, announced plans to construct a $56 million sports and entertainment complex in the Congress Heights neighborhood, in Ward 8 of D.C. Last week, Bowser led the demolition of two buildings on the vacant St. Elizabeth’s Hospital campus, marking the beginning of the arena’s construction. Scheduled to open in September 2018, the site will serve as a new state-of-the-art practice facility for the Wizards and as the home stadium for the Mystics.

The venue will also host non-sports events, including concerts. According to a recent press release from the mayor’s office, the 5,000-seat venue is expected to attract approximately 400,000 visitors per year, generate $90 million in new revenue over the next 20 years and create more than 600 construction jobs and 300 permanent jobs.

City politicians and business leaders claim that this ambitious and expensive construction project will spur economic revitalization and job creation in Ward 8, described by the late Marion Barry, the former mayor of the District, as “the least, the lost and the last.”

Located on the east side of the Anacostia River in southeastern D.C., Ward 8 exhibits the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the city.

Mayor Bowser is right to invest in a longneglected and underserved area of the city; however, the closed-door decision to build a sports stadium, with $50 million of construction costs drawn from D.C. taxpayers, gives this editorial board considerable reason to pause.

Based on precedent both in D.C., with the construction of the Verizon Center and Nationals Park, and throughout the United States, it is clear that stadium development does more to benefit business interests than community members. Team owners receive taxpayer money while the public shoulders massive debt and suffers from the gentrifi-

cation of local communities — the effects of which include skyrocketing housing costs, closing of local businesses and loss of local culture.

Teams are fond of making claims about building community and civic pride when it suits them, but the St. Louis Rams provide a cautionary tale about where teams’ loyalties truly lie: After using similar rhetoric to secure $400 million in stadium financing in 1995, the Rams finalized a move to Los Angeles a month ago, leaving the city, county and state governments with a combined $152 million in outstanding debt. So far, the Rams’ “civic engagement” has not yet helped pay back the city for building the team a stadium.

There is a reason that team owners, city governments and stadium developers avoid a democratic process for stadium financing at all costs: Given the choice, the public does not want to spend tax dollars to cover the costs of billion-dollar enterprises. The Atlanta Braves baseball team and the Cobb County Commission in Georgia, for example, announced plans to spend $397 million in tax funds to fund the Atlanta Braves’ new stadium without any public input.

When asked why by NBC’s local Atlanta news team, the Braves’ president, John Schuerholz, shamelessly answered that, “If it had leaked out, the deal would not have gotten done ... people would have started taking the position of, ‘we don’t want this.’”

Though this project is already underway, we feel that it is important to approach similar development strategies in the future with a critical eye.

It is worth asking how Ward 8 residents will benefit from the Washington Wizards’ receiving new practice facilities and how many visitors will actually travel across the river to watch the Washington Mystics play, as they struggle even now to attract an audience.

There are better ways to invest tens of millions of dollars and support sustainable job creation than partnering with billionaire team owners who demand that the public fund their new enterprises.

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OPINION

Friday, february 26, 2016

VIEWPOINT • Viles

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his year, to vote in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I have to print an absentee ballot application form from the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s website and mail the form about two to three weeks before the election so I receive the ballot in time to return it before polls close on March 1.

None of that would matter, of course, if I had not registered to vote before Feb. 10, which is actually pretty easy, since I live in Massachusetts, and my state became the 21st to pass online voter registration in June. I am lucky, because my state is one of 33 states that offer online registration. I am lucky, because my state is making steps toward expanding my ability to vote.

The absentee-ballot shuffle is not unfamiliar to Georgetown students. Voter turnout among young people is important to us, and America’s young people voted about 30 points below America’s old people in the last presidential election. We want to have a voice in the political process, but if it seems that our voice is getting progressively more elusive, that’s because it is.

The 2016 presidential election will be the first without Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act since its enactment in 1965. Section 4(b) offered a formula to identify states with histories of voter discrimination — literacy tests, poll taxes and other racist laws and practices — and subject them to Section 5’s preclearance requirements. In other words, states with a history of structural racism and a tendency to pass sketchy voting laws had to ask the Department of Justice before moving forward with legislation that could make voting harder for groups like minority voters, low-income voters and young people.

In the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, however, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) because “the Voting Rights Act of 1965 employed extraordinary measures to address an extraordinary problem,” and structural racism was apparently no longer an extraordinary problem in 2013. A 5-4 ruling determined that selectively applying federal restrictions to state legislation was unconstitutional, and states like Texas, North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama rushed to pass voter ID laws and cut back on early and absentee voting before Congress could pass a legislative fix to the VRA that would satisfy the Supreme Court and protect voters from discrimination.

Luckily, we have a legislative fix to the VRA; unluckily, we are counting on Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to give the Voting Rights Advancement Act a hearing, and Goodlatte has refused. Incidentally, Goodlatte has not refused $764,446 in large individual contributions and PAC contributions in 2016 alone. Only 2 percent of Goodlatte’s overall campaign contributions are from small donors, but he is not worried about it, because the 2010 Citizens United and 2014 McCutcheon v. FEC Supreme Court decisions have opened a very large door for a very large amount of money to have a very large impact on which bills get hearings. Fun fact about Citizens United, McCutcheon and Shelby: The Koch brothers helped pay for litigating all three cases.

Here’s the point: You can vote. You should vote. You should jump through whatever hoops you need to jump through so you can exercise your right to political participation in 2016, but you should not have to. Working people should not have to. Rosanell Eaton should not pass a literacy test in 1942, vote for 70 years and fail North Carolina’s voter ID law in 2015 because the name on her voter registration card does not match the name on her license. Corporate interests should not be allowed to spend $764,446 so Goodlatte can keep his constituents from voting. Mitch McConnell R-Ky. and the Senate Judiciary Committee should not be allowed to stall for a Supreme Court that will continue to privatize democracy.

Here’s the other point: You can change the way we vote. Online registration is not the only new law protecting this year’s elections, and Massachusetts is not the only state that is passing them. The majority of Americans favor stronger campaign finance laws and restoring the Voting Rights Act, and everyone from President Obama to comedian Larry David has raised the public consciousness on the obstacles facing a strong democracy in a way that connects them to a successful one. From April 16 to 18, over 170 national advocacy groups representing a diverse set of movements and millions of members will gather in Washington, D.C., to participate in Democracy Awakening, where they will demand a democracy that listens to everyone, including teach-ins, rallies and demonstrations.

Ultimately, a just and equal society — racially, economically, socially and politically — begins and ends with a government that is accountable to the voices of its people, and Georgetown students have a long history of compelling their government to listen. You can change the way we vote, and you should.

Katharine Viles is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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VIEWPOINT • Lyle-Holmes

Sex Sells Georgetown Short

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t is in the wind here at Georgetown, carried in every puff of hurried breath laced with 5 gum, Marlboro or coffee mixed with last night’s Burnette’s. Connotations, insinuations and expectations pour out of every glance; every passing word; every decision on where to sit in class; what level to work on in Lauinger Library, where you are at 2 a.m. on a Friday; and even what coffee order you make the next morning.

Many of these personal trends hardly need to be scrutinized by others for them to extrapolate social casting because the associations are so concretized: “Short Mac” equals unapologetic international who will experience a surging superiority complex when the Corp barista does not understand the order; “Toasted Graham Latte” equals coastal, suburban American who truly identifies with Elle.com when proclaiming that Kendall Jenner’s ability to put on leggings and a T-shirt that do not clash “is everything.”

The connotations of where and at what time you engage in certain life rituals make up the pervasive Georgetown culture, a lens through which we have become so used to categorizing people that we no longer see it as judgment but simply as another manifestation of our type-A behavior. Blacked out on a Tuesday? B-frat. Gets back from dinner at 11 p.m.? Euro. Smokes weed at 9 a.m. on a Monday but is in bed by 9 p.m. on a Friday? Athlete.

Certain schools have their classes in certain buildings, freshmen live in freshman dorms and people who wear a lot of black have a foreign passport — wait, what?

Although these “cultural” markers play a massive part in social life at Georgetown, there is one final factor that is even more coherent when it comes to social perception: sex. As someone who went to a tiny, independent school where I had known most of my graduating class since a perfect

I get that we like labels and abbreviations, but our extension of this to abbreviating people is not doing us any good. cartwheel was my proudest achievement, sexual politics did not play into my everyday, academic life. Those things stayed neatly nestled into weekend coffees, 3 a.m. consultations with my girls in club bathrooms and drunken rants at house parties with our larger group of friends from surrounding schools. This dynamic, I have now discovered, was a valuable convenience.

The fact that I liked to dance on tables did not usurp the fact that I could analyze poetry or was valedictorian.

Here, however, no such separation exists. Not only do we, 7,000 guys and girls with above-average eyebrow game

and leg day attendance records, go to class together; we eat together, engage in horrifyingly competitive club opportunities together and, the real deal breaker, we live together. That means, basically, that everyone is all up in everyone else’s business. The table-dancing me does not get to be left at The Huxley, and the middle-of-thenight-on-a-Saturday me does not get to stay beneath the sheets. I have been astonished, disgusted and frightened by the way peoples’ sexual appeal can commandeer an opinionated, knowledgeable, quirky personality and box all that away for a handsome face or a

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shapely butt before anyone even realizes it. Suddenly, mildly douchey but vigorously fun guys who would have been great friends in times gone by are the pretty faces you turn away from in Midnight MUG to avoid awkward posthookup encounters, or at best stare at while engaging in mind-numbing conversations during which they are too lost on what you would look like out of your jeans to articulate how they really feel about fracking or their absentee fathers. Ubiquitous sexualization has erased our ability to forge solid, meaningful friendships with those whom we may, subsequently, have built healthy romantic relationships.

We have constructed, and sustain, a culture of instant gratification. Postmates, Netflix … and sex. He lives just down the hall, right? Again, our typeA need for efficiency has led us away from dating and into a hookup culture that necessitates emotional disconnection. This dictates that if someone hopes to get into bed with you at some point, that person is disincentivized from getting to know you. Resultantly, we have molded a culture where the more sexually appealing you are, the less you are appreciated as a multifaceted human being. If you happen to fall into a category that is particularly easy to see as appropriate for sexual exploitation, a minority or belonging to a stereotypically sexualized group, then this minimization of your person is ever more likely.

I get that we like labels and abbreviations, but our extension of this to abbreviating people is not doing us any good. We get it — it has been said, written and shared on Facebook — Hoyas are sexy. But we are more than our coffee orders and our nightlife habits and our abs and butts. Yes, Hoyas are sexy … but can we please get over it?

Summer Lyle-Holmes is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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Collaborate to Combat Do Not Let Kesha’s Mental Health Stigma Career Die Young

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y bedroom doorknob will always hold a special place in my heart. After all, with just the right touch — wrist angled, palm pressed upward, skin digging into the incision of the lock — I could save the lives of my family. And so, with a sort of ritualistic fervor, I would do this every night. With each touch, my family would be saved. With every twist, my fears would be quelled. And with every brush of the knob, my dignity would fade just a little more.

You see, this sort of compulsion was hardly unique for me. By that time, my life was completely governed by odd rites and rituals. The way I brushed against a wall, the manner in which I climbed the stairs — each of these things was intimately and ineffably linked to my destiny. No action could be done just once. No reasonable word could calm me down. My universe hung in a sort of perpetual instability, and I was the glue holding it together; any failure to adhere to the rules I had set down for myself, and the delicate harmony surrounding me would fall to pieces. And of course, I wish now that I could travel back in time and tell my childhood self that such actions did not matter.

I wish I had learned sooner that such urges could be controlled. However, at that point, my journey was only beginning. A long, dark struggle was to follow — a struggle that carried me far from the realm of normalcy, and into the nebulous world of life with a mental illness.

My battle with obsessive- compulsive disorder began at an early age. I vividly remember sitting, watching “Toy Story” in my living room — I must have been 6 or 7 at the time — when an intrusive thought first crept into the recesses of my mind. It was an unsolicited, disconcerting, and seemingly unexplainable idea — a fear borne from some strange imbalance in my brain.

And yet, there it sat: the fear that my family was destined for hell. I had no way of explaining where this worry came from, no rationale for concern.

All I had was a base impulse to place my wrist on the carpet and move it up and down three times. And so I did. My heart stopped racing, and my panic subsided. The cycle had begun.

Most simply described, OCD is a condition in which a person engages in ritualistic behaviors to try to subdue or rationalize obsessive thoughts or concerns. And although this description probably seems rather bland, it provides as good a context as any for telling my story with this unique disorder. See, inherent in OCD is a sort of cruel dualism. Individuals with this condition suffer from irrational, consuming fears and thought patterns.

To deal with them, they act out odd, ritualistic behaviors. These, in turn, often exacerbate the initial feelings of panic and anxiety. And so the two feed off each other, engendering a swirling dichotomy of destruction that often comes to dominate the person’s life.

For me, my fears most often centered on religious or medical concerns. Indeed, when I was not warding off malignant or sacrilegious intrusive thoughts — which I thought threatened the state of my soul — I was diagnosing myself with every disease known to man. I can still remember how real those illnesses felt; it was almost as if I could feel cancerous cells seething beneath my skin, or sense some unknown pathogen sucking the life from my body. To combat these concerns, I would turn again to my rituals. Sometimes, like my touching of the doorknob, they were very routine. Other times they were more spontaneous — actions driven by the mental barrages I would feel from my obsessions. Eventually, however, I learned to control these deleterious thoughts. Naming my disorder was a huge part of this. For me, being able to rationalize my obsessions as a product of a chemical imbalance — and not of a character defect — was enormously helpful. Similarly, I am now able to ignore my compulsions. And although it was difficult at first — indeed, ignoring these urges would, at times, make me feel physically sick — this burden has become easier and easier to bear.

However, this does not mean that living with OCD is completely devoid of challenges. Obsessive thinking, reactionary compulsions, and dynamic mood swings still plague me. Similarly, my decision to go more public with my struggle — hence, this piece — has brought a whole new slew of obstacles. For most of my life, this fight has been an intensely personal one. I largely kept my symptoms hidden from friends and family, preferring instead to unilaterally exorcise the demons of my mind.

Since sharing this battle with others, though, I have found myself struggling to tread a fine line. On one hand, I sometimes feel like I pressure myself to be “crazy” enough so that when I truly need help, people will take me seriously. On the other, I fear that my disorder will someday render me a pariah — people will view me as different, or as “damaged goods.” It is a delicate balancing act, and one only made more difficult by the stigma that still surrounds mental illness for so many people.

It is for this reason that we need to break down this stigma. Because although I still struggle with my disorder, the encouraging, supportive people who surround me have helped me deal with it. However, not everyone has such an amazing support network — not everyone feels comfortable seeking the help needed.

If we are to improve the mental health culture of this nation, we need to begin by fighting the stigma, ensuring that people can get the help they need, without fear of condemnation or abuse.

Jake Dyson is a freshman in the College.

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or the past week, and for would challenge those skeptical the first time in years, pop of Kesha’s testimony to ask themsinger Kesha, best known for selves why they do not believe her. hit singles such as “Tik Tok” and Is it because they genuinely doubt “Die Young,” has been plastered the facts of the story? Is it because across every form of social me- she does not fit into the “respectdia I have visited. Not in the way able woman” mold and that subI would have imagined, though, sequently discredits her? Or is it doused in glitter and waxing po- because society has taught us to etic about gargling with Ciroc; no, question first and believe later in the pictures I have seen of Kesha cases of rape? are the heart-wrenching opposite.

All digression aside, I think the They are of Kesha, conservatively crux of the matter, the biggest dressed, sans party makeup, with question of them all, is this: tears streaming down her face as Why is this happening? she sobs in a courtroom.

The simplest explanation is the For those of you unfamiliar patriarchy. No, really. I know it with what is happening, the gist sounds overdone, but it’s true. We of it is this: Kesha has come for- live in a society that tends to lean ward and said that her producer, toward giving men the benefit of Dr. Luke, raped her in 2004, and the doubt, across any number and has requested to be released from any type of situation. This includes the contract she signed with Sony — and I would even say it is perhaps that states she must create six exemplified by — situations where more albums with Sony if she an accusation of rape is made, for wishes to remain a competitive the sake of this point, assuming artist. the rape occurs beNow, for most tween people who people with any identify as a man ounce of a soul, and a woman. the solution is Think about it: clear: Let Kesha Rape is arguably out of her contract. the only form Do not force her to of assault where work with somethe victims are one who assaulted charged with their Femi Sobowale her. Let her make own defense. No music freely and one gets punched without the shadin the face and is ows of a traumatic event hanging asked, “Well, did you tell a really over her. bad joke? What expression were However, it seems that no one at you making? Are you sure you Sony falls into the above category, didn’t bring this on yourself?” In albecause Sony is not giving Kesha most any other form of physical asup so easily. sault, the procedure is simple: Find As usual, the conversation sur- the accused guilty, because hurting rounding Sony’s stubbornness people is something even any todand Kesha’s allegation has de- dler with a conscience knows, and railed into what is by now unfor- punish them accordingly. But with tunately familiar territory: wom- rape, the consequences for the rapen versus women. Several female ists are frequently prioritized over celebrities have been called out the suffering of the victims. “Think for their noticeable silence on the about what this will do to their fuissue — namely, Taylor Swift, who ture,” is a common response to rape opted to donate $250,000 in lieu accusations. of speaking up. Kesha’s situation This is the patriarchy in action; has been turned into yet another any potential ramifications the acopportunity for people, women cusation may have for a male rapincluded, to fall into the trap of ist is frequently worth more than vilifying women for the same female victims getting the justice shortcomings that men are also they deserve. But elevating men’s enacting. worth above women’s leads also to While this kind of feud is coun- a degradation of women’s worth terproductive, it also opens up an- in the process. Right now, the way other avenue for discussion: the I see it, Sony’s position in the matmatter of appearance. Kesha is ev- ter implies that the profit it could ery over-the-top glitter-bomb party potentially generate is worth more girl you ever knew in college. than Kesha’s peace of mind and She is blonde, she dresses how personal, mental and emotional she wants, she sings about sex safety. Right now, Sony is sending and drinking and partying with a message: A corporation’s profit is no regard for what others might worth more than a woman’s safety. think. She does not have the same And that is one message that I, perclean-cut, prim-and-proper im- sonally, am going to leave on read. age that other popstars do, and I think that has come into play in Femi Sobowale is a senior in the the chatter surrounding her as- College. Pop Politics appears sault and the subsequent trial. I every other Friday.

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Justice Alito Discusses Law Career, Vacant Court Seat LUCY PROUT

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. took center stage at the third annual “Dean’s Lecture to the Graduating Class” at the Georgetown University Law Center this Tuesday, where he discussed topics ranging from career advice to the vacant Supreme Court seat.

Alito did not address the heated debate among Georgetown law professors and students surrounding late Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy.

Alito completed his undergraduate degree at Princeton University before attending Yale Law School. GULC Dean William Treanor moderated the conversation.

“I am absolutely delighted that today we will be hearing from Justice Alito. It should be a great treat,” Treanor said in his introduction. “Particularly as a New Jersey native I am delighted that another New Jersey native is joining us.”

GULC constitutional law professor Randy Barnett formally introduced Alito and stressed the event’s importance as a means of providing guidance to the graduating class.

“The purpose of the conversation that you are going to hear today, as it has been in prior years, is to provide the graduating class with guidance from someone who stood where you now sit, and are thinking about how to use his or her own legal education to make a difference,” Barnett said. “As you prepare to embark on your own careers, there could be no better person to share how his values have shaped his own experiences, is today’s honored guest, Justice Samuel Alito.”

Alito emphasized in his remarks the shock that he and the rest of the Supreme Court felt upon learning of Scalia’s Feb. 13 passing. His comments offered the public an early look into the inner workings of the court since Scalia’s death.

“What’s happened in the last week has been a great shock to us,” Alito said. “We just started back in business hearing arguments yesterday. We’ll see what develops.”

With the prospect of an eight-member bench for a contentious Supreme Court term approaching, the justices are set to hear cases on abortion, union rights and affirmative action. Although a four-to-four decision results in automatic deference to the lower court’s decision and does not set legal precedent, Alito noted that the Supreme Court has functioned well in the past with an even number of justices, including during the early 1970s and in the late 1980s. Alito joked that there may even have been less discord within the entity.

“We will deal with it,” Alito said. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that specifies the size of the Supreme Court. There were times in the history of the court when the court had an even number of justices. They must have been more agreeable in those days.”

When asked directly, Alito declined to speculate on who President Barack Obama would nominate to succeed Scalia, instead emphasizing that as a Supreme Court justice, he has enough on his plate that demands his

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, left, spoke at the third annual “Dean’s Lecture to the Graduating Class” of the Georgetown University Law Center, addressing topics from making an impact in the legal industry to the currently vacant seat on the Supreme Court. judgment.

“We don’t choose our colleagues. The presidents choose the justices and the judges and the Senate confirms them,” Alito said. “I have enough trouble with the questions that I have to decide.”

Alito also spoke to the graduating class about his experiences throughout law school and early in his legal career, the confirmation process in the U.S. Senate and his nomination to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush in 2005.

“The one piece of advice that I give to law students or undergraduates that are thinking about going to law school is that they should get to know what lawyers really do,” Alito said.

Other topics brushed on Alito’s self-declared originalist philosophy, an ideology to

which Scalia was also famous for adhering.

“I do think the Constitution means something,” Alito said. “I think that meaning does not change. I think it means the same thing now as it did when it was adopted.”

When speaking about his time working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office under Maryanne Trump-Barry, the sister of current presidential candidate Donald Trump, Alito showed off his sense of humor.

“She’s a very good friend,” Alito said.

“Whether she’s like her brother or not, I won’t get into.”

Following Alito’s remarks, he answered questions submitted by graduating law students that focused on the relationships between justices and his vision for the nomination of the future Supreme Court justice.

Laya Varansi (LAW ’17) said that she was

inspired by Alito’s comments on his legal career, adding that she found them relatable to the concerns of law students who are soon to graduate.

“It was really great to see how his career trajectory took him to where he is. It was inspirational in a lot of ways because I know a lot of students here, we have short-term aspirations, but we don’t necessarily know where it is going to lead us,” Varansi said. “For somebody like him to have such a similar story to how we are feeling — it’s really inspirational, and leads us to believe that we could end up there too.”

Bridget Stubblefield (LAW ’17) echoed Varanisi’s sentiments.

“It’s always such an honor to hear any of the justices come and talk to us in such a personal space,” Stubblefield said.

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Study Predicts Surge in Protests Khan, Fisk Propose Greek Council Launch Haley Snyder

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In light of this year’s rise in protests on college campuses nationwide, the University of California at Los Angeles’ annual campus survey, “The American Freshman,” found the highest number of students who said they expected to participate in protests in the 50 years since the report’s conception.

The survey, a national study of the American higher education system, which began in 1966, is conducted in the fall by UCLA’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program of the Higher Education Research Institute.

For this year’s report, “The American Freshman” was conducted at 200 universities, including Georgetown, with around 140,000 participants. Universities were self-selecting, and the survey only applied to freshmen.

In 2014, 5.6 percent of students stated that they were likely to participate in a student rally while in college. That number jumped to 8.5 percent of students in 2015, an all-time high. Black students surveyed were most likely to participate in a protest — with one out of six responding affirmatively. Areas of particular interest for students include high tuition costs, race, student debt and sexual assault.

Additionally, students’ political inclinations have shifted. A third of students identifies as liberal or far left, the most since 1973. Approximately one in five said they were conservative or far right, a decline from one in four in 2006. Of all students surveyed, 60 percent indicated they were likely to vote, an increase of 10 percent from last year’s findings.

Reported interest in global involvement along with a desire to help others has also increased sharply., with 74.6 percent of students stating that helping others was a personal objective, 39.8 percent responding that becoming a community leader was an essential life objective and 59.2 percent stating they aimed to deepen their understanding of other countries and cultures.

CIRP Director Kevin Eagan said the findings are an indication of increased student community engagement.

“What’s encouraging to me and what was somewhat surprising, given how drastically these numbers increased, is just a genuine interest students seemed to be taking in the world around them, and in particular issues affecting their local community,” Eagan said.

Eagan added that though the report indicates a rise in interest in campus student protests in the coming years, this does not necessarily indicate that students will act on these interests.

“I think that having an interest in these kind of issues is one thing, and I will be very interested in following these students during their college careers to understand whether any of these inter-

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A historical number of university freshmen expect to participate in a campus protest this year, according to a UCLA survey. ests actually lead to action,” Eagan said.

“Given that the students tell us that they’re incoming freshmen, that they were very likely or they thought they were very likely to protest in college, do those students actually end up going to participate in a protest while in college?”

College campuses across the country saw student demonstrations this past fall, including the University of Missouri, Harvard University, Yale University, Ithaca College and Claremont McKenna College.

At Georgetown, students organized a rally and a sit-in outside the Office of the President in November 2015 in solidarity with University of Missouri students, who began protesting against racial injustices at their institution last September. One day after the sit-in began, the Georgetown Board of Directors and President John DeGioia approved the renaming of Mulledy and McSherry Halls to Freedom Hall and Remembrance Hall, respectively.

Additionally, DeGioia proposed an African American studies department and major as well as a center for racial injustice research Feb. 4, addressing some of the demands of the students who conducted the sit-in.

Georgetown’s Black Student Alliance member Symone Wilson (COL ’19), who took part in last fall’s sit-in, said protests are more effective in initiating action than conventional discourse.

“If you just talk and talk and talk and never do anything and never exert pressure on the authorities, which you want to change, they will take it that you’re not serious and that they can disregard your demands,” Wilson said. “So I think that protests are super effective.”

Wilson cited the rally and sit-in as an example of a protest that successfully facilitated change.

“The Working Group on Slavery and Reconciliation at Georgetown, which had been in effect for a couple of months, they had had meetings and promised to change the names of things like Mulledy Hall, but it hadn’t happened yet,” Wilson said. “But then after the sit-ins at the president’s office, a day afterwards, the names were changed.”

Campbell James (SFS ’17), president of GU Pride, which hosted a solidarity event during the counter-protests against Westboro Baptist Church last April, emphasized the importance of campus protests as a means of making positive progress.

“Protests are fantastic ways of gaining attention for a specific cause if students have a plan of action that they want to implement already, not just protesting campus climate without something to change,” James said.

Charles Johnson (SFS ’19), member of Georgetown University Fossil Free, which has organized numerous protests for university divestment from fossil fuels over the past year, agreed that protesting garners the attention of administrators, an important component of enacting change. Johnson highlighted this as a central aim of GUFF’s annual Earth Day rally held in April.

“We definitely feel that this rally will have a tangible effect in getting our message across to the administration,” Johnson said. “Whenever students are showing to be in solidarity it definitely makes the administration feel like they have more incentive to actually act in the best interest of the students.”

The Georgetown University Student Association President- and Vice President-elect Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ‘17) will form an unofficial Greek Council to connect student government and the university’s unrecognized fraternities and sororities. According to Khan, the council will be a common meeting place for Greek organizations to communicate, exchange ideas and organize co-sponsorship activities.

“Because Greek life isn’t recognized, it’s tough to coordinate between the different Greek organizations,” Khan said. “What we see is that there’s a really common trend with objectives that different organizations on campus have and it’s tough to organize certain efforts or commitments to service our community when they are disjointed.”

The formation of the council is part of GUSA’s overall goal to support unrecognized student groups on campus. Past efforts to support unrecognized groups include the addition of dedicated storage space for unrecognized groups in Regents Hall, updated classroom reservations and available printing services in November 2014 under the administration of former GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15)..

The council, which will form in March, will most likely consist of two representatives from each Greek organization, along with GUSA representatives in a supporting role.

Executive Officer of the senate Kotryna Jukneviciute (COL ’18), who served as codirector of outreach and chaired Greek policy on the Khan-Fisk campaign, is leading efforts to create the council.

Jukneviciute, who is a sister in Kappa Kappa Gamma, said the goal of the council is not to consolidate the different Greek organizations, but instead to open a forum for collaboration.

“This is going to be a place for them to just share ideas and support each other and each other’s efforts,” Jukneviciute said.

“If one organization is hosting an event for example, it’d be a great way for other organizations to find out about it and support each other and increase turnout.”

Khan said GUSA would play a role in the council by supporting the organizations and offering assistance when needed. The benefits GUSA has provided to unrecognized student groups on campus include printing, tabling and booking rooms “A big part of what GUSA would be there for is to highlight the fact that the student body recognizes the existence of Greek life and what we’re there for is a resource, in terms of co-sponsorship, which is a way to gain access to certain benefits,” Khan said.

GUSA Secretary of Campus Planning Ari Goldstein (COL ’18), who was co-director of policy for Khan and Fisk’s campaign and

worked alongside Jukneviciute on Greek policy, said another goal of the council is to foster a culture of respect around Greek life.

“They don’t want recognition but they do want respect, and I think that they deserve respect especially given that almost a thousand students are in Greek life on campus,” Goldstein said.

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson reaffirmed Georgetown’s opposition to Greek life in a campus-wide email in September.

“And as you make these decisions, we want you to be aware that Georgetown does not support a social Greek system; social fraternities and sororities are not eligible for access to University benefits and do not have University oversight,” Olson wrote.

Goldstein, who also is a brother in Alpha Epsilon Pi, said GUSA is committed to sending out an email in response to Olson’s email at the beginning of the 2016 academic year.

“Enushe and Chris are committed to sending out an email after that saying that we represent students and that means every student, and if you choose to join a Greek organization, we support you in that choice as an individual,” Goldstein said.

According to Goldstein, in addition to establishing the council, GUSA also wishes to gather concrete data on the number of students involved in Greek life on campus and the average GPA in all sororities and fraternities.

“Gathering those statistics and then doing some type of really general friendly inclusive information campaign … just to highlight their role that Greek life can have not just in throwing great parties but in actually contributing to the Jesuit values that we care about on this campus,” Goldstein said.

Khan said the council would align with Georgetown University’s values and show university administration the positive philanthropic activities in which Greek life organizations participate.

“What you see is that almost all of these organizations’ objectives are very much in line with what Georgetown University as an institution supports and likes to maintain amongst its student body,” Khan said.

“So one thing is helping these organizations exist without unnecessary interference from the administration.”

President of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity Devin Baker (MSB ’17), who has yet to decide if SigEp will join the council, said GUSA’s efforts serve an important role if the council’s mission lines up with the fraternity’s values and practices.

“I think there is a level where everyone benefits, but we all are different and we stand for things that others don’t,” Baker said. “We all stand for generally good things but again, we operate differently.”

Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Phi Omega denied requests for comment as of press time.

Union Claims No Wrongdoing Panelists Discuss Legacy Of Malcolm X, Feminism

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The Services Employee International Union, Local 500, which represents part-time faculty, has strongly defended its position at Georgetown University, though questions still remain about the sudden resignation of adjunct computer science professor Matthew Devost on Feb. 8.

Devost claims he had no choice but to resign after being told he was out of compliance with the collective bargaining agreement between the university and the SEIU Local 500. Devost did not pay union dues after he alleged that union representatives harassed him to join the process of unionization that occurred two years ago.

Adjunct faculty member and longtime member of the original union negotiating team Kerry Danner-McDonald said the process of running a union is an ever-evolving act. She condemned any coercive tactics and regretted that the situation had been allowed to escalate to the level at which Devost resigned.

“Whenever a union comes in there’s going to be some changes. I think what happened in that situation is really unfortunate,” Danner-McDonald said. “I don’t condone any type of coercive tactics.”

Danner-McDonald also said in order to avoid similar situations, the union is working on establishing better communication with its members. She added that the first priority is ensuring that clear information on what being part of the union entails for faculty members is readily available.

“We would like the contract letter that goes out to part time faculty to be a little more explicit,” Danner-McDonald said.

“People would know exactly what it means before they join.

Right now there’s [only] a link to click on.”

Danner-McDonald defended the ability of the SEIU Local 500 to force adjuncts and part-time faculty to pay an agency fee to the union, even if it goes against the part-time faculty member’s

wishes.

The agency fee entails paying 80 percent of current full-time union dues, but this monetary amount can be donated to charity if a conflict of interest arises.

According to Devost, the union rejected his appeal to get exemption status based upon ideological grounds.

Danner-McDonald said parttime faculty members still receive the benefits the union negotiates for the part-time professors, even if they are not part of the union, and therefore should acknowledge that fact.

“Whatever benefits we gain, it affects everyone,” DannerMcDonald said. “The agency fee is about addressing the issue of free ridership. There can’t be free riders who say, ‘I don’t want to pay, but I get all the benefits.’”

SEIU Local 500 Political Director Anne McLeer declined to comment on Devost’s specific situation. McLeer noted that the agency fee and Union dues are based on an independent audit of the union’s finances. McLeer also defended the agency fee as a necessary step to ensure the union can continue to function.

“The rationale behind the agency fee, which was ratified by a majority of Georgetown adjuncts, is that everybody is represented so everybody should pay a fair share of the costs,” McLeer said. “The way the agency fee is calculated is based on an independent audit.”

McLeer did criticize the professors who refused to pay the agency fee, noting they have had multiple opportunities to reject the unionization process when it first came about in 2014.

According to McLeer, even if some adjuncts did not want a union, they would still be welcome to work with the organizing team or local union leadership.

“The contract was sent out to every adjunct who was teaching at the time. It was ratified by a majority of adjuncts who voted,” McLeer said. “The adjuncts had two opportunities to say no to a union. The majority of them didn’t.”

The idea of adjuncts and part-

time faculty deciding to form a union came about after the number of part-time university professors increased. During previous decades, Danner-McDonald said, 75 percent of the faculty was on a tenure track at a university. Now, that number has been reduced to a third, with another third of all professors being part time.

“There’s been a lot of expansion of management and a lot of corporate mentality,” DannerMcDonald said. “There’s a lot of growing pressure on departments to keep costs low and faculty as flexible as possible.”

Danner-McDonald said since its inception, the union has raised the minimum rate for professors to be paid for their courses to at least $200, established a professional development fund for part-time faculty members to be reimbursed to further their research and established a just-cause consideration so that faculty members cannot be let go without explanation.

McLeer encouraged any parttime or adjunct faculty members with misgivings to come to union meetings and voice concerns. She said the union exists to benefit the part-time faculty, who need a voice in the political process.

“I would encourage adjuncts to come to meetings, to get involved, to call us, to be active and really to try to make the union as vibrant and strong as it could possibly be,” McLeer said. “It’s about having a voice and a platform to address issues.”

The union represents around 400 to 450 part-time professors every year. Around 35 percent of part-time faculty members voted to ratify the collective bargaining agreement between the union and Georgetown in 2014 when it was proposed. Only around 50 percent in total voted.

“Through our continued work together, part-time faculty members in our community will feel as welcomed and valued as other faculty members,” the Office of the Provost’s original announcement of the union read. “We want to honor what each individual brings to his or her work.”

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institutional racism he fought against still remains today.

“He and his contemporaries were trying to imagThe Georgetown University African American ine something totally new and to imagine what studies program brought together scholars and the world would be like without these forms and activists to shed light on civil rights leader Malcolm structures of oppression,” Runstedlter said. “I think X’s influence on racial and gender equality in Cop- there is something hopeful to take away from this, ley Formal Lounge on Monday. even if we found the resiliency of those structures The Black History Month event, titled “Malcolm in our present moment.”

X Through the Feminist Lens,” featured departThough discussions on Malcolm X’s legacy conment of African American studies Chair Kimberly tributed to the early parts of the discussion, the Brown, professorial lecturer Emerald Christopher- panelists soon moved to examining the role of Byrd, Chair of critical race, gender and culture black women and feminism both in the civil rights studies at American University Theresa Runstedlter era and in the present day. and Black Lives Matter co-founder Erika Totten. AsByrd said the stereotypical view of the role of sistant professor of sociology Leslie Hinkson moder- black women in families has hardly evolved since ated the discussion. the civil rights era. Without any progress on this Totten began the discussion by outlining how front, she maintained, real progress toward racial Malcolm X inspired her own dedication to address- and gender equality cannot be reached. ing racial injustice.

“We have this legacy of ‘white women want get “His legacy to me is one of defiance, body expos- out of the house and work’ without the conversaing the insidiousness of white supremacy and the tions on how women of color always had to work.

DNA of America, and making Such a political thought prothat knowledge accessible to “His legacy to me cess continues today,” Byrd the most marginalized folks,” said. “It’s the black woman’s Totten said. “He had a way of is one of defiance, fault that the condition of the speaking that struck your soul. black community is the way His metaphors were brilliant.” body exposing the that it is because they are not The panelists praised the insidiousness of mirroring what is the acceptwork, life and legacy of Malable dominant idea of family colm X initially, but quickly as- white supremacy and and structure.” serted the need to analyze the Brown soon engaged with civil rights leaders in a realistic the DNA of America.” a question about what it light. Runstedlter noted how, means to be a black feminist Erika totten for all of Malcolm X’s successin the 21st century. She highCo-Founder, Black Lives Matter es, he still suffered from shortlighted her experience with comings, especially related to feminism as an idea and exblack feminism and female empowerment. plained how women should not associate only em“It doesn’t behoove any of us to deify and calcify powerment with feminism’s purpose. people,” Runstedlter said. “We really have to histo“I’ve gotten a lot of pushback from people telling ricize [Malcolm X]. We have to critique him at the me I’m not doing feminism right because I come same time, and one only needs to read the writ- from a different vantage point and I don’t foreings, speeches, and articulations of black feminism ground white women in my analysis,” Brown said. among his contemporaries and people who have “I try to teach my students the difference between engaged with his work since then.” being empowered as a woman and being a femiTotten complemented Runstedlter’s remarks by nist. You can have a lot of power as a woman, but asking audience members to understand Malcolm that doesn’t automatically make you a feminist.”

X’s faults while also internalizing the context of his Attendee Amin Gharad (COL ’17), while apprework and his development as a leader. ciative of the panelists’ knowledge and dialogue, “He doesn’t get a pass, but let’s have a full conver- said the event’s title was misleading. Gharad said sation about where ideologies come from and how he felt as though not enough time was spent on the things that showed up in Malcolm are actually Malcolm X and his relationship with feminist diawithin us as well,” Totten said. logue and ideas.

As the conversation continued to develop, pan“In no way am I claiming that Malcolm X hasn’t elists raised points about Malcolm X’s overarching done or said things that could be considered development as a thinker, highlighting both his problematic by, say, engaging his life as part of a time within the Nation of Islam movement and feminist dialogue, in fact that could’ve made for an his journeys abroad. enlightening exercise and was why I decided to atRunstedlter said his ideals and plans to tackle tend, but this event definitely wasn’t a meaningful racism during his time were unique and that the exploration of his life in that regard,” Gharad said.

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Jewish Research, Teaching Center Opens JEWISH, from A1 Jews and Catholics,” Braman wrote in a statement to The Washington Post.

The center will primarily focus on AmericanMiddle Eastern foreign policy as it pertains to Israel, the Holocaust and genocide and Jewish literature.

According to Berlinerblau, the focus on American-Middle Eastern foreign policy is a result of the center’s setup in the SFS. “The first initiative, because we were in the SFS, is we wanted to become the pre-eminent school in the world that studied American-Middle Eastern foreign policy as it pertained to Israel,” Berlinerblau said. “And that of course implies that we have to also know about energy policy, oil prices, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, that’s all enfolded within Middle Eastern geopolitics.”

Berlinerblau said the university has made strides in the field of Middle Eastern studies in recent years by hiring professors such as Ambassador Dennis Ross, former Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams and Michael Oren before he became Israeli ambassador to the United States.

The center will focus heavily on research into the Holocaust, in part through the work of Desbois, according to Vice President for Advancement Bart Moore.

“It’s based on Fr. Desbois’ groundbreaking research that has established the full extent and murderous impact the Nazi’s ruthlessly effective mobile killing squad that was used in East-Central and East Europe to kill previously uncounted tens of thousands of people, in places where they did not have established concentration camps,” Moore said.

Berlinerblau said the CJC will provide a center for the experience of Jewish culture and Judaism’s role in Georgetown’s campus life.

“I would say there was a perception in the Jewish community prior to Jack DeGioia creating the CJC that Georgetown was at best indifferent and at worst not really interested at all in Jewish civilization, and whether it was right or wrong, that perception existed,” Berlinerblau said. “Well that perception doesn’t exist anymore, because everyone sees Georgetown as a friend, as an asset, as a neighbor and everything is good here.”

Moore said it has always been important to the university to increase education about Judaism.

“Fr. Healy often spoke publicly about the importance of any great university knowing and teaching the intellectual, religious and cultural traditions of the Jewish people, and I think it was, in part, a desire to complete a project initiated by Fr. Healy that this became so important to President DeGioia,” Moore said.

Berlinerblau said establishing the CJC helps ensure that the center’s work is on an equal and long-lasting footing.

“But also there is a solidity, a perpetuity, since this is $21 million of endowed money, we now know that we’re around forever,” Berlinerblau said.

According to Berlinerblau, the CJC also hopes to establish a major and master — a major in the college in Jewish civilization and a master’s program in Holocaust studies — at the university.

Berlinerblau said a master’s program could be formed in two years, while the CJC is ready to

move ahead with developing a major this year.

“We’re locked, ready, loaded and ready to go, and we need to see if we get pushback, but generally Georgetown is good with these things so I would hope that by the end of this semester we have a signal from Chet that this is something he wants to explore,” Berlinerblau said.

Moore said donors appreciated Georgetown’s commitment to Judaism.

“I think there’s a great appreciation for the respect that the university is paying to the Jewish people and their history and culture and tradition and religion by making it a priority in President DeGioia’s presidency that we have a properly funded, permanently endowed center dedicated to Jewish studies,” Moore said.

John Davison (GSB ’87), who donated to help establish the PJC in 2003 and then the CJC, said the reasons behind his donations have changed over the past 12 years.

“I feel like I’m no longer giving to something to alleviate a problem, I’m giving to something to make the center more substantial and to attract greater teaching talent, would be how my perspective has changed,” Davison said.

Director of Jewish Chaplaincy Rabbi Rachel Gartner added that there is a significant level of interest for Jewish education on campus.

“From my perspective as the rabbi on this campus, I can say that there is a thirst for more Jewish knowledge in our Jewish student community and there is an interest in learning about Judaism among students from other backgrounds as well,” Gartner said. “So I think this center serves a need and will be met with terrific enthusiasm among the students.”

Professor Ori Soltes said he was excited about the prospect of expanding the understanding of Jewish civilization at a Catholic university.

“All those kinds of cross-communications that the greater visibility will hopefully make it even more effective as an instrument to serve that purpose, from at least the angle of Judaism and its relation to Catholicism, Christianity at large, Islam and what have you,” Soltes said.

Maddy Budman (COL ’18), a GUish intern at Georgetown University Campus Ministry, wrote in an email to The Hoya that she hopes the center will help advance the curriculum relating to Jewish studies.

“I hope that the center launch will bring more attention to the CJC, leading us to things like a better physical office space and more administrative support,” Budman wrote. “I’ve seen a shift recently in the PJC from purely IsraelPalestine and Holocaust classes to literature and theology and more creative humanities classes, and I think that the center launch will help encourage the continuing of this diversity in curriculum.”

Adam Shinbrot (COL ’18), who is a member of the Georgetown Israel Alliance and Alpha Epsilon Pi, wrote in an email to The Hoya that he is also excited for the center.

“I think that the launching of the CJC will promote Jewish life on campus for both Jews and non-Jews. At a school like Georgetown, I think that offering students a way to learn about Judaism, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Israel (although the holocaust and Israel can be seen in a “non-Jewish context”) is the best way to promote Jewish life and allow students to engage in Semitic studies,” Shinbrot wrote.

Early Assurance Program Modified tion of the program should have a negligible effect on potential applicants, with the excepcompromise with the American Bar Association tion that they will now be obligated to sit for was to require all accepted students to take the the LSAT. LSAT before matriculation.

“The program is in place and alive and well,” “The ABA is making us have you take the Cornblatt said. “Nothing has really changed LSAT. They are making us do that. I can’t get from your point of view except in the end you around that anymore,” Cornblatt said. “I fought have to take the test.” the good fight, I promise. I was by your side, you GULC now risks seeing a lower median LSAT were by my side.” score and as a consequence, an effect on its Cornblatt noted that Georgetown’s pro- ranking because of the newly implemented gram had originally begun to encounter dif- changes. However, Cornblatt said GULC is willficulties five to eight years ago when other ing to make this sacrifice, and expressed conschools began emulating its structure by ac- fidence that current undergraduate students cepting students without taking into account at Georgetown will still perform highly. their LSAT scores.

“I think that’s a small According to Cornblatt, “Nothing has really price to pay, number one,” this allowed law schools Cornblatt said. “Number to prevent their students’ changed from your two, I think because it’s LSAT results – which were point of view except Georgetown, because it’s possibly lower than those your law school, I figure desired – from being count- in the end you have you guys, you may not ed in annual considerations maybe get intense about it. made to determine the U.S. to take the test.”

That’s okay with me. I don’t News and World Report Law blame you a bit, but you’re ANDRew cornblatt Dean of Admissions, GULC School rankings. The ABA not going to blow it off. I eventually realized many hope you won’t do that, but schools were using this system to boost their I think for your own pride you’ll want to do as rankings. well as you can.”

Because Georgetown’s program was created Roey Hadar (SFS ’18) said that though he three years before the U.S. News and World Re- was disappointed upon receiving news of the port Rankings existed, Cornblatt said it could program’s discontinuance, he was hopeful afnot have been designed to cheat the system. ter hearing Cornblatt speak.

“We could not be gaming the system – there “The pre-law program was actually part of was no system to game. There were no rankings the reason why I chose Georgetown and it was then, that’s not why we did it,” Cornblatt said. very disheartening to read the original email, Cornblatt emphasized his resolve in continu- but it was definitely encouraging to hear that ing the program, noting that he brought evi- the program is just being only slightly mardence of its effectiveness to the ABA five years ginally changed,” Hadar said. ago in an effort to defend it after other univerAnne Marie Hawley (COL ’19), who is also sities started imitating it. The ABA allowed the considering applying to the program, said program to continue, provided Georgetown she was happy to see the care taken by the law could prove its necessity and usefulness on a center to clarify the initial announcement. year-to-year basis. Cornblatt did not elaborate on “Hearing that the people at the law school whether or not other institutions were able to really care about the students here and keepsimilarly negotiate their programs. ing the pipeline is good to know,” Hawley Cornblatt placed the responsibility of the said. decision on the ABA, underscoring GULC’s conProspective applicant Aaron Silberman tinuous attempts to act in students’ interests.

(SFS ’18) expressed his appreciation of the di“Understand they wanted us to be done and rectness with which Cornblatt addressed stuwe didn’t want to be done. Believe me, we are dent concerns and emphasized that this news the good guys in this,” Cornblatt said. “We kept will bring relief to prospective applicants. trying to talk to them about this and then they “I think the talk was engaging, and I appreshut this thing down.” ciate the veracity with which he approached Cornblatt emphasized that the modifica- this issue,” Silberman said.

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Zainab Bangura, United Nations special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, discussed the prevention of violence in conflict zones in Gaston Hall on Tuesday.

Bangura Wins Peace Award BANGURA, from A1 Sexual violence is also used to instill fear in conflict-torn communities. Bangura said women and girls in contemporary conflicts often find themselves constantly under assault, whether at border crossings, checkpoints or in places where they seek refuge.

She cited examples of atrocities committed by military forces in South Sudan.

“For instance, in South Sudan in July 2015 military offenses by the national army resulted in at least 30 women and girls being raped, gangraped and burned alive in their homes. One survivor of this atrocity reported to the United Nations, ‘If you look them in the eye when they are doing it they will kill you,’” Bangura said.

Bangura highlighted the multitude of current global conflicts in regions ranging from the Middle East to Africa to South Asia.

“More than 30 active armed conflicts, levels of civilian displacements not seen since the second world war … threatens to stall or even reverse the progress of recent decades towards the developments in human rights,” Bangura said. “In addition, war has unleashed a wave of sexual violence, sexual slavery, forced marriage and trauma both to individual and collective that will take generations to heal.”

Bangura said she recognizes the atrocities of sexual crimes at a global level and understands the long road ahead in the process of healing and remediating ongoing sexual violence.

“Against this bleak backdrop, my mandate to steer a global effort to end the scourge of conflict-related sexual violence has become more urgent than ever,” Bangura said.

“Over many months and years of working on this issue it has become crystal clear to me there can be no security without women’s security and no peace without peace of mind for women and their families.”

Bangura visited the Middle East in April 2015, and since her trip she has formulated a multifaceted strategy to combat sexual violence in the region. Bangura expressed hope about recent progress made to fight sexual violence on a global level.

“War has unleashed a wave of sexual violence, slavery, forced marriage and trauma.”

Zainab Bangura U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict

“Over the past five years, we have seen a dramatic evolution in serious [attempts to combat] conflict-related sexual violence including by security stakeholders [and] military institutions,” Bangura said. “To date, over 2,000 survivors of sexual violence have received reparations, including economic compensation, rehabilitation, land restitution [and] employment opportunities.”

Bangura concluded by emphasizing the important role women must play in international relations to ensure their own security.

“It is also clear to me that women’s protection is indivisible from their participation in peace, security and justice processes. Wartime rape has been a condition of history because women have never held the pen with which official records of war and peace are written,” Bangura said.

Rachel Palmer (GRD ’15) said she appreciated Bangura’s past and current efforts to bring the issue of sexual violence to the international community. She hoped attendees understood the unsatisfactory attention the issue receives at both domestic and international levels.

“It’s people like Zainab who have been pushing and pushing and pushing against all odds and against an international community, against domestic communities that don’t believe that rape is actually a strategic move,” Palmer said.

Rebecca Marrow (SFS ’16), who also attended the event, said Bangura’s explanation of sexual violence used as a method to instill fear in populations is still not as accepted and discussed in the international community as it should be.

“I still don’t think we adequately address the fact that rape and sexual violence toward women in times of war is not just an ugly byproduct of violence; it is a systematic systemic tool used frequently and purposefully and I think that’s something we’re very easily blind and deaf to,” Marrow said.

Miranda Tafoya (SFS ’18) also praised Bangura’s talk, adding that she hoped communities will continue to address the fact that women still lack a voice when it comes to sexual violence.

“The main thing that I took away was that these stories aren’t really told because women don’t get to hold the pen,” Tafoya said. “Women don’t get a lot of agency in sharing their stories with the world, and [Bangura] said that women need to have a bigger role in telling these stories of peace and these stories of war so that you can hear all sides of the story.”

GU Partners With HeForShe PARTNERSHIP, from A1 and expand its international consortium, which brings together academics and peace workers.

Georgetown will also strengthen its response to sexual assault issues on campus using information gathered from this year’s campus climate survey and expand its sexual assault prevention training programs as part of the partnership, such as “I Am Ready,” “Think About It” and “RESPECT.” Finally, Georgetown will encourage an academic and professional culture tailored to promoting female students, faculty, staff and alumni through the Georgetown Women’s Alliance.

DeGioia wrote in a university press release that Georgetown has a responsibility to

work to improve gender equality.

“Universities have the unique capacity — and responsibility — to both model a commitment to gender equality within our own campus communities and to contribute to the movement globally through research and public discourse,” DeGioia wrote.

“I am proud to say that I am HeForShe.” Jonathan Dromgoole (SFS ’16) UNA-USA Youth Leader

Executive Director of U.N. Women and leader of the HeForShe Initiative Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka spoke about Georgetown’s role as a champion for gender equality at the event Tuesday.

“Universities have the intel-

lectual power, vision and optimism necessary to achieve gender equality,” MlamboNgcuka said.

Georgetown was one of the only two U.S. universities selected, along with Stony Brook University in New York.

Corporate partners include Twitter, Barclays and Tupperware Brands.

Jonathan Dromgoole (SFS ’16), who attended the event, wrote in the press release that he is proud to see Georgetown support the movement.

“I am proud to say that I am a HeForShe,” Dromgoole wrote. “Georgetown’s commitment to gender equality and the HeForShe campaign illustrates the university’s understanding of the importance of not just being men and women for others but humans for others.”

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Koppel Warns of Cyberattacks Historic Financial Aid Increase Announced

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ABC “Nightline” former anchor of 25 years Ted Koppel argued that the United States electrical grid is vulnerable to external attacks and the United States should take countermeasures to prevent this threat while discussing his new book “Lights Out” with University President John DeGioia in Riggs Library on Tuesday.

Koppel, who currently serves as a senior news analyst for National Public Radio, began the discussion by describing conversations with multiple military and intelligence officials who corroborated his convictions that a cyberattack on electrical grids could take place.

Additionally, Koppel expressed his alarm at the lack of coverage this issue has received on the national stage.

“It’s not a question of if this happens, it’s just a question of when.

And that was the message I kept getting repeated and I think it’s significant that here we are and this still isn’t being talked about. None of the presidential candidates — except Jim Webb — have had anything to say about this,” Koppel said.

Koppel contended that a hack of the nation’s electrical system would entail a national or regional blackout that may cause the deaths of millions.

The United States has focused more resources on less effective security measures, according to Koppel. Koppel cited the $7 billion spent on the Transportation Security Administration every year following the 9/11 attacks, despite

the agency’s 5-percent success rate, as an example of the reactionary nature of the United State’s defense mechanisms.

“When we talk about being a reactive society, that’s sort of understating the case. We are an overreactive society,” Koppel said.

Koppel also expressed concern with the fragmented national efforts to remedy any sort of crisis state by state.

“We like to think that we’re one country under God, but the fact of the matter is that we are one country made up of 50 separate states, each of which has its own regulations,” Koppel said.

Koppel said the hacking of the United States electrical grid could be similar to the Cold War era threat of nuclear war, and claimed the effects would be similarly destructive. He added that our current dilemma cannot be dealt with in a manner comparable to our Cold War solution of mutually assured destruction, since it is not a viable countermeasure to cyberterrorism.

Koppel said smaller-scale radical entities that seek the absolute destruction of the United States will eventually possess the capabilities to orchestrate a hack that will leave the United States powerless.

“The problem is, at the moment, those who have the greatest capability have the least motivation, and those who have the greatest motivation often have the least capability,” Koppel said. “But, entities like [the Islamic State group] and North Korea do not have the capability, but their motivation tells us that it is only a matter of time before they get the capability.”

Koppel said the electrical power

industry’s noncompliance with efforts to scrutinize and better protect its computer systems would compromise companies’ ability to make a profit.

“They [the electric power industry] fear re-regulation more than they fear the danger of a cyberattack,” said Koppel.

Koppel maintained a stance of safety over privacy and recognized the hardships and moral ambiguity involved in Internet defense mechanisms given the nature of the technology.

“The Internet was never designed to be defended. It was first designed so that professors could share information across great distances in a matter of seconds,” Koppel said. “Nobody ever imagined, when the Internet was first created, that the time would come when we would be as dependent upon it as we are and that people would try to take it down.”

Maddie Vagadori (COL ’19) and Roey Hadar (SFS ’17), who attended the event, expressed their concern at the issue of cyberterrorism and the lack of attention it is given in the United States.

“Even in the bombardment of media we are faced with every day, this never comes up. To me, this brings to mind the question of why we haven’t heard about this,” Vagadori said.

“He did an excellent job of highlighting an issue that is completely overlooked, yet is one that is still so important to us,” Hadar said. “Like he said, an attack like this could happen any day and we’re not prepared for it. It’s really something I think our leaders should prioritize a little more.”

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Former ABC “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel discussed his book “Lights Out” and vulnerabilities in the nation’s electrical grid system in Riggs Library on Tuesday.

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of the student body and the diversity of opinions.”

Foy stressed the importance of inDespite Georgetown University’s rela- creasing the university’s financial aid in tively low endowment, the Georgetown order to remain competitive with peer Board of Directors announced its approv- institutions. In order to attract the best al of the university’s largest-ever increase students, Georgetown must be willing in financial aid for students in the com- to spend large amounts on financial aid ing academic year Feb. 16. packages.

Georgetown will invest over $177 “The university has been meeting the million next year in financial aid, a re- full financial need of admitted students cord increase of eight percent from this for over 30 years and that’s been central year’s investment of $166.6 million. The to getting us to the place where we want increase corresponds with a rise in the to be as a competitive institution,” Foy cost of tuition for the university, which said. “On a competitive basis, it’s really will grow four percent from $48,048 to important.” $49,968 for the 2016 to 2017 academic According to McWade, if Georgetown year. seeks to continue living up to its Jesuit Dean of Undergraduate Admissions values, it will need to increase financial Charles Deacon highaid in accordance with lighted the increase — changing education the largest-ever annucosts. She noted that al increase in financial providing comprehenaid — as an indication sive and need-blind aid of Georgetown’s comremains an integral mitment to supportpart of the Georgetown ing its students. admissions process.

“As a need-blind, “It’s a wonderful meet-full-need instithing that the board of tution, the projected directors and president financial aid costs have agreed to comwill rise on a annual mit,” McWade said. “It basis so long as costs means that it’s a high increase,” Deacon priority for this Jesuit, said. “There will be Catholic university an annual increase in because it allows us to financial aid to meet have the socioeconomthese costs for those Missy Foy ic diversity that everyreceiving financial Director, Georgetown Scholarship Program one benefits from.” aid.”

Foy praised the willDean of Student Financial Services Pa- ingness of the board to continuously altricia McWade stressed that financial aid lot a large amount of funding from its increases have become a regular feature budget for financial aid. Other instituof Georgetown’s budgetary process in re- tions are able to completely fund their ficent years. nancial aid through endowment money “The increase came as no surprise to but because of Georgetown’s relatively me,” McWade said. “I’ve been here 25 low endowment, it must find other years and the board has always approved sources for financial aid. As of June 2014, the adequate amount of resources to Georgetown’s endowment was $1.4 bilmeet the needs of our undergraduates.” lion, compared to Harvard University’s McWade explained that the additional $35.9 billion. eight percent, besides being allocated toFoy praised Georgetown’s commitward undergraduate financial aid, will ment to maintaining its financial supalso benefit other members of the univer- port of students despite its small endowsity community. ment.

“The eight percent number includes “We’re competing against schools like money for graduate students and profes- Harvard, who has an endowment that’s sional students as well. It is a university- much greater than the size of ours,” Foy wide number,” McWade said. “We will said. “With a very modest endowment, have adequate funding to cover the I think it’s impressive that Georgetown needs of our undergrad students.” has prioritized this.”

Georgetown Scholarship Program DiFoy encouraged students to donate to rector Missy Foy noted that as the cost the university after they graduate, emof attending university has increased, phasizing that doing so will enable futhe number of students who can afford ture generations of students to continue to cover tuition without assistance has to attend Georgetown. evidently decreased. As a result, in order “We don’t have the endowment to to provide equal opportunities to all who fund aid, so I hope that students readapply, Georgetown’s significant supple- ing this article understand that this is ment to financial aid is a necessity. all the more reason to donate after you “Only about three percent of Ameri- graduate,” Foy said. “If you like half the cans can afford a Georgetown education people sitting around you in any given without a scholarship,” Foy said. “Unless class, you should donate to the Georgewe limit ourselves, you dilute the quality town fund.”

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“With a very modest endowment, I think it’s impressive that Georgetown has prioritized this.”

GU Launches Global Grant Funds Africa Research Theater Initiative Matt Riley

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Simon Carroll Special to The Hoya

Georgetown’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics and the Theater Communications Group launched the Global Theater Initiative Feb. 12, a program to increase internationalism in the U.S. theater community.

The Initiative will be headed by Teresa Eyring, executive director of TCG, and Professor Derek Goldman, cofounding director of the lab.

Georgetown’s Davis Performing Arts Center will host the inaugural gathering of the Global Theater Initiative in June, a conference that will bring together performing artists from around the world to discuss challenges they face in spreading their art.

The initiative will work to connect the performing arts community with resources, advocate collaboration and strategize ways to help internationalize the U.S. theater community. The initiative will also help lead the U.S. Center of the International Theater Institute with the TCG in assisting international theater professionals looking for work in the United States.

Informed by past collaborations with groups such as Belarus Free Theatre, who operate in secret in their home country, and the Syria Trojan Women, who were prevented from coming to the United States by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, conference attendees will discuss how the spread of performing arts is largely determined by diplomacy.

“Very often theater becomes a pawn in international disputes,” Georgetown adjunct professor Cynthia Schneider, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, said. “We may have a discussion about the challenges of theater being a prisoner to political tensions while at the same time trying to humanize those tensions and show them in a way that people can relate to and understand.”

In the past, Schneider and Goldman have co-taught a course at Georgetown entitled “Diplomacy and Culture: Performance, Film, Media,” which examined the intersection between theater

and diplomacy. The course covered a variety of topics, including drama, ethnographic poetry and the exploration of the ways in which arts and culture inform how people and nations interact. Many of the ideas taught in the course will be essential for the initiative.

Goldman said that the arts can play an important role in raising awareness, something the lab has focused on.

“The success of the lab has been that it’s tapping into an awareness,” Goldman said. “Culture, and performance in particular, has a really important role to play in humanizing, creating empathy and making it impossible to deny the humanity of other human beings.”

Devika Ranjan (SFS ’17) who took the course, said art can represent the state of international politics and can inform citizens about its implications.

“International politics is a field in which you have to represent yourself and where you come from.” Ranjan said. “Art is a very good tool for politics.

[It] can transcend language and cultural barriers in order to understand other people: understand other cultures.”

Alex Prout (COL ’19), a theater and performance studies major, stressed the importance of diversity in theater.

“Diversity is so important. Exclusion is not what the theater’s about at all.

American theater is fantastic, but acting as a profession can take on a whole other level in other countries,” Prout said.

In conjunction with TCG’s annual conference in Washington, the initiative will arrange a pre-conference entitled “Finding Home: Migration, Exile, and Belonging,” which will explore the issue of international migration through a series of performances, dialogues and conversations with theater companies from around the world.

“Xenophobia is something that exists all the time for migrants,” Camille Bangug (SFS ’19) said. “Knowing that the cultures [of migrants] are beautiful and that they can produce beautiful art in ways that we can all appreciate can create a powerful conversation.”

Georgetown University will expand its research on mobile money in East Africa and its effect on the Kenyan and Ugandan populations after receiving a $3.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Feb. 12.

The Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, also known as gui2de, created the project as part of its research to evaluate the effects of policies implemented in developing countries. This specific project will involve two years of field research and data analysis on mobile money platforms and their effects on low-income populations in East Africa.

The project, which is a joint operation conducted by the McCourt School of Public Policy and the economics department, has yet to begin, but will be based in gui2de’s new office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Co-director of gui2de and Georgetown economics professor Billy Jack defined mobile money as a means of transferring money through the technology found on mobile phones and computers.

“All you have to do is write a text message and you can transfer money across a country,” Jack said.

Jack said that the grant will be used to study this technology in an attempt to further develop platforms that utilize it.

“This grant is to facilitate the speculative innovation on the mobile platform,” Jack said.

“We’re going to work with a mobile platform, a bank and an IT platform in Kenya and Uganda to look at ways that we can actually create new services on the mobile platform.”

McCourt School of Public Policy Dean Edward Montgomery stressed the importance of conducting this research not only in East Africa, but internationally.

“It’s part of our mission to

think about the best way to improve people’s lives around the world,” Montgomery said. “This technology is changing conditions on the ground and allowing people to have access to important financial markets. We want to do some research to see if it’s working well.”

Jack highlighted the various uses of mobile money and the implications this has for safety and convenience in financial transactions.

“It’s part of our mission to think about the best way to improve people’s lives around the world.”

Edward montgomery Dean, McCourt School of Public Policy

“Even at an individual level, finance is really important. It can mean just the ability to pay someone — and to do that, you have to have cash on you. In some places, that can be dangerous,” Jack said.

“Someone else could steal it. Having money on your mobile phone is less dangerous and you can send or use money not just with someone right in front of you, but with someone on the other side of the country. It can also be expanded to include other financial services such as credit, insurance and savings.”

Jack emphasized that the aim of the project is to assist lower-income populations in East Africa.

“A lot of people think of Wall

Street and rich people when they think of financial services. Poor people need these services too,” Jack said. “Virtually every single adult in Kenya now has a mobile phone. Ninety percent of them have access to the mobile money platform. We’d like to build innovative progress on the platform that is already established.”

The gui2de program also encourages students to become involved in its research. It hosts a summer internship open to rising seniors and Masters students that allows them to spend at least two months in developing countries. The initiative expects to have eight summer interns this year.

Montgomery emphasized the program’s aim to allow students to conduct hands-on research.

“This is an exciting way for both McCourt students and undergraduates at Georgetown to get involved with field research or to work with faculty members here to apply what they’ve learned in their economics classes or computer science classes or business classes to see how this technology is changing people’s lives,” Montgomery said. “Research is a great complement to what you’ve learned in the classroom and apply it to the real world. For our students who are thinking about going on to grad school or continuing with these studies, this program offers a unique opportunity to gather experience.”

Max Magerman (SFS ’16), who previously worked in Tanzania with gui2de, said he valued the opportunity to gain insight into international developments.

“It’s a really incredible opportunity that allows you to travel to and work in a part of the world that you may not be able to otherwise. The work you do is important and the feedback is definitely appreciated back home,” Magerman said. “It was really interesting to see how an idea can be conceptualized and implemented into a country. It’s the best way I can think of to get real experience in the field.”

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Apple Inc. Protects Data Security SECURITY, from A10

unlocking the iPhone might just be a ploy to stay on customers’ good sides. On the other hand, Cook has suggested that the government is itching to get the go-ahead from this case so they can use the suggested tool to access more private information on dozens of other government-seized iPhones.

If this tool becomes available to the FBI, there is certainly a risk that hackers will get a hold of it and access private data themselves. This would be particularly ironic, since the security features that make such a high-power, password-guessing hack necessary were recently introduced with Apple’s new iOSpace8 software. Although ingenious hackers might find a way around these tough security features eventually, subverting the security feature so soon after it was built is like letting your 2-yearold brother into your bedroom immediately after putting together a Lego Millennium Falcon. All of your hard work will be smashed to pieces within minutes of being finished. You might drop it on the floor eventually, but at least that way you can admire the structure for a more significant period of time before its destruction.

The security update in the iOSpace8 software remarkably transforms the role of the passcode in the usability of iPhones. All data files on the phone are encrypted by the pass code. Each bit of information the phone contains is built with a lock on it, with the keys to each lock on the pass code the user enters. Without this encryption, the code can do nothing more than unlock the screen. All the information lays waiting beneath the locked screen like a freshwater pool beneath a thin layer of ice. Even if you cannot break the ice, there are other ways to get to the water; once you do, the water — like data — is yours to use. The portion of the phone that stores the data can be read on a different system. However, with encryption, the pass code is required to open all the data the phone stores. The entire pool is solid ice. If you do not have the tool to break the ice, you cannot remove any bit of water from the pool.

After spending an arguably ridiculous amount of money for a new iPhone, are you ready to risk the benefits of the updated security features flushed down the toilet? Chances are, hackers will not be interested in using your Uber account or reading texts from your ex; if they are, I am jealous that these talented hackers have judged you to be so significant. Since we can open so many applications without the hassle of entering an account password each time, there are still plenty of ways someone can spend your money once they get past the first and only security barrier on your lock screen.

Some experts argue that there are other ways to access the data besides uncovering the phone’s pass code. It is possible that Apple Inc.’s position is a phony ideological stance in the spirit of its founder, Steve Jobs, and the information on this device may give the U.S. government information to prevent a terrorist attack. That is an important thing, but is such a hunch compelling enough to put information security at risk?

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skills such as procuring products and development.

In the 5-month fellowship program, disabled veterans take seven courses at Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies and earn a Business Administration certificate at the end of the program. The fellows also participate in learning labs and workshops that aim to teach them soft skills about small business, entrepreneurship, networking, and professionalism.

In the “learning lab” on the second floor, the bakery invites guest speakers including entrepreneurs, small business owners, and representatives from corporations like BP and Starbucks to speak to the fellows. It also hosts workshops focused on networking skills, resume writing and personal branding.

The homey bakery was founded in 2014 by Connie Milstein and Curry. Curry’s family and friends who sought counsel on behalf of returning veterans inspired Curry to help with veterans and the disabled, with whom he also worked in New York before founding the bakery. Curry also previously served as the director of the Academy for Veterans at Georgetown, a program that assists disabled veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Connie Milstein, a philanthropist in D.C. ,founded “Connie’s Bakery” in Mount Kisco, N.Y., which helped women in disadvantaged situations get off welfare and obtain health care. After working with many military families in her first bakery, Milstein knew she wanted to do more for veterans. Curry teamed up with Milstein in the hopes of bringing to D.C. delicious baked goods with a cause.

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foray into formal academic research.

Under the tutelage of Georgetown business professor Dennis Quinn, over the summer, Qian investigated China’s practice of manipulating currency to the detriment of American domestic industries.

“I was very surprised because initially after I finished the paper, I was like, ‘I want to get it published,’ but I didn’t know where or the publication process super well,” Qian said. “I think the MSB journal will be a great opportunity for all of us who do research and want to get our work out there.”

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Ogilvie, said the program aims to educate veterans on entrepreneurship and give them firsthand experience in running a business.

“The goal of our program is to provide an opportunity for our fellows to get an amazing education through Georgetown, get work experience with small business and to understand the opportunities out there, as well as building their network,” Ogilvie said.

According to Ogilvie, the bakery tailored the certificate in Business Administration at Georgetown’s SCS to fit the needs of the veterans in the program.

“We’ve taken the certificate in Business Administration that Georgetown SCS already had and we’ve customized it. So we have classes like ‘Principles of Management’ through Dr. McCabe and ‘Principles of Marketing,’” Ogilvie said. “We’ve added entrepreneurship and finance classes to fit the small business curriculum.”

While the fellowship program mainly focuses on the professionalism of the veterans, it was also founded with the intent of encouraging personal growth and development.

“We have a class that’s called ‘Finding Your Boice’ and the goal is to get up in front of the room and tell your story,” Ogilvie said. “That can help interviews and networking, but that can also just be a realization of who you are today and where you want to be going forward.”

According to Ogilvie, in addition to supporting veterans, Dog Tag is committed to running a highly successful business. While the fellows work in part-time rotations for the duration of their program, the bakery also employs a full-time staff of chefs and corporate personnel. Dog Tag’s executive pastry chef, Rebecca

Clergy has worked in five-star restaurants, at the White House and at the Fairmont Hotel. Clergy was also named “best young pastry chef” in the United Kingdom. All profits from the bakery help fund the fellowship program, covering the veterans’ education, books and supplies and a monthly stipend.

Ogilvie, who is not a veteran but comes from a Marine Corps family, worked in finance for Lehman Brothers and Barclays Bank in New York City prior to overseeing Dog Tag. She met Father Curry four years ago when he was officiating her friend’s wedding. Ogilvie said she was so inspired by his mission that she moved to D.C. to help run the bakery because she wanted to aid in the difficult transition that many military service members have to make.

“These service members and their spouses go from being affiliated solely with the military, being on base and having that support, to not having that,” Ogilvie said. “Our program does give them back a supportive network. They’re also identifying themselves as individuals, versus being in a unit.”

The fellowship program has remained flexible to fit the specific needs of its fellows. The program originally accepted wounded warriors and their spouses together, but since Ogilvie found that this made it difficult for those couples to find child care and balance their work lives, the bakery no longer accepts couples in the same cohort. The program’s length was also shortened from six months to five.

Graduates of the program have gone on to open their own businesses, earn advanced degrees, including some from Georgetown and return to the workforce. One graduate has become a motivational speaker at

conferences and corporations.

According to Ogilvie, the fellowship program helped many veterans to discover who they are outside of the military.

“The main feedback that we’ve gotten from the fellows is about that self-awareness of who they are, not in the military … versus being a military spouse or being a sergeant in the Army. It’s that self-awareness and empowerment,” Ogilvie said.

“Our program is not a hand out, it’s an opportunity. We say it’s fifty-fifty.”

Because of its proximity to campus and ties to the Georgetown community, the bakery attracts many Georgetown students and faculty. Samin Rai (MSB ’17) participated in a community service day at Dog Tag with the Georgetown University Alumni & Student Federal Credit Union and Students for Georgetown Inc. “We went one Saturday and we put together boxes and helped in the kitchen,” Rai said. “I think the fellowship is a really cool program, and the food was really good too.”

Carey praised the bakery’s atmosphere as an ideal study spot.

“Whenever I think of Dog Tag, I think of the Georgetown community,” Carey said. “I love the ambiance. The music is great, and there is always an abundance of sweets and Georgetown students --- not to mention that the food is delicious!”

Ogilvie said the bakery hopes to continue its ties with Georgetown and encourage the community to support veterans.

“We’re delightfully surprised by the support of the community, which has really embraced us. We have a community that comes in of Georgetown students and of residents. People have really become our biggest supporters and advocates,” Ogilvie said.

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library archives daily. Qian said it was difficult to conduct her research because there is still little freedom of press in China today.

“We don’t have many reports about currency policy before 1996, and there is not enough research right now about devaluation before that year,” Qian said. “The information was not very transparent because there is not a lot of freedom of press in China and they don’t even allow Facebook, but I pulled all the information together to get a general picture, and as an Econ minor I checked the inflation that year, I checked the GDP that year, what’s the growth rate and how does currency devaluation help exports, and analyzed what is the impact for the future in 10 years.”

Sandra Waliczek (MSB ’17), whose research will also be featured in the inaugural issue of the new under-

graduate journal, compiled data for her project “The Benefit of The Internationalization of Universities” with the help of professor Michael Czinkota. Waliczek consulted resources including the university archives, Google Analytics and Google Ngram Viewer. Using Georgetown as a case study, Waliczek found quantitative evidence supporting global programs at universities.

Waliczek said EMURJ is important for the university since Georgetown advertises itself as a research university.

“It’s really important that they’re allowing students to get engaged, because Georgetown is a research university and emphasizes that a lot, and giving undergraduate students an opportunity to pursue this gives them a skill that they might not necessarily know,” Waliczek said.

Waliczek also said the journal is

especially interesting since it will promote business research, rather than science or political science research.

“I’m glad that they’re kicking off the initiative, because obviously there’s science research and at the School of Foreign Service they have their own journal, but when you think of business research that’s not what comes to mind first and I think this brings a lot more light to what you can do,” Waliczek said.

Qian advised aspiring student researchers seeking publication in the journal to not be discouraged if they are unsure how to pursue their projects.

“I would say start small,” Qian said.

“When you do research, I picture myself as an engineer, so I put all the building blocks together, step one, step two.

You’re not going to see a grand picture reached right away. Just like a detective, you’ll find results little by little.”

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and the job we have to do is to ensure student success,” Malaviya said. “The rankings follow if we do our job. I look at the rankings as a reflection of how well have we done our job, but focus on the job rather than focus on the ranking.”

According to Malaviya, the MSB full-time MBA program’s drop in its international Financial Times ranking from 36th in 2014 to 44th in 2016 has not had significant effect on the applicant pool.

Malaviya noted that the part-time MBA program did see an increase in quality of the applicant pool following its recent jump from 38th to 4th place in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2015 rankings of MBA programs.

According to Ricardo Ernst, professor of operations and director of the Global Business Initiative, the MBA rankings most directly affect professors within the program.

“This is very important because it gives them kind of external validation. We might have questions and concerns about the way the rankings are calculated or determined, but at the end of the day it is a very important number that we should never displace as irrelevant,” Ernst said.

Ernst said he believes the rankings should also be important to students in the MBA program since it validates the quality of their educations.

“Your degree, at the end of the day, is like a stock. It’s like a share that you have in a company. It’s probably the most important company of life because it is the company that determines your education,” Ernst said.

Professor of management Roger Bies said the rankings influenced his decision to work at Georgetown.

“Georgetown had a great reputation and that was really important to me globally, and it had a great reputation in the areas around social justice, which is part of what my research is about,” Bies said.

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The MBA program fell from its 2014 international rank in 36th place to 44th in 2016. According to MSB faculty, this has not affected the applicant pool. ings influence students’ decisions to enroll in the MBA program or not.

“Every graduate student who gets a Ph.D around the world looks at the rankings because associated with rankings is not only the prestige of working at an institution that people know of, but usually there’s more research money, more research opportunities,” Bies said.

First-year MBA student Gerald Gangaram (GRD ’17) said that Georgetown’s ranking affected his decision to pick Georgetown’s MBA program for his studies.

“Return on investment is a big thing that people talk about, and in my case, I’m not necessarily looking for a job right out of here so it is something that’s going to be on my resume for a while. … If I’m going to dedicate so much time to it, I might as well get a good return on it,” Gangaram said.

Gangaram said the perception of the program in the business com-

munity was also important to him.

“For me, I was looking at prestige of the university as well. I wanted it to be something that I would be able to leverage later on for the network and known name,” Gangaram said.

Another first-year MBA student, Katherine Maguire (GRD ’17), said Georgetown’s reputation and networking opportunities were important factors in her decision to attend Georgetown.

“Georgetown has a really strong network at a lot of companies that we look into so our reputation is already well known at those companies, and we have a strong network of support there,” Maguire said.

Christine Smith (GRD ’17) said the rankings were important, but were not the main reason she selected Georgetown’s program.

“I did look at them, but it wasn’t the primary reason for me choosing Georgetown,” Smith said.

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MSB Dean DAVID THOMAS Travels to Dubai on ‘No Borders’ Tour McDonough School of Business Dean David Thomas traveled to Dubai via the United Arab Emirates this week as part of his “No Borders” tour, a yearly initiative begun in 2013 that promotes the MSB’s resources in global business education abroad. Thomas arrived in Dubai on Sunday to begin networking with business leaders, MSB alumni and prospective students. Also on Sunday, Thomas spoke on the Dubai Eye 1038 FM radio channel’s “Business Breakfast” radio talk show about the future of business education. Another highlight of the trip was Thomas’ Tuesday visit to the Dubai International Academic City, the world’s only free zone for higher education, where he examined advancements in educational opportunities.

Entrepreneurs Teach Students ABOUT RESTAURANT BUSINESS A panel of four entrepreneurs from trending fast-casual restaurants spoke to McDonough School of Business students at the Fisher Colloquium last week, offering advice on how to run a restaurant effectively in the current market climate.

The panelists represented &pizza, Cava Group Inc., Nando’s Peri-Peri and Taylor Gourmet Handcrafted Hoagies, and recommended being creative in branding, embracing innovation without diverting energy from a restaurant’s core business values and persevering even in uncomfortable times. Facing the fact that most startups fail, Burton Heiss, coowner of Taylor Gourmet Handcrafted Hoagies, offered words of encouragement. “Success is not what you have to do, it’s who you have to be,” Heiss said, according to an MSB press release.

Poets & Quants Features LESSONS LEARNED BY MBA STUDENTS The publication Poets & Quants for Undergrads featured McDonough School of Business students Vaibhav Agarwal (MSB ’16) and Sarah Long (MSB ’16) in a recent article about important lessons that students learn in business school. Agarwal spoke about leadership. “The best leader isn’t necessarily the person with the loudest voice or the greatest intelligence, but rather the person who can effectively delegate, make calculated decisions with limited information and elevate the abilities of everyone around them,” Agarwal said in an interview for Poets and Quants.

Long spoke about the complex interconnectedness of the world that businesses must navigate in order to be successful, and about confronting change in business.

Sweetgreen Founders, MSB Alums, Create New Fast Food McDonough School of Business graduates and Sweetgreen co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Jammet (MSB ’07), Jonathan Neman (MSB ’07) and Nathaniel Ru (MSB ’07) were featured in a Fortune Magazine article last week describing their innovative fast food business model. Highlighted characteristics of the business model included an integration of app technology, a decentralized management approach with bicoastal CEOs and no central office and a customer-centered company culture in which even corporate employees work at Sweetgreen restaurants at least five times per year. When Fortune asked Ru what has been the most challenging part of managing Sweetgreen, he said it was letting go of responsibility and delegating work to a team.

The Financial Times ranked the McDonough School of Business’ full-time Master of Business Administration program 19th nationally and 44th globally in its 2016 Global MBA Ranking, a slight ddecline from its 2015 rank of 42nd place.

The MBA program’s slight drop in its international ranking can be attributed to various reasons.

The Financial Times ranks MBA programs annually based on myriad factors including surveys conducted on alumni, students, faculty and peer institutions.

“I think of the ranking as a very important feedback loop; it tells us how well we are doing.”

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The international publication also considers statistics pertaining to the representation of women and international students in each MBA program, research conducted by the faculty and — most heavily weighted — the salaries students earn after graduation.

To be eligible for the Financial Times’ rankings, which have existed since 1999, a program must have been running for at least four years, have had its first class of students graduate at least three years before the rankings are released and be accredited by the Associa-

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The McDonough School of Business’ full-time MBA program was ranked 19th nationally and 44th internationally by the Financial Times this year, slightly below its 2015 international ranking of 42nd place. tion to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Since 1999, each year, the rankings have become more competitive as more MBA programs around the world become eligible.

According to Senior Associate Dean of MBA Programs Prashant Malaviya, faculty, students and administrators use the MSB’s MBA program rankings to provide im-

portant feedback on the program.

“I think of the ranking as a very important feedback loop; it tells us how well we are doing,” Malaviya said. “Primarily because there are many important constituents who respond to the ranking request. So people get responses from alumni, recruiters, current students, peer institutions, and it is important to know what is it that they think

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The McDonough School of Business will debut its first undergraduate research journal, the E-McDonough Undergraduate Research Journal, with its inaugural issue in April. The new journal will feature studentproduced scholarship on topics ranging from finance and accounting to management and marketing.

The quarterly journal will publish one issue exclusively online in the fall, winter, spring and summer and will feature research conducted by undergraduates during the MSB’s annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, which pairs select students with university faculty who supervise their projects.

Dr. Steve D. Mobley Jr., founding editor of the journal and diCOURTESY MSB WEBSITE rector of the SURF program, said each issue will contain four to six The McDonough School of Business will debut its first undergraduate articles selected for their unique research journal exclusively online with its inaugural issue in April 2016. perspectives on a business matter. Mobley said the new research and are highly innovative in a where undergraduates could seek journal will highlight students’ myriad of arenas.” these types of experiences.” distinctive interests outside of Era Qian (MSB ’17), one of the Mobley said the idea for EMURJ their classwork. was initially conceived two years students to be published in the “Too often, McDonough stu- ago as a way to expand undergrad- forthcoming edition, said she dents are viewed as a monolithic uate research initiatives available was surprised to hear that her group largely interested in simply to MSB students. article, “A Historical Reading of honing their business acumen,” “I knew early on that I wanted China’s Foreign Exchange Reform Mobley wrote in an email to The to extend and grow our students’ and 1993 Currency Devaluation,” Hoya. “This is simply untrue and research presence on campus,” would be featured in the first ediour undergraduate research ini- Mobley wrote. “Prior to this time, tion of EMURJ, since it signified her tiatives further confirm that our there were few outlets within the See JOURNAL, A9 students have diverse interests McDonough School of Business

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Dog Tag Bakery, a nonprofit organization that sells baked goods and trains veterans in business, will hold a birthday celebration March 18 in honor of one of its founders, Fr. Rick Curry, S.J., who taught Catholic studies at Georgetown and passed away last December.

Hannah Carey (MSB ’16), who enjoys studying at the bakery, said visiting Dog Tag is a way for Georgetown students to honor Fr. Curry.

“A way to honor him and remember him is sticking by the great bakery he made. It makes you want to buy the sweets and baked goods to support an incredible cause.

I think I’ve seen way more Georgetown students there after Fr. Curry’s passing, and that to me says a lot about the Georgetown community,”

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In a cozy storefront with a chandelier made of thousands of military dog tags, Dog Tag Bakery not only serves coffee and baked goods to the D.C. community, but also offers a fellowship program with Georgetown University that teaches veterans entrepreneurial skills for running their own businesses.

The bakery, located at 3206 Grace St., welcomes between 10 and 12 disabled veterans to participate in its fellowship program every five months. Dog Tag has had three “cohorts,” or HANNAH CAREY MSB ’16 groups of fellows, since its pilot program in June 2014.

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Dog Tag Bakery will hold a birthday celebration to honor one of its co-founders, the late Fr. Curry, on March 18.

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pple Incorporated, the maker of most of your cell phones, recently passed a court order to provide the Federal Bureau of Investigation technical assistance in accessing data on a very special iPhone. The device, which was originally property of one of the San Bernardino shooters, is now in the possession of San Bernardino County and the FBI suspects that it may contain information on a terrorist network in the United States.

The FBI proposed getting into the locked phone by overriding the time delay that occurs when a wrong pass code is entered in too many times. They also considered entering the pass code electronically, rather than manually. This would allow the government investigators to hook the phone up to a computer and blaze through the 94 possible 4-digit PIN combinations without having to pay multiple government employees to wear their thumbs down entering PINa into the locked phone. Of course, the FBI would have to enter a much greater number of possible PINs if the device’s PIN contained letters or more than four characters. Plus, iPhones apparently delete data after 10 failed pass code attempts. That is why I have an Android.

Apple Inc. has refused and appealed the order. Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., explained in a public letter that creating such a “backdoor” to the iPhone would set a dangerous precedent for the government obtaining access to private data on a person’s device.

Furthermore, once the software was created, malicious hackers could get a hold of it and unlock iPhones themselves.

Advocates for the unlocking of the San Bernardino iPhone noted that Apple Inc. has assisted in unlocking iPhones per government request before. On the one hand, an exchange from the court hearing also suggests that Apple’s main motive is to keep its brand name shrouded in a free-spirited, down-with-Big-Brother ethos of information privacy. In other words, Apple’s refusal to assist the FBI in

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about us.”

Malaviya added that while the rankings are a good reflection of the program’s success, the administration and faculty does not focus on them when making decisions about the program.

“I think of the ranking as an outcome of the job that we have to do,