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DEFENDING DACA With the future of DACA up in the air, members of the community work to protect immigrant rights.

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New Post Offers Support to Undocumented Students Palacios appointed to director position Christian Paz Hoya Staff Writer

The university has appointed its first full-time associate director for undocumented student services to provide support for students without documentation and coordinate legal information and resources for this community. Arelis Palacios, who currently serves as a part-time coordinator for students without documentation and senior associate director of programming and advising in the Office of Global Education, will begin her position as associate director next Friday.

“The position offers a clear indication of the strong commitment Georgetown has developed over the course of several years because of student-led activism.” LUIS GONZALEZ (COL ’19) Member, UndocuHoyas

The appointment marks the university’s latest expansion of institutionalized support for Georgetown’s community of students without documentation, as President Donald Trump considers fulfilling a campaign promise to scrap the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program as early as today. Palacios, who previously served

as the school’s part-time liaison for students without documentation since November 2016 said the fulltime position is the result of advocacy from a number of students, professionals and allies of students without documentation, including immigrant rights advocacy group UndocuHoyas. The position will operate through the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access. “The creation of a full-time position for Undocumented Student Services is a culmination of years of efforts by many thoughtful, committed professionals and dynamic undocumented students and allies who have advocated for administrative support,” Palacios wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I’m continually grateful to our students for engaging in difficult dialogues, and all they have achieved in order to bring a greater awareness of the undocumented student experience to Georgetown’s campus.” Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said he hopes Palacios can expand on her work in educating and advocating for students without documentation. “We are very pleased that Arelis Palacios is stepping into this new full-time role. Over the past several months, her support for our undocumented students, and her efforts to educate and engage our campus community, have been tremendously helpful,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We look forward to working with her, on behalf of our students, in the months ahead.” The university’s announcement comes amid uncertainty for students without documentation at Georgetown and around the country, as the Trump adminsitration See COORDINATOR, A6

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Following a sit-in led by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee in University President John J. DeGioia’s office last year, the university allowed its contract with Nike to expire. The renewed contract mandates factory compliance with labor standards.

Renewed Nike Contract Requires Compliance With Labor Standards Ian Scoville Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown will require Nike, Inc. to provide access to supplier factories to the labor rights group Worker Rights Consortium and ensure that supply partners comply with new labor standards as part of a renewed contract announced Wednesday. The university allowed its contract with Nike to expire Dec. 31, 2016, following a 35-hour sit-in starting Dec. 8 at University President John J. DeGioia’s suite of offices by members of the workers’ rights group Georgetown Solidarity Committee

to demand the university cut ties with Nike. GSC released a statement Wednesday evening signaling support for the agreement. As part of the agreement, the university has established a new protocol for remediating issues identified by the Worker Rights Consortium, and Nike’s suppliers will be required to abide by IMG College Licensing labor code standards. The university agreed not to renew its contract with Nike unless the company agreed to allow full independent access to the Workers Rights Consortium. The agreement also stipulated that Nike either sign

the Code of Conduct for Georgetown University Licensees or establish its own code of conduct on par with the university code’s standards. The IMG College Licensing labor code standards exceed the university’s own Code of Conduct in areas including monitoring, according to professor of international business ethics John Kline, who also sits on the Licensing and Oversight Committee, which advises the university on its licensing contracts. “Eighty-five percent or more are almost the same, the wording is the See ACCESS, A6

GUSA Introduces Discount Cards for Low-Income Students Jeff Cirillo

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The new GU$Avings cards offer discounts and promotions at up to 21 stores in the Georgetown neighborhood, including clothing stores and restaurants. The Georgetown University Student Association introduced these cards this week.

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A new initiative by the Georgetown University Student Association is set to provide 1,500 discount cards for neighborhood shops and restaurants, primarily to low-income students, marking the current administration’s first program to make daily student life more affordable. Students with the wallet-sized GU$Avings cards can receive discounts and promotions at up to 21 local clothing stores, restaurants and entertainment options in the Georgetown neighborhood, including Ralph Lauren, Brooks Brothers and Booeymonger delicatessen. GUSA provided cards to the Georgetown Scholarship Program and the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access on Wednesday. All members of the Georgetown Scholarship Program and all students eligible for Pell Grants are entitled to a card, according to GUSA Press Secretary Aaron Bennett (COL ’19). About 600 cards are set to be distributed to other students through academic departments or at GUSA events. The program is the first effort by GUSA President Kamar Mack (COL ’19) and GUSA Vice President Jessica Andino (COL ’18) to make Georgetown life more affordable for students, a signature issue in their election campaign last February. Mack

and Andino called affordability “the most pressing issue affecting Georgetown students” in a pre-election op-ed in The Hoya.

“I’m really excited to see how Georgetown students use the cards and what different experiences they have.” KAMAR MACK (COL ’19) President, Georgetown University Student Association

“It’s important that GUSA is alleviating costs in as many ways as possible,” Mack said. “I’m really excited to see how Georgetown students use [the cards] and what different experiences they have, so that this can become a sustainable addition that GUSA takes on every year.” However, GSP Program Director Missy Foy and GSP Student Board President Emily Kaye (COL ’18) questioned the value of the program in an email to The Hoya, saying the discounts offered by local businesses on the card are meager and See DISCOUNT, A6

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Preserving the Free Exchange of Ideas

The events in Charlottesville remind us that our government must protect even the most repugnant speech. The debate which emerged in the wake of Charlottesville reminds us that our government must continue to protect free speech for even the most repugnant corners of our society. Though the sight of Nazi and Confederate flags flying in our streets undoubtedly deserves our scorn, hate speech is still free speech, regardless of how unsavory it is. The right to free speech — even by the most reprehensible of groups, such as the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville last month — must be defended. To curtail it would, in fact, be counterproductive. Allowing the government to pick and choose what speech is acceptable at its own discretion sets a dangerous precedent and fails to account for the changing nature of our executive branch. While we hope an administration will crack down on one particular group — in this case, neo-Nazis — its successor might set its sights on an entirely different target. Further, those who beseech our government to restrict the speech of neo-Nazis should recognize that President Donald Trump has failed even to forcefully condemn this group, as when he said that there were “some very fine people” in the crowds of white nationalists. It is reasonable to believe that their speech is not what his government would choose to limit, if given the power. The exception to this, of course, appears when speech is intended to incite physical violence; those who seek to promote physical harm forfeit their ability to speak unconstrained. This was the case in Charlottesville: When the rallies deteriorated into violence, the participants vacated their rights to free speech. The debate of when it is appropriate to curtail free speech becomes even more difficult when it moves onto college campuses, as is all too familiar to the Georgetown community. Just last semester, this editorial board called on the university to clarify its free speech policy in order to codify students’ continued ability to express themselves freely. This conversation was rekindled on campus in reaction to the news that Georgetown had been ranked as one of the 10 worst colleges for free speech by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Universities should seek to function as marketplaces of ideas, in which free exchange facilitates the pursuit of knowledge and truth. Bad ideas — even those that personally offend us — help this market operate more efficiently by encouraging the refinement of good ideas. However, universities, as smaller communities with more concrete principles of conduct and shared values, also have a broader prerogative to constrain free speech than governments. It is worth noting that the focus of these restrictions should be on invited guest speakers. Students’ right to free speech should always be enshrined and protected. There are, however, practical reasons why universities must of-

ten reject outside speakers, particularly those who might provoke campus outcry. The most common reason is perhaps the lack of adequate security resources to ensure the safety of all students and event attendees. For example, in the weeks after the Charlottesville riots, universities across the country — including Pennsylvania State University and the University of Florida — denied requests by prominent white nationalist leader Richard Spencer to speak at their campuses, citing the significant security risks his presence would impose. As a community committed to free speech, we must allow speakers whose past comments or affiliations may be reprehensible, but who come to campus to share their body of knowledge on a particular topic and thus contribute to our marketplace of ideas — something hate speech fails to do. For example, we condone last year’s invitation to Sebastian Gorka, a former White House national security aide whose presence on campus was widely criticized due to his alleged ties to Hungarian neo-Nazi group Vitézi Rend. Though Gorka’s affiliations are reproachable, he was invited to speak on a topic of his expertise, cybersecurity. The same goes for Asra Nomani, whose invitation to campus came under fire last year amid accusations of her Islamophobia. Nomani’s views on Islamic extremism, though perhaps unpopular, contributed to the on-campus dialogue, particularly because students had the opportunity to challenge her views and statements during the question-and-answer period that followed her event. Furthermore, though speech that runs counter to the university’s values should not be privileged, it should be allowed. For instance, the decision to allow Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards speak on campus in 2016 was the correct one. Even when the platforms of speakers conflict with our Catholic and Jesuit values, the university must allow this exchange of ideas. Nevertheless, the administration must voice its disagreement with speech that contradicts our core principles. In this way, the university reaffirms both its commitment to its identity and to the preservation of free speech. Additionally, invited speakers — in particular, those whose values run counter to the values of our community or are offensive to groups on campus — must allow themselves to be challenged by their audiences; only through question and answer and rigorous debate of the issues do we truly facilitate an open exchange of ideas.

Universities should seek to function as marketplaces of ideas, in which free exchange facilitates the pursuit of knowledge and truth.

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Universities must always have the right to restrict speech that is directly threatening to sectors of the student population. However, this calls into question what speech qualifies as threatening. This editorial board believes that so-called threatening speech espouses an ideology that casts certain people as inferior to others, and is expressly intended to denigrate a certain group by race, religion, gender or any other demographic feature; this should clearly be restricted from our campus. Protecting free speech while prohibiting hate speech is one of the most complex issues that our campus faces as we seek to stand up for both the free exchange of ideas and the inherent respect that each person deserves. However, we must realize that this conversation cannot only occur when conflicts arise. Georgetown has grappled with a wide range of speakers in the past and will undoubtedly do so in the coming year. To be a community that prides itself on both its open discourse and its inclusive culture, we must remain committed to preserving free speech even when we find it most offensive.

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Last month’s chaos in Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia a mere few hours away, captured headlines long after the protests ended and the streets cleared. The rally and its aftermath brought to the national forefront a number of issues that we must continue to grapple with, including our country’s struggle to reconcile with our history of racism, particularly through our continued memorialization of the Confederacy. The events in Charlottesville revived a debate that remains perennial in our national conversations, particularly on college campuses such as ours: the blurry interactions between free speech and hate speech. As we have seen in the past several years, the issue of free speech is one that Georgetown must constantly grapple with as it seeks to preserve intellectual freedom while also fostering an inclusive and respectful culture.

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Mother Theresa Brings Calm to 1982 Graduates By Mary Prahinski Hoya Staff Writer

Mother Theresa of Calcutta, the 1979 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, admonished the graduating class of 1982 to “go out and proclaim that God loves,” at the 183rd annual commencement exercise at Georgetown on May 30. After being awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, which the 71-year-old founder of the Missionaries of Charity accepted for the “glory of God” and “in the name and for the glory of poor people throughout the world,” Mother Theresa told the graduates to “go out with the conviction that nothing and nobody will

separate you from the love of God.” Fr. Royden Davis, S.J., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, explained that “there is a religious aura about Mother Theresa which made the whole ceremony a bit calmer and more religious.” This summer’s commencement “was the nicest I had experience since I arrived at Georgetown,” exclaimed Dean Ronald Smith, of the School of Business Administration. “I hope that the tone of love and affection of the students for each other and for the speaker sets the trend for the future,” Smith concluded.

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The 9,000 friends, family and invited guests stood quietly as Mother Theresa, University President Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J., and the deans of the undergraduate schools walked to the stage. Fr. Davis was especially touched by the “silence and the splendid attention” given by the participants in the ceremony. Several administration officials indicated their pleasure that the newly-minted graduates listened attentively to the guest speakers, whether, or not their own individual views were in agreement with Mother Theresa’s.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

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VIEWPOINT • JOHNSON, GLASGOW & SMITH

BRAIN WAVES

Elisabeth O’Brien

Choosing Less

y family and I recently flew to Croatia, where we travelled out to the rural landscape dotted with houses every couple of miles. We arrived at a home owned by an older woman named Anka who prepared us a traditional Croatian meal in her tiny kitchen, smiling broadly the whole time. Anka’s kitchen has a table, a faucet and a pile of burning firewood where she cooks her meals. Right outside is her garden, where she grows everything she needs in the kitchen. Anka cooks traditional Croatian meals, most notably soparnik, a savory pie usually filled with vegetables. She spends hours preparing, cooking and delivering the dish to restaurants, hotels and families. Anka even won “best soparnik in Croatia” while cooking out of a kitchen with just a table, a faucet and a pile of wood burning. At first, my family and I were taken aback by how small and bare Anka’s kitchen was. Nevertheless, though Anka’s kitchen seemed empty to us, she bustled about it cheerfully. As we eventually realized, she had everything she needed, and her seemingly Spartan lifestyle allowed her to appreciate the value of all she had. American kitchens are decorated with stovetops, microwaves, toaster ovens, regular ovens, fancy light fixtures, sinks, copious cabinets and shelves full of unnecessary appliances, each designed to make our lives just a bit easier. This has become the norm for us. But in that moment, standing in Anka’s kitchen, I began to realize how entirely unnecessary the majority of our belongings are. People often believe that more is better than less — the more the merrier. In particular, this notion often applies to material possessions in our society: Someone who can afford and own anything they want is seen to have a better life than someone living with just the essentials. However, I argue that the more concerned people are with acquiring material possessions, the worse off their lives become. Their lives become cluttered by stuff that does not truly matter as they bury themselves deeper and deeper under the weight of these items. The Netflix documentary “The

Minimalist” spotlights Joshua Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, two self-described minimalists dedicated to exposing this way of life to the public. They define minimalism as a lifestyle that encourages people to eliminate material possessions to make room for the more important parts of life including “health, relationships, passion [and] growth.” But above all else, they emphasize that less is more. Their dramatic lifestyle change proves that we do not need a plethora of possessions to bring us happiness. Opportunities to embrace minimalism appear in all of our daily lives. Most minimalists would probably be overwhelmed by the average American closet, garage or home and burdened by the sheer excess of nonessential items. Aspiring to such an attitude over the last few years, my opinion has shifted from “more is better” to “quality over quantity” to “do I even really need this at all”? Minimalism is one of the most admirable choices people can make. Through this lifestyle, minimalists demonstrate to themselves and others that happiness is not derived from owning a multitude of material possessions. Moreover, by choosing to live minimally, they illustrate that they are in control of their lives and can find happiness through new experiences and passions rather than succumbing to the overwhelming abundance of material goods that otherwise invade their lives. With the lifestyle that they choose, minimalists gain the freedom to seek out what truly gives them satisfaction and happiness. Even if you do not fully invest in the minimalist lifestyle, ridding yourself of unnecessary material possessions will benefit you by allowing you the time and space to discover what gives you the most satisfaction. Maybe it means thinking twice about whether you really need something before you buy it or simply decluttering your closet or desk. Try it — choosing less will not hurt.

Elisabeth O’Brien is a sophomore in the College. This is the ﬁnal installment of BRAIN WAVES.

There is another side of Georgetown’s club culture — a darker side — that is too often ignored. Though we rarely allow ourselves to acknowledge it, the Georgetown student body is in crisis.

Stepping Away From Selectivity

his Sunday at the Council of Advisory Boards Fair, as clubs set up on Georgetown’s front lawn and try to recruit new members, it is difficult not to be optimistic. As students walk through cramped aisles of tables adorned with promotional flyers and Bluetooth speakers, they can consider what possibilities lie ahead for them on the Hilltop. For one afternoon each semester, opportunity seems ample and tangibly within reach. Georgetown’s clubs and the students who comprise them are among the most brilliant aspects of this university. Yet there is another side of Georgetown’s club culture — a darker side — that is too often ignored. Though we rarely allow ourselves to acknowledge it, the Georgetown student body is in crisis. Student leaders, club leaders and organizational leaders have failed the Georgetown community. We have failed our peers. As members of the Executive Board of the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, we recognize it is clubs like ours that have promoted a culture of rejection and exclusivity through a cycle of mass recruitment and limited acceptance of students who are passionate about being involved

in our groups, even if unintentionally. This crisis is not shocking or unfamiliar. We have all been rejected from not just one club but several — or at least know someone who has. At some point in Georgetown’s history, mass rejection was normalized. There are an uncomfortable number of online chat rooms and public forums where prospective students — concerned about their futures on the Hilltop — seek solace in the stories of students who have come before them. “To be honest,” one student wrote, “it was the club thing that really turned me off on Georgetown.” Given our role in Lecture Fund leadership, we are among the most culpable in this crisis. In recent years, as our application numbers have drastically swelled, the population of our organization has not. We have fueled this toxic and systemic cycle that isolates, separates and rejects our student body. We have not done enough to support our classmates, nor to include and embrace them. Through the structure of our application process and our limited offering of involvement opportunities, we have helped solidify the myth that rejection is simply

an inevitability of life at Georgetown. It is important to note that dozens of clubs on campus do not require applications, interviews, resumes or applicant cuts. At the same time, however, we know that the Lecture Fund is not alone in reckoning with exclusivity. It is the responsibility of every selective club and organization on campus to seriously consider the effects of their cultures. In recognizing and acknowledging the crisis of club selectivity, we can begin to address it. The Lecture Fund is proud to announce that we are launching a new facet of our organization this semester: the General Body. This board will be responsible for planning lectures, discussing free speech issues and bringing speakers to campus. The General Body will accept any student who wishes to join it. Though we will still maintain our Associate Board, the General Body is a crucial first step in our process to steer the Lecture Fund toward a future that is less restrictive and more accessible. We can accurately and honestly say that the General Body is the future of our organization and that we will do everything in our power to foster its success. Though we hope that all those

who are interested will join the General Body, we recognize that this is not a silver bullet that will solve our campus’s crisis of mass rejection. This alone is not enough. As an organization, we will continue inquiring, debating and searching for new and more effective ways to include the Georgetown community in our mission to promote dialogue and discussion on campus. We hope our experience will encourage all of Georgetown’s clubs and organizations to search for ways to make themselves more accessible to interested students. We believe the future of clubs at Georgetown will be an inclusive one, and we look forward to the day when every student is able to get involved in the organizations that intrigue and inspire them. Georgetown’s extracurricular organizations have a powerful role in our campus culture, but neither our clubs nor the students within them can reach their full potential if the current state of exclusivity persists. AIDEN JOHNSON is a junior in the

College and is chair of Lecture Fund. ABIGAIL GLASGOW and SARAH SMITH are seniors in the College and are vice chairs of Lecture Fund.

VIEWPOINT • MACK & ANDINO

PAST AS PROLOGUE

Unify to Defend DACA

In Trump Era, Echoes of Truman

eorgetown’s strongest asset is its community in diversity. The people on our campus — the students in particular — cultivate and preserve our tradition of excellence. Due to our unique backgrounds, faith traditions and lived experiences, each of us serves as a valuable piece of the Georgetown puzzle, making our community a shining example for the rest of the country and the world to follow. To remain true to our commitment to this Jesuit principle and preserve our community, we must always stand up for our fellow students. At this moment, students without documentation now find in jeopardy their very ability to call Georgetown their home; in response, we must mobilize in support of our fellow Hoyas. Ten attorneys general from across the country, in addition to Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter (RIdaho), have threatened to pursue legal action if the executive branch does not, by Sept. 5, begin the rollback of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which they view as unconstitutional. Former President Barack Obama created DACA in 2012 to provide temporary protection to minors without documentation, allowing them to study and work in the United States legally. Congress must pass a law codifying the DACA protections for students without documentation, or these students could see themselves or their families at much greater risk of deportation. The threat is real and will have personal and tangible effects on our campus, and thus it is our job to lend our voices to this policy conversation. Fellow Hoyas Sens. Dick Durbin (SFS ’66, LAW ’69), a Democrat from Illinois, and Lisa Murkowski (CAS ’80), a Republican from Alaska, are among

those who have cosponsored the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, better known as the DREAM Act. If passed, the DREAM Act would ensure that students without documentation who attend Georgetown are not subject to the whims of the executive branch by allowing those who qualify both legal status and a path to citizenship. With the Sept. 5 deadline fast approaching, we must act collectively and immediately.

The threat to DACA will have personal, tangible effects on our campus. It is our job to lend our voices to this policy conversation. Georgetown’s own President John J. DeGioia has embraced this responsibility, expressing his support for legislation that increases protection for members of our student community. In 2011, DeGioia testified in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security with a message of affirmation for the important role students without documentation have within our campus community. His inspiring leadership has set the tone for campus dialogue on immigration-related policy. Nevertheless, as students, the onus is on us to stand in support of our fellow students and fight for what is right. The Georgetown University Student Association is working to amplify student voices in this policy conversation. In collaboration with the university’s Office of Federal Relations, as well as with partners such as UndocuHoyas, Hoyas for Immigrant Rights, the

Black House and La Casa Latina, GUSA is helping launch an initiative through which Georgetown students can engage directly with our respective members of Congress about how dramatically the DREAM Act would benefit our student community. By sharing stories about our peers who contribute immeasurably to our campus, who have overcome countless obstacles to make it this far and who undeniably deserve to be here, our voices will be heard loudly and clearly — hopefully to the extent that we help push this legislation forward. During the Council of Advisory Boards Fair and throughout the beginning of this semester, the GUSA Federal and D.C. Relations Committee is working with other on-campus organizations to facilitate this campaign through letter-writing, phone calls and trips to the Hill in order to get this message in front of our members of Congress. This initiative is only as strong as the number of us who commit to standing in support of our friends and peers. As a Jesuit institution located mere minutes from the political heart of the nation, we have an obligation to engage in powerful advocacy for our fellow students and for students across the country. The executive branch could act any day now; if it moves to end or phase out DACA, we need congressional action to preserve it. The more who join us, the louder our voice — and the better able we are to protect our Hoya family. With an urgent and dangerous threat to our community, now is not the time to shy away from the fight. It is our turn to step up to the plate. KAMAR MACK is a junior in the College. JESSICA ANDINO is a

senior in the College. Mack and Andino are president and vice president of the Georgetown University Student Association.

n Aug. 8, President Donald Trump declared that if North Korea continued to use its burgeoning nuclear program to threaten the United States, “they [would] be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Trump’s words, which raise the prospect of nuclear warfare to its highest level in decades, eerily mirror the words of another American president who faced off against a belligerent and ambitious foreign power. On Aug. 7, 1945, the day after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and two days before the second nuclear strike on Nagasaki, then-President Harry S. Truman justified the use of the atomic bomb as a necessary evil in forcing the Japanese to surrender and ending World War II: “If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.” While Trump might think his hardline stance against North Korea proves his strength both at home and abroad, he should be wary of following Truman’s path and continuing to escalate this conflict. Trump is needlessly escalating tensions with a volatile foreign power instead of approaching the situation through diplomatic channels. Additionally, if Trump fails to follow through on his threats, he undermines his own power as well as the United States’ influence with its allies and other countries around the world. All of this, of course, pales in comparison to the actual prospect of nuclear war and the loss of life that would result from a direct military assault on North Korea. While it is important to

acknowledge the parallels between the language of Truman and Trump, the underlying contexts of the two situations are radically different. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were ordered by Truman as the alternative to a proposed full-assault by the U.S. army on the main

Grant OIson Japanese islands — a massive offensive that would have incurred significant casualties on both sides. With this information in mind, Truman determined that these two targeted atomic strikes would better serve American interests and would hasten the end of World War II, a determination that — despite the ethical issues with the bombings — would prove to be correct. In our contemporary world, there is no war raging across the globe and no appetite in the American psyche for another prolonged conflict following the quagmires still playing out in Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, North Korea has demonstrated that it has weaponry capable of striking South Korea and even Japan, two critical American allies in the region that would suffer from a military conflict between Kim Jong-un and Trump. While it might be appealing to his hawkish base to take a hard line on North Korea and boost American military superiority, the

president should consider the very real and very dangerous consequences of his rhetoric. This situation is not like the campaign trail, where Trump could belittle his rivals without any repercussions. There are real, human lives at stake in this conflict; the president would be wise to remember that and to work toward a diplomatic solution in order to avoid a nuclear conflict and massive loss of life. Truman made his decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the belief that these strikes would prevent a long, drawnout assault and a catastrophic loss of life. However, Trump stands in a different position than Truman did. Instead of considering a strike against a foreign power in order to end a conflict, Trump risks igniting a war with a pre-emptive attack that would lead to catastrophic loss of life and the threatening of our Pacific allies in the region. According to the Trump administration, all military and diplomatic options are on the table concerning the North Korean nuclear situation. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson argued that Americans should rest easy about North Korea; the president’s rhetoric was simply a shot across the bow for the North Korean leader who seems unable to respond diplomatically to any situation. However, Trump should listen to his dovish advisors, if he has any, in order to de-escalate tensions and seek economic and diplomatic solutions to the North Korean nuclear crisis. The risks of doing otherwise are almost unthinkable.

Grant Olson is a junior in the College. This is the ﬁnal installment of PAST AS PROLOGUE.

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Q&A: Professor Criticizes University Tenure Process CHRISTIAN PAZ Hoya Staff Writer

Professors must rededicate themselves to the primary responsibility of the university: teaching. This is the argument of professor Jacques Berlinerblau, director of the Center for Jewish Civilization in the School of Foreign Service. In his most recent book, “Campus Confidential,” Berlinerblau argues that the current structure of higher education and the institution of tenure have imposed a division between full professors, who have been granted tenure at research universities, and those scholars on the tenuretrack pushed toward the realm of adjunct teaching. Where students fail to learn, nontenured scholars are pushed toward poverty and the American professorate unravels and dies. Berlinerblau laments that professors prioritize their own research and writing over substantively teaching undergraduate students; those interested in teaching are granted little academic freedom and poor financial reward. In an interview with THE HOYA, Berlinerblau criticizes the current state of higher education, addresses his critics and makes the case for a rejuvenation of Georgetown’s own teaching model. How did the book come together? “Campus Confidential” is deeply beholden to a literary genre known as the “campus novel.” They’re just so damn funny. These are works of fiction about dysfunctional colleges and their dysfunctional faculty and cynical administrations. The book, in and of itself, is a sort of “meta” wink to the campus novel genre. There are actually fictional sections in the book. Not caricatures. Fiction. Fiction has its own sovereign goals, one of which is to entertain and enlighten people. To scandalize them as well. So when I was writing the book, the question I kept asking myself was, “Is this funny?” “Will it be something you can read on a beach?” “Will it upset people?” “Is the voice genuine?” Do you think your readers get that about the book? Yes and no. It’s a deceptively complicated text. I mean, I’m

dropping f-bombs in there and I think there might actually be a reference to a d--k pic—but I’m not sure. At the same time, there are some very serious policy questions that I address with very serious answers. Like all writers, I pray for smart and discerning readers who engage on multiple levels. Where did you get the idea to write this book? While hanging out at dinner parties. When you were at a dinner party and your kids were 7 years old, the biggest issue for the parents was that one of those imbeciles almost choked on a Lego. But when their kids hit 15, 16, the parents start to talk about college. No more Legos! I was amused that, in these conversations, the parents would identify to me what they thought was important in a college education. And they were way off — they had no clue what college was about. They didn’t know what the issues were; they didn’t know what to look for; they didn’t know what made a college education great or crapulent. So that was the first sign for me that there was a need for an accurate, tell-all — an industry exposé about college. Did anything else lead you to write this book? Yes! Rage. I received my first doctorate when I was 24 years old. I could not find a tenuretrack job. I was employed as an abused adjunct. I did that for seven years, and I would have to say I would never wish that experience upon my worst enemy. The fact that roughly 70 to 75 percent of all American scholars today are contingent (i.e., non-tenure line) faculty is something I find deplorable. Very few people outside academia understand this, especially parents who are paying astronomical tuition bills. I just wanted to apprise people of this crisis afflicting our guild. Didn’t you also write this book about your concerns about the quality of college teaching? Absolutely. Part of my frustration with being a professor over these last 25 years is the degree to which teaching gets short shrift and is looked down upon by so many in our field. On that last point, how much of that trade-off or prioritization of

research over teaching have you witnessed during your time at Georgetown? Let’s be clear: Georgetown is an R1, a research level 1 university according to the Carnegie Classification [of Institutions of Higher Education]. It means excellent teaching, in and of itself, is never a pathway to tenure here. Georgetown, like all of its peer-institutions, wildly prioritizes research over teaching on the tenure track. Though here’s a thought: maybe Georgetown ought to be a smidgen different, because unlike Harvard, unlike Yale, unlike Princeton, we have this glorious Jesuit tradition. What would your ideal solution be? We need an oxygenating infusion of Jesuits. If we’re going to rediscover our brand as Georgetown, if we’re not just going to become another big anodyne R1, we need to rediscover that which makes Georgetown special. The Jesuits are the only ones who can save us from ourselves and the absurd priorities that have obliterated the American professorate. They are the only ones who will forcefully remind us that teaching is a vocation and mentoring to students’ souls is what any serious educator should be doing. At this level, they are also serious scholars as well, so I see no trade-off for us as an R1. You advocate for a teaching model that is closer to the classic Jesuit model. Did you develop that when you came to Georgetown in 2005 or were there other experiences that informed your approach? There were other experiences as well. When I started my teaching career as an adjunct at the City University of New York, my students were overwhelmingly African-American and Latino and they were overwhelmingly working class. So what happened to me is what happens to a lot of CUNY professors. Unless you have ice running through your veins and a heart that is made of bauxite, you just want to give them more, even if you are not paid for it. You understand that these are hardworking kids — they might be the first in their family ever to go to college. This is where the whole idea of cura personalis really resonates for me.

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Director of the Center for Jewish Civilization Jacques Berlinerblau’s most recent book, “Campus Conﬁdential,” advocates a renewed focus on teaching, not research, among professors. Have you received any feedback yet? I’ve done about 20 NPR [interviews] in 60 days — something crazy like that. I’ve done a lot of local and national interviews, and one guy started off the interview and said, “So, I guess you’re not the most popular guy in the faculty lounge.” I thought that was pretty funny. Then again, faculty lounges rarely exist anymore! Tenure-line professors, especially associate and full professors, seem impervious to the charms of this book. My colleagues at rank have made it very clear to me they disagree. Either they say that my analysis about ‘afterthoughtish’ teaching is correct but they are the exception to the rule, or they say my analysis is incorrect. Contingent faculty, by contrast, have written me dozens, if not hundreds, of letters. I think they are more receptive to my arguments because to be at the bottom of any social hierarchy is often enough to see its absurdities with brutal clarity. What is the significance of tenure? Should we just abolish it? Almost every scholar, without exception, lines up their professional trajectory so that it culminates in a tenure-track job at a great university. The problem is that the statistics are showing us that, across

the board, but especially in the humanities, something like 70 to 80 percent of all people who will receive their doctorate this year will not get a tenure-line job. So my question is: who is tenure serving? It doesn’t seem to be serving scholars most anymore. In fact, some experts believe that the institution of tenure isn’t even going to exist in 20 to 30 years. It doesn’t seem to be serving students, because the way we’ve configured tenure is that we reward research — not teaching. So if it’s not serving the majority of scholars and it’s serving very few students, then what is it good for? But since I’m a nuanced fellow, I understand why tenure exists. And tenure exists because prior to 1940, when the tenure system was instituted, professors would just disappear in the middle of the night for saying something unpopular. If we really respect the institution of scholarship, we must bring in all the stakeholders— scholars, graduate students, university presidents, learned societies, etc.—and have a national symposium on tenure. Right now the system is broken and it’s in a kind of death spiral. What practical suggestions do you have to ameliorate the situation? In the book, I make a few unpopular suggestions. One

is that we, the tenured, senior faculty, teach more for free. We take on an extra class or two every year. In exchange for our goodwill gesture, our administrations counter by creating more tenure-lines and more full-time non-tenure positions that are reasonably compensated. We old fuddy duddies “pay it forward” to the next generation. Also, I really think only contingent faculty should receive sabbaticals so they can focus on their research. At present, that perk only goes to tenure-line professors. Out of solidarity, we might consider letting our colleagues have a semester off to work on their articles and books. In your book, you discuss alternative teaching models. What types of teaching models are you bringing into the classroom? I’m a big fan of “active learning” methods. I’m pleased by how many professors, of their own volition, are abandoning the old lecture model. Back in my day, we used to lecture for about 75 minutes at a time without stopping once except to drink water. I’m convinced that students learn more with a well-conceived, active learning approach in which a professor deftly steers a conversation much in the way a jazz bassist steers other musicians to more intriguing and artful possibilities.

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DC Principals Develop Leadership Skills in Program MarinA Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

The McDonough School of Business’s Executive Masters in Leadership program welcomed back the first-ever joint cohort of principals from Washington, D.C. public and public charter schools. The cohort, which began classes in January, comprises 10 principals from DCPS and 10 from public District charter schools sharing skills and knowledge while completing an 11-month degree program. Courses include options like Scenario Planning, DecisionMaking, Strategy of Organizational Leadership, Leading Teams, How Leaders Develop and Anticipating the Future. According to Robert Bies, founder of the EML program and professor in the MSB, the cohort is designed to facilitate cross-sector dialogue and projects. “The strength of a DCPS principal is that they’re part of a system, and, therefore, knowledge can be shared among a network and certain resources can be shared across a system of schools,” Bies said. “On the other hand, with most public charter schools, they’re formed like an entrepreneurial startup. So what they do well — because they’re startups — is that they’re entrepreneurial and innovative

and they get the freedom to do that.” Jill Zwetchkenbaum, an account executive at the Walker Marchant Group, which represents the DC Public Education Fund, said the EML program’s participants return to their schools with the skills to create a difference in each DCPS classroom. “The Executive Master’s in Leadership curriculum helps executives advance their leadership skills and gain a deeper understanding of management strategy. This degree teaches DCPS principals how to navigate the complexities of running an urban school including how to develop better teacher talent, change school culture, and respond to crisis situations,” Zwetchkenbaum wrote in an email to The Hoya. Though the EML program typically costs $70,000 per participant, each principal is only responsible for $10,000 of his or her own tuition. The rest is paid for jointly by the Walton Family Foundation, a philanthropic fund, and the DC Public Education Fund, an independent non-profit organization that works to support DCPS through private philanthropy. Principal of Luke C. Moore High School Jada Langston said the cohort offers principals the opportunity to connect with colleagues they

would typically only see on a limited basis. “What I love about DC Public Schools is that I get to spend time with my colleagues,” Langston said in a statement to The Hoya. “This is an opportunity to build connections and relationships with charter school colleagues. We can do something phenomenal in this city through this cohort.” Bies attributes the success of the program to the productive relationship between DCPS and public charter schools in the area. “Nobody does this in the country. You couldn’t do this in New York. You couldn’t do this in Chicago. You can do this in D.C. because here public schools and public charter schools coexist. I’m not saying there’s no tension between DCPS and charter schools. There is some tension, but they do coexist,” Bies said. “They play together.” Both DCPS and District public charter schools have commensurate enrollment numbers, with approximately 48,000 and 41,000 students enrolled respectively. Additionally, District Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has shown broad support for public charter schools, allowing them to use public facilities and increasing their budget allotment by 2.2 percent over the next four years.

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The first cohort of principals from D.C. public charter and public schools returned to Georgetown to complete the Executive Masters in Leadership program. Classes began in January. However, Bowser has proposed regulations on public charter schools in the District. In January, Bowser introduced a new policy that would force charter schools to give a preference in admissions to elementary school-aged children living within a half-mile of the school. The walkability preference will go into effect in the 2018-2019 school lottery.

Kathryn Procope, head of the Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science Public Charter School, said the EML program has been beneficial not only in honing her own administrative skills but also in building connections in schools around the city. “My experience in the Georgetown EML program has been one of the best in my ca-

reer. Each class has provided me with tools that I immediately use when I get back to school,” Procope wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The coursework has shaped my leadership with my staff, my students and their families. What started as cross sector collaboration between the principals has developed into deep friendships that will last long after the program is over.”

GU Politics Introduces New Fall Semester Fellows Class includes media and policy experts Hannah Urtz Hoya Staff Writer

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After months of planning for four days of programming, New Student Orientation coordinators hoped first-year students understood the importance of diversity, inclusion and spirituality.

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Highlighting the role of diversity at Georgetown and emphasizing the university’s Jesuit values, New Student Orientation welcomed 1,615 students from the Class of 2021 and 208 transfer students to the Hilltop last weekend. Led by five student coordinators, 33 orientation captains and 198 orientation advisers, this year’s NSO built on traditional events including sexual assault awareness session “I Am Ready” and diversity and inclusion performance “Pluralism in Action,” with a renewed mission to make the Georgetown experience accessible to new students of all backgrounds from Aug. 25 to 29. Isaiah Fleming-Klink (SFS ’19), NSO co-director of staff development, said this year’s leadership prioritized creating an NSO experience that is accessible to new students from diverse backgrounds. “Probably the most important thing to me was creating a staff that was more reflective of the student body here at Georgetown,” FlemingKlink said. “NSO is, historically, like many other big clubs, a really white organization both demographically but also culturally in all the different everyday things that we do.” NSO will look to continue offering programming for my diverse student bodies in future years, according to Codirector of Staff Development Samantha Smith (NHS ’19). “I think that we laid the foundation and that if we, when the next year’s coordinators come into the world, if they have a similar commitment and mission as we did, that we can truly make an impact over multiple years and multiple generations of incoming classes of students,” Smith said.

This year’s program also offered a renewed commitment to Jesuit values through training initiatives, NSO Orientation Adviser Nick Zeffiro (SFS ’18) said. “We got a Jesuit examen every day to close out our training, which really helped us center as a staff and really reflect and contemplate our actions over the course of the day in a Jesuit tradition,” Zeffiro said. Fleming-Klink said he hopes new students left NSO with an understanding of the university’s commitment to Jesuit values as a foundation for their Georgetown experience. Daniel Frumento (COL ’18), co-director of internal outreach and communications, said although fostering larger conversations on life at Georgetown should be an aim of NSO, it must also prepare new students for day-to-day life at Georgetown. “I just wanted people to feel prepared for Georgetown. I wanted people to feel like they belonged here, and I wanted people to feel as if they made the right decision when, three months ago, they said ‘yes’ and put down their deposit,” Frumento said. NSO Director of Logistics Sabrina Leon Landegger (COL ’19) said the orientation program aimed to include introverted students and prioritize self-care during the busy and often stressful first few weeks at Georgetown. Christopher Hadsall (COL ’21) said that although the four-day program felt overwhelming to him at times, he appreciated the care that went into welcoming new students. “The convocation ceremony was amazing, just the energy in the room. You have the alumni up in the stands. You also have all the administrators and staff members up on the stage,” Hadsall said. “And it was really inspiring to

see all those people who are involved in the Georgetown community coming together to welcome us.” Georgetown Weeks of Welcome started this week following NSO’s conclusion, with the Welcome Back Jack Barbecue. This year’s Welcome Back Jack Barbecue was moved to the Healey Family Student Center due to rain and featured a raffle for Tshirts. The year’s GWOW program features an integrated team of two coordinators and 19 welcome ambassadors staffing events and leading programs to help new and returning students acclimate to life on the Hilltop over the course of six weeks. Center for Student Engagement Director of Orientation, Transition, and Family Engagement Shane Ryan emphasized the importance of supporting students throughout the entirety of the transition process this fall. “The first six weeks are the most crucial for students, so doing a ‘week of welcome’ was not enough. But six weeks helps them find their fit, their place, and hopefully sees them be successful and happy here on the Hilltop,” Ryan said. Some events new to the GWOW schedule this year include the Sept. 8 Mission Georgetown game show on Cooper Field and the Sept. 16 silent disco in Sellinger Lounge. This year’s coordinators Aidan Fallon (SFS ’19) and Ravisa Kalsi (COL ’20) said they wanted to help unite the student body and provide opportunities for students to spend time together. “We’ve had a very intentional focus on shifting our events from just times when you can come and eat free food to a time when you can actually have a community and where you can actually meet other people and socialize,” Fallon said.

The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service announced their fall 2017 class of Fellows last Wednesday, showcasing a diverse group of six policy and media experts from across the political spectrum. The fellows include Ron Bonjean, former top spokesman for the speaker of the house and the senate majority leader; former White House Communications Director Mike Dubke; Marie Harf, former senior advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry; former Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.) and Liz Sidoti, head of U.S. communications for British Petroleum and former national political editor and correspondent at the Associated Press. GU Politics launched an additional Fellowship opportunity this semester, welcoming anchor for NBC Nightly News Saturday and Telemundo News José Diaz-Balart as a Visiting Fellow. This slot was created to welcome a prominent public figure to campus for shorter periods of time, according to a GU Politics announcement. GU Politics Executive Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94) said the program worked to

recruit a diverse range of talents and perspectives in order to facilitate interesting and varied dialogue throughout the semester. “We strive to find people that come from different backgrounds, cross the ideological spectrum and have different experiences,” Elleithee said. “We hope that they complement each other well in order to have the most robust conversation that we can.” While the selection process for fellows has become increasingly competitive since the program’s inception in 2015, Elleithee said. He added he was excited to find so many individuals who want to contribute to and engage with the Georgetown community. “We look for people who are going to be open and honest, and not just recite talking points — people who are going to be committed to the Georgetown community and really focus their time and attention here,” Elleithee said. “I think we have a really great class this semester. It’s a really good mix of experience this time.” Throughout the fall semester, fellows will hold weekly noncredit discussion groups, hold office hours for students and speak to a variety of cam-

pus groups about their fields of expertise. Fellows are also assigned their own group of student strategists who work to help plan and promote events, research for discussion groups and connect the fellow to the broader Georgetown community. Applications for student strategists are open through Sept. 7. “It’s another way for us to bring another voice into this conversation and give students yet another person that they can engage with, even if it’s a little bit more condensed than some of the other Fellows,” Elleithee said. Jessica Andino (COL ’18), who served as the undergraduate student co-chair for the GU Politics Student Advisory Board last year, said she is excited about the unique perspectives the new fellows will bring to the program this year. Andino is also Georgetown University Student Association vice president. “They have a lot to contribute. They are able to add the perspective of what happens behind the scenes for national decisions,” Andino wrote in an email to The Hoya. “These are the people that we may not see, but they have a lot of expertise to discuss with students about the processes that happen in things that we may not see at the surface level otherwise.”

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Affordability Initiative Offers Discounts on Eating and Shopping DISCOUNT, from A1 nonessential services. “While we’re appreciative of any discount offered to students (and certainly students for whom finances are a significant stress should be front of line), our candid reaction is that local companies could and should do more,” Foy wrote. “We also hope in the future that this discount code might be a help towards essentials like books, food or bedding instead of tanning services and gel manicures.” Foy also noted that many of the discounts listed on the card were no more than what students could already get with a student ID. For example, some of the cards list a 15 percent J. Crew discount, which is in fact a general student discount available to college students at all J. Crew stores. “15% off at Ralph Lauren or Vineyard Vines or Brooks Brothers doesn’t represent a major commitment to low-income college students,” Foy wrote. Student Government Perks,

an internet-based service that compiles discounts, produced the cards for a fee of about $2,000, which was paid for with funding from the Division of Student Affairs, GUSA and the Office of Advancement.

“We also hope in the future that this discount might be a help towards essentials ... instead of tanning services and gel manicures.” Missy Foy Director, GSP

According to GUSA Deputy Chief of Staff Javier Melendez (COL ’19), who worked on the discount cards program, the cards target the costs that students face off campus — a concern in the Georgetown neighborhood, where food, groceries and entertainment

are notably expensive. These everyday expenses can cause financial strain from lowerincome and middle-income students alike, Melendez said. “It takes a very high family income in order to have enough financial means to casually go through a Georgetown experience without it being a financial burden on the family,” Melendez said. Mack first heard about the discount cards from the student body presidents of Catholic University and the University of Missouri–Kansas City, who’d seen success with discount card programs at their own schools. They met at a June conference hosted by the National Campus Leadership Council, a national organization of student body leaders. “When Georgetown interacts with more student governments, more ideas come to fruition,” Melendez said. “This shows that there are small steps we can take to make student life more affordable.”

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The GUSA executive launched a new program providing 1,500 students, including GSP members, with discount cards to local shops, restaurants and entertainment venues. Though GUSA student leaders said the discount cards are intended to help make everyday expenses more affordable for students, GSP Director Missy Foy said the discounts are too narrow to help lower-income students.

Nike Agrees to Factory Inspections GU Expands Undocumented Student Adviser Post ACCESS, from A1

COORDINATOR, from A1 Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA, an executive policy introduced by former President Barack Obama in 2012, directs the Department of Homeland Security and other federal immigration agencies to defer immigration action and deportation proceedings of children of immigrants without documentation who arrived at an early age. Luis Gonzalez (COL ’19), a member of UndocuHoyas, said the administration’s move is a strong sign of sup-

“I’m continually grateful to our students for engaging in difficult dialogues.” Arelis palacios director, undocumented student services

port from the university. “This is huge. The associate director for undocumented student services position offers a clear indication of the strong commitment Georgetown has developed over the course of several years, and because of student-led activism,” Gonzalez said. “Many generations of UndocuHoyas have advocated for continued support for the undocumented student community and this is definitely a step in the right direction.” Palacios said her role will

differ from the responsibilities the Office of Global Services conducts for international students who have authorized legal status, including advising for internships, immigration status and family resources. Palacios’ new position will serve undergraduate and graduate students without documentation, DACA beneficiaries, and mixed status students with unique immigration backgrounds. Palacios said the Office of Global Services will continue to serve international students who have active F-1 and J-1 status and scholars who hold other statuses sponsored by Georgetown like H-1B, E-3, O-1 and TN visas. Gonzalez said the appointment can help counteract some of the stress students without documentation face while at Georgetown. “Undocumented and mixedstatus students are going through challenges like living with a constant fear of deportation and uncertainty while also worrying about day-today Georgetown things, like getting through that Problem of God reading or writing that paper for CPS,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez emphasized the importance of student advocacy both at the university and national levels. “Generations of UndocuHoyas, old and new, have been advocating for the institutionalization of resources for undocumented students,” Gonzalez said. “I am especially grateful for the UndocuHoyas who arrived to Georgetown years past and who struggled through it but made it their mission to make things better for those who would follow.”

same,” Kline said. “There is actually an advantage to the new code in that the Georgetown code in its discussion at the end in monitoring is something that’s never been updated since the code was first adopted.” The IMG Code Licensing labor code is preferential to Nike adhering to the university’s own Code of Conduct, Kline said. “If it’s a choice between the Georgetown code or the new one, I’ll take the new one, because of the monitoring provisions in it and the protocol which is attached to it,” Kline said. “I think the current Georgetown code is OK but it needs to be updated particularly on the monitoring section.” The new protocol between the Worker Rights Consortium and Nike ensures both independent access and reporting of Nike supplier factories, according to Director of Business Policy and Planning Cal Watson, who also chairs the LOC. “That’s reflected in the protocol, and what Nike has agreed to is that they will work with the WRC and if there are other university licensees working with that factory then they would be involved in that discussion as well,” Watson said. GSC member Joseph Gomez (SFS ’19) said the agreement meets the group’s goals from its December sit-in. “We came into the sit-in with really set expectations of what we wanted and what we wanted to do and that included the full independent access for the WRC and a clear labor standards that either meets or is exactly the same as Georgetown’s,” Gomez said. “And so after all this time, it definitely meets what we wanted to achieve.” The agreement puts the

rights of workers first, according to a Nike spokesperson. “Over the past months, Georgetown and Nike have met and engaged in serious discussions with the goal of establishing a new licensing agreement – one that evolves our processes, aligns expectations and meets the needs of both parties,” a Nike spokesperson said in an email. “The common ground has always been to put workers first.” In a statement on the agreement, the Worker Rights Consortium said the agreement will strengthen its ability to respond to labor violations. “The protocol strengthens the WRC’s ability to do the work our affiliate universities have asked us to do: assess compliance around the world with the binding labor rights obligations universities have established for their licensees and work to ensure that any violations are remedied,” the statement reads.

Students first raised concerns after a Nov. 17, 2015 Worker Rights Consortium memo to member universities stated Nike had denied it access to the Nike factory in Hansae, Vietnam, following the strike of thousands of employees at the factory in November 2015. DeGioia said the agreement represents an important development for ensuring workers’ rights. “This new protocol reflects a process of sustained and principled engagement, allowing us to ensure that the safety, welfare, and rights of workers are protected and strengthened in meaningful ways,” DeGioia said in a university press release. “It represents the development of an important new framework for collaboration to protect workers’ rights around the world.” According to Gomez, the agreement shows the power of solidarity movements in af-

fecting change. “Real change can happen when you’re affecting larger institutions that have the capacity to change,” Gomez said. “So we’re students that are going to affect the university and affect eventually a whole supply chain because of the power that the institutions we exist in already have.” Both Gomez and Kline see potential for the agreement to transform licensing agreements around the country. “The administration has really stood up and been counted on this one, and it’s going to put Georgetown back in a leadership position on it and we’re going to pull beyond our weight in terms of influence on this issue,” Kline said. “We’ve made good progress instead of taken several steps back with the process with Nike, what they originally pushed, we’ve actually taken a couple strides forward.”

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Community Members Launch Defense of DACA Jesus Rodriguez Hoya Staff Writer

Sen. Dick Durbin (SFS ’66, LAW ’69), a Democrat from Illinois, rose to the Senate floor Aug. 2 to tell the story of one of the more than 750,00 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He had been talking about these immigrants for years, but this time he had a personal connection. From underneath his lectern, he produced a visual aid with a portrait of Juan Martinez (SFS ’20). “In his senior year of high school, he applied to his dream school — once my dream school — Georgetown University, and he was accepted,” Durbin said. Following the election of President Donald Trump, he began partnering with Georgetown to make Hoyas the focus of his floor speeches in defense of DACA. Durbin’s advocacy on immigration reform and the future of immigrants living in the United States without authorization has persisted for more than 16 years in the Senate with support from both parties. The legislative front is just

one of the few areas where Georgetown has ratcheted up its efforts to urge the federal government to keep the policy in place. On Sept. 5, officials from ten states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, are set to bring a lawsuit challenging the program’s legal basis. The program, created through an executive order by President Barack Obama in 2015, provides temporary relief for deportation to immigrants who were brought here as young children and renewable two-year work authorization, provided they pass a background check, study or enlist in the military and pay a $495 fee. That order, the ten officials argue, constitutes executive overreach on the part of Obama. But DACA might be rescinded sooner than Tuesday, with several outlets reporting the decision might come from the White House as early as today. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Joanne Talbot wrote in an email to The Hoya that the policy is undergoing a review process in cooperation with the Department of Justice

and the White House, but no decision has been made regarding its future. As members of the Georgetown community returned or arrived for the first time to campus for the start of a new academic year, undocumented students were particularly concerned about becoming vulnerable to deportations. Now that they have disclosed their information and registered with the U.S. government, some fear that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement might trace and target them. Luis Gonzalez (COL ’19) is one of them. “What if that [Transportation Security Agency] agent asks for my visa when I provide them with my passport?” Gonzalez said. “Or what if I have a job on campus and that job allowed me to pay for my books or allowed me to send money back home?” Other students have gone as far as using tactics of civil disobedience to make their voices heard. Chris Wager Saldívar (SFS ’17) was arrested with five other activists Aug. 15 after blocking the entrance to Paxton’s office in Austin, Texas for nearly three hours. “It was to show folks that

you’re not alone and there are folks with citizenship privilege who are willing to put our well-being on the line to make sure that immigrant community are safe,” Wager Saldívar said. Those “folks,” he said, include “my loved ones that I graduated with, studied with and organized with at Georgetown.”

“A phone call from a constituent, an ally of an undocumented person, goes a long way.” LUIS GONZALEz (COL ’19)

Although promised to be released the next morning, Wager Saldívar spent 24 hours in Travis County Jail after being charged with a Class B misdemeanor. Georgetown students have also turned to community organizing to help unauthorized immigrants, often referred to as Dreamers. In partnership with the Georgetown

University Student Association and the Office of Federal Relations, UndocuHoyas created a program called “Friends of Dreamers,” through which constituents can send letters to their elected members of Congress telling the story of an UndocuHoya and asking for their advocacy on the issue. “It’s always important to keep in contact with representatives, regardless of wherever the representatives are, even if they’re Democrats or Republicans,” Gonzalez said. “A phone call from a constituent, an ally of an undocumented person, goes a long way, especially if you’re a student at Georgetown.” The incertitude around DACA have also led community organizers to speak out in favor of another piece of legislation, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, also known as the DREAM Act. Originally introduced by Durbin in 2001, the bill was most recently reintroduced with bipartisan support, including Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (COL ’80) from Alaska. Georgetown also created the full-time position of as-

sociated director for undocumented student services within the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, hiring Arelis Palacios to fill the role. Palacios formerly served as a part-time undocumented student adviser through her position in the Office of Global Services. Durbin’s remarks on the Senate floor that day were almost clairvoyant, as he echoed the concerns of many immigrants who now do not know if their information is safe. “President Trump said to me ‘don’t worry about those kids,’” Durbin said. “Well, Mr. President, I continue to worry about these kids, I continue to worry about those kids every day.” But when asked about advocacy, what Gonzalez really wishes is to have a conversation with a Trump supporter. “I’m very optimistic that that would make a difference, … find the things that we have in common, the love that we have for this country,” Gonzalez said. “At the end of the day I think we have more things in common than we think, but we never hear about the conversations happening between both sides.”

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The newly renovated O’Donovan Hall features a new food court on the top floor, with offerings including the Launch Test Kitchen, with new dishes being tested by local restaurants. The dining hall is being joined by a refreshed Hoya Court, which features both a Chick-fil-A and a Crop Chop franchise to replace Subway, Elevation Burger and Salad Creations.

Georgetown Completes Student Life, Dining Facility Renovations William Zhu Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown completed a series of renovations to dining and student life facilities this summer, including major changes to O’Donovan Hall and the Leavey Center, increasing the number of outlets offering meal exchange options. Changes include a renovation of Sellinger Lounge, Hoya Court and the university bookstore to open up the first floor of the Leavey Center and new food vendors Chick-fil-A and salad shop Crop Chop to replace Subway, Elevation Burger and Salad Creations. While Chick-fil-A does not accept meal swipes, Crop Chop does. Changes to Leo’s include updates to the top and bottom floors, a new central staircase with stadium seating on each side and an all-you-care-to-eat space on the bottom floor operated by the Fresh Food Company. Six separate meal exchange locations now accept meal swipes and flex dollars on the upper floor. Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese said the planned renovations were all completed on time, but not all locations are operating at full capacity due to some outstanding logistical and staffing needs, including a required training period for Chick-fil-A employees. As a result, lines and waiting time at Leo’s have been an issue for many students. According to Chief Business Officer Debby Morey, the university expects a period of adjustment for dining staff and employees. Morey said since the entire renovation was completed in a short amount of time, some minor issues are visible. “To change what we have changed over two and a half months is normally six to eight months. There are tweaks here

and there,” Morey said. In addition, Morey said the university is actively monitoring wait times to anticipate any future problems. “We are viewing this as a stabilizing period because everything is so new,” Morey said. “We have folks who are actually timing students in line.” Director of Business Operations of Auxiliary Business Services Loren Sumerlin said the extension of operating hours at Bulldog Tavern facilitates the use of meal exchanges. “Last year we just had one a day during a specific timeframe. Now you have three [meal exchanges] a day on your meal plan and it is available in essence from open to close,” Sumerlin said. “There is almost

20 hours to 18 hours a day that a meal exchange option is available on campus.” A significant change for the lower level of Leo’s is the transition away from a self-serve model. Employees now directly serve and prepare meals instead of carting the meals onto a hot plate. Weise said the university has the ability to convert some food stations into self-serving stations to account for increased traffic. “We are trying to fluctuate the quality of the food with the business volume that we have,” Wiese said. Georgetown University Student Association Deputy Chief of Staff Zac Schroepfer (MSB ’19) said the new configuration allows food to be prepared in

front of the student and addresses past concerns regarding the quality and freshness of the food. “Now the food is being prepared directly in front of the student. It is fresher and in my opinion and in many others’ opinions, higher quality food,” Schroepfer said. “What this also leads to is longer wait times.” In addition, Wiese said food at self-serving stations can get cold and deteriorate in quality when Leo’s experiences low traffic. According to GUSA Dining Chair Mark Camilli (COL ’19), larger issues with campus dining’s new renovations are attributed to employees adjusting to the change and should

be resolved in the next month. “These restaurants are brand new so you know getting used to the menus, getting used to what the orders are, so in a couple of weeks some of the kinks will be worked out,” Camilli said. One issue many students have noticed is the positioning of sneeze guards at the edge of the Leo’s salad bar, impeding access to ingredients. Morey said this obstacle was due to improper installation of sneeze guards and that the office is working to replace the sneeze guards. “This is a source of frustration for us because we are not understanding why the sneeze guards are taking so

long to get to us,” Morey said. The Uncommon Grounds coffee shop also moved to the second floor of the bookstore and the Chick-fil-A in Hoya Court is expected to start offering breakfast and dinner menu options once employees have been properly trained in a few weeks. Young Yun (MSB ’20) said though physical renovations are visually pleasing, the taste has not improved. “I haven’t really noticed a change in food to be honest. Upstairs food, the lines are a little long at the start, but pretty good now,” Yun said. “Overall, it is good food. I am not sure it is worth 14 or 16, whatever they charge.”

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Students returning to campus last week were greeted by a series of newly renovated student life and dining facillities, including a refurbished O’Donovan Hall featuring a new all-you-care-to-eat bottom floor with an emphasis on healthy, fresh foods and a new top-floor food court.

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University, GUSA to Develop Improved Cyclist Resources ALFREDO CARILLO Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association and university administration are planning a series of new initiatives to make the university’s campus and surrounding areas friendlier to bicycle riders, including distributing free helmets to riders and creating a bicycle lane next to the Georgetown University MedStar Hospital. GUSA has been collaborating with the designers of the new wing of the Georgetown University MedStar Hospital and the administration to integrate an exclusive lane for bicycles next to the green space that will be located outside the building. A bike lane is now included in the preliminary plan for the site, according to GUSA Vice President for Transportation Policy Jack Pelose (COL ’19). “We believe that a bike path

“The university’s master plan emphasizes pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly development over the next 20 years.” ROBIN MOREY Vice President, Facilities Management

in north campus would be a valuable addition to Georgetown because it would separate bike traffic from pedestrian traffic, improving safety for both groups, and encourage biking in the Georgetown community,” Pelose wrote in an email to THE HOYA.

To further promote bike safety, the Georgetown Office of Sustainability has partnered with Coca-Cola to distribute 500 bike helmets this academic year, according to Sustainability Programs Coordinator Greg Miller (SFS ’14). Additionally, GUWellness will sponsor a “Bike Commuting 101” class every month to teach commuters how to get around Washington, D.C. Despite being recognized by the League of American Bicyclists as a Bronze-level Bicycle Friendly University since 2013, the university can still improve accessibility and safety for bicycle riders, according to Pelose. “There are things we can improve with biking. I think that the Georgetown neighborhood is hard because a lot of it is brick and stone, which is hard to bike around, and there’s not a lot of good ways lining our sidewalks for bikes on-campus or in the neighborhood at all,” Pelose said. The D.C. metropolitan area has been an outlier in the national trend of rising yearly bicycle crash fatalities, according to a report this August by the Governor’s Highway Safety Association, using data from 1994 and 2015. According to an email from the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, bicycle crash fatalities in Washington, D.C. have oscillated between one and two accidents per year in the last five years. Pelose and Miller said the Georgetown neighborhood is relatively safe due to the prevalence of small roads that force drivers to slow down, but they also acknowledged that cobblestone streets and the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue are potentially dangerous. The administration studied

these roads and their usage in 2016 as part of the planning for the long-term campus development plan. “We don’t have bicycle crash fatality data for the Georgetown neighborhood in particular, but as part of the campus plan process in 2016, Georgetown did do an exhaustive study about transportation in the Georgetown neighborhood,” Pelose said. According to Pelose, the uni-

versity tracked the number of cars and bikes at various intersections around the neighborhood in order to determine where the two are most likely to intersect. Vice President of Facilities Management Robin Morey wrote in an email statement to the Georgetown community that the university has integrated this information into the master plan and aims to achieve a Silver designation as

a Bicycle Friendly University this year. “The University’s master plan also emphasizes pedestrian and bicycle-friendly development over the next 20 years,” Morey wrote. In 2015, the administration declared the campus a “pedestrian core,” limiting speed limits on campus to 15 miles per hour and integrating mechanisms like speed bumps to slow traffic, according to Morey.

Georgetown University Police Department Chief of Police Jay Gruber recommends that riders also take responsibility for their own safety. “Riding a bicycle in an urban environment takes full-time attention and adherence to all traffic laws,” Gruber wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “In addition to wearing helmets, riders should obey traffic laws and should never wear headphones or earbuds while riding.”

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While cyclist deaths have increased nationwide over the last ﬁve years, Washington, D.C., remains an outlier in total number of deaths as a result of trafﬁc accidents involving cyclists. Georgetown seeks to expand its biker-friendly initiatives in coming months.

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School of Continuing Studies Partners With FC Barcelona alfredo carillo Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies kicked off its collaboration with Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona to advance education, leadership and research in the field of sports management. The first event in the partnership, announced last month, was a symposium hosted July 26 at the school’s downtown campus. Soccer Leadership Summit, Georgetown faculty and sports management professionals networked with Barcelona stakeholders, discussing topics such as the futures of business, technology and women in sports. Going forward, students enrolled in the school’s sports management program will have opportunities to work with leadership and staff of the club’s recently launched Barça-Innovation Hub, a platform for innovation in sports and related fields including medicine, technology and social sciences. Talks regarding the collaboration began last fall, when a Georgetown faculty member connected the soccer club’s institutional relations department to Daniel Kelly, faculty director and associate professor of the practice for the Sports Industry Management master’s program. During the months that followed, parties discussed

the possibility of establishing a “knowledge partner” relationship, through which both institutions would combine their respective strengths. SCS Dean Kelly Otter and Barça Innovation Hub Commissioner Jordi Monés finalized the agreement last May. Kelly said he hopes the partnership will help sports management students learn about their field. “It is my sincere hope that through a collaboration with FC Barcelona’s Innovation Hub, our students are able to learn from leaders currently in positions to which they aspire,” Kelly wrote in an email to The Hoya. FC Barcelona, meanwhile, will gain access to the faculty expertise of the Sports Industry Management program. “We will endeavor to contribute to the mission and charge of the Innovation Hub by leveraging the university’s resources, including sports industry management expertise among our faculty members at the School of Continuing Studies,” Kelly said. Monés likewise expressed optimism about the agreement. “It is with great pride that FC Barcelona and the prestigious Georgetown University have reached this collaboration agreement in order to work together within the framework of the Barça Innovation Hub,” Monés said in a statement released on FC Barcelona’s website.

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Georgetown School of Continuing Studies Dean Kelly Otter and Barça Innovation Hub Commissioner Jordi Monés finalized an agreement last May to advance education, leadership and research in the field of sports management.

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Christopher S. Celenza is now leading Georgetown College. New deans now lead the McDonough School of Business, the College and the School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

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Three Georgetown University schools are kicking off the academic year with refreshed leadership, as the McDonough School of Business, the Georgetown College and the School of Foreign Service in Qatar welcome new deans. Christopher S. Celenza started as the dean of the College on July 1, leaving his post as vice provost for faculty affairs at Johns Hopkins University. Celenza also served as a professor in the German and Romance languages and classics departments at Johns Hopkins. Celenza said he is looking to balance maintaining Georgetown’s traditions with a need to prepare students for an uncertain future. “On the one hand, the basic experience of the College for Georgetown students is one that really prepares them for life in a specific way, which is to say it can give you the sorts of tools that you can resituate yourself,” Celenza said in an interview with campus media. “We have to be willing and courageous enough to think that we can’t only do something just because we’ve always been doing it.” University President John J. DeGioia announced Celenza’s appointment in a campuswide email March 2. Paul Almeida became dean of the MSB, taking the reins from interim Dean Rohan Williamson. Williamson’s tenure started last August after the resignation of the

school’s former dean of five years, David Thomas. Ahmad S. Dallal takes over as dean of the SFS-Q on Sept. 1. Formerly a history professor at the American University in Beirut from 2009 to 2015, he succeeds former SFSQ Dean James Reardon-Anderson, who had announced he would step down one year earlier than scheduled in July.

“We have to be willing and courageous enough to think that we can’t only do something just because we’ve always been doing it.” Christopher Celenza DeaN, Georgetown College

Dallal also served as chair of Georgetown’s Arabic and Islamic Studies department from 2003 to 2009. His work has focused on both past and present Islamic culture. He has published three books and over 40 articles on the history of Islamic thought and law, and has also served as an adviser to the planning committee of the primary exhibition at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. Dallal said he will look to strengthen SFS-Q’s existing presence in Qatar and seek

paths to expansion. “I hope to build on and continue the great work that the former deans have accomplished on two key fronts — anchoring Georgetown Qatar within the larger landscape of higher education in the country and the region and maintaining the academic excellence of current programs while exploring possibilities of future program expansion,” Dallal said in a university press release. Almeida has been with the university in various capacities for more than two decades, most recently as a deputy dean for executive education, where he headed the school’s six executive graduate programs. His recent work also includs leading the school’s Innovation Initiative, which has sought to better integrate technology, organization and Jesuit values with the school’s curriculum. Almeida also co-founded the internationally focused Global Executive MBA program, a collaboration among the MSB, SFS and business schools in Spain and Costa Rica. “Paul is known throughout our academic community as a respected scholar and teacher who is deeply committed to our Catholic and Jesuit identity,” DeGioia wrote in an email announcing the appointment. “His research focuses on innovation, knowledge management, alliances, and information collaborations across firms and countries, and his work has been published in leading scholarly journals and books.”

The Georgetown University Law Center will allow applicants to submit their scores on the GRE, the graduate school entry exam, becoming one of the first law schools to offer an alternative to the once-mandatory LSAT, the law school aptitude test. Georgetown Law hopes the new policy, announced Monday, will open the school’s doors to a more diverse pool of applicants, especially those considering other graduate programs. Georgetown Law’s announcement comes just over 18 months after the University of Arizona’s law school became the first to offer the GRE as an alternative to the LSAT in 2016. Georgetown Law is now one of four law schools to offer the GRE, joining Arizona Law, Harvard Law School, and the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, which announced the shift on the same day as Georgetown.

An Arizona Law study found that the GRE was as good a predictor of law school success as the LSAT,

“We believe this change will make the admissions process more accessible to students who have great potential.” William Treanor Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

and its results were later corroborated by studies at each of the other three schools. Law school applicants have long lamented the limited testing schedule of the LSAT ― just four test dates are offered each year, while the GRE can be taken at any time on a computer. Moreover, the $118 registration fee

plus the cost of preparation can be enough to deter some students, particularly those who already have to take the GRE for other graduate programs, according to the press release announcing the new policy. “We believe this change will make the admissions process more accessible to students who have great potential to make a mark here at Georgetown Law and in successful legal careers, but who might find the LSAT to be a barrier for whatever reason,” Dean William M. Treanor said in the release. Though most U.S. law schools still require the LSAT for admission, Georgetown Law is likely to make waves as the largest law school in the country and one of the most prestigious LSAT defectors yet The Law School Admission Council, which administers the LSAT, responded to increasing competition from the GRE in May when it lifted a longstanding ban on students taking the LSAT more than three times in two years.

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Georgetown Law joined Arizona Law, Harvard Law School and the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in dropping the LSAT in favor of the more inclusive GRE.

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GU Ties for First Stars’ Moves Rattle Respective Teams in DC Challenge N Luke Djavaharien Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s volleyball team hit the ground running by splitting the D.C. Challenge Title tournament championship with UC Santa Clara. The Hoyas went 2-1 on the weekend with a 2-3 loss to UCSC, a 3-2 win over American University and a victory against Howard University. In the first matchup of the weekend, Georgetown fell short in five sets against UC Santa Clara. Junior middle blocker Symone Speech and graduate student middle blocker Aima Eichie spearheaded the Hoyas’ offense, hitting .568 with 24 kills and .500 with 10 kills, respectively. On defense, junior libero Kenzie Higareda and junior setter Paige McKnight notched 12 digs each, while freshman outside hitter Riley Wertzberger added 11 of her own. Set one went back and forth the whole way, but UCSC narrowly escaped with a 25-23 victory. In the second set, McKnight ignited the Hoyas’ play by dropping a few aces for a commanding 2514 victory, tying the match at 1-1. The two squads continued to be competitive in the third set, but junior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette pushed the Hoyas ahead with several kills. With the score at 17-10, Georgetown cruised to a 25-20 victory. The Broncos came back with a vengeance, though, and won the fourth set by a large 18-point margin. Heading into the fifth set with some momentum,

UCSC stole a close 15-12 victory over Georgetown. The Hoyas rebounded quickly, defeating cross-town rival American University in another competitive five-set match. As they did against UC Santa Clara, Sinnette and Speech starred with respective kills of 16 and 22, while Higareda tallied 25 digs on defense. Both teams were evenly matched in the first set, with Georgetown trailing 7-9. Georgetown went on a run, though, after an eight-point serving streak propelled the Blue and Gray to a 25-19 victory. The second set was decided toward the end, notably from timely kills by Speech and McKnight, which pushed the team to a 25-20 victory. Behind 2-0, American refused to back down in a three-set sweep and won the next two sets with the same score of 21-25. In the fifth, American came out firing and quickly put themselves up 9-5, but, a kill from Eichie catapulted the Hoyas into a five-point run to give them the lead. With the score close at the end, Sinnette and sophomore outside hitter Charlotte Kelly executed with two consecutive kills, ending the final set 15-13 in Georgetown’s favor. After the victorious weekend performance by the Hoyas, the women’s volleyball team has some momentum early in the season. They look to compete in the Service Academy Challenge in Arlington, Va. this weekend, starting with a match against The Citadel Military College this Friday at 12:30 p.m.

o championship team remains intact forever. Kyrie Irving and Neymar Jr., both inextricably tied to championship-winning teams, are no longer with the very teams that yielded them fame and success. Similarly, they are now emblematic of the age-old narrative of wanting to step out of legendary teammates’ shadows: LeBron James and Lionel Messi. While Irving’s move could be considered somewhat predictable due to earlier stories from this summer, Neymar’s world record-breaking transfer took the soccer world by sheer surprise. Part of a threeheaded attack with Messi and Luis Suárez, Neymar’s four seasons with Barcelona resulted in two La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey championships and the coveted Champions League title in 2015. In 123 games, Neymar found the back of the net 68 times. Many were stunned to discover that Neymar wanted out to experience the spotlight all for himself, given FC Barcelona’s prestigious record and a virtually guaranteed championship every year. With Messi considered to be the best player in the world, and possibly of all time, and Suárez outscoring Neymar in fewer games — 85 goals in 97 games — it is perhaps not so surprising that the Brazilian star would want to leave one of the most successful European clubs. His departure, however, raises the question of whether individual legacy and monetary success is more valuable than an array of trophies. Neymar is already a wellestablished player, and given

that he is projected to earn more than half a million dollars per week at Paris SaintGermain, it is hard not to see money as the primary factor behind this move. The Brazilian’s departure has certainly been more acrimonious than that of Irving. The world record fee of $263 million is under scrutiny for breaking financial fair play rules that try to prevent teams from spending more than they can afford. To make matters worse, Barcelona is now suing Neymar in an attempt to regain his “loyalty” bonus that was part of his new contract, while Neymar is publicly dissing the Catalan board of directors.

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Both phenoms [Irving and Neymar] are inarguably two of the most popular players in the game today across, any sport. On the other hand, Irving’s move was far more straightforward. While Irving had a preferred list of trade destinations that he submitted along-

side his trade request, Boston emerged as the surprise destination for the superstar. Regardless, Irving fulfilled his wish: He leads the Boston Celtics both as their best player and one of the most marketable players in the league. Not only does Irving step out of James’ shadow in terms of media and marketing attention, but he also lands on a team loaded with talent that can viably challenge for the Eastern Conference title. Both phenoms are inarguably two of the most popular players in the game today, across any sport. Since both men have undoubtedly impacted their leagues in great ways, their former teams remain left in upheaval in their absence. For Barcelona, Neymar’s absence has already been felt in a lethargic game against rival Real Madrid. Messi has made his displeasure with the board over Neymar’s departure clear, and rumors are once again surfacing that the Argentine will be on his way out. Barcelona has desperately tried to acquire Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho as a replacement, but the Reds keep stonewalling by turning down ludicrous bids, a direct effect of Neymar’s astronomical transfer fee. As for the Cleveland Cavaliers, they have acquired former Boston heartthrobs Isaiah Thomas and Jae Crowder along with one of the Celtics’ coveted draft picks. In the eventuality that James leaves — as some rumors suggest he might — or declines, Cleveland has a potential top pick. If James recommits to a long-

term contract, Cleveland can flip the coveted pick another star to add to the formidable trio of Thomas, James and Kevin Love, giving the reigning champion Golden State Warriors a potentially serious challenge. Regardless of the aftermaths of their decisions, two prolific young and marketable players have left their dominant teams this summer, raising a deep-rooted question about the nature of super teams that divides us: Is a super team’s brief dominance worth its seemingly inevitable dissolution? Craige: It is a tough question for sure because in Barcelona’s case, they have been dominant ever since Messi was 18. It’s probable that Barcelona will continue to dominate, even with the dissolution of The Big Three, simply because of its superb academy and ability to buy high-caliber players. A fleeting dominance is definitely worth it in the long run due to the rewards that it brings. Santamaria: It is absolutely worth it. In rare cases, you can build a super team while also investing in youth, leading to long-term dominance. Of course, some players will inevitably think they are bigger than the team and want to leave, but that is the nature of sports. And to those hollering about parity, any sport’s crown jewel is slaying a Goliath team, teams just like the Cleveland Cavaliers and FC Barcelona. Vanessa Craige and Paolo Santamaria are seniors in the School of Foreign Service and the College, respectively. Nothing but Net

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Hoyas Dominate Chanticleers, Win 2nd Straight Game Matt Sachs

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The Georgetown men’s soccer team defeated No. 19 Coastal Carolina on Monday in its home opener. With strong defense, the Hoyas have yet to give up a goal in their first two matchups. The Hoyas (2-0, Big East) took control early against the Chanticleers (0-2, Big South) as senior midfielder Christopher Lema started off the scoring with a penalty kick goal in the 16th minute. Coastal Carolina attempted to answer back, but failed as a header sailed wide left. Georgetown kept attacking for the rest of the first half and took 11 shots on goal. The high-intensity attack paid off as the Hoyas scored again be-

fore the half came to a close. In the 42nd minute, junior defender Peter Schropp took a corner kick from Lema and knocked in a shot to give the Hoyas a 2-0 lead at the half. In the second half, the Chanticleers got some looks early on, but failed to cut into their deficit. Later in the half, they had two shots on goal, but both were saved by junior Hoya goalkeeper J.T. Marcinkowski. The Hoyas kept their momentum and looked for a dagger. After missing on two one-on-one opportunities, sophomore forward Achara converted in the 80th minute off an assist by freshman midfielder Jacob Montes to give Georgetown a commanding 3-0 lead. The Blue and Gray kept

the Chants scoreless for the rest of the contest, cruising to another shutout win. For the afternoon, the Hoyas outshot Coastal Carolina 18-10 and limited their opponent to only the two shots on goal saved by Marcinkowski. Marcinkowski has notched several accolades this season thus far including Big East Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year and Big East Weekly Honor Roll after the Hoyas’ victory over the Chanticleers. This marks Marcinkowski’s second weekly honor roll of his career and the first of the season for Georgetown. Georgetown returns to action against Cal Poly on Friday afternoon at Shaw Field. The match will be streamed on Hoyas Live on the FOX Sports GO app.

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Junior goalkeeper and team captain J.T. Marcinkowski has notched five saves and two shutouts on the season. Marcinkowski was also awarded Big East Weekly Honor Roll after the Hoyas’ victory.

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Freshman Class Leads Team to 2-0 Season Start Allie Babyak Hoya Staff Writer

Over the weekend, the Georgetown field hockey team (2-0, 0-0 Big East) hit the ground running with two victories in its season openers. The Hoyas secured a close 2-1 win against Davidson College (0-2, 0-0 Atlantic 10), with a game-winning goal in the 69th minute. Georgetown finished its opening weekend with an 8-0 win two days later against Appalachian State (1-1, 0-0 Mid-American) on Aug. 27. Because Georgetown field hockey lost six seniors last year, this opening weekend provided an opportunity to

incorporate seven new freshmen and a sophomore transfer, midfielder Emily Fraser. Fraser transferred from SUNYAlbany, where she started all 20 games for the Great Danes. Freshman midfielder Cami Osborne seized this chance and was named the Big East Rookie of the Week after scoring the tying goal against Davidson and netting two more versus Appalachian State. “We’re really excited about our incoming class,” Head Coach Shannon Soares said. “Not only are they very talented when it comes to being field hockey players, but they’re also really good hu-

man beings, and that piece of it is just as important for us in terms of our program’s culture.” Defense ruled the day early versus Davidson, with both sides’ goals coming in the final 20 minutes of play. With 17:04 remaining in the game, senior midfielder Hannah Fisher scored for the Davidson Wildcats off of a penalty corner. After taking only six shots in the first period, Georgetown responded twofold with 12 shots in the second period. With 4:25 remaining in the game, Osborne and freshmn midfielder Jax Van der Veen broke through the Wildcat defense. Van der

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Women’s field hockey lost six seniors last year, yet the team has replenished its roster with strong freshman talent.

Veen slid the ball to Osborne, who tied up the game. Van der Veen took seven shots, four of which were on goal. The Hoyas continued to pressure the Wildcats, leading to their game-winning goal in the 69th minute. Senior midfielder Joanna Hawkins took a penalty corner, and junior midfielder Helena Masiello passed the ball to senior midfielder Megan Parsons. Parsons capitalized on the opportunity, scoring the gamewinning goal with 54 seconds remaining. “I thought our team did a great job of being resilient on Friday,” Coach Soares said. “For us to be able to come back from that deficit and not just be settled with a tie and go into overtime, but really have the resolve to finish late in the second half was a really positive sign for our group.” Georgetown’s offensive momentum carried them to an 8-0 win against Appalachian State. When the teams met in the 2016-2017 season, the Hoyas won 4-3 in overtime. The Hoyas’ first goal came 9:45 into the game. The Blue and Gray took advantage of freshman midfielder Anna Farley’s penalty corner to create a goalscoring opportunity for Fraser. Junior back Katie Maransky and Farley assisted in Fraser’s first career goal as a Hoya. Georgetown went on to score two more goals by the 10:43 minute mark. Though Georgetown had 15 shots and Appalachian State had 12, the Hoyas capitalized on their opportunities. Six of

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Junior Katie Maransky started all 18 games last season and has notched one assist so far in the 2017 season. the Hoyas’ eight goals were in the first period. Offensively, Georgetown ensured the entire team was involved. Seven different Hoyas scored, three of whom were freshmen; Osborne scored two goals. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they’re making an impact really early,” Coach Soares said. “Now the key will be for those guys to get a little bit better each day as well, and for all of us to rise to the occasion in terms of the next couple of months ahead of us.” The Hoyas also took advantage of penalty corners. Though Georgetown only managed four penalty cor-

ners, they scored two goals. “Penalty corners are a great advantage when you earn them, and we certainly look to earn fouls in our attacking circle every time we can. Those are opportunities where we want to be able to finish and put the ball in the back of the net,” Coach Soares said. Hoping to continue the winning streak, Georgetown will play its third game of the season Friday, Sept. 1 at 2 p.m. against Rider (1-0, 0-0 Metro Atlantic) at Cooper Field. The Hoyas will begin conference play with a game against Quinnipiac (0-2, 0-0 Big East) Sept. 15 at home.

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kick. Sophomore midfielder Carson Nizialek came off the bench to deliver a goal for the Hoyas three minutes into the second half. In total, seven players recorded at least one point for Georgetown. Despite the lopsided score, Nolan still saw room for improvement in preparation for Friday. “We need to get a little bit better pressure on the ball. I thought there were times today where we got ourselves in trouble where we had numbers around the ball, but we were too passive,” Nolan said. “When we could press the ball, we chose to drop, and

that allowed them to play out. And a good team like Stanford — two passes will have them on the other side of the field 15 yards from your goal. We can’t afford to have that.” Friday’s game at Stanford will be the second time this season that Georgetown squares off against a ranked team, according to United Soccer Coaches. “I think we just need to get ready for them because they’re such a good team, and it will be tough going out on their home field in front their home fans,” Farrell said. “But we are definitely up for it and looking forward to it.” Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Eastern on Friday.

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Senior defender Elizabeth Wenger, left, was awarded All-Big East Second Team honors last season and led the team in minutes played. Senior defender Taylor Pak, right, was a Big East Academic All-Star last season. Despite the Hoyas’ sweeping win, they look to be more aggressive on defense and take control of the ball in upcoming games.

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III’s flaws, he consistently built tough nonconference schedules in order to ensure that the Hoyas would be battle-tested entering their Big East schedule. Last year’s nonconference slate included games against Maryland, Oregon, Wisconsin, Oklahoma State, Syracuse and UConn, all strong programs. So far, Ewing seems to be taking an approach closer to that of his mentor, John Thompson Jr., who consistently scheduled weak early-season opponents in order to rack up easy wins for the Hoyas. While it is un-

derstandable for Georgetown to somewhat soften the schedule in Ewing’s first season, this is not a trend that should continue in the long run. In addition to the experience and competition, marquee nonconference games provide exposure for a program that has largely faded from the national consciousness in recent years — especially since Big East games are now televised on Fox Sports 1 rather than on ESPN. Nonconference strength of schedule has also taken on an increased importance in recent NCAA tournament selection committees and seeding decisions.

Ewing also has not made much of an effort to modernize the program. Social media, which has become an important fan engagement tool for teams in recent years, has been a weak point for the Georgetown program, and Ewing has shown no interest in changing that. Additionally, Ewing has indicated that he will continue Georgetown’s archaic policy of preventing freshmen from speaking to the media during their first semester. The policy is particularly outdated in the modern basketball landscape, where top players are consistently interviewed for years

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NBA-style offense designed to prepare players for the professional circuit. If players like Pickett, junior center Jessie Govan, and junior forward Marcus Derrickson show strong development, and the team showcases a more exciting and professional style of offense, Ewing’s first season would be considered a success. So far, he has said the right things and has made a strong effort in recruiting. All there is left to do now is prove it on the hardwood.

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ties to Houston and the surrounding areas affected by Hurricane Harvey. “I lived in Houston for three years while I was an assistant coach with the Houston Rockets,” Ewing said. “It is heartbreaking to see what is happening to that city. My prayers are with everyone in Texas.”

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the court. While this season is not expected to be awe-inspiring, it will be important to watch the team’s style of play. Thompson III’s downfall was largely rooted in his inability to adjust. His recent teams racked up fouls and failed to defend the perimeter under the NCAA’s more stringent freedom of movement rules, and his expressed desire to play a faster and more motion-based offense last season did not come to fruition, as the team reverted back to his Princeton offense. Ewing wants to take a different approach and play an

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before entering college. It is worth noting, though, that Ewing has made positive steps in engaging the team’s fan base. He has made several appearances around campus to meet students and fans, an action that Thompson III rarely took. In addition, in the aftermath of his hiring, Ewing gave several personable and entertaining interviews, shedding light on his plan for the program and his coaching philosophy. Despite my concerns regarding scheduling and fan engagement, the most important factor in evaluating Ewing’s success is results on

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The men’s basketball’s efforts to aid the victims of Harvey reflect Communications Director Lori Hamamoto’s and the department’s commitment to Georgetown’s Jesuit values and service to others. “The basketball program has always been community minded and has always been dedicated to giving back,” Hamamoto said. This past week, the coaching staff and players volunteered their time and served lunch at local D.C non-profit organization SOME (So Others May Eat). For other members of the Georgetown community looking to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey, Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice (CSJ) has set up a humanitarian and disaster relief fund for Houston. Please contact the CSJ or email giving@georgetown.edu for more information on how you can donate.

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Men’s basketball program donates Hoya gear to Hurricane Harvey victims which reflects progra,’s commitment to others outside of their community.

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Men’s Basketball Donates Gear To Hurricane Victims Mitchell Taylor Hoya Staff Writer

This past Wednesday, Georgetown students and faculty gathered at the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, praying for and remembering those affected by the destruction in Houston caused by Hurricane Harvey over the last week. Thoughts and prayers are not everything being sent from the Hilltop to Houston, however, as men’s basketball Head Coach Patrick Ewing (COL ’85) and his staff prepare to send Hoya T-shirts and shoes as a small form of relief to the victims.

“Coach Ewing immediately instructed his staff to start putting together some Georgetown gear to send down to Houston.” Lori Hamamoto Men’s Basketball Communications Director

The department is currently still in the process of assembling a care package of shirts and shoes to send down to Houston. Hurricane Harvey’s death toll has surpassed 35 people while 32,000 people are displaced in a total of 230 Red Cross shelters and affiliates across Texas. Corporate company donations for hurricane relief from companies such as Google and Verizon have climbed passed $65 million. Ewing’s initiative respond-

ed to a call for help posted Tuesday to Twitter by the University of Houston’s men’s basketball Coach Kelvin Sampson. “I have had so many of my friends in the coaching profession text and call offering prayers and thoughts for all Houstonians. They all ask what we can do to help,” Sampson said in the tweet. “Well, I came up with something I think coaches at all levels can help with. … If you can, please send 20 of your schools T-shirts and 10 pairs of shoes to [the University of Houston].” Georgetown basketball responded swiftly to Sampson’s plea. “We saw coach Sampson’s tweet requesting t-shirts and shoes and brought it to Coach Ewing’s attention,” Lori Hamamoto, men’s basketball director of communications, wrote in an email to T he H oya . “Coach Ewing immediately instructed his staff to start putting together some Georgetown gear to send down to Houston.” Ewing was one of hundreds of coaches who answered Sampson’s call for help. “It was a powerful thing for Coach Sampson to reach out to the coaching fraternity,” Ewing wrote in an email to T he H oya . “The Georgetown Men’s Basketball program obviously wanted to get involved.” Ewing is one of many members of the Georgetowncommunity who have See HARVEY, A11

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Hoyas were quick to repsond to University of Houston men’s basketball Head Coach Kelvin Sampson’s call for Hurricane Harvey aid. The team sent a shipment of T-shirts and shoes to help displaced Texans living in shelters as a result of the hurricane.

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Junior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman notched her third shutout of the season in the Hoyas’ 3-0 victory over Loyola Maryland on Sunday. Schechtman holds the school record for single season school record for shutouts with 17.

Hoyas Extend Winning Streak to Three Josh Rosson Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s soccer team dominated its fourth match of the season Sunday, overwhelming a Loyola Maryland squad en route to their 5-0 sweep. The No. 11 Hoyas (3-1-0, Big East) scored three goals in the first half to take control of the game. By the game’s end, Georgetown outshot Loyola (1-3-0, Patriot League) 16-1 and had a 9-4 advantage in

corner kicks. The Hoyas’ junior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman recorded her third-straight shutout in net, needing to make only one save in the 16th minute. “I think collectively we played really well in the first half,” junior forward Caitlin Farrell said. “It was nice to get off to that really quick start and then just kind of build off of that.” Farrell had four shots on goal in the contest, which she turned into her first two goals

of the year, both off assists from sophomore forward Casey Richards. Richards got her first start of the year at forward, alongside usual starting forwards Farrell and sophomore Amanda Carolan. The change in formation was in part to prepare for Friday’s game on the road against No. 5-ranked Stanford. Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan said he also wanted to reward the players whom he thought deserved to start.

“We want players to show that they deserve minutes,” Nolan said. “We want players to make me get our best players on the field, as opposed to trying to force players into a system.” Senior midfielder Rachel Corboz also had two goals in the match, one in the first half off a cross from freshman midfielder Isabelle Fuchs and another with just a few minutes remaining on a penalty See loyola, A11

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hen Patrick Ewing (COL ’85) took the reins as the new head coach of the Georgetown men’s basketball team, he inherited a program in flux. The roster had lost four players to graduation, two of whom went to the NBA and one to injury. More importantly, the program was moving on from the Thompson caste that had led the program for 40 of the past 45 seasons. The early sentiment of the Ewing era is best described as measured optimism. He has bolstered the depleted roster with four freshmen and two transfer additions. The incoming class is impressive, especially considering Ewing’s late arrival, as many of the top transfers and recruits had already committed to other schools when he was hired. The late commitment of freshman forward Jamarko Pickett, widely regarded as a Top 100 prospect in the Class of 2017, is particularly promising. Pickett, who decommitted from Ole Miss late in the recruiting cycle, chose Georgetown over Maryland, an important recruiting coup for the neophyte college coach. A long and athletic 6-foot-7 forward, Pickett is expected to play a significant role for the Hoyas immediate-

ly in his career. Georgetown is also rumored to be in the running for several top prospects, particularly big men, in the classes of 2018 and 2019. However, there are some

The early sentiment of the Ewing era is best described as measured optimism.

early concerns. Georgetown has yet to release its schedule for the upcoming season, but early indications are that it will be weak, According to the Casual Hoya, three of the four announced games are slated to be against teams with under .500 records last season. The Hoyas withdrew from the prestigious Phil Knight Invitational tournament, which will include top programs such as North Carolina, Michigan State, Duke and Ohio State. In addition, Ewing has expressed a lack of interest in continuing the recent series against local rival Maryland. For all of John Thompson See PARK, A11