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VOICES OF RED SQUARE

Take a look back at the history of free speech at Georgetown with a walk through Red Square.

EDITORIAL The university’s Greek life policy fails to accomplish its goal of inclusivity.

A NEW VENTURE The university’s first student-run seed accelerator, Georgetown Ventures, launched this fall.

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Policymakers Scrutinize DC Confederate Statues Attention follows Charlottesville rally Joe Egler

Hoya Staff Writer

Following renewed scrutiny over memorials to Confederate leaders in Washington, D.C., federal and local officials are pushing for the removal of such monuments from public property. The increased activism coincides with a decision from the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday to remove two stained-glass windows featuring Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and comes after violent confrontations between white nationalists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., last month.

“We need to constantly learn from those parts of our history that might actually be unsavory and unpalatable.” LESLIE HINKSON Sociology Professor

Most recently, around 100 demonstrators who marched from Charlottesville to D.C. to protest the white nationalist rally arrived at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Wednesday. The Aug. 12 “Unite the Right” rally, justified by organizers as a protest of the planned removal of a statue of Gen. Lee in a Charlottesville public park, resulted in three deaths, 38 nonfatal injuries and 11 arrests.

Far-right demonstrators marched through the University of Virginia campus the night of Friday, Aug. 11 chanting slogans such as “white power” and “Jews will not replace us.” The following day, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (R-Va.) declared a state of emergency before the rally, and police ordered the crowds to disperse following skirmishes between groups of demonstrators. A car later plowed through a crowd, killing one person and injuring 19 others. The Department of Justice is investigating the incident as an act of domestic terrorism, 115 miles from Georgetown University. Official Washington Responds Democratic congressional leaders and District officials are calling for the removal of Confederate monuments from the U.S. Capitol. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) introduced identical legislation Thursday proposing the removal of Confederate statues from the Capitol building. Currently, 12 statues in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall depict people connected to the Confederacy, including Gen. Lee and Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s president. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has expressed support for Lee and Booker’s Confederate Monument Removal Act. President Donald Trump has roundly condemned efforts to remove statues. After a tepid initial response to the violence in Charlottesville, Trump blamed “both sides” for the violence. “This week, it’s Robert E. Lee. I notice that Stonewall Jackson’s coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You really do have to ask yourself, where does it See STATUES, A6

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Sixteen students without documentation from Georgetown met with Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) of Illinois on Capitol Hill to discuss the legislative conditions under which the Dream Act of 2017 could be passed.

Hoya Sen. Durbin Hosts UndocuHoyas Following Repeal of DACA Program Jesus Rodriguez Hoya Staff Writer

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) of Illinois hosted 16 students without documentation on Capitol Hill to express his support after this week’s repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The students, some of whom were protected under the Obama-era policy, watched from the Senate floor gallery as Durbin delivered a speech advocating for a legislative fix for the so-called “Dreamers,” young adults who were brought to the

United States as children and have been living without documentation for years. “I’m joined this evening by a number of visitors in my office. They are the Dreamers from Georgetown University, my alma mater,” Durbin said on the Senate floor. “I thought it was a pretty big deal when I transferred from St. Louis University to come out here to Georgetown … but what I did was nothing compared to what they have done.” Durbin’s remarks and invitation come on the heels of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement on Tuesday that the Department of

Homeland Security would phase out the DACA program by March 2019, closing the pool to initial applicants and allowing recipients to keep their employment authorization documents until they expire. Amid uncertainty about how the federal government might shape immigration policy in the coming months, the students discussed the political climate and the legislative conditions under which Congress could attempt to pass the Dream Act of 2017, which would grant deportation reprieve to young immigrants See DACA, A6

Anti-Semitic Vandalism Found In 2 Residence Hall Elevators Jeff Cirillo

cording to LXR resident Donovan Taylor (MSB ’20).

Three swastikas were found on the walls of two residence hall elevators this week. A swastika was found carved onto the wall of a Village C West elevator Tuesday evening, and two swastikas were found painted in red on the inside of an LXR Hall elevator yesterday evening. The two cases mark the first biasrelated incidents reported on campus this academic year, including one in a freshman dorm less than a week after the residents’ first classes. The Georgetown University Police Department is investigating the VCW incident but did not immediately reply to requests for comment on the second incident. A student living in LXR reported the second incident to GUPD Wednesday evening, and the swastikas were removed hours later, ac-

“These acts are antithetical to our values as a Catholic and Jesuit university and our commitment to be inclusive.”

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WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

The District-Maryland-Virginia area is home to a number of Confederate statues, including one at the Arlington National Cemetery.

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REV. MARK BOSCO, S.J. AND TODD OLSON Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Vice President for Student Affairs

The incidents mirror a bias-related incident in March, when two swastikas were scratched into a VCW elevator and later discovered by a Jewish student on the way to class the following morning. In a campuswide email announc-

ing the VCW incident yesterday, Vice President for Mission and Ministry Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., and Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson condemned “all acts of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and any form of hate.” “These acts are antithetical to our values as a Catholic and Jesuit university and our commitment to be inclusive and welcoming to people of all faiths and racial and ethnic backgrounds,” Bosco and Olson wrote. In total, at least eight bias-related incidents on and around campus were announced by email to the university community in the 2016-17 academic year. The incidents included anti-Semitic graffiti found near the Makóm Jewish gathering space in Leavey Center in May, the removal of Muslim and Hindu flyers from chaplain-in-resident bulletin boards See VANDALISM, A6

NEWS

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SPORTS

Schoettes Speaks A former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS spoke about his resignation. A4

In Knowledge, Power We must educate ourselves on our institutions in order to empower ourselves. A3

Undefeated The men’s soccer team pushed its winning streak to four after two games this past week. A12

NEWS A LEEDing City

opinion Being Health Conscious

SPORTS Soccer and Politics

Washington, D.C. was named the first LEED Platinum city in the world in late August. A5 Published Fridays

Allowing students to address health inequity firsthand is an important and effective teaching tool. A3

Syria’s national soccer team raises eyebrows after being backed by the Assad regime. A12 Send story ideas and tips to news@thehoya.com

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THE VERDICT

Give Greek Life a Bid Each fall, the Division of Student Affairs sends out an eerily familiar email. Disseminated by Jeanne Lord, associate vice president and dean of students, and co-signed by Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, this message annually reminds students that “Georgetown University does not support a social Greek system.” Per the university’s official stance, Georgetown provides neither funding nor official status to social fraternities and sororities, exiling Greek life to unrecognized status. The administration cites several reasons for this policy. It argues that Greek life is often associated with dangerous behaviors including hazing and alcohol abuse. It also notes that the decision is rooted in the university’s Jesuit values, which emphasize the importance of each individual and of inclusion. The administration’s position on social Greek organizations is simply hypocritical. This is starkly apparent in its discussion of the issue of “inclusion.” While arguing that social Greek life is not inclusive enough, the university continues to recognize on-campus organizations with acceptance rates lower than its own, which this year hovered around 15.4 percent. For example, the university supports organizations such as the Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society, which had a 12.1 percent acceptance rate last semester, and the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, which accepted 13.8 percent of its applicants this spring. By recognizing Greek life on campus, the university would signal that it truly is committed to supporting inclusive organizations that align with Jesuit values, an effective way to demonstrate their common rhetoric. Furthermore, the university’s characterization of the risky behaviors associated with Greek life may be accurate at schools across the country, but does not necessarily reflect the reality of sororities and fraternities at Georgetown. Moreover, if these issues do exist in Georgetown’s Greek life, granting the organizations status of official recognition would allow the administration to better understand and regulate this behavior. For example, granting official status to Greek social organizations would allow the university to collect more information and statistics about these groups’ behaviors, allowing a discussion that reaches beyond merely reputations and rumors. It would also allow the administration to include these groups in on-campus conversations about issues like hazing. This is not the first time our community, nor even

The Hoya’s editorial board, has critiqued the university’s position on Greek life. Two years ago, an op-ed published in The Hoya by Danielle Zamalin (NHS ’18), a sister in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, criticized the administration’s condemnation of Greek life, noting that the accusation of exclusivity that is lobbed at social fraternities and sororities better describes many of the recognized clubs on campus, such as Blue and Gray and GUASFCU. Last fall, the editorial board echoed these sentiments, arguing that the condemnation of Greek life ignores the very issue that the ban seeks to solve: fostering inclusive on-campus organizations that also respect our Jesuit values. Yet, the editorial board’s critiques seemed to fall on deaf ears. Even as students — including, last year, the Georgetown University Students Association executive — continue to respond vehemently to its position on Greek life, the university has failed to adequately respond. The acceptance rates for Georgetown’s sororities and fraternities, meanwhile, are stunning in comparison, even though the available statistics are limited. For instance, in spring of 2015 — the last available data — 100 percent of girls who completed the sorority recruitment process received a bid, according to Zamalin’s piece. Some of these organizations also take specific steps to ensure inclusive cultures: The Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, for example, recently held a focus group to direct their inclusivity efforts, seeking to create a space where sisters of all backgrounds could feel included and have their experiences heard. In addition to their progress combatting exclusivity, many of Georgetown’s sororities and fraternities also embody the Jesuit credo of “women and men for others” through their charitable efforts. Last November, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity hosted its third annual run to raise money for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. The Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity has sponsored a blood drive, hosted bake sales, and has consistently participated in Relay for Life. Similarly, DPE has hosted clothing drives and is currently holding a drive to provide underprivileged women with sanitary napkins. The university should re-examine its policy regarding Greek life, especially as it continues to receive criticism from across the Georgetown community – from the editorial board of The Hoya to the GUSA executive. Hopefully, the student body will not have to read this editorial again.

Bipartisan Boost — Congressional Democratic leadership made a deal with President Donald Trump to pass a debt ceiling increase, fund the government until mid-December and send the first installment of emergency relief after Hurricane Harvey.

EDITORIALS

Founded January 14, 1920

Nature Strikes Twice — Hurricane Irma has tied for the second-strongest storm ever in the Atlantic Ocean and is headed for Florida this weekend and early next week.

Blackout Sun — On Wednesday morning, the sun released the most powerful solar flare in more than a decade. It caused a wide area of blackouts and loss of contact for up to an hour over the sunlit side of Earth.

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So Surreal — A Spanish woman who claimed to be Salvador Dalí’s daughter was proven not to be related to him after a judge ordered Dalí’s exhumation and a DNA test. Successful Split — Formerly conjoined twins Jadon and Anios McDonald in New York are finally healthy, after a 27-hour separation surgery in October and a nine-month rehabilitation period.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Jonathan Compo

Amend NSO to Calm Chaos As newly minted Hoyas stepped onto campus a few weeks ago to begin their Georgetown careers, they were faced with a weekend of excitement, exhaustion and chaos — New Student Orientation. While NSO teaches new students valuable information about life at Georgetown, structural flaws in the four-day program’s activities reduce its effectiveness. In addition to altering the schedule to ensure that the most important aspects are properly emphasized, the NSO team should continue to make the experience as affordable and accessible as possible. This year, the NSO team sought to improve the affordability of the program overall, as unexpected and unplanned costs that arise over the course of the weekend can often be burdensome to families. For example, NSO provided meals for students during the gap between new student move-in and the beginning of students’ meal plans. NSO coordinators have also suggested shifting convocation from Sunday afternoon to Saturday evening, in order to alleviate the financial burden families may experience of an additional night at a hotel. Additionally, to give students more free time during NSO this year, the programming schedule was altered in many ways, including shortening the duration of some events and clarifying what aspects of the weekend were in fact required for all new students. Despite these changes, NSO can still leave new students feeling exhausted and sometimes disillusioned by the already hectic nature of life at Georgetown. The jam-packed scheduling and the pressure to be involved in every activity not only have the potential to detract from the important discussions of NSO but also foreshadow the nature of Georgetown’s stress culture. The topics emphasized during the various activities of NSO, like the importance of pluralism and information about sexual assault awareness and prevention, are undoubtedly integral for incoming students. However, the structure of NSO — one brimming with back-to-back information sessions, meetings and seminars — can comparatively deemphasize these essential lessons. For instance, this year, the Jesuit values panel, which discusses some of the most

formative influences on our campus, was fit in at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night after a full day of NSO activities. Perhaps more alarmingly, “I Am Ready,” NSO’s educational programming about sexual assault, was left until Sunday night — for many students, squeezed in between dinner and a performance of Hoya RealTalk. Moreover, despite the important events of the weekend, NSO’s chaotic nature also seems to act as a precursor to the busy culture that is held in high esteem by many Georgetown students. On the Sunday of NSO, for example, students had required events lasting from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Participants are shuffled from one programming event to another, pushed to socialize with their newly introduced peers and barely given the chance to take a breath and absorb their new surroundings. With this pressure to be busy, make friends and have fun, there is little room for emotional vulnerability during NSO — just as many students are saying goodbye to their homes and families for the first time. Some may argue that this prevents homesickness, as students are too exhausted at the end of the day to think about anything other than going to sleep. Nevertheless, the fact that we induct new students into Georgetown through a weekend without any time to process their emotions points to a broader cultural issue: a reverence for overstuffed schedules. The NSO coordinators should consider blocking out time in the final days of NSO for students to meet one-on-one with their orientation advisers, allowing students to pause and reflect, and OAs the opportunity to emotionally engage more with their students. The efforts the NSO team has already taken to address affordability and other structural issues are commendable, and they should continue to work to make NSO accessible for all students and families. However, by altering the hectic structure of the weekend in order to emphasize the most important lessons and give new students more times to themselves, NSO would ensure that it better achieves its most fundamental purpose: preparing new Hoyas to embark upon their time at Georgetown.

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Expand Advocacy to Protect Dreamers As a Georgetown alumna and a high school teacher, who over the years has taught many talented, determined students without documentation, I applaud your support of the bipartisan Dream Act. I urge you to go a step further and support the Recognizing America’s Children Act. It is

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OPINION

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

THE HOYA

VIEWPOINT • CHAKRABORTI

FROM THE DEAN’S DESK

Brian Floyd

Education to Advance Equity

s we begin a new school year, I am often asked by new students and parents what I most like about my role as an advising dean in the School of Nursing and Health Studies. Though I enjoy many aspects of this role, what I value most is being part of a school that prepares the next generation of health care professionals. Serving as an advising dean allows me not only to work with the global health students I advise, but also to work across our four departments to turn the NHS mission and vision into action — to advance the health and well-being of individuals and communities while advocating for health equity and social justice in local, national and global communities through education and social action. In addition to these NHS values that influence my role, I am also guided by Georgetown’s commitment to diversity, respect for all persons and contemplation in action as we work for the common good. A commitment to these values fuels the work I do to help others — including students — understand the value of working to achieve health equity in our community, particularly important are the efforts to ensure that all people have full, equal access to opportunities that enable them to lead healthy lives. To achieve health equity, we must afford all people equal access to health care and strive to eliminate avoidable health inequities and disparities, two distinct but important and interrelated concepts. Health inequities are differences in health that result from social, economic and environmental conditions; health disparities, conversely, are preventable differences in health outcomes between different groups of people that often lead to patterns of disease that burden those populations. It is equally rewarding to work with students to deepen their learning by connecting their classroom experiences to these concepts through practice in the broader world. By not only teaching students about health inequity but also allowing them to address these problems firsthand, we enable them to recognize the significance of their efforts in health education and expand their knowledge of these subjects.

These experiences can be transformative for students on multiple levels. Just last summer, NHS students, faculty and community partners collaborated on a report entitled “The Health of the AfricanAmerican Community in the District of Columbia: Disparities and Recommendations,” which identified a number of health inequities between black and white communities in Washington, D.C. For example, the report concluded that black men in the District tend to live 15 years fewer than their white counterparts. After completing the report, the students involved engaged local government officials to drive change in addressing these health disparities and inequities. The publication of the report not only served as a valuable educational tool but also had tangible benefits for our local community. Another example that comes to mind is designing and co-teaching “Health Equity Think Tank: Exploring Realities and Solutions.” This new health studies course allows students to focus on the root causes of health issues, while raising their awareness about progress across health, education, justice, housing, transportation and employment sectors to address social determinants of health. Experiential learning opportunities like these teach our students about the importance of health equity, both domestic and global, as all human beings deserve. It is rewarding and inspiring to be part of a school that values the importance of advancing health equity. By teaching our students about healthy inequity through firsthand experience, the NHS allows them to bring the values of our school and of our entire Jesuit university — including our commitment to health and social justice and a respect for all people — to life through their education. It is these values in action that make the NHS a special place to work. I look forward to sharing these important values with new students joining our community this fall.

Brian Floyd is the assistant dean of academic affairs in the School of Nursing and Health Studies. FROM THE DEAN’S DESK appears online every other Thursday.

While we do not all have to devote our lives and careers to activism, we can all be educated. Dig a little deeper than you normally would, and use that knowledge to help decide how to move forward.

Learning to Dig Deeper

ast spring, I took “Introduction to Justice and Peace Studies,” a course that was informative beyond my expectations. As we moved beyond theory and examined institutions and movements ranging from the military-industrial complex and the prison-industrial complex to globalization, I grew incredulous at how little I truly knew about the nuances of the world’s most unjust structures. I would rush off to lunch after class, launching into monologues directed at my friends about whatever I had learned that day. For me, these outbursts are where the problem began. To their credit, my friends — deeply socially conscious individuals — initially listened with patience and interest. Many of them made innocent comments about how emotionally exhausting the course material was. After a few days of this, however, I would raise a topic or consideration only for people to sarcastically label me as a justice and peace studies major stereotype — a social justice warrior or even a communist. Calling me a communist, even in jest, when I attempt to discuss workers’ rights or the effects of globalization is the easy way out. It is easier than listening to what I have to say or acknowledging that we have an influence on what is happening

halfway around the world. Each of us should educate ourselves — whether by taking the JUPS introductory course, by doing some simple research or by listening to a friend who wants to tell you about these issues. To be fair, I realize I could sometimes be obnoxious in my monologues, sounding like the person who brings up starving children each time someone throws away a scrap of food. But the more often my friends seemed to dismiss me, the more I persisted. What I was learning in my JUPS class was not leaving me depressed, as everyone thought, but rather incredibly frustrated. In some ways, I was frustrated more with my friends’ indifference than with the problems themselves. Some of the most crucial information for us to learn as residents of any given country is the history and actions of our institutions — our government, our corporations and other global organizations, and in particular the effects they have together internationally. We buy into these institutions through our tax dollars, our investments and our purchases in the future; we are all complicit in their actions. To me, one of the most striking and perhaps underdiscussed examples of such an institution — or in this case, a network — is the military-industrial complex.

The military-industrial complex refers to the gigantic industry in which five of the world’s most powerful countries — the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, which consists of the United States, China, Russia, France and the U.K. — sell billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to developing countries each year, perpetuating civil conflict for profit in regions like sub-Saharan Africa. Many of these weapons are either sold directly to dictators and armed groups in nondemocratic or war-torn countries or find their way there through black markets. These developing countries thus never invest in education or health care, as is desperately needed, instead remaining entrenched in civil conflict. Moreover, rather than repairing our own often-struggling social systems in the United States, our tax dollars support institutions — including our own government — that perpetuate this crassly profit-driven cycle. But if we do not even know about the military-industrial complex, how can we speak up against it? I am not the first college student to care about these issues, nor will I be the last. I do not harbor hopes of saving the world, especially on my own, and I recognize how many people have fought to bring attention to these

issues worldwide. Even on our own campus over the past year, students — specifically members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee — have tirelessly lobbied the university to not renew its contract with Nike due to the company’s exploitation of sweatshop labor. This fall, the university announced it will require Nike to open its factories to review by the Worker Rights Consortium and will hold Nike to the Code of Conduct for Georgetown University Licensees, a decision that demonstrates the power of drawing attention to these issues. While we do not all have to devote our lives and careers to activism, we can all be educated. Take a moment to look up the military-industrial complex or to research how free trade hurts developing countries when it is imposed with only our interests in mind. Dig a little deeper than you normally would, and use that knowledge to help decide how to move forward. As my justice and peace studies professor Elham Atashi would say: “If you have choices, you have power.” We can all choose whether to take responsibility for these issues. Until we educate ourselves, we cannot speak up.

is a sophomore in the College. ORUNIMA CHAKRABORTI

VIEWPOINT • IRVINE

THE RADICAL CENTER

Confessions of a College Virgin

Inhabiting the Radical Center

am a 20-year-old virgin. I already know what you probably think about me. I am also the president of Love Saxa, a group dedicated to healthy relationships and sexual integrity; we often get the reputation as the abstinence club or the anti-same-sex marriage club, depending on whom you ask. At the Council of Advisory Boards Fair this past Sunday, a few students snickered at the word “chastity” on our promotional materials, exchanging telling looks with their friends. I am not surprised that people often have a negative opinion about those of us who advocate for abstinence, dating and marriage. Today’s popular culture often portrays virgins as prudes who never have fun. I hope to dispel some common myths about people who wait until marriage, using personal examples from my life and the lives of my friends. While people commonly believe that abstinent people fear their own sexuality or intimacy with members of the opposite sex, the reality is that many of us are in physically fulfilling relationships. My boyfriend and I will not have sex before we are married, and we have a completely normal, respectful and healthy relationship. Even my friends who are waiting until marriage might still occasionally need to apply concealer to a hickey. One might expect us to be sexually repressed, but my abstinent friends and I feel sexually liberated in our relationships. Not only do we value our relationships with our significant others, but we also have a good time in general. I enjoy going to a party, dancing with my friends and singing a little karaoke when the time is right. Those of us not having sex are not plodding miserably through life. In fact, we are jamming to The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside” and Macklemore’s

“Downtown,” just like the rest of Georgetown. We are not waiting until marriage because we fear the opposite sex or because we can’t find someone to love. People who abstain from premarital sex have good reasons for doing so. Some of us have religious convictions, but many of us find it to be the most logical choice for other reasons. According to a study in the Journal of Family Psychology, delaying sex leads to a more satisfying relationship in the long term. Putting off sex until marriage also correlates to more stable marriages. Moreover, a Cornell study indicates that waiting to have sex leads to happier relationships. Now that I have hopefully convinced you that Love Saxa folks are not sexually repressed, I will address another highly debated topic: same-sex marriage. Love Saxa’s definition of marriage does not include same-sex couples, as we believe that marriage is a conjugal union on every level — emotional, spiritual, physical and mental — directed toward caring for biological children. To us, marriage is much more than commitment of love between two consenting adults. That being said, I think that there are members of the LGBTQ community that agree with Love Saxa on the issues that we hope to address this year: pornography and hookup culture. Some LGBTQ people wish that the hookup culture was less prevalent, including 2013 GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15), and LGBTQ communities are disproportionately victimized by revenge pornography. Some might also question our ideas about gender complementarity. However, just because we believe that gender differences exist does not mean that we believe one gender is better than another. I identify as a feminist: I believe that men and women

are equal in human dignity and should always be equal before the law. Men and women each have unique qualities to contribute to society. It devalues women to try to make us act more like men, rather than embracing our own qualities and characteristics. Of course, gender differences exist on average and not necessarily in every person. The average woman is a better nurturer than the average man, but a particular man may be better than a particular woman in this respect. It is not sexist to believe in gender complementarity, but it is sexist to insist that women conform to standards set by men. If you are interested in joining a fun community of people who care deeply about love, relationships and marriage, check out Love Saxa. In the coming year, you can expect social events as well as speaker events on the topics we are hoping to focus on this year. We are hoping to initiate discussions about pornography, which has been proven by research to increase aggressive behavior, and the prevalence of hookup culture, which has contributed to the sexual assault crisis faced on college campuses today. As students across campus continue to face the same issues related to sexuality and relationships, Love Saxa can be a group that unites, rather than divides us. Maybe you are questioning your own sexual choices, or maybe you just want to learn more about our beliefs. You can judge us for our ideas, but do not think for a second that we come from a different planet. We have fun relationships, interesting social lives and big plans, just like you. Do not believe the stereotypes, and come see for yourself what Love Saxa is all about. AMELIA IRVINE is a junior in the

College. She is president of Love Saxa.

estern liberalism is in retreat. This crisis is bigger than just the wannabe-authoritarian in the White House. Our society is losing faith in liberal democracy, and surveys indicate our generation has the most unbelievers by far. This illiberalism has seeped into college campuses, as it has across the country. Researchers Roberto Stefan Foa of the University of Melbourne and Yascha Mounk of Harvard University have found that Westerners in general, and Western millennials in particular, are tiring of democracy, “established political parties, representative institutions, and minority rights.” Seventy-two percent of Americans born before World War II judged it “essential” to “live in a democracy”; only 30 percent of millennials agreed. As students attending what is arguably America’s most politically minded university, we may have a unique opportunity to repel illiberalism. To do so, however, we must advocate liberal values, which have recently been taken for granted as American values. We have to champion liberalism. We have to embrace the “radical center.” When I talk about liberalism, I am referring to the most basic — ideally nonpartisan — ideals that underpin a free society. These include democracy, pluralism, individual liberties, the rule of law and market economics. Once, few American politicians strayed from this broad ideological center. Today, their champions include Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Despite their differences, they can all support free trade and free speech and oppose the Muslim ban and the deportation of immigrants without documentation protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, for instance. Where liberal fundamentals of our democracy are at stake,

partisan differences pale into insignificance. We must fight together for what we hold in common. That is the “center” part of the radical center. But how could the politics of someone who was president a year ago possibly be considered radical? The answer is that liberalism, scorned by our new president and rejected by many millennials, is out of fashion. In some contexts, the far left or the far right are no longer radical, as they have become mainstream. If centrism is now radical, centrists should start acting like it. This means speaking up for besieged principles like freedom of speech. It means challenging and engaging with people with whom we disagree. It means standing up to the Trump administration at the ballot box and on the streets. Protests should not become the monopoly of the hard left and antifa, militant groups that lean far left, but they may if no one else shows up.

Tanner Larkin In our jaded feelings toward liberal democracy, American millennials hold views that eerily mirror those prevalent in Russia, a country currently deemed an authoritarian regime. According to the World Values Survey, since 1995 an average of 26 percent of Russian respondents have gauged democracy as a “bad” form of government. In the United States today, 23 percent of millennials agree. If illiberalism is actually widespread, it should have left a mark on our generation’s voting record. Yet, millennials chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 55 to 37 per-

cent margin, stayed in the European Union voted for leaving by 73 to 27 percent and centrist Emmanuel Macron over the far-right Marine Le Pen by 66 percent to 34 percent in France. All these performances are reassuring, yet they hide an unsettling truth: Our generation is not as liberal as we may appear. For instance, millennials’ illiberalism becomes more apparent when there is not only a centrist and a far-right option, but also a third, far-left choice. In France’s first, multicandidate round of the presidential election, Macron’s support from millennials flopped at just 18 percent. Fifty-one percent of young voters opted instead either for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a far-left socialist, or Marine Le Pen, a far-right conservative, both of whom were authoritarian-minded, anti-EU, pro-Putin and anti-Semitic candidates. This result is partially due to France’s dismal youth unemployment figures. Even so, it reveals just how attracted Western millennials are to ideological extremes, like iron filings to both poles of a magnet. As recent tensions in Charlottesville, Va., showed, the self described “altright” is a young man’s movement. And Bernie Sanders, though certainly no Mélenchon, dominated at the polls among millennial voters. If he can do so by running on a socialist platform, perhaps some future, more extreme leftist can too. One purpose of this column is to spot illiberalism where it might not be so obvious. Nevertheless, I primarily hope to catalyze a viable alternative. Extremism needs moderation; illiberalism needs liberalism. Enter the radical center. Once millennials have become disenchanted with liberal democracy, can they ever trust it again? Maybe democratic liberalism is doomed. But if change is possible, as I hope it is, it will begin with our defying illiberalism in every form.

Tanner Larkin is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. THE RADICAL CENTER appears online every other Wednesday.

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President Donald Trump’s administration has not devoted enough attention to issues affecting the LGBTQ community in America, counsel and HIV project director at Lambda Legal and former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Scott Schoettes said at a keynote Thursday. Schoettes, who is openly HIV-positive, resigned from the advisory council along with five colleagues in June after months of uncertainty about his position following Trump’s election.

“During the election, it became clear that candidate Trump was not interested in engaging with us or talking to us.” SCOTT SCHOETTES HIV Project Director, Lambda Legal

“During the election, it became clear that candidate Trump was not interested in engaging with us or talking to us,” Schoettes said. “HIV advocates met with the Clinton campaign, and with the Sand-

ers campaign, and got to talk about HIV and how they would handle things if they became president. Trump, no.” Most of the councilmembers stayed on the council believing that they could do good, according to Schoettes, despite discouraging actions from the White House, including eliminating all references to the Office of National AIDS Policy from its website. “I decided, along with other people, to stick around because there was an opportunity to do good,” Schoettes said. “There was an opportunity to shape what the administration was doing and what they were thinking. Yes, I disagreed with them and their philosophy and so much of what they stand for but, maybe I can do some good.” Trump’s management of the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, however, proved the tipping point for Schoettes. It was a sign of the President’s disengagement with his policies and the people they were affecting, Schoettes said. “In that process, it became clear to me that we had a president who really didn’t care what that repeal looked like. He just wanted a deal. He wasn’t engaged in the actual mechanics of how to make this work,” Schoettes said. “Enough, I finally came to a

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Scott Schoettes, former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, told students he resigned from President Donald Trump’s council along with ﬁve colleagues, as he was convinced Trump was not serious about LGBTQ issues nor health care policy. point where I felt like I could not advise a president on policy who’s not actually engaged in thinking about diplomacy.” With HIV/AIDS becoming a disease of the unprivileged — with women of color, impoverished and transgender individuals being the most affected by the stigma and the lack of access to treatment — Schoettes said he valued his closeness

to the Obama administration and its healthcare policies. “We were making progress, that’s the encouraging thing. As I came on to the PACHA, we were starting to see actual changes. We had more people engaged in care, more people receiving anti-retroviral therapies and more people virally suppressed,” Schoettes said. “It was exciting because we

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Schoettes said the president’s indifference to the outcome of the health care debate was the impetus for his departure from the advisory council. He hoped his resignation and those of his colleagues would spur a national debate about HIV/AIDS policy.

felt like we were actually helping to make policy.” Schoettes said he did not want his resignation to go unnoticed – after communicating his decision to the rest of the group, he waited for at least four other members who would follow him. “I believed that by leaving — and if I could leave and make a big enough noise when I left, which I did by getting five people to come with me — then we could maybe force this a little bit into the dialogue,” Schoettes said. Additional resignations have reduced PACHA to less than half of its total membership and no one has been appointed yet to lead the Office of National AIDS Policy. Though the White House has recently played lip service to the issue, for instance by issuing a statement during National HIV Testing Day on June 27, Schoettes said Trump’s confidantes, including Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, continue to exert a conservative influence on his political beliefs. In August, the White House announced it was moving forward with a ban on transgender people serving in the military, a policy Schoettes said may have been influenced by

some of Trump’s hard right advisers.

“I finally came to a point where I felt like I could not advise a president on policy who’s not actually engaged in thinking about diplomacy.” SCOTT SCHOETTES HIV Project Director, Lambda Legal

“I think some of these policies we’re seeing now, I’d say, transgender people in the military, that’s been influenced by the other cabinet members,” Schoettes said. Schoettes called for increased activism at the national, state and local levels. “The places I think where advocacy can be done are with Congress, so really important that they continue to fund all the work that HHS is doing,” Schoettes said. “And then, at the more local level, there’s work to be done at the state level. There’s work to be done on Medicaid expansion. That would be a huge thing for this population.”

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New Student Group Aims to Boost Undergraduate Startups William zhu Hoya Staff Writer

As a student entrepreneur, Anthony Marshi (COL ’18) learned firsthand the difficulties new startups encounter and the lack of resources to guide them through the process. In response, Marshi and Theodore Montgomery (SFS ’18) founded Georgetown Ventures, a new student club under the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative dedicated to providing financial advice and assistance to undergraduate startups. The club launched this fall and began accepting applications Sept. 2. “I had a startup called Newsroom. I went through the process of taking advantage of a bunch of the resources that are offered on campus,” Marshi, who is president of the club, said. “The resources are in place at Georgetown to help you grow your startup; there isn’t an organization dedicated to guiding you through the process of leveraging those resources.” The new club is a startup accelerator for promising undergraduate startups. According to Montgomery, vice president of Georgetown Ventures, the club’s purpose is to provide advice, consulting and financial assistance to individual startups. The new club falls under the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative in the

McDonough School of Business. The initiative aims to help promote the spirit of entrepreneurship on campus and helps student entrepreneurs grow their startups. Georgetown Ventures will be working with Startup Hoyas, another organization under the the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative that helps student startups on campus.

“We feel like we could offer more support to those students who are willing to pursue their startup while still in school.” Jeff rEID Co-Founder, Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative

Professor Jeff Reid, cofounder of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative, said Georgetown Ventures can offer more personal support to startups. “We feel like we could offer more support to those students who are willing to pursue their startup while still in school. Georgetown Ventures’ primary goal is to provide peer-to-peer advocacy and support for student startups,” Reid wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to Alex Heintze (MSB ’19), board member for Startup Hoyas, Georgetown Ventures is able to provide services that Startup Hoyas did not in the past. “We definitely saw certain gaps in our own gaps in our own programming, specifically in regard to actually giving real advice to current student startups,” Heintze said. With the creation of another club that provides support to startups, Heintze said Startup Hoyas can prioritize hosting large events celebrating student businesses. “We are going to focus more on the pitch competition celebratory events that we typically have and then also speaker series. Whereas Georgetown Ventures will work more specifically with current student run startups, providing funding and advice when necessary,” Heintze said. According to Marshi, Georgetown Ventures provides grant funding to student startups so that they can overcome crucial financial barriers and further grow. “We understand that startups need some sort of funding to start. We know that giving them a few thousand dollars can make a big difference,” Marshi said. “A lot of people have good ideas, but they don’t necessarily have the necessary resources to start up. This is where we come in with that boost.” Montgomery said Georgetown Ventures’ funding will

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Anthony Marshi (COL ’18) and Theodore Montgomery (SFS ’18) founded Georgetown Ventures in an effort to provide financial assistance and advice to undergraduate startups. enable the entrepreneurship community on campus to be more inclusive of all students on campus. “We want to provide to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds this very valuable opportunity,” Montgomery said. According to Marshi, Georgetown Ventures takes no equity in the student companies it advises to better focus on helping startups with financial consulting support.

“Startups can feel comfortable that we aren’t out there to take control. We are there to help them to whatever their next stage is,” Marshi said. In addition to funding, Georgetown Ventures also aims to provide personal consulting to various student startups. Marshi said consultants will play active roles in the business. “What we want is our consulting teams to give advice, but also to help the startup

implement that advice. We want our consultants to be involved in the day-to-day operations of the startups,” Marshi said. Georgetown Ventures hopes to do its part to make the campus community a better place for both students and entrepreneurs. “A lot of startup ideas never get heard in the first place. We want to change that because there is a lot of potential that is unspoken,” Marshi said.

DC Named World’s First Platinum-Certified City by LEED sarah wright Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C., is now the world’s first Platinum-certified environmentally friendly city, according to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Cities program. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council, announced the honor Aug. 31 at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Shaw, the highestrated LEED school in the United States. Developed by the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is an international certification program that rates buildings, homes and neighborhoods based on the environmental responsibility of their design, construction, operation and maintenance. “We are proud to be recognized as the world’s first LEED Platinum city. Our commitment to these issues will not yield, and we look forward to continuing to build a greener, more resilient, and more sustainable D.C.,” Bowser said. Launched last year, LEED for Cities applies the USGBC’s signature model to cities, evaluating city performance

in categories such as water, waste, energy, transportation and human experience. To receive designation as LEED Platinum, cities must create sustainability goals and submit data for the USGBC to track over time.

“Our commitment to these issues will not yield, and we look forward to continuing to build a greener, more resilient, and more sustainable D.C.” muriel bowser (d) Mayor, Washington, D.C.

The Bowser administration has made environmental sustainability a priority in the District, renewing the city’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy ef-

ficiency. The administration has also developed Climate Ready D.C., an arm of the greater Sustainable D.C. planning project aimed at making the District the most healthy, green, and livable city in the United States. According to the USGBC, D.C. has the most LEED-certified buildings per capita in the United States at 29.04 square feet of LEED space per resident. “It is in the best interest of Washington, D.C.’s safety, economy, and future to take sustainability and resiliency seriously, and as the nation’s capital, we have a special obligation to lead the way on environmental issues,” Bowser said. Georgetown University shares a similar commitment to sustainability and seeks to achieve LEED Gold certification for every new building and renovation, according to Office of Sustainability Director Audrey Stewart. “Georgetown takes an integrated and holistic approach to sustainability, placing value on a ‘quadruple’ bottom line: people, planet, prosperity, and purpose, guided by our Catholic and Jesuit values and our commitment to the common

good,” Stewart wrote in an email to The Hoya. Georgetown currently has eight on-campus LEED-certified buildings including Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall and the John R. Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center, totaling 1 million square feet of LEED space. Gaia Mattiace (COL ’18), Core Pathways Fellow and former President of Georgetown Renewable Energy and Environmental Network, reiterated the importance of LEED certification to achieving both on-campus and Districtwide sustainability goals. “D.C. becoming the first LEED Platinum city provides us, and the university atlarge, with even greater inspiration to pursue more sustainability, energy efficiency, and water conservation projects on campus,” Mattiace wrote in an email to The Hoya. “D.C.’s LEED certification is truly a testament to how we, as a community, are moving more and more towards recognizing the challenges of climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation, as well as the need to rise to the occasion and to make a positive and much needed change.”

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Three Swastikas Found in Placement of Confederate Elevators of Residence Halls Statues in District Examined VANDALISM, from A1 in March and two alleged offcampus assaults on students wearing hijabs in November. Another incident on March 12 involved a white nationalist group posting white nationalist messages in several locations on and off campus, which were swiftly condemned by student groups and university officials. Director for Jewish Life Rabbi Rachel Gartner said the incidents highlight the hatred of the offenders and applauded the university’s swift response. “While this cowardly, despicable act of anti-Semitism is a disheartening reminder of the hate we humans are possible of unleashing on one another, the university’s quick,

unequivocal and strong condemnation is a heartening reminder that humanity is capable of great love and support too,” Gartner wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“The university’s quick, unequivocal and strong condemnation is a heartening reminder that humanity is capable of great love and support too.” Rabbi rachel gartner Director for Jewish Life

This week’s incidents come

at a time of heightened national concern about the white nationalist movement in America. A so-called “Unite the Right” rally in August drew crowds of white nationalist, neo-Confederate and neo-Nazi marchers to Charlottesville, Va., killing one and injuring 19 others on Aug. 12 after a white nationalist plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. University President John J. DeGioia responded to the events in Charlottesville in a letter welcoming students back to campus Aug. 18, saying the community has an “obligation to reject hatred, racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all ideologies and manifestations of white nationalism and white supremacy.”

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Three swastikas were found in two residence halls in two days this week, including two swastikas painted in red onto the walls of elevator in the LXR Hall dormitory.

Moves come in light of rally in Charlottesville STATUES, from A1 stop?” Trump said at a press conference Aug. 15. District officials have most recently voiced support for the removal of a statue of Albert Pike, a confederate general and lifelong slavery proponent, standing in Judiciary Square. Pike’s statue is the only outdoor statue depicting a Confederate official on federal land in D.C. Thirteen outdoor statues in Washington, D.C., depict Union military officials from the American Civil War. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine joined more than half of the D.C. Council in cosigning a letter to National Parks Service Acting Director Michael T. Reynolds calling for the permanent removal of the Pike statue. “We in the District of Columbia hold dear the values of equality, diversion, and inclusion, which are in direct conflict with the values embodied by the statue of Albert Pike,” the letter reads. D.C. Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) said he is hopeful these calls for removal will be successful. “If we keep chipping away, eventually we’ll get to a place where the United States and the citizens of the United States recognize the need for us to revisit history and to try to correct some wrongs that we’ve committed,” Grosso said in an interview with The Hoya. “And that includes apologizing for slavery, apologizing for the role that we’ve had in oppressing African Americans in our country.” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) have expressed support for this effort. Norton announced in a press release Aug. 15 she will meet with Reynolds to directly discuss the removal of the Confederate statues. LaToya Foster, Bowser’s press secretary, said Bowser also supports the removal of the statue of Pike. “Across the South, cities are removing outdoor statues of Confederate leaders. Here in the nation’s capital, there is one on National Park Service land. We believe the National Park Service should remove the Pike statue and seek public input on which historical figure should replace it,” Fos-

ter wrote in an email to The Hoya. Georgetown Experts React Georgetown history professor Adam Rothman, whose research focuses on slavery in America, said current removal efforts differ from those that first took place two years ago. In 2015, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduced a resolution to remove Confederate imagery, including that found on the Mississippi flag, from the Capitol Building in the aftermath of Dylann Roof’s violent assault on a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. that killed six women and three men. House Republicans blocked that measure, arguing state residents should decide.

“We need to constantly learn from those parts of our history that might actually be unsavory and unpalatable.” LESLIE HINKSON Professor, Sociology and African American Studies

“Now, the focus has shifted [from the flag] to monuments. And it is part of a long process. I mean, there have been people protesting the monuments really from the moment that they were erected,” Rothman said. “But, I think it’s just more recently that, for a whole variety of reasons, those calls have gained political traction.” Rothman said the debate has taken on greater significance due to the rise of explicit neo-Nazism, white nationalism and the self-described “alt-right,” which, according to Rothman, has been emboldened in part by Trump’s refusal to publicly condemn far-right extremist groups. Rothman said the erection of Confederate memorials is the result of a racist history. “They tend to be put up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the emergence of a cult of the Lost Cause, of the glorification of the Confederacy at a moment when Jim Crow is descending

on the landscape — this disenfranchisement and segregation and violence,” Rothman said. In the same vein, Rothman said the wave of statue construction in the 1950s was a massive resistance to desegregation, meaning that the construction of these monuments had clear political implications beyond merely documenting history. Georgetown sociology and African American studies professor Leslie Hinkson pushed back against the idea of fixing history by tearing down the monuments. “I am sort of in the camp of being very, very weary of erasing certain parts of our history, not that those parts of our history should be glorified, but that, if we erase those parts of our history that are unpalatable to some and that don’t necessarily put us in the best light, that we are censoring, in many ways, and that we are actually just trying to put forth our best selves,” Hinkson said. “We need to constantly learn from those parts of our history that might actually be unsavory and unpalatable.” Hinkson said she recognized the common logic behind removing the statues — that they serve as painful reminders of the past for many and that they aren’t just artifacts. However, she emphasized the importance of using the statues as educational tools for the present. “Can you imagine the German government just razing all of the concentration camps, for example? I think that would be a total sanitizing of their history,” Hinkson said. “Without those concentration camps still being there, it would provide a lot of fodder to the alarming number of Holocaust deniers that still exist today.” Hinkson said she would express support for compromising through the addition of expanded context for the monuments. “It’s remarkable to me how many of the monuments we have that don’t even give you the name of the individual. So, regardless of whether or not you’re meant to be learning from it or you’re meant to be honoring that individual, you have no idea how to do so,” Hinkson said.

Students, Durbin Discuss Immigration Reform Prospects DACA, from A1 without documentation. Sanjuana Castorena (NHS ’21), a DACA recipient who attended the discussion, said learning about the bill gave her an optimistic outlook about a possible legislative solution. “The political climate has always been tense and aggressive with any sort of immigration act or proposal, but this specific moment has left me hopeful,” Castorena said. “I feel more confident in the Dream Act picking up votes and possibly passing, but it would take more movements like calling our representatives from our states to remind them what it’s all about and how important it is.” Durbin has been an advocate of immigration reform in the Senate since 2001, when he introduced the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, the original DREAM Act. Durbin thinks the political climate could be conducive to pass a bill. “This may be what we need: We need to have our backs against the wall, a moment of reckoning where we have to go on the record,” Durbin said in an interview with The Hoya. “I can’t guarantee anything — I’ve been around in Congress too long to ever do that — but I feel good that if we can get this measure on the floor, we can pass it.” The Dream Act has garnered four Republican cosponsors, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski (COL ’80) of Alaska. To attain the 60 votes needed for legislation to overcome a filibuster — a procedural move used by senators to kill a measure — the bill needs eight more Republican supporters, assuming all Democrats vote in favor of it. A host of other bipartisan legislative measures to grant legal status to Dreamers are also on the docket for this Congress, including the Recognizing

America’s Children Act and the American Hope Act. The White House has signaled its support for the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act, which includes no language regarding students without documentation in its initial form. Many DACA beneficiaries are concerned about the extent to which the information they have put on their applications will be used for enforcement purposes. The Department of Homeland Security told recipients Tuesday it would not “proactively provide” the data to law enforcement.

“This may be what we need: We need to have our backs against the wall, a moment of reckoning where we have to go on the record.” Sen. Dick durbin (D-ILL.)

However, DHS said it will cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement if requested and where there is “a significant law enforcement or national security interest,” such as gang membership. In addition to Durbin, several members of the Georgetown community have advocated for a policy that would help Dreamers, with University President John J. DeGioia calling the decision to rescind DACA “unconscionable.” Juan Martinez (SFS ’20), a DACA enrollee, said the university is supporting students in many ways, including by providing funds for application fees and advising. “Coming here, I never knew I would receive this much support, and I was surprised,” Martinez said. “It just really

reassures me and allows me to pursue my studies first, because I know that I’m going to be supported and that’s something that a lot of undocumented students haven’t had in the past.” Georgetown has taken steps to institutionalize support for students without documentation, including hiring Arelis Palacios as the university’s first full-time associate director for undocumented student services and creating a website last year to aggregate university resources for this community. Through a program called Friends of Dreamers, students and faculty have also addressed more than 1,000 letters to members of Congress urging them to support the Dream Act. The letters include a narrative about a Georgetown student living without documentation. Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (SFS ’72), who oversees the lettersigning initiative, said it has received overwhelming support in its initial stage and will continue. “We have to put a face on this legislation, because when you put a face on it, it can be very powerful and very convincing, so we intend to continue that campaign,” Fleming said. “I would say to any student who has reasons to question this legislation, … meet a few of the Dreamers on our campus, and I think after you meet these individuals you would be very hard-pressed to not want them to be part of our country.” Durbin, who has told the stories of over 100 Dreamers on the Senate floor, agrees. “You can talk about the theory of the law, you can talk about the wording of the law, the reason for the law, but when you start talking about real lives and real stories and real people, it changes the conversation,” Durbin said. “When they hear the story, they understand why we’re doing this.”

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Democratic Middle East Requires US, Expert Says Megan Carey Hoya Staff Writer

Entrenched authoritarian powers in the Middle East can ultimately be democratized with U.S. intervention, according to Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “We have tons of leverage. We are the most powerful country in the world, we are the richest country in the world. What we don’t have is the moral clarity, we don’t have the vision, and we don’t necessarily have the tools or leadership to do this,” Pletka said. Pletka kicked off the Center for Jewish Civilization’s speaker series this semester with a talk at the Mortara Center on Wednesday on foreign policy in the Middle East. Pletka disagreed with scholars who spend much of their time trying to place blame for the “systemic rot” occurring in the region, casting doubt on common claims that Arab culture or Islam are the roots of the problem. “The notion that we all stick together and talk about the failing of one of the world’s great religions, and that this is really what has held people back, seems patently on its face not to be right,” Pletka said. “There are plenty of Muslim democrats. Indonesia, although it’s having its share of troubles, is a democracy. Bangladesh, although it’s having a lot of problems, has for many years been a quasi-functioning democracy.”

According to Pletka, the main problem facing the Middle East is the systems of governance that have been established in much of the region, including the legacy of Western influence on the region. “Since the end of the colonial era in the region, there have been imported any number of lousy Western ideologies that have waned and waxed in popularity over the decades,” Pletka said. “There were the monarchies, but many of the monarchies that existed in the aftermath of colonial era and of World War I and World War II were replaced with nominal republics. Those then were replaced with dictatorships.” Pletka spoke on the various failed movements in the Middle East including Arab socialism and Pan-Arabism in countries such as Syria and Egypt. However, she argued the failure of such movements is a result of the deep entrenchment of many Middle Eastern countries in systems of authoritarian government rather than an incapacity for democracy. “What each of these regimes have in common is they are fundamentally authoritarian or totalitarian regimes. They’re dictatorships. It should come as no surprise to us that for people in the region who grow with this frame of reference, knowing nothing else other than totalitarianism in their government, they don’t have the frame of reference,” Pletka said. “People don’t actually know how to do democracy when they’ve never done it before.”

Pletka then made a case for the involvement of the United States and other democratic countries in the Middle East. According to Pletka, these countries have a responsibility to bring democracy to areas of the region and play a part in shaping the advancement of human rights, stressing the significance of addressing instability in the Middle East for the sake of the United States’ own security. “These are dangerous, virulent ideas that have spread. These are dangerous conflicts, these are dangerous weapons, and when we don’t deal with them there they come find us here,” Pletka said. “We’ve learned to tolerate a low level of unpleasantness that comes with a small terrorist attack because these aren’t shaping our societies. But actually, they do, because small attacks become large attacks. I would argue that Al Qaeda is more powerful now than it was on September 10, 2001.” Pletka concluded with a final appeal for democracy in the region and affirmed the ability of the United States to defeat its shortcomings in intervention. “I think the Arab Spring was absolute evidence of that desire for freedom and absolute evidence of the inability of the region to provide that,” she said. “We are engaged in this part of the world. We do have relationships. What we see is every time we pull back countries come to us and ask us to be involved.”

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Speaking in the Healey Family Student Center on Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu (LAW ’94) of California said efforts to counter climate change must consider negative externalities affecting poorer communities.

Congressman Urges Climate, Environmental Policy Action Charlotte Allen Hoya Staff Writer

Now is the time to discuss climate change policy, according to Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu (LAW ’94) of California. Lieu spoke at the Social, Economic and Financial Challenges in Energy Inclusion event in the Healey Family Student Center on Wednesday evening. Lieu, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee and on the House of Foreign affairs Committee, gave the keynote address. Because Lieu was unable to attend the event in person because of an unexpected change in Congress’ voting schedule due to Hurricane Harvey, Lieu delivered the address remotely by telephone. Hosted by the Georgetown University & Santander Partnership on Social Economy, the event was part of the Annual Finance and Human Development Series. The event also featured panels moderated by President of B360, Inc. Peter Karenge, PEPCO’s Vice President of Utility of the Future Karen Lefkowitz, the Director of the Department of Energy & Environment Tommy Wells and Georgetown history professor David Painter and McCourt School of Public Policy professor Paasha Mahdavi. “Our overall aim of Georgetown University and the Santander Group is to contribute to social justice and to think of economy not just as the bottom line but more about how we can have a respon-

sible economy, and that is how this particular event was conceived,” Mahdavi said. Lieu advocated the importance of addressing the environment and climate change as a political issue. “All of you [students] are there because you understand the importance of the environment and climate — not just to America but to humanity,” Lieu said. “One of the first bills I introduced in Congress last term took California’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act and tried to make it national and set goals for our country to hit.” According to Lieu, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act is relatively simple and sets clear goals. Under the law, California is aiming for a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 compared to 1990 levels, and an 80 percent reduction by 2050. “Fifteen years ago people were still questioning whether climate change was even happening. Many of them no longer question that. They realize that they cannot simply ignore the measurements and the facts and now the debate has shifted to ‘Well, we’re not really sure what is causing the climate to change,’” Lieu said. Lieu suggested the increased frequency of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irma and Harvey may continue to hasten the public conversation about combatting climate change. “Hopefully America realizes [the

problem] before it’s too late. We’re fighting the fight on Capitol Hill and hopefully with the help of all of you we can continue to change hearts and minds and eventually get some climate change policy done,” Lieu said. Lieu said efforts to counter climate change should note that it affects poorer communities most severely. “When it gets hot in California, most of my constituents can turn on an air conditioner,” said Lieu, “But there are districts in America where when it gets very hot there are people who are going to die. Climate change does affect people differently depending on wealth and poverty level and access to resources, so I think it is important that we keep that in mind as we put out solutions to climate change.” Lieu said his passion for the environment comes from a desire to improve the planet for future generations. “The reason I’m so passionate about these issues is based on a quote I read long ago. It’s attributed to a Native American and says, ‘We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children,’” Lieu said. “I just want to make sure that my children and my grandchildren have an environment that is the same or better than what we have now — that is currently not the case. We’re about to pass on to our children and grandchildren a far worse environment.”

Media Narrative Difficult to Control, Former White House Aides Say emma koftica Hoya Staff Writer

President Donald Trump’s tweeting habit of communicating his unfiltered perspectives to the public poses a unique challenge for the White House communications team, according to former White House communications director Mike Dubke. At an event hosted by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service on Tuesday, Dubke shared his experiences during his three-month tenure in the Trump White House alongside Jen Psaki, White House communications director under President Barack Obama. Dubke and Psaki are both GU Politics Fellows for the spring 2017 semester. Dubke said Trump’s tweets allowed him to communicate his unfettered perspectives to the public and are a powerful medium of communication for the president, but also derailed the administration’s message. Dubke blamed news organizations for spending too much time covering the president’s tweeted statements rather than policy. “What I’m concerned about is that our news organizations seem to be jumping from tweet to tweet, and short attention span to short attention span,” Dubke said. “A single tweet would then dictate what the programming was for the next hour and a half on cable news, which was an amazing power but also an amazing distraction.” Because of Trump’s tweeting habit, Dubke said he struggled to control the administration’s daily messaging. “The challenge, of course is that this narrative continues to change, and that’s what I was dealing with when I was

there,” Dubke said. “Specifically because the president has this direct connect with the American people that, while President Obama had it, never really used it to the same degree.” Psaki said not being in control of the narrative is part of the job, not solely a problem faced by the current administration. “The unique thing about being in the White House is that you are responsible for commenting and speak-

ing to everything, so it’s like the best laid plans can often change,” Psaki said. Nevertheless, Psaki described the communications director role as “one of the best jobs you can have in the White House.” “It is way better than the press secretary job, because you get your hands in all of the strategy and you have a seat at the table with the policy teams determining decisions that are going to be made about policy, when

things are going to be announced, how they should be rolled out and how they should be talked about,” Psaki said. “You are a decisionmaker in ways that the press secretary is entirely capable of being, but can’t be because their day is consumed by the press briefings.” Dubke added that communications directors take the rap when things go wrong. “You’re also blamed for all the bad things that happen, even when it’s not your fault

or you’re brought in after the decision has been made to explain the cleanup,” Dubke said. Dubke served as Trump’s communications director for three months before tendering his resignation on May 18. Dubke’s former boss has been noted for his attacks on press coverage. He routinely criticized the media in campaign rallies and called the press the “enemy of the American people” in a February tweet. According to Dubke,

Trump’s frustration with media coverage derives from his understanding of the importance of their role. “I know the president understands the role that the press plays in the democratic process,” Dubke said. “I think that’s where a good level of his frustration comes, where he is hearing things come out of the press that he doesn’t believe is true or is a slant on the truth that is trying to paint an entirely different picture.”

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Rice Urges Institutional Role in Spurring Democracy Alfredo CarRillo Hoya Staff Writer

Democracy can successfully develop in any country over time as long as strong institutions uphold freedom and equality, argued former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the signing of her latest book Saturday at the National Book Festival. In a conversation with David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, Rice, a professor at Stanford University since 2009, reflected on the ways her upbringing in the segregated city of Birmingham, Ala. and her career as Secretary of State influenced her ideas about democracy.

“The worst situation is when you have a cult of personality, tyrannical leader where everything had been at the service of that leader.” CONDOLEEZzA RICE Former Secretary of State

Rice said the topic of her book, “Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom”, which became a New York Times’ best-seller less than a month after being published, bore a deep connection with her identity. “In many ways, I wanted to write this book for a long time because it is in some ways an expression of my own life,” Rice said. She said that her story of a black girl growing up in a

segregated city who rose to serving as former President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009 and National Security Adviser from 2001 to 2005, embodied the potential of the United States’ Constitution’s values. “This same constitution that had once counted in the compromise, my ancestors’ threefifths of a man, would be the same constitution to which I took the oath of office as the 66th Secretary of State,” Rice said. “That for me is the story of democracy.” Rice said this form of slow progress should not be exclusive to the United States, based on the lessons her role as chief diplomat taught her. Rice rejected the claim that certain cultures are not capable of maintaining democratic governments. “The Asians were too Confucian, but of course you’ve got South Korea, you’ve got Japan. The Africans, well they were too tribal, but of course you’ve got Ghana, you’ve got Botswana,” Rice said. “African Americans, well, they were too child-like to care about that thing called voting. But we’ve had a black president, black attorneys general, we’ve had black secretaries of state,” Rice said. “I just reject this cultural argument.” Referring to Russia, Rice argued the country’s 70-year Soviet history never allowed for democratic institutions to emerge in the first place. “Really, it’s the story of the failure of institutions to take hold under enormous pressure,” Rice said. “If you think about the collapse of the Soviet Union and you think about the kind of rapid effort to build capitalism, 50 percent of the Russian population fell into poverty practically overnight.

The country broke apart practically overnight.” She contrasted Russia’s political and economic woes with Poland, Colombia and even the United States, where existing institutions facilitated the emergence of true democracy. “When Martin Luther King and others took on the struggle, they weren’t asking America to be something else. They were saying, ‘America, be what you say you are’,” Rice said. “Now, you’re in a much stronger position when you have the institu-

tions in place and you can appeal to those institutions.” Rice said countries like Iraq, for which Rice advised President Bush’s foreign policy, Afghanistan, Egypt, Venezuela, North Korea and China will require more development for democratic institutions to consolidate. “The worst situation is when you have a cult of personality, tyrannical leader where everything had been at the service of that leader. That was Saddam Hussein,” Rice said in reference

to Iraq. “And so there were effectively no institutions underneath him.” However, Rice said certain developments within these countries, like Saudi women becoming more educated, Iraqi civilians defeating ISIS and beginning to establish democratic institutions, and China being exposed to the rest of the world through trade, provide hope for democracy’s growth. Rice acknowledged that mistakes were made during her tenure as Secretary of State

that impeded smooth democratic transitions in countries like Iraq after the Invasion of 2003, but emphasized an active role for the United States to spread freedom. “I think America is at its best, its highest calling when it leads both from power and principle,” Rice said. “When we stand for the proposition that the rights to be enjoyed are indeed universal, and if they are universal, that there are no people for whom they shouldn’t be secured.”

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Five Georgetown undergraduates travelled to Indonesia to observe possible solutions to inclusivity issues in Jakarta in collaboration with politicians, businessmen and activists.

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Five Georgetown undergraduate students learned about urban development during a seven-day trip to Jakarta, Indonesia, in June, sponsored by the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Baker Center for Leadership and Governance. The students, guided by Baker Center Director Victoria Canavor, met with the heads of institutions and organizations like the City Council of Jakarta, IBM and the International Labor Organization to understand and resolve the question of inclusivity in the smart cities of the future. Canavor said that the program gave students access to the ideas and technology shaping modern urban development. “I think they could not have responded as effectively had they not had the opportunity to meet with those leaders,” Canavor said. “For example, with Smart City Jakarta, they got a chance to see and visit all of the new, modern technology sites, which allowed them to experience it all realtime.” Toward the end of the program, the students collaborated with counterparts from Harvard University, the University of Chicago and BINUS University Indonesia to present a concrete proposal on

inclusive smart growth to the leaders and stakeholders. Canavor said that this collaboration was part of an effort to build the students’ ability to collaborate with people from different backgrounds. “The goal of this trip was to provide five promising undergraduate Georgetown students from different backgrounds and majors a unique learning experience focused on honing their ‘cultural intelligence’ skills: the ability to cross divides and thrive in diverse cultures,” Canavor said. The students lived in the dorms of BINUS University. Canavor considered that this dynamic living situation made the program more appealing and educational. “They lived in the dorms and experienced local Indonesian lifestyles. It was a short but immersive program where the local perspective was a key aspect; the students’ understanding of how Jakarta could be a more inclusive smart city would have been incomplete without it.” Libby Bassini (SFS ’19), who went on the trip, said the interaction with local people and conditions was crucial for understanding the problem and addressing it appropriately. “Being on-the-ground in Jakarta made me realize the importance of asking locals to add context to a problem

to best provide a sustainable solution,” Bassini wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Local input is key to being practical about how to address an issue practically and effectively.” Hunter Estes (SFS ’19) said that the contrasts evident in the country reminded him of the importance of addressing issues with a communal mindset. “On a walk the day we got there, I noticed a small trashfilled canal that ran through the heart of the city. Across the small canal lay complete, abject poverty,” Estes said. “Loose pieces of scrap metal were thrown on crumbling buildings to provide some semblance of protection from the fierce rains that hit the city.” However, Estes considered that the Indonesian political and business leaders were committed to addressing the prevailing inequality and fostering development for all. He argued that American leaders should adopt a similar mentality. “I found the spirit of entrepreneurship to be alive and well in Jakarta. City leaders were aware of the problems that the city faced and were committed to fixing them,” Estes said. “I think this approach could be better employed in our local governments to address communal issues.”

Washington, D.C.’s government will sponsor over 100 art events throughout the city in a month-long showcase of creativity across the District. Announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) Aug. 30, the second annual 202Creates initiative will celebrate arts and cultures in the month of September, with events ranging from this weekend’s 202 Arts and Music Festival to culinary tastings and dance performances. The initiative is coordinated by the D.C. Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment and the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities. According to Chanda Washington, a spokesperson for the District Office of the Deputy Mayor of Planning and Economic Development, 202Creates aims to celebrate “creatives,” or those who are involved in creative jobs and hobbies in the District, and explore how they work to change the perception that the District lacks a cultural scene. “You think about D.C., you think about the monuments, the Smithsonian, the existing cultural vibrancy that exists in the city. We want to amplify that. We want people to see how it blends within our neighborhoods,” Washington said. “We want people to see how you can take part in it and get a job from it, how you can built on it.”

Jeff Scott, the chief of External Affairs for the District’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities, said 202Creates also applauds the creative sector’s wide-reaching impact, with creatives in fields including music and art as well as writing and technology. Scott also noted the variety of artistic offerings across many fields in D.C., highlighting the range of talents in music, theatre (theater), fashion and design industries. “Some of the goals of it really are to show the different individuals and organizations that are working in these creative fields, and to show within that the great range of different things that are being done. We have such a wide variety of creative and cultural offerings in the city,” Scott said. Scott said the District government has worked to reach out to all communities in the District this year, coordinate a targeted social media campaign and build on other outreach efforts to ensure that all eight wards of the city can enjoy and take part in the creative economy. “This is as much an awareness initiative as anything else, I feel — to use the different events and programs that we produce, but to also use social media and outreach to get the information out there,” Scott said. “In becoming aware of it, hopefully they become more active participants and engaged with that.” Washington also said 202Cre-

ates highlights the city’s creative economy. According to Mayor Bowser’s office, creativity is a significant part of the District’s economy, bringing in over 2,400 arts-related businesses and over 120,000 jobs in creative sectors, 1,800 of which were added just in the last year, from hairstylists to chefs and graphic artists. “The creative economy, in essence, is the way we create jobs, the way we grow the economy by using the creative energy that already exists in the city,” Washington said. “We believe that’s some energy that would allow us to pump up our economy and create more jobs for District residents.” Scott said the creative economy goes beyond employing current District residents to attract potential new businesses and residents to the city, expanding the tax base and improving the overall quality of life. “Not only are these individuals and professionals doing great work, but their work is contributing to the overall growth and vitality of the city. It’s part of why we think people want to live in D.C.: because we have these sorts of offerings, because we have these arts and humanities offerings, because we have a robust creative sector,” Scott said. “Even if you yourself do not work in that sector, your life is touched by it in some way.”

For a full list of events, see 202Creates.com.

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DeGioia Condemns ‘Unconscionable’ DACA Termination CHRISTIAN PAZ Hoya Staff Writer

University President John J. DeGioia condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, calling it an “unconscionable decision” in a universitywide email Tuesday night. DeGioia also renewed his support for students without documentation in a statement posted to Facebook. “As a nation, we have the capacity and responsibility to work together to provide a permanent legislative solution to ensure the safety and wellbeing of these young women and men who have— and will—contribute to the future of our country in deeply meaningful ways,” DeGioia wrote in a statement posted on Facebook.

“Today, our nation has done the opposite of how Scripture calls us to respond. It is a step back from the progress that we need to make as a country.” UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

DeGioia joined a number of university leaders nationwide who have spoken out on Trump’s decision to end DACA, an Obama administration directive that protects nearly 800,000 immigrants without documentation from deportation, by March 2018, including University of California Chancellor Janet

Napolitano, Harvard University President Drew Faust and Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. DeGioia’s vocal support for students without documentation has mirrored an institutionalization of resources for the community, most recently through the schools’ hiring of Arelis Palacios as the first full-time associate director of undocumented student services. The university also launched a website compiling information and university resources for this community last year. Georgetown student groups reacted swiftly to the White House announcement. In a joint statement, La Casa Latina and the Black House reaffirmed their roles as safe spaces for affected students. “Our homes are open if you need a space to breathe, reflect, or be in community,” the statement reads. “To our undocumented Hoyas, remember that you are loved and are valued members of the Georgetown community.” The Georgetown University Student Association executive emphasized diversity as an asset for Georgetown in a statement. “We were extremely saddened to hear that the President has decided to end the protections under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,” the statement reads. “Our student body is the ultimate source of our tradition of excellence, as our unique backgrounds, faith traditions, and lived experiences make us a shining example for the rest of the country and the world to follow.” The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called the decision “reprehensible.” “Today, our nation has done

the opposite of how Scripture calls us to respond,” a statement read. “It is a step back from the progress that we need to make as a country.” At a press conference held in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the decision to end DACA with a six-month delay, following a week of uncertainty over the future of the Obama-era policy. Ten states imposed a Tuesday deadline on the White House to scrap the program or face legal challenges. Trump said in a statement that the Department of Home-

land Security will begin an “orderly transition and winddown of DACA” to minimize disruptions and will continue to prioritize criminals, security threats and repeat violators. Current DACA recipients are not priorities for the DHS unless they are criminals or are members of a gang, Trump wrote. Former President Barack Obama criticized the Trump White House today, calling the decision “cruel” and “wrong.” “To target these young people is wrong – because they have done nothing wrong,” Obama wrote in a statement. “It is self-

defeating – because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel.” Authorized by executive order in 2012, DACA provided work authorization and legal protection to immigrants without documentation who arrived in the United States at a young age. The program has faced frequent legal challenges and scrutiny, including a successful 2014 case in which an appeals court sided with Texas and 25 other states in blocking the expansion and implementation of the DACA program. In June 2016, the Su-

preme Court announced a 4-4 tie, extending the appeal court’s decision to block Obama’s plan. Trump urged congressional action on immigration during the six-month period before DACA’s expiration. “Congress now has the opportunity to advance responsible immigration reform that puts American jobs and American security first,” Trump wrote. “I look forward to working with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to finally address all of these issues in a manner that puts the hardworking citizens of our country first.”

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Team Looks to Keep Rolling in Georgetown Classic Bridget McElroy Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior middle blocker Symone Speech has 90 kills this season and was awarded Big East Weekly Honor Roll this week.

The Georgetown women’s volleyball team looks to lengthen its winning streak when it hosts the annual Georgetown Classic this weekend in McDonough Arena. The Hoyas hope to build on their momentum from a string of victories at the Service Academy Challenge where they did not drop a single set to either The Citadel, Columbia or Army West Point. Now 5-1 for the season, the Blue and Gray is off to its most successful season start since 2012. Looking ahead to this weekend, the Hoyas will face another formidable set of opponents. To kick off its leg of the tournament, Georgetown (5-1, 0-0 Big East) will take on undefeated James Madison University (6-0, 0-0 Colonial Ath-

letic). The last time the Hoyas met the Dukes was during the 2015 season, where they fell in four sets, 3-1. This year, JMU enters the Georgetown Classic undefeated with 275 kills and 34 aces on the season. Averaging 13.8 kills per set, JMU has the highest number of kills per set out of all of the participating teams. Georgetown’s defensive unit must come out strong to counter the tireless hitting force of JMU’s squad. Junior libero Kenzie Higareda will need to continue her stellar performance from the Service Academy Challenge and dig out quite a few balls for her team to convert into offensive opportunities. The Dukes average 16.9 digs per set, so the Hoyas will look to top hitters junior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette, freshman outside hitter Riley Wertzberger and

junior middle blocker Symone Speech to capitalize on every opportunity they can. Speech was recently named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll for her showing at the Service Academy Challenge. On Sept. 9, the Hoyas will face two teams they have not yet met in competition. At 1 p.m., the Hoyas will face their second opponent of the weekend, the Coppin State University Eagles (0-6, 0-0 Mid Eastern). With no wins yet this season, Coppin State University has nothing to lose going into this weekend’s showdown. Later in the day, the Blue and Gray will meet the University of Buffalo Bulls (3-2, 0-0 Mid-American). Buffalo enters the weekend with momentum as they are coming off the program’s first ever win against a Big Ten opponent. Buffalo defeated Rutgers 3-2 in a match

at the Seton Hall Tournament on Sept. 2. Out of all the teams competing at the Georgetown Classic, Buffalo tallies the most service aces in the least number of matches. While Georgetown boasts a 91.8 service reception percentage, the Hoyas’ serve receive team must be wary of Buffalo’s success on the court. The Georgetown Classic will certainly be an exciting time for the Hoyas to hone thei skills and hopefully overcome challenging opponents to cinch yet another tournament win. The event begins with Coppin State vs. Buffalo at 4:30 on Friday Sept. 8. The matches continue through the evening and into the next day. The Georgetown Hoyas play at 7 p.m. on Sept. 8 and again at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sept. 9. All matches will take place in the McDonough Arena.

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Georgetown field hockey went 1-1 in its games over the weekend against Rider University and Lock Haven University. On Friday, the Hoyas lost a hard-fought game 3-0 against the Rider Broncs, but were able to rebound against the Lock Haven Bald Eagles in the second game of the weekend, winning 2-0. In the matchup last season between Georgetown (3-1, 0-0 Big East) and Rider (2-1, 0-0 Metro Atlantic), Georgetown lost 6-0 at Rider. Going into the weekend, the Hoyas were 6-5 alltime against the Broncs. “We knew that they were going to come at us hard for 70 minutes, so how are we going to combat that?” Head Coach Shannon Soares said. “For us, it was having a front foot mentality and coming at them.” Though they earned eight penalty corners in the first period, the Broncs only managed three in the second period as Georgetown wore them down. In the second half, sophomore midfielder Michaela Bruno and freshman midfielder Jax van der Veen broke through Rider’s defense. Bruno and van der Veen contributed six and five shots, respectively. “For us, we want to use our press as our best version of our attack, and that helped us,” Soares said. “We had 18 successful presses against Rider. We just had to finish.” Despite having 16 shots against the Broncs’ 14, the

Hoyas were ultimately unable to finish on top. Rider goalkeeper freshman Lena Vandam helped the Broncs keep their lead, denying the Hoyas during scrambles in front of the cage. Vandam finished the game with 10 saves. “I don’t believe the score was indicative of our performance in that match. I was actually really proud of our kids’ ability to step to everything,” Soares said. Georgetown junior goalkeeper Chloe Verwiel had an impressive game against a persistent Rider offense. Verwiel finished the game with seven saves. Verwiel and her teammate, freshman midfielder Cami Osborne, were recently named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll for their efforts. For the Broncs, senior forward Allison Baligian was a key player scoring the team’s first goal 10:31 into the game. Junior midfielder Jessica Randazzo scored off of a deflection from a penalty corner at 65:15. With 1:10 remaining, Baligian capitalized on a penalty shot, earning the Broncs their final goal of the game. Going into their game against Lock Haven (3-1, 0-0 Atlantic 10) on Sept. 3, Georgetown took advantage of its opportunities and focused on finishing. “For us, it’s having the ability to execute in front of the cage and finish, so that was what we were looking to accomplish today when we went into today’s match. And our kids were kind of able to turn the page and make the adjustment,” Soares said. The Hoyas beat the Bald Ea-

gles 2-0, ending Georgetown’s losing streak against Lock Haven. Prior to this weekend, the Hoyas were 0-7 all time against the Bald Eagles. The Hoyas put the pressure on early, keeping the ball in their offensive half. Georgetown got off nine shots in the first period while Lock Haven only had one. As with the game against Rider, Georgetown had 16 shots. However, the Hoyas were able to finish in front of the cage. With 4:57 remaining in the first half, sophomore forward Lindsay Getz scored off of a pass from van der Veen. “It was super important. I think it opened the floodgates for us,” Soares said. “It gave us a little bit more energy, it gave us a little bit more confidence in terms of when we were pressing, [and] it allowed our kids to put their foot on the gas pedal a little bit more in the second half.” The Hoyas carried the momentum into the second period, earning five penalty corners with 11 for the game. Senior midfielder Megan Parsons slid the ball to Osborne for Georgetown’s second goal. Osborne put away the goal with 14:44 remaining, tying University of Connecticut’s Casey Umstead and Old Dominion Univeristy’s Alexa Ostoich for the Big East lead with four goals. “That second goal, Megan Parsons stayed in the play and basically willed that ball to Cami Osborne,” Soares said. “At the end of the day, sometimes that is the difference between winning and losing.”

he United States of America and dominance are synonymous when discussing international basketball. When it comes to soccer, however, the U.S. is nothing but an afterthought. Ever since the 2016 Copa America, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team has been on a downward spiral. Now-former coach Jurgen Klinsmann finally left, with coach Bruce Arena being called upon once more to lead the Americans back to glory. Arena’s approach has created mixed results, with aging star Clint Dempsey often not even playing. At times the defense is in shambles and the lone bright spot seems to be Borussia Dortmund wonder kid Christian Pulisic, who turned down the chance to play for the Croatian national team in order to play for his home country. Interestingly enough, many of the problems that existed under Klinsmann still plague the team, yet Arena has faced virtually no criticism. Currently, the United States is in third place in its World Cup qualifying group, behind the alreadyqualified Mexico and second-place Costa Rica, which has a crucial six point lead over the United States. There is one spot for direct qualification and another playoff spot that would require playing a team from Asia. Unfortunately for the United States, the team just drew against Honduras, which is also vying for the coveted third place playoff spot. The USMNT’s “Road to Russia” has been a full-blown disaster thus far, with the very real possibility that no obnoxious “USA” chants will be heard next year.

Given that the United States is situated in a relatively easy qualifying group — where Mexico is the only other real competition — it is almost unfathomable that the Americans are not dominating, especially when they do so in so many other sports.

Paolo Santamaria & Vanessa Craige America has never been able to live up to its potential for glory in soccer and the reason for that is simple: Our best athletes often quit soccer to focus on the more popular sports like American football, basketball and even baseball. This results in our other sports teams being phenomenal, of course, while limiting the potential of world’s biggest sport in the U.S. It is rather ironic then that the United States is preparing a joint bid with its fellow North American countries to host the World Cup in 2026, considering that soccer is the county’s least popular “major” sport. Consider how talented the national soccer team would be if athletes like Lebron James — who is coincidentally a minority stake owner in Liverpool FC — had decided to practice his free kicks instead of his jump shot. Or if Patrick Kane, one of the best American NHL hockey players, had decided that chasing a ball around cones

was more enthralling than skating drills. These examples lead us to the broader, more burning question: What will it take for the US to improve and elevate its soccer program? The U.S. simply does not have the extensive youth academy system that countries like Germany and England have had in place for years. Furthermore, the MLS is a joke and does not give American players a real chance to compete against other highly skilled players. It will take an overhaul of the entire soccer system, with an eye towards basing it off of the English system, for the US to even begin to be a truly good team. The attitude towards soccer in the U.S. is definitely improving but it is still nowhere near the mania that you would see in almost any other country. However, the quick-fix solution is rather obvious: Win. Seeing American fans unite across town centers and restaurants in 2010, and even more so in 2014, gave many Americans hope for the future of soccer in their country. If the U.S. can miraculously fashion a run to the semifinals of the 2018 World Cup — should we qualify — the results would electrify the US. While it may seem a long shot and a pipe dream for now, in the beautiful game, anything can happen. Paolo Santamaria and Vanessa Craige are seniors in the School of Foreign Service and the College, respectively. Nothing but Net appears every Friday.

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After finishing the 2016 season with top-three finishes at both the Big East and NCAA tournaments, the Georgetown cross-country teams look to build on their momentum at Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational at State College, Pa., on Friday. According to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s preseason rankings, the Hoyas will head into Friday’s invitational with the men’s team ranked 16th and the women’s 26th. Last season’s Big East Championships were filled with highlights for both individuals and teams at Georgetown. All-American senior Joe White earned the distinction of Men’s Most Outstanding Track Performer for his record third win in the 800-meter as well as his performance as anchor in the Hoyas’ victorious 4x400m relay. The victory of this men’s relay team, which included sophomore Quincey Wilson, senior Nathaniel Gordon and senior Nick Sullivan in addition to White, helped contribute to the men’s fourth-place team finish. Tallying 104 points, the men were 100 points away from firstplace DePaul. The women were similarly successful in the relay with the team comprised of graduate student Jocelyn Hubbard, All-American senior Kennedy Weisner, AllAmerican senior Piper Donaghu and All-American senior Emma Keenan emerging victorious in the 4x800m relay. Team perfor-

mances contributed to the women amassing 68 points, finishing in fifth place with Marquette coming in first. At the conclusion of the Big East Championships, 18 Georgetown student-athletes earned All-Big East Honors, which are awarded to competitors who finish on the podium in at least one event. Georgetown advanced five athletes to the NCAA finals after an impressive showing at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field East Preliminary Championships in Louisville, Ky. In these Preliminary Championships, Georgetown qualified at least one athlete into every men’s and women’s middle-distance and distance event. The group of five Hoyas who competed in the NCAA finals in Eugene, Ore. was made up of seasoned competitors. Keenan finished 16th in her 800m semifinals, running 2:06.53 and earned the honors of Second Team AllAmerican. Graduate student Darren Fahy ran a personal best and IAAF World Championships A Standard time of 8:31.08 to finish second in the steeplechase, while teammate senior Scott Carpenter set a personal record of 8:32.94 to finish fifth. White set a Georgetown record and met the IAAF World Championship, a standard with his personal record time of 1:45.73 to come in third in the 800m. These performances propelled the men’s team to a 12th-place finish, the program’s best team finish since 1991. The transition to the NCAA Championships and the new sea-

son was marked by a change in the Hoyas’ coaching staff. On May 24, Julie Culley was named director of the men’s and women’s track and field and cross-country program. After three years of working with Georgetown’s runners and a year as interim director, Culley led the team to an excellent indoor season as well as multiple top All-America and Big East performances. Under Culley’s leadership, the team has excelled both athletically and academically. This past season, the women were named a USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, and two men earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Honors. The Hoyas look to continue their success both on and off the track this season under Culley. In the Mid-Atlantic preseason rankings, Georgetown men are first and the women third. Both squads look to lead the charge into the 2017 season. The men’s team will rely on a deep group ready to contribute right away. All-American graduate student Jonathan Green, junior Spencer Brown, sophomore Matthew Bouthillette and sophomore Jack Van Scoter are all returning from the group that competed in the 2016 NCAA Championships. “They need to just keep doing what they’ve been doing.” Head Coach Brandon Bonsey said. “Looking ahead to what is going to be a deep group of runners in the upcoming season, we have 14 guys that I think can contribute to the team this fall, which is more than we have ever had.” While Bonsey’s team will be

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Sophomore distance runner Matthew Bouthillette and a talented group of incoming freshmen will lead the No. 16 Hoyas at the season opening Spiked Shoe Club Invitational Friday. able to rely on this returning group, it can also look ahead to a powerful incoming class of runners. “Our freshmen class was ranked as one of the top recruiting classes in the country and with good reason,” Bonsey said. After earning the Big East title in both the 2015 and 2016 seasons, the men’s team will turn to these returning athletes and its talented group of newcomers to aim for a third consecutive Big East team title. With a relatively seasoned squad, the women’s team boasts the talents of returning student-

athletes Weisner, Donaghu, senior Autumn Eastman, senior Josette Norris, senior Madeline Perez, graduate student Meredith Rizzo and sophomore Paige Hofstad, Georgetown Cross-Country’s Most Valuable Player from the past season. These student-athletes look to join the incoming freshmen, who boast a laundry list of accomplishments themselves, for a successful start to their season this week. “We are excited to get the season underway this Friday at the Penn State Spiked Shoe Invitational. We have a veteran group

of individuals who are guiding our star-studded freshman and sophomore class to what should be a very special season,” Culley said. Fellow Big East competitors Penn State and Villanova will also have their season debuts at the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Club Invitational on Friday. Despite Georgetown’s extremely competitive region for their sport, Coach Culley remains optimistic about the team’s performance this season. “I think this group will surprise a lot of teams this fall.” Culley said.

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of the second half, things got choppy. Senior forward Zach Knudson got tangled up with Cal Poly’s Freeman Dwamena, leading to a small fight between the two teams. Knudson was given a yellow card, and Dwamena was given a red card before play resumed. The physicality remained, though. In the 10th minute, as Achara sprinted toward an open run to the goal, his jersey was pulled and Georgetown was granted a free kick. Senior midfielder Christopher Lema came up just short as his shot was saved by the Cal Poly

keeper. Georgetown kept pushing for a goal to take a strong hold of the game. Finally, in the 73rd minute, the Hoyas found the net again. Junior midfielder Edson Martinez passed the ball to junior midfielder Kyle Zajec at the top of the box. Zajec then sent in an excellent high ball to freshman forward Derek Dodson who headed the ball into the right side of the net and extended the Georgetown lead to 3-1. “Dotson got a really brave goal and he’s been very good. It’s tough when you have someone like Dotson as a forward and in order to get him on the field I need to take off

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Sophomore defender Mason Deeds is one of 20 different Hoyas who have seen playing time during the team’s first four games.

Achara or Knudson,” Georgetown Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “But when I have hungry attacking pieces [like him] and give them those minutes, they’re ready” The Hoyas cruised from here and rode along to another impressive win. For the game, the Hoyas out-shot the Mustangs 25-8 while controlling a large majority of total possession. Wiese has not solely relied on his seasoned players thus far, but has also looked to young newcomers to make an impact. “We’ve got good players. I have a hard time with every game because the young guys have been really good for us. It’s always refreshing to see because you’re not sure how they’re going to come in,” Wiese said. Georgetown continued its three-game home stand as the men took on No. 15 UCLA (12-0, PAC 12) on Labor Day. The Hoyas stayed undefeated with a 1-0 win over the Bruins, which marks their second win over a ranked opponent this season and their third shutout. Georgetown’s goal once again came from Achara, who hustled to track down a ball at the left end line and shot a ball past the UCLA keeper and just to the left of the right crossbar. Achara now has five goals in only four games. “Achara’s been dangerous so far so it’s just good to see him converting some chances and continuing to be a problem for defenses,” Wiese said. The Hoyas outshot the Bruins 15-9, including an 8-1 advantage in shots on goal. Marcinkowski had one save in net in the contest and Georgetown forced UCLA keeper Kevin Silva to come up with seven saves on the afternoon. The victory sums up Georgetown’s perfect three-game home stand. The team will travel to Storrs, Conn to take on the UConn Huskies at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Live stats and video will be available at GUHoyas.com.

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With 27 incoming new players, Head Coach Rob Sgarlata anticipates heightened competition for playing time that will hopefully translate into success during games.

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suffering an injury last season. His leadership is bolstered by an offensive line that boasts four senior linemen, two of whom started all 11 games in the 2016 season. In the skill positions, Georgetown returns their top two rushers from last season, seniors Alex Valles and Isaac Ellsworth. The team is excited for a deep receiving corps, returning 12 players who have caught a pass. The Hoyas are replacing wide receiver Justin Hill (COL ’17) — who graduated last May in the top 10 for career receptions (144), receiving yards (1,637) and receiving touchdowns (11) — with sophomore wide receiver Michael Dereus and senior wide receiver Tom Jesson who look to build on a solid training camp. Georgetown will turn to

Barnes and this experienced offense to find the end zone against a Campbell defense that shut out their opponent in the first week. The Camels also had a field day on special teams, forcing a fumble for a score on kickoff and gaining a whopping 141 yards on punt returns, all returned by redshirt sophomore Jaquan Brooks. Sgarlata emphasized the importance of special teams in this coming game, but is confident that the Hoyas’ tradition of success in the third phase will prevail. “If you watch any of the games this past weekend, special teams played a part. If you watched Texas and Maryland, or that game Campbell had you see that. So, we put a lot of pride in our special teams and put a lot of time into it, this past season we were ranked in the top five nationally in a lot of categories and we empha-

size it a lot,” Sgarlata said. Georgetown’s season kicks off this Saturday night as the Hoyas travel to North Carolina, and for Sgarlata and most of the team, the opportunity to get back on the field and back up to their winning expectations cannot come any sooner. “For us, we expect to win every time we step foot out on that field. Our expectation is to go out there and win every Saturday. So, I’m honestly excited to get out there and see us play somebody else after having three weeks of camp and a bye week on week one. I’m sure there will be other things we’ll need to improve on after the first game, but I’m really excited to see this team out on the field Saturday night,” Sgarlata said. Opening kickoff is set for 6 p.m. in Campbell University’s Barker-Lane Stadium this Saturday.

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Its opponent? Iran — a political supporter of the Assad regime. The third round of qualifying in Asia is in round-robin format with two groups of six teams. The top two from each group automatically qualify for the World Cup, while the

third-place team from each group plays the other twice to determine which will advance to the next round of qualifying. The team that scores the most goals over the two matches will advance to another two-game playoff in November against the fourth-place team from North American World Cup Qualifying.

Heading into Tuesday night, Iran had already qualified for the World Cup. With 14 points, South Korea was second in the group and set to play Uzbekistan, which was tied with Syria on points but behind in the group standings because of a goal differential. Syria would have needed to match Uzbekistan’s result against South Korea

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on Tuesday to advance. If both teams had lost or drawn, Syria would advance to the Asian playoff against Australia. If both teams had won, Syria would advance to the World Cup. After trailing deep into the second half, Syria tied the match against Iran 2-2 on a counterattack from nowhere in stoppage time. Shortly afterward, Uz-

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Georgetown scored a quick goal less than seven minutes into the game and another at the 31-minute mark to secure the 3-0 victory. Sophomore defender Meghan Nally and Nizialek scored the first half goals, and junior forward Caitlin Farrell sealed the deal with a 75th minute goal, her third of the year.

“I think we learned a lot from our group about how mentally strong we are.”

ated from Georgetown’s roster scored both goals. Nolan emphasized the need for his team to find new sources of scoring this season. “We scored 63-64 goals last year, and we graduated 25 of them,” Nolan said. “We need [Farrell] to try and get above ten, the same way we need [sophomore forward] Amanda [Carolan]to try and get above ten and we need [senior midfielder] Rachel [Corboz] to try and get

above ten.” The Hoyas have fared well against unranked opponents so far this season, going 4-0 to date, for which Nolan commended the team. “I think our opponents have played up, and we’ve taken care of business, as you would expect a good team to do,” Nolan said. “It’s a sign of a good team to take care of business. It looks easier than it is, but it is not that easy to take care of

those games without slipping up once or twice.” Nizialek and the rest of the Hoyas are looking forward to Friday’s matchup against the Red Flash. “We need to get back to practice this week, focus on what we do well and train hard,” Nizialek said. “It’s just soccer, so it’s just us focusing on ourselves and trying to get better every game.” Kickoff at Shaw Field is at 4 p.m. on Friday.

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Blistering heat was a factor in both contests, with the Hoyas being forced to play in 90-degree weather and high humidity on short rest against the Spartans. “[San Jose State was] wellrested going into the game. So I knew it was going to be a challenge for us, because we had to spend a lot of energy in the game on Friday against Stanford,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “I knew it was a situation where we were going to have to win and just grit it out a little bit. … I think we learned a lot from our group about how mentally strong we are.” Friday’s game against Saint Francis (2-3-0, Northeast) is a rematch of the two squads’ first-round NCAA tournament game, one that the Hoyas won 2-0. Players who have gradu-

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Junior forward Caitlin Farrell has notched three goals and six points on the season so far. The Hoyas hope to improve their 4-2 record this season when they face off against St. Francis Friday.

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After falling from No. 10 to No. 15 in United Soccer Coaches’ weekly rankings, the Georgetown women’s soccer team seeks its second straight victory in a home contest against Saint Francis University. The Hoyas (4-2-0, 0-0-0 Big East) went west over the weekend for two games, one against Stanford and one against San Jose State. On Friday, Georgetown fell 4-0 to the Stanford University Cardinal (4-1-0, 0-0-0 Pac-12), now ranked No. 2 in the nation. “I think going into the Stanford game we knew it was going to be a challenge. We wanted to compare ourselves against the best teams,” sophomore mid-

fielder Carson Nizialek said. “I don’t think it was the same game as the score showed. I think it was a pretty even game until they got that second goal; we lost a little bit of energy after that.” The loss kept Georgetown 0-2 against ranked teams, with a previous loss to West Virginia University in the Hoyas’ season opener Aug. 18. The Blue and Gray bounced back Sunday with a win against the San Jose State University Spartans (1-4-0, 0-0-0 Mountain West). “I think everybody is pretty upbeat; I don’t think anyone is dwelling on the loss that we had,” Nizialek said. “We got to bounce back, get a win, get a couple goals and get some confidence back on Sunday.” See FRANCIS, A11

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Sophomore Meaghan Nally (left) has started all six games for the Hoyas this season and has notched one goal on four shots.

After waiting a month to start the season, Georgetown football is ready to open its season Saturday against the Campbell University Fighting Camels. The Hoyas are returning a wealth of experience and talent, bringing back eight starters on defense and nine on offense, plus introducing a large and talented freshman class made up of 27 new Hoyas. Georgetown Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said the preseason has helped develop the team’s level and depth of talent so far. “It’s been the most competitive camp we’ve had since I’ve been here,” Sgarlata said. “We just went through the travel squad and there was some pretty good discussion of who’s going and who’s staying, and anytime you have that it means that you have good things happening with your depth.” Georgetown is looking forward to having another dominating defense this year as it returns most of a group that led the Patriot League in scoring defense last year, at 23.3 points per game, and was ranked No. 2 nationally in red-zone defense. This year’s squad is led by senior safety David Akere, one of this year’s No. 35 Joe Eacobacci Memorial Jersey recipients and Georgetown’s top returning tackler. Akere is a highlight in a defensive backfield that returns all 10 players from last season’s group and adds five talented freshmen. The defense

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Senior running back Alex Valles rushed for a team-high 462 yards last season to go along with three touchdowns. Valles also caught 17 passes for 88 yards. remains strong at the next level with four returning linebackers who recorded at least 25 tackles in 2016. The defensive line also returns five players who recorded significant playing time last season. This highly anticipated Blue and Gray defense faces a challenge out of the gate; the Hoyas are tasked with stopping a Camels offense that scored 70 points — 35 points in the first quarter alone — in

their first contest. Akere nonetheless remains confident in his squad’s ability to take on the high-powered Campbell attack, noting that he and his teammates are committed to an opening day win. “We believe every Saturday we can come out there and beat anyone. Our defense is a dominating defense that swarms to the ball and plays violently, aggressively,” Akere said. “Seventy points is a lot

of points, but we feel like we have the best defenses in the league and hopefully one of the best in the nation, so we’re quick and ready to stop anything.” Offensively, the Hoyas are ready to take advantage of their depth, starting with fifth-year senior Tim Barnes at quarterback, who is looking for a comeback after See CAMPBELL, A11

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Sophomore forward Achara notches his fifth goal and 10th point as the Hoyas take down Cal Poly by a score of 3-1. The Hoyas have won four straight games and remain undefeated this season so far.

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Georgetown men’s soccer team posted a perfect weekend in California with a 3-1 win against California Polytechnic State University on Friday coupled with its fourth straight win of the season against UCLA on Monday. The Hoyas did not waste much time getting started. In the sixth minute against Cal Poly (0-3, Big West), sophomore forward Achara

knocked in a shot past the right corner of the net to put the Hoyas up early. After Achara’s goal, the Hoyas continued to push ahead. After missing two shots in the 20th and 21st minutes, Georgetown (4-0, Big East) found a way to convert. Achara again stwepped up big for the Hoyas as he beat the last defender and snuck a ball in the net to bring the score to 2-0. “I feel good. I’m really healthy and I’m enjoying my

game and I just want to take advantage of every opportunity out there, score goals and have fun,” Achara said. The Hoyas controlled possession and pace for the majority of the first half. However, it was not smooth sailing for the Blue and Gray for the entirety of the match. In the 29th minute, a defensive mishap allowed a long throw into the box, and Cal Poly’s Sean Goode finished the ball past diving junior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski.

From this point, the Mustangs made much more noise and played tougher with the Hoyas. Georgetown tried to extend its lead but unfortunately missed a goal line opportunity in the 36th minute. Cal Poly responded a minute later with a dangerous opportunity, only to be blocked by sophomore midfielder Davey Mason, keeping the score 2-1 going into the half. After a quiet first five minutes See UCLA, A11

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mid a brutal civil war, FIFA has banned Syria from playing in its home country for seven years. During trying national events, sports can be used as a way to unite divided communities. In Syria, however, soccer has been used to burn rather than build bridges. The Syrian national soccer team has the total support of President Bashar Assad, a man who has committed war crimes against his own people to remain in power. Assad has used soccer on both the international and domestic levels as a tool for support in the name of “national unity”; meanwhile, FIFA has repeatedly declined to investigate government interference with the team. Spokesman for the Syrian national soccer team Bashar Mohammad told ESPN.com that the sport is “a dream that brings people together. It gives people a smile and helps them forget the smell of destruction and death.” The reality could not be further from this fantasy. Instead, families are torn apart in the name of sport. Stadiums once used to host football matches that gave hope for a united Syrian nation are now used as army bases and prisons to suppress

the same people who once filled the stands. Players who use their platform for protest disappear or are subject to torture at the hands of their own government. According to Human Rights Watch, 38 Syrian soccer players have died as a result of the regime.

Assad has used soccer on both the international and domestic levels as a tool for political support. The Syrian team has forced players to choose between their morality and national pride, as they must decide whether or not they want to represent an oppressive regime. The team plays its home qualifying games in a makeshift stadium nearly 5,000 miles from Damascus. The team is ranked 80th in the world. Despite these circumstances, Syria went into its match Tuesday night with the opportunity to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. See MORROW, A11