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RECORD TURNAROUND

The women’s basketball team showed a vast improvement from its 2014-15 campaign.

EDITORIAL Dedication to free speech demands allowing Richards to talk.

ISRAEL-PALESTINE RHETORIC Campus groups’ polarizing voices on the conflict fail to bring peace.

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Pro-Palestine ICC Wall Vandalized LISA BURGOA

sage invoked a quote by former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, stating, “Peace will come Tensions flared among stu- when Arabs love their children dent groups invested in the more than they hate Jews.”

Israeli-Palestinian conflict after SJP Chair Eman Abdelfadeel the vandalism of a makeshift (COL ’17) said she found the meswall created by Georgetown’s sages to be anti-Arab and vergchapter of Students for Justice ing on Islamophobic. in Palestine in the Intercultural “We were shocked,” AbdelCenter Galleria on March 14. fadeel said. “This is a big issue The wall was put up during — it’s bigger than any of us.

Israeli Apartheid Week, which We’ve done it multiple times in is held in over 150 universities the past and on an annual basis, worldwide, and aimed at sym- and we’ve heard from people bolizing the Israeli West Bank but no one has ever gone so far barrier while as to vandalize spotlighting alour wall.” leged injustices The Georgeassociated with town University the Israeli ocPolice Departcupation of the ment dispatched West Bank and a criminal inGaza strip. vestigation unit In addition to to interview the wall, SJP’s affiliated stuprogramming dents, witnesses included events and suspects such as a “Faith of the vandalEman abdelfadeel (COL ’17) Washing,” which ism. GUPD Chief Chair, Students for Justice in combatted the Jay Gruber said Palestine view of the conapprehended flict as a religious issue, and a suspects could face criminal discussion on why the SJP uses charges relating to property dethe term “apartheid” to charac- struction and a referral to the terize Israeli settlement.

Office of Student Conduct.

The defacement included “Georgetown University is a marker etchings and messages place where this kind of activover the newspaper clippings, ity really isn’t tolerated,” Gruflyers, statistics and photo- ber said. “We’re supposed to be graphs pinned to the wall, a place where you’re allowed which was taken down Sunday. to express your feelings or your The perpetrators of the vandal- thoughts without somebody ism have not been identified as coming up and causing damage of press time. One featured the to that, so hopefully this was wall’s title scribbled over and re- just an isolated incident.” placed with “International AntiSee WALL, A6 Israel Week 2016.” Another mes-

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“We were shocked. This is a big issue — it’s bigger than any of us.”

COURTESY GEORGETOWN SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE

Student workers and members of the Georgetown community joined a rally organized by GSC to show solidarity with workers who were mistreated during Winter Storm Jonas.

Students Defend Workers

Georgetown Solidarity Committee rallies for worker rights Cecia Soza

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Students, campus workers and community members came together in a demonstration to express solidarity with mistreated university workers in Red Square on Friday. The rally, which was led by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, served as the concluding event in its first weeklong Work With Dignity Campaign.

The campaign was launched

Tuesday by committee members who wrote an op-ed published in The Hoya on Friday, March 18 claiming the university undermined and violated the Just Employment Policy — established in 2005 to maintain fair labor practices and create a safe working environment — with its treatment of workers during Winter Storm Jonas in January.

During the storm, Georgetown administrators were accused of providing inadequate housing ac-

commodations to university employees who remained on campus.

Workers were given the choice of either staying on campus overnight until the storm passed or leaving with no payment until the university reopened.

Unable to lose hours and pay, many workers stayed overnight and slept on benches and floors in university buildings. According to some university workers, the only See WORKERS, A6

Grounds for MPD Warrants Questioned

Training, experience used to obtain warrants MATTHEW LARSON

cause to search a location for a specific item. However, in the warrants, MPD officers only cited their general “trainThe Metropolitan Police Department’s ing and experience” investigating the policy allowed officers to obtain search drug trade as grounds for raids, withwarrants for raids conout providing physical ducted between 2013 evidence or observation and 2015 based solely of criminal activity at a on officers’ training particular residence. and experience, accordThe report reviewed ing to a study by The 2,000 warrants issued Washington Post and between January 2013 American University’s and January 2015 and Investigative Reporting found that in 284 cases, Workshop published officers were able to katherine hubbard Equal Justice Under Law March 5. search a residence after The Fourth Amendarresting the presumed ment prohibits “unreasonable search- owner for possession of drugs or guns es,” which is generally interpreted to without any evidence to support the raid mean that police and government besides their training and experience. agents may only obtain a warrant from a judge after demonstrating probable See MPD, A6

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Enushe Khan (MSB ’17), left, and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) were sworn into office as the GUSA president and vice president in Healy Hall on Saturday.

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Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) discussed their plans to address dining, campus planning, mental health and sexual assault at their swearing-in ceremony for Georgetown University Student Association president and vice president in Healy Hall on Saturday.

Khan and Fisk replace former GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16).

Rohan said Khan and Fisk are leading GUSA at a critical time.

“They’re entering in a critical position, in a critical year,” Rohan said during the swearing-in ceremony. “With campus planning coming up, this is probably going to be the most substantial and important year that student advocacy has experienced in God knows how long.”

Khan and Fisk have appointed seven deputy chiefs of staff and 19 policy team chairs who will work with senate co-chairs and policy team advocates to develop policy. Over 100 students applied for a position.

Last year’s executive had eight deputy chiefs of staff and 21 cabinet secretaries, with 123 students applying for a position in the executive cabinet and staff.

GUSA Chief of Staff Alex Bobroske (SFS ’17) said applicants seemed enthusiastic to play a role in developing student voice with GUSA’s new structure, where the senate and executive will work together in policy teams to develop policy.

“Something that came up a lot in applications, one of the questions we asked, was about with this restructuring happening what they thought GUSA should do and it could do to be more inclusive of campus and what ideas the applicants had,”

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Bobroske said in an interview with The Hoya. “There’s just an overwhelming enthusiasm for how restructuring gives so many more student voices to be in the room and actually participate.”

Khan said campus planning — specifically, campus maintenance — is in a particularly important phase.

“This is an important, pressing phase that we’re in, and deferred maintenance and housing renovations are something that we just really need to start pushing the university back on.

We need to ensure that that is a priority for our students and that that happens,” Khan said during the swearing-in ceremony.

According to Khan, while the recent hiring of new Counseling and Psychiatric Services staff is positive news, more has to be done.

“It is our position that that practice is illegal.”

FEATURED NEWS IPPS Hosts Santorum

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) reflected on his run for presidential candidate and his thoughts on liberal ideas.

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NEWS Students Create Kehoe Petition

Student athletes frustrated by the closure of Kehoe Field have made a petition urging a speedier response.

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Sports DMV Rivalry

Both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams will face DMV rival Loyola this week.

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OPINION

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THE VERDICT

EDITORIALS

Assure Free Speech The Georgetown University Lecture Fund announced this month that the President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards will speak at Georgetown in April, instantly igniting much criticism and controversy. Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit that serves as the largest single provider of comprehensive reproductive health services in the United States, including contraception and abortion services. A number of Catholic organizations and individuals — most notably, the Cardinal Newman Society and the Archbishop of the Diocese of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl — have called on the university to rescind the offer and ban her from speaking on campus, citing the contradictions between Catholic teachings and Planned Parenthood’s services.

We strongly support the university’s stance to allow Richards to speak.

It is important to remember that a student-run organization — not the university itself — is sponsoring and hosting Richards’ talk here. The Lecture Fund has a mission devoted to inviting people from all backgrounds and with various political and religious views to campus in the spirit of free speech and open exchange of dialogue and is funded with the understanding that it will uphold this mission. Sometimes, that means inviting speakers who do not align with all Catholic teachings. The Lecture Fund — a nonpartisan organization — does not endorse Planned Parenthood. In fact, the organization is cosponsoring events with GU Right to Life, also known as Vita Saxa, the same week as Richards’ talk.

We recognize that the university is not an unbiased actor: This is a private, religious institution with a distinctly spiritual and moral mis-

sion. Georgetown University can and should take a clear position on all serious moral questions — including abortion. At the same time, a university is distinct from other religious institutions in that it promotes the open exchange of ideas and debate of issues as a fundamental part of its mission. The university directly hosts and funds Jewish, Hindu and Muslim chaplains, who — at least in part — hold beliefs contrary to the Catholic Church’s fundamental moral doctrines.

For some, however, abortion is different because it is not just a moral belief, but an act akin to murder from the Catholic perspective. Hosting Richards is different from hosting individual speakers who are pro-abortion rights because she specifically advocates for expanding abortion rights, and because she presides over an organization that provides hundreds of thousands of abortions each year.

We hold the position that allowing free speech is not the same as endorsing that speech and that hosting a speaker is not the same as validating that speaker. Whether the university does enough to promote its pro-life and anti-contraception position as a whole by hosting periodic events like the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life and banning Medstar Georgetown from performing abortions on campus, is an open, but separate, question.

Georgetown has every right as a private, religious institution to ban Richards from campus. But to do so would detract from its ability to truly educate and inform every student on pressing political question — reproductive rights included. The university has chosen to allow her to speak, and we should welcome with gratitude such a decision in favor of its fundamental mission.

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Trump Takedown — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) railed against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Twitter, calling him a “loser” and pointing out his several failed businesses.

Google Doodle — Artwork by Akilah Johnson of Eastern Senior High School in Northeastern D.C. was selected for “Doodle 4 Google.”

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Fighting to Sing Free — Kesha is being forced to appeal her case against Dr. Luke, the producer who allegedly sexually assualted her. She has expressed fear that this case will cause her career to dwindle.

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City Money — The D.C. Superior Court upheld the District’s Budget Autonomy Act, which grants the city the right to appropriate locally raised funds without Congressional approval.

Tip Your Waiter — Amy Schumer left bartenders at Broadway show “Hamilton” a $1,000 tip.

Smartphone Shrinkage — Apple unveiled the iPhone SE with a 4-inch screen, downsizing from the 4.7-inch iPhone 6s and 5.5-inch 6s Plus.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Noah Taylor

Lessons From Pearl Between 2007 and 2010, Georgetown students and faculty undertook a longterm, collaborative investigative journalism assignment known as the Pearl Project, which explored the disappearance of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Their research has been lauded for yielding valuable new insights regarding Pearl’s kidnapping and eventual execution by Pakistani militants, including the identification of Pearl’s killer through forensic vein matching and proof of perjured testimony in Pakistani courts. Unique in its multi-year format, cross-disciplinary structure and real-world policy impact, the Pearl Project stands as a central pillar of Georgetown’s journalism legacy — a legacy that ought to be built upon in future years.

Recent financial pressures have forced most media companies to consolidate or even discontinue their investigative reporting departments. Due to this abandonment by established media firms, universities currently find themselves in a unique position to step into the investigative journalism breach, contributing to social justice while capitalizing on its students’ energies and establishing its name as a journalistic leader.

In addition to enhancing Georgetown’s reputation in the journalism community, a reiteration of the Pearl Project would spark new conversations on expanding Georgetown’s journalism resources.

Although Georgetown currently offers a strong graduate journalism program, un-

dergraduates can only minor in the discipline. Encouraging further collaboration between graduates and undergraduates, as the Pearl Project did, would advance interest in a full undergraduate journalism department like the ones at Yale and Northwestern Universities.

One of the Pearl Project’s incidental benefits was that it allowed Georgetown undergraduates to engage with substantial, real-world issues across multiple institutions, thus aligning with Georgetown’s emphasis on transforming its students into “contemplatives in action.” Too often, university students and staff are restricted to a whiteboard world, insulated from the messy realities beyond campus walls and ignorant of the true applications of their education. By contrast, the Pearl Project allowed Georgetown students to break these barriers and gain a firsthand and authentically alternative journalism experience.

The university-wide dialogue on journalism cultivated by the Pearl Project would benefit both Georgetown and its students by thrusting Georgetown’s journalism community onto an international stage. While students would be challenged and their education enriched by the extracurricular exercise, the university itself would also attract attention as a journalistic institution, thereby expanding its journalism resources and laying the foundations of a more robust undergraduate program in the field.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016

VANGUARD VOICES

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VIEWPOINT • Brothers

In Search of Diplomatic Respect

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Isaiah Fleming-Klink

Why the GOP Is So White

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merica is failing poor, rural, white communities.

Of course, I do not intend to ignore the poverty and discrimination facing rural, black communities. Such communities suffer not only from the challenges I will mention in this piece, but also endure the deep roots of racial discrimination that black individuals and communities face in all geographic locations. In this way, rural, black America faces exacerbated versions of the economic, educational and social barriers rural, white America does. The difference though, is political narrative; mainstream progressivism has recognized and proposed policy solutions to issues of race. I would argue that this progressivism has failed to do the same for rural-urban differences, predominately because they fear being labeled as ignoring or unsympathetic to racial discrimination; in essence, they fear that a nuanced, candid discussion of our nation’s rural-urban divide will see a racist label slapped on it.

Moreover, poverty exists everywhere in our country. It affects people of all races, genders, religions, educational levels, sexual orientations and ages. Historically, poverty has impacted particular communities more than others. Again, the most salient example is African Americans, whose poverty was and is rooted in decades of slavery, convict leasing, Jim Crow-era legal discrimination and mass incarceration — what Michelle Alexander and others have labeled as the “new Jim Crow.”

Poverty is framed as well for valid statistical reasoning as a problem for immigrant communities. The list of typically recognized poverty-stricken demographics goes on and on: single mothers, drug users, high school drop outs, low-skill workers and the physically disabled.

But poor, rural, and largely white communities fail to garner this recognition. This is not to say these communities are solely white, but, in 2010 studies, 79 percent of residents in areas classified as “rural” or “small-town” were white.

So, just as we often characterize urban poverty as black, despite many white people living in those areas, I think it is fair for me to say we are failing poor, rural and white America.

These communities are angry for good reason. Poverty rates in rural America have been higher than those in metropolitan America over the past 50 years. In many states, wages are lower and effective tax rates are higher for rural communities.

Health care costs have been cut for many across the country, but have increased for rural populations as a lack of competition in sparsely populated rural environments allows providers to maintain or raise pre-Affordable Care Act costs. Though education spending has been slashed across the country, rural schools face particular challenges. Rural areas struggle more to attract qualified teachers because of large distance from urban, highereducational hubs, geographic distributions with low population spread and small, homogenous environments. As a result, students from rural areas are less likely to attend college or receive a bachelor’s degree.

For good reason poor, rural, white America is angry.

And the Democratic Party has, in large part, ignored it. It has shaped its narrative and rhetoric around poor communities of color, which is understandable; those communities have endured unimaginable systemic oppression since our nation’s beginning. It is difficult to speak on this issue without marginalizing the struggles of African Americans and other individuals of color.

Republicans, though, provide poor, rural, white America with narratives ranging from moderate conservatism to the nationalistic, anti-“other”, fear-mongering faux-conservatism we see in Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s campaigns. So even though it can be despicable and anti-American, the Republican narrative at least acknowledges the struggles of rural, white America.

It makes sense that this narrative appeals to many members of rural, white America.

Often without access to a decent education or to diversity, it makes sense that those most harshly affected by globalization yearn for a time when America focused inward; it makes sense that they see government bureaucracy, which repeatedly ignores them, as wholly negative; it makes sense that they do not support environmental legislation, which only tangibly affects them by cutting coal or oil jobs in their communities it makes sense that they reject policies like affirmative action, because they have never seen the value of diversity and likely feel that they have had their poverty overlooked in favor of others. It makes sense that, with no other narrative, they identify with the only political agenda that acknowledges their hardships.

So in this climate, it is up to the Democratic Party to create a new narrative: a narrative based on the fundamental liberal values of freedom, individual agency, equal opportunity and socio-economic mobility. A narrative backed by the statistical truths that diversity increases productivity, that foreigners and immigrants enrich our economy and culture, that religious difference is rooted in love, not hate or violence or terrorism. A narrative of compassion, understanding and humanization.

Isaiah Fleming-Klink is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service. VANGUARD VOICES appears every other Tuesday.

am a Palestinian in J Street U, a pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, propeace organization that advocates a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and this week was particularly trying for me.

This past week, Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine took part in the annual International Israeli Apartheid Week, and I realized very quickly that the on-campus partisan groups working on this issue — SJP and the Georgetown Israel Alliance — were both committed to taking polarizing stances.

SJP erected a mock wall in the Intercultural Center meant to depict the barrier separating Israel proper from the Palestinian territories. The wall was soon vandalized by both the pro-Israel and pro-Palestine communities.

One person wrote: “Palestinians are trained to hate Israelis from birth.

They are adept at playing the victim ‘narrative.’” A response was soon added: “And Israeli teenagers are trained to kill Palestinian children; go to Gaza!”

Seeing all this, I found myself falling apart in classes, awkwardly in between communities. I felt unable to truly talk to either pro-Israel or pro-Palestine friends. Everywhere I turned, someone wanted to talk about this conflict, trying to pull me in one direction or another, and it felt like I just had to take it.

When I spoke with a pro-Palestine friend, I had to swallow back the urge to try to enlighten him about the proIsrael narrative — to ask him how it would feel if your entire group of people was nearly eliminated a few decades earlier. With pro-Israel friends, who feel that a country about which they care deeply was being unfairly bullied, I had to bite my tongue to keep from telling them that I dealt with that every election cycle, when U.S. political candidates describe Pal-

estinians as terrorists.

The intergroup bickering between GIA and SJP was not more cordial.

SJP’s anti-normalization policy bars engaging with pro-Israel groups, which always struck me as a luxury.

It is easy, when you are removed from the conflict, to think refusing to work with Israel supporters constitutes the moral high ground. However, as a Palestinian-American who has sat at checkpoints for five hours and had my water supply arbitrarily cut off by Israeli authorities, refusing to talk with the other side helps no one.

SJP put on a whole week of events aiming to educate the campus on Palestinian life under military occupation, yet I wondered what it had really accomplished by only talking to those who already agreed with it.

It was highly frustrating to see it talk about my people’s situation, yet offer no concrete path forward. SJP members have told me that expanding education about the conflict will force American politicians to withdraw support for Israel, particularly once constituents become aware of the occupation and the U.S. government’s quiet complicity in it. To me, this just

seems like a passive way of avoiding any real action on this conflict.

SJP continues to tout its usual rhetoric, blaming Israel for the entirety of the problem and mischaracterizing the Israel-Palestine situation. Its approach not only unfairly accuses Israel as the sole instigator, but also fails to address grievances that Palestinians have with their own civil society. SJP’s negative emphasis on Israel polarizes the conversation and fails to acknowledge Israel’s legitimate security concerns. SJP’s demonization of Israel neither helps the Palestinians nor takes into account that Israelis deserve as much respect for their narrative as Palestinians do.

On the other side, the actions of GIA proved just as challenging and frustrating. I was baffled when I saw its official statement on Apartheid Week, part of which states: “While we respect SJP’s intentions in bringing important issues to light, there are few parallels between Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and that of blacks in apartheid South Africa.

Apartheid requires the de jure institutionalization of racism, but Palestinians in Israel have full Israeli citizenship and Palestinians in the West

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Bank in Gaza have full citizenship under the Palestinian Authority.”

The attempt to equate Palestinians with Israeli citizenship to Palestinians with citizenship under the Palestinian Authority is not concurrent with my personal experiences or those of any other Palestinians with citizenship under the Palestinian Authority. For example, my family’s town is fewer than 10 miles away from Jerusalem, yet it needs an Israeli visa to pass through the checkpoints regulating Palestinian travel within the West Bank.

GIA’s statement additionally failed to acknowledge that SJP exists because Israel has in fact been oppressing Palestinians for over 60 years by holding the West Bank under military occupation and maintaining a blockade around Gaza. The statement blatantly ignored this fact, prioritizing Israel’s public image over holding Israel accountable to its democratic foundations.

Although I wanted to be fair to Israel during this week, GIA’s email left no space for my narrative as a Palestinian.

Moreover, as various members of GIA updated their Facebook cover photos to one that read, “As a Hoya, I stand with Israel,” my frustration with GIA grew. I wondered why they could not say instead, “As a Hoya, I stand with Israel and Palestine.”

It seems all SJP and GIA did this week was role play the conflict. Then, at the end of it, they got to walk away.

Both claim to be committed respectively to the Palestinian and Israeli people. However, they should seriously ask themselves if their actions are in any way advancing the cause for the people they claim to love. Unlike GIA and SJP, the Israelis and Palestinians do not get to simply walk away.

LAILA BROTHERS is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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s our term comes to a close, a number of students have approached us asking, “If you could go back in time and ‘do GUSA’ all over again, would you?”

The immediate response tends to run along the lines of, “Is this some sly way of telling us you have a time machine?”

And once we recover from the petitioner’s disappointing response, we offer a second, sincere answer: We do not know yet. In many ways we will not be able to properly assess all the “what if,” “why didn’t we” and “I must have been drunk on power to think it was a good idea to” statements until we put some distance between ourselves and this past year.

Serving as Georgetown University Student Association executives was never part of our Georgetown plan. You all know that. A year ago we knew almost nothing about GUSA besides the fact that it did not work. We ran solely to have fun and put the Georgetown Heckler even more on the map. On the backs of the highly coveted “I don’t give a sh-t” demographic, we were swept into an office that we were thoroughly unqualified to take. We lacked experience and understanding. From our perspective, GUSA was a lot like the Trinity: an amorphous blob divided into three separate yet indistinguishable parts that may or may not be working for the student body’s best interest.

Upon taking office, our transition period hit us like a ton of bricks — if this particular ton of bricks demands to have meetings with you from the early morning to late at night every day for two months. Our — Joe Luther (COL ‘16), Connor Rohan (COL ‘16) and Abbey McNaughton (COL ‘16) — shared calendar became a pastel vortex of color-coated meetings with students, administrators and neighbors.

This was our first mistake.

The vortex sucked us up and we lost touch with the lighthearted tone that had so successfully engaged the student body. We slowly forgot that we had been elected to do things differently. We let our concern over a lack of institutional knowledge dictate our priorities and focus. Over time, we became good at being GUSA executives, but neglected Youtopia. We tried to absorb GUSA as it was instead of shaping the institution as we saw fit.

Midway through the year, we began to recognize just how much our once-deviant mentality had taken a back-

seat to the mainstream. It is never easy to correct trajectory midflight — the GUSA steering wheel we requested was cut from our allocated budget — but our self-awareness and ability to constantly reevaluate our position was one of our most important assets during our term. We were able to learn from our missteps and apply what we learned. We were at our best this year when we returned to our original mentality. Refocusing on our light-hearted messaging and reshuffling the way the cabinet meetings were conducted allowed us to operate more efficiently and without hating our jobs. As a result, we can say with confidence that we have made important strides in campus planning, mental health and sexual assault policy initiatives — that is how we are proud to end our term.

Any GUSA executive transitioning into the role risks unconsciously absorbing the university’s status quo. This is something that should be avoided at all costs. One cannot expect to effect substantial change in a university where it can take years to make a decision in the “moving so slowly it might as well be petrified in amber” system begat from a bureaucrat’s wet dream. Coming from the Heckler, where we were able to produce and publish content on a dime, the terms “working groups” and “stakeholder input” were foreign gibberish worthy of ridicule — and, to a certain extent, still are. The belabored, hypercautious and too often misguided mentality of the university needs constant vocal input from students. The labyrinth of committees and university bureaucrats cannot be trusted to simply run its course and produce policies that are best for students. With such an ephemeral lifespan, GUSA executives cannot be afraid to speak up, must exhibit brutal honesty with themselves and others and challenge systems when they are not working.

GUSA needs executives who will sacrifice themselves and their time for the student body while recognizing that their titles mean nothing but additional responsibility.

GUSA needs people who take their jobs seriously, but not themselves.

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JOE LUTHER is a senior in the College. CONNOR ROHAN is a senior in the College.

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merican society is typified by its theoretical commitments to capitalism and, therefore, to competition. From an early age, American children are pushed to play sports like football and tennis — that is, to compete. We are taught that we can make it to the top by becoming the best competitors out there. Think about all of thestarry-eyedkidswhowanttobecome famous athletes and performers. Only 0.03 percent of high school basketball players actually make it to the NBA. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 70,000 paid actors in the United States, which equates to only 0.0002 percent of the population; furthermore, most of those actors do not achieve Leonardo DiCaprio levels of fame. That level of competition is like taking a test where even scoring within the 99th percentile is still failure. Though the chances of success are infinitesimal, our society encourages impressionable youths to retain virtually impossible goals.

This behavior strikes me as pointless. Every studentofintroductory economics knows that, in a state of perfect competition, or a hypothetical market where competition Rahul is at its maximum level, all the profits disappear. While perfect competition does not exist in the real world, any form of competition eats away at the potential benefits that any one person can reap. Let’s return to the example of performers. I know someone from my hometown who dropped out of college to become a rapper; needless to say, his quest to become a music legend is not going well. There are simply too many other people out there with the same skills, goals and mindset.

What most people fail to realize is that competition is reckless unless you have a defensible competitive advantage.

Even if you do, it is nullified if others have a similar or equally valuable advantage. To realize true success, you need to be fundamentally different, which is hard because humans exhibit herd behavior and mimesis. This is why we emulate our role models; we believe we can succeed by modeling the behavior of people we admire.

But if you want to be an actor just like DiCaprio, why would anyone cast you when they could just go get him? If you played baseball exactly like Derek Jeter, there would be no point in recruiting you because you would not move the needle on any sabermetrics models — you would not add new value.

Alternatively, monopolists exert complete power over markets; they set pricesandblockcompetition.Whilewe are conditioned to think monopoly is harmful, monopolists are the winners in society. Historically, patents have literally given monopolies to people in order to encourage them to create things that are usefully different — think about the value created

by the first telephone and railroad companies. Today, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are multi-billionaires because they have monopolized.

Rather than competing on existing dimensions and catering to computer scientists, Gates created a PC that everyone could use. Buffett decided to take value-investing to its logical extremes while every other financial firm chased trends. Monopolists win because they are different.

For a somewhat ridiculous example, consider Silly Bandz. At their peak, creator Robert Croak sold over a million packs a week, simply by tweaking a product that already existed in Asia and arbitraging it to America where it would be unique.

In 2010, Croak’s company hit $200 million in revenue. Clearly, monopoly makes more sense than competition.

We willfully ignore the fact that society does not reward competitors — it rewards the exceptional.

This is because in a market for perfectly competitive labor, labor is undifferentiated and substitutable.

One laborer can be replaced by any other. This proves true for most jobs Desai and clubs. Nothing really differentiates one Students of Georgetown, Inc. applicant from another; literally anyone can make coffee or salad.

Therefore trying to compete on those dimensions is futile. Even trying to compete based on cultural fit is tough because there are so many people who exhibit the requisite traits. You need to meet all of those base criteria and add something new — that could be something intangible like charisma or a sense of humor, or it could be exceptional design skills.

The point is, trying to be the perfect competitor is worthless because you are only valuable insofar as you are different from the competition.

Many people opine on the competition problem at Georgetown, but few offer concrete solutions. To that end, I say that because we reward the unique, it is better simply not to fixate on competing. Instead of getting discouraged about the tough process to get into clubs like Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union and Georgetown University Student Investment Fund, work instead on creating some sort of lasting competitive advantage. In the long run, cultivating the thing that separates you from everyone else is what will generate the most value. Refusing to compete forces you to strike out on your own, push the bounds of comfort, develop diverse new skills and become a leader rather than a follower.

Rahul Desai is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. UNPOPULAR OPINION appears every other Tuesday.

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Santorum Talks Political Career, Liberal Culture WILLIAM ZHU Hoya Staff Writer

Former Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) discussed his experiences running for president and his views on liberal values at an event hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service as part of its “Reflections on Running” series in Old North on Monday.

GU Politics Executive Director Mo Elleithee moderated the discussion, which was attended by over 70 people. Elleithee previously spent nearly two decades working as a communication specialist for the Democratic Party.

Santorum began his career working for former Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.) during his time at the Dickinson School of Law from 1983 to 1986 and acted as the Pennsylvania Senate’s local government committee director from 1981 to 1984. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, before becoming a senator in 1994. He served two terms until losing his re-election bid in 2006.

Santorum said he first ran for Congress in a tough election cycle but, despite the odds, won by sticking to his principles and working hard. Santorum specifically pointed to the lack of support and funding he received from political action committees and the Republican National Committee.

“I got no support from anybody. I got no PAC money, no support from the RNC, no support from the congressional committee,” Santorum said. “I just decided that you had to go out and stand for what you believe in. I went there, and I figured I’m going to do the right thing and just spend my two years and then go do something else.”

In his 2012 presidential election, Santorum lost the Republican nomination to former governor Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). He ran again for president during the 2016 primaries, earning only a fraction of the support he enjoyed four years ago.

After withdrawing his candidacy for the nomination Feb. 3, Santorum endorsed Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who later also dropped out on March 16.

Santorum highlighted Donald Trump’s divisive politics and rhetoric as a clever political strategy.

“He’s good at angry. He’s good at blaming folks. In my own opinion, he did what Barack Obama and the Democrats did very well,” Santorum said. “They segment the population, and they try to maximize the votes from different groups of people.”

Despite this, Santorum said he would support the Republican nominee, even if it turns out to be Trump.

“I will vote for whoever the Republican nominee is,” Santorum said.

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Former Sen. and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) spoke on his political career and perspective of liberal culture in a “Reflections on Running” event hosted by GU Politics on Monday.

“To the extent that I can, I will try to help him.”

Following Elleithee and Santorum’s conversation, audience members were given the opportunity to ask the senator questions.

Responding to an inquiry about same-sex marriage legalization, Santorum expressed vehement opposition, stating that the law could set a precedent for the legalization of other sexual relations.

“How do you say that two men can marry, two women can marry, but three can’t?” Santorum said.

Santorum took issue with the ability of the Supreme Court to approve laws that could potentially be implemented without restriction, comparing this to Congress’ more limited legislative powers.

“When the Court passes a law, which is what they did, it is a broad sweeping right that has legal reasoning and ramifications that flow from it, whereas when the Congress says here is what it is and there’s nothing more than that, we can limit it.

Courts can’t limit. And that is the problem with courts doing this,” Santorum said. “They open up Pandora’s box.”

“How do you say that two men can marry, two women can marry, but three can’t?”

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Santorum also discussed the implications of a liberal Supreme Court, a possibility in light of President Barack Obama’s recent nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the court. Santorum said it would result in the importation of secular, European values.

“It is a completely secular society where man establishes rights and rules and so my point is, what the

Supreme Court will do, is adopt European style rights and import them into America,” Santorum said.

“What is Europe doing except being co-opted, corrupted and displaced now by immigrants who have a fundamentally different culture than they do and they don’t even have the courage to fight on that? Europe is dying. They’re dying. They’re not leading. They’re not fighting for anything or against anybody other than just to keep their stuff.”

Santorum warned the audience that the United States could share what he viewed as Europe’s disastrous fate if a more liberal culture finds a national foothold.

“This place will die and become just like Europe,” Santorum said.

Roey Hadar (SFS ’17) said he respected Santorum’s principled outlook but said he found it difficult to listen to the senator’s statements during the question and answer session.

“In the Q&A portion, Santorum just used such inflammatory rhetoric, some logical fallacies, so much

over the top rhetoric that it was hard to sustain the previously gained respect that I had before,” Hadar said.

Ellie Singer (COL ’18), who identifies as a Republican, shared Hader’s sentiments and said, while Santorum provided valuable insight, his rhetoric was problematic.

“I think it was really valuable to hear Santorum’s opinions, and it’s difficult to push past the inflammatory rhetoric to get to the conservative principles that will actually bring our country together,” Singer said.

Amy Qin, a student from the University of Chicago who attended the event, said she did not agree with Santorum’s views on immigration and felt he was unfairly targeting certain groups, which made her uncomfortable.

“He was making kind of a personal attack on the people in this room,” Qin said regarding her perception that Santorum specifically directed his rhetoric at minority audience members. “I really felt he was singling out a lot of immigrants.”

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Rubio Wins DC Republican Primary, Drops Out of Race Tala Al Rajjal Hoya Staff Writer

The Washington, D.C., Republican primary culminated in a victory for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) after local Republicans took to Loews Madison Hotel to vote March 12.

Despite his win in the District, Rubio suspended his presidential campaign March 16 after losing the primary in his home state of Florida to Donald Trump.

The D.C. primary is potentially the city’s most important in years as a step in building momentum for candidates other than Trump, who leads in numerous other states but lacks strong support in the District. The primary also allocated the city’s 19 delegates earlier than in years past, giving D.C. voters an opportunity to make more of an impact in the nomination process.

The District is largely Democratic, with only six percent of the city identifying as Republican.

Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service spring fellow Katie Packer, former deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, stressed D.C.’s importance in this particular election.

“Typically D.C. has fallen too late to make a difference,” Packer wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This year all states matter. And if it comes down to a delegate battle on the floor every set of delegates will matter.”

The four candidates still in the race prior to the D.C. primary — Rubio, Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and

Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio) — competed for 19 delegates, 16 of whom were allocated proportionally to candidates who gained more than 15 percent of votes. The remaining three delegates were allocated though plurality to the candidate who received the majority of votes.

Rubio, who amassed 37.3 percent of votes, earned 10 delegates while Kasich trailed closely behind with 35.5 percent of votes, receiving nine delegates.

Trump and Cruz received substantially less support, with 13.8 and 12.4 percent of the vote each. Neither secured delegates from the District.

Others on the ballot, who amassed under one percent of the votes, include former candidate Ben Carson, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

Packer attributed the increased support for Rubio in the area to D.C.’s demographic makeup, citing the District’s entirely urban location and its residents’ high overall level of education.

“D.C. is more like a big city than a state. Most states have cities where Rubio did well. Others have done better in rural areas. D.C. doesn’t have suburbs or small towns. So it was tailor made for Rubio,” Packer wrote. “The D.C. electorate is far more educated than other places. He wasn’t really competing with either Cruz or Trump there. He had the field to himself and was far more organized than anyone else here.”

The 2016 primary also saw less overall participation with 2,839 vot-

ers compared to 2012, in which nearly 6,000 voters cast their ballots. Party leaders attributed the decline in turnout to the constraints of having a single downtown location for Republican voters to cast their ballots rather than several locations spread throughout the District.

Georgetown Students for Rubio board member Alexandra Williams (SFS ’19) highlighted Rubio’s success in Washington, D.C., as an indication of a politically inclined voting population.

“I was overjoyed that Rubio won something. None of us with the campaign were surprised with the result though because he had performed so well in Northern Virginia,” Williams said. “Voters in D.C. are less inclined to be swayed by demagoguery.”

Georgetown Students for Rubio board member Hunter Estes (SFS ’19) agreed that voters in the District show uniqueness in their experience and exposure to the political climate. Estes further underscored D.C.’s unique position as the center of the nation’s politics as a factor in its propensity to favor establishment candidates such as Rubio and Kasich.

“I think the majority of Republicans who live in D.C. are Capitol Hill staffers, pundits, journalists and other politically minded workers,” Estes said.

“The people showing up to vote were not ones who were won over by the messages of Trump or Cruz. Those two candidates have waged war on the Beltway class, and in this primary we saw that very class naturally rejecting them in favor of more establishmentoriented candidates.”

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Supporters line up for the D.C. Republican Primary on March 12.

Sen.Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) won with 37.3 percent of the vote.

Estes emphasized the importance of Rubio’s win, despite the former candidate’s decision to suspend his campaign.

“We were very excited to have seen the results coming out of D.C. In this race we knew that every delegate was going to count heading into the convention. And every win is important for the sake of momentum,” Estes said.

“We hoped that what we saw in D.C. would correlate into a national trend in the upcoming primaries as well.

However, that didn’t manifest itself, unfortunately.”

Though Estes expressed pride in Rubio’s District victory, he also articulated the disappointment Rubio supporters feel in light of the presidential contender’s decision to withdraw from the race.

“Without a doubt I strongly believe

that Rubio would have been one of the greatest presidents we would ever have. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem that his time has come in this cycle,” Estes said. “But he’s a young man with a bright future, and I looked forward to the incredible things he will do with his time moving forward. I fully believe that one day Marco Rubio will be our president, and I will be honored once again to stand with him then.”

Williams echoed Estes’ sentiments, speculating some Rubio supporters may disengage from the 2016 election process as a whole.

“Now the GOP is left with a field of uninspiring, pessimistic candidates.

Many Rubio supporters feel lost now, with no choice but to abstain from voting due to a lack of any reasonable or desirable candidate whose values align with theirs,” Williams said.

Student Athletes Form Petition Nike Worker Speaks Out Protesting Kehoe Field Closure Owen Eagan Hoya Staff Writer

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Student athletes frustrated with Kehoe Field’s potential eight-to-15-year closure have created a petition urging the administration to expedite the rehabilitation process. Kehoe Field’s closure has consequently forced club sports, intramural sports and recreational activities onto one field: Cooper Field.

The administration decided to close Kehoe Field on Feb. 2 because of safety concerns posed by the deterioration of the field. Varsity athletes have not used Kehoe Field in 10 years because of the field’s poor condition.

“There are divots; there are mounds; there are seams that have come apart, and it’s just not very safe up there,” Director of Yates Field House Jim Gilroy said.

Dan Zager (COL ’18), a member of the men’s club Frisbee Team, said he is frustrated at the university’s slow response to repairing Kehoe Field, citing the practical inconvenience it confers on club and intramural sports.

“I think Kehoe is definitely necessary because we have so many club sports on campus and so many intramural sports, and we need more field space. To narrow usable field space down to Cooper Field is a joke for a university of this size,” Zager said.

Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Todd Olson said the administration has worked hard to make other facilities available to the best of their ability, by opening up evening times of Cooper Field for club sports and intramural teams as well as allowing students to practice on weeknights at Francis Park, located on 22nd and M St NW, and Mitchell Park, located at 1801 23rd St NW, and Sundays at Georgetown Day School. The Intramural Softball program is using Shaw Field for games during the spring semester.

As of press time, no shuttles are being provided to the fields. ”We continue to work actively to identify available nearby recreation facilities where students can have access to practice time,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

James McGrath (COL ’17), chair of the Advisory Board for Club Sports and who was involved in putting together the petition, said only securing off-campus practice space is not satisfactory.

“We put the petition together because we want the university to hear from student voices that Kehoe cannot sit unused and in disrepair for the next decade. Club athletes, intramural participants and just anyone who wants to be active at Georgetown has a stake in the future of Kehoe,”

McGrath said. “We just want the administration to know that although we are working to secure off-campus practice space for our teams, we will not be able to continue the success of club sports at Georgetown with Kehoe closed for the next eight to 15 years.”

The current campus plan, which begins in 2017 and extends until 2037, would entail building a new athletics center where Shaw Field is currently and then tearing down the current Yates building, which would create space for new fields.

According to Vice President for Facilities and Operations Robin Morey, the university is still deciding whether it will repair the current Kehoe Field while awaiting the creation of a new athletics center.

“Over the next year, we are exploring the feasibility of a new Yates vs. the replacement of the Yates roof. This work requires engagement of our planners, engineers, city and community partners to vet program requirements, zoning requirements, economic impacts and mission accommodation” Morey wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Gilroy said he would like to see Kehoe Field repaired while University President John J. DeGioia and the board of directors decide on the next major fundraising project, although he said he thinks it is unlikely the university will spend the necessary money to repair Kehoe in the interim.

“I think the facilities administration feel that it’s not worth it because of the cost,” Gilroy said.

“I think that the estimated cost would be between $7.5 and $10 million to fix it, and that would mean just ripping up everything that’s up there, cleaning off the roof, making any repairs that need to be made, and then waterproofing the roof and then putting on the different layers needed to go on for a new synthetic field. Students petitioning for a repair to Kehoe Field echoed Gilroy’s sentiment, saying that it is worthwhile and necessary to repair Kehoe Field regardless of whether or not a new recreational center becomes the university’s next major project because the completion of a new facility is so far down the road.

Gilroy said he hopes a petition could make the administration listen.

“I would like to think that if several thousand students made it clear that this is really important to them that maybe somebody in the administration will listen,” Gilroy said.

Olson said the administration is happy to work with the Advisory Board for Club Sports as it seeks a suitable solution for all parties involved.

“I am happy to meet with the Advisory Board for Club Sports to discuss the concerns raised in the petition. I will be reaching out to them very soon,” Olson said.

While student advocates dispute the current university contract with Nike, Inc., former Nike garment worker and union president Noi Supalai described her struggle to receive fair wages at an event in the Reiss Science Building on Friday. The 44-year-old mother of two came to Georgetown from her home in Northern Thailand as part of a nationwide tour with the United Students Against Sweatshops, a national student-advocacy group.

Cosponsored by the Women and Gender Studies, Theology and Justice and Peace Studies programs, Wearable Justice and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, the talk comes after Athletes and Advocates for Worker’s Rights began speaking out against Nike’s alleged unethical business practices in Nov. 2015.

Through an interpreter, Supalai explained she worked at various industrial positions until joining an Eagle Speed Marketing Co. Ltd. factory in Thailand in 2008.

The factory employed about 2,000 workers and formed contracts with brands such as Nike, Columbia Sportswear and The North Face to produce jackets primarily for European and American buyers.

Supalai worked at a sewing machine to assemble jacket pieces from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., with a onehour lunch break at noon.

The factory provided lunch and paid Supalai the equivalent of $4 or $5 per day, plus voluntary overtime. For Supalai, the initial wage was reasonable.

However, when Nike requested a large order in 2009, the factory increased worker hours until midnight — sometimes even to sunrise — with minimal breaks.

After working to the brink of exhaustion, the workers found they did not receive their monthly paychecks and began negotiating unsuccessfully with their employer, who explained they could not pay the workers until Nike paid their order.

Without wages, workers could not pay for rent, electricity, running water or food. In response, the factory workers formed a union and elected Supalai president, eventually appealing directly to Nike for help in claiming their wages.

Supalai recounted that, after Nike representatives assured the union they would meet with Eagle Speed managers, the company retracted its orders from the factory instead.

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Former Nike worker Noi Supalai, right, and her translator described her struggle to recieve fair wages. with factories abroad but remove orders from firms where workers protest for wage increases and other improvements to pursue lower prices.

“When workers try to form a union, they have power. Brands don’t like that, especially brands like Nike,” Currier said. “So what they’ll do is they’ll up and move their production to a different factory, likely somewhere that has even less regulation.”

Through her experience with negotiations, Supalai argued Nike emphasizes monetary gain over human quality of life.

“They don’t care what they leave behind, our working conditions or the conditions of the workers or what would happen to the factory,” Supalai said. “The only thing they care about is their products and their profits.”

Supalai’s union received compensation for missed wages as well as improved working conditions, including higher quality lunches following joint negotiations with their employer and the Worker Rights Consortium, an independentlabor rightsmonitoring organization cofounded by Georgetown in 2000.Nike did not respond to a request for comment.

The company has received negative media coverage over worker abuse in its factories since the 1990s.

In 1999, Nike created the Fair Labor Association, an independent monitoring organization auditing Nike-contracted factories for labor violations, to address worker maltreatment issues.

Given Nike’s prominent position within the FLA, Supalai said she does not trust the association.

“There must be an independent organization which monitors a company of Nike so that they can be more responsible to their production line,” Supalai said.

Currently, most major university-affiliated apparel brands including Adidas and Alta Gracia have agreed to the Code of Conduct and thereby ap-

ply “adequate monitoring methods,” typically including WRC inspections. Nike has not agreed to the Code of Conduct.

Cal Watson, the Chair of the Georgetown Licensing and Oversight Committee, which advises the university administration in promoting ethical business practices, said a phone meeting with Nike on Monday addressing this exception will allow the committee to deliberate and advise university administration on the issue.

LOC member professor John Kline — who supported Alta Gracia and contributed to a report researching the company’s fair business practices in 2014 — said Nike should be made to sign the code and agree to additional monitoring or forfeit its licensing agreement with Georgetown.

“If Nike refuses to sign the same contract that everyone else does and refuses to be committed to following our Code of Conduct, I will not support any continuation of Nike as a licensee,” Kline said.

Isabelle Teare (COL ’17), a student athlete and co-leader of Athletes and Advocates who coordinated the event, said the event’s result met her expectations.

“I think we had a really good turnout, and I think people walked away with an increased understanding and interest in the issue,” Teare said.

Sophie Kershaw (COL ’18), a student athlete and activist who attended the event, said she hopes students will promote the WRC in monitoring brands like Nike producing garments for the university.

She argued that, if students become more aware of WRC’s goals and efforts, more positive progress will occur.

“Small steps like [promoting] the WRC [can help] — these are the people who know the issue and are doing the right thing — so if we can try to find a way to help in that pursuit, that’s the best we can do,” Kershaw said.

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WALL, from A1 Assistant Director of Student Engagement Lauren Gagliardi spoke on behalf of the Center for Student Engagement and offered its support to the SJP following the vandalism.

“The university considers acts of hate and bias unacceptable and antithetical to its commitment to an inclusive and respectful community,” Gagliardi wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The Georgetown Israel Alliance and J Street U Georgetown, both pro-Israel organizations, have condemned the vandalism of the SJP’s wall.

GIA President Daniel Silbert (COL ’18) said he found SJP’s display onesided and divisive but emphasized that the GIA would never respond to provocative displays with vandalism.

“If I come face-to-face with whoever did this, I’d say what you did was wrong because you defaced another campus organization’s property, which is against campus rules. It’s disrespectful, but even furthermore, it’s a horrible representation of the pro-Israel community,” Silbert said.

“That’s not what we stand for, and if you are upset by what’s being said on that wall, when you respond by writing on it and defacing it, you’re just bringing more attention to it and giving their baseless claims even more attention.”

Molly Wartenberg (SFS ’16), former co-chair and current treasurer of J Street, attributed the politically charged use of the term “apartheid” as fueling the tensions that resulted in the wall’s vandalism.

“One of my main oppositions to it is that it suggests Israel is this horrible apartheid state when there is a huge difference between Israel proper and the occupied territories of the West Bank. I just think glossing over it with one word removes all nuance from the conversation and is also just very inflammatory for everyone,” Wartenberg said.

SJP member Matt Martin (COL ’16) said the term aptly calls attention to the parallels between the

colonial oppression of black South Africans and Palestinians.

“Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning ‘separateness,’ and that is exactly what is in Israel-Palestine today — separateness,” Martin said.

“It’s explicit, and it’s in their laws that are often very discriminatory against Palestinians and all sort of things. It doesn’t seek to equate Israel with apartheid South Africa but to highlight similarities and to then provoke conversation and critical thinking.”

In response to Israel Apartheid Week, the GIA launched a campaign calling for increased dialogue with members of the SJP. Silbert argued the SJP’s anti-normalization policy, which argues that debates between the two sides should be resisted because the process legitimizes proIsrael positions, has stifled dialogue.

“If their goal is to promote peace and a solution to the conflict in Israel, not talking to the other side, and saying you’re not going to talk to the other side, is never going to move towards peace. It’s just going to alienate people away from your cause,” Silbert said.

Abdelfadeel said the anti-normalization policy is rooted in the philosophical principle that pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian positions are not morally equivalent sides.

“Israel has exercised settler-colonial policies against the Palestinians who have suffered immensely under this, and we don’t think it’s fair and it’s actually really, really absurd for anyone to suggest that an occupied people negotiate or talk or dialogue with the occupier,” Abdelfadeel said.

In light of Israel Apartheid Week and the vandalism, Martin criticized the university’s response to the vandalism, claiming its lack of formal statement is an unwelcome sign of how seriously it considers the rights of student groups.

“I anticipate and hope that the university will be more outspoken about vandalism on campus and take the rights of student groups seriously no matter what views they represent,” Martin said.

Khan, Fisk Begin Executive Term GUSA, from A1 “The recent news of the addition of the new psychologists and new case worker in CAPS, that’s great, and I know I really commend everyone who’s put so much of their time into that,” Khan said. “But it’s important to keep that momentum going.

There’s still a lot we need to do to improve the resources that we have on this campus.”

According to Fisk, the administration also plans to push for the creation of an LGBTQ living-learning community and the continued enforcement of the memorandum of understanding for sexual assault policy, to which they hope to add further points.

Fisk said it is time GUSA plays a more active role in the conversation about racial inclusivity on campus.

“So we commend DeGioia for the efforts he’s made to make race and racial injustice a larger conversation at Georgetown, but there’s much more to be had in that conversation and it’s about time GUSA steps up to play a more active role in that process so that we can have a more productive advocacy role this coming year with that,” Fisk said.

Fisk said GUSA wants to further increase dialogue about socio-economic inclusivity as well.

“I think that this should be a place that no matter how much money you have in your pocket, or whether your parents went to college or not, you should be able to be a Hoya to the best extent of your abilities, and I think that GUSA as an advocacy body should really want to make sure that is the fact and that is the case for every student here,” Fisk said.

According to Rohan, the univer-

sity will face several challenges in the coming year, including issues related to club sports, facilities, maintenance and a lack of funding for an athletic trainer.

Rohan said administrators often try to find ways to avoid addressing student concerns.

“We have administrators trying to hide behind walls of, ‘This is all very complicated and you can’t understand,’” Rohan said.

Luther said he believes his and Rohan’s tenure has been a success, especially in the areas of mental health, sexual assault and campus planning.

According to Luther, it is GUSA’s job to advocate for students as much as possible to a bureaucratic administration.

“Bureaucracies exist to protect themselves,” Luther said. “And so no matter how friendly and how exasperated and frustrated they might seem trying to make your demands come true, ultimately it’s in their best interests to keep students an arm’s length away. So that’s what we have to do here, is to make sure that the student voice is being pushed through as far as it can be.”

Luther said GUSA has the ability to improve students’ lives, but that it needs to focus on what students care about to be effective.

“We’ve all been impacted in a lot of great ways by people I’ve never met, and we are all impacting people that we’re never going to meet in a lot of good ways,” Luther said. “But we need to make sure if it’s going to be successful, student’s need to be behind it, and they’re not going to be behind it if all they hear about is all the petty squabbling that goes on when we get into the minor nuances of the bylaws.”

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Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) were sworn in to begin their term as GUSA executives Saturday.

accommodations afforded to them were a trash bag, a blanket, a towel and a pillow.

On March 16, a group of students and members of the Work With Dignity Campaign delivered their demands to university administrators, including increasing university accountability, enforcing fair business practices, reforming hiring and staffing practices and treating workers with dignity and respect.

Along with the demands, the demonstrators delivered to university officials the same accommodation packages given to workers during the blizzard, including a trash bag filled with a blanket, a towel and a pillow.

During the Friday rally, three university workers gave their personal remarks and experiences working on campus. The workers included Clarence Wesley, a facilities management employee, Josh Armstead, an employee of O’Donovan Hall, and Esmeralda Huerta (SFS ’17), a student employee.

Wesley said it is important that community members come together to express solidarity with workers and to denounce the hostilities many employees have endured on behalf of the administration.

“Many of us [workers] are having the same difficulties. For example, I have been retaliated against for speaking out about discrimination and this is still an ongoing problem because the retaliation has still continued. I was put on administrative leave as a result of this retaliation,” Wesley said.

Upon his return, Wesley claims he was punished with extra work as a result. He emphasized the need for the community to stand together so every worker can demand dignity and respectful conditions without fear of repercussions.

“When I came back from administrative leave, I was given an extra building. Now, I’m taking care of five buildings. Most people take care of one or two buildings,” Wesley said.

“It’s important that we stand together so that you know that you are not alone in this growing hostile working environment that has not happened in facilities before.”

Armstead said the lack of dignity and respect for one worker affects all workers at Georgetown. For Armstead, every employee and community member needs to contribute to the welfare of Georgetown’s employees.

“In essence, what happens when a worker is disrespected, or as I have heard, when we have workers sleeping in cots who have to be here to make sure that this university is up to par, and we have these workers sleeping on cots and working five buildings and being discriminated against, that affects us at Leo’s, that affects us at Hoya Court, that affects every worker, union and student alike because if it can happen to them, it can happen to us,” Armstead said.

Huerta, who serves as co-chair of the Office of Student Worker Advocacy, drew from her own experiences as the daughter of low-wage workers and discussed the conditions many Georgetown workers endure.

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Students, workers and community members protested in support of increased university accountability for workers’ rights Friday.

I saw my parents working in, I see people working in here,” Huerta said.

“People being overworked, people being discriminated against, people being abused by their employers, but having to go through those jobs anyway because they have to support their families.”

As a student worker herself, Huerta said students have a responsibility to create change in the community as well as advocate for their own rights as workers.

“We reach out to student workers who are taking on-campus jobs, off-campus jobs and who don’t really realize that they have rights,” Huerta said. “We as students not only have a voice to make sure that things get changed, but we also have rights and have a stake in this fight.”

Following the rally in Red Square, Pamela Gonzalez (SFS ’17) and Kory Stuer (COL ’19) led a group of students and community members in a march to University President John J. DeGioia’s office and presented a board with reasons why Georgetown should care about its workers.

As of press time, the university has not provided a formal response to the written demands, though Chief of Staff of the Office of the President Joe Ferrara spoke with the demonstrators Friday and said he would

present the demands to DeGioia.

Joseph Gomez (SFS ’19), a member of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, outlined ways that both Georgetown administration and students could remedy the injustices against workers. He said there is a need for the administration to apply the community’s dedication to Jesuit values to its treatment of all employees.

“If Georgetown were to just follow the Jesuit values that are set forth in the Spirit of Georgetown, and then incorporate that with what was supposed to have been implemented in the Just Employment Policy, then that can easily remedy the situation that is occurring now within university workers,” Gomez said.

Gomez said he hopes students across campus will educate themselves on issues of workers’ rights in the future by simply getting to know workers on a more individual level through personal discussions and encounters.

“The most important thing for students is to get to know the workers. Get to know the workers that you’re around everyday. Talk to people in Leo’s. Talk to the people that clean the bathrooms in your dorms. They’re human beings and they want to share their stories,” Gomez said.

MPD Policy Faces Backlash MPD, from A1 In 115 of the 284 cases, corresponding to around 40 percent, officers found nothing at the residences they raided. The remaining 60 percent of raids uncovered illegal items including weapons and drug paraphernalia. The warrants investigated in the report extended police jurisdiction in cases involving drugs and guns, allowing for the seizure of phones, computers and personal records.

Katherine Hubbard, a litigation fellow at Equal Justice Under Law – a D.C.-based non-profit civil rights organization that has filed lawsuits challenging the training and experience justification for obtaining warrants – said officers did not take all the necessary steps to acquire a warrant.

According to Hubbard, instead of simply invoking their training and experience, officers should first conduct an investigation that uncovers reasonable evidence.

“It’s our position that that practice is illegal,” Hubbard said. “The Fourth Amendment requires that in order to search someone’s home you need probable cause. There’s a fairly high standard, it’s saying that you need evidence that shows a probability that the things you’re seeking are likely to be found.”

MPD has defended the practice, stating that each search warrant goes through a rigorous review process by prosecutors and a judge to ensure probable cause and constitutionality.

MPD Chief Cathy Lanier said the warrants were constitutional and helped diminish criminal activity that may not otherwise have been discovered.

“In the vast majority of those warrants, contraband and evidence was recovered in furtherance of criminal prosecutions, and gave MPD the ability to bring closure to multiple victims of crimes in our city,” Lanier wrote in a statement to The Hoya. “During that same time frame, MPD received very

few complaints regarding the execution of those warrants.”

According to the report, almost 99 percent of the 276 raids in which a suspect’s race was stated occurred in the homes of African Americans.

Hubbard pointed to this racial and socio-economic component as indicative of a larger pattern in police practices.

“I don’t think anyone could imagine these searches happening in the Northwest with police conducting violent raids of people’s homes based on very little evidence,” Hubbard said.

“These searches are targeting black families and families who don’t have the resources to put up a big fight against this tactic.”

However, Lanier stated that the MPD does not target any particular community, stressing the department’s dedication to fair policing.

“As with any interaction between the police and a resident or visitor in D.C., if someone is not satisfied with the police service they have received or the actions of one of our members, I encourage them to immediately contact the MPD and speak with a supervisor or the Office of Police Complaints regarding the incident so the matter can be investigated,” Lanier wrote in her statement to The Hoya. “We remain committed to unbiased constitutional policing.”

Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure Co-Director at Georgetown University Law Center William McDonald said it is important to take into account the historical context of obtaining warrants based on training and experience when determining the constitutionality of searches.

McDonald cited the 1968 Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio, in which the Supreme Court ruled that, if a police officer has reasonable suspicion based on experience that a suspect has or will commit a crime, the officer has the authority to stop and frisk a citizen without probable cause to arrest.

“There was no reasonable standard

to make you think a crime had been committed,” McDonald said. “So, the court said, it was an experienced police officer, he observed this pattern of behavior and that gave him reasonable suspicion to go up and stop the man.”

However, McDonald stated that even with experience, officers still must have reasonable suspicion, and expressed doubt that this was the case in some of the raids reviewed.

“It’s up then to the courts to decide whether or not to let them do that or to put limits on the expansion of those powers,” McDonald said. “The powers they’ve managed to create for themselves using that logic strike me as pretty broad.”

Hubbard noted that the seven lawsuits Equal Justice Under Law has filed to challenge police officers’ use of their training and experience have been moving slowly through the courts.

D.C. has filed motions to dismiss the cases and for six of the seven, and judges’ decisions on whether or not to do so are still forthcoming.

“We’re waiting for rulings on the motions to dismiss,” Hubbard said.

“Once we get those we’ll move into the discovery phase where we’ll get more information about these practices.”

McDonald said that by continuing to stretch the limits regarding MPD raids, police officers lose legitimacy and authority in the neighborhoods where searches are taking place. According to McDonald, the police should take into account how its mistakes, such as raiding the wrong house, will be viewed by the public at large.

“That’s the fear behind letting police practice a policy that’s going to annoy the hell out of communities that are already disadvantaged and could explode,” McDonald said.

“That’s how I see this, that what needs to be done with regard to this particular policy is rethinking those policies and recognizing what’s in the balance.”

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Founder and Editor-in-Chief of news site Vox.com Ezra Klein emphasized the long-lasting implications of the current election cycle on the U.S. political environment during a discussion held in Copley Formal Lounge on Thursday.

The event, hosted by the Georgetown Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by The Hoya and The Georgetown Voice, was the seventh Annual Michael Jurist Memorial Lecture honoring the memory of former Lecture Fund Chair Michael Jurist (SFS ’07) and saw a turnout that filled the room.

Vox.com is a news site owned by the Vox Media Company. Established in 2014, it is dedicated to explaining and clarifying news and daily issues. During its first month, it received over five million unique visitors. Today it reaches over 23 million unique visitors per month.

The Georgetown Voice Editorin-chief Daniel Varghese (SFS ’17) introduced Klein and praised him for the large amount of articles he has contributed to Vox, despite his position as the editorin-chief. Klein then began by stating how the original intent of his speech was to discuss policymaking in Washington, but he had decided to focus on the pressing issue of the current state of U.S. politics during this election cycle.

“I think this has become a pretty dark time in American politics, and I think it requires people to think a little differently — for me to think a little different than I have in years,” Klein said.

The subject of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s success in the primaries was a theme of the lecture, though Klein made it clear he did not believe Trump would win the presidency.

Klein said Trump’s rise brings to light some of the weak points of the U.S. political system.

“What we are seeing here is that our institutions are not as strong as we think, at least not right now,” Klein said.

Citing both Bernie Sanders’ and Trump’s candidacies as examples, Klein said the current two-party system has silenced some beliefs held by the population, which has contributed to the rise in popularity of Trump and Sanders.

“I think something we see with Bernie Sanders, but more so with Donald Trump, is there are ideo-

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Editor-in-Chief of Vox.com Ezra Klein spoke on the state of the U.S. political system in Copley Lounge on Thursday. logical equilibriums that are suppressed by our political system,” Klein said. “What Donald Trump has done in the Republican Party specifically is to develop and sharpen a tendency he already knew was there.”

Klein said Trump’s success is emblematic of a larger trend and should not be dismissed as a fluke.

“What Trump has done is to scramble these position spaces, and in doing he has found something really powerful. It would be a mistake to see him as a one-off phenomena,” Klein said.

Klein said media bias is not ideological, but rather bias towards sensationalism and ratings. He further asserted Trump is a mastermind at using existing media bias to his advantage.

“All of the coverage would have naturally started going to Ted Cruz, because what you do in the media is when someone else begins to lead in the polls, is that you begin vetting them,” Klein said. “Donald Trump wrenched all that coverage back to him.”

Klein said another issue with the current political environment is the amount of polarization present in both Democrats and Republicans. When both parties become more extreme, Klein argued, individuals are more likely to support their party’s nominee.

“Now the stakes are higher.

Even if you don’t like the person your party has chosen, voting for them is still the rational choice,” Klein said.

As the speech drew to a close, Klein discussed the effects of online media and how it fuels polarization. He warned that the Internet tailors news outlets and

search results to match one’s ideology, leading to the creation of an echo chamber without opposing views.

“You can find yourself only absorbing news from outlets that agree with you,” Klein said. “The result is an atmosphere of fear, of mistrust and concern that leads people to feel that the stakes are much higher than ever.”

Klein stressed the importance of not becoming complacent and for citizens to play an active role to protect the American political system.

“We have to protect our democracy, we have to protect our political system, we have to protect our freedoms, in this era as much as we have in any other era,” Klein said. “We don’t get to take it for granted. Every generation doesn’t get to decide that the last generation has truly vanquished the demons.”

Grace Smith (COL ’18), who attended the event, said she enjoyed Klein’s speech and appreciated the diverse perspectives he brought forth.

“I think he is incredibly intelligent, and I definitely really appreciate the lecture fund for taking the time to have someone who so well-versed in these issues come here,” Smith said.

Jonny Amon (MSB ’19) said he found the discussion interesting, especially when it came to Klein’s analysis of Trump and his campaign.

“I thought it was really cool to see his perspective and like how he pushes out what he thinks and hearing him talk about Donald Trump in particular and other political candidates,” Amon said.

The Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act — which aims to reduce crime in the District — is currently undergoing final review by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser after receiving unanimous approval from the D.C. Council in its second reading.

Bowser has until March 25 to respond to and allow for the implementation of the bill, which seeks to support at-risk or dangerous individuals and to treat crime in the District as a public health issue.

At the council’s most recent legislative meeting March 1, NEAR Act sponsor Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) said the bill would take a major step toward a more effective approach to District crime.

“Today the council is poised to pass a comprehensive, evidence-based criminal justice reform measure,” McDuffie said. “In so doing we will be fundamentally rethinking how we approach violent crime in the District of Columbia.”

There were multiple amendments made to the bill during its second reading, which came nearly a month after its Feb. 2 first reading. The first amendment, made by McDuffie, seeks to create a fund for the proposed Office of Neighborhood Engagement and Security, the centerpiece program of the NEAR Act. The program will identify individuals at risk of committing crimes and teach them life planning and mentorship skills.

The fund McDuffie established aims to combine public money provided by the District as well as private donations.

The need for private donations arose after D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffery Dewitt stated D.C. would not have a sufficient budget to completely fund the office until at least 2017.

McDuffie argued that the current criminal justice system’s failures led to the need to create the new office.

“This council has recognized that the approach to which we have so desperately clung, built off of incarceration, does not work. In fact, it contributes to whole communities going missing, lost to a system over which the District government has little oversight or input,” McDuffie said. “It tears apart families and neighborhoods, and it irreparably harms our children.”

McDuffie additionally amended the bill to keep the personal information of at-risk individuals participating in the office’s programs from becoming public information.

McDuffie’s addendum also included language from the Washington, D.C. city code, explicitly stating that if an

individual is charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest cannot be used as a legitimate justification. This seeks to limit the use of force against police officers, as multiple councilmembers have expressed concerns about the bill’s attempts to constrain the Metropolitan Police Department’s use of force in arrests.

Councilmember LaRuby May (DWard 8) proposed an additional amendment to the bill to create a voucher program for businesses participating in the Act’s Private Security Camera System Incentive Program. The program would provide rebates for establishments that install exterior security cameras.

According to May, her amendment would ask the District to pay up front the $500 needed for the private security programs for low-income businesses in order to minimize the financial impact.

“That payment can prevent people in areas of desperate need for crime prevention tactics from obtaining this resource,” May wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This Amendment to the NEAR Act ensures that private security cameras are accessible to all residents, especially those in high crime and lowincome areas.”

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) introduced an additional amendment to the act that would give the Pretrial Services Agency the ability to initiate a process of holding an individual charged with a crime for up to 72 hours. The agency is an independent federal body that makes release recommendations for defendants awaiting trial. Currently, only District courts and the Washington, D.C., District Attorney’s Office holds the authority cited by the amendment.

Mendelson cited the inefficiency and potential danger of releasing suspects prematurely as a major concern prompting the addendum.

“Typically, a person who is released pending trial is released on the condition that they don’t reoffend, and sometimes they do, and that’s what this speaks to,” Mendelson said at the meeting. “We see that over and over.”

Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber expressed support for the bill as a creative way of reducing crime in Washington. Gruber was especially supportive of Mendelson’s amendment to hold those accused of a crime for longer periods.

“I think the bill is a good step in getting a handle on city crime. Sometimes you need to try different things to get different results,” Gruber said. “The amendment made by Councilmember Mendelson should be considered and given a chance to see if it works.”

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Sophomore midfielder Hannah Seibel had one assist and took two shots in Georgetown’s 10-4 loss to No. 19 Johns Hopkins on Saturday. Seibel has two goals this season.

GU Sinks in Second Half isabelle perciballi Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (2-6) fell to No. 19 Johns Hopkins (7-2) in a 10-4 finish on Saturday. This marked the 12th consecutive and 18th overall matchup between the two teams, which are tied with nine wins apiece. As one of the final games in the nonconference stretch of the Hoyas’ season, this contest provided an opportunity for the Hoyas to prepare for upcoming conference play.

Heading into the matchup, both Georgetown and Johns Hopkins were coming off road victories, against George Mason (3-2) and Vanderbilt (4-4), respectively. In the two days of preparation prior to this matchup, the Hoyas focused on increasing their overall competitiveness in order to take on a team as strong as the Blue Jays.

“After George Mason, we were talking about how we would get everyone motivated to compete 24/7,” freshman attack Taylor Gebhardt said.

“With Mason we did get a good win, but I think we could have come out with a larger marginal victory.”

The Blue Jays started the game strong, scoring the first goal in under 20 seconds. The Hoyas quickly responded with an unassisted goal from Gebhardt. For the following seven minutes, the game was scoreless. However, the Blue Jays soon picked up momentum and scored three unanswered goals to take a 4-1 lead entering the half, despite the fact that the Hoyas outshot them 14-10.

Within the first five minutes of the second half, the Hoyas tightened the gap to 3-4, with consecutive unassisted goals from Gebhardt and senior captain attack Corinne Etchison.

“We realized that we had all those shots and that all we had to do was place the ball,” Gebhardt said regarding the shift in momentum. “Towards the end of the first half we were getting frustrated on offense, so we just relaxed and used our strengths.”

However, the Hoyas could not continue the streak, with their only other goal in the second half coming from sophomore midfielder Georgia Tunney off an assist from sophomore midfielder Hannah Seibel. In the end, the Blue Jays scored six goals in the second half to cap off their

10-4 victory.

The Hoyas took more shots on goal, won more draw controls and committed fewer turnovers and fouls; however, stick skills, execution and shotplacement problems contributed to their defeat.

“We had a lot of shooting opportunities, but I think we were thinking too much about how good their goalie was instead of focusing on our strengths and placing the ball,” Gebhardt said. “Our communication of offense fell apart a little bit, and if we get that communication together it will be better.”

Despite the wide deficit, the Hoyas competed until the final seconds against the Blue Jays, who have been an intimidating force this season.

“We played competitively and kept fighting and I thought defensively we did a really extraordinary job for probably about three quarters of the game, but then when you have to press out against a quality opponent, we give up some things,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said.

The Hoyas will play against Loyola (4-4, 2-0 Patriot League) today on Cooper Field at 7 p.m.

here are just eight weeks’ worth of games left in this chaotic season and still the Premier League shows no signs of returning to normalcy. Leicester City is five points clear on top of the table. Tottenham Hotspur, which has not won the league since 1962, is in second place and looks as though it will be the only team capable of knocking the Foxes off the top spot. Arsenal is currently in its usual third place and playing decently, although it has an 11-point difference to make up. Manchester City is in fourth, an incredible 15 points out of first place, and faces stiff competition from West Ham United and Manchester United for the precious final Champions League spot. With less than two months to go in this wonderful season, I would like to spend this week predicting the top four teams based off the current standings.

Leicester City is the feel-good story of the year. It is almost impossible to imagine that just a year ago, the team was in last place and facing almost certain relegation. Like many people whose teams do not really have a chance of winning the league, I sincerely hope that Leicester City wins the league. For one, it would be great for the Premier League because it signals a shift from the traditional and predictable top finishes from Chelsea or either of the Manchester teams. Leicester City has posted its first-ever profit this year, and it will only continue to skyrocket in value. Finally, there is just something inspiring about seeing a little team that nobody expected to do well continue to defy expectations. With a victory over Crystal Palace this weekend, the championship is looking more and more like a possibility. Naysayers have been expecting Leicester City to falter, but seeing as there has been no sign of that at all, it seems highly unlikely. Predicted finish: first place.

If it weren’t for Leicester City’s amazing run, it is very likely that Tottenham would be the exciting story of the season. Over the years, Tottenham fans have become used to seeing their team fizzle out and languish somewhere in the midtable range. There is even a website dedicated to counting down the years Tottenham has gone without the title. This is not the case this year. Thanks to brilliant striker Harry Kane, who is currently tied with Leicester striker Jamie Vardy for most goals; a wonderful manager in Mauricio Pochettino; and solid goalkeeping, Tottenham is almost certain to qualify for the

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Champions League next year. Although the Spurs were just eliminated from the Europa League, this could actually be a blessing because it allows them to focus on a title charge.

Unfortunately for Tottenham, however, I just do not see Leicester City losing steam. Predicted finish: second place.

I feel sorry for Arsenal fans. This year really seemed like the year Arsenal would finally win the title, due to the fantastic start that the Gunners had. Rather predictably, however, Arsenal seems to be unable to finish strong.

It is not that the Gunners are playing poorly — indeed, many teams would be grateful to play the way Arsenal does. But for whatever reason — injuries, fatigue, nerves — Arsenal has cooled off. Following both a Champions League and an FA Cup exit, the pressure will really be on manager Arsène Wenger to finish strong and try to win the title for the first time since the 2003 season. At this point, this seems to be highly unlikely, seeing as both Tottenham and Leicester would need to fail spectacularly. I would not be surprised if this were the season Wenger is pushed out the door. Predicted finish: third place.

I can only imagine how Pep Guardiola is feeling right now. Even though Manchester City won the Capital One Cup — in penalties, mind you — it has done rather poorly in the Premier League. It has not won a game all season against any team currently in the top five and has been thoroughly thumped

by Liverpool twice. City does not look like a championship-caliber team at all right now, and it is almost mathematically impossible for it to win the title. City also faces fierce competition from West Ham for that final Champions League spot. West Ham is playing like last year’s Crystal Palace: consistently beating teams like Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham. Seeing as West Ham is just one point behind City, I think there is a very good chance that City misses out on the Champions League next year. In fact, I will go out on a limb here and say that the fourth spot will go to West Ham. Predicted finish: fifth place.

If I am right, this year’s top four will feature only one traditional top-four finisher — an exciting end to a crazy season.

Vanessa Craige is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. The Beautiful Game appears every other Tuesday.

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Hoyas Finish 0-2 Squads Post Several Wins At GMU Invitational madeline auerbach Hoya Staff Writer

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The Georgetown softball team (5-18) played in the George Mason Cherry Blossom Classic in Fairfax, Va., this weekend, losing to Cornell (0-8) and Canisius (416). The Hoyas went into this weekend’s doubleheader with a record of 5-16, after a tough series of matchups at the Arizona State Louisville Slugger Invitational.

The Hoyas played two games at the Cherry Blossom Classic; the first was a 4-1 loss to Canisius, the second was a 6-5 loss to Cornell. The three games that were supposed to follow these contests were either postponed or cancelled. In Georgetown’s first game of the tournament against Canisius, the Hoyas started off strong, scoring a run in the second inning. Georgetown junior catcher Gabriela Elvina walked on her first at bat. After a single from junior infielder Alessandra GargicevichAlmeida, Elvina scored the first run of the game to give Georgetown the 1-0 lead.

“Any time you can get on the board and take the momentum and set the tone for the game is a good thing,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said.

In the top of the third inning, however, Canisius quickly took the 3-1 lead.

Canisius senior outfielder Tori Nappo hit a single, followed up with a triple from junior outfielder Jessica Berzins, allowing Nappo to score and giving Berzins her first RBI of the game. Senior infielder Alexis Roman and sophomore infielder Moriah Harris then hit back-to-back singles, allowing Berzins to score.

Building on the momentum, junior outfielder Silfer singled and earned an RBI, sending Harris to second and allowing Roman to score. After four hits in seven at bats, Canisius looked strong and would hold the lead for the rest of the game. Despite three more hits in the sixth and seventh innings, Georgetown failed to come back from the 4-1 deficit.

“Our backs were against the wall, and I don’t think we responded well,” Conlan said of the team’s comeback attempt.

After its loss to Canisius, Georgetown entered the second game of the Cherry Blossom Classic looking to beat Cornell.

After a strong first inning from the Big Red, the Hoyas were down 3-0 but had plenty of time to catch up.

“We’re scoring early or we’re scoring late,” Conlan said of her team’s offensive struggles. “And I think that’s something of a concern, that we’re not scoring consistently throughout a game.”

For the next three innings, neither team scored. Georgetown senior pitcher Samantha Giovanniello had a strong showing in these innings, with very few players even getting on base. With the score still 3-0 in Cornell’s favor at the top of the sixth inning, Georgetown had just two more innings to dig itself out of the deficit. After a strong sixth inning, the Hoyas scored three runs, tying the game at 3-3. However, Cornell infielder/ outfielder Emily Weinberg earned a run to give the Big Red a 4-3 lead.

In the top of the seventh, the Hoyas had one more chance to take the lead.

Senior third baseman Taylor Henry hit a single, and freshman infielder Olivia Russ hit a sacrifice bunt to send her to second. Then, sophomore outfielder Theresa Kane hit a double, sending Henry home to tie the game at four.

Giovanniello hit a triple, allowing Kane to score, which gave the Hoyas a 5-4 lead over the Big Red. Cornell senior infielder Taylor Goodin hit a single to lead off the bottom of the seventh, followed by a pinch-hit single from sophomore infielder Tori Togashi. After a Weinberg single, Parker hit a two-RBI single, sending two runners home and securing the 6-5 victory over the Blue and Gray.

For Georgetown, the Cherry Blossom Classic ended in two losses despite solid efforts in both outings.

“I think we were an underachieving team this weekend,” Conlan said. “We want to be a lot of things, but underachieving isn’t one of them.”

However, Conlan said the Hoyas are optimistic for the rest of their season — particularly the start of conference play.

“The great thing about this time of year is that you have an opportunity to start your season over again with conference play,” Conlan said. “We’re going to continue to work and get better in every area of our game and hopefully start to put things together for conference. This is the time that matters most for us.”

The Hoyas will next take the field against the St. John’s Red Storm (13-12) next Friday and Saturday at Guy Mason Field in Washington, D.C.

After competing in a host of matches in Southern California over spring break, the Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams returned to both nonconference and conference play. The men’s squad (5-6, 1-1 Big East) downed both George Mason (5-8, 0-3 Atlantic 10) and Xavier (7-3, 0-1 Big East), while the women’s team (7-4, 0-3 Big East) also beat George Mason (3-11, 0-5 Atlantic 10) but fell to No. 70 Xavier (9-4, 1-0 Big East).

“These guys are growing up,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said of the men’s team’s recent successes.

“I’m watching them now and I’m like, ‘Wow, this is a different team from three months ago.’”

Play began for both squads in Fairfax, Va., against George Mason last Wednesday. The men’s team began strong, capturing two of the three doubles matches to notch the doubles point. The Hoya duo of junior Jordan Portner and freshman Michael Chen defeated the Patriot pair of junior James Lange and senior Joe Hill in a 6-4 finish.

Hoyas junior Yannik Mahlangu and sophomore Peter Beatty also triumphed in doubles, winning decisively over Patriots senior Tanner Baine and sophomore Daniel Guttierez.

Georgetown continued its momentum from its doubles wins into singles play, going on to win four of the five matches to beat George Mason 5-2. Senior Daniel Khanin defeated George Mason senior Aaron Capitel in a 6-3, 7-6(5) finish. Sophomore Marco Lam fell in the first set of his match 4-6, but notched the second and third in identical 6-2 fashions to win in the second singles slot. Beatty and Chen also won their singles matches in the third and fourth singles slots, respectively. Georgetown freshman Will Sharton and sophomore Mac Rechnan fell in their singles matches, giving George Mason its two lone points on the day.

Mahlangu said the decisive win against George Mason is evidence of Georgetown’s high-quality performance.

“I only played doubles in that

one, but the rest of the boys did really well and I think we were winning the entire time,” Mahlangu said. “We’ve been playing really well lately and I think we’ve improved a lot since the beginning of the year.”

The Hoyas’ 4-3 victory over Xavier two days later was much closer, testing the physical and mental strength of Mahlangu in particular. Georgetown again started the match by winning the doubles point, as Portner and Chen and Mahlangu and Beatty found success in the first and second doubles slots, respectively. Following doubles play, Georgetown won two singles matches — Lam winning 6-4, 6-4 in second singles and Beatty triumphing 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in third singles — with George Mason notching three victories.

This pushed the overall score to 3-3, meaning that Mahlangu had to win his singles match to grant the Hoyas victory.

He rose to the occasion, downing Musketeer senior Brian Carman swiftly in a 6-4, 6-2 finish.

“I won the deciding match and I’ve never done that since I’ve been on the team, so I was really excited,” Mahlangu said. Everyone came and rushed the court afterward so I was really happy” “He just said, ‘Coach thanks for putting me in, I wanted this,’” Ernst said of Mahlangu’s immediate reaction to the victory. “That was cool because he’s had some ups and downs, some struggles, but he’s showing what his potential was when he came in as a freshman.”

The women’s squad also found victory this past week, sweeping George Mason on Wednesday in a 7-0 finish. Junior captain Victoire Saperstein and junior Madeline Foley won 6-4 in first doubles, with freshman duo Cecelia Lynham and Sydney Goodson winning 6-1 at second doubles. Sophomore Casey Marx and junior Sophie Barnard won 6-3 in their doubles match.

Saperstein, freshman Risa Nakagawa, sophomore Sara Swift, sophomore Daphne de Chatellus and Goodson all won their singles matches in straight sets, bringing the overall score of the match up

to 6-0. Senior Liselot Koenen fell in the first set of her fourth singles match 3-6, but notched the second set 6-3. The final set went back and forth, but Koenen ultimately won the match and finished the Hoyas’ sweep with a 7-6(5) third set win.

Ernst said he was pleased with the result, but also surprised by the ease of victory.

“I thought it would be a stronger match,” Ernst said. “I don’t have a big frame of reference for [George Mason] because I don’t think we’ve played them once in my 10 years here. But I was expecting a tougher match.”

The women’s team went on to compete in a conference matchup against Xavier on Friday, resulting in a 5-2 loss for Georgetown. Unlike the match against the Patriots, The Hoyas began the match by losing the doubles point. Goodson and Lynham won their second doubles match 6-1, but the Musketeers notched the other two doubles contests to gain a 1-0 advantage.

Xavier also dominated singles play, which saw junior Sydney Liggins defeat Saperstein 7-5, 6-1. Nakagawa, Barnard and de Chatellus also fell in their singles matches in the second, fourth and sixth singles slots, respectively. Barnard’s loss came in a tight three-set contest, ultimately falling 4-6, 6-1, 2-6.

Swift and Lynham emerged with the sole victories on the day for Georgetown. Swift fell in her first set 1-6, but captured the second 7-5 and the third 6-4. Meanwhile, Lynham edged her opponent 7-6(6) in her first set and won the second set 6-4.

“It just shows you that doubles, losing that point … these teams that are pretty good, it’s hard to beat them. They’re a ranked team, they beat Indiana this year, they’re goo,” Ernst said. “You just can’t luck out against teams like that.

You have to beat them.”

The loss to Xavier puts the women’s team at 0-3 in conference play this season. Georgetown will search for its first Big East win against Seton Hall (5-3) March 24 at the Georgetown Visitation Courts.

Meanwhile, the men’s team will compete against cross-town rival George Washington (6-7, 1-0 Atlantic 10) March 25.

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Brandon Sherrod, who returned to the team this season after a two-year hiatus traveling around the world to sing with Yale’s famous a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs. His 10 points and six boards helped Yale beat Baylor.

Middle Tennessee State saw some bumps on the road to the NCAA tournament as well. Head Coach Kermit Davis committed recruiting violations while on the coaching staff for Texas A&M in the ’90s that were a huge detriment to his professional career. Davis worked various coaching jobs, from positions at junior colleges to other lower-level programs, before finally getting another chance at Middle Tennessee State.

The Blue Raiders’ sophomore guard Giddy Potts led the nation in three-point shooting percentage at 50.3 among players with at least 100 three-point shot attempts. Potts hit three three-pointers in the game against Michigan State and the team as a whole shot 57 percent, the perfect recipe for a No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 seed. Reggie Upshaw, a junior once recruited for both basketball and football, also performed well against Michigan State, dropping 22 points against the Spartans.

The best part of March Madness is watching the underdogs take down traditional favorites.

The story for Stephen F. Austin (28-6, 18-0 Southland Conference) is also a compelling one. The Lumberjacks won a decisive 70-56 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers (26-9, 13-5 Big 12). The star of the game was senior guard/forward Thomas Walkup, who won the Southland Conference MVP three times in his career at Stephen F. Austin. Walkup led the team across all three major statistical categories, scoring 33 points, grabbing nine boards and dishing out four assists.

Mason’s, Upshaw’s and Walkup’s fame was fleeting. Each of their teams ended up losing in the second round — Yale in a 71-64 loss to Duke (25-10, 11-7 Atlantic Coast Conference), Middle Tennessee State in a 75-50 loss to Syracuse (21-13, 9-9 Atlantic Coast Conferent) and Stephen F. Austin in a narrow 76-75 loss to Notre Dame (23-11, 11-7 Atlantic Coast Conference) — but no one can take away these moments from these athletes. To have the memory of leading their teams to historic wins will be something that they can always hold dear.

By contrast, with every winner comes a loser. Baylor, Michigan State and West Virginia will have to mull over their losses until November. For seniors like Michigan State guard Denzel Valentine, losses mark poor endings to prolific college careers. From watching Michigan State coach Tom Izzo’s tear-filled press conference, it was evident that he felt sorry for his players. Still, the nation can enjoy the performances from Cinderella teams and join in the excitement their players feel. The best part of March Madness is the ability to escape the banal activities of daily life to watch and hope that the underdogs can put on a captivating performance. So far, March Madness provided all that and more.

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a 10-2 run over the last three minutes of the game to claim a narrow 57-51 victory and improve to 3-6 in conference play.

The win at Villanova was a turning point for Georgetown — it ignited a four-game winning streak that brought the Hoyas’ conference record to 6-6 and put them in a position to rise in the Big East standings before the postseason tournament.

In the closing six games of conference play, the Hoyas fell to the No. 20 DePaul Blue Demons (27-8, 16-2 Big East) and the St. John’s Red Storm (23-10, 11-7 Big East) — the only two Big East teams they were unable to beat this season — as well as to the Wildcats in a second matchup that ended in a 63-60 result. However, Georgetown managed to avenge losses it had suffered earlier in the season with wins over Seton Hall (23-9, 12-6 Big East), Butler (10-21, 4-14 Big East) and Xavier (17-13, 8-10 Big East).

The back-to-back victories over Butler and Xavier took place over the final weekend of the regular season, the weekend of Feb. 26, and proved to be crucial as they brought the Hoyas’ conference record to 9-9. With that record, Georgetown — projected at the start of the season to finish seventh in the Big East — would enter the conference playoffs as the fifth seed.

At the end of the regular season, Georgetown had won 16 games and, in doing so, had pulled off one of the greatest season-to-season turnarounds in women’s basketball. Its 12game improvement on last season’s win total was tied for the third best in the country. Of the nine teams with win improvements of 11 or more games, the Hoyas were the only team with a strength-of-schedule ranking in the top 100.

With an impressive regular season under their belt, the fifth-seeded Hoyas traveled to Chicago, Ill., for the Big East tournament in the first week of March. Having secured a first-round bye for the first time since 2012, Georgetown was set to face fourth-seeded St. John’s in the tournament’s second round. The Hoyas ultimately fell short in that matchup, losing to the Red Storm for the third time in a 65-52 result.

Despite their early exit from the Big East tournament, the Hoyas’ strong regular season performance was good enough to earn them an at-large bid for the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. Prior to its WNIT berth, Georgetown had not made a postseason appear-

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Senior guard/forward Logan Battle averaged 6.9 points per game and 4.1 rebounds per game in her final season. tently got the job done on both the offensive and defensive end.

Adair will be hard-pressed to find another player with versatility comparable to Battle’s next season.

Forward Dominique Vitalis started all 30 of Georgetown’s games this season. She led the team in field goal percentage with 50.3, being the only player to shoot over 50 percent on the season. Vitalis also managed to pull down the most offensive rebounds for the Hoyas with 69. Her work on the glass was a major reason why Georgetown finished first in the Big East in offensive rebounds and offensive rebounding percentage. The absence of her reliable presence around the basket will be challenging to replace going forward.

Despite the void that will be left by the team’s five seniors, there is no doubt that the Georgetown women’s basketball program has a bright future ahead. The Hoyas will return four of their five starters next season, including White and sophomore guard Dorothy Adomako – both of whom were named to the All Big East Second Team this season. White was also a unanimous pick for the All Big East Freshman Team.

White and Adomako finished the season tied in terms of

scoring, with each of the guards averaging 14.5 points per game.

White led the team in minutes played, free-throw percentage, assists and steals — she had an astounding 77 takeaways on the season and topped the Big East standings with 2.6 steals per game. Adomako pulled down the most total rebounds this year and ranked second on the team in blocked shots and free-throw percentage.

Burton and junior forward Faith Woodard will also be back in the lineup for the Hoyas next season. Together with White and Adomako, these four players will bring invaluable experience and chemistry to the floor for Georgetown.

But perhaps most valuable to the Hoyas’ prospects for next season is the return of Adair. In only two seasons, she managed to take a 4-27 team and turn it into a postseason program that was and will continue to be a force to be reckoned with in the Big East conference. With that kind of record of improvement, there is no telling what Adair can accomplish in her third year in the head coaching position.

Next season tips off in November, and I am already counting down the days.

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ance since it reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2012 and had not qualified for the WNIT since 2009.

The Hoyas were slated to face Rutgers (19-15, 8-10 Big 10) in the first round of the WNIT in what proved to be a tightly contested matchup. The game was tied on 12 separate occasions, and neither team was ever able to establish a significant lead.

Ultimately, the game came down to the wire. Freshman guard Dionna White hit a layup in the lane to tie the score at 55 with only 28 seconds left on the clock. The Hoyas played solid defense throughout the Scarlet Knight’s final offensive possession. The contest seemed to be headed for overtime when senior guard/forward Logan Battle blocked a shot in the lane in the closing seconds.

However, the Hoyas were unable to get possession of the loose ball, which ended up in the hands of Rutgers senior guard/forward Kahleah Copper. Copper hit a buzzer-beating layup to seal the 57-55 victory for Rutgers and bring Georgetown’s season to an end in a devastating fashion.

For Georgetown’s five seniors, the loss to Rutgers marked the final game of their collegiate career. The graduation of forward Ki-Ke Rafiu, guards Jasmine Jackson and Katie McCormick, guard/forward Logan Battle and forward Dominique Vitalis will be a significant adjustment for a team that did not graduate a single senior last season.

Rafiu moved into a coaching role after she made the decision to retire from playing in the midst of her junior season due to nagging injuries. Her absence next season will leave a leadership void on the Hoyas’ bench.

Jackson, who played for Georgetown for her freshman and sophomore seasons before transferring to George Mason, returned to the Hilltop as a graduate student for one final season of collegiate play. Jackson brought valuable experience to a young Hoyas’ backcourt that was largely led by sophomore guard DiDi Burton and White.

Although she was plagued by injuries for much of her time at Georgetown, McCormick made a name for herself through her relentless work ethic and her ability to shoot three-pointers.

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“I think we reacted a lot instead of anticipated on Saturday, and that’s something that we need to stress to our guys — to think a pass or two ahead all over the field [and] think about the situation that could occur,” Warne said.

Georgetown only has one game left before it begins Big East play — a DMV matchup with No. 17 Loyola (4-3, 2-1 Patriot League) Wednesday afternoon. The Greyhounds are a perennial rival — last season’s competition ended in a close 13-12 victory for the Hoyas, and the year before that ended in a tough 10-9 final-minute loss — but the Hoyas feel an additional sense of urgency as they move closer to their conference schedule with just one prior 11-6 win this season to then-No. 8 Hofstra (4-3).

Loyola will enter Wednesday’s matchup coming off a second straight loss at the hands of No. 14 Navy (4-2) on Saturday, which ended in a close 10-9 decision.

Another loss would put the Greyhounds at .500 entering the bulk of their conference schedule.

“I think Loyola is really good, and they’re coming off a loss on Saturday as well. … They’ve had our number for a couple years, and we got it back last year, so I’m sure they’ll be ready to go for a little payback from last year. But again, I’m sure they’re trying to improve on a lot of things they need to improve on as they go into their conference play, just as we are,” Warne said.

Though Georgetown has several aspects of its game to consider after its loss to Duke, the team is focusing on basic skills.

“We’ll be focused in particular on ground balls, defense and just going back to our fundamentals that we’ve been working on all

fall and for the past couple of years,” Mahaney said.

Warne added that Georgetown is working on sealing up the gaps in its reaction times on the field by working on communication and mutual trust.

“Communication is a two-way street. It’s talking and listening,

but a lot of it has to do with trust, because if you trust your teammate that he’s going to get you to a proper spot or he has your back — I think that goes a long way,” Warne said.

Opening faceoff against Loyola is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Cooper Field.

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Junior midfielder Devon Lewis scored two goals in Georgetown’s 20-6 loss to Duke. Lewis has scored eight goals this season.

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Last year, the Georgetown women’s basketball team (16-14, 9-9 Big East) only won four games, finishing with a disappointing 4-27 record in Head Coach Natasha Adair’s inaugural season. This year, it took the Hoyas less than a month to surpass their win total from last season. Georgetown was victorious in five of its first six games — a fitting start to a season that would see the Hoyas repeatedly exceed expectations.

Georgetown opened the season with a 7-3 record in nonconfer-

ence play, which included two victories in Burlington, Vt., on the way to claiming the TD Bank Classic Championship in a decisive 22-point win over St. Francis Brooklyn (7-22, 4-14 NEC). In the previous season, Georgetown had gone just 2-10 in nonconference play — a discouraging start to a year that contained a nine-game losing streak.

Georgetown began its Big East schedule this season riding the momentum of a convincing 82-46 victory against Towson (7-24, 3-15 CAA).

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beat only Creighton (17-18, 8-10 Big East) and Providence (5-24, 1-17 Big East) — leaving the team with a 2-6 Big East record that put it near the bottom of the conference standings.

The Hoyas were set to close out the first half of Big East play with an away matchup at Villanova (20-12, 12-6 Big East) Jan. 24.

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After a dramatic walk-off win Thursday, the Georgetown baseball team (1010) dropped the next three games of a four-game series to Princeton (5-7) this past weekend.

Georgetown won the first game 4-3 in 10 innings, largely to the credit of sophomore shortstop Chase Bushor.

Bushor clinched the victory for the Hoyas with a game-winning RBI single in the 10th inning. With a pitch count of 2-2, Bushor hit a fastball into rightcenter-field to drive in the winning run.

“I just wanted to win the game, honestly,” Bushor said. “I was happy to come out with a win there.”

The intense extra-innings win was the culmination of a six-game winning streak for the Hoyas and the second consecutive walk-off win. However, Georgetown was unable to carry this momentum into the following three games against Princeton. The Tigers defeated the Hoyas 7-3 in 10 innings in the first half of Friday’s doubleheader. Princeton downed Georgetown again later that day 8-4. The series was capped off by a 4-0 Princeton shutout on Sunday.

After series against Penn and Yale, and a spring break tournament in Florida, Bushor noted that fatigue may have played a role in the team’s losses.

“I think we were definitely the better team all weekend, we just got unlucky. … It was a long couple weeks for us, I think that played a role,” Bushor said.

Head Coach Pete Wilk downplayed foundational concerns about the team’s success, citing recent injuries to the bullpen as a source of trouble for the team.

“I think we’re fine. I think we need to get healthy. We have a number of guys in the bullpen that we were unable to

use last weekend, and they cost us the game. We’re not going to blow everything up that we’ve done, we just lost the games because we had several key guys that we couldn’t go to,” Wilk said.

Both Wilk and Bushor stressed that the team would not let the losing streak impact its focus as it prepares to take on George Washington (8-12) tomorrow.

“We just need to get back on the right side of the game … maybe a tweak or two to the lineup, but our approach is going to stay the same,” Wilk said.

Bushor said in order to find more success on the field, it is imperative to take games one at a time.

“It’s a long season and we all know that, we’ll just move on to the next one,” Bushor said.

Georgetown is an even 4-4 against George Washington in its last eight meetings, which has established a significant cross-town rivalry between the two teams. Bushor was also sure to note the extra incentive to play well against the rival Colonials.

“We lost two games to GW last year, and I don’t know, I think we are the better team … so I want to go out there and beat them tomorrow,” he said.

Even with the added pressure of a rivalry game, Bushor thought that the team still had the necessary fundamentals for success.

“Couple bad pitches here and there, but other than that our pitching staff [was] great all weekend. ... I think we played good defense for the most part, and we pitched well for the most part as well. We were pretty quiet offensively the last three games, but that’s not something I’m worried about,” Bushor said.

The Blue and Gray take on the Colonials on Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Bancroft Park’s Tucker Field in Arlington, Va.

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Upsets Captivate Fan Base Each year, March Madness captivates the attention of an entire nation. Whether Cinderella 15 seeds like Middle Tennessee State (25-10, 13-5 Conference USA) shock fans by upsetting a tournament favorite, Michigan State (29-6, 13-5 Big 10), or Ivy League champions Yale (23-7, 13-1 Ivy League) knock off Baylor (22-12, 10-8 Big 12), people always pay attention to the NCAA tournament.

After just two days, there were no perfect brackets left on ESPN, and many fans saw some of their projected Final Four teams fall out of the tournament. While big-name teams draw attention to March Madness, it is often the small-conference or lesser-known teams and their paths to the tournament that provide the most riveting story lines.

Yale last appeared in the NCAA tournament in 1962 before this year, failing to win a tournament game in any of its three appearances in program history. This year, Yale finished the season strong with a 13-1 conference record in Ivy League play, despite senior guard and captain Jack Montague’s dismissal from the team and expulsion from the school after the university found him guilty of sexual misconduct. Sophomore guard Makai Mason led the charge for Yale in its win over Baylor, dropping 31 points and sinking 11 free throws. Mason’s stroke was mechanical, with every free throw hitting nothing but net. Alongside Mason was See BARTON, A9

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The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (1-6) slipped into its second three-game skid of the season after falling to No. 11 Duke (6-3) in a 20-6 decision Saturday. The Blue Devils built up several unanswered scoring runs during the game — including a four-goal streak from the beginning of the first quarter — that proved insurmountable for the Hoyas, who struggled to maintain possession of the ball for long stretches of the game.

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ly efficient on offense; though they took just as many shots during the game as the Hoyas, they finished on nearly two-thirds of their attempts for a staggering 20 goals. Duke also created more possession opportunities at the faceoff X — Duke junior midfielder Kyle Rowe went 19-of-23 in faceoffs, and the Blue Devils won 21-of-28 total.

Georgetown, by contrast, struggled to find any sort of momentum throughout the game.

The Hoyas finished out the first half with just two goals, compared to the Blue Devils’ 13. “[Duke is] a really talented

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team,” senior defender and cocaptain Nic Mahaney said.

“I think they executed a lot of what they wanted to do, and we kind of struggled to find our groove, and it just didn’t go our way. A couple plays here and there kind of led to them just pulling away.”

Duke’s most notable scoring run — which also marked Georgetown’s largest deficit during the game — came between the second and third quarters, when the Blue Devils scored eight unanswered goals over a span of 15 minutes to go up 172. Junior midfielder Devon Lewis

finally stopped the bleeding at the 7:40 mark in the third quarter with a goal off an assist from graduate student midfielder and co-captain Joe Bucci.

The Hoyas managed to put up four more goals through the end of the game, but it was too little, too late — Duke’s unstoppable efforts on attack from the opening faceoff ended up clinching the decisive 14-goal victory.

Warne believed that the Hoyas were sometimes a few steps too slow in their efforts to decelerate the Blue Devil offense.

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