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TREASURE TOMBS

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EDITORIAL A Latinx studies minor would show Georgetown’s committment to an inclusive curriculum.

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STANDING UP FOR DACA The administration renewed its committment to students without immigration status on Monday.

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179 Years Later, Descendants of Slaves Seek Future at Georgetown Aly Pachter Hoya Staff Writer

Like many other freshmen arriving at Georgetown University this fall, Meli Colomb (COL ’21) wanted to blend in with her classmates as much as possible.

As the oldest undergraduate on campus, Colomb, 63, was not concerned about hiding her age. She is proud of her 63 total years, her 20 years as a professional chef in New Orleans and her time spent as a mother and a grandmother.

Instead, she wanted to keep quiet about a fact that ties her to Georgetown in an intimate way.:Colomb is a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold by Maryland Jesuits in 1838 to keep the university afloat.

“I am not convinced I can trust the people who sold my family, even though I’m here.”

MELI COLOMB (COL ’21)

“At first, I didn’t really want to talk to anybody about it. I just wanted to come here and be a student and have everybody wondering: ‘Who is that old lady, and why is she here?’” Colomb said. “But I can’t. I can’t.”

Colomb is one of the first two descendants who have enrolled at Georgetown since the university began its process of reconciliation with its slaveholding past.

In addition, Shepard Thomas (COL ’20) arrived in Washington, D.C. this fall, and he will be joined by his sister Elizabeth Thomas (GRD ’20) in January.

Until late 2015, neither Colomb nor the Thomas siblings had any idea that their ancestors had helped build and sustain the university while enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits.

“I was floored,” Colomb said.

An Evolving Family Tree For most of their lives, the Thomas siblings believed their family history in America began in Louisiana, where they were born and raised. Their mother has ties to the small town of Maringouin, La., but that was the extent of the family history they were able to gather.

Colomb had more information about her familial history, but it was still not complete. She knew from the oral history passed down from her great-grandmother and grandmother that her family originated in Maryland — perhaps in Baltimore.

However, she had always been told that her ancestors were freed before the Emancipation Proclamation and eventually made their way down to New Orleans, only to be enslaved by an Irish Catholic family. But why would a free family of black Americans travel south to the cane fields of Louisiana, lands that were riddled with slaveholders?

It took an outside hand, the Georgetown Memory Project, to begin the process of informing the descendants about their family history and Georgetown’s role in it.

The Georgetown Memory Project, a group independent of the university, is attempting to discover, locate and identify descendants of the 272 people sold.

Last summer, Judy Riffel, a genealogist for the Georgetown Memory Project, contacted Colomb on Facebook and asked if she was related to someone named Mary Ellen Queen. Colomb wrote back, telling her that Queen had been her great-great-

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Meli Colomb (COL ’21), a descendant of one of the 272 slaves whose sale kept the university afloat, began her studies at Georgetown this fall. Before coming to Georgetown, Colomb spent 20 years as a professional chef. great-grandmother. The pieces began to fall into place.

As the descendants were being informed of their family histories, Georgetown was just beginning the process of grappling with how to reconcile its role in these family histories.

Despite offering legacy admissions status to all descendants of the Georgetown 272 — a move that led to the applications of the Thomas siblings and Colomb to

Georgetown — members of the community and others looking in have criticized this move as much too little, too late.

For Georgetown Memory Project founder Richard Cellini (COL ’84, LAW ’87), the university’s failure to comb its archives for descendants was a mistake.

“The simple fact is that, for 150 years, nobody from Georgetown ever went looking for the GU 272 and their descendants. Not once, not ever,” Cellini said. “Georgetown

committed two fundamental errors for the last 150 years. It never went looking, and, if it did, it never shared the truth with the people to whom it mattered most, which is the descendants.”

Georgetown’s Deep Ties to Slavery Months before the Thomas and the Colomb families and thousands of others See DESCENDANTS, A6

Student Member Positions Removed Task Force Recommends From Alumni Association Board Increased Mandatory Bystander Training Madeline Charbonneau Hoya Staff Writer

The Board of Governors of the Georgetown University Alumni Association eliminated multiple student representative positions in late June without notification after an internal assessment found the position was ineffective.

The representatives, called student governors, had used their position on the board to lobby alumni and administrators on issues affecting students, according to former student governor Hunter Estes (SFS ’19), who raised concerns that the end of the program would diminish student access. The appointed student governors composed 13 of the board’s 120 active members.

The decision to eliminate the student governors was made by nine members of the board’s executive committee on June 28 while the full board was out of session.

Three student governors say they were never directly informed of the decision by the GUAA, including one whose position was eliminated in the middle of his oneyear term.

The unanimous vote by nine of the executive committee’s 17 members followed an “extensive discussion about the merits of the proposed change,” according to publicly available meeting minutes. According to GUAA bylaws, a quorum of the executive committee can exercise all powers of the Board of Governors when it is not in session.

The board, charged with governing and managing the affairs of the GUAA, is composed of Georgetown alumni and See ALUMNI, A6

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The Board of Governors of the Georgetown University Alumni Association removed its student representatives without notifying some of the students.

The university’s Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force advocated for expanded mandatory bystander education and training for all undergraduate and graduate students and finalized the 11 recommendations it made last April to improve sexual misconduct prevention and survivor support Tuesday.

The task force’s discussion at a forum in the Healey Family Social Room came in the wake of new sexual assault guidelines issued by the Department of Education last Thursday, which include the rollback of former President Barack Obama’s proactive sexual assault guidelines for universities.

The final report builds off the 11 conclusions announced in April, as it includes mandatory sexual misconduct and relationship education courses for first-year students, a possible mandatory first-year seminar and new online intensive bystander intervention training for both undergraduate and graduate students, according to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson.

The report also indicated engagement with student group leadership to promote open club culture, sexual assault prevention training for all professional faculty and staff, public awareness campaigns and additional

staffing of Health Education Services.

According to the task force, exclusive club culture at Georgetown is one of the causes of sexual misconduct on campus. The finding from five focus group surveys conducted within the past year point to “partying” culture and alcohol consumption that facilitates sexual assault.

“The new intensive ‘Bringing In the Bystander’ program is the heart of what’s new, and all first-year students are going through that.”

TODD OLSON Vice President for Student Affairs

The university will continue to research possible connections between power differentials in campus club culture and sexual misconduct, Laura Cutway, the university’s full-time Title IX Coordinator, said.

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said first-year students will be the first class to go through mandatory “Bringing In the Bystander” training.

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NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

Healing with Art The Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center unveiled an art installation aimed at improving patient care.

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Affordability Abroad To fulfill its promise of globalmindedness, Georgetown must offer more aid to international students.

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Men’s Soccer Draws The men’s soccer team played to a 1-1 draw against Connecticut on Saturday.

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NEWS Dean’s Goals

opinion Trials of a Transfer

SPORTS Home Game

The new dean of the McDonough School of Business Paul Almeida discusses his goals.

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Transferring to Georgetown can be overwhelming, but having a support network is an invaluable experience.

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The football team prepares to host Marist this Saturday at 1 p.m. after the first win of the season.

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face. As is clearly stated in Article VI, Section 3 of the Constitution: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

Additionally, Feinstein’s implication that Barrett would substitute her own religious convictions for the law is not only presumptuous but also starkly ignores Barrett’s answers in the hearing and her past writings.

For example, several of the senators took issue specifically with a 1998 paper Barrett wrote with John Garvey, now president of Catholic University, which explored the conflict between Catholic values and the enforcement of the death penalty as a responsibility of the judiciary. Yet, that paper concluded that “judges cannot — nor should they try to — align our legal system with the Church’s moral teaching whenever the two diverge” and suggested recusal as a possible solution to the conflict.

Furthermore, the committee’s inquiries into Barrett’s religion, rather than her personal experiences or abilities as a jurist, seem to imply a mutual exclusivity between impartiality and Catholic values — and even religious convictions more generally. This implication sets a dangerous precedent for religious tests to be imposed on public officials in the future.

Georgetown’s status as a prominent Catholic university — as well as our position in our nation’s capital, mere miles away from the heart of our judiciary — obliges us to stand up for all individuals’ right to their religious values, particularly when their Catholic beliefs are used against them. Thus, we should join Notre Dame and Princeton as universities willing to lead the charge in defense of religious and Catholic values.

Moreover, Georgetown’s commitment to interreligious understanding should compel us to speak up ardently against the notion of religious tests being imposed upon our governmental officials, particularly because this precedent could be used against people of any religion in the future.

The questions posed to Barrett clearly constituted an unacceptable religious test, which is not only antithetical to our Constitution but also sets a dangerous precedent that could be used to target religious people of all faiths. To live up to its reputation as one of the nation’s pre-eminent Catholic institutions, Georgetown must swiftly condemn this transgression, which threatens some of our most closely held beliefs.

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Last Wednesday, Amy Coney Barrett, one of President Donald Trump’s 7th Circuit Court of Appeals nominees for a judgeship, sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing. During the questioning, several members of the committee, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), implied that Barrett’s Catholic faith would compromise her impartiality on the bench.

Barrett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School and a former clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (CAS ’57), has since made news for the events at the hearing. In particular, Feinstein was criticized for her assessment that “the dogma lives loudly within [Barrett], and that’s of concern when you come to big issues.”

Since the hearing, the University of Notre Dame — Barrett’s alma mater and one of the country’s most prominent Catholic institutions — and Princeton University have both released letters condemning Feinstein and the Judiciary Committee’s questions, with Princeton’s letter noting that the line of inquiry constituted a religious test.

As a leader among Catholic and Jesuit universities, Georgetown University — specifically, the Office of the President John J. DeGoia — should follow Notre Dame and Princeton’s example and issue a statement condemning the line of questioning posed to Barrett and reaffirming the notion that religious tests have no place among our public officials.

Barrett’s religious convictions were initially raised at the hearing by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who serves as chairman of the committee, and the persistent questioning was continued by several members of the committee. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) of Illinois, for example, directly asked the nominee: “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” Barrett responded that she “would commit, if confirmed, to follow unflinchingly all Supreme Court precedent.” The nominee also stated that “it’s never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge’s personal convictions, whether they arise from faith or anywhere else, on the law.”

The aggressive line of questioning posed by Feinstein, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) constitutes a religious test, and this is an unacceptable practice for our elected and nominated officials to

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Jonathan Compo

Give Credit to Latinx Studies Today marks the beginning of the 2017 Latinx Heritage Month. First sponsored by the university in 2014, this monthlong period of celebration and discussion of Latinx culture is just one of many efforts Georgetown has made in recent years to support its Latinx community.

For example, after advocacy by the Latinx Leadership Forum, La Casa Latina — a space where Latinx students can access resources and engage in important discussions about their identities and experiences — opened in 2016.

However, there remains an integral step that the university has thus far failed to take in support of the Latinx community: the development of opportunities to study Latinidad at Georgetown.

As it stands, Georgetown offers a mere three classes on the American Latinx experience: “Mexico, Mexicans, and the U.S.,” “U.S. Latin@ Literature and Culture” and “Latino Church Doing Justice.” Moreover, the university employs only one tenured professor dedicated to teaching Latinx studies: Ricardo Ortiz, who serves not only as an associate professor of U.S. Latino literature and culture but also as chair of the department of English, meaning there is currently no professor solely devoted to Latinx studies.

To remedy this issue, Georgetown should increase the number of faculty dedicated to teaching Latinx studies and begin taking steps to develop a Latinx studies minor. Specifically, the university ought to expand its offering of Latinx studies classes to reach the typical minimum of six classes required for a minor.

Such classes could focus not only on the experiences of Latinx individuals in the United States but also on the unique history and culture of this community.

Over the last several years, the administration has strived to ensure a broad and inclusive curriculum — exemplified by the implementation of a diversity course requirement in 2015, the creation of the African American studies department and major last February and the establishment of a disabilities studies minor in April. In this regard, a Latinx studies minor would reaffirm the university’s commitment to its newly created diversity course requirement and to upholding racial justice in its curriculum, cited as one of the motivating factors for the new emphasis on African American studies. The creation of the new major was supported by 99.5 percent of students, according

to a student-led survey.

Efforts to establish a minor should not be difficult given the interdisciplinary nature of Latinx studies, as new courses could be offered in a myriad of areas including history, art, culture and literature. An interdisciplinary Latinx studies minor would put us on par in this respect with many of our peer institutions.

Stanford University, Yale University and Northwestern University have all established such programs, with Northwestern offering 12 courses in its Latina and Latino studies program and Stanford offering nine courses in its Chicanx/Latinx studies program.

Though some may argue that a Latinx studies minor would not attract sufficient interest to remain sustainable, the creation of similar programs at peer institutions indicates that a similar demand for this opportunity could exist among Georgetown students.

Moreover, the incremental development of this area of study — starting with the addition of three new classes in Latinx studies in order to create a minor — would allow the university to gauge interest in the program as they improve the curricular offerings.

As the demographics of our nation continue to shift, our curriculum ought to evolve to reflect them.

Hispanic and Latino individuals have come to make up 17 percent of the U.S. population and nearly 10 percent of the Georgetown student body. Not only do Latinx students deserve the opportunity to learn about their heritage in a classroom setting, but it is also integral for our entire community to be able to study Latinx culture, history, art and more.

Like other humanities and social science fields, a Latinx studies minor would offer students both breadth, in its interdisciplinary nature, and depth.

Students would be able to develop critical thinking skills, the crux of a liberal arts education, while studying a heritage often neglected in curricular offerings.

Georgetown ought to establish a Latinx studies minor in order to develop the currently nearly nonexistent opportunities to study the American Latinx experience. To do so, the university must create new classes in a variety of fields that focus on this topic and must work to expand its corps of professors specifically dedicated to teaching Latinx studies. In this way, Georgetown will ensure that its actions truly match its rhetoric of diversity, and that it continues to support the Latinx community.

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HOYA HISTORY: Sept. 15, 1972

Two ‘Friendly Criminals’ Hit Healy, Armed Robbery Nets Burglars $30 Two men allegedly broke into a room on the fourth floor of Healy Hall early Saturday morning.

Larry Dickson (CAS ’76) and Bob Skakandy (SBA ’76) spent 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. Saturday morning entertaining two would-be burglars, while they chatted about cars, guns and how to raise money. More than an hour after they had arrived, “Ronnie” and “Larry” left, allegedly $30 richer.

“I was lying in bed half awake, when I heard somebody opening the door,” Dickson, a soft-spoken native of Houston, said after the incident. “However, I heard somebody going through my wallet and somebody moving my stereo.”

“I sat up and there was a guy crouching by my bed. He stuck a pistol in my face and said,

‘Don’t move or I’ll blow your head off.’”

“They told us their carburetor or car or something had broken down. I had $30 in my wallet, but the two guys said somebody else must have taken it.

“We got to talking to them, and they introduced themselves. They said their names were Ronnie and Larry. They started talking about how they needed money. One of them — I think it was Ronnie — said, ‘Why don’t we hock the gun?’

“They started bragging about the gun and so they handed me their pistol because they wanted us to look at it.”

“I looked at it and said it was a nice gun and gave it back,” Dickson said.

“They talked a little bit about work they said they did at a

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drug rehabilitation place. They seemed to know a lot about it.

By then it was getting light and it was near 7 a.m.”

“Bob and I wanted to get rid of them, so we said it was light out and maybe they should go or they’d be caught. Larry gave us an address and told us to stop by. They invited us to breakfast. Of course, we said we couldn’t go. Then Ronnie and Larry got up, walked out the door and went down the elevator.”

Dickson and Skakandy next went to the resident adviser on their floor. The R.A. called the campus police and the officers “came very quickly, in a couple of minutes.”

By Barry Wiegand SFS ’76, LAW ’89 Hoya Staff Writer

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TRANSFERMATIONS

Brittany Rios

Tales From a Transfer, One Year Later

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o all of the new transfer students: Two years ago, I was you. Georgetown University was new, but being at college was old. Saying goodbye to my parents was not weird the second time, and I knew not to bring so much unnecessary stuff to school with me.

Still, I had no idea where anything at Georgetown was.

I could not find Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli until six weeks into the school year. It took me a half hour to figure out where a professor’s office was in the Intercultural Center, even after going to his office once or twice.

My first few weeks at Georgetown humbled me, to say the least, but I eventually acclimated. And you will, too.

Transferring is not an easy task, and everybody’s transition to Georgetown is different. Some of you may have relatively seamless transitions to the Hilltop, but it is not uncommon to struggle. You may find yourselves wondering if you belong here, or even if you should have transferred at all.

Those thoughts certainly crossed my mind when I first got here. I missed my friends at my former college, and as a timid and reserved sophomore, I thought I would never be able to socially integrate at Georgetown.

The academic adjustment was also overwhelming. Though the work here was not necessarily harder, there seemed to be a neverending stream of assignments, which was not the case at my previous university.

On top of the typical obstacles new transfer students face, my personal life was a mess.

Transferring alone had triggered a mental health crisis that semester, which only deepened when I learned students at my former university had died and when family members underwent unexpected medical crises.

During my first two months at Georgetown, I spent my days crying hysterically in Dahlgren Quadrangle for hours on end. You could say my first semester here was pretty rough.

It took me several weeks of navigating Georgetown’s resources to successfully build a

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support system. When you are not a freshman, most people expect you to know where to go for certain issues. Eventually, I found the people and places who got me through that semester by showing me the importance of self-care. Those eight weeks still mark the period I have learned most about life, and about myself.

Georgetown may not be the place you thought it would be when you chose to transfer, but that does not mean you will not have a wonderful experience here.

For me, there have been more rough patches in my Georgetown career than smooth ones, but I am happy to have experienced them here because of the support I have received.

People across campus — my dean, my orientation adviser, the chaplains-in-residence, Health Education Services and the resident adviser of the Transfer Living Learning Community — guided me in my times of emotional distress. They taught me not to define myself based on my accomplishments, but rather to strive to be as self-aware, yet as selfless, as possible.

I am proud of the personal growth I have achieved and continue to achieve at Georgetown, and I am excited for you as you begin to learn more about the world, others and, most importantly, yourselves. Some of the most valuable education you will receive here will come from outside the classroom.

This university gives its students many opportunities to grow socially, spiritually, athletically and intellectually. Take advantage of them while you still have two or three more years as an undergraduate.

People at Georgetown are here to support you if your experience here is not as great as you thought it would be — let them help you if you need it. Though transferring can seem like an isolating process, finding your support group on campus will help you realize that Georgetown will welcome you if you let it.

Brittany Rios is a senior in the College. TRANSFERMATIONS appears online every other Monday.

To maintain its legitimacy as a global institution, Georgetown must match its actions with its words by offering greater financial aid to international students.

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s campus discourse continues to focus on making Georgetown a diverse and welcoming home for all, there is one group that is consistently ignored: international students.

The position of international students in the Georgetown community reveals both a weakness in the university’s commitment to diversity and internationalmindedness and a stark social division within our student body.

To maintain its legitimacy as a global institution, Georgetown must match its actions with its words by offering greater financial aid to international students.

In doing so, it would not only increase the socioeconomic diversity of the international student population but would also help bridge the gap that currently exists between these students and their American peers.

According to the Office of Global Services, there are 2,221 international students across all Georgetown programs, constituting approximately 11 percent of the student body. OGS lauds itself on this international student population, hailing it as “an integral part” and “a point of pride” of the Georgetown community.

This emphasis on international students is hardly surprising given Georgetown’s reputation as a globally oriented institution. Our location at the center of international affairs, coupled with our numerous campuses and facilities around the globe in Qatar, Turkey and Italy, testify to the university’s commitment to

engaging with the world. This international outlook is also firmly anchored in Georgetown’s Jesuit values, which emphasize the importance of pluralism and crosscultural understanding.

Still, Georgetown remains one of the only top American universities to offer next to no financial aid to international students. Ivy League universities, for example, offer much greater financial assistance to their international students: Columbia University, Harvard University and Yale University were all among U.S. News and World Report’s top-10 colleges and universities that offer the most financial aid to international students. Georgetown, meanwhile, explicitly states that financial aid is “extremely limited” for overseas students, including only a “very limited number of needbased scholarships.” According to a 2009 op-ed published in THE HOYA, Georgetown was not among the three percent of colleges that awarded scholarships to more than 15 undergraduate international students in 2007.

It is well-known that Georgetown struggles with its socioeconomic diversity. A January 2017 New York Times study found that Georgetown had more students from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the bottom 60 percent.

Although the study focused on the incomes of American citizens, there is little doubt that this lack of socioeconomic diversity extends to the international community, for which there is less

publicly available information.

Given the virtual absence of financial aid, international applicants must be capable of paying the entire four-year cost of a Georgetown education. As a result, the international applicant pool is reduced, not because of a lack of academic or extracurricular achievements but rather on the grounds of wealth and income. This constitutes an incredible loss to our community, especially considering the unique perspectives that these lower-income international pupils could potentially contribute. Moreover, for students in underdeveloped countries who may otherwise be caught in cycles of violence and poverty, financial aid could present one of the only opportunities to study at such a renowned institution, providing a crucial boost for future career prospects.

A re-examination of the university’s international financial aid would also help bridge the current divide between international and American students on campus. The lack of financial assistance for international students has created a perception that all international students belong to a wealthy minority. It is unfair, however, to paint international students with such a broad brush. Many international students whose families are unable to pay the full cost of Georgetown sacrifice greatly to attend their dream school. While some apply for highly competitive scholarships, others take out loans or choose to stay on campus during

holidays to reduce the financial burden on their families.

There nonetheless persists an unspoken divide on campus between international and American students. A recent study on the experiences of international students in the United States revealed that 38 percent went home after college without having made real American friends.

Though this may not be exactly the case at Georgetown, the university should still help bridge the differences between these two groups to prevent such divisions. Providing financial aid to international students is a unique opportunity for the university to not only reaffirm its commitment to diversity and equality, but also to help remedy the often unfair reputation of international students.

In a world increasingly divided along national, religious, economic and ethnic lines, the value of cross-cultural interaction and understanding is unquestionable. Georgetown is failing to fully embrace the opportunities that a diverse and integrated international student population could present. Providing financial aid to international students would be an important step in the right direction — and this era of global division is the perfect time to take it.

KLEITMAN is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. He is an international student originally from France.

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Recommitting to Title IX

Rules for Returning Hoyas

n Sept. 7, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced President Donald Trump’s administration will open a public comment period, beginning the process to create new regulations concerning Title IX, a federal law stating that access to education should not be denied on the basis of sex. DeVos has targeted several of the policies established in recent years which seek to protect survivors of sexual assault and other forms of interpersonal violence.

As student leaders in sexual assault awareness and prevention efforts at Georgetown, we see this dangerous move away from survivor-centric policies as a sign that our government is not serious about tackling the epidemic of sexual violence on college campuses.

Although the changes that DeVos is considering remain unclear, it is widely understood that the administration intends to target the protections of the 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter.

Former President Barack Obama’s administration created the “Dear Colleague” letter to ensure universities maintain the principle of Title IX. The letter explicitly outlines the responsibilities universities have in responding to sexual violence and offers clear guidance as to the rights of survivors in the Title IX reporting and compliance process. To make the gravity of the issue clear, the letter also details the repercussions universities would face if they failed to enforce Title IX, which could include the withdrawal of federal funding in extreme cases.

Last week’s announcement signals to survivors and activists, who have worked for years to improve the protections offered by Title IX, that their trauma and commitment to ending sexual violence does not matter to this administration. Trump’s administration has shown a willingness

to limit the scope of Title IX, withdrawing Obama-era protections for transgender students.

DeVos’ recent threats concerning Title IX demand that Georgetown reaffirm its commitment to defending and advocating for survivors of sexual assault. In order to make clear that addressing sexual violence remains a priority, Georgetown must publicly commit to continue to uphold the standards of the “Dear Colleague” letter and to work to end sexual violence on campus.

The Georgetown community understands all too well the importance of working against sexual violence. The university first implemented a policy against sexual assault in 1997, and the 20 years since then have seen constant efforts to fight back against sexual assault. In the early 2000s, Georgetown required survivors to sign non-disclosure agreements, which protected the assailant’s identity, in order to receive information concerning the status of their case. After a 2003 student lawsuit and subsequent intervention by the Department of Education, the university was forced to prioritize responding to sexual violence.

Over a decade later, the 2016 Campus Climate Survey — taken between January and February of 2016 — revealed that much work still remains to be done. The survey aimed to determine the frequency of sexual assault and misconduct at Georgetown and found that about one in three female, one in 10 male and one in four transgender, genderqueer or non-conforming undergraduates had experienced non-consensual sexual contact as a result of physical force or incapacitation during their time at Georgetown.

The survey also found that more than three in four female, three in five male and four in five transgender, genderqueer or non-conforming undergraduate students had experienced

some form of sexual harassment during their time on campus.

Almost without exception, the survey found that rates of sexual violence at Georgetown exceeded national rates, which could be attributed not only to higher rates of incidence, but also more frequent reporting by survivors.

The creation a sexual assault task force, addition of new staff to address the crisis and allocation of more financial resources to programming in response to this data demonstrates that the university understands the importance of addressing sexual violence. Beginning this academic year, Georgetown is now requiring all new students to participate in bystander intervention training. While Georgetown has made important progress, this work is far from over.

We are currently in the “red zone,” the initial six weeks of an academic year during which students are most likely to be sexually assaulted. As such, now should be the time when our community recommits to tackling the ongoing problem of sexual violence. The Trump administration has shown it is more interested in standing with perpetrators than survivors, but Georgetown cannot do the same.

This week, Take Back the Night — a student advocacy group committed to fighting gendered violence — is releasing a petition calling on Georgetown to make this public commitment. We can do more and be better, regardless of the shameful choices the current presidential administration might continue to make on this issue. We hope you join us.

DARIA CRAWFORD is a sophomore

in the College. She is copresident of Take Back the Night. MORGAN ROBINSON is a sophomore in the School of Nursing and Health Studies.

KORY STUER is a junior in the College.

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t Georgetown, New Student Orientation offers a marvelous, nearly round-the-clock set of activities to welcome new Hoyas, introducing them to our community and offering them an array of tools to succeed. Sometimes I wonder if we ought to do something similar for returning Hoyas. Returning has its own dynamics, with both pitfalls and promises; we would do well to acknowledge them and prepare ourselves to make the most of them.

As someone who has returned to the Hilltop nine times now, I would offer five rules for returning. They are lessons I have learned both from my own experience and from students and colleagues I have known along the way, and I think they might be especially appropriate now, when classes are in full swing and we are settling in for the long haul of the academic year. Some of them may even be of use to new students now that life is normalizing after the whirlwind of NSO. No. 1: Returning truly is a new beginning. Your previous identity on campus need not define you. In fact, it is important to recognize that your time away — whether for a summer, a leave or a study abroad experience — has changed you.

You have the chance to begin fresh and to take on new challenges and adventures. Old failures, worries, dramas and even successes can be left behind.

People will be far more eager to discover the new, emergent you than dwell on the past you.

Take the chance to keep growing and stretching into the person you hope to become.

No. 2: Returning is all about establishing — and renewing — relationships. There are new professors and mentors to get to know, and indeed you

often get to know them more deeply through shared projects as you become an upperclassman. Your relationships with roommates and friends — now in new rooms, apartments or houses — can take on a different character; some will deepen, some will be completely new and others may gently slip away. All of that is OK, and even healthy. Perhaps most importantly, there is an opportunity to develop a new relationship with yourself, setting a new rhythm for rest, exercise, study, friendships and for prayer and reflection, and savoring a new appreciation of yourself and the person you are becoming.

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. No. 3: Bring your experience with you when you return.

Where you are returning from matters — let it find its way into the topics you choose to research, the papers you write for courses, the talks you go to on campus and the clubs and internships you pursue. Share stories with friends. Bring back the music, fashion or literature that touched you. Be formed by what you have experienced so that it gets inside of you and shapes — or reshapes — how you see your life on the Hilltop.

No. 4: Do not just return to well-known, easy experiences; give yourself space to try new things and fail. Isn’t it strange that we are far more willing to step out of our comfort zones when away but feel the need

to be perfect here on campus? I am convinced that we all need at least one aspect of our lives in which we are able to simply laugh at ourselves. For me, a few years ago, it was awkwardly participating in the “Dancing With the Hoyas” competition.

To be good at some things, we need the freedom to not be so good — or even downright bad — at others.

No. 5: Remember what brought you here, and pay attention to the often-surprising ways it is coming to life within you. Each of us came to the Hilltop because something unique captured our attention — maybe a sense of tradition and purpose, a world-renowned professor, a desire to serve or a hope for who we might become as a thinker and human being. Now, as we return, that original hope and vision may have evolved and even been diverted in new directions. Take the time to examine the arc that led you from your first arrival to this arrival, and to keep dreaming of where it will lead you next.

Returning matters. We often tell incoming students that Georgetown will transform them. As returners, we have the chance to see and savor — and choose anew — the transformation that is happening in each of us and in our friends around us. When we do, we get just a bit closer to this promise of transformation that NSO and our Jesuit tradition set out before us when we first arrived.

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is an associate professor in the department of government and Walsh School of Foreign Service and currently serves as director of the Center for Latin American Studies. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT is a rotating column that appears online every other Thursday.

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Q&A: MSB Dean Almeida Shares Plans for Innovation ALFREDO CARRILLO Hoya Staff Writer

The McDonough School of Business must work to integrate technological advances in global markets with the goal of educating competitive and innovative students, said McDonough School of Business Dean Paul Almeida.

With 22 years of experience at Georgetown University, and just over a month in his position, Almeida said he hopes to take full advantage of the tools and capabilities offered by the MSB, the rest of the Georgetown community and the greater Washington, D.C. community.

In an interview with THE HOYA, Almeida described his experience leading the MSB so far and what his expectations and hopes are for the future of the school and its role within the university.

How was your first month as dean of the McDonough School of Business?

I didn’t expect any surprises and I didn’t get any surprises, but I think the thing that, if I look back, hits me the most is I see the first month as being a first, but important, step into the future. And I’m very excited about the future; I think we can be even more magnificent in a number of ways. So, I think there’s always a little bit of adjustment in the first month, but I was deputy dean of education and innovation, so it wasn’t a big stretch. But getting to know the undergrads when they come in as dean is different than getting to know the undergrads when they come in when you’re not dean. Welcoming the parents and each cohort and welcoming the faculty back, it has a different effect on you and you realize both the responsibility and the opportunity to make a difference, so that’s quite thrilling.

You have been at Georgetown for 22 years. How does it feel to come to such an important position at an institution that you have given so much to and that is such a big part of your life?

It’s wonderful. It’s one of many important positions in the school, and I said in my status school address that deans don’t make a school, and I mean it with all sincerity. It’s a combination of

the faculty and the staff and the students and the alumni and the advisors who make the school. And, so the way I look at it is, my job is to be a good conductor, to choose the piece of music and share my vision and inspiration with other people and then facilitate their success. So it’s wonderful, but I take it as an opportunity, literally, to serve and I take it as an opportunity to work with lots of different stakeholders to move forward along a common path. I know so many of the stakeholders well, and I understand our school and our future well. I understand our role within the university, which is very important; I understand our role within Washington, D.C.; I understand our role within the Jesuit community. I’m gratified, I’m thrilled, and I’m excited and I do feel that responsibility as well.

How has your career prepared you to serve in this position?

One, I’m a strategy professor. I’ve not only been a strategy professor and taught at the undergraduate level and the MBA level and the executive level, I’ve held numerous seminars, well over 60, 70, with different companies and organizations domestic and international, big and small, and consulted with all these companies. And so strategy is kind of in my blood and my expertise and my passion. And the other thing that I’ve studied is innovation. And I think I’ve not just studied it, I’ve practiced it for many years.

The MSB has grown tremendously, yet you mentioned in an interview for the university’s communications team that business education, the “market realities,” are changing. How do you envision the MSB moving forward?

Maybe our students have to understand computer science a little better. Maybe our students need a little more exposure to the changes taking place in say, Goldman Sachs or Barclays or elsewhere. So maybe we need to have more experiential learning, maybe greater interaction with companies and what they’re doing. Maybe our students need to have a wider variety of electives possible that they wouldn’t have had before.

And we’re going to launch this sort of journey of discov-

ery with them and for them.

So for the subject matter they learn, the interaction with businesses in the real worlds, and the process of learning. Should they have more flipped classes, for instance?

Should we be using technology more aggressively? Now that’s obviously in the future, but we should keep asking these questions.

“We would like to enhance our global experiences to some extent; I think that’s really important.”

PAUL ALMEIDA Dean, McDonough School of Business

What programs and initiatives do you plan to implement in the short term?

We would like to enhance our global experiences, to some extent; I think that’s really important. We would like to definitely start on pro-

viding our students more opportunities with the School of Foreign Service and vice versa, so there’s more flexibility to build on the advantages of both schools and both sets of students. And I think in a very short time, we will announce steps in that direction.

In that same interview you mentioned that Georgetown and the MSB could be “smart” and “innovative” in its approach to the future. How does an institution conflate both qualities?

‘Smart’ means that we have to grow as an organization in terms of our faculty, in terms of our staff and our students, but that needs to be aligned with our strategy, in terms of how big different programs are, or which new programs we are introducing. And it also has to align very much with your financial situation, so that you can invest. You say you’re going to do this but you can actually invest and make a difference. So ‘smart’ means basically aligning your financials, your strategy in an organization in a world that continuously changes in a dynamic way. And ‘innovative,’

again, plays into change, and here we don’t just react to change, we create the change we want. Given that the world is changing, how can we find our distinctive place in that world?

Where does the Innovation Initiative that you oversaw as deputy dean fall into this?

We’ve moved it to the dean’s office. It was with me as deputy dean, but when I moved to the dean’s office, I brought it with me. And this year, we’re looking at two things in depth. First, we had five different initiatives last year, and for every one we’re actually going to implement at least two of the recommendations from every initiative.

The worst thing you can do is plan and not do anything.

But we’re also doing something called lifelong learning this year; it’s a new initiative. I know you’ve got a long way before you graduate, but you’re going to graduate when you are 22, and you’re probably going to retire when you’re 80, and the world’s going to change so much. We want the Georgetown experi-

ence to continue to be with you, so what we’re going to do is develop courses partly online, partly in person, combining alumni experts with Georgetown professors in a way that knits together communities around areas of interest.

What is your personal objective?

To make a positive difference to the school. I didn’t really seek this job, I can be honest in that. A few people said, ‘You really should think about it,’ and I said, ‘Look, let me think about it.’ And I was very happy in my previous job, and I loved the flexibility, and I loved all the different features, and I was thinking of starting a business using artificial intelligence, and I have my consulting. And I said, on the other hand, ‘If I feel God is leading me to this, if I can make a difference to the school, if my skills make a difference to the school, if my commitment and passion make a difference to the school, I suspect I won’t be able to be as happy as I was before, but I feel I could perhaps make a bigger difference.’

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GU Reaffirms Legal Resources, Activism for UndocuHoyas Alfredo Carrillo Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University administrators detailed the university’s efforts to fight for a permanent replacement for the rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at an information session held in the Healy Family Student Center Social Room on Monday.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday, Sept. 5 it would rescind DACA — an executive program passed by Barack Obama’s administration providing work authorization and legal protection to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children — with a six-month delay allowing Congress to enact a permanent replacement.

After the decision was announced, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia sent letters to members of Congress lobbying for the passage of a legislative replacement, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said Monday.

Fleming added that the university has been reaching out to senators and representatives, including Georgetown alumni, to push for the passing of the Dream Act of 2017, which would provide a path

for permanent residency to qualified undocumented immigrants, providing an alternative to DACA. “We are committed. This is going to get done. We’re not going to have to worry about what happens after March 5th,” Fleming said. “I think the attitudes on Capitol Hill are changing. Having heard comments from a variety of members of Congress, I see people moving in the right direction.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and other administrators at the event called for the rest of the Georgetown community to come together and contribute to issues affecting undocumented students, while also urging undocumented students on campus to seek counsel as soon as possible.

For students applying for or renewing their DACA status before the Oct. 5th deadline, the university will facilitate free and anonymous legal services by contracting with Catholic Charities’ immigration legal services, according to University counsel Adam Adler.

Fleming also encouraged the students in attendance to participate in the Friends of Dreamers program, through which signed letters containing the stories of undocumented students are delivered to legislators on Capitol Hill.

Fleming said the stories, which

are more impactful than a phone call, are planned to be delivered by administrators and student beginning this week.

Georgetown reached out to other Jesuit colleges and universities to collaborate on the effort, according to Fleming.

Associate Director for Undocumented Student Services Arelis Palacios also called for students to stand by their peers by externalizing support for DACA and promting constructive dialogue. She offered to train student leaders on campus to help them achieve this.

“There are students who are directly impacted, who we communicate with very consistently, and then there are the allies, and the allies are really critical in this conversation in terms of how you can start to change the conversation about this on our campus,” Palacios said. “We are absolutely wanting these students to matriculate, we want them to be part of our campus, we see them as a necessary voice.”

Highlighting the university’s continued involvement with the issue for over a decade, Olson expressed his confidence in the university’s continued engagement with the issue.

“As time has moved on over the last several years, our approach as an institution has evolved, it has grown,” Olson said. “We have hard work to do together, I am confident we are up to the task.”

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Lewd Email Distributed to Corp Staff After System Breach JEFF CIRILLO

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Following a breach of the Students of Georgetown, Inc. email system, an email containing pornographic content criticizing the university’s partnership with Aramark was distributed to all staff.

An email containing pornographic content was sent to the staff of Students of Georgetown, Inc. after the student-run company’s internal email system experienced a breach yesterday.

The email, reviewed by The Hoya, included seven links to internet pornography and an attached image of two men, one labeled with Georgetown University’s logo and one labeled with the logo of Aramark, the university’s dining contractor, performing a sexual act on a woman labeled “The Corp.” The subject line of the email reads in part “[Corpwide] we getting f---ed.”

The email was sent from an email account presumably named for former Corp CEO Taylor Tobin (COL ’17), taylor@thecorp.org. Current Corp CEO Melina Hsiao (COL ’18) said the account was fake and never used by Tobin, and that The Corp’s information technology staff was working to confirm where the email originated.

The person responsible did not access sensitive information and did not delete or alter any Corp accounts or files. The Corp’s human resources department sent an email to Corp staff apologizing for

the incident yesterday afternoon.

The graphic email follows a series of major dining renovations on campus, which saw dining contractor Aramark’s introduction of the Whisk bakery and coffee shop in O’Donovan Hall and a new location for The Corp’s Uncommon Grounds cafe on the second floor of the university bookstore in the Leavey Center.

A former senior Corp employee said the new competition from Aramark for Corp coffee shops has been a topic of discussion among Corp staff.

“It’s absolutely something we’ve all been informed of and conversations with the staff have happened. We’re all very aware that UG has and will have competitors, but we really think it’s our strong community in UG that will keep people coming back,” the employee said. “We’re not too concerned.”

The incident comes during a year of changes for The Corp. The company had to purchase its own Wi-Fi network after the university’s Wi-Fi was deemed not secure for credit card transactions.

UG, its oldest cafe, is set to reopen this fall on the second floor of the university bookstore after 23 years in Sellinger Lounge. UG em-

ployees have raised concerns about how the new location, accessible from the Leavey Esplanade and the second floor of the bookstore, will affect the cafe’s customer traffic.

Hsiao said it “may have been beneficial” if the university had given more advanced notice of the planned changes to Sellinger Lounge last year, but The Corp is building “positive relationships” with university administration.

In a March interview, Hsiao said she was excited about the move, but also uncertain about how it will affect UG. “It’s really exciting in some ways, and a little bit nervewracking; it’s going to be a major change to the flow of traffic in the Leavey Center, and that is likely going to be a major change to our business,” Hsiao said. “It is going to be interesting to see how that works out.”

Following yesterday’s incident, Hsiao said cybersecurity is not of particular concern for The Corp compared to other organizations.

“More important is the wellbeing and comfort of our employees, and it is regretful that a message containing such graphic content was circulated,” Hsiao said.

Law, Medical Centers Formalize Legal Resource Partnership Marina Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Law Center and the Georgetown University Medical Center formally launched the Health Justice Alliance, a partnership to share legal resources and medical research focused on low-income communities in Washington, D.C., at a panel on Wednesday.

The Health Justice Alliance, which began research work in 2016, works to provide legal assistance and advice in addition to medical care for low-income residents across the District. University President John J. DeGioia emphasized the importance of joint work between GUMC and GULC to panel attendants.

“There is an undeniable urgency to this work, to address pervasive and persistent health disparities facing our community today, disparities influenced by factors relating to food security, housing, education and access to healthcare, medical and legal challenges that demand collaborative, interdisciplinary, and communitybased solutions,” DeGioia said.

Moderated by Edward Healton, GUMC’s executive vice president for health sciences, the panel was composed of representatives from both GUMC and the GULC, including Yael Cannon and Vicki Girard, GULC professors and co-directors of the Health Justice Alliance; Christopher King, director of the School of Nursing and Health Studies’ master’s degree in health systems administration; founding medical director of the Health Justice Alliance Eileen Moore; and Oswald Reid (MED ’20).

GULC Dean William Treanor introduced the panel, remarking on its three major goals of addressing underserved communities in the District, training the next generation of doctors and attorneys

to work collaboratively, and performing research to evaluate best practices for future medical-legal partnerships.

“The Health Justice Alliance embodies the Georgetown ethos, the Jesuit ethos by fostering collaboration between lawyers, medical professionals and students from both arenas to care for the whole person,” Treanor said.

Moore said her patients inspired her to implement a medical-legal partnership at Georgetown. Specifically, after attempting to help an asthmatic patient whose condition was exacerbated by a broken window in her home and was receiving no assistance from landlords, Moore said she realized patients need legal help.

“So out of sheer desperation I went to a friend of mine who has those magic words like ‘esquire’ after her name,” Moore said.

“Within a week there was glass in that window. So I very quickly came to realize the high, high value of the medical-legal partnership aspect of the Health Justice Alliance.”

Cannon credits Georgetown’s affiliation with healthcare providers across D.C. through the MedStar Hospital System as one of the strengths of the program, as it affords students the opportunity to work directly with populations affected by poverty.

“Georgetown is pretty remarkably positioned for this type of partnership. Both the law school and the medical center have an incredible presence in low-income communities in D.C., and we realized as we started talking across our campuses that we can do this work better if we do it together,” Cannon said.

The program focuses on underserved populations in order to help address and lessen racial health disparities in the District,

according to King.

King said black D.C. residents are six times more likely to develop and die from diabetes and three times more likely to be obese than white D.C. residents.

Black men in the District are three times more likely to die from prostate cancer than white men, and black women in the District are 1.5 times

more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, according to a July 2016 report to the D.C. Commission on African American Affairs to which King contributed.

“I tell my students that we can provide the best medical care in the world, but we can’t begin to address everything unless we rethink how systems and institutions are designed

and rethink them in a holistic way,” King said.

Cannon added that the program works to achieve its goal of training the next generation of doctors and lawyers by helping students understand how to assess medical and legal needs from the beginning of their work with patients or clients.

“When these patients who are living in really extreme pov-

erty come to the doctor, a med student goes into the patient room, does a regular checkup, checks for vitals, but can also check to see if there are unmet legal needs,” Cannon said. “If those needs are flagged, our law students can wrap that family in legal services and work as a team to problemsolve for these families and try to get them healthy.”

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The Georgetown University Medical Center and Law Center formalized a partnership to facilitate resource access to low-income patients in need of legal aid or advice at a panel discussion featuring University President John J. DeGioia.

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Task Force Urges Bystander Training GUAA Committee Eliminates Student Governor Positions TRAINING, from A1

“The new intensive ‘Bringing in the Bystander’ program is the heart of what’s new, and all firstyear students are going through that this fall semester,” Olson said.

For faculty and staff, the training programs are targeted toward reporting and responding to students when they reach out for help, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Rosemary Kilkenny (LAW ’87) said.

“It is very important for the faculty and staff to be well-versed and be well-trained in what resources and what their reporting obligations are in the event that a student decides to take them into their confidence,” Kilkenny said.

“We are going to have a very focused attention on their reporting obligations.”

Following Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ announcement last week of her intention to roll back Obama-era sexual assault policies for univerisities, Kilkenny reaffirmed the university’s intentions to continue its commitment to the safety of its students.

“Regardless of what the Department of Education does, we want to take the opportunity tonight to let you all know that the university is very committed to eradicating sexual misconduct, sexual assault and sexual harassment,” Kilkenny said.

Kilkenny said the university will be conducting further research using focus groups and periodical climate surveys to research the causes of sexual misconduct on campus.

“The results of the climate survey clearly show that Georgetown University has a very high incidence of sexual assault and sexual misconduct,” Kilkenny said. “As a result of that we were really curious to find out what it is about our culture that has resulted in this incidence being as high as it is.”

Established by University President John J. DeGioia last spring, the task force advised the administration to coordinate with the Georgetown University Police Department and improve the relationship between mandatory reporters and students through cultural awareness training and

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Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, left, Vice President for Institutional Diversity Rosemary Kilkenny and Title IX Director Laura Cutway discussed sexual assault prevention Monday. privacy guarantees.

The establishment of the task force came on the heels of the results of the 2016 Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey, which indicated that nearly one in three females and one in 10 males at Georgetown have experienced some sort of non-consensual sexual contact.

Since June 2016, the task force, led by Kilkenny and Olson and students who served on the university’s sexual assault working group has been gathering information from focus groups and compiling recommendations on how the university should proceed.

GUPD officers should also receive additional training, Cutway said.

Sexual Assault Response Team officers will receive more intensive training, while all other officers will receive a baseline training in handling instances of sexual violence.

“We’re looking at deeper training for [SART] officers. They already go through a 40-hour training, but we’re looking at increasing their trainings on specific topics, say vulnerable populations and stalking and relationship violence,” Cutway said. “The other piece of the

training for GUPD is training all officers, not just the SART officers, so that all officers have a minimum of eight hours of training.”

The Office of Student Conduct will also be making changes to make the misconduct reporting process more transparent and to strengthen accountability, Olson said.

“Two of the important ideas that were generated by students and through conversation were to increase transparency of student conduct processes through an online tracking capability that we’re developing in our new system now,” Olson said. “And the second piece around student conduct was around accountability for how cases are handled, especially these very important cases around sexual misconduct.”

According to Olson, the Disciplinary Review Committee operating under the Office of Student Conduct, which had previously looked at student conduct policies, will take on an expanded role to evaluate how misconduct cases are handled beyond just policy issues.

The university will also be prioritizing the expansion of Health

Education Services, which supports victims of sexual misconduct in dealing with the emotional stresses and reporting process following an incident. Olson said one full-time position will be added to the department.

“The one department that is at the center of a lot of our efforts is Health Education Services and one of the things that was an important priority through this planning process was to strengthen the professional staffing in Health Education in order to do program work, educational work, outreach work and to provide direct clinical services and support for students,” Olson said.

Other recommendations from the task force involve building academic specialization on campus to research sexual misconduct both on Georgetown’s campus and nationwide, adding funding for public awareness campaigns and establishing a Coordinated Community Response Team to take over the work of the task force.

“We want to be very aggressive in providing resources, especially for survivors of sexual assault and sexual misconduct,” Kilkenny said.

some university administrators including University President John J. DeGioia. The board refers to its purpose as a “formal communications link between the Alumni Association and the University” in an onboarding pamphlet.

The committee concluded the student governors program, started in 2006, was not successful, according to Lucy Flinn (COL ’86), director of strategic communications and marketing for GUAA. “Coming out of the most recent assessment, the BOG concluded that it could most effectively engage students through programming developed with [the Georgetown University Student Association] and designed to support professional development and alumni networking,” Flinn wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Aaron Bennett (COL ’19), who took his position as a student governor in April, said he did not hear that his position on the board had been eliminated until the end of August, when the change was mentioned in a conversation with GUSA President Kamar Mack (COL ’19).

“I heard briefly on August 30th from Kamar, but never heard in an official capacity from GUAA,” Bennett said.

Estes and Nicole Lam (COL ’17), who were also student governors when the position was eliminated, likewise did not hear of the decision until the end of August.

The relationship had already soured between the student governors and the board before the student positions were eliminated, according to Estes. After the election last fall of a new board president, Jeff Chapski (GSB ’91), communication dwindled between the board and its student members, and Chapski pushed student voices into the background in meetings, according to Estes.

“A lot of the governors and the

alumni do not like Jeff. He’s kind of an ass,” Estes said. “He would turn the conversation not only to other alumni, but he wouldn’t even give students the time of day.”

Communication between the board and its student members had been inconsistent until Chapski’s predecessor, George Peacock (CAS ’84) took office, according to Estes.

During Peacock’s term, students were better able to communicate with alumni about common goals. After the September 2016 conference when Chapski initially took control of the board, student members were not alerted of meeting details until days before the event, Estes said.

“We had talked to people, and they were going to send us committee emails. That just didn’t happen,” Estes said.

Estes said some other members of the board were more welcoming to the student participants and that Chapski’s attitude was more negative than that of the other board members.

“They were so welcoming. They were so excited that we came,” Estes said. “I think that’s more representative.”

Flinn said the decision to eliminate the position did not come wholly from Chapski but from discussions among board leadership and senior GUAA staff.

The board plans to hear proposals from GUSA to find alternative ways to connect students with alumni over the course of the semester, according to Mack.

“Right now, what the GUAA is waiting for is a proposal for a new plan for engagement. They would like to see what GUSA can bring to the table in the decision-making processes of the GUAA,” Mack said. “Where we’re at right now is redefining our relationship with the GUAA because Jeff Chapski has, in communication with me, mentioned that he doesn’t want to completely cut off ties.”

‘It’s Not Easy’: Descendants of 272 Aspire to Spur Reflection DESCENDANTS, from A1 learned the truth about their ancestors, Georgetown’s historic ties to slavery were shaking up campus.

To solve a growing financial crisis, in 1838 former University President Fr. Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J., sold 272 enslaved men, women and children who belonged to the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus to two sugar plantations in Louisiana. The profits from the sale would allow the university to survive.

University President John J. DeGioia announced the formation of a Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation in September 2015 in response to the backlash against the university’s naming of the newly reopened Former Jesuit Residence as Mulledy Hall. The working group, made up of 16 members meant to represent different facets of the Georgetown community, was charged with addressing the history and ongoing ramifications of slaveholding by Jesuits at Georgetown.

By November, the slow progress of the working group led student activists to organize in new ways.

Around 250 black student activists demonstrated in Red Square on Nov. 12, 2015, listing six demands for the Georgetown administration.

Among the demands were the renaming of Mulledy Hall and the McSherry Building — named after then-University President Fr. William McSherry, S.J., who served as Mulledy’s lawyer during the sale — an endowment for recruiting black professors, mandatory training on diversity issues for professors and increased memorialization of Georgetown’s enslaved. The activists also staged a sit-in outside DeGioia’s office in Healy Hall.

For Cellini, though he supported the Red Square demonstration and the activists’ demands, there was a glaring question that nobody seemed to be asking.

“It was all about what buildings should be named or not named at Georgetown and what the campus tour should say,” Cellini said. “My question was, ‘Well, all of that’s very nice, but what happened to the people? What happened to the 272 men, women and children that were sold?’”

ACCEPTING AND AMENDING One year later, in September 2016, DeGioia announced a series of measures to address Georgetown’s history with slavery, including the granting of legacy status to descendants of the 272, a formal apology for the university’s’ role

in slavery, and efforts to further research and memorialize slavery on Georgetown’s campus.

But for Cellini, the university’s efforts had come too late — and without a focus on discovering descendants. Cellini decided that if the university was not progressing in piecing together the history of the enslaved after the 1838 sale, somebody would have to.

“I got involved because like everybody else, I read the articles and I thought they were very interesting,” Cellini said. “I’m not rich; I’m not powerful; I’m not famous. I was just interested. There was a lot of stuff coming from the university about plaques and commemorative songs and plays and the script of the campus tour and whether Mulledy should be renamed or not. It’s not trivial, but it didn’t strike me as central.”

Out of this interest and a deep sense of commitment to discovering the truth, Cellini founded the Georgetown Memory Project.

Since its founding in 2015, the Georgetown Memory Project has identified and located 212 of the 272 slaves sold and 5,200 of their descendants.

Cellini made contact with the first verified descendant Nov. 17, 2015. He immediately notified members of the working group but was met with no significant interest in interviewing or including descendants in their work.

“After I started finding descendants, I expressly told the university.

All of this is documented in email,” Cellini said. “Between November of 2015 and April of 2016, I advised the university repeatedly that we were finding living descendants, and they had no interest in meeting with them or talking to them.”

This changed April 16, 2016, when The New York Times published a front-page article about the living descendants of the Georgetown 272, with the headline “272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?”

Cellini did not know the answer to the question the article posed, but he had an idea where Georgetown could start.

“You have a working group talking about making reparations to descendants, and there were no descendants on it, even though they knew there were descendants,” Cellini said. “I had descendants on the phone with the president’s office begging them to add descendants to the working group or at least to allow descendants to review the working group recommendations before they were announced publicly in September.”

According to Cellini, the univer-

sity explicitly refused.

“We were on the telephone at the highest level of the president’s office on multiple occasions, including all of August of 2016, and they just refused,” Cellini said.

However, History Professor Adam Rothman, who sat on the working group on slavery, memory and reconciliation, said he did not recall that the working group or anyone at the university was refusing to include descendants in the working group.

“The big revelations about the descendants came in late spring when the working group was really almost done with its work.

There really wasn’t enough time to incorporate descendants into the process,” Rothman said. “One of the recommendations of the working group was from that moment forward to try to include descendants in a meaningful way.”

Joe Ferrara, the chief of staff to DeGioia, acknowledged that his office was aware that the working group reached out to descendants prior to The New York Times article’s being published in August.

Cellini said he heard these conflicting answers from DeGioia himself.

“Jack particularly waffles and sort of tries to preserve the appearance that the university did, in fact, know there were descendants and the university wasn’t caught flatfooted,” Cellini said. “My question to Jack expressly has been, ‘If you knew about the existence of the descendants and didn’t tell anybody, that raises very, very serious ethical and moral questions. Why didn’t they tell people? Why didn’t they find more descendants?’”

Past Patterns, Present Day The university’s knowledge of the existence of descendants and lack of action contributes to the troubled aftermath of the 1838 sale, which — much like slavery broadly — has lasting socioeconomic implications to this day.

For the descendants of the slaves sold to benefit Georgetown, this becomes an even bigger problem when examining how localized many of the descendants are.

The Georgetown Memory Project estimates that around 900 of the 1,200 people living in Maringouin, La., are direct descendants of the 272.

Few, probably none, of the descendants of the 272 would have ended up in Maringouin had the Jesuits not sold them to a plantation there in 1838.

“It’s just incomprehensible to me. Our university was lifted up by pushing other people down. And they’re still down there. They’re

exactly where we left them,” Cellini said.

Based on the 2000 census, the median Maringouin, La. household income was $23,816, compared to the national average household income of $55,030.

Maringouin does not have a high school. Upon realizing that access to a Jesuit high school might be more appealing than legacy admission status to Georgetown, Cellini asked residents whether they would be interested in that instead.

When the Maringouin residents said they had no interest in going to school, he asked what they might want.

“One of my friends said ‘Wi-Fi. We’d like our kids to be able to look at the internet,’” Cellini said.

Colomb added that she thinks there might be a solution, if only someone from the Maryland Jesuits or Georgetown would shoulder the responsibility.

“There are people at the epicenter of where my family and other families landed in Louisiana who don’t have Wi-Fi, who are living in very, very disenfranchised and poor situations, all this time later,” Colomb said. “So, what can the Jesuits do? Maybe they can fix that.”

Perfect Timing For Colomb, the information that she was a descendant of the 272 could not have come at a more important time. Colomb had just left her job as a professional chef and was re-examining her options.

After leaving college the first time, starting a family, going to culinary school and working for 22 years as a chef, Colomb did not feel secure enough to stop working.

“My retirement has never been secure for me. I never felt like I was going to be able to stop working, really until I die. I used to think that I was going to die on the kitchen line,” Colomb said.

The discovery that Queen, her great-great-great-grandmother, was one of the slaves sold in 1838 helped Colomb finally piece together her family history. She was still figuring out how to support herself after leaving her restaurant and wanted more information about her relatives.

Though DeGioia announced Sept. 1 that descendants would receive legacy status in admissions, Colomb did not begin the application until January: the result of a New Year’s resolution.

Colomb was accepted. She was to join Shepard Thomas, whose transfer application from Louisiana State University had been accepted, and Elizabeth Thomas, who was accepted into the journalism master’s program in the

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Elizabeth Thomas (GRD ’20), a descendant of slaves Maryland Jesuits sold, was accepted into the School of Continuing Studies.

School of Continuing Studies.

Acceptance to Georgetown did not guarantee that any of the three would be able to make it to campus. Colomb has a federal work-study job in the library; Elizabeth launched a fundraiser on GoFundMe — at $10,400 of a $30,000 goal as of press time — to fund her tuition; and Shepard Thomas thought his financial situation would rule out Georgetown as an option.

They all recognize that their opportunities are not available to every other descendant.

“I’m not sure if the compensation is money, I’m not sure if it’s scholarships because I’m sure not every descendant wants to go to college, and they’re owed something just as much as I am. If I say, ‘I think I want a scholarship,’ that might not be the answer for the next person,” Elizabeth Thomas said.

Shepard Thomas also said that even though he is not receiving scholarships from the university, he has encountered the view that he did not fully earn his place at the school.

“People have a misconception that I’m going here for free, that I had terrible grades,” Shepard Thomas said. “But I’ve always been an honor roll student, and I don’t think they would have accepted me if I wasn’t.”

Shepard Thomas also acknowledged that not all descendants would want or be able to attend Georgetown.

“It’s not easy. There’s all this stress and this weight on my shoulders,” Shepard Thomas said.

Colomb said she feels that same pressure; however, as the oldest of the three, she feels a special urge to push the Georgetown community to reflect on its past as well.

“There needs to be conversations in the student body, in the faculty, in the larger community, in the country, in our homes,” Colomb said.

A Semester Begins As much as Colomb wanted to arrive on campus and remain silent about her identity, she knows that she cannot.

“People have been waiting a long time to have somebody tell their story. Those are the people who prayed me into existence through generations,” Colomb said. “People prayed for me and they loved me and gave me everything that I needed to be able to stand here in this moment as a fully grown, 63-year-old woman.

I’m ready.”

Coincidentally, Colomb and Shepard Thomas are in the same “Atlantic World” history class, taught by Rothman.

“I’m excited that they’re in the class. For me, I guess it’s sort of a nice culmination of two years of work to see members of the descendant community here at Georgetown and in my class, learning about slavery in an academic setting,” Rothman said.

Unfortunately, Georgetown’s belated welcome has not quelled all fear.

“I am not convinced I can trust the people who sold my family, even though I’m here,” Colomb said.

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Ross Defends Trump’s Charlottesville Response Andrew Wallender Hoya Staff Writer

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The average rent in the Georgetown neighborhood is 60 percent more than the Washington, D.C.-Metro Area market rate and was only lower than those of the University of California, Los Angeles and Stanford University.

Study Finds Georgetown 3rd Most Expensive College Town Tait Ryssdal Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown is the third most expensive neighborhood in the country for college students to rent off-campus housing relative to market prices in the metropolitan area, according to a study by HomeUnion.

The average rent in the Georgetown neighborhood is $3,433 per month, 60 percent more than the Washington, D.C.-Metro area market rate of $2,145. The two schools ranked higher than Georgetown were the University of California, Los Angeles and Stanford University.

HomeUnion, an online residential real estate investment firm, compiled the list by first calculating the median rent within a two-mile radius of university campuses nationwide, and then comparing these rents with averages in the nearest metro area. Colleges with 15,000 or more students were included in the study.

Rent costs in the District have skyrocketed relative to other cities due to a growing population and limited availability of housing, according to Brian McCabe, associate professor of sociology at Georgetown, whose research has investigated housing policy and urban issues.

“First, the population of D.C. is surging. It has grown tremendously in the last 10 or 15 years, so you have more and

more people — and especially young professionals — looking for apartments in the city,” McCabe wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“Second, the supply of housing is constrained by various factors, including zoning restrictions that limit the height and density of buildings,” McCabe wrote. “As a result, you have a general constraint in the supply of housing. Together, these factors — limited supply and growing demand — push rents up.”

Director of the Office of Neighborhood Life Cory Peterson added that limited oncampus housing may drive up demand for rentals in the Georgetown neighborhood.

“Knowing that students are only guaranteed three years of housing on campus can create a high demand for private rental properties near campus,” Peterson said. “Additionally, the neighborhoods around the university already have high property values which, in turn, makes rent higher when you purchase a home you intend to rent.”

Peterson said that students looking for less expensive housing can consider applying for a fourth year of on-campus living beyond the university-guaranteed three years.

“On-campus housing is typically cheaper than living offcampus. While not guaranteed housing for four years, students

do have the opportunity to apply for housing and often receive housing for their fourth year,” Peterson said.

McCabe suggested that students consider living outside of the District.

“High-priced neighborhoods are expensive precisely because recent graduates and young professionals want to live there, thereby driving rents up,” McCabe wrote. “Seek out neighborhoods a bit more off the beaten path, check out some neighborhoods outside the city itself.”

Trey Tadepalli (SFS ’19) said he has been forced to consider options far outside the Georgetown neighborhood for housing he can afford.

“When I first learned of the three-year Georgetown housing requirement, I thought it was ridiculous. But after comparing housing fees on-campus to those off-campus, I cannot say that outside housing is an automatic option,” Tadepalli said. “The rates have forced me to look even further outside the neighborhood, even into Rosslyn and surrounding areas.”

Georgetown students should not expect greater affordability any time soon, according to Peterson.

“I think rent will continue to trend at its current rate because there will always be a demand for private rental space near the university.”

CEOs were wrong to abandon White House advisory councils because of President Donald Trump’s response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said at a Washington Post event Friday.

“What’s sad is for business leaders to give up an opportunity to influence policy over some singular issue with which they disagree,” Ross said. “I don’t think that’s very well considered.”

Following violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., during which one woman was killed on Aug. 12, Trump said “bigotry and violence on many sides” were to blame. The president’s response led to more than seven business leaders withdrawing from White House advisory councils on business and manufacturing, leading to the disbanding of the Strategy and Policy Forum and the American Manufacturing Council on Aug. 16.

Ross discussed the significance of these remarks, as well as the state of American trade deals, in an interview with Washington Post national political correspondent James Hohmann at a Post-sponsored event.

Ross singled out Elon Musk, CEO of automobile manufacturing company Tesla, in saying that many business leaders were not supporters of Trump during the election and suggested political motives were a factor in business leaders’ abandoning the president’s advisory councils.

The commerce secretary also reaffirmed the Trump administration’s intention to wrap up North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations by the end of the year, threatening to pull out of the trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada if a new agreement is not achieved. The Trump administration has indicated reducing the trade deficit with Canada and Mexico and more stingent labor regulations as priorities, according to the U.S. trade representative.

“The president has made clear that, if negotiations don’t work, he’ll pull out,” Ross said, repeating Trump’s rhetoric that the agreement has negatively affected the United States. “So that shouldn’t be a shock to anyone. And really, that’s the right thing. We need fixes to this deal. It has not worked the way that it was intended to.”

Ross pointed to the United States’ cumulative $1 trillion trade deficit with Mexico since NAFTA’s enactment in 1994 as evidence that the benefits of the trade agreement are not fairly distributed.

Mexico has also failed to raise its

minimum wage in years, which is evidence of loose labor standards in Mexico, Ross added.

The pace of the negotiations is unprecedented, according to Ross.

Negotiations are taking place in five-day spurts every two weeks.

The first two rounds were held in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City last month, with the third round set to take place in Ottawa, from Sept. 23 to Sept. 27.

Despite the quick pace, it remains too early in the negotiating process to tell whether Mexico and Canada are negotiating in good faith with the United States, Ross said.

Ross also used the event to call on Congress to pass tax reform, calling attention to the 6 billion hours per year that are “wasted”

by Americans preparing tax forms, according to a 2013 report from the Taxpayer Advocate Service.

“I hope that there’s real reform but that becomes largely in the hands of the Congress, and that’s part of the reason the president wanted to accelerate things,” Ross said. “These are complicated

tasks, and they’ll be made even more complicated by some of your neighbors here on K Street, as they lobby and lobby and lobby for their favorite little wrinkle.”

Trump traveled to North Dakota Sept. 6, where he called for a simplified tax code, a lower corporate tax and a tax cut for the middle class. The president said Sept. 10 during a cabinet meeting at Camp David that, because of Hurricane Irma, he would ask for an acceleration of tax reform.

Ross expressed hope that tax reform can be a bipartisan congressional effort. It would be unattractive for Democrats to maintain support for a complicated tax system, Ross said.

“And the tax reform is something that they all view — and I agree — needs to be dealt with, and needs to be dealt with urgently,” Ross said. “We get tax reform through, make the taxes lower, get the money brought back from offshore, make U.S. rates for businesses competitive so the companies don’t have to be driven offshore.”

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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross criticized CEOs who abandoned White House advisory committees following Trump’s response to riots.

Health Inspections Delay Uncommon Grounds Reopening emma koftica Hoya Staff Writer

Three weeks after the start of the fall semester, the new Uncommon Grounds coffee shop has yet to reopen in its new Leavey Center location.

Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the reopening of the Students of Georgetown, Inc. cafe is on hold due to delayed health inspections, but tentatively planned for next week, according to UG General Manager Will Elia.

“All new restaurants require approval from the Department of Health prior to opening. The DOH has a 72-hour window to complete their inspection. While we are confident that UG will pass with flying colors, we are unsure when exactly the DOH will arrive. However, we’re extremely hopeful that we’ll be open and serving great coffee by next week,” Elia said.

The new UG is opening on the second floor of the Barnes & Noble university bookstore, after 23 years in its original location, Sellinger Lounge.

When UG opens, it will be the first student-run coffee shop located in a Barnes & Noble bookstore.

Elia said the new location, accessible from the Leavey Esplanade, will be a comfortable space for student life.

“We now have a new, spacious setting where we can showcase Georgetown talent through our Uncommon Sounds open mic nights and other art events,” he said.

“Having a coffee shop on the esplanade is also a great convenience for medical students, students coming from Yates and people who want to spend some time relaxing outside.”

However, some UG employees expressed concern that the new location may be hard-

er to reach. UG employee Jared Lim (SFS ’19) said the previous location was convenient and centrally located.

“Our huge value last year was our location and the ambience we had, it kind of felt like we were the center of arts — at least on this part of campus,” Lim said. “We’re going to have to

put a lot of work into marketing and making sure people make the trek upstairs to get coffee.”

UG employee Louis Mulamula (MSB ’19) said the shop will have to draw students out of their old routines to go up to the esplanade, but the new location offers exciting new possibilities.

“I think it is going to be a

great opportunity to expand.

We need to try and change people’s habits because we have a great view of the esplanade and we have to take advantage of that,” Mulamula said.

The Corp is banking on the new UG’s success, as the company is now facing the cost

of implementing its new WiFi network. All campus organizations that accept credit card payment were forced off the university’s Wi-Fi network last spring due to insufficient security for banking transactions.

Elia said he is confident students will not be disappoint-

ed with the new UG. “People will see that everything they loved about UG is still present in the new space — great music, quality drinks and friendly service. That, along with a few new equipment upgrades, will make for a seamless transition for our customers,” Elia said.

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Delayed health inspections have prevented Uncommon Grounds from inaugurating its new location on the second floor of the Barnes & Noble university bookstore, after 23 years of serving students at Sellinger Lounge. According to UG General Manager Will Elia, its opening is tentatively planned for next week.

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Metro Scrutinized After 2 Bus Operators Assaulted HANNAH URTZ Hoya Staff Writer

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Enhanced Saturday GUTS service will begin this weekend, with buses running every 20 minutes from 9 a.m. to 7:40 p.m. to Dupont Circle and Trader Joe’s in Foggy Bottom.

Transit workers and union leaders have heavily criticized the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority bus service following two assaults on drivers in the past two weeks.

A woman was arrested Aug. 30 for throwing a cup of urine at a bus driver in Northeast Washington four days earlier.

According to reports from the driver, Opal L. Brown, 38, urinated into a cup in the back of the bus, then threw the cup at the driver while disembarking after the driver told her to “have a nice day.”

Brown turned herself in and confessed to the attack because she “hates Metro,” according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The second incident involved a passenger spitting on a Metrobus operator’s face last Tuesday.

Union leaders and workers spoke out about Metro’s handling of the situation and driver safety concerns. Leaders of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 called for increased security across transit lines, police escorts on the X2 line where the incident occurred and legislation making assaults on transit workers a felony.

“Metro must take accountability for their inaction over the last 10 years and they must develop a permanent solution to this increasingly dangerous problem now. A disgusting act like the one on Saturday can not only endanger the operator, but also endanger everyone on that bus,” ATU Local 689 wrote in a Sept.

1 press release.

“A disgusting act like the one on Saturday can not only endanger the operator, but also endanger everyone on that bus.”

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Several drivers on the X2 route refused to work after the incident, requesting police escorts on their routes.

Their requests were not met, and thus several buses were out of service for several hours on Sept. 1, according to Metro.

WMATA responded to the union’s criticisms in a statement

saying “absolutely no one should be assaulted for doing their job,” but that the drivers must return to work.

“We disagree with impacting Metro customers who are simply trying to get to work and school by Metrobus Operators refusing to provide bus service in a disruptive and unlawful job action,” the statement read.

Metro addressed its ongoing efforts to improve rider and operator safety in a statement.

According to the statement, the Metro Transit Police department has stationed nearly 40 transit police officers throughout the Metrobus system, and has equipped more than a third of buses with protective shields.

It intends to outfit the rest of the fleet as it is delivered.

The suspect in the second incident was later arrested and charged with a misdemeanor, according to Metro Transit Police. However, union leaders continue to raise concerns.

“Local 689 believes that if community, management, and workers come together to address this issue, the lives of both transit workers and riders can be protected,” ATU wrote.

“Assaults on transit riders and workers put everyone at risk.

It is that danger that local 689 members hope to work with management on and work to make a safer transit system for all.”

GUTS Saturday Service Begins With New Hours YASMINE SALAM Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Transportation Service, in collaboration with the Georgetown University Students Association, will begin its new Saturday bus service with extended hours this weekend.

The enhanced Saturday GUTS service will run every 20 minutes from 9 a.m. to 7:40 p.m., making stops at Dupont Circle and grocery store Trader Joe’s in Foggy Bottom.

The enhanced service is a continuation of a pilot program launched last spring, which implemented a more frequent Saturday service to Dupont Circle from noon to 7 p.m. and the addition of the Trader Joe’s stop.

GUSA President Kamar Mack (COL ’19) and Vice President of Planning and Facilities Robin Morey announced the new service in a campuswide email Tuesday.

The GUTS pilot program is funded through the reallocation of $36,000 previously dedicated to a late-night

shuttle from Adams Morgan, that ran between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; this service was cancelled due to the low levels of ridership.

GUSA Press Secretary Aaron Bennett (COL ’19) said low use inspired changes to the service.

“Our analysis showed that previous routes run on Saturdays had low ridership, so our team worked closely with Robin Morey to find and expand the routes that provide the most benefit to our campus,” Bennett said. “We are also implementing real-time tracking of ridership metrics so that we can provide the best GUTS service possible.”

Jack Pelose (COL ’19), vice chair for GUSA’s transportation policy committee, said the frequency of the new Saturday GUTS service is what sets it apart from previous services.

“This is a massive improvement over existing Saturday Dupont service, which ran only every 80 minutes and for far fewer hours of the day,”

Pelose said. “The main goal of the improvements was to get bus service that runs frequently enough that students want to use it.”

GUSA Master Planning Chair Zac Schroepfer (MSB ’19) said the optimized GUTS service has experienced increased student demand since the spring pilot program.

“We are hoping that the expanded hours both in the morning and the evening will allow students to utilize this route not only for increased access to groceries at Trader Joes, but also allow students a larger range of recreational activities around the city during the weekend,” Schroepfer said.

The program, which is pending final approval Dec. 6, will be evaluated for its efficiency at the end of the school term.

“GUSA and the university will analyze the data about the enhanced Saturday GUTS service at the end of the semester and assess whether this is a good use of transportation resources,” Pelose said.

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Following two assaults on WMATA bus drivers in two weeks, Metro officials are under scrutiny from labor union ATU Local 689 for not providing security guarantees for employees.

Experts Mull More Aggressive North Korean Responses BEN GOODMAN Hoya Staff Writer

Foreign policy experts hashed out strategies to combat the rise of nuclear proliferation in rogue states, including more aggressive actions against North Korea, at an event hosted by the Alexander Hamilton Society Wednesday evening.

Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin and newly appointed Vice Dean of Georgetown College David Edelstein discussed the successes and failures of previous U.S.-led initiatives and forecasted future possibilities during a panel hosted by government professor Matthew Kroenig.

“Anybody who thinks China is our friend in dealing with North Korea is delusional.

The Chinese are quite content to see this issue as a continual thorn in our side.”

DAVID EDELSTEIN Vice Dean, Georgetown College

While the scholars agreed on more fronts than they disagreed, Rubin said the overreliance on diplomacy with rogue states is a culturally misinformed and Western tactic. He suggested that diplomatic measures should be coupled with military options.

“What I want to cast doubt

on is this idea that diplomacy always works, and that it never hurts to talk,” Rubin said. “It becomes a mantra among both Democrats and Republicans, yet I would argue that it can be very condescending and culturally insensitive to engage with a sort of mirror-imaging that assumes that everyone approaches diplomacy the same way.”

Edelstein cautioned against the use of military force, emphasizing the limitations of American will in the international arena.

“If the alternative to diplomacy is the use of military force, then we should be reluctant and awfully careful about that alternative.

Limited strikes may be able to set back nuclear programs, but at the same time they may only increase the incentive of those states to acquire nuclear weapons,” Edelstein said. “There are limits to even what the world’s most powerful country can accomplish.”

Turning to North Korea’s nuclear program, Rubin and Edelstein made clear that it is not in China’s interests to play the role of watchdog that the United States hopes it will. U.S. foreign policy goals have long focused on preventing North Korea from developing a nuclear warhead able to strike the United States and its allies.

“We thought we would see sincerity from China; we gave them a great deal of incentives in terms of technology and waivers and so forth. Just like the return address for Hezbollah is in Tehran, maybe we have to assume the return address of Pyongyang is in Beijing,” Rubin said.

Edelstein said China continues to benefit from U.S. unwillingness

to act on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

“Anybody who thinks China is our friend in dealing with North Korea is delusional.

The Chinese are quite content to see this issue as a continual thorn in our side,” Edelstein said.

Chinese leaders would only consider a more active role if the regional balance of power were upset, Rubin said.

“I would say we need to talk with Japan, and have the Japanese — who are more concerned

about North Korea than even we are — about the possibility of new constitutions, and whether or not, in the spirit of deterrence, maybe it’s time for Japan to reconsider whether it should possess a nuclear weapon,” Rubin said.

Recognizing the instability expected by the emergence of a new nuclear power, Edelstein said a nuclear Japan could bring dangerous, unintended consequences.

“Decades of research show us that the period in which

there are new nuclear states is a really dangerous period in international politics,” Edelstein said. “That new state is worried that they may not have many of those things, and it doesn’t yet have the secure second-strike capabilities that we relied on in the Cold War to have that deterrent relationship.”

Rubin suggested regime change should be the end goal of American policy toward North Korea “before the problem gets so much worse.”

The best way to avoid international nuclear conflict would be to rely on deterrence and eschew aggression toward North Korea, Edelstein said.

“My sense is that if [China’s] goal is to keep the regime in power, then the best way to prevent the North Koreans from actually thinking about using these nuclear weapons is by saying, ‘You know what, maybe we just can’t change this regime right now,’” Edelstein said.

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Professor Matthew Kroenig, center, moderated a discussion on nuclear nonproliferation and North Korea between former Pentagon official Michael Rubin, left, and newly appointed Vice Dean of Georgetown College David Edelstein, right, on Wednesday night.

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Q&A: Fellows Discuss Student Engagement Strategies Alfredo CarRillo Hoya Staff Writer

The fourth class of Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service’s fellows includes five resident experts in politics, government and media, as well as a sixth visiting fellow José Diaz-Balart, the anchor of NBC Nightly News Saturday and Telemundo News The resident fellows include Ron Bonjean, former top spokesman for former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott; former White House Communications Director Mike Dubke; Marie Harf, former senior adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry; former Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.) and Liz Sidoti, head of U.S. communications for British Petroleum and former national political editor and correspondent at the Associated Press.

In an interview with The Hoya, the fellows discussed their expectations of Georgetown students, goals for the upcoming semester and thoughts on the current U.S. political climate.

What brought you to Georgetown and to the GU Politics Fellows Program?

Murphy: I think we all share concern for our country, regardless of what side of the aisle we’re on, and we all want to see our country work better. Certainly, with my experiences in the Congress and as a candidate, seeing things from the inside and some of the structural problems, I think — and not to be cheesy — it is going to take a new generation to fix. The well is too poisoned right now. You’re never going to have a complete reset button, but the folks who are in school now and who we get to have these discussion groups with, will hopefully be the leaders of our country in one capacity.

Sidoti: I really wanted to be back on a college campus. It’s

been 20 years and I feel like the only reason that I got to be where I am today is because I had a lot of mentors along the way and a lot of people who helped me see the bigger picture. So I felt really strongly about, at this moment in my career, turning and giving back and working with students to learn from them and understanding their ideas about how corporations and businesses can play a role in public policy, in politics and in business.

“What is up is down and what is down is up. The current political gravity no longer applies and we’re in an extreme disruptive atmosphere. ” RON BONJEAN GU Politics Fellow

Harf: I think it feels like a very uncertain time in politics and in media. Liz said something very interesting the other day, that you used to be a skeptic then you started becoming a cynic. And I think that a lot of us are kind of in that same boat right about now and coming to a college campus and doing a lot of the puzzling through these issues that we will be doing in our discussion groups and talking to students is a good way to help all of us figure the new normal out.

What do you hope to achieve this semester?

Dubke: I hope to have our discussion groups turn into real discussion groups. A lot of times, when you’re in our groups you’re in a bubble.

Not just a political and socioeconomic bubble, but also an age bubble. So I am looking forward to having discussions with the undergrads, with grad students and whoever

comes to get a myriad of different opinions on the topics of the day.

Bonjean: I think that coming away with a sense of enlightenment, a sense of broadening experiences, as we all have our own experiences and ways of figuring out what’s going on and opinions and ways of developing those out, learning from students and talking with them about what their ideas are and what their approaches are to public policy and the world at large.

Harf: Jen Psaki, who was a fellow here last semester told me that doing this would restore my faith in the future.

I know that’s a high bar, but I think that’s a good thing to strive for.

Murphy: I’m really curious and interested to learn from the students about how they think politics needs to change, with their fresh set of eyes, whether that’s the way they consume media or information or the way they see themselves voting in the next 20 years. Millennials don’t stand in line for banks or to write a check. You really expect them to stand in line for two hours to vote?

Sidoti: Five minutes on campus is a great way to humble someone like the five of us. I’m just a working class kid from Ohio who got to Washington and through a lot of hard work and connections and got to a place with a great career.

But walking around campus and encountering students who are far smarter than you is incredibly empowering and intimidating, but also kind of gives me real hope for the future of the country and who’s going to lead it.

Harf: No pressure Georgetown students, but don’t mess it up.

Do you have any ideas about how to engage a broader range of students, outside of those just in your strategy teams?

Sidoti: People tend to only read and consume informa-

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The new class of GU Politics fellows include, clockwise, media and political experts Ron Bonjean, Mike Dubke, Liz Sidoti, Jose Diaz-Balart, Patrick Murphy and Marie Harf. tion that they agree with, and I think that kind of partisanship is really what’s causing the paralysis in America. So if your generation is willing to have a more open mind about ideas and the exchange of ideas, the world is going to be better for it.

Dubke: It’s really difficult to come up with a new thought or an idea you’ve never had before if you’re only reading Breitbart or The Nation. And it’s really hard to get exposure to a broad swath of stories that give you a whole host of things that you might come across by accident. Especially for students, it’s really those accidental discoveries that may lead you in a different direction than you ever thought you might go in.

What are your thoughts on the

current U.S. political climate, given your respective backgrounds and experiences?

Bonjean: The current political climate is weird. What is up is down and what is down is up. The current political gravity no longer applies and we’re in an extreme disruptive atmosphere. That’s really the topic of my discussion group, “Is This the New Normal?”

You know, are we at a tipping point in politics where this is ever-defining?

Murphy: There are a lot of things we can blame for the current climate, but beyond all that I have to say that in my experiences campaigning in Florida for about two years, there was the constant belief that the American dream wasn’t there anymore, that more and more Americans be-

lieve that their children will not be any better off than they were.

Dubke: It’s a very exciting time if you’re 18, 19, 20 years old because you’re really at the vanguard for whatever this next “it” is going to be. I don’t know what it is going to be. We’re all grappling with that and you see that permeating our politics now, and it was on full display in 2016.

Harf: I think there’s this notion that politics today is somehow meaner, but I think it’s always been pretty tough.

I think with the technology and the weight, information and these sort of falsehoods can ricochet across the internet and the fact that you can’t always correct that or combat it has made these times feel even more uncertain.

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The McCourt School of Public Policy will introduce a Master in Data Science for Public Policy program next fall, increasing student knowledge of an evolving field.

McCourt School Plans New Masters Program EMMA KOTFICA Hoya Staff Writer

The McCourt School of Public Policy will introduce a Master in Data Science for Public Policy program next fall, increasing McCourt students’ access to data science.

The new program will be housed in the McCourt School, but will feature a core curriculum that is split between public policy courses in the McCourt School and analytics courses in the Graduate Analytics Program through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Paasha Mahdavi, Assistant Professor at the McCourt School, said creating the core curriculum was a difficult but crucial aspect of the process of developing the new MDSPP program.

“We’ve crafted a holistic curriculum that combines courses in computer science, statistics, economics, and political science to equip our students with cutting-edge computational, analytical, and governance skills,” Mahdavi wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Dean of the McCourt School Michael Bailey said that, based on trends in policymaking toward an increased use of data, the timing is right to introduce this new program.

“There’s such a need for evidence-based research and we want people to have the best resources for that, and McCourt has historically always been very strong in evidence-based and quantitative methods so we have a nice base,” Bailey said.

Todd Leen, director of the Graduate Program in Data Analytics, said the program would prepare students to tackle both urban and federal policy-making issues with an emphasis on data analytics.

“It’s in part due to this increased activity at the urban level, and it is in part due to the hope that these techniques can make it into ultimately federal policy-making — state and federal policy-making.

The work I’m most aware of is at the urban level where cities have been looking for statistical data analysis and data referencing towards improving their operations,” Leen said.

Leen said Georgetown University’s MDSPP program is one of two to three policy analytics programs in the entire country and that its strong data analytics and public policy programs, coupled with its location in Washington, D.C. make this program ripe for success.

“We do have connections in the federal government, several in the Department of Commerce, we’ve placed students in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, so we have connections in the government that we should be able to use,” Leen said.

Bailey and Leen both expressed an interest in having students work on real-life problems through the program.

“What we want, and this will build up over time, is to have more client-based work and communitybased work where we can match these students with real-world projects and get them to be seeing how this stuff works in practice,”

Bailey said.

Mahdavi said that he hopes that this new program would allow students to make a difference in policy through their employment after graduating from the program.

“My biggest hope for this program 5-10 years down the road is to have a lasting impact on the public, private, non-profit and multilateral sectors through successfully placing our students in top employment outcomes,” Mahdavi wrote.

Leen said he hopes this new analytics program sets the stage for Georgetown to introduce other interdisciplinary analytics programs, such as a business analytics program through the McDonough School of Business.

“The vision would be sort of a center atmosphere in which there are public policy students and students that participate in this joint data science and public policy program, as well as hardcore data scientists and business people addressing a whole range of societal problems,” Leen said.

Bailey said he believed that the university as a whole could benefit from the resources used by this program, including speaker sessions and panels that would be open to the university as a whole.

“We’re hoping to do things of interest to people outside of the program. This is a university program we won’t start until next year, but it will definitely be used as a university resource,” Bailey said.

A new art installation was unveiled Wednesday evening at the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center. The installation, entitled “Freize,” is part of the center’s goal to display original artwork for its beneficial and healing effects for patients.

Consisting of 11 squares of color framed in white, the monotypes, or blocks of solid color, were created by Sam Gilliam, an artist who has had work displayed in the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He is described by the Lombardi Center as a “pioneer of both Color Field and abstract painting.” “‘Frieze’ invites viewers to experience the Lombardi atrium as both a place of contemplation and a hive of activity,” the center wrote in a press release announcing the event.

“While each monotype celebrates the beauty and power of color, together they create

a backdrop for the ever-changing and fast-paced world of healthcare.”

Reaffirming the importance of the center’s goals, Morgan Kulesza, a program coordinator for Georgetown’s Lombardi Arts and Humanities program, said when patients visit the center they’re “usually very anxious,” and the “art is just a way to breathe,” helping patients cope with the types of stressful situations that usually occur in the center.

“The Arts and Humanities Program studies the use of arts to improve the patient experience including symptom management, coping skills, and stress reduction,” the center wrote in a statement displayed at the event.

A site-specific installation, the ‘Freize’ exhibit will add the desired effect to the center’s space, Kulesza said.

“The goal is to eliminate a very sad experience where there’s not a lot of color,” Kulesza said. “This piece is really great because [Gilliam’s] artwork supports the environ-

ment here and helps make it lighter and brighter and happier.”

Other artwork appears in the Lombardi Center as well, including pieces like the sculpture “Resurrection,” which was created by a 14-year-old patient of the center.

“It’s important to let the people who spend a lot of time in this hospital convey their feelings,” Kulesza said.

The blending of art with care at the Lombardi Center is key to its goals of uplifting patients’ spirits during stressful and difficult times. In addition to commissioning art for the center, Lombardi’s Arts and Humanities Program cooperates with professional artists-in-residence to produce events like The Poetry Café, where patients and artists share poems and songs, and Lombardi Voices, a magazine of work from members of the Lombardi Community.

“The center wants not only to support people in this environment, but to help those people express themselves,” Kulesza said.

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“Frieze,” a new art installation at the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center, was unveiled Wednesday evening to display the artwork’s healing effects for patients.

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Men Dominate District Rivals, Women Seek Strong Start Christopher Gay Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior Michael Chen led the 2016-17 men’s team with 16 singles wins on the year. Chen finished last season with doubles victories against St. John’s and Butler in the Big East Championship.

The Georgetown men’s tennis team opened its fall season on Tuesday with a commanding victory over the University of the District of Columbia, winning two out of the three doubles matches to secure the doubles point and sweeping the six singles matches in straight sets.

The team’s season-opening victory over the Firebirds (0-1, East Coast Conference) featured many new faces for the Hoyas (1-0, Big East). Freshmen Mark Militzer, Luke Ross, Connor Lee, Charlie Sharton and sophomore transfer Josh Marchalik provided victories at one through four and six respectively in their Georgetown debut.

Returning sophomore Ian Witmer recorded the remaining singles victory at No. 5.

“The lineup this year will be more competitive than it has ever been,” Georgetown Head Coach Gordie Ernst said. “We have 12 guys, and at any point I could put any six in to play. ” This weekend, the men’s team will travel to Philadelphia for the Penn Invitational.

With its new roster depth, the team looks to test its new players this weekend when it plays several Ivy League teams, including Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. The Ivy League opponents should be a good assessment for a new and improved Georgetown team that struggled last season.

“We stack up well. My goal is always to try to put together a team

that is on par with the Ivies,” Ernst said. “This is the first team that I’ve had in twelve years that can really go toe-to-toe with the Ivies.”

The Georgetown women’s tennis team opens its season this weekend at the Bedford Cup in College Park, Md. The Bedford Cup features a handful of teams from the Mid-Atlantic region, including local rival University of Maryland.

Finishing 13-6 in the 2017 spring season, the Hoyas have put together consecutive successful seasons.

Whereas the men’s team features six new players, the women’s team will be a much more battle-tested and experienced group.

Although the team graduated star player Victoire Saperstein, the Blue and Gray return seven upperclassmen and many of its strongest players from last year. Seniors Sara Swift and Drew Spinosa, as well as juniors Risa Nakagawa, Sydney Goodson and Cecilia Lynham, are all back this season after being a large part of the team’s success last year.

“Experience is going to help us win this year,” Ernst said. “My players have been through so much together, and that’s good and bad.

Beating [Villanova] but then losing to Seton Hall — so they’ve felt the agony of defeat as well, and they’re fired up.”

The Hoyas look to rebound from the team’s early exit in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament last year after coming into the tournament as a favorite to win. The Blue and Gray seek to lean on their experience and depth to bounce back and generate another successful regular season.

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Squad Prepares for Big East Opener ALLIE BABYAK Hoya Staff Writer

After splitting its first two away games of the season, the Georgetown field hockey team returns to Cooper Field to play Quinnipiac for its Big East conference opener Sept.

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Georgetown then takes on Towson University away on Sunday.

The Hoyas (4-2, Big East) lost 2-4 against UMass Lowell (4-2, America East) in an exhausting triple overtime game this past weekend.

However, Georgetown came back to beat Holy Cross (2-3, Patriot League) 4-3 in its next game. After falling behind 2-3 at the 15:18 minute mark, the Hoyas came back to score two goals in the final 10 minutes to win. The Blue and Gray dominated offensively, earning 12 penalty corners to the Crusaders’ six.

Carrying that momentum, Georgetown hopes to continue its offensive dominance Friday against Quinnipiac (1-6, Big East).

Georgetown Head Coach Shannon Soares said the players are now focusing on their next opponent after an intense weekend.

“We came back to practice to-

day to focus on striker movement and leading and free-hits inside of the 25 and some overtime play,” Soares said. “But, for us, it’s going to be leading to our Big East opener against Quinnipiac. It is just going to be preparing set pieces, repping, pressing and outleting.”

The two teams met for the first time last season at Quinnipiac for the Bobcats’ first Big East conference game ever. Quinnipiac put early pressure on Georgetown offensively, taking 15 shots to Georgetown’s three in the first half. The Bobcats put four of their 21 shots in the back of the cage, beating the Hoyas 4-2.

In that game, Quinnipiac senior forward and captain Michelle Federico scored the final two goals for Quinnipiac to win the game. So far this season, Federico has one goal and two assists.

In preparation for their match against the Bobcats, the Hoyas are focusing on creating opportunities and pressing early.

“It’s taken us a little while to get into the flow of the match and to really start to use our press as our best form of attack,” Soares said. “A big focus of moving into this weekend’s match is going to be starting

the match off with our foot on the gas pedal from a pressing perspective.”

Quinnipiac has been struggling to find its footing, starting off the season with five straight losses.

However, Georgetown should not count out senior midfielder Dayna Barlow and sophomore forward Valerie Perkins, who lead the team with two goals each. Last weekend Quinnipiac earned its first win of the season, beating Yale 4-2 at home, a game in which Barlow scored two goals.

Georgetown will continue to look to its freshmen to make an impact offensively. Freshman midfielder Cami Osborne leads the team with four goals. After scoring two goals and contributing two assists last weekend, freshman back Anna Farley was named Big East Rookie of the Week. Farley is Georgetown’s fourth player on the weekly honor roll this season.

“It just goes to show that we’ve got some depth this year,” Soares said. “We have kids that are stepping up to the plate and playing like upperclassmen and that has been a really fun and positive thing to see.”

After taking on Quinnipiac

at home on Friday, Georgetown travels to Baltimore to play Towson (0-6, Coastal Conference) on Sunday. The two teams played last season for Georgetown’s Senior Day on Oct. 23. The Hoyas came out on top, winning 4-0 and taking 25 shots. All four of Georgetown’s goals came off penalty corners.

For this matchup, the Hoyas look to penalty corners as an effective way of breaking through the Tigers’ defense and getting open opportunities.

Although the Tigers have only scored three goals this season, senior goalie Emilee Woodall has kept the team alive, making 90 saves thus far.

Only seven players have taken shots for the Tigers, while 10 different Hoyas have scored. Offensively, the Hoyas look to take advantage of their depth and get more players shooting opportunities, as they did on Sunday against Holy Cross.

The Hoyas begin their Big East season Friday against Quinnipiac at 2 p.m. on Cooper Field. Sunday’s game against Towson is scheduled for 12 p.m. in Towson, Md.

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Junior middle blocker Symone Speech leads the Hoyas with 132 kills this season and 3.67 kills per set.

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GU Struggles in NFL Coaches: Time to Roll the Dice Home Debut what’s the call?

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et’s play it safe.”

This reassuring mantra brings to mind wisdom and seasoned restraint. So why does this sentence cost NFL head coaches game after game?

Football coaching doctrine essentially mandates adherence to cautious, by-the-book play calling. Without much thought, coaches know to punt on fourth down, “take the points” when in field goal range and generally not try too much funny stuff.

Let the players play, right? Indeed, coaches tacitly understand that they will be pilloried for an unconventional move gone wrong, whereas devastating acts of omission go mostly undetected. Playing it safe makes coaches themselves feel safe.

The problem is that coaching a football game properly is closer to making smart gambles in Vegas than making safe investments for retirement.

Advanced metrics collected over the past decade indicate that conventional coaching wisdom is wrong on several fronts. Explore the internet

and read in extensive detail why, for example, coaches should almost never elect to punt in their opponent’s territory — the potential yardage gained by punting is slim and is far outweighed by the opportunity to score yourself!

Blogs like FiveThirtyEight have pinpointed specific game situations that call for riskier strategizing than what currently occurs, but the key to generating a paradigm shift among coaches is understanding what got them here in the first place. In other words, these individual situations are connected, and coaches must undergo an attitude adjustment to do their jobs better.

Coaches play it safe because, when between a rock and a hard place, they would greatly prefer to make errors of omission instead of errors of commission.

An error of commission is like trying a fake punt. If that goes wrong, everyone remembers; critics will say the coach lost his team the game. An error of omission is like being down seven points in the fourth quarter to a superior opponent, scoring a touchdown with seconds remaining and electing to kick an extra point to force overtime.

In this case, the coach should go for two points because his team converts those attempts at 55 percent, while going into overtime on-the-road against a superior opponent gives you far

less than a 55 percent chance at winning.

Uh ... a little more complicated.

Coaches rarely get called out for errors of omission. Yet errors of omission are equally costly.

It is easy to see how enticing the “Just don’t screw it up” mantra is for NFL head coaches. The culture reinforces itself by rewarding coaches who stick to the script.

Still, I’m confident that things are changing. Plenty of that change is owed to — and this is tough to admit as a diehard New York Giants fan — New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick. When he is not drawing attention for his fashion-forward hoodie choices, testy media quips or dubious ethics, Belichick is reinventing NFL coaching strategy in a good way.

His odd formations, trick plays and other marvelous within-the-rulebook adaptations befuddle and frustrate other coaches, who essentially accuse Belichick of making them learn new things.

Sure, Belichick is mortal and a committer of errors of commission. He took major heat in 2009 when Peyton Manning drove the rival Indianapolis Colts to victory after a Patriots’ failed fourth down attempt — almost any other coach would have punted.

Nonetheless, Belichick’s logic was sound even if the result was undesirable, and he stuck to his guns during the postgame press

conference. Now, not many question the wisdom of the fivetime Super Bowl champion.

Slowly, the “Belichickian School” is catching on.

Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin is a nononsense guy coaching in a no-nonsense town for a nononsense team. That’s why it was so incredible that last season he decided — publically and vocally — to embrace the two-point conversion with dramatic frequency.

Hope abounds. If the cocoon into which coaches retreat when “playing it safe” continues to erode, they will, so to speak, be forced out into the open — forced to think through decisions they previously did not need to. Perhaps general managers will finally start to voice as much disapproval at errors of omission as they do at errors of commission. Perhaps coaches will read books like L. Jon Wertheim’s and Tobias Moskowitz’s “Sportscasting” and wonder just how many opportunities they’ve lost from excess caution.

Or perhaps the play-it-safe doctrine is too ingrained to be displaced. Either way, here’s to more gambling, more fun and more putting players in the best position to win.

Ben Goodman is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. WHAT’S THE CALL? appears every Friday.

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The Georgetown women’s volleyball team made its home debut at the Georgetown Classic last weekend, winning one game and losing two.

Despite coming into the tournament with a 5-1 record, Georgetown was plagued by inconsistency as they gave up a Friday night loss to James Madison University, followed by a win against Coppin State and a loss to Buffalo on Saturday.

Fresh off being named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll this past week, junior middle blocker Symone Speech was elected to the All-Tournament Team for her standout performance over the weekend. Over the course of three games, Speech amounted a total of 42 kills, hit a .393 clip and averaged 1.00 blocks per set.

Georgetown (6-3, Big East) was all set to take on undefeated James Madison University (9-0, Colonial Athletic Association) to begin the tournament. The match went to five sets, but it was the Dukes who came out on top.

Despite the loss, junior outside hitter Olivia King and sophomore right side Madison Smith each tallied a respective 12 and 11 kills for the Blue and Gray, while junior libero Kenzie Higareda successfully dug the ball 18 times.

The next morning Georgetown sought redemption

against Coppin State, which lost in three straight sets.

The Hoyas quickly gained a competitive advantage and Georgetown Head Coach Arlisa Williams took advantage of the situation to give some of the younger players extra gametime, with sophomore outside hitter Claire Mihm ending up with a career-high seven kills.

Nine Georgetown players recorded kills, including outside hitters junior Alyssa Sinnette and freshman Riley Wertzberger, who each had four.

Georgetown had momentum on its side entering its final match of the weekend against Buffalo. This game proved to be a much greater challenge, however, as Buffalo came away with the victory after five sets.

Speech and Sinnette led the offensive charge with 22 and 16 kills, respectively. Speech also recorded a career-high eight blocks to boost her stat line. The final set of the match was tied at 12-12 before the Bulls jumped ahead with three consecutive points to claim the win.

With the results from the Georgetown Classic, the Hoyas dropped to 6-3 for the season.

Next week, they travel to Houston to face Arkansas State on Friday at 11 a.m., Stephen F. Austin State University on Friday at 4:30 p.m. and Rice University on Saturday at 11 a.m.

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Strong GU Defense Holds Rutgers to Scoreless Tie in OT Georgetown returned to action Sunday, playing No. 14 Rutgers Scarlet Knights (6-0-1, Big 10) to a scoreless tie that went into double overtime.

Like their early-season loss against then-No. 1 West Virginia, the Hoyas held the statistical advantage on offense, taking more shots (14-4) and corner kicks (11-2) than the Scarlet Knights, but failing to score a goal. Part of the issue was a disadvantage in size up front, as Rutgers’ defenders easily headed away multiple Georgetown crosses and set pieces.

“It’s always a little frustrating, but we’re the type of team that we just keep plugging away,” senior defender Elizabeth Wenger said.

The first half of play was a back-and-forth affair, with neither team taking control of the game. Georgetown led the possession battle in the second half into overtime and had a few opportunities to take the lead. Pak had a shot that was saved in the 69th minute, Nizialek sent one wide in the 80th minute and Corboz had shots denied in the 95th and 105th minutes.

Corboz finished with seven shots overall.

Rutgers had its best opportunity in the 99th minute, but Hoyas’ junior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman made a leaping save to knock away the go-ahead shot.

“I felt we were the team

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that was most likely to win.

If it was a boxing match, we would’ve won on points,” Nolan said. “[Rutgers] will probably be happier with the draw than we are, but I don’t think the result is a disaster.”

While Friday was a chance for Nolan to give each of his players ample playing time, he stuck to a short rotation on Sunday, relying on six of 10 field starters to play all 110 minutes.

“It’s always a little frustrating, but we’re the type of team that we just keep plugging away.”

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On Monday, junior defender Jenna Staudt was named Big East Defensive Player of the Week, leading a defense that did not give up a goal and only allowed five shots over the course of the weekend.

“I thought our two center backs, Jenna and Lizzy [Wenger] did a great job off of [Rutgers forward Amirah Ali], because she’s a real handful,” Nolan said.

“I thought they kept her in check pretty much for the whole game.”

Georgetown’s next game is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Sunday at Towson University (3-41, Colonial).

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Junior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll this week. Marcinkowski has played 200 minutes this season with 11 saves and three shutouts. He leads the Big East with a .380 goals-against average.

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The Hoyas, while working hard to gain possession, had to fight off some dangerous chances in the first half.

Marcinkowski came up with three crucial saves to keep the game tied going into the second half.

“I just had to stay confident.

After letting in that early goal, I just had to make sure I stayed focused and kept my head into the game. I was a little frustrated after the first goal because I felt I could have done a little better. So I just made sure to not let the team down and keep them in the game,” Marcinkowski said.

In the second half, the Hoyas controlled pace and managed three shots, but

they could not convert. UConn matched the Blue and Gray’s pressure with two shots of their own.

Play moved on to the overtime periods, and in both periods, neither team managed more than one shot. Strong defense from both teams led to the eventual 1-1 final score.

Georgetown and UConn both had eight shots in the contest, and the Hoyas led in corner kicks 9-2.

Georgetown has yet to give up more than one goal in a game this season.

“I think [our defensive success] has been about our confidence. We know that no team should put more than really a goal by us and we’re all capable in our abilities and can try to keep a shutout every game,”

Marcinkowski said.

Up next for the Blue and Gray are the Xavier Musketeers (4-1-1, Big East), who beat the Hoyas 2-0 last year at Georgetown. Xavier has two returning All-Big East team members in Big East Preseason Player of the Year Cory Brown and 2016 Big East Second Team defender Matt Nance.

“Xavier is a really wellcoached and organized team and at their place they are different than they are away from home. They have the defensive player of the year in Cory Brown,” Wiese said.

“But they have players in each of their lines that give you problems. I think it’s going to be a fun, tight game and one team is going to take their chances a little bit bet-

ter than the other.”

The Hoyas are seeking revenge against the Musketeers and try to gain momentum as the Big East season gets under way.

“We know that playing against Xavier is always a challenge. It’s like you’re locked in a box over there.

They’re one of the best teams in the big east and we have to approach the game the right way with the right intensity,” Lema said. “With the way the team has been playing we should just keep with what we’re doing and we’ll get a good result.”

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. in Cincinnati. Live streaming of the game will be available on the Big East Digital Network.

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more offense with their rushing game, which averaged 4.3 yards a carry a week ago. Running backs senior Alex Valles and junior Carl Thomas complement sophomore wide receiver Michael Dereus, who hauled in six receptions for 114 yards and one touchdown against Campbell.

The Georgetown offense faces a Marist defense that has allowed nearly 200 yards a game through the air but has held firm against the run, keeping teams to a clip of only 62 yards per game.

“We just need to eliminate some of our mistakes, as far as fundamentals and hanging on to the ball. We can’t turn the

ball over and expect to win football games,” Sgarlata said. “Every day is about us looking to get better and that’s what we’re looking to do every time we step out on the field.”

Defensively, the Blue and Gray seek to continue their dominating performance from last week when they forced four turnovers and recorded seven sacks against the Camels.

“If we want to continue to win games, we’re going to have to make plays on both sides of the ball, but especially on defense,” Williamson said. “We take pride as a defensive unit and believe we can be the best defensive unit in the country. So, when our front seven plays like the best defensive unit in the country,

that’s the standard.”

However, the Red Foxes present a different challenge for the Hoyas, as they attempted 47 passes in their last contest and amassed almost 340 yards in the air against Stetson (0-2, 0-1 Patriot).

Senior defensive back and team captain David Akere believes the Hoyas are prepared for the challenge. “[Marist] throws the ball a lot, and we love that. We believe that we’re the best DBs in the league if not in the nation,” Akere said.

“So, we think that any opponent is going to have to deal with us, and we’re going to do exactly what we do and exactly what we can every single play in every single game.”

Saturday’s game against Marist marks Georgetown’s first game played at Cooper Field this season. Sgarlata stated that his message for the home opener is to bring a more polished product to the Hoyas’ home crowd this week.

“I don’t care who we line up against because every team can beat us, and we can beat every team on our schedule.

It’s more us against ourselves.

From a coaching standpoint, we look at it as this: On offense, defense and special teams, can we make improvement from week one to week two?” Sgarlata said.

The game will kick off on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Cooper Field.

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Sophomore defender Meghan Nally helped Georgetown shut out St. Francis in a 2-0 victory Friday.

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mid-September, his on-base percentage dropped over 100 points, and his slugging percentage dropped nearly 300 points.

John Maynard Keynes once quipped that “in the long run, we’re all dead.” That may or may not apply to economics, but it sure as heck applies to baseball. In the long run, the law of averages killed Thames and all the excitement he brought to Brewers fans. And that’s a shame.

But the most important reason why MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred ought to shorten the season has nothing to do with players.

It is about interest, entertainment and the importance of each game.

Early this summer, I was talking about the romance of baseball when my roommate cut me off and said, “Hugh, baseball is boring. And it

doesn’t matter what happens right now anyway.”

Life would be more exciting if we got to watch the NBA Finals in June, the MLB playoff race in July, the World Series in August and then football season in September.

In a way, I see his point.

The early months of baseball are not that exciting or important because the season’s outcome does not

hang in the balance. The early months rarely determine what will happen when playoff time comes in October.

Furthermore, as the season progresses, the gap between playoff teams and non-playoff teams widens to the point that many teams have virtually no shot at making the playoffs by mid-July, but still need to play another 80 games.

That leaves fans at best lukewarm about the competitive aspect of baseball.

Don’t get me wrong: The league has done a very good thing by adding a second Wild Card spot, and it is still quite fun to go to a game or to watch one on TV, but it’s not a breathless experience every night.

By playoff time, the American sports world by and large has lost primary interest in baseball and turns its attention to football. In doing this, the league is missing out because there is hardly any-

thing more electric than playoff baseball.

Nonetheless, the MLB needlessly competes with the middle of the NFL season for attention. If the MLB playoffs happened in August, by contrast, there would be little to compete with. Football would not have started, and basketball would have already ended.

Life would be more exciting if we got to watch the NBA Finals in June, the MLB playoff race in July, the World Series in August and then football season in September. If baseball were shorter, we would see stars fresh for their games, formerly nameless players eternally enshrined in the annals of baseball lore, and a reinvigorated and electrified fan base. Life would be better if baseball were shorter.

Hugh Ramlow is a junior in the College. THE ZONE appears every other Friday.

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The women’s volleyball team lost two of its three games while making its home debut at the Georgetown Classic.

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After a victory in its season opener, the Georgetown football team prepares for a home matchup Saturday against Marist College, which is coming off its first win of the season.

Georgetown (1-0, Patriot League) grabbed a nail-biting win over Campbell University (1-1, Pioneer) last weekend, a game that ended 16-10 after Georgetown senior defensive back Jelani Williamson returned a late fumble recovery for a touchdown to seal the game.

Head Coach Rob Sgarlata was pleased with the weekend win over Campbell but is taking some early offensive struggles as an opportunity for the team

to grow and come out strong against a Marist (1-1, 1-0 Pioneer) team with a potent offense, averaging 301 yards per game.

“We don’t really talk about offense and defense,” Sgarlata said. “So if one of the groups isn’t having a great day, the other group’s got to step up. It was good to see the kids fight through some adversity and not crumble when it got tough.

We’re looking forward to building on that this week.”

Georgetown enters the contest with a three-game winning streak against Marist, including a 20-17 win last season in which the Hoyas blocked two field goals.

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The number of shots the women’s soccer team took against St. Francis.

Sophomore defender Meghan Nally has started all eight of the team’s games this season and has scored one goal on four shots. Nally was named a Big East Academic All-Star last season.

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Sophomore wide receiver Michael Dereus had a team-high 114 receiving yards on six catches in Georgetown’s 16-10 win over Marist.

Every team can beat us, and we can beat every team on our schedule. It’s more us against ourselves.”

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The Georgetown women’s soccer team returned from its California road trip to win a game and tie another last weekend, as the Hoyas look to gain momentum heading into conference play Sunday.

Georgetown kicked off the two-game home stand Friday with a win against St. Francis (Pa.), a rematch of last year’s first-round NCAA tournament game in which the Hoyas (5-21, Big East) beat the Red Flash (2-5-0, Northeast) 2-0.

As in last year’s contest, the Blue and Gray went into halftime up 1-0. Sophomore midfielder Carson Nizialek put the Hoyas in the lead, scoring

off an assist from sophomore midfielder Paula GerminoWatnick and senior defender Taylor Pak. The Hoyas continued to take shots but were unable to convert again in the first half.

“I felt we got chances in the first half. I felt we got really good chances. It wasn’t like we weren’t creating. In the first 10 minutes alone, we were unlucky not to have two or three,” Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan said.

This changed quickly after the halftime break. GerminoWatnick stepped up in place of the injured redshirt sophomore forward Amanda Carolan and made her presence felt on the field. She scored

her first and second career goals as a Hoya, with only eight minutes between them to put Georgetown up 3-0.

“I was happy to see her get off the mark today, because sometimes all it takes is those good moments to give you some confidence,” Nolan said.

Senior midfielder Rachel Corboz was a factor in the game as well, taking a teamhigh 10 shots. In the 64th minute, she displayed an array of dribbling moves and fakes to beat two St. Francis defenders and then ripped a shot past the keeper, making the score 4-0.

Junior forward Caitlin Farrell finished off the scoring with a goal in the 75th minute off an assist from fresh-

man midfielder Grace Nguyen.

“Our team had more energy in the second half, so I think we were able to create more space and work around the goal better,” Germino-Watnick said.

For the game, Georgetown dominated St. Francis in shots (33-1) and corner kicks (11-1).

“When you play against a team, you want to try and get some shots to try and encourage them to come out and play you, and now that allows space behind, so we can slip balls in behind for the attacking players we have,” Nolan said.

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Team Forces Draw in Double Overtime Matt Sachs

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The Georgetown men’s soccer team drew 1-1 in double overtime on the road against UConn Saturday night, failing to gain enough scoring chances despite controlling the possession battle.

“In a game like UConn where you’re playing a team that’s going to put eight, nine, 10 guys behind the ball and attack the space, we have to be better about creating chances from that,” Georgetown Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “I thought we dictated the game, which was nice. I didn’t think we would have as much of the ball as we did.

But now it’s about what can we do with it.”

The Huskies (1-2-1, American) struck first in the 14th minute, scoring in a oneon-one opportunity past Georgetown junior goalkeeper J.T. Marcinkowski.

The goal marked the first time the Hoyas trailed in a game this season.

The Hoyas (4-0-1, Big East) continued to control the ball and ultimately responded with their own goal. After a takedown in the box, Georgetown was awarded a penalty kick, and senior captain midfielder Chris Lema beat the UConn keeper to tie the game at 1-1. “[The goal] felt incredible, especially scoring away. It was my first away goal. So, it felt great and obviously it was great for the team’s momentum. The team worked hard to get there and not once did we put our heads down. We kept our heads up and kept fighting and found the P.K. and it was a great change of momentum,” Lema said.

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Sophomore forward Achara, left, sophomore midfielder Davey Mason, middle, and senior forward Zach Knudson, right, helped the Hoyas force a 1-1 draw on Saturday.

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mong my roommates, I am known as the baseball fan. Each of us is passionate about at least one sport, from football to basketball to Jiu-Jitsu, and I am the baseball guy. I say this to boost my credibility before making an argument that causes many baseball fans to cry foul.

Here it goes: There are too many games in the MLB season. The MLB maintains the current schedule for revenue purposes, but there are two important reasons to overturn it.

First, the length of the season is bad for the players.

The 162-game regular season schedule is grueling on players’ bodies, and it often forces them onto the disabled list for long periods of time.

Pitchers’ arms, in particular, are bound to tire out by the end of the season. This forces managers to limit the amount of pitches a starter throws and to rely more heavily on their bullpens. This trend has intensified in recent years, causing increasingly shorter starts.

This means that the star pitcher who makes $15 million a year is only pitching two-thirds of the game. No disrespect to Brandon Mor-

row, but Los Angeles Dodgers fans came to see starter Clayton Kershaw, not relievers like Morrow. Simply put, if the season were shorter, fan favorites would see the field more.

Los Angeles Dodgers fans came to see starter Clayton Kershaw, not relievers like [Brandon] Morrow.

Another reason the long season is bad for players is that it makes incredible streaks and break-out players fade into irrelevance as the law of averages does its sad work.

This year, Eric Thames of the Milwaukee Brewers started the season as the league’s hottest player. At the end of April, he had 11 home runs, an on-base percentage approaching .500 and a slugging percentage north of .800. To put this in perspective, before this year, he had never had a full season where he hit more than 12 home runs. But by See RAMLOW, A11