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REGIONAL CHAMPIONS

The men’s club basketball team beat Drexel in the Mid-Atlantic championship.

PROTESTS FOR MARIJUANA Advocates of federal marijuana legalization gather in the District.

EDITORIAL Students must not ignore the national issue of LGBTQ rights.

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District’s Female Inmates Dispersed Report reveals women sent to other states LUCY PROUT

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Women in the Washington, D.C. prison system face unique challenges as a result of the District’s lack of statehood status, with hundreds of women convicted of local crimes incarcerated far from their families, according to the report released March 25.

The report was spearheaded by law firm Covington & Burling LLP and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, a nonprofit legal organization that litigates civil rights cases.

Prison conditions have improved since the 1994 D.C. Superior Court finding in Women Prisoners of District of Columbia Department of Corrections v. District of Columbia that women faced significant violations of rights — including sexual harassment, unsanitary living conditions and inadequate medical care — in prison facilities. However,

the report spotlighted an issue specific to women incarcerated in D.C. “Under a unique statutory scheme, most women sentenced to confinement for a felony in D.C. Superior Court are housed in federal prisons far from the District,” the report reads. “Due to the distance and isolation of the federal facilities, D.C. women experience particular difficulty keeping in touch with their families and maintaining other ties that would help them reestablish themselves in the community after they are released.”

According to the report, at any given time, there are roughly 300 women in the D.C. justice system, with 141 incarcerated in federal prisons outside the District. Because D.C. lacks statehood status, there is a shortage of local correctional facilities under District control, leading to high numbers See PRISONS, A6

COURTESY MELISSA NYMAN

College Dean Chester Gillis recently announced he would step down in June 2017. He plans on taking a yearlong sabbatical before returning to Georgetown’s theology department.

Gillis Reflects on Term

College Dean Gillis esteemed for student outreach sARAH GRIFFIN Hoya Staff Writer

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A report recently revealed that due to D.C.’s lack of statehood, many female inmates are unable to be housed in District prisons.

From hosting intimate conversations with first-year students over dinner at his home to promoting increased racial awareness through the development of an African American studies major, College Dean Chester Gillis’ commitment to Georgetown and its students has been a constant force on the Hilltop since his arrival almost three decades ago.

Gillis will conclude his service as dean in June 2017 and will return as a professor in the theol-

ogy department after a yearlong sabbatical to work on a book on interreligious marriages in the United States.

Belgium to Georgetown Gillis, who completed his undergraduate studies at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and received a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Chicago, first came to Georgetown as an assistant professor of theology in 1988.

Gillis became a full professor of theology, held an endowed chair in Catholic studies and then be-

Q&A: Hellman on the Future of the SFS Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

its centennial anniversary in 2019 and 2020, there’s a real openness on the part of the faculty and alumni and students to think about what we’ve achieved in the past and what we need to do to address real challenges in the future.

The School of Foreign Service announced former World Bank Chief Institutional Economist Joel Hellman as its new dean in April 2015. As Hellman, who officially took over the role in July, reaches the end of his first What are the broad goals that year on campus, The Hoya sat the School of Foreign Service’s down with the dean to look centennial vision is trying to back on his achievements and achieve? challenges of the past year, disOne of the things that has cuss the future of the school, marked the school from its inwhich will celeception is that brate its centenit takes an internial anniversary disciplinary apin 2019, talk proach to educattechnology on a ing people about day the Internet the challenges failed, and exthey will face. plore the dean’s It takes a liberal eclectic musical arts approach taste. because it tries This interview to educate the Joel hellman has been edited Dean, School of Foreign Service whole person by for length and giving them deep condensed for print. skills to think critically, read critically and present. It focuses on What are your reflections on the relationship between policy, the past year? practice and big ideas.

It’s always great to join a Those trends and those asschool at the top of its game, pects of the education are still as but it’s a little daunting to join relevant today as they were 100 a school at the top of its game years ago when they were crebecause the question is, where ated. But I think there’s a lot we do you go from here? can do to build and strengthen But what’s really been unique those key fundamental aspects about coming to a school at a of who we are. period of such strength is, beOn the curriculum side, first, cause the school is heading to it’s allowing for greater flexibil-

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came a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He also served as the chair of the theology department from 2001 to 2006 and director of the doctorate of liberal studies program from 2006 to 2008 before assuming his current role as the College dean in 2009.

In the theology department, Gillis taught courses ranging from “Problem of God” to Ph.D. seminars. He also created and taught a course on feminist theology for three years.

Specialists led a roundtable discussion on the many forms of domestic violence.

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Former World Bank economist Joel Hellman took on the role of School of Foreign Service Dean with plans to innovate and expand. ity. We can’t anticipate over the next years what the combination of skill sets will be. We know there are some core things like history, economics and politics, but increasingly students are coming to us and saying they’re interested in public health, human rights, journalism, media and communications, business.

They want to combine the skills Published Tuesdays and Fridays

they get in business with SFS, in the [School of Nursing and Health Studies] with SFS, create different combinations of security studies and development.

We need to create a much more flexible program that allows students to craft their program in a way that suits their goals

Fifty-six countries attended President Obama’s summit on nuclear security.

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OPINION Learning By Exchange The Language Exchange Program is an important resource for students.

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Upgrade UIS Policy Students and faculty experienced a near — 24-hour period of intermittent outages on Georgetown’s main — campus wireless networks SaxaNet, GuestNet and EduRoam last Thursday.

Many students experienced delays in email communication, submitting Blackboard assignments and conducting internet-dependent research.

For the majority of students and faculty, such difficulties were only compounded by confusion regarding the proper response surrounding widespread and persistent Internet failures.

The university must address these pertinent confusions, as well as the administrative errors that led to last week’s outages, in order to maintain an adequately supportive learning environment for Georgetown students.

Thursday’s Internet outage was only the latest in a series of key service failures — along with nearly a month without hot water for Henle Village residents and a lack of laundry appliances for students housed at the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center on Georgetown’s main campus, both of which occurred last year.

Such failures seem nearly unbelievable at a university charging $64,000 in annual tuition. And yet, if administrative funds are truly stretched as thin as they appear, raising the fee for certain facilities could be entertained as long as those fees result in a clear improvement of the facility.

Considering the extent to which Georgetown employs an instructional continuity policy, this is perhaps most applicable to the issue of Internet outages.

While small hiccups in wireless connectivity are inevitable and understandable, long spans of network failure simply cannot go unaddressed.

Last Thursday, many students and faculty complained about not being able to communicate through email or study for upcoming exams because of the lack of Internet access.

When a snowstorm like Winter Storm Jonas hits in winter months, such a failure has the potential to derail instructional continuity and disrupt entire semester schedules, on top of those problems already listed.

But the university should not stop at simply strengthening its information service apparatus.

Indeed, Thursday’s outages were unanticipated, leaving Georgetown students and faculty unsure about how lost productivity time would be accommodated in the classroom.

With no uniform contingency plan in place, some students were granted extra time to complete papers or had their exams postponed; others were not so lucky.

In view of these disparities, the university ought to issue a clear policy addressing Internet failure and how it affects curricular activities.

Without such direct communication, the lost productivity caused by Internet outages is only aggravated by student stress and classroom disruption.

Reliable Internet connectivity is an indispensable part of university life.

If Georgetown students cannot rely on such a fundamental service, they ought to at least be provided with the means to cope with the consequences of that inadequacy.

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The Answer — Georgetown alumnus Allen Iverson was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2016.

Power Outage — A major power outage hit Adams Morgan on Saturday evening. Approximately 3,000 people were inconvenienced by this outage.

Powerpuff Girls — The hit Cartoon Network show “Powerpuff Girls” was rebooted on Monday. Nostalgic fans can now rejoin Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup on their many animated adventures.

State of Confusion — Wal-mart has been selling shirts with the University of Maryland mascot, the terrapin, over an outline of the state of Massachusetts. The mistake was pointed out on Twitter and Wal-mart issued an apology.

America’s Pastime — Major League Baseball’s Opening Day was this Monday. All 30 teams embark on the 162-game season hoping to win the World Series in October.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Isabel Binamira

Equality Fight Goes On In recent weeks, many Republican-led states — especially in the South — have made national headlines by considering, and in some cases passing, legislation promoting local anti-LGBTQ discrimination policies or enacting protections for businesses and other institutions that deny services to LGBTQ individuals and groups.

The legislation is cloaked in the language of protecting religious liberties and individual rights of businesses and other entities, but it is in large part a boldfaced anti-gay attack seeking to exploit homophobic biases among the electorate.

Even deeply conservative politicians who are known as strong defenders of individual and religious liberties — among others, Gov. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) — have rejected these efforts as bigoted and divisive after major Hollywood corporations with locations in Georgia spoke out against them.

This legislation has prompted a groundswell of support for the LGBTQ community from national gay rights groups and large, global companies and politicians, among others.

Unfortunately, the outcry has barely been matched on campus, which is home to many students — including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender — who hail from these states.

Indeed, there has been very little community discussion on campus about LGBTQ rights since the United States Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide last summer, even though members of these communities still suffer from various forms of legal discrimination and individual bigotry.

Especially concerning are the rates of poverty, homelessness and sexual assault — especially for transgender Americans — that are exponentially higher in comparison to those for straight and cisgender Americans.

Besides the occasional campus protest against anti-LGBTQ groups — like when members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested outside the front gates last year — far too many students on campus seem complacent in thinking that because same-sex marriage is now legal, the issue of gay rights is over as well.

Because students passionately protested for marriage equality last year in D.C., they should continue to speak out against the anti-gay legislation being passed in their home states.

The erosion of legal protections for the LGBTQ community across the country is unquestionably a cause for outcry, protest and activism.

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Being Busy Has Its Value

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any have railed against the perceived detriments of Georgetown’s overly busy, extracurricular-oriented culture. These arguments condense into a few points.

First, extracurriculars force students to spread themselves thin not only over classes, jobs, exercise and social life, but also clubs, which are integral to the Georgetown experience. Second, in pursuing extracurriculars, students value quantity over quality. Finally, students’ definitions of themselves and their peers focus not on who they are intrinsically, but — rather problematically — on what they do. However, our busy culture is not necessarily a bad thing.

We chose Georgetown for a reason. We walked these halls, graced by CEOs and royals, and we felt instinctively that the Hilltop was home. We chose to locate ourselves in the American center of power.

When we matriculated, we knew what we were getting into. According to LinkedIn, Georgetown is the top school for investment banking: a field renowned for its grueling hours. We knew we would be coming to an institution where professors boast about the studiousness of attendees, where students rightfully pride themselves on their varied accomplishments and — most tellingly — where the library looks like a prison. In short, we willingly signed up for this.

Some believe that, because social life allegedly revolves around organized extracurriculars, there is an incentive to overcommit, which produces marginal returns when a student invests time in five or more clubs. However, the returns actually increase as students commit more — up to a certain, individualized threshold.

For one student, two clubs might suffice, but another might crave serious involvement in eight. These cases are dictated by each individual’s personality, physical wellbeing and time-management skills. Some people actually thrive when given more stress and responsibility. Neuroscientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have pointed out that this flourishing might be because of anatomical differences in the brains of so-called resilient individuals.

For them, being busier and more stressed is — quite literally — better.

Quality and quantity are not mutually exclusive. They might even be synergistic. According to Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, successful people have deep experience across disciplines. Using interdisciplinary knowledge allows one to solve otherwiseintractable problems. Doing more separate things can actually make you better overall. Many successful people combine quality and quantity. For example, Elon Musk simultaneously manages three multi-billion dollar companies and Georgetown’s favorite son Bill Clinton kept 4500 books in the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock, Ark. To challenge the third point, I would like you to imagine something: Someone you love dearly has been falsely arrested and might serve a decade in prison. While you are anxiously waiting, a woman starts chatting confidently with the cops about the evidence. You ask, “Are you our lawyer?” She responds, “No, but I am a good person.” You would go ballistic, screaming that you need a real lawyer to help your loved one.

In that moment, you are seeing the world through the prism of your need.

You do not care whether that lady is a good person or not; you need her to be a great lawyer. This is how most social interactions, aside from those with family and friends, work. You cannot pay for groceries with goodwill. You cannot be a brain surgeon unless you have a medical degree. We are very much what we do because that is what 21st-century Western capitalist society expects from us: productivity based on our skill sets. For example, being a “nice guy” will not get me much. It certainly will not get me a job. Even in nonmonetary contexts, I am judged on my ability to do things: Can I cook a delicious meal or be a good boyfriend? I am very much defined, in society’s eyes, not by what I am but by what I do. Therefore, by being busy, we are striving to productively create value that we can, in turn, capture for ourselves. Being meaningfully busy — that is, having singular experiences and accomplishing incredible feats — is exactly what we must do to succeed.

We choose to be busy because there is so much to experience at Georgetown: tough problems to solve, challenging work to do and amazing people to meet.

Relaxation can wait, because Georgetown cannot; our finite amount of time on this campus is slowly ticking away. At the end of the day, as Georgetown students, we are atypical people. Maybe we have found atypical ways to fulfill our needs.

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

recent email announcing the departure of Chester Gillis as dean of the Georgetown College lists an impressive number of new minors and majors that were instituted during his tenure, including African American studies, justice and peace atudies, journalism and business administration, to name a few.

Yet, it seems that there is a constant demand for new academic programs at Georgetown, and this is especially the case with languages. Though some languages, such as Arabic, are taught at Georgetown, they may exclude the possibility of taking classes in regional Arabic. Other languages, such as Hindi, are unavailable altogether. At a university that prides itself on the quality of its language programs, student frustration at insufficient program offerings is more than understandable.

University administrators often point to a lack of funds as the reason for the absence of such programs and the resistance to establishing them in the future. The College’s move to increase the required minimum for class enrollment is just one of the reactions of the administration against such budget cuts. Recent conversation alludes to the possible creation of an engineering program at Georgetown, but with the emphasized caveat that this will only take place very far in the future.

What are the options for students who seek ways to learn languages outside the class structure?

Language practice hours, often sponsored by language departments and clubs, are a crucial and well-frequented outlet for language

practice. Unfortunately, some languages have these meetings more regularly than others, and lesspopular languages may not have such opportunities at all. Another drawback is the limitation of only practicing one language; as a former student of both French and Spanish, my ideal language partner would be well-versed in both languages.

It was not until I went abroad that I was able to conceptualize a solution, to realize what I thought Georgetown had been missing.

During my fall semester at the University of Edinburgh, I was introduced to a program called Tandem, which pairs students together based on their languagelearning goals. Any students wanting to learn a language and willing to practice their own native/ fluent language with partners could do so in an informal yet

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instructive setting merely by posting their interests on Facebook. I was fully ready to take advantage of this system until I became annoyed by the constant posts, sometimes every hour, from one of the thousands of members in the group.

Upon returning to Georgetown, one of my first goals was to establish such a program here, if it did not already exist, and to correct some of the logistical deficiencies that had discouraged my own participation. However, a quick Google search introduced me to the Georgetown University Language Exchange Program, housed in the Office of Global Services. It only takes a two-minute form to lead you to a systematized, organized site that lists all the possible language pairings in which students can participate.

Although I am currently able to

take Spanish classes, as a government and history double major, next year I have no available electives. Despite some feeble attempts to practice Spanish with friends who are native speakers, I know that even a semester without regular, comprehensive language practice will degrade any skills or fluency I have been able to acquire.

LEP can be a resource for students like me who seek to maintain or improve language fluency outside the classroom.

Considering the limited funds of the Georgetown administration, the creation of new language programs in the immediate future seems unlikely. With this in mind, it is up to students to fill in the gaps. Georgetown students are entrepreneurs, journalists, government employees, artists, leaders of clubs and heads of nonprofits. Above all, however, we are students. I see an unseized opportunity for students to apply the innovation and creativity they exude in other areas of their lives to academics.

LEP is only one example of ways students can engage in their classrooms without millions of dollars in donations from alumni. A simple Google search could be all it takes. Whether it involves joining the GUSA Academic Affairs team, petitioning to create a unique major or inviting groundbreaking professors to speak on campus, I urge all students to take greater control of their transcripts, even if that means throwing them out the window.

CASEY NOLAN is a junior in the Colllege.

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Increased Hours, Boycotting Peace: A Solution That Backfires Limited Pay

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ean Norberto Grzywacz is in the process of implementing major changes to the work requirements for doctoral students on Georgetown’s main campus. These changes allow for an increase in the number of hours Ph.D. students work per week without a commensurate raise in pay. They were made not only without the knowledge of the majority of Ph.D. students, but also without the knowledge of a significant number of faculty and department chairs.

As members of the Doctoral Students’ Coalition — a group formed this year to advocate for doctoral student interests — we oppose these changes and are asking Grzywacz to delay them for at least one year. It is our hope that this delay will allow doctoral students and departments to work with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to find mutually acceptable solutions to the problems this new policy seeks to address.

Currently, doctoral students are expected to work 15 hours per week for our stipends. We are also allowed to work part-time at Georgetown for up to 5 hours per week. The new changes allow departments to require doctoral students to work up to 20 hours per week in teaching assistant/resident assitant positions. They also prohibit doctoral students from taking five-hour-per-week positions.

There are many serious problems with these changes. Doctoral students who currently do not have parttime employment may be required to work 33.3 percent more hours per week next year, with only a 3.8 percent increase in pay. Many of the part-time jobs we are prohibited from taking under the new policy help us make valuable connections within our fields, establish working relationships with faculty members, publish papers, gain experience working for academic journals and pursue different kinds of teaching opportunities.

Many doctoral students also work part-time for the university out of financial need. Although our stipend is increasing from $26,000 to $27,000 next year, $520 of which is a university-standard cost-of-living increase, the MIT Living Wage Calculator estimates that the cost of living in D.C. was about $31,000 in 2014. This is why many doctoral students — particularly those who have extra expenses like child support payments or medical bills — rely on part-time employment.

In particular, the policy has a dramatic impact on international students, who are legally prohibited from working more than 20 hours per week either on or off campus.

This policy will eliminate opportunities for international students to find off-campus work. So, while doctoral students who are U.S. citizens can earn extra money and gain professional experience by finding off-campus employment, international students will be prohibited from doing so. This is especially worrying for international students who need to earn more than the stipend to afford visits to families and partners abroad.

Unfortunately, the policy also does not appear wellequipped to deal with one of the main problems it seeks to address: doctoral students being overworked. The dean has learned that some doctoral students are working in excess of 20 hours per week in their TA and RA responsibilities already. While we agree that this is a serious problem, we do not understand how the proposed changes offer a solution. Instead of enforcing the existing expectation of 15 working hours per week, the policy allows departments to raise that expectation without providing a clear plan for how to regulate or enforce the new limit. Shouldn’t there simply be better enforcement of the existing 15-hour standard?

Ultimately, we believe that if these changes are intended to protect overworked doctoral students, then those doctoral students should at least be included in the conversation.

Some department chairs have expressed strong opposition to these changes and have made a commitment to keep the workload for TAs and RAs in their departments to roughly 15 hours per week next year. We strongly support the stance these department chairs have taken.

However, we worry that other departments will respond to this policy change by increasing class sizes and workloads.

In the departments where doctoral students are asked to pick up extra work, it may become more difficult for those students to complete their dissertations in timely fashions. Increasing class sizes can undermine undergraduate instruction by spreading TAs too thin and decreasing the amount of time they can dedicate to each student.

HAILEY HUGET is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Huget is a member of the Doctoral Students’ Coalition.

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srael’s occupation of the Palestinian territories is fundamentally wrong.

On an ethical level it is an affront to the values of human rights and national self-determination, perpetuating an injustice that forced an innocent population into diaspora and exile. In legal terms, settlement construction in the West Bank and restrictions on Palestinian freedoms violate the Fourth Geneva Convention and contradict the universal standards central to international law.

Additionally, current conditions harm Israeli interests. Occupying hostile territory presents an incessant security threat while inhibiting diplomatic cooperation and cementing Israel’s role as an international pariah. Moreover, demographics ensure the unsustainability of the status quo. The Jewish population in Israel and the Palestinian territories now numbers around 6.1 million, a narrow majority over the near 5.8 million Arabs. Higher Arab birthrates will eventually erode this small majority, offering Israel a fateful choice: preserve Jewish minority rule over second-class Arab citizens or conceive a binational entity. In one scenario, Israel would sacrifice its democratic character, in the other, its status as a true Jewish homeland.

In recent decades, many political initiatives and grassroots movements have emerged seeking to peacefully end the occupation. One that Matthew is particularly notable is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a campaign formed in 2005 by 171 Palestinian nongovernmental organizations advocating a global effort to economically, politically and culturally isolate Israel. Adopting this cause, student governments at several universities, including Northwestern and UCLA, passed resolutions demanding divestment from Israel-associated companies, while other academic institutions and thousands of individual scholars and artists have called for a moratorium on exchange with their Israeli counterparts. By their logic, financial hardship and increasing political pressure will compel Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.

BDS is noble in that unlike other Palestinian liberation movements, it does not advocate violence against Israel or its citizens. Nevertheless, the campaign disincentivizes Israeli willingness to work for peace, thus reducing the probability that the coming years will witness an end to the occupation and its associated hardships for the Palestinian people.

Particularly, international hostility will empower hardline political elements while concurrently delegitimizing the segments of Israeli society responsible for promoting the cross-cultural dialogue imperative for any future changes to the status quo.

Rather than forcing their hand, BDS has allowed Israeli right-wing leaders to justify the continuation of repressive and counterproductive behavior. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultranationalist allies have consistently engaged in fear-mongering — whether concerning Iran, Palestinian terrorism or Israeli Arabs — as a means of galvanizing political support. The advent of BDS has functioned in a similar capacity, providing the Likud government with

not only another excuse for abandoning the peace process, but also a pretext for stifling domestic opposition. Indeed, Netanyahu and his partners have cited BDS in restricting foreign funding to Israeli human rights NGOs and condemning the anti-occupation “Breaking the Silence” project. Taking advantage of this reactionary environment, far-right leaders have cemented their credibility and relevance by depicting themselves as the only safeguard against this purportedly existential threat.

BDS too fails to influence Israeli policy because those who benefit most from the occupation are affected least by the impacts of international boycott. As West Bank settlers and the ultraorthodox Haredi community receive government subsidies and produce predominantly for domestic consumers, their livelihoods are insulated from global economic trends. While other Israelis may feel the strain of divestment, the settler lobby’s stranglehold on Netanyahu’s coalition ensures that no amount of external pressure will force a reconsideration of settlement expansion or border delineation.

In contrast, the parts of Israeli society suffering most from BDS are those whose contributions are requisite to foster domestic support for a peaceful end to the conflict. The novelists, artists and filmmakers whose works have been boycotted in Gregory the name of ending the occupation are often those most critical of its prolongation. Is silencing these voices conducive to reorienting Israeli policy toward compromise?

Likewise, those working in Israel’s hightech sector, a thriving industry directly threatened by divestment, are internationalist in outlook and largely supportive of the more conciliatory posture advocated by leftist parties. Were economic conditions to worsen, many high-tech positions would relocate overseas, depleting a pro-peace voting bloc and further decreasing the likelihood of a negotiated solution.

Considering the latent fallacies pervading BDS logic, the international community must shift tactics in advocating Palestinian statehood. But to legitimately resolve the conflict, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the next U.S. administration must undertake concrete steps toward the de-escalation of tensions, measures that will undoubtedly encounter an array of pitfalls. Consequently, in the face of political expediency, it must be acknowledged that no feasible, fix-all resolution to the Israeli occupation may exist for quite some time. What is certain, however, is that economic, political and cultural isolation is stunting, rather than catalyzing the peace process. To achieve mutually advantageous progress, dialogue must be embraced, not shunned; the Israeli left must be empowered, not marginalized, and withdrawal must be seen as a bilaterally beneficial objective, not a unilaterally imposed ultimatum.

Only then may a genuine path to peace truly materialize.

Matthew Gregory is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. SENSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST appears every other Tuesday.

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Specialists Dispel Misconceptions on Partner Violence LISA BURGOA Hoya Staff Writer

Sexual trauma specialist at Georgetown’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services Erica Shirley and sexual assault specialist at Health Education Services Jennifer Wiggins dispelled myths about intimate-partner violence during a roundtable discussion co-hosted by the Georgetown University Minority Association of Pre-Health Students in the Intercultural Center on Thursday.

The conversation covered stigmas, stereotypes and statistics relating to intimate-partner violence.

Participants were asked to formulate their own definition of the phenomenon and determine in groups whether different statements about the issue were true or false.

Wiggins explained that students typically adhere to an overly narrow definition of intimate-partner violence, neglecting to envision nonromantic relationships such as parents, siblings or roommates as offenders.

“There are times when parents engage in violence with their children, but I don’t think we look at it as an intimate partner,” Wiggins said. “When you feel like your roommate is being manipulative or causing emotional distress, that’s intimate-partner violence. It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be romantic with them; it just means someone who you’re intimate with emotionally.”

Shirley said the relationship children witness between their parents has the deepest ramifications on later incidences of intimate-partner violence, as men from violent homes are three times as likely to abuse their partners than men without violent parents.

“So often, as we develop, those other relationships like marriage and romantic partnerships are important to think about in terms of what we saw as children, and how that impacted relations with other people, because our relationships really start on day one with our parents,” Shirley said.

The discussion focused primarily on the prevalence of intimate-partner violence in the United States, where domestic violence serves as the leading cause of injury among women aged 15 to 44, according to the panelists.

According to Wiggins, as many as one-third of high school- and college-aged people experience violence when dating; physical abuse is as common among this cohort as it is among married couples.

Wiggins also said while media portrayals tie people of color to

violence, abuse in relationships encompasses all races and classes.

However, a gendered divide does exist. Ninety percent of known survivors are women abused by their male partners.

Wiggins said she accepts the limitations of these statistics. She attributes warped expectations of masculinity, skepticism about police involvement and reluctance to revisit trauma as key deterrents to reporting violence, especially among male survivors.

“There’s a shame and a guilt in saying ‘I was weak’ because we are conditioned to think that men are about being strong,” Wiggins said.

“To get to the point where you report a crime, it has to be significant, especially when thinking about reporting structures and systems with police — even someone who is being emotionally abused, that’s a tough case to try and prove to an officer where they’re going to write a report that could go to court.”

Wiggins said in addition to the physical and psychological toll of abuse, offenders sometimes exploit financial insecurities to trap their partners.

“There’s a shame and a guilt in saying ‘I was weak’ because we are conditioned to think that men are about being strong.”

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“If your partner is financially abusing you, how are you going to visit your mom or your friends if they live in another city? Who is going to pay for the ticket?” Wiggins said. “If they don’t want me to

go, how do I get to the person who might be my biggest supporter?”

Tarik Endale (NHS ’16), who attended the event, said the aforementioned factors could prevent survivors from reporting intimate-partner violence on Georgetown’s campus.

“It’s a pretty small campus, so you’re going to stick out if you are perceived as bad-mouthing someone else. Like you’re probably in the same social circles, and even if you’re not, they’re going to be overlapping,” Endale said. “It’s a huge weight put on you and you are going to have to retell everything that’s happened to you.”

Stephanie Estevez (COL ’16) argued that Georgetown’s past handling of sexual assault survivor Willa Murphy, who was forced to withdraw from Georgetown last year and sparked the social media movement #IStandWithWilla after her viewpoint in THE HOYA, may dissuade other survivors from accessing resources.

“I think people are scared at the fact that the university may do nothing, or if they do it would be detrimental to you,” Estevez said. “In the Willa case that happened last summer, I remember reading that all over how pretty much she was kicked out of the school, and that just made me wonder if you were in a situation like that, whether you would always want to come forward.”

Helen Alemayehu (COL ’16) said the event allowed her to understand dimensions of intimate partner violence she had not considered before.

“I think for me, I struggle between the difference between stereotypes and facts because in these situations you have to consider who reports and who doesn’t,” Alemayehu said. “Figuring out the realities of the issue is very difficult, especially when you look at it through financial abuse or nonromantic partners, because that’s not typically what you hear about.”

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Nuclear Summit Convenes Charlotte Allen Hoya Staff Writer

President Barack Obama hosted the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit this past week, which lasted two days and concluded April 1 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Fifty-six countries attended the summit, which focused on how nations can prevent nuclear materials from falling into the hands of nonstate actors and terrorist organizations, and how the international community can develop effective systems to monitor nuclear security risks.

The nations collectively belong to five major organizations — the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Interpol, the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.

The first summit was held in 2010 in Washington, D.C., and two subsequent conferences were held in Seoul, South Korea in 2012 and The Hague, Holland in 2014. The 2016 event marks the last planned conference.

According to a statement on the Nuclear Security Summit’s website, the goal of the conferences is to lessen the risks of nuclear terrorism by reducing, securing and eliminating stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. The statement emphasized the past successes of the previous summits in solidifying bonds between forces dedicated to nuclear security.

“Through the Summit Process, the international community has strengthened the international organizations, institutions and multilateral legal instruments that make up the nuclear security architecture, and improved coordination among them,” the statement reads.

A major victory for the process occurred in 2014, when 35 countries pledged to match their domestic nuclear safety rules to the guidelines set by the IAEA. Russia refused to attend this year’s summit even though it is the country with the most nuclear sites.

In an opinion column for The Washington Post published March 30, Obama called on Russia to work with the United States to collectively deplete their nuclear weapon stockpiles.

“Along with our military lead-

ership, I continue to believe that our massive Cold War nuclear arsenal is poorly suited to today’s threats,” Obama wrote. “The United States and Russia — which together hold more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons — should negotiate to reduce our stockpiles further.”

At the closing remarks of the summit, Obama stressed the purpose of the conference — to prevent terrorists from gaining access to nuclear weapons.

“Just to summarize where we’ve been, in the morning session we discussed the extensive and impressive national action steps that many of us have taken, and the collective efforts that we’ve made to reduce the amount of nuclear material that might be accessible to terrorists around the world,” Obama said.

“This is also an opportunity for our nations to remain united and focused on the most active terrorist network at the moment, and that is ISIL.” The summit emphasized the importance of sustaining security improvements, fostering a peaceful international environment in which to collaborate on these issues and protecting sensitive information.

Additionally, the summit reaffirmed the central role of the IAEA in developing a nuclear security framework and supporting states’ attempts to fulfill their obligations within it.

One accomplishment of the 2016 summit included the commitment of 29 nations — including every country with a highly enriched uranium stockpile exceeding 1000 kilograms except Russia — to create a new initiative focused on nuclear cybersecurity.

Each nation will also attend two workshops in 2016, and will discuss strengthening industrial controls and security at nuclear facilities.

Walsh School of Foreign Service distinguished professor in the practice of diplomacy Robert Gallucci said the summit put the spotlight on a critical national security issue and that the conference process as a whole has caused significant quantities of fissile materials to be better secured.

However, Galluci added that risks of nuclear threats are heightened in today’s age.

“The magnitude of the problem is growing, not shrinking,” Galluci wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Governments have to take the risk of a nuclear terrorist strike seriously by stopping the

accumulation of plutonium and highly enriched uranium, as well as better securing the stockpiles we have. Fissile material remains ‘the long pole in the tent’ in any nuclear terror scenario: destroy the stockpiles and secure them until we do and nuclear terror is theory; fail to and we’re betting our lives unnecessarily.”

Georgetown International Relations Club chair Arnosh Keswani (SFS ’17) highlighted the importance of Russia’s decision not to attend the summit.

“I think the boycott of Russia in not attending put a little dampening effect on the event,” Keswani said. “But I also think that the fact that they are having these conversations and that they are engaging the whole international community means that we have done something and that we are successful in that regard. I think that at the same time there is a lot of work to be done, especially in the Iran deal.”

Keswani raised concerns that nuclear weapons will fall into the hands of terrorist organizations, a concern that is relatively new in the world of nuclear security.

“The most pressing issue is that there is the possibility of nonstate actors such as [ISIL] or the Taliban acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Keswani said. “I think that that is a new thing that has come up and that is something that people need to be engaged about.”

Keswani also noted that following the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, regional powers in the Middle East, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, may feel as though they are in a precarious position regarding nuclear security issues.

“There needs to be more of a discussion especially with those American allies about how we can continue to bring them into the fold and make them partners in making sure that the region is safe,” Keswani said.

Keswani further underscored the importance of the Nuclear Security Summit to issues of all natures, not just nuclear security.

“It’s important that there should be more meetings like this since this is technically the last one of its kind,” Keswani said.

“There should be more meetings where the world can come together to talk about pressing issues, have a conversation and look at what is going on and where we are in our goals and in terms of progress.”

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Marijuana advocates gathered Saturday in a mass-smoking demonstration of civil disobedience to protest for the federal legalization of marijuana.

Pro-Cannabis Legalization Groups Seek Federal Ruling Jack Bennett Hoya Staff Writer

This weekend, the District’s marijuana advocates gathered at the White House in protest while smoking marijuana on federal property. Protest organizers boasted that Saturday’s public mass-smoking demonstration was an act of civil disobedience.

D.C. Cannabis Campaign Chairman Adam Eidinger led the protestors. The campaign drafted Initiative 71, which legalized personal growth, possession and consumption of marijuana for those over 21 in Washington.

However, it is still illegal to sell pot, smoke it in public or to have it visibly displayed on one’s person.

Passed by 64.87 percent of voters last November, Initiative 71 went into effect Feb. 26, 2015. Prior to the passage of Initiative 71, the District decriminalized marijuana in July 2014.

The Georgetown Code of Student Conduct forbids the possession, use, transfer or sale of controlled substances. Marijuana is banned on campus because cannabis possession and use is considered criminal under federal law and the university receives federal funding.

The police and Secret Service made no arrests for marijuana smoking during the protest and marches, even during the scheduled “smoke-out” at 4:20 p.m. — alluding to National Pot Day on April 20 — despite the fact that smoking on federal land is considered a felony.

According to The Washington Post, no arrests were made because the protesters stayed on Pennsylvania Avenue, which is part of D.C., where pot possession is legal.

Had they strayed to the sidewalks in front of the White House, it may have been a different story.

The protestors made their planned demonstration known in the Georgetown area April 1 by driving past the university gates in a Jeep trailering a cage with a sign reading,“JAIL IS NOT A DRUG POLICY.” Louis Drexel Porteous, a volunteer lobbyist and organizer for D.C. Norml, a promarijuana policy group, sat inside the cage.

Drexel Porteous said his goal is to have the federal government legalize pot as soon as possible.

“The job is to end the federal prohibition of marijuana, now,” Drexel Porteous said.

The brief demonstrations at Georgetown’s gates attracted minimal fanfare, even among the crowds of accepted and visiting students.

One of the protestors spoke of the need for medical marijuana in aiding Iraq war veterans. The protestors also had a 50-foot inflatable joint created by artists Chris Ridler and Ceaser Maxit.

In an interview with The Hoya at Saturday’s protest, Drexel Porteous explained that the Jeep cage at Georgetown was a way to get the word out to all local colleges, but was unable to recall which universities exactly he had appeared at besides Georgetown.

“We wanted to hit all the universities,” Drexel Porteous said. “They put me in a cage and I go, ‘Ngguhh,’ and that’s my job.”

According to Drexel Porteous, the cage was meant to draw attention to marijuana-related arrests and incarceration.

“It’s the stupidest thing in the world — putting people in a prison for a plant that’s never harmed anybody and has a million users,” Drexel Porteous said.

George Washington University freshman William Frankl said he attended the protest because of his firm support for marijuana legalization, referencing the success of marijuana laws in his home state of California, where he has a prescription card for marijuana. However, Frankl said he would not personally smoke as an act of civil disobedience.

“I’m not willing to go quite as far as getting arrested,” Frankl said. “It’s a worthy cause, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t want a record.”

A Georgetown student in attendance at the protest, Nick (COL ’16) — who requested to be referred to only by his first name — expressed concern with the war on drugs and its effects on mass incarceration.

“I don’t really smoke pot but I am very concerned about mass incarceration, what I feel is an authoritarian drug policy, an unjust drug policy,” Nick said. “And I’d like to show my support for the rescheduling of this drug in particular.”

Nick pointed to a connection between issues of race and the drug war.

“There’s at least one obvious connection, which is the disproportional targeting of African Americans by the legal system generally.

I mean, that’s quite obviously tied to marijuana,” Nick said.

In addition to the desire for immediate action regarding the federal legalization of marijuana, the protestors want Obama to personally meet with major pro-marijuana policy groups before the end of his term.

According to The Washington Post, some major marijuana policy advocates have opted not to support the protest or its tactic of public marijuana consumption around children and tourists, including groups such as the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Majority. *** Eidinger has been the driving force for

progress on the relaxation of marijuana laws in the District. The Cannabis Campaign was originally called DCMJ, a title reclaimed since its success with the passage of Initiative 71.

The effects of the protesters’ presence were instantaneous. Movement on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. flowed toward the appearance of the aforementioned giant inflatable lit joint reading “LEGALIZE. OBAMA, DESCHDEULE CANNABIS NOW!” The joint was easily visible from down the street near the Renwick Gallery. As the protest gathered at the entrance to Pennsylvania Avenue around 2 p.m., the police and Secret Service blocked the inflatable joint from getting to the gates. After negotiations, protesters agreed to deflate the joint as long as they could continue into the area.

Drexel Porteous complained that the police and Secret Service considered the inflatable joint a security concern simply because of its provocative symbolism, even though the inflatable Keystone XL Pipeline from previous environmental protests at the White House was allowed to be held up.

Once at the center of the crowd, directly in front of the White House, Eidinger began to present a series of speakers, which he promised would be diverse in age, race, gender and political orientation. The speakers included activists, doctors and veterans.

The speakers mostly focused on extolling the medical benefits of marijuana, the racial inequities underlying the war on drugs, the abuse risk of opiate medicines, the economic costs of prohibition and polemics on ending mass incarceration.

Throughout the protest, Eidinger repeated a warning also found on DCMJ’s website, which advised people not to smoke before the scheduled time of 4:20 p.m. for fear the police could more easily arrest a single straggler than a whole group.

Despite this warning, the stench of marijuana was ubiquitous. Joints were visibly lingering behind many protesters’ ears and suspiciously bagged baked goods were being devoured by people in hunched yet indiscreet poses.

Even with these provocations, the police and Secret Service seemed resigned to disapproving stares and watchful eyes.

At one point, a police K-9 was paraded through the scene, but the dog never alerted its handler.

At 4:14 p.m., Eidinger took the microphone. He said he would end the rest of the protest if the president agreed to meet with a major legalization organization.

Eidinger stressed that he felt pushed to this illegal tactic out of frustration from a lack a response to previous calls from DCMJ and other organizations to act on marijuana legalization.

“We’re politely and respectfully sending letters to the president and not getting responses,” Eidinger said. “Mr. President, we beg you, we implore you, do something before you leave office and we will get your back, we will watch your back. You can’t ignore us anymore.”

At 4:20 p.m., Eidinger, along with most of the protesters, began to smoke. Following some celebratory dancing, singing, smoking and congratulations, Eidinger met The Hoya for an interview. *** Eidinger had to shout over the excited mass of about 200 pot-puffing protesters and the music. Joint in hand, his second since 4:20 p.m., Eidinger discussed his tactics, implored student activists to fight for the cause of legalization and commented on the ongoings of his fellow protestors.

“Woah, what’s happening? I think they have a bong over there,” Eidinger said.

Eidinger said the coordination of the event took 30 days of organizing.

“It’s about setting the goal. What’s the goal? We want to highlight the five million arrests … and put pressure on the president to impress us before election day,” Eidinger said. “Because if he doesn’t impress us, I’m sure many of the people here today aren’t going to be voting for his chosen successor.”

Eidinger also expressed his belief that Obama supports legalization and emphasized the harmlessness of marijuana.

“I think he [Obama] supports legalization.

And what we’re saying is this is civil disobedience, now. You have forced us to basically use our most powerful weapon which is just to use the plant itself, and show how harmless it is,” Eidinger said. “I’ve smoked like a joint already, here in front of the White House and I’m giving this very coherent interview.”

Eidinger also addressed his lack of fear of police retribution.

“We’re just not afraid to go to jail anymore,” Eidinger said. “I came fully prepared to be arrested and I’m still fully prepared for being arrested. They’re letting us have this party.”

As a last remark, Eidinger doled out some words of advice for students and the younger generation.

“What I want to say is, you guys have to figure out a way to hand off the activism energy year-to-year, because every four years it seems like there is nobody organized,” Eidinger said. “Students are the future; young people are the future. Older people had their chance.

It’s your chance. Take to the streets: you’ll get everything you want.”

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PRISONS, from A1 of women housed in federal prisons.

D.C. women who receive a sentence of nine months or fewer are housed in local correctional facilities, while those with longer sentences are held in federal prisons.

Due to the shortage of facilities for females in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, the nearest locations a woman with a long-term sentence can be housed are 250 miles away, in West Virginia’s Hazelton Secure Female Facility or Alderson Federal Prison Camp.

The report’s top recommendation is to change the length of a sentence requiring a woman to be sent to federal prison from nine to 24 months, giving more women the opportunity to stay closer to their families.

Covington Senior Counsel Carolyn Corwin, who co-authored the report, attributed the issue to D.C.’s statehood issues. Under the National Capital Revitalization and Self Government Improvement Act of 1997, several local responsibilities of the District were transferred to the federal government. The statute required the closure of the District’s Lorton Reformatory prison in 2001.

Corwin expressed hope that Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), the D.C. Department of Corrections, D.C. Council and Federal Bureau of Prisons will take the report’s recommendations into consideration.

“We want to start a dialogue here. We’ve said you could change the cutoff, so that people with longer sentences could stay in D.C. and serve their sentences.

We’ve said that for people out in federal prisons, maybe you could bring them back earlier, we’ve proposed diversion programs that at least have them in federal prisons that are closer to the District,” Corwin said. “We’ve tried to lay out a bunch of options, and what we’d really like to see is people talk about those options, and other options that they could come up with.”

Covington Associate Attorney and report co-author Phil Peisch said the simplest solution to the issues identified in the report would be for D.C. to retake control of its correctional system, which is currently funded by the federal government.

“The District is getting the financial benefit of the federal

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A March 25 study found that D.C. female prisoners are likely to be housed over 250 miles away due to facilities shortages. government taking these women,” Peisch said. “If the District decided to bear the financial cost and take our prison system back, I suspect Congress would oblige and happily take the money back to the federal coffers. To some degree the D.C. Council and mayor own that problem too.”

Peisch also stressed the need to move away from the current focus on male incarceration that does not take into consideration women prisoners’ needs.

“This is a population that has been all but forgotten for a long period of time and there are reasons for that. And those reasons haven’t disappeared,” Peisch said. “There is more focus on criminal justice reform right now than there was 15 years ago but this is still a population that still doesn’t have a huge political voice.”

Marc Howard, director of the Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative, which brings students and faculty together in examining mass incarceration, agreed that there is more of an emphasis placed on male incarceration. However, Howard pointed to the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black” as a positive step forward in drawing attention to female incarceration.

“I do think there is a tendency within the media and pop culture to focus on male incarceration, although ‘Orange is the New Black’ has brought much-

needed attention to women in prisons,” Howard said. “But it still tends to be viewed as a male phenomenon, which is largely true, but by no means entirely true.”

Howard noted that a large portion of women in the prison system fit the category of nonviolent drug offenders but often receive longer sentences. He emphasized the impact this can have on the families of incarcerated women.

“There are 2.1 million children who have a parent behind bars in the United States today.

And when you think about what that means for those children, what they are missing, I’m not saying obviously in all situations parents should go home, such as in cases where genuine harm has been done and there is a threat of recurring violence and so on,” Howard said. “Having children doesn’t make you immune from incarceration, but I think that especially with the lengths of sentences that are given out, we really need to think of the effects it has on children and families.”

Corwin raised concern about the roadblocks in terms of resources and interest in the issue of female incarceration.

“Whether anything comes from this depends on whether there is going to be any follow through,” Corwin said. “Will people really take some of these recommendations and try to push them through?”

Gillis Discusses Tenure GILLIS, from A1 “[Former chair of the theology department Father William McFadden, S.J.], after a long conversation, said, ‘Yes, I think we should, and I think you should teach it,’” Gillis said. “It was really an interesting kind of pulling back the curtain on women’s issues, in general and particularly with relation to religion and theology, so it was very enlightening for me. I learned a lot more in that course from the students than I knew when I went in.”

Expanding College Offerings In his role as dean, Gillis has worked to help fund Georgetown’s capital campaign, which will conclude in June, and has been involved with raising funds for the new de la Cruz Gallery of Art set to open in Walsh in 2017.

Gillis’ tenure as dean also saw the creation of the film and media studies, journalism, business administration, philosophy and bioethics, and education, inquiry and justice minors and the justice and peace studies and African American studies majors in the College.

Gillis said in a previous article in The Hoya (“College Embraces New Programs,” The Hoya, Feb. 23, 2016, ONLINE) that he has sought to develop new programs to fit the university’s needs.

“I don’t feel like I have to create these programs just to say I’ve done innovation, no. I think that’s a bad idea, actually,” Gillis said. “We’ll do things that make sense, and make sense for us.

Where we don’t need to do it, I won’t do it just to say I did it.”

Office of the President Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara said Gillis has made a significant academic impact during his time as dean.

“His leadership and vision have advanced the College and the Georgetown community in countless ways. We look forward to working with [Gillis] over the next year to ensure a smooth transition in the leadership of the College and to support his return to the faculty,” Ferrara wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Meeting with students

Over the years, Gillis has displayed a particular commitment to engaging with Georgetown students. Gillis and his wife Marie regularly invite students to their home for dinner.

“So for example, when I have first-year students in, they’re brand-new, it’s in the first three weeks they’re at school,” Gillis said. “I always say you have to sing for your dinner if you come to Gillis’ house.”

Gillis said he learns from students when he meets with them.

“So I learn a lot from them, of the schools that they got into, many of which are very competitive with us and very good, why did they come here? Why did they come to Georgetown, what is good about us, what is attractive about us? And I learn a lot,”

“It’s a place that you can give your heart and soul to.

And I’ve done that.”

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Gillis said.

College Academic Council President Alisha Dua (COL ’16) said she found Gillis’ dedication to building relationships with students unique among university administrators.

“He really strives to get to know us personally. Opening his office for Donuts with the Deans and inviting College students to his home for casual dinners are a true testament to this. What other Dean of a top university does that?” Dua wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to Dua, Gillis is also highly receptive to student input.

“Without a doubt, it is Dean Gillis’ commitment to the students here at Georgetown that has made the greatest impact on the College. In meetings with the Academic Council, he has always been very transparent about administrative issues and keen to understand and consider the student opinion,” Dua wrote.

College Academic Council Vice President Connor Maytnier (COL ’17) echoed this sentiment, saying Gillis has been supportive of the council’s efforts.

“He has always encouraged us to pursue what is important to students and has provided his counsel along the way. He also has been a proponent of engaging students and seeking input on policy and program changes through town halls, which have been a big initiative for the Council in recent semesters,” Maytnier wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Returning to Teaching Following his accomplishments as head of the College, Gillis said he is looking forward to returning to his role as a professor.

“I love the theology department, I love what we do, I love the students, I love teaching,” Gillis said. “To be back in the classroom will be a good thing, and to go back to my theological scholarship.”

Throughout his time at Georgetown, Gillis said he has been influenced by a number of faculty and staff members and their commitment to scholarship. Gillis cited the staff in the College Dean’s Office as a particular source of inspiration.

“This has been a very good job to come into every day because of the people with whom I rub shoulders every day. They’re very, very good, they’re deeply committed, they’re compassionate, they’re smart,” Gillis said. “If students and faculty knew all they do behind the scenes they would be equally edified; they can’t see it all but I can.”

Gillis said he will move on knowing he had given the job his all.

“You can’t sum up what will be nine years in a few sentences. There’ll be lots of memories, I think a lot of good, clearly some mistakes, things I would probably do differently, but you know, it’s a place that you can give your heart and soul to. And I’ve done that,” Gillis said.

and what they think they’re going to be doing in the world. Bottom line is, even though we’re the School of Foreign Service and everyone thinks we train diplomats, less than 2 percent of our students become diplomats. Most go on to do remarkable things with their SFS education, and we want to give them a little more flexibility — not throw away the core but create more opportunities to do that.

Second, science, quantitative skills.

These are things that aren’t an add-on any more in education; they’re core to all global issues. We want to think about how do we bring those aspects into the educational program?

Third, a lot of our students study abroad. We want to see if we can integrate that as an integral part of every student’s program — not only semester abroad, but summers, vacations. Being in SFS encompasses some form of global engagement so that you’re actually trying to do something in a different environment. We’re seeing how we can support more and more of our efforts by students to do that.

The last thing is, the thing that has always distinguished our school being in D.C. is the link between practice and theory. I think we can do more to give undergraduates access to policymakers and practitioners. Not only big talks in Gaston Hall, which are great, but also informal talks to make them understand how they’ve built their careers, how they’ve made decisions, what attitudes and approaches they take.

Nicely ironic! International affairs — just like every subject — face the opportunities and challenges that technology provides, and in all my courses, we talk about technology as well, but, at the same time, our curriculum does not necessarily focus that much on technology or science. Including the curriculum, but also including research and educational style, how does the SFS integrate itself more with advances in the 21st century?

It’s such a critical question. It really is very high on our priority list as we think about the centennial and the vision. I’m really pleased to see that science, technology and international affairs is one of the fastestgrowing majors in the school; it’s clear that students are voting with their feet. Investing in that will be an important priority going forward. We’ve got such incredible faculty there that are showing what you can do with students: [professors] Joanna Lewis on energy policy, Mark Giordano on water. Sarah Johnson is studying life on other planets; who would have thought 100 years ago that there would be an SFS professor who thinks about life on Mars?

We also have alums who are really engaged and we’re really trying to engage them. One of our new board members, for example, is the general counsel of SpaceX, Tim Hughes (SFS ’94).

We are — on the part of the curriculum reform — seriously moving towards integrating a science requirement of some sort, as part of an overall university effort to ensure that science becomes a part of everyone’s program. We’re talking through what that might mean for SFS. We’re also talking about how to ensure Related to the greater flexibility, this quantitative literacy at SFS. We have four ecoweek, the SFS nomics courses: The announced the question is, is that language minors “Having a diverse the right combinaprogram. Are there international student tion of skills that gives steps to build off students enough of that and perhaps body is absolutely an understanding of include other critical to the SFS’ quantitative literacy so minors as well? that they can function There’s a lot of inter- own identity.” well in different enviest from students in JOEL HELlMAN ronments, whether minors and to build Dean, School of Foreign Service that’s the private sector up expertise in different disciplines, different skill sets that or public sector? are not in the traditional SFS framework.

We’re looking for ways to make that hap- In terms of the SFS becoming more global pen. If minors are the best way of doing — I know that is another big push — you that, I think that’s something we should travelled to India to unveil the GU India Initiative. What was the impetus behind that think about.

Minors are not the only way. The thing initiative, and what kind of similar things are that drives people in minors is they want you trying to implement elsewhere to create credentials, they want a stamp that says, those connections with other countries?

Having a diverse international student “Hey, I did that.” We want to enable stubody is absolutely critical to SFS’ own idendents to do that.

I would also say that, if the curriculum tity. This is not a luxury. As a school of interbecomes more flexible, and there’s a little national affairs, if we don’t have a diverse bit more room built into the program representation of views in the classroom, for student choice, then that would also when we’re discussing the toughest issues, enable us to think more seriously about then we can’t really make the claim to be a top-ranked global school. I think we can do minors. better on that score at SFS. I don’t think we’re keeping pace with When we talked last year, one of your immediate goals was to reach out to the best schools in the world — not just the various parts of the school and plan U.S. — in terms of attracting that globally dithe future in a collaborative process. verse and socio-economically diverse student In that process, what surprised body: globally, bringing more international you about things that parts of the students in, and a socioeconomically diverse community told you were a problem? group of students. Because of financial aid and federal funding, we have a differential: What points did they emphasize?

I think that it is more difficult than I We have 62 percent of domestic SFS students anticipated for students to work across who are on financial aid, but we have a very schools. Students have a lot of concerns small percentage of international students about that. I know the provost and the on financial aid. We’ve got to address that deans are all interested in creating more imbalance. One of my highest priorities is to opportunities for students to reach across build the financial strength of SFS in order for us to do so. different parts of the school.

Second is the relationships. That’s where I hear a lot, within SFS, of students not being able to take advantage of all of the you get to the GU India Initiative. That’s why resources within SFS. We have over 20 pro- I traveled to India, Hong Kong, Europe. I’m grams and centers: Those are great things going to go to Africa next year. I’ve lived in because they give students the chance to eight different countries over the last 20 work with smaller groups of people who years. I have a college-age daughter; we’ve are deeply interested in what they’re do- mentored a lot of college-age kids coming to ing, but often they’re interested in think- the U.S. It is a bewildering system for someone coming from outside the United States. ing about linkages.

There are thousands of colleges to go to. How You talked about teaching; I do you start to think about that? We need to remember that was one of the first start building relationships so that we get things you wanted to do last year. the word out, not just about Georgetown, How has the process of getting into but also about SFS. What is SFS? What does that mean? teaching a full course been?

When the early admits were given, we I didn’t know that this year was going to be a bit crazy. I did an enormous amount of called all of the international students. I talktravel this year: It’s really important to me ed to one father in Singapore, and he said, to reconnect the school with our alumni. “I’m glad you called. I have a question for We haven’t been strong enough in reach- you. Why should I send my son off to study ing out to our SFS alumni, so I’ve been foreign service so that he can join the U.S. pounding the pavement going to big mar- Foreign Service?” People need to understand kets where we have SFS alumni to intro- better about what we do. duce myself to them, hear from them and then reconnect them to the school so they One of my friends told me that you are very have a stake in the school. That’s taken a lot much into jazz. What is your favorite jazz record or musician? of time from the classroom.

You know, I have very eclectic tastes, and What I have done is a series of lectures in lots of different classes, talking about so on my own, when nobody else is around, I my area of expertise — which is fragility listen to what my wife would describe as “unand conflict and the relationship between listenable music,” and that ranges from the conflict and development — in different avant-garde era from the mid- to late 1960s parts of the school, which has been great to contemporary challenging classical jazz. for me because I’ve been interacting at the There’s something called the Bang on a Can graduate level, undergraduate level, in big music collective in New York that is really intergovernment department classes as well as esting — sometimes unlistenable, but I like to small Russian studies seminars. And finally, call it challenging.

When other people are in the room, I love I was faculty teaching on a one-credit course on the history of the SFS with [government classic jazz, from Louie Armstrong up through professor] Anthony Arend and [Dean’s Of- Bennie Goodman and Duke Ellington and the great jazz orchestras, and I’m a great fan of the fice Chief of Staff] Emily Zenick.

Next year, I’m planning with [SFS assis- bebop era. How about yourself? tant professor] Ken Opalo, one of our young faculty here: We’re teaching a course on I love hip-hop.

Oh,Ijustwenttosee“Hamilton.”That,Ithink, conflict and development, and that’s going to be a formal, proper course. But I must was one of the most remarkable things that I’ve say that I’m really glad this year that I took done in a very long time because this notion of this approach: I must have given a dozen takingthestoryoftheAmericanRevolutionand lectures on campus in different courses, as the Founding Fathers and reclaiming it with well as the history course, so it just gave me hip-hopandrapandrecastingthewholestory— it was in some ways the most natural thing you a great introduction. can imagine. It really reflected the very spirit of I wanted to talk a little bit about technology. the Revolution and the Founding Fathers, and I thought that was great.

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Bridge Initiative Aims To Promote Dialogue Elisabeth Neylan Special to the Hoya

As anti-Muslim rhetoric infiltrates the U.S. 2016 presidential stage and hate crimes against Muslims rise, Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative — a multi-year research project — has dedicated itself to expanding Muslim-Christian relations and peace.

The research project, led by Director John Esposito and Assistant Director Engy Abdelkar and based in Georgetown’s Center for MuslimChristian Understanding, aims to make academic studies on Islamophobia accessible to the public while actively strengthening bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West.

By gathering data on support for presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ban on Muslim immigration and highlighting the presidential candidates’ relations to Islamophobia, Bridge is bringing renewed attention to the misunderstanding and issues surrounding views on Muslims in America and other Western countries.

Esposito said the Bridge Initiative also provides alternative narratives through its website to shed light on the positive contributions the majority of Muslims contribute to society at large and to Western society in particular.

Abdelkader said she attributes rising instances of hate crimes against Muslims to the rhetoric of candidates who increasingly employ language to express prejudice against the religious minority.

“Many of the GOP voters who are engaged in the primary election actually support Trump’s views on his public ban for Muslim immigration, so that’s cause for alarm, and I think perhaps even more interesting, though, is perhaps upwards of 30 percent of Democratic voters … actually share that viewpoint as well,” Abdelkader said.

Abdelkader said she understands that freedom of speech is a crucial value of the United States but emphasized how Islamophobic rhetoric serves as a catalyst for violent manifestations of prejudice in society.

“We place a lot of value as Americans on freedom of speech,” Abdelkader said. “That needs to be tempered with responsibility and understanding that when you are making bigoted comments that target a minority faith community in your country, that has very real implications and oftentimes those implications are violent.”

Abdelkader noted a manifestation of the trauma inflicted on Muslims because of such political sentiments that already occurred in Dallas, Texas, on Dec. 8, when a Muslim mother returned home to find her 8-year-old daughter packing up her toys and toothbrush in fearful anticipation of deportation after Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States.

He emphasized the role terrorist attacks con-

tribute to Islamophobia even though, in Western countries, violence committed by non-Muslims poses a greater security threat. Yet groups like the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda continue to be subjected to more media scrutiny despite causing more Muslim deaths than nonMuslim deaths.

“Non-Muslim extremists were responsible for more deaths than those who self-identified as Muslims,” Abdelkader said. “That seems weird, and that’s because of the depictions that we are constantly digesting from news media.”

Abedelkader noticed the disparity in media coverage between the bombings in Brussels, Belgium on March 22 and the attacks three days earlier in Istanbul, Turkey. Both attacks were attributed to the Islamic State group, and both attacks resulted in a number of civilian deaths; nonetheless, Belgium received more media coverage than Turkey, a a country that has a Muslim majority.

“There is never any justification; there is never any excuse for violence or political violence but by the same token it’s important to not generalize those egregious acts, the atrocities committed by a few, to the global Muslim community or to American Muslims here in the U.S.,” Abdelkader said.

Esposito said he hopes to see Islamophobia decline in the future through Bridge’s increased influence. He said the site has become so visible both in terms of the number of people who visit and in terms of the number of people who take what they have written on the site and share it on social media.

“We’re going from zero at times to hundreds of thousands to occasionally one or two million within a period of time people accessing our site and or what we write,” Esposito said.

According to Abdelkader, as Bridge continues its work and research, Islamophobia and hate crimes toward Muslims can only be mitigated through united action and collective will.

“This has to be done in a way that Muslims and non-Muslims are working together. It’s our responsibility as a society much in the same way that we reject racism, or we reject anti-Semitism we do so as a society,” Abdelkader said. “We’re situated in the perfect context here at Georgetown University. The students that are here are literally going to be the leaders [of the nation] in a variety of ways and they are going to be part of the solution.”

Benjamin Balough (COL ’17), a convert to Islam from Christianity, acknowledged the significant strides made by Bridge to address stigmatization against Muslims, but he said he believes Islamophobia is partially motivated by racism fueled by misunderstanding.

“I feel, as a white convert, that I avoid many of the preconceptions imposed on most Muslims,” Balough wrote in an email to The Hoya. “My Christian friends see me and, because of my race, are able to extract the positive, religious connotations of Islam — modesty, kindness, prayer.”

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GU Offers New Languages Christian Paz Hoya Staff Writer

Up to 25 students in good academic standing in Georgetown College, the School of Foreign Service and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be able to enroll in Burmese, Hindi/ Urdu, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese language classes at the Washington, D.C., campus of The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies beginning this fall.

The partnership between Georgetown and SAIS will allow students at both schools to enroll at the other institution for language courses not available on their own campus. Students will register for SAIS classes through Georgetown’s preregistration system.

Georgetown students may take courses for a grade only, which will appear on their transcripts and count toward their degree and credit requirements, but SAIS courses will not be factored into students’ Georgetown GPAs. Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Strategic Planning for Georgetown College and associate linguistics professor Jeff Connor-Linton brokered the agreement with SAIS Director of Language Studies Program Marco Campos (GRAD ’03) to strengthen language instruction at both schools.

“This is a great opportunity for Georgetown students to be able to take languages that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to take,” Connor-Linton said.

Campos said the new program is a good opportunity for students at both schools.

“As a Georgetown alumnus I am thrilled that both schools have joined efforts to share their strengths in language teaching for the mutual benefit of our students,” Campos wrote in an email to The Hoya.

SAIS students will be able to take advanced Arabic, advanced German, Hebrew, advanced Italian and Turkish language courses with

Georgetown College’s Faculty of Languages and Linguistics.

Campos said SAIS classes focus on the social, cultural and political features that relate to the regions in which the languages are spoken.

“Class activities normally include debates on current events,” Campos wrote.

Senior Associate Dean Sue Lorenson said that Georgetown is limited in its language offerings because of the language requirement in the College and proficiency in the SFS. “Georgetown’s reputation for language instruction is excellent, partially because we are not in the business of offering ‘languages on demand,’” Lorenson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “When we offer a language, we want to make sure that the instruction is at a level of quality consistent with that of Georgetown’s other language offerings and of a duration such that Georgetown College students can meet the core language requirement and SFS students can meet the proficiency requirement.

This has understandably limited the number of languages that Georgetown is able to offer.”

Lorenson said she does not anticipate dramatic changes in the language course offerings within the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics.

“Like any dynamic university, Georgetown is continually reassessing its curriculum. Though Georgetown is unlikely to offer one-off courses in any particular language, we should expect that Georgetown’s language offerings will evolve over time,” Lorenson wrote.

SFS Academic Council member Roopa Mulpuri (SFS ’18) said she has consistently pushed through the Academic Council and the Georgetown University Student Association Senate Subcommittee on Curricular Reform for Georgetown to add new languages to its curriculum.

“My personal initiative has been trying to get Hindi lan-

guage classes to Georgetown, and I’m hoping that because more students will take language classes [with the new SFS language minors] that this will increase the opportunity to bring new languages and language studies to Georgetown,” Mulpuri said.

Georgetown University South Asian Society President Bhavya Jha (SFS ’17) said that she welcomes the SAIS partnership.

“When I came to Georgetown as a freshman, there was barely any conversation about South Asian languages and regional classes, and I’m definitely glad to see the changes coming about slowly but surely,” Jha wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Having done CLS (the Critical Language Scholarship), I was excited to work with CLS alumni funds and SAS to host an open HindiUrdu hour on Wednesdays followed by on-campus, personalized Urdu reading and writing classes.”

Jha said she plans on working with SAS Vice President Monica Mahal (COL ’17) to craft a list of SAIS classes to circulate among students interested in South Asian languages during the preregistration period.

Jha said she hopes the opportunity to take SAIS classes will eventually be open to students across all schools and plans to meet with administrators to establish a South Asian studies department.

SAS Public Relations Director Asha Thanki (SFS ’17) said that Georgetown should eventually integrate South Asian languages into the curriculum and count grades toward student GPAs. “It’s good that students have this opportunity, though the work of the university to integrate South Asian languages into the academics should not end here,” Thanki wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We hope to see these languages taught on Georgetown’s undergraduate campus, and we’d like to see those grades count towards students’ GPAs.”

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Hoyas Win 7-5 in Conference Opener CLAIRE SCHANSINGER Hoya Staff Writer

Nick Barton

Internet Intrudes On Athletes T

he social media world has blown up over the past week after separate news stories broke regarding the love lives of two NBA players.

Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving’s name began trending online when the musician PartyNextDoor posted a photo on Instagram showing himself holding hands in bed with R&B singer Kehlani, who recently broke up with Irving. Not long after, a video filmed by the Los Angeles Lakers’ rookie point guard D’Angelo Russell showed fellow Laker Nick Young admitting to cheating on fiancee singer Iggy Azalea with multiple women. On the surface, these stories seem like intrusions on the two players’ love lives, but they intrude further into much darker topics like suicide and infidelity. This sheds light on the invasiveness of the public as well as the monumental role of social media in shaping public opinion.

What gives us, as random strangers, the right to intrude on these celebrities’ personal lives?

Kehlani is identifiable as the woman in PartyNextDoor’s photo by the tattoos on her hand and the caption of the photo. Given how recently Kehlani had been linked to Irving prior to PartyNextDoor’s photo, many assumed the singer had cheated on Irving at some point in time. Social media users tweets mocked Irving and Kehlani, posting memes and sharing their opinions about a situation they did not fully understand.

Many accused Kehlani of cheating, even though both Kehlani and Irving stated they were not dating when PartyNextDoor posted the photo. Strangers continued to throw slurs and lies at Kehlani on various social media platforms, prompting the singer to post a photo of herself in the hospital after a failed suicide attempt with a caption referencing the lies being spread about her alleged affair.

A few days later, the Los Angeles Lakers’ backcourt made headlines after a video of Young confessing that he cheated on his fiancee was posted to Russell’s Snapchat. How the video leaked remains a mystery, as Russell denies posting it himself. According to ESPN’s Marc Stein, teammates shunned the 20-year-old point guard after the faux pas.

Prior to the Lakers’ win versus the Miami Heat last Wednesday, Coach Byron Scott requested that reporters ask him a question about basketball rather than inquire about the online drama involving his players. However, Young and Russell fielded plenty of questions about the topic when they became available to the media. For Russell, his reputation in the public eye and in NBA circles has completely changed.

Young, on the other hand, must deal with the fallout of the situation in his personal life.

Both these incidents demonstrate the toxic nature of social media — it has the ability to create highly publicized controversies that can break relationships and cause distress. What gives us, as random strangers, the right to intrude on these celebrities’ personal lives? In Irving and Kehlani’s situation, neither individual did anything wrong, so why should people mock them? Both Irving and Kehlani are human, and that vulnerability certainly showed after Kehlani went to the hospital.

While most people would consider Young’s actions wrong, again, why is it any of our business? His personal life should be kept behind closed doors, but this story threw it into the open and infringed on his right to privacy. Young’s, Irving’s and Kehlani’s celebrity statuses do not mean their personal lives are open for abuse and scrutiny.

The most deplorable part about these situations is the ease at which people type libelous words behind their computer screens into a forum the whole world can see. The athletes they lambaste have friends, family and children who care about them and are wounded by the slew of insults directed at the athletes. Unfortunately, the media thrives on discussing people’s personal lives, even when it negatively affects many individuals.

Nick Barton is a junior in the McDonough School of Business.

More Than a Game appears every other Tuesday.

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (3-7, 1-0 Big East) won its first conference game against Vanderbilt (4-7, 0-2 Big East) Saturday afternoon in Nashville.

The Hoyas won 7-5 for their third consecutive road victory.

Georgetown, which now holds an 8-0 all-time record against the Vanderbilt, outshot the Commodores 29-23 while the teams tied with seven draw controls and 15 ground balls each.

Freshman attack Taylor Gebhardt scored a hat trick, putting her at 12 goals for the season. Four other Hoyas scored one goal each, including senior attacks Corinne Etchison and Kelsey Perselay, freshman midfielder Francesca Whitehurst and freshman midfielder Morgan Ryan.

Georgetown also proved more efficient in free-position shots, securing 2-of-6, while Vanderbilt was unable to convert on any of its three attempts.

Etchison stressed the importance of this win and the morale boost it brought to her team.

“The win was really important. It was our first conference game, which is very important, but in general since we only had two wins coming in, it helped us build momentum,” Etchison said. “We struggled a little in the first half in the season, but this is definitely a confidence booster for us.”

Junior goalkeeper Maddy Fisher and senior goalkeeper Megan McDonald made a combined nine saves. McDonald has made 35 saves this season for a .398 winning percentage, while Fisher has saved 30 for a .349 winning percentage. For Vanderbilt, junior goalie Callahan Kent had her seventh game of the season with 10 or more saves, stopping 13 shots during her time in goal.

Etchison praised her team’s

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Senior attack Corinne Etchison scored one goal in Georgetown’s 7-5 win over Vanderbilt.

Etchison has scored 11 goals this season and leads Georgetown in assists with eight. defense, as well as the contributions made by her goalkeepers.

“Offensively, we didn’t shoot well, but I think we moved the ball really well and started to work together more. On the defensive end, the goalies came up with huge saves and our defense was great overall and forced a lot of turnovers. We looked okay in the first half and were struggling shooting but we really saw the defense help the offense pick it up in the second half,” Etchison said.

The Hoyas opened the scoring less than a minute into the contest, beginning a 4-0 run. The Commodores earned their first goal when redshirt attack Kelly Chandler scored her first of two goals. Vanderbilt began a scoring streak of its own, steadily chipping

away at Georgetown to cut the lead to one. Georgetown managed to earn an additional goal, making the score 5-3 entering the second half.

The Commodores pushed back the Hoyas’ defense to tie the score at 5-5 five minutes into the second half, but the Hoyas quickly responded. The Blue and Gray fired four shots in the next two minutes and finally connected with the net off a goal from Gebhardt, assisted from junior attack Kate Snoufer. Six minutes later, Ryan extended Georgetown’s advantage with a free position goal.

Though Georgetown did not put up any more goals in the remaining seven minutes of the game, it held off any Vanderbilt comeback attempts, ending the contest at 7-5.

Next, the Hoyas will play

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the No. 2 Florida Gators (11-1, 2-0 Big East) in a conference matchup at Cooper Field on Saturday afternoon. Florida defeated Vanderbilt 16-2 earlier in the season and just came off a 10-9 win over Big East opponent Temple (8-3, 0-1 Big East) on Saturday.

Head Coach Ricky Fried hopes the Hoyas will take some momentum into their upcoming matchup against the Gators.

“A lot of it is taking confidence away from coming away with a win, and making sure that we’re working on passing the ball and making sure that Florida doesn’t get out in transition against us, because we want to make it a slow game on either end,” Fried said.

The game is scheduled for noon at Cooper Field.

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Iverson Inducted To HOF madeline auerbach Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior Amos Bartelsmeyer led the way for Georgetown in the men’s 5000m event at the Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, Va., this weekend, earning fifth place in a time of 14:05.05.

GU Opens Outdoor Season Daniel Baldwin Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s and women’s track and field teams opened up the 2016 outdoor season at split sites, with both squads sending groups of athletes to the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, Va., where multiple athletes set personal records.

At the Colonial Relays, sophomore Joe White carried over his momentum from the indoor season. He clocked in at 3:47.37 — a personal record — in the men’s 1500-meter event, which placed him fourth overall. Meanwhile, freshman Spencer Brown claimed seventh place by running 1:51.98 in the 800m.

In the men’s 5000m, junior Amos Bartelsmeyer led the way for the Hoyas, finishing in fifth place with a time of 14:05.05. Junior Scott Carpenter followed Bartelsmeyer to a sixth place finish with a time of 14:06.57 — nearly a 15-second improvement over his previous personal record.

Graduate student John Murray captured seventh place overall with a time of 14:07.26.

“I think we had a lot of good performances,” Bartelsmeyer said. “The first meet you always get to see where you are at. You haven’t raced in a few weeks,

you’ve put in some good training. I think we had some good performances in the 5K. We had some people get a time that will get us into the NCAA first round at Regionals in June. We also had people try out a distance they don’t typically do. It’s fun, and it’s a lowpressure environment, but it was encouraging.”

Bartelsmeyer also expressed excitement about the widespread talent on the men’s track and field team.

“I think we have a lot of depth,” Bartelsmeyer said. “We have a lot of good people, a lot of workout groups doing high quality stuff. That means on any given day, someone’s going to have a really good day and you might not be feeling great.

You are going to be pushed and that pushes you mentally. You can be confident that you are working out with some of the best people in the country. Our depth elevates all members of our team.”

As for the athletes on the women’s team that competed at the Colonial Relays, sophomore Jody-Ann Knight ran a time of 59.14 — a personal record — to win her heat in the women’s 400m.

The Hoyas also had an impressive showing at the Stanford Invitational. Senior Samantha Nadel and freshman Audrey Belf competed in the women’s 5000m. Nadel fin-

ished in eighth place with a time of 16:02.06 — a personal record for both indoor and outdoor track and field. Belf recorded a time of 16:16.40, claiming 16th place.

“We were really happy when we found out we ended up in the same heat this past weekend because it’s so helpful to work off of each other because we train together at practice so it’s so helpful being together at the race,” Nadel said. “You are feeding off of each other and helping each other out because we know that if one of us can go, then the other can too.”

Going into the 2016 outdoor track and field season, Nadel said she is encouraged by the team camaraderie and chemistry among her teammates.

“One of the main things we always stress is working together as a team and by working together as a team, we will accomplish our goals for outdoor,” Nadel said. “You don’t usually think since track is technically an individual sport, people don’t always think of the team aspect. But it’s really crucial.”

Both the men’s and women’s teams will send groups of athletes to Coral Gables, Fla., and Fairfax, Va., to compete in the Hurricane Alumni Invitational and the Mason Spring Invitational this Saturday.

Allen Iverson, former Georgetown basketball player and NBA star, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday.

Iverson played for the Georgetown men’s basketball team under then-Head Coach John Thompson Jr. from 1994 to 1996.

In his two-season career on the Hilltop, he led Georgetown to two Sweet 16 appearances and helped bring Georgetown to the Elite 8 in his sophomore season.

At Georgetown, Iverson averaged over 20 points per game during both his freshman and sophomore years. The guard dished out 4.5 assists per game his freshman year and 4.7 assists per game his sophomore year.

After an impressive collegiate career, Iverson was selected first overall in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.

Iverson stayed with the 76ers for 10 years, racking up impressive numbers throughout. Iverson led the 76ers to the NBA finals in the 2000-01 season, a year when he was also named MVP. Statistically, his career peaked in the 2005-06 season when Iverson averaged 33 points per game.

Iverson went on to play briefly with the Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons and Memphis Grizzlies.

He returned to the 76ers to finish off his NBA career in the 2009-10 season.

At the time of his retirement, Iverson was an 11-time All-Star who had become one of the most decorated former Hoyas in NBA history.

In an Instagram posted by Dikembe Mutombo (CAS ’91) on Monday evening, the fellow former Hoya wrote, “I am so proud of [Iverson] for making it to the Hall of [Fame] 2016. I am happy to call you: teammate, brother, and friend. We are Georgetown.”

Iverson was inducted into the Hall of Fame alongside NBA legends Shaquille O’Neal and Yao Ming and current Michigan State Head Coach Tom Izzo.

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Group Matchups Feature Various Upstart Teams CRAIGE, from A10

be an exciting group, as this is the first tournament that Wales has made since 1958. A healthy Gareth Bale at midfield means that Wales could pose a threat. Furthermore, England is widely expected to do well, as it made it through the qualifiers without losing a single game. Slovakia has also done pretty well lately, although defender and captain Martin Skrtel has looked out of sorts. Russia has struggled since the World Cup, and I do not see it really posing a threat in this group. Prediction: England wins the group, and Slovakia advances. Wales could potentially be a thirdplace team to advance.

Group C is home to the current world champion Germany, as well as Poland, Ukraine and Northern Ireland.

This is Northern Ireland’s first appearance in the Euro tournament. Expect the Northern Irish to be happy just to be there, even if the chances of them moving on are pretty slim. Poland should do fairly well thanks to its star striker Robert Lewandowski. Ukraine rarely poses a threat in the Euros, so I do not expect it to play a big role in this group.

Prediction: Germany wins the group, and Poland advances.

Group D is made up of Croatia, Czech Republic, Turkey and Spain. Spain is the two-time defending champion of the Euro Cup, so it should pose a threat. Even though La Furia Roja played terribly in the World Cup and struggled at the beginning of the qualifiers, it seems to have recovered. Turkey had a good qualifying campaign and most notably defeated the Netherlands. Croatia seems to be struggling a little, as coach Niko Kovač was fired during the qualifying tournament. The Czech Republic has struggled in recent years, so it would be surprising if the team advanced beyond the group stage, even though it did win its qualifying group. Prediction: Spain wins the group, and Croatia advances. Turkey could advance on third-place finish.

Group E is home to Belgium — the current number-one team in the world, based on FIFA rankings — Italy, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland. Following a stellar World Cup campaign, Belgium has continued to defy expectations.

Expect forward Romelu Lukaku, midfielder Kevin de Bruyne and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to prove themselves integral to Belgium’s Euro campaign.

Ireland’s hopes of doing well at the tournament have taken a small hit, following the injury of forward and captain Robbie Keane. Despite this, the Irish will be motivated to prove that they belong in the tournament. Italy is always a force to be reckoned with and will likely advance.

I do not see Sweden doing well, as forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic is really its only key player, and it finished third in its qualifying group. Prediction: Italy wins the group, Belgium advances and Ireland advances based on third-place finish.

The final group, Group F, is made up of Austria, Hungary, Iceland and Portugal. I will be cheering for the Hungarians, but I find it very unlikely that they go through. Iceland is the big surprise here, as it qualified for its first-ever major tournament and finished second in qualifying.

Portugal typically underwhelms in major tournaments because of a lack of depth behind forward Cristiano Ronaldo. Austria topped its qualifying group and should be able to get out of this group. Prediction: Austria wins the group, Portugal advances and Iceland advances based on third-place finish.

I will go out on a limb and say that I am picking Spain to win the Euro tournament once again. In the meantime, we can all focus on the exciting month of Premier League games that we have left. Hopefully, Leicester City will keep up the quality play and hold on for the title.

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

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they’re so important to the team – their character, their personalities; they’re such team kids.”

Singles play saw all four Hoyas win in straight sets. Junior Sophie Barnard finished her match first, defeating St. Francis junior Brittany Plaszewski in a 6-2, 6-1 win.

“She was a good player, but her game style matched up pretty well with mine, so I felt pretty comfortable playing her,” Barnard said of her opponent.

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Saperstein finished next, winning 6-4, 6-0. Sophomores Casey Marx and Daphne de Chatellus won their singles matches as well. Marx defeated her opponent decisively, capturing a 6-2, 6-3 win.

De Chatellus gave up one game in the first set but had to fight for the second set.

De Chatellus won her match after she defeated St. Francis senior Dani Gryckiewicz in a tiebreak with a score of 7-5.

Ernst credited the team’s determination early on to setting the tone for the match and proving its strength as a program.

“When they have a match, they’ll be up early thinking about that match and wanting to play and wanting to compete. When you’re a coach, it’s just such a great feeling to know that your team is sitting there ready to go. Our girls are so excited, and we played really well,” Ernst said.

With the Big East tournament at the end of April, both Georgetown teams are using these late-season matches as opportunities to prep for competitive conference play.

“We’re really towards the end here; we have only a few

matches until we get to the Big East, which is obviously the most important weekend for us, so every match is kind of a prep for that to get our confidence on the court and in competition,” Barnard said.

The men’s team will play against Richmond (12-10, 3-2 Atlantic Ten) this Saturday in Richmond, Va. in an effort to bring the Hoyas’ regular season record to an even .500.

Meanwhile, the women’s team will have a brief break from play before it competes against George Washington (5-10, 1-3 Atlantic Ten) on April 10.

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emerged victorious against the No. 4 Drexel Dragons (15-7, 15-3 Mid-Atlantic Central) at the National Club Basketball Association’s Mid-Atlantic Championship, a best-of-three series between the two teams.

The first game saw Georgetown gain an early lead with Crowley, senior Malik Williams and sophomore Ryan Wall leading the way with a barrage of three-pointers and transition buckets. However, the Dragons mounted a rally at the end of the first half.

“We got caught a little bit with having too many slashers on the court and needing more shooters,” Garrity said. “Maybe they went on a 6-0 run to end the first half … and they came back and tied it [in the second half].”

In the second half, the Hoyas regained a small lead and began to trade baskets with the Dragons before finally breaking away around the two-minute mark, due in part to the pulsing energy of the arena. “[The] crowd was great; we built momentum off that,” Garrity said. “And we were able to parlay that into the first game being a win.”

Heading into the second game, the Dragons had shown they could hang with the Hoyas’ high-powered offense. It became clear that defense would be key if Georgetown were to clinch the championship and avoid a winner-take-all third game.

This time around, the game was close throughout, with Drexel holding a narrow lead for a significant stretch of the sec-

ond half. The Hoyas responded with timely adjustments, tightening their defense and embarking on an electrifying run to win the game — capturing the title of regional champion — 91-69.

“We called a timeout with about eight minutes left and set up a scheme where we wouldn’t be helping as much, and [focused on] more personal responsibility, man-to-man,” Garrity said. “We played them really tough … and they kind of got a little bit rattled with how ferocious we were playing.”

Now, the team has two weeks of rest before the National Championships in Pittsburgh: A grueling three-day, single-elimination tournament against seven of the other top teams in the country.

“For all these kids, it’s like a dream come true. It’s fantastic,” Crowley said. “We’re just happy to still be playing in April, and we’re going to go to Nationals, and who knows, maybe we’ll bring home a national title.”

Crowley and Garrity, the only seniors who have played on the team all for all four years of their time at Georgetown, have built up the program and transformed it into something much more than just some guys playing pick-up at Yates.

“Brendan [Crowley] has just been a phenomenal leader and a phenomenal presence in our organization. He’s so passionate about doing this that he’s made everybody else more serious about it,” sophomore Michael Martinez said. “We’ve always had great players ... The biggest difference from last year to this year is the seriousness.”

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Senior co-captain Brendan Crowley scored a combined 50 points in Georgetown’s two regional championship games. to the crowd at McDonough on Saturday, everything about the club team this season has been exciting and new in a way that it had not been before.

“It was probably the most energetic environment for a club game … that I had been to this year,” said sophomore Kennedy Maker, who was in the stands for both games.

“It kind of surprised me — the unity of Georgetown that we have — with everyone so focused on their academics and stuff, people came out and showed their support for the boys. I was glad to be a part of it,” said Evan Couture, another sophomore in the stands.

With an increased level of organization, unity and commitment to leadership, the team hopes to maintain this season’s success in the future, even after Crowley, Garrity and four other seniors graduate this year.

“It’s all about commitment,

you need people who are committed,” freshman Patrick Murray said. “[The captains] were very good this year in what they wanted to do. They were good in setting it all up for the freshmen.”

Compared to playing just three games for Crowley and Garrity in their freshman years, the team has certainly turned a corner.

“Today we crossed the 25game mark,” Crowley said after Saturday’s win. “It’s just a perfect, perfect ending. Not just for club but my college career.”

But his career, and this team’s season, is far from over, as the Blue and Gray have a chance to make history in Pittsburgh in two weeks.

“It’s just going to get better, honestly. I mean, the young guys on this team, like, freshman through juniors; it’s already loaded,” Crowley said.

“We marvel [at them] every day.”

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“We shoot ourselves in the foot,” Ford said of Georgetown’s tendency to give up early leads. “We’ve come out kind of the whole season slow in the first quarter … and then in the second quarter, especially in this game, we responded really well. We changed what we were doing on defense, and I thought we played some of the best defense we’ve actually played all year in the second quarter.”

Georgetown ended its scoring drought five minutes into the second half with an unassisted goal from freshman attack Chris Donovan, but Denver junior attack Connor Cannizzaro helped his team pull away with a larger lead, tallying both of his two goals and two of his five assists during the period to make the score 13-3 heading into the fourth quarter.

A staple on the Pioneer offense, Cannizzaro recorded more personal points during the game than Georgetown tallied the entire game.

Cannizzaro, pacing Denver with 23 goals and 18 assists this season, can connect with open teammates as easily as he can connect with the back of the net.

Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne said that Denver excelled at spacing on offense and was quick to exploit defensive mistakes and open looks.

“They capitalized on a lot of miscues we had. They were just a step ahead on everything today. … If you make a mistake, you’re going to pay for it,” Warne said.

Georgetown scored one more goal in the last period, but four more goals tacked onto an already insurmountable Denver lead saw the game end at a decisive 17-4.

Though Denver’s attack kept Georgetown on its toes the entire game, taking a total of 48 shots during the contest, Georgetown’s

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Graduate student midfielder and co-captain Joe Bucci scored one goal and had one assist in Georgetown’s loss to Denver. defense remained steadfast. Sophomore goalkeeper Nick Marrocco made 13 saves, and Georgetown finished 11-of-25 at the faceoff X against Denver sophomore midfielder and faceoff specialist Trevor Baptiste, who has consistently put up impressive numbers at the X and currently ranks seventh nationally with a .665 win percentage.

On the faceoffs that Georgetown did not win, its defense worked to collapse and stifle any quick Denver scoring opportunities.

“I thought our guys did a good job of making it a scrap [at the faceoff],” Warne said. “I thought we did a better job in the second quarter — if we did lose the faceoff, we stopped at first possession, so they didn’t really hurt us as much.”

Though the Hoyas have struggled in faceoffs this semester and still

have room for growth, their efforts against the Pioneers showed an improvement in their strategy and performance at the X. “Denver’s faceoff guy is consistently said to be the number one guy in the country, and I think [we] did an incredible job [against him]. I think we could have helped them out on the wings a little bit more … that’s an area we need to improve on, and I think they’re doing a great job at the X, it’s just a matter of the wings stepping up,” Ford said.

Next, Georgetown will host another Big East game against Providence (7-3, 1-0 Big East) this coming Saturday. The Friars will enter the matchup coming off a 15-10 win in their conference opener against St. John’s (1-9, 0-1 Big East).

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

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A five-goal first-quarter deficit set the tone for the entirety of the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team’s (1-9, 0-2 Big East) Saturday home contest against No. 4 Denver (8 -1, 1-0 Big East), which ultimately ended in a 17-4 loss for the Hoyas — the team’s sixth consecutive loss.

The last time Georgetown met Denver on the lacrosse field was under an entirely different set of circumstances. The Pioneers and the Hoyas faced off May 2, 2015 in the Big East championship game as the No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. Though Georgetown dropped the decision 168, the Hoyas had entered the

championship game as the one team in the Big East with a chance to keep pace with the powerhouse team that would go on to win the national championship later in the month.

Now at the bottom of the conference standings with one win in 2016, the Hoyas have had to readjust many of their expectations this season.

Junior defender Charlie Ford said the team is taking this loss in stride.

“That’s the positive outlook from that game — the mistakes we made we can all fix, they’re easy to be fixed and we still have three league games to keep us in the big picture for the Big East tournament, and that’s our goal right now,” Ford said.

The Pioneer squad, which has been undefeated in Big East play since 2014, came out firing from the opening faceoff in Saturday’s contest. Five unanswered goals gave Denver a comfortable lead in the first quarter before Georgetown graduate student midfielder and co-captain Joe Bucci got on the board at 2:53. Georgetown focused on defense heading into the second period, managing to slow the Denver attack. However, the team could not find an answer on the offensive end, failing to put up another goal until after the half.

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The men’s club basketball team won two games over Drexel to clinch the Mid-Atlantic Regional championship Saturday.

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Three years ago, the No. 3 Georgetown men’s club basketball team (22-3, 15-3 Mid-Atlantic East) played three games in an entire year.

The program joined the National Club Basketball Association in 2015, and one year later, the team, boasting a regional championship title, is just three games away from a national championship.

“There was nothing,” senior captain Brody Garrity — who serves as the team’s unofficial head coach — said in reference to the team’s past seasons. “This club was … like, we showed up and ran some pickup at [Yates FIeld House] and did nothing

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Junior defender Charlie Ford picked up two ground balls in Georgetown’s 17-4 home loss to No. 4 Denver. Ford has tallied 20 ground balls and has caused five turnovers so far this season.

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Three years ago, the club basketball team played its few games tucked away on the single college-sized court in the back of Yates. This past Sunday, McDonough Gymnasium played host to the club basketball team’s shot at a regional championship.

“We’ve been pushing for McDonough for a while. We figured, you know, last home game, regional championships, what better time to play here,” senior captain Brendan Crowley said. “I’ll tell you, this was awesome —just awesome. We love Yates, but nothing beats this.”

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e have learned a few important things coming out of the latest international break.

First, England is capable of beating quality teams like Germany, but it still has consistency issues to work on before the European Championship begins in June. Second, Leicester City continues to secure its spot at the table in the Barclays Premier League. It is now seven points ahead of Tottenham and can lock up the title by winning its next four games. And finally, El Clasico is never a dull game — Real Madrid eked out a 2-1 win over Barcelona in the final few minutes.

Seeing as this international break featured World Cup qualifiers and last-minute friendlies before the Euros, I thought this week I would preview the Euros. This year’s tournament in June will be the first time that 24 teams will play in the first stage. Divided into six groups, the top two teams in every group will advance to the next round, along with the next four best teams.

As the host, France has a relatively easy group with Romania, Albania and Switzerland in Group A. However, France has found itself embroiled in scandal recently, as blackmailing allegations were levied against star striker Karim Benzema by his teammate Mathieu Valbuena.

Despite this, France has been playing well, and it would be very surprising if it did not advance.

Prediction: France wins the group, and Switzerland advances.

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Although early rain forced the teams to towel down the courts at Georgetown Visitation before their Saturday matches against the St. Francis men’s (9-6, 1-0 Northeast Conference) and women’s (4-11, 1-0 Northeast Conference) tennis teams could commence, both Georgetown’s men’s (6-7, 1-1 Big East) and women’s (9-4, 1-3 Big East) tennis teams ultimately defeated the Red Flash in decisive fashions.

This is the second time this season that both Hoya squads have competed against two teams from the same program after both Georgetown teams competed against George Mason on March 16.

The men’s team downed St. Francis in a 6-1 finish, losing the doubles point to begin and sweeping singles play later in the match. All three doubles matches had 6-4 finishes, with Georgetown notching a win in the second doubles spot courtesy of junior Yannik Mahlangu and sophomore Peter Beatty. Junior Jordan Portner and freshman Michael Chen lost at first doubles, while junior duo Jack Murphy and Ryan McElvenny fell in the third doubles slot.

Senior Daniel Khanin defeated his opponent in the first singles spot with a 7-5, 6-4 finish. Chen, freshman Will Sharton, Mahlangu and sophomore Mac Rechnan all won their singles matches, also in straight sets. Beatty won his match in the second singles slot in a tight three-set battle, ultimately defeating St. Francis sophomore Alec Dylan Foo-Kune 6-4, 5-7, 10-6.

“The guys’ match was tough,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said.

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Meanwhile, the women’s team swept St. Francis 5-0. Because the matches were postponed, the women’s side elected to play four singles matches

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and a doubles match in lieu of the traditional six singles matches and three doubles matches.

Doubles play saw juniors Margaret Psyhogeos and Madeline Foley play a competitive doubles match resulting in a 6-3, 3-6, 10-8 finish. The threesetter finished with a tough 10-point tiebreak, which put Georgetown on the score-

board first.

Ernst said he was pleased with Psyhogeos and Foley’s play, noting how significant the juniors are on the team’s roster.

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