The Hoya: October 13, 2017

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SEX ISSUE 2017

From contraceptives to hookup culture, here’s what Hoyas have to say about sex.

EDITORIAL Georgetown must support students working unpaid internships to level the post-graduate field.

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WAITING ON SUNSHINE Solar panels are set to be installed on six buildings on campus by summer 2018.

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Trump Taps Alumna University Considers Department To Lead Department Of Women’s and Gender Studies Of Homeland Security Katrina Schmidt Special to The Hoya

Jeff Cirillo

Hoya Staff Writer

School of Foreign Service alumna Kirstjen Nielsen (SFS ’94) was nominated to lead the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday.

Nielsen was a longtime official in the Department of Homeland Security; she has served as a White House deputy chief of staff under former Secretary of Homeland Security and

current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly since he left the department July 31. Nielsen followed Kelly to the White House. If confirmed, she would replace acting secretary Elaine Duke.

A Virginia native, Nielsen attended the University of Virginia School of Law after graduating from Georgetown. If confirmed, she would See NIELSEN, A6

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A proposal advocating that the women’s and gender studies program gain department status by fall 2018 was submitted Tuesday by students hoping to expand the program’s resources.

The student-led proposal, presented to Georgetown College Dean Chris Celenza, has the support of program faculty and the Georgetown University Student Association, and it has been signed by 40 students and alumni as of press time.

Becoming a department would allow members of the program’s faculty to pursue tenure, which could also provide opportunities for student research. Advocates also hope the program would obtain more funding and resources as a department.

In addition to the establishment of the department, the proposal requests two full-time tenure-track positions, two to three additional full-time, nontenure-track faculty positions and a five-year dual enrollment Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts program.

Currently, none of the professors in the women’s and gender studies program, founded in 1987, are tenured or on the tenure track. Two of the 12 faculty members are full-time, including the program director, You Me Park. The remaining 10 professors in the department are part-,time.

Students, including some majoring and minoring in the program, submitted the proposal, which highlighted

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A student-led proposal to expand the women’s and gender studies program into a department was presented to College Dean Chris Celenza.

President Donald Trump nominated School of Foreign Service alumna Kirstjen Nielsen (SFS ’94) to serve as the Secretary of Homeland Security on Wednesday.

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Professor of history and African American studies Maurice Jackson presented a Georgetown-led report on how inequality is affecting the black community in Washington, D.C., at the John A. Wilson Building on Thursday.

Inequality Displaces Black DC Residents Georgetown-led report details gentrification, education gap Alex Mooney Hoya Staff Writer

The black population in Washington, D.C., dipped below 50 percent for the first time in nearly 60 years due to increased gentrification, growing income inequality and an expanding education gap, trends expected to continue without government intervention, according to a Georgetown University report released Thursday morning.

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Requested by the D.C. Commission on African-American Affairs and led

by Georgetown University associate professor of history and African-American studies Maurice Jackson, the report finds the main reason for black residents leaving Washington to be economic. The report uses analysis of the District’s economic data to evaluate and outline inequalities in income and wealth in D.C. White households in D.C. have a

net worth 81 times greater than black households: $284,000 versus $3,500.

The 2016 D.C. unemployment rate for black people was 13.4 percent, compared to a rate of 2 percent for white people.

The lack of available jobs, skills training and a lag in educational attainment are all key factors preventing black residents in the District from See INEQUALITY, A6

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New transit options, including a water taxi connecting Georgetown and the Southwest Waterfront, were announced yesterday. Story on A5.

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The More You Know The D.C. Reads program celebrates its 20th anniversary of tutoring students in Ward 7.

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Together in Faith As two columnists discuss this week, our faiths can be uniting factors in diverse communities.

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Rivalry Matchup The men’s soccer team is set to travel to face off against Villanova this Friday.

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NEWS Bowser’s Promise

opinion Reaffirming Resources

SPORTS National Embarassment

Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced a $138 million investment in affordable housing programs.

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Survivors must know how they can access vital services, in particular sexual assault forensic examinations.

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The USMNT’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup humiliates the country.

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THE VERDICT

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Inequity of Unpaid Internships For many students looking to gain valuable work experience and make an income, unpaid internships can be an unfortunate reality. Although the Georgetown University Student Association should be commended for its recent efforts to financially support students pursuing these opportunities, it is vital that both GUSA and the university actively build on this initiative to secure a long-term funding source for this program and ensure equal access to internship opportunities for students from all backgrounds.

As The Hoya reported last week, GUSA is working to develop a program that would provide low- and middle-income students with stipends to support their work at unpaid internships.

Though the details about the program are limited, the funding would ideally allow these students to receive stipends commensurate to what they would earn if they took a job instead of the internship.

The dilemma of the unpaid internship continues to plague Georgetown students who are caught between the chance for valuable experience and the financial infeasibility of this opportunity. The very notion of unpaid work is unethical, but it is unlikely that employers will change their ways en masse. As such, the university and GUSA must intervene to support students financially and remedy this unfair system, which allows wealthier students to more easily take internship opportunities.

GUSA’s initiative and efforts thus far are commendable, but both GUSA and the university must commit to following through on this program, rather than merely pay it lip service as a future possibility.

The administration has expressed support for this stipend program, but has yet to make a concrete pledge to dedicate initial funds or other resources. The university should make a firm commitment to support the program, be willing to provide at least a portion of the initial funding for a flagship program and dedicate itself to helping find other sources of funding.

More importantly, GUSA and the university must work toward establishing an endowment specifically for the purpose of funding this program; GUSA President Kamar Mack (COL ’19) noted that an endowment would be “the long-term goal.” An endowment would be the most sustainable way to fund the program, as it would avoid increases in tuition or the Student Activities Fee to provide the funding.

This strategy has been successful at peer institutions. For example, George Washington University’s Knowledge in Action Career Internship Fund — which provides funding to GWU students “to pursue high-quality, necessarily unpaid internships” — is made possible through the generous support of alumni and parents, according to its website.

Beyond the matter of funding, GUSA should carefully consider access to this program. As of now, it appears the Cawley Career Education Center would manage the distribution of these stipends, screening potential candidates based on their career goals and socio-economic status.

This effort to create equitable access to internships for students of all backgrounds should be lauded. Moreover, these stipends would be immensely helpful for not only low-income students, such as those who belong to the Georgetown Scholarship Program, but also for many students who may not qualify for the financial support provided by GSP but still cannot afford to work an unpaid internship.

Students should be evaluated for future jobs on the basis of their merits, not on their financial abilities; yet the financial challenges of an unpaid internship often mean that low- and middle-income students are unable to secure these opportunities that would undoubtedly help them in future career paths.

Preparing students to be competitive applicants for postgraduate careers is a key function of any university. Neglecting to support low- and middle-income students in opportunities that offer necessary experience and training is the university’s failure to accept its responsibility and advantages wealthy students in the job market.

This stipend program, if successfully funded, would offer students of all backgrounds opportunities to pursue their career interests and passions without compromising their financial security, making it more feasible for them to compete in the job market with students from higher socio-economic backgrounds.

Internships give students training and experience that are crucial to obtaining a job in any field. Students of low- and middle-income backgrounds should not be shut out of the competitive job recruitment process simply because it is not financially feasible for them to work at an unpaid internship rather than a job. Hopefully, GUSA’s internship stipend program will work to mitigate this issue.

Upcoming Eruption — New research suggests that pressure beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano could build faster than originally assumed, reducing the waiting period for a potential eruption from thousands of years to mere decades.

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From Cookies to Camping — On Wednesday, the Boy Scouts of America announced that girls are welcome to join the Cub Scout program and earn Eagle Scout rank.

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EDITORIALS

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Amazon Makes a Splash — After 10 tragic years of tablets fatally falling into bathtubs and pools, Amazon has finally released a waterproof Kindle. The new Oasis is now the most expensive Kindle, beginning at $249.

It’s a No-Goal — The U.S. men’s soccer team did not qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986. In a twist of fate, Panama qualified for the first time in history.

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Fur-get the Fur — Italian luxury fashion brand Gucci has announced its decision to stop using fur in its designs starting next year. The brand announced that remaining animal fur items would be auctioned off with proceeds going to animal rights organizations.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Elinor Walker

In Times of Tragedy, Engage On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 58 wounded in what was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. One year and four months later, on Oct. 1, 2017, 58 people were killed and roughly 500 injured in a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.

It is now the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in modern American history.

Nearly two weeks after this national tragedy, it feels as though our country is going through the same, tired motions that have become the norm after all-too-common mass shootings.

Newsweek reported that a mass shooting happens nearly every day in the United States. The events in Las Vegas were one of 273 mass shootings in the first 275 days of 2017, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

It is easy to feel disillusioned after the events in Las Vegas. It is easy to register tragedies like this one only as news alerts on our phones or tweets we scroll by during study breaks.

We must be careful to not allow ourselves to be desensitized to senseless violence.

We have a responsibility to acknowledge and care about those who lost their lives.

Even as we find ourselves busier and busier — swamped by midterms and papers and more commitments than we can handle — it is vital that we do not insulate ourselves from the world around us, even when that world is cruel and difficult to face.

Our intent is, of course, not to fault or denigrate the Georgetown University community. Undoubtedly, individuals on campus have been deeply struck by this tragedy, have reflected sincerely on its significance and have reached out to others to reaffirm their support in the wake of these events Rather, this editorial board merely hopes to remind readers — reach out. Care. Take a moment to reflect on the world around you and to consider your

place within it, even when it is difficult and terrifying to do so.

This reflection will be different for all of us. For some, this tragedy will embolden us to double down on our advocacy for gun control. For others, it will prompt us to connect with our communities — communities of friends, of family and of faith — to reaffirm our networks of support. Check in with those around you, and reach out when you feel disconnected.

Acknowledge tragedy, terror and loss, even when it threatens to disrupt the busy nature of your life — it should. Becoming numb to violence is not the solution. Rather, when our nation is struck by tragedy, we must seize it as an opportunity to reflect, to connect and to show compassion.

In the days after the Orlando shooting, Campus Ministry organized an interfaith prayer service in Dahlgren Quadrangle. A crowd of people came together, reflecting on the shock and horror that rocked the nation in the wake of this tragedy, but finding solace in the support and love of our community.

A similar interfaith prayer service was held last week in memory of those affected by the Las Vegas shooting.

Seek out and engage in these opportunities, to remember those who have lost their lives to senseless tragedies, to commune with your peers in a setting of support and love and to acknowledge the emotional tolls these events take on our communities.

Resilience requires us to carry on in the wake of tragedies — to deny domestic terrorism its intended purpose of exploiting our fears.

Nevertheless, to persevere is not to ignore violence, nor to isolate ourselves from the pain of others. It requires us to reach out and connect to those around us, to engage in our world even when we are shocked and angry at it, to reflect in moments of pain and to steel ourselves with a determination to carry on.

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HOYA HISTORY: Oct. 13, 1972

Professor Convicted for Illegal Phone Calls A Georgetown University professor and two students have been convicted or disciplined in a crackdown on illegal longdistance telephone calls, a spokesman for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company disclosed this week.

The spokesman refused to reveal the identity of the three, however.

The convictions are part of a nationwide campaign by telephone companies to discourage widespread illegal long-distance calls. Students from The George Washington University and Catholic University are also implicated in the crackdown. The C&P spokesman said the calls were made either with a device called a “blue box” or with false

credit card numbers. A blue box electronically intervenes with the billing mechanism of a telephone so there is “no computer record of the telephone calls,” he said. He added that so far this year there have been “four arrests and four convictions” for use of the device.

The Georgetown professor was convicted for use of the device, the spokesman said. Two GWU students and an out-of-town student also were convicted for similar violations.

“All four received first offender sentences,” the spokesman said. “They must spend 12 hours in a courtroom observing how courts work, write an essay about their crime and provide monetary restitution for the illegal calls.”

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If first offenders are not arrested for other crimes during a period of one year after their convictions, the telephone violation will be wiped from their records, the spokesman said.

Three students also were convicted for use of false credit card numbers this year. One of the students was from Georgetown.

Two students were caught using false credit cards but were not charged because they admitted their guilt and agreed to pay for the illegal calls. One was a Georgetown student, and the other was from Catholic University.

“We try to avoid bringing people to trial whenever we can,” the telephone company spokesman said. “There’s no sense in locking people up.”

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Owen Eagan

Embracing the Interfaith Imperative

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ollege applications were stressful. Then came the agonizing wait for those sealed official envelopes — still, that wasn’t the end of the anxiety.

Roommates.

Navigating the Campus Housing Roommate Matching System proved to be a worrisome puzzle all its own. But in a whirlwind of faceless conversations, an auspicious message arrived in my inbox.

The sender seemed polite, authentic and smart. Our living preferences matched well, and we both liked to debate myriad subjects. The conversation moved to potentially rooming together. Still, his responses were hesitant — he seemed to have concerns he was not expressing.

When I gently pressed him, he replied honestly. He was Muslim, and thus had to uphold certain expectations. I was raised as a Roman Catholic in an environment that did not lack diversity, but still this statement was jarring.

The hazy picture of Islam I had shaped did not offset my concern.

In my preconceptions, products of a lack of exposure and understanding, this religion was austere and mysterious. It was one that had inspired people to attack my country and many others’.

A flurry of late-night research helped dissuade my fears, but I still felt some trepidation over the choice. To make matters worse, I was under a time constraint: He awaited my reply.

Then a new line of reasoning struck me. He had proven himself to be honest; he had seemed good-natured from the start. Next, a weightier consideration: For every person proclaiming this faith as a justification for unspeakable violence, there were many more adherents — average people — plainly disgusted or terrified by these acts.

Ultimately, I could let my preconceptions determine my decision, or I could choose in an act of faith.

Looking back, I could not be happier with my choice. I lived with my roommate for my first three years at Georgetown. He remains one of my closest friends.

My involvement with interfaith dialogue was vital to the formation of my worldview. Although my friend and I may have differing beliefs, it is clear to me now that we

share the same God, an idea I might not have realized if not for my experience at Georgetown.

Over the course of many conversations that stretched into the early hours of the morning, my roommate and I taught each other about our faith traditions. By the end of my freshman year, I had learned that Islam disdains the violence that had once filled me with unease and instead preaches peace, charity, love and kindness enacted through a profound, humble submission to a higher power.

With my roommate, I had the privilege to see the joyfulness of celebrating Eid. And with me, he attended an Ash Wednesday Mass in Dahlgren Chapel.

Interfaith expressions like these are a valuable part of the Catholic tradition. On Oct. 28, 1965, Pope Paul VI promulgated the declaration “Nostra Aetate,” beautifully expressing the Church’s relationship with non-Christian religions.

In it, the Church states that each of the world’s faiths seek to answer “the unsolved riddles of the human condition.” She recognizes that even diverse traditions “often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men.” The Church then issued an exhortation — an imperative — to all people of faith, urging them to engage people with other spiritual convictions.

In this spirit, nine Campus Ministry student organizations have come together for Interfaith Week, which, beginning Sunday, Oct. 15, will encourage Georgetown students to expand their awareness and understanding of some of the world’s diverse spiritual traditions.

To combat our own biases that lead us to false conclusions, I hope that every student will take part in this initiative. Doing so will allow us to more deeply embrace Pope Paul VI’s interfaith imperative, enriching our community with new spiritual fulfillment.

Owen Eagan is a senior in the College. He previously served as business editor and a contributing editor at The Hoya. THE ROUND TABLE appears online every other Wednesday as a rotating column by members of the Knights of Columbus.

O’Donovan Hall is forcing students to partake in its harmful practices and is entirely misrepresenting itself as a sustainable establishment.

The Environmental Flaws of New Leo’s

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s THE HOYA’s editorial board noted last week, this summer brought major renovations to O’Donovan Hall.

The establishment is now divided between the lower-level Fresh Food Company, which offers unlimited portions, and the upper-level LEO MKT, a collection of restaurant stations. As students bond over the questionable quality of campus food, we must consider the immensely harmful environmental effects of the recent changes and the simple steps that could be taken to remedy them One of the most notable failures at the redesigned Leo’s is the apparent absence of any clearly marked recycling bins.

While freshmen may have trouble identifying crimes against the planet committed by new Leo’s, returning students will notice the unsustainable changes. Next time you find yourself waiting in an endless line at 5Spice, the “Asian-inspired” concept on the upper level, pass the time by looking for the nearest recycling bin. You will be occupied throughout your entire wait because there are no recycling bins upstairs, save for a few lonely bright blue bins with their identifying labels hidden. Inside them, you will find a mix of plastic and food dumped by students who were

too lazy to search around. Once you actually get your food, you will find that celebrated symbol that your bowl is, in fact, recyclable. But where can you recycle it?

Even if clearly marked recycling stations were present upstairs, there is simply too much plastic to begin with — significantly more than at old Leo’s, where disposable dishes were rarely used. Now, if you order a side of fruit at Bodega, the concept intended to provide on-the-go options, you will receive a small plastic container in addition to your boxed meal.

If you eat there three times a week and always order a side of fruit, you would be throwing out 45 plastic containers in the trash each semester. Plastic does not break down naturally, but if properly recycled it can be reworked into something new.

Otherwise, it will sit in a landfill and release toxins into our water, soil and air.

Signs hanging in upstairs Leo’s tout that “All LEO MKT food packing and cutlery is made from recycled (and recyclable) material.” Fantastic, until you remember that all cutlery and plates used last year were reusable, creating no waste at all.

While recycled material is great, reusable plates and silverware would be better.

Perhaps students could choose between reusable dishes if they plan to eat at Leo’s or a disposable box if they plan to dine out — like every other dining establishment in the world.

The upper level could also implement the system of reusable togo boxes that is used downstairs; this program could include reusable cups and silverware, and could eliminate the wasteful use of plastic straws, which were not used in old Leo’s.

On the university’s sustainability page, University President John J. DeGioia wrote that Georgetown is “committed to engaging in research as well as teaching and operational practices that address [environmental sustainability] and help us minimize our impact on the environment.” By facilitating such environmentally unfriendly dining practices, the school is failing in its commitment to the student body and to the environment.

There are around 7,500 undergraduates at Georgetown, about half of whom are underclassmen living in dorms without kitchens and who are required to buy meal plans. As such, about 3,750 students eat regularly at Leo’s — not counting the upperclassmen who choose to keep meal plans — and are forced by the school to partake in environmentally detrimental

practices.

Leo’s is forcing students to partake in its harmful practices and is entirely misrepresenting itself as a sustainable establishment — Georgetown can no longer justify being bad by being new. We need more recycling bins that are clearly marked. We need to bring back reusable materials upstairs. We need to see less plastic and more composting.

We at Georgetown’s Renewable Energy and Environmental Network are working to spread our message and hopefully improve Leo’s sustainability practices, and we welcome you to join us. Until then, you can try bringing your own reusable containers to the stations upstairs.

You can also submit a comment on Hoya Hospitality, the website of the company that manages Leo’s, to express your concerns.

We have 10 years on this contract — too long for a high-volume dining hall to continue such grossly unsustainable and wasteful practices. It is up to students to hold the university accountable.

VIVIAN COX is a junior in the School of Foreign Service.

AUSTIN HONG is a senior in the College. They are members of GREEN, Georgetown’s undergraduate sustainability network.

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Promote Survivor Resources

Unite to Celebrate Differences

This article discusses sexual assault on campus. Please refer to the end of the article for resources on and off campus.

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ccustomed to Georgetown’s often-uncomfortable relationship with sex, many students’ first reaction upon hearing that MedStar Georgetown University Hospital does not offer rape kits is righteous anger. Many assume that because MedStar Georgetown is a hospital affiliated with a Catholic university, and as such does not offer services like refilling birth control prescriptions, the absence of rape kits reflects religious values even though sexual assault is independent of the consensual act of sex.

In reality, MedStar Georgetown does not offer sexual assault forensic examinations — more commonly known as rape kits — as part of an intentional design for survivor care organized by Washington, D.C. The District centralizes sexual assault survivor care at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, located near Howard University, to provide the best care possible for survivors and minimize the continued trauma that the treatment process can bring on.

The lack of education on this campus regarding sexual assault forensic examination access, not their unavailability at MedStar Georgetown, is the real injustice.

While it is frustrating that the university hospital cannot provide this vital service — especially given the high sexual assault rates on college campuses, and at Georgetown specifically — this policy and the work of the D.C. Forensic Nurse Examiners are parts of a larger effort to center these processes on survivors.

Providing sexual assault forensic examinations requires hospitals to retain highly trained staff, maintain relationships with law enforcement and provide resources to survivors that extend beyond those offered to other patients. As

a result, these programs are wildly expensive.

Realistically, MedStar Georgetown does not have the resources to provide a sexual assault forensic examination program that would do justice to survivors. Thus, it makes sense that D.C. officials have decided to direct all federal funds to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, an institution that can ensure its services are fully compliant with the standards stipulated in the Violence Against Women Act. It is true that steps have been taken to increase access to existing resources. For example, if a survivor wants a sexual assault forensic examination, the Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. can provide free Uber rides to MedStar Washington hospital advocates and continued holistic services for survivors.

Georgetown University Police Department can also drive survivors there if so desired.

Still, the lack of information on campus about access to sexual assault forensic examinations is startling. A search of “rape” on the Georgetown hospital’s website yields no results or information on how to obtain an examination.

No survivor should ever walk to MedStar Georgetown with the intention of receiving a forensic examination and be turned away, especially because of the time-sensitive nature of forensic examinations and the trauma they can provoke.

This information should be common knowledge on campus and the hospital website should lead students looking for these services to the information they need to receive the proper care.

It is not necessarily a problem that students cannot obtain a sexual assault forensic examination at MedStar Georgetown — the reasons that D.C. decided to centralize care for survivors are

entirely understandable. But it is a problem and injustice in itself that the hospital neglects to include this information on its website, the most accessible source of information, or to promote it adequately to students.

A quick addition to the hospital website could easily include information about how survivors can get to Medstar Washington Hospital Center, the services they can access there and the contact information of the Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. Nevertheless, our attempts to get the hospital to add this information have been futile. Since first contacting the hospital about this issue in February, there has still been no change to the website.

This much-needed addition to the hospital website is the first step toward creating a campus where this information is universally known.

Hopefully, with the increased discussion about sexual assault on campus brought about by the campus climate survey and the addition of now-mandatory “Bringing in the Bystander” training — as well as the potential changes to the MedStar Georgetown website and improved dissemination of how survivors can receive the care they deserve — we can create a survivorcentric community where obstacles to resources are minimized and services for survivors are not an afterthought.

If you or anyone you know would like to obtain a sexual assault forensic examination, call the Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. at (844) 443-5732.

On-campus resources include Health Education Services and CAPS, and additional offcampus resources include the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, (202) 333-7273, and the D.C. Forensic Nurse Examiner Washington Hospital Center, (800) 641-4028.

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s a new member of the Georgetown community, I have been spending lots of time exploring the campus, learning about its history and meeting wonderful faculty, staff and students since my arrival on campus in early August.

In particular, I have been taken with the Latin words on the seal of Georgetown — utraque unum, which can be loosely translated as “both are one” or “that which is diverse united as one.” This motto grounds Georgetown’s Jesuit and Catholic mission as we build a community of people dedicated to unity and compassion.

From the very start of Christianity, the Holy Spirit was invoked for its power to bring a diversity of people together.

In the New Testament, the early Christians called upon the Spirit of God to help them cross the borders that separated tribes, races and nations in their desire to claim a deeper unity. This unity is the first gift of God’s Spirit: It does not eliminate the complex assortment of human beings, but rather makes it possible to rejoice in it.

The apostle Paul writes to the early Christians that they are neither Greek nor Roman, Jew nor Gentile, male nor female but all made one in Christ Jesus. We Hoyas can add to that list today — we are neither white nor black, Asian nor Latinx, straight nor gay but all one in our dignity before God. The Spirit always draws out this tension. There is a latent desire in each of us to reduce that which is foreign into simple categories, so that we can justify our differences — well, he’s Muslim, she’s Jewish, we are Republicans, they are Democrats, this professor

is conservative and that one is liberal. However, God’s Spirit elicits an even deeper desire out of us: It is a desire to dissolve distinctions, to embrace that which we are not and to celebrate the similarity of our lives amid our dissimilarity.

Our Catholic and Jesuit heritage helps us celebrate the differences and the complexities in each of us, while maintaining sight of our common humanity.

Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J. For the Christian, the love of God — the willingness of God to become a human being and enter into history — is the supreme act that breaks boundaries and subverts the easy dichotomies of flesh and spirit; human and divine; and pure and impure.

American writer Richard Rodriguez discusses this topic in his memoir, “Brown: The Last Discovery of America.”

This series of essays comments on the “browning of America,” a metaphor that is not necessarily about pigment but that encapsulates the mixing of earthly experience.

As a person of color whose Catholic faith has shaped him, Rodriguez discusses how the color brown represents God’s willingness to mix with human bodies — God’s willingness to be brown. This argument is the great paradox: Not only is God willing to become brown, but God loves the brown; God loves the mix;

and God loves those who go to the frontiers and cross boundaries in search of it.

This unity is the insight of utraque unum, diversity in community — or, as we say here at Georgetown, community in diversity. At every Christian liturgy, at every Shabbat, at every Muslim call to prayer and at every Hindu prayer service, we celebrate the force of a love bringing us together, even amid our unique spiritual journeys.

One of my favorite authors, Graham Greene, whose archives are here at Lauinger Library, has a quote I love from his novel “The Power and the Glory.” To me, it is pertinent to what is asked of us as we try to live out our Jesuit values. In this novel, a broken-down priest is in a dark, crowded prison with drunks, prostitutes and criminals. First offended by such an assortment of people, the priest comes to a spiritual insight as the morning light begins to shine upon their faces.

The priest looks closely at those around him — the corners of their eyes, the shapes of their mouths — and realizes that he is one of them. He sees himself in them, reflecting, “Such a lot of beauty … it was impossible to hate. Hate is just a failure of the imagination.”

Hoyas: Let us not allow our imaginations to fail us this year. Rather, let us enter the mix, into the brown of life, and live deeply in what the Spirit of Georgetown invites us to: utraque unum.

Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J., is the vice president for mission and ministry at Georgetown University. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT appears online every other Thursday.

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Bill Rebeck, professor of neuroscience at Georgetown, doesn’t normally win things — or so he says.

Rebeck is one of three faculty recipients of the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at Georgetown University this year, earning a grant for $10,000 a year for three years to support his research of Alzheimer’s disease and the APOE gene in the university’s Laboratory of Aging and Neurodegeneration.

Rebeck, who has been with the university since 2003, heads the Laboratory of Aging and Neurodegeneration where he leads a group of graduate and undergraduate students researching Alzheimer’s disease.

In an interview with THE HOYA, Rebeck discussed the importance of researching Alzheimer’s, as well as what he foresees for both the use of his grant and the future of Alzheimer’s research.

What does winning this award mean for you?

Well, I’m just happy to have won. I don’t win things.

What it really means, though, is that the university cares about our faculty taking research as seriously as we take teaching. It’s not so important that I was the one who received it, but that the award exists and that people are celebrated in achieving excellence in two very important domains of our jobs.

I know you lead the Laboratory of Aging and Neurodegeneration here at Georgetown, but how did you get involved with this field of study?

When I was graduating with my PhD, I had been studying something very different; I was studying DNA damage and bacteria. I was looking for a post-doctoral degree to go to, and I thought it was a good opportunity to try something new.

I got a Fulbright fellowship and I went to do research in Germany. I looked around for very different topics that I found interesting, and one of the labs I contacted worked on Alzheimer’s disease. I had no particular desire to work on Alzheimer’s disease. It seemed important to me, of course, but not much was known in

1991. It was a big leap because I was changing topics very dramatically.

I started that in 1991 thinking that I would do it for a while, and who knows what the next thing was going to be.

So far, there hasn’t really been much of “next thing.”

Why is it important to care about Alzheimer’s disease?

It’s one of the most horrible things that is happening to our country, in terms of damage to an individual with Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of heartache for friends and family, in terms of expenses for care of individuals, in terms of lost time and wages of the people taking care of them.

Every time I think about what I do, I think that I have to do it.

How has researching Alzheimer’s affected you?

When I first started doing research, I never imagined that I would continue doing it for the rest of my life. I wasn’t sure I would be successful at it; I didn’t know if I would enjoy it, and so I thought I would move on to another stage in my life.

I have, over the years, I have done other things along research and teaching. I earned a master of fine arts in writing, and so I write plays. I think it’s important to try to relate science to a wider audience that is not just people in college.

That being said, that is not anywhere near as important as my commitment to Alzheimer’s disease. Imagine, somebody is going to figure out how to cure or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

Somebody is going to do that, and I hope I can contribute in a small way to that process.

Do the plots of your plays usually relate to science?

All the plays relate to science, one is even about the life of Dr. [Alois] Alzheimer. He actually did this research that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, but at the time it was not perceived as terribly important. That idea continued for decades, before finally it started to become appreciated that it really was a disease of a society that was widespread.

What message do you hope to instill in students and young adults?

I think as somebody who does research in the biomedical sciences it is your responsibility

to tell people, not only about your area of expertise, but to provide your knowledge of medicine of the body to the rest of the world. There are times where you are dealing with people in horrible situations and they don’t know what’s going on and even though it might not be an area that you are expert in, you know more than they know.

Years ago, my grandmother had a blood clot in her intestines that caused a necrosis of cells in her intestines. She was 88 years old and things went badly. My aunt and my sister, who had been there, had been part of the decision that she would have surgery, and were unsure of whether they had made the wrong decision. When I got there, I was at least able to talk to the doctors in a way that allowed all of us to understand what had happened.

I think that it is absolutely necessary for all of our scientists to be able to do that. We know a class of things that many people do not know. It is true of other fields as well. It’s one of the reasons that you are becoming educated. It’s one of the reasons I continued to become educated.

I think it’s our responsibility to spread knowledge and insight.

prevent those things from moving forward to the loss of synapses, the loss of neurons.

But, like as I said there’s going to be more work on preventing the appearance of those lesions in the first place.

So, you think the focus will be towards prevention instead of helping those that are already suffering?

I think so. That saddens me, because of course a lot motivation for doing Alzheimer’s disease is from individuals who have the disease, from the suffering they are going through, the families are going through. I would, of course, be thrilled if we made progress helping their lives. I have a five-yearold, and I would be thrilled

if he never thought about Alzheimer’s disease, So that’s my hope in terms of prevention. I don’t want to give up on those who have the disease now, but I don’t want to give up on my son either.

This interview has been edited and condensed. For the full interview, visit thehoya.com.

How do you plan on using the $10,000 grant you received for your research?

The most important part of doing research is having personnel in the lab to do it.

Some of the money would go towards paying somebody’s salary. Also, it might be nice to reserve a portion of that money to help in my teaching efforts: to buy models of the brain or vasculature, to buy posters for helping explain some of the processes we’re talking about.

What do you think that future of Alzheimer’s research looks like?

I think we look more at the prevention of the disease than we’re currently doing. We are getting at earlier recognition with the pathology we associated with Alzheimer’s diseases. What’s interesting is that you can see evidence of pathology probably 15 years before somebody has cognitive problems. So, I think there will be a lot more research on those individuals who have pathological lesions in their brains, but so far do not have cognitive problems. So, it will be a matter of how will we

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New Southwest Wharf Transit Options Expanded caroline gardner Special to The Hoya

Washington, D.C. residents will soon be able to access the recently renovated area of the Southwest Waterfront by way of expanded transportation options, including a southwest shuttle and a water taxi, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced Thursday.

Increased transportation options will allow residents to access the area’s newest development: the recently opened District Wharf. A mile-long stretch of residential and commercial developments along the southwest side of the Potomac River, the District Wharf includes restaurants, bars, office spaces and housing, as well as a recent addition to the public transport network that traverses the city.

The city is also working to make this area more accessible with both public and private supplements to the current public transit network. A privately operated water taxi currently links the Wharf with Georgetown and Alexandria and will add the National Harbor in Maryland to its route in the coming months.

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and Yellow line stations at L’Enfant Plaza, Metrobus stops, bike share docks and free shuttle buses aim to make traveling to and from Southwest D.C. easier and cheaper, according to the District Wharf’s Transportation guidelines.

“We are proud and eager to celebrate The Wharf’s incredible transformation, so today we are highlighting the exciting new transportation options that will be available to residents and visitors,” Bowser wrote in a Thursday news release. “We know that – particularly during opening week – thousands of people will be visiting The Wharf each day, so we are urging people to learn about the many ways to get to and from The Wharf and to plan ahead.”

This expansion and renovation is consistent with Bowser’s 2015 initiative to use $155 million of foreign investments to create affordable housing and employment opportunities for D.C. residents. The Warf received $100 million of this sum for construction.

The project is responsible for 215 affordable housing units and 1,000 new permanent service jobs, according to an Oct.

10 news release from the mayor’s office.

The Wharf is expected to produce nearly 6,000 permanent jobs and provide $94 million in direct annual tax revenue to the District, with D.C. locals expected to take 51 percent of the jobs. The remaining vacancies will be filled with residents from the broader D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area.

Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner said the development advances the District’s economic growth.

“The development team shared the District’s common goals of making The Wharf a world-class destination as well as an engine of economic opportunity for District residents,” Kenner wrote in an Oct. 12 news release.

Caroline McDonald (SFS ’20), a Maryland native who regularly uses the Metro to go home and see her family, said any expansion of the District’s public transportation network is an asset to the city.

“Driving in D.C. is just impossible, so [the new options] open it up to people from the suburbs as well. People traveling around, people visiting, pretty easy to navigate, unless you get

on the wrong line,” McDonald said. “The more you can expand it, the better, because now we don’t travel around as much as Georgetown students, probably not as much as we should.”

Twenty thousand people are expected to attend the kickoff events over four days celebrating the opening of the Wharf, which will include fireworks, free live music and restaurant openings.

“With the opening of The Wharf, we are breathing new life into the Southwest Waterfront and giving residents and visitors an exciting new place to enjoy local D.C.,” Bowser said in a news release on Oct. 12.

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Solar Panels Set to Be Installed on 6 Buildings SARAH WRIGHT Hoya Staff Writer

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Elizabeth Erra (COL ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) are two of 26 alumni who entered Teach For America this year. Georgetown contributed the second highest number of students to TFA among medium-sized schools.

Teach For America Progam Receives 26 GU Alumni JESUS RODRIGUEZ Hoya Staff Writer

of Foreign Service, Scheetz took courses to develop his passion for education equity and policy through the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity and the Alternative Breaks Program, run out of the Center for Social Justice.

“I think there should be an SFS certificate equivalent,” Scheetz said. “This is the first year of the Educational Transformation Masters program at Georgetown, and so as that becomes established, if some of those courses became available to undergraduates that would be great.”

After being admitted into the teaching corps, students can then rank their regional preferences. To help narrow down the list, TFA provides a spreadsheet that lists each region and its lifestyle markers, such as transportation access, average monthly rent and certification costs.

The document also includes other identity-based considerations, such as support groups for LGBTQ individuals and work eligibility for teachers without documentation who benefit from the discontinued Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Rio Djiwandana (COL ’16), who is a DACA recipient and teaches 8th-grade mathematics and special education classes in New York City’s Bronx borough, said TFA’s robust resource network is unlike any other.

“As a ‘DACAmented’ corps member, TFA provided me with legal assistance, additional financial support and extensive community-building opportunities that would not have been available to me elsewhere,” Djiwandana said.

Nevertheless, in a university where 40 percent of 2016 graduates went into financial services or consulting, choosing the teaching route may seem unusual. There is a negative stereotype that TFA is a fallback for unsuccessful consulting recruits.

Djiwandana, Scheetz and Fisk disagree. The demanding nature of the job, they say, requires commitment and authenticity.

“I’m pretty sure we all had other options, but this was where our passions led us,” Fisk wrote.

“Now a few months in, I can confidently say this is not a job or a lifestyle that you just pursue as a backup plan — you have to really want it.”

fund should be used in the District.

“We are committed with Georgetown to work together to find a direction for that investment,” Laura Recchie said.

Rivera said that following “Laudato Sí,” Pope Francis’ second encyclical in which he addresses climate change and environmental degradation, Georgetown sought to pursue its sustainability goals by creating a living learning laboratory, where students, professors, staff and administrators could engage with green technology on campus as a learning opportunity.

Rivera said the university is working with faculty to create a toolkit to make the process easily replicable for other universities or similar institutions.

“We are trying to streamline the process as we go so that it is easily followed and can be replicated over and over so that we can get more systems up and running,” Rivera said.

With a project of this size, cooperation and patience are the key to success, Laura Recchie said.

Joe Recchie emphasized the importance of the university’s strong relationships with stakeholders such as the Old Georgetown Board, which approves all construction projects due to Georgetown’s status as a historical neighborhood.

“Putting all those pieces together takes some skill and a high level of integration,” Joe Recchie said.

Looking to the future, Rivera said Georgetown hopes to integrate wind, solar and other innovative energy technologies into the main campus as well as its other campus in D.C. “The next step would be to look at what other buildings we can extend this to, not only in our main campus, but also in the Law Center,” Rivera said.

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Georgetown sent the secondmost graduates to work for education nonprofit Teach for America in 2017 among similarly sized universities.

Twenty-six Georgetown graduates joined the TFA teaching corps, a body of students recruited to teach in low-income schools across the country for at least two years.

The university tied for second place among medium-sized schools — between 3,000 and 9,999 undergraduates — with Boston College and neighboring Howard University. Emory University sent the largest cohort: 34 students.

The organization’s mission, according to Georgetown TFA recruitment director Deanna Lockey, is to pair teachers from underprivileged backgrounds with students in low-income K–12 schools.

“We’re looking for people to, first of all and most importantly, believe that all kids can learn and that they want to do whatever it takes to expand opportunities for students in low-income communities,” Lockey said.

Many recently recruited TFA teachers are among the first generation of their family to attend college and were taught by TFA staff when they attended elementary, middle or high school, Lockey said.

Since the organization’s inception in 1989, about 600 students from Georgetown have become TFA corps members, according to Lockey. Ten out of the 26 incoming teachers from Georgetown identified as non-white, while nationally about half of all corps members identify as non-white.

TFA corps members go on to teach anything from U.S. history to science in 53 regions spanning the continental United States and Hawaii. They arrive in environments often marred by high rates of attrition.

Eric Scheetz (SFS ’17), who teaches 10th-grade English, joined a Philadelphia classroom that had gone through two different teachers in one school year.

“They’re immediately hesitant of anyone who comes in the door — they think I’m going to quit,” Scheetz said. “I have incredibly smart kids but oftentimes they either have been told that they don’t know how to work or they find a

lot of creativity drain out of them.”

Chris Fisk (COL ’17), who teaches 9th-grade English and Advanced Placement Human Geography in Miami, said part of what drew him to TFA was the ability to give back to the community where he grew up. “[My Georgetown education] afforded me a deeper understanding of the fact that I not only had the ability to make decisions to better my own life, but also the ability to positively affect the lives of others,” Fisk wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It goes without saying that any opportunity to show another generation of students what that feels like, what that means for their lives, what that means for their families, and what that could mean for others, was certainly worth pursuing.”

Prior to establishing these teacher-student relationships, prospective corps members must complete an extensive recruitment process replete with information sessions, applications and interviews. To help students navigate the process, TFA has designated Lockey as an adviser and mentor for applicants.

“There are so many students who are interested in social impact work, but don’t necessarily know the best place for them in that work,” Lockey said. “I sit down with students one-on-one and help them realize whether or not their leadership opportunities that they have experienced both on campus and off campus are relevant.”

Since Georgetown does not offer an education major, students turn to extracurriculars to showcase their passion for education and social impact, Lockey said.

“They might be involved with New Student Orientation or residence housing or [Georgetown University Student Association] or Innovo Consulting,” Lockey said. “I think there are so many opportunities at Georgetown for students to gain leadership skills and we’re looking for that strong achievement, but it doesn’t have to just be academic or professional.”

The College currently has a minor in Education, Inquiry and Justice, a six-course program that offers classes such as “Theatre, Writing, Community” and “Educating the Whole Child.” Students in other schools cannot pursue the minor, but they can take some of the classes.

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Solar panels are set to be installed on the roofs of six buildings on Georgetown University’s main campus by summer 2018 as part of a campuswide effort to reduce energy costs, promote sustainability and benefit low-income communities in the greater Washington, D.C. area.

The new solar systems on the Edward B. Bunn Intercultural Center, Regents Hall, the Davis Performing Arts Center, Alumni Square, McDonough Gymnasium and O’Donovan Hall, which would produce a combined 1.5 million kilowatt-hours of power each year, were originally set to be completed by fall 2017, but delays in the review and permit processes and weather concerns pushed the start date for construction back to February 2018.

The project, originally announced April 21, differs from another university initiative to provide nearly 50 percent of campus electricity through off-campus solar panels. The Hoya reported Sept.

22 that Georgetown is partnering with Origis Energy USA to build a solar power system off campus by the 2019-20 academic year.

The new solar panels will advance the university’s sustainability goals, according to Vice President of Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey.

“The project creates environmental, social and economic benefits that are win-win for the University, our project partners and our local and global communities,” Morey wrote in an email to The Hoya.

All six buildings will remain open and in use while their roofs are fitted with the panels, including the Intercultural Center, Director of Utilities and Energy Programs Xavier Rivera said.

The ICC’s current solar photovoltaic system was first installed in 1984, and was the longest-running

array of its size on an American college campus before the aging panels were disconnected in 2013. But the panels have remained on the roof of the ICC ever since, posing a challenge for the implementation of the project. The technology, while innovative for its time, now presents unique construction challenges as the panels are no longer producing power but still form part of the building’s roof.

Morey said the updates to the ICC solar panels will be conducted in phases, with the university removing the existing panels and then installing a new roofing system with new solar panels during the spring and summer of 2018.

The project is a collaboration between the university, Root+Branch — a benefits corporation founded by alumna Laura Recchie (GRD ’10) — and Ohio-based Community Renewable Energy, the CEO of which is Recchie’s father, Joe Recchie.

Both corporations aim to increase access to renewable energy for low-income residents, nonprofits and institutions to spur sustainable development in local communities.

“We have this underlying mission to create more winners,” Laura Recchie said.

CRE will install and maintain ownership of the installations.

For the first 20 years, the university will use the solar arrays at no cost, with CRE using energy credits and additional funding from the District to cover operational expenses.

After this initial 20-year period, Georgetown will pay CRE a fixed price for the energy the panels generate, which the company will put into a “community investment fund” to be used for additional local development projects, such as additional PV installations, housing and social services.

The university, CRE and Root+Branch hope to collaborate with the rest of the Georgetown community to decide how and where the community investment

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Women and Gender Studies Department Proposal Advances PROPOSAL, from A1 recent difficulties faced by the program because of its non-department status, including providing resources for women’s and gender studies major students and meeting the demand for lowerlevel introductory courses.

The students also argued they have a significant interest in the creation of a more robust academic space to explore the dynamics of gender and sexuality.

Celenza met Tuesday with Sierra Campbell (COL ’18), who has led the development of the proposal over the past month, to discuss the proposal and next steps.

“In the coming weeks, our team will be meeting with them, reviewing the proposal, and convening faculty to discuss the ways in which we — by which I mean faculty and students together — might go forward,” Celenza wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Campbell said the first meeting between College administrators and team members was largely positive, but finding a source of funding for the prospective department remains an obstacle.

“It was really productive and the dean seemed really

optimistic about making it possible,” Campbell said. “The biggest barrier would be finding the money.”

Students can either major or minor in women’s and gender studies. However, majors who are double majoring in another discipline note the disparity between resources available for full departments compared to non-department programs such as the women’s and gender studies program.

“To show that there is an academic focus on studying feminism, on studying gender, on studying women is a really important step towards institutionally recognizing that that needs to change.”

KORY STUER (COL ’19)

A key issue for the program is the ability to meet student demand for introductory level courses. Many women’s and gender studies courses fulfill Georgetown’s “engaging diversity” requirements, mak-

ing introductory-level classes popular.

However, with limited department resources, it is difficult to meet student demand for the program’s 11 currently offered courses, according to Park, who has been at Georgetown for 14 years.

Students decided to draft the proposal in part after Georgetown University’s Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force called for more academic resources exploring issues of sexual misconduct, Campbell said.

Kory Stuer (COL ’19), one of the students involved in drafting the proposal who is minoring in women’s and gender studies, said the establishment of a department would help address sexism on campus.

“There is still a huge problem of misogyny and sexism on this campus and I think to pretend that away is a gross injustice to the women and femmes on this campus,” Stuer said. “To show that there is an academic focus on studying feminism, on studying gender, on studying women is a really important step towards institutionally recognizing that that needs to change.”

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Georgetown College Dean Christopher Celenza said the administration will consider a proposal from 40 students to make the women and gender studies program a department. with the GUSA Academic Affairs policy coalition to draft the proposal starting Sept. 14.

Sara Clark (COL ’19), chair of the Academic Affairs policy coalition, said the student demand on campus for this program should not be ignored.

“The proposal demonstrates a clear student need for increased course offerings

and faculty positions that could best be satisfied if the program were to become a department,” Clark said.

Within the past few weeks, the team has met with administrators in the Office of the Provost’s Student Advisory Committee and Celenza’s office.

Park said this is not the first

time students and faculty have explored the possibility of a department. However, this effort is the first time a group of students have submitted a formal written proposal.

“I’m absolutely, of course, supporting students’ effort and I am really grateful,” Park said. “It was entirely student-

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School of Foreign Service professor Anthony Arend taught alumna Kirstjen Nielsen (SFS ’94), who has been nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Homeland Security after serving as White House deputy chief of staff since July.

would be the first former employee of the DHS to lead the department since its formation in 2002.

In a Thursday press conference announcing Nielsen’s nomination, President Donald Trump said she has demonstrated wisdom and leadership in her roles at the DHS and the White House.

“During John Kelly’s time at DHS, right by his side was [Nielsen], the chief of staff for the department. He would be the first to tell you that she was critical to his success,” Trump said. “There, she quickly reinforced a sterling reputation as a dedicated leader whose number-one priority is always the safety and security of our country and our citizens, not politics or ideology.”

Anthony Clark Arend, SFS senior associate dean of faculty and graduate affairs, congratulated Nielsen, his former student, on her nomination.

“I am excited to see that my former student Kirstjen Nielsen has been nominated to be Secretary of DHS,” Ar-

end wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “She was a student in my Constitutional Law of United States Foreign Relations class in the spring of 1994. This was obviously before DHS was created — but the class covered a number of subjects that relate to the work that DHS handles today.”

Nielsen is known to associates as a “no-nonsense player and a policy wonk,” though her “regimented style” has frustrated some senior White House officials accustomed to a freewheeling environment, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Nielsen said serving as DHS secretary would be the “highest honor” of her life at the press conference Thursday.

“Since the department’s creation, I witnessed and continue to witness the dedication of these men and women, their professionalism, and their unwavering resolve to protect the nation.” Nielsen said. “I share the President’s profound commitment to the security of our country and the safety of the American people.”

Report Highlights Growing Racial Economic Disparities in DC INEQUALITY, from A1 finding the income necessary to remain in the city, according to the report.

In addition to the recommendations for improving the economic status of black residents of the District, the report recommended ways to limit the physical displacement that is occurring as a result of economic and racial disparities.

The district has been losing black residents since the 1990s, during which D.C. lost 28,000 black residents, many of whom had been living in predominately low-income neighborhoods. These demographic changes linked to gentrification as a result of racial economic disparities by several studies.

The policy report concluded with a sobering takeaway for the city and its government.

“Growing inequalities are endangering the African American community,” the report stated. “More must be done to enhance the employment qualifications of and opportunities for low to moderate income African American residents.”

Jackson, who served as chair of the report and chair of the Commission on African American Affairs, said this issue is important to all members of the D.C. community.

“This is an issue that affects the entire city population,” Jackson said at the report’s presentation at the District government’s headquarters in the John A. Wilson Building Thursday morning. “We must all do more to halt the flow of blacks out of this city, and to make life better for those who can stay.”

D.C. Council Chairman Phil

Mendelson (D-At Large) said that education is one of the major keys to addressing economic and racial inequality.

“The great equalizer in our society is education,” Mendelson said. “The council very much values the importance of public education, but we haven’t figured out how to crack that nut and make that change fast enough,” Mendelson said.

“This is an issue that affects the entire city population. We must all do more to halt the flow of blacks out of this city and to make life better for those who can stay.”

MAURICE JACKSON Associate Professor, History and African American Studies

The report outlines a series of tangible policy actions for the District government to combat the economic and housing trends in D.C. To stimulate economic development for black individuals in the city, the proposal recommends increasing funding for existing workforce development programs, partnering with growing industries and developing more private-public partnerships to create more jobs.

Councilmember Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) said Project Empowerment, a workforce development program, allows residents to go through three weeks of workforce job readiness and then are placed in a subsidized employment program for up to six months.

The apprenticeship pro-

grams recommended by the report also garnered special attention from the councilmembers at the proposal unveiling Thursday.

“What we hear from a lot of our job seekers is that they can’t sit for weeks and weeks in a training program. They need to earn income…and the great thing about apprenticeships is, it’s on the job training while you earn money,” Silverman said.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (I-At Large) said these problems are longstanding. Mendelson said 60 percent of new jobs in D.C. will require training beyond the high school level, but 50 percent of black D.C. residents have no forms of tertiary education.

To combat these changes in housing and living trends, the Georgetown research team made another series of policy recommendations for the local government. The recommendations included investment in multiple levels of accessible housing, the creation of a database for affordable housing, the strengthening of penalties for unfair landlords and increased clarity in use of federal housing funds.

The report noted that the preservation of black housing should be viewed as the prevention of the pricing of “culture and humanity out of the city.”

Using the actions the report recommends, the Georgetown research team hopes that the government will create more low-income housing opportunities in order to support less wealthy individuals before neighborhoods experience an influx of younger and better educated residents.

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Activists Aim to Bring Ward 3 Residents Fight Nude Sculpture to DC Shelter Construction Plan Sarah mendelsohn

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A 45-foot-tall sculpture of a nude woman may become a regular sight at the National Mall beginning in November.

If approved by the National Park Service, the giant figure, known as R-Evolution, would be moved from the artist’s space in San Francisco to Washington, D.C., and installed beside the Washington Monument as part of this year’s Catharsis on the Mall vigil. Since 2015, this annual gathering has featured art exhibits, lectures, discussions, live music and workshops related to social justice.

The sculpture is intended to raise awareness of how women are treated in society and the workplace. The female figure stands with her hands at her sides, her feet spread and her chin up. R-Evolution is a part of artist Marco Cochrane’s series of three sculptures of nude women, titled “The Bliss Project,” which has also been featured at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.

However, the organizers have struggled to secure a permit authorizing the statue’s installation. Negotiations with the NPS are still in progress, according to Robert Haferd, Catharsis on the Mall board member and attorney, in an undated news release.

The NPS approves art exhibitions that are “consistent with the mission” of the national park where they are located, according to the service’s website.

Organizers have also faced logistical and financial challenges in attempting to move R-Evolution across the country.

Moving, installing and insuring the sculpture will cost about $150,000, and though organizers have managed to cover some of the expenses through private donations, they are still trying to raise $90,000 through public donations.

Cochrane said the figure’s position reflects a strong, resolute response to assaults on women’s rights.

“The position that the sculpture is in I think is really perfect as a response to what I experience as a pretty aggressive assault on

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If approved by the National Park Service, R-Evolution would be moved from San Francisco and installed beside the Washington Monument. women’s rights and things that have to do with women,” Cochrane said. “Instead of fighting, she’s just standing there, completely solid.

And I think that says a lot.”

Through the figures, Cochrane intends to portray strong, confident women.

According to Julia Whitelaw, Cochrane’s assistant, the artist wants the viewer to experience an emotional connection with the figure.

Titled “Nurturing the Heart,” this year’s Catharsis on the Mall organizers aim to ease political tensions regarding gender equality, LGBTQ and civil rights, among a range of other social issues that have emerged in recent years, particularly since the 2016 presidential election, Though Catharsis on the Mall will last from Nov. 10 to 13, the organizers hope for R-Evolution to remain standing until March to encourage ongoing reflection on the rights and liberties of women.

Sanam Emami, organizer and spokeswoman for Catharsis on the Mall, said he hoped R-Evolution would promote reflection and dialogue among people from different physical and cultural

backgrounds and characteristics.

“I hope by having R-Evolution on the National Mall for four months, all of our communities are inspired to cultivate art, healing and critical social dialogue among women, and people, of all bodies, ages, races, religions, gender, abilities and sexual orientations,” Emami said in a news release.

Cochrane and Whitelaw both expect R-Evolution’s installation on the nation’s capital to be complicated to achieve, particularly given President Donald Trump’s previous comments on women and the current political climate.

During the 2016 election, a 2005 recording emerged of Trump bragging in vulgar terms about kissing and groping women, saying “when you’re a star, they let you do it.”

“This installation is probably going to be a little different because it’s on the Mall in Washington, D.C., and given the current president and some of the things he said about women, I think it’s going to probably be more politically charged,” Whitelaw said.

Twenty-five residents of Ward 3 are challenging the dismissal of a lawsuit to halt construction of a planned homeless shelter in their ward, a project that has drawn ire from neighbors who claim they were not properly consulted.

The residents and a group called the Neighbors for Responsive Government initially sued Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and the D.C. Council in August 2016 over the Homeless Shelter Replacement Act of 2016, which aimed to open short-term housing units for families across the District, including at a location in Ward 3 that would have 50 apartmentstyle units.

The project is part of an effort to close and replace the homeless shelter currently located at the former D.C. General Hospital. The D.C. General shelter houses up to 270 homeless families and was scrutinized in 2014 when 8-year-old Relisha Rudd went missing from the shelter and was never found.

Bowser pledged in her 2014 mayoral campaign to shut down the shelter.

“The 2nd District location rose to favor in the face of the enormous cost to lease the Wisconsin Avenue shelter site over 15-25 years.”

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Construction on the shelter remains on hold, though another new shelter in Ward 4 broke ground on construction in July.

Local residents filed the lawsuit in August 2016 to halt construction on the shelter, claiming the council “failed to obtain relevant community

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input with respect to the proposed change in the use of the Site as required by law.”

That lawsuit was dismissed in a February decision by the D.C. Court of Appeals, as Judge Jennifer Di Toro ruled that Bowser’s plan had been publicly discussed since its introduction in February, long enough to allow for community input before the plan’s passage by the D.C. Council in May. The plaintiffs filed a petition for review of the dismissal Sept. 15.

Set to begin in November, the shelter’s construction was planned for 3320 Idaho Ave., in the parking lot of the Second District Station of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.

A location at 2619 Wisconsin Ave. was initially slated to be leased as the site of the Ward 3 shelter, but a publicly owned location on Idaho Avenue was chosen instead, following criticism of Bowser’s plan to construct new facilities on private property owned or partially controlled by major donors to her campaign.

Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) expressed her support for the Idaho Avenue location over the Wisconsin Avenue location in April.

“The 2nd District location rose to favor in the face of the enormous cost to lease the Wisconsin Avenue shelter site over 15-25 years,” Cheh wrote in a letter published on her website. “The site is located adjacent to a police station, providing safety to both residents of the shelter and the neighborhood, and it adheres to the recommendations in the comprehensive plan to colocate government services on a single site.”

To prepare for the shelter’s construction in the parking lot of the Idaho Avenue police station, the Ward 3 Advisory Team on Short-Term Family Housing has created a temporary parking plan for police, construction plans for updating the parking garage on the site and a relocation plan for the community garden on site.

Ward 3 is located in the Northwest quadrant of the District and is largely residential, with nearly 39,000 housing units with a median value of $738,600, according to the D.C. Office of Planning 2012 census.

“The site is located adjacent to a police station, providing safety to both residents of the shelter and the neighborhood.”

Mary cheh Councilmember (D-Ward 3)

D.C. has the highest rate of homelessness among cities in the United States, with 124.2 homeless people for every 10,000 residents, according to the 2016 Hunger and Homelessness survey from the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In the same year, a federal estimate showed homeless parents and their children outnumbered homeless single adults.

In 2016, Bowser and the D.C. Council announced that $107 million from the Housing Production Trust Fund would be put toward housing projects for homeless families — including a homeless shelter in each ward of the District — with the goal to close the D.C. General shelter by 2020.

Bowser announced Oct. 2 that $138 million more in investments from the HPTF would support 23 affordable housing projects in D.C. “As our city continues to grow and prosper, my Administration will remain laser-focused on ensuring residents of all backgrounds and income levels have access to safe and affordable places to live in all wards,” Bowser said in a news release.

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DC Reads Celebrates 20 Years of Tutoring, Advocacy GEORGIA PAYNE Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University’s D.C. Reads program will celebrate 20 years of tutoring, mentoring and advocating for education in Washington, D.C.’s most underprivileged school districts Oct. 20.

The university’s Center for Social Justice launched the program in 1997 in response to Congress’s passing of the America Reads Challenge Act, a law intended to improve literacy in elementary schools across the country and engage college students in volunteer and federal work-study programs, that same year. Local chapters on college campuses formed in response.

The Georgetown chapter works with elementary school students in Ward 7 schools who are one month to 2.5 years behind their peers in their literacy skills.

According to the 2010 census, the median annual income in Ward 7 was of $58,068 — almost four times less than the $215,530 of Ward 2, where Georgetown is located.

“Our experience in D.C. is not the typical experience,” D.C. Reads Coordinator Genevieve Pool (SFS ’19) said.

96 percent of Ward 7’s residents are black, a demo-

graphic group disproportionately disadvantaged in education access. A 2014 study by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that school disciplinary policies disproportionately affect black students, as they are three times more likely to be arrested than white students. Black students represent 31 percent of school-related arrests despite being only one-sixth of the public school population.

The study noted that being punished at school resulted in an increased likelihood of future incarceration. Students suspended or expelled from school for a discretionary violation are nearly three times more likely to be in contact with the juvenile justice system in the following year.

D.C. Reads Program Director Sabrina Sifuentes said that helping at-risk students early in their education can prevent them from these hazards.

“Education is the equalizer, and I knew I needed to work in these specific communities in these specific schools.

I really see it is as a privilege that our students allow us to get to know them and help them through this journey,” Sifuentes said.

D.C. Reads tutors’ personalized attention provides a change of pace to Ward 7

students who typically learn in overcrowded and understaffed classrooms.

“Students are paired with a tutor one on one for the entire semester, which is really nice because they get attached and get to see that role model in college,” Pool said.

Georgetown students commit to volunteering twice a week for the program at one of the eight tutoring sites in Ward 7, developing a strong relationship with their tutee.

Many tutors appreciate the bonds they form with their tutees.

“My favorite part was definitely developing a relationship with my mentee because it is easy to go in with a savior complex and just not make any real connections, but the fact that we had the same child to mentor every week allowed me to actually get to know them,” former D.C. Reads Tutor Natalia Campos Vargas (SFS ’19) said.

Throughout its two-decade long existence, the D.C. Reads program has undergone changes. A few years ago, tutors were able to design lesson plans for their tutees as they saw fit. Today, the program has moved to a more structured system which, Sifuentes said, allowed the program to better gauge the tutees’ academic progress.

celebration, which caps off the CSJ’s Education Week, will be held in the Arrupe multipurpose room. The celebration will host community members from each of the eight teaching sites in Ward 7, as well as Georgetown alumni, former tutees and principals of schools affiliated with the

“The biggest success we can have is when we no longer need to work with a student.

As much as that can be painful, letting them go when they are on level allows us to work with other students who need help,” Sifuentes said.

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program.

Georgetown students are welcome to attend the event to learn more about becoming involved with the program.

“It’s a great way of giving back to the D.C. community, which can be easily ignored from inside the front gates,” Campos said.

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The D.C. Reads program, through which Georgetown students tutor elementary school students in reading, is celebrating its 20-year anniversary with community members from its eight teaching sites.

DC Council to Consider Bill Decriminalizing Sex Work KEVIN HAUTIGAN

bia was also a member of the Sex Workers Advocates Coalition that supported the bill.

ACLU of D.C. Executive Director Monica Hopkins-Maxwell said criminalization of sex work exploits the most vulnerable D.C. residents.

“Criminalization has placed vulnerable D.C. residents at greater risk of violence, police harassment, and exposure to exploitation,” Hopkins-Maxwell wrote in a statement on the ACLU of DC website.

“It has led to a cycle of violence, poverty, and incarceration that only creates additional barriers to more traditional employment for those engaging in survival sex work.”

Supporters claim this bill will help sex workers who experience violence resulting from their work, and especially those who are also members of underrepresented populations.

“Research shows that over 80 percent of street-based sex workers experience violence in the course of their work,” Margeson said. “Criminalization of sex work has a greater negative impact on groups already facing discrimination, including communities of color, gay and trans people, people with disabilities, immigrants, and people with criminal convictions.

Margeson said the bill will alleviate some of the factors affecting underrepresented groups.

“This bill is a step in the right direction because it alleviates some of the barriers people face, however, there is still a need for housing, job opportunities and basic needs,” Margeson said.

The bill is also intended to help combat sexual exploitation and will not affect the restrictions on minors involved in sex trade.

“The bill does not change any of our laws regarding coercion or exploitation, which will con-

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University Information Services is preparing to launch a pilot version of the new information portal Georgetown360 for the School of Nursing and Health Studies next month.

New Information Portal Prepares for NHS Pilot EMILY LENG

Special to The Hoya

The Office of the Chief Information Officer presented its forthcoming centralized information portal, Georgetown360, which will be rolled out at the end of the month for the School of Nursing and Health Studies.

The new portal, Hoya360, will integrate all current sources of club and academic information for Georgetown students in one location. A version of the portal has already been implemented for faculty, while a version for alumni will be formally launched with the student portal by the end of the month, according to the platform website.

Currently, Georgetown utilizes a variety of different systems and websites for students to access information, including MyAccess, Blackboard, Canvas, and the Georgetown University website. With the implementation of Hoya360, some of those services may be gradually retired.

Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Judd Nicholson said the idea for a new system arose from two areas: a desire to revamp the alumni relationship network and student-voiced concerns about locating information.

“When you become an alumni, we want to talk to you and have conversations with you that’s representative of your experience at Georgetown, and

we did get a lot of complaints from students about not being able to find things, not knowing who to go to,” Nicholson said. “Those two ideas, those two issues, really converged together.”

Nicholson said the rollout will begin with NHS students because its population is a model of the greater school community.

Nicholson said the larger hopes for this initiative include introducing Hoya360 in the School of Continuing Studies, the Georgetown University Law Center, the Georgetown University Medical Center and the other graduate programs, as well as creating a portal for parents to access important information.

While the idea for Hoya360 emerged about five years ago, it only began to take shape two years ago, with the design process beginning last year. The portal itself is based on Salesforce, a widely-used customer relationship management software.

Many student groups contributed to the project, including the Georgetown University Student Association’s Student Technology Advisory Board and the NHS Academic Council.

Senior Assistant Dean in the NHS Doug Little said the initiative is a community effort.

Both Nicholson and Little emphasized the fluid nature of the platform; after the initial implementation, there will be continual updates and new fea-

tures every few months.

“Part of the beauty of this platform is we’re able to continue to iterate and make it better,” Nicholson said.

In addition to function, the development of Hoya360 also focused on the site’s aesthetic, keeping in mind the desires and expectations of its target audience. Student input was brought in from the beginning and it has helped focus the platform on the user experience and make it unique.

One of the largest challenges throughout this project was the integration of older Georgetown technologies, such as MyAccess into the new portal.

“There were a number of technical challenges, and it’s been a long process, so I think the other challenge I would say is keeping people engaged and excited and informed, and making sure we consider stakeholders’ input,” Nicholson said.

The entire concept of Hoya360 represents a way that Georgetown is adapting and keeping up with the changing technological world and being responsive to student needs, according to Little.

“When you talk to alumni about what defined their time at Georgetown on the hilltop, they use the word home. We really wanted Hoya360 and the overall GU360 project to strengthen that sense of home while they were here for the four years on the hilltop, and then extend it to when they leave the hilltop,” Little said.

A bill to decriminalize sex work in Washington, D.C., and improve public health standards and safety through a “human rights approach” to the industry is awaiting committee review following Councilmember David Grosso’s (I-At Large) introduction of the bill Oct. 5.

The Reducing Criminalization to Improve Community Health & Safety Amendment Act of 2017, introduced by Grosso who partnered with the Sex Workers Advocates Coalition to craft the bill, and cosponsored by Councilmember Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large, laid out clear objectives to counter the stigma associated with sex work.

The proposed bill repeals a number of laws and parts of laws that criminalize adults for exchanging sex for money or other items of value, Grosso said.

“The reason I want to do it, in a nutshell, is I do not think the criminalization of sex workers has worked for the District of Columbia,” Grosso said in an interview with DCist Oct. 5. “Arresting our way out of the problem is not the solution.”

The Sex Workers Advocates Coalition is made up of different organizations including HIPS, a group designated to promote the health of and advocate for those impacted by sexual work or drug use.

Johanna Margeson, legal and advocacy fellow at HIPS, said the group takes a holistic approach to communities where sexual work is prevalent.

“The coalition began in October 2016 and is rooted in a fact-based, harm reduction framework that takes a holistic, intersectional view in its activities and centers marginalized communities,” Margeson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Colum-

tinue to be prohibited,” Grosso wrote in his statement. “Sex workers themselves are often some of the best-positioned people to identify and help people in situations of exploitation, and by removing the criminal sanctions on them, we can improve our efforts on that front.”

However, the bill faces opposition from conservative groups. Washington Times senior correspondent Deborah Simmons cautioned against the legalization of sex work in an editorial published by the Times on Monday.

“There must be sturdy longitudinal evidence that legal prostitution will fix or enhance problems already on the front burner, and be inclusive across the racial and socioeconomic spectrum before councilmembers propose and vote on such a bill,” Simmons said.

Pushback is expected, according to Margeson.

“Some people have expressed their concerns with the bill or have proposed different models,” Margeson said.

“Ideally, we would love for a hearing in the spring so that the bill can go to a vote. A hearing will also allow those who have questions about the bill to ask them.”

Decriminalizing sex work would help sex workers access resources like healthcare and law enforcement when needed, H*yas For Choice CoPresident Annie Mason (COL ’18) said.

Mason said the organization will be introducing more advocacy efforts on behalf of sex workers.

“And it’s something that we’re actually very conscious of, especially this year, and now, with the introduction of this bill, we will be ramping up our advocacy towards sex workers’ rights,” Mason said.

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Asian Development Bank VP Touts Regional Success Will Cassou

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The year-old Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has overcome other multilateral development banks’ failures to adapt to the rise of emerging economies unlike established western financial institutions, AIIB Vice President of Policy and Strategy Joachim von Amsberg said in a Wednesday lecture.

Headquartered in Beijing, the AIIB is a development bank working to expand and build infrastructure in AsianPacific nations.

“It has been increasingly difficult to adjust the governance of existing institutions to that changing weight of economies in the world.”

Joachim von Amsberg Vice President Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Von Amsberg, who formerly served as vice president of development finance at the World Bank, said long-standing multilateral development banks such as the World Bank have failed to reform their governance and structure to reflect the rise of emerging economies.

“It has been increasingly difficult to adjust the governance of existing institutions to that changing weight of economies in the world,” von Amsberg said at the lecture co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, the Georgetown Anti-Poverty Society, and the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program.

Von Amsberg also noted that some Western G-7 countries, which drove the creation of institutions like the World Bank and currently hold large amounts of their shares within

them, are reluctant to give up their position and influence of leadership on these banks.

By contrast, only 25 percent of the AIIB’s shares are held by non-Asian countries. China holds 25 percent and the remaining 50 percent is owned by other Asian states, which make up the rest of the bank’s 80-country membership.

Von Amsberg said that, despite its significant position, China cannot act as a dominant player within the institution.

“Of course it’s very important that [China] is our largest shareholder,” von Amsberg said. “But it’s not dominant, and, in fact, it can always be outvoted by other shareholders, which I think is a very important part of the multinational governance.”

Von Amsberg said this distribution was the result of commitments from the AIIB to ensure true multinational governance and high-quality standards for investing, prompting Asian and European partners to join the bank in 2015 despite U.S. pressure. This downplayed earlier concerns over Chinese President Xi Jinping’s intentions to use the bank to undermine other MDBs’ influence.

“Of course, AIIB can and should be seen as a broader picture of China’s growing role in the world,” von Amsberg said. “China is complementing its bilateral investments, or direct loans, with a multilateral engagement, as most developed nations do.”

Von Amsberg said the bank is able to operate with a fraction of the World Bank’s staff by cooperating with consulting firms, academic institutions, government offices and other MDBs to develop its projects.

AIIB’s billing sheet is about half the size of the World Bank’s, while its 120-member staff is less than one hundredth the size of the World Bank’s.

Von Amsberg noted that the AIIB co-finances many World Bank projects and could not function without reciprocal assistance.

With the need for $93 trillion over the next 15 years

for global infrastructure projects, von Amsberg said the AIIB is another part of the solution to solve the Infrastructure Investment Paradox — the phenomena where supply and demand for investment funds in

the global market do not coincide.

AIIB is attempting to tackle the issue by committing to the creation of sustainable infrastructure projects that connect countries across international borders and to the mobiliza-

tion of capital to meet the demand of emerging markets.

Von Amsberg said banks like his complement others, like the World Bank, in funding sustainable infrastructure projects.

“I’m not saying one model

is better or worse. I’m saying we are consciously designing ourselves to complement the existing institutions rather than replicate them because we think that’s a more important way in which we can contribute,” von Amsberg said.

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Joachim von Amsberg, vice president of policy and strategy for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, said the AIIB has succeeded where other regional development banks failed by adapting to emerging economies.

Mayor Invests $138.5 Million in Housing Program Marina Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C.’s Housing Production Trust Fund invested $138.5 million in affordable housing in the 2017 fiscal year, supporting more than 1,900 housing units across the city.

This year, initiatives funded by the HPTF include acquiring and remodeling affordable housing units in the District, fueled by a $32 million increase in funding from the 2016 fiscal year. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said housing issues remain a priority for her administration during the 2018 fiscal year.

“As our city continues to grow and prosper, my Administration will remain laser-focused on ensuring residents of all backgrounds and income levels have access to safe and affordable places to live in all eight wards,” Bowser wrote in an Oct. 2 news

release.

Since 2015, the District has spent more than $276 million on HPTF financing, preserving more than 3,300 units that house approximately 7,200 residents.

In 2017, some of the largest affordable housing projects included the South Capitol Multifamily Building, which received $25 million for 78 affordable units; Takoma Place in Ward 4, which received $13.71 million to purchase a 105-unit building; and Hilltop Apartments in Ward 7, which received $12.92 million to preserve 18 affordable housing units.

Wards 1, 2 and 6 each received funding for one affordable housing project, while Ward 4 received funding for eight projects, Ward 5 received funding for two, Ward 7 received funding for four and 8 received funding for six.

D.C. Councilmember Jack

Evans (D-Ward 2) said the District City Council is committed to funding the HPTF and increasing affordable housing in the District.

“The District is really making enormous efforts to create as much affordable housing as we can, and that’s the highest amount we’ve spent in a long time, so we’re very supportive of that idea,” Evans said.

Evans added that the Council’s plan to address affordable housing moving forward is to continue allotting funds annually to create and explore options for housing all District residents.

“It’s more of the same,” Evans said. “The mayor’s going to put forth $100 million, which she’s committed to doing every year, and to fund and partner with various nonprofits and others to create and rehabilitate affordable housing,” Evans said.

The funding represents a step

toward addressing homelessness in the District.

In January, the city’s homelessness rate was the highest in the nation among states, with 124 residents out of every 10,000 experiencing homelessness, according to the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Claire Zippel, a policy analyst at the District Fiscal Policy Institute, said Bowser’s commitment to dedicating $100 million annually to affordable housing issues also demonstrates a commitment to solving the homelessness crisis in the District.

“The issues of homelessness and lack of affordable housing are integrally linked in the District and in cities across the country. We know that the best solution to homelessness is housing, and also that people who have stable, affordable housing are able to do better, be healthier and experience better well-being

throughout all aspects of their lives,” Zippel said in an interview with The Hoya. “Being homeless and lacking affordable housing are linked to a lot of bad outcomes, especially for kids.”

Zippel also said the District has more work to do in terms of addressing housing that is not only more affordable in comparison to other District prices, but also affordable for middle and lower income District residents.

In addition to the Fund, the District must utilize other subsidy sources, such as rental assistance, in order to maximize its impact, Zippel said.

“Our biggest challenge in the deployment of the city’s affordable housing resources is the ability to serve the lowest income residents who are most likely to become homeless. If someone is paying 80 percent of

their income for rent, even just a small unexpected expense like losing hours at work can put someone behind on their rent and at risk for eviction and homelessness,” Zippel said.

Evans also said the Council should continue to take a multi-faceted approach to homelessness by focusing on housing as well as funding for mental health and substance abuse issues.

“People are homeless for lots of reasons. They’re homeless because they’re down on their luck. They’re homeless because of substance abuse problems and alcohol problems, mental health problems,” Evans said.

“Even if you do have housing for people to live in, sometimes they don’t want to live in housing. There’s a lot of issues that surround homelessness that go way beyond whether or not a unit is affordable.”

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The office of Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) invested $138.5 million in affordable housing programs in the 2017 fiscal year. The initiatives, funded by the Housing Production Trust Fund, intends to ensure that the city’s residents experiencing homelessness have safe and affordable places to live in all eight wards.

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n 1912, a young man named Omar Bradley played on the same football team as another young man named Dwight Eisenhower at the U.S. Military Academy. Both were superb athletes, and both went on to become generals and American war heroes in World War II. In 1915, Bradley and Eisenhower’s class at West Point graduated 59 cadets who went on to become generals. It was a distinguished group.

It was Eisenhower, however, who set himself apart from the rest with his superb leadership ability.

Eisenhower’s leadership was not built on rousing speeches, like Generals MacArthur and Patton's were.

Instead, one of the many traits that made him so special was his organizational ability. He used a variety of mental tools to manage the vast military capabilities of the U.S., but a particularly notable one was his ability to distinguish between the urgent and the important.

Successful sports franchises must distinguish between the urgent and the important and devote enough time and resources to the latter.

The urgent are those problems that are presented and require immediate solutions and attention.

The important, by contrast, are those that require long-term planning to ensure sustained excellence.

They take much longer to come to fruition, and Eisenhower was known for spending large portions of his time dealing with the important. Of course, you can’t neglect the urgent, but in your solutions

to the urgent, you have to make sure you are not deviating from the goals drawn up in the important.

Sports franchises that cannot make this distinction are not successful.

The Brooklyn Nets are a perfect example of the latter. Perhaps the most infamous trade in the history of the NBA was the 2013 CelticsNets trade. The Nets traded Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Kris Joseph, Keith Bogans and three first-round picks for Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Terry and D.J. White.

Now we might be tempted to say that this trade was just bad judgment on the Nets’ part. They gave up the farm for three former greats in their late 30s and White, who had never been any good.

They also took on a lot of salary costs to paying these aging stars.

But what caused the Nets to make such an abysmal decision?

The Nets failed to stick to what was important and got wrapped up in the urgency of the “win now” mentality. Brooklyn already had Joe Johnson, Deron Williams and Brook Lopez. By picking up Garnett, Pierce and Terry, the Nets figured they had the pieces to make a championship run that year. Instead, the team failed to develop chemistry and defensive intensity – Deron Williams suddenly played poorly, and everything spiraled downward. If the Nets had taken into account the difference between the urgent and the important, the reigning worst team in the NBA might not be so awful.

The St. Louis Cardinals, on the other hand, are the epitome of an organization that identified the important and tended to it. The baseball club has been on a sustained streak of excellence. Since 2000, the Cardinals have only finished the season below .500 once, in 2007.

For a while, the wins that St. Louis racked up seemed attributable to the stardom of Chris

Carpenter and Albert Pujols. But when Carpenter passed his prime and Pujols left for Anaheim in 2012, the Cardinals continued to perform, reaching the National League Championship Series the very next year.

The Cardinals continue their success because they have consistently developed the talent of young players, and then called them up during the middle of the season. Often, the young call ups and acquisitions struggle at first, but by August they begin to really click. Paul DeJong, for example, was called up in the middle of the 2017 season as an extra infielder but played himself into an indispensable role for the club during its chase for the postseason.

As the season winds down and teams begin to buckle under the grueling length of summer, the Cardinals typically make a late playoff push. They usually ride this momentum into the playoffs and do quite well. All of this is possible for St. Louis because it has identified a strategy to consistently produce high-quality players who aren’t necessarily stars. This has allowed them to churn out wins.

Eisenhower’s distinction between urgent and important is defined as a difference between longterm and short-term approaches.

This definition works, but it does not tell the whole story.

The urgent and the important parallel a reactive and proactive approaches. A change in circumstances does not justify drastic changes in the important. When we apply this to the Brooklyn Nets and the St. Louis Cardinals, it is clear that the Cardinals have acted proactively, while the Nets have acted reactively. The results speak for themselves.

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hen my friend and I watched a rather lopsided NFL contest between the Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday, we made two observations.

First, most kickoffs seemed to result in touchbacks, deadball scenarios where the kick clears the end zone or the returner decides to take a knee in the end zone.

Second, it seemed as if kickoff returners rarely reached the 25-yard-line, the spot where they’d get the ball anyway as a result of a touchback, during a return.

I looked up the play-by-play record after the game ended.

Sure enough, there were nine kickoffs in the game, and only three were returned. Of those three, not one advanced the ball past the receiving team’s 25-yard line.

Truth be told, the kickoff is approaching extinction in today’s NFL, and rightfully so.

Historically, the kickoff has certainly played an integral role in the sport of American football.

In its most basic function of starting the game — as well as reintroducing live play after a team scores — the kickoff presents an ubiquitous, timeless image in sports.

Resembling a battle, 22 players sprint toward each other while the pigskin soars through the air and thou-

sands of flashbulbs —or cellphone cameras these days — go off throughout the stadium.

Unfortunately, kickoffs cause many injuries. Few NFL fans have forgotten the gruesome 2007 injury of Buffalo Bills special teams player Kevin Everett.

While defending a kickoff, Everett sprinted full-speed into Denver Broncos’ return man Domenik Hixon, made helmetto-helmet contact, and immediately collapsed.

The game had to be paused for 20 minutes while Everett — completely immobilized — was carried off the field and

The NFL's stance on the kickoff injury plague is more than understandable, both in its concern for the safety of its players and for the NFL brand. rushed to the hospital to be treated for a severe spinal injury. On a respirator for days during several surgeries, Everett was almost paralyzed, although he thankfully regained the ability to walk months later.

We recall these distinct infamous injuries, but the numbers alone are just as staggering.

As a result, the NFL has taken steps to try and limit kickoff injuries by limiting kickoff returns, which brings us back to my original obser-

vation. By moving the kickoff spot up from the 30-yard line to the 35-yard line in 2011, the league made it easier for kickers to kick the ball out of the opponent’s end zone for a touchback.

By granting the receiving team the ball at its 25-yard line instead of the 20-yard line for touchbacks, the league incentivized returners into instructing their returners to settle for touchbacks more often.

These changes have produced the patterns seen in that Arizona-Philadelphia contest, where exciting kickoff returns rarely occur.

The NFL’s stance on the kickoff injury plague is more than understandable, both in its concern for the safety of its players and for the NFL brand — films like “Concussion” have documented the NFL’s safety risks and may dissuade parents from allowing their kids to put on a helmet.

Today’s kickoffs are, in aggregate, a waste of time, and the NFL should seriously consider getting rid of them all together.

The slim likelihood of a dynamic kickoff return for a touchdown does not outweigh either the injury risk or the time allocation associated with kickoffs.

Since the large majority of drives after a score and starts after a half begin with a kickoff anyway, the offense should just automatically have 1stand-10 at their own 25-yard line. That way, players can stay safer, and fans can get to the real action much sooner.

Ben Goodman is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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GU Continues Strong Performances Among Nation’s Best Sean Haggerty Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown sailing team captured multiple victories this weekend as they fought against the top crews in the country in both the Carl Van Duyne MAISA Singles in Kings Point, N.Y. and the Jen Harris Navy Fall Women’s Regatta in Annapolis, Md. Georgetown faced 1230mph gusts in the tough Kings Point conditions. Senior Clay Broussard had a stellar performance in the MAISA singles championship, punching himself a ticket to National Championships by placing 3rd among a field of 18 crews.

Broussard finished with a score of 82 points finishing just 5 points behind 2nd place Carson Pearce of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and 17 points behind Gary Prieto of the U.S. Naval Academy.

“Clay sailed his best ever regatta in college and this makes me very excited and proud for him heading towards nationals,” Coach Mike

Callahan (SFS ’97) said.

The MAISA singles also featured senior Jack Marshall, who just missed the national qualification by finishing with a score of 87 points, one point behind Navy.

“I felt certain Jack was the best kid at the regatta but a few mental errors and mistakes kept him out by just one point. It was close right at the finish line but just not enough. We are excited for him in the next couple of races,” Callahan said.

The No. 6 ranked women's team travelled this weekend to Annapolis to race against teams such as College of Charleston, Brown, Yale, Stanford and Cornell. The Hoyas were led by senior Lola Bushnell, freshman Carly Broussard, and sophomore Haddon Hughes as they all qualified for the national tournament.

The Hoyas entered the regatta as the 6th ranked team in hopes of climbing the national rankings. However, the Hoyas maintained this ranking in a consistent showing.

Tough starts hurt the Hoya crews, but strong finishes pro-

pelled them to a 6th place overall score of 353 points, just 11 behind Boston University.

Broussard and Bushnell performed well in the C division.

“I was very happy with both Carly Broussard and Lola Bushnell as they finished 3rd in the C division,” Callahan said.

Each crew started slow but had one of the day’s best performances in race five to exhibit significant improvement throughout the regatta.

“In each of our races in the A and B division, we started out slow but turned it on in race 5 and 6,” Callahan said. “We can tell we are close and have the opportunity to win. Our best ever finish at the Navy Women’s Regatta is 2nd so we will continue to work to improve that. These girls can compete.”

The Hoyas head back to Annapolis this weekend as they face the top teams in the nation for the Navy Fall Coed Intersectional.

After falling to the No. 3 seed amongst co-ed teams, the Hoyas look to reclaim the number 1one seed against Charleston, Navy and Yale.

The regatta is set to begin Saturday in Annapolis.

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The Georgetown sailing team continued its dominant season with strong performances against some of the top schools in the country this weekend, including Cornell and Stanford. After losing the No. 1 ranking, the team faces Charleston, Navy and Yale in the Navy Fall Coed Intersectional race this weekend.

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Although the Hoyas gave up two goals to the Blue Devils in the previous game, they will look to continue their strong defensive performances in Big East play.

The Hoyas are tied for first in the Big East in goals allowed, having only conceded three times in four games.

“Chemistry is a big part [of our defense]. We’ve had some changing pieces in the back line the entire season. So, the communication is really key.”

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teams always find a way to win,” junior defender Peter Schropp said.

One of the keys to success for the Hoyas’ attack has been freshman forward Derek Dodson.

Dodson has been impressive in the last two games, scoring a goal in the Duke and Butler (7-4, 3-1 Big East) games.

Dodson is currently second on the team in both goals and points with five and eleven, respectively.

He is also tied for first in the Big East in goals, having scored three during conference play.

“Guys have stepped up [following Achara’s injury] like Derek Dodson, who’s done unbelievable as a freshman” junior defender Brendan McDonough said.

The game against the Wildcats is set to begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13 at Talen Energy Stadium.

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quarter as it does in the first.

“It wasn’t scheme or anything that messed us up [against Princeton]; it was more of our effort that let them get the lead. If we can really string together four quarters of hard football, I feel like we can do really well in this game [against Lehigh],” Tate said.

In terms of playing well on the defensive side of the ball, Sgarlata said that a solid performance from the offense will make the defense’s job much easier.

“Chemistry is a big part [of our defense]. We’ve had some changing pieces in the back line and it hasn’t been the same back line the entire season. So, the communication is really key, making sure everyone is on the same page all at the same time. And I think it’s also about our confidence. We know that no team should put more than a goal by us,” Marcinkowksi said.

With sophomore forward Achara picking up a knock in the game against Butler and missing the following game against Duke, Georgetown must be prepared for life without their star forward in the upcoming games. Achara leads the team with six goals and 13 points on the season.

“I think these next few games without Achara we have to get RICHARD SCHOFIELD FOR THE HOYA, CAROLINE PAPPAS FOR THE HOYA in the trenches and know it’s goSophomore forward Achara, left, leads the team with six goals with one assist in only seven games played this ing to be a battle every game and I think this team can do it. Good season. Junior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski, top, has 28 saves in 11 games this season, allowing nine goals.

“If we can really string together four quarters of hard football, I feel like we can do really well in this game.”

KHRISTIAN TATE Sophomore Defensive Lineman

“We have to make sure that we possess the ball,” Sgarlata said. “It’s basically just taking each series and accomplishing the goal of trying to keep the defense off the field by being efficient on first and second down [on offense].”

Georgetown’s offense will have an easier time with Lehigh’s defense than it did with stingier defenses such as Columbia’s. Lehigh has allowed 46.7 points per game

this season, and its struggling rush defense has allowed opponents to rack up more than 276 yards per game on the ground.

“We’d like to get out and establish the run game early, take some pressure off of our quarterback and be able to control the clock.”

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“We’d like to get out and establish the run game early, take some pressure off of our quarterback and be able to control the clock,” Sgarlata said.

Tate said the team has been channeling its frustrations from past weeks into practicing harder to make an impression in its first conference game of the season.

“Since the first loss, we’ve been going as hard as we can. Especially with this game being that it’s a conference game, it’s more of a statement for us. We really need to show the rest of the league that we’re not playing games. We mean business,” Tate said.

The Hoyas will travel to Lehigh for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pa. on Saturday. Streaming will be available on the Ivy League Network and ESPN Radio of the Lehigh Valley.

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Despite the draw, the Hoyas have yet to lose a Big East game this season. Georgetown’s record positions it at the top of the conference, and it leads the Big East in goals and assists per game, averaging 2.57 and 2.21, respectively.

Senior midfielder Rachel Corboz leads both the conference and the nation in assists with nine, and junior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman leads the conference in shutouts with 11.

The Hoyas will be tested on Sunday by the Providence Friars (8-6, 3-2-0 Big East), who have won its past two games.

Last week, the Friars defeated the Marquette Golden Eagles (9-5-1, 2-3-0 Big East) thanks

to a goal from freshman midfielder Amber Birchwell.

As Georgetown closes out its regular season, it faces rivals Butler (10-1-3, 3-0-2 Big East) — which leads the nation with a 0.134 goals-against average — and Xavier (7-4-4, 3-0-2 Big East), both of which are vying for the second slot in the current Big East conference standings.

“We’ve got four games left — two home two on the road against the four teams closest to us in the standings in Marquette, Xavier, Providence and Butler,” Nolan said. “They are the four teams that are jockeying for one of the top two spots in the conference tournament, and so those games become very big.”

Nolan noted the importance

of these upcoming four matchups, not only for a Big East tournament bid, but also for an atlarge NCAA Tournament bid.

“They are the teams that have the highest RPI in our conference, and they are games we need to get results in, in the hopes of securing an at large NCAA tournament bid,” Nolan said.

Coming off a Big East Tournament Championship and an NCAA Final Four appearance in the 2016-17 campaign, the Hoyas are looking to close out the season strong and make another post-season run for the College Cup. Georgetown takes on Providence on Sunday. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. with the game broadcasting live on the Big East Network.

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to play for the men’s team have changed from being good at soccer to being American-born, having played in the MLS and, most importantly, not being a dual citizen.

Squad selection became a severe issue under Arena’s predecessor, Jürgen Klinsmann, who took to playing GermanAmerican players because they were actually talented at soccer. Landon Donovan, Abby Wambach and even Tim Howard all came out slamming this policy, claiming that only Americans born in the United States should play for the U.S. national team.

It is a comically ridiculous concept that completely ignores what it means to be an American, and one can only hope that the entire U.S. Soccer Federation is now hanging its head in shame for relying on underdeveloped, utterly talentless players.

It seems that wonder kid and Pennsylvania native Christian Pulisic was only on the team because he is by far the best American player ever; the team featured at least 15 players who were homegrown American players, many of whom were far less talented than players left off. But, of course, since these high-quality players play in Germany or England, they are not the MLS stars over whom Arena so desperately fawns.

Indeed, Pulisic could have chosen to play for Croatia due to his heritage, and at one point actually applied to do so, before deciding to play for his home

country. Furthermore, it must be stressed that Pulisic is so skilled precisely because he left America to develop his talent. It is a strategy that paid off, he is now starting for Borussia Dortmund, one of the best and most prestigious German teams. One can only wonder now if he regrets ever pulling on the Stars and Stripes.

Rather than fill the squad with competency and talent, Arena and the organization fielded a team that was a step slow and a tier below the talent needed to qualify. This last point stings all the more because the United States failed to qualify in a group that featured Honduras, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago — the former two eventually finished above the United States, with Panama qualifying and Honduras landing a playoff spot.

And that is perhaps the most salient point in all this: Blame Arena, blame the U.S. soccer board and blame the institution, but in the end, this loss — this 2-1 defecation on American soccer — is almost wholly on the players themselves.

They played with complacency, without desire and without a single shred of common sense. Pusilic’s second-half goal was a solo shot that seemed to give a glimmer of hope that belied the following minutes, all fraught with empty chances and a growing sense of entitlement.

The USMNT started to play like they deserved to win, not like they wanted to. Jozy Altidore tried to float reckless, fancy passes into the

box. Clint Dempsey tried to beat defenders off the dribble despite not having beaten a defender since Bush was president. And, of course, Michael Bradley did everything wrong that someone could possibly do on a soccer pitch, as he has continued to do since being selected by his father for the team 11 years ago.

The United States will have to accept this humiliation and make sweeping changes.

All of this criticism also glosses over one of the most embarrassing moments in U.S. soccer history: Omar Gonzalez’s own goal. In a half-hearted attempt to clear the ball, Gonzalez used his shin and deflected it into the back of America’s net. The deflection was so perfectly tragic that Howard had zero chance to recover and save it.

And much like Howard, the United States has almost zero chance to recover and save its image. We hope that the world media drags the United States through the dirt, as former USMNT player Taylor Twellman has done , and galvanizes change.

But at the same time, change is hardly expected. American entitlement plagues the entire soccer program. Just because the United States has the world’s best basketball program, best

swimming team, best gymnastics team and a highly competitive baseball team does not mean that we are automatically excellent at soccer.

We are good at these sports because of the amount of money we pour into developing them. Look at baseball, where we watch 12-year-olds on ESPN whack a ball around, all thanks to the competitiveness of Little League.

The American soccer system is a joke. A team from the wealthiest and third most populous country in the world is not strong enough to even qualify for the World Cup. It has made us the laughingstock of the world. We are finally paying the price for our arrogance on the world stage.

And, yes, it is rather ironic that not being one of the 32 best teams in the world has spurred us, two Americans — including one who is naturalized, like USMNT forward Dom Dwyer, who was not selected to play despite coming from England — to write 1,000 words of rage.

However, given the program’s history of repeatedly qualifying, losing to the 99th-ranked team in the world, in a game where even a draw would have been enough, is inexcusable. And now the United States will have to accept this absolute humiliation and make sweeping changes if it ever hopes to escape being a soccer punchline.

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Undefeated in its last nine games, the No. 15 Georgetown women’s soccer team is heading to Providence, R.I., for its next Big East matchup Sunday on the back of a 5-0 triumph over Villanova last weekend.

After a four-goal showing from redshirt sophomore forward Amanda Carolan helped lift the Hoyas (10-2-2, 4-0-1 Big East) over the Wildcats (68-0, 2-3-0 Big East), the Blue and Gray hopes to keep this momentum going into the second half of the conference play.

“Villanova tried to play us a little bit more head to head.

That meant that while they

were possibly a little bit more dangerous against us, it also meant there was a lot more space for us to be dangerous against them,” Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan said.

Prior to the Villanova win, Georgetown surrendered its first goal in eight games in a 1-1 home draw against Creighton (2-9-3, 0-3-2 Big East). Despite dominating the possession battle, the Hoyas struggled to score against the patient Creighton defense.

“Teams are sitting back in against us and just defending in numbers, more in the hope of not losing than actually trying to win the game, and I think that’s what we saw against Creighton,” Nolan said.

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Redshirt sophomore forward Amanda Carolan, left, leads the team with eight goals. Senior midfielder Rachel Corboz leads with nine assists.

The Georgetown football team will look to end its fourgame losing streak in its first conference contest against Lehigh this weekend.

The Hoyas (1-4) are coming off a poor defensive performance last week against the Princeton Tigers, in which the Hoyas allowed more than 450 yards for the second consecutive game.

The Mountain Hawks’ (15, 1-0 Patriot League) offense presents another threat to the Hoyas’ struggling defense. Led by junior quarterback Brad Mayes, who has thrown for almost 350 yards per game, the Mountain Hawks have scored 33 points per game this season, more than double the Hoyas’ average.

Georgetown Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said one of the biggest keys to stopping Mayes and the aerial threat is pressuring him early.

“We haven’t been able to get too much pressure with four [rushers], so [we need to] make sure we can make him move out of the pocket,” Sgarlata said.

Along with Mayes, junior running back Dominick Bragalone helps command the offense for Lehigh. Last week, he tallied 186 yards on the ground and a touchdown, good for an Honorable Mention as Patriot League Player of the Week.

Hoya sophomore defensive lineman Khristian Tate, who forced two fumbles last week against Princeton and returned one of the recovered fumbles to the end zone for a touchdown, said that limiting Bragalone was a mental battle.

“We still play our schemes.

With Lehigh, though, they get their rushing offense

from their [offensive] line.

We just got to stay strong, stay in our gap, play the scheme, play what we’re supposed to do,” Tate said.

In last week’s 50-30 loss against Princeton (3-1, 0-1 Ivy League), the Georgetown de-

fense surrendered 457 yards for an average of 6.8 yards per play.

“We gave up way too many big plays, which is something that is not characteristic for us on defense,” Sgarlata said.

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Senior defensive back Jake Johnson has registered four pass deflections and two tackles in three games played this season. The defense surrendered 45.5 points per game in the last two games.

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Senior midfielder and team captain Christopher Lema, left, has two goals and one assist in 11 games played this season.

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After a 3-0 win over the No. 18 Butler Bulldogs and a 2-1 loss to the No. 11 Duke Blue Devils, the No. 9 Georgetown Hoyas (8-2-1, 3-1 Big East) will travel to Chester, Pa., to face the Villanova Wildcats on Friday Oct. 13.

Despite the quick turnaround, the Hoyas will seek a quick recovery from their close loss in their last game to the Blue Devils (10-2-1, 3-2 Atlantic Coast). Friday’s game against Villanova will be Georgetown’s third game in

under a week.

“Friday feels like a long way away but it’s only three days, so we’ll have to be ready for that. Recovery is going to be the biggest thing,” Georgetown Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

This matchup against Villanova (6-6, 2-2 Big East) is Georgetown’s fifth conference game of the season.

With the Hoyas already atop the Big East table, a win over the Wildcats would mark four conference wins and would help them cement their place as the team to beat in the Big East.

Playing Villanova on the road will provide a unique challenge for Georgetown, seeing that the Wildcats have amassed an impressive 5-1 record at home. However, this game will not be played at Villanova’s usual home stadium. It will instead be played at Talen Energy Stadium, the home of the local Major League Soccer team, the Philadelphia Union.

Despite the close loss to Duke on Columbus Day, Georgetown’s approach to the rest of the season remains unchanged.

“The mindset has been the

same from the very start, just win as many games as we can,” junior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski said.

Villanova is led by a trio of midfielders, senior midfielders Lucas Hodges and Andreas Bartosinski and freshman midfielder Theo Quartey.

Hodges leads the team with five goals and 13 points on the year while Quartey is tied for sixth in the Big East with two goals during conference play.

Rounding out the midfield, Bartosinski has three goals and one assist on the year.

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he U.S. men’s national team is an embarrassment. Failing to qualify for the World Cup is one thing; failing to do so because the team failed to draw against Trinidad and Tobago — a country that has a population roughly the same as the state of Idaho — is a complete farce.

Not only does the United States miss out on its first World Cup in 32 years, but the men’s team has single-handedly set back the sport in the United States by decades. After two straight cup exits in the round of 16 and a continental tournament championship, the USMNT was bringing buzz to soccer in the States.

The 2010 and 2014 World Cups brought newfound excitement to the sport. People started to follow Major League Soccer, as it featured many of the team’s stars. Furthermore, the league began to attract major European stars at the end of their careers —

David Beckham, Steven Gerrard and Kaka, to name a few.

Soccer in the United States truly began to feel like it was moving toward a more internationally minded product.

Not only does the United States miss out on its first World Cup in 32 years, but the men’s team has set back the sport in the United States by decades.

Yet, this feeling was nothing but a fleeting fallacy. Head Coach Bruce Arena is a former USMNT coach and an MLS fanboy — but only so far as the United States’ players go. It seems that the qualifications See CRAIGE, A11