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EDITORIAL Due to its mission of intolerance, Love Saxa should not be recognized by the university.

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FROM DOHA TO DC Five students from SFS-Q studying in D.C. are adapting to life on the Hilltop.

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DeGioia, Local University Leaders Urge Congress to Pass Dream Act Sarah Mendelsohn Special to The Hoya

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University President John J. DeGioia advocated for a permanent replacement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at a panel Monday.

Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia called on Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2017, a bill that would protect students without documentation from being deported and provide them a path to citizenship, with the leaders of three other local higher education institutions in a panel Monday.

The presidents said it was imperative to protect their institutions’ students without documentation with a permanent legislative replacement for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program, which is slated to end in March, protects about 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the country by their parents as children from deportation.

DeGioia spoke alongside George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera, Montgomery College President DeRionne Pollard and Northern Virginia Community College President Scott Ralls.

DeGioia said the goal of the presidents’ effort is to “encourage Congress to pass bipartisan legislation as soon as possible that includes all of the protections provided under DACA.” He said it is important that the legislative solution allows young people without documentation “a path to citizenship so that they may continue to live, work and serve without fear or threat of deportation.”

One of the legislative replacements, the Dream Act of 2017, is currently being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill would grant permanent resident status to current DACA recipients and to immigrants See DREAMERS, A6

Students Call to Defund Love Saxa

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A video of a rat falling to the ground from a shelf at Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli was widely circulated among students on social media this week.

Uptick in Rodent Sightings Rattles Campus Amid Pest Control Efforts Quinn Coleman Hoya Staff Writer

Complaints of rodents to Washington, D.C.’s 311 city services helpline saw a 65 percent surge during the 2016 fiscal year to 3,200 complaints filed by D.C. residents from 2,300 in 2015, as students report an increase in rodent sightings at Georgetown.

Despite improvements in pest control in the central D.C area, the Georgetown neighborhood continues to face rodent issues.

Orkin, a national pest extermination company, said overall the District is improving at addressing

rat infestations compared to other cities. D.C. now ranks fifth in most rat-infested cities out of fifty cities.

In 2016, the District was listed as the third-worst city in the Unitd States for rat problems, behind Chicago and New York.

Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey said Georgetown has improved its response to rodents on campus, with fewer service calls for pest control than last year.

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STANDING WITH SURVIVORS

Request cites club’s intolerance toward LGBTQ community Isabelle Groenewegen Hoya Staff Writer

Students opposed to Love Saxa plan to present a petition to the Student Activities Commission on Monday, demanding the advisory board strip the group of its funding and no longer grant it access to campus facility benefits on grounds that it holds intolerant and hateful beliefs.

Love Saxa, a student group that advocates for marriage between a man and a woman, returned as an active student group this year, after spending a year in restoration, the process by which a group recovers its access to benefits.

Jasmin Ouseph (SFS ’19) submitted a formal notice to Assistant Dean for Student Engagement Erika Cohen Derr on Sept. 25, arguing Love Saxa’s definition of marriage and relationships violates the Division of Student Affairs’ Student Organization Standards, which disavows groups that foster hatred or intolerance.

The standards state: “Groups will not be eligible for access to benefits if their purpose or activities … foster hatred or intolerance of others because of their race, nationality, gender, religion, or sexual preferences.”

GU Pride President Chad Gasman (COL ’20) and David Friedman (COL ’20), president of Georgetown University Queer People of Color, joined Ouseph in her complaint.

According to Love Saxa’s constitution, the group promotes marriage as a “monogamous and permanent union between a man and a woman” and opposes hookup culture and pornography.

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Love Saxa receives $250 allocated through SAC. The advisory board oversees over 130 student groups and allocates $330,000 each year from the university’s $1 million Student Activities Fee. SAC Chair Ricardo Mondolfi (SFS ’19) said SAC has a range of sanctions available.

“We’re calling on the university to ... not allow hateful groups on campus that foster an unwelcome and hateful environment for queer students.”

CHAD GASMAN (COL ’20) President, GU Pride

“I have no idea what the commission is going to decide but there is a full range of options available from nothing to suspension of access to benefits,” Mondolfi said.

Gasman said Love Saxa’s emphasis on the primacy of heterosexual marriage denies the validity of queer relationships.

“When they deny certain individuals who are queer access to this ideal standard of a relationship, they immediately say that all queer relationships are not as valid as heterosexual relationships,” Gasman said. “They also specifically call homosexuality and any non-heterosexual view a distorted view of human sexu-

ality which is directly homophobic.”

Love Saxa President Amelia Irvine (COL ’19) said Love Saxa is committed to Georgetown’s mission and Catholic teaching.

“We have never advocated for violence toward any individual or group, not have we ever targeted any individual or group,” Irvine wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Gasman said the request to defund Love Saxa returned following a viewpoint in The Hoya written by Irvine (“Confessions of a College Virgin,” The Hoya, Sept. 8, 2017, A3). Love Saxa has had a tenacious relationship with queer student groups on campus since protests in 2013 led by then-GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15). Love Saxa took a year hiatus in spring 2016 after members did not submit a budget. “‘Confessions of a College Virgin’ seemed to be a good article about the problems of hookup culture and the idea of abstinence in college, which I don’t think is objectionable at all,” Gasman said. “It’s fine if you want to remain abstinent in college, but at the same time she decided to use that article as a platform to espouse her homophobic ideology, which wasn’t relevant at all to the idea.”

In the opinion piece, Irvine defended Love Saxa’s exclusionary definition of marriage.

“Marriage is a conjugal union on every level — emotional, spiritual, physical and mental — directed toward caring for biological children,” Irvine wrote. “To us, marriage is

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A vigil in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence took place outside the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday night.

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NEWS

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SPORTS

We For She Georgetown installed free feminine hygiene receptacles in restrooms across campus over the past year.

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Truth in Retreat Modern-day threats to objective truth are, unfortunately, not a new phenomenon.

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Hoyas Topple Terps The Georgetown men’s soccer team defeated No. 3 Maryland 1-0 in a DMV rivalry game.

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Georgetown is investing $120 million to uprade Wi-Fi infrastructure in all 66 campus buildings.

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The rates of incarceration in the United States are appalling and unacceptable.

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GU coed sailing reclaimed the No. 1 national ranking this weekend after another dominant performance.

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EDITORIALS

Defund Intolerance Love Saxa does not deserve the benefit of university recognition. As a group whose mission advocates against equal rights for the LGBTQ community, Love Saxa fosters intolerance. As such, the club is antithetical to what a university club should be, and it should be ineligible for any university benefits.

Love Saxa’s self-described mission is the promotion of healthy relationships and sexual integrity. Its core tenets include opposition to pornography and hookup culture, as well as “the primacy of marriage … as a monogamous and permanent union between a man and a woman,” as stated in its constitution.

As a club officially recognized by the Student Activities Commission and thus Georgetown University, Love Saxa receives university benefits, most notably in the form of funding. Love Saxa receives $250 of SAC’s $330,000 annual budget, in addition to the other benefits that university recognition bestows.

In recent weeks, Jasmin Ouseph (SFS ’19) and GU Pride President Chad Gasman (COL ’20) have raised formal concerns about Love Saxa, arguing that its mission is intolerant and thus in violation of the university’s Student Organization Standards.

These standards state “groups will not be eligible for access to benefits if their purpose or activities ... foster hatred or intolerance of others because of their race, nationality, gender, religion or sexual preference.”

Marriage rights are vital to the LGBTQ community not only to enshrine equal rights, but also because of the tangible legal and financial benefits marriage allows in the United States, including tax benefits.

Love Saxa’s advocacy of denying individuals’ rights on the basis of their sexual orientations is inherently intolerant. By advocating for unequal rights in its constitution, Love Saxa established its mission in violation of the university’s Student Organization Standards.

A SAC hearing scheduled for Monday, Oct. 23, will determine if Love Saxa has violated these standards and, if so, what sanctions the group might face. SAC can impose sanctions ranging from temporary or permanent loss of privileges to potential fines.

Love Saxa’s constitution also identifies it as “a space [for students] to discuss their experiences of the harmful effects of a distorted view of human sexuality and the human person.” By characterizing the LGBTQ experience as “a distorted view of human sexuality and

the human person,” Love Saxa has codified a mission that is fundamentally intolerant and hateful.

Moreover, Love Saxa has also publicized its opposition to the right to marriage for members of the LGBTQ community through its actions. Love Saxa has previously brought to campus speakers like Ryan Anderson, a Heritage Foundation fellow and vehement opponent of same-sex marriage.

By actively advocating a limited definition of marriage that would concretely take rights away from the LGBTQ community, Love Saxa differentiates itself from other Catholic organizations on campus. Though these other groups may agree with Love Saxa’s definition of marriage, actively and vigorously promoting this definition — one that is directly intolerant of the LGBTQ community — is not a primary focus of their missions, as it appears to be for Love Saxa.

Though Georgetown is a Catholic institution that respects the church’s view of marriage, its student groups nevertheless have a responsibility to care for and protect the entire student body.

The university has historically shown extensive tolerance — nothing proves this more than the university’s creation of the LGBTQ Resource Center, the first of its kind at a Jesuit university in the United States.

If we can acknowledge that this center is integral to supporting the LGBTQ community on campus, we can also recognize the importance of protecting this community from those who oppose LGBTQ rights.

This issue is not one of censoring free speech: If Love Saxa is defunded, the group will have the same rights as other unrecognized student groups, including the ability to fundraise, table in free speech zones such as Red Square and use public resources.

Continuing to provide funding and the other benefits that come with university recognition to a group that advocates dismantling rights for other students based on their sexual orientation is entirely contrary to the notion of caring for each and every student, but above all it is counter to the guidelines of the organization that houses the intolerant group.

The Student Organization Standards clearly state that student groups that “foster hatred or intolerance” are not eligible to receive the benefits of university recognition. If SAC seeks to uphold these standards, it must vote to defund Love Saxa.

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Down Goes Davis — The Jefferson Davis Elementary School in Mississippi, which has a majority black population, is being renamed as the Barack Obama Elementary School.

Wedding in the North — Pop star Joe Jonas and “Game of Thrones” actress Sophie Turner announced their engagement Sunday.

Tweet Love, Not Hate — Twitter is set to implement a new set of rules that address “nonconsensual nudity” and hate content in response to the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement.

Negative Canadian Coverage — Quebec’s provincial legislature has barred people who wear face coverings from receiving public services or working in government jobs, a discrimination issue for Muslims.

Hidden Figures — This week, LEGO released a first look of its “Women of NASA” set. However, NASA mathematician and “Hidden Figures” heroine Katherine Johnson is notably missing from this final version, despite being included in the original set conception.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Elinor Walker

Refocus Admissions on Merit As admissions season gets underway, nearly 20,000 hopeful students will vie for a spot in the Georgetown University Class of 2022. Last year, a mere 15.4 percent of the 21,465 applicants were accepted.

In this admissions cycle, Georgetown should evaluate applicants on their merit alone by ceasing the practice of race-based affirmative action in its admissions process. This practice not only discriminates against particular demographics of students, specifically against fully qualified Asian students, but also perpetuates racist attitudes toward Asians.

This editorial board believes that all students deserve a fair chance to be admitted to competitive universities based only on their merit as applicants.

Affirmative action in university admissions was first implemented in the 1960s to redress the significant disadvantages that minority students often faced as a result of centuries of starkly discriminatory policies. Nevertheless, lifting up some minority groups by disadvantaging others does not achieve the idea of racial justice that this policy set out to accomplish.

In August, it was reported that the Department of Justice would begin investigating affirmative action policies at universities. It is widely believed this investigation will focus on a lawsuit against Harvard University that alleges discrimination against Asian-Americans under Harvard’s affirmative action policies.

The topic of affirmative action has also been extensively debated at the Supreme Court level. Most recently, the 2016 Fisher v. University of Texas case held that the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race-based affirmative action as part of a holistic assessment was acceptable as long as it supported educational diversity.

But empirical data demonstrates this discrimination against Asian-American students. A study conducted by Princeton University shows that applicants of comparable qualifications who identify as Asian must score 140 points higher on the SAT than white applicants to have the same chance of admission to private colleges, as The New York Times reported.

Proponents of affirmative action argue that this disparity is a result of universities’ desire to maintain holistic and diverse classes, which requires consideration of more than just academic ability.

However, the blanket discrimination against Asian-/ American students in the admissions process ignores the enormous diversity within this label. This diversity

undermines the argument that affirmative action is intended to foster greater diversity in universities.

Looking past the label of “Asian-American,” it becomes evident that there are historically disadvantaged populations in the group itself. Thirty percent of all Americans over the age of 25 have a bachelor’s degree, according to the Pew Research Center. While 72 percent of Indian-Americans have a bachelor’s degree or a higher degree, the numbers are anemic for Laotian-Americans, at 16 percent, and BhutaneseAmericans, at 9 percent, the center found.

Moreover, as The New Yorker explains, the diverse class argument would only be plausible if AsianAmerican applicants overall were significantly less likely than other applicants to have the particular, often abstract, nonacademic qualities that universities look for, such as leadership and a willingness to take initiative. This notion only serves to perpetuate the racist myth of the “model minority,” which uniformly depicts all Asian-American students as academically achieving individuals who are stunted in other areas.

In addition, a comparison of Asian-American enrollment at universities before and after they ceased affirmative action policies indicates that the policy disproportionately hurt this group of students, as is clear from the work of David Colburn, a professor and former provost at the University of Florida.

Colburn’s work found that at selective public universities that ended race-based affirmative action, such as the University of Florida and the University of California, Berkeley, the proportion of Asian Americans increased dramatically after the policy’s termination.

For example, the proportion of Asian American freshmen at Berkeley rose to from 37.3 percent in 1995 to 46.6 percent in 2005. California barred affirmative action in university admissions processes in 1996.

As is empirically evident, affirmative action discriminates against Asian-Americans. The system of college admissions masks itself as a meritocracy but in practice is suppressing a historically marginalized minority group in the name of racial justice.

Those who champion affirmative action in the name of racial justice fail to recognize that discrimination against one minority group to elevate other groups is not an acceptable means to an end; as such, race-based affirmative action must end.

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HOYA HISTORY: Oct. 24, 1986

Students Debate Space Race With Soviet Team The National Debate Team of the Soviet Union argued the affirmative side of “United States-Soviet Cooperation in Outer Space: An Alternative to the Arms Race,” against Georgetown University’s Philodemic Society in a debate Wednesday, Oct. 15 in Gaston Hall.

Eddie Lynch (COL ’89), Michael Mazarr (COL ’87) and Stuart Rabin (COL ’88) represented the Philodemic Society; Eugene Boblkov of Kharkov, Maria Mamonova of Moscow and Olga Sirnova of Leningrad represented their respective state universities for the Soviets.

This marks the third international debate at Georgetown since 1982, when the Society debated Oxford University on the topic of British rule in Northern Ireland.

Three years later, Georgetown debated a Japanese team on the topic of Japanese-American trade.

In his introductory remarks, David Cheshier, the director of the Philodemic Society, pointed

out that the purpose of these events was to “keep peace and enhance better relations between countries.” The debates have been designed to broaden the scope of international education, to show other viewpoints, to facilitate the dissemination of information and ideas in educational systems and to reinforce the importance of dialogue in international understanding.

The format of the debate consisted of six 10-minute “constructives,” or positions, for each side.

The Soviet team initiated the dialogue, and the Georgetown group attacked its position. The constructives were followed by a 20-minute exchange of questions between teams. A member of each team made a concluding statement of five minutes.

The Soviet debaters’ arguments were based on that country’s opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s stand in favor of the Strategic De-

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Georgetown argued that cooperation between the countries was unnecessary in space, since neither had the technological expertise required for such an undertaking. The team cited as evidence the disasters of the Soviets’ Chernobyl nuclear plant and the United States’ Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Cooperation would be more effective on this planet in, for example, solving the problem of world hunger, according to Georgetown’s debaters. Rabin, in summarizing, quoted then Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, in a speech at Glassboro, N.J., in 1964: “There is nothing immoral with defense, but only with offense.”

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THE RADICAL CENTER

Tanner Larkin

Evading Orwellian Echoes

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n 1943, George Orwell wrote that he feared “the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.”

The preceding decades saw mass disinformation campaigns through the extensive use of propaganda, near-omniscient government surveillance, seemingly endless warfare, hostility toward minorities and totalitarianism on both the right and the left. Liberal democracy and the very concept of objective truth appeared discredited. It was a bleak era, and one that feels more and more familiar.

Orwell, however, upheld the sanctity of objective reality, even when it meant standing up against his own political party. We must all learn to do the same.

From the White House’s “alternative facts” to Facebook’s “fake news,” objective truth seems to be fading from the world. Some have outrightly denied its existence, including the Pomona College students who penned an open letter this spring declaring that “the idea that there is a single truth–‘the Truth’–is a construct of the EuroWest.” Was anyone surprised when Oxford Dictionaries chose “posttruth” as its 2016 Word of the Year?

Orwell recognized that to be post-truth is to be post-liberty. In the words of Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell’s “1984,” “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” If the government can make people see five fingers when there are really four, or millions of illegal voters when there are really none, it can get away with anything.

Orwell was exceptional because “instead of shaping facts to fit his opinions, he was willing to let facts change his opinions,” biographer Thomas Ricks wrote. This attitude made Orwell a renegade in his own political circle. As a staunch democratic socialist, he frequently criticized capitalism, imperialism and fascism. Yet, he also vocally opposed Soviet totalitarianism at a time when much of the English left was in collective denial about the consequences of communism.

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Churchill warned the right of the dangers of Nazi Germany.

Orwell and Churchill represented two very different political philosophies. Yet, they fought for the same thing. They cherished democracy and individual freedom, putting principles before their parties. Neither made many friends with their heresy, but both ended up making history. They were the radical center at its best.

Echoes of Orwell’s and Churchill’s stubborn independence appear in today’s “Never Trump” Republicans. This small but outspoken group includes writers like David Frum and Max Boot and a few politicians, including Sens. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). Whatever you think of their political principles, at least they have remained true to these ideals while others in the party kowtow to a president who disdains much of what conservatism is supposed to be about.

Democrats have not yet been tested in the same way as Republicans. Still, there are rumblings of a so-called “Tea Party of the left” determined to yank the Democratic party from the center-left to the fringe. Members of this group take their inspiration from the movement that arguably paved the way for President Donald Trump.

Whether or not the Democrats will resist an extremist takeover may be one of the most vital political questions of the coming years.

Truth did not fade out of the world in Orwell’s lifetime. Instead, largely due to Churchill, Orwell and others like them, the West reasserted its principles of democratic liberalism and established a relatively peaceful world order.

Since the events of last year, that order has been crumbling. I am hardly the only one to notice the echoes of the 1930s today; sales of “1984” shot up to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list in January.

We have the benefit of being able to learn from the past. If we do not heed the lessons of history, we risk repeating its mistakes.

Tanner Larkin is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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If I support the Jewish people’s right to exist freely and independently in our homeland, how can I deny this same destiny, one that I hold as an inalienable right, to Catalans?

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support Catalan self-determination — self-determination, not independence.

The distinction here is negligible in practice but essential in theory. I believe that Catalans, citizens of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain, deserve the right to determine their own future, and most importantly, to decide whether that future rests in or outside Spain.

On Oct. 1, I found myself watching in horror an ocean away as Catalans were physically assaulted by the Spanish Civil Guard while trying to vote in an independence referendum that had been deemed illegal by the Spanish Central government.

On Oct. 1, Catalans voted in a landslide to leave Spain and become an independent state. Of the more than 2.2 million Catalans who voted, nearly 90 percent backed independence, according to the BBC. The country, the European Union and the United Nations cannot ignore the cries of Catalonia any longer.

I was horrified, but not surprised. Spain’s history of oppression in Catalonia extends back more than 300 years; unfortunately, after centuries of political and cultural suppression, Catalans are accustomed to far worse than injuries at the hands of a militarized police force sent from Madrid.

My belief in the importance of a people’s self-determination is a part of my identity as a Jewish man and a Zionist.

The empathy I hold for the Catalan people is in many ways selfish, partly a byproduct of my appreciation for the Catalan language and culture but above all a manifestation of my Zionism.

If I support the Jewish people’s right to exist freely and independently in our homeland, how can I deny this same destiny, one that I hold as an inalienable right, to Catalans?

I am not Catalan, nor am I Spanish. My opinion on self-determination may be valid, but my views on independence in this case are at best irrelevant, if not entirely uncalled for. I am still unsure how I personally would have voted in the recently held independence referendum, and yet that decision is inconsequential.

I am speaking out in strong support of Catalonia’s right to build the future it chooses. I have no right to judge what that future should look like.

I recognize that the Catalan people, time and time again, have advocated for independence. They have expressed their longing for a Catalan Republic through polls and peaceful protests. Their resolve to make their voices heard, despite the threat of violence by

a state that violates their rights with rubber bullets, batons and tear gas, is admirable. Catalans are proud Europeans in an age of Euroskepticism, multilinguals in a time of closed-mindedness and fierce supporters of liberal social values when they are being bombarded around the world by authoritarianism.

Both Catalans and Jews have unduly suffered for centuries at the hands of powers that have censored, persecuted and oppressed them.

I am distraught to witness the suffering of innocent people.

Catalans seek independence for myriad reasons, ranging from the economic justifications — as Catalonia pays more in taxes to Madrid than any other Spanish region — to the stark cultural differences between the region and the rest of Spain. No reason is unwarranted.

No suffering is acceptable. No voice should be silenced.

My personal investment in Catalonia comes in part from my friendships with Catalans, of course, but it comes more prominently from an empathetic sense of similar history and shared destiny.

Both Catalans and Jews have unduly suffered for centuries at the hands of powers that have censored, persecuted and oppressed them.

Both have been contradictorily forced to assimilate while being vilified for assimilating too well.

Both have been accused of being too successful, having too much power and controlling the economy, all the while being treated as second-class citizens — as was the case for Jews throughout not only medieval history, but also during the events preceding World War II and in countless other incidents.

Both have been made to part from their ancestral tongue, abandon their heritage and doubt the legitimacy of their dream to live freely in their homeland.

Today, Israel exists as a testament to the Jewish people’s triumph over this system of oppression. I hope that one day Catalans are also able to experience this freedom on a path they have chosen for themselves.

ANDREW BOAS is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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A Voice for the Incarcerated

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he United States is the incarceration superpower of the world. There were nearly 2.3 million people incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails as of 2015, a number that dwarfs that of any other country, according to The Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy center.

The U.S. rate of imprisonment has increased nearly 500 percent over the past 40 years to 2.3 million from just over half a milion, as the project notes. Furthermore, the United States sends people to prison with sentences far longer than most other western nations, according to the Justice Policy Institute — a nonprofit organization that advocates for justice reform — despite nearly half of all people imprisoned in this country being convicted of nonviolent crimes.

Of the many issues that plague American society, this country’s incarceration rate and prisoner treatment is the one that has gone on for too long, affects too many people and has left the largest blight on our recent history.

The Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative, with its commitment to educating the student body and the public about the gross injustices of the American criminal justice system, is attempting to change this. The American criminal justice system is incredibly racialized: The United States incarcerates far more men and women of color than it does white men and women, according to The Sentencing Project. The demographic group with the highest likelihood of incarceration is black men, who have a one in three probability of going to prison at some point in their lives.

The numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. As the American Civil Liberty Union notes, prisoners often face horrific conditions, live in filth, lack access

to adequate medical or mental health care and are subjected to abuse. Upon release, formerly incarcerated citizens are subject to discrimination when seeking employment, stripped of many of their rights — including, often, their right to vote — and are left with a lack of opportunity that leads to recidivism.

Because they are seen as lesser and because there are so few advocates for them, the plight of incarcerated Americans has been ignored.

Americans have allowed this gross violation of human rights to persist in our country because it affects the most vulnerable members of society — those who have no voice and whom no lobby, politician or powerful corporation cares about. Because they are seen as lesser and because there are so few advocates for them, the plight of incarcerated Americans has been ignored.

I am one of those people who was supposed to ignore all of this. I come from a white, middle-class town in northeast Ohio.

I have never been to prison, nor have any members of my family.

When the opioid epidemic hit my community, when classmates began to disappear from the hallways and when mugshots of my neighbors showed up in the daily paper, I did not ask questions.

It was not until I came to Georgetown and got involved in the Prisons and Justice Initiative — in addition to taking “Prisons and Punishment,” a life-changing class taught by the initiative’s director Marc

Howard — that I realized the depth of the injustice that incarcerated and formerly incarcerated prisoners face.

As a research assistant for the Prisons and Justice Initiative, I have been able to work with an initiative dedicated to confronting these injustices.

Through events and programs like the Georgetown-Jessup Debate Program, which teaches competitive debate skills to incarcerated students at the Jessup Correctional Institution, and PJI Pals, a mentorship program that pairs Georgetown students with children whose parents are incarcerated, the initiative seeks to start conversations about criminal justice issues and to contribute positively to those in our community affected by the criminal justice system.

This year, the initiative invited Heather Ann Thompson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy,” to speak about her book and the impact that the 1971 riots at the Attica Correctional Facility have had on building the punitive justice system we have today. We are looking forward to a year full of programming that informs, challenges and inspires Georgetown audiences.

This country’s treatment of its prisoners is the largest problem facing our society today. The initiative hopes to honor incarcerated Americans and their families by telling their stories, educating the public about this deeply flawed system and sparking conversations that will provoke change.

We cannot keep treating the millions of Americans affected by the criminal justice system as if their lives are meaningless. We cannot continue to leave them without a voice.

MATTIE HAAG is a senior in the College.

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aint Ignatius of Loyola often ended his letters to Jesuits going on missions with the expression ite, inflammate omnia — “go, set the world on fire.”

The connections students make at Georgetown are what sustain this flame throughout their journeys, and the faculty, deans and other mentors on campus are integral in these engagements. Moreover, with the introduction of a new technology, Hoya360, we hope to deepen and broaden these connections so that they survive long after Hoyas leave the Hilltop.

Each fall, new students arrive hungry to acquire knowledge and experiences to help them learn and grow. Each spring, students depart the Hilltop armed with new knowledge, skills and insights to enter our broader world and make it a better place. There is plenty of fire on both ends of the journey.

It is energizing as an academic dean to thrive off the hopes and dreams of new students who arrive each fall, and it is deeply fulfilling to see students walk across the stage each spring having been changed by the faculty who taught them, the peers who challenged them and the members of our community who mentored them.

This transformational change in our students does not happen by accident. Our faculty constantly and unyieldingly pursue knowledge while also working tirelessly to hone the craft of teaching through a delicate balance of challenge and support.

The same is true of academic deans and other campus mentors. It takes dedication and skill to know when to push students to do more and challenge them to be better, and to understand when to intervene with students to help them slow down. Saint Ignatius’ fire burns brightly at either

end of this transformational journey. The values of the order he founded guide all of us through the middle.

Our engagement with one another throughout the journey is deeply personal. Students enter into the profound search to find their unique calling and seek out how to best use their individual talents. Faculty and mentors, meanwhile, craft unique pathways, connecting with students through their own experiences to help move them from where they are to where they want to go. It is not that each Georgetown class has a singular journey from start to finish on the Hilltop — they have thousands of customized journeys, one for each member of the class.

Douglas Little When we ask our alumni, several years removed from our Hilltop, to reflect upon their journeys here and what Georgetown means to them, the most common response we hear is “home.”

While home can conjure many emotions and have a plethora of meanings, our alumni tell us that, for them, it is the feeling of being intimately known, cared for and loved during a time of profound growth and change. The connections they formed on their Hilltop home shape them for the rest of their lives.

The faculty, staff and caretakers of our university are always trying to blaze new trails and build a better home for the current and future generations of Hoyas. We

create new courses, service opportunities and leadership experiences and even physically alter the landscape of the Hilltop.

Throughout all of this change, a deep connection with others remains the root of what makes each student’s journey special.

Later this semester, a new one-stop portal will launch for students — Hoya360. This site is our community’s vision of an expanded home. Though it is a new technology, at its core it is a tool for deepening our connections at Georgetown.

Using Hoya360, students will be able to communicate their passions and interests to their deans and mentors, who will then be able to better match them with meaningful opportunities. Students will eventually be able to search for and connect with other faculty and peers who share similar research interests or service passions.

The new portal will integrate a myriad of different important topics and information sources into one site: Academic and wellness resources, and more, will be found in one easy-toaccess place. Perhaps best of all, Hoya360 will travel with students as they leave the Hilltop and transition to alumni life.

Keep an eye on gu360.georgetown.edu for more information, and watch for the link to your portal after it launches. We are excited about what we have built and for you to have the tools to connect with your community more deeply and meaningfully.

These connections are what fuel the Georgetown fire — we hope Hoya360 helps us all to burn a bit brighter.

Douglas Little is the senior assistant dean and director of academic affairs in the School of Nursing and Health Studies.

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Late-night sessions in Lauinger Library, exploring the monuments and adjusting to unfamiliar weather patterns are new experiences not only for many first-year and transfer students, but also for five School of Foreign Service in Qatar students studying at Georgetown’s Washington, D.C. campus this semester.

The five students showcase the diverse student body on SFS-Q’s campus. They hail from India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Syria and Massachusetts. Massachusetts native Katharine Danilowicz (SFSQ ’19) has lived in Panama, Bangladesh and Pakistan due to her father’s diplomatic career. It is her first time in the United States since fourth grade.

Danilowicz said she wanted to learn more about life on the Hilltop after hearing about it from her family.

“My grandfather, father and brother all went to Georgetown, so I very much felt like I had to get some of the Hilltop experiences they always talked about,” she said. “What I’ve enjoyed the most is just having the D.C. experience.

Finally getting jokes about Lau, complaining about Leo’s, eating sandwiches at Wisey’s and getting to check out interesting places in D.C. with experiences we wouldn’t get in Doha,” Danilowicz said.

For Ritica Ramesh (SFS-Q ’19), who was raised in Qatar, the resources provided for her major of study determined her choice to study on the main campus.

“I’m pursuing a certificate in American Studies, and my major focuses on American diplomacy, and I figured it would be a great experience to study in D.C,” she said. “My personal interests lie in criminal justice, and there are a lot of avenues and classes available in D.C. to pursue that interest.”

A ROCKY TRANSITION Established 12 years ago, SFS-Q is located in Doha’s University City, an area of concentrated higher education centers including branches of universities such as Texas A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Carnegie Mellon University,

western University.

Ten students from Doha are currently on campus this semester, according to SFS Assistant Dean Lisa Gordinier.

Every semester, Gordinier is tasked with facilitating the transition for students from Doha. The summer session always sees the most students visiting from Qatar’s campus, with approximately 30 students, Gordinier said.

The transfer students attend information sessions at the beginning of their semesters on the main campus, which explain university services such as Counseling and Psychiatric Services and the Academic Resource Center.

All SFS-Q exchange students are invited to take part in New Student Orientation and the international pre-orientation program.

Danilowicz said the university’s resources eased the transition, though the weather has required an adjustment, as have the relatively spartan dorms.

“The weather has definitely shocked me the most. It’s already starting to get way too cold for me and it is only October,” Danilowicz said. “Also, they definitely spoil us with the dorms back in Doha. Our dorms are compared to hotels and we never have a roommate. So this was the first time I’ve had a roommate.

She’s great, and it’s been a great experience, but it definitely is new.”

DIFFERENT CAMPUSES, DIFFERENT CULTURES Though academic life is comparable on both campuses, the D.C. campus offers more outlets for socializing and meeting new people, Hunain Ali (SFS-Q ’19) said.

“Campus life at main campus is much better. It is way more active and lively than GU-Q,” Ali said. “Most of the students at main campus live in dorms, so it makes sense as to why it is more active.

Academically, I would say it is pretty much the same.”

Class sizes and relationships with professors set the two campuses apart, according to Ramesh.

“In Qatar, the classes are smaller and you have a much closer relationship with your professors. You eat lunch with them, you go to events with them, you spend a lot of time

become your friends, too,” she said. “That’s something that always blows my mind because you have these toptier academics, and they’re personally invested in your success and educational journey at a very micro level.”

Ramesh said D.C. has a distinctive atmosphere of advocacy, which the Doha campus lacks but makes up for in school pride.

“There’s also a culture of advocacy and activism on campus here that also goes beyond just Georgetown and infiltrates the general D.C. community. In Qatar, we do most of our advocacy within

Georgetown. But, at the end of the day, we still have as much Hoya Pride as they do here, and we still Bleed Hoya Blue, so that common link is great,” she said.

Syria native Jamal Khatib (SFS-Q ’19) moved to Boston with his family when the civil war broke out in 2011. Khatib said the recruitment opportunities drew him to spending a semester at Georgetown D.C., but he did not realize how competitive and cutthroat the recruitment process would be.

“I chose to study abroad this semester primarily because I heard the recruitment

connections and opportunities here are much stronger. I wanted to use this time to secure a summer internship in New York,” Khatib said. “The process was really exhausting, I was constantly going to information sessions, networking events, interviews and dinners with prospective bosses, which was a lot.”

U.S. students can be intimidating to approach, according to Ali. “Students at Qatar campus are much more approachable and easy to talk to. But again, maybe I’m not aware of the American culture and how things work here,” he said. “I

thought it would be much easier to socialize and meet new people here than in Qatar.”

Danilowicz said that there is a similarity that links Hoyas from both campuses.

“At the end of the day, both campuses are full of Georgetown students who are incredibly intelligent and passionate and who are working to do amazing things and improve their communities,” she said. “That’s core to what Georgetown is and, despite the fact that each campus caters to different populations, it’s key to who their students are and what they want to do.”

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Bill Clinton to Return Students Push for More For November Lecture Hygiene Disposal Bins JEFF CIRILLO

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Former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) is set to return to Georgetown University next month as the keynote speaker in a four-day symposium reflecting on the legacy of his presidency.

The symposium, organized by the university’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, marks the 25th anniversary of Clinton’s election in 1992.

It is set to comprise a series of panel discussions on Clinton’s domestic policy, foreign policy and public service.

Prominent Clinton administration figures also are scheduled to participate in the events, including Rahm Emanuel, Clinton’s former senior adviser for policy and strategy and the mayor of Chicago; John Podesta, former White House chief of staff and 2016 presidential campaign chairman to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton’s wife; and former

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a diplomacy professor in the School of Foreign Service.

Clinton is slated to conclude the symposium with a keynote address in Gaston Hall on Nov. 6, cosponsored by the university’s Office of the President.

“There’s nothing like coming back to Georgetown,” Clinton wrote in a GU Politics news release. “I’ve often said that I don’t think I could have become President if I hadn’t studied there.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to return and continue our discussion on what it means to live a life of public service — I believe it’s more important than ever.”

Scheduled events also include an “election watch party” of clips from 1992 on Nov. 3 and a conversation among former Clinton campaign strategists including Paul Begala, who is an adjunct lecturer at the McCourt School of Public Policy. The conversation is scheduled to follow a screening of “The War Room,” a documentary about the 1992 presidential campaign.

The keynote address will also

be the crowning installment in a four-speech series of “Clinton Lectures” delivered in Gaston Hall since 2013 by the former president about his career in public service. Themes of previous lectures include the importance of policymaking and inclusivity and the role of public service in improving people’s lives.

GU Politics Executive Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94), who was was a junior at Georgetown when Clinton was elected, said the election’s 25th anniversary is the “perfect opportunity” to harness Clinton’s legacy and “inspire the next generation of leaders to public service.”

“As a Georgetown undergrad, I witnessed first-hand the energy and excitement President Clinton’s candidacy brought to the Hilltop, and his vision inspired me to dedicate the next 20 years of my life to being a part of the political process,” Elleithee wrote in a GU Politics news release.

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Former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) is set to return to Georgetown for the first time since 2015 to deliver the keynote speech in a November symposium reflecting on his legacy of public service.

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The Office of Planning and Facilities Management has installed 33 free feminine hygiene receptacles in the past year in partnership with the Georgetown University Graduate Student Government, though a lack of funding has stifled plans to install receptacles across campus.

GradGov’s efforts are part of its We For She initiative, which aims to provide free feminine hygiene products and services on campus.

The Facilities Management Office contracted Workplace Essentials, a restroom services company the university works with to provide a variety of services, to provide and stock the 33 new receptacles.

By GradGov’s calculation, each Workplace Essentials receptacle initially costs about $357 per year.

After the first three years, Georgetown is slated to own the machines outright and pay only for product refills.

However, financial constraints have prevented GradGov and OFM from installing additional machines across campus. GradGov President Rima Mandwee (GRD ’18) said GradGov has faced trouble getting funding from the OFM’s limited budget.

GradGov plans to contribute $1,000 to the program and encourage organizations to match their donation. Eventually, they hope the administration will fund most or all of the free feminine hygiene initiative.

Mandwee said the lack of available feminine hygiene products appalled her when she arrived on campus in 2015. Mandwee started the campaign last year to address the deficiency.

“For some reason no one has gotten upset about this before. I don’t know how the school has gone for so long without feminine products in bathrooms,” Mandwee said.

The initiative has also received support from Students of Georgetown, Inc., which contributed

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Thirty-three feminine hygiene receptacles have been installed by the Office of Planning and Facilities Management. $2,142 to place six receptacles in Regents Hall and the Leavey Center, according to Corp Chief Financial Officer Jared D’Sa (COL ’19).

HoyasForShe week, a university collaboration with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women that promoted gender equality on campus in February 2017, inspired The Corp’s donation.

Vice President of Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey said the university is considering an expansion of the program to more campus locations.

“Planning and facilities management is supportive of this initiative,” Morey wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “The new program provides the product for free with the hopes that the dispensers do not become damaged. There are a total of 30 locations across campus. We plan on evaluating the new program and consider expanding it to more locations.”

A number of U.S. colleges provide free feminine hygiene products for students, including Emory University, the University

of Minnesota and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. At others, like Brown University, the student government supplies products.

Piper Donaghu (COL ‘17), copresident of the Period Empowerment Project at Georgetown, an undergraduate student group that promotes menstrual hygiene as a human right, said the university does not provide adequate support for feminine hygiene.

“We can equate the absence of feminine hygiene products to a lack in toilet paper. People would be outraged if the Georgetown bathrooms did not provide this,” Donaghu wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Ultimately, Mandwee and GradGov believe the university should provide the same.

“There’s no feminine products in bathrooms, but it’s okay, because we have those bags for wet umbrellas. We fund that, but we don’t fund feminine products. I find it very strange,” Mandwee said. “I don’t know if people realize it until you point it out, but to me, it’s just ludicrous.”

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Campus, District See Rodent Increase rodents, from A1 always be vulnerable to pests we also strive for continuous improvement in our pest control effort,” Morey wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are in the process of issuing new contract requirements with specific metrics to continue to improve performance with our pest control partners.”

Will Carlson (MSB ’19) said he commonly sees rats scurrying across the front lawn in the evening, and other students often exchange stories of run-ins with the pesky creatures.

A video of a rat tumbling to the ground from a shelf at Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli, a sandwich and convenience shop popular with students located at 1236 36th St. NW was posted to Snapchat Oct. 13 and was quickly shared among students.

Chris Olarte, an employee at Wisey’s, said that the staff has not yet found the rat from the video, nor do they know how it entered the shop in the first place.

“We’re doing everything we can to locate it. We looked around the restaurant and found no holes,” Olarte said.

University dining facilities has reported issues with rats

as well. Sabrina Sadeghian (COL ’20) said she saw a rat at the recently renovated O’Donovan Hall.

“All of a sudden, my friend started screaming because she saw a rat running on a windowsill two tables away from us,” Sadeghian said. “I thought it was fine, and then it jumped onto a table one table away from us. I made a mad dash out of Leo’s and never looked back.”

Sabrina Pourteymour (SFS ’20) said rats have also found their way in and around Georgetown student townhomes, campus dorms and apartments.

Pourteymour, who lives in the University’s Village A apartment complex, said she does not go a single night without seeing a rat.

“They’re everywhere,” Pourteymour said “I was sitting outside my apartment on Friday night. In the space of eight minutes, I saw four rats running outside of the apartment, outside C Block, running towards [the Former Jesuit Residence]. Every time I’m outside at night, they’re everywhere.”

Hardin Council (COL ’20), who lives in LXR Hall, saw one inside of his room.

“I opened the door and

turned the lights on, and there it was: a rat rummaging in the trash,” Council said.

“Right when it saw me, it ran away, and then I was terrified for the next few weeks.

Luckily, it hasn’t appeared since, but it still makes me nervous.”

The growing number of rats happens to coincide with a growing number of D.C. bar and restaurant openings, establishments that contribute to trash in the city. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that, in 2016, D.C. was home to 2,267 bars and restaurants — a 30 percent jump from 1,729 in 2006.

The District government has begun to place trash compactors in areas deemed “rat hot spots.” These trash compactors decrease the overflow and spillage of garbage onto the streets in hopes that rats will move away from the area.

The Humane Rescue Alliance, a pro-animal adoption group, has partnered with D.C. area businesses, giving them feral cats at risk of being euthanized to act as pest control by hunting down the rat population on D.C. streets.

But District officials are still struggling to address the city’s widespread rat prob-

lem.

According to Gerard Brown, program manager of the Rodent and Vector Control Division of the District’s Department of Health, D.C.’s warm winter weather is the largest contributor to the overall growth in the rat population.

Harsher, colder winters freeze rats to death, whereas warm winters help foster rat population growth.

D.C.’s growing human population also contributes to the increase in the rodent population. The District’s population is at a four-decade high at 681,170 residents, with over 10,000 residents moving into the District in the last year, according to the United States Census Bureau.

With more residents come more food waste and trash, both of which feed the rat population when not properly managed.

D.C. exterminators have turned to asphyxiating rats with carbon dioxide by slipping dry ice into rat burrows to kill them while they sleep.

Pourteymour’s advice for students regarding rats is simple.

“You just have to watch where you’re walking,” Pourteymour said.

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Complaints of rodents to the Washington, D.C. 311 city services helpline surged to 3,200 calls in 2016 from 2,300 calls in 2015. The District has taken a variety of moves to curb rat population growth, including by asphyxiating rats, but warm winters boost growth.

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Love Saxa faced protests in 2013 led by the LGBTQ community, which accused the group of promoting homophobic speakers.

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Mondolfi said the hearing on Monday will consist of the individuals who petitioned against Love Saxa presenting to the commission for 5 to 10 minutes and then answering questions, followed

by Love Saxa representatives, who will do the same. SAC commissioners will then determine whether Love Saxa is violating a specific rule in the Student Organization Standards. Love Saxa can then appeal the decision.

Mondolfi said that if the hearing results in sanctions for Love Saxa, they will be tailored specifically to the complaint that has been put forward, as SAC has done with other student groups.

“SAC’s role is usually to act in ways that will correct the specific violation. For example, we had a club earlier this year that partnered with a non-Georgetown organization and gave them money in ways they shouldn’t have. We could’ve sanctioned them in any

way — and what we said is ‘you can’t partner with other organizations’ — the sanction was very specific,” Mondolfi said.

Irvine said the students should not shut down dissenting world views.

“At a university, the free exchange of ideas should be celebrated, not squashed,” Irvine wrote.

According to Gasman, even though Georgetown is a Catholic university and some Catholics do not condone same-sex marriage, Jesuit principles advocate acceptance of all individuals.

“We’re calling on the university to follow Jesuit principles and follow its own policies for student conduct and not allow hateful groups on campus that foster an unwelcome and hateful environment for queer students because, at the very least, if they can’t stamp out homophobia and actually commit themselves to queer people, they can make sure they are not funding homophobia, which is what they’re doing by funding Love Saxa,” Gasman said.

DMV-Area College Presidents Push DACA Passage dreamers, from A1 who were brought to the United States as minors, have no serious criminal record, have a high school diploma or are currently enrolled in school and have lived in the country continuously for at least four years prior to the bill being passed.

Originally introduced by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) of Illinois and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the bill now also has the support of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (COL ’80) of Alaska.

The event, introduced with remarks by DACA recipient Luis Gonzalez (COL ’19) and concluded with an address by Georgetown University Student Association President Kamar Mack (COL ’19), included a video of how DACA has improved the lives of undocumented students at Georgetown.

It was hosted as part of Higher Education Week, a weeklong national campaign led by the American Council on Education to promote support for undocumented students at colleges and universities. DeGioia chaired the ACE from March 2016 until March 2017.

In a joint op-ed published in The Hill on Monday, the four presidents called on Congress to pass the Dream Act, saying undocumented students have earned their places on their campuses.

“They are members of our communities. They have done all the things we expect of our young people, and for their efforts so many have been able to earn places on our college campuses,” the presidents wrote. “They want — and deserve — the chance to continue learning and living in America without the constant fear of deportation.”

The Trump administration announced Sept. 5 it would rescind DACA with a six-month delay, allowing Congress to enact a permanent replacement.

If DACA were terminated without a legislative replacement, students protected under the program would face a more immediate threat of deportation to their countries of birth.

The policy currently shields

its beneficiaries from such a threat and allows them to obtain work permits and driver’s licenses.

Monday’s panel and op-ed mark the latest acceleration in an ongoing campaign by Georgetown to support a permanent legislative solution to DACA. DeGioia has sent multiple letters lobbying for a legislative replacement to members of Congress. He called the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the program “unconscionable” in a Sept. 5 statement and reiterated his support for “Dreamers.”

“If I don’t speak and lift up and create a space for their truth and their lived experiences, then I’m not doing my job as a college president.”

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“On each of the occasions that I’ve had the privilege to meet with our undocumented students here at Georgetown, I’ve sought to reassure and remind them of two things,” DeGioia said at the event. “The first, that each one of them belongs here. Their membership in our community is not only welcome, but vital. Second, that they are part of a community that is committed to ensuring they can succeed in an environment that is free from constraint or fear.”

The Georgetown Office of Federal Relations partnered with GUSA and the student advocacy group UndocuHoyas earlier this semester on the “Friends of Dreamers” campaign, through which Georgetown students, parents, alumni and faculty have sent over 1,000 letters to congressional representatives in support of permanent legislation to protect the about 800,000 individuals who are now protected by the program.

The university promoted parttime coordinator for undocumented students Arelis Palacios to full-time associate director for undocumented student services in August. The university has

also created a website that outlines the resources available to “Dreamers” and partnered with Catholic Charities to provide free and anonymous legal guidance.

Members of the broader university community have also mobilized in support of Georgetown’s undocumented students. Both La Casa Latina and the Black House declared themselves safe and supportive spaces for students without documentation, and the Graduate Student Government affirmed its support of DACA recipients by endorsing a campaign to publish a letter of its own Monday.

At the panel, Cabrera said colleges and universities must provide robust institutional support for students threatened by the possible termination of the program.

“We need to try our best to provide whatever guidance we can,” Cabrera said. “We need to continue to support, to provide love, advice and funds.”

Pollard said it is essential for educational institutions to defend students without documentation and their place within their communities.

“If I don’t speak and lift up and create a space for their truth and their lived experiences, then I’m not doing my job as a college president,” Pollard said.

Gonzalez said DACA gave him a sense of security in his future he had not felt before.

“When I secured my DACA status, it allowed me to make the decision to come to Georgetown. DACA gave me the confidence and security I had not had before. I lived in fear and in the shadows,” Gonzalez said. “Thanks to the protections of DACA, I have been able to do things that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to do, like get on plane or work on campus in the Division of Student Affairs.”

Pollard said college and university presidents now have the opportunity and the responsibility to help people like Gonzalez never have to fear again.

“This is quite possibly one of the social justice issues of our time,” Pollard said. “We yet again find ourselves in the position of trying to talk about issues that are complex and that demand courage and demand vulnerability.”

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DC Councilmember Proposes Two Former Congressmen Bill to Incentivize Composting Lament Partisan Divisions Matt Larson Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C. residents who purchase home composting systems would receive a $75 rebate from the District government under a bill Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) proposed Oct. 3.

The legislation seeks to incentivize home composting systems for residents as part of a local government effort to reduce food waste by as much as 80 percent.

D.C. residents currently have the option of joining a community compost network with 50 composting sites around the city or going to government-run sites in each ward where they can drop off their compost for free.

The bill would formally amend the Sustainable Solid Waste Management Amendment Act of 2014, which prioritized government resources for sustainable methods of recycling and composting over landfilling and incineration. The new bill would also provide training to residents who purchase home composting systems to further the original bill’s goal and ensure proper usage.

The bill does not provide for curbside pickup of composting.

Cheh said she is optimistic for the bill’s success because District residents have shown willingness to contribute to environmental causes.

“There is certainly an educational component and an incentive component,” Cheh said in an Oct. 5 interview with DCist. “But I think it will fall on receptive ears, either because they have this ethic of progressive environmentalism or because they just like the idea of reconnecting with natural things.”

An April 2017 District of Columbia Compost Feasibility Study commissioned by the Department of Public Works found strong demand for a curbside collection program, as the city generates up to 234,000 tons a year in organic waste. A citywide, mandatory composting program could recover up to more than half of that number, the report suggests.

Cheh said much of the 234,000 tons of waste comes from singlefamily homes.

However, since Washington’s curbside pickup program is po-

tentially years away from being instituted, the best way to immediately address the environmental problem is to have people compost themselves, Cheh said.

“When you consider that athome waste is the largest percentage of food waste that we have, if we’re able to get a handle on that, it could have significant environmental and economic benefits,” Cheh said. “We want to give people an incentive to do that and make it accessible for all people.”

Still, critics say the cost of composting systems may create an economic barrier. For example, at home improvement store the Home Depot, the median cost of home composters is $100, making the bill’s rebate critical to helping the program achieve success.

In order to receive the rebate, residents will have to complete an in-person training class administered by the Department of Public Works and submit a claim to the city. Cheh emphasized the importance of the educational portion of the bill to the program’s success.

“You do have to be informed about it. It’s like anything else.

There’s a lot of inertia and a lot of uncertainty about how to [compost],” Cheh said in the DCist interview. “I think if we could educate them and show them all the benefits, I think they’d begin to embrace it.”

A potential stumbling block to

the home composting systems’ success is whether they will attract rodents or other pests. Last year, the Department of Health issued a warning that alerted residents to increased numbers of rats around the District as part of a long-term trend, due in part to trash not being stored properly, which could be a factor when composting.

The bill sets guidelines for composters to not amplify the rodent issue.

“A person may compost on their property,” the bill reads. “Provided, that the composting is conducted in a manner which will not promote the propagation, harborage or attraction of vectors, or the creation of public nuisances.”

Cheh’s bill is part of a longterm effort to reduce the city’s waste by as much as 80 percent.

Christopher Shorter, director of the D.C. Department of Public Works, said the effort helps save money and makes the city more environmentally friendly. The District is currently looking into purchasing a site where it can build a composting center to expedite this process.

“Ultimately, we are going to be a more environmentally friendly city because many more of our residents will be separating their food waste and reducing landfill, which is the ultimate goal,” Shorter said in an interview with The Washington Post.

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A bill in the D.C. Council proposes a $75 rebate for District residents who purchase a home composting system.

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President Donald Trump has missed multiple opportunities to overcome division and facilitate bipartisan cooperation, former Congressmen David Jolly (R-Fla.) and Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.) said in an event hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service on Monday.

Murphy, a current GU Politics fellow who served Florida’s 18th congressional district, a district encompassing part of Palm Beach, for two terms from 2012 to 2016, said Trump lost the opportunity to work with Democrats by starting his term with initiatives they opposed, including rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy and attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, rather than bipartisan issues like infrastructure.

“Every Democrat has been talking about tax reform and infrastructure spending for the last years and decades,” Murphy said.

“But because he started with DACA and health care, there might not be a single Democrat who can actually work with President Trump without facing the consequence of being labeled as a sellout.”

Jolly, who served Florida’s 13th congressional district, a coastal district adjacent to Tampa Bay, for one term from 2014 to 2016, said Trump has exacerbated divisions with frequent inflammatory rhetoric and his regular Twitter use.

“Instead of being a deal-maker, he has doubled down on this toxic rhetoric and he’s isolated people from ever working with him. Imagine if, in the last eight months, he kept his mouth shut and his fingers off Twitter. He continues to create chaos that sows the seeds of division even further,” Jolly said.

Murphy and Jolly said the root causes of today’s political gridlock include the primary election system, which forces candidates to take extreme ideological positions to appeal to a narrower base. Jolly said primary elections, wherein the voters are usually registered members of the candidate’s party, force candidates to appeal to their party’s more extreme elements rather than moderates.

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Former Florida Congressmen Patrick Murphy (D) and David Jolly (R) said Trump has widened partisan divides while in office. gerrymandering, the process of drawing congressional districts for political advantage that often creates districts with large partisan majorities, and the constant demands of campaign fundraising, which require members to please wealthy, hardline donors with partisan promises.

Once candidates make it to Congress, Jolly said, campaign contributions from powerful lobbying groups, organizations or wealthy individuals pressure policymakers to take partisan stances.

“The reality is, all you have to do is follow along your party’s ideology, never compromise and you’ll be rewarded with re-election. But who loses? The voters who are asking, ‘Why can’t we understand all this discord and dysfunction?’”

Jolly said.

Jolly also said the high cost of re-election campaigns forces members of Congress to spend large amounts of time fundraising in order to stay in office.

“Any member of Congress is going to have to raise a couple of million dollars for their own campaign. Then the party says to you: ‘On top of that, you need to raise another million dollars for the party if you want to be on this committee. So your staff is told to prioritize funding time,” Jolly said.

Murphy echoed this experience, saying Congressional leadership pressures legislators to spend the majority of their time on fundraising rather than the job voters elected them to do.

“We were telemarketers with cool titles, and every now and then we would have to get involved with

policy,” Murphy said.

Both congressmen said they had experienced the effects of this partisan gridlock.

After the 2016 Orlando, Fla. Pulse nightclub shooting that killed 49 people and injured 58 others, Jolly introduced a bill which would have prohibited individuals on FBI terrorist watch lists from purchasing handguns, while also allowing them to appeal their inclusion on the list. Jolly said Democratic leadership refused to support the bill because it calculated its passage would help him in his upcoming re-election campaign.

Murphy, who said he had similar experiences, said these outcomes are not the fault of bad leaders but result from the nature of the job.

“What I realized very early on was that there were not necessarily bad people serving. They’re not dumb or lazy like we often hear, but there are structural problems ripping us apart that prohibit us from getting anything done.” Murphy said.

Nevertheless, Murphy and Jolly said they have faith in the future of the system. They urged the audience members to get involved at local levels with causes that are meaningful to them.

“I deeply believe in the institution, and I think we all should,” Jolly said. “I encourage you all to consider how you want to get involved. Hopefully one day that might include you being on the ballot as well and possibly serving in Congress and being able to fix the things Patrick and I were unable to do while we were there.”

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District Artist Disputes Mural Credit, Copyright DEEPIKA JONNALAGADDA Special to The Hoya

More than 1,300 people have signed a petition launched Oct. 10 by Aja Adams, a Washington, D.C. artist who identifies as LGBTQIA, is seeking credit and compensation for a mural design she claims was stolen by artist

Lisa Thalhammer.

The conflict began in 2016 when Adams said she was approached by Thalhammer to collaborate on a grant application for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The grant involved the opportunity to paint a mural on the Open Arms Housing building, a shelter for home-

less women, as well as a monetary award of $50,000.

Located at 57 O Street NW, Thalhammer’s “She Persists!” mural depicts an AfricanAmerican woman with outstretched hands on a rainbowcolored backdrop. Adams said the winning design submitted by Thalhammer is a manipulated version of Adams’

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The original work of art, claimed by District artist Aja Adams, for which artist Lisa Thalhammer has taken full credit. The artists are engaged in a yearlong dispute over the rightful author of a mural.

original mural sketch.

Thalhammer claimed sole authorship after winning the grant, listing Adams and her partner Michelle Stearn as members of the personnel team rather than collaborators on the grant application.

By Adams’ account, when she refused the $10,000 Thalhammer offered in exchange for her work on the mural and dropped the project, Thalhammer agreed to design the mural.

However, according to Adams, the work Thalhammer submitted to the DCCAH closely resembled the original sketch Adams claims she drew in 2016, not the new redesign she had been expecting.

Thalhammer denies Adams sketched the original design.

“Along with the women from Open Arms and others from the community, I brainstormed with Aja about ideas for the artwork, but the fact is that I created and sketched the original concept drawing for my Open Arms mural application,” Thalhammer wrote in a statement to The Hoya.

Adams said she did not receive monetary compensation from Thalhammer for her alleged role in the design.

She said she had been blocked

by Thalhammer on all forms

of communication and was unable to reach out to receive compensation.

However, Thalhammer said she made several offers to speak over Skype and was always turned down by Adams and Stearn.

Since her original posting, Adams has received a widespread online response, with over two hundred shares. Adams said this response has encouraged her to keep fighting for her cause on her Facebook page.

Adams brought up her concerns of copyright infringement in an email to Arthur J. Espinoza, the executive director of the DCCAH. The commission replied by asking Adams to prove her status as co-collaborator of the design.

Adams was unable to do so, as Thalhammer had registered the design under her name with the U.S. Copyright Office in August.

The DCCAH will continue to stay out of the dispute, according to DCCAH Chief of External Affairs Jeffrey Scott.

“We take copyright matters very seriously and after an initial review, we determined that this is a contractual disagreement between the two parties,” Scott wrote in an email to The Hoya. “CAH has no plans to take any further action at this time.”

Unable to garner support from the commission after a yearlong conflict, Adams turned to social media last week, posting her story on Facebook and starting a petition on Change.org, a website that facilitates online petitions.

“We ask for your signature so that Aja can receive payment and credit for designing the mural, so that grantor DCCAH and grantee Lisa Marie Thalhammer can be held accountable for exploiting this community of women of color, and ultimately so that we can keep fighting for the creative dignity of all artists,” the petition reads.

In response to people who support Adams, Thalhammer acknowledged the element of race involved in the accusations she is facing.

“And to all the petition signers and critics, I hear your frustration as it involves the color of our skin and inequities that are systemically associated to that. We all, every single one of us, need to take a step back, look in the mirror, and work towards healing ourselves and healing the histories of our lineages. Let’s try to truly become the change we want to see in the world by ending our quick judgements of others,” Thalhammer wrote in a statement to The Hoya.

Wi-Fi Improvements Planned for 66 Buildings Will Cassou

Special to The Hoya

Georgetown University plans to invest $120 million to upgrade Wi-Fi infrastructure in all 66 campus buildings, over the course of five years, through an agreement with Verizon Wireless.

Improvements have already been completed in Alumni Square and the Preclinical Science Building, resulting in speed improvements from two to 10 times the previous speeds, according to Vice President of University Information Services Judd Nicholson. However, other residence halls are not scheduled to receive improvements until 2018.

Students will receive notification before improvements begin, and some living in the Southwest Quad have received email notifications about preliminary testing to precede the improvements. Nicholson said that students have been involved from the very beginning of the process, with the Georgetown University Student Association and the Student Technology Advisory board helping UIS test new technology and reporting back to Nicholson.

The improvements follow an agreement reached in January with the mobile and broadband services company after a two-year search for a solution to a technical problem related to usage capacity that could significantly impact the operations of the institution.

The agreement would also allow Georgetown to stay upto-date with rapidly evolving Wi-Fi technologies, Nicholson said.

While planning improvements to the university’s Wi-Fi, the administration noted in-

consistencies in the operation and usage of the Wi-Fi in specific areas, according to Senior Director for IT Infrastructure and Chief of Operations Scott Allen.

“We have Wi-Fi everywhere, but there are some locations where the signal was weak, and what you end up with is sometimes your computer may switch from one network to another, and, although you have Wi-Fi, it can be frustrating,” Allen said.

Installing the new Wi-Fi network would cause service outages of varied length, depending on the extent of the renovation in each particular building. Students expressed concern over the repercussions of the Wi-Fi outages and called for improvements to be made when classes are not in session.

“Wi-Fi improvements are necessary. It is very frustrating for Wi-Fi to stop working while streaming a video or writing on a Google Doc,” Maria Pombo (COL ’ 20) said. “Nevertheless, I think this improvement should be done when classes are not on, like Thanksgiving break or Christmas break, because turning off the Wi-Fi on campus for an extended period of time can negatively impact students.”

Nicholson said that to complete the large-scale improvements across campus within five years, work on the Wi-Fi in dorms and buildings will be done during the school year.

“The first year we’re trying to touch about nine buildings, then, after that, we significantly ramp up to about 30 or so, with the goal of completing all 66 buildings by the end of that five years,” Nicholson said. “So we will be working to collaborate with student affairs and the residence hall leadership

and the students to be in the residence halls and the dorms and the classrooms during the year.”

Measures are being taken to limit the effects this will have on students, Allen said.

“We look at the usage patterns of every single building, and then we work with Verizon to actually schedule any disruptive work to minimize outages during periods,” Allen said.

The improvement project is one of many major Wi-Fi-related undertakings the university has engaged with in recent years. In January 2016, UIS overhauled the Wi-Fi system of Lauinger Library, although without the assistance of Verizon.

Though the university has also checked and updated Wi-Fi in every building since 2007, the university’s current partnership with Verizon establishes a standardized way to improve Wi-Fi campus-wide over a number of years, as opposed to working with multiple vendors and organizations on each project.

“Verizon submits to us plans for doing the replacements, and we review those plans and work with Verizon to make sure we’re applying lessons learned from the past and applying what we know about university usage,” Allen said.

The university has made its building plans and some details of the agreement with Verizon available on its website, as well as suggestions for students to adjust during the coming improvements. Nicholson expects that the agreement will lead to prolonged development.

“I would say this project and the contractual agreement with Verizon is an effort to put us in position to do continuous improvement,” Nicholson said.

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The Georgetown University Medical Center has selected Dr. Charles Holmes as co-director of the Center for Global Health and Quality, launched June 2017. He will work with Dr. Mark Dybul.

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Dr. Charles Holmes will serve as co-director of Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health and Quality, an internationally focused center for health care research, the Georgetown University Medical Center announced Sept. 27.

Holmes will serve alongside fellow faculty co-director Dr. Mark Dybul, whose appointment was announced in June.

Launched in June 2017, the GHQ researches financing health care in low-resource settings and recommends ways for countries to expand their health care delivery systems.

The center is designed to tackle current important issues in global health, according to Susan C. Kim, executive director of the GHQ. “We are developing our strategy now, but broadly, we aim to work with a number of partners to support countries as they tackle major health challenges,” Kim wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We believe we can contribute to our Georgetown University mission of cura personalis – by taking care of global communities.”

Prior to joining Georgetown, Holmes served a fouryear tenure as CEO of the Centre for Infectious Disease

Research in Zambia, where his work resulted in improvements in the national responses to the HIV and tuberculosis epidemics in Zambia, as well as new analyses of maternal and newborn health, cholera control and noncommunicable diseases.

Holmes developed programs intended to combat the health system’s shortcomings and worked to expand health training.

Holmes also served as chief medical officer and deputy U.S. global AIDS coordinator for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a Department of State initiative launched in 2004 by the George W. Bush administration and continued under the Barack Obama and Donald Trump administrations.

Holmes was also the founding director of the Department of State’s Office of Research and \ Science.

Kim said Holmes’ experience with research on infectious disease, especially HIV/ AIDS, will be instrumental to the success of the GHQ. “[Holmes] has led the transformation of large scale public health and research programs in the field, has an outstanding track record of scholarship and organizational leadership, and has made important and lasting contributions to policy development at the highest levels of the US government over

the last two administrations,” Kim wrote.

Holmes said in an Oct. 3 news release he is excited about the opportunities that the position will provide to conduct research that can be used to improve global health standards.

“It’s a great honor to join Georgetown and to have the opportunity to build this center with Mark [Dybul],” Holmes said. “I look forward to advancing this vision, while continuing to advocate for new tools and sufficient resources to improve health for those most in need.”

Kim said she hopes that the GHQ will become an invaluable resource for current research on global health matters as the center begins to take shape.

“We are working diligently towards establishing a robust research portfolio on critical issues in global health, and being more fully engaged in our Georgetown University community,” Kim wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Dybul said in a Sept. 27 news release he looks forward to working with Holmes.

“Charles’ depth and breadth of experience and remarkable impact on the HIV epidemic response and global health more broadly makes him an unmatched partner for this work,” Dybul said.

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GradGov Approves Immigration Reform Letter Campaign Madeline Charbonneau Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Graduate Student Government voted to support the publication of a letter from student activists in support of the withdrawn Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to encourage Georgetown alumni in the U.S. Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2017.

The letter, which condemns President Donald Trump’s Sept.

5 decision to terminate the DACA program, thanks alumni in Congress who have voiced support for the Dream Act, which granted temporary protections to immigrants brought into the U.S at a young age, and encourages other alumni in the legislature to support the act and uphold Jesuit values.

Claudia Soliz Castro (GRD ’17), who drafted the letter and is currently pushing for support from the undergraduate Georgetown University Student Association, said the letter was met with overwhelming support in the GradGov general assembly Sept. 14, with 36 of 37 members voting in support and one abstaining.

“The letter got a lot of support,” Soliz Castro said. “It was very successful. I was very happy. Maybe part of me was expecting a little more pushback, but I was very glad to see that that was not the case.”

Following Trump’s decision to terminate DACA, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia issued an official statement calling the choice to end the program “unconscionable.”

Soliz Castro said she wanted to unify the graduate and undergraduate student body behind the administration’s efforts. She reached out to a representative of GradGov, Jon Ettinger (GRD ’18), to present

the letter to the general assembly after drafting it.

After making slight changes to the language of the letter, the general assembly voted to support it.

“I was able to help facilitate getting Claudia in front of the graduate student assembly to present this idea and some of the language of the letter that she had already drafted up and help support and further flesh out some of that language in the graduate assembly,” Ettinger said.

The change in format would allow the letters to more directly praise those who have already supported the Dream Act and encourage those who had not to uphold the values of the university and support such an act, Soliz Castro said.

Soliz Castro has also been working with other student governments to pass the letter in their respective organizations. The Medical Center Graduate Student Organization and Georgetown University School of Medicine Student Council have both since passed the letter by majority vote in their respective assemblies. However, some student governments’ constitutions, like that of the Georgetown University Law Center’s Student Bar Association, do not allow for policy stances within the student government, which prevents them from voting to support a letter like this.

Since the letter’s approval in the general assembly, GradGov President Rima Mandwee (GRD ’18) has provided Soliz Castro with assistance in reaching out to other student governments to gain support.

The GUSA executive, led by President Kamar Mack (COL ’19) and Vice President Jessica Andino (COL ’18) declined to comment while the letter is being finalized.

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The Graduate Student Government voted to endorse a letter asking for more alumni support in Congress for a permanent solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The letter was drafted by Claudia Soliz Castro (GRD ’17).

Alumni in Journalism Analyze State of News Media Alex Mooney Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown alumni who have made careers in journalism and professional writing shared advice for aspiring journalists and their views on the current media landscape at a Georgtown Writes event Wednesday.

The event, hosted by Georgetown Writes in partnership with the Georgetown University Entertainment and Media Alliance and Hoyas in Letters, provided a forum for alumni who work in media and writing to share insights with the Georgetown community and offer advice to students seeking careers in these fields.

Georgetown students have never enjoyed better opportunities, according to Allison Gilbert (COL ’92), co-founder of the Hoyas in Letters alumni initia-

tive.

“There’s now a journalism program…there’s a creative writing minor,” Gilbert said.

“You have so many opportunities that so many young journalists didn’t have.”

The event was attended by three alumni accomplished in the media field: Russell Adams (COL ’98), an editor at The Wall Street Journal; Mark Bulik (SFS ’80), a senior editor at The New York Times; and Sarah Mimms (COL ’10), a deputy editor at BuzzFeed News. The panel was moderated by Georgetown professor Sanford Ungar.

This year’s panel focused on the topic of truth in media, an area the panelists regarded as critically important for media professionals and the public. Ungar particularly stressed the media’s current precarious situation.

Journalism is at “a new high in terms of threat, a new low in terms of awareness of how the media works in the United States,” Ungar said.

“It’s alarming the way [Trump] discusses the media and the First Amendment, but it’s not something I’m terribly concerned is going to be actionable.”

Sarah MIMMS (COL ’10) Deputy Editor, BuzzFeed News

Much of the talk focused on President Donald Trump’s administration’s aggressive stance toward the mainstream media.

“It’s alarming the way

[Trump] discusses the media and the First Amendment, but it’s not something I’m terribly concerned is going to be actionable,” Mimms said.

The panelists explained how the rhetoric of the president, who often refers to their publications as “failing” or “fake news,” can affect their work.

“We all see firsthand on a daily basis the grind and the pains that reporters and editors take to make sure every word is not only accurate, but that there’s no way we can be perceived as biased or unfair to anybody,” Adams said. “[When] you see the way the administration sort of lumps everybody into this big pile and tries to delegitimize everything that’s remotely critical, it’s hard not to be a little demoralized.”

The panel also stressed the difficulty of covering Trump’s

claims over the course of his campaign and presidency, noting they often questioned whether, and how, to label the president’s statements as false.

“It’s central to our mission to provide the kind of context that in this case, if he’s saying something that’s demonstrably untrue, to make that clear to the reader,” Bulik said. “We all wrestle with it. We have used the word ‘lie’ in a headline a couple of times; it was with deep consideration and decisions were made at the highest levels in the newsroom.”

The panel also addressed the role of their organizations in the rise of Trump’s popularity in national politics last election, an issue for which the news media has come under scrutiny following Trump’s win.

“Donald Trump is absolutely very good at playing the

media,” Mimms said. However, she stressed that she “would be very hard-pressed to say that because the media paid so much attention to him that sort of created him or turned him into a serious candidate.”

The Georgetown alumni stressed that they remain hopeful for the future of the media in the hands of a younger generation.

“There is a hunger out there for verifiable fact, we have seen our subscriptions rise,” Bulik said of The New York Times, a sentiment echoed by Adams regarding The Wall Street Journal’s subscriptions.

“That provides to some degree an opportunity for news organizations and for young people to have a future in news organizations,” Bulik said.

Bowser Announces Affordable Housing Partnership Sophie Rosenzweig Special to The Hoya

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The Landlord Partnership Fund aims to foster a positive relationship between landlords and tennants at the time it promotes affordable and stable housing for individuals in all eight wards.

A Washington, D.C. government initiative announced Oct. 6 will target the housing affordability issues individuals experiencing homelessness face in the District.

The Landlord Partnership Fund will work to foster a positive relationship between landlords and tenants enrolling for public housing and promote affordable housing and stability across all eight wards, according to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D).

The fund, subsidized by the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development and financed by local business groups including the pro-business growth DowntownDC Business Improvement District, will cover certain costs incurred by landlords of tenants whose rent is subsidized by a Department of Human Services Homeless Services intervention, according to a news release from Bowser’s office Oct. 6.

In turn, landlords are expected to relax screening criteria for people experiencing certain barriers to housing, including poor credit and past evictions, that have prevented them from securing affordable housing on their own.

According to CNHED’s website, the fund is especially needed in D.C., which is facing a severe shortage of affordable housing and a shortage of landlords willing to lease

affordable units to households with histories of homelessness.

This initiative is a part of Bowser’s policy commitment to eradicating homelessness across the District, as the mayor’s office is also implementing a plan to open shelters for individuals experiencing homelessness in wards across D.C. “My administration is committed to making homelessness in DC rare, brief, and nonrecurring, and the Landlord Partnership Fund as well as the improvements we are making to our homeless services system are going to help us reach that goal,” Bowser said in her Oct. 6 announcement.

The Landlord Partnership Fund will be modeled after other similar housing initiatives.

For landlords to be eligible for this initiative, they will be required to enroll in the initiative through the CNHED. Unpaid rent up to $5,000 and property damage up to $2,500 are to be covered by this fund.

CNHED President and CEO Stephen Glaude commended the efforts to contribute to the fund’s endowment thus far.

“Those contributing to the Fund should be applauded for their willingness be a part of the solution,” Glaude said in a Oct. 6 news release.

Professor Joseph McCartin, executive director of Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, said there is still work to

be done to tackle the causes of homelessness.

McCartin, whose institute develops strategies and public policy recommendations for improved labor and quality of living standards, said he doubts the immediate efficacy of these programs.

“I fear that the partnership is not going to be able to address to full need that the situation now presents, but I think we will have to see how it unfolds,” McCartin said.

McCartin said privately funded initiatives may be the best resource to address housing issues, as President Donald Trump’s administration announces budget cuts for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2018.

HUD currently operates on $46 billion in budget allocations, but Trump’s proposed 2018 budget would cut $6 billion in HUD funding.

These cuts are dangerous for the working poor in the District who desperately need federal intervention to keep up with the housing prices, McCartin said.

“The budget cuts that have been proposed are a serious threat to the working poor, especially in cities like Washington, which are pricing poor people out of the housing market,” McCartin said.

“The current political climate isn’t good for poor people, and there’s no denying that.

We simply have to turn that around if we are going to have livable cities.”

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Team Drops Consecutive Conference Matches at Home Luke Djavaherian Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior middle blocker Symone Speech leads the Hoyas with 294 kills and 3.5 kills per set.

The Georgetown women’s volleyball team lost two conference matches at McDonough Arena this weekend against DePaul on Saturday and Marquette on Sunday.

Georgetown (7-14, 1-8 Big East) and DePaul (8-13, 2-7 Big East) entered their match tied for last in the division, with equal records at 7-12 overall and 1-6 in league play.

The Blue and Gray fought hard through five sets, but ultimately the Blue Demons edged them out to notch a victory.

Despite the result, Georgetown junior middle blocker Symone Speech led the way with 20 kills and 10 digs to complete a doubledouble. Speech swung for an even 0.500 hitting percentage on the match.

Junior setter Paige McKnight also had 10 digs across the five sets while setting the ball 35 times.

Many of those sets went in the direction of junior outside hitters Alyssa Sinnette and Olivia King, who provided nine and 10 kills, respectively.

The match itself was a backand-forth battle between the Hoyas and the Blue Demons.

Georgetown dominated the first set, starting with an 18-3 run that proved insurmountable for DePaul and led to a 25-15 victory

for the Hoyas. Speech was key at the front, as she hit five kills on offense and made two blocks on defense.

The Blue Demons returned the punch in the second set, however, and went on their own 19-7 run to put themselves well ahead. They finished the set 25-18 to bring the match to an even 1-1.

The competition was tight in the beginning of the third set, with DePaul barely ahead of Georgetown 10-9, before the Blue Demons went on a run to bring the score to 23-13. With Sinnette serving up some aces, Georgetown closed the gap to 23-18. DePaul regrouped after a timeout and won the set 25-18.

Down 2-1 with their backs against the wall, the Hoyas buckled down on defense and won the fourth set 25-18. Junior libero Kenzie Higareda was instrumental to the defensive effort, recording several digs to total 11 for the day.

The deciding fifth set was close throughout, with the score tied at 11-11 toward the end. However, the Blue Demons went on a four-point run to finish it off 15-11 in their favor.

The following evening featured what proved to be a challenging match against Big East powerhouse Marquette University, which came into the contest leading the division at 7-0 in league play and 13-5 overall.

Despite the second loss of the weekend for Georgetown, many players rose to the challenge and put up some strong numbers. For example, Sinnette knocked down 11 kills with a 0.385 hitting percentage — her third career best in 78 college matches.

“We'll have moments where we look really good and where we can run all kinds of things offensively.”

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"I feel like I'm getting my groove back from last year, which I'm really excited about,” Sinnette said.

“And I couldn't have done it without my teammates. Passing was good, and [McKnight] was giving me great sets, so I was able to find the court really well and terminate.”

Speech also played well with six kills, and King and McKnight each recorded five kills of their own.

Higareda dug the ball 12 times through three sets.

The first set started off close be-

tween the two teams, with Georgetown down 11-8 at one point. Marquette slowly pulled away, though, and ended the set 25-17. The second set was even more lopsided, as Georgetown struggled to find a way past the tall Marquette blockers. Down 26-9, the Blue and Gray went on a three-point run to bring the score to 24-12, but the gap was too wide, and Marquette scored the final point to win the second set.

Georgetown did not go out without a fight, however, and came out to a 6-3 lead led by sophomore right side Margo Snipe. (Full disclosure: Margo Snipe is a staff writer for The Hoya.) “[Snipe] came in and offered some excellent energy for us at the end of the second and beginning of the third set,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said.

Despite the Hoyas' early lead, the Golden Eagles rebounded quickly and went on a couple of offensive runs that won them the match, 25-16.

“We'll have moments where we look really good and where we can run all kinds of things offensively, but we are inconsistent with our passing, so that needs to get better,” Williams said.

Next weekend, the Hoyas look to turn things around against another tough opponent as they travel to Villanova, Pa. on Saturday for a 7 p.m. matchup.

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USMNT Must Overcome Bias Against Players Born Abroad Vanessa Craige & Paolo Santamaria

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ince our last column, we have had the pleasure of seeing Bruce Arena resign as the head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team, as well as learning that several candidates may run for president of the U.S. Soccer Federation come February.

The current president, Sunil Gulati, is largely incompetent and is a big part of the problem with the team, a team that — to open a recent wound — failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 32 years.

The list of potential candidates includes Landon Donovan, a man

who, despite his heroic achievements as a player donning the Stars and Stripes, is part of the reason the U.S. men’s soccer program is struggling so much.

The ugly truth is that the United States cannot fix its own problems.

The country needs a foreign perspective to clean house, to retool the youth system and to scout out every potential American star, whether he lives in Beverly Hills or Buenos Aires.

It should not matter if a player is born on a military base thousands of miles away from America; it should only matter that he can play the game.

Donovan said in a 2015 interview that he believes people born outside the U.S. care less about the national team than Americanborn players do.

Donovan could not be more wrong, and statements like these are exactly why he would be a horrible U.S. Soccer Fedration president.

The entire concept is backward and outdated.

Many call America the greatest country in the world, and regardless of that statement’s veracity, any weight that it would hold rests on a simple fact: You can be American without ever having lived in the United States. The United States has bases around the world, allows for dual citizenship with few stipulations and fosters enormous national pride among its citizens, both native-born and naturalized.

It is absurd that we apply a higher standard to American soccer players than we do to potential presidents. There was hardly any backlash against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was born on a U.S. military base in Panama, when he ran for president in 2000 and in 2008. Yet we cry foul if an American born on a base in Germany tries to play soccer for his country.

If America was filled to the brim with only people like Donovan and Abby Wambach, who said in an interview with The New York Times that she does not support foreign-born soccer players on the U.S. team, then America would not

be America.

Now, it is time for U.S. soccer to accept that fact. Soccer is the world’s game. The 2014 World Cup reached a total audience of 3.2 billion people.

The United States needs to get with the program or forever risk losing any hope of having a good national team.

At the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, Germany collapsed and burned out, tallying just one point in the group stages. The same scenario repeated itself at the 2004 Eurocup, prompting the entire German Soccer Federation to make sweeping changes.

In the following years, it invested millions of euros into a revamped youth program, scouting high and low and building facilities that could house thousands of people.

As one member of the new program roughly stated: If the next superstar is born in a village on the side of a mountain, we are going to find him.

It is important to note that a key

driving force behind this upheaval was none other than former U.S. Coach Jürgen Klinsmann.

Yes, the very man who was fired for changing too many things and not achieving instantaneous championships is the one who helped Germany eventually lift the World Cup in 2014, as well as finish in the top four at six straight major international tournaments.

The results speak for themselves.

We are not advocating for the return of Klinsmann, although we were certainly not patient enough with him.

We are advocating for the United States to be honest with itself and bring in someone from a winning culture, a culture that knows how to develop youth and honor nationality across borders. This is 2017 — if talented players choose to identify as American, then we better let them play.

MLS is not even a top-15 soccer league in the world. The United States is not even a top-50 national team in the world, since we all know that FIFA rankings are ques-

tionable at best. It is time to be honest. The fans hardly help either, with internet forums shooting down suggestions of players solely on the grounds of citizenship.

Fans should be kissing the ground in wonder at the fact that former World Cup-winner and former Paris Saint-Germain manager Laurent Blanc might take the U.S. head coaching job. Instead we get fans clamoring about a sissy European style of play and lack of hard, physical play that is emblematic of being American. Little do they realize how winning would fix everything.

The United States and its most successful companies have always been results-focused. It is, after all, how the best businesses are run.

And the United States men’s soccer program desperately needs to catch up.

Vanessa Craige and Paolo Santamaria are seniors in the School of Foreign Service and the College, respectively. Nothing but Net appears every Friday.

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Hoyas Record Struggling GU Hosts Rival Fordham Comeback Victory Kevin Pollack

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JP Harrison

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The Georgetown men’s golf team earned its first win of the season last weekend at the 33rd Annual Georgetown Intercollegiate at the Members Club at Four Streams Club.

The Hoyas, who sat in sixth place after 36 holes, posted the best round of the tournament on Tuesday to surge into the lead.

The scores posted during the first two rounds Monday reflected challenging windy conditions. Georgetown dropped an impressive 18 strokes in its final performance from the previous round.

“It was going to take a good round of golf, not a medium round of golf,” Head Coach Tommy Hunter said.

The Hoyas’ lineup at the Georgetown Intercollegiate featured three seniors and two sophomores. Experienced sophomore Eduardo Blochtein and walk-on sophomore Patrick DiPasquale stepped up this week, posting scores of 227 and 229, respectively.

The impressive performance of the Gray Team, the men’s golf alternate side, contributed to the team’s overall success this week.

Senior co-captain Cole Berman led the Hoyas’ Blue Team to victory with a six-over par score of 219, placing him in a six-way tie for first place after 54 holes. Although the Naval Academy’s freshman Charlie Musto would claim

individual medalist honors after a playoff, Berman’s performance proved vital to the team’s victory.

“The seniors have to play well all the time if the team is to succeed,” Hunter said. “All in all, it was a good day for all ten of us.”

According to Hunter, succeeding in mid-major golf tournaments such as the Georgetown Intercollegiate helps the team not only in terms of national standing and win-loss record, but also in confidence.

The highlight of the tournament for the Hoyas occurred when Berman sunk his chip shot on the 18th hole on Tuesday to join five other golfers in the tie for first place. Despite this moment of glory, Berman said the team’s victory was more important than his individual placement, encapsulating the Hoyas’ team spirit this week at The Members Club at Four Streams.

This weekend, Georgetown men’s golf will make its first appearance in the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate, hosted by Old Dominion University at Kilmarlic Golf Club in Powells Point, N.C. “This will be an opportunity to continue to bolster our win-loss record,” Hunter said.

The tournament will feature 18 teams including Old Dominion, Saint Joseph’s and George Mason. The ODU/OBX Intercollegiate will be the Hoyas’ final event of the fall season.

The ODU/OBX Intercollegiate will take place on Oct. 22-24.

After losing its first conference game last week against Lehigh in its fifth consecutive loss, the Georgetown football team looks to rebound against Fordham at home on Saturday.

The Hoyas (1-5, 0-1 Patriot League) lost 54-35 to the Mountain Hawks (2-5, 2-0 Patriot League), which amassed more than 625 total yards on offense. The team allowed 50 points or more for the second week in a row.

Fordham (1-6, 0-2 Patriot League) has struggled on offense compared to Lehigh, having only scored a total of 32 points over its last three games. With an average of only 19.6 points per game, the Rams have the lowest-scoring offense of any team the Hoyas have played thus far this season.

Georgetown Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said that, in spite of Fordham’s weak statistics, it will be a tough task to keep the Rams’ offense in check.

“Offensively, I know their stats, but they’re explosive. They have really good kids on the edge, and [senior running back] Chase Edmonds makes it go, so it’ll be interesting to see if we can make him one-dimensional and really put the weight on the quarterback’s shoulders,” Sgarlata said.

Last year, the Consensus First Team All-American Edmonds led the Football Championship Subdivision in rushing yards per game with 163.5 and finished fourth in voting for the Walter Payton Award, which is presented to the most outstanding player in the FCS. Edmonds has fared worse on the ground this year, racking up only 65.8 yards per game and one touchdown this season, but he still presents a threat.

Senior cornerback Jelani Wil-

liamson, who helped lead the Hoyas’ defense last week with seven tackles and an interception, recognized Edmonds’ playmaking ability and agreed with Sgarlata that cutting off Fordham’s running game is critical.

“If a team can’t run on you, then you make their offense one-dimensional, so it’s always easier to play defense. Fordham has a great running back, a great running game, so we have our work cut out for us.

But I think we will be alright,” Williamson said.

On the other side of the ball, Georgetown’s offense has recovered since its performance against Harvard in which it put up zero points (the team’s two points came on a safety). Against Lehigh, Georgetown did not turn the ball over for the first time this season and scored more than 30 points for the second week in a row, the first such occurrence since 2003.

Sophomore quarterback Gunther Johnson, a transfer from the University of Arizona, saw the majority of snaps behind center last week and finished with 290 pass-

ing yards and two touchdowns.

He added 71 yards on the ground and three rushing touchdowns, and his performance earned him an Honorable Mention as Patriot League Player of the Week.

“I feel like we were a lot more comfortable than we had been in the past. The line blocked better than they had the entire year,” Johnson said. “The receivers made plays for us, made my job easy. We took advantage of what they were giving us, and it worked out.”

Lehigh held the ball for almost 15 minutes longer than Georgetown did last weekend, and that gap in time of possession was one of the major factors that contributed to Lehigh’s offense exploding for 27 points in the second quarter.

Williamson said that playing a strong defense and giving the offense as much time as it needs is key to a win this weekend.

“It’s always easy to play offense when you’re on offense. As much as [defensive players] love to score and as much as I love to score, it’s easier for [the offense] to score than for us to score. We definitely have

to get off the field by any means necessary,” Williamson said.

Sgarlata and Williamson said the team is focusing on getting out of the slump and winning in the Patriot League.

“Every week, you have a chance to change that dynamic [of the Patriot League]. All we can do is worry about what we’re doing and hopefully win out in the Patriot League and see how the thing falls out at the end,” Sgarlata said.

Williamson emphasized the importance of the team’s attitude going into this conference showdown.

“If you go into football hesitant, then you’re going to struggle. The mentality going into this game for our defense and our team is reckless abandon — leave it all on the field and do everything we can to come out with a win,” Williamson said.

Kickoff is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Saturday at Cooper Field. The stream for the game and the game cast will be available at guhoyas.com.

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The Georgetown defensive line has struggled this season, allowing 857 total rushing yards over six games. The Hoya defense has also tallied 10 sacks on the year.

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“This was a back-and-forth regatta and a large one, which really tests the true depth of a program. We wanted to go out and do well across the board,” Callahan said.

The Hoyas led the field of 20 boats through the treacherous weather of the first day of the regatta, which featured only a few races and multiple protests in these tough conditions.

“This was a back-andforth regatta and a large one, which really tests the true depth of a program. ” Mike callahan Head Coach

The second day featured much more favorable weather as the Hoyas propelled through the 10-12 knots in a clean race. Team A, led by sophomore Sean Segerblom, and Team D, led by senior Jack Marshall, sailed some of the best races of the day: Team A scored 72, and Team D scored a regatta-low 65.

“Marshall and [Segerblom] had very strong races contributing well to a team win,” Callahan said.

The B and C crews also finished with solid scores to lead the Hoyas to a comfortable victory despite a slow start.

“Although our B and C boats struggled in the beginning, they bounced back in the final four races through tough breezy conditions. [Senior] Clay [Broussard] put together a good team win despite the regatta not favoring his laser

conditions,” Callahan said.

The Truxtun Umsted Regatta concludes the fall season of racing at Navy, and Georgetown certainly ended it well.

The women’s team also raced this weekend in New England for the Yale Women’s Regatta. The regatta features much more challenging competition than the team is used to, but it sailed well and finished 11th overall.

“New England was an eyeopener for us as it tested our women’s team’s ability to fight back after a rough first day of racing,” Callahan said.

The performances of freshman Caroline Teare and sophomore Macey McCann were highlights of the race, as both faced their hardest competition thus far in college racing. “[Teare] did well in the A division fighting for the top, but it was definitely the hardest regatta for [McCann] in the B division. I was very impressed with how the girls regrouped after the first day and battled back. The idea of the early regattas is to learn from bad finishes and their mistakes, and the girls did just that,” Callahan said.

The women’s team has an important weekend of racing ahead as they head to New York City for the MAISA Women’s Championships in the Bronx under the boisterous Throgs Neck Bridge. The women need to finish in the top seven to qualify for national championships. The team will be without star junior Haddon Hughes as she heads to Tokyo to race in the World Cup. The MAISA Women’s Championships will take place all day Oct. 21 and 22.

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Junior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski had eight saves against Maryland while allowing zero goals. Marcinkowski has manned Georgetown’s goal for every game this season, tallying 41 saves and allowing only nine goals.

Hoyas End Terps’ 30-Game Winning Streak TERPS, from A12

Hoyas proved themselves up to the challenge and made several key defensive stops.

“Guys defended when we had to defend, [but] we had good moments of possession and were able to dictate the tempo of the game at times, which is important,” Wiese said.

Despite being outshot 7-1 in the first half, the Hoyas went into the break still tied 0-0. This was due in large part to senior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski’s six saves in the first half.

“JT’s a fantastic goalkeeper,” Wiese said. “He does a really good job keeping his composure in net. He has such a calm and great presence in goal.”

Throughout the majority of

the second half, both teams were able to stifle the opposition’s attack, leading to few chances to score for either team.

“Both teams were able to make it hard on the other team, so neither of us got as great chances as we’re normally accustomed to in games,” Wiese said.

Eventually, the Hoyas were able to break the deadlock in the 88th minute with a goal from freshman midfielder Jacob Montes assisted by senior midfielder Christopher Lema.

“The goal came about from us picking up a loose ball in midfield and recognizing that we had some space to run in at the Maryland backs,” Wiese said. “It was a great pass

by Chris Lema. It was a tricky finish, but [Montes] did really,

really well to keep that ball low. It was a bouncing ball. He finished it superbly.”

After the game, Wiese praised Montes and the composure he showed scoring his first collegiate goal in such a big moment.

“He does a really good job keeping his composure in net.

He has such a calm and great presence in goal. ” BRIAN WIESE Head Coach

“For a freshman, he’s got such great composure. He’s such a talent. He really is. He’s got amazingly soft feet. He’s deceptively fast, and he can really play a

combination with players,” Wiese said.

Following Montes’ goal, the Hoyas were able to hold off the Terps’ final attacks and close out a huge 1-0 victory, despite being outshot 12-6.

Marcinkowski finished with eight saves and earned his second straight shutout and sixth shutout overall of the season.

The win over third-ranked Maryland will boost Georgetown’s RPI ranking heading into their last four conference games against Seton Hall (5-71, 2-3 Big East), Providence (4-72, 1-2-2 Big East), St. John’s (5-62, 2-2-1 Big East) and Creighton (8-4-1, 2-2-1 Big East).

Georgetown will square off against Seton Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Shaw Field.

The game will be televised on the BIG EAST Digital Network.

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corner kicks (8-0), the Hoyas were unable to equalize and tie the game.

Georgetown hit the crossbar twice in addition to three other shots on goal.

“We just had so much possession of the ball; we just had them pinned back in,” Nolan said. “We’d get the ball wide, and we’d be serving the ball into the box, but because they had so many numbers in there, it was very difficult for us to get in front of one.”

Senior midfielder Rachel Corboz took six shots, with junior forward Caitlin Farrell and sophomore defender Meaghan Nally adding three more each.

After their early goal, the Friars did not put a shot on net for the following 80-plus minutes.

Georgetown returned to action on Thursday in a home matchup against another Big East foe, Marquette (10-6-1, Big East 3-4-0). Despite having lost two of three games heading into the Marquette match, Nolan remained confident about his team’s abilities.

“We’ve dominated every game we’ve played, even the ones we’ve dropped points in,” Nolan said.

“If we weren’t doing that, I’d probably be worried.”

Riding that optimism, the Hoyas beat the Golden Eagles, recording their 12th shutout of the season in a 3-0 victory.

Senior defender Taylor Pak notched her third goal of the in the 16th minute off an assist from Corboz,

giving the Hoyas a 1-0 lead.

Sophomore forward Paula Germino-Watnick and junior forward Amanda Carolan added goals in the 31st and 84th minutes, respectively, to give the Hoyas the decisive victory.

The victory brings George-

town’s Big East record to 5-1-1, keeping them atop the conference standings, with Butler (10-1-4, 3-0-3 Big East) in second place.

Georgetown will face off against Butler this Sunday at Indianapolis. The game is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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Senior midfielder and team captain Rachel Corboz has played all 16 of the team’s games this season, notching five goals and a team-high 10 assists for the Hoyas.

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Renewed Cardinal Offense Finds Rhythm MCCOY, from A12

instant against the Buccaneers.

Part of the revival must surely be attributed to the health of the offensive line.

Starting left tackle D.J. Humphries and left guard Alex Boone came back this week from injury, and inexperienced right guard Evan Boehm was replaced by the veteran Earl Watford, who had seen action in Arizona before. These changes, along with the sheer enthusiasm and energy Peterson brought to the game, took the Buccaneers’ defense by surprise.

Indeed, Peterson’s first four

carries were for 54 yards, including a 27-yard touchdown.

And while running the ball was important, perhaps the biggest effect Peterson had was in the passing game.

With Tampa Bay struggling to contain the run, their safeties moved closer to the line of scrimmage, opening up room for Palmer to attack on play action. The 37-year-old quarterback started the game with 12 straight completions and ended with an impressive 283 yards passing and three touchdowns. He faced much less pressure, partially because of the healthier offensive line but also because of the room that the running

game opened up. The main beneficiary was ageless wonder Larry Fitzgerald, who had 10 catches for 138 yards and a score.

Make no mistake: The revitalized Cardinals’ offense is not simply a one-week wonder.

While Tampa Bay’s defense is not particularly strong, and other teams will surely adjust, the fundamental flexibility that Arizona now has in its attack makes it difficult to defend.

Prior to Sunday, the path to beating the Cardinals had been clear: Pressure Palmer, early and often.

Although that is still an effective tactic, it is much

harder to do against a smashmouth rushing attack that tires defenders and makes pass-rush specialists ineffective. If Arizona can maintain a balanced offensive attack and keep Palmer upright in the pocket, this team has a much higher ceiling than many experts were predicting just a week ago.

Perhaps General Manager Steve Keim’s act of low-risk desperation has paid off, as the desert seems to be the perfect place for Peterson.

Ryan McCoy is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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Football The Georgetown football team squares off against Patriot League rival Fordham as both teams look to end their losing streaks.

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GU Reclaims Top Hoyas Defeat Wildcats, Topple Terps National Ranking Drew Sewall

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The No. 1 Georgetown University coed sailing team is back on top after a successful performance last weekend in Annapolis, Md., for the Truxtun Umsted Regatta.

The regatta took place Oct. 14 and 15, and it featured many of the top-20 teams in the nation, such as Hobart and William Smith Colleges, College of Charleston, Stanford University, Navy, Boston University, Fordham Univer-

sity, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the University of Wisconsin.

“Going into the race, I thought we definitely had a chance to win because of the importance of depth on our team,” Head Coach Mike Callahan (SFS ‘97) said.

The Hoyas notched a dominating win with a score of 361. The victory places Georgetown 24 points ahead of second-place Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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The Georgetown sailing team continued its season dominance at the Truxtun Umsted Regatta this weekend, finishing first out of 20 teams.

The No. 13 Georgetown men’s soccer team concluded its hard-fought two-game road trip with shutout wins against Villanova University and the University of Maryland in two closely contested Big East matches.

The Hoyas’ (10-2-1, 4-1 Big East) first game came against the Villanova Wildcats (7-7, 2-3 Big East) at Talen Energy Stadium, home of MLS team the Philadelphia Union. The Hoyas dictated play throughout the first half before finally breaking down the Wildcats’ defense in the 31st minute.

Freshman forward Derek Dodson received the ball at the top of the 18-yard box and promptly played it to junior midfielder Kyle Zajec, who was able to slot it past Villanova redshirt senior goalkeeper Will Steiner and find the back of the net for his first collegiate goal.

Despite some back-andforth action to close out the half, the Hoyas went into halftime with a 1-0 lead.

In contrast to the first half, the Wildcats came out of halftime on the front foot and forced the Hoyas to defend and absorb pressure for long periods of play. After most of the second half, the Hoyas finally were able to start a quick counterattack leading to their second goal of the night in the 79th minute.

Senior midfielder Declan McCabe picked out a pass to senior forward Zach Knudson, who calmly finished the

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Junior goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski had five saves against Villanova with no goals allowed.

With two shutouts in the last week, Marcinkowski now has six shutouts on the season. attack off with a goal, giving the Hoyas a 2-0 lead.

“It’s great having Knudson back on the field, but [in his absence] guys have done a great job to step up,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

After the second goal, the Hoyas were able to stifle the Wildcats’ attack and the game ended in a 2-0 vic-

tory for the Hoyas. Villanova outshot Georgetown 15-14, but Georgetown was more clinical with its chances and earned an important Big East road win.

Four days later, Georgetown travelled to College Park, Md., to take on the No. 3 Maryland (10-1-3, 5-0-2 Big Ten) at Ludwig Field. Com-

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ing into this matchup with the Hoyas, the Terrapins had been riding a 30-game winning streak in regular season play dating to last season.

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Junior forward Caitlin Farrell has started all 16 games this season for the Hoyas, scoring six goals and tallying three assists.

Farrell was named a BIg East Academic All-Star last season and was fifth on the team in scoring.

Squad Suffers 1st Conference Loss Josh Rosson Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s soccer team lost its first Big East game of the year Sunday in a low-scoring 1-0 affair against Providence before returning to action Thursday and defeating Marquette 3-0.

Against Providence (9-6-0, 4-2-0 Big East), Georgetown (11-3-2, 5-1-1) failed to find the back of the net the entire

game, despite outshooting Providence 18-4.

“It was disappointing,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “It was a big game, and we would have had a great chance to open up some sunlight between us and the rest of the pack [in the Big East]; now, we’re at the top of a very tight pack.”

The game was not only the Hoyas’ third loss of the year but also the third game in

which they failed to score.

Georgetown has also been shut out in one of its two ties, a home matchup against Rutgers (10-2-4, 4-2-3 Big Ten).

Coming off a dominant offensive performance against Villanova in a 5-0 victory, in which redshirt sophomore forward Amanda Carolan led the way with four goals, Georgetown looked to keep the ball rolling on Sunday.

However, it was Providence

that drew the first and only blood of the game, a quick goal in the first six minutes of action off the foot of senior midfielder Christina Klaum.

“We gave up a goal off a long throw, which was disappointing because we saw it, and we trained [for] it,” Nolan said.

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hen the Arizona Cardinals sent a conditional sixth-round pick to the New Orleans Saints last week in exchange for Adrian Peterson, reactions around the NFL were measured.

Though Peterson is one of the best running backs of all time, age seems to have caught up with him this year.

He struggled in a limited role for the Saints, compiling just 81 yards.

ESPN football writer Bill Barnwell called the move “low-risk desperation,” for the Cardinals, a team that was built to win but sputtered to a 2-3 record to start the year.

Almost nobody dared to believe Peterson might return to the heights of his time in Minnesota, where he won the 2012 Most Valuable Player Award and nearly broke the all-time single-season rushing record.

Yet on Sunday, Peterson was back to his old self, scampering for 134 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries, compared to the 27 total he received in four games combined with the Saints.

The Cardinals came away with a crucial 38-33 victory against the Buccaneers, and the sense in Phoenix is that Peterson may be exactly what

the doctor ordered.

The Cardinals are two seasons removed from an NFC Championship appearance in a year in which they won 13 regular season games. However, the team sputtered to a 7-8-1 record last year behind atrocious special teams play and a regression from veteran quarterback Carson Palmer.

That trend had continued early this season.

Nobody dared to believe Peterson might return to his prime in Minnesota.

Yet on Sunday, Peterson was back to his old self.

Though Palmer was effective when he had time in the pocket, the injury-riddled offensive line allowed way too much pressure. Coupled with the disappearance of the Cardinals’ running game when star running back David Johnson was sidelined with a dislocated wrist, the Cardinals lacked any offensive firepower. That all changed in an See MCcoy, A11