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HAT TRICK

Junior Colleen Lovett scored three goals in the women’s lacrosse team’s win on Saturday.

EDITORIAL The New York Times highlights Georgetown’s slave history.

COMMENTARY The European Parliament must address the Panama Papers’ findings.

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DeGioia Addresses Nike Labor Disputes Letter to Nike stresses worker rights in factories MADISON ASHLEY

ness Policy and Planning and LOC member Cal Watson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Neither the recommendations nor DeFollowing an extended campaign spear- Gioia’s letter have been released to the pubheaded by student-athletes and the recom- lic. mendations of the university’s Licensing The recommendations also stipulate that Oversight Committee over the past few the university not renew its licensing agreemonths, University President John J. De- ment with Nike in its current form, which Gioia submitted a letter to Nike last week expires in 2017, and for the university to emphasizing the importance of George- make public a description of the actions it town’s code of contakes on these recduct and calling on ommendations. the apparel producThe LOC’s recer to cooperate with ommendations the Worker Rights and DeGioia’s Consortium, an decision follow independent labor months of awarerights monitoring ness campaigns body. by students orNike is the only ganized under university contract Athletes and AdvoJAKE MAXIM (col ’17) that does not curcates for Workers’ Athletes and Advocates for Workers’ Rights, rently stipulate that Rights as well as Licensing Oversight Committee the licensee abide the ongoing work by the university’s code of conduct, which of the LOC, a multi-stakeholder body of in addition to ethical, environmental and faculty, administrators and students, into workers’ rights clauses, stipulates that li- Georgetown’s contract and licensing agreecensees must comply with the university- ments with the apparel brand. affiliated independent auditor Workers According to AAWR lead organizer and Rights Consortium. The Workers Rights LOC member Jake Maxmin (COL ’17) the Consortium works to enforce the univer- timing of the recommendations and Desity’s code of conduct.

Gioia’s letter, just as Nike’s contract with The recommendations, submitted by the university is about to expire, is critical. members of the LOC to DeGioia in late “The big thing for us is for Nike to oblige March 2016, focus on Nike signing on to the by our code of conduct. The upcoming university’s code of conduct, and that Nike end date [of the contract in early 2017] has open up its factories to the WRC. given us some leverage with them,” Max“These recommendations included revis- min said. ing Nike’s license agreement to include the According to professor of government current Code of Conduct for Georgetown and LOC member John Kline, the LOC first University Licensees, and writing a letter realized the discrepancy between Nike’s to Nike requesting that Nike facilitate the contract and that of other licensees when WRC’s access to Nike contract factories producing collegiate apparel,” Director of BusiSee NIKE, A6 Hoya Staff Writer

“The big thing for us is for Nike to oblige by our code of conduct.”

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In a rally organized by the Georgetown undergraduate journalism program, students gathered to demand that President Obama negotiate for Austin Tice’s release.

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Georgetown students and other activists demonstrated outside the White House on Monday evening in an effort to pressure President Barack Obama to negotiate freedom for journalist Austin Tice (SFS ’02), who disappeared in Syria in 2012.

Tice, a former Georgetown law student and Marine Corps veteran, went missing in Syria on Aug. 12, 2012, while working as a freelance journalist covering the conflict there for McClatchy Newspapers, The

Washington Post, CBS and other media outlets. It is believed that Tice is currently being held captive in the Middle East.

Georgetown Law Center students and Reporters Without Borders representatives joined 10 undergraduate protestors who wore black blindfolds with the phrase “#FREEAUSTINTICE” and carried posters reading “President Obama, we are counting on you,” “Finish strong; bring Austin safely home” and “Without journalists, we are all deprived of information, we are all blindfolded.”

The protestors asked Obama’s administration to make Tice’s

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Hot Streak The women’s tennis team has won nine out of its last 10 games, including one this weekend.

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A report from the Georgetown Law Center’s Human Rights Institute outlines the obstacles that bar newly arrived children from Central America from accessing public education in the United States due to their undocumented status.

Alexander kramarczuk (LAW ’17)

Published April 11, the report, titled “Ensuring Every Undocumented Student Succeeds: A Report on Access to Public Education for Undocumented Children,” was authored by nine law center students as part of a yearlong project in collaboration with the Women’s Refugee Commission, a nonprofit that seeks to improve the lives of women and youth displaced by conflict.

According to the study, an estimated 770,000 of the 2.4 million school-aged immigrant children nationwide are undocumented. Since 2014, more than 100,000 unaccompanied minors have immigrated to the United States.

According to the report, undocumented students — who are obligated to attend school through at least eighth grade according to federal law — are obstructed from receiving education by residency rules and states’ strict documentation requirements, standardized test-based school evaluations, inadequate translation services and the enforcement practices of See UNDOCUMENTED, A6

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“It’s less that the law isn’t there, it’s that the communication isn’t there.”

release a priority before the president’s term ends.

The protestors also had a list of 23 additional student supporters who were unable to attend the rally.

The Georgetown undergraduate journalism program organized the Georgetown delegation with the help of director of the journalism program Barbara Feinman Todd and Emily Kaye (COL ’18) after the United Nations began IntraSyrian peace talks on April 13 at U.N. headquarters in Geneva to resolve the ongoing conflict.

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Queen Rania of Jordan introduced the screening of “Salam Neighbor,” a documentary on the experience of Syrian refugees in Jordan, in Gaston Hall on Thursday.

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Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan advocated for better treatment of Syrian refugees and emphasized the gravity of the migrant crisis in a film screening for the award-winning documentary “Salam Neighbor” in Gaston Hall on Thursday.

Former United Nations Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues and Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Melanne Verveer hosted the event, which over 700 people attended.

Queen Rania and the Jordanian royal family have strong ties to Georgetown University. King Abdullah II (GRD ’89) graduated from the School

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of Foreign Service with an MSFS degree, and their son and daughter, Crown Prince Hussein (SFS ’16) and Princess Iman (SFS ’18) currently attend Georgetown.

After an introduction by former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom and current CEO of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband, Queen Rania gave a short address before the 75-minute documentary tracking directors Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple’s time in a Jordanian refugee camp.

Queen Rania praised the strength and kindness of the Jordanian people for helping the Syrian refugees.

“1.3 million of these men, women and children are living in Jordan today,” Queen Rania said. “The people of

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Jordan have opened their homes and their hearts. And I couldn’t be more proud of their selflessness, sacrifice and kindness.”

Queen Rania said the film helped humanize the refugees beyond their portrayal in the media and revealed their strengths.

“What you’ll see, as [Temple] and [Ingrasci] saw when they moved into Za’atari camp, is beyond the headlines, beyond the labels, are people that everyone can relate to,” Queen Rania said. “What I love about this film is the resilience it shows. For all the refugees have suffered, they have not abandoned hope. We see people who have nothing finding ways to share everything.”

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NEWS Nobel Laureate Lectures Economics professor George Akerlof emphasized the risks of free markets in his Carroll Round’s address.

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news Students for Brown House A student has started a petition to keep Brown House as a student residence and to not be taken by administrators.

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news Gender Pay Gap Exposed A recent report reveals a $1 billion difference between the collective annual earnings of D.C. women and men.

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS

Remember the 272 Georgetown students woke up to a frontpage article in Sunday’s New York Times delving into the history behind the 1838 Georgetown sale of 272 slaves. In many ways, the article was a necessary jolt for the school, as the efforts of the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation and other cultural groups on campus have mostly taken a backseat since immediate consequences of the racial justice protests on campus this fall. Although President DeGioia’s announcement in February 5, 2016 for a new slate of race-based initiatives on campus — most notably, the establishment of a department of African-American studies — was an important step toward making Georgetown a more inclusive community, more must be done to deal with Georgetown’s specific history. With the national attention that the Times’ coverage offers, Georgetown has an opportunity to showcase what a progressive approach to historic institutional injustices looks like.

The Times article discussed the work of the Georgetown Memory Project, an outside group funded and aided by alumni and friends of the university, which aims to research the genealogy of the slaves sold in 1838 and memorialize their experience on campus. Established

by Richard Cellini (COL ’84, LAW ’88), the GMP is a terrific example of alumni and outsiders getting involved to catalyze the genealogical and historical work of those on campus. Beyond these efforts, we urge the working group to keep the university focused on the victims of the Maryland Jesuits’ plantations and those slaves descendants sold in 1838.

The educational work the group has done since changing the names of buildings on campus — releasing historical pamphlets, publishing digital records of Georgetown’s relationship with slavery through the Georgetown Slavery Archive and holding a wide array of events this week in honor of D.C.’s Emancipation Day

— have been effective steps toward widening public knowledge of the events of 1838.

But if activists and the Group’s work seek to make a lasting mark on this school and the Georgetown community — to come to terms with the institution’s past sins — commemorative efforts alone will not suffice. As the working group continues to consider presenting suggestions for memorializing these 272 lives on campus — not least, by giving Freedom Hall a permanent name connected to those 272 — we must consider approaches to make their memory present in the lives of future Hoyas.

With this article published on the front page of the Times, a national spotlight has been cast on Georgetown’s history with slavery, and with it comes a renewed impetus to consider how we can best address that history. In the article, Dr. Adam Rothman, a member of the working group and a historian at Georgetown, raises the central issue: “It’s hard to know what could possibly reconcile a history like this. …What can you do to make amends?” This editorial board urges the university to make a public apology for the association of the school with slavery — an option the working group is considering — for the 1838 sale in particular, and to commit to honoring the many descendants of that barbaric slave sale.

We recommend the school consider other monuments on campus dedicated to the memory of the 272 slaves and to all who were enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits for centuries. We encourage the school to use the national spotlight on Georgetown to host educational programs and initiatives related to the institutional religious involvement in the institution of slavery, including permanently endowing courses and research positions related to Jesuitoperated plantations, as well as archival research on the early history of the university.

We urge Georgetown to take their moment in national spotlight to be a leader and humbly work to mend our past grievances.

Proof of Progress

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Soul Cycle — After conflicts over the installation of bike lanes in front of churches, a D.C. church will host a bike blessing May 7.

Homesick — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) plan to replace homeless shelters faces dwindling support as she proposes high-cost methods for implementing it.

Swipe Right — Dating app Tinder is giving University of Nebraska Omaha junior Shannon Workman a scholarship for the full cost of her senior year. Workman was expelled from her sorority, Chi Omega, for wearing her letters in her Tinder profile photo — violating the sorority’s “human dignity” rule.

Charity Ball — A high school in Loudoun County, Va., will donate all money it raises for prom to childhood cancer charities.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Angela Qi

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

As a Woman, I Thank You To the Editor,

This week, Georgetown University Counseling and Psychiatric Services announced the introduction of free semester-long services for sexual assault survivors and accused perpetrators. This policy change marks one of many significant achievements for the countless student activists in support of sexual assault policy reform at Georgetown.

Following The Hoya’s publication of (“I Stand With Willa, I Stand With Survivors,” The Hoya, A3, July 21, 2015) in July, student activists and members of the Georgetown University Student Association made reforming Georgetown’s sexual assault policies a priority for the 2015-2016 academic year.

One of the central points in the 2015 Sexual Assault Memorandum of Understanding drafted by GUSA and administrators focused on financial support for survivors, emphasizing the additional strain placed on survivors who have to worry about medical costs or paying for tutoring and counseling services.

GUSA representatives held regular meetings with administrators and CAPS to negotiate how the university could absorb these costs to remove undue financial burden on survivors.

The new policy providing free semesterlong services is a result of numerous conversations between student activists, members of GUSA, university administrators, CAPS and Health Education Services since the summer, addressing both the needs of students and the financial and institutional constraints of the university. It is important to recognize these efforts of sustained student activism, which have allowed numerous changes and initiatives to come to fruition in the past year — including the appointment of Laura Cutway as the first full-time Title IX coordinator and Samantha

Berner as the first full-time Title IX investigator. Georgetown also launched the inaugural Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey to assess the prevalence of sexual assault; using the collected data, students and administrators will make a formal recommendation to the university on a comprehensive bystander intervention program by next spring.

While this year has brought significant reforms to Georgetown’s existing sexual assault policies, many on campus have recognized that there is still work to be done.

In this regard, the role of this year’s GUSA administration cannot be understated, in terms of both securing numerous policy reforms and laying the groundwork for future change. The resounding victory of Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Connor Rohan’s (COL ’16) satirical campaign last spring and the dearth of competitive tickets this spring — which included the Wisemiller’s Grocery & Deli’s “The Hot Chick” sandwich — point to a disappointing lack of confidence among the student body with regard to GUSA politics.

It is important for us to recognize that, although many institutional reforms might ultimately happen behind closed doors, vocal student activism is necessary to spur this degree of administrative action. The changes achieved for sexual assault reform are a product of countless meetings and hours of work from our elected and appointed student officials. In order to continue to challenge Georgetown to be a survivor-centered campus, it is therefore crucial for students to remain passionate and engaged advocates for survivors, and to not dismiss the important ways in which student representatives on GUSA can drive these changes.

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As an alumna who writes about and advocates for girls’ and women’s rights and equality, something I began doing as a student here, I applaud your decision to run (“The Choices We Carry,” The Hoya, A3, April 15, 2016). I know the decision, for the writer and for

your editorial board, was not taken lightly. It was at Georgetown that I learned to think about social justice and it was at Georgetown that I came to understand the importance of women’s voices, and their resounding absence in media, philosophy, ethics, history and politics. By running this story, you took a significant

step toward filling what, until very recently, has been a phenomenally destructive and cultivated void in public understanding about women, our lives and our moral competence. Thank you for doing this.

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Beware the Lesser Evil To the Editor, We find it striking that in an entire op-ed (“Young Progressives: Do Not Drop the Ball,” The Hoya, A3, April 12, 2016) encouraging young progressives to vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Emma Iannini does not cite a single one of Clinton’s policy proposals. Indeed, the only specific policy that she claims a Clinton presidency will bring about, “universal, single-payer health care” is one of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) core proposals. Clinton has stated that it will “never, ever come to pass.”

We are also confused by the idea that Clinton, who makes more from one Wall Street speaking engage-

ment than Sanders makes in a year, will end the “idolatry of wealth” in our country. Democrats, Iannini argues, cannot afford to elect a president who does not share our values. We agree entirely: America’s working people cannot afford a president that supports neoliberal free trade agreements and opposes a $15 minimum wage.

A 3-year-old Honduran refugee sitting in a detention cell cannot afford a president who wants to “send a message” by deporting her. Her family at home cannot afford a president who supports the coup that overthrew the Honduran government, crushed its labor movement and assassinated indigenous activ-

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ists. The global community cannot afford a president whose campaign is financed by the fossil fuel industry and who supports hydraulic fracturing. Iannini raises the specter of a conservative Supreme Court nomination in favor of settling for the lesser evil that Clinton represents.

We refer to Merrick Garland, who has a conservative record on criminal justice issues and ruled in favor of denying Guantánamo Bay detainees the right to trials in court, for an example of the risk that supporting the “lesser evil” poses to the progressive movement.

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EU Needs New Efforts Against Tax Evasion

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Incarceration System Lacks Conscience

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ur criminal justice system is not broken.

Instead, it works with breathtaking, astonishing effectiveness — without flaw, inconvenience or inefficiency — to achieve its purpose: the subjugation of impoverished communities and communities of color in America.

Conversations about criminal justice cannot take place in the absence of our nation’s historical context. Ubiquitously, we have implemented systems allowing hegemonic groups — white, Christian, wealthy men most notably — to flourish and maintain their status. Such systems have neither disappeared nor diminished since 1776. Slavery was gradually replaced by convict leasing, which was gradually replaced by the Jim Crow era, which has been gradually replaced by mass incarceration.

Systemic oppression of poor communities of color exists at every step of the extended process we call criminal justice. According to the Justice Department’s 2015 Ferguson report, “law enforcement practices overwhelmingly impact African Americans,” and research literature reflects this assessment. Cocaine, heroin and hallucinogen abuse is more prevalent among whites than among African Americans, while marijuana and crack use is equal, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites. This disparity in incarceration rates extends beyond drug offenses as one and three African-American men, compared to one in 17 white men, will be incarcerated in their lifetimes.

In the proceedings leading to incarceration, poor people of color face systemic challenges as well. People of color, disproportionate to whites, cannot afford to post bail. Many studies show how such an issue prevents defendants from creating full and complete defenses. In 66 percent of their cases, African Americans are represented by lawyers for the duration of the case while whites are represented by lawyers for the full duration of their cases 88 percent of the time. Studies find that African Americans are 2.5 times more likely than Whites to file discrimination claims pro se — on their own. Prosecutors implement exclusions to remove African Americans from juries.

Once incarcerated, individuals enter a system that disproportionately implements tactics of punishment, rather than one that works to foster equally the three tenets of criminal justice: punishment, deterrence and rehabilitation. Though poor mental health contributes significantly to an individual’s likelihood of committing a crime, mental health resources are scarce in prisons and jails. When they do exist, they often offer only medication services. Moreover, in many states prisons have become the only governmental institutions in operation to house the mentally ill. In Maryland, former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) closed the last remaining mental health institution in the state.

Incarcerated individuals have no incentives to complete even basic levels of education and often are denied access to college-level education. Vocational training in prisons teaches only antiquated skills. Sing Sing Correctional Facility offers woodworking workshops, and inmates at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women sew flags. Few inmates have the opportunity to reduce their sentences, no matter how many programs they complete or how well they behave.

Once incarcerated individuals complete sentences, they re-enter society with limited skills and educations and poor physical and mental health and thus lag behind other members of society. This gap exacerbates existing challenges for returning citizens, who in many states and localities cannot vote, in obtaining public housing or getting a job. Some paroles require ex-convicts to sign a lease or report pay checks, so the systematic discrimination of the job and housing market prevents them from following their paroles. For all, it fosters recidivism.

These restrictions represent a fraction of the systemic hurdles for those who go through the criminal justice system. The children of former inmates are two to five times as likely to get caught up in the legal system and inmates can end up back in jail for technical parole violations. In one case, a man was returned to jail after he mistakenly followed his GPS into Virginia and violated his parole. Solitary confinement erodes mental health. Predatory cells in prison bring inmates into contact with higher-level offenders, increasing their chances of committing a higher-level offense after they leave.

Our criminal justice system poses inhibiting, life-altering obstacles to the poor individuals of color it preys on largely through drug policy, policing and discriminatory legal procedures. The system’s mechanisms perpetuate our nation’s historical disempowerment of communities of color to maintain the status of the powerful. It is our country’s single most oppressive system.

The criminal justice system cannot be reformed, tinkered with, gradually patched up or even fixed if we truly want to break the shackles of racial and class discrimination. It must be fully and forcefully dismantled, redesigned, reshaped and rebuilt to promote the three tenets of criminal justice and a foundation of racial and socio-economic equality.

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

ladimir Putin, Bashar al Assad and Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson. That is probably not the company with whom the former Icelandic prime minister had hoped to be associated with in 2016, but connections with Panamanian law firm Mossack-Fonseca has brought him, along with the aforementioned dictators and many others, to occupy the same headlines.

Clients involved in the 2.6 terabytes of Mossack-Fonseca’s leaked data range from 140 public figures from 50 countries, current and former heads of state, members of parliaments, advisors and the world’s greatest soccer player.

The leak reveals connections with many other issues throughout the world. Mossack-Fonseca did business with Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, whose family helps the government through numerous offshore accounts.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev is linked to various offshore companies connected with the state’s major industries. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who is trying to lead the country out of corruption, is linked as a sole shareholder of a company named in the leak.

The massive scale of this discovery will continue to add layers to the unfolding stories of 2016 — but we already knew many public figures were evading taxes, just not exactly how. Through such a massive leak and exposure, the European Union must now make changes and increase

its efforts to confront such tax evasions.

Many news outlets have mentioned that, in principle, creating shell companies and opening offshore accounts is not illegal. For individuals who need to access cash abroad or major companies moving operations abroad, this freedomto do this facilitates world travel and international business.

Yet, political figures will bear the brunt of the moral backlash from the Mossack-Fonseca leak, and in Europe this outrage could lead to more political changes.

Former and current ministers and advisors from Italy, Spain, Poland, Great Britain and Iceland have already been named in the leak; there are no overarching regional or political patterns.

Wherever public figures are implicated in the EU, the Mossack-Fonseca leak will be used as

fodder to criticize the political establishment. Greek left-wing party Syriza, emerging during a wave of anti-establishment frustration after the 2008 financial crisis, has already reacted sarcastically to the implicated former advisor to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras Stavros Papastavrou.

The party leaders wrote, “we have to congratulate Mr. Papastavrou on the wide range of his business activities which, according to data, extend from the Lagarde list to the Panama Papers, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.”

In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron benefits from his late father’s offshore company, which was set up through Mossack-Fonseca. Labor party leader Jeremy Corbyn argues that “his determination to conceal that arrangement over many years raises serious questions over public trust in his

VIEWPOINT • Hashmi & Maske

Lead Poisons Social Justice

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nvironmental justice is often considered a majority-white and privileged form of social justice we should worry about after tackling more pressing social issues. However, this misconception creates a problematic complacency. It is so easy to disconnect environmental justice from issues of poverty, race and social equity.

In our collective disconnect, we can look at recent lead-poisoning events in Flint, Mich. and Newark, N.J., and conclude that they are isolated events and not part of a much larger public health crisis, yet we fail to see that these responses are nothing but Band-Aids placed on a bullet wound. Flint and Newark are exemplary manifestations of institutionalized neglect, racism and capitalism.

As early as the 1920s, the public health community and the lead industry have been aware of the negative consequences any amount of lead in blood can have on humans: increased development of intellectual disabilities in children, increased risk of hypertension and kidney damage, increased rate of miscarriage and, sadly, so much more. Documents from the Lead Industries Association meetings in the 1950s quote lead officials’ explicit acknowledgement of lead poisoning disproportionately affecting people of color.

Because the lead industry deceitfully sold poison through its products to the American public for nearly a century, publicized crises like Flint 2015, Newark 2016 and D.C. 2004 are entirely unsurprising.

How is this neglect possible in our democratic society, you may ask? Consider the nature of large industries, like the lead industry, operating primarily for profit.

When a poorly regulated industry is centered around the sale of a product that causes harm to the people it serves, that industry has no incentive to stop pushing its product unless it will hurt its brand name.

The lead industry’s cruelty toward communities of color and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) dismissal of countless red flags are two examples of the blatant environmental racism plaguing our country. This theme extends beyond lead. Consider the devastating effects of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the poorest, blackest areas of New Orleans. Consider the boom in asthma in communities of color.

These devastating events were all man-made and, through centuries of institutionalized racism, poor minority Americans have been neglected and oppressed by such environmental racism.

What is hardest to grapple with are the systemic injustices leading to this reality. There is poverty driven by racism and segregation condemning African Americans to decrepit housing

in industrial areas rife with pollutants. There is continuing discrimination keeping black and Latino people from exercising agency over their own homes.

Conservative politicians’ strict adherence to the belief that state authorities can regulate themselves and protect their residents without the federal government’s help and the general neglect of poor communities and communities of color persists to this day. These injustices result in a vicious cycle that further damages stereotypes of African Americans and the poor: By the time lead use in gas and paint was banned in the 1980s, African-American teenagers were suffering from its effects, which included lower IQs, tendency toward behavioral issues and greater rates of violent behavior.

Despite evidence of American lead crises, officials, politicians and journalists continue to refer to these tragedies as issues of politics, infrastructure, economics and the like. And while it is acceptable to acknowledge that these factors play a part in Flint, Newark, New Orleans and Detroit, it is not acceptable to deny and obscure how the health and lives of real individuals are on the line. The people in these communities continue to be treated as numbers, dollars and buzzwords on the tongue of our nation, and their importance fades with the news cycle. We must stop and change our approach.

The essence of public health is to look beyond isolated events and to understand root causes of community health issues. At this point in time, that is not the approach taken for the many environmental health hazards around the country. In our society, large industries prioritize profits over community needs and the damage done to those communities is seen as the inevitability of business. We cannot continue to use our historically unjust systems to justify further injustice. We must stay steadfast in the fight to change the public’s approach to humans.

The cost of eliminating lead from our housing and infrastructure is undoubtedly high and this can lead to complexity in political and economic decision-making. However, we must seek a government that fully understands the disproportionate impact its decisions can have on marginalized populations. We can no longer allow environmental crises to decimate black communities as a result of disconnected policy making.

Therefore, we must seek to fully understand these issues and actively push our policymakers to make decisions that fully recognize the dignity of all people.

Jamil Hashmi is a senior in the College. Angela Maske is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service.

office and his willingness to be straight with the public.”

In light of the leak, EU member states must take such accusations seriously and be proactive in addressing the outrage. Furthermore, EU institutions must engage proactively to show they will not tolerate the corruption and hypocrisy of these select political figures who are hiding wealth offshore to evade taxes.

Before the leak the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, had already announced a proposal to enforce the taxation of profits where they are created, making tax havens less lucrative. But the commission cannot be seen as complacent and inactive in light of new information. There should be an energetic response to this leak even in light of the possible tax evasion claims made against EU Commissioner for Energy and Climate Arias Cañete, in relation to his wife’s possession of an offshore company.

It will be crucial for the European Parliament to carry out an investigation through a special committee. Such an approach is required to adequately deal with this serious leak. Rather than a threat, this can be seen as an opportunity for the various organs of EU governance to demonstrate legitimate oversight and cooperation to address a serious issue.

Nathan Crist is a graduate student in the School of Foreign Service.

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Antagonism Beyond Our Front Gates

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t arrived through email in February of last year. The subject line declared, “Office of Student Conduct: Notice of OffCampus Citation.” My eyes rolled passed the complaint: “Failing to ensure trash, litter or trash bags are placed in appropriate trash receptacle(s).” I cringed and kept scrolling. “Trash Work Sanction Hours. Amount: 10.” A pasted photo constituted the evidence of a crime. On the edge of my property sat a black trash bag from which two limp blue handles streamed.

Such was my introduction to Georgetown’s trash regime.

The complaint offered me and my housemates the chance to appeal. We did, thinking our case was a slam dunk. We live in a multi unit apartment, with another tenant above us, and we had white trash bags with red handles, not the bruise-colored bags depicted. Nobody in our home had seen the trash bag, leading us to believe a complaint was made before we were able to remove our neighbors’ trash from the sidewalk. We explained our situation, attached a photo of our own trash bags and sent the apMatthew peal to student conduct.

Our appeal was summarily denied.

We protested, but were rejected again. It was explained to us that “our appeal did not provide evidence that the bag belonged to our neighbor.” We had mistakenly considered documenting the mismatch between our bags, white with red handles, and the bag in front of our home, black with blue handles, to be evidence.

Crestfallen and “salty,” we accepted our punishment: five work hours each, to be completed through the Office of Residential Living. Salty seemed like the appropriate mood since we were asked to spread salt in the neighborhood, de-icing the driveways of neighbors.

The day before our remaining sanction hours were due, an ice storm hit Georgetown, encasing the neighborhood in an inchthick crystalline layer of ice. But sanction hours remained, and we were dispatched with ice picks.

Awkwardly shuffling along dangerous sidewalks, we resembled an arctic chain gang in the service of the university.

Until this February, we considered our trashy adventure behind us. We acquired new neighbors, and heightened our vigilance against trash slippage. Then a storm hit us on a Friday, also trash day. Our neighbors’ can was buried in the snow, 3 feet heaped into a bank. My housemates and I departed for a conference in Montreal and returned to a new email in our inbox. The subject line

was familiar: “Office of Student Conduct: Notice of Off-Campus Citation.” This time it featured an image of a trashcan, which was reexposed by the snowmelt in our absence.

We doubted any efforts would draw leniency from our punishers in the Office of Student Conduct and did not waste our breath on an appeal this time.

It was a warm February and no snow remained on the ground when we completed our sanction hours. My housemates and I did penance in trash rather than ice, crawling over the neighborhood for five hours each and collecting our neighbors’ debris, including cigarette butts, shattered bottles of Pellegrino and even a Lunchables. The whole time we wondered where this trashy regime had come from, and why it stunk so badly. Why was a policy we assumed was meant to be educational enforced with such draconian zeal?

A little digging revealed the hand of the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

The association represents the interests of neighbors to the university, pressuring it to retreat from west Georgetown while also retoolQuallen ing student life to push noise, alcohol and trash behind the front gates rather than extending beyond it.

The university generously refers to the standoff as a “model of towngown relations.”

Since the 1980s, the neighborhood has pushed Georgetown to pursue the financially and aesthetically difficult goal of housing nearly 100 percent of students on campus, as adopted in the 1989 Campus Plan. In 2007, the university had to sell the Wormley School, where it hoped to house its public policy institute, to luxury developers since the neighbors blocked a proposal to have classrooms put in an old school building.

In the 2010 Campus Plan, the university tailored student conduct processes to neighbors’ demands, banning student car ownership while agreeing to pay student employees to patrol and document students in the neighborhood for trash violations.

When a student is documented, the infringers are required to complete community service, pay fines or be subject to other penalties. It stiffened similar penalties for off-campus noise and alcohol violations.

Students: The next time you wonder why you are subject to a disciplinary regime that stinks, look no further than just beyond the front gates.

Matthew Quallen is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. Hoya Historian appears every other Tuesday.

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Nobel Laureate Akerlof Talks Economic Theory TARA SUBRAMANIAM Hoya Staff Writer

Professor of economics George Akerlof, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, emphasized the dangers of free markets for consumers and the importance of deregulation in the 2008 financial crisis in a discussion of his new book, “Phishing for Phools,” at the Carroll Round’s second Professor Speaker Series in the McGhee Library on Thursday.

According to Akerlof, “Phishing for Phools” contradicts conventional economic theory, as it argues that no one benefits from making others suffer only in equilibrium, which is difficult to achieve in reality.

“With completely free markets, there’s not only freedom to

choose, there’s also the freedom to ‘phish,’” Akerlof said. “It will still be true that the equilibrium is Pareto-optimal, but it will be an equilibrium that is optimal not in terms of what we really want, but optimal instead in terms of our tastes. Standard economics ignores this difference because most economists assume that people know what they want.”

According to Akerlof, while free markets fulfill material desires and consumer tastes, they can also harm consumers by exploiting their psychological weaknesses.

Specifically, markets take advantage of offering products related to four things: personal financial insecurity, financial and macroeconomic instability, ill health and bad government.

Under Akerlof’s theory, free mar-

kets only truly benefit consumers when there are no external incentives for businesses.

“The idea of tempting consumers to buy is at the heart of capitalism.”

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“Free markets only provide us what we want if we, human machines, make the right choices. If we have some weakness, that weakness will be targeted if there’s a profit to be made,” Akerlof said. “As a result, we have a phishing equilibrium, in which every chance for a profit more than the ordinary

will be taken.”

Akerlof said these ideas are often ignored by economists.

“I believe that ‘Phishing for Phools’ is one of those holes in economics. Because all economists know it, it cannot be published, and because it cannot be published, it gets ignored,” Akerlof said. “Because it was ignored, we have the financial crisis and that’s the central event in the economic history of our time.”

According to Akerlof, the financial crisis was shaped by weak national policy.

“A wrong-minded U.S. national story about economics, which is that everything will be alright if the government steps out of the picture and we just let people be free to choose, has resulted in systematic bad policy,” Akerlof said.

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Professor George Akerlof, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, spoke about his new book, “Phishing for Phools,” the dangers of the free market and the benefits of deregulation at the Carroll Round’s second Professor Speaker Series in McGhee Library.

The market in which businesses profit off the psychological desires of consumers fuels the present-day capitalist model.

“Life in a capitalist economy is a continual temptation,” Akerlof said. “Just walk down a city street.

Shop windows are literally there to make you come in and buy. The idea of tempting consumers to buy is at the heart of capitalism.”

Akerlof said this conception of capitalism contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. “‘Phishing for Phools’ gives us an extremely succinct explanation for what happened,” Akerlof said. “If I have a reputation for selling perfect avocados, I have an opportunity. I can sell you rotten avocados at the price you would pay for the perfect ripe ones. I will have mined my reputation but I also will have phished you for a fool.”

According to Akerlof, the reputations of big ratings agencies, such as Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, had been built up for almost a century. Even though bonds and securities became more complex, and more challenging to rate accurately, the public continued to rely on the agencies’ ratings because of their prior reputation.

Akerlof said these inaccurate ratings — supported by stable reputations — led banks to borrow too much money using unstable securities as collateral.

“The value of the securities reflected by the ratings, enabled commercial banks, investment banks and hedge funds to borrow huge amounts of money. That borrowing was made with the rotten securities as collateral,” Akerlof said. “When the truth was discovered, what we saw from Frankfurt to New York to Reykjavik was that financial institutions owed much more than they owned. Without bailout, they were bankrupt.”

Carroll Round Programming Chair Duy May (SFS ’18) said the Carroll Round was pleased to host Akerlof in a more informal setting.

“Dr. George Akerlof is a thought leader in the field of economics and the Carroll Round is honored to host Dr. Akerlof again — this time in a more informal and intimate setting with the Georgetown community. With the presence of an engaging audience, the event went well as expected,” May wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Kelsey Harrison (SFS ’18), who attended the event, found Akerlof’s economic diagnosis to be thoughtprovoking.

“I thought it was especially interesting to hear about the narrative part, about the stories people tell in economics,” Harrison said.

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Brown House to Be Converted to Administrative Use Jack Lynch and Ian Scoville Hoya Staff Writers

Students have begun a petition to protest the administration’s repurposing of the townhouse at 3616 N St. NW, popularly known as Brown House, from student housing for administrative needs.

The “Save Brown House” petition, which over 500 students have signed, was implemented on Sunday through a Facebook event created by D.J. Angelini (MSB ’17), argues the repurposing of Brown House will negatively affect undergraduates and reflects a broader tendency of the university to act deceptively in its reassignment of townhouses.

Brown House will be used for the Office of the Provost, according to the Office of Residential Living.

“The administration is removing an integral part of the community and center of social life for students, while continuing to mislead and exclude student leaders in determining the future of townhouses,” the petition states.

Assistant Dean for Residential Living Stephanie Lynch said Brown House’s repurposing is typical of the university’s housing plan. Eighteen Magis Row townhouses on 36th Street were converted from upperclassman housing to administrative offices and faculty and graduate housing in 2013.

“Each year we reassess the use of residential spaces and felt it was important to repurpose this space in support of the university’s mission. We look forward to potentially bringing an additional faculty presence into the residential community,” Lynch wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Georgetown University Student Association Deputy Chief of Staff Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) said the repurposing raises questions about the university’s motives.

“But who’s in Brown House, which is an integral part of the community, a house on the only block that is all students, which makes it a lot easier to live and party and do things that normal college kids do,” Goldstein said. “I think that this issue raises serious questions about the intention of the administration.”

Goldstein said GUSA, which has been working with the administration to avoid townhouse conversions, was not informed of the change until he read it about it on The Hoya’s blog, The Fourth Edition.

“I read in The Hoya last week that the Brown House was being converted, so the decision really blindsided a lot of us in GUSA because we had been talking about this specific issue of townhouse conversions with administrators for months, and they never once mentioned that this was in the works, and then I read it in The Hoya,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein, who supports the petition, said he hopes the petition spurs greater engagement with the administration.

“I think many students are concerned about it, which is why we see this ‘Save Brown House’ petition, which I am in full support of, if not actually for saving Brown House, then for forcing the administration to come to the table with more clear answers and with more transparency on this issue,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein said the administration’s decision reflects instability in the campus plan negotiations.

“I am also concerned because I think the lack of transparency and the sudden way that this decision was announced are indicative of a larger tone of the master planning conversation of the last few months, specifically as it relates to housing,” Goldstein said.

Mara Goldman (SFS ’19) said repurposing Brown House would hurt student life and remove one of the best housing options for upperclassmen.

“I think that repurposing Brown House would remove an important aspect of the social scene on campus,” Goldman said.

Daniel Lysak (COL ’18) said he understood the importance of Brown House to students, but that students have to try to understand the reasons behind the university’s decision.

“On the one hand, Brown House has served as a wonderful center of social life at Georgetown. That being said, if we as students want to challenge the university, we must also understand their perDAN GANNON/THE HOYA spective,” Lysak said.

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Relay for Life Returns With Higher Participation Marina Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

Eighty teams with over 1,000 participants raised over $138,000 at Georgetown’s annual Relay for Life fundraiser to benefit the American Cancer Society Friday, breaking 2015’s total of $133,000.

The theme of this year’s Relay for Life was “Cirque du Relay,” where the Relay committee sought to create a carnival atmosphere with games, dance classes, soccer matches and music from Georgetown student groups. A silent memory walk late in the night — the “Luminaria Ceremony” — encouraged students to reflect on how they and others have been touched by cancer, and included a performance by the Georgetown Phantoms.

According to event co-chair Emily Horne (COL ’18), the group’s fundraising has declined each year for the past five years, following the first Relay for Life event in 2007. Last year marked the first time in five years that the event raised more than the prior year’s event.

The Relay for Life Executive Committee, Georgetown Sigma Phi Epsilon, the American Cancer Society’s Can Extreme team, Fred’s Fighters and Georgetown Kappa Kappa Gamma raised the most money at the 2016 event.

The Executive Committee raised $31,015.55 as of press time, followed by SigEp and the Can Extreme team at $28,268 and $9,383, respectively.

“It’s definitely been my favorite Relay at Georgetown but I also

just think it’s been such a successful night after a year of planning,” Horne said.

Event co-chair Stephen Laufer (SFS ’16) said the event is consistently strong because of its ability to bring Georgetown students together.

“I think everyone in some sort of way is touched by cancer, and Relay for Life is a really great opportunity for people at Georgetown who normally wouldn’t attend the same events to come together for a common cause,” Laufer said. “It’s something that really unites and bonds people and provides support for one another.”

This year’s event featured many changes as a result of turnover within the Relay for Life executive board, after many members graduated. Laufer praised the underclassmen for pulling off the event.

“All of these sophomores and juniors who had never experienced what it was like to be on the executive team really stepped up to the plate to make this event happen.” Laufer said.

According to Horne, the tents and booths at the event were also rearranged on Cooper Field to make the event feel more intimate, with luminaries forming a border around field.

Alexander Zigerelli (MSB ’17), a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said he believes participation is especially important for Greek organizations given the reputation of Greek life nationally and its status as unrecognized at Georgetown.

“There’s a lot of negative stig-

ma about fraternities and sororities because people think we only party but there’s so much more to the culture,” Zigerelli said.

“There’s so much more we do in trying to help out the community in every way we can.”

SigEp’s Vice President of Philanthropy Christian DeRosa (COL ’17) said his fraternity comes together every year for Relay due to his chapter’s longstanding connection with the effects of cancer.

SigEp captured second place for funds raised this year, and raised more than the Relay Executive Committee last year at $34,690, the first in the event’s history.

“It’s something that we can all kind of bond over. I mean, one of our founding brothers actually had testicular cancer his senior year when he graduated, and then went on to become a doctor, and he definitely still keeps us motivated on that front,” DeRosa said. “I think every single person in the fraternity has either a direct or indirect tie to cancer, and in the same way that at Relay itself people share stories, we do that internally as well.”

Stephen Tranchina (COL ’18), who participated in Relay as a member of Club Swimming, also stressed the importance of volunteering for a good cause.

“It’s a tradition we have because we like to get involved with campus outreach, and we all either have known someone or been affected by cancer in some way whether it’s a relative or a friend,” Tranchina said. “So it’s our way to give back and do something more than just swim.”

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Over 1,000 participants, in 80 teams, participated in the ninth annual Relay for Life fundraising event, raising $138,000 and surpassing the $133,000 raised in 2015.

Study Reveals Wage Gap Lisa Burgoa Hoya Staff Writer

There is a $1 billion chasm between the collective annual earnings of working women and their male counterparts in Washington, D.C., according to a new report published by D.C.-based nonprofit National Partnership for Women & Families on Equal Pay Day April 12.

According to the report, women employed full-time and year-round in the District earn an average of 90 cents to each man’s dollar, totaling an annual wage gap of $7,214. This aggregates to a $938 million loss for D.C. women every year.

The National Partnership estimated that without this wage gap, a woman in D.C. would be able to afford an average of five extra months of rent, 59 more weeks of food for her family or three additional months of mortgage or utility payments. Women serve as the primary breadwinners for 42,000 family households in the District.

“These women, their families, businesses and the economy suffer as a result,” the report reads.

“Lost wages mean families have less money to save for the future or to spend on basic goods and services — spending that helps drive the economy.”

The report further found that this disparity persists across the educational and occupational spectrum. Women with doctoral degrees are paid less than men with master’s degrees, while women with master’s degrees are paid less than men with bachelor’s degrees.

The National Partnership attributed these factors to discrimination and bias still dogging working women who possess comparable educations and experiences to men.

“Statistical analysis shows that 62 percent of the wage gap can be attributed to occupational and industry differences; differences in experience and education; and factors such as race, region and unionization,” the report reads. “That leaves 38 percent of the gap unaccounted for, leading researchers to conclude that factors such as discrimination and unconscious bias continue to affect women’s wages.”

Nevertheless, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce chief economist Nicole Smith said these figures may not paint the whole picture, citing majors that tend to attract more women and fewer higher paying jobs.

Smith claimed that gender influences choices in college major and occupation, causing women to opt for careers that often pay lower wages.

“If you look at all the doctors who tend to be women, female doctors prefer to be pediatricians and obstetricians much more than surgeons, who are the top-earners,” Smith said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to do with social constructs

and influences early on in life — women seem to always prefer caregiving, social occupations.”

Worker Justice in D.C. Alternative Break Program leader Laura Fairman (SFS ’18), who also serves as GUSA Student Advocacy chair, highlighted the importance of addressing the wage gap, pointing to women’s pragmatism in making financial choices.

“Investing in women increases development and the economy substantially more than investing in men does, because if you invest in women, they will spend much more in investing in nutritious meals for their children, investing in their children’s education, putting away for college,” Fairman said. “Women are really pragmatic decision-makers financially, and they generally invest [more] directly in their children or community initiatives than men.”

The National Partnership’s data also indicated that women of color earn even less than their white peers, with Latina and black women earning on average a respective 50 and 56 cents to every white, nonLatino man’s dollar.

Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor research fellow Shalina Chatlani (SFS ’17) stressed that structural racism hinders wage parity for minority women.

“There are so many causal links, and unless there’s an overhaul on attitude in the US that completely rejects bigotry and racism, there will continue to be ways to push blacks and minorities to the edges of society,” Chatlani wrote in an email to The Hoya. “A lot of single mothers tend to be minorities – this means you can’t work full time, which means you get a lower wage job, and you can’t work as much. If you’re a young single mother, you can’t finish school, which leads to a low-wage job.”

Fellow Kalmanovitz scholar Pamela Escalante Gonzalez (SFS ’17) said changing attitudes rather than policies can bridge the wage gap, drawing on her experiences surveying workers about minimum wage policy.

“It’s unconstitutional and illegal to do all of these things, but policy doesn’t get people to care.

Policy doesn’t get people to change the way they look at the issue,” Escalante said. “Policy will only go so far as the people who are supposed to be enforcing it will let it go. It takes people to get change.”

Escalante said with her approaching graduation, confronting the wage gap seems more pressing than ever.

“This is a fear that I definitely face graduating from this institution, knowing that my white, male peers are going to be paid more than I am for doing the same amount of work simply because they are more marketable than I am as an immigrant, as a Latina and as a gay Latina,” Escalante said.

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University Questions Relationship With Nike NIKE, from A1 it began looking into writing a letter to the company in November 2015 following Nike’s decision, after a series of worker strikes at their factories in Hansae, Vietnam, to bar WRC auditors from investigating the factories.

“We had been informed of Nike’s position regarding the Hansae factory in Vietnam. This is something the LOC would normally write a letter to the licensee about. As we looked into doing that we found out that Nike was not contractually obligated to follow the Georgetown code of conduct,” Kline said.

Georgetown has been a member of the WRC since its founding in 2000, when the university left the Fair Labor Association following the recommendations of the LOC and the organizing efforts of members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee. Nike subsequently sent a letter to university contract holders to explain its position on barring the WRC from entry into its factories.

“Their position is that they only work with ‘certified auditors’— their own auditors, the FLA or the International Labor Organization,” Kline said. “Nike’s next communication with universities listed their arguments and restated their policy and asked universities to respond.”

At the same time that the LOC began researching the university’s contract with Nike, student-athletes and other advocates began organizing their own campaign against Nike, following a justice and peace studies

class taught by professor Eli McCarthy, which included watching activist Jim Keady’s documentary on Nike sweatshop abuses. Students in the class, including AAWR leader Isabelle Teare (COL ’17), subsequently organized an on-campus presentation with Keady.

“After I gave my lecture, I was approached by a handful of athletes who wanted to learn more and know what they could practically do to impact the lives of workers and use their position as student-athletes to be a voice for factory workers, most of whom are women their own age,” Keady said.

Student-athletes and allies began organizing soon after in collaboration with United Students Against Sweatshops, a national, student-led grassroots organization fighting for the labor rights of workers. In November 2015, AAWR submitted a letter to DeGioia urging the university to cut its ties with Nike. This was followed by student-athletes and AAWR members also taping over the Nike swoosh logo on their uniforms in a widespread social media campaign, as well meetings between AAWR organizers and university administrators, and awareness campaigns, including bringing former Nike garment worker Noi Supelai to campus in March to discuss her experience in the factories in Northern Thailand.

“They learned a lot in a short amount of time and they did it with an absolute passion,” Keady said.

“The situation with Nike’s refusal to allow WRC auditors into its factories was timely and the students jumped on it and have effectively used

Georgetown’s institutional power to leverage pressure on one of the largest corporations in the world.”

The AAWR has also received support on campus from the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, which works to develop strategy to support workers, and university faculty members, 30 of whom signed a letter written by McCarthy and submitted to DeGioia in support of the AAWR’s efforts.

“What’s special about Georgetown is that faculty have been really important, which shows that this is really embedded within the Georgetown community, this commitment to independent monitoring,” USAS national organizer Morgan Currier said.

While GSC members have been in talks with the AAWR, they have thus far refrained from partnering with them, focusing instead on their ongoing Work With Dignity campaign in solidarity with campus workers.

GSC member Lily Ryan (COL ’18) who also serves on the LOC, said she sees the AAWR campaign as complimentary to GSC’s work on campus.

“The point of the campaign has been focused on campus workers but looking at Georgetown’s supply chain is just as important. We can’t pretend to be a university that prides itself on social justice and transparency if we’re not aware of how our brand is being produced and really not be afraid to put pressure on companies when we feel they’re not ethically producing merchandise,” Ryan said.

Georgetown, like many universities, has a long and complex relation-

ship with the sports apparel giant, possessing extensive licensing and sponsorship contracts. Not only do Georgetown varsity athletes compete in Nike apparel, but Georgetown has the largest contract in the country with Air Jordan, a Nike affiliate. Furthermore, former basketball coach John Thompson Jr. currently sits on Nike’s board of directors.

“Georgetown cares a lot about Nike, but we can only hope that universities are putting social justice and workers rights before profit and making that a standard of these contracts.

[Universities] spend months negotiating the nitty gritty over branding, funding, who gets what. Human rights and workers’ rights should be one of those important criteria that they’re negotiating over,” Currier said.

Georgetown is one of several universities that have begun to take action on this issue. Student organizers at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Cornell University, University of Washington and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, respectively, have all pressured university administrators to remove Nike from campus.

“This isn’t just a Georgetown fight,” Teare said.

The uniqueness of Georgetown’s campaign, Currier holds, lies in the power that Georgetown has a founding member of the WRC with administrators sitting on its board as well as being a movement led by athletes.

“The athlete aspect is very specific to Georgetown – these are the folks that are wearing these products and they

didn’t want to be a walking billboard for a brand that doesn’t allow independent monitoring,” Currier said.

For now, members of the LOC and AAWR must wait for Nike’s response before pursuing further action, which, according to Klein, may stretch well into the summer.

“Before the end of the year, Nike’s contract will expire. I doubt the negotiation will occur between now and graduation but committee members around during summer will try to follow up.

What happens beyond that will depend on whether or not Nike chooses to accept these contract stipulations,” Klein said. “It’s hard to conceive of how Georgetown athletic teams would continue to wear Nike gear if they don’t have the logo on the gear.”

Ryan echoed these sentiments, emphasizing the need for the university to continue to pressure Nike.

“Nike’s a big corporation and I think they have a lot of power. I’m not sure how much of a priority this is for them — we really need to put the pressure on them,” Ryan said.

In the case that Nike does agree to the stipulations set forth, McCarthy holds that there is still more work to be done particularly by the student activists raising awareness about these issues.

“If they do say ‘okay,’ great,” McCarthy said. “But the WRC isn’t the only issue with Nike — the wages, the restricted union, the treatment of workers. It will largely be up to the students who’ve been working on it as to what makes the most sense, what they have the energy for.”

GULC Studies Protestors Call for Release Undocumented TICE, from A1

began targeting newly arrived women and children fleeing violence in Immigration and Customs Enforce- Central America, have had a detrimental effect on the education of ment.

Caroline Kurtz (LAW ’17), one of undocumented children. During the the report authors, said they decided first weekend of 2016, over 100 indito research the paths of undocu- viduals, mostly families with chilmented students after they were re- dren, were taken into custody to be processed for deportation, according leased from immigration facilities.

“We knew that undocumented to the report.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, children were being released, so we decided to focus on what happens an organization specializing in civil to them after they are released into rights and public interest litigation, these communities,” Kurtz said. “Are alleged in an article published Jan. 7 they able to receive the services they that ICE not only apprehended these need? Are they being exploited for individuals without warrants, but work? We decided to focus on educa- also forced them to sign documents tion because we knew there was such they could not read, denied them counsel and took them into custody a clear legal standard.”

The report specifically examined when they had not exhausted all lecommunities in Texas with long- gitimate legal options.

ICE declined The Hoya’s requests standing immigrant populations, as well as those in North Carolina with for comment. a more recent immiThe report grant community. As “It adds fear, claims that by part of the yearlong engaging in process, the authors of whether you are widespread enthe report travelled to an undocumented forcement acboth states to see firsttion, the agency hand how school dis- child or whether has created an tricts accommodate, you have environment and fail to accommoof fear that has date, undocumented undocumented left students students. distressed and As its legal basis, parents.” unable to focus the report discusses on their educaRocio reyes (SFS ’19) civil rights frametion. Though ICE Freshman Representative, works, including the members are not Hoyas for Immigrant Rights implications of Suallowed to take preme Court decisions such as Lau people from school campuses into v. Nichols, which in 1974 expanded custody, they are allowed to monitor the rights of students with limited schools’ learning environments by English proficiency, and Plyler v. Doe, collecting data and conducting site which in 1982 struck down state laws visits. denying educational funding for unHoyas for Immigrant Rights Freshauthorized immigrant students. men Representative Rocío Reyes (SFS The report also highlights the Civil ’19) emphasized the apprehension Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Op- families with undocumented memportunities Act of 1974, asserting bers feel, which can hurt perforthat discrimination against undocu- mance in school for the children. mented students constitutes prejudice “Essentially, if you have someone based on national origin. that is undocumented in your famAccording to Alexander Kramarc- ily, you just fear the point that [ICE] zuk (LAW ’17), another author of the will get to that person,” Reyes said. “It report, many of the emerging prob- adds fear, whether you are an undoclems are rooted in poor communica- umented child or whether you have tion between the federal and local undocumented parents. Regardless, governments concerning legal rights you are unable to focus in school.” of undocumented children.

Kurtz added that this fear can “There’s this fundamental discon- prevent many undocumented imminect once you get to the state and, grants from completing routine dayespecially, once you get to the local to-day tasks. level,” Kramarczuk said. “Commu“What we noticed is that there was nication of that guidance from the this incredible fear that was spreadfederal level just isn’t happening so ing,” Kurtz said. “Even if there were people are just unaware.” no raids in a certain locality, people The report cites the 1965 Elemen- were petrified to leave their homes, tary and Secondary Education Act, to speak to a police officer if they which was most recently reautho- needed help or to go to school.” rized by the Every Student Succeeds The report outlines a series of Act in 2015 expanding the federal recommendations for providing government’s role in funding public equitable educational opportunieducation, to demonstrate that feder- ties for undocumented children. It al law mandates that municipalities particularly emphasizes the need allocate funds to programs aiding for adequate translation services, disEnglish-language learners. semination of legal information, use D.C. Schools Project tutor Benja- of performance metrics other than min Sánchez (MSB ’19) noted that standardized testing in public school many undocumented students can- evaluations and reduction of ICE ennot speak English, much less maneu- forcement action. ver the complex educational system Kramarczuk stressed the imporin the United States. tance of ensuring access to educa“Most of these undocumented stu- tion for undocumented students by dents don’t know how to speak English, improving channels of information they just got here,” Sánchez said. “In between all levels of government. order to engage in the American educa“The biggest thing, at a base level, tion system, they have to be able to com- is communication between the fedmunicate with their educators.” eral government and lower levels of The report also states that U.S. government,” Kramarczuk said. “It’s Immigration and Customs Enforce- less that the law isn’t there, it’s that ment raids, which in January 2016 the communication isn’t there.”

UNDOCUMENTED, from A1

The protest and rally came after an April 6 event titled “Press Freedom Arrested” was hosted on campus as part of the Salim El-Lozi Lecture series during which Tice’s parents, former editors and activists spoke about the importance of ensuring press freedom abroad.

Kaye, who is a member of The Hoya’s editorial board, said the protest is the beginning of a push on campus to raise awareness among students and alumni to continue pressuring the U. S. Department of State to work for Tice’s release.

“This isn’t just the campaign today but really just the beginning of it, trying to galvanize the alumni base and the current student base to show the State Department and to show the White House that we’re really serious about this and we really want this to be a priority,” Kaye said.

Feinman Todd said the issue of press freedom goes beyond ensuring the return of captured journalists.

“I spend my days encouraging students to become journalists, to go out and find compelling stories that need to be told. The world has become increasingly dangerous for journalists. They now have a target on their backs,” Feinman Todd said. “If I am going to continue to

encourage my students to become journalists then I have an obligation to care about Austin Tice and all the other journalists who have gone missing.”

U.S. Director of Reporters Without Borders Delphine Halgand said her organization joined the Tice family in raising awareness of the journalist’s captivity after the Islamic State group beheaded freelance reporter James Foley in August 2014.

“The world has become increasingly dangerous for journalists.”

Barbara feinman todd Director, Journalism Department

“After the death of James Foley, they asked Reporters Without Borders to help them to raise awareness about their son, with the idea that maybe Americans didn’t know that there was still an American missing and alive in Syria,” Halgrand said. “So we started a big campaign, Free Austin Tice, with hundreds of U.S. media.”

Halgrand said her organization has assisted in connecting the Tice family to various government and media organizations.

“We have helped them in any way that we could, which means putting them in touch with journalists released from Syria, putting them in touch with our speaking media, advising them on communication, ways to deal with different governments, ambassadors and so on,” Halgrand said.

Katherine Leopold (COL ’18), who also attended the rally, said the demonstration served as a powerful symbol of Tice’s experience.

“I think that standing all together with blindfolds on in front of the White House with the signs and not really knowing what was going on around us was kind of powerful because we were letting our bodies be part of the message,” Leopold said.

Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) highlighted Tice’s connection to Georgetown in bringing the risks of journalism closer to home.

“Whenever I used to read about journalists in the news or journalists getting kidnapped or when I saw the videos of people getting beheaded by [the Islamic State group], it seemed super far off and distant,” Goldstein said. “When you’re sitting in a journalism class talking about somebody who was in your seat two years before and who is now captured in Syria, it just makes it much more real because you can envision yourself or your peers in a similar situation.”

Film Depicts Refugee Crisis JORDAN, from A1 The film depicted the four weeks that filmmakers Ingrasci and Temple spent living alongside Syrian refugees in the Za’atari refugee camp in northwest Jordan. The U.N. registered them in the camp and gave them an identical tent to the rest of the refugees. They are the first filmmakers to ever do this in a refugee camp.

Ingrasci said the project first began three years ago, while the pair was working on another film.

“Salam [a refugee] told us about what it means to be forced from your home and forced to restart your life in a new country,” Ingrasci said. “That story didn’t align with what we’re hearing in the news. Eight months later we ended up in a refugee camp.”

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Rescue Committee and Jordanian authorities coordinate to run the camp. Za’atari camp is the second largest refugee camp in the world, with almost 80,000 refugees.

The film showed Ingrasci and Temple quickly befriending refugees in the camp, spending hours playing games with and interviewing Syrian men, women and children inside their tents.

Among the individuals featured in the film was 10-year-old Raouf, who suffered a mental trauma after the filmmakers attempted to convince Raouf to attend class in the schools provided

by Za’atari, since the boy had not attended school since leaving Syria. Ingrasci and Temple later learned from Raouf’s father that his school had been bombed in

Syria. The film depicted Temple crying in a tent later.

Ingrasci said the work was emotionally challenging both during and after filming.

“The most difficult part of this entire journey was leaving and knowing they might be there for another 17 years; it was so tough to walk away from,” Ingrasci said.

“You sit here in an amazing space like Gaston and of course the emotion you’re going to feel is guilt.

And the cure to guilt is action.”

“We must ensure children receive the education that their future and their country’s future depends on.”

Rania al abdullah Queen of Jordan

After the screening, Ingrasci, Temple, Darwaza and Mohab Khattab, a co-producer at 1001 Media co-producer, which seeks to builds a gateway between Hollywood and the Arab world, held a panel where Verveer led discussion before a questionand-answer session with the audience.

Queen Rania outlined steps to help rehabilitate the refugees into society and urged everyone to play a part in resolving the crisis.

“We must ensure children receive the education that their future and their country’s future depends on,” Queen Rania said.

“It means creating economic

goals to provide skills and training and jobs in order to kick start growth and recovery. The needs are great, so let us be great. We all have a role we can play.”

Temple said he hoped the film would change the general public’s mentality concerning refugees from short to long-term thinking.

“I think a lot of people, as we did before, think about refugee issues in the short term. You think immediately of the humanitarian needs — food, shelter, blankets, and that is enough,” Temple said. “But at what point does somebody need that opportunity to work again and have the right to rebuild his life and provide for his children?”

Temple said the EU-Turkey deal in effect March 20, in which Turkey has agreed to accept refugees from Europe in return for funds, does not treat migrants humanely.

“There’s been a lot of discussion about the EU-Turkey deal and actually the UNHCR has publicly not supported the deal,” Temple said. “I think if you really look into it there are a lot of challenges facing it, is it really treating people with the dignity they deserve? Treating people as human beings, not pawns to be traded.”

Zoe Nelson (COL ’19) said the film changed her perspective on the situation.

“I thought the film was amazingly done. The personal accounts gave me a whole new perspective and gave the tragic situation a personable side. Seeing first hand the devastating toll the war has taken by disrupting so many people’s lives really stuck with me,” Nelson said.

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GUSA Senate Passes Campus Redistricting Proposal William Zhu Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a new campus redistricting proposal, which consolidates the amount of GUSA senate districts from 11 to seven and increases the total number of senators from 28 to 29, by a 24-0 vote Sunday.

“I think it will do a lot to make GUSA more accessible to the average student.”

JOE LUTHER (COL ’16) Former President, GUSA

The new districts, which take into account the opening of the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall, will represent geographical locations on campus instead of individual residence halls.

Henle Village and Northeast Triangle will be consolidated into the North Campus District, Alumni Square/Nevils, LXR and townhouses will be consolidated into the East Campus District, and Copley Hall, the Former Jesuit Residence and Village C East will be consolidated into

Central Campus.

Vice Speaker of the senate Richie Mullaney (COL ’18) said the redistricting plan helps balance student-to-senator ratios and will hopefully foster increased student awareness and involvement.

“The plan keeps the student to senator ratio consistent across all districts,” Mullaney said. “We also strongly believe that by consolidating these districts, we make the districts simpler, which makes it easier to understand and makes GUSA more accessible to all of the students.”

Freshman North GUSA Senator William Morris (COL ‘19) said the need for redistricting arose from the addition of the new Northeast Triangle Residence Hall and the removal of the Georgetown University Hotel as a housing location.

“I think it is great. I think it accomplishes a lot of things. First of all, we need redistricting because there is going to be new dorm,” Morris said. “As of right now, we are actually phasing out the hotel and introducing the Northeast Triangle.”

In addition to accounting for the new dormitories, the redistricting plan also aims to increase student participation in GUSA senate races. According to Mullaney, no candidates

formally ran for senate positions in some campus housing locations in past years, including the townhouses and LXR districts.

“By consolidating, residences halls into larger geographic districts, we hope to solve the problem where a district does not have a senate candidate,” Mullaney said.

Mullaney said the GUSA senate is normally charged with redistricting the senate districts every three years, but due to the changes in housing locations, a special redistricting session was held.

“Every three years, the senate is tasked with redistricting the GUSA districts for the senate elections. We have to do it more frequently more recently because of all the new residence halls that are going up,” Mullaney said.

The 24-0 vote surpassed the 5/6 majority required of the senate to approve of a redistricting proposal.

Former GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) said the GUSA redistricting plan is a great way to increase student participation on campus.

“I think reducing the number of districts is a great idea. I think it will do COURTESY GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION a lot to make GUSA more The Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a new campus accessible to the average student,” Luther said. redistricting proposal Sunday, adding the East and West Campus districts.

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Nova Stifles GU in Shutout 2nd Half Cameron Perales and Elizabeth Cavacos Hoya Staff Writers

Nick Barton

Outcome Bias Undermines The Process L

ess than two weeks ago, Philadelphia 76ers General Manager Sam Hinkie officially resigned from his position. The news followed reports that Bryan Colangelo — the son of Jerry Colangelo, an advisor to the 76ers — would be hired for a position high up in the front office.

The idea of a triumvirate in basketball operations for the Sixers did not appeal to Hinkie, so he decided to step aside.

Over the past few years Hinkie has become a polarizing figure, avoiding the media while constructing a roster that only won 47 games over the course of three years. When Hinkie did speak to the public, he often addressed how his decisions were based off the team’s long-term goals.

The media — as well as many NBA personnel — often deemed Hinkie an “analytics” guy, like his former boss Daryl Morey. With Hinkie’s resignation linked to the second worst record during a threeyear frame, people in the media began to assert that analytics were bad for the sport of basketball.

However, what exactly are “analytics,” and what does the word mean in the context of this sport?

Hinkie began working for the Sixers a few months before the 2013 NBA draft. Hinkie and the Sixers had little to work with in terms of talent, with their star player, Andrew Bynum, contemplating retirement. Other notable players included the young and talented Jrue Holiday as well as some role players such as Evan Turner.

Hinkie saw the need to rebuild the team from the ground up. He envisioned acquiring as many assets as possible, whether they be draft picks or players, while also trying to strike gold by selecting potential superstars early in the draft.

Now, is that really analytics? From Hinkie and most people’s perspectives, probably not. That strategy was more closely geared toward what Hinkie thought was the best way to win a championship. Even after declaring that this was the process that the Sixers would go through, he made decisions that actually contradicted statistical analysis. A report on all the 1995 first-round draft picks conducted by statistician Nate Silver found that on average, freshmen and sophomores outperformed juniors, seniors and international players both in the short run and the long term.

However, Hinkie took action that specifically contradicted this finding. With the 10th pick of the 2014 draft, the Sixers selected Dario Saric from Croatia. Hinkie made this decision to stash Saric away for a couple years, and as he wrote in his resignation letter, international players have additional value since they do not count towards the 15-player roster maximum limit.

While Hinkie created this long-term plan, many in Philadelphia grew restless with Hinkie’s seemingly ineffective plans for the franchise. Over the past two years, the Sixers finished with the league’s worst record while trading away former Rookie of the Year Michael Carter-Williams. This past season, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recommended that the Sixers hire Jerry Colangelo, the long-time sports executive who felt he could help the Sixers.

Former Philadelphia 76ers General Manager Sam Hinkie made all his decisions on their perceived long-term value.

In one of the first decisions Colangelo made, he signed Elton Brand to provide a veteran presence in the locker room. This move is one that Hinkie overlooked during his tenure with the Sixers. Many of the most successful younger teams have some type of locker room culture, while the Sixers had none. Internally, the Sixers have experienced significant issues with personnel. In the past year alone, rookie center Jahlil Okafor had a few altercations off the court and, according to TMZ, rookie power forward Nerlens Noel caused thousands of dollars in damages in the last home he rented. Having a mentor like Brand for newcomers Noel and Okafor would have been integral in helping them adjust to life in the NBA. While Hinkie used numbers to inform his decisions, his concept of “analytics” is not that different from Colangelo’s analytics. When Mike Zarren, the assistant general manager of the Boston Celtics, spoke at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last month, he pointed out that everyone uses the term analytics, but no one really holds a concrete definition as to what it means. When defining analytics, people often say that it is the analysis of data.

While this is true, data does not necessarily have to be quantified. For Hinkie, most of his decisions came off the basis of quantitative data, while Colangelo applied more qualitative data that he gathered over his years of being a general manager. Neither method of analysis is inherently wrong. Unfortunately, many people will judge Hinkie’s decisions over the past three years based on the Sixers dismal performance, but that is not how we should look at Hinkie’s time in Philadelphia. Hinkie made all his decisions based on their perceived long-term value. Too often, we let outcome bias influence how we view the decisions coaches make. Members of the media should not criticize Hinkie for the decisions he made, but instead for his end goal of sacrificing the present seasons to incrementally increase the Sixers’ odds of winning a title four years down the road.

Nick Barton is a junior in the McDonough School of Business. More than a Game appears every other Tuesday.

The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (2-10, 1-3 Big East) imploded in the second half of its contest against Villanova (7-4, 1-2 Big East), falling 16-4 after finding itself shut out in the second half. Georgetown started strong, taking a 4-4 tie game into halftime, but Villanova’s high-powered offense blitzed Georgetown’s defense, putting in seven goals in the third quarter to put the game out of reach.

The Wildcats opened the game with a goal from freshman midfielder Joey Froccaro in the first minute of the game, but the Hoyas responded and held their ground through the first quarter, scoring three goals to end the quarter with a 3-2 advantage. The Hoyas spread out the scoring responsibility in the initial game play, with goals scored by multiple players; sophomore attack Craig Berge, freshman attack Stephen Quinzi and senior midfielder Corey Parke all found the back of the net in the first quarter.

After a Villanova goal tied the game at 3-3, Georgetown answered at the 11-minute mark in the second quarter, when freshman attack Daniel Bucaro scored on a man-up opportunity to give Georgetown a 4-3 lead. Bucaro’s goal would end up being Georgetown’s last of the game. Villanova junior attack Devin McNamara followed with four minutes left in the period to put the game at 4-4 heading into the half.

While the Hoyas kept pace with the Wildcats in the first half of the game, Head Coach Kevin Warne noted the difference in pace when the teams came back out of the locker rooms.

“This game was a tale of two halves,” Warne said. “We played really well in the first half, we executed our game plan, we controlled the tem-

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Freshman goalkeeper Nick Marrocco made 13 saves in the first half of Georgetown’s 16-4 loss to Villanova on Saturday. Marrocco tallied a season-high 17 goals overall. po a little bit, but we knew that Villanova was very capable of going on a run, and obviously they did. I think the pressure they put on us in the second half was something we couldn’t crawl out from under. They’re a talented, skilled team.”

Sophomore goalkeeper Nick Marrocco was strong in the cage throughout the loss, tallying 13 saves by halftime. But Villanova’s prolific offense, which currently ranks fourth nationally and averages 13.55 goals per game, exploded in the third quarter, racing out to a 11-4 lead to end the period. The onslaught was led by Villanova senior midfielder Jack Curran, who played a role in the first five Villanova goals out of the gate. He scored two

goals and assisted the three that followed in the third quarter. Curran finished with three goals and four assists on the day, earning the Big East Player of the Week recognition Monday.

Georgetown’s lack of possession in the second half, particularly during the third quarter, put a strain on its defense.

“We just didn’t have possession of the ball enough in the second half, and we were forced to play too much on the defensive side of the field in the second half,” Warne said.

The fourth quarter saw more Villanova players getting in on the scoring, with five different players recording over two goals or two assists by the final buzzer to fin-

ish the game on a 12-0 run.

Georgetown moves on from the loss to take on the University of Virginia Cavaliers (6-7, 0-4 ACC) in a nonconference home matchup at Cooper Field this Saturday. The Hoyas will honor its seniors in its last home game of the season.

Warne said he is confident that the team can learn from its recent loss and readjust against Virginia.

“We can take away some of the positives of what we did in the first half [against Villanova],” Warne said. “We’ll take the positives from the first half and learn from the second half and get back to work to play against a talented Virginia team on Senior Night.”

Opening faceoff against Virginia is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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Hoyas Finish 1-2 in Weekend Series Emily Dalton Hoya Staff Writer

Holding onto a sixth-inning rally in game two that lifted Georgetown softball (829, 2-9 Big East) to a 6-5 victory over Seton Hall (21-23, 4-7 Big East) Saturday afternoon, the Hoyas could not hang on, dropping the third and final game 6-5 Sunday afternoon.

Georgetown finished the three-game weekend series at 2-1, dropping Friday’s matchup in a 10-inning 4-2 loss.

In Sunday’s series finale, the Pirates came out firing, taking a four-run lead by the bottom of the third inning.

An RBI single from senior infielder Grace Appelbe sparked the scoring for the Hoyas in the fourth inning. Seton Hall answered with one, but a run from sophomore outfielder Theresa Kane, an RBI single from freshman utility player Kelly Amen and a two-run single from freshman infielder/ outfielder Mallory Belknap tied the game up at five in the bottom of the sixth inning.

What looked like the start of a repeat of Saturday’s sixthinning comeback run slipped away as the Pirates drove in a sixth and final run at the top of the seventh inning, clinching a 6-5 victory.

Freshman catcher/first baseman Sarah Bennett emphasized the importance of competing with teams from start to finish, regardless of the score or their record.

“Today we just competed,” Bennett said about Sunday’s close loss. “I don’t think we played our best offensively or defensively, but we came back and fought until the end, and [Head] Coach [Pat] Conlan really likes when we do that.”

Bennett added that the Hoyas showed grit and perseverance, despite facing such a steep deficit.

“Overall, the fight is what we’re looking for, and when you come back from a deficit and score [four] runs to tie it up, I think that’s a good fight,” Bennett said.

Reflecting on Saturday’s game two win — one that snapped a five-game skid — junior pitcher Delaney Osterday highlighted her teammates’ ability to perform in the mo-

ments that mattered most.

“I think as a team, we made all the right plays when we needed to,” Osterday said. “My teammates really had my back out there and got the outs that they needed to get.”

During the second game on Saturday, it was the Hoyas who started out strong, taking a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. However, by the top of the sixth inning, the Hoyas’ lead had vanished as the Pirates regained control of the game with a score of 4-2.

With two outs in the bottom of the sixth, the Hoyas fought back, using runs from senior third baseman Taylor Henry, Amen, Belknap and Bennett to ultimately claim a 6-5 victory.

“The win [Saturday] was great,” Bennett said. “Any win helps boost team morale, but

help of junior catcher Gabby Elvina.

“I executed my pitches as best as I could, and I thought my catcher called a great game. I think all of us working together like that really created a good environment for winning,” Osterday said.

Looking ahead, the Hoyas hope to keep this momentum going forward.

“I think we are on the right track after this weekend,” Osterday said.

With 37 games played in the Hoyas schedule, the team has eight regular season games left before the FRESHMAN SARAH BENNETT Big East Championship in Rosemont, Ill., in May. game overall.”

Georgetown’s next game Noting the importance of is Wednesday against George pitching over the course of a Washington (20-20, 8-6 Atlangame, Osterday said she put tic Ten). First pitch is set for 6 forth her best effort with the p.m. at Guy Mason Field. it meant a lot yesterday. We really put all of the pieces together, and we just fought until the end. It was a really good

“We really put all of the pieces together, and we just fought until the end. It was a really good game overall.”

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Junior pitcher Delaney Osterday pitched four innings, allowed two runs on four hits and threw a strikeout in the final game of Georgetown’s weekend series against Seton Hall.

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I thought we held a pretty potent lineup down all weekend,” Wilk wrote. “Smith and Mathews pitched brilliantly, Superko competed well and our bullpen did a decent job.”

In addition to solid pitching the whole weekend, the Hoyas benefited from the stellar hitting of senior catcher Eric Webber, who was named

CRAIGE, from A10

away goal, it was nothing compared to the second leg. Held at Anfield on the eve of the 27th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster — an incident in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives in a crowd crush — it was bound to be an emotional game. I would like to say that both the Dortmund fans and players were very classy. The team wore black mourning bands in honor of the 96 who passed, and the fans brought flowers in tribute. “You’ll Never Walk Alone” — the anthem of both Liverpool and Dortmund — was belted out before the game in such a way that it left me with shivers running down my back.

Once the game started, though, that somber feeling completely disappeared. Dortmund scored two beautiful goals within the first 10 minutes to effectively silence the electric Anfield atmosphere. Stuck in the middle of class, I could only watch helplessly in silent frustration. Let me tell you, it was very difficult to not yell at the screen. I am sure many people thought the game was basically over by halftime.

They could not have been more wrong.

After the game, Klopp revealed that he had used the memory of Istanbul 2005 — when Liverpool came back from a 3-0 deficit to win the Champions League — as an inspiration for his players. Whatever he said clearly worked, because the Liverpool team that took the field after halftime played like a completely different team.

Almost immediately, Liverpool striker Divock Origi scored to bring the Reds back into the game. Predictably, Dortmund had another stunning goal of its own, leaving Liverpool to make up a two-goal deficit.

This is where the game turned into a thriller.

By this point, I was thankfully out of class and free to yell at my laptop in the safety of my own room. Philippe Coutinho scored a stunning goal before defender Mamadou Sakho had a header of his own that left the game tied up at 3-3 with just over 10 minutes left in the game. Because of Dortmund’s away goal advantage, Liverpool needed to score one more goal to advance.

The fans — myself included — were going crazy at this point. Klopp had riled them with his magnificent goal celebrations, but time was dwindling away.

With just four minutes of extra time left, it seemed improbable that Liverpool would get the goal.

Then, in the 91st minute, none other than Dejan Lovren — a constantly criticized Liverpool defender — managed to get his head onto a pass. Boom. Goal.

Suddenly it was 4-3.

Like pretty much everyone else, I completely lost it when Lovren scored, both on Twitter and screaming out loud. I’m pretty sure the people living next door thought I was going crazy. It was unbelievable.

This was hands down the most incredible game I have ever seen in my life. Twitter announced that records were broken in the United Kingdom during the game. A Liverpool fan who had to miss the game announced that his newborn son was going to be named Dejan after the hero of the match.

Against all the odds, when other teams surely would have given up, Liverpool managed to eke out a win. The Reds will now face Villarreal in the semifinals, with Champions League football looming on the horizon. Call it the Klopp effect, the memory of Istanbul or whatever you want. For us Liverpool fans, this was Anfield.

Big East Player of the Week on Monday after hitting 7-of10 over three games against the Musketeers.

Webber’s consistent hitting forced the Xavier pitchers to intentionally walk him at the bottom of the ninth, allowing sophomore shortstop Chase Bushor — the game’s winning run — to advance to second base.

Weisenberg credited some

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“My goal is just to go out there and win in straight sets,” Swift said. “I won the first set and then the second set was a lot closer, but I got the break towards the end of the second set, which made all the difference. I was able to finish up and close out the match and hold serve so I was excited.”

Goodson fell 6-1 in the first set of her fourth singles match but bounced back in the second set to win 6-4. Because the match was already decided by the time Goodson began the third set, she and Richmond junior Kelsey Williams entered into a 10-point tiebreak, which Goodson won 10-5.

“She was definitely really on her game, but I kind of knew I just had to wear her down and started making more balls, playing better and won in a close 6-4 second set,” Goodson said. “Risa, our number two player, actually clinched the match just a few minutes before I won the second set so I did a 10-point tiebreaker which was nice instead of having to play the full thing. I ended up winning that 10-5 and it was great, I was really, really happy about it.”

Freshman Cecilia Lynham competed in one of the closest matches of the day. She lost the first set 7-5, but came back and won the second set 6-4. Similar to Goodson’s match, Lynham and her opponent — Richmond freshman Ana Ramirez — only played a 10-point tiebreak.

Lynham ultimately fell 11-9 in that tiebreak, giving Richmond its sole victory on the day.

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Junior captain Victoire Saperstein, pictured, and freshman Risa Nakagawa won their doubles match against Richmond 6-3. The pair is 10-3 this season in doubles play. nant wins over Richmond in recent history for the women’s tennis program.

The Hoyas’ most recent victory over the Spiders came in 2014 with a 4-3 finish.

Meanwhile, the team’s victory on Friday was a near sweep outside of Lynham’s close contest.

“We all had a ton of energy and went out there, and just everyone played so well and the improvement that we’ve seen from the beginning of the season up until now is just incredible,” Swift said. “I think we have a little more work to do in the next couple weeks but hopefully we can do some damage at

the Big East.”

The win came on Senior Day, when the team honored seniors Mimi Lynham — older sister of Cecilia Lynham — and Liselot Koenen.

“They’re just amazing people,” Goodson said of Lynham and Koenen. “They want to make sure everyone on the team is happy and that it’s a family, so we definitely wanted to make sure we made the day special for them.”

“Both of them are such huge assets to the team and it won’t be the same without them,” Swift added.

The match against Richmond was Georgetown’s penultimate match of the

team’s regular season campaign. Next, the Hoyas will take on Villanova (9-8, 0-1 Big East) April 22. Georgetown has been dominant over Villanova in recent years, tallying a 5-0 record in the teams’ last five meetings in both regular season and postseason play.

The Georgetown men’s tennis team (7-8, 1-1 Big East) will return to play, also against Villanova, (7-11) after a weekend of rest. On April 9, the men’s team defeated Bryant (9-11, 3-0 Northeast Conference). The match against Villanova will be the men’s team’s last match of the year before Big East play.

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Georgetown will look to continue its hitting hot streak against cross-town rival George Washington (1621, 6-3 Atlantic 10) Wednesday, April 19. First pitch is set for 7 p.m. at Shirley Povich Field, and the game will be web cast with live stats on GUHoyas.com.

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The Hoyas scored 18 runs and recorded 39 hits over the series.

“Coach Wood does a great job preparing his hitters for new pitchers, [and] he helped me with Xavier’s closer as well,” Weisenberg wrote.

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who sparked a run that mirrored the intensity of the first half.

“In the beginning of the second half, when things weren’t going our way, I think it just motivated me to try to get a rally going,” Lovett said.

After the four-goal run, the Hoyas were up by six with just around five minutes left in regulation. The Bearcats added the last goal of the game off a free position shot, ending the game at the final score of 10-5. Georgetown senior goalkeeper Megan McDonald made six saves during her half in the net.

Six Hoyas scored in the effort against the Bearcats. Lovett was the team’s leading scorer for the game, tallying her second consecutive hat trick.

“I’m just happy because I haven’t played in a few games, I’ve been out with an injury, so coming back has given me confidence,” Lovett said. “It’s definitely been encouraging to be able to help the team.”

Freshman midfielder Francesca Whitehurst and Bandos each added two goals to the count.

Sophomore midfielder Georgia Tunney, graduate attack Morgan Rubin and senior attack and co-captain Corinne Etchison all contributed one.

Fried said that his offensive unit brings crucial depth and skill to the field.

“We emphasize that we’re not going to try to rely on a couple people, and I think that’s given people confidence to take shots when they get them. It makes us harder to defend because there are more threats,” Fried said.

Much of the Hoyas’ offensive success stemmed from quality possession of the ball. Georgetown won 10 out of 16 draws, eight of which were in the first

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Senior midfielder Kristen Bandos scored two goals and had one assist in Georgetown’s 10-5 win over Cincinnati on Saturday. half. Georgetown also had fewer fouls than Cincinnati and only had 16 turnovers to Cincinnati’s 20. Eleven out of Georgetown’s 12 clear attempts were successful. “[Clearing is] a point of emphasis because it’s going to dictate possession for us,” Fried said.

“It’s something that we worked on and it’s something that the girls have taken pride in. And, clearly it has carried over to game day and has helped us limit the other team’s possession.”

Georgetown also played well on the defensive end, with Cincinnati only scoring two settled goals over the entire game.

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conference play Wednesday in Storrs, Conn., when it plays the University of Connecticut (11-2, 5-0 Big East).

Last season, the Hoyas and the Huskies met in two close matchups. Georgetown topped UConn 13-12 in the teams’ regular season matchup, but the Huskies came away with an 11-10 victory over the Hoyas out in the semifinals of the Big East tournament.

Currently, UConn is riding on a four-game win streak. Most recently, UConn beat conference opponent Vanderbilt (5-9, 1-4 Big East) Saturday 13-10 at home.

Opening faceoff is set for 3 p.m. Wednesday.

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Friday’s game saw the team give up eight runs to the Xavier Coming off an 8-5 loss in the se- offense and commit four errors. ries opener on Friday, the George- Over the final two games, Georgetown baseball team (17-20, 3-3 Big town gave up just four runs and East) won two straight contests committed no errors, which the against Xavier (13-24, 1-2 Big East) team has stressed improving all to win the weekend series 2-1. season.

The closing game of the series “After an error or a tough came down to the final moments defensive break, it is up to the with the Hoyas’ backs against the pitcher and defense to stop any wall. After the Musketeers tied growing momentum for the the game 3-3 at the top of the other team,” Weisenberg wrote eighth, freshman infielder Ryan about the team’s commitment Weisenberg faced a 1-2 count at to improving its defensive play. the bottom of the ninth with one “Our staff has started to make big out and two runners on base. pitches following a defensive misWith a double into right field, take, which is key.” the winning The Hoya run scored and pitchers made Weisenberg gave “I liked almost big pitches all Georgetown its weekend, with fourth walk-off everything about sophomore win of the sea- our pitching this pitcher Kevin son.

Superko pitch“Hitting a walk weekend.” ing six innings off was a great Sunday, giving feeling,” Weisenup two runs berg wrote in an and striking PETE WILK Head Coach email to THE HOYA. out four bat“We needed that ters.

Junior Sunday victory, which is what pitcher Simon Mathews pitched made the game-winning hit so his third complete game of the much more exciting for my team- year on Saturday, tying his camates and me.” reer high in strikeouts with Weisenberg’s game-winning nine. Mathews was named to hit capped off two solid defense the Big East Honor Roll on Monperformances from the Hoyas — day following his performance the 4-3 win on Sunday and a 9-1 over the weekend. Even in Frirout on Saturday. day’s loss, Smith gave up just “Saturday and Sunday’s teams three runs to go along with sevare playoff teams,” Head Coach en strikeouts.

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Junior attack Colleen Lovett scored a second consecutive hat trick in Georgetown’s 10-5 win over Cincinnati on Saturday. Lovett currently has eight goals and four assists this season.

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The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (5-8, 3-1 Big East) earned its second consecutive win in conference play on the road Saturday, when it topped Cincinnati (4-10, 0-4 Big East). The Hoyas closed the match with a 10-5 victory and are now 8-0 against the Bearcats since the series began in 2009.

Head Coach Ricky Fried said the Hoyas played with increased confidence after beating Villanova (3-12, 1-4 Big East) 18-7 Wednesday evening in a matchup that saw nine different Hoyas score.

“[The Villanova win] definitely gave us confidence as a team; we did a lot of things really well in that game and I think that carried over, definitely,” Fried said.

Riding the momentum from that win, the Hoyas started out strong against the Bearcats from the opening faceoff, scoring the first five goals of the matchup.

Two of the five were free position goals, both scored by senior midfielder and co-captain Kristen Bandos.

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The Hoyas maintained their lead for the entirety of the game.

Cincinnati attempted to reduce the deficit, and redshirt senior attack Megan Bell scored the final two goals of the first half in an attempt to cut down the Georgetown lead. The score at the half was 6-4 in the Hoyas’ favor.

The second half started off slow and remained scoreless for around 10 minutes before Georgetown went on a four-goal run.

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ormally, the Europa League is largely ignored in the soccer world. As the competition where the second-best teams go — those who either could not make it into the Champions League or were bounced out in the group stage — most people usually give it little thought. The only bright spot of the Europa League is that the winner is guaranteed a place in the next Champions League group stage.

This year, however, the Europa League has proved worthy of our attention. Teams like Borussia Dortmund, Fiorentina, Shakhtar Donestk, Tottenham, Manchester United and Liverpool all found themselves in the Europa League. It made for an exciting series of matches between teams that normally never face each other. The most exciting of all, though, was the quarterfinal leg between Liverpool and Dortmund.

One thing that made this game truly special was that Jürgen Klopp, the current Liverpool manager, coached Dortmund before heading over to the Merseyside club. In his seven years at Dortmund, he led the team to two Bundesliga titles, an appearance in a Champions League final and two finals in the German version of the FA Cup. Needless to say, Klopp is still very well liked at Dortmund, and this was on full display during the two quarterfinal games between the teams.

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With a 6-1 victory over the Richmond Spiders (12-9, 3-3 Atlantic Ten) last Friday, the Georgetown women’s tennis team (11-4, 1-3 Big East) has now won nine of its last 10 matches as the team nears the end of regular-season play before the Big East tournament at the end of the month.

According to Head Coach Gordie Ernst, the victory over Richmond — Georgetown’s fourth consecutive victory — is another example of the team’s consistent dominance and

competitiveness in its 2015-16 campaign.

“I think that there’s an unbelievable commitment to their games and to getting better. … This team is willing to do the work and do what I ask them to do to up their level of competitiveness,” Ernst said.

“They want to go out and they look across the net and say, ‘You know what, I’m not going to lose today.’ And they might lose, but that’s the mentality you have to have and they have it.”

The Hoyas dominated in doubles play against the Spiders, swiftly earning wins in

the first and second doubles slot to capture the first point of the match. Junior captain Victoire Saperstein and freshman Risa Nakagawa continued their season-long success as a doubles pair — they have a doubles record of 10-3 this season — and downed their opponents 6-3. Sophomore Sara Swift and freshman Sydney Goodson won their second doubles match 6-2. Junior Sophie Barnard and sophomore Casey Marx did not finish their doubles match, as the point had already been decided.

“We haven’t gotten the doubles point in awhile, so get-

ting that really got everyone hyped up and we were really excited to move forward in the match,” Goodson said.

Georgetown used the momentum from its doubles win to nearly sweep singles play.

Saperstein downed Richmond senior Anna Abadias Morales 6-3, 6-0 in the first singles slot.

Nakagawa defeated Richmond sophomore Gaby Rosales decisively, winning 6-2, 6-1. Swift and Barnard both earned straight set victories in the third and sixth singles positions, respectively.

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Junior Sophie Barnard, pictured, earned a straight set victory in the sixth singles slot in Georgetown’s 6-1 victory over Richmond. Barnard and junior Casey Marx did not finish their doubles match, as Georgetown had already won the point.

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