The Hoya: February 23, 2016

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

PERSONAL RECORDS

Several track and field athletes set new personal times in the past few weeks.

EDITORIAL The proposed consolidation of RHO services risks being discriminatory.

LARGEST SHELTER TO CLOSE Mayor Bowser proposes smaller homeless shelters as replacements.

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NEWS, A5

SPORTS, A10

Senate Confirms Khan-Fisk Win

GU Jewish Center Plans Launch

Molly cooke Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association senate voted to certify the results of Friday’s GUSA executive election Sunday night, officially confirming Enushe Khan (MSB ’17), former speaker of the GUSA senate, and Chris Fisk (COL ’17), former GUSA deputy chief of staff, as president and vice president.

Khan and Fisk, the only formal candidates in GUSA’s first-ever oneticket executive race, were elected Friday night with 57.9 percent of the vote. The comedic ticket of Wisemiller’s Hot Chick and Chicken Madness sandwiches, interpreted by Anirudha Vaddadi (SFS ’16), came in second with 878, or 35.6 percent, of write-in votes in the final round. The write-in ticket of Reed Howard (SFS ’17) and Courtney Maduike (SFS ’17) placed third with 440 votes in the first round and 454 in the second, while Maddy Moore (SFS ’17) and Scott Lowder (COL ’17) placed fourth with 58 votes.

Khan is the first Muslim, international student and female of color to be president of GUSA. Fisk is the first member of the Georgetown Scholarship Program to be vice president.

Voter turnout was 33 percent of the student body — 2,388 students — markedly lower than the 3,637 votes in 2015 and the record 3,733 votes in 2013.

Two senators abstained and all others voted in favor of certification.

Khan recused herself from leadership of the meeting.

Khan said she is excited to enact her and Fisk’s campaign platforms now that campaigning is over.

“Now we can get to work,” Khan said. “The anxiety comes from having to talk about things but not being able to do them. I personally don’t like talking about things; I just like rolling up my sleeves, getting to work.”

Fisk said he and Khan started work immediately.

“Sunday night after the certification, the to-do list came out and it

IAN SCOVILLE Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University will launch the Center for Jewish Civilization, an interdisciplinary teaching and research program that will cover all aspects of Jewish civilization, with an event Monday.

The center, which will replace the Program for Jewish Civilization, is the result of almost 12 years of work by university administrators, faculty and donors.

“We at Georgetown have a great story to tell about Jewish life. Jewish life and academics have been thriving at Georgetown for a good long time.”

RABBI RACHEL GARTNER

As part of the School of Foreign Service, the center will push forward plans to create a major and a Master of Arts degree in Jewish civilization.

The center will focus on a wide range of subjects, including American foreign policy toward the Middle East and Jewish literature and culture.

The formal launch event Monday night will include a keynote address by Rev. Patrick Desbois, president of Yahad-In Unum and director of the Service for Relations with Judaism in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, University President John J. DeGioia and SFS Dean Joel Hellman.

The center has also hosted a series of events in the run-up to its launch, including an all-day conference Feb. 15 about anti-Semitism. Representatives of the U.S Department of State, as well as area experts from France, Poland, Scandinavia and Holland, will attend the launch.

The Program for Jewish Civilization was originally launched in September 2003 under the leadership of Rabbi Harold White and sought to promote an increased understanding of Jewish civilization at the university.

Rabbi Rachel Gartner said the center will showcase the importance of Jewish life at Georgetown.

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The GUSA senate confirmed the GUSA executive election victory of former speaker of the GUSA senate Enushe Khan (MSB ’17), left, and Chris Fisk (COL ’17), not pictured, at a meeting Sunday. was getting the ball rolling,” Fisk said. “It’s just go, go, go as much as we can and get to work as fast as we can, which is a lot more comforting than the past two weeks.”

The public meeting addressed plans for GUSA’s restructuring and the new D.C. policing bill, both priorities for Khan’s administration, before focusing on whether the procedural issues cited by the GUSA Election Commission in delaying release of election results Thursday night were valid enough to justify disputing the results and holding a new election.

The Election Commission delayed release of the election results for 15 hours on the grounds it believed the Constitutional Council had made a procedural error in ordering it to place five write-in slots on the ballot, following a petition by candidates Howard and Maduike on Wednesday.

Howard and Maduike previously appealed to be formally added to the ballot on Feb. 16, a request denied by both the Election Commission and Constitutional Council on the grounds it

would be a break in typical election procedure.

Students must attend one of two information sessions and sign a form certifying that they understand election rules by a certain date in order to be included on the ballot, though this process is not explicitly stated in GUSA bylaws.

GUSA bylaws indicate the power to regulate and certify elections is at the discretion of the senate, meaning it is the See SENATE, A6

College Embraces New Programs Georgetown strives to innovate with majors, minors Jack Segelstein Special to The Hoya

In recent years, the College has introduced a number of majors and minors in response to student interest, but many academic departments find themselves unable to accommodate the growing demand.

Administrators are struggling to keep these programs as inclusive as possible while managing limited resources and attempting to preserve the hands-on academic rigor they feel might be lost with indiscriminate growth.

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An emotionally charged debate between GULC faculty and students on how to respond to the death of Justice Scalia (CAS ’57) erupted last week.

GULC Faculty, Students Clash Over Scalia Legacy Charlotte allen Hoya Staff Writer

Following the Georgetown University Law Center Dean William Treanor’s public statement regarding late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (CAS ’57) on Feb. 13, which sparked an emotionally charged debate between liberals and conservatives, the Georgetown Black Law Students Association issued an open letter Feb. 19 regarding the treatment it has received from the law center.

Scalia graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown before obtaining his law degree from Harvard University. He served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death and acted as a member of the court’s conservative majority.

Scalia adhered to a judicial philosophy known as originalism, which asserts that the U.S. Constitution is interpreted in terms of its meaning at the time

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African American Studies Earlier this month, University President John J. DeGioia an-

nounced the creation of the African American studies major, which will open to students in the fall of the upcoming academic year. DeGioia also announced the establishment of a working group, which has yet to be formally assembled, to prepare for the implementation of the major.

The African American studies minor was first opened to students in 2004 and has since grown to offer approximately 20 classes per semester and graduates about 25 students per class.

College students have been calling for an African American studies major since 2001, accruing the support of faculty, alumni and over 1,000 student signatures on a for-

mal petition.

Currently offered through the English department, the minor strives not only to rectify exclusion and marginalization, but to expand epistemological frameworks and broaden conceptions of the human condition.

Associate professor of African American studies in English and Director of African American studies Robert J. Patterson explained the process of expanding the minor into a major, a process he and his peers have been discussing over the past three years.

“There is a critical mass of faculty that can make a major more viable.

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FEATURED OPINION Editorial

NEWS SFS Considers Academics The SFS Dean’s Office is evaluating potential changes to the core curriculum.

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NEWS Verveer Discusses Gender Global Gender Justice Week kicks off with a talk from the GIWPS Executive Director.

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The campus plan and GUSA restructuring should be the priorities for Khan, Fisk.

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Sports Close Loss

The women’s basketball team fell 63-60 to Villanova this weekend.

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OPINION WGST Classes Hold Value

Even for a seasoned feminist, there is much to learn from a WGST introductory course.

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OPINION

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Tuesday, february 23, 2016

THE VERDICT

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physically disabled students. For example, a student living in LXR would find that what was once a short trip to his dorm lobby to pick up a package has become a cross-campus trek that comes with physical and time constraints.

In light of these concerns, this editorial board advocates either the rejection of the RHO consolidation proposal or, alternatively, the inclusion of a delivery system proviso in the new campus plan. This proviso would stipulate that the university launch a studentstaffed dorm room delivery service from its centralized RHO, thereby minimizing wait time during bottleneck purchasing periods, eliminating the strains placed on physically disabled students and, crucially, preserving student jobs.

While such an option may not be the most financially sound course of action, it nevertheless reflects a commitment to student comfort, convenience and financial stability — all principles for which Georgetown’s administrators ought to strive.

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Beginning next semester, Georgetown may consolidate its network of on-campus mail services into a single, centralized Residence Hall Office office located in the Leavey Center. The potential reconfiguration, proposed as an arm of the 2017-2037 Campus Plan, stands as a model of both inefficiency and discrimination.

While a downsizing of the current RHO structure would cut university costs, the financial benefits of such an arrangement may be outweighed by logistical drawbacks. Namely, a merger of the current six RHO branches into a single, centralized office would promise long waits and slack service during peak delivery seasons, such as the textbook-buying periods at the beginning of each semester.

Such inefficiencies would only be compounded by the office’s proposed placement in the Leavey Center, a building that already houses over 30 businesses, student groups and administrative offices.

Closing all current RHO locations would, moreover, present a significant obstacle for

​ nderwood for America — A portrait of President Frank Underwood from U “House of Cards” was unveiled yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery.

Health Over Profit — Author John Grisham plans to give away free copies of his latest book to spread awareness of medical technology’s potential to combat cancer.

Dream Date — President Barack Obama, Morgan Freeman and Tom Hanks were spotted at a Farragut West Steakhouse this week.

High Tide — It was reported this week that seas are rising faster than they have in over 2,800 years because of global warming.

Safety Net — More colleges have begun to offer emergency grants that allow students facing sudden financial hardships to stay in school.

Poisoned Patriotism — Thirteen bald eagles have been found dead on a Maryland farm from suspected poisoning.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Derek Nelson

Platforms to Prioritize After a successful year of Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Connor Rohan’s (COL ’16) unconventional leadership, Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk’s (COL ’17) victory marks a return to a traditional, but reinvigorated Georgetown University Student Association. The pair has won the backing of students after demonstrating its experience, dedication and charisma; now the real work begins. Khan and Fisk must leverage the strength of their expansive platform and vision by prioritizing the policy areas concerning the 2017-2037 Campus Plan and GUSA restructuring.

The continuing negotiations of the 20172037 Campus Plan, the university’s new contract with the neighborhood, will define the future of student housing and neighborhood relations for the next two decades. The LutherRohan administration did well in this issue area by engaging the student body through the energetic “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again” campaign in April 2015, which increased representation on the Georgetown Community Partnership’s Steering Committee — a forum created with the 2010 Campus Plan to engage the neighborhood community in master planning — and paved the road for collaborative relations with off-campus neighbors. However, much of this momentum will be lost if Khan and Fisk do not tend to student engagement and continue to cultivate a formal relationship with Georgetown’s neighbors. Sustained student engagement is especially important if Khan will be absent this summer from her role in negotiating with neighbors the finalizing of the Campus Plan. The influence of the student body’s interest in this issue should not be tossed aside, and the new administra-

tion must take the necessary steps to launch a new campaign demonstrating the importance of these negotiations. To cultivate the relationship with the university’s neighbors, the recently elected president must keep her promise to travel to Washington, D.C., every Saturday to attend meetings with the Georgetown Community Partnership and coordinate with her cabinet members and new policy chairs to assume this responsibility during the week.

To call Khan and Fisk’s platform extensive is an understatement; a simple look through the pair’s campaign website will yield over 20 issue areas and elaborate policy proposals and solutions. The last thing this student body wants is an administration that is unable to realize these proposals and solutions because they are swamped by bureaucracy. The new leadership’s proposal to restructure GUSA by streamlining this bureaucracy is necessary for GUSA to focus on actual campus issues. The creation of policy teams is, therefore, especially important if the Khan-Fisk administration wants to effect change. As long as these policy teams are created based off a meritocratic system that ensures that those teams are composed of student representatives throughout Georgetown’s community who are battle-tested experts in their respective focus areas, the restructuring has great potential.

Khan and Fisk are qualified, but as with every newly elected GUSA executive, they must still earn the support of those who did not vote for them. To finally prove they will be successful, they need to exercise their strengths to prioritize the 2017-2037 Campus Plan and their proposed GUSA restructuring.

Partner for Change Confined to our small college campus bubble, we as Georgetown students often find it difficult to influence events happening in the world around us. We often try to make a global impact by forming small, dedicated clubs on campus. However, a lack of manpower or resources can sometimes cause students to fall short of their ultimate service goals. For example, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund at Georgetown has worked admirably to fundraise for materials that might aid the education of Syrian refugee children. However, the UNICEF group feels it could have a greater impact on the lives of refugees if they had access to more resources like those that The George Washington University is currently using to achieve the same mission.

GWU’s Elliott School of International Affairs started an organization in October 2015 called No Lost Generation, a hybrid student government group that works with the close support of the U.S. Department of State to promote access to education for

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ERin Luck (SFS ’19) ruminates on the duties and responsibilities of a any successful GUSA executive team.

Syrian refugees, increase awareness about the issue and raise both in-kind and financial donations for the cause. Kickstarted by professor Edward Gnehm, who was also former ambassador to Kuwait, and professor Michael Barnett, No Lost Generation GWU utilizes State Department resources, distinguishing it from other student groups in terms of its legitimacy and support.

By partnering with GW, Georgetown’s UNICEF group would clearly be more able to positively influence refugees’ education. Moreover, Georgetown should not stop at refugee education when it comes to external collaboration. All groups on campus should take time to evaluate whether partnering with surrounding universities would benefit their ultimate mission.

Georgetown students do not lack a desire to better the lives of others, but they can let their exclusivity interfere with progress. Increased communication and partnerships could double the possible impact of student work –– so Georgetown students should initiate them whenever possible.

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As I learn more about the campaign process, its scope and intensity continue to shock me. Campaign season involves everything needed for a good election, from knocking on doors and putting up flyers to hosting rallies and bearing scandals. The people running these campaigns are intense, but rightfully so. We, as Georgetown students, truly demand the most from our candidates, whether they are students or sandwiches. We expect our GUSA executives to get things done, and the executive team does in fact occupy a unique position of power in relation to the administration.

As one of my close friends puts it, who else but a GUSA member could get a meeting with President DeGioia if he needed one? This leads to an incredible amount of work on behalf of the candidates — whether it be in this year or years past — to diagnose and prescribe solutions for areas of weakness on campus.”

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OPINION

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

GREY MATTER

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VIEWPOINT • Goodwin

Feminism: Not Just for Seasoned Feminists

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Ayan Mandal

Innovation Inspired

By LSD “W

hat if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR? I don’t know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it.”

In 1986, biochemist Kary Mullis invented the polymerase chain reaction, a technique that allows biologists to quickly produce a large number of copies of a segment of DNA. The reaction starts with heat. DNA is warmed until its two strands separate, leaving two lonesome strings of genetic material.

The next step is to replicate the DNA, but there is a problem: Normal DNA polymerase cannot function at the high temperatures needed to separate the strands. Herein lies Mullis’ genius.

An outdoorsy character, Mullis thought about thermophilic bacteria, bacteria that live in very hot environments, yet replicate DNA nevertheless. These bacteria produce a special kind of DNA polymerase that can function during PCR. Now, it is difficult to overstate the impact PCR has had on modern science. Virtually every modern biology lab uses it. Key to this story, however, is the inspiration behind the discovery. Mullis, who developed as a thinker in the 1960s, credits the psychedelic drug Lysergic acid-N ,Ndiethylamide, commonly known as LSD, as instrumental in developing PCR. “I could sit on a molecule and watch the particles go by. I learnt that partly on psychedelic drugs.”

Do we take this inspiration seriously, or do we dismiss Mullis’ claims

Key to this story, however, is the inspiration behind the discovery of PCR. Mullis credits his invention to LSD. as the words of a crazed hippy?

First the science, then the philosophy. LSD works by pinding to receptors that will normally take serotonin. In some cases, LSD mimics serotonin, creating the same kind of cellular response. In other cases, LSD blocks serotonin because it has a higher affinity to certain receptors.

At the more macro scale, we know that psilocybin, the active ingredient in “shrooms,” causes a number of areas of the brain to fire in synchrony with one another. In cognitive neuroscience, when two areas fire in synchrony, this is interpreted to mean that those areas are “connected.”

The effects of shrooms on the brain are thought to be very similar to the effects of LSD. With that assumption, one could say that psilocybin causes the brain to form unique connections that are absent in the normal brain. Perhaps this is the biological basis behind the increase in creativity we see in people who have taken psychedelics.

At the even broader, socio-cultural scale, we can identify LSD as a driving force for creativity and nonconformity in art, literature and music in the 1960s. With all this in mind, does this mean people interested in enhancing their creativity should take LSD? Well, probably not.

As one might expect, psychedelics come with a great deal of psychological risk. While LSD will not exactly harm your body in the way a poison might, there have been cases of people suffering from psychological trauma or hurting themselves while on a psychedelic.

Circling back to Mullis, it is important to note that he is by no means the ideal scientist. PCR was his only substantial contribution to science, and, since then, he has been vocal in denying climate change and refuting that HIV causes AIDS. Perhaps this same anti-conformist attitude allowed him to shift a paradigm in science in inventing PCR. While we need thinkers with unique inspirations to come up with creative solutions to longstanding problems, maybe we can use a healthy dose of conformity every now and then. By wandering too far into nonconformity, we run the risk of denying the traditions that govern our lives for good reasons.

Ayan Mandal is a sophomore in the College. GREY MATTER appears every other Tuesday.

et me preface with this: I wholeheartedly believe everyone at Georgetown should take a women’s and gender studies course. I wish it were a required course across the board; I think it would do everyone some good. If you are rolling your eyes at that statement, then I hate to tell you this, but you are exactly the kind of person who needs to take a women’s and gender studies course.

I like to consider myself a seasoned feminist, especially considering the regularity with which I find myself arguing and debating women’s issues such as equal pay, the presidential election, intersectionality of the current feminist movement and every topic in between.

I was ecstatic to have the opportunity to sign up for “Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies” this semester. But a few days into the course, I found that I was underwhelmed.

After this initial letdown, when people asked me about the course, I responded that it was structured like a high school course. The sort of class in which you arrange the desks in a circle to discuss the readings and each person gets to politely take a turn speaking. I already knew and had talked extensively about everything we read and discussed. For a while, I actually complained about the class to a few of my friends. And then I realized the class was not the problem: I was.

I carried far too many expectations into this class, which is not a pox on the class for not meeting them, but rather a pox on me for expecting everyone who is taking the class to be hardcore, seasoned feminists like myself. And if they were not that, then they were the “dude-bros” in the back of the class roll-

Not everyone is going to have a fully developed and strong opinion regarding feminism, with arguments to back it up like an experienced debater.

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ing their eyes and not taking the topics seriously. There was a middle ground I had somehow managed to forget: People — feminists — who were actually taking the course to learn more about feminism. Over the years, I managed to put myself up on this high horse. I was not letting myself enjoy the course because it did not live up to an unreason-

able expectation I had going into it.

Returning to my initial statement: I wholeheartedly believe everyone should take a women’s and gender studies course — especially the intro course. Because not only does it offer you the opportunity to open your eyes to issues and viewpoints you may considered before, but it is a place to learn

VIEWPOINT • Schneider

How to Save Lives

By Fighting Stigma

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n the last three years since Sandy the intersection of mental health Hook, over 160 school shoot- and gun violence. To make sure that ings have taken place. As we wit- our university is part of the solution, ness and grieve over each of these this semester, students from Georgeincidents, pundits and politicians town Against Gun Violence along continue to point the finger at with administrators from the OfAmerica’s supposed mental health fice of the Senior Vice President and crisis. While it is necessary to have Chief Operating Officer, the Office of conversations about mental health Public Affairs, the Georgetown Uniin the United States and its impli- versity Police Department, and the cations on gun violence, we must Department of Emergency Managealso take care not to paint these ment and Operational Continuity issues with too broad a brush. As are spearheading the Active Shooter I have learned through my studies Preparedness Public Awareness Camof mental health at Georgetown’s paign. This month, we are focusing Nursing and Health School and on positive mental health awareness through my gun violence preven- and the education of our commution advocacy with Georgetown nity about common misperceptions Against Gun Violence, it is impor- about gun violence and people with tant to understand the limits of the mental illness. correlation.

Although we know that the best Most dangerously, attributing the way to reduce the risk of violence gun violence our country experi- among those prone to mental health ences to mental illness perpetuates crises includes a step-by-step process the stereotype that most people of early identification, appropriate with mental illness are violent. This treatment, education and support, could not be furand crisis interventher from the truth. tion, too few stuIn reality, only 1 in dents on the Hilltop 20 violent crimes Someone with mental take advantages of are committed by resources that illness is more likely the an individual with Georgetown proa mental illness, the victim of violence vides. and the majority of As those of us than the perpetrator. who are leading the people with mental illnesses are not viocharge on the active lent at all. In fact, a shooter preparedperson with a menness campaign tal illness is much more likely to be know, many Georgetown students the victim of violence rather than are simply unaware of or uncomthe perpetrator. fortable seeking the help they need.

Conversely, many seem to be Resources for cultivating positive unaware of the fact that the most mental health are everywhere on common type of violence in which this campus, from Counseling and people with mental illness are en- Psychiatric Services, which offers gaged is directed inward. More than free evaluations and consultations, two thirds of the approximately to Health Education Services, which 32,000 gun deaths that occur per provides free counseling to students year in the United States account for regarding substance abuse and sex50 percent of all successful suicides. ual assault. Students can also reach Moreover, suicide is the second lead- out to members of Residential Living cause of death among college ing, such as Resident Assistants and students, and surveys suggest that Chaplains, as well as to GUPD, CAPS, more than half of college students and the Georgetown Emergency Rehave had suicidal thoughts. sponse Medical Service on its 24/7 If we were able to get guns out of crisis phone hotlines. Our Threat the hands of individuals prone to Assessment program, which inmental health crises, we might pre- cludes team members from diverse vent a large portion of these deaths. institutions across the university, Suicidal ideation is often intermit- also monitors individuals identified tent and impulsive in times of crisis, by peers, staff or faculty to be at risk. but access to a firearm can greatly inWe as members of the Georgecrease the danger of otherwise tem- town community need to rememporary suicidal thoughts. As young ber the Jesuit motto of “cura perpeople who are disproportionately sonalis”— care of the whole person affected by gun violence, we need to — and take responsibility to seek advocate for our peers in both gun the resources we need and to dispel violence prevention and mental misperceptions regarding mental health access. illness.

Alongside dispelling violent steThis is why I hope that students reotypes about mental illness, we across Georgetown will pay attencannot turn a blind eye toward tion during the month of February the many mental health prob- to the advocacy that the team at the lems that plague our country and Active Shooter Preparedness Camcampus. Too often, as I have seen paign is taking on the intersection in my advocacy work, the stigma of mental illness and gun violence. against openly admitting to men- We can go a long way towards nortal health crises prevents people malizing seeking help for mental from getting the help they need. health crises, dispelling dangerous Fewer than 1 in 3 adults with mental misperceptions and saving lives illness receive treatment in the Unit- across this country. ed States.

The good news is that our universi- ANNABEL SCHNEIDER is a junior ty is taking steps to ensure that we are in the School of Nursing and informed and prepared to deal with Health Studies.

and let your opinions grow safely. One of the staples of the class is that it is a safe space; you can scoff at the idea all you want, but once I knocked myself down a few pegs, I found it to be one of the most accepting spaces at Georgetown in which I have been so far.

And if you consider yourself a seasoned feminist like me, it is definitely a place to face reality. Not everyone is going to have a fully developed and strong opinion regarding feminism with arguments to back it up like an experienced debater. Not everyone is going to fight your opinion head-on; some people actually want to hear what you have to say and you do not have to aggressively defend yourself against them. Not everyone is going to understand what you are trying to say, and you might have to explain yourself several times before they can finally see your angle. And not everyone is going to agree with you.

I know — an easy concept in theory, but not necessarily an easy one to grasp.

So now, I look forward to Tuesday and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. I enjoy putting the desks in a circle and politely discussing the readings and letting everyone take that rightful turn. And now that I am not on my high horse, I enjoy listening to everyone’s opinions, even if I do not agree with them. A class I initially disliked has reminded me of something of which I am always trying to convince people: Feminism is complex and messy and is not a single concrete, never-changing opinion.

JESSE GOODWIN is a freshman in the College.

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common facet of the Georgetown experience is pervasive preprofessionalism. All of us have come across that girl who has known she wants to work at the U.S. Department of State since her 13th birthday or that guy who will not settle for less than becoming the next Wolf of Wall Street. Perhaps you are that person yourself; I know I came to Georgetown expecting to land a job at an investment bank, do my time as an analyst and then move to private equity. This is the part where you expect me to tell you I have changed — I have not. Actually, my only change was switching over from banking to consulting. Come August, I will be working at an innovation consulting firm in Manhattan.

With the realization that I have “successfully” made it through the GU career funnel, I have begun to realize how homogenous we students are in terms of our aspirations. I have been wondering what it is that funnels so many Hoyas into careers like banking, consulting, lobbying and the other usual suspects.

At first, it seemed to be prestige. We all chose Georgetown over other schools for a reason.

It initially appeared to me that the reason Rahul was our name recognition within the careers students generally choose.

However, I realized I was wrong, because the most prestigious, renowned people in our society are not lawyers and investors, but creators, the people who write books and produce films and build apps. It has dawned on me that most of us do not crave prestige but security. The classic Georgetown careers ensure that. We do not want to risk becoming starving artists. With considerable salaries, hefty bonuses and generous benefits packages, many Georgetown students seek to protect themselves from having to worry about the basics in life.

Even the nursing and pre-med students who want to help people are driven in part by this sense of security. No one would become a nurse or doctor and put up with unbelievable amounts of grueling study just to make 40,000 dollars a year. The people who dedicate themselves to doing good in the world want to know they will be taken care of in return for their self-sacrifice.

Security is certainly not too much to ask for. Abraham Maslow, a renowned psychologist, put forth a hierarchy of human needs — progressive motives that drive behavior. He claimed that, after obtaining sufficient food, water and shelter, human beings seek security.

Therefore, it makes perfect sense that so many Georgetown students look for jobs that provide financial security; after all, that is something we need.

It is incredibly difficult to override that overwhelming desire for security.

Perhaps that is why we overwhelmingly pick service jobs. In that sort of workplace setting, we only allow others to judge us, and thereby reward us, on our intellectual prowess. Salary is validation for all the work we have put into our human capital. By pursuing white-collar careers, we fall back

on something we have been praised for our entire lives: our brains. However, security is not free. The exchange is that the sorts of jobs we pick divorce us from our creativity.

Very rarely do you hear about a lobbyist or lawyer discussing his latest poem or invention. In part, that is because service jobs make it very hard to actualize those kinds of desires or dreams. Since multitasking is pretty much impossible for human beings, it is hard to focus on anything but the job you are doing. And when the job you are doing takes up 70 or more hours a week, not only do you not have time left over but you also stop identifying with aspects of yourself outside the context of the job.

That is why it is so hard for us, preprofessional Georgetown students, to create. We identify with the stereotypes of certain jobs from day one, before we even have those jobs. That prevents us from pursuing our zanier ideas. Most people have marvelous thoughts on which they never act in favor of stable and secure careers.

This seriousness is a phenomenon that does not always occur at other top-tier Desai schools. Students at Stanford, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are renowned for their entrepreneurial thinking. So many of the things we use daily — Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram — were invented by students from those schools. Veronica Roth began the hit series “Divergent” while studying at Northwestern and F. Scott Fitzgerald penned “This Side of Paradise” at Princeton. We are too serious for our own good, especially when people at peer institutions can both get stable, secure jobs and hone their “wilder” interests.

Everyone will always want security, but college is the best time to let yourself be vulnerable. Someone else is taking care of your utility bills. You don’t have a real world reputation yet; the world will forget if your first effort fails. You do not have a job to lose.

Write that book, act in that movie, start that company. Do not be afraid of creating something even though you’ll be vulnerable. You can stand up and defend yourself, but the things you put in the world must speak for themselves. You need to be willing to let the public turn your work into a trash can fire.

If now is not the time, when will it be? Every “grown-up” I have spoken to regrets not doing something he gave up on when he was younger. College is an essentially risk-free laboratory to try whatever insane, inane thing you want. The only barrier is the fear of your own vulnerability. Do not trade a crazy dream for security in college; with modern medicine, you have 60 years as a working adult to do that.

Right now, do the thing you will tell stories about for those 60 years.

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

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SFS Plans Academic Restructuring Verveer Talks CHRISTIAN PAZ Hoya Staff Writer

The School of Foreign Service Dean’s Office is actively considering restructuring the curriculum of the SFS with new course offerings and updated core requirements in the lead-up to its centennial celebration, with initial changes set to be announced in mid-March.

Currently, students in the SFS must enroll in a proseminar course, fulfill a writing requirement, achieve proficiency in a foreign language, take two philosophy courses, two theology courses, two government courses, three history courses, four economics courses and the “Map of the Modern World” course.

Students can major in one of eight programs that they can also pursue as concentrations or interdisciplinary certificates, the SFS equivalent of a minor. Students are not allowed to double major or declare minors from the College.

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs Daniel Byman said this curriculum structure allows students to have a broad and deep understanding of international affairs.

“Like most curricula, the strengths and weaknesses go together,” Byman said. “One of the strengths to me, at least, is you get a fantastic grounding in the essentials of international affairs very broadly defined. That would range from philosophy and culture, to economics, to finance, history, so it is very deep.”

Byman said any changes to the curriculum are proposed to faculty committees for discussion. These committees evaluate the state of the current curriculum and consult students, alumni and faculty members to determine whether changes are needed and how to implement them.

“I and people in the dean’s office have been talking to students and alums about a very basic question: What should students know and what opportunities should they have at the School of Foreign Service?” Byman said.

Although no specific changes have been agreed on yet, Byman said curriculum reviews are necessary to ensure the SFS is properly preparing students for changing times.

“2016 is not 1916,” Byman said.

“In my mind, we have a moment where it is logical for the school to look at what it does well and what it should change to meet the challenges of the coming years.”

SFS Academic Council member Roopa Mulpuri (SFS ’18) said a crucial part of any restructuring is making the curriculum forward-think-

ing, citing the science, technology and international affairs major as the most forward-reaching.

Mulpuri said SFS students should gain a stronger background in science during their undergraduate experience to ensure exposure to some of the facts behind contemporary issues like climate change and food shortages.

“We want something where you delve into an issue and learn some science abstractly and then look at some of the policy solutions that are already being proposed,” she said.

According to Mulpuri, the faculty committees are also considering adding an ethics course to the core curriculum to provide students with a grounding in Georgetown’s Jesuit values and mission.

Academic Council President Anna Hernick (SFS ’16) said students desire a more balanced curriculum.

“We’re hearing more and more that SFS students appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of the core, but hope to find a balance between this breadth and more personalized depth in their undergraduate experiences,” Hernick said. “For example, students want to be able to take more classes in technology, foreign languages and business and have those courses incorporated into their SFS studies.”

Byman said changes to the curriculum require managing trade-offs, as more courses means less flexibility in the curriculum.

“One could argue it has gone too far in one direction or the other.

Certainly one thing the committees are exploring is what is the balance between requirements and not re-

quired courses,” Byman said.

Alexandra Williams (SFS ’19) called the current economics requirement excessive.

“Personally, I don’t see the necessity for the requirement of four economics classes for SFS students,” Williams said. “For students not interested in majoring in international political economy or international economics], four economics classes seem excessive to me.”

According to Mulpuri, the SFS faculty is aware of complaints regarding the number of economics classes students are required to take.

SFS students are currently required to take both “Microeconomic Principles and “Macroeconomic Principles.”

Grady Willard (SFS ’18) said he also believes students should have increased exposure to science classes in the core.

“We come out of the SFS with incredible skills in a variety of fields but understanding scientific knowledge is not one of them. In an interconnected world, it is extremely important that policymakers, consultants, businessmen, et cetera. understand how to interpret scientific information,” Willard said.

Ben Baldwin (SFS ’19) said certain core classes should be substituted.

“If changes were to be made to the curriculum, I would like to see the reduction of the number of core classes or the substitution of some core classes for others, as the sciences or courses in ethics are currently underrepresented in the core curriculum of the SFS,” Baldwin said.

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Gender Parity

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Executive Director for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace Security Melanne Verveer (SFS ’66 and GRD ’69) celebrated her new book “Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose” while championing ways women can take on leadership roles in Riggs Library on Thursday.

The event was hosted by the Georgetown President’s office, GIWPS and the Georgetown Women’s Alliance. Verveer was interviewed on stage by Lois Romano, an editor at The Washington Post, and introduced by University President John J. DeGioia.

Verveer’s discussion signified the beginning of Global Gender Justice Week’s series of talks engaging with issues pertaining to gender equality and justice, organized by the Georgetown Women’s Alliance. Guests include United Nations Representative on Sexual Violence Zainab Bangura and a panel discussion on Women Leaders in Asia.

In DeGioia’s introduction for Verveer, he highlighted her work on global gender justice from her time as an ambassador to the publishing of her book “Fast Forward,” which contains interviews with female leaders, including their views on addressing gender equality. “The leaders profiled in this work share an uncommon commitment to service, to supporting the contributions of others and to affirming the importance of women’s participation as leaders in our society,” DeGioia said. “We are reminded through Ambassador Verveer’s work of the importance of these stories.”

Verveer began her talk by illustrating the importance of sharing personal stories and having these conversations about gender in the broader context of women’s rights. She praised the strides made in elevating women to positions of power that occurred following her own college education. “Twenty years ago, women’s rights weren’t human rights. In twenty years, so much has happened around the world,” Verveer said.

“Whether it’s laws to combat violence against women or girls’ education, a whole range of progressive changes that have been made.”

Verveer said there is still more work to be done to combat women’s rights abuses. She said as women have proven to be indelible assets to organizations and industries they work in, there will continue to be less discrimination.

“The evidence-based case has moved this argument from the right thing to do to the smart and most strategic,” Verveer said. “Even if you’re not moti-

vated by the rights principle, whatever you’re trying to do to advance your enterprise, including women is in your self interest.”

Verveer said modern women are a force to be reckoned with, both economically and politically, noting the large percentage of women-run businesses in theU.S. “In the United States, women-run businesses are growing at 1.5 times the average, which is significant,” Verveer said. “If we were an economy, the amount women are contributing to the economy of the United States would be close to the economy of Germany.”

According to Verveer, despite improvements in the condition of gender equality, many women’s issues are still being overlooked, including child care, paid leave and the campaign for equal pay for equal work.

Verveer explained how, while collecting stories for “Fast Forward,” she found that women continued to be held back by a fear of failing, and this fear affects progress toward gender justice and female empowerment.

“Every woman we interviewed talked about two things: lack of confidence and the fear of failure,” Verveer said.

“The fear of failure is very interesting because I think a lot of us are driven not to fail, but failure is a big part of knowing and moving to the next stage.”

Verveer argued that starting the conversation on how to improve women’s self-esteem is a small part of what needs to be done to further gender justice and female empowerment. She added that citizens and groups must focus on specific issues, such as the education of women.

“In so many places, women have been told, ‘You don’t count, you can be violated.’ The greatest investment that can be made anywhere is education.

Education is a game changer,” Verveer said. “Never underestimate what will happen to some of your classmates and where they might end up someday.”

Vinitha Raj (SFS ’19), who attended the event, said she was inspired by Verveer’s comments on her time as a Georgetown student and also impressed by her willingness to work hard when there were not many opportunities available to her.

“I thought it was particularly interesting that she talked about her experience as a trailblazer in politics, and how she touched upon that when she was in school at Georgetown, it was so much more difficult, that there weren’t that many women there,” Raj said. “Some of us just take it for granted that we can think about careers in politics, a lot more easily than she did.

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tions that we know work to end homelessness and to committing to closing the family shelter Mayor Muriel Bowser released at D.C. General,” Castro said. “All her new homelessness initiative families deserve a safe and digniFeb. 9, which proposes to close fied place to lay their children to the homeless shelter at D.C. Gen- bed at night, and the District’s eral Hospital and open up eight plan to develop smaller, commusmaller neighborhood shelters nity-based programs across the in each ward of the District. city is a big step toward creating The council voted to approve a system that works.”

Bowser’s plan last fall amid inHowever, the initiative has tense scrutiny of the D.C. Gen- also drawn community critieral shelter. Criticism arose after cism, especially regarding the the disappearance of eight-year- decision to build the shelters old Relisha Rudd, who police say with communal bathrooms was kidnapped from the shelter rather than private bathrooms. by a male janitor. Complaints of Critics have said this lends itself staff misconduct and poor liv- to security issues, such as situaing conditions leading to disease tions in which unaccompanied and a lack of security services children would be sharing facilihave also beset the shelter. ties with adult strangers.

Since then, Bowser’s office Georgetown University Law has worked to identify smaller Center adjunct professor and Exspaces around the city that will ecutive Director of the Washingcollectively house the same ton Legal Clinic for the Homenumber of homeless residents, less Patricia Mullahy Fugere with the aim of avoiding the cited multiple concerns with safety problems that a large- Bowser’s plan, including the insized shelter such as D.C. Gen- dustrial location of the shelter in eral faces.

Ward 5 and its impact on homeBowser addressed these com- less residents struggling with plaints and her plan to move asthma. forward and work with the D.C. Fugere said her largest issue Council in a press release Feb. 9. with the proposal is the lack of “In a city as prosperous as concern for more permanent ours, there is no reason we spaces for the homeless comshould keep families at D.C. munity.

General. The building is too “An effort to close D.C. Genbig, too old and too far removed eral is only ultimately going to from the services that get fami- be successful if there is more aflies back on their feet,” Bowser fordable housing that’s available said. “I have been working with for our low-income neighbors. the council on a plan that will Unless all of us as a community, create small, short-term family both private and public sectors, housing. These facilities will be are willing to treat the lack of modern, safe and dignified – affordable housing, we’re going and will bring us one big step to just continue to be treading closer to our goal of ending water,” Fugere said. “We can’t homelessness in the District of lose sight of the ultimate end, Columbia.” which is getting people into Bowser’s initiative plans to cre- someplace permanent that they ate a new shelter in each ward can afford.” of the District However, Anon property that drew O’Brien the city already (COL ’18), memowns as well as ber of student newly purchased group Hoyas/ and leased propHomeless Outerty. The Patrireach Programs cia Handy Place and Education, for Women, a which seeks to women’s shelter address hunger built to house and homeless213 residents, ness in D.C., said was the first to that a focus on be completed permanent spacand opened Feb. es for low-income 10 in Ward 2. residents may MURIEL BOWSER (D) D.C. Mayor The other seven not necessarily shelters will each be the solution to house 50 families and will open the issue. in 2018.

“D.C. General is a permanent Bowser’s plan has drawn shelter, but it wasn’t a good shelsupport from several public of- ter. I’ve met dozens of individuficials, including councilmem- als experiencing homelessness ber Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), who who have told me that they lauded the initiative’s response often avoided D.C. General, preto the poor conditions of exist- ferring to sleep on a park bench ing shelters. rather than in an overcrowded “I’m supportive of the Mayor’s and often unsanitary shelter plan to close D.C. General and like D.C. General was,” O’Brien to open smaller shelters across said. “So just because it was a the city in our continued efforts permanent epicenter of hometo end homelessness in the Dis- lessness doesn’t mean that it trict,” Evans wrote in an email was necessarily something that to The Hoya. “I’ve called for D.C. was positive for the homeless General to be closed for several community.” years on account of the terrible O’Brien also highlighted the conditions of the building and risk of community backlash ineffectiveness of providing the from areas where the new shelnecessary services at such a large ters will be built. facility. I’m pleased that the Pa“Any time you see these peotricia Handy Center for Women ple trying to build homeless in Ward 2 has already opened to shelters in new neighborhoods, start providing better, more per- especially heavily gentrified sonalized services to our neigh- ones, there’s always a lot of bors in need.” what’s called NIMBY backlash, Secretary of Housing and Ur- ‘Not in my backyard,’” O’Brien ban Development Julián Castro said. “But hopefully that won’t also praised Bowser’s plan in a stop the $40 million budget for press release Jan. 9. the project in creating a more “I commend Mayor Bowser humane and safe neighborhoodon her commitment to solu- based shelter system.”

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“There is no reason we should keep families at D.C. General.”

Students in Georgetown University’s School of Nursing and Health Studies hoping to complete the nursing major are forced to pay out-of-pocket transportation costs to get to hospitals in order to complete the mandatory clinical component of the major, forcing some students to switch to less beneficial, but cheaper, sites.

In order to ensure that nursing students are exposed to a multitude of clinical experiences, clinical sites span the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia areas.

For some students, however, getting to and from their clinical experiences poses a significant financial burden.

Lauren Gilmore (NHS ’17) said the hours of some clinical experiences require students to spend their own money to take taxis to their sites because public transportation is unavailable.

“It’s not always an option when we have to be there so early to take public transportation so a lot of the nursing students will share cabs, but we’re not able to get any sort of reimbursement,” Gilmore said. “We have to pay all of those transportation costs out of pocket.”

Gilmore said she has friends who are forced to spend over 10 dollars on each cab ride to and from sites in the fall, totaling hundreds of dollars a month in transportation costs.The Office of Student Financial Services’ website estimates average travel that students may incur to get to clinical sites and internships at around 650 dollars a year. According to the 20152016 Bachelor of Science in Nursing student handbook, students may have to travel up to 35 miles from Georgetown to reach a clinical site.

Elena Snow (NHS ’17) said transportation costs forced her to switch to a less beneficial site.

“I ended up having to switch my clinical because I was going to be at a [Northern Virginia hospital] on an oncology floor, which would have been an incredible opportunity for me, but I couldn’t afford to go there and back because I’d have to Uber back to make it to [class],” Snow said. “I missed a really cool opportunity because of my personal finances and that was a little disheartening.”

According to Carolyn Landry (NHS ’18), nursing students incur additional costs beyond transportation. Students have to purchase uniforms and undergo background and health checks — costs that can often add up to hundreds of dollars.

“We’re not able to get any sort of reimbursement. We have to pay all of those transportation costs out of pocket.”

Lauren Gilmore (NHS ’17) Nursing major

Patricia Cloonan, interim dean and associate professor in the NHS, wrote in an email to The Hoya that the NHS tries to be mindful of student’s clinical locations.

“For example, we make our best effort to place first and second year students at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, which is located very close to St. Mary’s Hall. We hope that this helps with the transition to living in Washington, D.C.,” Cloonan wrote.

According to Cloonan, the NHS tries to accommodate the financial challenges for upperclassman students getting to

their sites.

“If transportation is a noted issue and the primary site is not available, we work to place students in a similar area to where their top choices are located. In addition, if transportation proves to be a fundamental hardship, we work to place students at alternate locations closer Georgetown’s campus,” Cloonan wrote. “Our goal is to work closely with students to ensure the best possible educational experience and give them options that reflect their individual situations.”

Cloonan wrote the administration has attempted to reduce the costs of transportation for students in the past, including using vans and taxi coupons, but the efforts were unsuccessful.

“Vans did not prove feasible for a variety of reasons, including too few students going to the same clinical site each morning, parking fees, and the need to have two certified student drivers on board for each trip. Additionally, we tried to implement a halfprice coupon system for taxi service (with 2-3 students in each car) to make the cost of commute less burdensome, but we did not have one student take advantage of that option,” Cloonan wrote. “Certainly, we are happy to revisit these ideas if a need is expressed.”

Cloonan did not respond to requests for an in-person interview with The Hoya.

Associate professor Colleen Norton, director of the school’s BSN program, wrote in an email to The Hoya that it is essential for students to have varied clinical experiences, which can only be achieved through sending nursing students to off-campus hospitals.

“As educators, we must ensure that our students, in the course of their formation as professional nurses, receive high quality and diverse clinical experiences that will prepare them for a range of career placements as nurses,” Norton wrote.

Obama Budget Addresses Debt, STEM Lisa Burgoa Hoya Staff Writer

President Barack Obama’s 2017 proposed education budget, released Feb. 9, aims to tackle issues of college debt and affordability as well as bolster science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related learning.

The proposal also endeavors toward expanding funding for teacher training with a suggested $69.4 billion in discretionary funds and $139.7 billion in new mandatory spending over the next decade.

The budget, which marks a twopercent increase over the 2016 appropriation, allocated money to new programs, including $4 billion over three years for computer science instruction, $75 billion for nationwide preschool programs and $61 billion over the next decade to provide free community college for students who maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.5.

The single largest apportionment on the budget was $15.4 billion devoted to the U.S. Department of Education’s Title I program, which aims to expand educational opportunities for economically or socially-disadvantaged students. Acting Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said the budget reflects the Obama administration’s commitment to advancing educational equity in school systems.

“We have made tremendous progress with record high school graduation rates and more students of color going to college, but we have further to go to ensure that educational excellence is a reality for all students,” King said in a press release Feb. 9. “This budget builds on the Administration’s continued efforts to invest in education, from highquality early learning through college.”

The proposal faces an uphill battle for approval from Republicans in Congress, who generally oppose measures to augment general federal funding and have expressed little support for programs such as free community college. Georgetown’s Program on Education, Inquiry and Justice Director Douglas Reed, who also serves as professor of education policy, said the budget is unlikely to clear the Republican-dominated Congress.

“The administration may have proposed a lot of stuff, but it’s more of a wish list than anything else,” Reed said.

“The odds of it passing in its current form are basically zero.”

Among the most ambitious aspects of the budget is its emphasis on ushering classrooms into the digital era and enhancing STEM education. Aside from the funding for its “Computer Science for All” Program, the president also incorporated $125 million to train teachers in high-demand subjects like math and science.

While Reed commended the federal government’s allocation of resources toward infrastructure conducive to scientific learning, he expressed skepticism over its ability to improve instructional quality in math and science.

“Especially in the inner city, there’s a huge problem with attracting people who can teach science or math, and there is a lot of research that shows students do a lot better in math or science when they have a teacher who has a degree in math or science,” Reed said.

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President Barack Obama’s proposed education budget for the next fiscal year focused on student debt and affordability issues, as well as STEM education. cause the alternative careers for people with math and science degrees are a lot more lucrative.”

In the place of funding going toward teacher training, Reed suggested allocating money for technological equipment in schools.

“The federal government is better positioned to provide infrastructure like computers and ensuring every kid has access to high-speed internet, which not all schools do,” Reed said.

Lucretia Witte (GRD ’16), president of EduWonks, a graduate student group focusing on education policy, said another challenge is that federal budgetary measures regarding STEM education may not realistically be implemented in schools as they were initially imagined at the national level. Federal funding comprises only 12 percent of school funding, with the rest provided at the state and local level.

“Local context is very important.

There might be bigger hurdles in an area because, let’s say, you can’t get computers in an inner city school because of theft or because we’re in a rural area and don’t have good internet connectivity,” Witte said. “I think there is a risk that these plans won’t go into effect exactly as intended, but it depends on what the main challenges are in the local school district, how progressive the local superintendent is about technology education, how much economy is given to school leaders –— all these impact how federal education policy will be carried out.”

Witte also questioned Obama’s policies regarding postsecondary education, which aimed to alleviate the financial burden of higher education through free community college as well as increases in Pell Grants for low-income students and benefits to previously incarcerated individuals.

“I don’t think this policy will have the desired impact of getting more low-income people in community college who wouldn’t already be attending,” Witte said. “Instead we would expect to see that people who might otherwise go to four-year schools opt for free community college because it’s a more attractive

option financially. If we do see that happening, that could even edge out more of the folks that we would be helping to get through school in this budget item.”

Reed argued that the policy might fail to meet its intended goals if avenues of communication are not established between four-year institutions and community colleges.

“You can go to a community college and take classes, but if none of them transfer afterward that doesn’t help you get a four year degree. State public universities have done a great job about communicating their expectations from community colleges, but private universities have done a really lousy job,” Reed said. “If it doesn’t translate, and if we don’t have the kind of communication about what the pathways are, that could be kind of a problem.”

Luis Gonzalez (COL ’19), who aspires to a career in education, said that he understood why some reject the profession as a viable career option.

“Several of my teachers made a difference in my life, and, as a result, I want to be a difference maker too, but because education isn’t exactly lucrative, people are not interested in pursuing careers in education,” Gonzalez said.

“Students, not just here at Georgetown but elsewhere as well, want to pursue careers that will pay more, and a career in education will not be enough to pay the student debt many students acquire in college.”

Gonzalez added that the federal budget should address more systemic problems that hinder the education of vulnerable students.

“If I could add to the education budget, I would for sure make sure I added funds specifically dedicated for what I would call community enrichment,” Gonzalez said. “From my experience growing up in a district with a high number of low-income families, students have to defy economic barriers in order to become successful students.

We are expected to be great students, but we live in tight spaces where gang violence and drugs are present. There are things that clearly affect how we perform in school.”

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Scalia Legacy Discussed at Law Center GULC, from A1 it was written.

In his statement published on the GULC’s website, Treanor highlighted Scalia’s involvement in the Georgetown community and his impact on the way law is practiced across the country.

“Scalia was a giant in the history of the law, a brilliant jurist whose opinions and scholarship profoundly transformed the law,” Treanor wrote. “Few Justices have had such an influence on the way in which the law is understood. On a personal level, I am deeply grateful for his remarkably generous involvement with our community.”

Following the release of the statement, GULC professors Gary Peller and Louis Seidman each responded with emails to the law center community voicing their concerns with the dean speaking on behalf of the law center, stating that members may not have agreed with the sentiments that were expressed.

In his email, Peller outlined his personal opinions on Scalia’s legacy as a legal figure.

“I am not suggesting that J. Scalia should have been criticized on the day of his death, nor that the ‘community’ should not be thankful for his willingness to meet with our students,” Peller wrote. “But he was not a legal figure to be lionized or emulated by our students.”

Seidman similarly expressed his disagreement with the view of Scalia included in Treanor’s statement.

“Our norms of civility preclude criticizing public figures immediately after their death,” Seidman said in an email to The Hoya. “For now, then, all I’ll say is that I disagree with these sentiments and that expressions attributed to the ‘Georgetown Community’ in the press release issued this evening do not reflect the views of the entire community.”

This, in turn, prompted an email response from GULC professors Randy Barnett and Nick Rosenkranz expressing grief for Scalia’s passing and pain at the specifics of the initial messages sent to the community.

“To hear from one’s colleagues, within hours of the death of a hero, mentor, and friend, that they resent any implication that

they might mourn his death — that, in effect, they are glad he is dead — is simply cruel beyond words,” Barnett and Rosenkraz wrote.

Both professors also shared personal stories about Scalia and expressed concern for the students mourning the late justice’s passing.

“Leaders of the Federalist Society chapter and of the student Republicans reached out to us to tell us how traumatized, hurt, shaken, and angry, were their fellow students,” Barnett and Rosenkranz wrote.

The Black Law Students Association echoed the original email’s wording in its open letter to the community, listing issues affecting black and minority communities at the law center.

“Many Black students were also ‘traumatized, hurt, shaken, and angry,’ when fact patterns on a practice exam directly referenced the facts of the Trayvon Martin tragedy,” the BLSA wrote in an open letter on Facebook.

“Many Black students are also ‘traumatized, hurt, shaken, and angry’ as real progress on institutional anti-racism and administrative equity and inclusion is constantly delayed.”

The BLSA acknowledged the grief of fellow GULC members but took issue with the way mourning could potentially affect others in the community.

“While we support an individual student’s choice to mourn, it must also be acknowledged that Justice Scalia’s legacy affects us in vastly different ways,” the BLSA wrote in the letter. “As a result, some of the viewpoints expressed in the email exchange were disheartening for many in our membership.”

The BLSA continued by questioning the treatment of students of color by the law center and students’ lack of comfort in expressing these concerns.

“If this one email exchange exacerbated frustrations of conservative or libertarian students, imagine the impact of continuous antagonistic classroom lectures and insensitive remarks about issues that directly affect the lives of the Black students here at the Law Center,” the BLSA wrote. “If our community can empathize with the hostile environment conservative students will reportedly enter as the result of the comments made by a two liberal

professors in an email, then they cannot turn a blind eye to the calls for sensitivity training and a concerted effort to make faculty aware of the issues that face minority students.”

In an interview with The Hoya, Peller emphasized that he had not meant to remark on the content of Treanor’s statement. Rather, he objected to Treanor’s comments being issued on behalf of the entire community.

“I didn’t write specifically to comment at that time on Justice Scalia’s legacy or his place in our political culture or anything like that,” Peller wrote. “I was responding to what I thought was the insensitivity on the part of the dean to speak for the entire community, many of whom felt great pain from Justice Scalia’s decisions regarding issues that are central to their identity.”

Seidman agreed with Peller that Treanor’s statement should not have been issued on behalf of the entire community. However, he emphasized the importance of demonstrating respect for the recently deceased.

“With respect to my views about Justice Scalia, I think that the norms of civil discourse are that you don’t criticize somebody within a week of their dying,” Seidman wrote. “I have a lot of views about Justice Scalia, but I don’t think that this is the time for talking about that.”

Although Seidman did not sign Peller’s response to the dean’s statement, he said he did not have any problem with it and also emphasized the predictability of the reactions toward the statement. Seidman also mentioned that he received emails of support from multiple students and that Peller received similar messages from over 200 students.

Peller expressed hope that the issue would be resolved within the law center community.

“I feel very bad that the issues have become so polarized and bitter, and I hope that people will calm down and come together in peace,” Peller wrote.

Seidman echoed Peller’s desire for unity within the community, adding his view that discourse is the way to achieve this.

“I think on both sides people ought to stop complaining about being hurt and start engaging in the kind of debate that universities were meant for,” Seidman wrote.

Courses Offer Academic Diversity MAJORS, from A1 So the recent hires over the last four or five years including mine have provided additional classes, additional expertise that would afford Georgetown the opportunity to help the minor transform into a major,” Patterson said.

Along with many of the College’s other new majors and minors, African American studies is highly interdisciplinary. Patterson said he sees the institution of the major as an opportunity to increase collaboration with other departments. “[I hope] that we will see departments either trying to collaborate with African American studies through their own faculty lines to hire specialists in their disciplines that also could contribute to the research and teaching missions of African American studies, Patterson said.

Patterson called this a critical moment in Georgetown’s history.

“It’s still important that Georgetown is entering this conversation, and that it will do it in such a way that’s intentional, that’s committed, that will provide the students, faculty, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the United States and the world the opportunity to engage in this important body of work and thought and culture,” Patterson said.

Business Administration First offered in 2010, the business administration minor is the only way for College students to be guaranteed up to six courses in the McDonough School of Business. Students not part of the minor generally face slim chances of enrolling in MSB courses, as they are placed at the bottom of what are often long add-drop waitlists.

All minors must apply the fall semester of their sophomore year and, in addition to having a minimum GPA of 3.3, all applicants must complete four prerequisite courses by the end of their sophomore years. A joint committee of College and MSB deans select a maximum of 50 students from the application pool, which has been growing steadily each year.

Around 75 students applied in fall of 2015, a jump from last year’s 60 applicants. The coordinator of the minor, Assistant Dean Jessica CianiDausch, attributes the larger applicant pool to greater student awareness of the program.

“It’s clear that part of having more advanced notice earlier on [is that] the word gets out among peers,” Ciani-Dausch said. “[That], as well as just having time to get all the prerequisites done has made for a more robust application pool.”

According to College Dean Chester Gillis, the primary reason for limiting the number of minors is to protect the course capacity of the MSB. Gillis, who created the minor, anticipated the demand because of the career skills the program offers non-MSB students.

“You can be a biology major and maybe eventually be a doctor working in a practice that’s going to require some quantitative skills,” Gillis said. “Having some of those requisite skills that the business school can provide is a good idea for a College student.”

However, Ciani-Dausch said the minor may not be as helpful as some students might expect.

“Ultimately businesses know they are going to be training you on whatever skill-specific things they need to train you on,” Ciani-Dausch said.

“And therefore it’s not as important as you may feel at first about labeling yourself because they’re almost expecting you to be a blank slate they need to train.”

Education, Inquiry and Justice Enthusiastic student response has been positive, but accommodating a large influx of interest has been challenging for Associate Dean Tad Howard, the coordinator of the education, inquiry and justice minor.

“I don’t like having to turn people away, but we’ve had more interest in the minor than we’ve been able to accommodate,” Howard said. “At least in that sense it’s a successful program.”

Howard said the minor, introduced in the fall of 2011, examines K-12 education in urban envi-

ronments through both theoretical and practical lenses.

“I think one of the key, signature features of this minor is to bring the theory behind education to light through actual work inside classroom environments,” Howard said. “So students do both work in traditional classrooms here on campus, but also go out into the city and experience the reality of what they’re studying.”

Student interest has grown to the point where only half of the roughly 30 students who apply each year get into the program.

Rising demand is pressing the administration to expand the minor, but according to Howard, there are equally important reasons to keep it small.

“Right now we want to make sure the program is really good for the students who do it, and if it gets too big too quickly it could become too diffuse, the experiences in those schools could be less powerful,” Howard said. “So making it much bigger than it is right now would take more than just adding a section of a class, it would be a much bigger commitment that we’re not ready to make yet.”

Film and Media Studies Gillis said the College first realized it needed a film and media studies program when it risked losing students to other universities with film programs.

“I was hearing from students [who] said, ‘Well, I was tempted to go to Northwestern or Brown or Yale or the University of Maryland,’ because they had a program in film and media and we had nothing,” Gillis said. “We should not be losing students to these other competitive institutions for this particular reason.”

John Cuhna (COL ’16), a senior minoring in the program, said Georgetown’s film program was a substantial factor when he decided between New York University and Georgetown.

“I really wanted to go to Georgetown, but if it did not have this minor — because I’m so passionate about film [and] because I wanted that to be my life’s career — that would’ve been a deal-breaker for me,” Cuhna said.

Gillis implemented the minor in the spring of 2011, and his decision has been validated by positive student response. In recent years, around 20 students per class are accepted into the program; administrators declined to disclose how many applications they receive.

Film and media studies program Coordinator Lily Hughes explained that the size of the program is constrained by both limited resources for expensive equipment and the need to preserve a tight-knit, creative community.

“We try to create that community and create that group mentality, and I think that’s something we’ve been very successful at,” Hughes said.

“And I think part of that comes from the fact that we are a smaller group. It can feel like a family; it’s harder to instill creative community in 100 students than it is in 18.”

Journalism Launched in the fall of 2012, the journalism minor has quickly become one of Georgetown’s most competitive. Limited resources restrict the program to around 20 students per class, but in recent years the number of applicants has climbed above 30.

Students must apply by the spring of their sophomore years and have a cumulative GPA of 3.33. Every journalism course is offered to nonminors except for the senior capstone course, which allows seniors to produce their own piece of professional journalism.

Complementing Georgetown’s Jesuit mission, social justice features prominently in the program as well as journalism broadly, according to journalism Director and professor of the practice Barbara Feinman Todd.

“Shining a light on issues that otherwise might go unnoticed by voters, by citizens, is what the best journalism does,” Feinman Todd said. “If you take, for example, what’s going on in Flint,

Mich.: So how do we find out what’s going on there and how do we put a face to the people who are harmed by it? That’s through journalism.”

As an example of the journalism minor focusing on social justice, the Pearl Project was launched as a seminar taught by Feinman Todd and, from 2007 to 2010, examined the kidnapping and death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pear in 2002.

JUSTICE AND PEACE STUDIES The program on justice and peace began offering a major in the fall of 2014. According to Director Randall Amster, the major has experienced exceptional growth in its first three years.

The major includes a community-based learning course, similar to the practical element of the education, inquiry and justice minor. Kendall Banks (COL ’16), who is pursuing a JUPS major, said the course was critical in her choosing to come to Georgetown.

“The JUPS program really drew me to apply here because it’s pretty unique,” Banks said. “[It] had an emphasis on both social justice and also community-based learning … so I could actually be learning in a classroom but also be out in the D.C. community actually contributing.”

Amster said the Community-Based Learning allows for students to have substantial connections with their course material.

“So for instance, students might be working in an educational capacity such as with D.C. Reads or D.C. Schools or the After School Kids Program, and they’re working with students and mentees and tutees and they’re seeing connections between the kinds of structural issues that we’re talking about in the classroom in those experiences,” Amster said. “That’s the moment that we’re looking for pedagogically, and it often comes to fruition.”

Philosophy and Bioethics According to Gillis, the impetus for creating the philosophy and bioethics minor in the fall of 2012 arose within the administration.

“We could do this better than most places. We have good biology, we have excellent ethics both in the philosophy department and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics,” Gillis said.

With approximately 15 minors in the past two classes combined, Head of Academic Programs for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Dr. Laura Bishop said, despite its modest size, philosophy and bioethics has received interest from a range of students, such as those in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, humanities, sciences and even language studies.

“It’s a small minor but there’s definitely student interest, and what I appreciate most is that students come from across the university,” Bishop said. “It’s really drawing students from a range of backgrounds.”

The fundamental question raised by the minor is the role that ethics ought to play in rapidly evolving fields of scientific inquiry and practice.

“Bioethics and ethics is really about how we should treat people, how we act, what are our obligations to other people, how can we create just and fair institutions and work within them,” Bishop said.

The Future of the College Gillis said evaluating the need for new majors or minors requires three steps: identifying what needs to be done to stay current among academic institutions, identifying what students will realistically want to do and filling an academic void that does not require a huge investment of infrastructure.

Although Gillis said he has been delighted by each new minor’s popularity, he cautions against the College promoting aimless innovation.

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

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At a meeting, the GUSA senate certified Khan (MSB ’17) and Fisk (COL ’17), who were elected Thursday.

Khan, Fisk Confirmed SENATE, from A1 only body able to create election rules. The bylaws do not contain procedure for write-in candidates.

GUSA Election Commissioner Alden Fletcher (SFS ’17) said the Election Commission was uncomfortable with a change in election procedure.

“There was a desire to make the race more democratic by instituting this change, and from our perspective that represented an evaluation of what was the desirable features of the race, and we were uncomfortable with being forced to make that change, especially at such a late hour in the proceedings,” Fletcher said.

GUSA Constitutional Council Chief Justice Josh Shinbrot (COL ’16) said it was within the Constitutional Council’s purview to make such a decision, and emphasized it was a unique situation and not universally applicable.

“Ultimately what you have is a situation in which the bylaws don’t provide guidance for what to do, and you have a constitution that sets up a democratic system, a candidate raises a legitimate question, and the Constitutional Council has its interpretive authority,” Shinbrot said. “At the end of the day the fundamental question is whether or not procedure was followed, and procedure was followed to the T.” No conclusion was officially reached regarding the existence of a procedural error.

Chair of the Intellectual Life Committee Eric Henshall (COL ’16), who represents off-campus residents, argued that whether a procedural error had occurred was irrelevant to the legitimacy of the election results.

“The people spoke, the Constitutional Council’s decision made it easier for write-in candidates to win, it disadvantaged Senator Khan and Chris Fisk, and they still won,” Henshall said.

Maduike wrote in an email to The Hoya that election bylaw reform is needed, citing the over 1,223 write-in votes cast Friday.

“We drew attention to inherent unfairness in the write-in policy and successfully petitioned to add more write-in options to the ballot,” Maduike wrote. “We demonstrated that students do want a choice and that they speak up via write-in candidates when given the opportunity. We came together as a group to offer the student body a voice that is rational, reliable and present, and we look forward to protecting that voice in further discussion.”

Howard and Maduike were not present at Sunday’s meeting.

Former Vice Speaker and current Speaker of the Senate Theo Montgomery (SFS ’18), who moderated the meeting, said a discussion concerning revision in bylaws would be forthcoming.

“I think this is a really productive discussion and a discussion we should have at another date,” Montgomery said. “It will take time to put together bylaws changes that accurately clarify this process, keep it democratic, and make it clear.”

Khan said she looks forward to working more with the senate as it passes new bylaws.

“Hopefully with the new bylaw reforms that will passing, that will be brought to the floor by Chairman Henshall, this will mean that we will be working closely together for the rest of the year,” Khan said.

After the certification of her election, Khan addressed the senate, thanking it for its debate and resigning her position as speaker.

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for holding this debate and also just for this entire year,” Khan said. “This is a really great group of people, it’s been such an honor serving as your speaker. At this point, I would like to officially resign from the speakership role.”

Center Honors Jewish Life JEWISH, from A1 “We at Georgetown have a great story to tell about Jewish life. Jewish life and academics have been thriving at Georgetown for a good long time. The Center of Civilization represents a coming to fruition of years of excitement and offers us an incredible opportunity in a big way to tell the story of Jewish life here,” Gartner said.

Gartner also said the center will satisfy a desire for increased education in Jewish civilization at Georgetown.

“From my perspective as the rabbi on this campus, I can say that there is a thirst for more Jewish knowledge in our Jewish student community, and there is an interest in learning about Judaism among students from other backgrounds as well,”

Gartner said.

Adam Shinbrot (COL ’18), who is a member of the Georgetown Israel Alliance, wrote in an email to The Hoya that he hopes the CJC will promote Jewish life for all students.

“I think that the launching of the CJC will promote Jewish life on campus for both Jews and non-Jews,” Shinbrote wrote. “At a school like Georgetown, I think that offering students a way to learn about Judaism, anti-Semitism, the holocaust, and Israel (although the holocaust and Israel can be seen in a “nonJewish context”) is the best way to promote Jewish life and allow students to engage in Semitic studies.”

A full article on the center’s launch will be covered in a future issue of The Hoya.

Hoya Staff Writer Jesse Jacobs contributed reporting.

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Originalism Camp Set at GULC Heritage Foundation Chief Condemns Liberalism Matthew Riley Special to The Hoya

Georgetown Center for the Constitution adjunct professor and Director Randy Barnett, along with adjunct professor Lawrence Solum, will host a weeklong seminar, “Originalism Boot Camp,” at the Georgetown Law Center from May 23 to 27.

Students will meet with and hear lectures from several prominent originalist scholars, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former Attorney General Ed Meese.

Barnett defined the term originalism as a way of interpreting the Constitution in its original intent from the time in which it was written.

The program is open to current law students nationwide who have completed at least their first year of law school, with applications closing March 16. Up to 20 applicants will be chosen to participate.

The original program of speakers included Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away Feb. 13 at the age of 79. As a major proponent of the theory of originalism, it was his work that first attracted many students to this philosophy of constitutional law.

Program manager Alexa Gervais, who helped to reorganize the program after the news of Scalia’s death, highlighted the loss the program faces in light of the late justice’s passing.

“The really great thing about having Justice Scalia speak late in the program was that it gave our students time to learn about originalism, so they would be able to formulate questions to ask,” Gervais said. “Of course, it’s a real tragedy that we don’t have the opportunity to do that anymore.”

However, Gervais said she is hopeful the program will prove even more influential in the face of losing a major proponent of originalism.

“I think Justice Scalia’s passing makes the program that much more important. It gives some seriousness to it, and shows why it’s so important that we educate our nation’s next judges on originalism,” Gervais said. “This great advocate for originalism is no longer able to fight for it on the court. It is

our job to step up and promote originalism to work towards our goal of staying faithful to the text of the constitution. In that way, we can honor his legacy.”

Barnett founded the Center for the Constitution and is organizing the inaugural seminar program this year. He contrasted the originalism method of interpretation with attempts to adjust the Constitution’s meaning to current times.

“We’ve had a long-standing debate in this country between those who favor what’s called the living Constitution, which means a Constitution that the courts can change the meaning of, to update the Constitution with the times, against those who believe that the meaning of the Constitution should remain the same until it is properly changed,” Barnett said. “The outcomes of big cases can sometimes turn on which approach is adopted.”

Barnett said the motivation behind the boot camp centered on a desire to prepare students for future careers in originalism, while separating itself from a similarly-focused seminar that the Center for the Constitution co-sponsored with the Fund for American Studies, a non-profit that funds academic programs, for the past two years.

“This year we decided we would go our own way and recruit students ourselves – particularly students who want to focus on originalism,” Barnett said. “This is the first year our separate stand-alone seminar is running. It was conceived to assist students who are on a career track in which this idea would make a difference, whether that is as a clerk for a judge, a judge, a professor, or a litigator or a politician. We are exposing students to the best understandings of how originalism works in theory and in practice.”

Solum, who helped to design the new program, highlighted the importance of a seminar that informs students on a topic they might not otherwise learn about.

“Years ago, I had this idea that there was a need for some kind of one-week program on originalism because there was a gap in law students’ education and in the education of judicial clerks,

lawyers and judges,” Solum said.

Aside from attending daily lectures from Barnett and Solum, reading articles and cases and listening to a variety of guest speakers, students will attend field trips, like to the Supreme Court to meet with Justice Thomas. Solum emphasized the various aspects of originalism to which the program seeks to expose students.

Solum stressed the importance of originalism, since many law schools do not place nearly as much importance on it as the living Constitution interpretation.

“Originalism is now the most discussed and debated theory about constitutional interpretation, and over the course of the last 30 years, it has become increasingly important as a methodology for the Supreme Court and for other courts,” Solum said. “It plays a tremendous role in judicial practice, but at most American law schools, it isn’t studied in any depth as compared to its rival, the living Constitution.”

Gervais expressed confidence that through this program, students will gain knowledge of originalism they may not have otherwise.

“Students are going to learn originalism in a way that they will never be able to at any other law school or university,” Gervais said. “We are offering so many different perspectives and such a variety of political ideology in one week that I think students are really going to walk away with this intensive understanding that is impossible to get in any other form or place.”

Yale Law School student Michael Clemente, who applied for the program, emphasized the widespread impact originalism can have, particularly on the protection of people with intellectual disabilities.

“There’s so much to learn about originalism – you can learn in terms of the actual practice itself or about the broader effects of it as a whole,” Clemente said. “My argument is that we are actually executing some people today with intellectual disabilities who would not have been executed in 1791 when the eighth amendment was adopted.”

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David Azerrad, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at the Heritage Foundation — a conservative think tank — argued against the tenants of liberalism and warned of increasingly liberal culture at a discussion hosted in Healy Hall on Feb. 16. The event was hosted by the Georgetown University College Republicans.

At the Heritage Foundation, Azerrad teaches policymakers and other political leaders his ideas of American political tradition, constitutionalism and conservatism. He contributes his research and work to journals including The Federalist, Public Discourse and National Review.

Azerrad said liberals and liberalism are pushing, and succeeding, in political endeavors and progress, citing President Barack Obama’s recent change in his stance on marriage equality.

“Over the past several decades it is undeniably true that the left was been moving to the left. Liberals of a generation ago were much more conservative than liberals of today,” Azerrad said.

“In May of 2012, it was less than four years ago that President Obama himself was still opposed to the redefining marriage and even that is becoming yesterday’s news.”

Azzerad argued liberals and liberalism are dedicated to progressing specific themes in policy.

“Where liberalism wants to go, and I will write it on the board for you, is: subsidized, destigmatized autonomy with a paternalistic twist,” Azzerad said.

Azerrad also said he finds a contradiction in the tenants of liberalism: that liberals allow gender identity to be chosen, but not race, a stance he found confusing and misleading.

“You don’t need a woman’s body to be a woman; I don’t understand why you need black skin to be a black person and white skin to be a white person for that matter,” Azerrad said.

Azerrad highlighted college campuses as liberal places known to quiet prejudicial and hate speech, or any dialogue that others might find offensive.

“You need to silence intolerant and bigoted speech that makes people feel bad about themselves. To see what this means, go to every single college campus in America,” Azerrad said.

Azerrad said, despite some of the liberties it gives, liberalism as an ideology comes with constraints, including a variety of economic restrictions in the form of government acting within the food and pharmaceutical industries.

“They give you a lot of choice in one area particularly — pretty much anything having to do with sex — but then in the political realm, in the economic realm, endless restrictions,”

Azzerad said.

Azerrad said that liberals are on an accelerating agenda to solve perceived inequalities and expand sexual freedoms, warning that liberals are approaching a slippery slope when it comes to marriage equality and LGBT rights.

“I think eventually they are going to have to push for lowering the age of consent and perhaps even legalizing incest. After all, why is it that I can’t marry my sister? Why can’t I choose to express my identity this way?” Azerrad said.

As his speech closed, Azerrad emphasized how the success of political conservatives paved the way for liberalism to progress forward to new issues. He claimed conservative policies and ideas in previous decades allowed for liberals to develop and expand liberalism across the country.

Following a student question asking about his stance on the recent policy change in the military to opening all combat positions to women, Azerrad expressed strong opposition and asked if the public was ready to see women suffer in the battlefield if a larger conflict occurs.

“What happens if tomorrow there is a real war and women soldiers are not only killed but brutally raped by the enemies?” Azerrad said.

Another student asked Azerrad how to express conservative views on strongly liberal campuses. Azerrad said the roles of campus liberals and conservatives are now reversed, as the right has ceased to be the mainstream, a difference from the liberal counterculture of the 1960s.

“Today, the counterculture is the right. If you are not on board with the left’s sexual agenda, if you are not on-board with the left’s economic agenda, you are a minority voice,” Azerrad said.

Azerrad expressed his support for students with conservative views and encouraged them to be brave but also to proceed with care on campuses.

“You guys have it very difficult, and the way to proceed is to be courageous but cautious,” Azerrad said.

Following the event’s close, Melvin Thomas (COL ’18) said that he grew up with mostly liberal peers and was glad that Azerrad could provide a new perspective.

“I think it was very interesting to hear a spokesperson for the right give a take on how he sees liberalism,” Thomas said.

Dominic Lamantia (COL ’17), a member of the GUCR, said the event was an intriguing opportunity to reflect on both liberalism and conservatism’s roots.

“I thought this was a very intellectually stimulating presentation, and it is very good for us as members of GUCR to be able to really dig deep to really examine the philosophical underpinnings of both liberalism and conservatism,” Lamantia said.

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UMD Controls Pace in 18-8 Loss GU Closes Weekend With Walk-Off Win Claire Schansinger Hoya Staff Writer

A 12-goal first-half deficit proved to be insurmountable for the Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (0-2) when it lost to No. 1 defending national champion Maryland (2-0) 18-8 on Saturday. Maryland scored 14 goals in the first half to Georgetown’s two, but the Hoyas were able to tally six goals in the second half. Maryland controlled the offensive pace throughout the game, outshooting Georgetown 34-17 and controlling over 70 percent of the draws.

The Terrapins tallied 12 straight goals in the first 19 minutes of the game, starting with a goal only 53 seconds into the game by senior midfielder Bryn Boucher. Maryland sophomore attack Megan Whittle scored four goals while freshman midfielder Caroline Steele scored three.

Senior midfielder Taylor Cummings finished with four points as she had three assists and a goal, and three goalies saw action. After Whittle and Steele notched goals in the second half, the Hoyas regained some momentum and scored five straight to bring the game to 16-8.

The Hoyas’ early deficit was a significant factor in setting them back against one of the top teams in the country.

“We didn’t show up for the first 12 goals. Maryland is really good, and they’re even better when you go slow,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said.

“After the long deficit, I thought we responded well and played a good 40 minutes. However, you cannot dig yourself that deep of a hole against a team that has that much talent.”

Graduate student transfer Morgan Rubin, who finished the game with one goal and two shots, acknowledged Maryland’s strength and the need for Georgetown to focus on its own gameplay in the future.

“We went out there and worked hard,” Rubin said. “Maryland is really fast, and we put a lot of work into practice, but we came out a little scared. We really need to focus on our game and not play to our opponents.”

For the Hoyas, senior attack Kristen Bandos scored a hat trick while five other players each had a goal. Bandos now has four goals so far this season and four points total, second behind senior captain Corinne Etchison, who currently leads the team with six points.

On the defensive end, junior goalkeeper Maddy Fisher tallied

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kid, duly so, and it was a great moment. It’s one of those things that I’m sure is going to stick with him The Georgetown baseball team for a long time.”

(1-2) travelled to North Carolina Following the extra-innings win, this weekend to participate in the the Hoyas will have plenty to do in season-opening Wake Forest Invi- preparation for their trip to Davidtational, losing its first two games son (2-1) this weekend. Wilk cited against Wake Forest (3-0) 3-1 and the team’s lack of offensive firepowVirginia Military Institute (2-2) 4-0 er, his main worry coming into the before beating University of Mary- season. land Baltimore County (1-3) 6-5 in 10 “To strike out as many times as innings in a dramatic walk-off win. we struck out is not a good omen The drama of the extra-innings for this team. I was concerned about win was amplified by the unlikely how we’re going to score runs this hero: sophomore backup catcher year, and I remain concerned about Richie O’Reilly. The hit came in his that,” Wilk said. first career at bat, after senior startAccording to O’Reilly, some of ing catcher Eric Webber was pinch- those offensive woes may have hit for in the bottom of the ninth. been caused by an offseason full of O’Reilly caught the terrible weather. top of the tenth beO’Reilly noted that fore driving in the a lack of time on winning run on a the field also consingle. tributed to a bit of O’Reilly, who rust for the team. has mainly been “We haven’t utilized as a bullseen our field in pen catcher thus a couple months. far in his college We’ve been incareer, said he was doors. It’s always thrilled with the different playing achievement. inside versus out“I was just really side; the lighting is HEAD COACH PETE WILK grateful for the different, and playopportunity. I was ing on the field ready to go. Our starting catcher you get a grasp of the game a little [Webber] came up to me and gave bit better.” me the confidence that he believed Regardless of the two losses, Wilk in me. That was really important. was optimistic about the team’s I’ve got to thank him for that,” chances to improve.

O’Reilly said. “All I had to do was “It’s just a matter of getting on keep it simple, stick to the approach a baseball field consistently, in my our hitting coaches had imple- opinion. I do think we have the abilmented for the season. Obviously, it ity to do so. And it’s a matter of some worked out pretty well.” guys stepping up with some guys on Head Coach Pete Wilk praised the base. We didn’t really get a big hit in sophomore, citing O’Reilly’s hard any of the games until yesterday.” work and determination as factors Wilk emphasized that Georgethat made his first hit that much town must work harder at strengthmore satisfying. ening each component of its game, “He’s got the respect of every one which will ultimately show it can of his teammates, and I don’t think compete with the best. there was a kid or coach in that “Good teams, and I do think we dugout without a huge smile on his will be one of them eventually, are face watching how that whole thing going to put all three aspects of the transpired,” Wilk said. game together. They’re going to “He did a lot of grunt work over pitch, they’re going to play defense the last 18 months of his life and and they’re going to hit. We’re 1-2 had nothing to show for it, other and we haven’t had a game where than being a great bullpen catcher,” we can check off those three boxes.”

Wilk added. “It was so gratifying to The Hoyas will return to the field see him come through in that situ- in a three-game series against Davidation, as well as the reaction of his son this weekend starting Friday at teammates. He’s a highly respected 6 p.m. in Davidson, N.C.

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“It was a great moment. It’s one of those things I’m sure is going to stick with [O’Reilly] for a long time.”

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Senior midfielder Kristen Bandos scored a hat trick in Georgetown’s 18-8 loss to No. 1 Maryland on Saturday. She also picked up one ground ball. two saves, while senior goalkeeper Megan McDonald made seven saves in the 46 minutes she spent in the cage.

Further contributing to the team’s loss, junior attack Colleen Lovett picked up two yellow cards during the contest, and the Hoyas committed 15 total fouls compared to eight by the Terps.

Up next on Georgetown’s schedule is a road trip to New Jersey to play No. 9 Princeton (1-0), which won its first game of the season in a 14-6 victory over No. 10 Virginia (1-1) on Saturday.

Rubin says the team will look to improve in its game against Princeton and come up with the ball in situations where it struggled to keep possession against Maryland.

“We had a lot of trouble with ground balls and 50-50 balls. We

need to focus on ball control and really just putting ourselves out there and working harder on recovery,” Rubin said.

Fried added that Georgetown must come out harder and stronger in gameplay.

“The biggest areas we need to work on are being physically and mentally tougher,” Fried said. “We need to realize that when we play to our ability, we can make good things happen. I don’t know whether or not we are going to win or lose our next game even if we play our best game, but I do know that at least we gave ourselves a better opportunity.

It’s focusing on what we want to do, how we want to do it and just being tougher.”

Georgetown’s game against Princeton will start at 1 p.m. in Princeton, N.J. on Feb. 27.

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Last season, senior pitchers threw 78.3 percent of the innings for the Georgetown softball team. This season, the Hoyas (1-7) have shown their inexperience in the circle. This weekend, they struggled to prevent runs at the Dolphin Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla., allowing 63 runs in five losses.

“We’ve got a lot to work on,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “That’s the great thing about this time of the year.

The one thing that we’re trying to focus on is just making sure every aspect of our game is consistent: the offense, the defense and the pitching. And it hasn’t been.”

Senior pitcher and second baseman Samantha Giovanniello played a key role for the Hoyas on both sides of the ball, starting games in both of her positions while hitting in the third spot in the lineup. On offense, Giovanniello leads the team with four home runs and 11 RBIs. In addition, the senior has taken on a new role as a pitcher this season.

After two of Georgetown’s top pitchers — Megan Hyson and Lauren O’Leary —graduated last spring, there was a clear void in the team’s pitching rotation. Giovanniello, who pitched in high school and travel softball, agreed to take on the additional role in the circle for her final season even though she had never pitched in a collegiate game in her previous three seasons.

“She’s somebody who is being a great teammate and helping us where we need it,” Conlan said. “We’re just trying to give her that college experience. In other aspects of her game, she’s a senior, and in pitching, she’s essentially in her first year, so it’s an interesting balance that we’re trying to work

through right now.”

Nevertheless, Giovanniello, along with sophomore pitcher Avery Geehr and junior pitcher Delaney Osterday make up an inexperienced pitching staff. The lack of continuity among Georgetown’s pitching showed this weekend as the Hoyas were largely unable to keep their opponents off the scoreboard.

“The one thing we’re trying to focus on is just making sure every aspect of our game is consistent.”

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“Certainly anytime you lose two kids who started for four years, you know there’s going to be kind of a learning curve, so we’re going through that right now,” Conlan said. “I feel like we’re getting better and better every time we step on the field as far as the pitching goes, so [there is] definitely progress.”

On Friday, the Hoyas played two games, losing to the Penn State Nittany Lions (5-5) in the morning 9-4 before falling to the Pittsburgh Panthers (6-4) with a score of 21-6. Against Penn State, freshman first baseman Sarah Bennett, who was functioning as Georgetown’s designated player, had two hits and drove in three runs while Giovanniello added two more hits and one RBI. In the afternoon game against Pittsburgh, Giovanniello and Bennett each hit home runs, but it was not enough to overcome a shaky

performance on the mound, as Georgetown pitchers allowed 16 hits and 12 walks.

Bennett, freshman shortstop Olivia Russ and freshman right fielder Mallory Belknap have immediately assumed starting roles as they begin their careers.

The freshman class has impressed its older teammates thus far.

“They bring a lot to the table,” senior first baseman Grace Appelbe said. “A lot of power at the plate and great defense, and they’re just really great additions to this program.”

On Saturday, the Hoyas lost to the Panthers again, this time by a score of 14-3, before falling to the Radford Highlanders (3-1) in the afternoon, 10-6. Giovanniello hit a home run against Pittsburgh for the second straight day, but the Pittsburgh offense was once again too much for Georgetown to handle. The Hoyas jumped out to a 6-3 lead against the Highlanders, but could not hold on to the lead. Senior third baseman Taylor Henry drove in three runs in the loss. Georgetown concluded the tournament with a defeat to Jacksonville (6-5) by a score of 9-1.

“Practicing against hard teams in preseason and playing against them and competing against them really sets us up for the Big East,” Appelbe said. “It challenges us and lets us know what we can work on in order to be prepared and ready to win in the Big East.”

Georgetown looks to establish more consistency as it moves closer to its Big East conference schedule.

“We have a group that works hard, that has incredible desire, and now we have to take care of the softball skill side of it, and put it all together and run out there and be the team that I know we’re capable of being,” Conlan said.

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cords for Martin and Keenan, and they became the sixth and seventh female student-athletes to break the time of 2:05.00 The No. 15 Georgetown men’s and the in the event in school history, respectiveNo. 11 Georgetown women’s indoor track ly. and field teams competed in multiple “I was pretty excited to break 2:05 bemeets last week, with a selected portion cause that was a personal best time for of the men’s squad traveling to Boston, me,” Martin said. “It’s exciting to see Mass. to compete in the Boston University that that’s where my fitness is at right Valentine Invitational on Feb. 13, while now, and I know that I have a lot more others were sent to the Spire Invitation- potential so I am excited about the races al in Geneva, Ohio on the same day. The to come.” women’s team sent runners to the Penn Graduate student Katrina Coogan led State Tune-Up on Feb. 20. the way for the Hoyas in the women’s inAs the Big East Championships loom on vitational mile. Coogan recorded a time the horizon, the men’s team continued to of 4:37.29, capturing first place overall build on its momentum from past meets. in the race. Freshman Audrey Belf ran a Senior Ahmed Bile set another personal personal record of 4:43.13, securing third record in the men’s invitational 3000-me- place. The Hoyas also saw sophomore ter race at the BU Valentine Invitational. Piper Donaghu run a time of 4:46.29, Bile clocked in at 7:51.77, finishing first junior Sabrina Southerland clock in at place in the event. Bile’s time is currently 4:48.52, sophomore Kennedy Weisner rethe fifth fastest in the nation. cord a time of 4:51.26 and senior SamanJunior Amos Bartelsmeyer followed tha Nadel cross the finish line at 4:51.55.

Bile in the 3000-meter race with a time These performances earned fourth, fifth, of 7:57.28, also a persixth and seventh, resonal record. This time spectively. placed Bartelsmeyer “I think a lot of peothird overall in the ple on our team have event. Senior Michael been gaining a lot of Lederhouse also broke confidence in themeight minutes in the selves and in their abilrace, securing fifth ity to race,” Martin said. place with a time of “When you start seeing 7:58.46, another peryourself as a legitimate sonal record. contender in the races These three athletes it just helps so much. have enjoyed impresI think a lot of people sive seasons thus far, on our team have been especially in Boston. able to do that this seaThey all ran miles beson, and it is showing in low four minutes on their races.” the very same track Sophomore Jody-Ann Senior Heather Martin earlier in the season Knight led the way for at the BU Scarlet and the Hoya sprinters at White Invite.

Penn State. Knight competed in both the In the men’s invitational 400m event in 60m and 200m dash, claiming third place Geneva, Ohio, junior Ted Foster recorded in each with times of 7.84 and 25.32, rea time of 49.52, a personal record. He led spectively. Junior Ebony McKeever recordthe way for sophomore Nick Sullivan, ed a time of 59.40 in the 400m dash, sewho crossed the finish line at 49.97 and curing sixth place. junior Daniel Anderson, who clocked in The Hoyas also sent out two teams to at 50.13. compete in the women’s 4x400m relay.

At the Penn State Tune-Up, the wom- Martin, Donaghu, sophomore Aleta Looken’s squad also saw numerous student- er and Nadel ran a time of 3:53.33, capturathletes perform at a very high level. ing third place, and the team of SoutherSenior Heather Martin continued her land, Weisner, Coogan and Belf followed impressive season as she claimed second close behind, clocking in at 3:55.86 for place overall in the 800m event, running fourth place. a time of 2.04:93. She was followed by juUp next, both the men’s and women’s nior Emma Keenan, who finished in third teams will travel to Staten Island, N.Y. to place overall with a time of 2:04.97. compete in the Big East Championship Both of these times were personal re- Meet starting this Friday on Feb. 26.

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“It’s exciting to see that that’s where my fitness is right now, and I know that I have a lot more potential so I am excited about the races to come.”

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a replay against League Two side Exeter City. It was nerve-wracking to think that the Reds would compete against such a tiny team. Exeter City’s stadium was perhaps slightly bigger than Georgetown’s own Cooper Field, and the cameramen were often focused on people in the crowd rather than the game. But for one glorious half — after halftime, Liverpool finally remembered how to score goals — the Exeter City fans believed.

Another reason I love the FA Cup is that upsets can happen. While we have not experienced very many this year, they are still beautiful to see. Last year, League One side Bradford — some of you might recognize this as the club famously supported by former One Direction singer Zayn Malik — beat Chelsea, which was in the middle of steamrolling its way to the Premier League title by a score of 4-2 in the fourth round. In 2013, just after finding out that it was going to be relegated, Wigan actually won the FA Cup against Manchester City; in doing so, it became the first team to win the FA Cup and be relegated in the same season. While it is typically more common for a big Premier side club to win, the fact that technically anyone can win makes the FA Cup special.

With 36 seconds left to play, Villanova sophomore guard Alex Louin launched a three that missed the mark as the shot clock expired, but Georgetown could not recover the rebound. Junior forward Samantha Wilkes grabbed the offensive board for Villanova and scored on a putback shot with 34 seconds left on the clock to put her team up by one point.

“That offensive rebound killed us,” Adair said.

Trailing by one point, White drove to the basket with 18.9 remaining and was called for a travel. The Hoyas were forced to foul to stop the clock, sending Wilkes to the free-throw line with 16.8 remaining. Wilkes hit

It makes me upset to hear that the Football Association — the organization that governs English soccer — is considering doing away with replays in the FA Cup. It is true that they can be very annoying — after all, it means that we have to watch a meaningless tie to get to the replay. I am also sure that replays are a nuisance to the big clubs themselves, especially when they keep happening — ahem, Liverpool — because it means an extra game in an already crowded schedule. However, the replays are what really matter to the little teams. It keeps the dream alive, it gives the smaller clubs the chance to host a replay game and get extra revenue and it allows for the possibility of an upset. In this year’s third round, Premier League team West Bromwich Albion narrowly won in penalties in a replay against League One side Peterborough. Rather fittingly, West Brom was just knocked out by Championship side Reading in the fifth round.

As we head into the sixth round of this year’s FA Cup, Reading is the only small team left. Shrewsbury — League One — and Blackburn — Championship — are likely going to be knocked out in their fifth-round games by Manchester United and West Ham United, respectively. In terms of upsets, this just was not the year. But the beauty of the FA Cup is that there is always next year.

Premier League action finally returns Feb. 27. Regrettably, both the Merseyside Derby — Liverpool-Everton — and Manchester United-Arsenal have been postponed due to FA Cup games. Luckily, the first week of March sees weekday Premier League games, although there really is only one exciting game. Liverpool will try to see if it can pull off another upset against Manchester City on Wednesday, March 2. Overall, the next few weeks do not feature that many important games — but hey, at least we have something to fill our weekends up with again.

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“They scored 23 points in the fourth. We had won every period up until then. When you have a 12-point [lead] in the fourth quarter, you win. You are supposed to win the game,” Adair said. “We gave this one away.”

The Wildcats were without their leading scorer Sunday. Senior guard Caroline Coyer, who averages 14.5 points per game and leads Villanova with 119 assists, missed the contest.

Hahn rose to the occasion in Coyer’s absence, scoring a game-high 29 points. “[Hahn] was huge. A freshman put the team on her back. She literally put her team on her back. If there was a big shot, she made it, and she made it from three; she made it from the rim,” Adair said. “She was

possessed today.”

Adomako finished the game with a team-high 24 points for Georgetown. White added 18 points and senior guard Katie McCormick chipped in eight.

The Hoyas will return to action this weekend when they take on the Butler Bulldogs (8-18, 3-12 Big East), and the Xavier Musketeers (17-10, 8-8 Big East) in their final two games of the regular season.

“You can’t hang your head. You have Butler and Xavier coming up.

Everybody is playing for something.

We were playing for something today, and today hurts, but it doesn’t knock us out. The bottom hasn’t fallen out. We just have to get back in the lab, and we have to work,” Adair said.

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both to put the Wildcats up by three. “[Villanova] made shots. They made big shots. … They made free throws. They didn’t miss,” Adair said. “We had opportunities – three straight possessions where we missed, we missed, we missed, and those turned into baskets. … They turned it up in the fourth, and we did not.”

White hit a layup on the other end with six seconds remaining. Still down one, the Hoyas were forced to foul again. This time it was Hahn who hit two free throws. Georgetown inbounded the ball, and White hurled a desperation shot from about half court as time expired.

The shot hit the rim but did not fall.

When the final buzzer sounded the Hoyas lost 63-60.

more core: up-and-coming point guard Tre Campbell, a true floor general who could set up SmithRivera for easy looks; two elite and versatile scorers in forwards Paul White and Isaac Copeland; and a wrecking ball to the rim but a brick wall on defense, guard L.J. Peak.

The incoming freshman class featured guard Kaleb Johnson, an athletic finisher and long, quick defender — a player in the same mold as Patrick Ewing Jr. and Aaron Bowen. It also featured stretch forward Marcus Derrickson, a strong presence on the boards who also doubled as the team’s best threepoint threat, and a skilled center, Jessie Govan, who could control the game and stretch the floor like Monroe did years before him. Not to mention transfer and sophomore forward Akoy Agau, a player in the Jeff Green mold — quick and athletic enough to play on the wing, but strong and long enough to bang down low.

The puzzle seemed to fit too perfectly. On paper, the team was electric, a mismatch problem all over the court, led by Smith-Rivera, one of the greatest scorers in program history. All the Hoyas had to do was go out on the court and play. Media Day was a buzz. Players sung the praises of their teammates. SmithRivera talked of big aspirations for the team and aspirations he wanted to keep to himself. Thompson, however, slipped in a disclaimer at the start of the season.

“I’ve told our sophomores we need them to perform like seniors, as it relates to production, but more

importantly in understanding and caring. I’m putting a lot on their shoulders, but I think they can handle it,” Thompson said at the season’s start. “You have some seniors up there … who have been very good. But the sophomore class is going to have to make huge strides and maintain the consistency.”

In conventional college basketball terms, performing on the level of a senior is showing consistency, a trait that represents years of experience and playing time. As the team sits at 14-14 with just three games left, consistent is the polar opposite of what the Hoyas, particularly the vaunted sophomore class, have been this season.

Campbell, outside of scoring 21 points against Xavier in January, has scored in double figures in just one other game. He has recorded five or more assists just once as well.

White has been injured virtually the entire season, playing just seven games due to a hip injury for which he successfully underwent surgery in January.

Copeland has been an enigma since the start of conference play.

After scoring in double figures in 12 of the first 14 games and leading the team in per-game scoring average, the forward took a step back, scoring in double figures just once in the next eight games. Copeland has since rebounded, notching 10 or more points in five of the last six games, but the forward’s resurgence came during a stretch where the Hoyas were 1-5.

Peak might be the only sophomore to make Thompson’s seniorlevel production mark, but it initially came at a cost. Peak fouled

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out five times in the team’s first 11 games and has been disqualified seven times in total this season.

However, despite the guard’s earlyseason troubles and inconsistencies, he has since found his rhythm, scoring in double figures in each of the last ten games while doubling as the team’s best defender and best three-point shooting guard.

So in the end, only one sophomore has made the leap, a leap that Thompson asked his players to make — a leap that, for all intents and purposes, was necessary for this team’s aspirations. Yes, the expectations were cemented by a flurry of media outlets, starving fans and hopeful Big East supporters.

But the expectations came laden with many assumptions — assumptions that just because Smith-Rivera returned for a final year that the team would do something special.

Georgetown would finish second, maybe even first, in the conference, make the tournament and advance to the second weekend of the big dance for the first time since 2007.

The team would give its fans a storybook season. But it won’t, and it can’t.

Smith-Rivera, however, still can end his senior season in a storybook fashion with a win on Senior Day. To go from aiming to make a deep tournament run to just striving to win the final home game of the season is indeed a far drop in expectations. But these expectations, while justified and reasonable, are mostly manufactured.

This iteration of Georgetown basketball is coming off losing four seniors from last year who played regular minutes and combined to

score over 40 percent of the team’s points last season — not to mention the leadership and consistency that Thompson needed from this year’s sophomores.

While it is easy to play the blame game, point fingers and dissect everything that has gone wrong this season, the bottom line is that fans have had to readjust their expectations once again. After eight years without advancing past the second round of the tournament, Georgetown is in a precarious position as a program. The Smith-Rivera era is coming to an end. The future looks as uncertain as ever, and all signs point toward another year with Thompson at the helm. And despite this season’s potential for the first time under Thompson that the team will miss the postseason altogether, the team’s young core’s potential to mature and to develop the consistency that Georgetown so desperately needed this season is still a reason to believe that this season is but a one-off.

With the younger players’ future progress, however, there will be fewer defenses for poor performance.

And just as the team’s tournament chances dwindled with every home loss this year — seven, the most during Thompson’s tenure — so has the fans’ patience with this team and with this program. And after this season, that patience will have dwindled down to almost nothing.

Georgetown will face off against Butler on Saturday. Tipoff is set for 12 p.m., and the game will be televised on CBS.

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In the second period, Georgetown’s freshmen displayed the offensive power of its recruiting class on attack. Freshman attack Daniel Bucaro finally got the Hoyas on the board when he scored at 12:26 of the second quarter for the first goal of his Georgetown career. Freshman attack Chris Donovan followed with his own first collegiate goal, making the game 5-2 with nine minutes left in the first half.

Warne spoke highly of the freshmen’s performances.

“I thought they were really good. I think they stayed within themselves, [and] they didn’t try to do too much — they just did their jobs. They’re pretty talented, and they were able to create their

own shots,” Warne said.

The Hoyas opened up the second half strongly, scoring two goals in the first three minutes of the third quarter, including the first of junior midfielder Peter Conley’s two goals. Bucaro scored his second goal of the game at 12:41 of the third quarter, shrinking Notre Dame’s lead to 7-5. The Fighting Irish responded with two quick goals, both assisted by star senior attack Matt Kavanagh.

Notre Dame added three more goals in the fourth quarter while Georgetown only scored one. Bucaro assisted on sophomore attack Stephen Quinzi’s goal to add another point to his impressive debut.

Despite the five-goal loss, the Hoyas showed their capability to compete with the top team in the nation.

Warne praised the team’s effort, focus and determination.

“I thought that our guys competed hard for 60 minutes, and sometimes that’s tough if you go down a few goals, but I thought our guys kept fighting,” Warne said.

However, Warne said there are also several things the team needs to build on from its first performance in preparing for the games ahead.

“We’re going to worry about ourselves and what we need to do to be successful.

I think at the end of the day you fall back on your training, and I think that if we understand what we need to do, how we need to run offense, how we need to play defense, how we need to clear the ball and ride, I think that will help us in the long run,” Warne said.

Georgetown’s next game is this Saturday when it travels to Maryland to play No. 14 Towson (2-0).

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By now, everyone has taken off the rosecolored glasses. Fans and pundits alike see the Georgetown men’s basketball team’s (14-14, 7-8 Big East) season for what it truly is — or perhaps more aptly, was — and recognize that the postseason is all but a pipe dream. No. 8 Xavier (24-3, 12-3 Big East) came into Verizon Center on Saturday and shredded the nets in the second half to the tune of 77-percent shooting from the field. The student section, a shell of what it was just a few weeks ago, nearly completely emptied itself by the under-four-minute timeout in the second half en route to an 88-70 blowout loss.

“To be honest, it’s hard to sit here and find some positives,” Head Coach John Thompson III said after the team’s loss at home to Seton Hall (19-7, 9-5 Big East) last Wednesday — a sentiment reinforced after Saturday’s loss.

The Xavier press conference was as honest and brutal as any in recent Georgetown memory. Not only was Thompson more

evaluative of the Hoyas than usual, but the Musketeers were as well.

“They’re a good team; they kept going,” Xavier sophomore guard J.P. Macura said.

“But at the end we had too much talent and we were playing together and we ended up winning the game.”

Too much talent. Playing together.

Given last season’s Georgetown team — a team that rallied around four seniors and fresh, young talent — it seems bizarre to see comments that Georgetown is both outmatched and outplayed.

The narrative of this season’s disappointment has long revolved around player development issues or coaching miscues, rather than a deep-rooted assessment that the team is of lesser talent than its Big East rivals.

Surely a team projected to finish second in the conference should be loaded with talent and promise, but much of this season has been spent searching for the former and clinging to the latter.

The Hoyas have one home game left — a Saturday matchup with the Butler Bulldogs (18-9, 7-8 Big East) on Senior Day. With senior

center and co-captain Bradley Hayes out indefinitely with a broken hand and senior guard Riyan Williams relegated to benchwarmer minutes, guard and co-captain D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera will be the only senior playing significant minutes.

While fans struggled to cope with the idea of a Georgetown team without SmithRivera while the senior guard toyed with NBA draft aspirations before this season, pundits and fans alike anointed him the missing piece of a team that many thought was bound for the Sweet 16 — the best and deepest Georgetown team since Austin Freeman, Chris Wright and Jason Clark teamed up with Greg Monroe, Henry Sims and a young Hollis Thompson in 2009-10.

When Smith-Rivera tabled his draft entry to return for his senior season, the puzzle was complete in the eyes of the media, the fans and almost anyone with a finger on the pulse of Georgetown basketball. The expectations were set. The bar was high.

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Sophomore attack Stephen Quinzi scored one goal and had one assist in Georgetown’s 12-7 loss to No. 1 Notre Dame on Saturday.

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Senior guard and co-captain D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera, right, and sophomore guard L.J. Peak lead Georgetown in scoring with 16.3 and 11.4 points per game, respectively. They each average 3.3 rebounds per game.

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

The No. 17 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (0-1) fell in its 2016 debut to No. 1 Notre Dame (1-0) 12-7 Saturday in Atlanta, Ga. in the Cobb County Classic. In the end, the Fighting Irish’s offense was too much for the Hoyas to handle.

“I thought we played hard, but as what happens in the beginning of the season [is that] you practice against yourself a lot, and some of the teams might do something that you’re not used to,” Head Coach Kevin Warne said.

Georgetown struggled throughout the game to win faceoffs, and the team’s inability to do so hurt it in the first quarter.

Notre Dame won all five of the faceoffs in the first quarter and went on a 4-0 run to start the game. Georgetown went on to win only 22 percent of its attempts at the X. Georgetown is still seeking the right player rotation and personnel changes to take the faceoff, but in the meantime, a team effort is the best approach to finding success at the X, according to Warne. “[We must] remember that the faceoff game is a three-onthree game, it’s not so much a one-on-one game. So we’ve just got to make sure that we’re able to make it a three-on-three game a lot until we are more refined in our technique at the See IRISH, A9

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Hoyas Blow Late Lead in Home Loss MOLLY O’CONNELL Hoya Staff Writer

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Cup Gives All Teams Shot at Win W

ith the return of the Champions League, as well as regular domestic games and other competitions, February is always a hectic month in the soccer world. It is no surprise that many players get injured — we are looking at you, Wayne Rooney. With the Premier League not in action at the moment, I would like to focus on one of my favorite competitions in the world: the Football Association Challenge Cup. The FA Cup started in 1871, making it the oldest soccer competition in the world.

In the last 144 years, there have been 42 different tournament winners. Arsenal currently holds the record for most wins at 12, although Manchester United and Tottenham are not far behind with 11 and eight, respectively. While it can be very difficult to find a good stream of the games online, it is absolutely worth your while to do so.

The FA Cup is very inclusive of the lesser English clubs, which is one of the reasons I love it so much. With 92 clubs from the Premier League all the way down through League Two of the Football League, joined by 32 other qualifying teams, this is the one competition where some of these lower league teams have a chance to make themselves known. In Round Three this year, Liverpool was forced to go into See CRAIGE, A9

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (14-12, 7-9 Big East) came out on the losing end of a tough battle with conference rival Villanova (17-10, 10-6 Big East) Sunday at McDonough Arena.

The Hoyas had a 12-point lead in the fourth quarter, but the Wildcats battled back, coming away with a narrow three-point victory.

“This game came down to that half an inch,” Head Coach Natasha Adair said. “These [conference] games are just so close and it comes down to that possession. It comes down to that stop.

It comes down to that layup. It comes down to that free throw.

It comes down to that turnover.”

The opening 10 minutes of the contest, which saw two ties and six lead changes, were evenly matched. The Hoyas were paced by freshman guard Dionna White and sophomore guard Dorothy Adomako, who combined to score 16 of the team’s 17 points in the first quarter. At the end of the period, Georgetown held a two-point advantage.

“It’s easy to talk about Dionna and Dorothy because they just play so hard. They compete,” Adair said. “You have a freshman and a sophomore out there giving you everything.”

The Hoyas maintained a slight advantage for the entirety of the second quarter but were never able to pull away. A made free throw from White with 2:28 remaining in the period gave Georgetown an eight-point advantage — its largest of the half.

However, following White’s free throw, Villanova managed to hold Georgetown scoreless for the rest of the period. The Wildcats cut the Hoyas’ lead to four points in the closing minutes of

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Freshman guard Dionna White tallied 18 points in Georgetown’s 63-60 loss to Villanova on Sunday.

White leads Georgetown this season with 14.8 points per game and six rebounds per game. the half. At the break, Georgetown led 28-24.

Georgetown held the lead through the opening minutes of the second half, but a three from freshman guard Adrianna Hahn with 5:38 left in the third quarter gave Villanova its first lead in more than 25 minutes.

“Once they came back we called a timeout, and Coach told

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us we had to win that quarter because the third quarter is crucial,” Adomako said.

Despite the swing in momentum, Georgetown kept its composure. A 10-0 run put the Hoyas back on top heading into the final 10 minutes of play.

The Hoyas came out firing to start the fourth quarter, scoring 12 straight points to take a 52-40

lead with 8:19 left to play. However, Villanova fought back, going on a 12-2 run to pull within two with less than five minutes left in the contest. Villanova tied the game at 54 with 1:47 remaining, and the two teams traded baskets as time continued to tick off the clock.

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