The Hoya: September 27, 2016

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HOMECOMING WIN

The football team won on Homecoming Day, moving to 3-0 this season.

EDITORIAL The university should consider creating an endowment for CAPS.

DC POVERTY ISSUES PERSIST A report shows that families continue to suffer from the recession.

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NEWS, A5

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Revised Body Camera Protocol Announced paula hong

established Oct. 21, 2015, required officers to turn on their cameras when an interaction A new Washington, D.C. man- with the member of the public date announced Sept. 15 will is initiated. The new policy, anrequire D.C. Metropolitan Po- nounced by D.C. Mayor Muriel lice Department officers to con- Bowser (D), will require all pofirm that lice dispatchers they have to remind offiswitched on cers to turn on their bodytheir cameras worn camwhen they are eras with giving informadispatchers tion to the diswhen repatcher. sponding Two officers, to calls, folincluding the lowing the one who disfatal Sept. charged the 11 shooting weapon, have of motorbeen placed MURIEL BOWSER (d) cyclist Teron administraMayor, D.C. rence Stertive leave after ling, which the incident. was not caught on the officer’s Bowser said in a Sept. 12 press body camera. conference the officers are beSterling, a 31-year-old from ing investigated for two further Fort Washington, Md., was shot violations during the incident, by an unnamed police officer at including using their cruiser to the corner of Third Street and barricade the path of the moM Street NW. According to an torcycle and firing from inside MPD press release, Sterling was the vehicle. fleeing after hitting the police “Our preliminary review vehicle. The officer who shot does not show any camera Sterling was equipped with a footage before the shooting,” body camera but did not turn Bowser said in the press conferit on until after the shots were ence. “The footage that we have fired — a violation of protocol. reviewed at this point happens Previous to this incident, proSee MPD, A6 tocol regarding body cameras,

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“The footage that we have reviewed at this point happens after the shooting incident.”

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Students and faculty gathered in Red Square on Friday to rally against the police brutality that led to the shootings of Terrence Crutcher and Keith Lamont, ending by joining arms to sing “We Shall Overcome.”

Students Protest Police Violence TARA SUBRAMANIAM Hoya Staff Writer

Around 50 students and faculty demonstrated in solidarity with victims of police brutality in light of the recent police shootings of two black men in Tulsa, Okla., and Charlotte, N.C., in a student-organized rally Friday in Red Square.

Since mid-September, racial injustice in America was once again brought to the forefront of national consciousness when Terrence Crutcher was shot by Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby on Sept. 16 and Keith Lamont Scott was shot by police officers in Charlotte on Sept. 20.

Both shootings were caught on video and have been widely

circulated on media networks and social media platforms.

Shelby has been charged with manslaughter by the Tulsa County district attorney, while the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of See PROTEST, A6

Students Commend Dining Changes Despite Value Gaps matthew trunko Hoya Staff Writer

With Aramark’s new meal exchange policy, students may not receive the actual monetary value of their meal swipes when using them at Hoya Court and Cosi.

Aramark’s dining policy reforms this year saw an increase in food options and added flexibility for meal swipes and have been received positively by students interviewed

by The Hoya.

However, wait times at dining establishments that offer the meal exchange program have reportedly increased, and questions remain over whether students are receiving the value paid per different exchange swipe.

This year, meal swipes, which were previously only usable at Leo O’Donovan Hall, Einstein Bros. Bagels and the Leavey Center Grab ‘n’ Go, have been expanded to include Elevation Burger, Subway, Salad Creations and Cosi. Students can select between three and five meal combinations from each restaurant, which usually consist of one entree, one side and a beverage.

Though demand is high for the new meal exchange options, students are restricted to us-

ing meal exchanges within certain time constraints. Elevation Burger, Subway, Salad Creations and Cosi do not accept exchange options until after 3 p.m. The Leavey Center Grab ‘n’ Go no longer serves dinner this year.

Still, the meal exchange program may not give students good value for their money. The standard 18 weekly meal plan costs $2,726 for a duration of 15 weeks. After subtracting the $220 Flex Dollars that come with the plan, dividing by the 15 weeks, then by the 18 meals per week, the cost per meal comes out to $9.28 — assuming all meal swipes are used every week.

Using the same methKARISSA PRAYOGO (SFS ’20) odology, the 14 weekly plan costs $11.17 per meal, the 10 weekly plan and 150 block plan — consisting of 150 meal swipes that can be used as a student wishes — cost $13.79 per meal, the 115 block plan costs $14.44 per meal, the 75 block plan costs $14.51 and the 60 block plan costs $15.27.

When compared to the price equivalents of the food received from a meal swipe, the cost per swipe do not always add up.

For instance, Subway’s meal exchange program includes any 6-inch sub, chips or whole fruit and regular fountain beverage.

“I could see why other people would feel like they need more for their meal swipe.”

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The new meal exchange options offered by Aramark this academic year, expanding options for students beyond Leo’s, above, have been met with enthusiasm despite discrepancies in pricing.

On its regular menu, this meal costs around $6.60. At Cosi, the first meal exchange option includes taste two — a combo that includes two menu items — and regular fountain beverage, which could be purchased for around $11.86.

Despite the potential cost dif-

ference of up to $8.67 per meal, many students — particularly freshmen and sophomores who live in residence halls and are required to purchase meal plans — still appreciate the value in having more options.

Karissa Prayogo (SFS ’20), who has a 14 weekly plan, said she be-

lieves she is still getting a good value for her meal swipes.

“Just because I personally don’t eat that much, so all the meals make me full. But I could see why other people would feel like they need more for a meal See DINING, A6

NEWS

SPORTS

OPINION

Byman, Dueck on Foreign Policy The Alexander Hamilton Society chapter returned with a debate as its first event.

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Momentum Stalls The women’s soccer team drew its first game of the season on Sunday.

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Open-Carry Laws Endanger Us The Texas open-carry laws will create more dangerous campuses, not safer ones.

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NEWS Dear Freshmen

sPORTS Losing Streak Continues

OPINION Editorial

An online initiative to share advice with freshmen through digital letters launched this semetser.

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The men’s soccer team was shut out in its 2-0 loss against Xavier this Saturday.

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Georgetown’s refusal to use the Common Application prevents an opportunity for increased diversity.

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OPINION

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Presidential Paparazzi — A viral video from this weekend shows former President George W. Bush unsuccessfully trying to take a selfie at the opening of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. He eventually asked President Barack Obama to help him capture the group photo.

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New Pair of Shades — Snapchat has announced its first hardware product, a pair of video-capturing sunglasses called Spectacles, which records first-person videos and save them to a user’s Snapchat memories. The glasses are set to be released this fall and will cost $130.

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Hack Attack — Yahoo announced that the information for more than 500 million of its user accounts had been compromised in what is thought to be one of the biggest data breaches in history.

Royal Rejection — During his parents’ official visit to Canada, Britain’s 3-year-old Prince George allegedly spurned both a high-five and a handshake from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Out Of This World — Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, is set to give a speech today, Sept. 27, on his plan for the establishment of a colony on Mars.

Beginning this semester, students affiliated with the Georgetown Scholarship Program will be able to receive all mental health services from Counseling and Psychiatric Services for free, thanks to an anonymous donation.

The donation also facilitated the hiring of a new staff psychologist.

This donation should be a first step toward inspiring our university’s administration to further commit to this important service by raising an actual endowment for CAPS. This past year, CAPS has taken great strides to improve the accessibility of its services. For a student who wishes to visit staff psychologists or partake in a psychiatric follow-up, the cost is now lowered to $10 and $15 fees respectively. Our campus culture has also become more attentive to the mental health needs of students, with the development of initiatives such as Project Lighthouse, which allows students to talk with trained peers concerning any issues they may have through an anonymous online chat service.

Even with such strides, the university can take initiative and further ensure that students have the access to mental health resources they need. In 2015 alone, CAPS received more than 10,000 student visits across all of Georgetown University’s campuses. Although recent adjustments have made the services relatively affordable, students should never fear financial difficulty when seeking to improve their mental health. This is why a CAPS endowment needs to be established.

An endowment for mental health resources is not unprecedented. In 2015, Pennsylvania State University saw increased demand for resources similar to those provided by CAPS, including psychiatric and psychological counseling. Over the course of five years, the demand for counseling on Penn State’s campus increased by 32 percent. Students then took the initiative to raise the money to establish a formal endowment used to fund facilities, the services and the staff within Penn State’s primary counseling center, while also cover-

ing the upfront cost for students. In May 2016, students raised over $400,000 to solely cover a year’s worth of costs, yet they are still actively attempting to raise enough funds to support more staff across more campuses.

Currently, Penn State is one of the only universities in the country that has set up an endowment specifically for providing mental health services and mitigating the cost burden for students. As a university that strives to improve the lives of its students, the issue of mental health on campus is salient and effects a great deal of Georgetown’s community. In this country alone, 10 percent of new college students report that they “frequently felt depressed” in their first year of college, according to the American Freshman Survey. In addition, 31 percent felt “so depressed that it was difficult to function” in the past year.

While it may be difficult to begin a new fundraising campaign specifically geared toward funding CAPS, the GSP donation shows that there are at least some individuals willing to support mental health initiatives. The recent completion of Georgetown’s 10-year capital campaign, which generated $1.67 billion, also shows the extent to which alumni can contribute to a variety of different causes.

A similar, shorter-term fundraising campaign could generate the funds needed to pay for CAPS resources, mitigate the costs for students and allow for a greater number of staff to join the department in order to deal with increasing demand for services.

The numbers across our country point to a clear need for continued investment in services and departments like CAPS. The student culture on campus indicates that students care about the issue of mental health and it is time for Georgetown to institutionalize a commitment to the services that are so widely used. For students seeking help dealing with issues of mental health, finding the right services at CAPS should be a right, not just another service they pay for.

Capitol Confusion — Several D.C. area hotels were caught inadvertently using a photo of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison, Wis., on their websites, rather than the U.S. Capitol building, an icon of Washington, D.C.

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Brighter Futures — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, have announced a $3 billion investment dedicated to finding a cure, treatment or management for all diseases by the end of the century. The investment is a part of the couple’s wider charity project, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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Cat Craze — The internet-famous “Grumpy Cat” will be immortalized as a wax figure, becoming the first-ever pet installation at Madame Tussauds’ museum in Washington, D.C.

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EDITORIALS

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Timeout for Tourists — The National Park Service, still struggling to repair the Washington Monument’s elevator, released a statement yesterday announcing the monument’s indefinite closure. Visitors to D.C. will still be unable to go inside the monument, which has been closed since Aug. 17.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Noah Taylor

Common App Eases Process As many high school seniors begin their college application process, they will become familiar with their main resource — the Common Application, a nonprofit organization that runs an application system used by 700 national and international colleges and universities. The Common App makes it easier for students to apply to multiple universities at one time. Its effectiveness is seen in the number of applications it handles every year: over 4 million, on average.

Yet across the country, there are only two major universities that still refuse to join this nearubiquitous system: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgetown University. It is time for Georgetown to join a system that is not only widespread, but also simpler and more efficient for a wider base of prospective applicants.

Switching to the Common App should make applying to Georgetown much easier. When the University of Chicago switched to the Common App in 2008, it received a 9 percent increase in applications, moving from 12,381 applicants in 2007 to 13,600 applicants in 2008. In 2015, it received 30,188 applicants.

By switching to the Common App, schools like the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland have all experienced increases in the socio-economic, ethnic and geographic diversity of applicants.

Receiving a greater number of applications does not necessarily lead to an increase in the quality applicants. But schools should always strive to avoid creating barriers to overall admission where they can. According to The Washington Post in 2011, schools that join the Common App experience a 5 to 10 percent increase in overall applicants to their schools. In the long term, such an increase will give admissions officers a greater pool of candidates from which to choose, which as a consequence allows the potential for greater diversity in the future.

Georgetown should also consider being part of the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success. Created in 2016 through a consortium of schools, the nonprofit provides students a free portfolio-based admissions package to organize application resources, including essays and financial information. Over 90 schools, such as

all the Ivy League schools, Stanford University and the University of Michigan, encourage the use of the program since it is tailored to providing all students, regardless of socio-economic background, with a simple portal and resource when applying to colleges and universities.

Georgetown’s own system and admission process is one that, presently, provides no benefits to potential applicants in relation to the Common App. Yet the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon (CAS ’64, GRD ’69) has long been a proponent of a separate application. In a 2013 interview with The Hoya, Deacon said the admissions office is “encouraging students to express themselves to us, rather than to a common process.”

Our admissions office should certainly look for outstanding and unique characteristics in applicants, yet the Common App does not present a generally common process. In applying to higher education institutions, all prospective applicants have to input the same basic information, metrics and a common essay. But each school can also add its own supplementary requirements to the Common App, allowing a uniqueness for each school.

Georgetown’s application is composed of a general essay and a supplemental essay for the specific school students are applying to. The difference is that the Common App is a part of a single, easy-to-access and unified system, recognized by all students applying to college, while Georgetown’s application is not.

Switching to the Common App does pose some risks, however. There will, expectedly, be increases in more frivolous applications.

It is also true that a potential increase in the number of applicants with a same cap on the number of students accepted would also make our school more selective. Yet Georgetown should no longer be an outlier among 700 other schools. With so many other schools — from Cornell University to the University of Chicago to Columbia University — already using Common App, it is time for Georgetown to follow suit and make its admissions as streamlined, simple and efficient as possible for future Hoyas to come.

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OPINION

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MENTAL MUSINGS

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VIEWPOINT • WEBB

Sudhanshu Sisodiya

Find Magnificence Within Our Lives

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s we reach the end of September, the conversation topic du jour has already degraded from catching up after the summer to excessively complaining about Georgetown’s mediocre facilities, the excessive workload from our classes and our straining extracurricular activities. It has not even been a month yet, and it seems that stress is slowly taking over our free souls of the summer.

It is times like these that remind me of comedian Louis C.K.’s stand-up show “Chewed Up” in 2008. The bit is about how ridiculous it is when people forget how amazing our world actually is. On the topic of airplane passengers who complain about having to sit on the runway for 40 minutes, he then asks, “What happened then? Did you fly through the air like a bird incredibly? Did you soar through the clouds impossibly? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight?

You’re flying! You are sitting in a chair in the sky.”

The actor-comedian does have a point. Once we see through the surface of our complaints, we can see just how amazing life is. It often just takes a slight change in perspective to alter the way you perceive the current situation and acknowledge the incredible wonders of our world.

Think of evolution and design. Humans are descendants of rodentlike mammals that were lucky enough to thrive after the extinction of dinosaurs. Of the thousands of species that lived and perished, what were the odds that our lineage would survive? What were the odds of the elements arranging themselves to make the universe as it is now? Some bring up the notion of a supreme being, yet the fact that our planet exists, revolving around a ball of fire 333,000 times its size, is thought-provoking and magnificent.

Think of your own position. We wake up every day to alarms on our phones and squint our eyes as we swipe across notifications. Little do we realize that in this groggy moment of the morning we

are participating in something that would be considered magic to somebody 30 years ago. Your smartphone is a futuristic computer connected to the most powerful network of information, one that can access centuries of human knowledge. Because we see this as normal, we are blinded to the reality around us.

Even our bodies are a feat of complexity beyond imagination. Rarely do we realize that every day we wake up not the exact same person — at every moment there are old cells dying in our bodies and new cells regenerating. Neurons fire as the body picks up sensations around us, making new memories in the process. All those feelings, every iota of data, are then processed by our own supercomputer, the brain.

Perhaps there is a reason we are not amazed at the incredible around and within us. Maybe such blindness continues because our ancestors were rewarded for running away from tigers rather than philosophizing and reflecting. It also seems facetious and impossible to marvel at the incredible when we are called for separate reactions to other stimuli throughout our day.

Indeed it can be very hard to remind ourselves how privileged we are, but that is the point of the exercise: to open up our eyes and live to examine every situation more closely. As Albert Einstein once said, “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, you can live as if everything is a miracle.” To take the conscious decision to find the miracles around us can be a great change in perspective and personally rewarding.

The next time you feel tired and burned out, exhausted from all the work to which you have been subjected, expand your vision and just remind yourself of how compelling and magnificent everything around us is.

Sudhanshu Sisodiya is a freshman in the College.

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ELINOR WALKER

A lone gunman is usually no match for well-trained police, but in order to legally carry a handgun on a Texas campus, a 21-year-old needs little firearm training and no experience.

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Flawed Logic in Arming Students

his July, I spent 17 days working at a speech and debate camp at the University of Texas at Austin. The night before the campers arrived, the director explained the emergency plans to the staff, should we ever confront a situation like a shooting. I was overcome for a moment with a sense of powerlessness as I, a 19-year-old in charge of 16- and 17-yearolds, was forced to think about how I would respond in the event of a mass shooting.

Then, on Aug. 1, the 50th anniversary of Charles Whitman’s deadly massacre from the UT Tower, Texas became one of the few states to legalize the carrying of concealed handguns on the campuses of public universities — a policy termed “campus carry” — which in recent months has spurred faculty objections, student protests and even a mock school shooting.

While I understand the stated intentions of campus carry — to prevent mass shootings like Whit-

man’s from ever happening again — I, as a Texan and a gun owner, cannot support this policy because it endangers the lives of students. In fact, the bitter irony is that, contrary to its purpose, campus carry makes universities less safe in the event of a mass shooting, not more.

The rationale behind the law is clear and somewhat convincing. Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, has made a mantra out of the statement, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” However, campus carry takes this already dubious axiom and assumes a completely different corollary: A civilian with a gun is an effective way to stop a bad guy with a gun. This new statement is demonstrably false.

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training and virtually no experience. The difference between trained law enforcement personnel, who average a hit rate between 34 and 40 percent, and armed civilians, who cannot be consistently shown to stop or prevent mass shootings, is stark.

The difference between relying on law enforcement and an armed civilian is the difference between a swift, effective SWAT response and an even bloodier incident where more innocent civilians are hit. Missed shots do not just fail to subdue an active shooter.

Missed shots present a clear danger to innocent bystanders. In this way, the presence of more armed civilians on campus is not only ineffective, but is in fact counterproductive towards saving as many lives as possible.

Still, in the event of an active shooter situation, an armed student body presents an even more dangerous issue: the inability to identify the assailant. Any time a shooter opens fire, the scene

is terrifying and chaotic, which is why it is particularly important that police can quickly differentiate assailant from victim, school shooter from student. If they cannot, the situation can become far deadlier for both police and innocent civilians, as it did in December when Wisconsin police killed an armed hostage by mistake instead of targeting the true gunman.

The issue of campus carry is not about whether or not guns are useful tools of self-defense.

Rather, it is about the fact that, in the tragic event of a school shooting, the people able to stop the danger will not be students but trained police officers. I own a gun, and I recognize that guns are tools that can be used for good and evil. But when it comes to protecting students, guns should stay in the hands of the people who know what they are doing: the police.

Webb is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service.

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THE MILLENNIAL’S CORNER

Depoliticization Frays EU Bonds Distorted Perceptions of Terror

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he past year has been a very rough one for the European Union.

Most dramatically, the referendum vote taken June 23 by the United Kingdom over membership in the EU represents a startling departure from the EU’s seemingly inevitable path toward an “ever-closer union.” At the same time, the waves of Middle Eastern refugees washing up on the beaches of Italy and Greece have produced a humanitarian crisis of heartwrenching proportions.

Meanwhile, tensions within the eurozone continue, with cutbacks and austerity programs resulting in a grinding recession in Greece and much of Southern Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin remains a menacing shadow over Europe. Finally, the EU has seen the rise of autocratic regimes within its own borders.

Backsliding by EU members Hungary and Poland seems to be eroding democratic consolidation in the former Soviet sphere, creating a fundamental challenge to the EU as a liberal, democratic order.

All these crises have been met with seemingly ineffectual responses by the EU and national leaders, generating frustration and anger across European publics. Unsurprisingly, euroskeptic parties have grown exponentially and have fanned demands for the renationalization of sovereign control over borders and markets. While the EU has stumbled badly at various points in its half century of existence, the seriousness and multiplicity of challenges it faces today are

unprecedented.

There are many different roots of the EU’s problems, including incomplete institutions and ill-conceived policies. But blame also lies in the fact that, while the EU has risen to become a powerful, innovative political entity, it remains depoliticized by design, intentionally framed by elites as banal and unremarkable. The EU’s political culture — that is, the symbols and practices surrounding EU governance — continuously shapes the everyday lives of Europeans and redraws the boundaries of legitimate authority beyond the nation-state. But it does so in subtle ways that never directly engage political passions, prompt partisan debates or create deep attachments to the EU as a political community.

Consider the following.

The euro displays abstracted bridges and windows instead of heroic images.

Rather than building one monumental national capital in Brussels, European institutions and their mostly unremarkable buildings are flung far across the 28 member states. And Europe’s top diplomat is called the symbolically watered down “high representative for foreign and security policy” rather than a European foreign minister.

Why is deliberate depoliticization a problem? Political systems cohere better if they are made up of people who feel a sense of deeply knit, emotional attachment to the larger political community.

The EU has evolved to govern rather than democratically represent, even as the ever-

deeper penetration of the EU into its citizens’ lives creates a greater need to open up to debate the distributional consequences of its policies and the values those policies promote.

In some ways, the overt politicization that has risen from Europe’s migrant crisis, eurozone problems and Brexit shock is a good thing, as it emphasizes the real issues at stake. In addition to euroskepticism, it has also prompted some surprising displays of solidarity, such as the protestors marching in London after the Brexit vote, fervently waving signs that read: “We love the EU.” But the crises have also shown how far Europe has to go to forge a robust and viable sense of political identity for all its citizens as well as to build the capacity for an overtly political but healthily partisan engagement.

Western democracies across the globe today face backlash against elite rule, expert delegation and conventional party politics. However, the EU faces an even more challenging situation than the United States or European nation-states. The absence of a political culture that provides real public engagement over the EU’s everincreasing powers has created a democratic vacuum, one that must be overcome if the EU is to survive.

Kathleen McNamara is a

professor of government and foreign service in the department of government.

She is the author of “The Politics of Everyday Europe: Constructing Authority in the European Union.”

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n Sept. 17, a bomb explosion injured 29 people on a crowded sidewalk in Chelsea, N.Y.. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) called the incident “an intentional act” at the time, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) labeled the attack an act of terrorism.

Further investigation revealed that the attacker, Ahmad Rahami, was Muslim.

Soon after, members of the Islamic State group took to Twitter to publicly celebrate the attack, yet no direct link to international groups has been found.

In the midst of terror, media groups commonly fall into the trap of rushing to link a perpetrator’s religion to terrorism. According to a 2014 study conducted by the Brookings Institute, 14 percent of Americans believe Muslims support the IS group. In fact, when President Barack Obama argued the IS group is not Islamic, Ron Christie, a GOP strategist, tweeted: “What kindergartner briefs the President on terrorism?” Similarly, political commentator George Will told Fox News shortly after the speech, “ISIS says it’s Islamic, lots of people say it’s Islamic, only the president won’t.”

Those who believe in an inherent connection between the IS group and Muslims often point to the examples of self-declared jihadists who claim allegiance to the IS group, including the perpetrators of the San Bernardino attack in California last December. Attacks by the IS group sympathizers have indeed increased in past years. In a message released

earlier this year regarding the IS group’s plan to launch attacks on the United States and Europe during Ramadan, former IS group leader Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani requested that sympathizers “punish the Crusaders day and night.”

Martha Petrocheilos According to a report by the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, the IS group is “reorienting its strategy” with attacks abroad by appealing more to sympathizers rather than sending actual recruits. However, instead of interpreting this strategy as an increasing threat within our borders, we should begin to understand it as a sign of the group’s demise.

The recent attacks attributed to the IS group demonstrate its weakness, not strength. The IS group, in its origins, aims to be its own state. Yet the group is losing ground, not only in shrinking physical territory in Iraq, Syria and Libya but also in public support. The number of new recruits arriving in Syria and Iraq dropped by 90 percent from April 2015 to April 2016, according to U.S. officials.

Likewise, support for the IS group among young Arab Muslims across the Middle East continues to shrink: According to the 2016 ASDA’A

Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey, nearly 80 percent of Arab youth now strongly reject the IS group, compared to the 60 percent last year.

Nonetheless, the IS group is still doing what it has always done very well: controlling the news and at least appearing to control events. For instance, investigations have shown that Omar Mateen, the attacker in Florida’s Pulse nightclub in June, was motivated by personal bigotry.

His father said he “got very angry” whenever he saw two men kissing in public. Therefore, to claim this attack was part of a larger conspiracy is incorrect. Mateen was a lone wolf, and it is time for media groups across the country to label similar actors as such.

By branding all attacks carried out by Muslims as directly linked to the IS group, the media misinforms us.

Whenever evidence leads to a Muslim suspect who happens to pledge allegiance to the group, it should be labeled accurately as just that unless concrete evidence of a relationship between the attacker and the organization emerges.

We cannot afford to live in an era where in-depth investigations are undermined.

The IS group has come to be seen as a terrorist group over which we have no control, when in reality, the only reason why the IS group is still relevant is because the media allows it to be.

Martha Petrocheilos is a student at the Law Center.

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The Georgetown chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society hosted its first event, a debate between Senior Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Service Daniel Byman and George Mason University professor Colin Dueck on the legacy of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy decisions, on Sept. 20 in the Intercultural Center Auditorium,

“I also think the Iran deal was a success. It was not a perfect deal ... but I think it is better than no deal and that’s a reasonable bar.”

DANIEL BYMAN Senior Associate Dean, SFS

The chapter of the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, which has been at Georgetown since 2010, held the event to relaunch its organization following a failure to get Student Activities Commission recognition last year. The debate focused on the Obama administration’s foreign policy, as well as the foreign policy proposals of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Professor Matthew Kroenig moderated the debate.

The first phase of the debate concerned the current administration’s foreign policy record. Dueck began by criticizing Obama’s policies.

“I think he had a strategy at the macro level,” Dueck said. “At the micro level, when you look at specific cases like Syria, there never really was a coherent strategy in the sense of means and ends being coherently matched.”

Byman disagreed with Dueck’s perspective, arguing that Obama has achieved some success while stumbling on other issues.

After the opening remarks, the discussion shifted as both professors offered their analyses on the critical foreign policy decisions of the Obama years, including the decision to re-establish relations with Cuba after a 50-year embargo and the Iran nuclear deal.

Byman defended the deal, arguing that the accord with Iran was the best approach the administration could have taken.

“I also think the Iran deal was a success. It is not a perfect deal, and I could describe my own criticisms about it,” Byman said. “It is certainly not everything I wanted or others wanted. But I think it is

better than no deal and that’s a reasonable bar.”

Dueck said the deal was both unnecessary and detrimental to American interests in the region.

“I agree that this was as much as Iran was willing to concede.

But I am not sure why we had to have any deal,” Dueck said. “What you are doing now is you are lifting sanctions and you are handing back a lot of wealth to that regime, which it can use in the way it wants to. In a way, it legitimizes the regime.”

Byman and Dueck agreed that the intervention in Libya was mismanaged and that the administration was not sufficiently prepared to deal with its aftermath. They also defended the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Both professors also denounced Trump’s candidacy and his foreign policy proposals.

Byman said Trump is a danger to the United States because of his favorable perceptions of dictatorships and his complete disregard for the

truth in relation to his policy plans.

“Trump is the ultimate disappointment. Because how do you defend him?

He is indefensible.”

COLIN DUECK Professor, George Mason University

“Part of it is, he is someone who doesn’t seem to care about the truth in any way,” Byman said. “We could argue about policy X, Y and Z, but he is someone who really has no problem saying something, you know, 99 percent of all Muslims support ISIS, he could say something like that and just not care that it is completely false. And will do that to thematically cause an issue. … The idea that someone would knowingly distort is troubling.”

Byman also said Trump’s success in securing the Republican nomina-

tion concerned him since it showed that he did not understand an important part of his own country.

Dueck said Trump is not representative of Republican ideals and condemned him for helping to legitimize conspiracy theories, including the theories that Obama was not born in the United States and that Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas)’s father had been involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

“Trump is the ultimate disappointment. Because how do you defend him? He is indefensible. So I feel like it’s frustrating in the sense that he is not representing what I believe what it means to be a conservative or a Republican,” Dueck said.

Dueck said he would not be voting for Trump and hopes that he loses the election in order to provide anti-Trump Republicans an opportunity to regain control of the party.

Some audience members said they were disappointed the speakers did not evaluate the Republican

candidate’s proposals more critically.

“I am a Democrat, and I have always wanted to hear from a reallife Trump supporter what exactly Trump’s foreign policy would entail,” Gabe Hammoud (SFS ’20) said.

“I was a little disappointed that we didn’t get to have one of those [discussions].”

Alexander Hamilton Society President Jeff Naft (COL ’17) said he was satisfied with the organization’s first event and hopes more students attend the organization’s functions.

(Full disclosure: Naft is a staff writer for THE HOYA.) “I thought professor Dueck was a great ambassador for American conservatism,” Naft said. “Professor Byman did a great job arguing on behalf of the Obama administration and offered some insight that was in the center and was genuine, sincere and authentic. I walked away learning a lot more, and I hope that the Hamilton Society can hold more events like this in the future.”

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Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) criticized President Barack Obama’s administration’s reticence in foreign policy during Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service’s national security “Exit Interview” counterpoint event Sept. 23 in the Intercultural Center Auditorium.

GU Politics, a subset of the McCourt School of Public Policy, presents the counterpoint sessions to supplement the perspectives of speakers hosted in the newly launched sixpart “Exit Interview” series, which examines the legacy of the Obama administration.

Moderated by the School of Foreign Service Senior Associate Dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs Tony Arend, Roger’s counterpoint session followed a Sept. 14 event that featured National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

Rogers was introduced by GU Politics Fellow and former senior advisor to Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign Michael Steele and GU Politics Student Advisory Board Cochair Kelly Schneider (GRD ’18.) The pair described his achievements as a leader in cybersecurity and national security policy, as a CNN commentator and as the host of syndicated radio program “Something to Think About.”

“This will be a robust discussion about the Obama administration’s foreign policy from the point of view of someone who has watched it very carefully and closely, not always with a positive view,”

Steele said.

The discussion, which around 35 people attended, centered on Rogers’ lamentation of Obama’s refusal to engage in new military conflicts.

In particular, Rogers chastised Obama for failing to intervene in Syria when President Bashar al-Assad crossed the “red line” by employing chemical weapons.

“The Syrians had violated the red line, multiple times,” Rogers said. “The world saw that, our allies in the Middle East saw that and they saw the United States take no action whatsoever. In a dangerous game like diplomacy, that works against you in a hurry.”

Rogers also held up the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia as an example of the administration’s failure. Rogers argued the administration wanted a quick win to showcase success on the global stage, so it engaged in a short-sighted treaty with Russia. He also accused Russia of cheating and not sticking to the treaty, while indicting the Obama administration for accepting Russian noncompliance.

“They gave away too much, including our ability to counter any reductions in missile defense technology,” Roger said. “Remember, Russians aren’t the only threat when it comes to nuclear weapons.”

Nevertheless, Rogers praised the administration’s continuation of National Security Agency programs.

“They understood the value of that program. That was another pretty tough decision for them,” Rogers said. “It

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Rogers acknowledged the philosophical differences between his interventionist American policy and Obama’s more reserved approach, but argued the partisan divide is detrimental to national security.

“Unfortunately, in the last few years foreign policy and national security have seen

that partisan divide,” Rogers said. “And that, I argue, is very, very unfortunate.”

Rogers also contemplated the future, remarking that he views all outcomes of this election with a sense of foreboding.

“Whoever is elected is going to get a slap in the face about our real challenges in so many different places around the world,” Rogers said. “I think we’re going to be farther apart after this elec-

tion then I’ve certainly ever seen.”

Javon Price (SFS ’20) said he wished Rogers had further elaborated on certain issues.

“I wish it was paired with more context and knowledge,” Price said. “For example, he declined to go into more detail in the Iran deal.”

However, Hunter Estes (SFS ’19) noted the intimate nature of the conversation due to the small audience size, and contended it broached many

policy details.

“There’s a certain implication that the audience will have a base of knowledge and skipping over that lets the speaker get into deeper conversations,” Estes said. “He touched a lot on personal experiences that we are always looking for, not general conservative party line responses, but actual personal stories, like bringing personal relationships that he had with foreign leaders into the conversation.”

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Chair of the District of Columbia Council Phil Mendelson spoke at an event for the release of the first of three reports in a series analyzing the state of black individuals in Washington, D.C.

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Black men are expected to live almost 15 years less than white men in Washington, D.C., according to a report released last week by the School of Nursing and Health Studies’ department of health systems administration.

The study is the first of three reports in a series analyzing the state of black individuals in D.C. at the request of history professor and D.C. Commission on African American Affairs Chair Maurice Jackson. The report is the result of a yearlong project aiming to address issues facing the black community.

Assistant professor and Project Faculty Lead Christopher King said disparities in access to health care are often ignored.

“You can have the best health care in the world, but if we’re not thinking about the communities in which people live, we’re not going to see any changes in these disparities,” King said. “The whole purpose of the report is to challenge people to think more holistically about what health really means at the community level.”

Examining the health of black Washingtonians, the report details racial disparities in obesity, mental health and access to food, as well as the disparity in life expectancy between blacks and whites.

According to the study, life expectancy has improved for all populations

in the city, except black residents. White males are expected to live almost 15 years longer than black males — 68.8 years compared to 83.2, respectively.

“We’re doing a lot around implicit bias, because there are differences in how patients are treated.”

Christopher King Assistant Professor and Project Faculty Lead, Georgetown

The report shows that clinical care — direct medical attention — accounts for only 20 percent of an individual’s degree of health.

The remaining social determinants come from health behaviors, social and economic factors and the physical environment.

NHS Dean Patricia Cloonan said holistic health care requires concern beyond the traditional model of clinics and preventative health care.

“Clean air, sidewalks, safe neighborhoods, access to good education and good economic communities all contribute to our overall health and well-being. This report illuminates the interconnectedness between a person’s health and his or her life outside of clinical care,” Cloonan said.

The report also suggests potential solutions for policymakers to implement, which require addressing those other social determinants of health. The report suggestions include increasing education around structural causes of poor health, increasing diversity in health care leadership and better integrating mental health care into primary care.

Vice President for Government Relations and Community Engagement Christopher Murphy said the university is already working on ways to implement the report’s recommendations.

“Georgetown is brilliant in conducting research and sharing its findings, but there’s a bit of connective tissue sometimes missing between the university and policymakers, so my colleagues and I are trying to bridge the gap between academia and practitioners so that the research is getting in front of an audience in a meaningful way,” Murphy said.

King said the health care system must be reformed in a manner that focuses on individual needs.

“At the doctor’s office, are we asking you questions about social support at home?” King said. “We need to make sure we have a health care system that’s asking questions about what life is like at home, because we know that hospital and health systems are incentivized to keep people out of the whole system.”

The next two reports, set

to be released over the next few weeks, will address issues black D.C. residents face in housing and economics.

Jackson said housing costs significantly impact disadvantaged people.

“The cost of housing is astronomical, and people will leave because of that. We’ve offered some ideas, but the big idea is to create more affordable housing stock,” Jackson said. “There are many spaces to do so.”

King said professors should emphasize the importance of implicit bias in medical care and in medical education, since it can exacerbate these disparities.

“We’re doing a lot around implicit bias, because there are differences in how patients are treated as a result of race or social class,” King said. “We all have biases, so we’re doing a lot with medical education to make sure that our students are aware of the reality of implicit bias and how it may impact their decision making.”

Murphy said the report has sparked discussion among students and faculty about the role of the city in the lives of black D.C. residents.

“The city is wrestling now like never before with these issues. We’re acutely aware that many communities have so little, despite the prosperity of the city as a whole,” Murphy said.

“People are thinking about what it means to be AfricanAmerican. What really is the state of African-Americans in D.C.?”

The Washington, D.C.’s Fiscal Policy Institute’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau federal data found deep racial disparity in the District’s economic recovery after the recession. Although the overall median household income in the District has recovered steadily since the crash, rising some $13,000 above prerecession 2007 levels, incomes for black residents stagnated.

In 2015, median incomes for black households were recorded at around $41,000, while median incomes for white households were recorded at $120,000.

Additionally, while the poverty rates for other racial and ethnic groups have improved since the recession, black Washingtonians make up the only racial or ethnic group to see a rise in their poverty levels since the recession. According to DCFPI, around 23 percent of the District’s black residents lived in poverty in 2007. In 2015, the number rose to 27 percent.

DCFPI policy analyst Claire Zippel (GRD ’15) said this report may challenge some common assumptions about the recovery.

“A lot of people think the recession is over, D.C.’s doing great,” Zippel said. “But D.C.’s economic growth since the recession has not been equally shared among the city’s racial groups and that racial inequality continues to be incredibly persistent and troublesome for our city.”

Zippel said the growing number of residents living below the poverty line poses a new challenge by putting a strain on the city’s services.

“There are more poor people in D.C. now who are going to need services from the government to meet basic needs, get back on their feet, get back to work or get a better job,” Zippel said. “The city needs to be increasing its investment in order to meet a greater need.”

McCourt School of Public Policy professor Harry Holzer said the District needs to make a stronger commitment to combatting poverty.

“We absolutely should be trying a lot harder,” Holzer said. “The problems are complex, and people who tell us there are easy solutions, I think, are leading us down a false path. And yet, I think there are things we can do that can help.”

Holzer proposed a modest minimum wage increase and an expanded earned-income tax credit as possible ways to raise the incomes of laborers. Currently, the D.C. minimum wage is $11.50 an hour, whereas the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. He particularly stressed the importance of creating opportunities for children in low-income communities to escape the poverty cycle.

“Even if you think the adults are getting what they deserve, the children born into these families are going to have a hard time in life,” Holzer said. “There is no way that we can say that their opportunities in life are going to be equal to kids in middle-class families or high-income families growing up in the suburbs.”

Holzer emphasized the importance of early childhood education and expanded pathways to apprenticeships and career and technical schools. Holzer said there is no easy solution to addressing poverty, but that these efforts are crucial nonetheless.

“Just because these things are complex and hard to do doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try,” Holzer said. “Even if we can accomplish a little bit along all these dimensions, you add it up and it can really make a difference in people’s lives. Saying something is complex is not an excuse for inaction.”

Albert Lee (MSB ’17), a volunteer for the Georgetown student group Hoya Taxa, which helps low-income D.C. residents file tax returns, echoed the importance of taking action.

“I think getting involved with issues of inequality is very much aligned with the mission of the university: contemplation and action, women and men for others,” Lee said. “There are a lot of problems with poverty and inequality in D.C., but sometimes we don’t acknowledge them because we don’t want to.”

Zippel encouraged Georgetown students to stand in solidarity with the broader D.C. community by informing themselves and engaging in these issues.

“We may be a city divided into four quadrants, but we’re all still one city,” Zippel said. “I think it’s important for everyone to be attentive that there are people in this city who are struggling every day. It’s important to support policies that would help improve lives.”

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Bowser’s 2015 initiative to purchase and distribute 2,500 body cameras for $5 million has thus far equipped nearly 1,300 MPD officers — around half the police force — with cameras. The United States Justice Department awarded this program $1 million last September, which is combined with the amount already allocated in the mayor’s budget.

MPD Commander of Tech Services Ralph Ennis said the annual cost of the program has barely scratched $1 million, contrary to claims the program is a drain on the city’s resources.

“The body camera is a huge project underway,” Ennis said. “We currently have one of the largest programs nationwide with over 1,300 active cameras and the number is expected to reach 3,000 soon.”

Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber said though he believes body camera programs are beneficial to police forces in D.C., he also expressed skepticism that they are worth the expense.

“The funding for body cameras is astronomical —not just the camera itself, but the storage of the video, the time spent processing it, redact-

ing the video if it’s requested by an outside agency or the court,” Gruber said. “Costs add up very quickly for these cameras.”

“We currently have one of the largest programs nationwide with over 13,000 active cameras.”

Ralph ennis Commander of Tech Services,

Gruber said he believes that policing and the necessity of body cameras varies by neighborhood.

“Policing is very different depending on the place,” Gruber said. “Here at Georgetown, our encounters with the students and the public are rarely of a negative nature.”

Georgetown University Law Center professor Vida B. Johnson, who teaches criminal law clinics for third-year law students, agreed that different areas require different techniques to combat crime and boost police accountability.

“Policing is very different in rural areas than in cities for a

number of reasons,” Johnson said. “The biggest issue being the concentration of people in urban areas and the number of police out there. There are certainly more opportunities for people to interact with police in urban settings.”

Johnson added that despite the recent shooting of Sterling, the District has seen fewer police shootings than the rest of the nation. According to The Washington Post’s database on police shootings, of the 990 police shootings in the United States in 2015, only four occurred in the District.

“Police brutality is nothing new, but we in D.C. have not seen the same level of police involvement in shootings that we have been seeing in other cities throughout the country,” Johnson said.

Ricardo Mondolfi (SFS ’19), who participated in Georgetown’s Alternative Breaks Program Ethics of Criminal Justice in D.C. and New York, commended enforcing body cameras for drawing attention to problems endemic to the criminal justice system.

“The fact that we can see footage of these events, I would say has a net positive effect because it mobilizes people and makes people aware of the issue,” Mondolfi said. “When you see how outrageous this is, it gets people involved.”

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Following a fatal police-involved shooting in which the officer did not utilize his bodyworn camera, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced new camera protocol for officers.

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Community members gathered in Red Square on Friday to demonstrate against racism and police brutality in light of the shooting of two black men by police officers.

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The event included a moment of silence, prayers, time to share and reflect and singing of “We Shall Overcome.”

Students held signs with messages including “Black lives matter more than white feelings” and “Stop killing us.”

Several activists offered brief speeches over the course of the event, which lasted an hour and a half.

The activists said phrases including “Blackness is beauty, blackness is power.”

Black students also discussed the experience of still being perceived as a threat by police, even though they are students at Georgetown.

Jonese Austin (SFS ’19), one of the organizers of the demonstration, said she and other students felt compelled to speak up on how these recent tensions around the country affect the university community.

“We are tired of seeing our people killed with little to no justice being served.

Furthermore, it can be very traumatic to repeatedly see stories as such,” Austin wrote in an email to The Hoya after the event. “We oftentimes

feel like we have to continue on with our lives while at the same time dealing with racial oppression while our counterparts remain unaffected.”

Austin said she hoped the event would serve as a safe space for students to share and come together.

“The goal of the vigil — we decided against a die-in — was to create a space for sharing that could foster healing and community,” Austin wrote. “We wanted to bring attention to all that’s going on and how it has affected us as students on Georgetown’s campus.”

Symone Wilson (COL ’19) said it is important for students and faculty to join together against oppression of black people.

“I attended the event because I thought and still think that it is important for people on Georgetown’s campus to see the black community along with allies gathered with each other in a show of solidarity against institutionalized racism and oppression, and more importantly to participate in a safe space in which people could air their feelings about the murders of two more black men by the police,” Wilson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Jess Frankovich (COL ’20),

who attended the demonstration, said it succeeded in providing an opportunity for the community to reflect.

“I think it really served as a healing space and there was a lot of sharing of people’s emotional responses to it,” Frankovich said. “So I think it was really powerful to come together and for people to know that they’re not alone in hurting and feeling unsafe or worried about their families and friends.”

Frankovich said the vigil helped reignite campus dialogue on racial tensions.

“I definitely don’t think this will be the last Black Lives Matter or anti-police brutality event on campus,” Frankovich said. “This is the first time this year that the community has come together around this issue so it definitely felt more like a starting point than closure.”

Austin said the event is just the beginning of other efforts in the future to achieve a common understanding on racial issues and foster healing within the Georgetown community.

“This is not the end, but only the beginning of an effort to create healing spaces for the sake of self-care and bring about effective and tangible change on campus and in this nation,” Austin said.

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Khan said it has been exexperience.

“The first time I got El- citing to see the changes imevation Burger and the line plemented and their popuwas pretty long and then I larity among students, and waited quite a while for my hopes to continue to work order after that,” Tinubu with Georgetown Dining to said. “The second time, I make improvements.

“I think [Georgetown Dinwent to Cosi and used Tapingo to order beforehand, ing] underestimated the which made the wait a lot popularity and demand of shorter and much more ef- the program, which is why we’re seeing these long wait ficient.”

Students have also had times. This reflects just how more flexibility with their much students care about dining programs with the meal exchange,” Khan said. ability to add extra Flex Dol- “Addressing wait times and lars to their accounts. Flex advocating for popular Dollars, which are tax-free, meal stations at Leo’s are can be used at select loca- the short-term dining areas tions on campus, such as we will focus on.”

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The changes made to dining plans this semester —including the ability to use meal swipes at restaurants such as Subway and Cosi—have been met with both positivity and concern over value per meal exchange by students.

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Following a failed coup attempt this summer, Turkey may become a new source of conflict in the Middle East, according to Georgetown’s Institute of Turkish Studies Director Sinan Ciddi and Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in a panel discussion sponsored by the School of Foreign Service Europe Forum at the Mortara Center on Thursday.

On the evening of July 15, the Turkish military attempted to seize control of major locations in Istanbul and Ankara, but it was ultimately stopped by forces still loyal to the state after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Turkish citizens to take to the streets and fight back against the instigators.

Close to 300 civilians were killed during the coup, and thousands were left injured.

According to Ciddi, the lack of secularism and democracy and a collection of human rights violations in Turkey contributed to the schism between Erdogan and the Turkish military.

“The coup attempt did not occur in a vacuum. It didn’t come out of nowhere,” Ciddi said. “The primary reason the coup attempt happened on July 15 is because the president of the country was in political alliance with the single other biggest political Islamist force in the country, and now they’ve fallen out with each other.”

In the months following the coup attempt, the Turkish government has accused members of the Gülen movement — an Islamic cultural and educational movement led by Turkish Cleric Fethullah Gülen — for being responsible for the coup.

More than 20,000 individuals including military officers, educators, prosecutors and judges have been arrested and detained for allegedly being loyal to Gülen. More than 60,000 public servants have been dismissed from their posts, while the Turkish military has seen a 40 percent purge of its officers since the failed coup attempt.

Erdemir said the coup could indicate that Turkey will become a source of conflict

for the United States and its interests in the region. Turkey is currently a key partner for the United States and NATO in fighting ISIS and handling the Syrian refugee crisis.

“Turkey is a ticking time bomb with great potential for the Transatlantic alliance, as well as [the potential to be] the black swan that could bring the house down and NATO along with it,” Erdemir said.

Turkey’s role in the region is far more complex in the aftermath of the coup, according to Ciddi.

“What we have now is a grandiose mess,” Ciddi said. “I think we would have a much clearer picture had the coup actually been successful.”

SFS Europe Forum Chair Dante Mazzari, who moderated the event, said Turkey was a good choice for the Forum’s first event of the year given its relevance and complexity.

The SFS Europe Forum is a graduate student organization that organizes events on current events affecting transatlantic and European relations. “[Turkey] is something that I think a lot of folks are really interested in, and yet it’s very difficult to understand.

We thought that the speakers we would be able to get would shed a little bit of light

on that,” Mazzari said. “Sometimes here we get so steeped in these broader trends, but often you have to take a step back and look at what is going on beneath the headlines.”

Forum member Teresa Eder (GRD ’17) said the event helped shed light on the current situation in Turkey.

“I thought that the speakers were very much on point and did a lot to help people who maybe have never heard about Turkey understand what the environment was like and what’s going on,” Eder said.

Mazzari said the event offered a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of an important topic.

“It all comes back to how lucky we are in this community to have access to people like Professor Ciddi who can pull these issues apart and really pull back the layers of the onion and give us a much more nuanced understanding,” Mazzari said.

Gozde Meseli (GRD ’18), a Turkish student who experienced the coup attempt firsthand and attended the discussion, said she was excited to hear another perspective on the state of her country.

“I really wanted to hear what these professors had to say. They were fairly objective, which I really like,” Meseli said.

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Sinan Ciddi discussed the possibility of Turkey’s becoming a source of conflict in the Middle East on Thursday.

Dear Georgetown Launches MONTANA BOONE Special to The Hoya

The Dear Georgetown Freshmen website – a website launched by Misty Li (MSB ’17) showcasing letters written by upperclassmen to their freshmen selves – has garnered over 17,000 views since its launch Sept. 12.

The Dear Freshmen program was originally founded at the University of Pennsylvania by Lauren McCann this past February, and has since spread to Georgetown, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University among other schools. Georgetown’s website currently has 11 letters from upperclassmen to freshmen.

McCann, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania last year, said she started the program to connect with freshmen and help other upperclassmen leave their legacy at the school.

“Maybe someone will read their letter and not resonate with them, but if even just one person can read your letter and something spoke to them about that, then I think people found that to be really valuable and a way for them to connect with younger people and leave some sort of legacy,” McC¬ann said in an interview with THE HOYA. Li, who worked with McCann on implementing the program at Georgetown, said the movement is intended to support both upperclassmen and freshmen: for upperclassmen to reflect on their own freshman year and for freshmen to realize they are not alone in navigating their college experience.

“Hopefully it’s a two-part reflection process that seniors when they write the letter they see how far they’ve come since fresh-

man year but also on the flip side of that, freshmen that are reading these letters are going to see that a lot of seniors have these perspectives,” Li said.

The website also hopes to dispel the idea that everyone is having the same first-year experience, according to Li. “The culture is almost in a way that you don’t want to quit anything because you feel that you can do it all. So I would say that that’s like, beyond a stress culture, which I don’t think Georgetown really is,” Li said. “I think that it’s like a culture that promotes being busy.”

“I hope that these letters can be a tool to connect new students and upperclassmen.”

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Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17), who wrote a letter on embracing challenges at Georgetown, said she hopes the website can bring upperclassmen and freshmen together.

“I hope that these letters can be a tool to connect new students and upperclassmen that serves to develop and grow mentoring relationships,” Hinerfeld said.

According to Hinerfeld, the project is not only geared toward freshmen, but is an opportunity for upperclassmen to evaluate their own college experience as their college careers come to an end.

“I think it’s a great way to reflect on our time at Georgetown and to distill

our thoughts on what we care most about at this school,” Hinerfeld said.

Since the launch, the response from freshmen has been mixed. While one student reached out to the website an hour after the site launch, others, such as Marie-Claire Hazbun (SFS ’19), said the letters may not be helpful.

“I understand the concept of older, ‘wiser’ people passing their knowledge down, but in my experience, sometimes listening to these ‘enlightened’ individuals isn’t always beneficial,” Hazbun wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “Often they just echo conventional wisdom — so I think it’s important to take this kind of advice with a grain of salt.”

The university is supporting the program on social media, to help raise awareness and reach more students according to Media Relations Manager Ryan King.

The Dear Georgetown Freshman website will also include a section, called Transfer-to-Transfer, to provide advice and support for transfer students, according to Li. “The transfer experience is different from the freshman experience,” Li said. “We didn’t feel that it would do either group justice to combine them together.”

Li said she hopes the Dear Georgetown Freshmen Letters program will eventually help foster a closer campus community.

“These letters would help to be a small step towards the progress of building a renewed campus environment around, like as I think the website description says, creativity, curiosity, kindness, an appreciation of all the little things that we have come to love about Georgetown,” Li said.

ELLEN BAKER Hoya Staff Writer

The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics — a theater performance group that seeks to humanize global politics using the performing arts — is integrating with the School of Foreign Service, four years after its foundation as an independent lab in 2012.

In its four years on campus, the Lab has sought to bring unheard voices to light in order to bridge the gap between foreign policy and global performance. The Lab is moving to the SFS in an effort to fulfill its interdisciplinary approach, while also presenting a new, unique perspective on foreign affairs to the members of the school.

Managing Director for the Lab Jojo Ruf said the Lab hopes to bring attention to complex issues and encourage dialogue through performance.

“It’s the idea of shining a light on stories and people and narratives that are rarely seen or that aren’t as front and center and providing opportunities for people to emphasize or to relate or see a new perspective on something,” Ruf said.

Co-director for the Lab Cynthia Schneider, a professor of diplomacy and culture in the SFS and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, said the move to the SFS is one of the greatest accomplishments of the Lab thus far.

“The stamp of approval and validation as well as the understanding of what we are trying to do that comes with the invitation to be part of the School of Foreign Service, that’s a great leap forward for us,” Schneider said.

Ruf said she expects the Lab’s new home will help it better achieve its mission, while enabling it to adapt its goals.

“I feel like the Lab’s mission is being refracted in a slightly different way, which feels really exciting to me,” Ruf said.

Schneider said the Lab hopes to disrupt the typical academic-based approach to foreign affairs and cultivate new ideas regarding foreign policy.

“We are really trying to transform these two fields — to disrupt them and transform them,” Schneider said. “Bringing those real voices here to Georgetown where there are

so many brilliant minds grappling with the policy perspective — we think that combination can help produce a really extraordinary humancentered approach to foreign policy.”

Currently, The Lab is working on a play titled “The 272,” which focuses on the 272 slaves sold by the Maryland Jesuits to a Louisiana plantation in 1838. The Lab is collaborating with Richard Cellini, creator of the Georgetown Memory Project, which works to commemorate the sold slaves and their descendants.

“We are really trying to transform these two fields — to disrupt them and transform them.”

CYNTHIA SCHNEIDER Co-Director, Lab

Schneider hopes “The 272” can incite further dialogue concerning this painful part of Georgetown’s history, which has become the subject of national attention.

“We hope that ‘The 272’ can become a conversation piece, can become something that people attend and then are able after seeing it to open up and think with fresh eyes and ears about this very painful history, not just of Georgetown, but of our whole country,” Schneider said.

Ruf sees the message and mission of the Lab as increasingly crucial in the current political climate, both in the United States and internationally.

“Any time our program, intentionally or unintentionally, is reflecting back [on] what’s happening in the world,” Ruf said. “The political climate is becoming more and more polarized, and it’s becoming more and more evident that we need a space where we can show stories on stage and help humanize what’s happening worldwide.”

In addition to making an impact on audience members, the Lab also aims to encourage the artists involved in the

performances, according to Schneider.

“We want to empower the artists with the tools to study, learn about and understand these global challenges and have them feel that they’re able to bring their artistry in understanding them and presenting them to people,” Schneider said.

To celebrate the move, the Lab hosted a conversation with Bassem Youseff, an Egyptian comedian. Youseff used satire to fight political injustice and evoke social change in Egypt, beginning during the Arab Spring movement.

Schneider said the dialogue with Youseff was the perfect way to celebrate the Lab’s integration within the SFS. “To have him here and displaying his extraordinary wit and the razor-sharp satire that he’s used to undermine the authority, which is such a given in the Arab world, that reflects a lot of what we are trying to do,” Schneider said.

Devika Ranjan (SFS ’17) became involved with the Lab in her sophomore year at Georgetown. Ranjan coordinated dancers and choreographed for Ajoka Theatre’s “Amrika Chalo” from Pakistan, part of the Lab’s Myriad Voices: A Cross Cultural Performance Festival, and was on the devising team of Generation (Wh) Y, which celebrated the voices of Muslim youth from around the world.

Ranjan said the Lab’s new role in the SFS will fit perfectly with its academic perspective.

“I could not be more thrilled that the Lab will be housed in the SFS,” Ranjan said. “It’s such a natural fit; the school prepares us for a future of foreign service, and an essential part of that is performance, diplomacy and cultural understanding.”

Ranjan echoed Ruf’s comment on how projects such as the Lab hold more importance than ever due to today’s political and social climate.

“Performance is an entertaining, organic, grassroots way of teaching us about the world around us,” Ranjan said.

“In a time in which xenophobia and racism run rampant, the intersection of theatre and politics has a greater responsibility than ever to showcase the importance of diversity, cross-cultural understanding and pluralism.”

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Senior goalkeeper Rachel Skonecki made four saves in Georgetown’s 3-2 victory over Lehigh on Sunday. Skonecki has made 79 saves on 191 shots this season for a .705 save percentage. She has started each of Georgetown’s 10 games.

GU Snaps 7-Game Losing Skid Emily Dalton Hoya Staff Writer

Despite dropping Friday’s match 5-0 to No. 17 Old Dominion (5-3, 0-1 Big East), the Georgetown field hockey team (3-7, 0-1 Big East) found redemption in a 3-2 victory over Lehigh (1-8, 0-2 Patriot League) on Sunday, snapping a sevengame losing streak.

Sunday’s game was a back-and-forth battle, and although the Hoyas never trailed, the Mountain Hawks put up a strong fight, clawing back to tie the match twice.

Sophomore forward Sam Hickey scored first for the Hoyas off of an assist from freshman midfielder Jessica Lagano in the 15th minute. The goal marked Hickey’s third of the year and fifth of her career, and she is now tied for the team lead with three goals — with freshman forward Lindsay Getz and freshman midfielder Michaela Bruno also at three apiece.

Georgetown was able to hold this lead for the majority of the first half, until Lehigh sophomore

forward Teresa Carotenuto town that ultimately capianswered back for Lehigh talized when Bruno scored from the with only top of the 1:08 left in circle. She the opening now holds half.

Sunday’s 3-2 win a teamThen, in high eight the second over the Lehigh points, havhalf, the ing scored Hoyas and Mountain Hawks goals the Mounwas a much-needed three and tallied tain Hawks traded a one for the Hoyas, two assists on the year pair of goals especially as they so far. within a Prior to span of 10 head into their Bruno’s minutes. goal, which Georgesecond Big East came with town senior matchup of the just 3:45 midf ielder left in the Maria Mcseason. match, seD o n a l d nior goalscored first, k e e p e r putting the R a c h e l Hoyas back Skonecki on top with a shot to the top left cor- made a critical save to ner off a rebound. Lehigh keep the game even at two. senior forward Gabby Tofig Lehigh had two penalty responded by redirecting corners in the 57th and a loose ball that bounced 58th minute, the second of across the face of goal off a which led to a dangerous shot from sophomore mid- shot from Lehigh’s sophomore midfielder Isabel fielder Lauren Dice.

With the game tied at McKeown.

Skonecki came up big two apiece, both teams had opportunities to take again with only two minthe lead, but it was George- utes remaining, stopping

shots from two Mountain Hawks: senior defender Janelle High and Tofig.

Skonecki’s 353 career saves puts her just five shy of Deirdre Corvo’s fifth-place ranking on Georgetown’s all-time list. She is also closing in on the school’s alltime win record – with 17 career wins, she is one shy of Mary Allys Heeg’s fourthplace and two shy of Laura Clauson’s third-place ranking.

Sunday’s win was a much-needed one for the Hoyas, especially as they head into their second Big East matchup of the season. They will look to carry this momentum into Friday’s game against Temple (2-8, 0-2 Big East), who has recently snapped a fivegame skid.

Temple is led by junior midfielder Rachael Mueller, who leads the team with five goals and 10 points. The Hoyas are set to travel to Philadelphia, Pa., where they will face the Owls at 6 p.m.

NOTE: Sports Information could not be reached for comment.

In the past weeks, months and years, there has been a shocking number of reports about young black men killed by police officers. There have been two separate incidents this past week, first in Tulsa, Okla., and then in North Carolina, the latter sparking major protests in Charlotte.

Another trend gaining attention is that of professional athletes’ kneeling during the national anthem before games.

Started by San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick during the NFL preseason, this silent protest against the anthem has gained popularity among NFL and WNBA players — even among high school students throughout the United States. This protest raises the question of what role athletes play in the midst of this fight for justice and how they can effectively cause change.

By now, everyone — sports fan or not — knows about the Black Lives Matter movement.

After George Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 for killing black teenager Trayvon Martin, the movement has gained momentum over the years in the wake of police brutality that has left dozens of black men dead.

There have been demonstrations demanding justice from the courts to indict the cops involved and pleas urging governments to alter police officer training. Athletes like LeBron James have been active in the movement since the beginning. James posted a photo of himself and his teammates wearing hoodies in honor of Martin and has not stopped speaking out since.

Not all athletes have been so ready to respond, but in response to two other successive killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota this summer, many more have stepped up and expressed their frustration with the current situation.

For example, Carmelo Anthony made an Instagram post calling all athletes to take a political stand on the situation regardless of the consequences: “We can’t worry about what endorsements we gonna lose or whose [sic] gonna look at us crazy. I need your voices to be heard.”

Even Michael Jordan, notorious for his apolitical attitude

throughout his career and beyond, released a statement that was published on ESPN’s The Undefeated in July. He said he was “deeply troubled by the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement” and “angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers.” However, many of these words, though moving, were simply words.

More recently, the ESPY Awards saw James, Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade discuss the situation in their opening speech. Anthony said although these problems are not new, “the urgency to great change is at an all-time high.”

Wade implored fellow athletes, urging that “it’s on us to challenge each other to do even more than what we already do in our communities.” Finally, James closed the speech by referencing Muhammad Ali and calling on all professional athletes to step up: “To do his legacy any justice … we all have to do better.”

Athletes do have a profound influence on society, and if they are able to unite and affect change, they should. This speech again was only words, but perhaps because it directly addressed all athletes on a major athletic platform, it will lead to greater action within the professional ranks.

It is also important to note that this onus is on all athletes.

An article posted July 8 by Dave Zirin in The Nation made the significant point that it should not be the sole responsibility of black athletes to speak out against these injustices: “If white athletes truly care about their black and brown teammates … then they should take some of the damn weight.”

Among the six notable athletes he cited for taking a stand on the recent events, only one, Huston Street, was white. Professional athletes, barring individual sports like boxing and golf, are all members of a team.

Being a team means standing by one another no matter the circumstances or consequences.

Many of today’s athletes could take a page from Street’s playbook.

Sinead Schenk is a senior in the College. A level playing field appears every other Tuesday.

Volleyball

Hoyas Rout Wildcats Cameron Perales Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown volleyball (5-10, 1-1 Big East) came up with a huge conference win against favored Villanova (10-5, 1-1 Big East) this weekend, taking down Villanova in straight sets.

The Hoyas saw fantastic play from their offense, with three sophomores recording over 10 kills.

Sophomore middle blocker Symone Speech had 14 kills in the match to lead all Hoyas, sophomore outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette added 10 kills and 10 digs and sophomore outside hitter Liv King drove home 11 kills of her own.

Villanova came into this match having won six of its last seven matches, including a sweep of Big East opponent Seton Hall. It also carried a 13game win streak on its home court, which Georgetown snapped to even its own Big East record to 1-1. This match came at a time when the Hoyas were working together better than they had earlier this season.

“The players have always been working very hard in the gym, and we’ve focused on the mental aspect of the game. They went into this game fully prepared and just extremely excited to play Villanova. [Villanova] won the conference tournament last year and are one of our big-

gest rivals, and typically a very good team, so we had to come in with that mindset that we were going to do what we had to do, and we did,” Georgetown Head Coach Arlisa Williams said.

“I’m hoping that [this win] is just something we continue to build on.”

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The match itself was highly competitive, but Georgetown’s mental strength and ability to go on key scoring runs kept Villanova from breaking through its defensive pressure and consistent attack. In the first set, each team battled even to a score of 9-9, but the Hoyas went on the attack and delivered a 7-1 run from which the Wildcats could not recover, never getting within five points of the lead.

Georgetown took that set

25-19 and looked to continue to impose its will on the second set.

That next set saw the Hoyas take on a wave of comebacks by the Wildcats, answering a 7-3 run with a five-point run of their own, and taking the lead 18-17. But after Georgetown tied the score at 20, the Hoyas managed to score five unanswered points, punctuated by a kill from Sinnette.

In the final set, the Wildcats were on their heels but continued to give the Hoyas all they had, answering Georgetown points with runs of their own. But the Blue and Gray led the entire way, staving off a comeback bid with three final kills by King to take the set 25-21, and the match 3-0.

Coming off a very effective offensive performance, Williams stressed that the team’s newfound aggression in the service game was a key to its timely runs.

“A couple of things happened to help us [get on scoring runs],” Williams said.

“One, we served extremely aggressively and that made Villanova easier for us to block and at least get hands in front of and play defense behind. And then we got into their heads a little bit, because we remained so consistent. … Villanova had to work extremely hard to get going, and we just didn’t let them.”

With a big conference win

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Sophomore middle blocker Symone Speech had 14 kills in Georgetown’s straight-set victory over Villanova. Speech was named to the Big East Honor Roll this week. now under its belt, the team now looks to capitalize and build on its success while looking at the rest of the conference season, especially in its next match against Seton Hall (8-8, 2-1 Big East). Williams emphasized that this win was both an important building block for the team, but also just another step in

a long season.

“I’m hoping that [this win] is just something we continue to build on. We talked about this at the beginning of the year, that this is a process, a 31-match journey that we need to take one step at a time,” Williams said. “But this win was still a huge emotional victory for

us because we realized how talented we are, and hopefully we will be able to build on that. But, everyday really is one day at a time.”

The Hoyas will take on the Seton Hall Pirates on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. on the University of D.C. campus as they look to improve their Big East conference record.

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struggled to move the ball, trading punts for most of the first quarter, until Wainwright muffed his first punt return of the day.

The ball was knocked out by sophomore linebacker Matthew Deal and recovered by Francois at the Columbia 48yard line. Georgetown failed to move the ball downfield, settling for a 48-yard field goal from senior kicker Henry Darmstadter.

The Lions had some momentum to begin the second quarter when junior quarterback Anders Hill — who rotated in with Mornhinweg — helped the offense get two first downs. But Akere snuffed out any hope they had of getting

for the Reform Party of Minnesota, Ventura served as governor from 1999 to 2003. In his time in office, he cut taxes, supported the legalization of medical marijuana, advocated for marriage equality and the end of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy preventing homosexuals from serving in the military.

The list of politicians with backgrounds in sports goes on and on.

Ventura’s stint as governor was a bizarre and hugely entertaining moment in American political history, befitting the man’s WWF background. He inspired satire from National Public Radio host Garrison Keillor, faced a petition for his recall within a year of taking office and once stated on national television that Saint Paul, Minn., must have been designed by drunken Irishmen.

While Minnesota was enjoying the show, the country was preparing to pick the next president. Before Al Gore had even heard of a “hanging chad”, he overcame a challenge in the Democratic primary from New Jersey senator Bill Bradley.

Bradley served three terms as a senator from 1979 to 1997. He took office just two years after finishing a successful decade with the New York Knicks as a shooting guard and small forward. He won two NBA titles, an All-Star selection and a Euroleague championship long before he took office in the United States Senate.

Whereas Ventura was always the showman, Bradley always appeared erudite and, to some, stuffy. One university study of the psychology of famous political figures stated that Bradley suffered from “a deficit of outgoing charisma, which can make him appear dour.”

Nevertheless, the Princeton graduate won reelection to his seat twice on the

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strength of specific policy knowledge and attempts to reform the tax code, a project befitting a man with a perceived “deficit of outgoing charisma.”

The list of politicians with backgrounds in sports goes on and on. Former Republican senator from Kentucky Jim Bunning stands as one of 23 pitchers in MLB history to have ever thrown a perfect game. Former Nebraska congressman Tom Osborne remains one of the most beloved figures in that state’s intense college football tradition.

Dozens more cashed in on their fame to win elections across the country.

Most, with the exception of Johnson, have retired in the past 15 years. Perhaps the age of the athletic politician has passed. That may very well be true, but the more exciting possibility is that the country is on the verge of a second wave of sports stars in Congress.

Judging from Ventura’s success, just about anyone could appear on the next ballot.

Peyton Manning always looked more like a third term congressman than a professional athlete. Colorado governor John Hickenlooper will hit his term limit in 2018, giving Manning the perfect window to capitalize on his time with the Denver Broncos.

Likewise, Derek Jeter has been far too quiet recently.

The recently married captain of the New York Yankees has such a following in New York that the team gave him an extension despite declining performance and better available options.

With that much popularity, surely Mr. November could win a November election, too.

As voters head to their polling places in just a few weeks, take a moment to wonder if the same old candidates may be more appealing with a championship ring or two hidden away on their resumes. If 2016 has taught any lesson, it is that just about anyone can win a presidential nomination.

Andrew May is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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points on the board when he intercepted a poorly thrown ball by Hill and returned it 25 yards to the Columbia 43.

Georgetown managed to get its last points of the day when Barnes dove into the end zone on a designed quarterback run from nine yards out to make it 17-0 Georgetown with 8:11 left in the second half.

The reenergized Lions came out of halftime and started the second half with a 54-yard kickoff return by Wainwright.

An 11-yard pass from Hill to Wainwright moved the Lions to the 22-yard line, and two plays later, junior running back Chris Schroer punched it in for the 11-yard touchdown to make it 17-7 Georgetown.

The Georgetown offense reached its lowest point in the

out from the Georgetown offense, McCollum punted to Wainwright again with 2:55 remaining. Sophomore linebacker J’V’on Butler raced in and knocked the ball away from Wainwright again, and senior defensive lineman Phil Novacki recovered the ball to put an end to Columbia’s comeback bid. The Hoyas ran out the rest of the clock and punted the ball away with five seconds left, escaping with a nail-biter of a win to remain undefeated.

“I’m really proud of the way the kids played in the fourth quarter. In the third [quarter] I could probably burn the film, but I’ll take it,” Sgarlata said.

“The kids fought their tails off and that’s how they got the win.”

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huffed and puffed. I just don’t think we had that little bit of quality that we normally have. They’re a good team; they set up to play a counterattacking style, and to keep numbers behind the ball … And I thought their three up front were always a danger. It took some good defending in moments, and it always looked like they could get one.”

The game, though a goalless draw, was far from dull; a bevy of half-chances, exciting moments and near misses for both teams — as well as a touchline kerfuffle — provided entertainment throughout, but ultimately the Georgetown offense was not as prolific in the attacking third Sunday as it had been in putting up the 11th best goals per game in the country entering the match.

“I just don’t think we did enough to win the game,” Nolan said. “If it was a boxing match, we would’ve won on points, but you have to score a goal. I don’t think we had too many clear-cut chances …

So the game comes down to, can you finish your chances, and today it just didn’t go in.”

Providence’s goalkeeper Kristyn Shea made seven saves, including five in the first half, and looked confident in claiming balls in the air — a necessity given

Georgetown’s 13 corner kicks; Shea notched her 21st shutout, extending her Providence program record.

At the other end, Georgetown’s sophomore goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman recorded her fifth shutout of the season, and noted the importance of matches not against the country’s top teams.

“Games like this require more from us than big games where we all know individually what we need to do, who we need to mark,” Schechtman said. “It’s really important to get up for every game.

We need to work on containing our players, getting the ball on the other side of the field, and taking care of the little tackles when we need to, and getting up for every tackle.”

In addition to the goalkeeper, Georgetown’s defenders excelled again, with graduate student Marina Paul’s aerial presence and junior Liz Wenger’s flying tackles bolstered by the work of outside backs junior Drew Topor and graduate student Corey Delaney.

“I always preach to our defenders that I’d rather win a game 1-0 than 9-1, because championship teams don’t give up goals,” Nolan said.

“And defense always wins championships. That’s three shutouts in a row against good teams, so we’ve cer-

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Junior midfielder Rachel Corboz, 10, had four shots and two shots on goal in Sunday’s game against Providence. tainly learned to be better at that.”

Though disappointed with the 0-0 draw, Schechtman thought the team avoided frustration during the game, and sees the result serving as motivation for the Hoyas to build on going forward.

“In the run of play, you just have to stay focused on the game; you can’t think about things that have happened in the past,” Schechtman said. “Specifically, as a goalie, I know if I let one in I have to forget about it and keep working towards the next goal, and keep working towards getting forward. So I just think we need to learn

from our mistakes and know when to run in the box, know when to put one away and if we miss one, just work that much harder the next play.”

Before addressing the team post-game, Nolan anticipated his players’ mood about the result.

“They’re going to be disappointed, because we’ve been on such a great run of form,” Nolan said. “But … sometimes you get a bounce of a ball and you win a game here or there, and sometimes that bounce of the ball doesn’t go your way. And today was just one of those days where it didn’t quite, never quite bounced our way.”

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third quarter when it failed to get a single first down.

“That was probably the toughest quarter we’ve had here in two years,” Sgarlata said.

For the whole game, the Georgetown offense had 12 three-and-out drives. Georgetown senior punter Harry McCollum often found himself punting from the back of the end zone, and punted 14 times on the day, for a total of 526 yards.

Things got tense when Columbia inched closer on a rushing touchdown by Hill just five seconds into the fourth quarter, but the Georgetown defense only allowed a total of three first downs the rest of the way.

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Georgetown’s offensive flurry slowed down and Xavier’s second goal came in the 68th minute, effectively putting the game out of Georgetown’s reach.

“That second goal was just kind of a dagger. It started with just a quick transition, which is what Xavier’s kind of known to do, and then they played a good ball across, and they finished it,” Schropp said.

Despite the Hoyas’ defense allowing two goals, keeper Marcinkowski was only forced to

save four of the Musketeers’ 10 shots.

For the rest of the game, the coaching staff tried to ignite the offense with various substitutions, such as putting senior defender P.J. Koscher up top as a forward. Wiese’s decision nearly paid off, as Koscher chipped the goalie at one point before his shot was barely cleared off the line.

“He’s someone that when you talk about getting into good aggressive positions he does that naturally even though he’s been a center back really for his time here,” Wiese said. “He’s one of those guys you’re looking to see

if he’s going to provide you that spark you’re looking for.”

Nevertheless, the Blue and Gray failed to cut the lead and lost by a final score of 2-0.

The Hoyas have a quick turnaround, with a conference game against American University on Tuesday at 3 p.m. on Shaw Field.

“I think it’s an opportunity to solve a couple things we got to get a little better. The discipline needed, I thought we lost our discipline in the last ten minutes, that was my biggest disappointment with the group,” Wiese said. “We didn’t push through for a full 90 minutes.”

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Sophomore goalkeeper J.T. Marcinkowski had four saves in Saturday’s 2-0 loss against Xavier. He has 41 saves and has allowed eight goals in eight games this season.

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Women’s Soccer Georgetown (8-1-1) vs. Villanova (2-8) Thursday, 3 p.m.

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talkING POINTS

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME Joey Barton’s actions have jeopardized, and possibly even ended, his professional career.

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NUMBERS GAME

The kids fought their tails off and that’s how they got the win.”

HEAD COACH ROB SGARLATA

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Women’s Soccer

Collapse Avoided Against Lions Aidan Curran Hoya Staff Writer

In the second year of a 10-year series between Georgetown (3-0, 1-0 Patriot League) and Columbia (0-2, 0-1 Patriot League) on the gridiron, the Hoyas almost suffered a major collapse in front of their biggest crowd of the season on Homecoming Day. After being up 17-0 at the end of the first half, the Hoyas allowed 14 straight points before tightening up their defense and blanking the Lions for most of the fourth quarter, emerging victorious with a 17-14 win.

The Lions outgained the

Hoyas 314 to 195 in offensive yardage, but two fumbles by Columbia freshman wide receiver Josh Wainwright on punt returns and interceptions by Georgetown sophomore cornerback Jethro Francois and junior safety David Akere helped keep the Lions from completing their comeback.

“You absolutely want to force turnovers, and you work hard to get them,” Georgetown Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said. “You got to change the game with them.“ Despite the cloudy skies and cool temperatures on Saturday, Georgetown got off to a red-hot start to be-

gin. Just three minutes into the contest, senior quarterback Tim Barnes launched a deep pass to freshman wide receiver Michael Dereus, who hauled in the 44-yard pass for his first collegiate catch and his team’s first touchdown of the day, putting the Hoyas up 7-0.

“Coach put us in the right play call, I knew I had Mike, and he ran a great route, [offensive] line did a great job blocking and it was a pretty easy throw. He had him by like five yards, so I just threw it as far as I could and glad he caught it,” Barnes said.

Francois gave his offense the ball right back when he

jumped his man’s route and intercepted a pass from Columbia senior quarterback Skyler Mornhinweg.

“I saw the play watching film, and I told myself, know what the play call is and coach is going to put me in the right position to make that play. I saw [Wainwright] break down in his route and I knew then and there to jump it. The quarterback threw it and I just had to make the play,” Francois said.

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The number of games in a row the field hockey team lost before winning this past weekend.

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Senior forward Grace Damaska had one shot in Saturday’s 0-0 draw against Providence.

Hoyas Battle Friars to Draw Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior quarterback and co-captain Tim Barnes completed 16-of-30 passes and threw for one touchdown and 124 yards in Saturday’s 17-14 win against Columbia. Barnes also rushed for a team-high 39 yards.

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In the opening match of its Big East conference season, the No. 6 Georgetown women’s soccer team (8-11, 0-0-1 Big East) slumped to a 0-0 home draw after two periods of overtime against Providence (6-3-2, 0-0-1 Big East) Sunday at Shaw Field.

Despite creating chances, highlighted by an 18th minute sequence where junior midfielder Rachel Corboz had one shot saved and then sent another off the inside of the post, Georgetown proved unable to find the net against the Friar team that

has taken the Hoyas to overtime in each of their last three meetings.

The draw extends Georgetown’s unbeaten streak to eight matches, a run that has seen the team’s rise to the highest ranking in program history.

From the opening kickoff, Georgetown Head Coach Dave Nolan understood that the Friars’ strategy would involve sitting back trying to disrupt the Hoyas’ style, but gave them credit for solid execution.

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Offensive Stagnation Persists Darius Iraj

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Andrew May

Pros Enter Political Arena Kevin Johnson played for 12 years in the NBA as a point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Phoenix Suns. He now serves as the mayor of Sacramento and has made the news for one of the wilder political incidents this year.

A man unhappy with Johnson’s work as mayor decided the best form of protest would be to hit the official in the face with a coconut cream pie. Unsurprisingly, the former NBA player did not take kindly to this, fighting back against the disgruntled protester. The protester ended up in the hospital before being shuffled off to jail.

The whole event has prompted plenty of reaction, as one may expect, considering just how bizarre it all seems. Johnson’s status as a threetime NBA All-Star means that sports media picked up the story too.

The story has two parts: first, the coconut cream pie and resulting fight and, second, the reminder that a well-known athlete

is serving as a mayor of a major city. The pie will always be a bit crazy. But, political careers like Johnson’s happen surprisingly often.

Enough American professional sports figures have gone on to hold elected office to warrant a list on Wikipedia. The list includes 13 congressmen and three senators. Any review of athletes in politics, however, has to begin in Minneapolis.

Jesse Ventura spent 11 years as a heel in the American Wrestling Association and the World Wrestling Federation. In the carefully choreographed show that is professional wrestling, Ventura always played the villain.

Twelve years after his wrestling career ended, however, Ventura ran for governor of Minnesota as a third-party candidate.

He won the race by presenting himself has an alternative to a pair of stale candidates from the traditional parties, a strategy that should feel familiar in 2016.

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Georgetown men’s soccer (2-6, 1-1 Big East) suffered its first loss in Big East play on Saturday afternoon, losing 2-0 to the Xavier Musketeers (4-2-2, 2-0 Big East) on Homecoming Day, shutting the Hoyas out for the fifth time in just eight games this season.

With a lack of offensive production, two defensive lapses by the Hoyas were enough to give the Musketeers the win.

The Hoyas started off the game in good shape.

The ball was in Xavier’s half of the field for most of the first 10 minutes, and Georgetown created some average chances. But the momentum of the game swayed quickly when the Musketeers took advantage of a defensive mistake by the Hoyas in the 34th minute. Xavier senior forward Jalen Brown capitalized on the breakdown and sent a shot rolling past charging sophomore goalkeeper J.T. Marcinkowski and into the back of the net.

“The first goal was definitely a gift from us. … We didn’t win a ball in the air, and then a guy touched a ball through another kid’s legs,” sophomore defender Peter Schropp said. “Got lucky with it, then it hit off Kyle our right back, and just pretty much set it up like a present for him. It hurt us.”

Georgetown Head Coach Brian Wiese agreed with Schropp’s take on the first goal.

“That was really where I thought the back four looked like sort of a young

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Senior forward Brett Campbell had four shots in Saturday’s 2-0 loss to Xavier. He has four points, two goals and 14 shots on the season. back four. I mean we made some mistakes,” Wiese said.

The rest of the half played out uneventfully with neither team producing any dangerous chances.

The beginning of the second half was a much different story. The Hoyas came out with an attacking mentality, generating chance after chance.

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“They came out with a little more of a mentality of working hard to get in more attacking positions. I think that’s maybe been some of our problems with the group this year that we have a lot of guys that can play and are good attacking guys but they’re not really doing the work needed to get to better attacking posi-

tions,” Wiese said.

Senior forward and cocaptain Brett Campbell and junior midfielder Arun Basuljevic both catalyzed the offense with shots, but the shots were not dangerous enough to cause havoc for Xavier’s defense. Basuljevic and Campbell combined for See XAVIER, A9