The Hoya: November 10, 2015

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SEMIFINAL SHOWDOWN

The Georgetown men’s soccer team will face Xavier in the Big East tournament semifinals.

COMMENTARY Climate change is a problem; divestment is not its solution.

HACK THE DEBATE Innovation competition tackles voter engagement in presidential debates.

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NEWS, A4

SPORTS, A10

University SNAPs At Noise TAYLOR HARDING & ANDREW WALLENDER Special to The Hoya & Hoya Staff Writer

When Drew Dushkes (GRD ’16) threw a mid-September housewarming party at his off-campus Georgetown residence, he never expected the night to culminate in Office of Student Conduct summons, the threat of sanctions and a disorderly conduct violation.

Although Dushkes’ lease allows him to have guests on his back patio until 11 p.m., a neighbor called Georgetown’s Student Neighborhood Assistance Program and the party was shut down at 10:46 p.m., leaving Dushkes and his housemates with a disorderly conduct violation on their student records.

“It seems like Georgetown has sort of increased its enforcement this year,” Dushkes said. “I’m not really sure where they draw the line, and therefore, that really restricts my ability to have a student life off campus.”

“I think my biggest gripe ... with our current offcampus noise policy is really how draconian a first offense actually is.”

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The new McDonough Bus Turnaround is the off- and on-loading point for four GUTS lines; the campus plan-dictated change has increased commute and wait times for students and workers, including an approximate doubling in time of the Dupont Circle loop.

GUTS Lines Rerouting Draws Ire SARAH GRIFFIN

Special to The Hoya RYAN SHYMANSKY (COL ’16) Director, Student Advocacy Office

A HARSHER REALITY Since the implementation of the 2010 Campus Plan, off-campus noise violations have come with increasingly stiff punishments and stricter enforcement. The plan, passed in See NOISE, A6

The permanent rerouting of four Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle lines has resulted in longer waiting times and mixed responses from riders, as the McDonough Bus Turnaround opened yesterday.

As per the 2010 Campus Plan, in which the university agreed to lessen noise and traffic congestion in the surrounding neighborhood, the Dupont Circle, Georgetown University Law Center, Rosslyn and Arlington routes now enter and exit via Canal Road.

In conjunction with the route restructuring, there is no longer GUTS service at the Car Barn route to Rosslyn, Va., via Prospect Street.

The Georgetown University Student Association implemented an online survey yesterday immediately after the changes to garner student and faculty opinion on the change. After the first day of implementation, according to GUSA Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16), student feedback on the route changes has registered as primarily negative.

“It’s only day one and we’ve already been inundated with student concerns. If I want-

ed to attend a university where it takes over a half-hour to get into D.C., I would’ve stayed in Fairfax, Va.,” Rohan wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “If the unreasonable transit times being reported are not soon drastically reduced, GUSA will respond accordingly.”

GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) said he waited 33 minutes for the bus to Dupont Circle, and that he will communicate riders’ issues to the administration.

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Just Employment Policy Celebrates 10 Years PAUL TSAVOUSSIS Special to The Hoya

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the university’s implementation of the Just Employment Policy, a comprehensive agreement that ensures fair and competitive compensation packages for full-time campus workers.

Under the policy, the university has incrementally increased compensation for full-time contracted workers every two years over the last decade, reaching the minimum total compensation requirement of $16.45 per hour this January, compared to the lo-

Bill Aims to Lower Voting Age MOLLY COOKE

allow them to vote in federal elections.

District of Columbia Councilmember Charles Allen (DWard 6) has introduced a bill that would lower the voting age from 18 to 16 for municipal and federal elections held in Washington, D.C. Councilmembers David Grosso (I-At Large) and Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) are co-sponsoring the bill. Even if the council passes the measure, Congress must approve it before implementation. If successful, D.C. would join Takoma Park, Md., and Hyattsville, Md., as the third city in the area to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in municipal elections, but the first to

“If 16- and 17-year-olds are able to vote, they may be able to push some policy issues that are important for younger residents.”

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COUNCILMEMBER DAVID GROSSO (I-AT LARGE) Bill Co-Sponsor

Allen explained that despite original reservations, he became more receptive to the idea after hearing from community members about the maturity of 16- and 17-year-olds. Those lobbying for the bill also expressed a desire to reconnect younger people with city politics after

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the District experienced a rise in youth violence this summer.

“There’s a lot of expectations that we put on [young people] … to be able to make good decisions for themselves,” Allen said. “If I trust a 16-year-old to do those things, why in the world wouldn’t I trust them to go to a voting booth?”

Grosso also noted that these younger voters can provide new perspectives and highlight issues that have been neglected in the past.

“I don’t see why we couldn’t make a pitch to younger residents to vote,” Grosso said. “If 16- and 17-year-olds are able to vote, they may be able to push some policy issues that are important for younger residents.”

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If the new law passes, 16-year-olds would be welcomed to voting booths in the District of Columbia, like those at local Georgetown polling place Duke Ellington School of the Arts, pictured.

cal minimum wage of $10.50.

In addition to its wage policy, the document also recognizes existing negotiated union agreements, ensures the right to a safe and harassment-free work environment, provides workers with access to university resources such as English as a Second Language classes and permits workers to unionize without intimidation or delay.

The policy applies to both workers directly employed by the university and those employed by university contractors, such as Aramark, Epicurean and

NEWS No Rook

Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov spoke on Russia’s democratic deficit at an event.

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NEWS MSB Drops in Rankings

SPORTS Upset Victims

OPINION Editorial

OPINION A Whole New Field

The MSB’s full-time MBA program dropped two spots in Bloomberg Buisnessweek’s rankings.

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A further slide in sexual health rankings should serve as a wakeup call for campus education.

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No. 2 seed Georgetown fell to No. 6 Providence in the Big East women’s soccer semifinals. A10

A student-athlete explains how sociology took him from struggling student to aspiring teacher.

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See SUFFRAGE, A6 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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OPINION

THE HOYA

TUESDAY, November 10, 2015

THE VERDICT

Our Trojan Horse It is hardly a surprise that the recent release of the 10th Annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, a set of rankings evaluating universities on accessibility of sexual health resources and information available to students on campus, placed Georgetown 112th of 140 schools. The fact that the university dropped 19 spots from an already dismal 2014 ranking is unacceptable.

Instead of fearing backlash from conservative alumni and other conservative watchdogs who seek to protect Georgetown’s Catholic identity, the university should prioritize student well-being.

While Catholic social and moral teachings are an integral part of Georgetown pedagogy, they cannot be used as grounds to deny access to basic sexual education.

The Trojan Sexual Health Report Card measures schools based on categories including quality and accessibility of the student health website, contraceptive availability, sexually transmitted infections testing, lecture and outreach programs and peer groups and sexual assault resources and services.

Georgetown University Health Education Services provides STI and HIV testing at the Student Health Center, and the university has made an effort to improve sexual assault resources in a recent memorandum of understanding with the Georgetown University Student Association.

In terms of student-led sexual health education, H*yas for Choice, the I Am Ready program, Take Back the Night and Sexual Assault Peer Educators have done an excellent job engaging the student body in important discussions about sexual health and sexual assault prevention. Students have also praised the work done by Asso-

ciate Director of Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Services Jen Schweer.

However, it is telling that the majority of Georgetown’s sexual health deficit has been filled by passionate students and activists rather than by the institution itself.

Georgetown’s campus has a well-known dearth of sexual health resources, like condoms, and references, like informational packets, filled solely by H*yas for Choice.

The administration has the option to improve Georgetown’s sexual health ranking by lifting its ban on condom sales at independent storefronts located on university property, such as Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli and Students of Georgetown, Inc. locations. There also needs to be meaningful reform at the Student Health Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, where doctors are not obliged to disclose all possible health options to their patients, who are not all Catholic, and are not permitted to prescribe birth control for contraceptive purposes without a patient request.

While students must understand that Georgetown is tied to its Catholic foundations, it is absolutely possible for Georgetown to go further than it has in support of sexual health without compromising its Catholic identity. The university’s Catholic label is not a shield from criticism, and students are right to demand that the university fulfill its commitment to care for the whole person.

Despite Vatican and administrative disapproval, it is an undeniable reality that students on campus have sex. If we are to take the tenet of cura personalis seriously, the university cannot ignore this fact and must realize it has an obligation to take care of students’ sexual health.

More Gaffes Than Laughs — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hosted last weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which brought in record ratings and poor reviews.

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Joe’s Crab Shack — Chain restaurant Joe’s Crab Shack will no longer accept tips at any of its locations. The ban on tipping coincides with a wage increase for all employees.

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Blackfish Backlash — SeaWorld in San Diego will end its killer whale shows by 2017. SeaWorld also announced it will invest $100 million into the “Blue World Project” to end captive killer whale breeding and double their living space.

Christmas Cup Crisis — Starbucks has been accused of waging “war on Christmas” by conservative Christian groups for not including images of reindeer, snowflakes and Christmas trees on their red, holiday cups. Haters gonna hate.

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So-Cal UFO — What was originally thought to be an UFO flying over Los Angeles turned out to be a navy missile on a test launch. Video of the bright, blue object flying across the Southern California skyline quickly went viral over the weekend.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

A Worthwhile Alliance Students often complain that the divide between extracurricular activities and academic curriculum is rarely bridged.

Faculty members tend to play a relatively small role in undergraduate organizations, and it is difficult to apply certain extracurricular goals to the classroom.

Student clubs and academic departments should work together more closely to make their activities more tangible and motivating for students who are deeply passionate about select issues.

As a recent partnership between Georgetown’s student-led Sustainable Oceans Alliance and the science, technology, international affairs program in the School of Foreign Service shows, cooperation and collaboration between on-campus clubs and academic departments is very possible. SOA’s faculty advisor, Monica Medina who had previous worked in ocean development and policy at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Geographic Society, taught a class called “Ocean Law, Sustainable Development and Global Security.”

Club members had approached the faculty advisor, who prepared a syllabus and curriculum with the idea for a course in 2014; together they met with the viceprovost and the head of the STIA program to successfully add it to the curriculum.

Even though this is the first such example in recent memory, the success of the course demonstrates the crossover interest that many professors may have in undergraduate organizations they are involved in.

Such academic partnerships offer the chance for students to deepen their extracurricular involvement with serious scholarly study.

Moreover, new classes can allow those passionate about service and social jus-

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tice issues to add academic experience to sustained extracurricular or professional engagement that future employers look for.

The potential for collaboration between organizations and faculty extends beyond merely service and environmental based topics.

For example, Georgetown regularly teaches courses on public speaking and oration; surely students involved in speech and debate organizations, or clubs that put a premium on such activities — Model United Nations or Mock Trial are notable examples — could benefit from a substantive relationship that reflects the particular topical interests and rhetorical styles of those organizations.

Likewise, groups focused on encouraging diversity on campus should be able to provide input in classes on sociology and in departments focused on studies of minority groups.

Much of this kind of collaboration already exists in an informal series of relationships between students and faculty, but Georgetown has the opportunity to institutionalize these relationships.

A formalized relationship between academic departments and student organizations would encourage students to engage with the department while adding another outlet for dialogue between said academic departments and student organizations.

In turn, the academic councils of the various undergraduate schools should reach out to student organizations that might have an interest in academic collaboration and begin putting them in contact with those departments that might benefit from the relationship.

It is a chance that Georgetown should not soon pass up.

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Joseph Murdy (col ’18) ruminates on the influence and place of satire in contemporary news:

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Very few forces motivate people and inspire thoughts quite like the news. The media’s authority makes it very easy for biased news networks to push a certain agenda on people. Moreover, news networks have to appeal to people’s inherent biases in the first place in order to gain and continue viewership, so misinformation in the news has become the norm.”

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CORRECTIONS An earlier version of “Fossil Free Seeks Referendum, Again” (The Hoya, A1, Nov. 6, 2015) stated that a source’s name was Sabrina Field. The correct spelling of her last name is Fields.

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OPINION

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VIEWPOINT • Bullock

If a Tree Falls

Paying it Forward Grace Smith

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hristmas. Passover. Chinese New Year. Diwali. These are all holidays that my family celebrated at various times throughout my childhood, but despite this, I don’t think of myself as religious. I never really have. The only religious continuity I know is that of the aforementioned “combo-platter approach” to which my parents exposed me — try a bit of everything, they said, and somewhere in the diversity, maybe I would find something that resonated with me.

What I learned from these multiple religious experiences and engagements, however, was not that I needed religion or even that religion needed me. What I learned was that belief is so central to the human condition of survival and that so many find unimaginable strength in the intangible. There is something uniquely reassuring about knowing that some things are entirely beyond our control but eternally present; that some divine being looks over us, in some capacity, to carry us through our greatest moments of desolation and to celebrate our greatest moments of joy.

From writing letters to Santa and stuffing my face full of matzo ball soup and receiving red envelopes and attending Hindu dance festivals, I learned that what I believed in did not have its own holiday, its specified group of followers, or any defined religious practices or rituals. I appreciated the diverse background from which I came, but I found true, soulful liberation — the kind that envelops your whole being and, in losing yourself, you gain a sense a self — in nature.

There was a day, around five years ago, when I began to understand what it felt like to be overcome by some force for which there are no words. It was one of those perfectly sunny days with a cool breeze, and I was at my happiest. Surrounded only by sun and water and a gentle breeze on a small sailboat, some part of my inner core began to embody the characteristics of the natural forces around me as it brightly shone and disseminated its comforting rays outward with the peaceful atmosphere of solace. It was at that moment that I learned nature is what carries me forward, what opens my being when the world tells it to close.

In this world, there are so many things for which we as humans are distinctly responsible, and yet there are those sacred few things in which we play no role and over which we have no power. Nature is one of those sacred few things. It is not necessarily something bigger than us; it is simply different.

It is its own force, its own power, that acts independently, and I take comfort in knowing my separation from nature.

But, paradoxically, we are all intertwined and connected to nature, and it is uniquely reassuring for me to be inherently a part of something without trying. Nature just is, and I just am and we just are. I don’t have to pray to nature. I don’t even have to notice it because I know it’s always there, with every rustle of a tree leaf, with every gust of wind, with every wave that hits the shore. Its continued existence is enough for me.

Religion is as much about the individual as it is about the collective community that surrounds it, and religion is often so personal that it is only truly known to the person affected by it. It is a misrepresentation of religion to suggest that it finds its power in definition; religion thrives on its universality, flexibility and fluidity. Given the fact that I attend a Jesuit university, I am often confronted with questions regarding my religion and, more generally, what it means to be religious.

While many assume, given my love of all things Christmas (heavily influenced by my even stronger love of cold temperatures and excessive decorative lighting), that I must be connected to Christianity, or even just any acknowledged organized form of religion, I know that I never truly will be. My belief is in the constants of life, and nothing is more constant than nature. I will forever fall back on the basic facts that I know to be true: the sun will set, the moon will rise, the waves will crash and life will go on.

Grace Smith is a sophomore in the College. If a Tree Falls appears every other Tuesday.

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enior year is not anything like I thought it would be when I first came to Georgetown — in the best way. I’m having the strongest football season of my career. I made it into the famous Donna Brazile’s “Women in American Politics” class. And I accepted the job offer that I realized was my destiny.

When I got to campus four years ago, I was a computer science major with plans to make big money after graduation. But my first computer science class proved harder than I expected, so I dropped the class and my ambition along with it. I had a scholarship to play football at Georgetown — who needed school, right?

I skipped class, partied hard and played football. I told myself that was what I was there for anyway.

That attitude quickly landed me on academic probation with a 1.6 GPA. When I got the news, I questioned whether I could survive at Georgetown. In high school I had not given much thought to what I would do once I got here. I figured just being on campus was good enough. No one I knew had been to college, let alone to one as elite as ours.

As reality set in, I knew I had to change if I wanted to stay. Over the next couple semesters, I worked to do better in the classroom. And though I still partied too much, I did improve. By sophomore year, I had decided to major in sociology because I liked studying people. I had no idea that my major would change my life.

Through sociology, I took classes on the injustices and inequalities in the United States. As I did, I was forced to think about my own background. I looked around at my classmates, friends, and professors and realized none of them had the same experiences as me.

None of them had shared a onebedroom in a low-income community like mine. None of them made weekly visits to their mom in the hospital, trapped there by

I owed my success to my teachers and mentors. I’ll never be able to pay them back. But I can absolutely pay it foward. sickle cell anemia. None of them cared for their younger brothers while their dad was locked up at the federal prison. None of them grew up like I did, and those who did were nowhere near O Street.

Around the time I was making these realizations, I got a job at the After School Kids program, working with high school kids on house arrest for various reasons.

Spending time with them I realized just how much we had in common, with just a few strokes of luck separating us. Because I played football I got to attend a private high school, and I was fortunate enough to have cousins and mentors showing me what not to do. Those little discrepancies were the difference between me and my students, who never

VIEWPOINT • Dheri

dreamed a school like Georgetown could ever be in their futures.

The next semester, I tutored kindergarteners in reading.

They were so young, but all of them had aspirations to learn and thrive and live into their big dreams. Comparing them to my high schoolers, I started to wonder: Where did things go wrong?

When does the light that shines in all kids first start to dim?

Thinking again of my own story, the path forward seemed clear. All these students needed was support — just like me in my first semesters at Georgetown. I almost didn’t make it, but I had support at school that helped me make it through. I owed my success to my teachers and mentors.

I will never be able to pay them back. But I can absolutely pay it forward.

The way to do that became clear when I ran into a Teach For America recruiter last spring.

The more I learned, the more excited I got. This was my chance to dedicate myself full-time to empowering kids and work for a more equitable education system. I applied early deadline, got admitted and will now get the chance to continue my work with D.C. students this fall.

My ultimate dream is to become a principal and work in education policy at the national level. That work will begin with Teach For America, where I will leverage a national network to make a local impact. Wherever I go, I know that as I empower my students to break the cycle, we’ll together become part of a better one — a network of activists and advocates who have seen and experienced injustice firsthand, have been a part of chipping away at it and won’t rest until it is gone.

I can’t wait for school to start.

Troye Bullock is a senior in the College.

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No to Divestment and Levels of Learning Meaningless Solutions In a New Curriculum

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limate change is a real problem. Most people underestimate the consequences if human contributions are left unaddressed over the coming decades, but divestment is the wrong solution.

Advocates typically argue that endowment investments financially support companies emitting carbon into the atmosphere. But what does “financial support” mean in this context?

One could very well infer that Georgetown is handing over money to the Exxons and BPs of the world and directly funding man-made climate change.

This assumption underscores a flawed understanding of secondary financial markets. If I buy stock in Exxon, I do so from another person willing to sell it to me at a certain price rather than from Exxon itself. This distinction is critical because the up-and-down movements of stock prices have no impact on companies’ financial resources. Divestment, thus, can only induce change by negatively affecting a company’s ability to raise capital in the future. Yet, there are two reasons why divestment would have no substantive impact.

First, the overwhelming majority of investors are profit-seeking individuals or institutions, not endowments. Prodivestment group Power Shift lists the total value of available oil, gas and coal exploration and mining investments at $1.2 trillion and the total endowment investments in them at $17 billion, or 1.4 percent of the total market.

Surely if companies had $17 billion fewer, their abilities to extract fossil fuels would be hampered. However, as argued above, endowments selling all fossil fuel investments would only affect share prices and would have no impact on the profitability of energy operations because selling stock does not equate to removing funds from these companies. A more likely scenario than a negligible price drop is an investor unconstrained by ethical considerations boosting stock prices as they fall, resulting in no net change. Advocates often indicate that divestment succeeded against apartheid in South Africa, but with a much larger market and a smaller percentage of endowment composition, the United States is unlikely to achieve such a result.

Second, even if divesting could affect the stock prices of energy companies, these companies would likely respond in the short-term by extracting more fossil fuels, not less, to boost profitability and stock prices, which runs counterproductive to the divestment cause.

“Success” for divestment can only, by definition, affect share prices, but the assumption that share prices directly affect company policy is misguided. They may in certain instances, but in this one, the consequence is the exact opposite of what divestment seeks to accomplish.

Many divestment advocates claim Georgetown’s Jesuit values conflict with the university’s investments, but since investing and divesting do not tangibly affect the environment, no contradiction with values arises. One could argue that Georgetown should, on principle, never profit from companies that contribute to global climate change; the logical extension of this argument is that Georgetown’s financial investments are the means by which it symbolically reflects its values and not the means by which it seeks to sustainably fund scholarships and research.

Given that stock investments and real-world consequences are distinct, Georgetown’s investments should not constitute symbolic support for these companies. However, if divestment is merely a symbolic measure, Georgetown’s bookstore should abstain from selling Nike products and the university should prohibit Georgetown University Grilling Society from purchasing charcoal on the same grounds.

Georgetown’s actions and policies that cause real-world impacts, unlike investments, should reflect its values and commitment to environmental preservation. An endowment’s moral obligation is the important task of providing stable capital for the university to fund scholarships, projects and research. Because an endowment hires managers to invest in companies on behalf of the university, divestment would not only make choosing skilled managers who would not agree to investment restrictions more difficult, but it would also fail to affect the environment in any meaningful way.

None of this is to say that Georgetown lacks any moral responsibility for climate change. Rather, it is to argue that responsibility ought to be assessed on real-world consequences.

GU Fossil Free has the opportunity to promote student mindfulness about how our own actions contribute to these problems, and it could even refocus time and resources currently directed at divestment toward boycotting the use of energy, which, unlike divestment, would affect the demand and profitability of extractive companies. If Georgetown has an obligation under its Jesuit ideals to value environmental consciousness, all of these actions could better align with Georgetown than divestment.

Ultimately, GU Fossil Free’s efforts should be directed toward causes that lead to environmental change. Voting to divest, when doing so would have no meaningful — and potentially counterproductive — effects on the environment and negative consequences for the endowment’s ability to fund research and scholarships, would be a mistake.

Deep Dheri is a senior in the McDonough School of Business.

This piece was inspired by the “Designing the Future of the University” course taught by Randy Bass and Ann Pendleton-Julian.

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hen we look at college in the future, we should really be paying for an experience, not for disparate knowledge. Knowledge is more accessible than ever today. How do we navigate it? We also know that digitalization is changing our environment.

How do we systematically implement it? Students already obtain knowledge outside the classroom through lectures on campus, internships and free online courses. It is time we integrate them into the university model.

We believe that formalized, course-based teaching fails to make learning integrative and high-impact, and it is imperative Shetty that Georgetown work to promote knowledge synthesis through collaborative projects for students.

We would like to see a shift from the formal course-based education to creative labs. This move would create a more engaging learning experience that better integrates skills that students will take into the future. In our model, students would enroll in project families that reverse the coursecentric learning model. These project families, in a sense, are creative labs that focus on particular topics that are shaped by university mentors to guide students in the creation or exploration of their own projects.

The project families evolve as you unlock higher levels; initially, there is a lot of guidance and minimal complexity, but as you progress, you have more independence and increased nuance to your work. Yes, classes are a part of this, but using this decentralized model allows students to pick and choose which knowledge packets they need and where they should get them.

A student can unlock a higherlevel project family in a variety of ways, including a research paper, internship, recommendation from an instructor and proficiency tests. This unlocking feature could use an algorithm to synthesize personalized sug-

gestions for the student pathway.

For instance, instead of taking classes from a predefined course list for obtaining a Classics degree, what if you worked on four major projects during your time at Georgetown that furthered your major focus? Your first project could be writing a paper, say on Romans and society. After you complete that, you will unlock a high literature project family, where you will work on retranslation and a publication. After that, you have the option to join an exhibition building project family, where you work on a museum exhibition downtown at the Smithsonian. And finally, you will move into your fourth project family at Georgetown — a site recreation project where you have the option to design an extensive blueprint of an ancient Greek temple.

Additionally, developing a skills& Trivedi based core could improve the accrual of skills and competencies such as cultural history, information visualization, computer science, research, writing and communication, as well as to project-based learning. In tandem with these skills--based courses, students would be required to enroll in broad-idea seminars that serve to provide “packets” of liberal arts education.

Finally, students will be able to represent their coursework and progress in a much more comprehensive way to employers using a portfolio — their vitae — that is a culmination of project work in which the student has engaged. This portfolio will allow employers to see a project’s product and instantly be able to gauge the student’s abilities, skills and potential for growth.

Steps are being taken in the right direction through Vice Provost Randy Bass’ Designing the Future(s) initiative. We need to create a learning environment that is high-impact and collaborative in order to ensure that students will be more prepared to contribute in the 21st-century workforce.

Naman Trivedi is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

Rohan Shetty is a senior in the McDonough School of Business. [and Service] appears every other Tuesday.

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IPPS Hackathon Examines Voter Engagement CAROLINE WELCH Hoya Staff Writer

Students, graduates and working professionals from the Washington, D.C. area and beyond gathered for a daylong innovation competition focused on creating technological accessories for presidential debates to increase voter engagement among millennials.

The “Hack the Debate” event, which was hosted by Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and the Independent Journal, took place in the Healey Family Student Center on Nov. 8.

IJ will also co-sponsor the New Hampshire Republican Primary debate with ABC News on Feb. 6.

Five teams of up to six hackers had eight hours to conceptualize, design and implement a plan to

broaden the scope of millennial conversations on the debate process. The product was then pitched to technology and political industry professionals with one winner chosen at the end of the day.

Judges based their decisions on the directness, feasibility, receptiveness and originality of the team’s ideas. Judges included IJ’s Chief Technology Officer Carl Seusca, Facebook Public Policy Director Katie Harbath and Politico Executive Vice President of Business Development Peter Cherukuri.

Teams faced moderators, factchecking and social media with pitches that ranged from a spin-off of a popular mobile game, “Cookie Clicker,” to a Tinder-inspired application, “Bull,” designed to allow debate audiences to question or support candidates’ statements in

real time.

“If our goal is to inspire young people ... we actually have to start a conversation on their terms and using their tools.”

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A team of product developers from Mic.com, an online news outlet, won the competition. They pitched “DebateMate,” a mobilefriendly website that centers around providing real-time rankings of emojis as they become associated with candidates on social

media.

“Our idea is simple and actually works,” Mic News Vice President of Product Andrew Sessa (SFS ’09) said. “The idea of an emoji spans across all languages so it’s also useful for things outside of a debate.”

IJ will work with the DebateMate founders to develop the idea into a functional tool for audience participation in the Feb. 6 debate.

The hackathon also incorporated two panel discussions, called “Tech Talks,” and brought in professional journalists, IJ employees and other industry experts to advise the teams as they crafted their final products.

The first Tech Talk, titled “Inside the Campaign Debate,” brought Republican National Committee Digital Director Gerrit Lansing and Democratic National Commit-

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The Institute of Politics and Public Service and the Independent Journal hosted “Hack the Debate,” a competition aimed to increase voter engagement in political debates in the Healey Family Student Center on Nov. 8. Developers from Mic.com won for their “DebateMate” mobile-friendly site.

tee Digital Director Matt Compton together in a dialogue on voter engagement and technological advancement on the 2016 presidential campaign trail.

The second panel, “2016 is the Year of the Debate – Thanks to Technology,” centered around real-time audience response, search trends and data aggregation during and after debates. Panelists included Government & Politics Partner Manager Sean Evins and Google’s U.S. Politics Account Executive Steve Johnston.

Michelle Jaconi, CNN veteran and current executive editor of IJ, described IJ as a company that uses technology to reach a broad and youthful audience through multimedia, multi-platform journalism.

IJ Founder and President Alex Skatell, who also currently serves as a student advisor at the IPPS, emphasized the company’s goal of providing users with news in a technologyfriendly context.

“IJ is focused on showing, not telling, and listening to people on the ground, not just our viewpoints,” Skatell said.

IPPS Executive Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94) noted similarities between IJ’s mission and that of the IPPS. “We had an early partnership with IJ because of the fact that we recognize that if our goal is to inspire young people, to show them the different avenues to get involved in public service, we actually have to start a conversation on their terms and using their tools,” Elleithee said.

According to Skatell, IJ hopes to garner the same record-breaking viewership from earlier 2016 presidential primary debates using the technological innovations produced by the competition.

“This is the first time that any network or debate partner is opening up the floor for ideas from the public at large and thinking about what should debates have to stimulate and engage and inform them,” Skatell said. “Everyone is looking forward to listening to young people and across the spectrum about how to better engage viewers and have it be a debate that’s helpful to get to know [the candidates].”

Elleithee echoed Skatell’s sentiments, highlighting that the goal is of the hackathon to deepen the knowledge students have of political debate processes.

“It’s very much in the spirit of why we exist, to pull back the curtain and help students understand the hows and the whys but then hand it off to you to figure out how to do it better,” Elleithee said.

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Russian pro-democracy activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov encouraged Western countries to enact assertive foreign policies against Russia in a speech in the Intercultural Center Auditorium on Thursday.

The event, titled “Garry Kasparov on the Rise and Fall of Russian Democracy and Why It Matters to America and the World,” was part of Kasparov’s promotional tour for his latest book, “Winter is Coming,” a critique of the Putin regime. The Lecture Fund organized the event and distributed free copies of the book to the event’s first 150 attendees.

Kasparov, who became the youngest undisputed world chess champion in 1985 at 22 years old, described the contrast between his former role as an emblem of the Soviet Union’s intellectual superiority to the West decades ago and his current dissidence against the Russian government.

“When people ask me about my chess skills and how useful they are in navigating the hot waters of Russian politics, my answer is that they were absolutely useless,” Kasparov said. “Because in chess, you have strict rules with unpredictable results, while in Putin’s Russia it is exactly the opposite.”

Kasparov advocated for an interventionist foreign policy in order to preserve global economic interests and protect global security. According to Kasparov, the failure of the United States and its allies to intercede on behalf of democracy in Russia could potentially manifest in greater aggression from its leader.

“I’ve read enough history books to know that appeasement has killed more people than deterrence,” Kasparov said. “The lesson from history is that the weakness always provokes foreign aggression. Strength is vital in dealing with dictators, and hopefully the free world will step up to the challenge.”

Kasparov criticized American foreign policy for its failure to provide a united front in quelling the expansion of Putin’s power. He said that the lack of bipartisan consensus within the United States runs contrary to the politics of the Cold War era, which saw common goals among Democrats and Republicans.

“It comes down to making excuses and backing away from challenges,” Kasparov said. “Don’t tell me that Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than Josef Stalin in 1948. … Every day Putin

stays in power, the drier the political desert in Russia. And who can survive in a political desert? Only creatures like snakes and rats and scorpions.”

Benjamin Forestier (MSB ’16), who organized the event as an associate board member of the Lecture Fund, said he studied Kasparov’s techniques to implement in his own gaming strategies as a chess player of 15 years. He said Kasparov’s advocacy work compelled him to pursue inviting Kasparov to campus since June.

“Georgetown is a Jesuit university, and though we are supposedly men and women for others, I think the biggest risk we face as students is getting too comfortable,” Forestier said. “With Mr. Kasparov, we have somebody with a brilliant mind and extraordinary achievements who left his comfort zone, who pulled himself out of safety in order to contribute to something he believes is the greater good.”

Nick Shedd (SFS ’18), who hauled his chess set to the lecture to have it signed by Kasparov, said although he had reservations about Kasparov’s foreign policy, he was swayed by his account of political oppression in Russia.

“I honestly came because I saw a post on Facebook that Kasparov was signing chessboards, and I thought that was awesome,” Shedd said. “I stayed because hearing his story and getting that insider perspective about the workings in Putin’s government was very cool, and it’s something we talked about a lot in my Russian class last year.”

Alejandro Perez-Reyes (COL ’17), a government and Russian double major, said Kasparov’s analysis oversimplified the current state of Russian affairs by attributing developments to Vladimir Putin alone, rather than to millions of processes, procedures and interests.

“In my view, he made the Russian government synonymous with Putin’s desires, and when you think about it in context, there are Russian bureaucratic agencies — different power actors — who influence what Russia does,” Perez-Reyes said.

Despite this limitation, Perez-Reyes said Kasparov offered a convincing argument in laying out a moral framework for U.S. foreign policy.

“I don’t think I will ever hear that kind of experience or perspective voiced with as much moral authority,” Perez-Reyes said. “I don’t think we can forget about that and still say that U.S. foreign policy is morally justified at all, because if we do that, we are turning our backs on people who really need our help.”

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BBC Worldwide North America President Ann Sarnoff (GSB ’83) emphasized the importance of reimagining content in an era of mass media consumption at the Fisher Colloquium in the Rafik B. Hariri Building on Thursday.

The Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute organized the event, titled “The Evolution of Television.” GUWLI Director Catherine Tinsley moderated the discussion. GUWLI, which was founded in 2003, is a joint initiative between the Office of the President and the McDonough School of Business dedicated to empowering female leaders in the business sector through scientific insight and data-driven knowledge.

Sarnoff, who previously worked for Nickelodeon and Dow Jones, is known for bringing an entrepreLAUREN SEIBEL FOR THE HOYA neurial and innovative spirit into the workplace. She was respon- President of the BBC Worldwide North America Ann Sarnoff (GSB sible for large marketing and sales ’83) discussed the future of television at an event Thursday. projects that diversified the BBC’s content department and currently want it, on demand. … Consumers Sarnoff further elaborated works to address the future of televi- don’t like to wait for anything.” upon her own principles of leadsion and content consumption.

With the amount of choice ership and building an efficient Sarnoff said that her goal at modern-day consumers now have, team. She also acknowledged crethe BBC is to address millennials Sarnoff said that there is a new ativity as the center of all innovaand the way they are constantly emphasis on being first to market tion and progress in her industry. redefining the concept of televi- with higher-quality products.

“I also believe, in order to bring sion and media. “[Consumers] want more exclu- innovation into a culture, that “Millennials are the cord-cut- sive programming that you won’t you should reward failure and ters because they grew up on the see on any other service,” Sarnoff punish inaction,” Sarnoff said.

Internet, watching things on their said. “Netflix is a prime example “Celebrating and learning what computers and on smartphones,” of this trend. … This changes our we do wrong allows better deciSarnoff said. “The state of televi- economics as content providers sions going forward. Through sion is in a very exciting state of because now we have a different this attitude, I was able to help influx because at companies such as way to monetize shows. Not only spire my teams to make progress BBC, we are content creators.” can we sell to traditional cable and and think creatively.”

According to Sarnoff, this rei- network providers, but also these William Treanor (COL ’19) said magining of television is indica- services for first windows.” he appreciated Sarnoff’s insights tive of the growing power of comAnother key point of the conver- on both the television market panies such as Netflix, Hulu and sation was the progress of content and the role creativity plays in Amazon, especially as major tele- consumption in developing coun- her leadership. vision providers have begun sell- tries. According to Sarnoff, the evo“It was incredibly interesting ing their shows directly to these lution of television has not been to see how the shows we watch sites as a form of direct release. equal in all countries as states often on TV or Netflix represent such Referring to this growth in the lack the infrastructure to adapt to a small fraction of the worldwide quantity and means of distribution data-intensive television practices. market and reflects the decisions of television, Sarnoff acknowledged Sarnoff said content produc- made by a small group of individthe importance of consumer choice ers are still seeing rapid develop- uals,” Treanor said. and demand in an age in which ments in these countries, in spite Joseph Stabile (SFS ’19) said consumers have increasing liberty of the lack of infrastructure. that Sarnoff offered a unique to change content providers quickly.

“Video is very data-intensive perspective on the issue of con“A lot of British programming and hard to get across networks … tent consumption as a female … is high quality, and we feel very so it really is about the infrastruc- media executive. confident that as television con- ture,” Sarnoff said. “Developing “I found it really interesting to tinues to evolve on multiple plat- countries develop the infrastruc- hear her position on the evoluforms, [BBC content] will rise to the ture and leapfrog the Western tion of television as technology top,” Sarnoff said. “But all consum- way of rolling out television net- advances [and] her insights as a ers now have ultimate choice to works, jumping straight into the woman in a high-ranking busichoose what to watch when you on-demand content.” ness position,” Stabile said.

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Noise Violations Re-Examined Younger Voting NOISE, from A1 2012, defined any noise that could be heard over a property line as a noise violation.

Subsequently, off-campus violations have become more severe than on-campus violations. According to the Code of Student Conduct, on-campus violations require “clear and convincing” information for a student to be convicted, while an off-campus violation only requires information that suggests that a violation was “more likely than not.” Off-campus noise violations are also considered disorderly conduct offenses, whereas on-campus noise violations are not.

The Code of Student Conduct also states that off-campus “quiet hours” are between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., while they are between 10 p.m. and 9 a.m. on nights preceding classes and between 12 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays on campus.

According to Student Advocacy Office Director Ryan Shymansky (COL ’16), the SAO has processed at least 30 noise violations since October, the majority of which were first-time violations. Around 60 to 70 percent of the violations occurred in West Georgetown and the remainder occurred in Burleith.

“I think my biggest gripe — and the biggest gripe that I’ve heard from students — with our current off-campus noise policy is really how draconian a first offense actually is,” Shymansky wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“When SNAP is stopping at houses because five roommates are playing music from an iPhone in their kitchen — and yes, this really has happened multiple times this year — then it starts to have an enormously stifling effect on neighborhood life,” Shymansky wrote.

The Office of Student Conduct reserves the right to impose a disorderly conduct violation and can also impose some combination of a $50 fine, five work sanction hours, an educational paper, a six-week property party restriction and disciplinary probation.

Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson said that the university has not increased its enforcement of noise policies in the past year.

“The university has taken noise issues in local neighborhoods seriously for the past several years, and our approach to enforcement is very similar this year to the approach last year,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

A CHANGED SYSTEM Office of Student Conduct Associate Director Adam Fountaine, who is responsible for off-campus concerns and

violations, said the 2013 revision to the Code of Student Conduct intended to simplify the rules.

“A few years ago, we had different ‘categories’ of violations and a lot of procedural information within the Code,” Fountaine wrote in an email to The Hoya. “However, we received feedback that the categories were confusing and the procedural information was a little dense. So, we removed the categories and created separate procedural documents to streamline the code into how it looks today.”

The Office of Neighborhood Life formed in the summer of 2013 to facilitate and improve relationships between the university, students and the surrounding community.

The ONL also coordinates SNAP, which responds to calls received from neighborhood residents on the Georgetown University Community Helpline.

SNAP provides reports to both the Office of Student Conduct and the ONL every Monday morning about the weekend’s incidents and violations.

The OSC then decides whether the report merits disciplinary process.

STUDENT-DRIVEN REFORM According to Shymansky, the SAO acknowledges that these new policies may be hard to understand, and offers support to students going through the adjudication process after a violation.

It works closely with the Office of Student Conduct, the Office of Residential Living and the ONL to push for administrative changes when necessary.

“Our job is to help the process make sense because the whole adjudication system can seem pretty opaque,” Shymansky said.

The SAO has worked for several months on potential solutions to the discrepancy between on- and off-campus noise violations. Shymansky said he hopes to present on potential reforms this month to the Georgetown Community Partnership, a forum for discussion created after the 2010 Campus Plan.

“The Code of Conduct … is not a system of policing objectionable noise, it’s a system of policing noise, period,” Shymansky said. “You have people unable to invite friends over — I’m talking small gatherings of maybe five friends — without the fear of coming into contact with the university.”

A senior in the College, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he had firsthand experience with the noise policy. During the summer of 2014, SNAP broke up the student’s Fourth of July party at his off-campus townhouse.

The student later received a conduct violation.

“It was strange because there was no one living next to us, and no one living on the other side of us either, so there was really no one who could give a noise complaint,” he said. “Basically, we were really just at the mercy of a car going around the neighborhood searching out the window for noise. It was a pretty rough situation.”

The Office of Student Conduct stands behind the differences between on- and off-campus noise and evidentiary standards.

According to Shymansky, although there has not been an uptick in enforcement, SNAP has increased its amount of proactive stops, in which patrollers check on houses regardless of whether they received a complaint.

“We recognize that excessive noise experienced on-campus may have a less significant impact on a student’s lifestyle than it would on a professional or family’s lifestyle off-campus,” Fountaine wrote in in email to The Hoya.

However, Shymansky said there must be more continuity in the way on- and off-campus students are treated under the Code of Student Conduct.

He said that the best course of action is to bring the university’s standards more in line with the standards set by District law, where there needs to be a reasonable disturbance to merit disciplinary action.

“Off-campus enforcement needs to be done in a way so that we allow students to exist as residents of the neighborhood where they can have friends over without having to worry about a car with an orange light on top of it pulling up outside their house,” Shymansky said.

Dushkes said the university must better help students understand the potential punishments for a noise violation and how those punishments are determined.

“There needs to be very clear policies in place, essentially making students aware that policy exists and what the potential consequences are,” Dushkes said. “I don’t feel that is happening.”

The senior said the university needs to stop the policy of “more likely than not” when it comes to off-campus noise.

“You’re just assumed guilty, and that starts out the moment that SNAP gets into their cars, and it’s from the moment that the university lays out a policy like [objectionable noise],” the senior said.

Dushkes agreed with the need for policy reform.

“There needs to be a clearer policy in place. That’s all I want, a clear, transparent process,” Dushkes said.

GUTS Routes Lengthen Commute GUTS, from A1 and abnormally long lines to even board the bus,” Luther wrote in an email to The Hoya. “In the immediate future, we will be closely examining the scrutinizing people’s experience with the new route and working with the administration to remedy the issue should the problem persist.”

Riders have commented on the inconvenience of long wait times for GUTS shuttles and an increase in the distance required to travel from the turnaround to other locations on campus.

According to Christian Zeballos (GRD ’16), the time it takes to walk from the GUTS shuttles to class will make the changes inconvenient.

“I guess it’s slightly inconvenient because I have to walk a little bit further than I used to,” Zeballos said. “It’s definitely a bit more of a walk.”

In a universitywide email sent on Friday, Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey said the change was motivated by Georgetown’s vision for a more connected living and learning experience.

“This strategic initiative is part of the university’s broad vision of connecting the academic, recreation and social hubs on campus,” Morey wrote. “The Bus Turnaround is consistent with our goal of moving traffic away from the center of campus to make campus more pedestrian-friendly.”

The Wisconsin Avenue shuttle will remain in its current route, with a pickup at the top of Wisconsin Avenue.

Passengers will have access to new amenities including covered bus shelters and seating, which are projected to be installed over the winter break.

According to Morey, as part of the university’s effort to increase sustainability, the turnaround also features a rain garden to help with rainwater management. Morey emphasized the positive safety benefits that the route change will incur on the student body.

“In general I think that the population at large is better served because the core of our campus is now protected; we don’t have buses coming through there, [creating] more of a pedestrian-friendly environment, less traffic and obstructions to walk around campus,” Morey said.

The university has also been actively working with the District Department of Transportation to prepare for the GUTS changes and address congestion along Canal Road. To ensure a smooth transition, the DDOT posted traffic control officers at the Canal Road campus exit during the evening rush

hour.

Taylor Willis (SFS ’16) lives off campus in Crystal City, Va., and commutes to Georgetown on the Rosslyn, Va., bus.

He said that he expects to be inconvenienced by the change in location.

“On the one hand, there’s a chance this change makes it take less time to get from Georgetown to Rosslyn, but it does so by eliminating … where I usually get on,” Willis said. “I guess I’m willing to give it a try before saying it’s not worth it, but my hopes aren’t high.”

“It’s important that the university continue to demonstrate its commitment to the student and rider experience of GUTS.” ARI GOLDSTEIN (COL ’18) GUSA Secretary for Campus Planning

Kim Zagory, a commuter and administrative assistant at the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, who was quoted in an earlier article (“GUTS Bus Lines Rerouted, Sparks Commuter Criticism,” Sept. 18, 2015, The Hoya), said she is concerned with the long walk from the turnaround to the hospital.

“It’s a pain,” Zagory said. “It’s a long walk and that’s problematic, particularly for patients who may have mobility problems or people who are ill. It’s a hospital.”

To alleviate mobility concerns, a new minishuttle will be available for riders who require assistance or desire a more convenient route to north campus. This shuttle will drive passengers from the lot outside the hospital back and forth from the bus turnaround.

According to Morey, these shuttles are expected to run three to four minutes apart, and will run on a continuous loop throughout the day.

Tami Lacasse (SFS ’18), a weekly GUTS rider, said she is not bothered by the change.

“I do not believe that it will change very much, although it might be a longer distance going from class to the bus stop,” Lacasse said. “I don’t see it as

being a big problem.”

Leslie Martin (GRD ’16) said she believes the switch will add to campus safety and foster a more pedestrianfriendly campus.

“I think it’s a good move because it makes campus more pedestrianfriendly, which is really important to me, with safety involved. … Overall, I liked the drive better this morning, it was a lot smoother,” Martin said.

According to GUSA Secretary for Campus Planning Ari Goldstein (COL ’18), data from test trips on the new routes show longer travel times on the Dupont route during peak evening hours, while the Dupont and Rosslyn routes will be a few minutes faster during peak morning hours.

“The potential for increased route times … is concerning,” Goldstein said. “We’ll be able to see those effects as the turnaround goes into use over the next few months.”

According to the GUSA Campus Plan Report, the shuttles make two million individual trips per year. The report also stated that 32 percent of GUTS riders are students.

In response to the time increase, Morey said that GUTS plans to add an extra bus during peak hours in the future.

“We’re going to try to achieve a headway of 10 minutes,” Morey said.

“If you walk to a stop, whether it’s at Dupont or here on campus, [and] you walk up there at 6:51, theoretically a bus has just left [and] you’re waiting nine minutes for the next bus.”

GUSA has been involved in meetings with administrators regarding the planned changes for the past two years. According to Goldstein, GUSA hopes to continue the conversation surrounding the quantity and quality of access to transportation at Georgetown throughout the 2018 campusplanning process.

“It’s important that the university continue to demonstrate its commitment to the student and rider experience of GUTS,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein said that the new GUTS routes are the beginning of a renewed focus on transportation.

“Hopefully that will mean another look at … expanded access to Zipcar and Capital Bike Share on campus to facilitate other access to transportation, and a renewed conversation with students about the effects of the bus turnaround on their daily routines,” Goldstein said.

Hoya Staff Writer Matthew Larson contributed reporting..

Age Proposed SUFFRAGE, from A1 Grosso also introduced a bill that would extend the right to vote in municipal elections to non-citizens.

He argued that both measures are constitutional under the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which states that citizens 18 years and older may not be prohibited from voting. However, it does not mention those younger than 18.

In the first elections since the bills were passed in Takoma Park and Hyattsville, turnout of voters aged 16 and 17 was four and two-and-a-half times, respectively, that of the rest of the entire voting demographic. Allen cited these elections as a reason to be hopeful that young people can be politically engaged.

“Statistics will show over and over again, the more frequently someone votes when they’re younger, the more likely they’re going to be a lifelong voter,” Allen said. “There’s an immense opportunity to have people start voting at that age of 16 and 17 and 18.”

Allen also explained that the right to vote will give high school students the opportunity to place their academic knowledge in a practical context.

“They’re taking history, they’re taking civics, they’re learning about the political and how they have their voice heard,” Allen said. “I think what shows you is you can get 16-and 17-year-olds to feel like they have a

stake in this, to feel engaged.”

Georgetown University College Democrats President Matt Gregory (SFS ’17) expressed support for the measure but believes there will be determined opposition from Republicans in Congress because younger voters may be perceived to favor Democrats.

“In terms of partisanship, you would probably see some opposition from Republicans,” Gregory said.

“D.C., just looking at it demographically, is largely Democrat if you look at the people that live there.”

Georgetown University College Republicans Chair Amber Athey (COL ’16) opposes the measure. Athey said she believes that 16-years-old is too young and that parents will heavily influence younger voters.

“I don’t know very many 16 year olds who are politically involved,” Athey said. “I think [lowering the voting age] leads to this voting pattern where people are just getting ideas from their parents.”

Leah Reinhard (COL ’18) agreed that 16 may be too young for voting.

“Having the right to vote in this country is a privilege everyone should take advantage of in this country,” Reinhard said. “However, having that opportunity at 16 is just too young to participate in the process. If they can’t legally make certain decisions as minors, how can they be expected to make decisions for our country?”

Labor Conditions Make Strides at GU ANNIVERSARY, from A1 Company and Follett.

The policy is overseen by the Advisory Committee on Business Practices under the Office of Public Affairs, comprised of nine administrators and faculty members, including Associate Dean of Student Affairs Dennis Williams, McDonough School of Business professor Robert J. Bies and sociology professor Leslie Hinkson and one student, Caleb Weaver (SFS ’16). Members are appointed by the university on two-year terms.

The university enacted the policy in 2005 after repeated demonstrations by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, which culminated in an eight-day hunger strike by 25 students in early 2005.

In commemoration of the policy’s anniversary, the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor hosted a series of three panels in Riggs Library last Thursday to discuss the origins, impact and future of the policy.

The initiative, founded in 2009, organizes projects such as educational programs for laborers and opportunities for students to participate in public policy research with professors on labor economics.

At the event, Vice President for Public Affairs Erik Smulson (CAS ’89) said the policy ensures that university business practices align with Jesuit values.

“The Just Employment Policy is really a commitment from the university to social justice and for the common good. It is very true to who we are as a university and the respect we have for the dignity of all humans and those in the workplace,” Smulson said.

KILWP Executive Director Joseph A. McCartin also said the anniversary marks an opportunity for the university to reflect on the policy.

“We look at our Just Employment Policy at Georgetown as a really great model that we hopefully can generalize and make applicable to other university settings,” McCartin said. “Part of this event was to mark what we have done over the past 10 years … but part of it was to think about what we could do better, and then to think about how we might spread this kind of idea.”

Recently, the policy has increased its influence outside of Georgetown.

In the past two years, students at John Carroll University, Brandeis University and Loyola University Chicago have proposed to implement the Just Employment Policy on their campuses.

In October, McCartin represented the KILWP in a discussion of the policy’s benefits at the Summit on Worker Voice in the White House.

According to Senior Adviser to the President for Faculty Relations Lisa Krim, the administration recognizes that the policy has room for expansion in the future.

“Although a union structure only encompasses the part time faculty on our campus, we did spend time after the negotiation working directly with our full-time, non-tenured faculty to set up career tracks for them in ways to recognize the contributions that that group is entitled to,” Krim said. “So the work continues, some of it is in the union context and some of it is outside the union context, but it is all based on the same goals: respect, inclusion and really the pursuit of our mission.”

Over the past decade, university employees have used the policy numerous times to exercise their rights. In March 2011, workers at O’Donovan Hall, Cosi and Starbucks, all operated by Aramark, cited the policy in their process

to unionize under UNITEHERE, a local union. Adjunct professors also used the policy in their negotiation to unionize under Local 500 of the Service Employees International Union in October 2014.

Most recently, Aramark workers cited the policy to negotiate a fair process for unionization and improved work and wage conditions at Leo’s, Hoya Court and the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center.

In an interview with The Hoya, Sam Geaney-Moore (SFS ’12), a former member of GSC and current representative of UNITEHERE Local 23, said that the policy only holds weight if enacted by the community. Geaney-Moore assisted Aramark workers in their contract renegotiation process.

“The Just Employment Policy is a powerful tool for workers, students and professors to use to protect the rights of everyone who works on campus.

However, it is a tool, not a solution by itself,” Geaney-Moore said. “Students and workers must organize to promote justice for everyone who works at the university.”

Dante Crestwell, a warehouse receiver at Leo’s, said that prior to unionization, Aramark discouraged its workers from unionizing.

“You couldn’t even use the word ‘union’ and your name in the same sentence and not be called into a manager’s office,” Crestwell said. “People would get their raises at the time of the economic downturn and it was like a 6-cent or a 12-cent raise. A penny a month.”

According to Crestwell, once the university reminded Aramark of its responsibility to abide by the Just Employment Policy in an open letter, worker conditions improved.

“All of a sudden, this letter from Georgetown came about Just Employment Policy and Jesuit values and Aramark was like, ‘We can make this work, we can be friends,’” Crestwell said.

“Without us unionizing, it would be a 90 percent turnover [in employees] at Leo’s.”

Kerry Danner-McDonald, an adjunct in the theology department, also said the policy was effective in pushing for the unionization of adjunct professors.

Although adjunct professors are not entitled to higher wages under the policy, as they are not full-time employees, the policy allows them to assemble and unionize.

“Part of the benefit of organizing is realizing that you are making a difference and recognizing that the system is unjust and doing something about it. And I think for many of us it allows us to retain our integrity while we continue to do a job that is exploitive,” Danner-McDonald said.

Danner-McDonald agreed that the Just Employment Policy can do more to support part-time employees.

“I think one of the challenges of the Just Employment Policy is that it articulates a living wage for full-time employees, but we are not full-time,” DannerMcDonald said.

At the KILWP event, Weaver, the only student on the ABCP, said that students should engage with workers beyond expressing gratitude.

“I am sure workers have 100 people telling them, ‘You are a valued part of this community,’ but it means a lot more … when workers see students doing more than saying that, and really [live] out that statement [by] putting in the work to prove that it is true,” Weaver said.

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Rankings Highlight Conference Explores Immigration Crisis GU MBA Programs Marina Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

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The McDonough School of Business’ full time MBA program fell two spots to 26th in the country while its part-time MBA program surged 34 spots to fourth in the country, according to Bloomberg Businessweek’s business school rankings released in October.

The drop and rise of the full and part-time programs, respectively, can be attributed to a new rankings methodology. The criteria now includes a survey of former MBA students who are six to eight years removed from graduation.

Jonathan Rodkin, Bloomberg Businessweek rankings and research coordinator, explained that the new methodology behind the rankings was a result of a multi-year reevaluation of past criteria. The former model placed greater emphasis on components of the school itself, such as faculty or test scores, whereas the new rankings reflect graduate employment success post-graduation. The new methodology will be used for the foreseeable future, Rodkin said.

“The last couple years have featured a top-to-bottom evaluation and rethinking of the rankings methodology,” Rodkin said. “In the future, we don’t anticipate big changes like this.”

There are five components to the rankings methodology.

Three areas incorporate data collected from surveys with seniors about to graduate, alumni who graduated six to eight years ago and companies likely to hire MBA program graduates. The other two categories are job-placement rates, which measure how likely a graduate will find work, and salary information.

Rodkin explained that the new rankings seek to reflect how well a business school’s MBA programs create career opportunities for its graduates. Bloomberg added an alumni component to evaluate how graduates thought their education had helped them.

“We can track [alumni] career progression over time,” Rodkin said. “[Bloomberg asked about] their program in how it helped increase their earning potential and how it helped them prepare for various aspects of their working life.”

Prashant Malaviya, senior associate dean for MBA programs, said the higher ranking for the part-time MBA program can be directly attributed to alumni satisfaction. The MSB’s part time MBA program was ranked second in the country for graduate satisfaction with their current work, according to Bloomberg’s list.

Specifically, Malaviya cited the MBA Evening Program as successful among alumni. The MBA Evening Program course is taught over 34 months for a total of 60 credit hours, with classes offered two evenings a week Monday through Thursday.

While the drop of two places for the full-time MBA program was a disappointment, Malaviya cited recent trends in the fulltime program, such as recruitment of students with greater diversity and experience, as reasons to expect a future increase in ranking.

Malaviya noted that the MSB completely renovated its full time MBA program in 2012, aiming to offer a more inclusive and global experience. Malaviya predicted that Georgetown’s ranking might improve with time after more graduates who are beneficiaries of this updated program reach the market.

“Georgetown’s MBA programs are in a cycle of continuous improvement,” Malaviya wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As the world changes, so does the way we do business. So, we strive to improve our program every year.”

In an article announcing the rankings, Rodkin and Business Education Editor Francesca Levy explained that the measures are particularly relevant due to high interest in receiving MBAs. Rodkin and Levy cited the new methodology as key to aid applicants in choosing business schools.

“More graduate degrees in business are awarded each year than in any other field in the U.S.,” Rodkin and Levy wrote. “New business schools are accredited by the dozen every year. [We need to] identify the best ones.”

Among similar rankings, the U.S. News and World Report ranks the MSB’s full-time program 24th in the country while its part time program is tied for 13th.

U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Jeh Johnson called for a bipartisan response to the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States in his keynote address at the 12th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference.

The Georgetown University Law Center, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network and the Migration Policy Institute co-hosted the conference in the Georgetown University Law Center Hart Auditorium on Oct. 29.

“We must account for these people. They are not going away in a Democratic or a Republican administration,” Johnson said. “We want to encourage them to come forward, submit to a background check and if eligible, to get on the books. And to those of us who say we do not have the authority to do this without a change in law, then I say it’s time to change the law.”

Panels on issues of immigration in American politics, specifically focusing on the 2016 presidential election and unaccompanied children detained on the U.S.-Mexico border, followed the speeches.

Panelists came from immigration advocacy groups and government immigration departments, and also included legal scholars.

The panel discussions included “Today’s Politics and U.S. Immigration Policy,” “Exploring the Future of Executive Action,” “Unaccompanied

Central American Children: One Year Later” and “Examining the Growth of Immigrant Detention and the Future of Detention Alternatives.”

Migration Policy Institute Director of Communications and Public Affairs Michelle Mittelstadt highlighted the growth of the conference since its first year, and addressed the most timely issues in the sphere of immigration.

“We must account for these people. They are not going away in a Democratic or a Republican administration.”

Jeh Johnson U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security

“We feel that immigration is a subject both in policy and politics that is often misunderstood,” Mittelstadt said. “The conference takes its shape annually from not only what has been the top policy discussions that have taken place but also what are likely to be the top policy discussions in the year ahead. I think the conference was reflective of where the country and where the debate is right now.”

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres delivered the other keynote address of the day. He focused on the humanitarian aspects of the European

refugee crisis, highlighting the situation’s social and moral costs.

“The humanitarian response capacity of the world is no longer enough to be able to provide the minimum levels of core protection and the minimum levels of lifesaving assistance to the people,” Guterres said.

Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration Susan Martin said that Guterres’ speech gave an honest depiction of the global refugee crisis.

“The high commissioner gave an excellent lecture that really captured what’s happening today with regards to refugees and displaced persons,” Martin said. “I thought he was very frank and wasn’t pulling any punches in talking about what are some of the constraints facing the problems in working globally on refugee issues.”

Mittelstadt also expressed the belief that the panels were thoughtprovoking but pessimistic about the U.S. government’s reaction to immigration issues.

“Some of the biggest takeaways were that there’s little expectation that Congress and this administration or a new administration are going to quickly turn to immigration legislation,” Mittelstadt said.

“I think that the discussion coming out of a couple of the panels made clear that there’s nothing that currently suggests that there’s the political space for the parties to come together and do something in Congress.”

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U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Jeh Johnson delivered the keynote address at the 12th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference at Georgetown University Law Center’s Hart Auditorium on Oct. 29.

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Sean Hoffman Hoya Staff Writer

Hugh Ramlow

Gonzaga Poised to Make Deep Tournament Run Gonzaga’s Mark Few is the best coach in though the Kalispell, Mont., native has not men’s college basketball. This is a bold asser- had much playing time the past two seasons, tion considering the likes of Mike Krzyzews- it does not hurt to have another big body that ki, John Calipari, Jim Boeheim and others in the Zags can play down on the block when the sport. On top of this, Gonzaga’s early tour- Karnowski and Sabonis get into foul trouble, nament exits have led many to write off Few’s as they have had a tendency to do in the past.

Critics cite inexperience in the backcourt, consistent successes, chalking up impressive regular-season records to an easy conference but the Bulldogs combine guard experience schedule. Every year, it seems, some analyst is in redshirt senior guards Kyle Dranginis and high on the Zags and predicts that they will Eric McClellan with young talent in sophogo to the Final Four. Every year, it seems, they more guard Silas Melson and redshirt freshdisappoint. This year Few and his team will man guard Josh Perkins. Perkins, who was silence their critics with a deep tournament buried behind Pangos and Bell on last year’s depth chart, will have a run. Here’s why. chance to show his abilDespite losing their ity this year. His passing starting backcourt in Head Coach Mark Few ability and vision cannot Gary Bell Jr. and Kevin taught. With weapons Pangos, the Bulldogs rehas demonstrated a be like Karnowski and Wiltjer tain their best player in redshirt senior forward commitment to player to pass to, Perkins has a chance to be among the Kyle Wiltjer. The 6-footdevelopment. nation’s leaders in assists.

8-inch Wiltjer’s lightsDranginis is long and out shooting is coupled athletic, a defensive spewith a polished, underrated post game, making him an unstoppa- cialist. His defensive prowess has earned ble force on the offensive end. In addition to him minutes in past seasons on Mark Few’s Wiltjer, the Zags have their own Polish Ham- squad, but his tendency to disappear on the mer, senior center Przemek Karnowski, and offensive end of the court has frustrated Gonone of the top rebounders in the country in zaga fans. The Zags will look to him for more consistent leadership and assertiveness while sophomore forward Domantas Sabonis.

It is hard to disagree with Few that his the younger talent develops.

So why do I say that Coach Few is the best team boasts perhaps the best frontcourt in the country. Karnowski’s soft hands and coach in college basketball? Part of the reason natural coordination make him a legitimate is that he has proven over the years that he threat on the offensive end of the court consistently develops talent. Players get better while his 7-foot-1-inch, 290-pound frame from year to year on his team. Expect the vetmakes him a formidable presence defensive- erans of the squad — Wiltjer, Karnowski and ly. He’s similar to Xavier’s Matt Stainbrook, Dranginis — to be better this year than they were last year and the less experienced playbut bigger.

Complementing Karnowski in the post ers — especially Perkins, Sabonis and Melson is Sabonis, a 6-foot-11-inch sophomore from — to break into the rotation in a big way.

Few’s squad will show the regular staples Lithuania. Sabonis certainly has his flaws — offensive inconsistency and virtually no of the Gonzaga program: polish, poise and shot-blocking ability — but the man is a full- a gritty competitiveness. What will set them grown rebounder. And you can bet that Few, apart this year is a legitimate Preseason Player with his ability to develop players’ talents, of the Year candidate in Kyle Wiltjer, plus the will have Sabonis working hard to fix his of- size and skill of Sabonis and Karnowski. Expect the Zags to dominate their in-conference fensive flaws.

As if the likely starters Wiltjer, Karnowski schedule and make a deep tournament run. and Sabonis aren’t a formidable enough frontcourt, the Bulldogs have another 7-foot- Hugh Ramlow is a sophomore in the 1-inch center to bring in off the bench: red- College. The Zone appears every other shirt sophomore center Ryan Edwards. Al- Tuesday.

Georgetown lacks a varsity Division I ice hockey team, but a group of 28 players and three alumni coaches are keeping the sport alive on campus.

The team practices twice a week, once on dry land and once at Cabin John Ice Rink in Rockville, Md., 13 miles from campus. In the last 12 seasons, the Hoyas have claimed six league championships, their most recent in 2014. They play teams in the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League including George Washington, Navy and St. Joseph’s.

“It provides relationships with upperclassmen ... keeps me busy and gives me a break from work during the week,” freshman forward Peter Hagerty said.

Senior forward Dan Shea and freshman forward Chris Nolan have been playing hockey since they were kids, starting at five and three years old, respectively. Their lives revolved around hockey, and both said they wanted to continue to play the sport in college. “[I’ve] always been playing hockey and I wanted a good group of guys to hang out with,” Nolan said. “I knew some kids on the team already COURTESY CHRIS NOLAN and they made me want to join it because they talked about The Georgetown club hockey team has won six Atlantic Coast how great it is.”

Collegiate Hockey League championships in the last 12 seasons.

Shea, one of the team’s senior captains, said the coaching staff ter with the ACCHL. our division, [specifically] GW; has been an integral part of the “[The coaches] realize that we want to smoke them both team’s success. All of the coach- there is more to life than just times,” Nolan said. es — Adam Willner (COL ’09), hockey, which is definitely a Georgetown’s most important Alex Yale-Loehr (COL ’12) and good thing,” Shea said. goal, according to Nolan, is winConnor Brogan (COL ’14) — are Nolan said he believes that ning the ACCHL championship.

Georgetown alumni who played because the coaches have been In the last 12 seasons, the Hoyas for the team. All three coaches in the players’ position before, have claimed six league chamdeclined requests for comment. they put less pressure on the pionships. A championship this Shea appreciates the fact that players. year would be Shea and the rest the coaches are able to handle Even though it is a club team, of the senior class’s third ACCHL aspects of the game such as the Georgetown ice hockey championship. playing time and line combi- team has developed rivalries Considering the successful nations, allowing him to focus with other schools. history of the club ice hockey more on his responsibilities as “Our biggest rival is probably team, Nolan said he hopes a team captain.

George Washington. Just the fact the team has the opportunity “We are able to play hockey that we are so close makes it fun, to compete against Division I while letting our coaches take and we have gotten fans to come teams and get the recognition care of our lines and who is or to our recent GW games, which those athletes receive. isn’t playing,” Shea said. just brings a great environment “Everyone wants to play DI As captain, Shea communi- to the game,” Shea said. hockey,” Nolan said. “A disadcates with the school to receive As a freshman, Nolan is ex- vantage [of playing club ice funding for the team, collect cited to play in his first George- hockey] is not playing against DI dues from the players, create town-GW game. teams all the time and get the the schedule, make sure the “We want to finish strong glory they get, but it’s still pretty team gets ice time for home in conference play, especially fun. It would be nice to have the games and practices and regis- against our rival schools in funding there for a DI team.”

Despite Big East Loss, Hoyas Earn 4th Straight NCAA Bid Tyler park

Hoya Staff Writer

Entering the 2015-16 season, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (11-5-3, 5-1-2 Big East) had appeared in the NCAA tournament in three consecutive seasons. However, after the Hoyas lost to the Providence Friars (13-8-1, 5-4-0 Big East) in penalty kicks in the semifinals of the Big East tournament, they had to face the prospect of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011.

“Unfortunately, the result did not go our way, but we are holding our breath and hoping for a bid into the tournament,” senior for-

ward Crystal Thomas said.

However, Georgetown does not have to worry about the possibility of an early end to the season, as it earned a bid to the NCAA tournament Monday night. The Hoyas will host the Hofstra Pride on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Only the winner of the Big East tournament is guaranteed a spot in the NCAA tournament’s field of 64 teams. Of the 64 slots, 31 are automatic bids reserved for conference winners.

Thus, only 33 teams are selected for “at-large bids,” which are given to teams whose performances during the regular season warrant a postseason appearance although they did not win their conferences.

Georgetown was ranked No. 37 in the NCAA Rating Percentage Index rankings and was not one of the 39 teams to receive at least one vote in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Coaches Poll.

It seemed possible that the Hoyas might not receive a bid.

A potential early end to the season was particularly disheartening for Georgetown’s three graduate students and five seniors who are playing their final seasons for the Hoyas.

“Knowing it could be my last game hit hard at my emotions,” graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins said. “After five years of playing on this team, it will be hard to move on. The experience I’ve had playing

Division I soccer and the team at Georgetown can’t be matched.”

Despite the loss to Providence, Georgetown was still optimistic that it would be able to continue its season.

“I believe our team deserves an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament,” Newins said. “We played a challenging schedule during nonconference play, unlike many other teams in our conference. Although we fell short in some of these games, we stayed competitive. We also had a strong performance during Big East play with a second-place finish.”

Head Coach Dave Nolan noted the unpredictability of the NCAA tournament selection process, cit-

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Sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz was named the Big East Midfielder of the Year after leading Georgetown with 10 goals and eight assists.

ing his 2010-11 team that had a record of 15-6-0, including a 5-0 regular-season record in the Big East, but did not receive a bid to the NCAA tournament.

“I thought we had a very strong team — it could be the best team I’ve ever had — in 2011, and we didn’t get a selection.” Nolan said.

Now that the Hoyas have officially been selected, Georgetown will appear in the NCAA tournament for the fourth consecutive season.

In each of the last three years, the Hoyas won their first-round game before falling in the Round of 32.

In 2012, Georgetown defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies 3-2 in overtime on a goal from then-freshman forward Sarah Adams. In the next round, then-sophomore midfielder Daphne Corboz scored her 18th goal of the season in the 83rd minute of the Hoyas’ game against the Baylor Bears, but the Bears quickly scored an equalizer before winning the game in overtime.

In 2013, Georgetown defeated LaSalle 2-0, with Newins recording a shutout in goal, before falling to then-No. 1 Virginia 1-0 in the next round. Last season, the Hoyas beat the West Virginia Mountaineers on penalty kicks after regulation and two overtime periods were scoreless. Georgetown then fell to Virginia Tech 4-3 in overtime in the Round of 32.

This year, Georgetown will avoid playing Virginia Tech, which has split two NCAA tournament overtime matches with Georgetown in the past three seasons. The Hokies are in a different section of the bracket, meaning that the two teams could only meet in the semifinals of the tournament if they both successfully advance to that stage.

Even before entering the NCAA tournament, Newins said she is proud of her team’s performance this season.

“This has been one of my favorite teams I have ever played with at Georgetown, on and off the field,” Newins said. “We had a great collective attitude about working hard and having fun out on the field. We dealt with injuries and disappointing losses well. Although we did not meet some of our objectives, such as winning the Big East tournament, we had a lot of solid performances.”

Georgetown will face Hofstra on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Shaw Field.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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important aspect of Vardy’s game. Just a few years ago, he was playing for a fifth-division club, and now he’s lighting up the top league. One thing is for sure: If you haven’t added Vardy to your fantasy soccer squad yet, you are definitely missing out.

Before you go thinking that Jamie Vardy is Superman, you should know that he gets help from his teammate Riyad Mahrez, who is tied for second in the league in goals. Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has been superb in the net for the Foxes and would be a worthy addition to any fantasy team.

Leicester’s success is also highly impressive considering that the club changed managers during the summer. Nigel Pearson was sacked due to an increasingly strained relationship between the manager and the club owners. Italian Claudio Ranieri was brought in, and it appears to have made a world of a difference.

Ranieri has consistently emphasized a team-first approach and — most notably — has promised to buy his players pizza if they kept a clean sheet. The manager followed through with this promise after the Foxes defeated Crystal Palace 1-0.

Despite Leicester’s unexpected success, Ranieri continues to be modest and refuses to discuss the possibility of the Foxes qualifying for Champions League. His approach appears to be working. Perhaps Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho could take note?

It is also interesting to note that Leicester City is the most diverse team in the Premier League, boasting 17 different nationalities. This can often cause a problem due to language barriers, but it has not appeared to affect the Foxes in any negative way.

Leicester’s results have not always been pretty.

Naysayers would point out that the only top team the Foxes have played so far has been Arsenal, and that ended in a 5-2 defeat. However, the team continues to battle back and turn games around, and the current standings say a great deal. One thing is for sure: The Foxes have proven themselves to be worthy of a spot in the Premier League.

All the leagues go on an international break for the next two weeks, so expect soccer life to be a little dull. But, when the leagues do resume, I suggest checking out the following games.

Manchester City takes on Liverpool on Nov. 21. It seems silly of me to even consider the possibility that this game could end in anything other than a win for City, but a girl can dream. Liverpool has played much better under Jürgen Klopp and the thrilling win against Chelsea has started to rebuild the team’s confidence. I will go out on a limb here and predict that this game will end in a tie.

El Clásico also takes place Nov. 21. It goes without saying that if there is any soccer game worth watching, it is the FC Barcelona-Real Madrid derby. This game likely will not be as exciting as previous ones because Barça star Lionel Messi is still injured, but Luis Suárez and Neymar have proved to be more than capable of carrying the team in his absence. Real Madrid and Barcelona are currently level on points. I would expect this game to be intensely physical, as usual, and to end in a tie.

Vanessa Craige is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. The Beautiful Game appears every other Tuesday.

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earned an important road victory in the sixth minute of overtime.

Senior defender Keegan Rosenberry made the difference that night with a 96th-minute goal.

“Xavier is a team that is built for postseason success, so it is going to be a tough one. It is always hard to beat a good team twice,” Wiese said.

Xavier has had a great deal of success this season, with its defense standing out. Senior goalkeeper Dallas Jaye won Big East Goalkeeper of the Year honors while sophomore defender Corey Brown made the All-Big East First Team.

“They are very organized, a very hard-working team. They are good on set pieces. They’ve got some pieces that can transition really

well against you,” Wiese said.

Georgetown and Xavier have a history of close competition. In 2014, both teams made it to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. More recently, Georgetown had a regular season for the record books, while Xavier took down then-undefeated No. 1 Creighton (16-2, 7-2 Big East) on the road. In fact, the only two teams the Bluejays lost to in 2015 were the Musketeers and the Hoyas.

The two teams look similar on the stat sheet as well. They are relatively even in goals scored — 31 for Georgetown and 29 for Xavier — and goals allowed — 14 for Georgetown and 16 for Xavier. In other categories, such as shots per game or number of yellow and red cards received, the Hoyas have the edge.

at,” Wiese said.

The Hoyas managed these feats by employing just about every weapon in their arsenal over the course of the season.

The defense recorded seven shutouts, including six straight in conference play. The offense scored multiple goals in nine different matches, with 12 players scoring or recording an assist this season.

All that past success gives Georgetown plenty of reason to be confident entering Thursday’s semifinal. But with a strong Xavier team looming, the players are careful not to overlook any opponent.

“We’ve got to keep our head on straight and just try and win these next couple games,” Roseberry said last Thursday after the win over Creighton.

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11 kills.

“She’s going to get her kills,” Williams said. “We knew that she was going to get her kills. We were just trying to minimize anyone else going off on us. She’s not going to win a match by herself.”

Despite the negative results, both players and coaches felt there were positives to bring back to the Hilltop. Junior outside hitter Ashlie Williams, who led Georgetown with 10 kills against Marquette, focused on the quality of the performance against Marquette.

“I thought we played really well against Marquette. We definitely showed ourselves that we can play against a team that’s going to finish at the top of the conference,” Ashlie Williams said.

Arlisa Williams also had praise for the junior outside hitter.

“She just hit extremely well for us offensively,” Arlisa Williams said. “She was great, and she scored a lot of points there.

Blocking-wise, we recruited Ashlie because of her blocking ability, and she left it out there this weekend. She’s leading, she’s vocal and she’s playing with energy. It’s great to see.”

Next up for the Hoyas are two straight weekends at home. They host Butler this Friday, Nov. 13, and then Xavier on Sunday, Nov. 15. Then, they face Creighton in their televised season finale Nov. 20. All three matches will be played at McDonough Arena.

“Butler is right neck-and-neck

with us in the conference, so I think it’ll be a really good game for us to show that we can earn our spot in the conference,” Ashlie Williams said. “That’s something that I’ve been really trying to push, we don’t just want to walk away with all these losses, we want to earn our spot.”

Arlisa Williams is focused on the prospect of the future. She

said the team will miss current senior outside hitter Lauren Saar, but is excited about the eight freshmen on the team that have already shown promise for future seasons.

Saar is close to accruing 1,000 career digs at Georgetown, an impressive milestone, and looks set to break the mark this weekend.

Fellow veteran Ashlie Williams

was full of praise for Saar.

“The fact that she’s that close, and she was out one season and missed half of this season is pretty impactful,” Ashlie Williams said.

“She’s amazing on the court, and we really miss her when she’s not there. She’s a huge impact, both vocally and just playing on the court. I’m definitely excited to help her get there.”

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Senior outside hitter Lauren Saar has recorded 992 digs over the course of her career at Georgetown and approaches the 1,000-digs milestone. Saar has also tallied 778 career kills.

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“It’s on our field. That’s obviously a big help for us,” Wiese said. “Hopefully we can … take advantage of the home game we earned from the regular season.”

Georgetown took home the regular-season conference championship, becoming the thirdever team to finish a perfect Big East schedule in its modern format and the second ever to go 9-0. The team is still in the midst of an 11-game winning streak and 14-game unbeaten streak.

“We just have to make sure we’re on our game to neutralize the things that they’re good at.

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As the team started play in the second half, the momentum turned in Providence’s favor. Providence rocketed 12 shots on goal in the second half, and senior forward Catherine Zimmerman — an All-Big East First team selection — recorded eight of those shots, including the Friars’ lone goal. Almost midway through the half, Zimmerman took a shot from about 35 yards out, which Newins saved.

However, Zimmerman took a similar shot minutes later that led to a goal, giving the Friars the lead in the 64th minute.

From that point on, the Hoyas increased their attack as they searched for the tying goal with their Big East tournament hopes on the line.

“Our strategy in the final minutes was to get the ball into the most dangerous areas of the field. The level of urgency was embraced by the whole team,” senior forward Crystal Thomas said.

In the 84th minute, Georgetown’s attack broke through when Thomas beamed the ball past Providence’s goalkeeper from outside the corner of the box.

“When we won the ball my first thought was to get the ball toward their goal. Seeing my shot bend into the net was exhilarating, and experiencing our group celebration after the goal was a special moment for the team,” Thomas said.

Following Thomas’ goal, regulation ended in a 1-1 draw, and the match headed into overtime.

The two overtime periods did not see many dangerous opportunities from either side. Georgetown’s only shot came from sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz in the first overtime period.

Providence took a total of six shots in overtime, but Newins did not have to make any saves.

After 110 minutes of play, the two sides headed into a penalty shootout.

Providence delivered on their first three penalty kicks, but Georgetown failed to execute. Corboz scored Georgetown’s first penalty, but Georgetown’s next two penalty-takers — graduate student

forwards Melissa Downey and Audra Ayotte — had their shots saved.

Newins made a save on Providence’s fourth shot to keep Georgetown alive.

Junior forward Grace Damaska then stepped up and found the back of the net, but Providence subsequently clinched the shootout with a successful penalty.

Georgetown fell to Providence by a final score of 1-1, losing 4-2 on penalties.

Georgetown headed home with no

guaranteed spot in the NCAA tournament, hoping to get an at-large bid in Monday’s NCAA tournament selection show. According to Thomas, the Hoyas were not prepared to end their season after Friday’s semifinal loss.

“Overall, I hope that our team gets one more chance to prove ourselves on the field,” Thomas said. “I am so thankful for this team and know what we are capable of. We are not ready to let this season go.”

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Graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins saved one penalty kick during the shootout that decided the Big East tournament semifinal match.

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Men’s Soccer Georgetown (13-2-2, 9-0-0) vs. Xavier (12-5-1, 5-3-1) Thursday, 2 p.m.

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happen,” graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins said.

The Georgetown offense took nine shots As it headed to Omaha, Neb., last week, the in the first half, as opposed to a mere one Georgetown women’s soccer team (11-5-3, 6-1- shot from Providence. Georgetown’s shots 2 Big East) had dreams of finally winning the were scattered around the goal, with many Big East tournament and securing its spot in just inches away from reaching the net. the 2015 NCAA tourna“We were very unforment. The Hoyas’ hopes tunate that we didn’t were dashed when they score at least three faced off against the goals in the first half.

Providence Friars (13-8-1, We hit some crossbars 5-4-0 Big East) in the Big and some posts,” Head East tournament semiCoach Dave Nolan said. finals Friday night in a The Hoyas could not match that ultimately capitalize on those opcame down to penalty portunities but were EMMA NEWINS Graduate Student Goal Keeper kicks. still confident that they The Blue and Gray could win the game left for home Friday night after losing the with the momentum they had earned in penalty shootout 4-2 following 110 minutes the first half. of play that ended in a 1-1 draw. The Hoyas “We felt pretty good about ourselves at dominated the first half offensively. halftime because we had played so well,” “It’s always tough when a game comes See FRIARS, A9 down to penalties because anything can

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“It’s always tough when a game comes down to penalties.”

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Senior defender Keegan Rosenberry has assisted five goals for Georgetown this season. His most recent assist set up the game-winning goal in the Hoyas’ 2-1 win over Big East rival Creighton.

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Senior forward Crystal Thomas scored the goal to tie the game in the Hoyas’ Big East tournament semifinal matchup with the Providence Friars.

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knockout games to win the Big East tournament?’ So it will be a lot of fun to see if we can try,” Wiese said.

In fact, the last three matches between the two teams have ended 1-0 score, and two of the three have required an overtime. Most recently, at the beginning of October, the Hoyas

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After winning the Big East regular season title last Thursday in a 2-1 win over Creighton, the No. 6 Georgetown men’s soccer team (13-2-2, 9-0-0 Big East) will take on No. 25 Xavier (12-5-1, 5-3-1 Big East) at home in the semifinals of the Big East tournament.

The two teams met in the

semifinals of the 2014 tournament as well. In that match, Xavier stymied the Georgetown attack and earned a 1-0 win before going on to lose in the championship game. Georgetown has never won the conference tournament under Head Coach Brian Wiese.

“This is a puzzle that we haven’t solved for the program, which is, ‘Can we win these

The Georgetown volleyball team (10-18, 4-11 Big East) finished the away portion of its season this weekend with a pair of losses. The Hoyas travelled to Chicago and Milwaukee to face

DePaul (15-12, 3-11 Big East) and Marquette (19-8, 10-4 Big East) and lost in straight sets in both matches.

On Friday, DePaul swept Georgetown in three sets. The Hoyas beat the Blue Demons in their meeting earlier this season in a tight five-set battle.

“We didn’t pass well this match; we weren’t in-system,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “They served tougher, and we didn’t get in-system and get our hitters going. That was tough for us.”

After that loss, Georgetown faced Marquette at the Golden Eagles’

Al McGuire Center. The Eagles triumphed in straight sets, but the match was tightly contested throughout. Redshirt freshman outside hitter Taylor Louis, who has been dominant for the Golden Eagles this season, led her team with See DEPAUL, A9

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osta. Coutinho. Kane. Rooney. These are the names that come to mind when thinking about the top players in the Premier League in terms of the impact they have on their teams.

One definitely would not expect to hear the names Vardy, Mahrez, Morgan and Schmeichel. And yet, this ragtag group of players has been critical to the success of Leicester City’s season so far.

Few would have expected this scrappy team to be doing so well — so well, in fact, that the Foxes are currently sitting in third place and have only lost one game. Even after last season, when Leicester defied the usual curse of almost immediate relegation for recently promoted teams, nobody thought the Foxes would actually do well.

Brilliant striker Jamie Vardy drives a lot of Leicester City’s success. Vardy currently leads the league in goals scored with 12 so far. He also recently set a single-season record by scoring in nine consecutive games. Vardy trails only Dutch great Ruud van Nistelrooy for the all-time record by one game — van Nistelrooy scored in 10 straight games over the course of two seasons. That isn’t even the most See CRAIGE, A9

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Junior middle blocker Ashlie Williams, far right, has recorded 201 kills and 46 blocks this season. Williams ranks second on the team in blocks and fourth in kills. Senior outside hitter Lauren Saar, far left, has 131 kills and 163 blocks so far in the 2015 season.

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