The Hoya: March 20, 2015

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EDITORIAL Administrators must recognize the importance of #GUProgramAsst.

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The Georgetown University Student Association Campus Plan Subcommittee and the current and incoming GUSA administration released a website and online petition calling for greater representation of student priorities in the upcoming deliberations of the 2018 Campus Plan on Wednesday night.

The petition, entitled “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again,” is comprised of three demands. First, that the university does not require a greater number of students to live in on-campus housing than was mandated by the 2010 Campus Plan. Second, that the university prioritize renovations and maintenance of existing buildings over the construction of new ones. The third and final point calls for greater student representation on the Georgetown Community Partnership Steering Committee. As of press time, the petition had amassed 500 signatures.

A conceptual draft of the 2018 Campus Plan will be drawn up this summer, and the final draft will be submitted to the university’s board of directors in summer 2017. The

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GUSA sets demands related to the upcoming Campus Plan

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THE DANCE CONTINUES Men’s basketball beat EWU to advance to the NCAA third round.

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Legacy Status Tips Admission Scales

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“Let’s Not Get Screwed Again” follows in the footsteps of advocacy efforts like September 2013’s “One Georgetown, One Campus.”

TROMIKA BOWS OUT

Housing Process Amended

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to 90 percent of legacy students were accepted without consideration of legacy status.

Amid recent challenges to affir“The quality of credentials [of mative action in Texas, California legacy students] is very close to the and Michigan, the common prac- average,” Deacon said. tice of legacy preference, which According to Deacon, Georgeadvantages town’s legacy the children “Legacy consideration is preference of alumni policy origiprovided favorably to those during the nated in its university ad- who have a long-established current form missions pro- track record of support.” in the 1970s cess, has also as a means of been called continuing CHARLES DEACON into question, family tradiDean of Undergraduate Admissions prompting detion, but has bate over its benefits and potential since evolved to encourage alumni concerns. giving as well as to bring a positive Georgetown’s admissions office environment to the Georgetown does consider legacy preference: In community. the Class of 2018, the acceptance Of the 3,381 students accepted rate for legacy students was 36 in the Class of 2018, 317 students, percent, compared to the overall or 9 percent of acceptances, were acceptance rate of 16.6 percent. legacies. While the overall yield Legacies compose 7.6 percent of rate was 47 percent, 200 of the the Class of 2018. accepted legacies enrolled in the Dean of Undergraduate Admis- Class of 2018, a yield rate of 63 persions Charles Deacon said that the cent — 16 points higher. legacy preference policy does not Verbal SAT test scores of legacy give a significant weight to the apSee LEGACY, A6 plicant, estimating that about 80

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Bill of Rights Targets Student Debt Deirdre Collins

The Office of Residential Living altered the housing selection process for students studying abroad this fall, shifting housing applications six months forward to March and giving students the option to have semester-long unfilled vacancies in housing groups.

“Ultimately we wanted to lay out spring housing options for fall study abroad students,” Executive Director for Residential Services Patrick Killilee wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Not all students who go abroad will be able to get the exact housing they desire, but we hope to be transparent in our processes and provide students housing they are comfortable with.”

Affected students were informed of the changes in an email sent Tuesday by Killilee and Assistant Director for Assignments Krista Haxton.

The changes are the latest installment in a yearlong series of back-and-forth between the Office of Residential Living and students pushing for See SELECTION, A6

FEATURED NEWS Alatis Dies at 88

The former dean was integral to the success of the School of Languages and Linguistics.

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President Barack Obama signed the Student Aid Bill of Rights on March 10, proposing 19 executive actions to provide student loan borrowers with additional rights and resources to receive and pay off student aid.

The four articles of the bill of rights pledge to give every student the rights to quality and affordable education, a reasonable and affordable payment plan, a new customer service system and reliable information on the nation’s colleges and universities. More than 40 million Americans currently have some level of student loan debt.

“I believe that America is not a place where higher education is a

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President Barack Obama, pictured at December’s College Opportunity Day of Action, signed the Student Aid Bill of Rights on March 10.

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The social media campaign aims to ease centers’ programming burden.

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The men’s lacrosse team defeated No. 14 Loyola for the first time since 2007.

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Friday, March 20, 2015

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With the noted inadequacy of the funding and scope of our sexual health resources, students have commenced a campaign to hire a program assistant for Health Education Services and the Women’s Center. While the movement, illustrated through a hashtag, has gained traction among the student body, thus far it has been met with a less than enthusiastic response from the university.

Several students posted the hashtag #GUProgramAsst during the week before spring break, starting March 2.

Each tweet addressed Provost Robert M. Groves, citing the need for more sexual health programming and better care for survivors on campus.

The initial appeal of the grass-roots social media campaign put forth: “Robert Groves and Georgetown University: We need a joint Health Ed/Women’s Center program assistant to make sure our confidential advocates have time to meet with students who need their help! #GUProgramAssistant.”

Last semester, the administration’s discussions about consolidating the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, the LGBTQ Center and the Women’s Center prompted student and faculty outcries — and for good reason. Centers such as these are an integral resource for students who seek them out and deserve all the funding they require to remain relevant and able to specialize.

Funding allocation for this proposed position could not only serve as a show of good faith, but also reassure the concerned student body.

This campaign includes several student government representatives and sexual assault peer educators, with ad-

ditional organization from GUSA Secretary of Student Safety and Health, Nora West (SFS ’15), among others. Current GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ‘15), GUSA Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ‘15), GUSA President-elect Joe Luther (COL ‘16) all participated, and the official Twitter accounts of H*yas for Choice and the Georgetown chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon lent to the voices of concerned student organizations.

Such an outpouring of support from all walks of student life on campus is reassuring, and reminds us that health and well-being are priorities for all involved.

However, when contacted regarding his response to the #GUProgramAsst campaign, Groves referred the Hoya reporter working on the story to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson. Responding by email, he evaded most questions, and, falling short of a satisfactory answer, only referred broadly to the administration’s past work to better health services on campus. For administrators, who should prioritize students above all else, Olson’s disregard is alarming.

Despite budgetary difficulties, as Georgetown’s sexual health resources continue to be found lacking, it is unacceptable for administrators not to prioritize efforts at improvement. The creation of this position should be considered a necessity, not a luxury.

Considering both the desires of the students and professors, along with the avowed stance of the university, this lack of action and communication is disappointing. If the administration is as serious about addressing issues of sexual health as it professes to be, it must acknowledge that this position is crucial to student well-being.

Barasketball — President Obama’s March Madness bracket has Georgetown going all the way to round of 16, only to fall to No. 1 Seed Duke. Last time the president attended a Hoya game in January 2010, Georgetown beat Duke, 89-77.

Singles Rejoice — Actor and Georgetown alumnus Bradley Cooper (COL ’97) and model Suki Waterhouse broke up on Thursday after two years together.

The Changing Rates — Graduation rates at D.C. public schools rose by two points to 58 percent last year.

Bill Jumps the Gun — Though Hillary Clinton remains quiet on her plans for the upcoming 2016 presidential election, a political action committee of Clinton’s supporters has published BillForFirstLady2016.com.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Janet Zhu

The Road to Aid Reform Most students are currently too focused on their March Madness brackets to think about life after college. Nevertheless, while we’ve been fretting over whom to send to the Final Four, the government has made some progress for recent graduates.

Last week, President Barack Obama announced his plan for a “Student Aid Bill of Rights,” a series of proposals aimed at addressing problems that arise in the process of receiving and repaying student loans.

Specifically, the proposal advocates for the creation of a centralized complaint system to better track responsible lenders, improve communication between loan holders and servicers and introduce changes to bankruptcy rules for student loan debt.

These proposals certainly do not eliminate many of the major issues that accompany taking out student loans, and, most glaringly, they do not address the skyrocketing cost of tuition at American universities. However, it would be unwise for students to dismiss these proposals when their implementation could lead to significant progress.

Given time, the new plan’s changes to the loan process could rid the system of lenders that only seek to prey on students seeking higher education.

If implemented in a way that allows students to have more transparent interaction with the institutions that loan

them money, these proposals could significantly alter the way in which students go about choosing certain loan servicers and serve to take more predatory lenders out of the market. Obama similarly emphasized his belief that all Americans should have a chance to get a degree — something with which most Americans would certainly agree, but disagree on how to achieve.

In this country, college attendance is rightfully held up as a way to advance, with a clear positive correlation between a degree and a stable economic situation later on in life. However, student loan debt often hinders students’ ability to feel financially sound and explore opportunities available to them while at school.

Critics of certain student loan reforms argue that growing programs that serve as government subsidies for students to attend college only pass the cost of college onto taxpayers.

A recent Forbes column criticized Obama’s proposals, saying that the policies “suggest that somebody unnamed should subsidize college so that it is affordable for all.”

But regardless of the structure of these programs, it seems these proposals aim not to expand government reach into the student loan process, but to weed out some of the worst practices, a proposal that most Americans and all college students should support.

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Be sure to check Chatter, The Hoya’s online opinion section, throughout the week for additional opinion pieces.

Duy Mai (SFS ’18) examines whether or not America is the greatest country in the world: Indeed, it appears that there is no definitive evidence to support the statement that America is “the greatest country in the world.”...

Nonetheless, for all the debate on empirical data and moral impetus, the notion of assigning one country supreme greatness is misleading at least and ignorant at best. “The greatest country” is a title legitimized only by subjectivity and perception. It is a judgment call based on personal ideals and beliefs, and thus the position can be substantiated by neither mere factual claims nor numbers and statistics.”

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Anderson de Andrade (COL ’17) reveals what it’s truly like being a Georgetown student athlete: My cleats are not an indicator of my intelligence. The shin guards in my bag do not stop me from understanding a lecture. The sweats I wear do not lower my IQ. Being a student athlete does not make me a dumb jock. Nevertheless, when I wear my navy Nike running shoes to class that is how I am perceived...Being on a sports team at Georgetown is like going to school and balancing a full-time job. We must meet the demands of both our professors and our coaches, while constantly striving to better ourselves and prove our disbelievers wrong. On top of all this, we are trying to find internships, make friends and enjoy the few years we have in college. This is a lot for any 20-something year old to handle.”

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Resources to Live Safer Earlier this week, Vice President for Institutional Equality and Diversity Rosemary Kilkenny announced the addition of a sexual assault resources tab on the university’s LiveSafe app.

The resources, based on those found at sexualassault.georgetown.edu, include summaries of Title IX, reporting options and information on the rights of victims and the accused as they pertain to Georgetown policy and D.C. law.

For survivors of sexual assault, time is

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of the essence, and having access to university, local and national resources at their fingertips can provide a measure of assurance in the aftermath of an assault.

As individuals increasingly rely on smartphones in all aspects of their lives, it is refreshing to see the university’s own technology following suit.

We applaud this addition to the application and encourage students, if they have not already, to download the app.

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USA and various student organizations are pushing for a large and diverse set of objectives that have one thing in common — all would increase costs. There’s no such thing as a free lunch; demands need to be contextualized and responsibly balanced before students agree to write a blank check of support.

Current proposals brought up recently include expanding the languages offered, hiring additional mental health support staff, and instituting a diversity requirement.

All of these things can be objectively seen as good.

Additionally, problems that students encounter on a daily basis demand our attention and the university’s funds. Anyone who has experienced mold, an unwelcome creature in their living space or the intermittent connection of SaxaNet understands that costly upgrades are needed to make campus more comfortable.

While students demand expensive initiatives and improvements, they simultaneously demand that the school limit its financial flexibility. The divestment movement would jeopardize the future growth of the already small endowment by limiting the kinds of investments the university can make, forcing them to possibly choose less rewarding options.

Similarly, the successful “One Georgetown, One Campus” campaign that took place in the fall of 2013 limited the university’s options for expansion before all of them could even fully be considered. This was despite the fact that satellite dorm options had the potential to lower students’ living expenses and the university’s construction costs — no trivial concern when trying to find affordable housing options in one of the most expensive metropolitan regions of America. Our student body is making significant demands of an institution while tying its hands, placing the administration in an impossible position.

Students have ignored an important question over the course of these conversations about what they want and in what manner: Who is going to pay?

Georgetown does not have an infinite amount of funding. Funding comes from federal research grants, the endowment and

There’s no such thing as a free lunch; demands need to be contextualized and responsibly balanced before students agree to write a blank check of support. tuition. With the burgeoning national debt and necessary federal budget cuts attempting to reign in the deficit, research grants have become increasingly limited. Our endowment is another limitation as it already pales in comparison to similar top research universities. According to the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Georgetown’s endowment is less than one-fifth of the size of Notre Dame’s and ranks 66th nationally.

This leaves tuition as the primary source of additional funding. There is no way around the fact that current student proposals, if implemented, would lead to higher tuition.

Increasing tuition further strains those on financial aid and those taking out massive loans to make attendance here possible. It also would hamper socioeconomic diversity.

Already, less than half of all students receive any sort of financial aid. Ensuring Georgetown is accessible to all admitted applicants is a top priority of the university. It is committed to need-blind admissions and is one of only 62 universities meeting the full amount of demonstrated need of each student. Increasing tuition threatens this status and therefore our ability to attract the best and brightest, regardless of their ability to pay.

Obviously, despite the university’s best efforts, meeting full demonstrated need does not exempt Georgetown students from taking out massive amounts of loans. The average debt of a graduating senior in 2013 was over $24,000. Tuition hikes cause this already astronomical number to increase annually.

Every time we sign on to a petition or fill out a survey expressing support for a new center, initiative, or program — no matter its individual merits — we implicitly consent to even higher tuition. We threaten socioeconomic diversity as Georgetown becomes less and less affordable. Instead, we should be demanding our student leaders recognize the financial side of their proposals and actively address them rather than ignoring the costs or leaving that aspect up to the administration.

Balancing the current needs against the long-term consequences and financial health of the university is no easy task and lacks a catchy slogan to rally behind, but is a necessary component of responsible governance.

Mallory Carr is a senior in the College.

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o you not see? Can you not see this small child? Are your eyes too small?”

This stranger’s words hit me like the bus I just walked onto. Like a deer in headlights, I just stood there.

Shocked and unsure of what to call this interaction, I just stood there.

The incident happened shortly after President David Boren at the University of Oklahoma issued his official statement condemning the school’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon for its reprehensible expression of racism.

At such coincidental timing, I reflected on how real it was for me and how the shaky state of race relations in America was now a relevant part of my life too. I recall President Boren’s remarks, “Real Sooners are not racist. Real Sooners are not bigots. … Real Sooners treat all people with respect. … There must be zero tolerance for racism everywhere in our nation.”

That day on the bus, one inconsiderate stranger walked into my life and changed me. I didn’t just agree with President Boren’s words, I was now someone who felt impassioned by them.

Growing up in suburban and diverse New Jersey in the 1990s and 2000s, I never felt the sting of racism and I naively thought I would never have to. When I heard that stranger ask me if my eyes were too small I didn’t know what to call it. Was it racism? Is that what racism feels like? As an Asian-American, I was comfortable with jokes about Asians mispronouncing the letter “L” and jokes about the size of our eyes.

However, this was the first time I

Growing up in suburban and diverse New Jersey, I didn’t know what to call it when I heard that stranger ask me if my eyes were too small. had heard someone use one of these quips to deliberately hurt me.

After the initial shock, I looked into the eyes of the elderly woman in front of me hoping for an expression of commiseration that wasn’t there. I wanted answers to my questions. I tried to rationalize. Maybe I was imagining it. Maybe I didn’t know this stranger’s life. Maybe I was being selfish or unfair. Regardless, I knew I would look back on this moment and feel uneasy about

VIEWPOINT • Hinojos

A Casa Latina We Can Call Home

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hile the advocacy for a Casa Latina may seem recent, the need and support for a dedicated space for the Latino community has been growing for decades. The Latino community on campus, especially for self-identified U.S. Latinos, has come together and requested a safe space on the Hilltop not only to build a strong community of Latinos and allies on campus, but also to support Latino students in their own process of identity formation.

Georgetown treats the community of color on campus as one entity, lumped together in one shared, “multicultural” space. While a multicultural space is valuable, not all minorities are the same.

We may share the broader experience of being minority students on the Hilltop, but each community has its own needs.There are many narratives and experiences within the growing community of color that are not given the opportunity to be adequately expressed on campus. The campaign for Casa Latin@ proves that the time is overdue for this to change.

The personal stories that characterize the U.S. Latino experience at Georgetown, reveal a strong allegiance to Latina heritage and a yearning for community, especially upon arriving to campus. Many U.S. Latino Hoyas are first-generation college students, children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, and often, but not always, from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and disadvantaged communities. In my experience, I have also found that I am not alone in feeling a deep guilt for leaving home and not being able to support my family by being in closer proximity.

Upon my arrival at Georgetown, I was immediately struck not only by how few students on campus identified as Latino or shared a similar narrative to myself, but also by how few faculty and staff members I felt I could relate to and seek mentorship from. I had a difficult time finding a community that could support me in growing and developing my Latina identity because there was no locus in which to find them; it still doesn’t exist.

Because I didn’t fit the classic Georgetown narrative, I felt that I didn’t belong and wouldn’t be able to be as successful on the Hilltop. I thought I had to constantly justify my acceptance and enrollment because my story was different.

When I couldn’t find a community that was able to understand my experience and background, I felt like a very critical piece of my identity was rejected by the very place that has been my home and the core of my personal development the past four years.

Georgetown has been able to accept my identity as a student, as a leader, as an eager SFS-er, as a dancer, but not as a first-generation college student and Latina from Los Angeles. And why? The answer I received consistently boiled down to something along the lines of “It is too inconvenient to be inclusive of all identities.” With these factors against me, how was I supposed to be successful in my academic efforts?

My time as resident director of the Black House has been transformative and empowering; it has truly been an honor. The Black House has continued to be respected and loved on campus, but my time in the position has illuminated to me that the space is not large enough for Georgetown’s entire community of color. Both the black and the Latino community deserve their own space to grow and learn.

The goal of the Casa Latina proposal is to permanently establish a dedicated space on campus for selfidentified Latino Hoyas and allies directly adjacent to the Black House in order to attain a greater depth in the relationships between communities of color on campus, and to foster crucial black-and-brown unity and collaboration.

Here, the reservation often reflects something along the lines of: “If the Latinos get a house, then wouldn’t other communities start to advocate for one as well?” The answer is one I cannot give. I defer to each community to make this decision based on its own experiences. I can speak only to my own experience at Georgetown, and I know that I could have achieved greater success in my academic career, felt assured in my place at Georgetown, and been encouraged by a stronger support system if I had a Casa Latina starting my freshman year.

While this may appear like self-segregation with respect to culture, it’s not. The U.S. Latino experience is closely linked to culture because of the heritage component, but it’s the narrative, the identity and the experience that needs a space. We are not just looking for a space to celebrate Latino culture and tradition.

The Black House and the Casa Latina for Hoyas would work together to create a stronger locus for the community of color. It would be a space that is welcoming and accessible to any Hoya seeking community, because the goal of this space is simple: inclusion.

Founding a Casa Latina is simply a matter of appropriately expanding a safe space proportional to the size and diversity of the community of color on the Hilltop.

Georgetown has been able to accept my identity as a student and leader but not as a first-generation college student and Latina from Los Angeles.

Nancy Hinojos is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

it for the rest of my life.

A few months ago, I read an article in The New York Times by Lawrence Otis Graham titled “I Taught My Black Kids That Their Elite Upbringing Would Protect Them From Discrimination. I Was Wrong.” Definitely worth the read, Graham wrote about the day one of his children was called a nigger. This article inspired more questions. What would my parents think? Did they ever experience racism when they emigrated from

the Philippines in the 1980s? Was this ever something they worried about for me?

For the first 20 years of my life, I had been privileged to live without knowing the feeling I now had in the pit of my stomach. Stifling tears en route to Boston, I asked my older sister and father for guidance. As my sister has been dating her AfricanAmerican boyfriend for five years, I thought she would have the best insight. Debating asking my mother, I knew it would be better to ask my calmer, more level-headed father.

They confirmed my suspicions. This wasn’t any other normal insult; it was tainted with ignorance and hate. But what could I do about it?

I aspire to be a woman who always stands up for herself. I remember thinking, “I’ve been brave in standing up for myself before. I have to do it again.”

But I couldn’t because demanding an apology from or arguing with her would have been futile. And for a couple of seconds, I felt the powerlessness that has consumed some people’s entire lives.

Later, as I headed to Boston College and the doors on my red line T car closed, an Asian mother told her son, no older than three, to take the last free seat. I don’t know this boy and I will never see him again, but I hope and pray that when he’s old enough to understand the world around him, he won’t see the same one I see now.

Erika Lim is a junior in the McDonough School of Business.

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The Dynamic Face of Catholic Discipline

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atholic school. The words evoke creation of the student-centered univera stern image: punishment met- sity. In this new scheme, which gained ed out at a ruler’s edge, crisp and currency over the 100 years between abrupt as a cassock’s collar. At Catholic Healy’s presidency and the end of the school, we might believe that trouble 1960s, students became assets rather than adversaries to administrators. Mircosts because discipline hurts.

In the early 19th century, discipline roring this and penal transformation at Georgetown certainly hurt. The more broadly, Georgetown began to school adopted a model of nearly total shed its image as a reform school.

But this process did not occur withcontrol of student life; it left little outside of its disciplinary purview. And it out its hiccups. In the 1960s, students invented creative punishments to chas- felt out the contours of their expanding ten wrongdoers. power. In an oddly malcontent, misogyAs its most elementary penalty, the nistic and rambunctious mix, Georgecollege adopted detention, with a clas- town students staged a panty raid on sical twist. When students committed Georgetown Visitation (for which the minor offenses — petty theft, tardiness Pope admonished them), set fire to uniand the like — the Jesuits sent them to versity buildings and called in bomb the Jug. There, they memorized and threats. The immediate result was wrote out Latin verse. several arrests, but noFor more serious ofbody was whipped or fenses, the Jesuits imsent off hungry to the posed punishments of tower. In fact, students even greater severity managed to achieve acand whimsy. Short of tion on some of their expulsion, the Jesuits key grievances against would lock students the administration afaway in the towers ter the riot. above Old North, ocFor comparison’s Matthew Quallen casionally for days on sake, expulsions in the end. Once the students 1830s came for reasons were trapped there, as minor as reading the Jesuits hoisted up during mass. bread, water or whatThis newly lax disciever other meager food plinary norm can carthey felt the offender ry serious consequencdeserved. es. Take for example Others recognized what may be the most the Jesuits’ ingenuity serious case of student in this regard. And so misconduct in Georgethey sent their most town’s history. quarrelsome children David Shick died to the only Catholic school around — on February 22, 2000, after a drunken Georgetown — in the hopes that their altercation in the parking lot of Lauchildren might learn a lesson. Most of inger Library. Two groups of students these students came from the South, assaulted one another, and Shick was from families wealthy enough to own pushed, headfirst, to the ground. He slaves, whom the students had become died at the MedStar Georgetown Uniaccustomed to abusing, even sexually, versity Hospital that night. And several with nearly total impunity. It fell to the weeks later the coroner ruled the death Jesuits to control them. a homicide.

On occasion, creativity failed the What happened to the students reJesuits in the face of their impossible sponsible for Shick’s death? First the charges. They resorted to whippings university refused to tell. To much conand expulsion in these cases. On other sternation, the situation invoked the occasions, the Jesuits faced full-scale re- requirements of the Family Education bellion.

Rights Privacy Act, which in most other In 1833, a Jesuit prefect reported cases would shield the privacy of the stua student for boozing his way across dents but carves out an explicit exception Washington on a school-sponsored for records related to violent crime. But it trip. Thomas Mulledy and the Jesuits was ultimately revealed that the students responded by expelling the offender. involved were not expelled; each returned But his peers were outraged. They to Georgetown after causing the death grabbed rocks and whatever weapons of a student. The university, as its nod to were at hand and planned to attack healing the community, decided to begin the prefect. When more Jesuits inter- an annual celebration of the community ceded, the attack erupted into riot and — now debauched Georgetown Day. students rampaged across the campus.

Students, of course, have been and For weeks, dozens of students menaced are expelled for much less. the Jesuits, who responded by piling up It might seem capricious and arbidozens of expulsions. trary that some seemingly small inEventually, Georgetown’s hilltop fractions carry grave punishments at station in early America’s carceral ar- Georgetown today. It might also seem chipelago returned to normalcy. Disci- strange that a homicide gave rise to pline continued to play a central role in more blackouts than expulsions, or university life — especially as students, that Jesuits once whipped and conJesuits and administrators battled over fined students. the permissibility of alcohol and toAnd it is — contrary claims from the bacco on campus — but the Jesuits’ ap- administration aside — insofar as it arisproach softened as the collegiate model es from attitudes and structures that transformed. are little more than historical accidents.

Georgetown’s “second founder,” Patrick Healy, was the school’s most Matthew Quallen is a junior in the prominent early participant in a pro- School of Foreign Service. Hoya cess affecting the disciplinary structure Historian appears every other of universities until the present: the Friday.

The word “discipline” at a Catholic school has carried a number of meanings over the years.

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Alatis, 88, Fostered Linguistics Growth Alternative Breaks Adds 7 New Trips

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When James E. Alatis graduated from the University of West Virginia in 1948, Georgetown was still a year away from establishing its School of Languages and Linguistics. Today, there are 105 students majoring in linguistics at Georgetown, and countless more studying foreign languages.

In his 46 years at Georgetown, Alatis served as associate dean of the SLL from 1966 to 1973, Dean of the SLL from 1973 to 1994, then distinguished professor of linguistics and modern Greek until his retirement in 2012. Alatis died on Feb. 28 at the age of 88.

The university will be holding a memorial service for Alatis in late April.

In a campus-wide email, Provost Robert Groves shared a message from an anonymous colleague commending Alatis for his passion for language and endless kindness.

“Throughout a long and distinguished career at the university spanning 46 years, his passion and advocacy for greater prominence for and the benefits of language education were unwavering,” the email read. “Thousands in the academic community and generations of students are indebted to him for his generosity of spirit and innumerable kindnesses of one of Georgetown’s true giants.”

Alatis is credited with introducing various initiatives to Georgetown, such as the Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language program, the study of sociolinguistics and the departments of Arabic, Japanese and many other languages.

Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Senior Business Manager Richard Cronin (SFS ’80, LAW ’84) served as assistant dean of the SLL during Alatis’ deanship.

Cronin said that Alatis established a tradition for language learning at Georgetown that fostered support and collaboration.

He said that Alatis’ defining characteristic was a strong belief in the importance of learning a foreign language as part of a college education.

“He really thought that everybody should study languages. He would ask people if they studied a language in college, and if they said yes, he would say ‘You’re one of mine,’” Cronin said. “It was so much part of him to advance [language learning at Georgetown.] He was a booster and a cheerleader.”

Chair of the Linguistics Depart-

ment Heidi Hamilton (GRD ’83, GRD ’89) first worked for Alatis when she was a graduate student, and eventually became his colleague and friend.

Hamilton said that Alatis encouraged the merging of the study of languages and that of linguistics, which significantly improved the quality of language education at Georgetown.

“He saw [learning languages] and [linguistics] to be completely intertwined,” Hamilton said. “He thought that no linguist could be a linguist without knowing high levels of language, and no language student could understand their field without a solid underpinning of linguistics. That was his vision.”

In addition to his contributions to language teaching programs at Georgetown, Alatis was a founding father of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, the largest professional organization for teachers of English as a foreign language. He served as TESOL’s executive director from its founding in 1966 until 1987, when he became executive director emeritus.

In an obituary published on TESOL’s website, Alatis was quoted as having said that his goal for the organization was to promote cross-cultural communication and understanding.

“Our kind of teaching, which accepts other peoples’ languages and cultures as equally valid to ours, is essential to cross-cultural communication, mutual exchange, social justice and ultimately, it is devoutly to be wished, world peace,” Alatis once said.

At Georgetown, Alatis led many fundraising projects that resulted in the creation of new programs in the SLL. Under his leadership, the SLL received a half-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation in 1968 to launch its sociolinguistics program, making Georgetown one of the pioneering universities in the country to offer such a program.

Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics Emeritus Roger Shuy was close friends with Alatis, and joined the SLL in 1968, at Alatis’ convincing, to spearhead the sociolinguistics program.

In a tribute written by Shuy, he mentioned that Alatis never ceased to push for the expansion of the study of linguistics at Georgetown.

“The new major in sociolinguistics got off to an expectedly slow start with only eight students. …

[Georgetown] has since grown to [be] the premier place to study soci-

olinguistics, thanks to Jim’s amazing foresight,” Shuy wrote. “[Alatis] also thwarted efforts by the university to drop linguistics from the curriculum. Jim was always a staunch friend of linguistics.”

In addition to sociolinguistics, Alatis was responsible for raising funds to start and sustain various language programs, particularly of languages that were less frequently spoken.

Hector Campos, a professor of Spanish and linguistics, described Alatis as a defender of smaller language departments.

“He was a strong supporter of the small languages. For example, Portuguese had very few students at that time, and any dean would have killed the program immediately,” Campos said. “But he always pushed us and asked how we could reinforce it and make the program stronger. He was a defender of supporting [lesser spoken] languages.”

Professor of modern Greek Ismini Lamb attributed the success of the modern Greek program to Alatis, who originally introduced the program in 1966.

“He brought Modern Greek, a less commonly taught language, to Georgetown in 1966. Now, the modern Greek program is the oldest, continuously running program in North America and it is thanks to Dr. Alatis.”

After the SLL was absorbed into the College in 1995 and its faculty formed the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Alatis remained as a professor of modern Greek, and often demonstrated his deep belief in the inseparability of language learning and cultural immersion in his classes.

When he first arrived at Georgetown, Campos audited Alatis’ modern Greek class.

“He would always teach performing dance for the students, even though he was old. He had to be 70-something at that point, but he would still dance for the students and show them Greek dance,” Campos said. “And at the end of the term, he would invite all the students in the program to a Greek restaurant, where everyone had to dance. He would be the first one to go with his wife and start dancing.”

According to Lamb, Alatis persisted with teaching Greek despite his many commitments and frequent business trips, which indicated his passion for language teaching.

“He travelled far and wide on long, long trips. Some of the [flights] would be overnight, and

he would come straight here from the airport, ready to teach his Greek class,” Lamb said. “I would say ‘I can teach it for you, you had the long flight and fundraising [to do].’ He said, ‘Oh no. I wouldn’t miss teaching Greek for the world, I would pay to teach Greek!’ … His joy of teaching Greek was contagious.”

Beyond his significant contributions to the language and linguistics programs at Georgetown, Alatis is remembered by many members of the community for being a supportive and caring mentor.

University professor Deborah Tannen, who joined the linguistics department in 1979, is one of the many faculty members who was hired under Alatis’ leadership.

Tannen said that Alatis was always hugely supportive of faculty members in pursuing their research efforts, particularly with his leadership over the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. On a personal level, Tannen remembered Alatis’ genuine care for the well-being of his friends and colleagues.

“He was always very interested in other people. It might be part of his Greek background,” Tannen said. “He always approached people [and] in particular was interested in what was happening to people’s personal lives. So when you were having troubles, he would always offer to help.”

Hamilton described that above all, Alatis’ legacy was in sharing his love for languages with the Georgetown community.

“He’s an overly generous person, intensely and fiercely loyal to Georgetown and the teaching of languages,” Hamilton said. “He was someone with such personality, a larger-than-life person who just exuded enthusiasm for language students and faculty.”

Campos, who was also hired

by Alatis, recounted that Alatis’ warmth was evident even from the first time the two met.

“When I came for my interview [to be a professor], he was the dean. … At the very end of the interview, [I told him] I knew a little Greek. He asked me what I knew in Greek … and I recited a poem. Tears started coming out from his eyes. He said, ‘I heard that from my grandmother.’ So when the chair of the department comes to get me [after the interview], here’s the dean that everyone was afraid of, and he was giving me a hug,” Campos said.

PATRICJA OKUNIEWSKA Hoya Staff Writer

Over 325 students and staff members travelled around the country last week on service and immersion trips as part of the Alternative Breaks Program, which added seven new trips this year, including the first international group to Jamaica.

Center for Social Justice Associate Director Ray Shiu noted the importance of the programs as a whole in allowing students to experience different cultures as well as contribute to communities around the world.

“Through immersion into issues and in solidarity with community partners, [the Alternative Breaks Program] strives to build lasting commitments to social justice,” Shiu wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “The program connects with communities through service, immersion and reflection.”

The program, which started in 1975 with a spring break trip to Appalachia, had 25 trips with more than 275 participants and 50 leaders in its 40th year. The seven new trips focused on urban agriculture, rural and urban health care, D.C.’s immigrant population, LGBTQ youth homelessness, and mental health, all in addition to the international expansion to Jamaica.

The Jamaica trip, which was entitled Magis: Jamaica and was a collaboration between the CSJ and the Office of Campus Ministry. explored economic inequalities at a global level. Twelve students, two staff advisers and student leader Caleb Weaver (COL ’16) spent four days on the north shore of Jamaica, participating in various service projects and studying the tourist economy of the region.

“We did an immersion experience in a homestay community and studied the tourist economy, as well as the ways that the structures of the tourist economy either promote economic justice or economic injustice, and the kind of relationships that have fostered between Americans and Jamaicans through this tourist interaction,” Weaver said.

He added that the group participated in service work at a local school and young women’s shelter.

ABP Board Chair Hopey Fink (COL ’15) highlighted the recent influence the program has had within the Georgetown community, as well as her desire to continue expanding participation. The program received more than 400 applications this year.

“Thanks to the addition of seven new trips this year … we were able to offer over 80 more spots than last year. We are looking forward to continuing to expand in new ways in the coming years,” Fink wrote in an email to THE HOYA. In addition to the new trips, the organization has evolved over the past year, changing its name from Alternative Spring Break to Alternative Breaks Program with the intention of adding trips during other breaks than the March holiday.

Acknowledging the previous week’s successes, Fink expressed optimism about the impact of this year’s new trips and other expansion moving forward.

“We are very proud of all the new trips that ran this year,” Fink wrote. “We are looking forward to strengthening our campus and community partnerships and to continuously improving every alternative break to give participants the best experience possible.”

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Approximately 250 Georgetown students participated in a Twitter and Facebook campaign starting March 2 requesting that the university hire a program assistant for the Women’s Center and Health Education Services who would handle programming on health and sexuality issues, leaving the two organizations free to focus on counseling and survivor outreach.

Students used the hashtag #GUProgramAsst to discuss the issue. They suggested that the assistant could hold office hours in the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access and the LGBTQ Center.

Take Back the Night President Sarah Rabon (COL ’16) outlined the need for a joint program assistant. Take Back the Night is a student advocacy group committed to the fight against gendered violence “We want people to keep seeking resources,” Rabon said. “To do that at a level that is appropriate for the student body and meets the needs of the student body, we need a minimum of at least one new person to oversee programming and bridge the gap between the Women’s Center and Health Education Services.”

Nora West (SFS ’15), one of several students organizing the campaign, is concerned that the confidential counselors at Health Education Services are sacrificing time they could be spending with survivors of sexual assault to work on programming. “[Confidential counselors] are constantly faced with the choice of helping a survivor or programming around this issue,” West said.

In past years, there has been a significant increase in programming around education and prevention of sexual assault on campus, specifically with the addition of the mandated New Student Orientation program “I Am Ready” in fall 2014.

“We’re moving toward this framework of sexual assault education as something that’s ongoing through your four years. … If we had a full-time programming assistant it could be something all students engaged with … something that is an essential part of being a Georgetown student,” Rabon said.

“There is a fair bit of programing around sexual assault, but it’s the programming we’ve always had,” West said. “We have been maintaining the status quo which obviously is not what creates a cultural shift.”

The majority of tweets during the campaign were directed at Provost Robert Groves because he appropriates funding for the university, according to West.

Queen Adesuyi (COL ’16), who also helped organize the campaign, said that it was important participants understand the nuances of language regarding sexual assault and correctly use it on social media.

“There is a lot of language and academic issues involved with sexual assault that makes it hard for just the average person to advocate for it without it being problematic,” Adesuyi said.

To combat this difficulty, West created a Google Doc of possible tweets that she updated daily to be used by those who wanted to show their support of a program assistant but did not know how exactly to put that support into words, asking that students direct their tweets at Groves.

“It’s [Groves’] final decision and as a lesser known campus figure, he is able to remain unaccountable for his actions,” West said. “Part of this campaign is letting him know that we as students are aware that if a position is not funded, he is the person responsible for that.”

Groves deferred comment to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson, who said that he is seriously considering the request.

“We have worked collaboratively with students and colleagues across campus to address the vital issues of service to students and education/ prevention work,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We take this request seriously, and are carefully considering how best to move forward in supporting and educating our students.”

Olson added that the university will continue to respond to student need and add staff to help the programs improve.

“We are very encouraged that we were able to add a new full-time professional in Health Education Services this past year, and we are committed to assuring that we are meeting student needs,” Olson wrote. “Through the years, we have continued to innovate, to add staff and programs, and to follow national best practices. We will continue doing so.”

Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Deputy Title IX Coordinator Jeanne Lord and Olson have both indicated that they want to meet with students working on the campaign, but according to West, the meetings

have been continually delayed.

“If this mattered to them outside of a PR perspective they would be meeting with us and they would be making room in their schedules to do that,” West said. “They can prioritize this issue and they have certainly chosen not to.”

Women’s Center Director Laura Kovach expressed an interest in working with students to expand services and staff for students.

“We are always strategizing ways to increase staff in our spaces within Student Affairs.,” Kovach wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We look forward to conversations that will provide us with the opportunity to increase our staff resources for students.”

Director of Health Education Services Carol Day said that hiring a joint programming assistant would have a number of benefits.

“We have quite a few programs that would benefit from the addition of the right person in a [graduate assistant] role who could help with ‘Are You Ready?’ and other programming initiatives around sexual assault and relationship violence,” Day wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our professional staff are content experts and health practitioners who help facilitate ongoing training and work closely with [Sexual Assault Peer Education] and do additional training and outreach to student groups, faculty, staff and administrators. We would expect a [graduate assistant] to help with programming logistics but not necessarily be a content expert.”

Day added that Health Education Services is hoping to fill a sexual assault specialist position this semester, which could fulfill some student requests.

“We expect to fill that position with a health professional who has expertise and experience in providing sexual assault services directly to students in a higher education environment,” Day wrote. “That person will also help with training and programming.”

West said that the administration has also downplayed the need for a program assistant, citing how much progress has already been made in this area. She added that students will continue to advocate for a program assisstant in the future in different ways.

“Twenty percent of our female students are still survivors of sexual assault,” West said. “One in 33 men on this campus are still survivors of sexual assault and there is more work to be done. But our achievements have encouraged an attitude of complacency among administrators.”

At World Bank Event Jack Bennett Hoya Staff Writer

Following World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim’s speech on tactics to address climate change at Gaston Hall on Wednesday, members of GU Fossil Free stormed the stage and asked Kim for his opinion on the divestment movement.

During the transition from the speech to the question-and-answer session of Kim’s lecture, which was part of a lecture series sponsored by the Global Futures Initiative, three members of GU Fossil Free — Patricia Cippolitti (SFS ’15), Chloe Lazarus (COL ’16) and Elaine Colligan (SFS ’15) — walked onto the stage and unfurled a large banner.

Three other members of the group, who stood first in the question-and-answer session line, asked Kim to address the issue of divestment.

The GU Fossil Free members held the banner, which read “‘Corporate Leaders Should Not Wait To Act Until Market Signals Are Right & National Investment Policies Are In Place.’ – Jim Yong Kim GEORGETOWN, DIVEST NOW GU Fossil Free.”

Vice President for Global Engagement Thomas Banchoff, who moderated the question-and-answer session, paused and looked at the sign with Kim, then continued the session. Several Georgetown University Police Department officers requested the members to leave the stage. Five minutes later, they were escorted down the steps by the officers. They then moved to the back of the hall before being asked to leave the hall entirely.

GUPD Chief of Police Jay Gruber did not respond to requests for comment, while Banchoff declined to comment on the incident.

During the question-and-answer session, Kim answered the first question on Twitter from a Qatar campus student, ignoring the protesters only 20 feet away.

Part way through his response, he paused mid-sentence to read GU Fossil Free’s banner, then responded with “Hmm, OK,” garnering laughs from the audience.

The first in-person question came from the three GU Fossil Free members, who asked Kim for his opinion on divestment.

Kim’s response addressed the complexity of divestment, including the necessity of providing energy for poor countries and the nature of commingled funds, which would greatly reduce the university’s endowment if it were to divest. “[The World Bank is] very exposed to fossil fuels because we’re in the business of trying to create energy for poor people. … There’s not a simple answer to this,”

Kim said. “Having run a university before … these are difficult things to do. … These [fossil fuel companies] that you invest in … can be spread over many different funds. … If you were to completely divest from all fossil fuel companies today at Georgetown, the endowment would go down [and] you’re going to have less financing for the programs that support students.”

However, Kim lauded Georgetown students’ efforts in raising awareness about divestment issues.

Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh said that the board of directors will continue to review the issue of divestment.

GU Fossil Free members have recently worked with university administrators after developing a proposal requesting that the university divest from the top 200 fossil fuel companies. The Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility voted against GU Fossil Free’s proposal in late January, proposing an alternative solution, which includes targeted divestment and continued assessment of the university’s investments. GU Fossil Free also met with five members of the board of directors in mid-February, and the board will review and discuss GU Fossil Free and CISR’s proposals at its meeting in May. “The working group of the board of directors will be reviewing the divestment question carefully in the coming weeks and will want to hear from key stakeholders, including GU Fossil Free,” Pugh said.

Cipollitti, one of the GU Fossil Free members who stormed on stage, said that she did not intend to criticize Kim. “We understand that Jim Kim is on our side in terms of wanting to combat climate change and ensuring the well-being of all the world’s people including the most vulnerable, so we are drawing the link between his sentiments and our campaign, to show that they’re fully compatible and the consistent thing to do, if it agrees with Jim Kim’s statements, is to divest from fossil fuels,” Cipollitti said.

Mark Noll (COL ’17), who attended the event, said that he thought Kim gave a comprehensive answer to GU Fossil Free’s question. “[It] was very well articulated, because divesting is one of many options and it will obviously not solve the problem, and it carries significant financial consequences for the university,” Noll said. “I can see where he’s coming from, cautioning GU Fossil Free not to focus solely on this one issue.”

This is a truncated version of the story. The story in full with details of Kim’s speech is posted at thehoya.com

Georgetown to Host IgnatianQ Jack Bennett Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown is hosting the second annual IgnatianQ Conference, a Catholic forum intended to promote dialogue on LGBTQ issues in relation to Jesuit values, from March 27 to March 29.

The conference is organized by a number of student and campus groups including GU Pride, the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Office of Campus Ministry.

The forum will consist of keynote speeches, panel discussions and breakout sessions hosted by experts on LGBTQ issues, faith leaders and Georgetown alumni.

Last year’s conference was held at Fordham University.

This year’s keynote speakers include Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., renowned writer on Catholic issues Elizabeth Donnelly (SFS ’78) and Communities in Schools President Dan Cardinali, whose organization works to prevent students from dropping out of school. Most of the conference’s larger events will take place in the Healey Family Student Center, with the smaller breakout sessions occurring in either Healy Hall or Maguire Hall. This year, the discussion topics will center on sexual identity at Georgetown, the history of LGBTQ alumni, community goals, sexual assault, interfaith discussion and campus resources for LGBTQ students.

GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS’ 15) led the initiative to bring IgnatianQ to Georgetown last spring after sending student representatives last year’s conference at Fordham University, including members Phil Tam (MSB ’14) and Eric Nevalsky (SFS ’16). The conference, run by a group of Fordham students, reached out to Jesuit colleges and universities to submit proposals for the 2015 conference. Lloyd and GU Pride submitted a proposal detailing Georgetown’s access to space, finances and faculty support May 11, 2014, and were selected as the winner May 14.

Lloyd said that Georgetown makes for a good home for IgnatianQ because it has a history of welcoming LGBTQ students, specifically as the first Jesuit and Catholic institution to create an LGBTQ resource center. He said he wants to share Georgetown’s

culture with other LGBTQ students around the country and be the standard for forums of discussion. Students from Jesuit schools around the country will travel to attend the conference at Georgetown.

“Georgetown really offers its LGBTQ students a lot of resources, a lot of support, a lot of hope,” Lloyd said. “We really have a great community and we wanted to share elements, parts of our history, parts of our success with other universities.”

Lloyd added that the conference facilitates necessary discussions about the difficulties of advocating for LGBTQ rights in a Jesuit space.

“IgnatianQ is a very unique space,” Lloyd said. “There are very few people who understand what it means to do LGBTQ work in a Jesuit context and there are unique challenges, concerns but also rewards … for me personally doing LGBTQ work has been how I’ve made my meaning.”

The Roman Catholic chaplain of Campus Ministry, Fr. Greg Schenden, S.J., emphasized that the conference reflects Jesuit values through cura personalis, as it helps to open up a conversation about spirituality within the LGBTQ community.

“Cura personalis is care, not just for the whole person, but everybody,” Schenden said. “It’s not something you can simply say that ‘cura personalis is for this group over here, but not this group over here.’ No, cura personalis entails the entire human person [and] also our entire community here at Georgetown.”

Schenden said that he was excited for the conference and lauded its theme of “Contemplatives in Action,” a tenet of Jesuit values. By adopting this theme, attendees are encouraged to reflect on their lives and community.

“That goes back all the way to Ignatius himself,” Schenden said. “It always has an outward movement to the large community. And especially for Ignatius it was always where the needs weren’t being met … fostering the notion of contemplatives in action in our community here at Georgetown is a cool thing.”

Lloyd also stressed the conference’s role in finding commonalities between Jesuit and

LGBTQ values. He explained that the conference honors and respects the LGBTQ community as members of the Georgetown community.

“I’ve always said the most important part of LGBTQ work in this [Jesuit] context is to affirm that we have a duty to LGBTQ students because our context demands it. It’s part of supporting the whole person. It’s part of being a universal church and a universal community, and a university community,” Lloyd said.

GUPride board member and IgnatianQ coordinator Campbell James (SFS’17) said he wanted to bring IgnatianQ to Georgetown to create an opportunity for students from all over the country who are interested in LGBTQ issues to network with one another.

“It’s going to be really, really, interestingm fun, networkingfilled weekend,” James said.

“It’s a lot of work that’s going to come to fruition and to have students from all over the country at Georgetown. That’s what I think is really important about LGBTQ work, creating a large network of solidarity and strength.”

The weekend will include Georgetown’s 10th Genderfunk Drag Ball on March 27, which will be held in the Healey Family Student Center’s social room.

Lloyd said that he wants the conference to set an example for all future IgnatianQ meetings, which will require a huge exertion of effort on the part of GUPride.

“We want to create a model of what LGBTQ work on Catholic campuses can look like.”

Lloyd said. “The Georgetown name invariably raises the profile, which I think elevates the conversation.”

Schenden also said that he is excited for the conference because of the variety of faiths and experiences that will be represented. He pointed out that there is a chance for Georgetown students to learn more about other groups of people. “[It’s great] to have the different faith traditions all represented and speaking on this topic,” Schenden said. “Especially for the LGBTQ community, [it’s] a great opportunity for the larger community here at Georgetown.”

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Students Rally for 2018 Plan Input Obama Announces Bill of Rights CAMPAIGN, from A1

Campus Plan will be implemented Jan. 1, 2018 and will decide almost every major planning and construction decision for the next 20 years at Georgetown.

The GUSA Campus Plan Subcommittee within the GUSA Senate, created in September, created the petition and is the first group of its kind at Georgetown dedicated to the campus plan. GUSA Campus Plan Subcommittee Co-Chairs Ari Goldstein (SFS ’18) and Reno Varghese (SFS ’16) and Student Life Committee Chair Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) worked alongside GUSA executive leadership to create both the petition and a comprehensive website detailing the campus plan and its effects on students.

“You can see how it affects issues you care about and some history about the last campus plan,” Goldstein said. “We want to mobilize students around this in a really effective and public manner.

We don’t want the next campus plan to have the same hostility we had in the last one.”

Goldstein said that the subcommittee is working closely with GUSA President and Vice President-elects Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Connor Rohan (COL ’16).

“In an unprecedented way, it’s a really good partnership between the GUSA senate and the GUSA executive,” Goldstein said. “It’s something the senate has been working on all year and you have this new executive who really cares about this coming into office. [Luther and Rohan are] helping to lead the campaign.”

Luther and Rohan both said they are working to make campus plan negotiations a central part of their administration.

“This petition is important primarily because students need to be significantly more involved and better represented in the campus planning and master plan-

ning process,” Rohan wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It is crucial that students show the Georgetown Community Partnership that they care about the future of Georgetown and will not be excluded from the planning process again. Now is the time to speak up.”

Rohan said that the Luther administration will engage students in this issue through social media and informational town hall meetings.

He added that ensuring that students have the right to live where they want, especially off campus, is a priority for Luther and Rohan. Presently, approximately 85 percent of all undergraduates live on campus, but Rohan said that the administration is looking to increase this figure to 90 percent. Rohan wrote that students “overwhelmingly oppose” this goal.

“The 2018 Campus Plan affects nearly every facet of student life and impacts every student,” Rohan wrote. “A consortium of student groups advocating for common goals will not only strengthen our community, but it will also enable us to more effectively pursue our objectives.”

On April 11, GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) will make a presentation of student priorities, along with the petition, at a Georgetown Community Partnership Steering Committee meeting.

Created in the 2010 Campus Plan, the GCP is the formal body tasked with drafting the 2018 Campus Plan. The GCP Steering Committee is co-chaired by Council for District 2E Chair Ron Lewis and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Augostini.

The Steering Committee is the most important part of the GCP in terms of the campus plan and brings community leaders together to create a future plan for Georgetown and the community.

Tezel is the only student representa-

tive on the Steering Committee and will be replaced by Luther in May. In addition to the Steering Committee, the GCP is comprised of six working groups. The most important of these in the campus planning process is the Master Planning Working Group, of which Tezel is the only student representative.

Tezel said that he expects the petition will help student views be better represented than they were in the 2010 Campus Plan. The 2010 Campus Plan has been criticized for ignoring student opinion, resulting in a third-year oncampus housing requirement, student parking ban and delayed renovations.

“The last plan was very closed-door, and students didn’t really have a direct role in the process until much later in the negotiating process,” Tezel said. “I do think that showing broad student support is going to have an impact … showing where students are at, and that there is a unified student voice around certain key principles, is going to really help us move the needle.”

Tezel urged students to get involved with the 2018 Campus Plan beyond the petition.

“It’s a really good chance to, one, have an active role in the policy making practice at Georgetown, but, two, to be able to put a name to the face with administrators and neighbors to understand who the players are on these major issues,” Tezel said.

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson echoed this hope for collaboration.

“We are pleased to see strong student interest in the campus plan process,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We welcome student engagement and have sought it out through our planning forum, student involvement on the GCP working groups, and many individual and small group student discussions with administrators.”

Residential Living Alters Policies SELECTION, from A1 greater flexibility in housing options.

Other than requesting a vacancy, fall study abroad students can request to take the place of any student they know will study abroad in the spring, request international students to fill their spaces in an apartment or townhouse for the fall semester, apply to fill a vacancy in a living learning community or apply for spring housing by indicating their top housing preferences and optionally requesting a roommate.

The Office of Residential Life made a change to the housing rules in January 2014 that would have barred fall study abroad students from participating in the normal housing lottery. However, a student-led campaign against the rule change garnered around 400 signatures, leading to a one year postponement of the rule.

This past January, Will Simons (COL ’16) created a Facebook petition rallying against the proposed changes. Simons is the same student who led the previous year’s effort to delay the rule change, alongside Declan Kelly (COL ’17) and Ken Nunnenkamp (MSB ’16). A subsequent IdeaScale petition created by the trio in early February garnered over 540 signatures.

Although fall study abroad students will still be unable to participate in the regular housing lottery, they will be able to apply for a vacancy from the Office of Residential Living, which will allow housing groups to participate in the regular main campus housing selection process and keep an empty

space for the duration of the fall semester while a student studies abroad.

“But those groups aren’t binding,” Simons said of the vacancy process.

“So those can be changed. However, you can only request up to two vacancies. You still need to have at least one other person to enter the lottery with you, and then that would assume that you’re receiving both of those vacancies.”

Seventy-four students requested vacancies for next year through an online application due Thursday, according to Killilee. The number of applicants is lower than the cap set by the Office of Residential Living, so all of those vacancies will be approved after the Office of Residential Living verifies that the applicants are studying abroad in the fall.

The new vacancy option for students will essentially replace the current system of sophomores “filling in” for juniors studying abroad in the fall. “[H]aving over 200 sophomores hold space for a semester is not conducive to the kind of community development we wish to offer our students,” Killilee wrote. “It is disruptive to the students having to change rooms, ultimately it is better for students to be in the same room and community for a full year.

Many sophomores are not ready for that level of independent living and it can be alienating for some.”

Students were only given about 36 hours to apply for vacancies, however, causing a number of students, such as Danny O’Brien (MSB ’17) to change prior plans and feel rushed in the process.

“There was definitely overall confusion,” O’Brien, who has two apartment

members studying abroad in the fall, said. “Our original plan had just been to get freshmen for a semester until our friends going abroad would come back. And basically we found out in one email that that wasn’t an option.”

Despite this, students and the Office of Residential Living are working to develop a more long-term solution to the issue through the creation of a working group in early February. According to Killilee, the new study abroad housing rules will be subject to regular inspection, with help from the working group.

Simons said he hopes the working group can find a permanent solution to address student need.

“Going forward, we’re going to use this working group that was kind of hastily created and is still in the process of being formalized to develop a long-term solution,” Simons said.

Though Killilee said that the IdeaScale petition did not influence any of the final housing options for next year, he did say that it shows student anxiety about the whole process.

Simons, on the other hand said he believes that the student movement for more housing options for study abroad students is a demonstration of the power students have to shape their university.

“I think it really shows that students, when they come together, when they are passionate about an issue, they really have the power to enact meaningful change,” Simons said. “Even something that’s set in stone, students can change. And ultimately we have the power to shape our own experience at Georgetown.”

which forgives student loan payments for people who have privilege that is reserved for been in public service for 10 the few,” Obama said at a years, with the all-encompassspeech at the Georgia Institute ing Pay As You Earn program. of Technology. “America needs Fleming said the change would to be a place where higher edu- give students less incentive to cation has to be available for find jobs in non-profit organievery single person who’s will- zations and public service. ing to strive for it, who’s will“It’s important to an instituing to work for it.” tion like Georgetown because The proposed actions in- of the large numbers of graduclude simplifying the Free Ap- ates of Georgetown who go plication for Federal Student into public service,” Fleming Aid, increasing the maximum said. “If they cap loan forgivePell Grant award by almost ness, like the president pro$1,000 and implementing poses, that removes the incenObama’s Pay as You Earn plan, tive for people to take public which creates an income-based service jobs.” repayment program to allow Nora Gordon, an associate students to cap federal aid pay- professor specializing in the ments at 10 percent of their economics of education at income.

Georgetown’s McCourt School While the bill could expand of Public Policy, was also opportunities for student bor- skeptical whether resources rowers, the effectiveness of the offered by the bill of rights bill will depend on whether would help Georgetown stuthe president’s request for dents in particular but praised funding is granted in the bud- proposed improvements to get process, which will start the FAFSA. this week on Capitol Hill.

“I think that students that Both the House and Senate go to elite institutions have Budget m u c h Commitmore retees have “America needs to be a fined inindicated place where higher eduformation that they about the want to cation has to be available quality of limit dothose inm e s t i c for every single person.” stitutions spending then is goBARACK OBAMA U.S. President and reing to be duce revcaptured enues while increasing defense in any of type of report card,” spending. Georgetown Univer- Gordon said. “My guess is the sity Associate Vice President reason they want to have this for Federal Relations Scott is for low-quality schools, to Fleming (SFS ’72) noted that make sure students know about this would dampen the poten- schools, especially with a lot of tial for Obama’s program. two year colleges and schools Despite this cause for con- with extremely low graduation cern, Fleming said the gov- rates, before they borrow a lot ernment could come to some of money to pay for them.” agreement concerning student Gordon also said that cusaid resources and make chang- tomer service resources and es in entitlement programs, complaint systems could benincrease revenues or raise efit Georgetown students, who caps on domestic and defense likely have difficulties locating spending. where to go when they encounAccording to Fleming, pro- ter problems with their lendviding student loan borrow- ers. ers with additional resources “[If] there is better oversight would help Georgetown stu- of lenders and more attention dents, many of whom receive to customer service, the bill both institutional and federal will be good for borrowers, aid. However, he expressed which includes Georgetown concern regarding the pro- students,” Gordon said. “It posed college rating system, seems that people don’t just which aims to provide stu- have problems repaying their dents with reliable statistics loans but run into problems on graduation rates, incomes with their lenders and find it of graduates, average tuitions hard to adjust repayment.” and fees paid at the nation’s Georgetown University Colcolleges and universities. lege Democrats Chair Matt “I find that very worrisome Gregory (COL ’17) added that that they are using averages a even if the bill does not dilot because … there are a good rectly affect many Georgetown number of Georgetown stu- students, it could pave the way dents from low-income fami- for future actions to protect lies who basically, combining student loan borrowers. federal aid and institutional “Many students, especially aid, go to Georgetown for very in the middle class, gradulittle,” Fleming said. “If you ate having over $12,000 in are a kid from a low-income loans,” Gregory said. “Even if family, and you are looking it is more of a symbolic gesat averages, you would think ture, it will create a path for there was no way in the world future administrations to you could go here.” create something concrete. …

Fleming was also worried by [Students] will have more infora proposal in the president’s mation, be able to make better budget to replace the current and informed decisions and Public Service Loan Forgive- won’t be as trapped by potenness program, a program tially predatory lenders.”

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Legacy Status Remains Significant During Admissions LEGACY, from A1 students ranged from 680 to 740, on average about 10 points less than non-legacy students, whose SAT scores ranged from 690 to 760.

The percentage of legacies admitted has been relatively constant over the years. Students with alumni parents composed 6 to 7 percent of accepted students in 2004 for the class of 2008. For that class, the acceptance rate for legacies was 40 to 42 percent, compared to the general acceptance rate of 23 percent. The rate had fallen to around 30 percent by 2010 for the Class of 2014, while the general acceptance rate remained steady at 20 percent.

Deacon attributed this consistency to Georgetown’s decision not to recruit based on legacy preference.

“It’s been pretty consistent, and I think largely that’s because we don’t do anything special to encourage alumni kids to apply,” Deacon said.

During the admissions process, legacy students are evaluated with all of the other applicants at first, without consideration given to their legacy status. After those decisions have been made, admissions officers take a “second look” at legacy students who were not accepted, allowing the admissions office to give these students a “tip.”

“If you were very close to the edge and the family’s given to the annual fund every year or something, that

might be enough of a tip to get you in. If you’re a little farther from the edge, but the family has built Regents Hall, that might tip a little farther,” Deacon said.

Deacon stressed that the degree of the parent’s previous involvement in the Georgetown community plays a heavy role in determining whether this “tip” is given.

“Legacy consideration is provided favorably to those who have a long established track record of support for Georgetown since they graduated as opposed to those who have the potential to be generous,” Deacon wrote in an email.

Compared to many of its peer institutions, Georgetown boasts a lower percentage of legacies in its student population.

At the University of Notre Dame, which openly recruits its legacies, legacy students made up 24 percent of the Class of 2016, according to an article in The Observer, the university’s student newspaper, in April 2012.

Similarly, legacies made up 12 to 13 percent of the undergraduate population at Harvard University, according to a May 2011 article in the Harvard Crimson. Harvard’s legacy admission rate of 30 percent was over quadruple the regular decision admission rate at the time.

The Cornell Daily Sun reported in 2013 that legacies made up 15 to 16 percent of Cornell University’s undergraduate population.

Though legacy preference is common practice among private universities, Richard Kahlenberg, author of the book “Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions,” said that, according to his researchers, legacy preference does not tend to produce any net gain in alumni donations. Although there is a spike in alumni giving while the alumnus’ children are in high school, Kahlenberg claimed this increase is balanced by the alumni who stop donating completely in the event that their child is rejected.

“If there’s no promise of a legacy preference, then the giving is likely to remain constant over time. And when there’s a promise of a legacy preference and the child is rejected, it’s almost a double insult to the parents because not only is the university saying your child’s not good enough, they’re saying your child with a legacy preference is not good enough, and so you see a lot of alumni stop giving altogether,” Kahlenberg said.

In an op-ed in The New York Times in May 2013 titled “Affirmative Action for the Rich,” Kahlenberg voiced his opposition to the policy, decrying it as inherently “un-American” and particularly privileging affluent families.

“In other walks of life, we would consider it absurd to add points to a candidate’s application based on lineage, and legacies in higher education may soon come to an end as

well,” Kahlenberg wrote in the oped. He said that legacy preference becomes especially problematic in cases where affirmative action policies have been challenged, such as in Texas and California.

“If we are supposed to be basing decisions on merit and not on skin color, how on earth can one justify counting — or asking the question — not how well did a particular student do, but did your parents go to this college? It seems irrelevant to any question of merit,” Kahlenberg said.

Dennis Joyce (MSB ’18), whose parents both attended Georgetown, acknowledged the stigma that legacy students face as having had an easier lot in the admissions process.

“For me I feel kind of an onus because I do know the stigma,” Joyce said. “So I feel like a little bit of a burden to do well.”

Grace Foley (COL ’17), also a double legacy, refuted this stigma.

“I worked my butt off to get here and become a part of this community and my family’s Georgetown legacy, and I never for one second banked on the fact that legacy alone could get me in,” Foley wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Despite this contention surrounding legacy preference within the admissions office, Deacon emphasized the role that legacies play in strengthening the sense of spirit and unity in the Georgetown community.

“I think they bring an enthusiasm

for the school, a knowledge of the school, when they get here. They create a positive environment at the outset ceremony, and for people who didn’t go here, they help them learn more about Georgetown as they become friends, meet their families,” Deacon said.

Emma Barnitt (MSB ’17), whose parents met at Georgetown and began dating at their five-year reunion, said that Georgetown spirit always played a large role in her household growing up.

“I grew up with Georgetown my whole life. My mom was the beverage buyer and party manager at [Vital] Vittles and my dad was captain of the football team. I just grew up with so many stories and so many instances where Georgetown was name-dropped, and my whole life Georgetown was my dream,” Barnitt said.

Kevin DePaulo (COL ’17), whose parents also met while at Georgetown, shared similar stories of growing up.

“It was definitely the college in my house growing up, like watching the basketball games growing up, the whole family was Georgetown fans, putting Georgetown stuff on the walls, Georgetown apparel,” DePaulo said.

Barnitt joked that she hopes to continue her family’s legacy at Georgetown with her own children someday.

“My kids are going to go here,” Barnitt said.

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Q&A: Tezel and Jikaria Reflect on Their Year in Office Katherine Richardson

surprise you did not see coming after you were elected?

Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor Tezel (SFS ‘15) and Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ‘15) will complete their year-long terms in office March 21. The Hoya sat down with the pair to discuss their accomplishments, challenges and hopes for the future.

Trevor: One thing that I didn’t antici-

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After a year in office, what has been each of your proudest accomplishments?

Trevor: I really was happy about the fourth-year high financial need housing guarantee. It was really encouraging this year when we heard from Pat Killilee, the executive director of residential services that about 60 to 80 students were able to utilize that guarantee. That’s an example of a tangible impact and benefit of the work we did, so I’d probably count that one.

Omika: One of our proudest accom-

plishments is all the work that we did on the transfer end. Especially since we got the commitment to have a transfer student day this coming summer. I think that’s really exciting. It’s one of those things that should have been a long time coming and just giving people the tools and the access to resources in GUSA, we were actually able to achieve something really tangible.

What kind of legacy or influence do you see yourselves leaving?

Trevor: I think at the end of the day, there will be effects from the work that we did in a few years. But no one is going to know it came from us, just like no one knows where the Collegiate Leadership Program came from anymore. That’s fine and that’s a part of GUSA and student government. We’re in and we’re out of here in a very short period of time.

But yes, I do think we moved the needle on the campus plan issue. I do think we moved the needle on a lot of other issues that were important to students. I think we got some tangible accomplishments.

Omika: I think we really prioritize get-

ting involved, or getting a lot of marginalized student groups involved within GUSA, and just building up that institutional knowledge was really helpful. I hope that in the future people who wouldn’t necessarily be involved in GUSA will be.

What was the biggest challenge or

pate with the Multicultural Council issue was that right now on Georgetown’s campus, we have very grave, very deep divisions that exist. I’m not just talking about between white students and students of color but between racial and ethnic classes and within racial and ethnic classes. Once GUSA decided they wanted to take on that incredibly complex issue that would have a billiard ball effect, I think it was kind of a watershed moment.

It’s going to be really interesting to see how that plays out in the next year, especially with the upcoming vote on the diversity requirement. But I think through this position, I finally started to at least begin to understand the weight of some of those divisions that really still play out on campus.

Omika: I think kind of coming to terms

with the fact that we could come in with a platform, but that the administration kind of throw things at us regardless was definitely a little shocking at first, especially right when we came in and we were faced with the third-year housing requirement. That was the first challenge we had to face head on, but it kind of brought into perspective the fact that the effect of the last campus plan was still there even now and the fact that we have to address that throughout this year and that future GUSA executives will have to as well.

Could either of you identify a decision that you regret or something you would do differently?

Trevor: When we ran and were elected, we definitely were trying to posit ourselves as the GUSA ticket who would bring in the experts, keep our heads down, do the work and produce results for students, and I think we did that.

What we didn’t do was constantly tell students what we were doing. What we came in with to GUSA were frayed relationships between the executive and senate, within the executive, and while those haven’t gone away, they’ve gotten a lot better. Part of the reason for that was this idea of who owns what accomplishments that GUSA is producing. I think in the process, we weren’t able to be as public over the year with some of the work we were doing as we would have liked to.

What do you think caused these communication issues?

Trevor: On one end, kind of negotiating

a lot of these issues is complicated, requires extensive conversation with administrators and only the conclusion is kind of necessary to sort of make that public statement of what happened.

Above and beyond that, no, it’s just a priority we had. In order to rebuild the institution of GUSA and rebuild the faith that GUSA members had in the organization they were apart of, we had to stop being this kind of mill of Bill Clinton wannabes who are trying to rack up a list of accomplishments for every little thing they can do in a short, 12-month time frame. We needed to take a long-game approach.

A common theme in the GUSA elections this year was people saying that students dislike GUSA as an institution. In fact, there is just general widespread apathy about the association. How did that affect your term and what do you think that people should do about it in the future?

Omika: I think a big part of it is students

not necessarily knowing what GUSA does. People at Georgetown are very involved, but involved in what they care about and what organizations they’ve been a part of since they first got here.

So I think GUSA can just do a better job of engaging a wider range of people and letting people know what it’s doing. I had never been involved in GUSA until I ran last year, so I can definitely sympathize with that and that sentiment of being confused a lot of the time about what GUSA is doing and how that impacts me. After a year in office, I can say that it impacts a lot of students and people should be hearing about it.

What demographic is least represented in GUSA? How can future leaders go about helping this group gain representation?

Trevor: One group that I think that is going to be and has been underrepresented in GUSA is disabled students. A titan of the disability movement and a future national leader of the disability movement is about to graduate from Georgetown, and I’m very concerned. Joe and Connor are very aware that the great work that Lydia Brown (COL ’15) has done can’t end. Furthermore in order to advance a Georgetown that’s socially inclusive of all students, making sure that disabled students are represented both in their actions over the next year but also in the composition of their cabinet, staff and external board is going to be huge.

Omika: Also, pretty obviously, people of color are underrepresented in GUSA and so that’s something that we definitely wanted to address and bring more into conversation with the Multicultural Council. Hopefully, by involving people who would normally not be involved in GUSA and including them in conversations, that problem can be solved over the next few years. It’s definitely going to take time, but it’s really important.

Coming into the elections, how did you feel about the satirical campaign (Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Connor Rohan (COL ’16), and how did your feelings change after they won?

Omika: I guess in the beginning, I kind of realized that there was a distinction between a joke candidate and a satirical candidate. Joe and Connor definitely, even though they weren’t in it to necessarily win it, they knew that if they won, they would have to follow through with the kind of tone they took throughout the campaign, which was making it for students, being more transparent and really making GUSA more visible.

In the beginning, I was a little skeptical and a little confused about their intentions. As the campaign went on, I saw their intentions were positive. I’m really excited to see what they do because they’re definitely very talented, and even though they’re taking a non-traditional approach to GUSA, in many ways that might be necessary at this time.

Trevor: I think they were able to bring the skills without the knowledge. The great part about that is that knowledge can be learned, but the skills can’t, I think it took The Hoya poll to see that they were in the lead. By the time election day rolled around, though I would’ve been very comfortable and content and pleased with a LutherRohan administration.

What are a few of the most important issues that your successors should be tackling this year?

Trevor: So, one issue that I think it is

very obvious is the current implementation of the 2010 Campus Plan and the development of the 2018 Campus Plan.

I think it’s going to be incumbent upon Joe, as the student representative to the GCP Steering Committee to negotiate effectively on students’ behalf to ensure the next campus plan is one that respects students’ rights, their decisions about where they want to live and prioritizes fixing our current infrastruc-

ture before we go on to build more.

Omika: I think a couple of other things

they should continue focusing on involve utilizing GUSA’s resources to add input on certain issues that we have advocated on in the past few years, but still need more work like sexual assault, mental health and disability justice. Even as they advocate for fair implementation of the 2010 Campus Plan and development of the 2018 Campus Plan, they shouldn’t forget these other issues that have gained momentum over the past couple of years that still have work to be done.

What are your plans for the future after Georgetown?

Trevor: I will be enrolling in University of Florida Law School in fall 2015.

Omika: I’ll be working at Pricewater-

houseCoopers in technology consulting in San Francisco.

How did GUSA affect you personally and in general, just in terms of growth?

Trevor: I remember Adam [Ramadan]

saying this at his exit interview last year and I think it was a good way to put it, is that GUSA is the best job that you never want to have again. I learned a lot about myself, strengths and weaknesses, I learned a lot of ugly truths about Georgetown and getting things accomplished, but also a lot of positive, encouraging and reassuring experiences when you see how the fruit of your labor is coming together. On a personal side, I learned a lot about myself as a leader and as a negotiator and that’s really been invaluable.

Omika: This has really been the most challenging and rewarding thing that I’ve ever done. It’s definitely the best job I’ll never have again, but I’m really glad I did it having never been in GUSA before. I learned so much about Georgetown and got to work with so many different people, and I feel so lucky to have met so many different people. It’s definitely been a very self-reflective experience and I definitely know myself a lot better now. I think the best part about it was meeting so many other students because I really enjoyed that and realized how passionate and talented they are and it’s really inspiring.

This interview has been condensed for space and edited for clarity. The interview in full is posted online at thehoya.com.

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Panel Discusses Nuclear Security Researchers Advocate Better Awareness for Asian Patients

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Prominent nuclear security experts spoke Monday night in the Intercultural Center auditorium on the importance of tackling emerging and evolving nuclear security threats facing the United States and its global allies in the 21st century.

The speakers included former United Kingdom defense minister and Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Des Browne, Co-Chair of the Congressional Nuclear Security Caucus Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), Associate in Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Duyeon Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Ariane Tabatabai, former U.S. senator and President of the Lugar Center Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and former U.S. senator and co-chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Sam Nunn (D-Ga.).

The panel discussion focused on nuclear material security, nuclear terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation. The event, titled “Managing and Reducing 21st Century Nuclear Security Threats,” was co-sponsored by Georgetown’s Center for Security Studies and the International Relations Club.

Kim moderated and began with a discussion on the importance of securing nuclear materials globally as a way to deter potential nuclear terrorism.

“The world has to understand that protecting nuclear material is the best way, the most efficient, the most effective way to prevent nuclear terrorism,” Nunn said. “The hardest job for the terrorist is the easiest job for us.

Once the material gets in the wrong hand, at that stage, every step of the way is more difficult for the good guys, and easier for the bad guys.”

On the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Brown emphasized the small amount of material that would be necessary to facilitate nuclear terrorism in comparison with the massive quantities of material present today.

“There is by our estimation, collectively about 2,000 metric tons of weapons-usable material in 25 countries and hundreds of sites in those 25 countries, not all of them secure and well-protected,” Brown said.

Nunn then emphasized the outdated nature of the long-existing strategy of nuclear deterrence in an

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Six speakers, including two former senators and a current congressman, spoke about nuclear security in the ICC auditorium. ever-changing landscape of nuclear terrorism, with unique groups such as the Islamic State entering the playing field.

“Deterrence basically has been the policy of the United States for a long time,” Nunn said. “We have not gotten away from that; we still have deterrents. But the problem here that we have to add to catastrophic terrorism, nuclear terrorism, is that nobody quite knows how you deter a group that doesn’t have a return address.”

The panel then moved to discuss the situation in Russia and Ukraine, highlighting the long-term consequences that current tensions may have on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.

The discussion also emphasized the ongoing importance of managing North Korea’s nuclear ability as vital to global security. Congressman Fortenberry focused on the importance of China when dealing with North Korea and proposed a potential joint nuclear command in South Korea to act as significant leverage against continued nuclear proliferation in the region.

“There are no nuclear weapons in South Korea, but if North Korea continues down this path, then a joint South-Korean-American nuclear command [could act] as a deterrent,” Fortenberry said.

During the question-and-answer session, a major topic of discussion

was Iran.

When asked what a potential deal with Iran would look like, Tabatabai stressed the need for transparency in Iran’s nuclear activities as well as clarification of its former military activity.

“I think ideally a good deal would provide the [International Atomic Energy Agency] with enough access to the different facilities, and it would scale back Iran’s program enough, the breakout time of one year which has been on the table for a while,” Tabatabai said.

The discussion ended with Kim asking each panel participant to give a 10-second pitch on how audience members can help in the fight against nuclear proliferation and support nuclear security worldwide.

“Capture the moment, capture the imagination and create a new movement,” Fortenberry said. “The future of civilization is at stake.”

“Learn more,” Lugar said.

Attendee Brad Hong (COL ’16) said he appreciated the opportunity to hear from former and current leaders in nuclear security policy and said that nuclear threat policy is an ongoing, generational issue.

“Though the speakers practiced a healthy relationship of banter amongst each other, none cracked a smile when discussing the ominous possibility that just one instance was enough to change the history of our world,” Hong said.

Improving communication between physicians and patients with a focus on cultural awareness is crucial to facilitate more effective medical care for people of Asian descent, according to researchers from the Georgetown University Medical Center.

Due to cultural beliefs held by many members of the Asian community, developing a mutual understanding on both sides of a patient-doctor relationship is essential, according to Dr. Judy Huei-yu Wang, an associate professor of population sciences at Lombardi who studies the impact of culture on cancer screening and survivorship experiences among Asian-Americans.

Wang is currently directing three studies about mammography and colon cancer screenings in Chinese-Americans, in which she is studying culturally appropriate responses and from which she drew insight into improved practices for physicians.

Wang highlighted cultural practices as a significant factor affecting the medical care Asian cancer patients receive.

“Many of them have cultural beliefs that affect communication between physicians and patients,” Wang said. “For example, they aren’t accustomed to preventive concepts like screening, and they may lack knowledge about their cancer risks. They often think that seeing a physician is only for when they are sick and need to be treated.”

Fatalistic views of cancer, a lack of trust in professional medical care and deference to authority are also integral components of cultural norms that impact the physician-patient relationship, according to Wang.

“It’s really about the communication with the physician,” Wang said. “Some physicians may not understand that Asians might be trying to respect the physician’s busy schedule by not raising additional questions or asking for further explanations. But the physicians could take that to mean the patients already understand all of the information.”

Wang and Dr. Aiwu Ruth He, a Lombardi oncologist who specializes in liver and stomach cancers, are using their research to navigate the difficulties of increasing both cancer screening and clinical trial enrollment rates among Asians.

The local D.C. population is more than 9 percent Asian, and that demographic is increasing.

However, according to a 2014 study Wang co-authored, the rates of cancer screening and clinical trial participation among Asian Americans remain low, despite other studies indicating cancer as the leading cause of death among the demographic group.

Encouraging Asian participation in clinical

trials is essential not only to aiding individual patients, but also to contributing to the development of more effective treatments for the population group as a whole, according to He. “We know that the U.S. is a melting pot,” He said. “Yet if you look at clinical trials, the majority of patients participating are Caucasian.

So we might not be able to identify benefits or effectiveness of specific treatments to certain racial or ethnic groups. If Asian patients don’t participate in clinical trials, we don’t have that data, which otherwise could potentially help the whole community.”

According to both He and Wang, an emphasis on self-care in Asian communities, which typically involves taking a natural approach to health through a balanced diet, herbal medicine and regular exercise, is an important cultural aspect to consider when providing medical care.

In terms of other factors influencing the medical care of Asian patients, both researchers said that language barriers are not significant issues in themselves, but are rather rooted in cultural differences.

“You need to look at what we mean by language barriers,” He said. “Patients may understand the surface meaning of certain words, but may not understand their deeper implications, especially if they aren’t exposed to a certain part of history or culture that most people, if they had been raised here, would have had exposure to.”

Among other possible solutions, both researchers highlighted culturally sensitive communication and education as crucial aspects of a medical process that could enhance Asian patient care.

“The main thing is to educate patients using tools they view as acceptable,” Wang said. “For example, we use videos of breast cancer survivors’ testimonials that they can relate to, which triggers their participation in screening tests. We need to make information culturally understandable.”

Wang hoped that her research would contribute to improving overall health incomes among patients from varied cultural backgrounds.

“There are not many researchers who understand how culture can influence people’s behavior,” Wang said. “Patient care needs to take into account different cultural beliefs — only then can we truly reduce health disparities.”

Joyce Zheng (MSB ’18), a Chinese-American student from New Jersey, said that the research highlighted issues in medical care for Asian patients she had not initially considered.

“I think it’s interesting that this research has been able to link cultural beliefs and Asian medical care,” Zheng said. “Especially the point about an emphasis on self-care, that’s something I’ve personally experienced growing up in an Asian household. I’ve never really thought about medical care in cultural terms before.”

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The Georgetown Neighborhood Library sustained water damage from a burst sprinkler pipe, causing it to close temporarily for repairs.

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Georgetown Bubble Brings Boba Tea to Campus BOBA, from A10 with other bubble tea shops in D.C.” And while there are other bubble tea shops in the District, there is a distinct lack of them in the Georgetown area, a fact that Yim, Hur and Kaliss pointed to as motivation to create their business.

“I’m from San Francisco so there [are] over 75 or 80 shops within the city limits, so I grew up drinking bubble tea. But when I came here, and Tim also had the same thoughts: Why isn’t there something at Georgetown?” Kaliss said.

“This is something that’s cheap, in demand, even if a lot of Georgetown students don’t know about it yet.”

Earlier in the semester, Georgetown Bubble reached out to Innovo Solutions, a consulting resource for university student entrepreneurs, to help with some of the technical aspects of running a business that the founders were unfamiliar with.

“We probably need some extra help, some sort of analytics because I don’t have a business background. … So I assumed we need a little help with certain things and that’s why we have Innovo helping us onboard. They’ve been a great help so far,” Yim said.

Georgetown Bubble’s Facebook event for their first pop-up had 205 people RSVP as attending, garnering campus attention ahead of their opening.

Nicole Carolin (SFS ’17), who had tried Bubble Tea once before she went to the pop-up to support Hur, commented on the product.

“Yeah, I really like it. I don’t even know what the little bubbles are made out of but they taste good,”

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Rachel Villanueva (SFS ’16), left, Tim Yim (SFS ’17), center, Natalie Kaliss (SFS ’18), right, and Michelle Hur (SFS ’17) co-founded Georgetown Bubble, a startup company that hosted a pop-up shop Tuesday and will bring bubble tea to the Georgetown area.

Carolin said.

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Effects of Dollar Strength Disparate SULLIVAN, from A10 reasonably assume will appreciate.

Interestingly, the dollar isn’t the only currency to which investors are flocking. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, the head of the Swiss National Bank recently declared the franc to be “overvalued” and is engaging in efforts to increase inflation, devalue the currency and keep interest rates at record lows.

With global markets faltering, currencies like these two, which are marginally strong, will appear even more so.

The rise in the strength of the dollar comes on the heels of the Fed indicating that it intends to raise interest rates for the first time since 2006. The indication was primarily from semantics and word choice in their quarterly meetings, but nonetheless, a rise in the interest rates will strengthen the dollar, pushing the value even higher.

There are various implications of a strong dollar. First, as nearly everyone who has taken an economics class can tell you, American exports become more expensive in the global market. While exports will become more expensive abroad as the dollar strengthens, this trend isn’t as salient as the one in this economic environment.

Given rising incomes, consumer confidence and lower fuel and transportation costs, there is greater domestic demand for products produced domestically. The higher demand within the United States will help to offset the decreased consumption abroad.

The other major consideration with a strengthening dollar is the effect on dollar borrowers. For

American investors, and those in markets that are sophisticated enough to contain firms that have both liabilities and revenues or assets in dollars, this isn’t a cause for concern. The trouble comes from investors (individual, institutional or sovereign) whose currencies have not appreciated to the same degree.

For example, if you are a firm in the Eurozone that has borrowed in dollars, you have seen, relative to your home currency, the euro rise in the value of the debt you owe. The situation is more severe in developing countries. Countries like Turkey, South Africa and Brazil, as well as foreign firms such as Russia’s Gazprom, all use dollar-denominated loans or bonds to finance their budgets and operations. Therefore, when the dollar increases and their own currencies slide, they have smaller tools to tackle larger debts.

The biggest winner here on the Hilltop is Joe Hoya studying abroad.

When your fearless columnist was abroad in Madrid in the fall of 2013, it was roughly 1.65 dollars to every euro, meaning I was paying more any time I was in the Eurozone.

Now, Joe Hoya is feeling a little bit less of a strain as he travels.

For those students still in the United States, there may seem to be more imported products on the shelves of Safeway and other retailers, as those imports become cheaper relative to American goods.

The other possibility, however, is that with increases in real wages, consumer confidence, etc., purchasers for retailers may opt to stick with domestic versions of products under the assumption that their relatively wealthier, loyal shoppers will be able to afford it.

D.C. tax rate. A standard price for Georgetown Bubble’s bubble tea is $3.99 with tax.

“We decided on this price because really we looked around the neigh-

borhood,” Yim said. “We’re keeping it low, we’re keeping it convenient, and really we’re just hoping that this is a hit.”

While the organization eventual-

ly hopes to open a store, Georgetown Bubble plans to hold more pop-ups around the Georgetown campus in the coming weeks and will be at the farmers’ market on March 25.

Data Startup Wins Competition COMPETITION, from A10 So the recruiting process was a rigorous one. In staying with the theme of the event, we really focused on the applicants’ growth prospects when ultimately making the finalists selections,” Haberman said.

Bhandari said the idea for the Growth Grant originated in the fall, drawing on his experience with another pitch competition, “Rahul Desai and I started the Growth Grant to ultimately help foster the entrepreneurship scene on campus,” Bhandari said.

“After participating in the Rocket Pitch, we thought that the entrepreneurs at Georgetown could benefit from a more intimate pitch competition.”

Both co-founders work at Trendify, a company that uses data to predict startup success, which Desai said added to the motivation behind creating the competition.

“Jay’s idea to run a pitch contest allows us to simultaneously experience the thought processes of investors and entrepreneurs, two of the markets that Trendify caters to. More impor-

tantly, we get to support some of the amazing companies that are springing up on this campus,” Desai said.

He added that the Growth

“A dialogue between each venture and some of the judges will be sparked at the event — perhaps one or two of the judges at the event could land up being mentors.”

JAY BHANDARI (MSB ’18) Growth Grant Founder

Grant has attracted a panel of judges that includes editors, lawyers and company founders and managers, noting that the diversity of the panel could bring up various issues that are not commonly brought up in other pitch competitions.

“The Growth Grant provides student startups with feedback and expertise that they wouldn’t

usually get at local pitch competitions. We count a lawyer, news editor and accountant among our judges. These professions reflect specific risk areas that young startups tend to overlook; in fact, many would-be entrepreneurs believe that startups are exempt from regular legal and accounting procedures,” Desai said.

Bhandari said he hopes judges will be able to support to the ventures that made it to the final round even after the competition ends.

“My hope is that a dialogue between each venture and some of the judges will be sparked at the event — perhaps one or two of the judges at the event could land up being mentors to each entrepreneur as they work on their venture,” Bhandari said.

Bhandari also indicated plans to further develop the Growth Grant in the coming years.

“I plan on continuing the competition for years to come. My hope is that the Growth Grant grows itself and becomes a key contributor to the entrepreneurship scene on campus,” Bhandari said.

Gupta Convicted of Murder Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

A former George Washington University engineering student was convicted by jury Monday for the first-degree murder of Georgetown University Law Center student Mark Waugh in October 2013.

Rahul Gupta (GRD ’13), who is 25 years old, was found guilty by a jury in Montgomery County, Md. Gupta

had initially confessed to the murder, but the defense argued that he had done so only to protect his girlfriend, Taylor Gould, a GWU student, who it claimed had actually committed the murder. The jury was unconvinced by the argument.

Waugh, who was in his first year of law school at the time, and Gupta had been best friends since high school. Gupta was studying biomedical engineering at GWU

at the time of the murder. According to the initial charging papers, Gupta walked in on Gould with Waugh on October 13, the night of the murder.

“My girl was cheating with my buddy,” Gupta said in the charging papers. “I walked in on them cheating, and I killed my buddy.”

Gupta potentially faces life in prison at his sentencing hearing April 16.

BUSINESS & TECH FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2015

BUSINESS BITS POLICY CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS

The McCourt School Policy Conference 2015: Infrastructure as a Path to Development will meet at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Friday, March 20. Following this year’s theme, the annual conference will explore economic impacts of infrastructure on transportation, telecommunications and energy. Speakers include former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and former mayor of Washington, D.C. Anthony Williams, among other government officials, policymakers and academics.

For the first time, the McDonough School of Business is a co-sponsor for the conference.

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WILL PARTNER WITH ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE

More than 80 nonprofit organizations in the country have received sponsorships from a dozen corporations to participate in “New Strategies,” a program that provides revenue management workshops for nonprofits created by the Global Social Enterprise Initiative in the McDonough School of Business.

Starting in March, senior executives from nonprofits will attend four-day workshops on revenue management, fundraising and other operations throughout the year. The executives will also receive tips and advice from the program’s alumni network.

PUBLIC POLICY CENTER TALKED BROADBAND USAGE AT PANEL

On March 18, the Center for Business and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business hosted a discussion on the current use of broadband by businesses and governments entitled “The National Broadband Plan: Looking Back, Reaching Forward.” The event consisted of panel discussions and keynote speeches by experts in the field, including Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Jason Furman. In particular, the discussion centered on the National Broadband Plan published by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010.

QATAR INSTITUTE AND MSB HOSTED SPORTS DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

Last week, the McDonough School of Business partnered with Josoor Institute, a center of excellence for the sports and events industries, to host “Leadership and Managerial Core Competencies,” an education program for more than 25 senior managers of the Qatar Football Association and the Qatar Stars League on professional growth and development.

Many of the courses were taught by managerial experts from Georgetown, including professor Michael McDermott, professor Rebecca Heino and Assistant Dean for Program Management Roberto Flores.

OLYMPIAN AND PARALYMPIAN SHARE STORIES WITH STUDENTS

Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek and Paralympic gold medalist Alana Nichols talked with students Feb. 24 about the importance of hard work and dedication in their pursuit of glory in their specific sports. Lysacek won gold in Vancouver in 2010 in ice skating, while Nichols is the sole female to have won gold medals at both the summer and winter Paralympic Games. The two toured the country as part of Deloitte’s Team U.S.A. Road show, which featured 13 athletes who have competed for Team U.S.A. at the Olympics at 10 different universities around the United States, including Duke University and Carnegie Mellon University in addition to Georgetown.

Student Tea Startup Bubbles to Surface KELSEY QUACKENBUSH Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown Bubble, a studentrun startup that sells bubble tea, sold out in less than an hour at its first pop-up shop on the second floor of Lauinger Library Tuesday evening.

The business sold out of its bubble tea faster than expected, running out of tea after about a half an hour of operation.

“We started at 8:30 on the dot, we had people lining up probably at 8:10,” Co-Founder Natalie Kaliss (SFS ’18) said. “We sold out of the 25 $1 cups in probably less than 10 minutes and we sold out of our two batches which are two pots and our whole jar of actual tapioca in about half an hour.”

Kaliss, along with Tim Yim (SFS ’17), Michelle Hur (SFS ’17) and Rachel Villanueva (SFS ’16), hailed their shared love of bubble tea as one of the reasons they decided to form the startup.

“For us, bubble tea is almost like lemonade … it’s all over Taiwan. We had access to it as a special treat for completing major field exercises in the army,” Yim said.

Bubble tea, a Taiwanese drink, is also known as pearl milk tea, or boba milk tea, and was invented in Taichung in the 1980s, gaining popularity in most parts of East and Southeast Asia during the 1990s. Bubble tea typically has a milk and tea base with large, chewy tapioca balls added at the bottom of the drink. While the business currently only has the original black tea flavor, the founders plan to introduce jasmine green, rose and Thai teas in the near future.

“One thing that is unique about us is that we actually brew

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Georgetown Bubble, a student-run startup company, hosted its first pop-up store on the second floor of Lauinger Library to provide students with bubble tea. It sold out within half an hour. the tea instead of using the powder, unlike a lot of bubble tea places. So we used English break-

fast tea for this one,” Hur said.

“Everything is made by Tim. He has his master recipe. That’s

Growth Grant Competition Awards Inaugural Prize

Hoya Staff Writer

Campus Job, an online marketplace based in Philadelphia that connects students to employers, is in the midst of expanding to Georgetown and beyond.

Two students at the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Wessel and J.J. Fliegelman, founded the marketplace in 2011, with a $1,000 in prize winnings from a business competition.

Recently, Campus Job launched a comprehensive website to help expand their network.

Wessel said that since the website’s official launch, thousands of students have already found jobs. With its early success, the main focus is now to expand both the student and employer network to universities around the country.

“Growth is our main goal. We want to get as many students using the website as possible because if you think about it, pretty much every student in the U.S. wants a part-time job during school or a summer internship or even a full-time job after they graduate,” Wessel said. “So we should be able to get every student in the country using Campus Job.”She

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a variety of criteria including the attractiveness of the startup’s business idea and the scalability of the venture, with Georgetown’s inaugural Growth Grant, the winner receiving a $250 grant and a competition supporting campus entre- advisory services to support future develpreneurship by providing a forum for opment. startups to both compete for monetary After the competition, Corredata prizes and receive feedback from judges, was named the champion. The compaheld its final round in the Rafik B. Hariri ny, founded by Caleb Reed (MSB ’13), is Building Thursday, naming search en- a search engine for publicly available gine startup Corredata data sets, aggregating as the winner. governmental and Jay Bhandari (MSB organizational data ’18), along with Rahul sources.

Desai (MSB ’17), creThe other finalists ated the competition included BioD, a forwith the added emphaprofit that provides sis on interaction with rural families with judges, with the hope renewable energy; it would provide a Campus Sherpa, a more intimate setting startup that provides in which each startup personal one-on-one JAY BHANDARI (MSB ’18) Growth Grant Founder is provided with more campus tours to protime to present its spective students; ideas and receive feedback.

Chaos Control, an elite personal as“The Growth Grant focuses on provid- sistance and babysitting business; and ing a boost to early-stage ventures with Push, a crowd-funded publishing platpotential to scale. The winning venture form. will receive a cash prize, but every venJacob Haberman (MSB ’18), who helped ture will receive pitching experience and plan and organize the event, said the proone-on-one access to an incredible group cess of selecting startups for the competiof judges,” Bhandari said. tion’s final round was difficult.

The competition included a pitch pre“We were lucky to receive a large numsentation and question-and-answer sec- ber of high quality applications this year. tion for each business lasting 10 minutes.

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“The Growth Grant focuses on providing a boost to earlystage ventures with potential to scale.”

Website Connects Students With Internships LUCY PROUT

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added that providing students with a broader range of job listings is another priority of the website expansion, in addition to marketing toward college students.

“We want to see as much diversity as possible for jobs as well as students. We want you to be able to find a job whether you are a finance student or an art history major,” Wessel said. “In the past five minutes I saw 3 three different jobs were posted. One was at a bakery as a baker’s assistant, one was at an investment bank in Florida as a summer intern, and another was as a barista at Starbucks.”

Georgetown University Campus Job marketing representative Ale Ruttimann (COL ’18) came across the website through Facebook and became a marketing representative this January, noting Campus Job is looking to expand brand recognition on Georgetown’s campus.

“We are still at the ground level. We might like to table at a jobs fair or partner with a major event like Kickback to sponsor or promote internships in junction with the school,” she said.

The website is free for both students and employers, who both create profiles for the

site’s database. Employer profiles can invite students to apply or tailor views to certain students based on qualifications.

Georgetown University Campus Job marketing representative Felix van der Vaart (SFS ’16) said that the organization is targeting a niche market that employers previously had a difficult time connecting with.

“As a student, we have a certain degree of access you don’t have after you leave this campus — I’m walking around people who are 19 to 22 years old every day, 500 of them,” van der Vaart said. “And because I’m their age, I’m able to reach them in a way other people won’t be able to. … [Campus Job] realize[s] a 60-year-old won’t be able to reach you the same way a fellow 20-year-old can.”

Leigh Gilliand (COL ’17) discovered Campus Job through a friend at Stanford University and commented on how the website trumps some services already provided by Georgetown. “It has an easier interface compared to the Career Center, which can be all over the place and hard to deal with. This is really simple and is a different type of employers that are posting — they are tech, apps, less traditional jobs, which is really cool,” Gilliand said.

Sean Sullivan

Strong Dollar Helps Students, Hurts Countries B

y almost every indicator, the American economy is seeing the other side of the Great Recession. Consumer confidence, S&P 500 prices, exports and even employment have all restored or have almost reached their pre-Recession highs.

Despite how rosy things look in the United States, other countries aren’t faring so well. Economists predict another slowdown in China’s economic growth, Europe has remained relatively stagnant (particularly in the economic engines of France and Germany), and energy export-dependent countries such as Russia, Nigeria and Venezuela have increasingly struggled with the plummeting

As the U.S. economy recovers from the Great Recession, the relatively strong dollar has had disparate effects on borrowers and students. price of oil.

All of these factors (and more) contribute to this week’s topic: the surge in the value of the dollar against other currencies.

At the time this article is going to print, one euro is equal to 1.07 dollars. This equivalency is the closest the two currencies have come since 2001.

The euro isn’t the only benchmark for the strength of the dollar, but between its performance and that of currencies like the yen and the yuan, the dollar is without a doubt a stronger currency now than it was at any point in the last 10 years.

While it may seem that a 22 percent increase in the last year in the value of the dollar is colossal, the size of the move is exaggerated by market forces. The sluggish economies have meant stagnant currencies globally, driving investors toward dollar-denominated assets that they can See SULLIVAN, A9