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TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015

LOOKING BEYOND

A disappointing end in Portland should not overshadow the accomplishments of the season.

EDITORIAL GU Fossil Free’s Gaston Hall incursion shows a certain disrespect.

HAZING Administrators have created a website for resources and reporting.

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NEWS, A5

SPORTS, A10

SpaceFunded ForUnofficial Groups Andrew Wallender Hoya Staff Writer

As part of the 2016 Georgetown University Student Association Budget approved by the senate after contentious debate Sunday evening, unrecognized student groups will receive on-campus storage space, club sports will receive funding for a full-time athletic trainer for a year and the Georgetown Program Board will face $14,000 in funding cuts.

The allocation is an approximate $11,250 increase from last year’s allocation, and GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) will act on the budget next week.

The funding of an approximately $2,200 storage cage in Regents Hall for unrecognized student groups was the most contentious item of the more

“The room got a little more heated than I expected it to get.”

Security Upgrades Disconnect SaxaNet Xinlan Hu

According to Nicholson, the problem will grow as students update their software, but at this point, An incompatibility between a over 100 people have been affected newly installed security patch and within a network supporting 15,000 SaxaNet’s existing security struc- people any one time. ture has led to difficulties with con“We could have probably been necting to SaxaNet for hundreds of more efficient,” Nicholson said. students; as more “The reason why students update “The reason why it it takes sometheir Microsoft times a long time software, the prob- takes sometimes a is that not everylem may expand to long time is that not one upgrades at affect a larger perone time. So as centage of the stu- everyone upgrades at more people updent population. grade, the probone time.”

The incompatlem becomes ibility problem JUDD NICHOLSON more prevalent.

Deputy Chief Information Officer affected Windows … It takes us a 8.1 users after Apfew instances to ple and Microsoft released new secu- see the problem and then it takes rity patches that conflicted with the time to resolve it with appropriate university’s Wi-Fi infrastructure. infrastructure.”

According to Deputy Chief InforNicholson said that UIS is workmation Officer Judd Nicholson, the ing to anticipate Microsoft and Approblem first arose in January and ple patches to prevent problems like will hopefully be resolved by the end this one in the future. of next week as University Information Services modifies the system.

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Hoya Staff Writer

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Security patch updates to Microsoft Windows software have created connectivity problems for hundreds of PC users on campus.

Luther, Rohan Assume GUSA Helm Tom Garzillo

ROBERT SHEPHERD (MSB ’15) Fin/App Committee Chair

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than $1 million budget, raising backand-forth debate between members of the Finance and Appropriations Committee and GUSA senators in a nearly two-and-a-half hour meeting.

“I knew this [storage space] was something that a lot of senators were passionate about, but the room got a little more heated than I expected it to get,” Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair Robert Shepherd (MSB ’15) said.

Although not on the original budget, an amendment funded the storage space with $600 taken from the executive budget, $500 donated from the stipends of GUSA Executive Officer Ryan Giarusso (SFS ’17) and Deputy Executive Officer Leyla Izquierdo (COL ’18) and a matching $1,100 donation from Students of Georgetown, Inc. The Corp did not respond to requests for comment regarding their donation.

“We see this as a large step forward for unrecognized groups, and we’re very excited that we can play such a large role in it,” Luther said.

Former GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) originally promised See BUDGET, A6

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Outgoing GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) swore in incoming President Joe Luther (COL ’16) in Saturday’s ceremony. Luther will serve alongside Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16).

School Defends Ideological Diversity Daniel Silbert Hoya Staff Writer

While questions of racial and socioeconomic diversity draw increased attention to universities around the country, ideological diversity has also undergone scrutiny. Although students have asserted a perceived liberal tilt at the McCourt School of Public Policy, administrators contested the claims.

In a survey of more than 150,000 college freshmen conducted by the University of California in Los Angeles in fall 2014, though most students self-identify as politically middle-of-the-road, students increasingly hold liberal positions, showing stronger support for permitting gay marriage and addressing global climate change than the general populace.

The McCourt School of Public Policy directly confronts policy issues and thus often encounters a sharp divide along ideological lines. The nonpartisan school explains that in its teaching, “ideas are not accepted simply because they fit a particular ideological agenda.”

FILE PHOTO: ALEXANDER BROWN/THE HOYA

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Administrators countered assertions that the McCourt School of Public Policy, opened in 2013, was overwhelmingly liberal.

Georgetown University Student Association President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) were sworn into office by former GUSA executives President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) on Saturday in a ceremony held in Healy Hall.

Chief Justice of the Constitutional Council Joshua Shinbrot (COL ’16) presided over the inauguration, which began with a speech from Jikaria, who congratulated Luther and Rohan on winning the election.

“I would not want anyone else protecting Georgetown except Joe and Connor for the upcoming year,” Jikaria said.

Jikaria also said that she was proud of the work she and Tezel accomplished over the past year and offered a word of advice to those working in GUSA in the future.

“I encourage you to be mindful of the work that you do. Remember to keep things in perspective, and don’t be afraid to step outside your comfort zone,” Jikaria said.

After Jikaria spoke, Tezel gave a See INAUGURATION, A6

FEATURED NEWS Student Aid

The U.S. Senate and 219 House of Representatives released budgets that slashed funding.

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NEWS 25 Years

The Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice received a $4M anniversary donation.

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Sports Marquette Upset

The men’s lacrosse team beat the previously undefeated No. 9 Marquette on Saturday.

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OPINION Editorial

Students must take an educated and activist role in campus plan negotiations.

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NEWS Terracycle

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The complex-item recycling system has expanded to all four freshman dorms.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

THE VERDICT

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EDITORIALS

Get Off the Stage During World Bank president Jim Yong Kim’s speech at Gaston Hall on March 18, GU Fossil Free stormed the stage, presenting a banner that quoted Kim: “Corporate leaders should not wait to act until market signals are right & national investment policies are in place” and “Divest now GU Fossil Free.”

Kim was present on campus to discuss climate change, a matter central to GU Fossil Free’s mission, but the actions taken by the student group last Wednesday demonstrate an unfortunate misappropriation of values and a disrespect. GU Fossil Free must take greater care to exhibit and advocate their cause without alienating students.

From numerous on-campus protests to attempting to forcibly enter a meeting of the university board of directors last month, storming the stage during President Kim’s speech is the latest in a series of headline-grabbing incidents this year.

GU Fossil Free’s passion for the issues of climate change and divestment is palpable, valiant and commendable, but the group must pick their battles more rationally.

There is a line between enthusiastic advocacy and unnecessary disruption of the community. Gaston Hall is a respected space. Performing and speaking there, as well as even attending events there, is a special experience. But as one of the oldest community spaces on campus, Gaston Hall and its credibility must be protected by the university.

It is incidents like these that damage the entire university’s reputation. Even if the demonstration was in solidarity with the issue to which Kim spoke and used Kim’s own words to articulate a stand against climate change, it is disrespectful and counterintuitive, objectively speaking, to create a scene in order to advocate an issue.

The tactics used by GU Fossil Free un-

necessarily dramatize the issues at hand, as well as draw attention from those issues that are just as important.

Additionally, rather than causing students to reflect and demand divestment, the strategies employed by GU Fossil Free only engender discussion on the nature of such tactics.

It is a statement in itself that media coverage of last Wednesday was not centered around President Kim’s visit, or even climate change itself, but around a student group’s storming of Gaston Hall’s stage.

GU Fossil Free must prioritize fostering genuine dialogue within the student body instead of relying on the shock effect of storming the stage.

Protests and stormings could be exchanged for town halls or open meetings to give interested non-members a voice.

It should be important to GU Fossil Free that in the months leading up to the Committee on Investment and Social Responsibility’s February vote that engendered these protests, hundreds of students signed the petition demanding the Georgetown divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies, and both The Hoya and The Voice published editorials calling for divestment in solidarity with GU Fossil Free.

This is an issue that remains important to the student body; there should be no reason to rely on attention-grabbing tactics to move a cause forward. The focus should instead be placed upon the issue itself and what the student body as a whole can do to convince the university to make the right decision.

Change can be advocated for effectively in myriad ways other than those being currently utilized by this student group.

We urge GU Fossil Free to change their methods of advocacy and better create a space for real dialogue or risk losing the support they have within the Georgetown community.

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GU Gets Messi — Starting today, Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi will be practicing on campus with members of the Georgetown soccer team in preparation for Argentina’s friendly against El Salvador in Washington this Saturday.

Cold Case — Police have suspended investigation on the case of the UVA rape featured in Rolling Stone magazine that prompted a whirlwind of media coverage, citing a lack of evidence.

Cave of Wonders — Lauinger Library will open its newest collection of rare books, manuscripts and historic documents at the Booth Center for Special Collections after nearly a year of construction.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Derek Nelson

Speak Up for Our Campus Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This wisdom has fortunately not been lost on the Georgetown University Student Association.

The body released a comprehensive campus plan report last Wednesday bearing the frank title “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again,” which provides a detailed account of the ramifications of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement produced by the Georgetown Community Partnership and urges students to act while the specifics of the next plan remain relatively less finalized.

While life on the Hilltop has remained the same in many respects, the 2010 Campus Plan has had negative consequences for the student body as a whole.

From the implementation of a threeyear housing requirement to the creation of new dorms that promise to further clutter an already-crowded campus, the 2010 plan has precipitated a number of unpopular policies that stand to radically change campus life, if they have not done so already.

As members of the Georgetown community, students must heed the lessons of our last experience and take an active role in crafting a campus plan that better reflects our wishes this time around.

GUSA’s report is a critical first step toward achieving that goal, but in order to argue for a more representative campus plan, students need first to have an understanding of the stakes involved and how the last campus plan has affected us.

By arming the student body with information about how the previous campus plan has undermined our interests, “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again” should become the foundation upon which a much stronger effort to fight for student goals in negotiations can and should be built.

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The student body needs to take it upon itself to exhibit an active role in the 2018 plan negotiations. Only by maintaining our voice and standing together as students of Georgetown can our interests actually be heard and taken seriously by administrators and neighborhood officials.

We encourage every student to read “Let’s Not Get Screwed Again,” but we also encourage students not to let simply reading the pamphlet be the end of their involvement.

The most important action students can take is to be outspoken proponents of their interests as the negotiations grow nearer, as such vociferous support will put pressure on the Community Partnership to take our needs into consideration.

Such action will also provide the members of GUSA who will be speaking on our behalf with a crucial mandate for their positions, something that we can say was undoubtedly lacking during the 2010 negotiations given the amount of enormously unpopular initiatives that came as a surprise to many. We advise GUSA to do its part as well and provide opportunities to become involved as negotiations proceed.

GUSA has written a petition that advocates modifying the on-campus housing requirement, calls for renovations of existing buildings over the construction of new buildings and demands greater student representation on the campus plan’s Steering Committee, a board of administrators that will oversee negotiations over the plan that currently only allows one student representative. The petition itself has amassed 800 signatures to date, and will keep growing as long as we act together.

We urge students to sign it, and give voice to a cause that will affect us for the rest of our time on this campus.

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Tithi Patel (SFS ’18) reflects on her journey confronting familiarly-experienced problems: I spent the entire last semester trying to figure out what I was doing with my life, if I was doing college right. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of my time, but I did not understand that I was prioritizing incorrectly. By this, I mean I kept putting others and their experiences before myself. I decided to put myself first. I used to think this was selfish, until it dawned on me that you are the only person who is guaranteed to be there for yourself. If I was strong for others, I could do it for myself.”

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Stephanie Zhou (SFS ’15) argues a case against preprofessionalism in colleges.

It’s 2015 at Georgetown, and a culture of pre-professionalism has become firmly inculcated in how students conceive of success, ambition, and recognition in their four years on campus. Students are placing undue emphasis on resume-building, networking, interviewing, and brand-seeking, oftentimes at the expense of their intellectual interests. They worry that the skillsets they are acquiring in the classroom are “impractical.”

But who cares? Your undergraduate education is meant to be impractical.

College should be where you learn to think, love what you learn, and test the waters.”

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Instead, students are tunnel-visioning themselves towards graduation before the academic journey has even begun.”

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TuesDAY, March 24, 2015

The Dean’s Desk

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VIEWPOINT • Holliman

The Privilege of Service Marlene Canlas

Adopt the Hashtag Education I

recently had a conversation with an advisee about a project called SkillTag. SkillTag was the winner of last year’s Hackathon, a brainstorming event sponsored by the Provost’s Office. Hackathon invited students to think up ideas for defining the skills that undergraduates obtain from a Georgetown education, and SkillTag involves “tagging” current courses with skills that students can hope to gain from them.

I challenged my advisee to think of the most formative Georgetown course she’s taken and to take a stab at SkillTag-ing it.

She chose Problem of God and tagged it with “critical thinking” and “humility.” I loved her response — but it got me thinking about SkillTag’s potential limitations.

Is humility a taggable skill? Probably not, but it is nevertheless an admirable (not to mention employable) quality that Georgetown strives to foster. If Georgetown is truly about educating the whole person, how do we recognize values as well as skills, such as the integrity students develop as members of the Honor Council? Or the respect for others they demonstrate in classroom discussion? Where do we tag the skills and values developed through extracurricular activities?

How will SkillTag account for two students who experience a course differently, or for courses in which a professor’s objectives don’t line up with a student’s lived experience? Teamwork could be a problematic example. Throughout my educational career, I’ve been involved in more group projects than I care to remember. The experience of that group work has run the gamut from intensely collaborative and iterative to mostly individual work hastily pasted together at the last minute. I’d consider the former a tag-worthy experience; the latter, not so much.

My primary concern is SkillTag’s attempt to encapsulate what should be a formative, layered, semester-long experience into a few words. In the world of Facebook and Twitter, it is so tempting to want to (hash)tag things, to make them easily searchable or findable and to reach an audience with an ever-shortening attention span. But at Georgetown, our current challenge should be to re-engage that attention span and encourage students to dig deep.

Superior General of the Society of Jesus Fr. Adolfo Nicolas warns us about a “globalization of superficiality” that threatens the depth and nature of human interaction. Relationships are defined by friend requests rather than a set of shared values or experiences. Author Nicolas Carr echoes these concerns when he writes, “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.”

Carr’s writings on the effects of the Internet on human cognition draw disturbing conclusions about our diminishing capacity for close reading and deep thinking, as my colleague Jessica Ciani-Dausch will discuss later in this series.

Students should reach their own conclusions about how a course has transformed them or sharpened their skills, rather than relying on a tag to tell them what they’ve gained. This should occur at a very personal level, through deep reflection and a critical evaluation of each one’s own experience.

That conversation with my advisee was so refreshing because it offered such a clear example of deep and personal reflection. My student eloquently articulated how Problem of God had expanded her worldview and challenged long-standing assumptions she held about faith and spirituality. By remaining open to and engaged in course readings, and the exchange of ideas among her peers, she allowed herself to be transformed. By paying attention to her interior thoughts and feelings throughout the course, she developed a greater sense of awe at the notion of God and a deeper sense of humility as part of His creation.

To reap the full value of our Jesuit heritage, Georgetown should continue to encourage this kind of discernment, which encourages good decision making and vocational choices over the course of our students’ lives. By pushing my students to see beyond resume skills, I hope they can avoid selling themselves and their Georgetown experience short.

I hope students recognize that the spirit of experimentation and innovation common in our research labs fosters pioneering scientists and fearless problem-solvers.

A sense of fairness honed in courses like Intro to Justice and Peace cultivates thoughtful professionals and better parents. The value of tolerance underpinning heated debates and inter-religious dialogue facilitates success as both partners and politicians. These may not be “taggable” skills, but they certainly deserve a place in this learning community, where we educate the entire person.

Marlene Canlas is an assistant dean at Georgetown College. She is one of the alternating writers for The Dean’s Desk, which will appear throughout 2015.

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or a young woman of modest origins from the countryside of Oklahoma, finding myself in the Palace Al Bustan in Oman, dressed in my best suit, trying desperately to look like I belonged in a room full of prominent public health officials, felt quite a lot like some strange, academic, version of the classic Cinderella story.

I was brought to this particular palace as a program leader for the Health Security Futures Fellowship, a State Department funded fellowship and brainchild of Georgetown professor and Director for International Affairs at the American Society for Microbiology, Jason Rao. I ended up in the fellowship as the result of taking Dr. Rao’s OneHealth class in the microbiology department at Georgetown.

The fellowship paired American students with students from Kurdish Iraq and Pakistan. The students were to work together to develop a proposal to solve a current global health security challenge — from breast cancer screening to DIY lab’s regulation of dual-use technology. The top proposals receive a grant from the fellowship to carry out their projects over the following year.

This year, the fellowship ran in conjunction with the “7th International Conference on Health Issues in Arab Communities,” so the fellows were able to use the talks to supplement their work, and solicit advice from professionals in the field about their projects.

Though the opulent settings presented a diversion for my country-bred senses, it was the fellows themselves that made it magical. I had the chance to work with Kurdish doctors and Pakistani microbiologists. I am an Army veteran, and three years ago, I would have never believed that I would get the chance to see an Iraqi that was not on the other end of my rifle, and I could not be gladder that I did. I have never

I am an Army veteran, and three years ago, I would have never believed that I would get the chance to see an Iraqi that was not on the other end of my rifle, and I could not be gladder that I did. been so impressed by a group of individuals than I was by the Kurdish students.

Though many of them had never travelled outside of Kurdistan before, they threw themselves into the fellowship, overcoming culture shock, language barriers, and significant academic challenges.

The Pakistani students made me a better team member. They walked around with their big grins and repeating, again and again, how grateful they were to be there. Apparently, their gratitude was infectious because it certainly amplified my own feelings. Their exam-

ple inspired me to write this, as I have come to understand how important it is to verbalize my own gratitude for being involved in this fellowship. Working with the international students also shocked me out of my somewhat myopic view of the world. For example, after a very long and exhausting week at the fellowship, they Kurdish students found out that their flight to Kurdistan had to be rerouted due to security delays.

The resulting reroute had them facing a 13 hour layover and an 8 hour bus ride through the mountains to

VIEWPOINT • Goldstein

Preparing for 2018’s High-Stakes Game

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e should be angry.

We should be angry at neighborhood leaders for forcing the university into a series of costly and prohibitive agreements that are not only bad for students but also bad for the community itself.

We should be angry at university administrators for acquiescing to major neighborhood demands around housing, transportation and student conduct, instead of standing up for the students they are supposed to serve.

Most importantly, we should be angry at ourselves for failing to effectively organize on behalf of student interests, instead watching helplessly as the university-negotiated agreements that restricted our rights reallocated our tuition dollars and reshaped our future. With no meaningful student engagement, it’s clear why we ended up with a 2010 Campus Plan that consistently placed neighborhood interests over those of students.

This pattern has played out in dozens of ways, but the most egregious example is in housing. Concerned about the negative impacts of students living off-campus, neighborhood leaders pushed in 2010 for 100 percent of undergraduate students to live on campus.

Facing political pressure from the Citizen’s Association of Georgetown, the Burleith Citizen’s Association and the Advisory Neighborhood Commission without significant student opposition, university administrators compromised at 90 percent. This new benchmark would require restricting student rights to live off-campus and spending enormous sums of money to build additional on-campus housing for 629 students over the next several years.

Neighborhood concerns about housing were reasonable, but they made excessive and politically charged demands instead of engaging the university in meaningful dialogue or constructive solutions. As a result, we’re now faced with a third-year oncampus housing requirement, delayed renovations and more than $70 million in new construction projects. Angry yet?

The 2018 Campus Plan is approaching, and the responsibility falls squarely on our shoulders to make this time different than the last. Everything is at stake — housing, transportation, dining, accessibility, green space and the future of student life are all on the table.

And when everything is at stake, we have no choice but to speak up loudly, clearly and with a unified student voice.

Let’s not get screwed again.

First, we must demand that administrators not commit to any additional on-campus housing requirements. The right to live off-campus is a fundamental part of the Georgetown experience, and attempts by administrators or neighborhood leaders to restrict that right are both unprecedented and unreasonable.

Administrators frequently tout the importance of “swing space” as justification for additional on-campus housing,

but this narrative is disingenuous. We must build even more new residence halls, they say, in order to provide swing space to allow us to complete the necessary renovations that we ignored while we were building other new residence halls, circuitous logic that leads to conclusions echoing the problems of the 2010 Plan.

The Northeast Triangle and the Former Jesuit Residence will surely be positive additions to campus life, but we cannot confuse improved quality of oncampus housing with the right to live off-campus. Let us not spend millions of dollars to build more residence halls nobody wants in order to comply with a self-imposed requirement nobody likes.

Second, we must demand that administrators prioritize renovations over the construction of new buildings. Henle is in disrepair, Village A is rapidly deteriorating and the quality of Kehoe Field is outrageous for a university that prides itself on a strong athletics program — not to mention less important but still necessary renovations to Walsh, Lau, Reiss, Yates and the Leavey Center.

Administrators understandably face challenges in confronting infrastructure problems across campus, but they will never be able to adequately solve these problems as long as we are spending exorbitant sums of money constructing new residence halls.

And third, we must demand that administrators and neighborhood leaders give students a real seat at the table by adding additional student representatives to the Georgetown Community Partnership Steering Committee.

The GCP Steering Committee and the associated Master Planning Working Group will be crucial in drafting the next campus plan, but currently allow only one student representative out of 17 community leaders. The 2010 Plan was an indication of what happens when student voices are not effectively represented, so adding students to the Steering Committee is a clear next step in making the 2018 Plan more inclusive and equitable.

The next few months won’t be easy — students will need to speak louder than ever before. But if the last few days are any indication, we’re up to the task. We gathered over 800 signatures on a petition laying out these demands in just a few days, and we expect significantly more in the coming weeks.

So speak up. Sign the petition. Reach out to your representatives. Learn more at www.ourgeorgetown.com. And most importantly, be angry — because the opportunity couldn’t be greater, the time couldn’t be better and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Be angry — because the opportunity couldn’t be greater, the time couldn’t be better and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Ari Goldstein is a freshman in the College and co-chair of the Georgetown University Student Alliance Campus Plan Subcommittee.

get home — yet they were all smiles and hugs and positive attitudes as we parted ways in the airport. After that example, how could I not realize how comparatively easy life is in the United States? A bus delayed by 15 minutes on my morning commute? No big deal. I can take a bus without hours of delays and security concerns. I never saw how much of a privilege that truly was.

Perhaps the greatest gift I have taken from this fellowship is a sense of direction. As a master’s student, I perhaps should have had a clear vision for what to do with my life, but I still found myself treading in the waters of “too many interests and all of them seem intimidating.”

This fellowship has given me the firm knowledge that I could work on global health issues quite happily for the rest of my life, and the tentative belief that an unimportant young woman from Oklahoma could actually make a meaningful difference. I might not be completely clear just yet on how, but for the first time I think it might be possible to make an impact.

So, with borrowed gratitude from the Pakistanis and borrowed resolute optimism from the Iraqis, I hope to take my experience and turn it into something important — I am not sure yet what form that impact will take, but the belief that I actually can impact this world, and the understanding of the personal rewards that come from the attempt, have lodged themselves somewhere deep in my consciousness — so I have faith that they will grow into something much bigger than a single student, or even a single fellowship, in the future.

Rebecca Holliman is working on a Master’s in Biomedical Science Policy and Advocacy at Georgetown University.

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ith 24 films and a com- on screen. With newest incarnation bined gross of $13 billion, Daniel Craig’s contract up within the the James Bond/007 movie next two films, the question of who will franchise is a film industry juggernaut. replace him remains a topic of debate.

Good or bad, it has netted hundreds of Coming off Rush Limbaugh’s highly millions of dollars and collected some unpopular comment that James Bond of of the highest box office revenues of must be “white and Scottish,” it is clear all time. we still live in a world where race is What is it that piques the interest still an issue that draws unnecessary of audiences all over the world in the debate. aura of personality that is James Bond?

The original purpose of James Bond The swagger, the martini drinking, was to recapture Britain’s lost percepthe diverse weapons skills, the talent tion of its national power among its citiin bed? zens, after they saw themselves becomThe bottom line is that James ing a regional power after World War Bond is supposed to be a charming II. Black actor and reported contender action hero. Who can replace Dan- for the next Bond, Idris Elba, is a British iel Craig after citizen. He grew up in he has finished Britain, and has prachis tenure after tically lived there all two more movhis life. He has played ies? roles that are treated Anyone really, with great respect in but he should be society, such as that of a minority. the title police detecDiversity in tive character in “Luthe cinema ther,” one of the BBC’s Musa Bassey industry as a most popular TV whole is unforshows, about an emtunately lacking. battled British homiThe University cide investigator, and of Southern CaliStacker Pentecost, the fornia recently military commander released a diof the extraterrestrial versity study of defense system in “Paminority repcific Rim.” resentation in It is a fact that we film for 500 (topcannot stand to iggrossing) films nore any longer that and 20,000 charAmerican film casts acters. It found are 76 percent white that over 76 on screen, while only percent of speaking characters in films 56 percent of the people who pay to see are white. The University of California these movies are white.

Los Angeles did a similar study, findI have heard the argument that ing that over 90 percent of Oscar and a black actor playing James Bond is Emmy winners are white males. akin to a white actor playing Nelson Yet, this debate becomes divisive, Mandela. This is an incomplete analbecause race issues such as these may ogy. sometimes be criticized for consistently Yes, Matt Damon should not play attacking the same demographic of Mandela but Will Smith should not white men. There are those who would play Franklin Delano Roosevelt either. call this debate petty or claim that it’s These are profiles of unique individumotivated by anger. als’ social struggles, and need to be reIn truth, the overwhelming amount spected as such. of people advocating diversity in society Nobody needs to be white, black, are reasonable, rational people. brown, male or female to play an artist, I have white male friends, but I a dancer, a doctor, a lawyer, a businessalso have female friends, I have black man or a general. Actors shouldn’t friends, I have Latino friends, Asian need to be of any background to write friends, Native American friends and about, mold, or portray a race-neutral the like. I have seen and heard the leader or a symbol. struggles that they have endured, and So yes, we should make James Bond I have experienced some of them my- black. It shouldn’t matter to begin with. self.

But it is an unfortunate indicator of Our priority should be to make the way we continue to place whites American leadership, American hier- over minorities in film, and yet another archies and American culture look like onus placed on us to be mindful of inAmerica. It is important that we do this equality in the industry. in our culture and age, because our hisMinority actors can play a role that tory has shown us that we are running is not just about their struggle for out of time. freedom, but about actual freedom.

It should be of the utmost impor- They want to be able to express themtance to include under-represented selves in roles the same way that white groups. This country cannot be whole people do. It’s not about race. It’s about unless all the other parts are repre- freedom. sented.

Let’s start including them in the Musa Bassey is a freshman in the most popular, most profitable films.

College. The Undergrad AlmaSeven actors have played James Bond nac appears every other Tuesday.

We cannot ignore any longer that 76 percent of all American casts are white, while only 54 percent of American audiences are nonhispanic white.

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has invited numerous writers to participate in programs or events with students. Notable poets and writers who The Lannan Center for Poetics and have spoken at Georgetown include Social Practice received a $4 million enMargaret Atwood, Junot Díaz and Mark dowment from J. Patrick Lannan (CAS Strand. English professor Mark McMor’60) and the Lannan Foundation upon ris, who often attends and helps moderits 25th anniversary to permanently ate Lannan programming, emphasized establish itself as an interdisciplinary the value in student-poet interaction. program within the Office of the Presi“Students are very excited to have dent. these writers come to our campus for “The Lannan Center has exceeded seminars and readings, for longerour expectations in recent years and, term residencies,” McMorris said. “As a speaking with Georgetown President student, you not only read the books, John J. DeGioia, I realized that it could which you might do in other classes, serve a more important role by reachbut you are able to talk to the writing across disciplines,” Lannan said in ers, to meet them over dinner and at a statement on the university website. a reception, to talk about their work, “This most recent gift will establish the about literature, culture, politics [and] center as an integral part of the univerthe arts generally. The center is meant sity community and the D.C. literary to bring the writers of today face-to-face landscape.” with the writers of tomorrow — our Since its establishment as a program own students.” within the English department by the Tim Rosenberger (COL ’16), a current national Lannan Foundation in 1989, Lannan Fellow, said that in addition the Lannan Center has hosted a seto the speaker programming, the prories of poetry events, projects, courses gram is unique in its emphasis on soand fellowships, including its annual cial justice and is of great value to the spring symposium. This year’s sympoGeorgetown community. sium, entitled “In Nature’s Wake: The “It’s about poetics and social justice, Art and Politics of Environmental Criand the way that those two things insis,” will be held from Mar. 24 to 25. tersect— how culture can be a force for Each year, the Lannan Center accepts social change,” Rosenberger said. “It a group of 15 to 25 undergraduate and is a very quintessentially Georgetown graduate Lannan Fellows, who participrogram. I think it is a good opportupate in a three-credit poetry and poetnity for us to feel a lived value of the ics course and engage with visiting poJesuit beliefs our school has.”

In addition, Forché said that the center provides opportunities for students to explore poetry in the context of social justice and activism through many different activities.

“Students have found a home in Lannan Center for such activities as human rights and social justice work, poetry slams, creative writing and performance, engagement with community literacy programs and environmental activism,” Forché said.

“Students spend hours there during the day, talking about their writing, editing magazines and reading from the small but growing library of contemporary literature.”

The annual two-day symposium also allows participants to focus on a topic of interdisciplinary interest by inviting guests who specialize in a particular social issue, according to Forché.

The donation will ensure that the center can continue to host future symposia and other programming.

“These symposia allow our community to engage with some of the most important writers and thinkers of our time, and to converse across disciplines,” Forché said. “We hope to serve as a resource for the university and city communities, to engage the most urgent questions of our time, to DAN GANNON/THE HOYA bring poets, writers, thinkers and acThe Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, located on the fourth floor of tivists to our campus from across our country and from all over the world.”

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ets, among them this year Fanny Howe, Ammiel Alcalay and Eileen Myles.

Joseph Ferrara, the president’s chief of staff, expressed University President John J. DeGioia’s gratitude for the donation in a statement.

“Georgetown has benefited from the generosity of the Lannan Foundation in significant ways since the Lannan programs were established 25 years ago,” Ferrara wrote. “President DeGioia is deeply grateful that this endowment gift will ensure that the Lannan Center will continue to serve our community as a place where students and faculty from across our campus can come together and explore the relationship between poetry, culture and current events.”

English professor and Lannan Center Director Carolyn Forché said that the endowment will allow the center to pursue new programming and ensure that the center will continue to grow and develop in the future.

“Lannan Foundation has generously provided annual grants for our programming. The new endowment will assure that the work of Lannan Center will continue in perpetuity on our campus,” Forché said. “Now that we are under the Office of the President, we will be extending our work and participation throughout the campus, and we welcome this engagement and what it will bring.”

In the past years, the Lannan Center

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Federal financial aid for college students has been slashed in proposed budget resolutions released by both the Senate and the House of Representatives last week.

The House resolution, which is more “defined,” according to Georgetown University Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (SFS ’72), freezes the maximum Pell Grant for the next 10 years, removes the in-college interest rate subsidy and eliminates the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

According to Fleming, Pell Grants covered 77 percent of the tuition of public four-year institutions in 1990 but only covered 34 percent of that tuition in 2012. This year, 951 Georgetown students receive Pell Grant funding, but Fleming said that a 10-year freeze would further reduce their assistance.

“As tuitions go up over 10 years, this is going to make that [aid] even less,” Fleming said. “Those students are going to be negatively impacted if this goes into place.”

The budget also proposes cutting the subsidy that ensures that undergraduate students pay no interest on their loans while they are still in college. If a student borrowed $23,000 over four years, the maximum amount currently allowed, the removal of the subsidy would add $3,000 to the total, as they would now have to add the interest rate of 3.86 percent that had accrued over their time in college. The average subsidized loan total for Georgetown students that receive aid is approximately $17,500, lower than the maximum amount, according to Fleming.

Another worry that Fleming outlined was the dissolution of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which absolves all outstanding student loans for any person who has been in public service – defined as

either government or nonprofit work – for 10 years.

President Barack Obama also proposed capping the program in his Student Aid Bill of Rights released March 10.

“If the federal workforce wants to recruit a talented, well-educated workforce, it strikes me as short-sighted to take away a benefit that’s out there for [students],” Fleming said. “They have the view that if you allow loan forgiveness, institutions won’t be worried about what they charge in tuition. … That strikes me as rather disingenuous.”

Fleming urged students to get involved by contacting their members of Congress, noting the impact of the policies on all students, not just those using federal loans.

“Even if you’re a student who doesn’t get a Pell grant or use a subsidized student loan, this has an impact on students everywhere,” Fleming said. “We are a needblind, full-need institution, and we do not intend to deviate from that policy.

Were some of these things to happen, it would require juggling university budgets so that we could remain a need-blind, full-need institution.”

The budget resolutions are not final documents and do not need to be signed by the President. Instead, they provide a framework for discussions about the budget and the appropriations process throughout the year.

While Fleming said the resolution will likely pass the House because of the strong Republican advantage, he predicted that it will see a more difficult fight in the Senate. Even if the resolutions do not pass, however, he noted that the ideas of cutting student aid funding could reappear later in the year, particularly with the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act set for September.

The House will vote on the resolution Thursday, while the Senate will vote Friday.

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Georgetown University Law Center is partnering with Jesuit Refugee Service/USA to address challenges presented by the influx of immigration from Central America to the United States, which peaked in the summer of 2014 when thousands of unaccompanied children crossed the Texas border in hope of receiving protection in the United States.

Georgetown Law will provide a range of services to the communities, including research, training and direct representation, according to Jane Aiken, the associate dean for experiential education and director of the Community Justice Project at Georgetown Law. “It’s a terrific thing, what’s happening across this country at Jesuit law schools,” Aiken said. “There’s an enormous amount of service around this particular issue. This coalition is a way to bring together a whole number of people who have their finger on the pulse of a lot of different communities.”

In addition to Georgetown, the 12 other participating law schools — all part of Jesuit universities — are Boston College, Creighton University, Fordham University, Gonzaga University, Loyola University Chicago, Loyola Marymount University, Loyola University New Orleans, Saint Louis University, Santa Clara University, Seattle University, University of Detroit Mercy and University of San Francisco.

The number of immigrants into the United States from Central America has steadily increased for the past few years. Since 2009, the number of asylum-seekers increased from 5,369 in fiscal year 2009 to 36,174 in 2013. Individuals from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico accounted for 70 percent of this increase, according to a March 2014 report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

According to JRS/USA, the total number of unaccompanied children in the U.S. rose from 3,933 in 2011 to 51,705 in 2014.

There has also been a marked increase in single-parent families, predominantly mothers with young children, coming to the United States.

The number of individuals arriving in family units rose from 14,855 in 2013 to 68,445 in 2014.

JRS/USA Assistant Director for Policy Giulia McPherson said that the factors driving this surge in numbers are complex, involving both push factors driving people out of their home countries and pull factors attracting people to the United States.

“The individuals and families fleeing their countries constitute a mixed migration flow,” McPherson said.

“The reasons are often complicated and have many layers to them, but many are fleeing targeted persecution in their countries. The reasons for this can be fairly complicated, including factors like economic disparities, poverty and especially organized violence.”

48 percent of the displaced children interviewed for the UNHCR report shared experiences of how they had been personally affected by violence in their region in the form of organized crime, including drug cartels, gangs and state actors.

The mission of JRS/USA is to identify and alleviate these and other issues surrounding refugees and other forcibly displaced persons, working with

communities in over 50 countries, providing access to education, health and social services.

McPherson added that the partnership between JRS/USA and these law schools was prompted by dialogue recognizing the shared Jesuit mission.

“We came to the understanding that both of our institutions were involved in this work and had the Jesuit tradition in common,” McPherson said. “We thought it would be pretty powerful to collaborate by putting together this initiative. We really feel that we will be able to add to the ongoing conversation, by addressing the issues raised through the experiences and findings that these law schools are encountering in their day-to-day conversations with these individuals and families.”

Through the partnership, JRS/ USA and the Jesuit law schools will publish a paper aimed at developing policy recommendations to improve the legal environment surrounding immigrants seeking protection in the United States.

“The purpose is searching for all the participating law schools to pull together some findings based on their first-hand experiences,” McPherson said. “How is each school engaged with migrants seeking protection, what types of individuals and families are arriving, and what are some of the stories the schools are hearing? We’re hoping to highlight some personal stories to personalize a lot of the statistics floating around in the conversation, to really humanize the issue.”

The institutions hope to publish the paper in the next several months, which will then be disseminated to key individuals both in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

Aiken said the partnership fits with the Jesuit tradition of welcoming the stranger and serving the community.

“This is about social justice,” Aiken said. “There’s not a definite answer as to what’s the appropriate response, because it’s a complicated issue. But certainly compassion should inform anything that we do. And that’s something that Jesuit law schools in particular should be focused on in training students.”

McPherson agreed and added that Catholic traditions could help in addressing these widespread issues.

“We really see this Catholic tradition as a powerful way of moving an issue forward,” McPherson added.

“This issue has unfortunately fallen from the headlines in many ways, and we hope that by coming together in a unique way we can help to remedy some of these pressing issues.”

McPherson also highlighted Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor’s role in the process of the partnership.

“We’re really looking forward to working with all of these law schools, and with Georgetown in particular, Dean Treanor was really critical in terms of pulling together all of the other participating law schools,” McPherson said. “Without that leadership, I don’t think we could have gotten this far.”

Treanor echoed McPherson’s optimism about the partnership in a press release.

“We are honored to join our fellow law schools in working with JRS/USA to help raise awareness of the plight faced by these vulnerable migrant children and families,” Treanor said.

“Our Jesuit identity is reflected in our commitment to this critical issue.”

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TerraCycle bins, which were originally only located outside Vital Vittles, have now expanded their reach to all four freshman dorms and the Healey Family Student Center.

Advanced Recycling Program Grows PAtricja okuniewska Hoya Staff Writer

TerraCycle, a collection program that recycles complex materials, has expanded its presence to all freshman dorms and the Healey Family Student Center since it was established by the Georgetown University Student Association Senate Sustainability Subcommittee last year.

The project, which recycles items that cannot be processed by normal waste streams, is geared towards the needs of college students, collecting items used often by Georgetown students such as Brita filters, ink cartridges and cosmetic packaging. The first location for a Terracycle bin was in the Leavey Center, but the expansion allows students to more easily access drop-off sites.

The sustainability subcommittee first partnered with TerraCycle, a company based out of Trenton, N.J., to begin the project in February 2014.

When the project first began, sustainability subcommittee member Samantha Lee (COL ’17) and other senators worked with Students of Georgetown, Inc. to place their first set of recycling bins outside of Vital Vittles.

“Last year, a few senators and I thought it would be beneficial to start a collection at Georgetown.

We worked with the Office of Sustainability to get collection bins.

We worked with The Corp to get a location outside of Vital Vittles,” Lee said. “Over the past year, we have expanded our collection. We have a new location in the Hilltoss. We have also added four new locations in each of the four freshmen dorms.

We are trying to reach people where they will actually be throwing away these items.”

Lee, who led the project, explained that the TerraCycle program is highly adapted to community engagement.

“TerraCycle set up programs, which they call brigades, and each brigade collects for one specific waste stream,” Lee said. “Their model is based off community involvement, so a school, church or any other community organization can sign up for a brigade and collect

for that specific waste stream. They then ship out all the waste that they have collected, which gets recycled.”

TerraCycle has also continued to gain interest from other students in GUSA since its inception. Sustainability subcommittee member Theodore Montgomery (SFS ’18), who joined the subcommittee this year, said that he hopes to expand the program by focusing on freshmen.

“The project started last year but rolled out this year in a more comprehensive way. The reason why we focused on freshman dorms specifically is that we want to build awareness around the program and establish and institutionalize it,” Montgomery said. “The best way to do that is to get freshmen involved, as they will be here for four more years. We put our efforts where they would be most effective.”

TerraCycle has also received support from the Office of Sustainability, which provided resources and roused publicity.

Office of Sustainability Director Audrey Stewart expressed her continuous support of the partnership.

“The TerraCycle initiative has truly been student-led, and the Office of Sustainability has been happy to serve as an advisor,” Stewart said.

“The initiative contributes to [the university’s] sustainability strategies, both through waste reduction impacts and through providing a great opportunity for members of the campus community to engage with sustainability by making a conscious effort to recycle a wider range of materials. We look forward to learning more about what types of outcomes the program is achieving.”

Other than the funds required for publicity, the subcommittee has not required any other funding. Shipping the items is free at the end of the year, and the program uses recycled boxes that are collected from students for this shipping.

However, the project raises money, as each recycled item is worth one to two cents. Lee expressed her desire to use the money raised for a sustainability project in the future.

“I think TerraCycle is important because not many students know what to do with unusual waste items on campus, and the systems that are in

place don’t really function. They are either not there, or it is hard to find out about them,” Lee said. “We want to bring to attention that this is an easy way to recycle these items. We are hoping to use the money we raise in the future to reinvest on campus in some sort of sustainability project.”

Furthermore, Lee expressed the program’s plans to begin working with other organizations on campus to expand the scope of items recycled and people involved.

“We are also looking into new programs, such as working with The Office of Facilities Management to collect and recycle cigarette butts, Hoya Kids to collect children-related items and the [Riggs] Bioethics Library to work with binders,” Lee said, Executive member of the subcommittee Caroline James (COL ’16) shared Lee’s sentiments about the improvements that need to be made to the university’s recycling system.

“The Georgetown recycling program is developing, but it definitely still has its imperfections. Not just specific to Georgetown, but there are lots of things in our society that we do not really know how to deal with in terms of waste, whereas other societies have found creative ways to make a market for products like this,” James said. “It’s important for people to be assessing these various things that they are throwing away…

Groups like TerraCycle are trying to work with these specific companies, so there are things we can do with this unconventional waste.”

James also stressed the importance of the program’s goal to raise awareness about how unconventional items can be recycled items, as well as the desire to institutionalize the program within the university.

“I would love for more people to know about it. I think we’ve chosen the brigade based on the needs of Georgetown students,” James said.

“Our job is to make sure that people know about it. We know that there is a demand for an ability to recycle them especially because these complex items happen to have a big environmental impact. Dealing with nonconventional waste is a very important part of waste management, and so I really hope we can get more people to know about this option.”

Committee Launches Website to Address Hazing on Campus Margaret Heftler Hoya Staff Writer

The Hazing Prevention and Education Committee recently launched a website entitled “Stop Hazing” to provide educational resources on hazing incidents to the community and a reporting system for students to share information on hazing-related incidents on campus.

In a campus-wide email sent last week, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said that student groups that conduct hazing practices may be subject to disciplinary action.

“I want to remind you that all Georgetown students are responsible for knowing and complying with our Code of Student Conduct, and for treating others with respect and care. Hazing is a violation of our policies and a betrayal of our values. Please know that any student engaging in hazing behaviors is subject to serious sanctions,” Olson wrote.

According to Office of Student Conduct Associate Director Adam Fountaine, the committee launched the website in response to recent events regarding hazing on other university campuses in the country, as opposed to any specific hazing incidents at Georgetown. Fraternity chapters at universities such as the University of Houston, University of Michigan and Pennsylvania State University have been subject to police investigation after hazing allegations came to light.

“We recognized that concerns about hazing have increasingly become part of a national conversation around student

health and safety on college campuses.

By establishing a clear policy and targeted education, we believe that we will be able to proactively contribute to this conversation on our own campus by discussing ways to welcome new members into student organizations and teams with approaches that are safe and in alignment with our Jesuit values,” Fountaine wrote in an email.

Fountaine also said that hazing activities can be defined as those that are unproductive, unsafe, excessive and demeaning to the participant, and that pose a risk to the student’s physical, psychological or emotional well-being.

Additionally, Chief of the Georgetown Police Department Jay Gruber said that he has not received any complaints related to hazing during his three years on campus.

“I’ve been here close to three years and in the time that I’ve been here, we have not had an incident report regarding hazing that I’m aware of so it just hasn’t come to the attention of the Department of Public Safety,” Gruber said.

However, despite claims from the administration that there have not been reported hazing incidents at Georgetown, various students have been aware of incidents that might be defined as hazing in both recognized student groups as well as those without access to benefits.

One member of a fraternity at Georgetown, who wishes to remain anony-

mous, said that the hazing process in his fraternity ensures that a sense of hierarchy is maintained.

“We have to make sure that the freshmen respect the upperclassmen, and some of them come into school with a cocky attitude, and one was literally yelling at senior. ... So we make sure that they show respect and learn the tradition,” he said.

While he could not go into detail about events that occurred in the pledging process, he stated that hazing at

members earn their respect through their performance in the sport rather than in the hazing process.

“No, hazing does not occur on the club rugby team,” O’Brien said. “Rugby is a tough sport to learn and succeed in. Hard work on the field earns teammates’ respect and is more than enough to earn a spot on the team.”

Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union Chief Communications Officer Sarah Petuck (COL ’16) also denied that hazing occurs in their organization.

“GUASFCU is fully supportive of the university’s strengthened stance prohibiting hazing and related offenses on campus.

Georgetown’s spirit of men and women for others unites Hoyas — past, present and future — and no individual should ever TODD OLSON be made to feel unsafe or unwelVice President for Student Affairs come on the Hilltop,” Petuck Georgetown is tamer than at other wrote in an email.

Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alschools.

“We aren’t going to make anyone do pha Epsilon Pi, as well as representatives anything that they don’t want to do, from Club Lacrosse and Club Ultimate like if someone refused to do something Frisbee did not respond to requests for they could just tell their big [brother] comment.

After students report a hazing incithat they don’t want to do it or are uncomfortable and we’d be alright with it,” dent on the website, members of the he said. “They wouldn’t be kicked out or committee will follow up with the stuanything .... but there still is pressure. It’s dent who filed the report.

While students can make reports not as bad at Georgetown because kids anonymously, Olson said that anonymare really afraid of the administration.”

Other student groups denied inci- ity is less helpful in efforts to prevent hazing on campus. dents of hazing its new members.

“We know we may also get some President of the men’s rugby team Ken O’Brien (COL ’16) said that new anonymous reports and in those cases,

“Hazing is a violation of our policies and a betrayal of our values.”

that’s good information to have and we may be able to still follow up in some way,” Olson said. “But depending on how much [information] we have … it may limit the steps we can take as well.”

Olson also stressed that the university will respond to complaints regarding both recognized student groups and groups without access to benefits equally.

“We know that this can happen in student groups that have access to benefits and it can happen in student groups that don’t have access to benefits. What is very clear to us is that our students are subject to the Code of Student Conduct in their behavior on campus and off campus in the local area and so we would follow up to the best of our ability with the students who were involved if this happened,” Olson said.

In terms of future efforts for hazing prevention at Georgetown, Olson said that the committee is considering possible education initiatives to raise awareness about hazing incidents.

“I think that a logical next step would be to have speakers, programs and workshops on campus that address these issues,” Olson said.

Olson said that he hopes these educational efforts would help to spark a conversation on campus about the issue.

“It’s just something we want to make sure our students were aware of this and we wanted this to be an effort to be ahead of the issue ... and just to remind students about these issues, to put them in the front of mind for people,” Olson said.

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McCourt Accused of Ideological Bias Senate Authorizes 2016 Budget MCCOURT, from A1

While McCourt School Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Mark Rom acknowledged a liberal tilt among the graduate students that he diagnosed based off anonymous clicker polling technology he uses in his courses, he did not find the tilt particularly pronounced or surprising.

“I would say that on balance the students are more liberal than conservative,” Rom said.

“This is not surprising: I think this is probably the case at most public policy programs in the United States.”

Rom added that increasing diversity in all aspects in the student body is a priority, but noted that the applicant pool itself likely contained the ideological leaning. ”You know I would be thrilled if more conservative students applied to come to the McCourt School,” said Rom. “But I would also be delighted if students from more different countries around the world, more educational backgrounds, more economic classes applied. In my ideal world, our panel of applicants would be as diverse as possible in every way that we would care about. But ultimately, we make our judgments based on who has applied.”

A letter to the editor published in The Hoya on Feb. 24 by John Caddock (GRD ’16) claimed a lack of ideological diversity in the school, asserting that there are only two or three conservative students among the 120 members of the Class of 2016. However, he did not clarify how he exactly arrived at those numbers and Rom responded, saying that the liberal tilt was not as imbalanced as Caddock claimed.

Still, Caddock urged the university to reach out to more conservative students.

“I think this hurts the liberal students first and foremost,” Caddock said. “They throw opin-

ions out there, but because there’s no one to challenge them, no one to push back on them, you just kind of have this almost like groupthink situation.”

Caddock added that the McCourt student population is not representative of the conservative-led government in which many of its students will be working after graduation.

A 2007 study by sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons found that 62.2 percent of university professors throughout the country identified as liberal, while only 19.7 percent identi-

“I would be thrilled if more conservative students applied to come.”

MARK ROM McCourt School Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

fied as conservative.

During the 2004 election cycle, Georgetown University faculty donated over $75,000 to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, in comparison to $3,000 for Republican candidate George W. Bush. In 2008, Georgetown University ranked seventh among universities in donations to the campaign of Democratic candidate Barack Obama. The rankings were similar to other prominent East Coast universities, including Harvard University and Princeton University. Georgetown University Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (SFS ’72) said in 2004 that the university did not consider ideology in its workforce decisions.

“Hiring decisions, as well as rank and tenure decisions, here at Georgetown are most certainly not made on a political basis,” Fleming said (The Hoya, “Faculty Funds Favor Kerry,” Sep. 21, 2004).

“Faculty are hired for their academic expertise.”

Despite the traditional liberal leanings in the university atmosphere, Caddock thinks that the McCourt School should recruit at more conservative institutions in order to correct the selfselection problem. The majority of McCourt’s recruitment is done at recruitment and admissions fairs.

“When you only have one student or zero students who disagree with what the professor is saying, there’s very little pushback if any,” Caddock said. “But if there are five dissenters or 10, then you have to change the way the class is run.”

Despite his skepticism of Caddock’s numbers, Rom invited Caddock to chat after reading the letter, explaining that he would be open to taking a look at the recruiting process at more conservative schools, as Caddock suggested.

“If we had more money to spend on recruiting, I think that would be something well worth looking into,” Rom said.

Amir Jilani (GRD ’16) disagreed with the characterization offered by Caddock, noting divergence among the views held by students, which prompts serious policy debates.

“This binary classification — liberal versus conservative — doesn’t entirely capture people’s sentiments, views and opinions, nor does it do justice to the diversity that exists within the student body,” Jilani wrote in an email. “In fact, rarely have I come out of a classroom here at the McCourt School thinking everyone was on the same page in terms of how to address an issue.”

Rom added that the school remains committed to developing a diverse student body.

“Our aspiration is that every student would feel welcomed here no matter where they’re from, what their sexual orientation is, what their political views are, what their aspirations are in terms of their career,” Rom said.

GUSA Leadership Changes Hands INAUGURATION, from A1 farewell speech of his own.

He began by thanking his cabinet and staff, especially Chief of Staff Katherine Key (SFS ’15), and reflecting fondly on his administration.

“Our platform was an incubator and a sounding board based on conversations with hundreds of people we met,” Tezel said. “We wanted GUSA to be a think tank where ideas could come together, where student advocates could come together toward a common end.”

Tezel then said that the new executives should work on bridging the gap between students and the university administration.

“An unbridgeable divide exists between the university’s decisions and the needs of its students,” Tezel said. “How do we reconcile the elite institution we claim to be with the dilapidated state of our facilities?”

After Tezel left the podium, Luther and Rohan were sworn in by Tezel and Jikaria, respectively.

Luther then began his inaugural address: “Ladies, gentlemen and restless spirits haunting Healy 106.”

He remarked on his unexpected transition from editor of the satirical magazine, The Georgetown Heckler, to GUSA chief executive and said that his administration will make GUSA accessible for more students.

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Joe Luther, left, and Connor Rohan will serve in GUSA for the next year.

“We have a unique opportunity this year to change this culture,” Luther said. “It is our distinct desire to create a GUSA which truly represents Hoyas from all walks of life. To pull the most passionate people on campus and help them achieve their goals.”

Luther concluded his address by stressing the importance of the upcoming 2018 Campus Plan and called on students to ensure their voices are heard by administrators.

“Student leaders have put countless hours into this plan and we need to be sure to engage the student body in every step of the way,” Luther said. “If we engage the student body in the way Connor and I envision, then ‘Youtopia’ won’t just be a campaign promise.”

Rohan gave the last address, in which he thanked Tezel and Jikaria for their help in the transition period and spoke candidly about his transfer to Georgetown from George Mason University in fall of 2013.

“I was full of doubt about my ability to succeed in such a demanding environment,” Rohan said. “Coming from a university with a far less active student body and a significantly more lax atmosphere, the thought of enrolling at Georgetown was intimidating.”

Now, as vice president, Rohan said that he looks forward to creating a more open and diverse GUSA through a highly passionate team of driven students.

Luther and Rohan set a record for applications to the executive cabinet and staff with 123 students applying for positions. The majority of students who applied have never been a part of GUSA. Deliberations for the incoming positions have begun, and final decisions will be made by the end of this week. Currently, confirmed deputy chiefs of staff include Arman Ramnath (SFS ’16), Chris Fisk (COL ’17), current Advisory Neighborhood Commission Student Commissioner Reed Howard (SFS ’17), Khadijah Khan (COL ‘17), Ken Nunnenkamp (MSB ’16), Randy Puno (COL ’16) and Village A GUSA senator Annie Aleman (SFS ’16). These deputies come from four out of the five 2015 GUSA executive race campaigns, with the exception of a member of the Tim Rosenberger (COL ’16) and Reno Varghese (SFS ’16) campaign.

Incoming Chief of Staff and GUSA senate Vice-Speaker Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16), whose executive campaign came in second to Luther and Rohan’s, said that the two will bring a cultural change to GUSA. “Seeing a lot of interest from different pieces of campus is really exciting,” McNaughton said.

“It’s really special to see people who came from different parts of campus and even ran against each other really come together.”

According to McNaughton, Luther and Rohan have created many new cabinet positions for their administration.

Secretary positions have been added in areas such as sexual assault policy, mental health, recognized and unrecognized student groups, free speech and D.C. affairs.

McNaughton echoed Luther’s emphasis on the campus plan and said that garnering student support for the campus plan petition is the administration’s first priority.

“Their administration is really rooted in bottom-up policy,” McNaughton said. “They want their administration to be driven by individuals who are experts … I think you’ll see this in the campus plan.”

One such member of their administration is Director of Communications Will Simons (COL ’16), who originally ran alongside McNaughton as the vice presidential candidate.

Simons said that he has been tasked with mending the gap between the student body and GUSA, ensuring that GUSA “communicates and engages effectively.” He will work alongside incoming Press Secretary Jenna Galper (COL ’17). “[Luther and Rohan] have placed a huge emphasis on maintaining accessibility and transparency, which are crucial to effective communication,” Simons wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I look forward to incorporating those ideas into everything we do.”

Simons’ first job in the administration is to inform and mobilize as many students as possible in support of the Campus Plan petition.

One of the students working alongside Simons in the Communications Department is “Minister of Fun” Craig Levites (COL ’17).

Levites, a Heckler editorial board member, is the only member of the paper in the administration’s immediate staff. He said that his role is to present important issues to students in a fun and engaging way.

“Joe and Connor really want GUSA to be the campus megaphone,” Levites said. “If we can produce content that students are more responsive to, we’re enhancing GUSA’s repute as an advocacy organization above anything else.”

Levites said that he is hopeful for the future of GUSA’s image on-campus.

“Their most useful role is as a buffer between the administration and the students, making sure that everyone’s interest is taken into account and adequately represented during the university’s policymaking process,” Levites said.

“Over the next year, I think people will finally come around to seeing GUSA as the ally that it is, not the the alienated outsider group it’s been labelled as in the past.”

BUDGET, from A1 the storage space in November 2014, but it was not included in the proposed budget that went to a vote Sunday.

Eleven members of the public — including members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon, H*yas for Choice, GU Fossil Free and Cups for Campus — sat in on the meeting to voice their concern about the lack of funding for the storage space, which will measure 10 feet by 10 feet, and be shared by various unrecognized student groups. They participated in a long debate with Fin/App and senators over the storage space, which was dubbed the “Regents Cage.”

H*yas for Choice President Abby Grace (SFS ’16) said that students who are members of unrecognized student groups pay the tuition-included student activities fee, which funds the GUSA Budget, just like members of recognized student groups.

“Especially considering that a large portion of our operating costs are funded by GUSA Fund in incidences like our table being lost over the summer or our banners being misplaced or having to store tens and dozens of boxes of condoms, numbering into the thousands of condoms total in our own person space, it’s just not really feasible for GUSA Fund to keep paying these costs that could be avoided for things that are lost,” Grace said.

Luther and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16), sworn into the executive office Saturday, faced direct and indirect criticism during the meeting for being inexperienced with budgetary matters.

“When [the storage space is] the one thing the executive comments on when they’re talking about the budget, the one issue that people are concerned about, that’s a major problem,” Shepherd said. “So keep that in mind throughout the coming year. Executive, I know you’re not experienced with GUSA. You obviously have a lot more learning to do. So keep that mind.”

Following the meeting, Shepherd clarified his position and said that Luther and Rohan have a lot to offer GUSA through their energy and ideas.

“I think it’s great that [Luther and Rohan] are bringing a lot of experienced people on their team to help them out,” Shepherd said. “So, I’m hoping that as a team they’re going to be really successful.”

The 2016 budget also included a one-time allocation of $53,515 for the salary of the Advisory Board for Club Sports athletic trainer. The Advisory Board for Club Sports previously funded a part-time trainer, Katharine Gray, since March 2014 out of their own budget, but Gray only worked with the seven highest-risk sports teams. These teams — include boxing, men’s hockey, men’s lacrosse, men’s rugby, women’s rugby, men’s soccer and women’s soccer — include over 300 athletes.

With funding from the Fin/App budget, Gray will be able to service the other 24 sports teams, consisting of over 700 additional students. The budget stated that the funds were a one-time allocation meant to hire a trainer, while efforts continue to encourage the university to fund the trainer.

GUSA Vice-Speaker Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) said during the meeting that GUSA should not have to pay for the club trainer.

“Right now we are debating why we are still paying for the trainer when ABCS, club sports, Fin/App, and GUSA-at-Large had a year to find payment for a university staff member who in no way should be paid by the Fin/ App committee and somebody who is important for the safety of students,” McNaughton said.

The decreased budget allocation to GPB — $14,000 short of last year’s allocation — might threaten the group’s programming, such as the spring concert it organizes. But the Fin/App committee expressed optimism that GBP would be able to continue its operations without too much setback.

“The committee believes that with smart leadership, partnerships with other organizations and funding boards, and shrewd planning and negotiation, GPB can continue to provide the low-cost, high-quality programming that it is known for despite these budget cuts,” GPB Fin/App Liaison Peter Cohen (COL ’15) wrote in the budget proposal sent to members of the senate.

“The cuts that we would take this year would really impact us and cripple the programming that we do,” GPB member Thomas De Bow (COL ‘15) said.

The budget did not fund any capital improvement projects, though there were requests for improving spaces such as Poulton Hall and the Walsh Black Box theater. The Performing Arts Advisory Council did see a slight increase in its funding for safety improvements that were considered non-capital safety projects.

“During our initial deliberations, we stuck to our principle that we’re funding activities, and we’re not funding space improvement projects,” Shepherd said. “The university should be funding those.”

The Media Board received $5,000 less than last year, receiving $55,000 overall in the 2016 budget.

“I am delighted at the way the budget worked out,” GUSA Speaker Tyler Bridge (COL ’17) said. “Though democracy today was messy, the right thing happened in the end.”

Microsoft Users Face Connectivity Issues with SaxaNet CONNECTIVITY, from A1 “We have a process in place so that we can be more cooperative looking,” Nicholson said. “So if Microsoft or Apple release patches, our goal is to modify the infrastructure so that it doesn’t affect the users. We do have a decision-making process in place to reconcile the issue or to fix the infrastructure once students are affected.”

Nicholson advised affected students not to downgrade their systems, but to report to UIS to have their problems diagnosed.

However, in a message posted on its website on Feb. 19, UIS instructed affected students to downgrade their systems by themselves.

While Nicholson responded that the information online is incorrect, affected students were also told to downgrade their systems after they contacted UIS for help.

In addition to receiving support from UIS, Nicholson proposed that students with trouble connecting to SaxaNet could connect to GuestNet while waiting for UIS to resolve the issue. GuestNet

provides any internet user in the network radius to connect, but does not allow students to print materials or utilize a secure connection.

Kimberly Chiguindo (MSB ’17), one of the affected students, said that her computer updated automatically and that she could not log onto SaxaNet without downgrading her system.

“My computer updated automatically and I can’t even stop it from updating,” Chiguindo said. “They told me [to downgrade the system], but I’m not really well experienced with it and the [McDonough School of Business] Technology Center doesn’t really do it for me. I don’t want to mess around with my computer system.”

As a result, Chiguindo could no longer use her MSB free printing privilege attached to SaxaNet. “I basically can’t print anymore even though part of my tuition goes into the printing,” Chiguindo said.

Chiguindo, who resorted to using GuestNet, was disappointed by the inconvenience of the network’s poor internet connection.

“I’m really frustrated because it takes a while for the school to get on track

about it,” Chiguindo said. “And it’s really difficult to get any homework done. I feel way behind and also GuestNet doesn’t have really good reception.

Since I got here, I really wish the school has better Internet.”

According to Chiguindo, there has

“If you are working on an assignment late at night... it’s necessary for your internet to work.”

JANELLE SPIRA (NHS ‘18)

been no improvement in how UIS has handled recurring Internet problems.

“Last year, the similar issue happened [and] they just said, ‘Oh well, we

are just trying to figure out how to connect SaxaNet with the latest [update].

We’ll let you know.’ And that’s it. They eventually [solved the problem] two to three months later,” Chiguindo said.

“So every time there’s been an update, I know that there is going to be two to three months that I will not be able to use any printing or do anything with my schoolwork at the computer that I use.”

Students who are unaffected by the update also experienced consistent slowness and outage with SaxaNet. SaxaNet can handle 25,000 simultaneous device uses currently, and has only ever received a maximum of 14,950 uses at one time, according to UIS Communications Manager Laura Horton.

Janelle Spira (NHS ’18), a Macintosh user, said that internet slowness is a pandemic problem.

“I haven’t had any major problems with Windows because I have a Mac,” Spira said. “However, I have experienced difficulty with SaxaNet in the past, logging into it and getting it to actually load, which is exceedingly frustrating if you are working on an assignment late at night. It’s necessary

for your internet to work.”

In response to student complaints, Nicholson pointed out that Georgetown is actually ahead of its peer institutions with its Wi-Fi coverage. Georgetown won the Digital Edge 25 award from IDG Enterprise Media Brands, CIO in February for its digital innovation and campus connectivity. It was the only university to receive the award among a group of 25 companies in different industries.

SaxaNet has served as the campus WiFi system since late 2012, after the university upgraded from an unsecured network called HOYAS. “Compared to other institutions, we just now got to a point to have ubiquitous Wi-Fi across Georgetown so we are doing pretty well,” Nicholson said.

“There has been a 40 percent increase in the number of people utilizing our Wi-Fi network. So even though now we have Wi-Fi everywhere, we are going back, systematically identifying areas that we need to make improvement, either in signal strength or in the capacity of the network. We are trying to do that very proactively so that we can better service all of our students.”

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SPORTS

THE HOYA

Tuesday, MARCH 24, 2015

AROUND THE DISTRICT

commentary

Vitalis, Adomako Lead Bryce Harper’s Talent Promising Young Team Exceeds His Reputation o’connell, from A10 never trailed by more than seven points, they were unable to regain a lead in the second half.

Georgetown was down by only five points with 2:18 remaining in the contest, but could not get the defensive stops it needed in the closing minutes and was forced to put Xavier on the free throw line.

Junior guard Katie McCormick did her best to keep Georgetown in the game as time ticked off the clock. She scored seven points in the final 1:09, including a three-pointer that pulled the Hoyas within two points with 0:19 remaining.

Unfortunately, it was too little, too late for Georgetown. Xavier made its free throws down the stretch and held on to win 70-67.

The Hoyas were certainly familiar with the experience of letting winnable games slip away in the final minutes. Throughout the season, Georgetown was consistently plagued by an inability to put together a full 40 minutes of solid play. This lack of consistency can be attributed in part to the challenges that come with playing for a new coach and to the team’s lack of senior leadership.

Coaching changes are never easy. Players have to learn and adapt to a new system of play and are often forced to fill unfamiliar

roles. This season was certainly a transition year for the Hoyas as they adjusted to playing under Adair’s direction, but it would be unfair to judge the success of that transition based solely on the team’s final record.

A shining example of Adair’s success in her first year is the play of junior forward Dominique Vitalis. Adair changed the way Vitalis was utilized and Vitalis thrived.

The junior went from being a role player, who in her first two seasons averaged only 10 minutes per game, to starting all 31 contests for the Hoyas this season and averaging 24.8 minutes per game. Vitalis tripled her scoring average this season, increasing her offensive production from an average of three points per game to 9.1 points per game.

There was not a single senior on the Hoyas’ roster this season.

A lack of experienced leadership can certainly pose challenges for a team, especially one that relies on freshmen to fill the vital point guard position and to contribute significantly to the team’s scoring. Georgetown’s struggles with consistency could certainly have benefitted from the presence of an experienced senior class to offset the newness of the team’s freshmen.

However, looking forward, this season’s absence of senior leadership may be a blessing for the future. Unlike other teams, the Hoyas do not have to worry about filling a void left by graduating players. This Georgetown team now has one season under its belt as a unit and can hit the ground running next season with the advantage of being able to pick up right where it left off.

Perhaps the most promising sign for the Hoyas’ future is freshman guard Dorothy Adomako. Adomako was named Big East Preseason Freshman of the Year, and she certainly lived up to that hype.

Adomako led the team in scoring and rebounding, averaging 13.1 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, and earned the Big East Freshman of the Year honor at the conclusion of the regular season. Adomako has seemingly limitless potential, and Georgetown’s future is bright with her leading the charge.

Despite having won only four games this season, there are certainly reasons to be excited about the future prospects for Georgetown women’s basketball. Next season tips off in eight months.

Molly O’Connell is a sophomore in the College. She is a staff writer for The Hoya.

COMMENTARY

Trawick, Peak Shine in Final Postseason Moments SCHNOOR, from A10

of Eastern Washington (26-9, 14-4 Big Sky), a trendy upset pick whose coach guaranteed a victory on national radio. It may sound trivial, but for the first time since the 2007 Final Four, a Georgetown season ended neither in shocking disbelief nor in the NIT. Saturday night’s loss to Utah (26-8, 13-5 Pac-12) was an upset only on the bracket. The Utes were favored by five points at tipoff and have two players, senior guard Delon Wright and freshman forward Jakob Poeltl, who could be chosen in the first round of the NBA Draft this June. There is no shame in losing a hard-fought Round of 32 game to a team that spent much of the year ranked inside the top 15.

Beyond snapping their streak of losing to doubledigit seeds, there were smaller, individual successes for the Hoyas in Portland: junior center Bradley Hayes set career highs in points and rebounds while giving Georgetown a much-needed spark against Eastern Washington, when yet another Round of 64 upset seemed like a distinct possibility.

Freshman forward L.J. Peak scored 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting against Utah in his most dominant performance since the Kansas game on Dec. 10, when he scored 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting, and probably since the season-opener against St. Francis (N.Y.), when he didn’t miss a field goal.

Senior guard Jabril Trawick, in his last game wearing the Georgetown gray, poured in 10 points in the first seven minutes of Saturday’s game against Utah, displaying an offensive sophistication that would have been hard to imagine when he first arrived on the Hilltop.

Yet all of those achievements did little to wash away the disappointment that seniors Trawick,

center Tyler Adams, forward Aaron Bowen, forward Mikael Hopkins and center Joshua Smith must have felt as they sat on the bench while the final seconds of Saturday night’s game ticked away. Those five will never know what it’s like to make it to the Sweet 16.

If Georgetown could have found a way past Utah, a tantalizing matchup with one-seed Duke awaited on the floor of a football stadium in Houston.

For all the exhilaration it brings, the NCAA Tournament can be unflinchingly cruel, whittling away three quarters of its field a mere 96 hours after it truly begins. Just ask No. 1 seed Villanova, the team that dominated the Big East and cruised to a conference tournament championship before falling to North Carolina State in the Round of 32 on Saturday — a most memorable season spoiled in 40 minutes.

For Georgetown, life will go on. The seniors will be replaced by a top-25 recruiting class, made up of forwards Marcus Derrickson and Kaleb Johnson, as well as center Jessie Govan. Louisville transfer Akoy Agau will also be expected to contribute to the frontcourt, although he may have sit out the first semester due to transfer rules.

The newcomers will be joined by a group of talented returnees. Junior guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera could be an All-American candidate, and freshmen Peak, guard Tre Campbell, forward Isaac Copeland and forward Paul White should all be more comfortable with a year of experience under their belts.

With the stigma of postseason disappointments no longer hanging over their heads, the Hoyas will move forward in hope that when the 2016 version of “One Shining Moment” plays, it will be the Blue and Gray that is the last team standing.

tom schnoor is a junior in the College. He is a staff writer for The Hoya.

Baseball

GU Drops 2 of 3 Weekend Games to Brown at Home BROWN, from A10

shortstop Chase Bushor each drove in two runs. Senior left-handed pitcher Matt Hollenbeck threw six shutout innings to pick up his first win of the season.

The Blue and Gray hit an offensive skid in game two, recording only six hits and ending their five-game winning streak with a 4-1 loss. Junior designated hitter Nick Collins led the Hoyas with three of those hits.

“I thought we tried to do too much offensively and we got a little bit out of our strike zone,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said.

Junior right-handed pitcher Matt Smith gave up four runs, three of them earned, in five innings while striking out four. Sophomore right-hander Simon Mathews pitched four strong innings of relief with seven strikeouts, allowing just one hit. Mathews now leads the Big East with 14 strikeouts on the season.

The final game on Sunday was particularly frustrating for the Hoyas. Freshman right-hander Kevin Superko got the starting nod, pitching 4 and 1/3 innings and allowing three runs, only one earned, on eight hits.

Junior right-hander Tim Davis came on in relief to throw three innings of one-run ball. Bushor led the team with three RBI in addition to his two hits.

“He’s a competitor,” Wilk said of Bushor. “He’s got a great future ahead of him and it’s very fun to watch him play the game.”

Sophomore center fielder Beau Hall drove in two runs. Sophomore third baseman Jake Kuzbel, catcher Nick Collins and Carter also recorded two hits apiece.

Brown started the scoring by recording one run in each the third and fourth innings, but the Hoyas quickly scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth to take the lead.

However, the Bears answered in the fifth with one unearned run to tie the game before taking the lead with three more runs in the sixth inning. Brown added a solo home run in the eighth for insurance.

Just as the game seemed over with Georgetown down 7-3 in the bottom of the ninth, the Blue and Gray rallied back. Kuzbel and Collins hit consecutive singles to start the rally. With one out, Bialkowski then reached base on an error, loading the bases. During the next at-bat, Kuzbel scored on a passed ball to cut the deficit to 7-4.

With two outs, junior pinch hitter Webber walked to reload the bases; Hall was then hit by a pitch, forcing in another run for the Hoyas.

Bushor, with the bases loaded and two outs, hit the first pitch he saw for a two-run single that tied the game at seven.

Bushor did not have any reservations when asked about his late-game efforts.

“Situations like that is why I play the game, why it’s so much fun,” Bushor said.

When free baseball began, Brown put a base runner on with a one-out walk. After Wilk made a pitching change, senior reliever Will Brown gave up a double to the first batter he saw, bringing home what proved to be the game-winning run for the Bears.

“We showed a lot of resilience. We fought back hard and that’s all we can really ask for,” Bushor said.

The Hoyas could not put together another rally, eventually falling by a final score of 8-7 in 10 innings of play.

“I’m proud of them,” Wilk said. “The game’s never over with this group and that’s a very good thing. It tells you something about the character of [the guys].”

Georgetown will play next at No. 7 Virginia on Tuesday at 4 p.m. and then will travel to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore for a matchup on Wednesday at 3 p.m.

W

ith another day comes another scathing criticism of Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper. The most recent blow came from a players’ poll that found that the outfielder is considered the most overrated player in the game.

While playing, he often subjects his body to unnecessary harm, as evidenced by the injury he sustained in 2013 by running into a wall to catch a fly ball in a blowout. He’s pompous, with his long hair flipping around as his helmet flies off on every double. He’s inconsistent, enduring prolonged hot and cold spells throughout each season.

The buzz about Harper has already picked up steam faster than the actual baseball season, which is still two weeks away. It began in late February, when Harper was asked about the addition of pitcher Max Scherzer to the Nationals’ starting rotation in an interview that triggered widespread media reaction. Harper’s response — “Where’s my ring?” — suggested that he had lofty expectations for the Nationals’ postseason before the season had even started. It fit perfectly Matt into the pompous Bryce narrative as a brash statement by an unproven player.

But if we take a step back and listen to Harper’s remarks in their proper context, they seem a lot less ridiculous.

When directly prompted about his response to the addition of the top free agent on the market to a rotation that was already considered one of baseball’s best, Harper joked, “It’s stupid. I started laughing. I said, ‘Where’s my ring?”

That reaction seems pretty normal — Harper was thrilled about an exciting addition to his team, an event that prompted many sportswriters to wonder if the Nationals were headed toward postseason victory, just as Harper did.

Harper’s reaction, however, could have been interpreted differently. Harper’s single-minded determination is something that any team needs to haul itself through the marathon of the MLB regular season. His comment wasn’t necessarily pretentious as much as it expressed Harper’s eagerness for the Nationals’ upcoming season with a highly rated roster.

Presently, the buzz about Harper surrounds the aforementioned players’ poll, which leaves no doubt as to where the league’s opinion lies on the issue of Harper, who earned his spot as the most overrated player with a resounding 41 percent of the vote. The next closest vote-getter was Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, who received 15 percent of the vote.

This is the second straight year that Harper has earned the title.

Perhaps, as The Washington Post suggests, these results are driven by the jealousy of players on less successful teams, as stars from highprofile teams like the Dodgers, Yankees and now Nationals consistently lead these type of polls.

At the very least, the dichotomy between the treatment of Harper and the treatment of a player like the Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout is an interesting one to see.

Trout spent twice as much time in the minors as Harper and spent extra time in the majors before his first full season in the MLB. He is also a year older than Harper. Nevertheless, Trout has always been the mark Harper is compared against.

Trout, who was chosen by 61 percent of polled players as the “best overall player in MLB” in the same ESPN poll, is undoubtedly putting up better numbers than Harper.

Trout’s career batting average is 30 points higher than Harper’s.

He has consistently recorded higher WAR (Wins Above Replacement, which evaluates a player’s overall contribution to Raab his team) totals, and consistently stayed healthy while Harper has missed significant chunks of the last two seasons.

Nevertheless, it is unfortunate that comparisons to Trout, in addition to the narrative surrounding Harper’s attitude, have come to dominate the career of a player who is still only 22 years old.

The fact that Harper is constantly compared to Trout is what brands him as an overrated player. Any player compared to Trout, one of the best players in the game, will inevitably seem overrated.

I don’t want to be a Harper apologist. Harper’s injury-prone tendency, to me, is critical. He needs to prove that he can stay healthy and consistently display what he is capable of for an entire season to be considered among the best.

Nevertheless, Harper seems to feed off the narrative about his pretentious attitude the media has developed for him, and he’s done just fine when healthy. But it would be a shame if that narrative caused fans of the sport to turn away from him unnecessarily.

Harper still has a lot to offer. There’s more to the Nationals than their pitching, and Bryce Harper is an injury-free season away from a breakout. Keep watching.

The negative media coverage surrounding Bryce Harper undermines the determination and talent he brings to the Washington Nationals.

Matt Raab is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. AROUND THE DISTRICT appears every Tuesday.

“Nobody really cares about who gets credit as long as everybody is working hard.”

KEVIN WARNE Men’s Lacrosse Head Coach

SPORTS

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015

THE HOYA

WOMEN’S golf

First-Place Lead Dwindles to 4th-Place Finish PETER HIGGINS

we took away from the first day.”

On the second day of the tournament, Georgetown shot a 30over par 318, resulting in the team’s fourth-place finish. Eleey shot a 7-over par 79 in the second round, which ultimately relinquished her overall lead but was good enough to give her the tournament’s second-lowest score.

“We wanted to follow up the first day with something similar, but on the second day, we just didn’t have any low numbers,” Brophy said. “The team didn’t have a great day, and we counted scores that no one was really happy with.”

Brophy remains optimistic about the future of her team’s younger players.

“Sleeping on a lead is really tough, but now that she’s had that experience, we look forward to her having more like it,” Brophy said of Eleey’s efforts. “Hopefully the outcome will be a little bit different next time.”

Despite her disappointing finish, Eleey still found positives to takes out of the experience.

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After a blistering start to its second event of the year, the Georgetown women’s golf team faltered down the stretch and finished fourth out of 14 in last weekend’s Lady Thunderbird Invitational in St. George, Ut. After the first day of the two-day tournament, Georgetown climbed into first place. Led by freshman Jacquelyn Eleey, the Hoyas enjoyed an eight-stroke lead by posting an 11-over par 299. Eleey had the day’s top round, registering a 3-under par 69.

“The first day, we played awesome, and we ended up leading the tournament. All day we had great team camaraderie,” Eleey said.

Head Coach Kate Brophy was impressed with her team’s efforts on the first day of competition.

“We had such a great day the first day,” Brophy said. “We had Jackie [Eleey] shoot her lowest round ever, and we had [freshman Lauren Gros] shoot her lowest round in college. Overall, we had a lot of really positive things that

short, there were still some good things that we took away from the tournament,” Eleey said. “We learned a lot about ourselves, we were together as a team, and in all, I think there were a lot more positives than negatives.”

While the team is capable of posting impressive scores, it above all desires consistency.

Outside of Eleey, other standout performances included those by Gros and junior co-captain Patricia Lee. Gros tied for eighth place with a 7-over par 151, while Lee tied for 39th place at 16-over par 160. Gros’ first-round 72 was good for the fourth-lowest round of the entire tournament.

“We have a lot of people that can shoot low numbers, but we are still trying to put together a solid two or three consecutive rounds,” Brophy said. “It’s challenging because it’s still towards the beginning of the year, but I see that happening by the end of the year. That’s when we want to peak, and … we are really strong off the tees, we can hit the ball really well, but like any team, we can always work on our short

game.”

After the up-and-down weekend, Georgetown has its sights set on the future. It plays next week on its home course, the Members Club at Fours Stream in Beallsville, Md., in the Hoya Invitational.

“We are very excited for our home tournament next week, the Hoya Invitational,” Eleey said.

“We want to redeem ourselves after what happened last tournament, and we have very positive vibes and high hopes.

Brophy also looks forward to the opportunity to win the upcoming tournament.

“We have three more [definite] tournaments for the rest of the year,” Brophy said. “We would love to win at least one and maybe two, especially the Big East tournament.”

The team closes out its regular season with the Big East Women’s Golf Championship on the weekend of April 16. If it qualifies, Georgetown will participate in the NCAA Regional Championship on the weekend of May 7 and in the NCAA Championship on the weekend of May 22.

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Freshman midfielder Craig Berge scored a goal with less than four minutes remaining to give Georgetown a 10-9 win over then-No. 9 Marquette. the net to score the game-winner with a few seconds left on the penalty clock to put the Hoyas up 10-9.

Marquette got a few shots off in remaining 3:45 of regulation, but Georgetown held on to earn its second-straight victory this season against a ranked opponent.

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“Gabe’s a great faceoff guy, but Anthony is as well, and we were very confident in him,” senior attack and co-captain Reilly O’Connor said.

Both of Georgetown’s victories against the ranked Loyola and Marquette have come in games in which the team has had to make lineup adjustments to compensate for injuries. Warne believes that this is a testament to the team’s improvement over the course of the season.

“I think it just shows that we have some depth now, and I think that’s important as we roll into conference play, especially as we get into April,” Warne said. “We’ve been practicing for four months, so we need to make sure we have legs.”

The upsets contributed to the No. 14 rank that Georgetown received on Monday — a rank that Georgetown has not met or exceeded since 2009. After receiving votes for last week’s rankings but ultimately falling short of the top 20, the Hoyas finally climbed into the national polls, besting the likes of perennial national threats No. 16 Loyola and No. 20 Johns Hopkins.

After a busy schedule over the past few weeks, Warne is impressed with his team’s effort.

“Seven games in 21 days for our guys — walking out 6-1, I’m really proud of the guys and I thought they battled,” Warne said.

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carbon copy of what happened in Milwaukee last year. We got up big, strayed away a little bit from what we needed to do, but the guys fought back.”

Georgetown’s victory was the product of a balanced effort across the field. The Hoyas’ offense continued to step up after an injury kept sophomore midfielder Peter Conley off the field for the second consecutive game.

Nine different players tallied goals for Georgetown, including senior attack Bo Stafford, who had a teamhigh two goals and was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week on Monday.

In addition to Conley’s absence, the Hoyas were missing graduate student midfielder Gabriel Mendola, another staple of their offense. After a physically grueling matchup against No. 14 Loyola (5-4, 3-1 Patriot League) last Wednesday, the faceoff specialist stayed on the sidelines on Saturday, and senior midfielder Anthony Heaton stepped in to take his place at the faceoff X. “Before the game, Gabe came up and said ‘You’ll be taking the first one, and we’ll go from there,’ so that’s how it kind of came about,” Heaton said.

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But Georgetown couldn’t sustain that momentum for the second game that immediately followed.

The score was 0-0 until the fourth inning when Villanova scored two runs, followed by two more in the fifth.

The Wildcats continued their roll into the sixth inning with another four runs and won 8-0 after the Hoyas could not respond with a comeback.

“I think they had a great pitching effort. I think [Villanova’s sophomore pitcher] Brette Lawrence threw a fantastic game against us and we could just never put anything together,” Conlan said. “And I’ll tell you what, I think Villanova has some great hitters through their lineup, so they were a tough team.”

Following the ups and downs of the weekend, Georgetown looked like an entirely different team in the rubber game on Sunday.

The Hoyas jumped ahead early, scoring one run in the first inning and adding two more in the second to build a solid lead against the same pitcher who had dominated them the previous afternoon.

“Anytime you can get on the board first, it just sets the tone,” Conlan said. “I knew [senior pitcher Megan Hyson] was going to throw a good game today by the first inning we had, and I knew we just needed to give her a couple of runs for support, and she would do the rest.”

With the lead, Hyson pitched the Hoyas through five innings with the score 4-1 in their favor.

“It makes it a lot easier especially if you’re ahead because then you can go after certain batters,”

Hyson said.

But Villanova threatened Georgetown’s lead in the sixth, scoring two runs as the Hoyas made two costly defensive errors. Georgetown got out of the jam and scored another run of its own in the bottom of the inning to make the score 5-3.

“Picking up that fifth run in the sixth inning was huge,” Conlan said.

The Wildcats scored one more run in the seventh inning, but the game ended on a line out to first base as the Hoyas took the win and the series.

“We just like to make our games a little more exciting than I like them,” Conlan said. “But I think at the end of the day, we just had to keep our composure and make the right pitches and settle ourselves down defensively.”

Hyson picked up her ninth win of the season, striking out four while helping her own effort by tallying three hits and two RBIs. Freshman left fielder Theresa Kane had two hits while scoring two runs.

While Georgetown still needs to find the consistency that will help it avoid situations like the eightrun deficit in game two, the series victory puts them in a good spot as they begin conference play and seek a berth in the Big East tournament.

“It’s really hard to sweep a team in conference, so your goal is to always just win the series,” Conlan said. “If we can come away with two wins every weekend, we’re going to be in a really good place at the end of the year. And that’s our focus.”

The Hoyas’ next game is against Drexel (7-7, 1-1 Colonial Athletic Association) at Washington National’s Youth Academy on Wednesday.

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Chip Kelly’s Calculated Moves T

he Philadelphia Eagles Head Coach Chip Kelly’s offseason moves are largely guessing games — but he appears to be in the process of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to revitalize the team.

Many of Kelly’s moves up to this point suggest that no one, including the Eagles players themselves, should consider the roster to be a permanent one until training camp starts in June.

That being said, there are still clues that indicate a certain strategy behind Kelly’s scheming and offer predictions as to what he will do next.

In the perfectionist world of NFL coaching, Kelly’s offseason plans would carry over and ripen during the next few seasons. This mindset is reflected in the organization’s decision to let the likes of running back LeSean “Shady” McCoy and wide receiver Jeremy Maclin go, with the former being traded to the Buffalo Bills and the latter not having his contract renewed.

In his six years as an Eagle, McCoy achieved the franchise’s all-time rushing yards record and developed a reputation for both his ball security and his 4.6 yard per carry average. Maclin, who was not as dynamic for the team in the same time frame, capitalized upon wide receiver Desean Jackson’s departure this past season and recorded his first season with over 1,000 receiving yards.

Regardless, the two players are not going to factor into the organization’s future, and I believe that Kelly made the right move. Kelly realized that both players had reached their peak ability or value to his offense.

After six years of playing in the league, McCoy began to show signs of slowing down this past season, recording one of his lowest seasons of overall yardage in his career. Combine that with his turning 27 years old this year, the magic year of decline for running backs historically, and it comes as no surprise that the Eagles did not sign him to a contract equivalent to the fiveyear, $45 million contract that the Bills offered him.

While Maclin, as a wide receiver, will have a longer shelf life than McCoy, Maclin was essentially sold at a high price when the Kansas City Chiefs picked him up for an $11 million annual contract.

Comparatively, wide receivers Antonio Brown and Golden Tate outperformed Maclin last season and are only being paid three quarters and one half of what Maclin is signed for now, respectively. Clearly, the Eagles are hoping to sell high with the likes of McCoy, Maclin and Jackson last season, and ride the wave of the rise of players like Kiko Alonso and Byron Maxwell.

This reasoning, however, fails to explain other offseason moves, notably the acquisition of running back Demarco Murray and quarterback Sam Bradford.

Murray, who is also 27, was signed to a contract similar to McCoy’s, while Bradford has had an injury-prone and disappointing NFL career, quite the foil to the up-and-coming Nick Foles, who the Eagles gave up for him.

At this point, Kelly’s personal biases come to the forefront. As the former head coach at the University of Oregon, he came to Philadelphia with the intent of continuing his system on the professional level, and its success since then has the Eagles organization backing his decisions.

It comes as no surprise, then, that Kelly has jumped at the chance to select his former college quarterback and winner of the 2014 Heisman Trophy, Marcus Mariota, in this April’s draft.

The Eagles have six draft picks outside of the first round and Sam Bradford to trade, putting them in a position to move up in the draft for Mariota in case their 20th pick in the first round is not enough.

Working under the assumption that the Eagles will do anything to draft the Oregon superstar, the presence of Murray makes more sense. Having proven that he can handle a large workload efficiently last season (Murray had the seventh most carries for a player in NFL history while maintaining a 4.7 yard per carry average), Murray will provide the target for opposing defenses to take the heat off the rookie quarterback long enough for him to develop.

Coming into the league, Kelly had his doubters. Now entering his third year at the helm of the Eagles, he still has his doubters. But to dismiss his moves as failures would be shallow and shortsighted, and I look forward to his plans coming to fruition next season.

Max Fiege is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service. OUT OF OUR LEAGUE appears every Tuesday.

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Baseball Georgetown (19-9) vs. No. 12 Virginia (14-7, 3-6 ACC) Tuesday, 4 p.m.

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TENNIS The men’s tennis split its weekend matches and the women’s team fell to UPenn.

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first series of Big East play.

The Hoyas (12-15, 2-1 Big East) clawed their way back from a significant deficit in game one. Though they led 2-1 in the early innings, the Wildcats (8-13, 1-2 Big East) shot out to a 7-2 lead by the fifth. When Georgetown failed to capitalize on its opportunities in the sixth inning, it seemed that the game was essentially over. The Hoyas would have to score six runs to win.

And they did just that.

“One of the things that we’ve been talking about as a team is just believing in each other, staying tough and being willing to play the game hard.

And I think in that last inning, we just believed,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said.

The Hoyas’ rally began with a twoRBI double from junior second baseman Samantha Giovanniello, who later came around to score, bringing the Blue and Gray within three. Another run came in on a groundout, and with two on and two out, sophomore first baseman Alessandra GargicevichAlmeida hit a walk-off single to left field, bringing in two runs and completing the six-run comeback.

“In the middle of it, we just knew that we could do this,” Conlan said. “I think we just proved to ourselves that

Sophomore first baseman Alessandra Gargicevich-Almeida is tied for second on the team with 25 hits. She has a batting average of .298 in 2015.

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end, as the two schools’ softball teams squared off in a three-game series at Guy Mason Field this past weekend.

The Georgetown softball team won two out of three games against Villanova in a dramatic fashion during its

Before Monday, the number of years since the men’s lacrosse team has been ranked in the top 20 of the national polls.

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Senior attack Bo Stafford was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week after scoring four goals in two games last week.

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Season Ends With Close Loss For the Georgetown women’s basketball team (4-27, 2-16 Big East), the Big East tournament was a chance at a fresh start. In numerous interviews, Head Coach Natasha Adair referred to the conference playoffs as a “new season,” during which her team could rewrite the story of its struggles under her first-year leadership.

In spite of Adair’s optimism, Georgetown’s first-round contest against Xavier (18-15, 8-10 Big East) proceeded in a fashion similar to most of its regular season games.

The Hoyas, who entered the postseason as the lowest seed in the

Georgetown’s postseason loss to Xavier epitomized the team’s season-long struggles.

Big East tournament, scored eight straight points to open the contest and were able to maintain the lead for the first 12 minutes. However, the team, which struggled with consistency throughout the season, was unable to hold on to its advantage.

The Musketeers went on a 13-4 run to take their first lead of the game with 8:16 remaining in the opening period. The Hoyas answered with a quick score, but Xavier was able to reclaim the lead with 6:18 to play before halftime. The Musketeers closed out the remainder of the half strong, never again relinquishing the lead and heading into the locker room with a four-point advantage.

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Sometime after the final horn blood, of the improbable buzzer of the NCAA Tournament sounds beater from near half court. But in a little less than two weeks; af- regardless of how the video beter the confetti falls from the raf- gins, it always ends with the playters of Lucas Oil Stadium in India- ers who just won the national championship joyously napolis; after the embracing each other nets are cut down on the court — a reand Jim Nantz inminder that although terviews the jubimany teams will experilant winning head ence some success durcoach, CBS will ing the tournament, cue its tournament only one will truly have highlight reel set to a shining moment. the time-honored Georgetown certune of “One ShinTom Schnoor tainly had some sucing Moment.” cess in Portland this It’s a cheesy tradition, but one that has become past weekend. For one, the Hoyas inseparable from the end of the (22-11, 12-6 Big East) avoided a NCAA Tournament. For one last Round of 64 upset at the hands time, CBS will call up the images See SCHNOOR, A8 of Cinderella shocking the blue

Unpredictable results have defined 2015 in Division I men’s lacrosse. As nonconference play draws to a close, nearly every team has seen its share of surprises, including exhilarating upsets and heartbreaking losses.

Up until a few days ago, only three teams in Division I boasted an unblemished record: No. 1 Syracuse (7-0, 2-0 ACC), then-No. 2 North Carolina (9-1) and then-No. 9 Marquette (7-1, 0-1 Big East). But after a particularly remarkable Saturday afternoon, Syracuse remains the lone undefeated team — North Carolina fell at the hands of then-No. 5 Maryland, and Marquette suffered its first loss of the season on the MultiSport Facility turf.

Ending Marquette’s seven-game winning streak made the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team’s (6-3, 1-0 Big East) victory particularly noteworthy and is a testament to the cha-

otic nature of Division I lacrosse this season. “[Marquette] is a really good team, and [Head Coach Joe Amplo] does a fantastic job with them,” Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne said.

“And as [Amplo] alludes to all the time in some of his interviews, ‘This is Big East lacrosse — any night, anybody could beat somebody.’”

Last season, after Georgetown built a 7-3 lead at halftime, Marquette gained momentum and answered with a 7-3 run in the second half, ending regulation at 10-10. A final goal in overtime allowed the Golden Eagles to walk away with the victory.

This year’s Georgetown-Marquette rivalry played out in a familiar pattern. On Saturday, Georgetown ended the first half with an 8-2 advantage, but Marquette surged back again in the second half to tie the game at 9-9 with 6:07 left in the final period.

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Entering this past weekend’s play, Brown’s baseball team (3-11) had won only one of its previous 11 games. However, in a testament to the unpredictable nature of the sport, Georgetown’s baseball team (8-10), which had been on an upswing, lost two out of three home games to its slumping Ivy League opponent this past weekend.

Georgetown’s first two games against Brown came in a doubleheader on Saturday. The Hoyas won the first game in a dominant 12-0 result before dropping the second 4-1.

Despite a late four-run rally to tie the third and final game in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Hoyas gave up a run in the top of the 10th to render their comeback for naught and close out the weekend on Sunday.

In game one, the Hoyas recorded their first shutout of the season while scoring 12 runs on 14 hits.

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Sophomore center fielder Beau Hall drove in two runs in Georgetown’s 8-7 loss to Brown in the rubber game of a three-game series. The Hoyas and Bears split the first two games of the series.

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