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SEX & GEORGETOWN

A special pullout issue explores the sexual health and history of Hoyas, often contentious topics.

COMMENTARY CAPS impedes a student’s struggle with mental health, after two years.

UNCONVENTIONAL ROLE One men’s soccer player plays a special role for women’s basketball.

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SPORTS, A10

THE GUIDE

SFS Graduates Increasingly Shun Public Service Owen Eagan

of 2014. The percentages were drawn from the 80 percent of respondents who are currently employed.

Despite the longstanding connotaSFS Associate Dean Emily Zenick tion of the School of Foreign Service said that the employment statistics do with the pursuit of careers in public not worry the school’s administration. service, recent statistics reveal that “I don’t see anything as worrionly a small percentage of SFS stu- some, about the trends,” Zenick said. dents enter the public sector after “Students make all kinds of choices graduation. on what they should do after graduaAmong SFS graduates in the Class tion, and I respect that.” of 2014 who participated in the CawZenick said that these numbers ley Career Edudo not represent cation Center’s “If you would look even two or total fallout in First Destination three years out, I think that you the long-term Report poll, only would see a lot more students in involvement of 11 percent found SFS alumni in jobs in nonprofit these fields of public service, of public service, and public ser- government, of education.” citing that many vice work, and graduates evenEMILY ZENICK only 6 percent tually transfer SFS Associate Dean held positions in to public service government. By contrast, 25 percent work later in their careers. of graduates pursued employment in “I don’t think that we can really consulting services, while 15 percent see the trajectory until we see some pursued the financial sector. Two long-term data, and all we have is anhundred and sixty-nine out of 356 ecdotal evidence from my colleagues SFS graduating students responded and from keeping in touch with to the survey. alumni,” Zenick said. “If you would The Cawley Career Education Cen- look even two or three years out, I ter compiled these statistics with input from 76 percent of the SFS Class See CAREERS, A6

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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (GRD ’74) urged School of Foreign Service graduates to buck trends and embrace public service in his May commencement address to the Class of 2014.

Bylines From the Front Lines NYT reporters deliver inaugural journalism program lecture Emma Rizk

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MPD faces criticism for subpar relations with minority communities. City activists cited D.C. Ferguson protests, pictured.

City Activists Decry MPD Practices Matthew Larson Hoya Staff Writer

The Metropolitan Police Department received criticism from city activists for maintaining poor relationships with black and LGBTQ communities in Washington, D.C., during its annual public oversight hearing March 8.

The hearing, held in front of the D.C. Council’s Committee on the Judiciary, included extensive testimony from MPD Chief of Po-

lice Cathy Lanier, who noted a 9 percent drop in violent crime around the city and a steady rate of homicide over the past two years. There were 105 homicides in 2014 and 104 in 2013.

Representatives from the D.C. Ferguson campaign, a grassroots movement formed by members of the National Black United Front and the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition, See HEARING, A6

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalists C.J. Chivers and Tyler Hicks discussed their experiences as war reporters in Ukraine, Syria and on other fronts.

The Wednesday night conversation, held in the Intercultural Center Auditorium, was the inaugural event in the Georgetown journalism program’s Salim El-Lozi Lecture Series. The lecture series honors the memory of El-Lozi, a Lebanese political journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in 1980 for voicing his criticism of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, and Libya’s Muammar al-Gaddafi. Each lecture to follow in the series will focus on international freedom of the press and the First Amendment.

Chivers, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating college in 1987, began reporting in 1995. He has reported as a foreign correspondent from Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia and Uzbekistan.

Hicks is a photojournalist who is currently based in Kenya but has covered news in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechnya, among others since 1992.

The event was moderated by Alex Horton (COL ’14), a lecturer in the journalism program, who began by asking Chivers and Hicks about

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New York Times reporters C.J. Chivers, left, and Tyler Hicks featured in the inaugural Salim El-Lozi Lecture, discussing war reporting. their understanding of journalistic ethics in a war zone. Chivers said that he and Hicks avoided interfering with the squads that took them into the field, and that he

was constantly concerned that his curiosity might endanger the lives of others.

“From the moment you’ve divertSee LECTURE, A6

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OPINION

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Friday, March 27, 2015

THE VERDICT Founded January 14, 1920

EDITORIALS

#FreeAustinTice Former Marine Austin Tice (SFS ’02) was kidnapped almost three years ago while freelance reporting in Syria. Since then, his family has recently started a campaign in cooperation with Reporters without Borders and advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in response to the murder of American reporter James Foley.

Over the next few weeks, this campaign will be promoted at Georgetown through the efforts of the Center for Student Engagement and its media advisory board (full disclosure: The Hoya is a member of the Media Board).

The facts themselves are unsettling.

Austin Tice was taken from his family and his home for reporting the situation in Syria and surrounding areas. He was last seen September 2012, when a video pictured him bound and blindfolded, surrounded by armed captors, saying “Jesus, oh Jesus,” in broken Arabic moments before the clip ended.

For two and a half years, Austin’s family has not stopped searching for him, and Georgetown, as one of the communities he left behind and an institution founded on service for others, is obligated to aid the CSE in promoting the campaign.

With Austin in mind, we urge all students to familiarize themselves with his situation and spread the word and the hashtag #FreeAustinTice.

Participating is as simple as signing the petition on the “Free Austin Tice” page on the Reports Without Borders website, or taking the Blindfold Pledge, a picture taken of oneself wearing a blindfold, and posting it on social media.

The pledge shares a powerful message that we must all heed, that our world is deprived of information and blinded when journalists are brutally, unjustly silenced.

This past Wednesday, student leaders were invited by CSE Associate Director Amanda Carlton to an interest meeting outlining the extent of the Tice family’s public awareness campaign. In the coming weeks, the campus coordinators for #FreeAustinTice will be launching a fullscale campaign.

It is always jarring for members of a community to experience such an event.

Austin Tice was a Hoya. When he was student at Georgetown, this campus was very much like the ones many of us take for granted. And for this reason, we are obligated to help.

This past summer, as the world watched, glued to their televisions, thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America risk their lives to cross the border into the United States in search of asylum, the Georgetown University Law Center decided to act to combat this immigration crisis.

Georgetown’s Law Center will partner with Jesuit Refugee Services/USA, a leader in humanitarian and refugee aid to over 50 countries around the world in an effort to develop public policy recommendations that improve the legal environment for immigrants seeking protection in the United States.

This is an important step in addressing this humanitarian crisis since such a partnership allows Georgetown law students to positively contribute to aiding those in need. In an age where the practice of law can be stereotyped as selfserving, this is a refreshing instance of law used for the common good.

The coalition will bring together 12 Jesuit Law schools around the country, including those of Boston College, Fordham University and Loyola University New Orleans, drawing on the expertise and first-hand experience of each’s work with immigrant communities in their respective cities.

The Law Center’s participation is commendable, since it reinforces George-

town’s own history in service to a global community through the sphere of public policy.

The tragedy brought forth by this mass movement of minors was horrific. According to a March 2014 report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, since fiscal year 2009 to 2013, the number of asylum seekers from Central America to the United States has increased by over 600 percent, from 5,369 to 36,174, demonstrating that this is a problem that warrants the immediate attention of the international community.

It is reassuring that the university stood by its Jesuit values and chose to take initiative in addressing the crisis’ true victims.

The initiative’s ties to the Jesuit mission are significant. As Jane Aiken, director of Georgetown’s Community Justice Project put it, “This is about social justice.” This collaboration has enabled the Law Center to demonstrate its commitment to the most marginalized populations. Additionally, such an effort goes a long way to uphold a longstanding Jesuit tradition of protecting refugees and migrants.

Using the narratives and firsthand experiences of the immigrant population in crafting policy will work to ensure that, at the end of the day, government policies will truly help those in need.

As winter gives way to spring and students living off campus begin to worry about things other than an icy sidewalk, it becomes increasingly obvious that the Office of Neighborhood Life’s neglectfully vague and unnecessarily punitive policies need a breath of fresh air.

Recently, the ONL sent a reminder to students warning against such public displays with the threat that violations would be met with, among other consequences, fines of up to $200.

Policies like this show that there exists a real need for increased dialogue between the community of students living off campus and those tasked with creating such policies.

Because of this lack of communication between the ONL and off-campus residents, there are basic ambiguities on the qualifications of “publicly displayed trash receptacles” that makes it such that fines of $200 are unnecessarily punitive for students that may not have known they were in the wrong.

For some unlucky seniors, these obscure fines might even prevent them

from graduating.

Such arguably unfair punishments stem from a misconception held by the ONL that Georgetown students living off campus are seen as unruly and disorderly.

Georgetown students, on the other hand, misconstrue the ONL simply as the culprit behind the barrage of emails and punishments.

The fact remains, nonetheless, that such a relationship is toxic not only to the university’s relationship to the student body, but also nurtures a climate of distrust and resentment.

Both students and administrators should alternatively seek to bridge the communication gap that leads to misunderstandings and animosity.

On the ONL’s part, this can be done through a clarification of policy. Students, on the other hand, should step up and be more attentive to the ONL’s requirements.

This might just be the breath of fresh air that allows for the blossoming of a new ONL-student relationship.

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Blossom Rain — With spring just around the corner, many Washington, D.C. companies plan to host special events during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival — such as Cherry Blossom Paddling Tours.

First is the Worst — In a recent report collated by Superdrug Online Doctor, D.C. was ranked first in a list of states with the country’s highest STD rates.

No Direction — Preteen girls all around the country lost their minds yesterday when it was announced that Zayn Malik would leave the boyband One Direction after five years.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

Refuge of Law

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

In Response to “Get Off the Stage” The Hoya’s Editorial Board’s recent criticism of GU Fossil Free’s action at Jim Yong Kim’s speech in Gaston demonstrates a lack of understanding of basic organizing principles.

The Editorial Board criticized GUFF for what they saw as rash behavior in getting on the stage.

The board also called on GUFF to replace nonviolent direct action, like “stage storming,” with “town halls or open meetings.”

The funny thing is that GUFF has been holding open meetings and teach-ins for almost two years now. It is only after extinguishing all of these lessconfrontational tactics that GUFF began to switch to nonviolent direct action. This is a completely valid shift when organizing a campaign, as doing the same thing over and over again without result is campaign suicide.

More concerning, the Editorial Board expressed fear that GUFF might have threatened Georgetown’s reputation and disturbed the community. Of course GUFF was threatening Georgetown’s reputation and riling the student body.

By profiting off of fossil fuels, Georgetown propa-

A Garbage Policy

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gates climate violence against the environment and poor and indigenous peoples. This is shameful and should hurt Georgetown’s reputation. If GUFF doesn’t pressure and shame the university on climate injustice, the university has no incentive to change its unjust behavior.

Politeness is the enemy of progress. This is a lesson Georgetown students need to learn, especially if they are interested in affecting positive change on campus.

We as a student body need to shed the respect for authority instilled in us by our bourgeois education and pre-professional culture. We need to learn that circumspect pleading and gentle prodding never produce results. We need to be willing to mobilize our bodies, take risks, and be rude for justice.

If The Hoya’s Editorial Board wants to talk organizing tactics, they should get out of the office and into the streets.“ Vincent DeLaurentis (SFS ’17) Founder, Hoyas United for Free Speech

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

Lauren Gros (SFS ’18) examines how the climate has influenced great civil unrest in Syra:

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The drought is the worst that has ever been recorded in the region and is estimated to have displaced over 1.5 million farmers. These farmers, who were forced to abandon their dry, barren land, migrated to urban centers, which were already overwhelmed with population growth from the arrival of Iraqi refugees. As a result, former farmers faced massive unemployment in overcrowded cities and rising food prices due to lack of supply. This environment reignited decadesold social and ethnic tensions, which ultimately erupted into the ongoing civil war.”

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OPINION

Friday, March 27, 2015

Eighteen Weeks

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VIEWPOINT • Nytes

The Invisible Patient Kendall Ciesemier and Camille Squires

The Best Plan Is No Plan W

e both received a jarring email in our inboxes recently: A reminder from the deans’ office to begin steps for registration for Fall 2015.

After getting over the initial shock (and frankly, insult) of the reality of not being around to register for another semester of classes, we began reflecting.

We began to remember what it felt like to be a second-semester freshman or sophomore, making strategic decisions about which classes to sign up for — which professors are the easiest, which discussion section will allow for a long weekend on Fridays, which classes fit our major — all in accordance with “the plan.”

Because at those earlier stages of our college careers, we, like many Georgetown students, had a plan.

Even if we didn’t know the specifics of what jobs we wanted in the future, there was at least a general roadmap for success: Pick a “smart” major, get good grades, score some lofty internships over the summer (balanced out with volunteering and study abroad, of course) and take leadership opportunities on campus.

All we needed to do was follow the steps set out for us and we would surely find success in our postgraduate lives.

But now we stand at the end of this series of steps (or at least at a major checkpoint), and we are here to report that the plan has all but fallen away. To be quite honest with you, dear readers, we are less certain of what the future holds now than we have ever been.

Something happened between freshman and senior year; while following the plan, passion started to get in the way. New interests came from unexpected places — a class that turned into a minor and a study abroad stint that turned into a deep yearning for an ex-pat life.

As we moved through life, the handrails of the plan began to fall away and we were left with decent-looking resumes, but in a mental state of utter confusion.

In some ways, this problem is a result of the plan itself; each opportunity we strategically took to increase our “success” showed us 10 more opportunities out there that we’d never considered.

Each class, each internship, each trip has shown us just how big the world is and just how many ways we can make an impact on it. And the more opportunities that are revealed to us, the harder it becomes to choose any one path. To paraphrase the philosophers/rockers, Red Hot Chili Peppers: The more we see, the less we know.

Now of course, in the scheme of things, this is a very good problem to have; we are both so grateful for the knowledge we’ve accrued over the course of our time at Georgetown and grateful to be aware of just how much is out there awaiting us.

But the stress and anxiety that arises with choosing from amongst so many possibilities is real and, at times, overwhelming.

Because now, more than ever, there is no plan — we are paving the road as we walk it, and there’s always the fear a misstep.

We remember vividly those first days of senior year — the unique churn of excitement and panic at being able to revel in what was sure to be our best year on the Hilltop, while at the same time having to figure out how we were going to leave.

But it has been difficult (if not impossible) to make a plan going forward when what we think we want changes every day. So now, at the end of senior year, we think the best plan for us is to have no plan at all — or, at the very least, let go of the need to have a plan, and disabuse ourselves of the notion that thinking three and four steps ahead will guarantee happiness.

Because really it won’t. We are realizing more and more that when we are confronted with all of these decisions and exposed to new experiences that there are so many things that have the potential to bring fulfillment into life, professionally and personally.

And after what Georgetown has exposed us to, we are convinced we don’t even know half of the possibilities out there.

Kendall Ciesemier and Camille Squires are seniors in the College.

Eighteen Weeks appears every other Friday.

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n a GUSA campaign cycle enlivened by satire, only two things remained sacred: sexual assault and mental health reform.

In a conversation with GUSA President Joe Luther, he told me they refused to satirize these two issues because both have true victims and radical consequences in students’ lives.

I’ve experienced those consequences in my own time at Georgetown. During my sophomore year in 2011, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder by clinicians at CAPS. After over a semester of treatment, CAPS referred me to long-term treatment with a provider in the community. However, the transfer didn’t go smoothly as the new doctor cancelled my initial appointment and never returned my calls to reschedule.

Unfortunately, my mental health had already started to deteriorate and I was struggling with insomnia. With no doctor treating me I tried to go back to CAPS but they refused to see me. After three weeks of debilitating insomnia, finally administrators stepped in and got me into CAPS, but by that time it was obvious that my situation was unsalvageable, and that I would need to be put on a medical leave.

After a two-year leave, I returned to Georgetown this year to finish off my studies. But at the beginning of this semester the clinic where I receive my mental health treatment underwent a management change and doctors left in droves. For the last three months I have seen a new doctor each month. Because of this upheaval in my treatment, I was not receiving any continuity of care.

Each new doctor focused on rehashing my extensive medical history, rather than evaluating current sleeping issues and a dwindling appetite. Unwilling to let the poor quality of care dictate my level of stability, I reached out to my old doctor at CAPS, asking

It’s absurd that a Georgetown student with a history of medical issues is not able to be cared for by the high-quality services offered on campus. for help while I found a more reliable long term provider. The response from the CAPS doctor: “As I think you know, I am not able to offer you psychiatric treatment at CAPS.” After being denied services from CAPS my mental health took a turn for the worse. I was unable to get out of bed, felt extremely fatigued and ate less than 500 calories a day. I was severely depressed. After missing a significant amount of class and falling behind in coursework I reached out to my dean and the case manager in student affairs. Although we did everything we could, due to the lack of access to mental health providers we re-

alized this situation would take some time to overcome, and as a result I would need to go on a second medical leave.

It is absurd that a Georgetown student that has a history of severe mental health issues is not able to be cared for by the high quality services offered on campus, and yet this holds true for nearly all students returning from a medical leave and for those deemed in need of “long-term” treatment. It is very likely, that in both cases of my medical leaves, had there never been an interruption in my treatment, my mental health would have never degraded to the extent it did. Simply put, the

VIEWPOINT • Shymansky

Campus Plan or Student Sell-Out?

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ver take a look at the 2010 Campus Plan? Hopefully you haven’t, because you have much better things to do than pore over a set of fiveyear-old zoning requirements.

It’s more likely, however, that you’ve unknowingly seen the effects of the plan play out in front of you.

Take Georgetown’s most ironically named administrative apparatus, the Student Neighborhood Assistance Program.

Chances are that you’ve been pushed out of an off-campus house in the early evening by hosts who are in the process of being written up for disorderly conduct by SNAP. But if you’ve ever stopped to wonder why you’re walking home even before Tombs stops serving dinner, it’s because of an intentionally ambiguous paragraph in the campus plan containing the eloquent policy that “if noise can be heard beyond the property line, it is probably too noisy.”

Of course, this would be a perfectly reasonable metric if every resident of the neighborhood were held to the same standard.

Yet D.C.’s Noise at Night Law doesn’t even take effect until, well, night — specifically at 10 p.m. The requirements set forth in the campus plan, on the other hand, apply 24/7. This means that a student and non-student house can be listening to the exact same song at the exact same volume at 9:45 p.m. and only those in the student house will face repercussions.

In keeping with its anti-student tenor, the campus plan also provides for “rapidly accelerating and serious sanctions” to accompany the increased enforcement of conduct policies.

Imagine playing music with 10 friends in your Burleith backyard at a volume that can be heard 30 feet away on the sidewalk. Setting aside the merits of considering this a violation of the Code of Student Conduct in the first place, according to the university it constitutes “disorderly conduct” instead of “noise.”

This distinction, in turn, provides a convenient backdoor

for the university to sanction students with disciplinary probation. The plan itself outlines more severe sanctions as well, including giving the university the ability to move students back into on-campus housing in the middle of the year — sticking students with both a lease they need to pay and on-campus housing many of them can’t afford. The campus plan even grants the university the authority to ban certain students from living off campus outright, without even spending a day in non-university housing.

All of this is ostensibly done in the name of making on-campus student life more attractive and off-campus student life more restrained. Yet time and again the university has failed to live up to its side of the bargain, tightening off-campus conduct policy while maintaining current standards on campus. A recent decision by the Disciplinary Review Committee to reject a proposal to allow alcohol paraphernalia on campus is a particularly revealing example of this tren d. The university is consistently willing to spend students’ tuition dollars on SNAP and reliably unwilling to make policy changes required by the campus plan.

Though the 2010 campus plan is already legally binding, it is worth remembering that the plan was written with virtually no student input. It is physical proof of what happens when students are locked out of negotiations — we are sold out, every time. Students understand the desire to ensure that Burleith and West Georgetown remain safe and inviting neighborhoods, but writing and enforcing policies that hold students to unreasonable standards is far from a solution.

With the drafting of the 2018 campus plan beginning this summer, student involvement will be essential to ensure that student life is not limited any further by oppressive conduct policies and unfair targeting of students. Let’s not get screwed again.

The Campus plan is physical proof of what happens when students are locked out of negotiations — we are sold out, every time.

Ryan Shymansky is a junior in the College and director of the Student Advocacy Office.

students that are the most at risk are given the least amount of resources.

The solution to this institutional problem requires top university administrators to re-evaluate priorities on funding. Currently the university is spending approximately $65 million building new dorms that, arguably, students never asked for. Rather than fully funding student resources, the university is prioritizing appeasing the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission. This is not in line with our Jesuit value of caring for the whole person.

Of the seven Jesuit universities that made the 2015 U.S. News and World Report national rankings, Georgetown is ranked the best.

But when evaluated in terms of mental health resources, Georgetown comes in dead last out of the Jesuit universities. Of these seven, Georgetown is alone in explicitly charging students for mental health treatment. Georgetown offers on average three free sessions for each issue that causes a student to seek treatment; on the average, the other Jesuit universities offer 40 free sessions. And that is because, unlike our Jesuit peers, Georgetown’s funding priorities are fundamentally misaligned.

This is something that cannot be accepted. Georgetown should significantly increase the number of free sessions students receive at CAPS. Resources should remain available to all students, during the entirety of their Georgetown career. A student’s well-being must be considered tantamount to their education. We can no longer accept the unprincipled funding priorities of this administration, because we cannot continue to fail students who need help. To continue doing so would be to pervert the Jesuit values for which this university stands.

Jairus Nytes is a junior in the College.

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Quantifying Risk in Modern Medicine

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hen your high-pitched, who face the ultimate perils when eardrum-grating alarm going forward with a potentially hazsnatches you from a deep ardous operation. slumber, you have several options.

Health care practitioners who regYou could shut off the incessant ularly perform risky procedures are beeping, continue resting and miss used to monotonously listing off the class; hit snooze, temporarily delay litany of bodily consequences that facing the world and arrive late to can occur. To physicians, the ordeal class; or hop out of bed, bleary-eyed is a preventative measure to avoid but invigorated for the day ahead. future litigations, and thus is done Each choice comes with its own with little enthusiasm or further disset of positives and negatives. If cussion. However, to the patient this you decide to skip lecture, you risk one-sided conversation is downright missing important class material, terrifying. performing poorly on exams, and A patient who is not well-versed in not seeing the lovely faces of your modern medical technologies only classmates. Managing the risks has himself and cold, hard numbers associated with skipping class is to base his decision off of; no matstraightfor ward ter what option he because there is chooses, it is a pure a clear right and gamble. Ultimately, wrong. whether you survive H o w e v e r, a medical procedure managing risks with or without becomes more complications comes complex when down to luck, fate, dealing with the destiny, or the big medical sphere. guy in the sky; whatNikita Deshpande My dentist, an ever you choose to overzealous chap, call it. keeps encouragIn medicine, it ing me to have seems there are no all four wisdom guarantees.

There teeth removed. At is no cure-all; each the insistence of possible treatment my dentist, I met comes with risks. with a maxillofaThe success or failure cial surgeon who of a cure is grounded told me that my in experimental bottom wisdom probabilities, but the teeth roots have human brain struggrown into my gles to make conlower jaw nerves. crete decisions when These nerves are responsible for there is potential for such disastrous feeling when we touch our lips, effects on the body. nose, skin, or mouth, and allow From a patient’s perspective, it our taste buds to sense different would be helpful if physicians spent foods. more time discussing the pros and Among patients who have the cons of each medical procedure in same complication as I do, one out of layman’s terms. a hundred suffers nerve damage and There must also be an established loss of feeling in the lower jaw dur- support system, which consists of ing wisdom tooth removal surgery. previous patients who have and have Though this reduction in sensation not faced complications. This nettypically lasts anywhere between work must be willing to speak with a few days and six months, feeling a prospective patient, and guide him never returns for 1 to 3 percent of or her through the journey. Though patients. The maxillofacial surgeon these solutions may not be perfect, ended my consultation by heartily they would make the process more informing me that he has never had human. a patient permanently lose feeling.

Medicine is grounded on patient Even so, I did not want to be his first, interactions, but procedure risk staand thus was not sure if I should opt tistics and the ever-present threat of for the procedure. litigation widens the gap between Thinking about my predicament patients and physicians. Patients deleft me utterly puzzled; how do I ef- serve better than pure numbers; they fectively weigh the pros and cons of need some reassurance and comfort a medical procedure when my body before gambling their lives for mediwill be affected by the eventual out- cine. come? How can I even make meaning of quantified risk statistics? It is diffi- Nikita Deshpande is a freshman in cult to judge whether or not you will the College. The Century Cap apbe part of the unfortunate 1 percent pears every other Friday.

From a patient perspective, it would be helpful if physicians spent more time discussing the pros and cons of each medical procedure in layman’s terms

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$150 Million in Special Collections Displayed at Lau XINLAN HU

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The Booth Family Center for Special Collections on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library reopened Wednesday after nearly a year of renovations, which transformed part of the floor into a 9,200-square foot exhibition room with $150 million worth of books, manuscripts and art pieces.

According to Director of the Center for Special Collections John Buchtel, these renovation efforts will grant students larger access to the university’s special collections.

“One thing we are trying to do with this renovation is to make it more welcoming, open and visible, to put these exhibition cases that are secure, climate-controlled and appropriate for collections in locations where students can actually see what the treasures of our university are,” Buchtel said.

The renovations, which began last April, cost a total of $5 million, and were largely funded by a $3 million donation from the Booth family.

The other $2 million consists of a $1 million donation from Barbara Ellis Jones (CAS ’74), a $500,000 donation from the Lauinger family and additional donations from many library contributors. The center now holds a collection of over 100,000 rare books, 750 distinct manuscript collections, 7,700 linear feet of university archives material, 50,000 to 60,000 linear feet of fine art prints

and other art objects. These collections are estimated to worth over $150 million.

The center is currently displaying “Treasures Since 2000,” its first exhibition since the renovation, which features artifacts from the units of manuscripts collection, rare books collection, university archives and university art collection. Items on display include the first bible printed in America, Abraham Lincoln’s letter to General McClellan and the first poem published by William Wordsworth, which was a recent donation from professor Paul Betz.

Exhibits in the center will change frequently.

The renovated center also added new spaces within its glass walls including a reception area, reading room, processing room, digital workroom and a classroom that can be reserved for class research sessions with the special collections.

Buchtel said that the classroom is now ready to serve more student researchers.

“In the five-year period prior to the renovation, we had 49 different faculties from 17 different departments and programs bringing their students in, hundreds of students,” Buchtel said. “We are going to do a lot more than that now. … We can almost hit that by a year-to-year basis. There are so many Georgetown classes that can make use of this.”

According to University Librarian Artemis Kirk, the center has aimed to collect rare items that can enrich

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The Booth Family Center for Special Collections on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library opened Wednesday after a yearlong renovation process that cost $5 million. The center houses $150 million of rare artifacts. learning experiences on campus.

“From time to time, if there are materials that are considered medium rare, we will think about whether we should put them into a special collection studies not just for Georgetown but also for future scholarship. That’s a combination for special collection and developing and managing our circulation collection,” Kirk said.

Meanwhile, the special collection’s online University Archive Unit, which will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2016, preserves artifacts both ancient and modern. The archives even have historically documented tweets welcoming Georgetown’s new bulldog mascot from 2013 with the hashtag #WelcomeJJ. “We are not doing our complete duty if we are not capturing the university history by any form in which it comes,” Kirk said. “We are doing both … old and new and looking into the future. Part of the special collection is meant to record, capture and preserve the history of this institution.”

The library has also worked to digitize many of the manuscripts and books featured in the collection, but Kirk said that physical experience with texts in the special collections space is an unmatched experience.

“When you can digitize materials, especially books and prints, you can give people access to what we have,” Kirk said. “You could find a reading copy of a lot of things and you would understand a novel by

reading it by yourself. But if you actually see the handwritten manuscripts, you would get a different sense of what it is that the author is conveying.”

Besides research areas, the center also enhanced its collection storage area with separate climate-control and fire suppression systems. “[The] special collection has a dual mission. We are here to promote history, but we are also here to preserve it,” Buchtel said. “So one of the most important features of the renovation was to upgrade our [Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning system] so that we have proper environmental conditions for our collections.”

The special collections are open to all students for both independent study and coursework. Buchtel encouraged interested students to look up materials on the library website and set up an appointment with librarians beforehand, as some of the materials are off-site.

“We can help with what it is that students are trying to find and we are very, very happy to do so,” Buchtel said. “Any students can come in and use the collections, for independent studies or regular classwork.”

Buchtel said that students from all majors would be able to appreciate the center’s initiative in restoring documents from the past.

“It enriches all of us to have a sense of history,” Buchtel said. “Even if you are studying micro-biology or foreign affairs and not doing a

degree in history, it matters that you have a sense of where you come from and where the culture has come from. Part of what we are here for is to foster that.”

Jessica Hickle (SFS ’18), who is currently researching Berlin during World War I, said that she was excited to access the rare material.

“It’s a really awesome opportunity for students to have access to such rare materials that brought such incredible insight into the history of the school and the more general history,” Hickle said.

Hickle also took interest in a scorebook for Georgetown’s club baseball team from 1869 to 1873 in the University Archive section of the inaugural exhibition.

“I would encourage people to look at the artifacts that are specifically Georgetown-related,” Hickle said.

“I was looking at a baseball sports chart from really early on in Georgetown history. It’s really cool that we still have those things.”

Lynn Lee (SFS ’18) said that while the center is a valuable initiative, she is concerned that it would take up the limited study space in the library.

“I think it’s great that students will get access to rare books etc.,” Lee said. “But I also regret that Georgetown does not have the space to put the center elsewhere. I was hoping that people can use Lau 5 [as a] normal study area and maybe have a collection somewhere else, maybe at Healy or somewhere.”

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GU Counsel Discusses Study Wary of College Divestment Response to Assault Sara Kamouni Hoya Staff Writer

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The Georgetown University General Counsel held a panel discussion on sexual assault and due process March 12 and discussed recent changes to related policies implemented by the federal government.

At the panel, organized by the American Constitution Society, Vice President and General Counsel Lisa Brown noted that the increased focus on sexual assault on college campuses requires constant evaluation by universities to stay up to date on new regulations.

“Along with Student Affairs, Health Education, [Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action], student leaders and many others at Georgetown who are dedicated to preventing and responding to cases of sexual assault in our community, we are constantly evaluating our policies, procedures, and resources to ensure they are fair to all parties involved, consistent with the law and true to our values,” Brown said to The Hoya. “Keeping up with new laws, guidance documents and agreements — as well as best practices from other institutions and experts in the field — is an important way that Georgetown does this work.”

A March 13 article published by the Washington Examiner called the conversation a criticism of federal policies, which Brown said mischaracterized the tone of the discussion. Brown maintained that the purpose of the meeting was to review changes in sexual assault policy, and that the tone of the conversation was not as negative as the Washington Examiner described.

“The resulting story in the Washington Examiner … was taken quite out of context, as I was not lamenting new rules on this important issue,” Brown said.

The federal government introduced new legislation in the Senate this month that would increase university accountability in sexual assault cases. Titled the Campus Safety and Accountability Act, the proposed bill would raise penalties for universities in violation of Title IX, provide more resources for survivors, require more transparency in disciplinary procedures and distribute campus climate surveys.

This past year has seen a slew of reform bills responding to sexual assault on college campuses. In January 2014, President Obama formed a White House task force to head federal efforts to prevent and respond to sexual assaults on college campuses, and in September 2014, the White House and Center for American Progress’ Generation Progress launched a public awareness cam-

paign against sexual assault called “It’s On Us” that aims to involve student leaders at Georgetown and at nearly 200 other universities in campaign efforts.

Following these efforts, Georgetown added an alcohol amnesty clause in cases of sexual assault and launched the webpage sexualassault.georgetown.edu with information and resources on sexual assault in February 2014 and reformed sexual assault policy in September 2014, reducing the number of individuals involved in sexual misconduct hearings and hiring outside investigators to look into complaints prior to the hearings. Previously, sexual assault hearings were handled in the same way as other breach of conduct hearings.

While the Examiner article claimed that these various federal policies reflect a bias against the accused, Sexual Assault and Health Issues Coordinator Jen Schweer said she believes survivor-centered sexual assault policies are not biased but critical in order to change the culture around sexual assault.

“I think the recent national dialogue and attention to the issue of sexual assault through laws and policy has allowed all of our communities to understand the importance of environments that are survivor centered,” Schweer said. “I don’t believe at all that survivor-centered means biased.”

Schweer added that more sexual assault policy should address the amount of sexual assault crimes that go unreported.

“Sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes. It’s absolutely critical that we change the conversation to provide access to systems to those who want to use it as part of their healing,” Schweer said.

Georgetown University Student Association Secretary of Student Health and Safety Nora West (SFS ’15) said that the changing policies still leave a continued presence of bias against the survivor.

“Even with these new rules there is still a bias against survivors,” West said. “People are just reacting to the fact that there has been an upswing in cases due to the increased awareness around the issue. For the first time, perpetrators are being held accountable, and only sometimes, realistically. Let’s not pretend the system is biased against them.”

At Georgetown, 12 cases of sexual assault have been heard since 2012. Six people were found not responsible and six people were found responsible. Of those six found responsible, three were expelled and three were suspended. The Department of Justice says that two to eight percent of sexual assault accusations are false, which is about the same as those of other crimes.

Women’s History Month Celebrated in March Giovanna Azevedo Hoya Staff Writer

When Georgetown closes out its celebration of Women’s History Month on Tuesday with an event featuring ballet prodigy Misty Copeland, hundreds of students will have attended its 15 events, which featured discussions on gender, race, politics and disability.

For the first time, the month-long series of programming received funding from an initiative launched by the Office of the President in October 2014 that funds cultural and advocacy groups with official months designated to their causes. Women’s History Month received $1,500 in funding from the Office of the President and is the sixth of seven heritage months this academic year, preceded by Black History Month in February and followed by Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month in May. Women’s Center undergraduate assistant Mary Rogers (COL ’16) said that the money helped fund resources for disabled students.

“The extra money was really helpful in being able to secure ASL interpreters for students who may have needed them,” Rogers said. “It helped make some of the events a little bit more inclusive.”

The aim of the month is not only to celebrate women but also to reflect on female achievements and setbacks in the past and in the future, according to a campus-wide email sent in mid-March.

The Georgetown University Student Association, the Women’s Center, Georgetown University Women of Color, Take Back The Night, Catholic Daughters, Women in Politics, Women’s Veteran Panel, Georgetown University Veteran’s Association and the Female Empowerment Magis Row House participated in and organized the events, creating a series of discussions on women in society, the church and the workplace. Events included movie screenings, guest speakers and roundtables on sexual assault and feminism.

Women’s Center undergraduate assistant Mary Rogers (COL ’16) said she believes the heritage month and its events are extremely important in the effort to empower women on campus.

“I think Georgetown has really been an old boys club for a while,” Rogers said. “We didn’t fully become co-ed until 1969 and even now we still struggle with getting more women in the upper levels of leadership on campus. Having a women’s history month that is recognized by the university is really important in letting all students on campus know that women are not only recognized, but valued here.”

The month-long celebration of women began March 6 with a kickoff coffee hour

in the Female Empowerment Magis Row House. Other major events included a women’s veteran panel, a networking event and a feminism roundtable.

Rogers said that she especially enjoyed the Women and Disability Roundtable that featured disability rights advocate Lydia Brown (COL ’15) and National Council on Disability Executive Director Rebecca Cokely.

“In my opinion the best feminism is an intersectional one that includes gender, race, ethnicity and disability, so it was really great to explore that,” Rogers said.

Women’s Center volunteer Sylvia Levy (SFS ’18) also helped to organize some of the programming for Women’s History Month.

“The event that I organized, and was very excited for, was a panel discussion about women’s careers and activism,” Levy said. “The panel discussion was, I thought, very important and successful.

Topics that were covered ranged from the importance of intersectionality in the work place and in activism efforts to tips on networking and operating in maledominating fields.”

Levy said she was extremely happy with the response that the event received from fellow students.

“Afterwards, many students who attended came to me and told me how helpful the insights the panelists gave about women’s activism in tech, global rights and local activism were,” Levy said. “I am so thankful for all the help that I got and how much excitement for the event all of the students … I came into contact with had.”

New South Chaplain-in-Residence Jessie Lowry said that she used Women’s History Month as an opportunity to host conversations with students, which further celebrated women at Georgetown.

“I have noticed all the wonderful events on campus taking place in honor of Women’s History Month,” Lowry wrote in an email.

“One of the things that I have always wanted to do is gather some wonderful women at Georgetown and simply talk openly and informally about what it is like to be a woman here. What are the unique challenges? What is like to make friends, join clubs, date, make your mark?”

Madeline Westrick (SFS ’18), who attended the month’s events, said that initiatives such as Women’s History Month are of vital importance to the Georgetown community.

“Women deserve to be celebrated and there are so many issues out there which need to be candidly discussed,” Westrick said. “As a society, we have come a long way, but there is still so many things that we need to work on in order to ensure that women have every single door possible open to them. I feel proud to be part of an institution that celebrates and empowers women.”

Divestment from fossil fuels could negatively impact the financial returns for universities, according to a new report from an economic consulting company.

The study, released by Compass Lexecon and sponsored by the International Petroleum Association of America, highlighted the negative impacts of university divestment from fossil fuels, branding divestment a “bad idea” for the uncertainty it causes.

“The costs to investors of fossil fuel divestiture are highly likely and substantial, while the potential benefits — to the extent there are any — are ill-defined and uncertain at best,” Compass Lexecon President and Chairman Daniel Fischel, the principal author of the study, wrote in the report.

The study created stock indices, compared their returns and found that those without investments in the energy sector underperformed by up to 0.7 percent.

In the context of universities, the study also found that divesting from fossil fuels could cut funding for underprivileged students.

The study estimates that the cost to university endowments, which total $456 billion around the United States, would be $3 billion a year.

Despite these negative findings, representatives from Compass Lexecon maintained that the study does not explicitly advocate against fossil fuel divestment.

Senior Vice President Alex Rinaudo explained that the findings in the paper should be taken objectively

and stressed that Compass Lexecon does not take an official stance on divestment.

“The point of the paper is not to say that divestment is or is not an option. I think it’s a very complex issue which could have benefits, but which also could have costs,” Rinaudo said. “The real point of the paper was to point out from a purely financial perspective, in terms of maximising assets, our analysis shows that divestment is highly likely to lead to a reduction, and from that perspective divestment comes with a very real financial cost.”

Universities have responded in various ways to the question of divestment. While The New School in New York City decided to divest from all fossil fuel investments in February and focus increasingly on climate change in its curriculum, Harvard University dismissed its students’ attempts to divest. University President Drew Faust said that divestment was neither “warranted nor wise” in an Oct. 2013 statement.

Rinaudo added that the decision of whether or not to divest from fossil fuels should be made on a case-bycase basis.

“Ultimately that’s up to the individual, and Georgetown, like every other institution, will have to make that choice,” Rinaudo said.

According to The New York Times, the report contradicts two previous studies on divestment. One by Northstar Asset Management predicted that divestment would reduce returns by 0.15 percent, while another by the Aperio Group said that divestment from 15 stocks specifically targeted by activists would have no real impact.

The issue remains contested at Georgetown.

The Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility previously rejected student organization GU Fossil Free’s calls for total divestment from 200 companies over the next three years, issuing alternative recommendations for strategic divestment and targeted engagement with energy companies to increase pressure on the companies to develop alternative sources of energy.

The board of directors is in the process of considering CISR’s proposal, as the issue of fossil fuel divestment is still an ongoing question among university officials, according to Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh.

“The working group of the board of directors will be reviewing the divestment question carefully in the coming weeks and will want to hear from key stakeholders on a range of issues,” Pugh said.

Fossil Free members, who continue to campaign for divestment, criticized Compass Lexecon’s study.

“The report completely fails to understand the issues. It implies that climate science and the social costs of carbon are still very much up in the air, despite the fact that an overwhelming scientific consensus suggests otherwise,” Fossil Free member Graham Willard (SFS ’18) said in a statement on behalf of the organization.

Willard specifically pointed to the role of the Independent Petroleum Association of America in the study as an additional cause for concern.

“Any study commissioned by people who have a direct stake in its results should not be taken too seriously,” Willard said.

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The Newseum’s exhibit featuring artifacts from imprisoned journalist Austin Tice (SFS ’02) is part of a campaign by Reporters Without Borders to increase public awareness of Tice’s captivity.

Campaign to Free Tice Advances Kristen Fedor Hoya Staff Writer

The #FreeAustinTice campaign to raise awareness for a university alumnus who was kidnapped in Syria while working as a freelance journalist in 2012 is gaining traction on Georgetown’s campus with the efforts of the Journalism Department and the Center for Student Engagement.

After completing his second year at Georgetown University Law Center, Austin Tice (SFS ’02) left his law education to cover the escalating war between the Syrian government and rebel forces. While there, he disappeared in August 2012 en route from Daraya, Syria, to Beirut, Lebanon, at the age of 31.

According to reports from French newspaper Le Figaro on March 20, Tice, who is believed to be a captive of the Syrian government, is still alive. U.S. officials are allegedly in negotiations with the Syrian government for his release. The reports cite an anonymous European diplomat, who claims an American diplomat, Czech diplomat and Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Moqdad are negotiating in Damascus, Syria for Tice’s safe return.

Delphine Halgand, U.S. director of Reporters Without Borders, an international nonprofit organization that aims to protect journalists and that has been working with Tice’s family since September 2012, confirmed reports that Tice is alive and added that the organization has knowledge that he is not held by ISIS or any terrorist groups.

“That’s the tricky part because we want to raise awareness but there are things we cannot say. But what we can say is that there are diverse, credible sources from diverse source origins that confirm he is alive and pretty well treated,” Halgand said.

Halgand also said the Syrian government has been cooperative and has told Tice’s family they will help with his release.

The State Department was unable to provide further details, but officials expressed concern for Tice’s wellbeing and appreciation for his work.

“We continue to work through our Czech protecting power in Syria to get information regarding U.S.

citizens missing in Syria, and we appreciate the efforts of the Czech mission on behalf of our citizens,” a State Department official wrote in a statement to The Hoya. “We have long expressed concern about the safety of journalists in Syria and strongly urge all sides to ensure their safety.

This serves as a reminder of the great risks journalists are taking in order to shed light on the truth of what is happening in Syria.”

Reporters Without Borders has been consulting with the Tice family since 2012, connecting them with underground sources in Beirut and Arab media, according to Halgand. After the August 2014 execution of freelance journalist James Foley by the group that calls itself the Islamic State, the organization’s work turned towards public awareness of Tice’s situation at the request of the Tice family.

“I think that about 99 percent of Americans heard about [Foley] but had no idea that there is another American journalist who is missing and alive in Syria,” Halgand said. “The goal of the campaign was really to raise awareness among the American public, to encourage the US administration to do everything it can to bring Austin back home safely.”

The #FreeAustinTice campaign, run by Reporters Without Borders, officially launched in February, including an online petition and the Blindfold Pledge. Several media outlets, including The Washington Post, Hearst Newspapers Group and The Atlantic Media Group, are official partners in the #FreeAustinTice campaign.

The Blindfold Pledge is the crux of the marketing campaign, calling participants to take a photo with the “#FreeAustinTice” blindfold, post the image to social media and challenge someone else to do the same. The last known image of Tice is a video from September 2012 showing him blindfolded, surrounded by his captors.

“We decided to use the blindfold symbol as a symbol of Austin and his kidnapping to say in a sense when a journalist is missing, we are all deprived of information. We are all blindfolded,” Halgand said.

The Newseum, also a partner in the campaign, opened a small exhibit showcasing Tice’s work last week.

According to Halgand, Georgetown

has been supportive of the Tice family since his kidnapping, providing legal advice among other services. Now that the #FreeAustinTice campaign has publicly launched, members of the university will be working with Reporters Without Borders to bring the project to campus.

“I know he had a strong attachment to his school so I think it’s particularly important for Georgetown students to be aware of what a talented alumni has become and how they can help him today,” Halgand said.

Georgetown University’s Journalism Department officially offered help with the campaign, addressing Tice’s kidnapping at a Wednesday panel with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists C.J. Chivers and Tyler Hicks. Attendees received #FreeAustinTice blindfolds when they entered.

The Center for Student Engagement held a meeting Wednesday afternoon to address ways to bring the #FreeAustinTice campaign to Georgetown. Representatives from Georgetown University Television, The Caravel and The Hoya attended.

(Full disclosure: The Hoya is a member of the Media Board.)

Associate Director Amanda Carlton said the CSE has reached out to the Media Board, the Advertising and Marketing Association and the Georgetown branch of Amnesty International, among other student groups, about contributing to the campaign.

“It’s a lot of an open slate,” Carlton said. “This is a very grassroots campaign. They want us to use a lot of social media.”

During the meeting, Carlton described several ideas to increase awareness throughout the student body, including setting up a photo booth on campus for students to take the Blindfold Pledge.

While no concrete plans are in place, Carlton said the CSE hopes to reach out to as many student groups as possible to ensure the campus campaign is a success.

“How is it [that we go] beyond engaging students: inviting them to a place to learn more about Austin and to sign that petition — to do that action step, which is really minimal in our daily lives, but can make a huge difference to one person who is also a Hoya himself,” Carlton said.

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Low Numbers Of SFS Grads In Service Jobs CAREERS, from A1 think that you would see a lot more students in these fields of public service, of government, of education. I think that part of that is that a lot of students are graduating with a good amount of debt from here.”

Additionally, Zenick emphasized the role that private sector employers have in contributing to the public good through means such as scientific or sustainable energy research, ethical investments and federal consulting.

Latin American Student Association President Nicole Arellano (SFS ’16) said that these statistics were unsettling.

“I think that it’s a little bit embarrassing because the

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New York Times reporters C.J. Chivers, left, and Tyler Hicks discussed their experiences reporting on war in locations around the world, including Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine, in an event held at ICC Auditorium on Wednesday.

Reporters Describe Experience of War forces, Chivers and Hicks began performing detailed risk assessed the activity or the direction ments before entering conflict or the decisions of the people zones.

“Before we would do the trip you’re with, if anything happens it’s on your soul,” Chivers we had thought through as many contingencies as we could said.

The two returned multiple have,” Chivers said. “That’s not times to a particular incident going to protect you. What it in Afghanistan in which they does is it builds hesitation into went out with a patrol. One what you’re doing and it has a of the men on the patrol was plan so somebody is working killed in a surprise ambush. on it if something goes wrong Hicks, who had to swim across … but you can’t anticipate all a river and nearly became hypo- the risks.”

When Hicks and Chivers thermic, remembers it as one of were reportthe worst nights of “You’re out there for your ing in Syria in 2013, the his life.

Syrian Civil “ I t readers. Everything you War had takes a escalated, lot to do has to have a journalmaking it exgo out istic purpose.” tremely unthere, safe to report physicalC.J. CHIVERS New York Times Foreign Correspondent in the counly, emotry.

Hicks tionally, to put yourself in that place,” said that it is important for a Hicks said. “Months of plan- journalist to recognize when to ning, and then you want to leave a situation if it becomes document what’s happening, too dangerous.

“You get to a point where you you want to have a record, especially when there has been a can’t work in a place anymore,” causality. These guys deserve to Hicks said. “There is no way I would go there now. It would have their stories told.”

“You’re in a tunnel, every- be irresponsible for me and thing vanishes,” Chivers said everyone around me. It’s literof the ambush. “You have to ally suicide to go there now as toggle between your safety con- a Westerner.”

Hicks also spoke about his Pucerns, which are constant, and litzer Prize-winning reporting being able to inform the reader you’re out there because you’re of the 2013 Westgate Nairobi not out there for you, you’re mall massacre. As the decision out there for your readers. Ev- to enter the mall was spontaneerything you do has to have a ous, Hicks was unable to make detailed risk assessments or journalistic purpose.”

Chivers and Hicks reflect- contingency plans.

“I can’t deny that it’s a selfish ed on how journalism has changed in recent years, specifi- act to go and take that kind of cally focusing on new threats to chance. It’s selfish because if journalists in the field. When something happens to me, my unable to travel with American family and my friends have to LECTURE, from A1

deal with the consequences,” to affect your family. It’s a difficult transition. … It’s terrible Hicks said.

Chivers and Hicks both em- being in these places; you find phasized that they did not yourself in so much heightened want to glamorize war report- stress and fear.”

A former Marine squad ing. “[War reporting is] exception- leader in the audience asked ally dangerous. It’s not as valu- Chivers and Hicks if they ever able as people would have you reached the point where they believe,” Chivers said. “It is part felt they had to put down the of a mosaic of understanding a camera to help the soldiers conflict. The frontline experien- around them.

“There have been a few tialist approach is an element … but it is no more important times when we have stepped than covering the mosques and in,” Chivers said.“Those are exceptionally rare. We’ve carried the schools.”

The consequences of war stretchers of wounded guys, reporting extend far beyond we’ve applied bandages, we’ve bodily harm. When an audi- held hands of people and ence member asked how Chiv- poured water into the mouths ers and Hicks cope with what of people who were shot or they have seen and experi- wounded. We’re human beenced in the field, they spoke ings first.”

Alexandra Chinchilla (SFS about the challenges they and their peers faced when ’15) and Bianca DiSanto (MSB they returned home from war ’17) both said that they were struck by the honest commenzones.

“It’s not a good line of work tary Chivers and Hicks shared.

“I was and it’s not really surgood for prised that you, and I “It’s terrible being in they were would say these places; you find that hona huge fracest. They tion of our yourself in so much sat down peer group with us — and we heightened stress.” and they w o u l d Tyler HICKS New York Times Photojournalist told us include basically, ourselves in that fraction — are screwed ‘Don’t go into this profession up,” Chivers said. “The alcohol- because the risks have changed ism rates, the divorce rates, the and there is an emotional cost substance abuse rates, the prob- to it,’” Chinchilla said.

“I am not from a journallems with coping and the various understandable afflictions ism background or interest that beset people who are ex- remotely, so it brought up a posed to trauma and violence.” lot of issues and ethical ques“I’m a very different person tions that I had never really than I was before this type of considered before,” DiSanto work,” Hicks said. “You feel said. “A lot of it resonated less entitled to have certain with me and it felt very real pleasures in life and that starts and raw.”

MPD Under Scrutiny by Activists ity of what’s happening on the street,” Grosso said. “There is among other organizations, really a use of this practice in also spoke at the hearing, D.C. so why they would deny it decrying the alleged use of is baffling to me.” “jump outs” by the MPD. Eugene Puryear of the D.C. A “jump out” occurs when Ferguson Movement echoed a group of officers in an unGrosso while testifying at the marked van quickly arrive oversight hearing, calling at a public place and arrest MPD’s refusal of acknowledganyone present suspected of ing their use of the tactic as criminal activity. Opponents a major part of the organizacriticized these operations, tion’s dissatisfaction with posaying they were highly offenlice and “the reason why we sive and disproportionately have to stand up and say ‘Black affecting black communities. lives matter,’” according to The D.C. Councilmember David Washington Post.

Grosso (I-At Large) published a Grosso said that the first statement on Feb. 20, prior to step to stopping jump outs the hearing, that condemned would be for Lanier to admit the MPD’s continued usthat they exist. For Grosage of jump outs, calling so, passing a law to prothem unfair to city resi- “You have disrespect. You hibit jump outs would dents. have the desired have a bad assumption that not “[Police] come screameffect that a cultural ing up in a car, usually un- somebody is a criminal. You change in the police marked, and everybody force would. piles out really fast and have a bad relationship.”

“I think the most efputs everyone against the fective way to do this is David Grosso (I-At Large) wall to try to shake them for the chief to finally D.C. Councilmember down,” Grosso said to The admit this and have Hoya. “There are many things officers participating in these the institutional training that wrong with that.” operations targeted specific steers this tactic out of their Grosso explained that these black communities. Rather, practice,” Grosso said. “The tactics are ineffective at ap- she said they are solely con- hardest part is getting the chief and others to admit that prehending real criminals, as ducted to reduce crime. they now know to expect a “They are not targeted at this is happening and having a “jump out” and are prepared any particular community,” negative effect on the city.”

Coinciding with the conto avoid arrest. Instead, he said Crump wrote. “[They] are used they only increase tensions to address crime problems and cerns about MPD’s relationship with black communities between police and the pub- citizen complaints.” lic, targeting black residents However, Grosso disputed was criticism of its interacunduly and primarily taking Crump’s claims that targeted tion with LGBTQ persons, acplace east of 16th Street NW. jump outs do not occur, cit- cording to a report released “You have disrespect. You ing examples from his time as March 9 by the Hate Crimes have a bad assumption that councilmember as evidence Assessment Task Force. The somebody is a criminal. You and adding that parents teach report questioned the effechave a bad relationship,” Gros- their children on ways to react tiveness of the MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, hate so said to The Hoya. “It just if a situation like this occurs. seems to me like it is a bad ap“Maybe they want to protect crime data collection and inproach to policing.” their image and they don’t re- teractions with D.C.’s trans MPD spokeswoman Gwen- ally want to talk about the real- communities.

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dolyn Crump acknowledged that while the MPD uses officers in plain clothes to investigate crime, there are no specific units that utilize this program to harass city residents.

“As Chief Lanier testified to the council in October, the department does not have ‘jump out’ units,” Crump wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Plain clothes and undercover police operations are used by MPD for multiple purposes such as investigating robberies, burglaries, drug, prostitution offenses, and gun offenses.”

Additionally, Crump strongly disputed the notion that the

The D.C. Trans Coalition released a statement specifically regarding the HCATF findings related to hate crime, which still regularly go unreported.

“We continue to receive reports of officers refusing to mark reports as possible hate crimes,” the statement said. “[W]e need to see greater respect given toward those reporting hate violence to ensure that these cases are properly reported.”

However, the report also noted that there were areas that the MPD was addressing in a timely manner, commending the timely progress of LGBTQ cultural competency training for MPD officers.

“MPD has committed to training all its personnel on LGBTQ cultural competency in calendar year 2015,” the D.C. Trans Coalition statement said. “[We] appreciate the opportunity to work together to create a quality product for officers and sergeants.”

In September, a Georgetown University student was injured in a bias-related assault involving sexual orientation, where MPD arrived first to the scene and took the student to a hospital.

GU Pride Media Manager and Historian Campbell James (SFS ’17) said that a relationship between police and the LGBTQ community is to everyone’s benefit.

“Having healthier relations between the general LGBTQ community and MPD is important,” James said. “If people who identify as LGBTQ cannot feel safe with the protection of MPD then that lack of trust permeates into distrust of other institutions.”

11% of SFS graduates in the Class of 2014 found jobs in the

nonprofit and public service sector, 6% in government SFS is one of the best schools for international relations studies in the U.S. and in the world,” Arellano said. “I think that it’s a shame that we’re not using those skills and those abilities and that knowledge to give back to the country.”

Social Innovation Public Service Fund Executive Director Naman Trivedi (SFS ’16) said that he is concerned with the SFS administration’s new emphasis on developing curricula on business, especially with the recent establishment of the global business major in January. The SIPS Fund provides grants to students for use in enterprises that promote the common good.

“I personally think that that whole program detracts from the point of the SFS, if we are trying to create a program where students engage in public service or foreign service,” Trivedi said.

However, Zenick said that the addition of business programs in the SFS reflected students’ preferences.

“I think that we have to listen to how students feel,” Zenick said. “I think if you look at the intention of this major and the classes taken, it really is not a pre-professional major.”

According to the global business major website, the major “distinguishes itself from other majors not in its outcomes (we expect that GBUS majors might work at corporations, not-for-profits, the government or move into academia, etc.), but rather by providing students with a basic fluency in the language of business and how it re-

25% found jobs in consulting services and 15% pursued the financial sector lates to politics, economics and culture.”

Additionally, Zenick said that the mission of the SFS has changed since its founding in 1919 to adapt to current trends.

“I think that there is a little bit of a misnomer that is associated with the School of Foreign Service ... really being a training ground for people going into the foreign service, and that’s just really not the case anymore,” Zenick said.

Despite this, during the 2014 SFS graduation ceremony, commencement speaker and Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (GRD ’74) told students to pursue public service after college.

“My parting question to you, as graduates, is simply whether the wise men and women of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service will devote some of their lives to public good,” Gates said in the May 2014 speech. “Dare I say, it is your duty.”

Other possible factors that contribute to low public sector involvement include a more visible presence of private sector recruiters on campus, as well as the tendency of private sector employers to hire students in the fall, while public sector employers generally seek candidates in the spring.

“A lot of private sector recruitment is in the fall, which is right when students come back for classes, when there is a lot of pressure to find a job, whereas the public sector recruits in the spring, so you have to be a little bit patient,” SFS Academic Council President Megan Murday (SFS ’15) said.

SFS students also reported that the preference to enter private sector companies may be a result of their tendency to accept entire introductory groups of employees, whereas public sector companies generally hire only on an asneeded basis. “[Public sector] organizations are much more likely to post jobs as they become available. … So you need to be more persistent about checking up on organizations that you are really passionate about, and waiting for them to have an opening for you,” Murday said.

Trivedi said that public sector jobs also require greater qualifications, more advanced degrees or higher levels of career experience.

“Even if the [student is] competent enough, [public sector companies] are only hiring people who have [Master of Business Administration degrees] … and so that limits students from going into government right away,” Trivedi said.

Additionally, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, 60 percent of federal employees are over the age of 45, compared to 31 percent within the private sector. Trivedi noted that one possible factor leading to SFS graduates’ interest in the private sector is that graduates might prefer to work with people closer to their own age.

“So as a 21- or 22- year old, do you want to work with people your parents’ age or do you want to work with people your own age?” Trivedi asked.

Zenick also mentioned that recent graduates of the SFS may not be prepared to pass the U.S. Foreign Service Officer Test, which is essential in pursuing a career in foreign service. It includes a three-hour written test, a personal essay and an oral assessment that evaluates the knowledge and abilities of the test-taker.

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Graduate Expands Global Leadership Foundation Anna Riley

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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER

Two new online programs focusing on securities and financial regulation and tax law will be offered by Georgetown University Law Center beginning in fall 2015.

GULC Adds Online Programs Sarah Fisher Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University Law Center is expanding its online presence by adding two new masters-level programs to its roster of classes starting in fall 2015.

GULC is debuting an Executive Masters of Law in securities and financial regulation, which is the first degree in that field of law to be offered online. Additionally, the center is adding a Masters of Studies in Law for non-attorney tax professionals.

The LL.M. program in securities and financial regulation will address banking law, corporate governance, financial derivatives, securities litigation and other topics in that field. The MSL in taxation will give accountants, economists, actuaries and other non-legal financial professionals exposure to tax law.

The securities regulation program was modelled after the LL.M. in taxation online program, which was the first executive master’s degree offered online by the Law Center and which was launched in fall 2014. The creation of the taxation program was initially requested by the Internal Revenue Service, according to Associate Dean of Graduate Programs Nan Hunter.

“We were asked to develop an executive LL.M. in tax by the Internal Revenue Service,” Hunter said. “They wanted to be able to offer their staff attorneys around the country … an

LL.M. without having to travel.”

The LL.M. allows IRS employees with law degrees to focus on expanding their tax law experience.

After the launch of the taxation program, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission followed in the IRS’s footsteps and asked the Law Center to develop an LL.M. in securities regulation.

As a trial for the new online LL.M., Hunter explained that GULC first only offered classes to staff attorneys in government agencies. After a successful test, they decided to expand the course to include other legal professionals.

“We offered the online participation only to government staff attorneys in part because we wanted to make sure that we were doing it at the highest quality level,” Hunter said.

“We rectified [all] of the initial problems we had, and so we then offered … the LL.M. in securities regulation we’ll be starting next fall.”

Ellis Duncan, director of the GULC graduate tax program, noted that the online programs were designed with students who were not from the surrounding District of Columbia area in mind.

He stressed that the program will provide the same quality education as those within a physical classroom at the Law Center.

“There are many tax attorneys across the country whose careers could benefit from earning an LL.M. from Georgetown, but who cannot

relocate to Washington, D.C.,” he said. “These students can [now] take advantage of our vast curriculum in taxation.”

Duncan added that he hopes the online LL.M. and MSL programs will help to expand the Law Center’s brand nationwide and internationally by attracting more high-quality students and said being able to enroll more students from new geographic locales can cultivate a more diverse image. “[GULC] benefits by attracting a more diverse class of high-quality students,” Duncan said. “[It] enhances our national and global reputation as more students and attorneys around the globe hear about what we have to offer.”

Both online degrees will require 24 credit hours of coursework, with the LL.M. requiring 16 specialization credits in the securities and financial regulation area and the MSC needing 20 specialization credits in the taxation area.

GULC Dean William Treanor said he was proud of GULC’s new approach to teaching law in these fields and explained the center’s priority of offering diversity in its academic options.

“Georgetown Law’s LL.M. program has long been a leader in the field, offering a variety of degree options to both U.S.-educated and foreigntrained lawyers,” Treanor said in a press release. “These innovative online programs are an outstanding addition to a program that is already regarded as one of the finest of its kind.”

Since he founded the Preparing Global Leaders Foundation, a nonprofit organization aimed at teaching leadership skills to students and young professionals three years ago, President Sam Potolicchio (COL ’02, GRD ’11) has expanded the foundation’s programs worldwide to engage hundreds of aspiring global leaders.

The foundation organizes conferences that consist of short courses and workshops on diplomatic affairs, conflict resolution, social justice and leadership skills. The conferences, which are held in Russia, Jordan and Macedonia, last one to two weeks and include around 50 participants from 40 different countries.

Currently, there are already approximately 20 Georgetown student volunteers involved in promotion, research and other duties.

Although the courses are mainly taught by professors from around the world, the conferences have hosted numerous public figures in the past few years, including Editor of Politico Magazine Garrett Graff and the former Press Secretary for the Prince of Wales Colleen Harris.

In addition to lectures, participants take part in simulations, such as mock interviews and mock parliaments.

Potolicchio said that the goal of the conference is to bring together young leaders from different backgrounds.

“I believe that if you have this approach and utilize different perspectives, particularly differences of nationality, religion, race and gender, then you can cultivate a different type of mindset in aspiring public servants and leaders,” Potolicchio said.

In particular, Potolicchio said that the conferences are a platform for young leaders from conflict zones around the world to engage in dialogue with one another.

“Friendships are formed here between students from conflict zones: Serbia, Kosovo, Russia, Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, Israel and more. We’re really advancing some important issues here and creating a dialogue instead of just a monologue between countries that have difficulties with each other,” Potolicchio said.

Several Georgetown students and faculty have participated in previous conferences. For instance, government professor Clyde Wilcox taught a course on public speaking at the Jordan program.

PGLF Chief of Staff Danny Aherne (COL ’16) said that professors at the conferences offer their guidance even outside of the classroom.

“We try to find professors that are not only the top in their field, but that are dynamic and engaging and care about their students,” Aherne said. “At the end of the day, you want people who are not only going to engage students in class, but also outside of the class.”

Government professor Marc Morjé Howard taught a mini-course on democracy in the Moscow program and serves on the board of PGLF. “Even though the PGLF programs are often quite, they leave a tremendous and lasting impact on the students, both personally and

professionally,” Howard said. “PGLF students come away with deep and lasting cross-national friendships, along with skills that prepare them for leadership positions in their home countries and the world.”

According to Aherne, participants form close relationships with professors at the conferences.

“Our professors will eat all their meals with the students,” Aherne said. “They build sort of a family to the point where people are crying at the end just because they don’t want to see everyone go, because then they scatter back to the corners of the earth.”

Dylan Kaplan (COL ’15), who attended the program at Moscow last summer, said that he developed his leadership skills at the conference.

“One of the most important things I learned was how to improve my ability to connect with the audience when public speaking,” Kaplan said. “Dr. Potolicchio also convinced me that leadership isn’t just something you are born with, but is something you can learn and leadership can be taught.”

Additionally, Kaplan said that he formed numerous friendships with other participants.

“The program had some of the smartest students from around the world,” Kaplan said. “My favorite part was spending time with the other participants. We explored Moscow together, went out at night together and really became great friends. The participants came from the Middle East, Europe and almost every stretch of the globe. … The program was one of the most memorable weeks of my life.”

Executive Director of PGLF in Skopje and Struga, Macedonia, Angela Velkova, said that the participants, who came from various backgrounds, were able to share their culture with one another. Velkova cited the Country Presentation Night as an example, during which participants present the folklore, culture and food of their countries.

“This is a night of revelations,” Velkova said.

“One cannot choose words to describe the emotions when we see unfolding in front of our eyes scenes of Iraqi participants waiving an American flag, Georgian, Russians and Ukrainians dancing ‘Casatchok,’ Serbs and Kosovars singing ‘Gjurgjevdan.’ It is a unique experience.”

This summer, the conferences will take place in Jordan and Macedonia from May 23 to 30 and August 11 to 23, respectively. In previous years, PGLF has received approximately 1,000 applications for around 50 spots.

Additionally, the foundation offers financial aid for admitted participants. According to Aherne, one of their goals is to shift to a tuition free model, which would require a significant amount of fundraising in the future.

In addition to the prospect of becoming tuition free, Potolicchio said that he hopes to expand the program to all regions of the world.

“We are progressively expanding, so we’d like to kind of have a signature school in every single region in the world, and it’s catching on,” Potolicchio said. “Almost every single delegate that comes to this program comes to me and says, ‘I want to start this program in my country.’”

African Studies Alumna Starts Education Initiative Amy Char

Hoya Staff Writer

After studying education with her African studies certificate, alumna Rebecca Gross (COL ’14) designed and founded an education initiative in Malawi that aims to teach young girls leadership skills by helping them propose viable solutions to community problems.

The initiative, called Student Driven Solutions, was created in December, and students in the program are currently in their fourth week of lessons. Gross said that the five-month curriculum combines both practical lessons of financial literacy and business skills with active participation. The class will culminate in a final project in which students will work in groups to identify a problem in their community to address.

“Students have said that early pregnancy and early marriage is a critical issue that keeps girls from completing their education,” Gross wrote. “Girls feel pressured by their families and communities to marry in order to secure their financial future.”

SDS’s teaching team is comprised of Gross and two recent graduates of Chancellor College, which is located in Zomba, Malawi. Current students at Chancellor College serve as mentors to the girls in the program, while trained secondary school teachers lead the lessons.

Gross, who graduated with an economics major and an African studies certificate, wrote her thesis on the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education’s impact on the quality of Sub-Saharan Africa and citizens’ satisfaction with primary schooling. The goal’s target is to ensure that all children worldwide will be able to complete primary schooling by 2015.

“Most countries have not met the goal of full universal enrollment in primary school, but African countries have made great progress,” African studies professor Lahra Smith, whom Gross named as one of her most inspiring professors, wrote in an email. “Rebecca’s thesis focused on quality of education, not just access, and that is an even harder goal in sub-Saharan Africa. The rising enrollment rates, which have been rapid in some places, required new teachers, new school facilities, new textbooks. Not all of that has come together fast enough.”

Prior to her thesis completion, Gross had both firsthand and secondhand involvement in education. She worked with One Heart Source as a teacher in a village in Tanzania and saw how enthusiastic her mom was as an

elementary school teacher, which Gross said piqued her interest in education.

“After completing the thesis, I better understood the challenges to education in the region and was all the more determined to effect change in whatever way I could,” Gross wrote in an email.

SDS’s website highlights that the program chose to teach financial literacy to girls in Malawi because it is one of the poorest countries in the world yet home to the greatest number of citizens who said they planned to start a business in the next year in a survey. One of the program’s main goals is financial literacy, because Gross said it is key to stabilizing developing economies. Moreover, the program focuses on girls because only 13 percent of Malawian girls complete four years of secondary school, according to the SDS website.

Gross described characteristics of a typical female Malawian student’s day: She walks a long distance to get to school, her teacher is responsible for at least 40 students (all of various ages and different proficiency levels), her classmates may harass her by attempting her to engage in sexual acts and she must prioritize her chores over studying once she gets home.

“While many schools in Malawi emphasize rote memorization, we focus heavily on group work and active participation,” Gross wrote.

“At SDS, we believe that creativity and teamwork sparks innovation and empowers students to imagine their own path to community development.”

Gross said that her time at Georgetown helped inspire her to found Student Driven Solutions.

“Without the inspiration of my fellow Hoyas, I don’t know if I would have had the confidence to become a leader,” Gross wrote.

“I cannot stress enough how important it is to be surrounded by a community that challenges you and makes you think differently. … Undoubtedly, Georgetown’s mission to become men and women in the service of others has guided me in my journey since graduation.”

Education, Inquiry and Justice Professor Sabrina Wesley-Nero, another professor whom Gross named as one of her most inspiring professors, said that Georgetown has an obligation to help students examine injustice in the world.

“Vital to Georgetown’s identity are the basic values of social justice, the recognition of the power of education and a commitment to doing good for others,” Wesley-Nero wrote in an email. “These aspects … of being a Hoya do not end once students graduate.”

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Freshman midfielder Hannah Seibel scored a team-high two goals in Georgetown’s 12-8 loss to No. 16 Loyola Maryland on Wednesday night. Seibel has six goals and two assists for the Hoyas this season.

Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (1-7) lost its fifth straight game Wednesday night, falling to No. 16 Loyola Maryland (6-4, 3-0 Patriot League) in a game that was closer than the 12-8 score suggests.

The Hoyas jumped out to a 5-2 firsthalf lead but conceded four goals in the last 13 minutes before the break to enter halftime down 6-5.

Despite its best efforts in the second half, Georgetown was never able to retake the lead. The Hoyas were in striking range of the Greyhounds, never falling behind by more than two goals until the final seconds of the game, but they did not successfully go on any offensive runs.

Loyola secured its victory in the final 30 seconds, when it scored two goals to win the game 12-8.

In spite of the loss, Head Coach Ricky Fried was impressed with his team’s engagement, especially against such a physically strong team.

“I think the biggest difference across the board, for us, was that they were more athletic than we were,” Fried said. “We did a pretty good job considering the disparity in athleticism. I think it’s the first time in a while that everybody was engaged and contributed to what we were doing on the field, when they were on the field, as opposed to having those people who were just existing on the field.”

Freshman midfielder Hannah Sei-

bel led the way for Georgetown with two goals, both of which came in the first half.

Fried praised the team’s overall energy, but looking back, he acknowledged that it could always be improved.

“It was our most complete game, I would say,” Fried said. “We played for 60 minutes, and we made some mistakes, but I thought we played our best game in the sense of putting everything together and competing for the entire 60 minutes. … We’re going to make mistakes every game, just because that’s the nature of athletics, or of anything as you do. We have to make sure the other team is making us make mistakes, opposed to us making our own mistakes.”

The mistakes to Fried referred to included little things such as rebound goals and draw controls, which are important enough to sway games one way or another.

The Greyhounds held the lion’s share of draw controls, beating the Hoyas 14-8 in that category, and Fried said that the loss of that crucial possession time in the second half was frustrating.

“Draw controls probably hurt us the most, because there were a number of times we had opportunities to get the ball, and lost them,” Fried said.

“And that’s obviously a possession for us, late in the game; every time we’d come back to within one, they would get the draw, go down, and possess it, and eventually score. So that took some wind out of our sails.”

Senior attack Sammy Giordano, who scored her fourth goal of the season in the loss to the Hoyas’ Patriot League opponent, praised the team’s consistency in Wednesday night’s game. Giordano noted that unlike previous games, the Hoyas refused to allow the Greyhounds any major scoring runs.

“We came out with a lot of heart last night. Everyone really wanted it,” Giordano said. “Despite the outcome, I think we put a few steps together for the first time this season. Coming off [an 8-6 loss to Johns Hopkins], we took one step, and then last night was a really big step. Everyone bought in, and it just felt a little different, so we really think it’s a turning point in our season.”

In the face of a five-game losing streak, the team is focused on taking steps. The Hoyas are slowly progressing from a tough 17-5 opening loss to Delaware (7-4, 1-0 Colonial Athletic Association) and multiple subsequent lackluster performances.

“I don’t think the score was necessarily indicative of how close the game was throughout,” Fried said. “As I said to them, we took another step from Hopkins, frankly, and we have to focus on what we’re doing well. … We have the conference coming up now, starting Saturday, and the things that we want to attain are still attainable, but we’ve got to make sure that we continue to get better.”

The Hoyas next take on a scrappy Vanderbilt team (3-7, 0-1 SEC) at noon Saturday before hosting No. 1 Maryland (9-0) Wednesday night.

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f you had any access to a television during the past week and a half, you have probably heard about March Madness and Kentucky’s potential undefeated season.

But what you probably did not hear about, for a variety of unfortunate reasons, was that there were two undefeated college teams entering the tournament: Kentucky, the talk of college basketball since last August, and the Princeton women’s basketball team, which won the Ivy League and finished the regular season 30-0.

On Monday, No. 8 seed Princeton’s run for perfection ended with an 85-70 loss to Maryland in a fast-paced and well-played game.

After a closely played first half, Maryland held a four-point lead, but it started the second half on a 17-2 run that Princeton could never recover from, largely because Maryland made seven second-half three-pointers.

Despite the outcome of the Maryland-Princeton game and the subsequent end of Princeton’s extraordinary season, the average college basketball fan is unaware of its season in general.

There are many unfortunate reasons why women’s basketball is less popular than men’s basketball, and many of these reasons are selffulfilling. It is natural that fewer people will watch a women’s game on ESPN2 when a men’s game is featured on ESPN, given more pregame promotional airtime and increased media coverage.

However, even though Princeton lost, a quick look at the box score suggests that basketball fans may want to redirect some of their passion for the men’s tournament to the women’s. Though it was seeded eighth, Princeton shot a respectable 46 percent from the field and only turned the ball over nine times, while Maryland shot

a phenomenal 53.4 percent and surrendered just 12 turnovers.Contrast that with two of the top men’s teams that had quick exits this past weekend: Virginia and Villanova.

While no fan would mistake Virginia, a second seed and regular season champion of the ACC, for an offensive powerhouse, its 29.8 percent shooting and 11.8 percent shooting from behind the arc in its 60-54 loss to Michigan State on Sunday was reprehensible. The Cavaliers also went over 11 minutes without a made basket in the second half and were limited to just 18 points in the first half.

Michael Ippolito It was just a brutal game to watch.

Villanova did not fare much better. The No. 1 seed team shot 31 percent in its 71-68 loss to North Carolina State, which featured 43 fouls and 50 free-throw attempts.

If anything, the contrast between these men’s games and Princeton’s defeat produces a reminder that all sports fans need to hear from time to time: Not all close games are good games.

Princeton may have seen its streak end at 31 wins, but at least it played well in the loss; Maryland was simply the better team and the matchup was a high-quality game of basketball.

With so many analysts and journalists illustrating the perceived problems in men’s basketball, with its lack of scoring, drearily

slow pace and horrendous officiating, the positive differences in the women’s game are seemingly going ignored.

For example, the 30-second shot clock in the women’s game, which is five seconds shorter than in men’s basketball games, naturally leads to more possessions. Even if teams choose to drain the shot clock, having five more seconds per possession adds up over the course of a game, and with more possessions comes a greater potential for scoring.

Furthermore, to help the pace of the game and reduce the lag created by the excess of television timeouts, there are scenarios in women’s basketball in which a called timeout can replace a scheduled television timeout instead of leading to two separate breaks in play that are extremely close together.

Obviously, in the money machine that is March Madness, this will never happen, because CBS and Turner Sports will take every dollar they can possibly get, But, from a fan’s perspective, it would be a fantastic change in men’s college basketball.

As Kentucky continues its quest for a perfect season, we ought to pay homage to the one that recently ended. But to truly do justice to the Princeton women’s team, and to women’s college basketball as a whole, we should not only pay it more attention on television and in media, but whenever possible, we should also learn from it to improve the men’s game as well.

Because as Villanova and Virginia proved to America this weekend, sometimes the women know how to play just a little bit better.

Michael Ippolito is a sophomore in the College. THE WATER COOLER appears every Friday.

Sophomore right-hander David Ellingson pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to close out the game and earn his third save of the season. “[Brown] and [Ellingson] just went out there and poured in strikes,” Mathews said. “[Ellingson] came in throwing 94 mph and [Virginia] didn’t stand a chance.”

On Wednesday Georgetown faced Maryland Eastern Shore and won 8-2 behind freshman right-hander Jimmy Swad, who led the Hoyas by putting together three scoreless innings of relief to pick up his second win of the season.

Junior catcher Nick Collins stepped up for the Hoyas with three hits, including two home runs and three runs. Carter stayed hot with two doubles while sophomore right fielder Joseph Bialkowski and freshman second baseman Chase Bushor each recorded two hits.

The Hawks struck first in the top of the first inning with a leadoff triple followed by an RBI groundout. In the next inning, their lead was extended with a solo home run to left field.

After five innings of scoreless ball, the Hoyas’ bats finally awoke with two runs in the top of the sixth to tie the game.

Carter’s double scored freshman left fielder Austin Shirley, who led off the inning with a walk. Later in the inning, Bialkowski brought home another run with a groundout to shortstop, tying the

game at two.

“It took us a little while to [get] geared in off the bat with sub-par velocity and we finally did some good things,” Wilk said.

After that inning, the Hoyas never looked back. Georgetown scored one run in the seventh before tacking on four insurance runs in the eighth. Collins hit his second home run of the season to dead center to lead off the inning, and after three more hits, the Blue and Gray finished the inning with a five-run lead. “[Collins] has been pressed a little bit and today he started to really think about going back up the middle,” Wilk said. “It was really good to see.”

Collins led off the ninth inning with another home run, this one to rightcenter field, to extend the lead to 8-2.“I’m seeing [the ball] real well today,” Collins said. “I made a few adjustments in [batting practice] before the game.”

With pitching as their anchor and their offense continually improving, the Hoyas are optimistic about the rest of their season.

“Things are really starting to come together for us,” Collins said. “We have a bunch of talent on this ball club, and if we keep playing like we know how to play and not trying to press, we’re going to do some special things this year.”

Georgetown faces Lipscomb (15-7) this weekend in Nashville for a three-game series. First pitch on Friday night is set for 7 p.m. followed by games Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

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Softball games are often decided by extremely slim margins, and when two evenly matched teams face off, fundamentals can often play an important role in determining the outcome.

Unfortunately for the Georgetown softball team (12-16, 2-1 Big East), this was the case on a gloomy Wednesday afternoon, when sloppy defense and pitching contributed to a 5-3 loss to Drexel (9-8, 1-1 Colonial Athletic Association) at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Washington, D.C. “We need to do a better job playing cleanly. We gave runs away. We’re not hitting in clutch situations with runners on base. We outhit them, but our hits weren’t very timely, so overall, I don’t think we played a very good game,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said.

In the loss, sophomore center fielder Hannah Ramsey led the Hoyas, submitting perhaps the best performance of her career thus far in a losing effort.

Ramsey hit two solo home runs, the first two of her career, and also made a sensational catch in the top of the sixth inning to save multiple runs.

Drexel scored the first run of the game in the top of the second when freshman designated player Alyssa Williamson hit a home run off of Georgetown’s senior starting pitcher Megan Hyson. Hyson took the loss to drop to 9-6 on the season.

The Hoyas struck back in the bottom of the inning. Sophomore third baseman Alessandra Gargicevich-Almeida hit a triple into the left field corner.

Sophomore right fielder Delaney Osterday drove Gargicevich-Almeida in with a hard ground ball single to left field to put a run on the board for Georgetown.

In the top of the third inning, sloppy defense cost Georgetown when Drexel’s sophomore first baseman Vanessa Lightfoot reached on an error with two outs. After Lightfoot stole second base, sophomore right fielder Baeley Reed hit a sharp line drive single to right field to regain Drexel’s lead.

The Dragons continued their offensive onslaught in the top of the fifth inning when Lightfoot hit an RBI single. After Georgetown’s senior pitcher Lauren O’Leary relieved Hyson in the circle,

Reed’s blooper dropped in shallow right field before taking an odd bounce away from Osterday, scoring another run for Drexel and extending its lead to 4-1.

Ramsey led off the bottom of the fifth with her first home run, a blistering line drive to left-center field.“I was just really seeing the ball well. I wasn’t thinking and just trusted myself to do what I’ve been practicing doing my whole life,” Ramsey said.

In the top of the sixth inning, amid a slight drizzle, Drexel mounted another rally, scoring a run to extend its lead to 5-2 before loading the bases with one out. Georgetown freshman Avery Gheer relieved O’Leary, but the first batter she faced, Drexel’s Lightfoot, hit a hard line drive to left-center field.

It appeared that it was going to be an extra base hit that could have driven in two or three runs, but Ramsey came out of nowhere to make a spectacular diving catch at full extension. Georgetown was able to complete the double play when Drexel’s runner on third base, expecting the ball to drop in for a hit, did not tag up.

“I just saw it off the bat,” Ramsey said.

“I got a really good read, and I just knew that I had to track that ball down, otherwise it would get to the fence and a lot of runs would score, so I just gave it everything I had to try and make that play.”

Despite the potential momentum swing, Georgetown was not able to mount a late comeback. Ramsey’s seventh-inning home run, which barely stayed inside the left field foul pole, was the only run that the Hoyas scored in the final two innings. The game finished with a score of 5-3 in Drexel’s favor.

Georgetown will look to get back on track this weekend when it hosts Big East rival Creighton (14-6, 1-2 Big East) for a three-game series. “[The Bluejays] always have a good team. They’ve got a nice pitching staff and a couple of good hitters in their lineup,” Conlan said. “Right now, we can’t even worry about what another team is going to do, we have to focus on trying to clean up our game.”

The first pitch of the first game of the series will be thrown at noon Saturday.

The second game will start immediately after the first, and the final game of the series will be at 11 a.m. on Sunday. All three games will be played at Guy Mason Field.

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Sophomore third baseman Alessandra Gargicevich-Almeida scored one of Georgetown’s three runs in its 5-3 loss to Drexel on Wednesday.

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over the past three weeks. It gives us a chance to take a step back and get better as a team.

And then, we’ll start moving on to Denver later on in the week.”

Denver will take the field Saturday for its first conference game of 2015. From the moment it entered the Big East last season, Denver established itself as the team to beat. The Pioneers swept the Big East in 2014 with a perfect 6-0 conference record, claiming the Big East Championship in the process. Denver went on to advance to the NCAA tournament before falling in the semifinals to No. 1 Duke, the eventual national champion.

Denver boasts several prolific offensive players that have established the program as a powerhouse in both the Big East and the national polls. Last season, then-freshman attack Zach Miller recorded 57 points for the Pioneers and posted a .712 shot-ongoal percentage. As a sophomore this season, Miller continues to generate much of the Pioneer offense; he has 11 goals and 16 assists so far in 2015.

Senior attack Wesley Berg returns as another key contributor. Berg led the Pioneers last season with 48 goals and 20 assists for 68 points. In the 2014 Denver-Georgetown matchup, which Denver won 17-9, scored six goals, tying his career record.

Though Denver returns with

most of its experienced contributors, a new addition to its roster gives it an even greater edge. Maryland transfer student and sophomore attack Connor Cannizzaro, younger brother of Pioneers’ senior midfielder Sean Cannizzaro, has already established himself as a pillar of the Pioneer offense. He currently leads the team this season in goals and points with 23 and 36, respectively.

Despite Denver’s ongoing success and the challenges it will present to Georgetown in the very near future, the Hoyas’ focus remains on the present.

“Based on last year when Denver came into the conference, they are the top dog, and they’ll be the top dog until someone knocks them off,” Warne said.

“They’re very good, and there’s a reason why they have a high ranking. But at the end of the day, if we’re going to be successful on Saturday, we’ve got to make sure that Georgetown is in a good place and make sure that we understand our game plan and not focus so much on Denver, but focus on the things that have made us successful.”

Heaton agrees that the team’s primary concern is always the task at hand.

“I think it’s our biggest game because it’s our next one,” Heaton said.

Opening faceoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium in Denver, Colo.

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asked him to address the players.

“I remember him [at the center of the court] after practice talking to our kids. Very open, very candid and just compassionate about what it means to wear the G. [He talked about] just how important this opportunity is, how important this time in their life is,” Adair said.

Martz took the soccer field 74 times in his career at Georgetown, including 21 starts his senior year. He nearly sent Georgetown to the semifinals of the NCAA College Cup with a goal against Virginia back in December that gave his team the lead until the waning seconds of the match.

However, Martz’s involvement with the women’s basketball team gave the soon-to-graduate senior an opportunity to get involved with Georgetown varsity sports in a completely new way. It allowed him to have an impact both on Shaw Field and in McDonough Arena during his time on the Hilltop. Jumping into a new sport and being a positive influence on and off the court may seem like a daunting task, especially during such a difficult season, but it was a chance that Martz came to appreciate.

“At first I [thought that] this will be a good opportunity for me to stay in shape and to play around, but it has really become something beyond that,” Martz said. “It’s become more about them … which I actually have really enjoyed.”

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joining the team to help in practice is informal. Practice players are not required to attend daily. Brief introductions replace any sort of interview. Martz’s place on the scout team, however, was something that neither side planned on.

“It’s common as far as having male practice players,” Adair said. “[Martz] just kind of showed up on our doorstep, and I am so thankful that he did.”

From Martz’s point of view, his role as a key member of the practice team also came unexpectedly. He played basketball during his freshman and senior years of high school but otherwise had not been on the court for anything more than a pickup game until he heard from men’s soccer head coach Brian Wiese.

“Coach Wiese sent me a text and said, ‘Any interest in playing women’s basketball?” Martz said. “He introduced me to all the coaches, and within a couple minutes, it was official that I was going to be playing with them.”

Practice players mimic what certain opposing players will do when they take the court against the Hoyas. Their efforts familiarize Georgetown with how the other side will play and prepare the team to shut down dangerous opponents.

Most of the time that meant Martz was imitating a point guard, a shooting guard or a small forward. But

even when trying to imitate someone else on the court, he brought something unique to the game.“One of my strengths in soccer has always been my quickness,” Martz said. “I think they were shocked that there was someone that quick. … They embraced it. They recognized it as a challenge, and they knew that it would make them better.”

Martz also accepted new challenges while he was on the court. Naturally, as a Division I athlete himself, Martz played to win, even in practice. Nevertheless, Adair praised Martz for combining his competitiveness with good sportsmanship and teamwork.

“He just goes hard from start to finish. But what I love is that, while he is competing against our players, he is encouraging them on the side. ‘Hey, this is what you can do.’

‘You got it.’ ‘It’s okay.’ Competing now … but he also wants to lift them up in the same breath,” Adair said.

Lifting the team’s spirits became an especially important job this season.

Georgetown finished the regular season with a record of 4-27 overall and 2-16 in the Big East. It suffered through a 10-game losing streak in November and December and closed out the season with a 15-game skid that dated back to Jan. 11.

During a tough season, the team had asked for Martz’s off-the-court moral support from day one. At his first practice with the team, Adair

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17.5 points per game and 11.2 assists per game, along with shooting splits of 51.3 percent from the field, 45.1 percent from three-point range and 90.4 percent from the free-throw line.

Nash was electric. Fans and critics remember his speed and his ability to find passes in seemingly impossible situations; he was also known for his ability to take over a game with his shooting and scoring.

Nash’s abilities were on full display in the 2004-2005 Western Conference Semifinals against the Dallas Mavericks. In that series, which the Suns won 4-2, Nash averaged a blistering 30.3 points per game, 12.0 assists per game and 6.5 rebounds per game, while shooting 55, 42, and 96 percent in the three main shooting categories.

Nash’s offense meant the Suns could score from anywhere on the court. Over that four-year stretch, Phoenix’s offense averaged 110 points per game, with six of its players averaging double-digit scoring. Despite losing key pieces each year, like Joe Johnson and Quentin Richardson in 2005, Tim Thomas after 2006 and Kurt Thomas in 2007, the Suns never lost their swagger. Nash, Shawn Marion and Amare Stoudemire were the anchors of the Phoenix attack, and Nash elevated all of his teammates’ level of play, turning players like Leandro Barbosa, Raja Bell and James Jones into bona fide threats on offense.

The Suns enjoyed some success after the 2007-2008 season, making the Conference Finals in 2009-2010, but after D’Antoni left in 2008, things were never the same. D’Antoni and Nash were a duo that changed the NBA in every way. Analysts called Phoenix the antidote to the slow-paced San Antonio Spurs, who fittingly were the

Steve Nash, Mike D’Antoni and the “seven seconds or less” Phoenix Suns changed the way NBA teams play offense, even though they never won an NBA title.

Suns’ kryptonite in the playoffs.

Today, the Spurs ironically play nearly the exact same style of offense as the Suns did years before, andas did the Miami Heat did during their stretch of four straight Finals’ appearances and back-to-back championships. The success of both the Spurs and Heat using a similar offense to the Nash-era Suns has since raised questions about why the Suns could never win, or at least make the Finals.

Many cite their lack of defense, which, to a certain extent, is true.

However, the Suns could not catch a break during many of their playoff runs, with injuries often hitting at the worst possible times, like when Stoudemire missed the entirety of the 2006 Playoffs, widely considered Phoenix’s best shot at the Finals. Still, the Suns were a joy to watch and made the grueling 82-game regular season bearable when they played.

Nash left the Suns for the Los Angeles Lakers after the 2011-2012 season in hopes of creating a super team with Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard. The plan never panned out, as the Lakers struggled to earn the eighth seed in the 20122013 season before the team dissolved. Nash only played 15 games in 2014 and never set foot on the court again.

Despite a painful run with the Lakers, Nash passed Mark Jackson for third all-time in assists while playing for Los Angeles. Still, Nash will forever be a Phoenix Sun and among the greatest players to never win an NBA title. More than that, he will forever be the point guard that changed the NBA with his play.

And when the day comes for the Suns to retire Nash’s iconic number 13, we will surely still be seeing flashes of the league he helped create.

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Senior midfielder Austin Martz blew past countless defenders in his four-year career on the Georgetown men’s soccer team. When the men’s soccer season ended, however, his most recent opponent was freshman guard DiDi Burton of the women’s basketball team. And she made it personal.

“We’re standing on the court, and there was this dead stinkbug on the floor. [Burton] said, ‘That’s your cousin.’ So the next play I [think], ‘All right, taking it to you,’ drive to the lane, score a layup and stare her down,” Martz said.

That drama unfolded not on the pick-up courts of Yates Field House, where Martz occasionally played when he was not on the soccer field, but in McDonough Arena during a women’s basket-

ball team practice. Martz was not there for leisurely purposes; instead, he played an important role as a member of the scout team. The 5-foot-8-inch outside midfielder practiced with the team from January through the end of the team’s season.Women’s basketball teams often use male players in practice, but most of the volunteers are non-varsity athletes, though some are out-ofseason athletes who want a way to stay in shape.

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After notching back-to-back victories against ranked opponents last week, the No. 14 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (6-3, 1-0 Big East) is looking for a third consecutive upset when it takes the road this weekend to face off against No. 5 Denver (6-2).

Georgetown upset then-No. 14 Loyola Maryland (5-4, 3-1 Patriot League) on Wednesday and began conference play against then-No. 9 Marquette (7-1, 0-1 Big East) on Saturday. The Hoyas ended Marquette’s seven-game winning streak, handing the Golden Eagles their first loss of the season.

Georgetown’s efforts against Loyola and Marquette helped it break

into the top 20 on Monday, a feat that the team sees as an additional sign of progress more than anything else.

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fielder Anthony Heaton said. “We just think that other people are starting to notice the work that we’ve been putting in since September.”

The Marquette game ended a

stretch of matches in which Georgetown played seven games in just 21 days and went 6-1. This is the first time that Georgetown has had a full week to prepare between games since late February, and the Hoyas are welcoming the opportunity to regroup before flying out to Denver on Saturday.

Though Denver is a formidable opponent, Georgetown’s priority is to get healthy and be well-rested before delving into game strategies.

“Playing seven games in 21 days has been a little tough on some of the guys, especially some of the more physical positions,” Head Coach Kevin Warne said. “[We want to] get back to correcting what we didn’t like See DENVER, A9

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Senior midfielder Austin Martz scored four goals and had 11 points during his final season on the Hilltop and started all 21 games.

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After a tough weekend at home that involved dropping two of three games to Brown, the Georgetown baseball team is beginning to regain its momentum.

Behind five perfect innings from sophomore right-handed pitcher Simon Mathews, the Georgetown baseball team (10-10) upset No. 12 Virginia (15-8) by a score of 1-0 on Tuesday.

Georgetown followed its upset win with an 8-2 victory over University of Maryland Eastern Shore (6-16) to move its record to .500 this season.

“You have to point to the pitching staff, pitching well enough to give us a chance to win each game,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said.

In the matchup between Georgetown and Virginia, both offenses struggled in the contest as the Hoyas notched five hits and the Cavaliers recorded just two.

The Hoyas’ entire offensive output came from one swing of the bat, when senior first baseman AC Carter launched his second home run of the season to left field in the fourth inning, creating the only run of the game.

“When you get into a 2-0 count like that, that’s when you get a good pitch to hit, and that’s what [Carter] did, he drove it,” Wilk said.

Mathews’ five perfect innings included two strikeouts and kept the Hoyas in position to win. “[Mathews] was able to really get us in a comfort zone by pitching like he did,” Wilk said. “He gave us some confidence and gave us some room to relax and play our game, and we played great behind him. He was re-

ally special.”

Mathews credited his teammates for their contributions to the big win.

“I was able to locate [my fastball] well enough that [the Cavaliers] didn’t make great contact, and I left it in the hands of my fielders,” Mathews said. “I think every single guy made at least one defensive play behind me. It was the very

definition of a team effort.”

Senior right-hander Will Brown came on in relief for the Hoyas in the sixth inning. A one-out single gave Virginia its first baserunner, but Brown was able to keep the Cavaliers scoreless with two more full innings of relief.

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Junior catcher Nick Collins hit two home runs, his second and third of the year, and batted in three runs in Georgetown’s 8-2 victory over UMES.

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