The Hoya: April 14, 2015

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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

O’CONNOR ON OFFENSE

Senior attack Reilly O’Connor led the men’s lacrosse team to a 19-7 win over Villanova.

COMMENTARY The UVA sexual assault scandal may be fresh, but do not ignore victims.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE GUMC added two new tracks on population health and literature.

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NEWS, A5

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Sit-In Galvanizes Proposals MCEF to vote on diversity course requirement April 24

Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

Around 60 students from both the Latino Leadership Forum and the Last Campaign for Academic Reform staged a sit-in in University President John J. DeGioia’s office Friday.

During the sit-in, they jointly presented a petition for a diversity course requirement and a proposal for the creation of a Casa Latina.

The groups joined together in solidarity after discussing both initiatives at a Black House event, according to LLF Facilitator Naomi Fierro (COL ’15).

“LCAR and LLF hold very similar values and are working toward the same goal: the recognition, elevation and inclusion of diverse student populations,” Fierro wrote in an email to The Hoya. “... We joined together in solidarity to engage the next generation of leaders to carry the torch on these initiatives that our Hilltop community so desperately needs.”

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The Last Campaign for Academic Reform and the Latino Leadership Forum jointly staged a sit-in at the Office of the President.

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GU Fossil Free has orchestrated several rallies and protests to raise the profile of its divestment campaign.

BOD Committee Considers Divestment

Q&A: RAJIV SHAH

My Brother’s Keeper Sees Slow Progress

Jack Bennett

including Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs founding donor William The university’s board of di- Berkley, Mador AG’s Maurice rectors established a working B.W. Brenninkmeijer (GSB ’86), group on fossil fuel divestment Catholic Health Association this month, which will discuss of the United States President divestment and Chief Exwith memecutive Officer bers of GU Carol Keehan Fossil Free and Cristo Rey and the ComHigh School mittee on President JoInvestments seph P. Parkes, and Social S.J. The other Responsibilmembers, ity over video who were not ELAINE COLLIGAN (SFS ’15) chat in preppresent, are GU Fossil Free Member aration for The Carlyle the board’s vote on CISR’s pro- Group Managing Director Peposal in June. ter Clare, Potash Corp Senior According to the board’s Advisor William J. Doyle (CAS website, the mission of the ’72) and Selectcom Finance working group is to “evalu- President Shéhérazade Semsarate the CISR proposal and to de Boisséson. make recommendations to Six GU Fossil Free members the finance committee of the participated in a videoconferboard.” The committee will al- ence with four available memlow members of the board to bers of the new working group specialize on this specific issue. Tuesday to discuss their initial Four members of the group proposal and how to distinwere present at the meeting,

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Matthew Larson Hoya Staff Writer

“The issue of divestment was not debated.”

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The former USAID administrator discussed his tenure at the international development agency in an exclusive interview. A4

One year after President Barack Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative promoting education of young men of color, an initial White House report reflecting on the program’s first year concluded little tangible progress has been made but noted that the initiative has sparked conversations around the nation about how to improve the educational system.

On Feb. 27, 2014, Obama signed a memorandum establishing a presidential task force to investigate ways to give young men of color increased educational opportunities. Additionally, it aimed to encourage investment by ordering the federal government, local governments and private sector enterprises to commit ideas and capital to forwarding the program’s progress. Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation hosted an event in August to brainstorm solutions as part of the program.

The 57-page report published by the My Brother’s Keeper task force concludes that

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SFS Initiative Targets Public Service Anna Riley

Hoya Staff Writer

The School of Foreign Service Academic Council is set to announce a new program focused on promoting and supporting careers in the public sector.

The program, called the Walsh Scholars Initiative, will be housed in the School of Foreign Service and will be officially rolled out in the coming weeks, according to SFSAC President Megan Murday (SFS ’15). Students in the SFS, excluding seniors, can apply for the yearlong program in the fall, and around five applicants will be selected to participate in the program.

According to data compiled by the Cawley Center’s First Destination Report Poll, only 11 percent of SFS graduates in the SFS Class of 2014 found jobs in nonprofit and public service work, while only 6 percent held positions in government. However, 25 percent of graduates took jobs in consulting services and 15 percent took jobs in the financial sector. Out of 356 total, 269 of SFS graduates responded to the survey.

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Ambassador Barbara Bodine, the director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, will head the Walsh Scholars Initiative launching this fall.

FEATURED NEWS Lancaster Legacy

219 the A faculty panel discussed impact of the late SFS dean, Carol Lancaster (SFS ’64). thehoya.com NEWS Danger: Crossing

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Sports Down Goes DePaul

The softball team ended an 11-game losing streak to DePaul on Saturday.

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OPINION Editorial

Ignite the Dream makes a commendable effort at engaging in race dialogue.

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NEWS Ignite the Dream

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Panelists discussed race- and class-based inequalities, part of a larger weeklong series.

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OPINION Editorial

The Luther-Rohan GUSA cabinet is perilously close to bursting over capacity.

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Kindling the Fire Last Wednesday, the Office of the Provost sent an email urging students to attend a series of events called “Ignite the Dream,” an initiative that aims to facilitate a conversation about race, equality and systems of oppression — an especially pertinent set of issues since the coverage of Michael Brown’s death and its aftermath.

While the university receives a large amount of criticism for its inability to attract a large body of diverse students — which remains a very serious issue — reminding students to attend events like Ignite the Dream is an important step toward amplifying the race dialogue on campus.

Two months after widespread discussion over a possible racial diversity requirement course, students have continually called upon the university to address concerns about a lack of conversation surrounding the topic.

Ignite the Dream, and a new course titled “Black Death: From Slavery to Michael Brown,” taught by sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson, indicate a growing commitment on the administration’s part to focusing on events of this nature.

Ignite the Dream’s Facebook page

points out the dearth of discourse and understanding about challenges different races face and hopes to educate and create a welcoming platform for individuals unfamiliar with the issue with a series of speakers, discussion events and campaigns.

It is reassuring to see that Georgetown, in highlighting this student-driven campaign, has exhibited the beginnings of a commitment to open dialogue about race and the spreading of greater understanding among the community at large.

Therefore, it would greatly benefit students to participate in Ignite the Dream’s various events in order to propel this dialogue forward.

Looking ahead to next semester, we advise the university to further develop the opportunities for such dialogues by pursuing more such programs like Ignite the Dream.

While this effort provides tangible evidence of the university starting to address this prominent problem on campus, expansion is necessary to aggressively combat Georgetown’s image and identity, which, even now, remains marred by incidents of race inequality.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

THE VERDICT

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Campus Canvas — This past Monday marked the start of GU Artsweek, a series of performances and exhibitions of student art on campus.

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National Treasure — On the dawn of the “Game of Thrones” Season 5 premiere the first four episodes have been leaked online to the delight of fans and the horror of HBO.

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Power Play — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has come under fire from the D.C. Council for proposing a budget that could give her increased control over a handful of top city jobs in law and science.

Dr. Olson Goes to Prospect Street — Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson demonstrated the university’s commitment to student welfare by handing out lollipops in West Georgetown at 1 a.m. Saturday night.

Augusta Crowns a New Master — On Sunday, Jordan Spieth, 21, became the youngest player ever to win the Masters Championship — the biggest tournament in golf.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Julia Hennrikus

A World Bank Marathon

From April 7 to 9, Georgetown hosted three prominent World Bank speakers: CFO Bernand Badra, Chief Economist Kashik Basu and Senior Economist Karla Hoff, on three separate occasions as a part of “The Global Future of Development” portion of a two-year-long Global Futures Initiative, designed to advance the university’s educational mission. This series has twice brought World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to campus in the past semester alone, raising serious questions about representative equality in the speakers and events that the university hosts on campus and presents to students.

We urge the Global Futures Initiative to diversify its speaker series and open the university’s dialogue on development to include newer and more innovative NGOs, which are more attuned to modern issues, instead of only featuring the most prominent and well-funded institutions. The World Bank, though a veritable leader in its field, ultimately represents only one viewpoint.

International development has long been a primary focus at Georgetown. With rigorous graduate school programs in international development, an undergraduate certificate program in the SFS, a strong relationship with D.C.-based development institutions, and newly created Global

Futures Initiative, the university has positioned itself as a leader in today’s conversation surrounding the challenges and opportunities presented by international development.

Although the World Bank is the primary leader in international development, it is not without controversy. The institution has been criticized for contestable grant decisions, its partnership with the private sector and the unrealistic conditions it has placed on many of its grant-recipient countries. In bringing exclusively World Bankassociated speakers, the university is unwittingly allowing a single organization’s point of view, which is one on the side of international prominence, comfortable following and dependence from its clients, to dominate the development conversation.

Diversity of thought does not end when class lets out, but instead extends to all aspects of university life — in particular, the speakers whom we invite to campus and with whom we engage in discussion.

Campus speakers are a crucial dimension of the Georgetown experience that spark dialogue and enrich the conversation of our community. Given such significance, the student body deserves a level of diversity in line with the university’s stated mission.

Since GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) were inaugurated, they have demonstrated that they are committed to making the Georgetown University Student Association more representative of the student body.

They accepted applications for the cabinet and appointed 67 students, 46 percent of whom were newcomers to GUSA, and created a handful of new positions and specializations.

In a bid to foster inclusiveness, Luther and Rohan have attempted to make GUSA more representative of the student body — by including a significant number of student body members in their administration.

With 67 members, the Luther-Rohan executive dwarfs that of previous President and Vice President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15), which consisted of fewer than 40 staff and cabinet members.

However, there is a threshold that, if crossed, would prevent the Luther-Rohan administration from achieving progress.

Potentially, the most troublesome change seems to be the increased cabinet size. On sheer logistics alone, mobiliz-

ing 67 cabinet members and ensuring that each is briefed on executive updates promises to be a daunting task.

While Luther and Chief of Staff Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) are optimistic about the effects these changes will have on GUSA’s functionality and its relationship with Georgetown’s student body, this diffusion of responsibility will hinder efforts to enact change on campus.

A new, radically different cabinet isn’t particularly surprising, and is perhaps part of the vision that so many students voted for during the election that demanded an improved structure of accountability in GUSA to improve the organization’s efficiency. Luther and Rohan would not be the first administration to be too naive with their reforms.

As evidenced by Tezel and Jikaria’s self-reported B- midterm review of their administration citing administrative impediments to their long list of goals, it is clear that many of the ideals and detailed plans that previous tickets proposed have been tested and challenged by the realities of their term.

Luther and Rohan, although innovative in their approach to GUSA, are not impervious to the same struggles.

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TITHI PATEL (SFS ’18) weighs in on the implications of gender bias in society.

It’s always easier to take action on an issue that has presented itself so obviously that you would be wrong to ignore its presence. But what about that itch in your bones that is telling you that something’s ‘off,’ – even if you have no idea what it is? There are so many wrongs in the world that happen daily, right under our gaze. But because they areimplied or ingrained within our culture, so that we pay no heed to what is happening.

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Take for example, implicit gender bias. Both men and women are offenders to this problem, as well as victims of it. What this means within the context of this column is the attitude one holds toward another that treats a person differently — whether done so knowingly or otherwise. In other words, men and women are treated differently in relationship to one another as a result of their gender.”

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OPINION

TUESDAY, April 14, 2015

The Undergrad Almanac

Musa Bassey

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don’t know who I am ---- at all. But I know what I believe.

I am a liberal.

I believe in a world where all have room to fail and are able to better their lives, through a combination of hard work and understanding of their struggles. Before I came to this university, I thought that only people on my side of the spectrum cared about other people this way. Coming from a non-Jesuit Catholic high school, I was used to conservatives being exclusively far right.

Some of my best friends from high school are conservatives, but until I came to Georgetown, I still didn’t trust their beliefs.

I began to have faith in the other side when I met people here who identified as neoconservatives. I was very surprised that many shared my views on issues like criminal justice reform, the war on drugs, same-sex marriage and race relations. I was surprised to find I agreed with staunch conservatives.

In the course of a few months, I started to realize that liberals and conservatives have distinct ways of communicating, with liberals focused on reform and conservatives focused on preserving principles.

For example, few congressional Republican members publicly acknowledge human-made climate change because GOP politicians have trouble selling climate change regulation to their constituents.

This holds true with my friends who are conservative. Virtually all of them acknowledge climate change.

Most are for carbon capture but not the other policies because they claim they threaten carbon-producing industries.

Liberals believe in cap-and-trade and carbon tax but also subsidize companies pioneering new forms of energy, like Tesla, because they can succeed economically.

We see climate change as a problem, but disagree on solving it. Does it matter more that we disagree on how to solve a problem, or that we acknowledge it’s a problem and can come up with new solutions to solve it? Most people here want to find viable compromise.

Even so, there is tension between each of the political groups on campus that most can feel without being directly involved.

Both sides ignore one another’s opinions at times. Dialogue unfortunately becomes lost amid the name calling.

We forget that people are more willing to listen to us if we’re willing to listen to them.

No Labels is a national organization that has over 100 members of Congress from both the Democratic and Republican parties.

It is dedicated to bridging the divide between the two parties by building trust between them and recommending specific policy proposals. What makes it different from other bipartisan organizations is that people in the government are signing on.

No Labels is expanding to college campuses, so my friend Max Rosner (SFS ’18) and I decided to start a chapter at Georgetown.

This isn’t going to be a movement that sets against other political clubs on campus.

We need all of them to come on board so that we can make compromise easier and tone down rhetoric in 2016. After all, liberalism and conservatism are just manifestations of each side’s fears.

Conservatives steadfastly refuse to give government so much power that people lose their freedoms, whereas liberals don’t want societal elites having so much power that people lose their freedoms.

In an unoffical Facebook, poll we found that 58 percent of people have friends of mostly one political ideology.

But, at the same time, 63 percent of respondents said that when they had political discussions with people, they either wanted to learn why someone held his beliefs or to compare the strength of their beliefs with others. There is room for more debate and trust-building.

I’m not about to go vote for Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee in a primary. However, I’m paying greater attention to the beliefs of Rand Paul and Jeb Bush. Aside from Clinton, Paul and Bush offer the greatest chance of stability.

Sure, we’ll always have the debate about taxes and regulations, but we can solve problems without compromising our principles.

We need to start looking at politically engaged individuals as people, not as Democrats or Republicans.

Let’s talk more about energy security, job creation, renewing social security and Medicare, and balancing the budget.

No more labels. Just more progress.

Musa Bassey is a freshman in the College. This is final appearance of The Undergrad Almanac this semester.

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VIEWPOINT • Clemente

Address Sexual Assault, Not Drama

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very break since this November, I dread a certain conversation my household is bound to bring up — the December 2014 “A Rape on Campus” story published

by Rolling Stone.

I don’t dread this discussion because I’m scared of talking about sexual assault, but because I’m scared of what other people, mainly my own family members who I love dearly, might have to say about it.

In truth, I have found myself physically pained and emotionally exhausted by the amount of astonishing and, honestly, moronic comments that I have heard so many educated people say about sexual assault since the publication of that story and the nationwide conversation it sparked.

Mostly, I am frustrated with the general population’s obsession with the drama of the egregiously misreported story by Rolling Stone.

But ultimately, what is true and what is not true about Jackie’s story is not particularly important — what is important is that, more than anything, this article has brought sexual assault on campus to the national stage and reminded us of how concerning this problem truly is.

Even without Jackie’s story, the article cites many other instances of women who faced sexual assault and its aftermath during their time at the university.

While the veracity of these claims is questionable, they nevertheless indicate that, although countless women nationwide have spoken out against the failing federal and university laws in place for dealing with cases of sexual assault, many more are still silent and demonstrate that we as a country still fail to discuss these issues truthfully and honestly with each other.

We must collectively learn to overcome the petty drama of this one unfortunate and embarrassing journalistic failure that is drowning out all the true stories and important conversations to be had

The fact that cries of fire and a lack of journalistic professionalism are louder and paid more attention than cries of rape can no longer be the accepted norm. about sexual assault.

It is time for us to stop blaming sexual assault on circumstance.

How many times have I heard sexual assault blamed on alcohol, drugs or victims wearing revealing clothing? The fault in sexual assault lies nowhere but with the perpetrator and the evil that propelled them to commit such a crime.

While it is true that certain circumstances can exacerbate situations of sexual assault, we are too

quick to misdirect the blame to the usual scapegoats rather than focus on the real issue at hand.

We need to refocus the way we present sexual assault to others, especially to youth.

It is despicable that many educational programs focus on the circumstances in which many sexual assaults occur rather than focus on defining sexual assault and how to appropriately ask for and define consent.

VIEWPOINT • Dostal

Perils of Jumping The Campaign Gun

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t’s early April and over a year and a half away from the next presidential election, but already, the announcements for campaigns and candidates are rolling in.

With Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton announcing over the last two weeks, “campaign season” has officially begun, and we must prepare ourselves for 20 months of advertisements, debates, emails, tweets, Facebook groups, flyers, posters, bumper stickers and everything else that comes with a presidential election.

Everyone at some point feels a slight — if not a major — annoyance at the ferocity with which presidential campaigns take over the media and public discourse.

Even if you pay little or no attention to politics, there is no escaping the Internet advertisements and lawn signs for different candidates who have already begun showing their faces.

However, more than affecting our daily lives as college students, the earlier and earlier start to presidential campaigning actually has a huge effect on politics and the way that our country is run.

Let’s look at the first two official candidates for 2016 as an example, senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Both of these candidates are first-term Senators, and Ted Cruz was only just elected to office in 2012.

Now, I am by no means saying that this prevents them from being candidates. President Obama was a first--term senator of only four years before he launched his successful candidacy. It simply means they are just getting their start at being successful legislators.

Regardless of one’s political leanings, everyone can understand that only a few years on the Hill means only a few years of learning how to work in the Senate and the legislative branch.

Because of their campaigns, two years of these senators’ first six in office will be spent running for president.

This means that Texas and Ken-

tucky will have one working senator for the next year and a half.

What has become the usual early start to presidential campaigns likely means worse governing.

For the next year and a half, candidates who are still in office will be physically unable to devote the much--needed attention that their jobs require.

This would be fine if the campaign itself was shorter, even six months shorter, but for close to two years, if you count creating exploratory committees and starting fundraising, these senators, representatives and governors will be pretty much ignoring the jobs they were elected to preform in the first place.

Beyond this, the political ramifications of waging national campaigns prevents politicians from effectively representing their local consitutents in favor of appealing to a national audience.

Even those politicians not running will be making the rounds, giving endorsement speeches, commenting on debates and spending time they could be using negotiating in Washington, D.C. talking on CNN, MSNBC and FOX morning shows about negatives of the other side’s candidates and parroting the talking points of their own candidates.

As a result, the longer campaign represents a focus on politics at the cost of policy.

So, if you are sick of the partisan, gridlocked and bickering city Washington has become over the past years, ready yourself for an even worse year and a half.

Officials not only will refuse to get things done because of politics, but they won’t even have time to pretend that they are trying to solve the problem.

Presidential campaigns are fun; they get the nation involved and enthusiastic about politics, and they reinvigorate people’s hope in a new and better government.

But, in the meantime, they hurt us because campaigning means not governing, and not governing means nothing is getting done.

What has become the usual early start to presidential campaigns may now come to mean worse governing.

Candidates still in office are unable to devote the much-needed attention that their jobs require.

Josh Dostal is a sophomore in the College.

While it is true that one should know never to leave a drink unattended or walk home alone, why is it that these are the first defenses we turn to against sexual assault rather than the simple reaffirmation that it is criminal to drug another or follow someone home?

Why, as a woman, is it safer to give someone a fake phone number than turn someone down? Why did I learn to avoid wearing certain types of clothing, lest someone get what is commonly referred to as “the wrong idea?” Instead, why didn’t others just learn to respect women and their decisions?

In order to fight the sad reality of sexual assault, which has not subsided, but continues to plague our schools nationwide with so few consequences, the dialogue needs to change.

The fact that cries of fire and journalistic unprofessionalism are louder and paid more attention than cries of rape can no longer be the accepted norm.

I refuse to allow it to be the norm that plagiarists are expelled from universities while sexual assailants who should be convicted criminals are allowed to stay because nobody speaks up or nobody deals out an appropriate punishment.

We must fight this problem with proactivity, equality and, most of all, honesty. That students who have assaulted their peers enjoy the same resources, opportunities and learning experiences as their victims is the real failure.

I urge universities to create firstyear programs that educate students on sexual assault to address the dearth of action taken against this issue.

It is time we guide and restructure this conversation in a productive manner rather than continue the antifeminist and disappointing tone it has taken.

Kit Clemente is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service and a member of The Hoya’s Editorial Board.

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The Gift of an Honest Student’s Questions

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r. Ryan Maher, S.J., an associ- demand yet another internship, ate dean in the College from more statistics, an additional mi2001 to 2012, taught me about nor or certificate. My mantra with a particular mission of Jesuit edu- seniors is “simplify.” Let’s note how cation. In his role as a dean, he dropping your minor may open didn’t color inside the lines or stick up more generous possibilities for to the script of narrowly construed learning. “Help us know what You academic advising. His question to would have us know.” you, the student, was invariably, Do we imagine God bothers to “How do you feel about who you are hold an opinion about whether becoming, here and now?” to major in economics or art hisHe saw you as inhabiting a larger tory? Whether I get a job interview space than your role as a student with Google, or a GUROP summer alone; he saw you in your whole- grant to do RISE research for my biology professor? Rather, He asks ness.

I was privileged to audit his the question of am I a good son, a course, “Jesuit Education.” He be- good brother? Do I help my friend gan each class with this prayer: prepare for a calculus exam, taking “Blessed are You, Lord God of all time from my own studies? Am I creation, for in Your goodness You troubled by what I am learning in have given us life and freedom. my poverty class? Is there someWe thank You for the gift of our thing I should be doing about the Georgetown experience which is social order and my place in it? At shaping us even at this very mo- home? Here? Off campus? Globment. Help us learn; help us know ally? Do I talk with others about what You would have my thoughts? Who us know. Blessed by among my acquainGod forever.” tances are real intiI am not a religious mates? Can I trust person, and I am that I will be heard acutely aware that and not judged? Do I this is a prayer oflisten and not judge?

Once we stretch to fered from Fr. Maher’s imagine what a highdeeply held faith, so I wish to speak carefuler power might want Anne Sullivan us to know, we force ly about what I find ourselves to move provocative about it.

As the prayer is spoken, it evokes outside our personal ambitions ---the immediate moment of promise those of our parents for us, those in this class today for the professor of our materialist culture’s expectaand students assembled. The prayer tions ---- and we struggle for footing joins the professor and students in territory as vast as the whole of in one voice. “Help us learn; help our lives. us know what You would have us Our imagination takes us outside know.” ourselves — is there a Being who Fr. Maher’s prayer evokes for us has a purpose for us? Have we any the full potential for learning that way to know that purpose? If one is each class holds. Faculty teach you studying (or working) in an institucontent and skills, impart knowl- tion that takes religious questions edge, and develop your competen- seriously, then regardless of one’s cies. But our educational mission belief system, we are invited to enis also charged with your character gage in these questions of being development and maturation — and purpose. with your formation and who you Fr. Maher asked his students each are becoming. day of class, what are you doing and Students reveal the pressures why are you doing it? Let’s be presthey feel from every direction when ent for one another, let’s be open, they talk with me about their aca- let’s go deep. Rather than yet andemic choices. I witness that your other voice in our heads that nags future weighs heavily in your cri- and worries about the future — a teria for decision making. Is your conversation we conduct internally education preparing you for the too many hours of the day — his job market — that’s the dominant prayer is an invitation, a gift. And theme in these challenging eco- it’s a marker of a Jesuit education. nomic times. While I reassure you that your liberal arts education Anne Sullivan, a senior associis good preparation, I know that ate dean at Georgetown College, we — provost, deans, faculty --- also is one of the alternating writers feel the urgency of this pragmatic for The Dean’s Desk, which will question. I may try to pry you loose appear throughout 2015. Next from decisions that appear to be month, Sullivan will retire from her driven by external utilitarian rea- position after 43 years at Georgesoning alone. Your future does not town.

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Q&A: Shah Talks USAID Tenure, SFS Position MARGARET HEFTLER Hoya Staff Writer

Rajiv Shah served as the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from January 2010 to February 2015. After leaving the organization, he joined the faculty of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service on March 1, where he currently serves as a distinguished fellow-inresidence, working primarily with the Global Human Development Program.

In an interview with THE HOYA, Shah reflected on his term as USAID administrator and underlined the substantive role the university had to play in the global discussion on economic and humanitarian development.

This interview has been edited for clarity and condensed for print. See the full version online at thehoya.com.

Why did you decide to leave USAID? I think I’m the second longest-serving administrator in USAID history at almost five-and-a-half years of service, and I have greatly valued every single day of service, but I have three young kids and it was time to transition. I stayed longer than I had expected because we were in the midst of fighting back Ebola in

West Africa and I was playing a key role in leading that effort, so I wanted to see that through. After the numbers got down to a more manageable level and I was confident that a system was in place to win the fight against Ebola, I made my transition.

Do you plan to teach at Georgetown?

How will you interact with students, and what do you bring to the university?

I have a series of regular lunches with students they have pulled together for me. I am teaching and guest lecturing in a variety of courses, delivering some larger policy speeches as part of the Global Futures Seminar, which has been an outstanding seminar in bringing in real talent and a really exciting space for thought on campus. I’m also planning on doing some writing while I’m here.

We’ll see how long I plan to stay — hopefully a while.

The university recently launched the Global Futures program to engage with global issues, focusing this year on the question of development. In line with that, what role can the university play in the development mission?

The university is unique in that you have a phenomenal business school, you

have a great School of Foreign Service, you have a large number of undergraduates with a uniquely global worldview in the heart of Washington, D.C., where so much happens in foreign policy and development. I also think the Jesuit nature and founding principles of the school lend themselves to the service mission that is represented by development.

What I have found by spending much of my career at the Gates Foundation and then USAID and [the U.S. Department of Agriculture], with a focus on helping the most vulnerable people in the world, that’s a very purposeful way to spend your career. It’s as personally rewarding as it is professionally engaging because you feel that your life has a sense of purpose, so I think this is a great purpose for Georgetown. I’d love to see more students commit themselves — whether they’re studying business or science or technology or humanities — to have a chance to touch and make life better for those who suffer around the world. It’s a deeply rewarding experience and I’m hopeful that my time here can make that happen a little bit.

How can students engage questions of poverty and inequality, both in the classroom and outside it?

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No matter what discipline you are studying, you should know — if you’re a student here at Georgetown — that your work has the potential to improve the quality of life for people who are poor or vulnerable around the world.

As our world comes together and is increasingly interconnected, that gives you the power to shape how that world comes together over the next 10 or 15 years and much longer. I just think that finding opportunities to be exposed to the global fight against extreme poverty is probably one of the most rewarding things you can do as a student on this campus over the course of your tenure here and I hope more and more students will have that opportunity.

What was the biggest challenge facing USAID when you began, and how did you face it?

My first week on the job was the Haiti earthquake, and so the most immediate challenge we had was that President Obama had asked me to lead a combined government, civilian and military effort to help Haiti get back on its feet. In an instant, more than 250,000 people had died and we had to mount the largest and, in many respects, one of the most courageous humanitarian responses ever seen. I think we did so successfully over the course of the next three to four months. So that was my immediate challenge.

In a broader sense, USAID and America’s lead in development had really waned over the course of maybe several decades, and the task of rebuilding, reinvigorating, re-establishing USAID as a global leader of development policy and practice was the bigger task at hand.

USAID has a dual role directing humanitarian responses to crises and handling longterm development missions. When faced with crises such as Haiti, Syria Ebola that were nearly impossible to predict, how did you prevent those immediate crises from distracting from and overwhelming the long-term development mission?

Partly by recognizing that increasingly, the mission is one and the same.

There was a big earthquake in Chile right after the big earthquake in Haiti, but it didn’t destroy Chilean society because of preparedness and capacity and a higher-income country being better able to respond. Similarly, had Ebola hit countries with more capable health systems, you would not have seen the explosive pandemic threat that emerged in three fragile West African states.

So one of the things we’ve done is bring together humanitarian and development efforts because we recognize that over the next 15 to 20 years, countries that are fragile — that have been characterized by a weak governance and high rates of poverty and human suffering — will likely be the places from which a lot of national security threats

and global instability will emerge. We can protect ourselves and build a more prosperous world by investing in ending extreme poverty.

You have been focused on ending global poverty, and you have said it now appears possible. How did we get to this point where it is possible?

Extreme human deprivation has actually been with the world population since the beginning of time, and over the last 15 to 20 years, we’ve seen significant reductions in the number of people who die before the age of five and the number of people who live on basically $1.25 a day. So we have had the opportunity now to look forward.

Today there are about 1.1 to 1.2 billion people that live in extreme deprivation, and that number — if we make the right decisions, if we invest in development enterprise with a focus on results and accountability — could be under 200 million in 15 years, which is what most people define as ending extreme poverty.

What role does USAID play in the future to achieve this goal?

A central role: setting the goal and working with partners to create large partnerships so people can achieve the goal. America by definition leads on topics like health, food, agriculture, education. Those are all areas where American investment is far higher than any country in the world. As long as we stay determined to end extreme poverty and are willing to work in increasingly tougher environments such as Afghanistan, Yemen, Northern Nigeria and parts of Guatemala, we can be successful.

What do you see as the major challenges for USAID in its future?

Maintaining a strong bipartisan base of support is always difficult in an environment where people will often look to cut foreign aid because it’s easy to scapegoat foreign aid as a large part of our expenditure. The truth is that for less than one percent of our federal budget, we achieve what Republicans such as Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Democrats such as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) will say is often the best investment this country makes in protecting its own strength and security.

The truth is today, for Afghanistan to have an ability to have a safe transition and our ability for our troops to come home would simply not exist if we didn’t have 3.5 million girls in school and if we didn’t build out the road infrastructure and improve the economic environment that exists there.

Things are still tough in West Africa, in Afghanistan, in Haiti, but if we had not stopped and fought Ebola, if we had not invested in girls in Afghanistan, if we had not invested in children in Central America, things would be much worse.

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The intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street was named one of the three most dangerous in the District of Columbia in 2013 and 2014.

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The District Department of Transportation named the intersec-

tion of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue one of the top-three most dangerous intersections in the District for 2013 and 2014, as well as one of the top-three pedestrian crash loca-

tions, in a report released on April 1.

The judgment was based on the volume of pedestrian and bicycle collisions and traffic-related incidents in intersections across the District, though specific totals for each intersection were not released. Other intersections at the top of these categories include the intersections of U Street NW at both Ninth and 14th avenues.

Two of the four pedestrian fatalities in Georgetown since 2003 — one in 2005 and one in 2010 — occurred at the intersection of the two major streets. The 2005 fatality was that of Metropolitan Police Department Reserve Officer Joseph Pozell, who was killed while directing traffic. He is memorialized at the intersection.

John Townsend, the manager of public and government affairs at the American Automobile Association’s mid-Atlantic Washington office, ascribed the dangerous conditions to the lack of a Metro stop in Georgetown, the sheer volume of traffic in the area and the large number of pedestrians in the community.

“It’s been problematic for a few years going,” Townsend said.

Additionally, in 2010, the city began allowing automobiles travelling eastbound on M Street to

take left turns on Wisconsin Avenue, which can cause conflict and near-accidents between cars trying to beat the light and pedestrians crossing the street when they are not supposed to cross.

Alec Kingston (SFS ’18) said this additional turn is especially problematic.

“All the pedestrians think that when the lights change, it’s their turn — even though there is still a left-hand green signal and the pedestrian light is red,” Kingston said.

“People assume that they can just go because the other side of the street is going. I have seen so many people cut it close with cars.”

Georgetown Business Improvement District Transportation Director Will Handsfield emphasized that Georgetown is both a popular retail and tourist destination, saying that each crossing features 20 to 120 pedestrians.

“It needs attention and radical rethinking,” Handsfield said.

“There are a lot of conflicts at this one point, and the city needs to do a better job at accommodating the pedestrian traffic, especially at the north-south crossing on the east side of the intersection.”

According to Townsend, the District is taking measures to improve safety conditions at the intersection.

“The city is assigning traffic control officers to help direct the traffic to make it safer for pedestrians,” Townsend said. “It is also important to work with the Department of Public Works and the Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure pedestrian safety.”

Handsfield added that the city is addressing timing of lights at the intersection. On average, pedestrians in Georgetown have only 18 seconds to cross the street.

“The city also has to think about signal timing in the short term,” Handsfield said.

The Metropolitan Police Department, in conjunction with the District’s Department of Transportation, is also looking to install automated traffic enforcement systems as a way to ensure compliance from drivers, discouraging them from stalling in the intersection or running red lights.

Although this innovation will not immediately fix issues, Handsfield stressed that the enforcement systems will improve the situation.

“It means that people will not make the violations over and over,” Handsfield said. “We want to make sure that cars aren’t trying to sneak in among all the pedestrians crossing the street. When we are really busy, it’s not good to have cars breaking the rules.”

‘Ignite the Dream’ Begins New Med School Tracks Focus Emily Tu

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Panelists reflected on racial and class-based inequality in the first event in a three-part series titled “Ignite the Dream: Race and Socioeconomic Class in America” held Thursday evening in the Intercultural Center Auditorium.

The event was hosted by the Georgetown Lecture Fund, the McDonough School of Business and the Georgetown Scholarship Program.

Ignite the Dream aims to create a platform for discourse on the intersectionality of race and class in the United States as well as the importance of diversity on campus. Thursday’s event “What is Race, What is Class?” focused on inequality, specifically in regard to the unequal economic system and history of racial injustice in America.

The four panelists featured in last week’s event were reporter Jenée Desmond-Harris, former Goldman Sachs Vice President Julissa Arce, Senior Counsel of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education Saba Bireda and Georgetown student Ryan Wilson (COL ’12, LAW ’15).

Ignite the Dream organizer Corey Stewart (SFS ’15) said in his opening remarks that the panel sought to provide a space to engage in a reflective conversation on these complex issues.

“It’s simple for us to get caught up in the fray of talking heads and political pundits without stopping to contemplate and reflect and really think about these issues,” Stewart said. “This series is intended to serve as a platform for us all to listen, engage, ask questions and ultimately discuss these topics here and after we depart from this building. It starts with us; it starts with the students.”

Marcia Chatelain, a professor in Georgetown’s Department of History, moderated the panel and began by asking the four panelists about the impacts of race and class on their professional and personal experiences.

Desmond-Harris, Vox’s race,

law and politics reporter, said that race has been treated as a topic of anxiety both in her personal life and in her work as a writer.

“I grew up in a mostly white community that was very progressive,” Desmond-Harris said.

“But there was a lot of anxiety about talking about race. I grew up thinking that mentioning race was a bad thing, that it was taboo. I found that one of my biggest challenges is that I still bump up against it with readers. Every time I write something I find myself anticipating the comments I’ll get, even if the piece isn’t polarizing.”

Bireda focused specifically on the effects of race and socioeconomic status on the educational system.

“In this country, educational inequity happens along race and class lines,” Bireda said. “Education has shifted from thinking about Brown and the Board of Education to a conversation about kids being cut off from education because they are lowincome.”

However, Bireda said that optimism could be fostered in the face of these issues, particularly when considering the increasing engagement of the government.

“We are living in an age where our government has entered the conversation around these issues,” Bireda said. “At the Department of Education I can hardly believe that we are openly speaking about the issues we are speaking about, like implicit bias in the classroom. We are really seeing an unprecedented level of government interaction in this conversation.”

Arce was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico before becoming vice president of Goldman Sachs and then director of development at Define American. Arce drew on her experiences as an undocumented individual and the labels she was confronted with after arriving in the United States.

“I didn’t grow up thinking about race because I was Mexican, just like everyone else in my

country,” Arce said. “And then I came here. It’s been an interesting journey to come from a place that’s so homogenous to a place that’s very diverse. And I think that’s what’s beautiful about America, but also one of the things that creates conflict.”

Arce spoke about her work at Define American, a media and culture campaign that seeks to shift the conversation around immigration, identity and citizenship in America.

“When you use the word ‘illegal,’ you automatically dehumanize that individual,” Arce said. “A lot of times when people think of undocumented people they are thinking of individuals who clean your houses, or take care of your kids. They’re not thinking about a Pulitzer award-winning journalist; they’re not thinking about the vice president of Goldman Sachs.”

Wilson said that race and class still remain pressing issues for all those engaged in the current discourse.

“For many of us, making a sixfigure salary means we made it,” Wilson said. “But it’s still necessary to remind folks that we need to continue to think about and push these issues even when they move into a new environment, to not slip into the thought that you can have a certain level of education or money to exempt yourself from these problems.”

Wilson said he also saw hope in the responses to recent events that revealed the challenges posed by persisting inequalities.

“But seeing young people not willing to accept the status quo — to not only tweet about it, type about it, but to put our bodies on the line — that’s hopeful,” Wilson said.

Jake Robinson (SFS ’16) said that the panel initiated a conversation important to the university community.

“I’m happy that conversations like this are finally happening in these spaces on campus,” Robinson said. “I think that Georgetown should be pushing more aggressively in order to have these conversations.”

On Literature, Population Health EMILY TU

Hoya Staff Writer

To provide increasingly specialized experiences for its students, the Georgetown University School of Medicine is adding two new tracks focusing on population health and literature to its curriculum in the upcoming academic year.

Specialized tracks allow students the option of focusing on a particular field, eventually leading to a certificate in their interest in addition to the medical degree in their final year. Declared during the first year of medical school, the tracks are not mandated parts of the school’s curriculum.

The two new specializations, called the Population Health Scholar Track and the Literature and Medicine Track, will supplement the School of Medicine’s two existing tracks that debuted in the 2014-2015 academic year, one of which centers on academic research and the other which caters to students with an interest in social justice and health advocacy.

According to Population Health Scholar Track Director Yumi Shitama Jarris, all four tracks will likely enroll less than one-fourth of the school’s students. However, the School of Medicine is moving forward with plans to add more tracks, including one on global health, for students to explore their specialized interests.

Jarris said the Population Health Scholar Track was developed in response to the increased need to be aware of social determinants of health across different groups within the country’s population.

“Normally when you think of a medical education, you think of the individual doctor-patient relationship,” Jarris said. “Population health is an addition to this — we’re helping groups of people, looking at ways to optimize their health. We need to look at whether or not a person lives in poverty, in an environment that’s safe, if they have access to fresh fruit and vegetables. It’s not just looking at the outcomes, but also their distribution and trying to address health disparities.”

The track accepted eight second-year students and will begin on June 1 with an eight-week summer practicum that aims to develop research skills and familiarize students with the use of population health data. Each student will have both a research mentor and a faculty adviser for their projects.

“Some of them will be doing it with a public health agency or association, in a hospital setting, or a practice setting,” Jarris said. “Every senior medical student has to complete an independent study project before graduation, so these students will continue to work on these projects, which will then become their final capstone.”

Accepted student Jack Penner (MED ’18) said

that he was interested in connecting individual clinical medicine with the wider issues of population health through the new specialized track.

“A doctor should go beyond just one-on-one patient visits, and try to make an effort to impact populations as a whole, which goes back to Georgetown’s motto of cura personalis,” Penner said. “I’ve always been very interested in preventative medicine and intervention outside the doctor’s office that can impact patients, and this is a really great opportunity for a first-year student.”

Literature and Medicine Track Director Daniel Marchalik has been teaching an elective course on literature in medicine for the past three years.

He said the success of the course prompted the initiation of the new track, which explores the intersection of medicine and literature and emphasizes patient backgrounds in medical care.

“It’s been a whopping success, with probably 30 or so students in the class every year,” Marchalik said. “The students have greatly benefited from it, and I think a lot of them have really wanted to get more deeply involved in literature and medicine. A comprehensive track would give them the chance to pursue a literary project while at medical school.”

The three-part structure of the track, which begins the coming academic year, will consist of four years of the Literature and Medicine course, a capstone and narrative medicine seminars.

Students will pursue the capstone with a faculty mentor and present it at the end of their fourth year at a research symposium.

Marchalik emphasized the importance of the Literature and Medicine Track in providing an opportunity for students to explore their interests in relation to medicine, particularly focusing on the importance of understanding narratives.

“What literature does is it teaches students to think about stories in a very particular way,” Marchalik said. “This ability to be comfortable with narratives I think translates incredibly well to what medical students have to do as doctors.

For people who love literature, that ability to come together, and realize you have this common interest, especially against the pressures of medical school, I think is very important to have.”

Claire McDaniel (COL ’14, MED ’19) highlighted her interest in the Literature and Medicine Track and the balance it would provide in her life as a medical student.

“On the very basic level, it will help me in communications both with my fellow medical students and with my future colleagues,” McDaniel said. “But I also want to just gain a sense of balance in my life, because medical school is all out, all the time, and I love it, but it can get a little overwhelming. It’s nice to balance it with something completely different.”

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Divestment Working Group Created One Year Later, MBK Takes Stock BOARD, from A1

guish fossil fuel companies. Conversations must be conducted over video chat because members of the board live across the globe.

Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh said that members of the board of directors will not comment on the discussions or vote until the conclusion of the process.

“As part of this process the working group will hear presentations from GU Fossil Free and CISR, to provide background on their positions and recommendations,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to Pugh, other university officials, including Georgetown’s chief investment officer, will analyze CISR’s recommendations and serve as a resource for the working group’s questions and concerns.”

In January, the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility voted against GU Fossil Free’s proposal for the university to divest from the top 200 fossil fuel companies, and recommended an alternative plan to the board of directors, which included targeted divestment, strategic engagement and the creation of a working group to further discussions on divestment.

Since releasing their initial proposal in August 2014, GU Fossil Free has participated in rallies and other forms of protest.

Most notably, the group stormed a board of directors meeting in mid-February and stormed the stage during an event featuring World Bank Group President Dr. Kim Yong Kim to increase awareness about their divestment goals.

During the presentation, GU Fossil Free members explained the reasons for divestment from oil and gas, in addition

to coal. In their recommendation, CISR recommended the practice of targeted divestment, which would only target coal companies.

GU Fossil Free member Grady Willard (SFS ’18), who presented at the meeting, said that the presentation helped the group clarify the divestment process to the board.

“We talked about common misconceptions about divestment, so this presentation was a little bit more technical,” Willard said.

GU Fossil Free member Elaine Colligan (SFS ’15), who also presented during the video chat, said that the working group agreed that the university should undertake divestment as a course of action.

“They did not doubt climate change, they did not doubt the moral imperative, they did not doubt the Jesuit imperative, they did not express any concerns about fiduciary responsibility impeding this,” Colligan said. “As numerous studies have shown, divestment does not affect endowments, and if it does it’s 0.01 percent. So there was nothing about ‘Is divestment good for the university? Should we do it?’”

Colligan said that the board’s main concern was the process with which GU Fossil Free determined the target fossil fuel companies in their proposal, but that the board members did not question the value of divestment.

“The issue of divestment was not debated,” Colligan said. “What they did ask was why we used the metric of proven carbon to be emitted in fossil fuel companies’ reserves, instead of reserves to production ratio.”

According to Colligan, GU Fossil Free used the common carbon metric in order to predict the amount of carbon burned over time by the company. This metric universalizes carbon measurements to al-

low for accurate companrisons.

“Fossil Free Indexes use this metric because it represents over time which companies have the most amount of carbon that they will have an incentive to burn,” Colligan said.

However, Colligan said that she was later informed by the Chairman and Founder of Fossil Free Indexes Stuart Braman that the two metrics would produce the same list of the top 200 companies.

Willard said that he was content with the outcome of the meeting.

“It sounded like they had done a lot of research into the topic and they said that our proposal inspired them to look at the bigger picture of how they could be more socially responsible with [their] investments so we’re hopeful and we’ll see in two months,” Willard said.

Willard also said that he expects GU Fossil Free to continue working closely with the working group before the next board meeting in June.

“We are continuing to have meetings with administrators to get more information on ways we can interact and communicate all the research we have gathered, the knowledge we have gathered, over the next two months,” Willard said.

Colligan said that although the board of directors has not communicated directly with GU Fossil Free on the decision-making process, she is confident that they will conduct a vote on divestment during their meeting in June.

“I am very confident that some sort of vote will come up. They have not given us a commitment, which we believe is unjust in the democratic process and not transparent and we’re not happy about that,” Colligan said. “But indications from higher ups have said there might be a vote. …

We got word that the board would probably vote … yes on coal [divestment].”

Walsh Scholars Initiative Launches WALSH, from A1 Murday and SFSAC Senior Representative Annie Kenelley (SFS ’15) developed the idea for the initiative last year after noticing an increasing distance between an SFS education and public service. The SFSAC gave its first formal presentation about the initiative last fall at the SFS Board of Visitor’s meeting.

“We noticed that the SFS focused a lot on careers in consulting and investment banking and the like,” Murday said. “We didn’t see a similar focus on public service.”

The program will encourage students to pursue public service jobs in three ways: providing mentorship from members of the Georgetown community with careers in the field of the student’s choice, institutional support to help students find public service internships for the summer and a stipend for scholars to pursue unpaid public service summer internships. Murday said that the funding for the stipend has not yet been finalized, but that she hopes to work with the SFS Dean’s Office and outside donors to create a fund.

“We created the initiative to encourage students to pursue careers in public service because we think that that is the ethos of our school, and we wanted to build a better support system for that,” Murday said. “That would include matching them with mentors, within the Georgetown community, faculty, alumni, practitioners and then giving them institutional support to find an internship that matches their academic interest.”

As only five student applicants will be selected for the first year of the program, Murday said that the selection commit-

tee will seek students with strong interests and passions for public service.

“The application will look at transcripts, resumes, letters of recommendation, to get a sense of both the student’s academic interests, professional interests, what they feel public service is and how they see it relating to their career path,” Murday said.

The Walsh Scholars Initiative’s board, which will help provide mentors and institutional support for scholars, will include SFSAC member, as well as Beeck Center Executive Director Sonal Shah, Center for Peace and Security Studies and Security Studies Program Director Bruce Hoffman, Mortara Center for International Studies Director Kathleen McNamara and Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy Associate Director Rosie O’Neil. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Director Ambassador Barbara Bodine will serve as the director of the program.

Although the idea and original planning of the initiative were student-run, Murday said that Bodine provided resources and advice during the development of the initiative.

“Dr. Bodine ran a similar program at Princeton called The Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, and she was very excited to help us build something similar at Georgetown,” Murday said.

Bodine said she credits SFSAC students for their work in developing the initiative.

“The WSI is wholly a student initiative,” Bodine wrote in an email. “Megan, Annie et al. conceived of the need for a program to support, encourage and prepare fellow BSFS students for careers in public service, have negotiated the details with the Dean’s Office, worked with fellow

students, reached out to potential donors and crafted the various foundational documents.”

Shah said that she is supportive of the initiative and eager to apply ideas from the initiative to the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation.

“The Beeck Center is supporting this initiative because we recognize that along with academic rigor and experience, students need mentoring and support,” Shah wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “The Beeck Center believes that this is a great opportunity for students to combine academia, experiential learning, mentoring and internships. We hope to learn from SFS efforts and connect the SFS team to others that also want to implement similar ideas.”

SFSAC Vice President Anna Hernick (SFS ’16) said that the new initiative will help to increase the value that Georgetown places on public service.

“I think public service is the practical side of that lofty goal that a lot of Georgetown students have of changing the world or improving society through their career,” Hernick said.

Murday said that although very few students year will be selected for the program each year, the goal of the initiative is to change public perception of SFS students and promote public service internships and jobs overall.

“Ideally, this will also benefit all SFS students because it will create a brand for the School of Foreign Service of the particular skillsets that we have that will really benefit any student applying to these organizations,” Murday said. “We hope that these internships will turn into more of a pipeline, where these programs will have spots for Walsh scholars every year.”

EDUCATION, from A1 the main achievement of My Brother’s Keeper has generated conversation about innovation in education, bringing together local governments, federal programs and private companies to discuss solutions for young men of color. “[My Brother’s Keeper] encouraged candid dialogues around the country and a greater sense of responsibility among community leaders and young people,” Assistant to the President Broderick Johnson, who chairs the task force, wrote in the report.

One notable initiative sparked

by My Brother’s Keeper is the Empowering Males of Color initiative launched in D.C. public schools in January by Mayor Muriel Bowser and DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson (SFS ’92, GRD ’07), which targets grants to specific District schools to invest in the education of black and Latino males.

Since September 2014, 200 community leaders, including Bowser and Henderson, had accepted the My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge to review public policy and encourage new ideas about education for their communities. In addition, private businesses have contributed more than $300 million to the program.

The My Brother’s Keeper initiative intends to boost the number of young men of color entering school with an attitude to learn and graduating from high school with a career or education path in mind, while also reducing violence at home. However, the report notes that there have been no noticeable shifts in such measures of young male minority education thus far.

Alberto Morales, assistant director of the Georgetown Scholarship Program, said the program is too new to see any prominent results and expressed optimism about its future.

“Since it’s only in its first year, education leaders are still quantifying the results of the program,” Morales said. “There is excitement across cities around this initiative because, for years, nonprofit leaders have been working tirelessly around this work, and now they have a nationwide movement.”

The federal government has realigned its focus to utilize more data-driven analysis, which has been featured prominently in the design of the initiative.

Although initial analyses record little movement toward the goals of My Brother’s Keeper, the strategy has been translated into events known as data jams, which gather technology experts, innovators and community leaders to design innovative systems of education to reach young men of color more effectively.

In partnership with My Brother’s Keeper, the Beeck Center hosted a Data Jam last August. During the event, 20 teams worked on new approaches to education, with seven of those teams later presenting to the Department of Education.

Beeck Center Director of Engagement Elizabeth Anderson said the Data Jam was a positive step to involve the community. “[W]ith that Data Jam, it was about including a diverse set of community partners’ voices,” she said. “[We wanted] to see how we could help boys and men of color increase their access to opportunities for education and success.”

Anderson said that the Data Jams, and the My Brother’s Keeper program at large, have been successful because of their local, personalized approach to each community.

“When you’re setting up any kind of national policy, you have to adapt it to the needs of different communities,” Anderson said. “Anything driven from the top down doesn’t work.”

Outside of the Data Jam, Georgetown programs have not been in regular contact with the initiative. However, Morales said that the goals of My Brother’s Keeper mirror the objectives of GSP, which provides support for first-generation college students or students from low-income backgrounds.

“We don’t have an established partnership with My Brother’s Keeper,” Morales said. “[But] as far as our overlapping missions, they both definitely align.”

Obama’s decision to focus first on young men of color instead of young girls has drawn questions, yet Anderson argued that this emphasis is logical.

According to Anderson, much like the rest of the project, the decision to focus on boys was the result of data analytics, which show that young men of color lag behind young girls in metrics such as graduation rates. ”It’s pretty pragmatic because it’s about the data,” she said.

“The data says that [boys are] having higher rates of dropouts and that’s why the focus is on boys.”

Morales noted that the idea of focusing on boys first was also centered not only on improving their conditions in the short term, but also on having a longterm conversation about greater issues of inequality, which would eventually lead into related discussions about girls. “[My Brother’s Keeper] has created a national conversation on the structural barriers that impact men of color and limit them from reaching their full potential,” Morales said. “[It] now has inspired new discussion on the inequity that women of color equally face.”

The focus on young men of color does not mean it leaves out education opportunities for other individuals, according to Morales, who said that My Brother’s Keeper, despite only being in existence for one year, has already begun to provide a roadmap for other underprivileged children.

“We, as a country, are now turning to the experiences of very diverse populations in education,” Morales said. “Now is the time to act … and ensure that as many people as possible are included in the conversation.”

Groups Sit in for Diversity Requirement, Casa Latina DIVERSITY, from A1 The group gathered in Red Square and passed out signs, then walked to DeGioia’s office, where they sat peacefully and presented both issues to members of DeGioia’s staff, including Office of the President Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara, for 30 minutes.

The group could not meet with DeGioia, as he was in Panama for the Summit of the Americas conference at the time. The group requested that the administration deliver a written response to members of LCAR and the LLF on both issues by April 17. According to LCAR member Dan Zager (COL ’18), the groups staged the sit-in and requested a quick response since the school year is coming to a close in less than a month, leaving little time for student activism in the last few weeks.

“This last month of school is a key time for both the LLF and LCAR,” Zager wrote in an email. “In the coming weeks, both organizations will be hosting more actions to pass their respective initiatives, and we look forward to a continuing partnership between LCAR, LLF and any other organization who fights for the people on and off campus.”

Ferrara, who spoke with many of the students, said that he was supportive of the student action.

“We are always proud and supportive when we see our students engaging, and I think this was a very respectful, peaceful, meaningful student demonstration,” Ferrara said to THE HOYA after the sit-in. “I applaud the students for their engagement on these issues.”

LCAR’s petition, distributed Feb. 23,

has received around 1,200 signatures since its inception and remains open.

The petition, which students presented at the sit-in Friday, calls for the creation of a two-course “Diversity, Power and Privilege” cross-list requirement. Classes that LCAR cites meet the requirement will allow students to discuss race, class, sexual identity, gender and gender identity, immigration status and disability and ability. The petition does not propose to add any new classes to Georgetown’s curriculum, since over 200 existing courses fulfill LCAR’s requirement.

Group members have been discussing and promoting the requirement since December 2014.

“I think that there are a lot of great courses at Georgetown that touch on different aspects of identity, race, class culture, ability, sexual orientation — diversity in its true sense,” LCAR member Colleen Roberts (COL ’15) said to the crowd assembled in Red Square before the sit-in. “Self-selecting individuals often take this course. What we’re trying to do is to ensure that all Georgetown students will be exposed to the ideas that many of us are exposed to during our undergraduate career.”

LCAR presented their proposal to the Main Campus Executive Faculty, a legislative body of 57 faculty members from each Georgetown school and two student representatives, March 27. The MCEF will vote on the requirement April 24, and if it passes with a minimum of 29 votes, it will be implemented by fall 2016 for the Class of 2020.

“Every Hoya needs to graduate with a fundamental understanding of the basic inequities in our world,” Zager said.

“For 25 years, Georgetown students have

been demanding a diversity requirement like this, and we are far behind our peer institutions like Duke, UCLA, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, Fordham, I could go on. It’s about time that we need to do something similar.”

“We’re here to stand in solidarity with one another ... to claim something that has been long, long overdue.”

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After the sit-in, Ferrara said that the Office of the President is working to consider the proposal.

“One thing I would say is that we have been working with our students on some of these issues to include the diversity requirement,” Ferrara said. “We’re very pleased to be working with them.

I know there’s more work to be done, but we applaud the engagement and are very supportive of student engagement.”

The proposal for a Casa Latina, developed by the Latino Leadership Forum, calls for the university to create a permanent space for Latino Georgetown students, alumni and allies. The Latino community currently shares a space with the Black House, founded in 1972.

Five students, chosen through an application process, live in the home and host events for the black and Latino communities each year.

Previously, Latino students have organized temporary cultural residences on Magis Row such as El Hogar del Poder Latino and La Casita, but a Casa Latina would be a permanent living space for the Latino community.

“We’re here to stand in solidarity with one another. … We’re here to claim something that has been long, long overdue, and that’s a Casa Latina, a safe space, a place that we can call home on the Hilltop,” Fierro said. “I’m so happy to see us all here, fighting in solidarity so that diversity in all of its roots can be appreciated here on this campus.”

The LLF released a survey in January to gauge interest in the creation of a Casa Latina. The open petition, thus far, has garnered 253 responses, 95 percent of which voiced support for a permanent Casa Latina.

“I feel like it’s a little bit odd to have a Black House but sort of have it include all cultures,” Zager said. “That, in a way, lumps all people of color together, which really isn’t fair. Most of the Ivies have a Casa Latina of some sort, or a residential community where we can appreciate Latino culture, and Georgetown doesn’t have one. We have a house for Jack the Bulldog, but we don’t have one for our vibrant Latino community.”

Ferrara said that the Office of the President is beginning to review the proposal for Casa Latina, but did not provide timelines for the office’s decisions on either initiative.

“That [Casa Latina] proposal has come along a little bit later in this cycle of en-

gagement that we’ve had,” Ferrara said.

“We kind of started working with the diversity requirement longer ago, and so it’s kind of farther down this path that we’re going through. Casa Latina is a relatively newer proposal, and we’re starting to have colleagues look at that and engage with that as well.”

Christian Luis (COL ’14), who now works as a teacher in Harlem, N.Y. and participated in the sit-in support both LCAR and LLF, said he was impressed by the increased momentum in the support of both initiatives.

“This has been something that I think the momentum has been building on, and it’s something that I had conversations about as an undergraduate,” Luis said. “This group of seniors, particularly, really pushed the initiative forward and was able to get organized in a way that I think previous classes haven’t.”

Georgetown University Student Association President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) also sat-in at the event. In a press release dated April 13, three days after their participation in the sit-in, the pair announced their administration’s support for LCAR’s initiative.

“We were very glad we got to participate in it,” Luther said after the sit-in.

“We view both of these initiatives as very important for increasing the vibrancy of Georgetown’s culture and community. … I’m really impressed with the strong showing of people and I really hope the president’s office is receptive to these two initiatives. I look forward to seeing them implemented.”

Hoya Staff Writer Jack Bennett contributed reporting.

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GU Dominates 1st Half, Earns Big East Victory

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Sophomore goalkeeper Maddy Fisher recorded five saves in her team’s 8-4 win over Cincinnati. Fisher has started all 13 games this season and has saved 73 shots, with a save percentage of 40.3 percent.

Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

After a dominant first-half performance against Cincinnati (2-12, 0-4 Big East), in which the Hoyas exploded for seven goals, the Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (4-9, 3-1 Big East) stumbled to an 8-4 win Saturday at MultiSport Facility.

With this win and Georgetown’s victory over Villanova last Wednes-

day, the Hoyas have managed consecutive wins for the first time this season.

The Hoyas scored the game’s first five goals and held the Bearcats scoreless for over 16 minutes in the first half.

Led by senior attacker Caroline Tarzian, Georgetown got off to a quick start, recording three points in the first 11 minutes of the game. Tarzian put the Hoyas on the board first

with 24:36 left in the first half by cutting to the outside right and scoring.

While Tarzian’s second point was a result of shooting low around the goalie off a free position, her third point came by picking up an assist after finding junior midfielder Kristen Bandos cutting in front of goal.

“We rode really well,” Tarzian said.

“I think we held them to 50 percent clearing, which is awesome. And we also did a good job on draw controls.

We played fast — faster than we normally play. And it’s a good Big East win; we’re trying to win our conference, and it’s the only way we can keep moving on.”

The Hoyas’ fourth goal came with 18:28 left in the first half on a solo effort from senior midfielder Lauren Schwalje. Schwalje beat the goalie and nailed a shot in the top corner of the goal after burning her defender by juking inside.

While the Hoyas were off to a hot start, the Georgetown defense stymied the Cincinnati offense in the first half, forcing 12 turnovers while allowing only one goal.

Senior defender Adrianne Devine led the Hoya defense and put up key plays that in turn helped the offense.

Devine picked off a pass on the offensive end with 15:36 left in the first half, then provided an assist to junior midfielder Natalie Miller to give Georgetown a 5-0 advantage.

After tallying its seventh goal with 15.9 seconds left in the first and leading 7-1, Georgetown seemehalf d poised to hand Cincinnati another blowout loss. But the Hoyas, who earned 21-3 and 20-5 wins the last two years, struggled to score in the second half and only managed one goal.

“Honestly, I think that we were just satisfied with being up 7-1,” Tarzian said. “You play down to your opponents sometimes, and we definitely took a rest. We shot one for nine, which is terrible. … We’re 100 percent a better team, and it was a little disappointing [from] halfway through the game to only be able to score one goal and give up a couple.”

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goalkeeper Meg Gulmi kept the Bearcats in the game during the second half, and the Hoyas’ lead dwindled to 7-4 with under nine minutes left in regulation.

Head Coach Ricky Fried was unhappy with the offensive performance, noting that the team’s shooting did not improve from the Villanova game, a match in which Georgetown were 9-of-31 shooting.

Despite being 8-of-18, Fried thought that the overall defensive performance was solid.

“We played the score, and we got lazy,” Fried said. “Their goalie had some nice saves, [I’ll] give her some credit. But a lot of it is that we played the score, and didn’t play with the same intensity, the same enthusiasm and the same energy level that we did in the first half. … On the defensive end, giving up three goals in a half is not bad. So I’m not going to be too disappointed about that.”

Georgetown sophomore goalkeeper Maddy Fisher, who had five saves in the game, prevented Cincinnati from gaining any more momentum with two saves in the final period of the game.

Freshman midfielder Hannah Seibel scored a goal with 5:21 remaining to effectively end the Cincinnati run, and secure the Georgetown win.

Georgetown’s third conference victory lifts the team to third place in the Big East, trailing Florida (11-4, 5-0 Big East) and Connecticut (8-5, 3-1 Big East).

The Hoyas next play Connecticut at 4 p.m. on Wednesday at MultiSport Facility.

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for 20-25 minutes a game, even the Hawks’ first series may prove to be challenging for the Atlanta-based team.

Sefolosha has been a “glue guy” for the Hawks this season, coming off the bench for an average of 18 minutes a game and making a living with his defensive abilities and basketball IQ. Without him, the Hawks’ only option to back up DeMarre Carroll at the small forward position is Kent Bazemore, a less sav-

vy player who is not the same wing defender Sefolosha is. Without Sefolosha, it seems highly doubtful that the Hawks will be able to maintain their third-ranked defense throughout the playoffs.

However, this debacle is bigger than basketball. Video of the incident shows Sefolosha concerned and trying to interact with Copeland, who was lying prone on the sidewalk before the ambulance arrived.

It was at this point that Sefolosha was dragged by four police officers onto the street and forced onto the

ground. It was a baton whack by one of the officers that ultimately caused the season-ending injury to Sefolosha.

At a time where police brutality is a nationwide issue, one that is especially pertinent in New York City, this is a remarkably high-profile instance of what appears to be an inappropriate and violent police response that has been swept beneath the rug.

The NBA Player’s Association is now in the process of launching its own investigation into the incident.

The Hawks have come down on the

side of their players, evidenced by Antic playing against the Charlotte Hornets two days after his arrest.

I expect that this case will blow up in the coming months as more testimony paints a clearer picture as to what really happened that Wednesday morning. These are not events instigated by reckless professional athletes, like Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg or Tony Parker nearly going blind in a bar fight. Thabo Sefolosha was a victim of police brutality and, if the “I Can’t Breathe” movement is any indication, the NBA

will likely respond to the incident.

Whether players throughout the league come out in solidarity with Sefolosha or either the players union or the Hawks organization pursues legal recourse for the damage done to Sefolosha’s career and dignity, the New York City police department will certainly have consequences to suffer.

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

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

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Despite Dramatic Win, GU Drops Series pelbe. The Hoyas struck again in the fourth. Henry’s double to left center gave her a second RBI and established a four-run advantage for the Hoyas.

Freshman pitcher Avery Geehr was able to hold DePaul scoreless through five innings, but the Blue Demons’ bats started to heat up in the sixth. Geehr allowed three runs and was replaced by Hyson, who allowed one run before getting the Hoyas out of the inning.

With the score tied 4-4 at the end of the seventh, the game was forced into extra innings. Hyson’s scoreless pitching through two innings gave Georgetown the chance to rally in the top of the ninth.

“Megan had a fantastic day,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “She did a nice job of holding a very good offensive team down, and she did a great job of shutting the bats down in those extra innings.”

Sophomore catcher Gabriela Elvina singled up the middle to

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seventh, DePaul’s senior pitcher Mary Connolly took Hyson deep, extending her team’s lead to two runs.

Connolly retired the first three Hoyas she faced in the top of the seventh, clinching the victory 2-0 for the Blue Demons. “[Connolly] is a good pitcher,” Hyson said. “She was the keeping the ball down, and it’s hard to get to her when she is hitting her spots.”

In Saturday’s second contest, it was the Hoyas’ turn to establish an early lead. The top of the second inning saw Georgetown putting two runs on the board. Hyson scored on a fielding error, and a sacrifice fly by junior third baseman Taylor Henry drove in a run to put the Hoyas up 2-0.

Georgetown added another run in the third on an RBI double from junior shortstop Grace Ap-

start the top of the ninth. She then advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Elvina took third base on a wild pitch, and a second wild pitch two batters later allowed her to score, giving the Hoyas a 5-4 victory.

“I think we did a good job with our toughness,” Conlan said. “[We] got ourselves grounded and fought those last couple of innings. I was happy we pulled one out this weekend.”

Unlike the two close contests that had preceded it, Sunday’s game ended in a convincing 14-1 victory for the Blue Demons.

Three pitchers spent time on the mound for Georgetown, and each struggled to handle DePaul’s overwhelming offense, which tallied three home runs, including a grand slam.

While Georgetown’s pitchers struggled Sunday, DePaul’s Connolly remained a force on the mound, allowing only one run

on four hits. Connolly pitched a total of 15.2 innings during the series and allowed only two runs.

Her sustained dominance on the mound certainly contributed to Georgetown’s offensive troubles.

“We need to be better in every single part of our game,” Conlan said. “We need to do the little things that win ball games, and we are just not doing those things right now.”

The Hoyas will have opportunities to improve over the course of the 10 games remaining in the regular season.

“We have three more series left against teams that we know that we can beat,” Elvina said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we won all those series. I really think that we can.”

Georgetown’s next stop is Indianapolis for a three-game series with conference rival Butler (1622, 4-8 Big East) that is set to begin April 18.

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Disruptive Defense Keys Win Over ’Nova

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Senior attack Bo Stafford made a key contribution to Georgetown’s offense in its win over Villanova, scoring two goals and recording four assists. year is really starting to pay off.

We’re 8-4 now, and we’re where we want to be in the Big East, so we’re just going to try to keep it going.”

With conference play winding down and pressure mounting to reach the postseason, Warne knew that Villanova would take

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but long-term improvement and efforts in practice were also a major factor in the victory.

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against the Wildcats.

Marrocco earned the USILA National Defensive Player of the Week and Big East Defensive Player of the Week awards for the week of March 30 after making 18 saves against Providence last Saturday.

Overall, Marrocco gives his teammates a lot of the credit.

“Our defense has helped me a lot with [earning these honors], so … I have to give them a lot of credit,” Marrocco said. “I think that every game we’re improving our defense, and lately we’ve been playing awesome, so we’re trying to carry that into the Big East tournament and hopefully the NCAA tournament.”

The victory marked the first time that Georgetown has defeated Villanova since 2011 and the team’s first playoff berth since 2013. Coupled with the Alumni Day theme for the lacrosse program during Saturday’s game, former Georgetown players and this year’s seniors had much to celebrate.

“You can hear the support,” O’Connor said of the cheering coming from the stands. “We definitely felt that today and used that as motivation for us.”

Georgetown’s next match is an out-of-conference game against No. 7 Virginia (8-4, 0-3 ACC) on Saturday, April 18. The game against Virginia is Georgetown’s last before it concludes Big East play against St. John’s (3-9, 1-2 Big East) on April 25.

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the field with a sense of urgency and look to rebound from its two previous conference losses.

“We talked about that all week, that this was a team that was winless in the Big East, and we knew that they would have to win or give a great effort to put themselves in position for postseason play,” Warne said. “We just took care of what we needed to take care of, and I’m really proud of the guys today.”

Though the Hoyas capitalized on their offensive opportunities, they struggled to create additional possessions at the faceoff X. Georgetown has struggled at the X during the past several games, coming up with only two faceoffs against Denver on March 28. The same inefficiency was noticeable during Saturday’s game, when Georgetown won 5-of-28 faceoffs among three players at the X. “We got beat up at the faceoff X, and I’ve never really seen that before, where we score 17 goals and we [win] five faceoffs at the X,” Warne said. “So we’ve got to fix that as we roll into the end of the year.”

Georgetown’s defense helped to make up for the possessions lost at the faceoff X with clears and turnovers; Villanova committed 17 turnovers in the game, 11 of which were forced by Georgetown players.

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three runs in the top of the second.

After pitching five shutout innings, Smith gave up two runs in the bottom of the sixth before Mathews came on in relief and got out of the jam.

The Hoyas picked up one more run in the top of the eighth, but the Wildcats scored two off of Mathews in the bottom of the inning to tie the score at four.

Georgetown’s hitters regained momentum in the ninth when Hall started a rally with a oneout triple. After Hall scored on a single from freshman leftfielder Austin Shirley, the Hoyas recorded another run to give FILE PHOTO: MICHELLE XU/THE HOYA them a 6-4 lead that would hold Sophomore center fielder Beau Hall up until the end of the game.

Defense defined this game, hit a home run against Villanova. as the Hoyas recorded three double plays and Collins threw the first two innings. out a potential base stealer and The Hoyas responded with picked off a runner at second. three runs in the top of the third Kuzbel also made a diving catch before the Wildcats tied up the on a line drive down the line to game in the bottom of that inend the eighth inning. ning.

“Any series win on the road in Villanova recorded three runs this conference is huge,” Wilk said. to take then extend its lead, 6-3.

The last game of the series on Georgetown took back two Sunday was closer than the two runs in the seventh inning to that preceded it. Despite the 6-5 cut the deficit, but the Hoyas loss, Collins and Carter each re- stranded several runners in the corded two hits and two RBIs. final innings and were unable to Freshman pitcher Kevin Su- complete the comeback. perko started on the mound and Despite the Sunday loss, went three innings, giving up Georgetown, Villanova’s first Big three runs. Senior pitcher Will East foe of the season, handed its Brown, who was given the loss, conference rival a losing series to also gave up three runs in relief start its conference games. while Davis pitched just over two Up next, Georgetown will reinnings of scoreless relief. turn home for a seven-game Villanova’s bats struck before homestand. On Tuesday, the Georgetown’s for the first time team will face George Mason (14in the series, scoring two runs in 18-1, 5-7 Atlantic 10) at 7 p.m.

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Nationals Endure Early Woes I n baseball, you can’t jump to conclusions about teams in April.

Consequently, I resented the implications of hoards of armchair Twitter analysts condemning the Washington Nationals for losing their first series of the year to the New York Mets, and their second to the Phillies.

It’s presumptuous, unfair and impossible to jump to any season-defining conclusion from what the Nationals have done in a mere seven games.

Yet, at the same time, I’m starting to feel that I’ve seen this story before.

The team has a batting average of .194 on the season (.200 without the pitchers) with a .256 OBP. It is averaging 2.2 runs per game, with more than half of those runs coming on home runs.

In short, the Nationals’ performance so far is dangerously close to the team’s habits during the 2013 season. In 2013, Washington sputtered

It is too early to draw conclusions from the Nationals’ early struggles, but it is hard not to worry about the parallels that can be drawn to the team’s 2013 season. to a second-place finish 10 games behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East a year after grabbing its first NL East title.

Aside from the similar statistics, emotions that I felt from the 2013 season are coming back. I have experienced the familiar feeling of seeing a leadoff double and sensing that the offense would have a lot of trouble moving the runner over to third base.

Instead of a pop fly deep to center to send the runner at second one base closer to home, the hitter comes up with a grounder right to the third baseman. Instead of a line drive to right field, the batter strikes out.

The team’s inept offense is negating its brilliant starting pitching. In 27 innings, the Nationals’ five starters have allowed seven earned runs.

Six more runs, the runs that have been the difference between winning and losing, were unearned, the result of defensive errors.

Again, it’s far too early to make any type of presumption about the future performance of this team.

First and foremost, three critical components of the Washington lineup have yet to take the diamond: Denard Span, Jayson Werth and Anthony Rendon, who combined to bat .293 last year and were a major part of the Nationals’ run production.

Yet the Nationals were able to muster offensive strength last season despite absences that included cogs like Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman.

Washington was able to do much of the same three seasons ago, too, in the first year the team won the NL East title.

Surely, a change will come. When the Nationals have the lineup they want and have shaken off the last of their offseason cobwebs, the offense will come, and runs will be scored.

It is still important to acknowledge, however, that vestiges of the 2013 team are still there, and they will continue to frustrate Washington.

When offensive droughts happen, they happens in bunches. The opinions of fans and sports pundits alike will start to fly if the preseason favorites for their division title don’t immediately jump out to the front.

Whatever the cause, this is a malaise that afflicts the Nationals, and in the 2014 season the team showed that they could overcome it and produce offense. Thus, there is both precedent for this performance and precedent for the team’s ability to break out of it.

At the end of the day, the Nationals play a low-scoring brand of baseball, and not much has to change for the bats to start hitting balls squarely and for Washington to start earning its trademark one- or two-run victories.

There’s never a good reason to ring a baseball-related alarm bell in April, and this team will have plenty of time to prove that 2014 is still as present as 2013. For now, the team’s 2013 form is showing, and hopefully it can take care of it quickly.

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

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NUMBERS GAME

Any series win on the road in this conference is huge.”

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The number of consecutive games in which DePaul’s softball team defeated Georgetown prior to Saturday’s game.

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ndiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland suffered an injured abdomen and elbow. Atlanta Hawks forward Thabo Sefolosha sustained a fractured tibia. Both players are out for the season.

Ask any casual follower of the NBA how these injuries occurred, and they would probably assume that there must have been an ugly collision at a Pacers-Hawks game the night before. Of course, if that had been the case, Hawks forward Pero Antic would not have spent time in a New York City jail, and Sefolosha would not be at the center of a police brutality investigation.

On April 8, a little after 4 a.m., Copeland and his ex-fiancee left New York City’s 10AK nightclub and were approached by a stranger who would not leave them alone. It is unclear whether a verbal altercation broke out, but a comment of Copeland’s spurred

Multiple NBA players are at the center of a police brutality scandal after a dispute outside a nightclub. the stranger to take out a knife and swing at the couple, injuring them both. When Copeland’s driver finally wrangled and subdued the stranger, the police showed up — and that is when the story takes a strange turn.

Sefolosha and Antic, who were in town with the Hawks prior to their game against the Brooklyn Nets but were not with Copeland’s party at 10AK, reportedly prevented the police from setting up a crime scene. As a result, both players were charged with obstruction of governmental administration and resisting arrest. To make matters more complicated, Sefolosha was thrown to the ground by a group of officers, breaking his leg in the process.

To start with the most immediate consequence, the Hawks lost a key rotation player in Sefolosha at the worst possible time in the NBA schedule. Having clinched the one seed in the East, the Hawks theoretically have the easiest path to the Eastern Conference Finals. However, with the Boston Celtics red-hot as of late, and with superstar Paul George back in the Pacers lineup See FIEGE, A8

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Senior attack Reilly O’Connor matched his career high by scoring five goals in Georgetown’s 19-7 win over conference rival Villanova. As a result of his strong performance, he was named the Big East Men’s Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week on Monday.

O’Connor Scores 5 in Victory Over ’Nova ELIZABETH CAVACOS Hoya Staff Writer

Continuing his role as a key offensive player, senior attack Reilly O’Connor matched his career high of five goals as he led the No. 13 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (8-4, 3-1 Big East) to a 19-7 victory over conference rival Villanova (5-6, 0-3 Big East).

O’Connor added one assist to his effort to tally a game-high six

points. He was named the Big East Men’s Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week on Monday for his performance.

“Reilly O’Connor today was awesome,” Head Coach Kevin Warne said. “[But] across the board, [the team just had] a really good effort.

We have a bunch of guys getting a bunch of goals, and I think it’s pick your poison with our team on the offensive end.”

Georgetown built its lead with a

balanced offensive effort: eight different Hoyas scored and six had assists in the victory. Senior attack Bo Stafford followed O’Connor’s lead and added two goals and four assists in the effort.

The Hoyas were as efficient on offense as they were unselfish; sharp passing and impressive feeds allowed Georgetown to record 17 goals on 39 shots.

“I thought our guys played really hard today,” Warne said. “I

thought we played really efficiently offensively — I think we put a lot of pressure on their defense, which allowed us to grab a big lead.”

The win at the MultiSport Facility clinched a spot for Georgetown in the upcoming Big East tournament.

O’Connor said that the Hoyas were successful in executing their game plan against the Wildcats, See VILLANOVA, A9

SOFTBALL

GU Ends Drought Against DePaul MOLLY O’CONNELL Hoya Staff Writer

When the Georgetown softball team (13-24, 3-7 Big East) took the field this weekend, it played against a DePaul team (15-18, 7-1 Big East) that had beaten Georgetown in each of the last 10 meetings between the two sides.

DePaul continued its winning ways in the first matchup of the three-game series, defeating Georgetown 2-0. But in Saturday’s second contest, Georgetown emerged victorious, winning 5-4 in two extra innings. “[Saturday’s game] was our first win over DePaul in 11 games,” senior pitcher Megan Hyson said.

“Our energy level was really high that entire game and we definitely needed that [win].”

Saturday’s split result meant that Sunday’s matchup decided the series. Unfortunately for Georgetown, DePaul put together a solid pitching effort and an explosive offensive performance.

The Hoyas fell to the Blue Demons in a 14-1 rout and dropped the series 2-1.

Georgetown trailed from the outset of Saturday’s first contest.

DePaul’s junior second baseman Morgan Maize hit a home run on the first pitch of the game, which put the Blue Demons up 1-0. After giving up the home run, Hyson got the Hoyas out of the inning unscathed.

Hyson held the Blue Demons to their one-run advantage through the sixth inning. However, in the See DEPAUL, A9

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Senior pitcher Megan Hyson pitched four innings and allowed one run in Georgetown’s extra-inning 5-4 win over DePaul.

BASEBALL

Early Offense and Pitching Earn Hoyas 2 Victories EMMA CONN

Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior catcher Nick Collins recorded five hits, scored three runs and notched three RBIs in Georgetown’s three-game series against Villanova.

Georgetown’s baseball team (1615, 3-3 Big East) lost a close game to Villanova (13-17, 1-2 Big East) in the final matchup of a three-game series on Sunday, but earned victories in the first two games in Philadelphia to win the series.

The Hoyas’ bats were alive to open the weekend against their Big East opponents, as Georgetown scored nine runs in the first three innings on Friday.

“It was huge, especially playing away, to get that win, especially with the lead we had, putting up all those runs,” sophomore center fielder Beau Hall said.

Senior pitcher Matt Hollenbeck earned the win in the opener by pitching 6 2/3 innings, giving up three runs, one earned, and striking out two. Junior pitcher Tim Davis came on in relief and notched 2 1/3 innings of scoreless ball.

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“[Hollenbeck] pitched great,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said. “His command is getting better and better each outing and he’s got stuff that’s going to win at this level.”

On Friday, freshman second baseman Chase Bushor led the offense with three hits, two RBIs and two runs scored while junior catcher Nick Collins contributed two hits and two runs scored.

Sophomore third baseman Jake Kuzbel reached base four times with three walks and also crossed the plate twice.

The Hoyas scored four runs in the top of the first and five more in the top of the third, opening up a comfortable lead. Bushor’s RBI double, senior shortstop Ryan Busch’s two-run triple and Hall’s three-run home run highlighted the offensive outburst.

“Early in the count I was just looking for a fastball to drive, and then our two-strike approach has been working really well for all of

us as a team,” Hall said.

Villanova scored two unearned runs in the third and another in the fourth but Georgetown’s pitching held the Wildcats in check to seal the 9-3 win. “[The pitching staff] went out there and pitched,” Hall said.

“They did what they needed to do.”

In the second game of the series on Saturday, junior pitcher Matt Smith got the starting nod, going five-plus innings and giving up two runs on five hits. Sophomore pitcher Simon Mathews came on in relief and earned the win with three innings of two-run ball before fellow sophomore pitcher David Ellingson closed out the game by striking out two in the ninth, earning his sixth save of the season.

The Hoyas again scored the first runs of the game by recording See WILDCATS, A9