The Hoya: September 1, 2015

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

STUNNING COMEBACK

Emily Infeld (MSB ’12) won a dramatic bronze medal at the World Championships.

EDITORIAL Georgetown must not continue to venerate propagators of slavery.

WHEN IN ROME The men’s basketball team earned three wins in its 10-day tour of Italy.

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With Lofty Ideals, New Dorm Opens Jack Bennett Hoya Staff Writer

Earlier this week, the newly renovated Spirit of Georgetown Residential Acad-

The FJR consists of 18 apartments ranging from a nine-person suite to a double semi-suite. Fitted with modern furnishing, the residence is more spacious than typical on-campus living.

“The idea was to make this very competitive to off-campus living,” Office of Design and Construction Senior Project Manager Brian Barger said.

The building, composed of Ryan and Mulledy Halls, was extensively renovated over a yearlong period as part of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement to house 385 more students on campus by the fall 2015 semester. The plan also includes the temporary conversion of the second floor of the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center into student dorms this year.

Although the interior construction of the FJR was completed during the summer, work on the exterior of the building has been delayed due to permit difficulties. Exterior construction will continue into early September.

The courtyard is slated for completion

emy, commonly known as the Former Jesuit Residence, opened its doors to house 148 sophomores, juniors and seniors as a five-floor Living Learning Community based on Jesuit values.

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The Spirit of Georgetown Residential Academy occupies the site of the Former Jesuit Residence and features unparalleled amenities and space.

New Institute Targets Youth Engagement

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Students chalked Red Square on Aug. 7 in advance of a meeting with administrators on policy surrounding Title IX.

Account Pushes Policy Reform

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HERE COMES NEW GEORGETOWN

Toby Hung

Hoya Staff Writer

A student movement advocating for better university management of sexual assault cases gained traction last week after the Georgetown University Student Association came to an understanding with administrators to increase awareness campaigns and expedite planned initiatives.

Students and administrators made agreements to improve the marketing of campus resogreeurces for sexual assault survivors, further educate students about bystander intervention and continue plans to implement a campus climate survey.

The movement began

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Hoya Staff Writer

The McCourt School of Public Policy will launch the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service this fall, led by former Democratic National Committee Director of Communications Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94), to foster public service and civic engagement.

McCourt School Dean Edward Montgomery said he believes that the Institute for Politics and Public Service builds on the historical strength of the McCourt School in policy analysis and management.

“We are going to build a massive data institute and trying to think about how to use a new type of data that’s becoming available to think about public policy problems. That’s one pillar we stood on,” Montgomery said. “The twin to the new data institute is the new Institute of Politics and Public Service, where students and faculties will be engaged with the process of getting things implemented. These are the twin pillars on which the school will rest as we specialize in what to do and how to get it done.”

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Passionate Scholar, Runner Dies at 25 Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

By all accounts, Nina Brekelmans (GRD ’15) was a brilliant student, an exceedingly proficient Arabic and Spanish speaker and an avid long-distance runner.

She graduated with a near-perfect GPA in Georgetown’s Master of Arts in Arab Studies program and planned to study the experiences of female runners in Jordan with a Fulbright grant this fall.

On June 3, Brekelmans, 25, died in an electrical fire in a townhouse on Riggs Place NW near Dupont Circle. The 2:30 a.m. blaze killed one other resident and injured three firefighters.

“People who were practicing politics are sort of losing sense about what it’s all about.”

Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94) Director, Institute of Politics and Public Service

Drawn by the public service aspect of politics, Elleithee has served in senior positions in four presidential campaigns, including a role as senior spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, since graduating from Georgetown in 1994. Elleithee said he decided to transition to the academic world to explore different perspectives on politics.

“People who were practicing politics are sort of losing sense about what it’s all about. Too often I think I got so caught up in the daily back-and-forth that it’s easy for me to lose sight about what it’s about,” Elleithee said. “Something that has been weighing on me for a while is, how can it be better, how can we connect better and particularly how can we connect better with young people?”

Elleithee warned against further alienating the younger generation, who no longer necessarily considers politics a noble channel of service. He said it is vital that politicians explore new ways to reengage millennials and seize the learning opportunity to draw inspiration from the younger generation.

“Too often in politics, we demand that people come to us. That’s not how young people communicate,” Elleithee said. “I rather go to them, bring politics to them, hear from them and have a real dialogue

July 21 after Zoe Dobkin (SFS ’16) and Willa Murphy coauthored an opinion piece in The Hoya (“I Stand With Willa, I Stand With Survivors,” thehoya.com, July 21, 2015) that detailed Murphy’s experience with campus administration following her rape. Murphy, claiming little university support, began to struggle in classes and was subsequently expelled. The piece ignited dialogue between students and administrators regarding the university’s responsibilities toward sexual assault survivors in the following month.

Murphy’s story sent waves across the university community upon its publication.

A Talented Scholar After high school in Mexico

and Kentucky, Brekelmans began to build an impressive resume.

She received her undergraduate degree in Arabic from Dartmouth College, where she graduated summa cum laude and ran on the NCAA Division I cross-country and track teams. She matriculated into the Master of Arts in Arab Studies program in 2012, spent a gap year studying in Jordan, ran with the Georgetown Running Club, interned at the Muslim Chaplaincy and served as treasurer of Georgetown Women in International Affairs.

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Nina Brekelmans (GRD ’15) died in an electrical fire June 3. She was due to travel to Jordan on a Fulbright grant this fall.

FEATURED NEWS Pub-erty

Approaching its first anniversary, the Bulldog Tavern aims to fix troubles.

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SPORTS Run of Dominance

Nevin Snow is the fifth Hoya in 10 years to win the College Sailor of the Year award.

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NEWS Kickback Returns

COMMENTARY Miles to Go

Despite national strides, trans rights have yet to be fully addressed — even here.

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COMMENTARY Nation of Immigrants

The Corp’s music and arts festival will see its second iteration this September.

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NEW STUDENT GUIDE 2015

A glance at the line for naturalization shows not skin color but common purpose.

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS

Face Our History The university’s decision to retain the name of Mulledy Hall, one of two buildings that constitute the new Spirit of Georgetown Residential Academy, is both tone-deaf and offensive.

Although University President John J. DeGioia’s statement to the university community on Aug. 24 contends that the university executes this choice with full understanding of the dark blot of Jesuit slaveholding history and encourages reflection on this past, this argument stands on a weak foundation.

The shameful history of Jesuit slaveholding on Georgetown’s campus was brought to an end by a decision grounded in economic reality — 272 decisions, to be exact.

Fr. Thomas Mulledy, S.J., the university president from 1829 to 1838 and 1845 to 1848, compelled by a combination of the threat of Northern abolitionism in the 19th century and the rising cost of maintaining indentured labor, sold Georgetown University’s 272 slaves south Nov. 28, 1838. Despite the university’s professed commitment to social justice, the sale tore multiple families apart. Mulledy also consciously made the decision to sell human beings to the agriculture-dependent South, where the in-

stitution of slavery enjoyed firm de jure and de facto entrenchment.

While the university intends to hold conversations to grapple with its history with slavery, ultimately, these discussions will recede and future rounds of students and tourists will simply see Mulledy Hall as a memorial to someone worthy of veneration.

The truth, however, is that Mulledy — a man in a position of significant power — lacked the moral courage to advocate for what was truly just, thereby undermining the very values Georgetown constantly extolls.

Given the history and present of this nation’s race relations, preserving the name of Mulledy Hall is particularly confounding.

The United States faces a troubling trend of escalating racial tension, with police brutality and hate crimes serving as powerful reminders that the question of race has not been settled. Indeed, following a series of recent conflicts between law enforcement and black Americans, Director of the FBI James Comey addressed the disparities in law enforcement concerning minorities for the first time in Gaston Hall.

In light of this climate, Georgetown must pay heed to the message it sends by continuing to enshrine a man who enabled the detestable institution of slavery.

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Tuesday, september 1, 2015

THE VERDICT The Fault in Our Stairs — The Washington Monument elevator malfunctioned this week after stranding two pregnant women at top — still better service than Georgetown’s elevators.

Harry Goes to Washington — Royal-crazy and anglophilic Hoyas will be pleased to hear that Prince Harry is set to make a visit to Washington this October.

Capital Excellence — Recent studies have found Washington, D.C., to be the most traffic-congested and dishonest city in the country. Welcome home, Hoyas!

Ballin’ Brainstorms — Following the National Building Museum exhibit, “The Beach,” Dupont Underground challenged artists to reuse the 650,000 plastic ball pit balls in an international competition.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

Expand Consent Education After the expulsion of rape survivor Willa Murphy this summer, campus has rung with calls for sexual assault reform. Student activists at the forefront of this charge have presented the university with a number of policy recommendations, including ongoing and mandatory programming to educate students on issues pertaining to sexual assault.

With its charge to create and maintain a safe and just campus environment, the university has a responsibility to institute this programming and must commit to promoting consent education and bystander intervention.

Georgetown currently requires incoming freshmen and transfer students to participate in the I Am Ready program, implemented in 2014 as a module of New Student Orientation that focuses on consent education, bystander intervention and on-campus sexual assault resources. Although the establishment of this program is commendable, it is insufficient.

A broad base of research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault proves that brief, one-session educational programs like those offered

by Georgetown are ineffective at changing students’ behaviors and attitudes in the longterm, unless implemented as part of a larger, ongoing program.

An effective prevention program must address consent and bystander intervention beyond freshman orientation. According to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, college students remain divided on the definition of consent, with 40 percent of respondents interpreting nonverbal signals, like undressing, as consent and 40 percent disagreeing with this interpretation. In light of this confusion, Georgetown must ensure that its students understand the affirmative definition of consent put forth in its 2014 Policy Statement on Sexual Misconduct.

Ongoing, mandatory programming that promotes bystander intervention using a community of responsibility model to build a campus culture of empathy should be implemented at Georgetown if the administration seeks to successfully changing students’ behaviors and attitudes in the long-term.

The administration must demonstrate that it embodies the values it preaches. Cura personalis must be more than a pretty selling point designed to capture prospective students’ tuition dollars. If the university intends for students to become “men and women for others,” then it must equip them with the tools necessary to uphold a culture of empathy and intervention, both on campus and as members of a more compassionate world.

On the Wrong Track Georgetown University’s Track and Field program recently came under heavy scrutiny following accusations of hazing and racial bias, levied by student-athletes.

The results of the investigations show a culture very much in opposition to Georgetown’s values. While not every athlete participated in hazing, the locker room culture that promotes such activities is not in the best interest of any member. Promoting a comfortable and supportive environment that allows a team to perform to the best of their ability is much more conducive to success on the field than promoting division and belittlement.

It is important to remember that all hazing practices are reprehensible, beyond the scope of athletics. While the culpable members of the track program should take this time to rethink their roles as leaders in the community, it is too simplistic to believe this is a problem only for sports teams.

In a March email, Office of Student Conduct Associate Director Adam Fountaine recognized that targeted education is one

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manner to “proactively contribute to [the hazing] conversation on our own campus ... with approaches that are safe and in alignment with our Jesuit values.” Such robust education program has yet to be found.

So far, the Hazing Prevention and Education Committee’s website, “Stop Hazing” — launched in March to provide educational resources on hazing incidents to the community and a reporting system for students to share information on hazing-related incidents — lacks the scope required for a program that seeks to change the hazing culture found in some of Georgetown’s organizations.

Building a successful team of athletes just can’t be done in the backdrop of humiliation. And while those found guilty by the university’s Office of Institutional Diversity Equity and Affirmative Action must reflect on their actions, the administration must also recognize that in failing to institute an educational program which effectively targets hazing, some of the blame falls on them.

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Nikita Deshpande (COL ’18) reflects on the role of technology in healthcare:

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Over the past few decades we have seen technology take over remarkable swathes of our lives, yet interestingly there has been no Google- or Facebook-type revolution in the medical field. This phenomenon is probably due to the complex nature of medicine — in healthcare, error can sneak in through various avenues: the physician, the healthcare system and medication can all lead to error. However, the most unexpected and surprising avenue of error is the patient himself: the human body is complex, and it can react and respond in odd ways — sometimes the intricacy of the human body is responsible for failure. When so many factors can cause medical mistakes, it is hard to develop technology to fix it all.”

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OPINION

tuesday, september 1, 2015

IF A TREE FALLS

Grace Smith

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f a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

My restless analysis of this question began with a haircut.

Over the summer, I cut off 12 inches of my hair. With each inch of hair removed, a year of burden lifted and a sense of self was gained as the farewell to the hair transitioned into a welcome to authenticity. Somewhere, underneath all that hair, I found myself. Suddenly, I could look into the mirror and recognize, and truly like, the person staring back at me.

Then came the first time: the first time a woman angrily questioned my presence in a woman’s bathroom. I politely corrected her: yes, I was wearing a tie and long shorts, and yes, I did have short hair, and yes, I was still a woman. She begrudgingly accepted it.

Then came the second time.

And the third. And countless times after that. And then I wasn’t so polite. Then, I wasn’t so willing to cater to the ignorance of conformity and tradition. I’m a woman, I kept telling people. The number of times I had to utter that statement became directly proportional to the number of times that I felt truly awful about myself. “I’m a woman” became the refrain in the song of my life, a song characterized by a constant crescendo until the noise became simply unbearable.

The recurring bathroom incidents, in which my gender presentation turned presumably decent people into angry, upset people, made me become one of them, as I turned against myself and became angry and upset. What difference did it make that I was a woman if no one recognized me as one? If the tree of my identity was falling, but no one was around to hear it, was I really making a sound?

And why did other people have so much power in defining who I was? The need to be acknowledged became simultaneously so urgent and so elusive. I was confronted with two options: conform to traditional notions of womanhood to have my identity as a woman validated by others or dedicate myself to redefining what it means to be a woman. I chose the latter.

But there is this fear that I will carry with me, maybe for the rest of my life or maybe just for the next few years. The fear is the one that rests on my shoulders and neck, that makes my head hang low and my shoulders cave in and all but crushes me. It is that drop in my stomach, that moment of uncertainty about the future, when I hear the opening of the door while I’m in the bathroom. It is that pang in my heart, that resounding pain, every time I hear “sir” being yelled in my direction. It is the fear of misrepresentation, the fear that who I am is not how I will be perceived; it is the fear of being told I do not belong in a community of which I am such a proud member. This fear has become a mold in which my identity is shaped, but this fear is not antithetical to my mission of masculine womanhood. If anything, my fear is crucial to the contradiction that I seek to be. In the promotion of this contradiction, the candid representation of the two identities living in one, I hope to eradicate masculine womanhood as a contradiction and redefine it as a new normal. The fear is a constant reminder of reality, of what is, of how others perceive me, and my motivation to change that is an indication of what could be, of how I perceive myself. Writing this column is the rope that holds these two worlds together for me.

I am irrefutably masculine, but I am also proudly a woman, and to me, the relationship between masculinity and womanhood is not one of antagonism but of collaboration.

So, the next time you see someone, I challenge you to see them as a person. Not as a gender, not as a stereotype and not as a contradiction. As a person, doing their own thing, going their own way and passing you by. Let them be.

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

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n retrospect, the summer of 2015 will belong to Donald Trump. The Republican presidential candidate has enthralled both the media and the nation with his bombastic rhetoric and unabashed dismissal of political correctness.

His platform on immigration, specifically, has alienated millions of Hispanic residents and thrown reason and logic out the window in favor of xenophobic demagoguery. Yet, he leads his closest competitor by a 2:1 margin. The fact that he can openly call for the obstruction of the 14th Amendment and still see an increase in poll numbers says less about his political genius and more about the nation’s political climate. As a firstgeneration immigrant, it is clear to me that the issue of citizenship in the United States reaches much further than simply being a matter of proper documentation and taxation accountability.

This past July, I could not help but swell with pride as I handed the immigration officer my green card in exchange for my certificate of citizenship. After a 15-year process, I had finally earned my status as a GermanAmerican dual citizen. No longer would I need to worry about my right to work in the country I had grown up in. No longer would I have to mark myself down on forms as a “legal alien.” Accordingly, Citizenship and Immigration Services put forth a great deal of effort in order to emphasize the event’s importance. Along with the certificate of citizenship, they entrusted me with a solemn miniature American flag to go with a myriad of pamphlets that explained my newly received civic duties, such as understanding the Constitution and voting. They were selling me not just a second passport but a rebirth that was to imbue me with the awesome powers and values that only citizens of the world’s greatest country supposedly had. Despite finding their enthusiasm to be infectious at first, I quickly found mine tempered within moments of passing through the waiting room on my way out of that portal of patriotism.

I did not look like anyone else

The Odd Man Out

The dismay that came over me stemmed from the realization that even this most hallowed of American rites has yet to transcend the specter of race. there. As a tall, white male, I stood out among a crowd that consisted primarily of Asian and Hispanic immigrants. The bemused looks they gave me relayed a clear message: “What are you doing here?”

This experience, however, should not have come as a surprise to me, for multiple reasons. First and foremost, the two offices I visited throughout the naturalization process reside in the Monterey and Santa Clara counties of California, where white individuals make up 31.6 percent and 47 percent of the population, respectively. Furthermore, Germans hardly make up 0.5 percent of annual approved naturalization cases; I would have remained the odd man out regardless of regional demographics.

No, the dismay that came over me stemmed from the realization that even this most hallowed of American rites has yet to transcend the specter of race.

The certificate spent the hourlong commute back home discarded upon my car’s backseat. To me, it did not signal a change in my life going forward. The document provided a reflection, not of how society would proceed to see me, but how it had perceived me all along. It served as a confirmation of a life buoyed by white privilege. After all, who am I to compare my experience as an immigrant to that of an individual originating from Vietnam or Mexico — an individual whose foreignness cannot hide behind the veil of the majority?

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The Work Ahead for Trans Student Rights

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his summer was big for the LGBTQ community — particularly the transgender community.

Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender and started a documentary series. Another season of “Orange Is the New Black” revealed the very real dangers of transphobia when Sophia, the transgender character, was attacked and then put into solitary confinement for “protective measures.”

Every day, the military is getting closer to allowing all transgender service members to serve, free of fear of being discharged because of their gender identity. Yet, despite all this progress, we have so far to go. As of writing this, 11 transgender women have been murdered in the United States since Georgetown’s finals ended.

On campus, we have also seen progress for transgender students.

A new policy allows students to change their names in MyAccess. This change means I will start the school year with a GOCard that displays my name, without the need to hide my identification.

However, as a transgender student on campus, I can confidently state that Georgetown, too, still has a long way to go. What I want is simple: I want future transgender students to be able to have a college experience that is not defined by their identity. I need a bathroom policy that allows me to go the bathroom in residential halls, knowing that if I am harassed or attacked, the question will not concern why I was in that bathroom, but rather how the school can prevent future attacks. I want to be able to go swimming at Yates Field House with friends and be able to use the locker room in a way that doesn’t single me out. I need a name-change system so resident assistant rosters, Residence Hall Office information and Hoyamail all consistently show my new name.

Since I arrived on this campus two years ago, I have been told time and time again that Georgetown cares for the whole person. I need an administration that cares more about my whole person than losing a religious donor. I need to be able to feel safe on this campus.

This summer has been a big one for me. I lived with other men in on-campus housing for the first time. I found my new name and changed my name in Georgetown’s system. I came out to the world on Facebook. And I submit-

ted my first bias incident report.

Georgetown has a long way to go.

I was on my way out of the men’s locker room at Yates, after swimming, when an employee stopped me. After he rushed me out of the locker room, he asked if I knew which locker room I was in and why I thought I could be in there. Even after answering those questions, I had to spend the next 45 minutes hearing him tell me that I looked like a “young lady” to him, that I would make others uncomfortable and that there was some policy about my use of the locker room.

As I am heavily involved in activism, I knew that, despite his attempts to intimidate me, Title IX protects my right to enter the locker room of my gender identity without harassment.

The manner in which he spoke about the policy, without telling me what the policy was, made it sound like I was in trouble and that I was not allowed to use the men’s locker room.

When the director of Yates finally talked to him, the employee admitted he was in the wrong. When I asked him what he would do the next time he encountered a student whose body did not fit what he expected of that gender, though, he said he would still question the student at length.

There are few policies surrounding transgender students and the use of gendered spaces. Where policies do exist, employees are rarely familiar with them, and are allowed to freely violate them multiple times. The employee who violated Yates’ policy by harassing me harassed my friend just a few months before. I still see the employee almost every time I go to Yates.

Georgetown’s lack of protection for transgender students has very real effects on our college experiences. The lack of policies that protect the usage of bathrooms forces transgender students to make decisions based on trying to avoid the issue. Some transgender students avoid Yates to ensure that they will not have to deal with the locker rooms.

Transgender students are on edge, fearful of harassment and forfeiting Georgetown’s potential to remain safe. This is unacceptable. For Georgetown to truly celebrate every Hoya, we must strive to make campus a place safe for all gender identities.

I need an administration that cares more about my whole person than losing a religious donor.

Willem Miller is a junior in the College.

Sure, my name may sound different and be open to creative pronunciation (read: teasing), yet a cursory glance at myself on the street would leave a stranger none the wiser. It comes as no surprise that I have never had to deal with racial slurs or comments of the “go back where you came from” variety, because my skin color hides my story. In that sense, my relatively painless assimilation into American society stands as a damning validation of our society’s structural bias in favor of white individuals.

This bias has established a statistically visible dichotomy between white individuals and individuals of color. Individuals of color suffer from disproportionately higher incarceration and homicide rates in comparison to their white peers. Individuals of color struggle to overcome decades-old societal inertia when dealing with institutions of higher learning, employers and housing providers. As a result, American society plays host to a first- and second-class citizen system that remains a far cry from the egalitarian platitudes of our constitution.

For this reason, I cannot help but remain half-hearted about my American citizenship. I know that my birth in Calw, Germany does more for my civil rights and liberties than actually being born in America does for a Hispanic citizen in my hometown of Salinas, Calif. I am proud to finally be an American, but my experience as a white immigrant has led me to the conclusion that the conceptualization of the American citizen is in dire need of redefinition. My certificate of citizenship acts as a hollow reminder that, while I might live in “one nation under God,” it is not the same nation millions of other Americans are living in. As long as our society stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that the reality of modern American culture is multiculturalism, it will fail its citizens who do not fit an outdated stereotype of the white, heterosexual male.

Maximilian Fiege is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

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Reconciling Creativity With Public Service

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On the supply side, the governhen the two of us look at life after college, there ment just isn’t as present on campus seems to be a clear fork — ironic considering our location in the road between private sector — as private sector employers, espejobs that aim to give students the cially in consulting and banking jobs best outlet for learning and public that purport to pay hefty salaries to sector positions that offer little in all majors, regardless of whether you the way of creative thinking. While studied biology, English or finance.

Georgetown may provide us the In addition, the government tends skills to explore our minds and help to recruit in late spring, long after define what is possible in the world, many seniors have decided on their it seems as if most students feel a jobs after school. To top it off, even disconnect between exploring their many entry-level positions depend minds and crafting a life dedicated heavily on prior experience when to service. I’ve had a strong interest screening candidates. Part of the in energy since I came to George- problem, then, is that the governtown. If I work at the Department ment does not do as good a job as the of Energy after graduation, will I private sector at recruiting. be able to continue to explore my On the demand side, students are passions, or will I become another losing sight of their passions and cog? What will happen to my lofty potential to create change in lieu of dreams to work on battery technol- higher-paying positions. There’s a ogy to advance growing commurenewables like nity at Georgetown wind and solar? that is defined by Can I focus on kids who decide that as an entryto pursue a career level auditor “peror summer internforming systemship because it is atic examinations de facto “required” and appraisals of by social norms. financial-related Naman Trivedi & Rohan Shetty It’s the students records”?

(Yes, who are doing that’s the only job consulting because I found on USA they are unsure of Jobs for recent what to do in the graduates at the short term, or the Department of Enbiology major lookergy.) How dreaming into banking crushing-ly unapbecause it was the pealing does that highest-paying job. job sound?

These aren’t But, wait, it gets worse. How can I hypotheticals — some of our best build and maintain a creative mind friends fall into this category, and in government when the majority even we can’t escape the pull toof the federal workforce is over 45? wards some of these careers.

In 2013, almost 12 percent of govSteps are being in taken in the right ernment workers were over 60 com- direction with organizations like 18F, pared to the 7 percent of workers which uses our younger generation’s under the age of 30. Now, as much skills and creates digital products for as we love working on group project government organizations, but the swith our grandparents… government and students need to So where do we fit in? How do we meet each other halfway. An oppormarry our love of innovation and tunity exists to build a student-run creativity with the desire to serve organization that pushes Hoyas into the public? public service careers and internship As a community that is sup- opportunities using alumni and inposed to embody the Jesuit motto stitutional connections. An opportuof “men and women for others,” nity exists within the government to there has been a surprising drop revamp recruiting programs to excite in the percentage of students who some of the best talent in this country consider careers in public service. that is educated for a career in public From the School of Foreign Service service to once again consider it as a to the College, as well as in the great option.

School of Nursing and Health StudTime to get to work. ies and the McDonough School of Business, we have had several Naman Trivedi is a senior in the conversations with students that School of Foreign Service. Rohan highlight that the problem exists Shetty is a senior in the McDonough on the supply side as well as the School of Business. [and Service] demand side. appears every other Tuesday.

Students are losing sight of their passions and potential.

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Troubled Bulldog Tavern Bolsters Staff, Programming TOBY HUNG

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The Bulldog Tavern management team implemented new hiring and programming initiatives over the summer to improve the quality of the restaurant’s service and business operations.

The pub, which is owned by Bon Appetit, hired several new staff members, including two student bartenders, and hosted events to attract customers. In addition, the management launched new promotions and a greater variety of dining options.

The Bulldog Tavern Oversight Committee, a group of students, administrators and members of the pub management team, initially raised concerns about the restaurant’s service last year.

Joshua Shinbrot (COL ’16), a student member of the committee, said he noticed that service at Bulldog Tavern had remained mediocre since its opening in November.

“From the time the pub opened until the end of last year, the service was very poor,” Shinbrot wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “If you sit at the bar, service is consistently good.

However, if you’re sitting at a table, service is still not great. The food is … delivered to your table within a

reasonable, but still above-average amount of time.”

Shinbrot also said that wait staff at Bulldog Tavern are not attentive enough to patrons.

“Servers could be better about refilling waters and drinks. Servers could also check on their tables more frequently. Oftentimes, Bulldog Tavern patrons will have to walk up to their server to request a check,” Shinbrot wrote.

Concerns about staffing were also made when a high-level manager of the pub was removed from his position over the summer. The management did not return Shinbrot’s inquiries regarding the details of the termination.

To overcome problems related to staffing and service, Bon Appetit hired two students to serve as bartenders.

One of the bartenders, Sam Kleinman (COL ’16), said that the restaurant team was accommodating when training new employees and that he enjoyed his experience as a bartender.

“I met several awesome supervisors and managers confronting challenges unique to running a restaurant on a college campus,” Kleinman wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “[The team] has done a great job of

matching inexperienced student servers and bartenders with experienced staff. For example, I have been trained over the past three months by two bartenders with over 16 years of experience between them.”

Kleinman noticed a higher number of visitors over the summer, following the additional hires.

“Anecdotally, I saw, on average, busier days at the end of the summer, rather than the beginning, and it certainly seemed that I had more tables and more guests as the summer went on,” Kleinman wrote.

“I definitely think that some of the improvements in service at the pub can be attributed to the hiring of the two new bartenders,” Shinbrot wrote. “They are both very attentive, but the other servers are of mixed quality.”

In addition to hiring more staff, the restaurant also hosted a series of events and promotions during the summer, including Sangria Night Thursdays, Friday Game Nights and other food and drinks specials.

According to Shinbrot, although the restaurant has increased its programming, plans to host a beer pong tournament at Bulldog Tavern were vetoed by a university administrator.

Shinbrot said that events such as the tournament would have at-

tracted more student patrons to the restaurant.

“The university has stated that it wants to bring more student life onto campus. I don’t even like playing beer pong, but I just don’t see how the decision to prohibit the pub from hosting certain types of social events for [students over 21] helps bring more of student life onto campus,” Shinbrot wrote.

Many of the initiatives over the summer will be continued throughout the academic year, with further menu changes and promotions planned for the future.

In an email to THE HOYA, Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese mentioned a variety of the restaurant’s changes.

“Over the summer, we developed new menu items, like the fantastic crab dip, created new drinks and brainstormed [promotions] for the upcoming academic year,” Wiese wrote. “You will see new beers on the menu, new appetizers, a larger pizza and wing offering, along with very creative specialty cocktails in the days ahead.”

A request for comment on the restaurant’s profits over the summer was not returned at press time.

In addition, the restaurant will lengthen its hours of operation for

the academic year and host programming on almost every day of the week.

“The kitchen is now open later. We started a pick-up window over the summer, and students can get coffee and awesome breakfast sandwiches in the morning,” Wiese wrote.

Despite the restaurant’s new developments, Shinbrot said that there are still many improvements to be made in order to ensure a high-quality dining experience for patrons.

“Service has improved, but it’s still not that great and if the pub wants to be successful, [it] will need to continue to make big improvements in quality and speed of service,” Shinbrot wrote. “I’m hopeful that early in the fall semester, I’ll be able to say that Bulldog Tavern is definitely worth a second try, or a first for those who have never been.”

Connor Joseph (COL ’16), a former member of the GUSA Dining Committee, said that despite the restaurant’s improved service, the management needs to reevaluate its dining options.

“I think their niche should focus more on down-home, diner-style food. They try to be The Tombs too much,” Joseph wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “Bulldog Tavern has miles to go before it sleeps.”

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NSO Kicks Off in DC, Qatar Student Aids Haitian Orphans With Grant Tom Garzillo Hoya Staff Writer

This year’s Hollywood-themed New Student Orientation, “Hoyawood,” ran Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 with the participation of approximately 200 orientation advisors, the largest group yet.

The orientation program featured a variety of activities and events designed to introduce freshmen and transfer students to life on campus, including the mandatory campus sexual assault training session “I Am Ready.”

The program, which was introduced to NSO last year, allows new students to discuss the topic of sexual assault in small groups led by trained peers.

Bridget Morton (MSB ’16), one of the five NSO coordinators, praised the facilitators of “I Am Ready” for their work in educating new students about sexual assault.

“They do a beautiful job of helping ensure that new students have all the resources they need,” Morton said. “We really enjoyed our collaboration last year [and] we’re excited to be partnered with them again.”

Morton also noted some changes in this year’s NSO program, including a redesigned transfer student experience and the addition of student staff dedicated to the family orientation experience.

“That will be a newly revamped experience as well to make sure that all of our new families feel welcome,” Morton said. “This is going to be the best NSO ever. We’re really excited about it.”

One of NSO’s flagship events, the Marino Family International Writers’ Academic Workshop, will continue this year, featuring Sri Lankan novelist Romesh Gunesekera’s most recent novel, “Noontide Toll.” The workshop, which is funded by the family of Frederick Marino (SLL ’68), requires all incoming students to read a selected text by an international author and complete a reflec-

tive assignment.

During NSO, students had the opportunity to hear Gunesekera speak before they engaged in small group discussions of the novel and its themes.

Chosen by a committee of Georgetown faculty and staff members, this year’s novel tells the story of a minibus driver’s experiences with passengers in post-civil-war, posttsunami Sri Lanka.

Coordinator of Communications, Outreach and Programming for Main Campus Libraries Jennifer Ann Smith said that it was a relatively easy choice for the committee to make.

“We found it at once funny and warm while also devastating in certain parts,” Smith said. “We thought it raised some very interesting questions and themes about journeys, history, civil war, privilege, inequality, tourism and truth.

We just enjoyed reading it.”

Smith also described the workshop as a low-pressure opportunity for students to be introduced to a new culture and the many different perspectives that they will encounter during their time at Georgetown.

“Having the workshop as part of NSO really emphasizes the importance … of engaging with new ideas, some of which may be challenging,” Smith said.

Since the program began in 1995, each year’s novel has had an international focus to ensure that the text offers unique viewpoints beyond the canon of works that many students read in high school.

“For many students, it introduces not only a new culture, but often a whole new way of looking at the world,” Smith said. “We hope that this will help students look critically at their own lives and be more receptive to the new people and new perspectives they will undoubtedly run into.”

The Marino Workshop and its cousin program at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar are the only experience

that directly unite all Georgetown students, as students from both schools read the same book.

Held on Monday night, another signature event during NSO was “Pluralism in Action,” a student performance designed to help incoming students explore issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, religion and sexual orientation.

The performance is followed by small group discussions to encourage students to engage in dialogue in a comfortable setting.

Across the globe, NSO at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar welcomed 70 first-year students and three exchange students from Aug. 16 to 20.

Led by three student coordinators and 22 orientation advisors, the “Dancing Through the Decades”themed orientation aimed to familiarize students with the resources available on the Doha campus.

“It will instill the Georgetown values and principles by creating opportunities for them to become independent creative thinkers and responsible global citizens,” student development officer Indee Thotawattage (SFS-Q ’14) said.

The SFS-Q NSO featured information sessions on a variety of services, as well as “Pluralism in Action” and a new student convocation that featured a video message from University President John J. DeGioia and an address by the SFS-Q Dean Gerd Nonneman.

Thotawattage said that one of the more meaningful activities at the Qatar NSO is the Social Justice Dinner, in which students share a meal with service providers and custodial staff.

“This enables students to get to know members of the extended SFS-Q community that they otherwise wouldn’t get a chance to interact with,” Thotawattage wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Such activities … enable new students to grapple with Jesuit values such as ‘women and men for others’ and ‘community in diversity.’”

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For the past four years, Horton has worked with Chances for Children to construct a tiered agriculThe School of Foreign Service tural plot at the creche. The plot, awarded Cole Horton (SFS ’18) an which is now 5,000 square feet, Improving the Human Condition aims to decrease the orphanage’s grant to construct an agricultural operating costs, increase the nutriplot at an orphanage in Haiti this tional value of the children’s diets summer. and make the center more sustainEach summer, the SFS allocates able. grants of up to $3,000 to students “They wouldn’t have to transport whose unpaid internships or re- their food, they wouldn’t have to search assistantships seek to im- buy it all, they could just buy the prove the lives of others. Priority is seeds and hopefully cultivate it evgiven to short-term, hands-on proj- ery growing season,” Horton said. ects incorporating international “There’s no electricity or energy travel, according to SFS Associate that needs to be put into it, just Dean Anthony Pirrotti. gravity. They’re growing 13 differ“The idea was that the money ent vegetables. Cabbages, carrots, would give SFS students a little things like that, which are too exmore flexibility for their summer pensive for the orphanage to buy in sessions,” Pirrotti said. “They could bulk in local markets in Haiti.” use the time to pursue good causes, Horton highlighted several issues causes that link with the univer- Haiti faces in terms of food access sity’s mission to do good in the and his hope that the agricultural world around plot could serve us and to conto alleviate these tinue our mischallenges. sion to serve “For Haiti, the other people. key problem is It would free that there’s not them from the enough access constraints of to food,” Horonly looking ton said. “On for positions top of that, it’s that paid.” the people who Applications need it the most for the grant that don’t have begin spring enough money semester, and to buy it, and selections are Haiti has such a made by a comlarge population cole horton (sfs ’18) mittee by the in such a small end of April. space. ... I was The number of grants offered per fortunately able to design a project year varies, as funding is sourced that I felt addressed those three isfrom both the SFS and external do- sues and provided at least a partial nors. Thirty grants were awarded solution to each.” this year.

The majority of the funds allocat“This is a really great opportu- ed by the grant went to purchasing nity for students in the School of materials for the project, including Foreign Service, and we would en- piping, seeds and gardening tools. courage more students to apply,” Older orphans living at the center Pirrotti said. “In the past, students will also use these supplies for vohave done projects that range from cational training. working with refugees to working “The older orphans, who are on immigration issues to State De- probably not going to be adopted, partment internships. … There’s will have to leave the orphanage at quite a lot of latitude in terms of some point,” Horton said. “The goal what’s available to students.” is to help them have some sort of As a recipient of one of this year’s skill in gardening so that they can grants, Horton led a group of 18 support themselves, if they end up students from his high school, on their own without any money to Deerfield Academy, in Deerfield, buy food.”

Mass. to an orphanage in Kenscoff, Claire Koeppel, a rising sophoHaiti during the first two weeks more at Deerfield Academy, was a of June. The orphanage, called a member of the group that travelled creche, is operated by humanitar- to Kenscoff this summer. Koeppel ian organization Chances for Chil- emphasized the group’s goal to dren. Around 60 children live in have a lasting impact on the chilthe adoption center. dren at the orphanage.

“From talking with the staff from “It’s like that old adage, ‘If you give Chances for Children, it became clear a man a fish, you feed him for a day. that they were spending a lot of mon- If you teach a man to fish, you feed ey on transportation and storage of him for a lifetime,’” Koeppel said. “I food,” Horton said. “They’ll buy a lot think the main goals were to build of rice and beans, which is filling, the vegetable garden, of course, and but not nutritious, and after months to give a lot of extra love and hugs of the same diet a lot of orphans end to the orphans there — everyone was up getting sick. I was trying to think really excited to see them — as well of a project that would either mini- as to be involved in something that mize the costs of purchasing food or is much bigger than what we experiincrease the variety in diets.” ence at home.”

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“There’s no electricity or energy that needs to be put into it, just gravity.

They’re growing 13 different vegetables.”

Brekelmans Remembered for Passion, Advocacy BREKELMANS, from A1 professors noted that she exuded a quiet confidence in the classroom.

Dartmouth Arabic professor Mostafa Ouajjani said Brekelmans was one of the hardest workers he has ever taught.

“Nina has always impressed her classmates and me by her sense of perfection, her meticulous work and her total engagement,” Ouajjani wrote in an email. “As I think of this amazing student, I can recall a passionate and smart learner.”

Ouajjani kept in contact with Brekelmans after her graduation.

Shortly before her death, she sent him a piece of her own work in Arabic — a fictional short story called “The Mother.”

“This text shows that Nina controls the most complex Arabic structures and feels at home using idioms and understanding cultural nuances of Arabic,” Oujjani wrote.

“Indeed, anyone who reads this text would feel that it must have been written by an Arab writer. I intend to use her text in my course on the Arabic short story this fall in honor to her heritage and in remembrance of such an amazing soul.”

Brekelmans developed an interest in writing and translating Arabic fiction at Georgetown, where she audited “Introduction to Fiction Writing” with Professor David Ebenbach.

“She was kind of amazing,” Ebenbach said. “She was a very talented writer, first of all, but I think, most impressively, she was a very generous presence in the class. She gave a lot more than she took. She was really helpful with her peers, giving them feedback on their work, and she was auditing, so she could have phoned it in, but she gave a lot of

herself.”

Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair in Arab Studies Fida Adely taught Brekelmans in two classes and noted her quiet strength in the classroom.

“She was pretty quiet but very focused,” Adely said. “I have this vivid memory of her in this one class where we had these really passionate and loud students who were debating. It was a small class, and there was a debate going back and forth for 30 minutes between three or four students. At the end she said, ‘Just let me make sure I understand.’

And she summarized the points everyone just made. She was always engaged and participating and absorbing what was going on.”

Brekelmans’ interest in Arabic expanded beyond the classroom, as well, with her internship at the Muslim Chaplaincy. Through the position, she connected with Muslim students and community leaders and organized programming and outreach for the chaplaincy.

“She wanted to practice her Arabic, and she was really determined to study Arabic, to engage in the Arab world and engage in Arabic art and the Arab culture,” Director of Muslim Chaplaincy Imam Yahya Hendi said.

Hendi said that he and Brekelmans connected over their desire to “give a voice to women, a voice to those who are forgotten.”

“Nina was spiritual, a special kind of spirituality. She was connected with her soul, with her mind, with her heart,” Hendi said. “In her, I saw the true vision that God has for the world.”

An Avid Runner

Brekelmans’ second passion in life was running. She walked on

to the Dartmouth Division I crosscountry and track teams her freshman year and trained hard to keep up with her recruited teammates.

Over time, she began to break her own personal records, notching a 5:12 in the mile and 17:57 in the 5K .

“She was a really hard, hard worker. One of the hardest workers on the team,” former Dartmouth Distance Coach Marc Coogan said. “We even acknowledged that as a team at the track and cross-country banquet at the end of the season. She wasn’t the fastest girl on the team, but definitely one of the hardest-working.”

At Georgetown, Brekelmans joined the Georgetown Running Club and became a volunteer for Girls on the Run, a non-profit that encourages young girls to develop a passion for fitness.

“Nina was very, very proud to be part of GRC,” GRC Coach Jerry Alexander wrote on the club’s blog. “She was willing to do whatever it was going to take to hang with the girls, and she was a great teammate in every sense of the word.”

Brekelmans managed to mix both of her passions, Arabic and running, during her gap year in Amman, Jordan. She spent one year there in 2013 through the Center for Arabic Study Abroad and immediately involved herself in the community, running daily at Sports City in Amman.

There, she connected with runners with the organization Run Jordan, a non-governmental organization that coordinates races throughout the country. She won her first halfmarathon in Jordan on her first-ever attempt at the 13.1-mile race.

Brekelmans made friends with many female distance runners, with whom she trained daily at 4:30 a.m. to avoid the blistering Jordanian summer heat.

“She worked mainly on empowering local women to participate in sports, especially running,” Run Jordan member Lina Al-Kurd wrote in an email. “She tried to help them overcome societal stigma and participate in any sport within the Kingdom. ...We lost a great runner and volunteer who had an amazing spirit.”

Fostering Friendships

Brekelmans’ penchant for Arabic was not only helpful in an academic setting, but also in a social one. She had a remarkable ability to make close friends in Arabic, as evidenced by her strong network of runners, coaches and volunteers in Amman.

“We first met Nina here, at Sports City, and we would run together almost daily,” Sharifa and Ashwaq, two female runners, wrote in an email.

“Talking about Nina, she brought us together with her persistent, kind spirit that represents a true sportswoman. The smile would never leave her face, no matter her score or run time. As a human being, she is irreplaceable and our loss is great.”

According to her teammates, Brekelmans was a motivating and encouraging force. Many teammates shared their experiences with Brekelmans in a memorial video, and Run Jordan hosted a memorial run in her honor in June.

“We saw Nina at practice almost every day. No one will forget her. Her soul and her spirit is with us and it encourages us,” an unnamed teammate said in the video. “She would always come up to me and encourage me and say, ‘You can, you can.’

I will never forget her telling me that. Whenever I find something to be difficult, I will always remember what Nina told me.”

Brekelmans involved herself in many aspects of Jordanian life be-

sides running. She volunteered at Reclaim Childhood, a non-profit in Amman that teaches sports to refugee children, and aimed to explore historical and cultural sites outside of the city in her free time.

“The will that she had, the strong will led her to really reach out in Jordan,” Hendi said. “She went to the market, she spoke to people on the street, she went to peoples’ homes.

She challenged the unchallenged.

She challenged her own fears of the unknown.”

Many of Brekelmans’ Jordanian friends did not speak English at all, which Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Program Manager Julie Yelle (SFS ’08) said showcases a truly special talent. Yelle met Brekelmans at Middlebury College during a summer language immersion program.

“One of the things that struck me was what an amazing ability she had to build relationships and nurture friendships in Arabic,” Yelle said. “When I got to know her, we spoke the whole time in Arabic, and I really enjoyed getting to know her that summer. Now, when I’m thinking about how deeply I feel her loss, it’s incredible to think that 99 percent of my interaction with her was in Arabic.”

Hendi said Brekelmans will be remembered in America and in Jordan as a bright force for positivity and change.

“She meant the word ‘inspiration.’ She really inspired so many people she came across without any doubt,” Hendi said. “She meant simplicity. She would sit on the floor and wouldn’t care, would eat anything. And smile, oh my God, smile.

Even if she was in pain or torn into pieces inside, she managed to smile.”

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Assault Policy Reconsidered Historic Jesuit Residence Opens Doors to Students ADVOCACY, from A1

Dobkin launched a social media campaign, “#IStandWithWilla #IStandWithSurvivors,” questioning administrators about their handling of Murphy’s case and calling for a re-evaluation of the university’s sexual assault policies.

The following day, GUSA convened with a group of student activists and requested a meeting with university administrators to address concerns about the university’s sexual assault policies and initiatives, such as the lack of advertising for resources for survivors and limited education on bystander intervention.

Administrators also publicly expressed their solidarity. Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Rosemary Kilkenny and Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord, in their capacities as Title IX coordinators, responded with a viewpoint (“We Stand with Survivors,” thehoya.com, July 22, 2015), recapitulating the university’s continued efforts to create a better environment for survivors of sexual assault.

In an interview with The Hoya, Kilkenny said that her professional duties are driven by her own personal commitment toward ensuring the safety of students.

“As a mother of two children who have gone to college … I am extremely committed and very concerned,” Kilkenny said. “I don’t know one administrator who is not working around the clock to make sure that we have a safe environment for all our students.”

Approximately one week after Dobkin and Murphy’s piece was published, Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17) shared her own experiences as a survivor of sexual assault in a viewpoint (“A Shared Obligation,” thehoya.com, July 29, 2015), encouraging the community to create a more survivor-centric campus.

Hinerfeld said that she decided to publish the piece to encourage the community to collectively take action on the issue.

“I wanted to emphasize the importance of bystander intervention to the average Georgetown student and I wanted to show survivors they are not the only ones that have experienced [sexual assault] on Georgetown’s campus,” Hinerfeld wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Statistics can be exceptionally telling, but sometimes people need to see a face in order for something to be real to them.”

Meanwhile, the #IStandWithWilla campaign gained momentum when approximately 20 students

participated in a chalk-up at Red Square on Aug. 7.

Students wrote encouraging messages to survivors and further pressured the administration to act upon student concerns.

Prior to the meeting on Aug. 10, GUSA distributed a four-page memorandum to administrators listing its demands, which were the result of weeks of policy research and deliberations amongst student activists.

GUSA had a follow-up meeting on Aug. 24.

During the two meetings, administrators expressed their support for more effective awareness and marketing initiatives. In particular, an agreement was made to update the user interface of the sexual assault resources website, with further improvements scheduled for the fall semester.

The groups agreed on the increased promotion of resources for sexual assault survivors by adding campus resource contact numbers and information on stick-

“I am confident that important and necessary changes for survivors will emerge from these negotiations.”

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ers in bathrooms and on the back of GOCards.

According to Hinerfeld, several other universities such as George Washington University and American University have already started similar awareness campaigns.

“I believe that both of these tools could easily and inexpensively be implemented at Georgetown,” Hinerfeld wrote.

Students and administrators found common ground in discussing ongoing processes, such as the hiring of a full-time Title IX coordinator by September 2015 and the continued development of a campus climate survey.

Although student activists are pushing for the university to implement the survey by January 2016, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said that care needs be taken in order to create a useful survey.

“We want to make sure [that] when we do the survey it gives us the best information in at least a couple of different ways. One is giving us an understanding of what happens in our community, so we ask questions framed in a way that will do that,” Olson said. “[We want to] be able to compare our responses with other

responses with other universities that give us a kind of context that’s valuable.”

Another item on the memorandum was the establishment of an ongoing educational program centered on bystander intervention that serves as a follow-up to the mandatory “I Am Ready” session during New Student Orientation.

Hinerfeld said that the university should continue to engage students in the dialogue in order to effectively promote bystander intervention.

“Research shows that having conversations about sexual assault on time during freshmen orientation will not substantively change a culture,” Hinerfeld wrote.

“The concepts brought up in these discussions need to be reinforced on a consistent basis in order to make a real impact.”

GUSA’s final request in the meeting was to streamline the process of gaining re-entry into the university following a medical leave of absence.

In an email to The Hoya, GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) said that this process would be more accommodating to survivors of sexual assault.

“We know through anecdotal evidence that the process for accessing resources and accommodations is often overwhelming and requires survivors to continuously repeat their story to multiple offices, which can be retraumatizing,” Luther wrote. “We want to make it possible for survivors to be able to work one-on-one with a single staff member who would coordinate all of these services, resources and processes and take the burden off the survivor.”

Overall, both GUSA and administrators were pleased with the outcome of the negotiations.

“Though we may not see eye to eye on every issue, we understand that only through engaging with the administration in a productive manner will we be able to make effective, tangible improvements for the student body,” Luther wrote.

Olson echoed a similar sentiment, noting that both parties shared the same values.

“We care about these issues as much as our students do,” Olson said. “We have that shared commitment and shared goals in this really important conversation.”

Hinerfeld expressed optimism toward making substantial changes in creating a safer environment for survivors.

“I am confident that important and necessary changes for survivors will emerge from these negotiations,” Hinerfeld said.

Policy Institute Opens MCCOURT, from A1 where people like me can share our experience, and at the same time we can learn from students.”

The new institute will soon roll out a series of initiatives, which include the flagship fellowship program that will be unveiled this fall. The fellowship connects McCourt School students with prominent political leaders who expressed interest in “going back to school.” Five fellows each semester will take classes, engage in discussions and host conversations with students and student groups. This semester’s group of fellows includes Buzzfeed’s D.C. Bureau Chief John Stanton, former Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño and CNN Senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar.

“Young people want to see something that’s real, thats authentic,” Fortuño said in a video on the institute’s website. “Everything [in politics] is so rehearsed.

It’s like a bad movie where you know what’s going to happen next. There are great people involved in politics that are well-intentioned and trying to change our communities for the better.”

Elleithee envisions the new institute as a place not just for people to “come and tell war stories,” but to genuinely engage.

“We want to have the students actually mentor the fellows as much as the fellows mentor the students,” Elleithee said. “Maybe the fellows then go back to their real life, to their careers, to politics and think about it a little bit differently.”

“To get off the stage of Gaston and really get in with the students, it’s all about the students leading.”

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Both Montgomery and Elleithee believe that Georgetown’s location in Washington, D.C. gives the school a unique ability to connect the students and the campus with those who are engaged in local policy.

“We are very fortunate here that we have got the whole city, and no shortage

of people who want to come to speak on campus,” Montgomery said. “In order to get off the stage of Gaston [Hall] and really get in with the students, it’s all about the students leading the way.” Besides the fellowship program, the new institute also plans to introduce a speaker’s program, where public figures are brought to campus to speak with students, according to Elleithee. An internship program is also under discussion. Elleithee mentioned that they will look to the student body when deciding on new initiatives.

Montgomery said he believes the new institute will further enhance Georgetown’s reputation for convening great minds.

“Our university already has a long history and excellent reputation for being able to bring people from all big sectors and international arenas, and now we are adding public policy to that mix”, Montgomery said. “We have that great historical strength that we are adding another piece to — all things that can work together to create a bigger and more comprehensive program which we will just be a piece of.”

HOUSING, from A1 for halfway through the fall semester, while other construction on Dahlgren Quadrangle and the building’s historic staircase is expected to be completed around Thanksgiving. Once completed, the courtyard will feature barbecue pits and benches.

Each floor of the FJR has its own lounge area and kitchen. All suites in the building also include a furnished living room and kitchen, while semi-suites do not.

Office of Design and Construction Senior Project Architect Amy Sanderson said the construction team focused on making the dorms more technology-friendly.

“The complaints we hear from students a lot are [that] there’s not enough outlets, there’s not enough power and there’s not enough Wi-Fi,” Sanderson said. “We tried to make absolutely certain that we designed this so that it would allow the students to use all of the technology they wanted to use without being hindered by the building itself.”

The building’s first floor houses the statue of Mary of the Mystic Rose kept from the original building, which was built in 1830 and housed Jesuit priests until 2003.

The first floor also includes a nine-person suite, comprised of four doubles and one single. The laundry room is also housed on the first floor, in addition to the residence hall director’s office.

“This is … an existing building that had really, really nice space,” Sanderson said. “We tried to keep that as much as possible.”

The second floor features the Memorial Hall, a student lounge decorated with historical articles and pictures of the original building.

The hall contains a number of recreational elements, including a billiards table, two large flat-screen televisions and a catering room for special events.

“Memorial Hall was built as a Jesuit dining room, which is a big gorgeous space,” Sanderson said. “We wanted to keep the authenticity and the feeling of the building as much as we could.”

The collection was curated by Connor Maytnier (COL ’17), a resident assistant of the LLC. Maytnier served as the student representative on the design committee for the FJR for the past year and a half.

“My interest in the project goes back almost to the beginning,” Maytnier said. “Becoming a part of helping transform this building is when I decided to return as an RA.” Other highlights of the building include three private balconies located on the third, fourth and fifth floors. Each balcony looks across the Potomac River toward Virginia, with views of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Washing-

ton Monument.

Both the building and courtyard are handicap-accessible, conforming to the regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Seven of the rooms also incorporate ADA-compliant GOCard swipe locks.

“This whole part of campus … has always been very difficult because of the terrain,” Barger said.

“Now I think it will be much better for the students who need barrier-free access.”

New resident Vanessa Chapoy (COL ’18) said that she was drawn to the building because of its historical significance.

“I’m really big into history, and I love all the historic value that this building holds,” Chapoy said. “I love it. I thought [space] would be a problem, but the lofts actually allow you to stand up in them.”

Maytnier said that the RAs will host multiple programs each month for residents, including social and partner events with other campus resources. The LLC also has a focus on Jesuit principles such as ad majorem Dei gloriam, being women and men for others and educating the whole person.

“We’re going to be helping the entire building, as they develop a plan to host a program that is rooted in the tenets of the spirit of Georgetown,” Maytnier said.

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Cancer Centers Connect Second Kickback to Feature Skizzy Mars, Student Art Gaia Mattiace Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center will collaborate with the John Theurer Cancer Center of Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey to form a cancer consortium through a joint clinical research program.

The idea for the partnership was developed in 2011 during a meeting between executives at the Lombardi Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in D.C., and the JTCC, the highest-ranked cancer center in New Jersey.

“It quickly became evident that significant potential synergies existed between the respective cancer centers,” Lombardi Center Director Louis Weiner, MD, wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“These discussions led to a formal affiliation and a plan to create an NCI-approved consortium that unifies the research programs under the auspices of Lombardi’s NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center designation.”

The cancer centers will focus on four broad areas of cancer research and treatment, namely stem cell transplant research, the development of new cancer-treating drugs, immunotherapy and population science.

Weiner emphasized the benefits each cancer center can confer upon the others, highlighting shared expertise in a variety of clinical research areas.

“Lombardi and JTCC share interests and strengths in many areas of cancer care and research, such as gastrointestinal cancers, lung cancers and in harnessing the power of the immune system to attack and control cancers,” Weiner wrote.

“Working together, we can accelerate progress and offer our patients tomorrow’s treatments today.”

Hackensack University President and CEO Robert Garrett agreed that both medical centers contribute

particular strengths to their joint cancer research and treatment programs.

“Hackensack University Medical Center has always focused on excellence in patient care and investing in research and technology for the future,” Garrett said.

“For this partnership, we are combining our strength in clinical care with Georgetown Lombardi’s strong research base that significantly contributes to its clinical excellence. By working together, we will elevate our cancer research to offer more treatment options for tomorrow’s patients.”

The timing of the partnership is ideal due to current innovations in the industry, according to the JTCC’s Division of Lymphoma Chief Andre Goy. “Together, our institutions carry a tremendous opportunity to be transformative for our cancer patients’ population and beyond,” Goy said.

“The timing of this joint effort could not be better given the definitely revolutionary changes occurring in cancer care. The chosen founding projects are well-positioned to take advantage of the synergy between our institutions and illustrate our commitment to discovering better care for the future.”

Through the partnership, the JTCC will achieve NCI designation once the consortium is approved by the NCI, which would allow the center to receive grants from the institute for cancer research.

“The JTCC will be a part of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center,” Weiner wrote. “The process for approval is quite rigorous and will require that we demonstrate meaningful research collaborations and accomplishments by the next time (2018) we submit our competitive Cancer Center Support Grant renewal to the NCI.” Clinical Outcomes Tracking & Analysis Platform, a cancer patient treatment and outcomes database developed by the JTCC, will aid

the centers in their partnership.

“COTA is able to extract deep and rich clinical and economic data from cancer patients’ medical records and history and organize the data so that clinical research at both institutions can be performed,” COTA CEO Eric Schultz and COTA Chief Medical Officer Stuart Goldberg wrote in an email.

Weiner stressed that COTA will assist both centers on all four of the broad research topics the centers plan to cover.

“COTA is a powerful ‘big data’ tool that ‘sorts’ patients into definable niches to rigorously identify patients who might benefit from defined therapies, to follow the outcomes of these patients and to examine the actual costs of care for these patients,” Weiner wrote. “It thus can support each of the four broad initiatives we have identified.”

COTA’s assistance will be particularly useful in the area of population science, according to Schultz and Goldberg.

“Building on the strengths of Georgetown’s population science division, COTA will facilitate the collection of data at both institutions to support several projects surrounding breast cancer diagnosis, physician attitudes toward genetic profiling, and a proposed collaborative project on financial toxicity from a patient’s perspective in hematologic malignancies,” Schultz and Goldberg wrote.

The formation of an NCI consortium will allow for advancements in cancer treatment that benefit patients of both hospitals, according to Weiner.

“As an NCI-designated consortium we will have the size and scope to effectively compete for access to the most exciting new treatment ideas and agents so that we can have maximum impact to benefit people living in our respective regions of service,” Weiner wrote.

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Skizzy Mars and Louisa Wendorff will headline the second annual Kickback Music Festival, hosted by the Students of Georgetown, Inc. in conjunction with the Georgetown Program Board and Georgetown Week of Welcome, Sept.

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This year’s event, which will take place on Copley Lawn, will also feature nine student performances, an increase from last year’s lineup of a total seven bands.

Expanding on the event’s billing as a music and arts festival, student art exhibitions will be on display at the festival this year. Submissions will be available through the festival’s website and Facebook page.

Running from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., the festival will begin with performances from student bands such as Faces for Radio, Sam & Hannah, Giant’s Causeway and Bulldog Alley Alleycats.

Following a headlining performance and 30-minute break, the festival will continue with student acts such as Tigers Are Bad For Horses, DJAllen, Deuce B and Keylow before concluding with the second headliner.

Director of Kickback Cameron Smith (MSB ’16) said that it is important to showcase the student body’s artistic talent at Kickback.

“It is our vision for Kickback to be an outlet into a diversity of student lives [and] to show how awesome and creative our students can be early in the academic year when people are thinking about their place at Georgetown,” Smith said.

The two headlining acts, Skizzy Mars and Louisa Wendorff, will each perform for an hour. A 23-year-old rapper from Manhattan, Mars is best known for his alternative hip-hop EP “The Red Balloon Project,” which was released earlier this year. Meanwhile, Wendorff is a pop singer who rose to stardom with a YouTube mashup of Taylor Swift’s songs.

Like last year, there will be four food trucks at Healy Circle, as well as cupcakes from Baked & Wired.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to receive giveaways from companies like Zipcar and Down Dog Yoga, as well as the chance to win tickets to the upcoming Landmark Music Festival in West Potomac Park.

Smith said that he hopes these new additions will create a more unique festival experience.

“We would love to see people bring blankets, lawn games, signs and wear crazy stuff,” Smith said.

The Corp’s new partnership with GPB and GWOW for this event will help ensure that Kickback has a permanent place in the university’s calendar.

Smith said that the groups provided helpful contributions to the Kickback team.

“We thought this would be the best way to

help us solidify a really special event as a tradition in the early fall at Georgetown,” Smith said.

“GPB and GWOW have contributed invaluable expertise in event planning and music knowledge to help us put on the best version of Kickback possible.”

According to GPB Marketing Chair Jessica Scoratow (SFS ’18), the organization was involved in planning many logistical aspects of the event, including ticketing, sponsorships, contracting and selecting the headlining artists.

“Kickback is more than just a music festival.

It’s a celebration of art and its diversity,” Scoratow wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Before your first essay for the semester, or your first all-nighter, or your first venture into [Lauinger Library], Kickback is the perfect opportunity to relax and welcome a new year on the Hilltop.”

Smith also said that he hopes the timing of Kickback will provide students with a break from academic and professional pursuits.

“We want this date because it will be smack in the middle of recruiting season for every oncampus club and activity,” Smith said. “Maybe someone who goes to Kickback takes time to look at the arts community instead of just joining a club that promises better job placement four years down the road.”

Paul Henderson (COL ’18) said that he will likely attend the event because of its timing at the beginning of the year.

“I think Kickback is cool because it gives students a really fun, high-energy event at the beginning of the year, before schoolwork gets more intense,” Henderson said. “I dig that there’s a concert for me to look forward to from the moment I get to campus, [for which] I don’t have to plan much.”

Tickets are priced at $10 and will be available for sale next week.

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Allen, Yaro Earn Preseason Player of the Year Awards Andrew May Hoya Staff Writer

Over the past several years, No. 3 Georgetown has shot to the very top of college soccer. The sport has definitely taken notice. Two Hoyas grabbed Big East preseason Player of the Year honors — senior forward Brandon Allen is the preseason Offensive Player of the Year and junior defender and co-captain Joshua Yaro is the preseason Defensive Player of the Year — and the coaches’ poll picked the team to finish in a tie for first in the conference with No. 6 Creighton. Along with Allen and Yaro, senior defender and co-captain Keegan Rosenberry also made the Big East preseason all-conference team.

The Hoyas, including Allen and Yaro, have clearly earned the recognition they have received in the buildup to the season. A series of very strong recruiting classes and an attractive, advanced style of play has delivered results for the team, earning a trip to the national championship game and a quarterfinal

appearance in the NCAA Tournament, as well as a Big East regular season title, all in the last three years. Despite the attention, awards and rankings, the Hoyas are looking to stay firmly focused on the games immediately ahead of them.

“I don’t think it would matter if we were number one in the country or unranked, in terms of how we would approach games, in terms of mentality or preparation or attitude,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

Allen and Yaro know what it is like to prepare for the season while in the spotlight as well as any players in the college game today. Along with the conference Player of the Year selections, the two players earned spots on the watch list for the MAC Hermann Trophy, an award given to the top player in the nation.

Both could be top-10 picks in the MLS SuperDraft this January. The recognition has not stopped them from concentrating on the season ahead of them.

“Both [Allen] and [Yaro] are really good role models for the rest of the team because they are getting a lot of

attention … but they’re handling that with a really good team-first mentality and a really good work rate,” Wiese said.

Allen and Yaro have already shown improvement from the beginning of the preseason, according to Wiese. Yaro is attempting to return to midseason form after a summer of classes, and Allen recovered from a difficult preseason opener with strong performances in the team’s two most recent exhibitions.

He scored from a free kick in a 4-0 rout of No. 2 Virginia on Aug. 22.

With Allen leading the offense and Yaro leading the defense, Georgetown has great potential on both sides of the ball this season. Wiese’s fellow coaches are certainly confident in the team’s ability to deliver on that potential, having picked the team to finish in a tie for first in the Big East. This represents a vote of confidence in an incredibly difficult conference.

“I think we’re getting a nice rivalry with all of the teams in the league, which is the fun of it,” Wiese said.

The rivalry with Creighton, the other

half of the tie for first in the preseason poll, may become the most interesting of any in the relatively new Big East. After joining the conference in 2013, the Bluejays entered their last two matchups with the Hoyas ranked in the top three in the nation. This year’s game will be played on the final day of the regular season at Shaw Field. Both sides have a lot of soccer to play between now and then, but the ingredients exist for a thrilling end to the regular season.

“Creighton is a really fun team to deal with. … They are absolutely loaded with talent this year. They are hard as hell to play against,” Wiese said. “It’s fun for us because we know that if we slip up, they easily might not all year.

They’re that good.”

Georgetown, then, has plenty to live up to in 2015. From ready-made rivalries to individual honors, the Hoyas’ season is set up to be a thrilling one. Wiese, though, does not put too much stock into anything that happens before kickoff.

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Senior forward Brandon Allen led the Hoyas with 11 goals in 2014. onto the field and be better than your opponent,” Wiese said.

The Hoyas will open their season at 7 p.m. on Aug. 28 against Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla. The first home game will be Sept. 4 against Akron.

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Derrickson Shines as Hoyas Earn 3 Wins on Italy Trip Tom Schnoor Hoya Staff Writer

For many Georgetown students, studying abroad is one of the most memorable experiences during their four years of college. Whether it’s a summer in Madrid or a semester in Buenos Aires, the chance to travel overseas offers a host of opportunities to grow, both in and — perhaps more often — out of the classroom.

For members of the Georgetown basketball team, however, studying abroad is impossible. With practices that start in October and a season that extends well into March, the college basketball calendar ensures that the only chance student-athletes have to spend more than a few days abroad is on tours. The NCAA permits each school to take one tour every four seasons.

So, four years after infamously brawling with the Bayi Rockets during a trip to China, the Hoyas packed their bags this summer for a 10-day tour of Italy from Aug. 14 to Aug. 24.

From a basketball standpoint, the trip offered Georgetown an opportunity to see how a highly regarded freshman class would fit with a talented returning core from a team that lost a hard-fought game in the Round of 32 during this past season’s NCAA Tournament.

“I definitely have some systems, offensively and defensively, we want to take a look. It’s probably mostly about seeing combinations,” Head Coach John Thompson III told CSN Washington a few days before the start of the trip. “It’s not just ‘Let’s go roll the ball out and go see the Coliseum.’ It’s also not midseason getting ready for the Big East. There are obviously some things you want to look at.”

The Hoyas played four games during their stay in Europe. The first, against Haukar Basket, a professional team from Iceland, was dominated by freshman forward Marcus Derrickson. The Virginia native arrived on the Hilltop as the 89th-ranked player in his high school class according to ESPN and exploded for a game-high 20 points in his

first contest for the Blue and Gray. That effort, along with a late 17-0 run, helped propel Georgetown to a 74-64 victory.

“Marcus during that stretch was very good,” Thompson said. “It’s going to be easy and look at — I don’t know how many he had — four or five threes, but more important than that, he took two charges during that stretch and he came up with several key rebounds, offensively and defensively.”

In its second game, Georgetown coasted to a 95-36 win over the Italy All-Stars, a team comprised of professional players from the country’s first, second and third divisions. Once again, the Hoyas were led in scoring by Derrickson, who tallied 18 points. The remaining two games, however, would not be as easy. After traveling from Rome to Florence, the Hoyas suffered their first and only loss of the tour to BC Atletas, a professional squad from Lithuania. Junior forward Reggie Cameron led Georgetown in scoring with 16 points, and freshman center Jessie Govan finished with 15 points and nine rebounds.

Cameron was one of several Hoyas who received extended minutes during the trip after seeing relatively little game action last year. That was largely the result of senior guard and team leader D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera nursing an ankle injury that kept him on the sidelines for the duration of the trip.

Senior center Bradley Hayes was also unable to play in the four games due to recent surgery on his wrist. The sharpshooting Cameron took full advantage of the opportunity the injuries provided, scoring double-digit points in three of the Hoyas’ four games.

Georgetown finished the tour on a high note, downing the Swiss team SAM Basket Massagno by a final of 76-73. Sophomore forward Trey Mourning, who also saw far more game action during the trip than he did last season, scored 15 points and grabbed four rebounds, while Derrickson capped his visit to Italy with a flourish, chipping in another 15 points.

However, as it is for many of their classmates who travel abroad, the trip

was about far more than just business for the Hoyas. The team saw Rome, Florence and Milan during its tour, and while the food and drink may be the highlight of a trip to Italy for most, the splendor of the culture was not lost on any of the players.

“Michelangelo is damn near the GOAT [Greatest of All Time],” sophomore forward Paul White tweeted at one point. “Walking thru the Sistine Chapel was amazing today, yo.”

Ten days after they departed Washington, the Hoyas arrived back on the Hilltop, just in time for a few days of relaxation before the start of the semester.

How much the trip will benefit the Blue and Gray from a basketball standpoint remains to be seen. This year, Georgetown is widely expected to carry a top20 ranking into the start of the season and contend for the Big East title. If they can exceed expectations, as they have in several recent seasons, the trip to Italy could be far from the most noteworthy part of the season for the Hoyas.

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hat is the most interesting team in the American League right now?

Not the Blue Jays or the Royals or the Yankees. Nope. It’s the Texas Rangers. Everything that went wrong for the Rangers last year is turning around for them this year, especially since the All-Star break. A pitching staff missing a legitimate star? Enter Cole Hamels, a trade acquisition from the Philadelphia Phillies. A Shin-Soo Choo who can’t get on base? He had a .449 on-base percentage in August. A Prince Fielder who can’t stay in the lineup? He’s missed four games all year. Even with these things going right for the Rangers, the question is whether they can prolong their success. Are they the real deal, or just a flash in the pan?

Let’s start with their strengths. Rougned Odor has been on fire since being called up from the minors in June. He’s hit .319 or better in June, July and August. Besides a few baserunning mistakes, Odor has been nothing but productive for Texas this summer. ShinSoo Choo’s stats look pretty much the same as last year’s — way lower than his career numbers. That’s due to a slow start, but the veteran right fielder is turning it on at the right time. His on-base percentage in August shows plate discipline that’s been a hallmark of his career, but something that’s been missing the last couple years. Odor and Choo couple with a healthy Prince Fielder and a hard-hitting Mitch Moreland to form a fearsome top half of the lineup.

On the mound, Hamels leads a staff that is missing injured Japanese star Yu Darvish. Hamels’ starts have had mixed results for the Rangers so far, but the sample size is small. An ace like Hamels is a needed piece on a staff that has been in constant flux this season. Behind Hamels, Yovani Gallardo and Colby Lewis are having respectable if somewhat unexciting seasons. In the bullpen, Shawn Tolleson anchors a group of relatively unknown relievers. Tolleson’s health has been an issue in the past, but he’s been able to stay on the mound this season and has pitched well.

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Emily Infeld, an 11-time All-American who graduated in 2012, became the first American runner to medal in the 10,000-meter race at the World Championships since Kara Goucher won bronze in 2007.

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way it played out, she kept fighting and scrapping all the way through the finish line when a lot of other people would have said, ‘Okay, I’m fourth, this thing is played out,’ she said, ‘Fight, fight’ all the way through, and all of sudden you wind up with a medal.”

The road to Infeld’s bronze medal was not easy. Since graduating from Georgetown in 2012, she has suffered multiple injuries, including two sacral stress fractures. Miltenberg cited her exceptional self-belief as a driving force behind her successful comeback from injury.

“Through all the really hard days, and there were some really hard ones for her, she never stopped believing in herself,” Miltenberg said. “At Georgetown it was really exciting to watch her grow in [her self-belief]. She had that from the first day, that fearless competitiveness, but then growing and learning how to really use it and to be able to run with anybody in America was an awesome process to be a part of.”

Infeld became the first American runner to medal in the women’s 10,000m at the World Championships since Kara Goucher won bronze in 2007. She led

a successful American showing in the event, as Huddle finished fourth and fellow American Shalane Flanagan finished sixth.

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offense and Shaver’s consistency on the back line set them apart, especially considering that freshmen often have trouble adjusting to the pace of collegiate soccer.

“Those two in particular … [have] come in in good shape, and I think they’ve adjusted to what we’ve asked of them maybe a little bit better than the others,” Nolan said.

“Caitlin Farrell has come off the bench, she’s played really well up top, and Megan’s also stepped up for us at defensive center mid,” Newins added.

Delaware, a member of the Colonial Athletic Association, is one of the many tough non-conference teams that Georgetown will have to face this season. Due to the fact that the Big East’s membership is composed of weaker teams, the first portion of Georgetown’s schedule is fairly difficult. Winning those games will require contribution from both the team’s veterans and its newcomers. “[The freshman class] all have a very good attitude and understanding of where we want to go, so that helps a lot,” senior midfielder Marina Paul said.

To prep for the contest against the Blue Hens, the Hoyas will strive to improve communication, unity on offense and defense and comfort with one another on the field.

The game against Delaware will take place Thursday at 7 p.m. at Stuart and Suzanne Grant Stadium in Newark, Del.

put him in this category because he’s such a great player who’s had such a great career. Besides, he’s hitting .267 with a dozen home runs. Still, relative to where we’ve seen him over the years this is a sharp dip in production. He is no longer one of the best players in the game or an anchor in the lineup.

Next is what I call the unhelpful trio: Delino DeShields, Elvis Andrus and Chris Gimenez. These three don’t really do anything to lose games for the Rangers, but they also don’t do a whole lot to win games. They’re just really, really average. DeShields, Andrus and Gimenez occupy the three most important defensive positions (center field, shortstop and catcher, respectively), but none of them do anything particularly great in the field. None of them are particularly great hitters either. Having so many average players makes me question the Rangers’ ability to prolong a playoff run.

Hamels, Gallardo and Lewis are pitching well. Martin Perez and Derek Holland are not. I’m not exactly sure what it is that the Rangers see in Perez, but as far as I can tell, he’s a subpar pitcher. His stuff is mediocre, his pitching IQ isn’t great and his command is barely acceptable. To be a successful pitcher in the MLB, you have to be great in at least one of those categories. Holland, on the other hand, has shown flashes of ace-level pitching. Unfortunately for the Rangers, he’s had trouble with injuries this year, which seemed to keep him out of a good rhythm. Without Darvish to bump one of these guys out of the rotation, Texas has significant issues with its starting pitching staff.

So, the question is whether the bright spots can shine bright enough to cover for the gaping holes that Texas has in the lineup and in the pitching rotation. I want to believe, but I just can’t quite do it when I look at all the other playoff contenders in the American League. To me, the Rangers aren’t quite a playoff team, but I wouldn’t bet on it either way. They’re right on the edge. Keep an eye on them.

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were cruelly dashed by the Belgians following a thrilling quarterfinal match. The star of the game was goalkeeper Tim Howard, who made one insane save after another — a feat that led to him briefly replacing former Secretary Chuck Hagel as the secretary of defense, at least according to Wikipedia. This year, we watched with joy as Carli Lloyd led the American women’s national team to its first World Cup win since 1999 in a resounding 5-2 victory over Japan. But once the tournaments are over, our attention to soccer fades again until the next tournament. Our heroes slip into the background, becoming little more than distant memories.

Many people don’t follow soccer because they claim that it’s boring to watch teams chase a ball around for 90 minutes. This can certainly be true — I’ve spent many a game doing just that, watching as two teams duke it out only to yield a scoreless draw. But soccer is so much more than that. It’s a lifestyle. Entire families grow up cheering for the same team (in this case, my family is definitely the outlier because we count three Chelsea fans, one Tottenham fan and one Liverpool fan among our ranks). Friendships are formed based on which club you root for. There is no greater feeling than sitting with complete strangers, eyes glued to the television as you all watch the same team, united by a feeling of loyalty and, if the rival team is playing, complete hatred.

Sure, watching a sport isn’t nearly as fun as actually playing it. And sure, it’s hard to get involved with

soccer here in the United States because let’s face it, the MLS just can’t hope to compete on the same level as the English Premier League, German Bundesliga or Spanish La Liga.

But with the arrival of players like Liverpool hero Steven Gerrard, Italian legend Andrea Pirlo, Chelsea icon Frank Lampard and the dynamic Americans Michael Bradley — current captain of the national team — and Clint Dempsey, that all looks set to change.

Just this July, when Gerrard and the LA Galaxy came to Houston, the stadium was packed with supporters, some of whom probably had never been to a Dynamo game before, all eager to see what Gerrard would do. These players breathe fresh air and excitement into the league, bringing with them knowledge and glory from their European days. As more and more players continue to make the leap, it remains to be seen whether or not the MLS can build a steady support for the game.

So before you go complaining about how soccer is such a boring game, give it a chance. Remember how excited you were when Lionel Messi and the Argentinian national team came to Georgetown last year? Remember how you chanted “I Believe That We Will Win” during the World Cup? Keep that same excitement with you and sit down to watch a game. You might be pleasantly surprised.

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Behm (MSB ’08) in 2008 and Charlie Buckingham (COL ’11) in both 2009 and 2011. Chris Barnard (MSB ’13), a former teammate and mentor of Snow, received the honor in 2012. “[Snow] is our sixth College Sailor of the Year in the last 10 years. There is no other program in the country that can match that,” Callahan said. “Our best sailors make it a point to impart all their knowledge on the next generation. It says a lot about the leadership of the kids and about how each sailor helps his teammates out.”

The Hoyas are fortunate that Snow still has an entire season of college sailing remaining, during which he will have the opportunity to pass along his sailing knowledge to the next generation of Georgetown sailors.

“I am looking forward to simply being a leader and a competitor on our team,” Snow said. “Our ‘as one’ philosophy is what is going to help us to achieve our goals at the end of the season. Relaying this philosophy [to the underclassmen] is my main goal for next year, and the competitive accomplishments will follow.”

Snow’s senior season will also be a chance for him to add to his already highly distinguished collegiate legacy.

“It will be tough to do as well as he did this year,” Callahan said. “He was almost undefeated in most of his events, but I think he wants to win the championships that he hasn’t won yet.”

Snow’s quest to conquer the championships that have eluded him thus far will begin in the fall, and if the past three seasons are any indication, Snow’s goals, whatever they may be, seem to be within reach.

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Joshua Yaro and Brandon Allen earned spots on the watch list for the MAC Hermann trophy.

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Junior Nevin Snow first put on a Georgetown uniform three seasons ago, and from that moment on, he has been a force to be reckoned with in the college sailing world.

As a freshman, Snow was named an Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association AllAmerican, making him one of only two first-year college sailors to be honored in a field dominated by upperclassmen.

In his sophomore season, Snow received ICSA All-American honors once again and was a finalist for the prestigious Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year award. “[Snow] is a tremendous [sailor]. You don’t have to encourage him to practice hard or try hard; he does that all by himself,” Head Coach Michael Callahan said.

“What puts him ahead of the rest of the pack in college sailing is his ability to sail in different boats and in different conditions. He is very versatile.”

Snow continued to demonstrate that versatility throughout his junior season, dominating in singlehanded, doublehanded and triplehanded competitions, regardless of the weather.

The junior led the way for Georgetown as he and the Hoyas won the Match Racing National Championship, placed fifth at the 2015 LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship and finished third in the A division and fifth overall

at the 2015 Gill Coed National Championship. Snow also finished fifth at the Men’s Singlehanded National Championship.

Snow’s standout performance earned him a place as a finalist for the Sailor of the Year honor again this season.

The other sailor in contention for the award was Yale University senior Graham Landy. Already a three-time ICSA All-American, Landy narrowly edged out Snow to capture the Marlow Ropes award in 2014.

“I think that [Snow] came into [this season] and his goal was to go out and become the College Sailor of the Year,” Callahan said. “Without a doubt being a finalist last year was a great motivator.

He doesn’t like to come in second.”

This past season, Snow was able to successfully reverse the previous one’s outcome, outperforming Landy and finally capturing the highest recognition in college sailing. “[The College Sailor of the Year award] was a great honor and very satisfying,” Snow said. “Mostly because I’ve been given all the opportunities to succeed and win this award here at Georgetown, and to finally do it just feels great.”

Snow became the fifth Georgetown sailor to claim the College Sailor of the Year title. He now ranks among an elite group of past winners and fellow Hoyas.

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Senior Nevin Snow, a three-time All-American, won the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Assocation College Sailor of the Year award in 2015 after finishing as runner-up in 2014.

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Junior forward Grace Damaska scored two goals in Georgetown’s 4-3 win over James Madison. She will continue to lead an offense that has fared well in the early portion of this year’s schedule.

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After home games against UConn and UC San Diego, the Georgetown women’s soccer team will compete in its first road game in a contest against the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens Thursday in Newark, Del. This is the first time in two years that the Hoyas will take on the Hens. Georgetown shut out Delaware by a score of 3-0 in the teams’ last meeting in September 2013. The Hoyas also bested the Hens in their contest in August 2012, resulting in a 2-0 Hoya victory.

The Hoyas are a team composed of both new talent and experienced veterans prepared and proven to produce on the field. Freshman forward Caitlin Farrell notched an assist in the Hoyas’ 4-3 victory against James

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ootball. To those of us living in the good old United States, it represents our passion for watching guys try to beat the living snot out of each other while chasing around a weird leather ball. We live, breathe and spend our Thanksgivings with this glorious sport. But to the rest of the world, it means something different entirely. Ask anyone living in Sweden, Mozambique or India what the word “football” is to them and he will enthusiastically tell you about the beautiful game known to us Americans as soccer.

Soccer is truly the world’s sport. Little kids grow up dreaming about playing professionally one day, following in the footsteps of the great Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr. When the FIFA World Cup comes around every four years, the world comes crashing to a halt. For one thrilling month, the eyes of the world are focused on the tournament, watching every game with the same excitement. Even here in the United States, people who normally don’t follow the sport band together with pride and cheer for our teams.

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her absence now opens up opportunities for other Hoyas to step up in their respective roles.

“Great players like Daphne, you knew they would always show up,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said.

“They showed up every day. And some of these kids, because of that, haven’t had to show up every day. But now it’s their chance, they’re all upperclass[men], so now they need to understand that they have to produce on a consistent basis.”

As Georgetown heads to Delaware, the team will focus on improving its defensive skills and helping the freshmen class develop in their positions. Though the Hoyas beat James Madison, they conceded three goals. The team also conceded three goals in a shutout loss to William and Mary.

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Infeld Wins Dramatic Bronze in Beijing was there. I hate to take a medal background as a miler, and it thrilled to watch her success at away from a teammate and fel- went out pretty slow so I felt re- the World Championships.

“It was so exciting,” Miltenlow American, and she’s amaz- ally good, and gosh I’m just really As the runners came to the ing and phenomenal, but I’m excited, I’m so happy,” Infeld said. berg said, “I got up at five in finish line in the women’s really happy, I’m so happy that Chris Miltenberg, who was the morning California time to 10,000-meter race at the World happened and I really can’t be- the women’s cross country watch it, and to me, it’s so reflecChampionships in Beijing, three lieve it. I just feel really blessed head coach and track and field tive of Emily. If you look at the runners, Kenyan Vivian Cheru- and excited,” Infeld said. associate head coach during Iniyot, EthioInfeld en- feld’s time at Georgetown, was See INFELD, A9 pian Gelete joyed great Burka and “I’m so happy that hapsuccess A m e r i c a n pened and I really can’t during Molly Huddle her time were ahead believe it. I just feel really at Georgeof the pack, town. She blessed and excited.” primed to was an 11earn medals. time AllEMILY INFELD But no one American, Former Georgetown runner told Georgeand she town graduwon an ate Emily Infeld (MSB ’12) that. individual national championInfeld surged from behind in ship in the 3000-meter run at the final steps of the race to earn the 2012 NCAA Indoor Track & the bronze medal in 31:43.49, Field Championships. She still leaning at the finish line to beat holds several school records her compatriot Huddle by a min- in events including the indoor iscule margin of 0.07 seconds.

3000-meter run, the outdoor “It’s surreal. I still can’t believe 1500-meter run, the women’s it happened. I feel like I’m in a outdoor mile run and the womdream, it’s incredible and crazy,” en’s outdoor 5000-meter run. an elated Infeld said to reporters Prior to the race, Infeld had in Beijing after the race. “It’s go- only run two competitive ing to be weird tomorrow when 10,000-meter races in her runI wake up and I realize that it re- ning career. While her relative ally happened.” inexperience might be conHuddle appeared to raise her sidered a disadvantage, Infeld arms in celebration slightly be- stated her belief that her backfore the finish line, which gave ground as a mile runner in parInfeld the tiny opening that she ticular helped her make her fineeded. nal push toward the finish line.

COURTESY GEORGETOWN SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE “The only thing I feel guilty “I feel like this played into my Emily Infeld earned the bronze medal in the 10,000-meter race, with about is that I know Molly let hands because I have a pretty a time of 31:43:49, just ahead of fellow American Molly Huddle. up, and I don’t think she knew I good kick just because of my

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Madison in late August, and junior forward Grace Damaska scored two goals in the win.

“I think Grace is doing really well this season; she had two goals at JMU,” graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins said.

“She has a lot of speed up front.”

Considering the Hoyas’ history with the Blue Hens, Georgetown should be confident that it can handle Delaware’s competition. However, the graduation of star midfielder Daphne Corboz — now a member of Manchester City Women’s Football Club in England — is certainly a significant shift in the Georgetown roster.

Though Daphne’s sister, impressive sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz, will carry on the Corboz legacy, Daphne had a huge impact on the Hoya offense during her time at Georgetown.

As the centerpiece of the offense,

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