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YEAR IN REVIEW

From mental health reform to a slavery legacy, a look back on this year’s issues.

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Baker Center Launched Lisa Burgoa Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service launched the Baker Center for Leadership and Governance, a nonpartisan initiative focused on discourse and original research, with a town hall Tuesday, which convened leaders in politics, media, business and religion in a discussion on restoring faith in American establishment.

The Baker Center is named for its benefactors Jon M. Baker Sr. (CAS ’64) and Patricia Baker. Jon Baker, who formerly served on Georgetown’s board of regents, received the university’s highest honor, the John Carroll Award, in 1991.

COMMENTARY When it comes to mental health, awareness is everything.

EDITORIAL Following this year’s progress, students must remain activists.

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Ryan Calls for Millennial Support CHRISTIAN PAZ Hoya Staff Writer

Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) advocated for millennials voting for the Republican party in the upcoming presidential election in a town hall-style event hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Politics and Public Service in Gaston Hall on Wednesday.

In his address, Ryan made the case for millennials to consider voting Republican by emphasizing the similarities in the beliefs of both groups.

“The America that you want is the America that we want —

open, diverse, dynamic,” Ryan said. “It is what I call a confident America, where the condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life, where we tackle our problems together so that all of us can thrive.”

Ryan delivered an address titled “Building a Confident America” before answering questions from students sitting on stage, social media and the audience.

Attended by around 600 people, including students, faculty and staff, the event involved initial remarks by Ryan followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by GU Politics

Executive Director Mo Elleithee and CNN political commentator Sarah Elizabeth “S.E.” Cupp.

McCourt School of Public Policy Dean Edward B. Montgomery and University President John J. DeGioia delivered opening remarks before GU Politics Student Advisory Board member Kayla Auletto (GRD ’16) introduced Ryan.

Ryan addressed issues such as the overregulation of small businesses, healthcare reform, poverty, prison reform and college debt in his address, and emphasized the similarity between today’s technologically driven world and a conservative view of society.

“These days, with technology, you are used to customizing your everyday life. So why on earth would you want to support a governing philosophy that seeks to take away your right and ability to customize, individualize or decide critical aspects of your life, like your health care or your education?”

Ryan said. “You can’t say government is of the people when it is imposing its decisions on the people.”

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“There’s this palpable national moment we’re all in ... No one trusts anyone.” mo elleithee (SFS ’94) Executive Director, IPPS

According to the Baker Center website, the center aims to spur dialogue among civil society and key institutions in the public, private and academic sectors to resolve global challenges through mutual trust and policy solutions.

The center, a facet of Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, plans to host an annual Baker Forum — a gathering of government, business, nonprofit and academic leaders.

Additionally, the Baker Center intends to support and publish independent research by both members of the Georgetown community and the greater public at large as well as hold regular policy roundtables to discuss the research, according to its website.

Held at the Fisher Colloquium, the launch consisted of a panel moderated

by National Public Radio host Steve Inskeep. Panelists included Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), entrepreneur Sonal Shah, media expert Michelle Jaconi (SFS ’96, GRD ’97) and John Carr, the director of Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

The conversation focused on the importance of trust in institutions, while spanning topics including tensions between police and minority communities, disappointment in the lack of fulfillment of President Barack Obama’s campaign promises and the reforms instituted by the Catholic Church following the child sex abuse scandal.

McCourt School of Public Policy Dean Edward Montgomery prefaced the town hall by emphasizing its commitment to generating conversations among different stakeholders.

“This in a nutshell is the mission of the Baker Center, one which is both global in scale and simple in its construct — to tackle some of society’s most intractable challenges, and doing so in a way that brings everyone to the table in a constructive civil discourse that helps restore some of the faith that has been lost in our core institutions,” Montgomery said.

Institute of Politics and Public Service Executive Director Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94), who introduced the panelists, said the country is at a crossroads, now more than ever, as the public grapples with its own distrust of key institutions.

“There’s this palpable national moment we’re all in, and we see it playing out in our TV screens and our neighborhoods. No one trusts anyone,” Elleithee said.

Rawlings-Blake, who ascended to Baltimore’s mayoral office in 2010 when her predecessor Sheila Dixon resigned after being convicted of felony theft, addressed the reforms she implemented to combat the local government’s tarnished reputation.

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) addressed a full Gaston Hall on Wednesday at a town hall-style event hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service, stressing the importance of voter engagement among millennials.

Justice Stresses Globality

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer argued that the court should take a more global perspective in legal deliberations and defended the responsibility of the court to uphold the rule of law in a conversation hosted by the department of government as part of the Marver H. Bernstein Symposium in Gaston Hall on Thursday.

Breyer, who has been on the Supreme Court since 1994, explained the central argument of his 2015 book, “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities,” which suggests that legal procedures in the United States should be analyzed in a global context, as U.S. legal decisions have worldwide implications and affect American interests in the long run.

After opening remarks from University President John J. DeGioia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann introduced Breyer.

“There is no jurist who has better articulated the idea that law should work for people, no jurist more committed to making government work more effectively, no jurist today who has taken his outside activities to educate the public,” Katzmann said.

“To Justice Breyer, government exists to address very human problems, and he has never lost sight of those human concerns as he examines government’s role. Law is not just about doctrine

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer spoke on the value of a global perspective in Gaston Hall. and abstract concepts. Law itself is a human institution serving the basic human and societal needs.”

Breyer said his book demonstrates the Supreme Court’s role in an interconnected world, especially given debates between national security and individual rights.

“Universality: You better interpret a statute the way other countries are going to be interpreting this,” Breyer said. “It’s got to work out in some way that you can universalize the decision. Judges in this court

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have to be thinking about the universality of the principle they are using in a case.”

Breyer argued that the common alternative to his perspective, that the court should remain isolated from international legal developments, is counterproductive to U.S. interests.

“I hope that, after you read this, you come to understand that the best way to preserve American values is to remain aware of what goes on outside our borders,” Breyer said.

NEWS Trump Comes to DC Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outlined his foreign policy at the Mayflower Hotel.

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news Lavender Graduation Novelist and writer Dinaw Mengestu (COL ’00) was the keynote speaker at the eighth annual Lavender Graduation.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Friday, April 29, 2016

THE VERDICT

Throughout the 2015-16 academic year, the Georgetown community saw a range of issues sparking activism and dialogue across campus. From continuing efforts to memorialize the university’s history with slavery to improving programs dedicated to addressing mental health issues, our community’s progress this past year found its stride in certain areas while stumbling in others. As this editorial board reflects on the past and looks to the future, we seek to understand the key issues that still require the entire community’s undivided attention and commitment to action. champion Student health Building on advocacy efforts in previous years, addressing health and wellness issues became an increasingly urgent concern for the community. Initiatives such as the peer-to-peer counseling service Project Lighthouse and the extension of free, semester-long Counseling and Psychiatric Services to survivors of sexual assault and alleged perpetrators were all welcome steps in the right direction — toward an environment in which Georgetown students receive adequate institutional support and care for issues related to their mental health. What is more, the introduction of these developments were all collaborative efforts by the Georgetown University Student Association, student activists and the administration.

While such initiatives exemplify the ways our community can work together to achieve meaningful progress, we cannot now rest on our laurels. In time, Project Lighthouse is going to need a greater amount of funding and support from the administration in order to achieve its full potential and serve students 24 hours a day. Additionally, the university must meet the long-term goal of GUSA, which is to acquire office space for this program. This office space would demonstrate the structural support that the university would be willing to provide to this online, peerto-peer service. It is important to have this space because support from the university can only ensure greater efficacy for student efforts to help classmates. Student movements are great, but programs carried out with the full force of the university behind them will always have the potential for greater results.

At the same time, while making a semester of CAPS free for survivors is positive, more students would benefit if the free services were extended past one semester. Instead of allocating capital for projects that do not directly benefit the majority of the community — such as building a new athletic center — the university should direct renewed fundraising efforts to create a CAPS program that gives students greater access to support for as long as they need these services.

Campus Plan and Living Space Perhaps no other collaboration between the university, the Georgetown neighborhood and GUSA deserves more attention than the 2018 Campus Plan. The campus plan will not only affect current students. Its implications are far-reaching, and students more than a decade from now will bear the burden of any of the plan’s mishaps and mistakes, particularly in regard to infrastructure and living space.

While the final negotiations for the plan have yet to be reached, the administration and GUSA have already laid out primary goals they hope to achieve. One area of concern is construction and refurbishment for existing residential buildings. While the construction of the new Northeast

Triangle Residence Hall will increase the number of available beds, existing structures and housing continue to suffer from dilapidation and disrepair. Village A is suffering from a weakening roof, while residents in Henle Village lost hot water for nearly a month in January, a time when it was needed most. Additionally, the university has decided to close Kehoe Field, the former hub of club and intramural activities, with no plans for an immediate replacement.

Such examples highlight the university’s failures to adequately address the pressing concerns of students.

Students need hot water, recreational spaces and roofs that do not threaten to come crashing down on them. The university has made the wrong decision by emphasizing quantity rather than quality in regards to housing and overall campus development.

It is clear that renovations must be made to existing infrastructure, yet it is time for the university to properly listen to the demands of students and purchase more off-campus spaces, specifically townhouses. Open space within our gates is becoming increasingly scarce. Thus, the campus plan should prioritize developing more off-campus housing options in the Georgetown neighborhood for the sake of students. Going into the future, the university should also provide monthly reviews and updates to the whole student body in addition to existing roundtables and dialogue to ensure transparency. Providing such recaps of negotiations, construction and refurbishments are not unfathomable demands.

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Georgetown Day — The weather forecast for Georgetown Day 2016 predicts an overcast day and rain showers with a high of 60 degrees.

Hopefully, the gloomy weather will not dampen any celebratory spirits.

Views From the 6 — Drake released the tracklist for his new album, “Views,” which will be released Friday, April 29.

Deal Me In — Donald Trump criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for playing the “woman card” in her presidential bid, prompting her to offer the Official Hillary for America Woman Card with each $5 donation to her campaign.

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‘Wet Hot American Summer’ — Netflix announced that it will release a sequel series to the cult-classic film “Wet Hot American Summer” in 2017 called “Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later.” Netflix has already made a prequel series called “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp.”

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Draft Day — The NFL Draft was held Thursday with each of the 32 teams hoping to acquire a new rookie player to will help them achieve their ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl. University of California-Berkeley quarterback Jared Goff was the first overall selection.

Kardashian Infighting — As excitement for the newest season of the hit reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” builds, a clip of Kris Jenner berating her daughters Kim and Kourtney Kardashian has gone viral. The new season will air Sunday.

The Devil’s Company — Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who was recently called “Lucifer in the flesh” by his colleague former Speaker of the House John Boehner, has named businesswoman Carly Fiorina as his running mate in the 2016 election.

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Beyond The legacy of Slavery From November’s demonstration of solidarity in Red Square to changing the names of former Mulledy and McSherry Halls to establishing plans for a dedicated African American studies department, the Georgetown community has sought ways to reconcile and grapple with this institution’s slaveholding past. Though the wrongs of slavery can never be fully made right, there are avenues for this university to do the right thing by better serving the descendants of the slaves who toiled on these grounds.

By the time new students arrive on the Hilltop in late August, expert historians and faculty should give a presentation detailing the story of Georgetown’s slaves during New Student Orientation. In addition, official Blue & Gray Tour Guide Society tours Tours should also cover the university’s legacy with slaveholding in order to ensure that communities both within and outside our gates know of the slaves who either were forced to help build this university or were sold off to relieve the university of its crippling debt.

We recommend that the administration makes a more permanent monument or statue to restore some of the dignity that was wrongly stolen from the 272 Georgetown slaves during their lifetimes. Their struggles, impact and history deserve to be memorialized.

While such measures would be further steps in dealing with our past, a major reparation for Georgetown’s slaveholding history would be for the university to recognize the debt it owes to the living descendants of those who were bought and sold to ensure the financial survival of the university. Therefore, we call on the university to consider descendants of the 272 slaves as legacy applicants if they are eligible to be admitted as students. Scholarships should also be established to provide for those descendants who may choose to attend Georgetown. These are tangible steps forward the university can take to atone for its past sins.

Jess Kelham-Hohler, Editor-in-Chief Toby Hung, Executive Editor Matthew Trunko, Managing Editor

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Poetic Injustice — Congressman Andy Harris (R-Md.) voted against naming a post office for celebrated poet Maya Angelou.

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Our Closing Words

Night at the Museum — The National Air and Space Museum announced an all-night party with tours, film screenings and live music to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The event will be held on July 1.

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OPINION

Friday, april 29, 2016

POP POLITICS

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Promote Awareness, One Story at a Time Femi Sobowale

The Buzz About ‘Lemonade’

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efore it came out on Tidal and iTunes, before HBO gave it an online slot, and even before it was announced, it was destined to be the next big thing, and we all knew it.

It is the album “Lemonade,” and it is incredible.

I say this not only as a fan of Beyoncé, but also as a fan of what she stands for and as a member of the demographic “Lemonade” was arguably created for: black women.

“Lemonade” was a scripted artistic performance but — and possibly more importantly — it was also a performance in which Beyoncé shared herself and her identity with her fans. And that is what makes “Lemonade” truly monumental.

“Queen Bey.” “Ruler of the Beyhive.”

“God is a black woman.” Chances are you have either heard or used these phrases to describe Beyoncé’s rise to superstardom.

For years, Beyoncé has been an untouchable figure in pop culture and held to the highest of standards. The recognition for Beyoncé, her music and what it has accomplished is incredible because it shows that America has carved out a pedestal for a black woman artist to be able to not only shine, but run the entire game, if not the world.

The Beyoncé America loved in the early 2000s and 2010s is not the same Beyoncé we are seeing now. The early Beyoncé made very careful and deliberate moves to be accepted by the general public. She was a Beyoncé who kept away from rap, which connotes negative stereotypes when viewed from outside the black community. She was a Beyoncé who cranked out timeless dance-floor jams palatable to everyone, regardless of race or gender.

That Beyoncé was performing a role that allowed her to rise to the levels of fame and attention she has today: the role of the agreeable black woman artist, whose most frequent digs probably came from concerned mothers who found her music too sexy or her outfits too skimpy.

Today’s Beyoncé puts on skintight bodysuits and growls about limousine hookups. She surrounds herself with black actors in music videos. She creates art geared toward the community most people seem to forget or ignore that she is a part of: the black community. Today’s Beyoncé has wrapped herself up in powerful, confident sexuality and is using her voice and power to draw the world’s attention to long-standing issues: police brutality, race issues, gender issues and the intersection thereof. She is still performing, yes, but she is putting on a performance that reflects her true self.

“Lemonade” is a spiritual, emotional and musical journey through the experience of infidelity from the viewpoint of someone who was cheated on. The album starts with the denial and anger she feels over how she has been wronged, her journey toward forgiveness and her efforts to grapple with complex issues of race, empowerment and gender. By making “Lemonade,” Beyoncé made herself vulnerable.

She created a work of art centered around her husband’s cheating — something that, in misogynistic fashion, is usually ignored or blamed on a wife’s inadequacies — knowing well it would be seen by millions of people. She laid her soul bare on each track and with each poem.

Beyoncé told the world about her despair, rage, sadness and emptiness. The desperation, confusion and love she still had for the man who cheated on her — who, although unnamed in the album is implied to be her husband Jay-Z — even after the hell he put her through is incredible. Then, after inspiring all her listeners to dump their boyfriends, Beyoncé came back with a message of forgiveness, reconciliation and healing.

“Lemonade” is not only Beyoncé’s story.

It is a raw, true and beautiful example of a black woman displaying her feelings, a poignant, prominent and realistic portrayal of the range and depth of emotions black women are usually told to tone down or not show at all. The work is presented with pride, for you to take or leave as you will. Beyoncé gives us each of these things and more in a bold, in-your-face way, saying “This is who I am, and I will not apologize.”

To see Beyoncé — super-superstar, hailed as “queen of everything,” one of the most successful people in the world — going through the exact same experiences as have countless women, myself among them, is everything. Comforting, empowering, validating — you name it — Lemonade” and Beyoncé have made me feel it. This is, in my eyes, one of Beyoncé’s ultimate achievements: expressing herself and giving others an outlet to express themselves as well.

This is a new era of Beyoncé, but this is not a whole new Beyoncé — it is just the Beyoncé that has been waiting to shine through all along.

Femi Sobowale is a senior in the College. This is the final installment of Pop Politics.

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n my freshman year, I had no real understanding of mental health. Mental health issues were still a distant concept to me then, and to be honest, as much as I hate to admit it, I thought I was stronger than the people who struggled with them.

Psychologists estimate that one out of every three individuals in the United States will experience an episode of depression at some point in life. When I came to Georgetown, I was among the two-thirds. Before the end of my freshman year, I became the one out of three.

That spring, I began slipping into something I did not recognize, sinking day by day deeper into apathy, emptiness and desperation. After the first five months, it was as if the color had seeped out of my surroundings.

Music became just noise to me.

I could not connect emotionally with my friends, so I avoided company. I did not even have the energy to play with my 9-year-old brother anymore. I felt dead inside.

Every night, those losses tore me apart. The depression sat in my chest, more painful than anything I had ever experienced physically, and I lay curled up in bed whimpering desperately, “Father, God, anything, just please take it away.”

What I knew so little about — depression — came bubbling to the surface of my awareness, and I was crippled with fear when I faced it.

My experience with depression was a process of understanding.

During that year, I threw away all the assumptions I had unwittingly stacked up in my head previously. I had assumed before that depression was just another word for people who were really sad, that psychiatric medicine was only for messed-up people.

I once thought that Christians who have fulfilling relationships with their God do not get depressed. I thought that if I tried

hard enough, I could make myself happy again. I would never want to die.

I whispered these questions behind closed doors and hardly explained my situation to others because I did not want people to misunderstand my situation the way I used to misunderstand others’. I tried my best to hide publically, but I suffered privately.

I struggled with mental illness during freshman and senior year, but I know I am not alone in my experiences. Mental illness is shoved into the corners of our society. Clinical depression is so seldom talked about that in my ignorance I did not recognize it when I saw it both in myself and in others.

Mental illness makes us uncomfortable. We are used to diagnosing physical ailments and blaming the body — but the mind is the self, a force that should allow us to overcome struggles, both physical and mental. We accept the body’s fragility, but the idea that the mind could suffer from a sickness is frightening.

I believe our culture is steeped in a myth of control: that we are always in complete control of

our minds. Control is reassuring because it provides a sense of security. This makes it hard to see depression as an illness or an authentic cause of pain. The control myth makes it easy to blame individuals for their own mental illnesses.

Because of our myth of control, we often force mental illness from public discussion, trading in understanding for assumptions and a sense of control. The tragic result is one in three people is forced to fake through life while struggling to survive.

Fortunately, our generation is becoming increasingly cognizant of these issues. At Georgetown, we have begun to provide resources for those suffering from mental health issues. Student groups have demanded better resources for those in need, and the administration has taken steps to provide greater services. Individuals are making their stories known through an effort called #breakthestigma, a campaign to raise awareness of mental illness and combat stereotypes. On April 24, the Georgetown University Student Association launched Project Lighthouse, an online,

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anonymous peer-to-peer counseling service that provides direct support to students dealing with mental health issues.

While I am deeply moved to see these efforts, I want to call attention to the importance of being individual allies and providing understanding. An understanding of this human experience is one of the last walls we will have to break down to erase stigma behind mental illness, and the responsibility to speak up must not solely fall on the suffering. In experiencing depression myself, I gained a new heart for others who are suffering, and this is my silver lining. While I understood mental illness better by experiencing it personally, I do not think that is the only way. I believe in the power of stories and how they can transcend personal experience, move minds and make change.

Right now, those hurting on our campus are beginning to tell their stories, and we have a responsibility to listen to them. Stories have the power to break stigma both by reminding us of the prevalence of mental illness and by allowing us to overcome our ignorance with understanding. All we need to do is to be willing to seek out these stories and listen.

One of the bravest things a person can do is stand by people experiencing something they do not fully understand, and maybe never will. I cannot fully express the comfort I feel when my friends simply recognize the name of my medicine — evidence that they have stood by and listened to me.

There is nothing more reassuring than to understand one’s struggles and be understood.

To the two out of three: You are the rocks we touch down on when we struggle and fight through our own mental illnesses. Thank you for helping us push back against the trials and tribulations of our lives.

Brittany Feldott is a senior in the college.

GREY MATTER

Living and Eating Brains, Booze and Like a Real Man Bad Decisions

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ince I am not a rabbit, no, I will not be eating salad,” remarked Ron Swanson, the loveable, rugged individualist from NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.” Sure, Swanson is a caricature. But aspects of his comically masculine eating habits are based closely on reality. While eating at O’Donovan Hall recently, I heard a guy remark to his friend that he does not eat from the vegetarian line because “I have a dick.”

To be clear, I do not take any offense from playful banter about manliness. I went to an all-boys high school and have been guilty of similar behavior in the past. At the very least, I had made similar connections between food and gender for most of my life. In high school, I would not have been caught dead eating a salad. My father’s cooking style came from my grandfather, a former army officer, who prioritized Spam fried rice and lamb chops. Jokes about wimpy, noncarnivorous men aside, the pernicious masculinity underlining men’s diets seriously damages their health, while also encouraging unethical choices.

I became a vegetarian several months ago because of environmental, health and ethical reasons. While I would take great satisfaction in being that vegetarian who tells others to eat less meat, I think it is better to observe and attest to why men like myself might have a naive view of our own habits. It does not take a Ph.D. in gender studies to see how men are typically socialized to believe they should strive for physical strength and hide their emotions. Men are expected to ask each other if they lift, not if they cry at the ending of “The Notebook.”

Advertisements play right into these gender roles by associating eating meat with strength and masculinity. Their work ultimately causes men to fill in roles of unhealthy and unethical consumers. Commercials for restaurants like Arby’s use deep-voiced narrators uttering slogans like “We have the meats!” in order to promote consumption. The meat industry giant Hillshire Farms features advertisements with men chanting “Go Meat!” as if they were at a sporting event. Carl’s Jr. has a comical ad associating eating a burger with symbols of American masculinity, including — but not limited to — beautiful women in bikinis, cowboys, aircraft carriers and ridiculous patriotism, all in a 30-second ad for a burger paired with potato chips and sausage. Even diet plans for

men, like those from Nutrisystem, advertise with quotes like “Real, delicious guy food — burgers, pasta and pizza!”

Research supports the premise that we have been socialized to believe some dietary choices are masculine and others feminine.

Using methods like implicit association tests, a growing body of research demonstrates that people associate — both consciously and unconsciously — unhealthy foods with masculinity and healthy foods with femininity. Men are more likely to jump on unhealthy convenient foods including meat products. Given these results, it is no wonder American men eat 60 pounds more pork and beef per year than do women, while women make up around 60 percent of the vegetarian population and around 80 percent of the vegan population.

Our rate of meat consumption exacerbates several problems, many of which concern the ethics of the meat industry. Purchasing from major providers like Hormel Foods supports companies that have created a water pollution situation similar to Flint, Mich., and in Fresno School in California. But in addition to the pollution of water from chemical runoff and the pollution of the air from methane, large providers like Hormel or Tysons also frequently and cruelly kill animals in factory conditions dangerous for both animals and people as shown by the Christian Science Monitory in 2015.

Ethical concerns aside, there are significant health reasons to go vegetarian as well. Not only did the World Health Organization recently link eating processed meat to cancer, meat consumption has also long been linked to heart disease and kidney problems. As comedian Louis C.K. said while talking about the number one threat to men, “Our hearts just go, ‘Dude I can’t do this anymore. I told you three strokes ago this isn’t smart.’ ” None of this should be taken as an argument that every man should be a vegan, but I do believe everyone needs to be aware of the detrimental effects of socialized masculinity. Whether it be at the sports bar or at the supermarket, we ought to have a more conscious understanding of how our implicit desires for foods associated with masculinity can lead us to being unhealthy consumers.

bryan yuen is a sophomore in the College.

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round this time last year in the spring of 2015, I saw a poster on campus that read “Make Good Decisions.” This poster was obviously in reference to Georgetown Day, the last Friday of classes during the spring semester. Since its inception 16 years ago, it has been tradition for students to drink excessive amounts of alcohol on Georgetown Day. Several days after I saw that the poster, I saw the word “good” had been crossed out on the poster so that it simply read “Make Decisions.”

Among its many Ayan effects, alcohol significantly influences decision- and judgment-making. Part of the appeal in alcohol consumption is that it encourages people to step out of their comfort zones. But, as the average undergraduate student knows too well, this chemically induced looseness in behavior often leads to regret.

Given this side effect, why is it that so many students continue to drink alcoholic beverages even if it leads them to humiliation? Is the euphoria of the experience of consuming alcohol hopelessly tied to a lack of discretion?

By affecting humans at the biological level, alcohol does seem to fundamentally alter a person’s state of mind, impairing one’s ability to make proper decisions and sound judgments. This phenomenon is rooted in the chemistry of alcohol affecting our consciousness and, ultimately, the way we process decisions.

Inebriation begins with ethanol. While an alcoholic beverage contains multiple components including sugars and acids, you can blame ethanol for the slur in your voice and the stumble in your step.

The human body has enzymes that break down ethanol, but when a person drinks at a faster rate than the body can handle, ethanol spreads throughout the nervous system, beginning to affect the body and mind directly.

Ethanol helps activate certain receptors that receive an inhibitory chemical signals. Ethanol increases the inhibition of other neurons and begins effectively depressing the nervous system. This is why alcohol is labeled as a depressant.

Through its resulting effect on our nervous system, alcohol slows down a number of our psychological functions, including the amount of time it takes for a person to respond to a stimulus.

Alcohol impairs balance because it inhibits activity in the cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for motor coordination. Considering all these negative effects, one might ask, why do people drink in the first place?

While alcohol can depress the nervous system, it can increase the release of dopamine as well, which triggers a chemical-reward pathway that explains why people find it pleasurable to drink. However, I also hypothesize that people enjoy how alcohol directly alters conMandal sciousness. We live most of our lives sober, and alcohol gives us a chance to jump into a novel mindset of obscurity. While there are certainly other reasons some people choose to drink, including but not limited to social pressure, many of the desirable features of drunkenness stem from alcohol changing the way one perceives the world.

To be fair, probably the best argument for alcoholic debauchery comes from another popular poster I saw off campus last summer. It read, “Alcohol. Because No Good Story Ever Started With Someone Eating a Salad.” Sure, it can be dangerous, but more often than not, alcohol excites the social scene, helping students overcome the awkwardness of breaking the ice and bond over stories of particularly wild nights. And besides, what is life without a little bit of risk?

But nevertheless, when we make decisions on Georgetown Day or any other drinking occasion, we ought to be aware of alcohol’s effects on central nervous system processing and decision-making.

Because alcohol impairs judgment and our ability to process decisions, if we choose to drink, we should position ourselves in situations where bad choices may not have terrible consequences. This means we should opt to drink with close friends in familiar places.

The safest decision would certainly be to resist the popular tradition altogether and commit to drinking moderately or not at all.

But whatever you choose to do, remember how closely your body is connected to your mind, and accordingly, how illicit substances can alter your ability to think rationally.

Ayan Mandal is a sophomore in the College. This is the final installment of Grey Matter.

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FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Michael S. Rogers emphasized the growing risk of cyberattacks and the need to better respond to them in their keynote speeches at the sixth annual International Conference on Cyber Engagement in Gaston Hall on Tuesday.

The conference, which also included a public keynote address

by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (DR.I.), sought to promote dialogue on cybersecurity.

Comey said he was confident in the United States’ counterterrorism strategy. However, according to Comey, terrorists are susceptible to pre-emptive attacks, requiring national security departments to adjust their counterterrorism strategy.

“We have to be more predictive and less reactive as a government,” Comey said.

Comey said cybersecurity requires a collective response.

“There is no single technology, there is no single organization, there is no single entity here that has all the answers,” Comey said.

Rogers said the United States should treat cyber attacks like nuclear attacks, in that the two options for potential perpetrators are mutually assured destruction or convincing the enemy an attack would not succeed.

Comey detailed three steps necessary to help the United States combat cyberterrorism: reducing the nation’s vulnerabilities, working to eliminate as many potential threats as possible and focusing on individual threats in order to assign the best experts to each.

Comey said the government must increase its level of collaboration with the U.S. private sector in addressing cybersecurity threats. According to Comey, only 20 percent of private sector companies that are attacked reach out to the government for assistance.

Comey said the government was better equipped than individuals to identify and address instances of cyberterrorism.

“The bad guys are able to do this in their basements in their pajamas,” Comey said. “We want to get to a place where it doesn’t matter who a victim calls, it’s assigned very quickly to the right people.”

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“All maters of frauds are being brought to the attention of our state and local counterparts.

We have to do a better job of getting them the tools they need to catch these guys,” Comey said.

According to Comey, it is essential to impose costs on those who continue to threaten the nation’s security.

“We must make people feel our breath on the back of their neck,” Comey said.

Comey said the FBI uses a variety of tactics to prevent states and individuals from wanting to attack.

“We do this by locking up people, laying hands on people, through naming and shaming people and through economic sanctions so people understand, whether you’re a nation-state or an individual, that you can’t [hack] into the United States and steal that which is most precious to us,” Comey said.

Comey said law enforcement is working to prevent cyberattacks from succeeding in the first place.

“North Korea quite literally shut Sony down because they didn’t like the content of a movie,” Comey said. “The FBI is working very hard to get us to a place

where we are not accepting intrusions as the new normal.”

Comey said it is also important to address small threats against everyday citizens by making people more technically literate.

“There are many people in this audience who have gotten an email from me from Nigeria asking you to wire me some money,” Rogers said. “Don’t do it.”

According to Comey, cybersecurity is fast becoming a tool for terrorist groups.

“Terrorists have become highly proficient at using the Internet to sell their message and to recruit and plan attacks,” Comey said. “They’re quite literally buzzing in the pockets of people to try and make them followers all around the world.”

Comey said the United States must also be aware of risks coming from within its own borders.

“They [terrorists] are using social media to target the employees of our institutions to try and engineer a way into the system,” Comey said. “And there are employees who are willing to sell their knowledge to the highest bidder — insiders with an axe to grind and with knowledge of the sys-

tem.”

Rogers said it is important to consider the impacts of encryption.

“There is a collision going on between values that we all share, between privacy and security,” Rogers said. “Encryption protects us from so many bad people, but it comes at a cost. My only wish is that we talk about the cost of it.”

Rogers also offered leadership advice to undergraduate students. Rogers said it is important to look past failure and not see it as an end, but a beginning.

“You have to spend a good amount of time asking yourself, ‘What are you going to do if, despite your best efforts, you fail?” Rogers said.

Joe Dipietro (COL ’18), who attended the event, said he appreciated Rogers’ advice and looks forward to seeing what the NSA will do in the future.

“I think it’s interesting to see how the NSA is going to posture itself domestically and how it’s going to deal with foreign threats, which have been on the rise against private institutions and public institutions,” DiPietro said.

Hoya Staff Writer Marina Pitofsky contributed reporting.

Washington, D.C., Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson (SFS ’92, GRD ’07) is under fire for asking a DCPS food vendor for a donation of $100,000 to the D.C. Public Education Fund two weeks after a lawsuit accused the company of swindling millions of dollars from the school system.

Messages obtained by the Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act on April 19 revealed the interactions between the chancellor and the contractor accused of embezzling the school system of $16 million in addition to serving spoiled food to students, Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality.

In an email sent September 2013 to the Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality’s president Warren Thompson, Henderson asked for a Round of Applause donation worth $100,000 for the fund’s annual Standing Ovation for D.C. Teachers, a black-tie gala at the Kennedy Center.

At the time of the emails, the contract was slated to expire.

“Warren, we’re hoping you come in at A Round of Applause, as we’d love to have a dozen of your team members able to share in celebrating the teachers they support every day,” Henderson wrote.

The solicitation netted a $25,000 donation toward the $700,000 event, raising questions about the ethical implications of the interaction. Current ethical guidelines prohibit city employees from soliciting donations from business to avoid contractors being awarded preferential treatment in exchange for donations.

DCPS Press Secretary Michelle Lerner stressed the D.C. Education Fund is a separate organization from the DCPS, saying Henderson would not have a say in renewing the food contract with Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality.

“The DC Ed Fund, which has raised more than $100 million for DC students, does its best to attract donors to the event, and the chancellor plays an important role in that,” Lerner wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “However, there is a firm wall between the management of DCPS contracts and the fundraising of the DC Ed Fund. In particular, the chancellor is not involved in the selection or management of DCPS vendors.”

Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality’s Director of Communications Sara Hess defended the donations, claiming the Chancellor and DCPS posed no conflict of interest.

“We receive many requests for support of charities and other community programs, and we have supported several causes in the DC area including backpack programs, anti-bullying campaigns and the DC Public Education Fund,” Hess wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “Neither the Chancellor nor DCPS had jurisdiction over the lawsuit, and it had no impact on our support of community programs.”

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A day after he swept 118 delegates in five state primaries, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday in which he delineated his foreign policy platform, including his plans to halt the growth of radical Islam and mend relations with China and Russia.

The speech, delivered at the invitation of the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in D.C., was met with criticism by Georgetown professors and students.

Trump said this mindset of re-invigorating Western values will provide the foundation for his decisions in international affairs.

“My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else. It has to be first,” Trump said. “No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first. Both our friends and enemies put their countries above ours and we, while being fair to them, must do the same.”

Throughout his speech, Trump outlined five main weaknesses of current American foreign policy — the overextension of resources, failure to force allies to pay their fair share, the perceived view of allies’ lack of dependence on the United States, the lack of respect from rivals and a lost understanding of clear foreign policy goals.

“Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster,” Trump said. “No vision, no purpose, no direction, no strategy.”

According to Trump, U.S. foreign policy declined after the Cold War in a series of disastrous mistakes made in Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Syria, which fostered the development of terrorist organizations, such as the Islamic State group to grow in power.

“It all began with the dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western Democracy,” said Trump, “We tore up what institutions they had and then were surprised at what we unleashed. Civil

war, religious fanaticism, thousands of American lives and many trillions of dollars were lost as a result.”

Trump referenced what he views as shortcomings of the Obama administration, such as America’s trade deficit, its military spending compared with other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Iran deal.

“If President Obama’s goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better job,” Trump said.

Throughout the rest of the speech, Trump outlined his plans to fix these problems and form a coherent foreign policy in order to pull the United States out of the nation-building business and to emphasize stability.

“No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first.”

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Government professor Matthew Kroenig said Trump’s speech lacked specificity, comparing it to speeches made by other presidential candidates such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“If this was meant to be his serious foreign policy speech, he didn’t deliver. The speech was very short on detail and if you compare this major foreign policy speech to Hillary Clinton or some of the other candidates, there’s not really anything there,” Kroenig said. “Look at his strategy for defeating ISIS — he says something about working with Muslim partners, says something about immigration, and then moves on.”

Georgetown’s Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs Daniel Byman also said the speech reflected a lack of detail as well as containing inconsistencies.

“Trump was long on promises and criticisms, but light on specifics and solutions,” Byman wrote in an email to The Hoya. “He often tried to have it both ways, criticizing

Obama and the Democrats in inconsistent ways. The speech was more scripted than previous addresses, but it dodged the hard issues.”

Government professor Andrew Bennett identified major inconsistencies in Trump’s address and criticized his campaign tactics.

“On the one hand it seems consistent with his inconsistency,” said Bennett, “He continues to say things that are not compatible with each other over time and within the same speech. The campaign is not the time to be thinking seriously about these issues, the time to think about them is the years and decades leading up to the campaign.”

Nevertheless, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) released a statement praising Trump’s vision for positioning solutions to the nation’s most pressing foreign policy issues.

“I look forward to hearing more details, but in a year where angry rhetoric has defined the presidential race on both sides of the aisle, it is my hope that candidates in both parties will begin focusing not only on the problems we face but on solutions,” Corker wrote.

Georgetown University College Republicans Membership Director Hunter Estes (SFS ’19) said the speech reinforced his fear of a Trump presidency.

“He seems to have gotten so used to the yelling and cheering that occurs at a political rally that any speech which isn’t accompanied by raucous cheers and audience interaction comes off awkward and forced,” Estes wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This speech was an overwhelmingly failed attempt to appear more presidential. However, the statements made today served to reinforce how unprepared Trump is for the highest office in our land and how little weight his words actually carry.”

Kroenig also said he is concerned about the possibility of Trump becoming president.

“If anything I think that the speech should make us even more and not less concerned about what ‘President Trump’s’ foreign policy would look like,” Kroenig said.

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University contractors will conduct a study over the next few months to determine the timeframe, price and priorities for immediate and long-term housing renovations.

Organized in conjunction with the Georgetown University Student Association, administrators and students will take representatives of architecture firm Ayers Saint-Gross and subconsultant Brailsford & Dunlavey, on tours of campus to survey dorms and receive feedback on how to maximize campus space and improve student life.

The university will use results from the study to decide how to implement renovations, while minimizing residence hall disruptions and maintaining bed capacity.

The study will consist of a data collection and programming phase expected for completion by mid-summer, and a data analysis phase to conclude in the fall.

GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) said the study is an effort to define what the university needs to do to provide better housing. During negotiations for the 2018 campus plan, the first draft of which will be released

by July 1, GUSA has advocated for the university to focus on deferred maintenance at the university.

“Our biggest priority right now in the context of the campus plan is housing renovations. The facilities that we have right now are abysmal and the university understands that,” Khan said. “They realize that this needs to be a priority. The housing study is important because we need an actual firm timeline and priority list in terms of what needs to be renovates first, second, third.”

According to Khan, determining housing renovations is an important part of negotiations for the campus plan.

Deputy Chief of Staff for Master Planning and Community Engagement Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) said GUSA put forward a list of priorities in the master planning process at the end of last semester, one of which was to complete ongoing renovations.

“I imagine the administration would be interested in pursuing the housing study and they received a lot of pressure from students to start being serious about renovations,” Goldstein said.

University representatives will also provide the consultants with demographics and financial data. The Office of Residential Living and the Office of Design and Construction will take part in meetings and review documents, plans and cost estimates.

After the tours, contractors will meet with the Student Housing Working Committee

and GUSA. Consultants will then meet with focus groups of freshmen, upperclassmen, and seniors living on and off campus and residential advisors to learn about student life in particular residence halls, housing satisfaction levels, impressions of Georgetown housing options as opposed to options of other schools and why certain resident halls are valued more than others.

According to Vice President of Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey, the university recently completed a facilities condition assessment, which will inform future decisions regarding housing management.

Morey said the contractors understand Georgetown’s mission and campus structure.

Brailsford & Dunlavey previously worked on renovations for Ryan and Freedom Halls.

“We are confident in their expertise and are excited to have them on the team to support the development of our housing strategies,” Morey wrote in an email to The Hoya.

GUSA Residential Living Policy Team Chair Christopher Holshouser (MSB ’18), a student representative on the working group who will work on the study during the summer, said the study would allow for more effective decision-making for both short-term and long-term renovations.

“This is going to be something that’s immediate short-term action that we can look at to see what we can fix really quickly and then longer term, more master planning type of thinking of what we can do in the next 20 to 25 years in terms of improving student life,” Holshouser said.

However, Goldstein said the length of the study is problematic because the campus plan will be signed prior to the release of study results.

“I am a little disappointed about how long it is going to take. The reality is that we’re probably going to sign a campus plan before the housing results, at which point we’ll be able to get serious about what the renovations will look like, which might present problems because we might be committing to potential new housing before we even know what renovations are going to look like,” Goldstein said.

Holshouser said GUSA will continue to play a large role in discussions regarding campus renovations to ensure that student opinion remains the main driving factor for these decisions.

“A lot of times the administration will come in with a preconceived notion that is based in good faith but not actually reflective of what students are feeling, so GUSA’s role is to make sure that the students’ needs are really being taken into consideration,” Holshouser said.

Former Foreign Secretary Discusses Aid Reform Tara Subramaniam Hoya Staff Writer

David Miliband, president and CEO of the global aid NGO International Rescue Committee, advocated for more responsive and collective relief efforts amid increasingly urgent humanitarian crises in a speech at Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday.

Miliband said humanitarian efforts need to adapt to changing global crises.

“People in desperate straits around the world are not getting the help they need,” Miliband said. “The goal of humanitarian reform should be the idea of turning humanitarian action from a mission-driven but fragmented sector of activity to a high-performing and dynamic system of comprehensive work for people in humanitarian distress.”

Prior to joining the IRC, Miliband was the 74th foreign secretary for the United Kingdom.

Miliband was introduced by School of Foreign Service Dean Joel Hellman, who worked with fragile and conflict-afflicted states during his time as Director of the Center on Conflict, Security and Development for the World Bank.

Hellman said the current political climate and immigration crisis have created high demand for humanitarian efforts.

“The issue of mitigating the impacts of emergencies and disasters has created a wellknown threat globally, linked to forced migration and has created an unprecedented demand for those who can mitigate the worst aspects of factors that force people out of their homes and out of their countries,” Hellman said.

Miliband said the world needs to expand beyond the existing humanitarian sector and create a humanitarian system, in order to better adapt to global crises.

“A sector is a diverse group of organizations each with a different focus operating on a set of shared principles. Think of the private sector. But a system, for example a judicial system, is directed to shared outcomes not just shared principles,” Miliband said. “A system has measure of success not just multiple measures of activity. I’d put it to you today that we have a humanitarian sector not a system.”

Miliband said the lack of defined shared outcomes undermines the effectiveness of humanitarian efforts.

“The humanitarian community has always embraced fundamental principles of independence, neutrality, impartiality and humanity. Unlike our development counterparts, we have yet to identify limited and specific results to guide programs and investments and to measure and track progress and performance,” Miliband said. “The absence of agreed-upon outcome measures prevents us from operating like a proper system.”

According to Miliband, a humanitarian aid system would address the global bureaucracy better than the current humanitarian aid structure.

“A system with clear goals, a dedicated evidence base and the right financial incentives would be better able to adapt to and anticipate change than the current sector,” Miliband said. “A system would break down the categories that currently define a lot of the policy debate.”

Miliband said one problem with the current humanitarian sector is a disconnect between its actions and purpose.

“The mandate of international institutions is based on the premise that poor people are only found in poor countries,” Miliband said.

“The mismatch is not just one of resources.

It’s also one of concept, institutions and mindset. There’s never been more money going to humanitarian crises but there’s never been a greater mismatch between need and the level of provision.”

According to Miliband, specific targets would help the existing institutions fulfill their goals more efficiently.

“In a way, it’s obvious, if you don’t agree what constitutes success, then the whole idea of results becomes a shimmer,” Miliband said. “In countries where needs most outpace resources, we need to agree on the most pressing changes that our shared activities are designed to achieve.”

Miliband said once goals are set, institutions should strategically allocate funds accordingly.

“If we want to sustain a system that is evolving and dynamic, we need to allocate risk capital for research and development. Crucially, funding needs to follow the evidence,” Miliband said. “Programs with high levels of impact need to grow while those without evidence need to shrink. That’s the standard we need to set for the sector.”

Miliband said humanitarian aid often fails to succeed because it does not coincide with foreign policy.

“One of the dangers for humanitarians is that we are locked outside the foreign policy box,” Miliband said. “I hear every day in my work stories of people being let down by the global community in responding to humanitarian crisis.”

According to Hellman, addressing how best to structure humanitarian efforts will become more important as problems worsen.

“There is an ever-increasing importance of the nexus between humanitarian and development issues,” Hellman said. “Because right now 15 percent of the world’s extreme poor live what we call fragile states and if we look at trends over the next 30 years, a conservative estimate of about 40 percent to a high estimate of about 70 percent.”

Zach Scherer (SFS ’18), who attended the event, said he appreciated Miliband’s approach to reforming humanitarian efforts.

“I thought he gave a really interesting perspective of not just calling for more aid. I think a lot of times that’s all humanitarian organizations do,” Scherer said. “I thought his practical approach to it was really compelling.”

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Ryan Talks Values RYAN, from A1 because he wanted to better the country.

“I quickly realized that public service was where I could have the biggest impact. You could make a real difference in people’s lives, and at a young age,” Ryan said. “I went into politics because I wanted to solve problems.”

Ryan said his vision for a stronger America includes securing opportunities for the middle class and argued that Republicans place a stronger emphasis on the individual than do Democrats.

“We do not believe we should be governed by our betters, that elites in Washington should make all the big decisions, that they should pick winners and losers — that’s a recipe for a closed economy, for cronyism,” Ryan said. “We want an open economy, where there’s equal opportunity for all, where more people can participate and rise by their talents, where the individual can put their ideas and their aspirations to the test.”

Ryan closed his remarks with an appeal to students to participate in the political process and innovate in the private sector, saying the Republican party needs the help of the younger generation.

“Today I am asking for your help. We need your ideas,” Ryan said. “Because that’s who we are — a country that

sees the potential in every human being and does everything we can to bring that potential to life.”

During the question-andanswer session that followed, Ryan responded to questions ranging from his support for the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House to tax reform to the state of the 2016 presidential race.

“You want someone who actually means what they say and says what they mean.”

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When asked by Cupp in the question-and-answer session to make a case for millennials to trust politicians, Ryan outlined qualities he believed politicians should emulate.

“First of all, you should want to be competed with and not taken for granted. Second of all, you need to find who is a conditioned person and who is not. Who is telling you want they actually believe,” Ryan said. “You want someone who actually means what they say and says what they mean.”

Georgetown University College Republicans Vice Chair Samantha Granville (COL ’17), who sat in the audience

for the event, said she appreciated Ryan’s perspective on modern conservatism.

“I thought the speaker was very engaging and relatable.

He answered questions directly and was honest,” Granville said. “I think his views and outlook towards conservatism are the perfect model of where the party needs to go as a whole.”

Former GU College Republicans Chair Amber Athey (COL ’16), who sat on stage with Ryan, said she was excited to see someone she admires speak at an event on campus.

“It was an honor to share the stage with someone I’ve considered a political hero for a while now,” Athey said.

“Speaker Ryan took time at the end to shake everyone’s hand on stage and it was nice to know he appreciated us being there.”

Georgetown University College Democrats President Mattie Haag (COL ’18) said though her political views differ from Ryan’s, she respected his proposals and sincerity.

“I respect him a lot as a politician and I respect him coming and having the conversation with us, especially trying to talk to young voters,” Haag said. “I think where he’s coming from and his ideas and his commitment to really finding a solution with real, policy-based solutions to the biggest problems that face us was pretty inspiring.”

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer advocated the need to understand law with a global mindset in Gaston Hall on Thursday.

Breyer Discusses Global View of Law

and on the other hand privacy. For example, a case where somebody unlawfully “I can’t tell someone that, but they have takes a recording of union workers in a to come to that conclusion, and the best state that forbids that and then gives it to a way to bring them to that conclusion is to newspaper, is privacy or freedom of speech show them what’s going on.” violated? That’s a hard issue,” Breyer said.

Breyer also emphasized the unique na- “Typically what happens is it depends on ture of the rule of law in the United States. what the facts are of a particular case.”

“Our Constitution is power given by libBreyer also emphasized the need to erty, rather than liberty given by power. It protect all types of speech, including is referring to the fact that in Europe, the ideas the majority strongly disagrees power is at the center. The king might de- with. cide to give you liberty, but it’s from the “You have to remind people that the center,” Breyer said. “In First Amendment is not the United States it’s the “Our constitution there for people you reverse. Power lies in, ‘We agree with and it is not the People of the United is power given by there for people who States.’ It is the people liberty, rather than you don’t agree with but who give the power you don’t really think to the center. They are liberty given by are really awful,” Breyer given. The government said. “It’s there for the doesn’t have to give. power.” people you think are That’s the power of the really awful. That’s why Constitution.” we have it. I think a uniStephen breyer Supereme Court Associate A question-and-answer versity is a place that exJustice session followed Breyer hibits the need for this and Treanor’s conversaand the importance of it tion, with questions ranging from Breyer’s more than any other place.” stance on the religious liberty debate to Grant Olson (COL ’19), who has heard the tension between national security and Breyer speak before, said he appreciates privacy to the power of the First Amend- the clarity of his arguments. ment.

“People talk about it a lot, how he brings Breyer said Supreme Court delibera- an accessibility to the court and an undertions are often not about what is right or standing,” Olson said. “I think that’s why wrong, but about conflicts between per- he’s such a great jurist. He said that the missible and protected actions. first amendment is there for the people “In general, the way these things work is you hate, it’s there for the people you the difficult cases in the SCOTUS are very detest. It’s maybe the hallmark of our derarely right versus wrong. That is to say, mocracy and I had never thought of it that you have on one hand freedom of speech, way.”

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Baker Center Looks to Create Dialogue, Policy BAKER, from A1 However, she contended the specter of distrust continues to loom large over her administration, especially following the violence that ensued in response to after the death of Freddie Gray under the custody of the Baltimore Police Department in 2015 during her term as mayor.

“I can say that there has been a significant disconnect between the police force and the community for a significant number of reasons,” Rawlings-Blake said. “I think it’s easy to see it as somebody else’s problem. I think what happened with Freddie Gray made it clear to many people that what happened wasn’t just my problem, it wasn’t just the government’s problem, it was a real problem we had to address.”

As the director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Carr discussed the reputation of the Catholic Church and how it is still recuperating from allegations of child sexual abuse from priests, new measures to provide background checks and training procedures for the clergy have contributed to alleviating public distrust from the scandal. Still, Carr said the ascension of Pope Francis has had the largest impact on the level of public trust in the Catholic Church.

“We’ve become the poster child for betrayed trust to an eventual renewed trust, because at least at the global level we have a new leader with very different priorities who is focused on the poor and the vulnerable and not the institutions,” Carr said. “He leads by his words, by his example and by his faith.”

Jaconi, the vice president and executive editor of the Independent Journal Review, highlighted the paradoxical nature of the public’s surging distrust of the media coinciding with increased social media consumption.

“What I’m still hopeful in is that social media has an ability to show the human side of everything,” Jaconi said. “Any time you can do something

to remind people who are reading or consuming your media that you are human, too, is really important.”

Inskeep explained his belief that the tension between objectivity and humanity contributes to the public’s frustrations with the media.

“So many people talk about objectivity in journalism and I don’t believe many people believe in the concept anymore,” Inskeep said. “There used to be the idea of being the voice from nowhere, just giving facts, but I have a voice, I use it, I’m not from nowhere, I’m a guy from Indiana, I’m an American, and I have certain backgrounds, and I still want to tell the truth, and I’m finding a way to tell the truth but acknowledge the fact that we’re human beings.”

The panelists reached a consensus that demographic patterns, including the growth of the minority community in the coming century and the advent of the millennial generation, will shape the public’s faith in their institutions.

Shah, who now serves as the executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, stressed the potential of millennials in reversing attitudes toward the American establishment.

“I don’t know if millennials are any better, but I think they have an opportunity to rewrite the world,” Shah said.

In the event’s closing remarks, Baker urged students to engage with the problem of mounting public distrust rather than depend on institutions to resolve the issue.

“The essence is that it’s important that we do something, so in that context, it’s the students, it’s the young people in the room, it’s you who have to get in the game, you have to want it, you have to commit to a difference,” Baker said. “To me, institutions are not the solution. There’s been a breakdown of institutions.”

Omar Torres (COL ’18) said he gained a renewed faith in institutions after hearing about the mission of the Baker Center.

“In the election, you hear from both sides that government is not trustworthy, that we need to make America great again or something

like that,” Torres said. “But at the same time there are institutions that have the purpose of working for the people and if there’s something that I’m

taking out of the discussion it’s that there’s hope in how they work and that there’s ways in which to make it more trustworthy for the people.”

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The LGBTQ Resource Center and the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBTQ Life hosted the eighth annual Lavender Graduation, which seeks to celebrate the contributions and stories of Georgetown’s graduating LGBTQ community and its allies, in the Healey Family Student Center on Wednesday.

The ceremony featured speeches from University President John J. DeGioia; keynote presenter Dinaw Mengestu (COL ’00), a novelist and writer; and student speaker Bassam Sidiki (COL ’16), followed by a reception in the HFSC Social Room for faculty, students and alumni.

The center distributed eight different awards to faculty and students, honoring 112 graduating undergraduate and graduate students for their commitment to the LGBTQ community at Georgetown. Any LGBTQ or allied student can register to participate in the ceremony.

In his speech, DeGioia said the graduating LGBTQ community has made a significant impact at Georgetown.

“Today we come together in appreciation and recognition of all that you’ve accomplished as students here at Georgetown, the contributions you’ve made, the leadership you’ve demonstrated and the service you’ve performed,” DeGioia said.

Mengestu said he saw Georgetown as a safe space where he could escape the community in which he grew up.

“I’m fairly certain I’m not the only person in this room who came to Georgetown in flight, who arrived here grateful in part for all the miles between this campus and the community I come from,” Mengestu said.

Sidiki, a Pakistani Muslim and LGBTQ advocate, emphasized the importance of including all narratives when recounting LGBTQ history. Sidiki said Lavender Graduation is a time for celebration as well as serious discussion on how the LGBTQ community can grow more inclusive of minorities.

“One point I hope people take away from my speech is the exclusion of people of color from queer narratives, especially South Asian and Middle Eastern Muslims,” Sidiki said. “People have this preconceived notion that, from what ISIS does, Islam

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University President John J. DeGioia spoke at Lavender Graduation, a ceremony for LGBTQ and allied seniors. and being gay are incompatible.

I don’t feel this way.”

Sidiki said it is also necessary to be aware of the issues facing the transgender community.

“Trans people of color are actually being killed and facing violence. They can’t use the bathroom,” Sidiki said. “Those are issues that should be much more visible and salient than same-sex marriage, which is a luxury for people who have that support system.”

Sidiki praised Lavender Graduation as a unique platform for conversations about LGBTQ rights.

“As opposed to other celebrations, the speeches are geared toward what we need to do further to make a more accepting and inclusive community,” Sidiki said. “We celebrate ourselves but also talk about these issues that are hard to talk about.”

Eric Nevalsky (SFS ’16), who has worked for the LGBTQ Resource Center since his freshman year, received the Commitment to the LGBTQ Campus Community Award.

According to Nevalsky, the Lavender Graduation honors students who may not have much family support on their official graduation day from the university.

“For a lot of students who are LGBTQ, we can’t have the out-and-proud moment at graduation,” Nevalsky said.

“For students whose families aren’t completely accepting, this is really the space when we can come together with our friends, professors and mentors who have become our family

on campus and be proud of the work we’ve done at college.”

Director of Georgetown’s theater and performance studies program Maya Roth, who received the Staff and Faculty Commitment to the LGBTQ Community Award, said supporting the LGBTQ community exemplifies Georgetown’s goals.

“There is no award that would be more meaningful to me at Georgetown,” Roth said. “To help Georgetown to manifest what is truly the best about the university is what it’s all about — not only honoring the whole person, but also pluralism and honesty, being of and in the world. This event and community mean a huge amount to me.”

Assistant Director of the LGBTQ Resource Center Julian Haas said Lavender Graduation embodies the university’s Jesuit ideals.

“Lavender Graduation is the one time of the year when, without a doubt, you get to see how much love and compassion there is on this campus for all of its students, especially those that identify as LGBT,” Haas said. “LGBTQ students and their allies are also a big part of what makes Georgetown great.”

Nevalsky said he was thankful for the event’s administrative support, which provided optimism and validation for LGBTQ students.

“For an LGBTQ student to see these high-level officials in the university saying, ‘Thank you for being here. Thank you for the work you’ve done,’ it’s really validating,” Nevalsky said.

The Office of the Provost has agreed to retain 3616 N St. NW — popularly known as Brown House — as student housing following the successful #SaveBrownHouse petition, which amassed 1,057 signatures, according to the Georgetown University Student Association.

The administration removed Brown House from the housing lottery this year, drawing ire from the student body. The petition argued that the repurposing of Brown House would negatively affect undergraduates and reflected a broader deceptive university attitude toward the reassignment of townhouses.

GUSA, which sponsored the petition, plans to negotiate with the university to ensure that Brown House remains student housing for the long term, push for the renovation of existing student residence halls and advocate for more student housing rights, according to GUSA’s Facebook announcement from April 27.

GUSA originally planned to hold a March for Housing Rights on Thursday but cancelled the event because of the petition’s success.

GUSA Deputy Chief of Staff Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) said a meeting next week between GUSA and the university administration will determine which students will be assigned Brown House.

“We have a meeting with the Provost’s Office, Residential Living and Student Affairs next week to figure out how to allocate the house for the next year since the housing lottery is already complete, and everyone’s been

assigned a residence,” Goldstein wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Despite the petition’s victory, Goldstein said the status of Brown House is still in doubt after the 2016-17 academic year, as the administration still wishes to repurpose it for faculty use.

“It’s an open question right now: what will happen to the house after the 2016-2017 school year,” Goldstein wrote. “I imagine they still hope to convert Brown House a year down the road after we discuss this more.”

Goldstein said GUSA is committed to lobbying the university to keep Brown House and other off-campus townhouses residential living options for students.

“GUSA’s goal is to make sure that Brown House remains in student hands for the longterm,” Goldstein said. “Our goal is also broadly to make sure that as many townhouses as possible remain in student hands for the long-term, so we’re going to have to have more detailed discussions with the provost’s office.”

Jillian Aicher (COL ’19) said he was glad Brown House was remaining as a student housing location but was frustrated by the university’s attitude toward off-campus housing.

“I think that it is a step in the right direction for the university to give us back Brown House,” Aicher said. “The fact that it was even considered is pretty upsetting.”

Sophia Griffith (COL ’19) said she believes the university singled out Brown House for its reputation as a party location but will not publicly admit its rational.

“I feel like Georgetown chose Brown House in particular; I think they know what goes on there,” Griffith said. “But for them to not say that’s the reason — it is really dubious.”

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The Office of the Provost redesignated Brown House as student housing following a petition garnering over 1,000 signatures.

MPD Allocates Three Spaces for Safe Exchanges Matt Larson Hoya Staff Writer

To protect the safety of online customers in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department announced April 21 the designation of three police stations as exchange zones where buyers of online goods can complete transactions with sellers in a safe environment under the surveillance of police officers.

The move comes after a series of robberies and murders took place across the country when buyers attempted to pick up their goods from sellers, including 57 incidents in the District since last May. The three exchange zones are located in the lobbies of police stations across the city at 550 Water St. SW, 1620 V St. NW and 5002 Hayes St. NE. MPD Chief Cathy Lanier said in a statement the exchange zones will provide an opportunity for those living in D.C. to have safe transactions.

Lanier encouraged anyone meeting with a seller to have the transaction take place in one of the exchange areas, which are available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

“The Exchange Zone will deter many of these robberies by providing well-lit areas that are near police stations, giving Washingtonians a safe place to purchase or exchange property,” Lanier said. “The community can do their part by safely buying, selling and trading online goods at our designated locations.”

MPD Public Affairs Specialist Aquita Brown said because police have seen an increase in robberies involving marketplace apps and websites over the past few years, Lanier decided it was an appropriate time for the MPD to offer a preventative measure to reduce the amount of crime.

According to Brown, several individuals in the District have been targeted through specific marketing apps, such as OfferUp, an app made for purchasing and selling goods online.

“It started off with just a way to provide the community with a safe way to purchase items they were seeing online or whether through other mediums like OfferUp,” Brown said. “We have seen several robberies that have occurred in D.C. involving these types of apps.”

At this time, Brown said she is unsure how many citizens are expected to use the exchange zones.

Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber said many robberies involving people buying goods off Craigslist could have been prevented by having the transaction take place in public, well-lit areas.

Gruber praised the MPD’s decision to allow transactions to take place in the lobbies of their police stations.

“There’s a lot of crime that takes place in these situations,” Gruber said. “It’s never a good idea to have somebody come into your home. Going to a public space like a mall is a better idea and even better is using the lobby of a police station.”

Gruber praised the initiative as a step in the right direction as a preventative measure to help those worried about completing an online transaction in person from websites such as Craigslist. Gruber also noted that there is always potential danger involved in meeting a stranger while carrying cash, especially at night.

“I think it’s a great idea and really a good step in the right direction,” Gruber said. “Online sales, especially through Craigslist, when you’re carrying something of value or carrying cash, there’s always a chance where the person might try to rob you and take what you have.”

Gruber also said Georgetown students should consider using these exchange zones if they have purchased goods online. He noted in the future, the GUPD might also consider the institution of measures like this in order to help students.

“I would recommend anybody, especially Georgetown students, if they’re interested in completing a transaction like that, going to one of those locations,” Gruber said. “It’s made me think that it’s something we should be doing here at Georgetown University.”

Brown noted that if a buyer of a good online decides not to use one of the exchange zones due to time or convenience, there are certain procedures that should be followed in order to ensure a safe transaction.

“We wanted to recommend some points as far as if they’re going to use other sites,” Brown said. “Go in the morning time and go with somebody you know.”

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Senior attack and co-captain Corinne Etchison scored two goals in Georgetown’s 13-12 win over Marquette on Saturday. She has 20 goals and 11 assists this season.

GU Closes Regular Season With Must-Win Game Elizabeth Cavacos Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (6-9, 4-2 Big East) will travel this Saturday to take on Temple (11-5, 3-3 Big East) in a matchup that will determine both teams’ postseason fates.

Georgetown’s success in conference play is good for third place in the current Big East standings, and Temple currently trails Georgetown, tied for fourth place with Marquette (6-10, 3-3 Big East).

All three teams are still in the running to clinch one of the remaining two spots in the four-team conference tournament.

No. 2 Florida (16-1, 7-0) and the University of Connecticut (12-3, 6-1), sitting in the top two spots, respectively, have already earned berths to the tournament.

Though a tournament appearance is on the line, senior attack and co-captain Corinne Etchison stressed that the team is breaking down the game into more immediate goals.

“Obviously it’s a must-win, but we just approach it like any other game. … [We are] just focusing on the fundamentals and the skills of what we’ve been working on all season,” Etchison said.

Though the Hoyas got out to a rocky start in the beginning of the season, losing four straight games to kick off their 2016 slate, they have turned things around during conference play. Four of Georgetown’s six season wins have come over conference rivals, including a decisive 18-7 rout of Villanova 4-13, 2-5 Big East) on April 13.

Head Coach Ricky Fried said that at this point in the season, Georgetown’s experience playing a tough series of opponents in the non-conference stretch is working in its favor, despite a 2-7 outcome.

“We play a really tough out-of-conference schedule, so we’re kind of hardened by that even though our record didn’t come out of it very strong,” Fried said.

“The level that we play in the conference is not the same as it is out of the conference, so I think that builds some confidence for us, because we know we’re capable of playing at that level.”

A point of strength that Georgetown has developed over the course of the season is its depth on offense. The Hoyas have spread their points across their roster, with six players netting goals and five re-

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cording assists in the team’s most recent game against Marquette last Saturday. “[Coach Fried] has always preached a seven-man offense, so we play with every person, everybody can score on anything,” Etchison said. “We have people we set up for certain things, but I think you can see if you look at the stats, we’re very balanced all over the attack. So I think that’s a good thing — anyone can score, and it’s just nice to know that you’re not relying on a couple people, you have threats all over the offensive end.”

Senior midfielder and co-captain Kristen Bandos continues to lead Georgetown on the offensive end, recording three goals and two assists between the team’s two games last week against UConn and Marquette. Bandos’ efforts earned her the Big East Midfielder of the Week recognition for the second time this season.

A balanced effort on offense is an important asset against a stingy Temple defense.

Senior goalkeeper Jaqi Kakalecik currently ranks seventh nationally with a mere 6.66 goals against average, and the Owls aggressive defense has forced 120 turnovers.

On the offensive end, Temple boasts a quick-paced attack, recording a prolific 332 shots on goal to its opponents’ 208.

Senior attack Brenda McDermott leads the Owls in points, tallying 24 goals and 20 assists this season.

Fried said the key to counteracting Temple will be maintaining possession and capitalizing on 50-50 opportunities.

“Temple doesn’t slow down the game, so draw control, rides and clears are going to be the points of emphasis for us, since they’re all possession-based. … If we force them to play catch-up a little bit, I think it will be tougher for them to actually play the game they want to play,” Fried said.

Ultimately, Georgetown is focused on controlling the pace and dictating the game on the offensive end. “[Temple] make[s] a lot of teams indecisive about what they’re going to do, so our goal is just to make sure that we’re creating space and opportunities for ourselves and not so much reacting to how they’re playing, which, I think, is what happens to a lot of teams right now,” Fried said.

The race for the Big East tournament starts this Saturday. Georgetown and Temple are scheduled to face off at 1 p.m. Saturday in Philadelphia.

s the college football season was winding down in December, NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. suggested this year might be the first in recent memory in which no quarterback deserved to be drafted in the first round. Kiper’s sidekick, Todd McShay, even went as far to call this year’s class of signal-callers “wildly disappointing,” as numerous highly touted gunslingers failed to live up to their potential.

It is now five months later, and despite multiple warnings, both the Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Rams have each unloaded a massive bounty of draft picks to claim the toptwo spots in the draft.

ESPN reports that both teams intend to draft a quarterback.

Case closed — NFL general managers are the most impatient people in sports.

If this catastrophe seems familiar to casual football fans, it is because it should by now.

For decades now, in front offices all around the league, NFL general managers have been jumping at the chance to mortgage a franchise’s entire future for the chance to take one stud player for the present.

In 1998, the San Diego Chargers sent two first round picks and a third round pick for Ryan Leaf. One year later, Mike Ditka and the New Orleans Saints traded their entire stock of draft picks, and a first round pick the following year, for Ricky Williams.

Five years ago it was the Washington Redskins, trading away three first round picks and a second rounder for Robert Griffin. In total, these are three of the biggest draft trades the NFL has ever seen. Coincidentally, they are also three of the biggest draft busts of all time.

What is most cringeworthy about general managers making these kinds of desperation deals today is that the blueprint for successful franchises has been laid out for years now — and it does not include lopsided trades for one player. The New England Patriots have been the gold standard for over a decade now. Year in and year out they make use of the abundant draft picks they have, selecting solid talent in each round of the draft, and then patiently waiting for these players to develop.

Jimmy McLaughlin Since 2002, the Patriots have had a top-10 pick in the draft just once — yet they have been the most dominant franchise of the 21st century. It may have been a four- to six-year building process, but eventually, patience paid dividends in New England in the form of four championship rings.

It is easy to sympathize with the Rams’ and the Eagles’ reasons for wanting a rock-solid franchise saving quarterback now. The Eagles need to put the Chip Kelly era behind them as fast as possible, and the Rams are desperate for an exciting young leader to capture the interest of their new fan base in Southern California.

But in both cases, numerous jobs rest on the performance of the next quarterback the front office puts behind center. Such a pivotal decision cannot be made with careless haste.

This is what truly makes the Eagles’ and Rams’ decisions to trade

up so mind-boggling.

If they really wanted to risk everything on trading up for a franchise quarterback, their golden opportunity is just 12 months away. Not only is this year’s quarterback draft class supposed to be one of the weakest in recent memory, next year’s stock of quarterbacks is poised to be one of the best.

Deshaun Watson, Baker Mayfield, J.T. Barrett and Brad Kaaya are all arguably better prospects than Carson Wentz and Jared Goff.

But in NFL general manager time, 12 months is an eternity.

Instead of waiting just one year for a deep quarterback class, where there may not have even been a need to trade up at all, Los Angeles and Philadelphia dealt their whole farm for grade B cattle today.

It is not a matter of ineptitude.

General managers of NFL teams are some of the most accomplished people in the entire sports industry. Most front-office executives either have significant experience playing in the NFL or an Ivy League graduate degree. Some have both.

Almost every NFL general manager has more than 20 years of NFL front-office experience — yet so few seem to possess the golden virtue of patience.

Pressure to instantly gratify fans is real, but until more executives around the league start comprehending the concept of postponing success, Robert Kraft and others are going to keep laughing their way to the Super Bowl. It may be a painful 12 to 36 months, but sometimes waiting a couple years can solidify a franchise for a decade.

Jimmy McLaughlin is a sophomore in the College. This is the final installment of Upon Further Review.

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Crucial Matchup Awaits Alex Yurcaba Hoya Staff Writer

After splitting a twogame series with Maryland-Eastern Shore, Georgetown (20-23, 4-5 Big East) gears up to resume conference play in a three game set with Seton Hall (30-12, 4-2 Big East) this weekend.

On April 27, Seton Hall defeated St. Peters (6-31, 1-11 Metro Athletic Atlantic Conference) in an 8-1 finish. Prior to that matchup, the Pirates downed the Villanova Wildcats (15-25, 3-6 Big East) 7-6 in extra innings on April 22 at home.

The win over Villanova puts Seton Hall on a five game win streak.

Head Coach Pete Wilk said the games against Seton Hall would be critical for the team.

“Seton Hall is a highquality team and wellcoached,” Wilk wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This is a huge series for us. Each of the nine upcoming Big East games are huge. Our performance at Butler made them that way. If we had won that series, we would be in much better shape.”

The Seton Hall series comes after two high scoring games with UMES. While the Hoyas were able to edge out a 7-5 win in a rain-shortened first game, the Hawks took the second game on the strength of a strong offensive performance, winning 9-4. Both Wilk and Georgetown reliever Tim Davis noted the miscues on the offensive side in the second game of the UMES series.

“We just weren’t able to get the key hits with runners in scoring position, I think that was the biggest difference,” Davis said.

Wilk lamented that some

of the Hoyas’ hitters “tried to do too much with their at bats.”

However, Davis said he does not think the Blue and Gray need to make any changes as it prepares for Seton Hall.

“Seton Hall is a high-quality team ... This is a huge series for us. Each of the nine upcoming Big East games are huge.”

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“I just think we need to come out playing hard and keep playing consistent baseball in all three aspects of the game: pitching, hitting and defense,” Davis said.

Davis was particularly concerned with the Pirates’ dangerous base running, noting that they boast players who have acted as offensive threats in the past. Wilk wrote that solid defensive mechanics need to be the answer to Seton Hall’s speed.

“We have to disrupt their timing on their steals, because they’re going to run.

A lot of picks and some pitchouts should hinder their game hopefully.”

Wilk was also wary of the Seton Hall’s pitching staff, specifically pointing to the quality of the Pirates’ coaching staff.

“Their staff is always good. Phil Cundari [longtime Pirates pitching coach] does a great job with those kids, and they don’t beat themselves.

They limit their walks and free baserunners, and they pitch to their defense which, especially at their ballpark … is very good. We have a big challenge ahead of us but I think we’re ready for it.”

However, Georgetown will be sending its own stalwart pitchers to the hill. Davis’s durability and dependability have put him within four games of the Hoyas’ all-time pitching appearances record.

He will be joined on the mound by sophomore pitcher Jimmy Swad. Davis spoke to Swad’s vital contribution to the bullpen. “[Swad] just brings consistency … He comes in, he always throws strikes, always competes. And he controls the game so well because he controls himself really well. He’s really good at just taking his time between each pitch and delivering each pitch with a certain conviction that gets guys out.”

Wilk also showed confidence in his bullpen.“Swad and Davis are effective because they throw strikes with above average stuff.

Both live around 88-90 [miles per hour] and command at least two pitches … Our pitchers have seen much tougher lineups … than Seton hall will send to the plate.”

“It means a lot to me just because I have a lot of respect for this program,” Davis said. “It also means that I have a lot of respect for our coaches, so just the fact that they’ve given me so many opportunities in my career to pitch means a lot … The appearance record is cool, but our main goal is to win games.”

The Seton Hall series begins today at 7 p.m. at Shirley Povich field in Rockville, Md.

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Ewing’s Legacy Bolsters Coaching Qualifications

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its mindset in order to have more success in close games.

“I think one of our big issues is [that] we kind of fall off the track a little bit if a team scores a couple of runs,” Giovanniello said. “We tend to get down on ourselves, and I think that if we’re able to just keep a consistent mindset and just keep focus, I think that we’ll be able to come back in those close games instead of being shut down.”

Junior pitcher Delaney Osterday has been a key player for the Hoyas recently. All season, the Hoyas have leaned on Giovanniello to pitch the majority of the games, as Osterday, who served as George-

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currently works as an assistant, his work with rookie Frank Kamisky is beginning to show dividends in the playoffs.

Even if one falsely assumes that Ewing can only coach big men because he was one, that should lead the Knicks and Kings to express particular interest in hiring Ewing. The Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins is one of the NBA’s best centers, is only 25 years old and is under contract for two more seasons. One knock on Cousins is that he is difficult to coach and publicly clashes with authority.

To counter that, one particular strength of Ewing’s is his ability to build relationships with players and relate to their situations.

Who better to relate to an All-NBA talent who feels frustrated or misunderstood than Patrick Ewing — a man who spent 15 years dealing with the New York media and the constant pressure of trying to deliver the Big Apple a title while battling the dynastic Bulls and the feisty Pacers year in and year out?

For the Knicks, bringing Ewing back to New York would be more than just a public relations move; it would give Kristaps Porzingis, the Knicks’ rookie phenom, access Ewing’s knowledge of his position.

If Porzingis is the future of the Knicks, few coaches could accelerate his development like Ewing could which would give the Knicks part of what they need to climb out of the NBA lottery and into the playoffs.

Ewing also does not just work with big men and post players. He studies all facets of the game and understands basketball holistically. Suggesting a former center cannot understand the point guard position but a former guard can understand the power forward of center position is both untrue and nonsensical.

Another reason teams could have passed on Ewing is because there are simply better candidates.

For the most part that seems to be plausible. Former point guard Jason Kidd has done a fine job with the Milwaukee Bucks and former Spurs assistant and current Atlanta Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer have proven to be quality hires for their respective teams.

For every Kidd or Budenholzer, there is a Derek Fisher or Kurt Rambis — a successful player who won championships but could not transform a team into a contender. Fisher played under 11-time champion head coach Phil Jackson and Rambis was a player for the Showtime Lakers and an assistant in LA for 13 seasons. From a results perspective, both are mediocre head coaches at best.

Fisher was fired in the middle of this season and won under 30 percent of his games as Knicks head coach. Rambis was the head coach of the Timberwolves from 2009-2011 and was promptly fired after winning a combined 32 games in those two seasons; Rambis took over after Fisher’s firing and promptly finished the season winning nine of 28 games. In a way, it is hard to imagine Ewing doing worse in either New York or Sacramento.

For the last three decades, Patrick Ewing has been a student of basketball, either as a player or coach. He has played under some of the best minds at both levels and worked under quality coaches during his time as an NBA assistant. The next logical step for him is to be a head coach. Sacramento or New York just needs to pick up the phone and call — he will be waiting.

town’s No. 2 pitcher for most of the year, struggled early in the season. However, Osterday appears to have settled in, as she pitched two complete games against the Wildcats, losing both games but limiting the Wildcats to six runs, four of which were earned, in 12 innings pitched.

“I think her confidence is something that she struggled with in the past, but seeing her on the mound and comparing it to when she came in as a freshman, it’s like a completely different player out there,” Giovanniello said of Osterday. “So I’m really proud of her for really coming into her own and being able to feel as confident in herself as we feel in her on

the field.”

The Hoyas also recently implemented a new defensive shift behind Osterday, which has helped her and her team limit opposing offenses.

“We are stepping outside the traditional box of softball, and we put on a defensive shift and found a way to cover more ground defensively,” Conlan said. “So she responded very well to it, our defense did a fantastic job, and it was two of her best games of the year.”

Georgetown currently sits in seventh place out of eight teams in the Big East standings, but it will have an opportunity to make up ground this weekend against Providence, which is in eighth

place. The Friars have several offensive threats in their lineup, led by freshman outfielder Emma Lee, who leads the team with a .415 batting average. Sophomore outfielder Brittney Veler and senior outfielder Kiki Baldassari also boast batting averages over .300 this season.

The Hoyas can expect to face sophomore pitcher Christina Ramirez at least once this season. Ramirez leads the Friars in innings pitched, strikeouts and wins.

Georgetown and Providence will play a doubleheader on Saturday and the first pitch will be thrown at 12:00 p.m. The teams will play the final game of the series on Sunday at 2 p.m.

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“Regionals is the biggest tournament of the year and that’s where we always want to peak,” Lake said. “We’re seeded sixth coming into it out of 16 and regionals works where the top two teams make it to nationals. … If we play to our potential then things will go fine.”

Huckin Foyas junior and co-captain Michelle Carey echoed similar sentiments.

“Since it’s the last tournament of the season, the most important thing for me and for our team is just for us to play the best we’ve ever played, and to play for each other and just know that this is where we put it all on the field and this is the culmination of our season and our year with the whole team,” Carey said.

The Black Squirrels have elected not to travel to their regional tournament, even though they did qualify. The Biddin Foyas’ most recent tournament was their regional tournament, where they placed third. Because that was the Foyas’ last formal tournament, both B teams have officially concluded their seasons. One of the most prominent themes that the captains across the two teams saw this season was the astounding level of improvement and team unity throughout the year.

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new players which meant we needed to work on our on-field chemistry early in the season,” Biddin Foyas’ senior and co-captain Julia Dunne wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We now make consistent connections between new and returning players in our offense, and are stronger on defense because the entire team is communicating well and is used to each other’s playing style.”

“This season our rookies grew at a much faster rate than before, thanks to our loving and helpful returners [and] the rookies’ dedication to our team and the sport,” fellow senior and co-captain Stephanie Szakats wrote in an email.

Sullivan spoke to the Black Squirrels’ improvement this season.

“Seeing the individual players develop and the chemistry develop is awesome.

That’s probably one of the best parts of the team.”

The Georgetown program’s growing popularity among the student body reflects a larger trend in increasing involvement in these types of programs. While some high schools do offer Ultimate Frisbee as a sport, ultimate is still growing in many regions of the United States.

Recent years have seen an upward trend of popularity in ultimate programs across the country, particularly on college campuses. In a June

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Senior co-captain Kelsey Brown led the Huckin’ Foyas to a third place finish at the team’s sectional tournament.

2013 article in USA Today, author Jasmine Barta noted the number of college students involved in Ultimate Frisbee jumped from 9,951 in 2004 to 16,058 in 2011.

Lake explained although several athletes on Catholic Justice had no prior experience, their commitment has led to significant improvement across the board.

“The freshman class has been awesome with that, we have people who are incredibly committed who eight months ago had never touched a Frisbee in their life. To see them come in and have that energy and passion has been awesome,” Lake said.

Overall, this season has been a success for all four

teams in the Georgetown program. For its athletes, the sport is about growing together as a unit just as much as it is about finding success on the field.

“We are so, so proud of and inspired by the group of girls we leave behind,” Szakats wrote, speaking particularly to her role as a senior. “We can’t wait to see what they have in store for next year.”

Even though its season is coming to an end, athletes in the Georgetown ultimate program will practice all summer long in their hometown recreational and club teams, preparing for another year of introducing Georgetown students to a sport that is only becoming more popular.

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Georgetown’s roster has two such players, with sophomore forward Paul White receiving one for his season-long hip injury this past season, and junior forward Akoy Agau gaining an extra year for a season ending injury at Louisville.

While the details surrounding Hayes return remain hazy, he will almost definitely return as a captain and step into even more of a leading role next season — much like SmithRivera this past year.

“I [said] to him … ‘You’re the biggest guy on the team, your presence is always felt so your leadership and how you communicate to the guys will always be understood and always be reciprocated because of how enforceful, being the center, you can be on the floor.’ That was probably my only advice for him,” Smith-Rivera said of his words to the team’s likely new leader.

Looking forward to Hayes’ return and its impact on the players, the rest of the men’s basketball team (15-18, 7-11 Big East) returns its leading rebounder and fourthleading scorer.

Moreover, the return of Hayes brings mentorship that players with less experience cannot. “[My teammates] were questioning who has going to help [freshman center Jesse Govan] out down low next year because the

coaches just haven’t really been recruiting any big men that I have heard of,” Hayes said with regards to his role into mentoring the team’s young big men.

“So once they found out that I was coming back, I think they were pretty excited.”

Much like Smith-Rivera’s unexpected return last year, Hayes’ announcement once again has raised the expectations for next year. In what pundits and fans would have considered a potential rebuilding year, with Smith-Rivera — and previously Hayes — slated to leave, the senior big man’s return has built potential among ruin.

Hayes, along the rest of the returning players, including the team’s standout sophomores, guard L.J. Peak and forward Isaac Copeland, now look upon this past season’s disappointment as a building block for the future.

“Obviously we didn’t accomplish [our goal of making the tournament], but I think we made the proper steps to eventually make it there,” Hayes said.

“What we see as a bad season is kind of a learning season at the same time.”

Stepping into the vocal leadership role this coming season, the 7-footer also doubles as the oldest and most experienced player on the team. After three years of sitting on the sidelines, averaging just 3.2 minutes per game his first freshman through junior years, Hayes is ready to lead a program that, despite its

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Freshman center Jessie Govan averaged 6.8 points per game and 4.1 rebounds per game. recent shortcomings, is still one of the most prestigious basketball names in the country.

Following in the steps of then-seniors Jason Clark, Markel Starks, Jabril Trawick and SmithRivera, the Hoyas are now Hayes’ team.

“I’m not trying to sound selfish or anything like that; I think everybody has their time,” Hayes said. “I think now is just going to be my time, so I’m going to try to make the best of what I can do with it.”

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son of Hayes have turned, the Smith-Rivera chapter of Georgetown basketball is over. He will graduate as the program’s fifth alltime leading scorer and its all-time leader in threepointers made.

“I thought I’d never see the day where I was giving my speech going away from Georgetown,” Smith-Rivera said regarding his advice to the returning Hoyas. “It’s bittersweet, but they [should] enjoy the time while they still have it.”

The men’s basketball season tips off on Nov. 12.

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Senior center and co-captain Bradley Hayes’ career was supposed to be over, but his surprise announcement on the evening of the men’s basketball banquet informed fans and teammates that he would be returning for a fifth year. The NCAA had awarded him a fifth year of eligibility.

During the ban uet, the seniors came up one by one to give farewell speeches. First, managers, Benjamin Coen and Christian Keenum spoke, followed by senior guard Riyan Williams, and then it was Hayes’ turn. As he

went through his speech, those in attendance awaited reflections on his career.

“Being up there trying to give whatever little talk I was giving, it was just chewing away at me,” Hayes said. “I just wanted to blurt it out. The guys were pretty excited. I can tell that with all them their body language was different.”

Upon Hayes’ announcement, the room stagnated before erupting into cheers. Employees of the athletic department, teammates, friends and family all heard the news that Hayes would be returning for an unexpected fifth season.

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“I don’t really know any of the details like that. [Head Coach John Thompson III] and I haven’t really talked about it,” Hayes said with regard to what qualified him for the extra year. “As I far I knew he just told me that I got my year back and we were going to talk about it a little bit later. As far as all the details go, I don’t know about that yet.”

Traditionally, the NCAA grants medical hardship redshirts for players who miss entire seasons due to injuries. These redshirts, however, usually happen within

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Senior middle infielder and pitcher Samantha Giovanniello has pitched 16 complete games this season and earned seven wins.

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Despite having struggled during Big East play this season, the Georgetown softball team (9-32, 3-11 Big East) will have an opportunity to end its season on a high note as it travels to Providence, R.I., to face Providence (17-26, 2-12 Big East) in its penultimate series of the season.

“Obviously we want to win.

We want to win games, we want to see if we can pick up a couple of spots in the conference standings,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “I want our seniors to go out on a positive note, and I want our program to build off of where we are right now.”

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Senior center and co-captain Bradley Hayes averaged 8.7 points per game and 6.7 rebounds per game this season. He appeared in 27 out of 33 games and recorded four double-doubles.

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s the NBA playoffs continue, at least four NBA teams are unsure of who their head coaches will be for the 2016-17 season. The New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets both had interim head coaches after firing Derek Fisher and Kevin McHale, respectively, during the middle of the season while the Sacramento Kings and Los Angeles Lakers currently have vacancies.

For all those who will be considered to fill those four spots, there is also one man who craves that opportunity but will almost definitely not receive it.We know him well because is one of our own: Georgetown legend and NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing.

For nearly 15 years, Ewing has been sitting on NBA benches as an assistant, but he has yet to receive serious consideration for a head coaching position. Ewing deserves an opportunity to interview for these vacancies, and several teams should find his background and skill set appealing.

One potential reason people believe is holding Ewing back is the perception that he is primarily a big man’s coach. In a league where small ball is the hot trend and teams like Golden State are reaping the rewards, teams do not want to hire a man who made his living in the paint backing down other 7-foot centers. Yes, Ewing’s coaching skills have shown brightest with big men; Dwight Howard’s spectacular playoff performances in 2009 were greatly assisted by Ewing’s work with him and in Charlotte, where Ewing See IPPOLITO, A9

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when they won the first game by a score of 11-5. Senior pitcher Samantha Giovanniello pitched seven innings, earning her seventh win of the season.

Junior catcher Gabriela Elvina and senior third baseman Taylor Henry each went 3-for-3 at the plate, driving in two runs apiece.

Giovanniello, sophomore left fielder Theresa Kane and freshman designated player Sarah Bennett had two hits each.

“At this point it’s all about execution,” Conlan said. “I loved this past weekend, I thought we competed well, I think we fought.

We scored 11 runs off the best pitcher in our conference. We are capable of doing great things.”

Georgetown lost the second and third games of the series by scores of 2-1 and 4-1, respectively.

The team is focused on improving

Even though most teams begin their seasons on the field, the Georgetown club Ultimate Frisbee team arguably began its season at the Council of Advisory Boards fair on Copley Lawn in the fall. Freshmen and sophomores approached the team’s table on a hot August day to speak with current players and learn more about a sport most of them knew little to nothing about.

Georgetown’s four-team Frisbee program amounts to more than 100 students, not only making it one of the largest club sports on campus but one of the biggest student organizations at the university.

The format of Georgetown’s program includes four club teams that each have rosters of 20 to 35 people, with A and B teams for both the men’s and women’s sides. Catholic Justice and Black Squirrels are the men’s A and B teams, while the Huckin’ Foyas and the Biddin’ Foyas are the women’s A and B teams.

“Maryland is pretty much our main rival and our biggest rival ... so that was a nice win to get.”

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By April, all four teams have experienced significant growth, development and success over the course of the year.

Two weekends ago, Catholic Justice and the Black Squirrels went undefeated at their

sectional tournaments to capture the title of Colonial Conference champions in their respective divisions. As far back as October, the website UltiWorld named the Huckin’ Foyas’ freshman class as one of the strongest in the country.

Meanwhile, the Biddin’ Foyas have groomed a significant number of inexperienced players into knowledgeable and capable athletes.

Catholic Justice competed in four games the first day of sectionals April 16, winning handily in most of their contests by a margin of at least seven points in each game. The following day included a 15-10 victory over Maryland in the semi-finals, a longtime rival of Catholic Justice.

“Maryland is pretty much our main rival and our biggest rival and they had beat us earlier in the year by one, so that was a nice win to get,” Catholic Justice senior and co-captain Nico Lake said.

Georgetown went on to defeat George Washington 15-8 in the finals to win the program’s second title in the past three years.

“GW had actually beaten Maryland on Saturday 13-10,” said junior Perry Cao, president of Catholic Justice, “We knew that we would have to prepare ourselves mentally and physically and that it wasn’t going to be a gimme; it was still going to be a tough challenge.”

The Black Squirrels captured the Colonial Conference title after a series of competitive games, two of which were decided on “universe,” which is the equivalent of sudden death.

“We had broken seed a couple times in our tournaments, but we hadn’t blown away the competition by any means, so we were sort of the underdog com-

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Senior co-captains Troy Holland, left, and Nico Lake led Catholic Justice to a Colonial Conference championship. ing in and it was awesome, and it was great to beat everybody,” Black Squirrels junior and cocaptain Andrew Sullivan said.

The Huckin’ Foyas finished third place in their sectional tournament after going 3-3 on the weekend. Even though Georgetown put up a fight against two of its biggest rivals — Delaware and Maryland — it ultimately finished behind those two teams.

“All of those bigger state schools are usually our toughest competition because they draw from the biggest pool of players and they get the most resources, things like that,”

Huckin’ Foyas senior and cocaptain Kelsey Brown said.

“But we had played both of them earlier in the season so we knew we could match up against them.”

Both A teams will now prepare for the regional tournament this weekend, which includes competitive pools of teams that will challenge both Catholic Justice and the Huckin’ Foyas significantly. However, the captains on both teams have an optimistic view of their chances going up against tougher teams.

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