The Hoya: March 31, 2015

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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015

SKID SNAPPED

The women’s lacrosse team opened its Big East schedule with a 10-6 victory over Vanderbilt.

EDITORIAL The SFS fails to educate according to its stated mission of service.

FOSSIL FREE SANCTIONS Members fight charges related to Code of Student Conduct violations.

OPINION, A2

NEWS, A7

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Admissions Rate Remains Steady at 16.4 Percent Kshithij Shrinath

Class of 2019 ADMISSIONS Statistics

Hoya Staff Writer

15%

Total 16.4%

COL 15.9%

MSB 15.7%

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Early And Regular

By School

20%

SFS 17.6%

NHS 19.7%

Early 912

Female 55%

Regular 2,290

Male 45%

10%

5%

By Demographic African-American 11%

Acceptance Rates

AVERAGE SAT SCOREs

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of accepted of waitlisted

40%

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Acceptance Rates

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions accepted 3,202 applicants to the Class of 2019 for an overall acceptance rate of 16.4 percent, a rate that remains steady from the previous year. Decisions for the regular application cycle were mailed out Friday.

Georgetown received 19,481 applications to the Class of 2019. While 912 of the applicants were admitted early, 2,290 were accepted as part of the regular decision process. The overall acceptance rate for both early and regular decision cycles was 16.4 percent, nearly identical to the 16.6 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2018. While the acceptance rate for the Class of 2015 was 18 percent, the rate has hovered around 16 percent for the last four years.

“We pulled back a little on the early number from the previous year, so it does mean that we would have therefore taken more in the regular decision. But we ended with fewer overall, so there weren’t that many

Asian-American 17% Hispanic-American 12%

States Countries represented represented

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Legacy

37%

30%

20%

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5% 10% 15% Percentage of Admitted Students

Legacy

Total 16%

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Japan Weighs $5M Chair Endowment Columbia, MIT also in running for donation

From Camp Nou to Shaw: Messi at GU Daniel Silbert Hoya Staff Writer

Shaw Field, home of the Georgetown men’s and women’s soccer teams, got a taste of the international spotlight last week when it hosted Lionel Messi and the rest of the Argentina national soccer team.

For a still undisclosed fee, the team used Georgetown’s facilities Tuesday through

Andrew Wallender Hoya Staff Writer

The Japanese government is considering donating $5 million to the Walsh School of Foreign Service to fund an endowed chair in Japanese Studies, who will teach both undergraduate and graduate students.

The donation, if approved by the Japanese government, will be part of Japan’s annual budget to be released in April.

“We are honored to be considered for this chair — to be one of the universities that is considered for this chair — and we hope to get it,” Director of Asian Studies Victor Cha said. “But nothing is certain yet.

If we do, it would be a major accomplishment for our Asian Studies program because it really has grown dramatically over the past five years or so. So it would be fantastic if indeed we get it.”

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University are also being considered for the donation, according to Cha. However, SFS Interim Dean James Reardon-Anderson said that he is hopeful the donation will be granted to Georgetown, but See GRANT, A6

Read a firsthand experience of playing against the stars. A3 Thursday generally during the afternoons in preparation for its friendly exhibition match against El Salvador on Saturday at FedEx Field, which it won 2-0.

As part of the practices, players from Georgetown’s men’s soccer team assisted the training sessions, both as active participants and ball-fetchers.

“It was a tremendous opportunity for our student-athletes to see some of the best players in the world and to have the experience of a lifetime by training with them,” Assistant Athletics Director for Communications Michael Carey wrote

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Argentina captain and FC Barcelona star forward Lionel Messi drew supporters of all ages to Georgetown last week, where the Argentinian national team prepared for a friendly. in an email.

Hundreds of fans flocked to campus to watch practice and catch a glimpse of their favorite players.

Although Shaw Field was

closed to the general public, both students and fans from near and far watched from the perimeter of the field and from the Leavey Esplanade. Prior to practice starting, families

played pickup soccer on Kehoe Field and tried to position themselves to get autographs.

The Argentinian national See ARGENTINA, A6

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OWN IT 2015 NEWS LGBTQ Homelessness

Casa Ruby, a new shelter in the District, is the first to cater specifically to trans youth.

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NEWS Rajiv Shah

Sports A Sound Victory

NEWS D.C. Homelessness

OPINION Commentary

The former USAID head spoke on the role of development in U.S. foreign policy.

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A freshman created a book profiling Washington, D.C.’s homeless population.

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The men’s tennis team ended March with a 5-2 win over Johns Hopkins.

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Witch hunts aren’t dead.

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OPINION

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

THE VERDICT

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EDITORIALS

SFS, Mind Your Roots The School of Foreign Service is building a reputation that fails to uphold its name.

A Cawley Career Center poll revealed that only 11 percent of the School of Foreign Service’s Class of 2014 entered careers in nonprofit or service, while 6 percent accepted positions in government.

This is an alarming figure that seems contradictory to the school’s mission to “combine theory and practice and instill the values of service to others,” especially when compared with the 25 percent who proceeded to work in consulting and the 15 percent who pursued finance.

Although the fault for the disinterest in service-oriented careers does not fall entirely on the university, it must work to renew its commitment to fostering the ideals of service and better supporting its students in finding such careers, given the statistics above.

The problem itself has many causes.

For one, the support for nontraditional internships and jobs, including public service, is lackluster. The Career Center offers more workshops and networking events for big names like Deloitte and Capitol One than for any other service

or nonprofit companies. Appointments with deans and career advisers are difficult to come by and counseling geared toward careers in government brings little to light other than the painfully obvious.

With the unveiling of the global business major this fall, the only clearly private-sector oriented major in the SFS — despite assertions to contrary — the SFS has made a worrying statement.

It feels the need to create a major that is reminiscent of many other existing majors with a small added twist of business education in order to stay relevant and maintain its elite image. It is time for some serious soul-searching.

It is time for the school to question when it became acceptable for matriculating students to come in aspiring to make a difference in the world through public service and come out enlisting in the ranks of Deloitte. It is time to change the norm, offer more service and government-oriented classes, workshops and counseling, and return veracity to the SFS’s identity as a school that encourages and supports the dream many students enter college with — the betterment of others through public service.

Nerdy March Madness — At the NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament in Atlanta this past weekend, Georgetown’s quiz bowl team took sixth in the country.

Tragicomedy — Jon Stewart has announced 31-year-old South African comedian Trevor Noah as the new Daily Show anchor. No matter how well he does, there will only ever be one Jon Stewart.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

“The Pied Villanova Piper” I’ve seen a lot of posts on social media lately with regards to the sad Villanova fan (Roxanne Chalifoux) along the lines of, “I’ve cried at games, too! Why didn’t I get free things?” It saddens me that millenials would fall into their own stereotype and respond so selfishly and in such an entitled manner to this story. By responding this way, we show a disdain for generosity and a lack of empathy for others in our own plight.

By saying, “I have cried, too, where is my reward?” we imply that Roxanne somehow earned what she received. After all, if one person works the same as another, we all deserve equal pay. But, this is incorrect, for what Roxanne received wasn’t a payment of any kind. It was a gift.

By demanding an equal gift, we are being the equivalent of a bratty sibling demanding all presents be equal all of the time. We oughtn not make someone feel bad for receiving a gift, and we certainly ought not make celebrities like Jimmy Fallon feel

bad for giving a gift. At best, we come across as envious brats; at worst, we discourage celebrities from giving such gifts to others like us in the future.

We also forget that, in a way, Roxanne did earn what she received: She had to endure the laughter of the crowd at the game, the laughter of the millions watching on TV, and the laughter of the internet long after the game ended. It’s easy, ex post facto, to say you wish you had been shown crying on national TV, but in the moment, that would have been very embarrassing, and it’s not necessarily true that you would have taken the laughter in as well as Roxanne did.

If a friend won the lottery, we’d certainly be jealous, but we’d feel happy for our friend. Let’s stop being envious, spoiled millenials and be happy for one of our fellow students.

Alexander Zajac (COL ’15)

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

Our City, Our Problem Georgetown students are often accused of being trapped inside the “Georgetown Bubble,” isolating them from the concerns of the greater Washington, D.C. area, especially ones that have an impact on our personal safety.

A recent report by the online pharmacy website Superdrug Online Doctor has highlighted one concern we cannot afford to ignore: increasing rates of sexually transmitted disease in D.C. The report, which aggregates data found in the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Drug Prevention databases, as well as a 2012 report from the D.C. Department of Health, presents a troubling diagnosis — D.C. is afflicted with higher rates of STDs than any state in the country.

Though D.C. is an almost entirely urban environment, unlike the states with which it is compared, D.C. is in the top five for all but two of the six major STDs, and is number one on the list for three of them.

This is not an issue that we can avoid within the Georgetown bubble. This is an issue that impacts all in the area, and it must be dealt with in all communities and neighborhoods in D.C. Given these disturbing findings, there are several important considerations that Georgetown students must make.

First, we must remember that unlike the states that it is compared with, which feature a mixture of rural, suburban and

urban elements, D.C. is an almost entirely urban environment.

From D.C. residents who remain in close contact with each other in apartment buildings and workplaces to students who do the same in classrooms and residence halls, the fact that D.C. was found to have higher STD rates than than states like North Carolina or Oregon is unsurprising, but nevertheless warrants every students’ attention even on campus.

There are already several useful resources like the recent Stall Seat Journal issue about the spread of STDs and the sexual health information page on the university’s website. We urge students not only to familiarize themselves with these resources but to heed their advice as well.

It is also reassuring to note that D.C. has taken steps to implement educational campaigns to lower STD rates.

So far, the programs seem to be working: There has been a significant decline in the rate of HIV/AIDS, and screening methods have improved, making it much easier to spot the disease than it has been in the past.

Georgetown students should arm themselves with the knowledge of D.C.’s STD prevalence. These statistics consider D.C.’s metropolitan areas but should move students to be more careful in order to prevent these numbers from growing worse.

Service Knows No Bounds

In light of the 30th anniversary of Georgetown University’s Freshmen Orientation to Community Involvement program, it is important to recognize similar community service-oriented initiatives for developing socially conscious students and reaching a larger audience on campus.

FOCI, a program that began with 14 freshmen in August 1986 and now includes over 50 members from each incoming class, is a valuable asset to Georgetown.

Previous participants have become prominent Georgetown leaders, exemplifying the extent of the program’s continued salience.

But after all, FOCI engages only 50 students a year. A visible, time-honored Georgetown tradition, FOCI’s ability to introduce participants to the social justice toolbox that facilitates successful engagement of service on the Hilltop and the wider D.C. community should be galvanized as a more avail-

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FOCI’s 30th anniversary last week as well as the presence of other such programs like the Alternative Breaks Program have reminded us of the importance they hold at this university and its community, but also move us to recommend either an expansion of FOCI itself or the installment of more programs like it.

Regardless of whether or not one has participated in the program, it is undeniable that FOCI and other programs have served as a model for orienting one’s own Georgetown experience toward the broader D.C. community.

During a period of life in which opportunities for personal growth and meaningful involvement surround us, service is not only a valuable use of our time, but also allows students to engage with and give back to this community — especially one that ranks among the country’s most segregated and fiscally compartmentalized communities.

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Benjamin Mcafee (SFS ’12) responds to Jairus Nytes’ “The Invisible Patient” (The Hoya, A3, Friday, March 27, 2015).

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Having access to mental health providers is imperative for one to get re-admitted back into Georgetown, and if one does not have the financial resources, then you are out of luck and will most likely not be able to return. Whenever I experienced suicidal ideations due to my chemical imbalance, I made sure to talk to my Dean and seek help from my peers at Georgetown. My Dean was able to speak on my behalf and email professors without having to tell them specifics about my mental health condition. Faculty members were also very supportive. They want their students to succeed, and letting your faculty know ahead of time that you may experience certain challenges can benefit you in the long run.”

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The article “Study Wary of College Divestment” (The Hoya, A5, March 27, 2015) misidentified the IPAA as the International Petroleum Association of America. It has been updated to reflect its actual name, the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

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OPINION

TUESday, March 31, 2015

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT...

Fr. Howard Gray, S.J.

Easter’s Crucial Reflections D

uring this challenging winter, I often returned to the final lines of Shelley’s “Ode to the West

Wind:” “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

The Romantics in general, and perhaps Shelley in particular, have minimal resonance in the hearts of most contemporary undergraduates. Nonetheless, these remain lines that successfully reflect our yearning for new life after a barren stretch of snow, ice and blizzards. Spring and Easter flow together as each promises the transformation from death to life.

By “transformation” I mean that from and through a reality that we think we know and have experienced emerges a wholly new reality. A classic example of such transformation is the butterfly, long a symbol of spring and resurrection.

From the eggs laid on plants by the female butterfly comes the caterpillar and from the caterpillar comes the pupa or chrysalis from which emerges the butterfly.

We can appreciate the power of the butterfly as an enduring symbol of transformation from death to life in literature such as Vladimir Nabokov’s great short story “Christmas.”

In the Resurrection of Christ we celebrate not that Christ “returned to life” but that Christ transformed life into our graced birthright, in other words that what transpired in him belongs now to us. For Easter is about what Christ did for us, not what he did for himself. At Easter we are also reminded that the Christian’s hope is not wishful thinking but a powerful expectation that all that is human will be caught up in the divine embrace of a God who loves us as he loved his crucified Son into new life. This faith conviction founds the Christian fundamental option theory of life and human dignity.

To be human is to yearn for final and irrevocable transformation, but also to learn how to recognize and to revere the smaller but nevertheless real miracles of transformation when they appear in our ordinary lives. For the Christian, these miracles are found in the amalgam of Holy Week graces.

Poets, artists and musicians share this pilgrimage towards transformation, but they are not unique. For at the heart of every human skill and science, of every scholarly and professional inquiry dwells the pilgrimage towards transformation. And this leads me to a final Easter reflection about higher education and, more specifically, higher education at Georgetown.

Competency and professional skills, a personal familiarity with the world of ideas, and the search for truth in every discipline — these are among the anticipated achievements of a graduate of Georgetown. The university promises such fulfillment and pledges the resources to honor that promise. But beyond competency and professional skills, Georgetown professes a more fundamental task for its graduates. That more fundamental task is engaging the world in order to transform the world. Let me try to spell out this deeper transformation.

When learning and professional competency become reverence for mystery as well as mastery over details and systems; when easy amiability and social finesse become enduring commitments to friendship; when the recognition of injustice and violence and manipulation of the poor and marginalized becomes a passion for change and a thirst to promote human dignity everywhere; when shrewd business or political judgments become discernment about implementing one’s non-negotiables — in short, when the young adult who leaves Georgetown has been transformed by the grace of education, it is then that the Georgetown mission becomes a way of life.

All authentic processes of transformation begin and end in love, as does the Christian celebration of Easter. But that conviction about the centrality of love also reminds us that there are many ways to make this journey toward transformation from love to love.

We Christians celebrate the resilient hope of Easter but we do not own hope; we share hope as we share love, with many other traditions and other human convictions. Georgetown is a community of shared vision, shared hope and shared transformations.

Easter, then, is the celebration of a journey that belongs in some humble yet generous way to all of us. The Jesuit Gerard Manly Hopkins who made Easter an important theme in his work offers a lovely synthesis of all I’ve tried to share.

“Henceforth let your souls always Make each morn an Easter Day” (Gerard Manly Hopkins, “Easter”).

Fr. Howard Gray, S.J., is the assistant to the president at Georgetown University. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT… appears every other Tuesday.

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VIEWPOINT • Ridley

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The Loaded ‘Southern’ Question

’m Alex and I’m from Alabama.

“What’s that like?”

It is a seemingly harmless, NSOesque question that Northerners always ask whenever I reveal I’m from the South. But whenever someone tells me they’re from New Jersey, New York, or some other New England colony, I never think to ask: “What’s that like?”

“No, really, what’s it like down there?”

I immediately want to equalize myself: I grew up in suburbia like most people here, the prep school I went to rivals Andover and both my parents have graduate degrees. But that would just be me throwing my privilege in your face. Nonetheless, I feel the urge each time I am ignorantly asked this question. The question feigns interest but, to a Southern ear, is fraught with social stigmas.

More likely, unfortunately, is that when each Georgetown student simplifies the South to a loaded question, there is power and presumption at play of which I myself have only ever been on the receiving end.

The question immediately creates a divide because I’m not warranted the same inquiry. Growing up, the North seemed like a promised land of Ivy-clad institutions, seemingly more academic and enchanting than the South. The winners write history and thus my peers are exonerated from a similar question because it’s understood: the North is a progressive, liberal oasis. That’s what it’s like “up there.”

“But, did you like it?”

I say “y’all” but I hate country music; I miss sweet tea everyday, but I would never let hilltop voGUe feature camo. Needless to say, I cherry pick the aspects of my southern experience. More often, however, the question is much more leading than a litany of southern characteristics.

The question goes, “How could you like all the racism and ignorance and bigotry?!” You’re right. I don’t like any of the racism or the ignorance or the bigotry that happens in the South.

Yet, the simplification doesn’t spark intelligent conversation. It is a mere

Telling someone I’m from Alabama elicits the same reaction as telling them I’m from (insert any developing country here). vehicle for the curious student to aggrandize and apotheosize the power of geographic diversity, and suddenly there exists startling breadth that makes it easy to assume, “Of course you love the North, free of racism and ignorance and bigotry!”

On the contrary, a lot of inequity takes place in the Northeast and all over the country for that matter.

Indiana’s religious objections bill, Utah’s execution by firing squad and Connecticut’s failure to protect trans-

VIEWPOINT • De Andrade

The Day I Almost Played Nationally

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never thought I would be sitting in class instead of training with Lionel Messi. But then again, I never thought I would ever have the opportunity to play with a man who has been honored multiple times as the world’s best player.

When the Georgetown men’s soccer team received news that we would be hosting the Argentinian national soccer team at Shaw Field, we were ecstatic.

When we were told that we would have the opportunity to train with them, we couldn’t believe it.

Recently, the men’s soccer team has grown. We play against the top collegiate programs during the season, and scrimmage against semiprofessional and professional teams in the spring.

With that said, this was the first time that we’d be playing against a national team since I joined the team.

But it wasn’t just a national team, it was the same national team that competed in the World Cup finals a few months prior and contained some of the highest-paid players in the world. This was the definition of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

I almost missed out on this opportunity though. The NCAA does not allow student athletes to miss class for their sport in its offseason — even when you are playing with world renowned athletes.

Because of this rule, I found myself, on the first day of Argentinian training, sitting in class listening to a lecture. I was dumbstruck. The reasons I wasn’t with my teammates on Shaw Field playing against the World Cup finalists were trivial.

I wouldn’t let it happen again.

That night, I emailed my professor asking for an excused absence since this was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.

I was fortunate that he understood why this was so important and granted the excused absence required to train the next day. I needed to be on that field. It is truly an odd feeling sitting in class minutes waiting

to play against players like Sergio Agüero and Ángel Di María.

It was even odder walking the same path we take each day to practice to witness crying fans and police checkpoints every 10 yards.

But normalcy returned once we were on the field. While we warmed up, there was no Argentina in sight. This soon changed.

A black Mercedes van pulled up and strikers that I had only seen on televised games poured out. I could barely describe the experience. I was standing alongside and playing with the players I emulated.

The experience was incredible. Argentina had planned on making it a private training session, but it was far from private.

Fans crowded around the field, and peered down from buildings; they were ever ywhere that enabled them to sneak a peak.

But it didn’t stop there. The game was even stopped multiple times after fans rushed on to the field, trying to capture selfies with players like Javier Mascherano and Ezequiel Lavezzi.

When I finally had my opportunity in goal, it didn’t go as I had imagined. Before I knew it, Di María was attacking the goal.

He got free and managed a shot that hit my gentleman’s area. It wasn’t pretty and it didn’t feel too good, but at least now I can say I saved a shot by the Manchester United forward.

The game ended. We took some pictures so we could have a physical memory of the experience. Then they left. After my teammates and I finished playing against some of the most talented players in the world, we celebrated the only way we knew how. Chicken Finger Thursday. Just like that, we were back to life at Georgetown. For a brief, glorious day, I was playing soccer with the Argentina national team. But the next, I was back in lecture.

I think you know which one I preferred.

For a brief, glorious day, I was playing soccer with the Argentina national team. But the next, I was back in lecture.

I think you know which one I preferred.

Anderson de Andrade is a sophomore in the College.

gender workers are all backwards, antiquated and retroactive pieces of legislation. But, hey, at least they’re not the South.

Even more applicable, a lot of racism and ignorance and bigotry happens on Georgetown’s campus, not to mention sexism and homophobia and every other form of prejudice imaginable. I thought education was the great equalizer, but when a Georgetown student wears his geographic privilege like a Vineyard

Vines sweater one size too small and scoffs at the Southern philistines, my Georgetown degree falls short.

“I would have never guessed you’re from Alabama!”

I know, I know. My hobbies and interests and even my clothing choices don’t necessarily scream “Southern gentleman.”

But I don’t see this as applause for being a Southern outlier; I see it more as a diminutive, as if I succeeded despite my “disadvantaged” Southern circumstances.

I once tweeted that telling someone I’m from Alabama elicits the same reaction as telling them I’m from (insert any developing country here).

As if I weren’t afforded the same opportunities as my Northern counterparts, they are consistently shocked that someone from Alabama could be proficient in three languages or could, God forbid, consider himself a liberal democrat.

The surprise comes across as smug pity, as if I were a refugee that the North has saved from the oppression of the South. I have become the “Northern Man’s Burden;” a take on neoliberalism to enfranchise Southerners with agency to make the world a more progressive place.

Of course, there are probably people in the South who could benefit from this new school of thought.

And so could the rest of the country.

Those not from the South get away with passing as perfectly progressive individuals when, in reality, nobody is. A conversation that creates power dynamics and belittles the other is the paradox. And sometimes passiveaggressive questions hurt more than their forthright counterpart.

As prospective students arrive for GAAP weekend and OAs prepare for NSO, let’s engage in a conversation that erases the Mason-Dixon Line before assumptions gerrymander it.

The energy it takes to simplify the South should be redirected to instead promote and learn from each other’s hometown glories.

Alex Ridley is a sophomore in the College.

CULTURE CLASH

The Trouble With Modern Witch Hunts

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n 17th-century Puritan Massachu- chauvinist or Satan incarnate.

Examples are rife. When Macklemore setts, transgressions as small as kissing one’s spouse in public on a released “Same Love” in 2012, celebrating Sunday could earn one several hours of the gay rights movement, many online public shame in the stocks.

LGBTQ activists attacked Macklemore In the stocks, offenders were exposed for having the gall to talk about the gay not just to the elements, but also to the rights movement even positively while insults, kicks, spit and frequent urine of simultaneously being a white, heteropassersby. In comparison, sanction hours sexual male. When Emma Watson spoke for getting caught drinking Natty in your before the United Nations last year callNew South room seem like a vacation. ing for women’s rights worldwide, many Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about the activists online similarly attacked her cult of public humiliation in Puritan so- speech, decrying the manifest evil of ceciety in “The Scarlet Letter,” a novel that lebrity feminism. has bored high school students for the Reading the vitriol from these social last 165 years. But it may be time to take a media crusaders, you would practically second look at public humiliation and its think that Macklemore and Emma Watdisturbing new place in son’s statements were our society. acts of subjugation It’s certainly a ripe upon the very groups time to do so. Twenty they purported to emyears after the affair power. that plastered her Such statements do across the front page of not just distract from every paper in the nathe very real, much tion, Monica Lewinsky more pressing sources returned to the pages of subjugation and Tucker Cholvin and of The New York Times oppression, they also Thomas Christiansen this weekend to tell distort reality. her story of how public While their eyes shaming and humiliation not just ruined were busy popping out of their heads, her life, but in many ways ended it. many online activists failed to note that And a little more than a year after one Macklemore donated every penny of the idiotic tweet by Justine Sacco making a proceeds from “Same Love” to funding joke about AIDS in Africa drew the ire and the successful campaign for same-sex vitriol of millions on Twitter, journalist marriage in Washington State.

Jon Ronson is out with a book exploring Every fight for social justice in this with unflinching honesty what happens country has been one of inclusion. Incluto those people who through accident or sion brought white marchers along with fleeting fault enrage the Internet. black marchers behind Martin Luther Group punishment through social King, Jr. Inclusion is similarly enshrined shaming and ostracism is very different in the ideals of the LGBTQ rights movefrom a court date and a jail term. After ment, whose flag is a rainbow because all, most prisons in this country are for- we strive for a society where everyone bemally penitentiaries. longs — including those people who spat That name itself is an achievement of on us, hated us, vilified us and oppressed 19th-century progressivism that has pu- us.

Inclusion is how social justice is tatively shifted the function of criminal justice from primarily one of punish- achieved, advanced and maintained. It is ment to one of rehabilitation and reform. the lifeblood of an equal society.

But this is not the method or goal of Social exclusion has none of this as its goal. Instead, ostracism and public pun- the Facebook crusaders who think that ishment brand their victims permanent- activism means shouting into a vacuum. ly as outsiders, evildoers and subhumans. Instead, it is being right by branding othDon’t agree with us? Look no further ers as wrong. And in an era in which the than the victims: Monica Lewinsky will agenda of social justice is increasingly forever be synonymous with fleeting addressed on our Facebook and Twitter poor decisions she made as a 22-year-old feeds, it alienates our generation from intern. the real work of social justice: lifting Such punishment is neither effective people up. nor just, but it is terrifying. Disturbingly, Our generation can definitely strive a small but highly vocal and visible group for better dialogue. But it remains to of many social justice movements has be seen whether we will, or if we will made shaming and ostracism not just its just keep posting Facebook statuses. preferred method but practically its rai- But eventually we may discover the same thing that the Puritans realson d’être.

Such shaming often extends far be- ized: Witch hunts rarely find witches. yond simply naming and shaming individuals who have transgressed. In- Tucker Cholvin and Thomas Christiancreasingly, there is a vast and complex sen are seniors in the School of Foreign orthodoxy to which everyone must con- Service. Culture Clash appears every form or be labelled as ignorant, bigoted, other Tuesday.

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Q&A: OWN IT Speakers Share Advice, Experiences KATHERINE RICHARDSON Hoya Staff Writer

OWN IT and the Georgetown Office of Public Affairs hosted the second annual OWN IT Summit Saturday in Gaston Hall. The women’s conference aims to bridge the gap between young women and working professionals in a variety of fields. Approximately 800 attendees from Georgetown and universities around the country including Yale University, University of Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins University attended the summit, which featured over 80 speakers and panelists.

THE HOYA conducted exclusive interviews with five of the speakers. The interviews have been edited for clarity and condensed for print.

Danielle Brooks is an actress who attended The Juilliard School and now plays Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on the Netflix original series “Orange Is the New Black,” which is in its third season.

What advice would you give young women interested in acting?

Brooks: I say go for it. Go full throttle for it. If you’re still green, get educated.

There’s so many schools out here; it doesn’t have to be Juilliard. There are so many colleges that can give you what you need where you are. Go get some education. Educate yourself, and go for it.

And that’s a problem that we’re having that, where do these prisoners go for rehabilitation? Where do they go to figure out how to live when they get out? And we don’t have enough of that. So I feel like, that’s really the purpose of Taystee when it comes to talking about the issues of the prison systems in America.

Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post who served as a foreign correspondent for 14 years in over 40 countries.

What’s your advice to young women interested in pursuing journalism?

Jordan: Learn how to write. Work hard.

Read everything you can, and go for it because there’s never been more opportunities in journalism, actually. There are many more platforms now. You can blog and you can do radio and you can do print journalism. You can do video.

There are a lot of places for people who are curious and just know that it’s a fun job. I always feel like it’s grad school. First, I was in Japan and learned everything about Japanese politics, and then I moved to Mexico and learned everything about Latin American studies, then London and learned about the British parliamentary system. I think journalism is so great, because it’s basically just learning every day and meeting really interesting people.

How do you think that your character, Taystee, in “Orange Is the New Black” is exposing problems for women in the prison system in America?

Brooks: Taystee, you know, she is a child of the system. She has been in and out of prison her whole life. As we see in season one, I believe, she goes in and out. The reason she does is because in prison she had a home, she had a family, she had food on the table and that was comfortable for her.

What’s the biggest challenge to be a woman in journalism and how would you encourage young aspiring female journalists?

O’Donnell: I think there are very few challenges for women in journalism.

I think it’s a great field for women to

Danielle Brooks, actress.

Mary Jordan, journalist.

Norah O’Donnell is a print and television journalist who works as the co-anchor of CBS This Morning, and previously worked as the Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News.

enter because it’s largely a meritocracy.

If you write a good story, if you investigate something and break a news story, that’s going to be recognized. So, I think many of the talents that women have, which are interests in how policy affects people’s lives, answering the question of why something is, which is the heart of journalism. Those are well-suited to some of the skill sets that many women already have and I think journalism is a great field for women. We need more women in leadership in journalism, and that will take time, but I’m firmly convinced that we are at a turning point.

Having met many of the women at Georgetown, I’m confident that we are going to have equality in terms of leadership in journalism very soon.

Megan Smith is the chief technology officer to the United States and was formerly the vice president of GoogleX.

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What advice would you give young

women interested in the technology field?

Smith: The universe doesn’t really divide the subjects up. In school you’re learning science, math, and English and history and music. Being fluent in all those different things is very powerful. ... As a student, take a lot of time to sample some things and not shut the door because of stereotypes. Even in children’s television they have some crazy stereotypes. Out of every four characters on kid’s TV only one’s a girl.

In STEM fields, only one’s a girl out of five, and in computer science cast on TV it’s fifteen to one. Which is not true for the industry, but it creates this bias in what you think you should do. And then you see classes skewed. But coding is just following instructions like following a recipe or following a list of things to do. Learning how to use that to make things and have impact on the world is really important. We sometimes make people afraid of tech. The way that we teach it, we make people feel dumb and bored and not have people teach by learning. You learn to

Norah O’Donnell, journalist.

Megan Smith, chief technology officer.

Kara Swisher, technology journalist.

What is the role of U.S. Chief Technology Officer and how have you adapted it?

Smith: The official job is to advise the president and his team on how to harness the power on data efficiency in technology on behalf of the nation. It’s a flexible job. It’s not like you’re supposed to run NASA or run IT websites for the government, it’s really an architecture job and a policy job. ...

One of the areas we focus on is the American people. How do we help with skills or entrepreneurial access and what people are able to do, STEM stuff for youth and coding at school and that whole range of things to support the American people and top innovators can also help other people get into innovation. We call it “Innovation Nation,” it’s our nickname. Programs like Tech Hire that we launch that are helping people use code boot camps to get into. There’s five million jobs open in the country, so we’re trying to help people get into the tech jobs there.

Kara Swisher is a technology journalist who serves as the executive editor of Re/Code, a tech news and analysis website.

As moderator of the Innovation Panel at the summit, what were you trying to get across?

Swisher: Innovation can come in many forms and where is it going. And we have to think very hard as to how we can stay as an innovative country. The U.S. is a leader in technology and innovation but it’s going to lose that fast to China and India and countries that are doing some amazing things. The question is, are we educating our people in a way that is necessary to keep that going, are we providing visas in a way to bring in talent from all over the world, do we have enough focus on the fact that this is going to differentiate ourselves and bring us into the future for a better country and a better world.

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Shah Emphasizes FOCI Program Marks 30 Years Role of Development PAtricja okuniewska Hoya Staff Writer

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Former U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah highlighted the importance of development to American foreign policy in a lecture at the Lohrfink Auditorium Monday.

The lecture, sponsored by the Office of the President, was part of the Global Futures Initiative, launched in January to encourage the university to engage in conversations about global issues over the next four semesters. As each semester focuses on a different theme, the issue for this semester is the future of development. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Chief Economist Kaushik Basu have previously given speeches as part of the initiative.

“We’ve engaged in thoughtful and nuanced discussions on factors that shape efforts to alleviate poverty and improve the human condition in a world marked by complexity,” University President John J. DeGioia said in his introductory speech at the event.

Shah served as USAID’s administrator from 2010 until earlier this year. Upon leaving the organization on March 1, he joined the faculty of the School of Foreign Service as a distinguished fellow-inresidence, primarily engaging with the Global Human Development Program led by former USAID Chief Economist Steven Radelet.

“We’re deeply grateful to have the opportunity to engage with [Shah] now as a member of our community,” DeGioia said. “In his commitment to innovation and development, Dr. Shah’s work considers that same question and reflects that same spirit of thoughtful engagement in action toward the common good.”

Shah began his address by outlining the importance of development to American foreign policy.

“It is important to recognize that development policy plays, and has played especially in the last decade, a much larger role in how American projects combined military, diplomatic, and development rights-based power around the world,” Shah said.

Highlighting examples of important development projects, such as health and education reconstruction in Afghanistan, refugee camps in Jordan and earthquake rebuilding efforts in Haiti, Shah explained that in the coming years, the developing world would provide an opportunity for the United States to create real change.

“A greater number of our foreign policy crises, policies and opportunities

will emanate from fragile states, and the fight against extreme poverty, which is increasingly concentrated in these states, will become an increasing part of how we defend ourselves, how we build connections around the world and how we build a global economy that really has an on-ramp for the 1.1 billion people that still subsist on a dollar a day or less,” Shah said.

Shah highlighted particular successes of America’s development mission until now, noting advances in global health and child survival rates, new technologies, education and the fight against global hunger, which was addressed by the Feed the Future Initiative launched

by USAID in 2010 to ensure food security.

“There are a handful of things that we do very well in projecting development leadership around the world, and they often have to do with health, hunger, water access, education, investing in people, investing in children,” Shah said.

Shah then moved to criticizing the U.S. development policy. He advocated for the United States to support infrastructure projects in developing countries and focus on climate resilience strategies to prepare for natural disasters.

“I believe in the next 10 to 15 years, if we don’t do the next things better, in a more creative and imaginative way, we will then cede 60 years of American leadership to a group of emerging economies that are already starting to come together to organize new ways of doing things,” Shah said. “In the process, I think we’ll end up with … an America that is not as connected to the frontier parts of the world with anything other than our military.”

One of the primary anecdotes Shah discussed was that of the Ebola epidemic, the devastation of which he attributed to inadequate data and preparedness. When real-time data on where cases were occurring began streaming into government offices, the tide turned against the disease.

“Good data makes all the difference,” Shah said.

Shah concluded his lecture by acknowledging his hope for the future of development policy in the United States.

“When America offers leadership in development and humanitarian affairs, it changes the way the world sees and interacts with us but more than anything, it helps our own politics come together to do some extraordinary things,” Shah said. “We actually have a political system that could support a far bigger and much-needed role of development in our foreign policy.”

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Former USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, who is now part of the SFS faculty, gave a lecture Monday as part of the Global Futures Initiative.

Thirty years ago, 14 students and seven leaders embarked on the inaugural First Year Orientation to Community Involvement program at Georgetown University. Put together by the Center for Social Justice in 1986, the program has since more than tripled to its current size of 54 participants and 16 leaders per year.

FOCI celebrated its 30th anniversary March 28 by bringing together students, faculty, alumni and friends for a day of activities, including an alumni reflection panel, a FOCI service activity and an evening reception and gala.

The intensive, week-long pre-orientation program is open to incoming freshmen and transfer students and is a chance for first years to immerse themselves in Washington, D.C., through the promotion of social justice and community service.

Monica Gibbons (NHS ’16), a FOCI leader captain in 2014, said that the program pushes students to go beyond campus and encounter the city in a way that brings about solidarity and emphasizes social justice in the larger community.

“The goal of FOCI is to bring a diverse group of students from all over the country and with different backgrounds to a week of learning about the city that they are about to be immersed into for the next four years, and to look at the issues that the places in the city that you are about to live in face,” Gibbons said.

Center for Social Justice Associate Director Ray Shiu said that FOCI allows for students’ personal growth before they even step foot in a classroom at Georgetown.

“FOCI participants actively engage in community service; discover and reflect on the diverse populations, perspectives, and roles in the Georgetown and D.C. communities; develop the capacity for leadership; and become part of a

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Center for Social Justice Associate Director Ray Shiu spoke at the 30th anniversary dinner for the pre-orientation program FOCI. community committed to personal growth through service and reflection,” Shiu said. “FOCI’s activities address a wide variety of social justice issues.”

FOCI was founded in 1986 after the idea was proposed by a group of Georgetown students, including Dr. Mark Fox (CAS ’87), who was inspired to propose a program after attending a service and community engagement conference at Princeton University.

FOCI leader Tessa Pulaski (SFS ’15) said that preserving the program’s history at this milestone is an important task.

“Thirty years means we have been involved in trying to get Georgetown students more off campus and more into D.C. for a long time,” Pulaski said. “Thirty years is a good time to think about what the future of the program will bring because a lot of the program has been built off of really strong institutional backgrounds. I hope that moving forward, we keep that history super close.”

Pulaski also said that the program is highly valued at Georgetown, serving as a place where close relationships among participants and leaders are formed.

“I think it tries to start difficult conversations before you even get to Georgetown about race, class, privilege,” Pulaski said. “It tries to expedite these conversations that might happen for Georgetown students only during their junior or senior years. I think FOCI can bring in a very diverse group of people that makes the conversation start happening at an earlier time, and I think these are critical conversations to be having.”

The FOCI community remains large and expansive, consisting of both current students and alumni.

Several FOCI alumni are professors at Georgetown, including Soyica Colbert (COL ’01), Brian McCabe (SFS ’02) and Dinaw Mengestu (COL ’00). Meanwhile, many other alumni have pursued careers in social justice.

Daniel Wassim (SFS ‘18), a participant of FOCI this past year, said the program has been influential in shaping his future at Georgetown.

“FOCI provided me with meaningful friendships even before orientation, and it undoubtedly shaped my journey here at Georgetown by instilling in me a sense of duty for my community,” Wassim said.

Fighting Trans Homelessness Maureen Tabet Hoya Staff Writer

In response to the effect of disproportionate levels of homelessness on LGBTQ youth, a new youth shelter is the first of its kind to offer protection for transgender youth in the District.

Ruby Corado, an advocate for LGBTQ rights, heads Casa Ruby, a nonprofit organization that currently provides meals, case management, legal counsel and other basic services to the LGBTQ community. Now, Corado is opening a shelter particularly for trans youth.

According to the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 19 percent of trans people have been homeless at some point in their lives, while 10 percent of transgender people have been ejected from their homes due to their gender identity.

However, despite the prevalence of homelessness among this population, 29 percent of trans people reported being turned away from shelters because of their gender identity. Even when they are accepted into shelters, 55 percent said they experienced sexual harassment at a shelter, according to the Washington Post.

Corado, a trans person who identifies as a woman, previously experienced homelessness, saying at an event in October that being an immigrant trans woman made it difficult for her to find housing.

To combat the problem, Corado received a $380,000 grant from the D.C. Department of Human Services in November, which she used to secure a three-story house on Georgia Avenue NW that will house 10 to 12

people between the ages of 18 and 24.

“Here, you will not be hungry,” Corado said in the Washington Post.

“You won’t be tired from a bad night of sleep. You will be rested and full, and you will be ready to work on your future.”

The problem of homelessness is not limited to the trans community; it affects the entire LGBTQ population. Although LGBTQ youth only make up seven percent of the overall youth population, 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ, according to the Huffington Post.

Luke Brown (COL ’17), who co-led an Alternative Breaks Program trip that explored the issue of LGBTQ youth homelessness and visited homeless shelters in New York City, noted that shelters often treated these clients with disrespect.

“I think what surprised me the most was the inability of mainstream housing organizations to address the particular needs of their LGBTQ clients, especially since these clients are a plurality,” Brown said. “Housing discrimination is still rampant, with LGB individuals having to wear particular clothes to mark them as other or even being verbally and physically assaulted within some shelters.”

Brown said that this disregard was amplified in the interactions of shelters with trans people.

“These issues are compounded within the trans community,” Brown said. “Many trans youth are assigned rooming based on the gender identity officials project onto them or that their birth certificates indicate.”

GU Pride Media Manager and Historian Campbell James (SFS ’17) explained that LGBTQ youth constitute a high portion of the homeless be-

cause of continued stigma attached to the identity.

“I still think that there’s a lot of fear and kind of a stigma around being LGBTQ especially if you’re a person of color,” James said. “If you feel like you’re really different from the mold or from what you think is a normal person, it’s hard to find your place to belong.”

The Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced legal action to make shelters more secure for LGBTQ citizens, particularly for trans youth. Among these reforms, HUD announced that single-gender homeless shelters receiving federal aid could not refuse a person in need based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

James said HUD’s actions are a good first step to ensuring fair treatment of LGBTQ community.

“I think that [the HUD legislation] probably was geared towards the LGBTQ community and trans youth,” James said. “That’s a really, really great inclusive move by HUD to make sure that no young person can be turned away from a safe place to live because of their gender identity.”

Corado’s new shelter will combine the security of a shelter with the services of Casa Ruby, offering job training and counseling to those who seek shelter there.

According to James, the new shelter represents an important step in addressing the problem of homeless transgendered citizens.

“I think it’s really touching and incredible to see Ruby Corado’s youth center turn into a homeless shelter,” James said. “It shows that she’s been gaining a lot of momentum in being a really strong activist for LGBTQ youth in the city.”

NHS Professor Receives Grant to Study HIV Epidemic in DC EMILY tu

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Jennifer Huang Bouey, an associate professor of international health at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, received a $50,000 grant to conduct a one-year study on the risk factors and best practices against the HIV epidemic in Washington, D.C., from the District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research.

Bouey received the grant as part of the D.C. D-CFAR’s Pilot Awards Program, which seeks to provide funds for HIV investigators to assist them in their research. In addition, the organization offers grants to one or two pilot studies per year which they select through a highly selective peer-review process.

The D.C. D-CFAR is a federally funded initiative that aims to promote HIV/ AIDS research to end the epidemic in D.C. The organization is composed of six universities and institutes, including Georgetown University, American University and the Children’s National Medical Center.

Bouey said that she hopes her research will increase awareness and support for individuals in D.C. with a high risk for HIV. “I am very happy to receive this funding as it marks the start of a new direction in my research,” Bouey wrote in an email. “It takes a long time to foster a rapport to work with local communities that serve high-risk populations.

This D.C. D-CFAR funding in a way confirmed the success of our longtime effort to create an academic community team in Washington D.C. to work with this marginalized population at high risk for HIV.” NHS Interim Dean Patricia Cloonan, said that Bouey’s research would continue the NHS’s mission of serving marginalized communities.

“As she expands her focus to include our local community, it is great that she has received this funding to support her work,” Cloonan wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our school seeks to advance the health and well-being of all people with a particular attention on the underserved and marginalized.”

Bouey’s previous research includes

seven years of community-based work with rural-to-urban migrant women in China. With this one-year pilot study, Bouey plans to build upon her research in the context of the United States.

“Migration and sexual violence are two precursors highly correlated with HIV and STI among female commercial sex workers worldwide,” Bouey wrote.

“The relationship between these factors has not previously been explored in urban areas of the United States and the impact of such violence on the biological plausibility for STI and HIV infection has not been well established.”

Bouey stressed the importance of the pilot study in D.C., a center of commercial sex work where there is a high risk of STI and HIV infection for female residents and travellers.

“The nation’s capital has already been identified as a hub for commercial sex work along the East Coast corridor,” Bouey wrote. “This is problematic given the city’s high HIV prevalence rates, among the highest in the United States.

Thus, women travelling into this environment to engage in sex work may face a greatly increased risk of contract-

ing HIV/AIDS. Developing interventions that can effectively reach this travelling population and gather data from them are urgently needed.”

The project will involve a multidisciplinary team of experts in community and behavioral research, immunology, gynecology and epidemiology from Georgetown and George Washington University. The team will also work with long-time local community organization Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, which promotes the health and rights of drug users, sex workers and their communities.

According to Bouey, the pilot study will cover a range of research methods, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches to gathering data.

“We will start with qualitative focus group discussions and in-depth interviews,” Bouey wrote. “The interviews will help us obtain firsthand data from community organizations, public health agencies, policymakers, and female sex workers. We also provide HIV/HCV testing and collect immunology biomarkers.”

Bouey also said that the bridging of

these various types of research methods is important not only in obtaining data, but also in serving as a model for future multidisciplinary research.

“Research involving the collection of biological material has encountered low participation rates, due to a history of unethical public health research in the United States,” Bouey wrote.

“Our study will serve as a model that bridges bench science, behavioral research and community participation to develop a ‘best practice’ model that will eventually benefit both scientific research and marginalized high-risk populations.”

Manavi Bhagwat (NHS ’16), one of Bouey’s students who will take part in the upcoming pilot study this summer, expressed her excitement about working more closely with Bouey.

“I’m incredibly impressed,” Bhagwat said. “When she described the project to me, I was pretty amazed at the fact that she was able to translate her experience in international health to the D.C. area and work on a project so close to home. I’m sure she’s going to be very successful with her project.”

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more in the regular rate,”” Deacon said.

Georgetown College and the McDonough School of Business both had acceptance rates below 16 percent. The College accepted 1,839 students at a rate of 15.9 percent, a decline from last year’s 16.3 percent, while the MSB admitted 530 students at a rate of 15.7 percent, lower than last year’s 16 percent. The acceptance rate for the MSB has dropped precipitously since it was 22 percent for the Class of 2014.

The School of Foreign Service accepted 627 students at a rate of 17.6 percent, nearly on par with last year’s 17.5 percent. The School of Nursing and Health Studies accepted 206 students at a rate of 19.7 percent, higher than the 17.5 percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2018.

All 50 states were represented in the accepted class, with at least three from each state except for North Dakota, which had one admit. As happened last year, California, New York and New Jersey were the top three states represented, with 377, 368 and 266 students admitted respectively.

Women comprised 55 percent of the admitted class, while men comprised 45 percent.

In a small increase from last year’s 10 percent, 11 percent of the admitted class self-identified as African-American, while 17 percent identified as Asian-American and 12 percent as Hispanic-African, the same percentages as the previous year.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon (CAS ’64, GRD ’69) said that although the changes were small, college admissions reflected overall changes in the demographics of

the country.

“It’s hard to be able to say any dramatic difference from one year to the next. There are some inexorable trends that are under way that continue. To some extent, college admissions in truly national universities is a microcosm of what’s going on out there in the country,” Deacon said. “You’ll see continuing shifting more toward states that are further away and not in the northeast.”

Nine percent of the admitted applicants were foreign citizens, originating from 72 different countries. Last year, admits came from 64 countries. Instead of the notorious thin envelopes of acceptance sent to domestic

“There are some inexorable trends that are under way.”

CHARLES DEACON Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

students, foreign nationals received emails informing them of their acceptance Saturday.

The acceptance rate for the 737 legacy students that applied was 37 percent, consistent with the 36 percent rate for the Class of 2018.

The overall goal for the final size of the class is 1,580, the same as previous years and consistent with the cap of 6,675 undergraduates determined by the 2010 Campus Plan. While the anticipated yield rate for accepted students, or the percentage of admits who decide to attend Georgetown, is 45 percent, Deacon said that interest, determined by number of college visits, among other factors, and likelihood of

enrolling were not used as a factor in Georgetown’s admission decisions.

“The most common, disappointing issue is how many colleges are using interest as a factor, so that if they believe you’re not likely to enroll, they won’t admit you because that affects their yield,” Deacon said. “There are fairly elaborate tools that businesses have developed that will model your class out for you and tell you who to admit and not to admit, as opposed to just simply taking the best people, which is what we’re doing.”

Similarly to previous years, Deacon anticipated that 50 to 75 students would be released from the waitlist and approximated based on data from previous years that 1,200 students would initially accept spots on the list.

While schools often enlarge their waitlists as a sugarcoated way of denying applicants, Deacon said that Georgetown did not do so, noting that the average SAT score of students on the Georgetown waitlist was 1429 out of 1600, nearly identical to the average of 1436 for the admitted class.

“One of the trends that we have been seeing this year is that a lot of colleges are putting a lot of people on waitlists,” Deacon said. “[For Georgetown] this is not a polite way of saying no. … By not playing games with the numbers, we have very predictable numbers about how many students we will likely take off the list.”

Waitlisted students will receive final decisions by May 15. Transfer decisions will be released on a rolling basis until June 1. Deacon estimated 150 transfers would be accepted.

Accepted students have the opportunity to visit Georgetown the weekends of April 10 and April 17 as part of open houses run by the Georgetown Admissions Ambassadors Program.

Their final enrollment decisions are due May 1.

Security Heightened for Messi Appearance ARGENTINA, from A1 team was the runner-up in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, losing in the final to Germany, but many fans expressed that they were just there to see forward and Argentina captain Messi, the highest-paid player in sports, fourtime Ballon d’Or winner and star of FC Barcelona.

“I came to see Messi because he’s the best player in the world,” Alex Marotte, a 14-yearold from Pittsburgh, Pa., said. “Better than any I’ve ever seen.”

Matt Parks (GRD ’16) attended practice Thursday and watched from atop the Leavey Center.

“I just really appreciate that we have one of the best athletes in the world and the runner up in the World Cup here,” Parks said. “It was such a cool experience, even though we were watching from far on the ledge.”

Georgetown has previously hosted the U.S. national men’s soccer team and professional teams from Major League Soccer, including the Los Angeles Galaxy earlier this year.

With so many fans coming to campus to see Messi, the Georgetown University Police Department was faced with security concerns regarding crowd management.

“We were concerned about fans coming to the event since he’s a pretty popular soccer player,” GUPD Chief of Police Jay Gruber said.

“We hired some contingencies to provide security to the perimeter of Shaw Field and for the ingress of the team to the field, and of their outbound leaving the field.”

Despite the security presence, around a dozen fans ran onto the field as the players were preparing to leave, at the end of practice Wednesday. No students were involved in the incident, and no arrests were made.

Max Cohen-Casado (SFS ’18) went to all three days of practice and witnessed the incident on Wednesday.

“I was very upset because the people that ran onto the field got all their jerseys signed, whereas the fans waiting patiently behind the barricade didn’t get anything signed,” Cohen-Casado said. “The fans that ran onto the field didn’t receive any sort of punishment other than being told to leave.”

Following the incident, GUPD increased security for Thursday’s practice, setting up barricades and preventing fans from getting as close to the field.

Despite the increased security, Tatiana Shashou (MSB ’17), who attended Thursday’s practice, described how fans still tried to

break through and get on the field.

“It looked like tons of supporters had come far just for Messi, because there was a mix of not only students, but children and adults all wearing Messi shirts in support and excitement,” Shashuo said. “It was completely blocked off to a point where we saw two men try to make a run for it before being tackled down by a police officer and escorted out.”

Gruber praised his staff for the job they did during the event.

“Nobody was placed under arrest, nobody was barred from the university,” Gruber said.

“There were no incidents that truly would have concerned me. We handled a large crowd pretty effectively.”

On Friday, a crowd of around 30 people had gathered by 2:15 p.m. and continued to grow steadily in anticipation of the scheduled practice. However, practice on Friday occurred at FedEx Field instead of Shaw.

“Argentina was holding a press conference for international and local media at FedEx Field, and they chose to hold practice there at the same time,” Carey said.

By 4 p.m., the fans had all gone home in disappointment, save for two still hopeful boys wearing Lionel Messi jerseys, kicking a soccer ball back and forth in front of Shaw.

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Crowds swarmed Georgetown University to catch a glimpse of the Argentinian men’s soccer team and, in particular, star Lionel Messi, widely considered the best player in the world. Despite minor incidents, the increased security from GUPD prevented any major breaches.

GRANT, from A1 added that he was unsure of their decision-making process and criteria.

“I think it’s very, very likely at this point that we will get this funding,” Reardon-Anderson said. “They [the Japanese embassy] have been quite forthcoming, and we have been in close contact with them, and I think everything is on track.”

The Embassy of Japan declined to comment on the proposed donation.

Around 60 students are enrolled in the Master of Arts in Asian Studies Program, housed in the SFS, according to ReardonAnderson. An additional 20 to 25 undergraduate students per class year are pursuing an Asian studies certificate in the SFS. The SFS currently does not house any chairs in Japanese Studies, although the College houses the Nippon Foundation Chair in Japanese Studies. The Nippon Foundation Chair, held within the De-

“It’s very, very likely at this point that we will get this funding.”

James reardon-anderson School of Foreign Service Interim Dean

partment of East Asian Languages and Cultures, was founded about 20 years ago and is currently held by professor Kevin Doak, who which oversees the study of the Japanese language. On the other hand, the new chair would focus on Japan’s place in global affairs and international politics.

Japanese history professor Jordan Sand said that the endowment from the Japanese government will improve scholarship in Japan at Georgetown University.

“Japanese studies doesn’t have enough people,” Sand said. “That’s why this [endowment] is so important. We really need beefing up. We have a superb language program, and we have a small group of — I’d like to think — very good professors.

But we don’t have as much resources as we need.”

The talks with the Japanese embassy began about a year ago and have been led by international relations professor Michael Green, who holds the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Cha and Asian Studies Program administrative specialist Kathleen Fisk, according to Sand.

“I don’t think we have seen something like this [endowment] that’s directly funded by the government before,” Cha said.

However, Cha said that the fact that a foreign government will potentially fund Georgetown has no bearing on the intellectual freedom or freedom of speech of the university.

In 1980, Kuwait endowed the Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah Chair in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies with a $1 million donation.

In 1990, a 10-year grant from the German government established the SFS BMW Center for German and European Studies.

Once a donation is made, the donor does not have control over the professorship other than the field of study the chair will specialize in, according to Cha. Georgetown staff would have full control over the selection and search process of the chair.

Georgetown’s offering of Asian Studies opportunities has been steadily increasing over the past several years. One major addition was the 2012 launch of the SFS’s Master of Arts in Asian Studies Program.

Another improvement was a pilot program launched this year, titled “The Georgetown-Japan 2020 Initiative,” which gave undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to work on Japanese research and travel to Tokyo to present at a public conference and attend various government, think tank and academic meetings.

“Asian studies has just grown exponentially and interest in Asia has grown exponentially over the past couple of decades,” Sand said. “In many ways we have to play catch-up. … The demand was huge and it felt really pent up.”

Cha said that the demand for Asian Studies is in large part due to President Barack Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” strategy announced in 2013.

“Georgetown has been pivoting to Asia even before the Obama administration pivoted to Asia,” Cha said. “We look at people who apply to our program and a couple of other top programs on Asia, and I think we are ranking pretty highly up there right now.”

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be in Washington at the end of April to meet with Obama and address a joint meeting of Congress. The university has been in discussions with the Japanese embassy about the prime minister’s schedule but no decision has been made on whether he will visit Georgetown University, according to ReardonAnderson.

Abe’s speech to Congress will be the first time a Japanese leader will make such an address, emphasizing the increased importance Japan has in U.S. foreign relations.

“I think that [the endowment] is so important because East Asia is so important, because Japan has a very strong relationship with the United States — a very unique one,” Sand said.

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Fossil Free Contests Conduct Sanctions Lucy Prout

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The Georgetown Visitor Center will open in April on M Street near the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in an effort to welcome tourists to the Georgetown neighborhood. The center is looking for volunteers.

Visitor Center to Welcome Tourists Gaia MattiAce Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown Business Improvement District will open a visitor’s center for the Georgetown neighborhood in the lobby of the Georgetown Park shopping mall this April.

The center, which will be located across from specialty foods market Dean and Deluca at the corner of M and Potomac streets, is part of the BID’s 2028 Action Plan, a list of 75 actions to invigorate the Georgetown neighborhood.

BID Director of Communications Rachel Cothran said the purpose of the center is to attract visitors to the Georgetown area and provide information for their stay.

“Ultimately, the goal is to provide a welcoming experience for visitors to Georgetown, provide helpful tips and resources, and to encourage discovery of the neighborhood: its history, unique physical environment, and diverse shopping and dining options,” Cothran said.

Cothran added that the new center will emphasize Georgetown’s history and entertainment options for tourists.

“The Georgetown Visitor Center will set the stage for the best possible visitor experience in a neighborhood that has long been a destination among both domestic and international visitors to Washington, D.C.,” Cothran said. “The visitor center will help provide an overview of the Georgetown neighborhood, from its history to what there is to do today.

From there, visitors will be better

prepared to create their own Georgetown experience.”

The BID is currently recruiting 40 to 50 volunteers from the community to work as “Georgetown Ambassadors” and help with a variety of tasks, including greeting visitors and providing orientation information.

While the online application stresses that volunteers should already be knowledgeable about the area, the BID will provide training on Georgetown’s history, as well as amenities and services that the neighborhood provides, including lodging, food, entertainment, recreation and transportation.

Cothran said that Georgetown students’ familiarity with the area makes them ideal volunteer candidates.

“Georgetown University students have the curiosity and passion for the area that we seek in our recruitment of volunteer Georgetown Ambassadors. We would really love to have [a] GU student contingent on this team,” Cothran said.

Georgetown University Student Association Undersecretary of Neighborhood Relations Olivia Hinerfeld (SFS ’17) said that although the BID has not yet reached out to GUSA about the possibility of volunteer work by Georgetown students, she is optimistic about this potential relationship.

“I believe this could be a great opportunity for increased engagement in the Georgetown Community,” Hinerfeld said.

She added that volunteering at the visitor center could be an option for

students to work off their sanctions for conduct cases.

“Currently, many students receive sanctions hours for conduct cases, which are often resolved by participating in events such as the neighborhood cleanups,” Hinerfeld said.

“Volunteering at the visitor center could serve as a welcome alternative for completing sanction hours and would likely provide a better opportunity for direct involvement with the local community.”

Tyler Welsh (COL ’18) said he would be interested in volunteering and that student involvement at the visitor center could be mutually beneficial for the campus community and greater Georgetown neighborhood.

“I think it’s a good idea. I think that the Georgetown community could benefit a lot from learning about the Georgetown campus and vice versa, so I think I would be willing to volunteer to talk about Georgetown because I love it a lot,” Welsh said.

Rahul Desai (MSB ’17) echoed Welsh, noting that increased interaction between students and community members could assist negotiations for the 2018 Campus Plan.

“I think getting student volunteers at the visitor center is a good idea because it might help bridge the gap between the town and Georgetown,” Desai said. “If the townspeople actually appreciate student volunteers and get to know them on a personal level and students understand the concerns of the residents, then we might be able to come to more effective compromises in regard to the campus plan.”

Three GU Fossil Free members are pleading against charges by the Office of Student Conduct issued March 25 on unauthorized access to restricted spaces and failure to comply with university and law enforcement officials.

They received the sanctions after protesting at World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim’s lecture on global warming at Gaston Hall two weeks ago.

After Kim finished his speech, GU Fossil Free members Elaine Colligan (SFS ’15), Patricia Cipollitti (SFS ’15) and Chloe Lazarus (COL ’16) walked onto the stage with a banner quoting a statement Kim had previously made on climate change.

Director of Student Conduct Judy Johnson and several Georgetown University Police Department officers physically escorted the three students off the stage.

On Friday, Colligan, Cipolliti and Lazarus met with Johnson to discuss the alleged violations of the Code of Student Conduct. The charges could result in a $25 fine related to unauthorized access and housing probation for the failure to comply with university officials.

Johnson declined to comment on the specific incident, but emphasized that student resistance to university officials and law officers is a violation of the Code of Student Conduct. The group vocally resisted requests to step down from Johnson, and after five minutes of dialogue, left the stage.

“The student code of conduct outlines behaviors, consistent with community standards, that are considered violations of the code. For example, engaging in behavior that does not adhere to the directives of a university official or a law enforcement officer is a violation,” Johnson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The three members are currently challenging the charges on the grounds of free speech rights that are guaranteed by the Speech and Expression Policy. The charges made by the Office of Student and possible punishments are “adjucated based on the nature and severity of the behavior and the sanction, which typically may be imposed for a first time violation of a single regulation,” according to the Student Conduct Sanctioning Guide. Disciplinary decisions and sanctions can be appealed. In the appeals process, an administrator or Hearing Board reviews the original record and supporting documents. A sanctioned group can only appeal once.

Section II, Part E of the policy states that, “expressive activities planned and executed with the intention of protesting an event, policy or other concept

can take place in all campus locations, regardless of whether the space has been reserved for that purpose, as long as the actions do not violate other university policies, disrupt university business, or curtail the free speech rights of others.”

Cipollitti said that she maintains that GU Fossil Free abided by the university’s speech and expression policy, which states that students may protest events, “as long as the actions do not violate other university policies, disrupt university business or curtail the free speech rights of others.” “[Johnson] kept indicating that this was an issue of student conduct and not free speech and we kept replying that we were abiding by the university policy, the free speech policy, and therefore these charges based on the Code of Student Conduct were inapplicable to us, so it was kind of a back-and-forth,” Cipollitti said.

According to Cipolliti, the three will continue to argue against the charges, in hopes that the university would comply with its free speech policy.

“We are prepared to defend our right to free speech, which has been a topic of conversation in the past year at the university and because we hope that the university will uphold this right and we hold it in good faith that they genuinely abide by the university’s mission and commitment to the free interchange of ideas,” Cipollitti said. “We think that the consequences will be consistent to that.”

Speech and Expression Committee member Sam Kleinman (COL ’16), who was present at the meeting, said that Johnson did not seem interested in hearing the three students’ defense. Kleinman, as a member of the committee, was at the meeting to serve as a witness and advocate for the group througout the process. “[Johnson] was pretty dead set and pretty convinced that [the students] were ‘guilty.’ She seemed rather upset and vexed that those three folks from GU Fossil Free didn’t admit that they had done something wrong,” Kleinman said. “At one point, she said and I quote, ‘I don’t want to get into a debate with you,’ toward the end of the meeting.”

Kleinman said that he supports GU Fossil Free in expressing their beliefs through the freedom of expression.

“This is clearly a matter of expression and not code of conduct,” Kleinman said.

“This is a free speech issue and I am still staunch in my belief along with [GU Fossil Free] that [they] had every right to be on that stage.”

Hoya Staff Writer Jack Bennett contributed reporting.

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Carroll Parlor Opens for Senior Study Disintegrating Steps Undergo Renovation Andrew wallender Hoya Staff Writer

The university’s newest study space, the Carroll Parlor, reopened Thursday on the first floor of Healy Hall after being converted from an art show room. Dedicated to senior undergraduates, the study space features three tables with seating for about 25 people.

The room previously was used as a showplace for significant items in Lauinger Library’s collections, and a number of paintings from the collection still adorn the walls of the study space. However, most items were moved to various other locations around

campus to accommodate the new space.

Three members of the Senior Class Committee, including Chair Bridget Mullen (COL ’15), were present at Thursday’s opening to receive an honorary university seal dating back to about 1900. The seal, a replica of the ones decorating the ceiling of the Carroll Parlor, was presented by Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Provost Robert Groves to commemorate the opening.

“Carroll Parlor is a really historic space on campus, and I think we all know, especially students who have been here for four years, that space is at a premium at Georgetown,” Mullen said. “So it really means a lot to have

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The Carroll Parlor, which is located on the first floor of Healy Hall, reopened as a study space for senior undergraduates during a ceremony Thursday.

a space that is dedicated specifically to seniors.”

The new study room, located next to the Campus Ministry office, was proposed by the Campus Life Working Group in 2013 and renovation of the space began in late 2014, according to Olson.

Olson said that the new study space is a symbolic reflection of the university’s emphasis on undergraduate education. Though a number of graduate study spaces exist on campus, this is the first uniquely undergraduate space dedicated to seniors.

“I’m personally excited that this will be a special place for senior students to spend time to study together, to make special memories in their final year on the Hilltop,” Olson said.

Groves said that the room is symbolic not only in its purpose, but also in its location in Healy Hall.

“This is prime real estate if you don’t know that,” Groves said. “People would kill for this room; you got it.”

The study room will remain open whenever Healy Hall is open, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. Olson said that though the room is intended for seniors only, there will be no security measures or enforcements to check that only seniors study in the room.

“We’re not going to sort of kick other students out, but we wanted to send a message about what the space is,” Olson said.

Olson said three main people were responsible for turning the former collection space into an undergraduate study area: Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lorde, School of Nursing and Health Studies associate professor Joan Riley and alumnus Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14).

Groves said that he is hopeful the study space will cement the importance of academics at Georgetown and be a resource for generations of students to come.

“I think this is just a dynamite use of this space,” Groves said. “When tours come by, we can say there’s scholarship here going on at Georgetown.”

Magazine Displays DC Homelessness Emma holland Hoya Staff Writer

What started as a few conversations with the homeless of Boston in the summer of 2014 soon turned into a life passion for Andrew O’Brien (COL ’18). The injustice of homelessness spurred O’Brien to create a magazine featuring interviews with individuals experiencing homelessness entitled “Profiles of D.C.’s Homeless.”

O’Brien began the project in September as part of “Ethics of Entrepreneurship,” a Georgetown seminar that provided students with $1,000 to create an entrepreneurship project that addresses a social issue.

According to O’Brien, the issue of homelessness is so ubiquitous in D.C. that it is often neglected.

“When I got to D.C., I saw many people experiencing homelessness everywhere I went.

After a while, I realized that I had stopped noticing them as much, but they were still there of course, and that’s the problem: when you’re surrounded by something, you see it without truly feeling it. The absurdity of homelessness is lost in its ubiquity,” O’Brien said.

For two and a half months, O’Brien interviewed and photographed people on the streets of Georgetown who were experiencing homelessness, then edited the content into a magazine. “[I] started talking to all the homeless people I met, getting their stories, building bonds and eventually saw what a great thing it would be to tell their fantastic stories to everyone, to make people realize that these individuals, who they may walk by everyday, are as full of life and love as anyone [they]’ll ever meet,” O’Brien said.

After completing the magazine, O’Brien contacted the National Coalition for the Homeless hoping to promote his magazine. The coalition provided funds to print 125 initial copies.

O’Brien plans to distribute his magazine to as many people as possible through Amazon and tabling on campus. He plans to charge $10 per copy. The profits will be used to help fund Soli-

darity Press, a publishing collective that O’Brien created for this project.

O’Brien said that he hopes to expand Solidarity Press by cooperating with socially conscious businesses.

“To keep Solidarity Press sustainable while spreading the word on innovative social change, I’d very much like to begin coverage of social businesses [that] make a profit while still ensuring the well-being of all stakeholders from production to distribution, like Misfit Juicery or Atla Gracia,” O’Brien said.

Director of Community Organizing for the National Coalition for the Homeless Michael Stoops said that he was very impressed with O’Brien’s initiative.

“It was one of the quickest, most successful turn-around projects that I’ve ever seen a student do,” Stoops said.

David Pirtle, a speaker for Faces of Homelessness, a bureau of the National Coalition for the Homeless which helped O’Brien profile his interviewees, praised O’Brien’s magazine for not perpetuating stereotypes about homeless people.

“The typical lazy reporter will go out and interview the first homeless person he sees and then say that they represent all homeless people,” Stoops said. “[O’Brien] understands that the homeless population is not monolithic.”

O’Brien said that he never had to intentionally avoid stereotypes, and that his interview subjects covered a diverse range.

“People have said that they’re surprised at how different all these profiles are, and people have asked me if I approached this with any angle to avoid stereotypes,” said O’Brien. “The truth is that I never had to intentionally avoid stereotypes for the simple reason that these homeless stereotypes don’t exist in reality.”

O’Brien approached his subjects by offering them water, then discussed political or housing issues with them. Eventually, O’Brien asked if they wanted to be profiled in his magazine.

“To be honest, if I were in their shoes and

some college kid came up to me and asked for my life story after a bit of small talk, I don’t think I would have been as kind,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien said that he was surprised by how frankly his subjects spoke about personal issues.

“It was amazing how quickly my talks with the dozens of people I interviewed proceeded from small talk, to talking about incredibly personal subjects, like past abuses and failures, which would eventually be included in the magazine,” O’Brien said.

Pirtle, one of O’Brien’s interviewees, was particularly impressed by O’Brien’s interviewing skills when it came to discussing emotional memories.

“He was always able to get past the regular spiel … and really get into the heart of the story,” Pirtle said. “I think sharing stories like these is the most effective way to build empathy for a population for whom people don’t have a lot of empathy.”

At Georgetown, O’Brien is a board member of Georgetown Homeless Outreach Programs and Education. He moderated their most recent event, “Issue of the Month: Homelessness is a Women’s Issue.”

O’Brien has been awarded the Figge Fellowship, an initiative in the Catholic Studies Program for undergraduates interested in dialogues about faith and social issues. He said he saw the fellowship as an opportunity to further investigate the role of faith among homeless individuals.

“I wondered how the public’s perceptions and misconceptions of homeless individuals might affect the formation of this kind of faith within the homeless population,” O’Brien said. “That’s what I’m studying now: stigma and faith.”

Ultimately, O’Brien said that he hopes to make readers aware of the complexities of the issue of homelessness.

“New and artistic representation of social justice issues is key in getting people to rethink these familiar problems, to see them in a new light,” O’Brien said.

Sarah fisher Hoya Staff Writer

The crumbling staircases located between the Intercultural Center and the Jesuit Cemetery are currently undergoing renovation after delays stalled the construction of new staircases for months, according to Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey.

“We made several attempts to repair the steps which were unsuccessful,” Morey said. “The condition of the stairs continued to deteriorate beyond repair and needed to be replaced.”

Repairs on the stairs were stalled during the colder winter months because temperatures need to be at least 45 degrees for the masonry work to be completed in a quality manner, Morey said.

“Our schedule targeted an early April start,” Morey said. “The project is not delayed and is currently on schedule. Other campus construction initiatives have no impact on this project.”

Morey said that there is no estimated cost yet because negotiations with contractor proposals are ongoing.

Though the staircases immediately adjacent to the cemetery are closed, a secondary staircase located less than 100 feet away still provides access to Red Square and the rear of Copley Hall.

Plans for replacing the steps began this past winter when university began the design and contractor bidding processes. With the design now complete, work began last week to demolish the old steps.

“We have integrated the new campus pavement standards conceived by the master plan into the design,” Morey said of the new staircases.

The staircases were demolished to prevent students from using the crumbling steps on the previous staircases. Though the steps were cordoned off, students were still using the stairways, according to Morey.

“Pedestrians simply move the racks and used the steps in spite of them cordoned off,” Morey said. “We considered this a safety hazard.”

Chris Rellas (COL ’17) said that though the current staircase closures are an inconvenience, there are plenty of other ways to get around campus.

“I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Rellas said of the closures. “We have a lot of problems on campus, and we obviously can’t make them all perfect. … I’m sure they’ll get around to it.”

On the other hand, Elizabeth Humphrey (COL ’17) said that the staircase closures have affected her daily commute across campus.

“In the past these steps provided my route to class, the gym and Regents,” Humphrey said. “Having no access to the steps, I now take a longer route through the ICC and use elevators more. Walking past the graveyard used to be one of the best parts of my day.”

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The steps outside the Intercultural Center are crumbling and are undergoing renovation.

Keynote Reflects on Jesuit Values in LGBTQ Identity Alicia Che

Hoya Staff Writer

President of the Communities in Schools network, Daniel Cardinali (SFS ’88), delivered a keynote address on sexual identity and the role of Jesuit values in LGBTQ issues at the second annual IgnatianQ conference on Sunday.

This past weekend, IgnatianQ hosted

several guest lectures, panel discussions and workshops to promote dialogue on LGBTQ issues in the context of Catholic values.

Cardinali’s speech, which took place at the Healey Family Student Center, was entitled “How Jesuit Spirituality Unleashed a Gay Man’s Commitment to Social Justice.” Cardinali runs the nation’s largest dropout prevention or-

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Daniel Cardinali (SFS ’88) delivered the keynote at the IgnatianQ conference Sunday in the Healey Family Student Center.

ganization, which serves more than 1.3 million disenfran-chised students each year.

Cardinali began the speech by addressing his own struggles in coming to terms with his sexuality as a young man in high school and in his early years of college.

“I broke a part of my identity and put my sexuality away, and focused on excelling in the world,” Cardinali said. “I was unable to respond to my sexuality, and I was constantly frustrated as I realized that school rewards those who are straight.”

After he graduated, Cardinali traveled to Nicaragua, where he gained experience working with impoverished rural communities. According to Cardinali, this experience prompted him to further seek enlightenment through social justice work.

Cardinali said that he became more conscious of his religious identity after his involvement with a Christian ministry in New York, where he witnessed the interactions between the members of the ministry and the community.

“I took care of the sick and sometimes sat with them for hours. I also met people in the commu-nity who gave [it] all away to support the efforts.

When asked why, the person responded that ‘it’s the community’s ministry and I depend on them,’” Cardinali said.

“This led me to see this connection of

human dignity to the larger community [of] people who do not just focus on their own work or empire, but who allow the community to prosper with them. If you really love people and care about them, you give them opportunities to be who they are.”

Cardinali cited his three years of involvement in Jesuit community service as an experience that shaped his views on the role of Catholicism in the community.

“As a Jesuit, I was gifted with a set of opportunities to give back to the world.

It prepared me for what I do now,” Cardinali said. “I realized that being gay and being Catholic … can go together, as long as we believe in the dignity of [the] human person. Overtime, we would be able … to have the courage that [it] takes to make changes.”

Towards the end of the talk, Cardinali shared with the audience his thoughts on finding self-identity and reconciling it with one’s religious roots.

“If you believe that God is in the world, and that he never abandons, it is our life journey to discover that. There are tools to discover that, and once we made that discovery, it will prepare us for the world in unimaginable ways,” Cardinali said.

IgnatianQ organizer and GU Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15), who helped bring the conference to Georgetown, said that Cardinali’s speech on

his experiences can be very valuable to people facing similar struggles.

“He was wonderfully open, and free to reflect on that experience without any sort of censorship, which you really don’t get very much at all in LGBTQ work in the Catholic context, so I’m really grateful to have someone that has [as] unique [a] position as Dan,” Lloyd said. “It was obvious that his talk was both sharing narratives of bringing these two pieces of his identities together, but also counseling us to see how our pieces could fit together all and all.”

Samuel F. Boyne (SFS ’18), who attended the event, found it very meaningful for Georgetown to host a conference that focuses on LGBTQ issues within the Catholic community.

“I think that IgnatianQ was an essential event to host at Georgetown.

As a school dedicated to educating its students on being men and women for others, the messages for which the conference stands for coincides with our Jesuit values,” Boyne said. “Specifically, as it is vital for students to come together in an environment like this to discuss the intersection of faith and the LGBTQ community, I think that the keynote speakers did an excellent job in setting the premise for thought on the development of this progress.

Overall, the opportunity to speak openly about these issues is a definite step forward.”

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GU Loses Heartbreaker On Late Home Run Juliana Zovak Hoya Staff Writer

After a day and a half of delays, players finally took the field at Guy Mason for a Big East softball series between Georgetown and visiting Creighton.

It was a long time for the Hoyas to wait just to suffer a heartbreaking loss.

Georgetown lost 2-1 in what would be the only game of the weekend, as Saturday’s games were canceled due to weather conditions and Sunday’s games were postponed until the afternoon, leaving time for only one game.

This might have raised the stakes, as it may be the only time Georgetown (12-17, 2-2 Big East) sees Creighton (156, 2-2) during the regular season.

The Blue and Gray ran into trouble early. With two outs in the top of the first inning, Creighton senior shortstop Liz Dike reached first after Georgetown junior shortstop Grace Appelbe committed an error on a groundball.

“I think it’s just par for our season,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said of the play. “I’ve talked about us giving too many runs away, and that was an excellent example, where we get their best hitter to hit a routine ground ball and we don’t make the play, and things happen from there.”

Dike then stole second and was driven in on a single from teammate junior catcher Blake Ringle, putting the Blue-

jays up by one.

“We should have been out of that inning and in the dugout by then,” Conlan said.

“That’s happened often this season and it’s really hurt us.

It’s hard to always play from behind.”

Both sides were quiet during the second and third innings, and Georgetown pitcher Megan Hyson cruised, striking out the side in the second inning.

Georgetown made the most of Creighton’s mistakes in the fourth when Appelbe was hit by a pitch and then advanced to second on a passed ball.

An error by Creighton’s shortstop on a grounder from sophomore first baseman Alessandra Gargicevich-Almeida allowed Appelbe to score, tying the game at 1-1.

“I thought we were a little tentative early on, but as the game progressed, I thought we got much better. We took much better swings,” Conlan said.

Hyson pitched out of a jam in the fifth after hitting a batter and allowing a hit, stranding two runners in scoring position. But in the sixth, Jen Daro homered for the Bluejays with one out.

The Hoyas looked to rally but did not muster much offense, stranding one in the sixth and going down in order in the seventh to end the game. They only managed three hits throughout the ballgame.

“We’ve never faced this pitcher before. She had excellent stats, and she’s a

good pitcher,” Conlan said of Creighton sophomore Sydnee Eck. “She kept us off-balance and moved the ball well and threw a nice game.”

Hyson, despite taking the loss, did not have a bad outing — she allowed only one earned run while striking out 10 and holding Creighton to five hits and no walks.

“Creighton’s a good team, and they just played better than we did today. They made one more play than we did,” Conlan said.

In this outing, Georgetown saw more problems with consistency and execution, struggling on defense with two total errors and failing to push multiple runs across the plate. Conlan is still working on getting the team’s energy and execution to align.

“I think we were ready to play, I liked our effort and I liked how hard we played,” Conlan said. “We just didn’t execute the way we needed to.”

Georgetown will face St. John’s (10-13, 3-0 Big East) during the Easter holiday.

The Red Storm ranked second in the Big East preseason poll, one spot above Georgetown, and swept Butler (14-15, 2-4 Big East) with a 3-0 series victory this weekend.

“We’re going to continue to get out here and get lots of swings in, continue to work on our defense, continue to sharpen our pitchers’ execution, and get up there and give it our best effort,” Conlan said. “St. John’s is tough … so they’ll be ready for us.”

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Despite a strong perfromance, senior pitcher Megan Hyson took the loss in the Hoyas’ 2-1 defeat against Creighton. Hyson struck out 10 batters and allowed two runs, one earned.

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Kentucky Roster Features Several NBA Hopefuls FIEGE, from A12

whereas junior Willie Cauley-Stein will go more toward the end of the lottery selections.

These two stars present a unique juxtaposition of the variety found at the center position in basketball, as while both are large human beings — both are sevenfooters and weigh in around 245 pounds — their playing styles are notably different.

Towns attracts NBA scouts for his offensive prowess: despite only playing an average of 20 minutes per game in Kentucky’s platoon substitution pattern, he scored 10 points per game while converting 55 percent of his field goal attempts, using both post moves and jump shots to get there.

The bottom-feeding New York Knicks have made it no secret that they are incredibly interested in Towns, as their scouts and Team President Phil Jackson himself have attended more than a dozen Kentucky practices.

As an intelligent player with an adaptable offensive approach, he would be crucial in the Knicks’ rebuilding efforts and central to their triangle offense.

Cauley-Stein, on the other hand, boasts the profile of a defensive stalwart. Averaging close to two blocks per game and showcasing both elite athletic ability and game awareness, he is a defensive anchor whose talents will translate seamlessly to the next level.

Granted, his scoring ability leaves a lot to be desired, but Cauley-Stein should be able to acclimate himself to the pick-androll heavy offenses of the NBA. As a poor-man’s DeAndre Jordan or Tyson Chandler, he should see decent min-

utes as a rookie on a team that could use better rim protection, such as the Sacramento Kings or the Los Angeles Lakers.

Looking past the lottery, there are more Kentucky players that could be expected to join the NBA ranks.

As a player with a six-foot-five frame who averages 42 percent from beyond the arc, freshman Devin Booker figures to be a midfirst round pick.

Fellow freshman guard Tyler Ulis may also stand a chance in the NBA draft with his deft passing ability and three-point shooting.

Ulis, who stands at a significantly shorter five-foot-nine, draws parallels to Isaiah Thomas, another undersized guard in the NBA. Sophomore Dakari Johnson could prove to be a serviceable backup big man in the league with a body type similar to Nene’s that will allow him to make an impact as a second-round pick.

Finally, junior Alex Poythress and sophomores Aaron Harrison and Andrew Harrison would be expected to be late secondround picks should they declare for the draft.

Year in and year out, Calipari never fails to put together a star-studded lineup.

The current squad, which is seeking to become the first collegiate team to finish with a perfect record since the Indiana Hoosiers did it four decades ago, could potentially lose eight of its scholarship athletes by next season.

Forget the Mongols and the Vandals; the NBA draft is the real dynasty killer.

Kentucky’s loaded roster will be decimated after the NBA Draft, in which as many as eight Wildcats could be selected.

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

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Junior catcher Nick Collins had two hits, including a crucial ninth-inning RBI single, in the Hoyas’ 8-5 win over Lipscomb in the first game of a three-game series.

Series Loss Overshadows 9th-Inning Comeback Molly O’Connell Hoya Staff Writer

After rallying in the ninth inning to defeat Lipscomb (17-8) on Friday, the Georgetown baseball team (11-12) dropped the two remaining games of the weekend series.

The Hoyas fell to the Bison 8-3 on Saturday and were defeated again on Sunday 4-1.

During Friday’s matchup, the two teams traded runs for much of the game. Lipscomb took an early lead, but Georgetown consistently answered back, never trailing by more than three runs. Georgetown cut Lipscomb’s advantage to one run in the bottom of the fifth, and the pitching combination of senior left-hander Matt Hollenbeck and junior right-hander Tim Davis kept the Bison scoreless from that point forward.

At the start of the ninth inning, the Hoyas were down by one run with only three outs remaining.

“Going into that inning we knew we needed to … get some guys on base and just be patient at the plate,” junior designated hitter Nick Collins said. “We needed to come up with big hits.”

The Hoyas did just that. Sophomore third baseman Jake Kuzbel hit a double to left center to drive in the tying run and spark a ninth inning rally.

Freshman left fielder Austin Shirley was next to bat for Georgetown. Shirley singled to right field, driving in two runs and giving the Hoyas their first lead of the game.

Before the inning ended, Collins hit a single to right field that scored Shirley, putting the Hoyas up 8-5 going into the bottom of the ninth.

“We came together as team in that last inning and had the will to win,” freshman second baseman Chase Bushor said. “We put together some good at bats up and down the order and … Austin Shirley came up with a big hit.”

Sophomore right-handed pitcher David Ellingson came out of the bullpen to pitch in the bottom of the final inning and left unscathed, securing a victory for Georgetown in the first game of the series.

“These guys don’t quit,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said. “They play all nine [innings] and they believe in each in other.”

Saturday’s contest remained scoreless until the top of the third when Lipscomb’s junior catcher Chucky Vazquez hit a home run to left field that put the Bison up by one run.

Georgetown countered with a home run of its own in the very next inning. Bushor cleared the bases with a three-run shot to left field that put the Hoyas up by two runs.

The home run was the first of the freshman’s collegiate career.

“I guess I got lucky,” Bushor said. “I’m not much of a home run hitter, but it felt great. It was a cool experience, especially since my mom and sister were there to see it happen.”

Bushor’s three RBIs were the only ones for the Hoyas in Saturday’s contest and were not enough to earn Georgetown a second victory.

The matchup proved to be Lipscomb’s turn to put together a late-game rally. The Bison scored seven runs over the course of the three final innings. The Hoyas committed three errors late in the contest that helped to ensure the five-run victory for the Bison.

“We made a couple of errors, but [Lipscomb] also swung the bat well at the end of the game,” Collins said. “They had some big-time hits that allowed them to tack on extra runs at the end of the game that kind of put it out of reach.”

With the series tied heading into Sunday’s game, freshman right-hander Kevin Superko took the mound for the Hoyas. Superko gave up four runs over 3.2 innings on seven hits and four walks.

Senior right-handed pitcher Will Brown came in to relieve Superko in the top of the fourth and pitched 3.1 scoreless innings.

Davis pitched an inning for the Hoyas as well and was also able to keep Lipscomb scoreless. “[Brown and Davis] did what they have done all year,” Wilk said. “Both of those guys have been really strong out the bullpen for us, throwing strikes, not beating themselves and letting their defense work behind them.”

In spite of the shutout pitching from the bullpen, the team was unable to put together an offensive performance strong enough to overcome the deficit. Georgetown’s only run of the game came in the bottom of the fourth when Bushor singled to right field to drive in senior AC Carter. The Hoyas ultimately fell to their Atlantic Sun opponents 4-1.

Georgetown will look to end its two-game skid when they take on George Mason on Tuesday.

“We need to put together a solid game and get some momentum back going into conference play,” Wilk said. “We are starting off a big weekend.”

Tuesday’s game is set to begin at 7 p.m. and is the team’s last contest before it kicks off its Big East schedule with a three-game series against Creighton (13-7) starting on April 2.

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“Their [faceoff] guy is very good,” Warne said. “Quite honestly, we didn’t have an answer for him. We had five different guys at the X. …

We tried to do a bunch of different things.”

Denver freshman midfielder Trevor Baptiste was unstoppable at the X, taking 26 of the 30 faceoffs for the Pioneers and earning possession for his team on 25 of them.

One of Georgetown’s two faceoff wins came immediately after the opening whistle in the first period.

The Hoyas scored three quick unanswered goals to build an early lead, but it was the only time that Georgetown was ahead during the contest. A Denver rally through the end of the period put it ahead 7-3 at the end of the first quarter.

The second quarter proved to be as difficult for the Hoyas as the first.

Denver outscored Georgetown 6-1 in the period, with sophomore attack Connor Cannizzaro and senior midfielder Erik Adamson leading the Pioneers to a 13-4 advantage at halftime. Cannizzaro and Adamson would each tally four goals by the

end of the game.

Georgetown slowed Denver’s scoring momentum in the second half, but the Pioneers continued to hold the offensive advantage, outscoring the Hoyas 6-3 through the rest of the game.

Despite the loss, there were a few bright spots for the Hoyas in the contest. Georgetown continued its pattern of unselfish offensive play, as six different players found the back of the net. Sophomore midfielder Eduardo White had a teamhigh two goals.

Although freshman goalkeeper Nick Marrocco took the loss with 17 allowed goals, he made a careerhigh 22 saves in the net.

Overall, Warne recognizes that Georgetown’s struggle to possess the ball affected all areas of the game.

“We only won two faceoffs, which meant that anytime we got the ball offensively, we made a big stop defensively and were able to clear the ball,” Warne said. “[But] it’s tough to play offense when you don’t have the ball, so we just didn’t really have time to get into a groove.”

Georgetown hopes to regain its

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Due to an injury, graduate student midfielder Gabriel Mendola played limited minutes in the team’s loss to Denver. momentum when it faces Providence (4-5, 0-1 Big East) in an away game Saturday in Providence, R.I. After the Hoyas’ recent success against ranked opponents and in the national polls, Warne is curious about how the loss will factor into their preparation for the Friars.

“We’ve got to worry about

Georgetown and make sure we take care of that,” Warne said. “I’m really interested to see how our guys respond this week in practice. This is new territory for us with the ranking … but when you get punched in the mouth, you’ve got to have a response. I’m really interested to see what happens in practice.”

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Doubles went well for Georgetown, although the tiebreaker system hurt sophomore Jordan Portner and senior John Brosens’ chances. The duo lost their first set 6-3 but regained control and took the second set with an equivalent score. However, the tiebreak format was an obstacle to their momentum, and they fell 10-8 in the tiebreak.

Graduate student Andrew Dottino and freshman Mac Rechan were in the same situation as Portner and Brosens, but they earned a victory by winning the tiebreaker 10-5.

“Jordan and John lost the first set and turned it around and began controlling the match, and it was a very cold day … had we played a full set they would have won, no question about it,” Ernst said. “We had the momentum, we should have played better.

Same with Andy and Mac Rechan, they were in control the whole way; they lost a set and were able to regroup and then win the tiebreak.”

Georgetown will take on Morgan State (1-8) on April 2. The FILE PHOTO: JULIA HENNRIKUS/THE HOYA Hoyas swept the Bears in the Redshirt senior Andrew Dottino and his partner, freshman Mac Rechan, teams’ last meeting in March earned a three-set doubles victory in the Hoyas’ win over Johns Hopkins. 2013. The Georgetown women’s

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No. 1 Maryland (10-0, 1-0 Big 10) Fried was satisfied with the on Wednesday, but the team is win and the steady improve- optimistic. ments his team has been making “We can just build off of over the course of the season. this,” Lovett said. “We played “Right now, this Big East win as a team, this game meant a is the most important thing lot, and we just need to keep we have,” Fried said. “We had working together and followa rough start to the season but ing the sets.”

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Following the Morgan State match, the men’s team will prepare to take on Richmond (10-5) on April 7. Since the Hoyas edged over the Spiders last season in a 4-3 result, Ernst knows that the upcoming match will be a battle.

“The year before, we beat [the Spiders] 4-3, and they haven’t beaten us since I’ve been here as a coach,” Ernst said. “They’re going to come up here looking for a win; it’s going to be a great match.”

The men’s and women’s teams will go up against the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on April 11, and both matchups have the potential to be close matches. The Georgetown men’s team lost to UMBC (8-5) 4-3 last year, while the women’s team beat UMBC (4-11) in a 4-3 result.

The women, coming off a tough 4-3 loss to Richmond, are prepped to regain momentum heading into the end of their season.

“My girls are going to respond to that Richmond match, they want to play,” Ernst said. “They’re ready to go. That left a bad taste in their mouth.”

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erhaps the most frustrating aspect of the Washington Nationals’ 2014 campaign was the constant stream of injuries.

The NL East champions struggled to consistently field their opening day lineup.

Injuries to critical producers, including left fielder Bryce Harper, catcher Wilson Ramos and third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, caused doubt and frustration throughout the season. The team’s success in spite of these circumstances earned then-rookie manager Matt Williams the NL Manager of the Year Award for his successful lineup adjustments.

The 2015 season looks to be just as problematic for the Nationals, as serious injuries to third baseman Anthony Rendon, outfielder Jayson Werth and center fielder Denard Span, along with other smaller injuries throughout spring training, are raising serious concerns about the Nats’ early-season lineup. The injuries to key players have also made spring training roster decisions all the more interesting, as projected backups are competing for a starting role.

The troubles began at second base when Yunel Escobar strained his oblique, forcing him off the field until last week. Escobar’s injury might have opened up space for Danny Espinosa, but a mildly resurgent Dan Uggla is batting .278 in 36 spring training at-bats, leading some to wonder if he has the potential to return to some semblance of his past form and earn the exorbitant salary the Braves are still paying him.

At third base, the solution to Rendon’s absence is less simple. The Washington Post recently outlined some of the possibilities to replace Rendon at third base, which include moving Espinosa or utility player Kevin Frandsen to third base, but neither of these replacements is particularly desirable.

All of these third-base options are tenuous stopgaps at best, representative of the position with probably the least depth on an otherwise well-rounded squad. Especially with Zimmerman firmly at first base, the Nationals may have trouble finding a solution during Rendon’s absence.

Nevertheless, the biggest question mark for Washington right now is its outfield, as the injuries to Werth and Span have left the outfield in flux as the season approaches.

Werth has been dealing with shoulder problems throughout the offseason and has yet to see an at-bat in spring training.

According to masnsports.com, the television affiliate of the Nationals, Werth remains in a “defense only” role in the minor leagues with no set return date. The Nationals will have to resort to a solution like Frandsen or another bench option to compensate for his absence; outfielder Nate McLouth can fill in if he can recover from his own shoulder problems.

To complicate things further, Denard Span is currently recovering from core muscle surgery he underwent in early March. Estimates range as high as two months of recovery time before he will be able to take on a starting role. Span’s absence leaves a critical shortage of contact hitters in the Nationals lineup, an area of consistent struggle for the team.

Without Span, the Nationals’ leadoff man who batted .302 in 2014 with a .355 on-base percentage and 35 doubles, cynical Nats fan might predict that the team will regress into the power-dependent, home- run-or-nothing identity that plagued it in 2013.

Fortunately for Washington, top prospect Michael Taylor will probably be able to handle a starting role for the duration of Span’s absence, although he is by no means a replacement for the production Span provides.

To top it all off, injuries to relief pitcher Craig Stammen and starter Stephen Strasburg have caused concerns for Washington’s pitching staff. Zimmerman added his name to the list of injured players Friday, hurting his shoulder on a diving stop.

While they’ve proven themselves capable of shaking off injury problems and producing, a testament to the depth of this team, the Nationals have already set themselves up for a challenge in 2015.

Although these health issues should be sorted out by mid-May, Harper is prone to removing himself from the lineup for extended periods of time, while Zimmerman and Wilson Ramos have also struggled to play full seasons.

The Nationals should be able to overcome these issues. The team has pulled it off in the past and is now supported by a stronger pitching staff. But, it seems that the front office and Williams will again have to make some early adjustments this year to put a full team on the field.

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

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Women’s Lacrosse Georgetown (2-7, 1-0) vs. No. 1 Maryland (10-0, 1-0) Wednesday, 7 p.m.

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BASEBALL Georgetown dropped the last two games of its three-game weekend series.

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A lack of possession and consistent pressure from a prolific Pioneer squad proved to be fatal for the No. 14 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (6-4, 1-1 Big East) when it fell in a 19-7 contest to No. 5 Denver (7-2, 1-0 Big East) on Saturday afternoon in Denver.

The loss snapped Georgetown’s two-game winning streak against ranked opponents and dropped its conference record to .500. Denver, on the other hand, extended its perfect record against Big East opponents since it entered the conference in the 2014 season.

The Hoyas’ defense was tested by the Pioneers, who took 57 total shots, but also by the Hoyas themselves, as the team struggled to maintain offensive possession.

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ceoffs in the entire contest, which gave Denver significantly more time with the ball.

Graduate student midfielder Gabriel Mendola has filled the role of faceoff specialist for Georgetown this season, but after a tough and physical slate of matches over the past month, Mendola stayed on the sidelines during Georgetown’s game against No. 12 Marquette (81, 1-1 Big East) last Saturday.

Head Coach Kevin Warne found success in his lineup changes in the Marquette match; senior midfielder Anthony Heaton took Mendola’s spot at the faceoff X, and additional help from wing players made the transition seamless. However, the changes at the X this weekend were not enough for Georgetown, which struggled to come up with the ball.

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Senior attack Caroline Tarzian scored two goals in Georgetown’s 10-6 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday.

Tarzian leads all players on the team with 12 goals and 17 points on the season.

Big East Win Ends Losing Streak CLAIRE SCHANSINGER Hoya Staff Writer

After sinking to a five-game skid, the Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (2-7, 1-0 Big East) won its first Big East game of the season and snapped its losing streak in a 10-6 contest against Big East newcomer Vanderbilt (3-8, 0-2 Big East) on Saturday.

The game marked Vanderbilt’s second-ever match in the Big East after joining the conference for the 2015 season. Georgetown and Vanderbilt had not played each other since 2002, and the Hoyas are now 6-0 all-time against the Commodores and 4-0 at home.

Head Coach Ricky Fried noticed a significant improvement from the Hoyas on both ends of the field com-

pared to previous matches.

“One of the biggest things we have been focusing on is spacing on our offensive end and playing with a lot more pace. On the defensive end, we

“The biggest thing we need to take away from this game is confidence. ” RICKY FRIED Women’s Lacrosse Head Coach

have been [practicing] a lot of oneversus-one. I thought we did a really good job with that throughout the course of the game,” Fried said.

Georgetown built a lead in the

first half that proved to be crucial when Vanderbilt fought back late in the game. After seven scoreless minutes in the opening period, senior midfielder Lauren Schwalje scored off a free position to earn the first goal for the Hoyas. Junior attack Corinne Etchinson followed with two goals of her own, putting Georgetown ahead 3-0.

Vanderbilt freshman midfielder Kayla Peterson scored with 10 minutes left in the first half to put the Commodores on the board, but Georgetown senior attack Caroline Tarzian answered with 46 seconds left to give the Hoyas a 4-1 advantage going into the second half.

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GU Defeats Johns Hopkins 5-2 FILE PHOTO: CLAIRE SOISSON/THE HOYA

Freshman goalkeeper Nick Marrocco notched a career-high 22 goals despite allowing 17 goals in the loss to No. 5 Denver.

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Calipari’s Roster Is Loaded With Talent M uch to the chagrin of my bracket, the Kentucky Wildcats improved to 38-0 this past Saturday evening as they squeaked past the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 68-66.

After trailing for most of the second half, Coach John Calipari’s squad capitalized on a poor three-point shooting effort by Notre Dame to stay in the game.

Kentucky eventually sank its last nine shots and iced the game on two free Max throws by Andrew Harrison.

Set to face senior center Frank Kaminsky and his Wisconsin Badgers in the Final Four, the Kentucky Wildcats will be faced with the biggest challenge yet to their claim of perfection.

I must admit that my bracket had Arizona and Iowa State in the Championship, so I am not partic-

ularly invested in the outcome of the Wisconsin-Kentucky game. Instead, I am more interested in the professional aspiration of the incredibly talented Kentucky squad.

In this age of “one-and-done” collegiate basketball, the NBA draft, which will be held on June 25, will drain away the majority of the talent the Wildcats’ current iteration has.

With at least five players projected to go within the first 30 picks of the draft, Fiege it comes as no surprise that Calipari has opened practices to NBA scouts over the course of the season.

Two Kentucky players are predicted to be chosen in the first 14 picks of the draft. Freshman Karl-Anthony Towns is slated to go within the first three picks,

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MADELINE AUERBACH Hoya Staff Writer

In its last match during March, the Georgetown men’s tennis team (6-5, 0-2 Big East) defeated Johns Hopkins (4-5) in a 5-2 result.

“It was good, we competed hard, we really out-competed them. We did what other teams do to us sometimes, and I’m proud of the boys,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said.

During the match, the men’s team demonstrated impressive performances in both singles and doubles play. Despite the cold conditions, the Hoyas won four out of the five singles matches, while also winning a doubles match.

Junior Daniel Khanin notched a close win in the first singles slot, defeating Blue Jay sophomore Jeremy Dubin in a 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) decision.

Freshman Marco Lam defeated his opponent in a 6-1, 6-4 rout in the second singles slot, while senior Alex Tropiano also won in a 6-4, 6-2 result.

Sophomore Jack Murphy rounded out the singles wins with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Blue Jay sophomore Jacob Mackenzie.

Murphy, while impressive in singles play, has sometimes struggled over the course of his second season on the squad.

“We expect a lot out of Murphy, he’s a very talented kid, he’s just been up and down mentally,” Ernst explained. “He hasn’t been able to play [with] that mental toughness every match and [with] that competitiveness, and that’s what his game is, so he understands that he needs to be competing his butt off every match, that’s who he is and he’s getting the old mojo back.”

Freshman Peter Beatty fell in singles play in the third singles slot, losing to John Hopkins senior Noah Joachim. Beatty dropped the first set 6-4, but notched the second by winning a 7-5 tiebreaker. Because of the cold conditions, the teams played 10-point tiebreakers instead of third sets.

Beatty eventually lost the tie-

breaker 10-5.

“He just didn’t play as well as he could play,” Ernst said of Beatty’s match. “[Joachim] was just kind of just absorbing Peter’s pace, just being a backboard. It got to Peter a little bit; he became a little flustered, it threw him off, and next thing you know, he See HOPKINS, A11

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Junior Daniel Khanin led the way for Georgetown with a 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) victory in first singles over Johns Hopkins sophomore Jeremy Dubin.

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