THE HOYA: The Year in Review 2012-2013

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2012 2013

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Leo’s workers battled with Aramark while adjunct professors voted on unionization in two of many labor struggles this year.

Election Year

LGBTQ In Focus

From the presidency to the ANC, political issues captured the Hilltop.

LGBTQ issues emerged at the forefront of national and campus discourse.

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Campus Plan Comes to Life Since the 2010 Campus Plan agreement this summer, the university and its neighbors have worked to maintain cooperation. Now, tangible results are beginning to take form.

Campaign Fever

MSB Rising

Secret society revelations rocked the final days of GUSA campaigns.

With awards and selective admissions, the MSB has ramped up its reputation.

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Roller-Coaster Year for Jesuits The elevation of Pope Francis and depature of Fr. Schall are among the memorable events for Georgetown’s Jesuit community this year.

Basketball and Soccer Thrive Postseason heartbreak wasn’t quite enough to sully the memories of successful regular seasons for Georgetown’s high-profile squads.

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They Spoke, We Listened “We will forget the less-than-pleasant aspects of our relationship, and we will move forward in the gratitude of the [United States].”

Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed U.S.Afghanistan relations beyond 2014 and the role the United States will play in the future of his country Jan. 11.

“When the woman says, ‘I do not know what to do with money.

I am afraid of money,’ always remember it is not her voice. It is the voice of the history which created the fears of money.”

Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus discussed his lifelong goal of reducing global poverty and promoting economic and social opportunities April 17.

“Fundamentally, energy is a source of wealth and power, which means it can be both a source of conflict and cooperation.

Energy cuts across the entirety of U.S. foreign policy.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the role of energy as a tool of foreign policy Oct. 18.

“If you want to turn the world right-side up, it’s not going to take a minute or an hour or a day. It’s going to take your whole life.”

U2 frontman and social activist Bono spoke about the fight against AIDS and global poverty Nov. 12.

“If leadership is not there, if it’s absent for whatever reason, then make no mistake about it: crisis drives policy in this country.”

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called on students and members of Congress to take action to solve American security and budget issues in a speech Feb. 6.

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No Working Consensus From Leo’s to Adidas, labor conflicts pervade campus

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rom O’Donovan Hall workers challenging alleged employer abuses to Georgetown cutting ties with Adidas to adjunct faculty pushing to unionize, the past year saw a surge in labor activism from employees and student supporters.

Leo’s Workers Struggle with Employer

have fewer options, fewer healthy options,” GSC member Erin Riordan (COL ’15) said.

“There is also the worker’s side to it: Where by cutting certain stations, they end up cutting certain positions and giving people fewer hours.”

After hearing workers’ concerns, Aramark established weekly meetings with its employees in October aimed to improve worker-management relations.

Georgetown Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh expressed hope that the meetings would improve communication.

“These meetings provide the opportunity to voice any and all concerns and to discuss options and appropriate next steps,” Pugh wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Despite this initial optimism, workers delivered a letter of protest to Aramark managers four months later that requested the creation of a committee to address complaints and provide food sustainability and training.

GSC joined the workers in delivering the letter to Aramark management.

Despite unionizing under Unite Here — a national labor union that supports workers in service industries — in February 2011, Leo’s workers have expressed growing discontent with their employer, Aramark, throughout the year.

In response to student surveys collected in spring 2012, Aramark launched the “We Hear You” campaign at the beginning of the year. However, changes in food quality and selection drew criticism from both students and employees.

According to O’Donovan Hall employees, Aramark altered shifts and redistributed responsibilities in order to decrease the number of full-time salaries it had to pay.

“Now, three weeks into the school year, it After Delay, GU Ends Adidas Contract is worse,” said a male employee of 15 years who spoke on the condition of anonymity In an effort to uphold a commitment to at the time. workers’ rights, Georgetown terminated “A lot of people have second jobs, and its contract with Adidas in January after they already had their days set. Now, people the company was accused of violating have to adjust their lives and tell the second the Code of Conduct for Georgetown Unijob that they can’t work this day or have to versity Licensees. come in later,” said a female employee of 19 The Worker Rights Consortium, of years who also spoke on the condition of anonymity in September. “And we thought that was messed up, because it wasn’t broken, so why did [Aramark] try to fix it?”

Despite these changes, Aramark Director of Communications Karen Cutler said the company has a strong relationship with O’Donovan Hall employees.

“Our employees at Georgetown are represented by a local union who negotiated a collective bargaining agreement on their behalf,” Cutler said. “We have a good working relationship with the union and adhere to the terms and conditions of that collective bargaining agreement.”

Student members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, which helped the workers unionize last year, called attention to the connection between student and worker interests.

Leo’s Employee of 19 Years “There are two components On summer changes to jobs and scheduling to [the changes], one being that students are affected by this. We

We thought that was messed up, because it wasn’t broken, so why did [Aramark] try to fix it?”

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which Georgetown is a founding member, first reported in January 2012 that the sportswear company did not pay $1.8 million in severance payments to employees after its PT Kizone manufacturing plant in Indonesia closed.

The Licensing and Oversight Committee, composed of both students and administrators, advised the university to sever ties with Adidas last October. However, the decision was not finalized until a year after WRC made its initial recommendation.

In response to the university’s decision, Gregg Nebel, head of Adidas social and environmental affairs, and Chris McGuire, director of sports marketing, released a letter of defense shortly before Georgetown officially cancelled the contract.

Written in response to a letter Vice President for Public Affairs Erik Smulson (COL ’89) sent to Adidas representatives more than a year earlier, the letter said that Adidas was not connected to PT Kizone before or when it closed and provided $525,000 in food vouchers to its workers.

But according to Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (FLL ’72), the company’s response did not sway the university’s decision.

“Quite frankly, their letter didn’t satisfy the university,” Fleming said. “Within a week, the decision was made and acted upon.”

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GPPI Senior Fellow Pablo Eisenberg is among the university faculty who support adjunct unionization.

Adjuncts Move Toward Union

Georgetown’s adjuncts began the process of unionizing under Service Employees International Union Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor this March.

Adjuncts will vote on whether to join this union by May 3.

After successfully partnering with adjunct professors at The George Washington University and American University, SEIU Local 500 officials set their sights on Georgetown in November. Four months later, the group filed a motion to vote to represent adjunct faculty at Georgetown.

Pablo Eisenberg, senior fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a 12-year adjunct faculty member, supported the unionization initiative. He said that low wages negatively affect both adjunct faculty and students.

“If adjunct faculty are not taken care of, not treated better, not given the wherewithal that classroom teachers require, their students are going to suffer as much as they do,” he said. “There’s a link between the treatment of adjuncts and the quality of teaching in the classroom.”

GSC has not partnered directly ALEXANDER BROWN/THE HOYA with the adjunct movement but remains committed to supporting a safe space for workers on campus.

“The projects we take on are the ones the workers want us to take on,” she said.

“It is always about how we can stand in solidarity with Erin Riordan (COL ’15) the workers to imGeorgetown Solidarity Committee Member prove their lives on campus.”

By cutting certain stations, they end up cutting certain positions and giving people fewer hours.

Political Excitement Captures the Hilltop National and local races enlist Georgetown’s past and present

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rom the election and inauguration to faculty White House appointments, the Hilltop was abuzz with political news this year even beyond its usual standards.

Students arrived on campus in August to find student groups primed to start the campaign season. The Georgetown University College Republicans and Georgetown University College Democrats organized trips to canvass for both the presidential and congressional campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Nine alumni ran for congressional seats, joining a legacy of Georgetown graduates on the Hill. Of the nine who ran, six — Filemon Vela (COL ’85) (D-Tex.), John Delaney (LAW ’88) (D-Md.), Lois Frankel (LAW ’73) (DFla.), Hakeem Jeffries (GSB ’94) (D-N.Y.), Ann McLane Kuster (LAW ’84) (D-N.H.) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (LAW ’78) (D-Hawaii) — won seats in Congress.

Two students, Peter Prindiville (SFS ’14) and Craig Cassey (COL ’15), ran and won seats on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E in Georgetown.

To encourage voter registration, the Georgetown University Student Association partnered with online voter registration platform TurboVote to provide a convenient

registration system. Many students who did not register in time to request absentee ballots opted to vote in the District of Columbia, which offers same-day registration.

This increase in student voter turnout, however, was a factor in long lines and delays at polling places in D.C. and northern Virginia on Election Day, when some voters waited nearly three hours to vote. To make matters worse, some polling places were allotted the same number of ballots for the general election as they usually receive for local elections and were unprepared for higher turnout.

After a hard-fought election season, campus attention turned to high-profile appointments for President Obama’s second-term administration, including several alumni and faculty affiliated with Georgetown.

Denis McDonough (GRD ’96) was named Obama’s new chief of staff, while adjunct professor Ron Klain (COL ’83), who served as chief of staff to Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore, was rumored to be on the president’s short list. Chuck Hagel left his post as a professor in the School of Foreign Service to serve as secretary of defense, while former White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew (LAW ’83) was appointed and confirmed as treasury secretary.

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Thousands gathered on the National Mall for the inauguration Jan. 21.

Voters waited up to three hours at local polling places in November.

Moreover, a few prominent federal staffers made the switch to Georgetown. Lisa Brown, former acting chief performance officer in the White House Office of Management and Budget, was named the university’s chief counsel in March. Former Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) joined the Georgetown Public Policy Institute as a visiting professor.

On campus, attention turned to Inauguration Day, with students inviting guests from out of town and leaving campus as early as 2 a.m. to witness Obama take his

second oath of office.

Overall, Cassey said that he was optimistic that this year’s high level of student interest in politics could continue in nonelection years.

“Given that we just went through the [2010 Campus Plan] agreement process, many people see the impact of having [representation],” Cassey said. “Many students who attend Georgetown want to live in D.C., and by voting on certain issues, they can have an effect on the city they want to live in in the future.”

LGBTQ Continues Fight for Campus Equality Gay rights debate across country echoed among student groups

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he Supreme Court considered two cases in March with tremendous implications for the future of gay marriage in the United States, the culmination of a year in which LGBTQ policy debates were dominant on the Hilltop and across the country.

Despite a changing tide of public opinion evidenced by the legalization of gay marriage in Maine, Maryland and Washington in November and the election of Georgetown’s first openly gay student body president in February, the LGBTQ community considers itself to still be fighting for acceptance on Georgetown’s campus.

The Georgetown University Student Association Safe Transitions Working Group implemented the changes suggested by the LGBTQ Safety and Security Report, prompted by public debate over a proposal to include an LGBTQ-friendly checkbox on freshman housing surveys. Although the idea drew criticism and was shelved before the summer of 2012, it marked an increase in attention to LGBTQ well-being at Georgetown.

The changing environment for LGBTQ students at Georgetown was reflected in

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GU Pride members wear T-shirts reading “I am” and walk through a door in Red Square in celebration of National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. the election of Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) as Georgetown’s first openly gay GUSA president.

Tisa, who is only the second openly gay student body president at a major Jesuit university in the United States, said he takes this responsibility seriously.

“It reaffirms my love for Georgetown,”

Tisa said, who was sworn into office with his hand on a book authored by a gay Jesuit. “I feel like because I am the first, I have to do a good job and look at specifically the needs of that community as well as bridging the gap between [the LGBTQ] community and other communities on campus.”

KELLY CHURCH Hoya Staff Writer Craig Cassey (COL ’15), elected in November to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, is the youngest openly gay elected official in the country.

“I’m just thinking we’re seeing a change in tolerance for homophobic actions, especially for a top-tier university like Georgetown,” Cassey said.

At the national level, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act at the end of last month. Students joined scores of protestors at the Supreme Court on March 26, lending their support to both sides of the case.

GUSA has been working on implementing the Safe Spaces Program, which will train student advocates to deal with sexual assault, relationship violence, harassment and discrimination to provide support for victims of bias and harassment when it launches next fall.

Tisa also plans to broach the subject of gender-neutral housing — an arrangement that some have seen as in conflict with Georgetown’s Catholic identity.

“I think the university has a responsibility to make sure students feel empowered in the housing process,” Tisa said.

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A Plan Comes to Life

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BRADEN MCDONALD Hoya Staff Writer

fter town-gown relations reached a height of hostility during 2010 Campus Plan negotiations in the winter of 2011, the past year has seen efforts between the university and its neighbors to maintain cooperation after a compromise was reached this past summer.

The Georgetown Community Partnership, the brainchild of the university’s compromise on the campus plan, has ushered in a series of consensus-oriented committees populated by representatives of the university and local community.

“I think we’ve reached an agreement,” said Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, who stood alongside University President John J. DeGioia and Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Chair Ron Lewis at the partnership launch June 6 after publicly supporting the neighborhood interests in the campus plan fight the previous October. “This is an extraordinary event in the life of our community, and it is very promising.”

Lauralyn Lee has been the institutional face of this new era of compromise since taking her post as the university’s associate vice president of community engagement and strategic initiatives early October.

“One of the things we’ve agreed on going into the partnership is a common set of goals,” Lee said at a Sept.

12 meeting with campus press. “We’ve identified some strategic priorities that we share, and … we’re asking everybody who’s engaged in the partnership to work toward the kind of community in which we want to live.”

Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13), former president of the Georgetown University Student Association, was appointed the student representative for the GCP steering committee Sept. 11 in response to GUSA efforts to ensure that the student voice was heard at the negotiating table. Since then, sev-

eral students have been nominated to dent Affairs Todd Olson lifted the regrepresent student interests in an array istration requirement for on-campus parties, signaling the first in a series of GCP working groups.

“Vail [Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13), then- of reforms aimed at reducing the invice president of GUSA] and I over the filtration of rowdy students into sursummer have literally been saying in rounding neighborhood streets. Chief every meeting with every adminis- among these changes was the March trator, no matter who they are or if launch of a weekend shuttle service to they’re related to the GCP, that having Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan, in a student representative on the GCP is addition to the buses that have been of the utmost importance and is a servicing M Street and Burleith since symbolic step toward establishing the fall 2011.

“We want to encourage student sostudents as a legitimate party in our immediate and neighboring commu- cial life in safe and legal ways on camnity,” Gustafson said at the time of her pus and believe this change will help a c c o mp l i s h appointment. that goal,” Local gov“The university has a lot Olson wrote ernment repinvested, and we have a lot in an email r e s e n t a t i ve s circulated to once known invested.”

Georgetown for lambasting students anthe universinouncing ty’s approach — Ed Solomon the eliminato neighborhood relations ANC 2E Commissioner tion of the registration were quick to requirement. welcome the new era of cooperation.

However, the concessions have also “What is really new is that [we are] in partnership with the highest levels come in the form of a redoubled uniof the university,” Commissioner Ed versity effort to exercise its disciplinSolomon said at the ANC 2E’s Septem- ary policy for off-campus violations. ber public meeting. “This is result-ori- Gustafson confirmed Feb. 28 that the ented. A new day has come. The uni- university was planning a crackdown versity has a lot invested, and we have on noisy off-campus parties for after spring break, a move that did not sura lot invested.”

In reality, the new era of compro- prise Student Advocacy Office senior mise has been defined by a variety of advocate Constantine Petallides (SFS concessions on the part of the univer- ’13).

“The reaction is, on one hand, it’s a sity, many of which have benefited bit arbitrary and unfair, and [on] the both neighbors and students.

Soon after the GCP was formed, other, the university is doing what it Georgetown’s Vice President for Stu- needs to,” Petallides said. “There’s no

December 2010

Georgetown Community Partnership announced.

Campus Plan filed.

June 6, 2012

July 17, 2012

D.C. Zoning Commission approved the 2010 Campus Plan.

Party registration system eliminated.

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solution that will make everyone happy all of the time.”

But students scored another victory Oct. 18 when Olson announced that the evidentiary standard against which student violations of the Code of Student Conduct are judged had been raised from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing” for all offenses committed on campus except sexual assault. The announcement came after about 98 percent of the more than 2,600 students who voted in a GUSA referendum supported the shift and Olson’s office commissioned an external review of the disciplinary policy.

Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord added that the university would undertake a separate external review to assess the feasibility of a similar change for off-campus violations, though the likelihood of such a shift remains uncertain.

The trend continued when the university moved to abolish the one-keg limit for on-campus parties April 18.

The policy change came just days after GUSA — whose new leadership under President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) has recognized adaptation to the campus plan agreement and student life on campus as a priority — adopted a resolution urging the university to consider relaxing the limit.

“We were working to make sure, in response to the campus plan, we keep the vibrancy of Georgetown social life alive, even if it means keeping it on campus,” Tisa said of the student association’s advocacy of the policy change. “It will allow on-campus life to

September 2012

Georgetown Downtown announced.

Referendum supported “clear and convincing.”

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be much better.”

Plans for the New South Student Center — renamed the Healey Family Student Center Feb. 20 after the family of alumni donated an undisclosed amount to the $21 million project — also reflect efforts to make campus more conducive to student socializing.

Most notably, the center, which is slated to open in fall 2014, includes plans for a pub that will serve alcohol to patrons over 21 from Thursday to Saturday during hours comparable to local bars and feature 18-plus events to accommodate the wider campus population.

“The hope is that the student center is a way for [all students] to be themselves in a safe and exciting space where they don’t have to go very far, and they can hang out and order a beer, a glass of wine or just a snack,” said Gustafson, who signed a Feb. 7 memorandum detailing plans for the center along with Kohnert-Yount and Olson.

The university’s approval of the pub came just 18 months after student efforts to reinstate Healy Pub were quashed by the administration.

Meanwhile, in light of its campus plan commitment to house 90 percent of undergraduates on campus by fall 2015 and cap enrollment numbers on its main campus, the university has begun exploring numerous options for growth both behind the front gates and beyond.

The university also announced in September a master plan for expansion, which includes the consolidation of the School of Continuing Studies into a Georgetown Downtown — a 91,000-square-foot facility in Mount Vernon Square purchased last summer — and the search for a site in the District of Columbia of about 100 acres to accommodate future growth of core graduate programs. The exact nature of the expansion remains uncertain.

After an earlier plan to convert the Leavey Hotel and Conference Center into dorms proved unworkable, the university unveiled a proposed dorm to be located across from Reiss Science Building, among six other possible sites, at a March 19 planning session.

The plans, which call for a triangular building with glass facades, were met with some criticism, including from Yates Field House Director Jim Gilroy (CAS ’72).

Oct. 18, 2012

“More likely than not” evidentiary standard ended on campus.

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“Somebody brought up the need for more energy on campus. I don’t think we need more energy,” Gilroy said.

“The idea of building another canyon to walk through for more energy — I just don’t see it.”

Magis Row, a series of student

Memo of understanding for pub in Healey Family Student Center signed.

Feb. 7, 2013

Feb. 28, 2013

Off-campus party crackdown announced.

townhouses oriented toward campus groups, will be relocated from the 1400 block of 36th Street to the block of 37th Street facing the front gates by this fall. The townhouses that previously composed Magis Row will be renovated to accommodate faculty

Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle weekend shuttles launched.

March 15, 2013

and staff housing and administrative offices.

With these changes, the university and its neighbors will have to adapt to a new dynamic.

“There’s going to be growing pains,” Petallides said.

March 19, 2013

Site across from Reiss Science Building emerged as likely location for new dorm.

Keg limit abolished for on campus parties.

April 18, 2013

GUSA Election Rocked by Secret Society Down-to-the-wire race jolted in final days of campaign

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his February’s GUSA executive campaigns began with the typical policy debates and budget proposals, but 11th-hour disclosures of candidates’ involve-

Candidates Respond to Disclosure “Because it’s something that I keep private, I don’t think that I have to explain every single thing I’ve been a part of in my history.”

JACK APPELBAUM (COL ’14) After news broke of his Stewards membership

“We refuse to align ourselves publicly or privately with any members of an organization that lacks transparency and accountability at Georgetown.”

JOE VANDEGRIFF (COL ’14) Retracting his cross-support for Appelbaum

“When I thought about it more and saw the way it unravelled today, I wanted full disclosure.”

ADAM RAMADAN (SFS ’14) Admitting secret society membership after an initial denial and criticism of Appelbaum

ment in secret societies brought chaos and controversy to the race, leading to a razorclose finish on election day.

The initial frontrunners were Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14) and Maggie Cleary (COL ’14), who had the endorsement of Georgetown University Student Association President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vice President Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) along with the help of campaign manager and outgoing GUSA Chief of Staff Jake Sticka (COL ’13). A door-to-door survey of 800 students conducted Feb. 12 by THE HOYA indicated that GUSA senate Speaker Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) were running neck and neck with Appelbaum and Cleary, but an undecided plurality suggested the race was still up for grabs.

The campaign was proceeding calmly to the finish line when, with less than 24 hours before voting began Feb. 20, the anonymous Facebook page “StewardThroat Hoya” offered evidence indicating Appelbaum and Sticka were members of the Second Society of Stewards.

The membership disclosure, confirmed

by Appelbaum and Sticka that evening, prompted the ticket of Shavonnia Corbin Johnson (SFS ’14) and Joe Vandegriff (COL ’14) to withdraw its cross-endorsement of Appelbaum and Cleary, citing concerns over transparency.

The news added to earlier complaints of the close interaction between the GUSA

administration and the Appelbaum and Cleary ticket, which were voiced after the official GUSA Twitter account sent a message meant to be sent from the Appelbaum campaign account during the presidential debate Feb. 18. The campaign consistently defended the nature of its relationship with current GUSA officials.

Meanwhile, Ramadan was forced to retract an earlier statement denying membership in a secret society after numerous online commenters alleged that he was a member. Ramadan admitted to membership in a society unaffiliated with the Stewards.

The election featured record turnout, and Appelbaum and Cleary maintained a narrow lead in the first three rounds of instant runoff voting, but Tisa and Ramadan pulled ahead by just 92 votes in the fourth round after Corbin Johnson and Vandegriff’s second-place votes were distributed.

Appelbaum said afterward that he did not believe the Stewards information changed the outcome of the election. The identity of StewardThroat Hoya was never confirmed.

Tisa and Ramadan were sworn into office March 16. They recruited Appelbaum, Corbin Johnson and presidential candidate Spencer Walsh (MSB ’14) to join their administration as director of student space, director of group outreach and director of technology, respectively.

Business School Stock on the Rise

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MSB admissions increasingly selective while school’s accolades accumulate

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hen the lavish Rafik B. Hariri Building opened in 2009, it appeared to signal the university’s investment in its McDonough School of Business. Based on the school’s performance and accolades this academic year, it seems that investment is paying off.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the MSB as the top undergraduate business school for finance. Last September, a NerdWallet Education study recognized the MSB for having the secondhighest rate of graduate employment for the Class of 2011, at 89 percent.

The 2012 U.S. News & World Report ranked the MSB 17th in the nation for undergraduate business schools, up from 20th the year before The school was singled out for its international business program, which was tied as the fourth-best of its kind.

“I think it’s simply the outcome of a set of things that have been underway here for several years. It’s kind of like the word on the street has been catching up to the reality of the undergraduate program here,”

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MSB Dean David Thomas said.

The report evaluates schools based on peer evaluations, high school counselor ratings, freshman retention rate, six-year graduation rate, class sizes, faculty pay and credentials, admissions selectivity and financial resources.

The graduate program climed three spots to 30th place in the 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek list of full-time master’s of business administration programs. The school also received an “A” grade in career services, teaching quality, critical thinking, leadership skills and classmate caliber.

Businessweek’s recognition of the school continued with the bestowal of the No. 1 ranking for undergraduate finance, based on surveys of the Class of 2013.

Thomas also pointed to the success of the evening MBA program. “We are now ranked the No. 1 evening MBA program in Washington, D.C. One indication of that is the selection indicators — GMAT and GPA — of those in the evening MBA program are better than those in any of our regional peers’ full-time programs,”

Thomas said.

These accolades, plus a trend toward professional preparation in colleges, translated into a record-setting undergraduate applicant pool this year. Early action applicants for the Class of 2017 numbered 1,196, marking a 12 percent increase from the previous year. The MSB became the most selective of the four undergraduate schools in general admissions, outpacing Georgetown College for the first time ever with an acceptance rate of 15.7 percent.

The MSB has also made strides in programming, with the National Society of Hispanic MBAs awarded the school the 2012 Brillante Award for Education Excellence, recognizing the school’s commitment to diversity in recruitment.

A group of local public school principals turned to a specially designed version of the school’s yearlong Executive Masters in Leadership program this fall. This specific EML program was established in conjunction with D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson (SFS ’92, G’07) and funded through the MSB and university scholar-

MSB ADDS TO RESUME Undergraduate finance program ranked No. 1 by Bloomberg Businessweek.

Ranked No. 2 for post-graduation employment rate by Businessweek.

Accepted 15.7 percent of undergraduate applicants, the lowest among the undergraduate schools. ships in addition to outside grants, reducing the cost to participants.

While the school benefits from this recognition, the administration will not rest.

“We’re not done by any stretch of the imagination,” Thomas said. “We have set a goal to have all of our programs ranked in the top 10, and we’ve got quite a ways to go before we get there.”

Roller-Coaster Year for Jesuit Community

Historic Papacy Decision Brings Society of Jesus Into Global Spotlight

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eorgetown’s Jesuit tradition always produces its annual share of storylines, but this past year was particularly transformative for the Society of Jesus with Pope Francis elevated in March to serve as the first Jesuit pontiff. On the Hilltop, the Jesuit community faced not only vandalism, departures and closures, but also reason for hope and happiness in 2013.

Departure of a Legend Government professor Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., retired in December 2012 at the age of 85 after having taught at Georgetown since 1977. The departure of the prolific author, storied lecturer and mentor to many brought an outpouring of sentiment from the campus community.

A packed Gaston Hall witnessed the professor’s “Final Gladness,” and dozens wrote to The Hoya to express their gratitude for the Georgetown icon’s decades of service.

Schall left campus in March and moved to the Jesuit Center at Los Gatos, Calif., where he has been working on a number of projects, including two books: “Rational Pleasures,” which he began during his medical leave in spring 2010, and “Political Philosophy and Revelation: A Catholic Reading,” both of which he expects to publish in the fall. He also compiled a manuscript of essays he wrote during his time at the university called “Schall at Georgetown: On Being Liberally Educated.”

While Schall has been busy in his publishing endeavors and daily walks, he still thinks of his teaching career.

“I definitely miss the constant exhilara-

tion and delight that I encountered each semester in meeting and getting to know new classes of students,” Schall wrote in an email. “I also miss the comfort of students who had taken two or three or more classes who got to know what I was about.”

Although Schall wrote that he was feeling relatively well, he lamented that he would not be able to attend graduation this May. “Missing it will break my heart, but not half as much as being there,” he wrote.

Historic Center Closes As the university prepares to say goodbye to the Class of 2013, it will also bid farewell to the Woodstock Theological Center, which served the university for 40 years and will officially close June 30.

Woodstock began as a Jesuit seminary in 1869 and was located in Maryland and New York before settling in the District.

The decision to shut down the center came in January but was announced until mid-February.

According to Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., one of the motives for the closing was that the center’s work overlapped with the theology department and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.

Among the other reasons cited for the closure, however, was a decline in the number of Jesuits as well as aging of those who research at the center. But O’Brien emphasized that although there are fewer Jesuits on campus — nearly 90 were at the university when he attended as an under-

Schall Retires After Illustrious Career

The Hoya received dozens of messages praising Fr. James Schall, S.J., upon the conclusion of his final semester teaching.

“Fr. Schall represents everything Georgetown should aspire to be.”

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graduate while there are only about 50 here today — Jesuit tradition is carried on by students, faculty and staff.

“We are sharing our tradition more eloquently because we’re sharing a tradition not simply as Jesuits but as laypersons who are both Catholic and non-Catholic,” O’Brien said. “Some of the most eloquent proponents of our Jesuit and Catholic tradition are actually non-Catholics, which for me is a very edifying reality.”

and Jesuit pope and took the name Francis, the first name in over a millennium not used by a predecessor. University President John J. DeGioia attended Francis’ installation as part of the U.S. presidential delegation to Vatican City.

Schall worried about the problems the new pope would face.

“The main concern of Pope Francis’ tenure will be concerned with what can only be called persecution and legal discrimination against the Church,” Schall wrote.

“We are little prepared for this.”

O’Brien, however, said that Francis’ actions since his election — including washing prisoners’ feet March 28 as part of Holy Thursday — show promise for the future of Catholicism.

“In the Catholic Church we have dealt with a lot of painful realities,” O’Brien said.

“What he’s done is give all of us reason to hope by helping us get back to basics.”

Dahlgren Chapel, which will remain under construction until August, was vandalized April 13 in what has been determined to be a hate crime by MPD.

Jesuits Reach Globally As the university dealt with internal changes, however, the Catholic world was in the midst of expansion and transformation.

Georgetown has been involved in a threeyear international effort with 26 other Jesuit colleges to build a Jesuit liberal arts college in Hong Kong on a 40-acre plot of land formerly used as a British military base.

Although the Hong Kong government said in 2010 that the land was available and began accepting letters of intent for land proposals in 2011, the government missed its most recent March 2013 deadline to issue a request for proposal, according to Fr. Ron Anton, S.J., chairman of the board of trustees for the college.

A new deadline has not yet been released, so the group of Jesuit institutions will remain waiting for an opportunity at the Hong Kong site.

With Francis, a Momentous First

Government professor Michael Kessler

“I feel as if it is impossible to express my thanks for his compassion and words of wisdom.”

Nevada Schadler (COL ’15)

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“Both his scholarship and deep caring for his students have helped to make our community and our world a better place.”

University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79)

In addition to looking to Jesuit expansion in the East, the Catholic Church also looked toward Latin America for its newest pope, Argentine Cardinal Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., now Pope Francis.

When Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in February, Catholics around the world were stunned by the historical news, which was the first time a pontiff had stepped down in over six centuries.

Shortly after Benedict became pope emeritus Feb. 28, Bergoglio was selected March 15 as both the first Latin American

DAHLGREN Renovated, vandalized The university’s Catholic community was struck when Dahlgren Chapel was vandalized this month, leaving a broken crucifix and organ mirror, among other damages.

“We’re continuing to work with [the Metropolitan Police Department] to see if any of the latent prints come out, but at this point and time, we’re just waiting to see,” Department of Public Safety and Chief of Police Jay Gruber said.

Gruber said that DPS had labeled the incident a hate crime due to the location and damage of the vandalism and that it would continue to be called such unless whoever committed the crime specified otherwise.

However, the university is still continuing chapel renovations and expects to have exterior work completed by graduation, while the interior work will be conducted this summer and a new organ will be installed spring 2014, according to O’Brien. The Calcagnini Contemplative Center in Bluemont, Va., is also slated to open in August and is expected to house all university-related retreats by spring of next year.

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Surprise Success Ends in Heartbreak Early Tournament Exit Mars Strong Basketball Performance

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t may have been filled with its own share of exciting victories — included two over a Final Four team (Syracuse) and one over the eventual national champion (Louisville) — but the 2012-13 men’s basketball season will above all be remembered for Georgetown’s humiliation at the hands of Florida Gulf Coast in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Carrying a rebuilt roster that featured zero seniors after the early departure of standout Hollis Thompson, Georgetown began the season with a rare no-contest, when their opener — against Florida aboard the USS Bataan — was cancelled due to bad weather.

Even after two wins in the District and a victory over then-No. 11 UCLA in the Legends Classic semifinals, Georgetown was not expected to compete against then-No. 1 Indiana in the next day’s championship in Brooklyn. As fate would have it, the Hoyas instead burst onto the national scene when junior guard Markel Starks and sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr. helped force overtime against the Hoosiers before ultimately falling 82-72.

Questions about Georgetown’s offense would soon be raised, however, after it put up just 37 points against Tennessee, 46 against lowly Towson, 48 points in a loss at Marquette and 45 in a Pittsburgh blowout at Verizon.

The Hoyas got even worse news in the days that followed, as sophomore forward Greg Whittington — who had been averag-

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An 11-game win streak propelled the Hoyas to a Big East regular season title, but a first-round NCAA tournament upset brought the year to a bitter end. ing 12.1 points and seven rebounds — was suspended for the remainder of the season due to academic issues.

But amid the adversity, Thompson III executed a masterful turnaround keyed by an

astonishing run of success by Porter Jr., a resurrection that secured both coach and star their respective Big East year-end awards.

The Hoyas were undefeated in February, with Porter Jr. electrifying the Carrier

Dome in the final away game of the Big East’s greatest rivalry and then doing it again in a 79-78 overtime grinder of a win over the Connecticut Huskies.

The best part of the show was still to come. Thoroughly dismantling Syracuse in every facet of the March 9 game, Georgetown — in the words of former Head Coach John Thompson Jr. — had seemingly “kissed Syracuse goodbye.” The victory was made sweeter by the fact that with it came a Big East regular season title and the No. 1 seed in the Big East tournament.

But the postseason, as has been the case every year since Georgetown reached the Final Four in 2007, was filled with disappointment, as Syracuse triumphed in overtime in the teams’ third meeting at Madison Square Garden.

Nonetheless, the Hoyas were assigned a No. 2 seed and sent to Philadelphia. But the legions of fans that made the short trip up I-95 were in for a head-scratcher.

In a shocking 78-68 upset, lackluster offense and nonexistent defense allowed Florida Gulf Coast to turn the City of Brotherly Love into Dunk City, exposing the vulnerabilities of heavily favored Georgetown. And so, for another year, Thompson III — honored just a week before as conference coach of the year — was left shaking his head.

“Trust me, more than anyone on this earth, I’ve tried to analyze it, think about it, look at what we could do, should do differently,” Thompson III said. “And I don’t know.”

Historic Seasons for Hardcourt Stars Porter Jr. Among Nation’s Best This winter, mild-mannered sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr. transformed from a reluctant scorer to a national superstar and likely lottery pick in the NBA Draft.

Kenner League fans and summer camp scouts caught glimpses of his improved game over the summer and adjusted their expectations accordingly. But most people didn’t see the new Porter Jr. until academic eligibility sidelined Greg Whittington in January.

Porter Jr. stepped up magnificently. He led the team in scoring and rebounding in nearly every Big East game. His 33-point evisceration of Syracuse at the Carrier Dome was one of the best performances in the nation this season. His coast-to-coast layup with seconds remaining in the second overtime gave Georgetown its first ever win over UConn at Gampel Pavilion.

After winning the Big East player of the year award, the star forward struggled in both the conference tournament and the national tournament. When Porter Jr. announced that he would forgo his final two years of college eligibility and declare for the draft, few begrudged him the chance to earn a multimillion-dollar contract, and most are grateful for his two years of excellent play.

-PATRICK CURRAN

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Rodgers Enters Record Book On Dec. 4 against Monmouth, Ta’Shauna “Sugar” Rodgers became the first Georgetown women’s basketball player to score 2,000 points.

But she didn’t stop there: By season’s end, Rodgers had become Georgetown’s all-time leading scorer — among both male and female players — with 2,518 points over four years on the Hilltop.

As a result of her on-court dominance, Rodgers now owns almost all of the school’s women’s basketball records. This past season, she led the Hoyas with 22.9 points per game and 105 steals; with 127 assists and 89 three-pointers, too, it’s hard to describe her value to the Blue and Gray.

Rodgers’ phenomenal individual play paid off; on April 15, she was taken 14th (her jersey number, coincidentally) overall in the 2013 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx, becoming only the third Georgetown player ever to be selected.

With what looks to be a promising future playing professionally, Rodgers has certainly gained a great deal from Georgetown. All that she has given, however — to the university, the students, the basketball team and its fans — is impossible to measure.

-LAURA WAGNER

Sign of Things to Come Corboz shines on balanced woman’s team— ARIK PARNASS Hoya Staff Writer

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here may have been only one Georgetown soccer team that reached the NCAA championship game in 2012, but there were two that achieved new levels of excellence.

The women’s team (16-4-3, 8-1-1 Big East) won the conference’s National Division title for the first time in its history, advanced to the Big East tournament finals and lost in heartbreaking fashion in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Hoyas concluded the year ranked No. 17, the program’s highest-ever final ranking.

While the end result was not fully satisfactory given the team’s improvement, Head Coach Dave Nolan looked at the positives at the time of defeat.

“I felt we did everything we could this year. We grew as a team as the season went on, and we really did some great things,” Nolan said. “I’m really proud of this team, and I hope this inspires everyone to want to do this and go one better next year.”

Contrary to the previous year in which the team relied on its scoring to win games, the 2012 squad was both an offensive and defensive juggernaut. On the attack, the team set a school record with 50 goals scored and was ranked

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Sophomore striker Jessica Clinton (top) and midfielder Daphne Corboz (bottom) powered the women’s team.

23rd in the nation with 2.17 goals per game; on defense, the team set another school record with 13 shutouts.

One especially bright spot was the performance of sophomore midfielder Daphne Corboz. Expectations were high going into the year for the Greensbrook, N.J., native, coming off Big East all-rookie team and third team all-Big East honors her freshman year while playing out of position on the wing.

But swapped back into the center of Nolan’s adjusted 4-3-3 formation, Corboz soared above her competition, registering 12 goals and 27 points in conference action to earn Big East offensive player of the year honors — the first Hoya to do so since Sara Jordan in 2009 — as well as being a unanimous all-Big East first team selection.

Corboz excelled in nonconference games as well, scoring 18 total goals, good for 10th in the country. Five of those came in an 8-0 win at Pittsburgh on Sept. 30, with her 11 points in the game marking a Big East record. On the national scale, Corboz was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference offensive player of the year, a first team All-American and one of 15 semifinalists for the Hermann Trophy, college soccer’s highest individual award.

2012 thus became the third straight year in which Georgetown had fielded an All-American, after forward Ingrid Wells was selected in both her junior and senior years.

More recently, Corboz was also named the only sophomore on Soccer America’s first team MVP squad and accepted her first invitation to a U.S. women’s U-23 national team training camp.

“This is a great honor for Daphne and indeed Georgetown,” Nolan said.

“We are very excited for her, and she thoroughly deserves this chance for her efforts and dedication.”

Nolan was recognized for guiding his team to new heights. The Ireland native, in his ninth season with the school, was named Big East coach of the year and NSCAA northeast region coach of the year.

The women’s team this year graduates starting seniors Claire Magliola and Christina O’Tousa, who were staples at defensive midfield in 2012, as well as backup goalkeeper Hanna Monson.

Taking their place, alongside rising underclassmen, will be a promising class of freshmen, including six recruits who have already signed national letters of intent.

Meanwhile, team leaders like Corboz, juniors Kaitlin Brenn, Alexa St. Martin, Colleen Dinn, Mary Kroening and all-Big East first team defender Emily Menges will all return and attempt to bring the Hoyas to even greater successes in 2013.

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(Left to right) Junior striker Gabe Padilla, senior midfielder Ian Christianson and sophomore midfielder Tom Skelly led the Hoyas to a championship-game run.

On the Cusp of Glory Men’s soccer falls in College Cup championship RYAN BACIC

to extra time and allow a golden goal right before they were set to begin penalty kicks.

“It’s a gutting loss — I’m gutted for our ith just three NCAA tourna- guys because I think they deserved more ment appearances to its credit than that and I’d like to see someone consince its founding in 1950, the struct a more painful way to lose a game,” Georgetown men’s soccer team entered Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

Strong senior leadership always helps af2012 once again with modest expectations.

Its season-opening ranking — or rather, ter crushing defeats like that one, though, and the Hoyas had it in spades. Central midthe lack of one — reflected that.

But an overtime win over Virginia, which fielder Ian Christianson, left back Jimmy boasts six national titles, including one as Nealis, center back Tommy Muller and wingrecently as 2009, gave a hint out of the er Andy Riemer would all be drafted by Magates that this time around might finally jor League Soccer after the season, and their be different, and the Blue and Gray quickly ability to pick their team back up and drive jumped into the top 25 in the second week it all the way to the national championship exemplified why. Neumann may have been of play. They never looked back.

Florida Gulf Coast, a school that would the team’s star — he was named most outultimately prove to be the men’s basket- standing offensive player of the College Cup after a hat trick against Maryball team’s downfall, was land — but Georgetown’s allthe victim in game two, and important mentality trickled Georgetown cruised early to down from its professionally a 10-0-1 record. minded senior class.

The season’s first hardship Number of Largely as a result of that would follow. mindset, at the end of the Ranked No. 3 in the coun- game-winners season, Wiese and Co. found try, Georgetown played host themselves far deeper in to No. 2 UConn at North scored by Kehoe Field on Oct. 3, and freshman striker the tournament than any Georgetown team had gone what the players and staff since the program’s incepbelieved to be a poor offi- Brandon Allen tion. An Elite Eight matchup ciating decision ended up costing them in a 2-1 Connecticut final. with San Diego saw likely the biggest crowd “I’m setting my wall up, and I always ask, in North Kehoe history, and an epic 4-4 ‘Ref, whistle. Ref, whistle,’” junior goal- shootout win over Maryland in the semis keeper Keon Parsa told THE HOYA in October. followed in Hoover, Ala. In the final, Georgetown would fall just “I didn’t hear a response. I’m lining up my wall, and out of nowhere, they just slot it in. short, being shut out for just the second He didn’t call it back, and I was so shocked.” time all season in a 1-0 loss to Indiana. A A 3-0 loss to Notre Dame in South Bend, late header from Muller hit the crossbar, Ind., made it two straight for the previously and the magical run came to a heartbreakundefeated Hoyas, but the team rattled off ing close.

“We just kept pressing. We didn’t really six wins from there on out to fulfill what had been its goal all season long: make the change our mentality until [there were] two minutes left and we started just putting Big East tournament semifinals.

From the start, freshman striker Bran- stuff in the box,” Christianson said. “I think don Allen, who beat even standout junior the guys played their hearts out today.”

Sickeningly close as they may have come, forward Steve Neumann as Georgetown’s leading scorer, delivered the extra time for the future, 2012 meant everything for game-winner against Marquette to send his the Georgetown men’s soccer program.

As far as sports are concerned, the Hillside through to the final for the first time in program history. But while the Blue and top has long been associated primarily with Gray held a one-goal lead with under a min- its men’s basketball team. If Wiese can keep ute to go in their rematch with the Irish, a the momentum going, maybe — just maylate collapse would see them go once again be — that could no longer be the case.

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The longest losing streak for the volleyball team, which finished with a 7-21 record.

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The ranking of the women’s lacrosse team in April. Pictured is team points leader Caroline Tarzian.

The total number of games won by Charlie Caris — 57 in singles and 59 in doubles — in his four-year career on the men’s tennis team.

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The number of home runs hit by Alexandria Antilla against Rutgers on April 6. She also added 10 RBI.

The number of quarterbacks who started for the football team this season. The oft-injured group — Isaiah Kempf, Aaron Aiken, Stephen Skon (pictured) and Kyle Nolan — finished 5-6.