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BUSINESS AS USUAL

Despite liberal arts emphasis, many undergrads pursue careers in business.

COMMENTARY An anti-abortion protest at the inauguration highlights the strength of free speech.

GUIDE, G6

OPINION, A3

Fossil Fuel Holdings Criticized

Despite racial diversity measures, students cite continued prejudice Emma Hinchliffe Hoya Staff Writer

Elaina Koros

Special to The Hoya

See FUEL, A6

NEWS, A5

Marquee Matchup The men’s basketball team will have its hands full against No. 5 Louisville.

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Minorities Allege Campus Bias

INAUGURAL SPECTACLE

Student group urges university divestment from energy giants GU Fossil Free, a student lobby group allied with several other campus organizations, submitted a proposal Wednesday outlining a plan for the university to abandon its suspected investments in fossil fuel companies.

“We propose that Georgetown University immediately freeze all new investments in all fossil fuel companies and divest completely from such companies within five years,” stated the proposal, which was addressed to University President John J. DeGioia.

“We urge the administration and trustees of Georgetown to sever ties with these corporations to show that Georgetown does not support the devastation of our planet.”

GU Fossil Free was established last November and comprises about 15 core members. The organization has support from more than 20 campus student groups, including the Georgetown University College Republicans, the Georgetown University College Democrats, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Interfaith Council and The Corp Green Initiative.

After DeGioia’s office received the proposal, university spokeswoman Stacy Kerr expressed the administration’s serious consideration of the group’s requests.

“The president’s office received the letter from GU Fossil Fuel today. We will give careful consideration to the issues raised. We take these concerns seriously,” Kerr wrote in an email. “In fact, that is precisely why last year we enhanced the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility … with the ability to make recommendations about our investment practices. We are asking the [Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility] to give the proposal careful consideration at its upcoming meetings.”

CISR evaluates written proposals, such as that of GU Fossil Fuel, of socially

GRAND OPENING Einstein Bros. Bagels has officially opened its second campus location.

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Audience members slept overnight on the National Mall to witness President Obama’s oath of office Monday morning. See story on A7.

While university administrators have championed diversity initiatives over the last decade, many black and Latino students continue to report incidents of racial bias both on and off campus.

Aya Waller-Bey (COL ’14) authored a viewpoint in The Hoya (“Racial Bias Runs Rampant,” A3, Jan. 18, 2013) in which she shared incidents of bias that student residents of the Black House have confronted.

Waller-Bey decided to write her piece after the Black House held a haunted house event in October.

Neighbors repeatedly called the Student Neighborhood Assistance Program and the Metropolitan Police Department, even though Waller-Bey says the students were not making much noise and there was no alcohol present. She states that the SNAP officer acknowledged

that the Black House students were in the right and had not broken any rules or laws, while the MPD lieutenant forced the students to move the line for their event down the street.

But Waller-Bey said that the haunted house incident was just the latest manifestation of chronic institutional bias at Georgetown.

“The haunted house incident was the icing on the cake for me,” Waller-Bey said. “I was not feeling institutionally supported in any way by Georgetown. … It was like I was talking to a wall, with nothing changing or improving.”

MPD said it plans to investigate the October incident.

“We will need to investigate this matter that reportedly occurred in October 2012. We are not aware of any complaints from students,” MPD Communications Director Gwendolyn Crump wrote in an email. “The community calls about parties in [Georgetown] in general.

A noise complaint does not equal racial bias.”

Waller-Bey faced a similar situation to the haunted house incident See BIAS, A5

Chimes Continue Late Founder’s Legacy Eitan Sayag

Hoya Staff Writer

As the clock on Healy Tower struck midnight Thursday, the Georgetown Chimes performed their weekly recital in Dahlgren Quad, the newest tradition for Georgetown’s oldest a cappella group.

Frank Jones (LAW ’48) founded the all-male Chimes when he came to Georgetown in 1946. Now 76 years later, the foundation that Jones established continues to grow. Jones died Dec. 22 at the age of 92, and although there have been changes from the original four-member barbershop quartet, traditions Jones started and songs he added to the Chimes’ repertoire continue to be sung by the 14 active group members.

A Vocal Vision “When you read about his story, [Jones] didn’t just arbitrarily create an a cappella group,” Tim Lyons

(COL ’15), the newest Chimes singer and its 240th member, said. “He really wanted to start this group, and he worked for years and years at it. Even well after graduating, he worked to make sure that the group was going to be sustainable.”

“Baby Chime” Lyons had to learn Jones’ story before he could gain his new title as Chime No. 240.

Jones, Chime No. 1, was quarterback of the Yale football team from 1939 to 1941 but was drafted into the Army to fight in World War II. He served from 1941 to 1945, completing his undergraduate degree in the military, having earned the rank of captain as he fought the Japanese in New Guinea.

Jones left the military in March of 1946 and enrolled at Georgetown Law Center.

“While he was in the army, he See CHIMES, A6

Foreign Students Face Limited Aid

LET IT SNOW

Tia Baheri

Hoya Staff Writer

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Georgetown’s campus was covered in its first snowfall of the year Thursday night, although classes were still able to proceed the next morning.

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The Chimes, Georgetown’s oldest a capella group, uphold decadesold traditions and connect students and alumni across generations.

The story of Alexis Garau (COL ’15) is like that of many undergraduates at Georgetown: Without the aid she receives from the university’s endowment and the federal government, she would not have been able to afford a Georgetown education.

But Garau, an international student from Italy who was born in New York City and has dual citizenship, lucked out in her birthplace; with only a foreign passport, she would not have access to a single cent of the financial aid that she receives as an American citizen.

While American students have a wide range of options to fund their educations, international students must search for aid within tight legal restrictions.

One important source, federal grants and funding — which account for just under 10 percent of Georgetown’s financial aid — are not available to international students at all.

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“The federal government does not provide any funding for nonU.S. residents,” said Scott Flemming, Georgetown’s vice president for federal relations. “You can imagine that it would be very hard to get a measure passed in Congress for funding for international students when there are still

“Most international students that come here have money.”

Alexis garau (COL ‘15), undergraduate from Italy

arguments over funding for United States residents. That measure just wouldn’t pass.”

Fleming added that, in addition to traditional forms of federal funding, such as Pell grants and the Federal Work-Study program, the government also finances scholarships for international studies, all of which are also allocated specifi-

cally to U.S. students.

Stipulations on student visas can also prohibit international students from holding off-campus jobs except in certain cases of economic difficulties.

According to Katherine Bellows, executive director of the Office of International Programs, this is because hiring international students involves higher costs than employing American citizens.

“International students can get on-campus jobs, but they are not eligible for the Federal Work-Study program, so it costs each department much more to hire an international than a domestic student,” Bellows said.

Minjung Kang (SFS ’15), an international student from Korea, said the lack of on-campus jobs for international students is problematic.

“I know a few international students who have on-campus jobs with no problem but I definitely think that work-study students are See AID, A5

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OPINION

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2013

RETRACTION The article “GPB Takes Control of Georgetown Day” (The Hoya, A1, Jan. 18, 2013) incorrectly described the status of organizational responsibility for the end-ofsemester campus celebration. The article stated that following event shortcomings stemming from last-minute arrangements for the 2012 event, planning duties were transferred from the ad hoc Georgetown Day Committee to the Georgetown Program Board. Although such a move has been discussed by the Georgetown University Student Association and GPB, no official changes have been made.

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EDITORIALS

Pure Dollars and Cents The intentions of GU Fossil Free, a group demanding that the university retract investments from all coal and fossil fuel companies, are admirable. They are not, however, in the best interest of Georgetown students.

In its letter to the administration, the student group asks for an immediate freeze on all new coal and fossil fuel investments and a complete divestment from these companies within five years. Yet the benefits of a divestment from fossil fuels are not nearly as far-reaching as the letter implies, and such a change would be a serious blow to endowment growth. While it may be worthwhile for the university to re-examine its portfolio, environmental consciousness cannot dominate investment decisions.

The university’s endowment is vital to its fiscal stability. A larger endowment means more scholarships, higher-quality academics and top-notch faculty. The goal should be to grow the endowment as much as possible, and in order to do so, it must give the greatest value to a company’s financial health and potential for growth. If the university believes that divesting from coal and fossil fuels would lead to smaller returns, then such a decision should be avoided.

In fiscal year 2011, the endowment per fulltime student was equivalent to $75,811. To see that figure shrink would have a direct impact on both current and prospective students. The number of scholarships that the university could award, which amounts to a staggering $80.8 million dollars — eight times the contribution of federal aid, to its entering and attending students — would likely decrease. Tuition would likely increase — even more than it is currently projected to — and on-campus organizations would likely lose funding. This would mean that the best and brightest students would have further roadblocks from attending Georgetown, and current students would have limited financial support to effect real change.

Georgetown students are not the first to suggest pulling investments from fossil fuel companies. Students at Harvard called for a similar divestment in November. However, Harvard’s

$31.7 billion endowment dwarfs Georgetown’s, which is $1.14 billion and lags far behind that of many other comparable universities. With a significantly larger endowment, the luxury of giving attention to the values and impacts of corporations would be available, but for now, the university’s main priority should be to grow the endowment however possible.

The importance of environmental awareness and social responsibility cannot be understated, and the university is certainly in the right about its recent decision to break from Adidas for the company’s unsavory practices. However, it would be imprudent and ill-advised to adopt every social cause. The university should continue to pursue more fiscally cautious methods to promote social change like providing resources for students to improve sustainability on campus. There is an unfortunate irony in that the administration’s ability to financially support student-led endeavors is tied directly to the size of its endowment, but for this reason it is necessary for the university to examine other channels for promoting social change than restricting its investment opportunities.

Many profitable corporations run into trouble with questionable ethical practices. If we choose to divest from fossil fuel companies, where do we draw the line in refraining from investing in business that may not be ethically impeccable?

The primary directive of an endowment is to protect university investments and grow its assets. As such, the same forces and incentives that guide the market should drive the university’s asset management. To act significantly otherwise would imperil the university’s finances and make it more difficult for the university to live out its values through operation and growth.

Georgetown cannot afford to stray far from the most lucrative investments, regardless of what those investments happen to be. While the university should avoid an imbalance between the strength of its values and the size of its endowment, these two pillars of student life should be kept separate, not pitted against each other.

Consequently, the editorial “GU Tradition in Good Hands” (The Hoya, A2, Jan. 18, 2013) is also inaccurate and retracted.

THE VERDICT

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Major Upgrade — Metro’s top managers are planning to make improvements that include a new rail tunnel under the District and the Potomac.

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Leading the Way — The Georgetown Public Policy Institute will continue playing host to the university’s first ever LEAD conference today, which brings together policy experts and researchers to find solutions for problems facing our youth.

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21st-Century Cabs — By March 30, D.C. cabs will begin accepting credit cards after a long push for modernization by the D.C. Taxicab Commission.

Well-Deserved Honor — Mary Brown, a champion for D.C. black youth rights, was honored Tuesday with a John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream award.

Bagels Galore — Einstein Bros Bagels opened its Car Barn location. Customers will receive one dollar off any sandwich, which include meat and vegetarian options.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Arturo Altamirano

Georgetown’s Lost Art One academic department at Georgetown has gained campus notoriety lately for being a far cry from state of the art.

Roughly 20 undergraduates in each graduating class choose to major in art, art history or art and museum studies. The problem for these students — besides having to overcome the pervasive underappreciation of their area of study on campus — is the dismal state of Georgetown’s art department. The university, simply by the virtue of offering visual arts as a major, has a responsibility to provide interested students with the necessary resources to make the study of art up to the standards of academic excellence at Georgetown.

The department is currently confined to four studio spaces, a smattering of faculty offices and classrooms — only one of which has a working projector — and one sculpture room. The department’s space is inconveniently split between the fourth floor and basement of Walsh Building.

The art department’s dramatic lack of campus space limits its ability to offer a wider range or larger quantity of courses. Course options each semester have limited capacity for this same rea-

son. There is simply not enough space or easels to accommodate more students per class, let alone offer more classes. And although some would argue the dearth of facilities is appropriate in light of the seemingly low level of student interest, the rapid registration to capacity for each art class every semester is evidence to the contrary.

The quality of the studios themselves adds additional insult to injury. Classrooms are rundown and decrepit, with cracked paint peeling off the walls. Fiberboards, which take up entire walls in the four studios and feature students’ artwork, have grayed with age. And while it is fair to note that some of the damage, like charcoal smears, is standard wear and tear for a space dedicated to artistic activity, one wonders if the damage would have gone this long without repair if the classrooms served any other academic program at Georgetown.

Offering a major provides a tacit endorsement of the subject’s merit. Students interested in the visual arts may be relatively small in number, but they deserve to have their academic pursuits respected and resourced by the university.

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OPINION

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2013

FROM THE OUTSIDE

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VIEWPOINT • Funt

A Noisy and Thriving Democracy

College Mold Too Limiting S

tudents at top-tier universities would be remiss if they did not read David Brooks’ article “The Organization Kid,” in which he describes our generation as one defined by its achievement. Students at elite universities across the country get perfect grades.

They receive the admiration of their professors, administrators and peers alike.

They go off and start businesses and run nonprofit organizations.

Brooks’ thesis is summarized as this: “At the top of the meritocratic ladder we have … a generation of students who ... feel no compelling need to rebel. They not only defer to authority, they admire it. ... At the schools and colleges where the next leadership class is being bred, one finds not angry revolutionaries [or] despondent slackers … but the Organization Kid.” Put simply, we are the students our grandparents wanted our parents to be.

We are well-groomed, hard working and desire success — often times at the expense of enjoying youth.

Though Brooks’ original article is over a decade old, I would argue that much of what he says remains true today at a similar top-tier university.

Here at Georgetown, there is a pervasive desire — almost a visceral need — to succeed. We seek — and more often than not, obtain — the best internships at the most prestigious firms. We are upset if we earn a B+ because it “hurts our GPA.” We are constantly evaluating our chances at getting into law schools, business schools and medical schools.

Many of us spend months preparing for interviews for spring-semester recruiting. We study tirelessly to get that impressive GPA top graduate schools require, all while volunteering 10 hours a week at a nonprofit, working part time at a paid job, being the president of this club or that organization and heading to Yates at least four times a week. Many of

We are the students our grandparents wanted our parents to be. We are hard working and desire success. us seem to have mastered the ability to juggle responsibility and do the best — and be the best — at everything.

At Georgetown, we seem to be very much in the mold of Organization Kids.

When we see a protest in Red Square, arguably the most common reaction is to laugh and discard the protestors as misguided or crazy. Even the unionization of the Leo’s workers was — and still is — met with a nervous response.

I’m not arguing that this incredible work ethic somehow diminishes what we do in our four years on the Hilltop.

Georgetown is a unique place in the sense that we do not compete against each other — rather, we compete against what we perceive to be the dominant level of our peers.

At a university like this one, we have friends who have done incredible things.

They have formed a million-dollar tech company, started a nonprofit in some developing country in an obscure part of the world and traded commodities at profit margins that would make professional traders jealous. All too often, we seem to think that we must compete against such benchmarks or fall behind — that we would somehow fail at what is expected of us.

Instead, I argue that, though difficult, we must not forget what youth and college are all about. We are college kids. We are supposed to have fun while working hard, to enjoy our youth and our inherent lack of any major responsibility. We are sheltered; we are pampered. Because of our environment at Georgetown, however, we are primed and very much ready to take on the world. I hold that we should not focus so much on fulfilling the Organization Kid mold as much as we should focus on keeping our age and current place in perspective. Go to basketball games, hang out with friends on Healy Lawn, have a beer at Tombs. Enjoy college while it lasts.

Live a little. Lighten up. Don’t just be the Organization Kid.

David Weis is a sophomore in the College. FROM THE OUTSIDE appears every other Friday.

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arack Obama began his second inaugural address Monday by declaring, “Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution.”

It was a powerful message, one made more powerful by the fact that hundreds on the National Mall couldn’t hear it. Instead, they were subjected to a man screaming from the top of a tree, “Obama supports abortion! Obama is an anti-Christ!”

I stood among those audience members, many of whom travelled across the country and endured hours in the frigid cold to witness this historic event. All it took was one man, armed with a small sign and an impenetrable pulpit, to completely spoil our experience. Yet perhaps in irritation there can be inspiration, for although the words of Obama’s speech were drowned out, the meaning behind them rang clear.

It was around 8 a.m. when Rives Miller Grogan scaled a 40-foot tree about 300 yards from the Capitol building and began his diatribe. For the next six hours, the anti-abortion protester shouted relentlessly from a perch that broadcast his voice and eluded the police. His cries ranged from the tame — “Think of the babies!” — to the incendiary — “American abortion caused Newtown!”

No amount of pleading from the crowd or the police could stop him, nor did anything occurring on the inaugural stage, from the opening benediction to Beyoncé’s national anthem. Grogan has a welldeveloped modus operandi, having stormed the field at professional sporting events and interrupted proceedings in the U.S. Senate.

But as infuriating as Grogan’s demonstration was to hundreds of deafened and distracted attendees, there was a noticeable hint of decorum to his conduct. He was neither obscene nor violent, and

The inauguration scenario presents an intriguing case study for the boundaries of free speech. he calmly told police that he would climb down after the event. He even challenged the audience to debate, although that ended with cries of “Shut up!” and a return to his “What about justice?” refrain.

Freedom of speech is among the most cherished constitutional rights to which Obama made reference, yet a true commitment to this protection demands that we tolerate not only the disagreeable, but also the distasteful. It is tested in the face of the radical, unpopular and unpleas-

ant — opinions that exceed reasonability to the point that many wish they were silenced. Indeed, many in the crowd joined in periodic chants of “shake that tree.”

The inauguration scenario presents an intriguing case study for the boundaries of free speech. Audience members could not simply walk away, for they were already packed closely together in competition for a good view. They couldn’t just cover their ears, for the words being said on stage were the focus of the occa-

sion. Ignoring the danger and illegality of climbing a tree in public, which were legitimate grounds for the eventual arrest, Grogan’s complete disregard for social norms produces a challenging dilemma between public interest and personal freedom.

As a journalist on assignment at the event, I have a strong resentment for almost all forms of censorship.

Yet as a student, I appreciate the law’s longstanding enforcement of time, place and manner restrictions on free speech. Those restrictions, however, must be implemented with great restraint. After all, protests are often reliant on the context of their delivery — if all speech could be confined to the privacy of our homes, for example, “free speech” would be reduced to an empty promise.

I’ve withheld commentary on the content of Grogan’s protest because that isn’t relevant to the more basic question at hand. His arguments — however extreme — were substantive, and it is neither my place nor the law’s to assess his right to protest on the basis of its merit. Free speech is most important for contentious matters, and many who adamantly reject Grogan’s position can still appreciate the gravity of the issue for someone with his perspective. It goes against the principle of free speech to demand that some topics be separated from crowds and controversy.

I join many of those in the audience around me in wishing that Grogan had been more civil, but civil disobedience is still a legitimate recourse in democracy. The protest may have prevented many from celebrating the occasion as intended, but we can take greater pride in celebrating the system and society that allows it.

DANNY FUNT is a junior in the College. He is editor-in-chief of The Hoya.

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT...

VIEWPOINT • Dissent

Jesuit Values a Intellectual Risks Moral Investment Yield New Insights A

student group, GU Fossil Free, other universities to use its power as is currently advocating for an institution to promote socially rethe university to divest from sponsible change, even and perhaps corporations that deal in fossil fu- especially when it comes to financial els. This bold proposal — which is dealings. too new to be assessed on its merit The primary directive of an enor chance of success — draws atten- dowment is to protect university intion to some interesting questions. vestments and grow its assets. And How much weight do the values a while the university’s $1.14 billion university claims to uphold have endowment is much smaller than when it comes to making fiscal deci- those of peer elite institutions, it sions about the university’s financial is the second-largest Jesuit endowfuture? Should a university’s invest- ment in the country. Just because ment portfolio indeed also reflect Georgetown must continue to pruits core principles? Today’s editorial dently invest its endowment does “NAME” asserts that the university’s not mean that protests like those values of social justice and responsi- raised by GU Fossil Free should be bility should not factor in its invest- ignored. ment decisions.

Georgetown has acted according Georgetown’s investment prac- to its values in its business decisions tices should, however, reflect the in the past. This month, Georgetown values that it stood behind embodies as its ethical a university. commitGeorgetown administrators The university ments when cannot honor would be remiss if they did not ittheterminated its commitschool’s take this opportunity to alter ment to sercontract vice and civic with Adidas, the management of assets. duty only citing the in certain firm’s alleged situations or s we a t s h o p circumstances. Its values should violations as incompatible with — conduct and guide its decisions and indeed in violation of — Georgeand actions in all university affairs, town’s Jesuit values and commitincluding those that involve the pri- ment to worker justice. It would be vate sector. If Georgetown has the op- the epitome of hypocrisy for the uniportunity to invest in two equally or versity to stick to its guns in only cersimilarly promising opportunities, it tain financial affairs, but not others. should, without question, favor the It cannot pick and choose where it one that is more closely aligned with decides to Although perhaps more its commitment to social justice and indirect, there are fruitful analogies responsibility. between the Adidas situation and Universities across the country the one at hand. are discussing values-based endowAlthough the university must ment investment. Over the past year, continue to protect its investments schools like Harvard, Princeton and and grow its assets for the future so Middlebury have all been involved that it can continue to instill in stuin efforts to remove from their port- dents a drive to not just succeed in folios companies which own major the world, but help and improve it, fossil fuel reserves. Georgetown ad- it should do so in a way that is conministrators would be remiss if they sistent with its Jesuit, Catholic and did not take this opportunity to alter humanitarian values. Preaching the the management of their assets for importance of values like justice and the greater good. accountability in classrooms and lecIf American educational institu- ture halls while failing to back them tions — some of the largest institu- up with its investment ledger hardly tional investors in the world — came advances the university’s ideals. together in force, they would have the power to send a financially pow- ALYSSA HUBERTS is a junior in the erful message about their priorities College. SAM RODMAN is a sophin the future global marketplace. omore in the McDonough School Its Jesuit and Catholic heritage of Business. They are both memgives Georgetown what is arguably bers of the Ediorial Board of The an even greater responsibility than Hoya.

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mile Allais died last year at may ultimately elude us. the age of 100. Few outside of The third student was lost in the realm of competitive ski- thought. Then he picked up the ing would recognize his name, but ketchup bottle, the new inverted his popularization of the tactic of kind that stood squarely on its cap. keeping skis parallel to each other to No more shaking or patting the botmaintain speed on turns revolution- tom to get the ketchup out. “Duh,” he ized the sport in the 1930s. Accord- said. “Why did it take them so long to ing to The New York Times’ Hugo figure that out?”

Lindgren, “His contribution to skiInsights sometimes take a while ing qualifies as one of history’s ‘duh’ to crystalize. Jesuit education should moments: What if we try it this way create time and space for ideas to instead? ” marinate and for conversations In this wondrously instructive of depth to take place — even over obituary, we are pulled pork. We taught an imporall need more patant lesson about tience. We cannot Jesuit education. rush the answers.

If we are true to We can, however, our spirit, we ferment creativity should regularly by reading widely, elicit such “duh” listening attentivemoments. ly to people differA Jesuit educaent from ourselves tion should inand finding more spire in students a silence and soliFr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. certain creativity tude to allow inthat impels them Out-of-the-box thinkers sights to incubate. to ask the next To ask “What if and doers insist,“It does we try it this way big question, to never to settle for not have to be this way.” instead?” inevitaeasy answers and bly means going to think out of against the grain. the box. While we Immediately, one must humbly seek to learn from oth- is put on the outside, which can be ers in our intellectual, religious and a lonely place. Thus, Jesuit education cultural traditions, we must also be must instill courage in students. Out free to contribute to those traditions on the proverbial limb, we risk being with bold thinking. Because the wrong. While we rightfully applaud tradition of learning is a living one, success, we need also to commend sincere learners have something to the noble pursuit of a cause greater contribute to the conversation. The than ourselves, even one that leads to educator’s job is to help the students failure. recognize their talents, give voice to While I applaud Allais for maktheir thinking and sometimes take ing skiing more exhilarating and worthwhile risks. the Heinz Company for getting Over a dinner of pulled pork at ketchup on my burger more quickOld Glory, I asked three juniors ly, I am most edified by those who whether they thought Georgetown bring their own brand of creative students were having enough of courage to today’s social problems. these “duh” moments. One pointed Looking at the divisions that mark out that we are too distracted. To our society and its endemic poverty think out of the box, we first need and injustices, these out-of-the-box to perceive the need or opportunity. thinkers and doers insist,“It does But that can be very difficult in a not have to be this way. What if we culture where our attention spans try it another way instead?” have been reduced by information “Duh,” the rest of us say, resolving overload and incessant multitask- to take on the next challenge with ing. Another wondered whether we a bit more creativity and holy boldare too easily lulled into inaction ness. or apathy because problems often seem too complicated to address. Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., is the Or perhaps, we are too comfortable vice president for mission and to risk giving up what we have or ministry. AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT… know in pursuit of a solution that appears every other Friday.

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Undergrad Launches Bid for Council Seat Though the election is over a year away, Rashawn Davis has already begun coralling support for his election to Newark’s West Ward as councilman TED MURPHY & ZOSIA DUNN

Davis’ mother and aunt encouraged him to serve the community by volunteering at hospitals and psychiMany Georgetown students past atric wards, pursuits that spurred, at and present have political aspira- least in part, Davis’ political aspirations. But Rashawn Davis (COL ’14) tions.

“I just started thinking to myself stands out from the pack, for he has already begun his campaign. Davis that there had to be another way to has his sights set on May 2014, when have this kind of effect, but in a more the people of Newark’s West Ward structural way,” Davis said. “That’s when I really started to look toward will vote for their city councilman.

Davis spent the first 12 years of politics.”

With Davis officially beginning his life in Georgia King Village, a Newark housing project, where he his campaign for Newark West witnessed drug deals and violence Ward council earlier this month, on a daily basis. He saw fights and he hopes to follow in Newark Mayor muggings and often heard gunfire Cory Booker’s footsteps. “I’ve always known I wanted to run for city counat night.

“All of these things were saturated cil, and I’ve always known I wanted into the neighborhood, and you al- to do it young.”

Davis hopes to bring change to his most just become numb to it,” Davis Newark ward and engage the comsaid.

Davis’ mother, who dropped out munity to improve the quality of life for all residents of college and of the city, partook on multiple ticularly its jobs to support “The great thing about youth. him, was deter- Newark is that money “If we’re ever mined to keep going to fix the her son out of doesn’t win elections. problems that trouble. She kept face our city, Davis busy, sign- Voters want to see we have to start ing him up for passion; they want to see at a micro levsports teams and el,” explained Boy Scouts and that you are invested.”

Davis. “A lot of sending him to RASHAWN DAVIS (COL ’14), people see this academic camps Newark city council hopeful whole big-picin the summer. ture aspect — In addition to shielding him from drugs and vio- that if we bring in all these ideas, all lence, Davis’ mother instilled a sense this big money, that will solve all of of strength and resiliency in her son. our issues. But I think all the issues “A huge part of who I am today is that Newarkers face are very micro issues that we can solve on a grassbecause of her,” Davis said.

By the time Davis turned 12, he roots level.”

Davis’ campaign platform focuses and his mother moved out of the projects and into a residential neigh- on three areas of improvement — ciborhood, where drugs and violence vility, economic development and were less pervasive. In addition to the public safety — which he would adsafer environment, Davis came to ap- dress mainly through increased government programming. For expreciate the sense of community.

“I got to see how [members of] a ample, to address public safety, Dareal community values each other, vis advocates expanding after-school programs for youth instead of beefhow they work for each other.”

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Davis, left, pictured with technology director Seun Oyewole (SFS ’14), hopes to ramp up government programming and cut cozy benefits for councilman if he takes office. ing up the police force or imposing harsher prison sentences.

As part of his grassroots approach to politics, Davis hopes to establish more neighborhood associations in his ward, believing they would foster local pride and offer a forum for residents to voice their concerns and suggestions. While proposals such as these are likely to be met with little resistance by current councilmen, Davis’ plans to reform the council itself, on the other hand, are likely to spark controversy among councilmen.

Davis finds the many benefits afforded to city councilmen, such as vouchers for dinner, rental cars and gasoline, to be irresponsible given the city’s $10 million deficit, and he argues that they should be cut.

Although he recognizes that some councilmen might resist such con-

cessions, Davis believes that if he is elected and rejects the benefits then constituents will notice and pressure the other councilmen to follow suit.

“Our plan is to lead by example,” Davis said.

It is because of ambitious plans such as this that Davis has begun calling himself a maverick.

The label seems particularly fitting given Davis’ large ambitions and young age. No one on Newark’s council is under the age of 40; the incumbent to his seat, Ronald Rice, is 67 and previously served as deputy mayor of Newark. Davis, however, does not consider his youth a hindrance, believing that it allows him to better represent the young people of Newark.

Although the election is more than a year away, Davis has already

assembled a campaign staff comprised both of peers at Georgetown and other members based permanently in Newark, in addition to launching fundraising efforts.

While continuing to study at Georgetown, Davis plans to visit residents in Newark with his campaign team on one or two weekends every month until the election.

Although other campaigns will have more money to spend, Davis is not worried.

“The great thing about Newark is that money doesn’t win elections.

Voters want to see passion; they want to see that you are invested in Newark,” Davis said. “A lot of these guys are going to be doing commercials and photo-ops; they aren’t really going to be in the streets talking to people, and I think that’s where we win and other people lose.”

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offer financial aid to international students, AID, from A1 Deacon stressed that Georgetown’s need-blind given an advantage in some jobs and that admissions policy still applies to all students, regardless of nationality. causes a problem,” Kang said.

“Some institutions might ask why they While international undergraduate students studying at Georgetown can receive some should admit students on a need-blind policy scholarship money from the university, such if they cannot afford to support them fully,” resources are “very limited,” according to the Deacon said. “We admit international students regardless of financial need and try to Office of Student Financial Services’ website.

The website lists a sole scholarship for for- help them figure out their finances after they eign applicants, the Georgetown Pedro Arrupe, are admitted.”

Nonetheless, Bellows said that the lack of S.J., Scholarship for Peace, which is targeted at “international students from war-torn areas of funding for international students compromises the diversity of the intellectual and sothe world with demonstrated financial need.”

Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh cioeconomic makeup of the student body.

“There are many brilliant international stunoted that foreign applicants often seek funds from scholarship programs unaffiliated with dents who apply and are accepted to Georgetown from poor families in developing counthe university.

“Some international students are able to tries but unfortunately cannot afford to come to Georgetown,” Bellows said. get financial support for their “It would be enlightening educational expenses from renot only for those students sources other than the univer- “There are many but for domestic students to sity, such as grants from their brilliant internasit side-by-side in classes with home country,” Pugh wrote in people from completely differtional students... an email. ent cultural and economically Pugh added that the university provides the Bou Family [who] cannot afford different backgrounds and it could go a long way toward Foundation Grant, which gives to come to Georgegreater global understanding,” two $2500 awards to second she said. “The economic stressyear graduate students hailing town. ” ors faced by all higher educafrom abroad who are interestkatherine bellows tion institutions have not aled in community service. executive director of the office lowed for [Georgetown] to use However, other university of international programs more money toward private offers for foreign students are scholarships for internationfew and far between.

Private foundations that support interna- als.”

Foreign students agree that more aid would tional undergraduates are usually allotted to specific geographic locations or nationalities. diversify exposure to different people.

“It would be great if even international stuAMIDEAST supports students from the Middle East and North Africa while LASPAU, Academic dents had this opportunity [to attend Georgeand Professional Programs for the Americas, town]. Most international students that come supports students from the Caribbean and Lat- here have money because of their families,” Garau said. “I don’t think it’s common for people in America.

“You have to be from a certain country or a like me to come here but it would open the certain nationality to be eligible for those schol- scope for students.”

Deacon also pointed out that, unlike some arships,” Kang said. “The point is to have diversity, so having scholarships that are so specific universities, Georgetown does not have quotas for international students who can afford an doesn’t help.”

Although he regretted this phenomenon of expensive overseas education.

“Those students [who pay full tuition] can regional selectivity, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon said that such schol- be very appealing, and there are some institutions that have space allotted for international arships make sense.

“Of course we would prefer a general fund, recruitment. That is not our policy,” Deacon but some donations are made with the stipu- said. “We want to diversify that international lation that they are used to support students recruitment.”

Deacon indicated that recruiting a diverse from specific countries,” Deacon said. “You also have to realize the issue from their point range of international students with the help of view — they want to ensure that students of increased financial aid was a long-term goal of the university. from their country are recruited.”

“Going forward with the fundraising, addDespite the university’s limited ability to

A new bike lane on M Street designed to run westbound from 15th to 29th Streets NW will not open for several more months, according to the District of Columbia Department of Transportation.

The M Street corridor was originally intended to open in conjunction with another lane on L Street, which officially opened last month.

“It took long enough from the announcement of these two bike lanes to get the L Street lane installed, so it is frustrating to see more delay on M Street,” said Tom Birch, an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for District 2E, which represents the Georgetown area.

According to Birch, DDOT wants more time to study the operating bike lanes on 15th Street, Pennsylvania Avenue and L Street before determin-

ing the final configuration of the M Street lane.

“I live on 29th Street, just two blocks off M [Street], and my commute by bike to work has always taken me downtown to 15th Street, so no one could be more anxious than I to have the L and M Street lanes completed, linking 15th and 29th,” Birch said.

Although the portion of M Street located in Georgetown is one of the most crash-prone areas for bikers in the city, the proposed M Street bike lane ends soon after entering the neighborhood.

“As for continuing the M Street lane all the way to Key Bridge, I haven’t heard any plans for that. On that stretch, we bike riders are on our own,” Birch said.

According to data compiled

by DDOT, 21 crashes and 14 injuries were reported at the intersections of M Street from 29th Street to Bank Alley between 2008 and 2010.

While the M Street lane ends before reaching the heart of Georgetown, cyclists will have some consolation after plans to place two new Capital Bikeshare stations at 34th and Water Streets NW and Wisconsin Avenue and O Street NW were announced in December.

Student bikers, however, are disappointed by the absence of a bike lane in Georgetown, especially those on the crew team who must ride down M Street nearly every day to get to their boathouse on the Potomac River. “[A bike lane down to the Key Bride] would be very much appreciated because right now we just dodge traffic and it’s very dangerous,” John Harrison (COL ’16), a rower on the men’s lightweight crew team, said. “We need a bike lane because it’s too congested, and I personally have almost been hit a few times.”

Racial Prejudice Persists BIAS, from A1 last April, when she had friends over in her apartment in Henle Village, many of whom attended Howard University. There was no alcohol present, according to WallerBey, and she says the party was shut down at 11:30 p.m. even after complying with the Department of Public Safety officer’s request to lower the volume of the music. DPS did not respond to requests for comment.

“I hadn’t done anything wrong,” Waller-Bey said.

Students of the Black House maintain that they were treated more harshly than the situation warranted.

“Others will say: ‘Well, why did the neighbors call? Because you’re Georgetown students and they just don’t like Georgetown students.’ But it happens too many times to the same people for us to think that it’s just because we’re Georgetown students,” Black House resident David Price (COL ’14) said.

Price said that he never expected he would face situations like this when he decided to attend Georgetown.

“I didn’t think that coming into my junior year, living in the Black House, I’d have these problems,” Price said.

“There was someone from the Office of Student Affairs who told us, ‘They called on you because you’re black.’ I never imagined having to experience a conversation like that.”

University Provost Robert Groves has emphasized diversity as a priority of his agenda since his arrival on campus last fall.

“I have been meeting with students to learn from them about their experiences at Georgetown and their aspirations for a more inclusive community,” Groves wrote in an email. “We have discussed several issues, such as strengthening institutional support for student identity groups, creating new and innovative ways to make it

easier for students to find courses that explore aspects of diversity and bringing together students and faculty interested in identity studies to foster greater collaboration among them.”

In their academic lives, many black students have been disappointed by the lack of diversity in both Georgetown’s faculty and curriculum as well as bias they have faced in the classroom.

Waller-Bey said that a main concern of many students is the low number of black professors at Georgetown.

“It’s a problem for students not seeing any positive images of black people. It reinforces the stereotype that there aren’t any smart African-American [professors],” she said.

Waller-Bey’s viewpoint describes an incident in which a college dean told a student to “be the token they want you to be.” Other black and Latino students, like Yasmin Serrato (SFS ’13), claim to have faced similar prejudices in the classroom.

“One of my professors made a comment about my midterm grades. He noted that the Latino students in the class generally didn’t do as well as everyone else in the class, and he asked if it was a language-barrier problem,” Serrato said. “He was going to offer me more time on the final. I didn’t know whether to be offended or [thank him] for being considerate.”

The university implemented a bias reporting system run through the Office of Student Affairs in 2004, after University President John J. DeGioia convened a Hate and Bias Reporting Working Group in response to student demonstrations. Through the system, students can report incidents of bias they have faced, though the website clarifies that “just because the expression of an idea or point of view may be offensive or inflammatory to some, it is not necessarily a bias-re-

lated incident.”

“We encourage anyone who has experienced a bias-related issue to use the bias reporting system, where every case is followed up individually,” university spokeswoman Stacy Kerr wrote in an email.

The Black House collectively submitted the haunted house incident through the bias reporting system, after which they met with Director of the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access Dennis Williams and Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson.

Despite her grievances, Waller-Bey said she was pleasantly surprised and relieved by the positive response to her viewpoint from students, alumni and faculty.

“Alums contacted me saying they’re happy there’s a specific account of these incidents to show these things are serious,” she said.

Ryan Wilson (COL ’12, LAW ’15) was among these supportive alumni.

“For so many people, it was common knowledge and almost didn’t need to be read, while for other people, it was a bolt of lightning,” Wilson said.

For real change to occur, Waller-Bey said, Georgetown will have to overcome what she sees as indifference to diversity issues.

“People … don’t really care.

It’s often viewed as a black people problem, a minority problem. We’re often viewed to be hypersensitive,” she said.

Price emphasized that creating a more diverse community will take the work of all students, not just those in the minority.

“Georgetown needs to truly promote having a diverse community that is together, that is able to have these conversations, where people aren’t afraid to be uncomfortable. Because it’s going to take other people being uncomfortable, especially the majority being uncomfortable, for there to be diversity.”

Einstein’s Open for Business Eitan Sayag Hoya Staff Writer

After months of renovation, Einstein Bros. Bagels will hold its grand opening for its second on-campus location on the second floor of Car Barn Friday.

The store is located in the study area known as the “Fish Bowl” and will serve bagels, sandwiches, salads, yogurt parfait, brewed coffee, espresso drinks and more.

Renovations began Sept.

12, and the store was set to open by Oct. 29 but did not open for business until Dec. 3 due to construction delays.

While the storefront occupies a significant portion of the former study area, several tables and chairs remain.

According to Einstein Bros.

Bagels Supervisor Calishia Mitchell, members of the

campus community have expressed enthusiasm about the new store.

“They love it because they can get breakfast all day, lunch all day, orange juice all day, coffee all day,” Mitchell said. “I think the only thing is that I’m trying to extend hours.”

The store, which is currently open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., will offer a $1 discount on all sandwiches plus a chance to “spin the wheel” for coupons and additional offers in honor of its grand opening Friday.

A smaller Einstein’s store with more limited services opened in Regents Hall in September. The full store in Car Barn will have more options than the Regents location.

“I think it’s really great.

The Car Barn [is] kind of far

away from any of the other places that kids like to go, especially for just coffee and a bagel. It’ll be nice not to have to go to Saxbys and then back if you just want a quick bagel and coffee,” Samantha Kubek (COL ’13) said. “I’ve never actually been to the one in Regents, but a lot of my friends have gone and have complained about the fact that it’s only a partial store, so I think that this will make the student body happier.”

Mitchell said that student customers will benefit from the full store.

“You get a better variety,” she said. “In Regents, it’s just coffee and bagels. We have food for everyone. We have vegetarian meals; we have meat.”

The new store will accept GOCard debit and Flex dollars.

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Chimes Members Join GU to Consider Divestment A Bastion of Tradition FUEL, From A1

CHIMES, from A1 told me he formulated the plan to create the Chimes,” said Kevin O’Brien (COL ’65), Chime No. 57 and Jones’ best friend. “The Chimes — I think that’s his great legacy. I think every time the Chimes sing for people and they clap, there is clapping for [Jones] in it. That’s what he created; he nurtured it.”

Two years ago, Jones returned to Georgetown and performed with the Chimes in Gaston Hall at the Cherry Tree Massacre, the largest a cappella festival on the East Coast. Michael Luckey (COL ’13), Chimes’ Ephus, or elected leader, and the 226th Chime, had the opportunity to sing with Jones when he visited.

“The guy was 90 years old and had just the greatest voice,” Luckey said. “We went back to the house and sang all these other songs, and he was just pulling songs left and right — songs I had never heard, songs I didn’t know he would have ever known. The man was like an encyclopedia of songs.”

Jones’ encyclopedia of songs included the fight song of nearly every college in the United States. At a Chimes reunion at a restaurant in Palm Desert, Calif., a group of strangers asked Chimes alumni to sing the Georgetown fight song, O’Brien recalled.

“Then someone at the table said, ‘You guys wouldn’t happen to know the University of Illinois fight song?’” O’Brien said.

“And [Jones] said, ‘Sure, I know it.’ And he sang all four verses. And the fellow from Illinois started crying. He actually started crying.”

The man from Illinois happened to have one of the great wine collections in California and gave Jones and the Chimes two bottles he had in his car.

“As we were drinking it, [Jones] said: ‘See? There is an advantage to being a Georgetown Chime,’” O’Brien said.

Although Jones accepted the wine graciously, he did not drink.

“He didn’t drink, but he was insane,” said George Peacock (COL ’84), a former group president and Chime No. 118. “[Jones was] spontaneous, surprising, uninhibited and always cheery and kind. It was an interesting mix. You don’t always find that in people.”

Luckey said that he admired Jones and considered him a role model.

“I’ve only met this guy twice, but he has had such a profound impact on my life that when I met him, it was like meeting a childhood hero,” Luckey said. “The man was incredible. When I first met him, he was 90 years old and I was 19, but he was an immediate friend.”

History and Tradition Jones modeled the Chimes after Yale’s Whiffenpoofs. As the Chimes expanded, the group separated from the Glee Club and eventually completely from the university.

The Chimes maintains the integrity of its traditions through its scrupulous acceptance procedures, called the neophyte process. To become a neophyte, members must first audition.

“The neophyte process is … a preparation for your Chime-dom to see if you can fit into the group, can handle yourself musically and really understand the concept of the tradition we’re trying to uphold,” Jack Sheridan (COL ’14), Chime No. 236, said.

In addition to learning about the history and traditions of the group, a neophyte must learn more than 120 songs before officially becoming a Chime. That process can take eight months to several years. Sheridan’s neophyte process took two years.

Some neophytes never complete the training process and do not end up becoming Chimes.

“It’s a really personal process, and it depends on the character and drive of the

individual to push themselves,” Chime No. 239 Peter Fanone (COL ’15) said. “Some people just haven’t organized their time effectively, and they find themselves junior, senior year still a neophyte, and they decide that it’s best for themselves just not to continue.”

As part of the process, neophytes are required to call and meet alumni. In his years as a neophyte, Lyons called approximately 50 alumni, including Jones, to ask about the traditions and history of the Chimes.

Some of the more visible Chimes traditions include the annual Cherry Tree Massacre and the monthly Chimes nights at The Tombs. The 40th Cherry Tree Massacre will begin Feb. 1.

“I really love Chimes nights at the Tombs,” Tyler Holl (COL ’13), Chime No. 234, said. “I think it’s my favorite [tradition] because it is a way for all of campus to see what the Chimes [are] all about. They can really see how much we love each other, how much we care about each other, how much fun we’re having with each other.”

O’Brien said that he couldn’t think of any traditions that have been lost.

“I think the things that have been developed over the years have pretty much worked,” O’Brien said. “They are carefully thought out, and most of the things we create pretty much stay the same. I really don’t think there are any; I think that’s one of the secrets to the group.”

Keeping the Harmony Anyone who walked into 3611 Prospect St. at the beginning of a Chimes practice on a Tuesday or Thursday night would likely hear the song “We Meet.”

“We meet again tonight, boys, with mirth and song, and melody flows wherever we go. We dwell in friendship ever so true and strong,” the Chimes sing at the start of every practice.

The song reflects the sentiment of the Chimes’ motto, “Fellowship and Harmony.”

“You make your best friends in this group because it is so attuned to harmony in its essence,” Luckey said. “The more you sing, the more you build trust, the more you build harmony — and that builds true friendship. As Chimes, we are always there for our brother Chimes.”

This brotherhood is not only for active Chimes. Through the neophyte process and annual reunions, all generations of Chimes have the opportunity to meet each other. It is commonplace for young active members of the group to socialize with alumni who graduated decades before they even arrived on campus.

“The alumni presence is one thing that is really cool about this group, and I think is pretty distinct and pretty unique as a Georgetown group,” Lyons said. “For example, when we had auditions for new neophytes last week, we had two alumni stop in — one from the Class of 2009 and one from the Class [of] 1984 — both D.C. locals, and no one thought twice about [it]. They just stopped in, we sang a few songs, we caught up and then they left.”

The 1984 alumnus who stopped by was Peacock. In his capacity as president of the Chimes, Peacock organizes the reunions and non-musical aspects of the group. He also serves as a contact for active Chimes and alumni. “[Lyons], who is ‘Baby Chime’ right now, probably knows 50 songs that he could sing with anyone going back to 1950, so I think that tie is very important,” Peacock said. “I think it keeps all of us younger and in touch with the school, and it keeps the current undergraduates rooted in the tradition, too.”

responsible investment issues and makes further recommendations to the finance committee of the board of directors. In evaluating proposals, the committee considers the significance of the allegations in the proposal, any social injuries or human rights violations the proposal outlines, inconsistencies with Georgetown’s Jesuit values and the portion of university investments implicated by the claims in the proposal.

GU Fossil Free drew inspiration from the 350 Campaign, a global campaign that encourages and assists universities in starting divestment initiatives.

The 350 Campaign provided support to GU Fossil Free in the form of proposal and letter templates, press contacts, a 350 representative and partnerships with divestment projects at other universities.

“I think of GU Fossil Free as an extension of the 350 movement because if we were just to act on our own to divest from the fossil fuel industry, we probably wouldn’t make much of a difference,” GU Fossil Free member Michelle Stearn (SFS ’15) said. “When you compound all of the efforts of all of the universities across the U.S., I think it could have potential to actually disrupt the fossil fuel industries.”

Although Georgetown’s board of trustees does not publicly disclose where it invests the university’s endowment, Stearn said that GU Fossil Free suspects some of the money is invested in coal and fossil fuel companies. Her group urged board members to choose more sustainable options.

“We’re proposing that there are alternative companies to fossil fuel companies that Georgetown could invest in

that would be just as lucrative and, in fact, less risky,” Stearn said.

Member Sydney Browning (COL ’15) said that Georgetown’s divestment initiative could potentially act as a catalyst for similar projects at other universities.

“Georgetown has a specific opportunity because we are a Catholic school and a Jesuit school, so we are devoted to this type of issue,” Browning said. “This is an opportunity for Georgetown to be a leader [among] all of these different schools and to take this opportunity and to divest. We’re hoping that the administra-

“We’re looking at a long-term fight if we ever want to see this money taken out of fossil fuel companies.”

MARK WATERMAN (SFS ’13), GU Fossil Free member

tion and Board of Trustees sees that as well.”

Member Mark Waterman (SFS ’13) acknowledged the challenge in urging Georgetown’s board of trustees to divest from such profitable companies.

“There are certain concerns about certain investments that the university has made that we won’t be able to take the money out of right away,” Waterman said. “I think our campaign is … conscious of that fact that we’re looking at a long-term fight if we ever want to see all of this money taken out of fossil fuel companies.”

Nonetheless, Browning expressed her belief that widespread and continuous pressure would lead to eventual

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Woodrow Wilson Institute research scholar “Within a generation of the Soviet Union collapsing … you’ve got a very large, either voluntarily or involuntarily, dislocated population.”

“You would assume that the numbers of IDPs would have gone down as that [group] of students went through school. Instead … the numbers have increased because people are still staying in the community.”

For a further look at the Chimes, see thehoya.com.

“Twenty-five percent of the men under the age of 25 live and work in Russia.”

Mooring Receives Churchill Scholarship EMMA IANNINI Hoya Staff Writer

Eric Mooring (COL ’13) has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship and will study infectious disease at Cambridge University next year.

The Churchill Scholarship, named after British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, has given U.S. citizens between the ages of 19 and 26 the opportunity to pursue graduate research programs in engineering, mathematics, and biological and physical sciences since its inception in 1963.

Mooring is one of only 14 Americans this year to be chosen by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States.

“I am excited and humbled to receive a Churchill Scholarship,” he wrote in an email. “While I knew I was a serious candidate for the scholarship, I also knew there were far more highly qualified candidates than there were available scholarships; I don’t think anyone ever expects to be one of just fourteen winners in a national competition, so in that sense I was surprised to win.”

Mooring, who is an environmental biology and government double major with

divestment.

“I think that [divestment] is a goal that we can attain if we make it clear to the university that we’re not just a few students and we have larger student group support,” Browning said. “We plan to gain more support each year, so it’s not a campaign that the university can wait out. It’s something that we are going to keep building and make stronger over the years.”

As GU Fossil Free awaits a response from CISR, it will develop strategies to further advance its cause. Waterman said that such tactics could potentially include referendums, petitions and protests.

“Ideally, [CISR] will respond and say, ‘Yes we’re going to divest right away, thank you very much,’ but considering that won’t happen, we’ll have to look into taking more targeted action and taking things to the next level,” Waterman said.

“We will put more direct pressure on the university.”

GU Fossil Free called upon the board of trustees in their letter to choose sustainable endowment investments to support the environment and inspire others to make ecologically sound decisions.

“Everyone knows that global warming exists, but it’s the rate at which it’s happening that is frightening and is very scary,” Browning said.

“Georgetown has this opportunity to speak out against climate change and the fossil fuel companies, which not only are violating human rights but also are violating human health and are continuing to lead to the destruction of the environment. …

Speaking up against this is a very powerful message to these companies, to the world and to students.”

a minor in mathematics, hopes to help control infectious disease in animals and humans, according to a university press release. He intends to pursue a master of philosophy degree in veterinary science while at Cambridge.

“I’m looking forward to attending Cambridge University and having the opportunity to take what I have learned at Georgetown about ecology and about infectious diseases and apply that knowledge to solving new problems,” Mooring wrote.

Mooring is Georgetown’s third Churchill Scholar. Past recipients were Iga Wegorzewska (COL ’04) and Cara Marie Malandro (COL ’06).

Wegorzewska, since receiving her degree from Cambridge, has gone on to work for the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. She has published and co-authored numerous articles in neuroscience, cell biology and biochemistry.

Malandrio currently is a third-year graduate student in the Chemistry-Biology Interface Program at The Johns Hopkins University. After majoring at Georgetown in biology and mathematics, she studied multidrug resistance at Cambridge’s department of pharmacology.

“For a lot of the kids born into this IDP status, they can look around and see, in contrast to a lot of the rural kids, the parents or grandparents who had university degrees … but since moving to Baku, were unable to find work.”

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Woodrow Wilson Institute Research Scholar Jennifer Wistrand spoke about Azerbaijani economic migrants and displaced people during a Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies presentation Tuesday.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, large numbers of Azerbaijani were displaced from their homes, and their eco-

nomic and educational opportunities decreased significantly.

Wistrand lived and researched in Azerbaijan for 22 months, examining how these Azerbaijanis, especially Azerbaijani men, would make annual trips to Russia looking for work, sometimes staying for as long as six to eight months. She also focused on Azerbaijanis who were displaced due to the 1988 to 1994 Azerbaijan war with Karabakh.

These internally displaced per-

sons struggled to find work in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, and often remained in governmentbuilt dormitories corresponding to government-built schools for IDP children. With subsequent generations of children, the living arrangements have only become more cramped. Along with strained economic times, this has created an institutionalized group of people in need.

Wistrand stressed the importance of awareness.

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Barack Obama took the oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building Monday, beginning his second term as president of the United States before a sea of hundreds of thousands gathered at the National Mall.

Obama placed his hand at 11:50 a.m. on a battered Bible used by Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War president who delivered perhaps the most famous second inaugural address. Speaking for 19 minutes, Obama made reference to Martin Luther King Jr., whose national holiday was being celebrated on the same day as the first black president returned for four more years in the Oval Office.

The mall was packed from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, with large screens available for the many attendees of the proceedings. A considerable number of Georgetown students were among the crowd, many of whom arrived early the night before to stake out a prime perspective in the audience. Some received tickets from members of Congress, which allowed them to stand closer to the inaugural stage.

About 40 members of the Georgetown College Democrats made the early trek to the Capitol, leaving campus at 3:30 a.m. “It was an incredible opportunity,” said Trevor Tezel (SFS ‘15), president of the group. “One that we only get once in our time at Georgetown. That being said, it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. It’s a big commitment, but it was a great experience.”

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were each sworn in privately Sunday in accordance with the Constitution’s Jan. 20 inauguration date, and Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor were again on hand Monday to administer the public oaths to Obama and Biden, respectively. Whereas Obama and Roberts famously stumbled through the oath in 2009, the event this year was blip-free from start to finish.

The one-hour event also included opening remarks from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), performances from singers James Taylor, Kelly Clarkson and Beyonce Knowles, and a poem from Richard Blanco. Absent were former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, the latter of whom

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President Obama greeted large crowds who had braved the cold on the National Mall after his second inauguration Monday. was in the hospital earlier this month. es from the speech detailed the quest Also missing Monday was 2012 Repub- for equal rights for women, homosexuals, voters and immigrants. lican candidate Mitt Romney.

Obama also alluded to the immiThousands of audience members on the southwest side of the Capitol nent fight over gun legislation in were captive to anti-abortion protests Congress, saying, “Our journey is not from one man who climbed to the top complete until all our children, from the streets of Deof a nearly 50-foot troit to the hills tree and shouted “The oath I have sworn of Appalachia, to continuously the quiet lanes for five hours be- before you today ... was of Newtown, fore and during the event. The an oath to God and coun- know that they are cared for and man, later iden- try, not party or faction.” cherished and tified as having BARACK OBAMA always safe from participated in President of the United States harm.” similar large-scale Obama closed demonstrations, shouted that Obama is an anti-Christ his speech with a flourish, seizing the and abortion is responsible for the De- optimistic moment as he enters what cember shootings in Newtown, Conn. is expected to be another four years of Police attempted to talk the protester challenging partisan debate.

“The oath I have sworn before you down from his perch but were unable to make an arrest before the inaugura- today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an tion had ended.

In his speech, Obama balanced uni- oath to God and country, not party fying rhetoric with a broad outline of or faction … they are the words of policy ambitions for his second term. citizens, and represent our greatest One of the most applause filled passag- hope.”

Although the 779,787 people who rode Metro on Monday matched average weekday traffic, the concentration of riders in stations around the National Mall — particularly L’Enfant Plaza and Federal Center SW — that swarmed the stations immediately after the inauguration ceremony placed a greater strain on the system than a typical business day.

In addition, a stalled train in Virginia further clogged transit.

“Any time there is a disabled train, that causes delays across whatever line that train is on, so that certainly did cause delays on the orange and blue line,” Caroline Lukas, media relations manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, said.

The unanticipated delays created headaches for tourists who had come to the District for the inauguration, some missing outgoing flights or busses, according to the

Associated Press.

The clogged system posed problems for Georgetown students too.

Karen Luo (COL ’15) was unfazed by the large crowds and delays.

“I’m from New York. I’m used to insane numbers of people and trains breaking down,” Luo said.

“I don’t blame DC Metro because there’s only so much they can do.

When you gather large groups of people, honestly it’s really difficult. I understand [that] metros break down.”

In addition to the stalled train, inactive Metro escalators added to the frustration among commuters. But according to WMATA, however, the escalators were not broken.

“That’s a big misconception,” Lukas said. “[Inactive] escalators were part of our crowd management plan right from the beginning. They weren’t broken. That was an intentional thing and a tool we use to make sure that our stations don’t become overwhelmed with people.”

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The Inaugural parade traversed Pennsylvania Avenue, connecting the Capitol Building and the White House.

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Senior guard Sugar Rodgers still led her team in scoring against the Scarlet Knights Tuesday, but her 13 points were hardly enough to get the job done in a lopsided defeat.

Hoyas Done in by Depth, Fouls RUTGERS, from A10 the close of the period, as the Scarlet Knights — led by sophomore guard Shakena Richardson — closed things out on a 9-3 run to give themselves a 24-16 lead at the break.

The Blue and Gray struggled from the field in the first half, only managing a paltry 19.2 percent shooting. Rodgers, the Big East’s leading scorer, was especially cold, as she shot 14.3 percent while scoring just six points.

“I think Sugar was off. … What we have to have happen is [for] the other girls [to] step up to take the pressure off of Sugar so they can’t load up. [Junior forward] Andrea [White] got into foul trouble early, and that hurt us because she is our secondleading scorer,” Brown said. “We need Andrea to step up and give us that double-double, and what that does is take the pressure off of Sugar.”

Georgetown opened the first half relatively slow in falling behind by as many as 12 points, but a trey by Rodgers would soon enough spark an awakening.

Following a 15-5 run, the Hoyas found themselves within two.

The Scarlet Knights, though, followed with a run of their own and quickly built an eightpoint lead with a little over five

minutes remaining. The Blue and Gray crawled back within four points with just under two minutes left when junior guard Samisha Powell connected on the first of two free throw attempts.

A 7-3 Rutgers closing run made that as close as George-

“We had trouble getting the ball onto our end of the court, so it was either they got a rebound or they called a foul.”

KEITH BROWN Women’s basketball head coach

town would get.

“There were a lot of fouls called. We had trouble getting the ball onto our end of the court, so it was either they got a rebound or they called a foul,” Brown said. “When you get into the bonus [like Rutgers did], a team has the opportunity to score every single time. So I just think for that stretch of about four minutes, it seemed that the ball stayed on their half of the floor.”

In addition to being outscored

by Rutgers in the paint by a count

of 20-12, Georgetown’s bench was also outmatched, scraping together only eight points to the Scarlet Knights’ 18.

“Rutgers has six McDonald’s All-Americans, so they have AllAmericans coming off of the bench,” Brown said. “Some of their bench had more of an opportunity to play, which gave them a lift. [Rutgers] just came in, played hard and wanted to win that game. I try to explain to our girls all the time that it means something to play for Georgetown.”

The Scarlet Knights held Rodgers to 13 points, only her fourth time being held below 20 this year. Horne was the only other Hoya in double digits with 11 on the night.

Freshman guard Kahleah Copper led the way for the Scarlet Knights, meanwhile, scoring 12 points and grabbed six boards.

Richardson came off the bench to chip in 11 points.

The Hoyas will next be in action Saturday against the Pittsburgh Panthers.

“We need to win the game,” Brown said. “If we can win this one at home, the bleeding stops, and then we go onto the next.

We have to come out and defend, rebound and share the ball.”

Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. at McDonough Arena.

CURRAN

Good or Bad, GU an Enigma CURRAN, from A10 Georgetown in November. But the Hoyas also had the services of Greg Whittington and were playing under virtually no pressure — for an unranked team against No. 1, virtually anything but a blowout loss is a win in the public eye.

The visitors at Verizon Center tomorrow have little in common with the Hoosiers, save for their high ranking. Rick Pitino’s fifthranked Cardinals are coming off two straight conference losses, including one at the hands of a weak Villanova team, and are desperate for a convincing victory.

Georgetown will make it difficult for Louisville to pick up that win.

Whether the Hoyas can actually finish the job, however, depends on their ability to avoid mental errors.

That’s one of the great ironies of this year’s squad: A team that runs one of basketball’s more complex, disciplined systems has often struggled due to simple mental mistakes — mistakes that will destroy any chance of a win against Louisville.

Mikael Hopkins can’t bench himself with silly fouls against Gorgui Dieng. Nate Lubick can’t get overambitious with back-door passes against Chane Behanan. Porter Jr. can’t attempt to keep dribbling when Peyton Siva comes to double him.

What may have been a toss-up game with Whittington on the court (the Cards have no offense either, remember?) has become a long shot with him off it. The Hoyas have to play a near-perfect game to stand a chance, a bet no smart man

y father still finds the time to really have a girlfriend. Lance and remind me of life lessons. Eat his team doped. Barry and Mark and your vegetables. Get your ex- countless others were on PEDs. Fine. ercise. Do well in school. His favorite As a sports fan — and as a human being saying, though, is a little more pro- — I know people make mistakes, try to found: “The cover-up is always worse gain an edge and generally do whatevthan the crime.” er it takes as they pursue an end. I can We see this in sports a lot. Just look forgive them of these blemishes. Old at Michael Vick’s troubles with “Bad news. Let’s move on.

Newz Kennels” and Pete Rose’s gamAt least, I wish we could. The part bling on baseball. But have we ever that I can’t live with is knowing I was seen a run of cover-ups and crimes duped by my hero. play out like the ones of these past I believed Te’o was rightfully intwo weeks? spired by the loss of his girlfriend. I First, not a single eligible player on believed Armstrong became the most this year’s ballot was granted entry famous cyclist of all time on the back into baseball’s hall of of good, clean, hard fame, with PED-era work. I believed Bonds stars like Barry Bonds and McGwire put the and Mark McGwire hours in at the batting forced to wait until cage, not the labora2014 (and beyond) to tory, to become the know their fate in Coodominant players of perstown. their generation.

Next, Manti Te’o People looked up to acknowledged being these guys. They were Peter Barston far too generous with who you wanted to be. his descriptions of his Now they are just hor“girlfriend,” manipu- The part that I can’t live ror stories. Armstrong lating the bizarre tale tricked us. Te’o tricked with is knowing I was us. Bonds and McGwire of Lenny Kekua to bolster his national cham— and more players duped by my hero. pionship and Heisman than we probably will Trophy PR campaign ever know — tricked us.

— and even continuing with the ruse Quite simply, I can’t forgive the covafter he knew the whole romance was er-ups. The crimes were self-serving, one giant hoax. done to better the individual. The Lastly, Lance Armstrong re-entered cover ups, though, are all about us: the spotlight in his interview with the fans.

Oprah Winfrey, finally admitting to The cheating, the crime and the his systematic use of performance-en- trespass are all well-known and wellhancing drugs during his celebrated digested at this point. The long recycling career and only coming clean fusal to come clean, though, and the after years of vehement denial. struggle to admit their mistakes and These are big-time stories, no the willingness to make suckers of doubt, but it’s not just because of the us fans will be the things that leave crime. It’s the work done to cover up plenty of upset stomachs. the crime that really hits home. It’s It’s no longer Lance, Barry, Mark because we want to believe our heroes and Manti. It’s Armstrong, Bonds, when they say it wasn’t them. We McGwire and Te’o. It’s as if we don’t want to believe our idols stayed clean, even know them anymore. And why stayed true, stayed loyal. We want to should we? They fooled us. believe that Bonds and McGwire, two That hero we knew? He’s nothing of the best sluggers to ever play the more than a shadow now. We invested game, never juiced. We want to be- ourselves into Bonds’ and McGwire’s lieve that Armstrong built his Tour home runs, Te’o’s tackles and Armde France dynasty on blood, sweat strong’s races. Then we realized the and tears, not chemicals. We want to truth — and worse yet, we realized believe that Te’o pushed on towards that our heroes tried to make us nevto the national championship in the er realize. They alienated us. Now it’s face of truly unthinkable loss. time to return the favor.

The cover-ups, though, are making Peter Barston is a freshman in the Mcbelieving impossible.

The crime is enough — bad but not Donough School of Business. RAISING impossible to tolerate. Manti didn’t THE BAR appears every Friday.

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UL to Visit Saturday After Two-Game Skid LOUISVILLE, from A10 Georgetown’s diluted frontcourt has been hamstrung by foul trouble.

In particular, junior center Mikael Hopkins played only 15 minutes and junior forward Nate Lubick just 20 against Notre Dame, as each was limited by early fouls.

“I’m always concerned about foul trouble, but if they get in trouble, we’ve got guys who can step up,” Thompson III said.

The Blue and Gray may also have

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Sophomore forward Otto Porter has been hot and cold this season, but he’ll need to be clicking Saturday against Louisville. would take after watching their performance against South Florida.

But given its big-game history this year, I’d say Georgetown has a shot to beat the odds — or, at least,

to cover the spread.

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to make use of substitutions for the simple reason that the Cardinals’ pressure frequently exhausts their opponents and becomes an important factor in late-game situations.

Still, the forecast for Georgetown has brightened with the emergence of junior center Moses Ayegba, who had 10 rebounds at Notre Dame, helping the team’s efforts.

Georgetown will aim for four straight against Louisville at noon Saturday at Verizon Center. The game will also be televised on ESPN.

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Freshmen Steal Spotlight Hoyas Crush Irish on Road At Spiked Shoe Invite PAT CURRAN

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PATRICK MUSGRAVE Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown track and field team ran some very fast times at its own Hoya Spiked Shoe Club Invitational last Friday, with dominant first-place performances coming in several men’s and women’s events.

On the men’s side, several freshmen, running for both team and redshirt purposes, delivered great performances across the board. In the prelims of the 60-meter dash, freshman Devante Washington clocked a 7.14, which is a shade slower than his season best of 6.89. Washington went on to win the 300m dash with a time of 34.84, setting a new meet record.

“That’s a pretty darn good time [for Washington] this early in the season,” Georgetown Director of Track and Field Patrick Henner said. “This was on a flat — not a banked — track, meaning the time should be even faster on a banked track. Devante is going to be a big-time athlete for us this year.”

Freshman distance runners also fared well at the meet, with Ahmed Bile, who ran unattached, taking first place in the 1000m. Bile clocked a time of 2:25.97, about a full second ahead of teammates senior allAmerican Andrew Springer and junior Michael Reher.

Darren Fahy kept up the trend of freshman dominance with his performance in the 3000m run. Fahy won the event with a time of 8:15.72, setting a meet record by edging out LaSalle senior Alfredo Santana and fellow Hoya sophomores Collin Leibold and John Murray. Fahy is currently redshirting during the indoor track season while concurrently training for a national cross country invitational meet. However, he was still able to record a very fast time without specific training for the 3000m, a testament to the fitness level of the Georgetown distance runners.

Other Hoya standouts included senior Bobby Peavey, who took first-place honors in the mile in 4:07; junior Billy Ledder, who finished first in the 500m in 1:04.75; and sophomore Tyler Smith, who won the 60m dash in 7.06.

“The overriding theme we had in this meet was that three freshmen won three events, two setting meet records,” Henner

said “Going into next weekend as well, we’re pretty optimistic that we can put up some great times again because we’re in a great place in the training.”

On the women’s side, several athletes likewise stepped up and delivered solid showings.

Senior Tenille Stoudenmire took first place in the 60m dash, clocking a 7.73 in the finals. Classmate Amanda Kimbers ran a qualifying time of 7.69 in the preliminaries of the 60m but strained a muscle in the 300m dash and was unable to come back for the finals of the 60 m.

After Kimbers’ injury, junior Deseree King took over the 300m and won the event with a time of 39.88. King was closely followed by Stoudenmire in third place, who ran a 40.79.

The Hoya women also fared well in the distance events. Senior Rachel Schneider took first place honors in the mile, running a time of 4:44.37. Schneider paced with a teammate for the first half of the race, conserving energy, keeping a consistent pace and hitting the half mile at 2:20.

After the halfway mark, Schneider ran by herself with no teammates or competition near her. She was able to keep on pace for the second half and finished with a 2:24 closing half-mile, just four seconds off an even split.

“I would say that Schneider’s mile and King’s 300m were the best performances of the day. … Our women have a great shot at winning the Big East now, but we need to get Amanda Kimbers back,” Henner said.

“Kimbers’ straining a hip muscle was the only downside of the meet. Once we get her back, the women will definitely be able to make a run at the Big East Championship.”

Hoya track and field will be back in action today at the Penn State Invitational in State College, Penn. Due to his strong performance last week at the Hoya Invitational, Bile will be running as a member of the Georgetown team and is no longer unattached. Additionally, freshman standout Mike Andre, who has been sick recently, will be back in action today.

“We’ve let the guys rest this week; we didn’t do too hard of workouts,” Henner said of the team’s preperation. “There will be a lot of great competition this weekend, so we’re very optimistic.”

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And so the roller-coaster ride continues.

Georgetown (13-4, 3-3 Big East) laid a 63-47 beating on No. 24 Notre Dame (15-4, 3-3 Big East) Monday night in South Bend, Ind., where the Irish had won 47 of their last 49 games.

Sophomore forward Otto Porter Jr. played the entire 40 minutes, scoring 19 points and grabbing nine rebounds to lead the Blue and Gray to their third win in four games.

Freshman point guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera added 14 off the bench.

“We are fortunate that they only counted us for one loss, with the way that thing went,” Notre Dame Head Coach Mike Brey said.

Clad in their black alternate jerseys, the Hoyas took the court only 48 hours after an embarrassing loss at South Florida, which was winless in Big East play at the time. Add in sophomore forward Greg Whittington’s continued ineligibility and nationally ranked Notre Dame’s formidable home-court advantage, and this game had all the makings of another disappointment.

But against all odds, Georgetown came out with guns blazing. After going down 2-0 on Irish forward Jack Cooley’s two free throws, the Hoyas went on a 7-0 run and never trailed again. They shot better than 53 percent from the field and 46 percent from threepoint range, and no defensive scheme the Irish came up with seemed to slow the visitors down.

Notre Dame struggled mightily to score against the smothering Blue and Gray defense, posting season-lows in total points (43) and field goal percentage (35). Though Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III employed his formidable 2-3 zone defense less often than usual — likely due to Whittington’s absence — theHoyas’ man-to-man was clearly sufficient.

“I think our defensive effort was really good today,” Thompson III said. “We were on the same page and we made things difficult for them, and that’s just hard work.”

The win was particularly surprising considering the person-

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Junior center Moses Ayegba stepped up with the GU frontcourt in foul trouble, chipping in a team-high 10 rebounds. nel issues facing Georgetown for much of the game: On top of Whittington’s ineligibility, both junior forward Nate Lubick and sophomore center Mikael Hopkins got into early foul trouble and were only available sparingly. Hopkins eventually fouled out after playing only 15 minutes.

Junior backup center Moses Ayegba came to the Hoyas’ rescue, though, grabbing 10 rebounds in relief and pestering Cooley, a Wooden Award candidate, into a 4-of11 shooting night.

“Moses Ayegba was a presence on the boards, and I thought he did a good job on Cooley, who’s one of the better post players in our conference,” Thompson III said.

The Irish didn’t go down without a fight, however. A 16-4 run from the hosts closed the gap to only three points with 12 minutes to play, as the

game began to resemble Saturday’s loss to USF. But rather than falling apart as they did in Tampa, the Hoyas crushed the comeback attempt with ease. Porter Jr. and Indiana native Smith-Rivera took turns nailing clutch jumpers, sparking an 18-0 run that silenced the Joyce Center crowd.

“It was an eerie feeling, to be out of it for the last 10 minutes of the game in our home building,” Brey said. “It was creepy. It was eerie. It was not pleasant.

It was very foreign territory for all of us, fans included.”

The Blue and Gray have five days off before their biggest test since November, a Saturday showdown with No. 5 Louisville in the nation’s capital. If Monday’s Georgetown team shows up rather than last weekend’s, fans should be in for a good time.

Tip-off is scheduled for noon.

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On Fans’ Double Standards

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Georgetown’s Brian Wiese was named coach of the year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America on Friday after a groundbreaking 2012 season.

Christianson Gets Coach As Muller Readies for SJ SOCCER, from A10 2012. It was the cherry on top of a banner year for Hoya soccer, as Wiese became the first Georgetown coach to ever bring home the honor following what was far and away the most successful season in school history.

“There’s so many good guys out there. It’s like every one of them, you say, ‘Well that guy should get it,’” said Wiese, who noted that he cast his ballot for Creighton coach Elmar Bolowich, “When you look at the field of coaches out there and what a lot of people have done, it’s really humbling and flattering.”

PETKE NAMED TO TOP JOB IN NY

Central midfielder Ian Christianson, meanwhile, has finally found his coach in New York.

The club announced Thursday that two-year Assistant Coach Mike Petke would be taking over the reins on a permanent basis, thus shedding the interim tag he had been handed when the New York Red Bulls cut ties with the disappointing Hans Backe on Nov. 9.

Petke — a former MetroStars defender per-

haps best known to the casual fan as a featured player in “Backyard Soccer” — now inherits a team that boasts scores of talent but little to show for it. One of two teams in league history to stock its roster with the maximum three designated players, New York has so far failed to capitalize on the quality it has at its disposal, most notably French legend Thierry Henry.

MULLER’S SELECTION A “DREAM”

In a Q&A with sjearthquakes.com that spanned everything from soccer to music and “The Goonies,” centerback Tommy Muller expressed his great anticipation of the road ahead.

“Growing up, I always wanted to be a professional soccer player, and that was always my answer to any career-related question,” Muller told the site. “As I went to Georgetown and developed further and further, I thought that it could be a reality. For me, it’s just like, man, this is a dream come true. I’ve dreamed about this day. It’s definitely exciting to start this next chapter, and I’m thankful that it’s in soccer.”

After the Baltimore Ravens’ victory over the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, Ray Lewis is continuing to make waves — and not just because of the impending retirement of an all-time great. Rather, Lewis’ farewell tour is causing a stir due to his two murder charges in 2000, which were dropped in exchange for a guilty plea to obstruction of justice and testimony against his friends, who were ultimately acquitted. His white suit from that night has never been found, and reports in the aftermath of the incident surfaced that indicate Lewis had intimidated witnesses. Many believe that Lewis ordered the murders or at least was indirectly involved.

These days, though, Ray Lewis is one of the greatest humanitarians in sports, despite his demeanor on the football field that makes professional wrestlers seem calm and gentle. He works to keep kids in West Baltimore — one of the toughest areas in the country — out of trouble, he runs and personally attends exercise programs out of his own pocket and his donations to charity are abundant, to say the least.

And yet, many fans won’t forgive him for his possible role that night. It’s something they can’t let go. When judging Ray Lewis, and when choosing who to root for in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3rd, much of the country suddenly abandons the same principles that it preaches.

Of course, I understand that fans create any number of reasons for judging a player and rooting against his team,

many pettier than this one.

After all, I am rooting against the Ravens because safety Bernard Pollard has injured my beloved New England Patriots’ top quarterback, running back, wide receiver and tight end within the past five years.

Maybe my reasoning for rooting against the Ravens is worse than others’ reasons for rooting against them, but I guess I just feel that if someone’s

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Fans don’t sufficiently empathize with players’ character. opinions and rooting interests are going to be based on a guy’s character, they should be based on his character as a whole, not just on isolated incidents.

In fact, I feel there are many circumstances in which the fans don’t sufficiently empathize with and understand a player’s character. The last time Baltimore and New England met, in September, Ravens receiver Torrey Smith submitted an amazing performance only 18 hours after being woken up in the middle of the night to learn that his brother had died in a car

crash.

Fast forward, then, to this past Sunday’s game, which I was able to watch in person.

In the third quarter, Torrey Smith blatantly got away with offensive pass interference.

(I’m biased — but right.) As I was busy yelling at the ref for how bad he was doing his job, pretending that the ref a) could hear me and b) would actually care, some drunken fan behind me yelled, “Torrey Smith, I killed your brother!”

I may have preached forgiveness just a little while ago, but if Smith had heard the fan, charged into the stands and beat him to a pulp, I would have completely understood.

Comments like those make me not only question possible exceptions to the First Amendment but also human nature in general.

The fan probably felt as if he could yell whatever he wanted at the players that he paid to watch. If the tables were turned, however, it’s obvious that that same fan wouldn’t have supported someone saying that about his own dead brother. What that means, therefore, is that Smith is fair game for those remarks while a fan isn’t simply because Smith is the professional athlete and the fan is the fan. And you wonder why sports fans are so badly stereotyped.

We love watching sports because they’re played by humans like us. It’s about time that fans actually started treating athletes that way.

Tom Hoff is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. DOWN TO THE WIRE appears every Friday.

SPORTS

BASKETBALL Hoyas (13-4) vs. Louisville (16-3) Saturday, noon Verizon Center

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TALKING POINTS

Columnist Peter Barston laments athletes’ efforts to cover up their crimes.

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NUMBERS GAME

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If we can win this one at home, the bleeding stops.

Women’s basketball Head Coach Keith Brown

The number of years since Louisville last lost three games in a row. They’ve dropped two straight entering Saturday.

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Puzzling No. 5 Cards Seek New Start at Verizon Hoyas Defy Odds EVAN HOLLANDER Hoya Staff Writer

Does any team anger the Vegas oddsmakers like Georgetown does?

This season’s Hoyas have gone from brilliant to miserable and back to brilliant time and again, sometimes in less than a week. Last weekend, 48 hours and a plane ride was the difference between a flat-out embarrassing loss at South Florida and a triumphant shellacking of No. 24 Notre Dame — in South Bend, no less.

At its best, Georgetown is a coach’s dream, an unselfish, disciplined group capable of decimating more talented teams with textbook ball movement and rock-solid defense.

John Thompson III is a coaching mastermind, Otto Porter Jr. a Wooden Award candidate.

At its worst, Georgetown is a fan’s nightmare, an undersized and unathletic collection of gaffe-prone players stuck in a robotic, outdated system. Thompson III is behind the times, Porter Jr. incapable of carrying a team.

With that in mind, how can the Vegas boys be expected to formulate reasonable odds for tomorrow’s showdown with No. 5 Louisville? In short, they can’t. But I have a feeling the Cardinals-Hoyas game will be closer than the line predicts.

In a conference schedule full of landmines, Georgetown (13-4, 3-3 Big East) will face its toughest test to date when it plays host to No. 5 Louisville (16-3, 4-2 Big East) Saturday at Verizon Center.

Despite their lofty rank, the Cardinals have dropped their last two games, including a disappointing road loss to unranked Villanova on Tuesday. Georgetown, on the other hand, rebounded from a difficult defeat at South Florida to win at No. 24 Notre Dame Monday evening.

“We didn’t have a good day at South Florida and we had a very good day at Notre Dame,” Thompson III said. “I thought our defense was very, very good [against Notre Dame]. They did an outstanding job helping and covering each other.”

Since joining the Big East in the 2005-06 season, Louisville has secured a winning record against every conference team except Georgetown. The Hoyas secured a narrow 71-68 win last season over a Cardinals squad that reached the Final Four.

Although he has won three in a row against Louisville, Head Coach John Thompson III could not cite a specific factor that explains Georgetown’s recent run of success in the matchup.

“I don’t think we have a magic formula for them,” Thompson III said.

“We’ve gotten some lucky bounces, and I think that’s about it.”

Senior guard Russ Smith has led Louisville in points this season, playing alongside point guard and preseason Big East player of the year Peyton Siva in a potent backcourt.

Couple that with Head Coach Rick

Pitino’s signature pressing defense, and Georgetown is sure to have a lot on its hands.

“We just have to play. We can’t control the fact that they have lost two in a row,” Thompson III said.

“Their guards are terrific. Their wings are terrific. They pose a lot of problems.”

Smith, nicknamed “Russdiculous” by Pitino and the Louisville faithful, has displayed a frequent explosiveness offensively but was relatively quiet in the Cardinals’ loss to Villanova.

“He’s too good. I don’t think there was a question of what someone was doing to him [when he struggled],” Thompson III said. “Kids have bad nights, and even with him not having a great night, he still puts pressure on you and still makes you react. [For] some guys [when they] are having a bad night you don’t have to worry about them. You still have to keep attention on [Smith].”

The Cardinals also boast a strong frontcourt, with junior center Gorgui Dieng a proven shot-swatter and sophomore forwards Chane Behanan and Wayne Blackshear both serving as scoring and rebounding threats. “[Dieng] is much improved and much more of a factor. He’s making more of the midrange shots,” Thompson III said.

With sophomore forward Greg Whittington still suspended, the Hoyas will have to be more aggressive on the boards, something his classmate Otto Porter Jr. acknowledged.

“Even the guards have to get in there and rebound with the bigs,” Porter Jr. said. “We have to do a better job of that.”

In addition to rebounding, See LOUISVILLE, A8

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Sophomore center Mikael Hopkins will have his hands full in the paint Saturday as he matches up against standout Cardinal Gorgui Dieng.

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Rodgers Slowed in Road Loss to Knights

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I have a feeling Saturday’s game will be closer than the line predicts.

The most consistent habit of the Blue and Gray under Thompson III is to play to the level of their competition, for better or for worse. Georgetown is 2-1 against the Top 25 this season, and the one loss (in overtime against Indiana) may have been its best-played game of the year. But while the Hoyas don’t back down against big-time competition, they do often get mired in tight contests with mediocre or poor teams — the loss at South Florida and narrow wins over Duquesne and Towson come to mind.

It’s easy to attribute this tendency to Thompson III’s modified Princeton offense. The slow-paced attack — especially when combined with a stingy defense — minimizes the amount of possessions per game, giving the more talented team fewer chances to assert its dominance.

Of course, the phenomenon is tougher to explain when you realize that this year’s Georgetown squad plays to its competition’s level even more than in the past few years, despite pushing the ball more than any Hilltop team in recent memory. But whether it’s a psychological quirk, a coincidence of shooting streaks or the still-methodical half-court set, the Hoyas have undeniably played well against good teams and poorly against bad teams.

Fortunately for anyone planning to attend Saturday’s contest, Louisville falls firmly in the former category.

Still, this matchup will be unlike any Georgetown has experienced this season.

Yes, Indiana was the top-ranked team in the country when it met See CURRAN, A8

CAROLYN MAGUIRE Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior Midfielder/forward Andy Riemer was selected by the LA Galaxy with the sixth pick in Tuesday’s MLS Supplemental Draft.

Riemer to LA, Wiese Receives Top Award RYAN BACIC

Hoya Staff Writer

Forward/midfielder Andy Riemer may have been ignored in last week’s MLS SuperDraft, but he was one of the first off the board Tuesday in the league’s Supplemental Draft, going sixth overall to the two-time reigning champion Los Angeles Galaxy.

Head Coach Bruce Arena appears to be pretty high on the Virginia native — considering the fact that the Galaxy passed on their other two picks — but that doesn’t mean Riemer will not have a roster spot readily available when he makes it to Tinseltown.

Ireland captain and former Premier League star Robbie Keane leads the team at Riemer’s likely position up top, with former U.S. striker Conor Casey and promising youngster Jack McBean pushing for the

other forward spot. Landon Donovan’s impending return from hiatus/ meditation/self-discovery is only sure to make things more difficult. Even so, it is hard to think of a better place for Riemer to continue to develop than under Arena and alongside stars like Donovan and Keane in practice.

Every player is subject to an off night — when the shots don’t fall and nothing seems to go right. Unfortunately, when senior shooting guard Sugar Rodgers has those kinds of nights, the whole Georgetown women’s basketball team tends to struggle, as was the case this week.

With Rodgers notching 13 points on 3-of-20 shooting, Georgetown (11-8, 2-4 Big East) fell to Rutgers (11-7, 2-3 Big East) 5547 Tuesday in Piscataway, N.J. The Hoyas, coming off of a 70-50 win over Seton Hall on Saturday, were unable to overcome cold shooting late and, with the loss, fell to 1-4 in their last five games.

“Going into the game, we thought that we had the opportunity to win. We knew it was going to be a tough defensive game,” Head Coach Keith Brown said. “In the last four years we have split.

It came down to which team executed well, and [this time] I think they [executed] a little better than us.”

The Scarlet Knights opened the scoring off an early layup, but the Blue and Gray quickly answered with a layup by sophomore forward Brittany Horne. Georgetown and Rutgers then continued to go basket-for-basket from there until just under five minutes remained in the first half.

That trend was bucked at the See RUTGERS, A8

WIESE HONORED BY NSCAA

Riemer’s old coach on the Hilltop has had a week to remember as well. Brian Wiese, who arrived at Georgetown in 2006 after five years as an assistant at Notre Dame, was named the 2012 NSCAA Division I Coach of the Year on Friday thanks to his work in leading the Hoyas to the NCAA tournament and Big East championship games in See SOCCER, A8

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Sophomore forward Brittany Horne (33) had 11 points, four steals and three rebounds in a 30-minute performance against Rutgers.