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WORLD CLASS

For English as a Foreign Language students, this is just the first step.

HISTORY A group of students is chronicling the lives of D.C. workers on film.

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Grad Rates Lower for Minorities

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Women for women: Clinton, Bush Honored

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Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush were recognized for their work with Afghan women at a lunch with University President John J. DeGioia Wednesday.

Leaders Say Georgetown Day Lacked Support

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Georgia Tech knocked Georgetown out of the NCAA tourney Tuesday.

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Thefts in District Spike 21 Percent Hoya Staff Writer

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Rate for black students 7 to 12 percent below GU’s overall rate since 2002 While Georgetown’s graduation rate for the Class of 2010 was among the highest in the nation at 88.9 percent, disparities exist within the university between graduation rates for different racial groups.

White students, who make up the majority of the student body, graduated at a rate of 90.7 percent in four years or less.

Asian students represented Georgetown’s highest graduation rate at 92.6 percent, according to data from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

These two rates are each more than 10 percentage points higher than the graduation rates for black, Hispanic and Native American students, who graduated at rates of 78 percent, 79 percent and 75 percent, respectively.

Director of the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access Dennis Williams, who is also associate dean of students, said the disparity is cause for concern.

“There should not be a racial gap in terms of graduation,” he said. “This is something we need to be concerned about.”

Williams attributed some of the discrepancies to aspects of university culture.

“If there is a gap with certain identifiable groups of students, is part of that due to a sense of not fully belonging or lessthan-complete ownership in the institution? I believe that’s part of it,” he said.

University Provost James O’Donnell described the numbers as “impressive” but did not believe it was appropriate to specifically compare graduation rates of different ethnic groups.

“There are many factors [that contribute] to graduation rates, and I think just asking at the ethnicity level is very misleading,” O’Donnell wrote in an email.

“Our numbers compare very favorably with national numbers and peer institutions.”

Statistics, however, show that the racial disparities among graduation rates at Georgetown are larger than at some peer institutions.

The difference between the university’s overall graduation rate and that of black students for 2010 was 10.9 percent, while The George Washington University reported

KONY Kony 2012 has put GU’s chapter of Invisible Children in the limelight.

Thefts in the Metropolitan Police Department’s second district, which includes Georgetown, have spiked 17 percent since Jan. 1, in keeping with a trend of increasing theft across D.C. Between Jan. 1 and March 21, a total of 592 thefts occurred in the second district, an increase from the 505 committed during the same period last year.

Citywide, a five-year high of 2,119 thefts occurred since the beginning of the year, a 21 percent increase from the 1,756 that were reported during this period in 2011.

Throughout the past five years, thefts between Jan. 1 and March 21 have increased by 29 percent across D.C. and by 21 percent in the second district.

The trend of rising theft is not

reflected at the university. The Department of Public Safety reported 58 thefts between Jan. 1 and March 22 of 2011, compared to 56 thefts during the same period this year.

However, the university has experienced a recent increase in burglaries. DPS reported 19 burglaries this year, while three had been reported by this point last year.

Many of these burglaries involved computers. Twelve burglaries occurred at administrative and academic buildings since Jan. 1, and in eight of these, some kind of computer equipment was stolen.

Meanwhile, citywide burglaries between Jan. 1 and March 21 decreased 25 percent, from 819 to 611 incidents. In the second district, burglaries dropped from 131 to 73, a 44 percent drop.

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“We’re just helping to push the process forward and get more students involved,” Gustafson said.

After a late start to preparations Applications for the formalized planthreatened this year’s Georgetown ning committee were released Monday Day, students involved in coordination and are due Saturday. According to efforts said they believe that the plan- Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount, about ning of the event 20 applications needs increased have been submitinstitutional and “Without students ted thus far. student support.

According to supporting the day, The newly inauformer Georgegurated GUSA ex- there is no way for it town Day coorecutives are speardinator Geoffrey heading efforts to to happen.”

Bible (SFS ’12), the establish a formal majority of the GEOFFREY BIBLE (SFS ’12), one of the coordinators for planning commitwork for planning Georgetown Day 2011 tee, stepping in to Georgetown Day fill the void left by occur during the a lack of clear leadership for the event. two months before the event, but prepThough the Georgetown University arations, including soliciting student Student Association has traditionally interest in the planning committee, not been involved in the planning of typically begin in the fall semester.

Georgetown Day, GUSA President Clara This year’s organizers and those of Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vice President recent Georgetown Days are unable Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) decided to to pinpoint who has historically been get involved when they were informed responsible for selecting the event’s that planning for the event had not coordinators. According to Bible, he officially begun shortly before spring See PLANNING, A6 break.

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MBA Applications Defy US Trends

THE SOUND OF SILENCE

Application numbers up despite declining interest nationwide Sam Rodman Hoya Staff Writer

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Members of Georgetown Leaders for Unity and Equity held a silent campaign in Red Square Thursday to raise awareness about race relations at the university.

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The No. 13 Hoyas have beaten two top-10 teams in the last week.

Bucking a nationwide trend of declining interest in master of business administration degrees, applications to Georgetown’s MBA program have increased in recent years.

A 2011 survey released by the Graduate Management Admission Council reported that more than two-thirds of participating fulltime MBA programs saw application numbers drop from 2009 to 2010 and 2010 to 2011.

According to Assistant Dean and Director of the McDonough School of Business Admissions Kelly Wilson, Georgetown’s application numbers have risen from last year Published Tuesdays and Fridays

at this point in the admissions cycle, while most comparable business schools have seen no change or a dip in application numbers.

Georgetown’s full-time MBA program received 1,438 applications for the class that began studying in fall 2011.

Wilson credited the university’s adaptations in a changing MBA recruitment landscape for the rise in applications. The MBA program offers virtual visits, web seminars, and a customized web portal for prospective students.

Wilson also said that MBA recruiters strive to engage applicants throughout the admissions cycle.

“Our goal is to build personal relationships with candidates since those relationships strengthen their emotional tie to Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business,” she wrote in an email.

The survey, which included Georgetown, reported that applications to part-time MBA programs decreased on average as well. Mi-

chael Templeman, director of admissions for the university’s MBA evening program, attributed this nationwide decline to the recent financial downturn.

“While the economic recession has indeed caused other business schools to realize losses in their applicant pools, Georgetown’s unique attributes and its premier positioning in the D.C. marketplace has enabled it to continue to recruit and retain some of the top talent across all of its MBA programs despite the macroeconomic conditions,” he wrote in an email.

The study also reported that the volume of applications for executive programs, intended for people with eight years of managerial experience, has held steady on average. Among participating schools, 42 percent reported a rise in applications, while another 42 percent reported a decline.

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Amidst the uncertainty surrounding Georgetown Day this year, it’s a relief to hear that the show will go on.

While it’s disappointing that the holiday won’t be as extravagant as it has been in the past, we must remember that, ultimately, students make Georgetown Day the celebration we’ve come to know and love.

Students have to take initiative and make sure that such emblematic events take place and meet our expectations. Students sometimes tend to be reluctant to take on volunteer jobs that don’t have a high payoff for the individual, but we can’t simply trust that these events will happen of their own accord or because they have in the past. Last year, the number of student volunteers for Georgetown Day fell by approximately half, and of the 206 volunteers, 45 did not report to their shifts. Events like the Spring Concert, Senior Dis-Orientation and Georgetown Day happen because others put in extensive time and effort to organize them through official university organizations. Georgetown Day, too, should have its own institutional home on campus to help facilitate efficient student involvement in the planning of the event.

Thankfully, we still have a little time to keep the tradition alive. Newly inaugurated Georgetown University Student Association executives Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) recently called for students to apply for the Georgetown Day planning committee.

For Georgetown Day to continue, students must step up and apply before tomorrow’s deadline, and we as an entire student body must seize the moment to ensure that our vision of Georgetown Day can be met as closely as possible.

Still, we can take comfort in the fact that despite the loss of inflatables and the university-sponsored beer garden, the culture of the day can continue. In recent years, we have seen the event develop organically into a unique celebration of the student community. The camaraderie of the afternoon will carry on no matter what.

We’ll have Georgetown Day regardless of what the university provides or how delayed the planning process is. But this setback should serve as a wake-up call: We can no longer wait to be invited to plan events or expect others to do it for us.

paign and is now an NBA all-star with the Indiana Pacers.

Some former Hoyas who left early for the NBA, like Greg Monroe and Jeff Green, have also returned to finish their degrees through Georgetown summer school programs.

Four-year players — and those who return to Georgetown later to finish their degrees — embody an important principle of college athletics. While memories of their on-the-court victories may last for decades, their Georgetown degrees will last the rest of their lives.

Noel will undoubtedly be welcomed on campus if he chooses Georgetown. But regardless of what he might accomplish at Verizon Center, his recruitment underscores a challenge that Georgetown’s highest-profile athletics program faces.

Analysts are divided about whether recruiting possible one-and-done players is a formula for sustained success in men’s college basketball, and some argue that young players who spend at least a few years in college benefit from maturing athletically, intellectually and emotionally before moving on to play professionally.

But players who choose to play a full four years bring something different to the university. The fact that first Sims and now sophomore Markel Starks have each run for Georgetown University Student Association vice president reflects an engagement on campus that is hard to envision with one-and-done players.

Georgetown should encourage each recruit — even one as NBA-ready as Noel — to make the most of his Hilltop experience, because while other schools can offer training for the NBA, Georgetown also offers training for life. The spirit of cura personalis is a defining feature of this campus, and it applies to far more than refining a jump shot or developing a post move.

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THE VERDICT Blue Steel — The 2012 GU Spring Charity Fashion Show, which benefits Roslin Orphanage in West Timor, Indonesia takes place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Gaston Hall.

Deadly Sting — The women’s basketball team lost to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 76-64, Tuesday night, ending their run in the NCAA tourament.

Retail Therapy — The Shops at Georgetown Park received permits to renovate the interior of the mall over the next few months in hopes of enticing national retailers.

Quicker Commute — The D.C. Metro’s Board approved adding more buses and extending service on frequented routes between Crystal City and Rosslyn.

Going Green — This weekend is the last weekend of the Environmental Film Festival held at the Carnegie Institute for Science. Entrance is free.

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As a Hoya from the ’80s-’90s, I dealt with the issues of race and sexual orientation. It took great dedication on my part to get the conversations started and helping those less monied to become integrated into the GU community — it wasn’t easy.

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Students, Then Athletes Once again, the men’s basketball team’s season ended far too early in the NCAA tournament. Though heartbreaking, Georgetown’s premature exit allows us to consider the merits of our basketball program in a broader light.

Though we suffered a tough loss on Sunday afternoon to North Carolina State, it’s worth noting that the Hoyas relied on the play and leadership of their seniors more than several other highly seeded teams in the tournament. At Georgetown, four-year student-athletes represent a tradition that extends beyond good basketball strategy.

Although this season is not over yet, college basketball programs have long been eyeing next year’s freshman class. Currently, the 2012 ESPNU 100’s top-ranked high school recruit in the country, Nerlens Noel of Everett, Mass., has narrowed his list of suitors to three: Georgetown, Syracuse University and the University of Kentucky.

But while Noel will provide a huge boost in the 2012-2013 men’s college basketball season for whichever program he’s a part of, his talent has the potential to make him a projected NBA lottery pick as soon as the 2013 draft. To be eligible for the NBA draft, players must be at least 19 years old and one year removed from high school; a student can attend just one year of college and then move on to the NBA. The University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball team, one of Georgetown’s remaining competitors in its recruitment of Noel, is an example of a program that has used many so-called “one-and-done” players to achieve annual success.

In contrast to programs like Kentucky, Georgetown has thrived recently on the leadership of seniors like Jason Clark and Henry Sims this season and Austin Freeman, Chris Wright and Julian Vaughn last year. Roy Hibbert led the Hoyas to the 2007 Final Four during his senior cam-

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March 18 @thehoyasports We can’t get back to an elite level until we end the Thompson era. @GUSAAssociation

March 20 A writeup on @GUSAssociation staff appointments in @theHoya, with quotes from @ClaraGustafson and @JackAppelbaum. @austin_hoya March 21 @thehoya Wow, students not being paid? That’s appalling. Could dovetail with that piece on class/status you guys just ran too.

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OPINION

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VIEWPOINT • K. C. Harris

Mending DC Government Kony Video Hits Target B W ar none, the District of Columbia’s greatest failing over the past few decades has come from a stunning lack of political leadership.

D.C. Councilman Marion Barry’s antics, from drug abuse to alleged corruption, are really just the tip of the iceberg.

Considering the spate of recent corruption scandals, it is time to clean up D.C. politics. Both students and non-students need to stand up and demand a government worthy of the capital city of the most powerful country in the world.

At the moment, almost half of the D.C. Council is being investigated for ethics abuses. For example, Council Chairman Kwame Brown continues to demand that the government pay for his $1,900-per-month car, and Mayor Vincent Gray faces allegations for paying off a mayoral challenger to criticize his opponent, former Mayor Adrian Fenty, in the last Democratic primary. And just this past January, former Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. pleaded guilty to diverting nearly $350,000 in government funds intended for youth sports programs to his own pocket.

Georgetown’s very own Councilman Jack Evans treats his job on council as part time.

Moreover, The Washington Post has reported that Evans paid over $135,000 for sports tickets over the past 10 years using constituent services funds. These loosely governed funds are supposed to help needy residents who are having trouble paying their bills.

Additionally, a scandal is beginning to emerge concerning campaign contributions made

by D.C. businessman Jeffrey Thompson, who was given the city’s $300 million per year Medicaid contract. Thompson also contributed significantly to Mayor Gray’s election campaign. Thompson and several councilmembers were recently

subpoenaed in the case.

Already strapped for cash, D.C.’s government has a moral obligation to use tax dollars for the betterment of all, not just the politically connected.

Member of the D.C. Council rank as some of the highest paid in the nation. The residents of the District deserve councilmembers who are completely devoted to representing their constituents and who utilize their power and influence both legally and ethically.

As a result of the toxic political system that now prevails, many qualified candidates are intimidated from running for public office. Fiona Greig, a Harvard Ph.D. and McKinsey

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The District deserves councilmembers who are completely devoted. consultant, decided to end her bid for the Ward 2 councilmember position because of the alleged unethical behavior of her political opponents.

Max Skolnik is another candidate who would make a great addition to the D.C. Council. He is the executive director of the education nonprofit Kid Power D.C. In an feature printed in The Huffington Post, he insists that D.C. needs “real ethics reform that eliminates corporate building, constituent service slush funds, conflicted outside employment and influence-buying donations from lobbyists

and contractors.” He is the kind of person the District needs.

Those in power think they can stop bright-eyed reformers aimed at genuinely attacking what ails the city. It’s time to prove the establishment wrong.

D.C. residents can’t afford to be fatalistic about the quality of their government. The District continues to suffer from an AIDS epidemic, and income and racial disparities are only increasing, with average income of whites nearly three times that of African Americans. A sad irony of the District’s affairs is that its challenges are some of the greatest in the United States, yet at the same time, its political leadership has been so lacking.

So what can be done from the Hilltop to improve this mess? Well, students can begin to stand up and demand accountable local government.

This means becoming engaged in local politics and supporting candidates who stand for a new generation of political leadership. Considering the abundance of college students in D.C., we can play a tremendous role in advocating for a cleaner and more transparent local government.

When talking about enhancing organizational transparency, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said that sunshine is the best disinfectant. The best way to eliminate endemic local corruption is by making politics more open through pushing comprehensive ethics reform and electing a new generation of D.C. political leaders.

Scott Stirrett is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is the former chief of staff of the Georgetown University College Democrats and former chair and co-founder of D.C. Students Speak. A CANADIAN CONTENTION appears every other Friday.

hen I used to tell my friends that I worked with an organization called Invisible Children, their response would usually be some variation of “Have you found the children?” One person even referred to my work as part of the “imaginary friends” club.

That was before “Kony 2012,” a half-hourlong film produced by the organization about the current conflict in Central Africa.

The film has now been watched by 80 million people. Now when I tell people I work with Invisible Children, the first thing they say is, “Have you seen Kony?”

I have been involved with Invisible Children for four years now and helped start Georgetown’s chapter last year. I will not claim to make an unbiased analysis of the film. I am a passionate supporter of Invisible Children and its mission. But I am also a student here at Georgetown who has been thought to think critically about the way organizations work.

Contrary to what some may believe, “Kony 2012” does not encompass all that is Invisible Children. Invisible Children is a nonprofit that, according to its mission statement, “uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s rebel war and restore communities harmed by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Central Africa to peace and prosperity.”

It was started by three college students who decided to make a documentary about the conflict to share what they had seen with others. From the start, the organization has maintained a strong student focus and support base.

Regardless of the criticism, for a group that was started by three young men, the success of the film is unprecedented. It has catapulted the name of Invisible Children into the realm of recognition that only nongovernmental organizations like Amnesty International, the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders typically enjoy. And the intention of the film, to make Joseph Kony famous, has been achieved millions of times over. Whether or not you agree with the film, the fact that a noted war criminal in-

dicted by the International Criminal Court has become a household name is remarkable. The loudest cries in support of Invisible Children’s cause have been matched by equally loud cries from critics who call the organization corrupt, pompous and deceptive. They say that the film is overly simplistic and misrepresentative of the conflict.

The best way that I have found to respond to those criticisms is to tell people to consider the context.

No one denies that the film is a simplification of the conflict in Central Africa. The point of the film is to captivate audiences, inspiring people to get involved to end the war and rebuild the region.

Our generation has grown up with an overload of information. Getting people to voluntarily sit down to do nothing but watch a documentary for 30 minutes is next to impossible. But Invisible Children found a way to do that with this film, by conveying the facts about the conflict in Central Africa through the personal story of someone devoting his life to the cause. This style of storytelling made the film inspiring to those hardest to reach: young people aged 18 to 25. It has taken the issue from flying under the radar to being on the cover of Time magazine in under two weeks. That itself is a remarkable feat.

The last image of the “Kony 2012” film is a quote from Victor Hugo that reads, “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time is now.”

The idea to stop a warlord who abducted children was crafted by three college students. Now it has become a social movement — bigger than Invisible Children’s founders or “Kony 2012” or Invisible Children — that is changing how ideas take shape in the world today. I first got involved with Invisible Children because I was passionate about their cause. Now I’m involved because I want to be a part of translating the excitement caused by the film into action.

K. C. Harris is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service and the co-president for Invisible Children at Georgetown.

THE DISCONCERTED DEMAGOGUE by Daniel Yang

QUORUM CALL

Everything in Moderation: The Solution for US Politics

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am more convinced than ever that America needs a moderate, centrist version of the Tea Party. Recent political events have pushed our country down a dangerously fractious and acrimonious path.

Representative Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine) sudden retirement announcement last month was shocking. Snowe is an endangered species on Capitol Hill: She’s a staunchly maverick Republican and is known as a bipartisan leader and a centrist policymaker who has always conducted herself with the utmost class, courage and independence. Her surprise decision to not seek re-election this November was made out of disgust with the feckless divisiveness of American politics, and it underscores a disturbing trend.

Next year, the U.S. Senate will lose many of its most prominent moderates, including Independent Joe Lieberman (Conn.), conservative Democrats like Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.), and GOP moderates like Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). With aggressive primary challenges from the right to Republicans Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the end result of the 2012 Senate elections could be a profoundly intransigent Congress.

The Blue Dog caucus of conservative Democrats has been decimated to an iota of its former strength. Liberal Republicans are virtually nonexistent, as are moderates. Consequently, political extremes are entrenched in our nation. As Snowe observed, Congress has almost been converted to a parliament where legislators show loyalty to factions, rather than to independent conviction.

Our country desperately needs national reconciliation.

We have lost a gentility and dignity in our politics. It is easy to

blame our elected officials, but in reality they take their cues from us — the public. We have lost our former reverence of the words of Voltaire, who proclaimed, “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” It takes real courage to afford respect to your ideological opponents, and even more to build consensus with them. That courage is lacking today.

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Our country desperately needs national reconciliation.

In no way does moderation equal the dulling of our politics or our political debates. Our founders designed our government to facilitate intense and rigorous exchange of ideas.

Their actions also, however, built a legacy of consensus and mutual respect.

In the Second Continental Congress, Pennsylvania’s John Dickinson was the most resolute opponent of John Adams’ proposed movement for independence. Dickinson fought tooth and nail against the likes of Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin with tremendous eloquence and skill. Though he was defeated, he went on to be one of only two members of the congress to join a militia: His commitment to the American people superseded his personal political agenda.

We are on the precipice of extinguishing the spirit of Dickinson. Our gerrymandered districts cultivate political extremes, while the wrath of partisan purists in primaries means the courage to reach across the aisle or challenge party orthodoxy is political suicide. Americans should be outraged.

The same indignation and righteous zeal that fueled the Tea Party must be summoned, channeled and directed in a way that reclaims American politics for the vast majority of us who inhabit the space on the political spectrum between Rush Limbaugh and Occupy Wall Street. There is reason to be optimistic. In a likely presidential matchup between President Obama and Mitt Romney, Americans will have the opportunity to choose between two fundamentally pragmatic leaders.

Both have eschewed some of the more corrosive and extreme politics of their parties, and Americans should expect the two men to fiercely compete for the center in the general election. That is a good start.

Politicians respond to incentives, and it is incumbent upon us as voters to make bipartisanship, consensus and moderation politically lucrative pursuits. We should reward the courage of those who take the right path over the easy path, even if it departs from our personal preferences.

Talk about moderation is cheap. Now is the best chance to establish a new facet of American politics. Geniality, cooperation and selflessness are hard, but they are also the right thing to do.

Sam Dulik is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is the director of special events for the Georgetown University College Republicans. QUORUM CALL appears every other Friday.

VIEWPOINT • Joe Albanese

A Much-Anticipated Ruling

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mid the ongoing debate on contraceptives, it’s easy to forget we’re not just talking about birth control, but a health care bill that will drastically change the future of this nation.

In a few days, the Supreme Court will hear much-anticipated oral arguments in a case challenging President Obama’s health care reform law. There is no doubt that this will greatly impact the role of government for citizens, health care in America, President Obama’s legacy and even the fate of the 2012 election. In a testament to its importance, the Supreme Court has allotted five and a half hours over three days to hear the case; typically, each side is allowed only 30 minutes to make its statement.

Most of the time will center on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, which will cover the individual mandate requiring U.S. citizens to purchase health insurance, and National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius, covering the effects to the law as a whole if that provision is struck down.

Opponents of the mandate will argue that the Constitution does not give the federal government the power to compel individuals to purchase health insurance or any other product, for that matter.

But the law is crafted in a way such that the individual mandate is necessary to balance out effects of other parts of the law. Insurance companies will be required to cover customers with pre-existing conditions who would otherwise likely be rejected. This requirement makes it more likely for the companies to raise their premiums to pay for costlier customers.

To prevent this, the individual mandate is meant to provide insurance companies with more customers who are healthy and otherwise might not choose to buy insurance.

Since the cost of covering these customers is low, the premiums they pay would, in theory, balance out the costs of the expensive customers and keep premiums from rising for everyone. Should the individual mandate be struck down, the rest of the law would fail to

function. Essentially, the Court must decide whether to strike down the entire law even if it finds only one part of it to be unconstitutional.

If the law is rejected as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, will have set a clear limit to federal government’s power to regulate the action (or in this case, inaction) of citizens. If upheld, a completely new precedent for broader federal power will be established.

The consequences of this case will be influential politically as well. Health care reform is the centerpiece of Obama’s domestic legislative record — and of his Republican opponents’ criticism. Yet now its fate is in the hands not of the voting public, but nine (or rather, five) judges.

Overturning the health care bill would eliminate Obama’s greatest presidential accomplishment. Obama may use the Supreme Court decision as an example of how he and his liberal agenda are being victimized by conservatives who have long wished to undermine him. Republicans would be denied a major issue to campaign on, perhaps explaining why Obama pushed for a decision on the case to be announced prior to November. And yet all of Obama’s work for a major piece of legislation, one of the few he has pushed through Congress so far, would be in vain. Health care would devolve to the same spot it was in in 2008.

Needless to say, the outcome of this case will be a defining moment in plenty of areas outside constitutional law and has garnered the interest of many political clubs on campus. On The Docket, Georgetown’s Supreme Court club, of which I am a board member, will be among those within the student community following and discussing the historic arguments. Whatever the outcome, the future of federal government involvement in our lives and President Obama’s job and legacy will be at stake.

Joe Albanese is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service and a board member of On the Docket.

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Project to Record A Year After Fire, Auto Shop Still Vacant Untold Histories SARAH PATRICK Hoya Staff Writer

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It’s 1 a.m. on a Thursday and Ianthe Metzger (COL ’12) is sitting in the semidarkened Center for Social Justice, video camera in hand, interviewing a custodian on her 15-minute break.

“She just sat with me briefly and talked as the camera kept rolling,” Metzger said of the interview, which was conducted as part of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor’s Working Lives Oral History Project.

The project, which launched in fall 2012, aims to record the lives of D.C.’s workers through video interviews.

“The history of workers in D.C. is largely untold, and it seems to us it’s a history that should be uncovered, so we started this project to investigate and explore the experiences of the people who clean the buildings and guard the museums and serve the food here,” Jennifer Luff, the research director for the Kalmanovitz Initiative, said.

The edited interviews will be uploaded to a public website, which Luff hopes to establish by next fall.

The goal of the first set of interviews was to gather a history of the Justice for Janitors campaign, a 1990s initiative that sought to unionize janitors in D.C., including those who worked at Georgetown.

Students in Luff’s class last spring semester interviewed about 30 people involved with the campaign, from janitors to political leaders. This semester, the class’s work has broadened to include employees from more venues on campus.

Luff said that the project

greatly relies on students in the “Working Lives: Theory and Practice of Oral History” course. They are responsible for deciding questions to ask the interviewees, conducting interviews in the field and editing footage.

Metzger is one of the five students currently enrolled in Luff’s class. In addition to the CSJ custodian, she has also interviewed an employee in the financial aid department.

“It was great to see how people see Georgetown from the staff perspective, and not just the student and the faculty,” she said.

“These are the people who make Georgetown actually run.”

Metzger said that the interviews have influenced the perspective through which she sees how events impact different groups in society.

“We’ve had a lot of Leo’s workers interviews. … The campaign was just completed and the contract ratified, so all the interviews focused on that a lot,” Metzger said.

“It was really interesting to hear the workers who were really heavily involved talk about how much their lives would change.”

According to Metzger, the project serves to infuse recorded history with human emotion.

“History, regardless of who writes it, is a really biased thing, but with oral history you give that person the agency to tell it as they see it,” she said. “History is very based in fact, so with oral history you get at the emotional significance of events rather than just the historical significance, what something meant to that one person.”

The site of the former Georgetown Auto Service and Washingtonian convenience store near the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Q Street remains vacant more than a year after a fire forced it to close.

According to Helder Gil, a spokesman for the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, the development of the property at 1576 Wisconsin Ave. has been delayed because the landlord has not produced the necessary plans to obtain a construction permit.

A fire caused by fuel vapors forced the building to close on March 15, 2011. Three employees were injured, though none of the victims required transport for medical care. The fire also spread to the kitchen of nearby Los Cuates, forcing the restaurant to close temporarily.

Georgetown Auto Service owner Bobby Gonzalez, who rented the property, said that he had hoped to reopen the store by fall 2011 but the reopening has been postponed indefinitely.

“As far as I know, [the landlord] is trying to rebuild as soon as [he] can and put it back together, but nobody knows the

timeline,” Gonzalez said. While waiting to reopen his business in Georgetown, Gonzalez works from Alexandria, Va. According to Gil, the owner had submitted a permit application for renovations in September. The application was not approved because it required additional plans and drawings from an architect or engineer. Gil said the DCRA needs the more detailed plans from the landlord because they do not want renovations to weaken the structural integrity of the building during construction. D.C. regulations mandate that all renovation permits be filed by the property owner unless he authorizes his tenant to apply for the permits.

“We told him that he has to come back with more comprehensive building plans and drawings, and we are still waiting for them to come back,” Gil said.

He added that it was unusual for the permit process to take this long.

“It’s a fairly simple process, but you need to come in with actual plans and engage the service of a licensed architect or engineer to design those plans,” Gil said.

Though Gil could not comment on what might happen if the property owner does not submit revised renovation plans, he said that the owner has already been fined $2,000 for failing to register his property

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The property owner has not yet submitted plans for renovations to the DCRA. as vacant. Additionally, the owner must pay a tax rate that is five times higher than the rate charged for occupied properties.

The owner of the property did not respond to requests for comment.

DeGioia Presents Awards to Bush, Clinton ANNIE CHEN

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University President John J. DeGioia recognized U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former first lady Laura Bush for their work with women and children at the 10th anniversary celebration of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council Wednesday.

“We are inspired by the depth of your commitment to the empowerment and success [of] women and children in Afghanistan and around the world,” DeGioia said to Bush and Clinton.

The U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, created in 2002 by President George W. Bush and current Afghan President Hamid Karzai, connects the U.S. and Afghan governments with the private sector and non-governmental organizations to develop and implement programs focused on supporting Afghan women. It is cochaired by DeGioia and Melanne Verveer, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, and has been housed under Georgetown’s Center for Child and Human Development since 2009.

Laura Bush, who serves as an honorary advi-

sor to the council, received the Champion for Afghan Women award from the council for her work on programs that provide education and job training for Afghan women and children.

Clinton received the Caring for Children Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Child and Human Development, in recognition of her efforts to help vulnerable children.

Upon presenting the awards, DeGioia noted Georgetown’s commitment to the work of the council and promised the development of resources to ensure its future success.

“Georgetown University has been deeply engaged in the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council since its founding,” DeGioia said. “As we mark the 10-year anniversary of the council, we will continue to expand on this decade of dedicated work, deepening our commitment to creating broader opportunities for Afghan women and children.”

Clinton pointed to the progress made since 2001, including improved numbers in life expectancy, school enrollment and infant mortality rates. However, she also acknowledged that the majority of Afghan women do not enjoy equal rights.

“There is an Afghan proverb: ‘A good year is determined by its spring,’” she said. “I think that is a worthy proverb to keep in mind, and indeed it is a call to action for us to be sure that the spring sets the pace for the kind of good year we hope to see in Afghanistan.”

DeGioia echoed Clinton’s comments, noting that Clinton announced the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown in December. He added that the university has established an initiative for women, peace, security and development within the School of Foreign Service.

In honor of Clinton’s commitment to the mothers and children of Afghanistan, the council recently launched the Mothers as First Teachers Initiative to support mothers as the first instructors of their children. The early learning team at the Center for Child and Human Development will also implement the program, which is intended for use in women’s resource centers in Afghanistan.

“At Georgetown, we look forward to drawing on the diverse resources of our community to ensure the continued growth and success of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, especially in these critical areas,” DeGioia said.

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In the wake of the International Church of Christ’s recent ban from university property, Jenny Hunter (COL ’93) shared experiences from her 12 years with the organization in an effort to raise awareness about the dangers of predatory religious groups Tuesday night.

The event opened with remarks from Drew Bratcher, the Washingtonian Magazine reporter who wrote a feature about Hunter in 2008.

“The issue that we’re talking about tonight is not that devotion to a religious group is bad,” he said. “The issue is that the International Church of Christ makes claims in ways that emphasize devotion to their group over devotion to God.” Hunter was a senior at Georgetown when a classmate first got her involved in the group. Although Hunter was uninterested at first, she attended a group dinner in a university-owned townhouse after much persistence from her friend.

After the dinner concluded, the group began to partake in a Bible study, facilitated by a man unaffiliated with the university. The friendli-

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Jenny Hunter (COL ’93) joined the ICOC during her senior year at GU.

ness of the group and Hunter’s desire to connect more with God attracted her to the group’s message and other programming.

“Within a week and a half, I was spending all of my waking hours studying the Bible with this group,” she said. “They always had these amazing speakers that would continually inspire you and pump you up.”

Hunter’s dedication to the group, which she now deems a cult, grew to the extent that she agreed to relocate to San Francisco with it two weeks after graduating from Georgetown, despite her family’s attempts to intervene.

“I got a lot of special attention. It felt really good at first,” she said. “It appealed to my ego.”

However, once Hunter was committed to the group, ICOC leaders controlled her living situation, implemented a curfew and selected a man for her to date.

“Everything in this group was manipulation,” she said. “Over the period of a year, we were manipulated to be together.”

Over their 12 years as members, Hunter and her husband ascended in church leadership and were soon responsible for recruiting and converting new members, including wealthy locals in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“I was never physically or sexually harmed, but psychologically, I was harmed greatly and I’m sad to say I psychologically harmed others,” she said.

The breaking point for Hunter occurred when her mother-in-law died.

After traveling with her husband to the funeral, the two were publicly chastised for failing to convert the deceased to the ICOC. “Basically, for four to six hours, as we are grieving this woman’s death, we’re being told that we are responsible for her burning in hell,” Hunter said.

After the incident, Hunter decided to leave the ICOC. It took over two years for her to move back with her family in the D.C. area and another two years before she felt fully healed from the emotional trauma.

Hunter has since developed a nonprofit Alliance for Cult Recovery and Education in hopes of protecting others from similar experiences.

“There are dangerous, predatory groups that are looking for targets,” she said. “I want my story to help someone avoid living my story.”

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Former vice presidential Chief of Staff Ron Klain (COL ’83) was named GU College Dems’ Alumnus of the Year.

Dems Honor High-Profile Alum Annie Chen

to recognize extraordinary contributions of former GU College Democrats to the American political system, the Democratic Party or the university community.

Past recipients are former South Dakota Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (COL ’93, LAW ’97, GRAD ’98), Associate Dean of the College Fr. Ryan Maher, S.J. (COL ’82), University Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (SFS ’72) and White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer (COL ’98).

During his acceptance speech Tuesday, Klain encouraged students to engage in the public sector as early in their careers as possible.

“There is nothing that really compares to the satisfaction you get from public service, knowing that the only reason you’re there is to make the country a better place,” he said. “Do the work, do the job, have the experience and have the exposure when you are

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The Georgetown University College Democrats presented their Alumnus of the Year award Tuesday to Ron Klain (COL ’83), a professor in the government department who formerly served as the chief of staff to Vice Presidents Biden and Gore.

The award, which honors highprofile alumni, is also designed to connect political and community leaders to their roots on the Hilltop.

“It’s important for current students who are looking into politics to connect with people who were students [and] who are currently in politics,” College Democrats President Joseph Vandegriff (COL ’14) said. “For us, it’s cool to see a chief of staff to the vice president like Ron Klain and hear from someone who went from where we are to where they are. For [the alumni], they reconnect with students back at Georgetown.”

The award was created in 2008

young and when you have all the flexibility in your life.”

Klain, who teaches the government course “Presidential Debates,” served as vice president of GUDC his freshmen year. Aside from meeting his wife, Monica Medina (COL ’83) at Georgetown, Klain said being a part of the College Democrats was one of the defining memories of his undergraduate experience.

For Fleming, who received the alumnus award in 2010, his experience in working for three different Democrats in Congress and as assistant secretary of education during the Clinton administration allowed him to facilitate political dialogues when he returned to campus.

“Since returning to Georgetown 11 years ago, I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the Georgetown College Democrats, and I have taken particular pride in working with them on efforts that have promoted civil dialogue here on campus,” Fleming wrote in an email.

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and his co-coordinators, Harrison Holcomb (NHS ’11) and Ryan Wilson (COL ’12), were chosen as chairs because of their experience planning past Georgetown Days but were not appointed by anyone in particular.

“It just sort of happened,” Bible wrote in an email on behalf of himself and Wilson.

Bible said that once in their positions, he and the other coordinators drafted an email request last fall asking students to apply to the planning committee. No such message, which has traditionally been included in broadcast emails sent by the Center for Student Programs, went out this year.

Bible declined to comment on who he and previous coordinators thought were responsible for selecting students to lead this year’s efforts.

According to Gustafson, the lack of an official, centralizing structure has been a major obstacle for planning efforts. “[Georgetown Day] has never had an institutional

home,” she said.

Declining volunteer participation has also been a problem.

“While it completely makes sense that people want to enjoy the day, Georgetown Day is unsustainable without having students supporting the day by volunteering and performing,” Bible wrote. “Without students supporting the day, there is no way for it to happen. It seems to be that people expect Georgetown Day to fall out of the sky, but that’s not how it works.

Georgetown Day requires a lot of work and needs students to make it work.”

According to Director of the Center for Student Programs Erika Cohen Derr, 70 of 403 student volunteers in 2010 and 45 of 206 volunteers in 2011 did not report for their scheduled shifts. Last year, only five students signed up to help clean up after the event, the time slot during which Cohen Derr said help was most needed.

Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount said that this is a trend they hope to combat this year.

“If students want to see Georgetown Day

continue in good faith in the future … they should really consider volunteering, at least for just an hour,” Kohnert-Yount said.

Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount foresee the planning committee, which will incorporate new applicants by Wednesday, dividing into subcommittees, but they plan to leave the structure of the committee to its members.

The ad hoc planning committee, spearheaded by Maeve Brody (COL ’14), is currently working on putting together a budget for this year’s Georgetown Day that will be submitted to the university offices that have funded the event in past years. The Hoya reported Monday that this year’s celebration will not include a beer garden or inflatables on Healy Lawn for reasons separate from the planning delays.

Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount hope to find an official institutional home for future Georgetown Day planning committees.

“We’re excited about being a part of the conversation about Georgetown Day moving forward,” Kohnert-Yount said.

No Plans for Empty Buildings at GU Daniel Corry

Special to The Hoya

Kober-Cogan Building, which was closed in May 2010 after a steam leak, will remain closed indefinitely, according to the university.

The building, which is located between the Leavey Center and the Georgetown University Hospital parking lot, is part of the Georgetown University Medical Center.

According to Georgetown University Hospital Director of Media Relations Marianne Worley, even though the leak was fixed, the presence of mold led the university to turn off heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems in the building and relocate the occupants.

The building previously housed the department of psychiatry.

Although trucks from Rolyn, a disaster recovery and reconstruction firm, have been parked outside of Kober-Cogan throughout the academic year, the trucks are not associated with any activities in the building, according to Worley.

Although it has been empty for almost two years, Kober-Cogan was burglarized in February when a suspect stole a sign from inside the building.

The Medical Center has not confirmed whether the building will reopen, and its future purpose remains unclear.

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Kober-Cogan Building has been closed and its occupants relocated since May 2010, after a steam leak led to mold in the building.

Dahlgren Quadrangle, Mulledy Building has been empty since 2003.

Built in 1833, the building most recently comprised the old Jesuit Residence with the adjacent Gervase Building and Ryan Hall. Since the Jesuit community’s move to Wolfington Hall in 2003, the windows of Mulledy Building have been boarded up, and the building has remained vacant. Gervase has since been occupied by administrative offices, while Ryan Hall is

home to the Woodstock Theological Center.

The university currently does not have a plan to reopen the former Jesuit residence due to financial constraints, according to University Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh.

“Mulledy Hall needs significant renovation and funding is not currently in place to undertake the work,” she wrote in an email.

DPS BLOTTER Friday, March 16, 2012 Theft, Leavey Center bike rack, 8 p.m.

A student reported that he left a rental bike unsecured at the listed location. When he returned to retrieve the bicycle, it was missing.

Saturday, March 17, 2012 Harassment, Leavey Center, 11:25 p.m.

A student reported that a former friend from out of state made contact with her several times after repeated requests not to contact her.

Sunday, March 18, 2012 Harassment, 37th and N Streets, 12:50 a.m.

A student reported that she was being harassed by a non-affiliate.

Alcohol Violation, Henle Village, 12:58 a.m.

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made contact with the occupants of the residence, who were found to be underage and consuming alcoholic beverages. The case has been referred to the Office of Student Conduct.

Theft, Henle Village bike rack, 1:25 a.m.

DPS officers made contact with a student who was observed taking a bike wheel which did not belong to him.

The student was identified, and the case has been referred to the Office of Student Conduct.

Burglary, St. Mary’s Hall, 10:42 p.m.

A staff member reported a burglary of an office at the listed location.

Theft, 37th Street and Reservoir Road, 10:42 p.m.

DPS officers stopped two non-affiliate individuals who were fleeing the main campus carrying stolen electronic equipment. Both individuals were arrested.

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Monday, March 19, 2012 Burglary, St. Mary’s Hall, 7 a.m.

A staff member reported a burglary of an office and the theft of electronic equipment.

Unlawful Entry, Healy Hall, 9:55 p.m.

DPS officers made contact with a student who was found unlawfully inside an office at the listed location.

The student was arrested and transported to the MPD Second District for processing.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Theft, Red Square, 11:30 a.m.

A student reported that a banner was stolen off a wall at the listed location.

The blotter is compiled weekly by the Department of Public Safety.

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For the past two years, Georgetown’s Invisible Children chapter has worked to raise awareness of human rights violations committed by Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.

However, the viral popularity and widespread debate about the documentary film “Kony 2012” has brought the group new attention.

“Our biggest problem is getting people to know that we are here. Georgetown is inundated with social justice causes. ‘Kony 2012’ really changed all of that,” Kirsten Harris (SFS ’14), one of the co-presidents of Georgetown’s Invisible Children chapter, said.

In two weeks, “Kony 2012,” a short film intended to expose the leader of a guerrilla movement infamous for employing child soldiers, has received over 84 million views on YouTube and attracted both praise and anger. On top of the criticism arguing that the video oversimplified the conflict in Uganda, additional controversy surfaced last week when Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell was detained by police for vandalism and making sexual gestures. He was subsequently hospitalized.

However, Harris said Invisible Children’s message is not affected.

“This movement is bigger than Jason Russell. It is bigger than Kony. It is more than one person,” she said. “Jason is one of

three founders. It doesn’t change anything. We are still committed to the cause.”

On April 23, the chapter is sponsoring a visit from young volunteers traveling around the United States to spread the organization’s message and fundraise. While the group has been planning the event since before “Kony 2012” went viral, it now plans to screen the film at the program.

The club also participated in Wednesday night’s Ignite Talks and a panel on “Kony 2012” sponsored by the African Society of Georgetown Thursday to raise awareness of its cause.

Club leaders plan to bring Invisible Children founder Bobby Bailey to campus. The national organization recently sent two representatives from San Diego to set up a satellite office in D.C. in an effort to create an activist community among the colleges and universities in the nation’s capital.

“All of [a] sudden we have resources that we didn’t have before,” Harris said.

The two representatives attended the general interest meeting held by Georgetown’s chapter last week for students interested in getting involved with the “Kony 2012” movement. Harris said that the turnout at the meeting was larger than it has been in past meetings.

“The main goal of the video was to get Kony’s name out there. That isn’t really necessary anymore. [The number of] views proves that,” she said.

MSB Revamps MBA Recruitment MBA, from A1 the senior associate dean for the full-time MBA program, it is probable that new formats for business education, such as part-time, evening, online and executive programs, will lead to a reduction in full-time MBA applications. MSB Dean David Thomas also said in a recent interview with Minnesota’s Star-Tribune that he believes

the number of schools able to maintain large, full-time MBA programs will be narrowed to 20 over the next 10 years.

Bloomberg Businessweek identified 30 schools as in its top tier. The magazine currently ranks Georgetown’s full-time MBA program as the 33rd-best program in the country, placing it in what it deems the second tier of schools.

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a 5.2 percentage-point difference and the University of Pennsylvania reported an 8.7 percentage point difference. But Boston College and Northwestern University, for example, had disparities larger than Georgetown’s.

The gap between the university’s overall graduation rate and that of black students has ranged from 7 to 12 percent over the last nine years. The difference between the overall and Hispanic graduation rates, however, has varied more widely over the same time period. While the rate for Hispanic students has been at least 9 percent lower than the overall rate for the past two years, it was higher than the overall rate in 2004 and 2008.

Williams noted that the varying gap between the overall and black graduation rates may be due to the relatively small number of black students at Georgetown.

In the university population that would have graduated in spring 2010 after four years on the Hilltop, 6.6 was black.

“One thing to keep in mind is that we’re talking about a pretty small pool,” he said, adding that this means small changes to the number of graduating students have a major impact on reported percentages.

According to Williams, the graduation rate discrepancies are connected to

negative socioeconomic and academic stereotypes tied to race. He believes that black and Hispanic students battle an environment that assumes they are less qualified.

“It can create a sense of disadvantage, of not quite fitting in the dominant culture,” he said.

“As an African-American [or] Latino student, you are conscious and suspicious of some of those expectations, and you have to be on guard about those.”

Georgetown Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán President Antony López (COL ’14) agreed with Williams’ assessment, adding that classrooms can sometimes feel like they are dominated by white students and professors.

“I would say a lot of the low numbers can be linked to overall isolation and displacement some Hoyas feel when arriving to the Hilltop,” he said.

According to Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh, Georgetown offers programs to assist students at individual levels in order to boost the university’s retention and graduation rates.

“Statistically, some groups of students may take longer to graduate or may be more likely to transfer, and we continue to invest in programs to help them succeed at Georgetown,” she wrote in an email.

Compared to the four-year graduation

rates, the percentage of students who graduate in six years or less shows a similar gap between the overall rate and the black rate, but a 6.5 percent difference between the overall and Hispanic rates.

In 2010, the university’s overall six-year graduation rate was 92.5 percent.

According to Pugh, Preparing to Excel, a pre-orientation program open to first-year and transfer students who are concerned about getting accustomed to college life, is the first program that aims to increase the likelihood of retention.

Other such initiatives include the Sophomore Year Experience, which compiles resources for second-year students, and the Academic Safety Net program, which works to identify students who may be experiencing difficulties and direct them to the appropriate resources.

Williams, however, believes that there is more that needs to be done to address the needs of minority students, particularly academically.

“When we’re talking about broader areas of inquiry and exploration in the curriculum that bring in other cultural dimensions, it builds that recognition of appreciation [of minority groups] here,” he said. “I believe that is another way to help students where there is a graduation gap to feel more at home in the institution.”

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Washington Harbour owner MRP Realty recently announced its plans to renovate the complex after it was destroyed by a flood last spring. The revitalized waterfront property will feature an ice rink, set to open by winter 2013.

Student organizations are bringing a new ballgame to the Kenilworth neighborhood in Southeast D.C. in an effort to build community through sports.

D.C. Reads, which had long been tutoring at Kenilworth Elementary, had tried to renovate the neighborhood’s Little League field last spring, but it soon became clear that the project required a longer-term commitment.

In the fall, Students of Georgetown, Inc.’s Service and Outreach Committee became involved with the Kenilworth Recreation Center.

CSOC has funded and designed basketball jerseys for teams at the recreation center and organized a group outing of Georgetown students to watch the Kenilworth team play. Committee members will also be planting flowers, landscaping

and painting a mural at the recreation center Friday as part of The Corp’s 40th anniversary celebration, and they also plan to hold an event celebrating the community in mid-April.

“We see building a relationship with the coaches and student-athletes of Kenilworth as just as important as delivering on projects like providing jerseys and improving athletic facilities. It’s about connecting to those to whom we’re giving,” Committee Chair Will Cousino (SFS ’12) said.

The committee’s main goal this semester has been to renovate the local baseball field.

“Community members believed that a baseball diamond could become an epicenter of Kenilworth,” said D.C. Reads Coordinator Hannah Klusendorf (COL ’12), who was also a member of CSOC. For committee member and project leader Alexandra Rallo (COL ’15), the partnership between The Corp and the Ke-

nilworth neighborhood is a means for the company to include other student groups, like Hoyas for RBI, in its outreach and service projects.

Hoyas for RBI, a new Georgetown branch of Major League Baseball’s Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program, seeks to mentor children through the game of baseball.

“D.C. RBI draws from the Kenilworth community and the surrounding area, and we are excited about the opportunity to work with The Corp to help out there,” Hoyas for RBI Founder and President Alexander Frawley (COL ’12) said.

According to Klusendorf, the collaborative aspect of this project makes it unique.

“Service and outreach imply this intersection of people and ideas,” she said.

“When we, Hoyas — in all of our diverse talents, skills and even weaknesses — come together, we can do big things, things bigger than ourselves.”

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Midfielder Kelsi Bozel scored three goals in the Hoyas’ win over No. 8 UPenn Wednesday night. The junior has tallied nine goals on the year, tied for third on the team, and has added four assists.

All-American Recovers From Slow Start THOMAS, from A12 while she scored two goals against Johns Hopkins on March 14, it would prove insufficient, as the Blue and Gray suffered a third straight loss. “[It was] definitely mentally straining,” Thomas said. “As an offense, we had a lot of shots, [but] we went 2-of-24 on our free position shots, and I think it just got to our head for a little bit. But then Ricky [told us], ‘Everyone needs to calm down and just play the game,’ and I think everyone [stopped] freaking out about everything. The stress was gone, and everyone started playing to their capabilities.”

That change was clearly reflected in the team’s defeat of previously undefeated and second-ranked North Carolina last Saturday. In probably the Hoyas’ toughest game of the season, a total team effort allowed Thomas to deliver the game-winning goal with three minutes remaining.

While Thomas immediately deflected the attention toward sophomore midfielder Hannah Franklin — who had four

goals in the Hoyas’ upset win — she did admit that the UNC game-winner was a still a big moment for her.

“Showing up and proving that you can do it is always a confidence builder for the future,” Thomas said.

And the effects of that confidence were evident in the team’s 11-9 win over Penn.

“I think she’s starting to come into her own for this season,” Fried said. “The expectations can wear on you a little bit at the beginning, but I think at this point it’s just about playing the game. And that’s what she’s focused on now.”

According to Thomas, these nonconference wins are just the beginning and are hardly the end goal.

“Right now we’re focusing on these two games [against North Carolina and Penn] not being the highlight of our season but just momentum-building wins and hoping they’ll carry us through the Big East season.”

The second game of the conference slate for the Hoyas comes this Saturday against 16th-ranked Loyola (Md.), whose 11-7 defeat of Johns Hopkins Feb. 29

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“They have a veteran defensive group, they have a solid goalie in the cage, and they have young, athletic offensive players,” Fried said of the 4-3 Greyhounds, who are likely to be hungry coming off a loss at No. 20 James Madison earlier in the week.

“I think the big key for us is continuing to play team defense and limiting their transition opportunities, because they thrive in transition,” Fried said. “[If] we can do those things, I think we’ll be pretty successful.”

The forecast for Saturday afternoon calls for thunderstorms, conditions which are likely to have some impact on the play style of the game. Regardless, Fried is confident in his squad. “[There are] a lot of things that we’ve corrected and improved on since the Hopkins game, and we just want to continue to make strides,” he said.

“We want to make sure that we come out ready to play and know that [Loyola is] going to bring their A-game, so we’ve got to do the same thing.”

Georgetown’s baseball team (11-10) stretched its losing streak to three games Wednesday after a 12-8 loss to George Mason (12-9). Although the Hoyas took an early 5-0 lead, poor defense allowed the Patriots to plate nine unanswered runs and seal a victory.

The Blue and Gray offense got going early, putting two runners on base in the top of the first. Although they failed to drive in any of these runners, Georgetown kept clicking in the next inning.

Sophomore outfielder Christian Venditti drew a one-out walk and senior catcher Nick Geary drove him in with a groundout to score the game’s first run. Later in the inning, senior outfielder Rand Ravnaas ripped a double that plated senior infielder Andy Lentz and junior outfielder Justin Leeson to extend the lead. Redshirt junior infielder Mike Garza capped off the big inning with a tworun home run and the Hoyas led 5-0.

Sophomore pitcher Alex Baker was on the mound for the Blue and Gray, and he cruised through the George Mason lineup in the first two innings. Baker struggled in the third and fourth, though, and the Patriots capitalized on shoddy defensive play to score seven runs.

Although Baker was pulled in the fourth inning and was on the hook for the loss, only one of the seven runs he surrendered was earned.

But even after the pitching change, all the momentum stayed with George Mason. With freshman pitcher

Will Brown on in relief, the Patriots tacked on two more runs to stretch their lead, 9-5.

Despite the score, strong relief pitching from redshirt junior Billy Cosmopolus and a three-run seventh inning kept victory in reach for the Blue and Gray. In the seventh, junior Danny Poplawski came through in the clutch by hitting a double with the bases loaded to pull Georgetown within one run of George Mason.

In the eighth, the Hoyas had a chance to tie the game with runners on first and second with only one out, but instead grounded into an inning-ending double play.

But George Mason had Georgetown’s measure and responded in the bottom half of the inning by tabbing redshirt senior Tommy Isaacs for three runs to move ahead, 12-8. The Hoyas were unable to rally back in the top of the ninth, sealing their loss.

In a game marred by poor defense and lackluster pitching, the one bright spot for the Hoyas was their offense. Ravnaas finished the day 3-for-5 with two RBIs, and three other players finished with at least two hits.

Georgetown opens Big East play this weekend against South Florida. If the Hoyas hope to come away with much-needed conference victories this weekend, they will have to tighten up their defense to avoid beating themselves.

The Blue and Gray open their weekend series Friday night in Tampa, Fla., with the first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m.

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Senior point guard Rubylee Wright will leave the Hilltop as Georgetown’s all-time assists leader. Wright scored eight points in her final game as a Hoya.

Seniors Put Hoyas On Map LEGACY, from A12 And my seven seniors came in here, and they turned this program around. They gave everything that they had to this program,” Williams-Flournoy said.

Also occupying the post was hardworking senior forward Adria Crawford, whose average of 6 rebounds per game resulted in a tie with Magee for the title of the team’s leading rebounder. Come May, McDonough Arena will also bid farewell to guard and co-captain Alexa Roche, forwards Tommacina McBride and Amanda Reese and guard Morgan Williams.

An examination of the season would be remiss,

of course, without mention of junior guard Sugar Rodgers, who led both the Hoyas and the Big East in scoring throughout the season. Rodgers averaged 18.5 points per game and was awarded her third consecutive unanimous all-Big East first team selection.

The star from Suffolk, Va. became the first Hoya to receive the distinction three times.

As a team, the Blue and Gray stifled opponents all season long, holding foes to an average of just 52.8 points per game with 34.2 percent shooting. Unfortunately, Georgetown’s offense sputtered its way through the year, managing just over 60 points per game and shooting only 34.8 per-

cent. The Hoyas maintained an average turnover margin of +6.5, and a 0.8 average advantage in rebounds per game, their historical Achilles’ heel.

Rodgers, Georgetown and its trademark press defense will return next year to battle for a place in the upper echelon of the Big East, but the many contributions — both on and off the court — from the Class of 2012 will not soon be forgotten.

“I’m very sad to see these seven seniors go, but one thing’s for sure: They know what they’ve done for this program, and that will never be touched by any other group that comes in here because they put Georgetown on the map.”

Williams-Flournoy said.

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Senior guard Alexa Roche scored to get Georgetown within 10 late, but the Hoyas were unable to complete a comeback. The Hoyas finished 23-9.

GU Exits After Ga. Tech Loss LOSS, from A12 Tech extended its lead to eight, and the Blue and Gray never pulled closer. After the Hoyas fell behind by as many as 14 points, senior guard Alexa Roche made a bucket to get Georgetown within 10.

Poor defense on the other end, however, allowed the Yellow Jackets to keep the Hoyas at bay.

“We had the right pace going, just at the wrong times we took a play off,” senior forward Tia Magee said.

“And [Georgia Tech freshman guard Sydney Wallace] ... did a great job hitting shots. They just hit shots at the most crucial times, and every time we tried to fight back, throw a punch back, we couldn’t get

it rolling.”

Wallace, who played only 22 minutes in three ACC tournament games, broke out with a career-high 28 points in Georgia Tech’s opening-round NCAA tournament game against Sacred Heart and added 23 more against Georgetown.

Goodlett added a doubledouble, scoring 14 points and pulling down 11 boards for the Yellow Jackets.

Junior guard Sugar Rodgers led the Hoyas with team highs of 14 points and six rebounds. Magee was the only other Hoya in double figures, notching 10 points.

Senior forward Adria Crawford added six rebounds.

Georgia Tech is in the midst of its best season in

school history. In addition to reaching its first Sweet 16, it has also set school records for overall victories and ACC victories and earned its highest-ever NCAA tournament seed. The Yellow Jackets will face their biggest test of the season next, as they face dominant junior center Brittney Griner and top-seeded Baylor.

Looking ahead, Georgetown will rely heavily on Rodgers next year, as the team will graduate seven seniors, including Crawford, Wright and co-captains Magee and Roche. This year’s seniors revitalized a struggling Georgetown program, winning at least 20 games four years in a row and advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in 2011.

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he first weekend of the Big Dance, which the needed for a two-point win.

Michigan: Ohio’s penchant for shocking upsets NCAA has, in its infinite wisdom, christened the “second and third rounds,” produced even should be well known to Georgetown fans, so it wasn’t more upsets than usual this year. And if you’re any- a surprise that they were ready to face Michigan. What thing like me, your bracket is covered in more red was surprising, however, was how unprepared Michiink than the essay you blew off to plot how to win gan was for the Bobcats’ perimeter defense. Ohio held your bracket pool.

Michigan to only 30 percent from three-point land, While busted brackets and another early exit for and the Wolverines couldn’t find much inside the the Hoyas have much of the Hilltop tuning out of line. Michigan Head Coach John Beilein tried to lay the the tournament, there are still plenty of compelling blame on freshman guard Trey Burke, who took some Sweet 16 matchups. But to understand these games, ill-advised shots as the game wound down, but the we should first examine what most responsibility is on Beilein for poor of us failed to predict in last weekplanning and bad game manageend’s biggest upsets. ment. Overall, Ohio had Michigan’s Duke: Last week I was riding high measure. on the Blue Devils. Because they lost But I’m calling a mulligan on last to Lehigh, I now look like a chump. week’s projections. To redeem myOne thing that I should have noticed self, I’m offering up this lightning was Duke’s offensive struggles when round of picks for tonight’s Sweet 16 the three-ball wasn’t falling. The Blue matchups.

Devils had six losses this season, and Kentucky vs. Indiana: It would Evan Hollander in four of those they shot worse than make a fantastic story if lightning 30 percent from deep. A bad night struck twice for the Indiana Hooshooting from long range compro- The Big Dance has siers, but it is unlikely away from mised the team every time — and home court at Assembly Hall already produced their against the Mountain Hawks, Duke and without senior guard Verdell made only 23 percent of its treys.

Jones III, who is injured. Although tons of upsets.

Florida State: Another ACC Kentucky keeps games close for too team, the Seminoles have surprised long, vengeful basketball gods are a lot of people in the past few weeks. the only roadblocks to an eighth They started off with a win in their first ACC tourna- NCAA banner. Pick: Kentucky win. ment game, which seemed to give them a lot of moBaylor vs. Xavier: This game is intriguing and mentum going into Nashville. Then they snuck past should be a great offensive show, marred only slightSt. Bonaventure despite being outrebounded and giv- ly by the Bears’ heinous uniforms. Xavier had to work ing up too many turnovers. But their luck ran out in hard to win its previous tournament games against their next game against superior competition from the struggling Notre Dame and the overmatched Cincinnati. Granted, the Bearcats were a bad match- Lehigh. Baylor, on the other hand, has seemed domiup, because Florida State senior forward Xavier Gib- nant, especially over Colorado. Pick: Leaning Baylor. son isn’t stellar even when he’s not being defended Kansas vs. North Carolina State: The Wolfby the Bearcats’ powerful senior center, Yancy Gates. pack’s magical run is about to come to a screeching Bad rebounding, too many turnovers and untimely halt. NC State is solid, as Georgetown fans know only fouls finally caught up with the Seminoles. too well, but it has holes that Kansas is good enough Missouri: The Tigers seized the Big 12 title by to exploit. It may be close, but junior forward Thomas thumping Baylor, which makes this upset the hard- Robinson will gut it out for Kansas. Pick: Kansas win. est to explain. In fact, Missouri had lost only four North Carolina vs. Ohio: This tournament is set up games all year, and three of those came on the road. perfectly for the Ohio Bobcats to be this year’s Butler, Two of the losses came against Kansas State, though, and they couldn’t have caught a bigger break than and this weekend’s tournament loss to Norfolk they did with the injury that UNC sophomore point State was only possible because Norfolk took a page guard Kendall Marshall sustained to his wrist. Still, straight out of K-State coach Frank Martin’s play- the Tar Heels have played gutsy basketball all year book. The Tigers and the Spartans both shot above and have a lot more talent than the Bobcats do. Pick: 50 percent from the field, but the difference was in Flip a coin. rebounds and second shots. Norfolk State grabbed 35 boards, 12 more than Missouri. They also took Evan Hollander is a sophomore in the School of 59 shots, making 32, while the Tigers went 29-of-55. Foreign Service and deputy sports editor of The That was just enough to give Norfolk State the edge it Hoya. TOP OF THE KEY appears every Friday.

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The No. 13 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (4-3, 1-0 Big East) earned an impressive road victory against the No. 8 University of Pennsylvania (4-2, 2-0 Ivy League) Wednesday, defeating the Quakers by a final tally of 11-9. The Hoyas have now beaten two ranked opponents in a row after a surprise upset of then-No. 2 North Carolina on Saturday. “[The win] gives us a lot of confidence, especially coming off of a big win on Saturday,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said. “For us it was all about gaining some momentum about going into Big East play, and I think we responded really well.”

Georgetown and Penn battled back and forth throughout the first half, but the Hoyas capitalized on three straight goals in the second half to take a 10-7 lead and never looked back from there.

The Blue and Gray played stingy defense throughout the game, allowing only 16 shots while getting off 21 of their own. Georgetown also controlled the ball better than Penn, committing only 14 turnovers as compared to 17 by the opposition.

“We didn’t do anything exceptional, but we did enough to win the game,” Fried said. We played at the pace we wanted to on the offensive end and defensively we were stingy,” he said.

Junior midfielder Sophia Thomas opened the scoring only 11 seconds into the game to give the Hoyas an early lead. The goal would be a harbinger of things to come, as Thomas found the back of the net five more times before the final buzzer sounded in an exceptional performance.

“I think Sophia is capable of doing that at any point in time,” Fried praised. “She is a very dynamic player.”

After two Quaker goals, the Blue and Gray re-

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sponded with one from freshman attack Caroline Tarzian with 12 minutes left to play in the half.

Goals were hard to come by from that point on, but Thomas and junior midfielder Kelsi Bozel each scored twice before the end of the half to give Georgetown a 6-4 advantage at intermission.

Both of Thomas’ goals were assisted by senior midfielder Erin Lovett. These two, along with Bozel, formed a formidable trio of middies that was a force all day for the Hoyas, accounting for all but four of the team’s 18 total points.

The Quakers came out strong in the second half and managed to tie the score at seven with 14 minutes left to play. However, the Hoyas responded with three straight goals, two coming from Thomas and one from Lovett, to make the score 10-7.

And while Penn again fought back and cut the deficit to one with six minutes left, sophomore goalie Barb Black (who had six saves in the game) and the rest of the Georgetown defense remained tight from then on and were able to close out the win.

“I felt the biggest thing was [we] consistently rode throughout the game,” Fried noted. “That paid dividends at the end of the game and they got a little bit tired.”

The Blue and Gray will look to keep their win streak alive as they go up against yet another ranked foe on Saturday, No. 16 Loyola (4-3). The game will be the Big East home opener for the Hoyas.

While Fried is very happy with the way his team is performing, he sees room for improvement in its off-ball defensive play and consistency in decisionmaking. And as always, his team is aware of the expectations that the program faces each year.

“The Big East is huge for us. The expectation is to finish first and not anywhere else,” Fried said. “I think our kids thrive on that but other teams put the target out on us, so we need to be prepared.”

n the excruciating 24 hours between Peyton Manning’s introduction as a Denver Bronco and the moment I heard of Tim Tebow’s trade to the New York Jets, my world was turned upside down. Does this mean the end of Tebowmania? Will I still be able to yell “Tebow Time!” at a television every Sunday afternoon? With the trade finalized and Tebow an official member of the New York Jets, the future of the legend of St. Timothy lies in jeopardy.

Admittedly, I took Tebowmania a little harder than most. I ruined a date during the Broncos’ first round playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers when, instead of making polite conversation, I gushed over how awesome it would be if Tebow pulled off a miracle win.

And he did.

There’s even a section in my cover letter explaining the “Tebow Handicap” to my GPA. I explain that I was forced to devote three hours each Sunday to the miracles of Tim Tebow, so I’m heavily invested in keeping everyone’s favorite terrible quarterback in the league.

Nobody can blame the Broncos for signing Peyton Manning when he became available.

In Week 8 of the 2011 season, Tim Tebow completed only two passes in a Broncos win. While I claim no expertise in what it takes to win an NFL game, I’m convinced the Broncos’ front office is ecstatic to sign a quarterback who can win while doubling or even tripling Tebow’s average completions per game.

When given the opportunity to sign a quarterback with a lifetime passer rating of 94.9 and get rid of their current starter who posted a 20.6 rating on the last game of the season, the choice is a no-brainer.

But forget Tebow. Why did

this have to happen to Tebowmania?

I knew I was hooked on Tim Tebow during the Broncos’ Week 5 matchup against the Miami Dolphins when, after an abysmal game, the young quarterback resuscitated the Denver offense and led them on two touchdown drives in the last three minutes of the game. To non-Broncos fans, Tebowmania had nothing to do with the fact that the Broncos were winning games; it had everything to do

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But forget Tebow.

Why did this have to happen to Tebowmania? with the fact that it introduced irrationality to the NFL in a season that previously offered very few surprises.

Instead of watching the Packers and Patriots win in predictable fashion, fans tuned in to the fourth quarter of every Broncos game to witness Tebow’s magic.

Between his game-winning scramble at the end of the Jets game and Matt Prater’s 59-yard field goal against the Bears, the fourth quarter of Broncos games ceased to be boring or predictable. Fans really did have Tebow Time.

Even its duration fell outside of the explainable. I’ll never forget getting a text from my twin

brother during a game against the Vikings that read “no more miracles.” True to form, the Broncos’ quarterback led his team to victory, and Tebowmania lived to see another day.

Over a month after that text, the Broncos won a playoff game against the significantly better Pittsburgh Steelers, and football fans everywhere screamed at their televisions for Tebow Time.

My only hope in the 2012 season is that Tim Tebow isn’t used as a stunt in the wildcat offense or as a fullback for the Jets, who already have a quarterback. Nobody can claim that he makes a good passing quarterback, but that’s not the point. As long as Tebow lines up under center in 2012, football fans know where they can find a little bit of chaos in the NFL. For the same reason that we root for the upset in college basketball or Jeremy Lin in the NBA, Tebowmania grips the sports fan because it shouldn’t be possible. With Tebow Time, statistics are no indication of the end result: Tebow defies numbers. In its place lies the raw excitement that starts in the fourth quarter of a close game.

I will never blame the Broncos for signing Manning, but it will be a sad day if the 2012 NFL season kicks off and Tim Tebow isn’t the starting quarterback for the Jets. Admittedly, my GPA will recover and my dates will go more smoothly – at least, I think. But maybe that’s the entire point: Excitement that gripping will surely be missed, and we could all make do with Tebow Time for one more season.

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midfielder Dan McKinney and one from senior midfielder Francis McDonough put the Hoyas up, 3-1.

The Greyhounds, though, responded with three straight goals to close the first quarter, including two from graduate student attack Eric Lusby.

Georgetown’s predicament began to worsen in the second quarter, as the Hoyas’ defense allowed the Greyhounds to take 13 shots, compared to only four for the Blue and Gray.

While each team only scored one goal apiece — thanks in part to outstanding play in goal from Georgetown senior Matt Winter, who had a careerhigh 14 saves — Loyola had the ball for much of the half and carried momentum into the break.

After the intermission, ju-

nior midfielder Brian Casey tied the game at five. But junior attack Mike Sawyer’s goal for Loyola with 10:44 to go in the third quarter jumpstarted a Greyhound 6-0 run that lasted until the 5:48 mark in the final period.

Sawyer had three goals during the streak and Lusby ran his total to five for the game by also scoring three times. On top of giving Loyola lots of opportunities — the Greyhounds took twice as many shots as the Hoyas, 48-24 — Georgetown also struggled with penalties, as four different Hoyas were called for slashing or holding penalties.

Although Loyola didn’t convert on any of the man-up opportunities, it still inhibited the Blue and Gray’s offensive rhythm. Even Casey’s second goal — the final goal of the

game — could only cut the Greyhounds’ advantage to 11-6, dropping the Hoyas to 4-2 on the year.

Georgetown will have to regroup quickly from the loss before it hosts No. 10 Duke (6-3, 1-1 ACC) tomorrow afternoon.

Duke has statistics similar to Loyola’s, averaging nearly 12 points a game while holding opponents to only nine. The Blue Devils are also known for taking a flurry of shots, the same kind of play that doomed the Hoyas against the Greyhounds.

If there is one silver lining for Georgetown, however, it is that Duke has struggled away from Durham, as all three of its losses have come on the road. Still, the Hoyas will need a much better defensive effort — and a higheroctane offense — to beat the Blue Devils.

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knew about Georgetown. Nobody took us seriously. From our freshman year we got better and betThe image of the Georgetown ter and now people know who women’s basketball team exiting Georgetown is,” Magee said followthe court after Tuesday night’s ing Tuesday’s game. “I’m crying beNCAA tournament loss to Georgia cause I’m sad that it’s over, but at Tech represented much more than the same time, my four years were the end of a season. The Hoyas’ amazing, and I wouldn’t change 76-64 second-round shortcoming anything about it.” symbolized the emotional end to Throughout the course of their an era that was bookended by the final season on the Hilltop, the promising start and bitter end of seven seniors helped the Hoyas seven seniors’ careers. record memorable victories, inThe fifth-seeded Blue and Gray cluding a 71-46 thrashing of thenhad set their sights well beyond No. 9 Miami and a 54-36 defensive the first weekend of action at the clinic administered to then-No. 20 Big Dance, but Rutgers. Magee, the length of the who recorded her postseason run “My seven seniors 1000th point as does not define a Hoya, and secame in here and the success of a nior point guard season in its en- they turned this proRubylee Wright, tirety – especially the program’s alla season that gram around. They time single-seasaw Georgetown gave everything they son assists leader, remain in the led their class to national rank- had to this program.” the best record of ings from start any women’s basTERRI WILLIAMS-FLOURNOY to finish and rise ketball team in Women’s Basketball Head Coach to become a preschool history: 93mier program in 41 over the course women’s basketball. Head Coach of four years. But their newly esTerri Williams-Flournoy and com- tablished standard of success and pany concluded the season with competitive fire only made their an overall 23-9 record, including final loss that much tougher. an 11-5 showing in Big East play.

“I think my seniors are being When senior forward and co- a little bit hard on themselves, captain Tia Magee arrived on cam- but that’s how they are when pus in the fall of 2008, the Hoyas they lose, they’re not going to pat were on the heels of a typical 15-14 each other on the back, they’re season, and as a program, George- not going to give each other a town had reached the NCAA tour- whole lot of credit, because it was nament just once. Four years later, a loss,” Williams-Flournoy said. the veteran Blue and Gray squad Still, Georgetown’s head coach was has qualified for three consecu- intent on putting the focus of the tive NCAA tournaments, made it evening on her veterans’ overall to last season’s Sweet 16, recorded body of work, rather than on one four seasons of 20-plus wins and pitfall. finished in the Big East’s top four “I’m getting emotional here befor the first time in program his- cause these are my seven seniors. tory.

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For the final time this season, dreadful shooting headlined the night for the Georgetown women’s basketball team — with predictable results. The fifth-seeded Blue and Gray fell to fourth-seeded Georgia Tech, 76-64, in the second round of the women’s NCAA tournament this past Tuesday.

The Yellow Jackets (26-8, 12-4 ACC) shot a stellar 50 percent from the floor, nailing 28 of their 56 shots to GEORGIA TECH 76 advance to the school’s GEORGETOWN 64 f irst-ever Sweet 16. The Hoyas (23-9, 11-5 Big East) shot only 33.8 percent from the field, a full point lower than their league-worst season average.

Georgetown started the game well, taking a 7-2 lead after a threepointer from senior guard Rubylee Wright. But Georgia Tech ripped off a run that let them take an 11-8 lead on a three of their own. The two teams were neck-and-neck for most of the half, and the Hoyas led by one with just under six minutes to play. But the Yellow Jackets retook the lead on senior center Sasha Goodlett’s bucket and ran away, going on a 15-4 run to carry a 37-31 lead to the locker room.

“Ever since we came in, we wanted to do something special. We wanted to leave our mark on this program,” Goodlett said. “We came in thinking, ‘We have to make it to the Sweet 16. We have to take this program somewhere it’s never been.’”

After the intermission, Georgia

Senior Tia Magee scored 10 points in the final game of her college career.

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Tewaaraton Award finalist? Check.

Preseason all-Big East? Check. Third team preseason All-American?

Check. Big-time pressure? You’d better believe it.

But Georgetown junior midfielder Sophia Thomas is used to it all by now, and Head Coach Ricky Fried

knows her situation. “[It’s] really kind of focusing on ‘OK, I’m going to work on improving certain aspects of my game,’ and I think that’s what Sophia’s done so well,” said Fried. “She’s trying to become a better student of the game, understand it much better. She’s working on her defensive end. So she’s focusing on becoming a complete player [and] not really focusing

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Junior midfielder Sophia Thomas, a third team preseason All-American, has been crucial in the Hoyas’ upsets of North Carolina and UPenn.

on those outward expectations.”

Thomas was quick to emphasize the importance of the team over any of her own hype.

“People have given me the confidence to put me in that position, which is kind of a bigger opportunity I think,” she said.

Pointing to past standouts like Maggie Cook and Coco Stanwick, Fried acknowledged that there is a definite precedent within the program for the kind of attention that Thomas has gotten. But that doesn’t make it any easier to handle.

“The challenge is not getting caught up in what other people expect out of you and just playing to the best of your ability. And that can be hard in the lacrosse world, because everybody has an opinion on everything, and everybody seems to want to share it pretty readily,” Fried said.

For the first few games of the 2012 campaign, Thomas’s play might not have screamed “All-American.”

While the lauded Maryland native may have netted five goals in the Hoyas’ first two wins over Delaware and Villanova, those tallies didn’t have much of an effect on the games’ ultimate results.

Then, in subsequent matchups with fourth-ranked Duke and fifth-ranked Florida, Thomas was largely a nonfactor as the Blue and Gray suffered 14-7 and 12-9 defeats, respectively. And See THOMAS, A9

EVAN HOLLANDER Hoya Staff Writer

Despite having already upset one ranked team and carrying the momentum of a four-game winning streak, the No. 18 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (4-2, 1-0 Big East) faltered Wednesday night when they traveled to Baltimore to take on No. 5 Loyola (7-0, 2-0 ECAC). The Hoyas hung tough early but a scoring barrage from the Greyhounds put the game out of reach in the second half, 11-6.

The streak began after the Blue and Gray opened the season with a home loss to Maryland. They won the next three LOYOLA 11 games of their home GEORGETOWN 6 stand, defeating Detroit Mercy, upsetting then-No. 18 Harvard and making a late charge to beat Mount St. Mary’s.

After hitting the road, Georgetown prevailed at Providence in their Big East opener. But the winning streak did flash warning signs, since the Hoyas only notched onegoal victories over the Crimson, the Mount and the Friars.

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Junior midfielder Dan McKinnie scored two goals against Loyola.

The Blue and Gray couldn’t work any miracles against the undefeated Greyhounds, who averaged 13.3 points per game while holding their opponents to 7.7.

The Hoyas were also up against history, having lost four straight games to the Greyhounds. In fact, Loyola leads the all-time series, 28-6.

But Georgetown certainly didn’t seem intimidated early on. Although Loyola scored the first goal of the game, two goals from junior See LOYOLA, A11