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EDITORIAL Hoyas who don’t play at Verizon Center also deserve recognition.

No. 2 seed Georgetown was stunned again Friday in the Big Dance.

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ROOM RESERVATION Study rooms in Lauinger Library can now be booked online.

REKINDLED The Fire This Time newsmagazine has been relaunched as a blog.

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Senate Approves Adjuncts to Vote on Union union seeks Tisa Appointments Local to represent GU’s Annie Chen

Meacham said he expects his biggest challenge will be the loss of student space for the arts during The Georgetown University construction of the Healey Family Student Association Senate voted Student Center. unanimously to approve President “For an artist or an art group to Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Vice Presi- excel on campus, it needs … space, dent Adam Ramadan’s (SFS ’14) resources, personnel, publicity and nominations for a new executive a positive atmosphere,” Meacham cabinet Sunday. said. “My top two priorities would Tisa said his cabinet structure be finding space for artistic groups will mirror the subcommittee and ways for individual artists to structure he introduced to the prosper on campus.” senate during his term as senate Ben Manzione (SFS ’15) and Mispeaker this past year when Clara chelle Mohr (COL ’15) will serve as Gustafson (SFS ’13) was president co-directors of the Student Advoand Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) cacy Office during Tisa and Ramawas vice president. dan’s term.

“There will be more division and “One thing we’re really looking specialization, with the undersec- to push for this year is education of retaries working on specific proj- students’ rights. One of the biggest ects and initiatives,” he said. things with our administration Tisa also said the executive plans on campus is that a lot of students to release a 40-day plan after Easter don’t know they have the right to Break that will outline the goals say no to or the right to say yes to of each cabinet and how they member for the would appeal remainder of “Clara and Vail, they did on cases and this academic a lot in the fall. ... things along year. those lines,” “With Clara Imagine if we had done Mohr said. and Vail, they Manizone did a lot in the that in the spring.” said he would Nate tisa (SFS ’14) fall. They had prioritize GUSA President the referendum, working with but imagine if Gustafson we had done that in the spring. and former SAO Co-Director Sam It just completely increases what Schneider (COL ’13), the latter a we’re able to do,” Tisa said. “We’re former opinion editor and former trying to get the cabinet active and member of The Hoya’s board of dimake sure each position has a tan- rectors, to raise the burden of proof gible goal for the next month.” for Code of Student Conduct violaTisa and Ramadan kept all the tions from “more likely than not” positions from their predecessors’ to “clear and convincing” for offcabinet and created two new posi- campus incidents. tions: secretary of D.C. relations According to Secretary of Acaand secretary of the arts. demic Affairs Guy Mentel (COL ’14), “The position for D.C. relations a former staff writer for The Hoya, was created to improve students’ codifying grading policies, making ability to advocate for ourselves out grades accessible on Blackboard in the city,” Tisa said. and institutionalizing professors’ “[The position of secretary of the office hours schedules will be the arts] was created to address the focus of his time in office. pressing needs of the arts commu“There is a huge divide between nity regarding to space as well as the student body and the faculty. improving its profile on campus,” I think we’re wasting really big Tisa said. resources by not having a coopGeorge Smith (COL ’14) will be erative relationship between those secretary of D.C. relations and two bodies,” he said.

Chase Meacham (COL ’14) secretary of the arts.

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Hoya Staff Writer

adjunct professors

Mallika Sen

Special to The Hoya

Service Employees International Union Local 500, which serves adjunct professors at American University and The George Washington University, filed a motion to vote to represent adjunct faculty at Georgetown last Friday, bringing adjuncts here one step closer to unionization.

In a meeting held March 21, union representatives announced that at least 30 percent of Georgetown adjunct professors had signed union authorization cards, which is the minimum proportion required by

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GPPI Senior Fellow Pablo Eisenberg was among the university faculty members who spoke in support of adjunct unionization Thursday night. law for SEIU Local 500 to file a motion to vote with the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that oversees unions.

SPENDING ON LOBBYING DROPS 89% FROM 2007

After filing the motion, the NLRB will send out secret ballots by mail in See ADJUNCTS, A6

University Lobbying Declines Emma Iannini Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown’s expenditure on lobbying Congress has dropped sharply over the last decade, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a research firm that collects information from the Senate Office of Public Records.

Between 2001 and 2012, the years for which data are available on the firm’s website, university lobbying costs hovered around $200,000 annually in the early 2000s, peaked at $380,000 in 2007 and reached an 11year low of $40,000 in 2012.

Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said that the decline in spending has not been prompted by concerns about funding constraints and that the university continues to actively lobby in support of a variety of programs and initiatives.

“Our lobbying activities vary from SOURCE: CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS

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Georgetown Forever: Alums as Profs Suspects Arrested In Vittles Theft Case Emma Hinchliffe Hoya Staff Writer

Professors at Georgetown who also call the university their alma mater are relatively rare. But for the alumni who do go on to become part of the Hilltop’s faculty, Georgetown provides a home for the natural progression from student to teacher, despite the sometimes overwhelming changes the campus has undergone since they were freshmen.

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Adjunct professor of government Ron Klain (C ’83) with Monica Medina (C ’83), on Healy Lawn in fall 1979. The two married seven years later.

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For many alumni professors, soaking up Georgetown’s values and intellectual atmosphere for several years has been the foundation to their own approaches to teaching.

Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., (CAS ’88) said that his Jesuit mentors in particular influenced his teaching.

“Walking the halls and the lawns at my alma mater, I am reminded of the professors, Jesuits and other mentors who were so important to me as an undergrad,” O’Brien said.

“The lessons that they taught me I hear echoed in the counsel that I give to students today.”

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Hiromi Oka

Hoya Staff Writer

A man suspected of stealing a Corp employee’s iPad and a female suspected of being his accomplice were arrested outside of Vital Vittles around 7 p.m. Monday night.

An employee of the convenience store saw the two individuals and matched the male’s image with that of a man who had taken an iPad from the store’s office March 17 at around 11 p.m.

According to Students of Georgetown, Inc. CEO Lizzy MacGill (COL ’14), the two suspects entered the store Monday around 6:50 p.m. “[The male] arrived in the back office and looked in the back office area and saw that there were people back there and then turned around,” MacGill said.

The store employees contacted Corp Chief Operating Officer Rashaad Eshack (SFS ’14) and then called the Department of Public Safety. DPS arrived at the scene and arrested the suspects.

Eshack said that the entire

process took only minutes because DPS officers are on patrol throughout campus.

The male perpetrator did not steal any merchandise when he was in the store last night.

“I don’t think he really had a chance [to steal anything] because there weren’t really any areas that were neglected, and the employees were really alert, which I think is one of the reasons he was identified and one of the reasons he was caught,” MacGill said.

MacGill said that employees were able to identify the two suspects because images from security cameras that had captured footage of the pair were disseminated among staff members.

“We’re doing well in communication, and we’re being very vigilant, which will help us stay safe in the future,” MacGill said.

Neither MacGill nor Eshack could provide further details on the description of the either individual, and DPS Chief of Police Jay Gruber, the only member of the force authorized to provide commentary to the media, could not be reached by press time.

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Coming Out Progressive Called the civil rights issue of our time, the question of marriage rights for same-sex couples has been at the center of many heated public debates.

And though staunch disagreement, especially along partisan lines, has stunted progress on the issue across the country, recent developments have made the outlook of the movement more promising.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) declared his support for marriage equality this month; Karl Rove recently conceded that the next Republican presidential candidate could conceivably be pro-same-sex marriage. And on a perhaps humbler, yet more relatable, playing field, the College Republicans of the University of Pennsylvania broke from their party’s traditional position and endorsed same-sex marriage.

The College Republicans at Penn set an important example for other political student groups across the country. Though separated by the con-

fines of their individual campuses, Republican clubs at colleges represent a sizeable part of the Republican party — and a part considered generally more receptive to more progressive social initiatives. And with this membership comes an opportunity to support positive change. While an official stance by a university student club carries little weight in the legislative process, such a gesture — especially when compounded across campuses — sends a powerful message to the Republican party, as well as to the American public, that those who have more conservative values do desire a modern, more tolerant society.

It is difficult to move forward with the type of large-scale institutional shift that will be required if an organization like the Republican Party is to change its official view on a core issue like marriage equality. But this change will only start if significant institutional subsections — like the College Republicans at Georgetown — do their part.

Peer Education On a given afternoon, the Intercultural Center auditorium is filled with a sea of students seated and listening to a lone individual at the front of the room: the professor.

In such large courses, in which students outnumber a professor by over 200, teaching assistants are useful resources who help bridge the gap between professors and the students they teach.

Undergraduate TAs are a feature of some departments at Georgetown. The economics department employs undergraduate TAs for most of their core courses — as do courses like “Foundations in Biology” and “Probability and Statistics.” Most other departments rely solely on graduate TAs. Graduate TAs, however, come with their own set of barriers that can limit a student’s understanding of the course and, when this happens, the gap may be better bridged by students’ peers.

Undergraduate TAs are particularly useful because they have taken the course recently. They are also more likely to have taken the course at Georgetown, perhaps even with the same professor. Undergraduate TAs are more accessible simply by virtue that they are still based on or near campus and

are less likely to be holding additional jobs. Graduate TAs do hold office hours — a resource many students utilize — but when a student happens to be working on a homework assignment late at night, it may be more difficult to get a hold of a TA if he or she is a graduate student.

For many graduate students, working as a TA enables them to pay for their studies, and those partnerships are certainly important to the university.

Ideally, however, graduate students would hold positions in which their skills would be most relevant.

One approach would be to appoint graduates as head TAs — which some departments already do — to preside over the undergraduate TAs and serve as middlemen between undergraduates and their professors. Another would be to pair undergraduates with graduate students. This partnership would allow graduates to offer their more nuanced understanding of the material, while undergraduates could provide the more fundamental aspects and perspective of the professor.

In this way, introducing more teaching resources of various education levels will serve to enhance learning in the classroom.

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Let the Games Begin — The National Cherry Blossom Festival began on Saturday, and will continue through April 27.

Arrested Development — Construction work on Metro will cease for four weekends to accommodate increased ridership during the Cherry Blossom Festival.

Future Facelift — The Trust for the National Mall has announced tentative renovation plans, including changes to the Sylvan Theater and Constitution Gardens.

Hoya Hero — Otto Porter Jr. was named one of four finalists for the 2013 Naismith Men’s College Player of the Year.

Free Odor of the Day — An unusual odor caused by a nearby exploded manhole caused an evacuation of Georgetown Cupcake yesterday morning.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ... @celticma March 22 @thehoyasports Loved every Hoya team since JTIII. Gotta say. They should be ashamed of themselves. Seriously.

Heart broken. No fire/spark. @kellymthomas March 22 “@thehoyasports: Porter Jr. has not made a decision about next year...”In my dreams he comes back, redeems this year, wins national championship! @curtisyofmads

March 23 @adrywlsn could this weekend get any worse? “@thehoyasports: Chris Wright will not receive a second 10-day contract from the Dallas Mavericks.” @EmbraceTheShane March 25 Looking to book a room at Lauinger Library? You can now do it online at your convenience @hoyalibrarian @thehoya

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Arturo Altamirano

Horizons Beyond Verizon As men’s basketball star Otto Porter Jr. capped off a phenomenal sophomore season as a campus hero and national sensation, Ta’Shauna “Sugar” Rodgers was quietly concluding an historic four years on Georgetown’s women’s basketball team. While her team finished with a disappointing 15-16 record, Sugar shined, earning all-Big East honors and leading the conference in both scoring and steals. Four illustrious seasons have made her the all-time career leader in points, three-pointers and steals for the women’s team.

When she graduates in May and likely prepares for the WNBA, Rodgers will leave the Hilltop as one of the most accomplished athletes — male or female — in school history.

Rodgers’ athletic prowess, however, has largely been ignored. There are no Twitter handles devoted to singing her praises, no Facebook fan page with thousands of likes, not even a Wikipedia page to catalog her feats during four seasons of dominance. If the argument that Georgetown students are far too obsessed with their men’s basketball team would fall on deaf ears, perhaps it would be fairer to say that we are far too prone to overlook our other athletes that don’t play at

Verizon Center.

In no way should the accomplishments of players such as Porter or junior guard Markel Starks be diminished in the eyes of their fans. But it is time for Hoya fans to expand their horizons when searching for athletes to call heroes. In January, Porter’s breakout performance against the Louisville Cardinals breathed new life into a student body held down by dreary weather and post-break blues. Rodgers’ efforts this winter were equally inspiring. In February, Rodgers’ back-to-back three-point shots late in the second half tied the game en route to a last-minute victory for the Hoyas against the Pittsburgh Panthers.

The principle applies beyond the realm of basketball as well. When the men’s baseball team swept the Princeton Tigers in two games last week, junior right fielder Christian Venditti powered the team with a two-run home run and a walk-off single. In the men’s lacrosse team’s conference opener, sophomore Reilly O’Connor and senior Travis Comeau combined for eight goals in a 16-8 shellacking of the Providence Friars.

On Otto’s off days, other star Hoyas are competing at the highest levels of collegiate sports.

It’s time we celebrate them, too.

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VIEWPOINT • Kelley

The Dangers of Our Rape Culture

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eorgetown is best seen as a community. Although there are more than 7,000 undergraduates living and working on the Hilltop — and even more faculty, staff and administrators -- we are all members of the same university, and our collective lives are best viewed in terms of community.

There are different frameworks for understanding how Georgetown operates as a community. Words like diversity and pluralism get thrown around quite a bit to describe how we come together despite, and perhaps because of, our differences. We hear about how our Jesuit identity binds us together in our endeavors; others talk about how student organizations are the motivating force in communal life at Georgetown.

Each of these approaches speaks insightfully to a different part of our life as a community, but ultimately each one is insufficient. The best way to think of communities is to incorporate each of these perspectives. Generally, the strongest communities are formed when a group of people with different experiences share a particular space, set of experiences and, crucially, exposure to some set of values.

Georgetown fits these criteria. We share space on the Hilltop, in classrooms, in dorms and in O’Donovan Hall.

We share experiences: walking across Healy Lawn to Lauinger Library, trekking over to basketball games at Verizon Center.

Further, Georgetown’s undergraduates represent, to some significant but imperfect extent, various cultures, religions, ethnic backgrounds and belief systems. Compared especially to other Catholic communities, like parishes, Georgetown’s diversity of opinion and experience gives it a beautiful and fundamental advantage.

Our diversity of experience allows us a unique opportunity to create the best type of community — the type of community that not only brings people together, but allows for true exchange of ideas and dialogue.

What can we do to make Georgetown a better functioning, more flourishing community? We think the best way to improve our already strong community is to more meaningfully expose all members of Georgetown’s community to the university’s Catholic values.

Fostering a dialogue around the faith and the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola that engages all students — regardless of faith, or lack thereof — would provide students with a much deeper sense of what it means to be a Hoya.

After all, the university was founded around a set of shared Catholic and Jesuit values. In one way, exposing students more meaningfully to the Catholic faith would strengthen our community foundation.

But it would also have benefits for each student. Thinking about the Catholic faith tradition would challenge undergraduates and other community members to reflect on what values and virtues they find most important in life.

Certainly, this could mean a deeper, more fruitful faith life for Catholic students on campus, but it could also allow other community members to think about their own values and what role their values play in their lives. Meaningfully interacting with an internally coherent set of beliefs is an important and valuable experience that Georgetown should afford its students.

On many of the banners that dot our campus appears the phrase “Unity in Diversity.” But the banners might better say “Centered Pluralism.” Instead of promoting diverse identities and experiences for the sake of diversity only, Georgetown should promote the meeting of all the different kinds of people at Georgetown around the Catholic faith and Jesuit tradition of the university. Only when the community shares exposure to a common set of values can it function most fully, even though many community members will never and perhaps should never adopt those particular values.

To this end, Georgetown should more concretely and effectively expose each member of the community to the university’s Catholic beliefs for the sake of the community and each individual student.

Pat Gavin and Alex Honjiyo are seniors in the School of Foreign Service and the College, respectively. AGGIORNAMENTO appears every other Tuesday.

hen it first occurred to me to write a viewpoint on the Steubenville rape case, I initially backed away from the idea. How much more could I say that hasn’t already been said? What more could I argue that isn’t already evident? I don’t want to spend time arguing that the media’s sympathy for these two convicted boys is grotesquely wrong. I don’t want to explain why, just because a 16-year-old girl was drunk beyond consciousness, the acts of two boys are impermissible. I don’t want to assert that rape is wrong because I don’t want to insult the intelligence of those of you reading this. Rape, under any and all conditions, against a woman or a man, is wrong. It’s 2013, and I don’t feel I have to explain morality and human decency to my average peer.

Why, then, if it is 2013, must we still have these conversations? Why is it that so many people in positions of power within our media, people who I can assume are more educated than I, have made these glaring mistakes?

Why is there always a reactionary group that needs to explain why it is not OK to rape, why, collectively as a society, we should not perpetuate an idea that a woman or man is at fault when raped, why those who have the power to feed us information should not sympathize with, defend or excuse rape no matter the accused’s “potential” or athletic ability.

I’ve thought of a few answers to these questions, all of them usually leading to another winding road of exhausting disparities and double standards. The first answer I thought of leads me to our social expectations of what are “acceptable” and “decent” ways for women to behave. Our depictions and expectations of sexuality have drastically progressed in the past decades, to be sure. However, there is still a large part of our media and popular culture that perpetuates an antiquated anxiety toward female

We must change the rhetoric from “because she’s a woman” to “because she’s a human being.” empowerment and self-controlled sexuality.

I heard remnants of these seemingly outdated attitudes growing up as my parents’ only daughter. I needed to be careful of this or that especially “because I’m a woman.” This doesn’t make me upset or frustrated with my parents. I understand why they thought this way; obviously, first and foremost, it was done out of love and protectiveness. But also, it is true. Unfair patriarchal standards exist in such ways that make certain things in society more dangerous for women. Situations involving alcohol or drug use are always fractionally more dangerous

“because I’m a woman.” It’s always just slightly more risky for me to go to a bar at night “because I’m a woman.”

I have to be more aware than my male counterparts while travelling “because I’m a woman.”

A woman, and especially a young woman, is not expected to or even socially allowed to be intoxicated, because then she is indecent. She’s irresponsible and has put herself in danger. CNN and Fox News were too afraid to confront the reality that two teenaged boys from privilege and opportunity — and not some stereotypical criminals with intimidating mug shots — in a small town

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n a previous edition of this col- today without Congress. So how umn, I professed my undying does the president get Congress to love for “The West Wing” and do what he wants? its president, Jed Bartlet. Speaking Neustadt argues it is a combinaas a resident of the People’s Repub- tion of personal prestige, profeslic of Vermont, I wish we had more sional know-how and public presDemocrats like Jed. Bartlet’s exam- sure. Bartlet and his team realized ple, combined with age-old presi- that their strategy of direct negotiadential theory, can be instructive as tions was not working because the President Obama tries to guide the Republicans kept moving the goalship of state through the storm of posts. They opted for a dramatic budget negotiations. display of publicity, coupled with a In one episode, President Bart- final round of negotiations on their let and Republican House Speaker terms. According to Neustadt, this Haffley fail to reach an agreement is exactly the type of power a presito fund the government. Bartlet dent can wield to get things done. had originally agreed to a 2 per- Subsequent political scientists cent spending cut across the board, might disagree. One group might similar to our current sequestra- argue that going public and enlisttion. At the last ing the populace to minute, Haffley pressure Congress demands a 3 peris a good strategy. cent cut. Bartlet Others say that says no deal, and only direct, perthe government sonal negotiations shuts down. Haffbetween leaders ley believes he has move Congress, as the upper hand, the public neither as the country knows nor cares will blame Bartlet about petty WashEvan Monod for the shutdown. ington squabbles.

Deputy Chief of Obama is the What can “The West current heir to Staff Josh Lyman makes a bold sugthis complicated Wing” tell us about gestion: Bartlet political legacy. In presidential should walk to terms of style, he the Capitol, and is neither a strongpolitical theory? demand to see arm like Johnson the Speaker, decinor a charmer like sively regaining the political high Clinton. His cool, professorial deground. Bartlet does so, rallying the meanor can be agonizing at times. media for an all-out assault on the Yet just a few weeks ago, the presiCapitol. When he arrives, Haffley dent was seen wining and dining blows him off. Bartlet returns to the Republican senators over a budget White House, knowing that Haffley deal. Direct negotiations with Senwill now come to him. In a spirited ate and House leadership have discussion in the Oval Office, the failed, so it was the right decision president and the Speaker agree to side step them. It appears to have on a budget, putting an end to the worked somewhat, as the Senate is shutdown. poised to approve a deal that will What can this episode tell us fund the government through Sepwhen viewed through the lens of tember. presidential political theory? One Great presidents, even fictional political theorist, Richard Neustadt, ones, use all the tools in their arseadvised nearly every president from nal to defeat their political opposiTruman up to Clinton. In his land- tion, and do what is right for the mark book “Presidential Power,” country. The next few months are Neustadt confirms what everyone critical not only for our sluggish in this town knows: The president economy, but also for the legacies is actually quite weak. The real pow- of our current crop of politicians. er in Washington is in the hands Jed Bartlet would do what needs to of Congress. Ironically, we tend be done, and so will Barack Obama. to associate landmark legislative Marching up Pennsylvania Avenue achievements with presidents, even to level with John Boehner would though Franklin D. Roosevelt could not be a bad start. never have created Social Security and the rest of the New Deal years Evan Monod is a junior in the ago nor could Obama have willed College. SPOCK MEETS BARACK the Affordable Care Act into being appears every other Tuesday.

in Ohio knowingly and consciously degraded, violated and violently disrespected one of their peers, so they ran away from it and fell back on the easy defense: The girl was drunk. Everyone be calm: These two boys who could be any boy next door aren’t that bad because the girl was drunk.

The second answer I am led to is that the rape argument is gendered and that is problematic — understandable and natural, but problematic. It is natural, of course, that rape debates take on feminist rhetoric because, after all, 90 percent of rape victims are women. I think, however, it is because of this gendered rhetoric that our politicians and news outlets are afraid to confront conversations about rape. They’re afraid of the other feminist issues that are sure to follow: abortion, domestic violence, mistreatment in the work place, unequal pay, et cetera.

But how about we do confront rape for what it is: One human being violently disrespecting and endangering another human life? If we take gender out of the argument, we’re left with a simple and evident fact: Rape is a violent act of disrespect against human life. So often we hear arguments such as, “What if she was your daughter or your wife or sister?”

But what if she was just another human being, a nonrelated stranger?

Our rape culture and the rights of the victims should not be addressed “because she’s a woman” -- it should be addressed because she’s a human being with basic unalienable rights.

We must change the rhetoric to highlight that right now, our country is suffering from a lack of respect for human life. So what if we took the “because she’s a woman” out of the rhetoric and replaced it with “because she’s a human being”?

Meagan Kelly is a senior in the College. She is a former photo editor for The Hoya.

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Hilltop Researchers Deserve High Praise

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e don’t much worry about diseases like smallpox or polio or the bubonic plague anymore. These maladies left our lives so long enough ago that we take their disappearance for granted. I’m happy to take things like that for granted; I don’t think I could live any other way.

On the flip side, we assume diseases that we currently experience will be with us forever.

It is hard to imagine that someone will really cure Alzheimer’s disease or diabetes or cancer. Of course, we recognize that doctors and scientists will keep trying to eradicate the diseases — or at least make a little progress — but cures seem unlikely. Who could do that?

It turns out that scientists at Georgetown could. And did — at least for one type of cancer.

A little background is necessary in order to understand this story: About 20 years ago, a professor at Georgetown, Dick Schlegel, was working on human papillomavirus. There are several versions of HPV but all infect skin cells. The skin cells that we generally think about are dead cells on the surface of our skin. Underneath, however, there are living skin cells, and some of these cells are in tissues covered with mucus — like in our throats. Those are places where HPV can infect.

Once the virus infects these skin cells, it does several things: It copies its DNA, makes protein shells called capsids to surround the DNA and releases these replicated viruses to infect more cells.

It doesn’t take very many HPV genes to do all this. Along the way, some of these genes make a mess of the normal functioning of the cells they have infected, which can cause these cells to grow inappropriately. Over 20 or 30 years, these cells can become cancerous.

The good news is that 90 percent of the time, the immune system rids the body of HPV before any permanent damage is done.

But not always. When HPV infects cells in the cervix, it can lead to cervical cancer, which causes hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide. There are fewer deaths in the United States, due to preventative screening measures like pap smears, but still, nearly 4,000 women in the United States died of cervical cancer in 2009.

To attack this problem, Schle-

gel, who works at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, researched the proteins that make up the protein shell of the HPV virus. He was able to actually make the protein shell without any DNA inside. When injected into experimental animals, these particles were recognized as foreign by the immune system and attacked with antibodies. Once the body learned to defend itself against this defective HPV, there was no risk of infection from real HPV. Years went by, experiments were performed — by Schlegel, by collaborators, by drug companies — and research progressed from animals to humans. Finally, in 2006, Gardasil was approved as a vaccine for HPV and now protects against versions of HPV that are involved in 70 percent of cervical cancers. If most women in the United States were vaccinated against HPV, thousands of lives would be saved each year.

Maybe it is an overstatement to say that scientists at Georgetown cured cervical cancer, but it is not entirely inaccurate. Through its patents, Georgetown and its research labs now profit from the use of Gardasil. This continued research investment allows the labs to look for better vaccines and other viruses to protect against. Most importantly, researchers are looking for ways to bring an HPV vaccine to more women worldwide to prevent the thousands upon thousands of deaths.

I’m proud when I see Georgetown beat Syracuse in basketball (two out of three times this year, anyway). I’m proud when I hear an authority on NPR identified as a Georgetown professor. I’m proud when I know a student who has earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Turkey. But “proud” doesn’t begin to describe what I feel when I think about Gardasil.

Awed? Maybe. Inspired? Certainly.

Grateful? Yeah, grateful. Grateful will do.

It wasn’t inevitable that a vaccine for HPV would be developed.

But 20 years ago, Schlegel set out to do this research, and he made it happen. It makes me wonder what else we can do here, at Georgetown.

And when we do, everyone will take it for granted.

Bill Rebeck is a professor in the neuroscience department at Georgetown University Medical Center.

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Regulations Would Limit Locations for Food Trucks NATASHA KHAN Hoya Staff Writer

Washington, D.C., released a fourth version of proposed revisions to food truck regulations March 8, which, if passed, would loosen licensing requirements but restrict locations where food trucks can set up shop.

The provisions would eliminate certain vendor license requirements that treat trucks as sole proprietorships, allow employees to work for more than one vendor and differentiate between non-mobile vendors, food trucks and ice cream trucks, eliciting support from some food truck vendors.

D.C. Food Truck Association Chairman and Red Hook Lobster Pound co-owner Doug Povich said that the current ice cream truck label is troublesome because food trucks currently are not allowed to stop or remain in a location unless customers are waiting.

But the possible regulations governing parking have roused discontent among vendors.

The proposed revisions call for the creation of new mobile roadway vending locations, or MRVs, in 23 general areas of the city that will feature a 500-foot area that excludes

other food trucks from selling. The ability to park in an MRV will be distributed to vendors through a lottery system.

“This idea of designating spaces based on what city thinks are good vending locations doesn’t make sense,” Povich said. “It’s not flexible enough to accommodate demand.”

Outside the MRVs, trucks can still vend but only in locations where there is a 10-foot-wide unobstructed sidewalk.

Povich, who is also worried about the opacity surrounding the MRV selection process, said that he has surveyed large portions of the District and determined that much of downtown D.C. and most of Georgetown would not accommodate this rule, making trucks unable to set up shop at locations around the city based on demand.

Povich said he would like to see the sidewalk requirement eliminated or possibly reduced to six feet.

Patrick Rathbone, owner of the Big Cheese food truck — one of the few food trucks that comes to the Georgetown area — agreed, saying that the 500-foot regulation should be changed to one block.

Rathbone said that he is not particularly concerned that, in theory, the proposed regulations would not

allow him to park in his current location near the university’s front gates.

“We don’t really get hassled because we are not causing a disturbance,” Rathbone said. “Nobody is going to chase us down as long as nobody complains.”

In general, the regulations will have little to no impact on the Georgetown area because vending rules are already stringent.

Currently, vendors are not allowed to sell in the Old Georgetown area, with the exception of a vending zone that encompasses N, O, P, Prospect and Dumbarton Streets within 50 feet of their intersections with Wisconsin Avenue. As part of the proposed regulations, MRVs have been assigned to the general areas around other universities in the District such as The George Washington University, but not Georgetown.

Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Bill Starrels, who represents the southern part of Georgetown, confirmed that the sidewalk limit will stop trucks from selling in the neighborhood. But Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Legislative and Public Affairs Officer Helder Gil said the impact of the regulations on vending around the university would be minimal.

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The owner of Big Cheese food truck, Patrick Rathbone, is among those worried about parking restrictions in proposed vending regullations.

“We don’t expect to see significant change in the Georgetown area due to the narrowness of most sidewalks,” he wrote. “Because of the narrow sidewalks, only a few

sidewalk locations are approved for vending in the Georgetown area.”

The regulations have been submitted to the D.C. Council and must be passed within 60 days.

Lauinger Updates Study Room Booking System ELAINA KOROS Hoya Staff Writer

Lauinger Library launched a new online group study room booking system to replace its former Google Docs booking system March 26.

Under the new system, students can use a mobile app to book study rooms by scanning a bar code on the door of any library study room or reserve rooms through the library’s website.

Previously, students could reserve rooms for a minimum of one hour and a maximum of three hours. Rooms could be booked up to a week in advance, but same-day reservations were not allowed. Under the new system, rooms can now be booked in 30-minute segments, though the three-hour maximum

remains the same. Students still must reserve rooms at least 12 hours in advance.

As with the former Google Docs system, a reservation schedule will be posted on each study room every day.

“If nobody’s signed up for the rooms, they’re first-come, firstserved,” Department of Access Services Circulation/Reserves Coordinator Jeffrey Popovich said. “If it’s empty, it’s yours until somebody who has booked it shows up.”

The new system uses a program called LibCal by Springshare, a calendaring app for libraries that has been used by the library at the School of Foreign Service campus in Doha, Qatar.

“We were initially going to reserve rooms through [Gelardin

New Media Center’s] checkout system, but it didn’t really have the parameters that we needed,” Department of Access Services Head Deborah Cook said. “We were lucky enough to be able to do some testing. Qatar Library already had the system up and running for about a couple of months, and it looked like it was working well for them, so we decided to give it a try.”

According to Popovich, library administrators began discussing a revamp of the reservation system months ago.

“It was finding the right product in terms of ease of use for our patrons. The idea for using this particular product has been going on for about two months,” Popovich said.

“It was across the entire library, so it was a very collaborative process.”

The Department of Access Services, Gelardin New Media Center, the Library Information Technology Department and Library Administration were involved in the transition.

“It would have been difficult for Access [Services] just to do it on our own because we needed technology support to get it running smoothly and up on the web,” Cook said.

Popovich said the new system has proven easy to use.

“It’s a very intuitive system, so setting up the parameters we wanted was easy,” Popovich said. “Then, it was just a matter of testing it and making sure all of the things that needed to be done from the technology side of the website got done.”

Despite the extensive testing the library staff performed before the

new system’s launch, however, the program went live with a minor glitch: A nonfunctional button labeled “Add to Calendar” pops up when the user receives a second confirmation notice.

“It’s certainly not a show-stopper.

It’s better getting it up and running than to wait for [Google Calendar] to fix it,” Popovich said.

According to Cook, the new system will reduce errors and improve booking efficiency.

“Previously … we would get a lot of emails and calls about booking rooms, and sometimes there would be an error where we would put them in the wrong room, so this is hopefully error-free and everybody gets what they want,” Cook said.

“It’s so much better than what we had before.”

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GUSA Senate Urges Required Blackboard Use Caroline Welch Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate unanimously passed a bill on March 17 urging the university to encourage more professors to use Blackboard’s Gradebook feature, which allows students to see grades for individual assignments and their overall performance in a course.

The original bill that GUSA Chair for Student Life Ben Weiss (COL ’15) proposed had called for more comprehensive reform to Blackboard usage, but GUSA Speaker and former GUSA Chair of Intellectual Life George Spyropoulos (COL ’14) said that he narrowed the focus of the bill to increase its likelihood of getting passed efficiently.

“I believed [it] would be too ambitious a project,” Spyropoulos said. “I decided to narrow it down to focus on a specific part of Blackboard, Gradebook … which is a change that wouldn’t cost a lot.”

Spyropoulos said that GUSA believes the university should view this initiative as the next step in the university’s push to catch up with technological progress, which has been marked in recent months by an upgrade to its Wi-Fi infrastructure and investment in massive open online courses, which will see some Georgetown courses broadcast on the edX platform worldwide.

While there are no statistics available about current Blackboard usage, Spyropoulos said the bill would enhance student-professor communication by raising students’ awareness about their academic progress.

“A lot of students would appreciate having the knowledge [of their grades] … because another problem that a lot of students have told me that they are facing is that there are sometimes big delays in terms of hearing back [from professors],” Spyropoulos said.

But benefits of the proposal apply only to professors who either currently use Blackboard or do not use any form of online grade book.

Some professors have criticized the utility of the Blackboard software and have crafted their own solutions to this problem.

“I understand that students want to see their progress in a timely fashion, but there are many more efficient ways of facilitating that rather than Blackboard,” economics professor Arik Levinson, who uses the economics learning website Aplia to distribute homework and a personal website to post grades, said.

Levinson cited difficulty uploading grades, the inability to merge class sections or to regrade homework and the site’s overall slowness as Blackboard’s chief inefficiencies.

“What I do already is in the spirit of what students want, which is at every point during the semester that students have turned in an assignment, they can go online and see their score along with all prior assignments from that semester,” Levinson said.

“It would be as though GUSA is requiring me to use a crummy technology when, in fact, I am using a better technology.”

While Spyropoulos acknowledged Blackboard’s imperfections, he emphasized the benefits of consolidating classroom materials into one accessible source across different courses.

“I actually don’t believe that Blackboard is a very high-tech website,” Spyropoulos said. “On the other hand, I do believe that it is actually a more efficient system than handing midterms back in class, and there is no privacy issue.”

Leia Alex (SFS ’16) took Levinson’s class in the fall.

“This semester, all of [my professors] do use Blackboard … and I think it’s easier to just check on your classes all in one site,” Alex said. “I would like it if they put more grades on Blackboard because, as of right now, it’s hard to track your progress, especially since different sections of your grade are weighted differently.”

Spyropoulos said that he hoped to begin conversations with the university in the upcoming weeks and to implement the reform as early as next semester.

“We’re going to talk to the administration and ask that they encourage professors or even require them [to use Blackboard],” Spyropoulos said. “It’s up to them what they want to do, but we just bring the idea to the table.”

Spyropoulos anticipated that if the bill were successful, increased usage of Gradebook would be a stepping stone to an overall increase in Blackboard usage.

“I think that just getting professors to use [Blackboard] for Gradebook will eventually bring professors to use it for other reasons as well because if you haven’t had a Blackboard account, perhaps you haven’t had the advantages of having all of your readings up there, and you might try to consider that.” Sypropoulos said. “We’re not trying to be the bad guys here; we’re just trying to implement a change that we believe students will enjoy.”

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AlliedBarton Recruits Vets Emily Brown Hoya Staff Writer

AlliedBarton Security Services recently hired more than 20 veterans to join Georgetown’s nighttime security force as part of a nationwide veteran employment initiative called the 100,000 Jobs Mission.

The program, which was established in March 2011 by a group of prominent U.S. businesses, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., aims to hire 100,000 military veterans and transitioning service members by 2020. Other members of the mission include IBM, Verizon, Century 21 and Delta Air Lines. As of the end of 2012, these firms had already hired 51,835 veterans.

“We want to put very highly qualified people that served our country back to work,” Jonathan Piccolo, AlliedBarton’s district area manager for Washington, D.C., said.

The staff of newly hired vet-

erans, all of whom joined the company within the past few weeks, has been added to the nearly 40 AlliedBarton officers who were already part of the Georgetown force.

According to AlliedBarton Director of Strategic Recruiting Jerold Ramos, the initiative is aimed at helping young men and women coming out of the military who are placed at a competitive disadvantage in the jobs market because they often lack formal work experience.

AlliedBarton, which joined the mission in the fall, hired 4,500 veterans across the United States last year and aims to hire another 5,000 in 2013.

The company has recruited veterans through job fairs and nonprofit organizations related to veterans’ affairs.

Ramos added that the security services industry is a natural fit for many veterans.

“They’re very highly motivated individuals, very welldisciplined, and their experi-

ence within the military falls within what security work does,” Piccolo said.

Piccolo said that more veterans will be hired to work at Georgetown in the near future, although the exact number had not yet been determined. He added that AlliedBarton had received positive feedback from clients and managers regarding the newly hired veterans.

Georgetown University Student Veterans Association Vice President Zachary Zimmerman (MSB ’14) noted that while he appreciated AlliedBarton’s efforts to recruit veterans, the university itself must do more to help those who have served their country.

“I think any initiative to assist veterans’ transition into civilian employment is positive,” Zimmerman wrote in an email. “With that being said, I believe adding 20 more veterans to Georgetown’s student body would be more beneficial to veterans in the long term.”

Tisa Appoints Exec Cabinet GUSA, from A1 Secretary of Neighborhood Relations Pieter Fossel (SFS ’14) predicted that the 2010 Campus Plan will remain a significant priority for his position.

“A lot has happened between with the neighborhood relations in the last two years, and I’d like to build off that momentum to work with neighborhood and the administration to make sure we’re advocating for student rights,” Fossel said. ”I also would like to play up the ways in which Georgetown and the students benefit the neighborhood and get them more aware of the performances in arts and different things students do on campus.”

Secretary of Mission and Ministry Arienne Calingo (COL

’14), when asked by GUSA Finance and Appropriations Committee Chair Sheila Walsh (SFS ’14) about how she plans to address Campus Ministry’s ongoing attempt to form an advisory board, did not produce a direct and substantive reply.

“I know that Campus Ministry now has one interfaith retreat, but I feel like they should host at least one or two each semester. That’s one of my goals,” Calingo said in response.

Secretary of Athletic Affairs Rachael Augostini (COL ’14), a staff writer for The Hoya and a board member of Hoya Blue, said her frequent interactions with the athletics department will serve as a strong asset for communicating with student-athletes. Au-

gostini identified instituting an athletic training program for club sports — an initiative Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount highlighted in their campaign but did not complete — as her main priority.

“I think if they want trainers, they should be able to have them. They’re athletes on campus so they should get a lot of resources they need,” she said.

The senate also approved appointment of Minjung Kang (SFS ’15) as secretary of diversity affairs, Brittney Blakely (COL ’14) as secretary of social justice, Gabe Pincus (SFS ’14) in a second term as secretary of sustainability, Nora West (SFS ’15) as secretary of student safety and health and David Weis (COL ’14) in his second term as secretary of alumni and career services.

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GU Neutral on Adjunct Union SCOTUS: Foreign ADJUNCT, from A1 mid-April to eligible adjunct faculty members that have taught credit-earning courses this academic year. However, adjuncts working outside of the District, at the Georgetown University Law Center or the Georgetown University Medical Center, which includes those in the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, will not be able to vote, according to a message sent by Provost Robert Groves to university faculty.

If over 50 percent of the eligible voters approve the measure to have SEIU Local 500 represent them, the adjuncts will be unionized.

The Georgetown Solidarity Committee, a student group centered on fair employment practices, organized a unionization event for the adjuncts last Thursday.

“It’s mostly showing the adjuncts that we as students support them and we as students support their unionization, and kind of just making sure that people realize [that] this is going to benefit the entire community, not just adjuncts,” Sydney Browning (COL ’15), a GSC member, said.

Anne McLeer, director of research and strategic planning for SEIU Local 500, believes union representation will lead to better job security and benefits for the adjunct professors.

“People should be paid the same wage for the same work,” McLeer, who spoke at the event, said. “This erosion of the middle class and casualization of the professions, that’s what’s going on in higher education.”

According to McLeer, over 50 percent of professors in higher education are part-time and another 25 percent are contingent, meaning they were hired on a non-tenure track.

And this figure has been on the rise in recent years, including at Georgetown. There are about 200 adjunct faculty members at Georgetown, a figure that is almost double that of a decade ago, according to Wayne Davis, chair of the faculty senate.

Adjunct faculty constitutes parttime instructors who are contracted for a semester on a class-by-class basis, without the research or duty requirements of tenure-track or tenured professors. Most adjunct faculty hold master’s degrees, as opposed to their non-adjunct counterparts who typi-

cally hold doctorates.

The average adjunct makes $21,000 a year, without benefits, according to Maria Maisto (SFS ’89, GRD ’92), who spoke at Thursday’s meeting.

Maisto, an English adjunct at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, and president of New Faculty Majority, an adjunct advocacy group, argued that the treatment of adjuncts affected the entire university environment.

“Students suffer when faculty do not have good working conditions,” Maisto said. “Our conditions are your conditions. … I sometimes joke to my students that they should go ask ‘Where’s my adjunct tuition rate?’”

Pablo Eisenberg, a 13-year senior fellow adjunct at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, reflected on how attitudes toward adjuncts differed between students and tenured faculty.

While student groups fought for living wage policies at Georgetown — which is the only such policy in the country — to support employees such as adjuncts, tenured professors, on the other hand, often look down on their adjunct colleagues, according to Eisenberg.

“You had an elitist approach on the part of tenured faculty,” Eisenberg said.

“Somehow, by virtue of their Ph.D.s, they were special people. … Adjuncts are the untouchables.”

In addition to salary, adjunct professors face a different career outlook. For some adjuncts, teaching is a second job in addition to their primary one. Other adjuncts teach after retirement from their career.

Not all adjunct professors share the sentiment that they are mistreated by the university, however.

For Frank Warman, an adjunct in the psychology department, adjunct teaching positions should be designed for those who have successful careers and benefits elsewhere. While Warman does not oppose the movement, he said that he has not been roused to join it, either.

“I’ve always thought of adjunct teaching as being more the thing you do that’s not your day job — you take care of those needs by doing something else,” he said. “I didn’t get agitated about adjunct issues. It’s probably for younger people who have to hold on to three or four jobs to make a living. …

I’ve told people I actually would work

here for free. The rewards of working here have exceeded my expectations.”

Browning believes, however, that the views of professors like Warman cannot be applied to all adjunct professors.

“The money they make from being a professor here is nothing to them because they are already making a large income,” Browning said. They don’t understand why [unionization] is important.”

GSC has advocated for living wage rights in the past, with a 10-day hunger strike that resulted in the university raising workers’ wages and granting them the right to organize. The committee was also instrumental in helping workers at O’Donovan Dining Hall unionize with UNITE HERE, a national food service labor group, in 2011, and has supported them in protests against their employer, Aramark.

“I think Georgetown is terrified of another public fight,” McLeer said.

But so far, in contrast to the initial reactions of GWU and American when their adjunct professors first announced their intent to unionize, Georgetown has pledged neutrality and neither plans to contest the adjuncts’ right to unionize nor interfere with the vote.

In a message to the main campus faculty, Provost Robert Groves wrote that he expects the deadline to submit ballots to be late April or early May but that the NLRB has not yet said when it will count the ballots. He reiterated that Georgetown does not oppose the unionization process.

“As stated in Georgetown’s Just Employment Policy, the university respects employees’ rights to freely associate and organize, which includes voting for or against union representation without intimidation, unjust pressure, undue delay or hindrance in accordance with applicable law,” Groves wrote.

Browning invoked Georgetown’s Catholic values as a strong justification for improved treatment of adjunct professors.

“Several of our other workers on campus are unionized, so it doesn’t make sense that our adjuncts aren’t unionized,” Browning said. “We’re a Catholic school, and Catholic schools should be devoted to social justice and the dignity of labor, and that includes professors having a collective voice in advocating for themselves.”

Book Sales Legal Lily Westergaard

librarian and communications coordinator for Lauinger Library.

“The most important part of this The U.S. Supreme Court ruled decision for libraries is that we will March 19 that it is legal to buy cheap- continue to be able to buy and share, er foreign versions of books overseas including through Interlibrary Loan and resell or give them away in the and consortial arrangements, mateUnited States. rials as we always have, regardless of In the case Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley place of publication,” Hughes said. & Sons, John Wiley, a major textbook According to Artemis Kirk, Georgepublisher, sued Supap Kirtsaeng, a town’s university librarian, Lauinger Thai student, for importing and re- will continue to provide its services selling for profit foreign-made cop- for collections acquisitions and sharies of its textbooks when Kirtsaeng ing — locally, nationally and internawas a graduate student in the United tionally.

States.

“I am very pleased with the deciThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the sion because it means that libraries Second Circuit worldwide can upheld a lower purchase any edicourt’s judgment “The decision ... tion, published in favor of Wiley. means that anywhere, of Kirtsaeng then an item and leappealed to the libraries worldwide gitimately share Supreme Court, it through our which heard argu- can purchase any well-established ments on his case edition, published lending and interlast fall. library loan pracThe Supreme anywhere of an tices,” Kirk said. “In Court overturned this way, libraries the lower court’s item.” will continue to addecision with a vance the creation Artemis Kirk 6-to-3 ruling, upof knowledge by University LibrariAn holding first-sale freely sharing the doctrine, which existing knowlprotects the buyers of copyrighted edge we’ve purchased with our user works, even if those works were communities.” manufactured in countries outside Publishers, in contrast, are reeling the United States. from the decision. According to the The decision is considered a major American Association of Publishers, victory for libraries, while it will be the ruling will deprive authors of to the detriment of publishers. their rightful compensation, threat“The Court’s decision ensures that en the survival of publishers and ultilibraries can rely on the critically mately shift the burden of cost onto important principle of first sale to legitimate book buyers. The AAP continue lending the estimated 200 classifies foreign-made textbooks as million foreign-made volumes in our “grey-market goods” — those that collections,” said the Association of are unregulated and not authorized Research Libraries in a press release. by the goods’ manufacturer or pro“Libraries and our allies remain vigi- ducer. lant in defense of first sale and all of “We are disappointed that the the rights that make it possible to U.S. Supreme Court has decided in serve our communities.” favor of Supap Kirtsaeng and overAlthough the Georgetown Univer- turned the Second Circuit’s ruling,” sity Library does not purchase text- Stephen M. Smith, Wiley’s president books, the Court’s decision is still and CEO, said in a press release. “It is significant for Georgetown students, a loss for the U.S. economy and [for] according to Stephanie Hughes, ex- students and authors in the U.S. and ecutive assistant to the university around the world.”

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For Alumni Professors, Continuity Amid Change ALUMS, from A1 Ron Klain (CAS ’83), who teaches a government department seminar for graduating seniors based on his political experience as chief of staff to vice presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore, has also found that his Hilltop experience can help him make his teaching more relevant for students as they transition into careers.

“We talk about [my Georgetown experience], and I think students appreciate it,” Klain said. “Secondsemester seniors are thinking about what comes next in terms of their [careers]. They appreciate that I was once in their shoes and have the same perspective they have now.”

Klain added that the course he teaches today is markedly different from the kinds of courses he took in the 1980s.

“I have teaching tools my professors didn’t have,” he said. “I can assign videos of presidential debates all on the Internet, I can pull materials from a wide range of things on the Web and I can update the material.”

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Adjunct professor of psychology Frank Warman (C ’65) in his graduation photo.

Sam Potolicchio (COL ’04, GRD ’11), who teaches for the Semester in Washington program at Georgetown, said that his more recent experience as a Georgetown student positions him especially well to provide pertinent insights to his students.

“I was just recently in the classrooms as an undergraduate, and it gives me a perspective of what the students are facing and how they are learning,” Potolicchio said. “Being so young and also being a student myself just a couple of years ago — I think that gives me a unique perspective.”

Making Sense of Change While professors’ experiences as Georgetown students can help inform their teaching, they are quick to acknowledge that the university has changed dramatically since their days as students — and the mentalities of students along with it.

When adjunct professor of psychology Frank Warman (C ’65) attended Georgetown, the school was all-male, all-white and almost entirely Catholic. Students wore coats and ties to class. Though Warman freely shares his Georgetown experiences with his psychology classes, he said that he sees his students as members of a distinct generation.

“I’m very aware they grew up in a totally different world than I grew up in,” Warman said.

English professor John Glavin (C ’64) remembers this same version of Georgetown less fondly.

“I didn’t like Georgetown at all as an undergraduate,” Glavin said.

“It was a homogenous, all-male and almost entirely Catholic school. I found that identity was very constricting if you weren’t necessarily part of that world. … It was a small, narrow place, and I felt very constrained by that.”

When Russian professor Marcia Morris (FLL ’74, GRD ’77) arrived on campus in the fall of 1970, it was only the second year women were admitted to the university. Female students had a 12 a.m. weeknight curfew and a 2 a.m. weekend curfew, while male students had no restrictions.

“In actual living conditions, there was certainly a difference in terms of how [women] were treated in class. There were individual faculty members who had dress codes and said, ‘Women will wear skirts in my class,’” Morris said.

Though the university has evolved to include women in the classroom and students of more races and faiths, some aspects have remained the same since the early 1960s, and not all change has been positive.

“Students are very well-trained in writing but need a broader framework, more curiosity toward the world,” Maurice Jackson (GRD ’95, ’01), a history and African American studies professor, said. “Students are smarter but not necessarily brighter.”

Glavin added that students of today face heightened pressures and stresses that did not exist during his time as a student.

“I came to Georgetown during a time of remarkable prosperity and job security,” Glavin said. “The thing that strikes me most about my students in the past decade is how anxious they are and how insecure the future seems to them.”

McDonough School of Business professor Susan Dugan (FLL ’77) disagreed.

“I think there is a greater level of self-assurance on the part of students that was probably not the case 30 years ago,” Dugan said. “Georgetown University was a sleepier, smaller school. It was still exclusive and it still had a cache, but it was not quite as in the spotlight as it is now.”

Warman and Glavin diverged on the question of whether Georgetown’s campus is more politically active than it was during their time as students.

Glavin recalled one of the most difficult episodes of his undergraduate studies when, as editor-in-chief of The Hoya, he published an article criticizing the marked absence of students from Catholic universities in the civil rights movement.

“I said that this claim that the national press had been making was basically true, because places like Georgetown at the time were still highly complacent when it came to these issues,” Glavin said. “The

huge amount of time and energy that students put into social justice is completely different than [it was] when I was a student. That’s one of the most remarkable changes.”

On the other hand, Warman said that this interest in social justice is muted in comparison to the political activism that he remembers pervading campus in the 1960s.

“The school seems less political now than it was when I was here.

You don’t see students protesting or occupying buildings,” he said.

“Maybe the reason for that is that there isn’t a draft — students in the ’60s were worried about going to Vietnam.”

Unsurprisingly, these changes are less dramatic for those professors who finished their studies at Georgetown more recently From the perspective of recent graduate Mark Lagon (GRD ’91), a visiting professor in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program, the traditions he enjoyed as a student appear to burn strong today.

“I lived at the Tombs,” Lagon said.

“Today, I walk by the booth where the groomsmen from my wedding ate dinner two nights before my wedding, and the great thing is how much the Tombs is the same just as everything around here has grown.”

Big Transitions, Big Challenges Despite the advantages that being a Georgetown alum can provide to a newly minted professor, there is no denying that the shift from student to teacher — even on the same turf — involves distinct trials.

“The biggest transition for me was going from student to teacher,” Jackson said. “Some of the faculty think you don’t belong — 90 percent do, but some don’t.”

For O’Brien, the transition from student to professor included one from layperson to Jesuit.

“When I graduated from Georgetown in 1988, I could not have imagined returning 20 years later as a Jesuit priest,” O’Brien said. “God is full of surprises.”

For many, however, the transition to teaching is eased by the presence of many familiar faces, including professors under whom they studied while at Georgetown.

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Russian professor Marcia Morris (FLL ’77) and her now-husband, Martin O’Mara (SFS ’74).

Lagon met his wife in a political philosophy class with Fr. James Schall, S.J. “He read the gospel at [our] wedding,” Lagon said.

Even for those who did not meet their spouses in the classroom, the student-professor connection still runs deep.

“I still see some of my professors here, which is fun, and definitely gives you that sense of continuity and sort of the sense that this is going to go on forever,” Dugan said.

And for all the changes to the university, some professors felt like they had never left when they returned in their new teaching capacities.

“I feel like I’ve been there the entire time and so I feel like I’ve kind of grown with Georgetown,” Potolicchio said.

Government professor Anthony Arend (SFS ’80) characterized his Georgetown years succinctly and poignantly “This is my home. This is my place.”

Hoya Staff Writers Penny Hung, Emma Iannini and Eitan Sayag contributed reporting.

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Metro Test Raises Concerns GU Lobbying Levels Do Lily Westergaard Hoya Staff Writer

Construction on the Silver Line of the Washington Metro, which is designed to extend to Dulles International Airport, is proceeding despite concerns about the possible settling of soil in and around areas of tunnel construction.

A March 6 report commissioned by the city’s airport authority, transit authority and contractors Dulles Transit Partners and Bechtel Corporation, revealed that although roughly an inch of settling has occurred in a tunnel at Tysons Corner, there is still sufficient room for a train.

“There is no safety hazard,” Marcia McAllister, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s communications manager for the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, said. “That leaves more than enough capacity for the trains to safely use the tunnel.”

Soil settling is a common issue in underground construc-

tion that can delay projects and cause safety concerns.

“Safety is MWAA’s top priority, and, though some settling of the ground is expected in significant excavations such as this, the assessment is being undertaken to ascertain the extent to which settling may have occurred,” Christopher Paolino, media relations manager for MWAA, wrote in an email.

The first phase of the Silver Line project, which will run from the existing East Falls Church station to the newly constructed Reston station, is due to be completed in August of this year, and the line is expected to be in service by late December, according to McAllister.

McAllister also expects a contract for the second phase, which will run from Reston to Dulles Airport, to be issued early this summer and said that it will cost an estimated $5.6 billion. McAllister does not expect any further complications in the construction process, with the entire

project slated for completion within five years.

“We don’t see any hiccups, but there is always weather,” she said.

However, the sequester — a comprehensive set of federal spending cuts totalling more than $1.1 trillion that went into effect March 1 — may impact overall Metro operations, even though it is not expected to affect the Dulles Corridor project.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority spokesperson Philip Stewart said that while the authority has received about half of its federal funding for this fiscal year, about $8 million of the remaining expected funding could be compromised by the cuts. He added that ridership might be affected if federal employees face furloughs or layoffs.

“One thing we won’t compromise on [is] safety,” Stewart said. “There are no plans to scale back on our levels of service or our capital rebuilding.”

Tunisian Scholars Visit GU Emily Summit

Special to The Hoya

Eight Tunisian scholars explored the possibility of establishing a democracy studies program in the North African republic during a visit to Georgetown last week.

Georgetown professors collaborated with the visiting scholars, who included representatives from the University of Tunis, the University of Kairouan, the University of Manar and the School for Higher Education in Economic and Commercial Sciences, from March 17 to 23.

According to Co-Director of the Master of Arts in Democracy and Governance Studies program Daniel Brumberg, the academic community in Tunisia has looked to Georgetown for advice partly because it suffered under the reign of former dictator Ben Ali. “The systematic study of comparative politics, international relations [and] human rights suffered. We are assisting [scholars in Tunisia] in reconstituting these programs, in standing up a new democracy after decades of authoritarianism,” Brumberg said.

Tunisian academics, the Democracy and Governance Studies program at Georgetown and the United States Institute of Peace and the Project on Middle East Democracy are working together on the initiative.

USIP contributed two-thirds of the funding for this visit, while the Democracy and Governance Studies program funded the remaining third.

Mohamed Sarsar, a professor of law and political science at the University of Tunis and one of the visiting academics, said that Tunisia must confront a series of problems in order to establish a stable democracy.

“There are three challenges [for Tunisia],” Sarsar said.

“There are challenges about

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Tunisian scholars will collaborate with Georgetown professors to establish an institute on democracy in their home country. constitutional building, and the second challenge is the election — how we should [succeed] the next election — and three is justice. We have a big problem with our judge; we should reform the judicial system and we need a transitional justice.”

Eight Georgetown faculty members presented about their courses in democracy studies.

The Tunisian academics took home relevant readings, syllabi and discs.

“The bulk of it is sitting down and doing the hard work of thinking about curricula [for their program],” Brumberg said. “We didn’t want to go into this imposing any sort of preconceptions about what the results of this endeavor would be, but we wanted to open the process of brainstorming and dialogue.”

Professor of public law and political science at the University of Kairouan in Tunisia Haykel Ben Mahfoudh said that there are more opportunities than obstacles in creating a democracy studies program in Tunisia.

“We need to take advantage of what we have already in our home country but also to strengthen based on the [longstanding American] experience in terms of political science.”

Mahfoudh said. “It doesn’t mean that we want to move straight to that system, but at least to get our teaching in terms of political science much more open, richer and to offer a variety given the new context and the new challenges and stakes that we have to take up in Tunisia.”

Participating professors from Tunisia and Georgetown discussed setting up a Summer Democracy Workshop for summer 2014 to push forward this initiative.

“This week was really a tremendous success on many levels, not least of which was creating a core group of U.S. and Tunisian scholars and experts who will be the vanguard for this program,” Brumberg said.

A smaller follow-up meeting in Tunisia in June or July will expand on the long-term goals set this week.

Not Reflect Budget Cuts LOBBYING, from A1

year to year depending on what issues are priorities at a particular time. As a result, there are fluctuations in the amounts of lobbying, even from quarter to quarter,” Fleming said.

The ups and downs in the university’s yearly lobbying spending are driven by events in Congress, according to Fleming. Georgetown’s spending most often increases when lawmakers take up issues related to national education funding.

“Last week I spent an entire five days on Capitol Hill having arranged meetings about the Scholarships for Education and Economic Development program,” Fleming said.

“Georgetown has managed it for years, and because of this, there is some revenue gain to the university.”

According to Fleming, the large spike in lobbying spending in 2007 is mostly explained by Congress’ decision to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965. The reauthorization took an extensive amount of work on the part of university lobbyists from across the country, whose employers have an interest in acquiring educational grants.

Chantal Santelices, director of the Center for Intercultural Education and Development, said that her organization has benefitted from Fleming’s efforts to secure funding from the HEA and other pieces of federal legislation.

“Fleming has been instrumental in reaching out to Congress and government agencies to inform them of CIED’s and Georgetown University’s mission, capabilities and accomplishments,” she said. “He is an invaluable resource for the university to understand opportunities and challenges in work and research funded by the U.S. government.”

According to Fleming, funding from the HEA is critical to the work done at many programs at Georgetown besides CIED. Other major recipients of federal funding include the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies; the National Resource Center on the Middle East and North Africa; and the National Resource Center on East Asia.

Another factor behind the rise in lobbying spending during 2007, Fleming said, was the time and work he devoted to helping the Georgetown varsity crew team acquire the necessary permits to construct a new boathouse on the Potomac River.

Fleming added that the university’s expenditure on lobbying as represented in the federal government’s records reflect quarterly

rounding of expenditures.

“For instance, in a number of quarters, we’ve spent maybe $6,000, but we have to count it as $10,000,” he explained.

Fleming added that Georgetown is frugal in its lobbying expenditures relative to other private universities. According to The GW Hatchet, Boston University spent about $1.5 million lobbying Congress last year. However, The Hatchet also reported that The George Washington University’s expenditures on federal lobbying had been eliminated since 2007 following a series of deep budget cuts.

What concern Fleming most about Georgetown’s financial relationship with Congress are the automatic budget cuts commonly referred to as the sequester and the possibility of future cuts to discretionary domestic spending.

Fleming also said that there seems to be a surge in momentum on Capitol Hill toward the passing of immigration reform and indicated that Georgetown will continue to be involved in the deliberation process. University President John J. DeGioia has signed several letters in recent months advocating immigration reform, according to Fleming.

“President DeGioia has a long history of supporting highly educated immigrants,” Fleming said.

Zack Zappone (COL ’13), who plans to work for federally funded Teach for America this fall, said that he thought Georgetown’s financial relationship with Congress was appropriate.

“I think it’s the role of the federal government to support the advancement of education and higher education,” Zappone said. “So I think it’s appropriate and good for Georgetown to secure funding from the federal government.”

Fleming agreed with Zappone’s notion that the federal government has an obligation to financially support institutions like Georgetown and said that he considers it his central goal to help Georgetown students acquire resources and connections in whatever way he can.

“I wake up and say to myself that everything I should do should be to help Georgetown students,” Fleming said. “I like to think that every issue that I work on is important to our students. Whether it’s direct lobbying to improve the quality of education or working with students in program activities or connecting them with people that could set them on a future career path, that’s all part and parcel of what my job is all about.”

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Drug Stores Apply to Sell Alcohol Multicultural Magazine Revived Natasha Khan Hoya Staff Writer

Two drug stores on Connecticut Avenue may be prevented from receiving liquor licenses due to the contested definition of a full service grocery store under Washington, D.C. law.

The CVS Pharmacy at 2601 Connecticut Ave. NW and the Walgreens at 4225 Connecticut Ave. NW are both awaiting approval for a Class B alcohol licenses, which only permit the sale of beer and wine.

A stipulation in local law, however, places a moratorium on the issuance of these licenses in five zones in the city in order to increase economic development. But the moratorium, which was instituted in Glover Park in 2008, includes an exception for full-service grocery stores.

The Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration held a hearing Feb. 28 regarding the definition of such a store after the Jan. 14 Omnibus Alcoholic Beverage Regulatory Emergency Amendment Act of 2012 required the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to define the term “full service grocery store” within 45 days.

The proposed definition identifies a number of requirements for full-service grocery stores, including a standard that 50 percent of retail space must be dedicated to at least four of five product categories including fresh, uncooked or unprocessed meats or vegetables; breads, cereals or baked goods; dairy products and dry groceries.

The majority of drugstores do not meet this standard, which has generated protest from CVS and Walgreens representatives, “[Ward 3] Councilmember Mary Cheh, using her political office and influence, inappropriately waged an aggressive campaign to sway this board to reject pending license applications,” CVS attorney Paul Pascal said at the hearing. “Pending applicants should not be penalized, particularly after paying expensive fees, because there has been a political change of heart regarding the scope of the full-service supermarket.”

Walgreens representatives expressed frustration as well.

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CVS Pharmacy is one of two drugstore chains applying to sell alcohol in the District but facing complications due to restrictions on liquor “In order to be competitive, Walgreens must offer the same one-stop shopping as the chain supermarkets and mass merchants,” Walgreens attorney Rick Conner said during the hearing. “We find the present targeted attack against Walgreens in the form of these proposed regulations so surprising. These proposed regulations are the direct result of our efforts to secure a [Class] B license for our one-year-old store at Connecticut Avenue and Veazey [Terrace].”

Two applications for liquor licenses have been granted to Walgreens in the past, but the Connecticut Avenue Walgreens’ application incited protest last year from neighbors and Cheh.

“It seems clear to me that [Walgreens’] ‘primary business and purpose’ is not the sale of a full range of fresh, canned and frozen food items,” Cheh told the ABCB on Dec. 13, 2012.

“Therefore, based on its findings of facts, I believe that the board erred in reaching the legal conclusion that Walgreens could meet the requirements of the grocery store exemption.”

But according to Conner, area residents have voiced little opposition to the stores selling alcohol.

“A mere handful, less than five neighbors, are fighting the license

application,” Conner said at the hearing.

There are no current plans, however, for this issue to affect the Georgetown CVS locations at 1403 Wisconsin Ave. NW or 2819 M St. NW. CVS Public Relations Officer Mike DeAngelis wrote in an email that the pharmacy chain was not pursuing licenses at other D.C. stores.

Whether or not the local CVS applies for a license, neighborhood officials say that they will likely not oppose an application.

“Essentially, I have an open mind,” Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Commissioner Tom Birch said. “I don’t see any reason why should we be closed to that idea.”

Despite the protests from Cheh and others, DeAngelis contended that CVS should be allowed to sell alcohol.

“CVS pharmacy sells liquor in about half of our stores chain-wide for the convenience of customers who choose to purchase it,” DeAngelis wrote. “We have an excellent reputation as a responsible seller of alcohol with firm policies and procedures in place to prevent minors from purchasing it.”

The ABCB is currently considering the testimony and has not yet rendered a decision, according to ABRA Public Information Officer William Hager.

Though it was launched in 2000, multicultural publication The Fire This Time has faded from campus since a lapse in leadership in 2011. Zoe Gadegbeku (COL ’15) has relaunched the former newsmagazine as a blog designed to represent minority voices on campus.

“We are trying to give insight into different experiences at Georgetown. It is not just a cultural or ethnic thing. We want to emphasize that there are so many different experiences at Georgetown and so many different points of view that we can bring,” Gadegbeku, the blog’s editor-inchief, said.

The Fire was originally founded in 2000 in response to hate crimes on campus. The Fire’s various incarnations, as well as the most recent relaunch, have been motivated by a deficiency in the representation of minority voices on campus.

“We recognize that there is this idea that we all have different conversations and dialogues about the diversity and experience at Georgetown, but there is not one place for a conversation about these ideas to be found,” General Manager and Graphics and Photography Editor Claytia Gonsalves (SFS ’15) said. “We want to reestablish The Fire and bring it back so people can come forward and have an open dialogue, and have a forum for people to discuss what’s on their hearts to discuss.”

Since its initial founding, the newsmagazine has been published intermittently. In 2010, it was relaunched as a part of English professor Athelia Knight’s course “The Fire This Time: Workshop.”

“Leadership is extremely important when it comes to managing the consistent and timely pub-

lication of a paper,” Alexandra Bledsoe (SFS ’12), who worked as co-editor-in-chief in Knight’s class, said. “In previous cases, the paper ceased to produce material when there were lapses in leadership.”

Gadegbeku and Gonsalves acknowledged funding and resource challenges The Fire has faced in the past. However, they said they were confident in this incarnation of The Fire’s longevity. The Fire’s membership on the Media Board in recent years has provided access to university benefits and funding. The paper’s new online format eliminates the challenges of printing and distribution that challenged former versions of the publication.

“This is the first time it has been an online blog,” Gonzalves said. “We are on our computers all the time, and it will just be a click away, so we think that will increase readership.”

The publication features six sections, including news and opinion sections. There are 24 writers on staff, but the paper accepts submissions from anyone.

“The goal of the paper is to be a grassroots paper, community paper for people to send in their own stories and really make it their own,” Gonsalves said.

Erika Nedwell (COL ’14), co-vice president of the Black Student Alliance, said she was excited that The Fire would represent minority voices at Georgetown.

“The Hoya and The Voice are great publications, but oftentimes, as I skim their pages, I find a deficiency of minority students’ perspectives,” Nedwell said. “I’d willingly accept the underrepresentation if students of color truthfully had nothing to say, but I can’t think of anything further from reality. I’m incredibly overjoyed to see that The Fire This Time will finally be making its much-overdue return to the Hilltop.”

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Klinsmann Deserves Shot Despite a Late GU Surge, FGCU Dunks to Victory I

t’s going to take more than a blizzard and some anonymous critics to stop the U.S. men’s national soccer team.

After a 1-0 victory over feisty Costa Rica on a snowy Friday night in Denver, some critics’ questions about the leadership of Manager Jurgen Klinsmann and the reasoning behind the U.S. lineup may have been answered.

Prior to the Costa Rica showdown, many American soccer fans were ready to press the panic button in the wake of Sporting News’ in-depth story of locker room dissension as well as former captain and defender Carlos Bocanegra’s exclusion from the roster. Fans and (allegedly) players were questioning Klinsmann’s decision to play 33-year-old veteran DaMarcus Beasley — who hasn’t played in a World Cup qualifier in over three years — at left back, a less attacking position than he’s used to. With the U.S. missing its three top outside backs due to injury, however Klinsmann had little choice.

But with three much-needed points on the line and snow covering the field, the U.S. squad proved Klinsmann right, or perhaps he proved himself right.. The wholly unfamiliar back four of Beasley, Clarence Goodson and Omar Gonzalez at center back and Geoff Cameron at right back played solid defense for all 90 minutes. Only Gonzalez and Cameron had been paired together in a previous qualifier, although that time — against Honduras last month — came with the duo patrolling the middle of the defense.

Going into tonight’s game against Mexico, the rhetoric swirling around the national team has changed completely from where it was a week ago.

Words like “unity” have replaced “division,” and fans seem to have forgotten about the previously maligned Bocanegra, who himself said he never felt slighted by Klinsmann.

German-American midfielder Jermaine Jones, who was once

held up as a symbol of Klinsmann’s biased and flawed decision-making, doggedly chased down every ball at midfield, even after suffering a gruesome ankle injury that will likely force World Cup veteran Maurice Edu into the fold tonight as a replacement.

Forward Jozy Altidore, meanwhile, demonstrated his worth without getting on the board himself, as it was his deflected shot that led to Friday captain Clint Dempsey’s goal in the 16th minute.

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With three huge points on the line, the U.S. squad proved Klinsmann right.

It’s hard not to wonder if soccer fans would be so quick to question the decisions of Bruce Arena, Bob Bradley or another American coach. There has been targeted focus on the fact that Klinsmann is German and criticism of the fact that he has called German-American players up to train with the national team. Some see this as playing favorites, but as long as the players are making the team stronger, I don’t see the problem.

Since Klinsmann became head coach in July 2011, the U.S. has recorded several historic wins, including its first-ever victory over Italy in February 2012 and the first defeat of Mexico on Mexican soil in July 2012. A couple of unconventional roster decisions should not outweigh these achievements.

Not all may back him, but when the team takes the field tonight, all U.S. fans will be on the edge of their seats, hoping his decisions pay off.

Though the turbulence — both perceived and real — surrounding the national team this

past week has subsided, a result against rival Mexico tonight would go a long way towards silencing the doubters once and for all, not to mention potentially vaulting the United States to the top spot in this final Hexagonal round. Winning in Estadio Azteca, however, is no easy feat due not only to the high altitude and thin air but also to the decidedly unfriendly atmosphere.

The hostility like that between these two national teams, who first played each other in 1934, is the hallmark of any thriving rivalry. Though it may be one of the most underrated rivalries in the United States, soccer fans know just how bitter the competition with our neighbors to the south can get. Take, for example, the case of Landon Donovan urinating — yes, urinating — in Azteca to justifiable Mexican outrage in 2003, or defender Frankie Hejduk getting slapped in the face by one of Mexico’s assistant coaches following a 2009 U.S. win. The rivalry runs deep, and emotions always run high.

While the U.S. lost its opening game to Honduras in this round of qualifying before earning three points against Costa Rica, Mexico has tied its first two games, earning only two total points, and will therefore be even hungrier for a win over the U.S. tonight. More lethal than Mexico’s desire for a win, however, is the presence of star forwards Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez and Giovani Dos Santos. Though the inexperienced U.S. backline may have held up against Costa Rica at home, it will have a much harder time stopping this talented tandem in front of a rowdy Mexican crowd.

Klinsmann has utilized a different starting 11 in each of the 25 games he has presided over as manager, so while we cannot predict the lineup or the outcome of the game, one thing is for certain: We need to give him a chance.

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Hoyas Sweep Away the ‘Cats Juliana Zovak Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown softball team (11-20, 3-0 Big East) completed a series sweep of Big East rival Villanova over the weekend to extend a now six-game winning streak, an astounding turnaround for a team that started its season just 1-12. This weekend’s result marked the Hoyas’ first series sweep since the advent of the Division I Georgetown softball program in 2005.

The Blue and Gray started Saturday’s first game strongly, scoring in the first inning after drawing a bases-loaded walk. Georgetown would get only one more run, a two-out RBI single in the third from sophomore pitcher Megan Hyson.

But that was more than enough, as sophomore starting pitcher Lauren O’Leary went the distance with a ninestrikeout shutout, her fifth consecutive complete game, and the Hoyas won 2-0. She escaped a jam in the third inning by earning a bases-loaded strikeout but had little trouble after that, preventing every other batter from reaching second base.

“We got ahead in the count, made our pitches and our defense played very well, so it was a nice recipe for success,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said.

The Hoyas had little time to enjoy the victory, though, before the second game of the doubleheader.

During the later game, the Blue and Gray again jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the first inning off a two-RBI single from junior pitcher Hannah Slovacek.

Those would be the only runs of the game for Georgetown, but the Hoyas’ dominant pitching iced another win. Hyson started the game, allowing only one run in the third inning and entering the seventh with a 2-1 lead. In that

seventh inning, she allowed a walk and a bunt single to put two runners on base, prompting Conlan to put her ace, O’Leary, in the game.

Just hours after pitching the first game of the day, O’Leary entered with no outs in the seventh and got two quick outs before a Georgetown defensive error loaded the bases. Though Villanova had a chance to tie the game or take the lead, O’Leary remained calm, forcing a line-out to end both the threat and the game, earning the save and giving Hyson the win.

“I thought we did a fantastic job on the mound of controlling a pretty offensive team,” Conlan said.

The Hoyas then returned for

“We got ahead in the count, made our pitches and our defense played very well.”

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game three on Sunday looking for the sweep.

“I think any time you can get two wins under your belt in a three-game series, momentum is on your side, because along with [that] comes that confidence, and we believed that we could come out and win game three,” Conlan said.

O’Leary, perhaps wearied from the previous day’s games, returned to the mound for Georgetown, and Villanova quickly scored two runs in the first inning off a walk and two hits. The Hoyas would answered right back in the bottom of the first, however, as junior right fielder Alexandria Anttila singled in two runs.

After a scoreless second, the Blue and Gray broke the game open in the third. Freshman shortstop Samantha Giovan-

niello bunted for a single, and sophomore left fielder Sophia Gargicevich-Almeida reached on an error. Senior catcher Shikara Lowe then sent a three-run home run out of the park to give the Hoyas a 5-2 lead.

But the Hoyas weren’t done there, as Anttila came to the plate and launched another ball over the wall for back-toback home runs and a 6-2 advantage.

“We obviously had our power hitters doing their job today,” Conlan said.

Villanova would score a run in each of the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, but it was not enough, especially whenGeorgetown added insurance runs in the bottom of the fifth.

With runners on second and third, the Hoyas ran a squeeze play, and Hyson bunted while Anttila raced home from third. The throw to home plate was wild, allowing Slovacek to also come around and score. Georgetown would go on to take it, 8-5.

“You can’t have success at this level unless you can hit through the whole lineup, [and today,] we had table setters, we put some runners in motion [and] we had a squeeze play,” Conlan said. “We did a lot of little things that don’t necessarily go down in the scorebook but helped us win that game.”

O’Leary recorded the win and Hyson came on for the save in a role reversal from the Saturday’s second game.

With the sweep, Georgetown moves to a three-way tie atop the Big East. Its next challenge will be nonconference games at local foes George Mason and Towson.

“I’m excited, and we’re ready to go. It’s a good start for us,” Conlan said.

Georgetown will play George Mason at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Fairfax, Va., before facing Towson at 2 p.m. Thursday in Towson, Md.

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Georgetown subsequently collapsed at both ends of the court, allowing FGCU to close a six-point deficit and eventually take the lead. The Hoyas didn’t make a field goal for nearly eight minutes. Thompson III reinserted Starks with two minutes to play, but it was too late: The Eagles had taken full control.

Georgetown entered the locker room facing a two-point deficit. Most teams can handle that — provided that they don’t allow their opponents to immediately drain a three-pointer and rouse the sleepy crowd with a rim-rattling dunk.

Which, of course, Georgetown did.

“I really felt like we had them right where we wanted them when we went into halftime and we were up by two,” Brown said. “We’re really a team that comes out, second half, with a lot of fire, so that’s when I knew we had them.”

The Blue and Gray made a 6-0 run to briefly tie the game up again, but it wouldn’t last.

A sluggish defensive performance against the highly athletic Eagles resulted in several wide-open treys and dunks, and the Hoyas quickly found themselves in a double-digit hole. One play in particular, a highlight-reel alley-oop from point guard Brett Comer to forward Chase Fieler, brought the house down and lifted the Eagles’ spirits to new highs.

“I think it was the highest I’ve ever been,” Fieler said, though his teammates indicated that he had been higher.

In a scenario nobody saw coming, Florida Gulf Coast began stalling on offense to preserve its lead midway through the half. Highenergy play on both ends from redshirt sophomore guard Aaron Bowen — and a sudden barrage of three-pointers from Starks, who finished with 23 points — brought the Hoyas back into the game.

“I got a little nervous when those two threes went in in the last two and a half minutes,” FGCU Head Coach Andy Enfield said.

“That was about the longest two-and-a-half minutes of my life.”

Thompson III’s squad drew within four points with under two minutes to play, but the Eagles, who had struggled from the line earlier, hit nearly every free throw attempt they were given. Georgetown’s comeback fell short.

“We just didn’t have it today,” Starks said.

“What you saw today was not Georgetown basketball.”

Starks was right — tonight’s game didn’t look like the Hoyas of 2012-13. But it did look like the Hoyas of NCAA tournaments past, which prompted questions for Thompson III about the reason for his team’s annual disappointment.

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

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In Disgraceful Defeat, Starks Only Bright Spot UPSETS, from A12 this postseason choke job live that makes my convictions stronger, but I had never seen this team — the team I’d told myself over and over was “different” — come out so flat and so seemingly uninterested in dominating the game in the way a No. 2 seed should.

The Otto Porter Jr. who took the Carrier Dome by the throat and squeezed the last drops of orange juice out of that godforsaken Canadian foxhole? Nowhere to be found. I wish Otto nothing but the best in the NBA, and I only lament that the hunger to avenge a loss like that cannot compete with the guaranteed money that comes with being a lottery pick these days, something he has more than earned through his play this season.

The cold-blooded DSR who’s dug this team out of his fair share of tight spots during the regular season? A disappointing 3-of-11 from the floor, including 0-for-6 from deep when his team needed open shots to be buried.

Nate Lubick and Mikael Hopkins? So underwhelming that they were all but discarded at the end of the bench when the Hoyas finally woke up down the stretch. So much for the size mismatches that were supposedly Georgetown’s big advantage in the game.

And don’t even let me get to Greg Whittington, whose inability to make academics a priority and subsequent suspension finally caught up with the team he left out to dry.

The only Hoya worth his weight in anything Friday night was Markel Starks, a guy who showed flashes of potential during his first two years but has recently come into his own as a star. I personally cannot wait to see what he will do during his senior year, hopefully starting with getting his teammates to play with the same sense of urgency that he does in every game.

Finally, there is the coaching staff, and let me preface this by saying that John Thompson III is one hell of a coach. There is a reason his teams have outperformed expectations year in and year out in his time at the helm.

Sadly, there is also a reason they have fallen flat on their faces in the tournament year in and year out since 2007. For me, the red flags first went up on Selection Sunday, when he admitted to knowing nothing about Florida Gulf Coast when the Eagles were announced as the Hoyas’ first opponent. Given the fact that the teams that were 14/15/16 seeds were all but locked in prior to that Sunday (FGCU for over a week at that point), there was no excuse for being unprepared.

But of much greater concern was some seriously questionable coaching during the game that, in my opinion, cost the Hoyas the win.

The decision to take out Porter and Starks (the latter of whom had two fouls) when they had built up a seven-point lead midway through the first half was the first blunder. On the simplest level, the team finished the last nine minutes of the half with a whopping four points, including nine missed FGs and five turnovers. Philosophically, it is a microcosm of the lack of killer instinct that has been the downfall of many a JT III-led team. Instead of going for the jugular and trying to build a double-digit halftime lead, he sits his two best players, brings them back only when the

lead had gone, and lets a golden opportunity to put FGCU under serious pressure go by the wayside.

The second half was just a total and complete cluster-you-know-what. The defense, which had largely kept FGCU out of sync in the first half, was tweaked from man to zone to start the second half, and that’s when the Eagles did the damage that ultimately won them the game. After trading opening blows, they scored on nine straight possessions against the zone and turned 31-31 into a 50-33 blowout in the span of 4:23.

Unheard of against the vaunted Georgetown defense, an athletic, motion-heavy FGCU offense was able to exploit the zone time and time again for easy scores and highlightreel dunks. It was no surprise that when the Hoyas finally woke up and made a run with mere minutes remaining, it was the result of a switch back to man coverage and ball pressure. Too little, too late.

I don’t pretend to be an expert, and one could just as easily point at an Otto missed layup here, a dropped rebound or two out-ofbounds there (and missed officiating calls everywhere) as the difference in the game. But the “luck” has been against us so consistently at this time of year that something more has to be at the root of the problem.

Whether it’s Thompson III dropping the ball or the players not being up for the game, it really comes down to one thing: Someone is going to have to step up at some point to stop this early-round choking from becoming an institutionalized part of Georgetown basketball. It might even be Whittington next year making up for lost time.

But more than anything, this team needs to play like it’s a favorite when it’s the favorite.

Go for the kill instead of cautiously resting your stars, who have shown they can play with the burden of foul trouble. Don’t let some kids who will likely never be on a stage like this again in their lives come in and dunk all over you. Send the message that they’re playing the beasts of the Big East and that anything they get will not come easily. These are the mantras that coaches like Tom Izzo, Bill Self and Billy Donovan preach, and it rubs off on their respective teams across generations of players.

And year after year, they win their games in March.

And so goes the story of the 2012-13 Hoyas (and really the 2009-13 Hoyas, for those seniors keeping track). A regular season filled with sound and fury that ultimately signifies nothing. It included memories that I’ll cherish forever: beating Louisville, closing the Carrier Dome and smashing ’Cuse in the final Big East game to clinch a share of the regular season title.

But for the fourth year running, they are memories that will be marked with the asterisk of postseason failure. As for me, I know I’ll be back cheering the same as every year, and I can only pray that the incredible moments I’ve been fortunate enough to witness during the regular season can make their long-awaited return to the Big Dance.

More than anything, the Hoyas need to start playing like the favorite when they’re the favorite.

DYLAN HUNT is a senior in the College and the Community Member on The Hoya’s Board of Directors.

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Hoyas Top No. 20 Cards Arik Parnass Hoya Staff Writer

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Senior attack Jason McFadden scored three goals on five shots and added an assist in Georgetown’s 19-7 shellacking at the hands of No. 12 Duke Saturday in Durham, N.C.

Senior’s Outburst Not Enough in Rout at Duke Carolyn Maguire Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (35, 1-0 Big East), was upended by then-No. 12 Duke (7-4, 1-1 ACC) on the road Sunday, falling 19-7 in Durham, N.C. The drubbing marked the second consecutive loss against a ranked opponent for the Hoyas.

“Duke is very good, and I expect them to play deep in May. For us, we just didn’t do the little things, and I think it started with a bunch of things before the game even started,” Head Coach Kevin Warne said.

The Blue and Gray, coming off of a 13-8 defeat at the hands of then-No. 9 Loyola, were unable to keep pace with the high-powered Duke offense and allowed a season-high 19 goals. The Hoyas fell behind early as the Blue Devils opened up the game scoring four unanswered goals, and the visitors were ultimately unable to fight back into real contention.

“There were some positives coming out of both [the Loyola and Duke] games,” Warne said. “Those two teams are as good as or better than the teams we are going to play in the next couple of weeks. … I think by learning from some of the negatives that have happened in the past, … if we clean up some of that stuff, our chances to succeed will be greater than the last couple of weeks.”

Duke outmatched Georgetown virtually from start to finish, as the Hoyas were unable to slow down a Blue Devil offense that averages just over 12 goals a game. A 40-20 advantage on groundballs certainly helped that cause, as Duke was able to earn more possession to be converted into more scoring opportunities.

“The team with more groundballs will have more possessions. I also think that Duke had an athletic advantage over us. I don’t think we were not trying,” Warne said.

“I think without a doubt we were trying to get to the loose ball, but Duke is very skilled and very athletic and were able to get to

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The Blue Devils were led by junior attack Jordan Wolf, who tallied four goals on 10 shots, while the Hoyas were paced by senior midfielder Jason McFadden, who had three goals and an assist.

After the first period of play, the hosts held a 4-1 lead, and they continued to pull away in the second period. Within the first four minutes of the second period, Duke capitalized on Georgetown mistakes and exploded for three goals.

With 10 minutes remaining in the second quarter, the Hoyas managed to get a goal each from Jason McFadden and redshirt midfielder Joe Bucci within a minute to make the score 7-3, but Duke responded by stringing together another three-goal spurt that gave them a seven-goal halftime advantage.

The Blue Devils’ dominance continued into the second half, as the Hoyas were unable to make the necessary adjustments to crawl back into the game, losing possession off Georgetown turnovers and groundballs.

Using this advantage, Duke proceeded to score six unanswered goals and extend its lead to 16-3. Although McFadden was able to score his second goal of the contest in the closing minutes of the period, the game was already out of reach as the Blue Devils held a commanding 16-4 advantage.

Redshirt sophomore goalie Jake Haley allowed 19 goals and had 11 saves in 45 minutes of play, while Duke sophomore goalie Kyle Turri allowed four goals and had five saves in 45 minutes of play to preserve the lopsided win.

“Everything now is in front of us — that’s the message to the team,” Warne said. “We are looking through the windshield and not the rearview mirror, and that is what we have to concentrate on. Things in the past will help us with things in the future.”

Georgetown will next be in action on Friday as it plays host to Marquette in the schools’ first ever head-to-head meeting. The opening face-off is slated for noon.

The No. 8 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team has had a target on its back for two Big East games now, but, so far, it has yet to go down. The Hoyas (7-2, 2-0 Big East) completed a perfect weekend that started with a huge win over Cincinnati by defeating No. 20 Louisville 14-11 Sunday in a physical encounter between two of the conference’s top teams.

The Blue and Gray jumped out to a 3-0 lead just over four minutes into the game, as the Cardinals (7-3, 0-2 Big East) initially looked unprepared to deal with the offense of the fast-paced and physical home side. But Louisville responded with two goals of its own off the stick of freshman midfielder Kaylin Morissette, and the teams traded scores from there.

The first half concluded much as it had begun, with a surge from the Hoyas followed by a late response from the Cardinals that culminated in two more tallies for Morissette, who was on the receiving end of a couple of pinpoint passes around the goal. The two teams went into the half tied at nine, and Georgetown Head Coach Ricky Fried was not pleased with his side’s performance.

“I thought frankly it was the whole first half that we struggled defensively,” Fried said after the game. “A lot of the things that [Morissette] benefitted from were our mistakes, and again, give her credit for making great plays, but it was a lot of us not forcing the right way or overrunning things.”

The second half mirrored

the first, with sophomore attack Caroline Tarzian netting her 20th of the year just 50 seconds in off an assist from senior attack Rosie Corcoran.

Tarzian would go on to score four more — marking her third five-goal game of the year — and the Hoyas would ultimately take the contest by three.

“I think that a lot of my opportunities came off of good ball movement,” Tarzian said.

“We had a great ride today also, and that opened up a lot of shots for us.”

The Blue and Gray particularly keyed in on Louisville junior goalie Ashley Herbst, pressuring her into several dangerous passes that resulted in turnovers that would be converted into goals.

“I thought we did that really well today,” Fried said. “A lot of people will go back to the goalie kind of as a safe haven, and we allow that to happen and then look to jump them.

It played into our favor today.”

Predictably, in a match between two physical Big East opponents, the game was filled with rough checking.

The home side was called for 19 fouls and received a single yellow card, while the visitors earned 33 and seven, a disparity that had many raucous Cardinals supporters — as well as Head Coach Kellie Young — up in arms at the officials.

Fried, however, laughed off talk of uneven officiating.

“It bodes well in our favor when the other coach is losing her mind, because that means things are probably going our way,” he said. “And generally speaking, officials aren’t going to listen to you if you maintain that the whole time.”

The win comes on the back of a record-setting performance Friday against Cincinnati (4-4, 0-2 Big East) in which Georgetown, down 3-2 early, responded with 19 unanswered goals to win 21-3. In doing so, the Hoyas set the school’s conference record for largest margin of victory and tied their second-largest overall, behind only a 23-2 win over Wilson College in 1980.

“It was a good test for us to play the Friday/Sunday,” Fried said. “It’s the first time we’re doing that, so physically and mentally, that’s a challenge, and we stepped up to it against a very good team.”

As Georgetown looks to continue its ascent up the rankings, the idea of every team gunning for his squad doesn’t seem to bother the head coach; in fact, he embraces it.

“Going into the Big East, we’ve won 90 percent of the games the last 12 years, so regardless of who people think are the better teams, we’re still the team that people want to knock off in the Big East,” Fried said. “So we’ve just got to focus on what we’re doing. I thought we did a good job of that for the most part.”

They’ll have to continue doing it, too, as next up for the Blue and Gray is a clash with No. 19 Loyola in Baltimore, Md. The Greyhounds (4-5, 2-0 Big East) are coming off impressive wins of their own over the Bearcats and Cardinals — 19-0 and 11-6, respectively — and will be looking to prove their superiority.

The target on Georgetown’s back grows larger and larger with every win; the Hoyas are just hoping a team won’t eventually hit the bull’s-eye.

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h, the moment you have been waiting for. With college basketball’s most exciting weekend — and, as the case may be for us Georgetown fans, its most depressing — complete, Major League Baseball’s return on Easter Sunday could not come at a better time.

The holiday’s coinciding with the start of the season is perfect symbolism, each event instilling a sense of optimism as we transition to spring. With the season starting anew, every team again has the opportunity to reach the postseason, with surprises not just possible but probable. In 2012, the Orioles and Athletics each survived unfavorable forecasts to reach baseball’s promised land. With that said, it is always a fun exercise to put my hand over the crystal ball and to try to predict the unpredictable season ahead. Beginning with this week’s American League picks and concluding in two weeks with my National League selections, I present my 2013 MLB season preview. Caution: I guarantee no guarantees.

American League Playoff Picks: Toronto Blue Jays (East), Detroit Tigers (Central), Los Angeles Angels (West), Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays (Wild Card)

Projected AL East Standings: 1. Toronto Blue Jays 2. Tampa Bay Rays 3. New York Yankees 4. Boston Red Sox 5. Baltimore Orioles The AL East is arguably baseball’s most difficult division, and with traditional powers like the Yankees and Red Sox battling injuries, age and/or significant organizational changes, the division crown is as wide open as ever. The Blue Jays made their bid for divisional supremacy this offseason by adding the likes of Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Melky Cabrera and others in a slew of blockbuster deals and signings to complement the likes of Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie to form the most complete and dynamic team in the division.

Despite trading No. 2 starting pitcher James Shields to Kansas City, the Rays maintain significant pitching depth to make a run at the division and wild card berth. Likewise, despite losing B.J. Upton to Atlanta, Tampa

Bay expects improvement from Desmond Jennings, and the eventual arrival of top prospect Wil Myers — acquired from Kansas City in the Shields deal — will provide added pop to an otherwise lackluster lineup. After that, while the Yankees, Red Sox and Orioles could all in an ideal world somehow find their ways to the top of the division, there remain too many questions to be optimistic about their chances in 2013.

Projected AL Central Standings: 1. Detroit Tigers 2. Kansas City Royals 3. Cleveland Indians 4. Chicago White Sox 5. Minnesota Twins

Preston Barclay

Offseason additions should put Detroit a cut above in 2013.

Although the Indians and Royals boast improved rosters, the division remains ripe for the picking for the Tigers. Returning Victor Martinez and signing Torii Hunter to an already powerful lineup anchored by reigning AL MVP Miguel Cabrera only improves a team that fell to the Giants in last season’s Fall Classic.

If any team will sneak up on the Tigers, it might be the Royals, who boast a collection of young bats expected to take the proverbial “next step” in 2013. Depending on the play of Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Salvador Perez and Lorenzo Cain, there could be a wide variability in terms of outcomes for KC, but I’d be apt to give an optimistic forecast for the quartet this season. The Indians also figure to make significant strides offensively with the additions of Nick Swisher and Michael Bourn, but starting pitching remains a major question.

Projected AL West Standings: 1. Los Angeles Angels 2. Texas Rangers 3. Oakland Athletics 4. Seattle Mariners 5. Houston Astros

By snagging Josh Hamilton from the rival Rangers, the Angels established baseball’s best trio of hitters by adding Hamilton to a lineup that already included Mike Trout and Albert Pujols. Losing Zack Greinke is undoubtedly a huge blow to a rotation that has seen significant turnover this offseason, but adding Tommy Hanson, Jason Vargas and Joe Blanton to a group led

by Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson puts L.A. still well above average.

Even with Hamilton bolting for the Angels, the Rangers still figure to contend, given the projected arrival of top prospect Jurickson Profar as well as Leonys Martin taking over in center field to help retain a top-ten offense. The Athletics, meanwhile, will remain in the hunt due to their excellent starting pitching rotation headlined by 25-year-old staff “veteran” Brett Anderson.

While the Mariners should improve, their window of opportunity appears to remain further down the line, with a wave of prospects set to arrive in 2014.

And as for the Astros? A strong candidate to land their third consecutive No. 1 draft pick in their first year in the American League, after making the switch this past offseason.

American League Championship Series — Detroit over Los Angeles With the AL’s top hitter (Cabrera) and pitcher (Verlander), the Tigers have all the ingredients for more October magic after advancing to the World Series a year ago. Their only major questionable component is the back end of their bullpen, and Detroit will have ample time to make adequate changes before the trade deadline to complete their roster. The Angels and Blue Jays also have squads with few weaknesses, but ultimately, the Tigers are a cut above and should find themselves in the World Series again in 2013.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

WOMEN’S LACROSSE TALKING POINTS The No. 8 Hoyas followed up a Friday win with one over No. 20 Louisville Sunday.

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Loss to No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast sees Blue and Gray crash out of NCAAs in yet another upset PAT CURRAN

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PHILADELPHIA — The phrase “Georgetown in the NCAA tournament” officially became a college basketball punchline Friday night at the Wells Fargo Center, as 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast (25-10) blew out the second-seeded Hoyas 78-68.

The loss marked the fifth time in six years that Georgetown has fallen to a double-digit seed in the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament.

“There are a lot of things that we have been very good at all year that we were not good at tonight,” Head Coach John Thompson III said.

“We didn’t do — as we have for most of this year — [a good job] of making them take tough, difficult shots.”

Georgetown sophomore star and Big East player of the year Otto Porter Jr. struggled from the field in what many have speculated will be his final game as a Hoya. He indicated after the game that he has not yet decided on his plans for next season.

As for Friday, the signs of trouble were there from the start. Senior guard Sherwood Brown and the rest of the Eagles warmed up before the game with an unusual confidence for such a heavy underdog. Still, the outside shooting of Georgetown junior Markel Starks was enough to keep the Hoyas in the lead to begin the game.

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Four Years, One Headline: Can’t Win When It Matters I

guess you would have to go back to Nov. 17, 2009. Greg Monroe drives for the winning basket with seconds left to lift the Hoyas to a win in their home opener against Temple. And in the process, I became hooked on Georgetown basketball.

And I haven’t stopped. Not after Ohio, not after VCU, not after NC State, and to be honest I can’t see Florida Gulf Coast being the last straw either. But while this or any loss (not that they get much bigger or more embarrassing than this) will not shake my Hoya pride, it can and has raised some serious questions about how and why this team has so consistently flopped when the calendar flips to March.

Let’s start with the genius whose brilliant idea it was to stick the Georgetown student cheering section on Friday in the nosebleeds of the Wells Fargo Center, while the FGCU entourage enjoyed the close proximity to the court offered by front row seats in the lower bowl.

When combined with the fervent cheering of the Oklahoma and San Diego State contingents once they realized an upset might be on

the cards, we somehow managed to turn the closest geographical placement for a secondround game into, for all intents and purposes, a road game. In Philly. Against a team no one has heard of from Florida. Fantastic work.

But I digress. Far more frustrating is the fact that every year when this team has made its all-too-predictable premature exit in the tournament, there has been a seemingly legitimate excuse to keep my anger at losing to yet another double-digit seed at bay. Ohio put up 97 points on us while shooting a ridiculous percentage from three. VCU was a Final Four team that beat us when we were banged up. NC State was a close game against a team that was playing at a level well above their 11 seed. And maybe I too easily accepted these justifications instead of looking at the facts — namely that in my time on the Hilltop, I’ve seen the same number of Hoya tourney wins as I have Harvard ones.

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SAME OLD STORY Head Coach John Thompson III has now been at the helm for losses to double-digit seeds in five of the past six NCAA tournaments. Florida Gulf Coast’s 78-68 victory over Georgetown marked just the seventh all-time win for a No. 15 over a No. 2.

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Searching for Answers in the Wake of Another Early Exit W ith a few minutes remaining in the second half of Friday’s first-round game against Florida Gulf Coast, Georgetown fans began streaming out of the Wells Fargo Center, disheartened by another postseason campaign that ended just as it was beginning.

The essential facts are familiar: The Hoyas have reached the top 10 of the AP poll every season since they reached the Final Four in 2007, but they have not made it past the second round of the NCAA tournament — or even the first round of the NIT, in one trip in 2009 — in any of those six years.

How is it that a team that’s notched 136 wins in those six seasons secured just two in tournament play? And what does that mean for John Thompson III and his system on the Hilltop?

Although Twitter was buzzing with references to the failure of the Princeton offense to succeed in big games, it makes no sense to say that the offense that led to wins over overall No. 1 seed Louisville and two defeats of its Sweet 16 mate Syracuse is somehow deficient.

More informed viewers of Friday night’s game would have noticed that it was Georgetown’s defense that failed the Blue and Gray against the Eagles. FGCU guards Brett Comer, Sherwood Brown and Bernard Thompson ran circles around Georgetown all night, especially during a punishing run midway through the second half.

As the defense flailed, the Hoyas resorted to fouling early and often — which caused three players to foul out and left three others with four

fouls when the buzzer sounded. Florida Gulf Coast was able to make 10 more free throws than Georgetown attempted, a difference equal to the final margin of victory.

Those figures would seem to acquit the Princeton offense of blame for

Friday’s defeat. The defense has been weak in other NCAA losses as well, allowing Ohio to post 97 points in 2010 and both VCU and Davidson to hang 74 points on Georgetown in 2011 and 2009, respectively.

Of course, the Shaka Smart-led Rams were a Final Four team, and despite Nate Silver’s joke that Florida Gulf Coast “sounds like a regional airport,” there are no teams looking forward to a date against Andy Enfield’s Eagles this tournament.

But the trend remains: Thompson III is a January and February coach who can’t seem to find success anymore in March.

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

Is the answer that he is a reincarnation of Gene Keady, the Purdue maestro who had 22 winning seasons in 25 years but never reached the Final Four?

Probably not. Thompson III has al-

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ready proven that he can reach the tournament’s final weekend. And despite boasting Big East Player of the Year Otto Porter Jr., these Hoyas were a young team, the kind that is always most likely to choke in March.

Pregame preparation may also be a factor. Smart, Enfield and Mark Gottfried have outflanked Thompson III over the past few years due to Georgetown’s willingness to play to their opponents’ style and reluctance to adapt while the game is in progress.

Still, whether Porter returns or not, the Hoyas will be older, tougher and stronger next year.

That gives Thompson about 360 days to put his pieces in place.

EVAN HOLLANDER is a junior in the School of Foreign Service and former sports editor of The Hoya.