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EDITORIAL The first responders to the Boston bombing are a model for all Americans.

GLOBAL MODEL UN GU’s Model UN team attended its first competition outside North America.

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Educators Keg Limit Abolished on Campus Divided On E-texts Penny Hung

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Drew Cunningham Special to The Hoya

Technological advancements are a trademark of 21st-century academics and a recent fixture on the Georgetown provost’s agenda, but early feedback has raised questions over whether these changes — particularly electronic textbooks — actually offer an upgrade.

E-textbooks are already used in a few Georgetown courses, including introductory math, physics and economics classes.

According to Mike Hull, a research associate in the department of physics, nearly all of the 150 students who took Physics 101 and then Physics102 used e-textbooks this year. But Hull said the electronic versions have had a lukewarm reception at best.

“I have heard no students say that they prefer it over a paper textbook, although I have heard some students say the opposite,” Hull wrote in an email.

“My impression is that if the textbook is properly linked to the online homework … then it is much more helpful than when the links are broken.”

Jordan Braunfeld (COL ’14), who used an e-textbook for Physics 101 and 102, said that he prefers paper textbooks to their electronic counterparts because the electronic textbooks are often difficult to work with.

“E-textbooks can be really tough to navigate, and often times, the text is too small for you to view the whole page at once, so you have to scroll through the same massive page if you want to be able to read,” Braunfeld said.

Braunfeld added that although the format of electronic textbooks is slightly more conducive to doing homework assignments, the linking system between homework assignments and textbook references is not always effective or informative.

At the same time, Braunfeld recognized that there are some advantages to using the electronic textbooks and believes they could become more desirable if the technology improves.

“You don’t have to carry around that big, heavy, paper book, and it’s always on your laptop,” Braunfeld said. “Also, they tend to be a lot cheaper than the paper versions.”

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The one-keg limit for on-campus parties will be lifted effective today, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson announced last night.

The decision comes just days after the Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a bill calling for the elimination of the keg limit. Olson’s decision seen as an extension of university efforts to encourage on-campus social life as outlined in the 2010 Campus Plan agreement.

“We were working to make sure, in response to the campus plan, we keep the vibrancy of Georgetown social life alive, even if it means keeping it on campus,” GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) said. “It will allow on-campus life to be much better.”

In addition to input from GUSA, Olson’s decision to lift the limit was inspired in part by advocacy by the Department of Public Safety, the Georgetown Community Partnership and the Student Life Working Group.

“After hearing from students and other stakeholders, and consulting with colleagues, it seems clear that this is a reasonable and promising approach to bringing the center of student social life back onto campus,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The one-keg limit was introduced in 2007 after a student referendum demonstrated overwhelming opposition to the Disciplinary

Working Group member Justin Mercer (COL ’13) said that the elimination of the keg limit would improve neighborhood relations by supporting on-campus social events.

“I think the lifting of the keg ban represents a move by the university to entice students to party on campus,” Mercer said. “It’s trying to bring students on campus and show neighbors that we’re trying to make campus a more residential campus so that students aren’t necessarily partying in the neighborhood but partying on campus.”

Lauralyn Lee, associate vice president for community engagement and strategic initiatives, supported Olson’s decision but was hesitant to characterize it as a direct means LEONEL DE VELEZ/THE HOYA of easing neighborhood relations.

After GUSA passed a bill urging the university to lift its one-keg limit, the “It’s mostly about satisfying our vice president for student affairs ended the restriction entirely Thursday. commitment to make sure on-campus socializing is as good as it can Review Committee’s fall 2006 sug- pacts” — largely in the form of row- be,” Lee said. gestion of an outright keg ban. The diness and noise — throughout the A female student who had a parlocal Advisory Neighborhood Com- campus plan negotiations, stressed ty broken up earlier this month mission 2E also passed a resolu- that his interests are aligned with because of the keg limit and spoke tion against the proposed keg ban those of students on the issue. on the condition of anonymity “We want because of possible disciplinary at the time the same repercussions supported the relaxout of conthing here,” ation of the keg rule. cern that it “We were explaining the would cause mechanics of beer pong to Dr. Lewis said.

“I think [the rule] is something “It’s never that didn’t really make sense to students to been clear to begin with, and it is good to see it move social Olson, talking in real terms.” me what the lifted,” the student said. “In a lot of life off camNATE TISA (SFS ’14) justification ways, it’s a little bit of an arbitrary pus.

GUSA President for the keg process because people can conANC 2E limit was, sume a lot more alcohol through Chairman Ron Lewis, who remained a signifi- and I applaud the decision to get shots than they can through kegs. cant source of what he has termed rid of it.”

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SFS-Q FacilitatesTech Piloting With New Hire, GU to Engage DC

Emily Brown Hoya Staff Writer

In its eight years of existence, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar has implemented several technology advancement initiatives and pilot programs that appear to rival those on the main campus.

Last summer, one program at SFS-Q sought to introduce iPads to the classroom.

SFS-Q Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and government professor Kai-Henrik Barth was one of the first to use the devices, in an effort to make his

Science, Technology and International Politics course paperless.

SFS-Q Instructional Design Analyst Ginny Jones said that the iPad pilot program has elicited varied reactions from students and faculty. While some found the technology extremely advantageous to their learning, others preferred using old-fashioned textbooks.

But Qatar has also seen several other technology updates in recent years, chief among them continued updates to the school’s video classroom system, which was instituted five years ago, and the implemen-

tation of lecture captures that include video and audio.

Jones hopes that these technological advancements will offer creative ways of providing course content. “[I hope that they will] increase active learning and change the dynamic to a more integrated, collaborative classroom environment,” Jones said.

Despite differences in technology on both campuses, Davis denied that Qatar was more advanced than the Washington campus, emphasizing that the See SFS-Q, A5

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President Obama’s budget proposal, if approved by Congress, would have a mixed impact both on Georgetown’s research centers and students who benefit from federal loan programs.

Georgetown University Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (SFS ’72) said he mostly supported the proposal, which was released April 10.

“For the most part, the president’s budget is a positive one for higher education,” Fleming said.

In the wake of cuts to education spending resulting from the August 2011 debt ceiling fight and the 2013 automatic budget cuts, Fleming said that the president’s plan provides a blueprint for compromise that could prevent further hemor-

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rhaging in federal funding for the university.

Two main tenets whose resolutions could dissuade lawmakers from further education cuts, according to Fleming, include the closing of tax loopholes and structural changes to social programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

“A very good thing … is that the president’s budget does lay out a proposal that is designed to be the basis for a grand bargain, including both taxes and entitlement reforms,” Fleming said. “I think he deserves great credit for putting forward a plan that attempts to address that in a way that will hopefully lead to some progress.”

Despite his overall praise for the president’s plan, Fleming said that the lack of ceiling

Georgetown’s Office of Community Engagement is hiring a director of local government affairs to advocate for university goals and engage the D.C. community and expects to fill the position by the beginning of the summer.

The search began March 5 after the university created the OCE, which absorbed the responsibilities of the Office of External Affairs, in August 2012 as part of its internal restructuring designed to better engage the local community. The office seeks partnership with the surrounding community in light of tensions that erupted over the 2010 Campus Plan, and the compromise-oriented Georgetown Community Partnership that arose as part of the resolution.

“The new position will deal with those kinds of issues that are city government issues that have a direct impact for the university,” Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Lauralyn Lee, whose own position was formed along with the OCE, said.

The new director will keep tabs on D.C. Council activity that relates to Georgetown and work with other local universities through the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area.

The director will also assess opportunities for university growth in anticipation of the university’s planned expansion to a new site in D.C. — also a product of the campus plan agreement — as well as the rewriting of zoning regulations.

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Standing by Boston This Monday, the Boston Marathon was attacked with two improvised explosive devices, which detonated near the finish line of the race in rapid succession. Three people were killed and more than 100 others were wounded, but as the smoke from the blasts drifted away, some were not seen running away, but toward the chaos that had erupted.

These brave first responders were instrumental in minimizing the damage of the attack and provided invaluable support for the individuals affected. Housed in a metropolitan area ourselves, students may consider that Georgetown has offered Community Emergency Response Training courses since 2010. These courses, offered every spring semester, offer basic disaster response training to ordinary citizens. While the Boston attacks have shown us that disaster can strike anywhere and at any time, it has — perhaps more importantly — shown us how we can band together in the face of tragedy.

Light displays portrayed solidarity in New York City, while the Chicago Tribune sports

section declared, “We are Chicago Red Sox. We are Chicago Celtics. We are Chicago Bruins. We are Chicago Patriots.” At Georgetown, a vigil in Dahlgren Chapel was held Monday night for the victims of the attacks and the city of Boston. The next day, countless students hailing from New York to Austin to Los Angeles were seen wearing Boston Red Sox and other Boston T-shirts around campus. And on Wednesday, campus groups began to fundraise for the victims and handed out racing bibs featuring the city’s area code in Red Square. Social media have displayed similar sentiments of remorse, community and hope.

While both the United States and Georgetown are diverse communities, there is no doubt that when times are dire, we find solace in one another, regardless of political and religious dispositions — just as President Obama said in his address. “If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil, that’s it. Selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.”

Rallying Relay Since its introduction in 2007, Georgetown’s Relay for Life fundraiser has become a Hilltop fixture, uniting thousands of Georgetown students on an April night to raise awareness and funds for the fight against cancer. The ceremony is the product of months of work and planning and, for many students, proves to be a powerful and emotional night.

Since its peak fundraising in 2010, however, Georgetown’s Relay for Life has seen a continuous drop in fundraising from year to year.

Although Relay for Life is about much more than fundraising, the lagging financial support from the campus is cause for concern.

The dip in fundraising is difficult to explain. This year, the School of Foreign Service’s annual Diplomatic Ball may have played a role in reducing turnout, but it seems that the event’s challenges have deeper roots. Even with roughly 2,000 students turning out for this month’s event, Relay did not produce the fundraising results of years past. Relay’s organizers have asserted that the event is about more than the numbers, and with this in mind, perhaps student participants should remember the roots of Relay for Life.

In its fundamental and intended form, a

Relay event involves teams that must have a member walking or running on the track at all times throughout the night. This activity symbolizes the endless fight against cancer or that cancer “never sleeps.” But the event has witnessed a shift away from the actual relay and more toward other attractions. While inflatables, food-eating contests and games keep attendants occupied and bring in a larger audience, they run the risk of distracting students from the reasons they attend Relay, transforming the event into more of a carnival that invites people to stop by for the revelry than an all-night act of dedication.

In re-evaluating the challenges for the coming year, Relay might consider a renewed emphasis, or even enforcement, of the policy of always maintaining someone on the track.

While this might reduce numbers, it would emphasize the somberness of the occasion and perhaps re-energize fundraising.

In its eight years on the Hilltop, Relay for Life has raised over $2 million for the American Cancer Society. Relay organizers make a tremendous sacrifice in time and effort for this important cause, and it’s troubling that fundraising has waned while the cause endures.

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False Alarm — MPD closed Wisconsin Avenue briefly between M and K Streets on Wednesday after a suspicious package was reported.

Bienvenida — A second location of the taco and margarita restaurant El Centro is slated to open in the space recently vacated by Third Edition.

New Space — The Millennium Room, near the lobby of Lauinger Library, can now be reserved as a group study room with a 50-inch wide-screen monitor.

Georgetown Downtown — The School of Continuing Studies announced it will move into a new space downtown in August.

Supporting Our Veterans — GU Student Veterans Association will hold a Wounded Warrior 5K Run at 10 a.m. Saturday.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON by Megan Schmidt

A Day for Every Dorm There are many new experiences students take away from their first year on the Hilltop.

Perhaps most memorable are the lifelong friendships formed amid late-night talks in the common room with members of one’s freshman floor.

Each year, Darnall Hall celebrates Darnall Day, which marks the birthday of Eleanor Darnall, John Carroll’s mother. The event, held by Interhall and the Darnall Hall Council, is open to all current and former Darnall residents and includes a day of reminiscing, free food and activities. This year, Harbin Hall will reinstate Harbin Day, a similar celebration open to current freshmen and graduating seniors, funded by Interhall and other sponsors including Students of Georgetown, Inc. and WGTB Georgetown Radio.

Dorm days provide an opplmortunity for students to celebrate their freshman experiences, whether they’re finishing them now or looking back on them after a year or two.

ResLife, Interhall and other campus groups should consider putting on similar events for New South Hall and Village C West, which currently do not have them. They could receive additional funding from the dorms’ floor funds collected at the beginning of each semester.

Many great memories involve the small, cramped doubles of one’s freshman year on the Hilltop. Returning every once in a while with our cohort of New South, VCW or Harbin residents would serve to build a community across students of different years and generations.

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Finding Diversity On Hilltop

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mid discussions in recent weeks on affirmative action, I was speaking with a good friend here at Georgetown about diversity on campus. And while I asserted that I thought Georgetown is diverse, she expressed her opposite belief — that Georgetown is not a diverse school at all and is instead one dominated by its predominantly white, welldressed and private school-educated students from the Northeast.

This got me thinking — is Georgetown as diverse as I had thought, beyond the statistics and demographic breakdowns on admissions pamphlets? To be sure, there is a pervasive Georgetown archetype, a typical Jack and Jane Hoya. Georgetown has been known as a bastion of preppiness, with many of its students toting Barbour jackets, Patagonia fleeces and Ralph Lauren button-downs.

And most students would contend that this overwhelming model of a Georgetown student stands true, myself at times included.

However, a quick walk through Red Square or Healy Lawn shows that a significant number of students do not actually look like J. Crew models. There is much disagreement over whether or not there is an outwardly diverse student body, but “outwardly diverse” provides only a superficial definition of diversity.

Beyond appearances, here at Georgetown there is a kind of diversity rarely seen or appreciated. Recognizing our diversity takes more than a walk to class and simply seeing different skin colors, races or ethnic groups. It is to recognize the incredible range of stories that students have lived through, stories that are vastly different from what is commonly expected from students at an expensive, private university.

Though events like New Student Orientation’s Pluralism in Action are not fully adequate in addressing diversity, the event is necessary as a brief introduction to Georgetown’s student body. The anonymity of such an exercise makes one pause and think about

Those considered “typical” Georgetown students indeed often only socialize with each other. how the person living down the hall spent time homeless, the lax bro behind you in class might be working two jobs to pay his tuition or the legacy girl speaks three languages. It is precisely the anonymity of diversity, and the simple reality that many here at Georgetown cannot be fully appreciated at face value, that makes our brand so important.

This is not to say that Georgetown is as diverse as it could be. One of the rarely spoken blights upon the Georgetown masses is not only racial or ethnic self-segregation but also a perhaps unintended socioeconomic self-segregation that gives rise to the archetype of what we (and much of the country) consider a “typical” Georgetown student.

Those considered “typical” Georgetown students indeed often socialize only with each other, not just during club meetings during the week but on the weekends, too. They are the groups you’ll most likely find in a given house party or at Rhino again and again.

When you think about it, those groups more often than not involve the same 200 or so students, highly visible to many within the student body not necessarily by name but rather by appearance.

This is not to say that I do not fall outside of this realm. I will be the first person to admit that I, at times, am in a category. It is all too easy and natural, however unfortunate, to self-segregate when socializing. But to not acknowledge or recognize the breadth of students we possess in our midst on the Hilltop would be to perform a disservice to the thousands of other students with whom we work, study and learn.

The power of Georgetown both as a school and as a community perhaps lies beyond the first impression of a university of its wellcoiffed students. For beyond the stereotype of Longchamp bags and Sperry Top-Siders lies a community of surprising depth. While there is certainly room to improve, it is worthwhile to recognize the transformation Georgetown has undergone in recent years. Beyond social groups or skin color lies a Georgetown student body and community of notable diversity and depth — one whose importance, unfortunately, is underemphasized and unrealized by the most important people in our community: the students.

David Weis is a junior in the College.

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A Beauty Campaign’s Ugly Reality

s part of the war against negative body image, activists have tried to shift conversations toward recognizing that everyone is beautiful. Thin girls, fat girls, black girls, white girls — we’re all beautiful.

The soap company Dove launched its “Campaign for Real Beauty” a few years ago in this same spirit. The idea is that the company is washing away the makeup or the Photoshop alterations and showing the raw beauty of American women, whether they have C-section scars, love handles or A-cup bras.

While others have called out Dove for the lack of diversity in these ads and videos, the company’s most recent video, “Dove Real Beauty Sketches,” reveals a deeper problem inherent in the campaign itself.

In the video, a forensic sketch artist draws women he could not see as they described themselves. The women, all of who seem to be deeply self-conscious, give him what are supposed to overly harsh descriptions of themselves. “My mom told me I had a big jaw.” “I kind of have a fat, rounder face.”

Then, the artist brings in a person who had met one of the women only a little while before to describe the women. At the end of the video, the women see both portrayals — one based on their own perceptions and the other based on how others view them — and are floored by the concrete representation of how distorted their body images can be.

There are tears and declarations of a need for increased self-love.

“Do you think you’re more beautiful than you say?” the artist asks one woman as she looks at two very different portraits. She replies with a yes. Another woman, when talking about her beauty, says, “It im-

Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign only perpetuates standards of what a woman “should” be — beautiful. pacts the choices and the friends that we make, the jobs we apply for, our children — it impacts everything.”

There’s the problem. There is certainly something to be said about the importance of fostering selfesteem. And that woman is correct — the confidence you have in yourself does affect every aspect of your life: the way you present yourself in a job interview, the comments you make to your children. But the answer to this problem is not to just tell women that they really are beautiful, even if they can’t see it. Instead, we have to stop thinking that beauty is so important at all and emphasize that this essential confidence needs to come from other places.

Not everyone is beautiful. It’s a

simple fact of aesthetics, genetic luck and cultural trends, a statement no different than saying that not everyone is smart or athletic or funny. Yes, people appreciate different kinds of beauty, but not everyone is beautiful.

The fact that some see this as a controversial statement is a testament to how we overvalue beauty — especially the beauty of women.

We live in a society that scrutinizes whether a female politician is wearing makeup, in which tabloids obsess over celebrities’ ability to gain and lose weight, and studies have proven that women who don’t wear makeup to work are considered unprofessional. Little girls are told they’re beautiful instead of that they’re nice, smart or fast. Rather than try to redefine the way our society values beauty, Dove’s “Real Beau-

ty” campaign and similar efforts, while undoubtedly inspired by good intentions, only perpetuate standards of what a woman “should” be — beautiful. They are still saying that being beautiful is important and necessary, even if they’re trying to open up what the definition of what beauty is.

Women should feel comfortable in their own skin, and society should reconsider what it values as attractive and desirable. But telling someone that her face isn’t as fat or that her nose isn’t as prominent as she thinks does not do that. It’s still privileging thinness and youth as the only acceptable and desirable standards of beauty. It’s still saying that it matters whether or not a woman is beautiful. There’s nothing revolutionary about that.

I, like many women, enjoy being complimented on my looks, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. But I appreciate being complimented on my writing or being told that I’m a good friend or receiving a positive comment from a professor much more than I like being told that my hair looks good. We need to make women — and men — realize that a woman’s beauty is one of the least important things about her. Ugly men go unchallenged, but ugly women are disrespected, mocked and dehumanized. Campaigns like Dove’s do nothing to change that.

As Tina Fey said in her memoir, “Bossy Pants,” “Always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: Who cares?”

It’s time we stop caring.

Victoria Edel is a junior in the College and managing editor of The Hoya.

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will never forget a gift that a into the cold pre-dawn air, we Jesuit brother of mine named were greeted by a deafening siJohn gave me during my first lence. “Where are we going?” I semester at Fordham University, again demanded. He stopped, where I studied philosophy many looked me in the eye and told me years ago. The gift came on a cold he was taking me to his favorite December morning after I had diner for breakfast. When I probeen studying all day for a final tested that I still had studying to examination I was slated to take do, he stopped me and asked me early the next morning on every- to look around. thing Aristotle. I had put in many He said: “See all those stars up hours at the library preparing for in the sky? See all of these buildthis exam, and even though I was ings filled with thousands of peoexhausted, I had trouble falling ple? They could care less about asleep because I was so anxious. how you do on your Aristotle The reasons for my anxiety exam. You have lost perspective, were valid. The material pre- Patrick, and that’s why I’m taksented to us during the course of ing you to breakfast. You need to the semester was vast, and most see that there is life beyond this of the Aristotelian concepts were exam, this course and this prorather difficult gram. Oh, and for me to underit’s my treat, so stand. I felt overstop your moanwhelmed and ing and lighten i n c o mp e te n t , up. You’ll do just convinced that I fine.” What I rewas going to fail member most and embarrass about our shared myself. meal was the After tossing simple laughter Fr. Patrick Rogers, S.J. that we shared and turning for hours, I finally and how the tengave up on sleep sion in my body When we stumble, and wandered just melted away. weary-eyed and As we apcommunity angry down to proach final holds us up. the Jesuit kitchen examinations, I to get a cup of tea urge students to and try my best to relax before not lose perspective and to try hitting the books again. It didn’t to recognize that their lives are work. My anxiety only increased about more than one exam, one and as my anxiety increased, so course or even an entire college did my anger. career. All of these things are imAs I sat there stewing about my portant, we know, but when they lot in life (and how much I hated become the gauge by which we Aristotle), John, a Jesuit Scholas- judge our dignity and worth, we tic a few years ahead of me in our have lost perspective and need to program came down to the kitch- be reminded that even when we en to begin his day. He was the stumble and fall that this great earliest riser in our house and thing we call community surwas surprised to see me sitting at rounds us and holds us up. the kitchen table with brooding So, thank you Fr. John Gavin, eyes, exuding an air of tension S.J., who is now at the College of that could be cut with a knife. He the Holy Cross, for helping me asked me why I was up so early, find perspective at a time when and before I knew it, I was spew- I really needed it. I’ve never foring forth all of my frustration gotten John’s thoughtful and and anger. Both barrels full bore! kind gesture to me and hope After listening to me intently, that we here on the Hilltop can he walked away, leaving me to show our deep care and affecstew in my own dark place. Sur- tion for each other by encouragprisingly, though, he appeared ing each other to recognize our moments later wearing his win- dignity and worth not in what ter coat and ordered me to go get we do but rather in who we are mine. When I demanded to know becoming. what he wanted me to do, he just repeated somewhat sternly, “Go Fr. Patrick Rogers, S.J., is the get your coat.” director of Catholic Campus I still don’t know why I lis- Ministry and Main Campus tened, but I did, meeting him at Outreach. This is the final apthe door of our Jesuit residence pearance of AS THIS JESUIT moments later. As we stepped SEES IT … this semester.

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he spiritual teaching of St. Ig- Francis show us this joy in their natius of Loyola calls for all of own light. What may seem to be humanity to use individual grand changes to tradition with gifts and talents “for the greater the shedding of minor vestments glory of God and the salvation of and customs are not fundamental humanity.” Each person has his alterations to the faith. Francis or her own intrinsic style of living, wants to evangelize a culture that leading and loving. In this same is distracted from this joy and his vein, each pope has a unique style actions have captured the attenof leading the Catholic faithful. tion of people who otherwise may Catholics believe that the Holy have continued being distracted.

Spirit was sent by Jesus Christ to He is turning each of us back to guide His Church on Earth, as Christ. Christ alone infuses this joy stated in the Gospel of John. Thus, in us and if Francis’ actions show when the cardinals are sealed in us this, we pray that he continues. the Sistine Chapel, it is the Holy However, we must not overlook Spirit who guides them to elect the the other aspects of his character next Vicar of Christ. The influence and teaching style that Francis is of the Spirit allows each conclave showing us in these early days of to elect the man whose talents and his pontificate. For those who may style will best lead the Church. think that Francis is ushering in a Jorge Bergoglio is the man the new era of change, recall what he Church needs today to lead, just said in a homily on April 6. as in 2005, Joseph Ratzinger was “The faith isn’t negotiable.” the man the Church needed and “There has been, throughout in 1978, Karol Wojtyla. In terms [the] history of the people, this of doctrine temptation: to and teachchop a piece off ing, John Paul [of] the faith,” Francis’ simplicity will II lived and the temptation allow the Church to return to to be a bit “like Benedict XVI championed everyone else,” its fundamentals. what thenthe temptation Cardinal Ratz“not to be so inger called very rigid.” the “hermeneutic of continuity,” “But when we start to cut down which means that the Church’s the faith, to negotiate faith, a little interpretation of the Revelation like selling it to the highest bidder, of Christ is the same yesterday, we take the path of apostasy, of distoday and forever. This continuity loyalty to the Lord.” is essential to understanding the Francis also made several comChurch’s teaching on any given is- ments on the reality of the devil sue that respects the truth of Mag- or the “Evil One” as he recently isterial teachings. There is no evi- tweeted. These comments reveal a dence that Pope Francis I will not man who has a deep awareness and continue this hermeneutic during respect of Church teaching and the his papacy. spiritual life.

The differences between BeneSo what do we take from all of dict and Francis will be stylistic, not this? Francis is a humble servant substantive, just as the differences chosen by the Holy Spirit to lead between John Paul II and Benedict the Church of Christ in a time of were of personality, not of doctrinal great need and evangelization. He interpretation. There is no doubt is facing many challenges from that John Paul II, Benedict XVI and both within and outside of the Francis are different leaders of the Church. He will bring a simplicity Church, but their leadership quali- and humility to the Vatican, which ties are equally beautiful examples will inspire reform, clean house of how to live the Gospel and bear and bring people back to the meswitness to Christ. sage and joy of knowing Christ.

Francis’ simplicity and humility Most importantly, he will continue will allow the Church to return to the hermeneutic of continuity — a its fundamentals. In his inaugural continuity that has been present homily, Francis asked the world over the last 2,000 years. Together not to be afraid of “goodness” and let us pray for Pope Francis, that he “tenderness” and to allow the un- may lead us all to Christ, who is the conditional love of Christ to fill way, the truth and the life. their hearts. Pope Francis calls all Catholics and the world to leave Christopher Cannataro and all behind and to follow Christ.

Louis Cona are sophomores in Christianity is about the joy that the McDonough School of Busicomes from knowing Jesus Christ. ness and the College, respecJohn Paul II, Benedict XVI and now tively.

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people with similar interests right away,” El-Asmar said.

Abi Dila Vega (MSB ’17), a Texas naWhile the Class of 2017 will de- tive whose hometown is 90 percent scend on the Hilltop for the second Hispanic, added that she is using the GAAP weekend in a row tomorrow to group to ease her adjustment to East take in their first breaths of George- Coast culture. town air and meet their first friends, “Where I live is sort of a bubble,” Facebook has been facilitating an ex- Dila Vega said. “I’m looking forward tended sort of meet and greet since to meeting people of all types with so early action decisions were released many different perspectives.” in December.

While some used the group to “People are introducing them- connect with fellow prospective stuselves; it’s a nice way to get to know dents, others asked for advice about people before you really get to meet whether to enroll in Georgetown as them and kind of see what people are well as campus opportunities and like in general,” Yijing Yang (SFS ’17) the student body. said. “It’s a nice little community that “It is amazing to see how the other formed on Facebook.” accepted students then manage to For the third year running, the convince those who post their colGeorgetown Admissions Ambassador lege decisions to choose Georgetown Program, which also organizes the because of the reasons they have weekends on campus, launched an decided to choose Georgetown,” official Facebook page for the incom- Delaney said. “The convincing coming freshman ponent of the class. According “From questions about Facebook groups to GAAP Board primarily exists President Mur- the roommate search to among the acphy Kate Delaney cepted students (COL ’13), the of- Otto Porter’s decision to themselves.” ficial Facebook enter the draft, Neil Sarma group serves as (NHS ’17), who a centralization conversation is always chose Georgeof ad hoc groups town over King’s that operated in flowing.”

College London, the past. said that the “GAAP saw Facebook group CAROLINE FARR (SFS ’17) GAAP Facebook Group User this as an opplayed an imporportunity to be tant role in his a true resource for current students decision. and decided to centralize the old sys“It was good just hearing other peotem with an ‘official’ Facebook group ple’s opinions, especially since there for Georgetown’s accepted students,” are international students on there,” Delaney wrote in an email. “The Face- Sarma said. “It was really good to hear book group facilitates many accepted opinions of people [who] live in the students’ becoming friends on Face- U.K.” book and then later friends at GeorgeKira Lin (NHS ’17), an international town.” student from Myanmar, said that she She added that many accepted used the GAAP group to get a feel students meet each other in person for both American culture and the at the GAAP weekends and can find Georgetown environment. their future roommates via the Face“Through knowing the people who book group. will be at Georgetown, we might be Many prospective students posted able to be more confident and content short biographies and bonded over about going there,” Lin said. “Somecommon backgrounds, interests and times, to be honest, I felt scared. Most extracurricular activities. students are from the States, and I Jupiter El-Asmar (SFS ’17) said that feel [that] they tend to talk to and like he used the group to get a sense of each other more.” the Georgetown student body.

Overall, many students said that “It was nice to meet some people communicating on the GAAP group through Facebook I didn’t know be- helped to assure them that they fore lived right in my area, and it is would be able to make friends at also pretty cool that we can meet Georgetown.

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While students will flock to campus for the second GAAP event this weekend, the ambassador program’s official Facebook page has been answering newcomers’ questions and helping friendships form for months.

“Before I had been going on the GAAP Facebook group, I was worried about [whether] there would be other people who were like me and my friends or [whether] I would have any trouble making friends,” Neena Aggarwal (NHS ’17) said. “But I’ve been meeting a lot of people who are very similar to me.”

Some students are hopeful that the connections they make now could last until next year.

“It will be nice to arrive on campus in August and already know a few people,” Caroline Farr (SFS ’17) said.

“It’s also a great place for discussion, from questions about the roommate search to Otto Porter’s decision to enter the draft — conversation is always flowing.”

Some current Georgetown students also post on the group to answer ac-

cepted students’ questions and provide firsthand advice.

Andrew Lyu (SFS ’16) said that he checks the GAAP group occasionally to provide information to admitted students.

“I scan for … questions that pertain to things I’m really interested in,” Lyu said.

For example, Lyu recently answered a student’s post that expressed worries that Georgetown would be overwhelmingly politically conservative.

“He talked about how Georgetown kids tend to be of a certain political thought, and I said that was blatantly not true and that Georgetown embraces political diversity,” Lyu said.

“We’re in a city that is conducive to being of any political belief, and that if he really cared he should come.”

Some current students said that

they found the Facebook group a good idea in theory but irritating in practice.

“It’s a good idea for people to be able to post questions,” Lena Rothfarb (COL ’16) said. “But it ended up being kind of weird with people posting questions, like, ‘Oh my God, what color sheets are you bringing?’ or, ‘I’m so excited, Hoya Saxa!’ every minute, and I had to turn off the notifications for that group.”

Zahid Syed (COL ’16) agreed, but added that the 2016 group, still active among freshmen, was more useful once the school year began.

“I thought that it was really too vague and general,” he said. “The one thing that I think it’s useful for is selling basketball tickets. I thought that was an easy way to contact students and exchange tickets.”

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For current and former residents of Darnall and Harbin Halls, this weekend will be full of dorm-specific activities. The groups will celebrate the third annual Eleanor Darnall Day on Saturday and the newly revived Harbin Day on Friday. But students who lived in New South Hall or Village C will be involved in no such celebrations.

Craig Melcher (MSB ’13), Murphy Kate Delaney (COL ’13), Chris Yedibalian (COL ’13) and Mike Appau (COL ’13), who attended the last Harbin Day as freshmen in spring 2010, pushed to re-establish the event, which will take place on Harbin Patio tonight.

“It was an awesome memory of being outside and hanging out with your friends and we wanted to bring that back for

us in our senior year and provide that to the freshmen as well,” Melcher said.

Melcher said that there is no connection between the events in the two dormitories.

Harbin Day, originally founded in 2007, has not been held for two years, whereas Darnall residents have been celebrating the birthday of Eleanor Darnall, Georgetown founder John Carroll’s mother, only since 2011. Both current and former residents are invited to the celebration.

“It’s to bring everyone together, upperclassmen to freshmen,” Vice President of Event Planning for Darnall Hall Robert Iannaccone (NHS ’16) said. “It’s also to celebrate how great Darnall is. [Darnall] has a reputation [for] being one of the worst dorms, but you form close relationships and really enjoy it.”

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Past and current residents of Harbin Hall and Darnall Hall will celebrate their dorm experiences on Friday and Saturday, while other freshman dorms do not organize comparable events.

Some freshmen in New South and Village C objected to the absence of celebrations in those dorms.

“Residence hall celebration days should be something for all of the dorms, not just some of them,” Village C West resident Zoe Rosen (COL ’16) said.

“VCW should work to have one next year.”

On the other hand, Riya Modi (COL ’16), a New South resident, did not think that a New South Day would be necessary.

“Every day is New South Day, so I don’t really mind,” Riya Modi (COL ’16) said. “But if there was one, I probably would stop by for some free food and to hang out with everyone.”

InterHall Council, the Students of Georgetown Inc.’s philanthropy committee and WGTB will fund Harbin’s celebration.

Since this year’s celebration was due to the efforts of its organizers, it is not certain whether a Harbin Day will be held next year.

Though Darnall Day is open to all of the hall’s current and past residents, Harbin Day is open only to freshmen residents and seniors who lived in Harbin.

“We hope it will be a good memory to wrap up the freshman year specific to their residence hall,” Melcher said. “It’s kind of a way to wrap up the community experience.”

Jaysel Shah (SFS ’16) is excited to have the chance to celebrate with her Harbin hall mates one last time.

“I am going to miss Harbin so much after I leave, so the event would be a great way to see everyone I’ve met throughout the year,” Shah said.

Harbin’s event will feature cornhole, Frisbee and burgers from the Georgetown University Grilling Society, while Darnall’s will feature tailgate-themed activities, such as “Pie the Hall Director” and soda pong.

“I’m definitely planning on going to Harbin Day,” Zaynab Malik (COL ’16) said. “There’s nothing better than sunshine, friends and GUGS burgers.”

Georgetown as a whole,” Davis said.

On the Washington campus, Chief InIT Department in Qatar is an extension formation Officer Lisa Davis indicated of Georgetown’s University Information that the main campus is also looking to expand technology with the TechnologyServices.

“They are using the same infrastruc- Enhanced Learning Initiatives.

Davis said that the program is in its ture that we have,” Davis said. “They back up to our servers, and our teams speak if early phases, with faculty currently subnot weekly, daily across both campuses.” mitting proposals to better integrate But Davis conceded that certain as- technology into the classroom experipects of SFS-Q facilitate the implementa- ence. The initiative will move forward tion of new technologies that could not once a committee considers the proposals, but Davis declined to provide a furas easily take root in D.C. Davis said that SFS-Q is better-posi- ther timeline.

Other projects on the main campus tioned to pilot new technologies, including the iPad initiative and a trial of the include the modernization of printing web content management software Dru- and the addition of Wi-Fi connections in Healy Hall and White-Gravenor Hall. pal.

According to SFS-Q Chief Information Davis hopes for the campus to have ubiqOfficer Johnathon Chapman, the cam- uitous Wi-Fi by December. An iPad pilot pus’s relatively small size and young age program with the Georgetown University are particularly advantageous for the Medical Center is also in its initial stages. implementation of new technology.

“We’re working to move IT at George“It’s very easy to get town from a service involved with technol- “It’s very easy to get provider model to a ogy when you’re small fully integrated partand young,” he said. “As involved with ner of our academic any institution becomes and research mislarger … you already technology when you’re sions and a key facilihave more systems that small and young.” tator of innovation at you’ve already made sigGeorgetown,” Davis JOhnathon chapman nificant investments in, said.

SFS-Q Chief Information Officer so you have a lot less jusJones and Chaptification to go off and man also acknowltry a new direction [of technology].” edge that some of SFS-Q’s most recent The larger scale of the main campus, technological innovations, such as the on the other hand, renders updating use of iClickers, originated on main camtechnology more inefficient. pus. Many of their resources, such as “It makes it more challenging because Blackboard and the main video content of the decentralized nature of how we op- sharing system, also first came into use erate to try to find a solution that meets on the Washington campus. the majority of our stakeholders,” Davis “We take full advantage of the resaid. sources that are provided by main camAnother factor that distinguishes SFS- pus, and, in many ways, what we do in Q from the main campus is funding. Be- our classrooms is not that unlike what is cause of the smaller student body and fac- happening innovatively in Georgetown’s ulty in Qatar, Jones said that technologic classrooms,” Jones said. “It’s very much a advancements are built into the school’s parallel effort.” regular budget. Technology spending for Chapman said that he believes that the main campus, however, is complicated main campus is not far behind Qatar in because spending outside of UIS in oth- terms of technological advancement. er departments is nearly double that of “Modernization projects are moving UIS’s budget.

Georgetown, in Washington, up into the “There is money being spent on tech- same level as and probably beyond us [at nology [at the main campus], but what Qatar],” Chapman said. “We’ll be doing we need to do is be smarter about where some leapfrog. We just have the advanwe’re making those technology invest- tage of being the young person here, so ments and consider how [they benefit] we’re able to do some new stuff.”

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Profs Mixed on Digital Texts Lifted Keg Limit Aligns TEXTBOOKS, from A1 Microeconomics, a textbook popular among economics professors, costs $85 for a 180 day e-textbook rental whereas the regular price for a physical book is $243, according to CourseSmart, a company providing digital textbooks.

Behzad Diba, a professor of economics, agreed that the price advantage was enough to justify the shift to electronic textbooks.

“I basically opted for it because it seemed like a better deal for my students,” he said.

Professors who decide to use e-textbooks may also have a new tool in their arsenal with CourseSmart Analytics, which tracks students’ progress through electronic textbooks and generates a progress report that can be seen by instructors.

Cindy Clarke, senior vice president of marketing at CourseSmart believes that Analytics, which was introduced November 2012, has the potential to dramatically improve classroom performance and be a valuable tool for instructors.

“We have already seen the disruptive benefits of analytics in industries such as e-commerce, entertainment and search

where this technology has improved and enhanced the user experience to better meet their interests and preferences,” Clarke wrote in an email. “We see similar potential for analytics in higher education, where this technology … will measure student engagement and provide a means of early intervention so faculty can help at-risk students be successful in their studies.”

Analytics is being beta-tested at several schools, including the University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Buffalo and Clemson University, and is currently expected to be released in the fall.

“CourseSmart has received an overwhelming positive response from users, many of them citing the utility it provides in gauging what areas of the course might require additional focus or explanation to better engage students,” Clarke wrote. “Faculty and administrators also believe CourseSmart Analytics will provide valuable data to help them get optimum value and ROI [return on investment] for their schools’ digital implementation strategies.”

While some professors are readily jumping on board to

use technology, others are more apprehensive.

Classics professor Douglas Boin (COL ’99) said schools should prioritize this technology’s focus on administrative tools, adding that grading and teaching technology should be pursued only when that foundation is in place.

“Tracking progress of reading textbooks, I think for an administrator, might be extremely useful and might generate a lot of useful data, but I’m not sure about faculty yet,” Boin said.

Technology could also allow professors to gather more data about how students are studying outside of class, government professor Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., said.

“If you’re a professor, you need to think about how students are digesting this material,” Carnes said. “They come in for 75 minutes, and you get to talk to them, but are they thinking about this material outside of class, are they talking about it? That’s where I find this kind of thing really helpful.”

Some students, however, are wary of software like CourseSmart Analytics.

“I would prefer not to have [Analytics]. That’d be a little invasive,” Braunfeld said.

Tutors Turn to Neighborhood Lacey Henry

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While many students already travel to Wards 7 and 8 to tutor each week for D.C. Reads and D.C. Schools Project, some will be staying closer to campus, participating in Georgetown University Student Tutors, a new group that will tutor at Georgetown public schools next fall.

Lindsay Fountain (SFS ’15) and Ambika Kumar (MSB ’14) decided to found GUST after noticing a lack of after-school programming while working at Hardy Middle School in Georgetown.

“We have a lot of really good, strong tutoring programs on campus, but they are very focused. So a school like Hardy, located in beautiful Georgetown, but still experiencing those serious issues with achievement gaps, couldn’t get help,” Fountain said. “We were trying to found a very flexible, all-purpose tutoring service that will cater to schools that are interested, but don’t qualify for current Georgetown help.”

They established GUST to

address this need. Kumar said that the club will focus in particular on schools with diverse student bodies.

“It was strange because you would think a school located in an affluent area like Glover Park would have the resources to fund after-school tutoring programs or students who receive private tutoring,” Kumar wrote in an email. “But because of the way public schools are getting redistricted, this is not the case at all.”

Fountain added that tutoring will become even more important with the upcoming closure of 15 Washington, D.C. public schools, the effects of which will be felt in Georgetown.

“A lot of those kids are shifted into schools like Hardy so they’re receiving an influx of kids that might come from weaker schools,” Fountain said.

“We think they deserve just as much help as any other kid.”

GUST intends to hold a formal recruitment process in the fall to add to its current staff of 13 tutors. In comparison to other tutoring groups on campus, GUST will involve a less intensive time commitment.

“I was planning to try to do either D.C. Schools or D.C. Reads this coming fall, but with this new organization, I should be able to tutor without having to go far from campus which is much more convenient,” Whitney Pratt (COL ’14) said. “I appreciate and applaud those who take the time to go off campus and help children who need tutoring, especially those in other wards and parts of the city, but I haven’t been able to find enough time to do that so GUST is a way for me to contribute anyway.”

“Anyone tutoring is doing a good thing. There’s no wrong group to join. Ours we think is a little bit easier on the student schedule,” Fountain added.

Next fall Anna Dai (MSB ’15) and Meghan Anand (SFS ’15) will take over the primary leadership roles as president and treasurer, respectively.

“We just recently met altogether for the first time at our new club retreat, and I am really looking forward to working with such enthusiastic and interesting Hoyas during the upcoming year,” Dai wrote. “I can’t wait to see where this will

Director to Help City Relations DIRECTOR, from A1 Lee said that the interview process is under way.

“What I am really looking for, given our commitment to engaging the city, is someone who has experience with city government — either the legislative branch or the executive branch — someone who brings experience from all parts of the city,” Lee said.

Lee noted that she wants to the new director to have experience with broader District government, as opposed to just Wards 2 or 3 in the areas adjacent to the university, and to be receptive to student input.

“I think this person will work with the city council, work with the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, and we would love to have our students engaged with these offices,” Lee

said.

To incorporate student opinion, the OCE will also hold regular office hours for students to discuss issues related to the city beginning next fall.

“The students are the bread and butter of why we are here,” Lee said. “To be able to represent students and their interests and what makes sense for the future of Georgetown really makes sense for us.”

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KEGS, from A1 Tisa speculated that the change would shift DPS officers’ role in controlling oncampus parties.

“Safety is still a very important part of everything,” Tisa said. “I think this is a step in the right direction of having DPS just ensure safety and monitor without breaking up parties unless certain boundaries are crossed.”

According to Tisa, the swift university response to GUSA’s proposal was a testament to Olson’s willingness to engage in open discussion with the student association, especially in anticipation of Georgetown Day next Friday.

The student association also passed a bill calling for treatment of Georgetown Day as a weekend night in terms of disciplinary action. According to Tisa, this fall’s elimination of the party registration system will ensure that parties are allowed on Georgetown Day, whereas in past years, the inability to register a party until 5 p.m. has led to disciplinary consequences. Tisa said expectations for public spaces, including Healy Lawn, would be released in the next week.

“There was a real willingness to talk about this stuff,” Tisa said. “We were explaining the mechanics of beer pong to Dr. Olson and neighborhood representatives, talking in real terms. … There was a real push on the timeline.”

Tisa added that GUSA wishes to evaluate other on-campus party rules, such as outdoor space and quiet hours.

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Administrators hope eliminating the keg limit will encourage social life on campus. off-campus house is having a backyard.

We want to look at the way we use outdoor space in Village A and Nevils,” Tisa said. “We want to reassess and extend oncampus quiet hours to mirror reality. Bars close at 2 [a.m.], and right now quiet hours start at 2.”

Olson said he would consider further changes but would not discuss any at this time.

Hoya Staff Writer Emma Hinchliffe contributed reporting.

Presidential Budget Would Increase GU Aid, Funding BUDGET, from A1 the student interest rates was concerning.

Another provision in the Obama budget that could significantly affect students is a proposed $150 million increase to the federal work-study program. The increase, however, would come with the stipulation that jobs be related to students’ field of study.

“It may be harder for institutions like Georgetown to get those kinds of jobs designed,” Fleming said.

Nonetheless, federal work-study participant Laura Caro (SFS ’16) said that she was excited about the idea of the change because it might mean she could seek more meaningful work than under the current workstudy scheme.

“A lot of people in work-study are just swiping people into dorm halls, so I think forcing the university to connect the jobs to a person’s field of study is a really good choice,” Caro said. “I know the reason for me why it’s really hard to find a paid internship is that I just can’t afford to give up time where I could be making money. It would be amazing to be able to do both simultaneously.”

Fleming also noted that the Obama budget plan would restore funding for Title VI — a program that in part supports international education programs such as the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies; the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; and the East Asia Center at Georgetown — to 66 percent of the budget before the 2011 cuts took effect.

Victor Cha, the director of the East Asia Center, had mixed opinions on the president’s initiative following the cuts that Title VI suffered as a result of the 2011 debt ceiling crisis.

“In today’s budget environment, I guess this should be applauded,” Cha wrote in an email. “But the [2011] cuts to Title VI are lit-

erally pocket change in the larger national budget-cutting context and yet they are so critically important to funding foreign language study, scholarships and teaching at the universities in the [United States] like Georgetown that are committed to training our next generation of diplomats, scholars and experts about different regions of the world.”

Another provision in the budget that could impact the lives of Georgetown students is a potential restructuring of the Perkins loan program, whose revolving loan fund ensures that student repayment is reinvested in future students. The Perkins loan program’s survival hinges on Congress’ reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a separate measure from the budget proposal which is set to expire within the next year.

“If Congress doesn’t pass the president’s budget plan or if it doesn’t act unilaterally within the next year or so, [the program] is going to expire and that is going have major, major consequences on the lives of some students here,” Fleming said.

According to Georgetown’s Office of Student Financial Services, 824 Georgetown students during the current academic year receive funds from the Perkins program, totaling just under $5 million. The total Perkins Loan Revolving Fund at Georgetown has about $34 million.

Dupree Daniels (COL ’16) said that he most likely would not be at Georgetown without the assistance of the Perkins loan program.

“For this scholarship to be taken from me would be so detrimental to me and my family,” Daniels said. “It would be such a huge step down going on from Georgetown.”

Daniels said that he could barely imagine both the disappointment and shame he would feel if he were to lose the money he receives from the federal government.

“Going to Georgetown and having to go right back — it would be a horrible thing to tell my kids,” Daniels said.

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EMILY BROWN Hoya Staff Writer

To increase dialogue about the Arab-Israeli conflict, a group of Georgetown students revived J Street U, a pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy group, this semester.

Although a chapter of J Street U was established at Georgetown in the fall of 2011, the group became inactive this fall after many of its members graduated. Scott Stirrett (SFS ’13) said that he hopes to re-establish the organization’s presence on campus before graduating in May. According to Stirrett, J Street seeks to expand nationwide conversation about what it means to be pro-Israel in the United States and supports the two-state solution to the ArabIsraeli conflict.

Molly Wartenberg (SFS ’16), who grew up surrounded by heavily pro-Israel relatives and felt conflicted upon learning about the actions of the Israeli government, said that the unique message of J Street U appealed to her.

“J Street says that you can be pro-Israel in that it has the right to exist without being proIsrael in the sense that you agree with what its government is doing,” Wartenberg said.

When current President Jake Sorrells (COL ’16) approached Wartenberg earlier this year about the idea of reviving J Street U at Georgetown, she was instantly interested in the organization.

“As he was telling me more about what J Street does, I became very excited because I didn’t realize that there was an organization out there like this, that I wasn’t an outlier and [that] other people felt the same way,” Wartenberg said.

Although members of J Street U have reached out to other campus organizations, including Students for Justice in Palestine and the Georgetown Israel Alliance, they say the organization’s message is distinct.

“I feel like you have two polar sides, with Georgetown Israel Alliance and Students for Justice in Palestine,” Wartenberg said. “I don’t think there’s much dialogue and common ground. I see J Street as a good, moderate place for discussion about the conflict without disrespecting other people’s views.”

Sorrells agreed that his organization has a narrower focus than GIA. Stirrett said that although J Street U’s work is consistent with GIA’s, J Street’s distinct status as a separate group allows it to focus on a two-state solution.

“We definitely have a very positive work-

ing relationship with GIA. GIA is a great organization, and we very much think that we have complementary goals,” Stirrett said.

“They do some political advocacy in terms of pro-Israel, but J Street U has a more specific focus on ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a two-state solution, which is probably something GIA advocates for as well, but it’s not [its] main burning issue.”

“Both J Street and GIA are very much about supporting and celebrating Israel,” Sorrells added.

However, GIA Co-Vice President Nitzan Gabai (SFS ’16), an Israeli-American who served in the Israel Defense Forces, disagreed with the strategies J Street uses to achieve its goals.

“The main idea of J Street is that it just has its own specific premise on social issues within Israel and social justice within Israeli society, solving all of the inequalities and problems that exist right now in Israel, and [it wants] to do that through lobbying and pressure from U.S. government officials,” Gabai said. “While I definitely want those changes that J Street is talking about to happen, I just believe that they should come from within the country, from within our own sovereign government.”

Despite the groups’ differences, Stirrett said that J Street U has a solid foundation to build on.

“I think it’s encouraging now that we have about two years of programming history,” he said. “I think we’ve been able to prove that this is not just a one-semester organization but something that can last longer.”

J Street U has held one general interest meeting so far that drew approximately 20 attendees. The group’s leaders hope to focus on building personal connections with other members of the organization.

“The first time around, we didn’t really focus too much on establishing a real community and building relationships with individuals … to really foment that group so we have a launching pad in the fall,” Sorrells said.

Georgetown J Street U also played host to the national organization’s regional workshop for the southeastern United States in February and sent several students to the J Street U national student conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this year.

Stirrett is confident that the future of J Street U is bright.

“I think that J Street U will continue to grow in size,” he said. “It provides a really important and valuable voice in the Georgetown community.”

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While the Georgetown Model United Nations team frequently travels to compete, its trips are usually limited to four-hour bus rides to Yale University or the University of Pennsylvania. But last month, GUMUN flew 21 hours to Melbourne, Australia, for WorldMUN, joining nearly 2,000 students from 55 countries to debate world issues.

The conference, sponsored by Harvard University, marked the first time Georgetown, the topranked North American team for the past two semesters, has attended a conference outside North America.

“WorldMUN … brings together the greatest assortment of college students from around the globe to engage in cultural exchange, diplomacy and cooperation,” Georgetown team member Anais Carmona (SFS ’14), who has attended 13 college Model UN conferences, said. “This one was an experience that I don’t think I will ever have in any other conference we go to, as diverse as our circuit in the [United States] is.”

During the five-day international conference, attendees represented countries in committee sessions in order to create UN resolutions, a process that involves extensive debate and compromise. For example, Tanzanian students represented Chile, while Georgetown students represented France; each had to advocate accordingly for their respective countries’ interests.

“It’s about finding out what international politics and negotiation and cooperation are really about,” Carmona said.

Team members said the largest difference between national MUN conferences and the WorldMUN event was the award structure.

According to team member Jeffrey Caso (SFS ’15), national MUN events are known for rewarding individual team success, whereas WorldMUN rewarded those who demonstrated the best diplomacy and collaboration.

“You’re really there to foster relationships and friendships and have that cultural experience,” Car-

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The Georgetown Model UN team takes a break from competing to visit kangaroos at the Melbourne Zoo during WorldMUN. mona added.

For example, Carmona spoke of her experience with a group of Venezuelan students the week following former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death.

“During lunch, we said, ‘Hey, we know this might be uncomfortable, but what is it like over there right now?’” Carmona said.

“They were so happy to be able to talk about it and were so happy we were interested in it.”

In addition to debating major world issues with peers from across the globe, students also received the opportunity to explore Melbourne and to interact with each other in more casual settings.

“WorldMUN knew you only had a week in Melbourne, and they wanted you to see the city, so they would organize events at night all over the city,” Caso said.

“It was very classy and very professional. … You would see the people you had been working with all day long, and you’d say: ‘Oh, I’ve seen you in a committee. You are representing Tanzania, where are you actually from?’”

Carmona said she enjoyed spending time with her fellow committee members over lunch, where they agreed to talk about anything other than Model UN. “This is where China and France become friends. This is where we decide to meet up for dinner or before the ‘out-of-committee social experience’ that WorldMUN offers,” Carmona said. “Then, back

rrinto the grind of things for another two and a half hours — debating, caucusing, speaking and convincing the other delegates on a certain plan.”

To secure funding for the trip, the International Relations Club, which oversees GUMUN, began fundraising last year, using the Campaign for Georgetown as a model. Overall, the club received support from 12 donors, including the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President.

GUMUN attends six to seven competitions each semester.

Earlier this semester, the team travelled to New Haven, Conn., Philadelphia, Montreal and San Francisco. The San Francisco conference was the team’s first trip away from the east coast.

“We are definitely a force to be dealt with,” Carmona said. “We are not only some of the best delegates on the circuit, but we also pride ourselves in being a family of Hoyas that have continued a tradition of excellence and fun.”

According to Caso, GUMUN is already looking ahead to next year’s conference, whose location has not yet been determined. Caso said that the team hopes to attend WorldMUN again, perhaps with a larger group.

“We’re going to try next year to start fundraising really early with the community, law firms — whomever we can receive donations from — because we want to make this a sustainable practice,” Caso said.

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Senior attack Rosie Corcoran posted a team-high three assists in Sunday’s 13-12 loss to Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.

Struggling RU Not Being Overlooked RUTGERS, from A10 said.

While improved shooting will go a long way toward securing a victory for the Hoyas, another key will be limiting turnovers.

Especially with Martinelli on the prowl, maintaining possession could very well be the difference between improving to 4-1 in the conference and dropping to 3-2.

“We are tracking things a little bit better in practice about, you know, who’s turning the ball over,” Fried said. “[We] make that a little bit more public to the team so that they’re

aware of it because I don’t think in practice you are always aware of when you turn the ball over.”

After Rutgers, Georgetown faces Villanova (5-7, 0-4 Big East) on Sunday. The team will then have one week to gear up for its last weekend of regular season play, during which it will face Connecticut and then one of its toughest opponents of the season in No. 5 Syracuse.

Play is scheduled to begin against Rutgers today at 3 p.m. in Piscataway, N.J., and Sunday’s game against the Wildcats is scheduled for noon in Villanova, Pa.

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Debating the Best Month in Sports W

hen Adam Scott lined up his 12-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole of the Masters on Sunday, the pressure was on. Obviously. But while it’s one thing to have the winning putt in the most famous golf tournament in the world dancing through your head, Scott had quite a bit more riding on his third stroke.

He was putting for posterity, the chance to be a hero remembered for emerging as the lovable winner in the year of the Tiger Woods drop scandal. He was putting for his home nation of Australia, which had yet to produce a winner at picturesque Augusta National. He was putting for himself, having come agonizingly close so many times to that elusive first major title. And whether he realized it or not, Scott’s putt on the 10th hole on Sunday was for the month of April.

Yes, the month of April had a lot on the line, too, as it attempted to stake its claim as the best sports month of the year. So when Scott sank the putt and earned himself the famed green jacket, he only added to the list of high-quality sports moments we see every fourth month of the year. But is April the best? Here is my list of the top three sports months of the year.

3) June — School’s out, and that means the end of the NBA and NHL seasons. For sports fans, this makes that sweet summer feeling even better. The Stanley Cup, the most storied trophy in sports, is on the line, a fleeting chance to see the next lucky team carve their name on Lord Stanley’s namesake.

For many, though, even that takes a back seat to the NBA Finals, the one championship series that rarely seems to disappoint. With so much history coalescing, like LeBron James duelling Kevin Durant as memories of Magic versus Bird fill the airwaves, the NBA Finals combine modern-day intrigue with historical significance for a captivating series. The transition between the two is nearly flawless as well, with just a few days’ wait — if any at all — between the end of the Stanley Cup and the start of the

NBA Finals.

But June has much more to offer than just that, with the premier competition in American golf taking place smack in the middle of the two. The U.S. Open brings the finest from around the world to the States to showcase their skills on flawlessly groomed courses throughout the nation. An added bonus comes every four years in the form of the World Cup, the world’s greatest sporting competition. The passion and the

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March has given us some of the most enduring memories in sports history. skill level are unmatched, but the infrequency of such a must-see event holds June back from even loftier heights in these rankings.

2) April — April is no stranger to some of the grandest events in sports.

For one, the start of April means the start of our national pastime. Opening Day, a quasi-holiday in this country, packs the pageantry and spectacle of our nation’s game neatly into one day. Planes zoom past overhead and the ball is finally placed on the mound once more. It’s a ritual that has been done countless times before but that still holds such spellbinding power over fans everywhere.

April also gives us the Masters, another event that knows about tradition. Just ask Adam Scott. There is something sublime about seeing the many shades of green at Augusta National in April. It is perhaps the most magical place in sports. All seems perfect there, and with good reason, we tune in each year to try and see if

any of the players can replicate the excellence before them. Despite the annual astronomical expectations, the Masters consistently entertains for four days each April.

1) March — The figurative and literal madness of the month places it at the top of this list of the best sports months of the year. March, it is said, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but thankfully that’s just not the case for these wild 31 days. College basketball conference tournaments dominate the headlines early on, and rightfully so; they joyfully foreshadow the coming of something far greater, a warm-up for a main event just waiting to add another chapter to its storybook history.

This sweet prelude soon gives way to the best sporting event in America: March Madness. Nothing can compare to the craziness of those final two weekends in March. Wall -to-wall games, upsets and buzzer beaters, heroes and villains, storylines and fairytale endings all come together in the most insane way possible. Everyone gets involved because everyone can find something to keep him or her invested in the madness of March.

It’s the month that has given us some of the most enduring characters and moments in sports. Christian Laettner’s shot. Stephen Curry.

Butler. No matter your level of fanhood, from casual observer to diehard fans, March is synonymous with the NCAA Tournament. At the same time excruciating and exhilarating, unbearable and unbeatable, March provides those moments that are sure to be remembered for a full 365 days. And nothing tops that.

The stage of March sports is reserved for college basketball, and the show certainly does not disappoint.

March Madness stands alone under the bright lights. It is a stage deservedly vacated. All make way for the madness.

Peter Barston is a freshman in the McDonough School of Business.

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Tom Schnoor Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown softball team (18-26, 7-6 Big East) enters the weekend somewhere that few would have thought possible a month ago: fifth place in the Big East.

The league this year is divided into two clear tiers. The first contains USF, Louisville, Notre Dame and DePaul, all of whom have double-digit numbers of conference wins and only one league loss.

Atop the second tier sit the Hoyas. The only member of the top tier that Georgetown has played is Notre Dame — a fact that has certainly helped its record — but nevertheless, the Blue and Gray have shown themselves to be a team to reckon with in the Big East this year.

Georgetown’s conference play has come as somewhat of a surprise after the Hoyas entered Big East competition with an 8-20 record.

Head Coach Pat Conlan attributes the turnaround to an improvement in consistency.

“Every part of our game right now is consistent,” Conlan said.

“Every game we play early on is to prepare us for the conference season. The benefit of playing half of our schedule prior to our first Big East game is that you get the cobwebs off.”

Georgetown received a bit of a respite from the rigors of conference play this week when it took on University of Maryland-Baltimore County (8-33, 1-11 America East) Wednesday afternoon.

The Hoyas displayed impressive discipline at the plate and took advantage of some wild pitching by the Retrievers to draw a seasonhigh 10 walks and cruise to a comfortable 8-3 victory.

Although the victory did not affect the Blue and Gray’s standing in the Big East, Conlan did not downplay its importance.

“We use our non-conference games to stay sharp for conference [play],” she said.

Georgetown returns to Big East play this weekend with a trip to Providence, R.I, for a three-game series against the last-place Friars

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Freshman shortstop Samantha Giovanniello had three RBIs against UMBC on Wednesday afternoon.

(14-23-1, 2-9 Big East).

Although the Friars have lost their past five conference games, all five defeats have come at the hands of No. 24 USF and No. 8 Louisville, two elite teams not only in the conference but also in the country as a whole.

Throwing records out the window, then, Conlan is sure that her team will not overlook Providence.

“I have been around long enough to know how wellcoached they are and what kind of team they put out on the field,” Conlan said. “Our league is tough from top to bottom, and there are still enough games for everyone to make a run at going to the Big East tournament.”

For the Hoyas, reaching the Big East tournament has been the goal since the start of the season; it is something that Georgetown has not accomplished in its four years of playing in the Big East.

Conlan, however, knows that the team has a lot to work on and a long way to go before it can celebrate. “[We need] to work on limiting little mistakes. We give teams too many opportunities that they continue to take advantage of,” Conlan said. “We are in a good place, but we still have a great deal of work left to do. We will be ready for Providence.”

it gave him more fire to come out and compete,” Murray said of his keeper. “Not only is he solid between the pipes, but he’s one of the most athletic kids on our team. He gives our defense another dimension.”

Haley’s athleticism was instrumental in Georgetown’s biggest play of the season thus far, as he stepped out of the cage to cover a St. John’s attackman when the Red Storm were clinging to a one-goal lead with under 30 seconds remaining April 6.

St. John’s subsequently turned the ball over, and the Hoyas went on to win in overtime — the aforementioned sole top-10 triumph of this senior class. If Georgetown had lost that game, its Big East tournament hopes would have been dashed.

In its first two matchups with the Orange, the senior class lost 15-12 at the Carrier Dome and 9-8 in overtime at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium when Syracuse was ranked No. 1.

Last year, the Blue and Gray turned things around, escaping upstate New York as 10-8 winners.

“As a freshman, that was definitely the best moment of the year,” sophomore attack Reilly O’Connor, who leads the team in points with 21 goals and 18 assists, said. “We

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Senior attack Travis Comeau, a Canada native, has had a storied career on the Hilltop, but that career lacks an NCAA tournament appearance. thought that victory would get us into the Big East tournament, but it didn’t. This year, we can reach that goal.”

The Orange are fresh off a 13-12 loss to Hobart on Wednesday night in a rivalry game that dates back to Syracuse’s first-ever game in 1916.

On Saturday, the visitors will be looking to avoid back-to-back losses to their two most hated rivals.

While their opponents will thus have a great deal of motivation,

Warne and the Hoyas will have more than their fair share as well.

“They’re our seniors — they’re my seniors. I give them a lot of credit for leading in the transition of the coaching staff,” Warne said. “Hopefully, the team can pay them back. It will be the last time that this team of 37 guys will be together at home.

We want to lead them out with a victory.”

Opening faceoff is slated for 1 p.m.

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Media Should Focus on Recovery BOSTON, from A10 out any worries of bureaucracy, overheightened security or danger of any kind getting in their way.

The Marathon is ours, and so is that atmosphere that comes with it.

Or, I should say, the atmosphere was ours.

After Monday, everything may have changed. In all likelihood, there will be no more bringing one’s kids right up to the course to let them watch, no more holding up cheesy signs to encourage the runners and no more suburban spectators watching the race from their lawns, views unobstructed. The heightened security that is sure to follow for future Boston Marathons is understandable, and maybe now it’s necessary, but that doesn’t mean it will have an overall positive effect.

The reason is that the atmosphere

surrounding the Boston Marathon is everything. Heightened security may seem a small change, but if the feeling surrounding Marathon Monday changes from one of jubilation to one of fear, it could be incredibly detrimental.

At the center, though, what every mass murderer is trying to do is not ruin a state tradition but wound the emotional state of those left living.

All too often after events like these, the lingering trauma is the only theme of the story, when it should instead be merely a very important theme in a far greater narrative. Our media has a tendency to focus solely on the damage that killers do to a community, rather than focusing on the ways a community picks itself up.

It’d be remiss to do that in this case.

I have immense pride in my city,

and I know it well enough to be confident its citizens will rally in much the same way as the Red Sox did against the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series. Part of the reason why Boston is so downright insane about its sports teams, I think, is because we want the success of our teams to reflect our overall attitude of strength and resilience as a city. Such an attitude will never be on more display than it will be in the aftermath of this terrible tragedy.

In the end, then, the only heartbreak that will have any staying power in Boston is Heartbreak Hill: No matter how long it takes, Boston’s marathon — and the city itself — will rise again, stronger than ever.

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

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Senior Charlie Caris won his final home singles match against George Mason last week. His next task — a Big East tourney win — will prove a bigger challenge.

Seeded Fifth, Men’s Team Seeking New Heights jonah cashdan Hoya Staff Writer

Today, the Georgetown men and women’s tennis teams will look to finish off their strong seasons at their respective Big East tournaments.

After recording 10 wins in its final 11 home matches, the men’s team (129, 3-0 Big East) managed to grab the fifth seed in the conference tournament, the highest seed that they have had since Head Coach Gordie Ernst took over on the Hilltop seven years ago.

“Look at the way the guys responded after losing a lot at the beginning of the year. Great finish,” Ernst told The Hoya earlier in the week. “I don’t think [the program has] been this high a seed since the late ’80s when we won it all.”

The Hoyas will begin tourney play in South Bend, Ind., against fourthseeded Marquette, a team that Georgetown last played in the 2011 Big East Championship consolation round.

That match ended in a 4-0 loss for the Blue and Gray.

This time around, the men’s side enters the tournament with a perfect record in what was a small stretch of conference play, and the Hoyas’ hot end to the season should provide momentum going into the first round

against Marquette.

Today’s winner will face the winner of the match between top-seeded Notre Dame and either No. 8 seed Connecticut or No. 9 St. John’s.

“I’m pumped for the boys to get some wins this weekend,” freshman Kevin Katz said.

The women (14-6, 3-3) also begin their Big East Championship play this week, but they are headed for warmer weather, with the tournament to be held at the University of South Florida.

Although the team is still feeling the effects of two tough defeats last weekend, the Blue and Gray understand that the regular season is now a thing of the past.

“What counts is what’s coming up this weekend,” Ernst said.

After its loss to Rutgers, the women’s team dropped to the seventh seed in the tournament, meaning that it will face 10th-seeded Pittsburgh on Friday.

Earlier this year, Georgetown defeated Pittsburgh 5-2 on the road.

In last year’s tournament, Georgetown swept Seton Hall 4-0 in the first round, but a 4-3 loss to DePaul ended the team’s season prematurely.

“We will come ready to play,” Ernst said.

The women begin play at 9 a.m. today, while the men will start at noon.

and by the time he resigned, he had only two.

Unsurprisingly, that incredibly small number restricted a lot of what Tabatznik was able to do.

“It was a different set-up in a way, that it was maybe harder for him to get some of those kids that were at that level,” Wiese said.

In spite of the men’s soccer team’s serious financial constraints, though, Georgetown was certainly not without its moments in the Tabatznik era.

In 1994, the American University graduate guided his local rival to its first-ever Big East regular season title as well as its first NCAA tournament berth. Three years later, Tabatznik made sure that the Hoyas weren’t one and done in their second trip to the tourney, as a 2-1 win over Virginia Commonwealth secured the program’s inaugural NCAA tournament victory.

Another, however, wouldn’t come for over a decade.

Enter Wiese.

‘WE JUST WERE MISSING SOMETHING’ Given the state of the program when he took over in 2006, the fit couldn’t have been more perfect on paper, and not just because of the new hire’s background in the Beautiful Game; the former Dartmouth captain and goalkeeper earned an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and later, in the midst of his coaching duties at the university, got his master’s from Stanford in 1998.

And while he rose to the challenge right away, the task that lay ahead of Wiese was one more of genetic, rather than mechanical, engineering.

After all, Georgetown still only had a couple of full-ride spots to

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After two weeks of meets close to home in Virginia, the Georgetown distance squad will make the flight to Southern California this weekend to compete at the historic 55th annual Mt. SAC Relays.

“We’ve been going to this meet for years and years, even before I arrived here,” Director of Track & Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said. “It’s probably one of the most famous meets in the world and one of the largest, so we use it primarily for the distance races, as there’s great competition in the 5000 [meters],” Every April, the Mt. SAC Relays play host to some of the best high school, collegiate and professional athletes from around the world. Set to compete at this year’s meet are world record-holding decathlete Ashton Eaton, 200m dash Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix and 400m relay Olympic gold medalist Carmelita Jeter.

Georgetown will compete in tonight’s segment of the weekend-long meet, known as the Collegiate Distance Carnival, which brings together some of the best distance athletes in the NCAA from the 1500m to 10,000m ranges.

“Friday night should bring some cool, still, dry air that will be very conducive to running fast distance times. That’s why we’re bringing 5000m runners out there — to try and get some NCAA regional qualifying times,” Henner said.

Competing in the 5000m for the Georgetown men will be junior Brian King and the sophomore trio of John Murray, Silas Frantz and Colin Leibold. Murray is currently in 66th position on the men’s East Regional 5000m performance list and needs to drop six seconds from his time to break into NCAA qualifying range this weekend.

Senior All-American and 5000m specialist Andrew Springer will not be competing in Walnut, Calif., as his current 5000m time puts him fourth on the NCAA regional qualifying list. All-American graduate student Mark Dennin will likewise not be competing due to an injury, but Dennin reportedly had a solid workout earlier this week and should be ready to return near the end of the outdoor season.

Competing for the women’s side will be senior Kirsten Kasper as well as sopho-

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Ricky Schramm (MSB ’07) was drafted by D.C. United after Wiese’s first season.

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Winger Andy Riemer (20) and central midfielder Ian Christianson (background) helped fundamentally change the program’s culture. offer when Wiese took the reins.

That wasn’t enough to stop him from dreaming big, as Wiese had his heart set on mimicking the immediate turnaround at Notre Dame that was pulled off by Bobby Clarke, his old boss in both South Bend and Palo Alto.

It didn’t happen.

The Hoyas finished just 3-8 in conference play and 6-11 overall in Wiese’s first year. Having failed to qualify for the Big East tournament, the team’s highlight was a telling one: an overtime win over lowly 1-15 Marquette in its season finale at North Kehoe Field.

Standout forward Ricky Schramm (MSB ’07) would be drafted in the third round by local Major League Soccer club D.C. United after the season, but the predominant mentality of the team that remained was hardly professional.

The blueprint going forward, in Wiese’s eyes, was clear: Bring in student-athletes with higher aspirations and good technical ability and let them go. The cultural shift that he sought to undertake was a difficult one, of course, as it first and foremost had to come from the new freshmen that were brought in each year.

“We weren’t bad, it wasn’t a bad side — we just were missing something to win some of these games,” he said. “If you have 25 players and 20 of them are trained to think a certain way and five are just coming into that environment, it’s very hard [to change things].”

And although it would take a full four-year cycle for Wiese’s vision to be truly realized, ripples of change started to appear in his third season for the Blue and Gray.

In 2008, the team finished 125-3 (Wiese’s best record by a full five games), and, while they once again didn’t qualify for the NCAA tournament, the Hoyas did win a game in the conference tourney for the first time under their new

coach.

Junior forward Steve Neumann, a Hermann Trophy semifinalist in 2012, was in high school in 2008 and right in the middle of his recruiting process. Georgetown’s improvement that year didn’t go unnoticed.

“I looked at it as a little bit of a program on the rise,” Neumann said. “Wiese was fairly new as a head coach and was taking the right kinds of steps to boost the program in the right direction.”

Then, in 2009 — the season before Neumann arrived at Georgetown — the table would finally be set: Out went another Tabatznik class, and in came a quartet that would change the course of the program’s history.

Barely recruited winger Andy Riemer, from right down the road in McLean, Va. Iowan central midfielder Ian Christianson. Center back and Florida native Tommy Muller. Attacking left back Jimmy Nealis of Long Island.

All four would go on to be drafted by MLS this past winter, and all four were shooting for that goal from Day 1.

“They saw the sort of building blocks, but they still had this internal [mentality] of, ‘Well, we’re going to be pros.’ There was no questioning, and they reinforced each other that way,” Wiese said.

“They were this little pod that kind of, amongst all the distractions and potential diversions, they [thought], ‘Everything we do is about winning and about being better soccer players.’”

The group’s first season didn’t live up to its lofty expectations, as Georgetown bowed out of the Big East tournament to DePaul on penalty kicks at North Kehoe.

The pros-to-be found themselves wanting more.

This is Part I of a two-part series on the rise of the Georgetown men’s soccer program. Part II will debut next Friday.

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Freshmen Zach Zingsheim (right) and Andrew Ogle (left) finished back-toback in last weekend’s 800m. mores Annamarie Maag and Kelsey Smith.

Kasper is currently sitting in 47th position on the East Regional performance list, one position in front of the cutoff point for qualification to the regional meet. Maag is currently in 65th position on the list, about seven seconds back from the 48th and final spot. If the weather holds up and the pace goes out quickly tonight, Kasper should strengthen her place in the qualifying standings and Maag should be able to threaten qualifying range.

“There is no set time that you need to hit to go to the NCAA first round, but we know approximately what has made it in the past. All of these athletes’ goal this weekend is to make it into that NCAA first round,” Henner said.

A look at past cutoff times and an evaluation of this year’s 5000m competition puts the qualifying standard right around 14:00 to 14:07 for the men and about 16:27 to 16:33 for the women.

With the large amount of elite collegiate athletes competing at Mt. SAC this weekend, however, a decent amount of times may drop below 14 minutes for the men and 16:25 for the women. Still, considering the shape that the Hoyas are in right now, expect them to be right in the mix.

After suffering its worst defeat in years in a 20-1 loss to St. John’s last Sunday, the Georgetown baseball team (21-13, 4-5 Big East) desperately needed a pick-meup heading into the week. The Hoyas got exactly that on Tuesday, defeating George Mason (1324, 5-13 CAA) 10-9 in 10 innings in Fairfax, Va. For a while, the Hoyas appeared to be headed for yet another disappointing loss, allowing the Patriots to come back from an 8-3 deficit in the eighth inning. However, timely hitting in extra innings allowed the Hoyas to avoid disaster and sneak by the Patriots.

“We played very well overall as a team,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said. “I told the team that I would be very upset if they didn‘t show up after Sunday. But I think it was more [their own pride] that made them play well.”

Freshman pitcher Matt Smith (2-0) made his fourth start of the season for Georgetown, going five innings and giving up three runs.

Meanwhile Georgetown took an early 5-1 lead, thanks in part to two RBIs from freshman catcher Nick Collins in the first three innings.

Although George Mason got two runs back in the fourth, an RBI single by senior third baseman Trevor Matern in the fifth and a two-run sixth inning spurred by Collins, sophomore shortstop Ryan Busch and senior center fielder Justin Leeson

brought the score to 8-3.

Headed into the eighth inning, the Hoyas looked primed for a smooth bounce-back victory – then the wheels came off. Neal Dennison, one of Georgetown’s top relief pitchers in terms of both usage (17 appearances) and success (1.78 ERA), had an uncharacteristically rough outing, giving up three runs on five hits, a walk and a wild pitch, while failing to record an out.

“I’m proud of the way we kept kicking and screaming and fighting.

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With the Hoyas clinging to an 8-6 lead, senior closer Charlie Steinman entered the game, looking to get the Hoyas out of the jam.

Steinman recorded three straight outs to end the inning, but a sacrifice bunt and groundout allowed the Patriots to tie the game.

“They didn’t come back easily.

We didn’t give them anything,” Wilk said. “They hit their way back into the game. They may not be the defensive and pitching team that they used to be, but they’re a great hitting team.”

Georgetown had an excellent opportunity to re-take the lead in the top of the ninth. With two outs and senior pinch runner Alex Pettee on second, Matern singled to left, but Pettee was thrown out at

home to end the inning.

Steinman quickly retired the side in the bottom of the ninth inning, and Georgetown capitalized on its next chance to take the lead in the tenth. Senior left fielder Paul Bello led off with a double, and eventually scored on designated hitter Eric Webber’s single. The Hoyas extended the lead to 10-8 when freshman pinch hitter Curtiss Pomeroy’s sacrifice fly brought Busch home.

In the bottom of the tenth, reliever Jordan Chudacoff gave up one run but earned the save, giving Georgetown a much needed non-league victory.

“We had a couple leads and a couple chances to roll over. I’m proud of the way we kept kicking and screaming and fighting,” Wilk said.

The Hoyas will have little time to rest though, as they face a crucial Big East test against Seton Hall (18-15, 5-4 Big East) this weekend.

The Pirates are coming off a series victory against Houston, and will serve as a barometer for the Hoyas‘ chances of making the seasonending Big East tournament. Wilk, however, cautioned that Georgetown should treat the series like any other.

“It’s just one of nine weekends,” Wilk said. “If you’re going to make the playoffs, you have to play well all season. I think if we want to make the tournament, we’re going to have to do everything better.”

Georgetown will face Seton Hall in South Orange, N.J., at 6 p.m. today and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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“Can we get it done here?”

Georgetown athletic director Bernard Muir stares across his McDonough Arena desk at the interviewee.

It’s February of 2006, and following the retirement of 22-year boss Keith Tabatznik, the university’s men’s soccer head coaching position is open. Muir’s question is equally so.

And Notre Dame assistant coach Brian Wiese doesn’t hesitate with his response.

“I don’t see why not,” Wiese tells Muir simply.

The job is his.

Georgetown did not at the time of his hiring — and likely will not any time soon — have the facilities of an Alabama or the endowment of fellow Catholic university Notre Dame, but Wiese knew right away that the Hilltop had its own draw to it that could breed success.

“If you look at Georgetown, there are some things here that make this place special and appealing,” he said in April, some four months after the completion of his seventh season. “And if you look at it and say, ‘Well, this is what we have. This is who we are,’ I don’t see why not.”

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Like in past years, North Kehoe found itself largely empty to start off GU’s 2012 campaign. But as success finally came to the Hilltop, so did the fans.

in Big East mediocrity, Wiese’s bravado that day in Muir’s office might have seemed foolish.

But after a 2012 national runnerup finish in just the program’s fourth-ever NCAA tournament appearance, it now appears almost shockingly prophetic.

GROWING PAINS

As Washington Post Soccer Insider Steven Goff explained, his job is essentially to cover DMV soccer for the Post wherever there’s a compelling story to be told. But up until 2010, there hadn’t been one on the Hilltop.

“I’d kept an eye on [Georgetown] over the years, but they’d never been good enough to follow regularly,” Goff said. “I don’t follow a lot of college soccer as it is, so a local team has to go a long way or go high up in the national rankings to attract media attention.”

That dynamic wasn’t at all lost on Wiese.

“In D.C., like in any major city, if you’re not good, they have other things to talk about,” he said.

Indeed, for years, the limited amount of college soccer talk that went on in the District was exclusively about those “other things,” namely Maryland, Virginia and even Virginia Tech during its 2007 College Cup run. Georgetown, meanwhile, remained off the media grid.

A large factor in the Hoyas’ struggles prior to 2010 was the program’s historic dearth of scholarships. Tabatznik — who was in charge before Wiese from 1984 to 2005 — had none at all to give out for the first 10 years of his tenure, See RISE, A9

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In the fall of 2009, the nine current seniors on the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team joined a program eager to return to the NCAA tournament after consecutive seasons without a postseason berth.

But, since then, that group has compiled a record of 28-25, beaten only one top-10 opponent, undergone the program’s first coaching change in 23 years and never made it past the regular season.

None of this will matter on Saturday, though, when they take on rival and No. 3-ranked Syracuse in their final home game.

“With the Orange coming, with it being Senior Day and with us beating them last year, it’s big,” Head Coach Kevin Warne said. “The way we’ve practiced, the way we’ve played the past couple weeks, anything is possible in college lacrosse.”

A win over Syracuse on Saturday or at Rutgers the following week would guarantee the Hoyas a spot in the four-team Big East tournament in Villanova, Pa., which represents their only shot at the NCAAs. For this group of seniors, then, the options are simple: Win, or graduate without ever having played past the first weekend of May. “We can’t afford to lose — you have to look at it that way,” senior defender Patrick Murray said. “If you don’t, you’re not giving yourself the chance to compete. You’ve got to look at every game like it’s a mustwin.”

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Captain Patrick Murray has one last chance to help change his class’ legacy.

sists. The last time the Georgetown defense — Warne’s tactical specialty — faced an offense with that kind of firepower, the Duke Blue Devils lit it up for 19 goals.

“I think in the past few games our defense has really stepped it up.

We’ve looked a lot better,” redshirt sophomore goalie Jake Haley said.

“Against Syracuse and Rutgers, defense is going to be the key.”

Haley took over in the third game of the season after freshman opening day starter Alex Joyce suffered a concussion.

“All throughout the fall and preseason, I knew that there was a possibility that I would have to lead this team,” Haley said. “I was well prepared when that moment came.”

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After a tough one-goal loss at Notre Dame last weekend, the No. 8 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (9-3, 3-1 Big East) is looking to get back to its winning ways this afternoon against another conference foe, Rutgers (9-4, 1-3 Big East).

The recent turmoil in Rutgers’ athletic department caused by the firing of the men’s basketball Head Coach Mike Rice and the subsequent resignation of Athletic Director Tim Pernetti appears to have had no effect on the women’s lacrosse team. Rutgers notched its first Big East win over conference rival Villanova 9-6 last weekend.

Rutgers is a well-rounded team with a balanced attack, but junior midfielder and two-time Big East weekly honor roll recipient Katrina Martinelli will pose the biggest threat to the Hoyas’ defense.

2013 has been a breakout year for Martinelli, who — after coming into this season with 11 career points — now leads her team with 38 on 29 goals and nine assists.

Head Coach Ricky Fried believes that the Hoyas, as long as they stay focused, are capable of limiting the Scarlet Knights’ scoring opportunities. Consistency, though, will be the key.

“The biggest thing we’re looking for is just to be disciplined for the entire game,” Fried said. “I think we’re doing a good job in aspects of our game, but then there are other aspects [where] we aren’t focused on enough. Those are the

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Junior midfielder Megan Farrel, who ranks sixth on the Hoyas in goals, padded her tally with two scores on two shots against Notre Dame last Sunday.

things that are letting us down at the end of the day.”

Missed shots in particular have plagued the Hoyas this season. In last weekend’s loss to Notre Dame, Georgetown had a 15-shot advantage but could not pull out the win due to a failure to convert those shots into goals.

Throughout their 2013 season, the Hoyas have consistently had success in creating scoring opportunities; finishing the plays has proven more difficult. And, as every athlete and coach knows, the

close misses do not count at the end of the day — only the numbers on the scoreboard matter.

Shooting is something the Hoyas have been working on all year, but, in light of the loss to Notre Dame, Fried has been stressing the importance of finishing chances even more.

“We’re emphasizing [shooting] as much as we possibly can — about what a quality shot is and where we are expecting them to shoot,” Fried See RUTGERS, A8