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Laura Wagner Hoya Staff Writer

Although a sizeable number of students in off-campus housing have yet to be pushed back on campus because of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement, some are being shifted from university-owned townhouses to dormitories.

Because 18 Magis Row townhouses on 36th Street will be converted this summer from upperclassman housing to administrative offices and faculty and graduate housing, fewer apartments were available to underclassmen in this year’s housing lotteries.

While 26 apartments in Henle Village were available last year to rising sophomores in the housing lottery, this year only seven groups of sophomores were able to secure Henle apartments. Henle will absorb many of the upperclassmen who would usually have been housed in townhouses.

The university, however, will create 65 more beds on campus before the 2013-2014 academic year begins, a requirement of the campus plan agreement.

According to Associate Vice President of University Facilities and Student Housing Jonalyn Ware Greene, the additional student beds will be created by converting 40 double rooms to triple rooms in New South and Southwest Quad, modifying staff apartments and offices in Henle and Alumni Square for student use, and adding beds to two of the townhouses still available to students.

Some rising sophomores lamented that because of these changes, lottery numbers that would have them in the range of securing a Henle last year only got them a room in the Southwest Quad or Copley Hall this year. Similarly, some rising sophomores whose lottery number would have allowed them to get a room in Southwest Quad last year instead were awarded housing in LXR or Village C East during this year’s housing selection.

Alisha Dua (COL ’16) said she understands that the university See DORMS, A6

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Local Bar Owner Set For Pub

Fewer Townhouses Pinch Dorm Choices Changes to Magis Row increase oncampus demand

ON THE RISE What 2012 means to the Georgetown men’s soccer program.

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Patrons watch a late-night music performance at Epicurean, a northcampus restaurant and bar that will expand evening service next fall.

Epicurean to Operate Around the Clock Annie Chen & Madison Ashley Hoya Staff Writers

In another effort to promote oncampus student social life, Epicurean and Co. will be open 24 hours a day, six days a week beginning fall 2013, with a full bar open until 2 a.m. starting this summer.

Though the full restaurant now closes nightly at 10:30 p.m., limited food options will now be available after 11 p.m. The restaurant will close completely only from late Sunday night to early Monday morning.

Epicurean will also be open 24/7 from May 1 to May 19 this year in an effort to provide more study space during final exams.

According to Epicurean man-

Alumnus picked for pub in campus student center Ivan Robinson

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ager J.G. Yang, Epicurean owner Chang Wook Chon was considering lengthening the restaurant’s hours until 2 a.m. when the university approached him about staying open 24 hours.

“We had a plan to stay open until 2, and then the university asked if we could do this instead so the owner [said] yes,” Yang said.

Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) said Epicurean’s extended hours were prompted by extensive conversations between GUSA, Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services Margie Bryant and Chief Business Officer Deborah Morey.

Mason Inn and George bar owner Fritz Brogan (COL ’07, LAW ’10) will manage the pub in the Healey Family Student Center set to open in fall 2014.

After discussions with 19 local bar and restaurant owners and operators, including Aramark Higher Education, which operates O’Donovan Hall, university administrators chose Brogan, a third-generation alumnus.

“We eventually ended up with Fritz because he had so many of the things that were not on the criteria, being a Georgetown alum,” Chief Business Officer for University Services Deborah Morey said. “Fritz, having been an incredibly involved student while he was here, and having been a strong alumnus, really made good sense for us.”

As an alumnus, Brogan has remained involved by serving on the Georgetown Forever Campaign committee to fundraise for the university and the Georgetown Letterwinners Society steering

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Campus Considers SaVE Standards Emily Brown Hoya Staff Writer

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Eighteen Magis Row townhouses will be coverted to administrative offices this summer, limiting off-campus housing availability.

The university will reevaluate its sexual violence policies in response to the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which will take effect

by March 7 of next year.

Specifically, the Campus Sexual Violence Act provision in VAWA calls for increased transparency, education, collaboration and accountability from universities regarding sexual violence.

GU Renews Boathouse Hopes Lily Westergaard Hoya Staff Writer

Now that the lawsuit involving Jack’s Boathouse, reopened on April 20 as “Key Bridge Boathouse,” has been dismissed, Georgetown is again considering feasible options for opening its own boathouse after 30 years of sporadically pursuing the project.

The legal battle for rights to the

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The Key Bridge Boathouse is back after a drawn-out legal dispute.

Jack’s Boathouse site between Paul Simkin, who assumed control of Jack’s Boathouse after the death of his business partner Frank Baxter in 2009, and the National Park Service delayed the release of a non-motorized boathouse zone feasibility study that could lead to a university-owned boathouse, according to NPS Associate Regional Director for Communications Jennifer Mummart.

With the conclusion of the lawsuit, the study was released April 19.

NPS is currently considering three potential scenarios for the Georgetown waterfront. The first scenario would leave the area undeveloped, the second calls for the construction of a non-motorized boathouse zone with room for several different rowing programs and the third scenario is a compromise between the two.

This non-motorized boathouse zone, designated in NPS’s 1987 Georgetown Waterfront Park Master Plan, would extend from 34th Street Northwest to approximately a quarter mile upriver from Key Bridge and encompass both public and private property.

According to NPS’ official study, research showed a high level of

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demand for boathouses in D.C., despite the existence of Thompson Boat Center near the Kennedy Center, which Georgetown and other D.C. rowing teams currently use.

In the study’s executive summary, however, NPS claimed the study did not offer any definitive conclusions about how the zone should be used but showed how the nonmotorized boathouse zone could be used in a variety of ways, given the physical site limitations.

“Future planning efforts will be needed to establish a program for the zone that better accommodates the demand and is appropriate to the constraints of the site,” the summary read.

NPS will hold a public open house to present the study May 22.

Until then, the study will be open to public commentary for 30 days.

Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming said that Georgetown would be represented at the meeting and would submit written comments on the study.

“We are committed to this project and working through the process,” Fleming wrote in an email.

“Securing the necessary approvals to move forward with a Georgetown

“The university will be reviewing the requirements of the VAWA and determining what changes to existing policies and procedures need to be made,” Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh wrote in an email.

The act, known as “SaVE,” requires minimum standards for college disciplinary action in sexual violence cases, sexual violence educational programming for students and staff and annual reports of campus sexual crimes. It also calls for a stronger partnership among the U.S. Departments

of Justice, Education, and Human and Health Services in order to determine the most effective manners of preventing and responding to sexual violence at universities nationwide.

These changes come after a monthslong effort at Georgetown to introduce mandatory sexual assault education to New Student Orientation — a measure NSO coordinators and administrators rejected in favor of a voluntary discussion of sexual assault See SAVE, A7

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progression that caught the attention of almost every student on campus.

On the eve of the election, GUSA presidential candidate Jack Appelbaum (COL ’14) was disclosed to be a member of the Second Society of Stewards. Speculation about other candidates’ memberships in similar secret groups arose, and Appelbaum admitted to his membership without hesitation. Ramadan was initially critical of the Appelbaum campaign’s legitimacy and transparency. His complaints, however, lost ground when — after initially lying to the press — he admitted to an association with a secret society. With a platform rooted in expanding students’ rights, Ramadan’s deceit betrayed the voters that his ticket professed a determination to serve.

Above all, the election, perhaps regrettably, focused in on secret societies more so than the issues being debated. Nearly every GUSA executive candidate from the past few years has emphasized the need to legitimize their organization in the eyes of the student body. The Stewards leak diminished the association’s fledgling reputation.

Ramadan’s involvement did not cost him and his running mate the election, and the duo have since proved themselves worthy executives. Under their lead, in recent months GUSA has effectively capitalized on the university’s pressure to assuage student frustration with the 2010 Campus Plan and the transition to on-campus social life. Taking advantage of the university’s new responsiveness to student requests, Tisa and Ramadan have been instrumental in signing a high number of bills in a short amount of time. We hope this momentum continues as the new academic year commences.

f last year was a year of stagnancy and administrative pushback, this year was one of concerted movement and building momentum. From the push for greater workers’ rights to the tangible initiatives instituted to shift student social life on campus, this year was one characterized by mobilization. Here is the editorial board’s final word on the 2012-2013 academic year.

A Campus Plan in Motion

Last summer, the university presented the 2010 Campus Plan agreement as a positive compromise between equal parties, but the months since its announcement have proved a clear reminder of the uphill battle Georgetown faces against neighborhood restrictions.

Much of the student body views the university’s concessions — housing 90 percent of students on campus by 2025, for example, and maintaining the “more likely than not” evidentiary standard for off-campus violations — as signs of an unfavorable relationship.

Beneath the overarching context of restrictive zoning laws and extreme neighborhood pressures, however, the administration has done an admirable job in responding to student desires and envisioning a flexible new model for Georgetown. Even as the spring’s crackdown on off-campus parties ignited student discontent, the policy was well-balanced by extended GOCard swipe access, the addition of food trucks on campus and the elimination of on-campus party registration requirements, which were all instituted in the fall. The long-term plan for satellite campuses will allow the university to expand throughout Washington, D.C., while maintaining a distinct Hilltop for undergraduates. Thus far, the inclusion of student voices in the design for the Healey Family Student Center has proved a successful model for administrator-student partnerships on campus plan adaptations.

In some respects, these concessions gave students leverage with administrators, allowing organizations like the Georgetown University Student Association to push long-discussed reforms into action. The introduction of weekend night shuttles to Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan, the elimination of the one-keg limit for on-campus parties and the return of some beloved Georgetown Day features can all be interpreted as administrative efforts to compensate for frustration and to regain the good faith of the student body.

Going forward, the university should continue in this year’s model of updating on-campus policy in proportion to off-campus concessions.

A Move for Labor Rights

A movement toward improved workers’ rights has characterized this academic year. Manifested both on and off campus, these labor struggles have both celebrated victories and struggled through stalemates.

After Adidas was accused of failing to pay severance to former employees overseas, thereby violating the university’s Code of Conduct for Licensees, Georgetown terminated its sports apparel contract with the company. Despite delaying the decision for almost a year after the company was first accused in January 2012, this action showed Georgetown holding its affiliates to higher moral standards and taking a responsible stance against the abuse of workers.

A similar victory was found off-campus, at M Street’s Tackle Box. Brought to students’ attention via social media by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, the restaurant’s proprietors agreed to properly compensate their employees after threats of organized protest.

Not every story, however, has gotten its happy ending. More than a year after unionizing under Unite Here, O’Donovan Hall workers found themselves yet again subject to unfair working conditions. In an attempt to cut costs, Aramark altered shifts to reduce the number of full-time salaries it would need to pay. In October, Aramark’s management agreed to weekly meetings with workers to hear their concerns, but discontent persists. Aramark seems to come up short with every attempt at outreach, whether in its dealings with its workers or with students in their “We Hear You” campaigns. And with its misguided prioritization of social media promotions and its alarming number of food violations this year, any meaningful change to the dining hall remains to be seen — let alone heard.

As this conflict drags on, Georgetown’s adjunct faculty begin the process of unionizing under Service Employees International Union Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor. Even as it is evident that the push for workers’ rights is far from concluded, this year has shown the potential for students to stand by workers in their fight for rights.

Progress in Student Rights

Based on Georgetown’s administrative inertia and a tense relationship with its neighbors, we would have been more than a little skeptical at the beginning of the year to hear that there would be a landmark Code of Student Conduct change.

However, this past October brought the decision to raise the university’s evidentiary standard for on-campus conduct violations from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing.” Fought for passionately by the Student Advocacy Office and championed by former GUSA executives Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13), the passing of the referendum was perhaps only overshadowed by the fact that GUSA was able to mobilize the student body enough to effect administrative change.

We can only hope that the new GUSA executive, Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) will take up the helm and approach other palpable deficiencies in student rights, like the now-incongruous evidentiary standards for off-campus violations or the university’s troubling free-speech policy, with equal vigor.

The 2013 GUSA Executive Election

This year’s GUSA executive election was marked not only by record-high voter turnout but a dramatic

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Planning Ahead — The 2010 Campus Plan was passed over the summer after years of negotiation.

July 16

Regents Reign — Regents Hall, the new home of the sciences, was opened, providing room for teaching labs, offices and study spaces.

Aug. 27

Bon Appetit? — O’Donovan Hall got off to a bad start this year, cited for six critical and two non-critical health violations in a September Department of Health inspection.

Sep. 4

High Standards — Students voted to change the Code of Student Conduct’s burden of proof last October for on-campus incidents to a “clear and convincing” standard.

Oct. 18

Living Legend — After 35 years as a respected professor of political philosophy in the Government Department, campus icon Fr. James Schall, S.J., retired to the Jesuit House in Los Gatos, Calif.

Chief of the Hilltop — President Obama tapped Denis McDonough (GSB ’96) as his fifth chief of staff.

Jan. 29

Moving Forward — In February, Nate Tisa and Adam Ramadan were elected president and vice president of GUSA, respectively.

Feb. 21

Doing Big Things — School of Foreign Service professor Chuck Hagel was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the position of Secretary of Defense.

Feb. 26

Caught in the Act — Epicurean and Co. proprietor Chan Wook Chon pled guilty to criminal contempt following a lawsuit alleging his violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 2010.

March 7

Good Boy, Jack — Beloved mascot Jack the Bulldog retired this March after 10 years of box-ripping success on the Verizon Center court.

March 9

AMDG Pride — Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became the first Jesuit elevated to the papacy in March, choosing the name Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi.

March 13

March Madness — Georgetown suffered another unfortunate first-weekend March Madness loss this year, this time to Florida Gulf Coast.

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Ethan Chess

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n times of crisis, sports can be more than just a game. Some see sports as trivial; athletes are overpaid, they say, and the score doesn’t matter. I’d ask those people to say the same after listening to 20,000 proud Bostonians singing the national anthem before the Bruins game last Wednesday or watching the Red Sox play a game with “Boston” written on the backs of their jerseys, sacrificing individual pride for citywide solidarity. And how can we criticize the diehard fans at Yankee Stadium when they sing Boston anthem “Sweet Caroline” to support their greatest rival in its moment of need?

During the Boston bombing and in its aftermath, President Obama addressed the nation twice. Lawmakers sent letters to the FBI and opined on concerns such as whether or not the suspects should be read their Miranda rights. In contrast, professional sports focused its attention exclusively on its capacity to put smiles back on the faces of those whose lives had been invaded by fear.

But why should we be surprised?

This recurs frequently in sports history. Sometimes it occurs immediately after tragedy strikes, while other times the passage of time makes a return to the game all the more special. The image of the first Yankees game after 9/11 was unforgettable. One week after the towers came down, it was a baseball game that gave New York its first chance for optimism. “We go places; they either love you or hate you,” Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said. “This time was different. This time, everybody was basically almost cheering for us.” I remember watching the first game the New Orleans Saints played in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. More than a year after the storm

Playing sports is a way to sustain human competition in a way that replaces violence. breached the levees, football was finally back where it belonged. It was a powerful message to the world that The Big Easy’s collective ordeal was drawing to a close.

The list goes on. After the Columbine High School massacre, the school’s first football game was a critical moment of healing for the community. Going even further back, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt personally authorized the continuation of the baseball season as a much-needed distraction from World War II. Getting back to business on the field, court or ice repairs the punctures in our communal fabrics after a tragedy. Watching teams compete after episodes of violence reminds us that human beings are capable of channelling our energy toward nonviolent endeavors where most, if not all, participants play by the rules, and that winning and losing only matter if they are done with grace and respect. Last Monday, the Tsarnaev brothers rejected this paradigm. They sought a sick and twisted victory without regard to rules.

In sports, such a victory is none at all. Playing sports is a way to sustain human competition in a manner that replaces violence. In sports, we exchange a weapon for a tennis racket, hockey stick or baseball bat. We try to win, but not at all costs.

This isn’t to say that sports are always important. They are not. The daily wins, trades, points and goals fail to consistently provide meaning deeper than the quotidian. There are moments, however, when nothing but sports will suffice. Times when the team’s communal rallying point becomes self-referential in a way that moves beyond merely who is on the other side of the ball and revitalizes — if only for a short moment — our sense of resolve, worth and common purpose.

Ethan Chess is a junior in the College. This is the final appearance of PAST IS PRESENT this semester.

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Confessing a Need for Change

eorgetown Confessions has drawn ire from students, parents and The Hoya’s editorial board, and for good reason.

The Facebook page, founded in December but gaining widespread popularity only last month, gives students — and, it seems, a disproportionate number of non-affiliates of the university — a forum to air their darkest, most grotesque thoughts and opinions.

Most of Confessions is harmless.

Some posts — “Where are all da cute Lau boys?” — are simply good fun; others — “To the cute guy on Lau 5 who watched my laptop earlier tonight: feel better soon!” — have the potential to brighten someone’s day. But a considerable number of contributions are nothing short of racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist, bigoted — you name it. Some of these carry jovial undertones but are nonetheless alarming. The page was the focus of intensified scrutiny this week after the owners — erroneously, they allege — published derogatory remarks about named individuals. And it is all the more disquieting that these posts are cloaked in anonymity, removing any measure of accountability from even the most maliciously intentioned of authors.

But at a time when such issues as lagging diversity are slowly but commendably coming to the foreground of campus dialogue, Georgetown Confessions makes an important, if unsavory, contribution.

The page is rife with Facebook users bemoaning how blinkered submissions fuel their disillusionment with the mentality on this campus and how certain posts have caused them to rethink the inherently good intentions of their peers.

One post by someone identifying as a parent wrote that “the horrible comments I read on here make me

These disillusioned comments signal a revelation: Basic discrimination and intolerance exist at Georgetown. question whether … my daughter made the right choice in schools and whether my money is well spent.”

In a lot of ways, this disenchantment is unfortunate. Above all, nobody should have to read affronts to elements of their identity. And to some extent, it is misguided. It would be wrong to think that the flippant, bigoted confessions are representative of the student body, that tolerance and open-mindedness wholly elude Georgetown students or that certain groups should feel unwelcome here.

But at the same time, these disillusioned comments signal a revelation that many of the thousands of the page’s followers have surely ex-

perienced but not necessarily confessed: Basic discrimination and intolerance exist at Georgetown. It is alarming. It must change.

As a reporter and editor at this newspaper, I can attest to the inferiority of anonymity. Quotations that cannot be attributed are undesirable not only because their credibility is compromised, but also because nobody is accountable for the words that are put forth. However, there are some cases in which granting anonymity to a source is valuable: to convey a compelling nugget of information, often one that can be confirmed from a variety of unnamed sources, provided by people who feel that candor would put their lives or careers at

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risk.

The same principle applies to Confessions. The forum conveys thoughts and sentiments that no one in his or her right mind would be comfortable publicly articulating; however, the same thoughts and sentiments govern behavior, they perpetuate norms of intolerance and they fuel outbursts of micro-aggression. What makes bigoted and intolerant attitudes so dangerous and difficult to combat is that they are hidden below the surface. This makes them hard, if not impossible, to identify or pinpoint, which in turn makes it easy to deny complaints of discrimination from minority groups — and worse, to collectively deny as an institution that such attitudes exist here.

That denial — or for many, aloofness — is the single most damaging obstacle to efforts toward change. Absent evidence, those fighting for change risk charges of delusion or pettiness.

Movements to increase tolerance on campus are likely to touch only those who have themselves encountered intolerance.

Given its broad reach and popular appeal, Confessions has the potential to chip away at this widespread complacency by attuning those far removed from struggles with intolerance and compelling them to form opinions and rise to the challenge of making Georgetown an inclusive place.

As one confessor put it, “Georgetown is all about dialogue, and sometimes that entails harsh comments or s---- that we might not want to hear.

Honestly, I think it makes us all the better.”

He? She? Whoever it is, No. 2583 is right.

BRADEN MCDONALD is a junior in the College. He is former executive editor of The Hoya and currently serves on its Board of Directors.

VIEWPOINT • Rosenberg & Davis

American Revolution An Unjust Rebellion

Adjunct Role Merits Fair Compensation

statue of Georgetown’s impres- and consequently use only limited sive founder, Fr. John Carroll, means in pursuit of its objectives.

S.J., greets everyone who enters All of these conditions must be the Healy Gates. “Priest, Patriot, Prel- met if the use of force is to be morally ate” reads its plinth. Why, you might justified. However, it is doubtful that ask, is “patriot” included? the American Revolution met any of The answer can be found in his them. brief biography in Healy Hall: CarThe Declaration of Independence roll was a staunch supporter of the claims that Britain sought to impose American Revolution. absolute despotism and was forcibly The Catholic Encyclopedia relates seeking to complete works of “death, how Carroll congratulated George desolation and tyranny,” using cruelty Washington at his inauguration “on “scarcely paralleled in the most barbehalf of the Catholic clergy, united barous ages.” The reality could hardly with representatives of the Catholic have been further from this rhetoric, laity,” with a statement “admirable for which has fuelled much of the myits sentiments of exalted patriotism.” thology and misunderstanding that Washington cordially replied to clouds the true history of the RevoluCarroll and to the Catholics of the tion to this day.

United States, “I presume that your A key complaint in the declaration fellow citizens will not forget the was the imposition of taxes without patriotic part which you took in the consent. But what was tyrannical accomplishment of about a sovereign their Revolution, parliament imposand the establishing a few modest ment of your Govtaxes on its wealthy ernment.” colonies to help deCarroll spiritedly fray the massive debt defended Catholic the mother country participation in the had incurred in deRevolution, statfending those very ing, “Their blood colonies during the flowed as freely (in French and Indian John Keown proportion to their War? numbers) to cement Noted author SamCarroll spiritedly the fabric of indeuel Johnson wrote defended Catholic pendence as that of at the time that the any of their fellowcolonists had freely participation in the citizens.” exercised a choice beThese statements tween a vote at home Revolution. are founded on the and riches at a dislong-held consensus that the Ameri- tance. To their complaint that parliacan War for Independence was a just ment had never taxed them before, he war. But was it? retorted, “The longer they have been The conditions for launching a just spared, the better they can pay.” war have been gradually fashioned in While it could be plausibly argued the ethical tradition to which Carroll that the Revolution used competent subscribed: natural law. This tradition, authority and perhaps had adequate which stretches back to Aquinas and probability for success, it is difficult to Aristotle, has significantly shaped see that it met any of the other condiWestern thought, including the ethics tions, much less all seven. The only of war. It lays down strict conditions conclusion to be drawn is that the which must be met if the use of force American Revolution was unjust. is to be justified. These requirements Irrespective of his questionable supare just and proportionate cause or port for the martial means used in the allowing war only to preserve human founding of the United States, howevrights without causing disproportion- er, Carroll’s founding of Georgetown ate damage. War must also have right is a great example of the Catholic intention which requires the pursuit faith inspiring work for the common of peace and reconciliation. It must be good. Carroll’s achievements and his declared by those with competent au- patriotism are a perennial cause for thority who are responsible for public celebration, especially during the fesorder and it must have adequate prob- tivities of Georgetown Day. ability of success. Furthermore, war cannot be declared as anything other John Keown is the Rose F. Kenthan a last resort and its participants nedy Professor of Christian Ethics must respect comparative justice, in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. meaning that every party should ac- This is the final appearance of knowledge the limits of its just cause ENGAGING BIOETHICS this semester.

ost Georgetown students roll in a class, which means that have probably given a class of 25 students produced thought to a labor issue at $100,000 in revenue for Georgesome point in their lives. Perhaps town. Only a very small fraction you make an effort to buy fair- of this sum returns to a part-time trade coffee, or maybe you have professor as compensation. How done economics homework on the can it be the case that most of us effects of raising the minimum are taking on extraordinarily high wage. There’s a chance that you’ve education debt while many of even attended a rally to improve those working to educate us are working conditions in a factory. paid such a low wage and are deYou might be surprised to learn, nied benefits? Where is our tuition then, that nearly half of the people going? And, perhaps more importeaching you at Georgetown are tantly, what does this say about not paid a living wage. what we value?

Members of the Georgetown Finally, from a self-interested community ought to care about perspective, many of us graduate this, primarily from the perspec- students are future adjuncts. Edutive of fairness. Part-time faculty cating undergraduate and gradumembers make up almost 48 per- ate students is demanding and cent of the instructional faculty important work, and it should be here at Georgetown. In 2010, the a viable career path. To be sure, the total average salary for a full-time adjunct community at Georgetown instr uctionis diverse; al faculty many adjunct member was rofessors Adjunct faculty are currently phold $107,601. By full-time contrast, adpositions elsein the process of voting to junct faculty where, and form a union. We urge those many wish members at G e o r ge tow n only to teach a reading this to vote yes. are typically single course paid around in a year. How$7,000 for evever, there are ery three-credit course they teach, many adjunct faculty members a figure that does not square with who wish to be full-time academics our tuition price tag. To put this in and should have the opportunity perspective, an adjunct professor to do so. If students in our generawho attempted to make a gainful tion knew that nearly half of the career by teaching six courses per faculty at one of the nation’s top academic year — far more than a universities are so undervalued, full professor’s teaching load — this would be likely to have a chillwould only earn $42,000 annually ing effect on our consideration of with no benefits. That said, it is academia as a career option down typically not possible for adjuncts the line. to secure this many courses, so in The adjunct faculty members practice, earning $42,000 is nearly at Georgetown are currently in impossible. the process of voting on whether We are not against the compen- to form a union, with ballots due sation of full-time faculty; we rec- May 3. We urge those adjunct facognize and value their research ulty members reading this to vote and administrative duties and un- yes. The entire teaching populaderstand their importance to the tion at Georgetown deserves fair Georgetown community. Rather, compensation for important and our concern is for just compensa- demanding work. All professors tion for adjunct faculty — mem- deserve compensation and benefits bers of the community who also that are commensurate with their bring high value to the classroom qualifications and experience. To and are critical to students’ learn- fellow students reading this, we ing experience. urge you to support the many adThis should give students pause junct professors who have educatto think about where our tuition ed you during your time at Georgedollars are going. No student town. We should all demand better needs to be reminded of how ex- of our institution. pensive Georgetown tuition is. The 2011-2012 academic year George- KATE ROSENBERG and ANNE DAtown undergraduate tuition was VIS are graduate students at the $40,920. In that year, each student Georgetown Public Policy Instipaid approximately $4,000 to en- tute.

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The Smithsonian Institution will be forced to drastically reorganize its staff and resources when automatic budget cuts go into effect May 1.

The Smithsonian, the world’s largest museum system, is currently facing a $41 million reduction, or 5 percent, of its $996 million budget. The sequestration spending cuts aim to save the federal government a total of $85 billion.

Rather than cutting entire exhibits or museums, the Smithsonian plans to distribute the cuts across many levels of the institution.

“We are absorbing that cut mostly through deferred maintenance, hire freezing, reduced travel, reduced contracts — administrative things,” Smithsonian Chief Spokesperson Linda St. Thomas said.

St. Thomas added that although the majority of the public would be unaware of most cuts, some of the cutbacks would be immediately apparent to museum-goers.

To cut costs, the Smithsonian will reduce its security force, possibly leaving some exhibitions without supervision. As a result, the museums may have to limit the number of galleries open each day.

“We may have to close some exhibits within art museums, and that will depend on our security for that day,” St. Thomas said.

St. Thomas added, however, that all museums would remain open.

“You might find a closed exhibition within a

museum, but you will never find a closed museum,” St. Thomas said.

According to a recent Huffington Post story, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Wayne Clough said that the institution is also cutting some of its educational outreach programs, including the production of digital lesson plans used by 80,000 schools.

Nevertheless, St. Thomas said that the impact on museum visitors would be minimal.

“Saying, ‘Reducing the number of free exhibits’ sounds like we are permanently closing exhibits, and it makes a distinction between free and other [types] … everything is free here,” St. Thomas said. “Only a few exhibitions here and there will be temporarily closed. … We are trying to do the best we can to minimize the impact on the public and visitors.”

Despite St. Thomas’ assurances that the museums would be minimally impacted, some students expressed concern.

Christy Slobogin (COL ’16) pointed to art history classes that rely on Smithsonian exhibits to enrich the course.

“For our art history classes, the most fulfilling part of the class is being able to actually go to the exhibits and experience the art,” Slobogin said. “If there are exhibits that we need to go to, that are closed, that obviously poses an issue. …

It’s completely different in real life versus on a computer screen … where you can’t even fully comprehend the detail.”

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Facing a 5 percent budget cut, the Smithsonian Institution will reduce its security forces and limit the number of galleries open each day. Admission, however, will remain free.

PENNY HUNG & MADISON ASHLEY Georgetown students can now channel the Library of Congress without heading to Capitol Hill with the April 18 launch of the Digital Public Library of America, a free online library resource for the American public.

DPLA, funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arcadia Fund and a variety of government grants, contains over two million items, including library collections and archival collections from historical societies and museums.

DPLA’s catalog contains photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images and more.

Among its partners are Harvard University, the New York Public Library and the Smithsonian Institution.

DPLA Assistant Director for Content Amy Rudersdorf stressed the difference between DPLA and subscription-based resources such as EBSCOhost, which the university uses. While sites like EBSCOhost consist of solely electronic books and journal entries, DPLA also features images and other multimedia content in addition to written text.

In addition, Rudersdorf said that DPLA should not be used merely as a search tool but can lend its software to other applications.

“We’re not just a place where you go to search in a box like Google but make the data available for folks who know how to use it through [application programming interface] to build programs and apps on top of it,” Rudersdorf said.

For example, one of the unique features of DPLA’s online database is its exhibits function. It allows users to sift through primary sources that relate to a specific topic, much as a museum exhibit features sources that pertain to a subject.

Rudersdorf expressed confidence that DPLA would appeal to a wide audience, citing the wide range of content available.

“It’s kind of grandiose to say that it’s meant for anyone who wants to use it, but it really is,” Rudersdorf said.

Despite said features, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Services Sem Sutter said he did not think DPLA would

“It’s kind of grandiose to say that it’s meant for anyone who wants to use it, but it really is.”

AMY RUDERSDORF DPLA Assistant Director for Content

change the way students access material online. Due to copyright laws, DPLA cannot include content published after 1964. Depending on specific provisions, some works published between 1873 and 1964 are also excluded.

“I don’t think it will have a huge effect because of the kind of material that’s in it,” Sutter said, “It doesn’t really duplicate, for example, current print books or journals, or for that matter, current e-books, current online journals.”

Theology professor Ariel

Glucklich agreed and said he was unsure about DPLA’s potential impact on the student body.

“Here, students [already] have access to the online resources that our library has, in addition to other libraries in the network,” Glucklich said. “The biggest impact would be on people not enrolled in universities that don’t have that kind of access.”

In addition, Glucklich said that online services such as DPLA and EBSCOhost would not significantly affect traditional library usage.

“The thing about libraries is that most books are not available online yet,” Glucklich said. “You still have to go to the library and find the book, so whenever one needs a book, you’re still going to need the library,” Glucklich said.

Although Georgetown is not a current DPLA partner, Sutter said that Georgetown would consider participating in the future.

“It’s something we might look at eventually,” Sutter said. “It’s just launched.”

Specifically, Sutter said the university would focus on its own digitization project, Digital Georgetown, for the time being.

Digital Georgetown digitizes student publications, faculty theses, dissertations and other content. It also features a digital lecture hall with podcasts and other streaming media.

According to Sutter, Digital Georgetown has similar aims to DPLA. “It’s still a fairly young thing, and we’re trying to build content, but we might eventually be interested in sharing some of these things … with DPLA,” Sutter said.

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The Hoya Gateway program will launch May 6, connecting students and alumni for one-on-one advice, informational interviews and resume reviews.

After a year and a half of pilot programs, the official launch will include alumni and students in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco this summer. All students, however, will have the opportunity to participate on campus during the academic year.

According to Associate Director of Alumni Career Services Whitney Pezza, Jeff Chapski (MSB ’91), a member of the Georgetown Alumni Association Board of Governors, envisioned Hoya Gateway more than two years ago.

“It was obvious from day one that our alumni are tremendously passionate about Georgetown and especially interested in connecting with students,” Pezza wrote in an email. “Hoya Gateway is what the Georgetown Alumni Association is all about — maintaining a connection between students and alumni in order to both foster the Georgetown spirit and continue to build relationships within the broader Georgetown community.”

Hoya Gateway features alumni in an array of fields including entertainment and media, finance, government, health and medicine and technology. Represented companies include Deloitte, Skadden, JP Morgan Chase, Major League Baseball and various nonprofit and business endeavors.

“It’s important to us that we have rising stars as well as established professionals in order to provide students with a wide range of expertise,” Pezza wrote.

Hoya Gateway student ambassador Gabrielle Gold (COL ’14) met with Netflix Social Media Director Eric Pallotta (MSB ’07) in Los Angeles, this past winter break. Gold said that he proved to be a good resource.

“Even if you’re unsure about what you want to do or how you’re going to fit into postgrad life, it’s comforting to

know Georgetown alums are there to help you, to support you and to guide you on your way,” Gold said.

Chairman of the 1634 Society and student governor on the Georgetown University Alumni Association’s Board of Governors Bryan Satterly (SFS ’13) said that the program helped him determine his career path by allowing him to get a sense of different industries.

“I got to meet and network with people in the career field I’m going into — finance — so that was a huge help when I was looking for jobs and trying to figure out what I wanted,” Satterly said.

Although the 1634 Society and Hoya Gateway both work to foster alumni connections with Georgetown, the two orient toward different aims. The 1634 Society focuses primarily on keeping alumni in touch with the university and to encourage them to give back, such as educating alumni about the Campaign for Georgetown. On the other hand, Hoya Gateway specifically allows alumni to become mentors to current students, advising them on job opportunities and the working world.

Pezza said he envisioned that the gateway would expand domestically and internationally, in addition to incorporating technology.

“One long-term goal is that every Georgetown student will meet with an alumnus one-on-one through Hoya Gateway for a meaningful, career-related conversation before graduation,” Pezza wrote.

Participant Devon George (MSB ’01), who is also involved in the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Alliance, said that he was excited about the rate of alumni participation.

“I’ve never seen so many Hoyas get excited to help so many undergraduate Hoyas,” George said. “Usually people don’t have time, or they aren’t available or they aren’t sure they understand it.

In my experience so far, this is the most successful alumni initiative to bring together alumni and undergraduates for mentoring opportunities.”

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As a student, he served on the Athletic Advisory Board, the College Executive Committee, the College Admissions Committee and as chair of his Senior Class Gift Committee.

“I only graduated five years ago and I know the campus very well,” Brogan said. “I think I can bring a unique understanding of what makes Georgetown ‘Georgetown.’”

In April 2006, Brogan, then a junior, wrote a letter to the editor of The Hoya in response to a front-page photo of two women kissing. In the letter, he criticized “flaunting” gay activity and wrote that he “strongly disagreed” with homosexual students’ “choice of lifestyle.” His letter prompted a strong response from other students at the time, including two letters to the editor in the following issue of The Hoya.

Brogan said he did not think the letter was relevant for the issue of the pub and declined to comment further on the subject.

“I think this is a great moment for the university. I want to talk about the pub, something that students have wanted for years and years, so I don’t really want to talk about old news stories,” he said. “I think we should focus on this great news that students are getting what they wanted, which is a pub on campus.”

Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), who is Georgetown’s first openly gay student body president, has been working to help establish the pub and said that he does not think Brogan’s letter will be relevant to his work as operator of the student center pub.

“I don’t agree with that statement, but at least he said it in a respectful way and he had the guts to say it out loud,” Tisa said. “I just don’t think that would come up or be relevant at all as the operator of the pub. Georgetown is a diverse place, and people have a lot of views.”

Brogan plans to incorporate his experience in the D.C. bar scene into this campus pub while also forging a unique student identity for the establishment.

“Some of the elements that makes those bars successful will be there. It’s really a blank slate.

I want to hear what the students want,” Brogan said.

After the announcement of Brogan’s position Tuesday, Brogan met with leaders from Students of Georgetown, Inc. and the GUSA Subcommittee on Food Service.

Part of the pub discussion over the next year will center on how to compete with other area bars, including The Tombs, Rhino Bar and Pumphouse.

“I love The Tombs. My parents met at The Tombs. I’m not looking to compete with the Tombs,” Brogan said. “I think the pub will be a great place for students to have on campus. I think what will make the pub special is that it will be a place on campus that students can utilize. It can be a place … students can call their own.”

The pub will be open to students aged 18 years and older, with wristbands or hand stamps as options to distinguish students of legal drinking age.

“The pub will be a place for students of all ages. Over the next year I’m going to work with student affairs and student leadership to figure out how we’re going to frame that,” Brogan said. “We’re not going to tolerate underage drinking or people with fake IDs, but we also want to make sure the pub is accessible to people of all ages.”

Brogan said that the pub would employ bouncers to check IDs, possibly using black lights as bouncers sometimes do at Mason Inn. “I own and operate two pretty busy bars in Georgetown — we have a lot of student traffic,” Brogan said. “We have systems in place to prevent fake IDs and keep underage people out.”

He added that though the pub would be open for students under 21, its 18-plus hours may be limited.

Georgetown’s last on-campus

pub, Healy Pub in Healy Hall, closed in 1994. The new pub in the student center was originally proposed after the university shot down a student effort to resurrect Healy Pub. Former GUSA President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13), Vice President Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) and university Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson agreed on certain details of the new pub in a memorandum of understanding signed in February. The pub will serve alcohol on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and will have televisions to broadcast sporting events. In addition to other areas of the student center, the pub is intended to serve as a hub for student social life.

“I think this will be one of the key elements of bringing student social life on campus. We believe that the Healey Family Student Center will have great assets, great benefits, great programming and will just bring in a lot of students,” Olson said. “It’s located in the heart of [campus], where 3,000 students live within a five to seven minute walk. It’s a great location.”

Olson noted that the university will continue to address certain policies as it seeks to draw students onto campus and out of the neighborhood, in alignment with the 2010 Campus Plan agreement.

Nonetheless, Olson emphasized that the student center was not heavily influenced by the campus plan.

“We started envisioning the New South Student Center from the time the Southwest Quad was being built,” Olson said. “We have been committed to and planning for this new student center for a decade, and we’re enthused to see it come to life.”

GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) agreed.

“This has been envisioned for a long time, so regardless of the external factors, this was always going to take place,” Ramadan said.

“Maybe now in the conditions of today, it’s that much more valuable when it opens.”

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“Definitely we’ll keep open sandwich and pizza areas, and the bar will be open until 2 a.m.,” Yang said.

The extended bar hours will necessitate increased security for drinking-age enforcement.

“The dining area will be open for everyone, of course, but [the] bar area, that might be a little strict,” Yang said.

“We have a plan to put some outdoor seating. Our owner has a plan to put an outdoor stage as well. Anyone who wants to play can schedule it with us.”

The announcement of the extension of Epicurean’s hours coincides with the recent announcement of Mason Inn owner Fritz Brogan (COL ’07, LAW ’10) as the operator of the Healey Family Student Center pub, set to open in fall 2014.

Despite the apparent similarities between the planned changes for Epicurean and the Healey Family Student Center

pub, Yang said he does not see the two late-night, on-campus locations as competitors.

“I know they are going to open, but that’s next year,” Yang said. “I think we are in another area [of campus] so we might have different people come to us.”

“The dining area will be open for everyone, of course, but the bar area, that might be a little strict.”

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Brogan agreed that the two businesses would not extensively overlap.

“To be honest, I don’t know much about Epicurean’s busi-

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ness model, but I think our concept will be different,” he said. “I don’t think they have a dance floor.”

Tisa, who pushed for the extended Epicurean hours, said the new hours would benefit both students and neighbors.

“We’ve been discussing ways to make university auxiliary services serve students better and fix a lot of problems we see with on-campus and off-campus relations,” he said, “The neighbors want us to have on-campus late night food options, because then we don’t have to walk through the neighborhood to go to Tuscany. Students want on-campus, late-night food options, so they don’t have to walk through the neighborhood to go to Tuscany. The administration is now in the position to make some changes so they can really accommodate that.”

In addition to extending Epicurean’s hours, the university will open Copley Formal Lounge and Riverside Lounge from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. during study days and final exams from May 1 to May 19.

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A group of international students studying science and mathematics met with Brenda Dann-Messier, U.S. assistant secretary for vocational and adult education, last week to advocate for an immigration reform proposal that may soon come before the Senate.

Georgetown University Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (FLL ’72), who has taken part in some of the initial discussions about the reform proposal, said he organized the meeting to give students the chance to personally influence the political debate.

“Most importantly, we wanted an opportunity for these students to highlight the kinds of things they are studying and researching and what they would like to do if they were able to stay in the U.S.,” Fleming said.

The proposal, which was developed by a bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Eight has the potential to benefit Georgetown students seeking to either acquire citizenship or pursue careers in the sciences in the United States after graduation, and would affect the status of the Dream Act and the H1B visa program.

“The version of the Dream Act that is in this bill is one of the better versions that has existed over recent years,” Fleming said. “Before, when the legislature was trying to get it passed as a standalone measure, they had tightened it up and made it a little less generous to those who would potentially receive citizenship.”

According to Fleming, the Gang of Eight’s proposal would immediately increase the annual quota of student visas for those in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields, from 65,000 to 110,000. The quota would then increase by up to 10,000 each year until reaching an overall annual cap of 180,000.

Another change that would benefit some international students, Fleming said, would be the approval of what are called dual-intent visas, which would allow students to get a visa without proving that they intend to return home after they finish their studies. According to Fleming, acquiring the necessary proof can be difficult.

“If the Gang of 8 bill succeeds in passing, you would have the right to decide that you’d like to stay in the United States and not have to provide sufficient evidence of your intent to leave like you do now,” Fleming said. “And

More Upperclassmen in Henle DORMS, from A1 must comply with the zoning order, but does not think that it is fair to push more sophomores into LXR next year.

“It is definitely disheartening that more sophomores are being moved off-campus, while [upperclassmen] are being moved back into Henle,” Dua said.

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Chair Ron Lewis said he perceives the change as a step toward better relations between the Georgetown neighborhood and students. Lewis said this transition is a good step toward achieving the campus plan goal

of housing 90 percent of undergraduate students on campus by 2025.

“Because the Magis Row houses on 36th are being turned into faculty and grad student housing and then, ultimately, faculty housing and administrative offices, that will help with the plan to put more of the housing on campus,” Lewis said.

Lewis mentioned that the increased number of student beds in existing dorms is only a temporary solution until new student residencies are built.

“It is part of the plan and, by fall 2015, the dorms will be ready. They are working on it,” Lewis stated.

In March, the university proposed building a new residence hall across from Reiss Science Building to replace an earlier plan that would have repurposed the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center.

Other less likely proposals still on the table include expanding Henle Village or Southwest Quad, purchasing the empty Kober-Cogan Building — which has been vacant since May 2010 because of hazardous levels of mold following a steam leak — from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital or constructing dorms on the parking lot by McDonough Gymnasium or on Harbin Terrace.

sometimes proof of that intent is not an easy proposition.”

As of now, the graduate studies program at Georgetown hosts 180 students on STEM visas.

Citing both practical and financial reasons, many of the STEM students who attended last Friday’s discussion expressed their desire to stay in the country after they graduate, when their STEM visas are set to expire.

A graduate student from Benin who is studying biochemistry and molecular biology said that he would feel alienated both at home and at the workplace should he be compelled to return to his native country after Georgetown. He declined to provide his name because he did not want to hurt his chances of getting a visa.

“I do have friends over there,” the student said. “I was in the top 10 students in the entire country and I’ve gone back several times knowing that there’s no certainty that I can get an extension on my visa after graduation.

Each time I’ve done this, in many ways, I was a foreigner in my own country. I don’t know what I would do there to fully actualize the benefit of what I’ve learned.”

In addition to students and faculty, attendees included Kathy Bellows, director of the Office for International Programs and Rachel Rubin, director of International Student and Scholar Services.

Although the immigration reform bill has not passed the Senate Judiciary Committee yet, Fleming said that lawmakers recognize that the timeframe they have to work on this issue could be very limited. He added that critics of the bill now have a new piece of evidence to use to their advantage in the wake of the discovery that two immigrants from Chechnya were responsible for last week’s bombings at the Boston Marathon.

“When it became clear that the two suspects were Chechen, Sen. Chuck Grassley [RIowa], for instance, came out and said we need to slow this process down,” Fleming said.

However, Fleming said that he remains tentatively hopeful about the bill’s future.

“The Gang of Eight have decided to stick together on the two core aspects of the bill, namely the Dream Act and STEM visa reform, and to resist amendments to those two provisions,” Fleming said.

Many of the students said that a few words spoken by professor Elliot Crooke during the meeting last Friday epitomized their viewpoint.

“Science has no borders,” Crooke said.

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and introduction of relevant resources during the NSO Show, a performance all new students must attend.

According to Women’s Center Director Laura Kovach, university administrators will be meeting with Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord and Director of Special Programs Mary Dluhy to discuss how Georgetown can ensure that its policies align with SaVE. “[The working group] reviews policy and the code of conduct on a regular basis, and we will take this opportunity to review our policies to make sure that we are compliant with this new legislation,” Kovach wrote in an email.

“Universities across the country spend most of their time and resources on sexual assault education, services and outreach, and non-campus communities focus more on intimate partner

violence and stalking,” Kovach wrote.

“The Women’s Center has wanted to increase this part of our outreach, and we are excited about the new legislation that will support our efforts.”

In addition, former Sexual Assault Working Group Chair Lisa Frank (COL ’13) and Sexual Assault Working Group Chair Nora West (SFS ’15) have met to discuss potential updates to university sexual harassment policies. Although West could not discuss the details of the discussions, she expressed optimism for the outcome.

“All the administrators I have worked with have been super interested in student input — they want campus to be better, and they’re here to serve students,” West said. “As long as you can show them that this is something that would benefit students and is something that students want, and you can find a way to get them the money to make it happen, I have really yet to find

a time when they are not in support of the project.”

Sexual Assault Peer Educator Zoe Mowl (SFS ’15) disagreed and said that she thought the university would be unwilling to implement SaVE’s more progressive reforms.

“On paper, we like to be progressive, but I’m not sure if, in reality, they’re willing to put those policies into work and into action,” Mowl said.

Mowl said that Georgetown’s sexual violence policies remain outdated, citing the fact that of university-provided kits for rape victims do not include Plan B emergency contraception.

According to Mowl, however, peer educators have yet to discuss the SaVE Act as a group, but hope to do so in the near future.

“We want to start addressing SaVE, not only how we can use it to change the discussions we host but also just bring more awareness,” Mowl said.

Pilot Program Sends Profs to MENA Christopher Zawora Hoya Staff Writer

Through a program called Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins, Georgetown faculty and staff are teaching online courses to refugees in Africa and the Middle East.

Founded in fall 2010 as a pilot program by a collaboration of Jesuit universities and organizations such as the Jesuit Refugee Service, Jesuit Commons uses distance-education tools to connect faculty members from U.S. Jesuit universities with refugees in United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees camps.

While Georgetown was part of the founding team and contributes teaching staff to the program, the university further increased its involvement by donating Kindles, which allow books and assignments to be downloaded for future use without a constant internet connection.

Jesuit Commons currently works with four UNHCR camps in Kenya, Malawi, Jordan and Syria, although the Syrian site is no longer operational due to warfare. Approximately 160 faculty members from 36 U.S. universities and 363 students are participating.

Jesuit Commons is seeking additional funding in order to increase its staff, infrastructure and technology, as well as to add seven new sites in Afghanistan, Chad and the Thai-Burmese border.

Georgetown faculty members have been primarily involved with the camp in Kakuma, Kenya, which is composed largely of Somalis fleeing a prolonged drought.

In June 2012, several Georgetown faculty members, including Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., and representatives from the College Dean’s office toured the camp and met the students.

Jesuit Commons Academic Coordinator Neil Sparnon stressed that public perceptions of refugee camps are often inaccurate.

“When most people think of refugees, they think of people setting up a shortterm camp,” Sparnon said. “The data that we have is the average stay in a refugee camp is 18 years.”

In response to this long-term nature, Jesuit Commons offers refugees threeyear, 45-credit liberal arts diplomas, accredited by Regis University in Denver.

Georgetown Associate Vice President for Compliance and Ethics James Ward, who teaches an online Jesuit Commons

class in interpersonal communications, emphasized the refugees’ eagerness to learn.

“They are hungry for education and thirsty for knowledge and contact with people in the United States and elsewhere,” Ward said. “They want education even if they can’t get a job like a Georgetown student might be able.

They have hope and they can use their education to become leaders in the refugee camps.”

Sparnon added that the program’s value exceeds the information taught in the classroom.

“We expect our students to use their learning in their environment,” Sparnon said. “It’s not just about employment — it’s about enriching their lives.

We hope for these people to use their skills wherever they are.”

Campus Ministry Interreligious Coordinator Lisa Pannucci, who has taught an online Jesuit Commons class on world religions, said that the project embodies Jesuit values.

“The idea [that] we only engage our Georgetown bubble is no longer the norm,” Pannucci said. “We are trying to expand not only our perspectives but also the perspectives of the students we work for.”

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cine and public health,” Axelrod said. “Kheir was invited because he is developing technology for Looking to close the gap be- the intravenous administration tween the hard sciences and the of oxygen, which will hopefully humanities, Maggie Axelrod be a lifesaving technology.”

(COL ’15) and Viggy Parr (COL ’15) Parr hopes FISH will sponfounded Futures in Science and sor more events and speakers in Humanities in December to ex- the fall and specifically said she plore the interdisciplinary nature hopes to bring the director of the of careers in the sciences.

National Institutes of Health to After organizing a career fair campus as well as gain recogniwith one of their professors, the tion from the Student Activities founders also the co-presidents Commission.

Axelod and Parr were inspired to “The ultimate goal is to fosestablish FISH. The group focuses ter a community and make scion sponsoring events and inviting ence more visible on campus. speakers, includHopefully next ing policymakers “There is a reason semester we’ll and environmenget our SAC aptally sustainable people do science at proval, and concompany executo bring a liberal arts college.” tinue tives, to campus. speakers and “FISH is commake this a vemaggie axelrod mitted to standhicle for science Co-President of FISH ing at the interdialogue,” Parr section of science said. and humanities, and bridging the FISH board member Alex Kyrilgap between two disciplines that los (COL ’15) said that scientists most people see as completely sep- need to consider other disciarate,” Parr said. “We want to show plines in order to be successful students interested in science that with their work. you can truly do pretty much any“I think it is really impractithing with a science degree. We cal to approach science issues in also want students of other ma- exclusion as these issues always jors to see how their interests can interact with other factors, inintersect with science in interest- cluding economics, culture and ing and innovative ways.” politics,” Kyrillos said. “I decided Axelrod said that the club is to join FISH in order to get a betespecially relevant to the George- ter understanding of the wide town community. variety of career options that “The thing about Georgetown focus on this interdisciplinary is that it isn’t a tech school. aspect of science.”

There is a reason people do sciThe club currently has a sevenence at a liberal arts college,” member board and 60 people on Axelrod said. “Especially be- its mailing list. ing in D.C., there are so many “We separate ourselves into unique opportunities that FISH boxes here — by major [and] exfits really well with the George- tracurricular,” board member town environment.”

Ali Carter (COL ’15) said. “Often So far, Parr and Axelrod said science kids are seen as science they were pleased with the turn- kids, and humanities people are out at FISH’s two recent events seen as humanities people. This — a live viewing of the TEDMED group is really trying to blend conference and a lecture by medi- the two by showing how many cal researcher John Kheir. different ways science comes up “[TEDMED] invites the most in everyday life and how it really forward-looking people in medi- applies to everything.”

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Academic Councils Transition Network Joins US, Meghan Patzer Hoya Staff Writer

As the academic year draws to a close, students are in the process of electing their respective schools’ academic council representatives for next year.

Though Georgetown College’s elections are ongoing through Monday, the School of Foreign Service, McDonough School of Business and School of Nursing & Health Studies elected representatives last week.

Across all four schools, the top agenda items for incoming and outgoing academic councils are increasing transparency and communication in their positions as liaisons between the deans’ offices and students.

Incoming SFS Academic Council President Kyle Zhu (SFS ’14), who ran unopposed, said he hopes to give SFS students a greater say in the formation of their curriculum and academic life. According to Zhu, the new SFS Academic Council will work to increase communication with the students through a regular newsletter and weekly open houses.

“I wanted to make sure that SFS students know where to access resources for research, internships and other academic passions that I never knew about until much later at Georgetown,” Zhu said.

For example, Zhu plans to lobby for access to classes in the McDonough School of Business.

“Many SFS students want to take these classes but are currently barred from taking them and instead can only take a watered-down version for non-MSB students,” Zhu said.

“The inability of SFS students to obtain a minor also makes it difficult to access certain classes and resources from aca-

demic departments at Georgetown.”

The SFSAC succeeded in instituting a joint introductory macro- and microeconomics course this year, a focus of outgoing SFSAC President Jon Askonas (SFS ’13).

College Academic Council Vice President Kamil Lupicki (COL ’14), who is running for CAC president, said he hopes to increase interschool collaboration, something he thinks has fallen by the wayside.

“Over the past academic year, there hasn’t been that much dialogue between the four academic councils, though I do hope that it can return to prior levels over the course of next semester,” he said.

Lupicki highlighted the multiple CAC events this year that were created to increase communication between students and deans, including an ice cream social this past Wednesday.

“We found that for many upperclassmen, they stopped using the resources available through the Dean’s Office after sophomore year,” Lupicki said. “Obviously, this is partly because, for juniors and seniors, they have a better idea as to what they will focus on in terms of studies, but we definitely wanted to reopen those lines of communication between deans and students.”

This year, the CAC worked to establish a printing plan automatically included in tuition, similar to the models for MSB and NHS students. According to Lupicki, while the council has shown a proposal to the university administration, officials are still not ready to move on it.

Current MSB Academic Council member Patrick Moore (MSB ’15) reflected on

the past year’s efforts to increase transparency about course requirements.

“We really put an emphasis on trying to clear up requirements for majors for underclassmen along with normal course requirements for all MSB students,” Moore said, specifically mentioning a majors fair for freshmen held earlier this year.

MSB Academic Council elections concluded April 19, with Alana Magli (MSB ’14) succeeding Nikhil Lakhanpal (MSB ’13) as president.

Outgoing NHS Academic Council Co-Chairs Scott Wisniewski (NHS ’13) and Katie Dunn (NHS ’13) have focused on increased faculty-student interaction this year.

They also succeeded in their efforts to reintroduce philanthropy to the council’s agenda by fundraising to support St. Aloysius Gonzaga, a Jesuit school for AIDS orphans in Kenya.

Antonia Kopp (NHS ’14) and Jamie Schlarbaum (NHS ’15), who were elected NHS Academic Council co-presidents March 5, said that continuing these philanthropic efforts was a main priority of theirs for the upcoming year.

The rest of the NHS Academic Council was elected on April 19. They are the first co-chairs to be elected at such an early date in an effort to facilitate a smoother transition under the leadership of their outgoing counterparts.

“It was really helpful to be able to have this period where we could still look to Scottie and Katie,” Schlarbaum said.

“They’ve been so accessible both inside of meetings and out and have always shown that not only is this job extremely important to the school, but it’s also a lot of fun.”

Middle East Students Carly Graf

“Being able to engage with students on these topics [through the speakers] brought to light the fundamentally difAfter spending the summer as a jour- ferent perspectives of students in Iraq or nalist in Iraq, Christian Chung (SFS ’15) Egypt,” Chung said. looked to his experience to found the According to Chung, the organizaU.S.-Middle East Youth Network, an in- tion ultimately hopes to start an annual ternational group that joins students in youth policy conference, inviting stuboth regions to debate and discuss for- dents from D.C. and the Middle East to eign policy. participate in expert panels and present “I … had the opportunity to really en- on policy ideas. gage with college students focusing on Members said that the network offers many of the same issues and academic students the opportunity to engage and areas and interests interact with students as me,” Chung, now outside of the U.S. president of the net- “Being able to engage “I was immediately work, said. “There interested and drawn with students ... brought was no real opporby the network’s fotunity to broadcast to life the fundamentally cus on connection their thoughts and between students in policy proposals or to different perspectives of the U.S. and the Midreally be involved in dle East,” leadership the public discourse students in Iraq.” board member Max on critical policy isHarris (COL ’15) said. sues.”

“This is a unique iniThe network, which tiative with a lot of CHRISTIAN CHUNG (SFS ’15) U.S.-Middle East Youth Network Founder Chung officially potential.” founded in late FebruExternal Relations ary, encourages lively Head Will Simons debate on foreign policy and socioeco- (COL ’16) agreed. nomic issues.

“The network seeks to allow interest“The core of our mission is really to ed students to share their research and provide a forum that gives young people opinions with students from the region in the U.S. and Middle East a platform who have direct, firsthand experience of to come up with and advocate for policy policy implications,” Simons said. ideas, but from the youth perspective,” Hawdang Kamal, a student at the Chung said.

American University of Iraq Sulaimania, Chung began to develop the network agreed that the network provides an opin December, and the leadership team portunity to connect American and Iraqi is now composed of 15 Georgetown stu- students. dents. The administrative center of the “The network gives us a great chance group is located at Georgetown, while to re-build the ties between the East and the network itself currently includes 45 West. The gap that history has made bestudents in the Middle East, specifically tween the two does not work anymore,” at the University of Kurdistan-Hawler Kamal wrote in an email. “We believe and the American University of Iraq-Su- that we are all living in a circle and we laimani. cannot leave it, for we are bounded by Already, the network has founded the each other. … This kind of network is the Middle East Youth Policy Forum, which best effort [that] has ever made to make sponsors a speaker series and an interac- the circle enhanced by giving everyone tive blog. the same chance to go across.”

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Adjunct Union Extends Reach Mallika Sen Hoya Staff Writer

While Georgetown’s adjunct professors are in the midst of voting on unionization, the organization seeking to represent them, Service Employees International Union, is gearing up to target higher education workers in other metropolitan areas.

Following its success galvanizing adjuncts to unionize at Montgomery College in Rockville, Md., and American University and The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., the labor union is now extending its efforts to Boston.

SEIU’s modus operandi is to target colleges and universities in a specific urban area to induce a domino effect across the city by pressuring neighbors to follow suit in unionizing.

“The trends in higher education [are] now 70 percent of faculty are off the tenure track and over half are part-time,” SEIU Communications Director Avril Smith said. “These trends are happening across the country, but Boston is a leading market in higher education.”

At Georgetown, SEIU Local 500 filed for elections on March 23 and ballots were mailed out to eligible faculty members on April 12, according to SEIU Local 500 Communications Director Christopher Honey.

The National Labor Relations Board, which governs voting, will tally the votes May 3. Georgetown’s adjuncts will become unionized if the majority of adjuncts who vote approve. Provost Robert Groves stated in a letter March 26 that the university encouraged faculty members to vote and would remain neutral.

“I, for one, am hopeful about unionization,” Honey said.

To attract professors, Adjunct Action, a project of SEIU, held a symposium with over 100 adjunct faculty members from over 20 Boston campuses, including Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Lowell, on April 13. Due to the proliferation of colleges and universities in the area, Smith said that she believes Boston can serve as an example for other areas.

“[Conditions do not] really vary much from campus to campus or city to city,” Smith said.

According to The Chronicle for Higher Education, the majority of adjuncts in Boston’s public institutions of higher education are involved in collective bargaining units.

Such efforts on private campuses, however, have previously failed to make an impact.

Smith described the Boston movement as being in its preliminary stages.

“The next step is forming organizing committees both on the campuses where adjunct faculty are most interested in moving forward and also across the metropolitan area,” Smith said.

SEIU Organizing Coordination and Adjunct Action Campaign Director Todd Ricker spoke of a “broad net” approach to this particular metropolitan campaign.

“There are several campuses where we are finding a lot of heat,” Ricker said. “We have been speaking with faculty members face-to-face since early this year. Campus-bycampus, the adjunct and non-tenure track faculty at each are deciding when the time is right to begin election campaigns for their own unions.”

SEIU is just one of several unions that focuses on labor rights in higher education. Adjuncts Come TogetherUnited Auto Workers represents adjuncts at New York University and the New School in New York City. The American Association of University Professors, National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers also advocate for professors’ rights and include divisions for adjuncts.

“The issues in the U.S. higher-ed system are so deep and so pervasive that we recognize it will take more than just one organization to fix it,” Ricker said.

Los Angeles is also considered a potential target for SEIU, but efforts are in their infancy, and Ricker stressed that many cities across the country are eligible for SEIU’s focus in its next campaign.

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GU Disagrees With ACT Survey Carly Graf

Hoya Staff Writer

While a survey released by the ACT on April 17 found that few college educators perceived high school graduates to be academically prepared for college, Georgetown professors generally found incoming freshmen ready for the rigor of university academics.

According to the survey, 89 percent of high school educators reported their graduates to be adequately prepared upon graduation, while only 26 percent of college educators believed college freshmen to be ready for college-level work.

In particular, however, educators at all levels expressed concern about students’ reading comprehension skills, with 75 percent of high school teachers reporting that high school students graduate with grade-school level abilities.

“College requires more critical analysis and critical thinking than high school, and everyone has to adjust,” Georgetown College Dean Chester Gillis said.

Nevertheless, School of Foreign Service Dean Carol Lancaster, who has taught multiple freshman seminars, said that incoming Georgetown students have generally adjusted adequately.

“I would say that students are pretty well prepared for college,” Lancaster said.

“They are usually able to write essays well, think clearly, are ready to work hard and are, of course, smart.”

Lancaster, however, said that students often lack the ability to find appropriate source materials.

“Wikipedia and … superficial blogs on the Internet are just not enough for a serious, well-researched essay or paper,” Lancaster said.

To develop writing skills and other key academic skills, all four Georgetown schools offer or require writing-intensive seminars for incoming freshmen.

“I am less concerned with content than I am with the methodology and exposure of recent scholarship, which is what I want the faculty to model,” Gillis said.

Overall, Gillis said that due to the survey’s wide range, it was inapplicable to Georgetown students.

“The caliber of student that we recruit and the schools with which we compete do get the best high school students,” Gillis said. “The survey is probably testing across the board, and it’s probably not a fair playing field to compare that to Georgetown.”

Lancaster agreed that the university’s incoming students seem well prepared to handle the demanding Georgetown workload.

“Some students have an extraordinari-

ly mature intelligence and can do professional-quality work from the get go which is always amazing to me,” Lancaster said.

While educators found students’ writing abilities to be most lacking, students said the most difficult part of the transition to college was the heavy workload.

“I felt prepared academically as a freshman in part because I was so apprehensive about the workload that I put a great deal of work in and did better first semester than I did any semester thereafter,” Galen Hiltbrand (COL ’15) said. “I came from a school that really emphasized college preparation.”

Ebere Anokute (COL ’15) agreed, adding that the work itself was not very difficult.

“The hardest part I found was not the material itself but learning how to discern from the material what is most pertinent and what is less important,” Anokute said.

On the other hand, Kyra Hanlon (SFS ’16) said that while her high school had prepared her for the rigor of college, she felt unprepared for the style of university classes.

“In high school we had a lot of daily homework, the teachers would kind of ride you and the essays were shorter, and here at college it’s more about independent reading time and essay writing,” Hanlon said.

GU Boathouse Plans Revived BOATHOUSE, from A1 University boathouse remains an important university priority. … We are still evaluating the feasibility study to determine what path will get us to a Georgetown University boathouse that meets our needs without further undue delay.”

After the 30-day comment period, NPS will prepare an environmental impact study in addition to revisions of the Georgetown Waterfront Park Master Plan and proposals for one or more land exchanges.

Meanwhile, Boston Outdoor Recreation, Inc., which owns and operates six Massachusetts boathouses, won the rights to the site in NPS’ auction for a new operator.

“It’s going great so far,” BOR co-owner Nicholas Verrochi, who moved from Boston to manage the boathouse, said.

“We love the location.”

Verrochi added that he has felt welcomed by former clientele and that

“Securing the necessary approvals to move forward with a Georgetown boathouse remains a ... priority.”

SCOTT FLEMING Vice President for Federal Relations

Simkin has been supportive throughout the transition.

Simkin expressed confidence in Verrochi’s ability to run the boathouse and said that the negotiated price was fair.

“If it can’t be us, it seems like a good guy who got it. They’re a smart busi-

ness, and they’re trying to please the public,” Simkin said. “The business wasn’t taken over by a corporate conglomerate, and it wasn’t taken over by a university boathouse and turned into a nonpublic place. … The publicity kept the corporate folks from getting the contract.”

Verrochi said that BOR has tried to preserve the boathouse legacy as much as possible by keeping staff According to NPS spokesperson Mike Johnson, there will not be major changes to boathouse operations.

In addition, prices are similar to those charged by Jack’s Boathouse management. Kayaks, which used to cost $15 per hour, are now $14 per hour. Canoes, which used to be rented with a per-person charge, are now $25 per hour per boat. However, Key Bridge Boathouse no longer offers a student discount.

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Team Chemistry Brings Wins TITLE, from A12 looked ready to celebrate, but, before the siren could sound, the puck was touched at the far end of the ice by an opposing defenseman. Icing. With two seconds left.

There would be a draw in the Georgetown zone, and while a faceoff loss would likely give the opposing team one final chance, a win would seal the deal. And there was only one man that was going to step up and take it.

“It was on my right side, to the right of our goalie, and I’m righthanded so it was my side,” Ryder said. “I was just going to lift his stick and hope to block it.”

But instead, the puck was deflected back to the slot, and a hurried Wolfpack shot darted just a foot wide of Brogan’s cage.

The horn went off; it wasn’t pretty, but the Hoyas had done it.

As relieved teammates climbed over the bench to mob Brogan, Ryder could be heard

whispering to a linemate on the ice.

“That’s not how we drew it up.”

And it rarely ever is. Such is the beauty of the sport. It makes winning just that little bit more special, because nothing is ever

“You remember the games and stuff, but having a close team — that’s probably the best part of it.” john ryder Senior center and captain

assured.

“As often happens, we suffered some early and mid-season challenges,” Card said. “However, our team captains really stepped up to re-energize the team, and [in] the last few weeks of the season, we came together.”

“We’ve had a really close team each year,” Ryder said. “You remember the games and stuff, but having a close team — that’s probably the best part of it.”

For the program’s six seniors, this was a chance to come out on top. For Brogan, Toporoff and the rest of the team, a shot at a three-peat — something no team has accomplished in the ACCHL’s history — awaits in 2014.

“Every player on our team, from our all-stars to our practice players, are really exceptional young men,” Card said. “Georgetown University should be extremely proud of not only the players that play for the university but also for the quality individual each student-athlete is. It is special to see young men grow from freshmen to seniors and go out on top.”

When the Georgetown club hockey team hits the ice once again next year, Card will hope to lead his next crop of seniors to a similar fate.

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GU Aims High at Penn Relays Patrick Musgrave Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown track and field is competing in the culmination of its regular season this weekend at the famous Penn Relays, which began last night in Philadelphia and will continue on through Saturday.

Several elite Division I teams will be competing on both the men’s and the women’s sides, including Oregon, Tennessee, Indiana and Duke. The strength of the competition, coupled with the thousands of fans expected at historic Franklin Field, should help to generate some very fast times.

Last night, the women’s distance medley relay team got the Hoyas off to a rocky start in Philadelphia, taking seventh place in the event in 11:22, a good deal slower than what they were hoping for. Graduate student Andrea Keklak led off in the 1200-meter leg, running a 3:30 and putting the Hoyas in a deficit that they were unable to make up. That slow leg was compounded by a mishap in the second exchange, as junior Chelsea Cox collided with another competitor and subsequently dropped the baton.

“Ugly is the only real way to

describe this,” Director of Track & Field and Cross Country Patrick Henner said. “Andrea had strep throat last week, and she wasn’t recovered. And then with Chelsea dropping the stick, it was just one bad thing after another.”

On Saturday, however, that same relay squad will get a chance to redeem itself in the 4x800m relay. Right now, the Penn Relays race preview has Georgetown projected to go around fourth in this event, close behind Tennessee and Louisiana State. Oregon is seen as the heavy favorite, perhaps even as candidates to break the 8:17 national record.

The Hoyas have clocked in at 8:41 in previous 4x800s but should be able to run a lot faster than that this weekend, according to Henner. It will really come down to Cox, who has run 2:05 so far this season — if she can get down to around 2:02, it should put the Hoyas in the mix for a trip to the medal stand.

The men’s distance medley, meanwhile, is slated to compete today. This Georgetown unit is also heavily stacked, with senior Bobby Peavey taking the 1200m leg, freshman Devante Washington the 400m, junior Billy Ledder the 800m and senior AllAmerican Andrew Springer an-

choring on the mile leg. Peavey had a stellar performance a few weeks ago at George Mason in the 1500m and should be ready to lay down a solid opening leg for the Hoyas. Washington has also been solid in the 400m, and Ledder seems ready to run 1:47 or better in the 800m.

Just how high the Hoyas can go, then, is likely to come down to Springer’s performance. The Rhode Island native suffered from a slight illness in the past weeks, but all signs thus far point to a complete recovery.

“I think we can run faster than we have been — we’ve run 9:33 in the indoor season, but I think we’ll be right there,” Henner said. “There are some very good teams in the race, but I think we can have a shot at doing really well in this one.”

The meet may not bear much influence on Big East or NCAA qualifying standings, but — given the event’s history — the Hoyas will still be looking to excel.

“We want to do really well at the Penn Relays and are looking at this as a way to see what we need to do leading up to the end of the season, but overall, it is a pride thing,” Henner said. “It’s just a big, prestigious event in front of a lot of fans.”

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Carmelo’s Legacy On Line in Playoffs

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In a loaded 2003 draft, Anthony went his past Saturday, Game 1 of the opening round series between the third overall to Denver and his scoring New York Knicks and the Boston touch went west with him. He tallied 41 Celtics was winding down and the situ- points in a game as a 19-year-old rookie ation was clear: Up only five with a little for the Nuggets. This year, he’s coming less than a minute to go, the Knicks need- off an early April stretch during which he put up at least 40 points for three ed one more bucket to seal the game.

Stuck above the three-point line after straight games. He’s dropped 50 points an aborted high pick and roll with age- in a game three times in his illustrious less teammate Kenyon Martin, Carmelo career.

So it’s never been the stats that have Anthony’s airspace was diminishing fast.

Kevin Garnett and former Hoya great Jeff haunted Anthony. Rather, he, like so Green were bearing down on him. Just many other greats, has come up short five seconds remained on the shot clock. time and time again in the postseason.

Having already poured in 36 points on 29 For all his gaudy individual numbers, shots, M’elo and his prodigious shooting the fact remains that Anthony has had stroke seemed to be the only option. The one of the least fruitful — and most disapNBA’s leading scorer this year, perhaps pointing — playoff careers of any superthe best pure scorer in the game, would star in NBA history. surely call on that herky-jerky jumper Prior to this year, ’Melo has led nine of his once more to ice the teams to the playoffs. Eight game and get the Knicks a times, he has failed to get much-needed win. past the first round. While Or he would pass. he has never struggled to Spying Martin uncovered score in the postseason, avon a crisp roll to the hoop, eraging 25 points per game Anthony rose up and threw in the playoffs, the wins a bullet pass to his teamhave not come at an equalPeter Barston mate. It was by no means ly prolific clip. His career a pinpoint exchange, but postseason record before Martin reached up and Carmelo has to score this year is a surreal 17-37, snagged it out of the air for and win. The two used making him the losingest the layup, the assist and, postseason player of the most importantly, the 85- to be mutually exlusive. last 20 years. Save for a run 78 victory. The whole seto the conference finals quence was a departure from the norm, four years ago, Anthony — one of the best for sure. The shoot-first Anthony we players of his generation — has shown us knew so well was nowhere to be found. nothing once the curtain has closed on In his place was a selfless floor general, at the regular season. least for just a possession.

With his legacy on the line, there is no That pass to Martin was Anthony’s better opportunity for Anthony than this lone assist on the afternoon. The next postseason. He needs to be a leader, not John Stockton isn’t putting on that No. just a scorer. With the ball in his hands, 7 Knicks jersey anytime soon. But the Anthony has to be able to do what he does importance of that pass shouldn’t be un- best — score — and what he has struggled derstated. mightily with — win in the postseason.

Anthony has always been a scorer. He The two used to be mutually exclusive. was probably chucking up a fadeaway That’s what made Game 1 so tantathree when he came out of the womb. lizing and such a joy to watch. It was a At high school basketball powerhouse vintage Carmelo display; spin moves and Oak Hill Academy, Anthony averaged 22 fadeaways, drives and pull-up jumpers all points per game his senior year while made for a portfolio of scoring that could playing against some of the best com- be replicated by few in the league. And in petition in the country. The next stop the end, with the game on the line, Anfor the phenom was Syracuse, where thony did the unthinkable — he passed.

Anthony again averaged 22 points per He found a way to win. In the postseason, game, including a 33-point performance no less. Something new, yet something against Texas in the Final Four — a fresh- welcome all the same. man scoring record. His scoring talent Can a pass rewrite a legacy? It’s not the ensured that Anthony was never long end of the story. But it’s certainly a start. for the Orange, and so he declared for Just ask Carmelo Anthony. the NBA draft after his first season at Syracuse. He departed with a national Peter Barston is a freshman in the Mcchampionship to his name and an array Donough School of Business. This is of scoring moves ready to flourish at the the final appearance of RAISING THE BAR this semester. next level.

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Cards Await After Coppin Win Will Edman

Hoya Staff Writer

For the Georgetown baseball team, an encounter with Coppin State is always a welcome occasion. The Hoyas have laid waste to the Eagles in recent years, as evidenced by 17-11 and 19-7 thrashings, respectively, in the past two seasons.

This year’s matchup was no exception, as Georgetown (2315, 5-7 Big East) powered by Coppin State (12-27, 8-12 MEAC) 13-6 Wednesday on the Eagles’ home turf in Baltimore.

Wednesday’s game marked another nonconference win for the Hoyas, who are 5-0 in the one-game midweek clashes against smaller-conference teams sandwiched by the weekends’ typical three-game Big East series. The victory over the Eagles was key for a team gearing up to face No. 24 Louisville (30-10, 8-4 Big East) this weekend after losing its last two series in conference play.

Georgetown was led Wednesday by the bats of freshman third baseman Curtiss Pomeroy and senior designated hitter Corbin Blakey, who recorded four and three RBIs, respectively. The Hoyas also got an assist from the Eagles’ struggling pitchers, who gave up nine walks on the day; Georgetown especially victimized Coppin State relief pitcher Jhar Devilme, tagging him for five runs at the start of the fifth inning before the freshman could record an out.

The Blue and Gray took a

lead at the top of the first inning thanks to RBI singles from freshman catcher Nick Collins and Blakey. However, Coppin State rallied in the bottom of the inning to score three runs off sophomore starting pitcher Will Brown, (3-1, 2.59 ERA) who was making his first start of the season while the Hoyas rested senior Thomas Polus and sophomores Jack Vander Linden and Matt Hollenbeck in preparation for the weekend’s Louisville series. Senior setup man Neal Dennison and senior closer Charlie Steinman, Georgetown’s two best relievers also got the day off in order to recover for the tough weekend ahead.

The Blue and Gray would not need their best pitchers on the day, however, as they soon broke the game open. After Pomeroy’s double in the fourth scored Blakey — who recorded four hits — the teams entered the fifth tied at 3-3. Georgetown’s offensive potency and Devilme’s wild pitching would ensure that the score would be much different by the end of the half-inning.

All told, the Hoyas scored six runs in the inning on RBIs from Blakey, Pomeroy and senior left fielder Paul Bello, as six straight Georgetown batters reached base before Coppin State could muster a single out. The Hoyas would cruise from there en route to the 13-6 win.

Even after the confidencebuilding outing, Georgetown will have Coppin State firmly in the rearview mirror as it begins

its series with Louisville today.

The Cardinals, who reached the regional round of the NCAA tournament last year, currently sit in third in the conference standings but are the highest ranked Big East team as well as, unequivocally, the best team Georgetown will have faced this season.

To have a chance in the series, the Hoyas will need outstanding performances from their starting pitchers in order to give Dennison and Steinman the ball with a chance to win the game in the later innings.

Additionally the Blue and Gray will need their best hitters — including Collins, second baseman Trevor Matern, with his .353 batting average, senior center fielder and pro prospect Justin Leeson and power-hitting junior right fielder Christian Venditti — to produce off Louisville’s standout pitching staff, something that few hitters have accomplished this season.

It may be a tall order to earn a series victory against Louisville this weekend, but if Georgetown, currently ranked eighth in the Big East, is to reach the conference tournament, it will require a few unexpected results in the coming weekends.

After the Louisville series, the Georgetown hopes that series against Pittsburgh (29-10, 9-3 Big East) and Rutgers (20-19, 8-7 Big East) will provide such opportunities Georgetown and Louisville will face off in Louisville, Ky., at 6 p.m. today and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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Senior attack Brian Casey practiced this week for the first time since his injury against Providence earlier in the season. His status is questionable for Rutgers.

Hoyas Face Scarlet Knights For Final Tourney Berth FINALE, from A12 letdown at all because we’ve got the sense that it’s playoffs,” sophomore attack Reilly O’Connor said. “If we lose, our season is over. The guys are really going right now, we’re really fired up.”

O’Connor, an Ontario native with the accent to prove it, paces the Georgetown offense with 22 goals and 20 assists thus far on the year.

Along with Comeau, he attended The Hill Academy and played for Brodie Merrill (MSB ’05), a two-time All-American and the 2005 National Defensive Player of the Year who was deemed the best player in the world by Inside Lacrosse magazine in 2010.

Now serving as the head coach at one of Canada’s premier lacrosse prep schools, he has created a nice recruiting pipeline for his alma mater.

“I always looked up to Brodie, and he

had such a big influence on me when I was at the Hill Academy,” Comeau said.

“I didn’t have a lot of offers at first, but Brodie encouraged me. Once I heard from Georgetown, I committed without visiting.”

The Hoyas received an enormous boost this week as their current star, senior captain Brian Casey, returned to practice for the first time since injuring his right leg March 16 during a win over Providence. When healthy, Casey — the Hoyas’ leading scorer a year ago — is one of the smoothest attackmen in Division I. “We’re going to have to wait and see with Brian,” Warne said. “If he came back, that would be great; he’ll be a game-time decision. He’s playing with a lot of pain right now.”

The opening faceoff for Georgetown’s win-or-go-home matchup with Rutgers is set for 7 p.m. Saturday.

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GU Looks to Keep Tourney New Success Causes Buzz Spot Against No. 8 UL RISE, from A12

Tom Schnoor Hoya Staff Writer

As the semester comes to a close on the Hilltop, so, too, does the Big East season for the Georgetown softball team (19-28, 8-8 Big East). Still sitting in fifth place in the Big East, the Hoyas have just six conference games left on their 2013 slate.

The Blue and Gray will play three of those games this weekend, as they travel to Kentucky with the baseball team for what is sure to be a challenging three-game series against No. 8 Louisville (42-7, 15-1 Big East).

“We have played a very good schedule,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “But I would [say] that Louisville will be the best team that we have played.”

Louisville enters the series following a surprising 2-1 loss to No. 19 Kentucky on Wednesday night; even so, the Cardinals have not lost in the Big East since March 29 and, prior to the Kentucky loss, had won 15 games in a row.

Louisville is dangerous on both sides of the ball. While its prolific offense averages over eight runs a game in the Big East, the pitching staff — led by junior Rachel LeCoq (15-4) and junior Caralisa Connell (24-2) — is allowing fewer than two runs a game in league play.

“Louisville can hit for average and power, run, play defense and have a quality pitching staff,” Conlan said. “From top to bottom, they are a very explosive team.”

That said, Conlan noted that “we always focus on playing against the game, not the opponent.”

Georgetown comes into the series hoping to make up for last weekend’s somewhat disappointing performance against

the Providence Friars (18-25-1, 4-10 Big East), when the Hoyas were able to take only one of three games on the road.

The Blue and Gray did not play a weekday game this week, which provided the team a chance to rest up and work on what Conlan stresses will be important for a successful series against Louisville: error-free softball and timely hitting.

“Eliminating small mistakes and adding a few clutch hits will help regardless of who we are playing,” said Conlan.

For Georgetown, qualifying for the Big East tournament for the first time in program history has been the goal since the start of the season, and now, with the end of the year in sight, it seems like a distinct possibility.

But that’s not to say that qualification will by any means be easy. The top eight teams of the 13-member Big East qualify for postseason play, and the Hoyas currently sit only 2.5 games ahead of ninth-place Pittsburgh. The task is made more difficult by the fact that several of the teams behind Georgetown in the standings have far easier remaining schedules.

If the Blue and Gray could manage a single win this weekend, though, it would significantly boost the team’s tournament aspirations.

Nevertheless, a level-headed Conlan insisted that she isn’t placing any particular importance on the upcoming Louisville series.

“All of our conference games are important, so no weekend is more significant than any other,” Conlan said. “However, we are coming to the end, and any win will get us one step closer to the conference tournament.”

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Fried Hoping for Packed House on Georgetown Day UCONN, from A12 Last weekend, UConn unsurprisingly bested struggling Marquette — a team Georgetown beat two weeks ago — and then managed to get by Notre Dame, the team that handed Georgetown its only loss in a 13-12 thriller.

Syracuse, meanwhile, is undefeated in the conference and shows no signs of relenting.

Georgetown will have to play to its full potential if it wants to snap Syracuse’s win streak, but Fried does not want the team to lose focus on its most immediate objective: beating Connecticut.

“We first must focus on UConn,” Fried said.

“They are extremely talented, and we must not overlook them.”

Friday’s game falls on Georgetown Day, and while Fried hasn’t given much thought to the fact that one of the biggest games of the season coincides with one of the biggest school holidays, he is excited about the possibility of a larger crowd at the game.

“We would love to have student support since it is such a big game,” Fried said. “Hopefully we will be supported loudly.”

The opening draw against Connecticut is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday, while the game against Syracuse will start at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Both contests will take place at MultiSport Facility.

Big East tournament final at the Philadelphia Union’s PPL Park, as a lead over Notre Dame with under a minute to go slipped agonizingly away.

It would have been the first tournament title in program history, but a devastated Wiese and Co. picked their heads up and carried on.

And on. And on.

THE QUESTION OF STAYING POWER Seeded atop its region for the NCAA tournament, the Hoyas were, in theory, ‘supposed’ to make it through to the College Cup in Hoover, Ala. And, even without much experience to draw from, they played like it, mounting second-half comebacks against both Big East foe Syracuse in the Sweet 16 and San Diego in the Elite Eight.

The latter game was a surprise, though, and not for what transpired on the field. The reason? North Kehoe Field, for the first time all season, was standing room only.

“It was incredible, the amount of support we got [against San Diego] from the student body, from alums,” Muller said. “We never really expected a big crowd at home games — that was kind of just the norm.”

If the past five months are any indication, it’s not the norm anymore.

Georgetown escaped local foe Maryland in the Final Four, and Indiana was up after that in the national championship.

Athletic Director Lee Reid would organize a road trip to Alabama for the title game, and Hoya Blue didn’t take long to run out of seats.

“We filled out the road trip in like an hour,” former Hoya Blue communications director Sam Kareff (SFS ’13) said. “It was really just an hour. It was awesome.”

The fans who embarked on that 26-hour round trip may not have witnessed their team get the chance to raise the trophy — the Hoyas would be shut out for just the second time all season in a 1-0 heartbreaker — but they

were witnesses to the completion of their program’s rise.

In the months after that title game, Hoya Blue saw its membership experience a dramatic spike, and a spring friendly against William & Mary brought in more fans to North Kehoe than early regular season games even had in 2012.

Investment in the men’s soccer program is at an undeniable alltime high.

“When I walk around campus, [students now] want to talk to you about it, and they start having a familiarity with what the team is,” Wiese said.

“That happens all over the place — they want to talk about the

“What if we became a soccer school?”

Sam kareff (SFS ’13) Former Hoya Blue Officer

team.”

“Everyone’s really interested in [the team] now, even MLS stuff,” Kareff added. “That would have never happened three years ago.”

But the 2012 team’s impact goes far beyond putting people in the stands and those passing conversations in the quad.

Wiese said that his 2013 recruiting class had all committed to Georgetown before the College Cup, but the impact of last season is sure to resonate in the classes to follow.

“In the past, it was harder for Georgetown, because there weren’t soccer scholarships, the academic demands were so high that they’d lose out on a lot of guys and most of the best players would end up in the ACC,” Goff said. “But with the quality of the school that [Wiese] has to offer and the rise of the program, he’s been able to get these players who are of international caliber.”

Two such players are Allen,

who featured in World Cup qualifiers this spring for the United States Under-20 national team, and sophomore goalkeeper Tomas Gomez, who played a bit for the U-20s last year. Both will surely get looks from MLS, following in the footsteps of Muller, Christianson, winger Andy Riemer and left back Jimmy Nealis, all of whom were drafted by the league following this past season.

And with those success stories is sure to come even more talent along the Georgetown pipeline.

One year does not a program make, as Neumann pointed out, but Wiese has certainly put himself in an enviable position going forward.

“If you’re a sailboat and you get a puff of wind, it gets you going, but if that wind dies, the sailboat eventually slows down and starts drifting,” Wiese said.

“And the answer to that is a good team, that’s the wind that keeps the sailboat moving.”

The sailboat will surely be moving to start off the 2013 season. It’s just the matter of how far and for how long that remains up in the air.

Not that that’s stopped some from trying to figure it out.

“What if we became a soccer school?” Kareff asked, echoing Wiese’s comments at the team’s welcome-back rally following the College Cup. “That would completely transform everyone’s undergrad experience and make it completely different. But it’s a cool thing to think about.”

For many on the Hilltop, it might also appear an absurd thing to think about. A short time ago, however, it would have been considerably more so.

Before 2012, just five players all time had been drafted out of Georgetown by Major League Soccer, none had become stars and only Dan Gargan (MSB ’05) was still on an active roster.

The stands had been empty.

The fans apathetic. The College Cup a pipe dream.

Then, somehow, over the course of just 26 wild games, everything changed.

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Hockey Still Underrated

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his past January, the NHL owners backed off of their harsh demands of the players union, finally ending the NHL lockout just before the midnight deadline. The owners relented because they knew that they could not afford to lock out the playoffs.

Why? Because the NHL playoffs are awesome.

Of course, no hockey fan is going to pretend that the sport has the same popularity and coverage as the biggest three American sports, and no American hockey fan is going to pretend that sport’s popularity is anywhere near the level of its popularity in Canada. (For reference, Google Image search “Edmonton water usage 2010 Olympics.”) However, I will tell you that anyone who isn’t tuning into the NHL playoffs, especially this year, is missing out on an incredibly fascinating set of games at a point in the calendar when we desperately need it.

Personally, I’m tired of Todd McShay, Mel Kiper Jr. and Mel Kiper Jr.’s hair telling us whom each team is going to pick in the NFL draft, only to have them change their minds a week later.

Actually, I’ve been tired of it since February. Nothing football-related is as intense as football itself, and a lot of the false hype that comes from things like the draft amounts to nothing, since it’s almost impossible for any sports writer to get more than 10 picks correct out of the first round of 32 anyway.

Baseball has just kicked off, and America’s pastime should always be near the front of sports fans’ minds.

But in a season of 162 games, and with plenty of trades yet to be made, how intense can any of these games in April really feel?

Finally, there’s basketball,

which is rightfully at the peak of its hype. The NBA playoffs are exciting … but not as exhilarating as many would hope they’d be. There may be some close games in the early rounds of the playoffs, but unfortunately, most of those won’t end up mattering in the end. According to ESPN sabermetrician John Hollinger’s playoff odds, only two teams have more than a 12 percent chance of winning

Tom Hoff None of America’s other sports provide the same kind of constant intensity. the title. When I’m watching these early-round games, I can’t help but get the feeling that we’ll have forgotten all about them once Miami and OKC face off in the finals again.

The three biggest American sports consider this time of year essential, but none of their storylines provide the same around-the-clock intensity that sports fans like myself would like. That’s where hockey enters the equation.

It must be noted that hockey’s playoffs are much more competitive than basketball’s, and a team of any seed can win the championship, a fact that undeniably adds to the tension of every play. Last year, the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Kings defeated the sixth-seeded New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Every game in every round of the NHL playoffs counts.

Also, if you prefer to see

your favorite sports played with raw energy and emotion at all times, as any good fan should, then you need to give the NHL a shot. The NBA’s commissioner, David Stern, fines players for breathing on each other too heavily; in hockey, extreme physicality is the norm, and the players show a level of determination that’s almost unheard of in other sports.

With this year’s lockout delaying the schedule, the latter parts of the first round of the playoffs — which might be the best collection of games packed into a few days other than March Madness — will be in full swing when final exams end.

There is only one instance in which hockey players show more desire than during the NHL playoffs, and that is during the hockey tournament at the Olympic Games every four years, when the players demonstrate passion comparable to that showed during the World Cup. What’s more, the Olympics allow players to promote the highest level of their sport for the whole world to see — for free. Sure, injuries happen, and injuries hurt cash flows.

But the reward is far greater than the risk. The NHL needs to release its players next February to let them showcase the best hockey can offer.

If you tune into a few NHL playoff games over the next two months, and if the NHL’s owners give you the opportunity to watch the sport at an even higher level in the next Winter Olympics, then I guarantee that I’ll have you hooked on hockey soon enough.

You can thank me later.

Tom Hoff is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business. This is the final appearance of DOWN TO THE WIRE this semester.

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Men’s soccer Head Coach Brian Wiese

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Little-Known Club Team Pulls Off ACCHL Repeat ARIK PARNASS Hoya Staff Writer

This is the second installment of a twopart series on the 2012-13 Georgetown club hockey team.

The Georgetown club hockey team was worried.

The team it was set to face in the ACC Hockey League finals, North Carolina State, had overpowered Duke in the semifinals 5-2.

Now, the Blue Devils were making mincemeat of the Virginia Cavaliers, whom the Hoyas had struggled to beat the round before. Suddenly, their status as tournament favorites was in doubt.

Especially after the puck dropped.

“The first five minutes were really bad,” senior forward and captain John Ryder said.

“They were all over us.”

But an early Wolfpack goal seemed to spark the Hoyas, and the team’s third line of junior Andrew Toporoff, junior Lazar Zdravkovic of Sweden and freshman Chad Heal started the charge with a solid shift of cycling and physical play in the offensive zone. The rest of the Blue and Gray fed off of it, and soon enough, Georgetown would have a pair of goals of its own.

Ryder would add a third after that, and, in a complete turnaround, Georgetown found itself up 3-1 going into the second intermis-

sion.

Twenty minutes away from a second consecutive ACCHL championship, Head Coach Brad Card addressed his players in the locker room.

A Capitol Hill lobbyist and former public policy firm manager, Card knew that he had to draw from his full motivational arsenal.

“I simply said that we had played the entire season — since September — to make it to this game and be in this position,” he said. “I reminded the guys that this was the last game our seniors would be playing at Georgetown and to keep pressing the play.”

Unlike on the varsity level, the leading players are tasked with much — and often all, depending on the sport — of the coaching for Georgetown’s club teams. And Ryder and his fellow seniors wanted the repeat badly. They wanted to close the deal.

It wouldn’t come easily.

A deflection made it a one-goal game, and the tournament was shaping up for a tense finish. With just over a minute left, N.C. State pulled its goalie and proceeded to threaten junior goalie Connor Brogan’s cage time after time.

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The top-seeded Georgetown club hockey team brought home its second straight Atlantic Coast Conference Hockey League tournament title in February, beating No. 3 seed N.C. State 3-2.

Georgetown club hockey’s number of ACC Hockey League titles.

Their fifth came this February in Laurel, Md.

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Playing in front of a sold-out crowd for the first time at North Kehoe, the 2012 men’s soccer team beat San Diego 3-1 to advance to the College Cup, where they would eventually fall in the title game.

Reaching New Heights How GU broke through in 2012, and why it matters RYAN BACIC Sports Editor

This is the second installment of a two-part series on the Georgetown men’s soccer program.

‘WE CAN BEAT ANYONE’

Historically, it wasn’t a common thought.

For a program with just three NCAA tournament appearances to its name since its inception in 1950, Georgetown men’s soccer typically was, as the cliche goes, just happy to be there.

The Class of 2012 would prove an exception.

And, as the season progressed, merely winning a couple games upon getting ‘there’ proved equally insufficient. Senior center back Tommy Muller and his classmates weren’t going to settle.

“I remember talking to [central midfielder] Ian [Christianson] the summer before our senior year, and we were just saying, ‘Let’s go win a national champion-

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ship. Let’s go out on top, like let’s do it,’” Muller, now with the San Jose Earthquakes, said. “We said it to each other kind of casually, but as the season went on and we were in the top 10, top five, we were like, ‘Wow, we could actually win this.’

“That’d always been a goal, that’d always been the dream, but I think it was in the preseason when we started to train and things looked really good, we kind of all looked at each other and said, ‘We can beat anyone.’”

Unranked to start the season, Georgetown entered the top 25 after a season-opening victory over Virginia, a program with six national titles to its credit.

And the wins just kept on coming from there, to the point where — after a blistering 10-0-1 start — the greater Washington media had no choice but to take notice.

As Washington Post Soccer Insider Steve Goff put it, “They earned the coverage.”

Out of nowhere and really for the first time, George-

town soccer had made itself relevant in 2012. And it more than lived up to its place in the spotlight, losing just two games over the course of the entire regular season and finishing in a four-way tie for the No. 1 seed in the Big East tournament.

The wins came from contributors both young — freshman striker Brandon Allen had 10 game-winning goals on the year — and old — Christianson controlled the tempo in the middle of the park, while Muller was a rock-solid backline general for a team that let up more than one goal in regulation just three times all year.

“Players jumped in immediately and had a great impact, and I think it was just all of those pieces: having the right players, having the right mentality, and the experience was huge, too,” Muller said. “All of that kind of came together.

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Season Finale a Must-Win Hoyas to Face UConn, ’Cuse At Home in Top-25 Tests

DILLON MULLAN Hoya Staff Writer

If the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (5-8, 2-3 Big East) travels to Piscataway, N.J., this Saturday with anything but its best effort, Rutgers (2-12, 0-5 Big East) may well end its season before the night is over. But if Head Coach Kevin Warne and his boys can replicate the efforts they have exhibited against three top-10 foes in the past three weeks and emerge victorious, their season will begin anew in the program’s first Big East tournament.

“I’ve been here for four years, but it hasn’t really panned out the way that we wanted,” said senior attack Travis Comeau, whose previous three seasons have all ended after the last game of the regular season. “It has been an unreal time with all these guys, and to make the postseason and make a run — that would be the perfect way to top it off.”

With a win Saturday, Georgetown would finish the season with a 3-3 conference

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be higher than usual.

This afternoon, the Hoyas face the talented Huskies, whose only loss this season came at the hands of an even tougher Syracuse squad.

On Sunday, the Blue and Gray will square off against the hated Orange to conclude the regular season.

Both Connecticut and Syracuse have already clinched spots in the Big East playoffs, so the pressure is mounted squarely on Georgetown’s shoulders.

A win over UConn would allow Georgetown to qualify for a spot in the Big East tourney, but doing so will be no easy task, according to Head Coach Ricky Fried. “[The Huskies do] not really have too many weaknesses,” Fried said. “[They are] very confident and believe they can win. The keys for us will be to play with discipline and decisiveness.”

The Hoyas have faced a challenging schedule in the past weeks; while fatigue might be a factor in the weekend’s matchups, however, Fried pointed out that all Big East teams must deal with the demanding conference schedule.

“This will be our third weekend in a row of Friday/Sunday games — as it is for our opponents,” he said.

The Hoyas will once again count on star senior midfielder Sophia Thomas to set the tone this weekend.

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For the No. 8 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (11-3, 5-1 Big East), the final two games of the regular season against No. 17 Connecticut (13-1, 5-1 Big East) and No. 5 Syracuse (12-3, 6-0 Big East) have loomed menacingly on the horizon all season. And with Big East tournament hopes on the line, the stakes this weekend will FILE PHOTO: CHRIS GRIVAS/THE HOYA

Sophomore attack Reilly O’Connor learned under Brodie Merrill (MSB ’05) at his Canadian high school. He’ll be tested once again Saturday.

record and tied for fourth place in the Big East with St. John’s. Thanks to a 14-13 overtime win over the Red Storm back on April 6, the Hoyas own the tiebreaker between the two schools for the final spot in the Big East tournament.

“As a team, there are still one or two things not allowing us to take that next step, but we control our own destiny,” Warne said. “We don’t have to worry about any crazy scenarios, just Rutgers.”

This week’s opponent has lost 11 straight games and is 0-5 in the Big East. A win over the Scarlet Knights cannot be taken for granted, however, as Rutgers played No. 7 Syracuse and No. 1 Notre Dame to one-goal games. In their final game, the Scarlet Knight’s seven seniors will try to end their careers with the program’s first conference win since March of last year.

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