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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

MAKING THE CUT

A TIME OF TENSION

HITTING THE ROAD

Hiring for The Corp and GUASFCU isn’t just about brewing coffee and cashing checks.

The District’s attitude toward the Hilltop is making Georgetown less of a home.

The football team travels to Marist, putting its 2-1 record on the line.

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OPINION, A2

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DC Rape AD Announces New Athletic Center Rate Up 25 Percent GLENN RUSSO

it is the most urgent priority for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics,” Reed wrote.

Intercollegiate Director of AthletAccording to the email, the iniics Lee Reed announced plans for a tial planning and design stages of new 125,000-square-foot athletic fa- the project have been completed. cility in an email sent to the student The proposal is being submitted to body Wednesday night. various neighborhood authorities Georgetown Sports Information to obtain the permission to break Director Mex Carey said that the fi- ground. nal details of the project, including According to Reed, the project location, cost and time of comple- has funding sources lined up. tion are still being formalized.

“We have defined the financial The new project, named the Inter- model for the IAC and engaged a numcollegiate Athletic ber of individuals Center, will house within our compractice courts, “It’s something we munity regarding locker rooms, team need to pay attention the fundraising that meeting rooms will be necessary and coaches’ of- to ... from a competi- to complete this vifices for the men’s tive standpoint ... ” sion,” Reed said. and women’s basExpanding athLEE REED letic facilities has ketball programs.

Intercollegiate Director of Athletics Locker rooms for been a concern for men’s and woma number of years en’s soccer and lacrosse as well as for the university. In an interview weight training facilities and train- with The Hoya in the spring, Reed eming room areas for all varsity athletes phasized the need for more space. are also slated to be built.

“It’s something we need to pay In addition, the IAC will house a attention to, because from a comnew student-athlete academic cen- petitive standpoint, we don’t have fater, auditorium and team meeting cilities like some of the programs we facilities for all varsity sports pro- compete against in the Big East,” he grams. The Georgetown Athletic said. “We have a plan in place that’s Hall of Fame, currently located in working on that for the next five to the Leavey Center, will be moved to 10 years.” the new building.

“The need for the IAC has never A version of this story was published been more important than now, and on thehoya.com Wednesday.

Hoya Staff Writer

ANNE SKOMBA & ANNIE CHEN

Hoya Staff Writer & Special to The Hoya

While the District saw a moderate reduction in 2010 violent crime levels, reports of forcible rape jumped 25 percent, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report released on Monday.

Forcible rapes numbered 187, which is 37 more than the previous year. According to Metropolitan Police Department crime statistics, 10 of those incidents occurred in Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, which includes Georgetown and Burleith.

Overall, D.C.’s numbers of violent crime dropped from 7,586 in 2009 to 7,468 in 2010, a two percent decrease.

The FBI report, which was compiled from figures collected at the local, city and federal levels, pointed to similar crime trends across the country. In the last year, national rates of violent crime decreased by 6 percent totalling 1,246,248 incidents.

With a violent crime rate of 1,241 incidents per 100,000 residents, the See CRIME, A9

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Intercollegiate Director of Athletics Lee Reed told the student body in an email that the center will include locker rooms, training rooms and other facilities for varsity athletes.

More Than a Tutoring Lesson MATTHEW STRAUSS Special to The Hoya

It’s Tuesday night, and Geraldine Miranda (SFS ’13) waves goodbye to the van that has dropped her off in front of the small apartment in Chinatown where she tutors twice a week.

She knocks on the door, and her two tutees, Johnny, age seven, and Danny, age nine, run to open it; shouting her name as she enters the apartment.

As part of the D.C. Schools Project, one of the title programs of the Center for Social Justice, Miranda is just one of the 200 Georgetown stu-

dents who go out into the District weekly to tutor students in need of extra help. In the 27 years since its inception, the program has risen in popularity, exploding from 15 students to its current membership. For volunteers, the program has become an invaluable part of their lives as they teach — and learn — from their tutees.

“I’m making a personal and tangible difference in my tutees’ lives that the D.C. public school [system] does not provide,” Rebecca Yang (SFS ’12) said.

Offering academic support for kids from low-income backgrounds who need support beyond

what their public schools can offer, Georgetown students can provide the extra tutoring to kick-start these students’ academic success.

“Schools love us,” DCSP’s Interim Director Carlos Ojeda (MSB ’11) said. “They want us to keep coming.”

Ojeda pointed out, however, that Georgetown students themselves have a lot to gain from the program.

“Georgetown is a bubble. It’s very, very different than the outside world. Going out and seeing the rest of D.C. will not only raise See DC SCHOOLS, A5

Jokes May Not Be Glover’s Own DANNY FUNT

CHRISTINA MCGRATH FOR THE HOYA

Student Activities Commission Vice Chair Ruiyong Chen (SFS ‘13) and Chair Andy Koenig (COL ‘12) discuss possible reforms to the SAC funding guidelines at a town hall Wednes-

Hoya Staff Writer

SAC Set to Overhaul Club Funding System UPASANA KAKU

on-the-ball process.”

A new system — which would entirely overhaul the guidelines — emerged The Student Activities Commission as the favorite of the plans presented will revamp its funding allocation sys- among club leaders at the town hall. tem this semester after a system impleThe comprehensive funding system mented last year drew criticism from would require student groups to submit student groups. a line-item style budget for approval, The changes could be with the goal of allowimplemented as early as ing students to request next semester if details “There seems to be a funds that more accuof a new plan are ironed consensus on the kind rately fit their organiout by the beginning of zational goals. One of November, commission- of plan we should be the major complaints ers announced at a town working on.” against the current syshall on Wednesday. tem, in which groups Students at the RUIYONG CHEN (SFS ’13) are required to submit SAC Vice Chair a programming arc demeeting said they hoped a consensus tailing the events they could be reached in time for that will hold for the semester, is that it does deadline. not allow students enough flexibility.

“I really applaud you guys for start“There seems to be a consensus on the ing this conversation early,” said Emma kind of plan we should be working on,” Green (COL ’12), former treasurer for the SAC Vice Chair Ruiyong Chen (SFS ’13) Philodemic Society. “I think it’s really important that this is a really fast and See SAC, A7 Hoya Staff Writer

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Comic Donald Glover, who performed in Gaston Hall two weeks ago, may have recycled some of his material from comedians Chris Rock and Patrice O’Neal.

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When emerging comedian Donald Glover performed a stand-up show for a full house in Gaston Hall earlier this month, the Georgetown crowd went wild.

What the crowd didn’t know was that portions of Glover’s repertoire may not have been completely original.

In at least three instances during his Sept. 7 set, Glover made jokes reminiscent of bits done in past years by comedians Chris Rock and Patrice O’Neal.

Glover, who is best known for his role on the NBC series “Community,” made a contractual stipulation with the Georgetown Program Board that no audio or video could be recorded at the performance. Several attendees, however, were able to corroborate the content of his jokes.

One of the lines Glover delivered, a joke that has also has appeared on the website “College Humor,” goes: “When a girl leaves my home at eight and hasn’t called by 10 … I immediately think of ways to prove I didn’t kill her … like I go downstairs and buy like a bunch of tampons and See GLOVER, A9

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EDITORIAL

THE HOYA

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A Surge of Greed in Academia

Founded January 14, 1920

To the Editor:

There’s no doubt that for many incoming students, the premier location of Washington, D.C., is a definite draw. Yet the District is swiftly becoming more of a deterrent than anything else. As D.C. commissioners work to eliminate university life, they are ignoring everything our campus has to offer.

While the rest of the country tightens its belt to accommodate the economic downturn, the nation’s capital is no different. In a controversial move Tuesday, the D.C. Council approved an exorbitant 8.95 percent income tax rate for residents earning more than $350,000 annually. Yet below-par revenue projections will likely lead the council to search for other sources of income, and it seems like college students are next on the chopping block.

The threat comes in the form of PILOT, or payment in lieu of taxes.

Under current D.C. law, nonprofit, private universities are exempt from paying property taxes. The council could possibly tap into universities as a new source of the funds they need. The PILOT program would force universities to pay for the impact of their students on municipal services — with the understanding that such fees would be cheaper than regular property taxes. One variant of the program has Georgetown paying a $100 fee for each student enrolled in the university per semester rather than sending an assessor to estimate the value of Healy Hall for property taxes.

A major proponent of the program, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), drew inspiration from a similar program in Boston. In 2009, the city successfully initiated the collection of voluntarily negotiated payments from tax-exempt organizations such as Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital with more than $15 million dollars in property assets.

Unlike in Boston, the current proposal in the District would be mandatory and is aimed directly at private universities. It is estimated that Georgetown could pay close to $1.25 million, which is less than the estimated $14 million we could pay in property taxes.

The D.C. Council believes that students should pay the same dues as any Georgetown resident. But this is no fair exchange; rather, it is a case of taxation without representation.

Redistricting efforts for the local advisory neighborhood council began in earnest this summer as a task force led by community leaders drafted a proposal to redraw council districts.

Advisory Neighborhood Commission Representative Ron Lewis, President of the Citizens Association of Georgetown Jennifer Altemus (COL ’88) and President of Burleith Citizens Association Lenore Rubino chaired the effort. No member of the Georgetown University Student Association was offered a position as a co-chair.

Georgetown students will be under-

represented on the ANC for the next decade if the plan from the redistricting commission, overwhelmingly comprised of non-student residents, is approved. If students make up 45 percent of the population in the ANC, shouldn’t they have more than 25 percent of the council seats?

Unfortunately, the proposal has moved on to the chair of the ANC redistricting efforts, who has two options: Forward the plan with its blatant flaws to the D.C. Council or send it back to ANC2E asking for changes.

Clearly, the latter would be the right choice of action.

The ANC and the D.C. Council must recognize the pure economic benefit of having students in the neighborhood. Students provide a great base of employment for these businesses to hire from, while also driving up property values District-wide with the large demand for off-campus housing.

Aside from these tangible benefits, the university is also trying to accommodate members, meeting their concerns head on. It has already removed controversial items off its Campus Plan agenda, including the proposed housing residence in the 1789 block and a loop GUTS bus route. It is currently planning a barbecue on the front lawn for students to mingle with neighbors and has instituted a new shuttle for weekend nights for students to reduce noise levels.

The university itself has largely proved a boon for the greater D.C. area, topping the D.C. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report rankings as the number one employer of District residents last year besides the government. When Georgetown students do leave the confines of the 37th and O Streets, it is often to make a positive impact on the city.

Hoyas Outreach Program and Education and Georgetown University Math & Science Hands-On Enrichment are volunteer-run efforts dedicated to helping the impoverished and educationally needy children. The Center for Social Justice, a haven for many students, offers programs like DC Reads and D.C. Schools Project, as well as the annual Community Service Day. The basketball team has provided the Verizon Center with more iconic moments in the last thee years than all of D.C.’s professional sports teams combined. Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center performs world-renowned research.

Georgetown University Hospital offers local residents a closer alternative than The George Washington University Hospital. Our campus frequently supplies Capitol Hill and downtown D.C. with dozens of interns every academic year.

For these and all other benefits that they receive, permanent residents of the District must take responsibility.

Students are guests in the District, and if residents want to keep these guests — and all the good they bring with them — they’ll need to step up and fight for student rights.

I couldn’t help but feel a wave of dismay and frustration wash over me this past Tuesday when I perused news headlines. Between The Hoya’s article on the exorbitant salaries of Georgetown administrators (The Hoya, Sept. 19, 2011, A1) and the announcements regarding the flurry of athletic conference realignment (The Hoya, Sept. 19, 2011, A1), the apparent degeneration of institutions of higher learning into greedy, self-serving businesses could not have been more clearly articulated.

While students on the Hilltop have pled, begged and (thankfully) started to demand better funding for student programming and repairs of their deteriorating dormitories, the university’s administration has been kicking back with salary checks normally reserved

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for fat cats on K Street.

Georgetown has slipped in rankings, its endowment is smaller than most of its peer institutions and students and faculty are in constant struggle to keep academic programs off the chopping block. Yet administrators are accepting salaries double and sometimes quadruple the national average. Since when did the greedy entitlement of bureaucrats take precedence over tuition-paying students’ quality of educational experience?

In a similar vein, the administrations of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and other brandname athletic power-houses across the country have proven themselves more interested in profits from the increasingly lucrative college athletics industry than the integrity they preach to students. Even if their neglect of sentimentalities like loyalty,

tradition and institutional history don’t get one riled up, the more practical considerations of conference and program stability may suffice.

Moreover, the Panthers’ and Orange’s decision to slip out of the Big East under the cover of night in search of higher TV revenue blatantly contradicts the ideals they espoused just a few years ago when they chastised Boston College for a similarly unscrupulous move from the Big East.

Ultimately, my understanding of what American universities’ priorities should be and where they should exercise moral consistency may be idealistically unreasonable. This letter is just to say that I hope I wasn’t the only one who shook my head in disapproval on Tuesday, when greed reared its head in the educational world.

THE VERDICT by The Editorial Board A Street Car Named Desire — A proposed line of trolleys may be extended from H Street NE to campus, providing direct access to downtown D.C. In the Gutter — Neighborhood pressure has forced the university to nix a proposed bus loop road that would improve GUTS operations.

Slam Dunk — NBA star LeBron James escaped Miami’s heat by visiting Georgetown Cupcake this week to buy a dozen red velvet cupcakes.

D.C. Dangers — Rape has risen by an astounding 25 percent over the last year in the District, the largest such increase in the country.

Home, Sweet Home — The two American hikers jailed in Iran on espionage charges were finally released on Wednesday after spending two years in prison.

Off the Web “Voice Forced Out of Office” Article Posted on Sept. 20, 2011 Comment Posted on Sept. 21, 2011 Anonymous: There are two main things about this news that really bothered me: First of all, this punishment doesn’t just affect a student organization. It delivers a hit to journalism at Georgetown as a whole. Sure, having rival newspapers created a sometimes annoying and competitive atmosphere between students, but having those options available serves a much larger purpose. Without a journalism major available, newspapers on campus are the main avenues for students to explore the field and to gain experience for future careers. If anything, Georgetown should be trying to improve the newspapers on campus, not downsize or downgrade them because to do so really hurts prospective students just as much as it does current students. The unfortunate decisions of three students shouldn’t result in such a blow to what little Georgetown has of a journalism program for future generations.

Secondly, it breaks my heart a little bit that these are the consequences of a scandal that has nothing to do with journalism and nothing to do with The Voice as an entire organization when not too long ago, and another newspaper can publish an entire issue with extremely offensive content and just receive dialogue and a stern talking to (which would have been much more appropriate in this situation if the entire paper is to be dealt with as the result of the actions of just a few). This isn’t to blame The Hoya for anything — I think both newspapers are great. It’s just to provide another example of how college students can make dumb decisions, but that doesn’t mean that people who had nothing to do with those decisions must be punished along with them.

“Hypocricy Shows for Pitt, ’Cuse” Article Posted on Sept. 20, 2011 Comment Posted on Sept. 20, 2011 Anonymous: But don’t forget that there are more basketball games than football games.

And not every school has trouble selling out its 20,000-seat arenas for basketball games.

Also, the top 5 football schools are not the same schools as the top 5 basketball schools.

So while the dollar values you listed may be true, I can promise you that Duke’s basketball program is worth more to that university than its football program.

CORRECTIONS The article “IDEV Certificate Changes in the Works” (The Hoya, Sept. 20, 2011, A4) mistakenly stated that Raj Desai was appointed to head the IDEV certificate program in February. In fact, he was appointed in July with the change being announced in February.

In the article “Students, Laborers Share Experiences” (The Hoya, Sept. 20, 2011, A4), Virginia Leavell’s name was incorrectly written as Victoria.

In the article “GU Readership Program Holds Strong as Others Falter” (The Hoya, Sept. 16, 2011, A7) Jed Feiman’s name was incorrectly written as Feinmann.

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COMMENTARY

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

THE HOYA

Sam Blank

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Chris Heller

Negotiations Needed for Peace Unfair Punishment The Palestinian Authority’s recent bid for statehood ignores the complexity of the IsraelPalestine conflict.

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he impending U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood represents the final nail in the coffin of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process and the crystallization of a tragic reality: Both sides have lost all faith and trust in each other and have resorted to foreign powers to achieve their strategic objectives.

For Israel, this means relying on the unequivocal support of the United States for security guarantees in the face of an increasingly hostile region. At the same time, the Palestinians have outsourced their bid for independence to the United Nations. In so doing, the Palestinian leadership hopes to isolate Israel internationally and force it to acquiesce to Palestinian demands.

No matter the outcome of the U.N. vote, it will fail to advance peace in the Middle East. The reason is simple: No solution, no matter how well intentioned or brilliantly conceived, will succeed when imposed from the outside. The only hope for peace lies within the Israelis and Palestinians themselves, because it is within the two societies that the source of the conflict resides.

Polls have consistently shown that a majority of Israelis and Palestinians support a peace treaty based upon a two-state solution. Yet after years of efforts, this settlement has never been realized. What accounts for the failure of the two-state solution despite its popular support?

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are each quick to place all the blame on the other side, while excusing themselves from any culpability in

the conflict. For the most part, the broader Israeli and Palestinian publics follow the example set by their leaders.

A recent example of this dynamic can be seen in the imbroglio surrounding Israel’s Jewish-only settlements on the West Bank.

The Israeli government refuses to admit the settlements pose an obstacle to peace, while Palestinian leaders portray them as the main source of contention. Both of these positions are divorced from reality.

The settlements are a barrier to peace, but to see them as the most important or only obstacle is narrow-minded and simplistic.

Rather than simply blaming the other side for the failure of the peace process, Israelis and Palestinians alike would do well to take a collective look in the mirror. Within both societies, a virulent disease destructive to the cause of peace has metastasized: militant religious extremism.

Among Israelis, this disease is manifest in the fanatical right-wing Jewish settlers on the West Bank, who have successfully hijacked the Israeli government. This is demonstrated by the current Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, a West Bank settler who has on multiple occasions professed racist and anti-democratic views.

On the Palestinian side, the militant Islamist faction known as Hamas best exemplifies this malignant dynamic. This group, which now controls the Gaza Strip, is dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic State. Lest anyone believe that Hamas represents the most extreme of Palestinian society, reports have begun to emerge from Gaza that even more extreme and violent Islamist groups linked to alQaeda are ascending in power and challenging Hamas.

Where Everyone Knows Your Name Margaret Delaney I KnowThis Much IsTrue

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y friend recently likened life on a college campus to living inside the computer game “The Sims.”

Obviously, this comparison is not perfect because of minor details like our human freedom, or, more heartbreakingly, the fact that typing “rosebud” onto my bank statement will not make more money magically appear in my checking account. But I think that her analogy does get to the heart of the matter: That in a lot of ways, living on a college campus is like living in a mini-metropolis. Certainly I am biased, but I think this holds especially true for Georgetown. So many aspects of my daily life here are intrinsically linked to my peers and friends.

What, for instance, am I going to do when I leave college and encounter real issues with a bank? When I can no longer stroll into the Credit Union and bother a student working on the teller line, only to be redirected to a friend sitting behind the member service desk?

When I lost my wallet a week into my freshman year, I frantically called my good friend who had just been hired asking him to cancel my debit card. (“Immediately! Right now! Drop what you’re doing! And can I borrow $20 for dinner tonight?”) Something tells me this is not how one proceeds with such things in normal life.

Or when I go to get a cup of coffee. I order from my friends so I can ask for just a little extra of this or less of that, imploring them (rather unfairly) to be fast because I have two minutes to get to my next class. And they understand — because they just came from class themselves.

I think about the day when I turn on the radio during my morning commute to work (this presumes, of course, that gainful employment is in my future … just go with me here) and I do not hear the voices of my best friends talking to me over the airwaves. Which of course also means that I will not be able to run over to the station and force my way into the studio to

heckle the disc jockeys, or incessantly call in to request songs or extol the virtues of indulging a Taylor Swift weakness.

There are countless other examples of this phenomenon: Stopping to pick up groceries means chatting with friends in line or at the cash register; catching up on the news as written, edited and compiled by peers; going to hear a concert or see a play and waving to friends on stage, cheering on a team of your peers from the sidelines; grabbing dinner at a favorite local restaurant and having your roommate as your waitress.

And here in this mini-metropolis, (the “bubble” of a college campus that I heard so much about growing up), everything is possible. College life levels the playing field. The accessibility in this small corner of reality is unparalleled. Here pursuing absolutely every whim or small ambition involves merely sending out an email, attending a general interest meeting or chatting with a friend. As a result, the world we carve out for ourselves during our time here feels remarkably familiar; in many aspects, we are its only inhabitants (aside from the professors, administrators and countless other faculty who make all of this possible).

When my mom purchased our first PC before we even had the dialup Internet set up, she installed the computer program “Busytown,” based on the children’s books by Richard Scarry for me. I must have been around 5 or 6 and was positively enthralled as I watched the townspeople move back and forth across the screen, waving to each other and going about their daily lives, perfectly content in this little world of theirs.

You could click on various options, visit various storefronts or homes, but often I was happy to just sit and watch it all unfold. I entertained daydreams about what it would be like to live somewhere like that. How ridiculously great that would be, having a sense of community, of belonging?

It seems like I encountered a breed of “Busytown” here at Georgetown.

Margaret Delaney is a senior in the College. I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE appears every other Friday.

At the end of the day, the passivity and indolence of the moderate majority on both sides have allowed the fanaticism and violence of the minority to dictate the terms and set the agenda for this conflict, thus thwarting the two-state solution. Until the moderate majorities on both sides rise up and fight back against the violent extremists, there will never be peace in the Middle East, no matter how the United Nations votes.

W.B. Yeats once wrote, “the best lack all conviction/while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”

This aptly explains the tragic state of affairs in the Middle East. Violent extremists rally and engage in attacks, while the rest of the Palestinian and Israeli societies remain passive. Until the moderates from both sides break their silence, stand up and fight to take back their societies from the extremists, neither side will have peace or security.

Achieving peace will require the concerted effort and mass mobilization of Palestinians and Israelis alike to neutralize the extremist forces within their respective societies. This will require collective action, sacrifice, violence and perhaps even civil wars within both societies. Those who support the cause of peace will not be able to just live by those beliefs, but they will have to be willing to fight for them. The time has come for the supporters of peace to don combat fatigues and take up arms for this just cause.

Otherwise, the region’s bloodshed and violence will continue unabated, just as it has since before 1948. In the words of Malcolm X, the achievement of peace and justice will require fighting for those values “by any means necessary.”

SAM BLANK is a senior in the College.

Stifles Students’ Voice I spent most of my time at Georgetown in The Voice’s office — for better or for worse, it’s what I loved about college and where I learned. So, consider this a biased take on the news that the Center for Student Programs will force The Voice into a smaller space next month.

For the few dozen students who are a part of The Voice, October is going to suck.

They’re going to lose an office that’s institutionally woven itself into the paper’s production process in a way that’s practically and indescribably important. Along with that office space, the tight collection of writers, editors, designers and photographers who once crammed into Georgetown’s soon-to-be debate team headquarters will lose something even more vital — the atmosphere that makes The Voice a great club.

The Voice will continue to print in October, and I hope it will remain to be a good read. But the space constraints handed down by the Center for Student Programs will absolutely damage the group without addressing the need for reform. The Voice I remember — and, it should be added, I only graduated a few months ago — was a club that encouraged everybody to contribute, which is why the Leavey Center office was packed every night we put the paper together. The club thrived because it was open for anyone interested enough to walk through the door. In a smaller space, there will barely be enough room for equipment and editors; everyone else will be forced out of the process. Punishing dozens of people because of a few others’ actions doesn’t just lack any sense or reason; it’s downright cruel.

Still, that doesn’t mean The Voice should ignore the problems those three students drummed up when they ran from Department of Public Safety officers and destroyed a few thousand dollars worth of ceiling tiles (problems aside from, you know, the whole

run-and-hide incident itself). They need to face difficult questions about reporting ethics and how on earth three of their own so disastrously misunderstood them. They need to figure out who should have access to office space and when they should be able to access it. They need to learn and grow and understand how to be better after it all. The Center for Student Programs had an opportunity to address any of these issues, but instead chose to undermine that chance.

When institutional reform was needed, they decided to play a game of office swap.

Working on a college newspaper is an odd thing to want to do.

You earn little to no money, you stay up past dawn far more often than is healthy and you develop a gnawing itch to learn about things you shouldn’t know — or at least I did when I was at The Voice. It’s an irreplaceable experience that, thanks to Georgetown’s lack of an undergraduate journalism program, can’t even begin to be replicated in the classroom. The Center for Student Program’s decision slashes at that opportunity, affecting not just The Voice, but also an underrepresented field that doesn’t deserve such a careless blow.

I guess I just don’t understand this brand of punishment. Why blame a collective body of a few dozen students for the actions of three? Why make it more difficult for those students to chase their passion? Why hand down a punishment with such repercussive and far-reaching effects?

The Center for Student Programs is going after a blemish with a claw hammer.

I only hope that they realize their mistake before the newspaper I love is ruined for it.

The club thrived because it was open for anyone ... to walk through the door.

CHRIS HELLER graduated from the College in 2011 and was a news and blog editor of The Voice.

THE RAW DEAL by Anthony Mastroianni

Our Community Pride Needs a Boost Andrew Toporoff Multumque Unum

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t comes as no surprise that the Georgetown population is a mixed breed. What is surprising is how frustrating the consequences of diversity can be.

Even without statistics, you only need to sit outside Healy Hall for a day to observe the breadth of the population. If you were really devoted, you could find the organizations devoted to different ethical, geographical, religious and gender-focused groups tabling or hosting a food-related event throughout the day.

The variety of clubs on campus is important because our origins and our aspirations determine how we perceive Georgetown. For example, we can see Georgetown through the lens of academic excellence, international programs, Jesuit heritage, Big East tradition and so forth.

Georgetown’s urban context however, in all its individualistic and outward-looking splendor, hampers the formation of tightly knit communities. In a climate that encourages the internship search and community engagement, the city can have a way of making us focus on everything but the school itself. We have little time to step away from our own personal view of Georgetown.

To us, then, the image of Georgetown can be a loose assortment of perceptions instead of a grand composition. To loosely adopt an old metaphor, we have a

salad when we wanted stew. I wrote previously that the Georgetown mindset is imparted on all of us. This still holds true, but it refers to a way of life. The issue here is that diversity without synthesis creates conflicting, rather than harmonious, perceptions of the institution.

Of course, most students blend multiple perceptions — a basketball recruit might choose Georgetown because he also wants to extend his Jesuit education. But while our noses are buried in our own classes, programs and clubs, we

We have little time to step away from our own personal view of Georgetown. remain blind to many of the alternative views.

So how do we institutionalize a more holistic understanding of Georgetown?

The solution is, in fact, quite simple and enjoyable: We need to promote more occasions that inspire school pride. Pride stems from the feeling that your institution is great. Here at Georgetown, our greatness is rooted in our ability to achieve excellence at so many levels.

Consider the occasions in which affirmations of shared Georgetown sentiment are most often displayed.

At sporting events, the Hoya jersey represents all that is Georgetown, and reiterations of “We Are Georgetown” bring us together as a united entity.

From an outsider’s point of view, at schools akin to ours in terms of bridg-

ing academic and athletic distinction — take Duke or Notre Dame, for instance — the student body seems saturated with a passion for its university.

Sports, more so than the arts, have the ability to strike the most widely resonating chord. If we were to introduce new school-wide events as a complement to basketball games, we would most effectively be building the social infrastructure necessary for pride to thrive and synthesis to occur. More events like the SAC Fair and Georgetown Day, whereby normally distant students and perspectives come together in the same environment, would provide the surest fix to this problem. In these moments, the contribution of each person’s view creates a cohesive Georgetown.

Today, two sides hardly constitute a plurality, but ever since Georgetown selected blue and gray as its official colors in 1876, it has declared itself a school committed to bringing together different cultures. As always, the true undertaking of the Georgetown student involves reconciling these tensions. The personal images of Georgetown are no longer confined to northern or southern minds; instead, the changing goals of an incredibly diverse body lead to new definitions, and the conflict between perceptions prevents a community from taking shape. But if we recognize the value of social interaction, we can create a culture of pride and improve our ability to fully understand Georgetown vis-à-vis our peers.

Andrew Toporoff is a sophomore in the College. MULTUMQUE UNUM appears every other Friday.

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Mendelson Slams FROM THE WEB GU Campus Plan KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR BRADEN MCDONALD Hoya Staff Writer

Councilmember At-Large Phil Mendelson denounced Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan in a Sept.

16 letter to the D. C. Zoning Commission.

In the letter, Mendelson claimed that Georgetown’s 40 percent enrollment increase over the past 10 years has contributed to adverse conditions in the surrounding neighborhoods.

“I join the adjacent communities in expressing serious concern that the university’s proposed plan does not adequately address and mitigate those impacts,” he wrote. “I urge the Zoning Commission to reject the plan as filed and protect the quality of life in our communities.”

Mendelson echoed the D.C. Office of Planning and several members of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E in urging Georgetown to house all “traditional undergraduates” on campus.

The university released an official reply to Mendelson’s concerns, promising to address all stakeholders in the campus plan process.

“Throughout this process, we have listened to our neighbors and responded to their concerns.

We have made investments that are improving the quality of life for students and neighbors,” the statement said. “That is our commitment, and we will continue to do that.”

Mendelson’s rejection of the Campus Plan came just weeks after he voiced support for the university in opposition to the ANC’s redistricting proposal.

He called the plan, which would group a disproportionately high number of individuals in the two single-member districts that encompass the Georgetown campus, “grossly discriminatory.”

“Lumping students into one or two grossly oversized single-member districts and then having nonstudents in the remaining undersized SMDs … would be a violation of the law,” he told the Georgetown Current on Aug. 31.

Jake Sticka (COL ’13), the student commissioner on ANC2E, said that he was not surprised by Mendelson’s new position on the Campus Plan.

“Mendelson is generally conservative about land use issues, and his opinion on the campus plan is consistent with [that],” Sticka said.

He added that Mendelson’s comments about the university’s plan did not suggest that he had withdrawn his support for Georgetown in the redistricting debate.

“Councilmember Mendelson considers each issue in very different spheres,” Sticka said.

Sticka stressed that, despite this setback, he is hopeful that Mendelson and other councilmembers will acknowledge the generous concessions that Georgetown has made to its campus plan in recent months.

“Despite what [Mendelson] said, ... we do see that the campus plan is a modest plan, especially considering concessions that have been made,” he said. “Hopefully as the hearings in November play out, [he] too will see that this is a modest plan.”

Mendelson’s office could not be reached for comment.

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No Jesuit is able to help others unless they grow spiritually themselves.

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— Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., on writing his book on Ignatian spirituality in everyday life, which was published earlier this month.

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Congress Considers Campus Security Act ADRIANNA SMITH Special to The Hoya

Members of Congress called for the creation of a national center for campus security and protocol training last Thursday.

The Center to Advance, Monitor and Preserve University Security Safety Act of 2011, endorsed by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (DMd.), was drafted to connect colleges with one another so they could share effective safety plans and procedures.

Supporters hope that the legislation, which has been passed over by the last two sessions of Congress, will be signed into law during the current session. It is currently pending the House’s approval.

According to Scott, the purpose of

the center is to create a “one stop shop” for schools to share reliable and useful information, creating a nationwide community working to prevent violent crimes.

“It makes little sense to require the thousands of institutions of higher education to individually go through the cost and effort to develop comprehensive plans,” Scott said when introducing the bill in June.

The CAMPUS Act already has the support of the two largest safety organizations in the country, including the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.

The center would provide Congress and the Attorney General annual reports of campus activities. Universities currently report crime data to the Department of Education under the 1990

Clery Act. As an additional incentive to promote safety precautions and faster emergency response on campuses, the bill would allow the center to award grants to universities to ensure that more rigorous safety goals are reached.

As a member of IACLEA, Georgetown has endorsed plans for the center.

Rocco DelMonaco, Georgetown’s vice president for university safety, said that the act will help provide public safety officers at universities with training specific to the job.

According to Rachel Pugh, director of media relations, however, Georgetown’s Department for Public Safety already requires all of its safety officers to complete extensive training, which includes 80 hours of orientation, a field-training program and a probationary period.

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O’Brien Authors First Book Striving Toward Higher Ed BEBE ALBORNOZ Special to The Hoya

Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. had more on his plate this summer than preparing for his new role as vice president of mission and ministry. He was also prepping for the publication of his first book.

O’Brien’s work, “The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily Life,” was released by Loyola Books at the beginning of this month.

Four years ago, O’Brien began writing a compilation of personal stories meant to complement the history of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus who authored “Spiritual Exercises” in the 1500s after a series of personal encounters with Jesus. “[My] book stems from my experience of offering the ‘Spiritual Exercises’ to people, to students and parishioners at my old parish, Holy Trinity,” O’Brien said.

Typically, the “Exercises” — “the foundation of Jesuit spiritual values,” according to O’Brien — are led by a spiritual director and performed over a period of 30 days. For O’Brien, in the modern-day context and with those he mentors spiritually, such a timeline is impractical.

“Jesuits meet people where they are at,” he said.

The purpose of The Ignation Adventure is to guide people in their day-to-day en-

counters with God, helping them locate the source of spirituality in their lives.

“Jesuit spirituality is based on the belief that we can find God in all things,” O’Brien said.

According to O’Brien, the book also helped him transition into his new role as vice president of mission and ministry.

“No Jesuit is able to help others unless they grow spiritually themselves,” he said.

“So in my new role as vice president of mission and ministry, I rely on the ‘Exercises’ every day because if I am not rooted in the love that God has for me [and] if I am not attentive to my own interior life, I am not going to be able to do my job well, which is to help people and to help this university understand its soul.”

The book is intended for those living harried lives, according to O’Brien.

“You don’t need to be perfectly devout to make the ‘Spiritual Exercises’,” he said. “You need to be generous and to have a generosity of soul. When you are open to generosity and open to God leading you, you are ready to start making the Exercises.”

The use of personal stories and tips is intended to help facilitate readers to grow in self-awareness, O’Brien said.

“Discernment is all about an interior motion — the things we feel moving within us.

Discern where it came from and only act on ones that move you closer to God and to faith, hope and love,” O’Brien said.

Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011 Theft, Harbin Hall, 4 p.m.

A student reported that while she was returning mail to the above location, she placed her iPod on a cart and left shortly. When she returned to the cart, her property was missing.

There are no suspects or witnesses.

Burglary, Harbin Hall, 9:40 p.m.

A student reported that his room was burglarized. The student had gone to the bathroom, and upon returning to his room, he found that his iPad, MacBook Pro and U.S. currency were stolen. The case is under investigation.

Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 Burglary, LXR, 11:15 a.m.

A student reported while he was sleeping in his room with the door open, an unknown person came inside his room and stole his laptop. The case is under investigation.

Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 Burglary, Harbin Hall, 11 a.m.

A student reported that her iPhone was taken from her unsecured room. The case is under investigation.

Hoya Staff Writer

A new campus group has taken up the cause to help underprivileged high school students reach their college dreams.

Created in 2006 by Michael Carter, a student at Washington University in St. Louis, the Strive for College Collaborative is now a nationally recognized non-profit group that works to develop a mentoring relationship among undergraduates and high school students. The organization focuses on those students capable of attending college but lacking in the sufficient resources or encouragement.

Chris Stromeyer (SFS ’14), chair of Strive chapter’s Internal Relations committee, stressed the importance of helping underprivileged students in the D.C. area.

“The goal is to empower lowincome high school students to

Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011 Drug Violation, Nevils, 2:40 a.m.

While investigating a loud noise complaint, DPS detected an odor of marijuana from the room in the listed location. Contact was made with the students, and the drugs were confiscated. The case has been forwarded to Student Conduct.

Burglary, Harbin Hall, 9:55 a.m.

A student reported that someone stole a backpack and MacBook Pro from out of his unsecured room while he was not there. The case is under investigation.

Theft, Lauinger Library, 6:50 p.m.

A student reported that an unknown person stole his laptop from a cubicle while he was in the restroom. The case is under investigation.

Monday, September 19, 2011 Burglary, Kennedy Hall, 7:45 a.m.

A student reported that an unknown person went into her room and stole her wallet. The case is under investigation.

Theft, Henle Village, 10 a.m.

A student reported that her purse and necklace were missing from her room. The student’s roommates admitted to having a party at her residence while she was away. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, McDonough Gym, 10 a.m.

Several students reported that their shoes were stolen from their lockers. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, Leavey Center Bookstore, 3 p.m.

A student reported that she placed her iPhone on top of a bookshelf and then went shopping.

When she returned to retrieve her iPhone, the property was missing.

achieve their potential,” he said.

Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Fundraising Brigid McCurdy (COL ’14) reiterated the group’s central focus.

“Last year, over 400,000 students nationwide graduated and were capable of attending college but lacked the resources to attend college. It is our goal to bridge that gap,” she said.

The first informational meeting for the group yielded over 50 students, all of whom the organization hopes to retain as mentors. The chapter plans to launch officially in the spring.

“The national chapter advises us to start at one school. Upon success at one school, we will expand from there,” McCurdy said.

“In the future, we hope to see the organization at more than one public high school in D.C. and to reach a level where the percentage of students mentored and attending college stays as close to

100 percent as possible.”

Alex Berg (SFS ’14), the chair of the external relations committee, has been in contact with four public high schools in D.C. in hopes of localizing the national Strive curriculum.

The organization of Strive on high school campuses fosters one to one relationships between college volunteers and high school students. Mentors meet with their high school peers for one hour a week, helping them as they choose the schools to which they will apply and sending in the finished applications and enrollment fees.

“The external relations committee is working to determine which school would be most compatible with the Strive curriculum,” Berg said. “Not only have we all experienced the application process already; as mentors we can change lives and see results directly.”

GUSA Senate Campaigns Launch GLENN RUSSO Hoya Staff Writer

DPS BLOTTER Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 Theft, Leavey Center Lobby, 11:36 a.m.

A vendor reported that a class ring was stolen from her display table while customers distracted her. There are no suspects or witnesses.

Theft, Lauinger Library, 9 p.m.

A student reported that he parked his bike on the bike rack. When he returned to the rack to retrieve his bicycle, he found it missing. There are no suspects or witnesses.

JACQUELINE WANGEL

Campaigns for the Georgetown University Student Association senate kicked off on Tuesday, with 56 students vying for 25 open spots this academic year. Two districts have no declared candidates and five districts are uncontested.

In the race, first-year districts are some of the most competitive.

Village C West has six declared candidates competing for one spot while New South has eight students vying for that dorm’s seat.

“The freshmen dorms are usually much more competitive. This year is another example of that trend,” GUSA Election Commissioner Adam Giansiracusa (SFS ’12) said.

No students are running for the Henle 1-48 district, and the off-campus district only has two declared candidates for three spots. According to Giansiracusa every election in recent memory has had open seats at voting time.

“Typically, it’s the upperclassmen dorms that are less competitive,” Giansiracusa said.

When no one is running for a seat, there exists a possibility that, like in any district, a write-in candidate can win. However if no one is elected to a seat, the senate then issues a writ of election to hold a by-election, Giansiracusa said.

“It’s the same process we use if a senator resigns or if something happens during the year,” he said.

GUSA Elections

By the Numbers

56 candidates running for 25 seats in the GUSA Senate

5 uncontested elections 2anysenate seats without candidates running Jay Factor (COL ’14), who lives in the Henle 1-48 district, said that he was not sure how a write-in candidate would fare in the election.

“I would kind of just pick someone I know from our neighbors, unless someone ran an actual campaign,” he said. “Maybe I’ll run.”

Candidates in contested districts are working to rally support for their platforms before the election on Sept. 29. Max Gottlieb (COL ’14), a current senator who is

running for re-election, expressed high hopes for GUSA in the upcoming term.

“I believe we have a great, fantastic opportunity that other GUSA members and GUSA bodies have not had to really make a huge difference — not just for our generation, but for future Georgetown students’ experiences,” he said.

Hoya Staff Writers Mariah Byrne, Kelly Church and Braden McDonald contributed to this report.

Venturing Into the District, Tutors Gain New Perspective DC SCHOOLS, from A1 your awareness of social issues, but can prepare students for the real world,” he said.

Student Coordinator Liliana Pichardo (MSB ’12) echoed his sentiments. “[The program] is a great way to get off campus and really learn about immigration issues, the public school system, and what’s going on in other cultures. It’s an eyeopening experience,” she said.

But the program has its share of complications, mainly stemming from its lack of transportation resources. Ojeda said that the program shares buses with the entire Center for Social Justice, which limits the number of buses available exclusively to DCSP. “If [the buses] are full, we just can’t help more people,” he said. “I think with the right leadership and more resources, we can continue to grow.”

Miranda herself ran into trans-

portation issues her first two years in the program.

Though she was eager to take part in DCSP when she arrived on campus her freshman year, Miranda, who uses a wheelchair, was disappointed to find that the CSJ did not have a handicap accessible van in light of their van shortages. For her first two years at Georgetown, Miranda could only take part in the project’s on-campus programs.

Still, she was determined to work with her tutees in their own homes.

“I really wanted to go out and teach students in their homes, where they feel comfortable. I wanted that to be possible,” she said.

Last year, at Miranda’s urging, university officials secured the wheelchair-accessible van that transports her to Johnny and Danny’s apartment each week.

At Tuesday night’s session, both boys competed fiercely in a game of vocabulary bingo. Afterward, she read to them from “The Magic School Bus” and assigned them vo-

cabulary exercises for the following week.

On the ride home, Miranda boasted about the boys’ improvements, visibly excited as she described the advanced material that Johnny was reading and Danny’s growing confidence in his abilities.

Just like Miranda, Yang spoke to the visible impact she sees in the kids’ academic progress.

“A lot of my students get lost in the cracks, and I feel like I can bring them back up again, little by little.”

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Revamped RJC Website to Assist Foreign Applicants Returns for Fall ANDY MILLER

Special to The Hoya

MARGARET VIATOR Special to The Hoya

After a year-long hiatus, the Residential Judicial Council is back in action after undergoing a series of revisions designed to make it more accessible to the student body.

According to Ed Gilhool, associate director of the Office of Residence Life, the year-long break was time well spent.

“Now, there are more opportunities for student investment and an increase in the number of cases that will go before the council,” he said.

The RJC was originally created in 1999 as a way for students to have a hand in dealing with the student conduct issues that arose during that school year. The body hears student code of conduct cases of category A and some category B violations, doling out sanctions and punishments. Operating similarly to the Honor Council, the RJC is meant to encourage an atmosphere of student responsibility, accountability and trust around campus.

In recent years, however, after lack of student interest and falling case rates, in 2009 the university announced that the organization would cease to operate for a year while structural changes were made. A steering committee held town halls and created a plan for a new council, which was approved at the end of last year.

In order to increase student involvement, the council introduced elections for the student-held positions on the council, which is composed of 12 student representatives along with administrative officials,

residential administrators and hall directors. Until this year, the student seats on the council were filled on a volunteer basis.

“I’m excited to see how RJC will operate with its new structure. While the intention of the council was always good, it clearly needed to operate under a different format,” said Tyler Sax (COL ’13), a former Georgetown University Student Association senator.

Dalvin Butler (COL ’13), Interhall’s vice president of external affairs, said the elections represent a shift for the council.

“There will definitely be more student input that will provide a different approach to the system, but I think the disciplinary actions that the RJC will take will be practically the same as it has been in the past,” Butler said.

According to Gilhool, the council is still working on a recruitment plan to select three freshmen to serve this year. Applications will soon be posted on the Office of Residence Life’s website.

For sophomores and freshmen who entered the university while the council was not operating, the RJC may be an unknown entity.

“After taking a year off, RJC definitely has some work to do before they become a ‘household name’ around campus again,” Sax said.

But some students see promise in the new, revised council.

“Anytime there is a democratically elected group of students who are motivated and responsible, there are definitely going to be positive results from that,” Jack Miossi (COL ’15) said. “I’m excited to see what happens.”

The Department of Homeland Security unveiled a new website last week to help ease the admission process for international students applying to American universities.

According to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, the Study in the States website will be a “one-stop shop” for international students looking for relevant information about student visa and exchange visitor programs.

“Attracting the best and brightest international talent to our colleges and universities is an important part of our nation’s economic, scientific and technological innovation and competitiveness,” Napolitano said in a press release.

Study in the States provides students with a variety of resources, ranging from what to expect upon arriving at a U.S. port of entry to information on applying for a student visa. Prior to the website’s launch, students had to navigate between sites from multiple government agencies in order to find the materials they needed, often receiving conflicting information.

DHS intends for the website to be interactive, linking with social media sites

like Facebook and Twitter.

The website also features a blog with videos, public service announcements, relevant news and helpful tips.

The university’s Director of International Student and Scholar Services Helene Robertson said that if students can find the information they need in one convenient location, they will avoid less authentic sources.

“There are a lot of companies and immigration attorneys who are looking to make some money off of international students by giving them the same information that they could find for free on a government site,” Robertson said.

Robertson said that she thinks Georgetown’s Office of International Programs, which provides a number of support services to international students, could benefit from the website’s centralized source of information.

“A challenge that a lot of universities face is making sure that the information they give to students is up-to-date and reflects the latest thinking of the government. If Study in the States is consistently updated and accurate, then we don’t need to do as much here,” she said, adding that this new website will enable her and her staff to spend more time ad-

vising students.

Shuo Yan Tan (SFS ’12), who came to D.C. from Singapore, said the website would have been helpful during his application process to Georgetown.

“What would have made my experience easier would be a centralized database on all aspects of U.S. schools, such as academics, food, weather and student life,” he said.

Lynn Screen, director of admissions for Georgetown’s English as a Foreign Language program, which brings over 400 English language learners to campus each year, said the site will make entering the United States easier for students who are still developing their English language skills.

“Up until now, it has been up to the EFL department to explain these processes and rules to our students in a manner that even low-level English students can understand,” Screen said, noting that many necessary processes — such as filling out forms — can be especially confusing for EFL students.

“Study in the States addressed these issues as they pertain to this special population. I hope this new website will empower my students to help themselves better navigate our system,” she added.

SFS to Found Undergraduate Fellowship MASHA GONCHAROVA Hoya Staff Writer

The School of Foreign Service plans to offer undergraduate students a way to delve deeper into the curriculum through the Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellow program starting next semester.

With the help of the Dean’s Leadership Fund, fellows will be paid $9 per hour to research, collaborating with faculty for semester-long research projects. The pilot version will be open to a mix of 12 freshmen and sophomores. While there are other on-campus opportunities for faculty mentorship, the Mortara program seeks to distinguish itself by retaining its student researchers, according to Dean of the School of Foreign Service Carol Lancaster.

“It is a new opportunity for undergraduates, and this [is] a pilot year,” Lancaster said. “We’ll see how big it gets. It depends on the number of faculty that hope to get involved, but we expect to support three or four students this year.”

Faculty have expressed interest in guiding undergraduates of all levels through the research experience because they hope to breed scholars who understand the world of formal experimentation and analysis.

“The School of Foreign Service has the finest undergraduates studying global affairs in the world, but we don’t always provide our students with a full range of rich intellectual experiences outside the classroom,” said Kathleen McNamara, the director of the Mortara Center and a faculty mentor.

James Vreeland, an associate professor in the SFS, expressed similar sentiments.

“Personally, I am interested in co-authoring papers with students. I find that I can best mentor students through a truly collaborative project,” Vreeland said. “The students also learn what it takes to go through the arduous process of publishing in an academic journal. The standards are high and require devotion to work. On top of that, they get paid for their work.”

Vreeland will be a faculty mentor with

the program after acting as one of the key associates in the initiative’s start-up.

Fellows will be required to spend anywhere from 10 to 15 hours per week helping professors with library and online research, editing written work and collecting and analyzing data.

According to McNamara, the participating professors will nominate students from SFS freshman pro-seminar courses during the fall semester.

The original idea was borne out of the visible success of the Carroll Round, the university’s undergraduate economics research conference, she said.

“The Carroll Round has shown that there is appetite and ability for outstanding independent research among undergraduates,” McNamara said. “The fellowship program has the potential to deepen student engagement by empowering them as generators, not just consumers, of knowledge.”

The Mortara fellows’ research is slated to culminate in an Annual Research Colloquium.

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Students Spared Trial CUA Stands by Single-Sex Dorms KELLY CHURCH Hoya Staff Writer

Three students accused of destroying office ceilings in the Leavey Center last month signed a prosecution agreement Wednesday morning that will prevent their case from going to trial.

The students, Sam Buckley (COL ’14), John Flanagan (SFS ’14) and Eric Pilch (COL ’12), were charged with the destruction of property less than $1,000; Buckley and Pilch were also each charged with a misdemeanor of unlawful entry.

Chief Judge Rufus King III, who presided over the preliminary hearing, determined that the case would not go to a full criminal trial.

King scheduled the diversion status hearing for Jan. 25, allowing the case to be settled outside the court and giving the defendants a four-month probationary period.

Buckley, Flanagan and Pilch had previously pleaded not guilty of all charges.

The prosecution alleged that the defendants attempted to evade Department of Public Safety officers on Aug. 28 by crawling through the drop ceiling in The

Georgetown Voice’s office on the fourth floor of the Leavey Center.

The Hoya reported on Sept. 20 that the trio caused over $4,000 in repair expenses. The trio gained access to The Voice’s office through a punch code, as Buckley and Flanagan were Voice staffers at the time.

During the assigned probation period, the students must follow the established diversion program while demonstrating good behavior. The criteria of the specific diversion program was not publicly available.

The defendants were also notified that failure to appear in court on Jan. 25 would result in the issuing of a bench warrant, a type of arrest warrant issued by the court when a defendant fails to comply with a court order or requirement.

King warned the defendants of the possible repercussions of failing to maintain good behavior.

“For the three of you, this is going to be a little unusual because you’re used to probably occasionally breaking the rules and sliding a little bit, but in this case you can’t break the rules,” he said. “If you don’t do exactly what they require of you, this [agreement] falls apart and you go to trial.”

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Special to The Hoya

Catholic University’s administration defended its plan to institute single gender dorms before the D.C. Office of Human Rights last Thursday.

The legal proceedings began after The George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf filed litigation against Catholic University, claiming that the policy is a form of gender discrimination and violates the D.C. Human Rights Act. Catholic University President John Garvey announced the plan for universal non-coed housing in an editorial in The Wall Street Journal in June.

“Here is one simple step colleges can take to reduce both binge drinking and hooking up: Go back to single-sex residences,” he wrote in the editorial.

He called the move a “slightly oldfashioned remedy that will improve the practice of virtue.”

In a statement to The Tower, Catholic University’s student newspaper, Associate Vice President for Public Affairs Victor Nakas said that the administration will stand behind its policy.

“We remain confident that under

local and federal law we have every right to move forward with same-sex dorms,” he said.

Banzhaf also plans to sue two of the university’s prominent administrators, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington, and Msgr.

Allen Vigneron, the archbishop of Detroit. Wuerl is the ex officio chancellor of the university and Vigneron is the chairman of its board of trustees.

Banzhaf said that Catholic University’s new policy is unacceptable regardless of the school’s religious affiliation.

“Unfortunately for [Garvey], he cannot rely upon religion, because the D.C. Court of Appeals has held — in a case in which Georgetown University tried to justify discrimination based upon sexual orientation because of fundamental and strongly held Catholic teachings about homosexuality — that religious motivations were irrelevant, and no defense, under the statute,” Banzhaf said in a press release, recalling Georgetown’s checkered past with the Human Rights Act. In 1977 and 1979, Georgetown rejected proposals from the Gay People of Georgetown University to be officially recognized as a student organization.

After a third refusal, GPGU, along

with the Gay Rights Coalition, waged a lawsuit in 1980 against Georgetown stating that the university was in violation of the Human Rights Act. The Supreme Court ultimately found that Georgetown’s Catholic beliefs were not a justified basis for denying GPGU proper recognition.

According to Georgetown’s Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh, single-sex dorms are not in Georgetown’s future.

“Coed residence halls with singlegender living units and bathrooms are welcoming and comfortable, providing the right balance of community living spaces and privacy that is important to students on our campus. Options are available to both male and female students who have a preference to live on a single-sex floor,” she wrote in an email.

Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson added that the university has tried to find a way to fulfill obligations to its students and to its religion.

“The structure we set up in our residence halls is focused on building community. … In designing these residences, we focus on our students’ needs and are supportive of the university’s mission,” Olson said. “Our residences are supportive of the Catholic and Jesuit tradition.”

SAC Initiates Reform Process for Funding Allocation Rules SAC, from A1 said.

The comprehensive system would be similar to what many other schools as well as other funding boards at Georgetown — such as the Center for Social Justice’s Advisory Board for Student Funding — use to allocate their funds.

“There’s absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t be able to institute the sort of rigorous system that many of our peer institutions use in the next

month or two,” said Eitan Paul (SFS ’12), who spearheaded a movement to reform the allocation process while serving as chairman of the International Relations Club last year.

The new funding allocation system was implemented last year with the aim of allowing SAC to more fully fund student group requests and streamline the process, but the new guidelines were a source of frustration for many club leaders. Last spring about one-third of SAC groups signed on to two open letters calling

for a series of revisions to the allocation system, prompting SAC to begin a series of reforms.

SAC Chair Andy Koenig (COL ’12) said that while he did not want to leave groups stranded next semester if a new system was incomplete, he thought that there was a strong possibility that the guidelines could be worked out in time.

In light of the funding disputes last year, the Georgetown University Student Association recently launched its Report on Student Life,

which is focused on funding board reform this year. However, the report is not scheduled to be released until the end of the fall semester, and SAC hopes to have a plan finalized by early November. Chen said she did not think the report would affect the timing of the reform process.

“I think this is the appropriate time to work on it,” she said.

Commissioners stressed that they wanted the new guidelines to be both fair and feasible.

“We hope that this is a system that

will last five, 10 years — that will sustain at Georgetown,” said Carlos DelaTorre (COL ’13), a SAC commissioner.

Despite the possibility of a new funding allocation system, concerns about the underlying structure for student programming remain. For example, when club leaders said they were unable to access their club cost centers online to track their funds, Koenig said SAC was not able to either.

“The university infrastructure isn’t there yet,” he said.

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Rep. Tammy Baldwin (DWis.) reflected on her experiences as an openly gay politician and the difficulties of working in a Congress split down party lines Wednesday night.

“This year, I have never been so depressed to be in the minority,” Baldwin said at the event in White-Gravenor Hall organized by the Georgetown University College Democrats and GU Pride.

In describing the challenges of a partisan Congress, she spoke about working among colleagues who she believes do not value their constituents over political games.

“I’m not saying cutting our debt isn’t important, but there’s not one member of congress who doesn’t have constituents struggling at home,” she said.

In her current campaign for the U.S. Senate, Baldwin aims to highlight the importance of bipartisanship and allegiance to her voters in Wisconsin, not just to the politics of Washington.

“I have to remain optimistic that our democracy can operate for us. That’s why I’m running for Senate — we have to wrest control back,” she said.

“You don’t seek office if you don’t think democracy can work.”

In past campaigns, according to Baldwin, she has had her critics, but she has overcome those issues to win each race. As the November election looms closer, she is again facing many who doubt her ability to win an entire state of voters who seem to be engaged in aggressive political competition.

“Who are these talking heads telling us we can’t win?” Baldwin asked. “Last time I checked, we go to the

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By the Numbers: D.C. Crime Statistics in 2010

Aggravated assault, 43%

Violent Crime There were 7,468 incidents of violent crime last year.

Robbery, 52%

Forcible rape, 3% Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, 2%

Arson, <1% Motor Burglary, vehicle theft, 16% 18%

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Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) talked about bipartisanship and being openly gay in Congress in White-Gravenor on Wednesday night. ballot box.”

Baldwin also stressed that her sexuality in no way discredits her commitment to her political values and desire to reach across the aisle. She was the first openly gay candidate to be elected to Congress in 1998.

“It is personally offensive when somebody talks about [the LGBTQ community] as though they are ‘less than,’” she said. “But when you do a job like this, you also have

to relate to these people on a regular basis. You can’t call the boss and say ‘this person needs counseling.’”

When faced with obstacles like these, Baldwin said she takes every opportunity to impart a lesson to her challengers.

“You find an educable moment, and you seize it,” Baldwin said. “It’s important to use private moments when the C-SPAN cameras aren’t rolling.”

Larceny/ theft, 66%

Property Crime There were 27,138 incidents of property crime last year.

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FBI: Violent Crimes Down, Forcible Rape Up in DC CRIME, from A1 District is more statistically dangerous than the hometowns of many peer institutions.

The Boston and South Bend, Ind. metro areas, home to Boston College and the University of Notre Dame respectively, had rates of 903 and 716 per 100,000 residents.

Yale’s New Haven, Conn. had a per 100,000 rate of 1,595, making it the most violent city in Connecticut.

However, New Haven saw significantly fewer forcible rapes than the District did, with 70 incidents for 2010. Boston and South Bend saw 256 and 52 incidents respectively.

Gwendolyn Crump, Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman, told The Washington Post that the numbers are not inconsistent with the city’s past crime records.

“Although we have seen an increase in forc-

ible rapes between 2009 and 2010, the number of reported forcible rapes in 2010 is consistent with figures reported in 2006, 2007 and 2008,” she said.

MPD released its own data about the District’s crime for 2010 this April. These statistics, gathered solely from MPD reports, detailed a city-wide 7 percent drop in all kinds of crime, as well as a reduction in the number of property and violent crimes.

According to university spokeswoman Stacy Kerr, normal safety procedures will not be altered in light of the FBI’s data.

“We are always assessing ways to enhance the safety and security of our campus community and implement measures that reflect best practices in the security industry,” she said.

For more crime data, check out thehoya.com.

Glover’s Routine May Have Included Borrowed Jokes GLOVER, from A1 remember this face, [expletive], and I run out.”

On “Comedy Central Presents” in 2003, comic Patrice O’Neal said, “I never go more than a half an hour without buying something, cause you could kill somebody in a half hour and you need an alibi. So every 15 minutes I buy something … I’ll end up arguing with the clerk just so he remembers me.”

On the YouTube page for Glover’s video, numerous viewers have posted comments about its similarity to O’Neal’s routine engaging in a dialogue about the overlapping content.

In another bit at Georgetown, Glover made a joke that numerous members of the audience recall as, “White people never say [expletive] around black people, but I was at a Kanye West concert, and basically everyone in the crowd was white. Kanye was singing ‘All of the Lights,’ and the song goes ‘Something wrong/I hold my head/M.J. Gone…’ and then the white crowd all shouted, ‘Our [expletive] dead!’”

In his 2008 HBO special “Kill the Messenger,” Chris Rock joked, “There’s a lot of [expletive] in a Dr. Dre song, and white people want to enjoy it, but they can’t really enjoy it around me. So they start taking out the [expletive] or mumbling the [expletive], and it’s just a sad sight to see.

But I know when I’m not there … They all sing along together ’cause I never hesitate to put a [expletive] on his back.’”

In another joke during the Gaston Hall show, Glover discussed how it is impossible to think about racism if it was propagated by babies. Glover joked that if he saw a baby dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb, he would still want to hug and fawn over him.

In 1989, Chris Rock said at a comedy club performance, “One thing I learned about racism is that everybody loves babies. You can’t hate a baby, man. I remember I was pushing my little brother [in a stroller] on the sidewalk in South Carolina, and these rednecks were standing there. I’m push-

ing him, and when I get up to the corner this redneck looks over and says, ‘Boy, that’s a pretty [expletive].’”

During a show on Comedy Central last year, Glover remarked that he idolized Chris Rock growing up and would often imitate his jokes as a child.

Nehemiah Markos (COL ’14), a member of the Georgetown Improv Association who performed as an opening stand-up act for Glover, defended the originality of Glover’s material, adding that proving joke theft is difficult.

“The line between homage and theft is thin, and sometimes you can’t tell if a comedian is being influenced by someone or if he is actually stealing their jokes,” he said.

In the world of standup comedy, stealing jokes has drawn criticism. Several high-profile comedians such as Dane Cook, the Wayans Brothers and Carlos Mencia have been accused of recycling jokes from past comedy legends for their own routines.

Glover could not be reached for comment.

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basketball and creating the best experience possible for our student athletes in each of our 29 varsity programs,” Reed said.

The announcement comes on the heels of Tuesday’s report by the Associated Press that all of the Big East schools are committed to recruiting new members to the conference. The footballplaying schools of the Big East and Notre Dame, who is currently independent, met Tuesday in Manhattan with Big East Commissioner John Marinetto to discuss such recruitment.

Football and the television contracts that come with it were the driving force behind Syracuse and Pittsburgh’s move to the ACC. As of Wednesday, ESPN reported that the Big East was targeting three military service academies — West Point, the Naval Academy and the Air Force academy — as football-only members to invite to the conference.

handling any bit of adversity you get,” Wiese said. “If you look at what we’ve done on the road against Michigan, Michigan State and Penn, I think that’s grown this team by leaps and bounds.”

One of the most important factors in the first seven games for the Hoyas has been impressive goalkeeping from freshman Tomas Gomez and sophomore Keon Parsa.

“I think one thing that has been a very happy reality for us has been that our goalkeeping has been really good.

I think both Tomas and Keon have been first-rate,” Wiese said. “We’ve only seen three penalty kicks, and only one of those has gone in. That’s not bad.”

And with two solid goalies in the rotation, the team has gained more confidence and flexibility on both offense and defense.

“As far as playing goes, it gives you confidence either way. I think the team has total confidence in both of those guys,” Wiese said. “And if you’re

going to be competing for the league, for the national championship, you need to have that.”

The Blue and Gray were also buoyed by the announcement on Wednesday that Zach Samol, who joined the program as an assistant alongside Weise in 2006, has been named to the newly created position of associate head coach.

“You look at a support staff and a lot of people don’t appreciate the amount of work it takes to make a successful program,” Wiese said. “When I came here in 2006, Zach wanted to work for me and I was very happy to get him.”

A college teammate of Wiese’s at Dartmouth, Samol was an assistant at Yale and Boston College before joining the Georgetown staff six years ago.

“His mind for the game is unbelievable, he’s got an incredibly high standard and he is a great recruiter,” Wiese said. “He sees players and knows what I would like and knows a great player when he sees one.”

Despite Samol’s recruiting help, Wiese and Georgetown have lost their fair share of recruits to Villanova over

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Freshman goalie Tomas Gomez had six saves Sunday against Princeton. the years.

“Villanova has done a good job [recruiting],” Wiese said. “They are more athletic than they’ve maybe been in the past, and they have some guys that we sure liked in the recruiting process that aren’t here but at Villanova.”

Although the Hoyas beat the Wildcats 3-1 last season, Georgetown and

Villanova have a long history of facing off in close contests.

“This is as much of a derby game in the league as there is. Georgetown and Villanova, we play each other maybe too much,” Wiese said. “They are pretty intense games, and we expect the same out of this one.”

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday in Villanova, Pa.

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Despite Logistical Problems, Triathalon Team Keeps Rolling ASHWIN WADEKAR Hoya Staff Writer

Exercise is an important part of our daily regimen: Some people run. Others ride bikes. Still others swim. Allyson Noyes (NHS ’13) and TJ Dowling (SFS ’12)? They do all three.

Noyes and Dowling are the captains of Georgetown’s club triathlon team, a group that boasts approximately 30 to 40 active members. Athletes participate in up to five events in the fall before winter arrives, and they dedicate themselves to training.

USA Triathlon oversees every triathlon event in the country. The national tournament, held this year in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is but one of the many events USA Triathlon puts on during the year. The season culminates in the sole spring event, the Collegiate National Championship — the only triathlon event limited to collegiate teams.

So Noyes, Dowling and the rest of the triathlon team normally compete against well, normal people.

“TJ could be riding his bike and all of a sudden get passed by a 60-year-old,” Noyes said.

This past weekend, Georgetown traveled out to the mountains in Maryland to compete in one of the hardest tracks in the world, the Savage Man Triathlon event, which consists of a 1,500 meter swim, 22.9 miles of biking and a 10 ki-

lometer run.

Nothing too strenuous.

Georgetown was the only college team participating in the event, and the athletes fared remarkably well.

For the women, Maggie Wardell (SFS ’13) finished in second in the 15-to-19 age division, while Noyes won the 20to-24 age group, one place ahead of Michelle Cino (MSB ’12). On the men’s side, Jacob Gilden (GRD) finished in first while Dave Warrington (COL ’14) came in second.

A triathlon is a pure test of fitness, endurance and mental toughness. The team’s success is predicated on following a strict training routine. The club holds two practices per day, and most active members attend about four per week.

It’s a pretty hefty time commitment for a club team.

Still, the club is constantly fighting to stay alive. With transportation costs and entrance fees for events, the club is dependant on financial help from Georgetown. Last year was particularly tight for the group, but Student Activity Fee Endowment Reform proved to be crucial.

“As a result of SAFE Reform, our budget tripled this year, which really helped,” Dowling said.

The club also competes for time just to train for their events, which is a burden in a sport that requires intense and

consistent training. Access to facilities is simply limited.

“Yates has so many things to accommodate,” Noyes said. “With club teams and intramural teams and everybody else who wants to use the facilities, they have to appeal to the whole community.”

Still, the group has found success.

“We’ve been going through Club Sports — they’ve been our biggest advocates,” Dowling said. “They’re kind of the intermediaries between us and Yates. We’ve been able to solidify our weekly spin times, as well as our pool times.”

Ultimately, the time commitment is comparable to any of the school’s varsity teams.

So with 19 credits of coursework, nine hours per week at her job and numerous other groups, how does Noyes find the time to train for and compete in triathlon events?

“The triathlon [club] has actually really helped me balance all these things,” Noyes said. “Even with all these things, I can still have an active social life. You can be an intense athlete but also be a normal, balanced person, especially at the collegiate level.”

“And I don’t think I’m an anomaly,” she added.

Her pre-med co-captain agrees.

“I’ve learned how to manage my time much more efficiently,” Dowling said.

“You can’t really let up when you’re training throughout the year. … Tri really lends itself nicely to a collegiate schedule, because you can train on your own time.”

The flexibility of a club sport is a major attraction for both captains, who are active in the campus community beyond the triathlon team.

“It’s nice that we can be so involved with this team. We put in as much time as we can, but at the same time we have the flexibility to do what we need to,” Noyes said.

Nonetheless, the two admit they are kept busy throughout the year. Still, the appeal of competing overwhelms any qualms they once had about the major time commitment. Like many members of the club, Noyes never imagined getting so involved — or attached — to club triathlon.

“I kind of got roped into it, made a lot of great friends. I got really into it after nationals and just fell in love. It’s a great community, and racing is the best feeling ever. … A lot of people accidentally fall into it,” Noyes said.

Dowling expressed similar feelings. “I joined last fall. My fifth race was nationals, and after that I was hooked. A lot of people talk about catching the tri-bug, and I guess that was me,” he said.

For Dowling, the thrill of a triathlon recreates the sense of competition he once had in high school as a three-sport

varsity athlete.

“I missed the feeling of competing and the team aspect of sports,” he said.

“Triathlons are nice because it’s an individual race. The work you put in is what you get out.”

But even though the competitions laud individual efforts, the feeling of being on a team, of being part of something bigger, only adds to the appeal of a triathlon.

“We show up [at an event] together, we spend the whole night together and celebrate afterward,” Dowling said.

“There’s a big camaraderie before and after races. We’re all there supporting each other,” Noyes said. “The team aspect makes races that much more fun. We have a big presence at races.”

But perhaps the most defining characteristic of these athletes is the determination they show, not just in events, but every day throughout the year. Each day is an opportunity to train, to build mental toughness and physical fitness.

The prospect of competing in a triathlon is daunting to most people. But to Noyes and Dowling, the formula for success is clear.

“Anyone can do it,” Noyes said, while her co-captain nodded in agreement.

“People get so freaked out when I tell them I do triathlons, but really anyone can do it. If people just resolve to do it, they can.”

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adjustments if the team’s goal of competing for the top spot in the Patriot League and a postseason berth are to be realized.

“We have to be more consistent in what we do.

We did some real good things Saturday, but we did some poor things that hurt us in all three phases,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “The buzzword after the game is more consistency.”

Senior co-captain and safety Wayne Heimuli, who contributed an interception and a blocked punt against Yale, agreed with Kelly’s assessment.

“We did not perform up to our standards, and we should have been able to step up and stop them,” Heimuli said. “We just didn’t answer the call. We have to get back to fundamentals.”

Marist is not a team to be taken lightly, as they have experience at many positions on both sides of the ball.

“Marist always gives us a tough game. They give us some fits with their offense and they have kind of an oddball defense, a 3-3 stack team, which is different than what most teams run,” Kelly said.

“They present some scheme issues.”

This past week, the Red Foxes suffered a loss at the hands of the Dayton Flyers in the teams’ Pioneer Conference opener. Their lone win came in their season opener against Sacred Heart, 20-7.

The Red Foxes were chosen to finish the season in eighth place in the Pioneer League preseason poll, one spot ahead of Davidson, who the Hoyas defeated in 40-16 the season opener for both teams.

On offense the Red Foxes are led by sophomore quarterback Chuckie Looney, who appeared in nine games in support of starter Tommy Reilly last year.

Looney’s rise to starting signal caller was a surprise to some after Reilly, who is a senior this season, passed for over 2,300 yards and 15 touchdowns against only six interceptions last season.

During the campaign, he set program records in passing attempts, completions and yards for a season.

This season Looney has thrown for 674 yards, five touchdowns, and five interceptions. The sophomore has also shown himself to be a threat in the running game as well.

“[Looney] likes to run,” senior defensive end Andrew Schaetzke said. “He’s a smaller guy, but he is quicker.”

Looney‘s favorite targets in the receiving core have been senior wide receivers Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mike Rios, sophomore wide receiver Armani Martin and junior tight end Anthony Calcagni.

This unit has dangerous play-making ability, and the Hoyas’ talented secondary will have to work hard to keep them contained.

“Their top receiver [Fitzpatrick] already has 20 catches,” Heimuli said. “So we have to make sure to lock them down.”

The passing attack has been complemented thus far by a trio of running backs — seniors Ryan Dinnebeil and Calvin McCoy and sophomore Atiq Lucas. They have struggled so far, however, averaging only 53 yards per contest on about 27 carries per game, an average of only 1.9 yards per carry.

The Marist offense has also struggled with turnovers, as the Red Foxes have lost three fumbles to go along with Looney’s five picks. This weakness has stalled drives while subsequently putting extra pressure on the defense. The Georgetown defense should be able to take advantage of this trend to gain good field position for the offense.

“As long as we keep our eyes on our man, don’t try to do too much, do what we do, and not try to overcompensate, the picks will come,” Heimuli said.

On the defensive side of the ball, Marist has received outstanding performances from junior lineman Terrence Fede, senior linebacker Ryan Cronan and junior safeties Tyler Ramsey and Nick Mainiero.

Fede has accumulated three sacks and five tackles for a loss of 25 yards this season. Ramsey has also contributed three tackles in the backfield while Mainiero has grabbed two interceptions.

“The strength of their defense is their defensive line,” Kayal said. “Their nose guard and their defensive end are pretty impressive.”

The Hoyas and Red Foxes have matched up with one another every fall since the 2006 season.

The Blue and Gray lead the series 3-2, including last season’s 14-7 victory.

Kickoff is scheduled for Saturday at 1:05 p.m. in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

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GU’s Future Boxing Needs Big Fight Is in FBS Corey Blaine

Matt Emch

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s the saying goes, traditions have to start somewhere. This has not been a problem for Georgetown. Our school has been widely recognized as an academic giant and a basketball powerhouse, but times are quickly changing in college athletics.

To stay ahead of the curve, a new tradition needs to be quickly established.

We all know by now of conference realignment but are unsure as to what effect it will have on the Big East, and more importantly, Georgetown. With this uncertainty comes a plethora of options: We can sit back and see what the Big East wants to do, reach out to other conferences unilaterally, or we could put ourselves in the position to be a preeminent force when superconferences start to form in the next decade.

I choose the last option. And that can be accomplished by starting a Football Bowl Subdivision football team.

Last week I wrote about Boise State’s recent scandal. In the column I laid out how they went from a Football Championship Subdivision school to an FBS school in the 1990s with relatively little turbulence.

While our situations are not analogous, it is not too far-fetched to believe that we could have a fully functional FBS program by the start of the next decade.

Already reacting to these changes, Georgetown has just completed plans to build a new 125,000 square-foot Intercollegiate Athletic Center. After announcing this plan, Athletic Director Lee Reed mentioned that building this facility would “level the playing field” in regard to conference realignment issues. He certainly makes it seem like we’ll be considering all of our options in the next few years and won’t be afraid to spend money if necessary.

Spending money on athletics is one thing — making it in large quantities is something else entirely. In 2009 the revenue of all Division I college basketball teams, 344 in total, amounted to around $978 million. While that is an incredible amount of money, the 120 teams that comprise the FBS brought in a staggering $2.575 billion dollars, more than 2.5 times as much as basketball.

The simple conclusion is that the real money lies in college football. Just take a look at bowl revenue (more than half of FBS teams play in a bowl), conference television networks, and revenue sharing deals between schools that make college presidents and athletic directors alike jump around like they’ve won the lottery.

One caveat though — you have to spend money to make money. The short-term expense of starting an FBS program would be incredibly large.

But if that’s what is needed to make Georgetown a force in this changing athletic climate, I’m absolutely sure that students and alumni will pony up the big bucks and support the Blue and Gray through thick and thin.

Currently, we do not offer scholarships to our football players. We would have to start this move by offering scholarships to 65 athletes at a cost of around $3.5 million per year. Putting football players on full rides would dramatically improve our recruiting. Then we would either have to dominate the Patriot League or move to another more competitive league to prep us for the end goal of becoming an FBS school.

Then the hardest part of this transition comes. A new stadium would have to be built, and it would need to seat at least 15,000 due to FBS attendance regulations.

The cost would be tremendous, but if we had a winning product on the field, those seats would be filled every week. If successful, we would apply to an FBS conference. More money would be spent, new coaches would be hired and bigger contracts would be sought. A move like this is certainly risky, but if executed the right way, with the right athletic department, the reward could be the single biggest payday in Georgetown athletic history.

Since we are a prestigious school that already offers a great basketball team coupled with a great academic reputation and a great location, we would easily be one of the top targets for prestigious conferences like the ACC, Big Ten, or Big East (if it stays together). I may be naive, but I know that the community at Georgetown would support this endeavor. We have already seen sparks of a successful team this year, and the buzz around the program is certainly growing. While we don’t have all of the parts to the puzzle right now, we can start assembling them piece by piece.

This transition can’t be expected to be easy, but we can hope that it’s done right.

The future of our school’s athletic affiliation is on the line, and I, for one, want us to come out on top rather than get lost in the mix.

Matt Emch is a sophomore in the College. RIDING THE PINE appears every Friday.

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hen Victor Ortiz’s head slammed to the canvas on Saturday night, the fate of boxing didn’t fall with him. Thank God we’re not having that argument anymore.

The boxing world is four years removed from “the fight to save boxing” and luckily the Sweet Science has found two polarizing figures to keep it from becoming the Sweet Theory — for now. The facts remain that there are very few true boxing fans today and that the sport has done everything it can (post-Mike Tyson) to ensure this. Yet for whatever reason, we’ve been delivered Pacquiao and Mayweather.

Boxing as our parents and grandparents knew it is functionally dead. Long gone are the days of heavyweight champions of the 20th century. The marketability of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman has been replaced by the living, breathing, embodiments of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV, the Klitschko brothers.

Never before in the history of modern sports have two athletes at the top of their respective game been so unlikeable but non-polarizing.

Even the genre of boxing movies is struggling. Long gone are the days of Rocky and Raging Bull; they’ve been replaced by fighting robots. Not to say that the recent crop of movies has not been enjoyable, but how many people knew who Micky Ward was before they saw The Fighter? If I told you that he was involved in an intense series of fights with the late Arturo Gatti, two of which were named the fight of the year in their respective years, would you have already had that stored away in the back of your memory? Or would you ask, “who in the world is Gatti?”

The point is that our current generation has lost touch with the world of boxing, for better or for worse.

Mayweather and Pacquiao have the potential to act as saviors for their dying sport.

The fact is, anytime they fight, the arenas are full and the pay-per-view statistics are overwhelming. They are still capable of capturing the nation’s attention. Whether it’s Pacquiao ending Ricky Hatton’s promising career with a brutal blow to the face or Mayweather making quick work of Ortiz after a flurry of unsportsmanlike conduct, they captivate the imagination.

If the two ever fought, it truly would be the “fight to save boxing,” but unfortunately the styles of the two in the ring carry over to the real world. The brash, loudmouth Mayweather continues to sully Pacquiao’s name in the press, claiming Manny is afraid to fight him. Pacquiao, on the other hand, maintains that Floyd is full of lies and artfully dodges any sort of criticism leveled at him.

The refreshing thing about the duo is that every boxing fan belongs to one side or another. The two couldn’t be any more different, and as a result they have two separate fan bases. Even ringside announcers cannot help themselves, as Larry Merchant at the ripe age of 80 threatened Mayweather, “I wish I was 50 years younger and I’d kick your [expletive].”

It’s the rise in popularity of these two polarizing figures that will lead any resurgence in boxing. The sport will never return to prominence with unknowns stealing title belts twice per year, but it requires the continued popularity of two headliners. For the first time in what seems like ages, two boxers are able to captivate headlines, appear in commercials and hold press conferences worth watching.

At some point, Mayweather and Pacquiao have to fight to save their sport, inside and outside the ring.

When that day comes though, my money — as a boxing fan who wasn’t scared away when he watched Tyson bite off Evander Holyfield’s ear at the tender age of 6 — is on Floyd “Money” Mayweather, whose struggle through life parallels the sport he’s putting on his back.

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Senior libero Tory Rezin has played in every match this season, totaling 198 digs in the team’s first 13 games.

Hoyas to Face Irish LEONARD OLSEN Hoya Staff Writer

This weekend the Georgetown volleyball team (8-5) will travel to South Bend, Ind. to take on Notre Dame (7-3) on Saturday in what will be the Big East opener for both teams.

The Hoyas performed admirably in the nonconference portion of their schedule, in which they participated in four tournaments. So far, they have encountered the No. 1 team in the country in undefeated California and have notched some quality wins over the likes of Wake Forest, James Madison and George Mason.

This year the Blue and Gray have gotten production on offense from a variety of players. Sophomore outside hitter Brooke Bachesta and freshman outside hitter Alex Johnson lead the Hoyas in kills with 139 each (they each also have a .278 hitting percentage to lead the team). However, three of the team’s middle blockers — freshman Dani White, redshirt sophomore Annalee Abell and

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Redshirt senior midfielder Ingrid Wells scored on a penalty kick in the 84th minute of Georgetown’s 4-1 win over Penn last weekend.

’Cuse, St. John’s Up Next We started very bravely and very quickly against Rutgers, and I think that makes a big difference for us.”

Interestingly enough, Syracuse and Georgetown will square off against each other with extremely similar formations. Both employ a single striker as a target player, who is situated slightly above attacking players who push up from midfield. However, the Orange are known for their aggressive play, which puts more pressure on opposing players but also can leave the Syracuse defense exposed on occasion. “[We’re] almost going to be a mirror image of each other, but they’re a little bit more aggressive defensively.

They step their defensive line a little bit higher, and they leave a lot of space behind,” Nolan said. “With that in mind, you need to move the ball faster, because they’re risking things by pressuring you a lot higher. But if you can move the ball faster, there’s space to play in, mostly behind them.”

Senior forward Camille Trujillo’s pace and work rate were essential to defeating the Scarlet Knights, and the Hoyas will count on her to continue wreaking havoc this weekend. Senior forward Sam Baker returns to the pitch after earning a place on last week’s Big East honor roll.

Baker scored twice and had two assists in last weekend’s fixtures.

On Saturday, the Blue and Gray will make the five-hour journey south to

junior Lindsay Wise have each contributed over 100 kills as well.

On the other hand, two Hoya staples in every match this year have been senior setter Ashley Malone and senior libero Tory Rezin. Malone averages an impressive 11 assists per set and was recently named to the Big East honor roll. Team captain Rezin has been the heart and soul of the Georgetown defense all year, totaling 198 digs on the season thus far.

The Irish as a team are built somewhat similarly to the Hoyas, as they rely on their whole team rather than just one or two players. However, sophomore outside hitter Andrea McHugh and freshmanmiddle blocker and right side hitter Jeni Houser have the bulk of the kills for Notre Dame, totaling 121 and 113, respectively. Sophomore setters Maggie Brindock and Sammie Brown have shared passing duties.

The game is slated for a 2 p.m. start on Saturday at Notre Dame’s Purcell Pavilion.

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Queens, N.Y., where they will try to avenge their most recent loss to St John’s – a heartbreaking 1-0 defeat with mere seconds remaining in double overtime of their 2009 Big East tournament quarterfinal matchup. Payback won’t be easy, however, because of the Red Storm’s tricky playing surface.

“The field is a difficult field to play on. It’s an artificial field, and it’s always windy,” Nolan said. “They have to play on it, too, but they’re a little more used to it.”

St. John’s, like Syracuse, utilizes the same 4-5-1 formation as Georgetown.

But rather than attempting to pressure Georgetown passers and interrupt the Hoyas’ natural rhythm of play, the Red Storm are expected to play more fluidly than their counterparts in upstate New York. “[St. John’s] will play soccer, they will let you play soccer and whoever is the best soccer team will win the game. I fancy our chances if that’s how the game shapes up,” Nolan said. “Syracuse is a little bit different. They may try to stop us from playing soccer. Then it’s just a matter of: Can they stop us?”

Georgetown is 5-5-1 all-time against St. John’s with all five wins coming in the last six matchups and 5-4-1 in prior contests with Syracuse, having won the past two meetings.

The Blue and Gray will kick-off at 7 p.m. on Friday against the Orange in Syracuse, N.Y. Sunday’s start is set for 1 p.m. as the Hoyas take on the Red Storm in Queens, N.Y.

The Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams are coming home this weekend to host the annual three-day Georgetown Classic at the McDonough Outdoor Tennis Complex.

For the women, this tournament offers a chance to build on their momentum from last weekend’s impressive victories at the University of North CarolinaWilmington Invitational. For the men, the Georgetown Classic is a chance to open the fall season with a bang.

“I’ve got the guys playing [for the first time] this weekend,” men’s and women’s Head Coach Gordie Ernst said. “I’d [just] like to see everyone get a little bit of success right now.”

Last year, the weekend tournament was a point of pride for both teams. The men had a doubles pairing reach the finals — after beating another Georgetown pairing in the quarters — and then-junior Mikey Clarke, who is no longer with the team, made the semifinals of the singles draw.

Of the men, some of the biggest names to watch include junior Charlie Caris and senior alternate captain Andrew Bruhn.

Caris, who earned team MVP honors last season, went 11-15 last year while playing first and second singles. Bruhn, the recipient of last season’s coaches award, proved to be an effective doubles player, as he posted an

11-11 record while playing with Clarke — the best doubles record on the men’s team.

As for the women, last year proved to be a major event for then-captain and current assistant coach Stephanie Wetmore.

Not only did Wetmore win the singles title, but along with junior Vicky Sekely, she clinched the doubles title as well. Filling the void left by Wetmore might be difficult for the Blue and Gray, but there’s no question that the team still constitutes a serious threat to their opposition. “[Wetmore] had that kind of a presence on the team and in the league,” Ernst said, “But, I would [still] say that we started off pretty well.”

There is no doubt that Sekely and sophomore Tina Tehrani are the headliners of the women’s squad. Tehrani, who claimed victory in the A flight of the UNCW Invitational, held her own against some of the strongest players from the region, as did Sekely in the B flight.

Although UNCW didn’t invite many of the tennis powerhouses, Georgetown’s performance is nothing to scoff at, and certainly something to worry about for the teams coming down to McDonough this weekend.

“You want to see your top players all get a piece [of victory],” Ernst said. “And then you want to see your other players get experience.”

The Georgetown Classic begins Friday afternoon and lasts through Sunday.

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GU’s Big East Status Uncertain MICHAEL PALMER Hoya Staff Writer

In the midst of the Big East Conference shake-up, Georgetown Athletic Director Lee Reed has communicated with other Big East schools, but he has not issued a definite statement on whether or not the university will remain in the Big East Conference.

As of Wednesday night, ESPN.com reported that East Carolina University had submitted an application to join the Big East. East Carolina currently plays in Conference USA. In a letter emailed to the student body Wednesday night, Reed did not have much more to add to his statements Sunday regarding the conference realignment taking place across the NCAA. “We are in almost constant contact with the leadership teams representing other Big East institutions, and we continue to work through the endless possibilities of conferences shifting and merging and its impact on Georgetown University and the Big East Conference,” Reed wrote. “Unfortunately, this is not a new challenge, just the most recent.”

Syracuse and Pittsburgh are slated to join the Atlantic Coast Conference in the 2014-2015 academic year, and the University of Connecticut has also expressed interest in jumping to the conference.

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Senior forward Camille Trujillo was a handful for the Rutgers defense last weekend, winning the penalty kick that resulted in Georgetown’s fourth and final goal.

Archrivals Await Hoyas in Upstate NY BENO PICCIANO Hoya Staff Writer

Beating a Big East opponent on the road is never a simple task, and a seven-hour bus ride to Syracuse, N.Y. doesn’t help matters.

After spliting their first two conference games, the Hoyas head to the Empire State for clashes with foes from the Big East’s American Division. The Blue and Gray’s first stop

comes Friday night when Georgetown (7-3-0, 1-1-0 Big East) takes on Syracuse (2-3-3, 1-1-0 Big East), before concluding the road-trip on Sunday with an afternoon matchup at St. John’s (5-3-1, 1-1-0 Big East).

“It’s a tough weekend, there’s no easy way to get to Syracuse,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “Home field advantage seems to be a big thing; we saw that last weekend pretty much everywhere … but if you want

to be considered one of the best teams in the conference, you’ve got to go and get results at places like that.”

Boasting identical conference records, the Hoyas, Orange and Red Storm are desperate to pick up points and assert themselves during the early stages of a cut-throat conference schedule. After their 4-1 home demolition of Rutgers last Sunday, the Blue and Gray look to

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After surviving a daunting conference slate relatively unscathed, the Georgetown men’s soccer team (4-1-2) heads north to Philadelphia this weekend to open Big East play against Villanova (2-3-2).

Coming off a weekend where

they tied Penn on the road and beat Princeton at North Kehoe Field, the Hoyas are confident that their tough nonconference schedule has set them up well for Big East play.

“It’s very similar to men’s basketball; conference [play] is a grind,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “It’s tough and you don’t want to be banged up, but you do want to have

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Sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann (18) is Georgetown’s leading scorer this year with four goals and one assist.

confidence.”

In addition to the matchups against the Ivy League’s best, Georgetown’s road trip against Big Ten foes Michigan and Michigan State helped test the team.

“Our take on it is you will either be good enough or you won’t,” Wiese said. “If you’re good enough, you will win these games and if you aren’t good enough, well then you’re not going to be good enough.”

But the Blue and Gray are not the only team that has gotten ready for the conference by taking on some tough rivals.

“Villanova went out on the road and played [UC] Santa Barbara and Cal Poly, and they’ve tested themselves pretty well,” Wiese said.

“They’ve played some good teams.”

When setting up this year’s schedule, Wiese and the rest of the coaching staff focused on giving the Blue and Gray a chance to play on the road against good teams with large fan bases.

“Our scheduling is designed so that by the time we get to the Big East it’s [just] another game. We’re not going to be overwhelmed with it,” Wiese said. “A good team with a big crowd; that will not be anything new for us. The atmosphere will be something that we are used to.”

Georgetown has fared well so far in its road tests, with a big victory at Michigan State and draws against Michigan and Penn under its belt.

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translate their momentum into more positive results.

“The most important thing for us is to get a quick start — when we come out and set the tone early, that’s when we’re at our best,” Nolan said. “When we’re playing catch-up, or when we’re responding to the momentum of the other team, I don’t think we’re as good.

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Sophomore receiver Zack Wilke has played in just two of the Hoyas’ three games this year but is tied for third on the team with seven receptions.

GU Defense Prepares for Turnover-Prone Marist ANDREW LOGERFO Special to The Hoya

Following last Saturday’s loss to Yale, Georgetown’s football team (2-1, 1-0 Patriot League) hopes to get back to winning this Saturday when it travels to Poughkeepsie, N.Y. to take on Marist (1-2, 0-1 Pioneer League).

Despite suffering their first loss of the young season, the Blue and Gray played their Ivy League opponent tough, trailing by only one point at halftime. Yale’s lead grew to 17 early in the fourth quarter before a late Hoyas touchdown brought the Blue and Gray back within 10, but that would be the closest the visitors got.

“We were challenged in many ways,

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and we started off the game really well, really explosive. We set our run game really well,” senior receiver and co-captain Jeremiah Kayal said. “In the second half we came out a little lethargic. [But] it taught us how to play a full game.”

Going into the contest, Georgetown had been on a three-game win streak, which began with last season’s season finale win against Marist.

The Hoyas also experienced their first loss of last season against Yale after starting the season with wins over Davidson and Lafayette.

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