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MINDING THE GAP

Students pursue a different kind of education before coming to college.

COMMENTARY The Catholic Church is compatible with a variety of sexual orientations.

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EQUALITY CASE aims to promote tolerance on Catholic school campuses.

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FOOTBALL Reeling GU aims to regroup Saturday against No. 10 Lehigh.

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University GUSA Executive Takes Pulse on Progress Eyes Tech Expansion Annie Chen

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Ted Murphy

Special to The Hoya

Last week, six students graduated from Georgetown’s first-ever onlineonly offering, a master’s nursing program that lets participants take classes through video chats and submit assignments over the Internet without ever leaving their clinical posts.

But the nursing program — which has grown to an enrollment of over 600 since it was launched in March 2011 — is only the first in a series of efforts to integrate technology into the Georgetown education.

Building off the success of this early foray into online learning, Provost Robert Groves recently announced an initiative to bring a new wave of technological innovation to the rest of campus.

According to an Oct. 5 email Groves wrote to the campus community, the university’s Georgetown TechnologyEnhanced Learning initiative will aim to expand Georgetown’s online presence and the use of technology in oncampus programs.

Included in the email was a Sept.

19 document titled “Technology-Enhanced Learning: Determining the Georgetown Way,” which lays out the principles that will guide the expansion.

The document cites as one of the university’s main goals the optimization of the use of digital resources and other technology-assisted learning strategies so that faculty members can better help and interact with students.

It also highlights the potential for online technology to provide real-time feedback to professors about what course material students find particularly difficult.

According to Groves, this initiative could eventually lead to the redesign of large introductory courses, increased emphasis on student research and more online course offerings. In these early stages, however, administrators are seeking feedback from students and faculty before moving forward.

“This initiative will have several phases, but this first phase is seeking input on whether we’re headed in the right direction for evaluating and imSee TECHNOLOGY, A5

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Eight months since being sworn in, GUSA executives Clara Gustafson and Vail Kohnert-Yount have made strides toward their campaign goals.

More than halfway through their term, Georgetown University Student Association President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vice-President Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) have checked off a number of their platform priorities but still aim to improve campus sustainability and student life over the next several months.

Upon taking office in February, Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount, who comprise the first all-female GUSA executive, set goals to improve diversity, the judicial process for students, student involvement in campus initiatives, quality of student life and sustainability.

The beginning of their term was characterized by heated debates over the inclusion of an LGBTQfriendly checkbox on freshman housing surveys. But Gustafson said that challenges to the original proposal ultimately resulted in a better solution: a non-discrimination statement that all students must sign as part of the housing process.

“We got a lot of feedback from stu-

dents who said, ‘No,’ or, ‘You should do it a different way,’ so we reevaluated and came up with a more holistic approach to becoming a more welcoming campus for not only LGBTQ students but any minority,” Gustafson said.

More recently, the executive has also worked to address weaknesses in the university’s Code of Student Conduct.

The pair collaborated with the GUSA senate to hold a referendum on Sept. 28 urging Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson to change the code’s evidentiary standard from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing.” The referendum saw a record turnout of 2,629 votes, with 96 percent in support of the change. However, the referendum did not carry the authority to alter the Code of Student Conduct, and Olson has yet to make a final decision.

This term has also been marked by an expanded role for GUSA in neighborhood relations. After a summer spent petitioning the university for greater student input in See EXECUTIVE, A7

Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Case Emma Iannini

Special to The Hoya

Affirmative action admission policies came under fire as the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin Wednesday.

The case originated in 2009 when Abigail Fisher, a white applicant, was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin. Fisher sued the school on the basis that its affirmative action policy violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The United States District Court upheld the University of Texas’ right to include affirmative action as part of its admissions process in a 2009 decision, and the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the District Court’s ruling in 2011.

However, the university’s policy, which allows it to consider race as one of several factors in the admissions process, faced scrutiny from several Supreme Court justices Wednesday.

According to The Washington Post, many of the justices questioned where the university draws the line in seeking a “critical mass” of racial minorities.

“You won’t tell me what the critical mass is,” Chief Justice John Roberts said to University of Texas lawyer Gregory Garre. “How am I supposed to do the job that our precedents say I should do?”

Along with seven other Catholic universities, Georgetown filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Aug. 10 in support of the University of Texas and its race-conscious admissions process. “[The universities] believe that race-blind admissions practices frustrate or impede the achievement of a diverse student body,” the brief reads. “Considering an applicant’s race or ethnicity as a factor — but not a defining one — in a holistic review of a student … [allows universities] to more fully realize their missions of recognizing the dignity and uniqueness of each perSee COURT, A6

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The Supreme Court scrutinized the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions policy when it heard oral arguments Wednesday.

Nine GU Alumni Run for Congress Alexander Galan Special to The Hoya

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GU Pride and allies gathered in Red Square to show support for the LGBTQ community Thursday afternoon.

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Though the Hilltop provides a front-row seat every two years to the spectacle of congressional elections, this year, nine Georgetown alumni will be a part of the action themselves.

The congressional candidates — seven Democrats and two Republicans — continue a long tradition of a strong Georgetown alumni presence in Capitol Hill campaigning. At present, six Senators and 13 members of the House are Georgetown alumni.

Several former Georgetown students running for Congress this election said that Georgetown helped them in their careers.

“Georgetown gave me the opportunity to be involved with various political events and organizations in D.C.,” Republican Sean Bielat (COL ’97), who is currently seeking to represent Massachusetts’ fourth district, said. “It offered me an exposure to policy and politics as an undergrad.”

This proximity can also spark interest from students who did not have a previous concern for politics, according to Vice President for Federal Relations Scott Fleming (SFS ’72).

“Lots of people who come to Georgetown without that [interest in politics] sort of get bitten by the political bug because they’re here,” he said.

Filemon Vela (COL ’85), who is running in Texas’ 34th district, cited Georgetown’s emphasis on service as a reason for his campaign.

“Back … in the early ’80s, I thought about running for Congress. Then, I started practicing law, helping my clients and never thought about it again until one day at the end of last year, when a group of friends convinced me it was time to step out from behind the scenes and become a full-time public servant,” he said.

“I’ve been serving my community ever since I got out of school one way or another and look forward See CONGRESS, A5

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THE VERDICT

EDITORIALS

GUSA Executive Excels The Georgetown University Student Association struggles with a fundamental image problem: No matter its efforts to communicate, GUSA’s constituents rarely appreciate the limitations of its power, making it difficult for students to fairly evaluate GUSA leaders.

Eight months after winning an election marked by the highest voter turnout in GUSA history, President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vice President Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) have excelled within the GUSA framework.

They have worked to accomplish the spirit and substance of much of their campaign platform and have an optimistic outlook for further progress in the remainder of their term. For that, they deserve students’ gratitude.

Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount ran on a platform that featured both specific policy goals and general priorities, specifically those involving Jesuit values and social justice. One of these promises was to improve diversity, both throughout the university and within GUSA. The pair appealed directly to student groups to generate a wide selection of senate candidates, and their efforts helped produce a senate with greater diversity, both in terms of gender, race and more general student experiences. This is an important accomplishment, and it should improve GUSA’s legitimacy and governing effectiveness.

More generally, the executive has also made valiant strides in areas such as student research, sustainability and recognition of the LGBTQ campus community. Although improvements to these aspects of campus life have often gone on behind the scenes, GUSA’s less-visible activity should not go underappreciated.

But many of the central components of Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount’s platform have yet to be implemented, including changes to the Code of Student Conduct, increased student space for arts and athletics and improved dining options. Though we understand that funding issues, university bureaucracy and myriad other difficulties may have contributed to these delays, those problems were foreseeable in the spring. Candidates for the GUSA executive — Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount included — have long been guilty of making promises that can rarely be kept.

A centerpiece of the Gustafson and KohnertYount platform was continued work toward reforming the Code of Student Conduct. The

GUSA senate and executive have been right to prioritize this issue, and their efforts have epitomized the potential of advocacy in the absence of actual legislative authority. While we questioned the effectiveness of GUSA’s nonbinding “clear and convincing” referendum, the overarching interest that the student organization has displayed in defending student justice fulfills one of its highest callings. But the called-for change — raising the burden of proof in the Code of Student Conduct from “more likely than not” to “clear and convincing” — has been stalled as it works its way through the quagmire that is the university’s bureaucratic process. We applaud the GUSA executive’s advocacy for this policy, but it is not a change that the student association can be expected to bring about on its own.

Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount’s campaign platform also featured statements like, “We will work to improve lighting at Yates and establish new exercise facilities on east campus,” and “Our executive will help to … create an east campus Grab ‘n’ Go.” There’s nothing to show for these ambitions, though again, this is less a failure of the executive’s governing than it is the campaigning trends of GUSA candidates in general.

GUSA is in a position to lay the seeds for progress and apply pressure to those who can deliver it, but students who read these campaign promises are led to assume that their votes could bring about a much speedier change than is possible. It’s not just the fault of the Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount ticket — all candidates for GUSA must be clear and honest with the voters about the limitations of GUSA’s abilities.

As the executive moves forward in its term, Georgetown students should take a greater interest and a more active role in the promotion and implementation of the Social Innovation and Public Service Fund and other Student Activities Fee Endowment Reform initiatives. These initiatives could make significant strides in student life, and students should throw their full support behind them.

The executive under Gustafson and KohnertYount has, by and large, been a success thus far. GUSA is less about individual administrations’ agendas than it is about continued progress over time, and students should be satisfied that their student government is currently in the hands of proven leaders.

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Top Dollar — Georgetown made CampusGrotto’s annual list of the 100 Most Expensive Colleges, ranking No. 39 — the highest of any D.C. university.

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College Town Crowned — Georgetown topped the Princeton Review’s list of best college towns. The District dominated the top 10, which included American University and The George Washington University.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ... @GeorgetownMet Oct. 5 Great service and a huge asset to the community RT @thehoya GERMS will celebrate three decades of service this October. @YupitsTate

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Strengthen Weekend GUTS We’re all tired of hearing about the muchbemoaned institutionalized “bubble” around the Hilltop, and expanding the GUTS bus service offers a clear solution to this problem.

Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle buses are a free and convenient service for students, faculty and staff on a campus that is otherwise lacking in travel accommodations. GUTS bus schedules are designed with commuters in mind, but they should also take into account the social and academic needs of the majority demographic on the Hilltop: undergraduates.

The lack of a Metro stop near campus makes this accommodation not just a luxury but a necessity. Beyond GUTS, the university community’s current access to public transportation is limited to the Circulator, which runs down M Street and Wisconsin Avenue to a small selection of areas throughout the

District. The popular G2 bus route was discontinued last spring due to construction on O and P Streets, and its return is delayed because of shift difficulties with bus drivers.

GUTS buses already run to a variety of locations in the city, and weekday service does an adequate job meeting the needs of graduate students, professors and staff who live outside the Georgetown area. However, these buses run only midday Saturday and never on Sundays. Georgetown should begin running weekend GUTS routes to — at a minimum — Dupont Circle and Rossyln.

Even with GUTS, access to public transportation from the Hilltop is limited. There is an effective campus bus service already in place, and it is only fair that it be utilized to its full potential with the needs of all members of the Georgetown community in mind.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012

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VIEWPOINT • Smith

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CONTEMPLATION IN ACTION

Studying in Ghana Faith, Sexuality in Harmony Illuminates Life in US T S ixty percent of Georgetown students will study abroad over the course of their Georgetown career. This statistic speaks toward the educational experience of our university as well as the mindset of our student body — we are a community that not only receives a globally conscious education, but also recognizes the immense privilege we have to complement our education with a study abroad experience. And as the numbers show, we don’t just recognize this opportunity, we seize and embrace it.

Sophomore year, I started to map out regions of the world that I believed would endow me with the most rewarding study abroad experience. Having traveled to the South Pacific, Western Europe and East Asia, I decided to consider a region that I had yet to encounter. My eventual choice — Ghana — seemed to have everything that I wanted to get out of a study abroad experience.

Ghana would contribute to my academics as an English major with a primary concentration in cultural studies. West African culture was something completely foreign to me. It’s a culture with rich traditional qualities juxtaposed against political and social issues — at least through the lens of Western media — and I was eager to immerse myself in this perplexing situation.

On an experiential level, I wanted to know what it was like to live in the Third World and to get away from the many luxuries and privileges I enjoy in the United States. There was something transcendental about going to the motherland and “roughing it” to learn more about myself.

I was also drawn to West Africa because of my racial background. As an African American whose ancestors were slaves, I know that a core piece of my cultural identity derives from the continent of Africa. And even though time, the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery distorted and transmuted the traditional African culture into the culture I claim today, I hoped that, on some level, my West African cultural experience could help me understand myself as an American member of the African diaspora.

So, I’ve been here in Ghana for over two months. What have I done, and what have I learned? I usually respond with short and sweet answers: I caught malaria and was cured, I traveled to Kumasi and learned about the Asante Kingdom, I climbed a mountain in the Likpe area of the Volta Region and fell off of it and so on. But on a deeper note, it really isn’t these extraordinary circumstances that have taught me the greatest lessons.

Rather, it’s the ordinary day-to-day living that has influenced me the most. I’ve learned that going without luxuries such as clean water, electricity, stoves and microwaves doesn’t hinder one’s standard of living. I now understand that even though a person may live in poverty by Western standards, he or she may not live an impoverished life. I have learned that it makes absolutely no sense for it to cost a person hundreds of dollars for a doctor’s appointment in the United States when it costs under $20 U.S. dollars for an overnight stay in a hospital in Ghana to get treated for malaria.

I’ve learned that we live in a culture where the emphasis is placed on the development of the individual. Although we may belong to certain communities, we tend only to sacrifice for the sake of the community as long as it does not inconvenience us significantly. This sense of individualism causes us to constantly focus on personal progress, which takes away from the time we have to appreciate the lives we are living in the present while perpetuating an unhealthy and stressful lifestyle.

My time in Ghana has taught me many things, but these lessons have only more deeply reified a truth of my humanity: As a Georgetown student, I have been blessed with many privileges, luxuries and opportunities, but in order for me to truly claim the epithet of a man for others, I must also embrace the fact that these blessings are not solely an entitlement for me to enjoy. Rather, they are gifts that I should use to better the lives of others.

GEORGE SMITH is a junior in the College.

AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT...

Vatican II Legacy Felt Fifty Years Later A

t a university, ideas matter. Here on and allow them to take shape.

For example, the council acknowledged the Hilltop, we have the privilege of learning about and wrestling the goodness of other faith traditions and with ideas that have percolated across the paths to salvation outside the Catholic ages. We do this in conversation with great Church. The decrees called for renewed diathinkers of the past and fellow students and logue with Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hinteachers of the present. In this community of dus and Buddhists. Taking the council at its scholars, we express an idea so that we can word, Fr. Gerard Campbell, S.J., president of really understand it, for it is only when we Georgetown in the years immediately followspeak or write what is dancing in our heads ing the council, hired our first rabbi — not simply to serve Jewish students, as he said, that we truly make an idea our own.

Borrowing from ancient pedagogy, the but to help Christian students understand first Jesuit schools back in the 1500s insisted who Jesus was as a Jew. In another document, the council re-imagon eloquentia perfecta. When striving for perfection of eloquence in writing, speech ined the role of the laity in the Church and and performance, we grow in depth of affirmed their gifts and their duty to serve thought and imagination. Eloquentia perfec- both the Church and related institutions. ta is also practical. Jesuit education is rooted Before Vatican II, Georgetown was mostly in the conviction that ideas should have an governed and administered by Jesuits. Today, effect in our world. The more well reasoned Georgetown enjoys the many benefits of havand persuasively expressed those ideas, the ing both Jesuit and lay leaders laboring side more effective they will be. In this way, learn- by side.

Finally, Vatican II reinterpreted the ing becomes important not simply for its Church’s commitments to human dignity own sake but for the sake of others. and the common good This fall marks the for the modern age. That 50th anniversary of the social justice is ingrained opening of the Second in the culture of the Vatican Council. Soon Hilltop is testament to after his election as pope, the lasting inspiration of John XXIII surprised the these ideas. They persist Church and the world because they are continuby calling a council to ally adapted to meet conreflect on the Church’s crete human needs, like role in the modern the deficiencies of public world. While upholding education in the District, the ancient tradition Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. the injustices that miof the Church, he also grants face and the disspoke of aggiornamenVatican II reinterpreted the parity of access to health to, updating Church care here and abroad. teachings to meet the Church’s commitments Today’s undergradupressing needs of people for the modern age. ates were born after both inside and outside 1990, and many do not the Catholic Church. In know what Vatican II is, the fall of 1962, about 2,500 bishops and scores of observers — lay something I am reminded of each semester persons, theologians and representatives of when I teach “Church in the 21st Century”. other faith traditions — gathered in Rome. Yet, they have an openness to learn about the The council, which met annually each fall, council and are often pleasantly surprised by what they read. In a sense, they have been livwould not close until December 1965.

Vatican II was an incubator and laboratory ing the spirit of the council their whole lives, for ideas both old and novel. For four years, regardless of their faith tradition. Their expeideas were proposed, tested, validated, chal- rience confirms the resilience of ideas that lenged and reshaped. What happened at they are just coming to know themselves for the council has profoundly affected life at the first time.

Over the next four years, Georgetown will Georgetown. We live out the council’s hopes in our commitment to vibrant inter-religious explore in a variety of forums the meaning dialogue and understanding, in our forma- of Vatican II for us today. The great council tion of lay leadership in the Church, in our reminds us that ideas really matter and have preparation of worship that invites full and an effect. So here at Georgetown, as in deactive participation, in our prayerful and cades past, the Church will do its thinking, thoughtful theological reflection on current and each of us will contribute something issues and in our nurturing a faith that does to the river of tradition in which we wade, justice. As Georgetown professor Fr. John whose currents are the very ideas that matO’Malley, S.J., reminds us, the council is sig- ter to us all. nificant not only because of what it taught but how it taught. The open, inviting, hum- Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., is the vice president ble, inspirational and engaging style of the for mission and ministry. He is one of the alcouncil served to ferment those great ideas ternating writers for AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT…,

his column is the first time I acknowledge my sexuality in a public record. From here on out, alea iacta est — “the die is cast.” There can be no return, and I feel entirely at peace.

Do not interpret the above to say I dedicate myself forevermore to the mantle of this single identity. I am so much more than “gay.” I grow every day in friendships, experiences and my Catholic faith. As I go to class, chat with friends and climb the endless crystal stair that is the journey to adulthood, I often forget that my experience of sexuality differs from the norm.

But now and then there are reminders: a wedding party leaving Dalghren Chapel; toddlers running around Healy Circle, pursued by doting parents who look just like them; a religious or political leader on campus or on the television proclaiming blandly — as if to take the high ground — the need for “tolerance.”

Advocates around the country are fighting for the rights of LGBTQ people — human rights, my rights, enshrined in options that are just as good. Yet when I came out as gay and Catholic in November of my freshman year, I asked myself a question whose answer still evades me: Will I ever be able to live my life in the Catholic faith without fear or reservation?

But if there is one thing that more than six years of Jesuit education have taught me, it is that no man or woman on a journey of faith should ever cease to ask this question. The inner struggle to contemplate God’s will for humanity and your place within it is the highest form of faith. To substitute uncertainty with another’s interpretation of the truth is a sign of weakness, not strength.

Every Catholic outside the heterosexual binary is faced with a choice: Hide your identity and experience the sacraments in the knowledge that you do so with a divided soul or live as you were created but find yourself excised from many church ministries and the sacrament of marriage.

Georgetown ought to be a leader in redefining the debate over marriage equality as viewed through the Catholic lens. On Thursday, members of Georgetown Pride stepped up to this task by joining 12 peer Jesuit universities in a letter-writing campaign urging the Church to reinterpret its stance on marriage and promote the integration of LGBTQ students at Catholic institutions.

This effort is rooted in faith, not politics, and its objective is rooted in love, not a zero-sum game of progress for the sake of progress.

Nate Tisa

If heterosexual love is a calling, homosexual love can be no different.

The Catholic Church teaches adherents from an early age that God grants each of us logic and a moral compass for a reason. We read in the New Testament, “If our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God.” If heterosexual love is a calling, homosexual love can be no different. As GU Pride’s recent letter concludes, “We can’t now be told that our hearts are somehow faulty measures of His will.”

Let me be clear: I do not support marriage equality for the egotistic reason that a New York courtroom fails to meet my stylistic threshold for a future marriage.

My “coming out” did not mean I immediately became an activist for equality in that right or rite.

Rather, at the time I believed I had to sacrifice the possibility of marriage and children in order to preserve my integrity and hold my head high without shame. Yet eventually this concept of sacrifice lost its validity. When I reflect on love I do not hear or feel or see God say, “Oops. You’re a unit of one.”

Our generation will never see a day go by when there are not those who claim that this perspective is unadulterated relativism, that homosexuality is the product of mental illness or misplaced Freudian affection. Such perspectives are on the wrong side of history and will only continue to be disproven with time. I have no words to persuade anyone otherwise: Baby, we were born this way.

Therefore, I conclude with a few lines from the landmark play “Inherit the Wind.” Henry Drummond, regarded as a heretic for his defense of evolution against famed preacher Matthew Harrison Brady, says of his opponent after the trial, “A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost.

Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.” To which cynical reporter E. K. Hornbeck replies, “You hypocrite! You fraud! You’re more religious than he was!”

Like Brady, it is the status quo element in the Church hierarchy that has lost its faith in the living God, not the majority of lapsed Catholics. Traditionalists are so confident in their moral authority that they fail to acknowledge the hand of God working social change through those on the margins of society.

This world and this university need the Church, now and a hundred years from now. Society is changing, and God is in that change — do not reject it.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.

Nate Tisa is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is speaker of the GUSA senate. CONTEMPLATION IN ACTION appears every other Friday.

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VIEWPOINT • Riordan

To Leo’s Workers: ‘We Hear You’

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pon returning to Georgetown this August, many students found themselves disappointed with the changes in service offered at O’Donovan Hall. I immediately noticed a change in the variety of food that was offered, including the number of healthy food options. Students are frustrated with these changes and feel ignored by the organization responsible for these changes: Aramark, the company that manages Leo’s.

Some of my favorite food options were altered, like the wrap station and salad bar, and no sufficient explanation was offered for why these changes were made. It has become harder to make healthy eating choices when dining at Leo’s, and while talking with friends and other students, I have found that my experience and dissatisfaction has been felt across the board.

Aramark has signs proclaiming, “We Hear You,” yet I know few students who feel their voices have been heard. I had a conversation with a manager that failed to shed any light on the changes. “We Hear You 2.0” is a step in the right direction, but it still fails to address all of the concerns that students have brought

to Aramark’s attention.

Many workers at Leo’s — people who take great pride in serving good food that students enjoy — have expressed deep concern about the quality of the food they have been asked to serve lately. Leo’s employees have spoken up against unfair working conditions, as well as student complaints. I worked with UniteHERE Local 23 this past summer, and I saw food service workers at various D.C. universities express this care and concern for students and our dining experience. I frequently heard workers refer to students as “their kids,” and proclaim that they would never serve food they wouldn’t eat themselves or serve to their families. These examples reflect the unique position food service workers have to advocate on behalf of students for the fresh and healthy food they deserve.

Giving workers more control over the food they prepare gives power to the people most concerned with the quality of students’ food. And allowing them to prepare more food from scratch will give students fresher, healthier food options. This idea is reflected in UniteHERE’s “Real Food Real Jobs” campaign,

which focuses on the connection between fair, just jobs and fair, just food and the importance of having both in our dining halls.

In order for students to enjoy the food we deserve, we need workers who are given full-time hours as well as the training and resources necessary to prepare fresh, delicious food. I would like to see the goals of the “Real Food Real Jobs” campaign realized at Georgetown, which would reflect Georgetown’s Jesuit values and commitment to social justice. This is an opportunity for Georgetown students to stand up and ask that these values be upheld in all of the university’s actions, especially those that impact the lives of students and employees.

What is apparent from this situation is the need for students and workers to form and sustain a community where we stand in solidarity and advocate for all of our rights. In doing so, we have the power to effect real change and bring better food and better jobs to our campus.

ERIN RIORDAN is a sophomore in the College. She is a member of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee.

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Cancer Center Opens Facility in Southeast DC GUTHRIE ANGELES Special to The Hoya

Georgetown University Medical Center’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center opened its new Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research in Southeast D.C. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Councilmember David Catania and Georgetown University President John J. DeGoia attended the ceremony, among other university and district health officials.

Located at 1000 New Jersey Ave. SE, the new office will be led by cancer epidemiologist Lucile Adams-Campbell and will focus on reducing cancer-related and other health disparities among the underserved and ethnic minority populations in the city.

She defined health disparity as any inequality in treatment or services resulting from race, gender, physical or mental disabilities, occupation, age or education.

“Our focus is on addressing healthy lifestyles to prevent and control cancer,” AdamsCampbell said. “We know we have high sedentary populations, which results in high obesity. We’re focusing on nutrition and diet. If we can just improve the lifestyles of the community we serve, we can make a difference.”

Louis Weiner, director of the Lombardi Center, emphasized the importance of having a research center in an underserved area of the District.

“The District of Columbia has one of the highest cancer mortality rates in the nation, and racial and ethnic disparities in the cancer burden are pronounced, particularly among African-Americans,” Weiner said. “With this wonderful new office, we can more effectively partner in cancer prevention efforts within the community and engage underserved populations and identify and remove barriers to care.”

Gray also pointed out the systemic inequities in health care availability within the

different parts of the city.

“We had, at last count, somewhere near 750 primary care physicians in the District of Columbia,” Gray said. “But when you go east of the [Anacostia River] in Wards 7 and 8, where 140,000 people live, there are something like 35 or 40 primary care physicians who actually practice.

It’s a dramatic illustration of the additional investments that we need to make.”

The new research office is part of GUMC’s effort to resolve healthcare inequities in the community and is funded by a $6.1 million grant from the National Institute of Health.

DeGioia lauded the center as an extension of Georgetown’s partnership with the District of Columbia.

“This office adds a new dimension to the range of partnerships, services and collaborations between our university and our city, ensuring that the science that is pursued by Georgetown researchers and faculty is accessible across our city,” he said.

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and University President John J. DeGioia attended the ribboncutting ceremony for the new facility, which will research health disparities among minority groups.

Students Launch National Network for Gender Acceptance EMMA HINCHLIFFE Hoya Staff Writer

The Catholic Association of Students for Equality, a nationwide organization founded by Georgetown students with the mission of promoting acceptance of all sexual orientations on Catholic college campuses, was launched Thursday.

CASE members announced the formation of their group in an open letter Thursday.

“We were … raised with Catholic values. We were taught to believe in family, love and commitment. To work to ensure respect, inclusion and human dignity,” the letter read.

“Therefore, it is only natural that as we grew into adults we would apply these values to how we viewed our LGBTQ identities. … We have an expe-

rience, a viewpoint given to us by our creator as LGBTQ Catholics, which needs to be shared.”

Founder Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) said that CASE has three main goals: to create a network for pride groups on Catholic campuses, reach out to Catholic schools that do not have recognized pride groups and raise awareness of pride groups’ roles on Catholic campuses.

“Being at the intersection of LGBTQ and Catholic values is a precarious place to be and difficult to navigate,” Lloyd said.

Lloyd developed the idea for CASE over the summer when he realized that he could not find LGBTQ voices in Catholic discourse on a national level.

“As a student, I know that at Georgetown we have a strong LGBTQ voice,”

he said. “I thought, ‘How do I get all the other Catholic campuses to share their stories with the nation?’”

He began the project by emailing pride organizations at other Catholic and Jesuit colleges and universities and received an enthusiastic response.

CASE co-founder and THE HOYA staff writer Esteban Garcia (SFS ’15) attended the National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference at College of the Holy Cross during the summer to work with other Jesuit student leaders during the founding process. He gauged student and institution interest, ultimately forming a partnership with seven of the CASE member schools.

“From the beginning, we wanted to give gay Catholic students a voice,” García said. “It was to let the Catholic

Church that we are here, and we are queer. We do exist, we are on these campuses. We are Catholic, and we support equality for all Americans.”

Current members of CASE include pride groups at Santa Clara University, DePaul University, Loyola University Maryland, Loyola Marymount University, Fordham University, Boston College and the College of the Holy Cross, according to Lloyd.

Over the next semester, Lloyd hopes to expand CASE’s membership to more regions of the country and begin networking between member schools.

According to Lloyd, CASE members are not all Catholic.

“By raising awareness, we want to fight the idea that recognizing groups on a Catholic campus is in conflict with Catholic values,” he

said. “The argument just isn’t true.

Not only are they not incompatible, but for LGBTQ people [at a Catholic school], it is important to be in line with Catholic values.”

CASE is entirely student run and has no affiliation with Georgetown’s LGBTQ Center. However, GU Pride will contribute resources to assist smaller, non-recognized pride organizations at other schools.

“I am a lesbian and Catholic, and this is near and dear to my heart,” GU Pride President Meghan Ferguson (COL ’15) said. “I really like the idea of connecting student groups across the country. Sometimes it can feel isolating, like you’re the only one. This will get a dialogue going across campuses that don’t have the resources, and we can see how we can support them.”

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GU Pursues Tech In Classroom TECHNOLOGY, from A1 plementing new uses of learning technology,” Groves wrote in an Oct. 10 blog post.

Seeking to foster communication between administrators and the rest of the Georgetown community, Groves plans to create what he calls the Working Group on Technology-Enhanced Learning, a forum for students and faculty to share ideas and provide feedback.

“The students and faculty are the heart of the university. They are the font of innovation. The role of a provost is to provide the environment for both of them to thrive. Successful university initiatives depend on the creativity of students and faculty,” Groves said.

Though Groves was enthusiastic about the increased role of technology in on-campus programs, the university currently has no plans to expand its onlineonly courses.

In this regard, the university lags behind many of its peer institutions, who have more readily incorporated technology into their educational model. Brown, Columbia and Stanford, for exam-

ple, are among a growing number of universities that now offer online courses through Coursera, a startup online education company. According to a Sept. 19 article in The New York Times, online course offerings have become such a sign of prestige that some university presidents feel their reputation will be damaged if they do not offer these programs.

According to Georgetown College Dean Chester Gillis, university administrators are responding to the growing trend with caution.

“We’re not opposed to it. We’re not afraid of it. But if we are going to embrace it, we want to make sure that we are going to do it appropriately and carefully,” he said.

Groves added that any addition of technology to university curricula will be implemented in a manner that is mindful of Georgetown’s approach to education.

“The Georgetown way on this score will be to evaluate when online experiences assist the learning and when they don’t,” he said. “We want to preserve what is special at Georgetown but make it even better.”

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UIS to Reevaluate Blackboard Adam Bacigalupo Special to The Hoya

In response to student comments on the university-wide forum IdeaScale, the administration is in the process of assessing Blackboard’s usefulness and discussing how to improve the online resource.

According to Chief Information Officer Lisa Davis, the university considered updating the site even before a suggestion was posted on IdeaScale last month. The post has received 106 votes since it was first published Sept. 16.

“We know that this has been an area that students are passionate about,” Davis wrote in an email.

Davis added that University Information Services spoke with students at the beginning of the year and was aware of their concerns.

“Blackboard has been discussed in many of our meetings with students on campus, from GUSA President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) to the Tombs’ ‘Meet the CIO’ session in the spring,” she wrote.

UIS created the survey, which opened Oct. 2 and will close on Oct. 11, to allow students to rate their Blackboard experiences.

According to Davis, over 650 students have taken the survey, and the university has contacted Blackboard to begin brainstorming how to improve the resource.

“My deputy and I recently spent the afternoon meeting with Blackboard executives to discuss our current use of the product and how we can better partner to address GU issues or concerns,” she wrote.

Most of students’ complaints have regarded Blackboard’s navigability.

“I think the interface is too confusing, too complicated, [and] it’s just not user-friendly,” Swedian Lie (COL ’13) said. “To get anywhere, you need to go through a lot of pages first.”

Davis said she checks the IdeaScale website weekly and receives notifications when someone posts an idea in the technology section. So far, posts from the site have inspired projects ranging from improving campus WiFi and cell phone reception to adding information to the university’s mobile app.

According to Davis, her goal for Blackboard is to create a studentfriendly tool.

“Ultimately, we want to provide a product that students love to use,” she wrote.

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Alums Seek Spots on Capitol Hill ALUMNI, from A1 to continuing this service [in Congress].”

Fleming also cited the Law Center as contributing to the large number of alumni in Congress, noting its location near the Capitol Building as well as the option it provides students to attend night classes and work on the Hill during the day.

Democrat John Delaney (LAW ’88), who is running to represent Maryland’s sixth district, began his career and made important social bonds during his law school years.

“It was at Georgetown Law where I developed a sense of what I wanted to do with my career and started to put together a plan for becoming an entrepreneur,” he said. “I started my first company with friends I’d made at Georgetown.”

In addition to Bielat, Delaney and Vela, the other new candidates for Congress this election are Lois Frankel (LAW ’73), a Democrat running for Florida’s 22nd district, Hakeem Jeffries (MPP ’94), a Democrat running for New York’s eighth district, Ann McLane Kuster (LAW ’84), a Democrat running for New Hampshire’s second district, Katherine Savers McGovern (LAW ’69), a Democrat running for Texas’ 32nd district and Vernon Parker (LAW ’88), a Republican running for Arizona’s ninth district. Democrat Mazie Hirono (LAW ’78), current representative for Hawaii’s second congressional district, is running for U.S. senator from Hawaii.

Students Continue Protests After Metro Installs Anti-Muslim Ads Carly Cianci

Special to The Hoya

After a U.S. District Judge Mary Collyer ruled that anti-jihad advertisements be immediately installed in D.C. Metro stations last Friday, Georgetown students have launched a protest against the decision.

The anti-Muslim ads, which read, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad,” were paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative.

The Associated Press quoted Da-

vid Yerushalmi, a lawyer representing the AFDI, Oct. 5. “The result is absolutely correct,” Yerushalmi said. “There simply was no way under the First Amendment jurisprudence that we have today that this ad should not have gone up when contracted.”

A petition against the ads created

by Nabeel Zewail (SFS ’15) and Saaliha Khan (COL ’13) has garnered 1,618 signatures since it was first circulated Oct. 1.

“The United States was founded on the principle of tolerance and respect for all faith traditions; therefore, it is important that the

D.C. Metro takes a strong stand,” the petition reads. “[The students of Georgetown University] feel that these ads have no place in the subway system of our nation’s capital.”

The D.C. Subway Commission temporarily postponed the installment of the ads last week in light of the violence incited by the release of “Innocence of Muslims,” a 14-minute video posted on YouTube Sept. 12 that insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

In response, the AFDI sued the D.C. transit system. The case went to the D.C. District Court, where a judge ruled that the postpone-

ment violated the AFDI’s right to free speech. Since then, the advertisements have been posted in four Metro stations, where they will hang for one month.

Zewail said he will continue to work against the installation of the ads despite the court’s ruling.

“Obviously, we are disappointed with the outcome of the case and wished the D.C. Metro would not post these hateful ads, but we are currently planning a response,” Zewail said. “We are focused on two goals: one, to continue to work to try to get the signs down and two, to counter their message of hate

with a positive one about Islam and Muslims.”

Zewail and Khan have tabled in Red Square, advertised on Facebook and solicited the help of the Interfaith Council and the Muslim Students Association to promote their cause.

“I think, as a Catholic and person of faith, it’s important for us to stand up to this no matter what community is scapegoated,” Jordan Denari (SFS ’13), co-president of the Interfaith Council and practicing Catholic, said. “What we are realizing is that it is really our responsibility to step up and address this.”

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GU Expresses Support For Affirmative Action COURT, from A1 son during the admissions process.”

Nonetheless, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon said that Georgetown’s approach to affirmative action actually involves targeting students from low-income backgrounds rather than particular racial backgrounds.

“Philosophically, we support affirmative action, because in a holistic admissions process like ours, many disparate factors about every candidate affect how we review them,” he said. “That said, in practice we think of affirmative action as giving attention to first-generation and low-income students, many of whom come from underrepresented minority groups. So, to some extent we have redefined how we think of affirmative action.”

Reactions from the Georgetown student body about the university’s open

support for affirmative action admissions policies were mixed.

Celia Sawyerr (SFS ’16), a black student originally from Sierra Leone, said that the policy can be problematic regardless of a student’s race.

“I hate that people assume that the only reason I’m here is because I’m black,” Sawyerr said. “And I do think that there’s a certain element in the entire thing that may be very unfair towards majority groups like whites and Asians.”

However, some students, like Dayana Morales (SFS ’16), think that affirmative action policies should be expanded.

“I would like to see universities take gender and not just race more strongly into account when evaluating individuals for admission,” she said. “Affirmative action as now practiced is a good start, a step in the right direction, but in my opinion, it doesn’t go far enough.”

Business School Wins Award for Diversity Penny Hung

Special to The Hoya

The McDonough School of Business received the 2012 Brillante Award for Educational Excellence from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs at a fundraising gala in Orlando, Fla. last Friday.

NSHMBA grants five Brillante awards every year to recognize corporate, educational, membership and volunteer excellence and has honored well known companies such as Sara Lee, State Farm and American Express in the past, according to the official organization website.

This year, other recipients were IBM, Su Casa Hispanic Center, an organization in Cincinnati, Ohio, that provides aid to immigrants, Cosette Gutierrez, a community relations employee at Target and former chairman of the NSHMBA Board of Directors and Julio Rocha, founder of Rocha Financial Group, LLC. “Winning a national award like Brillante

showcases how Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business continues to be at the forefront of business education,” Elaine Romanelli, senior associate dean for MBA programs, said. “We are honored to be among this year’s award recipients.”

The university’s application for the award was submitted by alum Mary Jean Duran (MBA ‘91), an active member of NSHMBA. To be considered for the award, candidate schools must advocate for diverse communities and students, promote representation through a diversity initiative, prepare minority students for future careers and engage in collaborative partnerships that foster recruitment, retention, development and graduation of minority students, according to an MSB press release from Oct. 1.

“Serious and sustained discourse among people of different cultures promotes a deeper understanding of international business,” Romanelli said. “I am proud that our program was recognized for its achievements in the area of diversity.”

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Capital One CFO Gary Perlin (SFS ’72) attributed his career excellence to his experiential training in a speech cosponsored by The Lecture Fund held in Lohrfink Auditorium Tuesday.

Bank CFO Recounts Success Elaina Koros

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Gary Perlin (SFS ’72), chief financial officer of Capital One Bank, discussed the unpredictable trajectory of his career Tuesday evening in Lohrfink Auditorium.

Perlin’s speech was cosponsored

by The Lecture Fund, the School of Foreign Service’s Karl F. Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy, D.C.-based student investment fund Trebizond Investments and Zeeba Investment Group, a student-run markets fund started at Georgetown.

According to Perlin, his undergraduate years at Georgetown were very different from current students’ experiences: They were influenced by the riots that resulted from both the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the response to the Vietnam War. “We started in the ’60s and finished in the ’70s. We saw the end of some things, we walked in on the middle of others and began some ourselves,” Perlin said, quoting the Class of 1973 yearbook. “Surely, we have lived in two different worlds.

Perhaps all can say somewhat the same thing, but no class in recent memory has seen so deep-seated a

metamorphosis.”

While at Georgetown, Perlin pursued a major in International Affairs but did not have a set career path.

“What I never would have imagined was that I would become the treasurer or the CFO of a major financial institution or two or three,” Perlin said. “In fact, I’m pretty sure I didn’t know what a CFO was.”

Perlin studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs before returning to D.C. to work as the chief financial officer of the World Bank. He focused on commodity production in Zambia, Botswana and Peru.

Perlin also served as treasurer of Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored initiative that serves the housing market, for 11 years.

Since 2003, Perlin has served as CFO of Capital One Bank, where he is responsible for accounting and reporting, financial planning, treasury and funding operations, corporate finance and investor relations.

He attributed his success as CFO to his unique perspective of business, which he attained by learning finance through experience instead of a formal financial education.

“I appreciated market forces and their imperfections, and I soon learned in the real world that the dynamics of markets are always idiosyncratic, which means they always need to be learned on the job, regardless of your academic background,” Perlin said.

Perlin encouraged students to seek out opportunities that may not seem apparent at first when establishing a career.

“I wish I could give you a magic formula for building the career you want or think you want, but I can’t,” Perlin said. “I never expected or trained for a career in finance, but careers are like that — they’re serendipitous, and they only make sense in retrospect.”

The event included a questionand-answer session after Perlin’s talk, during which he encouraged students to consider the broad picture of finance, economics and the job market.

Andrew Nader (NHS ’16) said he was impressed by the speech. “[Perlin] informed us through his own experiences that careers are unpredictable, but we must be creative and practice ingenuity in whatever work we find ourselves performing,” he said.

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Community and Diversity

Promote undergraduate research

LGBTQ-friendly checkbox on Charms

Stimulate student involvement with the Provost

Gender-neutral housing initiative

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Update the bias-related reporting system Make GUSA more representative of Georgetown student body

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Georgetown University Chief of Police Jay Gruber met with fellow Washington, D.C., university public safety leaders to discuss solutions to campus crime at a conference at the Capital Hilton last Thursday and Friday.

The Clery Center for Security on Campus, a local nonprofit organization that seeks to decrease instances of rape on college campuses, held the two-day Proceeding in Partnership conference. Leaders from Howard University, Gallaudet University, Georgetown University and The George Washington University convened to discuss approaches for dealing with campus crime.

The conference featured a variety of seminars, including “Threat Assessment and Management: What Campus Leaders Need to Know” and “Stalking on Campus: Understanding Reporting and Investigative Opportunities.”

Gruber praised the Clery Center for its orchestration of the conference.

“The conference was an extremely important resource in emphasizing collaboration with the internal community and constituents at our university as well as to communicate with them on timely issues like alcohol or sexual violence that are taking place on campus,” he said.

Gruber also stressed the substantial role that the Clery Center, which has advocated for the public disclosure of campus crime records, has played in improving awareness about university crime.

“I think that because of the awareness and communication conferences like these have inspired, we see reasons for why crime trending has been slightly lower over the past three years,” Gruber said.

Nonetheless, Gruber stressed that police forces at urban universities like Georgetown face unique challenges in protecting community members.

“We face a tough struggle with off-campus surveillance,” he said. “We can’t protect students the same way once they get closer to M Street.”

Gruber added that the Department of Public Safety has instituted several preventative measures to reduce the risk of theft, including the creation of student focus groups to define best practices and a partnership with the bookstore to sell laptop cable locks.

“We can’t be everywhere, so we really rely on community and public support to ensure Georgetown remains the largely safe environment it currently is,” he said.

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Social justice position in GUSA cabinet Neesha Tambe (COL ’13)

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Though the GUSA executive has accomplished a number of its original campaign platform promises, several goals have not been met.

GUSA Sees Success, Room for Growth GUSA, from A1 in town-gown discussions, Gustafson secured a spot on the Georgetown Community Partnership, a body composed of members of the university and multiple neighborhood groups that is designed to enforce the campus plan.

“I think it’s fair to say that based on what happened this summer [during the campus plan discussions], there were a lot of pressures to not include students in those discussions, so the fact that we are able to get administrators to get Clara and future GUSA presidents on that committee is a big win,” GUSA Chief of Staff Jake Sticka (COL ’13) said.

A Student Impact Committee composed of students, neighbors and administrators was also formed to supplement the community partnership. The committee will discuss issues including the expansion of food truck services, improvement of social life on campus and adjusting

weekend GUTS bus schedules.

Student involvement in designing the New South Student Center also furthered the executive’s goal to increase the role students play in university initiatives.

“I think student involvement in the design of a building on campus has been unprecedented … partly because they donated money [through the student activities fee],” Gustafson said. “I think it sets a precedent for other buildings that we may not donate money … but that we have a stake in it.”

The executive has also made progress in its efforts to enhance students’ relationships with administrators.

A new standing student committee composed of both undergraduate and graduate students will meet regularly with Provost Robert Groves to discuss ways to improve intellectual life on campus. Gustafson said the committee marks an important cornerstone for establishing direct communication between students

and the administration According to GUSA Senate Speaker Nate Tisa (SFS ’14), the current GUSA administration has sparked widespread engagement from the student body.

“I definitely detect a shift of GUSA’s role in moving toward the center of a lot of student advocacy issues, which is something a lot of students want to be part of and view as legitimate,” he said.

Despite these achievements, Gustafson and Kohnert-Yount still have unfulfilled initiatives.

The executive has expressed frustration over the university’s slow response to GUSA’s proposal to form an Office of Sustainability.

“At first we thought we were going to get a green light … and we kind of got a yellow light,” Kohnert-Yount said. “It might not happen during our administration, but some form of it might. … We will take steps in that direction.”

Gustafson attributed the univer-

sity’s inaction to the shortage of data on sustainability at Georgetown.

“When we wanted [to create] an Office of Sustainability, that’s a very huge issue,” Gustafson said. “I think the university just doesn’t quite know where we stand [on] these things.”

Other unmet goals include the expansion of Grab ‘n’ Go options and improving facilities for artistic and athletic student groups.

For the remainder of their term, the pair said it will focus on improving on-campus life as it takes steps to implement recommendations from the Student Life Report, particularly the initiative to establish a universal system for students to book space.

Kohnert-Yount looks forward to her remaining months in office with enthusiasm.

“We’re at a unique moment in Georgetown’s history where there’s a lot of momentum for important issues, and I’m really excited to be part of it,” she said.

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After 25 Years, Women’s and Gender Studies Looks Forward Caitlin Casey

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The Women’s and Gender Studies Program, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last Saturday, is looking to expand its size and scope in the coming years.

The celebration included a reception and a panel, titled “Building Feminist Futures,” which featured six of the field’s most prominent scholars from multiple academic institutions.

“It was an incredibly exciting occasion for feminists to meet, challenge and celebrate each other,” WGST Program Director You-Me Park said.

The panel and round-table discussions aimed to provoke discussions about feminist thought and movements over the past 20 years, according to Park.

It also provided an opportunity for participants to reflect on the role of WGST in promoting feminism on campus.

Monica Vizconde (COL ’14), an event coordinator who changed her major to women’s and gender studies after taking an introductory course in the subject, emphasized the unique perspective the program offers.

“WGST allows you to see the world through a different lens,” Visconde said.

“Rather than just looking at political courses of action, we explore deeper issues.”

WGST was born out of the Women’s Studies Program, which first began offering a minor in the fall of 1992. Since then, the program’s name changed to Women’s and Gender Studies, and it is now one of the largest interdisciplinary,

cross-cultural programs at Georgetown.

WGST currently offers a major and minor to students in the College, while students in the School of Foreign Service can earn a WGST certificate.

Approximately 500 students participate in the program’s courses and roughly 20 to 30 students with either a major or minor in women’s and gender studies every year, according to Park.

Park said that the majority of WGST students are female, and WGST is still a program, not a department. Because of this, WGST receives less university funding than other majors, which limits the scale of events it can organize and the quality of its courses and faculty.

“This program gives me a home, and it saddens me that the program itself does not have a stable one. The fact

that professors in the program do not qualify for tenure scares me. We have already lost great professors because of this,” Bonnibel Rosario (COL ’15) wrote in an email. “When I come back to Georgetown as an alumna in three years, I want to see the professors who guided me guiding other students and see Georgetown as a place that embraces their mentorship.”

Madeline Wiseman (COL ’13), who also helped coordinate the event, added that growth and greater awareness about the program are crucial.

“When I say I am a WGST major, I usually get looks of confusion — even contempt,” she said. “But if people took a look at the importance of the issues we study in the context of their own lives, they might not dismiss it so quickly.”

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Lowrance, Georgetown Hoyas Avoid Midweek Trap Look for Road Revival EAGLES, from A12

Will Edman

Special to The Hoya

The slumping Georgetown volleyball team (6-12, 0-5 Big East) packs its bags for Pennsylvania and south Florida this weekend, hoping to earn its first Big East victory of the season against Pittsburgh (11-9, 2-4 Big East) and South Florida (10-9, 2-4 Big East).

The Hoyas — who have lost 11 games in a row after starting the season 5-1 — have lost their last four matches in four-set fashion.

Head Coach Arlisa Williams suggested that the competitiveness the Blue and Gray has shown in recent matches indicates that the end of its slide is just a step or two away.

“This team is getting stronger and stronger,” Williams said. “We know as a group that we haven’t put together a complete match in a while. We’re missing something, and we’re trying to chase that something.”

Georgetown has had recurring difficulties this season both playing consistently throughout matches and finishing off close games.

Junior setter Haley Lowrance recognized that she and her teammates must fix these problems in order to turn things around.

“There’s no specific volleyball skill that we’re lacking in, but we’ve had trouble finishing, whether [that’s] terminating balls [from sets] or playing all the way through points,” Lowrance said. “We also need more consistency, because we can go out and pass and hit really well during one set and then completely break down in the next set.”

While there is no easy method to fix these issues, Williams said that the players have worked hard in practice this week, putting in extra hours in the gym in order to develop into a winning team.

“The players are always asking for more reps and watching video,” Williams said.

“Practice has gone really well this week. We’ve had some really good moments and seen some great swings. Haley has set an excellent week of practice.”

Lowrance is ranked third in the Big East with 11.07 assists per set and 742 total assists.

Her 26 service aces also rank fifth in the con-

ference. However, Lowrance believes that her leadership role as the setter is more important than any statistical performance.

“I’m the only player on the court for every point, so I have to be vocal and consistent,” Lowrance said. “I’m the liaison between the offense and the defense. I tell the passers what I need from them, and then I tell the hitters what we’re going to do.”

Tha meant Georgetown experienced a major scare on Saturday against Villanova, when Lowrance suffered a head-on collision with sophomore libero MacKenzie Simpson.

Due to her unique role, the Hoyas could not afford to lose Lowrance. Luckily, the injury did not turn out to be a serious one, and she only missed one point.

Lowrance noted that the only lasting effect was mild head pain and joked when asked about her condition.

“Even though my head hurts, it’s actually helped me have better accuracy in practice,” Lowrance said. “Coach said that I should have been hit in the head a long time ago. We’re looking to communicate better, though, so [that] a situation like that doesn’t happen again.”

Pittsburgh, who employs a crafty and unique offensive game plan, is coming off of a 3-2 win against Rutgers in its last outing. Two days later in South Florida, Georgetown will face a Bulls squad with a first-year coach in Courtney Draper.

Williams said that the Blue and Gray will be prepared for tough battles against both squads, but due to a successful week of practice and a resilient group of players, she believes that this may finally be the weekend when the Hoyas earn their first Big East victory.

“I will love this team for a very long time,” Williams said. “We’ve lost a lot of games, but the players come back to practice every single day wanting to improve, leaving it on the floor, working hard, making minor adjustments, and they just won’t quit.”

The matchup in Pittsburgh is scheduled for 5 p.m. tonight, while the game against South Florida will start at 2 p.m. in Tampa.

football

Mountain Hawks Bring Long Streak to Hilltop HAWKS, from A12 ranked,” Kelly said. “They’ve won 16 conference games in a row.”

In another daunting list to overturn, Georgetown has lost 11 straight games to Lehigh. In fact, their last win over the Mountain Hawks came in 1925, when Calvin Coolidge was president and gas was 20 cents a gallon.

And last season, the Blue and Gray’s best in more than a decade, Lehigh thwarted Georgetown’s bid for the Patriot League title.

“Coach Cohen has done a terrific job there,” Kelly said. “They do a great job in all three phrases. [But] I really feel we can win this game.”

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Sophomore Stephen Skon, shown here against Brown, will start again Saturday.

That means the Hoyas will have to clamp down on defense and complement the big tackle numbers put up by senior linebacker Robert McCabe and junior defensive back Dustin Wharton.

“We gave up some big plays on defense [against Fordham]. I really feel that if we score 31 points, we should win the football game,” Kelly said. “The offense didn’t finish, but neither did the defense.”

Also key for a win tomorrow will be more progress running the ball, something Skon and junior running back Nick Campanella did well in New York.

“Defensively, I like the game plan we’re going into the game with,” Kelly said. “Offensively, we’ve been able to run the football, and if we can do that, [we can] control the game and keep their offense off the field.”

Getting on track after two disheartening losses was always going to be a difficult task, and it will be even harder to get past Lehigh. However, Kelly thinks the team — which will be led by Skon again this week — is mentally up for the challenge.

“We have a lot of incentive, and actually, we’ve had our best week of practice that we’ve had this year,” Kelly said.

As one way of motivating his squad, Kelly pointed to the fact that Georgetown and Lehigh posted similar scores against their two common opponents — Fordham and Princeton — as evidence that the Hoyas are in the hunt.

“In our league, from top to bottom, there isn’t a whole lot of difference,” Kelly said. “It’ll be a barnburner, just like all our games.”

Kickoff against Lehigh is set for 1 p.m. tomorrow at MultiSport Facility.

one in the first 45 minutes of play.

The second tally of the day would come just after the break, though, as Allen beat a defender one-on-one before burying the ball into the back of the net in the 48th minute.

That score would prove to be the final, as the Blue and Gray snapped its two-game skid in decisive fashion.

And while he may not have had the busiest day back, the return of sophomore goalkeeper Tomas Gomez from a shoulder injury was a welcome sight. With Gomez on the sidelines, Georgetown experienced a tough stretch, going 3-2 after having started the season at a torrid 7-0-1.

“It’s awesome [being back],” Gomez, who had three saves on the day, said afterwards. “It sucked sitting out the last two weeks, but I’ve been doing rehab really well and just [been] trying to get back after it.”

“For him to be available today is exciting for us,” Wiese said of Gomez. “He’s important. He didn’t have a whole lot to do today, but I think he handled all his business pretty comfortably. Having someone like that behind you gives you a lot of confidence, for sure.”

Besides having Gomez back between the pipes, Tuesday’s shutout should provide an-

other confidence boost for the Hoyas, who dominated the center of the field thanks in large part to standout performances from senior midfielder Ian Christianson and junior midfielder Joey Dillon.

Wiese noted that his side’s performance was hardly perfect, but he was nonetheless proud of the strong leadership that upperclassmen like Christianson and Dillon demonstrated in the win.

Gomez was likewise happy with what his team showed in bouncing back against the Mountain Hawks.

“It’s good to have one of these games to get back into it, because we’ve got a top-five opponent on Saturday,” he said.

That top-five opponent, of course, is the Golden Eagles (12-0-0, 3-0-0 Big East), who ended Connecticut’s undefeated season in Milwaukee last Saturday and now sit atop the conference standings.

So, after having lost its only two games against top-10 foes thus far, the Blue and Gray need the third time to be the charm tomorrow afternoon at home. Four games remain on the schedule, and a win in each is more or less essential to secure a berth in the Big East semifinals.

“From a Big East point of view, I think it’s as big as they come, [especially] because we didn’t get any points out of

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Junior Steve Neumann, shown here against Connecticut, scored against Lehigh.

Notre Dame and UConn,” Wiese said. “We have to be really good. This is the fun of the Big East, though. This is why we’re in the league. This is what these boys sign up for when they come here.”

Gomez was equally excited about facing the Golden Eagles.

“I’m ready for it,” Gomez said. “It’s going to be a great game, and hopefully we can get on the other end of the result [this time].”

Kickoff in that all-important contest against Marquette is slated for 1 p.m. Saturday at North Kehoe Field. A tailgate is planned before the event.

Fresh out of philly

New Orleans Still Marching On

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n Sunday night, a capacity crowd packed the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans to watch Saints quarterback Drew Brees break Johnny Unitas’ longstanding record of 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass. Among those watching was Brees’ head coach, mentor and best friend, Sean Payton.

Payton is currently serving a one-year suspension from the NFL for his alleged involvement in a bounty system run by the Saints from 2009 to 2011. While details are still being uncovered, Payton has conceded ground, citing the existence of a “pay for performance” system despite avoiding the actual term “bounty.” He was granted permission from commissioner Roger Goodell to attend Sunday’s game under the provision that he remain out of contact with New Orleans’ players and personnel.

Payton was given a luxury box — and plenty of camera time — as he watched his team win its first game of the year in comeback fashion, 31-24, over the San Diego Chargers.

It is easy to say that the 2012 New Orleans Saints season is a throwaway. They’re 1-4 after five weeks — their worst start in five years — and face a brutal schedule for the remainder of the season. Their playoff chances are dim, seeing as only one team in NFL history has made the postseason after an 0-4 start. Atlanta, a division rival, is the only remaining undefeated team in the NFC, and the Saints’ wildcard chances don’t look much brighter.

Since 1990, 77 teams have lost four straight games to open the season. None of those teams, however, has had Drew Brees under center.

The Saints (and Brees) are

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historically at their best when the cards are stacked against them. After losing their home stadium to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, they reached the NFC Championship game a year later and raised the Lombardi Trophy four years after that.

All four losses this year have been one-possession games; the Saints could just as easily be 5-0 right now, and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

Drew Brees has been nothing short of world-class this season.

He is on pace to break his NFL record of 5,476 passing yards set last year and has picked apart defenses with no semblance of

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Sean Payton can only watch as his team fights an uphill battle without him. a running game at his disposal.

Though they’ve been up against some pretty horrid defenses thus far, the Saints have moved up and down the field with an ease seen only in arena football.

If the running game finally comes to life, wins will surely come.

Even if it doesn’t, when your quarterback is in the “6,000 yards in a season” discussion, you have to like your chances.

In the past, aerial displays like those exhibited by Brees were

quelled by defensive adjustments and never-before-seen blitz schemes. But that was then and this is now. This is the era of the quarterback, and Drew Brees is its poster child.

Before every game, Brees huddles his teammates together and launches into a pump-up chant that he learned while visiting the U.S. Marines in 2009. He stands at the center of the circle with his screams echoed by a chorus of teammates around him. The routine ends in intonation, with Brees hollering, “Win!” and the rest of the team answering, “Again!” to the tune of “Win! Again!

Win! Again! Win! Again!” Brees said he believes the chant goes a long way not only in getting psyched up but also in bringing his team together.

A third of the way through the season, the Saints sit at 1-4, while the upstart Arizona Cardinals are a surprising 4-1. If you asked the average football fan which of the two teams had a better chance of reaching the playoffs, he or she would likely tell you New Orleans in a heartbeat. That’s exactly what years of playoff experience and veteran leadership earn you in the NFL — respect and fear from every fan and team around the league.

Sean Payton can only watch as his team fights an uphill battle without him. Now it’s all up to Drew Brees, a synchronized receiving corps and a defense with a reputation for game-changing plays. Can the Saints pull it all together and do as their pregame ritual says? I’d say so: It’s time to win again, and again and again.

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friDAY, october 12, 2012

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HUSKIES, from A12 strong, outshooting Rutgers, 8-5, and dominating the run of play in the first half. Senior forward Annie Wilson got the Hoyas on the board first with a goal less than five minutes in, and that slim advantage held for most of the first half.

A response by the visitors a few minutes before the break, though, sent the teams to the locker rooms knotted at one.

The second 35 minutes were an entirely different story. The Scarlet Knights registered a whopping 18 shots in the period, four of which ultimately found their way into the back of the net. Georgetown, meanwhile, did not get a single shot off and ultimately fell, 5-1.

Senior Night festivities before Georgetown faced Cornell were dampened by the opposite problem. The Hoyas but up two goals in the first half yet only one in the second half.

Despite their improved defense and ball possession in the second, the Blue and Gray still could not get enough going offensively in their eventual 3-1 defeat.

“We just couldn’t put together a full 70 minutes,” Marsh said. “We’re trying to put

together the missing pieces.”

Next up for the Hoyas are back-to-back games this weekend in Connecticut, as they face No. 4 UConn (13-0, 4-0 Big East) Saturday before a Sunday date with Fairfield (7-7, 0-2 America East).

According to Marsh, this week’s practices will focus on the fundamentals as her team prepares to battle the Huskies.

“We’re going to see a new pace, we’re going to see a different style of play [and] we’re going to have to do our basics really well,” Marsh said.

The Huskies are sure to test the Hoyas in all phases of the game, but Marsh noted several shaky wins for Connecticut that give her hope of pulling out the upset.

Less than 24 hours after the final whistle against UConn, Georgetown will take on Fairfield on the Stags’ home field.

“That game is a very winnable game for us if we bring what we can to the table,” Marsh said.

The Hoyas, then, will look to finally put together a couple of complete performances this weekend. They face the Huskies at noon Saturday before a quick turnaround to play Fairfield at 1 p.m. Sunday.

cross country

GU Heads to Louisville Hoping for Return Trip Patrick Musgrave Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown men’s and women’s cross country teams are set to face some of the toughest competition in the country tomorrow at NCAA Pre-Nationals in Louisville, Ky. On the men’s side, the No. 20 Hoyas will have to get past three top-10 teams in No. 3 BYU, No. 7 Colorado and No. 9 Tulsa. Three other teams ranked in the nation’s top 15 will also be in Kentucky this weekend, including a familiar face for Georgetown, No. 12 Villanova.

In addition to being a test against tough competition, this weekend’s meet gives Georgetown a chance to get a trial run over the course where the NCAA championship will be held next month.

“In the past, we haven’t gone to Pre-Nationals as much because the guys knew the course well, but this year, Nationals is at Louisville for the first time in a while, so we felt that it was important to get on the course at Louisville with a large field,” Assistant Coach Brandon Bonsey said.

Georgetown All-American graduate student Mark Dennin — who took first place overall in the Hoyas’ previous outing at Lehigh’s Paul Short Run and was subsequently named Big East cross country athlete of the week — will be withheld from this meet for training and rest purposes.

Front running duties will then likely fall to senior Andrew Springer, who will probably be closely followed by the tandem of senior Ben Furcht and sophomore Collin Leibold.

The four other runners for Georgetown in the race — senior Dylan Sorensen, junior Brian King, sophomore Miles Schoedler and freshman Darren Fahy — will be looking to stay close to Furcht and Leibold in order to minimize the Blue and Gray’s average time and team gap.

“It’s a really strong field; and we’re excited to mix it up with those other top-20 teams, even with holding out Mark [Dennin] and sacrificing a better team performance in the short term in order to have better team performances when it counts in November by keeping our guys fresh,” Bonsey said. “We’re deep enough through our four to 12 runners to make good things happen, but, as always, we have to keep

pulling all the guys on the team up and focus on getting better.”

And if the field for the men’s meet seems deep, that’s nothing when compared to the group of world-beaters that the No. 6 Hoyas will face on the women’s side. That impressive group includes No. 1 Florida State, No. 4 Oregon and No. 8 Michigan.

“At this stage in the game, everybody wants to talk about team matchups and who is beating whom, but we’re not concerned with that,” women’s Head Coach Michael Smith said. “We are going to be a great team in November. I like it when teams are too good in October, because that means we will be the better team in November. So the plan is to just go out there and relax and execute the plan.”

The Blue and Gray will use their trip to the Bluegrass State to debut their top lineup for the first time this year. Seniors Emily Jones, Kirsten Kasper and Rachel Schneider, junior Madeline Chambers and sophomores Katrina Coogan, Annamarie Maag and Hannah Neczypor will all take the course in Louisville.

With no clear frontrunner, the team should be able to finish very close to one another, giving them a shot at a very low team score.

“All seven of those athletes, if they were our number one runner, I wouldn’t be surprised one bit. All seven are good enough athletes and in good enough shape to be the number one runner,” Smith said.

Because Pre-Nationals has approximately the same amount of athletes competing as the National meet, the runners and coaching staff will have the opportunity to observe how the hundreds of participating athletes handle the course, helping Smith and the Hoyas prepare for the end-of-season championships.

“For me, this is all about timing. I don’t think it’s hard to get people in shape. It’s all about getting people in shape at the right time.

We are not a team that trains to win meets at this time in the season,” Smith said. “However we finish, it’s back to work as normal the next week. We will see what we really have in the coming month.”

Despite the focus on the long run, Georgetown will hope for performances that will catapult them back to the River City in 46 days for a chance at the national title.

the fourth quarter has been an average of 17.25 points per season higher at home than on the road.

In simple terms, Denver is a significantly better fourthquarter team when at home than on the road. As opponents become more and more starved for oxygen, the Broncos — who live and breathe that air every day — are unaffected and thus are able to gain an edge.

During the 2011 season, the Broncos were not outscored in the fourth quarter of a single home game. While some fans may point to an alleged “Tebow Effect,” the fourth-quarter phenomenon in Denver is not limited to just last season. In 2010, the Broncos scored 15 more points than their opponents

in the fourth quarter of home games compared to a deficit of 34 points in away games.

Their quarterback that season wasn’t Tebow; rather — for the first 13 games, at least — it was Kyle Orton.

Of the past five seasons, 2008 is the only year in which this trend was not present.

That year, the Broncos were outscored by a combined 30 points in the fourth quarter of home games, a stat that can be accounted for by a large swing in fourth-quarter performance at the end of the season. In two of their last three home games, the Broncos were outscored by 14 points in the final period. With the knowledge we have now that both the head coach and quarterback would be gone by the start of next season, a late-season swoon in performance is no

real surprise, due to a probable lack of motivation to grind out the end of games.

Even as Denver sits at 2-3 in the 2012 season in a weak division with Peyton Manning as quarterback and such a strong home-field advantage, the Broncos have to be the favorite to win the AFC West.

The Broncos have not finished with fewer than four wins since 1982, and in their worst season since then — 2010 — the team reached the fourwin mark because of a fourthquarter comeback. Even in the worst of seasons, the altitude swings games in the Broncos’ favor, always making them a threat to overachieve.

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basketball

New Hoyas Set to Take Stage Pat Curran

Hoya Staff Writer

The senior-less Georgetown men’s basketball team may lack on-court veteran leadership, but nobody can accuse the Hoyas of not prioritizing experience off the court — at Midnight Madness, anyway.

Hip-hop legend Doug E. Fresh, who was breaking ground as a beatbox pioneer back when Hall-of-Famer Patrick Ewing wore the blue and gray, will headline this year’s basketball kickoff celebration tonight at McDonough Arena.

For the uninitiated: Midnight Madness is a tradition celebrated at many highprofile basketball schools, in which teams hold exhibition practices the night before the first day of formal practices, as sanctioned by the NCAA. Over the years, the late-night practices have evolved into schoolsponsored pep rallies, complete with smoke machines, light shows, dunk contests, musical acts and dance performances.

This year’s edition at Georgetown, themed “Kickin’ It Ol’ Skool,” will feature performances from Fresh, Groove

junior point guard Markel Starks are likely candidates, but both have yet to prove they can carry a scoring load.

Tonight’s festivities will also provide most fans with their first look at combo guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera and the rest of the freshmen, at least one of whom is likely to see significant minutes this year.

The women’s team, which also kicks off practice tonight, has a dearth of leadership that makes the men’s situation pale in comparison.

While the Hoyas return three seniors, the loss of seven players to graduation, one to transferring and former head coach Terri WilliamsFlournoy to Auburn has left a team full of question marks.

Star senior guard Sugar Rodgers is the only player left on the roster who played more than 20 minutes per game last season.

Students can pick up wristbands for admission starting at 6:30 p.m., with doors opening 90 minutes later. After the performances, the women’s team will take the court at 9:20 p.m. and the men’s team at 9:45 p.m.

Theory, the GU Step Team and GU Jawani, as well as other “surprise appearances,” according to an athletic department press release.

The identities of the “surprises” remain anyone’s guess, but prominent Hoya alumni are always a good bet: Jeff Green, Roy Hibbert, Greg Monroe and both Patrick Ewing Sr. and Patrick Ewing Jr. showed up last year.

The celebration marks the official beginning of the season for what looks to be another enigmatic Georgetown team. The Hoyas enter practice missing three crucial starters from the previous season — just as they did last year — and will have to rely on major contributions from unproven players once again.

The core of young talent that carried the Blue and Gray to a surprising 24-9 finish last season is back for more, however, and expectations have risen accordingly. Whether this year’s edition can likewise win over critics will largely depend on whether one of last season’s role players can establish himself as a bona fide scoring threat. Sophomore forward Otto Porter and

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Wins Needed as Season Closes IRISH, from A12 this year’s matchup, Nolan isn’t planning to change anything about his game plan or his team’s style of play.

“What it’s going to come down to, I feel, is two good teams and big players making big plays … or mistakes,” Nolan said. “It’s a big game for both of us, but we’ve always played them very well here. …

I feel that it’s going to be a 5050 game between two of the top three teams in our conference.”

Notre Dame had its winning streak snapped at seven with a 2-2 draw against Rutgers, but, like Georgetown, the team is still undefeated in the Big East. Offensively, the Fighting Irish are led by freshman forward Crystal Thomas, who has registered eight goals in fifteen games thus far.

Georgetown’s redshirt freshman goalie Emma Newins, recently named Big East rookie of the week, will need to continue her strong play.

Nolan, for one, thinks she’s up to the task.

“If you can find a keeper that has the ability to make some big-time saves along the way, you’re definitely ahead of the game, and Emma has done both for us this year,” Nolan said. “If you consider that she’s still technically a rookie, she’s got a very bright future.”

After taking on Notre Dame today, Georgetown will catch somewhat of a break, with DePaul (8-7-1, 3-4 Big East) coming to North Kehoe Sunday. If the Blue and Gray aren’t careful, however, this

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Freshman midfielder Marina Paul has four points so far this season, although she has started all 15 games this season. matchup could be a trap game.

With copious preparation for the Irish, it would be easy to overlook the middling Blue Demons. But Nolan is confident that his team won’t lose focus against DePaul.

“Every game is huge, because if we were to beat Notre Dame on Friday and lose to DePaul on Sunday, it’s a wasted opportunity,” Nolan said.

“So right now we’re focused on Notre Dame, and then we’ll worry about DePaul.”

The dilemma with such quick turnarounds between weekend games — as always in college soccer — is the little to no time allocated to prepare for Sunday matches.

“The reality is that you’ll

watch some film, you’ll talk to your team [and] you may walk through a session where you say, ‘This is how we would want to shape things up when we defend, and this what we would like to do when we attack,’ and we’ll get a chance to do that on Saturday,” Nolan said. “But at this stage of the season — for all teams, not just us — you’re kind of running on fumes.”

With three games left before the postseason, the Hoyas will have to hope those fumes can carry them through the next week.

Georgetown plays Notre Dame today at 3 p.m. before facing DePaul Sunday at 1 p.m. Both games will take place at North Kehoe Field.

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MIDNIGHT MADNESS Pat Curran reports on plans for tonight’s event — headlined by the 46-year-old Doug E. Fresh.

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After Lehigh Romp

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A week after a tough defeat at Fordham, the Georgetown football team (3-3) will face No. 10 Lehigh (60) in what is likely to be the Blue and Gray’s toughest game to date.

Sophomore quarterback Stephen Skon — who made his second collegiate start when the Hoyas took on the Rams last Saturday — has shown steady improvement, including throwing 18-for-34 and scoring two touchdowns in the Bronx.

“I thought we improved last week.

Obviously, we’ve got to work on our consistency in all phases, but we had every opportunity to win that game last week,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “I think we’re building on the positives.”

But two straight losses — the first one a 37-10 Homecoming humiliation against Brown — have exposed considerable deficiencies in Georgetown’s offense and defense.

Although the Hoyas outgained the Rams on the ground — a credit to Skon’s improvement — Georgetown’s defense allowed Fordham to put up 316 yards through the air.

The Blue and Gray also lost the field position game, although Kelly was quick to give credit to Rams’ punter and kicker Patrick Murray,

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last season — when it found itself in a 1-0 hole just seven minutes in — it was the Blue and Gray who took In between league matchups control early on Tuesday. against No. 6 UConn, No. 7 Notre In the 12th minute, senior left Dame and No. 4 Marquette, Tues- back Jimmy Nealis pushed up along day’s date with Lehigh (1-9-0, 0-3-0 the flank and sent a cross towards Patriot League) could have present- the far post, where junior forward ed a bit of a trap game for No. 10 Steve Neumann hammered it home Georgetown. off the volley to The Hoyas (11get the hosts on 2-1, 2-2-0 Big East) the board first. didn’t let any conIt was the third ference concerns goal of the season seep into their for the Hermann minds against the Trophy Watch List Mountain Hawks, honoree, moving however, dispatchhim into second ing them 2-0 at place on the team North Kehoe Field. in points behind BRIAN WIESE “We have three Men’s soccer head coach prolific freshman games that are forward Brandon top-10 games over Allen. the run of a week and a half. And There would be no more goals then you have Lehigh, and it’s one in the opening half, although it of those games where if we lose it, wouldn’t be for lack of trying on from an RPI point of view, it’ll kill the Hoyas’ part. Georgetown held you,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. the ball well again on Tuesday and “This has been a game that’s always pressed Lehigh hard without it, reggiven us some trouble, and I was istering eight shots to the visitors’ happy with how we [managed it].”

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“It’s one of those games where if we lose it, from an RPI standpoint it’ll kill you.”

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Junior defensive back Dustin Wharton, shown here against Brown, had 11 tackles in Georgetown’s loss to Fordham Saturday. with Georgetown’s coach arguing that Murray was destined for an NFL career.

While Fordham benefits from players like Murray and a roster that includes 45 scholarship athletes, Le-

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high is probably better still — making Georgetown’s task even harder.

“We lost to [Lehigh] last year in the last ballgame. They’re nationally See HAWKS, A10

FIELD HOCKEY

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Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Emma Newins allowed her first Big East goal of the season against Louisville.

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With only three games left in the regular season, the No. 11 Georgetown women’s soccer team (12-1-2, 6-0-1 Big East) has a chance to clinch a bye to the Big East quarterfinals with a win against No. 24 Notre Dame this afternoon at North Kehoe Field.

The Hoyas are coming off a frustrating weekend in which they scored just two goals in two games and allowed their first Big East goal of the year. Still, Head Coach Dave Nolan was satisfied leaving Cincinnati and Louisville with four of a possible six points.

“If you throw in the Pittsburgh game, we had three games on the road and picked up two wins and a tie,” Nolan said. “Louisville was always going to be the hard one of the three [games].”

The Blue and Gray persevered against the Cardinals, though, de-

spite playing on an artificial field — which the Blue and Gray isn’t used to — in stormy weather and despite Nolan tempting the soccer gods. “[Against Louisville,] the goal that Daphne scored was absolutely top quality, and I turned to my assistant and said, ‘I don’t think we’ll see a better goal than that today,’” Nolan said.

“And then, low and behold, their special kid hits one as good, if not better, to make it 1-1, and you’re scratching your head, going, ‘Serves me right for opening my big mouth.’”

Georgetown hasn’t lost to Notre Dame (10-3-2, 6-0-1 Big East) in three years — a 2-1 road loss in 2009 was its last defeat in the series — and it was the Hoyas’ banner win over the 2011 national champions last season that, Nolan has argued, should have earned his team entry into the NCAA tournament.

But in spite of what’s at stake in See IRISH, A11

The Georgetown field hockey team (2-12, 0-3 Big East) fell to conference foe Rutgers (7-6, 1-3 Big East) Friday and Ivy League opponent Cornell (5-6, 2-1 Ivy League) Sunday, adding to their troubles with five games remaining in the season.

Despite the third Big East loss, Head Coach Tiffany Marsh said that the Blue and Gray remained in high spirits, knowing the Rutgers game had been about more than just the results on the field.

Designated as a Stick-it-to-Cancer fundraising game, the Hoyas’ matchup with the Scarlet Knights helped to raise over $11,000 to benefit the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

“We were playing for a bigger reason during that game,” Marsh said.

“There was a bigger picture.”

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Senior Annie Wilson scored against Cornell and Rutgers, but her contributions weren’t enough to keep the Hoyas from losing both games.

THE BLEACHER SEATS

Denver’s Advantage a Mile High

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hen the Houston Texans took a commanding 31-11 lead against Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos in Week 3 of the NFL season, most would have assumed that the game was all but over. In the season following Tim Tebow’s miracles, Denver seemed to lack the kind of fourth-quarter magic they’d once had.

All this was believed, at least, until the Broncos put up 14 unanswered points to pull within six points of the Texans. As the fourth quarter progressed, more and more Houston defenders seemed sluggish as Peyton Manning led his troops down the field on two separate drives before ultimately falling short. The Texans’ defense, which had only allowed 11 points for the first three quarters of the game, gave up 14 points in the final 15 minutes as if a switch had been flipped on at

Mile High Stadium.

The image of Houston defenders standing with their hands on their thighs gasping for breath is familiar to anyone who has visited Colorado.

With its elevation over a mile above

Corey Blaine sea level, the air in Denver has 17 percent less oxygen than the average city in the U.S. In sports, this lack of oxygen leads to decreased performance, especially in anaero-

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bic activities.

I experienced this phenomenon firsthand last summer while living in Colorado. Although I’m a marathon runner, my first run at altitude ended after only 15 minutes with me keeled over and out of breath.

Walking back to my house, I started to think back to Tebow’s “miracles” and how much they could be attributed to fatigue for the opponents whose bodies were not used to the mountain air.

As was apparent during Denver’s matchups with Pittsburgh and Houston this season, opponents have a tough time battling fourthquarter fatigue, giving Denver a competitive advantage with or without Tim Tebow.

In fact, for four of the last five seasons, Denver’s point differential in See BRONCOS, A11