The Hoya: Oct. 14, 2011

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011

GOOD AS NEW

From old-school designer to funky chic, the market for vintage wares is alive and well in the District.

BACK ON TRACK

Andy Riemer’s two goals led the men’s soccer team to a win at Seton Hall Wednesday.

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Shutdown Looms for Yearbook Media Board drops Ye Domesday Booke as a student publication HIROMI OKA

Special to The Hoya

Ye Domesday Booke, the university’s yearbook since 1905, was dropped as a student organization from the Media Board two weeks ago.

The Media Board, which oversees all student publications, voted to terminate the yearbook’s status as a student organization on Sept. 30, three days after sending an email to the student body encouraging people to apply for co-editorship positions.

The move came after several years of low student interest in one of the university’s oldest publications, according to Vice Chair of the Media Board Chris Cronbaugh (COL ’12).

While Cronbaugh emphasized that the yearbook’s organizational status change does not jeopardize its publication, losing the backing of the Media Board, in addition to a lack of leadership and undergraduate participation, is likely to strain the perpetually understaffed group.

Former Ye Domesday Booke Editor-in-Chief Ashley Angelotti (SFS ’11) fears that the yearbook will no longer include some of the unique See YEARBOOK, A9

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President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79) being clapped in at his inauguration (left) in 2001 and welcoming the new freshman class at convocation 10 years later.

10 Years In: Gauging DeGioia’s Impact GLENN RUSSO Hoya Staff Writer

John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79) stepped modestly up to the podium a decade ago to address over 2,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni gathered there to honor him.

“Good afternoon, and thank you. It is a profound honor to accept this responsibility today as the 48th president of

Georgetown University,” the newly inaugurated president said.

Ten years later, DeGioia has overseen the largest expansion of campus facilities in university history. From establishing auxiliary campuses both across the river in Virginia and halfway around the globe in the Middle East, to overseeing an over 50 percent growth in the university endowment and strength-

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ening many of its academic disciplines from business to regional studies, DeGioia has left his mark on the past decade.

“President DeGioia’s leadership has built upon the foundations of excellence and strategic growth that his predecessors have laid down,” said Dan Porterfield (CAS ’83), a close friend to DeGioia and former senior vice president for stra-

tegic development.

LOOKING OUT FROM WITHIN Much about DeGioia is unique in Georgetown history. He is the first lay president of a Jesuit university in America, breaking the line of 47 ordained predecessors. Consequently, he is the first to See DEGIOIA, A8

DPS Publishes Photo of Suspect SARAH KAPLAN Hoya Staff Writer

The Department of Public Safety warned campus to stay on the lookout for a suspicious person who has attempted to enter multiple residence halls without identification.

In an alert posted on its website Wednesday afternoon, DPS provided a photo of the suspect, who is described as a 5-foot-10 black male of medium build with short dreadlocks. Although the alert can be accessed from the DPS website, it was not emailed to members of the campus community.

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Security cameras in Harbin captured an image of the suspect, whose description may match the depictions of several burglary suspects recently.

UNIVERSITY PITCHES PLANS FOR INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CENTER

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the opening remarks at the U.S.-India Higher Education Summit Thursday morning in a packed Gaston Hall.

Volunteering After GU: The Roads Less Traveled PAVAN RAJGOPAL Special to The Hoya

This is the first story in a three-part series on alumni journeys beyond the Hilltop.

“So what’s next after graduation?”

Probing questions about life after Georgetown abound for this year’s crop of seniors as the soon-to-be graduates gear up to walk this spring.

From the grads looking to rule Wall Street to those who want to dive into the political game, students’ career paths vary widely.

For many, though, volunteering mainstays like Teach For America and

the Peace Corps offer a means to embrace service, as they have for thousands of Georgetown grads before them.

But for a small group of students, moving on means venturing down a “service road” less travelled. Four emerging volunteer organizations — the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Venture For America, Teach For China and Partners in Los Angeles Catholic Education — are now providing students with new opportunities to serve communities across the country and around the globe.

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EDITORIAL

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011

THE VERDICT by The Editorial Board

President DeGioia: Blue and Gray at Heart With Thursday marking the 10year anniversary of University President John J. DeGioia’s inauguration, Georgetown can thank him for its status as a cutting-edge university with a global presence.

A lifelong member of the campus community, DeGioia became the first lay president of a Jesuit university a decade ago. Since then, he has overseen a great expansion of the Georgetown brand as well as a modernization of the university business model. At such an important milestone, we applaud DeGioia for his continued dedication to the university’s improvement and growth.

DeGioia has dedicated his life and career to Georgetown University.

After graduating from the College with a degree in English, DeGioia joined the administration in 1982 as an assistant to University President Timothy S. Healy, S.J. Soon after in 1985, DeGioia was appointed dean of student life. Under President Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., DeGioia took on the role of senior vice president for operations. As his role in the administration grew, DeGioia worked to earn his doctorate in philosophy in 1995, becoming a professor in the philosophy department.

His blue and gray career reached its peak 10 years ago, when he was inaugurated as the 48th president of the university.

When DeGioia assumed office in 2001, the largest capital campaign in the school’s history had just been completed. With that funding, DeGioia expanded on-campus resources and facilities. The Southwest Quad, which houses 907 students, was completed in 2003.

More recently, the Rafik B. Hariri Building opened its doors for business students, and the New Science Center is on schedule to open next fall. Looking ahead, DeGioia has been instrumental in the fight for future expansion through the 2010 Campus Plan. Through these physical additions, DeGioia understands that Georgetown must excel not only in its roots as a liberal arts college, but also as a leading research university at the frontier of science and business.

DeGioia also has continued to build up one of Georgetown’s greatest shortcomings — adequate funding. Beginning with the hiring of the university’s first chief investment officer to manage our funds privately, DeGioia helped facilitate the dramatic increase of the endowment to about $1 billion as of June 30, 2010. He has also embraced his role as principal university fundraiser, with plans for a new $1.5 billion capital campaign that has just entered its public phase.

Under the first lay president of any Jesuit university, Georgetown has never abandoned its ideal of

serving others. In addition to becoming a driving force behind the university’s Catholic initiatives, DeGioia is an active member of the Center for Interfaith Action. More recently, construction has kicked off for the new interfaith center in the Leavey Center and at the Calcagnini Contemplative Center in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

Aside from his work on our own campus, DeGioia clearly has a global vision for the Hilltop. He laid the foundation for the School of Foreign Service campus in Qatar, and his time spent in India and China indicates that establishing additional satellite campuses there is a possibility. Georgetown is already regarded as one of the — if not the — leading universities for political science and international affairs.

Through all of his active engagement, DeGioia has worked to put Georgetown on par with the United States’ leading institutions of higher learning, regardless of discipline.

We understand that as university president, DeGioia must perform the ultimate juggling act. There’s no denying he has helped establish a university that can compete for the world’s best and brightest undergraduate students. It’s a sign of the times that bigger endowments, international campuses, capital campaigns and glossy buildings have become as vital to a university as its educational programs.

But as a result, his stakeholders’ meetings, jet-setting and CEO-like professionalism have led many undergraduate students to view him as aloof and detached from the student body.

Though DeGioia takes the time to teach a “Living Global” Ignatius Seminar for freshmen in the College, being a professor only allows him to truly get to know 15 students per semester. DeGioia has deputized a close circle of vice presidents, administrators and deans to see his students’ vision come to fruition. Yet even taking one hour per week to open his office doors or eating lunch at O’Donovan Hall on occasion would help DeGioia tune into students’ lives. As the leading visionary on campus, DeGioia should give students the opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue with him on Georgetown’s future.

Even though his extensive commitments may make him less visible on campus, DeGioia is a rare breed among university presidents. Of all the of the top 25 national universities, DeGioia is the only one to hold an undergraduate degree from the university he leads. It’s obvious that he has invested his past and present into Georgetown, dedicating his life to the future generations that will call the Hilltop their home.

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Hilltop Hoops — Georgetown’s basketball teams kick off the season tonight with the annual Midnight Madness, which is set to feature dance performances and burgers from the Georgetown University Grilling Society.

O’Donovan Oktober — Leo’s turned German Tuesday evening, holding its annual Oktoberfest celebration with stein-holding contests, root beer and bratwurst.

Celeb Speak Week — The university welcomed acclaimed guest speakers this week, including Hillary Clinton, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass), U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Culture Editor of Jesuit Magaine James Martin, S.J. National Basketball Angst — Even President Obama is “heartbroken” over the NBA player strike, which has caused a cancellation of the first two weeks of the regular season.

No Quiero Taco Bell — Hoya Court’s Taco Bell, Subway and Pizza Hut were all charged with critical health violations after the D.C. Department of Health inspected facilities in September.

Off the Web “Nevils Resident Finds Burglar in His Room” Article posted on Oct. 11, 2011 Comment posted on Oct. 11, 2011 Anonymous: OK, if anyone else thinks that this is ridiculous give a shout out! Eleven burglaries; that is one burglary too many for me. We need to rally and protest about our safety. We need some real COPS out there. Where is MPD? DPS has stated that they have increased the amount of MPD on campus; where are they? I don’t even see DPS out there patrolling around. I once found them on a Saturday watching a movie on the third floor of Car Barn. Come on, if DPS isn’t going to do their job and patrol, then we need MPD. “Big East to Pursue 12-Team Football League” Article posted on Oct. 10, 2011 Comment posted on Oct. 10, 2011 A Football Fan: Georgetown ought to get it together and put a solid D-I team on the field. Let’s move up and own the new and less exciting Big East in several sports.

“New Athletic Center to Be Built in McDonough Parking Lot” Published on Oct. 7th, 2011 Comment posted on Oct. 11, 2011 Anonymous: The athletic center will be built by donations. Unfortunately, people are more willing to donate money for something like this than they are for a library, student center or study space. So, it’s not that money that could go to the latter is being used for the former. It’s just that money can be raised for the former.

“Holy Rood: A Cemetery With a Tell-Tale Heart” Published on Oct. 7, 2011 Comment posted on Oct. 8, 2011 Jerry A. McCoy: This was an excellent article. Thank you.

“MPD Confiscates Five Students’ Fake IDs” Published on Oct. 7, 2011 Comment posted on Oct. 7, 2011 Anonymous from COL ’13: “The following weekend, another student was soberly walking off campus to check on a friend when he was confronted by an MPD officer and six Department of Public Safety officers. The officers started to ask him questions about what he was doing in a manner that the student described as ‘aggressive.’”

Do any of the DPS officers or sympathizers who often like to make their presence felt in comments on Hoya articles care to explain this? Perhaps I’m just naive, but this seems pretty unacceptable to me. I am currently in southeast Turkey and this sounds a lot like the tactics of law enforcement here. The only difference is here there is martial law declared, and they are trying to combat Kurdish terrorists, not underage drinking. Has some sort of insurgency surfaced since I was last on the Hilltop in August? If not, based on the information provided, I hardly consider this type of street-stop interrogation technique appropriate for the supposed “capital of the free world.”

Comment posted on Oct. 8th, 2011 Anonymous: Frankly, this sounds a little odd and there is surely more to the story than the student let on. DPS and MPD may have overreacted to something, but there had to be some sort of catalyst. I find it hard to believe they just ran up to some random student for absolutely no reason and started questioning him aggressively.

Comment posted on Oct. 11, 2011: Anonymous: Why can’t we have students as observers to oversee day-to-day operations? Sort of an efficiency study — that way students get a better feel as to how things operate. If we had first-hand experience, then we could give better input. I think DPS needs a student observer, then maybe we can better judge how or what kind of job DPS is doing.

Comment posted on Oct. 11, 2011 Anonymous from COL ’13: No, I think that is about right — aggressive interviewing is the DPS standard. It has been that way for a while now. Read the comments made about DPS this past year, and you find that DPS has been too aggressive in talking to people. There have been a lot of new, young DPS officers in the past two years. This is the case on the weekends: Six DPS in one area interviewing a person is what seems to be the norm. No wonder the burglaries are up on campus. Having all of DPS in one area leaves the campus wide open for whomever. Way to go, DPS. “Sociology Professor Dies” Published on Oct. 7, 2011 Comment posted on Oct. 7, 2011 Fnfp5: Mashayekhi also was active in supporting the 2009 democracy Green Movement in Iran and joined a hunger strike in New York City to protect the Iranian government’s crack-down on protesters in 2009. May he rest in peace.

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COMMENTARY

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011

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Chris Bien Prevailing Humanity Paves the Path to Peace Jobs’ Death a Byte Out of Apple Sarah Stodder An International Development

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n Christmas 1914, everything stopped. While December 1914 is known as the month in which the brutal, futile trench warfare of World War I commenced, when German and Allied forces began to mow each other down in order to gain a mere foot or two of ground, Christmas of that same year has become famous for a different reason. Despite the intense fighting that had characterized the month before, soldiers along the Western Front engaged in many separate truces on Christmas. They exchanged meals and games of soccer and performed joint religious ceremonies for the fallen. For a few days, there were no allies or enemies but rather old friends and new friends.

Although World War I continued to rage for four years following the Christmas Truce of 1914, the events of those few days were profound. The peace that prevailed over the holiday was just as natural to the human condition as war. While the soldiers engaged in fighting with the dehumanizing anonymity of the enemy that trench warfare entails, they engaged in peace by meeting their wartime enemies face-to-face for the first time. It is much harder to kill a person once you have shaken his hand.

Not every conflict can be broken down into a fight between the two simple distinctions of good and evil. And even if these delineations are to be made, perhaps they shouldn’t be made to last. Horrors like the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide have shown us the extreme evil humanity is capable of. These events are evidence of the damage that each and every person has the capacity to inflict on another human being. And yet, the Christmas truce is also evidence of the human ability to forgive, and perhaps eventually, to forget.

Looking beyond Europe, many countries have tried to tap into this human ability to forgive. One of the most widely used models is that of truth commissions, or “truth and reconciliation” commissions, as they are often called.

Common in Africa, this model of conflict resolution is based on the idea that revealing the truth is in itself a cathartic exercise that points the way to justice.

The African experience has often involved very locally-based conflict resolution within this model, in which individual communities confess their offenses

and grievances to each other. Inspired by Africa’s successes in this area, the United States has adopted the truth commission strategy in at least one instance, that being the Greensboro shootings of 1979.

The ideals of reconciliation and restorative justice have been crucial to the management of conflicts in Africa, where intra-state hostilities have been common.

Northern Uganda, for example, set up local truth commissions to sort out the violence committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army between the late 1980s and the late 2000s. These initiatives make use of local customs and traditions in order to help a communities put the past behind.

In Uganda, the perpetrator of the crime would have to drink a bitter concoction made from a local tree, thus symbolically tasting the bitterness of the past and expressing resolve not to have to taste it again. The crimes are not forgotten, but rather learned from, with an emphasis on the future, rather than the past.

The United States has observed this model and applied it at home, most principally in the case of the 1979 Greensboro shooting. Over 25 years after Ku Klux Clan and American Nazi Party members killed five protest marchers in Greensboro, N.C., the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in 2005 to address unhealed wounds that still existed in the community. The Commission found that the incident was woven with racism and that the shooters had been unfairly acquitted by racially-biased juries. Detailed recommendations were suggested that involved interaction between the descendants of those involved in the violence, as well as the creation of a “community justice center.” This initiative has widely been perceived as a beneficial process that has helped to acknowledge past crimes for the first time and encouraged the prevention of such actions.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been the most recent victory for this model, as President Sirleaf helped create her country’s first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2005. Although many national leaders throughout the world have capitalized on their citizens’ ability to hate, Sirleaf’s experience, and the experiences of truth commissions throughout Africa, continue to encourage the alternate capacity of forgiveness. Christmas 1914 was not as isolated a moment as it may seem.

The peace that prevailed ... was just as natural to the human condition as war.

Steve Jobs both revolutionized technology in the 21st century and built Apple from the ground up.

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ow can millions worldwide love one man whom they have never met?

On Oct. 5 one of the leading tech titans of the world, Steve Jobs, passed away. The Apple co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer died after battling pancreatic cancer for seven years. Millions of people across the world mourned the passing of one of the most influential people in their lifetimes. His legacy lives in every single computer, tablet and smart phone; he revolutionized how people work, play and interact.

Out in Silicon Valley, Calif., where I grew up, it is the norm for at least one parent to be working for some high-tech company. Engineering runs through people’s blood and sets a lifestyle. Everyone, no matter how much they know about technology, has some sense of what is going on and what is on the cutting edge of new technologies. That is why, when it was announced that Jobs had died, my Facebook feed exploded with people expressing their condolences.

One person even wrote how much she had enjoyed making his favorite hot chocolate at a store where she worked in Stanford. Jobs’ death impacted the region and high-tech industries, since it felt like we had lost a close friend, even if we hardly knew anything about him.

Steve Jobs was the first person to fully market computers to the common person. When the computer

was invented during World War II, it was a large, complex and difficult-tounderstand device that only a handful of people could effectively use.

However, Jobs saw the mass potential of computers for the life of the common man.

Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, after which the dynamic duo introduced several computers that were aimed at the consumer by making them more than just green text on black backgrounds. The products they created brought the first meaning to the term “personal computer.”

After an internal power struggle that resulted in his walking out on the company, Jobs founded a software company called NeXT and a computer animation company called Pixar. In a twist of fate, Apple purchased NeXT in 1996, and Jobs returned to the helm soon after. Over the next decade and a half, Jobs oversaw one of the largest expansions of any company worldwide. Through huge successes such as the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad, Jobs transformed Apple into arguably the most powerful technology company in the world.

Jobs revolutionized how we interact with the world around us.

Every single computer, tablet and phone has a little bit of Jobs’ work in it, even if it is not an Apple product.

Jobs’ keen eye for delivering products that helped consumers influenced how rival Microsoft designed its operating system, not to mention the development of the mouse (another Apple invention). He also changed how we listen to music by effectively killing the compact disk market and spurred a revolution of digital music sharing. But arguably,

his most important contribution was his unwillingness to accept the cell phone companies’ design of the original Apple phone, a decision which led to the revolution of the mobile phone market that allowed companies to develop phones as they saw fit.

The products Jobs designed were extraordinary, but his real contribution was to the technological revolution and the societal change in Silicon Valley that continues today.

Jobs helped establish Silicon Valley, along with Bill Hewlett and David Packard of Hewlett-Packard, Larry Ellison of Oracle and many other tech leaders, as the capital of technology companies. As a resident of Palo Alto, I can attest that Jobs’ influence over the region is unspeakable.

I won’t go so far as to say that Jobs was a “magician” as some people do, because frankly, Apple products are usually overpriced with underwhelming specs. But Jobs had the ability to develop and deliver products that were easy to use, and people wanted to buy them. He was able to deliver a product that forced other companies to play catch-up and redesign with the customer in mind. His unwillingness to make the Mac environment as free as the company’s Super Bowl XVIII ad makes me believe that Jobs was a revolutionary in the high-tech, music, entertainment and business industry, but not a god. However, he was someone who not only changed how Silicon Valley does business and lives, but also how the world functions as a whole.

CHRIS BIEN is a sophomore in the College and a deputy photo editor on The Hoya.

THE RAW DEAL by Anthony Mastroianni

Sarah Stodder is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT appears every other Friday.

Andrew Markoff & Taylor Coles

GU Debate Program in A League of Its Own Reflecting on College Friendships

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t’s 6:30 a.m. Seventeen people pile into two rental vans, rubbing the last vestiges of sleep from the corners of their eyes. It becomes tougher to focus as reality sets in: another 15 hours of grueling work lie ahead. It’s a Sunday, but there’s no time for relaxing with a book, calling the family to catch up or watching a favorite NFL team. Twelve students and five coaches focus their willpower solely on the task at hand. Mentally and physically, this will be one of the most grueling days of their lives.

This isn’t Friday Night Lights. There are no stadiums, bright lights, scoreboards, cheerleaders or fans waiting at the end of this van ride. There’s only another college campus somewhere across the country.

Georgetown debaters will spend the entire day and two more like it in groups of five: a two-person team from Georgetown, a twoperson team from another school and a judge who must sort out the arguments and decide a winner and a loser.

Intercollegiate debate has evolved.

To many, debate conjures up images of young collegians sporting full suits, honing their oratorical skills while attempting to sway the views of large crowds on a wide range of issues. No longer. Intercollegiate debate today is heavily focused on research and intensive expertise. Over the course of each year-long topic, the average debater does enough research to write a doctoral dissertation. In an extremely competitive environment, debaters and coaches spend dozens of hours each week preparing for tournaments. That emotional connection is on full display with each win and each loss.

Georgetown debaters have an extra investment in each win and loss. We’re collectively rebuilding a legacy. Georgetown debate was once the premier pro-

gram in the nation. Over the decades, the program fluctuated in both success and participation. In 2011, it’s safe to say that Georgetown debate has been revitalized. We have the privilege of being an extremely young team, made up only of freshmen and sophomores. We have one of the best coaching staffs in the nation.

Our efforts were partially rewarded this Tuesday, when a poll of national debate coaches ranked Georgetown as the top team in the country.

If there is one thing we hope to impress on The Hoya’s readers, it’s definitely not that we deserve a cadre of fans or a spot next to the basketball team at Midnight Madness. (Frankly, that would be embarrassing; none of us can run very fast.)

Instead, we want to communicate that debate is a life-changing commitment. That’s true not only because of the huge time investment, but because competitive debate is one the few places left in American public discourse where all voices and arguments receive consideration. Here, perhaps more than anywhere else, evidence and logic trump ad hominems and soundbites, so that students have a competitive incentive to practice the most valuable skills they will need for the future.

We’re honored to represent our community every weekend at debate tournaments. We are equally honored to represent debate every week at Georgetown. We hope that debate will be promoted and supported vigorously, so that it can enrich the education of future Georgetown students in the same way that it continues to enhance ours.

We want to communicate that debate is a life-changing commitment.

ANDREW MARKOFF is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service and TAYLOR COLES is a freshman in the College. Both are participants in the Georgetown Debate Program.

Fr. James Schall

As This Jesuit Sees It ...

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n Plato’s “Republic” (V), Socrates tells Glaucon that anyone “can feel both secure and confident when one has the truth about the dearest and most important things and speaks about them among those who are themselves wise and dear friends.” We want to know the truth and to freely speak it among friends. Socrates here did not think that he himself had such a clear knowledge of the truth. He feared he would drag his friends down if he pretended that he did.

The most agonizing experience for 20-some-year-olds in college is that of choosing their friends well.

Aside from seeking truth, as both Plato and Aristotle noted, no practical issue brings us more joy or sorrow, more delight or more heartbreak.

Aristotle tells us that making, changing, breaking and keeping friendships are the most absorbing and natural activities of the young.

Upon leaving home, the approach of maturity and full manhood and womanhood happens in these years.

It is both an adventure and a trial.

Nothing indicates one’s real character more than his friends, their characters and how honorably or dishonorably he deals with them.

A university does not exist so that its students establish viable friendships. But that experience is a major side-effect of university life. We need to learn what friendship is, what it is not, what looks like it and what follows from it, often “for better or for worse.” A college student who does not ponder the meaning and nature

of friendship is hardly awake during his academic years.

Collegiate friendships happen during what Aristotle called “the bloom of youth.” Young women will never be more beautiful or young men more handsome than they are at 20 or so.

It won’t be all downhill immediately, but if someone returns to college for his first five-year reunion, he will notice the difference. To the alumnus, any present student generation will seem fresher, younger than his.

At first, all human encounters seem accidental. We happened to meet someone in the second semester of our sophomore year from Peoria, Ill. He turned out to be our best friend.

Chances are slim that our high school friends will still be our main friends in college. And if we are sober, probably most of our college friends will be at most acquaintances in fifteen years, though a few may be lasting.

Aristotle’s words are true. We will be fortunate to have one or two friends that last a lifetime. Marriage of man and woman should be the main friendship, but we can easily mess it up if we do not prepare our souls for its nature, demands and abidingness. It is the one friendship most clearly intended for a lifetime.

It is the one most jeopardized by a bad choice of friends contrary to its exclusive nature. On the other hand, it is potentially the one that will give us the most happiness in this world, the one, if we do it wrongly, that will cause us the most misery.

Aristotle shrewdly observed that the legislator should be more concerned with friendship than justice.

He said this knowing perfectly well that politics cannot “legislate” friendships. They happen beyond politics and their control. The tyrant is precisely the one who finds friendship most dangerous to his rule. Hence he

tries to make everything open and public with no secrets from him and no transcendent bonds that would judge him.

Friendships based on utility or pleasure are perfectly good things.

We might enjoy working with a particular carpenter or going fishing or playing cards with different people.

We do not consider them our best friends, but we enjoy them. They are good folks. Friendship is reciprocity.

We will what is good for our friends and hope they return the same to us.

This is why the basis of friendship can cause so much anxiety.

The highest friendships are reciprocal relationships in which we converse and live together according to the highest things. That is why the pursuit of the truth of things is also essential to the best forms of friendship. If our understanding of the highest things is radically different from our friends, it will be very difficult if not impossible to have a stable friendship with those people.

At Madrid World Youth Day, Benedict XVI spoke of “a universal network of friendship that links the world and God.” That all men seek to be friends needs to be put together with the exclusiveness of friendships in this world. We do not have time to be friends with everyone. Yet, as Aristotle said, we want everyone to have his own friends. Both of these pulls, to the universal and to the particular, we feel poignantly in college. How we resolve them, well or ill, mostly defines what we freely choose to be.

Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., is a faculty member of the government department. Fr. Schall, Fr. Maher and Fr. O’Brien alternate as the writers of AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT ... , which appears every other Friday.

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In the first of a series of Hoya Roundtable forums held by the university, students and administrators discussed challenges and recent improvements for university services.

More than 50 students attended the event, voicing concerns about housing, dining services, technology, campus safety and other issues in the Q-and-A style session.

Interim Vice President and Chief Information Officer Kevin Murphy addressed technological progress on campus, which includes recent upgrades to the wireless systems in residence halls and the upcoming ability to print double-sided at a lower cost of five cents per page.

Murphy said that other plans for this academic year include extending wireless networks to Healy and Copley lawns by the spring, and the movement of staff email to Google Apps to allow more compatibility between students and professors.

The bulk of the concerns brought up at the event, however, were related to the Department of Public Safety.

Rocco DelMonaco, vice president for public safety, spoke to the growth of DPS and its increased visibility on campus. He emphasized that crime, such as bicycle theft, has decreased significantly over the past two years.

Students expressed concerns about communication with SafeRides and its reliability. In return, DelMonaco responded by directing students to the DPS website where shuttle information is available.

Many students argued that DPS officers should not be sent along with GERMS when students are in need of alcohol-related medical attention. DelMonaco maintained that sending law enforcement

along with ambulances is a common practice at major universities necessitated by safety concerns.

Richard Payant, director of facilities management, spoke on behalf of the facilities department about new initiatives this semester, including work orders and environmental initiatives. Payant said that it is difficult for facilities to respond to over 40,000 work orders each year in a timely manner but acknowledged that the system needs to be improved by updating the technology used to keep track of work orders.

In response, Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Margie Bryant encouraged students to complete the dining survey that was sent to every student’s Hoyamail account. She added that her staff is always looking into new dining options.

Chief Operating Officer Christopher Augostini, who was responsible for the conception and implementation of the Hoya Roundtable events, said he was satisfied with its results.

“People were candid and deeply engaged,” he said. “I was impressed by the number of students in attendance and their willingness to communicate with us before the event and about the issues.”

For new students, the event provided an opportunity to participate in ongoing campus debates.

“As a freshman, I was able to understand how these organizations work together to address the needs of students,” Dan Silkman (COL ’15) said. “I also got to see what other students’ concerns were, which was very helpful.”

Students are invited to continue the discussion and shape the next Hoya Roundtable forum by using Google Moderator, which allows students to submit questions and vote on topics.

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Dulles Shuttle Completion Set for 2017 TYLER SANBORN Special to The Hoya

Construction on the Metro’s new Silver line shuttle service to Dulles International Airport are on pace to be completed on target, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), contrary to previous reports of a six-month delay.

The shuttle will run between Dulles and Tyson’s Corner, a stop located on the Orange line. The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project will ultimately add 11 new stations and 23 miles of track to the Metro system as it aims to better support airport traffic and commuters from D.C.’s western suburbs.

Though the contractor initially estimated a 188-day delay in their monthly progress report after finding a gas line in the shuttle’s projected path, the MWAA was able to adjust its construction plans to keep to the initial schedule.

“It will probably take that long to move [the gas line],” DCMP communications manager Marcia McCallister said, referring to the 188 day projection. “But we have told them … to build other facilities and shuffle the schedule around.”

According McCallister, the MWAA is now planning to build other parts of the track while the gas line is being moved and construction is now only nine days behind.

The improved access to Dulles will be a boon to Georgetown students who fly to and from school. The airport is often a more convenient destination for non-D.C. residents flying to D.C., because it features more airlines than nearby Reagan National Airport.

About 38 airlines frequent Dulles compared with Reagan’s 18, according to the MWAA. With the construction of the Silver line, students who must currently take a bus or a cab to reach the airport

will be able to utilize mass transportation.

“I do not use a plane to get home, but if I did I would definitely use [the new line] and I have friends that definitely would as well,” Gianna Maita (COL ’15) said.

Other students like Joshua Street (COL ’15) said that there might be less costly travel alternatives, given that it is often cheaper to fly out of Baltimore Washington International Airport than to book flights from D.C. “You’ll save a few dollars taking the Metro to Dulles than over a taxi.

But overall you are not saving more,” Street said.

The first phase of the project will be completed in December 2013, adding five new Metro stops, four of them in Tyson’s Corner, Va. The second phase, including the Dulles Airport station, will not be operational until 2017, according to McCallister.

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cabins to house up to 78 students. fund the new center.

Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., the vice president of “Receiving a letter from a student saying Mission and Ministry, spoke to the sanctity of this has been the most formative experience of their life — it’s all worth it,” he said. “We As Arthur Calcagnini (C ’54) stood looking the location.

“Mountains are a place to meet our God. feel so blessed that we have the means to over the Blue Ridge Mountains last Friday while he prepared to break ground on the Just like our Hilltop, today we add another share with [Georgetown] the funding for this retreat center named for him, he reflected holy mountain to Georgetown,” O’Brien said. special place.”

This milestone marked the latest chapter The Calcagninis have spent much of the on his path to the Calcagnini Contemplative in Calcagnini’s twenty-year dream to con- last 10 years personally working to find a Center’s actualization.

“This is a dream that I’ve had that’s taken struct the university’s own space for the wide proper location. The search was prolonged a long time to come to fruition,” Calcagnini range of spiritual retreats offered through- by the difficulty of finding an appropriate site within a 90-minute said shortly before he and members of the out the year.

He and his wife, Nancy, “When we first saw drive from campus. After administration picked up their shovels and choosing Bluemont, Va. began the ceremony. Once complete, the who financed the popular for the site, the adminiscenter will serve a variety of campus retreat ESCAPE program with a this place, we knew programs year round. The programs that $1.5 million endowment in that this was it. It was tration spent two years negotiating and working will soon make their home at the center in- 1991, pledged their support with the Clarke County clude ESCAPE, a secular overnight retreat for for this project with a $17 love at first sight.” board of supervisors to first-year and transfer students that provides million donation.

ARTHUR CALCAGNINI (C ’54) gain approval for the proFriday’s groundbreaking participants with a chance to reflect on their Primary donor to the retreat center posed construction. first year at Georgetown. Calcagnini himself marked the culmination of a lengthy search to find and The construction of has funded the program since 1991.

The center’s future home encompasses 55 acquire a suitable property for the Contem- the center is far from complete, as contractors will have to complete major imacres nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, plative Center.

The idea was conceived 20 years ago when provements to the site over the next two about a 75 minute drive from Georgetown’s Calcagnini, a member of Georgetown’s years. This includes moving a historic main campus.

“When we first saw this place, we knew board of directors’ committee on religious house to another spot on the property, to that this was it. It was love at first sight,” Cal- affairs, attended an ESCAPE weekend after allow for the construction of additional providing funding for the program. facilities. cagnini said.

The retreat became an annual tradition O’Brien said the finished site will be able to According to university officials, the completed project will include a historic home, a for him, and seeing the impact that the pro- accommodate multiple retreats at the same chapel, community and dining halls and 28 gram has on students is what drove him to time, with enough facilities for both separate and communal activities. For him, this sentiment expresses the core Georgetown value of interreligious understanding.

As University President John J. DeGioia looked ahead in his opening speech to the reflective space’s contribution to university life, he spoke of such an outlook.

“It will be here, in the Calcagnini Contemplative Center, where the members of our community [can] seek out our deepest inner truths, discover the best version of ourselves and renew our commitment to our mission,” he said.

For the immediate future, programs like ESCAPE and AGAPE will continue to operate out of the Shepherd Springs Outdoor Ministry Center in Sharpsburg, Md. “We’ve been going there for the past 10 or 11 years. They’ve been very hospitable and welcoming to us, but we’re not the only group to use that space,” Sherry said.

For that reason, Sherry looks forward to the center’s completion.

“I think making a space that is really ours is going to be phenomenal. The added flexibility may allow for program enlargement and growth in the future,” she added.

But for Calcagnini, breaking ground on FIONA HANLY/THE HOYA the new center meant something more.

The Calcaginis broke ground on the contemplative center named for them along“This is one of the happiest days of my life,” side prominent members of the administration. See video online at thehoya.com. he said.

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MATTHEW STRAUSS Special to The Hoya

Hoping to provide a united voice for the large conglomeration of student organizations on the Hilltop, various campus leaders have joined together to form the Georgetown Student Group Union.

According to SGU’s steering committee member Emma Green (COL ’12), the group is attempting to address the disconnected nature of student organizations on campus.

“The union seeks to provide a network for student leaders to collaborate with one another on programming and also to support each other with issues they may have with the university,” she said.

Steering committee member Eitan Paul (SFS ’12) said the union will tackle issues including Student Activities Commission funding, the Yates Field House reservation system and common frustrations regarding the Office of Campus Activities Facilities.

Both Paul, former International Relations Club chair, and Green, former Philodemic Society treasurer, contend that the creation of the SGU was driven by recent controversy surrounding SAC policies but that the group has said it has a larger aim.

“This is not intended as an adversarial stroke, particularly not against SAC,” Green said. “This is not about SAC or the SAC issues. This could become a mechanism to later work through or assist with some of those problems.”

According to Paul, an additional goal of the new group will be to better coordinate cross-organizational activities already in place, such as the 25 Days of Service initiative.

The union is being spearheaded by about 16 student leaders — including a SAC commissioner — and represents a wide variety of student organizations, ranging from academic advisory boards, club sports and The Corp.

Members of the steering committee have worked to reach out to representatives from all of Georgetown’s registered student organizations this fall. At the end of the month, the steering committee will hold a meeting with all interested parties to suggest amendments to and ratify the SGU constitution. Once the constitution is signed, an executive committee will be elected to facilitate advocacy planning and the compilation of resources for all members of the SGU. Members of the steering committee also expressed hope that this new organization will not increase the student government bureaucracy at Georgetown.

“We’re not looking to usurp the power that the Georgetown University Student Association or SAC has,” Paul said. “Greg [Laverriere] (COL ’12), GUSA vice president, and I have been co-chairing the steering committee, but [he] will not be on the executive committee.”

Paul added that the intent is only to encourage greater cooperation among student organizations.

“This is an overarching group, under which lay SAC, the Media Board, GUSA and all the other advisory boards,” Green said. “This is trying to create a mechanism that unites all of the different fractured structures of government on campus. It’s not just one partisan group that is pushing a certain set of issues.”

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LAURA ENGSHUBER Hoya Staff Writer

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton directly challenged the throng of students crowding the upper floor of Gaston Hall this morning to work toward improving the system of higher education in India.

“A democracy depends on education and an educated citizenry.

At the highest levels of government, we are committed to this, but the success of these efforts will be determined by you, those outside government,” Clinton said.

Clinton’s speech kicked off the U.S.-India Higher Education Summit, aimed at brainstorming ways that U.S. and Indian citizens and officials can form strategic partnerships. In a day filled with roundtables and breakout sessions, other notable speakers included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake, Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Nirupama Rao, Indian Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal and various university presidents.

Speaking for about 10 minutes to a packed crowd of Indian and U.S. government officials, university faculty and staff and about 150 students, Clinton recounted her own college years.

“When I first started out at Wellesley, I wanted to win a Fulbright to India. Unfortunately, CHRIS BIEN/THE HOYA due to political reasons that program was suspended,” she said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed the importance of strengthen“But now, [years later], I see higher ing educational ties and partnerships with India in Gaston Hall Thursday. education as an even greater passport to opportunity and under- dian President Manhoman Singh. tions. There is no better way to do She outlined the partnership be- it than brainstorm in sessions this standing.”

While she began with a quip tween the two leaders, which has afternoon. How can our universiencouraging students to join the provided millions of dollars for de- ties deepen collaboration, work on foreign service, she proceeded to velopment between the two coun- research and set goals we can work emphasize how they can also make tries. She added that the United on meeting?” she asked. “What a tremendous impact through ex- States has more faculty exchange institutional barriers can we and changes, internships and service programs with India, the world’s should we break down?” projects. largest democracy and one of the This partnership is the way of the “We want to see more students most rapidly growing economies, future, according to Clinton. enrolling for credit at Indian insti- than any other country. She em“For those of you watching the tutions. I’m asking you to develop phasized, however, that the burden great rise of India, I hope you are as direct connections.” of improving the quality of higher excited as we are,” she said, before Clinton’s keynote address set the education in India will fall on the highlighting India’s plurality and tone for the summit, which is the private sector. potential. “We want these two great result of collaboration between “I’d like to challenge all of us to democracies to be as interconnectPresident Barack Obama and In- jumpstart these kinds of connec- ed as possible.”

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Georgetown’s debate team shot to the top of the Cross Examination Debate Association national rankings of collegiate debate teams on Tuesday after winning the Henry Clay Debates at the University of Kentucky.

Andrew Markoff (SFS ’14) and Andrew Arsht (COL ’14) were voted to the No. 1 spot by their debating peers this week.

According to Jonathan Paul, director of Georgetown’s debate program, participating college policy debate programs submit a ballot every week ranking the current top teams in the nation.

While the poll is the closest college policy programs have to an official survey of the best teams, it is only one indication of how well the team is doing at a particular point during the season, according to Paul.

“This particular poll is followed by most major college policy programs since it was established,” Paul said. “But similar to college sports, it is still just a poll and only a recognition of how we are performing at a given point in the year.”

Competing in a field of 153 teams, Markoff and Arsht rode a 6-2 preliminary record to reach the elimination rounds of the Henry Clay Debates, where the two sophomores won the votes of all three judges in each round, eventually winning the entire tournament. They defeated teams from Baylor University, Liberty University, Emory University and Dartmouth College.

Markoff and Arsht also were ranked the third- and fifth-best individual speakers, respectively, for the tournament.

The team debated whether or not the U.S. Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.

Georgetown also fielded a second team composed of Richard Day (SFS ’14) and Tyler Engler (SFS ’15) that advanced to the elimination rounds after a 6-2 record in the preliminaries.

The debate team’s recent success marks the second year of the program’s restoration of the prominence it had in the 1970s. While the team was ranked ninth in the national

rankings last fall, the debate program was positioned between first and third and won the Copeland Award from the National Debate Tournament five times this decade. The team fell from its prestigious acclaim when Debate Coach Jim Unger left the university. The program has been on the upswing since Paul was hired to mentor the students, however.

Even with the top ranking and finish, Markoff and Arsht said they are already focusing on tournaments later on this season.

“The real accolades are awarded at the National Debate Tournament in late March,” Paul said. “We are obviously all thrilled with the latest ranking, but we are more focused on getting ready for our next tournament.”

To prepare for tournaments, the debaters spend 30 to 40 hours every week tackling new topics and conducting research.

“You do research to develop sets of arguments that you think give you a strategic advantage in a debate,” Markoff said.

He added that it is a combination of individual sacrifice and group effort that drives the team.

“It requires a relentless amount of individual effort,” Markoff said, adding that this effort goes toward the team’s end product. “All of us are pretty focused on winning as a team.”

The team’s next tournament will be at Harvard over Halloween weekend, where they will compete against roughly 102 other teams for the championship.

“Our mantra for the year has been to take it ‘one debate at a time,’ and we will continue to do that in our preparation for Harvard,” Paul said. “There are a lot of great teams competing this year, and we will strive to be prepared for every contingency.”

Paul added that as the team has become more successful in competition, it has also seen an expansion in membership.

“Our team is steadily growing, and I’ve been humbled by the interest in the program from top high school debaters and other students on campus,” Paul said. “We’ve tripled in size over the last two years and because the current team is only freshmen and sophomores, we look poised to grow even more over the next few years.”

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A Decade in Review: Examining DeGioia’s Ongoing Legacy DEGIOIA, from A1 have a family of his own, with his wife, Theresa, and young son, J.T. “He really was a major forerunner in showing the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities that a layperson could lead a Catholic institution with fidelity to its religious mission,” Porterfield said.

Despite the non-traditional choice by the board of directors, DeGioia gained the backing of the majority of the community almost immediately; his reputation as a deft administrator preceded him.

Porterfield recalled that there was unanimity among the Jesuits on the board of directors about the choice.

“Fr. Brian McDermont, S.J., said at the time, speaking for the Jesuits on the board of directors, that they believed Jack DeGioia was a ‘providential decision for the next president,’” Porterfield said.

Before his appointment, DeGioia had spent his entire professional life on the Hilltop. After receiving his diploma in 1979, he took a job as hall director in New South Hall. In 1982, he began work as an assistant to former University President Timothy S. Healy, S.J. He rose quickly through the ranks, becoming dean of student affairs as a 28-yearold in 1985. He was appointed associate vice president and chief administrative officer for the main campus in 1992.

In 1998, former University President Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. (CAS ’56), put him in charge of fixing the finances of Georgetown University Medical Center, giving DeGioia the title of senior vice president.

Three years later, when it came time for a search committee to choose the next president of the nation’s oldest Catholic university, its members settled on DeGioia. Leaders were impressed with his work negotiating a complex financial deal to sell the clinical operations of GUMC to MedStar while retaining the academic institution of the medical school.

DeGioia’s long tenure on the Hilltop also made him a logical fit for a leader.

“He came to the job with exquisite experience. … I think at the time of his election he knew more about Georgetown University than anyone but God,” Fr. Otto Hentz, S.J., said.

In-depth knowledge of his alma mater gave him the ability to manage and transform the institution effectively.

But Special Assistant to the President for China Affairs Dennis McManus, S.J., commented that over 35 years at Georgetown has not boxed in DeGioia’s perspective.

Hentz agreed.

“People wondered that since all his years had been at Georgetown, he might be narrowly focused, but the opposite is just the case,” Hentz said. “His vision is very broad.”

According to Hentz, one of DeGioia’s greatest strengths is his hiring of quality staff to manage the complex operations of the university.

“My impression is that he’s an effective administrator because he hires effective administrators. What amazes me is how much he is on top of all that’s going on at the university,” he said.

dialogue. Under DeGioia, multiple conferences have drawn religious leaders from around the world to campus to discuss global faith interactions and understanding.

He also makes a trip to Rome every year to meet with the superior general of the Society of Jesus, the leader of the Jesuits, as well as leaders from the Vatican. Stemming from his conversations with Jesuit leaders have come some of his plans for Georgetown’s international engagement.

“Our education must be put in service to the world,” O’Brien said. “It is both our goal and our way of operating.”

PRESERVING A JESUIT IDENTITY Ten years later it seems that any question of DeGioia’s commitment to the university’s Jesuit and Catholic identity has all but disappeared. According to McManus, of all the achievements the president has made over his 10 years, one of the greatest has been the strengthening and rejuvenation of Georgetown’s Jesuit character.

Current Vice President of Mission and Ministry Kevin O’Brien, S.J. (COL ’88), agreed that DeGioia has carried on the founding principles of the university.

“He has been very intentional about promoting the Catholic and Jesuit character,” O’Brien said.

Hentz explained that, being Jesuits, many of DeGioia’s predecessors became complacent with the school’s identity.

“In the ’50s and even the ’60s, we sort of took it for granted. There’s no cruise control in these matters,” he said. “In some ways, his commitment to the Catholic, Jesuit identity of Georgetown is more impressive precisely because he is not a Jesuit.”

As the first lay president, DeGioia engaged actively in promoting the ideals of the order. He instituted seminars on Ignatian spirituality for senior administrators and the Board of Trustees to help teach the leaders of Georgetown what it meant to be a Catholic and Jesuit university.

In 2003, DeGioia instituted the Office of Mission and Ministry to augment his efforts to preserve the university’s spiritual heritage. He has consistently chosen a Jesuit to fill that role — the singular priest in the senior administration hierarchy.

Those close to DeGioia emphasized that he personally is deeply ingrained in the Catholic spirituality of the order. He has twice made the full 30-day journey of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, the backbone of Jesuit spirituality, according to O’Brien.

Out of his active pursuit of the university’s traditional heritage has come an enhanced commitment to interreligious

LEADING AN INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION The extension of the university into the global sphere has been one of the most significant developments of DeGioia’s term. Porterfield drew a connection between DeGioia’s work worldwide to former President Healy’s work nationally. Healy is credited with transforming Georgetown from a local institution to a national center of higher education. Porterfield said DeGioia engineered a similar change from a national to international university.

The past 10 years have seen an unprecedented increase in international engagement. Georgetown opened a branch of its School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar in 2005. It has made key investments in partnerships with both India and Israel, as well as in China, a process that culminated in a high-profile trip by the men’s basketball team to that country this summer.

McManus noted that DeGioia’s work in the international sphere presented a vastly different set of challenges from Healy’s national development.

“It’s a very different world. It’s a very diverse world,” McManus said. “When you try to go global you not only have the issue of languages, but you have discrepancies in levels of socioeconomic development.”

Porterfield postulated that the university still had a lot to discover about its international engagement.

“It’s not clear what will define institutions as global,” Porterfield said. “Out of a sheer force of conviction that it would empower Georgetown … for future generations to develop global relationships now … he was committed to building the relationship because he saw the longterm strategic value.”

“A different president might not have chosen to do that work,” Porterfield added.

Hilltop. With the building of the Southwest Quad, Rafik B. Hariri Building, Davis Performing Arts Center and the underconstruction New Science Center, Georgetown will complete the largest expansion of campus facilities in university history.

Overall university property has also expanded significantly with the opening of the Qatar campus, the Clarendon location for the School of Continuing Studies and the groundbreaking for the Calcagnini Contemplative Center in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Porterfield said that the new space has drastically improved student life on campus. “[The expansion of facilities] drastically enhances the university’s competitiveness,” he said.

Under DeGioia’s leadership, the U.S. News and World Report ranking has stayed fairly constant from 23 in 2001 to 22 in 2011, rising to 21 at its highest. He also worked extensively to shore up university finances in order to facilitate the university’s growth.

“Clearly his focus in stabilizing the financial platform of the university has been a priority,” said Erik Smulson, vice president for public affairs and senior adviser to the president. “It gave confidence to some of our alumni and donors that we would be a good manager of the funds that they were willing to give us.”

In 2004, the university created the Investment Office and appointed a the first chief investment officer to oversee the growth of Georgetown’s endowment.

Since DeGioia took office in 2001, the endowment has grown over 50 percent to top $1 billion. This remains modest with respect to peer institutions, but growth continues to offset operating costs and provide additional financial stability.

Under DeGioia, a $1 billion fundraising campaign was completed in 2003. At the end of this month, another $1.5 billion capital campaign, which has already hit its halfway mark, will enter its public phase.

Solidifying the financial base was necessary for one of DeGioia’s other main priorities to become possible: Meeting the full need of all applicants, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

“The first pillar of the [capital] campaign is scholarships,” Sumlson said. “He recognizes that making institutions of higher education affordable for students from all economic backgrounds is a key priority.”

GROWTH BACK AT HOME Back on the main campus, DeGioia has overseen impressive growth on the

ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY Amid the turmoil of the ongoing campus plan battle, DeGioia has experience

Campus Celebrates OUTober ANDY MILLER

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This month students are wearing their pride on their sleeves as the university celebrates OUTober and LGBT History Month.

GU Pride, Georgetown’s undergraduate LGBTQ organization, handed out 200 blue “I Am” T-shirts to faculty, staff and students in Red Square Tuesday to celebrate Coming Out Day, the first event in a month-long series commemorating LGBT history month.

The event, now in its seventh year, aims to increase visibility on campus of both LGBTQ students and allies. Students spent Monday night covering Red Square with chalked messages of toleration and awareness in preparation for Tuesday’s event.

While some students use the day as a chance to come out to their peers or celebrate their identity, many of those who

wore “I Am” shirts were allies hoping to show their support for the LGBTQ community.

Julia Maddera (COL ’13), GU Pride’s publicity chair, has participated in Coming Out Day all three of her years at Georgetown.

“Every time it blows me away,” she said. “It is comforting to know that you are not alone here on campus. I think it sends a powerful message to students who are still closeted, as well as prospective LGBT students who wonder if Georgetown will provide a welcoming environment for them.”

Each year, GU Pride chooses a different color of the rainbow for the t-shirts. According to Meghan Ferguson (COL ’15), co-programming chair for GU Pride, this year’s light blue shirts were intended to represent the first color on the transgender pride flag.

“One of the big motivations behind this year’s campaign is the recent slew of attacks

against transgender women in D.C., so we thought it was important to bring up,” Ferguson said.

Coming Out Day kicked off a month of activities sponsored

by GU Pride and several other student organizations, including GradPride and the LGBTQ Alliance.

Tuesday night featured a dinner and discussion of the internet-based “It Gets Better” campaign that calls national attention to LGBT suicides among youth. GU Pride has started its own related project called “Making it Better,” which Ferguson described as a more proactive version of the campaign geared specifically toward Georgetown students.

“It asks people, ‘What are you doing to make Georgetown a safer community for LGBT people?’” she said.

The month’s events will conclude with the 25th annual AIDS Walk Washington on Oct. 29.

Rubino Steps Down as Burleith Citizens’ Association President BRADEN MCDONALD Hoya Staff Writer

Burleith Citizens’ Association President Lenore Rubino announced that she will step down from her position as president when her term ends in early November, according to the October edition of the Burleith Bell, the BCA’s monthly newsletter.

Attorney Chris Clements, who has represented the BCA and the Citizens Association of Georgetown in D.C. Zoning Commission hearings of the 2010 Georgetown Campus Plan, will run for the position at the organization’s elections on Nov. 3.

Though she did not specify why she would not be running for the position again in her newsletter announcement, Rubino expressed confidence in her successor.

“His intelligence and dedication has garnered the respect of the BCA Board, the ANC and the [Citizen’s] Association of Georgetown,” she wrote. “He is committed to the well-being of our community.

Rubino has opposed Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan and student rental of properties in Burleith throughout her term as BCA president.

The Hoya reported on Oct. 4 that Rubino publicly applauded Mayor Vincent Gray for condemning the Campus Plan at the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E’s October meeting.

“We’ve witnessed the devastating loss of single-family homes being turned into student housing,” she said at the meeting.

Rubino also co-chaired the task force that drafted the ANC’s

initial redistricting proposal this summer. The proposal, which recommended the creation of an eighth single-member district, has been criticized as unrepresentative of the student population.

Alykhan Merali (SFS ’13), spokesman for the student advocacy group DC Students Speak, said that he doubts this change in leadership will improve relations between the university and the community.

“I understand that her successor [Chris Clements] led the testimony against the Campus Plan at the zoning commission hearings, so I’m not exactly sure as to whether our relations will improve. But we do hope to have more dialogue with BCA,” he said.

Rubino and Clements did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

on his side.

This is his second time as president encountering opposition from the surrounding community. He inherited a contentious situation with the 2000 Campus Plan, which was ultimately resolved in court in 2003. He also played a significant role in his position as a senior administrator during the 1990 Campus Plan proceedings.

The DeGioia administration has made a conscious effort to play a positive role in the District and its surrounding areas.

“Our engagement in the city … has never been greater,” Smulson said.

According to Smulson, both the construction of the Southwest Quadrangle, which allowed more students to live in campus residences, and the Ward 7 initiative, which is a partnership between Georgetown and the Meyers Institute for College Prep, have been significant investments in improving neighborhood relations.

But for all his work at Georgetown and around the globe, many administrators emphasize a single point: DeGioia’s commitment to the undergraduate experience.

“His ability to translate to faculty and senior leaders why we value the development of undergraduates … has very significantly affected choices that senior leaders make in how to respond to student needs,” Porterfield said.

DeGioia has remained active in the academy, teaching an Ignatius Seminar for freshmen in the College. According to Smulson, who served as his chief of staff for four years, his class and weekly office hours are some of the most important events on his calendar.

However, some students feel that DeGioia could engage more on campus.

Brad Hilson (COL ’12) echoed that sentiment. “I never see him on campus. I’ve been here for three and a half years now and I never see him … I don’t think he’s a very student-oriented person.”

A JUGGLING ACT For a university president, however, the job is much more than just community relations and fundraising campaigns.

Those close to him say that the non-stop commitment takes its toll and that DeGioia doesn’t give an inch.

“There is no person in this university, not one, who would ever tell you that when they were working with President DeGioia, they worked harder than him,” Porterfield said. “He has been a servantleader in the role of president in support of Georgetown University and its people.”

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Disinterest Derails Yearbook After Graduation, Students YEARBOOK, from A1 features that it was able to add as a sanctioned student publication.

“If the students want that, then they have to show the administration and the Media Board that they are willing to work for it,” she wrote in an email.

The yearbook’s fate has been precarious for the past few years, following the rise of social networking and declining awareness of Ye Domesday Booke’s existence. With the advent of sites such as Facebook, students now have free access to photos and comments that would normally be featured in the annual book.

Current transition editor Ciara Foldenauer (COL ’14) said that it has been hard to attract attention to a publication that she believes is dropping in popularity across the board.

“Maybe it’s not really a college thing anymore,” she said, pointing out the decisions of other universities, namely Mount

Holyoke College and Wesleyan University, to discontinue the publication of their yearbooks.

Foldenauer also said that people who are interested in publishing, writing and photography have gravitated toward more visible on-campus publications.

With the current lack of interest in Ye Domesday Booke, Foldenauer questioned whether this year’s edition will get published.

Despite the $1,000 stipend and free summer housing provided for co-editors of Ye Domesday Booke, fewer than one dozen people have applied for the position this year.

However, 12 to 15 people have expressed interest in engaging with the yearbook this year in lesser roles.

“We never got around to actually staffing people because there wasn’t enough interest,” Foldenauer said.

The yearbook depends heavily on student contributions, but most undergraduates seem hesitant to help because of the

workload required, according to Foldenauer.

“There are other things I could be doing with my summer that are more useful for my future career,” Preston Mui (COL ’13) said.

Because it involves a lengthy production process, Ye Domesday Booke requires its staff to live at the university over the summer in order to reach the deadline for its publication.

“How do we balance the institutional value of having a yearbook with perceived low interest on the part of students?”

Erika Cohen-Derr, director of the center for student programs, said. “The physical nature of the yearbook does make it special, but all options are on the table.”

While many sympathize with the yearbook’s predicament, Jordan Moeny (SFS ’15) said the legacy of the publication does not necessarily make it an integral component of university life.

“I think it’s unfortunate. …

But life will go on,” she said.

HOYAlert Keeps GU Informed CAROLYN CLENDENIN Special to The Hoya

From alerting residents about flying debris during Hurricane Irene to relaying the threat of an armed gunman at the Law Center’s campus, the HOYAlert system has become a staple of university communication this year.

Over 15,550 students, faculty and staff are subscribed to HOYAlert, the Office of University Safety system that updates the community about real-time changes to the university’s operating status due to inclement weather and immediate safety threats.

“The HOYAlert system is designed as an opt-in system, where members of the community choose to enroll in the system in order to receive alerts,” Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh wrote in an email. “It serves as one of the primary means of communication in the event of an incident that poses a life safety threat to members of the Georgetown University community.”

Participation in the system requires a university NetID and the selection of a primary on-campus location with which the individual identifies as his or her primary location — typically one’s residence hall or apartment.

Although electing to receive HOYAlerts is entirely voluntary, the Office of University Safety strongly encourages students, faculty and staff to sign up for the system.

“The importance of enrolling in HOYAlert cannot be understated,” Pugh wrote.

According to her, the develop-

ment of the HOYAlert system was prompted by the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, after which several universities instituted emergency notifications systems.

However, concerns about delayed response time were heightened by the possible gunman on the Georgetown Law Center campus two weeks ago. Those on the main campus subscribed to HOYAlert received a text message from the university at around 1:40 p.m. to alert them of the event though the gunman was reported near the Law Center at approximately 12:30 p.m. Some students were initially alarmed by a lack of communication from the university after Vital Vittles and the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union temporarily closed after hearing of the threat around 1 p.m.

The main campus alert was the second in a series of text messages sent to HOYAlert participants, according to Pugh. The first was sent to individuals enrolled in the system who identified themselves as members of the Law Center campus.

Pugh acknowledged the difficulty of distributing information as quickly as possible, however.

“Every situation is unique, and delivery time is impacted by cellular network coverage, carrier infrastructure and a variety of other factors,” Pugh wrote.

HOYAlert operates under the guidelines established by the university’s Department of Emergency Management & Operation Continuity, and its use in individual situations is based on the input of law enforcement professionals, according to Pugh.

The text, voice and email messaging system is part of a larger university communication network that is intended to alert students through multiple means in the case of an emergency. This includes broadcast emails sent to all university members, preparedness website updates, banners on the Georgetown website, GU cable television banners and the network of building and floor marshals.

“We take the safety and security of our community very seriously, and we are always reviewing our procedures to see how we can enhance them,” Pugh wrote.

Many students have taken the warnings of the Office of University Safety to heart and signed up for the service in order to remain aware of campus safety concerns.

“I think it lets you know important safety information on campus that you wouldn’t necessarily know,” Courtney Ingard (COL ’15) said.

For Ingard, the service helped when the university sent a mass text messages alerting students about the possibility of a gas leak in Maguire Hall in mid-September.

“I have a class in McGuire and it just made me more aware, so I could avoid the area,” she said.

Others, however, do not see the merits of a system that they feel is overbearing.

“I didn’t even know about it,” Elizabeth DeRosa (COL ’13) said.

“I think the emails are sufficient to my knowledge of what’s going on.”

“There’s so much crime at this school, and I don’t like getting flooded with text messages,” Claire Hardwick (COL ’12) said.

Find New Ways to Serve VOLUNTEERS, from A1 For Caitlin Devine (COL ’10), her time working with the Center for Social Justice and Campus Ministry prompted her to seek a unique way to explore her passion for women’s rights.

During her job search, Devine jumped at the chance to work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. The JVC blends the time-honored Jesuit values of social justice, simple living, community and spirituality with modern grassroots volunteer techniques. According to Georgetown’s 2010 senior survey, an annual appraisal of where recent graduates are working, four members of the class of 2010 are volunteering with JVC. “The level of community [is] unique to JVC,” she said. “I was drawn to it because of its commitment to Ignatian and Jesuit-inspired social justice.”

During her year with JVC, Devine worked with a women’s rights group in Milwaukee, Wisc. She served in a diverse set of roles, ranging from managing a hotline for women in crisis to lobbying government officials in Wisconsin during the state’s 2011 budget crisis.

Devine said that she viewed working with JVC as an experience that was too good to pass up.

“This is really the only time in my life that I can do something like this,” Devine said. “I figured that I should do something like this before I have a family and kids.”

JVC members are given modest stipends and live among the disadvantaged people they serve. This lifestyle creates an intentional community, immersing volunteers in the social conditions that they strive to change.

“Being part of JVC is a 24/7 lifestyle,” said Scott Lensing (COL ’11), a JVC volunteer assigned to Chrysalis, a nonprofit employment agency in California.

During the day, Lensing is employed as an employment specialist, serving as a case manager for the homeless and the struggling unemployed. He helps them highlight their strengths and present themselves effectively in the job market.

After work, he attends spiritual activities and community-building exercises.

Lensing said that he hopes his experiences will provide him with the information he needs to make a long-term career decision.

“This was an experience that I was hoping … would be a launchpad into similar work,” he said.

A FAMILIAR MODEL TAKES UNFAMILIAR APPROACH According to the 2010 senior survey, Teach For America, one of the pre-eminent volunteer programs in the United States, employs the highest number of 2010 graduates.

But recently, other organizations have adapted its structural model to tackle a variety of problems. Venture For America, which will hold its first information sessions at Georgetown this fall, has applied the TFA example to mobilize small-business capital.

VFA places college graduates at emerging start-ups and small businesses in cities across the country. There they serve in hands-on roles, contributing to the development of these entrepreneurial ventures. The organization’s ultimate goal is to create 100,000 U.S. jobs by 2025, according to the VFA website.

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THE TFA METHOD GOES GLOBAL Emerging organization Teach For China also got its inspiration and model from TFA. Like its better-known counterpart, the organization seeks to connect graduates with children from poorer areas in China, expecting participants to travel to rural China and work with Chinese graduate students for two years.

This year the organization has nabbed seven Georgetown recruits, the university’s first representatives in TFC. Nirjhor Rahman (MSB ’12), who represents the program on campus, said that the organization has a dual mandate to promote education in China and improve the country’s relationship with the United States.

“Our goal is to help address the needs of students in the near-term, while cultivating relationships between future leaders in Sino-U.S. relations at a crucial point in their lives,” Rahman said.

A CATHOLIC NETWORK A bit closer to home, Partners in Los Angeles Catholic Education is sending recent college graduates like Elizabeth Meerson (COL ’11) to work in underprivileged Catholic schools. She is one of three Georgetown graduates to participate in the program, according to PLACE. The choice to work with PLACE represented a major shift in career goals for Meerson, who had come to campus her freshman year harboring aspirations to become a translator for the State Department.

But her experiences as a tutor at Calvin Coolidge High School and the D.C. State School, and her time as a member of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, convinced her to change her plans.

“I really don’t want a desk job. I want to be active,” Meerson said.

For Meerson, PLACE is not simply a “gap year” between college and graduate school.

As part of the program, Meerson teaches during the school day and takes Master’s degree courses in education during the evenings.

Over 98 percent of PLACE graduates stay in teaching, making the choice to participate a life-changing decision.

“It’s crazy to think that six months ago I was an undergrad, because my priorities have completely changed,” she said. “I always considered myself to be really passionate about many causes, especially education. Now, I’m putting my money where my mouth is.”

Though Meerson said the work can be taxing, she remains content with her decision.

“Some days are just so tiring,” she said. “But I could just not imagine myself anywhere else now and being happy.”

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The group’s founder and president, Andrew Yang, hopes that the program will develop participants’ business skills while simultaneously promoting economic growth in struggling communities.

“There are a large number of college graduates who want to learn how to run a business and start a business, but they don’t really know how to go down that path,” Yang said in an interview with The Hoya.

“We send recent college graduates to startups [in] low-cost cities to generate new jobs. …

We think [that] job generation itself is a social good.”

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Suspect Attempted to Bypass Guards in Harbin, VCE SUSPECT, from A1 According to DPS, the suspect was first seen attempting to enter Harbin Hall without a GOCard on an unspecified date. When the Allied Barton security guard would not let him proceed, the suspect said that he was meeting with two friends but did not know their room number. The suspect then had a conversation with the guard for about 25 minutes before leaving the building.

In a second incident just after midnight on Oct. 1, the same suspect tried to walk past the Village C East security guard without presenting identification. When the guard confronted him, he said that he was meeting up with a friend and then left the building.

The suspect in these incidents bears a simi-

larity to the descriptions of suspects in several previous incidents. The suspects in a rash of burglaries this semester were described as black males, about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10 in height and of medium build — matching the description of the suspect in the DPS alert.

At 11 a.m. on Saturday, a Nevils Hall resident woke to find a similarly described suspect in his apartment. When the student attempted to question the suspect, he took the student’s backpack and fled. Two weeks earlier, DPS reported that a black male of a similar description stole laptops, an unspecified amount of U.S. currency and several electronic items from LXR and Harbin Halls on Sept. 16 and Sept. 17, respectively.

Representatives of DPS did not respond by press time to requests for further comment.

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GU Confident Despite Losing Perfect Road Record MEN’S SOCCER, from A12 good at home and they’re very athletic and very organized,” Wiese said. “They’re a top 20 team, so you have to be very good when you’re in that environment. It was just one of those nights that didn’t quite happen.”

The Mountaineers outshot the Hoyas 17-12 and took 12 corners to Georgetown’s six. Both keepers managed two saves in the net while junior goalkeeper Justin Holmes earned the victory for West Virginia.

The Hoyas were able to rebound quickly, however, for Wednesday’s game against Seton Hall. Junior midfielder Andy Riemer scored two goals to lead his team to a 3-1 victory.

“I thought the guys’ mentality was really good against Seton Hall,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “They

came out with a real focus because they knew it was an important three points to get on the road in the Big East. They understand that no matter who you play you have to be good.”

The Pirates (4-7-2, 0-4 Big East) came out strong Wednesday night, scoring the first goal of the game just nine minutes into play. A cross from freshman midfielder Damian Bziukiewicz found the feet of classmate and defender Jason Wellington, who fired a shot past Hoya freshman goalkeeper Tomas Gomez from 8 yards out to give Seton Hall the early lead.

“The interesting thing against Seton Hall was that we lost a goal 10minutes in. What was good to see was that the guys responded really well,” Wiese said. “Nothing changed and they didn’t go into panic mode.

They just kept pressing. We had a lot of near misses, and with that

normally a lot of teams get at each other and get really frustrated. But even though we were down a goal, we kept firing away.”

Seton Hall was unable to keep up for the remainder of the game, as Georgetown went on to score three unanswered goals. The Hoyas found the equalizer in the 25th minute, when Riemer tallied his first goal of the game on a pass from freshman defender Tyler Rudy. Rudy managed to get behind the Pirate defense before sending the ball into Riemer, whose low shot hit the left corner of the net to tie the game at one.

In the 53rd minute, a cross attempt by the Hoyas was blocked by freshman goalkeeper Mario DeClerico, but the ball landed right at the feet of sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann. The Hoyas’ top scorer knocked it in from point-blank

range to put the Hoyas up, 2-1. The go-ahead goal was his seventh of the season.

Neumann continued to put pressure on the Seton Hall defense, scooping up a failed clearing attempt by the Pirates in the 65th minute. After making his way into the box, he sent the ball to Riemer, who then tallied his second and final goal of the match.

Georgetown displayed its offensive skills once again, outshooting Seton Hall, 19-13. The Hoyas had seven shots on goal to the Pirates’ five.

Georgetown’s defense contributed to the win as well, with Gomez managing four saves in net for his eighth win of the season.

“One of the things people might not appreciate is how good our back four was in that game,” Wiese said.

“When we turned the ball over it was very tricky for them deal with transi-

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Irish Pose Daunting Task for Hoyas KEITH LEVINSKY Hoya Staff Writer

In the middle of a Big East swing, No. 20 Georgetown (8-2-3, 3-1-0 Big East) returns to the Hilltop tomorrow to take on one of the best teams in the nation, No. 12 Notre Dame (5-3-4, 1-2-1 Big East). The Hoyas are coming off a 3-1 victory on Wednesday over Seton Hall, which in turn came on the heels of a heartbreaking 1-0 road loss to West Virginia last weekend. The win over the Pirates was crucial for the Hoyas’ confidence and should give them momentum going forward.

“If you lose that game, you start questioning things. A kernel of doubt creeps in,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “We just said that the West Virginia game ended a 10game unbeaten streak and now we can start another one.”

The goal conceded against Seton Hall marks the third straight game in which the Blue and Gray have failed to keep a clean sheet. This could be worrisome for Wiese, whose team had gone four games without conceding before its Oct. 4 win over American, but the coach isn’t concerned with his defense.

“That is [the] nature of the game. I don’t have any real worries from the defensive point of view,” he said. “The back four was really good last night.”

The Hoyas are somewhat fortunate in that tomorrow’s opponents have been struggling for several weeks. The Fighting Irish have not won a game since defeating No. 3 Louisville on Sept. 24. They are 0-2-2 over the past few weeks and are coming off a 1-0 loss to Marquette on Wednesday. .

“I think they are a wounded tiger,” Wiese said. “I wasn’t really happy that they lost to Marquette, because they are going to be coming in here with a lot more focus. I think we will get their best punch.”

Prior to the Golden Eagles, the Fighting Irish had earned an impressive draw against

After defeating Wagner this past Saturday in Staten Island, N.Y., to push their record to 4–2 on the year in a game that was close throughout, the Georgetown football team heads across town to face intra-city rival Howard on Saturday in the Mayor’s Cup. A week after coming out slowly against Bucknell, Georgetown (4-2, 1-1 Patriot League) built a 14–3 lead by halftime, going into the locker room in position to control the second half and come away with the win.

“The defense played lights out,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “Offensively we struggled a little bit but we made big plays when we had to make them and Brett Weiss kicked a 49-yard field goal and was 3-of-3 on field goals, so he had an outstanding day as well.”

The Blue and Gray front seven was once again the team’s most impressive group, allowing the Seahawks only 77 yards rushing on 33 carries, an average of 2.3 yards per attempt. They spent the majority of the after-

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Freshman defender Tyler Rudy, who assisted on a goal against Seton Hall Wednesday night, leads Georgetown in shooting percentage at .273.

No. 1 Connecticut. The Fighting Irish’s other loss during this winless streak came against another tough Big East team, No. 15 St. John’s.

“The teams they play aren’t patty cake teams,” Wiese said. “They play teams that are going to make it so that they don’t score four goals a game.”

Even with these teams’ recent propensity to concede goals, tomorrow’s game features a match-up of two quality defenses and goalkeepers. Georgetown freshman goalkeeper Tomas Gomez has an impressive .508 goals against average and a .875 save percentage, good for eighth in the nation in both categories. Notre Dame senior goalkeeper Will Walsh has been almost as good, posting a .818 save percentage and an .815 goals against average.

On the other end of the pitch, the Fighting Irish’s potent attack is spearheaded by junior forward Ryan Finley, who leads the team with four goals. The junior, who trans-

ferred to Notre Dame from Duke, led the nation in goals per game last year and was named the Atlantic Coast Conference offensive player of the Year in 2010.

“They are a team [that] doesn’t have a lot of obvious weaknesses,” Wiese said. “They are really organized and athletic.”

Saturday’s game will also be a special one for Wiese, who coached and played for Notre Dame for 10 years.

“My mentor as a coach is [Notre Dame Head Coach] Bobby Clark,” Wiese said. “I [also] have a close connection with the staff ... They are close friends of mine.”

As much as he likes his alma mater, Wiese still badly wants to beat them for the first time in his coaching career.

“It’s a game that I have a little bit of a thing where I haven’t beaten them yet,” Wiese said. “I have tied them, but this is the one I would like to get. Put that one to bed.”

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. at North Kehoe Field tomorrow.

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tion, but they did it really well. We didn’t get a shut out, but their performance allowed us to create the number of chances we did.”

The Hoyas will face off against No. 12 Notre Dame on Saturday in their fifth Big East contest of the season.

Despite the broken unbeaten streak, Wiese and his squad feel good about their chances in the Big East race.

“We have five games left. We’re 3-1 in the league, and of the four games we’ve played three were on the road.

I think anybody in the league would be happy to have that as a starting spot,” Wiese said. “We’ve done a pretty good job handling some of these road games early, so now it’s a question of how we’re going to handle our home games down the stretch and can we get the points that we need.”

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. on North Kehoe Field.

noon in the backfield, on both rushing and passing plays.

The unit sacked Wagner redshirt freshman quarterback Matt Misley three times, broke up seven passes, and grabbed a victory sealing interception late in the fourth quarter to turn in one of their best performances this year. But they were plagued by the same pass defense problems they have had all season, allowing 230 yards on 43 attempts.

“We had a great effort. [We] came out and had probably our most complete game of the year,” junior linebacker Robert McCabe said. “We started out by stopping the run and the defensive line did a great job holding up blockers and making it easy for our linebackers to make plays.”

On offense, the Blue and Gray were able to mix a solid run attack with big plays through the air at advantageous moments, which was plenty on a day when the defense allowed only 10 points. They hope, however, to have a more consistent showing this week.

“We want to sustain drives and keep the defense off the field, give them some rest,” junior quarterback Isaiah Kempf said.

And after a few weeks marked by significant playing time for both quarterbacks, Kempf and senior Scott Darby, Kempf was under center for all but three snaps on Saturday. The junior signal caller controlled the offense well and played a critical role on all four of the Hoyas’ scoring drives.

Kempf, who recorded a touchdown both through the air and on the ground, is expected to get the start, as well as the majority of the snaps, this week as well.

On the opposite sideline, the Bison will have the benefit of a talented dual-threat quarterback, freshman Greg McGhee, who has been named Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week three times this season.

“He is an athletic player. Very explosive,” McCabe said. “We are going to pressure him

and get after him a little bit. He is a freshman so we are going to try and force him into some mistakes”.

McGhee is the heart and soul of the Bison offense, having tossed 849 yards and eight touchdowns while also gaining 216 yards and a score on the ground. He is a big-play threat on any given snap and will surely be the focus of the Hoyas defense.

“He kind of reminds me of Michael Vick,” Kelly said. “He is number seven, he’s a lefty and he runs around a little bit.”

McGhee is aided by senior running back Terrence Leffall, who has averaged 4.4 yards per carry on his way to 350 yards for the season.

Leffall, however, left last week’s game versus Florida A&M with a concussion, and his status is uncertain. He was replaced by a duo of sophomore Andra Williams and freshman Aquanius Freeman.

Perhaps the Bison’s second-most important playmaker on offense is senior wide receiver Willie Carter, who has accumulated 378 yards receiving while snatching five touchdown passes.

The Howard defense is lead by the aptly named senior defensive end Sackie Kerkulah, who has racked up 9.5 tackles for a loss, which have pushed opponents back a total of 51 yards, as well as 5.5 quarterback sacks — stats that rank him near the top of the FCS leaderboard.

“Their front four is probably the best we will face all year,” Kempf said. “We are going to do a lot of motions and stuff to keep their front four [under control]”.

Another major contributor for Howard on defense is redshirt junior linebacker Keith Pough, who has 8.5 tackles for a loss to go along with three sacks and five quarterback hits, as well as a forced fumble.

Kickoff is set for Saturday at 1 p.m. at Greene Stadium at Howard University.

n a playoffs particularly devoid of the “usual” powers, most Major League Baseball fans are left searching for a team to root for. The typical rules don’t apply, as Red Sox fans can’t blindly root against the Yankees, and Phillies fans can’t cheer for the Braves’ eventual demise, or vice versa.

In the 2011 playoffs, almost every fan base (minus those of the active four teams) is left scratching its collective head, wondering whom to root for.

For those on the fence about this decision, the Brewers bring to the postseason the best feel-good story — and one that’s received very little press. This isn’t the story of Nyjer Morgan (aka Tony Plush) and his possible multiple personalities, or even Prince Fielder and his intentions for next season, but rather the story of Zack Greinke, and how he’s successfully battled the invisible.

Only six years removed from a seven-month break from baseball, Greinke toed the mound for his first career playoff start this season. In front of 44,000 towel-waving Wisconsinites, Greinke stood alone, 60 feet and 6 inches away from the plate. Despite a disappointing outing based on statistics, the young ace had already won the largest battle of all. Forgotten by most, Zack had to leave baseball in 2006 to deal with a social anxiety disorder and depression, and now he is leading a potential World Series run.

For his entire career prior to joining the Brewers, Greinke had faced the pressures piled on a top-10 draft pick mentioned in Michael Lewis’ Moneyball. He was young, tall and had all the intangibles.

Because of this, the long-suffering Royals organization and fans put immense faith in him to be their savior.

Zack could not live up to expectations, partly due to very little help from his offense.

At the age of 21, he suffered through a 17-loss season in which he posted a dismal 5.80 ERA. Most of us can’t fathom being stranded on the lonely pitcher’s mound for 33 miserable starts at our age, giving up almost six runs each game.

Eventually the combination of stress, enormous expectations and internal demons became too much, and Greinke sought treatment. Baseball

fans everywhere are thankful for this, as Zack’s Cy Youngwinning season in 2009 was a masterpiece that fans of all teams could appreciate.

When Greinke takes the mound for each start, the casual observer sees only a tall and lanky pitcher with an icecold demeanor. Between his glare in nearly every picture, his awkward and forced halfsmile and his pained words during interviews, fans choose to see a “tough as nails” competitor who was forged in the losing fires of Kansas City.

What few people look deep enough to see is that Greinke struggles every day with things most people find commonplace. He’s described talking to others as a chore that is capable of “taking a lot out of [me].” He’s spoken previously about not enjoying spending time in the clubhouse, supposedly a player’s refuge.

Greinke, whose fastball reaches upward of 95 miles per hour, represents an unlikely hero for the 19 million Americans suffering from depression and for anyone else in need of an athletic role model who suffers like a real person.

It’s not uncommon for athletes to not enjoy talking with the media, as Deion Sanders throwing water on reporter Tim McCarver many years ago demonstrates, but Greinke’s case is entirely different. Greinke doesn’t frequent lavish restaurants, “because sometimes that wears [him] out,” and despises interviews.

In an era where an athlete (Alex Rodriguez) can have two paintings of himself as a centaur in his home, Zack Greinke fights every day for a sense of normalcy. When we watch him throw this postseason, spectators should ignore the $13.5 million he earned in 2011 and focus on the beauty of his story.

When choosing a team for this postseason, it almost seems intuitive to root for the story of a young ace fighting an invisible demon rather than a team like the Tigers, whose star hitter Miguel Cabrera infamously drank from a bottle of alcohol in front of an officer while being pulled over on suspicion of DUI. On baseball’s largest stage, Greinke is proving for 17 million Americans that he’s not about to let depression get the best of him — and neither should they.

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After a fourth-place finish at the Paul Short Invitational two weeks ago, the women’s team slipped to No. 5 in the rankings. But Miltenberg thinks the fall is a blessing in disguise for the team.

“I’ve already seen a big change in these guys, knowing we’ll be the underdogs again,” Miltenberg said. “It’s what we’re used to.”

And the Hoyas will approach their new ranking with a new — and finally healthy — squad this weekend.

“This is the first time we’ve put a full team out there, or even close to one,” Miltenberg said.

The team has battled a barrage of minor injuries, but Miltenberg is confident that the team is almost back to full health. In fact, Infeld herself has yet to race this year but will look to get back into the flow of competition this weekend at the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind. “Infeld is doing great,” Miltenberg said. “Her hip flexor was sore for a few days, but now she’s doing fantastic. This weekend is really going to be like a starting point for her.”’

The Blue and Gray look to continue to use the game plan they have executed multiple times this year. The strategy calls for conservative pacing through the first 5k to allow the runners to track down their opponents over the last three kilometers.

“One thing I love about our team is that pace doesn’t really matter,” Infeld said. “We have a bunch of really great athletes, so it’s good to run together as a team.”

Although Miltenberg plans to be cautious with Infeld, he still expects her to handle the pacing.

“I think the pack she’ll be running with will be the lead pack,” Miltenberg said. “She’s always great at coming from behind and finishing well.”

The men’s team, which will travel to Wisconsin, will employ a similar pacing. The event, the adidas Invitational, boasts the toughest and deepest competition the Hoyas will

face — including the national tournament.

“It’s a 42-team field, and most of the top 25 teams will be there,” Assistant Coach Michael Banks said. “Our pacing worked well at the Paul Short [Invitational, the team’s last event], where we beat a lot of opponents ranked higher than us, so we’re in a great position to train hard and not worry about the actual outcome.”

For the men, the team will consist of a mixture of experience and youth. The Hoyas will rely on performances from senior Mark Dennin and junior Andrew Springer, but Banks is most excited about a pair of freshmen — Omar Kaddurah and John Murray.

“They’re all training really well,” Banks said. “Springer is very fit and Mark Dennin is going to continue getting better and better every single week.

But I’m looking to see if the two freshmen, Murray and Omar, can really bounce back after their performance in the Paul Short.”

The leadership that the juniors and seniors show will be instrumental in developing the younger athletes on the team, a concept Infeld clearly understands.

“We’ve gotten really good recruiting classes,” Infeld said.

“We have a huge sophomore and freshman class, which is a big advantage. The girls have obviously done very well for themselves … Everybody contributes a lot, and as a team, we have a lot of great girls who all want to work hard and do well.”

But Infeld knows that talent and hard work alone will not replace the experience and accomplishments of the graduating students.

“Right now, I’m just trying to be a good leader and role model for my teammates,” Infeld said. “We’re trying to work together and help everybody out.

People have off days and rough days in our sport, so it’s important to know and remember that.”

And even though Georgetown will lose a seven-time AllAmerican, Infeld’s leadership and experience will not be lost on the program – which, thanks to her, has a brighter future than ever before.

Henderson, who has scored 11 goals so far this season, and freshman forward Lauren Bohaboy, who has six, both rank among the nation’s best. Sophomore forward Adriana Leon, who scored the winning goal in the 2010 NCAA College Cup, also helps Notre Dame get the ball in the net.

On defense, senior defender Jessica Schuveiller has already been named Big East defensive player of the week once this season and has been a potent force on offense as well, notching five goals.

The Irish will be a tough matchup for the Hoyas, who are led by redshirt senior midfielder Ingrid Wells and senior forwards Camille Trujillo and Sam Baker.

Freshman midfielder Daphne Corboz has also made an immediate contribution with six goals on the season. While Notre Dame is tough, Georgetown needs a win to reassert itself at the top of its division in the Big East.

Compared to Notre Dame, DePaul is something of a lesser rival. The Blue Demons have struggled all season and average just 0.8 goals a game, exactly half the 1.6 they have allowed for their opponents.

DePaul’s only Big East victory came against fellow conference laggard Provi-

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A dejected Mary Kroening walks off the field after Louisville’s game-winning goal in double overtime last weekend. The Hoyas hope to get back on track this weekend in Indiana.

dence. The Blue Demons haven’t been particularly dangerous at home, either, carrying a miserly 2-4 record in Chicago.

Senior forward Morgan Celaya and freshman midfielder Amber Paul have led the Blue Demons so far this season, with three goals a piece through 15 games. Junior goalkeeper Claire Hanold has allowed 15 goals while saving 43, while freshman goalie Megan Pyrz has let nine goals in

and stopped 45.

While DePaul’s struggles make a Georgetown win likely, it remains critical that the Hoyas clamp down on defense and stop the Blue Demons to gain more points in their race for the Big East divisional title.

Kickoff against Notre Dame is 7:30 p.m. tonight in South Bend. Georgetown faces DePaul at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

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After a tough one-goal loss to St. Joseph’s last weekend, the Georgetown field hockey team (2-11, 0-3 Big East) heads to the Empire State this weekend to take on Syracuse (11-2, 3-0 Big East) and Cornell (56, 0-3 Ivy League).

Last Sunday at the William I. Jacobs Recreational Complex at American University, Georgetown and St. Joe’s played neck-and-neck in a defensive battle all afternoon. The only blemish against the Hoyas came just eight minutes into the second half, as St. Joe’s freshman forward Jordan Martin followed up a rebound with a goal. The Blue and Gray battled for the rest of the game, but could not capitalize on their offensive efforts and lost an excruciatingly close game.

“No loss is easy to accept, especially in a close game,” senior defender and co-captain Ai Nishino said. “However, what I love about my team is that we stick together, look at what we did right and what we did wrong. Every game is an opportunity to grow and learn.”

The second half of the St. Joe’s game showcased an invigorated Blue and Gray as they had an increased number of chances to score — a difference that made Head Coach Tiffany Marsh excited.

“We played a tough defensive game, and made key changes in the second half,” Head Coach Tiffany Marsh said.

“Those changes created more scoring opportunities for us. We’re looking forward to advancing those improvements next weekend against Syracuse and Cornell.”

The first of this weekend’s matchups pits Georgetown against formidable Big East rival Syracuse. Syracuse boasts a potent scoring attack led by junior forward Kelsey Millman and senior forward Heather Susek. Syracuse is on an eightgame winning streak in which they have scored an incredible 31 goals.

“We recognize that Syracuse is a good team with great players,” Nishino said. “We respect their skill. We are focusing on what we do best — playing together and focusing on executing our fundamental skills.”

Georgetown has lost eight straight games and has surrendered 35 goals in the process. The Hoyas’ defense will need to bounce back from last Sunday’s performance, when they allowed 19 shot attempts, 10 of which were on target.

“We’ve prepared since August for our Big East games,” senior midfielder and cocaptain Kalli Krumpos said. “If we can execute the aspects of the game under our control and play the way we want to, we will have a successful weekend.”

Nishino and Krumpos both feel that

practices have been sharp this past week and that the entire team is focused on the weekend ahead.

“Playing a Big East game always comes with a little bit more pressure, but it has been a productive week at practice and we’re excited to play under the lights at Syracuse,” Krumpos said.

“The Syracuse game is always a big game for us,” Nishino said. “Especially because it’s a team in the Big East, we know how important the game is. We’re all focused on the upcoming weekend.”

After battling the Orange, the Hoyas will make the hour drive south to take on the Big Red. On paper, this game has the potential to be great, as both teams appear to be evenly matched and similarly skilled. The winner will be the team that capitalizes on its scoring opportunities, since both sides have struggled to put the ball in the net this season. Fans should expect a tight battle all afternoon.

“In order to have a successful weekend, we need to make sure the team stays on the same page and stays together, both on and off the field,” Nishino said.

The Syracuse game gets underway Friday at 6 p.m. at J.S. Coyne Stadium in Syracuse, N.Y. The Hoyas will then have a day off before playing Cornell on Marsha Dodson Field in Ithaca, N.Y., on Sunday at noon.

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BCS System Rife With Corruption Hoyas Take On Wildcats Matt Emch

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he Bowl Championship Series has a long history of sparking some of the most vicious arguments between college football fans during bowl season. It relies on a bizarre methodology that combines data from the AP Poll, the Coaches’ Poll and a computer algorithm to select the top two teams in the country to compete in the national championship. This system hardly leaves college football fans satisfied, since there are usually more than two teams with legitimate claims to play in the championship game.

While these year-to-year controversies might seem like part of the game for college football fans, the real problems lie slightly below the surface.

In 2007 the West Virginia Mountaineers were playing in the highprofile Fiesta Bowl against perennial powerhouse Oklahoma. Since West Virginia could not sell their full ticket allotment of 17,500, they needed the university, and thus the state, to step in and eat those losses. In all, the athletic department lost a little over $1 million, even though the Mountaineers beat the Sooners.

The ticket money, though, found its way to some pretty interesting places.

Initially, it went to the Fiesta Bowl, which later that year paid the American Express bill of bowl CEO John Junker. Despite the fact that one of the charges on the bill was a $1271.75 trip to a gentlemen’s club called Bourbon Street, not one of the board members batted an eye.

Still think for-profit college sports are about the student-athletes?

When these indiscretions were un-

earthed, the public thought that it was just another CEO gone wild. Instead, it proved to be just the tip of the iceberg, as the lies and corruption proved to be a deep-rooted tradition in the Arizona desert.

Junker and other Fiesta Bowl officials had been making illegal political contributions in hopes of currying favor with various politicians since 2000. Their hope was to grease enough palms that they would become an untouchable economic force while being able to pay the teams that competed in their game exorbitant amounts of money.

Initially, the Fiesta Bowl ran an internal investigation, which was widely unquestioned by state officials. I wonder why? It took an investigation by Craig Harris of The Arizona Republic to bring to light many of the allegations that surrounded the Fiesta Bowl and its board members. In his findings, he found that Junker was only made a scapegoat to maintain the status quo. He saw the corruption on an even deeper level. It involved a plethora of coaches and athletic directors who were raking in the benefits from BCS bowls.

How is this different from the annual college basketball tournament, the largest single money-making event for the NCAA, you ask? The difference is in the details.

Rather than letting various independent corporations deal with March Madness’ money, the NCAA deals with the finances on its own. A small amount of the money generated will go to the NCAA, but the majority of it will go back to the schools that desperately need it. Unlike West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl, a school wouldn’t have to come up with the rest of the money if it couldn’t sell its ticket allotment in the NCAA tournament; the NCAA picks up the tab and lets the schools relish in the moment rather than worrying about dollars and cents.

In the BCS system, the four bowls that comprise it negotiate a television contract, worth about $125 million, rather than letting the NCAA do it for them.

Estimates show that if the bowl system — or, better yet, a bowl playoff system — were totally run by the NCAA, it would make over three times the amount the BCS system currently garners.

So why do the presidents still support the current BCS system? Well, it’s because they trust their coaches and athletic directors to give them honest feedback, which they have no intention of giving due to the benefits they receive from these bowls.

Up until 2008, the Fiesta Bowl put on what they called a “Fiesta Frolic.” It included athletic directors and coaches being put up in a 5-star hotel for three days with endless rounds of golf, drinks and other hospitality favors paid for by — you guessed it — the Fiesta Bowl. Despite this excess, bowl officials had the audacity to ask for a $300,000 government subsidy to make up for a budget shortfall. Combine that with the fact that no BCS bowls pay taxes, since they are registered as 501(c)(3) charities, and you have a breeding ground for topdown corruption.

Junker was fired, but his legacy remains in college football. Even though the entire Fiesta Bowl was wrought with corruption, it was not expelled from the BCS system. The $1 million fine that the Fiesta Bowl had to pay for its considerable indiscretions was a small price to pay for a decade of corruption. Until there is a grassroots effort by the presidents of large universities to put a stop to this corruption, the coaches and athletic directors will continue to soak up the lavish benefits bestowed upon them by the various BCS bowls.

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

LEONARD OLSEN Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown volleyball team (10-9, 2-4 Big East) will head to Villanova (12-8, 4-2 Big East) this weekend to take on the Wildcats on Saturday. The short trip to Philadelphia’s suburbs will be a relief for the Hoyas, who are coming off a long weekend during which they traveled to Marquette and Syracuse.

The Blue and Gray fell in straight sets to Marquette, but rebounded with a thrilling five-set win over rival Syracuse to cap out the weekend. The team will look to ride that momentum into their contest with the Wildcats.

“We played well, just inconsistently against Marquette,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said. “But we shook it off … and went out and played a tough Syracuse team and came out on the winning end.”

Meanwhile, the Wildcats come into the match on a three-game losing streak. Their season has been up and down thus far, as a steady preseason gave way to four straight league victories. Villanov’s recent losses have come at the hands of Syracuse, Marquette and William and Mary.

However, the Hoyas are expecting a very tough match and do not think their opponents’ recent struggles will have a bearing on the outcome of the match.

“The fact that they lost three in a row will only make them that much more hungry. They are going to come out ready to battle,” Williams said.

“Villanova is extremely well coached, and those girls go out and play.”

The Wildcats have been strong offensively this year, particularly in sharing the ball. They average an impressive 11.7 assists per set, and have also averaged 12.7 kills per set while their opponents have only put up 11.2.

Individually, senior and defending Big East libero of the year Kim Maroon anchors an equally strong Villanova defense, as she has totaled 481 digs while adding 114 assists. Redshirt junior outside hitter Morgan Petkovich leads the team in kills with 218, while senior middle blocker Maggie Mergen has posted 206 with a .237 hitting percentage. “[Maroon] is really solid defensively.

Their middles are also very good for them,” Williams said. “[Villanova Head Coach Josh Steinbach] has any number of people that can step in and make it tough for us if their game is on.”

However, Williams noted that the Hoyas will primarily focus on their own play rather than worry over what Villanova will do. She stressed defensive discipline as well as a continuation of their solid passing and strong play from the hitting positions.

“We need to take care of the things we can control and put ourselves in a position to stop what they are good at,” Williams said. “They are extremely confident in their passing, so we need to make sure we go after them with our serving.”

As they have done all year, the Hoyas will look to senior libero and captain Tory Rezin to stabilize their defense, and will rely on senior setter Ashley Malone to create kill opportunities for their hitters. Freshman outside hitter Alex Johnson currently leads the team in kills and hitting percentage, but the Blue and Gray have gotten consistent production from all five of their hitters this year.

The match is slated for 7 p.m. on Saturday at Villanova’s Jake Nevin Fieldhouse, and Williams thinks the game will prove thrilling for the crowd.

“Josh always gives us a great match.

It’s always a battle [against Villanova], and I’m looking forward to taking them on again this year,” Williams said.

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“I think [the Fighting Irish] are a wounded tiger. ... I wasn’t really happy that they lost to Marquette. I think we will get their best punch.”

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going to help her a lot. They’re arguably the two best collegiate cross-country runners of all Georgetown legend Patrick time.”

Ewing, whose illustrious NBA caPart of this experience came reer was only outshined by the last summer, when Infeld comimpact he had on the Hoyas’ bas- peted in the USA Track & Field ketball program, was named an outdoor championships, clockAll-American four times in his ing a time of 4:08 in the 1500m. college career.

Her time was good enough Senior Emily Infeld has re- for eighth place and was tops ceived that honor seven times — among collegiate racers. and she still has a year to go.

“I think running [my time] No, Infeld is not a seventh-year last year in the USAs was one of senior. She simply competes for my biggest accomplishments for the Hoyas throughout the year. A me,” Infeld said. standout athlete But looking in high school, forward, Infeld Infeld has con- “If we keep on doing is more continued her what we’re doing ... cerned about success on the the Hoyas’ team Hilltop in cross- we can get a nation- p e r f o r m a n c e country, indoor al championship.” this year than track and outbettering Reid door track.

EMILY INFELD and the rest of Senior middle distance runner the NCAA field.

In 2010, Infeld finished in “Finishing in the top 10 individually at the na- fourth in [the NCAA national tional cross-country champion- tournament] last year was a ships, as well as in both the 3K huge accomplishment,” Infeld and 5K events in indoor track. said. “If we keep on doing what Last year, Infeld finished second we’re doing day in and day out, at nationals in both cross-coun- all the little things … we can get try and the 3K to Villanova’s a national championship.”

Sheila Reid, who is also returnThe team certainly had high ing for a final year. expectations, garnering a preBut according to Assistant season No. 1 ranking for the first Coach Chris Miltenberg, that time ever. The honor put the won’t necessarily be the case team in unfamiliar territory — this year. at the top.

“If you look at Emily and “[The ranking] is exciting. …

Sheila’s races, they were closest Our team can be underrated at the NCAA meet,” Miltenberg many times,” Infeld said. “But said. “My hope is that she’s a we also like being the underdogs year stronger and older and gotSee CROSS COUNTRY, A11 ten racing experience, and that’s Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior midfielder Andy Riemer, pictured against American, scored two goals in the Hoyas’ 3-1 victory over Seton Hall.

Hoyas Rebound to Crush Pirates MAGGIE LAW

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The Georgetown men’s soccer team split its matches this week, suffering a tough 1-0 loss to West Virginia over the weekend before defeating Seton Hall, 3-1, on Wednesday. The No. 20 Hoyas improved to 8-2-3 on the season and 3-1-0 in conference play.

Saturday’s loss to West Virginia was their first since August. The game snapped Georgetown’s 10-game un-

beaten streak and marked the team’s first defeat on the road.

“The West Virginia game ended an unbeaten WEST VIRGINIA 1 streak, but for us it was like, GEORGETOWN 0 ‘Now we have an opportuSETON HALL 1 nity to start another one,’” GEORGETOWN 3 Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “We’ve got a group of guys that have that mentality of, ‘We

can do 11.’”

The two teams were scoreless for most of the game before junior midfielder Uwem Etuk capitalized on a rebound in the 82nd minute to give the Mountaineers (7-4-1, 3-1 Big East) the lead. Georgetown was unable to fire back, and West Virginia took the 1-0 victory.

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GU Readies for Midwest Swing EVAN HOLLANDER Hoya Staff Writer

After splitting a pair of weekend games against conference rivals, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (11-5-0, 5-3-0 Big East) looks to regain its position atop the league when it travels to Indiana and Illinois this weekend to take on Notre Dame and DePaul.

The Fighting Irish (7-5-3, 4-22 Big East) sit in third place in the Big East’s National Division

and only one point behind the second-place Hoyas. Louisville, who defeated Georgetown Sunday, is in first with a 5-1-2 conference record. DePaul (3-11-1, 1-6-1 Big East) is in the league cellar alongside Cincinnati, who lost to Georgetown last Friday.

While the 2-1 victory over Cincinnati showed off some of the best the Hoyas have to offer — including goals by senior forwards Camille Trujillo and Sam Baker off assists from se-

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Senior forward Camille Trujillo, shown in Georgetown’s loss to Louisville, has scored seven goals in her last five games.

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nior midfielder Ingrid Wells — the Sunday game brought only disappointment.

Although the Cardinals are one of the best teams in the league, the Blue and Gray had an advantage for much of the game, outshooting their rivals 13-6 and holding a 13-2 advantage in corner kicks. Yet when it counted in the two overtime periods, Georgetown came up empty-handed, and Louisville prevailed, 2-1.

“I feel sorry for the kids, thought they left everything on the field, I thought they played ever so well, and that’s our sport sometimes,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “It was a really good game, I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

I’m sort of stunned a little bit, but you’ve got to give [Louisville] credit.”

Defending national champion Notre Dame is still one of the best teams in the Big East, even if it seems a step slower than last season. Its only conference losses came to Louisville and in overtime at Marquette. The Irish have also been a tough 5-1 in South Bend, with their sole loss coming to Louisville.

Notre Dame’s goalkeeping has been stellar under junior Maddie Fox, who has recorded two shutouts in a row against Rutgers and Seton Hall and looks for a third against Georgetown.

The Irish mix youth and experience at the top of their offense. Senior forward Melissa See WOMEN’S SOCCER, A11

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MEDIA DAY Junior forward Hollis Thompson showed off his biceps at Georgetown’s media day Thursday.