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EDITORIAL The GUSA executive deserves praise for what it has achieved.

TAs CONSIDER UNIONIZATION The Doctoral Students Coalition hosted a townhall Wednesday.

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University Renews Khan, Fisk Reassess Priorities Aramark Contract ian scoville Hoya Staff Writer

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Aramark will remain the university’s dining contractor for the next 10 years, with plans to expand meal exchange options and convert the first floor of O’Donovan Hall into a food court this summer.

The contract, announced

by Chief Operating Officer Christopher Augostini in a campuswide email Tuesday, concludes a yearlong bid process for the dining contract between Aramark and Sodexo, the two finalists.

Under Aramark’s plan, the top floor of Leo’s will be renovated into a food court with retail providers, including District Donuts, as well as vegan and gluten-free food options integrated into all menus.

The top floor will have the same amount of seating compared to the current layout but will focus on giving students a meal exchange option with increased portability.

The Fresh Food Company will manage the bottom floor of Leo’s, which will retain the traditional all-you-can-eat layout with See DINING, A6

Aside from beating their competitor, Wisemiller’s sandwich Chicken Madness, by 287 votes, Georgetown University Student Association President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Vice President Chris Fisk’s (COL ’17) election was marked by their platform of bridging the divide between GUSA and students and making progress on the campus plan, dining, mental health, sexual assault and low-income advocacy.

Since then, Khan and Fisk, who gave themselves an Aminus for their performance thus far, have worked with the university to secure the campus plan, renew Georgetown’s 10-year dining contract with Aramark and implement a series of reforms to mental health, sexual assault and lowincome policies.

Midway through their term, the two shared their reflections on the past half year and their upcoming plans in an interview with The Hoya on Tuesday.

A Plan for the Next 20 Years

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As part of Aramark’s plan, the first floor of Leo’s will be renovated to include a food court with new options.

The university filed a finalized version of the 2017-2036 Campus Plan on Sept. 1, concluding months of deliberation between GUSA, the university and representatives from the Georgetown neighborhood.

The final plan prioritizes

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Reflecting on their term thus far, GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17) discussed sucesses and future policy plans. upperclassman housing renovations, allows the renovation and construction of academic spaces and permits the reconstruction of both Kehoe Field and Yates Field House.

The campus plan was the first to include the Georgetown Community Partnership, which consists of university administrators, neighborhood representatives and students, following a lengthy legal battle between the university and neighbors over the 2010 Campus Plan.

The negotiation represented a significant victory for students and GUSA, according to Khan, who is also on GCP.

“When you look at what happened in 2010, in which students essentially got screwed, that is essentially what has led to a lot of the big issues that we’ve experienced since 2010, in terms of deferred maintenance and lack of quality housing on campus, thirdyear housing requirement,” Khan said.

However, Khan said GUSA plans to address issues neglected by the campus plan, including noise violations and transportation policy.

The university has agreed to launch a pilot weekend Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle service next

semester with service from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturdays, according to Khan.

“It’s really working with the university to get certain things done, because quite frankly when you work with the neighbors, things aren’t going to move forward unless you agree. It’s a consensusdriven process,” Khan said.

Reforming Georgetown Dining

The university announced Tuesday that Aramark will continue to serve as the university’s dining contractor for the next 10 years following a See GUSA, A6

Newseum Hoists Austin Tice Banner DC Breaks Early Voting Records MOLLY cOOKE Hoya Staff Writer

The Newseum unveiled a 24-foot-long banner dedicated to kidnapped journalist Austin Tice (SFS ’02) Wednesday with a pledge to keep the banner hanging outside the museum’s Pennsylvania Avenue entrance until Tice is released.

More than 100 people, including Georgetown students and faculty, gathered for the unveiling ceremony, which was hosted in conjunction with Reporters Without Borders to coincide with the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. Tice, whose whereabouts remain unknown since his 2012 kidnapping in Syria, is currently the only American journalist being held captive in the world.

Tice graduated from the School of Foreign Service and served as a captain in the Marine Corps before dropping out of the Georgetown University Law Center to pursue a career as a freelance journalist.

Beginning in 2012, Tice contributed stories about the impact of Syria’s civil war on civilians to The Washington Post, the Associated Press, National Public Radio and the BBC. He disappeared Aug. 14, 2012, as he was preparing to travel from Daraya, Syria, to Beirut, Lebanon.

The last correspondence his family received was a video of a blindfolded Tice held by armed men a month after his disappearance. In

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partnership with the American division of Reporters Without Borders, his parents, Marc and Debra Tice, have continued to request aid to pursue his safe return home.

At the unveiling, Newseum President and CEO Jeffrey Herbst said the the banner’s location about a mile from the White House will remind the public of the dangers faced by the press around the world.

“It will be here, if he is not released beforehand, on Jan. 20 when the next president walks by,” Herbst said. “We hope we will take it down soon when he is released, but we are committed to working toward his freedom for the duration.”

Herbst introduced The Washington Post Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl, who drew parallels between Tice’s kidnapping and detainment of Iranian-American journalist and The Washington Post Tehran Bureau Chief Jason Rezaian, who was released in January after being convicted and jailed for espionage in Iran in 2015.

“The previous ordeal involving The Post’s Tehran Bureau Chief Jason Rezaian has also taught us that public attention is absolutely indispensible in persuading everyone concerned to help innocent journalists like Jason and Austin regain their freedom,” Jehl said.

Reporters Without Borders U.S. Director Delphine Halgand said her organization is focused on emphasizing the urgency of Tice’s case to the U.S. government. She cited

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The Newseum has promised to keep up the new #FreeAustinTice banner until Tice is released. sources in Syria who verify that Tice is still alive and is not being held by the Islamic State group.

“There has been no request for ransom, there has been no direct communication.

What we know is that many high-level sources in different governments assure us that he’s alive, that he’s held captive somewhere in Syria,” Halgand said. “We know he is not held by ISIS, he is not held

by Islamist groups, so it’s not a ransom issue.”

Tice’s mother Debra Tice thanked the Newseum, Reporters Without Borders and those attending the event for their commitment to her son’s freedom and pled for continued help in bringing him home.

“Austin has been held captive in Syria for 1,542 days,” Debra Tice said. “His captivity is indicative of the very real dangers journalists face as they exercise the fundamental See TICE, A6

Tens of thousands of Washington, D.C. voters have broken the District’s early voting records to weigh in on the presidential election, local government races and a referendum to petition Congress to include D.C. as the 51st state.

Across the United States, 37 states and D.C. offer a form of early voting that does not require the voter to provide a reason for not waiting until Election Day next Tuesday. The District, along with 22 other states, allow for early voting on weekends.

According to D.C. Board of Elections Public Information Officer Tamara Robinson, the 2016 election season in D.C. has seen a record 14 percent early turnout among eligible voters, exceeding previous years’ averages hovering at 10 or 11 percent. As of Oct. 31, the D.C. Board of Elections listed 478,93 D.C. residents as registered to vote out of the total population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau of 672,228.

According to the Associated Press, around 33 million votes nationwide, representing roughly one-quarter of total expected votes, have already been cast.

The polls opened at One Judiciary Square in downtown D.C. on Oct. 22 before

expanding to sites in all eight wards Oct. 28, providing eligible residents a nearly two-week window before early voting closes Nov. Off to the Races

The District has three electoral votes, all of which went to President Barack Obama in 2012 along with 90.9 percent of the popular vote.

“We need representation in both houses of Congress.”

JIM SCHANK D.C. Resident

Among the local elections, the Ward 7 seat on the D.C. Council is expected to go to former mayor Vincent Gray (D) over independents Gary Butler and Christian Carter. Gray’s election to the council seat would mark a comeback for the politico, who lost his reelection bid in 2014 to current Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) amid a federal corruption probe into the funding of Gray’s campaign.

Six candidates are vying for the council’s two at-large seats in play, with incumbent David Grosso (I) and Robert See ELECTION, A6

NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

Nike Negotiations Continue Members of the Licensing and Oversight Committee called for more transparency from the university.

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Delayed Justice The recent ruling against honor killings in Pakistan is progress that is too little, too late.

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Semifinal Bout The women’s soccer team will host two-seed DePaul in the Big East semifinal Friday.

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NEWS President’s Award Bestowed

opinion Amend Immigration Rhetoric

SPORTS Curse-Breakers

President DeGioia commended the research and teaching efforts of three professors.

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We must parse through the misinformation surrounding immigration in the United States.

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The Chicago Cubs won in a historic yet sloppy Game 7, breaking their 108-yearlong World Series drought.

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OPINION

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Friday, november 4, 2016

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Narrowing the Divide During the Georgetown University Student Association executive election in March, Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Chris Fisk (COL ’17) ran their campaign with a focus on making GUSA more accessible and increasing socio-economic and racial inclusivity on campus.

Midway through their term as GUSA president and vice president, Khan and Fisk have addressed an array of issues, following through on their campaign slogan of “breaking barriers, building bridges” by launching initiatives that connect student government with the wider student body.

Their leadership has seen reforms that impact the daily lives of students as well as subtler changes that have longer-term implications for Georgetown.

In an interview with this editorial board, Khan and Fisk reflected on the nature and extent of their accomplishments while keeping an eye on future initiatives. The executive gave its current performance, and that of GUSA as a whole, a grade of A-minus. This is a well-deserved self-assessment given its achievements in restructuring GUSA and tackling the issues of sexual assault, dining reform and socio-economic inclusivity. However, to make greater strides as a representative body, Khan and Fisk must work to engage even more students and invest in addressing issues of race and mental health.

Toward a more inclusive campus Throughout their campaign, Khan and Fisk emphasized inclusivity as an overarching theme. Their success so far in this area is highlighted by both structural reforms within GUSA and their collaborations with the university.

In the past half year, GUSA has undergone a restructuring that now holds 20 policy teams, which, with the addition of the cabinet, advisory boards and various committees, expanded the size of GUSA to 400 students. Having such a large group of students has allowed for greater student input in a range of issues.

Khan and Fisk have also maintained a strong relationship with the university administration, having hosted numerous joint events and initiatives together. For instance, they launched the first Advisory Board for Affordability and Access, a group comprising students, staff, faculty and administrators who evaluate resources for low-income and first-generation students.

The signing of a 20-year memorandum of understanding on housing between GUSA and the university is another laudable achievement. The university is now committed to publishing a timeline for much-needed housing renovations, while promising not to build a new residence hall on Harbin Patio as well as ensuring that seniors have a right to live off campus. These efforts demonstrate how the GUSA leadership is successfully leveraging its versatile policy teams to bring GUSA, students and the university together.

In the remainder of their term, Khan and Fisk should look beyond the 400 students in GUSA and seek to involve the wider student body. During this year’s senate elections, the average participation rate among nonfreshman districts was 19.8 percent. The short-lived victory of a Chicken Madness ticket also showcased how some students do not take GUSA seriously.

GUSA is responsible for initiatives that play a large role in all students’ lives, yet many of them remain disengaged with campus issues. Through renewed marketing efforts and improved communications with the student body, GUSA can ensure that students understand what GUSA is doing for them and feel comfortable sharing their perspectives on issues pertinent to them.

Making Progress on Policy Some of the most important policy gains under the Khan and Fisk administration have been in the area of safety and sexual assault. This semester, they have worked with the Center for Student Engagement to require student organizations to send three members of their leadership to un-

dergo bystander intervention training.

GUSA has also pushed forward an initiative to cover the costs of counseling services for sexual assault survivors at Counseling and Psychiatric Services.

Khan and Fisk’s plans for next semester will enable even greater progress in addressing sexual assault on campus. By creating a set of recommendations concerning future sexual misconduct reforms and policies for the Office of President John J. DeGioia office, while working with University Information Services to create an online reporting portal for incidents of sexual assault and misconduct, GUSA will work toward making Georgetown a more survivorcentric campus.

In the area of dining, there has also been significant reform, including the expansion of a meal exchange program in Hoya Court and the ability to use the Tapingo app to preorder meals. Khan and Fisk were also key in working with the university to solidify a new 10-year dining contract that will include major renovations to O’Donovan Hall. Such reforms stand to benefit all students while tackling longstanding dining issues.

Advancements in socio-economic inclusivity should also be noted as both Khan and Fisk have made it a priority to not only establish the aforementioned Advisory Board for Affordability and Access, but also institutional funding for winter break housing. This initiative will ensure winter break housing for students who may lack a stable place to go home over break. The reform reaffirms GUSA ‘s and the university’s commitment to the well-being of all students, no matter their background or socio-economic status.

Throughout the semester, GUSA has also provided platforms for the community to discuss mental health issues on campus.

By hosting numerous open forums, it has allowed students to raise their concerns with existing resources, while highlighting the advancements that have already been made. Khan and Fisk’s plan of continuing to engage current groups and programs like Project Lighthouse and the Mental Health Advisory Board is also a welcome plan of action.

Unfinished Business With five months to go, Khan and Fisk must refocus their attention on two main issues: mental health and racial and cultural inclusivity.

While open forums are valuable, the GUSA executive and policy teams should allocate more time and resources into drafting concrete policies that seek to improve students’ access to mental health resources. With over 10,000 visits per year, CAPS remains a service highly used by students, yet lobbying for even more staff can ensure that the services will be efficient and able to serve students as effectively as possible.

In addition, as an institution that values pluralism, GUSA needs to address issues of race and cultural inclusivity beyond the usual programming. Its plan to partner with the Black Leadership Forum and the Office of the Provost to host open forums is valuable, but efforts to craft specific policies regarding this subject area are lacking.

In their interview, both Khan and Fisk that GUSA is looking into a climate survey dealing with race and cultural inclusivity. This could provide valuable data to guide future policy, and should be one of Khan and Fisk’s priorities going forward.

The A-minus grade that Khan and Fisk gave themselves is fitting for their performance, especially in sexual assault, dining and restructuring GUSA. However, there needs to be an increased focus in making sure the overall student body is engaged with campus issues through more strategic communication efforts.

While past GUSA executives have tried to address this to varying degrees of success, Khan and Fisk’s accomplishments thus far suggest that they have the capability to engage students in ways that prior GUSA administrations have not.

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Hooah! — Army Spc. Samuel Kosgei won the 41st Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, V.A., on Sunday with a time of 2:23:53, beating nearly 30,000 other runners.

Price Bump — The D.C. Metro announced Sunday that, in an effort to curb debt, Metrobus fares will increase for the first time since 2014.

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Bottoms Up — This Saturday, the D.C. Beer Festival will run from noon to 3:00 p.m. in Nationals Park. Over 80 brewers will be represented, and a pass for unlimited tastings can be purchased on Eventbrite for $45.

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Boats in the Sky — A study conducted by the Georgetown Business Improvement District found that a proposal for a gondola system linking Georgetown and Rosslyn is both technically and legally feasible. If the project continues, the gondolas could be ready in four to five years.

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Crowd Pleaser — Starting Nov. 14, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will begin welcoming additional visitors by providing more same-day passes.

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Founded January 14, 1920

We Are the Champions — On Wednesday night the Chicago Cubs overcame a 1-3 game deficit to win the World Series for the first time since 1908 despite a Cleveland Indians’ comeback and rain delay in the final innings of the seventh game.

Limited Liberalism — Despite having demonstrated a more liberal interpretation of Catholic doctrine than past pontiffs, Pope Francis confirmed Tuesday that the Catholic Church will continue the ban on female priests.

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OPINION

Friday, november 4, 2016

Spiritual Search

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VIEWPOINT • MONDRAGóN REYES & DITTMAN

Nicholas Scrimenti

Practicing Faith In Surveillance Era

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eligion would be nothing without the bonds of community. It is the sphere in which we can connect with people who share our beliefs and culture and can safely speak and explore our ideas, doubts and concerns. There is incredible freedom in being able to practice faith with others in the privacy of a sacred space.

Faith communities, however, are being undermined and dismantled by networks of mass surveillance. The freedom to practice religion within one’s community is eroding as privacy becomes a thing of the past.

Edward Snowden, the CIA employee who leaked information on massive data collection, is fond of referring to privacy as the “fountainhead of all our rights” and the right “from which all rights are derived.” The First Amendment, for instance, is rendered meaningless without privacy. It is easy to see how this would be the case for freedom of speech, but does this apply to freedom of religion?

Consider the extensive surveillance of Muslims by law enforcement in post9/11 America. The Associated Press and The New York Times recently reported on the New York Police Department’s use of “mosque crawlers” to record sermons and document members of a congregation, as well as sending plainclothes officers into halal delis to eavesdrop on Muslims, many of whom were not charged with any wrongdoing.

Surveillance of religious and ethnic groups justified in the name of counterterrorism perpetuates the same violence it is intended to stop, thereby terrorizing communities and stripping them of their privacy. How are religious communities meant to practice together if their religious beliefs, and any conversations they have about matters of faith, are potentially incriminating?

The AP report highlighted that “those who attend [a

mosque] do so to just pray and leave, looking over their shoulders for eavesdropping spies the entire time.” Surveillance has turned sacred institutions into institutions of fear. Muslims can no longer feel safe praying, knowing someone may be documenting their prayer as if it were a criminal act.

Snowden is right; in order for freedom of religious expression to truly exist and for people to practice their religion without fear of restitution, there must be privacy. Surveillance is nothing new, but the scale at which it now occurs is unprecedented. Snowden recognizes the need for “protected spaces” in which the invasive eye of law enforcement has no right to inspect without proper justification.

Protected spaces such as mosques and churches should be arenas for people to experience ultimate freedom, places where people can connect with one another and to the divine without fear or censorship. Surveillance puts limits on this freedom. Entering a mosque today potentially puts a tracker, not just a target, on your back. That possibility is enough to degrade the potency and quality of worship.

We must ask ourselves: Who will be the target of surveillance next? Today it is Muslims, but yesterday it was the Italians, Jews, Communists, Black Panthers, etc. If you are not already losing your right to privacy today, you may very well lose it tomorrow. This is why it is so critical for us to resist infringements of privacy regardless of whether they directly affect us or if we have anything to hide. For the sake of our religious freedom, we must be able to pray, doubt, wonder and believe under a strong and upheld right to privacy.

Nicholas Scrimenti is a junior in the College. SPIRITUAL SEARCH appears every other Friday.

Unless a person comes from a privileged background, which includes family ties or socioeconomic status, the only path to immigration often takes the form of an “illegal” leap of faith.

Re-Examine Misconceptions of Immigrants

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mmigration is the premise upon which this nation was founded. Yet it has been a topic of continuous contention throughout the 2016 presidential race. The rhetoric surrounding immigration during the election has been largely uninformed.

As a result, we have lost the ability to separate facts from generalizations.

In light of this rhetoric, we must parse through misconceptions to better understand the role that immigrants play in our lives. For starters, many believe that all individuals migrate to the United States without documentation to escape crime and political instability, when in reality many immigrate to became productive members of American society.

Both immigrants with and without documentation become fundamental economic assets to our society when they arrive. According to the Economic Policy Institute, immigrant labor accounts for nearly 15 percent of total American output. According to Forbes, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants. This is the antithesis to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s statement that immigrants from Mexico “are stealing our jobs. They’re rapists, they’re murderers.”

Then, there are those who say that they do not have anything against immigrants,

as long as they come here legally. This perspective lacks the understanding of how there is currently not a legally manageable process for immigrants to go through when they are faced with the decision to leave their homes for the United States. Unless a person comes from a privileged background, which includes family ties or socio-economic status, the only path to immigration often takes the form of an “illegal” leap of faith.

The rhetoric surrounding immigration during the election has been largely uninformed.

Comprehensive immigration reform must take into account the fact that immigrants do not always have a choice over the factors that push them away from their countries of origin.

It does not start with those on Capitol Hill; it starts with any and every ordinary citizen. We need reform that transcends any piece of paper, through which we humbly seek to comprehend immigration not as just an issue, but as a phenomenon that has shaped human history.

VIEWPOINT • ULLAH

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bout 500 women in Pakistan are killed every year by relatives for acting in ways that fail to conform to conservative, traditional values, including marrying or eloping with a man of whom the family has not approved.

In 2015, Sughra Imam, a former Pakistani senator, drafted a bill imposing harsher punishments on those charged with honor killing in Pakistan. “No law will completely eliminate crime, but at the very least it should hold those who violate the law and principles of justice to account,” Imam said.

The previous law regarding honor killings contained a loophole allowing male members of a family to execute women they believed had dishonored them without facing any legal retribution if the women’s relatives pardoned them.

The new bill is intended to close this loophole and, if responsibly enforced, will mandate a sentence of 25 years for the crime.

On Oct. 6, the Pakistani Parliament approved the new legislation, which came largely in response to the death of young social media sensation Qandeel Baloch.

Baloch was strangled by her brother who, upon interview, declared that he had “no regrets” concerning the brutal murder.

Baloch used her online platform to highlight the aggressive misogyny prevalent throughout Pakistan.

Her death caused a ripple effect across the country, forcing the re-examination of the abhorrent ideals held by conservative Islamists in government.

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young women began holding mass protests, shouting slogans including “There is no honor in killing,” a phrase that Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has often repeated as he has hailed the passing of the legislation.

Detailed investigations and a drastic change in patriarchal mentality are necessary.

The law was accompanied by another that mandated a sentence of 25 years in prison for rape convictions and required the use of DNA tests.

The law also requires courts to give verdicts on rape cases within three months of their arrival. This change is an improvement for Pakistan, where rape conviction rates are almost nonexistent, but it is too little, too late. In a country where women can be humiliated and shunned for surviving the worst sort of trauma imaginable, only decisive action will suffice.

Detailed investigations, harsher punishments and a drastic change in patriarchal mentality are necessary.

My friend Uzayr Usman Agha (COL ’18) from Karachi, Pakistan, phrased it well: “Though there are still a number of loopholes in the laws regarding women’s rights in Pakistan, the new bill is a step in the right direction. Laws alone, however, will not alter the regressive mindset of some

people in the feudal areas of Pakistan.” The mindset Agha mentions is evident in arguments of the legislation’s opponents, many of whom believe such laws are not in keeping with those of Islam.

However, this stance is wholly incorrect. Islam, since the time of its advent, has been a fundamentally feminist religion, granting privileges and protection to women during its founding.

If women in Pakistan are deciding to elope rather than bend to the wills of others, it is because the society has pushed them to the point where they no longer feel safe among those they love.

A Muslim society that rejects inclusivity is in complete contradiction with the Quran, which devotes an entire chapter to the protection and respect of women. Nowhere does it encourage murder at all.

On the contrary, it strictly ordered the cessation of the burial of live infant girls, which was a norm in seventh-century Arabia.

Thus, a lack of respect for women does not stem from faith, but rather from individuals who seek to impress their inflexible beliefs onto others.

It took a colossal amount of effort for that society to eradicate its prejudices, and no less effort is required from Pakistanis to develop a community in which all members can flourish safely. Although it is only a first step, the recent legislation may put us on a promising path toward achieving that goal.

Ghazal Ullah is a junior in

the School of Foreign Service.

To do so, one needs only to look at our campus. Georgetown is a welcome example of an inclusive environment in which immigrants can thrive.

Here on the Hilltop, our community attempts to alleviate systemic difficulties and create an inclusive environment for all students through various resources in the Offices of Admissions, Student Financial Services and Campus Ministry.

Through an emphasis on confidentiality, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions invites all students across the country to apply to Georgetown regardless of citizenship, immigration status and financial need. For students without documentation enrolled at Georgetown, the launch of a website for students without documentation in April 2016 marked the university’s dedication to providing information regarding resources related to admission, financial aid, legal counsel and advising for students without documentation to ensure their support on Georgetown’s campus.

Student groups have also taken an active role in advocating for rights for immigrants and students without documentation, both at Georgetown and across the country.

On Nov. 1, Hoyas for Immigrant Rights celebrated the first #IAmAnImmigrant Day of Action, a campaign started by bipartisan reform group FWD.us meant to highlight

the countless contributions immigrants make to our nation. The iconic “I Am An Immigrant” T-shirts worn by participants were seen all over campus.

There is also the National Educators Coming Out Day on Nov. 12, when faculty and the student body have the opportunity to participate in a national campaign and demonstrate their support for undocumented students, pledging themselves as allies to fellow Hoyas.

Regardless of our political beliefs, outlook on immigration or favored candidate in this election, supporting our fellow students is a responsibility we must all embrace.

As members of Hoyas for Immigrant Rights, we encourage all students to educate themselves, take time to think about our collective impact on the community and strive to create a welcoming environment for all Georgetown students. Listen to as many stories as possible, for our campus is filled with a multitude of perspectives and diversity, making Georgetown a home for so many, regardless of origin.

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is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service and Adrienne Dittman is a sophomore in the College.

They are the co-chairs of Hoyas for Immigrant Rights.

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Necessity of Naming Our Threats

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ords matter, especially when you are a president.

The presidency of George W. Bush was packed with blunders and poor word choices, many of which have remained the object of ridicule long after his term. However, while leaders must understand the consequences of their phrasing, they should not be discouraged from naming the threats that face the United States, especially when it comes to terrorism.

Labeling an act as “radical Islamic terrorism” is not an attack on Islam. President Barack Obama caused a stir in the past few months by choosing not to use the phrase “radical Islam” to describe the terrorist attacks seen in the United States, France, Germany, Iraq, Lebanon and Nigeria, among many others.

Some prominent Republicans immediately criticized him for these decisions, even claiming that he is the founder of the Islamic State group and a closeted Muslim. For these people, Islam presents a threat to society, one that the president should crush.

The fact is, though, that Obama is not Muslim, and the vast majority of Muslims have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks in Orlando or San Bernardino or Paris.

The president’s decision not to put the onus of terrorism on Islam makes sense. Bruce Weinstein, in a column in Fortune magazine, argues that many people do not understand the nuanced difference between blaming Islam and blaming only its most radical faction, and such a distinction is very important.

These are the same individ-

uals who commend Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigration.

They also perceive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of the phrase “radical Islamism” as referring to all of Islam rather than only its radical sect.

Francois Valentin In his column, Weinstein examines a post-9/11 incident in which a man named Frank Roque shot at a Lebanese-American clerk and an Afghan family and killed a Sikh man. None of them were in any way involved with terrorism, with the last victim not even being Muslim. Therefore, Weinstein argues that omitting the word “Islam” in conjunction with “radical” to describe radical terror attacks will be beneficial, as fewer citizens will be tempted to amalgamate terrorism and Islam.

Yet, failure to name the threat allows individuals to imagine their own enemies.

When terrorists scream “Allahu Akbar” before committing their acts, Islam becomes associated with radicalism in the public conscience. When political leaders fail to even mention the word Islam in response to attack, it angers those who have already made an association between the Islam and terrorism.

When demagogues put the

blame on Islam as a whole, this reinforces these individuals’ association of Islam and terrorism.

Obama’s mindset of dissociating Muslims from terrorists is laudable. The vast majority of the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide do not support the Islamic State group, Boko Haram or the Taliban. On the contrary, a fair share of them are victims of attacks by such extremist groups. This does not mean leaders should avoid more accurate phraseology. Members of these groups identify as Muslims. They may have the most vacuous readings of the texts, but this is their identity. By denying that reality, Obama is not helping the Muslim population. In 2015, the number of hate crimes against Muslims in France tripled. Those who commit such Islamophobic attacks will still blame all Muslims, while giving credence to political leaders who unfairly condemn the entire Muslim population rather than to those who choose nuanced rhetoric.

This is why leaders should use the occasion to employ terminology that conveys a nuanced definition of terrorist groups to the public.

The enemy is not Islam, but terrorist groups and their fundamentalist readings of ancient texts. Only by naming our threats can we clarify to American citizens the reality of the situation and maintain the distinction between “radical Islamic terrorists” and Muslims.

Francois Valentin is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Fault Lines appears every other Friday.

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Doctoral Students Advocate Benefits of TA Unionization ALFREDO CARILLO OBREGON Hoya Staff Writer

The Doctoral Students Coalition advocated the benefits of unionization during a town hall on Wednesday evening with over 50 doctoral candidates as part of an ongoing campaign to raise awareness about labor concerns for research and teaching assistants at Georgetown.

“We want a union that has experience on academic campuses — and local autonomy.”

DEIDRE NELMS (GRD ’19) Member, Doctoral Students Coalition

Led by the DSC, a student organization focused on doctoral student issues, the meeting featured recommendations from the DSC’s working group for unionization. The working group began to consider unionization following the National Labor Relations Board ruling this summer that all graduate students working as research and teaching assistants in private universities are school employees with the right to unionize legitimately.

The coalition’s next immediate steps in the process include starting a campaign and affiliating with an international union.

The group hopes to identify interested sectors of the graduate student population, including master’s students, through outreach and surveys. This will allow them to define the level of interest, according to working group member and philosophy department doctoral candidate Deidre Nelms (GRD ’19).

After examining the results of collective bargaining in more than 30 public and private universities, the working group concluded that in all instances,

renegotiated contracts included an increase in stipends along with improvements in access to health care, child care, summer funding and comprehensive work schedules.

DSC members said these outcomes are relevant given the current financial and health benefits afforded to doctoral students by the university. Georgetown’s current wages for TAs fall short of the living wage of $16.45 per hour, as stipulated in Georgetown’s Just Employment Policy.

According to the group’s research, Georgetown is the only top university that paid less than the living wage to graduate students.

Nelms said doctoral students have different needs than undergraduate students.

“We are absolutely overdue for a new plan,” Nelms said. “We have the same health insurance as the undergraduate students that we teach for, which is ridiculous, because we are employees. We are adults, some of us have children, dependents and we are more likely to have medical issues than undergraduates.”

Unionizing would ensure a cohesive bargaining structure and build positive relationships with administrators, according to members.

Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor Program Coordinator Nick Wertsch (COL ’09, LAW ’18) said the prospects for a graduate student union at Georgetown are positive due to the existence of the Just Employment Policy adopted in 2005, which ensures a right to unionize and a minimum compensation for all employees.

“No other university has something quite like [the Just Employment Policy],” Wertsch said. “What’s unique about Georgetown is that they’ve institutionally committed to this policy for the last 11 years.”

The group also analyzed potential options as part of its summer research and determined that the American Federation of Teachers union possessed the most desirable credentials.

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Besides its experience with graduate students, AFT offered the working group the possibility of having its own local, independent access to membership data and physical presence in the bargaining process.

“Should we go forward, it is probably in our best interest to affiliate with AFT,” Nelms said.

Once the process begins advancing, union leaders will come to the university to speak to interested students, who will then vote on whether or not they want to unionize.

Nabina Liebow (GRD ’13, GRD ’17), a doctoral candidate in the philosophy department, said the meeting clarified her doubts about unionization and led her to realize its benefits.

“It’s almost impossible to have children and be a graduate student.”

MEREDITH DENNING (GRD ’16)

“I think the event definitely gave me more infor-

mation so I can be more aware about what the pros and cons are,” Liebow said.

“I think I am definitely more positively pro-unionization than I was before the meeting.”

Meredith Denning (GRD ’16), a doctoral candidate in transregional history, said the benefits of unionization became clear during her time at the University of Waterloo, and said graduates would benefit from engaging in this venture, especially for the purposes of securing better health care benefits.

“It is almost impossible to have children and be a graduate student. Ph.D. students are frequently older than 25, and that’s the time people want to get married, have children, and live a normal adult life, and at the moment that is simply not

possible. And it’s not just the working hours, it’s that there is zero institutional support for graduate students with children,” Denning said.

Jake Earl (GRD ’12, GRD ’17), a doctoral candidate in philosophy and member of the working group, said he was initially skeptical about unions but later realized their importance in a graduate student context.

“When I joined the working group, I was skeptical.

I don’t think unions are a good thing in every industry, I think that unions sometimes waste the dues that they are paid, that they are sometimes coercive,” Earl said. “But when we dug into graduate student unions, I didn’t see any of these downsides. Universities that have unions thrive, students thrive.”

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Police Investigates Committee Urges Nike Deal Clarity Local Hate Crime Joe Egler

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Lisa Burgoa Hoya Staff Writer

A potential hate crime in which a perpetrator assaulted and used homophobic language against a Georgetown student off campus the night of Oct. 31 is being investigated by the Georgetown University Police Department and the Metropolitan Police Department.

A campuswide email sent Nov. 1 from GUPD Chief Jay Gruber and Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson classified the incident as a hate crime due to the language used during the assault.

They also wrote that the suspects were not members of the Georgetown community.

A group of suspected juveniles attacked the student between 34th and Prospect streets NW on Halloween, temporarily seizing the victim’s backpack, then removing and breaking a laptop inside.

MPD and Metro Transit Police apprehended a group of suspects during the early hours of Nov. 1 at the Foggy Bottom Metro station. The MPD took the report and is leading the investigation with assistance from GUPD. Although Gruber could not disclose details of the assault because of the ongoing investigation, he said the incident was classified as a hate crime because it specifically targeted an aspect of the student’s identity.

“Anytime somebody is disparaged because of their race, their religion, their ethnicity, their gender, their gender orientation, if we believe any of

that’s involved, then we consider it a hate crime,” Gruber said.

Gruber said the suspects face charges of assault, robbery and destruction of property, and could potentially face jail time if convicted. Convicted juveniles would be processed through Washington, D.C.’s juvenile justice system.

GU Pride issued a statement on Facebook extending its support to community members whose identities make them vulnerable to violence.

“This event is a sobering reminder that the threat of violence is very real for our community, especially for the more visible trans, gender nonconforming and members of color, especially Black members of our community,” the statement reads. “The threat is close to home.”

Gruber said the last incidents in the area to involve targeted attacks by a large group of people occurred last year on Halloween night when two robberies occurred between 37th and N streets NW and 36th and Prospect streets by a group of masked assailants.

Gruber attributed the spike in crimes during Halloween to the increased activity in the area.

“One thing that Halloween in Georgetown does is attract a lot of people from all over the District and all over the national capital region down to the M Street and Wisconsin Avenue corridor,” Gruber said. “These are outsiders from our area, and we don’t typically see this type of activity in our area.”

DC Mayor, Council Battle Over Bill Marina Pitofsky Hoya Staff Writer

Negotiations over Washington, D.C.’s Universal Paid Leave Act of 2015 have stalled after criticism of the bill’s proposed funding plan devolved into an exchange between Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) at the Council-Mayor breakfast meeting Oct. 25.

“The Council has been more than transparent when it comes to this legislation.”

LINDSEY WALTON Director of Communications, Office of Phil Mendelson

The act, which has faced criticism from Bowser in the past due to its proposed cost, which she considers too high, would guarantee workers employed in the District up to 12 weeks of annual paid family and medical leave. Under the proposed plan, paid leave benefits would be funded through a business payroll tax. A vote on the bill has been delayed since last year due to Bowser’s doubts about its funding and cost to city taxpayers.

Mendelson said he hopes the bill will be voted on by Nov. 15, but Bowser noted it would take three weeks for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to score the bill, thereby pushing the vote back. In order to pass, the bill must be voted upon twice before the legislative session ends in December.

At the meeting, Bowser questioned Mendelson on why he had not led a more transparent process in finalizing the details of the bill. Mendelson said his process has not been secretive, but rather Bowser’s staff has been uncooperative and unwilling to meet with his office in order to discuss the bill’s specifics.

Director of Communications for Mendelson’s office Lindsey Walton said the development of the bill has been open for public comment since its introduction last year, and Bowser has not worked well with Mendelson.

“The Council has been more than transparent when it comes to this legislation. There have been three public hearings on the bill and there was a discussion draft circulated along with the draft print of the bill, which is virtually never done with regard to council legislation,” Walton wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The Chair-

man has collaborated with several other Councilmembers in the crafting of the final version of the bill.”

Bowser later requested that Mendelson release more specific information on the bill in order to properly inform her office as well as his fellow councilmembers on its funding, specifically how the act’s $400 million cost will affect taxpayers and business growth.

Communications and Community Outreach Coordinator for Councilmember Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) Ashley Fox contended that deliberations on the bill have been cooperative and inclusive up to this point, and she has high hopes for the future of the bill. Silverman was one of the first proponents of the bill along with Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large).

“It’s been a pretty collaborative process so far. I think Mayor Bowser is interested in making sure that the public is included, but procedurally a lot of the next steps lie within the chairman’s office. So it’s a balance,” Fox said. “We are optimistic about a collaborative process going forward and I would say that it has been collaborative so far.”

Fox said the council is looking to alleviate business concerns while implementing the paid family and medical leave program.

“We’re really trying to think about what makes the most sense for a fair bill. So what does a fair bill look like? And what does a bill look like that still fits the needs of the people who really need it the most?”

Fox said. “There has been a lot of conversation back and forth about how many weeks of leave is enough, how many weeks is affordable, and so what we’re really trying to do is incorporate as many concerns as we can.”

The Campaign for D.C. Paid Family Leave Manager Joanna Blotner said she would like to see D.C. officials working in a closer fashion to achieve the common goal of paid family leave. Blotner said she believes further changes to the District’s paid leave will be conducted in a more positive manner in the future.

“From our perspective, it would be nice to see all of our elected officials working together in the best interest for working families in D.C. and having everybody positively contribute to the conversation and how to make this the best possible paid leave program for the District,” Blotner said. “We’ve been really pleased with how Chairman Mendelson has been meeting with us.”

Leading up to Georgetown’s update today on the progress of its negotiations with Nike, members of Georgetown’s Licensing and Oversight Committee, which advises the university on its licensing agreeements, called for increased transparency in the contract negotiation process.

Georgetown’s current contract with the footwear manufacturing multinational company is set to expire Dec. 31.

Nike officials have yet to sign the university’s code of conduct, which is a requirement of all university vendors.

The code of conduct for Georgetown University licensees includes several clauses related to employment standards, including wages and benefits, working hours, overtime, child labor, forced labor, health and safety and harassment and abuse.

Nike has been frequently criticized for contracting with exploitative sweatshops in foreign countries. Nike is also reported to make use of child labor in its overseas factories.

On Nov. 17, 2015, the workers’ rights enforcement group Worker Rights Consortium released a memo to all of its affiliate colleges and universities, including Georgetown, after the consortium’s request to inspect the Hansae factory, a Nike factory in Vietnam, was rejected.

The WRC made a request to inspect the Hansae factory after learning about ongoing strikes by the factory’s workers in response to the factory’s labor conditions.

In Nov. 2015, Athletes and Advocates for Worker’s Rights, an advocacy group composed of athletes and workers’ rights advocates, sent a letter to University President John J. DeGioia opposing Nike’s unethical business practices.

The LOC will meet with administrators today to discuss the contract negotiations.

If Georgetown chooses to renew its contract with Nike without the company’s agreement to the code of conduct, Nike will be the only company directly affiliated with Georgetown with such an exemption.

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Members of the Licensing and Oversight Committee are pushing for increased transparency in negotiations between the university and Nike.

Director of Business Policy and Planning and LOC Chair Cal Watson said the committee, which consists of administrators, faculty and students, is still discussing terms with Nike.

“Georgetown University is committed to protecting the rights of workers producing university-licensed apparel.

We are in ongoing discussions with Nike now regarding the status of its license with Georgetown,” Watson wrote in an email to The Hoya.

LOC member John Kline, a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, said many committee members have spoken out about Georgetown’s handling of contract negotiations with Nike, in particular around a lack of transparency.

LOC member Isabelle Teare (COL ’18) said she is displeased with the university’s lack of clarity regarding the current state of negotiations with Nike.

“All I know is we’re in negotiations. … I don’t really take that answer as meaning anything because, who knows what that means?” Teare said.

“And also, why is it taking so long? They’re either going to sign our code of conduct and agree to do what they should’ve been doing for the

past 15 years, or they’re not.

It’s a pretty cut and dry issue.

The only thing that ‘negotiating’ means in my mind is trying to figure out loopholes.”

Kline said members of the LOC have spoken out against Georgetown’s sustained negotiation with Nike.

“The LOC knew nothing about the Nike exception until the spring,” Kline said.

Kline said he hoped Nike would sign a new contract and accept LOC oversight of its labor practices.

“I think the ideal outcome would be if Nike simply signed a new contract with Georgetown, accepting the Georgetown code, accepting the monitoring procedure like everybody else. That’s my idea,” Kline said. “Lacking that, I don’t see how Georgetown can uphold its values and extend the contract, or negotiate another exceptional provision for Nike in a new contract. The relationship with Nike would have to end.”

Teare said she also wants Nike to adhere the code and accept the university’s monitors.

“I can’t speak for everyone on the committee, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say what we want is for Nike to sign our code of conduct and do what they should’ve been

doing for years and years and years, which is adhering to that code,” Teare said. “Nike shouldn’t be given special treatment.”

Nike, Inc. Media Resources did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Kline said however, that due to the nature of the position of the LOC members, the group is relatively powerless in intervening in the negotiations.

“Our mandate is to provide advice to the president,” Kline said. “We don’t have any authority to intervene beyond advising the president. We have requested that we meet directly with President DeGioia.

To date, that has not been responded to.”

Kline said student advocacy is important as the university enters the closing phase of negotiations with Nike.

“It was student involvement that got these codes in the first place, 16, 18 years ago,” he said. “And, for these codes to be meaningful, there has to be a demonstration of students remaining interested and concerned about it. This does have to do with upholding Georgetown’s values through a mechanism that the students have been responsible for and are still backing, so it’s not just the LOC—it’s the student body.”

Professors Receive President’s Award Eric Jubber

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Georgetown University recognized a professor of oncology and pharmacology who is working to cure cancer, a law school professor whose research is shaping the decisionmaking of the U.S. Supreme Court and another who is changing how the process of aging is addressed with the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at the annual 2016 Fall Faculty Convocation on Oct. 21.

Professor of oncology and pharmacology Anton Wellstein, professor of law Donald Langevoort and professor of psychology Darlene Howard received this year’s awards, which recognize excellence in both research and teaching at Georgetown.

Provost Robert Groves said the medal recognizes those who set a standard of academic excellence in both research and in teaching.

“This medal was designed to recognize those faculty among us who excel both in research and teaching effectiveness.

They, therefore, teach us every day that these two sides of an academic are not in conflict but can be jointly achieved,” Groves said.

University President John J. DeGioia said in his address to the convocation in Gaston Hall that Howard was awarded for her passion both in and out of the classroom.

“There’s no conflict between teaching and research.”

ANTON WELLSTEIN Professor of Oncology and Pharmacology, Georgetown

“All of you who know her know that she’s a generous mentor, known for her ability to bring out an enthusiasm in her students, a passion for the field and a dedication to the rigors of conducting scientific studies that sustains them into their future,” DeGioia said.

Howard, whose work focuses on how cognitive and neural systems decline and

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Georgetown recognized three professors in Gaston Hall on Oct. 21 for their service to the university in both research and teaching. progress during aging, said she came to Georgetown because she wanted to be at a place where both aspects of academia are valued.

“There are a lot of places you can go where you’re almost punished for caring about your teaching because the pressure of researching and publishing is too heavy,” Howard said. “I fell in love with teaching as a graduate student, and that’s the reason I came to Georgetown.”

Howard not only stands out for her research abilities, but for her teaching skills, according to one of Howard’s students Shea Crowley (COL ’17).

“Professor Howard really exemplified what a professor should be, which is a knowledgeable lecturer and an expert in his or her field. Howard is also an interesting person who cares about her students,” Crowley said.

Wellstein said good college professors are those who balance teaching and research.

“There’s no conflict between teaching and research; they go hand in hand,” Wellstein said.

“I can use what I’m research-

ing in teaching and what I’m teaching in my research. They feed off of each other.”

Wellstein’s work has contributed not only to the Georgetown community but to the broader field of oncology, pharmacology and cancer research, according to DeGioia.

“Few have done more to advance this next generation of research and researchers in the critical field of oncology than Anton.

And we’re all better here at Georgetown because of his presence,” DeGioia said.

Langevoort, whose work focuses on contracts and securities regulation, said a lot of his research is motivated and enhanced by the courses he teaches in the Georgetown University Law Center.

“I’ve gotten some of my best ideas for what I write about by standing up in front of a classroom and having a discussion with students,” Langevoort said. “They ask great questions and if you listen carefully, you realize that there are different ways of thinking about these topics. Plus, I love talking about

the subjects that I study.”

DeGioia described how the influence of Langevoort’s research has reached as far as the Supreme Court.

“His influential scholarship has been cited in opinions issued by justices of the Supreme Court and continues to shape discussions of insider trading and securities litigation reform,” DeGioia said. “He provides a model for multidisciplinary scholarship bringing together law, psychology and finance to address important issues in governance and business practices.”

All three professors said they were extremely surprised to receive the award, yet were humbled by the recognition.

“As far as we could tell, there aren’t other major universities that have an award like this,” Langevoort said. “There certainly are awards that recognize institutions’ best scholars, and most universities have some kind of teaching merit recognition, but Georgetown bolsters the point that research and teaching are equally important.”

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an emphasis on healthy options. The number of guest swipes will increase from two to five.

Chief Business Officer for University Services Debbie Morey said while concrete plans have not been established, dining options will see significant changes.

“There [are] a lot of moving parts, and these are very aggressive timelines. This is not unusual for food because you often have food companies come in and flip places overnight,” Morey said. “We are basically gutting Leo’s and changing the way it looks.”

Hoya Court will also see renovations as part of the plan, according to Morey.

“The idea behind Hoya Court is it doesn’t matter how many locations — the idea isn’t working right now. It is an awkward setting for people to eat so are we reimagining Hoya Court along with the bookstore renovation that is going on this summer,” Morey said.

Students on campus this summer will not be able to access Leo’s while the renovations take place, and will go to a temporary location for dining instead.

Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joelle Wiese said the new contract would improve the quality of Leo’s dining options.

In the year leading up to the dining proposals, Georgetown University Student Association conducted an extensive awareness campaign to encourage students to be involved in the process.

Both finalists presented proposed future dining offerings and meal plan structures at open houses in September for members of the community. In addition, the university held a food forum Oct. 6, the night before the university chose a vendor, to enable students to provide input.

GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) said the new exchange options and improved food quality will address significant complaints for students.

“Flexibility, variety and quality were really the big parts that were most needed,” Khan said. “The current all-you-can-eat model of students only being able to eat at one location as their home base, and then essentially having to now [use meal] exchange, was a big problem, and was something frustrating students.”

Wiese said Aramark’s contract will follow the university’s just employment policy, which states that Georgetown will attempt to avoid job losses when sub-

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Georgetown announced Tuesday that Aramark will be the university’s dining contractor for the next 10 years. contractors are changed.

The decision is the result of yearlong process led by the Office of Auxiliary Business Services’ Request for Proposal Committee, a 30-person working group consisting of six students, including GUSA members.

According to Morey, the new dining plan will not impose new longterm costs on the university. The contract is expected to pay for itself in the form of increased student traffic and students purchasing meal plans.

“Georgetown’s dining program is a self-sustaining program and we do not subsidize food on our campus,” Morey said. “There [are] so many more options that you will start to see the value in it, and we will start to see an increase in those sales. That is how we will pay for the amortization and the investment on this.”

GUSA Deputy Chief of Staff Garrett Williams (COL ’18), who was on the RFP committee, said the committee visited other nearby college campuses, including the University of Delaware and George Mason University, where Sodexo and Aramark operated respective dining plans in place that were similar to their proposals.

The new dining plans follow an expansion of student dining options over the summer, including the addition of meal exchange options at Hoya Court locations and Cosi after 3 p.m. and mobile ordering app Tapingo. The university also added takeaway options at Leo’s and the ability to purchase additional tax-free Flex Dollars throughout the year.

At a reception held in Leo’s for all 250 employees of Georgetown Dining, Morey said the new contract aims to create the best-in-

class dining experience for students.

“It was important for us to find a partner that would take us to a new level of service and dining on campus,” Morey said. “Our vision is for Georgetown to provide a model program that other universities can achieve. We are all embarking on this transformative journey together.”

According to Marisa Colon (COL ’19), improvements to campus dining are positive.

“Leo’s does need to change, but I think it’s more about the quality of the food. I would be happy if they committed to fresher produce rather than having vendors,” Colon said. “We’re not even asking that much, we’re just asking for better quality food rather than a whole elaborate, fancy dining hall.”

Matt Treacy (COL ’19) said he is cautious about the planned improvements to the dining hall and meal plans at Georgetown.

“Looking at the posters in Leo’s, I have a really hard time believing that they’re going to have that done by next fall. That’s not going to happen,” Treacy said. “Also, if the second level is all made-to-order food, that’s going to take forever. That just doesn’t make sense.

It’s all a little too good to be true, like a little too utopian.”

Some students, like Stephanie Huang (NHS ’18), do not understand the need for the slated changes to Leo’s.

“I’m actually one of the few people who enjoys Leo’s.

I wish they had more variety sometimes, but it’s healthy food,” Huang said. “They have nutritious options, so I don’t really see a need for the new project. I guess we’ll have to wait and see though.”

Captive Graduate Honored TICE, from A1 human right to information, opinion and expression. We call on Austin’s captors to reach out and make it clear how we can resolve this situation and get our son safely home.”

Debra Tice said the banner marks a reminder to both the president and American citizens of the danger journalists face as well as the obligation to keep them safe.

“Austin’s continued captivity is indicative of the growing global indifference and even acceptance of efforts to silence journalists,” Debra Tice said. “With the hanging of this banner, here on America’s main street, we remind our president of his obligation to secure Austin’s safe release and we hope all Americans and every person who sees this banner will realize we have a duty to demand that universally agreed upon protections for journalists must be respected.”

Rep. John Delaney of Maryland (GRD ’88) attended the event and expressed his intention to use his congressional influence to assist in the return of a fellow Georgetown alumnus.

“We’ve been doing everything we can with me being in Congress to draw attention to this issue put our shoulder against it in any way we can,” Delaney said.

Georgetown Journalism Department Director Barbara Feinman Todd said in an

interview with The Hoya that there are plans for continued student activism regarding Austin’s case.

“Austin’s continued captivity is indicative of the growing indifference and even acceptance of efforts to silence journalists.”

DEBRA TICE Mother of Austin Tice

“We would like to get a banner and hang it at Georgetown, a similar one. So that’s next on the list,” Feinman Todd said. “We’ve got a letter-writing campaign in the works — the students are doing a letter-writing campaign to the White House and we’ll be making the details public very soon.”

Feinman Todd also emphasized the importance of educating students on the issues of safety for those hoping to pursue international journalism.

“It’s very important for me as I’m sending students out into the world to become journalists themselves that it’s a safer world for them,” Feinman Todd said. “At the same time, there’s the tension of wanting to go out there and tell the stories, the

kind of stories Austin was telling. He cared about the Syrian people, particularly Syrian children, and there aren’t enough people telling those stories. But it comes with such a great risk, it’s hard to expect people to do that.”

Representatives from Reporter Without Borders distributed #FreeAustin pins to the crowd, and Georgetown students who attended wore blindfolds with the hashtag #FreeAustinTice, previously used during an April demonstration at the White House.

A delegation of Georgetown students led by Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) and Emily Kaye (COL ’18), who are spearheading a student organization supporting the movement, said they used the blindfold to symbolize a world without journalists in which all people are blindfolded from information and truth.

Goldstein said Tice’s story resonated with him because of the journalist’s bravery and compassion in bringing awareness to struggles of Syrian civilian victims of the civil war.

“Austin’s story matter to me as a Hoya, it matters to me as an American, and this hanging of the banner was a pretty significant step forward. Even though it was just a banner, it’s part of a larger public campaign around Austin’s story that is beginning to take hold across the country,” Goldstein said.

One of the most highly discussed items on the ballot is the referendum for D.C. statehood.

This July, the D.C. Council unanimously approved placing the measure on November’s ballot. If passed, the referendum would advise the council to petition Congress to admit D.C. as a state and initiate the process of approving a state constitution. Overall, the referendum boasts overwhelming support in D.C. The most recent polling of District residents conducted by The Washington Post in November 2015 found that roughly 70 percent of voters were in favor of statehood.

Christopher Murphy, Georgetown’s government relations and community engagement vice president, said the referendum is highly significant.

“The referendum is important because it reminds our nation’s leaders — and indeed all Americans — about the injustice D.C. residents continue to suffer from,” Murphy wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“To deny more than 670,000 American citizens the most basic of democratic rights because of where they live is un-American and unconscionable.”

Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service Executive Director Mo Elleithee said even if the statehood referendum passes, he does not expect Congress to support that decision.

“I don’t foresee there being any real movement towards statehood in a tangible way

any time soon, especially if Republicans control the congress, because the Republican leadership in the House has been fairly steadfast in opposition,” Elleithee said. “Until there is a major change in Congressional leadership, you’re not going to see any real entertaining of the notion.”

McCourt School of Public Policy government professor Michael Bailey agreed that the idea would likely be opposed

by Congress, blaming a largely Republican desire to keep representatives of the District — who are historically Democrats — out of congressional voting positions.

“The consequence would be we’d get a voting member in the House of Representatives, and I presume we’d get the two senators. We’d have normal statehood,” Bailey said.

“They’d obviously be Democrats, and maybe some people don’t want more democrats in Congress.”

D.C. resident Jim Schank, who voted Wednesday at the One Judiciary Square polling location, said he was compelled to vote in favor of D.C. statehood because of the District’s current lack of representation.

“We need representation in both houses of Congress.

D.C. has a larger population

than some of those right-wing, Midwestern states like Wyoming, and it’s about fairness,” Schank said.

Though the statehood movement has considerable popularity, president of GU Students for D.C. Statehood Annie Mason (COL ’18) cited misinformation and assumptions about statehood as a challenge to the movement.

“People think it’s a more ceremonial transition from city to state and it doesn’t have any actually legal implications, when it fact it really does,” Mason said. “A challenge is people who think that it’s just D.C. making hullabaloo about nothing, when it really is rooted in civil rights and representation, especially for a geographic region that’s majority black and majority people of color.”

Nevertheless, Mason acknowledged that even if the measure passes, there are potential legal obstacles that could hamper a swift transition to statehood.

“It would be really difficult, in terms of legally implementing it. It would be really hard. It takes a Constitutional amendment, it takes action at a federal level and action that we’re not seeing in Congress right now in the state of congressional affairs,” Mason said.

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One of the measures D.C. residents are voting on in this election is a referendum on statehood for the District.

Khan, Fisk Examine Policy Progress, Goals GUSA, from A1 yearlong bid process.

The contract includes a renovation of O’Donovan Hall to include a food court for meal exchanges on the top floor and a healthier buffet option on the bottom floor, in addition to expanded meal exchange options across campus and new meal plans.

Khan said GUSA played a significant role in the new dining contract.

“Both Aramark and Sodexo said they have never seen a student body so involved in the dining process. We essentially shaped what came out of the new Aramark contract,” Khan said.

Continuing Conversations on Mental Health

Policy surrounding mental health has largely fallen into the hands of the Mental Health Advisory Board, a board consisting of students and administrators who address mental health issues on campus.

The board, on which GUSA Mental Health Policy Team Chair Sylvia Levy (SFS ’18) sits, has worked to increase accessibility to mental health services this semester.

Fisk said GUSA will build on this work by asking university administrators to address issues stemming from higher demand for mental health resources, including longer wait times for CAPS appointments.

“Before you had a price problem and a stigma problem, and now these things are being changed little by little because of the conversation on mental health on this campus, but it’s led to secondary byproducts of that,” Fisk said.

Project Lighthouse, an initiative that connects students with peer trained in talking to students and guiding them to appropriate mental health resources, Executive Director Ben Johnson (NHS ’17) said GUSA’s role on the mental health advisory board needs to be focused on listening to and advocating

for students.

“GUSA needs to be the ear itself to collect the noise,” Johnson said.

Becoming a Survivor-Centric Campus

Khan and Fisk began their roles with sexual assault at the forefront of campus conversation, after former GUSA President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan’s (COL ’16) administration signed a memorandum of understanding with the university to hire a full-time Title IX coordinator, conduct a sexual misconduct climate survey and introduce mandatory bystander training.

University President John J. DeGioia established the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force this summer after the university released the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey results in June.

Khan sits on the steering committee of the task force. There is also a GUSA representative on each subcommittee.

GUSA worked with the university to introduce a series of policies to support survivors of sexual assault last semester, including a semester of free counseling services at CAPS for survivors.

Khan said GUSA plays a vital role in crafting policy through the subcommittees.

“The students on the task force, particularly on the steering committee, we meet every two weeks and essentially say these are the policies that we want through the different subcommittees and we’re going to get them through,” Khan said.

Low Income Advocacy

Another centerpiece of Khan and Fisk’s campaign was developing policy and holding conversations on low-income advocacy.

This fall, GUSA established the Advisory Board for Affordability and Access, consisting of students, administrators and students to evaluate current re-

sources and suggest policies to support low-income students.

Discussions surrounding low-income issues were lacking before the group was established, according to Fisk.

“It’s not necessarily that the whole university wasn’t discussing it before. It’s that we were discussing it in an inefficient way,” Fisk said.

GUSA also secured university funding to provide housing for students who do not have a stable home to return to over winter breaks. GUSA is now looking to introduce policies to address costs incurred upon all Georgetown students, including printing and laundry costs, textbook prices and graduation costs.

Engaging the Student Body

This fall’s GUSA senate election, which had a 24 percent turnout rate, saw perennial satirical candidate Wisemiller’s Chicken Madness sandwich win its first GUSA election.

Khan said GUSA has sought to engage students in GUSA, as it now totals around 400 members through various structural reforms.

Khan and Fisk restructured the executive branch to develop policy teams with co-chairs from the executive and senate branches to which all students could apply.

The senate is also considering a proposal to abolish the senate and establish a new assembly focused on club funding, which would consist of representatives from club advisory boards and elected student representatives. If approved by the senate, a studentwide referendum on the proposal would occur Dec. 1.

“Historically there has been a disconnect between the student body and GUSA, and we tried to address this by just having more people in GUSA and letting the student body sort of be GUSA and recognize that we are not necessarily a checks-and-balances student government. … We are simply a student union,” Khan said.

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Experts Push Pivot to Asia GU Politics Hosts Last Debate HENRY GREENE Hoya Staff Writer

The next U.S. president should develop a strong but sensitive American presence in Asia, according to a panel of five foreign policy experts in Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday.

“Don’t make the mistake of going for a simplistic description of U.S.-China relations.”

MICHAEL GREEN National Security Council

The conversation, which concerned the future of the United States’ Asia policy, is the first event organized by weekly international relations journal The Caravel. Panelists included National Security Council Director of Affairs Michael Green, Chief Bureau Director In-sun Kang of Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Richard Bush III and State Department Bureau of East Asian Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Walter Douglas.

Douglas said that a key component of America’s policy towards Asia will revolve around whether Congress passes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal to loosen trade restrictions between several Asian countries and the United States.

Both Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have publicly opposed the deal.

“Going forward, our number one effort in the rebalancing of Asia is to get the TPP approved,” Douglas said. “The president is going to be working hard on that. You’ve seen the news reports and he is calibrating on how he is going to do it. We plan to leave that to the White House.”

According to Douglas, relations between the United States and Asia have been continuously improving through collaboration with the As-

sociation of Southeast Asian Nations Free Trade Area, the current trade agreement in effect in the region, which the TPP would augment but not replace.

“We now celebrate 40 years of working with ASEAN. Under the Obama administration we placed a mission, like an embassy, to ASEAN in Jakarta and we have an ambassador there,” Douglas said.

“We’ve really stepped up relations with ASEAN. Our soft power is such a strong force that people are willing to give us their support even where there is tension in their government’s relations with us.”

Green said the United States must consider its policy toward China as a part of a larger Asia policy and avoid employing simple, blanket theories to guide policy regarding the nation.

“Don’t make the mistake of going for a simplistic description of U.S.-China relations and belief in what China is,” Green said. “It’s more complicated.”

According to Bush, many countries in the region depend on and have good relations with both the United States and China.

“There are many countries in Asia who depend on China economically and so China’s condition is very important to them,” Bush said. “They, however, depend on the U.S. for security.”

Bush said Trump’s proposal for South Korea to receive nuclear weapons to ease the need for United States support at the border with North Korea would be ill-advised, despite potentially reducing the U.S. military budget.

“In the mid-1980s prolabor Democrats were saying the same thing about Japan, that they are getting a free ride in security. They were wrong then and Donald Trump is wrong now,” Bush said.

The next presidential administration must be proactive when it comes to North Korea, according to Bush.

“Be ready for an early crisis with North Korea. I fully expect that North Korea will want to test the new administration in some way,” Bush said. “The more that can be done in advance of that actuality, the better.”

Green said the United States should appoint foreign policy officials who are very familiar with Asia, given the rising importance of the region for the United States. Previous administrations appointed a disproportionate number of individuals whose focus had always been Europe and NATO allies as representatives to Asia, according to Green.

“The next president has got to appoint secretaries and deputies who really know Asia,” Green said. “You can’t deal with the complexities of the region and create policies accordingly if the hired officials are Atlanticists.”

The Caravel Editor-in-Chief Andrea Moneton (SFS ’18) said events such as the panel will allow the publication to not only report on but also to look critically at foreign policy issues.

“We wanted to host an event and invite expert speakers to campus in order to move from a space where we cover international news and events about international affairs to one where we also participate in shaping the conversation,” Moneton wrote in an email to THE HOYA.

“I fully expect that North Korea will want to test the new administration in some way.”

RICHARD BUSH III Brookings Institute

Moneton said the event’s focus on Asian foreign policy was chosen as part of a larger effort by the publication to incorporate domestic politics into its work this election cycle, especially given that Asia has been a primary focus of foreign affairs discussions this election season.

“U.S. elections matter to the entire world. That’s especially true with this election cycle, where no U.S. engagements with the international community would be safe should Donald Trump be elected,” Moneton wrote.

GAIA MATTIACE Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University College Democrats and College Republicans expanded upon key issues from this year’s election cycle during the upperclassman debate in the Healey Family Student Center Great Room on Tuesday.

GUCR, GUCD, the Georgetown Program Board and the Georgetown Institute for Politics and Public Service cosponsored the event to provide an in-depth conversation on each party’s platform before Election Day on Nov. 8th. Issues addressed during the debate ranged from how to alleviate college debt and mitigate climate change to the Syrian refugee crisis and what should be done with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The event was moderated by CNN Senior Producer Brooke Brower and Ashley Spillane, former president of Rock the Vote, which seeks to mobilize the vote of young people, and current member of the GU Politics advisory board.

Former GUCD President Matthew Gregory (SFS ’17) introduced the debate, discussed the nature of political debates in this electoral cycle and said this election cycle has underscored the necessity for both parties to pursue a deeper discussion of substantive political issues.

“Democrat or Republican, I think we can all agree that we as a nation can do better than some of what we’ve received during this 2016 race,” Gregory said. “Tonight we gather to elevate the political discourse, we gather together to discuss the issues.”

For the first section of the debate on social issues, Meredith Forsyth (SFS ’19), Jessica Scoratow (COL ’18) and Mattie Haag (COL ’18) represented the Democratic Party, and Zachary Hughbanks (COL ’18), Harry Clow (COL ’19) and Mitchell Tu (SFS ’16) represented the Republican Party.

Forsyth said the Affordable Care Act revolutionized the American health care system.

“The Democratic Party believes that health care is a human right, not a privilege, and thanks to [President] Obama, we now have 20 million Americans under the Affordable Care Act who hadn’t been insured before, so we believe we have to protect and uphold Obamacare,” Forsyth said.

Hughbanks said the government should shift the focus toward privatizing health care and creating a more laissezfaire system.

“Obamacare has just destroyed middle-class and working-class communities across the nation,” Hughbanks said. “We need to return to a free-market reform, repeal Obamacare and implement an effective solution as outlined

by Speaker [of the House] Paul

Ryan.”

Shifting from health care to race relations, Tu said initiatives should focus less on blaming police officers and instead target the root of the problem by eradicating poverty and improving schooling.

“The solution of course isn’t by blaming police or attacking law enforcement,” Tu said. “It’s fixed by education reform, it’s fixed by economic control, its fixed by economic growth.”

Haag, a Democrat, said proper training for police is essential to reduce all differential minority treatment.

“There is empirical evidence that police are not trained enough and that they are actively shooting and being aggressive toward people of color versus white people,” Haag said.

Another major social issue addressed was abortion rights.

Hughbanks said the issue was not about women’s rights.

“This isn’t an issue about women’s rights as much as it is an issue about the rights of the unborn, so what we’re saying before you’re born you have no rights and you can just be killed, ” Hughbanks said. “My position and the position of the Republican Party is that this is not a women’s issue; it’s an issue of protecting the rights of those of us who are unborn and have no other protections.”

Scoratow said that the Republican Party is hypocritical for being in favor of a woman’s right to choose.

“I think that if the Republican Party would like to be in support of a right to life, then they should be in support of things that ensure people’s right to life, like gun control,” Scoratow said. “It is really a basic issue of bodily autonomy for women.”

Joel Elkins (SFS ’18), Jawad Pullin (COL ’18), and Max Rosner (COL ’18) spoke for the Democrats on issues of finance, while the Republican side included Stephen Yin, Christopher Crocki and Michalel Parmiter.

Rosner said it is important for the next administration to raise the minimum wage, so that those earning it can at least afford to pay for their basic living expenses.

“If you were to work 40 hours per week at $7.25, making around $15,000, honestly that’s pathetic. If you’re working 40 hours per week you should at least be able to feed yourself and feed your family, so the Democratic Party, at least, unlike the standard bearer of the Republican Party believes that wages are not too high,” Rosner said. “The Democratic Party believes that $15 should be the starting talking point for minimum wage.”

In response to the Democratic argument, Yin said that raising the minimum wage could hamper the economy and lead to lower rates of employment.

“The question shouldn’t be whether we should raise the minimum wage or not, but rather what’s the best solution to get people to average salaries without reducing their purchasing power,” Yin said. “An increase in the minimum wage could reduce job growth.”

According to Parmiter, instituting higher education options other than four-year universities is critical to ensure students have the experience necessary to secure professional employment.

“I think what you have to look at instead of the affordability of college is the job prospects after it,” Parmiter said. “I think more people in America should go to a trade school or a two-year college, without taking out these massive loans, and then when they get out they can actually secure a job.”

To end the debate, Alex Coopersmith (COL ’19), Matt Hinson (SFS ’17), Madison Pravecek (SFS ’19) represented the Democrats, and Clow, Erica Tillotson (COL ’18), Hunter Estes (SFS ’19), and Richard Howell (SFS ’19) represented the Republican side to discuss foreign policy.

Hinson argued that although Obama may have erred on the side of caution, his policies in Syria have yielded successes and that Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton’s policies will yield to even greater reductions in loss of life.

“We have engaged in Syria, we have been striking ISIS, ISIS has lost over 40 percent of its territory so far, and we have had the success of causing Bashar al-Assad to reduce his chemical arsenal,” Hinson said. “Looking forward to the Clinton administration, Hillary Clinton is going to take a very active approach in protecting civilians in Syria.”

Howell emphasized the Obama administration’s interventions as insufficient and argued in favor of the deployment of ground troops in the region.

“From the beginning of the Arab Spring the United States has not done anything effectively in Syria. … Later Obama promised a red line if Assad used chemical weapons and that red line was crossed,” Hinson said. “We need to work with our partners for real, assure Turkey and Israel that we will commit troops to the region.”

Other students, such as Shanzeg Hameed (SFS ’17), said the debate was successful as a forum to further educate students about political discourse.

“I think it’s good that Georgetown has these sorts of events and opportunities for people to be able to discuss their opinions and to stimulate discussion and conversation,” Hameed said.

Metro Fires 100 Workers BEN GOODMAN Hoya Staff Writer

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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced Oct. 28 the termination of 100 workers over the next week as part of wider efforts to balance an anticipated $290 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2017.

The layoffs, which affect members of WMATA’s management and lower-tier workers, were part of Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld’s plan to eliminate 500 positions this year, announced in June. In May, WMATA laid off 20 station managers, including seven senior managers, ahead of the start of Safetrack, its $60 million, yearlong maintenance overhaul.

The proposed Metro budget for the 2018 fiscal year, which is pending approval by the Metro board of directors, plans to compensate for Metro’s declining ridership and financial woes by laying off 1,000 workers, cutting employee health care expenses and hiking fares by 10 cents.

Wiedefeld emphasized in an Oct. 28 email to WMATA staff that the layoffs stemmed from attempts to balance its budget shortfall.

“I anticipate that Metro will have to make many difficult decisions to balance the budget,” Wiedefeld wrote. “Over the next few days, Human Resources will be working with the executive team to notify about 100 employees about impacts to their jobs due to the budget actions we are taking.”

Stephen Fuller, a senior advi-

sor and director of special projects at the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, said the layoffs this year resulted from an unwillingness to raise rates for riders. As no extra revenue is expected for Metro, there needed to be cutbacks to fill the budget deficit.

“Politically, none of the local jurisdictions are keen on raising the rates, but no one wants to contribute more money either, so you have to cut expenses,” Fuller said. “And the only way is, if you can’t raise revenues, and you have a budget deficit, you have to cut service and one way of doing that is to get rid of jobs.”

Forty-five of the 100 terminated employees belonged to the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents 6,000 Metrobus and Metrorail operators and mechanics in the metropolitan area.

The union’s local chapter Communications Coordinator David Stephen said the union was willing to cooperate with WMATA to prevent future cutbacks.

“Making cutbacks and looking at ways to decrease the size and decrease the operation of this system is not the direction WMATA should be moving in,” Stephen said. “So, we find it regretful, and we are hopeful that we will be able to find other means of making sure that WMATA is able to make up its shortcomings.”

Fuller noted the cutbacks might be a way to notify the local officials running WMATA of further economic problems in the region’s future if money is not raised quickly. According

to Fuller, around a quarter of commuters use Metro. With the cutbacks, that number could further be reduced.

“The implications of these cutbacks send a message that may get the attention of local elected officials,” Fuller said.

“They may be more willing to cough up the money necessary and make the system run more efficiently.”

Fuller cited the inability of the governments of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., to work together to create funding for the Metro as the main reason for the financial deficit.

He said 100 layoffs would be just the beginning for budget cuts.

“This is a test on whether or not we can get our act together and the elected officials have failed. They have not come together and declared an emergency,” Fuller said. “What you have in the 100 jobs and some reduction in service is the tip of the iceberg.”

Stephen suggested that WMATA management cut back the amount of outside private contractors they hire to evaluate the Metro, saying the expenses incurred by Safetrack could have been circumvented if Wiedefeld had consulted more with union members.

“There have been a number of studies and consultants that have been brought in in various areas of WMATA that has literally cost the system tens of millions of dollars,” Stephen said. “What the system has not done, or what the authorities have not done, is actively engage and implement the ideas of their workforce.”

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or the first time since 1997, two NFL games have ended in a tie in the same season. A week seven game between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals ended in a 6-6 stalemate, while a week eight matchup in London ended with Washington tying Cincinnati at 27. After both ties, players were confused, coaches were frustrated and fans and pundits alike bemoaned the NFL’s overtime system – decrying the entire concept of a tie in professional football.

As is custom, college football’s overtime system was brought up and praised for its ability in always determining a winner and being relatively efficient at doing so. Efficiency, however, is not always a justifiable reason for doing things, yet there is one unified theory of overtime that would improve the game at both levels, avoid ties and preserve the core elements of playing football: guaranteeing each team a possession from midfield.

In the status quo for college football overtime, a team begins at its opponent’s 25-yard line, and each team is guaranteed a possession. If the score remains tied after each team possesses the ball, the cycle repeats until there is a winner — with some slight rule modifications beginning in triple overtime. In the NFL, teams are also guaranteed a possession unless the team that possesses the ball first scores a touchdown on its first drive. In that case, the team that scores the touchdown wins.

The biggest issue with college football overtime is that teams can afford to be stagnant on offense and still be victorious if they have a capable kicker. Teams that win the coin toss almost always choose to defend, because it gives the offense a distinct advantage of knowing what they need to do either to win the game or send it into a second overtime.

On the chance that the first team to possess the ball misses

a kick, turns the ball over or is stopped on fourth down, the offense can theoretically bring out its kicker, attempt a 42-yard field goal and win the game without doing anything.

Though teams do not often do this and will instead run the ball to at least make the kick easier, it seems rather antithetical to the purpose of the sport. If this is really the ultimate outcome, the teams should just engage in a field goal kicking competition similar to a shootout in hockey or soccer.

Michael Ippolito There are also clear problems with the NFL’s model.

First, because the overtime begins with a kickoff, teams usually start over 70 yards from the end zone and at least 40 yards out of field goal range. This can make it too difficult to score, and, even with one possession guaranteed, teams will eventually have to compete against the clock and potentially face an awkward decision in which playing for a tie is the best possible outcome because a second overtime, does not exist.

Given the extremely physical nature of football and each player’s susceptibility to injury, creating more overtimes in this manner seems dangerous, as it exposes players to potential harm that could otherwise be avoided or minimized.

At least one benefit of the college system is that a team can only run so many plays in a 25-yard span until they score, are forced to kick or fail to convert on fourth down. Even if this occurs two or three times, it is still preferable to multiple 15-minute quarters in which

teams are tasked with going 80 yards instead of 25.

My solution is to meet in the middle. Take kickoffs and overly long distances out of the equation, but force offenses to move the football in order to win a game. An analysis by FiveThirtyEight shows that NFL kicking is on a historical upward trend — even if some of the missed chip shots that enabled the recent ties would have you think otherwise.

For example, in the last years of the data set, NFL kickers made about 2-of-3 of their kicks from 50-plus yards. To get into this field goal range, teams would still have to move the ball about 15 yards, which is more football-like than the college system of doing nothing and trying a field goal that NFL kickers make close to 80 percent of the time.

Though college kickers haven’t seen the historical progression that NFL kickers have, they essentially made the same percentage of field goals in 2014 as they did in 2009, there is still the principle of having to move the ball and gain yardage in order to win a game.

If a team scores a touchdown under this system, it still creates the same necessity for the other team to convert on fourth down and to be aggressive, but it also makes that touchdown more impactful, because the opposing team will, in theory, have a harder time scoring, as it is more difficult to go 50 yards than it is to go 25.

The NFL and its rules have many flaws, but the egregious and avoidable overtime may be one of the biggest. For the sake of the teams and the players, there needs to be a definitive winner and loser, because, while nobody loses in a tie, nobody wins either.

Michael Ippolito is a senior in the College. The Water Cooler appears every Friday.

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The men’s swimming and diving team won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:34.61 en route to a victory over the Davidson Wildcats last weekend.

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Georgetown’s swimming and diving teams pulled away with victories over Davidson’s teams this past Saturday at McCarthy Pool.

The men’s team (2-3) scored 156 to Davidson’s (1-4) 144 points, while the women’s team (3-2) defeated Davidson (1-5) with a final score of 170.5-129.5 points.

“All of our races impressed me. Based on our last month of training, we have been working really hard and swam some great races while really broken down. We swam a lot of season bests on Saturday,” Georgetown Head Coach Jack Leavitt said of his team’s performance.

The women’s 200-yard medley team of senior captain Katie Duncalf, junior Molly Fitzpatrick and freshmen Morgan Conley and Kelleigh Haley captured first place with a time of 1:47.61.

The members of the relay team channeled this early victory to their individual events.

Duncalf finished first in both the 100 and 200-yard backstroke, finishing with times of 57.77 seconds and 2:06.5, respectively. Duncalf noted how Leavitt has worked closely with her to develop and perfect her backstroke. “[Leavitt is] very intricate in regards to helping each and every one of us with our stroke, so I’ve gotten much more attention with my backstroke than I ever have being at Georgetown, so it’s been really nice to learn what I’ve been doing wrong and corrected in my last year of swimming,” Duncalf said.

Fitzpatrick broke a pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:19.13 and added second place finishes in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard in-

dividual medley. Conley also saw individual success as she finished first in the 50- and 100- yard freestyle, winning by margins of .22 and .28 seconds, respectively.

“All of our races impressed me.

Based on our last month of training, we have been working really hard.”

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Just like the women, the Georgetown men opened up competition with a first place finish in 200-yard medley relay. Freshman Henry Hollinshead, sophomore Arthur Wang, senior Martin Vanin and senior Will Leach held off a late Davidson surge to win the race with a time of 1:34.61.

Despite injuries and illnesses of a few key contributors, the team worked hard to achieve the results of this week’s meet.

“The team said at the beginning of the year they wanted to be known for their grit,” Leavitt said, “This was definitely a gritty win.”

The upperclassmen have adapted well to both Leavitt and his coaching style in his first year at Georgetown. As the team enters into a busy stretch in the season, Duncalf and Chung had nothing but positive comments to say about the change in the team’s leadership.

“I think the way he perceives our team is different from how our old coach did.

His mentality is more so: ‘I don’t care what the other

teams do, I only care about how you guys perform and how we do internally, and as long as you’re trying your best and as long as you’re putting forth 100 percent effort, I will be happy with your results and so should you,’” Duncalf said.

Chung also resonated this praise for the new head coach, providing the team with a new outlook on competition.

“I think Jack brings a new perspective. A new perspective isn’t a bad thing. I think his philosophy and the way he looks at yards and the way he looks at certain elements of each stroke is something that we really appreciate,” Chung said.

Along with changes in the coaching staff, a new season brings a new class of studentathletes, and Chung and Duncalf say the future is bright for the team.

“These freshmen are intent on getting those records and getting those times and placing at Big East, so it’s nice to have a pool of swimmers who are super eager to perform well and have acclimated well to the team culture. They provide such a positive energy that matches rest of us” Duncalf said.

With two victories from both teams and an optimistic outlook, the Hoyas have a quick turnaround to showcase once again their talent and hard work in a meet that includes two Big East foes. “[We] can’t wait for some Big East competition. It’ll be a great measuring stick to see where we are. It’s a fun format that will allow us to swim some different events,” Leavitt said.

The Hoyas will travel to New Brunswick, N.J., for backto-back meets Friday afternoon and Saturday morning to face Rutgers, Seton Hall and Villanova.

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The volleyball team dropped two straight games this weekend by scores of 3-1. It won the first set in each game before dropping three in a row to both DePaul and Marquette.

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Coming off a four-gamehome stretch, Georgetown Volleyball looks to break a six-match losing streak this weekend as they travel to play Big East foes Seton Hall and St. John’s.

The Hoyas (6-19, 2-10 Big East) dropped two matches this past weekend in games against the DePaul Blue Demons (13-12, 7-6 Big East) and the Marquette Golden Eagles (20-5, 10-3 Big East) and will look to find a rhythm in this road trip to the New York/New Jersey area.

Georgetown Head Coach Arlisa Williams said she was encouraged by the team’s strong starts against both DePaul and Marquette, emphasizing how important it is for the team to capture the energy and enthusiasm it showed in the opening sets against DePaul and Marquette .

“The team came out both nights just with awesome energy. The communication, the cheering, the supporting, the encouragement of each other was phenomenal,” Williams said. “And that is hard work cheering for each other that long, so we started to taper off a little bit. So we’ve been working on that in practice keeping up that energy level, because that is what makes a significant difference.”

Bringing that energy may set the Hoyas over the edge against each of their coming

opponents, the Seton Hall Pirates (12-14, 6-7 Big East) and the St. John’s Red Storm (13-13, 4-9 Big East). In each previous match for Georgetown, the team played incredibly close matches but was unable to seize momentum at key moments to finish through sets that were decided by two or three points.

Williams stressed that playing consistent, low-error volleyball will be a decisive factor in ensuring that the Hoyas seize the late game momentum and finish strong in this road trip.

“The biggest thing for us, because we do know how to execute well, is to make sure we remain consistent, and we have been up and down as far as our consistency. From there we must play low-error volleyball. If you look at the beginning of the DePaul match, we played high-energy and low-error volleyball, and we only had about three points that we just gave away. But as we got farther into the match that number increased, so we cannot afford to give away that many points if we want to win,” Williams said.

In the first of two matches, Georgetown will face Seton Hall, a team that brings in a decisive win against Providence and has had an up and down conference slate. With the top four teams in the Big East qualifying for tournament positions, Seton Hall comes into this match 1.5 games back of fourth place Villanova, mak-

ing this a huge match for the Pirates.

The second match up features a St. John’s team that features a balanced attack with five players totaling over 130 kills on the season. St. John’s also boasts a defensive ace in redshirt junior Danisha Moss, who leads her team with 132 blocks this season, which is good for 11th in the nation for blocks, while also ranking 17th in the NCAA by averaging 1.42 blocks per set. Her presence will force Georgetown’s attack to play precise volleyball and create good looks for sophomores Alyssa Sinnette and Symone Speech to run the offense against Moss and the Red Storm defense.

Williams said the team’s attitude and energy has been better throughout the week and will be a key factor to the Hoyas breaking their sixmatch losing streak.

“The great thing about coaching this group right now is that they recognize that we are better when they [keep their energy high]. They have focused on that in practice and made it one of their goals to be communicating and coming in with positive energy,” Williams said.

Georgetown starts their road trip by heading north to New Jersey to face Seton Hall in a Friday night tipoff, starting at 7 p.m. Georgetown then heads to New York City to take on St. John’s in a Saturday evening showdown, which will be televised on ESPN3.

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The Georgetown sailing team placed second at the Fall Conference Championship for double-handed sailing at the War Memorial Regatta in St. Mary’s City, Md., this weekend.

While the regatta does not affect next week’s national championship competitions, the team’s performance on the water did have scheduling implications for next season.

At the race, sophomores Campbell D’Eliscu and Rebecca Fung, freshman William Logue and senior Albert Kraus comprised the fourth place A division team.

The second place B division team included freshman Sean Segerblom and junior Meaghan MacRae. Georgetown Head Coach Michael Callahan used this regatta as an opportunity to rest many of his key upperclassman sailors, as well as to provide his younger sailors with an opportunity to gain more experience.

“We rested some of our older, more experienced sailors this weekend, because they’ve got a couple of weekends of travel coming up,” Callahan said. “It just shows the depth of our team, how good we are and how good we can be.”

Georgetown was one

away from tying with first place team, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Despite the departure of many key seniors and the influx of walk-ons, it seems that the team has found talent to which it can anchor itself.

“We’re going to get to go to the higher-level events and hopefully have more opportunities for kids on our team to sail.”

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Callahan said he is optimistic that the newcomers will be able to contend for a national title in the upcoming seasons.

“We’re going to get to go to the higher-level events and hopefully have more opportunities for kids on our team to sail,” Callahan said.

As for this season, a national title is within reach for Georgetown. The team will be venturing to Texas A&M-Galveston to contend for a single-handed individual national championship. Those sailing include

juniors Greg Martinez and Jack Marshall, junior Lola Bushnell and sophomore Haddon Hughes.

“Greg and Haddon have both won this regatta before,” Coach Callahan said, adding that there would be, “lots of returning champions [and] lots of kids that were at the Olympics this summer.”

More often than not, collegiate teams have an abundance of boats and several sailing locations.

Georgetown does not have this luxury, making it that much more difficult to prepare for what will be one of the toughest regattas of the year.

“We’re just trying to do our best to get ready for it,” Callahan said.

The College of Charleston, Stanford and Yale look to be the most competitive teams sailing next weekend. Yale has a returning champion racing. The talent of Georgetown’s opponents, however, has not deterred Callahan’s confidence as he believes the Hoyas are even keel with the elite competition.

“We have a great chance of winning,” he said. “A lot depends on the conditions.”

The Hoyas will be relying on the experience of their veteran sailors combined, with the leadership of Coach Callahan to propel the team to yet another national championship title.

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“It shows that we have more ways of scoring than just one single way, and it makes it harder for teams to defend us,” Carolan said.

“You can’t just defend us doing one thing. If you do that, we’ll find another way. And it also shows how committed each player on the team is to attacking and going forward, and playing the smart pass that could potentially become a goal.”

Carolan’s first goal came after a slow start and was the product of a goalmouth scramble in which even the goal scorer was not entirely sure of what happened.

“The first goal was an interesting one,” Carolan said. “All I remember is, [senior forward] Grace [Damaska] took a really good touch, and her first instinct was to get the ball in the box. My first instinct was to make sure the ball gets into the goal. So I’m not really sure how exactly it happened, but, as it was, going towards the goal there was a defender, so I went to knee it over the line, and their girl hit it off, but it definitely went over the line.”

The Georgetown offense kicked into high gear by the end of the match, as graduate student forward Crystal Thomas and sophomore forward Caitlin Farrell created several chances. Freshman midfielder Carson Nizialek notched the crucial third goal off a Farrell cross in the 75th minute, and Thomas rounded out the scoring less than two minutes later.

Despite the goals, though, a lack of finishing from corners does not help the Hoyas’ offensive production. Entering the game, Georgetown led the Big East with 146 corners; in second was Depaul with just 96.

“I’d be hard-pressed to think that there’s another team in the country that has as many corner kicks as us,” Nolan said. “And for the life of me, I can’t understand how we don’t score more. … It just seems like there’s a magnet around that ball that just keeps veering away when we have moments.”

In their last six games against the Blue Demons, the Hoyas have a 0-3-3 record and have fallen in the tournament at their hands in two of their last three meetings. Just last Sunday, DePaul tallied four first-half goals in a 4-1 rout at Shaw Field.

“It’s a huge game,” Carolan said. “We have two losses this season, one to Stanford and one to DePaul. It’s everything to us. They came here, and they beat us — and that’s not okay. We need to come out and show them that it wasn’t okay and that that wasn’t our best performance.

We need to focus on … showing them that we were better than that.”

With Georgetown hosting the Big East tournament, Marquette (11-6-2, 7-2 Big East) will take on St. John’s (11-3-2, 5-2-2 Big East) in the first semifinal on Shaw Field at 11:30 a.m. Friday. Georgetown against DePaul will follow at 2 p.m.

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Ernst said. “Because it just feeds on their confidence ...

It’ll be against really good players who are probably better than the players in the Big East. So, when we go play Big East matches, it won’t seem as difficult.”

Another exciting component of the Jack Kramer College Invitational is the role the Jack Kramer Club has played in the tennis world.

According to its website, tennis legends Pete Sampras, Lindsay Davenport and Eliot Teltscher, among others, are all alumni of the Jack Kramer Club.

“There’s so much history,” Ernst said. “Some of the best tennis players on the planet played there, you know, so it’s cool.”

As with the women’s tournament, the Navy Invitational will serve as the final opportunity for the men’s team to take advantage of fall play. While Ernst will travel with the women’s team in California, the program’s Assistant Coach Dillon Pottish will coach the Hoyas against local squads.

Sunday’s most important match will be against the host team, as Navy has been one of Georgetown’s most consistent rivals in recent years. Last year, the Blue and Gray barely edged the Midshipmen in a

needed it in the past.”

Until this weekend, the men’s teams fall play has included a match against the University of D.C., the Penn Invitational, the Farnsworth Invitational and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regionals. The women’s team, on the other hand, played in the Towson 4+1 Invita-

tional, the College Park Invitational, the Colorado Invitational and the ITA Regionals.

With the conclusion of fall play, both teams will have a break from competition until their spring seasons. Both teams will return to play Jan. 27, 2017 in matches against Drexel in Philadelphia, Pa.

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closer Aroldis Chapman.

Chapman was entrusted with four outs just a day after a two-inning outing, an outing twice as long as Chapman could pitch comfortably. Chapman blew the save when center fielder Rajai Davis launched a two-run homer to tie the game up at six.

Maddon sent Chapman out again in the bottom of the ninth despite knowing Chapman was tired, not hitting his marks and potentially lacking in velocity.

And then the skies opened up, literally and metaphorically.

Right when the game was about to enter extra innings, field personnel covered the field with a tarp, as a deluge that could only have been brought on by the cruel baseball gods began to rain down upon the agonized fans in Cleveland.

It soon became evident, however, that what mattered

for the winners of the 2016 World Series was not the 108 years storied in every headline, but rather the 17 minutes in the clubhouse during perhaps the most historic rain delay of all time, when struggling right fielder Jason Heyward called a team meeting.

Heyward, who was hitless

The title is what mattered. The Cubs’ road to baseball immortality was paved with mistakes, but after that last out, the rollercoaster was nothing more than a story to be written. in the game, reminded the Cubs of who they were, what they had accomplished and just what they were fight-

ing for. With desire in their hearts, the gritty Cubs went back out when the skies cleared up, determined to win.

The Cubs rained base hit after base hit down on the Indians, punctuated by a couple intentional walks, eventually driving in two runs to bring the game to 8-7.

And even in the bottom of the 10th, the Cubs gave up one run, making Cubs’ fan hold their breath, before a smiling Kris Bryant made a routine infield play to end the curse, the series and one of the messiest baseball games ever played.

The Chicago Cubs made multiple mistakes on Wednesday night, but with every blunder, they answered with a persistent show of desperation, hope and power.

For many of the fans, this game represented the end of 108 years of suffering. For the all-star infield, though, the group of young athletes that was “an emotional wreck,” as

Rizzo told Rossy early in the night, the win was the end of one epic season.

The 2016 Chicago Cubs represent a young team grinding in the wake of errors, rain and questionable calls, a young team with an old history, which rode on the hopes and dreams of one day as opposed to 108 years.

The truth is, the 108 years did not matter. The 3-1 series deficit did not matter. The errors did not matter.

The title is what mattered.

The Cubs’ road to baseball immortality was paved with mistakes committed in the face of unimaginable pressure on a young team — but after that last out, the roller coaster was nothing more than a story to be written.

The Chicago Cubs are 2016 world champions. Today, no other narrative matters.

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“Playing Navy on Sunday will be good,” Ernst said.

“They’re always a rival of ours. Again, it’s just adding another tournament this year, which we normally don’t do, and that will just really help us. We’ve really

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244 yards and two touchdowns in the Harvard (6-1, 4-0 Ivy League) win, while Bell put up 157 yards through the air in a loss to Lehigh (7-2, 4-0 Patriot League).

“Their backups have done quite a job. ... We’ve looked at all of them and we anticipate seeing a couple of different guys,” Sgarlata said.

Rounding out the Crusaders’ dynamic attack are senior wideouts Brendan Flaherty and Jake Wieczorek. The two physical, 200-pound receivers have combined for 10 touchdowns on the season, while 6-foot-5 senior tight end Lukas Nikolaisen has added four.

“Great receiving corps.

Good offense. Big tight end.

No. 33 [Flaherty] is a great receiver. We’re just trying to come compete with those guys and be physical,” sophomore defensive back Jethro Francois said.

The Hoyas’ defense hopes to improve after allowing 394 total yards at Lafayette, a game in which it was unable to force a single turnover.

“We emphasize on defense that we have to make plays, we have to be playmakers. It’s great being a good defense, but we also have to cause turnovers to put our offense in a better position,” Francois said.

The defensive effort continues to be powered by a range of young players including Francois, sophomore linebacker J’V’on Butler and freshman

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Junior running back Alex Valles recorded 405 rushing yards and one touchdown this season. He is the team’s leading rusher and has a team-high 76 carries. defensive lineman Khristian Tate. Tate has been a major factor on special teams, blocking three punts this season, including one in each of the past two games.

“Anybody who saw [Tate] in camp, just seeing what he can do and from a physical standpoint what he’s capable of — I think it’s just the beginning of what you’re going to see from him,” Sgarlata said.

A major challenge in recent weeks has been the sheer number of plays that the defense has been forced to endure. Georgetown has lost the time of possession battle in each game during its losing

streak, largely due to stagnation on offense.

Like the Crusaders, the Hoyas lost their senior quarterback early in the season when Tim Barnes injured his shoulder at Harvard. Sophomore quarterback Clay Norris played the following three games, throwing for only one touchdown to four interceptions. Freshman quarterback Brock Johnson made his first career start last week but was replaced by Norris in the second half. Sgarlata said both quarterbacks are vying for the starting role in practice this week.

The offense has been able

to produce long scores, including three touchdowns of more than 50 yards, but has struggled to connect consecutive first downs. In their five losses, the Hoyas have been 11-of-66 on third-down conversions, resulting in 17 points or fewer in each of those games.

“We’ve shown that we can do some good things, but we haven’t been able to string those drives together,” junior running back Alex Valles, who totaled 65 rushing yards last week, said. “The biggest thing for us right now is being consistent.”

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Imperfections, errors and nerves defined the 10-inning, almost five-hourlong World Series Game 7. There were just as many Little League mistakes as unimaginably timely plays.

And while the Cubs’ narrative bore the weight of 108 years, the players themselves revealed the nervousness and inexperience of a group of young, talented players in their first Game 7.

Wednesday night’s Game 7 was not about romantic baseball perfection. It was the youthful, fundamental ability for atonement and baseball amnesia.

Take 23-year-old Javier Báez, who perfectly exemplified these qualities: Baez dropped a bare-handed catch that cost the Cubs an inning-ending double play and then made a wild throw to first after losing his footing while fielding a particularly nasty ground ball.

A couple innings later, however, Báez launched a home run into the center field bleachers, atoning for his fielding missteps and quite

literally driving Indians’ ace Corey Kluber out of the game.

Kluber let up four runs in five uncharacteristically precarious innings.

In a similar narrative, catcher David Ross committed a costly error when he rushed a throw to first base, missing the glove of first baseman Anthony Rizzo. However, Ross redeemed himself when he homered against Andrew Miller in the top of the sixth to give the Cubs a 6-3 lead.

The obscurity of the game also showed itself when Cubs manager Joe Maddon decided to pull starter Kyle Hendricks in the bottom of the fifth and insert Jon Lester into a dirty inning, despite saying before the game that he would not do that to Lester.

And even stranger, Maddon attempted to force a squeeze play by signaling to Báez to bunt on a full count with a runner on third, breaking one of the most fundamental rules of baseball.

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Redshirt freshman forward Amanda Carolan scored two goals in Tuesday’s 4-0 quarterfinal victory over Butler. She has scored nine goals this year and was named the Big East Conference Freshman of the Year.

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The No. 7 Georgetown women’s soccer team advanced to the semifinals of the Big East championship with a 4-0 quarterfinal victory over Butler on Tuesday.

Looking to advance to the program’s first Big East championship, Georgetown (15-2-2, 6-1-2 Big East) will take on DePaul (10-6-2, 7-2 Big East), at 2 p.m. on Friday at Shaw Field.

The Hoyas survived and advanced, thanks to two goals by sophomore forward Amanda Carolan and a strong individual performance from sophomore

goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman.

Butler (11-7-2, 4-4-1 Big East) played a back five and largely kept the game to a scrappy midfield battle for possession, but Georgetown dominated the game’s chances, requiring Butler redshirt freshman goalkeeper Hannah Luedtke to make several key saves.

After starting 81 consecutive games for the team, Bulldogs senior midfielder Serina Kashimoto could not play due to injury.

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mained in doubt, and some referees might have called a penalty as Georgetown’s central defenders shepherded the ball to Schechtman on a Butler breakaway.

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Sophomore defensive back Jethro Francois has one interception and one fumble recovery so far this season.

Appearing in six games, Francois has also recorded 14 solo tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss this year.

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In the midst of a fivegame losing streak, the Georgetown football team is looking to earn its first conference win when it hosts the Holy Cross Crusaders Saturday.

After dropping to the bottom of the conference standings last week, the Hoyas (3-5, 0-3 Patriot League) seek to reverse their recent struggles against a program that has been a perennial contender for the Patriot League title.

Holy Cross (3-6, 1-3 Patriot

League) had suffered losing records in 10 of its past 11 seasons before Tom Gilmore was named head coach in 2004. He quickly turned the program around, leading it to a winning season in just his second year and bringing the school a conference championship in 2009.

“I know Tom well,” Georgetown Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said of his Holy Cross counterpart. “Coach does a really good job with his program, kids play hard.

If you watch all their games, they’ve been in almost every one. They play with a little bit of an edge to them.”

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survive and move on. So I’m happy we won,” Nolan said. “I thought we played quite well against a team who were determined to keep the game as tight for as long as possible. And at 1-0, it’s always a game that anything could happen. …

But, overall, I don’t think you can dispute that we were the better team for the number of chances we created.”

Immediately following the penalty shot, Schechtman punted the ball down the field, finding Carolan in stride for her second goal, giving the Hoyas a two-goal lead.

Although the Crusaders enter this week with a losing record, they have notched wins in a convincing fashion.

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ously No. 20 Harvard 27-17, snapping the Crimson’s 16game road winning streak and knocking them out of the polls.

The Crusaders’ offense has been forced to adjust to the loss of senior quarterback Peter Pujals, who had started 35 consecutive games and served as the team’s captain before an injury earlier this year.

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After participating in a host of valuable tournaments over the past two months, the Georgetown tennis program will enter its final competition of the fall season, as the teams travel to Palos Verdes, Calif., and Annapolis, Md., this upcoming weekend.

The men’s team will compete in the Navy Invitational for the second consecutive season, while the women’s team will travel to California for the Jack Kramer College Invitational.

In Annapolis, the men’s team will compete among a pool of familiar college tennis teams from the area, including Navy and George Mason. The Navy Invitational will be structured around team competition.

Meanwhile, athletes from the women’s team will have the opportunity to compete on an individual level against players from some of the top tennis programs in the country.

“The tournament is going to be a fabulous experience for the girls,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said.

“You have UCLA, USC, South Carolina, Northwestern — these are some of the best teams in the country. So, the fact that we got invited is a really cool thing.”

Competing at the Jack Kramer College Invitational will be a homecom-

ing of sorts for sophomore Risa Nakagawa, who is originally from Palos Verdes and has her own personal roots at the location of the tournament.

“She’s very excited,” Ernst said. “In fact, I think she bought a oneway ticket, I don’t think she’ll want to leave. ... But yes, this is the club that Risa grew up at, so that’s great.”

“These are some of the best teams in the country, so the fact that we got invited is really a cool thing.”

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Because results from the fall season do not factor into the teams’ overall records or their conference standings, these tournaments often serve as opportunities to get adjusted to competitive play and prepare for the more influential matches in the spring. There will be many talented players at Palos Verdes, making the Jack Kramer College Invitational a challenging conclusion to the women’s team’s fall campaign.

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