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Get a taste of the marketing strategies behind your favorite Georgetown dessert shops.

EDITORIAL Georgetown needs to fulfill its promise to keep tobacco products off campus.

AUTO ACCIDENT Two GUMC students were hit by an unidentified driver Sept. 5.

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In Limbo: The International Experience on the Hilltop MEENA MORAR Hoya Staff Writer

Jetlagged from a 12-hour flight and lugging two 50-pound suitcases behind her, Rachelle Bonja (SFS ’20) had finally made it to the United States. Growing up in Aleppo, Syria, Bonja, arrived alone in Washington, D.C. with no phone, no credit card and no idea how to get to Georgetown University to begin her freshman year in the summer of 2016.

“My parents can’t come to the U.S.,” Bonja said. “They are not allowed in, because I’m Syrian. I had literally no one when I got here, and I had to take a cab to Georgetown. I remember the feeling of seeing people with their parents and feeling so desperate because I wanted to know how to do things.” For many international students, this sense of discomfort and anxiety is not foreign. Georgetown markets itself as attracting students “from around

the world,” with 3,048 international students from 125 countries enrolled in both university programs, 458 of whom are undergraduates, according to the Office of Global Services. OGS strictly defines international students as those with an F-1 or J-1 visa, which permits international students to legally study at U.S. colleges and universities. Yet, for students like Bonja, who hold U.S. citizenship with no familial or cultural ties to the United States, this narrow definition can be excluding.

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While many international students come to Georgetown without any prior experience in the United States, some students attend programs that introduce them to life in a U.S. college setting, including summer courses at U.S. universities like Georgetown. Those students often feel more prepared to assimilate into Georgetown’s environment. Having a good command of English can also break down certain cultural barriers, according to Austrian native Roxana Helena Demeter (COL ’21). “I’ve obviously had an easier time because I was fully fluent in English and relatively ‘assimilated’ to American culture by the time I came here,” Demeter said. Still, Demeter cautioned against the pressure to assimi-

Gabriel Donato Gonçalves (COL ’19) initially struggled to assimilate into U.S. culture when he began attending Georgetown University.

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The Georgetown University Student Association senate voted Monday to create a new Ethics and Oversight Committee to improve accountability of GUSA’s senate and executive.

GUSA Launches Committee For Exec, Senate Accountability WALKER MILLER Special to The Hoya

An Ethics and Oversight Committee for the Georgetown University Student Association senate is set to be approved this week, after the senate unanimously voted Monday to pass legislation to improve the internal accountability of the senate and GUSA’s executive branch. The formation of the new committee comes a month after the

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resignation of former president Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) amid sexual misconduct allegations, but the committee was created independent of the recent resignations, according to Dylan Hughes (COL ’19), GUSA senator and chair of the eight-person committee. The legislation instructs the committee to track senators’ attendance records at meetings, monitor potential conflicts of interest and ensure that members communicate regularly, said Hughes, who

was elected chair of the committee at the senate meeting Monday. “This committee is just designed to ensure that GUSA is behaving ethically and responsibly,” Hughes said. “I’ve been at Georgetown for four years now, and in my time, I’ve seen examples of GUSA acting unethically.” The committee will also be tasked with investigating the See COMMITTEE, A6

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Month of programming marks LGBTQ Resource Center’s 10th year SANA RAHMAN

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The LGBTQ Resource Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary with OUTober, an annual monthlong programming series honoring the LGBTQ community, this month. This year’s theme, “Looking Forward,” aims to build off the current on-campus LGBTQ infrastructure to identify emerging issues for the community through a series of keynote speakers, discussions and events, according to LGBTQ Resource Center Director and Special Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs Shiva Subbaraman. “The center has been here for 10 years, so we are also celebrating our 10th anniversary of the Resource Center,” Subbaraman said in an interview with THE HOYA. “The center came as a result of student activism in 2007, and it is the first center in a Catholic institution and still is the only center in a Catholic institution.” OUTober’s focus needs to move past foundational issues pertaining to infrastructure and visibility, according to Subbaraman. “This year what I’m trying to do is to look forward to see where are the gaps of the composition that we need to go and build on and hopefully in the next few years we will

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emerging identities, there are lots of new emerging touch points, and I think continuing to educate ourselves and educate the campus about those gaps is where I want to go.” GU Pride Co-President Andrew Molinari (COL ’21) hopes people who take part in OUTober acknowledge the progress made in the LGBTQ community, but also recognize the areas that need improvement. “I hope they see celebrations of what makes our community so great and also what needs to be worked on,” Molinari said. OUTober, a tradition that began in 2012, is organized by the LGBTQ Resource Center, Georgetown University Pride, Georgetown University Queer People of Color and the McDonough Alliance. Smaller events and discussions are held in collaboration with various student clubs, academic departments and organizations, along with Campus Ministry. This year, GU Pride is focused on putting forth fewer, larger events in hopes of creating a sense of community among the student body, specifically for new students, according to Molinari. “I love October because it’s

This year’s OUTober theme, “Looking Forward,” aims to promote activism around campus and national LGBTQ issues.

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identify where those emerging issues are, where those gaps are, and that is where the conversations will go,” Subbaraman said. Despite the significant progress made in the 10 years since the LGBTQ Resource Center’s

opening, Subbaraman wants to combat apathy toward LGBTQ issues. “People tend to think we have gay marriage, we have acceptance, everything is fine, but it is not,” Subbaraman said. “There are a lot of new

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Kenna Chick (SFS ’20), right, was sworn in to serve as the GUSA vice president to President Juan Martinez (SFS ’20).

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Will Haskell Will Haskell (COL ’18) was endorsed by former President Barack Obama in his Connecticut State Senate race. A5

Turning to Hope Fr. Gregory Schenden,S.J., has turned to NBC’s comedy “The Good Place” as the world nears dystopia. A3

Streak Broken The Georgetown football team recorded its first Patriot League win since 2015 against Fordham last weekend. A12

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On Fair, Explain GU Response from University President John J. DeGioia that neglected to mention Fair by name — did little more than reaffirm Georgetown’s commitment to free speech, as outlined by current policy. “I am responsible for protecting speech and expression for the members of our community, especially when that speech is unpopular,” DeGioia wrote. “If private comments made by faculty members are determined to substantially affect their teaching, research, or University service, we will address them through established University procedures.” Ten minutes after DeGioia’s email, School of Foreign Service Dean Joel Hellman emailed the SFS community announcing Fair’s temporary move away from campus while she conducts research. He cited the safety of the professor and her students as the primary reason for the decision, acknowledging the “provocative and threatening” complaints that have been registered in the wake of the tweet. “To prevent further disruption to her students and out of an abundance of caution for the security of our community, we have mutually agreed for Professor Fair to go on research leave effective immediately,” Hellman wrote. These safety concerns are certainly valid, as affirmed by Fair’s account to The Hoya of threats she has received both before and after the late-September tweet. “It would have been irresponsible for me to continue teaching my students,” Fair said. “It was absolutely essential that we signal to them that I’m no longer on campus so that they would stop harassing the university.” Georgetown was right to keep its students safe. However, action cannot cease there: The university must explain what it deems acceptable and unacceptable. On a campus littered with professors who have made a name for themselves in the political sphere, members of the Georgetown community can expect fiery opinions from some of their university peers. While these beliefs should be expressed constructively and with an understanding of disagreeing viewpoints, students, faculty and alumni must be prepared to confront more extreme rhetoric along the way. If Georgetown is truly “predicated on protecting the free expression of ideas,” as DeGioia wrote in his email, the community deserves a thorough explanation of speech that crosses — or does not cross — boundaries of civility as understood by the university. Any other tactic would simply lead to discomfort among students and faculty members who wish to express unpopular opinions.

On Sept. 29, Georgetown University professor Christine Fair posted a tweet wishing for the death of 11 U.S. senators. Her comments pushed — but, in the eyes of this editorial board, did not cross — university-established lines surrounding free speech. In choosing not to discipline Fair and instead begin her planned research leave immediately, Georgetown made the correct decision. However, its reasoning must be explained to the university community. Fair’s tweet, which has since been removed by Twitter, was directed at the Republican members on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was conducting the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of thennominee Brett Kavanaugh. “All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps,” Fair wrote. “Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.” Fair’s comments run dangerously close to violating Georgetown’s harassment policy, which is included in the university’s free speech policy and prohibits hostile expression based on political affiliation — among other “protected categories.” While Fair’s language was excessively vitriolic, she has since explained that her intention was to mirror the hateful rhetoric she often faces as a woman in academia — not to actually call for violence. “Nothing will change until the rest of America understands our pain and rage and I cannot do this with expected formalities and civilities of language,” Fair wrote on her blog Oct. 11. “I can only do this with the language my rage inscribes upon my tongue.” This editorial board believes Fair’s speech should be protected by the university. However, the Georgetown community is owed an explanation of the decisionmaking process that led to Fair retaining her job. Students and faculty deserve to know that Georgetown administrators fulfilled their responsibility in evaluating Fair’s speech in relation to stated policy. Additionally, the perspective of on-campus experts, such as the Speech and Expression Committee, which advises the vice president for student affairs, would be valuable in charting a path forward for the Georgetown community to understand how speech is governed on campus. Instead of examining the specifics of Fair’s case, two university administrators sent the Georgetown community unsatisfactory notices that failed to explain the process fully or directly. The first notice — an Oct. 5 universitywide email

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Break-Out Break Outs — Ball State economics professor Erik Nesson recently published a paper titled “Do Pimples Pay?” He found that, yes, high schoolers with acne are more likely to have higher GPAs and complete college at higher rates. Capri Fuzz — Indiana dad Cameron Hardwick recently found mold in his son’s Capri Sun, then posted about it on YouTube. Kraft, Capri Sun’s parent company, recommended parents check juice packs for holes before giving the product to children. A Healthy Glow — In its effort to relax standards on radiation, the EPA recently referenced toxicologist Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts. He claims that a little radiation is good for you, comparing it to other bodily stressors like exercise.

Overdue But Not Forgotten — A copy of “Spoon River Anthology” was returned to a Los Angeles library after 84 years. The book was checked out by an 11-year-old girl in 1934 and returned by her son when he cleaned her apartment. The library has decided not to impose a late fee but stated that the fee would have come out to $3.

Beary Good News — Beadnose the Bear has officially been crowned the winner of Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Contest. Staff from Kitmai National Park cited Beadnose’s “radiant rolls” and “fabulous flab” as the reasons for her victory and emphasized that fattening up before hibernation is “a life-or-death struggle” for the bears.

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Follow Through on Tobacco-Free Georgetown University must follow through on promises it makes — especially when those promises are related to the health of its students and university community at large. Over the last two years, Georgetown has planned to enforce a tobacco-free policy on its main campus: It aimed to become tobacco- and smoke-free in 2018, according to the university’s website. In fall 2016, the student body supported the tobacco-free movement, voting in favor of a referendum supporting a tobaccofree campus. To keep students healthy, make good on its own promise and uphold students’ interests, Georgetown must follow through on its pledge to become a tobacco-free campus by next year. Not only has the university so far failed to meet its goal of making the campus tobacco-free, but it has made little progress toward it: Georgetown has not made smoking areas clear, advertised signage about the tobacco-free initiative or extended its policy beyond theoretical practice. Eliminating tobacco from campus requires a cultural change, and the university must lead this charge by signalling the imminent reforms it seeks to bring to campus. Georgetown’s other campuses have managed to transition to tobacco-free over the last decade; the university’s website specifically mentions the Georgetown University Law Center and the Georgetown University Medical Center as models for the main campus. To bring the same reform to its undergraduate population and protect the on-campus community from the potentially life-threatening effects of secondhand smoke, Georgetown — which was not available for comment on this editorial — simply needs to begin taking its own stated policies more seriously. Georgetown also needs to arrive at one clear policy, as confusion between differing statements is counterproductive to an effective solution. While one page on Georgetown’s website claims to seek a completely smoke- and tobacco-free campus, the Division of Student Affairs calls for “an environment as close to smoke-free as practically possible.” This obvious contradiction and confusion in goals

is unnecessary: As the university itself acknowledges, Washington, D.C. law prohibits smoking indoors, in any location that might block the entrance of a building or in any place that would “cause others to be exposed to second-hand smoke.” As any student who has walked by the exterior of Lauinger Library can attest, this law is not enforced on campus. Georgetown must follow through on its promise and make main campus tobacco-free. Along with the move toward a cleaner and healthier campus, Georgetown should seek to accommodate students and other community members who are trying to quit smoking. The university’s current efforts in helping students who want assistance, while wellintentioned, are woefully inadequate. The singular page on Georgetown’s website dedicated to helping students “quit your tobacco habit” features a list of national organizations such as the American Cancer Society and UnitedHealthcare but offers little by way of on-campus resources. As Georgetown transitions to tobacco-free, it must actively support students suffering from addiction as well. This transition does not have to be extraordinarily difficult to manage, and the process does not need to take as long as it has. Georgetown’s main campus can simply replicate the Law Center’s policy, which specifies a ban on smoking within 25 feet of any Georgetown building. Under the policy, first-time offenders receive a verbal warning from campus security, along with a printed map of the campus’s designated smoking areas; second violations result in a written warning; and subsequent violations are handled by disciplinary committees. Georgetown is doing undergraduate students a disservice by ignoring its own policies. Banning tobacco on campus — a measure supported by students and the university alike — is a move toward a healthier student body and a policy Georgetown should have no difficulty enforcing. The university is, without a clear reason, deferring its own commitment to students’ health. The process of cleaning up campus has begun, but Georgetown has to take students’ interests more seriously and follow through.

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GU Profs Discuss Future of Iran-Iraq War “Really scary” is the term that Dr. John Ruedy, chairman of the Arab studies department at Georgetown University, used to describe the current war between Iran and Iraq. In interviews with The Hoya, both Ruedy and Etyan Gilboa, a visiting Israeli professor in Georgetown’s government department, stressed the importance of the conflict for the Western world: The region in which the fighting is taking place produces a large percentage of the world’s oil, and this oil is essential to maintaining the West’s standard of living. The two professors, however, disagreed on what role the United States might take. Gilboa said he felt that the United States is unable to resolve the conflict because it lacks the military power. Ruedy, on the other hand,

contended that the United States would “do anything to keep the oil flowing.” Suggesting that the United States is more likely to become involved than the Soviet Union, Ruedy predicted that the continuing hostage crisis in Iran would cause the United States to side with the Iraqis in attempting to obtain a solution. Gilboa said. though, that he saw the Soviet Union as benefitting from an Iraqi victory. Such an outcome, he claimed, would enable the Soviet Union to extend its influence in the area by virtue of its 1975 treaty of friendship with Iraq. Both professors agreed that the current war is primarily the result of longstanding hostility between the two countries and that there is no easy or rapid solution in sight. Two religious sects, the Shi-

ite and Sunni Muslims, coexist warily in Iraq. The Shiites form a majority in Iran. It has been rumored that while the Ayatollah Khomeini was in exile in Iraq, he worked with the Shiites in an attempt to undermine the authority of the Sunnis, the ruling class in Iraq. Iraq’s objective in the conflict, according to Gilboa, is to become “the major power in the Mid-East area.” The geographical location of Iraq allows it easy access to both the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. The eventual outcome, he predicted, will probably be a “stalemate” or a “long low-level war,” hinging on developments that will occur on the battlefields this week.

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Fr. Gregory Schenden S.J.

Hope in ‘The Good Place’

ver since I used to stay up late on summer nights as a child to watch old reruns of “The Twilight Zone,” I’ve had an affinity for the representation of dystopia in the arts. Be it “Blade Runner,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” or anything by Kurt Vonnegut, I always found dystopian tales to be a thrilling encounter. I suppose a facet of my appreciation for the dystopian is its saturnine brand of escapism. Dystopian tales offer the audience a thrilling venture into a darker, bleaker domain while allowing us to recognize that matters could be a lot worse. Recently, though, that all changed. Whether the world got a lot worse, or my favorite series started getting a bit too real — curse you, “Black Mirror” — my love of all things dystopian withered. The tales no longer provided compelling entertainment but rather anxiety and dread. I needed something different. While I appreciated all the recommendations to binge “The Great British Bake Off,” I longed for something uplifting, irreverent and provocative all wrapped into one — which led me to “The Good Place.” The premise is inspired. The selfish and ethically challenged Eleanor Shellstrop, played by Kristen Bell, dies a rather ignominious death by way of shopping carts. In a brilliant bureaucratic error, she is sent by accident to the Good Place, a pleasant afterlife engineered by Michael, some sort of mid-management divine being played by Ted Danson. It soon becomes clear to Eleanor that she has been sent to the wrong place. Acceptance to the Good Place is based on good deeds performed during one’s earthly existence. Eleanor quickly realizes she should have been sent to the Bad Place for her myriad shortcomings. Rather than admit the truth, Eleanor strikes a deal with a moral philosophy professor named Chidi, played by William Jackson Harper. The arrangement is simple: Chidi will school Eleanor in basic ethical principles to help her become a good person, thus preserving her residency in the Good Place for all of happy eternity. Never has the philosophical trek been so raucously entertaining. From Aristotle to Kant, deontology to utilitarianism, “The Good Place”

serves as a gratifying, comic exploration of the questions of what it means to be a good person — or not — and why one should be a good person — or not. While all the philosophy might sound rather heavy-handed, “The Good Place” brilliantly manages to carry it out in a manner that allows slapstick comedy and irreverence to coexist with tragedy and hardship. At the heart of the series’ matter is the quest to be an authentically good person — a quest that necessitates authentic, compassionate relationships. Having now caught up with the series, I am reminded of Fr. Howard Gray, S.J.’s last Sacred Lecture in Dahlgren Chapel in April. In a talk titled “The Centrality of the Good Person in Jesuit Education,” Gray centered his comments on the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke. Gray identified four movements in the parable’s paradigm that illustrate the formation of what it means to be good in a Jesuit educational system. Firstly, the parable — and, consequently, Jesuit education — teaches people to see, to be aware of those around them. Secondly, it teaches people to have a heart, to be empathetic and compassionate. Next, people are taught to assess and use their talents in the circumstances they witness and to respond out of the aforementioned empathy and compassion. Finally, such a paradigm teaches individuals to create a community rooted in and dedicated toward this way of life. While shows like “Black Mirror” border tenuously close to the darkness of our current world, “The Good Place” — in all its impudence and jest-filled glory — serves as a hopeful reminder of what it means and takes to be a good neighbor today. And while I may someday return to the dystopic realms of “A Scanner Darkly,” for now I’m quite content with Eleanor, Michael and the crew as theylive more fully as good persons in the Good Place. While not denying the darkness, I choose hope. Fr. Gregory Schenden, S.J., is the Catholic chaplain at Georgetown University. As This Jesuit Sees It appears online every other Thursday.

As new global powers stray into the current hegemon’s domain — physical or abstract — competition seems inevitable. However short the era may have been, the dusk of Pax Americana may be on the horizon.

The American Eagle in Decline

Joshua Levy

ald eagles can be fiercely territorial birds. When challenged, they lock talons with their foes high above the earth and together plummet toward the ground below. In this aerial game of chicken, the first to let go flies away in humiliating defeat. When there is no decisive winner, the two avian combatants fly higher and engage in yet another deadly spiral. For an eagle, any challenge can be catastrophic. Similarly, empires soar high above their adversaries, and empires come crashing back to the ground; the United States will likely be no different. As new global powers stray into the current hegemon’s domain — physical or abstract — competition seems inevitable. However short the era may have been, the dusk of Pax Americana may be on the horizon. In the wake of World War II, the United States, by far the world’s most powerful country, divested some of its relative power by binding itself to the rules of multilateral institutions. Though the United States had, and still has, disproportionate sway over

the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization — among a host of other international bodies — it intentionally tied one of its hands behind its back, hoping the rules of those institutions would limit the capabilities of future challengers. Thus the contemporary U.S. empire has become less one of overt dominance and one more of subtle influence. As the sun set on the 20th century, the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the victor in what was posed as a civilizational struggle against communism. The United States’ grand strategy had, in the eyes of many, paid off. But in the 20 years since, audacious claims about the inevitable triumph of the U.S.-led order may have been hasty. Now, as new adversaries wade into the fray, the U.S. empire is in retreat. This phenomenon did not begin with the election of President Donald Trump, though it has certainly accelerated under his tenure. Last month at the UN General Assembly, Trump shrank from the challenge of global leadership, excoriating the international engagement and claiming the United States “reject[s] the ideology of globalism.” Trump’s trade war with China and other disputes with partners undermine the global trading order. His ridicule for NATO allies makes the United States look ever more isolationist. Trump’s withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council worries global commentators

about the U.S. moral compass, long a lodestar for the international community. While those invested in the post-World War II international order deliberate how to shoulder a global burden, challengers to that order are rushing to fill the void the United States is leaving. With its Belt and Road Initiative, a host of infrastructure and development schemes, China looks to extend its influence across the Eurasian landmass and to East Africa. China watchers see the BRI as an attempt to tempt developing countries into Sino-centric orbits. Overseas Chinese infrastructure investment is expected to approach $4 trillion, and Beijing is creating new courts of international arbitration to displace the WTO’s dispute-resolution mechanisms. Even at the height of its power in international institutions, the United States maintained at least a facade of multilateralism. Chinese planners have no qualms about dictating terms to China’s subordinate states without consulting the opinions of perceived meddlesome foreign powers. Scholars who study the rise and fall of great powers claim their transition is marked by conflict. Analysts worry that the whispers of such conflict can be heard again, as an ascendant China becomes more forceful in the South China Sea. In violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas — an international agreement from which the United States’ signature is

notably absent — China is using its fast-growing blue-water navy to muscle out its neighbors, extending the reach of its exclusive economic zone, maritime territory where it alone has rights to exploit natural resources. The United States, long unmatched as a naval power, is rightly nervous. Last week, the U.S. Air Force flew B-52 strategic bombers over the South China Sea, and in years past, the U.S. Navy has conducted numerous Freedom of Navigation Operations to contest China’s claims of sovereignty. China’s past response to these perceived incursions has been to ratchet up military tensions by sending yet more destroyers to those waters, one of the world’s most valuable sea lanes. With a belligerent president in Trump and an ambitious competitor in Chinese President Xi Jinping, diplomatic, trade and military tensions seem poised to escalate. The eagle has locked talons with a challenger and the perilous tangle has begun. But the higher the birds climb, the farther they fall and the greater the consequences of disaster. When bald eagles thrash at one another as they tumble to the ground from dizzying heights, sometimes both fail to pull out of the dive. When that happens, the ramifications are cataclysmic for all. Joshua Levy is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Animal Kingdom appears online every other Friday.

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Facilities Failed My Floors

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n fall 2017, I lived in a dilapidated apartment in Henle Village. Initially, I thought little of my home’s shabby state. Soon, though, I noticed our floors were substantially dirtier and, more importantly, moister than those in any of my friends’ apartments. Our carpet floors retained moisture and were consistently wet, to the point where you could touch any spot on the carpet floors and feel dampness. For this reason, my roommates and I started the process of petitioning the Office of Planning and Facilities Management for new floors in late August 2017. When Georgetown staff first came to my apartment, they did a humidity level reading in my living room to assess the general moisture level within the apartment. Our apartment registered a 57 percent relative humidity level, which facilities considered standard — although levels should be no higher than 50 percent, according to the Center for Disease Control. Furthermore, facilities claimed no moisture was present, even though my roommates and I could simply put our hands on

the floor and feel persistent wetness. Regrettably, facilities felt as though our situation was nothing out of the ordinary and made no effort to replace our carpet floors. At this point, my parents, along with those of my roommates, took the initiative to talk with facilities about the condition of the apartment. After the university’s initial response, my roommates, our parents, and I were passed from administrator to administrator within facilities, none of whom showed much interest in actually addressing the problems with our floors. “This type of work [replacing floors] is disruptive to students,” Mark Sciarratta, director of facilities management, wrote to me in an email Sept. 26 — close to a month after we initially reported the poor condition of our floors. “Sometimes the carpet is overlooked and that is unfortunate.” Clearly, replacing our floors was not a priority for the facilities department. Facilities finally took action in January 2018 — five months after our first request — by beginning

the process of replacing our carpet floors with wood floors. At this point, my roommates and I had lived in putrid conditions for an entire semester. During this time, the condition of our living room was so bad we barely used it. We couldn’t even do the simplest things, like walk around without shoes. When our floors were finally replaced in late January, my roommates and I were relieved. Yet, at the same time, we could not shake the feeling that facilities had ignored our concerns when a simple solution could have solved our problem. Overall, my roommates and I feel as though facilities failed us. No Georgetown student should have disgusting living conditions, but I know that my experience is not unique. I hope that the university takes the necessary steps to ensure that a situation such as mine never happens again. Luke Duffner is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Of Mice and Mold is a weekly series of student and alumni letters highlighting issues within Georgetown University’s housing and maintenance.

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y first week in Amman, I ran out of water in my apartment. Midway through my morning shower the stream slowed to a trickle, before sputtering and completely giving up. The kitchen sink soon followed suit, as did the toilet, washing machine and ice maker. My apartment was bone-dry. Like all residents of Jordan, my roommate and I receive our running water on a weekly basis by way of delivery truck. Individual tanks sit on the roof of our apartment building, funneling water into the designated units. If well-allocated, the water from the tank should last seven days. Clearly, we hadn’t yet figured out how to allocate our supply, and our water tank ran dry two days before it was scheduled to be refilled. While those 48 hours without running water were tougher — and admittedly, smellier — than I would have liked, my personal drought demonstrates only a microcosm of what Jordan suffers as one of the most water-poor countries in the world. Water scarcity poses one of the greatest threats to the future stability of the Middle East and should be treated with the same consideration as other geopolitical conflicts in the region. Without international cooperation to address the growing water crisis in Jordan and its neighbors, the area will suffer from desiccation and destabilization. The World Bank defines waterscarce countries as those with less than 1,000 cubic meters of water per person annually. With the lowest amount of per capita available wa-

ter in the world, Jordan can provide less than 15 percent of this baseline figure. While Jordan currently receives 80 percent of its water from aquifers, estimates suggest these will be empty in 10 years’ time. The water scarcity crisis was brought on by a long-term drought, transboundary water competition and a strain on existing resources resulting from the influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees since the start of the Syrian civil war. Moreover, the Jordan River, which flows into the Dead Sea along the Jordan-Israel border, is suffering from severe dehydration. In the 1960s, Israel built a pumping station that diverts water from the Jordan into a pipeline system that supplies water throughout the country. In the 1970s, Jordan and Syria began diverting water from the Yarmouk, the lower Jordan River’s main tributary. Nearly 100 billion gallons of water are pumped from the river each year, at a rate faster than they can be replenished. Meanwhile, the Dead Sea has shrunk by 40 percent in the past 60 years, and continues to decline are at an average rate of three feet per year. Yet, while all surrounding countries recognize the rate of decline, no one wants to sacrifice their access to the source. The situation is grim — perhaps made even more so by the political implications of the shortage in the region. Experts argue that declining water rates decrease the possibility of self-sufficiency in the region, as countries like Jordan must rely on allies — and their stipulations — to help address water and crop shortages. Projects with the greatest potential for sustainable solutions are also the most capricious, relying on the often volatile nature of relationships between countries that don’t often see eye-to-eye. Most recently, in July of 2017, an Israeli-Jordan desalination project aiming to slow the rate of Dead Sea evaporation and send fresh water to

southern towns in both Jordan and Israel was put on hold after an Israeli security guard shot and killed two Jordanians at the Israeli embassy in Amman, prompting a six-month diplomatic standoff. Meanwhile, some advocates believe regional cooperation on water scarcity issues could pave the way for peace between Israel, Palestine and Jordan. Water boundaries and climate politics are merely among the challenges to the tenuous relationships in the region. However, perhaps the threat of extreme water poverty could bring estranged nations together. While policymakers and aid and development agencies focus their efforts on refugees and migration issues, terrorism and extremism, and oil control in the region, water security must be given its due consideration as a regional security issue with global implications. Water is vital for the security, safety and prosperity of a country. Widely recognized as a hub of security and stability in the region, Jordan must be able to maintain its place as a balancing power in the Middle East without threat of desiccation. The solutions, of course, are complex and multifold. Jordan already has taken decisive steps to allocate and ration water and has developed technology that makes the most of existing liquid resources to accommodate its swelling population. Yet, this certainly is not merely a task for climate scientists and irrigation experts; rather, it is a matter of international geopolitical security, and deserves to be addressed as such by global institutions and governments alike. In the meantime, I’ll be joining my fellow Amman dwellers in taking shorter showers — for peace’s sake. Hannah Urtz is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Amman It appears online every other Thursday.

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Justin Poole, deputy director of the National GeospatialIntelligence Agency, the main source of geospatial intelligence for the Department of Defense and the U.S. Intelligence Community, spoke at the Kalaris Conference on Sept. 27 in Gaston Hall, an event that brought several national security leaders to Georgetown. Poole currently manages dayto-day operations of the NGA and has worked in the national security industry for 28 years. The Kalaris Conference, which focused on current trends in national security, included journalists, professors, employees of national security organizations and members of think tanks like the Brookings Institute. THE HOYA spoke to Poole during the daylong conference, touching on topics of artificial intelligence and geospatial security strategies.

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words a little bit about what you do?

The agency that I am responsible for running as the deputy director is the ....World’s premier provider into spatial intelligence. Geospatial intelligence is one of what we call hints, or disciplines of intelligence that describes where and what and, in context, is happening on any particular point on the Earth’s surface. We can convey that intelligence information — or sometimes we call it products — in a lot of forms. It can be an answer to a question: Are troops moving there? It can be graphical — oftentimes it’s communicated through maps, through charts.

Just because I noticed that a lot of the talks today are about cybersecurity or involve cybersecurity in AI, how has that reshaped the national security and national security world? Cyber is a little more on the world stage, in the press, etc.,

but the explosion of all things digital — big data, information, volumes we’ve never seen before — we have an opportunity as purveyors of intelligence to use this information, and we do. We have to be concerned about the chain of custody, where it came from, is it accurate, has it been influenced by some sort of bad actor from cyber perspective, are the systems that we are using vulnerable? We are not unique; NGA is not unique in that. The entire intelligence community, D.O.D. and the world is susceptible to cyber. The way it has changed is it has made our awareness of it and our need to deal with it and invest in the appropriate measures to protect the information that it’s our responsibility to provide, that keeps our national security safety.

How do you contribute to protecting civilians? How do you know who is a civilian and who is not? Yeah, the high-level answer is

— I don’t want to say it’s not my job to protect civilians. It’s my job to inform the people who will be making decisions about the protection of civilians, so the easiest way to describe our role is geointelligence about what things are on the ground: That’s a mosque; that’s a hospital; that’s a housing area; that’s something else. And so we’re able to provide that context about a geographic region that allows whoever is doing operations to understand the landscape. And there are ways you see in the news of determining where a particular, let’s just say adversary — you mentioned ISIS, what types of places they go, where they, do they like to frequent these kinds of facilities, then my teams can find those for our military, our allies, our war. But to not always put a wartime setting on it: If we’re looking at flooding disasters or hurricanes in Haiti, one of the first things the first responders want to know is where were the schools, the churches and maybe elder care facilities and the hospitals. They want to

know where everything is, but those are maybe places where you want to go first to make sure that people are taken care of. So we can do that as well, if asked by FEMA. … Don’t forget the humanitarian aid disaster relief piece.

How do you respond to natural disasters? Is it a reactionary response or do you prepare for them in advance? When it comes to the business of intelligence, predictive analysis is very important. So that’s more about — you see a pattern of life of something, we have analysts who have such steep tradecraft that they can offer an assessment of what might occur next. And I say that very carefully, because while predictive analysis is a thing, sometimes when you say we can predict, I picture crystal balls, and that’s not what we mean. We can give you with varying degrees of confidence an assessment of what might happen, when might a military exercise be-

gin, when might an attack on a something occur.

How are you shifting to address the rise of more individual attacks like suicide bombers? Do you primarily focus on state actors? To the last part, no, we focus on everything. More and more in the counterterrorism world it’s not about state actors, so we do it all. Where you’re going with the question about individual people is starting to get into things that 1) are fairly sensitive but 2) also involve other organizations, but to try to give you something, it goes back to pattern of life again. You know — where are things within a city, you know where are the houses, where are the internet cafes, where are this, that and the other thing. So we bring that to the table and combine with other partners. We can try to limit the types of things that you’re talking about. And we have been effective, but we’ve had a lot of practice on it.

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Kenna Chick (SFS ’20) was confirmed as Georgetown University Student Association vice president by the GUSA senate Oct. 3, following a series of executive resignations in September. President Juan Martinez (SFS ’20) nominated Chick for the position on Oct. 1. Martinez, former transition chair of the senate, became president under GUSA’s bylaws Sept. 16 following the resignations of former President Sahil Nair (SFS ’19), Vice President Naba Rahman (SFS ’19), Chief of Staff Aaron Bennett (COL ’19) and nine other senior staff members. Nair resigned Sept. 11 amid sexual assault allegations. Martinez approached Chick, former chair of the mental health policy team, about the possibility of being nominated Sept. 26. The pair previously worked together on the off-campus therapy stipend to provide mental health support for low-income students. The stipend successfully launched last spring after a $10,000 university contribution and a Saxafund fundraising effort. “I could tell that Juan and I had (and continue to have) a similar passion for improving the college/ university experiences of Georgetown students,” Chick wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Ultimately, I decided to accept the nomination because I know that GUSA and, more importantly, the student body at large face many difficulties, particularly now, and I want to do all that I can to help ease those difficulties, rebuild student confidence in GUSA and advocate for student wellness on campus.” Chick is the first GUSA executive of East Asian descent, and Martinez is the first Latinx and undocumented president. Improving diversity and creating an inclusive GUSA environment are critical for Martinez and Chick. “I think this speaks to the larger lack of diversity when it comes to people of East Asian descent in

positions of leadership,” Chick wrote about her heritage. “I am also proud to announce a senior staff that is diverse in a number of ways, from race to ability.” Martinez and Chick plan to focus their administration on advocacy, transparency and student health, according to Chick. Both have experience in policy and advocacy with GUSA, and hope to encourage other students to work for change, Chick wrote. Chick’s passion for improving student health and wellness is why she first became involved with GUSA, she said. “I originally became involved in GUSA to serve as the GUSA Chair of the Mental Health Policy Team because I was very passionate about creating a Georgetown that is conducive to the health and wellness of its students, especially those who are experiencing difficulties in mental health,” Chick wrote. Continuing this work as vice president is a top priority for Chick, from educating students on well-being to eliminating barriers for health resources. “I also want to work towards promoting a more survivor-centric campus culture by advocating for healthier student interactions and greater awareness,” Chick wrote. Given the atypical circumstances surrounding Chick’s appointment as vice president, rebuilding student confidence in GUSA is vital, she said. Chick hopes to better communicate GUSA’s role and purpose to the student community. “Oftentimes, there’s a perception that GUSA is all about a selfserving pursuit of ‘status’ or ‘attention,’ but at the end of the day, I got involved in GUSA and I’m remaining involved in GUSA because it’s really about working to make Georgetown a better place for all Hoyas,” Chick wrote. “Whether it’s academics, quality of life, mental health, or any other area, my priority is making the experience better for all students.”

Will Haskell (COL’18) knows it may be hard for some to take a 22-year-old’s State Senate campaign seriously, but he has at least one supporter: former President Barack Obama. Obama tweeted his support for 260 Democrats, including Haskell, running in gubernatorial, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and state legislature races in his second wave of endorsements Oct. 1. His long-awaited first round of endorsements was announced Aug. 1. “Today, I’m proud to endorse even more Democratic candidates who aren’t just running against something, but for something—to expand opportunity for all of us and to restore dignity, honor, and compassion to public service. They deserve your vote,” Obama wrote in the tweet. Haskell launched his campaign to represent Connecticut’s 26th congressional district in the State Senate in March, during the spring semester of his senior year at Georgetown University.

Haskell deferred his plans to enroll at the Georgetown University Law Center to focus on his campaign, which has been thrust into the national spotlight in the days following Obama’s endorsement. In the days since, Haskell has been profiled by several national publications, including The New York Times and ABC News. Despite Haskell’s inexperience compared to his opponent — State Senator Toni Boucher (R-Conn.), who has served in state legislature since 1997 and as a senator for Connecticut’s 26th congressional district since 2009 — he has received significant support from more established Connecticut politicians. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), as well as Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), have all endorsed Haskell and campaigned for him. Though Haskell’s campaign reached out to the Democratic National Convention about the possibility of being endorsed by Obama after his first wave of endorsements in August, the news on Oct. 1 came as a surprise to Haskell, as he was initially unsure whether Obama would get involved in state

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Former President Barack Obama endorsed Will Haskell (COL ’18) in his bid for the Connecticut State Senate on Oct. 2.

legislative races. “I was amazed that President Obama decided to get involved in this race, but I think it speaks to the importance that the Connecticut State Senate goes blue this year, and just what’s at stake in state legislative races and in state houses across the country,” Haskell said in an interview with The Hoya. The Connecticut State Senate currently includes 18 Republican and 18 Democrat senators and is the only tied state legislature in the country, which makes this race especially significant, Haskell said. “People are really starting to look at the 26th district, and a seat that hasn’t been held by a Democrat since the 1970s, all of a sudden, might actually flip,” Haskell said. “We think of this state as a blue state very often, we see Jim Himes and Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal on TV, and Connecticut go blue in almost every presidential election, and we forget that actually this is a very purple state with the only tie in the whole country.” Though Obama’s endorsement has given Haskell national attention and an boost in volunteering numbers, it will not be a defining factor of the race, Haskell said. “For anybody who’s paying attention, they’re not going to see a huge shift in this race, they’re going to see just more of the same, of exactly what we’ve been doing: listening to, and learning from, voters,” Haskell said. Haskell’s campaign manager and college roommate Jack Lynch (COL ’18) said that, while he and Haskell are excited about the endorsement, they are not taking anything for granted. “I think the excitement in this race is definitely on Will’s side of things, but we’re challenging an incumbent who has been in office for over 20 years,” Lynch said in an interview with The Hoya. “We’re more confident than we were a couple of weeks ago, but we’re not going to be complacent at all, only cautiously optimistic really until the polls close on election day and we see how things have gone.” Lynch acknowledged that Haskell’s youth has the potential to make voters apprehensive in backing him. “The biggest concern with his age is that people aren’t going to

take him seriously, but anyone who meets Will or talks to him at an event knows how seriously he takes this race, and how much he knows about the policies that are affecting Connecticut,” Lynch said. However, Lynch also said Haskell’s youth has benefitted his bid. “It makes him stick in people’s minds; it gets people’s attention that a 22 year-old is running for office,” Lynch said. Despite recent upticks in voter registration, the campaign is still concerned about voter turnout on election day, Haskell said. “The problem is we need to make sure those newly registered voters actually become voters, actually get to the polls. So an obstacle facing our campaign is that it’s too hard to get absentee ballots,” Haskell said. Haskell hopes that young people especially will make their voices heard this election season. “I read recently that three out of four millennials plan to sit out the midterm election. To be frank, that’s insane. We have more at stake than anybody else,” Haskell said. “Our generation, we’re not just going to be at the ballot in November, we’re going to be on the ballot and our futures our going to be on the ballot.” Sanford Ungar, a government professor and director of the Free Speech Project of Georgetown University whom Haskell worked under, also has high hopes for Haskell’s chance in November. “I was pleased, but not really surprised, that President Obama had endorsed him,” Ungar wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Will is one of the most interesting political candidates in the country this fall, and the outcome of his [s]tate Senate race in Connecticut will be a bellwether of things to come.” Haskell is hopeful for election day, from observing reactions to recent political events. “With everything that’s been happening in the news recently, with Justice Kavanaugh taking his seat on the bench and throwing into jeopardy reproductive health and freedom, environmental regulation, voting rights, LGBTQ equality, people are getting involved and they’re frustrated and energized in a way that is really inspiring to me,” Haskell said.

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The inaugural “CAB Fair 2.0,” hosted by Georgetown’s Council of Advisory Boards, is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 14. The fair was organized to combat club exclusivity on campus. The second CAB Fair, which will take place on Harbin Hall’s patio, was proposed as a way to highlight clubs that are inclusive or do not require an application, according to CAB Chair Carley Mambuca (SFS ’18). “This CAB Fair is open exclusively to those organizations with open membership,” Mambuca wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Any group that is tabling either does not have an application process or is only signing folks up for the aspects of their organizations that do not have an application (EX: GUSA policy groups).” The fair is aimed at elevating the status of open-membership clubs to help students find a club aligned with their interest, Mambuca wrote. “All Hoyas deserve to find their community on the Hilltop and it is hard to think that our peers are the judges as to whether or not that can happen with certain application-based groups Openmembership organizations are just as worthy and welcoming,” Mambuca wrote. “I do believe that Georgetown students celebrate each other for their diverse passions, but that in some ways has not transferred to the way those view clubs and organizations on campus, and CAB is actively pursuing solutions to this phenomenon.” The first CAB Fair of the semester took place Sept. 8 and featured over 200 student organizations, many of which require applications and interviews. The “CAB Fair 2.0” comes after a largely student-led effort to mitigate the effects of Georgetown’s club culture based largely on application-based clubs. Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Erika Cohen Derr convened a working group of student leaders and representatives from student groups such as the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, Students of Georgetown, Inc., and Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society in the spring of 2017 to look into potential solutions. “Georgetown really has deferred to student leaders to lead the fight

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Georgetown’s Council of Advisory Boards is set to host the inaugural CAB Fair 2.0, exclusively for clubs with open memberships. against Georgetown’s current club culture, which is why I have installed the second CAB Fair this year,” Mambuca wrote. “I think this is a great first step, but it is in no way fixing the issue in its entirety.” Mambuca wrote that following a survey conducted by the 2018 Senior Class Committee last Spring, discomfort with the club application processes seemed to be a persistent complaint for freshmen and an isolating feature of Georgetown’s culture that made the campus inaccessible for many new students. “Very few folks said that they felt at home in the Hilltop during their freshman year. Most mentioned sophomore or junior year,” Mambuca wrote. “It is reasonable to believe that is, at least in part, a result of the organizational exclusivity faced by many freshmen.” In 2016, GUASFCU accepted 7.6 percent of 290 applicants and Blue and Gray accepted 10.2 percent of 313 applicants. In 2015, the Corp accepted 18 percent of all applicants. These organizations no longer release their acceptance rates, according to club representatives. The exclusive club culture at Georgetown can be a shock for freshmen, Georgetown University Student Association freshman representative Connor Brennan (SFS ’22) said. “A lot of us come from schools where we’re big fish in a small pond. We come from a high school where we were leaders and

the best in everything, and that’s how we got into Georgetown. Now, we are big fish in an ocean of very big fish,” Brennan said. “It’s sort of jarring to the mentality that has driven many of us, and I think it’s a culture shock.” Former Chair of the Georgetown University Lecture Fund and representative to the informal working group on club culture Aiden Johnson (COL ’19) criticized club exclusivity at Georgetown and helped established open membership for the Lecture Fund. “At some point along the road, we embraced this idea that for clubs to be efficient or attractive they have to be exclusive,” Johnson said. “That is a myth; it’s a lie that we tell ourselves, just look at the astounding and inclusive clubs at the second CAB fair. The cost of turning a student away from a club they care about is, in my opinion, far higher than the cost it takes to find a place for them.” The current efforts to reduce pressures from clubs that require applications offers hope for a more inclusive club environment on campus, Johnson said. “The students who worked on the second CAB Fair are reminders that only students can fix Georgetown’s club culture because we are the ones who created it,” Johnson said. “I’m thrilled that new students get this extra chance to find a community at Georgetown; they deserve an explanation as to why it is so hard to find one in the first place.”

Professor Christine Fair is on immediate research leave after a tweet on her personal Twitter account calling for violence against Republican senators received backlash last week, according to an email sent by Dean of the School of Foreign Service Joel Hellman on Oct. 5. Fair’s tweet was a response to the Sept. 27 testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee by then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — who is now a confirmed justice — in which he denied sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford in high school. “Look at [this] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps,” Fair wrote in her tweet. “Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.” Hellman wrote in an email to the SFS that the decision to begin Fair’s research leave immediately, rather than wait until the previously scheduled date, was reached mutually between Fair and university administrators. The planned date for the beginning of her research was not included in the

email. “To prevent further disruption to [Fair’s] students and out of an abundance of caution for the security of our community, we have mutually agreed for Professor Fair to go on research leave effective immediately,” Hellman wrote in the email. Some of the complaints about Fair received by the university were threatening, prompting an institutional response, Hellman wrote. “It’s become clear that incivility begets incivility. While we have received many legitimate concerns from members of our community and beyond regarding the social media posts Professor Fair has made in her personal capacity, many other complaints registered have been provocative and threatening,” Hellman wrote. “Our Threat Assessment Team and Georgetown University Police Department (GUPD) have taken preventive steps to secure our campus, conduct safety assessments, and continue to monitor the situation.” Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan, the university director for Hindu life, will take over Fair’s “Intermediate Hindi” classes, according to Dan Byman, vice dean of the SFS. Fair’s tweet received backlash from alumni, students and conser-

vative-leaning media. A poster was hung early in the morning on Oct. 4 in Red Square, displaying Fair’s tweet, followed by an add-on reading: “Why won’t President Degioia [sic] condemn this?” President John J. DeGioia released a statement Oct. 4 condemning Fair’s use of violent imagery but defended school officials’ right to freedom of speech, in an email sent to the Georgetown community. “We protect the right of our community members to exercise their freedom of expression. This does not mean the University endorses the content of their expression,” DeGioia wrote. “We can and do strongly condemn the use of violent imagery, profanity, and insensitive labeling of individuals based on gender, ethnicity or political affiliation in any form of discourse. Such expressions go against our values.” Fair described the backlash as censorship intended to discipline her free speech as a woman in an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s another way to discipline women’s bodies, by asking us to discipline our rage,” Fair said. “I cannot tell you the rage and hurt it feels as all of those men on that Judiciary Committee kicked sexual assault survivors in the gut.”

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GUSA Committee to Track Senate Accountability COMMITTEE, from A1 financial activity of GUSA and subpoenaing any GUSA member, including presidential candidates. Upon investigating, the committee can issue letters of warning and initiate articles of impeachment. Vice President Kenna Chick (SFS ’20), GUSA’s former mental health policy coalition chair, expressed support for the committee’s goals but raised concerns about its potential handling of mental health issues. “This committee needs to find that careful balance between oversight and compassion,” Chick wrote in an email to The Hoya, describing her experience seeing people forced out of work spaces for mental health reasons. “This committee can certainly avoid replicating those ablest practices and interactions, but the Chair and Vice-Chair must prioritize the health and wellness of students to do so.” Hughes cited illegal spending by presidential candidates and chronic absences as examples of problems that could potentially have been avoided with an oversight committee. Sam Dubke (SFS ’21) echoed Hughes’ concern with absences, saying it was what motivated him to help draft the legislation forming the committee. “I was a senator last year, and I personally was very frustrated working with the executive branch because a lot of people wouldn’t respond to emails or set up meetings,” Dubke said. “A lot of senators would just not come to meetings that they felt were unnecessary, and there was functionally no en-

forcement mechanism.” During the 2018 GUSA executive race, runner-up candidates Josh Sirois (SFS ’20) and Casey Doherty (COL ’20) alleged that the campaign of Nair and Naba Rahman (SFS ’19) exceeded the $300 budget limit. The Election Commission did not find violations of finance rules, but former GUSA Election Commission Co-Chair Grady Willard (SFS ’18) said in February that the process of campaign financing monitoring needs to be improved. “The whole issue in general of campaign finance is something that is desperately, really really desperately broken and needs to be fixed,” Willard said. “I am of the personal belief that of all the campaigns I have seen in four years … of the candidates that spent the maximum amount of money, there is a strong chance that some of them just didn’t report additional expenses. Because there’s no way for us to check.” GUSA Senators Saham Ali (COL ’21), Dubke and Hughes introduced the legislation Monday night. Dubke will serve as vice chair of the new committee. The members of the committee will also include the vice chairs of the senate’s four standing committees, who have not yet been elected, as well as two nonvoting participants from the executive branch. Hughes and Dubke emphasized that they, along with Ali, wrote the legislation over the summer and that it was not a response to the recent resignations. “This legislation was in process over the summer. We have been drafting this for months,” Hughes

said. “This is not, nor was it designed to be, nor should it ever be, an emergency response committee.” Having an oversight committee will help fulfill the senate’s promises of increasing GUSA’s transparency, GUSA Senator Karan Chauhan (SFS ’22) said. “GUSA has a reputation for being ineffective, so by creating the Ethics and Oversight Committee, the senate is building a sense of trust that we are doing the work we were elected to do,” Chauhan said. “Ideally, the committee will work as a limited check, because ideally, everyone will be doing their job.” GUSA Senator Logan Arkema (COL ’20), who ran for GUSA president in February, agreed with Chauhan’s desire for a restricted role for the committee, welcoming it chiefly as a mechanism for patrolling attendance and executive responsiveness. “Having an ethics committee helps, but this committee isn’t going to solve every single ethical and transparency issue within GUSA,” Arkema said. “It was primarily established to crack down on senators who don’t do any work.” While the GUSA executive has until Oct. 18 to either veto the legislation or sign it into law, Chick indicated that the bill would be approved. “Prior to signing this legislation, we certainly want to continue our working relationship with this committee and address some of the concerns we have,” Chick wrote. “We’re confident in the committee’s objectives, and want to improve the committee through active collaboration.”

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OUTober 2018, in the sixth year of the monthlong program series, serves not only to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the LGBTQ Center but also to educate the campus on LGBTQ history.

OUTober Educates Campus, Celebrates Community OUTOBER, from A1 so early in the school year, so especially for newer students who are trying to see what is the LGBTQ scene on this campus, what are its strengths, what are its weaknesses and what is beautiful about it, we as student clubs get to show all of that in one month which I think is great,” Molinari said. The LGBTQ Resource Center first opened in August 2008 following a student-led campaign “Out for Change” and a 2007 town hall, where University President John J. DeGioia promised more initiatives to create a LGBTQ-friendly campus in response to bias-related incidents on campus. OUTober serves as an opportunity to educate the campus on LGBTQ history, culture and diversity, much like heritage months the university recognizes, Subbaraman said. “We need to use this opportunity to educate the campus on LGBTQ histories, cultures and the large diversity, because the LGBTQ community is diverse by race, ethnicity, class, religion, ability: You name anything, we

are diverse,” Subbaraman said. The main event of the program series and key 10th anniversary celebration, “Edges that Blur,” is a conversation about student activism between Marcia Chatelain, the Provost’s distinguished associate professor of history and African American studies, and Daniel Porterfield, president of the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit leadership think tank. In addition to the major key speakers and events, numerous ethnic and cultural student groups, including the Asian-Pacific Islander Leadership Forum, will be collaborating on smaller scale events in OUTober. APILF is hosting a “Queer and Asian Dialogue” at the LGBTQ Resource Center on Nov. 7 to discuss these intersections of identities, according to APILF leadership team member Heejin Hahn (COL ’20). “One of the main things we discuss is what does being queer and Asian mean to you, because both are such diverse terms that apply to so many different people,” Hahn said. “So, hopefully meeting and hearing other stories will create comfort for people who think they are alone

on this campus.” Although OUTober aims to create a campus environment where special attention is paid to LGBTQ issues during the month of October, its organizers hope that by having events in the start of November as well, discussions will continue past the scope of the events. “Our goal is to build community and have that community extend throughout the year and not just be limited to our events in OUTober,” Molinari said. While OUTober displays distinct features of Georgetown’s LBGTQ community, the month also highlights the ways in which it is integrated into the larger Georgetown University community, Subbaraman said. “There is a tendency on college campuses to think of LGBTQ identities as separate from all other identities. As if being gay defines all of who we are, and it does not,” Subbaraman said. “The presence of this is to really showcase that LGBTQ people not only are a part of this community, but we are part of all other communities and all other communities are a part of us.”

International Students Face Dearth of Support International, from A1 late for international students. Assimilation, Demeter warned, can result in the loss of one identity to gain another, fracturing the two instead of creating a balance of coexistence. “Assimilation is just an ignorant idea,” Demeter said. “Why would you want students to assimilate to American culture as opposed to them bringing their own cultures and them feeling wholly comfortable in continuing to practice their culture? That’s how you get a vibrant community where everyone feels welcome.” For others, the culture shock of moving to the United States eroded with time, according to Brazilian student Gabriel Donato Gonçalves (COL ’19). “I feel like I was only able to assimilate with American culture after I struggled with it,” Donato Gonçalves said. “I don’t want to change where I am today, because even though it’s been very difficult at times, I think these times have taught me a lot.”

Filling the Gap

Given the difficult transition international students can face, Georgetown has sought to create a resource at their disposal to ease certain burdens. Established in 1983 and rebranded in 2014 to distinguish itself from study abroad programming, the Office of Global Services is tasked with helping international students who are sponsored by the university. To obtain a F-1 or J-1 visa to study in the United States, students’ applications are contingent on their acceptance to an accredited university; for prospective Georgetown students, obtaining the proper paperwork can take weeks and weeks of bureaucracy. Once international students arrive on campus, OGS can provide

immigration and cultural adjustment support, according to Rachel Rubin, director of International Student and Scholar Services. The center also aims to act as a campus resource for the entire international student body throughout their time at Georgetown. To help students find their bearings, OGS offers a mini-orientation specific for international students within New Student Orientation. I-NSO offers a daylong program of information panels discussing visa restrictions, health insurance and other logistical requirements. In the latter half of the day, the orientation focuses on cultural assimilation to both the United States and Georgetown, I-NSO orientation leader Seo Young Lee (COL ’21) said.

OGS Falling Short

While OGS strives to be a resource for “the entire international student body,” the center only serves a subset of foreign students — those with F-1 and J-1 immigration statuses, but not those who hold dual citizenship with the United States. As such, OGS does not interact with all “self-identifying” international students, according to OGS International Student Advisor and Orientation Director Stacy Williams. “OGS staff and resources serve only two student groups — those in F-1 and J-1 immigration status — at the undergraduate and graduate student level, so our perspective is limited to experiences of those students even though there are many, many students studying in different statuses or that hold nonU.S. citizenship at Georgetown that may self-identify as an international student,” Williams wrote in an email to The Hoya. Dual nationals are not counted as international students in official statistics, according to OGS. Despite her need for support, Bonja never received an offer of OGS resources since her U.S. pass-

port prevents her from appearing on the roster of international students. Many international students seek a more personalized support system than OGS can offer, rather than generic answers copied and pasted from a handbook, according to Australian native Calvin Dass (MSB ’20). “The trouble with OGS is that I think they mean very well, but it’s very difficult to provide a customized experience because of the all of the differences and levels of Americanization,” Dass said. New measures for the 2018 international students’ orientation program included an “American Narratives” panel, where international students shared their experience about being international in the United States and at Georgetown, according to Young Lee. “We hoped it would give international students some advice and, most importantly, peace of mind going into this whole process of acclimating to college,” Young Lee wrote. Beyond a personalized experience, international students have called for a fuller sense of investment in their future through increased job support. Extensive regulation of employment for students with visas complicates their job search. Students can work on campus for up to 20 hours per week, for example. For internships, however, students on certain visas must follow specific restrictions; they must find a position related to their major and can work only a limited time over their time in school. Dass is only allowed to work 20 hours per week in a non-work-study job on campus; only certain internships pertaining to his major — most of them unpaid — will hire him. OGS should offer professional counselling for employment opportunities to help foreign students on visas, Dass said. “OGS offers no [job] support, to

my knowledge, as far as finding jobs,” Dass said. “It’s more about what to do once you’ve got the job from the legal standpoint. You can tell that they put the effort in, it’s just that I really wish they had specialized knowledge.” When asked about OGS job support for international students, Rubin noted OGS directs foreign nationals to the Cawley Career Education Center, which offers informational sessions about various career paths and options as an international student. “OGS closely collaborates with them [Cawley Career Center] to encourage attendance and provides information during the sessions about the student immigration regulations that govern internships, employment, and training,” Rubin wrote.

Georgetown as a Global Home

Over the past year, steps have been taken to widen the reach of OGS. The International Focus Committee, a group composed of representatives from campus offices that hosts focus groups to gather input on international students’ experiences, was formed last December in hopes of fostering collaboration among faculty and staff who play a role in the international student experience. The committee, which includes faculty, staff, university leaders and international student representatives, meets regularly to discuss the best practices for supporting international students, to coordinate cross-office resources and programs, and to serve as an idea hub for events and programming, according to Rubin. Further support around issues pertaining to financials, cultural assimilation and paperwork could greatly benefit the international student population on campus, according to Dass. “OGS should make Georgetown feel like a home away from

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Rachelle Bonja (SFS ’20), who grew up in Aleppo, Syria, feels she received insufficient support from the university. home,” Dass said. “I don’t mean emotionally, because they do a good job of that. I am talking about understanding that international students don’t necessarily have everything that domestic students have and providing support for those particular needs.” In particular, Dass recommended tailored support for international students who need a permanent address for summer applications, like those for internships. The transition to a new country with no prior context, both as a freshman and a foreigner, can be extremely challenging. Bonja likened the experience to hiking without adequate supplies. “Being dragged around and being uncomfortable all the time, this is how I would best describe

my life in the U.S.,” Bonja said. “It’s unrelated to being happy — it’s a physical state, not a mental state. It’s like when you go hiking, and your shoes are wet, and the bed isn’t comfortable, but you’re still happy because you’re hiking. I’m struggling through, and my shoes are always wet, but I’m really happy because I chose to be here.” Donato Gonçalves remained hopeful for international students’ outlook of Georgetown. “I am a strong believer in the butterfly effect. If I change anything — any door I walk in or any step I take, I wouldn’t be where I am today,” Donato Gonçalves said. “Six months, two years from now, you’ll be able to realize how much these times teach you. There is a place for everyone at Georgetown

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Vatican Sanctions Research In Narrow Vote, Kavanaugh Into McCarrick Allegations Confirmed to Supreme Court Mason mandell Special to The Hoya

Pope Francis sanctioned a deeper examination of Vatican archives to investigate allegations of sexual abuse raised against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The announcement of the investigation was the first response from the Vatican following McCarrick’s resignation in July. The Vatican will investigate the Archives of the Dicasteries and Offices of the Holy See for information on McCarrick’s advancement through the church hierarchy and the decades of sexual misconduct allegations. The findings will be made public, according to the Saturday news release. The announcement comes after a letter published Aug. 22 by former Vatican Ambassador to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, alleging the Vatican not only knew of the accusations against McCarrick as early as 2000, but also that Pope Francis elevated McCarrick despite this knowledge. The letter also alleged that Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in almost 600 years, had censured McCarrick by barring him from public mass, giving lectures and living in a seminary. No evidence has surfaced supporting Viganò’s claims regarding Pope Francis or Benedict XVI. Pope Francis did not specifically deny the contents of the letter, instead requesting that reporters critically examine its contents at a

news conference Aug. 26. “I will not say a single word about this,” the pope said. “I believe the statement speaks for itself. And you have the sufficient journalistic ability to make your conclusions.” The news release published by the church on Saturday did not mention Viganò’s letter, describing the investigation as coming in light of “the publication of the accusations regarding the conduct of Archbishop Theodore Edgar McCarrick.” The Vatican also said that it had ordered a preliminary investigation in September 2017 by the Archdiocese of New York into an allegation that the former Archbishop McCarrick had groped a teenage altar boy, initiating McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals — the second cardinal to resign since 1900. Later allegations emerged from seminarians and a young priest, including one Virginia man who claimed to have been abused for almost 20 years. McCarrick denied the allegation from the former altar boy in a June 20 news release but has not responded to allegations from seminarians. Gerard Mannion, Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown, sees the investigation as an important first step in the church revealing the extent to which the Vatican knew of McCarrick’s history of abuse and harassment. Mannion suggested the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops may have worked to protect one of their own. “I think much of that, if not all

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Professor Gerard Mannion views the Vatican investigation into archives related to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick as a necessary starting point.

of that, was certainly known by the United States Bishops Conference, people within the Bishop’s conference, people within the U.S. church,” Mannion said in an interview with The Hoya. “How much of that did they fully share with Rome — that’s one of the key questions.” The investigation should reveal the members of the church responsible for a potential cover-up, President of Catholic Women Erica Lizza (SFS ’19) wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It’s critically important that the Church diligently reviews all information it has about McCarrick and other priests who have committed abuse so that we can identify who concealed this information and how,” Lizza wrote. The U.S. Conference of Bishops applauded the move by Pope Francis to further examine the Vatican archives in a Saturday news release. “The Holy Father’s ‘pressing invitation to unite forces to fight the grave scourge of abuse within the Church and beyond’ has been and will continue to be diligently accepted by the bishops of the United States,” Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, President of the Conference said. Mannion also waits to see whether Viganò’s allegation that McCarrick was barred from public speaking will surface in the archives, as it could have implications for Georgetown. “If that’s true, since 2011 McCarrick has appeared on campus and if he’s on campus and invited him to celebrate mass and be a public speaker — of course a lot of people on campus would not have known what we now know — but whether there was indication of suspicion on Cardinal McCarrick, then he wouldn’t be a suitable person to be inviting to do these things on campus,” Mannion said. As the investigation has taken place, Georgetown students have also advocated the university rescind its honorary degree to McCarrick. On Sept. 14, ten students delivered a petition demanding the university rescind honorary degrees given to McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who was named in a Pennsylvania grand jury report for covering up abuse. It has gained 1,493 signatures as of Oct. 9. Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia condemned the failure of the Catholic Church to address reports of sexual assault in a Sept. 8 university-wide email, with a university spokesman later specifying the university would consider revoking McCarrick’s honorary degree. The university has not taken any further action.

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The U.S. Senate confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by a 50-48 vote on Saturday. Kavanaugh was sworn in Monday at the White House after a contentious confirmation process. Kavanaugh fills former Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the court, following Kennedy’s June 27 retirement announcement. Kavanaugh’s confirmation passed the Senate by the closest margin of approval since the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas, according to Politico. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) was the only Democrat to vote for Kavanaugh. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) (COL ’80) abstained and voted present and Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) was not present and did not vote, according to The New York Times. Christine Blasey Ford, who was acquainted with Kavanaugh in high school, accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a high school party 36 years ago. The Senate delayed its vote to confirm Kavanaugh to hear testimony from both Kavanaugh and Ford, and to allow for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the allegations. The FBI did not find evidence supporting Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh. It did not interview Ford or Kavanaugh and the White House security office coordinated with the FBI for the investigation, according to The Washington Post. Law students and faculty throughout the country joined the effort to protest Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Almost 1,000 female law faculty signed a letter opposing the confirmation of Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, according to The Hill. Georgetown students attended protests at the Supreme Court to show support for Ford and express disapproval toward Kavanaugh. During the week, students drew chalk messages in Red Square expressing support for survivors of sexual assault, especially those on Georgetown’s campus. The Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation reflect how the protection of survivors’ and women’s rights is still a problem in the United States, according to Georgetown University College Democrats Chair Maria Cornell (SFS ’20). “She had all these things going for her to make her story more believed [sic] by Republicans, the media, the general American public, but yet that didn’t happen,” Cornell said in an interview with The Hoya. “I feel like that shows how far we still have to go as a country.” Despite the turmoil surrounding his nomination, Kavanaugh should decide cases based on a fair

interpretation of the Constitution rather than politically motivated agendas, Georgetown University College Republicans President Jake Lyons (COL ’20) said. “My hopes are that Justice Kavanaugh will carry on the tradition of the Supreme Court being a place of nonpartisan and fair rulings based upon their interpretation of our Constitution — separate from the politicized agendas of the executive and legislative branches — and it is my expectation that he will do so,” Lyons wrote in an email to The Hoya. The Senate Judiciary Committee mismanaged the hearings, according to Lyons. “I believe that the process was a train wreck - the committee hearings were handled poorly by all sides involved,” Lyons wrote. “And it was exacerbated to the point of watching hearings looked more like a reality drama show than anything else. It was unbecoming to the institution of the Senate, with again, Republicans and Democrats alike to blame.” Cornell was also dissatisfied with the way the hearing was handled, and said Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee used a female prosecutor to protect their public image. “I think the decision of Republicans to bring in a woman to question Dr. Ford because they didn’t want to do that, because the optics of that are awful, I think that’s just absolutely cowardly, and I think shows that they kind of know that they were in the wrong in terms of where they stood on her allegations and just believing her generally,” Cornell said. Georgetown Sexual Assault Peer Educators said Kavanaugh’s confirmation negatively affected many survivors of sexual assault

on campus and throughout the country. “The nomination and confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States has deeply impacted many members of our community, as well as countless others across the country,” Georgetown Sexual Assault Peer Educators said in a statement. “As always, we encourage anyone who has been impacted by interpersonal violence to take advantage of resources available at Georgetown.” Those who feel deeply affected by the Kavanaugh’s confirmation should take time to reflect and find an outlet for their frustration, Cornell said. “I would just encourage anyone who feels upset by this to find productive ways to channel their anger, whether that’s productive through like self-care, whether that’s political mobilization, whatever they need to do to take care of themselves,” Cornell said. Resources: On-campus resources include Health Education Services (202-687-8949) and Counseling and Psychiatric Services (202-687-7080); additional off-campus resources include the D.C. Rape Crisis Center (202-333-7273) and the D.C. Forensic Nurse Examiner Washington Hospital Center (844-443-5732). If you or anyone you know would like to receive a sexual assault forensic examination or other medical care — including emergency contraception — call the Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. at 202742-1727. Emergency contraception is available at the CVS located at 1403 Wisconsin Ave NW. To report sexual misconduct, you can contact Georgetown’s interim Title IX coordinator at 202-687-9183 or file an online report here.

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In a 50-48 vote Saturday, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed, prompting protest from the Georgetown community.

Bill to Limit Fare GUMC Students Hurt in Hit and Run Evasion Penalty julie guan

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The Washington, D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety unanimously passed a measure to decriminalize fare evasion, or the failure to pay for metro travel, for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority riders Oct. 4. If approved by the full D.C. Council later this month, the bill will downgrade the penalty for Metro fare evasion from up to 10 days in jail and a $300 fine to a civil offense with no potential for criminality and a $50 fine. Under existing legislation enacted in 1978, fare evasion was considered a criminal offense if the resulting fine was not paid. A large number of fare violations led WMATA to install extra security measures last year in the forms of new alarms and swing gates, according to an Oct. 4 WTOP article. Despite these measures, over 8,000 citations were issued this year alone, resulting in a loss of up to $25 million, according to the WTOP article. If passed, the proposed legislation would exacerbate WMATA’s lost revenue, which indirectly affects riders who pay the fare, WMATA Manager of Media Relations Sherri Ly wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Metro is strongly opposed to the decriminalization of fare evasion, as it is unfair to the overwhelming majority of riders who pay their fare every time,” Ly wrote. “It would create a huge budget hole with no meaningful enforcement mechanism, effectively legalizing theft.” The proposed legislation comes after findings that enforcement of fare evasions has disproportionately affected black youth in D.C., according to a Sept. 13 report by the Washington Lawyers Commit-

tee. Ninety-one percent of people issued summons for Metro fare evasion were black, according to the report. In addition, MTPD has faced criticism for its treatment of fare evaders. Past fare evasion cases enforced by MTPD have involved pinning a woman to the ground and pepper spraying teenagers, according to DCist. Only a small number of citations for fare evasion actually lead to arrests, according to Ly. “The fact is the overwhelming majority of violators receive a citation, pay the fine and there is no criminal record. Only 8 percent result in arrests, and that’s usually for an open warrant or assault on a police officer,” Ly wrote. “In D.C., if an individual pays the fine, there is no criminal record, making many of the arguments made in support of this legislation moot.” Council Member Trayon White, Sr. (D-Ward 8) originally introduced the bill in July 2017 because of harsh penalties for fare invasion in the district, around the same time WMATA upped its security measures. Though nine out of 13 councilmembers had signed onto the measure at the time of its introduction, the bill only began to gain momentum when Chair of the Council Judiciary Committee, Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), endorsed it. D.C. should improve the level of support for low-income residents rather than reduce the penalty for fare evasion, Ly wrote. “There are some who want to decriminalize fare evasion, they say, because ‘poverty is not a crime,’” Ly wrote. “We absolutely agree with that statement; however, the solution is for D.C. to create a program to support low-income residents, not to say we’re going to turn a blind eye to theft of service.”

The Metropolitan Police Department is conducting an ongoing investigation in search of the driver responsible for hitting two Georgetown University medical students in a hit-and-run incident Sept. 5, according to MPD Communications Director Dustin Sternbeck. The two students, Rayva Khanna (MED ’22) and Areeg Abu El Hawa (MED ’22), were crossing the street at approximately 7:20 p.m. at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue NW and Albemarle Street NW in Tenleytown when they were hit by a black sedan making a left turn into the pedestrian crosswalk, according to MPD. The driver, whom Abu El Hawa iden-

tified as a young man talking on the phone, immediately drove away following the incident, according to The Washington Post. Khanna and Abu El Hawa sustained non-life-threatening injuries from the accident. MPD published surveillance footage of the hit-and-run incident collected by a nearby camera in an Oct. 2 announcement seeking the public’s assistance in locating the driver and vehicle of interest. A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered to anyone who can supply information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator as part of MPD’s Crime Solvers of Washington, D.C. program. Khanna and Abu El Hawa plan to press charges against the driver once he has been identified, Abu

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Two Georgetown University medical students were victims of a hit-andrun incident in Tenleytown on Sept. 5. D.C. police are still investigating.

El Hawa said. “But the fact he ran away and didn’t check on us, I don’t want that person in the road,” Abu El Hawa told The Washington Post. “He doesn’t have a value on life, and that kind of person needs to be rehabilitated and educated.” Khanna hopes the driver will be prevented from causing any more accidents, according to The Washington Post. “He’s just living his life, and my friend is going to all these doctor’s appointments,” Khanna said. “He’s faced no consequences for having done something horrible. He needs to not be driving right now.” D.C. has had three transportation-related deaths in the month of September alone, according to WTOP. Similar incidents over the past few years have pressured the District to take action to reduce the number of traffic-related injuries. The District Department of Transportation launched Vision Zero in 2016, an initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries by the year 2024. D.C. councilmembers and other District officials raised concerns about a lack of pedestrian safety despite the Vision Zero initiative at a joint public roundtable held by the D.C. Council Committee on Transportation and the Environment and the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety Sept. 27. Councilmember Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), co-chair of the hearing, questioned the District’s slow pace in implementing the Vision Zero initiative, citing the deaths of a bike rider and scooter rider earlier that week. “Where is the urgency to fix dangerous intersections and curbing dangerous driving before someone is killed?” Allen said in his opening statement. At the hearing, other councilmembers, David Grosso (I-At Large) and Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4), expressed their agreement

with Councilmember Allen and called for the city to hasten making the adjustments necessary for safer roads in D.C. Co-chair Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) further emphasized the urgency of the situation. “These deaths remind us that we’re not just talking about statistics but real lives of individuals with families, friends and co-workers,” Cheh said. “They demonstrate in a dramatically sad fashion how important the success of Vision Zero is for our community.” DDOT has taken precautions to improve pedestrian safety as a part of the Vision Zero initiative this year, according to DDOT Director Jeff Marootian’s testimony to the D.C. Council. “Thus far in 2018, DDOT has worked to plan, engineer and construct several roadways and corridors in all eight wards that will improve bicycle and pedestrian safety,” Marootian said. “We have also installed 19 Leading Pedestrian Intervals, modified 14 intersections that create a conflict between the dual turn lanes and pedestrian crossings and have closed 20 blocks of sidewalk gaps which is almost 8 miles closed in the last three years.” The Vision Zero initiative is set to receive $500,000 in fiscal year 2019 grants, according to a June 21 news release. The money going towards the new initiative is earned through fines from automated traffic enforcement violations, such as speeding and running red lights. Since 2017, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has allocated $2 million in grants to Vision Zero in hopes of improving pedestrian and cycling safety. DDOT is dedicated to carrying out the initiative outlined by Bowser, DDOT Director of Communications Terry Owens wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The District of Columbia is fully committed to Mayor Bowser’s Vision Zero initiative and proactively working to address transportation safety,” Owens wrote.

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Former Ambassador Recounts US Involvement in Romania Noah berman Hoya Staff Writer

Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania Alfred Moses (LAW ’56), who served in the 1990s during the rebuilding of Romania after the fall of communism, chronicled his time as ambassador at a book talk Tuesday in Gaston Hall. Moses served as the U.S. ambassador to Romania from 1994 to 1997, during the country’s transition from communism to democracy. Before his time as ambassador, Moses worked as a lawyer for Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling and served as special counsel to former President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981. He also served as vice president of the American Jewish Committee, a Jewish advocacy group that focuses on civil liberties. Moses’ book “Bucharest Diary: Romania’s Journey from Darkness to Light” was published in July and describes his experiences as ambassador to Romania during the country’s transitional period. The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy co-hosted the event, which was moderated by CERES professor Dennis Deletant. As ambassador, Moses helped the Romanian government recover from the collapse of the Soviet Union and transition away from communism, he said. “The U.S. in the eyes of the Romanians had defeated the Soviet Union and freed them, and so I

was there to help them,” Moses said. “I was the one carrying the torch, so I felt I had to light the way.” In the mid-1970s, Romania was under Communist rule, led by Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. Communism lasted for over 20 years in Romania, from the early 1960s until the Romanian Revolution in 1989. Moses said this period of communist rule left Romania and its citizens in poverty. “Romania was devastated by communism. If its sister countries were poor, Romania was destitute,” Moses said. “If you had an apartment, the government owned the building. If you had a house, the government owned your house.” Following the Romanian Revolution in 1989 and the execution of Ceausescu, the country was left without any political structures or politicians, according to Moses. “There was no political class after Ceausescu was shot,” Moses said. “With the entire leadership gone and no successors, the country had to start from ground zero.” The United States was reluctant to provide economic assistance because of Romania’s history with communism, Moses said. “Those who just didn’t like communist regimes were opposed to giving any kind of favorable economic breaks to communist governments,” Moses said. His role as ambassador was to represent U.S. interests as Romania rebuilt its government, ac-

cording to Moses. “You represent the U.S., you don’t represent the country you’re stationed in,” Moses said. “You represent the history and the aspirations of the U.S. I was confident what my government wanted me to do and if I wasn’t my government would tell me to stop it.” Moses’ interest in Romanian politics was piqued when he first traveled to Romania in 1976 at the request of the American Jewish Committee and was told that Jews in Romania were struggling. “When they told me they needed my help, that became my cause,” Moses said. “They were treated very poorly; many went to jail, including those who had been active in the communist party. It was a purge. That was one of the sins of the communism.” Moses’ experience working in the Carter administration paved the way for his appointment to become ambassador to Romania, Moses said. “I became the U.S. ambassador only because one of my staff when I was in the Carter White House knew I was interested in Romania and sent my nomination to the Senate,” Moses said. “Three months later I was in Bucharest for three years.” Moses’ efforts were a key factor in paving Romania’s alliance with the U.S. today, Deletant said in an interview with The Hoya. “The problems facing Romania were greatly helped by his attempts to address them,” Deletant said.

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Professor Dennis Deletant, left, and Alfred Moses (LAW ’56), former U.S. ambassador to Romania, spoke about Moses’ efforts to help rebuild Romania following the collapse of the Soviet Union at an event Tuesday.

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From left to right: Brad Jenkins, Gautam Raghavan, Jennie Fay, Cecilia Muñoz and Ned Price spoke on a panel Tuesday about their experiences as White House staffers during the Obama administration.

Former Obama Staff Encourages Students to Work in Government Lisa charles Hoya Staff Writer

Government jobs offer young people an unparalleled way to create policy, Former White House LGBTQ Liaison and Adviser to the Biden Foundation Gautam Raghavan said at an event Tuesday hosted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. The event discussed “West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House,” a book edited by Raghavan and published in September, which includes narratives from members of former President Barack Obama’s White House staff. The event, part of the Institute’s literary discussion series, featured contributors to the book, including Cecilia Muñoz, former director of the domestic policy council and vice president of New America; Brad Jenkins, former White House liaison to the creative community and managing director of Funny Or Die D.C.; and Ned Price, former National Security Council spokesman and director of policy and communications at National Security Action. Jennie Fay, director of fellows and career programming at GU Politics, moderated the event. Government jobs provide a large sphere of potential influence, Raghavan said, and he encouraged Georgetown students to explore government work. “The work you can do in government is unlike anything else,” Raghavan said. “Nothing else compares to the sheer scope and reach of what government can do.” Raghavan, who served as the Department of Defense outreach lead, noted the potential in government jobs to craft tan-

gible policy on a range of issues. “The agencies are actually where most of the work actually happens,” Raghavan said. “They touch every single issue from sexual assault to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’” The passion of his coworkers at the Department of Defense made his experience with the organization rewarding and impactful, Raghavan said. “The year I got to spend on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was amazing,” Raghavan said. “The people I found there were phenomenal, and very mission-focused and cared deeply about the issues.” Jenkins emphasized the role young voters can have in swaying the results of the upcoming Nov. 6 midterm elections. “If 70 percent of millennials voted, this country would fundamentally change overnight,” Jenkins said. “If young people don’t vote, 92 percent of incumbents stay in office.” A willingness to try new things and work diligently earned him his White House tenure, according to Price. “Never turn down an opportunity,” Price said. “Frankly it’s how I ended up in the White House. I just kept saying ‘yes.’” The Obama administration’s success in 2008 and again in 2012 reflects how politics can influence generations, Jenkins said. “[Obama] is a once-in-a-generation candidate,” Jenkins said. “It was very empowering for a whole generation. I think we seized the moment.” Obama’s character of personal accountability while in office guided the president’s interactions with the public, Price said, citing a 2015 incident in which two hostages were killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. “The world of intelligence is

very murky,” Price said. “There’s a lot that can stay secret…But, the course [Obama] chose instinctually was to own up to families and to the American people.” Muñoz initially turned down the job offer as director of the Domestic Policy Council, as she wanted to ensure a work-life balance for her kids. She eventually accepted the position, on condition that she would be able to maintain a balance between her career and her role as a mother, she said. “I said no [to the job] twice because I really didn’t want to turn my kids’ lives upside-down. Fortunately, I managed to persuade the people I worked for, mostly men, that it would be okay,” Muñoz said. “So I walked out of there at 5:45 to pick up the kids at day care, and nobody batted an eye. I did what probably all of us with kids do, which is after they’re in bed, then you go back to work.” He also grappled with the conflict between his personal life and his political career, Raghavan said. “You can have it all, but you can’t have it all at once,” Raghavan said. As a woman of color, Muñoz faced pressure to prove herself throughout her career in a male-dominated sector, she said. “The notion of out-work, outprepare, be on top of your game, especially for a woman of color, is just plain true,” Muñoz said. Students can to look to their peers as mentors and as people who will help them succeed later in life, Jenkins said. “The people to your left and right, your peers, can potentially have a lot more impact,” Jenkins said. “You don’t need a really esteemed powerful person to give you a leg up. Your leg up is right in this room.”

The special education system contributes to the marginalization of people with disabilities, author Eli Clare said at an event Thursday hosted by the LGBTQ Center in the Healey Family Student Center Social Room. The event, held in honor of the center’s upcoming 10th anniversary, addressed the intersection of disability, race and “transness” in society today. Clare, the author of two books and a collection of poetry, identifies as genderqueer and has cerebral palsy. The current model for special education contributes to the marginalization of people with disabilities, especially for students of color, according to Clare. “Right now, special education is such a way to segregate, such a pipeline from education to prison, particularly for black and brown kids,” Clare said. “There’s no coincidence to that.” Clare offered a vision of a reformed education system that integrates students with disabilities into the classroom so all students’ needs are met. “I’d get rid of special ed, and in its place, I’d create education that has many doorways, that meets everyone where they are, that gives everyone challenge, so everyone is met with challenge and access at the same time,” Clare said. “For most of us, that would probably mean integrated classrooms. We would have to change and become more flexible by creating access that’s built into the curriculum, not added on as accommodation.” Mainstream ideas about physi-

cal and mental abilities incorrectly differentiate between capabilities of the body and of the mind, according to Clare. “In white Western dominant culture, we’re taught that minds are one entity and bodies are a second entity, not connected at all,” Clare said. “But in my experience, bodies and minds are really connected in a variety of ways. I use the phrase body-mind to remind us of those connections.” Instead of searching for a cure to disability, activists should start framing addressing disability as restoration, Clare said. “First, cure requires the existence of damage, deficiency or defectiveness, locating this harm entirely within the individual human body-minds, operating as if each person were her own ecosystem. Second, it grounds itself in an original state of being, relying upon a belief that what existed before is superior to what exists currently. And finally it seeks to return what is damages to that former state of being,” Clare said. The language of cure and disability extends to “transness” and gender dysphoria, according to Clare. “Gender transition as an open door, ‘transness’ as a defect to fix, gender dysphoria as disability, transgender identities as nonpathologized body-mind differences — all these relationships to defectiveness and cure exist at the same time.” Clare encouraged allies of historically marginalized groups to listen to those individuals, in order to advocate for them more effectively and to focus more on the effects of their behavior than on their identi-

ties. “We choose to do allied work. It’s the difference between identity and behavior. In this case, behavior is far more important than identity,” Clare said. “The key to doing allied work is to listen hard, listen more than we speak.” Allies must advocate for those with disabilities by carrying out what activists ask them to do rather than what allies assume is correct, Clare said. “When we hear the things we are being asked to do, we follow those directions, we show up, and we keep showing up,” Clare said. Advocating for marginalized people requires years of commitment, according to Clare. “You will make mistakes and you will be called out and you will need to be accountable,” Clare said. “Doing allied work means learning from mistakes, not making those mistakes over and over again. It takes time; it’s not work measured in days, weeks, months or semesters. It’s measured in decades. Part of doing allied work is figuring out how to do it sustainably.” Advocates should continue to protest and fight for equal treatment, Clare said, noting there is hope for a future of equality. “The body-minds of marginalized peoples are more than the ways we’ve been sorted as normal and abnormal, whole and defective, more than histories of violence, more than the objects of pity and bullying, more than signs of pathology, more than targets of police brutality,” Clare said. “I insist upon the body-mind as protest, resistance, everyday truth.”

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Eliza Lafferty (COL ’21) and Patrick Walsh (SFS ’21) were elected speaker and vice speaker of the Georgetown University Student Association senate in an emergency senate meeting Oct. 2. Lafferty, the former transition chair of the senate, and Walsh, the former transition vice chair of the senate were nominated for Speaker and vice speaker after former Transition Chair Juan Martinez (SFS ’20) ascended to the GUSA presidency, a result of vacancies in the executive following the resignations of former President Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) and former Vice President Naba Rahman (SFS ’19). The speaker and vice speaker nominations and confirmations are an internal voting process within the GUSA senate body. Both Lafferty and Walsh said increased transparency is a key part of their vision for the GUSA senate moving forward, in terms of both policy areas and student engagement. The pair brought in Daniella Sanchez (COL ’22) as an executive officer to help with this goal, Walsh said. “One big hope that all three of us have is really making sure that the GUSA senate is much more accessible to the whole public, to all of the student body,” Walsh said. “GUSA doesn’t work well when it’s not in touch with the student body, and that’s one thing that I want the student body to know.” Lafferty sees increased transparency as a remedy to GUSA’s failure to reflect the entire student body in terms of gender, race and other identities. “We know, going in, that we don’t represent everyone, that we aren’t all of the voices of the student body,” Lafferty said. “That kind of goes back to this radical transparency idea, where we need to be as transparent as possible about everything we do because we can’t be advocating for the student body when we don’t look like the student body.” In addition to transparency, Walsh seeks to use the GUSA Senate to elevate and uplift student voices, both in the GUSA policy teams as well as in external student advocacy organizations.

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Georgetown University Student Association senate elected Eliza Lafferty (COL ’21) and Patrick Walsh (SFS ’21) as speaker and vice speaker. “One criticism that’s always happened in the past is that student government has tamped down on student activism, and that’s what we’re trying to avoid,” Walsh said. “That’s why we’re trying to use GUSA as an institution that can help support student activists, and can help uplift their voices in the specific skill sets that GUSA has, while also allowing for those activists to still do advocacy effectively.” Lafferty hopes to address students’ limited knowledge about the GUSA Senate and its operations. “Once people understand how institutions work, then it helps them to feel more comfortable coming to that institution, and so my goal is that people will come to us, and will feel comfortable voicing their opinion,” Lafferty said. “GUSA is best when we’re advocating for students directly, and when we’re doing good policy work.” Hayley Grande (COL ’21), a GUSA At-Large Senator who voted to confirm both Lafferty and Walsh, discussed her view of the future of the GUSA Senate, and her confidence in Lafferty’s leadership. “I completely trust her leadership and her vision because I think that she will bring her passion to that role as Speaker, and she’s also a great motivator, so she’ll be able to bring out the best in everyone,” Grande said. “There’s a lot to look forward to, and the past was rough, but it’s in the past, and we have to

keep moving.” The roles of Speaker and Vice Speaker of the Senate are supervisory, involving tasks like setting agendas for the Senate, overseeing policy committees and managing media relations, according to Lafferty and Walsh. “The truth is that, as Speaker and Vice Speaker, we do kind of have to step down from doing direct policy work,” Lafferty said. Both Lafferty and Walsh stressed the need to rebuild trust in GUSA moving forward. Walsh said he had faith in GUSA Senators and the executive branch, because of their commitment and dedication to student advocacy. “GUSA can still be effective because of Georgetown students,” Walsh said. “A lot of the people involved in the Senate now, and a lot in the executive, really care about this institution and really care about this school.” Lafferty discussed the wider effects on both the students and the institution, as well as her goal to ensure the Senate is more self-aware and in tune with Georgetown students. “This institution that we’re in has had a lot of troubles, and there were very problematic things that happened within it. It’s making us just be very aware of every step that we take forward,” Lafferty said. “All of us are better and stronger people because of what we went through.”

Sufi Scholarship Influenced Islam, Professor Says Jonah Zinn

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The Tijaniyyah branch of Sufism in Islam had a larger influence on Islamic thought than many historians believe, Northwestern University professor Zachary Wright said at an event Oct. 5 in the Edward B. Bunn S.J. Intercultural Center. Wright teaches at Northwestern University in Qatar and focuses his studies on the regional history of the Middle East and North Africa, and he is currently researching the intellectual history of 18th century North Africa. Sufism is an Islamic order that emphasizes asceticism, strict observance of Islamic Law and religious mysticism. The Tijaniyyah Sufi order emerged in late 18th century North Africa as a sect of Sufism that maintains strict adherence to Islamic law, rejection of asceticism and quietism and a predominantly African character. Wright criticized Sufi historians for misrepresenting the Tijaniyyah Sufi order as a minor and peripheral, even though Wright agrees that Sufism is distinctly African. “You find many overviews of Sufism that really marginalize the Tijaniyyah Sufi order as being somehow not really important,” Wright said. “It’s spreading while having an unapologetic black African leadership.”

Examining Tijaniyyah Sufi scholarship from the 18th century is necessary for understanding contemporary works, Wright said. “To better understand arguably the world’s most popular Sufi order, which happens to be based in so-called Black Africa, one has to understand what’s going on in the 18th century a little better, right, and to recognize that the Tijaniyyah, its own internal narrative is of being a culmination of 18th century scholarship, which itself was a culmination of previous centuries of scholarship,” Wright said. Historians often mischaracterize 18th century Sufi Islamic scholars as either beholden to past scholarship from influential scholars of the Middle Ages like Ibn AlArabi and Al-Ghazali or ignorant of it, Wright said. In reality, historians build upon older ideas and incorporate historical scholarship into their interpretations of Islamic principles, according to Wright. “Yes, they’re cognizant and aware of previous scholarship in the field, for Sufism that certainly means Ibn al-Arabi and al-Ghazali, but they’re not seeing themselves as wholly restricted by those articulations,” Wright said. The work of the Tijaniyyah’s founder, Ahmad al-Tijani, represents how 18th century Sufi thought incorporated the historical religious ideas of traditional Sufism, Wright said. “What you see in the 18th cen-

tury Sufism here as represented by Sheikh Ahmad al-Tijani is not a backing away at all from these controversial very profound aspects of Ibn al-Arabi but rather a further exploration of their meaning in actual social contexts” Wright said. Wright said Tijaniyyah Sufism incorporates many of the central ideas of Sufism. “Basically, all of the ideas that come to the forefront with the foundation of the Tijaniyyah are already there in previous Sufi scholarship, it’s their combination with the Tijaniyyah that is perhaps somewhat distinctive” Wright said. “There’s a sort of fascination that associating one’s self with a paradigmatic friend of God is a source of salvation more broadly, so this is not new with the Tijaniyyah.” John Voll, Georgetown professor emeritus of Islamic history, said at the event that Wright’s work reframed the history of 18th century Sufi scholarship to more accurately reflect the intellectual progress of the era. “18th century studies in general are studies that are always shaped by some general purposeful framework, and its useful to have the stereotype of the 18th century in the Islamic world as being intellectual stagnation and static and so on because it makes it easier then to talk about the virtues of the West,” Voll said.

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After a beta launch, Jennifer Simons (COL ’18) plans to return to Georgetown to re-vamp the Dressmates program and expand to at least eight other college campuses in and around Washington, D.C., and New York.

Alumni Startup Returns To Its Georgetown Roots

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Dressmate, a women’s clothing rental network founded by Georgetown alumni Jennifer Simons (COL ’18) and Christine Yang (SFS ’18), plans to officially launch its program at Georgetown University and expand to at least eight other college campuses in and around Washington, D.C., and New York City this year after a beta launch at Georgetown in 2018. The company was created by Yang and Simons during their sophomore year, and allows students to rent clothes from other students on their campus. Users advertise their own clothes on the site and set their own prices, and others can then select the item they want to rent for a period of time and meet up with the owner to retrieve the item. By March 2017, the idea for Dressmate had matured into a Facebook group with payments managed via a Venmo account. Yang decided to leave the startup after she and Simons graduated from Georgetown, leaving Simons in full control of Dressmate. By March 2018, Simons launched a Dressmate beta on Georgetown’s campus after participating in a StartupHoyas Summer Launch Program. At that time, the company had around 200 users at Georgetown, according to Simons. “Those numbers, I think when I first tell people, they sound kind of small because Georgetown’s campus is really big,” Simons said. “But in terms of percentages for not really having a marketing budget and just going for organic growth.

[…] It’s very good.” Dressmate plans to expand further this year to Columbia University, University of Maryland, College Park, American University, Barnard College, Howard University, The George Washington University, New York University, Pratt Institute and potentially also the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design, according to Simons. Simons also hopes to revamp the Georgetown program to attract more customers in the area. “I’m actually coming back to D.C. to kind of garner up some more interest from Georgetown,” Simons said. Simons enlisted Jessica Frankovich, a Dressmate community member and founder of a local vintage clothing store Phoenix Supply, to develop vintage Georgetown gear to rent on the site. “I really love Dressmate’s rental model. I’ve heard of services like that for high-end pieces like prom dresses, but I never would have thought to offer rentals for streetwear and other styles of clothing,” Frankovich wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I also love that the app is for students, by students, and that it promotes community on campus by requiring students to manage the execution of the rental.” Simons also experimented with applying Dressmate in a corporate environment this summer, with a beta test at makeup company Glossier’s headquarters in New York. Simons hopes to expand to around 100 college campuses first, but after that would like to move into corporate spaces and other communities.

The person-to-person contact within these communities sets Dressmate apart from competitors in the clothing rental space, Simons said. “Let’s say you’re using Style Lend and you rent out a dress to someone in California,” Simons said. “The net result for that person is still a cardboard box at the door.” Joy Farrington (SFS ’18), who used Dressmate during its beta last spring to rent a dress for the annual School of Foreign Service Diplomatic Ball, said the in-person rental was a valuable part of the business. “I rented a beautiful green dress for Dip Ball probably only a few days before the ball. That was the first and last time I got something from them but only because I discovered it so late in the game!” Farrington said in an email to The Hoya. “If I had discovered it earlier during my time at Georgetown I would have definitely used the services more, recommended to friends, or even rented some of my own clothes out.” If Dressmate’s expansion into college and corporate communities is successful, Simons says she aspires to do a city-wide launch in the future. Right now, she is in New York City working with the Xessentials Accelerator and Monarq Incubator, incubators devoted to female entrepreneurs, before raising capital for Dressmate’s expansion later this year. “Long-term, I really do, I think it’s possible to do it in a city,” Simons said. “Especially now that I’ve graduated, and I don’t have the option to use it anymore, I kind of miss being a part of it.”

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Georgetown Edges Teams Compete at Morgan State Invite Temple, Struggles Versus Rutgers Jake wexelblatt Special to The Hoya

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The Georgetown field hockey team extended its winning streak to three games after defeating Temple on Friday, Oct. 5, but could not continue its unbeaten run as it fell to Rutgers on Sunday, Oct. 7. On the road against Temple (210, 0-4 Big East) in Philadelphia, Georgetown (9-4, 2-2 Big East) won with a score of 3-2 in its fourth Big East game of the season. Both teams started scoring early. The Owls scored just 25 seconds into the game; a minute and a half later, the Hoyas followed up with a penalty corner goal from junior forward Lindsay Getz, assisted by sophomore midfield Jax Van der Veen and sophomore back Ali Cronin. Temple freshman midfielder Tali Popinko broke the tie in the 25th minute, scoring her first goal for the Owls and putting Temple up 2-1. Temple held onto its 2-1 lead for the next 27 minutes, until the Hoyas made another penalty corner goal. Van Der Veen then fed a pass to Cronin, who tied the game 2-2. Less than two minutes later, Georgetown was awarded a penalty stroke. Junior back Emily Fraser converted the penalty for the 3-2 lead, making her fifth goal of the season. Fraser’s goal proved to be the game-winner for the Hoyas. Head Coach Christy Longacre said that she was concerned about the team’s energy levels coming into Friday’s game. “It’s the middle of the season so the girls are getting a little bit tired, and it’s starting to pick up on the academic side,” Longacre said in an interview with The Hoya. “Friday we came out a little flat, but I commend the girls; they didn’t stop playing and we managed to come back. It was a good Big East win

for us … and we learned a lot from that game.” Two days later during their game against No. 15 Rutgers in New Jersey, the Hoyas did not fare as well as they were shut out 7-0. Freshman forward Tayla Parkes chipped a shot past Georgetown freshman goalkeeper Ciara Weets to open the scoring in the 23rd minute. Five minutes later, the Scarlet Knights scored again, this time on a penalty stroke, to carry a 2-0 lead into halftime. Rutgers held its momentum through the second half and scored another five goals, four of which were scored in a span of 10 minutes. Senior midfielder Linde van Schaik tallied two goals in the second half for Rutgers, as did leading scorer sophomore midfield Daphne Groothuis, who totalled two goals throughout the contest. Junior forward Austyn Cuneo scored in the 67th minute, ending the game at 7-0. Rutgers outshot Georgetown 25-6 in the contest. Georgetown’s six shots were split evenly between Fraser, Cronin and sophomore forward Cami Osborne, while Weets compiled nine saves. Longacre emphasized that the Hoyas must improve their communication and management of opponents’ speed. “This week we’re working on being able to maintain and control [the other team’s] speed, and making sure we’re communicating the whole time. It got a little quiet on Sunday — it needs to be a constant conversation on the field, especially against a really good team that can move the ball well,” Longacre said. The Hoyas will be away in Virginia to face Liberty in their fifth Big East contest on Friday, Oct. 12 at 4 p.m. Georgetown will return to Cooper Field on Sunday, Oct. 14 to host Towson.

The Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis team both had strong showings last weekend at the Morgan State Invitational. The two Georgetown teams faced a total of seven opponents in a three-day stretch at Morgan State University’s annual tournament in Baltimore, Md., which began Friday, Oct. 5. Georgetown’s women’s team defeated Loyola Maryland on Oct. 5 and Bucknell on Oct. 6 before its Saturday afternoon showdown with Morgan State, who entered the season as reigning MidEastern Athletic Conference champion. The women’s team fin-

ished the weekend with three wins, as well as a 2-2 tie against Morgan State; the match against Morgan State was played with three singles matches and one doubles match as opposed to the four and one format used for the rest of the weekend. The Hoyas rounded out their weekend with a Sunday match against the Bucknell Bisons, earning a 3-2 victory to complete an all-around strong weekend before next week’s women’s Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regionals hosted by Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. Senior captain Lilly Lynham led Georgetown in the tournament, earning a victory in her singles match against Bucknell — which clinched a Hoyas victory — as well as both of

her doubles matches. The men’s team also recorded a successful weekend, defeating all three of its opponents, including sweeps against the University of Hartford on Saturday and Loyola University Maryland on Sunday. On Friday, the Hoyas swept their singles matches before falling in their lone doubles match against Morgan State. The Hoyas took advantage of their entire roster because of the many matches over the weekend, granting experience to younger players who all saw substantial playing time against Morgan State. Men’s and women’s tennis Head Coach Courtney Dolehide emphasized that the Hoyas’ matches over the weekend provided the team

with an opportunity to play in a competitive environment. “[This was] an opportunity for the players to play with confidence and perform as the top dog team, playing with a lot of pressure,” Dolehide said in an interview with The Hoya. The men’s team will compete in the Gold Invite at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., against a similar collection of local opponents next weekend, as they tune up for the ITA regionals Oct. 20, hosted by Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., which includes the top teams in the Atlantic region. The women’s team will head to Lynchburg, Va., for the ITA Regionals from Oct. 12 to Oct. 16.

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Senior Will Sharton was named to the Big East All-Academic team last season. Sharton played six doubles matches with his younger brother, sophomore Charlie Sharton. The brothers won four matches together, and Will Sharton added four wins with sophomore Luke Ross.

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Men and Women Open Season With Victories Against Davidson Ben Gaver

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Freshman outside hitter Elissa Barbosa, middle, has recorded 61 kills and 95 digs in her first season on the Hilltop. Barbosa added nine kills in Georgetown's win over Butler and notched six digs against Xavier.

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After a 2-1 loss to Quinnipiac the Georgetown volleyball team earned two Big East victories last weekend, defeating both Butler and Xavier in straight sets. Following last week’s consecutive losses to Marquette (14-4, 5-1 Big East) and DePaul (4-13, 2-4 Big East), the Hoyas (12-7, 5-2 Big East) swept Butler on Oct. 5 (6-13, 3-4 Big East) and Xavier on Oct. 6 (513, 3-4 Big East) in a gripping Big East doubleheader. On Friday night against the Butler Bulldogs, each set remained close, with Georgetown winning the three sets by scores of 25-21, 25-22 and 25-21. The Hoyas led in the beginning of the first set until the Bulldogs evened the score, but Georgetown later reclaimed the edge, clinching the frame with a kill by senior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette. After a back-and-forth second set, Butler lost an early lead to Georgetown in the third

frame, and the Hoyas clinched the match in three sets. Georgetown recorded 46 kills to Butler’s 29 in the contest. Sinnette led the Hoyas’ attack with 15 kills, while freshman outside hitter Elissa Barbosa and freshman middle blocker Hannah Hamling hammered nine each. The next day, Georgetown headed to Ohio to face Xavier and made program history with their first win versus the Musketeers. Once again, Georgetown recorded a closely fought three-set victory, winning with scores of 25-22, 27-25 and 25-23. In the first set, neither side gained a comfortable lead, as there were 10 ties and three lead changes. Following a 20-20 tie, Sinnette’s back-to-back kills secured the set for the Hoyas. In the second set, after leading 6-2, the Hoyas lost their advantage as the Musketeers jumped out to a 13-11 lead. Georgetown responded with six straight points on junior outside hitter Iva Vujosevic’s serve.

The Hoyas held the advantage in the remainder of the set, and sophomore outside hitter Riley Wertzberger finished the frame with two consecutive kills. In the final set, after a tight start, the Blue and Gray gained a 10-6 lead and maintained control until the end of the set, when Xavier took a 23-22 lead. After a timeout, senior middle blocker Symone Speech finished the match with two straight kills, sealing the 25-23 win. Vujosevic ended the match with 11 kills and 13 digs, marking her ninth double-double of the season. Speech posted another 12 kills, leading all players. On defense, senior libero Kenzie Higareda recorded 20 digs. The Hoyas return home to McDonough Arena this weekend to host another Big East doubleheader. They will face the No. 10 Creighton Bluejays (14-4, 6-0 Big East) Friday at 6 p.m. and the Providence Friars (7-10, 1-5 Big East) Saturday at 5 p.m.

The Georgetown men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams began their regular seasons with victories over Davidson in a dual meet held at home last Saturday. The Hoyas’ victory against Davidson follows both teams’ strong finishes in the 2018 Big East Championship. The women’s team, which finished second at the Big East Championships, won 195-94 while the men’s team, which finished third at the Big East Championships, followed suit with a 167-122 victory. The two teams combined to win 27 of the 32 total events. Although the men’s team returns top performers including seniors Arthur Wang and Ryan Blom and the reigning Most Outstanding Male Swimmer of the Big East Championships, sophomore Drew Carbone, many of the more inexperienced swimmers stood out at the meet. Freshmen won four out of the 14 individual events, with Michael

Wheeler taking first in the 1000yard freestyle, Brett Sherman winning the 200 and 500 freestyle, and Carlson Temple placing first in the 200 breaststroke. Sophomores also made a large contribution, and Carbone picked up where he left off last season. Carbone claimed victory in both the 100 and 200 backstroke as well as the 200 IM. Sophomore Nate Goldfarb placed first in the 200 breaststroke while sophomore Matthew Werner won the three-meter dive. Last weekend’s men’s performances were rounded out with upperclassmen victories in the one-meter dive by senior Ryan Blom and the 100 freestyle by senior Jacob Kohlhoff. The women’s team also received contributions from the younger members of the team. Freshman Grace Chen won the 100 backstroke and freshman Lilly Clisham placed first in the 200 freestyle. The sophomores on the women’s team dominated, winning 12 of the 14 individual events. Phoebe Slaughter filled the void

left by the loss of seven-time Big East Championship gold medalist Molly Fitzpatrick (NHS ’18), placing first in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke in addition to the 200 IM. Sophomore Belinda Donohoe and juniors Cristina Barrett and Lauren Henasey continued the Hoyas’ strong performance by sweeping the short distance freestyle, long distance freestyle and butterfly events. In diving, sophomores led a clean sweep of the podium with Riley Fujioka placing first in the one-meter dive and Naomi Peng winning the three-meter dive. Sophomore Evie Mauzé rounded out the women’s team’s performance by touching the wall first in the 200 backstroke. En route to winning 15 of 16 events on Saturday, the women’s team failed to touch the wall first in one event, the 200 freestyle relay. Georgetown will look to continue last week’s success in a tri-meet with James Madison and Towson University hosted by Towson University in Baltimore on Oct. 13.

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The Georgetown men's and women's swimming and diving teams started their fall seasons last weekend with wins against Davidson. The women's team finished second at the Big East championship last season.

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shuttle bus. In fact, four of the UFC’s highest-selling pay-per-view events have been headlined by McGregor. However, “it’s a bad night” for the sport, UFC President Dana White said in a post-fight interview. While White expressed disappointment when speaking to the media, the fight will be extremely profitable for the UFC considering the frenzied support of a potential rematch and increased interest in the sport. Aside from the $54.99 and $64.99 costs for the live event through pay-per-view, ticket prices on the AXS ticketing site ranged from $2,505 on the high end to $205 on the lower end, not including fees, according to Forbes. Those prices were from August, so ticket prices naturally rose as Oct. 6 approached. The average ticket price for a UFC fight is $360,

with ticket prices typically ranging from $116 to $691, according to Excite. The UFC is not taking any responsibility for the post-fight ambush, and, with the significant increase in interest in the sport due to McGregor’s meteoric rise to fame, any ideas that the post-fight antics would negatively affect the UFC’s business can be put to bed. White silently condones McGregor’s outwardly bad manners and poor behavior, encouraging his antics behind the scenes because he knows that McGregor is his money maker. Prior to the fight, McGregor’s was set to earn $3 million, while Nurmagomedov’s payout was $2 million. White first claimed that the Nevada Athletic Commission was considering keeping Nurmagomedov’s entire payout over the postfight feud. White said that Nurmagomedov “should not be able to

keep his whole purse.” White also supported the golden child, McGregor, when McGregor himself threw a dolly into Nurmagomedov’s shuttle on April 5, sending two members of his team to the hospital. According to White, the Commission will undoubtedly hit Nurmagomedov with a large fine, which would be close to $250,000. At the post-fight press conference, Nurmagomedov discussed McGregor’s comments about his father, religion and country and apologized for his participation in the brawl. “First of all, I want to say sorry to athletic commission, Nevada, sorry to Vegas,” Nurmagomedov said in a press conference. “This is not my best side. I am a human being.” McGregor did not press charges against any of Nurmagomedov’s teammates. The sad truth is that the UFC unfortunately does allow, and indeed condones, racially in-

sensitive language and abuse. McGregor may profit following the uncalled-for skit. While the pay-per-view numbers did not crack the predicted three million mark, they well surpassed two million according to White, netting McGregor close to the estimated $50 million plus the sponsorship money from Proper No. 12 Whiskey, a deal awarded to McGregor by the UFC. When it comes to the UFC, even if McGregor loses, he still wins. When McGregor is involved, not only will he receive a large payout, but the UFC will also continue to flourish, with a reputation only bolstered by drama and trash talking. rohit mahtani is a junior in

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prepare for,” Farrell said in an interview with The Hoya. “We had to match and make sure we were going in just as hard.” Nolan was confident in his team’s response. “The one thing about this team this year is that they rise to what’s thrown at them,” Nolan said. “If a team wants to kick them, we can deal with it.” After a scoreless regulation, the match headed to overtime. While Villanova controlled possession for the majority of overtime, Georgetown pushed across the winning goal. A breakaway opportunity in the 98th minute opened up space for Nguyen to send a pass to the center of the box, where Carusa passed to Farrell on the right side. She rocketed a shot past the Villanova goalkeeper and gave Georgetown the 1-0 overtime win. Farrell discussed how she approached the scoring opportu-

nity. “Honestly, I don’t remember too much of it,” Farrell said. “I saw that the goalie was on the other side, so I took a touch and tried to get it on frame.” The shutout marked the ninth of the season for Georgetown’s defense, with eight of those coming in wins. After Farrell’s four-goal week, she earned Big East Offensive Player of the Week for the second week in a row. Next up for the Hoyas is a home game against Providence on Oct. 14. Providence defeated Georgetown 1-0 in Rhode Island last season. Farrell emphasized the importance of the match against Providence. “We’re all really looking forward to that game,” Farrell said. “That’s the one we’ve been circling on our calendars.” This year’s game will also be Senior Day, where eight seniors will be honored in a ceremony before a 1 p.m. kickoff on Shaw Field.

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success.” Sophomore linebacker Wes Bowers recorded 10 tackles, while sophomore linebacker George Ikott totaled eight tackles. Junior defensive lineman Khristian Tate added 1.5 sacks and a two-point conversion to put the Hoyas up 8-0. Francois said that the defense’s communication and preparation helped the Hoyas throughout the game.

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Junior defensive back Leon Agee totaled five tackles in Georgetown’s win over Fordham. For the season, Agee has played in six games and has 24 total tackles and three passes defended.

“All the defensive success today started in practice. We emphasized communication. We needed to make the right calls and work as a team,” Francois said. “If we are all on the same page, we are going to be successful.” The defense held Fordham without a first down until the final play of the first quarter, conceding 32 total yards in the first frame. After a bad snap that led to a safety and two long Fordham drives, the Blue and Gray trailed 11-8 early in the third quarter. Georgetown answered back on the ensuing drive, capped off by a six-yard touchdown carry by Moultrie. On the next two drives, Francois intercepted the Rams’ quarterback. The defense sealed the game when sophomore linebacker Xavier Reddick sacked the Fordham quarterback. On the following play, Tate and sophomore defensive lineman Duval Paul combined for another sack that led to a safety. Francois said that the Hoyas are looking to build on this success. “The mood right now is electric,” Francois said. “We are so happy to have this one, but we are focused on getting more wins.” The Hoyas travel to Easton, Pa., to play Lafayette on Saturday, Oct. 13. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

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success in the running game. “I noticed I was getting through the first level, so I knew I was going to break some longer runs,” Moultrie said in an interview with The Hoya. “I just trusted the flow of the game, and I was excited I got to do that by the end of the game.” Defensively, the Hoyas record-

ed two interceptions and five sacks. Both picks came in the fourth quarter courtesy of senior defensive back Jethro Francois. Sgarlata praised Francois’ dedication to football and his resilience in fighting through injuries, calling him “a true student of the game.” “He’s always watching film, but he has also fought through a handful of injuries,” Sgarlata said. “It’s great to see him have

Pines was facing his own goal and had to do some desperate clearances,” Wiese said. The final chance to score in the first half came from the foot of sophomore midfielder Foster McCune. McCune hit a shot from outside the box that hit a Maryland defender and looked to be heading to net. The ball drifted outside the post and the game remained scoreless heading to half. Wiese explained that the heat began to play a significant factor in the second half of the match.

“[Derek] Dodson and Achara ran out of gas and then suddenly they weren’t putting themselves in dangerous spots. When you don’t have your frontrunners in dangerous spots, you’re not going to get dangerous shots,” Wiese said. Despite enjoying long bouts of possession, the Hoyas didn’t threaten Maryland’s goal with chances in the second half. On the other end of the pitch, Maryland continued to try quick counter-attacks but did not break down the Hoya defense. With just over three minutes left in the second half, Georgetown had an opportunity to

win the game following a shot from graduate student Matt Ledder. Maryland’s goalkeeper made a save and parried the ball out of the top corner of the net and kept the game scoreless heading into overtime. Midway through the first overtime period, senior midfielder Ethan Lochner found himself in the box with the ball at his feet following a scramble. His ensuing shot sailed over the net and the game remained scoreless. The match ended 0-0 after 110 minutes, and Wiese emphasized that the Hoyas

did not generate chances as a team and failed to get into scoring positions. “We didn’t get into those [dangerous] positions as well in the second half. But I would say it wasn’t so much Maryland as it was that our final pass wasn’t on,” Wiese said. The way we play, we need to be able to support the ball well and we stopped doing it. So, it became a game of individual balls out wide.” The Georgetown Hoyas will resume Big East play when they host the Villanova Wildcats at Shaw Field on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 1 p.m.

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Senior defender Peter Schropp has started 10 games this season for the Georgetown men’s soccer team. In his career, Schropp has started 46 games and scored three goals. The Hoyas’ defense has six shutouts on the season, including three shutouts in overtime contests.

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Georgetown’s defense recorded five sacks in its win over Fordham last weekend. The Hoyas have 14 sacks this season.

The Georgetown men’s soccer team had a busy weekend as it travelled to Indianapolis to face the Butler Bulldogs on Friday before returning home to play the Maryland Terrapins on Monday. Butler (2-7-2, 0-4-0 Big East), the 2017 regular season Big East Champions, was still looking for its first Big East win of 2018 when it welcomed Georgetown to Indianapolis. The Hoyas (6-3-3, 2-1-1 Big East) dominated possession and generated a few early opportunities against the Bulldogs. As the half

wore on, Butler found its foothold and began to exert pressure on Georgetown’s defense. Georgetown Head Coach Brian Wiese praised the play of freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis, who organized the defense and kept Butler off the scoresheet early on. “Giannis has been doing a much better job of sorting and organizing the space behind our back four. For a young kid, he’s only 17 years old, he’s got a really nice old head to him,” Wiese said in an interview with The Hoya. Eighteen minutes into the first half, junior defender Dylan Nealis scored off a set piece from senior

midfielder Kyle Zajec, who played a ball in from the corner. Zajec found Nealis, who buried the chance and scored his first goal of the season to give Georgetown a 1-0 lead. With two minutes left in the half, Georgetown conceded a penalty following a trip in the box. Nikopolidis made a strong save to preserve the Hoyas’ lead heading into the half. In the 53rd minute, sophomore midfielder Jacob Montes earned a penalty after being fouled in the box. Zajec showed composure as he calmly slotted the ball into the back of the net, giving Georgetown a 2-0 lead.

Following the second goal, Georgetown controlled the game for the remainder of the half, and Butler struggled to generate offense. Georgetown left Indianapolis with a 2-0 victory. Three days later, Georgetown returned to Shaw Field and played a 0-0 draw against the University of Maryland (4-4-3, 2-2-0 Big Ten). The Hoyas put pressure on the Terrapins’ defense early in the half, Wiese said. “We had some chances in the first half where they were scrambling. We had a couple of good balls to the six where [Donovan] See maryland, A11

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The Georgetown football team beat Fordham University 23-11 last Saturday to earn its first conference win of the season. The road win halted a four game losing skid and marks Georgetown’s first Patriot League win since October 2015. The Hoyas (2-4, 1-0 Patriot League) saw key contributions from several important players against Fordham (0-5, 0-1 Patriot League). Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson commanded the offense, completing 19 of 28 passes for 203 yards and a touchdown. His favorite target of the day, se-

nior wideout Brandon Williams, hauled in seven catches for 89 yards over the course of the game. Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said the team’s preparation and focus was vital to its success. “The kids prepared really well, stayed steady and supported each other,” Sgarlata said in an interview with The Hoya. “This was probably one of the more complete games we have played.” Freshman running back Herman Moultrie III led Georgetown’s rushing attack with 62 yards and two touchdowns on the ground. Moultrie said he remained patient and knew he could have See fordham, A11

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Freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis recorded two shutouts this week and has six total on the season. Nikopolidis has 39 total saves in his first season on the Hilltop and plays behind a Hoya defense that allows 0.76 goals per game.

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The No. 4 Georgetown women’s soccer team continued its undefeated start to the season over the weekend against a pair of Big East foes, dominating Creighton on Thursday before winning a thriller in overtime against Villanova on Sunday. The Hoyas (12-0-2, 5-0-0 Big East) entered Thursday’s matchup against the Creighton Bluejays (5-8, 2-3 Big East) in Omaha, Neb. on a nine-game winning streak. The Hoyas controlled the game from start to finish, winning 7-1. Head Coach Dave Nolan praised the performance of his attack but noted that the score did not completely reflect the balance of the match. “The score line was harsh for

Creighton, who posed us some problems, but we simply scored some great goals,” Nolan said in an interview with The Hoya. “Our front four were very dangerous.” Junior midfielder Paula Germino-Watnick opened up the scoring in the 16th minute with her second goal of the season and followed the goal with an assist to senior forward Caitlin Farrell in the 24th minute. Sophomore midfielder Grace Nguyen capped off the first half with a shot from outside the box with a pass from graduate student forward Kyra Carusa, extending Georgetown’s lead to 3-0. Germino-Watnick scored her second goal of the game in the 52nd minute, beating two defenders and putting the ball in the back of the net with her left foot. Less than a minute later, Farrell scored

her second goal of the game off an assist from Carusa. Creighton got on the board in the 56th minute. The Hoyas quickly countered as Farrell completed a hat trick, the first for a Georgetown player since 2016. Carusa added her third assist of the match to make the score 6-1. Senior forward Amanda Carolan capped off the scoring for Georgetown with a goal in the 66th minute, assisted by freshman defender Boo Jackson. In total, Georgetown outshot Creighton 26-5 and had a 6-3 advantage in corner kicks. The Hoyas returned to action Sunday at home against the Villanova Wildcats (9-5, 3-2 Big East). Georgetown clinched a 1-0 win in overtime after Farrell scored her 13th goal of the season and Carusa registered her seventh assist of the

year. The win marked 11 straight victories for the Hoyas, who are now ranked in the top four of the United Soccer Coaches weekly rankings of national programs. Germino-Watnick had several chances in the match, including a shot in the 56th minute that hit the post before ricocheting away. With less than eight minutes to play in regulation, she sent a through ball right to the feet of Farrell, whose shot went wide of the net. Each team was called for 12 fouls, and two Wildcats were given yellow cards. Farrell commented on the physicality of the Villanova squad. “That was something we knew coming in and we had to mentally See villanova, A11

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Graduate student forward Kyra Carusa, right, has six goals and seven assists this season for the Hoyas. In Georgetown’s win against Creighton on Oct. 4, Carusa recorded three asists. She also added an assist in the Hoyas’ narrow victory over Villanova on Sunday, Oct. 7. Visit us online at thehoya.com/sports

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McGregor Should Pay For, Not Profit From, UFC Antics Khabib Nurmagomedov’s defeat of Conor McGregor at the Ultimate Fighter Championship at T-Mobile Arena in Nevada on Oct. 6 did not mark the end of the night’s action. The excitement continued following the fight, when an altercation occurred between McGregor’s and Nurmagomedov’s teams. Although McGregor lost the fight and instigated the antics that occurred after the match with racially insensitive language and violence, he and his team will profit greatly. In addition, the UFC, which supposedly disapproves of the post-fight skirmish and blindly supports McGregor, stands to gain even more than he does. Prior to the fight, it was clear that Nurmagomedov remained the favorite for the lightweight championship. After all, he has been wrestling with bears since the age of seven in order to solidify his groundwork. Khabib’s father referred to his fights with the bear as “a test of character more than exercise.” While Nurmagomedov’s victory and the way in which he silenced the outspoken McGregor was truly impressive, his post-fight brawl garnered much more attention. Just moments after clinching the fight with a chokehold and forcing McGregor into submission,

Nurmagomedov launched himself out of the Octagon and onto McGregor’s team. In all fairness, McGregor’s teammate Dillon Danis did call Nurmagomedov a “Muslim rat” during the fight. McGregor has crossed the line many times as well, taunting Nurmagomedov’s religion and father in the pre-fight press conference and launching a dolly, a platform on wheels that holds heavy objects, into Nurmagomedov’s shuttle bus. Looking ahead, the payouts of each of the contenders as well as the future of the UFC are both in question due to the events that occurred in the brawl. The end of the night’s melee confirmed two things: negative headlines tend to produce positive returns at the box office and increased attention for the UFC, and both fighters will probably be punished for their actions by the Nevada Athletic Commission and the UFC. Both fighters may not receive their purses in full, especially Nurmagomedov, who started the brawl. The fight was billed as the biggest event in UFC history, in part due to the publicity surrounding McGregor’s attack on Khabib’s See mahtani, A11