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OUT BUT STILL IN

Students who are out at college but not at home often lead double lives.

EDITORIAL The evidentiary standard changes should also apply to off-campus conflicts.

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TUITION The rate of increase in colleges’ tuitions has slowed in recent years.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER Georgetown travels to Villanova today for its final Big East test.

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Evidentiary Standard Raised For On-Campus Incidents

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Sarah Kaplan Hoya Staff Writer

The burden of proof for Code of Student Conduct violations will be raised to “clear and convincing evidence” for all on-campus incidents other than those involving sexual assault, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson announced Thursday afternoon.

The change will come into effect Jan. 1, 2013, but will not apply to violations that occur off campus.

All off-campus incidents, which represent about 10 percent of cases adjudicated by the Office of Student Conduct, will continue to be judged by the current “more likely than not” standard, according to Olson.

The standard is unlikely to change the number of cases brought before the Office of Student Conduct, Olson said, but it will change the perspective from

which members of hearing boards examine cases. The office will also consider procedural changes to the adjudication process in the coming months.

“Now the goal is to … push forward and continue advocating for this change for all incidents.”

CLARA GUSTAFSON (SFS ’13) GUSA President

According to Olson, the newly announced set of standards is intended to support a disciplinary process that suits a university environment.

“The two standards that we’re moving between here are very much the norm for colleges across

the country,” he said Olson said that his decision, which comes several months after the Disciplinary Review Committee initially recommended the change in April, was significantly influenced by the Georgetown University Student Association’s Sept.

27 student body-wide referendum on the issue. Over 2,600 students participated in that referendum, and 96 percent voted to support the evidentiary standard change. “[Raising the standard] has been a topic of great interest to students broadly and to GUSA leadership who have spoken for those students, and I heard that,” he said.

“The student voice has mattered a great deal here. … This is a change that acknowledges in an important way the fact that this issue matters to students.”

Olson delayed his decision until See STANDARD, A6

Leo’s Workers Meeting With Aramark Emma Hinchliffe LEONEL DE VELEZ/THE HOYA

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized the importance of energy to U.S. diplomacy at her speech in Gaston Hall Thursday. See story on A6.

Lecture Fund Bolstered

By GUSA Financing Elaina Koros

Special to The Hoya

After turning to the Georgetown University Student Association for financing last March, the Georgetown University Lecture Fund has experienced a $16,233 increase in funding this year.

The group had previously been funded by the Student Activities Commission since 2008.

“We made the switch because we wanted to ensure that more students and student groups could get as much funding as possible for the fantastic speakers they’d like to bring in a matter that is straightforward and more transparent,” Lecture Fund Vice Chair of Internal Affairs Chris Mul-

rooney (COL ’14) said.

This year, GUSA allocated $60,000 in one lump sum to the Lecture Fund — a 37-percent increase from last year’s budget under SAC — and will continue to earmark funds for the group annually. Last year, SAC granted the Lecture Fund a total of $43,767 on an event-by-event basis.

The prior process for funding speaker events through SAC was confusing, and it was difficult to organize events with non-SAC groups, according to Mulrooney.

Aanika Patel (SFS ’13), Lecture Fund vice chair for external affairs, agreed. “[Under SAC,] I would start making the motions for getting the contract See LECTURE, A5

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Employees at O’Donovan Hall are hopeful that newly instated weekly meetings with representatives of their employer, Aramark Higher Education, will improve worker-management relations, though communication with the company remains a chief concern of both employees and the Georgetown Solidarity Committee.

According to Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh, representatives of UNITE HERE, a national labor union to which Leo’s workers belong, began meeting with the dining hall’s management this summer, but talks between workers and their employer did not begin until this fall.

“These meetings provide the opportunity to voice any and all concerns and to discuss options and appropriate next steps,” Pugh wrote in an email.

Tarshea Smith, who has worked in the dining hall for 19 years, said the meetings have been productive thus far. “[The meetings] are effective in a lot of ways because we can solve things right then and there

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Workers at the dining hall say their relationship with their employer has improved since they began holding meetings with management.

LGBTQ: At the Center of Change Package Increase Puts Strain on RHOs

Madison Ashley Special to The Hoya

In the five years since its founding, the LGBTQ Resource Center has helped reframe the issue of sexual orientation at Georgetown.

The center, which celebrated its anniversary Wednesday, was established as a result of the Out for Change Campaign, which began in the fall of 2007 after a student was verbally assaulted because of his sexual orientation. In response to the incident, members of GU Pride petitioned the university to develop a procedure to address hate crimes on campus, gathering approximately 750 signatures within six hours.

“The campus climate for the LGBTQ community was far different five years ago than it is today,” Scott Chessare (SFS ’10), former co-president of GU Pride and one of the leaders of the rally in Red Square that launched the campaign in 2007, said. “It was fractured, divided, not See LGBTQ, A5

Sheeva Nesva

Special to The Hoya

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Fr. Christopher Steck, S.J., spoke at the fifth anniversary celebration for the LGBTQ Center in Riggs Library Wednesday.

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The number of packages received

by Georgetown University’s Residence Hall Offices has increased 58 percent since fiscal year 2005, pushing some RHOs’ resources to their limits.

According to data provided by Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh, RHOs received a total of 116,491 packages in fiscal year 2012, compared to 73,741 in 2005, and the annual total has risen every year in between. The total is expected to grow again in fiscal year 2013 — RHOs across campus have received 46,693 packages since July.

Georgetown University Facilities and Student Housing hires extra staff at RHOs to work during peak delivery times and heavy-volume periods near holidays to accommodate for the volume of packages, according to Pugh.

But an anonymous RHO employee said that the amount of packages has had a negative effect on RHO employees’ work environment.

“We come in and see 300 packages roll in with UPS or FedEx, and we know it’s going to be a cramped next hour or two trying to log, sort and label all these packages in a space that’s already small and crowded,” he said.

University Facilities has taken steps to deal with the rising number of packages, according to Pugh. “[W]e have made creative use of current space and storage to increase the number of packages that can be held,” she wrote in an email.

For example, the Village C West RHO has been making use of the floor lounge as an overflow area. The RHOs have also added extra package pick-up hours to make it easier for See RHO, A6

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THE VERDICT

EDITORIALS

Fairness Falters Off Campus While we may never know what concessions were put on the negotiating table by the university to reach an agreement on the 2010 Campus Plan, we are sad to learn of yet another area where our school’s administration is willing to compromise for community approval: student justice.

The decision Thursday by Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson to change the Code of Student Conduct evidentiary standard to “clear and convincing” for on-campus charges is a long-awaited victory for student rights. But Olson’s announcement that the “more likely than not” standard will remain in place for off-campus incidents signals a troubling subservience to neighborhood interests at students’ expense.

Olson released a statement stating that the decision on the off-campus standard was reached “to ensure that conduct off campus and university policies related to that conduct match our shared community expectations.”

Excluding extreme circumstances such as sexual assault, justice is the only consideration

that should inform the choice for an evidentiary standard. The administration’s interest in discouraging behavior that might disrupt the surrounding community is not legitimate grounds for making such an exception.

The Georgetown Community Partnership — once thought to offer a fresh start to towngown relations — now looms as yet another roadblock to university progress. The neighborhood wielded a disproportionate amount of leverage in campus plan negotiations, and the GCP will soon have authority in setting policy regarding off-campus infractions. Why does university policy continue to be pressured by anything other than a commitment to what it knows is right?

For the moment, let’s celebrate the valiant work of the Disciplinary Review Committee and the Georgetown University Student Association in convincing Olson to make this change. But going forward, we must demand an explanation as to why the administration apparently values the neighborhood’s preferences over the rights of its students.

Party Pooper — The “Drunken Georgetown Students” blog — a venting space where a Georgetown resident and former American University professor posts videos of student parties — is back.

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Majors Galore — The 224th annual College Majors Fair will take place today in the ICC Galleria. Free pizza and snacks will be provided.

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Heed the Homeless There are nearly 12,000 homeless people living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, one in six of whom is a child. Students need to walk only a few blocks to M Street to get a glimpse of how serious the District’s homelessness pandemic has become.

It should weigh on the conscience of everyone on the Hilltop that so many in our city experience such suffering. Unfortunately, rather than expanding philanthropic efforts, campus programs that provided support for the homeless have recently been discontinued.

The Mobile Soup Kitchen, an initiative of the Hoya Outreach Programs & Education, lost its contributions this year from Aramark, the company that manages campus dining services. Previously, the Mobile Soup Kitchen had received soup and other supplies from the kitchens at O’Donovan Hall, but this year, Aramark has chosen to cut costs and suspend these donations.

Students are also no longer able to do-

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Tuition Fruition — The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities released data showing that the average increase in tuition among universities this year was less than 4 percent for the first time in 40 years. Georgetown was below the national average with a tuition increase of 3.5 percent.

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nate extra meals on their meal plans at the end of the week. In the past, dining hall workers were able to process the donation of these extra meals with the click of a button, but the GOCard system update last spring failed to carry over this capability — another example of a Georgetown program thoughtlessly neglecting to continue helping the homeless.

We in the Georgetown community can’t turn our backs on our homeless neighbors, and there are still many opportunities to contribute. The Georgetown-sponsored Help the Homeless Community Walk this Saturday donates $20 for every student who registers, and students can also go to Dupont Circle on Friday afternoons to serve meals with the Friday Food program.

For the four years that we’re on campus, the District and the Georgetown community provide students with a second home.

Let us never forget those in this city who don’t even have one.

Diversity at a Standstill The Initiative for Diversity and Inclusiveness was launched in 2009 in response to campus sentiment that there was too much talk and too little action on improving diversity. Three years later, the initiative itself has fallen victim to that same fate.

University President John J. DeGioia introduced the initiative in an effort to increase diversity in Georgetown academics, admissions and student life. Georgetown continues to fall short in these areas, and minor progress and the passage of time are not reasons to let up on the university’s push for improvement.

With respect to diversity in admissions, Georgetown has seen a small increase in the number of accepted minority students, yet those figures continue to be lower than admission statistics reported by peer institutions. Socioeconomic status — another important measure of a student’s background and perspective — also

remains far from varied.

Academics are another important area in need of diversification. Despite the urging of some tasked with advising the initiative, there is an absence of African American, Latino and Asian American studies majors. Additionally, the hiring of 11 minority faculty members since last winter doesn’t fully correct the deficit in faculty diversity. The student body racial distribution may be imperfect, but the representation of racial and ethnic minorities in the faculty remains far worse.

The campus community appears passionate about improving diversity on the Hilltop. This isn’t some abstract, altruistic ambition — it’s a critical step toward enhancing the university’s educational environment. It was admirable for the administration to step up to the plate on campus diversity. But three years later, we are still waiting for it to follow through.

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New Depth of Diversity God’s Plan on Sexuality In Millenial Generation V W

hat makes our generation, the Millennial Generation, unique? For over a year, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown has been attempting to answer this question.

In partnership with the Public Religion Research Institute, the Berkley Center conducted two opinion surveys of about 2,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 on topics related to “millennial values” and political engagement. In order to foster dialogue around these issues, the Berkley Center invited 15 college students from around the country to participate in the Millennial Values Symposium coinciding with each survey’s release. The first survey results were released in April of this year, and the second survey was released two weeks ago on Oct. 4.

I was among those 15 college students invited to the symposium, and many of us had different opinions on what made our generation unique. Some cited millennials’ skills with technology and social media, others mentioned our global awareness and still others suggested our deep mistrust of government.

While all of these perspectives have merit, I believe that we millennials are unique because of our inherent diversity. Whether we measure diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, religious belief (or lack thereof), sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or any one of numerous criteria, it is clear that ours is the most diverse generation in American history. Many millennials blur the lines of these traditional categories of diversity; for example, many millennials are the children of interracial, interethnic or interfaith marriages, causing them to either identify with more than one label in each category or to reject these labels altogether.

This diversity is our strength. Our generation’s diversity conditions us to avoid making generalizations about others. As a co-president of the Georgetown Student Interfaith Council, I believe that we can harness our generation’s open-mindedness to bridge religious divides.

One of the growing trends in the Millennial Generation is to identify as “religiously unaffiliated” or “other” in the category of religion or spirituality. For many, this involves growing estranged from the faith in which they were raised. For others, self-identifying as “religiously unaffiliated” or “other” simply means that their personal religious or spiritual beliefs no longer fit into any defined category.

Even millennials whose beliefs do fit into

a traditional category are less likely to unconditionally accept dogma, and they may openly disagree with their religion’s official stances on many issues. I think that many of the religious divides present in America today are caused by misconceptions about others’ beliefs simply on the basis of their self-identification.

For example, when someone self-identifies as Catholic, many people’s first instinct is to associate that person’s beliefs with all of the Church’s stances. However, I realize from my own experience at Georgetown that this is not always accurate; among my own group of friends who are Catholic, a person’s belief system can run the gamut from agreeing completely with Church teachings to disagreeing with it on almost every issue. This phenomenon is not restricted to the Catholic Church; indeed, it seems to be common in virtually every religious tradition, especially for the Millennial Generation.

Therefore, any conversation involving religion should focus primarily on a person’s own experience. The Interfaith Council’s dialogue program known as Faith in Conversation explicitly supports this idea and discourages anyone from attempting to be a spokesperson for all members of one’s faith. By emphasizing personal religious experience, people can contribute to a conversation about ethics or values, regardless of whether their beliefs fit into a defined religious category.

The growing trend toward identifying as “religiously unaffiliated” or “other” also poses a challenge in the sense that existing religious categories are increasingly insufficient to describe the Millennial Generation.

The recent shooting at a Sikh gurudwara in Wisconsin as well as the increasing number of hate crimes against Muslims indicate that the presence of these so-called minority religions also has a profound effect on American life. Grouping all members of these communities into the single category of “other” is unhelpful because it does nothing to understand each faith’s unique attitudes or beliefs.

One of our main challenges as millennials is to re-evaluate our categorization of religion in the United States and emphasize the importance of personal religious experience. Only then can we help all members of our nation — whether they fit into a defined religious category or not — feel comfortable voicing their own values.

AAMIR HUSSAIN is a junior in the College.

enerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once said, “Millions of people dislike the Church for what they think she teaches.

But there aren’t 10 people who dislike the Church for what she really teaches.”

Much of the recent conversation on this page of The Hoya related to the Catholic Church and homosexuality has overlooked what the Church really teaches about the matter. To promote a truly informed dialogue and the flourishing of the whole person, it is important to reflect on some oft-neglected but essential points.

The Church is concerned primarily with persons, not orientations. In their pastoral letter on homosexuality, “Always Our Children,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote, “Our total personhood is more encompassing than sexual orientation.” Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) recently echoed this important point when he wrote, “I am so much more than ‘gay’” (“Faith, Sexuality in Harmony”, A2, Oct. 12, 2012).

The Church recognizes that she must minister to people who have same-sex attractions, affirming their inherent dignity as sons and daughters of God who are created in His image and likeness. They “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2358).

Human sexuality is a gift from God that must be ordered according to God’s will and plan, namely toward the inseparable ends of the union of the spouses (love) and procreation (life). This truth can be known by reason and by revelation.

It is not sinful to have same-sex attractions. Acts are sinful; inclinations, insofar as they are beyond one’s free will, are not. However, the Church teaches that such

LETTERS TO OUR FRESHMEN SELVES

Burgers, Banter and Faculty Mentors for Life I

f you can recall your college tour days, one arts core means you’ll be exposed to a variety of the usual major selling points — often of experts whose focus may be nothing that shouted as you were herded around a va- you ever thought you would find interesting. riety of beautiful campuses — focused on the While these classes might provide a formal infinite number of dinners you would have setting for you to get to know professors, office with your professors while at that university. hours or coffee in Midnight Mug can lead to a What they don’t tell you on tours is that much more individualized conversation. You at Georgetown, you are just as likely to run may end up hashing out your team allegiancinto a Jesuit professor or administrator at es in this crazy playoff race, talking over the Wisey’s while you are trying to buy a 30-pack changes from Vatican II implemented in Dahlof beer for a pregame. But it’s a testament to gren or perhaps hearing about an upcoming Georgetown’s collegiate culture that the Je- Alternative Spring Break that one is leading. suits, faculty and staff can handle such enLike that dinner with Fr. Curry, a simple counters with ease — perhaps even chiding chat can turn into a regular dinner in which you for picking Keystone you discuss everything over Bud Light. that’s going on with both For John, that became of your lives. It’s one of the particularly apparent over greatest things we do here burgers at The Tombs. at Georgetown simply beOne day after a class in cause it provides us with the Jesuit Residence, one an opportunity to clear of my Jesuit professors our heads. Too often we stopped me by the elevaget caught up in midterms tor on my way out of class. anxiety or the weekend Here’s how our conversapandemonium and forget tion unfolded. to stop and ask ourselves “John, what are you do- Lauren Weber & John Morris about what we are actually ing for dinner tonight?” learning on the Hilltop.

“I don’t know, Fr. Curry.

Georgetown’s faculty “Just grabbing a burger” members can provide you I get out of class at 7:45, but I’m free after that.” that guidance when turned into one of the most with “Would you like to go to they ask you the hard quesdinner at The Tombs at 8?” memorable conversations tions. Heartfelt chats over “Just grabbing a burger” where your college career turned into one of the that I’ve had at Georgetown. is headed and what you most memorable converwant out of this experience sations that I have had in my entire George- are discussions you can’t avoid when it’s just town career. We talked about what I want to you and your professor at The Tombs. do with my life (these conversations between A catchy point in a pamphlet at other us still continue on a regular basis today), schools can come alive here when you’re how I’d ended up at Georgetown and my hand-delivered an invitation to your advisoverall experience here on the Hilltop. er’s Nancy Drew-themed retirement party We then spoke of his experience as a Je- in Riggs or given the chance to chat over suit, his family and how he’d ended up at barbeque and homemade potato salad at a Georgetown. After dinner, when I was walk- dean’s house. ing home, I was struck by something: Here Faculty mentors like these remind us that was a Jesuit with a ton on his plate, yet he we students aren’t the only ones that live and had taken the time to specifically go out of work on this campus. And we definitely are his way to inquire about my life and to give not the only ones that care about our peers. me advice.

Advice and conversations like that one Lauren Weber is a senior in the College. She don’t need to be between you and your ad- is chair of the Board of Directors for The viser or your current professors. Heck, they Hoya. John Morris is a senior in the College. don’t even need to be a member of the de- He is chair of the Board of Directors for Stupartment in which you want to major or dents of Georgetown, Inc. TO OUR FRESHMAN minor. One of the advantages of our liberal SELVES appears every other Friday.

attractions, by their very nature, are not properly ordered toward the natural and divine telos, or end, of human sexuality. Some find this language difficult or even discriminatory. It is meant to express a reality, not prejudice.

Furthermore, Christianity has always maintained that a wide variety of inclinations are disordered.

The theological reasoning behind the Church’s teaching asserts that God’s plan for the gift of human sexuality orders it toward the complementary union of man and woman in a loving, procreative bond that is sealed by marriage (Gen 1:27-28; Mark 10:6-8). Reason tells us that human sexuality is naturally ordered toward the procreation of children.

Therefore, sexual acts between people of the same sex fall short of the natural procreative and complementary ends of human sexuality. The same holds for any sexual act outside the marital union of husband and wife that is open to life and love. This reality precludes the idea of homosexual marriage.

At this point, some would raise the objection of infertile heterosexuals. But this confuses the distinction between capacity and ability in an ontological sense.

The question that seems to be at the heart of our current conversation remains, “What are we to do?” In love, the Church offers a challenging but hopeful vision: Just like all people, those persons with same-sex attraction are “called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship and by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection” (CCC 2359). Virtue, friendship and community and God’s grace are the cornerstones of the Catholic vision for our brothers and sisters who have

same-sex attractions.

The U.S. Catholic bishops are aware that many people with same-sex attractions feel alienated. The Church must do more to welcome such people into her sacramental, communal and moral life.

She must constantly reaffirm the inherent dignity of people with same-sex attractions, communicate more effectively with them and creatively minster to them so as to empower and support them in living out the virtue of chastity. Affirmation of dignity should not be confused, however, with condoning anything that would endanger one’s eternal salvation. If she is to be herself, the Church must communicate the Truth in love.

At Georgetown, too, we have much work to do. In listening to friends who have a real personal stake in this issue, it seems to me that we must do more to support and encourage those people with same-sex attractions who desire to live according to Scripture and the tradition of Christianity. These individuals may be at risk of alienation because of their sexual orientation and because of their desire to live according to God’s plan and the tenants of their religion.

In the spirit of Georgetown’s commitment to inter-religious dialogue, we might also explore how to affirm Jews and Muslims or other people of faiths who seek to live according to their faiths’ traditional teachings on this issue.

Georgetown’s Jesuit and Catholic identity challenges us to cura personalis. In the spirit of respect, let us continue the civil discourse and, in the spirit of love and truth, let us work to meet the pastoral and personal needs of all Georgetown students.

KIERAN RAVAL is a senior in the College. He is grand knight of the Georgetown Knights of Columbus.

THE ETHNICITY OF FEMININITY

A Level College Playing Field

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iscussing grades with classmates can certainly be an uncomfortable encounter. As awful and over-analytical as this may sound, students typically only ask when they expect to hear lackluster results. Recently, a woman of color spoke to me about an unfamiliar peer who casually interrogated her about the grade she received on an assignment. The conversation went something along the lines of this.

“The professor gave me a C,” he said matter-of-factly.

“What about you?”

The young woman awkwardly replied, “I earned an A.” He looked at her in disbelief, apparently surprised that he did not acquire an attendee to his pity party.

“Wow,” he finally said, concluding the encounter.

What is most alarming about this anecdote is that he knew nothing about this girl beyond the fact that they were classmates for about two hours each week.

He didn’t know her name or her academic track record.

Undeniably, his shock at her grade stemmed from her physical appearance and the educational background associated with it. He expected the worst from this young woman based on the color of her skin.

One of the lone drawbacks of affirmative action is that mediocrity can become an expectation. Encounters like these, however, only draw attention to those who do not understand affirmative action’s purpose and demonstrate how necessary this diversity initiative is in schools and workplaces.

Affirmative action has resurfaced as a national point of contention. The Supreme Court recently heard Fisher v. Texas, a case brought by

a rejected applicant to the University of Texas at Austin.

Abigail Fisher — quite ironically — calls into question the fairness of the system on the basis of reverse racial discrimination while discounting that it is a system that extends beyond race.

This practice has historically been responsible for women’s being admitted into traditionally white, male-dominated institutions, including Georgetown.

On “Real Time with Bill Maher,” actress Kerry Washing-

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One of the lone drawbacks of affirmative action is that mediocrity can become an expectation. ton summed up how I would define affirmative action, saying, “I don’t think affirmative action should solely be based on race. I think it should be based on socio-economics, geography, gender and religion because we are a country of inclusivity, and when we say ‘we the people,’ we have grown to a place where, ‘we’ should include all of us.”

The push for affirmative action came from the desire to instill diversity in places it did not previously exist. The government finally came to the realization that not everyone starts on the

same playing field or with the same resources to reach societal standards of achievement. As Washington noted, “We do something about that in a country where we want everyone to have a shot at success.”

In the second presidential debate, even Mitt Romney recognized that affirmative action is a necessity (although he may recant these statements later). With his “binders full of women” comment, Romney ineloquently appeared to apply the practice to his cabinet as governor of Massachusetts.

He noted that it was important to offer opportunities to women who were equally qualified as the male applicants.

There is emphasis here on “equally.”

Affirmative action helps people who have earned opportunities receive them given their individual circumstances, so this Supreme Court case seems quite trivial. As Tulane University professor and newspaper correspondent Melissa HarrisPerry said to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, “Consider this: …. Abigail Fischer wasn’t admitted, but a black student didn’t take her place. It was not ‘her place.’”

As we were constantly told in the beginning of our college careers, each of us has something to contribute to our university’s community.

Essentially, we are all here — and here deservingly — for a reason.

Khadijah Davis is a sophomore in the School of Nursing and Health Studies. She is secretary of Georgetown University Women of Color.

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Real estate finance company Walker & Dunlop and seven Georgetown University student organizations will co-sponsor the Help the Homeless Community Walk this Saturday.

Help the Homeless is a nonprofit that works to end homelessness in the Washington, D.C. area by raising funds for local organizations and spreading awareness about homelessness in the community.

The two-to-five-kilometer walk, which will be held between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. in Red Square, will encompass much of campus and the surrounding neighborhood. For each student who registers, $20 will be donated to Georgetown Ministry Center, a shelter founded by the Georgetown Clergy Association, Georgetown University and Woodley House, Inc., a non-profit organization that supplies mental health care.

Student groups, including Hoya Outreach Programs and Education, Alpha Phi Omega, GU Pride, The Corp Service and Outreach Committee, THE HOYA, Georgetown Program Board and the Senior Class Committee, worked with Georgetown Ministry Center and Woodley House to coordinate the walk.

“I’m participating in the walk this weekend because I think it’s a fantastic way for students to get involved in the D.C. community,” Kelly Kimball (NHS ’16) said. “It’s important for students to take a step back from the studying bubble and keep perspective about the opportunities we are exposed to every day.”

Jessica Fitzgerald, event coordinator at the Georgetown Ministry Center, said that student group involvement and contributions have been vital to the planning process.

“They’ve been nothing short of amazing,” she said. “We couldn’t have done it without them.”

Since 1988, Help the Homeless has raised over $90 million to help the 12,000 homeless people in the D.C. area. In 2011, the nonprofit helped over 180,000 clients and provided 6,300 housing units to homeless D.C. residents.

Fitzgerald said the walk will expose students to other community service and volunteer opportunities “The walk is a great way for students to begin to build relationships with those in the Georgetown community and raise awareness for organizations like the Georgetown Ministry Center,” Fitzgerald said. “Students can better our community and get the homeless off the streets and into housing.”

Author James Mann and The Washington Post correspondent Tom Hamburger discussed politics, foreign policy and the presidential race in Georgetown’s Mortara Center for International Studies Tuesday afternoon.

Hamburger, a reporter for The Post’s national desk and a former writer for the Los Angeles Times, summarized the presidential campaign and explained why it has become a closer race in the most recent weeks.

“A few weeks ago, there was a feeling that Mitt Romney was so full of bombast and had been so successfully caricatured as a greedy titan of Wall Street, and the economic numbers were trending Barack Obama’s way, that political reporters began to wonder if the presidential election was really over — that we should put our attention more to Congressional races,” Hamburger said.

However, Hamburger noted that during the final month before the presidential election, there often is an October surprise, a pivotal development that occurs late in the race.

“This year, the October surprise was what some were referring to as the ‘Obama no-show’ in the [first] debate,” Hamburger said.

“I think that the Obama performance in that debate contributed to what I would call a sense of unease.”

Hamburger argued that despite some signs of economic recovery, such as the drop in the national unemployment rate, there is still a sense of anxiety among Americans about the nation’s status internationally.

“It’s rather not a specific economic unease as much as a subtle and diffuse one that does relate to America’s place in the world,” he said.

According to Mann, an authorin-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times and author of several books on politics and foreign policy, the renewed focus on international issues is a Romney campaign strat-

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“My own theory is that [Romney is] talking about foreign policy now as a stand-in for leadership,” Mann said. “He’s talking about these issues in a way that will show he is a strong leader, and people can then transfer [that idea] over to the economy.”

Mann added that domestic issues still hold sway with the electorate.

“I’m certain that the polls show that the public cares multiple times more about the domestic economy and jobs than it does about the consulate in Benghazi,” Mann said, referring to the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last month that killed American Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Mann also spoke about his most recent book, “The Obamians, which explores President Obama’s prediction of the country’s longterm future. In his book, Mann divides the Obama campaign team into three different generations: the post-Vietnam generation, the

post-Cold War generation of the 1990s, and the “Obamians” — those who came of age in the 2000s.

“The Obamians represent an effort to redo American strategy, to have a lighter footprint in the world, to no longer act assuming that America is and always will have a position of primacy in the world,” Mann said. “That the day will come when the United States is not necessarily the most powerful nation in the world, and … the country needs to start getting ready for it.”

Both speakers discussed the importance of China as a debate topic.

Mann noted that both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted to label China as a currency manipulator during their presidential campaigns in 2008 but did not follow through once in office.

“They took office, and they passed up one chance after another to do that because the belief was that China would take umbrage and there would be a trade

war,” Mann said.

In Tuesday’s debate, Gov. Romney reiterated his promise to label China a currency manipulator.

However, Mann challenged the effectiveness of his proposed action.

“What [Gov. Romney] doesn’t say is that actually, for all this talk from three candidates, declaring China a currency manipulator does not by itself change anything,” Mann said. “There is no action required as a result of declaring China a currency manipulator.

Effectively, what Romney is saying is, ‘I won’t change anything, but I’ll stick it in China’s eye.’”

Hamburger linked the idea of China as a problem or threat to the concept of American unease.

“U.S. trade relations with China, as well as a fear of China as a risen power, reflect this concern about where we’re going,” he said. “The foreign policy issues that Romney is now raising … are an attempt to fire up this concern about America’s place in the world and also instill doubts about Obama’s ability to lead.”

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Theft, Yates Field House, 10:46 p.m.

A student reported the theft of her wallet from an unsecured locker at the listed location.

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A bicycle that was secured to a fence in the area was stolen. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

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A purse was stolen from a residence during a party. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

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A wallet was stolen from a bag that was left in an unsecured locker. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray recently announced a new scholarship fund for graduates of D.C. high schools who come from low-income families and will be attending universities in the District.

Gray set aside $1.59 million in the District’s fiscal year 2013 budget for the fund and has given $1.2 million to 185 students this year.

“Creating a college-going culture begins with instilling the idea that college is an important and attainable aspiration, regardless of one’s financial situation,” State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley Jones said at the Oct. 5 press conference. “By expanding students’ local college choices and financial accessibility, we also expand their opportunities for success.”

According to Lauralyn Lee, Georgetown’s associate vice presi-

DPS BLOTTER Wednesday, Oct. 10 Unlawful Entry, Pre-Clinical Science Building, 3:20 p.m.

A non-affiliate was arrested for trespassing on Georgetown University property.

Sunday, Oct. 14 Theft, O’Donovan Hall, 11:10 p.m.

The blotter is compiled weekly by the Department of Public Safety.

Leo’s Workers Cite Need For Better Communication LEO’S, from A1 instead of filing a grievance. And a lot of times we can talk to them because they know we have the student support,” she said.

According to Smith, some conflicts that would have formerly resulted in a worker’s losing his or her job have been solved through this weekly forum. The meetings are held with Director of Food and Beverage Ted Lipansky.

“My co-worker was written up … and the sous chef said he was being insubordinate. He wouldn’t wear a hairnet,” Smith said. “His co-workers took pictures of [him wearing] the hairnet. … We went into the office to talk about it, and they tore up the write-up.”

Smith said she believes that in addition to accomplishing practical goals, these meetings provide an opportunity for workers to band together.

“It shows how unified we are, how we’re going to push back together when you push against us,” she said.

At a recent weekly meeting, employees fought on behalf of their co-worker who

was denied a job after she returned from maternity leave. Without a human resources department, workers have to trust their managers to complete and turn in paperwork for situations like maternity leave on time, sometimes resulting in miscommunications and delays.

In recent weeks, Leo’s has been running out of food at popular stations, which some employees attributed to a disconnect between workers and the managers who order supplies.

Georgetown Solidarity Committee members Erin Riordan (COL ’15) and Julia Hubbell (COL ’15) also cited miscommunication as the biggest problem between Leo’s workers, Aramark, students and the university.

“The missing piece right now is a systematic way to bring students and workers together to bring their concerns to the table,” Hubbell said.

Riordan agreed.

“We need a system set up in which everyone who has a stake in these issues can be at the same table and it’s not separate people talking about different things,” she said.

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dent of community engagement and strategic initiatives, the university is a firm supporter of this new program.

“The university is deeply invested in programs that support the success of students from the District of Columbia,” she wrote in an email. “We have enthusiastically supported this latest program.”

The scholarship was partially orchestrated by alumna Emily Durso, the assistant superintendent for postsecondary and career education at the Office of the State Superintendent, and provides $10,000 for students attending private schools, $7,000 for those attending the University of the District of Columbia and $3,000 for those enrolled in the city’s community college.

In order to receive a scholarship, students must be in good academic and disciplinary standing in their high schools and come

from families who are considered low income by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. “Today’s announcement means it will be easier for many District students to obtain a university or community college degree,” Gray said at the press conference. “It’s a wise investment in our students, our workforce and our city’s future.”

The new scholarships come in addition to the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant, which already provided $2,500 for local students attending private universities in the District.

Lee added that despite its needblind admissions policy, Georgetown actively supports programs that enhance student access to college programs.

“We are firmly committed to supporting programs that promote access to college regardless of institution, as this one does,” she wrote.

Students Recall Center’s Founding LGBTQ, from A1 really united. We thought there was a general lack of institutional support.”

“Before Out for Change we had no full-time employee dealing with LGBTQ issues here on campus,” former GU Pride historian Ben McAfee (SFS ’12) said.

As a freshman, McAfee participated in the Red Square rally and helped organize a student presentation to University President John J. DeGioia along with other representatives from GU Pride, College Democrats, Georgetown Solidarity Committee and Take Back the Night.

“We sat down for two to three hours every day until we could articulate what we wanted: education, safety and programming,” he said.

The students spread their message by holding pep rallies in Red Square, creating the now-ubiquitous “I am” T-shirts and handing out LGBTQ awareness flyers to prospective students. McAfee recalled being stopped by Department of Public Safety officers when he tried to enter DeGioia’s office with a group of other students to voice their demands.

“We left an ‘I am’ shirt with his secretary,” McAfee said.

The response from DeGioia was both immediate and comprehensive. He announced the creation of three working groups that addressed areas of reporting, resources and education based on the campaign’s demands. The recommendations of these working groups led to the creation of the LGBTQ Resource Center in August 2008.

“In [that] dark hour, there was a seed of opportunity to respond to what happened,” Chessare said.

“I think that is something we saw five years ago [with] DeGioia’s courageous decision to commit to establishing the LGBTQ center, not in spite of our Catholic and Jesuit identity, but because of it.”

That perspective was voiced by Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord at the center’s anniversary celebration

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“When we walk across our campus and see the banners reminding us the values that characterize the Jesuit education — women and men for others, community and diversity — we will know these as lived values within this very special community,” Lord said. “We do this work at Georgetown precisely because we are a Catholic and Jesuit university.”

The center, which was the first of its kind at a Catholic University, quickly took hold. It provides a safe, informal place for students to discuss LGBTQ issues by appointment or at a coffee hour held each Friday.

“It’s just being a presence on a campus. … The resource center is something to take care of us as a whole person that at the same time supports the community as a whole,” GU Pride President Meghan Ferguson (COL ’15) said.

Despite Georgetown’s Jesuit background, there was no backlash when the center was created, according to Sivagami Subbaraman, director of the LGBTQ Resource Center.

“There is nothing that I know of where there was major resistance from either the Catholic or alumni community. In fact, I think most people were quite delighted because the work done is consistent with Catholic and Jesuit principles,” she said. “This is about educational opportunities, about access [and] about providing our students with all of the resources they need to get a full and complete education.”

Georgetown also began advising other Catholic universities on how to incorporate LGBTQ resources into campus life.

“We have been contacted by [other Catholic universities] who have seen how successful the Georgetown model is and are interested in replicating it on their own campuses,” Michael Deneen (COL ’14), a part-time student worker at the center, said.

But Deneen added that the center should be an impetus for further advocacy efforts.

“I hope [the movement] doesn’t lose its momentum,” he said. “Just because we have a center now doesn’t mean the work is over.”

Fund Operates on Tight Budget LECTURE, from A1 and getting good sponsors for an event, and eventually, we would have to cancel because we just didn’t have the funding,” she said. “Now that GUSA gives us this lump sum for the entire year, it makes planning, at least from my perspective, a lot easier.”

Despite the increase in funding, the $60,000 total still falls $145,000 short of the Lecture Fund’s $205,000 request for this academic year. Because of scarce monetary resources, members must negotiate with speakers to lower prices.

“Given that in a typical year we organize or oversee in excess of 50 speaking events, we stretch this budget extremely far,” Lecture Fund Chair Sean Keady (SFS ’13) said.

According to Patel, the Lecture Fund aims to keep the cost of all events under $5,000.

“A lot of times speakers and agents will give you the run-

around,” Patel said. “We don’t have a great budget, so it’s really presenting the organization and Georgetown in a way that makes speakers want to come here for more than just that check they’re going to get in the mail afterward.”

To accommodate expensive speakers, the Lecture Fund collaborates with other organizations to finance and plan events. One such source of support is the Karl F. Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy, which helped fund the audiovisual components for an Oct. 9 event featuring Gary Perlin, chief financial cfficer of the Capital One Financial Corp.

“I was pleased with the type of outreach and the level of professionalism the Lecture Fund students exhibited. I am a big fan of co-sponsorship, especially when we can connect communities and distribute the burden of cost and management,” Program Counselor

Rosaelena O’Neil said. “I look forward to working with them again.”

This year, the Lecture Fund aims to maximize the number of students it impacts through a calendar of diverse events.

“My goal for this year is to try to reach as many students as possible with a wide variety of events that appeal to everyone,” Keady said. “And that doesn’t mean big, huge famous people.

That means speakers that cater to individual interests.”

Last year, the Lecture Fund sponsored 64 speaker events, up from a total of 50 events in the 2010-2011 academic year, and it organized 17 of those 64 events independently. According to Mulrooney, the group aims to organize at least 60 events this year and has already held 17 of 22 events planned for this semester, including the appearances of Perlin, actress Rosario Dawson and Doug Ellin, the creator of the HBO television show “Entourage.”

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after the conclusion of a twoday external review of the Office of Student Conduct performed by representatives from Duke University and Loyola University Chicago on Sept. 2627. Though the final results of the review have not been published, Olson said that he spoke with the reviewers and received the feedback necessary to make his decision.

Despite the change, the burden of proof for incidents involving sexual assault will remain “a preponderance of evidence,” in accordance with guidelines from the Department of Education. Meanwhile, Olson said his choice to maintain the current standard for off-campus violations reflected a desire to consider the interests of neighbors.

“We take the interests of everyone who’s involved in our community seriously,” he said.

GUSA President Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13), who helped spearhead the Sept. 27 referendum, expressed cautious support for Olson’s decision.

“While it is unfortunate that the standard is the same off campus … We have [90 percent of incidents covered by the new standard], and that’s a win,” she said.

“Now the goal is to … push forward and continue advocating for this change for all incidents.

Because in reality, that’s what we feel is the fairest standard by which to judge all incidents that happen at Georgetown.”

As a follow-up to the review of the Office of Student Conduct, Georgetown plans to organize another external review, this time of the Office of Off-

Campus Student Life, according to Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord.

“It’s an opportunity to look at how to make our programs as effective and well received as resources for the whole community,” Lord said. “We want [the Office of Off-Campus Student Life] to be a place that students see as a resource for them.”

Gustafson said she was hopeful that this review would also give students a chance to advocate for the expansion of the evidentiary standard change to include off-campus violations.

“I am hopeful that while we do not currently have 100 percent of incidents covered by the new standard, we’ll be able to continue to push forward for it because the university now sees how important it is to students,” she said.

Clinton Talks Energy Goals Sarah Kaplan Hoya Staff Writer

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the importance of energy and its status as a 21st-century foreign policy priority in Gaston Hall Thursday afternoon.

Dean of the School of Foreign Service Carol Lancaster introduced Clinton, calling her a “Hoya by marriage” and lauding her years of work in government.

“Secretary Clinton has come to embody the Georgetown spirit of public service,” Lancaster said.

Clinton began her talk by outlining the impact of energy concerns on international affairs, saying that the issue is at the core of geopolitics, economic growth and global development.

“Fundamentally, energy is a source of wealth and power, which means it can be both a source of conflict and cooperation,” she said. “Energy cuts across the entirety of U.S. foreign policy.”

She also detailed the Obama administration’s recent initiatives to develop a more progressive and independent energy policy.

“Many Americans don’t yet

realize the gains that the United States has made,” she said, citing increased use of wind, solar and natural gas and the implementation of new automobile fuel efficiency standards.

“We are less reliant on imported energy, which strengthens our global economic and political standing,” she said.

“The important thing to keep in mind is our country is not and cannot be an island when it comes to energy markets.”

Under Clinton’s leadership, the Department of State created a new Bureau of Energy Resources that orchestrates the department’s diplomatic efforts on energy.

“We did not have a team of experts dedicated full time to thinking creatively about how we can solve challenges and seize opportunities, and now we do,” Clinton said. “That … is a signal of a broader commitment on the part of the United States to lead in shaping the global energy future.”

Here, Clinton turned and pointed to the front row, where six Georgetown alumni who work in the bureau were sitting.

“That’s a shameless pitch for the Foreign Service and the State Department,” she said.

Clinton went on to explain

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the three pillars of the Department of State’s policies on energy: energy diplomacy, energy transformation and energy poverty. She cited the department’s efforts in Iran, Sudan and South Sudan, Iraq and the Arctic and said that the United States must play a role in preventing conflict over energy resources.

Clinton also spoke of the necessity of transitioning to cleaner energy sources, arguing that the United States has the knowledge and resources to promote green energy in other countries. She talked about a new initiative, “Connecting the Americas 2022,” that aims to provide universal access to electricity in the Americas within 10 years.

“Interconnection will help us get the most out of our region’s resources,” she said. “It really is a win-win-win in our opinion.”

In terms of energy poverty, Clinton detailed her administration’s efforts to promote transparency and equal access to energy in developing countries.

“Poor governance … is a key factor in energy poverty and political instability,” she said.

“We need to ensure that energy resources don’t cause more suffering than good.”

Overall, Clinton promoted an active role for the United States in global energy issues.

“We have no choice. … We have to be involved,” she said.

“The challenges I’ve outlined will only become more urgent in the years ahead … and all of us have a stake in the outcome.”

Matthew McManus (GRD ’90), deputy director of public diplomacy and policy analysis in the Bureau of Energy Resources, shared how Georgetown should get involved in the conversation about sustainability.

“It is important for us to engage the next generation and to really have a debate about the best path forward for energy security, our planet and the environment,” he said.

RHO, from A1 students to retrieve their mail.

“We are actively searching for additional improvements, knowing that our current spaces are at or near their maximums,” Pugh wrote.

Despite these measures, the RHO employee said there is still a lack of support from the main housing staff.

“While we’re going through this tough time, [the housing staff] seems unsympathetic to the rising problem and unwilling to find a solution other than ‘do your best,’” he said.

In terms of solutions, the options are limited. Building more and larger RHOs is unlikely, according to the RHO employee.

“For the short term, better support and a forward-looking approach from [the Office of Housing and Residence Life] are all we can hope for,” he said.

According to Pugh, the VCW RHO generally receives more packages than any other — around 200 each weekday — followed by the New South RHO. The RHO employee said he believes the high numbers are a result of the concentration of freshmen, who typically receive larger items and a greater volume of packages than upperclassmen, in

these dorms.

Students say the increase in packages corresponds to the growing popularity of online shopping.

“For a college such as Georgetown, with few [stores] in close proximity, students prefer the ease of online shopping and the expedient delivery,” Michael Davidson (COL ’15) said.

Alicia Chavy (SFS ’14) said that she buys online because of the high prices of nearby stores and the difficulties associated with getting out of Washington, D.C., to shop “Everything around Georgetown is so expensive,” Chavy said. “And I don’t have a car on campus to go shopping in Virginia or other areas.”

Davidson said he has sensed some disorganization at his RHO. “Packages that were supposed to be delivered to my dorm, LXR, were instead delivered to VCW ... which is quite a hassle,” Davidson said, adding that this has happened on numerous occasions.

Unlike Davidson, however, Chavy has not noticed a lackluster performance in her RHO in Kennedy Hall.

“From what I have experienced,” Chavy said, “[RHO] has a really good organizational system for its packages.”

National College Tuition Costs See Slower Growth Kelly Church Hoya Staff Writer

The rise of college tuition costs has slowed to its lowest rate in 40 years, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

The survey, the results of which were released Oct. 16, found that tuition at private institutions across the country rose by an average of 3.9 percent for the 2012-2013 school year. This is the first time on record that the rate of increase was less than 4 percent.

This year’s increase at Georgetown, however, is actually higher than in the past two years. Tuition at Georgetown rose by 3.5 percent between the 2011-2012 and the

2012-2013 school years, compared with a 2.9 percent increase from the 2010-2011 to the 2011-2012 academic years.

According to the NAICU study, the smaller rise in tuition was mirrored by a smaller increase in the availability of student financial aid. Aid increased by an average of 6.2 percent in the past year, a rate that is lower than the past several years. At private institutions across the nation aid increased by 7 percent in 2011-2012, 6.8 percent in 2010-2011 and 9 percent in 2009-10.

At Georgetown, financial aid increased by $1.9 million this year, and the university’s board of directors plans to increase aid by $4.7 million in 2013-2014 and $6.5 million in 2015-2016, according to the university’s five year plan.

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the victory, as junior forward Steve Neumann scored in the 82nd minute of regulation to deliver the 1-0 win. It was Georgetown’s third victory in a row and advanced the team to third place in the stacked Big East Blue Division.

“It was a game that put us out of our comfort zone and didn’t give [us] the option to really play soccer,” Wiese said. “You had to compete in a very different kind of way, and as a result, the game was without any rhythm or flow to it.”

That lack of offensive rhythm was evident right from the start for both sides, with the teams combining for four fewer shots in the first half than there’d been in the Hoyas’ last outing against Marquette.

The game quickly became a sloppy one, with conditions preventing the Blue and Gray from stringing passes together and employing the kind of possession-based style that has become their trademark this season.

Georgetown’s four corner kicks represented its best opportunities to get on the board in the opening 45, but the

squad failed to convert, and the halftime whistle blew to a 0-0 scoreboard.

Providence came out of the locker room rejuvenated, however, firing off three shots on goal in the first few minutes that forced sophomore goalkeeper Tomas Gomez into action.

Those wouldn’t be the last bullets Gomez would have to help his team dodge, and because of his side’s dearth of chances, it was critical that the Missouri native come up big between the pipes on Tuesday. Making his thirdstraight start since returning from a shoulder injury, Gomez did just that, recording seven total saves on the day to preserve the clean sheet in a game when his team needed it more than ever. “[Gomez’s] ability to get himself back and available … has just been a remarkable feat on his part,” Wiese said, crediting goalkeeper coach Brian Gill as well as the training staff. “He’s been playing as well as he’s ever played, so maybe he just needed a little bit of a rest there to get him going, but he’s been spectacular the last couple weeks.”

As had been the case in the upset of then-No. 4 Marquette, Gomez’s superb effort in goal on Tuesday — which Wi-

ese called “maybe the best game of his career” — allowed his team to hang around and eventually net the winner.

That decisive goal came off Neumann’s foot, who had skied a couple of earlier chances in the second half. With less than 10 minutes left in the contest, senior midfielder Ian Christianson sent a low cross in toward the six-yard box, and Neumann redirected it home to put the Hoyas up for good.

It was the fifth goal of the season for the reigning Big East offensive player of the week, as well as Neumann’s third in his last three times out. The Hoyas may have only had three shots on goal the entire game, but they made the most of the few opportunities that they’d created to gut out the victory.

“It was one of the hardest games we’ve had to play all year. [Providence is] not as bad as its record,” Wiese said, adding that the film they had watched of the Friars against Marquette suggested they were actually the better team.

“The fact that we were able to come out of there with a win was a real testament to the guys’ ability to find ways to win and do it in ways that maybe we’re not fully comfortable doing.”

After a week’s break, the Blue and

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Senior midfielder Ian Christianson, shown here against Connecticut, assisted senior forward Steve Neumann’s goal against Providence.

Gray will face Seton Hall (6-8, 2-3 Big East). Because of scheduling complications following West Virginia’s departure from the conference, the Hoyas and Pirates will square off in a homeand-home series to close out the season.

“It’s unique, and it’s going to be a challenge for us. It’s hard to beat a good team twice,” Wiese said. “But we’re go-

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ing to approach it like it’s a Champions League scenario … The only difference [in this case] is that tying on the road isn’t necessarily a great thing. We have to get two wins.

First up for Georgetown will be the away fixture in South Orange, N.J., Wednesday. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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Hitting the home stretch of its season, the Georgetown volleyball team (6-14, 0-7 Big East) has two chances to end its 13-game losing streak when it faces Notre Dame and DePaul this weekend as the first half of a four-game homestand.

Despite their frustrating losing streak, the Hoyas have improved their play on both sides of the ball in recent games and have avoided making many of the errors that crippled the team earlier in the season.

That better effort has shown on the scoreboard, as the Blue and Gray has brought its past six games to at least four sets, including a tight fiveset defeat to South Florida last Sunday. More consistent play like the effort against the Bulls will be needed, however, if Georgetown is to claim its first win since Sept. 8.

“We’re playing better for longer spurts,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams

said. “We’re doing things that we need to do to be successful for longer periods of time. As unfortunate as it is to come out with a loss, we’ve played good volleyball.”

In last weekend’s matches against Pittsburgh and South Florida, Georgetown benefited from the improved attacking play of senior middle blocker and team captain Lindsey Wise, who hit .400 against the Panthers and .333 against the Bulls.

“I’ve been working hard on transitions after I block,” Wise said. “I try to get off the net earlier and be available to hit so I can see the block and hit around it.”

Wise believes that the Hoyas’ biggest issue is their inability to close out close matches and thinks that this week’s work on playing in pressure situations will pay dividends.

“In practice, we set the score at 18-18 and work on finishing the last few points of the game because that seems to be where we are less efficient,” Wise said. “We’ve been work-

ing on a lot of things in practice, trying to find ways to earn points and terminate rallies. It’s giving us hope and a lot of encouragement for the next few games.”

Despite its improved play, Georgetown will be hard pressed to record its first Big East win against Notre Dame on Friday. The Fighting Irish (13-6, 6-1 Big East), who sit at third in the conference, boast an experienced lineup led by dangerous right-side hitter Jeni Houser.

Its clash with DePaul (6-14, 1-6 Big East), however — a team with only one Big East win thus far — seems a great opportunity to snatch that win.

“I think we can definitely get a win this weekend,” Wise said.

“We’ve had some really good practices, and we have a good feeling going in. Everyone seems hopeful and ready for a win.”

The Hoyas will face Notre Dame in McDonough Arena at 8 p.m.

Friday, take Saturday off and then meet DePaul at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Fresh out of philly

Holden’s Woes Weigh on America T he United States men’s national team has struggled recently, and despite reaching the Hexagonal — the final stage in World Cup qualifying — there is one key performer whose availability for his country would be a definite game changer.

Scottish-American Stuart Holden, 27, is one of Major League Soccer’s most skillful and dynamic products of recent years, but his career has thus far primarily been defined by a line of injuries that has unfortunately stunted the starlet’s growth by keeping him off the field.

Holden is currently in the final stages of rehabbing cartilage damage from a knee injury suffered in an English Premier League game over a year ago. Formerly a key part of the national team setup, he has not represented the U.S. since being sent on as a late-game substitute against England in the 2010 World Cup, and his presence has been sorely missed.

The former Clemson standout has remained optimistic through months of intensive rehab, stating in a February interview with ESPN, “I think about it, and then, bang, it’s gone, and I’m only looking forward because you can’t change the past.”

Holden’s first career obstruction came just after he signed with the English club Sunderland as a 19-year-old in 2005, when he was attacked outside a local bar.

A fractured eye socket, followed by a training-session ankle injury, ended his time with the club and paved the way for his return to the States.

Holden won back-to-back MLS Cup titles with the Houston Dynamo in 2006 and 2007 and returned to England in 2010, signing a deal with Bolton Wanderers.

As the 2010 World Cup approached, Stuart Holden was playing an integral role in the U.S. attack, lining up alongside

mainstays Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley. In March of that year, Holden took the field for a pre-World Cup friendly against the Netherlands.

What was meant to be just a warm-up match, however, turned into a nightmare.

Dutch midfielder Nigel de Jong, lunging for a loose ball, collided with Holden mid-stride, breaking his fibula and seemingly ending his dream of making the trip to South Africa. Three months later,

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Stuart Holden isn’t too far off, having recently begun light training. against all odds, Holden came on in the dying minutes of a 1-1 tie with England. Though he wouldn’t make another appearance in the competition, Holden’s courage and dedication had prepared him for yet another disastrous blow.

Holden’s great promise when fit was showcased during his 20102011 campaign with Bolton. His contributions mainly came from his ability to make tackles (he finished second in the league in tackles per game), retain possession and move forward up the pitch.

In this sense, Stuart Holden is of a very rare breed. He has an MLS-inspired toughness combined with a classic English football skill set, attributes that resulted in him being named Bolton’s 2010-11 Player

of the Year.

Just as Holden was starting to work his way back into the U.S. side with such strong EPL performances, however, another horrific collision, this time with Manchester United defender Johnny Evans, ended his season. The impact from Evans’ cleat tore Holden’s ACL and left a gash requiring 26 stitches. Even worse, doctors found misplaced cartilage in his knee months later, requiring a whole new set of recovery drills and strength training.

Holden’s story is especially pressing considering the current state of U.S. soccer. Aside from Tim Howard in goal and the DonovanDempsey-Bradley core up the field, nothing is ever certain.

Head Coach Jürgen Klinsmann has often been forced to deploy a defensive-minded, non-creative lineup in the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying this year in order to get the results necessary to advance.

It’s been three years since his last consistent string of appearances for the Americans, but Stuart Holden isn’t too far off, having recently begun light training with Wanderers.

It will still take months for him to regain his endurance, though, as well as a couple hard tackles to wipe away the trepidation that comes with a history of devastating injury. Holden’s competitive fire and in-game adrenaline, on the other hand, have only been strengthened by his misfortune.

“I have a sickly competitive mind,” he told ESPN in February.

Sometimes, the game of soccer is just that — mind over matter.

Stuart Holden has had a lot of time for thinking. The US should hope he has less.

Matt Bell is a freshman in the McDonough School of Business. FRESH OUT OF PHILLY appears every Friday.

No Different Than Men’s

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ick Fedyk’s recent column (“WNBA Fails to Thrill Fans,” Oct. 16, A8) is not a harmless critique of women’s professional basketball. Instead, it demeans women’s forays into the world of sports, especially by arguing that ventures such as the WNBA and espnW were never meant to be successful or taken seriously.

You won’t find me arguing that the WNBA is as popular, or will ever be as popular, as the NBA. But dismissing the livelihoods of 110 dedicated athletes — not to mention the dreams of thousands of young girls — as just a “challenge to the boys” is harsh and incorrect.

These athletes — who just happen to be women — train and play as hard as their male counterparts. They have the same passion for the game as men. Women’s ball-handling skills, footwork, shooting accuracy and knowledge of the game are comparable to those of men.

Sure, there’s a genetic disparity in size and strength that renders women unable to compete with men — but even that barrier seems to be shrinking. Just look at how Baylor star Brittney Griner dunks. NBA Commissioner David Stern has even said that he believes that “it’s a good possibility” that a woman will play in the NBA in the next decade.

Like Fedyk, I prize tradition in sports, so I am skeptical, even wary, of Stern’s prediction. The mere fact that Stern acknowledged this possibility, though, speaks volumes about the progress of women’s basketball.

Other signs of growth in the women’s basketball include five straight years of increased WBNA game attendance, three consecutive years of increased television ratings for regular season games and new sponsorship deals.

In addition to league-wide sponsors such as Boost Mobile, individual teams, including the Washington Mystics, the New York Liberty and the Los Angeles Sparks, have acquired their own sponsors. This consistent progress can hardly be described as “chugging along,” as Fedyk contends.

Though the young WNBA league has struggled financially in the past, Stern told the Los Angeles Times that the “NBA is doing better than breaking even on the WNBA.” I am not an economics major, but that sounds like a solid measure of success.

History does not happen in a season. It is built over time. Likewise, loyalty takes time

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to develop.

Fedyk sarcastically invites readers to tune in to the WNBA Finals if they want to be lulled to sleep. But it is worth remembering that in the 1980s, people used this same rhetoric in reference to professional soccer in the United States when the North American Soccer League collapsed. Major League Soccer as we know it today did not form until 1996, but soccer is now the fastest-growing sport in the country.

The WNBA may never be the NBA — or even the MLS — but it is only fair to give it time to reach it potential.

That the WNBA cannot compete with the NBA for ratings neither relegates the sport to irrelevance nor reduces women’s basketball to some sort of equality stunt.

Women’s basketball is a real sport filled with many a talented woman — Mitt Romney might even say there are binders full of them — but it is a sport that some consider boring because the physicality and size of men’s sports are missing.

Of course, there are others find the NBA tiresome, with its overgrown divas sprinting around too-small courts and flopping like a bunch of European soccer players just to get a charge called.

Team handball, equestrian sports, water polo and archery are all sports not jam packed with manly displays of human strength like the “exciting” sports of football and basketball, and they all garner even less attention and coverage than the WNBA. Yet no one questions their purpose or casts aspersions on the reasons they exist.

Fedyk also takes a narrow-minded approach when he discusses espnW. Instead of considering that ESPN may simply be exploiting a niche in the market for a growing interest in women’s sports that is fueled by the success of numerous American female athletes, he diminishes the work of the espnW journalists by labeling the site “a revolution against the status quo.”

Sports fans are entitled not only to watch any sport they want but also to have their opinions about these sports. Fedyk is right that the WNBA is less exciting than the NBA. But his tasteless “boys always win” generalization is wrong — and a sad reminder of the sexism that still exists in our society, including in the world of sports.

Laura Wagner is a sophomore in the College. She is a member of The Hoya’s editorial board.

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After falling to Delaware in their last outing, the Georgetown swimming and diving teams look to rebound in a meet this Saturday at Towson.

Although the Hoyas lost to the Tigers last year — 156-135 on the men’s side and 171128 for the women — Head Coach Jamie Holder expects a highly contested meet, particularly for Georgetown’s men.

“The meet for the guys is really going to be a close meet. Towson’s girls are very strong,” Holder said. “Obviously, we’re going to put up our best lineup and see what we can do, but the guys’ meet could be pretty close, and it’s going to go back and forth.”

In devising his strategy to secure victory, Holder has focused on freestyle races because Towson is particularly strong in the butterfly.

“The freestyle events … we’ve got to win those,” Holder said. “They’ve got a 100 [butterflier] that right now we haven’t gone faster than, and even in the 1000 and the 200 and the 100, they have guys that are faster than we’ve currently gone.”

Freshman Austin Evenson leads the Blue and Gray in the long-distance freestyle events, as he placed first in both the

1000-yard and 500-yard freestyle against Delaware with times of 9:44.90 and 4:46.86, respectively. However, Towson may be even better in the 1000-yard race, with its top swimmer posting a 9:34.53 in the team’s last meet.

Towson also has an edge in the 200- and 100-yard freestyle events.

Georgetown junior Matthew Mandel finished in 48.51 in the 100 and freshman Cal Rohde posted a 1:44.67 in the 200 against Delaware, while Towson’s top freestylers finished in 47.47 and 1:42.52, respectively, the last time they hit the water.

Although the Hoyas are up against a tough rival, Holder expects to see competitive races across the meet.

“I do think our guys can race and conceivably beat some of their top guys — definitely the 100 fly is going to be a race that they probably will win — but hopefully we can come up with some other wins in the freestyle events to combat that,” Holder said.

In that 100 yard butterfly, Towson freshman Matt McKenney posted an incredible 50.26 in the team’s last meet.

As Holder said, Georgetown’s butterflier, senior Victor Lopez-Cantera, will be hard pressed to challenge McKenney after finishing in 52.21 against Delaware.

The women’s side will

face tougher competition, battling a Towson women’s team that routed William & Mary, 197-95, last week.

The women have their best chance for victory in the 200yard individual medley, the only event they placed more than one swimmer in the top three at Delaware.

In the Delaware meet, junior Lauren Opatrny and sophomore Casey Bandman finished first and third, respectively, with times of 2:11.58 and 2:14.44. However, Towson has two women who broke 2:10.00 against William & Mary.

Freshman Erin Timochenko will look for a repeat in the 100-yard butterfly, which she won at the Delaware in 58.93. However, since two Towson swimmers finished faster than that last week, Timochenko and the rest of the Hoyas will be fighting an uphill battle Saturday.

Despite those likely difficulties, Georgetown has continued its pattern of improvement during Holder’s three-year tenure and looks to do even better at Towson.

“Our distance events are stronger than they were last year, and I think our relays have also improved,” Holder said. “Just overall, we’re a stronger team. We still have a few holes to fill, but we’re definitely going to be better than last year.”

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Seniors Ready for Sendoff SYRACUSE, from A10 The Hoyas will also be up against a strong Syracuse defense. The Blue and Gray, shut out for the first time in 10 contests at Fairfield, will be facing arguably the best goalie in the Big East in senior Leann Stiver.

Syracuse leads the Big East in shutouts — with eight in 14 games — and goals against average.

“To be honest, we have kind of had a week where we have just gotten to have fun and play,” Marsh said. “Today was a more serious practice, saying how we are going to handle cer-

tain situations that they throw at us.”

Although Senior Day was celebrated on Oct. 7 against Cornell in a 3-1 loss, this game will hold special meaning as the last home game for the seniors.

“This is the first time we have had a senior class of a significant number of people,” senior forward Annie Wilson said. “It is special to realize how long we have been together, such a large group of people, and we are able to play again for the last time.”

Wilson, who leads the team in goals, assists and points, is the Hoyas’ major offensive con-

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Senior forward Annie Wilson, shown here against Cornell, leads the Hoyas in goals, assists and points.

tributor and is joined on the roster by nine other seniors.

“This is our last home game but it is not our senior day, which makes it a lot easier to focus on the actual game and the opponent,” Wilson said.

“But I think that everyone is getting a little reflective on not only this season but [over the past] four years and thinking about how we have grown as people and a program in four years.”

Other Georgetown seniors include goalkeeper Briana Pereira, who currently leads the Big East in saves and saves per game, and midfielder Claire Mittermiller, who is among the team leaders in shots and goals.

“I think for seniors, especially, it’s been a long season, but everyone still wants to put it all out there and have a good time” Mittermiller said.

According to Marsh, the last two weeks have been emotional, but today will be particularly nostalgic.

“It is a tough thing when you kind of get to the end.

You do look back on the four years, you’ve put a lot of time into [and] the people around you have become your closest friends,” Marsh said. “I think [the seniors] are just trying to soak it all in right now.”

The Hoyas will take on the Orange at 3 p.m. this afternoon.

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Hoyas Await Tough Tigers Calvin Aubrey

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Sophomore quarterback Stephen Skon (8) will start again at Colgate.

Skon to Lead Georgetown Over Rejuvenated Raiders COLGATE, from A10 said. “We had some really good performances, and that is what you’ve got to look at.”

Despite that positive spin, Georgetown still has many areas of concern to address. Three straight losses — a crushing blowout against Brown and two close defeats to Fordham and Lehigh — have left the Blue and Gray searching for answers.

One issue that has plagued the Hoyas throughout the season has been their red zone offense. Last week, Georgetown converted only one-of-three opportunities inside Lehigh’s 20yard line, an issue on which Kelly focused during this week’s practices.

“We work on [the red zone] every day,” Kelly said. “On, defense we haven’t been playing well down there either. Both units, offense and defense, that’s been a separate segment that we’ve worked on every day in practice.”

Georgetown knows it will have to capitalize on its chances against Colgate, a team that looks much improved after a 5-6 finish last season. “[Colgate] is 3-3, but the three losses have been to scholarship programs,” Kelly said. “We have got our hands full with them.”

Last season the Blue and Gray thrashed the Raiders, 40-17, fueled by Kempf’s solid performance and a ball-hawking defense.

“Last year was a great win for us,” Kelly said.

“We had never beaten Colgate, and we played extremely well in all phases in that football game.”

Without Kempf in Saturday’s contest, Georgetown’s defense will face a heavy burden to come up with a big-time performance. Led by senior linebacker Robert McCabe, the nation’s leading tackler, and senior cornerback Jeremy Moore, the all-time leader in interception return yardage in the Patriot League, the Blue and Gray have a unique ability to shut down opponents while also creating their own scoring chances.

The Raiders, spearheaded by dual-threat

junior quarterback Gavin McCarney, boast a strong rushing attack; Kelly believes slowing down the run will be the key to keeping Colgate off the scoreboard.

“I equate playing [Colgate] to playing an option football team,” Kelly said. “They’re going to try to run the ball first, and then they have big-play capability in their pass game.”

Georgetown’s defense cannot win the game by itself, though, and the team needs an improvement on the offensive side of the ball to come away victorious. The offense is normally led by a two-headed rushing attack: speedy junior Dalen Claytor and bulldozing junior Nick Campanella.

Claytor re-aggravated an old injury to his left shoulder against the Mountain Hawks, forcing him to leave the game. After Claytor’s departure, the Hoyas had trouble moving the ball with their trademark ground game.

Since Claytor is now expected to miss significant time, the pressure has grown for Campanella, Skon and freshman tailback Jo’el Kimpela — a young back in whom Kelly sees promise — to pick up their performance in his absence.

“Dalen’s an excellent back, and when he went down, we lost some productivity,” Kelly said.

“Nick is going to have to pick up the slack, and we also have Jo’el Kimpela, who has gotten a lot of reps this week, and he’s looked extremely good.”

Ending the losing streak will not be easy for the Blue and Gray, but even with all the injury and performance question marks, Kelly sees this game going right down to the wire.

“If you look at all our games, except for Davidson, which was a blowout win for us, and Brown, which we let get away from us a little bit, it seems like every game just comes down to the last drive,” Kelly said.

The Hoyas hope to be able to finish that last drive when they travel to Hamilton, N.Y., for their contest with Colgate on Saturday. Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m.

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McCarthy’s Tactics Reinvent Pitching, Fan Interactions

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Rather than hiding in the clubhouse, givhere are many great stories in this year’s MLB playoffs. From the Yankees’ per- ing cryptic answers to reporters’ questions or severing through the loss of longtime even throwing ice at them as Deion Sanders heroes Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter, to the once did, McCarthy bypassed the media and Cardinals’ repeat bid, there is no shortage of became a pioneer of engaging fans directly excitement. through Twitter.

Amid all that, however, is one story that By showing his true self using social media, hasn’t received enough attention and prob- Oakland’s gem has gained popularity outably won’t, given that the A’s were eliminated side baseball. His Twitter followers include at the hands of the Detroit Tigers. That story many famous comedians, and his honest and is of Oakland pitcher Brandon McCarthy. His straightforward interactions are a model for experience is like none other other athletes to follow. in baseball, and his strategy And when he was faced with and approach will surely be a the ultimate test of being himmodel for the future. self, McCarthy did not disapMcCarthy’s story begins like point. In a horrifying series many professional baseball of events, though, the ace was players’: He tore up the minors struck in the head by a line and then struggled in the madrive and fractured his skull. jors. But the A’s new ace was Despite being unable to pitch not content getting shelled in the postseason as he recuby MLB hitting and instead perated from surgery, McCarsearched for a new approach thy did not use his injury as a — the advanced-statistics-based chance to retreat from the meCorey Blaine tactic popularized in “Moneydia. Instead, he took to Twitter ball” known as sabermetrics. to reassure fans that he was doAs a result, McCarthy develOK while adding humor to Oakland’s gem has ing oped a pitching strategy meant the situation with jokes about to induce ground balls, which gained popularity the hospital and his fractured are much less risky for a pitchskull. outside baseball. er than a fly ball. Retooling Brandon McCarthy represents himself as a pitcher, he added the future of American athletes. a sinker and cutter and relied He recognized that the reason less on his fastball. And just as front offices evaluate players by in the movie, the results were quickly appar- advanced statistics is because they tell the acent. tual story. As a result, he became a pitcher with Given his mid-career transition to the type stellar advanced numbers and is now seeing of pitching they courted, McCarthy was a stronger traditional statistics as well. natural fit for the A’s. In fact, the organization More than just revolutionizing the way had been pursuing him for years. Oakland pitchers and other athletes approach their had wanted McCarthy for a while before actu- sport, McCarthy stands a chance to change ally signing him, realizing he was too highly how they interact with fans as well. priced as a prospect. Instead, the A’s waited Even though his team is out of the playoffs until the hurler was almost out of baseball in and therefore off the national scene, McCar2010 and landed him at a cheap price. thy’s tactics are not going unnoticed in the The once-struggling prospect took off in world of sports. We can expect to see some Oakland with the help of his new pitching copycat athletes very soon. strategy and became a fan favorite. That might have been because McCarthy used sabermet- Corey Blaine is a senior in the McDonough rics not just for pitching but for his public im- School of Business. THE BLEACHER SEATS appears every Friday. age as well.

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THE BLEACHER SEATS Corey Blaine argues that A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy is leading a revolution.

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It’s a tough thing when you kind of get to the end.

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Saves by Georgetown goalie Tomas Gomez in the Hoyas’ 1-0 win over Providence Wednesday

MEN’S SOCCER

GU Notches Third Win In a Row Despite tough conditions, Hoyas beat Friars in conference matchup RYAN BACIC

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Junior forward Kaitlin Brenn (4), shown here against DePaul, is second in the Big East with eight assists on the season.

Wildcats Only Barrier to Big East Tourney ARIK PARNASS Hoya Staff Writer

Heading into its final season game this afternoon, the No. 12 Georgetown women’s soccer team (14-1-2, 8-0-1 Big East) can reflect on a season with precious few mistakes.

The Blue and Gray had only one true slip-up: a 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Stanford in early September. And with 13 clean sheets and a Big East-low 10 goals conceded on the year, the Hoyas seem like they could be poised for a run at the national title.

Head Coach Dave Nolan, though, is refusing to concede that even a place in the tournament is assured, and for good reason.

“Quite frankly, last year, we were left bitterly disappointed by the decisions of the NCAA selection committee,” Nolan said. “So [we’re] really not getting ahead of ourselves in that I feel that we probably need to win every bloody game to get into the NCAA tournament, so that has to be our approach.”

Despite a 15-6-0 record last year, the tournament selection committee left the Blue and Gray out, and redemption has been at the center of the team’s mandate for 2012.

Knowing that one bad loss could have consequences has played a role in Georgetown’s conference domination.

Even though the Big East tournament — for which the Hoyas have already secured a bye to the quarter-

finals — is just around the corner, Nolan’s team is taking its hardworking attitude to Pennsylvania today.

Villanova (6-8-3, 4-4-1 Big East) is fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of the Big East tournament — and will be looking to avenge a 6-0 blowout at North Kehoe Field last October.

“Last year, we kind of got them here in a big game … They didn’t really come to play and we got out on them,” Nolan said. “And I know that’s been mentioned in their locker room a few times this year.”

Another challenge for the Hoyas will be the fact that the Wildcats play with a personality and style that are similar to the Blue and Gray’s.

“They’ve got a good goalkeeper, and they’ve got two strong defensive center [midfielders],” Nolan said. “It’s going to be a tough game — it really will be. They’re a good team.”

Considering Georgetown’s Big East seeding is already locked up, many coaches might send out a diluted lineup to rest star players, but

CORBOZ LEADS CONFERENCE Through Friday, Georgetown sophomore Daphne Corboz leads the Big East in three key statistical categories:

77 SHOTS 38 POINTS 16 GOALS

considering what happened at the end of the Hoyas’ season last year, Nolan is taking no chances.

“It’s too important of a game. We want to try and keep momentum going,” Nolan said. “We need to win. I don’t want to put anything in the hands of the NCAA selection committee. I want it to be beyond doubt, where they would have to be even more insane than they were last year to leave us out.”

That means the Wildcats will see plenty of Georgetown’s star sophomore midfielder, Daphne Corboz.

She scored two of the team’s six goals in last year’s contest and currently ranks seventh in the nation with 2.24 goals per game and has 38 points — 16 goals and six assists — on the year.

Even going beyond the traditional rivalry between the two schools, Friday’s game holds special significance for many of the players on both sides.

“Many of the kids at Villanova are kids we had recruited, and many of the kids here are kids who Villanova had recruited,” Nolan said. “So I feel it’s going to be a very difficult game.”

If they can overcome that difficulty, Georgetown also has a shot at finishing with the best record in either Big East division. To do so, the Hoyas will have to hope that South Florida springs an upset on Marquette.

Kickoff in Villanova, Pa., is set for 3 p.m.

Last Wednesday, with just three games remaining in the regular season, the No. 6 men’s soccer team (13-2-1, 4-2-0 Big East) knew that a win at Providence (3-8-2, 1-4-0 Big East) could prove essential to its conference title aspirations.

That would have to come in spite of the Friars’ pitch, which Head Coach Brian Wiese said was one of the worst in the country on which to play. Before the game, Wiese talked to his players before the game about the need to approach it like the U.S. national team did in its recent game in Antigua. “[I told them,] ‘We don’t want to use the field as an excuse for why we don’t get a result,” Wiese said. “’We want to make sure the game was going to be won or lost because we were going to make some plays or they were going to make some plays, and that was it.’”

And just as the U.S. had done five days prior, the Hoyas came through with a late, dramatic goal against the Friars to seal See PROVIDENCE, A8

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Senior Robert McCabe (4) leads the defense with 99 tackles.

Hoyas Focus Georgetown Aims for Upset Over Syracuse On Colgate, Costly Errors FIELD HOCKEY

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Senior midfielder Claire Mittermiller, shown here against Cornell, has scored five points this season, including two goals and one assist.

The Georgetown field hockey team (2-14, 0-4 Big East) will take on No. 3 Syracuse (13-1, 4-0 Big East) today at 3 p.m. in College Park, Md., in its last home game of the year.

With three games left in the regular season, the Hoyas still have the opportunity to surpass their three-win total from last year. Upsetting the Orange at home would be a thrilling but unlikely way to earn their first conference win and third win overall.

“We have seen the level of play,” Head Coach Tiffany Marsh said.

“We know what to expect in terms of the level of hockey we are going to be facing and I think that when we are playing these types of opponents we have to look at it as an opportunity.”

The Hoyas, dismantled, 6-0, at Fairfield on Sunday, are mired in

a 10-game losing streak. Syracuse, coming off a 4-1 victory over No. 13 Stanford, has defeated the Blue and Gray each of the last four years, including an 11-1 trouncing in upstate New York last year.

“It doesn’t make a lot of sense to change things up dramatically just because we are playing a different team,” Marsh said. “It will throw us off our game. We just need to do what we do well and do it well during the game.”

Georgetown will have a lot on its hands with the potent Orange offense, led by forward Alyssa Manley. The freshman is one of eight Syracuse players named to the Big East Honor Roll this year. The Hoyas will also have to slow down senior forward Kelsey Millman, who is near the top in conference standings for points, goals and assists.

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Fresh off an unnerving defeat against No. 7 Lehigh last Saturday, the Georgetown football team (3-4, 0-2 Patriot League) has an opportunity to rebound and pick up its first conference win this weekend at Colgate (3-3, 1-0 Patriot League).

Sophomore quarterback Stephen Skon, who has steadily improved since taking over starting duties, will once again lead the Hoyas, given the uncertain status of senior Isaiah Kempf and junior Aaron Aiken.

Though Skon limited himself to just a single turnover against the Mountain Hawks — and the Hoyas’ defense forced seven — the Blue and Gray still dropped a 17-14 heartbreaker.

“We played the [then] No. 10 football team to 17-14 and we had a chance to tie it up at the end,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly See COLGATE, A9