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STANDOUT STAYS

Sophomore defender Josh Yaro turns down the MLS to remain at Georgetown.

SPORTS, A12

COMMENTARY In Paris and at Georgetown, the right to satire must be defended.

OLYMPIC BID Washington, D.C., lost its bid to be the U.S. entry to host the 2024 Games.

GUTS OVERHAUL The university added 16 new, redesigned buses to its GUTS fleet.

NEWS, A4

OPINION, A3

NEWS, A5

Icy Paths Endanger Students

SFS, MSB Partner for Major, Fellowship

Kristen FEDOR

Toby Hung

Hoya Staff Writer

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Several students reported icy conditions around campus, causing accidents on the sidewalks late Sunday night and early Monday morning. The university announced a delayed opening and the option for liberal leave on Monday.

Andrew Walker (SFS ’16) said the area outside of Lauinger Library was especially treacherous around 1 a.m.

Monday morning. Other students and security guards were worried about the walkway and a Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service ambulance was nearby attending to a case.

“Someone had just come in after giving up [on] getting out of Lau because the brick patch in front of it was just covered in a sheet of ice that you could barely see. If he hadn’t stopped us, [my friend and I] would have had no idea that it was there and we both would have slipped and it was brutal,” Walker said. “I was really lucky that someone explained to us how bad this was.”

Sydney Brooks (COL ’18) described similar conditions near the front gates as she walked off campus on her way to Saxbys Coffee Monday morning.

“It looked like it was just slush, but

The McDonough School of Business and the School of Foreign Service have launched a pilot version of the Global Business Fellows program and a global business major, which both begin this semester.

The programs were announced Dec. 3 in an email sent to all SFS and MSB sophomores.

The joint venture between the two schools includes the recently announced global business major offered to only SFS students. The second component of the partnership, the fellows program, is open to members of the Class of 2017 in both the MSB and the SFS, and will provide participants with a certificate in Global Business.

The joint application for both

With global business, SFS adds eighth major

“The brick patch in front of [Lau] was covered in a sheet of ice.”

ANDREW WALKER (SFS ’16)

it turns out there was ice underneath,” she said. “The path there could have been salted or something so the ice would melt quicker.”

The D.C. Council passed a bill in November to issue fines of $25 to people and $150 to businesses that did not clear snow from their property within eight hours. Additionally, if injuries occur on private property, defendants may be able to recover the cost of their medical bills from the owners of the property.

While GERMS responses remain confidential, Captain Brian Monahan (COL ’15) said they received several weatherrelated calls in the past days, adding that the roads or sidewalks that have not been shovelled or salted within GERMS boundaries are mainly off-campus in West Georgetown or Burleith.

“This is a normal occurrence that happens whenever sidewalks are wet or icy,” Monahan wrote in an email. “If we start to see trends in the data with See WEATHER, A6

the fellowship and the major was released Jan. 5. After writing a 250-word interest essay and providing academic records in an application due last Friday, applicants were notified of their acceptances Jan. 9 midway into the class add/drop period that ends Jan. 17. While the pilot fellowship program admitted 12 students from each of the two schools, the program is expected to admit 15 from each school beginning next year. The SFS Dean’s office did not indicate how many students were accepted to the major program, but some students were accepted to both the major and the fellowship.

Both the program and the major were designed to combine political and economic coursework from the SFS with a foundation in business education from the MSB. The major program requires 10 courses, which include statistics classes, a business core, an international business core and supporting courses from both the SFS and MSB. Once accepted, students

Global Business Major Requirements 1 Statistics (Econ 121, Math 040, IPOL 320 or OPIM 173) 4 Business Core (all four required):

Principles of Marketing

Accounting I

Accounting II

Business Financial Management 1 International Business Core:

National Interests & Global Business

Outsourcing, Offshoring and Services Trade

Business Operations in Emerging Countries

IBD/Bus/Gov’t/Global Economy

Globalization Challenges for Developed Countries 3 SFS Supporting Courses 1 MSB Supporting Course Source: bsfs.georgetown.edu

received one of four major advisers to help them select courses.

The fellowship, which requires a GPA of at least a 3.3 and six semesters of a language, includes an economics core, an international business core and an additional

Lucy Prout

Hoya Staff Writer

Transgender teen Leelah Alcorn’s suicide sparked the support of transgender activists and community members, who gathered at the Justice for Leelah Alcorn Rally and March, organized by students from area colleges in Mount Vernon Square on Saturday.

Seventeen-year-old Alcorn committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic on an interstate freeway outside of Cincinnati on

Dec. 28. She left behind a suicide note on her Tumblr page, calling upon individuals to fix the society that drove her to end her life.

“My death needs to mean something,” Alcorn’s message read.

The rally was organized by 20 activists, including Kel Eder (COL ’16), who heard about the event from a friend and became involved with the group, which primarily consisted of students from American University.

“We didn’t have to decide

that it was something we needed to do. We had already seen the horrible effects of not doing so,” Eder said.

The event drew over 300 participants. After gathering on the steps of Carnegie Library in Mt. Vernon Square, the demonstrators marched to the steps of the Justice Department and read a list of demands, including a federal ban on the provision of conversion therapy to minors and insurance coverage for tranSee ALCORN, A6 FILE PHOTO: ALEXANDER BROWN/THE HOYA

President DeGioia was the 15th highest-paid university executive in 2012.

$400K Bonus Goes To GSP Charlotte Allen Hoya Staff Writer

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Area college students organized a march and rally in Mount Vernon Square to draw attention to problems faced by the transgender community, following teenager Leelah Alcorn’s suicide.

website.

“This is one of relatively few collective pieces of literature explorAn anthology featuring an essay ing a variety of issues in madness

by Lydia Brown (COL ’15), a student and disability in very radical ways activist for disability rights, will that have not frequently been be used as coursework in a new brought together in conversation,” Brown said.

Brown’s essay, “Disability in an Ablelist World,” the first essay Onder assigned her class from the anthology, aims to move beyond the dichotomy between the models of disability as both a medical condition and as a social construct, arguing instead that disability is both biologically embodied and cultural constructed.

“As much as disability is a lived reality in people’s bodies, it is also equally, or just as much, social and cultural,” Brown said.

Caitlin Wood, the anthology’s editor, said that she knew she wanted to include Brown’s work when she was planning “CripCOURTESY LYDIA BROWN tiques.”

An essay by disability rights activist Lydia Brown (COL ’15) is on the “She’s just so brilliant and Hoya Staff Writer

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Rallying for Trans Rights

Student Essay Featured in Disability Course Suzanne Monyak

capstone Global Residency Course.

Students in the fellowship are also provided with a fellowship adviser through the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy.

anthropology course called “Disability and Culture,” taught by Professor Sylvia Onder. The anthology, titled “Criptiques,” is a collection of works by disabled writers, “exploring the provocative sides of disability,” according to the publication’s

syllabus for new anthropology course “Disability and Culture.”

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very much on my wavelength politically,” Wood wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I have tremendous respect for her and her work. I love her chapter in ‘Criptiques,’ ‘Disability in an Ableist World’ because it lays out the basics of ableism and gives historical context to what that really means. It was imperative to me to include discussions of ableism in ‘Criptiques’ and Lydia just nailed it. I was honored to have her in the book.”

Onder also praised Lydia’s essay as being well-suited for a university audience.

“Lydia writes in the way that a reader in a university reads. She knows who the audience is,” Onder said.

Additionally, Brown’s position as both an activist for and a member of the disabled community allows her to offer a unique voice to the discussion, according to Onder.

“Because she’s such an advocate from an insider position, that’s a See CRIPTIQUES, A6

University President John J. DeGioia received a salary bonus of $400,000 from the Board of Directors in 2012, making him the 15th highest-paid private university executive in the United States that year. However, DeGioia donated the entirety of the one-time bonus to the 1789 Scholarship Imperative.

According to the most recent rankings released by The Chronicle of Higher Education, this salary hike, which came a little over 10 years after DeGioia took office in July 2001, took him from the 60th rank in 2011 to the 15th spot.

“DeGioia’s compensation in 2012 reflected a onetime increase.”

Stacy Kerr University Spokesperson

DeGioia’s total compensation was calculated at $1,292,786, while his compensation in 2011 fell at $875,317.

“President DeGioia’s compensation in 2012 reflected a one-time increase from a $400,000 bonus awarded him by the university’s board, in recognition of his performance over his first 10 years in office,” university spokesperson Stacy Kerr said in a statement to The Hoya.

Because DeGioia voluntarily froze his salary during the 2008 financial crisis, Kerr predicted that his place in future See BONUS, A6

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OPINION

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TUESDAY, January 13, 2015

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Bowser’s Open Frontier While most Georgetown students were likely enjoying the comfort and homecooked meals that accompany winter break, Washington, D.C., welcomed a new mayor with cautious optimism.

D.C. Councilmember Muriel Bowser (DWard 4), who unseated incumbent Mayor Vincent Gray in April’s Democratic primary before defeating at-large Councilmember David Catania in November’s general election, took office Jan. 2.

Bowser, D.C.’s first female mayor in nearly 20 years, promised to unite a city where economic divisions could not be starker.

Her campaign emphasized a focus on “all eight wards.” While this is certainly a worthwhile goal, Bowser should seek to approach D.C.’s issues realistically in the first months of her administration. Focusing on continued improvements to D.C.’s public school system and ensuring the District has a transportation system that serves all residents should rank among her top priorities.

But, perhaps more important than focusing on the bread-and-butter issues of education and transportation, Bowser should not forget her vow to restore citizens’ trust in their local government. In a campaign where ethics was a key issue,

Bowser continually committed herself to being a different kind of mayor — one that will not fall into the regrettable pattern of corruption that has plagued D.C. in the past. As she begins her administration, Bowser should not forget her promise to clean up city government.

A new mayoral administration provides another opportunity for students to gain an ally and supporter in the mayor’s office. While issues surrounding D.C.’s institutions of higher education were not a hot topic in last year’s mayoral campaign, this administration should make a concerted effort to harness the power of its colleges and universities for social good. The Georgetown community should seek to establish a solid and mutually beneficial relationship with the mayor’s office. With negotiations for the 2017 Campus Plan on the horizon, it is especially appropriate in this moment to establish our position as a force of good in the community.

There is always an air of optimism surrounding a new mayoral administration, and given the nature of Bowser’s campaign, this time should be no different.

But, a focus on substance, not just flash, is going to be the critical ingredient in the Bowser administration’s ultimate success.

GUTS’ New Direction The Georgetown University Transportation System will introduce 16 new buses into its fleet this month. According to the Office of Transportation Management, the replacements feature enhancements to safety, sustainability, the comfort of passengers and route identification.

These changes include increased cameras for driving safety, integrated bike racks and improved fuel efficiency. Additionally, the new buses represent a collaborative effort between the university and students, as a contest elicited the new design of the exterior.

But while the buses should help the more than 2 million passengers that use the GUTS buses on an annual basis, these changes do not necessarily address longstanding student complaints in regard to the current transportation system.

For instance, students have cited a desire to add a route from campus to the U.S. Capitol complex to accommodate

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Metro Smoke — More than 84 were transported to the hospital yesterday night after the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station filled with smoke after official orders for the passengers to remain where they were.

Empty Campuses — Recent reports have shown that enrollment has dropped in more than half of the Virginia-area’s public colleges and universities.

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the students who have internships on Capitol Hill. While the new fleet shows the Office of Transportation Management looks to work with students to improve their experience, it is possible that some of the new fleet, or old buses, could be used to test a route to the Capitol.

Similarly, a larger number of buses may be used to increase service to Dupont Circle and other high-traffic areas over the weekend. Although these are among students’ favorite locations, especially on the weekend, the Dupont GUTS bus currently does not run on Sundays and its service on Saturday ends at 6:15p.m., restricting nightlife for many students to the confines of Georgetown.

While it is important to applaud the updates and improvements, it is equally important to consistently consider opportunities to connect students more effectively with the greater Washington, D.C. area and the resources it offers.

This week on

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Alumnus Tom Bianco (GSB ’77) reflects on a lifetime spend getting older and the rewards of a long-awaited settling down:

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How old is old anyway? To me, old is anyone that is

fifteen years older than I am. But then again, I remember asking my Grandmother who she was rooming with during a Hospital stay. Her answer, “Some old lady,” who by the way was ten years her junior! Maybe old is anyone but us.”

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pus printers to this system and exploring whether this technology is applicable to other existing GOCard services, including access to university residences and buildings.

Many Georgetown students have experienced the ensuing anxiety when they have discovered that they’ve forgotten their GOCard and are unable to use university printers in the moments a class assignment is due.

Because students are less likely to forget their phones, a mobile GOCard system seems more in tune with student needs in relation to accessibility and efficiency, especially regarding the increasing popularity of administrative services switching to online mediums and formats.

Georgetown would do well to quickly move the program past the pilot stage so that students can continue to take advantage of the new platform in the year to come.

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It seems impossible that someone could take such an

important movement against racism and intolerance and warp it into a gross justification for committing a heinous act of terror.

The murders of Ramos and Liu had nothing to do with Eric Garner, Mike Brown, the protesters or the failings of political leaders as some on TV would have you believe. Rather, it was the act of a sick individual who took a movement and mutated it to fit his own interests.

As I have reflected on what happened over the past week, I have found myself thinking hard about those who have blamed New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for what happened, or those who have protested the actions of the police officers that are sworn to protect them.”

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The university announced that its partnership with Usher, the technology firm that piloted a mobile GOCard to incoming freshmen and transfer students this fall, will extend its service to all undergraduates beginning this past December in an attempt to gauge interest as well as how it might function on a larger scale.

The app allows students to make payments and access Georgetown-related sites such as Box and Google Apps on a mobile platform. For a generation that thrives on having a plurality of services at its fingertips and a population of students reliant on smartphones, the mobile GOCard offers a more efficient way for students to access the services provided to them by their physical GOCards.

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OPINION

Tuesday, january 13, 2015

THE DEAN’S DESK

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EIGHTEEN WEEKS

Lessons from the Edge of A Cliff F

Chester Gillis

Liberal Arts Lay a Flexible Groundwork I

n a period where some question the value of the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences, we in the College Dean’s office want to share our perspective. We write from years (and in many cases decades) of experience advising, teaching and mentoring students. We recognize that our reflections arise from our Georgetown experience and thus may not be applicable to other institutions. We further realize that our experience should not bind us and prevent us from being open to a change. Ultimately, we seek to preserve what is valuable in our tradition and to embrace innovation that will enhance learning.

Students come to the College to be educated at the university level. Many apply to Georgetown College because they want to study a particular discipline or prepare for a specific career field. For example, pre-med students self-identify in the application process and begin their pursuit of medical school prerequisites in their first year. However, most College applicants arrive as undeclared, with two years to select a major or majors. All College students — as well as those from SFS, MSB and NHS — participate in a core curriculum that includes courses in a range of disciplines.

The College curriculum supports a broad approach to learning that allows for intellectual exploration.

So, what does a liberal education provide, and why is it important? It ensures breadth and provides for specialization. The breadth teaches students to read critically, to write well, to make sophisticated and persuasive arguments, to conduct research, to communicate orally, to listen effectively and to think widely. The broad curriculum therefore fosters and encourages those competencies we believe every college graduate should possess.

The specialization through the major provides depth in a field, a fundamental expertise in a discipline and a foundation from which one

We seek to preserve what is valuable in our tradition and to embrace innovation that will enhance learning. may go on to explore further.

But, do the liberal arts prepare one for a career? The answer is a resounding yes. The nuance is that such an education — with a few exceptions — does not prepare one for a specific career. Accounting majors typically prepare for a job in accounting or finance. English, Arabic or history majors do not necessarily prepare for a career in these disciplines (although they may, of course, choose to apply to graduate school in these disciplines). However, the skills one acquires in the study of history, English and Arabic (and other College majors) prepare one for a career in a range of professions and for more than one possible career. Students leaving college today should expect their education to position them for multiple jobs and likely more than one career over a lifetime.

A major does not define one’s career path.

One only need survey Georgetown College alumni for evidence: Brian Kelly (CAS ’76) (economics) is editor of U.S. News & World Report, Peter Blommer (CAS ’85) (government) is COO of Blommer Chocolate, Aline O’Connor (CAS ’77) (English) is a consultant on seed-system development at Agri Experience Ltd., Norah O’Donnell (COL ’95) (philosophy) anchors “CBS This Morning.” A first job is not a career and one should not confuse the two. Very few will end their careers in the same professional space in which they began them.

Does the College welcome innovation?

Again, the answer is a resounding yes. A majority of the Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning grants for curricular innovation went to College faculty. We applaud and support their efforts to innovate in the classroom and to experiment with online delivery of course content. In the past five years, the College has initiated new minors, majors and concentrations, including a business minor with MSB, film and media studies, education, justice and peace, journalism, biology of global health, biological physics, philosophy and bioethics and Korean. The College supports 13 interdisciplinary programs, ranging from women’s and gender studies to comparative literature and Catholic studies.

We of the College Dean’s Office hope to provide insights into how we see the liberal arts at Georgetown and what we believe this education can and should accomplish — something that drives many of our decisions as deans. As deans in the College, my colleagues and I discuss a range of topics from how the College evaluates online summer courses, to real world alumni experiences and handling information overload in today’s society. These discussions are part of our attempt to help change the narrative about the liberal arts today.

Chester Gillis is the dean of Georgetown College. The Dean’s Desk will appear periodically throughout the semester.

ull disclosure: we cried on Jan. 7. We cried in part because we cry fairly often and were overdue, but mostly because we know that Wednesday, Jan. 7 was our last first day of class. The ritual established for us in August of 1998 has now come to an end.

Of course, the last first day of classes is just one of many “lasts” that we, along with the rest of the Class of 2015, experience during our march to the finish line. The inevitable tears shed are a symptom of the sorrow and mild terror that we — and that we suspect many seniors — have felt for the entirety of this academic year.

These feelings are anything but new or unique. The fears of graduating seniors are as old as the university itself, and frankly, it has become cliche to talk about the anxieties that come with graduation. The thing about fear and anxiety, though, is that this knowledge does not make them go away — even the knowledge that you are going through a rite of passage that so many others have breached does not make it any easier, dear underclassmen. It still feels like jumping off a great cliff.

On May 16, the Class of 2015 will lose their jobs. Yes, we are all going to be briefly unemployed until the lucky ones (or the unlucky ones?) start up their fancy gigs at McKinsey or Goldman Sachs. Unless we immediately continue on to law school, medical school or another graduate program, we are going to lose the only profession we have ever had; and with that a major part of our identities — that of being a student.

No matter where we go, we will lose the distinction of being undergraduates at Georgetown.

One of the most important lessons that Georgetown has taught us, though, is to embrace this disconcerting truth.

It has taught us to find comfort

The fears of graduating seniors are as old as the university itself, and it has become cliche to talk about the anxieties that come with it. in the uncomfortable, how to revel in our struggles. We are not to ignore the melancholy, nostalgia or even great anxiety and depression that this trial brings, but to face these emotions head-on.

Facing situations that produce those feelings allows for a slow building of growth. Little by little those anxiety-filled trials produce something invalu-

able — a subtle and quiet confidence that lies at the heart of uncertainty. While we are both freaking out because our postgraduate lives feel exceptionally uncertain, we still maintain an underlying sense of calm that brings us back to sanity.

And while we will not be at Georgetown, we know that we will land somewhere and will learn to adapt to that dis-

VIEWPOINT • Luther

Je Suis Charlie, Je Suis The Heckler

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few months ago, within the Georgetown Heckler, we debated the merits of retaining pseudonyms as we updated our website. I mentally conjured the image of a frustrated Todd Olson attempting to find the NetID of Ed Nonymous, Devyn or Ian Cognito and wondered what was the worst that could happen if we drew university ire.

Last week, something much worse than the punishments I had envisioned took place in Paris.

In a story that dominated international headlines, 12 individuals were killed at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by gunmen who were allegedly upset about the publication’s repeated depiction of the Prophet Muhammad and mockery of Islam in its issues.

While most students at this university come from a background where freedom of expression is an unthreatened right, the shooting was a grim reminder that this right has not always been existent nor is its future guaranteed.

On social media and in demonstrations around the world there has been an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, but the question looms about how we ought to move forward as the demonstrations end and the “Je suis Charlie” images disappear from our news feeds.

I fear more that freedom of expression will be withered away not by enraged fundamentalists or an authoritative government but by self-censorship from the citizens themselves who, with the purest of intentions, seek not to anger or offend.

We should not seek to erase or silence opinions with which we disagree or to which we take offense. We owe it to ourselves and to society to engage in public discourse.

As summarized by Greg Lukianoff of FIRE, an organization that tracks free speech rights on college campuses, in a recent Washington Post article: “People all over the globe are coming to expect emotional and intellectual comfort as though it were a right.”

At Georgetown, surrounded by perhaps the most diverse array of peers, faculty and speakers we will ever encounter in our lives, we have the opportunity to strengthen our capacity to think critically and explore ourselves and society.

Recently, it seems as though our only collective reaction to controversial opin-

ions is a knee-jerk move to erase them from memory and permanently silence those behind it. From some of the ugliest ideas and statements, we have the opportunity to create some of the healthiest discourse.

If society has no response to opinions it disagrees with other than de facto censorship, we risk losing the ability to intellectually challenge or consider any idea — repugnant or not.

We risk robbing the marketplace of ideas of its only currency.

Silence, self-imposed or otherwise, benefits no one.

If you go to the gym only to lift weights you feel perfectly comfortable with, then you are wasting your time. If we only surround ourselves with opinions we feel comfortable with, then our collective intellectual muscle will wither.

I have long been fascinated by satire.

I believe it is a step above any art form in the way it cuts right to the heart of an issue.

It can unveil the ugliest aspects of reality and make you laugh at the same time. It can point out the truth in such a way that you have no option but to smirk at its absurdity and yet understand its basis in reality. On campus, even I’ll admit I was surprised with how quickly the Heckler caught on.

Perhaps satire has risen in our generation so profoundly because we have seen the credibility of mainstream news sources such as Fox News and CNN falter, biased either toward a political ideology or sensationalizing.

Whatever the origins of satire’s ascension, I sincerely hope you do not agree with everything we write. In fact, I hope some of the things we publish make you uncomfortable. If that never happens then I do not feel as though I have properly done my job.

True, sometimes we do just Photoshop the university president’s face onto absurd things, but the Heckler exists to help foster a campus-wide conversation on issues that touch part of all Hoyas lives, through satire.

I was pleased at how people have rallied around the slogan “Je suis Charlie,” but, if we wish to honor those 12 lives senselessly lost last week, we must make sure that we continue to exercise our right to self-expression beyond only engaging with ideas in our comfort zone.

Our reaction to controversial opinions is too often a knee-jerk move to erase them from memory.

Joe Luther is a junior in the College. He is the editor-in-chief of The Georgetown Heckler.

comfort just like we learned to adapt to previous challenges and trials. We have done this before and we can do it again.

We both have gone through the ringer at Georgetown, mentally, emotionally, academically and spiritually and we are both still standing.

The Class of 2015 is approaching the edge of a cliff called graduation, but all of us approach innumerable cliffs in our lives and especially during our time at Georgetown (if you have not yet approached your cliffside, don’t you worry, it’s coming).

From our individual and collective experiences we have learned that we need to embrace this cliff, pitch a tent and camp out for a while (feel all of the feels) because when it comes to cliffs, the truth is that they are important to learn how to face.

At Georgetown, we are asked to face many cliffs. We are put in those uncomfortable situations, sometimes from the moment we step foot on campus.

However, after we graduate, we must choose to put ourselves on the edge of a cliff — choose to go for the promotion, to apply to the fellowship, to form new committed relationships, to stretch ourselves in unfamiliar ways. What’s more, we will only voluntarily place ourselves on these ledges because we have that quiet inner confidence built up from past trials.

Our educational experiences challenge us and prime us for future endeavors, but these challenges are ones we must choose to engage. And each time we do engage, each time we lean out on a cliff’s edge fully and courageously, and acknowledge the humanity of our emotions, it becomes that much easier to jump.

Kendall Ciesemier and Camille Squires are seniors in the College.

Eighteen Weeks will appear periodically throughout the semester.

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A Distant Massacre Hits Close to Home

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must confess that I have never been to Peshawar, the oldest inhabited city in South Asia. I’ve spent most of my life roughly 800 miles south of the historic city that recently suffered a massacre of 145 people, most of them schoolchildren.

But I have friends whose families come from that region; I have had the privilege to witness the hospitality and kindness for which they are known.

In light of the recent attack, I have also seen their resilience as they cope with s h o c k and loss. I embraced one of these friends at a vigil in Red Square, her body shaking like the flickering tapers of candles all around us.

I have never been to Peshawar; not many people who attended the vigil have. But when children are murdered in cold blood, spatial considerations and national identities are irrelevant. Such grief knows no boundaries. It does not pledge allegiance to proximity. It floods our being with a sense of irredeemable loss, the fragility of life, and the shame that comes with the realization that these were our children and we failed to protect them.

This realization first materialized as a black square of mourning: a friend’s profile picture on Facebook. It was the morning before my last final exam; I was frantically going through genetics flashcards with the computer in front of me when the black square appeared on my newsfeed, and I instantly knew something horrible had happened. Suddenly, #PeshawarAttack was trending.

I put the flashcards away and stared at the death toll, the digits like a slap in the face.

Just then I knew how terribly lucky I was. I almost felt a kind of survivor’s guilt; I had most of my schooling in Pakistan, and I conceivably could have been one of those 132 children.

I scoffed at our petty preoccu-

pation with grades and GPAs when children such as these struggle in the face of death itself. With these brutal epiphanies pouring in, it didn’t make sense to study anymore.

I shoved the flashcards into my desk drawer and wept quietly.

At moments like these it dawns on us how desensitized we have become to the violence that humans can inflict on one other. Consider the suffering of 16-yearold Shar u k h K h a n , one of the survivors of the attack: the militants shot him in both legs and he had to play dead to survive, shoving his folded necktie into the back of his mouth to keep himself from screaming.

Consider the suffering of ninth-grader Dawood Ibrahim, who overslept due to a faulty alarm clock: his entire class was killed and he attended funerals for six of his classmates in one day.

Consider the suffering of two boys whose mother, Farhat Jafri, a teacher at the school, was dead before they got a chance to say goodbye.

The word “terrorism” gets thrown around a lot, but one does not know true terror unless one experiences it firsthand. And yet, this was the closest I have and hopefully will ever come to experiencing terror: the black squares, the images of children playing dead, the recognition that something so mundane as a defective alarm clock may be the dividing line between life and death.

But among terror, guilt and grief, we must make space for hope. Even though the Taliban have promised more attacks on children if the government does not stop its operations against them, we must hope.

We must hope that we can create a safe world and a safe future for our children. Without hope there is nothing.

With our grief came shame that these were our children and we failed to protect them.

Bassam Sidiki is a junior in the College.

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Washington, D.C., lost its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, with the U.S. Olympic Committee’s announcement last Thursday that it had instead selected Boston to represent the country.

Despite D.C.’s unsuccessful bid, Washington 2024 Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis, majority owner of the Wizards, Capitals, Mystics and Verizon Center, argued that the movement was a positive force in the city.

“Through this endeavor, we saw once again that Washington is home to proud sports fans of all ages and from all walks of life,” Leonsis said in a statement. “I have no doubt that the shared enthusiasm and passion for sports will continue to drive economic growth and opportunities for our community.”

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser echoed Leonsis’ sentiments about the city’s efforts in organizing the Olympic bid.

“I am proud of how the District and the region presented,” Bowser said in a statement. “I want to thank the talented and hardworking Washingtonians whose efforts got us to the short list of American cities.”

Despite the lost bid, Bowser also acknowledged that the city needs to continue to address issues that were brought up during the bid process.

“We must build on the tremendous regional and federal cooperation embodied in the D.C. 2024 Olympic bid, in focusing on the big issues facing our region — transportation, affordable housing and expanding job opportunities for residents in the District of Columbia,” Bowser said.

Although disappointed, Washington 2024 Chairman and CEO Russ Ramsey said he does not regret the D.C. campaign.

“It was an honor to work with dozens of leaders from across the Capitol Region to envision how the Olympic Games would advance the goals of this community,” Ramsey said in a statement posted to the D.C. 2024 Twitter page.

In addition to Boston and D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles were finalists for the U.S. bid.

The district’s proposal highlighted the city’s role in the international community, as well as its many train and airport hubs.

“We are at the crossroads of the world,” reads D.C. 2024’s website.

“Home to international institutions, established destinations, transportation hubs and world-class accommodations.”

Because the 2012 London Games were credited with revitalizing the economy in the city’s poorer areas,

D.C. Olympic supporters had hoped the games would benefit poorer areas in the District, including Wards 7 and 8. For example, they aimed to build the Olympic Village at Hill East, the current site of a homeless shelter.

Additionally, the committee looked to construct new venues for the games, considering an aquatics center in Arlington, the main Olympic Stadium on the site of RFK Stadium and a tennis facility east of the Anacostia River. Events such as badminton, gymnastics and weightlifting would have taken place at the pre-existing Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Prince George’s County, Md. As the majority of new venues that were being considered existed in or near the Capital Beltway, with a special focus on proximity to D.C. Metro stations, no particular plans were specified near the Georgetown area.

Organizers envisioned a total operations budget between $4 billion and $5 billion. In 2012, London had set itself a budget of $4.4 billion but went on to spend nearly $20 billion.

Because of the high expected cost of hosting the games, the proposal drew trepidation from prominent city officials, including D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. Brian Flahaven, commissioner to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in Capitol Hill, also criticized the proposal for insufficiently engaging the community.

“We need an opportunity to learn more about your plans and to ask you questions,” Flahaven wrote in a letter to Ramsey in November. “Washington 2024’s Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis said that D.C. would host the ‘most transparent’ games in history. It is in this spirit that we send this invitation.”

Though organizations in Boston similarly protested the potentially prohibitive cost of the Olympics, the ultimately successful bid stressed the strength of the city’s public transit system, which could handle the massive influx of tourists. In contrast to the D.C. proposal, Boston emphasized the area’s universities, envisioning turning college campuses into areas for athlete housing and events, since the games would take place when the city’s thousands of college students are away. Suffolk Construction Company CEO John Fish, head of the group behind the city’s bid, said college facilities would account for three-quarters of the venues for the Olympics.

Boston will compete against Rome, a yet-to-be-named city in Germany and possibly Paris or a city in South Africa.

The IOC is expected to determine the 2024 finalists in the spring of 2016 and elect a host city in September 2017. The U.S. has not hosted a Summer Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta.

Timothy Shriver, chairman of the board of directors of the Special Olympics, shared reflections on his new book, “Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most,” and his love of community service for others Thursday evening in Riggs Library.

Shriver is a social leader, educator, activist, film producer and business entrepreneur. After a long career as an educator, Shriver became president and CEO of Special Olympics in 1996, leading a national movement that promotes the inclusion and respect for people with intellectual disabilities.

Special Olympics organizes more than 70,000 competitions per year, serving more than 4.4 million families in over 170 countries.

Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs Senior Fellow at the Paul Elie moderated the event, and University President John J. DeGioia introduced Shriver.

“Tonight’s conversation will gain unique insight into Tim’s book, as our two guests explore how our spiritual and religious lives sustain and enrich our imaginations, our sense of purpose and how faith shapes and is even shaped by the work we do in our daily lives,” DeGioia said.

Shriver first interacted with mentally disabled children his own age at Camp Shriver, the summer camp founded by Shriver’s mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, at their Maryland home. Shriver’s mother was passionate about combatting the stigma surrounding intellectual disability due to the trauma of seeing her own sister Rosemary, who suffered from intellectual disabilities, continuously rejected by society.

In part Shriver wanted to tell his story because he said he felt like people misunderstood his work.

“People would say, ‘Oh you’re involved in Special Olympics, that’s so nice, that’s so sweet what you do for those people … you must be a Catholic,’” Shriver said. “In some ways it was humiliating to hear all that. It was well-intentioned, those ideas, but it was so disparaging of the athletes and the experience I was having. The experience I was having was cracking my heart open, my mind open. It was challenging me to rethink everything.”

Shriver said that he believes the world is now shifting to become more understanding of those with disabilities.

“I do feel like we are at a point in time as a culture where we are trying to get out of the old models of social justice that emphasize moral imperatives, ethical responsibility, guilt, duty, transactional relationships and into ones that are much more rooted

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Chairman of the board of directors of the Special Olympics Timothy Shriver (right) reflects on his experiences with serving the disabled. in human equality,” Shriver said.

After college, Shriver was consumed by questions about the source of pain in the world and what his role was in combating that pain. During this time Shriver found comfort in his faith, focusing on self-emptying silent prayer. Through reflection Shriver came to a realization that he had to discover God living within himself.

“I really thought my job was to become like other people,” Shriver said.

“It never occurred to me until then that my mission was to be me.”

Shriver started to ask if he was educating his heart as much as his mind and found that his heart was being educated through Special Olympics.

“It occurred to me, I’m getting schooled in the heart,” Shriver said.

“I’m finding different ways in which power and joy emerge, different ways of identifying suffering, different ways of feeling solidarity with people.

This is amazing.”

Shriver said he experienced that gift of joy in gyms across the country where Special Olympics events took place.

“It’s as though you have crossed a fear barrier, the judgment is removed,” Shriver said. “It’s all of a sudden like someone has pulled back the veil and said, ‘This is the place where we play without judgment; we keep score, but not to evaluate; we win and lose without any degradation of the opponent; no one is knocked down.’”

Shriver also spoke about the darker side of intellectual disability. He told stories about health screenings among the athletes, which revealed that up to 50 percent of the athletes screened randomly have the wrong glasses or no glasses because they are not thought of as mattering enough to see well.

“The athletes of Special Olympics come from a place of enormous vulnerability, dependence, trust, openness and discrimination,” Shriver said. “They have experienced the most vicious forms of cultural and social discrimination that exist in the world today, most of it unnoticed. They know something of the pain of exclusion. And yet once invited into an environment in which the context is not judgmental they are almost invariably, passionately welcoming, which is an extraordinary irony.”

Shriver said “Fully Alive” is not a book about Special Olympics; it is a book about what the athletes taught him. He said he hopes silence and service are the two lessons that will be taken away from the discussion, adding that the only way to find yourself is to give yourself away.

Hannah Collins (COL ’18) attended the event and said she was touched by the talk.

“People have been telling me a lot lately, similar to what [Shriver] said — that you have to learn to love yourself in order to love everyone and everything unconditionally — so I feel like that’s being reinforced here,” Collins said.

Georgetown Student Athlete Advisory Committee Special Olympics Co-Coordinator Sophia Gargicevich Martins de Almeida (COL ’15) said she wished for more involvement from the Georgetown community.

“Right now it’s a small group of people that [are involved in the Special Olympics] here, but I hope that Georgetown can utilize everything they have a little bit more efficiently in the future … it’s exciting to see there are other people interested,” Gargicevich Martins de Almeida said.

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The Office of Facilities Management announced the addition of 16 new GUTS buses to the university’s current fleet. The buses feature a student-made and student-chosen design that incorporates silhouettes of Georgetown and D.C.

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Sixteen new buses will be added to the Georgetown University Transportation System fleet this year, the first major upgrade to the bus service in nearly a decade, according to Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey.

Six of the new buses are scheduled to go into service Jan. 20 while the remaining 10 buses will be deployed throughout the next few months. As the new buses go into service, the current buses will gradually be retired.

“The existing GUTS fleet is 10 plus years old, so it’s just time,” Morey said. “When you have a fleet that’s that old, you want to modernize it. And that was the driving impetus because from an economical perspective we were spending a lot of resources repairing the buses.”

As of 2009, the GUTS fleet included 29 buses. Although Morey said that the old buses will be sold for their residual value, the university did not yet announce which vehicles would compose the remainder of the GUTS fleet.

The new buses will feature multiple improvements including front, back and onboard cameras; easier to read signage identifying the bus route; bike racks; and fuel efficiency that is nearly twice that of the current buses.

The updated buses will also incorporate exterior artwork from graphic design student Olivia Duff (COL ’16). The artwork will distinctly brand the vehicles as being a part of Georgetown’s fleet, allowing commuters to more easily identify the GUTS buses.

The artwork was produced as part of a competition in professor L. Collier Hyams’ Intro to Graphic Design class, in which more than 100

designs were submitted by students. Those in top management at facilities voted on their favorite designs from the 100 and a short list of 10 options was sent to the student body for a campus-wide vote last spring, according to Meredith Cheney (COL ’16) who oversaw the voting process.

“It kind of happened organically,” Meredith said of the design collaboration. “I was in professor Hyams’ design class last spring. He normally has an art car project, and he works with a local BMW dealer, but this year that fell through. So the GUTS Buses were a prime opportunity to do what he did with art cars, but he just did it with buses instead.”

Duff’s winning design features a silhouette of the Georgetown campus skyline connected by the Key Bridge to a silhouette of the Capitol and Washington Monument.

“I wanted my design to instantly be recognizable as a Georgetown bus, so I used the university’s official colors and font,” Duff wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I liked the idea of Georgetown being a part of D.C., so I incorporated recognizable silhouettes of Healy, the Key Bridge, the Washington Monument. ... We are so lucky to be in this amazing city, and the GUTS bus gives us the opportunity to more fully explore it.”

Cheney said that she hopes to see more collaboration between the university and students for art projects.

“To be quite honest, I believe this is how it should be because students have the ideas and the administration, faculty and staff are the institutional bodies on campus,” Cheney said. “And so bridging those is great. … I would love to see this collaboration happen more often.”

Georgetown faculty, staff and students take more than 2 million passenger trips annually with the GUTS fleet, according to Vice Presi-

dent Morey. To put that number in perspective, the two Circulator routes that service Georgetown average about 2.7 million rides a year. The Circulator is run by the District Department of Transportation.

Faculty and staff are the main users of the GUTS Bus, followed by MedStar employees, graduate students and then undergraduate students.

“From an overall sustainability perspective, running an effective transportation system is critical to our operations,” Morey said.

Scott Syroka (COL ’16), who commutes to Dupont Circle every day using the GUTS Bus, said that he approves of the updates to the fleet.

“I certainly think anything more fuel efficient and better for the environment is a win,” Syroka said. “[The new buses] look more modern than what they were before and having increased fuel efficiency is good. Especially being a university where we have Jesuit values, [we should] take care of the earth that God’s provided us, so I think lessening emissions is one way to do that.”

The new buses are only the first of a number of updates to the GUTS Bus service that will occur in the near future. In October a new GUTS Bus turnaround in front of McDonough Arena will open, allowing for a centralized location for loading and unloading GUTS Buses on campus. Currently buses pick up and drop off at multiple locations.

Construction on the turnaround will begin in March and will include a renovation to the campus’ Canal Road entrance.

Once the new GUTS Bus fleet is completely phased in, a blessing of the new buses will take place in Healy Circle at an undetermined date in the future, according to Cheney.

University Information Services opened its third service desk on the third floor of Lauinger Library last Wednesday after a three-month pilot program. The walk-up desk will be the third of its kind, joining a walk up desk in St. Mary’s Hall and a 24-hour call-in desk.

The desk will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

“The added walk-up service option that we’re putting in Lauinger for students, faculty and staff will be helpful in providing them the service they need,” Lisa Davis, chief information officer, said. “Our UIS service desk re[solves] technical support for all issues.”

The service desk will be able to address most student needs regarding university technology issues. However, students will have to call the 24-hour help desk for password reset due to privacy concerns.

According to Jennifer Smith, Coordinator of Communications, Outreach and Programming at Lauinger, library staff and Information Services had been working together during the implementation of h.print last year. Because various issues with the software arose during the implementation of that program, library staff requested an increased UIS presence.

“Because it was such a big transition, we decided together that it would be helpful to have UIS on the ground here,” Smith said. “That’s when they set up the pilot.”

In addition, Davis explained that multiple technological issues were being reported to the Lauinger circulation desk, which is unequipped to deal with them.

“A lot of these issues were being escalated to the Lauinger reference desk,” Davis said.

“We had continual service issues with printer support to restock the paper, paper jams [and] assisting students with basic printing questions.”

The pilot system, which lasted three months, allowed

UIS to determine if a new location would prove useful for the university community. According to Davis, the program tested the demand for the desk as well as the student response.

“Within two days the Lauinger staff reported to us that they had already seen a significant reduction in the number of technology questions,” Davis said of the pilot. “That was already a positive outcome.”

Davis said that the desk received about 688 requests for help during that three-month span, which was a larger number than UIS expected. Due to the high volume, the need for the desk was confirmed.

“We felt that number justified a need to put in a walk-up service desk,” Davis said.

Other than the addition of a few outlets next to the service desk, there are no extra costs that will be incurred by the university, Davis said. One student working at the St. Mary’s location was reassigned to the Lauinger desk but Davis did not indicate how many other students are currently employed at the desk alongside the transferred student.

According to Smith, the partnership between UIS and Lauinger has gone well for the past three months.

“We’re very happy to have them here,” Smith said. “We’re all about providing the best service possible, and having them here makes it easier to provide service, particularly for printing.”

Davis said she is eager to work more frequently and closely with Lauinger staff in the future.

“What we always strive to do is improve our customer service,” Davis said. “[At Lauinger] we are meeting [students’ and faculties’] needs and providing the best service that we can.”

Aditya Pande (SFS ’18) was supportive of the decision to add the new desk to the library.

“This makes it really convenient now when I’m in the library to have some place to go to fix my computer problems,” Pande said. “There hasn’t been a technology help center that has been as convenient as this one.”

gEORGETOWN rEPRESENTED IN NEW CONGRESS The 114th Congress began its session Jan. 6 by swearing in new senators and representatives, including four Georgetown University alums. On the whole, 21 alums of the university, including 14 from Georgetown University Law Center, will serve as members of Congress in the upcoming term, a number second only to Harvard University. Both minority whips, Richard Durbin (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) in the Senate and Steny Hoyer (LAW ’66) in the House, attended Georgetown.

New members

Dan Sullivan

Barbara Comstock

Ted Lieu

Deborah Dingell

Law ’93, MSFS ’93 Senate R-Alaska

LAW ’94 House D-California

LAW ’86 HOUSE R-Virginia

SFS ’75, GRD ’94 House D-MiChigan

15 Democrats 6 Republicans 21 Alumni in Congress 14 Law School Alumni 2 Minority Whips

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Activists for transgender rights marched from Mt. Vernon Square to the Department of Justice on Saturday to commemorate the legacy of teenager Leelah Alcorn, who committed suicide in December.

Rally Invokes Alcorn’s Legacy ALCORN, from A1 sitioning, and a formal statement from Alcorn’s church. Along the way, the march paused to construct a memorial in front of the headquarters of the Family Research Council, a conservative group that advocates in favor of conversion therapy.

“Her note was more than just a description of a girl who was driven to feel like life was so helpless that she couldn’t live on. Her suicide note was a plea. It was a call to action, begging us to come out here and to fix society, to make her death mean something.

And that’s why we are out here,” American University master’s student Jes Grobman, who helped organize the rally, said in her introductory remarks.

Eder was impressed by the rally’s passion but did not expect the government to meet the demands with specific attention.

“It was amazing for me to see all of that support, and people were being so loud and dedicated. There was a lot of energy,” Eder said. “I think it was as much of a success as we could have hoped. I don’t know that we really will get any of our demands because society still doesn’t seem to think that trans people are very important. Eventually, maybe, but I think that we helped.”

GUSA Undersecretary of LGBTQ Affairs Lexi Dever attended the march as well and called for attention to the issue beyond the particular suicide of Alcorn.

“The death of trans people is an epidemic, essentially ... which is a result of systematic oppression in society.

This is simply another situation, and for some reason, this one suicide has gotten more attention than the other hundreds that happen every year,” Dever said. “We want to show that this is an important issue that people should care about and that we don’t want anymore trans suicides or homicides to happen.”

Other speakers included Reverend Wendy Moen of First Trinity Lutheran Church and Lourdes Ashley Hunter, a transgender woman and the cofounder of the Trans Women of Color Collective.

Hunter drew attention to the 12 transgender women of color murdered in the United States in 2014 and asked the crowd to question the country’s indifference to transgender rights.

“The same thing that killed Leelah is killing all of us. My liberation depends on your liberation. In 2014, in Ohio, the epicenter of violence against transgender women of color face, we are dying and what are you doing?” Hunter said.

As they discussed issues including the murder of transgender women

of color and parenting a transgender child, the speakers drew cries and support from the crowd, often stopping to chant “Not one more” and “It is our duty to fight, it is our duty to win.”

“I think it is really time that our society came together and realize that this is not just an issue for some of us but for all of us and that we need to band together and make sure that this bigotry is eliminated,” rally attendee Heather Benno, an LGBTQ activist and coalition organizer for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, said.

GU Pride Media Manager and Historian Campbell James (SFS ’17) explained that Georgetown students had a role to play in improving the environment for transgender students on campus.

“What we as Georgetown students can do to help counter the high rates of trans suicide is to make sure that we are supportive of our friends, family and fellow students who may identify as trans by making sure we use appropriate language choices and by allowing these individuals to feel comfortable being themselves,” James said.

D.C. Trans Power will organize advocates and allies again in a Community Building Evening at Lamont Street Collective on Friday at 7 p.m. to discuss further ways to achieve transgender justice.

SFS Introduces Business Major PILOT, from A1 MSB professor Ricardo Ernst, who helped to develop the fellows program, noted that the program marks the first collaborative effort between the two schools.

“For the first time in the history of Georgetown, you’re bridging and getting two schools to join forces to come up with a common program,” Ernst said. “The [fellows] are going to be trained to deal with problems that are common in global business.”

According to Ernst, the fellows program will offer its participants access to courses in both schools, so as to promote interdisciplinary learning.

“To make Georgetown a university where one of our core competencies is to understand the global reality, what a better thing to do than to join forces with the school that deals with trade and the elements of business, with the school that understands the elements of geopolitical tensions, negotiation and diplomacy?” Ernst said.

Ernst said that the combination of courses from the two schools would benefit the fellows.

“I am a deep believer that the mindset of an SFS student is different than the mindset of a MSB student,” Ernst said. “So there’s a lot to be learned when you put that subset of the SFS in a class in the MSB. There’s a lot of learning by combining that kind of experience.”

Likewise, SFS Associate Dean and Director of the Undergraduate Program Mitch Kaneda stressed the importance of studying global, political and economic contexts in learning about business operations.

“We would like to nurture the next generation of global business leaders who are conscious about not just the business side, but also the social implications of business — business leaders who understand cultural and religious differences across global societies,” Kaneda said.

Sophia Yang (SFS ’17) was accepted into both the major and the fellowship and said that she is excited to fuse her interests under one pro-

gram.

“I’m really just excited because I’d always wanted to get some more hard skills for my future just in general because I feel like what my goal in life is to figure out where and how to invest money to enact the most positive and impactful social change,” Yang said. “So I think to even start to be able to understand that to enact positive social change, I have to be able to understand how money works and how businesses work.”

Despite her excitement, Yang said that the late acceptance notification, which fell midway into the add-drop period, made class selections difficult and stressful. “[Before I was notified], I wouldn’t have known if I would have been able to take certain classes I had been going to,” Yang said. “For example, Accounting 101 — I wasn’t even sure if I would get the major, but at the info session they told us they only were selecting 15 students.”

Chris Hedley (SFS ’17) was accepted into the global business major, and said that it provided an excellent synthesis of his interests.

“I was deciding between the MSB and the SFS for which to apply to, and I ultimately chose the SFS because I thought that the curriculum was broader, and I figured that I had the rest of my life to study business, so why not study the international community while I could,” Hedley said. “I always wanted to take these classes my friends in the MSB were taking — accounting courses, finance courses — and when I realized that there was a way to do that through the global business major, which I found out about like a month ago, I was incredibly excited.”

In addition to the academic requirements, the program will also offer opportunities for professional development to its fellows.

“We are planning to have visits to multilateral organizations as a group — World Bank, IMF, embassies, Congress,” Ernst said. “We will work directly with companies and sell them as the fellows. … Hopefully companies and the rest of the world will start recognizing what’s going

on there.”

However, SFS professor Ted Moran, who helped to develop the program, said that fellows will be prepared for careers outside of the private sector.

“A lot of our graduates, even now, don’t necessarily go into business.

They may go into NGOs, like Transparency International, or various kinds of development organizations,” Moran said. “It’s not just a narrow business path. There’s a broader context in terms of the social, political, economic in which business takes place.”

MSB Senior Associate Dean Norean Sharpe said that while the development stage of the program began two years ago, there had been much talk to create a joint program between the schools for many years.

“The development of this program has taken years of effort on the parts of multiple faculty and administrators at both McDonough and the SFS. It is a groundbreaking and ambitious project,” Sharpe wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to Moran, the program has received funding of approximately $10 million, from private donors.

They plan to continue to raise funds from donations over the course of the year.

“We are hoping and planning that this is going to make a big contribution to Georgetown. It’s going to be a vehicle for us to raise funding,” Moran said. “Ten million dollars is the minimum. We’re actually shooting closer to $20 million. The whole campus will benefit.”

Era Qian (MSB ’17), who was accepted into the fellows program, said that she was attracted to the program’s emphasis on integrating international affairs with business.

“I think business and international affairs can be complementary,” Qian said. “Many students like me might have found difficulty in deciding which direction to go. Now, this integrated curriculum provides us a great opportunity to embrace both disciplines and thrive in them.”

Hoya Staff Writer Katherine Richardson contributed reporting.

regards to ice-related incidents I will follow up with the university to attempt to alleviate the problem.”

On Sunday, specifically, Associate Vice President for Risk Management Joseph Yohe said the university was only officially notified of two incidents of students slipping on ice, both of which took place off campus. With regard to student accidents and liability concerns, the Planning and Facilities Management Office has protocol for evaluating the responsibility of the university.

“Each incident resulting in injury has a unique set of facts and circumstances, and the University evaluates each incident individually,” Yohe wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Yohe further explained in such cases of inclement weather, campus leaders review conditions, looking at reports from the National Weather Service, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management, among others, and then act accordingly.

“The decision to have a 10 a.m. delayed arrival and the option of liberal leave was based on the best weather predictions and the safety interests of the Georgetown community,” Yohe wrote. “We wanted to provide our students, faculty,

staff and visitors with as much advance notice as possible that the weather conditions could adversely impact the campus and the rush hour commute.”

Moving forward, Yohe did not anticipate any changes in university protocol for closings or delayed openings.

Despite the accidents near campus and the continued icy conditions, Monahan praised the university’s response to inclement weather.

“As someone who has lived in the Northeast my entire life, I would say the university has done a very good job especially this past week dealing with the ice and snow. All university roads and sidewalks that I have seen on campus have been plowed and salted,” he wrote.

During times of inclement weather, GERMS takes extra steps to remain open and attentive to calls.

“We often consolidate the entire crew to remain in our office which helps cut down on response times when the ambulance needs to drive slowly when responding to calls,” Monahan wrote. “If there is significant snow on the ground we have the ability to put tire chains on the ambulances to help with driving.

We also make sure there is an experienced driver who has had multiple hours of experience driving the ambulance during these times.”

Hoya Staff Writer Katherine Richardson contributed reporting.

After $400k Bonus, DeGioia 15th in Pay BONUS, from A1 rankings would be similar to his 60th place in 2011. DeGioia’s rankings over the past eight years have peaked at 38th in 2008 and reached their low at 66th in 2005.

“We expect that when the rankings for the 2013 year are released, President DeGioia will return to the place he has historically occupied,” Kerr wrote.

After DeGioia, who graduated from the College in 1979, received the bonus, he and his wife Theresa (CAS ’89) established an endowed 1789 Scholarship fund in honor of their 35th and 25th graduation anniversaries, respectively, in fall 2013. DeGioia had not previously made public his donation to the fund, and a scholarship in his name does not appear on the 1789 Scholarship website.

“While grateful for it, President DeGioia had not asked for the bonus and donated it to Georgetown’s 1789 Scholarship Imperative, which supports undergraduate financial aid at the university,” Kerr said.

The fund was used to support financial aid for students in need for the first time in the 2014-2015 school year. Other donors to the 1789 fund include Fr. Otto Hentz, S.J., board of directors Chair Paul Tagliabue, PNC Bank and Goldman Sachs.

“The [DeGioia] fund was active this year for the first time, and its income supported three scholarships as part of Georgetown’s meet-full-need financial aid program,” Vice President for Advancement R. Bartley Moore (SFS ’87) wrote in an email to The Hoya.

The Chronicle ranks university presidents based on total compensation, not just base pay. This value includes salary in addition to benefits, housing, insurance and retirement payments. As a result, DeGioia’s 2012 base pay — which rested at $534,803 — accounted for only 41.4 percent of his total compensation, added to $153,241 of nontaxable benefits and $204,742 of other pay.

Though DeGioia, the first layperson to serve as president of Georgetown, is the highest-paid president of a Roman Catholic university, presidents of peer institutions generally have higher levels of total compensation. While Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania each compensate their presidents over $2 million, Northwestern University and Duke University, along with most of the other schools in the Ivy League, provide compensation north of $1 million. The outlier in the current rankings was Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, who was compensated over $7.4 million.

Disability Activist Publishes Essay CRIPTIQUES, from A1 voice that anthropologists are very interested in hearing, someone that’s from the group speaking about the group,” Onder said.

Wood also emphasized the need for including voices from the disabled community when writing about topics related to disability.

“Often when we hear or read something about disability it’s from a non-disabled person’s perspective, not from someone actually experiencing it. That’s a big problem,” Wood wrote in an email. “The slogan of the disability rights movement is ‘nothing about us without us,’ and I saw an anthology of all-disabled writers as a huge opportunity to exemplify that. Also I wanted to include people who aren’t necessarily involved in academia but deserve to be published because they have something to say.”

Brown explained that the anthology aims to delve into topics that are less discussed, such as disability, in conjunction with sexuality and what it means to experience racism while disabled, citing the higher rates of police violence against individuals who are disabled and black.

“And that’s not a conversation

that really is had either in black communities or in disability communities, and black disabled activists have pointed this out repeatedly,” Brown said.

Brown stressed the importance of asking these kinds of questions in order to fully address and combat ableism, or prejudice or discrimination against people with disabilities.

“What are these other more probing questions that make people uncomfortable, even within the disability community, but that we have to talk about and we have to address if we truly want to undo ableism,” Brown said.

Wood praised the anthology for its relevance to Georgetown students and for its authenticity.

“I think everyone should read it but there are themes that would certainly appeal to college students: sexuality, body image, identity, self worth, challenging the status quo and mainstream culture. There’s just so much in there. It’s not the treacly “inspirational” disability representation that you see on TV. It’s the real deal,” Wood wrote.

“Criptiques” can be purchased at the Georgetown University Campus Bookstore as well as on criptiques.com.

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Aramark Considers Permanent Meal Swipe Program Toby Hung

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Following December’s trial run of the meal exchange program at Hoya Court, Aramark is evaluating the business implications of implementing a full-scale program in the future.

After months of planning by Auxiliary Services and Aramark, a trial run was held in early December, allowing students to use their meal swipes at Elevation Burger, Subway and Salad Creations at Hoya Court from Dec. 8 to Dec. 13.

Aramark Marketing Manager Adam Solloway said that the pilot program was well received by students.

“Overall, the meal exchange pilot was positively received. There were some ups and downs for us and for students, but most students who participated in the pilot seemed to be happy,” Solloway wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to Solloway, Aramark observed that the staff at Hoya Court were quick to adapt to the sudden influx of customers.

“There was a significant increase in business that was unusual for the team at that time of the day,” Sol-

loway wrote. “The Hoya Court team was very dedicated and executed the pilot program successfully in what was unchartered territory.”

Solloway said he could not provide specific details about the cost of the program or the revenue made from the pilot program.

“We are analyzing the business impact from the pilot,” Solloway wrote. “There are many financial and operational logistics that need to be factored into implementing any meal exchange program.”

In particular, he cited various problems from the pilot program that need to be rectified such as accounting for service speed.

“There is a significant financial impact that needs to be mitigated in order to successfully implement the program. It is also important to keep in mind that there are thousands of non-meal plan customers on campus, making the speed of service and operational capacity aspects challenging to resolve,” Solloway wrote.

GUSA Secretary for Dining and Auxiliary Services Nicolette Brownstein (SFS ’17) has worked with Auxiliary Services to create a permanent program, agreed that while a fullscale meal exchange program is de-

sirable, there are several issues that must first be resolved.

“It’s something that we all want to happen. It’s something that I think the auxiliary and dining people really want to happen,” Brownstein said. “They are very receptive to and interested in [the program] personally.”

Although students can currently exchange meals at the on-campus Einstein Bros., after a student initiative spearheaded by GUSA in 2013 approved the meal exchange at the bagel stores, students are excited by the potential for more options.

Ken Nunnenkamp (MSB ’16) echoed Brownstein’s interest in implementing the program in the future.

“I think that’d be awesome. I don’t have a meal plan as a junior, but I would buy a meal plan for that,” Nunnenkamp said.

However, Adam Shinbrot (COL ’18) said that Aramark should make certain adjustments for the full-scale program.

“I think they would definitely need to restructure certain things, but it’s definitely manageable,” Shinbrot said. “I also think they should expand the options. It shouldn’t be just a six-inch sub. That was absurd.”

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After a successful pilot program in December, Aramark is considering installing a permanent Hoya Court meal exchange.

Car Exchange Garners 300 Sign Ups Businesswomen Discuss

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Car2Go provides Smart cars to members, who may drive them around the D.C. area and drop them off in a different location. Over 300 university community members have already signed up for the program.

Andrew Wallender Hoya Staff Writer

More than 300 Georgetown University students, faculty and staff have signed up for car-sharing service Car2Go through the university’s new partnership, which was launched in early December, according to Car2Go Communications Manager Adrianne Andang.

Car2Go is a car-sharing service that allows members to rent Smart cars by the hour in locations across Washington. As part of the partnership, four permanent Car2Go parking spaces were established on campus near Village C and in Lot G behind North Kehoe Field.

So far, the Car2Go spaces on campus have seen heavy usage with about 125 trips a day occurring to and from campus, according to Andang.

Georgetown is already partnered with Zipcar, a bythe-hour car rental company that has eight cars permanently located on campus as well as hundreds of vehicles throughout the district. But unlike Zipcar, Car2Go does not require users to return cars to the same location they originated.

Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services Joelle Wiese wrote in an email to the hoya that the new Car2Go partnership will not affect on the university’s offering of Zipcars. “[W]e are proud to offer both options for the community,” Wiese wrote. “Both companies are great groups to partner with and offer different programs for members.”

Car2Go was originally introduced to the district in 2012 with a fleet of 200 cars but has since grown to 500 cars.

“D.C. has been hugely successful since launch with over 44,000 members, who have shared access to 500 vehicles within a 53 square mile Home Area,” Andang wrote in an email to the hoya. “D.C. has the third highest Car2Go membership base and the third largest Home Area in the U.S.” Though Car2Go offers the ease of renting without a reservation, the service is limited by the size of its

Smart cars. For students who rely on carrying more than two occupants or large baggage, Zipcar may remain the only feasible by-the-hour car rental option on campus.

Wiese wrote that Car2Go would do its best to ensure that cars are always on campus since trips do not need to be round-trip but did not indicate how the company would do so.

As part of the partnership, the regular $35 sign up fee is waived for students. Cars can be rented for 31 cents per minute or $14.99 an hour not including tax.

Gas and insurance are included in the rental price.

Car2Go will also be providing scholarship funds to Georgetown through the partnership. Wiese did not disclose the exact amount of the funding, but in a campus-wide email sent Dec. 2, Wiese wrote that the money would be distributed by Auxiliary Services and the GU Office of Sustainability.

“This transportation option not only offers simplicity and flexibility for our students, but sustainability as well,” Wiese wrote in the campus-wide email.

Kristin Green (SFS ’18), who is already a Zipcar member, said that she plans to sign up for Car2Go because of its flexibility.

“I think it’s great. I think the problem with ZipCar is the fact that you have to return the car to the same place you found it,” Green said. “That’s really frustrating. There have been a lot of times where I’ve wanted to use a Zipcar for a road trip or some kind of journey where I might take the train back or an alternate form of transportation.”

Ryan Wolfe (COL ’18), another Zipcar member, said that he does not plan on utilizing the new Car2Go program because of its costs and limitations.

“What I like about Zipcar is that it’s flexible with what kind of vehicle you can get,” Wolfe said. “And if you need the car for a couple of hours, it’s still not that expensive, whereas with this car, if you’re going to use it for more than a half-hour, it’s going to start being kind of expensive. And because it’s only a Smart car it’s not very flexible as far as where you can go.”

Georgetown’s Women in Leadership Initiative and the Georgetown chapter of the Financial Management Association hosted a panel and networking event Thursday in the Rafik B. Hariri Building about women and their roles in the financial sector, specifically on Wall Street.

The panel, which was moderated by professor Lynn Doran from the McDonough School of Business, has been planned and moderated by Doran for the past five years. Many of the panelists were Georgetown alumni, with representatives from various investment banks including Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Blackrock, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and UBS. Doran said that she placed a high importance on featuring Georgetown alumni among the panelists.

“I think our students can better relate to the panelists since they were once students at Georgetown themselves,” Doran wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It is also important for our students to see how accomplished and successful these women have been. It allows students to imagine their own similar success in the financial world.”

The first section of the panel, which was split into two parts, focused on internship and job applications. Four panelists spoke, and each was introduced by a female Georgetown student who had either participated in an internship for the firm the panelist represented and had accepted a job after graduation, or had an internship lined up with the firm for the coming year.

Many of the women spoke about their personal experiences applying for their jobs and internships, as well as their experiences sifting through resumes and cover letters when hiring for their firms now.

The panelists spoke about the importance of researching the company for which one is applying, memorizing and polishing one’s resume, and taking advantage of the vast number of networking and recruiting opportunities available on campus.

The second panel, titled “Tips for Success in Your Internship or Job,” featured six panelists who gave insight into achieving success in their fields.

The panelists emphasized the importance of confidence, proactive networking and asking questions at one’s job.

Though the event was entitled “Women on Wall Street,” speakers emphasized that a woman’s experience working in the financial sector is not much different from that of a man.

In one exchange, Doran asked the

panel what specific skill sets women need in order to be successful on Wall Street.

“They are exactly the same as men,” Meghan O’Connor (MSB ‘07) of Citibank said.

Karin Ross (MSB ’04) of JP Morgan Chase followed up to argue that women are more skilled than men in some aspects of their jobs in the financial sector.

“One of the questions for this panel we have gotten to think about was, ‘Are there any challenges you think women face being on Wall Street?’ My response to that question was going to be I actually think it’s a huge advantage,” Ross said.

Ross added that as women typically connect better on a personal level with people, they also build better relationships with clients.

She called on the women in the audience to use this skill to succeed in their financial jobs in the future.

After the panel, the audience moved to the Fisher Colloquium in the McDonough School of Business for a networking reception with the panelists.

According to Doran, the reception was a way for interested firms to meet with current Georgetown students.

“The firms heavily recruit our students and, in most cases, Georgetown is one of only a handful of core schools targeted by the firms,” Doran said.

Doran attributed Georgetown students’ academic and extracurricular involvement to their success in finding jobs in investment banking.

“There are several characteristics our business students tend to have that are valued by the firms,” Doran said. “In addition to the required academic excellence, Georgetown’s business students tend to be wellrounded, active in campus activities, have leadership experience and possess an ethical underpinning that is valued on Wall Street.”

Misty Li (MSB ’17) attended the panel and said she appreciated that the panelists were Georgetown alumni.

“The fact that the majority of the panelists were Georgetown alum made them that much more relatable,” Li said. “Hearing them speak about how their experiences at Georgetown prepared them for the professional world was reassuring.”

Li also said that she was inspired by the women in the panel who excelled in their careers.

“You always hear about how Wall Street and finance in general is a male-dominated industry,” Li said.

“However, as a woman who is interested in finance, I attended this event to see the path that women who were once in my shoes have taken to end up at their current positions.”

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GUMC Researchers Honored Club Covers Cost of Cups

To Control Contamination Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

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GUMC researchers Anatoly Dritschilo (left) and Richard Schlegel received recognition from the National Academy of Inventors for their work on cancer research and the HPV vaccine.

Deirdre Collins Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University Medical Center researchers Anatoly Dritschilo and Richard Schlegel were named 2014 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, recognizing their respective work with cancer treatment and the vaccine for the human papillomavirus.

The NAI recognizes distinguished inventors from over 150 prestigious research universities, as well as governmental and nonprofit research organizations, highlighting inventions “that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society,” according to a press release from the organization.

GUMC Executive Vice President of Health Science and School of Medicine Executive Dean Howard Federoff commended the two Georgetown researchers for their accomplishment.

“The academy’s recognition of these two fine scientists is an excellent choice,” he said. “Dr. Schlegel and Dr. Dritschilo represent the forward-thinking scientists that Georgetown has been so successful at recruiting and retaining. Their vision is inspiring.”

Dritschilo, chair of radiation medicine at the GUMC and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, was recognized for his discoveries of molecular targets

and drugs for cancer radiation sensitization, for which he has acquired several patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

“It’s always exciting to have recognition for the value of the work that you’ve been doing, and recognition by others. This fellowship award certainly provides that,” Dritschilo said. “I will continue working on the research I’m doing. This doesn’t change our motivation or goals.”

Dritschilo’s most recent research focuses on a new category of drugs that are being investigated for various applications of treating cancers. His newest work involves taking these drugs and developing them to effectively improve cancer patients’ outcomes after therapy.

“For the past 10 years, I’ve been working on drugs that sensitize cancer cells to radiation.

There are several patents that the university owns that I was a co-inventor on,” he said.

Dritschilo, who has worked at the Georgetown University Medical Center since 1979, has focused his research on prostate cancer treatment and overcoming cancer cell resistance to radiation therapy. Dritschilo spearheaded the radiation biology research program at GUMC that has received over $30 million in funding in the last 30 years from the National Institutes of Health and Industry.

Schlegel, the Oscar B. Hunter Chair of Pathology at GUMC and fellow member of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, was commended for his expertise in human papillomavirus.

As HPV causes nearly all cervical cancers, Schlegel co-developed technology for the Gardasil vaccine, a vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2006 to protect against cervical cancer. Since the inception of the Gardasil vaccine, cervical cancer in the United States. has dropped by 56 percent. The Presidents’ Cancer Panel pointed to these HPV vaccinations as some of the “most profound opportunities in cancer prevention today.”

Following his research with the Gardasil vaccine, Schlegel remained hopeful that future developments would have a pivotal impact on medicine.

“It is an honor to receive this award for our HPV vaccine work and recognition for the positive impact that the vaccine will have on global health, for both women and men,” Schlegel said in a GUMC press release.

The NAI will host the 2014 induction ceremony at the California Institution of Technology in Pasadena on March 20, 2015. Fellows will receive trophies, medals and rosette pins to recognize their exceptional achievements.

Cups for Campus, a new program initiated

by School of Nursing and Health Studies students, is a program that, if initiated, would provide free cups and health education to students in order to prevent the spread of diseases at campus parties.

The group is currently fundraising and looking for partners, working with the university’s Health Education Services which has provided them with guidance and advice. According to co-founder Rachel Skonecki (NHS ’17), the group must raise $6,000 to begin its services, which will allow it to provide marketing, educational health pamphlets and 6,000 cups a month for an entire school year.

Cups for Campus tested its service in November with a pilot program. The group handed out cups at the Hoya Health Hut in Red Square with monetary support from Health Education Services.

“It was very successful,” Graduate Assistant and Health Educator at HES Victoria Somerville wrote in an email. “We loved the idea of illness prevention, but we are unable to take the project on under our department until the group finds additional co-sponsors.”

The idea for Cups for Campus originated as an assignment in the class Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, which had inspired ideas for other campus initiatives, such as SafeRides, the Georgetown University Farmers Market and Grab ‘n’ Go, according to Cups for Campus co-founder Greg Jarvis (NHS ’17).

The concept for Cups for Campus arose in part because of the death of Andrea Jaime (NHS ’17) due to bacterial meningitis in September, according to co-founder Chantal Durgana (NHS ’17).

“When [Jaime] passed away, I think it affected a lot of us,” Durgana said. “Things like meningitis are so easily preventable and it just sucks that these things are so fatal.”

According to Skonecki, students became more careful with their cup sharing practices for only a short time after Jaime’s death.

“After Andrea died, [students] were really aware,” Skonecki said. “They were trying to do Sharpies on cups and not share but after a week or two people just moved on. That served as a really unfortunate and powerful teaching moment but students still think that they are invincible.”

If Cups for Campus receives sufficient funding, they intend to set up a walk-in service where, at designated hours, students can pick up cups and informational pamphlets about the dangers of sharing cups.

“We’re trying to create this system that has the least amount of barriers possible,” Durgana said. “So the way that we’ve been working on it is that these students can lit-

erally just walk through the door, ask for a set of cups, take them home, and they can do with them what they please.”

The cups will come with an informational packet that explains the dangers of sharing cups, which include putting sharers at risk of contracting diseases and viruses such as mononucleosis, strep throat and influenza.

“When you do get a stack of cups, we’ll provide you with an information packet,” Skonecki said, “We’ll get you in the door [by] promising free cups, but then we’ll give you information to try to change your habits.”

Although their service is to provide free cups, the leaders are also trying to confront the larger issue of awareness by focusing on education.

“We’re trying to make college students aware that they are susceptible to this disease and then empower them and give them the tools to have this effect on their health status stop,” co-founder Devin Holmes (NHS ’17) said.

Cups for Campus members said that many drinking activities students participate in, particularly beer pong, cause the spread of germs and disease. Holmes was convinced to help found the group after seeing a simulation game of beer pong set up

by George Washington University students.

“They had eight players play for an hour and played six rounds and they swabbed the cups after,” Holmes said. “There was E. coli and strep. It was disgusting.”

According to Holmes, students often forego healthy practices to avoid purchasing more plastic cups, which cost 14.3 cents per 18 oz cup at Vital Vittles and 15.9 cents per 18 oz cup at Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli on 36th Street. Because of their relatively high cost, Holmes said that students believe that lightly washing the cups and sharing them will be most efficient.

“They’re expensive,” Holmes said.“A pack of 50 is seven or eight bucks without tax.

And [students say], ‘Alright, I’ll buy one pack and we’ll just reuse them and rinse them out.”

Rachel Smith (COL ’18) said that she thinks that the program could prevent students from getting sick.

“I think it’s a good idea,” Smith said. “I got mono this September. It was not fun at all, and I think it was from sharing cups. I think it’s probably a problem that happens at all schools. I think it’s something that’s bound to happen.”

Jessica Uy (SFS ’16) said that increasing the number of cups at events may not stop students from sharing, which has become a habit at parties.

“At parties, obviously people aren’t paying attention to that kind of stuff, especially when that’s probably your [lowest] priority at that point,” Uy said. “Obviously, I think it would improve a little awareness or education on the issue, but I’m just not sure of how much would change in actuality.”

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From left to right: Junior forward Dominique Vitalis, freshman guard DiDi Burton and junior forward Brittany Horne playing against Providence in McDonough Arena on Jan. 9.

After Providence Win, Hoyas Fall to Villanova Aidan Curran Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (4-13, 2-3 Big East) faced a busy weekend as it hosted the Providence Friars (4-13, 1-5 Big East) on Friday and then travelled to Villanova, Pa. (9-7, 4-1 Big East) to take on the Villanova Wildcats on Sunday.

The team split its two games, beating Providence to earn its second conference win before falling to Villanova in a hard-fought contest.

The Hoyas began their weekend by grinding out a tough 69-61 win against Providence. Junior forward Brittany Horne led the Blue and Gray with 18 points, including three key three-pointers, to help Georgetown pull away toward the end. Junior forward Dominique Vitalis was a force in the paint, tallying 16 points, seven rebounds, four steals and two assists.

“Aggressiveness,” Vitalis said, when asked about the key to her effective performance. “We just have to go out and be the aggressor.”

The Hoyas limited Providence senior forward Chanise Baldwin, who averages 7.2 points per game for the Friars, to only two points, but senior guard Karin Robinson proved to be a challenge for the Georgetown defense, as she scored 17 points to go along with seven rebounds and two assists.

The game had a frenzied pace throughout, as both teams committed multiple costly turnovers that led to fast breaks for the other team. Though Georgetown had 14 fast break points off of 19 Providence turnovers, the Hoyas also committed 18 turnovers of their own.

While Georgetown Head Coach Natasha Adair was not pleased with the amount of turnovers the Hoyas committed, she was pleased with the pace of the game.

“We want to play up and down the court,” Adair said. “We need to understand when we have numbers and have the advantage. We do play a faster-paced game — I don’t pull the reins back.”

Freshman guard Dorothy Adomako made her presence felt early, stealing the ball from Providence guards twice in the first 85 seconds of the game. Adomako had an impact on both ends of the court, finishing with 14 points, six rebounds, two assists and three steals. The freshman is quickly becoming an impact player and Adair refers to her as “a matchup nightmare,” alluding to her unique combination of athleticism, size and skill.

“Coming from high school, I’d definitely say the college speed is different, so I’ve been trying to work on that to get better,” Adomako said after the game.

The game was tight in the first half, as Georgetown switched in and out of a 2-3 zone while the Friars used a full-court press to try to disrupt the Hoyas’ rhythm offensively. Freshman point guard DiDi Burton was key in breaking the press and facilitating the offense, earning praise from her head coach.

“I’m glad we have DiDi. We’re

confident in her, and even as a freshman she takes it upon herself to put the team on her back sometimes. She’s hard to guard and she has great court vision,” Adair said.

Down by five at the half, the Hoyas came out strong in the second half. Vitalis led the charge, scoring several clutch baskets to keep the Hoyas close. The Hoyas took a lead that they would maintain for the rest of the game when Vitalis grabbed an offensive rebound and dished it to Horne for a three-pointer to make it 58-55.

“We’re in Big East play, and Big East play is a new season, new opportunity, and we are starting to gel at the right time. You can see us finish, you can see us grinding things out, you can see the day-today work pay off for them,” Adair said.

The Hoyas’ momentum from their thrilling win on Friday was short lived as the Hoyas fell to Villanova 69-57 on Sunday. Junior guard Katie McCormick paced the Hoyas with 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting

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In December, Louisville power forward Akoy Agau announced his transfer to Georgetown. Agau averaged 0.9 points and 1.1 rebounds for the Cardinals during his freshman year, in which he averaged five minutes per game.

Agau Transfer to Boost 2016 Defense Dillon Mullan Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s basketball team received a boost on Wednesday when former Louisville sophomore and power forward Akoy Agau announced that he would be transferring to the Hilltop. Even in the midst of a hectic conference schedule, Head Coach John Thompson III took time to turn his attention to the more distant future of his program by bringing in the 6-foot-8-inch 230-pounder to help fill the void that will be left by the graduation of senior forward Mikael Hopkins and senior center Joshua Smith come May. “I have chosen to commit to Georgetown University,” Agau said to Nebraska High School Hoops. “Georgetown is the best place for me both athletically and academically. The program has a history of developing big men to maximize their potential, and I feel it’s the best place for me right now.

I look forward to continuing my basketball career as a Hoya.”

Agau left Louisville this past December, during the fall semester of his sophomore year. Barring any unforeseen changes in his classification when he transfers to Georgetown, he will be eligible to play for the Hoyas for two-and-a-half seasons beginning in the spring semester of 2016. The

Omaha, Neb., native found himself stuck behind a talented frontcourt at Louisville and starved for playing time — he only made three appearances this season for a total of 11 minutes in blowout victories over nonconference opponents. As a freshman last season, Agau averaged 0.9 points and 1.1 rebounds while playing five minutes per game.

Although he was unable to carve out a spot in the Louisville rotation, Agau should have every opportunity to earn playing time at Georgetown if he can prove his worth on the glass.

Smith, Hopkins and co-captains senior guard Jabril Trawick and junior guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera have pulled down 58 percent of the Hoyas’ rebounds this season, and Smith-Rivera is the only one with a chance to play with the transfer next spring.

While the Class of 2018, which Agau would be joining, has certainly proven itself to be talented and deep in the early going, the group lacks an inside presence. Unproven center Bradley Hayes will be a senior next season, and he will be joined in the frontcourt by four-star recruit Jessie Govan (Manhasset, N.Y., Wings Academy), who ESPN rates as the 10th best center in the Class of 2019. Another four-star Class of 2015 recruit, 6-foot8-inch power forward Marcus Derrickson (Fairfax, Va., Brewster Acad-

and had two assists and one steal as well. The team did not have a good shooting day, shooting a paltry 37.9 percent from the field. Sophomore forward Faith Woodard led the team with 11 rebounds, including four offensive boards.

While Georgetown struggled offensively, Villanova shot 46.6 percent from the field, and junior guard Katherine Coyer led the team with 14 points. Senior forward Emily Leer added 12 points, and was effective in limiting Georgetown’s Vitalis to only six points and five rebounds.

Georgetown started out strong in the first half, holding a 23-17 lead at one point. However, late in the first half, the Wildcats went on a 13-0 run to take the lead back for good at 34-27. The Hoyas went into the half trailing and struggled to come back in the second half.

Georgetown will look to get back in the win column on Friday against Xavier (11-6, 3-3 Big East) in Cincinnati, Ohio, continuing a three-game road trip for the team.

emy), has committed to the Hoyas.

Each player fits into Head Coach John Thompson’s system differently, but it appears as though Agau would be assuming the hybrid center and forward role that is currently occupied by Hopkins. He does not have the size to be a true center, but if Agau can prove himself to be adequately coachable, there will be minutes available in the Hoyas’ frontcourt. Sophomore forward Reggie Cameron and freshmen forwards Isaac Copeland and Paul White are all similar in size, but the trio has spent most of their young Georgetown careers guarding smaller players on the perimeter.

Filling the holes left by the graduation of key players is never easy — especially when it’s a Joshua Smithsized hole — but as Agau mentioned, Georgetown’s program has a sterling reputation for developing low-post players. Next season, Agau, Govan and Derrickson may be thrown into the fire without much experience, but the current freshman class is talented enough to carry the team, provided that these young big men arrive on the Hilltop ready to buy into Thompson’s philosophy.

Akoy Agau left Louisville in search of playing time, and if he can rebound, block shots and defend the low post, he’ll find what he is looking for in Washington.

he balmy, 45-degree sun- tiple other power plays (including shine glaring off the ice an edge-of-your-seat 5-on-3), the may have left some longing Blackhawks would not be denied, for the snowstorms that marked responding with two goals to pull previous incarnations of the the game even. The Capitals, howgame, but not even sun-induced ever, emerged victorious when glares could detract from the al- former Blackhawk Troy Brouwer most unblemished silenced his former success of the 2015 team and sent fans New Year’s Day Winhome happy when ter Classic. For the he scored a last-secNational Hockey ond goal.

League, its fans and To top it all off, the city of Washingconditions were ton, D.C., the game impeccable. Snow epitomizes their may look nice, but Matt Raab successes from reit has a tendency to cent years. bring about logistiWhen the idea cal problems in a for the Winter Clas- The game was a professional hockey sic was conceived like causing success for D.C. game, seven years ago, the troublesome reflecleague was uncertions off the ice, and the NHL. tain if it could be which creates a missuccessful, unsure if erable experience. it could even fill an outdoor stadi- The scene seemed almost too perum in the depths of winter. How- fect to be true — a beautiful rink ever, when Ralph Wilson Stadium and a miniature Capitol building in Orchard Park, N.Y., hosted the surrounded by snow, all nestled inaugural game between the Buf- inside a decked-out baseball stafalo Sabres and the Pittsburgh dium.

Penguins on Jan. 1, 2008, the For the city, the experience was league’s concerns proved to be un- remarkable because it reflected founded as the event set an NHL the city’s burgeoning status as attendance record. a sports powerhouse. For some Four months later, in March time, the Capitals have repre2008, Nationals Park opened its sented a lonely spot of hope in an gates for its first season of baseball. otherwise depressing mix of lanOn Jan. 1, 2015, that same park guishing D.C. franchises. In the was filled to the brim with 42,832 Classic, however, the club put its hockey fans. And they certainly ability on display in a venue that weren’t disappointed; what they has hosted two MLB playoff series, saw was a thrilling game on glis- mere blocks away from the future tening ice, and a last-second goal site of a brand new Major League brought victory to an excited city.

Soccer stadium.

For the NHL and hockey fans, It is true that neither of those the successes stemming from baseball series are something the the Classic are obvious. While city wants to remember. In addicollege football bowl games have tion, Nationals Park continues to traditionally been a New Year’s walk a confusing path through Day staple, the Winter Classic has city politics. Still, the Winter arguably become equally beloved. Classic was a great day to sit back For me, hockey, and not college and take pride in the city’s sports football, was the reason I woke franchises and the direction in myself up from a slumber that which they seem to be moving. could have lasted well into the The stadium looked incredible, evening. and in a beautiful Winter Classic, The game proved to be worth the Capitals put Washington on the noon wake-up call — it had the right footing heading into all the tenets of a classic hockey 2015. Now we get to see where it game, indoor or outdoor. The Cap- all goes. itals jumped out to a 2-0 lead, with their star power on display as cap- Matt Raab is a sophomore in tain Alexander Ovechkin scored the School of Foreign Service. one of those goals. Although AROUND THE DISTRICT appears Washington was able to kill mul- every Tuesday.

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Men’s Soccer

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Star Defender Passes on MLS

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Senior center Joshua Smith leads the Hoyas in rebounds with 6.7 per game. He was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll on Monday for his performances against Marquette and Providence.

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Sophomore defender Joshua Yaro, the Big East Defensive Player of the Year, helped Georgetown record 10 shutouts this season. yaro, from A12 “He had to put aside probably a considerable amount of ego that goes with [being the likely first pick in the draft],” Wiese said.

Yaro also acknowledged the uncertainty that comes with playing professionally.

“You don’t really know what is going to happen in the future,” Yaro said. “To me, there is much more than just soccer. I’m aware that if you have a good career, it is 10-15 years. After that, I will still have a lot of years to live, and what am I going to do after if I don’t have a college degree?”

With another year on campus ahead of him, Yaro emphasized his desire to enjoy all Georgetown has to offer — both on the field and off of it. The All-American felt as though he had not fully appreciated the three semesters under his belt.

“One guy that I was talking to said, ‘If you feel like you have really enjoyed Georgetown and have really explored it all — really enjoyed your time both in the classroom and on the field — and if you think you don’t have any unfinished business at Georgetown, then it is reasonable to leave.’ I think that was

something that really touched my heart,” Yaro said.

The return of one of the top defenders in the nation will be a huge boon for the Hoyas next season. Yaro was part of a defense that led the nation in shutout percentage in 2013 and that allowed an average of just 0.65 goals per game. Barring any unexpected roster shakeups, the 2015 season will be the third consecutive season featuring the same four starters along the backline. Yaro’s combination of speed and skill on the ball made him a huge part of that group’s success.

“I was happy because it made my job quite a bit easier for next fall,” Wiese said. “Having one of the best players in college soccer coming back is always good news for us.”

Now that Yaro has chosen to stay in college for another season, he is able to return to being a student-athlete — one with an incredibly bright future.

“I have never felt this happy coming back to school,” Yaro said. “Before I made a decision, it was weighing on my mind.

Once I made my decision, it was a weight lifted off me. I am really glad with the decision I made.”

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Senior forward Forrest Robinson and junior forward Myke Henry are the Blue Demons’ other major threats.

Robinson, especially, has proven lethal from beyond the arc when given too much space. Against a weak Creighton defense, he shot 6-of-9 from the threepoint line on his way to a career-high 20 points.

Henry is the team’s other leading scorer and one of the team’s best rebounders, but he saw limited action in the Blue Demons’ last game against Villanova, playing only 16 total minutes.

Georgetown’s offense has struggled in its two most recent games — a nail-

biting 65-59 win over Marquette and a disappointing 60-57 overtime loss to Providence. Both the Golden Eagles and the Friars ran aggressive 2-3 zone defenses with great success, as the Hoyas committed a combined 30 turnovers in the two games.

Head Coach John Thompson III will look to Smith-Rivera and senior center Joshua Smith to jump-start a stagnant offense. Smith recorded consecutive double-doubles against Marquette and Providence and has proven to be a difficult matchup for almost every defender that has guarded him this season. Smith-Rivera, meanwhile, has represented the team’s only consistent threat from beyond the arc, as he converted five of the team’s eight three-

pointers in the team’s last two games.

Still, the team will need additional players to step up in order to supplement their two veteran stars. Freshman forward Paul White has shown signs of tremendous promise this season, but he has scored five or fewer points in four of the team’s last six games. Senior guard Jabril Trawick, freshman forward L.J. Peak and senior forward Aaron Bowen have all had excellent games at various points of the season, but each player has struggled at times during the Hoyas’ recent games.

The Hoyas, who are 8-1 at home, have yet to win an away game this season. Tipoff is at 9 p.m. and will be televised on Fox Sports 1.

Track and Field

Hoyas Shine in Distance Events TRACK, from A12 consisting of graduate student Deseree King, sophomore Sabrina Southerland and freshmen Piper Donaghu and JodyAnn Knight finished in second place with a time of 3:53.04. Freshman Kennedy Weisner came in first in the 1000m with a time of 2:50.05. Graduate student Joanna Stevens won the 3000m run with a time of 9:48.18.

Adding to the women’s accomplishments were Southerland and senior Hannah Necyzpor who both earned top finishes in two events. In addition to her role in the 4x4000m relay, Southerland also finished first in the 500m with a time of 1:14.04. Necyzpor won the 800m with a time of 2:13.17 and went on to win the mile event with a time of 4:52.40.

Georgetown was second only to George Mason, the university hosting the meet, which finished first overall in the men’s and women’s events with 213 and 160 points, respectively. While the men’s team fell to George Mason by a difference of 76 points, the women’s finished within 16 points of the Patriots.

THE HOYA reached out to Georgetown

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Freshman Joseph White won the 500m dash and was a member of the first-place 4x400m relay team at the Father Diamond Invitational.

Athletics Sports Information prior to publication, but was unable to reach any coaches or players for comments on the runners’ performances at the meet.

The Georgetown track and field teams will face their next opponents at the Penn State Relays in State College, Pa. on Jan. 17.

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the Thunder, which was finalized last week, signaled the beginning of the end for the current version of the Knicks.

Essentially, the trade indicates the Knicks’ intention to clear house in order to initiate a rebuilding phase.

They sent the injured Iman Shumpert and the mercurial J.R. Smith to Cleveland, receiving three players with expiring contracts and a future second-round draft pick in exchange. As part of the deal, the Knicks also waived center Samuel Dalembert, and the Cavaliers sent shooting guard Dion Waiters to the Thunder.

With the NBA trade deadline looming on the horizon, aging players such as Amar’e Stoudemire, Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani seem to be next on the trading block. Even the team’s younger players, like Tim Hardaway, Jr. and Shane Larkin could be available in trades, as they have been underperforming so far this season.

Where does this leave the Knicks’ future? Regardless of the rebuilding process that they go through, Carmelo Anthony will be the face of their organization for the foreseeable future. The combination of an inflated contract and a unique skill-

set that plays to the strengths of the triangle offense almost guarantee his future as a Knick.

However, the Knicks’ future still has a number of key uncertainties. Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Reggie Jackson is rumored to be a key trade target for Phil Jackson. However, I find it hard to envision the Knicks putting together a satisfactory offer for the Thunder.

Oklahoma City has a need for defensive-minded role players to complement their elite scoring trio of forward Kevin Durant, guard Russell Westbrook and forward Serge Ibaka — a need that the Knicks cannot fill.

Looking past this season, the Knicks will not have a significant presence in upcoming drafts, outside of their own first round picks.

However, with their current status as the worst team in the league, they are in the ideal position to make a run for Duke’s Jahlil Okafor or China’s Emmanuel Mudiay, both of whom are regarded as potential franchise players, in this spring’s draft. Regardless of what the Knicks end up doing, it seems likely that they will be outside of serious contention for at least the next few seasons.

As far as the Cavaliers and the Thunder are concerned, this trade merely confirms their insecurities

with regard to their championship aspirations, instead of shoring them up. The Cavaliers are undoubtedly happier to have gotten rid of Dion Waiters than they are to have received J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert. Smith fits the same shoot-first profile as Waiters, sans the ego.

While Shumpert’s defensive prowess is sorely needed for a team that currently ranks as the 24th best defensive team in the league, his success there will depend on how quickly he shakes off his rust after being sidelined for two months and how quickly he develops a good rapport with team leader LeBron James.

Waiters’ presence on the Thunder is a headscratcher. A franchise that has been plagued by ego disputes between Durant and Westbrook in the past has no room for a player who has proven to be unwilling to accept the roles given to him.

Deemed a “blockbuster” at first, this trade fails to live up to its billing. It did not cement either the Thunder or the Cavaliers as title contenders, nor did it provide the Knicks with any real building blocks for the future. Odds are, however, that these teams are not quite finished making moves just yet.

Max Fiege is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service. OUT OF OUR LEAGUE appears every Tuesday.

SPORTS

Men’s Basketball Butler (12-5, 2-2) at Georgetown (10-5, 2-2) Saturday, 5 p.m.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The Hoyas clawed their way to a victory over Providence on Friday, but lost to Villanova on Sunday.

TALKING POINTS

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I have never felt this happy coming back to school.”

SOPHOMORE DEFENDER JOSHUA YARO

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MEN’S SOCCER

GU Braces for DePaul Offense LAURA WAGNER Hoya Staff Writer

After a painful overtime loss to Providence on Saturday, Georgetown’s men’s basketball team (105, 2-2 Big East) will travel to Chicago to face DePaul (9-8, 3-1 Big East) on Tuesday night.

DePaul finds itself atop the conference, tied with Villanova (151, 3-1 Big East), Providence (13-4, 3-1 Big East) and Seton Hall (13-3, 3-1 Big East). Although its three wins have come over inconsistent

Xavier (11-5, 2-2 Big East), struggling Marquette (9-6, 1-2 Big East) and dismal Creighton (9-8, 0-4 Big East), the quick start is nonetheless a surprise for a team that lost its last six non-conference games and was unanimously picked to finish last in the Big East preseason poll.

Most recently, DePaul was routed by No. 8 and conference-favorite Villanova, 81-64. But for all its ups and downs, DePaul boasts some talented players who have the potential to be dangerous

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The number of events the men’s and women’s track teams won at the Father Diamond Invitational.

when put together. The smoothshooting sophomore guard Billy Garrett, who was named the Big East Rookie of the Year last season, is tied for first on the team in points scored and can just as easily shoot the three ball as find an open man. Garrett, whose father is an assistant coach for DePaul, leads the Blue Demons in assists with 64 on the year. Comparatively, junior guard D’Vauntes SmithRivera, who leads the Hoyas in asSee DEPAUL, A11

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Points per game: 12.8

Points per game: 14.3

Assists per game: 3.8

Assists per game: 3.5

Highlight: Scored 19 points on New Year’s Eve in first Big East win

Highlight: Gamewinning overtime shot against Florida

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Points per game: 12.8

Points per game: 12.9

Rebounds per game: 5.0

Rebounds per game: 6.7

Highlight: Scored 29 points against Stanford

Highlight: Four doubledoubles this season

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Sophomore defender and 2014 Mac Hermann semifinalist Joshua Yaro was a key player in the men’s soccer team’s Elite Eight finish this season.

Yaro Forgoes MLS Draft, Stays at GU

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Yaro chooses college degree over potential six-figure contract ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

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hil Jackson is the self-proclaimed “Zen Master” of the NBA. It is hard to argue with the title and the quirks that are associated with it, especially when considering his 13 championship rings. It was this reputation that brought great expectations to the New York Knicks’ fan base when it was announced that the team’s former champion power forward would be joining the front office in an executive role. Nearly a year later, it is apparent it will take more than the adoption of the triangle offense or the appointment of Derek Fisher as head coach to solve the franchise’s problems.

Despite having re-signed scoring superstar Carmelo Anthony to a five-year, $125 million contract this past summer, the Knicks have already given up on this season, as their 5-35 record — the club’s worst winning percentage of all time — would suggest. At the beginning of the season, I could not have predicted such a catastrophic implosion — the team’s roster is comprised of decent individual players, and its leadership has proven to be competent in the past.

Yet, in retrospect, the root of the Knicks’ problems becomes clear — Jackson and Fisher failed to instill a winning culture in the program, a failure that has been amplified by Carmelo’s questionable health and the players’ unwillingness to adapt to Phil Jackson’s treasured offensive system. As a result, a dramatic three-team trade, between the Knicks, the Cavaliers and See FIEGE, A11

JULIA HENNRIKUS/THE HOYA

Freshman guard Dorothy Adomako earned her third Big East Freshman of the Week honor for helping the Hoyas to a 1-1 record over the weekend. Read about it on A10.

Over winter break, the Georgetown men’s soccer team’s sophomore defender Joshua Yaro decided to remain at Georgetown and declined a contract with Major League Soccer.

The contract would likely have been worth about $160,000 per year — the amount that Connecticut sophomore forward Cyle Larin, the expected number-one pick, received according to americansoccernow.com.

“Even if, in the future, I get a contract to go to the MLS, I don’t think it is going be a better offer than what I had,” Yaro said.

Before deciding to remain at Georgetown instead of entering the professional ranks early, Yaro was the consensus top overall pick. However, the importance he places on his education and life after soccer made his decision difficult.

“It was a long process,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. “We had been talking about it with him for three or four weeks.”

Entering college, Yaro understood that playing professionally was a possibility, so he began taking summer courses in an attempt to finish his degree early. However, he had not anticipated that he would have this opportunity after only two years in college.

“I knew from the start what I wanted to do, and I had a plan coming into college that I was going to get as close as I can to my degree. I had that in mind,” Yaro said. “I knew I was definitely not going to leave school after freshman year or sophomore year.”

However, the star defender was still intrigued by the offer. In a league where some players only earn $36,500 a year, his contract would have been impressive. The opportunity to be selected at the top of the draft by one of two new expansion teams — New York City Football Club or Orlando City Soccer Club — was difficult to turn down.

“It made it harder. It would have been cool, having all these names coming in. New York FC is getting David Villa; Orlando is getting Kaká — people that I grew up watching and admiring. Playing with them would have been a nice thing,” Yaro said.

But, it was more than just the money, according to Wiese.

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TRACK & FIELD

Hoyas Begin New Year With 2nd-Place Finish NADAV SENENSIEB Hoya Staff Writer

In their first events in 2015, the Georgetown men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to Fairfax, Va., on Saturday for the Father Diamond Invitational, their second meet of the indoor track and field season. Both the men’s team and No. 10 women’s team finished second overall in their meets, scoring 137 and 146 points, respectively, aided by strong results in long-distance individual running events.

The men’s team recorded several first-place finishes during the meet behind stellar performances from several underclassmen. Freshman Joe White finished first in the 500-meter relay with a time of 1:04.02 while sophomores Ryan Manahan and Connor Sheryak finished first in the 800m and the mile run with times of 1:50.73 and 4:17.76, respectively. The men’s relay team, consisting of White, sophomore

Nathaniel Gordon, Ledder and freshman Nick Sullivan rounded out the top finishes, placing first in the 4x400m relay with a time of 3:21.15.

The Blue and Gray also notched a top spot in the 1000m race when graduate student Billy Ledder won with a time of 2:25.13.

The women’s team enjoyed similar success in the longdistance events, finishing a number of notable individual performances.

Georgetown runners took the top three spots in the 800m, captured first and second place in the 500m, 1000m, and one-mile events, and secured first place in the 3000m.

Similar to the efforts behind the successes of the men’s team, runners from every year anchored some of the top finishes for the women. The women’s 4x4000m relay team, See TRACK, A11

GEORGETOWN ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS

Senior Hannah Neczypor earned first-place finishes in the 800m and 1-mile runs at the Father Diamond Invitational on Saturday.

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