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TIGHT BIG EAST RACE Georgetown and Marquette are now tied atop the conference.

COMMENTARY A former addict weighs in on the trappings of pornography.

SPORTS, A12

TAKE THE FIGHT A new group pairs students with Lombardi patients.

MIDDLE EAST TRUCE Israeli and Palestinian student groups join in a rare partnership.

NEWS, A5

OPINION, A3

NEWS, A4

SIPS Fund University Opts for On-Campus Housing Administrators swayed by fervent DefiesVeto, opposition to satellite proposal Opens App EITAN SAYAG

“residential, campus life and athletic” designation to Ryan and Mulledy’s current “academic and Ryan and Mulledy halls will administrative” status — from be repurposed as student resi- the D.C. Zoning Commission on dences, a plan that, along with Nov. 25 before going before to Northeast Triangle Residence the Old Georgetown Board for Hall, would meet the universi- approval in December. ty’s requirement to house an ad“We’ve had support on this ditional 385 students on campus from our community partners by fall 2015. on both the variants and on the Northeast Triangle is antici- change in occupancy, so we’re pated to house 225 students. anticipating that both of those Ryan and Mulledy halls, the for- things will be fine,” Associate mer Jesuit residence in Dahlgren Vice President for Community Quadrangle that has been vacant Engagement and Strategic Initiasince 2003, should house approx- tives Lauralyn Lee said. imately 160 students.

Because the university has “We have a clear plan for our just recently settled on this 385 new beds,” Vice President for plan, many details for Ryan and Student Affairs Todd Olson told Mulledy are not yet determined, The Hoya on Monday. “That plan including who will live in the is a combination of the North- dorm, whether the rooms will east Triangle and Mulledy and be apartments, suites or dorms Ryan halls. We are committed and whether the main entrance to pursuing both those options. would be from Dahlgren QuadWe’re actively rangle or working on across the a timeline to street from Vilbring those lage A. on line for stuAdministradent housing tors said that as soon as we the satellite can.” housing opTODD OLSON The univertion remains Vice President for Student Affairs on the influence of GUSA’s referendum sity plans to on the table, make Ryan but Vice Presiand Mulledy a long-term student dent for Planning and Facilities residence, a shift from the begin- Robin Morey emphasized that ning of the month when the uni- an off-campus residence is a versity announced the option as lower priority than it was a few a potential temporary solution months ago. He added that any to housing demands. off-campus option would be very Georgetown administrators different from how administraexplored a variety of options tors originally envisioned it. to meet its commitment in the “At the end of the day, we felt, 2010 Campus Plan agreement to like the students, that that cahouse 385 more students by fall pacity should be here on cam2015, including a satellite resi- pus, and so we were looking at dence option as far out as Claren- these contingency plans to help don in Arlington, Va., that drew do that,” Morey said. “To the exsignificant student dissent. tent that the referendum was The announcement of the on- 93-point-whatever percent it campus housing plans comes a was, it just told us that students month after more than 93 per- did not like that option. They’re cent of voters in a student-body- our clients … so I think it made wide referendum expressed us better.” opposition to establishing a satStudent leaders who spearellite residence outside of the lo- headed the “One Georgetown, cal Georgetown area.

One Campus” campaign that “I think it was a very signifi- called for on-campus housing cant factor,” Olson said. solutions hailed the announceThe university will request ment as a victory for student zoning changes — slight altera- engagement. Ryan and Mulledy tions to the Northeast Triangle description and the addition of See HOUSING, A5

Hoya Staff Writer

Tisa defends veto; SIPS proceeds with grant application ANNIE CHEN

Hoya Staff Writer

Despite GUSA President Nate Tisa’s (SFS ’14) veto of the Green Revolving Loan Fund, the Social Innovation and Public Service Fund will open GRLF applications this week.

“We’re not going to fund anyone,” SIPS Fund Managing Director Ethan Chess (COL ’14) said. “Opening up the application doesn’t cost anything. These projects take time to work on, and we want to make sure we are giving students as much opportunity as they can to put their proposals together. … It doesn’t make sense for us to have the process of the fund sit on the sideline for no reason.” “[The senate bill] doesn’t actually do anything, essentially, because it’s already written in our bylaws that we can give out grants,” SIPS Executive Director Kate Anthony (SFS ’14) added.

On Oct. 20, the GUSA senate voted unanimously to confirm the SIPS Fund’s authority to start issuing grants and loans through the GRLF. Tisa vetoed the bill that Monday out of concern that the senate failed its “due diligence” to craft a stronger, clearer bill.

With two-thirds of the vote, the senate could have voted to override Tisa’s veto.

Instead, GUSA Finance and Appropriation Chair Seamus Guerin (COL ’16) said that a new bill that will be introduced Sunday on the senate floor will confirm the SIPS Fund’s authority to dispense grants through the GRLF. The only difference from the vetoed bill will be an added reference to documents from Student Activities Fee Endowment reform, which established SIPS, to improve clarity.

“Honestly, I don’t see the essence of the new bill being much different from the previous one,” Guerin said.

Tisa maintained that SIPS required GUSA approval, despite the implications of its decision to open applications.

“SIPS came to the senate because the university wanted clarification on the grants and loans question. If they did not feel clarification was needed they would not have come to the senate,” Tisa said.

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“I think it was a very significant factor.”

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Ryan and Mulledy halls, which served as the campus Jesuit residence until 2003 before being vacated, emerged as the top housing proposal.

Forest Service Rethinks Nearby Drilling Hopes KAYLA CROSS

Special to The Hoya

The U.S. Forest Service is reconsidering its recommendation against horizontal drilling in George Washington National Forest, which activists say could contaminate the water supply in Washington, D.C. The headwaters of the Potomac, which serve as the water source for around four million D.C. residents, are located within the onemillion-acre George Washington National Forest that encompasses the Appalachian Mountain region of Virginia and West Virginia. The National Park Service is in the process of forming a new 15-year plan

for GW National Forest, which has been delayed multiple times since March 2012.

The forest service advocated against horizontal drilling in early 2011 due to water pollution concerns, which would affect those receiving water downstream.

Local governments, advocacy groups and citizens have expressed uneasiness in allowing horizontal drilling in GW National Forest.

Shenandoah Valley Network Executive Director Kate Wofford described the unusually high public interest and involvement in the forest service’s plan, whose commentary See DRILLING, A6

Condom Delivery Draws Ire Special to The Hoya

Though H*yas for Choice quietly introduced a new condom delivery service Oct. 17, the program has prompted a loud response.

The system allows students to request free condom delivery through a Google form 48 hours before an event. Party hosts can then pick up the condoms from the H*yas for Choice table in Red Square or request for them to be delivered to a specific location.

The idea was modeled after a similar program started by Boston College Students for Sexual Health. Boston College threatened disciplinary action if the group broke any university policies, which Boston College Students for Sexual Health has been careful not to do.

“We are lucky enough that Georgetown respects the rights of its students and isn’t going to shut us down. The university

can provide to as many groups on campus as possible.”

This attention, however, has led to passionate responses from students and others who oppose the service, citing a risk of increased sexual assault and incompatibility with religious values.

“This new service simply contributes to the already prevalent hookup culture that Anytime a pro-choice reduces men and women to group does something mere objects of physical gratification,” Emile Doak (COL ’14), on a Catholic campus, a member of the conservative group Love Saxa, said. “Satupeople see it as news. rating alcohol-infused parties with easy access to condoms LAURA NAREFSKY (COL ’14) H*yas four Choice President will only facilitate this objectification.”

Andrew Schilling (COL ’14), dia, including the Huffington Post a member of the Georgetown and a local Fox affiliate station.

“Anytime a pro-choice group Knights of Columbus, said that does something on a Catholic such the condom distribution campus, people see it as news,” system would perpetuate sexual Narefsky said “We are thrilled. violence.

“Unfortunately, the proposed It’s great that our message is now reaching people outside the plan does nothing to tackle the Georgetown community. Hopefully this will become a service we See CONDOMS, A6 can’t tread on our freedom of speech and expression if we go against what they believe in,” H*yas for Choice President Laura Narefsky (COL ’14) said.

While the group has done little to publicize the new initiative, it has been covered by external me-

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OPINION

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

THE VERDICT

C EDITORIALS C Bridging Divides in Service C C C Founded January 14, 1920

The fight for social justice is challenging, as is the fight to articulate how and why we strive toward it. In theory, social justice is a common goal, but achieving it on the Hilltop can become contentious when different student organizations have different takes on what it entails.

Some find commitment to service in their faith; others maintain a secular reasoning.

Differences in motivating reasons and even in semantics — with Catholic service groups adopting the term “charity” and many groups run through the CSJ steering clear of it — have inhibited partnership in the past.

Going forward, all involved would benefit from greater cooperation.

To be able to work together in pursuit of social justice, student groups should first agree that a variety of perspectives can motivate a desire for a more just world. Religion has typically been central to this discussion, and it’s important to recognize that faith has historically served as a powerful initiative toward social good. But the Georgetown community includes many faith traditions — including secularism, agnosticism and atheism — and such diverging perspectives need not prevent collaboration.

On the other hand, in Georgetown settings that have traditionally been more secular, such as student groups run out of the Center for Social Justice, seeking out more religious perspectives would be worthwhile. It would be productive to engage in a series of informed, respectful discussions about these approaches, rather than for either religious or secular advocates to casually criticize or let their own approaches go unchallenged.

Differences in politics or ideologies are unavoidable, but student groups considered to be in contention can still take steps to collaborate in pursuit of social justice. A series of facilitated conversations co-sponsored by groups often labeled as progressive or conservative could lead to a constructive dialogue about their respective approaches.

Participation across groups in service activities or events would also help to bridge the divide.

The struggle for social justice is easier fought together. Be it the Center for Social Justice, the Knights of Columbus or the Catholic Daughters, all student groups committed to improving our community would benefit from hearing what each other has to say.

Waging on Change — The D.C. council will hear four proposals this week calling for a raise in the city’s minimum wage to $12.50.

Big Brother — The “Stop Watching Us” Rally at the Capitol on Saturday attracted thousands protesting National Security Agency surveillance.

Fire Alarm Fix — The Office of Residential Living reported Monday that all fire-alarm issues in Southwest Quad have officially been resolved.

Born to Run – The D.C. Marine Corps Marathon drew over 30,000 runners on Sunday.

Homecoming Crasher – Chris Brown was arrested in D.C. on Sunday following a physical dispute. Brown was scheduled to perform at a party celebrating Howard University’s homecoming.

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD US ... @beanstalklib Oct. 25 Thanks to @thehoya for today’s nice write-up about the band and preview of tomorrow night’s show @GypsySallys! @SRuhle Oct. 25 Looking fwd to US Debt talk @Georgetown w/ Stan Druckenmiller @ thecankicksback #genequity @thehoya @GunaRockYa Oct. 25 @thehoya Respectfully disagree. Too inaccessible. Admissions could be doing much more outreach to worthy hs students, esp students of color. @TheCanKicksBack

Oct. 25 Chairs of @GUCollegeDems + @GeorgetownCR pen op-ed in @thehoya: “It’s time we start fighting for our future together” @HelenBrosnan

Oct. 25 Check out this great article by @thehoya on @TEDxGeorgetown “TEDxGeorgetown Focuses on University”

The ICC Accords Israeli-Palestinian relations, rooted in decades of religious and political violence, have become almost synonymous with the word “conflict.” Even here on campus, thousands of miles away from the sites of tension, few dare to bring up the issue, and those who associate with either side are rarely brought together. That is, until now.

Next week, J Street U Georgetown, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Georgetown Israel Alliance will co-sponsor a screening of “The Other Son,” a French film about a Palestinian and an Israeli switched at birth. Nov. 6 will mark the first time the SJP and the GIA — two groups with a history of tense relations, including picketing each other’s events — come together. Both groups were encouraged to collaborate by J Street, a student group revived on campus last year

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Sania Salman

that supports a peaceful two-state solution to the ongoing conflict.

This step, though seemingly small, sends a powerful message of progress and acknowledges the importance of addressing the prejudices that can appear too ingrained to uproot. And while a campus movie night won’t have worldwide consequence, it could serve to correct the very real divides between the two student groups at Georgetown that few acknowledge exist and fewer address.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, much like other cross-cultural conflicts, is fueled not only by the lack of a viable solution but also by the propagation of stereotypes and intolerance of the other side that are passed down among generations and across countries. It’s encouraging to see that, at least at Georgetown, this ongoing cycle has a chance to change.

A Pie in the Sky Nearly half a year after local landmark Tuscany Cafe shuttered in June, Georgetown students are still without the ideal spot to fulfill weekend-night munchies. Epicurean is expensive, Eat & Joy draws mixed reviews and places like Good Stuff Eatery close far too early to fill the late-night void.

As it happens, the answer to this dilemma might be closer than you’d think: O’Donovan Hall.

The university brought food trucks to campus last winter in an attempt to reduce the crowds of students disturbing the neighbors late in the evening. And while the food trucks have since found a stable following, opening Leo’s between, say, midnight and 3 a.m. on weekends for burgers, pizza, chicken tenders and the like has the potential to bring even more students back to campus. Unlike food trucks, the dining hall would provide an indoor place for students to socialize throughout the year without disturbing the neigh-

bors. It would also allow students to make use of their meal plans, perhaps even adding incentives for upperclassmen hesitant to invest in one.

Of course, considering a late-night Leo’s option raises several concerns. Additional staffing would be necessary, and the university would likely be required to pay kitchen staff overtime wages. Epicurean’s foray into an around-the-clock operation has been a financial disappointment, so the potential profitability of a similar venture at Leo’s could very well be questioned. However, the proximity of West Georgetown, Village A and all but one freshman dorm to Leo’s gives it a broader appeal than Epicurean — not to mention the chance to use prepaid meal swipes rather than cash.

Students are still wondering what will be the next cherished late-night destination. It would be in the best interest of both students and administrators if it turns out to be Leo’s.

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VIEWPOINT • Magerman

A Midterm Monopoly B Bebe Albornoz

Finding Identity In Adversity

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oming of age” is a ubiquitous term, often characterized by teenagers stumbling across a few roadblocks on their way into adulthood. We are colored by dilemmas — our challenges and sufferings — and those that affect us during the formative years of our lives have an incalculable impact on our development.

I used to believe those challenges were simply a part of growing up. And I remember the expectation that growing up would be just as easy as growing taller. I was always cognizant of the fact that I would change dramatically with time; however, I always assumed that these changes would be gradual and would come as I grew into the fully formed adult version of myself.

In retrospect, this is exactly the way my personal change progressed over time. At each birthday party, you get asked the perennial question: “How does it feel to be 18?” but it is always more of an exclamation than a question — an assumption of marked change rather than a realization that things really do feel normal.

It was not until I arrived at Georgetown, however, that I began to notice how much my physical changes actually embodied a more profound, but less noticeable, mental and emotional difference. I had experienced the physical and mental suffering of health issues, the loss of a beloved grandmother and other challenges, but I had never fully dealt with moral suffering. It was the kind of aching growth spurt taking place within my spirit that forced me to question my values, my outlook, my humor, my thoughts, my friendships and my identity.

Ironically, our time at Georgetown is often defined by the post-graduation plans

The more challenges we face, the firmer we can plant our feet. we make. Less frequently, however, do we define our time here by conscientiously defining ourselves. Part of that includes discussing the immediate challenges we encounter as we make that subtle, yet significant, transition into adulthood. The elation we feel on good days on the Hilltop is worth celebration and documentation, but there is also revelation in the moments we feel a bit more jaded or burned out.

Moral suffering, like all adversity, is painful. But it is important because it forces us to reckon with the fundamental truth of who we are. This type of adversity shows us when our foundations are shaky and forces us to cement them into place. It can also show us when those foundations are firm, letting us rise above our circumstances.

This self-evaluation is critical to our full existence as men and women who can interact with one another as reflective, compassionate individuals.

Like most of adulthood, however, this kind of growth cannot be merely passive.

It, like the Jesuit ideal of contemplation in action, requires movement, evaluation and discernment. If we do not learn to actively know ourselves — our deepest fears, insecurities, strengths, talents, weaknesses and values — we cannot expect our resumes to take us into the next stage of our lives. We certainly cannot expect to fully know and love other people for who they are if we do not give voice to our own consciousness.

By taking a moment to sit in the suffering of consciousness, we can gain the strength to advance beyond it. In times when we are called to respond with courage to a challenge, the sum of our parts will sustain us. Eventually, the more knocks to the knees we take, the more firmly we can plant our feet.

Maybe, on that midnight hour in December when the long-awaited Tombs stamp finds its way onto my forehead, and someone asks me “How does it feel to be 21?” I’ll feel exactly the same as I did two minutes earlier at age 20. I hope that when I am handed my diploma in May, I can turn to face Healy Lawn from the stage and identify faces in the crowd that I know and love so well because they have known me at my worst and loved me best.

More than anything, I hope, however, that I can cross that threshold having stumbled — not on stage, fingers crossed — across some roadblocks that have given me the strength to be who I am, and to be it well.

Bebe Albornoz is a senior in the College.

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asketball season, holiday season and the beginning of spring are among the best times of year on campus. But there’s another, arguably more influential season that dominates the Hilltop for more than its fair share of time: midterm season.

It begins only several weeks into the semester and drags on, filling our lives with an endless flow of tests, papers and presentations until, somehow, we end up all the way at finals. Each weekend, it’s a good bet that at least one person in your circle of friends will be sitting out social events with the excuse of a midterm. It is inevitable, and even constructive, to have a midterm period in each semester to assess progress at a logical halfway point.

But I believe that spreading midterms out over such a long period has a deleterious effect on student life.

Really, the strangest thing about our midterm season is that it is relatively unique to Georgetown.

Whenever I compare curriculums with my friends from home who attend different universities, most of them describe one week-long period of midterms with no major testing after that until finals. They are shocked at how long ours spans over the calendar.

My main objection to midterm season is the campus culture it breeds. When midterms start, it can feel like everything else stops.

Georgetown students are typically

Midterm season dominates the Hilltop for more than its fair share of each semester. quite academically driven, so we allocate a lot of time and energy to earning good grades. Students often end up feeling nearly paralyzed by academic stress, cutting back on commitments to extracurriculars and friends. The refrain, “Oh, sorry, I can’t — I’m in midterms” can feel like the motto of the Hilltop.

Dedicating an occasional weekend to studying no doubt builds character, but I believe weekends should also leave space for relaxing,

visiting the Smithsonian, watching marathons of “Game of Thrones” and sharing one — or three — Baked and Wired cupcakes with friends.

In my experience, these times are more valuable to my education as a person than cramming for three separate economics midterms.

Stress is unavoidable at a competitive university like Georgetown, but for our sanity, we must do our best to minimize it. And while condensing midterms might make

a one-week period more stressful than it would normally have been, the resulting value for the rest of the semester would far outweigh this cost.

The root of the problematic midterm season is the way professors define a midterm. It has become typical for a course to have two or even three papers or tests designated as midterms. They are given this designation to emphasize their large percentage of the course grade, and to this extent the proliferation of midterms makes sense. But using the word “midterm” exponentially increases the stress we associate with it.

Not only would it be easy to refer to midterms in classes with multiple assessments as tests to reduce stress, but “test” is a more fitting name anyway. If you have two inclass midterms, a paper midterm and a final, there is no mathematical way that each midterm is actually worth a percentage of your grade consistent with its name.

I’m no psychologist, but I’m sure that just referring to all of these examinations as tests instead of midterms would diminish the frenzy of midterm culture.

Tests are an important part of college, but they shouldn’t be the only part. The university should shorten midterm season to allow us to enjoy the rest of the Hilltop.

Max Magerman is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service.

ENGAGING BIOETHICS

VIEWPOINT • Boyden

How Fundamental Pornography Sells Our Sexuality Short Is the Right to Life?

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ou’ve been studying all woman is no longer even a pernight. Your roommate’s son. Porn takes a woman’s body, gone.

You’re stressed. something sacred, and turns it You’re tired. You also have this into a slab of meat that is only other feeling. You pull out your valuable insofar as its ability to laptop or smartphone. It starts satisfy the urges of lustful men. with an innocent enough Google Perhaps most deceptively, search. Soon, it escalates. Eventu- porn gives unrealistic expectaally, you find yourself on a pretty tions about human sexuality. raunchy website. It continues to Few women have the double-D escalate. A few minutes later, it’s breasts that dominate porn sites. all over. You quickly delete your Few women delight in being browser history. You lie down in physically used and abused, as bed, pondering the strange mix- is so often the case in porn. Not ture of satisfaction, confusion, to mention that the sexual acts disgust and self-loathing that commonly performed in porn you feel as you fall asleep. are a far cry from what most What I just described is the re- people will ever do in their real lationship that most guys have lives. What is shown in porn is with pornography. The best stat simply an illusion — an illusion that I’ve heard is this: 95 percent that many come to mistake for of men have viewed pornogra- reality. phy — the other 5 percent are lyFinally, porn is unbelievably ing. I don’t know a single guy my addictive. A recent study shows age who hasn’t watched porn at that porn can be more addicleast once. Not a single one. It tive than cocaine. Most people saturates our culture, yet no one that watch porn don’t watch it talks about it — not friends, not just once. For many, it slowly families, not develops professors, into a daily not priests. routine.

You deserve better than Sure, disFor some, it cussing turns into pornography. porn is awkan addicLet’s talk about it. ward and tion.

This embarrassaddiction ing, but I corrodes the think it’s time that we started imagination while simultanehaving those conversations. ously intensifying sexual desire.

Porn is destructive, and it’s time Eventually, there is no personal that we started admitting it. discipline, no attempt to avoid I suppose that the first star- porn. Yet like most addictions, tling aspect of pornography is users are ashamed, consuming its almost universal acceptance porn only when they are alone as a part of life. Last year, porn and refusing to admit that they came up in a conversation I was have a problem. having with a friend. “Boys will I was personally addicted be boys,” she said. “I expect them to pornography for four long to watch porn.” years. Even now, there are some I was shocked, yet her views are days that the temptation is held by most people. Whether or there, stronger than ever. Only not they personally agree with through my faith and the help it, most accept that porn use, of some close friends and famespecially by men, is just part ily was I able to realize that of life. I’d beg to differ: Women, porn wasn’t truly satisfying. It don’t accept it. You deserve bet- wasn’t helping me; it was only ter. Challenge your boyfriends to hurting. It wasn’t showing me be better than that. If they truly what authentic love really is; it love you, they won’t resort to was only stunting my ability to their right hand and some seedy respect women and to truly love. websites anytime they “get that For everyone reading this who is feeling.” The same goes for you, struggling with porn: There is my fellow men: You don’t have help out there. There are friends to watch porn and masturbate and family struggling with the to be “manly.” In fact, I’d argue exact same issue: Don’t be afraid that porn has no place in true to admit your weakness and masculinity. reach out — don’t be afraid to Aside from its utter pervasive- talk about it. The next time you ness, porn is undeniably damag- get that sweaty-palms feeling, ing for everyone involved, from I’d challenge you to not give into actors to viewers. Why? Because your need for instant gratificaporn takes something mesmer- tion. You are better than that. izingly beautiful — human sexu- You deserve better. You can do ality — and exploits it. Porn is better — let’s talk about it. the epitome of objectification.

Nobody watches porn for its ar- Patrick Boyden is a senior in the tistic merit or its character de- College. He is co-president of velopment. Rather, they simply Love Saxa and a member of the ogle a woman’s parts. In porn, a Knights of Columbus.

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Students for Justice in Palestine and the Georgetown Israel Alliance, two groups usually at odds, are coming together with J Street U Georgetown to co-sponsor a film screening Nov. 6 about issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The screening of “The Other Son,” a fictional film about a Palestinian and an Israeli who are switched at birth, marks the first time the GIA and SJP have collaborated.

“We’re often seated next to each other at the SAC fair, and it’s just awkward,” SJP President Albert Doumar (SFS ’15) said. “They throw an Israel independence celebration, and we protest it. For SJP, Independence Day in Israel is also the displacement of our students.

There are basic facts that create a barrier in terms of cooperation. ... There were attempts to reach out to co-sponsor an event, but nothing ever came together, and it was very negative and not constructive.”

GIA President Nitzan Gabai (SFS 16) said that the two groups have mainly ignored each other, and that GIA invited SJP to cosponsor an event earlier this year but received no reply.

“There had not been any contact,” Gabai said. “On my part, there’s kind of a lack of knowledge of past events. I think each side had their own take on these relations, and we agreed to disagree.”

J Street U Georgetown, a group which aims for a peaceful, two-state solution to the conflict in the Middle East, initiated the collaboration.

“It occurred to me it would be really powerful if at a place like Georgetown … we could have one evening where we brought together everyone who is interested in this conflict for a dialogue about the

conflict,” J Street Treasurer Elijah Jatovsky (SFS ’16), who planned the event, said.

“Georgetown students have more of a desire to understand the nuances of the conflict.”

Despite this tension, Jatovsky said that both groups’ leadership were enthusiastic about the opportunity to collaborate.

“I give a lot of credit to both sides as being interested in doing this,” he said. “There’s so much pressure from both extremes to not want to collaborate, and it’s a testament to Georgetown’s students’ desire to see a peaceful resolution to the conflict.”

Doumar was cautiously optimistic about the event.

“There was no reason to say no,” he said. “We don’t know exactly what to expect, but it’s a good foundation for possible future operation. We’re hoping to foster a basis for communication on an issue where it’s easy for emotions to get in the way of constructive debate.”

“On other campuses, I’ve heard of these collaborative events going wrong,” he added. “We’ve had that in mind putting it together: How do we keep this safe?”

Jatovsky said that he hopes this event sets an example for other groups.

“So often on college campuses, the dialogue is so polarized to the extent that people won’t even talk to one another,” he said. “As a movement, we believe that’s a huge problem. We believe the only way is with respectful dialogue on both sides.”

Gabai and Doumar both said they hope GIA and SJP will collaborate again in the future.

“For us it’s a chance to put out some feelers out, to see what’s out there and see what comes from this,” said Doumar. “I don’t know how much I’m expecting.”

In 1988, a group of eight friends went Christmas caroling in Georgetown Hospital.

Twenty-five years later, their legacy, Phantoms, sing at the White House during the holiday season.

The university’s first coed a cappella group is celebrating its 25th anniversary at the D.C. A Cappella Festival and Alumni Event on Nov. 9.

The original members largely saw themselves as a group that would fill a gap on campus by showcasing a cappella singers of both genders alongside each other. Founding member Marielaina Sundo DeRose (CAS ’91) recalled Phantom Singers’ first performance at the Cherry Tree Massacre as a pivotal point in the group’s transition to an established a cappella group, joining the all-male Chimes and all-female GraceNotes.

“It was a very small musical world at the time, so Cherry Tree and the GraceNotes and the Chimes were all people really knew,” she said. “The Cherry Tree Massacre opened the door to us being accepted by the Georgetown community.”

The Phantoms, whose members were all originally in the Bicentennial Choir, first got its name while caroling at the office of former College Dean Fr. Royden B. Davis, S.J. “We walked into Fr. Davis’ office, and we were singing for the staff there, and we had around dozen Christmas carols that we memorized in harmony,” founding member Tom Steinthal (CAS ’90) said. “We sang those, and someone asked what we were called, and Travis, one of the tenors, said ‘Oh we’re the phantom singers because no one knows who we are, where we’re going to go or where we’re going to show up next, including us.’ Over the next couple of days, we thought that was a good name for us.”

The Phantoms named Margo Heher (FLL ’91) as president and Huey Jin Soon (CAS ’91) as musical director in January 1989. In its early stages, the group, which had two members to a musical part, focused on finding new members, forming an identity and building a repertoire of music.

“I think the most important thing I can say about the whole experience is that it started as being friends who wanted to do this,” DeRose said. “I’m shocked that 25 years later, it is what it is. It’s almost astonishing that it’s just a huge part of Georgetown.”

With Phantoms established, Soon set out to create original arrangements for the group to sing. Soon said that she most enjoyed arranging “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” by Simon and Garfunkel and “Africa” by Toto, which Phantoms still perform today.

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The Phantoms perform on Georgetown Day last year. The group started 25 years ago when eight friends went Christmas caroling at GU hospital.

“It’s funny because you guys are so used to your computers and all that technology now. But you have to understand that back in our day and age, I sat in the library with a cassette tape and earphones and wrote out the parts that I heard,” she said. “I’d have to write out music by ear and figure out the arrangement by ear. I would have a basic arrangement written down, and as we sang it, we might change it or add to it.”

Soon said that one of her favorite memories of the original group was when they sold “Valengrams,” students serenading on Valentine’s Day to raise money for music and equipment.

“We actually sang to a lot of professors,” Soon said. “There was this one science professor that everyone loved, and we walked in and sang a love song to him, and the whole class was cracking up.”

Current member and Business Manager Nick Oki (COL ’14) joined Phantoms as a freshman two decades later. Though he said audition week was one of the most stressful of his time at Georgetown, Oki quickly found a community within Phantoms.

Oki said it is especially appropriate that The Phantoms get together once a year to carol, because that’s how the group originally started. Caroling at the White House was one his favorite memories with Phantoms.

“We stand inside the lobby, right in front of the front doors of the White House, and people are walking by looking at the Blue Room and the East Room ... and they can hear us caroling the whole time. If you go to school at Georgetown, you get a lot of exposure to the monuments and the government, but it’s very rare to be singing in the

White House,” Oki said.

Looking to opportunities like Oki’s, Soon is proud of how far the group has come since she helped establish it.

“The group has gone far beyond our imaginations. For all of us who started it, we didn’t know where it was going. We just thought it was cool, that it was what we wanted to do and that it filled a big, huge gap at the school,” she said.

With all eight original members dispersed around the globe, Steinthal said he is impressed that the group still exists at all.

“It’s amazing that when we left and moved on or went off to different parts of the world, the spirit of Phantoms remained at Georgetown,” he said. “That’s a testament to the power of the group.”

Reflecting on the growth of the group, DeRose said that she does not think that she could become a Phantom if she auditioned for the group as it exists now.

“I would have to say that probably today, I would not get in the group. That’s always the way a successful group is,” she said. “It’s remarkable to me that a group can get so good, and I am happy to watch them and cheer them on.”

Phantoms alumna Caitlin Cassidy (COL ’11), who hopes to attend the 25th anniversary event, said she is excited to reunite with multiple classes of younger and older Phantoms, as well as Phantoms she performed with, whom she considers family.

“The best part of it for me was that it was a real family, which is hard to find,” she said. “I never would have thought that I would get to do a cappella, but it turned out to be the best thing I did at Georgetown.”

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The Georgetown University Student Association is forming a Socioeconomic Working Group, which GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) promised to do during their election campaign in March.

The committee, led by GUSA Secretary of Social Justice Brittney Blakely (COL ’14), is aiming to develop a comprehensive report on the effects of socioeconomic status at Georgetown, similar to the LGBTQ Safety and Security Report created by the last GUSA administration.

“We want to get a group together just to assess the situation because we don’t know everything there is to know,” Tisa said. “It’s something that GUSA has a responsibility and an ability to investigate and use that investigation, use that information that we come out with to make change.”

Potential goals of the committee include better utilizing services al-

ready offered to students from lowincome families and holding finance advisory sessions at the beginning of each semester. The executives, however, acknowledged that the immediate effects the committee could have on campus life are limited.

“I cannot necessarily change a professor ordering a book that he deems necessary for a class,” Ramadan said.

“So I guess we’re already starting to do what I want to see come out of this committee, which is just the awareness on campus.”

For Tisa, Ramadan and Blakely, socioeconomic status is a personal issue, as it is for many students on campus. Tisa is a financial aid recipient, while Ramadan is a member of the Georgetown Scholarship Program and Blakely has worked three jobs since arriving at Georgetown.

“I think in both of our cases, it didn’t limit what we were able to do, but we were certainly conscious of it,” Tisa said of himself and Ramadan.

“We certainly saw how, for many students, it’s a big issue. We saw how it

can certainly impact the Georgetown experience.”

The committee stemmed from the sentiment that socioeconomic status was often ignored in campus discussions.

“When we talk about diversity at Georgetown, oftentimes it’s diversity of thought or diversity of culture, but socioeconomic diversity also falls into that,” Ramadan said. “Sometimes it gets overlooked.”

Blakely agreed that socioeconomic disparity affects many at Georgetown.

“It’s personal, but it also applies to so many students here,” Blakely said.

“There’s a large group of students now who do not have a certain socioeconomic status, and that does present problems.”

She hopes the committee will start a conversation on campus. “[Socioeconomic status] does impact social life, academic life, personal functioning. [It] affects all of it,” Blakely said. “We just want to begin the dialogue.”

Ryan and Mulledy, pictured in spring 2012, have been abandoned since 2003 and will require much renovation to serve as housing.

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“GUSA was bold on this one.

We took some risks, and it paid off,” Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) said. “We’ve seen that that has really changed direction in a really great way.

Now we’re talking about having a fantastic historic space repurposed as housing.”

Administrators had previously expressed a desire to preserve Ryan and Mulledy as part of the academic center of campus in Dahlgren Quadrangle.

“From a truly master planning perspective, we would like to think of that as an academic core,” Morey said. “Having said that, we want to try to satisfy all of our constituents, and [because] it used to be a residence, it kind of made sense to go back and visit that.”

Though administrators are hopeful this plan will allow the university to meet its fall 2015 housing requirement, North-

east Triangle has been affected by significant delays. After OGB asked to see revisions to the original design in July — a decision in line with significant student and alumni objections to those designs — the university planned to present changes at the board’s October meeting.

Because that meeting was cancelled due to the federal government shutdown, the opportunity for approval was pushed to the OGB December meeting.

Ryan and Mulledy will not require as extensive of an approval process because the university will be renovating old buildings, rather than constructing a new one.

“With the Old Georgetown Board and the student engagement we’ve had, it has definitely pushed us a few months, and the schedule challenged us,” Morey said. “We want to make sure we’re not doing this just because of the commitment. We do believe that long term, this is the right thing to create the capacity for a living and learning environment right here.”

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Through Relay for Life, students fundraise for cancer research and provide personal support for cancer patients. A new organization, Take the Fight, is turning that personal support long-term by partnering students with recently diagnosed cancer patients at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The students will serve as advocates for their patients, with duties ranging from attending their partners’ appointments to keeping medical information organized, a structure developed last year at Wake Forest University, home of the organization’s only other chapter.

“It’s a very interactive process, not at all observation,” founder Jamie Schlarbaum (NHS ’15) said. “You’re basically your patient’s health advocate … all the while walking that fine line between not undermining the physician and not taking too much action for your patient.”

Take the Fight board member Margaret Krackeler (NHS ’16) said participants in the program will play a vital role in their assigned patient’s battle with cancer.

“The undergraduate students are really valuable because they’re interested in this, so then they can go out and do research,” Krackeler said.

“They can provide extra information or ask more questions that maybe the patient wouldn’t have the energy or the time to do.”

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nior at Wake Forest involved in the program, volunteers have the opportunity to help their patients take an increasingly enterprising approach to their disease. “[Patients] can take such a more proactive role in their own treatment,” Lessans said. “There are so many different therapies that are offered, clinical trials that they could be involved with that maybe their doctor doesn’t know about, so it’s our role to help explain to the patient about their cancer so that they

become an expert on their cancer.”

Applications to join Georgetown’s chapter are due Nov. 10. Members will attend an orientation in January before beginning to work with patients.

Physicians and nurses at the Lombardi center will identify patients they think would benefit from the program, and patients will also have the opportunity to opt in on their own. Participating patients can choose which volunteers they want to partner with after viewing brief video clips of the students.

“It’s kind of trailblazing something into healthcare that could revolutionize healthcare,” Take the Fight board member Kathleen Osea (NHS ’16) said.

Christine Tea, assistant vice president of clinical relations at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, was hopeful that the program would benefit patients at the center.

“We are very pleased to be working with the exceptional students of Georgetown to offer this incredible program to our patients,” Tea said.

“Take the Fight offers a unique approach in arming patients with the confidence, knowledge and support to fight their disease.”

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A month after its usual hiring season, The Corp posted a call for two new Midnight MUG employees last Wednesday.

Though mid-semester hiring is uncommon, Midnight MUG required more manpower than expected due to non-work-related employee injuries and increased demand. The application will remain open until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. Students of Georgetown, Inc. Director of Human Resources Deanna Arthur (SFS ’14) said that the number of applicants was not available because the application was still live.

“A few of our employees have had injuries mid-semester that make it really difficult for them to work a full shift load at Midnight, and this situation pushed us to need a few more hands on deck,” Corp CEO

Lizzy MacGill (COL ’14) said.

These non-work-related injuries have increased the workload on the 84 staff members of Midnight MUG, according to Midnight MUG Director Elise Mixon (COL ’15).

“While I have been extremely impressed with the amount of Midnight MUG employees who have stepped up to help out their fellow employees, the fact remains, however, that we are all still full-time students, and working that much all the time is not sustainable, nor enjoyable,” Mixon said.

The need for an expanded workforce has been reinforced by the high demand for Midnight MUG services.

“Midnight MUG is always a particularly busy store,” Arthur said.

“We are more so hiring to make sure that none of Midnight MUG’s shifts are understaffed with the holes that have opened up this semester.”

The two new hires are expected to

decrease the workload on the coffee shop’s employees during the especially busy finals season.

“With our current number of employees we wouldn’t be able to adequately serve our fellow students during that time of need,” Arthur said.

Despite the unusual timing of this application, the hiring process – which generally leads to the acceptance of less than 10 percent of applicants each semester – will remain the same, adjusted to a quicker timeline.

Midnight MUG will have the same standards for new hires that it does during the normal hiring season, according to Mixon.

“We are looking for the same type of employee we always hire: someone who is hardworking, engaged with the Georgetown community and interested in serving their peers,” Mixon said.

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“We were doing it out of an abundance of advice from the Office of Student Affairs as a triple check on it, and also as just a way to be transparent and share information with the student body, which we’re very committed to doing,” he said.

Meanwhile, the week since Tisa’s veto has largely been portrayed as a power struggle between the student government and the SIPS Fund board.

Former GUSA President and SIPS Fund Co-Founder Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) came to the defense of the fund in the aftermath of the veto.

Gustafson endorsed Tisa’s primary opponent in February’s election.

“I think GUSA is just being a little too power mongering. If things are talked about ahead of time and SIPS did talk to the senate committee beforehand, there shouldn’t be any misunderstandings or need for the executive office to veto it,” Gustafson said. “This past week has been GUSA wasting its time in a power battle that means nothing to anyone but themselves.”

Tisa maintained his veto did not overstretch GUSA power but required the student government to fulfill its duty.

Anthony objected to concerns that, in seeking approval to give grants, SIPS would exhaust its resources.

“It was never our intention of going in trying to pass this through the senate and then giving away $200,000 of the GRLF in grants within the first year,” she said.

Although the SIPS Fund is opening applications without

the formal approval of the GUSA senate and maintains that it is independent of the student association, it has decided to make an annual presentation to the senate on the status of the GRLF. SIPS has yet to settle on the maximum number of grants it would allocate each year to ensure the longevity of the fund.

“SIPS has been independent of GUSA since the referendum.

But that doesn’t release GUSA from our responsibility to represent students, who voted for a specific proposal,” Tisa said.

“When SIPS looked to adjust its mission and came asking us whether or not we thought their original mission included grants, we had an obligation to go back to the original documents, look at what students voted for and make sure students are getting what they voted for before we give our confirmation to the administrators who asked for it.”

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After months of delays, Hoya Court construction has finished, and the food vendors should begin service later this week in a soft opening, featuring reduced hours and service prior to a grand opening Nov. 5.

“We had a few hiccups with getting our final permits for the health inspections — our last one is tomorrow,” Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joelle Wiese said yesterday.

Hoya Court received its certificate of occupancy on Friday, which will allow vendors Subway, Elevation Burger and Salad Creations to apply for Department of Health inspections.

“On Thursday, we’re hoping that the divider will be down and the stores will be open for shortened hours,” Morey said.

The delays stemmed from problems within the city regulatory agencies but have not af-

fected the grand opening date.

“The delay was really [the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs]; it was beyond our control. They just had delays pushing stuff through their system,” Chief Business Officer Deborah Morey said.

Despite the holdup with permits, the businesses have still been preparing for the opening.

“All of the employees are hired, they’ve been doing some training [and] we’ve been doing as much as we can,” Josetta Moore, district manager for Aramark, said. Aramark will operate the Hoya Court locations.

On Tuesday, temporary services in the Leavey Center, including Einstein Bros Bagels and Roasted, will cease and revert to pre-construction operations.

“The plan is that [Tuesday], after business, Einstein will go back to Regents Hall and Roasted will go away,” Wiese said.

“Wednesday is kind of an influx day; we’ll be training and mov-

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Hoya Court features new signage in preparation for the delayed opening of the cafeteria’s three new restaurants Nov. 5.

ing all the food in. We’ll be working with all those pieces for the soft opening.”

Roasted, currently operating in Hoya Court, will close, but it may be re-open in the future, as the administration has received positive feedback on the cart.

Subway, which has been where Grab ‘n’ Go used to be, will move back to Hoya Court.

“None of Subway’s equipment is coming back. All of the Hoya Court equipment is brand new, so it’s the latest and greatest technology that Subway has,” Wiese said. “It’s just the staffing that’s moving. After Wednesday, the Subway employees will just start to work here.”

The Marketplace Express Grab ‘n’ Go, which is currently located on carts in the hallway, will move back across to its former location, where Subway is now.

The shortened hours will lengthen throughout the weekend, as the grand opening approaches.

Wiese said that they are looking at opening the storefronts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“It all depends on when we pass the department of health inspection, as soon as we get that passed, it will determine what happens on what date,” she said.

According to Wiese, concept training for most vendors has occurred off site, with the exception of Subway.

“We also have trainers from each of the brands who will be here — through the soft opening into the grand opening — on site with us to help the employees with anything they might need assistance with,” Moore said.

The grand opening Nov. 5 will take place at 10:30 a.m.

“The mascot will make an appearance, and there will be sampling,” Wiese said. “It will be a lot of fun. We don’t want to give it all away though.”

Condom Delivery Backlash CHOICE, from A1 most urgent problems of Georgetown’s current hookup culture, like the high rate of sexual violence committed against women,” Schilling said. “Instead, it will likely perpetuate the same culture responsible for these problems in the first place.”

Narefsky expressed frustration with this disapproval.

“I find that really shocking. Some of these claims I find offensive, I find them unfounded,” Narefsky said. “I think it’s dangerous to make those kinds of claims. Sex isn’t a dirty word. Protecting yourself in every way possible is a good thing and something we should not shy away from.”

“Our trial run was at a GU Pride party that went really well,” Narefsky said. “It was all inconspicuously in the corner, and all 40 condoms we had there were taken. For us, that was great. We couldn’t have asked for anything better.”

Disapproval for the new initiative has not been limited to the university’s Catholic community. Amin Gharad (COL ’16), a student coordinator of the Muslim Interest Living

Community, also voiced concern.

“It’s not just the distribution of condoms that disturbs me, but the fact that efforts are being made to facilitate and tacitly approve of a lifestyle of extramarital sexual relations,” Gharad said. “As a Muslim, it’s not a lifestyle I could ever nod approvingly toward, but, at the same time, it’s a much more deeply rooted problem than something that either banning or distributing condoms will ever be able to solve.”

Gharad acknowledged, however, that his opinion is likely in the minority.

“I’d also venture to say that those who share my views with regards to sexual behavior and the usage of intoxicants are quite few and far between on American college campuses in the year 2013,” he said.

Despite this criticism, the increased attention on H*yas for Choice has largely been positive for the group.

“I definitely wouldn’t say we tried to make a big deal about this, but all press is good press for us,” H*yas for Choice Treasurer Sarah Madoff (COL ’16) said.

The organization currently

receives free condoms from the Department of Health and Human Services, Planned Parenthood and The Great American Condom Campaign.

The recent press drew the attention of Condom Nation, a condom distribution organization that provides mobile HIV testing.

“Condom Nation has been intrigued by our program and supportive of us and wants to partner with us in the future because they see that this is an important service that we’re providing,” Narefsky said.

Narefsky recognized the potential for publicity on the program to present the image of a more tolerant Georgetown than one typically associated with Catholic universities.

“Via this media coverage, people can see the progressive shift among modern American religious organizations, and that Georgetown understands and respects students’ rights,” she said. “We value our Jesuit education so much, but even if what we are doing goes against the teachings of the Catholic Church, we are still members of this community, and our actions should still be allowed to be performed.”

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D.C.’s Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and the Committee on Finance and Revenue called for the passage of new minimum wage and sick leave legislature Monday.

The committee, co-chaired by D.C. Councilmembers Vincent Orange (D-Ward 5) and Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), convened for a panel-style event that attracted an audience of about 100.

“It’s time to come together, leave no one behind, give everybody the opportunity to not only be a part of one city, but also to be a part of one dream, one future,” Orange said.

Evans, who played an integral role in the last major minimum wage debate a decade ago, encouraged attendees to consider the effects of a minimum wage increase on both employee living conditions and business owners’ decisions to move their companies to or from D.C. “The best approach, as I see it, would be if the federal government and Congress would move forward and raise the minimum wage nationwide,” Evans said, adding that gridlock in Congress has forced the issue to become a local one.

Orange said that an increase of the minimum wage beyond the current $8.25 an hour is essential to the success of lowincome workers.

“Anyone who gets up every day and goes to work and works extremely hard should have the opportunity to have access to affordable housing, access to healthcare, to be able to ensure that their children get a good

education, and it all starts with a good wage so [they] can pay their bills,” he said.

Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) said that it is important to keep promises to support the working poor, stating that D.C.’s minimum wage has not kept pace with the dramatic increase in living costs in the city in the past decade.

“As a government, I don’t think we’ve done all that we can to ensure that we are not building up a city where only the wealthy can live,” Grosso said.

Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) expressed disappointment in Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto of the Large Retailer Accountability Act in September, which would have required large retailers to pay employees at least $12.50 an hour.

“We want people working, and we want to invest in people. But we want jobs that pay a living wage and that makes self-sufficiency economically viable at the end of all the supports and training programs,” he said. “So that’s my commitment today to work with my colleagues to ensure that we come out of this with something much better than the bill we rejected.”

D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director Ed Lazere agreed that increased worker compensation and benefits would benefit workers without harming the economy.

“Some will argue that the District cannot make the changes we’re talking about today without putting our economy at risk, yet the bulk of the research on both the minimum wage and paid sick leave suggests that we can in fact help D.C. workers without harming D.C.’s economy,” he said.

2011 DC Fracking Ban Called Into Question in a national forest and the surrounding communities. period ended in October 2011.

“It’s perfectly consistent for the forest ser“The U.S. Service received overwhelming vice to say, ‘We don’t think that fracking is a public comments in support of the ban on good fit with all the other values on the GW horizontal drilling,” she said. “53,000 people National Forest,’ but then also to allow gas commented, which is a lot for what’s gener- drilling on other public lands in the counally sort of a boring forest plan.” try,” Wofford said.

Ninety-five percent of the comments supHorwitt urged the service not to cede to ported the ban on horizontal drilling. the demands of the oil and gas industry.

Major players within the oil and gas indus“What’s at stake here is drinking water for try also sent letters expressing their views, more than 4 million people, and a spectacuincluding Halliburton Energy, who declined lar place where more than a million people to comment for this article, and the Inde- go for recreation every year,” he said. pendent Petroleum Association of America State and local governments and officials and the American Petroleum Institute, who have written numerous letters requesting did not respond by press the forest service to time. protect the water from The American Petropossible contamination. leum Institute counThe D.C. Water and Sewtered the concerns er Authority together around horizontal drillwith the Washington ing with an economic Aqueduct sent comargument. ments expressing their “The U.S. oil and concerns about water natural gas industry contamination.

The DUSTY HORWITT (LAW ’02) supports 9.2 million Washington Aqueduct, Earthworks Senior Analyst domestic jobs and coma subset of the U.S. Army prises more than 7.5 percent of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, manages a portion of economy,” the API wrote in its letter, adding the water in D.C. and the Arlington and Falls that a ban on horizontal drilling “would Church regions of Virginia. frustrate efforts to reduce U.S. reliance on “As you consider finalizing the EIS [the U.S. foreign sources of energy and hurt efforts Forest Service’s Draft Environmental Impact to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions Statement], we urge you to remember the faby preventing more cost-competitive, clean- miliar saying: ‘an ounce of prevention is worth burning natural gas from coming to mar- a pound of cure,’” the Fairfax County Water kets.”

Authority wrote in a letter to the forest service.

Dusty Horwitt (LAW ’02), a senior analyst Local political figures have also urged the at Earthworks, a nonprofit environmental forest service to consider citizens’ concerns, advocacy group, suggested that the U.S. For- including senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and est Service’s change in position may be a Mark Warner (D-Va.) and eight other memresult of the pressure from the oil and gas bers of Congress representing the region. industry.

“When you’re talking about a place that’s “The oil and gas industry, however, has a as sensitive and important to drinking water tremendous amount of power,” he said. “The supplies as the George Washington National drilling industry tends to be very aggressive Forest, it doesn’t make sense to allow an inin criticizing government officials and oth- herently risky process,” Horwitt said. “The ers who raise legitimate concerns about the forest service made the right recommendasafety of drilling.” tion in its draft plan, and they should stick Wofford pointed out that forest plans with that plan when they make their final are created specifically to fit the resources decision.”

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“What’s at stake here is the drinking water for more than 4 million people.”

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A Degree in Mini-Medicine WWII Poland Massacre

Remembered in ICC

Kit Clemente

Special to The Hoya

At the Georgetown University Medical Center, a group of students study medicine and health without the goal of becoming doctors.

The Mini-Medical School was born out of an effort to relieve student-neighbor tensions 18 years ago.

“There was a lot of unrest. The students were disruptive, and we wanted to show the local community that Georgetown has a place as an educational institution that has something to offer everybody,” Mini-Medical School Co-Director Herbert Herscowitz, a professor of microbiology and immunology, said. “It was really community outreach to appease them. It also gave us an opportunity to show off what we did to the community. The hospital was in a little bit of financial trouble at that time, and we thought if people saw what can be done at Georgetown, that might boost some business at the hospital as well.”

The course attempts to mimic a formal medical school curriculum by splitting the semester, which includes eight lectures, between the basic and clinical sciences, using the same material as the School of Medicine.

Topics vary based on students’ requests, with this semester’s including anatomy, pharmacology, mind-body medicine, infectious diseases, psychiatry, dermatology, orthopedic surgery, obstetric care and genetics.

Each class is two hours long and generally contains a lecture with a question-and-answer session.

“For us, this is service,” MiniMedical School Co-Director Carlos Suarez-Quian, a professor of biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology, said. “We don’t get compensated in any way, shape or form when we speak to the public. … When we ask faculty to do it, nobody ever says no to us, and nobody ever refuses to come back a second time.”

Students are also exposed to hands-on learning experiences,

Mallika Sen

for awareness and accompanying dialogue.

“So far, I see, yes, people stop by, peoThe Intercultural Center is playing host ple read about the exhibition, and this is to an exhibition highlighting the World probably the most important for me,” SaWar II-era Katyn Massacre in Poland, the dowska said. result of Georgetown’s new partnership Throughout 2013, the panels have been with Poland’s Institute of National Re- displayed at different universities in the membrance.

United States and will return to Poland af“Operation AB – Katyn: The Destruc- ter the conclusion of the Georgetown extion of the Polish Elite at the Beginning hibition. Sadowska was inspired to work of World War II,” which will run through with the Institute of National RememWednesday, is a travelling exhibition that brance after previously viewing an exhibibelongs to Poland’s Institute of National tion on the Solidarity movement.

Remembrance. The institute collaborated “Georgetown is one of the leaders … with the Center of Eurasian, Russian and with its School of Foreign Service and East European Studies, the department of Georgetown is located in Washington and Slavic languages and the Embassy of the [we wanted] to bring this to Georgetown, Republic of Poland to bring the exhibit to to Washington D.C. – the heart of the U.S. campus.

– in order to ask quesDiscussions retions,” Sadowska said. garding bringing The massacre, which the Katyn exhibit to took place in Katyn ForGeorgetown started est in 1940, was orchesin May, and the four trated by the Soviet sekey players in this excret police and resulted hibit plan to work toin the deaths of more gether to bring more than 20,000 Polish naexhibits to Georgetionals. town next year.

“For those interested IWONA SADOWSKA “Katyn Massacre Professor of Russian and Polish in a Stalinist crime that is one of the war has cast a long shadow crimes that happened during the 20th over Polish-Russian relations, the exhibit century. I thought, maybe with this ex- in ICC is well worth studying,” history hibition, we would ask more questions professor Michael David-Fox said. “The about the war crimes in general,” Iwona 1940 massacre in Katyn, where a joint Sadowska, a professor of Russian and Polish-Russian monument now stands, Polish, said. “I hope that our students at was an important moment in the unprecGeorgetown will look deeper in the case edented political violence.” of Katyn and will develop more interest The installation is divided into differinto different war crimes and atrocities, ent themes, encompassing the invasion and maybe they can find answers.” and occupation of Poland, the planning The exhibit was installed Oct. 21, fol- behind the mass killing, victim profiles lowed by a grand opening Oct. 22, with and the operation’s place in the larger remarks from Polish ambassador Ryszard fabric of the war.

Schnepf and Institute of National Remem“The exhibit is very detailed and thorbrance historian Krzysztof Persak, both ough. It clearly explains and illustrates of whom spoke of the massacre and its the historic causes and human suffering importance for Poles and the Georgetown of the Katyn tragedy with moving and community. accurate narratives and depictions,” said Sadowska noted that the opening co- Benjamin Loring, associate director of incided with a ruling from the European the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East Human Rights Court, which chastised European Studies. “Through this underRussia for failing to properly investigate standing, the viewer can gain an apprecithe massacre but asserted that the court ation for the complex nature of Poland’s had no jurisdiction in the matter, anger- present-day relations with its eastern ing many in Poland. She stressed the need neighbors.”

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Some Mini-Med School regulars, many of whom are Georgetown neighbors, have participated for as long as 17 years. such as a session where current medical students present various cadavers. Upon completion of the program, participants receive a “Doctor of Mini-Medicine” certificate.

Five-time Mini-Medical student Chick Anderson emphasized the applicability of the information learned through the program.

“There was an advertisement in The Washington Post about three years ago that said, ‘Hey, do you ever wonder what those doctors are talking about?’” Anderson said. “At that time, my mother was having a lot of medical problems, so it seemed like it was designed especially for me.”

Participants in the course hail from an array of backgrounds, professions and ages, from retirees curious about health issues to high-school students attracted to the pre-med track.

“The first time I came, the first night, I was surprised. I was expecting to see about a hundred octogenarians, and there were a lot of young people, so I was very pleased to see the age spread, and I wondered whether most of these young people are actually studying to be doctors,” Mini-Medical student Anthony Turner said.

David Chin (COL ’12) was one of those students.

“I already knew a long time ago that I wanted to apply to medical school — this was just to keep myself active and just keep learning,”

Chin said.

Thanks to the knowledge that Mini-Medical School provides, Anderson said that learning about the body and drugs in the program inspired him to stop taking many of his medications and to change his diet and exercise.

“I lost 20 pounds. My cholesterol went down. My blood pressure went down,” he said. “Last week, I went and told the professor, ‘You changed my life 18 months ago because of your class.’”

Two-time Mini-Medical student Sally Smith said that the program would help prepare her for future medical issues and communicate more effectively with her doctors.

“I have a better idea of what’s going on and questions that I can ask,” she said. “There’s a lot of practical knowledge, background knowledge that’s really important, I think, so if certain issues come up, at least you’ve got a little more background so that you can ask more appropriate questions.”

According to Suarez-Quian, the program’s popularity has only increased over the years, and the program has met its 200-person capacity each semester. Some students have attended at least one semester of each year for the past 10 years.

“What’s surprising to me is how dedicated some of these students that attend have been. In fact, we jokingly say, ‘Oh, we have our groupies,’” Suarez-Quian said.

“I hope that our students at Georgetown will look deeper into the case of Katyn.”

TEDX TALKS CHANGE

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“Do you believe that you can be the change?”

JOHN J. DEGIOIA

STEVE RADELET

BILL NOVELLI

FOR OTHERS

SONAL SHAH

MARY MCFARLAND

SONAL SHAH Professor of Practice

“Change can only happen in the present. We are all so busy anticipating the future, we don’t ground ourselves in the now.”

THE WHOLE PERSON

GLOBAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

The third annual TEDx Georgetown brought 11 speakers to address the theme of “Changemakers” in Gaston Hall on Saturday. The three sessions each focused on different areas of change: global human development, the whole person and for others. Speakers, including students and professors, focused on subjects specific to Georgetown, in a topical shift in the conference’s third year. University President John J. DeGioia, in his first time participating, curated the makeup of the “Global Human Development” segment.

FRANCIS SLAKEY

ELIZABETH STANLEY SFS Professor

HEATHER ARTINIAN (COL ’15)

ELIZABETH STANLEY

MIKE SEIDMAN

RASHAWN DAVIS (COL ’14)

“Struggle for change takes understanding, love and resilience.”

RASHAWN DAVIS COL ’14

JIMMY RAMIREZ (COL ’15)

James Habyarimana

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any NFL teams hit the halfway point in their seasons this past week, and it is safe to say that there are plenty of fascinating storylines developing. Many conventional predictions have held up so far, albeit in remarkable fashion; the Jaguars are not just bad but historically bad, the battle for supremacy in the NFC West has been more tumultuous than anticipated due to the 49ers’ meteoric performance swings from week to week and although everyone expected Andrew Luck and the Colts to be good, no one expected them to rise to the level of the elites so soon. There have been plenty of shocks as well — namely the stunning collapses of the Giants and the Falcons in the NFC and the perennial powerhouses the Steelers and the Ravens in the AFC North.

However, no story compares to the unprecedented emergence of the Kansas City Chiefs.

With Peyton Manning back to form after his season-ending neck surgery, and a new weapon in Wes Welker, most expected the Denver Broncos to improve upon their 13-3 2012 season and emerge as favorites to take home the Super Bowl. If anything, the Broncos have exceeded expectations, and yet, with half the season gone and only one loss on record, Denver finds itself looking up at a team that went 2-14 a year ago. Although Andy Reid was unceremoniously ushered out of Philly after a disastrous 2012 campaign, optimists felt that a change of scenery would energize his still brilliant offensive mind, and help him gather enough momentum to effectively rebuild the franchise over the next few seasons. The addition of Alex Smith — an efficient and proven winner who was cast aside by the 49ers in favor of a talented youngster with more physical tools — only provided more support to the possibility

Sophomore midfielder Louise Chakejian recorded one shot on goal in Georgetown’s blowout loss to Maryland.

that the Chiefs could flirt with a .500 season.

But overlooked in the huge offseason additions of Reid and Smith was the fact that the team had talented players on both sides of the ball that could make the season something more than a rebuilding year. Jamaal Charles is one of the NFL’s best running backs, Dwayne Bowe anchored a strong receiving corps even before the addition of Donnie Avery and — when healthy — the defense was brimming with talents such as Eric Berry, Brandon Flow-

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With Reid and Smith, the undefeated Chiefs lead the NFL ers and Justin Houston. When you send six players to the Pro Bowl and finish 2-14, talent is not the issue; the Chiefs had two big holes at quarterback and head coach, and they filled them both tremendously this offseason. The rebuilding process came and went in an instant, and with new energy and a couple of wins, belief has galvanized the latent talent in Kansas City into the last unbeaten team standing and a true championship contender.

Doubters will point out that the Chiefs’ path to 8-0 has featured a rather weak gallery of opponents (a combined record of 20-41 including the eight losses to the Chiefs), and it is true that the road will only get

tougher with multiple showdowns with the Chargers and the Broncos to come. Naysayers will also undoubt edly bring up the close calls the Chiefs have already experienced along the way, including the last two weeks against middling teams without their starting quarterbacks. There is a valid argument to be made that the Chiefs are far from perfect and sooner or later luck is going to go against them but that is beside the point. This is not a team built to win games with style, and they certainly will lose a few games along the way to the playoffs What the Chiefs do have, however, are all of the ingredients to succeed in the postseason. They have a defense tha will keep them in every game, an effi cient offense that rarely turns the bal over and controls the clock and they have the type of invaluable experience in tight games that most of the Super Bowl favorites haven’t experienced this season.

There is still a lot of football to be played and a lot of time for Kansas City to come back down to earth, bu when you look at the way they’ve been winning games it’s hard to picture any team dispatching the Chiefs withou having to scrap and battle to the very end. For now, we can all still plausibly dream of this small-market franchise — galvanized from the very bottom of the NFL ranks by the arrival of two discard ed former winners — battling it out on Super Bowl Sunday in the biggest game in American professional sports. There have been a lot of compelling Super Bowl storylines over the past decade or so, but a literal worst-to-first run would undoubtedly rank among the best o them.

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Top-Ranked UMD Hoyas Notch Third Conference Win Dispatches GU 9-0 Juliana Zovak Hoya Staff Writer

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The Georgetown field hockey team (2-15, 0-6 Big East) knew that playing two nationally ranked opponents would be a challenging task, especially on both teams’ senior day. However, it did not expect to be outscored 14-1.

On Friday when the Hoyas took on No. 17 Temple (14-4, 4-2 Big East) in Philadelphia, the Owls took an early lead just over six minutes into the game.

Senior forward Lauren Hunt tipped a shot in front of the net past freshman goalkeeper Rosalie Nolen. Junior forward Amber Youtz added another goal for the Owls to give Temple a 2-0 lead going into halftime.

The Hoyas came out strong in the second half and had an early scoring opportunity off a drive started by sophomore forward Sarah Butterfield. Soon after, Georgetown got an opportunity from a penalty corner but was unable to convert. Thirteen minutes into the second half, sophomore midfielder Taylor Craig scored to put the Blue and Gray on the board.

Craig capitalized on a rebound off Temple’s redshirt junior goalkeeper Lizzy Millen for her first career goal. “[The goal] was definitely a big shift for us,” Head Coach Tiffany Hubbard said. “Taylor has been working so hard, and to see her to finally get her first goal was great. It gave us a lot of momentum going forward.”

The Owls rallied and scored a goal two minutes later to pull away from Georgetown.

Youtz added her second goal of the game for her 100th career point off a rebound from Nolen.

Temple notched two more goals to eventually win the game 5-1. Nolen was credited with 13 saves and faced 27 shots for the Blue and Gray. Freshmen midfielder Devin Holmes and junior defender Elizabeth Mueller both had defensive saves for the Hoyas.

“We came within a goal, then they scored quickly, and you could feel the momentum shift.

We always seem to put together a great first half, and then we usually hit a wall. I think we fell apart both mentally and structurally,” Hubbard said.

After a day off on Saturday, the Hoyas faced the best team in the nation, No. 1 Maryland

(17-1, 5-0 ACC), on Sunday in College Park, Md. Georgetown suffered its worst loss of the season as Maryland showed no mercy in racking up nine goals to Georgetown’s zero. The Terps scored their first goal in the third minute of the game, when sophomore defender Sarah Sprink put the ball past Nolen off a penalty corner.

The Terps notched four goals in the first 15 minutes of play, and the Blue and Gray trailed by seven going into halftime. Although the Hoyas had scoring opportunities, they were minimal. The team had five shots as well as three penalty corners, but the Hoyas were shutout for the ninth time this season.

The Terps scored six of their nine goals off penalty corners.

Maryland ended the day with a total of 13 penalty corners in Georgetown’s defensive zone.

“I was shocked at [Maryland’s] caliber of play. It felt like a completely different game coming at us. They played a very finessed, high-tempo game,” Hubbard said. “They’re No. 1 in the country for a reason.”

Although Georgetown did not fare well on Sunday, the game was bittersweet for Hubbard and Assistant Coach Melissa Vassalotti, both of whom played for Maryland during their college careers. Hubbard and Vassalotti’s presence added to the atmosphere of Maryland’s senior game, as the Hoya coaches had been honored just a few years ago.

“It’s always weird playing your alma mater, and I have such respect for the Maryland program. It was such a great experience overall,” Hubbard said.

“It was a little emotional for us, but it was a full-circle type of thing.”

Despite the lopsided losses, there are lessons to be learned from the weekend. The team gained experience playing two of the top competitors in the nation and in both games, the Hoyas’ goaltending was impressive, considering the whopping 59 shots taken between the two games.

The Hoyas will play their last game of the season against Villanova (3-11, 0-6 Big East) on Saturday at 3 p.m. in College Park, Md. Senior midfielder Caitlin Samela and senior forward Katie Dempsey will be honored prior to the game as part of the Hoyas’ senior day.

Georgetown volleyball put in a good showing this weekend against its Big East rivals of the Midwest, beating DePaul 3-1 in a redemption match and playing well against nationally ranked Marquette, despite losing in straight sets.

The Hoyas (9-13, 3-6 Big East) were looking for a different outcome against DePaul (15-7, 1-7), who swept them 3-0 at McDonough earlier in the season, and they got it.

“We talked to the players about just going out from the beginning and making sure that we got a good start in the match and continuing to do

the things we were doing well,” Head Coach Arlisa Williams said.

In the first set, Georgetown surged to the lead on a 6-1 run fueled by junior middle blocker Dani White, who had a block and two kills in that sequence.

Sophomore all-purpose player Emily Gisolfi had two service aces in the set, and the Hoyas took the win 25-21.

“In the first set, we just needed to make sure we were passing in system, which we did extremely well, so we were able to get a variety of hitters the ball,” Williams said. “And so that made a big difference in turning that game around for us.”

In the second set, the teams were locked up at 10 apiece, but again, the Blue and Gray took off, this time on

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Sophomore outside hitter Lauren Saar led the team in kills with 20 in the Hoyas 3-1 win over DePaul. She added 10 digs as well for a double-double.

a 7-1 run that put them up for good.

White and sophomore outside hitter Lauren Saar each had four kills in the set, and freshman middle blocker Ashlie Williams was part of three key blocks, including the game winner.

But coming out of the break, Georgetown stumbled as the Blue Demons scored 10 points in a row en route to winning the third set 25-16.

“We were pretty confident after winning the first and second sets, and I think we came out maybe a little slow, figuring it was going to be easier than it was,” Williams said. “DePaul had a whole lot of fight, and they just stuck it to us.”

Georgetown returned to form in the fourth set. A combined five kills from White and Saar helped them to a 6-3 lead, and they broke a tie at 10 with another three combined kills. Saar finished with eight kills and White with five in the final set alone. Georgetown won the set 25-19 to record its third conference win of the year.

“We passed well, and that meant we were getting production from our outsides. … So those things definitely helped us,” Williams said. “And then the other part was our blocking. We just picked up our blocking late in the match. We ended up with [nine] on the match, and a lot of that came in our fourth set.”

Saar led the team with her 14th double-double of the year, recording 20 kills and 10 digs. White added 16 kills and six blocks.

Georgetown played Marquette (15-5, 7-1 Big East) on Sunday and dropped a tough match, three sets to none. The Golden Eagles are first in the Big East with only one loss.

In the first set, Marquette came out strong, controlling the pace to win 25-14.

“In the beginning of the set, they jumped on us. They are a very, very good serving team and they served tough and made some runs on us from the inline,” Williams said. “That made it very difficult for us to stay in system.”

Georgetown was able to stay close early in the second set, but Marquette jumped to a 20-12 lead. Although the Blue and Gray strung together a rally to come within four, Marquette finished strong and won 25-18 for a two set advantage. “We went point for point with them for a while — made a couple of runs — and the momentum late in the second really carried us into the third,” Williams said.

The third set was a different story, with the Hoyas battling their way to a 24-21 lead. But the Golden Eagles scored three to tie it, and after some back-and-forth action, won 29-27 to take the match.

“We need to play clean volleyball at the end and make teams earn points.

We need to learn and believe that we can play with anybody in this conference on any given day,” Williams said.

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Sophomore quarterback Kyle Nolan (left) threw for 257 yards and one touchdown, which was caught by senior wide receiver Zack Wilke (right), but the offensive effort came up short.

Hoya Defense Can’t Stop Colgate’s Balanced Offense FOOTBALL, from A1 Hoyas to put the ball in the air.

“They started to man up a little bit and get in the box,” Nolan said.

“The man slowed us down a little bit and they started to defend the swing, [which was] key to our game coming in.”

The Hoyas did find some success with the pass, including a 117-yard day for senior wide receiver Zach Wilke, whose performance was capped off by a 55-yard touchdown pass

from Nolan on a broken coverage. “[Nolan] hooked it up for me, put it right on the numbers and I scored.

Nobody was there,” Wilke said.

On defense, the Hoyas were unable to stop the run. The Raiders rattled off 309 yards of rushing, led by 100-yard games from sophomore running back Demetrius Russell and McCarney. The dual-threat nature of McCarney, now the third player in Football Bowl Subdivision history to pass for 5,000 yards and rush for 2,500 in his collegiate career, and

Colgate’s option strained the Georgetown defense.

“They’ve got a good scheme,” Kelly said. “They’ve got an option type of offensive scheme and they read you … It forces you to water down what you’re doing on defense and they do a good job of executing.”

Georgetown was unable to handle the simultaneous threat of the pass and the run, creating opportunities that the Raiders repeatedly took advantage of.

“That’s why [McCarney] is the pre-

season offensive player of the year,” Kelly said. “If you looked at the stats, he was already completing 70 percent of his passes, and he does a great job. He has a great scheme.”

The Hoyas will now look to regroup and prepare for the last home game of the season, against Lafayette.

“We’re obviously disappointed with our record and everything,” Nolan said. “[We’re] trying to stay positive throughout the week and get prepared for the next game, try[ing] not to look back as much and look-

ing forward to every game. We got to get back to winning.”

With three weeks remaining in the season, Georgetown still has a chance to finish above .500 in the Patriot League. But as the last winless team in the conference, prospects are slim at best. Kelly still intends to see a strong finish.

“In college football, you only get so many opportunities, and we’ve got three left,” Kelly said. “You have to make the most of your opportunities.”

BASKETBALL TIP OFF From monster dunks to a performance by one of hiphop’s biggest names, Basketball Tip Off electrified the Hoya faithful in attendance. Performances by GU dance teams and a ceremony — featuring former Hoya Otto Porter — to honor the 2012-2013 Big East champions opened for the night’s main events. Both the women’s and men’s basketball teams were introduced to thunderous applause and John Thompson III led the students in a rousing rendition of the “We Are Georgetown” chant. The players each basked in their moment in the spotlight, before rapper B.o.B took the floor for a half-hour performance of his hit songs, complete with background dancers. McDonough was rocking for hours in a kick-off event to remember.

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Clockwise from top left: Senior forward Aaron Bowen wins the dunk contest for the second year in a row; newly hired interim women’s basketball Head Coach Jim Lewis is introduced with his team; senior guard Markel Starks greets the wildly-cheering crowd as his name is called; the 2013 Big East champion squad poses with their trophy and rings; B.o.B (with microphone) poses with junior center Josh Smith (bottom left), sophomore guard David Allen (bottom center), freshman forward Shayla Cooper (bottom right) and fans; men’s basketball Heach Coach John Thompson III shows off his moves; hip-hop artist B.o.B entertains players and fans alike with a lively performance in which he stripped off his shirt and posed for photos.

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SWIMMING, from A12 Kathleen Duncalf and sophomores Maryellen Campbell, Erin Timochenko and Erica Fabbri won with a time of 1:50.42. The men’s team immediately followed suit in their 200-yard medley, with the squad of freshman Martin Vanin, junior Michael Young and senior co-captains Christian Kilgore and Matthew Mandel finishing first in 1:35.78. In the third event, the women’s 1000-yard freestyle, freshman Sarah Grundman (10:47.77) and junior Emily Hall (10:54.86) took first and second place, respectively.

The women’s team dominated numerous other events during the day, earning additional first-place victories in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle, the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke, the 100-yard breaststroke, the 100-yard and 200-yard butterfly, the 200-yard IM and the one-meter diving.

Junior diver Lauren Kahan continued a strong start to the season by defending her first-place spot in the one-meter diving with a score of 210.20. Kahan also earned second in the one-meter diving during the tri-meet against William & Mary and Towson, when she finished with a score of 224.85.

A trio of hardworking freshmen on the women’s team contributed significantly to the Hoya’s success. Duncalf, Grundman and Molly Gaynor each won two individual events apiece.

Duncalf won the 100-yard backstroke in an even 1:00.00 and the 200-yard backstroke in 2:08.92, while freshman Emma Cammann and sophomore Erin Timochenko followed to seal the top

three places in the event. In addition to her sizeable win in the 1000-yard freestyle, Grundman earned first in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing in 5:15.19.

Gaynor won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:10.34 and then the 100-yard butterfly in 58.48.

The men’s team was also successful despite facing both BC and Yale. The Bulldogs were especially tough competitors, taking first in several events throughout the day. Mandel (22.25) and sophomore Michael Smigelski (22.32) took the top two spots in the 50-yard freestyle. Vanin also showed a strong performance, finishing second in the 100-yard butterfly in 51.48 and third in the 200-yard butterfly in 1:55.88.

Saturday’s meet was the first time in Head Coach James Holder’s tenure at Georgetown that the Hoyas swam against either Boston College or Yale.

He expressed his satisfaction with his teams’ results.

“I was really happy with the way we raced and thought the team stepped up well to the challenge we had this weekend,” Holder said.

This was the last competition for the Hoyas before they travel to Piscataway, N.J., on Nov. 8th for the Big East Quad Meet, during which Rutgers will play host to Georgetown, Seton Hall and Villanova. The quad meet will be an opportunity for the Hoyas to have a rematch of last February’s meet against several tough Big East rivals, all of whom posed challenges for both the men’s and women’s teams. Last season, the men’s team defeated Seton Hall.

The women’s team finished last.

with a share of first place in the conference on the line. Marquette started quickly, recording two shots in the first three minutes. Georgetown countered after the second, and sophomore forward Brandon Allen had a shot blocked in the 94th minute. Just a few seconds later, Neumann set up to take a corner kick which Helfrich headed into the corner of the goal from six yards out for the game winner.

“Somebody was going to have to make a play on either team to win it.

Fortunately for us, it was Neumann with a really great assist and big Ted Helfrich coming through like a senior,” Wiese said.

Helfrich made six starts in the 2012 season, but had seen limited game action this year, suffering a concussion against Seton Hall that sidelined him for two games. On Oct. 19, the senior made his first start of the season against Butler, replacing injured freshman defender Joshua Yaro, whose return the team hopes to see before the start of the postseason. The goal scored Saturday was the first of Helfrich’s college career.

“Getting your first goal is always a big deal,” Wiese said. “To do it in a game of that magnitude, in overtime as a golden goal, it is almost storybook. “ The defense, including Helfrich,

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Junior goal keeper Tomas Gomez recorded five saves on Saturday.

It was the 11th shutout of the season for Gomez and the defense. recorded its 11th shutout this season, a new team record. This number of clean sheets tops Division I soccer, and the team is second in shutout percentage. The Hoyas are 10-0-1 when they do not concede a goal and are 2-3 when allowing the opposing team to score. As the season winds down and the postseason begins, Georgetown’s back line will remain one of its keys to success. Credit for the impressive defense, however,

does not rest solely with defenders.

“Our midfielders have been terrific. [Senior] Joey Dillon as a center midfielder has been a big part of our defending, and our frontrunners are hugely important too,” Wiese said.

Overall, Wiese and the coaching staff are impressed with the performance.

“It was great to see the guys go to the ground of one of the best teams in the country and get a win.”

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Wasting No Time: Hoyas Score Early for 3-1 Win Tom schnoor Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 15 Georgetown women’s soccer team traveled to Philadelphia, on Sunday to take on Villanova in its second-to-last game of the regular season. The Hoyas (141-2, 6-1-1 Big East) got off to a quick start and downed the Wildcats (6-8-3, 3-4-1 Big East) 3-1.

For Georgetown, the scoring began earlier than it had in any game this season. From the opening whistle, the Hoyas controlled possession and were rewarded with a quick goal in the fourth minute, when sophomore midfielder Marina Paul played a ball to senior forward Kaitlin Brenn in the middle of the box, who used her first touch of the game to knock it into the back of the net.

Fast starts have been a recent point of emphasis for Head Coach Dave Nolan, who has seen his squad come out lethargically in several games this season. The quick goal, therefore, was a welcome development.

“Last year, we were such a strong comeout team,” Nolan said. “This year, we haven’t managed to do that on a consistent basis. We were thankful to get off to that quick start.”

It did not stop there. The Hoyas kept the pressure on the Wildcats after Brenn’s goal, and less than seven minutes later, they struck again. This time, it was an impressive individual effort that netted the a goal for Georgetown when senior midfielder Kailey Blain struck a ball from 25 yards out that dipped just under the crossbar to give

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Senior forward Kaitlin Brenn got the Hoyas on the board in the fourth minute.

the visitors a 2-0 lead.

The two goals were all the Hoyas would need on the afternoon, but the Blue and Gray added an extra tally for good measure when junior forward Audra Ayotte put home a rebound in the 22nd minute.

Before the first half reached its midway point, Georgetown held a commanding 3-0 lead.

“We chose to play with the wind on the first half with [the purpose of coming out strong],” Nolan said. “We wanted to get on Villanova quickly and not give them anything to fight for, and we were able to do that.”

By halftime, the Hoyas had outshot the Wildcats 7-1, and for the third time in as many games, the second 45 minutes seemed to be only a formality for Georgetown. Nevertheless, Villanova would not go away quietly, outperforming Georgetown on the stats sheet in the second half.

“The second half was a little more even because [Villanova Head Coach John Byford] is a very good coach and challenged their kids to perform better at home,” Nolan said. “They were going to get embarrassed if the first half repeated itself.”

The Wildcats were rewarded for the efforts in their 67th minute when their leading scorer, freshman forward Katie Martin, was tripped in the box and given a penalty kick. Martin converted the opportunity to cut the Georgetown lead to two.

“We were disappointed we let up the goal,” Nolan said. “[Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Emma Newins] really didn’t have to make any tough saves asides from it.”

Martin’s goal would be the last of the game as the Hoyas held on to win a match that was never really in doubt.

“It never really looked like they were going to score another goal,” Nolan said.

The victory was an important one for Georgetown in terms of seeding for next weekend’s Big East tournament. The tournament is set up so that the top six teams in the conference qualify, with the top two receiving first round byes.

No. 17 Marquette (15-3-0, 8-0 Big East) locked up the Big East regular season title with a 6-0 win against Providence on Sunday. The Golden Eagles had an impressive run through conference play, in which they outscored their opponents by a combined score of 21-2.

The impossibility of a first-place finish means that Georgetown will have to hold off third-place DePaul (11-3-2, 5-2-1 Big East) if it hopes to secure a bye.

Sunday’s victory makes that task exponentially easier. The Hoyas would have to suffer a loss to Seton Hall next Saturday, and DePaul would have to win over St. John’s, to finish in a situation where tiebreakers would come into effect to determine the recipient of the second bye.

For Nolan, the importance of that free pass through the first round can be summed up quite simply.

“It’s huge,” he said.

COURTESY MATT CASTALDO

Competitive climbers from all over the world travel to Olympos, Turkey, to climb beautiful but challenging rock formations. Unlike other sports, rock climbing is about competing against oneself, not others.

Climbing Takes Hold in Turkey

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n a country known for its love of soccer, another sport has climbed into Turkey’s heart: rock climbing.

I am currently studying abroad in a town called Alanya on the south coast of Turkey. This past weekend a friend and I packed backpacks and travelled west for four hours to an area called Olympos, which is known for its nature tourism and adventure sports.

We stayed in a tree house lodge compound that happened to be hosting a rock climbing festival for the weekend. Competitive climbers from all over the world traveled to Olympos and spent their time scaling beautiful seaside rock formations and drilling new metal holds for future climbers to safely belay each other.

The sport of rock climbing itself draws athletes in excellent physical shape. Climbers use their remarkably strong upper bodies and high levels of coordination to scale rock faces that look so steep and smooth that they would be better suited for playing squash than climbing.

What is striking about the competition surrounding the climbing, though, is that it is not heated but rather a communal encouragement for personal accomplishment. The climbers all know that their safety literally lies in the hands of their co-competitors who belay them, and mutual respect and friendship is the ultimate prize. The race to the top is really not against one another but against oneself.

When sitting around the campfire in our compound one evening, I overheard a pair of climbers recounting stories about dangerous situations they had overcome together. They

spoke in broken English, so I asked one where they were from.

“I am from Slovenia,” one said.

I asked the other if he was, too, and he chuckled. “No, I’m from France. We met climbing and have been travelling together for a while. We always try to best each other, but we have each other’s backs when we climb.”

While the international climbing community has been attract-

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Thrill-seekers flock to Olympos for cliffs and friendship. ed to Olympos for its rock formations, locals have grown to love the sport that is flourishing in their own backyard.

A German man named Sebastian, who currently resides in Turkey, provided some insight.

“Climbing is a sport that is really growing here,” he said. “You see it in cities like Antalya, where I live. Many Turks have taken to climbing. I come here with my roommate a few times a month and we have a group of Turkish friends who all climb. The sports shops all have sections dedicated to climbing. It’s everywhere.”

It makes sense that climbing is everywhere in Olympos and the towns along Turkey’s south coast. Not only are there active and enthusiastic Turks and perfect terrain, but the influx of

climbers has also certainly stimulated local economies.

The area of Olympos and other nearby towns is predominantly farmland, and the arrival of ecoconscious adventure tourists has provided locals with more outlets to sell their goods and a way to utilize unused space for additional income, without compromising the environmental health of the area. Campgrounds and pension hotels are sprinkled amongst roadside farms. Trails run through farms where farmers are happy to sell you fresh-squeezed pomegranate or orange juice.

Even local Turks driving by on the winding, mountainous roads are happy to pick up a hitchhiking climber to make few extra bucks and mingle with travelers.

As the sport grows, so too will the popularity of Turkey as a climbing destination. One longtime employee of our campsite, who climbs and leads climbing groups, said the future is bright.

“It seemed like only a few years ago when there was nothing here. Now, we have all these lodges and climbers. We’re expanding our hiking, mountain biking and triathlon training.

Festivals like this weekend’s means we are equipping new rock faces for climbing,” he said.

“I expect even more climbers to come here for the beauty and natural adventure that Olympos and Turkey offers.”

Turkey’s 2014 World Cup hopes may have been dashed during qualifying by the Dutch, but there is no rocky road ahead for adventure seekers hoping to climb in Turkey.

Matt Castaldo is a junior in the College. Full contact appears every Tuesday.

SPORTS

MEN’S SOCCER Georgetown vs. St. John’s Saturday, 6 p.m.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013

BASKETBALL TIP OFF TALKING POINTS Basketball fans ushered in a new season in McDonough Arena on Friday night.

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Field hockey Head Coach Tiffany Hubbard on the loss to top-ranked Maryland.

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The rank of the women’s soccer team in the Big East. First-place Marquette has not lost a conference game.

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Senior wide receiver Zack Wilke caught a 55-yard touchdown pass on the Hoyas’ first possession of the game. He had 117 yards receiving total in Georgetown’s loss to Colgate.

Hoyas Can’t Establish Ground Game, Lose 34-14 MATT RAAB Hoya Staff Writer

Fading hopes of in-conference redemption for the Georgetown football team were all but extinguished Saturday in a 34-14 loss to Colgate.

The Hoyas (1-7, 0-2 Patriot League) dropped their sixth straight game this season as Colgate (3-5, 2-1 Patriot League) outplayed and overpowered the Georgetown defense on the Hoyas’ home field. Promising developments on the offensive side of the ball, highlighted by a 257yard performance by sophomore quarterback Kyle Nolan, kept the

game from turning into a blowout until late, but continued defensive struggles against an able Raiders offense and an inability to establish a run game mean that the Hoyas are still searching for their second win.

“You just got to keep fighting,” Head Coach Kevin Kelly said. “Players got to keep playing, coaches got to keep coaching. We did some positive things today.”

Both teams got off to quick starts consistent with their previous performances this season. Colgate possesses one of the Patriot League’s worst run defenses, and Georgetown had allowed at least 34 points

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to opposing teams for the last five games. With the Hoyas’ senior running back coming off a career three-touchdown game against Lehigh and the return of last season’s offensive player of the year, senior quarterback Gavin McCarney, from injury, the cards were aligned for an offensive battle.

Both teams obliged, with Colgate scoring touchdowns on its first two possessions while Georgetown added another in between. The Hoyas ended the pattern with a red zone fumble on their second possession on an attempted lateral handoff.

Georgetown struggled to end drives

with points — two other drives ended with turnovers on downs deep in Colgate territory.

Despite these issues, Colgate could not lock up the game until the fourth quarter. After heading into halftime trailing by 20, the Blue and Gray outscored the Raiders 7-0 in the third quarter, after a 6-yard run by Nolan.

“We were in the game there in the third quarter,” Kelly said. “We had the opportunity to maybe win the ball game but we didn’t. We had opportunities on offense and on defense. We couldn’t slow them down.”

On offense, problems centered on

the inability to create an efficient ground game. Senior running back Campanella was stifled by a Colgate defense intent on defending the rush, and could only garner 32 yards, a quarter of last week’s total.

Nolan added 27 yards and a touchdown.

“They packed more guys in the box,” Nolan said. “They saw that we ran the ball really well last week, and they were ready to come downhill at us.”

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OT Win Puts GU at Top of Big East ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior Emily Hall (above) took second place in the 1,000-yard freestyle behind freshman Sarah Grundman who finished in 10:44.77.

Against BC, Teams Notch First Wins ELIZABETH CAVACOS Special to The Hoya

After losing to William & Mary and Towson in the first home meet of the season last weekend, Georgetown’s swimming and diving teams dove back into McCarthy Pool on Saturday to earn a victory over Boston College. The women’s team (1-3) beat Boston College 162.5-135.5, while the men (1-3), who also played host to Yale for additional competition, defeated BC with a score of 151.5-145.5. The men’s team was soundly defeated by Yale.

The Boston College Eagles entered Saturday’s meet after earning sweeping victories in

the Northeast Catholic Invite last weekend, held at their home pool. The men’s team scored a total of 931 points, with the next closest competitor, Niagara University, coming in at only 581 points. The Boston College women’s team also sealed an impressive victory, concluding the invite with 938.5 points, with two swimmers breaking NECI records.

The Eagles’ NECI momentum, however, was put to a stop this weekend, as the Hoyas earned top spots in the first three events of the day. In the women’s 200-yard medley, the squad of freshman See SWIMMING, A11

An unlikely hero lifted No. 9 Georgetown (12-3-1, 5-1-1 Big East) to a 1-0 overtime win over No. 16 Marquette (9-4-2, 5-1-1 Big East) Saturday night in a clash of the top two Big East teams. Senior defender Ted Helfrich, who started the game in place of injured defender Joshua Yaro, scored in overtime to break a scoreless tie and prevent the Golden Eagles from clinching the top spot in the conference. Georgetown and Marquette are now tied for first in the Big East.

Heading into the biggest conference game of the season, Georgetown knew that it needed the road win. A loss or tie would have all but ensured that Marquette would finish the regular season in first place, especially considering that the final two games on the Golden Eagles’ schedule are against Seton Hall and DePaul, teams that the Hoyas defeated by a combined 14 goals.

“We knew that if we didn’t get three points, there was no way we could win the Big East regular season,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

Georgetown started the game much like it has all season, quickly controlling the ball and playing in the opponent’s half. The Hoyas had three corner kicks in the first 15 minutes of the match and forced the Golden Eagles’ goalkeeper, redshirt junior Charlie Lyon, to make four saves in the first half. Marquette also had four shots on goal in the first half, but junior keeper Tomas Gomez was able to handle each of them. Chances by senior forward and captain Steve Neumann and

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Starting in place of injured freshman Joshua Yaro for a third straight game, senior defender Ted Helfrich scored his first career goal in Saturday’s win. freshman forward Alex Muyl would prove to be some of the best Georgetown would have in regular time.

“I thought the first half in particular was very good,” Wiese said. “I thought we started off on the [right] foot and were really unlucky not to be up at halftime with some of the chances we created.”

The second half saw a defensive stalemate, with both teams finding fewer offensive opportunities. Georgetown and Marquette combined for

just two shots on goal in the final 45 minutes, and the Hoyas had only five shots compared to eight for the opposition. The head coaches of both teams commented after the game on the improved play of Marquette in the second half, but neither side could find the back of the net before time expired.

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