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COOPER TO TRANSFER

Rising star leaves team amid conflicting statements on suspension.

COMMENTARY Finding and spreading the joy in academics is the goal of the Jesuits.

SPORTS, A10

SAC RESULTS Patrick Musgrave (COL ’16) finished an odd race for SAC chair on top.

COLD WAR CUTBACKS The State Department gutted funding for the study of Russian.

NEWS, A4

OPINION, A3

NEWS, A5

Endowment Keeps Climbing

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John Kerry and Hillary Clinton joined the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security to discuss Afghan women. See story on A5.

In line with the national trend, Georgetown’s endowment posted strong growth in fiscal year 2013, driven in part by improved returns on investment and the $100 million donation from Frank McCourt Jr. (CAS ’75).

Georgetown’s combined endowment had an 11.8 percent annual return on investments for fiscal year 2013, a marked improvement from fiscal year 2012’s 0.9 percent return, according to the Office of Investment, which manages the pooled endowment’s day-to-day operations, including asset allocation and portfolio management.

“The pooled endowment benefitted throughout fiscal year 2013 from an increase in its allocation to global equity and a tactical overweight to U.S. equities,” a representative from the Office of Investment said.

“Throughout the year, we rebalanced into other developed markets as well, with an emphasis on Japan, and added selectively to our emerging markets exposure.”

Nationally, college endowments averaged an 11.7 percent return in 2013, up from a 0.3 percent loss in 2012, according to preliminary figures

Asset allocation for fiscal year 2014 focuses heavily on equity, which includes stocks.

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Gondola Considered in Transit Overhaul Outdoor NICK SIMON

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A gondola at Car Barn would connect the university to Rosslyn. The proposal is part of an effort to improve Georgetown transportation.

With scant transportation options in the Georgetown neighborhood, the District has explored areas for innovation, including a gondola lift connecting Car Barn and the Rosslyn Metro stop.

This proposal is part of an effort to better connect Georgetown with local transportation through the Business Improvement District. Among the plans are a Georgetown Metro stop, streetcars and changes to the Georgetown University Transportation System shuttles.

“The advantage of gondolas is that they ease the friction of transportation. You hop off the Metro and hop on the gondola cars that are coming continually and carry you to Georgetown,” Georgetown BID Transportation Director Jonathon Kass said. “The

gondola is a way to make Georgetown feel like it is an extension of the Rosslyn Metro station much sooner than we’ll be able to get a Metro station.”

A gondola lift, or a cable car, is an aerial lift, where cabins hang from a loop of cable that continuously circulates between the two terminal stations.

Although the Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom stops are both viable options for the gondola, Kass said that the Rosslyn station is preferable, both because of proximity and because the gondola lift would run above the Potomac River.

“The idea is to have a fast, efficient transportation link between Georgetown and the Metro station,” Kass said. “It would also be a spectacular experience and probably a tourist attraction in its own right.”

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Tennis Teams Stranded in IAC Construction GENE CHOI & MADISON ASHLEY

occupied by outdoor courts.

Director of Athletics Lee Reed said the university is exploring options to add Although the university is ready additional tennis courts. to begin construction on the In“Our varsity programs for men’s tercollegiate Athletic Center near and women’s tennis, as well as tennis McDonough Arena this spring, one for the broader Georgetown commugroup remains unsure of what that nity, is very important to us,” Reed will mean: Georgetown’s tennis play- wrote in an email. “We have been ers. working with the During construcuniversity and the tion, the univercampus planning sity’s eight outdoor process for quite tennis courts, which some time to idenare used by the tify suitable alternamen’s and women’s tives, both short and varsity and club long term.” tennis teams along While the univerwith recreational sity’s master planLENNY OLSEN (COL ’14) players, will be unClub Tennis Social Chair ning team searches available for use. for a solution, the The administration does not yet have club tennis team has not been inplans to replace the practice space. formed of what will happen to the “We’re currently exploring strat- courts or of any possible solutions to egies to replace the tennis courts, fill the void. which may include new courts on or “We’ve been kept pretty much in off campus,” Vice President of Plan- the dark with the future of the tenning and Facilities Management Rob- nis courts,” Club Tennis Social Chair in Morey said.

Lenny Olsen (COL ’14), a former Hoya The four-story, 144,000 square- staff writer, said. “Our livelihood as a foot building will be built on what club revolves around having those is now the McDonough parking lot in addition to the space See TENNIS, A6

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“We’ve been kept pretty much in the dark with the future.”

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The Intercollegiate Athletic Center will replace tennis courts by McDonough Gymnasium, but no plans for relocating the teams are known.

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Drinking Extended JENNIFER DING Hoya Staff Writer

Chief of Police Jay Gruber has decided to extend GUSA’s Outdoor Student Living Pilot Program, which allows students of legal age to drink beer and wine in designated areas of Henle Village and Village A. The pilot program will continue through the spring semester, a decision based on the lack of write-ups in those permitted areas.

“We measure success by the fact that we didn’t hear anything. We didn’t see anything, we didn’t have to do anything,” Gruber said.

A comprehensive evaluation of the program, which will also take write-ups into consideration, will take place over the summer. The Department of Public Safety, Georgetown University Student Association and the Office of Residential Living will use this evaluation to make any suggestion to extend the program to other areas of campus, potentially including Village B and Nevils Hall.

When introducing the program, GUSA and the Office of Residential Living stressed that it was intended to make on-campus living more attractive, but thus far, few students appear to have utilized the option to drink near some dorms.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a group congregate in that area since the program only affects the barbeque area outside the community room, and students never really leave their immediate apartments,” said Kyla McClure (COL ’15), a resident assistant in Village A. Adrian Prado (COL ’14), a resident assistant in Henle, said that he thought the program would be more popular in the spring, with the advent of nicer weather. However, Prado voiced doubt that RAs would be able to hold students accountable under the new program.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Tuesday, november 19, 2013

THE VERDICT

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The September release of enrollment statistics for Georgetown’s graduate programs has left many wondering how to address a lack of diversity in admissions practices.

Admissions to these programs have drastically underrepresented black and Latino students, reflecting a grim reality for academic diversity. In response, the university should refocus efforts on making its admitted class more representative by recognizing the profound impact that such diversity has on the entire academic community.

Explaining the source of these disparities is all too easy. At even a basic structural level, accessibility plagues graduate education programs nationwide. The tremendous investment of time and money required to pursue advanced degrees is not only overly burdensome to underprivileged minorities but also compounds debt problems that begin at the undergraduate level, which creates its own problems of access. Each step on the staircase toward elite degrees and academic positions becomes less accessible to a larger and larger percentage of minority applicants. The disturbing results of the Official Enrollment Statistics report reflect the long-term accumulation of institutional inequality in the education process.

It would be too easy, however, to dismiss this problem as an inescapable byproduct of Georgetown’s relatively small endowment.

Universities, especially those with the prestige and power of Georgetown, must make a decision to prioritize the inclusion of traditionally marginalized groups. The American academic system, as well as the university’s educational product, is undermined by a failure to include blacks and Latinos. A minimal number of minority students can attain elite positions in the academic world as education becomes progressively harder to access, risking a lack of diversity among faculties in years to come.

The dangers of homogeneity in advanced degree programs are manifest once the impact that graduate students have in teaching classes and contributing to academic research is fully recognized. Minority voices are underrepresented in every phase of the education process, making it harder to effectively foster diverse perspectives.

Georgetown must re-orient its practices to make admissions demographics transparent and seek to focus its aid and admission policies toward the goal of attaining program diversity. Such reform would go a long way toward improving the quality of the university’s education as a whole.

The Giving Season — Walmart donated $10,000 worth of food to the D.C. Central Union Mission in honor of Thanksgiving.

License to Drink — After cancelling one of the Georgetown area’s six tavern licenses, the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board will issue a new one for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Supporting Our Vets — Slate Magazine reports that Georgetown has the second-highest number of veterans enrolled in its undergraduate programs out of the nation’s most selective universities.

Foul Footwear — Georgetown basketball player Shayla Cooper’s attempt to block a shot by throwing a shoe in a Nov. 8 game has since garnered over 100,000 views on YouTube.

Red Line Redemption — Two days of especially bad delays on the Red Line prompted Metro CEO Richard Sarles to offer the largest amount of ticket refunds in history of the Metro.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Sania Salman

The Science of Success It is encouraging to see the Undergraduate Science Research Fair place a greater emphasis on including and engaging students on the forefront of research projects.

Last Wednesday’s research fair, an annual event in Sellinger Lounge put on by Georgetown Psi Chi, the international honor society of psychology, featured posters and larger display booths from various facultyconducted research labs across the psychology and biology departments, as well as from science departments specific to the School of Nursing & Health Studies. The event offered a variety of research opportunities, from behavioral science to linguistics research, relevant to the academic careers of many undergraduates. The various departments stressed the role of research in any science-related field, as well as the advantage of learning basic research methods as early as freshman year, especially

for those with their sights set on medical school or other graduate science programs.

The choice to have mostly undergraduates or graduate students represent each laboratory was particularly well executed.

Although a faculty member leading the inquiry likely could have spoken to that project’s purpose more fluently, employing a freshman biology major, for instance, struck a more approachable tone for attendees. The fair’s exceptional turnout of more than 100 undergraduates, even when compared to last year’s event, highlights the need on campus for well-marketed events that communicate to students the resources available for research. If there is a lesson to be taken from Sellinger Lounge last Wednesday, it is that such interactive advertisements are effective and should be employed by an even wider array of academic disciplines.

Small Talk, Big Impact

Not all small talk is of small importance, especially when it reflects serious social trends on campus.

With students in the throes of the semester, hardly a conversation goes by on the Hilltop without an enumeration, and occasional exaggeration, of how much stress either party is under. There is nothing negative in discussing academics or approaching a friend when one feels overwhelmed, but this culture of verbalized busyness has enough negative consequences to make it worth reconsidering.

Georgetown’s hyper-involved student body lends itself to a culture of overexertion.

Problems arise when busyness becomes yet another source of competition. Comparing how many midterms, essays and meetings

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we have and how few hours of sleep we get serves only to heighten the stress levels of interlocutors. Enumerating and exaggerating our to-do lists makes the assignments seem even more daunting, while at times having the unintended consequence of making the other person’s time commitments seem inadequate. Georgetown’s culture of involvement is stressful enough without added reminders sprinkled into everyday conversation.

When engaging with peers — over a meal at Leo’s, in between classes or at the buzzing study tables of Lau 2 — we should seek to end this habit of casual commiseration. By taking our to-do lists out of the “How about this weather?” mode of daily conversation, we might find ourselves with one less thing to worry about.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR It was good to see the lead article on the great efforts by Club Filipino to raise funds for humanitarian relief after the typhoon disaster. I am glad that the broader university community is paying attention to the Philippines in this moment of crisis. I wish, however, that it did not take a massive calamity for this to happen. As a specialist in Philippine literature in Spanish, I am particularly aware of how rarely at Georgetown academic resources and attention are given to the archipelago. Georgetown offers no courses in Tagalog or on other Filipino languages. For that matter, I am unaware of any course beyond my own in any program or department of the university that focuses on the country.

This is unfortunate. There is an endless list of reasons why the Philippines deserves academic attention, not least

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of which is the centrality of the country to questions of globalization and colonization that relate to the United States in particular. I would venture to say that if we do not study the Philippines, its cultures and histories, we will not understand much at all about the modern world in general.

Whatever solidarity any of us can extend to those suffering in the archipelago right now is valuable. I hope too that our wider campus community can find a place for scholarly attention to the Philippines once this catastrophe and its survivors have been displaced from the front pages and then removed from media reports altogether. It should not take another horrible event for our eyes to turn to the archipelago.

Adam Lifshey Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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OPINION

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013

CURMUDGEON’S CORNER

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Two Changes That I Can Believe In

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Nicholas Dirago

Embracing Lasts in Senior Year

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f you’re as nerdy a senior as I am, you’re at least a tiny bit upset that you’ve just completed your last preregistration. Because, come on: Pre-registration is the best part of the semester.

You get to browse through an expansive list of fascinating courses taught by smart people and think about all this stuff you’re going to know — but you don’t have actually have to do any of the work yet. It’s a much better feeling than at the end of the semester, when even the best courses — perhaps especially the best courses — can leave you still so curious about the topic.

Personally, I’ve always reacted strongly to the superlative “last.” To an extent, senior year can seem like a series of lasts.

Especially at a school where 96 percent of students say they would choose to come here again if they had to do it all over, the fact that each component of the college experience is turning from tradition to memory is predictably upsetting.

This last pre-registration was, for me, a poignant reminder of how rewarding I have found my academic experience and of how the logic of lasts applies to the college experience as a whole. I’ll almost surely never live in such close proximity to so many of my friends, for example, or in easy walking distance of anything I could wish for.

My intention here is not to wax sentimental about the wonders of the undergraduate experience or to encourage seniors to “make the most of every moment.” Instead, I’ll point to something I’ve been lucky to become quite familiar with at Georgetown: philosophy. One last that I’ve been thinking about is the last periodic email that philosophy majors receive from our major advisor containing an article that will help convince our parents that majoring in philosophy is worthwhile. Philosophy students are accustomed to quite a few people thinking your choice of study is slightly ridiculous, but I suppose you

Senior year has a lot to teach us about ends and beginnings. don’t know what you’ve got until it’s almost gone.

Anyway, if you were lucky enough to take a course with Fr. James Schall, S.J. — who delivered his own memorable last lecture last year — you very well might have come across this line from Plato’s “Phaedo:” “It seems to me natural that a man who has really devoted his life to philosophy should be cheerful in the face of death and confident of finding the greatest blessing in the next world when his life is finished.”

This might seem like a grim portrait of the end of senior year. Rest assured, I’m not implying that seniors will drop dead May 18. I do, however, think this passage has a lot to teach us broadly about the end of things. In the passage, Socrates encourages an intrigued Cebes to consider the fact that an individual who has truly developed her character before the end of her worldly life has a great deal to look forward to in the afterlife, where that character becomes the currency of one’s existence. In much the same way, who we have become here on the Hilltop will define us in our future endeavors in various ways. Because so many of us would not choose to have attended college anywhere else, I do think we have strong reasons to be cheerful in the face of all of these lasts.

Now, if four years of philosophy courses have taught me anything, it’s that Socrates is history’s biggest buzzkill. I’m not suggesting that seniors should forego all of our nostalgia and trepidation about the onslaught of lasts. But the point of a college education — particularly a Jesuit one — is to take on the challenges of the real world with vigor. No, I’ll never again get to scroll through the next semester’s courses and imagine how they’ll all provide me with great quotes to use in future columns for The Hoya. I will, however, get to experience the transition from lasts to firsts. And, at the end of the day, I think that’s even better.

Nicholas Dirago is a senior in the College. This is the final appearance of CURMUDGEON’S CORNER this semester.

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y sheer coincidence, I’ve twice been on the scene of grand historical change. The first time, I had just arrived in Spain in August 1982, knowing the country was traversing a political moment that was both exciting and risky.

Military dictator Francisco Franco, had been dead for just seven years, and a fledgling democracy backed by a brand new constitution was taking its first steps forward. General elections were coming up, and it was to be an epic battle among three major parties: the governing centrist party, a center-right party and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. The PSOE was of European Social Democrat tradition — meaning capitalist, pro-Western and modernizing — but was also firmly committed to a strong welfare state, secular public education and public health.

That the young PSOE leaders could win the election and run the country was a stunning thought, given the fact that Spain had spent 39 years — although it felt more like a hundred — under the boot of a rightwing military dictatorship.

When I arrived, the streets of Madrid were plastered with campaign posters and the cafes — always noisy to begin with — were wild with fervent debate. Nobody was out of the political discussion; everyone was involved and passionately positioned.

The rest is history. On Oct. 28, 1982, the PSOE won the elections with a strong majority, and millions spilled into the streets to celebrate the triumph of change. And what a change it was. The new, and very young, Prime Minister Felipe González had won the elections with the campaign slogan “Por el cambio,” meaning “for change,” and the country was truly transformed during his 14 years in office. Spain’s transition to democracy and a free

By sheer coincidence, I’ve twice been on the scene of grand historical change. market economy has even been called the “Spanish Miracle.” By the time the Socialists left power in 1996, Spain was a prosperous, progressive nation fully integrated into the world economy.

In 2008, I reluctantly left Spain and returned to Georgetown, my alma mater, this time to teach.

Once again, I moved just before a presidential election. The political excitement and tension in Washington was all too familiar. Obama’s campaign slogan, “Change We Can Believe In” was especially reminis-

cent of “Por el cambio.” I found the notion of a black president in the United States was as significant as a post-Franco socialist government in Spain. Both scenarios offered profound change, not only politically, but also in terms of perceptions.

Seeing a black family move into the White House was, to me, akin to the sight of young politicians wearing corduroy jackets replacing aging military officials with pencil-thin moustaches.

On the night of Oct. 28, 1982, I danced with the joyful crowd in Ma-

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drid’s Plaza Mayor. On Nov. 4, 2008, I was in the Leavey Center with my students as the election results came in. Both were joyful moments. The final farewell to fascism in Spain was as sweet as what appeared to be the transcending of racism in the United States.

What happened afterwards in Spain and in the United States, in many ways, is not comparable. But in both cases there was a generational changing of the guard and new political voyages were charted and sailed. Neither country would ever be the same again. In both nations, a young, brilliant politician with a new vision for his country took the helm. Despite all the obstacles in his path, it was clearer sailing for González, because much of the transition was bankrolled by the European Union and his nation was impatient for a new age.

Obama, on the other hand, lacked such external financing, and most importantly, much of the country was not at all ready for his style of leadership, or for him. It was naive of me not to imagine that fierce opposition to him would galvanize quickly and that it would be far more difficult to squelch racism in the U.S. than it had been to bury Franco.

It seems that even when the attributes of a transformational leader are present in a single man, favorable conditions — national and international — are also essential to transform the vision into reality. More of those conditions were in place for González in 1982 than for Obama in 2008. But, as someone very close to me always says, “The game’s not over yet.”

Doreen Metzner is a professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

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Grassroot Changes Ignite a Deeper Joy Demand Recognition In Academic Creation

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reating change from in- sex strike in Togo last year, the livside an institution can be ing wage campaign by students effective, but Georgetown and workers at Georgetown Unistudents, and really all Ameri- versity and the 1912 Bread and cans, must also use their voices Roses Strike in Lawrence, Mass., in other ways. Of course a ca- to name a few, all worked outside reer in public service can be an the institution and successfully expression of activism, but I dis- achieved their goals. Whether it agree with my friends Ben Weiss was a functioning government and Phil Dearing when they say, or a fair wage and safe working in a recent column (“Enacting conditions, activists flipped the Change inside the Institution” typical power structures of the A3, Oct. 10, 2013), that the most systems that oppressed them on effective way to create change is their heads exactly by working from within a system. Before sys- outside of the institutions and ustematic change can be inspired, I ing power in an unfamiliar way. believe that grassroots efforts are That is how nonviolent moveessential to get the process going. ments can become successful.

Saying that the most effective That is why strategies that work activism is done by politicians outside systems and institutions ignores all the “people power” can be as effective, or more effecnecessary to generate any kind tive, than the strategies of politiof political will in politicians. cians and policy makers.

Underestimating the energy and People with a critical, outside power behind grassroots orga- perspective are crucial to ensurnizing is deting that our rimental to institutions both the sysare always Institutions are not where tem and the improving; change begins. In the real discussion of this extends politics. Doto calling for world, change begins with ing so ignores a complete the people. the agency of restructuring those without of an instituthe ability or tion. Activdesire to become politicians — be ism outside of a system, like the it because of money, charisma, government, makes it easier to comprehension of the system or imagine what life would be like talents belonging elsewhere — to in a completely different struceffect change. Just because some- ture. It gives activists the freedom one does not have a political per- to hold their representatives to sonality or an educational back- a higher standard and to hold ground in government does not them accountable when they mean that they do not have suf- become too complacent with the ficient power or sufficient desire systems in which they work. to create institutional reform or Activism isn’t just about “wavrevolution. Simply having a voice, ing signs,” as Dearing and Weiss whether in writing, speaking, imply; it is about creating a comsign language, dancing or mak- munity of passionate people who ing music, means we have the exercise their power by persuadability to be effective activists. It is ing those in government to listen. dangerous to assume that grass- Decisions are made by those who roots organizing is not successful show up, as Dearing and Weiss or valued through methods like say, but that occurs both inside those. If we choose to make this and outside of the Capitol. Sure, assumption, we risk becoming a eventually ideas will reach an society that trusts its institutions institution and persuade those so wholly that it does not act to within, and people working tosolve injustice at all. gether from both sides of the sysWeiss and Dearing compare tem can create the most effective the success of the Tea Party from change. But institutions are not within Congress, for better or for where the change begins. In the worse, to the failure of the Occu- real world, outside the bureaupy movement. But this fails to see cracy of bill-signing and reachthe whole picture. We must not ing across cumbersome aisles, forget all of the grassroots move- change begins with the people. ments that have created change before those. It is simply incor- Gianna Maita is a junior in the rect to say that because Occupy College. She is a coordinator worked outside of the system and for Hoya Outreach Programs failed, so does everything else. The and Education.

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hen I bring guests to Wolf- different, something more. They are ington Hall, one of my favor- about depth of knowledge, experience, ite things to do is to show imagination and transformation — a them a special section in our house depth that can only be reached with library dedicated to books by George- time and effort. Reading, reflecting, town Jesuits. It’s huge. Eight feet tall. trying out ideas and revising them About five feet wide. With well over and then writing and rewriting; these 250 volumes, spanning an incredible are the scholar’s trade and art, and we range of academic disciplines, it stands Jesuits know that they make us more as a physical testament to the intellec- human and more alive. Like all good tual prowess and scholarly dedication scholars and teachers, we want our of the Jesuit community over the last students to embrace the same depth, half-century. and we rejoice when they have those Near the beginning are books by Ed “aha” moments that come only when Bodnar, the professor of classics who one has gotten below the surface of passed away last year. Below it is an en- things to glimpse truth or beauty and tire shelf weighed down by the tomes has sought to express one’s growing of Joseph Fitzmyer, the world-class bibli- understanding of them. cal scholar, now retired in Philadelphia.

Jesuits have been doing this kind of A bit further along are the canon law intellectual work from the very begintexts of the Hungarian Jesuit Ladislas ning. The 10 men who would eventuOrsy and then the ally form the Jesuits books on political phifirst met as college losophy and the intelstudents at the unilectual life by the legversities in Salamanendary James Schall. ca and Paris, and they In between, you’ll find quickly realized they newer books by David could best serve the Collins on the saints church and world as and magic, Christo- Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. “learned priests.” As pher Steck on Chrisscholars in fields as tian ethics and the diverse as astronomy, scholarly work of so biology, linguistics, litScholarship is at the many current Jesuit erature, politics and heart of who we are professors on campus. the arts, as well as theEach time I walk by, I ology and philosophy, as Jesuits. place my finger silentthey saw the opporly and with happy anticipation at the tunity to dialogue with the best minds place where my first book — on Latin of their time and advance humanity’s American labor politics — will find its shared search for truth and beauty. This home. is the same task that Jesuit scholars at Jesuits do lots of things at George- Georgetown take up today and seek to town, but the one most fundamental pass on in our writing and teaching. to the university is what we call the So, as you trudge once more into Lau “intellectual apostolate.” In the midst for a long night of study, as you plow of many activities, Jesuits are scholars. through yet another dusty tome for It is usually the work students see least, your thesis or as you struggle before because much of a scholar’s research your laptop screen searching for the happens away from the classroom, in one right word, know that precisely libraries and archives and during late- in doing those things you participate night bursts of reading and writing. It is in the Jesuit mission at Georgetown a task many people would least expect as students and faculty have done for of a priest. But it is at the heart of who generations. And you do so every bit we are as Jesuits, people on fire with a as much as when you go on a retreat, desire to know and understand this fas- spend a Saturday morning in voluncinating world in all its complexity, a teer work or attend a religious service. world we say is “charged with grandeur Savor that search for understanding in of God.” It requires discipline, sustained every one of your classes. Peer deeply inquiry and dedication, but we find into the reality of things in every discithat dedication pays huge dividends in pline. As you do, you may just find that the joy of discovery and learning. it’s in your academics — those academIn fact, the disciplined life of the ics that everyone loves to complain mind goes hand in hand with the life about at this point in the semester — of the spirit that we seek to cultivate that you the encounter the truth and in our students. Seeking God in all beauty that set your heart on fire. things is, at least in part, an intellectual challenge, and today it is decidedly Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is an ascountercultural. In a time when all sistant professor in the government knowledge is seemingly just a Google department. This is the final appearsearch away, real intellectual inquiry ance of AS THIS JESUIT SEES IT ... this and exposition testify to something semester.

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dominated is kind of unfair,” Lloyd said.

“Pride has increasingly in the last year Hoya Staff Writer moved more and more to be as large a A perception of homogeneity within tent as possible.”

GU Pride has led students to found two These discussion groups focus less new discussion groups for students who on Pride’s public activism and more on are part of less prominent components support for members. of the LGBTQ community. “[Pride is] very much the out ‘Let’s go The Queer Women’s Collective and a wave flags in Red Square,’ which can be discussion group for transgender stu- a turn-off to some people who maybe dents invite students with a relation- aren’t comfortable being out yet,” Ferguship to each identity to discuss issues son said. “I would hope that [the discusmore specific to their experiences. sion group] is kind of more approach“[GU Pride] is still a very male-dom- able in that sense to people for whom inated group, and that would get frus- Pride isn’t appealing for that reason.” trating because it didn’t feel like a space Though the Queer Women’s Collecthat was entirely welcoming to every- tive is more focused than GU Pride, it one,” said Queer Women’s Collective will not be limited to women who idenfounder Meghan tify as gay.

Ferguson (COL ’15), “We specifia former president cally want this of GU Pride. “There group to be open were very few womto not only queer en involved coming women but peoto meetings and ple who identify events.” as maybe gender Lexi Dever (COL queer or anyone ’16) saw a similar who has at any need for a space for point in their transgender stulives identified MEGHAN FERGUSON (COL ’15) Queer Women’s Collective founder dents. with woman or “This support female or girl in group needs to be present so that people any way,” Ferguson said. “That way, it’s who struggle with such identity issues a space that’s inclusive to everyone, inhave somewhere to go and people to cluding people who may not necessartalk to,” Dever said. ily feel specifically attached to the label This focus on specific identities differs woman or even man at that point.” from the goals of GU Pride, which enThe small size of each group has facompasses the entire LGBTQ community. cilitated an intimate atmosphere for “Pride is a big umbrella community, discussion. whereas they’re allowed to advocate on “It’s a small community, and there specific issues all the time. I think [sepa- hasn’t been much demand for it,” Deration] is a very good, healthy thing,” GU ver said of the transgender discussion Pride President Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) group. “Now that we have that commusaid. “I think that they support the com- nity, we’re really pushing to help the munity in ways that Pride can’t always transgender community as much as posdo because we do have to support all as- sible at Georgetown.” pects of the community at all times.”

To Dever, this could lead to some kind Though he acknowledged the need of education down the line as well. for more focused LGBTQ groups, Lloyd “There’s generally positive reaction refuted some of the criticism that GU towards trans rights and such,” Dever Pride is gay male-centric, pointing to the said. “Most people are on board with fact that four of 10 board members are fe- that, but most people are not as well male. During his term, Lloyd has pushed educated about it and don’t know everyfor greater collaboration with other stu- thing about transgender issues.” dent groups and for events focusing on Both groups will tailor their goals to socio-economic status, race, gender iden- whatever will benefit their members. tity and ableism, among other issues.

“I would just like this to be a space “I still think that the notion that where people can use it for their own GU Pride, institutionally, is gay male- needs,” Ferguson said.

“GU Pride is still a very male-dominated group, and that would get frutrating.”

Student Activities Commission Marketing and Public Relations Director Patrick Musgrave (COL ’16) was elected SAC Chair by a 14-vote margin Thursday.

Musgrave was elected in a second round of voting after an inconclusive first round, in which some groups voting more than once, forced the Georgetown University Student Association Election Commission to hold a second race.

Forty-six SAC group presidents voted for Musgrave, and 32 voted for two-semester SAC Commissioner and New Club Development Coordinator Eng Gin Moe (SFS ’16).

“The whole idea of campuswide SAC elections like we did this year is a very new one--it’s only a couple years old--so we’ll work with the SAC chair next

year and think about ways we can ensure this doesn’t happen again,” GUSA Election Commissioner and designated SAC election commissioner Ethan Chess (COL ’14) said. “I think, all in all, it was a good learning opportunity in terms of seeing some of the things that can happen, and how to also fix them.”

Musgrave, who is a former staff writer for THE HOYA, said he hopes to reduce the organizational difficulties and redundancies that student groups face in reserving campus space, approving events and budgeting.

“What I don’t want SAC to be looked at is as this police force that goes around and makes sure that every single group is following this minutiae, so I’m thinking more big picture. We make it easier for groups to be groups and give them the tools that they need to run a successful organization,” Musgrave

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In order for student groups to organize events, they need to request funds from the university.

The students then pay it back to the university for the cost of renting spaces.

“It’s money going in a circle,” Musgrave said. “What we would try to do is give the Office of Campus Activity Facilities money in the beginning, and then in exchange for that, any group can use it for free.”

Musgrave also aims to reduce the difficulties in getting speakers from outside Georgetown approved. SAC commissioners currently have to approve nonGeorgetown speakers, which Musgrave thinks is an unnecessary burden.

Musgrave’s challenger, Moe, supported Musgrave’s ideas for reform. Moe’s platform focused on building connections between SAC commissioners and groups.

“I think that all those things, they’ve been hard to fix now because they require a lot of coordination among different groups, so if he can get the ball rolling on that and making sure he contacts all those people and has great dialogue with them, I think it’s feasible,” Moe said.

This race was the group’s second-ever contested election.

“I feel that Patrick and I definitely learned from each other’s campaigns, and hopefully he’ll take some of my ideas under his chairmanship,” Moe said.

Before Musgrave takes over as chair in 2014, he will shadow current SAC Chair Jennifer Chiang (SFS ’15) for the next month and a half.

Moving forward, Musgrave is excited to work with student groups and the Georgetown community at large to streamline existing processes.

“I want to make SAC a resource for student groups to put on great events to improve their communities,” Musgrave said.

“We have a lot of great communities here at Georgetown, and all of those communities can collectively make the campus community better.”

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State John Kerry and former first lady Laura Bush convened in Gaston Hall to discuss Afghan women Friday.

The event, “Advancing Afghan Women: Promoting Peace and Progress in Afghanistan,” was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, the George W. Bush Institute and the Alliance to Support the Afghan People.

Many seats in Gaston Hall were reserved for specified guests, and many students who had lined up for the 10 a.m. event as early as 5:50 a.m. did not get in.

University President John J. DeGioia offered opening remarks on the progress that has been made so far through partnerships between U.S. and Afghan organizations.

“It is a privilege for Georgetown to have the opportunity to contribute to this critical work,” DeGioia said. “Sustaining and building upon these gains remains critical, especially as Afghan citizens face significant transition. In this context, today’s gathering has an added urgency.”

In his opening remarks, Kerry also addressed the progress made since 2001, including an influx of technology, educational opportunities for young women and access to health care.

“Today, 80 percent of Afghan women now have access to a cell phone,” Kerry said. “They are connected to their friends and families, but, most importantly, they are connected to the world and to their futures.”

However, Kerry submitted that, moving forward, the future of security in Afghanistan would be largely dependent on the opportunities afforded to its women.

“We all know that creating opportunities for women isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s a strategic necessity. Societies where women are safe, these societies are more prosperous and more stable — not occasionally, but always,” Kerry said.

Following Kerry’s remarks, Anita Haidary, a senior at Mount Holyoke and co-founder of Young Women for Change, a Kabul-based organization for female empowerment, took the stage with several accomplished Afghan women, including activists Palwasha Hassan and

Nilofar Sakhi, Opus Prize winner Sakena Yacoobi and Shabana BasijRasikh, the current managing director of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan.

The symposium continued with a roundtable moderated by Melanne Verveer (FLL ’66, GRD ’69), executive director of the GUIWPS and former Clinton aide, with Bush and Clinton.

Both Bush and Clinton emphasized the critical nature U.S. support for Afghanistan will play after all U.S. troops are removed in 2014.

“Once our troops leave, the eyes of the U.S. will move away, and we can’t let that happen,” Bush said.

During the roundtable, Verveer posed questions submitted by Afghan students at the University of Kabul, who were able to participate in the symposium via videoconference.

Clinton responded to a student’s question regarding raising awareness of the needs of Afghan women in the absence of security by stressing the importance of the bilateral agreement the United States looks to sign with Afghanistan in coming weeks.

“We won’t know what we can do or how we can respond until we get a response [from Karzai],” Clinton said.

In the second half of the symposium, USAID administrator Rajiv Shah, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Norway Børge Brende and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security Mari Skåre offered remarks on the work their respective organizations and countries are doing to advance opportunities for women in Afghanistan.

Brende assured the audience that his country’s continued support for Afghanistan would not be fazed by troop withdrawal in 2014.

“The women of Afghanistan have glimpsed the chance of a better future,” Brende said.

“You can count on Norway’s continued support of your important work. We will be there next year, but also in 2018.”

In closing the discussion, Clinton urged Georgetown students and those in Kabul to take initiative in forging cross-cultural bonds.

“I would love to have Georgetown students talk with one another about what you can do to support [Afghan students],” Clinton said.

“The more we can link up our university communities — those make a tremendous difference in validating the work that is being done.”

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The Georgetown University Medical Center obtained a grant Nov. 13 to bring a new science education program to middle and high school students in the Washington, D.C. area.

The $217,475 grant was awarded by the Amgen Foundation, which gives money to nonprofit organizations that help to advance science education and the quality of health care worldwide. The Foundationwill help GUMC launch the Amgen Biotech Experience in D.C. in 2014. The funding should last for two years and will be eligible for renewal in June 2015.

“I applied to make an impact on biotechnology education in D.C. metro schools,” grant recipient Jack Chirikjian, director of the GUMC biotechnology program, said.

The Amgen Biotech Experience, a three-week program, provides middle and high school teachers with a new curriculum and equipment at no charge to participating schools. For each teacher, Amgen Biotech Experience provides enough equipment, reagents and manuals for an anticipated maximum of 34 students, working in

pairs. All equipment must be returned after three weeks.

“Teaching laboratory science and innovation can be challenging if teachers may not have the required science support, equipment, reagents, the proper teaching tools or the required science background,” Chirikjian said. “The anticipated outcome is that scientific concepts, and skill sets will be introduced to middle school and high school students at an early age.”

The Amgen Biotech Experience has been implemented in schools in the United States, United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. More than 50,000 students and science teachers have participated.

“The success of the Amgen Biotech Experience is due in large part to the grantees in our communities,” Amgen Foundation President Lim Terra said.

“The collaboration with undergraduate institutions and nonprofit organizations helps give students real-world, hands-on lab experience to introduce them to the excitement of biotechnology and scientific discovery.”

According to Amgen Foundation spokesperson Kristen Davis, Amgen Biotech Experience was created as a response to cutbacks in educational funding on a national level, which has

led to limited resources for hands-on scientific experiences.

“The National Academies’ National Research Council has shown a significant connection between strong lab experiences and teachers’ abilities to generate student interest in science,” Davis said. “The Amgen Biotech Experience seeks to help make this connection in secondary school classrooms by introducing students to contemporary science techniques, including a robust, hands-on curriculum, research-grade equipment and comprehensive teacher training.”

In particular, Barbara Bayer, Georgetown senior associate dean of biomedical graduate education, emphasized the importance of teacher training.

During the Amgen Biotech Experience, Chirikjian and a number of his colleagues will be present at the participating schools to help the students and teachers.

“This is actually helping instruct the teachers because a lot of the teachers don’t have enough background in this area to keep up with the technology,” Bayer said. “It’s reaching out to the community and providing our expertise for a need to accelerate education in this area.”

Russian Research Budget Cut by Feds Matt Gregory Hoya Staff Writer

The U.S. Department of State discontinued its $3.3 million budget for research grants that advance the study of Russian and Eastern European society, culture and politics this year, eliciting concerns from professors about the future of graduate and undergraduate programs.

Federal support for Russian and Eastern European research began in 1983 as part of the Title VIII Grant program, which aims to maintain expertise about various world regions. The State Department authorizes these grants on a yearly basis.

According to Harley Balzer, an associate professor of government and international affairs and former director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, the program originally aimed to promote research and scholarship during the Cold War. “With the threat of nuclear war between the two superpowers, knowing everything we could learn about the USSR and its Warsaw Pact clients was absolutely crucial to our security,” Balzer wrote in an email. “The goal was to make sure we could support graduate students to learn the languages, help junior faculty with research support to aid them in the tenure process and also encourage senior scholars to continue doing important work in the region.”

Balzer added that it is not surprising that support for these grants is waning today, as Russian scholarship has become less relevant since the USSR broke up in 1991.

“It is more difficult to make that case now,” Balzer wrote. “It really was a decision within the State Department, and they are chronically short of funds for a number of important things.”

Department of Slavic Languages associate professor Lioudmila Fedorova expressed dismay that the study of Russian language, culture and society has been de-emphasized.

“I was surprised. I was saddened.

I’m very anxious,” Fedorova said.

“We cannot underestimate Russia and its impact on modern political life.”

While Balzer agreed and cited the importance of Russia to the study of foreign policy and Eurasia, he acknowledged that the current postCold War political environment does not necessarily demand State Department funding.

“I would advocate our using some of our scarce budget resources to support language and area studies more broadly, rather than privileging any one region,” Balzer wrote.

Fedorova, however, voiced frustration that only tangible strategic and economic interests dictate the country’s academic focus.

“I think it’s very dangerous to look

“It reflects a short-sighted view.”

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only at the areas of research that can give you something practical in return, the effects of which you can easily see,” Fedorova said. “It leads to a very limited picture of ourselves and the world.”

Nevertheless, both Balzer and Fedorova said that these cuts are too recent to feel their full impact.

In particular, Fedorova noted that the cuts would primarily impact doctorate students and those pursuing postdoctoral work, as well as professors who wish to visit Russia and conduct research. The lack of funding for Russian study programs could also dissuade students from pursuing a major in these areas.

“I can foresee that in the long run, students who take Russian for say, pursuing a career in history of Russian or area studies, would think about other areas,” Fedorova said.

According to Fedorova, the fund-

ing cuts have resulted in the elimination of positions and even entire departments at other universities.

Fedorova pointed to State University of New York’s Russian language program, which became online only, and Arizona State University, Indiana University and the University of Illinois, which have all suspended or cut research grant and scholarship programs related to the field.

“People are losing their jobs actually because of this tendency,” Fedorova said. “The situation in the field is very tragic.”

Georgetown, however, has managed to remain relatively unaffected thanks to the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI program, which also allocates funds for particular regional studies. Title VI specifically funds National Resource Centers, which offer graduate degrees and language instruction focused on specific regions of the world; CERES is considered a National Resource Center.

“We are a direct beneficiary of that, and we hope that that will continue in the future, although that, too, is threatened,” Loring said.

“That’s the big thing that we really don’t want to happen.”

According to Loring, as many as 20 scholarships could be lost if Title VI is defunded, and numerous study opportunities and course offerings would be affected.

Balzer suggested that the Title VIII cut is illustrative of a larger trend.

“We are weakening our capacity to compete economically, protect ourselves and to promote our ideas,” Balzer wrote. “It reflects a shortsighted view of the future, and one may only hope that the result will be merely significant, rather than tragic.”

Fedorova expressed hope that Georgetown would not abandon its program, regardless of funding.

“I would be very glad if the university could undertake any steps to somehow compensate or recognize the importance of this field,” Fedorova said. “That would be wonderful.”

Johnson Wins MLK Dream Award Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

The John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award will go to Lecester Johnson, executive director of the Academy of Hope, the university announced on Monday.

Johnson will be officially awarded Jan. 20 at Georgetown’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

The award, named for Georgetown’s former men’s basketball coach, celebrates local emerging D.C. leaders who embody the values of Martin Luther King Jr. and the university.

“It’s a privilege to recognize Johnson for her outstanding work,” University President John J. DeGioia said in a statement. “She embodies the very spirit of service and a commitment to social and economic justice, which we seek to honor with this award, and which defines our tradition here at Georgetown.”

According to Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives Lauralyn Lee, the Office of Community Engagement compiled recommendations for the award from Georgetown staff and D.C. community members. DeGioia made the final decision based on these rec-

ommendations.

“Starting last year, as part of the university’s efforts to refocus on the District, we thought it would be advantageous for the award and for the awardee if we gave the award to someone who identified as an emerging leader, who was doing work that was particularly meaningful to our local community and that was having demonstrated impact,” Lee said.

The award involves a year of community partnership between the organization and the university.

“Georgetown will be instrumental in helping us think about our longterm business strategy and how we position ourselves as adult literacy providers in the city,” Johnson said.

“We’re hoping to do a lot more around advocacy and the body of knowledge about how you work best with adult learners … and we’re looking forward to working with Georgetown on that.”

Through its work, the Academy of Hope aims to increase adult literacy levels in the District and help adults earn high school diplomas before entering the workforce or higher education.

Johnson has worked at the Academy of Hope since 2006.

“I really came in with a passion for adult literacy and saw that Academy of

Hope had a really good reputation and had a strong program going but really just needed a little extra work in letting the world know that we were here and doing some good work,” Johnson said. “We were really starting to move programs closer to helping adults get prepared for not only the GED but also work and secondary education.”

The Academy of Hope will transition away from nonprofit work by fall 2014.

“The transition to a charter school was a major necessity for us because the funding for adult literacy in D.C. and in this country is wholly inadequate,” Johnson said. “Going out to a charter was probably one of the easier ways for us to really change our business model from running off soft money to really going to a dependable source of funding for our core program.”

For Johnson, the Academy’s students have been the most rewarding part of her experience.

“The most valuable thing is seeing people achieve something that just seemed unachievable for them,” Johnson said. “Many of the adults that we’re working with have just gone through a rough time. … They’re beginning to blossom and go on to bigger and greater things.”

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DPS Extends Pilot Program Endowment Posts DRINKING, from A1 every time we see someone out there, it’s like, do we go and ask them if they’re 21? Do we have any reason to suspect that they’re over 21?” Prado said.

Other students have also noticed a lack of participation.

“I think it’s a good idea; I just haven’t seen students act upon it,” Henle resident Julie Negussie (COL ’14) said.

GUSA Vice President Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14), who championed the program when it was introduced in September, said that while he is unsure as to whether this program fulfills the goal of making on-campus housing options more attractive, it is a step in

the right direction.

“I think this is a bit of a culture shift that we’re working at, and one policy won’t necessarily make that culture shift happen,” Ramadan said. “I think, when looking at the broader scheme of things — whether it’s getting rid of the one keg limit; whether it’s getting rid of party registration; whether it’s this outdoor social program — I just think we’re making positive progress on making on-campus living just as attractive as off.”

GUSA President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) also stands behind the program’s success.

“We’ve gotten feedback from students and from Chief Gruber and other administrators, and it’s been a huge success so far,” Tisa said. “Stu-

dents were using it when the weather was nicer, and there have been no complaints from DPS or the Office of Residential Living or anyone else involved to my knowledge.”

According to Jiajia Jiang (NHS ’15), an RA in Village A, students who have been utilizing the program have behaved responsibly.

“We were really clear at the beginning of the year that it’s not a party outside — it’s just a small gathering only in specific locations, so people aren’t really going there at nighttime or anything,” she said. “If anything, people took more advantage of it when it was warmer outside with better weather and grilled in the daytime so it hasn’t really affected the RAs in any way.”

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The North Kehoe route, left, is the university’s preferred option because of its proximity to the Leavey Center. MultiSport Facility, top, and the Tondorf Road, bottom, routes are possible alternatives.

GU Evaluates GUTS Routes GONDOLA, from A1 “We imagine some ways that the gondola station could actually be in a building like the Car Barn to get to the university’s elevation or the commercial district’s elevation in one stop,” Kass added.

The gondola plan is currently in its early phases, and uncertainties exist as to whether it will be cost effective.

“We’ve been talking to manufacturers to develop a feasibility study, but the use of gondola lifts for urban public transportation is growing in places like London and Portland,” Kass said.

In addition, BID is currently advocating for a new Georgetown Metro stop. According to Kass, the Metro’s current Momentum 2025 plan calls for an additional Blue line, separated from the Orange line, to better meet the city’s Metro needs. Kass suggested that the Georgetown station could fall on that new line.

“They’ve got to put tunneling equipment underground to do that, which is a huge expense,” Kass said. “Our view is that as long as they’ve got the tunneling equipment underground and have paid all that, just keep the tunnel going under the Potomac and build the Georgetown station as part of the Rosslyn project, which is part of the 2025 plan.”

BID is also planning to add a Georgetown streetcar, starting from the K Street corridor and extending to the university; it would cover the retail area of George-

town, primarily revolving around M Street.

“A huge part of the streetcar plan is to have the track extend all the way to the university because it is a great base of ridership with a lot of jobs and a lot of transitbased lifestyles and also because the university has talked about having a maintenance and storage facility for the cars,” Kass said.

But while these options are long-term, Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey pointed to the GUTS buses as a short-term area of improvement.

“We have enough capacity with the GUTS buses to meet the demands,” Morey said. “The big question of transportation in the master plan is how we get to and from the campus to effectively transport these 2 million people.”

As part of the university’s 2010 Campus Plan agreement, all GUTS buses must enter and exit campus via Canal Road. The buses do not currently follow this route, and the university is considering adding a bus stop next to North Kehoe field, as it could provide direct access to the Georgetown University Medical Center and Leavey Center.

A second option is to create a route that loops around MultiSport Facility. This option, however, is undesirable because it does not reach the Medical Center or the Leavey Center, it would interfere with pedestrian routes, and it would require the creation of a road between Hariri and the Mul-

tiSport Facility.

“It’s really not good from a campus plan perspective where we want more of a pedestrian-friendly environment in the center of campus, and those routes will not allow where we want to go with that,” Morey said.

The third option would create a loop around West Road and Tondorf Road. However, this option is undesirable because it would increase traffic on Tondorf Road, especially around Kober-Cogan Building. It would also require the current stops at Harbin and the McDonough parking lot to be moved.

“If there were a bus coming through every three or four minutes up Tondorf and around MultiSport when people are walking, we don’t think that’s a very desirable option,” Morey said.

Moreover, another way to maximize ridership is to have all GUTS bus stops serve all destinations, as well as integrating the GUTS system with the Metro.

“There may be opportunity to integrate our transportation needs with the existing Circulator and WMATA transportation system, and we’re exploring those opportunities now. That type of engagement would require a lot of planning,” Morey said. “When you jump on a GUTS bus, you don’t pay anything. That obviously would not be the case if you jumped on a Metro bus, so there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to figure out how that would work.”

Strong FY13 Returns ENDOWMENT, from A1 from a survey of 461 U.S. colleges jointly compiled by the Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The full survey will be released in January and is expected to include more than 800 public and private educational institutions in North America.

According to the investment office, the improved growth can also be attributed to record low interest rates, reducing the risk to the university’s portfolio.

The strong performance in 2013 continues a long-term trend of success for Georgetown’s investment returns.

Over the last 10 years, the pooled endowment has generated an average of a 7.8 percent investment return annually, outpacing the national average of both a domestic equities portfolio and a passive 70 percent equities and 30 percent fixed income securities portfolio. The pooled endowment achieved this return with about half the volatility and risk involved in global equities.

According to the investment office, Georgetown pursues a mix of investment assets in order to reduce its risk while still producing as high of an expected return as possible. More specifically, the office’s target asset allocation is currently 50 percent equity, which includes stocks, 20 percent absolute return, which includes hedge funds and alternative investments, 15 percent real assets, which includes property and 15 percent fixed income.

Nationally, the growth this past year was largely attributed to a strong equities market fuelled by quantitative easing, whereby the Federal Reserve purchases long-term assets from commercial institutions to increase a country’s monetary base, along with additional forms of support from the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. In line with the national trend, Georgetown has shifted to a higher proportion of equities in its portfolio recently.

“Most endowments are heavily tilted to equities and alternative investments seeking equity-like returns,” Douglas said. “As a result, returns will generally move in the same direction as equity markets in any given year, albeit to a lesser degree due to diversification into other asset classes like fixed income and commodities.”

The performance of the endowment, and thus the investment returns, is crucial for the university, according to the Investment Office.

“Georgetown’s endowment lends fiscal stability to the university and provides critical resources which enable the university to offer competitive tuition, support highquality academic programs, attract top faculty and ensure that the brightest students have access to a Georgetown education,” the office stated.

Georgetown’s endowment, however, has been historically small, but recent charitable gifts have helped it grow, largely due to the Campaign for Georgetown.

The capital campaign was already set to pass its yearly target of $151 million before McCourt’s $100 million donation. The donation has pushed the campaign to increase its goal for this year to $225 million to reflect the university’s 225th anniversary, according to Vice President for Advancement R. Bartley Moore (SFS ’87).

“Now that’s going to be a bit more of a stretch,” Moore said. “But goals aren’t supposed to be easy.”

According to Moore, about 40 percent of donations to the campaign go toward the endowment.

“This is higher than the historic average both at Georgetown and in higher education fundraising generally, where it tends to be about 30 percent,” he said. “This reflects our ambition to accelerate steady growth in the endowment not only through sound investment but through increasing new contributions annually. That is the permanent foundation on which we are building the future of the university.”

No Plans to Replace Tennis Courts After IAC TENNIS, from A1 courts, we can’t continue to operate the way we do now.”

There are four indoor courts in Yates Field House, and club tennis has more than 80 members. The four courts would not be sufficient, according to club tennis members.

“It’s definitely going to take a hit on all the practices that we have in general because we have such a large amount of members,” President of Club Tennis Jojo Esteban (SFS ’14) said.

Off-campus options have been discussed as a solution, though this plan has drawbacks.

“I think that if that’s our only option, then they should go for it,” Esteban said. “It’s just going to be a lot more difficult for the team to function in the way that it takes in a membership that plays recreationally. … Because it will be off-campus, membership will definitely decline.”

Advisory Board for Club Sports Chair Alex Skarzynski (SFS ’15) said he understood club tennis members’ frustration and said that ABCS would work to solve the space constraints.

“The important thing to remember is that we do live in a city and we don’t have a vast variety of facilities,” Skarzynski said. “As far as there being that uncertain area, I totally understand the frustration, but I think club tennis knows that ABCS will do everything we can to make sure that they have space to practice.”

The Athletics Department said the IAC is seen as a much-needed upgrade to Georgetown’s athletic facilities, which have not been expanded since 1951, when Mc-

Donough Arena was built.

“I think Georgetown has struggled to find a line between playing to their strengths and not completely disregarding other athletics,” Olsen said. “Despite what the university says about the new upgrades, I think it’s obvious the new center is being built solely as a means to provide better basketball training facilities and put Georgetown on par with the majority of bigtime basketball programs.”

In October, Assistant Vice President of Planning and Project Management Regina Bleck told The Hoya in October that an off-campus replacement for tennis courts would be more likely than an on-campus option.

Olsen said that moving practice space for tennis teams off campus would be problematic.

“With baseball, softball, field hockey and both men’s and women’s track and field already void of a home field, it would be embarrassing for the university to disregard two more varsity programs and take away their facilities with no replacement,” Olsen said.

As for concern over the loss of parking space, Morey said that only a small portion of McDonough Parking lot will be affected.

“There’s going to be little impact to parking,” Morey said. “We expect normal impacts such as construction delivery logistics, pedestrian detours, construction noise and what not. There will be little impact to parking.”

Construction is scheduled to be completed by summer 2016.

Hoya Staff Writer Suzanne Monyak contributed reporting.

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After Budget Slashed, GU Future Examined Alumni Lounge Hours Cut Kit Clemente Hoya Staff Writer

Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

In response to budget cuts, the Office of Residential Living reduced the Alumni Lounge hours to three nights per week at the beginning of November.

During the spring semester, the lounge will only be open for reservations. Student employees will be dismissed at the end of the fall.

“The decision to make this change rested with two important priorities: the interest to expand student meeting space on campus while reducing costs in a difficult budget climate,” Ed Gilhool, director of residential education at the Office of Residential Living, wrote in an email.

“Ultimately, we hope this step offers students even more opportunities to gather and engage in this space.”

In the past, Alumni Lounge, located on the second level of Village C West, has been open to all members of the Georgetown community.

The lounge contains flat screen televisions, pool tables, board games and other amenities for students to rent and use.

During the upcoming semester, the lounge will be closed unless a student group reserves the room between the hours of 9 a.m. and noon.

Because student employees will be dismissed, each student groups will be in charge of setting up the room and cleaning it once their event has finished.

According to Gilhool, the Office of Residential Living will attempt to find jobs for the dismissed employees. Employee Michael LindsayBayley (MSB ’14), The Hoya’s director of sales, has worked at the lounge since the beginning of this year.

“I’m not work-study, so I’ve found it really hard to get jobs on campus,” he said. “In terms of getting another job on campus, I’m not hopeful, but they said they were going to try, so we’ll see.”

Another student employee, Ari Peña (MSB ’15), has worked at the lounge for more than a

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Alumni Lounge hours were reduced this semester because of university budget cuts. year. Once he heard about the cuts, he found another job as a driver for D.C. Schools without the help of the university. Peña said that could not wait for common on-campus openings, like Residence Hall Office jobs, to appear for the fall.

“I found one on my own because I couldn’t wait until an opportunity at an RHO opened up,” he said.

“I was also concerned because, my first thought was, if the school can’t afford to keep essentially what is our current very small student center open, how are they planning on affording a larger student center in New South next year?” Peña added.

Peña said he understood why the university shortened the hours, but that the Office of Residential Living should keep the lounge open for weekends.

“To completely close it down, I don’t think that it’s the best call,” Peña said. “The reality is that for someone who’s just looking at a spreadsheet, it’s certainly difficult to justify the lounge because of attendance.”

Committee Re-evaluates Medical Marijuana Policy Kayla Cross Hoya Staff Writer

In the wake of complaints about strict restrictions on eligibility for Washington’s medical marijuana program, Mayor Vincent Gray has convened a Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee to assess current policies.

According to Gray’s official order, released Oct. 28, the advisory committee will work with the D.C. Department of Health to monitor practices in other states, as well as scientific research regarding the use of medical marijuana.

District residents have been able to purchase medical marijuana for qualifying conditions since July 29, which is the product of over two decades of lobbying and debate.

An Intergovernmental Operations Subcommittee will monitor the effectiveness of the current medical marijuana program, and a Scientific Subcommittee will review applicable scientific research. Both subcommittees will review the practices of other states.

The Intergovernmental Operations Subcommittee consists of Department of Health Director Joxel Garcia, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Director Nicholas Majett, Metropolitan Police Department Chief of Police Cathy Lanier and City Administrator Allen Lew. Members of the Scientific Subcommittee will be appointed by the DOH director.

Currently, the medical marijuana program only covers conditions such as HIV/AIDS, glaucoma, muscle spasms and cancer, making it one of the most restrictive in the country. Though D.C. has an HIV/AIDS infection rate of 2.4 percent, or approximately 15,000 of its residents, only 59 people are enrolled in the medical marijuana

program.

Additionally, only 39 out of the District’s 1,400 doctors are currently licensed to prescribe medical marijuana, and according to Washingtonian magazine, only 62 had picked up the necessary forms as of Oct. 21.

During the Oct. 18 D.C. Council hearing, advocates for expansion of the program pushed for the loosening of restrictions on eligible conditions and further education of doctors about prescribing marijuana for medical purposes.

Organic medical marijuana distributors such as Capital City Care, the District’s first medical marijuana dispensary, are eager to see an expanded list of conditions added to the program to increase eligibility for those not currently covered. Capital City Care owner David Guard said his business would need more patients to stay open during the Oct. 18 hearing.

“This is an important milestone, and we’re excited to see things moving forward. We look forward to working with the committee to address concerns about the sustainability of the medical marijuana program,” Capital City Care Communications Director Scott Morgan wrote in an email. “We’ve heard from many patients who are eager to see more medical conditions added to the program, so I’m sure the committee’s work will be followed closely in the patient community.”

Gray spokesperson, Doxie McCoy, was optimistic about the advisory committee’s potential.

“Mayor Gray is confident the advisory committee, and any city agencies involved with medical marijuana policies and practices will collaborate to ensure an effective program,” McCoy wrote in an email.

University President John J. DeGioia and Provost Robert Groves will launch a new initiative, “Designing the Future(s) of the University,” an effort to rethink the framework and future of education, Wednesday.

The university is launching the program to assert more control over its future during a time of change in higher education, especially in the face of massive open online courses and new approaches to teaching.

“This initiative was born in that, and we have called it ‘Designing the Future(s)’ because we believe that it’s not about being afraid of how we’re going to be disrupted or how we’re not going to be able to do what we want to do, but to ask the design questions,” Vice Provost for Education Randall Bass said. “What kind of institution do we want to become?”

Although the initiative will discuss what aspects of Georgetown will remain the most integral to its identity in the future, the program will also assess what Georgetown hopes to give its students in the coming years and how the boundaries of formal education can be expanded.

The initiative is intended to explore issues related to education broadly, but no concrete changes have been announced.

“We’ve been building our capacity to think about this as a whole campus over the last few years, and now we believe we’re at a position to think not just about innovation at the course level but to think about innovation at the level of whole educational packages, how entire curriculum might be delivered,” Bass said. “We don’t expect that we’re going to change most of what we do, but we feel that what we want to do is generate a few experiments that really push the boundaries of the kind of education that we value.”

Possible changes to educational approaches include creating a dual certification program that

will combine undergraduate and master’s programs that will span four to five years, skill-based learning that will allow students to complete degrees at their own pace and better integrating internships into the curriculum.

The initiative will also evaluate new ways of delivering the Georgetown education, focusing on massive open online courses.

Georgetown launched its first MOOC on Oct. 1.

“The students coming to Georgetown now come to us with a great set of skills built around the internet, and other universities are exploring how we can redefine how we do educational programming,” Provost Robert Groves said. “We want to look at real concrete things, we want to let the students, and the faculty, and the alumni and student services examine whether we can have new kinds of degree programs that might be more self-paced.”

Incorporating these technological aspects into a liberal arts education at Georgetown will be a major focus of the initiative.

“We’re deeply committed to a version of liberal education, and I think we’re also committed to asking the question of what is a version of liberal education that can only be created in a world that is saturated with technology — global and fundamentally interdisciplinary, and it’s not just about preserving Georgetown liberal education from the past but reinventing it in this moment in history and in this point in the century going forward,” Bass said.

A spring 2013 course cotaught by Bass and distinguished visiting professor Ann PendletonJullian called “The Future of Georgetown University as a Design Problem” explored similar ideas. They will teach the course again this spring.

After reviewing precedent studies about design, the course’s students were divided into groups and challenged to build a design for a university in by 2033, starting with the most basic level.

“It was very hard for us at first to say what boundary conditions to create in an education — where do we want students to bump up against, and where does the university do a really great job of that already and where do we maybe need to change those things,” Evan Markley (COL ’15), who took the course, said.

Although the class is not directly related to the initiative, Bass and Pendleton-Jullian recently presented the students’ final projects to Groves and DeGioia.

“They wanted universities that were all about learning through doing, and this issue about wanting to participate in the world,” Pendleton-Jullian said. “How do we prepare better for the real world? And how do we make sense of the world around us? So these became the themes running through the whole projects.”

The initiative will officially launch Wednesday with a discussion between DeGioia and Groves that will focus on the current challenges the university faces in higher education and provide framework for the future of the program.

After the official launch, the initiative will continue through a series of connected events that discuss the university’s educational mission and focus on the overlap between exploration of the issues of higher education posed by thought leaders, the engagement of students, faculty and staff and experimentation in ways to deliver a Georgetown education.

“We want to begin a dialogue, and students have got to be part of this,” Groves said. “It’ll be Georgetown’s way of reacting to new tools we have in the world and new student interests, and asking the question, ‘Can we do things differently in a way that achieves even deeper academic excellence than we’re achieving now?’”

Hoya Staff Writers Kayla Cross and Jennifer Ding contributed reporting.

Storytelling Reimagined at GU Molly Simio

Hoya Staff Writer

Contributors to BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post and Reddit focused on storytelling Saturday at the School of Continuing Studies, emphasizing the need to cover stories from unique angles in the age of viral content.

The Storytelling Summit, the first part of the Georgetown Innovation Series, drew approximately 100 students, professors and staff.

“You get a million hits on a boring topic like the government shutdown … by finding the story that no one’s told before, telling it with humor and telling people something that they had never seen before,” BuzzFeed’s Viral Politics Editor Benny Johnson said.

Attendees heard from a variety of speakers, including journalists, university administrators and photographers.

“We wanted to create an event that was unlike anything that any university has hosted before,” Program Manager for Innovation & New Media Strategy Michael Wang (MSB ’07) said.

“We wanted to be a thought leader in creating interactive experiences, not just another 60-minute lecture with a famous person.”

The summit’s organizers were called “chefs,” and Wang was “head chef.”

“Quirky is what we’re going for,” Sous-Chef of Design Shantel Jairam (MSB ’15) said.

Vice Provost for Education Randy Bass discussed Designing the Future(s) of the University, an initiative led by Provost Robert Groves that will reinvent the way the university tells stories about itself.

Other speakers included Huffington Post Managing Director Jimmy Soni and reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.

Following the presentations, the speakers held a variety of workshops that encouraged storytelling without writing.

According to Chef of Special Projects and Experience Helen Brosnan (SFS ’16), the workshops were an important supplement to the keynotes.

“We’re talking about all of these broad ideas, and it’s great and you’re listening … but you

don’t get hard skills out of it,” Brosnan said.

Summit attendee Natasha Janfaza (COL ’17) appreciated the day’s focus on less traditional methods of storytelling.

“I enjoy storytelling, but I know that I only really know it in a few modes, like with words or pictures,” Janfaza said. “I wanted to learn about what the future of [storytelling] could be and experiment with it.”

The second part of the Georgetown Innovation Series will consist of a Hackathon in February, during which participants will spend 24 hours solving various problems. One goal of the Storytelling Summit was to empower participants to develop a strong narrative in order to pitch their ideas at the upcoming Hackathon.

Chef of Programming Innocent Obi (SFS ’16) hoped the Storytelling Summit and the Hackathon would be an opportunity for participants to redefine the image of Georgetown students.

“Georgetown is a very policybased school,” Obi said. “No one really imagines Georgetown students as innovators.”

NHS Journal Looks to Grow Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

After losing much of its staff, the Georgetown Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences is seeking to join the Media Board in order to expand.

Currently run by the School of Nursing & Health Studies, GUJHS features online content such as op-ed pieces, and publishes undergraduate research bi-annually.

“There are tons of students on campus doing research, specifically within the health sciences, tons of students working at the medical center, so our main goal is to showcase the students and the work that they do,” GUJHS Executive Managing Editor Cayla Fappiano (NHS ’15) said.

With a current staff of two writers, down from 10 last year, the organization is seeking Me-

dia Board approval to increase its legitimacy and recruit new writers.

“We don’t have enough writers right now this year, so I’ve had one of our writers submit two pieces,” GUJHS Editorial Director Eileen Marino (NHS ’15) said. “We haven’t felt comfortable publishing one a month, and we’d rather wait until we’ve collected enough. Last year we did two a week, so even if we could do one a week, that’s the goal.”

Staff members would also like to diversify the staff beyond NHS students and science majors.

“I think if we do have that recognition by the Media Board, it does set us apart from being just the NHS, human science kind of club that we have always been,” GUJHS Editor-in-Chief Victor Wang (NHS ’15) said.

Next semester, the publication will change its name from

the Georgetown Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences to the Georgetown University Journal of Health Sciences to further reflect this inclusivity across schools.

“We are universal, and we are open to everything at Georgetown University and not just localized to that one corner that the NHS seems to be,” Wang said.

Although the publication is seeking a more diverse staff, it will continue to appeal primarily to an audience interested in science.

“I feel like generally our main audience will still be within the science community, but we will publish articles and op-ed pieces that can really be appealing to anyone,” Fappiano said. “The scientific manuscripts themselves will be more applicable to a science audience.”

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Women Qualify for NCAAs maddie auerbach Hoya Staff Writer

The No. 4 ranked Georgetown women’s cross country team is headed to the NCAA championships after a second-place finish at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Meet.

The Hoyas finished with 35 points, just four more than top finisher and Big East foe Villanova. Penn State (92), West Virginia (124) and Princeton (135) rounded out the top five teams.

Villanova’s first-place finish was crucial for the team to continue to NCAAs. “Villanova was in a place where they didn’t have that many at-large points, so they had to go all out in this meet,” Head Coach Michael Smith explained.

“They had to be top two. …They were in the position that if they didn’t take that meet seriously then they weren’t going to go to NCAAs, so they had to run like that.”

Georgetown’s victorious effort was led by the usual suspects.

Sophomore Samantha Nadel crossed the finish line third with a time of 20:09, followed by junior Madeline Chambers with a sixth place finish (20:13). Senior Rachel Schneider was on the heels of Chambers, coming in seventh (20:15). Junior Annamarie Maag finished ninth (20:20), junior Katrina Coogan finished 10th (20:21) and freshman Haley Pierce came in 11th (20:21). Junior Kelsey Smith was the last of the Hoyas to cross the line, coming in 15th (20:33).

Even more impressive than

the Blue and Gray’s second place finish is the fact that all seven of the runners finished within 24 seconds of one another. Again, the Hoyas utilized their small spread, or lack of disparity in finishing times, to find success.

“We had a spread of 12 seconds between our scoring runners, and doing that in cross country is virtually unheard of,” Smith explained.

The Blue and Gray ran their usual seven runners aside from running Smith in place of sophomore Rachel Paul, who will compete at the NCAAs. Smith will run as an alternate at the NCAAs. Coming in third after Villanova and Princeton, the Georgetown men’s cross country team did not receive an automatic bid for the NCAAs. Villanova finished first with 34 points, followed by Princeton with 60 points. Georgetown fell just short, totaling 63 points. Based off of the results at meets preceding the Mid-Atlantic, the team unfortunately will not receive an at-large bid. The Wisconsin Adidas Invitational on Oct. 19 was a missed opportunity, according to Assistant Coach Brandon Bonsey.

“When we went to Wisconsin we blew a great opportunity to get some at-large points, so in that sense we sort of dug ourselves into a hole in the middle of the season. … We weren’t running like we were capable of,” Bonsey said. “We should have run stronger at Wisconsin, and if we had, we’d be going to nationals right now.”

Though graduate student

Andrew Springer finished third for the Blue and Gray, it wasn’t enough to guarantee a secondplace overall finish. Senior Brian King and juniors John Murray and Collin Leibold finished 13th, 14th and 15th with times 30:14, 30:17 and 30:18, respectively.

Senior Bobby Peavey snatched up 18th place (30:24). Freshman Ryan Gil rounded out the Hoyas’ group with a 28th place finish (30:53). An injury to the achilles tendon prevented sophomore Ahmed Bile from completing the race.

Despite the result, Bonsey was extremely proud of the team’s performance. It followed the race plan by beginning the race conservatively as opposed to gunning it right out of the starting line. Individuals on the team also turned in impressive performances.

“I think Andrew Springer, Colin Leibold, John Murray and Bobby Peavey all ran their best cross country race ever,” Bonsey continued. “At 5K, we had all seven guys running right together. …It was exciting that we were finally this year coming into the latter stages of the race excited and ready to do something. Yesterday I was really proud of the guys. They ran as a team, they ran tough, they ran poised and they executed the plan really well.”

The women will head to Terre Haute, Ind., for the NCAAs on Saturday Nov. 23. Springer will run as an individual at the NCAAs, representing the Georgetown name on the men’s side.

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The Quarterback Question T

he stretch run has begun in the NFL, and now the mass of teams hovering around the .500 mark look ahead with an increasingly slim margin for error. In this group are two teams traveling in opposite directions. The Eagles were 3-5 and already thinking about next year when three straight wins propelled them to the top of their division. In contrast, the San Francisco 49ers looked like Super Bowl contenders two weeks ago, riding a five-game winning streak that had diverted attention away from blowout losses to the Colts and Seahawks.

But two straight losses have the 49ers all but out of their division race and clinging to the last wild card spot. The common link between the two has been surprising quarterback play.

When the Eagles were in the midst of their epic meltdown during the 2012 season, a lot of the blame fell on the shoulders of Michael Vick. Although such an assessment is unfair given the many weaknesses on that team, Vick’s age is an issue these days.

His tendency to risk his safety to gain rushing yards has left his body battered; even when he was at his best this year, Vick was a liability because he could not stay healthy.

Enter second-year quarterback Nick Foles. Foles showed enough promise last year to raise questions about who should start in Philly, but even his supporters could not have envisioned the tear he has been on this year since taking over for an injured Vick. His historically brilliant performance against the Raiders three weeks ago was as good as any that the NFL has seen in recent memory, and once he accumulates enough passing attempts, his quarterback rating will lead the league by 10 points — ahead of Peyton Manning, who is in the midst of one of the best seasons of his career.

This is not to say that Foles should keep the starting job because of his play alone; his sample size is too small, and the success of a team cannot be discerned solely by the individual performance of its quarterback.

When you look at the Eagles now compared to a month ago however, the only thing that really matters is clear: They are winning more games. Perhaps Foles is the reason for this, or perhaps the Eagles just simply improved in all facets of the game, but it is clear that they are a better team right now, and keeping Foles at quarterback while Vick heals makes sense. It is really difficult to lose your job because of a tem-

porary injury, but the truth is that Vick was replaceable when healthy. If ever a backup deserved to unseat an injured starter, this would be it.

The decision Chip Kelly faces in Philly is especially intriguing given that the aforementioned 49ers just went through this dilemma a year ago. The 49ers were a revelation in 2011, with Jim Harbaugh reigniting Alex Smith’s career and finally getting the 49ers to reach their potential; if not for two fumbled punt returns, it would have been the 49ers in the Super Bowl instead of the Giants. Last year reinforced the fact that the 49ers were a power to be feared, as Alex Smith led the team out to a 6-2 record with the best season of his career. But Smith suffered a concussion, and backup quarterback

Darius Majd

Injuries complicate decisions of who starts at QB. Colin Kaepernick brought flair and excitement to the position in his absence. All of a sudden, the prevailing opinion changed on Smith; he was a game manager — a decent quarterback that avoided costly mistakes but could not lead a team that was not already great.

This critique of Alex Smith had merit, but ultimately it was irrelevant considering that the 49ers were a great team. Smith gave them the stability they needed to ensure the strengths of the team could dictate the outcome of games. Kapernick performed well last year, making plays Smith couldn’t, but the 49ers were no better with Kaepernick than they were Smith, who lost his job outright despite fantastic efficiency and a proven ability to win games (in the game he was concussed, Smith was 7-for-8 for 72 yards and a touchdown). The 49ers made it to the Super Bowl last year with Kaepernick, and at the time the decision to bench Smith was vindicated, but with the benefit of hindsight, the notion that the 49ers were better off with the athletic Kaepernick is more dubious than ever.

Although Kaepernick’s offense outproduced Smith’s, it also led

to a faster pace that hurt the 49ers defense, which was the true strength of the team. The new tempo was not a problem when Kapernick was playing well, but the shift away from controlling games with defense and time of possession has been disastrous now that Kaepernick is struggling. With a year to scout and game plan, teams are now prepared to deal with Kaepernick’s athleticism, and his weaknesses are more regularly on display. The most difficult team to beat is not necessarily a team that is capable of lighting it up on any given Sunday; sometimes, the toughest team to beat is the one that makes you play your best and punishes you for your mistakes. The old 49ers bought into this model, and the new kings of the NFC West, the Seattle Seahawks, do this as well.

It is no coincidence that the Kansas City Chiefs have found success by following this formula and bringing Smith aboard; they win games by playing clean football and capitalizing on mistakes. In contrast, the 49ers are now backed into a corner by their own sloppy play. Teams are forcing Kaepernick to beat them with control rather than brute force and are feasting off of poor reads and a lack of precision.

The quarterback position is one of the hardest to scout because so much of the position comes down to mentality. For all the physical tools that the position demands, it is hard to determine who will succeed until players are put on an NFL field.

The only thing harder than finding a good quarterback is recognizing the right choice between two good quarterbacks. Far too often, conventional wisdom looks at the individual strengths in a vacuum when what really matters is finding a player who will fit best with a team’s strengths. Operating from a position of weakness, the Eagles have been able to quantify the success of Nick Foles more easily; the team is winning more games — and doing so convincingly.

The 49ers, however, were operating from a position of strength when their starting quarterback went down and did not have the benefit of monitoring success in the short term. Haurbaugh took a gamble by tinkering with a winning formula, and the way Kaepernick and the 49ers respond in the coming weeks will determine the legacy of this fateful decision.

Darius Majd is a junior in the College. The Sporting Life appears every Friday.

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In the first round of the NCAA tournament, sophomore midfielder Marina Paul scored an unassisted goal in the 47th minute en route to a 2-0 win over La Salle.

Hoyas Down La Salle, Earn UVA Matchup Tom Schnoor Hoya Staff Writer

Over the past few years, the Georgetown women’s soccer team has been a program on the rise. After qualifying for its firstever NCAA Tournament in 2007, the team reached the Elite Eight in 2010 and then won its first Big East regular season championship last year. But on Saturday afternoon, the Hoyas did something they had never done before: played an NCAA tournament game at Shaw Field.

Backed by a strong show of support from students and fans on a chilly afternoon, No. 20 Georgetown (16-2-2, 7-1-1 Big East) scored a goal in each half to defeat La Salle (15-5-3, 5-2-1 Atlantic-10) 2-0.

There was an intensity in the air at Shaw Field that had been absent for other matches this year, as each team realized that the 80 minutes of competition could be its last until next August.

“It’s one of those games where if you lose, your season is over, and for your seniors, your career is over,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “There’s far more to it, and there’s far more nerves for both teams because there’s far more at stake.”

Georgetown came out firing on all cylinders and nearly broke through only two and a half minutes into the match when a corner kick was cleared of the La Salle goal line by a defender.

The Explorers, appearing in their third consecutive NCAA Tournament, did not back down and generated a handful of chances, including a strike by senior midfielder Renee Washington from nearly 40 yards out that sailed just over the Georgetown crossbar.

“We knew they were going to come out strong,” senior defender Emily Menges said. “The last two times [La Salle] made the tournament, they played Maryland and UVA so Dave really pressed on us that they were coming here thinking, ‘This is finally a game we can win.’”

In the 28th minute, senior forward Colleen Dinn took the ball down the left side of the pitch for the Hoyas and hit a low, hard cross towards the near post. La Salle redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Jessica Wiggins appeared to be in good position to make the save but fumbled the ball giving junior forward Vanessa Skrumbis all the space she needed to knock the ball into the back of the net and give Georgetown a 1-0 lead.

The Hoyas controlled possession after the goal but could not tally another before

halftime, and the teams entered the locker room with Georgetown up by one.

The fans were still making their way back from the concession stand at the start of the second half when a La Salle midfielder was whistled for a handball near midfield on the left touchline. Senior defender Mary Kroening stepped up to take the free kick for the Hoyas and lofted a ball into the box. A La Salle defender managed to get her head on it, but gave the ball right to sophomore midfielder Marina Paul who unleashed a powerful strike into the side netting of the goal. Just over a minute into the second half, it was 2-0 Georgetown. “[That goal] was huge,” Nolan said. “I do think it ultimately took the wind out of the sails for them. [La Salle Head Coach Paul Royal] is a master motivator, so I’m sure his halftime speech was about going for it in the first 10 to 15 minutes. For us to get that goal, it’s kind of like their players are like, ‘Well, how much do we have to go for it now?’”

The two-goal lead proved to be more than enough for the Georgetown defense. The unit has received a boost in the last week from senior defender Alexa St. Martin, who is back in the lineup after missing nearly a month due to injury.

“We have a greater level of comfort [with St. Martin],” Menges said.

La Salle managed to generate some possession on the Georgetown side of the pitch but never had a shot on goal. The score line held, and the Hoyas emerged with a 2-0 victory.

After the match, both Nolan and Menges spoke of the importance of playing at Shaw Field, where the Hoyas have now gone 21 straight games without a defeat.

“It was really important to have homefield advantage,” Nolan said. “You’re familiar with things, and there are less distractions.”

“Home-field advantage kind of trumped the experience factor for us,” Menges said.

“We were more comfortable than we’ve ever been in the first round of the NCAA.” Georgetown does not have long to dwell on the victory however. The Hoyas are set to play No. 1 Virginia (21-1, 13-0 ACC) on Friday night in Charlottesville, Va., in what is sure to be their most difficult match of the season.

But as Nolan reminded his players after the game, the Hoyas upset No. 1 Maryland on the way to the Elite Eight in 2010.

Georgetown’s entire season has led them to this point, and it is positioned to make another deep tournament run.

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it tough.”

Penalties at critical moments and an inability to stop the opposition on fourth Saturday’s game at Bucknell (5-5, 3-2 Patri- down stifled Georgetown’s chances for vicot League) added another loss to the list for a tory, skewing time of possession 37 minutes Georgetown football team trudging through to 23 in Bucknell’s favor and disrupting susa disappointing season. But the contest took tained offensive drives. on a decidedly different feel than any other “We just have to be more consistent with in the Hoyas’ (1-9, 0-5 Patriot League) eight- what we do,” Kelly said. “We do some good game losing streak. The final score, of 17-7, things, but then we shoot ourselves in the reflected a brand of football long absent foot with a penalty or we get a negative from the field for the Blue and Gray. play, that kind of thing, and if you get beThe Hoyas travelled to face the Buck- hind schedule it can make it very difficult.” nell team coming off a string of successThe Hoyas also missed out on some critiful games against the Patriot League’s top cal opportunities that could have gone in teams, including wins over Colgate and their favor on a different day. Georgetown Lehigh and a close loss to undefeated Ford- forced three Bucknell fumbles, but Bucknell ham. The Georgetown defense was able to recovered all of them. Meanwhile, the Blue hold this group to 17 points, all coming in and Gray lost the only fumble they committhe second quarter. ted well into their own territory, leading to “It was our best effort this fall,” Head Coach a Bucknell field goal.

Kevin Kelly said. “We played extremely aggres“I think the kids played their tails off,” sive, and we made very few mental errors. We Kelly said. “I’m proud of them for that — did a great job tackling the football, and I was they keep battling, they keep fighting, they proud of the defense because played extremely hard in of their play.” the game and they were agWhile Georgetown played gressive.” catch-up for most of the The Georgetown defense game, the game did not played a dominant second quickly run away from the half, holding Bucknell to 64 Hoyas. Instead of a points yards of offense and forcing barrage by the opposition three punts. But the Hoya ofthat the Georgetown offense fense was unable to capitalize was forced to respond to, it on its possessions, struggling kevin kelly Football Head Coach was the Hoyas defense that to find holes in Bucknell’s kept the game competitive. scheme. The Hoyas’ lone The Hoyas allowed their smallest point total point-scoring drive came when the game since the team’s only win, a 42-6 blowout of was already out of reach. On the drive, sophDavidson. omore quarterback Kyle Nolan dropped back Offensive difficulties negated defensive to pass on almost every play, a pass interfereffectiveness, however. The Hoyas were un- ence call against Bucknell moved the ball able to score until well into the fourth quar- well into Bison territory, and a 21-yard pass ter, when senior running back Dalen Clay- to senior wide receiver Zach Wilke put the tor punched in a touchdown on a 1-yard Hoyas on the 1-yard line — the team’s only run. The offensive difficulties arose from trip to the red zone — where Claytor was able Georgetown miscues. to force the ball into the end zone.

“We were inconsistent. One guy doesn’t Despite improved performances in areas do his job, a quarterback makes a misread of weakness, Georgetown was once again deor a miscommunication, a receiver runs the nied a win. As the end of the season looms wrong route, et cetera,” Kelly said. and its losing streak lives on, the Hoyas now These issues complemented the efforts of have only one more chance to avoid entera stout Bucknell defensethat ranks among ing the offseason on a string of losses datthe best in the nation against the rush. The ing back to September, at Holy Cross this Bison held Georgetown to a net of 22 yards Saturday. rushing, and the Hoyas could manage 149 “The thing now is we can’t look back, we yards of offense through the air. need to look forwards,” Kelly said. “[For] the “They were ranked seventh in the country seniors, this will be the last game in their against the run,” Kelly said. “They kind of football career, and we’d like to go out on a sat back, and if you’re one-dimensional, it winning note. It helps us in the offseason as makes it very difficult, and we had a tough well. This is a big game for us, we’ve got lots time running the ball Saturday, so it makes to play for.”

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I was proud of the defense.”

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Stiff Competition Awaits Hoyas in Puerto Rico Ashwin Wadekar Hoya Staff Writer

Less than two weeks removed from a tough loss to then-No. 19 Oregon in South Korea, Georgetown will travel to the sunny Caribbean to compete in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. The field features Charlotte, Florida State, Kansas State, Long Beach State, No. 7 Michigan, Northeastern and No. 18 Virginia Commonwealth.

In the first game, the Hoyas (1-1) will take on Northeastern (1-2) on Thursday. In the Huskies’ most recent game — a victory over Central Connecticut State — junior guard Demetrius Pollard tied a school record with eight three-pointers en route to a 27-point performance. Georgetown will have to watch Pollard as well as his backcourt companion, sophomore David Walker, who contributed 14 points to the win.

“If you stop and break it down, our defense has to get to a much higher level then it is at right now for us to be successful,” Head Coach John Thompson III said on Monday afternoon.

A loaded field like the one the Hoyas will encounter in Puerto Rico should prove to be a good benchmark for Georgetown. If they can get by Northeastern and then either Kansas State or Charlotte the next day, Michigan will most likely be waiting in the championship. The Wolverines ran over early competition before stumbling in a loss to Iowa State, and last year’s NCAA finalists will play Long Beach State in the first round of the Puerto Rico Tournament. “[The challenge of the tournament] is the quality of the opponent. You know who your first round matchup is, but after that you don’t know who your opponent is, and the short turnaround is part of the challenge,” Thompson said. “But everyone is in the same boat.”

Michigan relies on an outstanding trio of sophomores in sharpshooter Nik Stauskas, forward Glenn Robinson III and big man Mitch McGary.

This is the same core — who, along with National Player of the Year, Trey Burke — did so much damage as a four-seed last March.

To get to the finals, Georgetown needs to take a step forward from the first two games defensively as it allowed opponents to score an average of 76 points per game, a number it only allowed to Indiana in overtime and to Florida Gulf Coast in the NCAA tournament last season.

Still, the lapse in defense has come in combination with an offensive uptick. The 88 points scored in the Hoyas’ win against Wright State — a

team very likely to make the NCAA tournament this year — was only surpassed in two games last year: Longwood and DePaul.

However, these recent trends might be related.

Junior center Joshua Smith, who transferred halfway through last year from UCLA, has added a low-post presence to Georgetown’s offense. In combination with the more stringent defensive rules instituted by the NCAA, Smith has taken advantage of his considerable size and good touch around the rim to devastate opponents. Against Oregon, the big man scored 25 points. However, he recorded no defensive rebounds in the performance and seemed slow in transition, leading to several fast break opportunities for the Ducks.

“I think he got careless,” Thompson said. “They stripped him because he got it down low. He brought the ball down too low — he was careless with the ball.”

Smith will also be crucial in the rebounding arena should Georgetown succeed this year. The big man followed up his poor performance on the glass against Oregon with only four rebounds against Wright State, a number matched by his turnovers. “[Rebounding and defense] is just effort,” Smith said. “A lot of times when the ball goes up, I am just standing and watching and not making contact with a man and boxing him out. The few times I had a rebound it was getting hit out of my hand. It’s just [a matter of] me being strong and making the effort.”

Freshman forward Reggie Cameron showed off his range against Wright State, shooting 3-of5 from beyond the arc for his nine points in the game. While Cameron will get open looks with Smith down low, he will need to develop a more varied offensive game and show a commitment to defense and rebounding to earn more minutes.

Despite the less than ideal start to the year, Hoya fans can count on senior guard Markel Starks as a source of optimism.

“It is an adjustment for [Cameron],” Starks said.

“But consistently every day in practice, having to match up against smaller guys and more physical guys, he is going to get better. He doesn’t have a choice.”

Thompson was likely thinking about the Puerto Rico Tip-Off when he said that this year’s schedule might be his toughest yet, and it is imperative that the Hoyas are in top mental and physical condition going into such a competitive and grueling tournament.

when the keeper spectacularly saved a one-on-one shot by Friar junior forward Markus Naglestad. The Hoyas had a number of dangerous chances, but the regulation 90 minutes ended scoreless.

“Near the end, we just got tired,” Wiese said. “There were a lot of tired mistakes, which is something we haven’t seen a lot of this year.”

The two overtimes played out much like the second half.

Georgetown controlled the ball for swathes of time, taking three corner kicks in just over a minute of the first overtime.

Turnovers continued to plague the team, and the Hoyas easily could have conceded the gamewinning goal during several of the Providence counterattacks.

Despite a more open game, neither team was able to put a shot on goal, and the scoreless draw remained.

Providence shot first in the penalty shootout and easily con-

verted their opening two chances. After senior forward and captain Steve Neumann scored on his turn, Muyl sent his shot high and over the crossbar. Gomez again kept the Hoyas’ hopes alive, however, making the save against the Friars’ third shooter.

The next six players found the back of the net without a hitch, and the shootout score was 5-4 as Yaro stepped up to the spot.

He shot high and to the left, but Broome guessed correctly and was there to make the stop to send his team to the championship game.

“Penalty kicks can be overanalyzed a lot,” Wiese said. “If you run the exact same set of guys through it again tomorrow, a whole different outcome might come to pass.”

Georgetown created a number of chances, especially in the second half, but could not find a way to score. The team forced six saves, all in the second 45 minutes. A shot by Neumann in the 57th and a header in the 85th by Muyl nearly put the team ahead

and into the championship game, but a save by Broome and a clearance off the line by several players preserved the clean sheet for the Friars. The Hoyas are not overly concerned with their lack of finishing, seeing the bad luck as just part of the game. “[We] don’t need a lot of chances to score goals,” Wiese said.

“And that is not necessarily usual in soccer. Goal scorers need to generate a lot of chances.”

Georgetown will avoid focusing on how the outcome may have been different if a shot went right instead of left, or if junior midfielder Tyler Rudy, who removed himself from the penalty kick lineup due to fatigue, had been available to step up to the spot. Instead, all eyes will turn to the College Cup and the next step in the Hoyas’ postseason. The Hoyas were awarded the sixth seed in the NCAA tournament and will play the winner of the firstround game between Old Dominion and Drexel at home on Sunday at 1 p.m.

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Butler Stands Out in Losses Carolyn Maguire Hoya Staff Writer

After winning its season opener last weekend, the Georgetown women’s basketball team struggled in its second weekend of competition, dropping games to South Dakota State and No. 11 California.

On Friday, the Hoyas (1-2) traveled to Brookings, S.D., to take on the Jackrabbits.

Georgetown fell behind early and were unable to complete the comeback, losing to South Dakota State (2-2), 86-80.

“A lot of people don’t realize how good of a program [South Dakota State] is,” Head Coach Jim Lewis said. “They have five consecutive Summit League championships. They have a winning mentality, and they have good players.”

Georgetown quickly fell behind as South Dakota State opened the game on an 11-2 run. In the first half, the Jackrabbits continued to take advantage of Hoya turnovers as they expanded their lead to as many as 15 points.

Led by sophomore guard Katie McCormick, who had 16 second-half points, George-

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Freshman center Natalie Butler leads GU in scoring.

town closed in on South Dakota State in the second half.

With just over five minutes remaining in the contest, senior forward and co-captain Andrea White scored a put-back layup to cut the Jackrabbits’ lead to two.

That was the closest the Hoyas would get, as the Hoyas couldn’t secure a stop down the stretch, and ultimately, the Jackrabbits eked out the 86-80 victory. Despite the loss, Lewis had some positive takeaways from the game. “[South Dakota State] plays really well at home, and the crowd was tremendous,” Lewis said. “But we learned so much.

We were down 15 against South Dakota State, and we cut it to two, and then had the chance to win the game. We are putting ourselves in positions to be successful.”

Three Georgetown players finished in double figures.

Freshman center Natalie Butler led the Hoyas with 20 points and also grabbed 13 rebounds. McCormick finished with 18 points, and freshman forward Shayla Cooper recorded her first career doubledouble with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

The Hoyas returned to McDonough Arena on Sunday when they played host to California (2-2). The Golden Bears, riding a two-game losing streak into the game, were desperate for a win. On Friday, Cal suffered a heartbreaking loss to George Washington. In the upset, the Golden Bears had two opportunities to tie the game in the final seconds but were ultimately unsuccessful and fell 75-72.

“Cal is the 10th-ranked team in the country and they are more athletic than we are,” Lewis said.

The Hoyas were also at a disadvantage because they were without Cooper, whose status at game time was “suspended indefinitely” due to “conduct detrimental to the team,” according to Sports Information Director Barbara Barnes.

According to a statement released by Barnes on Monday,

Cooper was not suspended and has decided to transfer.

Throughout the game, the Golden Bears were able to take advantage of the Blue and Gray’s turnovers. The Hoyas committed 28 turnovers, which Cal converted into 40 points.

“No disrespect at all [to Cal], but the pressure didn’t cause that much of a problem and should not have caused that much of a problem,” Lewis said. “To me, [they were] unforced turnovers and live turnovers. … You can’t have that many live turnovers because they lay them up on the other end.”

The Hoyas were also hampered by foul trouble. Georgetown committed 23 team fouls, and freshman forward Faith Woodard fouled out of the contest. “[Fouling] is becoming too much of a consistent theme,” Lewis said. “We have to be smarter with the effort. A good basketball player does not foul out, and we have had three consecutive games with … players fouling out.”

Senior point guard and co-captain Samisha Powell missed a majority of the second half after receiving her fourth foul just seconds into the half.

“It hurt a lot [not having Powell]. She’s our starting point; we need her in the game,” McCormick said.

Butler led all scorers with 16 points and also grabbed a game-high 15 boards. This was the third double-double in as many games for the freshman.

“Butler has the right attitude, and that is the bottom line with her,” Lewis said. “She works, and she is just going to get better and better. Already, teams have doubled her a lot.

She has a good feel for the game. … It’s our job to continue to her growth.”

Butler was named Big East rookie of the week for her efforts in the weekend’s games.

Georgetown will be back in action next Saturday when they play at home against Princeton.

Full Contact

Hockey Benefits from Fights CASTALDO, from A10 safety or break the code.

Additionally, fighting in hockey prevents a conflict from escalating. A slash to the back of the knee will not be retaliated by means of a stick to the face, which would perpetuate the issue.

Rather, once a fight occurs, the hatchet is buried, and there is a sense of closure to the conflict.

Measures, both by official rules and by the code, have been taken to make fighting in hockey safer. A rule change this year has made

it illegal for a player to remove his helmet during a fight. Once players go to the ground, referees immediately break up the fight. And, by the code, more often than not skilled players let enforcers fight in their stead to keep them out of the penalty box and, ultimately, out of the trainers’ room.

Fighting is a valuable tool that diffuses dangerous situations and actually makes the sport of hockey safer.

The referees know it, the owners know it, the players know it and you should too.

But it is also a huge part

of hockey lore and fanfare.

Enforcers gain followings and sell jerseys. Tickets sell out and ratings rise for rivalry games that guarantee physical play and fights. For those who still think fighting doesn’t belong because of the message it teaches: you have a point. Unfortunately, it likely won’t change, so sit back and appreciate that not all good bouts will cost you $60 on HBO pay-per-view.

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If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit ...

Cooper to transfer amid contradictory statements on suspension

LAURA WAGNER Hoya Staff Writer

One day after announcing that Shayla Cooper, the highly touted women’s basketball recruit and Big East preseason rookie of the year who threw her shoe in the season opener against Richmond, would be suspended indefinitely from the team, the Sports Information Office said Cooper would be transferring to a different university.

“Cooper’s status as a member of the Georgetown women’s basketball team was incorrectly communicated on Sunday. She was not suspended. She informed the university of her intent to transfer on Saturday evening prior to Sunday’s game against Cal. She leaves the team in good standing,” the statement from Sports Information Director Barbara Barnes reads.

The freshman forward’s unconventional move in the Nov. 8 Richmond game — she tossed her shoe in the air in an attempt to block a shot by the opposing team — made headlines around the country last week. The incident was picked up by national media, including ESPN’s flagship program, SportsCenter, which featured the play as the No. 1 play on its segment of the “Not Top-10” plays of the week.

Shoe-throwing is not explicitly addressed in the NCAA rulebook, but Cooper could have earned a technical foul for the move under the unsportsmanlike conduct regulations as per the NCAA. The play went unnoticed

by the referees, and despite a plea by Richmond Head Coach Michael Shafer, Cooper was not assessed a technical foul.

On Friday, Cooper took to Twitter to retweet numerous people who mentioned and joked about her appearance on the Not Top-10 reel. Cooper’s account, which was public over the weekend, is now set to private.

First-year Head Coach Jim Lewis, who replaced Keith Brown two weeks before the start of the season after Brown resigned amid a verbal abuse scandal, would not comment on the play after the game. Cooper, however, started in the Hoyas’ next game against South Dakota State on Friday. On Sunday, before the Hoyas were scheduled to play their third game, Barnes told THE HOYA that Cooper had been suspended, which Lewis confirmed after the game.

Both Lewis and the Sports Information Office were tight-lipped about the situation.

“Shayla Cooper is suspended indefinitely due to detrimental conduct in violation of team rules,” Barnes said before Sunday’s game against Cal. The statement released Monday afternoon revised this information, but Barnes declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding the initial announcement about Cooper’s suspension, excpet to say that Cooper had not been suspended.

The shoe toss had little bearing on the outcome of the Hoyas’ 82-78 win over the Spiders, but Cooper’s decision

to transfer could have significant bearing on the team’s chances moving forward this season.

In the first two games of her collegiate career, Cooper averaged 16 points and 9 rebounds, and against South Dakota State, she put up her first career double-double with 15 points and 10 boards.

With her decision to transfer, the Blue and Gray’s revolving door of personnel continues to spin, and the Hoyas are now faced with replacing a natural scorer who had already established herself as a force on the court.

The statement did not specify where or when Cooper is transferring. Cooper did not respond to requests for comment at press time.

Staff writer Carolyn Maguire contributed to this report.

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Junior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez played 110 minutes and recorded seven saves, including one in the shootout, in the Hoyas’ loss to Providence in the Big East tournament semifinals.

GU Loses in Penalty Kicks ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

After the regulation 90 minutes, two overtimes and the standard five penalty kicks, No. 7 Georgetown (13-4-2, 6-2-1 Big East) and Providence still could not break a deadlock tie in the Big East tournament semifinals. Six rounds of penalty kicks passed before the Friars’ junior goalkeeper Keasel Broome saved freshman defender Joshua Yaro’s effort, eliminating the top-seeded Hoyas. The Friars (12-5-3, 6-3-0 Big East) saw Broome as the hero of the match, but the Hoyas were disappointed with their frequently sloppy play, inability to take advantage of opportunities and the result.

Neither team opened quickly at PPL Park in Chester, Pa., home of the MLS’s Philadelphia Union, and the number of chances and total possession remained roughly even. One of Georgetown’s best opportunities came in the 16th minute, when freshman midfielders Bakie Goodman and Alex Muyl had close range shots blocked by Providence defenders. The Friars seemed content to absorb pressure and look to score on the counterattack. In the final 10 minutes of the half, the Hoyas gained the upper hand, but the scoreboard did not reflect their promising play.

“The first half is what you would expect a semifinal to be,

which was a lot of efforts to try and figure teams out,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

Georgetown continued to press as the second half began, but their play often lacked the precision present when the team has been at its best. Passes found themselves in empty spaces or at the feet of opposing players, and giveaways led to Providence’s best chances of the match. The Friars played a defensive game and looked to capitalize on Hoya errors quickly. Mistakes by Georgetown’s back line resulted in nervy moments for junior goalkeeper Tomas Gomez, including one in the 82nd minute, See PROVIDENCE, A9

he issue of safety in sports has re- ing owners’ meetings. cently come to the forefront in the But explaining just how fighting makes media, and rightfully so. As injuries hockey safer requires an investigation into seem to be occurring more frequently and the mentality of hockey players and the nawe learn more about long-term concus- ture of the sport itself. sion effects, it is reasonable to question Sticks to the face, lower back, or back of what our priorities are not only as fans but the leg are all viewed as cheap shots and also as humans. One part of sports that is should be called as penalties. Important so blatantly in contention with some of star players, such as Sidney Crosby, often our societal values is fighting in hockey. draw penalty calls much like the stars of The practice of enforcers, fighters, goons – the NBA. Unfortunately, referees do not whatever you choose to call them – acting always see these penalties because of the like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots on skates is speed of play, and it becomes the job of vicso obviously dangerous that it is not legal tims’ teammates to make sure guilty paron the street. So why is it ties engaging in dangerpermitted in hockey? ous stick work or who take Simply put, and very runs at important players counterintuitively, fightface justice. ing in hockey actually Most teams in hockey makes the game safer. have what is known as an Conventional safety “enforcer.” Enforcers rarely procedures in sports have score, generally possess litoften been shown not to tle stickhandling skills and Matt Castaldo work. Think about footsometimes cannot even ball; once helmets were skate that well. Their sole Fighting curtails introduced, players began job is to fight players who using their heads as a have broken the unwritten dangerous, dirty weapon. A common sense “hockey code” by taking a preventative measure for cheap shot and threatenplays. head injuries today greatly ing the safety of other playcontributes to the concussion issue perme- ers and the integrity of the sport as a whole. ating the sport.

What I will call the “hockey code” is a Removing fighting from hockey would unique phenomenon in sports. A general function similarly to helmets in football, explanation of the code is that personal inand the players recognize this. Jarome tegrity should be demonstrated because of Iginla, a great scorer of the last decade and a collective respect for the game. For examcurrent Boston Bruin, recently relayed this ple, players will often lose teeth or break a sentiment in a Sports Illustrated interview. nose and return to play in the same match.

“Does fighting still have a place in today’s They will not take cheap shots targeting NHL? My answer is a qualified yes,” Iginla the head or back. Flopping, diving or emsaid. He continued, “I don’t know of any bellishing, which is frequent in basketball, player who truly loves fighting. Ideally, it would be unimaginable for a hockey playwould not be a part of the game. But the er who abides by the code. nature of our sport is such that fighting acPlayers know when they have broken tually curtails many dirty plays that could the code. They expect enforcers to bring result in injuries.” them to their reckoning for doing so. And Other players, such as fighting legend knowing that a hulking enforcer is going Gordie Howe, have shared the same sen- to make you pay is definitely a deterrent timent, and as a result, the NHL owners for acting in a way to jeopardize player have refused to budge when the question See CASTALDO, A9 of banning fighting is raised each year dur-

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