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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Daphne Corboz and the Hoyas defeated Seton Hall 8-0 to end the regular season.

EDITORIAL Georgetown must fully consider its finances before divesting.

SPORTS, A10

ASSAULT IN ICC A female student was sexually assaulted in the ICC last week.

NEWS, A6

OPINION, A2

Free Speech Petition Presented to GU Hoya Staff Writer

Applications number same as years past, with more expected Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writer

COURTESY VINCENT DILAURENTIS

Vincent DiLaurentis (SFS ’17) leads the group Hoyas United for Free Speech in its delivery of a petition advocating for free speech reform to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson in the Leavey Center. spaces of CMEA, the Women’s Center and the LGBTQ Resource Center. We have launched a working group on disability justice, and that group is exploring some of the issues raised here.

Current work led by the Provost’s Office, and directly involving students, is exploring the curricular questions that are raised in the petition.”

Olson said that although the university is still considering how to structure its work on diversity issues, it is committed to maintaining three distinct spaces for the CMEA, the Women’s Center and the LGBTQ Re-

source Center.

According to DeLaurentis, the petition outlined a two-week deadline for a response from Olson.

“We expect him to provide a substantive response to the proposal within two weeks, and if that doesn’t happen or if the response provided isn’t substantive, then we will be forced to continue with our campaign,” DeLaurentis said.

The petition lists seven demands for free speech policy changes: eliminating specified free speech zones on campus in favor of a more universal

policy, immediately expanding tabling areas to the sidewalks in front of Healy Hall and around Healy Circle, recruiting a more diverse group of speakers for events on campus, preserving and expanding safe spaces such as the LGBTQ Resource Center, Women’s Center and CMEA, creating a funding system for American Sign Language interpretation and Communication Access Real-Time captioning at events for deaf and hardof-hearing community members, See PETITION, A5

DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

MAYORAL RACE

Bowser, Catania Compete in Final Stretch Margaret Heftler Hoya Staff Writer

D.C. Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), D.C. Councilmember David Catania (I-At Large) (SFS ’90, LAW ’94) and former councilmember Carol Schwartz, an independent, will face off today in D.C.’s mayoral election.

Bowser, the Democratic nominee, defeated incumbent Mayor Vincent Gray in the April primary.

The recipient of endorsements from President Barack Obama and The Washington Post, she has maintained a constant lead over Catania and Schwartz in the polls, though Catania has recently seen a surge in support, trailing just four points behind Bowser in an Oct. 4 poll conducted by veteran D.C. pollster Ron Lester.

Both former Republicans, Catania and Schwartz turned independent after the party became increasingly conservative, with Catania changing his affiliation in 2004 and Schwartz, a five-time mayoral candidate, changing her status this year.

Public policy professor Mark Rom noted that the candidates fall along traditional party lines, identifying Bowser as the ardent Democrat, Catania as a moderate and Schwartz as the most conservative. “[The candidates] differ in fairly predictable ways … and they each basically assume the goals that are consistent with their parties,” Rom said.

Hans Noel, an associate professor in the government department, agreed, highlighting the difference between Bowser and Catania, who largely resemble one another on issues of policy, as one primarily of style.

“That dimension between old school and the new way of doing things,” Noel said. “It’s really more of a question of here’s a person that’s a generic Democrat, versus here’s an outsider kind of person, who generally wants to accomplish the same kind of things.”

Lester’s Oct. 4 poll estimated Bowser’s support at 34 percent, Catania’s at 30 percent and Schwartz’s

NEWS, A4

Early Applicants Steady

Margaret Heftler Hoyas United for Free Speech, a new student group advocating for free speech reform on campus, delivered its petition to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson on Friday.

The petition, which has so far garnered roughly 460 signatures, includes demands for the expansion of free speech zones on campus, the diversification of viewpoints included in class curriculum and the expansion of accessibility for students with disabilities.

Around 15 students involved with HUFS met in Red Square and walked together to Olson’s office in the Leavey Center. Before delivering the petition, they stopped in Sellinger Lounge, where they chanted “When free speech is under attack, what do we do, we fight back!”

“We went up to his office, we knocked on his door, he answered, we handed him the petition and we tried to explain to him a little bit about what’s going on in the petition but he said he was on a conference call and then disappeared back into his office,” HUFS founder Vincent DeLaurentis (SFS ’17) said.

Olson said that after receiving the petition, he reviewed the demands carefully and will respond to them shortly.

“There are several issues we will be discussing in the Speech and Expression Committee in the weeks ahead,” Olson wrote in an email. “On the safe spaces questions, I will note that we are committed to preserving the distinctive identities and physical safe

CHAPLAIN A Catholic chaplain has been chosen to replace Fr. Pat Rogers, S.J.

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Global Fund for Children founder Maya Ajmera discussed maternal and child health in Copley Formal Lounge on Saturday.

Georgetown’s number of early admissions applicants for the Class of 2019 remained steady this year, continuing the trend of little to no change in the early applicant pool over the past four years.

As of Saturday morning, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions had received 6,624 applications for the Nov. 1 early action deadline, and the office expects to see more in the next few days, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon said. Since Nov. 1 fell on a Saturday this year, Georgetown will continue to accept applications mailed via postal service and postmarked Nov. 1 through the beginning of this week.

“I’m guessing it’ll come out to be almost exactly what it was last year, maybe a little ahead,” Deacon said.

The current 6,624 early action applications number is slightly lower than last year’s 6,749 early applicants for the Class of 2018, although exact comparisons will not be determined until all applications are received by mail this week. The number of early action applications peaked with 6,840 in 2013 for the Class of 2017, following 6,831 in 2012 for the Class of 2016 and 6,655 in 2011 for the Class of 2015.

More information about the breakdown of this year’s early action applicants will be available when all applications have been received.

Georgetown offers an early action application, which is non-binding and allows high school students to apply early to other universities that also offer early action options. Applicants will receive news of acceptance or deferral to the regular-decision cycle — with no rejections in the early action round — on Dec. 15. Applicants will have until May 1 to choose whether to enroll at Georgetown.

Last year, 955 out of 6,749 early applicants were accepted to the Class of 2018.

Out of 19,501 total applicants for the Class of 2018, 2,227 applicants were accepted regular decision. The total acceptance rate for the current freshman See APPLICANTS, A5

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DC Expected to Legalize Marijuana Tom Garzillo Hoya Staff Writer

COURTESY BENJAMIN YOUNG

Democrat Muriel Bowser, above, and Independent David Catania lead the race for D.C. mayor. at 16 percent, with 19 percent undecided — a much closer race than the 17-point lead Bowser held in an NBC4/Washington Post poll conducted in September.

Despite the narrowing margins, Rom hypothesized that the District’s demographic makeup and recent events such as the Post’s endorsement provide Bowser with an advantage in today’s election.

“Democrats make up threefourths of the registered voters in D.C,” Rom said. “Part of the reason of that is that it’s been a largely African-American city, and AfricanAmericans historically vote heavily Democratic, so that’s the basis they’re working from, and Cata-

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D.C. voters will head to the polls today to vote on Initiative 71, a proposal that would legalize the use and cultivation of recreational marijuana in the District.

If the initiative is passed, adults over the age of 21 will be legally allowed to possess up to two ounces of marijuana. The initiative will also permit the home cultivation of up to six marijuana plants as long as only three or fewer are mature. Although the sale of marijuana will still be prohibited, up to one ounce of marijuana will be able to be given as a gift, and the sale of products for the use or cultivation of marijuana will be legalized.

A recent Washington City Paper poll placed support for legalization at 52 percent.

In anticipation of the initiative’s passage, the D.C. Council passed a bill on Oct. 28 to seal the criminal records of D.C. residents who have been convicted of non-violent marijuana-related crimes.

“We need to say to people previously charged with these crimes that they don’t need to have it impact their lives forever,” Councilmember at Large David Grosso (LAW ’01), who introduced the bill, told The Hoya.

“The point is to give a little bit back Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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Fliers in Red Square, not signed by any group, urged students to vote in support of Initiative 71 to legalize marijuana in D.C. in today’s election. to the people most impacted by the failed war on drugs.”

If the initiative passes, it must undergo a 60-day Congressional review period. In 1998, D.C. residents voted to legalize medical marijuana, but Congressional delay tactics prevented the council from implementing the plan until 2009. Since such action would require approval from the Senate, the House and the president, the current political climate

makes a delay from Congress unlikely.

If Congress or the D.C. Council does not act within those 60 days, the initiative will become law.

The initiative does not permit sale of marijuana, only possession.

Grosso noted that the D.C. Council will likely delay the implementation of legalization until the creation of See MARIJUANA, A6

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OPINION

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TUESDAY, November 4, 2014

THE VERDICT

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Weighing Divestment’s Risks C

When Georgetown University Fossil Free turned in its divestment proposal to the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibly, it brought its movement one step closer to reaching a definitive answer on the fate of the university endowment’s investment in fossil fuels.

For years, the merits of divestment have persisted as a contentious topic on the Hilltop. And with the recent prominence of GU Fossil Free, the issue of divestment has clearly gained sufficient traction to mandate the attention of leading decision makers within the university.

For many, the issue of divestment appears explicitly cut and dry — if acting to divest means that Georgetown would no longer support fossil fuel companies that harm the environment, then there seems to be little reason not to do so. Yet when dealing with a proposal that could affect Georgetown’s already fragile financial performance and fledgling endowment, a particular element of pragmatic analysis must be added to the mix.

Georgetown needs a robust endowment not only to maintain its campus and symbolic status, but also to keep up with peer institutions, many of which have endowments much larger than its own. As of June 2013, the endowment measured in at about $1.2 billion, which the university describes as “modest” compared to peer universities.

With the endowment at such a critical juncture in Georgetown’s history and progression, it would be foolhardy to divest entirely if this means this action would significantly hurt the university’s financial standing. However, if divesting will not significantly harm Georgetown’s endowment, it may be wise to follow through with divestment.

Divestment is the moral high ground, but with such a difficult financial situation at hand, immediate divestment could prove to be a detriment to the university in the long run. But the only way to tell whether or not divestment is a fiscal possibility is to

consider in great detail the effects divestment would have on the endowment — a feat that only the board of directors can accomplish.

Submitting this proposal to the proper financial authorities — first CISR, and then the board of directors — is the only route of action that will lead to a credible assessment of the effect that divestment would have on the endowment. Until the private details of our investments are assessed by the officials who are in a position to know the effects of divestment, it is unfair to dismiss the proposal on financial grounds when it has not been properly considered.

The nuance of the issue merits thorough consideration of the consequences of action. In light of GU Fossil Free’s meaningful impression on students and administrators, inspiring reflection upon this predicament, the CISR’s consideration of the proposal constitutes a noteworthy step forward. While the CISR has no authority to review specifics, its consideration is the first step to recognizing the moral significance of divestment, and preparing to determine the university’s ability to divest in light of its financial health.

Furthermore, should the CISR pass GU Fossil Free’s proposal, the board of directors would be obligated to automatically consider the proposal, demonstrating a respect for student input and opening the door to a serious conversation about whether or not divestment is right for Georgetown at this particular moment.

While student participation is crucial for issues affecting the Georgetown community, students should respect the ultimate decision of the board of directors. Its members know better than most the extent to which decisions on divestment would impact the endowment and school, and are thus entrusted with the final decision. Judging on morality alone, Georgetown should obviously divest, but if we need to strengthen our endowment first, then divestment will be worth the wait.

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To the Editor: “Born-again” Christian preachers demonstrated at Georgetown’s front gates last Wednesday, warning of the dangers of Catholicism and its inability to lead us to salvation. The event didn’t really draw my attention, except for one thing: a pamphlet they were distributing titled “What Roman Catholics Find When They Study Their Own Bible.”

Catholicism is different from other Christian denominations in that it favors exegesis, or critical interpretation, over the literal reading of Scripture, but this does not hinder our understanding of revelation. Rather, this Catholic approach to the Bible, historically honored by the Jesuits, strengthens my faith by painting a more complete picture While Luther called for a faith based solely on Scripture, Catholics call on outside sources of knowledge to complement our reading, for varying reasons. One example, recently cited by Fr. Jim Martin, S.J., is that we citizens of the 21st century are

fortable in our homes, we are more likely to struggle.

Conversely, when we are comfortable in our homes, we are more likely thrive.

Georgetown administrators have expressed refusal to recognize any non-binary genders, in accordance with the Catholic Church. But allowing students to live comfortably does not require the university to make proclamations about its views on gender.

It is unlikely that Georgetown will adopt a full policy of gender-neutral housing anytime soon. But certainly there is a way to accommodate students for whom a less gender-based form of housing is a necessity, rather than a convenience, without overhauling the housing system.

Georgetown made a historic step when it allowed students to enter the housing system using the gender with which they identify. But to continue to help marginalized communities feel more at home on the Hilltop, the university must make steps toward at least some gender-neutral housing policies soon.

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Connor Maytnier (COL ’17) voices concerns about the future of baseball fandom: Baseball is enjoying its current triumphs, but such complacency will almost certainly lead to a crisis in the next few decades. If MLB does not work to increase its popularity among kids, the recent successes in attendance and revenue will be short-lived. According to data collected

by Sports Media Watch, baseball has the oldest television fan base, with a median viewer age of 54. None of the other three major professional sports – NBA, NFL and NHL – has a median viewer age over 50. In fact, the NBA’s median viewer age is in the high 30’s. Even worse, MLB’s median viewer age has increased by 4 over just the last 4 years. It is a sport with an old audience that keeps getting older.”

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“It is important to acknowledge that many men have embraced movements to end sexism. However, the fact that reactions such as these continue to appear in the comments posts of videos that fight back against sexism indicate that society still has not been able to get everybody on board with a movement for equality, especially since the current status quo favors men in that it gives them enormous freedom to say or do what they want to women on the street. What is more troubling than these individual reactions, however, is that society as a whole makes little effort to push for the elimination of sexism. In fact, it often subtly justifies sexism.”

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far removed from the first-century Hebrew realities of the people Jesus spoke to. Another is that, because the Gospels were written much after the events they describe and have been translated so many times, sometimes we must call on the etymologies of words, as Jesuits frequently do when they preach, to understand the true undertones of the messages that Jesus and the prophets have conveyed across millennia.

As a science student, I’ve learned to think critically about sources and when to trust them, so naturally in some instances I question the Gospels, especially when something doesn’t seem to fit with what I’ve learned about Jesus. This critical approach has really has made a difference in my spirituality; it has strengthened my faith and made me feel more connected with Jesus, the person. My reply to these preachers calling for Catholics to read “their own” Bible is: “Sure!

What else should we take a look at?”

Emma Lux (COL ’18) responds to the controversy surrounding the recent experiment that filmed ten hours of a woman being catcalled in the street:

pus, but it would set a poor example for other universities responding to the minimal threat that the disease poses to American campuses.

In fact, while Ebola rages in western Africa, it would be a distracting ploy to develop in-depth contingencies to address the very remote possibility of an Ebola outbreak in Washington, D.C. The responsible act is to keep our attention focused on Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where it should be. In this respect, the university acted well.

There is little that Georgetown can do as an institution to directly contribute to solutions to the Ebola crisis. Adopting a responsible and fact-based approach in order to avoid the trend toward sensationalism is one thing we can do, and are doing, right.

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Bundling Up — Nov. 1 marked the start of hypothermia season in D.C. and The Interagency Council of Homelessness’ Winter Plan estimates a 16 percent increase in the number of homeless families seeking shelter. Of the 409 units at D.C. General, most are already occupied, and there is no money in the budget for hotel rooms.

Catholicism’s Exploration of Scripture

An Informed Plan for Ebola Early yesterday, an email from University President John J. DeGioia outlined Georgetown’s contingency plans regarding the growing Ebola crisis in Western Africa.

The university has articulated that all policies pertaining to Ebola will be based solely on the advice of the public health resources available to Georgetown administrators, namely MedStar Hospital and the D.C. Department of Health.

In addition to alleviating any anxieties that Georgetown students have, these policies effectively resist the trend of sensationalizing the crisis that has taken place in other locales around the country.

Evoking images of panic and planning for a worstcase scenario would not only be counterproductive to making Georgetown students feel secure on cam-

Do More For Less — The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities will be presenting an exhibition in honor of artist Lois Mailou Jones, highlighting her significant work during the Harlem Renaissance. The exhibition will feature paintings, drawings, and prints through Jan. 30.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A Home, Regardless of Gender As the first semester comes to an end, the issue of housing policy is once again on the horizon, refocusing attention on this year’s university decision to allow transgender students to declare eligibility for university housing as their identified gender.

This practice is welcome, but comes with the caveat that trans students must present as one gender, all day, every day to retain eligibility. However, it is imperative to recognize that while not only do some students identify with a different gender than that with which they were assigned at birth, some do not identify with a gender on a binary spectrum — and this population of students must still be accommodated.

Allowing genderqueer students to choose which housing system to enter — either male or female — would provide much-needed freedom for those students and would undoubtedly change their standard of living among us on this campus.

In many ways, the people we live with in college define our college experience: When we are uncom-

Change the Mascot, Indeed — Thousands of Native Americans showed up to a rally in Minneapolis on Sunday to protest the name of the Washington Redskins NFL franchise. The Washington Post reported that this was the largest protest ever of the Redskins’ name.

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VIEWPOINT • Kim

In Korea, Beauty Evolves on Its Own Terms Hunter Main

Disillusioned, Americans Vote GOP I

f the words of pollsters and analysts are to be believed, the current election cycle will end with the Republican Party controlling both chambers of Congress for the first time during Barack Obama’s presidency.

This sort of legislative transformation — wherein one party wins both bodies in the final years of a two-term president — is not an aberration; Democrats gained control of Congress during the last two years of both Reagan’s and Bush’s second terms. Midterms are also a sort of referendum of the current administration; from the Civil War until the turn of the century, just one midterm election (in 1934 during Roosevelt’s presidency) didn’t result in the president’s party losing seats in Congress.

Indeed, the overarching theme journalists covering the races report has been a strong anti-Obama sentiment. Dan Balz, the chief political correspondent at The Washington Post, concluded that tapping into dissatisfaction with the president “appeared to be [the Republican] party’s most important motivating factor.” More tersely, former Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) told The New York Times that “you can summarize [every] race by saying, ‘Obama bad.’”

The president, facing his lowest approval ratings since taking office, has not allowed the opposition to make any more connections; he’s only travelled to support one prospective candidate, Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), a strong candidate running in a state that voted for President Obama in 2012. He has been smart to stay out of close races like the Senate race in Arkansas, which featured a Democratic incumbent in a red state. But there are a number of Democrats slated to lose in states that voted for Obama in 2012, such as Mark Udall of Colorado and Bruce Braley of Iowa.

This is an oversimplification, of course.

Other factors, such as outside money and more seasoned Republican candidates (especially compared to those in the 2010 midterm election), have likely pushed the Senate into the GOP’s favor. Also, considering places like Colorado and Iowa “blue states” because the president won their electoral votes in 2012 says little about whether that state’s electorate would respond well to a Democratic Senate candidate.

Rather, 2012’s outcome reveals only what the electorate thought about Obama in comparison to Mitt Romney. At the end of 2013, Gallup found that the president’s approval rating was 42.3 percent in Colorado and 42.4 percent in Iowa, both below the national average of 46.5 percent at that time. The national average today is more than four percentage points lower.

So what could Obama have done to prevent the GOP from gaining control of both houses?

On one hand, he’s at the mercy of the typical midterm slide, compounded by the fact that midterm voters skew whiter, older and more Republican than the electorate in presidential election years. On the other hand, Obama’s name is toxic where it would have counted most, and at this point, there’s little he can do to overcome that. There’s no fount of “leadership” the president can take from to make everything all right for the Democrats — even if such a thing existed, as some pundits would have you believe, he still wouldn’t have enough clout with the electorate to effectively wield it.

Even more than simple partisanship or the vestiges of systemic racism, the public’s negative perception of the government and its ability to function has tarnished the president’s brand. Just as Obama won the presidency in 2008 with “change,” the far right of the Republican Party now frames its distaste for the status quo in near-revolutionary terms.

The Democrats explain legislative stagnation as the result of unprecedented, hostile opposition from the GOP — lawsuits, filibuster threats, etc. And they’re right, to a point.

Just as culpable for the president’s low approval ratings and decreased political influence have been the administration’s consistently reactive and hesitant policies. For example, what the president called his most important second-term policy, immigration reform, is dead in the water, with the right’s constant, blaring opposition going undisputed by Democratic messaging.

In addition to his failure to counter the right’s arguments in a substantive way, Obama has also offered little to excite, even to encourage, the youth and minority voter base that carried him in 2008 and 2012. The president’s foreign policy direction has not offered an alternative to last decade’s neoconservatism, instead languishing in a system where the Bush-era apparatuses remain, used out of convenience with nothing to replace them.

Given this unrewarding lack of direction, it’s no surprise that among young likely voters, Republicans are leading.

The likely loss of Congress to the Republicans cannot be blamed on the president, of course. But he, as the nation’s most visible politician, exemplifies a Democratic policy that neither placates the right nor satisfies the left, leaving nobody — except maybe the incoming Republican representatives — happy.

Hunter Main is a senior in the College. left Behind appears every other Tuesday.

“Are you half? You have big eyes, for an Asian.”

“You have bigger eyes than some of my white friends!”

“Have you gotten double-eyelid surgery? Your eyes are pretty.”

“You have really western features, for a Korean.”

These are a few of the many common statements I have been asked or told in my lifetime as a Korean woman living in America. From a secluded New Jersey village, a small town in the middle of Long Island and an even smaller one on the North Fork, where the largest buildings were a school and the CVS, to the vibrant East Village of New York City, I found the size of my eyes to be a frequent topic of discussion with friends, classmates and even strangers at a bar.

They are comments that seem to call for an automatic, responsive “Thank you.” However, as I have developed my identity as a KoreanAmerican throughout the years, I have realized the weight that the historical relationship between imperialized South Korea and the powerhouse United States has had in these complex statements, laden with indirect and subliminal reassertions of “white superiority.”

It is no secret that South Korea has been spearheading the global cosmetic surgery market. Korean women undergo the most surgical procedures at the highest rates per capita; in a 2012 report, The Economist listed South Korea as the country engaging in the most plastic surgery. What may not be obvious is that the commentary on the amount and manner in which Korean women participate in plas-

Larger eyes have been considered beautiful features in Korean culture regardless of Western influences. tic surgery is in direct conversation with the history between the United States and South Korea.

Centuries ago, attempts to open the secluded Hermit Kingdom to global trade were met with slammed doors and sometimes violence. From the British East India Company’s ship Lord Amherst in 1832, Catholic missionaries, the U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1866, to the “Little War with the Heathen” that erupted from Korean resistance, forces pushed fiercely against South Korea and the Korean peninsula finally became prey to globalization and Western imperialism.

The positive aid that America provided during the volatile and capricious time of the Korean War is indisputable — had there been none, South Korea might not exist as we know it today. But America’s presence after the civil war in Korea is highly controversial. U.S. intervention continued for as long as it did to capitalize on economic resources, strategically draw from Korea’s location and further its global hegemo-

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After the ceasefire began, no other country was allowed to have as much weight in post-war Korean affairs as the United States and it therefore secured a sense of superiority throughout the peninsula. The ideals of masculine, white America in the mid-19th century became a symbol of modernity, cleanliness and vast opulence to which Korea was unfamiliar. As Koreans were continually confronted with the Western ideal and American dream, their subsidiary status became solidified in the contention between a “has” country and their “has not” home.

In a rapid push for modernization, Korea lifted itself out of poverty, found economic footing and began to take part in the typical Western bourgeois lifestyle, leading to a waver and wane of America’s feeling of superiority and dominance. Korea’s technological advancement, exemplified in its leading cosmetic surgery market, aggravated America’s status-quo level of supremacy. Many American media outlets began criti-

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cizing Koreans as engaging in “perverted excess” to look “more American” and “westernize” their Asian facial features.

Koreans who underwent doubleeyelid surgery to make their eyes much larger, nose surgeries to give themselves higher noses and jaw reconstructions to make their faces more slim and narrow were all described as shedding their Korean appearance in favor of a more “westernized look.” It is irrefutable that the amount of cosmetic surgery some Korean women undergo is alarming and extreme, but it is glaringly incorrect to liken the reason they do to a desire to look American.

Larger eyes and smaller noses have traditionally been considered beautiful features in Korean culture and have never belonged exclusively to the West. If we assume the imitation of race, would it then be appropriate to say that white women tan as a function of their deep desire to be Hispanic? The act of America placing its beauty ideal as the standard, global measuring stick comes from its familiarity in being the greater power in relation to South Korea.

The historical relationship has so effectively permeated generations that many are not even aware of the implications of these statements.

The strides Koreans have taken to differentiate and advance themselves from historical subordination are met with subconscious deprecating racialism, no longer as direct, scathing and outspoken as calling Koreans “gooks” and “zipperheads,” but in the statements of, “they do this to be more like us.”

SARAH KIM is a junior in the College.

CULTURE CLASH

A Transfer’s Take on a Mired in Purgatory, Tradition-Heavy School Congress Must Change

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n my first days at Georgetown, after spending my first two years of college at Tulane University, I felt handicapped and out of place. The fact that I was uprooted not by any major event but by my own choice made these feelings only more intense and troubling.

While these are feelings not unknown to most college students, being a transfer instills an unconscious urgency; the knowledge that your time here will be shorter than everyone else’s often creeps into the back of your mind. It wasn’t until much later that I realized I needed to be hit with this proverbial pile of emotional bricks to understand what my Georgetown experience would truly be about.

Georgetown is a school of traditions. While the same can be said of many other universities, there is undeniably a distinct emphasis on those moments where you begin to feel “like a Hoya.”

Your first picture on John Carroll’s lap, your first Homecoming Weekend, basketball games, Tombs nights — these rites of passage are a quintessential part of the Georgetown experience.

But with these events comes an understanding of the tradition that is Georgetown as an institution, an understanding that I lacked when I first walked onto campus.

Transfers, by nature, come to Georgetown with a unique perspective, having already had at least a year of college under their belt; some applied to Georgetown their first time around, many did not. Not having that understanding made me feel marginalized, like my Georgetown experience would always be missing those key parts that so many people around me had under their belts. It was not until I began talking with my fellow transfer friends that I began to understand not only why this disconnect existed, but why it is actually the best thing about my Georgetown experience.

The transfer community at Georgetown encompasses a remarkably diverse group of people in their experiences and viewpoints. For its part, this university does a great job of trying to understand the needs and struggles unique to transfers, but no support system is greater than fellow transfers who go through so many of the same challenges and roadblocks.

This community gave strength and confidence at a time when I felt that I truly did not belong.

Soon enough, being a transfer didn’t feel like a handicap to me, but rather a mutual bond that

made me understand the power of shared experiences.

I began to notice that even though I felt awkward or out of place when yet another Georgetown tradition was simply an unknown phrase, it opened up a door for me to share my experiences even outside of the transfer community. Friends who were not transfers were curious about my story, my experience, and they were eager to hear the things I had not yet experienced. The label of transfer ceased to be a burden and become just part of my own unique Georgetown experience.

All transfers at Georgetown, no matter when in their time on the Hilltop, have moments that remind them that their experiences are different. Sometimes these moments make us laugh, sometimes they make us feel uncomfortable and sometimes they even make us feel that we do not belong. But at least in my experience, embracing these differences has led me to some of my best friends and best moments of my life.

It’s also led to one of my favorite traditions of giving the name of my old freshman dorm at Tulane alongside New South, Darnall, Harbin and VCW as my freshman dorm and watching intense confusion ensue as my friends rack their brains as to why they have no memory of that building ever being on campus.

Not all transfers have this inclination to embrace the uniqueness of their experience — an inclination I completely understand. But to my fellow transfers that feel their standing as Georgetown students is somehow even remotely diminished, I say that your experience is no less quintessentially Georgetown than any other.

Transferring into Georgetown has become my own tradition, right alongside my first walk down the Exorcist Steps and my forehead stamp at The Tombs.

Only having two years on the Hilltop may seem to many like a terrible punishment, but for me it has been an unexpected blessing.

At the end of my two years here I know that while I will have been constantly challenged, I will have also been constantly supported by my friends, family and fellow Hoyas every step of the way.

But if all else fails, I always have this simple fact to remind me that being a transfer at Georgetown must really not be that bad — Bradley Cooper was also a transfer. All I have to do now is sit back and wait for those Oscar nominations to come rolling in.

This community gave me strength at a time when I felt I didn’t belong.

Johnny Verhovek is a senior in the College. He is member of The Hoya’s Editorial Board.

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s The Hoya arrives on news- the 2013 government shutdown, stands today, Americans that message is not resonating. across the country will go Voters have by and large forgotten to the polls to decide the leadership about the multibillion-dollar, utof their states and, ultimately, the terly fruitless fiasco that was the composition of the 114th Congress. government shutdown, just as Of course, when we say millions they have forgotten about the Arab of Americans, we mean several mil- Spring, the BP oil spill and extreme lion fewer Americans than those weather events such as Hurricane who voted in the 2012 presidential Sandy. election. And who can blame them?

Americans are not tuned into Although the D.C. political machin- the events by which we ought to ery has geared up and anticipated judge our leaders, and they cerfor this election for months, Ameri- tainly are not writing them down. cans by and large have tuned out.

Instead, what the eight to 10 tossup Perhaps this is because they Senate races around the country sense that howshow is that modever the Senate ern governance in swings, there will America is largely be no significant decided by a effect except in the deeply ambivalent jockeying for the coin flip, based 2016 campaigns. on the last two With opposing months’events parties in control the influence Christiansen and Cholvin and of Congress and of those who even the White House, bother showing Americans will up. have to wait for a For some of us, new president for this is great news. new policies.

Power dissipates After a brief and back to the states, failed window for to localities or legislative activity to citizens, who in 2013, by the time a new presi- presumably understand more acdent takes office in January 2017, curately than Michele Bachmann it will have been six years since the what actually makes people happy American government produced (if you were wondering, her answer meaningful policy responses to the is children who vote Republican). issues facing the country.

Perhaps less commendably, howMany culprits could deserve ever, power will also shift to the blame for the federal government’s private sector. Now before Hoyas pivot to strategic non-strategy: the for Liberty sets Tucker’s N Street Tea Party, gerrymandering, Presi- home on fire, we are not referring dent Barack Obama, the Tea Party, to the private sector of (most of) our the U.S. government’s unique sys- youths: white picket fences, comtem of checks and balances, the Tea munity organizations, churches, Party. small businesses. Instead, we Everybody has their favorite mean the private sector of the Mcscapegoat — our “Intro to Political Donough School of Business Class Science” professor from Spain likes of 2015’s future: Wall Street, corpoto blame James Madison — and rations retaining expensive lobbyoften, the allegation reveals more ing firms staffed by disillusioned about the accuser than the defen- government majors, and consultdant (for example, that professor ing firms much better at taking hates Virginians). from consumers (and more willing The two of us, however, have our to do so) than consumers will ever own favorite people to blame for be at taking from business. the failure of the bicameral system: For America’s institutional strucmodern conservatism and national ture to work, every piece needs to disillusionment. participate. And by participate, we First, the GOP (Grandpas-Only mean fight tooth and nail for every Party, as we lovingly call it): the par- last scrap of power that it can apty of Reagan that seems to have dis- propriate unto itself. Not because covered they can accomplish their voters can get more funding, more oft-repeated electoral purpose — to goodies or more glory that way, but eliminate their own usefulness — because in this adversarial system, even without someone as devilishly we need an actual fight to express handsome as Reagan in the Oval our beliefs, regardless of who might Office. win.

But if federal dismantlement is The important thing is that your aim, all you need is a Boehner, someone wins, rather than cona McConnell and a few radio per- tinue the victory-less, changeless sonalities to whip people up into purgatory of do-nothing Congressa frenzy of, well, nothing. Admit- es and continuing resolutions in tedly, this is a remarkable achieve- which we’ve been stuck. ment: Republicans have achieved their fundamental goal with only Tucker Cholvin and Thomas a minority control of government.

Christiansen are seniors in the Meanwhile, despite the Demo- School of Foreign Service. Culcratic Party’s best attempts to re- ture Clash appears every other mind the American public about Tuesday.

This election isn’t as consequential as 2016 will be.

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Georgetown University Student Association Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) on the expansion of the open container policy. See story on A7.

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D.C. Reads and D.C. Schools participants came to campus Sunday afternoon, where they participated in various activities with their tutors, including playing in a bounce house on Healy Lawn.

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New Catholic Chaplain Joins GU What’s After Dark

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The university hired Fr. Gregory Schenden, S.J., as its newest Roman Catholic chaplain in July, replacing Fr. Patrick Rogers, S.J., who previously served as the director of Catholic chaplaincy, a role that the Office of Mission and Ministry has transformed into two positions.

According to Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., Director of Liturgy, Music and Catholic Life Jim Wickman will address the administrative side of the position, while Schenden will focus strictly on the pastoral side.

Schenden said the diversity of student life and inclusive atmosphere drew him to Georgetown.

“I’m surprised in the best of ways on a daily basis in terms of what goes on here,” Schenden said. “First, the campus ministry itself. You look down the hallway and you have me and our Protestant chaplain and Rabbi Rachel [Gardner] and Imam [Yahya] Hendi and we just brought on our Hindu chaplain, and we’ve got an Orthodox chaplain. This is so much a part of what a Jesuit institute of higher learning is about in terms of the diversity.”

Schenden has the original proposal written by John Carroll for the Georgetown Academy hanging on his office wall, which he said echoes the ideas of the university being open to all religions. “I’m not just Catholic chaplain to Catholic community but to the entire campus,” Schenden said. “It’s this notion that we are all walking this faith journey together, in very unique ways, but together.”

Schenden added that he is impressed by the students with whom he has interacted so far on campus. “It’s not just a quest for intellectual knowledge, but there is also a spiritual hunger that goes,” Schenden said. “This is a place where that kind of searching and that kind of conversation can occur.”

Born and raised in Detroit, Schenden studied at John Carroll University in Cleveland. Schenden said that at that point, he was not interested in entering the priesthood. “I had no idea what I wanted to be, it was something that unfolded over the course of my 20s,” Schenden said.

After graduating with a degree in English, Schenden moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked in the financial office of the transportation research board for the National Academy of Science.

Schenden said that when he became interested in joining the priesthood, he was especially interested in the Jesuit order. “Jesuits are the really intellectual ones,” Schenden

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challenge for the group throughout the past year.

“The termination of What’s AfOne year after the Center for Stu- ter Dark last year put an end to a dent Engagement discontinued its lot of the late-night programming What’s After Dark program due to at Georgetown,” Bailey wrote in university-wide budget cuts, sev- an email. “Since the cancellation eral groups, including the George- of What’s After Dark, we’ve been town Program Board, Relay for Life doing our best to make up for the and the Black Student Association loss. We haven’t received any adcontinue to face difficulties in ditional funding, however, so it’s funding late-night programs. been very difficult.”

These groups traditionally used Bailey also said that the lack of What’s After Dark funding for vari- financial support for late-night ous nighttime events, including programs may result in a decrease GPB’s Spring Concert and the Mid- in the quality of events. night Breakfast during finals week.

“The Spring Concert has come What’s After Dark was cancelled to rely on additional funding from last year so that the funding could What’s After Dark, and the loss of be redirected tothis funding ward the construcwill definitely tion and programhave an imming in Healey pact on the Family Student type of conCenter, which will cert we can have its own late afford to pronight programs in gram,” Bailey coordination with wrote.

“AnGPB. other event “The Center for I’ve worked Student Engageon directly ment made the dewith What’s cision to phase out After Dark NICK BAILEY (MSB ’17) What’s After Dark in the past is GPB Late Night Committee Chair funding last year in The Amazing the face of fiscal constraints, know- Race, and the struggle this year is ing that this academic year would to try to conserve costs enough to bring new opportunities for late still have the event without them.”

-night and weekend programming Additionally, the cancellation of in the Healey Family Student Cen- What’s After Dark has also led to a ter,” Center for Student Engage- decrease in GPB staff members. ment Director Erika Cohen Derr “The loss of What’s After Dark wrote in an email. is not just a financial one, howCohen Derr said that she antici- ever, and the loss of staff members pates that late-night programming who were dedicated to putting on will move to the HFSC, which in- late- night events is one we cannot cludes a film screening room, as recoup,” Bailey wrote. “Overall, well as the Bulldog Tavern, which the loss of What’s After Dark has is set to open Friday, pending the seriously changed the landscape of approval of its license. late-night programming at George“The full-time and student staff town.” members managing the HFSC have Relay for Life Co-President Cayla experience in late-night and week- Fappiano (NHS ’15) said that Relay end programming, and the center is also facing difficulties after the has brought new opportunities funding cancellation. Although to partner with student organiza- the Center for Social Justice and tions like Georgetown Program the Advisory Board for Student OrBoard, WGTB and many others,” ganizations offered financial supCohen Derr wrote. “We’re excited port for the event last year to comto make programming the focus of pensate for the funding loss, they the space, now that the final con- will not do so again this spring, struction is coming to an end.” according to Fappiano.

Groups that offer late-night “This year, we are not in the programming that is unrelated to same situation and will need to HFSC are still struggling due to the find other campus and corporate funding cuts, though. sponsors to support the cost of GPB Late Night Committee Chair inflatables and activities at our Nick Bailey (MSB ’17) said that the event, otherwise it may look very funding cut has continued to be a different this year,” Fappiano said.

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Fr. Gregory Schenden, S.J., came to Georgetown this fall as the new Roman Catholic Chaplain, replacing Fr. Pat Rogers, S.J. said. “They are also just regular people: down to earth, funny, doing something they are called to do.”

After preaching at the neighboring Holy Trinity parish for five years, Schenden spent a year in the Philippines completing his final stage of Jesuit formation. In the Philippines, he faced separatists, insurrections, an earthquake and a super-typhoon, but said was inspired by the community he was a part of.

“What stands out most is the resilience of the people, incredible people, in the midst of real adversity,” Schenden said. “Just this notion of ‘We will rise from this.’ That’s a faithfilled experience, to be able to say we will rise from such supreme tragedy.”

O’Brien said Schenden’s enthusiasm to engage with students will benefit the campus ministry. “We are delighted to have Fr. Schenden with us.

He brings much enthusiasm to the position, and is able to engage young people where they are at,” O’Brien said. “He is an excellent preacher and very approachable and down to earth. He also brings a deep commitment to social justice, which was only solidified during the last year he spent in the Philippines.”

Schenden said the responses of the Georgetown community to challenges in the past few months, such as the death of Andrea Jaime (NHS ’17), have been characterized by a similar strength and sense of community he experienced in the Philippines.

“I’ll never forget the prayer vigil

that night that came together on such short notice, how powerful that was for me and for everybody there,” Schenden said. “We come together in classrooms and football games, but we come together in the midst of our struggles, in the midst of our sufferings, in the midst of mourning.”

Schneden said that while he is beginning to feel more at home at Georgetown, he is still adjusting to this new experience.

“The challenge is, I’m a freshman here, too. … Becoming part of a new community with its own distinct culture is challenging. I’m learning new stuff every day,” he said.

One of the first students to welcome Schenden to Georgetown was Knights of Columbus Grand Knight Chris Cannataro (MSB ’15), who worked with Schenden as a liaison between the Knights of Columbus and Catholic Chaplaincy.

“Fr. Schenden is a very prayerful man, someone who has a passion for his faith and who also has a passion for watching students grow,” Cannataro said. “Additionally he’s a good guy to talk to, he’s very down to earth and he has a great sense of humor.”

Schenden emphasized his sincere wish to engage with as many members of the Georgetown community as possible. “The door is always open, I keep the door open,” Schenden said. “Reach out, I’m around, stop by.”

“The termination of What’s After Dark last year put an end to a lot of the late-night programming.”

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Early Admissions Number Remains Stable APPLICANTS, from A1 class, combining early action and regular decision, was 16.6 percent, with a yield of 46 percent.

Deacon expects the Class of 2019’s total acceptance rate to be about 17 percent, and the early action acceptance rate to be no more than 17 percent. The Office of Admissions will again aim for a 1,580-student freshman class, keeping the total number of undergraduates under 6,675, as is dictated in the 2010 Campus Plan Agreement.

The number of early action applications acts as a predictor for the overall number of applications to come, making up an average of about 34 percent of total applications. This year’s early applications predict an overall applicant pool between 19,000 and 20,000, consistent with the last four years, Deacon said.

Last year, Georgetown had 19,501 total applicants.

“You can basically predict the overall pool based on how many early actions you have. So if that holds true, unless there’s some big aberration, that means once we have that number we’ll be able to project the overall pool,” Deacon said.

Deacon pointed to declining numbers of high school graduates nationwide since 2010 as a factor in the number of college applicants nationwide and to Georgetown.

In light of declining high school graduation rates, thus producing fewer college applicants, Deacon said that he would consider Georgetown’s steady number of applicants to

be a success.

“For us, staying even is actually, we think, getting ahead,” he said.

Demographically, high school graduation rates are falling among non-Hispanic whites and increasing among Hispanics. According to a Pew Research Center analysis in May 2013 based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, a record high of 69 percent of Hispanic graduates in the Class of 2012 enrolled in college that fall, two points above the 67 percent of graduating non-Hispanic white students enrolling.

This upward trend in Hispanic enrollment reflects a corresponding upward trend in Hispanics graduating high school. In 2011, 14 percent of Hispanics between the ages of 16 and 24 were high school dropouts, a marked reduction from 28 percent in 2000. The nonHispanic white population saw only a 2-point reduction in high school dropouts CHARLES DEACON Dean of Undergraduate Admissions from 2000 to 2011.

Deacon said that he hopes Georgetown will be able to attract more Hispanic applicants this year.

He added that Georgetown’s widespread visibility helps to maintain the university’s even application rates.

“We began the year saying that if we could maintain the same number that would be a successful numeric number,” Deacon said. “So far, so good.”

Final early admissions numbers will be available later this week. Regular decision applications are due Jan. 10, and applicants will be notified on April 1.

“We began the year saying that if we could maintain the same number that would be a successful numeric number.”

Free Speech Group Presents Petition to Administration PETITION, from A1 removing tables used by student groups from the list of “permanent structures” in the Speech and Expression Policy and creating new academic course requirements that highlight underrepresented viewpoints on campus.

The university’s current Speech and Expression Policy permits students to table in designated Free Speech Zones, which include Regents Lawn, Red Square, the HealeyFamily Student Center and the lobby of the Leavey Center.

HUFS, a group of around 30 students that formed to create this petition, consists of students from various campus groups and a number of unaffiliated students. The petition has garnered around 15 club endorsements, as well, from groups including H*yas for Choice, GU Fossil Free and the Georgetown Solidarity Committee.

HUFS member Ida Dhanuka (SFS ’17) said that she joined the group to express her desire for an academic environment that encourages diversity of opinion.

“Basically we’re a group of concerned students that want to expand the protection of speech on campus,” Dhanuka said. “You can’t have an institution of learning without free and open discussion and discourse, that’s really central to being a learning institution and being a Jesuit school I think, being able to talk about issues that come up in an unfettered way.”

HUFS member Lexi Dever (COL ’16) said that her involvement in the campaign was sparked by her affiliation with the LGBTQ community.

“I definitely firmly believe in the right of all students at any university to be able to engage in free discussion and ideas, that’s why we’re here,” Dever said. “Since I belong to a community that previously had been in a marginalized position in this

school … I realized that the communities that are ignored harms the Georgetown community as a whole because they don’t get to hear what they have to say. Any form of restriction on free speech on campus is a restriction on our ability to learn and better engage with our beliefs and ideals.”

For HUFS member Erin Riordan (COL ’15), the campaign offered a chance to diversify curricula.

“In my experience, there are some views that we hear over and over again and they are really protected by the university,” Riordan said.

“They’re powered by the university in terms of what speakers we bring to campus, who’s given the most right to free speech on campus, who’s included on our syllabi, what our core classes look like. … I think this gives us a very unbalanced education and Georgetown students deserve better.”

Riordan said that many classes she has taken on campus failed to provide balanced sources on themes and topics of discussion. “[We hear] a lot of voices of people who have power and have had power for basically all of time. … I’ve been in classes where we exclusively read the work of white men, it needs to be balanced,” Riordan said. “You don’t here a lot of outside voices or outside experience unless you look for it yourself. The dominant culture is very neoliberal, it’s very pro-capitalism, and there isn’t a lot of questioning of these ideas.”

Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said that GUSA fully supports the actions of HUFS, although the two groups are unaffiliated. “The group has not yet reached out to us but we support the aims as they’re stated and think that students forming together to advocate for these issues is important and the only way to make the improvements that we clearly need in our speech and expression policies,” Tezel said.

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The struggle for students to find a table in the Intercultural Center Galleria will continue as efforts to create new study spaces in the ICC have slowed.

Plans Stall for Study Space Natalie LaRue

Special to The Hoya

Although the Office of Planning and Facilities Management announced plans to renovate the Intercultural Center to create new study spaces for students in the School of Foreign Service in February, plans have stalled as a result of budgetary concerns.

The university approved plans to create a new study space and add furniture to the areas by the elevators on the first and second floors in response to an Idea Scale petition created by the SFS Academic Council in February; the post currently has over 400 votes.

The Office of Planning and Facilities has added furniture on the first and second floors, but has not taken any substantive action toward the creation of a singular study space.

Ali Whitmer, chief of staff to the provost, said that the SFS is eager to make the ICC a more study-friendly space. The Office of the Provost exercises control over the ICC, which houses the SFS Deans’ Office, in addition to several academic departments.

"We are anxious to provide additional seating and study space for students, as has been asked of us by the SFS Council and many other students,” Whitmer wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We believe we can do this in the immediate future with the furniture we've secured, while still balancing the many uses the galleria provides.”

Whitmer said that she hopes construction will begin soon and that the Office of the Provost has taken steps toward initiating construction, including conducting research on outlets, lighting and furniture concerns for the space.

“I also understand the desire to achieve more than what we've proposed in this first stage,” Whitmer wrote. “We want this to be a beautiful and functional student, faculty and administrative space and see this as stage one of a multistage project that we are working to fit responsibly within our budgets over several years."

SFS Academic Council President Megan Murday (SFS ’15) attributed the delay in the project to a lack of resources and a low prioritization of the request.

“First and foremost, budgetary constraints have slowed improvements to the space,” Murday said. “The university has a finite amount of resources, and this project is not yet high enough on the list.

However, I would argue that the university should prioritize renovations and updates to existing spaces, which are significantly cheaper than the construction of completely new buildings.”

Murday said that the addition of chairs to the elevator areas on the first and second floor are helpful, but fail to provide a longer-term solution.

“My hope is that such furniture will be a short-term fix while the university budgets for the full renovations and furniture investments necessary to create high-quality spaces to match the prestige of Georgetown,” Murday said.

Jinyoung Lee (SFS ’15), a senior representative on the SFS Academic Council, said that substantive problems in the ICC still need to be addressed, especially lighting and seat-

tomers and expand its hours.

“It would really help in offpeak hours, especially in the afternoon when big lectures are going on in the ICC Auditorium, as well as improve the customer experience, which would keep people coming back,” McDonough said. “During night time, we could have extended hours into the evening and provide dinner for people and things like that.”

McDonough said MUG staffers have petitioned administrators for study space in recent years with little success.

“We’re all behind having more study space. We’ve reached out several times to get the ball rolling, but we know that it’s a big project.

We check in every year and try to get it going, and we always hear back that it’s a big financial investment for the university and that they’re working on it.”

Many students in the SFS spend most of their weekdays in the ICC, and Nick Ebert (SFS ’18) said that he is disappointed by the lack of quiet spaces to sit.

“I don’t feel like there’s any place for me to sit and do work,” Ebert said. “The atrium gets very loud during the day. It would be ideal if somewhere on the lower floors, where it’s very quiet, there’s a room where I could go. I have a lot classes in there and it would be good to just be close by to my classrooms.”

In addition to the SFS, a number of departments are housed in the ICC, including the government department, the economics department and many foreign lanmegan murday (sfs ’15) SFS Academic Council President guage departments.

Esperanza Cirilo (SFS ’18) agreed and well utilized. said that a defined study “One of the problems that I space would make time slots see is that the ICC is the cen- between her classes more eftral location for SFS kids and ficient for getting work done. all kids and the space is not be“A lot of my classes are in ing fully maximized,” Brown- the ICC,” Cirilo said. “I have stein said. “Almost every class between 20 minutes to an is in that building [but] there hour and a half between classare very few spaces that you es where I don’t want to leave. can sit down and study.”

I would love to have a spot Brownstein said that the where I can go and do work.

ICC could prove to be a beauti- Because empty classrooms are ful and spacious area for stu- really not available during the dents to work between classes. day. There’s not really tables “I think that there are a available, so I just kind of sit lot of really pleasant places on the floor. It’s not very comto study,” Brownstein said. “I fortable and it’s not very conthink the ICC Galleria dur- ducive to doing work.” ing the day especially is such Daniel Wassim (SFS ’18), a an open space with a lot of freshman representative on light and could possibly be a the SFS Academic Council, really nice place for people to said that the renovations will meet or study or to have more help the ICC better represent spaces with the coffee shop, the SFS. instead of just having it and “The ICC is the face of leaving.”

Georgetown’s premier instiThe lack of study space in tution, the SFS. And it’s not the ICC also affects business a pretty face,” Wassim said. for More Uncommon Ground, “This is simply unacceptable a Students of Georgetown, Inc. for an institution of our calistorefront that is located in ber. The image of students sitthe galleria. ting on the ground and studyMUG Director Pat Mc- ing in the ICC is an image of Donough (MSB ’16) said that dereliction and neglect.” since students do not tend The campaign for this new to spend extended periods of space is especially relevant time in the ICC, large num- after the creation of the bers of customers visit MUG Healey Family Student Cenduring certain peak times, ter, which opened to students slowing the service. in September. Murday said “The big problem we see is she thinks that the success that we only get busy during of the Healey Family Student rush time, right before and Center reflects Georgetown after class, which means that students’ need and desire for customers have a really long more functional and effective wait time for their drinks ... study spaces It leads to us having these big “High-quality academic lulls when we don’t have any space is a prerequisite for succustomer traffic, which is an- cess as an institution of highnoying for us from a revenue er learning,” Murday said. perspective and for customer “There is a real demand on experience,” McDonough campus for modern and funcsaid. tional study spaces. For examAccording to McDonough, ple, the HFSC filled with new increased study space would students immediately upon allow MUG to serve more cus- opening.” ing.

“Currently, the ICC Galleria has an inadequate number of chairs, desks, couches, outlets and lighting that we find many students having to sit on the floor while studying in between classes,” Lee said. “During the day, students rarely find seating space to chat with their professors, study in a group [and] participate in language table chats. During the night, students cannot study in the galleria because it has insufficient lighting.”

The SFS Academic Council hosted a town hall on study space Oct. 27, which allowed students to express their concerns to SFS Interim Dean James Reardon-Anderson and Associate Dean Mitch Kaneda.

Nicolette Brownstein (SFS ’17) attended the town hall and said that both administrators seemed receptive to student concerns.

“They didn’t do a whole lot of talking while I was there,” Brownstein said. “They posed a couple of questions. Reardon-Anderson was definitely interested in what students were interested in, about whether students want classrooms at night, with the technology in the classrooms for projects and work during evening hours.”

Brownstein said she attended the event to express her concern that ICC space is not

“The university has a finite amount of resources, and this project is not yet high enough on the list.”

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Student Assaulted in ICC Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writer

A female Georgetown University student was sexually assaulted in the Intercultural Center building on Sunday Oct. 26 at approximately 4:30 a.m., according to an email sent out by the Georgetown University Police Department. The assailant, an acquaintance of the survivor, is not affiliated with Georgetown University.

According to GUPD Chief Jay Gruber, the survivor reached out to GUPD through alternative channels, which he did not disclose, on Saturday at approximately 4:30 p.m., about a week after the incident occurred.

Gruber said that all buildings on campus are supposed

to be locked or GoCard-protected at night, but sometimes locks do not work or students prop open doors, preventing the doors from remaining locked.

“The ICC is not supposed to be open 24-7, it’s supposed to be locked down. But sometimes infrastructure doesn’t cooperate with us,” Gruber said.

There are CCTV cameras set up inside the ICC, but the location of the assault in the ICC has not been disclosed.

Gruber said that throughout his time here at Georgetown, he has never seen a similar sexual assault reported.

“In the tenure that I’ve been there, there have been [sexual assault incidents] in residence halls, but to my recollection, there’s never been

in an academic or administrative building,” Gruber said.

According to Gruber, Georgetown’s sexual assault protocol allows the survivor to choose whether or not he or she wants GUPD to contact the Metropolitan Police Department.

“If the survivor comes to us and tells us they don’t want to participate in a criminal investigation, then the survivor doesn’t have to,” he said.

As the investigation is ongoing, Gruber declined to comment on any details of the investigation, including whether or not MPD would be involved or whether the survivor will be pressing charges with MPD. MPD could not provide further information as of press time.

Polls Open for Mayoral Race BOWSER, from A1 nia’s really trying to break through that. One of the big questions then for the election is, will black voters in the District vote for a white mayor? And I think race is not necessarily the major thing people vote on but it’s a factor they consider: Do you want to have someone as the mayor that kind of looks like me?” If elected, Catania would be the District’s first white mayor, the first openly gay mayor and the first non-Democrat mayor ever.

Aside from Catania, the city’s history looms large as voters express exasperation with the political corruption that plagued the District in the 1980s and reared its head again earlier this year with revelations of illegal campaign fundraising by Gray in his 2010 mayoral campaign. “[There is] a weariness among voters about the same old, same old, we get the same old politicians, we get the same old corruption problems,” Rom said.“I think that voters in a large part will make decisions based on who they think will be the least corrupt possible mayor.”

Education A 2011 study based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that Washington, D.C. has the largest achievement gap between minority and white students in the country. All three candidates aim to reform the educational system, making the issue a focal point of the campaign.

Throughout the race, Catania, who served as chairman of the Council’s education committee, has criticized Bowser for being “uninformed” on educational issues, pointing to his detailed education policy for comparison. Catania has centered his campaign around the issue, forming the “Public School Parents for Catania” group to increase funding for at-risk schools and reform the special education system. He has also proposed new methods of measuring student and teacher performance and test scores, and increased autonomy for individual schools.

Bowser has emphasized reforming the District’s middle schools.

“We have to make sure there’s a more deliberate and focused way of providing highquality middle school options to parents and children across the district,” Bowser campaign Communications Director Joa-

quin McPeek said. “In her first term she wants to create four new middle schools.”

McPeek also emphasized Bowser’s commitment to keep Education Chancellor Kaya Henderson in office.

Schwartz also stated in her platform that she will keep Henderson as chancellor and promised that she will remain dedicated to ensuring teacher quality by encouraging creative teaching.

She has also advocated for more charter and vocational schools.

Gray’s redistricting plan of public school boundaries for the 2015-2016 school year, which would give at-risk students preference in lotteries for out-of-boundary spots, has arisen as a major point of contention during the election.

Bowser and Catania have both opposed this plan,arguing that it would exacerbate inequality already present in the D.C Public Schools system. Catania plans to move forward with redistricting after a year. Schwartz stated in her Education Position Paper that she would “accept the need for new boundaries, but make modifications where necessary.”

agreed with increased developments of affordable housing.

The affordable housing problem is compounded by Gray’s plan to close the D.C General Homeless Center within the next year and an estimated 16 percent rise in homelessness in D.C this winter. Bowser and Catania have supported closing the shelter, though Schwartz has argued for remodeling the facility instead.

Wages Both Catania and Bowser have been criticized for failing to support the Large Retailer Accountability Act last year, which would have required large retailers, primarily WalMart, to pay employees a minimum wage of $12.50. However, both candidates supported raising the minimum wage to $11.50 by 2016, a change that is in progress. Schwartz stated that, if she were on the council, she would have supported the measure to raise the minimum wage as well.

Turnout Expectations Despite historically low turnout in the April primary, The Washington Post reported Monday that a record 25,302 early ballots had been cast in the general election, nearly double the total early ballots of the 2010 election.

However, in contrast to this increased turnout, Georgetown University College Democrats Chair Chandini Jha (COL ’16) said that Georgetown students were generally uninterested in D.C. politics.

“If you’re a resident of D.C. CHANDINI JHA (Col ’16) who’s not a student, you’re Chair of College Democrats more likely to go out and vote, whereas students don’t have those strong ties — we’re only Affordable Housing The District has seen rents rise here for four years — although 50 percent and home prices dou- D.C. elections really do affect us ble in the past decade, despite in terms of the way we live on the presence of a constant level and off campus,” Jha said. “At of family income, according to Georgetown very few students are registered to vote in the Disthe D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

According to her platform, trict because they want to have Bowser will attempt to produce more electoral power in their more affordable housing, in- home states and they vote abcreasing the available spaces by sentee.”

D.C. allows same-day registra10,000 units a year and encouraging home ownership to prevent tion, allowing students to register and vote at the same time. Rom displacement.

Catania proposed a low-in- encouraged students who had come housing tax credit as well not already voted in their home as supporting mixed-income states to cast their ballots today.

“I would urge Georgetown votdevelopments, in addition to Bowser’s proposed steps , to ad- ers to take a look at each of the dress the problem. Schwartz has three candidates and make an inpromised to immediately allo- formed choice about who would cate more funding to the Local be best for the city and who Rental Support Program to pro- would be best for Georgetown,” vide relief to renters but largely he said.

“We’re only here for four years — although D.C. elections really do affect us.”

Initiative 71 Up for Vote MARIJUANA, from A1 a comprehensive tax-and-regulation system. Grosso already introduced a bill to add this regulatory framework but expected the process to take a year, if not longer.

“Sometime between Oct. 1 and Jan. 1 of next year is plenty of time for us to get the regulatory framework in place and have a marketplace where you can buy and sell marijuana legally,” Grosso said.

Together with the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading organization against the war on drugs, has led the campaign in support of Initiative 71.

Drug Policy Alliance Office of National Affairs Policy Manager Malik Burnett said that the money gained from taxing and selling marijuana could help solve the disparity in economic outcomes throughout the District, estimating profits

from the industry at tens of millions of dollars each year.

“What we can do once we effectively tax and regulate marijuana is to use the proceeds from that taxation to appropriately reinvest in the development of those communities,” he said.

If Initiative 71 passes, D.C. will join Colorado and Washington to become the third place in America where recreational marijuana is legalized.

Students who are registered as D.C. voters will be able to vote on Initiative 71. The ballot will reiterate the suggested parameters of marijuana use and possession.

Students posted signs in Red Square that encouraged students to vote on behalf Initiative 71. “Let your voice be heard! Vote yes on 71,” one of the signs said.

Ari Shapiro (SFS ’18), a resident of Denver, said he supports legalization for the District, provided that D.C. fol-

lows Colorado’s model, noting that the legislation has not significantly changed life in his home state. “[Legalization] reduces excessive prison costs and incarceration rates it raises significant tax revenues, and it allows a potentially dangerous substance to be controlled and regulated,” Shapiro said.

“In Colorado, legalization hasn’t radically altered society as many thought it might, and D.C. should be no different.”

Students registered to vote in D.C. can vote Tuesday at the Georgetown Community Library, located on R Street. Other elections on the ballot are the D.C. mayoral race, delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, Chairman of the Council, AtLarge member of the Council, D.C. Attorney General, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative and Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner.

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Georgetown Heritage, a new nonprofit organization, will oversee the renewal of the C&O Canal Boat, called the Georgetown, which has been out of commission since 2011.

Georgetown Heritage to Replace C&O Canal Boat Xinlan Hu

Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown Heritage, a new nonprofit organization created by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, is working toward renewing the Georgetown, a barge that once took tourists along the historical Chesapeake and Ohio Canal before structural damage and budget cuts ended the program in 2011.

The C&O National Historical Park under the National Park Service sponsored an educational boat trip for about 30 years, from the early 1990s until 2011, but could no longer afford the maintenance due to federal budget cuts in 2011, according to C&O Canal Historical Park Ranger Rebecca Jameson. “[The barge] had structural damage that was too extensive to repair because of the age of the boat,” Jameson said.

Jameson added that the Georgetown Visitor Center of the Canal Park completely closed down this year due to the extensive structural damage faced by the Georgetown.

Daniel Filer, partnership coordinator of the C&O National Historical Park, said the irreparable state of the Georgetown boat forced the park to look for an expensive replacement, but the high cost made it impractical for the Park Service to continue its search.

“The boat in Georgetown is actually beyond repair. Essentially, the boat needs to be replaced and retire. I don’t know how much the new boats cost, but they are expensive,” Filer said.

The Georgetown BID, in its neighborhood improvement plan “Georgetown 2028,” decided to pick up where the park service left off and identified preservation of the canal as one of the items on its agenda.

“Something that a lot of community members would really want to see was the boat brought back to Georgetown,” Director of Georgetown Heritage Maggie Downing, the destination manager of Georgetown BID, said. “So the Georgetown BID, through our conversation with the National Park Service, realized that we really needed a group dedicated to working on the canal as well as other initiatives in the neighborhood related to interpreting Georgetown history. …There are lots of wonderful stories — but they aren’t told right now — about the neighborhood history.”

Georgetown Heritage was born of Georgetown BID’s desire to draw attention to the issue. The nonprofit functions as a fundraising community organization that will prioritize work on the C&O Canal, specifically for historical education.

“The creation of Georgetown Heritage came about because of the C&O Canal,” Downing said. “We saw this need to bring back the

boat to our program, to bring educational programs back to the Georgetown section of the canal and to preserve this amazing asset, this wonderful historical site and natural resource, that we have in our community.”

Georgetown Heritage aims to fundraise through both private and public channels, including the National Park Foundation. The new partnership between the National Park foundation and Georgetown Heritage began in August 2014, and the National Park Service is already directly involved in forming a fundraising plan.

“We want to match private donors with federal funds and city funds. It’s a great privatepublic partnership that we are looking to create,” Downing said. “They were very involved from the beginning in the process of creating Georgetown Heritage, and we have regular meetings and conversations with them about friend group agreements and the projects that we are working on together.”

The 184.5-mile long C&O Canal runs parallel to the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Md. Commercially used from 1831 to 1924, the “Grand Old Ditch” witnessed the history of western expansion, the Civil War and industrialization. According to Jameson, a trip on the Georgetown along the well-preserved canal would transport tourists back in time to the days when the canal was frequently used.

“The C&O Canal is one of the largest intact, early 19th-century canals. We actually have functional lift walk, so the boats were able to run through lift walk just like they were when the canal was in operation,” Jameson said. “The boat would actually go through a lock, so you can see how the locks work and move the materials from the canal. And park rangers who were in period costumes would explain about the history of the canal and the people who were living on it,” Jameson added that the Georgetown section of the canal boasts an excellent geographical location within Washington, D.C., as the start of the waterway.

“Georgetown is a highly visited section of our canal, so it’s good to have an operation there with the visitors to experience the park,” Jameson said. “It’s also the start of the canal, so it’s another significant site of the canal.”

Although fundraising has not yet begun as Georgetown Heritage waits for official confirmation of its nonprofit status, leaders of the organization are reaching out to the Georgetown community in preparation of an official capital campaign in early 2015.

“Right now, we are really looking forward to building a constituency,” Downing said.

“We are sharing with the members of the Georgetown community our plan and ideas for the canal, trying to get them excited and recruit our board of directors.”

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Lombardi Supports Open Container Policy Expands Breast Cancer Group Deirdre Collins Hoya Staff Writer

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sive cancer center, and conduct research across the continuum Special to The Hoya of basic science to clinical apSharsheret, a national nonprof- plication to community translait organization supporting young tion and policy impact. We will women of Jewish backgrounds bring this knowledge and skill fighting breast cancer, has part- to Sharsheret’s programs to help nered with the Georgetown Lom- the population of women they bardi Comprehensive Cancer serve,” Tercyak said. “Our partnerCenter to evaluate and revamp its ship emerged as a result of the culturally relevant breast cancer mutual interests shared by our support program. two organizations in addressing With $350,000 in funding from the needs of women facing the the Centers for Disease Control threat of, and surviving with, and Prevention, Sharsheret will breast cancer.” work with the Cancer Center to Through the partnership, the determine how to use the funds Lombardi Center will conduct a to improve the comprehenLINK program, sive evaluaSharsheret’s tion of the program that LINK Proprovides breast gram, ensurcancer support ing that it is interventions, c o n d u c te d including peer through scisupport, genetentific methics information ods and is KENNETH tERCYAK and survivorship well-tailored Lombardi Center Associate Professor of resources. to the needs Oncology and Pediatrics According to of young the CDC, more than 220,000 wom- women. The multi-step process enen are diagnosed with breast can- gaging various organizations and cer in the United States each year, health agencies will allow the cenand more than 40,000 women die ter to gain valuable insight into annually as a result of the disease. the operations of Sharsheret to Women of Eastern European or set them up with improved breast Ashkenazi Jewish backgrounds cancer support programming and are more susceptible to develop- resources. ing the disease due to mutations “We will then develop and use found in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 a number of performance metrics genes. and indicators to determine the “We are honored to have been quality, quantity and logistics of selected by the CDC to amplify breast cancer support program out tailored breast cancer pro- service delivery over time. This ingramming for young Jewish cludes leveraging Sharsheret’s exwomen,” Sharsheret Founder isting informatics resources about and Executive Director Rochelle their population served, as well as Shortez said in an official press gathering new data through interrelease. “In collaboration with views, focus groups and surveys,” more than 40 Sharsheret part- Tercyak said. ners nationwide, we will work to Tercyak hoped that the evaluaserve more than 40,000 Jewish tion would allow both Sharsheret women and caregivers, enhanc- and the Lombardi Comprehening the quality of life and reduc- sive Cancer Center to provide ing the cancer burden for young better support to more women breast cancer survivors.” through this collaboration, parKenneth Tercyak, associate pro- ticularly focusing on women fessor of oncology and pediatrics with genetic and genomic breast at the Lombardi Center, described cancer risks and women from the Lombardi Comprehensive racial and ethnic minority backCancer Center’s unique position grounds. at the forefront of breast cancer “Ultimately, the goal is to serve research as having the potential and support more women and to contribute tangibly to Sharsher- to do so with highest quality proet’s mission. grams that are guided by the best “We are a [National Cancer scientific evidence available,” TerInstitute]-designated comprehen- cyak said.

“Ultimately, the goal is to serve and support more women.”

After the Outdoor Student Living Pilot Program expanded to allow students to drink wine and beer in more outdoor locations on campus in August, the Georgetown University Police Department and the Office of Residential Living have cited minimal problems, touting the program as a success.

This fall, the program expanded to allow students who are 21 or older to drink in designated outdoor areas around Nevils, LXR, the Leavey Esplanade and the Alumni Square Courtyard. The pilot program began in August 2013, allowing students of legal age to drink wine and beer outdoors in areas of Henle Village and Village A. Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said that the program has proven to be successful in its early months, with few complaints registered to GUPD. “We have a set of policies around alcohol use and social life that are designed to respect the law, keep students safe and healthy and encourage student social life on campus,” Olson wrote in an email. “The notable policy change related to open containers provides a setting for small outdoor gatherings with alcohol in some residential areas on campus. I am encouraged by the collaborative work on that, and by the early success of that initiative.”

Director of Student Conduct Judy Johnson said she hopes that granting this new freedom to students will encourage them to behave appropriately to ensure student safety.

“The hope is that when allowing open containers in a specific area, students will behave in an orderly manner and abide by the policies,” Johnson said.

“I think we are always open to the idea of discussing what would be helpful for students to feel relaxed and maintain a good social life on campus. We want to balance the idea of relaxation and social life on campus with what abides by the law and respects our neighbors.”

Johnson said that although the program has been successful thus far, she fears that students may misunderstand the policy in the upcoming months.

“The difficulty comes when students may not realize that these are specified areas and travelling from one area to the next may cause students confusion,” Johnson said. “The identified areas pertain only to students who are 21 and older, and applies just to those areas, not for a student to go from [his or her] room to that space with an open container. It is confusing for students and I worry

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The university’s expansion of the open container policy, which now includes locations such as Alumni Square, has been met with success. about students feeling misunderstood.”

According to Johnson, the open beverage policy on the Leavey Esplanade could prove to be a risk to student safety.

“The Leavey Esplanade will be more difficult to monitor for student safety,” Johnson said. “I can see that there would be difficulties there because many different people can access that and it is not immediately accessible from a residence hall. The coming and going could be very problematic.”

GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Vice President Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) worked with GUPD and the Office of Residential Living to expand the pilot program. Tezel said that this initiative is part of GUSA’s larger goal to create a more vibrant on-campus social life.

“If we want to truly create the residential campus that the university is aiming for, then we need to re-examine all of our social policies, including ones related to outdoor gatherings,” Tezel said.

According to Tezel, the success of the program has proven the responsibility of Georgetown students.

“Will it become an issue if there are a group of 30 students packed into the Henle courtyard throwing a party?

Yes,” Tezel said. “But with the pilot program, we haven’t seen that. Georgetown students have shown they’re responsible drinkers.”

Although the policy is already in effect, GUPD continues to monitor the implementation of the policy with Residential Education in the Office of Residential Living. Tezel and Jikaria said that they are confident that students will continue to behave in accordance with the new policies.

“I think policy changes like this will put responsibility on Georgetown students for their own drinking habits and educate them on being smart about alcohol consumption,” Jikaria said. “That being said, we are constantly seeking feedback from students on this change and want to ensure that other students’ quality of life is not being adversely affected.”

Village A resident Jason Gusdorf (SFS ’16) said that although the pilot program contributes to high levels of noise, it is important for student life at Georgetown.

“Extending the open container policy lets students who are legally able to drink have more freedom in terms of the spaces they can be in, which is clearly something that is much needed,” Gusdorf said. “Of course living on a rooftop in Village A implies that there is going to be a high level of noise and a certain amount of partying, but I understood that when I signed up to live here, and it’s important for students to have these areas for social gatherings.”

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Brady Remains Among Season Finishes on High Note Best at Position in NFL CLAIRE SCHANSINGER Special to The Hoya

MAJD, from A10 was an average talent at best coming into the year, but he has improved dramatically since the beginning of the season thanks to extra time practicing his routes with Brady. And Shane Vereen has been and remains an average rusher, but Brady’s ability to play to his strengths by getting him the ball in the flats — where he can use his open field elusiveness – has allowed him to be an elite pass-catching back.

With a strong defense, a resurgent

offense, and arguably the best coach in the game, the 7-2 Patriots have gone from stagnant AFC East also-rans to conference favorites in one month. One can suspect that Brady never had any doubts in himself, even as members of the media questioned his abilities as he enters the twilight of his career. But Brady, now 37, once again proved that he performs best when surrounded by doubters.

Darius Majd is a senior in the College. THE SPORTING LIFE appears every Tuesday.

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Regular-Season Finale Ends in 8-0 GU Route PIRATES, from A10 before Skrumbis notched two more in a five-goal second-half rout of the Pirates.

Nolan thought that even though the team scored eight goals, perhaps the most impressive player on the pitch Friday night filled a defensive role.

“Our attacking ideas were very good. I thought our movement off the ball was very good, and I thought our speed of play was very good,” Nolan said. “But the player who really impressed me in the game was [sophomore] Emily Morgan, who, as a defensive center mid[fielder], the stats don’t show up on the board. But she won us the ball so many times and got the ball to people quickly. She broke up so many of their attacks. I

felt her energy really drove the team forward in many ways.”

Seton Hall managed to create several two-on-two chances, but the Hoya defense stayed strong.

Nolan said the team’s goal had been to win the Big East regular season, but conceded the importance of a bye to the semifinals.

“The first-round bye is huge,” Nolan said. “We’ve got a couple of injuries; nothing serious, but we’ve got some kids that need to rest. And it gives us the chance to give them three or four days off to try to get them healthier and fresher for Friday’s game.”

The Hoyas will take on the winner of Tuesday’s match between St. John’s and Villanova match on Friday evening in Queens, N.Y., in the Big East tournament semifinal.

The Georgetown field hockey team (6-12-0, 0-5-0 Big East) concluded its season with a loss against Old Dominion and a win against Towson this past weekend at the MultiSport Facility. The program’s total of six victories this season hasn’t been topped since 2010.

Georgetown dropped its last Big East match Friday 3-0 against No. 17 Old Dominion (11-7, 4-1 Big East).

While the Hoyas were able to shut down the Lady Monarchs offense, only allowing three shots on goal during the first 15 minutes of play, Old Dominion junior midfielder Sarah Breen quickly scored off a penalty corner from redshirt senior midfielder Nicole Goff to put the Lady Monarchs on the scoreboard.

Six minutes into the second half, Breen scored again off another penalty corner by junior midfielder Emily Harting, putting Breen’s goal total at 10 for the season. In the 46th minute, after the Hoyas defensive line held the Lady Monarchs to only one shot on goal for a 15-minute stretch, Old Dominion senior forward Rosario Villagra scored her eighth goal of the season off a penalty corner, putting Georgetown in a 3-0 deficit that it would be unable to chip away against.

The Old Dominion offense had 17 total shots on goal compared to just one for Georgetown, by way of Hoya senior forward Molly Denzel. Although the Hoyas were outmatched in terms of attacking, their goalkeeping kept them in the game. Sophomore goalie Rachel Skonecki had yet another solid performance in the back with 10 total saves.

Georgetown flipped the script Sunday. Although the Hoyas offense was high energy, the defense was dominant. The score was 3-0, this time in favor of Georgetown against Towson (2-16, 0-6 CAA). Hoya sophomore forward Aliyah Graves-Brown scored

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Bluejays Outlast Hoyas 3-0 The Georgetown volleyball team (9-16, 3-9 Big East) suffered a discouraging 3-0 loss at the hands of a talented Creighton Bluejays (18-7, 11-1 Big East) team, that currently occupies the top spot in the Big East standings.

Georgetown freshman outside hitter Terese Cannon registered team highs with 11 kills and two blocks, while senior outside hitter Alex Johnson added nine kills. The Hoyas played without senior co-captain and libero Mackenzie Simpson, who suffered an arm injury in the team’s loss to Marquette on Oct. 26. Simpson’s replacement, junior Emily Gisolfi, recorded 15 digs against Creighton.

The shorthanded Georgetown roster was able to stay close to Creighton for the majority of the first two sets. The first set was a back-and-forth affair, as neither team was able to establish a significant lead. The teams found themselves tied at 13, before Creighton reeled off a 7-2 run to establish a 2015 lead. After the Hoyas fought back to shrink the lead to 21-17, the Bluejays finished the set by winning four of the final five points, ending with a score of 25-18. Creighton’s 6-foot 4-inch sophomore middle blocker Lauren Smith led her team with five kills in the first set.

Georgetown Head Coach Arlisa Williams was pleased with her team’s passing in the early going.

“In the first set, we came out and we passed extremely well.

[Gisolfi] had nine digs in that set, we were in system and we could

take great big swings. That was what allowed us to stay close in the first set,” Williams said.

Creighton started fast in the second set, racing out to a 2113 lead and appeared to be well on its way to closing out the set comfortably. However, Georgetown fought back, winning six consecutive points to shrink its deficit to 21-19. Three points later, a kill by freshman setter Casey Speer tied the set at 22, capping an impressive 9-1 run.

However, the Bluejays came out of a timeout to regroup and earn three consecutive points, as freshman outside hitter Marysa Wilkinson recorded two blocks and a kill to finish the set, 25-22.

Still, the Hoyas showed fortitude when fighting back. Williams praised the team’s defense.

“In the second set, we outdug Creighton, and we served extremely well, which made it more difficult for them to terminate balls,” Williams said.

Creighton’s talented hitters and blockers still made things difficult for Georgetown in spite of its dogged effort and determination. Creighton’s 6-foot 4-inch senior middle blocker Kelli Browning, who ranks 16th in Division I with 1.41 blocks per set, had five blocks in the second set, becoming the second player in Bluejays history to record 500 blocks during her career.

“We had really good communication all around, going back to our blocking fundamentals, because that’s when we were getting blocks,” Browning told gocreighton.com after the game.

Creighton was able to win the third set more comfortably, starting with an early 12-7 lead before closing out the set and the match, 25-16. Cannon re-

Shannon Soares said.

With the 2014 season officially over, the team will take some time off before launching into a rigorous offseason training program to prepare for next year.

“The spring season is going to be focused on becoming more mentally tough,” Soares said. “The girls are going to go through more difficult workouts, they’re going to train more than they ever [have] and we are going to focus a lot on fundamental, technical skill. When we come out next season, they won’t have to think twice about executing these skills and can focus on the game.”

Soares is focused on improving the program next year, and she sees the win against Towson as the start of a period of greater success.

“After today’s result, it’s a great jumping off point for next season and what we want to do as a program. …

We will look to vastly improve next season and the great thing is we return a lot of our roster who are committed to moving this program forward and really making a name for ourselves,” Soares said.

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only one mintes and 17 seconds into the game after weaving through the defensive line, setting a tone of consistent pressure for the rest of the match.

“It’s always nice to get off to a really good start, and every goal that we get helps to move the momentum forward. I was glad I could do my part and start us out on a high note,” Graves-Brown said.

Junior forward Sarah Butterfield scored at the 26-minute mark, following an assist from sophomore defender Devin Holmes after a corner and putting the score at 2-0 going into the second half. Just over 10 minutes from the end of the second half, senior forward Tori Hideshima, a converted defender, scored her first goal of the season off another assist by Holmes following a corner.

“We run through penalty corners every day in practice, and as soon as I saw Devin rip the shot I was ready for it, and just like practice, it happened,” Hideshima said. “This is my first year playing forward, and it was such a Cinderella story to go out like this. I couldn’t be more thankful for my teammates and coaches and can’t thank them enough for the four years they gave us.”

The Blue and Gray had 15 total shots on goal while Towson only managed four, and Skonecki only had to make one save during the entire game. The sophomore goalkeeper recorded her fourth shutout of the season, which puts her at sixth all-time at Georgetown.

The Hoyas learned from their mistakes during Friday’s game and built off them to prepare for Sunday’s match.

“We were able to play a more attackminded style of hockey today. However, we were really disciplined in terms of our press, which helped us come up with the ball, and we were able to get into counterattack situations and dangerous situations on their defensive end, which turned out with a positive outcome for us,” Head Coach

corded four kills in the set, but it was not enough, as Creighton earned its 24th consecutive home win at D.J. Sokol Arena.

Bluejays Head Coach Kirsten Bernthal Booth was satisfied with the outcome.

“Anytime you can get a sweep at home, it’s a good thing,” Booth told gocreighton.com after the game.

Georgetown was short-handed in the loss, with only seven players seeing the floor for the Hoyas. Williams acknowledged that Simpson, a three-year starter who has recorded 1,369 digs in her career, represents a significant absence in the Hoya lineup. “[Gisolfi] has some big shoes to fill; Mackenzie’s done a great job in our libero position. She’s been a starter there since her sophomore year,” Williams said.

However, Gisolfi played extremely well in her first full game as Simpson’s replacement.

“I think that Emily did a fantastic job. She played a composed, steady game of volleyball and did exactly what she needed to do,” Williams said.

The Hoyas will continue to adjust and improve as they move into another challenging weekend on the road. Williams emphasized her team’s focus on persistence and determination.

“We’ll continue to focus on our skills and make sure that our personnel are confident when they take the floor and do everything we can to make sure that we’re a frustrating little team that won’t go away,” Williams said.

Georgetown will continue its five-game stretch of road contests at Butler (17-8, 9-4 Big East) next Friday, Nov. 7.

t seems fair to say that nearly every child lent to a call up from the minors in baseball. athlete dreamed of playing professional These short-term contracts provide a chance sports. to play in the NBA and a significant pay inWe bought the jerseys, collected the cards crease. The best estimates using the NBA’s and pretended to be our idols during every latest collective bargaining agreement put recess pickup game. For the vast majority of the value of a 10-day contract at around us, those childhood dreams go unfulfilled $43,000, but the value varies depending and we move on to more traditional lives. on the player’s experience and time in the Conversely, there are also a miniscule few league. who make it; these are the LeBron Jameses Although European leagues may bring and Tom Bradys of the world. more money and chances to travel to worldYet, there is another equally select group class cities like Venice and Berlin, there are who almost live the dream by playing in the also potential conflicts that arise with playNBA Developmental League or European ing overseas. leagues, toiling just a step below the big Summers, who was part of Georgetown’s time.

2007 Final Four run, spent last season playFormer Georgetown players are expe- ing for a Ukrainian team and lived near Kiev rienced in both realms. For every Allen during the protests and violence that shook Iverson (COL ’96) or Patrick Ewing (COL the city back in the early parts of 2014. As a ’08), there is a DaJuan Summers (MSB ’09) result, Summers chose to send his girlfriend or Jonathan Wallace (COL ’08). All of these and two children home while he stayed to players were great Hoyas in their own right, play ball. but while the former Other former NBA group reached the players like Kenyon pinnacle of NBA starMartin struggled to dom, the latter group adapt to the culture travels both smallof their foreign team town America and the and ended up leaving world for a chance to all together. Martin have a brief moment briefly played for the in the NBA spotlight.

Xinjjian Flying Tigers Mike Ippolito The starkest conin China during the trast is money. In the 2011 lockout after beNBA, the minimum lured by a lucraFormer Hoyas play at home ing salary for rookies entive contract, before tering the league this and abroad in search of a returning home early year is $507,336 and to continue his NBA path to an NBA roster. is set to rise every year career. until at least 2020.

For former Hoya Even if they never see a minute of playing walk-on Wallace, the NBA still remains the time, that money and all the perks associ- dream, though he has spent time in Euated with it, like first-class travel and luxury rope and the D-League since graduating hotel accommodations, are guaranteed. in 2008. Wallace could have stayed here in Conversely, in the D-League, salaries range Washington because he was accepted into from $13,000 to $25,500 per season.

Georgetown Law School, but chose basketIn various European leagues, the salaries ball instead. are significantly higher than the D-League, Summers is currently playing for Gran but are still paltry compared to those of any Canaria in Spain after leaving Ukraine and NBA players. Depending on the league, sala- being cut from the Brooklyn Nets after the ries can start between $65,000 and $100,000 2014 Summer League. Wallace, who started and they are often tax-free because teams every game for his entire career at Georgewill cover the taxes in an attempt to lure town, plays for Tübingen in Germany. He American talent overseas. Additionally, last played in the United States for the Rio most living expenses such as housing and Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League in transportation are fully covered. However, 2010. even though it may seem counterintuitive, If recent NBA history is any indication, the D-League is still a popular destination playing in Europe certainly doesn’t mean for young talent. relinquishing the dream of playing in the It would be naive to think that collegiate NBA. Former Cavaliers small forward Anstandouts stay in the D-League solely for the thony Parker had been out of the league purpose of keeping their NBA dreams alive. for six years and was playing in Israel and However, that is one unique benefit to play- Italy before being brought back to the NBA, ing in the D-League. Each D-League team has while forward Josh Childress was signed by an affiliation with at least one NBA team. the Phoenix Suns after a two-year stint playSome teams, like the independent Fort ing in Greece.

Wayne Mad Ants, are affiliated with mulRegardless of which league players tiple teams, while the other 17 teams in the choose, the chances that they will ever see league are affiliates with a single NBA team. NBA minutes are slim. However, after spendEssentially, a D-League franchise serves ing a majority of their lives working, sweatthe purpose of a minor league system. When ing and sacrificing for that slim chance, someone on the professional team goes up, players like Summers or Wallace refuse to a player from the D-League temporarily gets give up hope. a call up. Last season, 37 players were called up 49 times and signed to at least the mini- Mike Ippolito is a sophomore in the Colmum 10-day contract. lege. THE WATER COOLER appears every A 10-day contract is the basketball equiva- Tuesday.

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LEHIGH, from A10 The Georgetown secondary struggled to stop the physically imposing receiver, who finished the game with seven catches for 187 yards and that one touchdown. The 6-foot, 3-inch target made a big play whenever Lehigh needed one. The Hoyas offense could not do much to keep up with the Mountain Hawks, mustering just a field goal in the first half as Lehigh went into the locker room with a 13-3 lead.

Georgetown had a chance to score with 1:19 left in the half and the ball at the Lehigh 43-yard line, but sophomore Henry Darmstadter’s field goal attempt was blocked by Lehigh freshman cornerback Quentin Jones.

Nolan and the Hoya offense finally found their groove in the fourth quarter. Nolan was masterful in avoiding pressure and extending plays to give the team a chance to come back. The quarterback scrambled to the Lehigh 1-yard line after seeing no open receivers and junior running back Jo’el Kimpela scored on the next play.

The score was 20-11 after Darmstadter’s extra point kick was blocked by freshman defensive lineman Tyler Cavenas. Head Coach Rob Sgarlata had plenty of praise for his quarterback after the game.

“Kyle’s a competitor, he’s very physically talented and I really think he’s come into his own as a leader,” Sgarlata said. “I think he’s really coming into his own for us as a leader for the offense.”

Lehigh came right back to score a touchdown, but Georgetown then matched with a Kyle Nolan rushing score. After a successful two-point conversion, the score would stay at 27-19, as the Hoyas shot themselves in the foot with two huge holding penalties that negated two big plays by Nolan.

“You can’t get to the last drive and have a holding penalty. Kyle Nolan created out of nothing two huge plays down the field and we have two holding penalties. It’s those things that kill you,” Sgarlata said.

The Hoyas will have to figure things out quickly, as they travel to the best team in the Patriot League this year, the Fordham Rams (8-1, 4-0 Patriot League), after a bye week. Alfieri discussed the importance of the off week in allowing Georgetown time to recuperate and prepare for the next game.

“I think it’s nice to have a bye, to regroup and recover and get ready for this next game against Fordham.

It’s always good to get an extra time off and rest,” Alfieri said. “It’s a long season, we’ve had nine games and we’re going to appreciate the bye week and be smart with it.”

The No. 13 Georgetown men’s soccer team (10-3-4, 5-2-1 Big East) used a goal late in the first half to win again Saturday afternoon at Shaw Field, downing the St. John’s Red Storm (49-4, 1-6-1 Big East) by a final score of 1-0. The game was the final regularseason home match for the Hoyas’ five seniors, who were honored in a pregame ceremony.

Georgetown looked like the better team throughout the match, consistently generating more, higher-quality chances. While both goalkeepers made two saves, senior goalkeeper and co-captain Tomas Gomez’s saves were routine, and the Red Storm’s six other shots in the match never seemed threatening.

Officials stopped the match in the 10th minute for a significant period of time in order to attend to St. John’s freshman midfielder Anthony Viteri.

He fell to the ground after getting hit in the head with an elbow while challenging a ball in the air and had to be carted off of the field by medical staff.

The away team’s best opportunities came from a series of three free kicks from the 53rd to 66th minutes, culminating in a shot on goal blocked by senior midfielder and cocaptain Tyler Rudy after the third set piece ricocheted dangerously inside the 18-yard box.

“One thing that is nice about this team is that one goal seems to be enough. Our defense has really shored up. [Gomez] is playing the best soccer of his career right now,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

The Hoyas offense, on the other hand, created a majority of its chances from wide positions. A large variety of players had scoring opportunities, courtesy of crosses toward forwards in front of goal and trailing midfielders, one of whom scored the go-ahead goal. Senior defender and midfielder Jared Rist took the ball to the end line to the left of goal before crossing to sophomore midfielder Bakie Goodman, whose volley to the right side of goal found the back of the net and put his team ahead in the 41st minute. “[My form] is good, it keeps improving as we go along, which is what you want in the season. I think it is getting better, and the whole team is getting better,” Goodman said.

Wiese has tried a number of different combinations of wide midfielders this season, continuing this experiment Saturday. Four players featured in the position, including Rist, whose natural position is a defender, and sophomore forward Alex Muyl, who returned to the wing after switching to forward at the beginning of the season. Wiese identified an advantage in having a large number of players who can slot into that midfield role.

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“These guys are playing at a level in training every day where they just give you different things, and you have a lot of trust that they can do that for you.”

Wiese and Athletic Director Lou Reed honored five seniors before the game: Rist, Gomez, Rudy, midfielder Tom Skelly and midfielder Austin Martz. This group of seniors has had the most victories in program history and has appeared in the Big East tournament three times, the NCAA tournament twice and both the conference and national championship games. “[The seniors] have helped me a ton. We are around them every sin-

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the Hoyas clinch a spot in the Big East tournament. Two of the three wins were over opponents ranked in the top 10 in the country.

While the conference championship is out of reach, obtaining the second seed in the tournament is possible if Georgetown can defeat Villanova (8-6-3, 3-3-2 Big East) on Friday, Nov. 7, in Philadelphia and receive help from around the conference.

The Hoyas currently sit fourth in the league, but they are just one point behind second-place No. 11 Providence (10-3-2, 5-1-2 Big East).

Earning the second spot would give Georgetown a first-round bye in the Big East tournament and an automatic place in the semifinals, which will also be held in Philadelphia on Friday, Nov. 14.

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Wiese has coached these seniors for their entire careers and hopes to get a few more key performances out of the Class of 2015.

“It is just great to see them capping off their careers in a way that is befitting of the quality of them as characters and as players,” Wiese said. “It is so fitting that Rist is involved in that goal. … It is a fun ride and hopefully we can extend it for as long as possible.”

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The other point-tallying runners for the women were juniors Haley Pierce and Sam Nadel, senior Track All-American Andrea Keklak and senior All-American Hannah Neczypor. They finished in third through sixth place overall, respectively.

The meet marked Nadel’s first race of the season. The junior was one of the leading runners for the Hoyas last season. She finished in sixth place overall at last year’s Big East championship.

“During the race, I felt better than I expected to, but I still feel like I need a little more time to get my full fitness back,” Nadel said. “Most of all, I feel so blessed to have been able to come back from my injury, race this season and contribute to our team score.”

The Georgetown men’s team complemented the women’s dominant win with a second-place finish. The Hoyas tallied 51 points, just behind a No. 7 Villanova Wildcats team that finished with 23 points and featured three runners who took the top three spots in the overall race.

Younger runners led the way for the

Hoyas as sophomores Jonathan Green and Scott Carpenter and junior Darren Fahy finished among the top 10 runners. Green completed the 8K in 23:52.7 and crossed the finish line in fifth place overall, finishing first among Georgetown runners at the Big East championship.

Junior All-American Ahmed Bile and senior Ryan Gil rounded out the rest of the point-tallying runners. Bile and Gil finished in 14th and 15th place, respectively.

“This is a unique team — we’ve had a different number one runner at every meet this year,” men’s distance Coach Brandon Bonsey said. “None of these guys scored for us last year, but those are five really talented guys who have matured and progressed over the last year.”

The men’s team has stressed its packrunning strategy throughout its season, with the best example of the strategy coming through during the 2014 Indiana State University Pre-National Meet, where there was only a 10-second difference between the team’s top runner and fifth runner.

The team was less successful at following this strategy Friday. There was a 19-second difference between Carpenter’s

10th-place and Bile’s 14th-place finishing times.

“The team could have definitely stayed together longer throughout the race. About halfway through the race Jon, Darren and I were the only Georgetown runners in the top pack and we can certainly have our top seven run together through 5K,” Carpenter said. “If we could have stayed together for longer, we would have been able to pull each other along to the finish.”

In spite of some hiccups in their race plan, the Hoyas saw significant positives in their performance. Just as Nadel returned to compete for Georgetown at the Big East championship, so too did Gil and senior Collin Leibold.

“Ryan Gil ran extremely well for us. We all knew he was in great shape going into the race, but I’m not sure any of us expected him to be our fifth man,” Carpenter said. “He ran a tough race and kept his charging all the way to the finish.”

The Hoyas’ next meet will decide if the teams earn automatic bids to the NCAA championships. Both squads will travel to State College, Pa., to compete in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships on Nov. 14.

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Hoyas Clinch Tournament Bye Women Seize Victory at Big East Championships CHRIS BALTHAZARD Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (11-3-4, 6-1-2 Big East) rounded out its Big East regular season Friday night, beating Seton Hall (3-10-5, 0-63 Big East) in an 8-0 blowout.

The victory, combined with a 3-0 St. John’s (10-7-1, 6-2-1 Big East) loss at No. 13 DePaul (15-0-3, 7-0-2 Big East), gave the Hoyas a second-place finish in the Big East regular season and a first-round bye in the tournament.

Seton Hall finished ninth in the conference.

Georgetown’s offense experienced a resurgence from its recent poor form, with senior attacking midfielder Daphne Corboz tallying three goals and both sophomore forward Grace Damaska and freshman midfielder Rachel Corboz racking up three assists.

Senior forward Vanessa Skrumbis scored twice, putting her in a tie for third in the Big East with 10 goals, level with Daphne Corboz.

Head Coach Dave Nolan gave credit to Seton Hall for not remaining in the defensive shell Georgetown has seen all this season from outmatched opponents.

“To be fair, we probably played at the same level we played in so many of the games this year, like the Providence game, the Xavier game, the Duquesne game, the Villanova game,” Nolan said. “It’s just that, in this particular instance, they all went in. … They came out to play. It was Senior Night, and they didn’t sit back in. It was their last game, so they rolled the dice and said, ‘Let’s go for it.’”

Within four minutes of the opening kickoff, Georgetown had the lead thanks to a Daphne Corboz rebound goal, and made the score 3-0 by halftime with a goal from senior forward Audra Ayotte and Corboz’s second.

“We probably could have scored another five or six [goals]. We played really well, created a lot of good chances,” Nolan said. “With the exception of one goal, the other seven were very good goals. … Everything we talked about in practice all week, we scored from.”

Daphne Corboz’s hat trick brought her up to a Big East-leading 37 points, nine clear of second place; her 17 assists are good for third in all of Division I women’s

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Senior forward Audra Ayotte scored one of three first-half goals for the Hoyas in their 8-0 win at Seton Hall on Friday. soccer.

Senior goalkeeper Emma Newins finished the regular season with the third-best goals against average in the conference, allowing just 1.08 goals per game.

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spot in team goals allowed per game with 0.90; the Hoyas’ eight goals scored dropped Seton Hall, which had been tied for first in the Big East in that statistic, all the way down to eighth.

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play, the second and maybe the fifth,” Nolan said. “We scored from quality crosses, when we got around the outside and we got great balls across the face of goal because we had worked on committing people to get into the box when we got the ball wide.”

Nolan was especially pleased with how the week’s practices led directly to positive game results, and illustrated the importance of paying attention during video sessions with a Corboz set-piece goal.

“And then we scored off a setpiece, off a corner kick, which we had watched on video how they left a part of the field exposed,” Nolan said. “And Daphne finished before they could react. I was real happy with that, because it shows they listened.”

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On a gray, dreary day at the Hilltop, Georgetown football (2-7, 0-4 Patriot League) hosted Lehigh (2-6, 1-2 Patriot League) in a conference contest, dropping a close 27-19 decision to the visiting Mountain Hawks. Both teams were seeking their first win in the Patriot League this season.

The Hoyas received the ball on the opening kickoff, but they were unable to move the ball at all, as junior quarterback Kyle Nolan was

sacked for a nine-yard loss by Mountain Hawks senior defensive linemen Tim Newton and sophomore T.J. Stubbs on third down. Newton was a thorn in the Hoyas’ side for the entire game, consistently breaking through the Georgetown offensive line and causing Nolan to flee the pocket.

Lehigh moved the ball quickly down the field on its opening possession, using an up-tempo offense to catch the Georgetown defense off guard. Mountain Hawks sophomore quarterback Nick Shafnisky presented a new challenge for the

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Hoyas defense, as he was the most mobile quarterback the team had faced this season. He finished 17of-26 for 345 yards and two touchdowns, all while posing a constant rushing threat.

“That kid is a really great dualthreat quarterback and is probably one of the best we’ve seen, especially with his feet,” senior linebacker Nick Alfieri said of Shafnisky.

The Lehigh drive was stalled at the Georgetown six-yard line after Shafnisky overthrew a pass to senior tight end Tyler Coyle in the end zone, but the Mountain Hawks still took a 3-0 lead on a field goal from sophomore kicker Ryan Pandy.

Alfieri had a huge game for the Hoyas, and he was key in containing Shafnisky in the running game.

The senior linebacker amassed 18 total tackles and had a half of a sack as well. In the first quarter, Alfieri surpassed the 300-tackle mark in his career, joining Robert McCabe (407) and Nick Parrish (349) as the only players in Georgetown program history with more than 300 tackles.

Lehigh got the ball right back when Georgetown senior running back Daniel Wright fumbled the ensuing kickoff. Coach Rob Sgarlata called the play, “maybe the worst [type of] play in football,” after the game. Three minutes later, Shafnisky found freshman wide receiver Troy Pelletier in the end zone for a Lehigh touchdown.

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With their first postseason meet under their belts, Georgetown’s cross-country teams are continually displaying why their programs are so highly regarded this season.

The Hoyas dominated the field at the Big East Cross Country Championship in Indianapolis on Friday, Oct. 31, while racing against some of the toughest nationally ranked teams. The No. 2 women’s team finished in first place with a historic 19 points as all five scoring runners finished within the top six overall, while the No. 16 men’s team continued to build on their ongoing success with a strong second-place finish.

The women’s team was led by senior AllAmerican Katrina Coogan, who finished in first place among all the runners on the field. Coogan finished the 6-kilometer race in 20:31:0, beating second-place Providence sophomore Catarina Rocha, who completed her race in 20:40:0.

“Any time you can win the race, be the Big East champion, that’s a huge honor and [Coogan]’s very deserving of it,” Women’s Cross-Country Head Coach Michael Smith

said. “I’m thrilled for her because it hasn’t come easy. She had to work really hard over the last few years, and I’m just really happy that she gets to enjoy that.”

Coogan’s first-place finish is the first time Georgetown has had an individual champion in the Big East championship since All-American Melissa Grelli won in 2007. Grelli transferred to Oregon, a running powerhouse, for her 2008 redshirt senior season.

The women’s team’s 19 points gave the Hoyas a 49-point advantage over secondplace Providence College, which scored 65 points. In cross-country, the team with the lowest score wins. The Hoyas beat the previous record of a 44-point margin of victory between the first- and second-place teams that was set in 2009 by Villanova University. The Hoyas’ 19 points was the best team score in a Big East championship meet since 1990.

Georgetown’s successful race at the Big East championship established it as the runaway leader of the Big East. The only other ranked team, No. 24 Villanova, finished in fourth place.

“We wanted to make a huge statement as a team at Big East and that is exactly what we did,” Coogan said. “Five point-scoring runners within the top six is so rare and the fact that we were able to do that is incredible. We really focused on running together as a pack and that was key for how we did See CHAMPIONSHIP, A9

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month ago, the Seattle Seahawks his junior year, won consistently and on were the team to beat in the NFL, the biggest stage and yet everybody saw and the Arizona Cardinals were him as a lesser cog in a great machine.

A lesser competitor would have let just another wild card contender. A month ago, Philip Rivers and the San such disrespect get to them, but Brady’s Diego Chargers were legitimate rivals to belief in himself — a skill that surpasses the Denver Broncos in the AFC West. A even his impressive on-field talents — month ago, Ben Roethlisberger wasn’t in overpowered his frustration, even after the midst of the single greatest quarter- he fell to the sixth round of the NFL Draft. back scoring tear in league history.

As much as people wanted to see a paralMost importantly, a month ago, the lel between the current quarterback situsurging Cincinnati Bengals were going ation in New England and the dynamic to crush the struggling 3-2 New England present when Brady first joined the team, Patriots, and Tom Brady was supposed to Garoppolo is not the reincarnation of be looking over his shoulder at backup Brady anymore than present-day Brady is Jimmy Garoppolo the same way Drew the old Drew Bledsoe.

Bledsoe should have been doing when Brady may not have the receiving talBrady was his unent of the Denver derstudy. Instead, Broncos that Peyton the Patriots, deManning enjoys, spite coming into but he showed on the game followSunday that, armed ing a 41-14 loss to with Head Coach a mediocre Kansas Bill Belichick’s game City Chiefs team, plan, he can elevate rebounded with a anyone on his team resounding 43-17 to a star.

Darius Majd win against CinThe continued cinnati. Tom Brady return to health was officially back. of tight end Rob A lot can change After a troubling opening Gronkowski — the in a month, but one true star of the stretch, Brady has led the New England Patrisometimes, it’s the things that receiving corps Patriots to four straight wins. ots never change that — has certainly aidremind us why ed Brady and the Pawe should never overreact to short-run triots, just as Belichick’s unrivalled coachtrends. In spite of the adulation and ac- ing mind has always been an important colades that Tom Brady has received over asset to Brady. But even with these two on the years, the fuel to his greatness has his side, Brady did not have the embaralways come from a time when he was rassment of riches provided to his chief never expected to hold a place among the rival in their matchup this weekend. elite.

Denver tight end Julius Thomas is How quickly we forget that long before every bit the red zone nightmare that Tom Brady was synonymous with suc- Gronkowski is, wide receiver Demaryius cess in the eyes of the football world, he Thomas is an unquestioned All-Pro, and alone expected such greatness from him- fellow receiver Emmanuel Sanders has self. To everyone else he was just another rendered teammate Wes Welker — the passable talent, occupying a spot in the most prolific target Brady ever had — surlineup until a truly elite talent was ready plus to requirements. to handle the load.

But these dynamic aerial threats were That was what the name “Tom Brady” bested by Brady’s ragtag team of journeymeant at Michigan, when young Drew man and role players.

Henson was supposed to be the all-world Julian Edelman certainly put in a good talent. Even after Brady won 80 percent performance independent of Brady’s of the games he started, a share of the Big help as the diminutive receiver scored on Ten and two bowl games (including the a game-changing punt return, but there Orange Bowl in his final game), people is no denying that his rise to prominence still expected an improvement at quarter- since Welker’s departure can be highly back when Brady left Ann Arbor. He had attributed to Brady. Brandon LaFell come into Michigan at seventh on the depth chart, rose to the top of the pile by See MAJD, A8

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