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COMMENTARY Depression is a modern conundrum that deserves a proper definition.

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FOSSIL FREE President DeGioia promises January vote on divestment proposal.

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ELITE EIGHT Jared Rist’s OT goal keeps men’s soccer’s playoff dreams alive.

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Plan Proposes New Buildings Additional structures part of 2017 Campus Plan Xinlan Hu

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In response to the federal grand jury’s decision in the Ferguson, Mo. case, demonstrators took to Red Square, the White House and the city at large.

The Office of Planning and Facilities Management announced a longterm plan to construct two new buildings and two add-ons to campus as a part of the university’s 2017 Campus Plan.

The buildings will be located on Regents lawn, Harbin patio and on top of the Leavey Center. The add-ons on top of the Leavey Center will serve as academic and residential spaces, while the Regents lawn building will serve as academic space and the Harbin patio building will serve as a mix of both. While the plans for the buildings are not finalized, construction will most likely begin by 2020, Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Robin Morey said.

The 2017 Campus Plan, which will be slated for approval in December

2017 after the expiration of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement, is being developed by university administrators and the Georgetown Community Partnership. The GCP, a group that was created as part of the university’s 2010 Campus Plan to engage the community in the planning process, includes six working groups of students, faculty, senior university officials and elected neighborhood leaders.

The Office of Community Engagement helps coordinate the GCP’s development of future campus plans within its master planning steering group. The Office of Planning and Facilities Management presented the plan at a Planning 301 meeting Nov. 20, the latest of a series of community forums hosted by university administrators in an ongoing process to develop new student spaces on campus.

Morey said that the buildings were proposed to fulfill students’ expressed desire to live on campus and to strengthen the university’s living community. The proposed spaces will also help fulfil the requirements of the 2010 Campus Plan, which includes a commitment to house 90

Ferguson Rallies Reach Campus, District Suzanne Monyak & Laura Owsiany

dated front-facing body cameras while on duty; and an HIV screening and letter writing campaign to Michael Brown’s famHoya Staff Writers ily, followed by a Black Student Alliance The Georgetown University Black Lead- Kwanzaa Dinner on Thursday.

On Friday, participants will engage in ership Forum mounted a Week of Action Freedom Friday, a day of “civil disobedithis week to reflect on recent events in Ferguson, Mo., and draw attention to ra- ence and demonstration,” according to the Facebook cial and criminal event. justice issues folG e o r g e tow n lowing a week of Ferguson DC Protests NAACP President protests in WashMikaela Ferrill ington, D.C., that (COL ’15) identi11/24 White House protest included a march fied the dual eduin Georgetown 11/25 Mount Vernon Square and Chicational and praclast Saturday. natown march tical aims of the Almost 200 stuWeek of Action. dents took part in 11/25 Red Square silent demonstration “Being taught the Week of Action in the classroom 11/29 Foggy Bottom Metro and M to protest the St. is very important.

Street NW march Louis grand jury’s Sometimes being Nov. 24 decision 12/1 Walkout at Red Square in people’s face not to indict Ferguabout things is son police officer 12/2 “Die-in” at Kogan Plaza at The a great strategy Darren Wilson in George Washington University to bring issues to the fatal shooting 12/3 Lie-in and protest at American the forefront, and of unarmed black University so that’s been teenager Michael kind of why we Brown.

12/4 March from D.C. police headhave a mixture of The Week of Acquarters to the Wilson Building both educational tion consisted of components and 12/4 “Die-in” at Howard University a walkout and 4.5 visual demonstraminutes of silence 12/5 Freedom Friday at GU tions, because in Red Square besometimes you ginning at 1:07 need to bring p.m. on Monday, the time of Brown’s shooting in August; demonstrations to people for them to aca Day of Action to Stop Police Brutality on tually see and understand what’s going Wednesday, where participants contacted on,” she said.

Khadijah Davis (NHS ’15), president of elected officials calling for reform in police practices, including the demilitarization of U.S. law enforcement and the manSee FERGUSON, A6

percent of undergraduates on campus by fall 2025.

“We know that students want to be here on the Hilltop,” Morey said. “Last year, the students did a survey and that survey said that we want to be on the Hilltop on campus. We want to strengthen the residential living and learning environment on campus and we want to make it a place where students want to be. So those are principal in our planning factors.”

Morey said that the two proposed construction locations, the Harbin patio and the Regents lawn, were chosen based on a complete analysis of infrastructure and available empty spaces.

“We’ve done a complete analysis and study of all the potential spaces to locate housing,” Morey said. “We look at factors like can the surrounding infrastructure support it and where do we need to strengthen community. … We want to keep true to districts, athletic, humanities core, sciences and residential. Quite frankly, when you look at the campus, where else would you put them? It gets challenging when we have limited land use.”

According to Morey, the two new construction projects are close to being confirmed, although some details remain undecided. Morey said that the administration will be open to student feedback in the upcoming years about these construction projects.

“We think of those [projects] as pretty solid,” Morey said. “We are planning 20 years on. … We might not start construction on the Harbin one until 2020. No decision has been made. These are literally concepts that we still have to go around and engage with in the next two years.”

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The construction, a long-term proposal, would include two add-ons to the Leavey Center, in addition to two new buildings on Harbin patio and Regents lawn. The plan will be open to future student input.

July Deadline for SFS Dean Andrew Wallender Hoya Staff Writer

For the fourth time in 44 years, the School of Foreign Service is in the process of searching for a new dean.

University President John J. DeGioia appointed a group of 17 professors, students and other university officials in early fall to make recommendations of candidates for the deanship. DeGioia chose members to represent a variety of university interests and strengths. The group,

known as the Executive Search Committee, has begun reviewing applications after the application deadline formally closed Nov. 20. after opening in early fall.

Currently, a period of confidentiality is in place to protect the privacy of high-profile candidates. Members of the search committee declined to comment on the number of applicants and their criteria.

Search Committee Chair and SFS government professor Angela Stent, who chaired the search for the SFS

dean in 2010, spoke about the committee’s process during a Nov. 24 meeting with SFS students in which students voiced their opinion about what qualities the new dean should embody.

“What we’re doing right now is collecting names,” Stent said. “And then what we do as a committee is we will meet in a couple of weeks, and we narrow down a list of maybe 15 to 20 people.”

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White House Convenes Educators Kristen Fedor Hoya Staff Writer

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama brought together hundreds of educators from across the country in the second White House College Opportunity Day of Action to propose federal initiatives and discuss innovations in the national education system.

Gathered in the amphitheater of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Avenue, participants listened to a series of panels and speakers who discussed all aspects of the nation’s schooling with an emphasis on improving accessibility for higher education to low-income students, announcing over 600 new actions by various organizations toward this goal.

In addition to the main speakers, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Director of Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz and Director of the National Economic Council Jeff Zients addressed

attendees at the event, with intermittent panels featuring educators discussing key educational issues, including immigration and graduation rates, throughout the day.

Obama’s nearly 30-minute speech highlighted the main points of the day,

“This should not be a Democratic issue or a Republican issue.”

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incorporating themes of contributing to overall economic growth, supporting college students toward graduation and increasing accessibility for low-income and first-generation high school students. He called for bipartisanship in achieving these aims.

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“This should not be a Democratic issue or a Republican issue, making sure more of our young people have access to higher education and can succeed and complete their work and get their degree — that has to be an American issue,” he said.

He stressed economic stratification as a source of disunity and tension within the country, specifically pertaining to the rising cost of higher education, explaining that middle class families who receive minimal or no financial aid often feel excluded from the conversation. In addition to the education frustrations, Obama alluded to the national response to the events in Ferguson, Mo., as an example of mistrust in the current political system.

“When it comes, as we’ve seen unfortunately in recent days, to our criminal justice system, many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap between our professed ideals and how laws are applied on a day-to-day baSee EDUCATION, A6 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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President Barack Obama delivered the keynote speech at the second White House College Opportunity Day of Action on Thursday.

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Exclusivity is conventional at Georgetown. With the proliferation of competitive clubs and internships, there is not a student who believes acceptance is the norm across campus.

But amid this exclusivity, Georgetown fosters a strong sense of community, a sense that is reflected in the ideals and values the university stands for. The Spirit of Georgetown Residential Academy, the culmination of the Old Jesuit Residence Project that is opening next fall, seeks to create a residence that emphasizes these ideals by selecting students who embody these tenets.

However, this endeavor should be approached with caution. Although creating a community based on the ideals that Georgetown students strive for is undoubtedly a good enterprise in principle, the actual process should be careful not to alienate certain types of students from applying to live in the new residence.

While listing a wide range of ideal criteria for its would-be residents — many of which are not religious in nature — is a positive step toward ensuring that all students feel welcome to apply, this Living Learning Community should be one that encourages

all kinds of students to seek involvement.

Connotations of elitism given the LLC’s exclusivity — although potentially unfounded — can easily overtake the process if it is not made clear that one does not have to fit a specific mold to live in this community. All Georgetown students should feel that they embody what they view as a valuable and legitimate tenet of the Georgetown community.

If fostering a culture of inclusivity is what this dorm seeks to do, then the marketing of its application must reflect an interest in creating a community made of students that represent Georgetown’s diversity. Applications encourage us to paint ourselves as a certain kind of person, but they also inspire those overseeing the application process to bring in students that can deeply enrich the lives of those living in their residential community.

The motivating force behind this project is one all Georgetown students should embrace. It must be made clear that all students, not just those who see themselves in a religious light, embody the Georgetown community in valuable and immeasurable ways.

Advance Master Planning The Office of Planning and Facilities Management is considering the construction of two new buildings, a dorm located on Harbin Patio and an academic building located at the south end of the Regents Hall lawn.

While the construction of these buildings would likely not even begin until 2020, current students know from experience that planning ahead is imperative as far as campus impact and student life are concerned. Careful planning is especially needed to avoid last-minute disturbances such as those that have arisen with the construction of the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall, scheduled to open in fall 2016 after delays.

Since the Harbin Patio and especially the south lawn of Regents Hall are relatively unused spaces, the proposed construction would likely not throw everyday student life into disarray. These proposed buildings will be placed in spaces that do not receive nearly as much traffic, as opposed to the Northeast Triangle, the construction of which has closed off both the Leavey Bridge and Tondorf Road.

One concern of this plan, however, is that the addition of two new buildings will create quite a cluttered campus, and that south Regents Hall lawn is one of the last standing green areas on campus.

Although this concern is legitimate, the university must construct on existing real estate in order to continue updating the campus’s image and avoid creating a satellite campus, which the student body has already spoken vehemently against. The construction of more buildings on campus in the coming years is an unfortunate reality, especially considering the high real estate costs of the Georgetown area and the improbability of the university acquiring land closer to the campus in the near future, but is a far better choice when compared to any semblance of a satellite campus.

Despite these drawbacks, the university has proven through new buildings such as the Healey Family Student Center that it can effectively construct a beautiful and cohesive campus structure, and this commitment to early planning demonstrates that it can learn from its past mistakes.

Some New Places2Go For a university bent on the strict prohibition of on-campus personal vehicular transportation, it seems that Georgetown is finally bending toward the needs of its students, striking a deal with car-sharing service Car2Go. This recently announced partnership is a two-way street.

On one end, students receive access to four separate Car2Go vehicles, two parked outside of Village C and two in close proximity to the Medical School’s New Research Building, behind North Kehoe Field. Upon rental of these cars — subsidized by Georgetown University — students do not even have to return the vehicles to their point of origin, as leaving them at any curbside parking space in the greater Georgetown neighborhood apparently suffices for the company’s business model.

And on the other end, Car2Go receives our assuredly steady business, and our smiling approval.

The point-to-point car-sharing service will serve not simply as a new transportation option, but as a transportation renovation. Simple, flexible and innovative, the business model of this venture is puzzlingly simple on the consumer end.

To add to its attractiveness, the service is green as well — a scholarship fund taken off the top of the money assuredly generated by this partnership will be directly redistributed to the Office of Sustainability.

Allowing for all students to bring personal vehicles to campus would have been unwieldy and ultimately inconvenient for the entire university, but with new technologies come new innovations, and with the university’s decision, it seems that we are all headed in a new direction.

Mallika Sen, Editor-in-Chief Carolyn Maguire, Executive Editor Robert DePaolo, Interim Managing Editor Jess Kelham-Hohler, Online Editor Katherine Richardson, Campus News Editor Kshithij Shrinath, City News Editor Kara Avanceña, Sports Editor Hannah Kaufman, Guide Editor Jinwoo Chong, Opinion Editor Daniel Smith, Photography Editor Shannon Hou, Layout Editor Zack Saravay, Copy Chief Emily Min, Blog Editor

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THE VERDICT Digital Decorations — Christmas at the White House heads straight into the future, complete with 3-D printed ornaments and interactive snowy landscape holograms.

A Nation Prepares — Four D.C.-area hospitals have been designated as Ebola treatment centers in response to growing national apprehension regarding the West African pandemic.

Soccer State — The D.C. Council has approved a plan to build a $170 million soccer stadium for D.C. United of Major League Soccer.

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A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The Hoya will mark its 95th anniversary this January; a grand spring gala and special issue will celebrate the milestone in style. However, a near century of continuous publication invites an examination of the role our institution plays on Georgetown University’s campus.

On Jan. 14, 1920, the paper’s first editor wrote, “Blushing as coyly as any schoolgirl, and with the excited fears and hopes of a debutante … we lay this first edition of The Hoya at the feet of the student body, and retreat to a safe distance to observe the effects.” The ensuing years have given us ample opportunity to evaluate these effects, and as the 141st editor of the paper, this schoolgirl can tell you that they are ever-evolving.

As both a newspaper and an institution, The Hoya has had its fair

Mallika Sen (SFS ’16) Editor-in-Chief

In Defense of “I Was Mugged...”

To the Editor:

When I first published my article (“I Was Mugged, and I Understand Why,” The Hoya, A3, Nov. 18, 2014) I could never have predicted the response it would receive. I hope this letter clarifies some of the points that have been wildly misread.

To be perfectly clear, I do not condone violence against anyone, and I certainly did not deserve to be mugged. Understanding why someone might steal from me does not suggest that I deserved it.

Everyone is repsonsible for his or her own behavior, and my attackers have made a bad choice, for which they ought to be punished. But the conversation should not end there.

This week on

Innocent individuals never deserve to be attacked. But in an unequal society, we can’t be schocked by crime. I’m not suggesting it’s OK, or that we should accept it. I’m say1ing wake up: the futures for some are bleak. Until we do something to understand and address the root causes of crime, it will continue.

Acknowledging that there is more to crime than pure evil does not equate to condoning it.

As for me, I’ve chosen empathy. I’ve chosen to write an article that deepens the conversation about privilege. And I will continue to address issues of structural injustice as I see them. I invite others to do the same.

Oliver Friedfeld (SFS ’15)

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We invite and seek engagement with our readers, and welcome critique with enthusiasm. This university is imbued with tradition, and I eagerly embrace the chance to protect our storied tradition and propel it forward.

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Rethinking Our Holiday Priorities L

ast Friday, people across the country participated in what many consider a full-fledged assault on Christmas — –Black Friday. Eager customers stayed up well into the wee hours of Thanksgiving night, lined up outside of the standard assortment of big box stores and stormed the automated glass doors to charge forward to claim their prizes. From deeply discounted HDTVs, to shiny stainless steel crockpots, anything and everything the modern American consumer could want was readily available.

Without a doubt, Black Friday represents the height of the Christmas season’s commercialization. The National Retail Federation places the estimates of last weekend’s sales at $50.9 billion.

However, few would argue that this hypercommercialized retail event encapsulates the true essence of Christmas.

Certainly, there is a greater motivation behind the booming holiday season other than the need to acquire more material goods.

My Southern upbringing directs any discussion about the essence of Christmas to Christ’s birth. In the Christian tradition, Jesus’ birth represents a chance for every person to connect with God in a human form; or in other words, redemption. This new beginning served as God’s fulfillment of a promise to his people.

While the Christmas story may be rooted in religious texts, the lessons derived from the Christmas story can, and should, extend to a modern, secular context. The desire for redemption and the fulfillment of promises are fundamentally human.

Religious dogma cannot, and should not, hold a monopoly on these ideals.

Today, the holiday season serves as a narrative that Americans from coast to

The modern age’s tendency to commercialize has stripped away valuable opportunities to reflect. coast collectively celebrate. Values derived from the story of Christ’s birth should have a place in the secular celebration of the holiday season. The moments of communal introspection, akin to those that these values can inspire, are necessary for any nation that seeks to promote its citizens’ collective well-being.

However, the modern age’s tendency to commercialize has stripped away valuable opportunities to reflect. Unfortunately, this superficiality only erodes our ability to value members of our community as human beings with inherent dignity and, therefore, our sense of community.

Progressives should be concerned about these lost opportunities for national soulsearching, and specifically, lessons from the holiday season that are currently being tuned out by commercial, corporate interests. Consequently, progressives should push our nation to reflect upon these lessons that can be derived from the Christmas story.

Outside of a religious context, it is essential that space be made for redemption within our contemporary public system.

Every individual deserves a second chance.

Current incarceration policies, such as racial bias in sentencing, the criminalization of drug possession and faulty re-entry programs breed cyclical recidivism.

Furthermore, the American public has an obligation to push for policies that ensure that the dream remains alive. In order to affirm that every individual, regardless of background, has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we must continually recommit to fulfilling this promise.

During the holiday season, it is relatively easy to become distracted by shiny crockpots and HDTVs of the world. From a secular perspective, it is simple to chalk the ideological underpinnings of Christmas up to religious dogma.

However, the Christmas season presents us with a unique opportunity to reflect upon the values our nation collectively espouses. Are we ensuring that every individual has a second chance? Are we recommitting to preserving the American dream for generations to come? Or have the modern age’s commercialization, superficiality and sensationalism hindered our ability to engage deeply with one another?

This Christmas season, I encourage all of us to remember that achieving peace on earth and goodwill for all must begin somewhere. –So let it begin with us.

Abby Grace is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. This is the last appearance Of Progressive Persuasion this semester.

o, I can’t be depressed.

I’m not some psycho,” I remember telling myself once. For two-and a-half years I had felt this way. I went on with my life just telling myself I was in the wrong place, and ignored the very fact that I was suffering from depression. It was far too easy to blame Georgetown or other people for my struggles than it was to blame myself. However, over time, as I took a look inward at who I was becoming, I became terrified.

I saw how I was hurting those who were important to me; I saw how I was creating problems for myself; I saw that I needed help.

For too long, I had avoided seeing therapist, out of a misguided sense of pride. I thought I could fix myself. I was wrong.

Earlier this year, Robin Williams took his life, shocking the world.

More recently, Wayne Brady came out and said he was suffering from clinical depression. People think that successful people are immune from depression, probably because they think that they have no reason to be depressed. This has made it uncomfortable for people to talk about being depressed, as if it were some sign of weakness.

As a result, there is some kind of shame to admitting you are or were depressed. This only works to further the stigma regarding depression. As a result, people like myself, who would have benefited from therapy as a freshman, avoid seeking help.

When we write people off as crazy we further stigmatize mental health issues; however, when we see people as humans, we can understand why people feel certain things or act in certain ways. As a university community and as a society as a whole, we need to see people as imperfect humans. Doing so will help destigmatize a condition

As a university community and as a society as a whole, we need to see people as imperfect humans. that affects nearly everybody.

It is incredibly painful for me to look at all the people I have alienated because of my depression. For the 27 months during which I was in denial, I acted like I was a different person altogether. The depression had crippled every part of my

personality to the point that I was not myself. As a result, I watched people who were important to me drift apart. I hope someday I can mend all the bridges I burned because of my depression.

By no means do I consider myself cured, but I can finally admit that I

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need help. Mental health issues are so easy to ignore, yet their impact on countless lives is so immense.

The past 27 months, I have become the biggest barrier to my own happiness and success. I realize this now, but back then, I blamed the people I was surrounded by, the people from home who I missed, and the school I was attending. And this only created for me a downward spiral. My life could not go on the way it was. This realization has saved me from letting depression ruin my next three semesters; although the battle with my mind has just begun.

For years I have been ashamed to have felt depressed. I thought I was being weak. However, when I saw how depression was taking control of my life, I finally discovered I needed help. I thought seeing a counselor would require me swallowing my pride and admitting I was some kind of weirdo, but I now realize the only weird thing about me was that I refused to seek the help I needed. Seeking help does not require abandoning your pride, and in fact, I feel a stronger sense of pride now because I can admit that I am imperfect and need help at times.

I hope that by writing about my struggles and experiences others might not be ashamed seek help, as I was. Depression does not make you a psycho; depression is not something anyone should ever be ashamed about. It does not make you abnormal. It makes you an imperfect individual in an imperfect world. I wish I hadn’t waited 27 months, but if just one person can read this and feel empowered to seek help, then my struggle won’t have been in vain.

JOE MURDY is a junior in the College.

As This Jesuit Sees It...

Taking Responsibility The Beauty of Our Individual Chaos For Our Oceans

T

he ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our Earth’s surface. There are about 1 million different species that live in these waters, and scientists and explorers have yet to explore 95 percent of them.

Our ocean is deep, vast and so commonly seen in the distant abstract.

But the health of the sea must be understood as our generation’s responsibility. As the celebrated oceanographer and National Geographic explorer Sylvia Earle once said, “No ocean, no life. No ocean, no us.”

It is the duty of each individual to find innovative solutions and take ownership of the oceanic degradation challenges that lie ahead.

Last February, I was invited to represent Georgetown at a United Nations meeting on the state of our oceans. As I took my seat, I was struck by the realization that incredible world leaders surrounded me, including the president of Palau and the permanent repr e s e n t a t i ve to the UN from Spain.

As the meeting began, each country’s representative raised pressing concerns about the fragile health of our ocean. They spoke passionately about the potential threats that declining ocean health represents for their people’s livelihoods, their territories’ sovereignty and the diverse ecosystems beneath the surface.

After the meeting, I had the opportunity to meet the ambassador of Palau who introduced me to the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, an organization working to unite public and private energies for social progress, specifically for oceanic conservation.

Hoping to bring that presence to Georgetown’s campus, I followed the ambassador’s suggestion to start a Sustainable Oceans Alliance chapter at Georgetown.

Today, millennials must heed the call to become more involved in ocean conservation efforts. It is critical for our generation to understand that the oceans are Earth’s source of life, the global regulator of climate and atmospheric chemistry, and an abundant provider of food and income.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, over 1 billion people depend on the ocean for food. Meanwhile,

unsustainable fishing practices have depleted the ocean; 90 percent of the large fish that once roamed are already gone. Storms are intensifying while the coral reefs that block destructive waves are dissolving in ever more acidic water.

Mangroves that once prevented beach erosion have disappeared in many places. Nutrient runoff from agriculture has resulted in “dead zones,” three-dimensional spaces of water devoid of oxygen, larger than some states in the United States.

With this in mind, restoring the health of our oceans is the urgent call the Georgetown Sustainable Oceans Alliance hopes to make.

In the process of creating the Georgetown Sustainable Oceans Alliance, I sought out support from students, administrators, and professors —all of whom have made great contributions to the organization. It has been an inspirational experience to see widespread involvement and interest from the Georgetown community, from the Georgetown Office of Public Affairs, The Global Social Enterprise Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, the Beeck Center, the Georgetown Environment Initiative and to the Georgetown Board of Governors.

Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.” We are integral parts of a vibrant undergraduate body that can, in fact, change the world — all it takes is the spark of an idea and the commitment of a community to make such a vision a reality.

We cannot afford to pass the buck any longer. It is time for our generation to step up to the plate and act. Every action counts, beginning with educating yourself on the issues. Every Georgetown student — really, each individual living on this planet — should be concerned about the health of our oceans for the sake of our own survival.

The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth, and therefore, it should be of paramount importance for humankind.

It is our duty to find innovative solutions and take ownership of the oceanic degradation challenges that lie ahead.

DANIELA FERNANDEZ is a junior in the College.

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proverb tells us, “God tions, accolades and number of writes straight with friends. Even our body, which is entirely our own, and God’s crooked lines.”

When I look back on my most beautiful creation, became 48-year-old life, I celebrate satis- subject to the measure of anothfying successes and reckon with er: the perfect body, the six pack painful regrets and losses. I try abs, the curved physique. Comto draw connections between all paring ourselves to others only the stops and starts, all the ups increased our anxiety and made and downs, all the straight and it very difficult to find the “me” curved lines. Ultimately, I see who needed to be expressed in my life like a young child’s work order to find peace. of art, proudly displayed on a We ran away from who we refrigerator: crooked, colorful are and started to fear failure, lines drawn all over the page, fear being different and fear decipherable only with the eyes being on our own. We played it of a loving parent. safe too often. We began to tell I reflect on ourselves: stay with my choices, the people who look times I played like me, follow peoit safe and the ple who think like times I took me, get the easy “A.” a risk. Robert Don’t make a fool of Frost’s poem yourself. Don’t let echoes in my your heart break. memory: Follow the road “Two roads well-travelled. diverged in a Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. We feared that yellow wood God would not be And sorry I with us if we took Our failures are could not travel the wrong road. both…”

A God who creformative, our losses Unless we are ates us in freedom illuminating. to stagnate, we and love, a God who must choose beglories in the hutween the well-worn path and man choice, does not play that the road less travelled. At this way. We choose, and God works juncture, we are a mix of excite- with it. There are no dead ends ment and fear. We find ourselves because God wants our joy. God equally excited about something is with us, wherever we go. So new and fearful of failure, of be- there is no reason to be afraid, ing different. There are times as the Bible reminds us in some where we should follow the lead form at least 365 times. of others, yet, at times, we must We do not need to be afraid make our own way. because God writes straight Jesuit education helps us to dis- with crooked lines, creating cern such choices and liberates beauty out of our chaos. We do us from fear and distraction so not need to be afraid because that we can embrace the person God wastes nothing, because God calls us to be, and then walk our failures are formative, our accordingly. We learn to choose losses illuminating. They shape from the deepest sense of who we us, but they are not us. We are are. The Jesuit poet Gerard Man- not our failures, nor our sucley Hopkins put it best, “What I cesses. do is me: for that I came.”

What I do is me, for that I Technology and the pace of came — you are what you do, not modern life have slowly changed how someone reacts to or assessthis calculus. In the busyness of es what you do. The path you our lives — with constant elec- choose is yours, whether you tronic interruptions and to-do walk with others for some noble lists that never end — we fail to cause on well-trod ground, or carve out time to discern our you summon the courage in the deepest longings and most seri- face of fear and take Frost’s adous choices. We buy into the il- vice: lusion that our lives are straightforward functions, that certain Two roads diverged in a wood, inputs lead to certain outputs, and I — that we are always in control I took the one less travelled and that success and failure are by, our doing alone. Somewhere And that has made all the difalong the way, we changed the ference. equation: Not what I do is me, but what I achieve is me.

Fr. Kevin O’Brien is vice presiWe started to define ourselves dent of mission and ministry. This solely by external measures: is the last appearance of AS THIS money, honors, titles, occupa- JESUIT SEES IT... this semester.

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Clinton Talks Women in Security GU Fossil Free Meets With DeGioia MARGARET HEFTLER Hoya Staff Writer

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University President John J. DeGioia met with GU Fossil Free last Tuesday to discuss the fossil fuel divestment proposal and inform them that the Committee on Investments and Social Responsibility will vote on their proposal in January 2015.

The vote was originally scheduled to take place at the end of the academic year, but DeGioia met with CISR Chair and Associate Dean for Transnational Programs Jim Feinerman to encourage an earlier vote.

“CISR originally didn’t tell us a vote date when we met in October, but did indicate it would be in the distant future,” GU Fossil Free member Chloe Lazarus (COL ’16) wrote in an email. “We feel the change in the vote date has to do with the positive involvement of President DeGioia on our proposal and this environmental and moral issue.”

If CISR votes in favor of the proposal, it will be sent to the university’s board of directors for approval.

GU Fossil Free members hope to see the vote on the board’s agenda in February of 2015.

CISR is made up of 12 members: four students, three professors and five university administrators. The group votes on written proposals from Georgetown community members and makes recommendations on socially responsible investment to the university board of directors.

According to GU Fossil Free and CISR member Caroline James (COL ’16), who attended the meeting, DeGioia expressed support for the initiative.

“From DeGioia, I get the sense that he is very interested, very aware of both the urgency of the issue and also of it as it pertains to a nationwide issue among universities,” James said. “I think that he thinks it is very much the right thing to do.”

Lazarus said that DeGioia seemed interested and engaged during the meeting.

“We are very thankful to President DeGioia for taking the time to meet with us. We all share the same goals of environmental justice and combating climate change not only through initiatives on campus, but also in the larger movement,” Lazarus wrote in an email. “We appreciate the positive feedback we received from President DeGioia

about our proposal and campaign.”

However, James said that she expects CISR to vote against the proposal in January.

“What I predict will happen right now is that CISR will vote ‘no.’ I think out of cautiousness,” James said. “I think that it’s possible to say that [DeGioia] and CISR as a whole are very cautious of what divestment would do to the endowment and think that the better solution is inaction for now.”

The proposal calls for divestment from about 200 fossil fuel companies from the endowment, which make up approximately 8 to 10 percent of the fund. Since many of these companies are in mutual funds with Georgetown, the university would have to divest from entire funds, which would likely take out more than 8 to 10 percent of the total endowment investments.

“I think that [DeGioia] also is very much aware about his fiduciary responsibilities to the endowment,” James said.

DeGioia has averted several divestment attempts in the past.

When DeGioia was the dean of student affairs in 1986, a group of students organized prolonged demonstrations on the White Gravenor patio calling for the university to divest from businesses operating in apartheid-era South Africa. As there was no free speech policy, DeGioia called in police to forcibly disperse the protesters, resulting in 35 arrests. CISR was established in the aftermath of the apartheid divestment protests.

According to a statement released by DeGioia’s Chief of Staff Joe Ferrara (GRD ’96) after the meeting Tuesday, DeGioia acknowledged GU Fossil Free’s efforts in getting CISR to vote on the proposal.

“It was a great meeting. President DeGioia commended GU Fossil Free on their hard work on this issue,” Ferrara wrote. “He indicated that he was aware that GU Fossil Free had had an opportunity to engage with [CISR] and that this process was ongoing.”

Ferrara also said that DeGioia anticipates further productive discussions with GU Fossil Free, which will occur after the vote from CISR in January.

“One topic of conversation was the best and most appropriate way to engage with the board of directors on the topic of fossil fuels,” Ferrara added. “We are considering those options and look forward to those discussions.”

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security held a conference Wednesday morning in Gaston Hall on the inclusion of women in peacekeeping efforts, featuring former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Norwegian Minister of Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide.

Clinton opened the event, “Smart Power: Security Through Inclusive Leadership,” with an introduction of the conference goal, the creation of a National Action Plan Academy, which will discuss the action plans of individual countries regarding the role of women in peace and security. The academy is a joint effort by GIWPS, Inclusive Security and the Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings Initiative.

Clinton emphasized the importance of including female perspectives in decision-making on security and peacekeeping.

“We know that when women participate in the peace processes, often overlooked issues such as human rights, individual justice, national reconciliation, economic renewal are often brought to the forefront,” Clinton said.

Clinton also discussed the importance of women playing an active role in decision-making. According to Clinton, the use of “smart power,” which she defined as the collaboration between all partners in advancing peace and security, is essential in creating peace. “[Smart power means] leaving no one on the sidelines, showing respect even for one’s enemies, trying to understand and, insofar as is psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view, helping to define the problems, determine the solutions,” Clinton said.

But historically, few women have been included in peace and security issues. According to Clinton, out of hundreds of peace treaties that have been signed since the early 1990s, fewer than 10 percent had any female negotiators, and fewer than 3 percent had any female signatories. Clinton attributed the failure of these peace agreements to their lack of female participants.

“Is it any wonder that many of these agreements failed within a few years?

Legal and structural barriers still prevent women from participating in conflict resolution and peace processes,” Clinton said. “Cultural norms, real or imagined, create physical threats that prevent them from attaining a formal role. But these barriers are not insurmountable.”

After Clinton’s speech, Søreide spoke about the various human rights violations against women occurring in the world. Søreide emphasized the necessity of considering female perspectives in confronting these challenges. She

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Gaston Hall on Wednesday morning about the importance of female inclusion in security. also emphasized how better gender balance in the military not only promotes equality, but also increases effectiveness. “[It’s] not primarily about gender equality, it’s more specifically about capability and operational effectiveness,” Søreide said. “We will replace bias of inclusive security, being soft or women’s participation in armed forces as part of a gender quota. It is time that we get rid of that perception.”

After Clinton and Søreide’s speeches, a panel took the stage to answer questions, featuring U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations Deputy Military Adviser Adrian Foster, Special Representative of the NATO Secretary General for Women, Peace and Security Marriët Schuurman, Japan International Cooperation Agency President Akihiko Tanaka and retired Director of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Students Lieutenant General Daniel Leaf.

Foster said that including women could help to protect civilians in U.N. peacekeeping missions.

“We need to make the connection with females so that we understand what the threats are, where they’re coming from,” Foster said. “Imagine females in villages traumatized over a number of years by men wearing uniform. How can we make that connection if we have men wearing uniform but with a blue beret? It is very difficult.

That is why we are pushing very hard to increase the number of female peacekeepers.”

Lizzy Peet, an exchange student from Edinburgh studying at Georgetown for the year, said she found the event inspiring.

“I thought all of the speakers were very engaging and they presented a lot of creative ideas for how to solve the problems facing the world today,” Peet said. “I just feel a lot of hope for the fu-

ture.”

Renata Garcia (SFS ’17) said she also enjoyed the event, which fell during the last week of classes, but noted its unexpectedly low turnout. Gaston Hall only filled about halfway, with around 400 occupied seats.

“I know a lot of people had classes during that time ... Also, the thought of having to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to stand in line on a cold rainy day is discouraging,” Garcia said. “For some, it’s a ‘been there, done that’ kind of thing.”

The low attendance was picked up by a variety of media outlets after Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tweeted a photo of Gaston Hall’s empty seats.

“Secretary Clinton’s visits to Georgetown are always met with great enthusiasm here. She was here four weeks ago and students lined up overnight for that visit and we had to turn people away due to the interest,” University Spokesperson Stacy Kerr said in a statement to Business Insider.

“This is the last week of classes for the semester and many students are preparing for finals. Gaston Hall holds about 700 — the bottom holds about 400 and it was full for today’s visit.”

University Communications Officer for Arts and Sciences Maggie Moore said that the low turnout was expected because of to upcoming final exams.

“The first floor of Gaston was full for this event so I’m not sure why this is considered ‘particularly low,’” Moore wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “But as you know it’s the last week of classes for the semester and many students are preparing for finals.”

Clinton has spoken on campus two times this semester and four times since fall 2013. Gaston Hall filled to capacity at her three previous speaking events.

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Committee Investigates Student Employee Experience Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

Members of the university administration and the Georgetown University Student Association have collaborated to create the Student Employee Experience Committee, a group of students and administrators who will investigate the experiences of student employees to create a list of recommendations for improvements.

The committee, which will launch in January 2015 and release a report in late September, will consist of 14 to 18 members — including seven to eight selected students and about 10 administrators from different campus offices that work with student employees.

The creation of the SEEC stems from recent reports of concerns from student workers, which include allegations of sexual assault, mistreatment and negligence. The GUSA senate passed a bill Nov. 16 calling for the administration to investigate all claims of resident assistant mistreatment, and Tuesday a group of RAs presented a bill to the administration that calls for reform of the RA working experience to create more protection and transparency.

“We’ve been made aware of a set of concerns that students have raised and want to make sure that we are taking a thoughtful, institutional look at these issues and the status of all sorts of student employees at Georgetown,” Vice President for Student Affairs

Todd Olson said. “So, we are excited to be partnering with GUSA and with student leaders as administrators to do a thorough and comprehensive look at this set of issues.”

The committee will conduct oneon-one interviews, focus groups, surveys and other techniques to conduct a full investigation of the student worker experience on campus. According to Olson, the SEEC can guarantee anonymity and job security for student workers with whom they speak.

“We want to listen to and make sure we understand student experiences. We certainly want to learn about positive experiences as well, but of course we’re interested in looking at where there are areas that we might improve on, create more coherence, clarify or strengthen things where they need to be strengthened,” Olson said. “We’re committing to doing this in a way that’s transparent, in a way that is as comprehensive as we can be and a way that’s focused on solutions.”

Students on the SEEC will include members from GUSA and represent various groups of student workers. Office of the Student Worker Advocate Founding Director Julia Hubbell (COL ’15) started OSWA as part of GUSA in November to address the concerns of student workers. Hubbell said that the SEEC will create a necessary connection between students and administrators to bring about change.

“We [OSWA] spent a semester really

engaging with students, talking to them and really hearing about their day-to-day experiences,” Hubbell said.

“A lot of the time, when problems would come up, we had very little executive power or ability to change the experience or to work with the student. Obviously, that has to come to the university. What we’re really excited about is how the university is taking this seriously and is working with us and has formed a committee so quickly to help take these problems on.”

In the months before the SEEC releases its report, GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said that GUSA and the administration will work to enact certain changes more quickly.

“This in no way indicates that this is the only step that’s being taken to ensure that there’s the best employment experience for students,” Tezel said. “As the committee is working, through GUSA and through OSWA and other means, we’re going to continue to identify along the way the things that we can be doing right now in order to address, specifically, communications issues, clarification on student-worker rights and all that works on going in addition to the report and recommendations that will be released by this committee.”

Olson said that through the SEEC and rolling reforms, Georgetown can provide a more supportive and positive student-worker experience.

“What we want and what we, certainly, have always wanted — we just

Rabbi Voyeurism Prompts Lawsuit Against University Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writer

A Georgetown University Law Center student filed a lawsuit against Georgetown University on Tuesday, in response to the university’s employment of Rabbi Barry Freundel, who was arrested for voyeurism on Oct. 14.

Freundel, who faces six charges of voyeurism for recording devices in women’s private baths at the Kesher Israel Orthodox synagogue in Georgetown, is accused by the suit of luring the unnamed third-year law student to the bath. The suit names the rabbi, the synagogue and Georgetown University as defendants, charging Georgetown with improperly vetting the rabbi before hiring him.

Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh declined to comment on the litigation but expressed the university’s horror at the allegations against Freundel and its willingness

to respond to the situation.

“We are horrified by the behavior reported to have taken place at the mikvah,” Pugh wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The university is cooperating fully with law enforcement activities, as well as conducting our own investigation of Rabbi Freundel’s conduct.”

Freundel had served as an adjunct professor at the law center, teaching a course on Jewish law since the early 1990s. He last co-taught a seminar in the spring of 2014.

The lawsuit alleges that Georgetown “undertook no investigation into Freundel’s background prior to hiring him,” and aims to implicate the university in “willful blindness.”

Steven Silverman, the attorney who filed the suit, could not be reached for comment.

In addition to the lawsuit, Freundel faces six criminal charges of voyeurism to which he pled not guilty in October. Freundel will face a D.C. Superior Court hearing Jan. 16.

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The SEEC will address student guards and other employees’ concerns. need to renew our vows and take a fresh look at,” Olson said, “is for the experience of being a student employee and worker here at Georgetown is one that involves a sense of support, a sense of clarity about the role, an opportunity for learning and develop-

ing new skills and capabilities, a sense of feeling at home, feeling welcomed, feeling supported and respected in the work environment and a place that’s a positive part of the overall experience of being a Georgetown student.”

Leo’s Dishwashers Broken Tom Garzillo Hoya Staff Writer

In the six days leading up to Thanksgiving break, the staff at O’Donovan Hall were forced to serve food with paper and plastic utensils, plates, cups and bowls because of a breakdown of the dishwashers.

Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese attributed the breakdown to a malfunction in the dishwasher’s water level sensor.

“The water level sensor reached the end of its life and caused the dishwasher to shut down,” Wiese said.

Adam Shinbrot (COL ’18), a student member of the Georgetown University Student Association Dining Committee, said that the remaining dishwasher was not adequately heating the water to clean the dishes.

According to the D.C. Health Regulations and Licensing Administration, operating a dining establishment with a dishwasher that does not reach a high enough final rinse temperature is a critical health

code violation.

In 2009, an inspection of Epicurean & Co. found that they were in violation of this code.

Had the restaurant not immediately corrected the problem, it would have faced automatic closure.

Because both machines were out of service, Leo’s utilized a backup supply of paper and plastic utensils that is kept for emergencies.

Wiese did not specify the cost, but said that the repair of the dishwashers was inexpensive.

Paper and plastic dining supplies were taken from storage and did not cost Leo’s any additional money.

“We sourced the parts and the in-house engineer at Leo’s was able to repair the unit,” she said.

“The cost was minimal.”

The machines were fixed by the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, with Leo’s returning to standard operation on the same day.

A dishwasher normally lasts between 15 to 20 years. Wiese said that measures exist to prevent dishwasher malfunctions

from happening in the future.

“The sensors, like other parts on the machine, wear out with use,” Wiese said. “There is a preventative maintenance program in place, though it is hard to determine when these kinds of items will finally give out.”

Shinbrot said that while it was certainly an inconvenience, Leo’s staff did the best they could to accommodate the students.

“It would have been nicer to have it fixed sooner, absolutely,” Shinbrot said. “But Leo’s did the next best thing, and I think we should commend them for that.”

Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) noted the potentially harmful environmental impact of the dishwasher malfunction.

“I personally didn’t mind using disposable plates, but I wish they had chosen a more sustainable alternative than Styrofoam,” Goldstein said. “It’s unfortunate that the incident happened at such a busy time. … I’m sure Leo’s management was doing their best to get the dishwasher fixed as quickly as possible.”

New Congress Worries Adjuncts Maureen Tabet Hoya Staff Writer

After the November midterm elections left the Republican Party firmly in control of both the House and the Senate, the change in power could halt the unionization of adjunct professors around the country, despite a breakthrough year for union advocates in the District.

Following the unionization of adjunct professors at Georgetown University in 2013, at The George Washington University in 2006 and American University in 2010, Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia are currently negotiating their contracts with adjunct professors to improve their work experience, while professors are also organizing at the Catholic University of America and Trinity University of Washington.

To support the District-wide movement, union organizers working for the D.C. branch of the Services Employees International Union, SEIU Local 500, which represents 2,400 adjunct professors at universities in Maryland and D.C., including the professors at Georgetown, discussed plans this year to create a contract that encompasses all the universities in the District. If the plans come to fruition, Washington, D.C., would be the first city to have such an approach.

However, SEIU Vice President for Higher Education Kip Lornell, who is also an adjunct professor of music at GWU, said that the recent transition of power in Congress could hinder these efforts, due to the GOP’s general wariness of unions.

“I think the rhetoric will be that unions are costing jobs, unions are costing money,” he said.

Lornell predicted that progress around the country, particularly at public state schools, would stall in the future, par-

ticularly because of university funding cuts.

“I think probably that parttime faculty members at state schools are less likely to be unionized because what has happened at most state schools is the continued decrease in funding, which is why tuitions in state and out of state continue to go up and even though the parttime faculty there save universities money, there may be more of a cry for full-time faculty to teach more classes and not rehire parttime professors,” he said.

The issues surrounding adjunct professors received increased national attention this year when Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) introduced a bill earlier this year to assist adjuncts with loan forgiveness plans. While Republican control of Congress will likely lead to little movement on such measures, Lornell did not anticipate that Congress would directly target adjunct professors.

“I don’t think adjuncts are looking toward Congress, I think the idea there would be to just leave us alone to unionize as we are able to do by law and I really don’t see Congress meddling in that change at all,” Lornell said.

Despite cries for federal support of the adjunct unionization movement and Durbin’s bill, Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president for government relations and public affairs for the American Council on Education, released a statement earlier this week opposing such intervention in the relationship between universities and adjunct professors.

“Colleges — like all employers — are already subject to extensive labor law regarding the treatment of employees, and I doubt that new federal regulations focused specifically on adjunct faculty are necessary or desirable,” he wrote.

SEIU Political Director Anne

McLeer disagreed, stating that government intervention could help facilitate change.

“I am all for the government being more involved in how colleges are run and I think that the government, not that this is going to happen, should look at where people’s tuition dollars are being spent because they’re not being spent on instruction.

They’re being spent on executive salaries, bloated administrations,” she said.

Lornell added that universities save money by hiring parttime professors. According to the 2013-14 American Association of University Professors survey, the average salary of an assistant professor at Georgetown is $101,200, compared to $177,900 for full professors.

In spite of the bleak outlook for the future of unionization, adjunct professors have won victories, such as the success of adjunct professors at Georgetown in negotiating a contract with the university. The experience sets Georgetown apart from other Jesuit institutions that object to the unionization of adjuncts based on a religious exemption to the National Labor Relations Board.

“I think a significant accomplishment was our ratification of a contract at Georgetown,” McLeer said. “Georgetown stands out as a model for collaboration with their faculty for, first of all, not opposing the organizing to begin with and in collaboration with the adjuncts, negotiating a really good contract.”

Lornell also praised the high salaries of Georgetown adjunct professors.

While Georgetown assistant professors earn $101,200 on average, the average salary at GWU was $87,500.

“You can be sure that Georgetown salaries are level one AAUP salaries — that is the top level for salaries for full-time faculty,” he said.

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Demonstrations Sweep DC Obama Addresses FERGUSON, from A1 GU Women of Color and a member of the GU Black Leadership Forum, said that the Week of Action, which was inspired by demonstrations happening nationwide since August, was intended as a means to continue the conversation about race and justice on campus.

“We are ultimately hoping to encourage both campus-wide dialogue and compassion for each other,” Davis wrote in an email.

“Many members of our campus community need a time to talk, a time to engage in open discourse with one another. We needed a time to conceptualize the gravity of the situation in Ferguson and the hundreds like it, and a time to heal.”

Davis said that the events this week were planned to open up a safe space on campus to talk about the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in August and other issues of race across the country.

Coinciding with the Week of Action was the decision of a Staten Island grand jury on Thursday not to indict a white New York police officer in the death by chokehold of 43-year-old Eric Garner, which incited further protests around the country and in the District.

“All of the events were planned with the intention to create a safe space on campus to talk about the incredibly heartbreaking and traumatizing events taking place in our country. The killing of Mike Brown is not an isolated incident. There are Mike Browns in all of our states and in many of our cities,” Davis wrote. “With them and the hundreds of others in mind, we wanted to plan these events to finally give people the space to talk with an open heart and mind and to think actively about how we can help salvage our communities all across the country.”

Despite the high levels of participation in the Week of Action, BLF members faced opposition as well. A collage including photos of people killed by police violence and law enforcement statistics, which was hung in Red Square on Monday, was torn down on Wednesday around 5 p.m. After being reposted, the collage was again torn down.

“Following the candlelight vigil on Wednesday night, over 50 students gathered in Red Square on Wednesday night to hang up

the poster in solidarity for a third time,” Esther Owolabi (COL ’15), a member of the BLF and a convener of the Patrick Healy Fellowship, said. “There is no camera footage of the perpetrators.”

History professor Marcia Chatelain, who started the Twitter hashtag #FergusonSyllabus and has been active in campus conversation on the issue, underlined the importance of reflecting on and learning from the issues raised by Ferguson.

“As people on the ground in Ferguson are being tear gassed and their rights not respected, the least we can do at a college campus is learn and grow together in learning about the political and social contexts that have created Ferguson,” she wrote in an email.

The week of discussion on campus follows a series of protests in the District immediately after the grand jury decision, organized without central planning and largely through social media under the hashtag #DCFerguson, aided by multiple city coalitions including Hands Up Coalition D.C. and One D.C. Among the protests was a “Boycott Georgetown” march on Saturday in which protesters marched up M Street from the Foggy Bottom Metro station.

Crystal Walker (SFS ’16), who traveled with a delegation of Georgetown students to Ferguson in October, ran into the protest on her return to campus this weekend and recognized organizers from her trip to Ferguson.

“It was great to just be there and — I haven’t been able to go to anything since then — but it was really great to see them there and follow on social media what the different coalitions and groups are doing, because it kind of shows the solidarity that what happened in Ferguson is not just a Ferguson problem. It’s an American problem,” she said.

The Georgetown protest follows previous marches outside the White House on Nov. 24 and at Mount Vernon Square on Nov. 25, both of which were attended

by Georgetown students.

In addition to the Week of Action and the off-campus protests, Georgetown students and faculty have engaged in discussions on campus throughout the semester in an attempt to address race, the law and police brutality, including a vigil and panel in August.

Ferrill expressed gratitude for the

administration’s response to promote open dialogue.

“The faculty is doing a great job, but even the administration, [said] a few words on post-nonindictment. [University President John J. DeGioia] — he supported us at the vigil and that was really important and we want to continue the administration’s involvement in these issues because they affect the larger community here at Georgetown,” Ferrill said.

The university has not released a statement on the event, though the Law Center hosted a panel on Wednesday reflecting on the grand jury decision, featuring Chatelain and former federal professor and current law professor Paul Butler. Additionally, sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson, who drew attention for his debate with Rudy Giuliani on “Meet the Press” in advance of the grand jury decision, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times.

Center for Multicultural Equity and Access Director Charlene Brown-McKenzie noted that the role of administrators was primarily in the background, supporting the reflection of students.

“Our focus is supporting students as they react and respond on how the events in Ferguson challenges us to examine social justices issues,” Brown-McKenzie wrote in an email.

The BLF also held a silent demonstration in Red Square on Nov. 25 in protest of the jury’s decision, and the BLF co-hosted a discussion panel with the Center for Social Justice and the Program for Justice and Peace reflecting on the “Weekend of Resistance” in Ferguson, after 17 Georgetown students travelled to Ferguson for the weekend to participate in the protests in October.

Davis said that the events of the Week of Action, while similar to previous events on Ferguson, will focus more on action-based demonstrations. She did not comment about what the future of the movement would hold.

“In many ways, these events are all similar in that they have combined the efforts of both students and administrators,” Davis wrote.

“These conversations appealed more to the emotional gravity of the situation and help us begin campus conversations on race. As the name implies, this week will involve more action, in addition to a time to reflect.”

Education at Summit EDUCATION, from A1 sis,” he said.

Obama stressed restoring equality to the education system as the solution to combat these divisions.

“As a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have equal opportunity to succeed, no matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it,” he said.

Economic Impacts of Higher Education All speakers emphasized how higher education affects the nation and specifically results in a stronger economy.

Biden highlighted the 1944 GI Bill as the turning point in equalizing American education, ushering in the most educated generation of workers in the world for its time.

Obama elaborated on this 20th-century success of American education, urging the participants at the summit to search for ways to bring the nation back to this glory by maintaining an emphasis on skilled, high-wage jobs filled by educated workers.

“The skills of our people, the investments we made in human capital -- We were ahead of the curve,” he said. “If we make sure they remain the best educated generation in American history, there’s no limit to what they can achieve. There’s no limit to what this country can achieve.”

In light of his executive order issued Nov. 20, Obama referenced his immigration policy to attract skilled professionals to the United States, drawing extended applause from the auditorium.

“The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out rather than to make sure that they’re staying here and contributing to society,” he said.

Supporting College Students To reap the economic benefits of education, the day emphasized the need to support college students toward graduation. Obama pointed out that students who fail to complete their degree are left with an added burden of debt, but without the skills necessary for a higher-wage job.

“If they’re simply enrolling and not graduating, if they’re enrolling and not getting the skills that they need, then we’re not delivering on our promise,” he said.

During the first discussion of the day, panelists brainstormed initiatives to change campus culture in order to encourage students to remain enrolled.

Arizona State University President Michael Crow noted the need to pay special attention to science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors who often drop after introductory courses. He said a re-evaluation of

one required physics course resulted in a 40 percent reduction in students dropping the major from fall 2012 to spring 2013.

Increasing College Accessibility The final broad theme of the day was a critical look at increasing accessibility for low-income and first-generation high school students. Speakers emphasized that a change in higher education stems from fundamental improvements in primary and high school learning.

Muñoz said this change must span the entire life of the student. “[The approach is] really zero to 16 [years old] if we’re going to be successful and reach the kind of scale we’re talking about,” she said.

Michelle Obama’s speech focused on her Reach Higher Initiative, which aims to further the education of college counselors helping high school students through the admissions process. With a national average of one counselor per 471 students, many students lack the attention they need to get to college.

The first lady described this process as two divided worlds. The first, she said, is full of kids who lack the resources to be competitive in the college process, suffering from misinformation about topics such as the SAT or ACT, how to apply for financial aid or even where to look. The second is a narrower world of students who have all of these resources readily available.

“The fact is that right now, a small number of students are getting every advantage in the college admissions race while millions of other students who are just as talented can’t even begin to compete,” she said.

Biden echoed the stratification of high school students in the admissions process.

“I’m worried that we may end up with a two-tiered college system,” he said. “The most elite universities are limited to those who are truly exceptional intellectually and regardless of income are able to get scholarships to go or have significant resources.”

As part of her Reach Higher Initiative, the first lady announced a challenge to university campuses in her speech to send her videos of how they are targeting recruitment of lower-income, first-generation students. She agreed to speak at the commencements of schools with her favorite submissions.

She concluded her call for innovations in the college admissions process by reiterating the national benefits that could be gained from a more educated young population.

“We are depriving ourselves of so much human potential in this country,” the first lady said. “From the scientific discoveries these kids might make to the businesses that they might build to the leadership that they one day might show in all of our communities — we’re missing all of that.”

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New Buildings Considered for Master Plan ADDITIONS, from A1 Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson stressed that no decisions have been made and that Planning 301 was an opportunity for representatives to provide feedback.

“I will note that no decisions have been made — these are concepts that are being explored for the long term,” Olson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The planning presentation last Thursday was an early opportunity for members of the university community, including students, to see these ideas and share feedback.”

Morey also said that students saw the construction as opportunities for better apartments.

“These ideas have been well-received by the students,” Morey said. “Students recognize that we do need more apartment-style complex, high-quality apartments. Certainly this should be one of them.”

Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) helped develop the 20-year plan with the GCP, as the student body’s representative

to the organization. Tezel suggested that the neighborhood community likely had an influence on the dorm project and pointed to the partnership’s efforts in these negotiations.

“The neighborhood community does have an interest in ensuring [that] students are housed on campus,” Tezel said.

“We as the Georgetown Community Partnership hoped that our proposed project based on our main campus finances will convince neighborhood leaders that the university needs much stability and not deadlines in terms of building new dorms.”

However, Tezel said that the administration should prioritize dorm maintenance projects rather than starting new construction.

“From what I experienced from students, the administrators should prioritize the maintenance projects before building new buildings, whether dorms or academic buildings, on campus,” Tezel said. “For instance, projects like renovating Henle dorms or improving the elevators. These are all projects that the university needs to take on first. New buildings are always nice, but if we are

Hoya Transitions to New Term’s Staff Toby Hung

Hoya Staff Writer

The Hoya has transitioned to a new editorial and publishing staff for spring 2015. The new staff, who began their terms Nov. 22, after selections on Nov. 15, 16 and 20, produced their first print issue today.

Former executive editor Mallika Sen (SFS ’16) begins a yearlong term as the 141st editor-in-chief of The Hoya, taking over from Emma Hinchliffe (COL ’15).

Carolyn Maguire (COL ’16), who served as sports editor last spring, is now executive editor.

“As a former sports editor, I did not follow the traditional executive editor trajectory. But I believe this is one of my greatest strengths. I am excited to bring my unique background to the position,” Maguire said.

Former two-term photography editor Alexander Brown (COL ’16), will serve as managing editor once he returns from abroad. In the mean-

time, fall 2014 managing editor Robert DePaolo (COL ’16) will serve as interim managing editor.

Former Guide Editor Jess Kelham-Hohler (COL ’17) has become The Hoya’s fourth online editor, taking the mantle from Ian Tice (COL ’16).

“One of the great things about working on The Guide was having the opportunity to develop new ideas. The Hoya’s online platform is still evolving and I’m excited to be a part of that process,” KelhamHohler said.

On the publishing side, former Director of Sales Brian Carden (MSB ’16) takes over for a yearlong term as General Manager, following Michal Grabias (MSB ’15).

“I look forward to maximizing The Hoya’s capabilities as a business and engaging with the campus community and beyond,” Carden said.

Chair of the Board of Directors Sheena Karkal (COL ’15) will continue to serve her yearlong term, which concludes in April.

not fixing something we currently have, that’s a problem.”

Although Morey admitted the possible inconvenience brought by construction, he said that construction will bring about a better future for the university.

Currently, the university is constructing the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall, renovating the former Jesuit Residence to convert it into a residential space and working on small renovations of existing residential areas, including the Leavey Center hotel.

“It’s painful to go through construction,” Morey said. “But the university has been here 200-plus years. While it is painful to go through construction and I do recognize that the time frame is a short four years. But it will be a better place after construction. … If we wouldn’t allow construction, we wouldn’t have what we have now on the Hilltop.”

Morey said that he expected oppositions to the plans, but pointed to a series of student-engagement opportunities provided by Master Planning, including asking students to propose ideas and holding forums such as Planning 301.

“Planning is hard work. I suspect that

there will be oppositions to some planning factors,” Morey said. “But we have a core set of principles. … Everybody has their opinions, thoughts and objectives.

I think it’s our job that we set up the campus for the future of the university and make a sustainable effort.”

Lydia Brown (COL ’15), a student who attended Planning 301, said she was disheartened that the plan was approved without student input.

“It is incredibly disappointing but not at all surprising that students have not been consulted at all about these planned changes to the campus landscape and available spaces,” Brown said. “This announcement, presented as a given, should be a major point of contention. It seems that the administration presented this information quietly, hoping that more students would not notice.”

In the past, construction projects have been affected by student opinion. The construction of a satellite campus, which was a part of the 2010 campus plan, was squashed after more than 93 percent of voters expressed opposition to it in a student body-wide referendum in September 2013. In addition, student concern

about lack of green space on campus led Northeast Triangle architects Sasaki Associates to incorporate greenery onto the building’s rooftop.

Kathleen Osea (NHS ’16) said that she is disappointed that the university is constructing over minimal available green spaces.

“It seems like they want to build essentially where anything green is,” Osea said. “We already don’t have green space, and we’re losing some in the Northeast Triangle. This is cutting out the green space even more. They’re trying to fit even more things on an already small campus. I think we already have enough classrooms.”

Rio Dijwandana (SFS ’16) said that he believes the new buildings could overcrowd campus.

“It would be an adjustment, but I don’t know if it would be a bad or good one. The campus will definitely feel more crowded with so much less space,” Dijwandana said. “I don’t know why we need any more buildings; why can’t we just improve the ones we already have?

I don’t think we’re necessarily running out of classrooms, either.”

SFS Dean Committee Begins Review DEAN, from A1 According to a Leadership Profile put out

by Witt/Kieffer, the recruiting and consulting firm managing the search, applicants submitted their applications by Nov. 20. Witt/ Kieffer declined to comment on the search process.

Interim SFS Dean James Reardon-Anderson temporarily took over the deanship in November 2013 after former Carol Lancaster was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Lancaster, who died Oct. 22 at the age of 72, formally submitted her resignation in April. Lancaster’s original term would have been set to expire in summer 2015, and, before her illness, she had stated that she would not seek to renew her contract, desiring a return to academia.

While the search for a permanent dean continues, Reardon-Anderson said that he has been running the day-to-day operations of the SFS, such as fundraising and balancing budgets. He has also begun to prepare staff for changes the new dean may make.

“With respect to serving as interim dean, my strategy is twofold,” Reardon-Anderson said. “One is to keep the operation of the school going at the highest possible level … and then secondly to prepare the school in the best possible shape for the new dean, whoever that person might be.”

Although Lancaster previously served as interim dean, replacing Robert Gallucci, before being named permanent dean, Reardon-Anderson declined to comment as to whether

he is being considered for the deanship on grounds of confidentiality. Previously Reardon-Anderson served as the first dean of the SFS campus in Qatar, from 2005 to 2009.

Provost Robert Groves said that the university hopes to announce the Executive Search Committee’s choice for dean by the end of spring semester, which would allow the new dean to begin by July 1, 2015.

“There is a period of confidentiality in part because not everyone who is applying for the position would like it to be widely known that they’re applying,” Reardon-Anderson said. “Almost all of these people are currently in other jobs. They may not want to reveal at this point that they’re looking elsewhere.”

During the last SFS dean search five years ago, Josh Rogin, a reporter for Foreign Policy, broke a story that James Steinberg, the thendeputy secretary of state under Hillary Clinton was being considered for the post. Since then, Stent said confidentiality is of the utmost priority.

“We don’t want any more articles in Foreign Policy magazine. We don’t want Josh Rogin to break another story like he did last time,” Stent said during the Nov. 24 meeting.

Students at the meeting with Stent said that they wanted to see a dean who could combine public sector experience with experience in education. Faculty members have also said that such dual-world experience is invaluable.

“In the past the deanship of the SFS has always looked for people who have both academic and public affairs experience,” Rear-

don-Anderson said.

SFS Academic Council President Megan Murday (SFS ’15) echoed the hope that the new dean will be someone with a wide range of experience.

“We need a visionary — someone who really has an idea of where the school has been and where it can go in the future,” Murday said. “And we also need someone who has that dynamic background of academia, of experience in the field, so that they can bring the tools of the public and private sector into academia to really build a unique institution.”

Groves said that in addition to someone with a wealth of experience, he hopes to see a dean who is open to collaboration with other academic institutions.

“The world has changed,” Groves said.

“There are opportunities to collaborate with other schools at Georgetown in new ways to bring inter-disciplinary programs to the fore. … We need a leader who is attuned to the faculty interests and abilities but also has an eye on initiatives that make the school even stronger than it is now.”

Whoever is selected as the next dean of the SFS will serve at a pivotal time for the school, which will celebrate its 100-year anniversary in 2019.

“The School of Foreign Service is one of the jewels and the crown of Georgetown,” Groves said. “It will, under the dean, celebrate its 100th anniversary. So it’s an interesting historical moment for the school. At the very least, we want to maintain the core strengths of the school.”

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Hoyas Reflect on Season NHL Reacts Swiftly to CHRIS BALTHAZARD Hoya Staff Writer

For Georgetown women’s soccer team, its wild 4-3 loss to No. 14 Virginia Tech (15-6-0, 5-5-0 ACC) in the second round of the NCAA championship marked a disappointing end to the season. However, the Hoyas (11-5-6, 6-1-2 Big East) had a tremendous run, despite losing six seniors who were vital to the team during the 2013 season.

At the outset of their season, the Hoyas set out to win the Big East tournament and reach the third round of the NCAA tournament — both things they have come painfully close to accomplishing in prior seasons. Although the team was not able to realize their loftiest goals for the year, Georgetown saw several high points to the season, including an 8-0 demolition of Seton Hall (13-10-5, 0-6-3 Big East), a penalty-kick upset of No.7 West Virginia (162-4, 7-0-1 Big 12) in the NCAA tournament and multiple late, exciting match-winning goals.

Senior midfielder Daphne Corboz led the team in her final season as a Hoya. A twotime All-American who was named one of 16 Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) Hermann Trophy semifinalists, an honor bestowed on the best collegiate soccer players in the country, Corboz spurred the team to improve over the course of the season.

“In preseason, we really did not know what to expect,” Corboz said. “I think it was great that players, such as [sophomore midfielder] Emily Morgan and the freshman class, played very well for us.

We improved a lot over the course of the season, and that is always a goal of ours.”

“parking the bus,” or putting 10 players behind the ball for the sole purpose of preventing the Hoyas from scoring.

“This year, we had a lot of teams in the Big East that sat in against us and made it very difficult for us to play, so I think we need to improve in dealing with those situations by playing our style of play and coming at them from the start,” Corboz said. “There were a lot of younger players playing this year so I hoped they gained a lot of experience from games.”

The Hoyas were ranked as the 20th best team in the country in the beginning of the year, but a weekend of disappointing results, including a 6-1 loss to Virginia Tech and a 2-0 loss to an unranked Wake Forest team (5-9-3, 3-5-2 ACC), dropped them from the rankings.

Despite some underwhelming regular-season matches, Nolan took heart in the team’s growth as playoff season approached.

“We started to play our best at the end of the season,” Nolan said. “In the Big East tournament, even though we were unlucky to lose to DePaul, and in the NCAA tournament, we showed an improvement, and that was good to see.”

Corboz, reflecting on her years spent at Georgetown, saw her development as a player and as a person.

“It’s college, so I think everyone grows up, but Georgetown has surrounded me with such smart, inspiring people that have really helped me develop and become a better and more well-rounded person in these last four years,” Corboz said. “Choosing to go to Georgetown was the best decision of my life.”

Corboz leaves the Hilltop as Georgetown’s all-time leader in points and goals. She set the single-season Georgetown assist record this season with 18 assists, a tie for the third best record in the country.

Head Coach Dave Nolan knows that Georgetown will struggle to replace Corboz, but he remains optimistic about the team’s future. “[Corboz is] a winner, and she’s a competitor,” Nolan said. “And I think her personality forces people to raise their game. She’s going to be very difficult to replace, obviously, but we were in this situation four year ago when people thought we’d never replace Ingrid [Wells] (COL ‘11). ... When Ingrid left, we were in a better place when she left than when she got here, and I think Daphne has done the same thing.”

Nolan’s expectations appear to be well founded, considering the success that the newest players achieved in their first seasons on the team.

Freshmen defenders Drew Topor and Liz Wenger and midfielders Taylor Pak and Rachel Corboz stepped up to replace the outgoing seniors and did an admirable job.

“We knew coming into the season that it was essentially a new team from last year,” Nolan said. “In number and the quality of kids we had to replace from last year, we had a lot of question marks, and we needed people to step up and step in … The biggest thing for me was that we managed to have a similar level of success as we had managed over the past few years, with basically a new lineup.”

A tactical issue the Hoyas occasionally struggled with was the prevalence of opponents

Domestic Violence Charge O

n Oct. 20, the NHL indefinitely sus- under criminal investigation, the NHL and pended Los Angeles Kings defenseman Colorado Avalanche decided not to take action Slava Voynov after he was arrested on and Varlamov finished the season for the Avaa domestic violence charge. The NHL’s decisive lanche. action comes in the wake of criticism over the The Varlamov incident did not provoke sigNFL’s mismanagement of domestic violence is- nificant criticism. However, public outcry over sues. the Rice incident made domestic violence a NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell came un- serious issue in professional sports. Voynov’s der fire recently for his irresolute response to the arrest and immediate suspension were in the domestic violence allegations against Baltimore wake of the NFL’s domestic abuse issues, indicaRavens running back Ray Rice. In July, Goodell tive of a shift toward a no-tolerance attitude. was criticized for suspending Rice for only two When addressing Voynov’s suspension, NHL games. A month later, Goodell admitted he Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly acknowledged was wrong and announced a new dothe NFL’s actions and the changing mestic violence policy for climate surrounding dothe NFL involving heftier mestic abuse issues. Howsuspensions. Soon after, a ever, Daly stressed that video showing Rice strikthe Voynov and Varlamov ing his fiancee in an elincidents were starkly difevator instigated another ferent, as Varlamov was round of criticism toward ultimately not charged Goodell, and the NFL inwith a felony. Still, the definitely suspensended NHL’s inaction immediDaniel Litke for Rice. While Goodell deately following Varlamov’s nied seeing the video priarrest contrasts with its or to its public release, the of Voynov’s case.

The NHL properly handled handling Associated Press reported While the NHL waits that the NFL received the the Voynov domestic abuse on a ruling in Voynov’s video in April. case, the NFL continues allegations.

The NHL’s response to to deal with Rice. Rice Voynov produced far less appealed his indefinite controversy than the NFL’s flurry of domestic suspension to an arbitrator in September, and violence issues. The NHL showed no hesitation on Nov. 28, it was announced that he had won and announced Voynov’s indefinite suspen- the appeal. He is now eligible to sign with any sion immediately after his arrest. On Nov. 20, it NFL team and resume play. Judge Barbara S. was announced that Voynov would be charged Jones, a former federal judge, ruled in favor with one felony count of corporal injury to a of Rice because of Goodell’s inconsistency and spouse with great bodily injury. The NHL’s sus- lack of transparency. In her ruling, Judge Jones pension remains active as a result. further stated that the suspension would have Moreover, the NHL has not wavered in its de- been harder to overturn if Goodell had issued cision. It has strictly adhered to the conditions an indefinite suspension from the start. of Voynov’s suspension. On Tuesday, Voynov A new precedent has begun to take shape was seen practicing with the Los Angeles Kings in professional sports with regard to manag— a violation of the suspension that bans him ing domestic violence issues. While the NFL from participating in team functions. The NHL certainly provided the NHL with an example subsequently fined the Kings $100,000. of how not to handle domestic violence issues, The NHL was not so decisive a year ago under the NHL’s decisiveness has put the league in far a different climate. On Oct. 30, 2013, Colorado better position to handle the Voynov case going Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov was forward. arrested for domestic violence charges. While the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement al- Daniel Litke is a senior in the College. This is the lows the league to suspend players who are last appearance of CAPITALS HILL this semester.

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Mavs’ Depth Poses Threat Undefeated Princeton FIEGE, from A10 Their assist-to-turnover ratio and average steals per game both rank in the top ten teams of the league, although they rank among the lowest in the league in average blocks per game. This shows that the Grizzlies achieve their defensive dominance by taking care of the basketball and valuing every possession, as shown by the pace of their offense, which is the fifth-slowest in the league.

What has elevated the Grizzlies this season to their 15-3 record, however, has been their ability to succeed on the offensive end. With Courtney Lee and Conley each sinking three threepointers per game, the Grizzlies have been able to spread the floor, giving Gasol and Zach Randolph more room to work in the post.

On the other hand, there is the Dallas Mavericks. With a roster that has eight players over thirty years old, they were hardly expected to be as successful as they have been. From a statistical point of view, the Mavericks rank among the best in the league in several categories: top three in ef-

fective field goal percentage, top ten in offensive pace and number one in assist-to-turnover ratio, all of which contribute to their league-best scoring average of 110 points per game.

While free-agent acquisition Chandler Parsons has struggled, other players are enjoying career-revitalizing seasons. Tyson Chandler has become a doubledouble machine, averaging 10 points and 11 rebounds to go with his 1.5 blocks per game, while Jameer Nelson and Devin Harris are having career seasons in terms of efficiency.

The team has been held afloat by a timeless Dirk Nowitzki and a rebranded Monta Ellis––the OG Splash Brother––who have combined to score 41 points per game. Ellis has proven to be especially clutch in late-game situations so far, scoring 30 points or more in four games in just a month and a half. Having earned close wins in a few overtime thrillers, the Mavericks now boast a 14-5 record.

It is natural to wonder which of these teams will continue their success throughout the rest of the season. My best bet would be that the Dallas Mavericks keep

up their high-octane offense and remain in contention for a top three seed in the Western conference.

The Grizzlies lack depth and have very few bench players, outside of Vince Carter and Tayshaun Prince, who can make much of an impact. If one of their stars gets injured, their prospects would be grim; Jon Leuer and Kostas Koufos could hardly compensate for either Gasol’s or Randolph’s scoring, while Beno Udrih and Quincy Pondexter lack the quickness and sharpshooting ability of Conley and Lee. The Mavericks are far deeper, with a cast of Raymond Felton, J.J. Barea, Devin Harris, Jay Crowder, Al-Farouq Aminu and Brandan Wright coming off the bench as a second platoon.

Barring any major injuries, the Mavericks should be able to continue their momentum with a roster that outclasses much of the rest of the Western Conference.

Max Fiege is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service. This is the last appearance of OUT OF OUR LEAGUE this semester.

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GU Impresses in 1st Meet NAVY, from A10 pleased with two other freshmen: Jasmine Robinson, who ran very well for her first 500 ever and came back and ran the fastest split for us on the 4x400 and … Jody-Ann Knight had a great start in the 200.”

Junior Samantha Nadel finished fourth overall (3:00.23) in the 1000m event, with sophomore Stefanie Kurgatt and senior Kristen Walsh following her with times of 3:01.35 and 3:02.16, respectively. Sophomore Sabrina Southerland finished first in the mile with a time of 4:59.21. Junior Heather Martin finished second (4:59.57), and freshman Autumn Eastman finished third (5:02.66).

Robinson and sophomore Ebony McKeever placed high in the 500m dash: Robinson finished fifth with a time of 1:19.18, while McKeever finished seventh with a time of 1:19.97.

While the Blue and Gray certainly found success in

the meet, its main priority was to transition from the cross-country season to the indoor-track season and introduce athletes who did not compete earlier in the year.

“The approach to the meet was to give our athletes who didn’t get a chance to race at the end of the cross-country season something to look forward to [and] also to get the first meet out of the way,” Henner said. “Our sprinters and jumpers hadn’t competed all fall, so it was a chance for them to get out there and get a sense of the situation.”

While the team seemed to transition easily into the second portion of the season, the quick turnaround from the end of cross-country does present a challenge.

“It’s a little more difficult for the coaches, actually — we just finished a great crosscountry season,” Henner said. “You want a little bit of a mental break, but it’s fun — we had a lot of fun. It was good for our athletes to get out there.”

Come January, the meets will become more formal, and larger majorities of the Georgetown cross-country and track program will participate. Distance runners who raced during cross-country are still resting, but they will begin to partake in the races later on in the season.

“Most of our athletes who ran in the full cross-country season, and especially those who ran in the NCAA championships, are still resting right now, and they won’t come back until January,” Henner said.

Henner noted that at this point in the season, it is more important to introduce runners who have not participated in formal competition thus far.

“It was time for them to get back out on the track and start racing,” he explained.

This was the Hoyas’ last meet of the calendar year.

Their next meet will not be until Jan. 10 at the Father Diamond Invitational in Fairfax, Va.

Presents Next Challenge FLORIDA, from A10 on, Georgetown fell behind early as Holy Cross raced to a 17-7 lead.

Despite a rough start and a 36-29 halftime deficit, the Hoyas were still within striking distance. After a run sparked by sophomore forward Faith Woodard, the Hoyas battled to pull themselves within one point of the Crusaders, 65-64, with only three minutes left in regulation. However, Holy Cross managed to hold on for a 73-69 victory after Georgetown missed a couple of shots.

The team’s juniors led the way for the Hoyas against their Patriot League challengers. Guard Katie McCormick went 7-of-11 from the field to lead all scorers with 19 points, while forward Dominique Vitalis pulled down a team-high 14 rebounds. Forward Logan Battle also added 13 points and eight rebounds to the Hoyas’ effort.

“There’s just a lot of stuff we have to work on defensively. I think we have a lot of trouble meshing still because we’re a very young team. There are a lot of adjustments that need to be made, but we’re excited,” Vitalis said. “We don’t take [these games] lightly, we just keep working.”

The Hoyas are already putting the losses behind them as they look forward to playing Princeton (7-0) on Saturday. The Tigers are the only Ivy League team with an unbeaten nonconference record and will look to defend their home court against the Hoyas.

Despite the challenge that Princeton poses, Georgetown is far from intimidated.

“I’m excited. I’m ready to play them,” Vitalis said. “Because they haven’t lost a game, it just fuels me even more, and it’s fueling the team. I

think this week is going to be crucial in preparing for them, and I think we’re really ready to go.”

For Adair, the key to winning the game is a strong defense.

“Princeton runs that motion offense. They cut; they move,” Adair said. “It’s going to come down to what we do defensively, what stops we get and just making sure they don’t get to run and execute without being contested or contained.”

This game will be another test for a young Georgetown team that features five freshmen and no seniors. Adair sees the team’s nonconference schedule as a way to prepare an inexperienced team for tough Big East play.

“The fact that we are fighting this hard and competing this hard against tough opponents that have had the experience and the time to gel together is making us a better team,” Adair said.

Despite disappointing results so far, the Hoyas continue to show signs of improvement.

They are playing tough opponents and putting together solid runs, even when they fall behind their opponents in scoring.

The next step for the team is to move past the disadvantage of inexperience, which it hopes to achieve through teamwork.

“I learned that they are a family, and that they really want to be successful as just one unit,” Adair said. “There’s no individual — they put the team before themselves. Teams like that will find a way, teams like that won’t go astray.”

In the Hoyas’ eyes, it is only a matter of time before the team starts to gel and reach its potential as a group. The Hoyas will have the chance to see if that time has come when they play Princeton in Princeton, N.J., at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

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Promising Season Will Kick Off at Navy Hoyas Look Elizabeth Cavacos Hoya Staff Writer

This weekend, the Georgetown men’s track and field team will begin its indoor season at the Navy Invitational in Annapolis, Md. Georgetown is no stranger to the Navy Invitational, which is a perennial season opener for the track and field program, but a dynamic mix of returning leadership and impressive underclassman talent promises an especially strong start to the 2014-2015 season.

After an intense fall training regimen, Saturday will mark the Hoyas’ first opportunity to line up against other competitors, including host Navy, American, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Bowie State. However, Director of Track and Field Patrick Henner is more concerned about how Georgetown’s results will dictate its next month of practice than how the team will compare to its competition.

“We’re not too worried about the outcomes, the times on the watch or the distance on the tape measure,” Henner said. “We’re more concerned with execution and effort. It’s the first meet of the year, so we need to be focused on executing our race plans and race patterns. As long as we do that, and if we keep training [well] over Christmas break … then we’re going to end up with some really fast

times.”

Although the season is just beginning, Georgetown will not have another meet until January. December will provide ample time for the Hoyas to build off of this weekend’s results, which Henner anticipates will be impressive based on what he’s seen from the team thus far.

Georgetown has a solid base of returning athletes, including senior Tyler Smith, who should continue to be a reliable contributor during short sprinting events. Smith has made appearances in events at the 2012 and 2013 Big East Outdoor Championships, running a personal best of 10.79 in the 100-meter event at the 2012 preliminaries.

“Tyler is so much more fit than he’s ever been,” Henner said. “He’s been working really hard in the weight room. I’m very excited about what he can do.”

Henner said that senior Richard D’Ambrosio has also been training well this past fall. His presence on the team will provide dependable senior talent for the Hoyas in jumps and hurdles. D’Ambrosio currently holds the 24th-best performance in Georgetown history in the long jump with a personal record of 6.65 meters and the 22nd-best performance in the 300m event with a time of 36.74.

Henner predicts that both Smith and D’Ambrosio will have particularly strong seasons.

“I’m just really excited to watch

them get out there and compete,” Henner said. “They’re going to do big things.”

While Henner has no doubt that he can rely on his upperclassmen for solid finishes this weekend, he is excited to see how his new runners will adjust to a new level of competition.

Freshman Joe White, a two-time high school All-American, is expected to have an especially prolific first season. White will run the 400m event Saturday during his collegiate debut and will contribute to a reputable core of middle-distance runners as the season continues.

“We’ve got some very talented athletes that are going to warm up on Saturday,” Henner said. “[White] was one of the best 800m runners in high school and one of the fastest that Georgetown has ever had come in.”

Overall, the freshman class will be a major asset to the team this season.

However, to find long-term success, the upperclassmen will need to set a high standard for their younger teammates Saturday.

“All of those guys are extremely talented, and I feel like they’re some of the best freshmen that we’ve ever had here at Georgetown,” Henner said.

“They’re going to follow the lead of the older guys, so we need everybody out there executing and giving a great effort.”

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Senior Tyler Smith will lead the returning runners of the team. begin with the Father Diamond Invitational at George Mason University on Jan. 10. Seeing the team in a competitive environment at the Navy Invitational will allow the coaching staff to build a more concentrated training regimen for a busy indoor season.

“We can … detect strengths and weaknesses and things we need to shore up on when we get back and really get into the [heart] of the season,” Henner said. “A lot of the athletes have been training all fall without any competition, so just getting out there and being able to compete will be a lot of fun.”

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Hilltop to Host Virginia for Elite 8 Battle syracuse, from A10 the most important goal of his career. In the 80th minute, Rosenberry was on the receiving end of a long corner kick and headed it home to tie the match 1-1. Neither team managed a goal in the final 10 minutes, thereby sending the game into sudden-death overtime.

Syracuse nearly scored the game-winning goal in the opening seconds of the extra period. The Georgetown defense held, however, and Rist took his turn at being the hero when the offense won a corner kick in the 94th minute.

Rist made his move to the near post and scored the goal that sent the Hoyas to the Elite Eight.

Georgetown’s two goals in the match marked its first two successful corner kicks in 130 attempts this season. Rudy was responsible for the assists for both goals.

“In any set piece … the determining factor is the quality of the service,” Wiese said. “[Rudy] has been working on it a lot this year and all game he was absolutely spot on.”

While Rist and Rosenberry will be remembered as the heroes of the day, sophomore defender Joshua Yaro perhaps turned in the performance that kept the Hoyas within striking distance. He used his quickness to track down searching passes

by Syracuse, then showed his sound decision-making to cut out the passes. Yaro, a semifinalist for the

Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy, the country’s premier soccer award, displayed an impressive amount of poise in one-on-one situations in front of goal.

“Maybe one of [Yaro’s] best [matches] of the year. It’s not just the fact that he was great, it’s the fact of who he was great against,” Wiese said. “For my money, and I’m obviously biased as his coach, he showed why he is the best player in the country.”

The Elite Eight match will be played at Shaw Field on Saturday as Georgetown will host Virginia (11-6-2, 3-3-2 ACC). The Cavaliers, who upset top-seeded Notre Dame (12-5-4, 6-1-1 ACC) to advance to the quarterfinals, had a mixed record

this season, notching a win and a draw against the Fighting Irish, but also losing six games, including defeats to Davidson (10-2-6, 4-22 Southern Conference) and Tulsa (11-6-3, 5-2-1 American Athletic Conference).

Georgetown and Virginia played to a 1-1 tie in a preseason exhibition match in August. The Cavaliers are the 16th seed in the tournament, granting the Hoyas one last home game in 2014.

“The fact that we will get three or four thousand fans on Saturday, it’s what you play all year for,” Wiese said.

The Elite Eight match against Virginia is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday at Shaw Field.

celebrated Peak’s 9-of-9 shooting performance in the team’s season opener, the South Carolina native cooled off in the Bahamas, recording only 10 points in 75 minutes across the three games.

Georgetown will look to junior guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera to stabilize the team’s inexperienced rotation. After a slow start to the season, Smith-Rivera erupted for 29 points against Wisconsin, and he averaged 19.3 points per game over the course of the tournament.

The veteran guard will try to continue his run of strong play against a Towson team that was run out of the gym in its season opener against Alabama (5-1), losing by 28 points in Tuscaloosa. However, it has won seven straight games since then, albeit against inferior competition. Junior guard Four McGlynn leads the Tigers with 14 points per contest, while sophomore forward John Davis adds 11.5 points per game. Towson’s front line features graduate student Alex Gavrilovic, a 6-foot-9-inch forward from France and Timajh ParkerRivera, a 6-foot-7-inch junior forward.

Towson will likely struggle to generate offense against a bigger and more athletic Hoyas squad. At 245 pounds, Gavrilovic is the Tigers’ heaviest player, meaning that Smith will have a size advantage of at least 100 pounds against any Towson defender.

No matter what happens on the court against Towson, a feeling of “what could have been” is sure to haunt Verizon Center as the men’s basketball teams from Georgetown and George Washington will play in the same arena on the same day — but not against each other. The TigersHoyas matchup is the first game of the BB&T classic, and GWU will play Charlotte immediately following to close out the 20th rendition of the event. Hoya, Colonial and local basketball fans alike must all be left wondering why the talented D.C.-area programs have been unable to agree on an annual rivalry series.

Moreover, next Wednesday’s visit from No. 11 Kansas will undoubtedly cast a specter over this matchup. Thompson will have to ensure that his team is focused on the present task, as the Towson matchup could be a surprisingly difficult test if the Hoyas do not take their opponent seriously. Saturday’s game represents the final opportunity for the freshman class to test their legs at Verizon Center before their home-court advantage is tested by a traditionally powerful opponent for the first time.

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GU, Howard Face Off to Earn 1st Dual Meet Victory Claire Schansinger Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown swimming and diving team will look to earn its first victory in a dual meet when the team faces Howard at Georgetown’s McCarthy Pool on Saturday, Dec. 6. The meet marks the Hoyas’ last competition of the calendar year and gives Georgetown the opportunity to beat its crosstown opponents for the second year in a row.

Last season, both of Georgetown’s teams defeated Howard, with the men earning a 123-78 victory while the women finished with a 135-58 win.

“Obviously I want a win. I want everyone to focus on what they are doing and improve on little things,” senior captain Jessica Gaudiosi said.

The Hoyas competed against several of the Bison swimmers during the annual Potomac Relays at American University in early October. The Georgetown women earned second-place finishes in the 500-yard freestyle relay, the 800 freestyle relay, the 2x500 freestyle relay and the 400 medley relay. The Hoyas placed third overall after 22 events with 161 points, while Howard finished last out of eight teams with 13 points.

Georgetown will also use this meet to build on its performance from last week’s Bucknell Invitational, where the women finished in third place overall with 861 points and the men finished in fourth place overall with 709.5 points.

Sophomore Katie Duncalf broke a program record at the meet with a time of 2:03.57 in the preliminary round of the women’s 200 backstroke before finishing eighth in the final.

“The Bucknell Invitational was certainly a big meet as we focus on our championships because that is where we will be performing best,” Head Coach James Holder said.

The Hoyas have their eyes on the bigger meets of the season, namely the Big East swimming and div-

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The swimming and diving team will attempt to beat Howard for the second year in a row.

ing championships in February. For Georgetown, every meet is an opportunity to get additional experience and training in preparation for that meet.

“We are back to work now and we obviously want to swim all this weekend, but we’re more focused on the second portion of our season geared toward the Big East,” Holder said. “Not that we aren’t concerned about dual meets, but our focus is to get back to training and build up again to perform better than we did last weekend.”

Competing in a dual meet will give the Hoya freshmen another chance to gain more experience in their first season on the team. The freshmen have stood out and impressed fans all season, particularly against the University of Delaware in October, when Christine Ryan and Bailey Page each earned two victories, and Molly Fitzpatrick earned a victory in the 200 breaststroke.

“The freshmen are doing absolutely great. They have completely been integrated into the team and no one on the team is doubting what they can do, as they have proven themselves in practice,” Gaudiosi said.

In last week’s Bucknell Invitational, Page’s time of 1:51.05 in the 200 freestyle earned the Hoyas their first victory of the weekend.

In the Big East Quad Meet, Ryan finished fourth in the women’s 200 freestyle and freshman Edward Spinelli earned a fourth-place finish in the men’s 100 backstroke. Freshman Haley Owens earned a third-place finish for the Hoyas in the women’s 100 breaststroke. Other freshman standouts included the men’s duo of Daniel Ross and Samuel DeLise, who took second and third place in the 400 individual medley, respectively.

“We’ve known that our freshman have been strong and it’s been great to have them contribute as much as they have been,” Holder said. “I try not to talk about individuals too much because they’re all really contributing, but they’re definitely changing our team, which we knew was going to happen eventually. I think they are further along in their development than I anticipated at this point, but that’s a good thing and I’m happy where we are.”

Just as Georgetown is looking to earn its first dual meet victory this season, so is Howard, having lost both of its dual meets this season. The men’s team fell to Loyola 163-62 and Virginia Military Institute 132-72, while the women lost 135-71 and 166-59 in those respective meets.

In spite of their record in dual meets, the Bison still pose a challenge for the Hoyas. The 200 medley relay team of junior Ben Skelding, senior Darell Hungerford, sophomore Dante Williams and sophomore Ryan Pauling is a dangerous team. Senior Miles Hector is also a strong competitor in the 1650 freestyle.

The meet against the Bison is set to start at 1 p.m.

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The Hoyas will look to start their indoor season on a positive note at the Navy Invitational this weekend.

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At first glance, the games that the Georgetown women’s basketball team played over the weekend paint a picture of a struggling group. After dropping two games Friday and Saturday, the team is on a five-game losing skid with a 2-6 record overall.

However, Georgetown’s close losses to Florida (5-1) 81-73 on Friday and to Holy Cross (1-7) 73-69 on Sunday were not without positive signs, as the Hoyas’ competitive and resilient spirit hinted at the potential of the young squad.

“I think it came down to the end and just some inexperience that didn’t go our way,” Head Coach Natasha Adair said. “But I thought we sent a message — this is who we can be, this is how hard we can play.”

The Hoyas went into Friday’s home game against Florida with a head full of steam, taking a fourpoint advantage into halftime after holding the lead for most of the first 20 minutes.

The Hoyas came out of the break and maintained their lead through the first eight minutes of the second half, but the rest of the

game proved to be a back-and-forth battle. Florida took its first lead of the second half, 52-51, with 11:09 to play before pushing its lead to 64-56 with seven minutes left.

The Hoyas clawed back to within two points of their opponents from the Southeastern Conference with less than two minutes to play, but were forced to foul as time ran down at the end of regulation. The Gators held off the Hoyas to earn an 81-73 victory.

Freshman guard Dorothy Adomako led all scorers with 20 points, her career-high after six games, and added 10 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the season. “[During] the Florida game, first and foremost, we had great energy, a great crowd,” Adair said. “The momentum was our way coming out of that locker room. And really, I can’t even say it was effort or intensity or focus — I thought we played extremely hard.”

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Sophomore defender and MAC Hermann semifinalist Joshua Yaro’s defensive effort kept Syracuse at bay.

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Senior midfielder Jared Rist scored his first career goal Sunday afternoon and he could not have chosen a better time to get his name on the score sheet. “[In the break between regulation and overtime] it was [senior midfielder and cocaptain] Tyler Rudy and Rist that were telling the guys that we were not going to lose this game,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

No. 11 Georgetown (14-4-4, 6-2-1 Big East) took on No. 4 Syracuse (16-4-1, 5-2-1 ACC) at Shaw Field Sunday in a Sweet Sixteen matchup between the eighth- and ninthseeded teams, respectively, in the NCAA tournament Sunday. The Hoyas defeated No. 22 Old Dominion (13-6-1, 4-3-1 Confer-

ence USA) in the second round, while the Orangemen had advanced with a 2-1 victory over Penn State (13-6-1, 5-3 Big 10).

From the opening whistle, it was exactly like what a matchup between two top-10 seeds is expected to look like. The match was open, fast-paced and neither team could clearly claim an advantage.

Syracuse junior goalkeeper Alex Bono, who is considered one of the top college soccer players in the country, kept his team in the game with diving saves on shots by sophomore forward Alex Muyl and sophomore midfielder Bakie Goodman.

The second half, however, was a different story. Although Georgetown had a handful of chances, Syracuse held the majority of the possessions and continually threatened to score on the Hoyas.

Indoor Season Begins With 3rd-Place Finish MADELINE AUERBACH Hoya Staff Writer

Freshman guard Dorothy Adomako scored a career-high 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the Hoyas’ loss to Florida.

The Georgetown women’s indoortrack team debuted in the Navy Lid Lifter meet Tuesday night at the Wesley Brown Field House in Annapolis, Md. Georgetown finished third overall behind Navy and University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

The Hoyas impressed in middledistance events as well as the 4x400meter and 4x800-meter relays, where they finished in first place.

Freshmen Piper Donaghu and Ken-

nedy Weisner topped the charts in the 1000m event with respective times of 2:55.52 and 2:55.76. Junior Jocelyn Hubbard was not far behind with a time of 2:56.78 to notch the third-place spot.

The performances from the freshmen impressed Director of Track and Field Patrick Henner.

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Hoyas Look to Close Out Towson at Home DILLON MULLAN Hoya Staff Writer

After facing two ranked teams during the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas over the Thanksgiving holiday, the Georgetown men’s basketball team (4-2) will return for a home matchup against Towson (7-1) at noon on Sunday. The game will give the Hoyas the opportunity to perfect their half-court offense for the highly anticipated game against No. 11 Kansas next Wednesday.

The Hoyas come into the Towson game licking their wounds following a 1-2 performance in the Bahamas. Georgetown defeated then-No. 18 Florida (3-3) in a thrilling 66-65 overtime contest before falling to No. 2 Wisconsin (7-1) and Butler (6-1) in two tight games.

“That’s not a good thing to get experience and come away with a loss,” Head Coach John Thompson III said following the Butler loss, making it clear that the two defeats by a combined nine points will not be considered

moral victories.

Moving forward, the Hoyas will need to work to limit turnovers. The team has committed 15 turnovers per game in its first six games. Freshman forward L.J. Peak, senior center Joshua Smith and senior forward Mikael Hopkins have, in particular, turned the ball over too often, combining to commit over seven turnovers per game thus far.

Last weekend’s trip to the Bahamas also confirmed that the Hoyas are going to have to rely on their freshmen to provide immediate contributions. There were some promising signs, as forwards Paul White and Isaac Copeland combined for half of Georgetown’s points in the loss to Butler. White had a particularly strong tournament, scoring 30 points in the three games while displaying excellent poise and a deadly mid-range jumper.

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Freshman forward Isaac Copeland led the Hoyas’ offense against Butler by scoring 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field.

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The breakthrough for the Orangemen came in the 55th minute, when they quickly took a short corner and surprised an unprepared Hoya defense. Syracuse sophomore midfielder Alex Halis weaved his way into the 18-yard box and buried his shot from a difficult angle into the far side of the net to give his team a 1-0 advantage.

“The team has begun to respond where they have shown a lot of resiliency and a lot of character. … I think it says a lot about your older players. The seniors that have been involved in these plays have just been refusing to lose,” Wiese said.

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The number of corner kicks Georgetown’s men’s soccer scored against Syracuse after missing 130 attempts this season.

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Young Squad Loses 5 Straight Games RUSSELL GUERTIN

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West Led by Grizz, Mavs T he NBA’s Western Conference has become akin to the wild cowboy towns of yore. Gunslingers like Stephen Curry and Damian Lillard duel along the threepoint line each night, while enforcers like Demarcus Cousins and Serge Ibaka patrol the paint mercilessly. Similar to the way the pioneers of the past made their East Coast counterparts look weak and sheltered, the records show that the Western Conference is indeed a harder place to succeed than the Eastern Conference. Of the teams with the best eight records in the NBA, seven are from the Western Conference, all of them vying for the chance to take on a considerably weaker Eastern Conference representative in the NBA Finals.

In such a loaded conference, can any one team rise above the rest? Although it is hard to predict which teams will be in the NBA Finals six months down the road, there are two intriguing squads lurking in the Western Conference: the number one statistical defensive team, as well as the number one statistical offensive team.

Every season, we see teams bestowed with the “blue-collar” moniker for their style of play — teams that find success playing gritty, hard-nosed basketball primarily on the defensive end. The Memphis Grizzlies have firmly cemented themselves as the hardest working team in the league this season. With an elite defensive core comprised of former defensive player of the year Marc Gasol, Tony Allen (a man who Kobe Bryant has “never heard call for help” when defending him) and Mike Conley, the Grizzlies have managed to hold their opponents to a league-best average of 92.4 points per game.

Their defensive prowess shows through several of their team statistics.

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