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SENIOR DAY

The Hoyas will honor five seniors tonight when they take on Creighton.

EDITORIAL Georgetown students were sadly lacking in fervor during Dissent XL.

SPORTS, A10

OPINION, A2

CASH FOR VETS GU partnered with the Tillman Foundation to offer veterans scholarships.

RED TAPE Bureaucracy at Georgetown grew more slowly than that of peers.

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Students Protest XL Pipeline Though march began on campus, few from GU join national movement TM Gibbons-Neff Hoya Staff Writer

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Students from 100 colleges nationwide travelled to Georgetown to march from Red Square to the White House, where they chained themselves to the fence and lay down on a fake oil spill to protest construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. More than 300 protesters were arrested.

To chants of “climate change now,” more than 1,000 people, most of whom were college students, marched from Georgetown University’s Red Square to the White House on Sunday, protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Students from more than 100 universities participated in the protest, according to the event’s organizers. Eckerd College, located in St. Petersburg, Fla., sent the most students, at 40, while 10 Georgetown students participated.

The protest march started in Red Square at 10 a.m. and by 3 p.m., over 300 protestors had zip-tied themselves to the White House’s North Lawn fence, while 60 other protesters lay on a mock plastic oil-spill, awaiting arrest by Park Police and the Secret Service. The protestors spent the afternoon demanding the government’s abandonment of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Keystone XL pipeline, if built, would begin in Canada, running 1,200 miles from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Neb., See KEYSTONE, A6

#DBKGU Continues DC Assault Bill Spurs Activism Conversation on Race Suzanne Monyak Hoya Staff Writer

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“It just dawned on me, that’s how society perceives black people: as beToward the end of February, flyers ing dangerous,” Corbin-Johnson said. featuring the hashtag #dbkgu began “The message I was trying to get across to appear around campus. On Monday, is, whether you are really dressed up, the group responsible for the flyers re- or whether you are casual, and regardvealed the phrase’s meaning through less of your accolades, because of laws the social media advocacy movement like Florida’s Stand Your Ground, a lot Dangerous Black Kids of Georgetown of society is only going to perceive you University. as a #dangerousblackkid, when in reThe Facebook page and accompany- ality you do so much for society, and ing Tumblr and Instagram featured you’re not a threat to society at all, but photographs of black students on cam- it’s just because of the color of your pus alongside their accomplishments skin that people have a certain percepand accolades. tion about you already.”

For participants, the page creates a The focus on the contributions black forum to present students have their identity withmade to Georgeout societal filters. town emphasized “I’m 6-foot-2, I the disconnect bewas a football playtween the phrase er in high school, #dangerousblackI’ve always been kids, which recentreally big, and I ly trended on Twitlook kind of scary ter, and reality. to some people, “Mainly it was so the campaign just to show peoshavonnia corbin-johnson (SFS ’14) was interesting beple the positives #DBKGU Organizer cause that’s been a and the accombig part of my life — trying to go past plishments that we’ve made because looking like a thug all the time, no there’s so many negative stigmas and matter what I’m wearing,” Itua Udue- stereotypes that are forced upon Afribo (SFS ’17) said. can-Americans,” participant Courtney Next to Uduebo’s photos — one in Maduike (SFS ’17) said. “The entire goal a suit and one in jeans, a hat and a of the movement was to recognize all hooded jacket — a short bio lists his of the black people that are doing accomplishments: high school var- good here at Georgetown and doing sity football captain, co-moderator of good in society — they don’t have to be his high school’s diversity alliance, seen as dangerous or as delinquents, National Achievement Scholarship all these negative things they think semifinalist, AP Scholar with Honors about us. It’s just to showcase the posiand member of the International Re- tives.” lations Club, Club Rugby, UNICEF and Currently, the Facebook page has Georgetown Scholarship Program at more than 600 likes, and many stuGeorgetown. Similar photos and bios dents shared photos of participants in accompany posts for over 100 other support of their accomplishments. students.

“I didn’t want to share all my acShavonnia Corbin-Johnson (SFS ’14) complishments onto my page because thought of the campaign after viewing I didn’t want it to seem like snobby or a Huffington Post article that featured arrogant, like, ‘Look at all she’s done, a photo of a child hugging his father’s she just wants people to brag about neck with the hashtag #dangerous- her,’ but I realized, it’s not about me,” blackkids. The campaign is meant to said Maduike, whose bio lists her exdemonstrate how society wrongly per- perience as her high school’s student ceives members of the black commu- body vice president and varsity basketnity as dangerous, especially in light ball team captain and her memberof killings of black young people such ship in the IRC and Delta Phi Epsilon as Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, who was killed in a dispute over loud See #DBKGU, A6 Hoya Staff Writer

“It just dawned on me, that’s how society perceives black people: as dangerous.”

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A petition from the D.C. Justice for Survivors Campaign circulating throughout the District in support of the passage of the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Amendment Act of 2013 is making waves among student activists on Georgetown’s campus.

Originally proposed in June 2013

by D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), SAVRAA would provide more oversight of MPD in sexual assault cases via the Office of Police Complaints, ensure that sexual assault survivors have an advocate present on their behalf at medical examinations and interviews with law enforcement and that communications between the two parties are confidential, require the Metropolitan Police Department to process rape kits more quickly and specify that

sexual assault survivors are not to be charged for rape kits. The bill is scheduled to come before the D.C. Council in spring 2014.

The introduction of SAVRAA partially stemmed from a January 2013 Human Rights Watch report that alleged that the Metropolitan Police Department had been mishandling and incorrectly documenting sexual assault cases in D.C. According to the 196-page report, titled “Capitol Offense: Police Mishandling on Sexual Assault Cases in the District of Columbia,” MPD had been misclassifying sexual assault cases as lesser offenses and failing to properly investigate the cases, leaving the prosecution no choice but to throw the cases out.

MPD, however, objects to some of the Human Rights Watch report’s allegations and subsequent conclusions drawn from it.

“A lot of what they said in their

report was inaccurate,” MPD Commander George Kucik said of the report.

DCJSC has proposed three amendments to SAVRAA: the elimination of a current exception to the victim’s right to have an advocate present for cases where the advocate would be detrimental to the purpose of the exam or interview, the requirement of regular case review by a Sexual Assault Response Team or an expert and the establishment of an external consult to aid MPD with sexual assault investigations.

With nearly half of its members sexual assault survivors themselves, DCJSC wrote these amendments based on the experiences of sexual assault survivors as well as sexual assault experts who work in the legal system. The advocacy group includes members of the D.C. chapter of the National See ASSAULT, A6

With ‘GUPD,’ New Path for DPS Suzanne Monyak & Joy Ma

Hoya Staff Writer & Special to The Hoya

Since the consolidation of positions within the department and the hiring of Jay Gruber as chief of police in July 2012, the Georgetown University Police Department — known colloquially as the Department of Public Safety — has changed in students’ eyes from mainly a “party crasher” to a valuable source of support for student safety.

In the year and a half since these changes took effect, GUPD has increased its presence on campus and in the Georgetown neighborhood while at the same time a notable drop in on-campus alcohol violations has been seen.

Under Gruber’s leadership, DPS changed its name to GUPD in spring 2013, symbolizing its increased emphasis on its role as a police force.

“DPS encompasses several meanings including values related to management and environmental safety,” Gruber said. “We wanted to focus on our core mission as community police officers in providing See DPS, A5 Published Tuesdays and Fridays

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DPS officers Roy Eddy, left, and Victor Johnson monitor activity on campus in the department’s Village C West office.

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OPINION

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tuesday, March 4, 2014

THE VERDICT Founded January 14, 1920

EDITORIALS

A Climate for Activism In his speech on climate change at Georgetown last June, President Barack Obama declared, “I’m here to say we need to act.” This past Sunday, hundreds of protestors arrived in Red Square with that same intention.

The protest, XL Dissent, drew students from more than 100 American colleges to march from Georgetown — the site of Obama’s promise — to the White House gates, to which they tied themselves in protest of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would run from the oil-rich tar sands of Canada to the United States. Obama’s hesitance to summarily reject the pipeline struck protestors as being in direct conflict to his call for action on climate change nine months ago.

Providing a stage for dialogue on critical national and international issues is an important function of a university. In giving space to both President Obama’s and the XL Dissent protestors’ speeches on climate change, Georgetown has adequately performed this function. Participation in active and public debate on this campus, however, should not be limited to visiting parties.

The XL Dissent protest notably lacked Georgetown participants. Of 57 college student signatories on the Dissent XL webpage, none hailed from Georgetown, and only 10 students from Georgetown participated in the protest. (Eckerd College, by contrast, sent 40 students to D.C. from St. Petersburg, Fla.) Additionally, it seems hypocritical to play host to such a prominent display of student activism in the area of climate change without comprehensively addressing environmental concerns within the front gates.

Environmentally oriented student groups like GU Fossil Free have found success in many of its endeavors over the past year, including a resolution in the GUSA senate and increased support by the GUSA executive. In fact, environmental causes have made more progress in the past year than at any other point in recent memory. With this accumulated momentum from environmental advocacy groups on campus, it is a shame that more students did not come out to support a larger display of activism on their own campus.

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Happy Anniversary — Feb. 28 marked the 74th anniversary of Georgetown’s basketball game against NYU, which was one of the very first college games to be broadcast on live television.

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Sasquatch Sighting — A man in a Bigfoot costume was spotted walking around Dupont Circle enjoying Monday’s snowstorm.

A Worrying Statistic — As of March 1, the murder rate in D.C. for 2014 is more than double what it was during the same period in 2013.

Parks and Stimulation — According to a report by the National Parks Service, greater Washington’s national parks brought in over $928 million to local communities and businesses in 2012.

Call to Arms — In celebration of the third big snowfall of winter, the Washington D.C. Snowball Fight Association organized a massive snowball fight on the National Mall, drawing hundreds of participants from the D.C. area.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Janet Zhu

Connect to Steady Progress As their campaign showed us, incoming GUSA executives Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) have the ambition and the determination to enact positive change at Georgetown in the coming year.

Past GUSA administrations have chosen to focus on one or two goals early in their tenure before addressing all of their campaign promises. Thus, in the past, students, have expressed dissatisfaction that some issues — notably free speech — have been sent to the back burner. That is why it was a refreshing change of pace in the campaign to see candidates who expressed their intent to make progress in more than one policy area at a time.

Tezel and Jikaria articulated goals in 19 specific areas, ranging from more versatility for GOCard usage to bolstered sanctions in the Code of Student Conduct for cases of sexual misconduct. The platform included what the executives would like to have accomplished during their first 100 days, as well as during next year’s fall and spring semesters.

However, the new GUSA administration will surely encounter unexpected obstacles in the pursuit of this agenda, some of which

will inevitably require the pair to prioritize a few of these 19 issues over others. When it comes to changing policy that will affect the most number of students, we hope to see persistent progress specifically in the areas of sexual assault, free speech and equal access to student-group benefits. Other campaign topics benefit specific niche groups on campus, but these three issues are the ones that have both the potential to make an immediate impact on many students’ lives and that require the fervent advocacy of our elected student representatives.

While the other positions outlined in Tezel and Jikaria’s campaign show promise, it would be a regrettable frustration to see their entire agenda derailed in the pursuit of breadth rather than depth.

We should all be excited to see what Tezel and Jikaria have in store for Georgetown. The pair made it through a GUSA campaign unscarred — now they face the challenge of leading Georgetown’s student body for the next year. If their campaign expertise and stated priorities translate into action, we are confident that the two will succeed in the year to come.

Scholars of Social Justice As a course of study, the Program on Justice and Peace embodies Georgetown’s commitment to Jesuit ideals unlike any other. The College’s decision, therefore, to expand the program from a minor to a major last week represents a victory for the entire university, and it’s surprising only that it took so long.

The new major came about thanks to a yearlong campaign by students in the justice and peace studies minor, which has been a part of the curriculum for more than 20 years. In this minor, students were required to write a 50-page thesis, a deterrent for some interested students. In the program’s new structure, the thesis will only be required of students in the major, hopefully encouraging more students interested in social justice to explore the related discipline in their academic endeavors.

Beyond the Program on Justice and Peace, the addition of the new major encourages opportunities in interdisciplinary study. Interdisciplinary majors allow students to learn a range of subjects, which can be an attractive option for students wary of a more traditional

major. Majors like American studies and medieval studies have proven to build a substantial foundation in multiple fields, research skills and analytical thinking. Adding yet another option can only be a positive development.

Furthermore, with substantive academic backing, social justice programming for undergraduates stands to gain from this decision. Students who find enrichment through social justice now have more expansive means by which they can learn about the systemic, cultural and social complexities behind their work. While anyone could have taken a justice and peace studies course to achieve these benefits beforehand, adding a major means there will be a wider array of offerings on the subject.

In creating a JUPS major, administrators recognized a passion among Georgetown students and took action to provide the academic resources to meet it. Acting on student demand sets an admirable precedent that the university should follow when students show widespread interest in pursuing academic opportunities.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Unequal Rights in Palestine To the Editor: In her article “Let’s Call It What It Is, And It’s Not Apartheid” (The Hoya, A3, Feb. 28), Kate Hopkins brings up an important point: The separation wall between Israel and Palestine does not constitute apartheid.

It is a sign of occupation. I agree with the sentiment of an occupation, not apartheid, in Palestine.

However, the term “apartheid” does have a role in the conflict. Palestinians are not afforded equal rights in Israel. The de facto and legal discrimination against Palestinians are markers of a racist society moving toward a South Africa-like apartheid situation.

In January, B’tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, published a statement on Israel’s position on family unification. The report detailed the Israeli Supreme Court’s ruling that “family unification is not a vested right,” meaning that should a Palestinian-Israeli living in Haifa marry a Palestinian from Ramallah, they would not be allowed to reside together in Israel. Several government officials even confirmed that the law was meant to prevent the growth of a Palestinian minority within Israel. The Prawer Plan, an ultra-discriminatory plan to forcibly remove about 30,000 Bedouins in the Negev that drew huge protests from the Bedouin community, was approved by the Cabinet in 2011 but delayed in December following a shift in Knesset support.

On Tuesday, the Knesset passed a law legally distinguishing between Muslim and Christian Arab citizens. The bill threatens to further institutionalize the systematic

Samantha Lin SFS ’14

CORRECTION The article “Alum Refreshes Sock Drawers” (The Hoya, A10, Feb. 28, 2014) incorrectly stated that Phil Moldavski (MSB ’10) was one of the co-founders of Sweetgreen. He was one of the original marketing directors.

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discrimination of Muslim Palestinians.

The sponsor of the bill, Yariv Levin, spelled out the point of the bill when he described the Christians as “our [Israel’s] natural allies, a counterweight to the Muslims who want to destroy the country from within. … We will use an iron hand and demonstrate zero tolerance of Arabs who are liable to identify with the terror of the Palestinian state.” American-Palestinian friends have been refused entry into Israel based only on their appearance and last name.

There is systematic, legalized racism within Israel.

In my own conversations with my Israeli friends, they have openly acknowledged the racism in their own society. My friend’s mom whom I visited over winter break made aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel) from England when she was 18. She lamented the racism she sees toward both Palestinians and African immigrants from Israelis and even from within her own family.

The point is this: The conflict over the two-state solution is not limited to the two territorial areas. It is a societal conflict that is grounded in mistrust, misinformation and ultimately racism. A way forward is recognition that Israeli is becoming an apartheid society and an effort to rectify that through people-to-people dialogue programs that break down imagined walls of segregation. Without recognizing the racial component of the conflict, there may be a political peace, but there won’t be a true, lasting, societal peace.

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OPINION

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

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A Dissent In the Face Of Tradition T

he Catholic Church and some of its leaders have been wrong. From the prosecution of Galileo and his findings to the treatment of victims of sexual abuse in recent years, the church has proven itself to be a fallible institution, sometimes disastrously so.

This is not meant to belittle or outweigh the immense good that the church has done throughout history. Instead, realizing that the church can be — and will continue to be — wrong about some political and theological questions makes it essential that we as a university encourage and support robust dissent toward the church.

One doesn’t need to go as far as Rome to see how a lack of dissent, out of blind respect for Catholic tradition, can harm those closest to us. As recently as five years ago, one generation of Hoyas away, anti-LGBTQ hate crimes were commonplace at Georgetown.

There were reports of students being physically and verbally assaulted and of slurs being written on the then-newly established LGBTQ Resource Center.

Last fall, I attended a panel discussion called “Honoring Our Histories,” which was put on by the LGBTQ Resource Center to commemorate its fifth year. During the panel, an older alumnus got up to shout at a university representative, telling him that he and his gay friends immediately throw out the university magazine each year because of the immense pain that the university’s exclusion caused them. While his anger was obvious, all I could hear in his voice was pain.

Clearly, our universal church failed to be his home. He attended Georgetown well before GU Pride existed — or rather when its recognition was still being rejected.

Each time the university rejected access to benefits to GU Pride — or as it was known in 1979, Gay People of GU — it also rejected

Our own fallibility should encourage us to seek universality and dialogue. the identity of its members. These decisions hurt and denigrated the hundreds of LGBTQ Hoyas who graduated prior to 1987.

The decision not to recognize GPGU, much like the longstanding controversy over H*yas For Choice and the right to bring certain speakers to campus, was based on a fear that financing speech and actions that the Catholic Church disagrees with was tantamount to endorsing all those views and actions.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals rejected this argument nearly two decades ago when GPGU and the Law Center’s Gay Rights Coalition (GRC, now OUTLaw) sued the university. Today, after seeing how Georgetown has come to be a safer place for all students, it would appear that the court was right when it said that recognizing GPGU would not harm the university, which failed to predict the benefits that would come from embracing a community and values that don’t neatly fit in the catechism.

Today, members of H*yas For Choice are harassed by DPS and by fellow Hoyas. when they table. Their condom envelopes get callously torn down, or messages are written on their whiteboards. When they request rooms via the university registrar, requests take inordinate amounts of time to be processed. While speakers are welcome to talk about celibacy or offer disinformation about family planning, an HFC event with a single respected sex educator led to a series of serious complaints that embroiled even me as a marketing co-sponsor of the event.

The precedent we set when we don’t protect and support the ability of HFC to dissent is that no dissent is welcome. This precedent affects all of us and encourages us to censor ourselves. I’ve sat in many a meeting during which advisors and students have whispered that “some people upstairs” would likely sanction a group for a certain event or action.

This is unacceptable for any university, an institution that should encourage students to seek out truth, but especially for a Catholic one, since our own fallibility should encourage us to seek universality and dialogue.

To restrict spending or access to spaces on campus or to suggest that there is only one type of space or time that is appropriate is to ghettoize dissent and those brave enough to do it. We protect the right of Internet trolls to whine anonymously about the Stewards or make vulgar posts on Georgetown Confessions, but we’ve rushed to cover up or forget the most egregious errors our beloved institutions have made. Should we not then rush to support all those who seek to stop us from making more mistakes?

Thomas Lloyd is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. QUEERA PERSONALIS appears every other Tuesday.

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QUEERA PERSONALIS

Thomas Lloyd

THE HOYA

It’s Time to Rethink the Classroom

t’s a horse that has been beaten to death, but we continue to resurrect it: The United States spends more on public education than any other developed nation, and yet it lags behind in key metrics of performance. Much of the policy debate still grapples over spending on K-12 education: Should we be spending more? Should we cut spending?

We can experiment with spending all we want, but until we fundamentally change the way education is administered to our students, better results are unlikely. As a country that values innovation more than any other, the United States should not be afraid to reinvent some of the most critical components of its social structure.

The best way to improve our educational system’s performance is to turn it on its head: Use technology wisely and prescribe lectures for homework.

Have teachers record videos of themselves or utilize content made by other experts, then go over the material that students learned the previous night in the classroom.

With this method, students are able to leverage professional expertise both at home and at school.

They will retain more because the lecture watched at home won’t dissipate when it is finished. They can go back and replay the content over and over again if need be. And then the teacher can act as a facilitator by bridging misunderstanding in students’ knowledge. It’s a far more efficient use of resources.

This isn’t a merely idealistic proposal. Such methods have already been implemented, with reasonable

We place our trust in an antiquated method of learning, but now we have the tools to drastically improve it. success. Take, for example, Khan Academy, a nonprofit enterprise whose mission is to put knowledge online for free. It has worked with schools in the Silicon Valley region to pilot such a system. The results are certainly promising.

In one school in Los Altos, Calif., after assigning students to view Khan Academy posts at home to learn objective information, teachers used the classroom as a laboratory in which students were encouraged to interact with each other. They helped to solve each other’s problems, and the teach-

er intervened when necessary. The creation of this marketplace of ideas has yielded an increase in students who become very proficient in the material. More importantly, it has decreased the number of students who do not become comfortable with the material. After using Khan Academy, the percentage of students categorized as “advanced” or “proficient” with the material increased from 23 to 41 percent, and the percentage of students labeled as “below basic” in proficiency declined from 29 to 12 percent.

Lack of comfort with the material is what causes large discrepancies in knowledge and dissonance from certain types of education — STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, in particular — later in life. Concepts, especially in math and science, build continually throughout early education, and if a student stands upon a weak foundation in a subject, it can be increasingly frustrating and disheartening. This alternative mode of instruction seeks to mitigate these gaps in knowledge and — from what the data shows — is generally effective in doing so.

There really is no reason why a system similar to this one cannot be implemented on a wider level.

Most students have regular access to technology, and we can target funding to students who do not.

We keep our faith in an antiquated method of learning that has endured for centuries, but now we have the tools to drastically improve it. Why not make the right moves at the policy level to spearhead its activation?

Of course, the impact of the United States lagging behind in education cannot be overstated. We look to enter a world that is more interdependent and comfortable with pooling its human resources. If we are to produce higher levels of achievement as a country, we must make smart changes. What we are doing right now clearly isn’t working.

Let’s move the bell curve to the right. It’s time to inject a little common sense into the equation.

PARTH SHAH is a sophomore in the College.

THE PSYCH FACTOR

OMBUDSMAN • Hong

On The Hoya’s GUSA A Lost Philosophy Election Coverage Worth Remembering

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ewspapers have their heyday during election seasons, and THE HOYA is no exception.

The Georgetown University Student Association executive election has dominated the news section in the past few weeks, with substantial coverage of the candidates and their platforms.

Good use of digital media, including live tweeting the presidential and vice presidential debates and online exclusive stories, supplemented nearly a dozen front- and inside-page news stories.

Such extensive coverage of an organization that almost 40 percent of THE HOYA’S own polling sample deemed less than “somewhat relevant” is warranted only if the newspaper provides reporting that is well-researched and journalistically sound.

H owe ve r, although the GUSA election coverage this season was sometimes clever and resourceful, it also occasionally suffered from a degree of clumsiness.

At times, the reporting seemed insular, with an unimaginative choice of interviewees. While the news staff was clearly careful to obtain feedback from all four executive tickets for their articles, the effort to reach out for comment often stopped there or soon after, with other members of GUSA being interviewed from time to time. Several articles would have undoubtedly profited from another perspective, and some even begged for one — the article [“Diversity Lacking in Exec Race,” THE HOYA, Feb. 21, A1] on the lack of diversity in the executive tickets notably did not contain outside commentary from independent minority or women’s student organizations. Although the president of GU Pride was quoted, that president was also a GUSA presidential candidate.

A certain lack of context and analysis also plagued THE HOYA’S GUSA election coverage. To the extent that interpretation was included, it was largely provided by the GUSA candidates themselves, rather than a neutral voice, rendering fact and perspective indistinguishable. The article [“Candidates Propose Budgets,” THE HOYA, Feb. 25, A5] covering the candidates’ proposed budgets was a smart idea to inform readers about each pair’s priorities, and I commend the news staff on bringing the proposals to public attention. However, it would have been all the more enlightening had it included research into previous proposals.

A portion of THE HOYA’S GUSA election coverage was afflicted by an overreliance on the views and stances of the GUSA candidates

themselves. This was apparent not only in the preponderance of quotes attributed to the executive tickets, but also in the choice of issues raised. A professional newspaper will write about not only the issues the candidates bring up, but also the issues that are important to the voting population. Granted, this is difficult in a community like Georgetown that has a myriad of interests — not to mention an overall apathy about GUSA — but for the large part of the season, minimal effort was made to even pose the question to students. The one exception was an excellent online exclusive citing issues raised by H*yas for Choice and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, though it regrettably came out only a day before the election.

F i n a l ly, we come to the “State of the Race S 2014” [THE HOYA, Feb. 25, A1] article, which was based on a door-to-door poll conducted by THE HOYA on students’ intended voting choices. There are several serious journalistic considerations to running a survey article. First and foremost, a story based entirely on a survey promises to be a weak one. Its news value is inherently limited, as it purports to disseminate the opinions of what is only a representative sample.

If a story is to be based entirely on a survey, it is imperative that the survey be a scientific one conducted by professionals.

THE HOYA does not have the resources to conduct a scientific survey replete with rigorous, transparent practices and statistical findings, but even if it did, it would have to ask itself what the value of such a survey would be.

The role of a student newspaper should be to hold the candidates accountable and make sure they are addressing issues that actually matter on campus, not to postulate on the results of an election in which half of the student population generally participates.

I urge THE HOYA to consider these grievances not only in future election reporting, but also in overall coverage. Obtain third-party perspectives. Incorporate context.

And for the sake of all things journalistic, realize that the studentrun poll provides about as much public service as the perpetual vote for Chicken Madness.

Editor’s Note: The poll Hong references sampled 772 students, or 11 percent of students eligible to vote in GUSA elections.

A certain lack of context and analysis plagued The Hoya’ GUSA election coverage.

MICHELE HONG graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 2010 and serves as ombudsman for The Hoya. She can be reached at mah93@georgetown.edu.

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n May 1984, less than two full years with most other psychologists of his after I joined the faculty in the time. For one thing, his writings ampsychology department here at ply reflected his deep conviction that Georgetown, I was privileged to par- scientific psychology should mainticipate in a symposium at the Second tain strong intellectual ties with phiEuropean Conference on Personality, losophy, whereas the overwhelming held in the city of Bielefeld in what majority of his contemporaries — eswas then West Germany. pecially in the United States — were After my presentation, in which I persuaded that psychology needed spoke on some of the conceptual chal- to distance itself as much as possible lenges in the sub-discipline of person- from philosophy. Another important ality psychology, some in attendance factor was the rapid expansion of insuggested to me that I might find it terest among psychologists in work worthwhile to read works by a certain that would be of practical use to proWilliam Stern, a German psycholo- fessionals outside the discipline — apgist who lived from 1871 to 1938. plications in schools, in businesses Soon after the Bielefeld conference, and industries, in hospitals and in I began my engagement with Stern’s the military. writings, and to this For these reasons, day I find myself reStern’s ideas of critipaid by the effort as I cal personalism were continue to reflect on rendered practically the relevance of his invisible to generaideas to the problems tions of psycholoof contemporary psygists. To my surprise, chology.

I discovered that this Over the course of was true even at the his professional lifeUniversity of Hamtime, Stern carefully burg, where I spent James T. Lamiell developed a comprea semester as a guest hensive worldview, professor 10 years It is morally or Weltanschauung, ago. While Stern was that he called “critione of the co-foundproblematic to treat cal personalism.” A ers of that institution persons as things. fundamental tenet of in 1919 and a profescritical personalism sor until 1933, not is the irreducible distinction between one of the 20 or so students enrolled persons and things. While persons in the psychology seminar that I have the capacity to actively evaluate taught there in 2004 acknowledged — literally, to project value outward any familiarity at all with Stern’s and thus invest it in other entities works. or circumstances — things can only In the 1920s, Stern’s writings did be evaluated passively. Persons are capture the attention of the promithus inherently “value-able,” whereas nent Harvard psychologist Gordon things or circumstances can only be Allport. Allport completed several more or less “valuable.” From the months of post-doctoral studies with standpoint of critical personalism, Stern in Hamburg, and he rented a it is scientifically dubious to portray room in the home of Stern and his persons as things, and it is morally wife Clara. Upon Stern’s death in problematic to treat them as if they 1938, Allport authored an appreciawere things. tion of Stern that ended as follows: In many of his works, Stern used “William Stern was both a pioneer the Latin expression unitas multiplex and a systematizer in psychology. … It to convey concisely his conception of troubled him relatively little that his persons as multifaceted complexes formulations ran counter to the trend that function as coherent wholes. of the times, particularly in American Our task as psychologists is to provide thought. … [He] believed so intensely an understanding of how this hap- in the liberating powers of personalispens. We must make clear how rudi- tic thought that he had faith in its ulmentary phenomena (Stern’s term timate acceptability to others. Thinkfor the givens of sensory experience ing [personalistically], Stern became a such as momentary sights, sounds monumental defender of an unpopuor tactile sensations), which in their lar cause. [But] the personalitistic way chaotic abundance would otherwise of thought will yet have its day, and its completely overwhelm us, are, in- day will be long and bright.” stead, coordinated in our acts, which In 2014, I find myself rather less in turn acquire temporal continuity sanguine than was Allport some 76 through those more or less enduring years ago about the prospects for dispositions — or traits — that each of personalistic thinking ever rising to us has as a person. prominence within mainstream sciIt is, Stern insisted, the whole per- entific psychology. Nevertheless, havson who “experiences phenomena, ing now devoted much of my own executes acts and owns dispositions,” professional life to learning both and so it is the functioning of whole about Stern and from Stern, I am perpersons that is psychology’s ulti- suaded that psychology would be enmate subject matter. It is difficult to riched more than a little if Allport’s read Stern without appreciating the bold prediction ever did come to pass. compatibility of personalistic thinking with the Jesuit principle of cura James T. Lamiell is a professor and personalis which is so central to the chair of the department of psycholethos of Georgetown. ogy. He is one of the alternating For a variety of reasons, Stern’s writers for THE PSYCH FACTOR, which personalistic views were out of step appears every other Tuesday.

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Support for 2-Year Admin Size Holds Steady Law Programs Grows MOLLY SIMIO

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NICK SIMON

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A nationwide survey of 1,400 pre-law students by Kaplan Test Prep found growing support for a two-year law school program, as opposed to the standard three-year curriculum, and increased opportunities for clinical experience in courtrooms.

According to the survey, 58 percent of the students favored the change to a two-year program, and 97 percent favored increased amount of clinical experience in law school.

Georgetown University Pre-Law Society President and Founder Adam Kaldor (COL ’14) discussed the effects of switching to a two-year plan.

“It would cost a lot less obviously, although if they cut it down to two years, they’d probably make the school year longer and bring the cost up for each year. It’d still end up costing significantly less, I’m sure,” Kaldor said.

The change to a two-year program would remove the pressure for many law school graduates to pursue careers with large salaries to pay off student debt.

“Because people would have less student debt, they might be willing to go into the public sector and do more pro bono work or the types of law where you’re helping people and might make a little less money.

You might be a little more willing to do it since you’re not $150,000 plus in debt,” Kaldor said.

The idea to switch to a two-year model originated with President Barack Obama’s call for education reform.

“It was during a press conference and [the] president made an off-the-cuff remark and said that he would be in favor of law schools moving to a two-year model to get students out in the workforce sooner and make legal education more affordable for students,” Jeff Thomas, executive director of pre-law programs at Kaplan Test Prep, said.

Thomas discussed the implications of the change to add more clinical opportunities.

“Many schools have opportunities for an externship at their school, and a lot of law schools are offering even more of those by partnering with additional law firms or government agencies to let students practice with real clients,” Thomas said. “The change really comes down to finding more ways for students to get this kind of experience and maybe even mandating that students avail themselves of those particular clinical options.”

Kaldor demonstrated support for providing students with opportunities for clinical experience.

“I think it’s great because it gives you more hands-on experience. Clinics give you practice and prepare you for a job better,” Kaldor said.

However, any change to the law school curriculum cannot originate within law schools themselves because the curriculum

is set by the American Bar Association. “[A change] is not allowed because the American Bar Association has to mandate the regulation. The Bar Association will have to make a sweeping reform to what they mandate schools to do,” Thomas said.

However, Kaldor has doubts about the likelihood of such a large curriculum change.

“I think it [a switch to a two-year program] would be pretty hard to implement. A lot of schools are pretty set on their three-year program,” Kaldor said.

“The process for changing legal education is a fairly involved one. The American Bar Association has oversight given by the Department of Education to regulate what happens in law schools,” Thomas agreed.

The third year of law school has a much more open curriculum than the first two years — much of which would likely be cut if the change were made.

“In the first two years they tend to work you very hard, and the third year is generally pretty easy, although that’s also the year that people are doing clinics and law reviews, so the third year is a little bit up in the air and I could see why people may want to cut it out,” Kaldor said.

According to Kaplan, 319 Georgetown seniors applied to law school in their most recently recorded year. Kaldor favors law schools offering the option of a two-year program but not across-the-board change for all law schools.

Law students currently have the opportunity to graduate in two years by way of an accelerated program in which summer sessions are incorporated. However, they must take the same number of credits as the threeyear program requires.

Maggie Cleary (COL ’14), who will attend the University of Virginia School of Law in the fall, weighed in on the prospect of a twoyear program.

“A two year program may seem advantageous because you save a lot of money and you’ll go on to get a good job and get out of debt faster,” she said. “I’m 22, so one year’s difference isn’t that important for me, but I do see law school as more of a trade school, what with all of the intense studying and classroom time learning hard facts and approaches. That lends itself more to a two-year experience I think.”

However, Glenda Dieuveille (COL ’14), who plans to enroll at the Georgetown University Law Center in the fall, preferred the status quo.

“I’m not interested in a two-year program because it’s less time to make internship connections, to engage in networking. I just feel like it might be harder to find a job once out of school, especially considering the high supply of law school students,” Dieuveille said. “Also, I don’t like thinking of law school as a two-year trade school because law is more than a trade to me, it’s a way to become a better person and positively change my environment.”

While many private universities nationwide are rapidly growing their administrations, Georgetown is bucking the trend with just a 1.5 percent increase in its full-time staff-tofaculty ratio between the years 2003 and 2011.

Among member schools of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, a group of 33 of Georgetown’s peer institutions, there was an average 9.2 percent increase in this ratio during that period. The University of Notre Dame, which is not a member of the COFHE, is also included in this statistic.

President of the Faculty Senate Wayne Davis, who conducted a study on Georgetown’s administration’s growth, attributes Georgetown’s deviation from the national trend to the university’s priorities.

“All of our administrators have a keen sense of the importance of the academic mission here, and they’re not interested in padding their own budgets and making life good for themselves,” Davis said. “They really want to put every bit of resources we have into making the university better as a university.”

Per the COFHE, U.S. private colleges and universities experienced a 27.9 percent increase in the staff-to-faculty ratio and a 50 percent increase in the staffto-student ratio, on average, between 1989 and 2009.

Conversely, Georgetown’s staff-to-student ratio saw a 5.2 percent decrease between 2001 and 2011.

“It looks like the university is being run as effectively and as prudently as anyone could hope for,” Davis said.

By limiting the growth of the administration, the university is able to allocate more funds to its academic mission.

“We always try to maximize what we can do with our resources. With a need-blind, meet-full-need admissions policy, we have always striven to keep costs as low as possible,” Vice President for Finance David Rubenstein wrote in an email. “We also rigorously prioritize when it comes to spending decisions so that key academic needs are at the forefront.”

Although Georgetown’s administration is not expanding as rapidly as that of peer universities, aggregate salaries of fulltime staff increased by nearly $100 million between 2001 and 2011, a 76 percent increase. Aggregate full-time and part-time faculty salaries also experienced a significant 67 percent increase during this period, rising by about $70 million. The consumer price index rose by 27 percent during this time.

Additionally, student salaries rose on aggregate by 89 percent during this period, which the university views as a positive trend.

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grew faster than inflation, the wage rate in Washington, D.C., increased by 45 percent between 2001 and 2011. Since the university tends to recruit staff locally and recruit faculty nationally, the D.C. wage rate has had a greater impact on staff salaries.

“In order to remain competitive with other employers, we need to fund staff salaries so that we compete effectively for recruiting and retaining staff,” Rubenstein said.

The university had a 34 percent increase in student population from 2001 to 2011, influencing staff and faculty salaries.

The university is also committed to cutting costs by utilizing technological advances.

“We try to take advantage of new technologies in an ongoing way,” Rubenstein wrote. “For example, we have been moving key administrative information systems related to human resources, benefits, pay roll and finances to cloud-based services, which means we no longer have to run mainframe computers.”

Despite Davis’ findings about the low rate of administrative growth, many Georgetown faculty members believe that a disproportionate amount of funding is actually directed towards growing the school’s administration.

At an adjunct professor’s panel in February, theology professor Ori Soltes expressed his displeasure with administrative financial influence and discredited the opinion that both administrators and adjuncts are contributing to a lower quality of collegiate education.

“Don’t put the fat that universities endure, made of administrative, overfed individuals ... in the same pot with adjunct faculty, that is dedicated, that is underpaid and that, for the most part, provides students with a fine education,” Soltes said.

However, Davis refutes this claim.

“If you go to random faculty on the street, they’re all going to say that one of the big problems here is that we have a huge increase in the number of administrators and that’s where all the money is going. That just isn’t true,” Davis said. “When you look at the aggregate data that actually hasn’t been the case. It’s good news for everybody that the money is being spent well.”

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With Tillman Partnership, GU Enables Veterans GENE CHOI

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This year Georgetown has joined the ranks of 14 other American universities after officially partnering with the Pat Tillman Foundation in order to offer select student veterans a scholarship as part of the Tillman Military Scholarship Program.

“The goal [of the program] is to help our current generation of military veterans excel in their efforts to become leaders and serve our communities and our nation,” Georgetown Veterans Office Coordinator David Shearman said.

Tillman was a NFL safety for the Arizona Cardinals, before enlisting with the United States Army Rangers in 2002, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He served two tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan before dying by friendly fire on his second deployment to Afghanistan. Tillman was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action.

Established soon after his death in 2004, the Pat Tillman Foundation has

played a major role in investing in military veterans and their spouses through supporting their education.

“If you think about it, the goals the Pat Tillman Foundation has for its TMS program—academic excellence, character, leadership and service to the nation and the community — go hand in hand with Georgetown’s Jesuit values,” Shearman said. “So it makes sense that Georgetown and the Tillman Foundation would want to support each other in those goals.”

Georgetown’s partnership with the Pat Tillman Foundation reflects an increasing trend of veterans becoming more interested in pursuing their academic goals at the highest level.

“Veterans have been traditionally underrepresented at the nation’s top undergraduate private schools, but that is beginning to change,” Georgetown University Student Veterans Association President Zach Zimmerman (MSB ’14) said. “Veterans are becoming more interested in schools they previously thought were unattainable to them, which is probably why Georgetown is

trying to make the financial process more accommodating to this new demographic of applicant.”

The Pat Tillman Foundation has provided a total of $4.6 million to 290 military students from 85 different universities. The foundation hopes to help potential leaders cultivate their skills and intellect with this financial aid.

“The Tillman partnership can help veterans take advantage of increased opportunities without the possibility of accruing upwards of $100,000 in debt,” Zimmerman, who served in the Marine Corps from 2006 to 2010 in Iraq and Afghanistan, said.

Beyond the financial aspect, the scholars program provides diverse summits, workshops and community service activities that instill a spirit of leadership and service in participants.

“This scholarship is not just about the money,” Shearman said. “It’s about investing in a diverse group of leaders who are committed to serving others.”

Each year, 60 students are selected as Tillman Military Scholars from the thousands that apply. Georgetown an-

ticipates a significant number of veteran students will apply.

“The response I’ve received so far indicates that we will have a very strong applicant pool of Georgetown students this year,” Shearman said.

University individuals have applied for the scholarship since it opened in 2009, but this year marks the formalization of the university’s relationship with the foundation. Six Georgetown students have been designated TMS scholars in the past. Among the requirements for university partners is that the institution must have an active veteran student organization, support services designed for veterans and provide counseling, psychological and disability services.

In 2012, David Dixon (GRD ’15), Alex Brown (MBA ’13) and Brandon Stone (LAW ’15) received Tillman scholarships for Georgetown studies, while alumni Dan Feehan (SFS ’05), Peter Koziol (GRD ’06) and Kathleen Merkl (SFS ’05) won scholarships to fund degrees at other institutions. Dixon felt his graduate education would be beneficial to his work

in the Marine Corps.

“Although service members swear on their lives to defend the Constitution, many don’t know the fundamentals of our representative republic,” Dixon, a doctoral candidate in political science, said in a Georgetown press release.

This partnership strengthens Georgetown’s efforts to help veteran students achieve their academic goals and learn leadership skills in a civilian setting.

“This partnership with the Tillman Military Scholars program is a good indicator that Georgetown has made significant progress in providing support to veteran and military students in the last several years,” Shearman said.

Georgetown also has plans to create a Veterans Resource Center on campus, which will provide more staff and resources to assist veterans.

“The university’s administration has been an incredible partner for GUSVA and has been receptive all of our veteran initiatives,” Zimmerman said.

“This partnership is Georgetown not only saying ‘we accept veterans’ but ‘we want veterans.’”

United Feminists’ Week Mitchell Professorship Awarded Fosters Sex Positivity CARLY GRAF

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MADDY MOORE

Special to The Hoya

United Feminists are in the midst of an annual Sex-Positive Week at Georgetown University, which runs from Feb. 26 to March 5.

The week is dedicated to conversations and events about sex-positive feminism, where students are free to express their sexual selves and learn about others’ expressions of sexuality.

Established in 2009, Sex-Positive Week has been an annual event for the United Feminists, and initially drew ire from groups such as the Knights of Columbus. Despite past controversy, United Feminists has retained its Student Activities Commission funding.

“We are trying to make it seem like that’s the norm. We feel like our presence is needed and we will work harder with the administrators to keep our spot here on campus. ... We’re not going anywhere,” United Feminists Co-chair Sofia Ladner (NHS ’16) said.

This year’s coordinators worked to make their presence felt through several events and advertising.

“With Sex-Positive Week we definitely are just trying to make an open dialogue about consent. We know that that’s really difficult here on campus with a Catholic identity,” United Feminists Co-chair Kimberly Blair (COL ’15) said.

“We are not promoting sex; we are promoting expression, consent and dialogue.”

The theme of sex positivity also allows the week to address other issues that might be avoided on campus.

“What sex positivity talks about is some of the things we shy away from [like] talking about sex workers and workers’ rights, talking about transgender and sexuality ... just a matter of talking about it and getting more knowledge,” Ladner said.

The week began with a social media campaign that included hashtags like #HoyaSexa, #SexPositiveWeek and #SexPositive. The hashtag campaign occurred on both Facebook and Twitter but did not receive the response United Feminists expected.

“It was not the full-fledged response that we wanted. Right now, it’s a big campaign week, so we were competing with a lot of other hashtags,” Blair said. “A lot of people are still afraid to address sex positivity.”

United Feminists also led a trip Saturday to Jordin’s Paradise, a studio that offers a pole fitness class. Around 20 students participated in the class, which was followed by a discussion on exhibitionism and a performance from the instructor at the end.

The week also features a movie showing of “Our Bodies, Our Minds” on Tuesday night followed by a discussion with Kathleen Guidroz, a professor in the sociology department. The movie focuses on feminists who work in the adult entertainment industry, ranging from prostitutes to exotic dancers. The narratives from the women in the movie serve to demonstrate the unusual perspective of these women and their emphasis on freedom of expression.

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A pole-dancing class was one of the featured events during Sex-Positive Week.

“One thing we need to keep in mind is that people’s experiences in the sex industry are never entirely negative nor are they entirely positive,” Guidroz said. “[The industry] is not something that should be seen as shameful or inherently wrong.”

The United Feminists and Guidroz hope that the discussion will give students a more educated look at the sex industry and just encourage conversation around the topic.

“I hope people come out and watch the film and listen to what the individuals in the film have to say about their experiences. ... [Sex positivity] is more than college students talking about college students’ sexuality, but [is] also a larger social issue with people like sex workers,” Guidroz said.

The final event of Sex-Positive Week is GSPOT-light, an open-mike night at Uncommon Grounds on Wednesday evening. The night is dedicated to conversation about self-expression and sexuality.

“We just want it to be known that if you come to this spot, you can just have self-expression. You can perform a Beyoncé song, your own poem or just say the word ‘sex.’ We just want to make people feel liberated and positive about the issue,” Ladner said.

Some students felt that although the week brings important topics to light, discussion should not be restricted to a particular timeframe.

“I think it’s a great idea, I think that generally feminism is not something that leaves an English classroom discussion, and it’s good that it’s being talked about … in terms of social light,” Eliza McCurdy (COL ’17) said. “But obviously, the classic complaint about that is it’s something that shouldn’t be restricted to a certain week or to a certain amount of time, it should be something that eventually becomes regular and normal.”

Multiple members of the Knights of Columbus declined to comment for this article.

Volunteers Needed for Tanning Research!

Are you a woman between the ages of 18 and 30 who has used an indoor tanning bed in the past year?

Researchers at Georgetown University are looking for young adult women to volunteer for a research study about tanning and skin cancer risk. The principal investigator is Dr. Darren Mays, PhD, MPH. The purpose of the study is to learn more about how young adult women use indoor tanning beds and how that may relate to skin cancer risk.

What’s Involved?

• Females ages 18 to 25 who have used a tanning bed or other indoor tanning device • Complete a brief online survey • Some will be asked to provide a DNA sample and complete up to two telephone interviews • Receive up to $70 in gift cards for your time

Interested? Please email habit@georgetown.edu or call (202) 784-2202

Georgetown University Law Center recently announced the establishment of the Honorable George J. Mitchell, L’61 Professorship in Law and Public Policy.

The professorship was created to commemorate Mitchell’s time at Georgetown, as well as his subsequent career in public service as a Democratic senator from Maine.

Professor of constitutional law David Cole was selected to serve as the inaugural professor.

“It’s a huge honor to be selected for this chair,” Cole said. “Sen. Mitchell is one of Georgetown’s superstars, a national hero and perhaps the most important international peacemaker of our time.”

The professorship will honor the work of Sen. Mitchell (DM.E.), one of the nation’s most respected public servants. Mitchell spent 15 years as U.S. Senator from Maine, acting as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 until his departure in 1995. Some of his efforts include the 1990 reauthorization of the Clean Air Act, the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the cre-

ation of a low-income housing tax credit program.

The professorship will be endowed through the donations of J. Clifford Hudson (LAW ’80), CEO of Sonic Corp., and Lee Miller (LAW ’73), global co-chairman of DLA Piper.

Miller emphasized his support for the professorship in light of Sen. Mitchell’s distinguished legacy.

“Sen. Mitchell has worked tirelessly to advance the cause of human rights and to seek creative solutions to global issues,” Miller said in a press release. “His lifelong work reflects Georgetown Law’s values and underlying principles of commitment to public service and active engagement in the global community.”

After his time in the Senate, Mitchell went on to serve as a special advisor to President Clinton, ultimately brokering the Good Friday Agreement between Ireland, the United Kingdom and the political parties in Northern Ireland. Mitchell currently serves as partner and chairman emeritus at DLA Piper.

“It’s more than a bit daunting to assume a chair associated with such an accomplished and respected man. I only hope I can

live up to its name,” Cole said.

Law School Dean William M. Treanor voiced his support for Cole’s selection.

“David is a superb choice to fill this professorship. We are all proud to have David as our colleague,” Treanor said in a press release.

Cole has taught at Georgetown Law since 1990 as a professor of constitutional law, national security and criminal justice. Known for his commitment to public justice and his advocacy for civil liberties, Cole has briefed or argued in seven Supreme Court cases. Additionally, he does pro bono litigation and regularly writes for The New York Review of Books and The Nation.

Cole said that he recognizes the opportunity this professorship presents and hopes to use it to further Georgetown’s hallmark values of social justice.

“I will continue to teach, write and advocate for justice for the most vulnerable,” Cole said. “I am deeply grateful to Georgetown for its Jesuit-based commitment to justice.”

Originally scheduled for Mar. 3, Cole’s inaugural address has been postponed until further notice due to inclement weather.

New Look, Goals for GUPD DPS, from A1 safety and security as a police department.”

Since Gruber’s tenure as chief began, the department has seen a marked reduction in non-arrest alcohol violations, from 444 violations recorded in 2010 under the leadership of former Chief of Police Rocco DelMonaco to 211 violations in 2012.

The decrease in alcohol violations is part of the university’s recent efforts to curb off-campus social life through the elimination of the single keg limit for on-campus parties and the institution of a policy allowing of-age students to consume alcohol in the outdoor areas of Village A and Henle Village.

As alcohol violations decrease, burglary rates have been on the rise, with burglary reports increasing from only 20 reports in 2007 to 27 reports in 2009 and 55 reports in 2012. According to Gruber, however, reports have recently declined, which he attributes to GUPD’s efforts to inform students and parents about the importance of locking doors.

“I know that recently our burglary numbers have gone down quite a bit because of the multifaceted approach that we’ve taken to reduce the number of burglaries,” he said.

Gruber feels that GUPD’s perception among Georgetown students has changed for the better.

When Gruber was hired, the department eliminated the position of Vice President for Safety, which had overseen public safety, environmental health and safety and emergency management, in favor of more direct relationships between the department and university leadership.

“I think that was to reduce a layer of accountability, reduce a layer of communication, I think the university thought there was too many layers between the key players and university leadership,” Gruber said. “I’m very comfortable with the way it is now. I like having direct rapport among the university’s leadership.”

Environmental health and safety and emergency management were placed under the authority of Chief Operating Officer Chris Augostini, and Gruber’s position was placed directly under

Vice President for Public Affairs Erik Smulson. “[Gruber] has been responsive and engaged with students through the Student Safety Advisory Board and regular meetings with GUSA leadership. He has done an outstanding job balancing the concerns of students and our neighbors as the co-chair of the Georgetown Community Partnership Committee on Safety and Student Life,” Smulson wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “We’ve had very little negative interaction with students and student leadership. There was a perception that we are ‘party breakers’ in the past, but I think the perception has changed in the past 18 months,” Gruber said.

Gruber also identified neighborhood relations as an area he sought to improve.

“We’ve established a far better relationship with the neighbors over the past year as there’s been improved and more coherent communication to us from them.

They use the university help line to get information across officers and neighbors very quickly, which prompts a much faster response. I think this helped a lot,” Gruber said.

ANC Neighborhood Commissioner Craig Cassey (COL ’15) testified to the progressive relationship between the Georgetown neighborhood and GUPD. “Regarding how DPS is viewed by the community, most neighbors recognize them for what they are — extra feet on the ground ensuring students and other community members are safe. The work DPS does benefits all, and the community at large seems to appreciate that,” Cassey wrote in an email.

Irene Kim (SFS ’14) remembered disliking DPS as a freshman, but said that as an off-campus resident she has cultivated an appreciation for their work..

“I think the student-DPS relationship has become one of mutual tolerance over the past four years. As an underage freshman, I used to resent them for crashing parties, but I admit it’s reassuring to have them watching over us now that I’m living off-campus,” Kim said.

Gruber credited improved community and student engagement to initiatives such as bi-

semester student roundtables in partnership with GUSA. The police chief has already participated in two forums during the 2013-14 school year and is expected to take part in the third installation of the forum, to be held March 5 in Sellinger Lounge.

“Some of the changes that have come after I’ve been here, I’m just working to better community relationships, community partnerships… there’s crime, but make the university feel like a more inviting place for students to live and students to learn. I want students to be on campus and feel comfortable,” Gruber said.

According to GUSA Undersecretary of Student Safety and Health Guillaume Cossard (COL ’14), Gruber’s participation in on-campus activities, such as the dunk tank on Georgetown Day 2013 and the creation of a dormliaison program to partner GUPD officers with designated dorms, speak to Gruber’s perception as an interactive chief.

“Gruber’s very, very receptive of student voice and student reporting, and he’s absolutely working for us, in my opinion, more so than the administration.

He values really highly what the students have to say, and he’s trying to be less of an enforcer,” Cossard said.

Michael Ng (COL ’15) said that he has noticed an improvement in GUPD interactions with students recently.

“Their Code of Conduct and the way they approach students has improved. When I was a freshman, they didn’t seem to conduct themselves as professionally as I hoped they did. They lost their patience a lot, but now that’s changed,” Ng said.

Not every student, however, has seen Gruber’s influence across all levels of the department. Micaela Deitch (COL ’15) recounted an uncomfortable experience she had with a GUPD officer recently.

“A DPS officer was giving me a ride once, and there were a lot of students out in the street drinking, and he was making a lot of disparaging remarks, and I think he like called one a moron, and even though he wasn’t mean towards me, he was very I didn’t like his attitude towards students,” Deitch said.

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Students Arrested in XL Dissent Protest #DBKGU KEYSTONE, from A1 pumping up to 830,000 barrels of tar-sands oil a day.

The group primarily responsible for organizing the protest, XL Dissent, calls tar-sands oil an “absolute [ecological] disaster” on its website and is opposed to the pipeline and its subsequent transportation of large amounts of oil through American communities for fear of spills and irreparable ecological harm.

The protest, which was nonviolent, started at Georgetown as a symbolic gesture toward President Barack Obama’s speech on climate change, delivered from the steps of Old North in June.

Michael Greenberg, a sophomore at Columbia University and one of the key organizers of XL Dissent, traveled with 20 other Columbia students to D.C. for the weekend.

“These events are crucial … but it is to say that Obama’s rhetoric has been less than truthful and his rhetoric hasn’t matched his actions, and it’s things like this that are so crucial for holding him accountable,” Greenberg told The Hoya.

XL Dissent’s rhetoric runs contrary to a State Department report released in January, claiming that the construction of the pipeline would not significantly alter greenhouse gas emissions and that transporting oil through the pipeline would be a safer and more ecologically sound alternative than moving the oil by rail.

Obama, who has remained mostly mum on the construction of the pipeline, is set to make his decision within the coming months after the State Department concludes its assessment of the proposed pipeline and Secretary of State John Kerry makes his suggestion.

Chris Wager (SFS ’17) of GU Fossil Free saw the XL Dissent protest as a way to get involved with something he felt passionate about after coming to Georgetown from Houston, Texas, a city connected to the oil business through its large port and numerous refineries.

“I’ve always been into environmental movements and climate justice, especially coming from Houston where the oil business is huge and a lot of poorer communities are being affected,” Wager said. “I’ve seen where these people live, and how there’s this huge refinery within a football field of where their kids go out and play.”

Wager, who saw the protest’s

starting point — just minutes from where he lives in New South — as a selling point to participating, lamented the seemingly small turnout of Georgetown students. According to Wager, the 10 students who participated are all involved in GU Fossil Free.

“Since it was starting five minutes from where I sleep, it was, for me, a chance I really couldn’t pass up,” Wager said. “I would have liked to see more people from Georgetown, but I’m not sure why there seems to be this ambivalence toward climate issues on the Georgetown campus.”

Caroline James (COL ’16), also a member of GU Fossil Free, echoed Wager’s disappointment with the number of Georgetown students in attendance, highlighting that of the 10 who marched in the protest, only three were arrested — herself included.

“I would have liked to see larger turnout, especially since there were students who came from all over the country in busloads,” James said.

Varshini Prakash, a junior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a lead organizer for XL Dissent, started the march by addressing the crowd that had assembled in Red Square by megaphone.

“Pollution, violence, starvation — all of these will only be exacerbated if we allow this pipeline to take its course,” Prakash said. “We have an opportunity to fight for the health and the security and the survival of people everywhere. … This is what we’re truly fighting for.”

Prakash said her passion for environmental activism began with her participation in an earlier Keystone XL protest in February 2013 and has since taken off.

“This is the first youth civil disobedience we’ve had focused on students.We are the frontline communities for the future of climate change,” Prakash told The Hoya. “I see this as the beginning of what’s going to be a pretty intense fight for young people and their fight for their future.”

The protest route traveled from the university along O Street, before making its way to Wisconsin Avenue. From there the march traveled along M Street, eventually connecting to Pennsylvania Avenue and arriving at the White House at 11:30 a.m. According to Greenberg, XL Dissent, with the help of D.C. Action Lab, had acquired the proper permits for the protest and had the Metropolitan Police Department block off inter-

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Three hundred and seventy-one participants were arrested in XL Dissent, which travelled from Red Square to the White House. sections along the protest route.

Jenna deBoisblanc, a native of New Orleans, La., and a recent college graduate, has co-founded two environmental nonprofits: 350 Nola and 350 Louisiana. After surviving Hurricane Katrina in 2005, deBoisblanc began lobbying for the environment in any way possible.

“I went to any and every climate change protest I could,” deBoisblanc said. “Now, the movement is accelerating.

For the protest, deBoisblanc dressed as Captain Planet from the popular 1990s cartoon of the same name and expressed interest in getting arrested by the end of the day.

“More arrests get attention,” deBoisblanc said. “It empowers people.”

By 6 p.m. deBoisblanc was one of the 371 arrested in front of the White House, while James was number 340.

“A lot of the people whose justice we’re fighting for and who will be affected by this pipeline could not afford to be at the protest today. I felt like what I was doing was the least of what I could possibly do for these people,” James said. “Even though we were tired and cold and wet it was still very empowering.”

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Petition Pushes SAVRAA ASSAULT, from A1 Organization for Women, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center and Collective Action for Safe Spaces, “This is really a chance for survivors to have their voices heard in the process, which isn’t something that happens often,” CASS Communications Director Renee Davidson said.

Kucik stressed MPD’s commitment to creating a safe space for sexual assault victims to work within the system.

“The department is willing and trying to change what we need to change to make our investigations better and to ensure that victims are treated properly during our investigative process,” Kucik said.

Susan Mottet, president of the D.C. chapter of the National Organization for Women, expressed skepticism that the MPD is engaging in thorough case review and appropriately investigating cases.

“The point is the cases are not being all documented appropriately and investigated appropriately, and until that happens, we have rapists running around loose on our streets with impunity and no one is safe,” Mottet said.

Kucik, however, said that MPD has made improvements in regard to how the department handles sexual assault cases.

“Upping our training is one big thing, and then we’ve also looked at our personnel, members we believe probably not a best fit for a sexual assault unit. We are putting them elsewhere and replacing people with other detectives that we think are a better fit for a sexual assault unit,” Kucik said Kusik responded to DCJSC’s three amendments, taking issue with the rigidity of the amendment that would allow no exceptions to the victim’s right to an advocate.

“We’re not married to the language that’s in there right

now about the exception. We just want to still have some flexibility for those — we just can’t always predict what’ll happen,” Kucik said. “If somehow an advocate began to interfere with an interview or something, we would just want to have something where we’d have something in place to deal with it.”

Mottet stood by the amendment’s necessity.

“A trained advocate wouldn’t create any problems with the process or the bill,” Mottet said.

According to Kucik, while MPD is in full support of the case review requirement delineated in the petition, the department is still in the process of figuring out how to approach it more efficiently.

“At the end of the day, we agreed for the review, to do

uting the petition.

“The mission of WiP is to advocate and empower women in and outside of the political sphere both on campus and off campus. WiP felt that passing along the petition urging the D.C. Council to pass SAVRAA was not only well within the bounds of our goals for the organization, but it was also necessary,” Corcoran wrote in an email.

Jha’s petition has reached 236 signatures, and it will continue to be circulated until early April.

“I think this will actually make a pretty big impact, and I think it’s been pretty successful just because in a smaller locality like D.C., city council members pay a lot more attention when they get petitions with several hundred signatures or over a thousand signatures because it isn’t common to see petitions of that magnitude,” Peterson said.

Women’s Center Director Laura Kovach also voiced her support SUSAN MOTTET for SAVRAA. President of the D.C. chapter of NOW “Statistically, we the review. We’re totally on know that women aged 16 to 24 experience sexual assault board with that,” Kucik said.

Sexual Assault Peer Educa- at rates higher than any other tor and president of College population based on age. We Democrats Chandini Jha have a large number of col(COL ’16) created a simplified lege campuses in the District, version of DCJSC’s petition and there needs to be a comon Change.org to circulate mitment to services, resources around Georgetown to raise and justice for survivors, and awareness of SAVRAA among SAVRAA is a step in the right direction for everyone, includcollege students.

“For now, I think that both ing our college students,” Koof our petitions have kind of vach wrote in an email.

Davidson expressed optithe same overarching goal of getting SAVRAA passed. I mism about DCJSC’s relationcreated this student petition ship with MPD moving forbecause I wanted to really get ward.

“There have been promisstudents informed on the issue and get signatures in a ing signs. We think that they way that’s more efficient than have an understanding that I think what the DC Survivor’s the community really, really is expressing a need for this, petition is,” Jha said.

Alyssa Peterson (COL ’14), so I am hopeful, and I am who advocated for the pas- hopeful that they will pull sage of the Violence Against through in this, but we will Women Act last year, ap- see when the bill gets marked proached Women in Politics up … and that’s when we’ll Co-President Kayla Corcoran know for sure where folks (COL ’15) on behalf of College stand on the issue,” Davidson Democrats for help in distrib- said.

“We have rapists running around loose on our streets with impunity.”

College in Vermont saw being arrested as the only way to provide a clear message to stop the construction of the pipeline.

“We need to escalate it. I’m coming here today because we’ve exhausted the traditional modes of creative change, we’ve written letters and called our legislators. … It’s not enough to get change on infrastructure projects like the Keystone Pipeline,” Johnson-Kurts said. “The tactics have to match the scale of the issue.”

Protesters who were arrested had to pay $50 bail, with some waiting more than six hours before being cut off the fence and processed by the police.

“This was an opportunity to make a statement very peacefully and get the attention of President Obama,” James said. “If everything worked the way it was supposed to with our government this direct action wouldn’t be necessary.”

On Monday, XL Dissent protested in San Francisco with plans to continue until its voice is heard by the administration.

“The question is, whether Keystone gets approved or not, what’s the battle going to be next?” deBoisblanc said.

Special to The Hoya Hannah Post contributed reporting.

Sorority at Georgetown, among other accomplishments. “There’s a bigger message behind it, and I don’t know who it might reach and I don’t know who it might affect, but it’s just to, once again, for people to gain awareness for all the successes that we have in the black community, so I just shared it.”

This effort comes on the heels of December’s Being Black at Georgetown University, or #BBGU, Twitter protest, which spawned similar movements in the university’s Latino, Asian and disabled communities.

“It was really overwhelming with all the notifications, people sharing pictures, people liking pictures, so I guess I was surprised by how many people approved of the event,” Celeste Gee (NHS ’14), who helped put participants’ descriptions together, said.

The campaign, which also features portraits of nine non-black allies without accompanying descriptions, received widespread support.

“It brought the black community really close together because everyone was really involved in it, and it also gave people who aren’t black the opportunity to get to meet different people,” Corbin-Johnson said.

The Dangerous Black Kids of Georgetown University page launched at a time that other social media campaigns, such as #itooamharvard, seek to create dialogue about racial issues on college campuses.

“It’s been really awesome because I feel like the photographs in juxtaposition with the information that we provide about each student are very empowering, especially because of all these social media campaigns that are currently being led by various universities,” said Cat Skolnick (COL ’14), an ally who took photographs of the participants. “It’s kind of cool to be part of that greater movement.”

However, Georgetown’s adaption of the theme focused on positive accomplishments of black students, rather than experiences with discrimination or racism, which has been the focus of other movements nationwide and was part of #BBGU. “This is more about our successes and our accomplishments, which I like,” Maduike said.

Going forward, those involved hope to continue the social media campaign and possibly start events associated with #DBKGU. “I just want to bring this even more closely to campus, just doing things like maybe taking over Red Square and putting the pictures on the walls, and just have the hashtag there and one sentence just describing what we’re doing, so it’s kind of a satirical campaign. And then hopefully getting other campuses involved like [American University] or Howard [University],” Corbin-Johnson said. “It’s just a campaign to paint black people in a good light.”

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Philosophers Differ in Defining Moral Certainty Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

Associate professor of theology Terrence Reynolds discussed the ambiguity of moral certainty in a world of diverse perceptions for the 40th anniversary lecture of the Liberal Studies Program in the Faculty Club on Friday evening.

Reynolds highlighted the difference in conclusions reached by profound thinkers, such as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, who used reason to try to search for morality.

“With these three thinkers relying on reason alone, you end up with three very, very different ethical theories. So if you were to say, lets find the common ground in reason, the three finest thinkers of whom I’m aware wind up in different places,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds said that religion, used as the basis for searching for morality, cannot unravel these differences.

“You could say instead, let’s not rely upon reason alone, let’s go into the source of real certainty and rely upon a god of some kind to get us to moral certainty. Of course, the problem with that would be on which god you want to rely,” Reynolds said.

He also spoke about the problem of relying on your conscience in order to make moral decisions because your conscience may not be reliable. He told a story of a childhood friend named Fred who would steal cars but rationalize it by saying that he “borrowed cars.” Later on in life, Fred’s conscience changed and he once again thought

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Terrence Reynolds delivered the Liberal Studies Program’s anniversary lecture.

it was wrong.

“For a long time, Fred’s conscience thought that borrowing cars was wrong. He went through some discomfort changing that position. Once he moved to borrowing cars, his conscience rationalized, justified, he wasn’t really stealing cars he was borrowing, and it was not a big deal and he felt comfortable,” Reynolds said.

This malleability led Reynolds to question its reliability.

“So when you and I realize our conscience is the final judge, the final arbiter in what you and I will do in life, the question you ask is really how reliable is it? Can you really trust your conscience?” Reynolds said.

Reynolds claims these differing conceptual schemes have moral implications.

“So now we say, the moral life then becomes much more complicated because in a sense, when we realize that there are people who see the world in ways I don’t see them because they don’t interpret the world the way I interpret it,” Reynolds said. “In the midst of all that, if you and I have different theoretical bases for ethics, we have different practical responses to questions, if we have different conceptual schemes, how in the world can we talk about moral certainty?”

His solution to this uncertainty is to approach truth by experiencing and embracing the diversity of concepts and views of different people.

“I could take into my own understanding concepts more like the ones I’m listening to. I can take in new ideas,” Reynolds said. “I don’t want to say that you therefore find the moral truth, but I want to say you approximate more and more in that way something resembling authenticity.

You’re not just a product of someone else’s thinking.”

Attendee Warren Wilson (SFS ’15) agreed with Reynolds’ critique of the idea that morality and ethics are clear-cut and final.

“I think professor Reynolds was right to criticize the very naive perceptions that things are simple,” Wilson said.

Wilson additionally questioned the political implications of this moral ambiguity.

“If we are all so very different, how do you make policy decisions and how do you adjudicate because we are not all pulled in one direction?” Wilson said.

Another attendee, Agree Ahmed (SFS ’15), enjoyed Reynolds’ discussion on conscience because he has not had the chance to discuss this subject in his classes.

“You are exposed to a lot of discussion centered around reason, but it hasn’t been, at least in my academic experience, brought back to the conscience and the fact that there is like that kind of inner dialogue and you think about your actions through that rather than through reason or like logic,” Ahmed said.

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The School of Nursing and Health Studies Academic Council, pictured above, raised nearly $8,000 by holding a gala to benefit Saint Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School in Kenya.

Benefit Gala Raises $8K Kelly McKenna Special to The Hoya

The School of Nursing and Health Studies Academic Council held a gala in Copley Formal Lounge to benefit Saint Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 22.

Founded in 2003 by Fr. Terry Charlton, S.J., St. Al’s supports children affected by HIV and AIDS. “Over the years, fellow Jesuits, faculty and staff from Georgetown have gotten to know Fr. Terry and have had the opportunity to visit the school and bring back to our campus information about the good work that is being done in Nairobi,” NHS Associate Dean for Enrollment Management Marianne Lyons said.

All of the children had lost at least one parent to the disease and are in situations of financial instability as a result, according to NHS Academic Council co-Chair Antonia Kopp (NHS ’14).

In addition to bestowing full tuition scholarships on many, St. Al’s provides all students with meals, uniforms and books. The annual cost to send a student to St. Al’s is $1,200. In the past several

years, the school has grown significantly, from 56 students to a current figure of nearly 270 students. The school has the capacity to instruct over 400 students.

Georgetown programs, often affiliated with the Medical Center, have attempted to ameliorate the AIDS crisis, abroad and in the District. The university also played host to The Global Fund’s conference on medical epidemics, including HIV/AIDS, in December, amid President Barack Obama’s commitment of up to $5 billion of U.S. funds to AIDS relief.

“After the four years there [in Kenya], a lot of the students go on to go to college here [in the U.S.], but they are expected to come back in the long run and settle in Kenya.

They also have to do a period of service in the community,” said Kopp.

In January, the NHS Academic Council partnered with the Georgetown AIDS Coalition to host the Unity Live event, featuring various oncampus performing groups.

The concert was able to collect more than $2,200 from ticket sales, enough to fund tuition for two students at St. Al’s.

The council’s goal was to

raise enough money, through its various events, to send eight students to St. Al’s. The second annual gala, which attracted close to 200 students, raised nearly $8,000 in ticket sales, nearly reaching the desired amount of $10,000.

“Both this year and last year we had a past student from St. Al’s come and speak. This year we had someone from Milwaukee who is a past graduate and is working as a nurse now,” NHS Academic Council co-Chair Jamie Schlarbaum (NHS ’15) said.

Both Kopp and Schlarbaum discussed how they were excited that so many students outside of the NHS came to the event this year.

“We are trying to make this a campus-wide effort, and we want everyone to feel included,” Schlarbaum said.

In the coming months, there are plans to host another donor event to try to raise more money for the school.

Donations will go directly toward the funding of scholarships, uniforms and food.

“Our connection with St. Al’s directly reflects our school’s values of excellence, respect and diversity, social justice and value of the common good,” Lyons said.

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Freshman pitcher David Ellingson has made three appearences this season for the Hoyas. He has allowed four runs and 10 hits in 14 innings of relief for Georgetown.

Poor Pitching Dooms Hoyas Nadav Senensieb Special to The Hoya

The road continued to be unkind to the Georgetown baseball team this past weekend as it dropped all three games at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Hoyas (3-6) lost 7-1, 14-3 and 10-9 as the pitching staff struggled without ace redshirt junior Jack Vander Linden, who seems unlikely to return this season from his elbow injury.

Pitching in Vander Linden’s normal spot in the rotation Friday was sophomore pitcher Matt Smith. Smith started out strong, giving up no runs and allowing only one base hit in the first two innings. He faltered in the third and fourth innings, however, giving up a total of eight base hits and five earned runs. Smith also did not have a strikeout against UNCGreensboro (5-5) after setting his career high with seven in his last start against Hartford.

Meanwhile, the offense did little to help Smith’s losing effort, collecting only five hits — all singles — and scoring just one run on an error by Spartan senior third baseman Sean Guite.

Sophomore catcher Nick Collins and senior first baseman Steve Anderson each had two singles, while junior shortstop Ryan Busch added a single and scored the Hoyas’ lone run. Busch was one of the lone bright spots for the Hoyas this weekend, scoring a run in each game.

“He’s coming around,” Head Coach Pete Wilk said. “Last year he had some wrist injuries, which really hindered his swing, so I think he’s still getting back to form. He should be a big part of the offense when he gets back into his groove.”

The home team again took advantage of weak Georgetown

pitching Saturday, as junior Will Brown and four relievers gave up 18 base hits — including seven extra-base hits — and 14 runs. Brown made it through just three innings and allowed two runs in each. Sophomore Felix van der Vaart and sophomore Jordan Chudacoff did not provide much relief, giving up a combined eight runs as the game turned into a rout.

“Saturday’s game was a nightmare. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong,” Wilk said.

The Hoyas appeared to have turned things around Sunday when they jumped out to a 4-0 lead after two innings. Senior left fielder Patrick Camporini, freshman second baseman Jake Kuzbel and Busch all contributed RBI doubles in the second inning. After UNC-Greensboro scored two runs of its own in the bottom half of the second, Georgetown responded with two more runs in the third on an sacrifice fly by Camporini and a RBI double by sophomore center fielder Evan Ryan.

However, six runs were not enough support for freshman pitcher Chris Giordano, who was making the first start of his career in place of the injured Vander Linden. Giordano gave up eight runs — five earned — in 2 1/3 innings, with six of the runs coming in the third. Freshman pitcher David Ellingson came in to relieve Giordano and gave up one run in 4 1/3 innings to keep the Hoyas within striking distance.

“David’s had a good start to his career,” Wilk said. “Yesterday was his rockiest outing. He was up in the zone and didn’t throw as many strikes as he did the first two outings he had. He’s still proved to be a tough kid to hit.”

Along with poor pitching, defensive struggles were an ongoing theme for the Hoyas.

Throughout the weekend, Georgetown committed six errors — four on Sunday — which lead to seven unearned runs for UNC-Greensboro.

“We haven’t put all three aspects of the game together at one point anytime during the first nine games,” Wilk said. “That’s what we have to do to become a consistently good baseball team, and we haven’t been able to do it yet. Yesterday we hit but we didn’t play defense. We made four errors. If we just made one of the plays, we would have won the game.”

Trailing 9-7 entering the eighth inning, the Hoyas were able to tie the game with the help of two errors by the Spartans. Kuzbel scored on an error

by Spartan junior right fielder Nick Chapman before senior right fielder Christian Venditti evened it up with an RBI single to the third baseman to score Busch.

“I was really proud of [the comeback]. That was something that gave me a lot of hope through a tough weekend,” Wilk said. “We never quit. We kept battling. For us to show up on Sunday and play like we did was very impressive. It was a strong showing of character.”

The hope, unfortunately, was short-lived. Sophomore pitcher Tim Davis gave up a homerun to the first batter he faced to give the lead back to the Spartans in the bottom of the eighth. The Hoyas got two men on with no outs in the ninth, but freshman outfielder Beau Hall struck out and Kuzbel grounded into a double play, and the game ended 10-9.

The Hoyas will look to end their three game slide when they return to the field Wednesday against Navy. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. in Annapolis, Md.

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Men Thrashed by Bearcats Madeline Auerbach Hoya Staff Writer

For the first time since Jan. 17, the Georgetown men’s tennis team (5-4) only picked up one match victory, falling 4-1 at the hands of SUNY-Binghamton (8-4) on Saturday.

The Hoyas had the momentum entering Saturday’s match. On Friday, SUNY-Binghamton suffered an embarrassing 7-0 loss to VCU. The Bearcats’ loss ended their fivematch win streak. Meanwhile, the Hoyas were coming off a convincing 5-2 victory over Davidson. Georgetown, however, was unable to execute.

“I might have slightly underestimated them,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said. “I didn’t think they were going to be as good as they were.”

Georgetown’s sole victory of the match came courtesy of sophomore Daniel Khanin at first singles. He defeated Binghamton junior Robin Lesage in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. With the win, Khanin improved to 3-5 in singles play this spring. Ernst believes Khanin’s recent performances are indicative of his potential going forward.

“Danny Khanin is starting to play like he can play,” Ernst said. “Playing solid, staying focused, playing tough, not making too many errors and winning at number one [singles].”

Junior Shane Korber playedsecond singles for the Hoyas.

With the 6-3, 6-2 loss, his singles record dropped to 4-4.

Freshman Jack Murphy was

outmatched by sophomore Sidhartha Hazarika and fell in straight sets at third singles with a 6-3, 6-3 result. The lopsided result was not because of Murphy’s poor play though, according to Ernst.

“That guy was legit,” Ernst said. “He could play in a lot of lineups across the board in college tennis. I mean he could really play. Jack didn’t play badly, but the guy had huge forehands and was just really talented. He could beat anyone on any given day.”

The fourth and fifth singles matches were more competitive than second and third, as both went to three sets. Junior Alex Tropiano, playing fourth singles, fell 6-4 in his first set, but responded in the second to win 6-3. Ultimately, Binghamton junior Ismael Dinia dominated the third set, 6-2, to claim the match victory.

“Alex Tropiano played some of the best tennis I’ve ever seen him play,” Ernst said. “He just couldn’t keep doing it; he ran out of ammunition.”

Senior co-captain Casey Distaso played fifth singles for the Hoyas and also played in a tight yet unpredictable match. Distaso fell in the first set in a lopsided 6-1 result, but came back to win the second set 7-6 (9-7) But Distaso suffered an injury in the third set, which caused play to pause. Ultimately, he was unable to regain the momentum and dropped the final set 6-0.

Murphy and Tropiano were paired to compete at first doubles, while Distaso and Khanin

were paired at second doubles.

Meanwhile, freshman duo Max Novak and Jordan Portner competed at third doubles. The doubles matches were not completed and the point was not awarded because Binghamton had already claimed the victory.

Noticeably absent from the lineup was Georgetown freshman Yannik Mahlangu. Thus far this season, Mahlangu has been one of the team’s strongest freshmen. Although Mahlangu fell at fifth singles against Davidson last weekend and fourth singles against Bryant, he won in a three set battle against Yale — one of the strongest teams that Georgetown has played this season. Additionally, he was named Big East male tennis player of the week in January.

Despite the disappointing result, Ernst is looking forward to future matches.

“Our sights are really set on the Big East tournament,” Ernst said. “Even when we lose I’m just looking for improvement, so I’m actually happier than you’d think.”

Now the Hoyas will begin preparations for a trio of matches in California on March 8, 10 and 11. Georgetown will begin its west coast road trip with a match against the University of California Santa Barbara on the eighth. UC Riverside and UC Irvine will follow, in that order. These will be Georgetown’s first true away matches since a pair in New Haven, Conn., early in February.

he Winter Olympics just ended, and in time, that is fine.” But the fact is that it the excitement of gold medals and the takes FIFA 90 days to install the adequate heat of competition ultimately made equipment in a stadium to maximize televius forget about one of the biggest stories lead- sion production, so Brazil’s problems with ing up to the competition: Sochi’s failing in- construction may find themselves materialfrastructure. However, another international izing in your living room. Additionally, side athletic competition is on the horizon and it projects such as retractable roofs are being appears that it is time to start worrying about scrapped from construction plans, which accommodations in the 12 Brazilian host cit- means both that newly constructed stadiies of the World Cup this summer. ums will be less attractive for subsequent bigThe challenges that Brazil faces are largely ticket events and that weather could prove an different from the ones that Sochi dealt with issue in some matchups. leading up to the Olympics. First, the World Stadiums aside, most of the urban projects Cup is played in many cities all slated for the World Cup will across the country, not just in not be ready until after the one locality. Second, Brazil is event. Don’t expect airports soccer-crazed, and many cities to be renovated or all outside already have soccer stadiums viewing areas to be ready come that simply require renovaJune — there is just too much to tion, and full-on construction be done with too little time. in four cases. Finally, since the Being host to international event is in 12 cities, questions tournaments brings prestige to Matt Castaldo of capacity come to mind: a country, as literally the eyes will fans of the 32 participant of the whole world are upon countries fly into renovated airthem. But more thorough Brazil is not ports? Will they have places to investigations of a country’s stay? And how will those who ability to provide adequate inready for the do not get tickets to a match be frastructure are certainly necable to view the game outside world’s attention. essary in subsequent years to the stadium? avoid some of both Russia’s and Building stadiums across the various Bra- Brazil’s problems and to ensure a smoother zilian host cities has proven rather difficult. athletic competition.

The deadline to have stadiums complete was In Brazil, there are even many citizens who last year, yet only half of the stadiums met view the expenditures on this year’s World that deadline. In the city of Cuiabá, which is Cup and the upcoming 2016 Summer Olymsituated in a wetlands region, the conditions pics in Rio de Janeiro to be excessive in the are such that cement cannot even dry. Even face of some of Brazil’s domestic problems. the stadium slated to be host to the opening As is the case in Russia, many well-connectmatch in São Paulo may not be completed ed billionaires are seemingly awarded the until less than a month before competition contracts for construction, meaning that starts on June 12. For Itaquerao, the stadium taxpayer-funded projects are only enhancing in São Paulo, the expected completion date the wealth of these tycoons. While big-ticket has steadily been moved back from the end events like the World Cup or the Olympics of April to the middle of May. It is also hard are important for national morale, exposing to forget that a portion of the construction corruption is often a bitter byproduct. site collapsed and killed two people last NoProtests have occurred outside stadiums, vember. and even hundreds of domestic soccer playIn the city of Curitiba, officials have been ers have formed a protest group to improve forced to threaten that the city would be workers’ conditions. It emerged that Bradropped as a World Cup host site because zilian security forces are using undercover of how slow construction has been. The city agents to crack down on these protests, had to dig $16.5 million out of its develop- which is a troubling sign of an overreaching ment fund, along with the guarantee of the government.

Brazilian government’s support, in order to With 100 days remaining, Brazil clearly has cover the cost of an expedited construction. some problems to address. I have no doubt In December, the stadium was reported as that stadiums will ultimately be completed 88 percent finished, making a May comple- and that the World Cup will be successful tion date seem like a realistic possibility. But much like the Winter Olympics were. But clearly construction has slowed over the past these close calls in Brazil and Russia should few months, as today the stadium is reported result in more prudent consideration of futo be only 90 percent finished. ture host countries.

Sure, it may seem reasonable to say: “Let the Brazilians complete their stadiums at Matt Castaldo is a junior in the College. their own pace. As long as they are finished More than a game appears every Tuesday.

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After Princeton Thriller, GU Prepares for No. 6 Duke PRINCETON, from A10 after and Miller accounted for her second of the season with an unassisted shot to give the Hoyas a 14-10 lead.

As the game was winding down, the Hoyas nearly collapsed. The Tigers went on a gamethreatening 6-2 run late in the game. Fortunately, Franklin and senior attack Reilly Woodman were able to notch two goals that pushed Georgetown into extra play.

“The save at the end of the game gave us a boost into overtime. We were focusing on positive pieces, as opposed to them coming back. I thought we did a really nice job of focusing on the draws. We got all three draws in the overtime periods,” Fried said.

With six minutes set for the overtime, Georgetown focused on scoring early in order to give itself room for minor mistakes.

Likely hero Tarzian notched an early goal about a minute into overtime that would serve as the game winner. After the overtime goal, the strategy slightly changed for the Hoyas as they looked to control the draw and the pace of play. Neither team scored in the remaining five minutes.

Princeton received two yellow cards in the overtime period that may have cost it the game. The disciplined Hoya team received just one yellow card the entire game.

“From that point, we got the second draw and were going to hold it until the last draw, and that’s what we did. When they got the card, that helped make it a little bit easier for us,” Fried said.

The Hoyas outshot the Tigers 34-27 and controlled the draw with a slight advantage of 19-18. The Blue and Gray have maintained a high number of shots in each game this season and are evidently benefitting. Georgetown also committed 14 fewer fouls than Princeton. Though it was a tight match through the end of play, the Hoyas led in almost every statistic.

Georgetown will take on No. 6 Duke (3-2), its third consecutive ranked opponent, on Wednesday to finish its longest away streak of the season. Although the Blue Devils have two losses this season, both came against top-five opponents — No. 4 Northwestern and No. 3 Maryland.

Faceoff is set for 5 p.m., and the game will be televised live on ESPN3.

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Hofstra Holds On to Win Hoya Staff Writer

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Natalie Butler broke the single-season Big East rebounding record after grabbing 20 rebounds Sunday in Georgetown’s win over Providence.

Butler, White Lead Hoyas Against Friars to just seven points with a minute remaining in the game. Ultimately though, the Hoyas were able to make just enough free throws to seal the 71-65 victory.

“Providence is an exciting team, like every team in the Big East,” Lewis said. “It doesn’t matter what your record is, you have to win the game and we did that today.”

Four players finished in double figures for Georgetown. In addition to White, freshman guard Faith Woodard had 13 points, while sophomore guard Logan Battle had 12.

Meanwhile, freshman center Natalie Butler posted her 22nd doubledouble of the season, scoring 10 points and grabbing a career-high 20 rebounds. With the 20 rebounds, Butler broke the Big East single season rebounding record “I think Natalie is not finished yet — thank goodness,” Lewis said.

Prior to the game, Georgetown honored its five seniors: White, Powell and senior guards Kelyn Freedman, Jasmine Motton and Kelly Comolli. In their careers, White and Powell made two NCAA tournaments, which include a Sweet 16 appearance. Freedman, Motton and Comolli were all walk-ons prior to the season.

“Senior day is always bittersweet, but it is more sweet than bitter, particularly when you have an effort like we did tonight,” Lewis said.

“We are so proud of all of our seniors and all of them went out on a really exciting note.”

Georgetown has one game remaining on its regular season schedule before it begins postseason play. It will face off against the regular season Big East champions DePaul on Tuesday in Chicago.

“We cannot play but one game at a time,” Lewis said. “However, we have done this throughout the year.

Certainly this was a vitally important win and we got it. But we challenged the team to look at the [rest of the season] as a six-game package if you will. DePaul is next.”

In the team’s first meeting Jan. 22, the Blue Demons trounced the Hoyas 92-69 at McDonough Arena.

Georgetown kept up with the visitors and only trailed by five at the half, but second-half turnovers enabled DePaul to cruise to an easy victory.

DePaul is coming off of an 8065 win over St. John’s on Saturday.

With the win, the Blue Demons clinched their first Big East regular season title since they joined the conference in 2005.

“It’s not so much who we’re playing, it’s how we are playing, and I like the way we are playing,” Lewis said.

After Tuesday’s game, Butler will add one more record to what has been a record-breaking season for the standout freshman. Even if she does not record a rebound against DePaul, she will break the rebounding average record previously set in the 1995-1996 season.

This will be a final tuneup for both teams before the Big East tournament. Tipoff is slated for 9 p.m.

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Despite another second-half comeback, the Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (2-2) came up short, falling 9-8 in overtime at the hands of Hofstra (2-2) on Saturday. The loss was the Hoyas’ third straight game in which the outcome was decided by one goal and the second straight that resulted in defeat.

After a 20-minute scoring drought, Georgetown erased a five-goal deficit and took the lead in the fourth quarter, but ultimately its efforts were futile.

Hofstra senior attack and co-captain Torin Varn scored off of a fast break with 19 seconds left in overtime to end the game, marking Hofstra’s first overtime victory since 2009.

Georgetown freshman midfielder Devon Lewis scored an early goal in the first quarter to establish the early lead for the Hoyas; however, the Pride answered with a goal two minutes later and then scored another to end the first quarter with a 2-1 lead.

The second quarter was punctuated by several man-down penalties for Georgetown, and Hofstra capitalized on the advantage. Fourteen seconds into the quarter, Hofstra junior midfielder Korey Hendrickson scored while Georgetown was short two men. The Pride then had three additional goals in the quarter from Hofstra freshman attack Brier Davis, two of which were assisted by sophomore attack Sam Llinares while the other was unassisted on another extra-man opportunity.

Aside from the challenges that penalties imposed on Georgetown’s defense during Hofstra’s second-quarter run, Head Coach Kevin Warne acknowledged that his offensive players were also struggling.

“There were some times, offensively, when we had really short possessions, and we probably took the first shot instead of the best shot,” Warne said.

Georgetown junior attack Reilly O’Connor scored with 3:03 left in the

half to finally end Hofstra’s six-goal run.

Redshirt senior defender and co-captain Tyler Knarr then won the subsequent faceoff and scored seven seconds later.

Knarr’s goal was the last of the half and brought the Hoyas within three with a score of 6-3.

At halftime, the Hoyas refocused and made some adjustments.

“We just told the guys to keep playing hard and keep worrying about the little things,” Warne said. “That’s just something that our team is going to be about. What you do [in that situation] is just keep playing.”

Georgetown outscored Hofstra in the third quarter 2-1, closing the gap to two goals heading into the fourth. Within the first five minutes of the final period, O’Connor and freshman attack Peter Conley each scored goals to tie the game at 7-7. The Hoyas finally took the lead again after junior attack Bo Stafford scored the second of his two goals, but another goal from Hofstra with 1:14 left tied the game and ultimately sent it into overtime where Varn’s late goal ended the game.

In the loss, Georgetown outshot Hofstra 34-31 and led Hofstra 32-26 in groundballs. In addition, Knarr won 10of-17 faceoffs.

Warne was pleased with the effort that he saw from his team after it ended Hofstra’s first-half run.

“We could have folded, but the guys fought back, which shows a lot of character,” Warne said.

In the loss, the Georgetown underclassmen received significant playing time as Warne started four freshmen against Hofstra, including Conley, Lewis, midfielder Eduardo White and defender Michael Mayer. All four have made numerous contributions to the team since the beginning of the season.

Conley currently leads Georgetown’s offense with 13 points — scoring seven goals and recording six assists — and Mayer leads the defense with six caused turnovers.

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Senior defender Tyler Knarr won 10-of-17 faceoffs against Hofstra. rience for these players is important as they continue to develop their play.

“I think they earned their playing time,” Warne said. “They need to be able to be in a game where things aren’t going our way and then we have to fight back, and they have to learn that when things are going our way, [we have to] keep them going our way. You can’t replicate that in practice. … When you’re on the field, that’s where the real experience comes from.”

Up next for Georgetown is a Saturday tilt against Harvard (1-2) at 12 p.m. when the team will return to campus for its first home game since the season opener against Mount St. Mary’s. The Hoyas will look to re-establish a winning record and continue to learn from the lessons of their past two games.

Warne wants his team to keep utilizing every learning opportunity that the season will bring and work through the challenges ahead.

“We’re close,” Warne said. “We’re not there yet, but we’re going to keep working through it.”

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Hyson Powers GU Championship Juliana Zovak Hoya Staff Writer

The Hilltop may be covered in snow, but the sun shone brightly on the Georgetown softball team in North Carolina this past weekend where the Hoyas (7-7) won the UNC-Charlotte tournament after going 4-1, recording four shutouts and a no-hitter.

In the championship game on Sunday, Georgetown defeated UNC-Charlotte (8-7) 10-0, avenging Saturday’s 23-2 blowout loss to the 49ers.

Junior pitcher Megan Hyson threw three shutout games for the Hoyas, including two two-hitters and a no-hitter against Stony Brook (1-6), lowering her ERA to 1.70 on the season.

“Megan threw a fantastic game,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “A nohitter at this level is a difficult thing to accomplish. The team played well behind her.”

In the championship game, Hyson did not allow a hit until the fourth inning and struck out four in the fiveinning effort. Not only did the junior perform well the mound, she helped herself out at the plate, driving in Georgetown’s first run of the game and blasting a three-run homerun over the fence in the fourth to put the Hoyas up 8-0. The game was eventually called after five innings, with Georgetown up 10, due to the mercy rule.

“Megan continued her dominance on the mound with her third shutout of the weekend as the defense was once again making plays,” Conlan said. “Every time we step on the field our offense gets better and better. Four games this weekend we were able to put all phases of the game together and the results speak for themselves.”

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nament against Liberty (2-15), the same team they won their season opener against. Georgetown continued its dominance behind junior pitcher Lauren O’Leary, who tossed a complete game, allowing only five hits.

“I thought Lauren threw a nice game,” Conlan said. “She was in control and made some great pitches.”

Senior second baseman Hannah Slovacek led the offensive effort for the Hoyas, going 2-for-3 with four RBIs, one walk and one run scored as the team beat the Flames 8-0 after six innings.

“It’s always important to jump out to an early lead. Early and often is the best way to score runs. Doing that takes tremendous pressure off the pitcher and defense,” Conlan said.

Georgetown lived by that mantra when it faced Stony Brook later in the day, jumping out to an early 2-0 lead in the second inning. Led by a two-RBI effort from senior first baseman Madeleine Giaquinto, the Hoyas would go on to score three more runs to secure a 5-0 victory.

Hyson pitched all seven innings, striking out seven while allowing two hits and a walk.

“Any win is a good win,” Conlan said. “Our pitching and defense did the work until our offense caught up and gave us the runs we needed to pull away.”

The Hoyas returned to the field Saturday to face tournament host Charlotte, but things did not go nearly as well as they had on the opening day.

The game was tight until the third inning, when the 49ers scored 11 runs and then followed up with nine more in the fifth. The game prematurely ended with a score of 23-2 due to the mercy rule. Sophomore infielder Sa-

mantha Giovanniello had two singles and a run for the Hoyas, and O’Leary took the loss.

“Charlotte could have been the worst game I have ever been a part of as a player or coach. Nothing we did was able to stop the bleeding,” Conlan said. “With a game like that you have to have a short memory.”

After the loss, Georgetown faced Stony Brook for a second time, looking for a win to send them to the championship game.

Hyson got the start and threw the first no-hitter of her collegiate career, facing only 23 batters, walking one and hitting one. For the first five innings, the Hoyas could not get on the board, but they broke the game open in the sixth.

Sophomore shortstop Grace Appelbe was hit by a pitch, Slovacek reached on a single and Hyson drew a walk. Following a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded, senior right fielder Alexandria Anttila hit a grand slam to put the Blue and Gray up 4-0.

They would go on to win it 6-0. Hyson finished off her no-hitter with a called strike three.

“We kept fighting until our rally in the sixth inning led to the grand slam from Allie Anttila,” Conlan said. “It took one swing and the dugout and crowd erupted in cheers. It was a blast and we knew it was out as soon as she made contact with the ball.”

From there, the Hoyas advanced to the championship game where they got their revenge for the previous day’s blowout to Charlotte. Hyson was awarded Big East’s Most Valuable Pitcher after her impressive weekend performance.

“I am so proud of this team for the way they are competing,” Conlan said.

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In Expanded Playoffs, No One Wins NFL, from A10 primetime expansion as the future of the NFL’s television presence. Adding more primetime games in the playoffs would be the logical step in this direction.

While two more primetime playoff games would certainly increase advertising revenues for the league and the TV networks, teams hate playing on short weeks as it gives them less time to prepare. Reports from the past two years intimate a strong dislike around the league for playing Monday Night Football for this very reason.

Having fair and competitive games is more important in the playoffs, and playing games on Friday and Monday opens up the possibility that things like travel could significantly impact one team’s chances of moving into the conference championship round.

Yet despite all of the logical challenges commensurate with the expanded playoffs, some argue that having 14

instead of 12 teams would allow for a more open and fair postseason. The NHL, for example, permits a whopping 16 teams to vie for the Stanley Cup. However, making room for the extra teams would require dropping one of the first round byes so that only the top seed would go through to the divisional round as opposed to the top two.

The historical record tells us that the bye is a hugely important advantage. In the past 24 years, a first seed has won the Super Bowl 10 times, the second seed seven times, the third seed only once, the fourth seed three times, the fifth seed once and the sixth seed two times. Look at that massive difference between second and third seed performance. In some cases, it could have been one or even no wins that separated the two teams.

Yet the team with the bye has seven times more championships. So by removing the bye for the second-place team in order to accommodate an extra spot with a statistically low chance of

success, Goodell would be shifting the odds more heavily in the favor of the top seed. While the best team all season winning the championship is hardly a bad thing, if your argument for wider playoffs is about increasing “fairness,” then this is not the way to do it.

The NFL is unique among major North American professional leagues in that its playoffs are single-game elimination. That’s what adds so much drama and excitement. But the purpose of a playoff is to find the best team. Right now, the NFL playoffs tend to give us a nice mix of solid performances by the elite teams and enough upsets to keep things interesting. By adding two more teams into the mix and throwing the scheduling and first-round bye up in the air, Goodell risks damage to the NFL’s well-constructed and dependably compelling postseason.

Ethan Chess and Drew Cunningham are seniors in the College. The Third Half appears every Tuesday.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL Georgetown (16-12) vs Creighton (23-5) Tuesday, 7 p.m.

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Hoyas Seek Upset Win in Home Finale Hoya Staff Writer

With two games left in the regular season, Georgetown (16-12, 7-9 Big East) faces a stern senior night test tonight against No. 13 Creighton (23-5, 13-3 Big East).

“They are one of the very best teams in the country, they have the best player in the country and they have a terrific coach,” Head Coach John Thompson III said.

The Bluejays dominated the Hoyas in nearly every facet of the game when the two teams met Jan. 25, although Georgetown was playing without junior guard Jabril Trawick.

“I hope we’re very different,” Thompson said, referring to the first game. “Where we are now, with our team, everyone has to show up every night. If everyone shows up, we are a very good team.”

With most analysts putting the Hoyas on the outside of the NCAA tournament at the moment, Georgetown may need wins against both Creighton and No. 6 Villanova on Saturday to stay in the tournament picture.

Georgetown has considerably less breathing room after losing Thursday night to Marquette on a missed layup in the game’s final seconds. Despite seemingly have turned the corner on foul-trouble issues, the Blue and Gray saw both senior forward Nate Lubick and senior center Moses Ayegba foul out and junior forward Mikael Hopkins sidelined for much of the game against the Golden Eagles.

Although no Hoyas fouled out in the earlier meeting with the Bluejays, four players ended the game with four fouls, and Georgetown committed 11 turnovers, both areas where Thompson’s squad will have its work cut out for itself.

Creighton is also coming off a

loss — a 75-69 defeat at Xavier — where the Bluejays fell despite a 27-point scoring barrage from senior Doug McDermott, the nation’s leading scorer. When Georgetown faced Creighton in Omaha, Neb., the Hoyas limited McDermott to just 14 points but could not stymie the Bluejays’ supporting cast.

“I don’t think you’re going to stop McDermott. I think we did as good a job as anyone the first time around,” Thompson said. “That’s just a credit to their team. He’s so difficult to guard, not just because of his skill set but because of his work ethic.”

The Blue and Gray will pay tribute to five seniors during Tuesday’s senior night and Thompson was quick to indicate that the class goes beyond Lubick and guard Markel Starks.

“Most people probably think of Nate and Markel,” Thompson said.

“But you throw [guard John] Caprio in there and the general public doesn’t know the contributions that he has made to this team.”

“Moses [Ayegba] has been a solid backup. When we put him in, we know what we are going to get,” Thompson said. “[Forward] Aaron [Bowen], this year, has had the opportunity to show what he can do.

We have a group that’s worked very hard and we’ll miss them.”

Thompson also heaped praise on Starks, who recently joined Georgetown’s 1,000-point club.

“When I look at the people I have coached, [Markel] will go into the ‘special’ category,” Thompson said.

“His agenda is Georgetown’s agenda. He is the hardest worker that I have coached. Period.”

Tipoff against Creighton is set for 7 p.m. at Verizon Center. Senior night ceremonies for both the players and student managers will be held before the game and are slated to begin approximately 30 minutes prior to tipoff.

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Senior co-captains Samisha Powell (left) and Andrea White (right) combined for 26 points and 10 assists in their last game at McDonough Arena. Georgetown defeated Providence 71-65 Saturday.

Senior Day Ends in Victory CAROLYN MAGUIRE Hoya Staff Writer

In their last career game at McDonough Arena, senior forward Andrea White and senior guard Samisha Powell turned in dominant performances and helped lift the Hoyas to a 71-65 win over Providence on Saturday.

White posted her 14th double-double of the season, recording 17 points and 10 rebounds, while Powell had nine assists to go along with eight points. “[Andrea and Samisha], I want to say again, have been playing together for eight years,” Head Coach Jim Lewis said. “They really came to Georgetown together. To see them finish their careers together like this, with their friends and family, is a great thing.”

With the win, the Hoyas improve to 10-19 on the season and 4-13 in the

Big East. Meanwhile, the loss secures the Friars’ last-place regular season conference finish.

“I think everyone played well but I think we could play better,” Powell said. “But to end the season at home the way we did was good.”

After a back-and-forth beginning to the game, the Hoyas took a 24-18 lead with a three by sophomore guard Logan Battle with 6:05 remaining in the first half. On the next possession, White hit a jumper to give the Hoyas an eight-point lead, which forced Providence to take a timeout.

Georgetown maintained control for the remainder of the first half and seemed fit to take a six-point advantage into halftime, but Providence had other ideas. A White foul put Friar freshman guard Sarah Beal at the line, and after making the first free throw, she missed the second.

But Providence regained possession when the ball went out of bounds off a Georgetown player.

With seven seconds remaining, the Friars had time for one last shot. Off the inbounds play, Providence found Beal and she drained a long-distance three as time expired, making the score 30-27 at the half.

The Hoyas responded, however, in the second half. After the Friars dwindled the deficit to a measly two points, the Hoyas took control with an 11-0 run. They would continue to dominate and would push the lead to as many as 15 points in the second half.

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GU Prevails in Overtime Shootout Playoff Expansion MOLLY MALONE Hoya Staff Writer

Junior attack Caroline Tarzian scored a game-winning goal Saturday to give the No. 14 Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (2-1) a 17-16 overtime win over No. 19 Princeton (1-2). Despite the Tigers’ strong offesnive performance, the Hoyas managed to do just enough to pull out the win and avoid losing their second straight.

Nine different Hoyas scored in the victory, including senior attack Meghan Farrell and sophomore at-

tack Corinne Etchison, who both had hat tricks. Senior goalkeeper Barb Black and freshman goalkeeper Maddy Fisher split time in the cage with one and four saves, respectively. Black was awarded the win for her efforts early in the game.

Though Princeton scored the first goal, the Hoyas went on an early three-goal run. Etchison, Tarzian and sophomore midfielder Natalie Miller all scored within the first nine minutes of play to contribute to the 3-1 lead. The Blue and Gray hit a rough patch shortly

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Senior attack Meghan Farrell scored three goals in Saturday’s game against No. 19 Princeton. The Hoyas won 17-16 in overtime.

after, however, when the Tigers took the lead by scoring the next three goals in a little over two minutes. Two of these goals came off of free-position shots.

Farrell, though, started Georgetown’s next run, a huge 6-1 response right before halftime.

Freshman attack Colleen Lovett was next to hit the net, followed by senior midfielder Hannah Franklin, senior midfielder Kelyn Freedman with two and senior attack Jody Cumberpatch. But just as it looked as though the Hoyas would enter halftime with a 9-5 lead, the Tigers came back and scored three goals in just 20 seconds to cut the lead to one.

“Offensively we played pretty well,” Head Coach Ricky Fried said. “We went into it with [the lead]. They played very well and we didn’t play particularly well, so we were happy we were where we were.”

Fisher started in goal for the Hoyas in the second half and played 36 minutes. She was responsible for the final save of the game that allowed the Hoyas to make it into overtime to eventually capture the win.

“Maddy has been very consistent.

She’s a very even keel, personalitywise, both on and off the field, and that blends to her demeanor in the cage. She doesn’t get rattled when things are [or] aren’t going well, so I think that’s a steadying force for the entire defense,” Fried said.

Neither team was able to maintain possession throughout the game. While Princeton scored an early goal in the second half, Farrell responded with two to give the advantage back to Georgetown.

Etchison scored two goals shortly See PRINCETON, A8

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ou wouldn’t know it from games in a doubleheader that starts looking out the window, but late Saturday afternoon. On the folwarmer weather, along with lowing Sunday, CBS and FOX take the sports that accompany it, is on over and broadcast the one remainthe way. Major League Baseball is ing game for the league to which ramping up spring training, and the they have rights.

NFL is getting set to host major meetHowever, the addition of one more ings soon. Those meetings could have team leaves the league and its broada significant impact on the future of cast partners with a choice of how the league’s postseason. to broadcast six games as opposed to Last year — at the very same gather- four. On one hand they could simply ing— Commissioner expand the schedule Roger Goodell proto three games on posed the expansion both Saturday and of the NFL playoffs to Sunday. If they kept 14 teams versus the largely the same TV current 12. Despite structure and gave the fact that all 32 all of the Saturday teams rejected his games to NBC, then Drew Cunningham offer the first time that would create & Ethan Chess around, Goodell is problems Sunday, reportedly back and with either FOX or looking to make CBS having rights to Adding two teams to two games. the change in time for the 2015 season.

While they could the NFL playoffs is While commissionrotate the second unnecessary. ers tend to get what game between the they want eventunetworks yearly, ally, the ambivalence around the they would also have to find a way league for the expansion is hardly to work it in with the Super Bowl surprising when considering the broadcast rotation so that no netdomino effects a two-team addition work gains or loses unreasonably would have. Let’s look at some of the year to year. The NFL is always very issues at stake from both a business careful to play parent between its and football perspective. broadcast partners, ensuring that no Obviously, front-office concerns network feels slighted or preferred will be, as they always are, a major over another. factor in determining whether the The commissioner’s answer to league makes the switch. As it stands, this is to move the two extra games the first weekend is a neat and sym- to Friday and Monday in primetime. metrical package, which works well Goodell’s tenure has been marked by for the NFL’s broadcast partners. a significant expansion of the NFL’s With two first-round byes per primetime presence on Thursday league, that leaves four games in to- nights, and it is clear that he views tal. NBC, which doesn’t have AFC or NFC specific rights, broadcasts two See NFL, A9

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