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FALLING JUST SHORT

The football team fell 31-17 to Harvard despite a late rally on Friday.

EDITORIAL The election of a sandwich to the GUSA senate should be honored.

KING ADDRESSES FAFSA The secretary of education discussed the new FAFSA deadline.

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Racist Vandalism Investigated hashwinder singh Special to The Hoya

The defacement of a bathroom wall with racially charged messages — including the letters “KKK” and a swastika — in a Georgetown University Medical Center building is being investigated as a hate and bias incident by the Georgetown University Police Department.

“If there is any good that can come of it, it will remind people that unfortunately we need to stay vigilant against anti-Semitism.”

Rabbi RACHEL GARTNER Director for Jewish Life

The vandalism was first reported on the wall of a ground floor bathroom in the Pre-Clinical Science Building on Sept. 21 and announced to the GUMC community in an email from Executive Dean of the School of Medicine Edward B. Healton.

GUPD has no leads on the incident and has asked for anyone with information to report it on the GUPD website or the universitywide bias reporting system.

According to GUPD Chief Jay Gruber, if apprehended, the suspect could be barred from campus after a warrant is issued. If the suspect is a Georgetown student, they would be subjected to disciplinary action determined by the university. The Center for Multicultural Equity and Access and the Office of Mission and Ministry also respond to bias reports.

Gruber said although the vandalism constituted a hate and bias incident, it did not appear to pose imminent danger to the Georgetown community.

“The students and staff shouldn’t be alarmed at all,” Gruber said.

“There was nothing written that was threatening and that charted a course of action. It was unfortunate, but I don’t think people should be alarmed over it.”

Healton condemned the recent vandalism as contradictory to the university’s values of inclusivity and respect.

“This hateful action will not be tolerated,” Healton wrote in the email. “We are a community that is welcoming to all people and that values understanding, dignity, inclusion and respect.”

Georgetown Director for Jewish Life Rabbi Rachel Gartner said the graffiti serves as a reminder that anti-Semitism is still prevalent in this country.

“In the context of all the things that are going on in the contemporary Jewish scene, this is a powerful and important reminder both to Jews and to others as well,” Gartner said in an interview with The Hoya. “If there is any good that can come of it, it will remind people that unfortunately we need to stay vigilant against anti-Semitism and to check ourselves for it too.”

Gartner said the incident compromised the feeling of Georgetown as See VANDALISM, A6

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LUAN TIAN FOR THE HOYA

GU College Democrats member Alec Camhi (SFS ’20), left, and GU College Republican Peter Hamilton member (SFS ’20) represented their respective clubs at the annual “Freshman Debate.” Student Democrats have supported Clinton, while Republicans are conflicted over Trump.

Student Political Groups Weigh In on Election Democrats Stand by Clinton Republicans Remain Impartial WILL LINDE

Special to The Hoya

A majority of the Georgetown University College Democrats have thrown their support and endorsement behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after a primary season that saw many Georgetown students back Clinton’s formal rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) GUCD Chair Mattie Haag (COL ’18) said the club is active-

ly supporting Clinton to the best of its abilities.

“We are in support of Hillary and are actively campaigning for her,” Haag said. “We are doing literally whatever we can to make sure she gets elected.”

In its efforts leading up to the election, GUCD phonebanks every Wednesday night at the Democratic National Headquarters and conducts voter registration in Arlington, Va. GUCD also See DEMOCRATS, A6

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A tense Republican primary season leading to the nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate has pushed the Georgetown University College Republicans to refrain from endorsing any candidate this presidential election, citing the club’s desire to avoid alienating members of its club.

Members have expressed

unease and uncertainty about both Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Trump.

GUCR Chair Megan Pohl (COL ’17) said the decision to withhold an endorsement fulfills the organization’s commitment to various ideas and perspectives.

“Our job is not to support or denounce the Republican nominee,” Pohl said. “Our purpose is See REPUBLICANS, A6

Despite Ranking, Veterans Defend GU Program ERIC JUBBER

Special to The Hoya

When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, Mark Henderson (COL ’17) jumped into action to help survivors. As an enlisted member of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army’s Global Response Force, Henderson and his fellow soldiers at Fort Brag, N.C., were deployed to aid civilians in the Caribbean country.

“Student veterans make tremendous contributions to campus life.”

BARBARA MUJICA Faculty Adviser, GUSVA

“I was part of the Global Response Force for anything that happened outside of Iraq and Afghanistan, so we were on alert 24/7,” Henderson said. “I had no real-world experience, and I quickly became immersed in this thirdworld country.”

Henderson remained in Haiti for 59 days before returning to the United States.

“We were living among Haitians and it really changed my mindset and taught me to be grateful with everything I approached,” Henderson said.

Henderson served in the Army for four years before coming to Georgetown. He is one of 120 stu-

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Student veterans, pictured here attending the Veteran’s Day Ceremony last fall, have defended Georgetown’s support for veterans, particularly because of the work done by GUSVA. dent veterans currently enrolled at Georgetown who receive financial benefits from the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act. This program finances a college education for any veteran who has served three years of active duty.

On Sept. 13, Georgetown did not qualify for the U.S. News and World Report list of best colleges for veterans, despite increasingly available resources for military veterans at Georgetown.

This significant drop — Georgetown was ranked first in the nation just two years ago and 16th last year — was due in large part to a technical error, according to Veterans Office Director LeNaya Hezel (“Ranking Reports Mixed Outcomes,” The Hoya, Sept. 20, 2016, A1). U.S. News declined to comment on Georgetown’s lack of inclusion in the rankings.

A change in U.S. News’ process for collecting data and an error in

submitting the appropriate number of students receiving GI Bill benefits caused an incorrect number of students to be reported for Georgetown’s submission, according to Hezel.

The ranking inaccurately reflects resources available to student veterans on campus. According to student veterans interviewed by The Hoya, the university’s support for See VETERANS, A6

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GUSA Rejects Sandwich Seat The GUSA senate voted to reject the election of the Chicken Madness ticket and give the seat to another.

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GU Votes Registers Students Student-led GU Votes has started its push to get Georgetown students registered to vote.

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Defense Falls Apart The men’s soccer team gave up four goals in its 4-2 loss to Butler on Sunday.

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NEWS Council Considers Wage Bill

OPINION Editorial

SPORTS International Star

The D.C. Council is debating a bill to prevent employers from asking applicants about salary history.

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It is essential that the presidential candidates prove their scientific literacy when it comes to policy.

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Published Tuesdays and Fridays

New Zealander Chloe Knott has found great success on the women’s soccer team.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

THE VERDICT

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Validating the Voter Mandate On Thursday, the Georgetown University Student Association senate election saw Chicken Madness, a chicken sandwich at Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli, win an off-campus seat in the student body’s most directly representative organ of government. The sandwich won in a district where two registered candidates were vying for four seats. After the votes were received, it became clear the sandwich, a write-in candidate, won the seat alongside three other people, one of which was another write-in.

Yet following the election’s conclusion, Election Commissioner Grady Willard (SFS ’18) recommended that rather than seat the sandwich, a fifth-place candidate should take the position instead. On Monday, the GUSA senate voted in a majority to bar Chicken Madness from occupying the seat to which it was elected.

Such a decision from the senate is a mistake.

The GUSA senate election is supposed to represent democratic ideals, and it is wrong for the Chicken Madness sandwich to lose the senate seat into which it was voted.

As an institution that is meant to uphold democratic principles, GUSA officials should faithfully execute the will of off-campus voters and seat every candidate that won the necessary votes. In a GUSA election season marked by low turnout, 9 percent of off-campus students actually voted and voiced their support for a nonspeaking sandwich. Their decision should be respected, not tampered with. In a democratic system, there should be respect for what a plurality decides.

Our community would do well to notice a parallel between the results of this GUSA election to national politics. This past week, both the Senate and the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which allows 9/11 victims’ families to sue the country of Saudi Arabia. Such a decision directly challenged the stance of President Barack Obama, who originally exercised his presidential veto power to stop the passing of the bill before it was overridden.

There is still widespread empathy for the victims of those attacks, yet in the wake of the

bill’s approval, Congress is experiencing a form of buyer’s remorse as the international ramifications of this statute come to light. Namely, it would also possibly allow foreign governments and citizens to sue American civilians and the government.

Congress blames the White House for failing to enumerate the implications of the bill and is calling for a change to its language. While the bill does outweigh the Chicken Madness victory in both precedent and historical significance, Congress is engaging in a much more extreme form of revisionist history, throwing blame post hoc in an attempt to revise the implications of its actions, rather than accept the future it chose.

In June, British voters voted in a referendum to leave the European Union with buyer’s remorse soon to follow. Media both in Britain and abroad aired interviews where dazzled Brexit voters called their votes “protest votes” and subsequently revealed how little they actually knew about the EU. Many wished out loud for a second referendum, a vote to fix their first.

The right to vote is a right sandwiched between the responsibility of the voter to be informed and the duty of a government to faithfully fulfill that mandate. Congress cannot wish away the 9/11 victims bill, just as GUSA should not force off-campus students to be represented by someone other than Chicken Madness, the candidate that rightfully won their votes.

With so few students participating in the vote, there is a clear disengagement and disinterest in student government, especially among seniors.

The temporary success of Chicken Madness is proof of this and thus both GUSA and those students who either voted or chose to refrain from voting should live with their decision.

Students at Georgetown should be encouraged to give their voice to an elected body that serves to benefit and represent them. Yet if they choose to simply elect an inanimate sandwich, then they should live with the outcome of their vote, and the organization should respect the wishes of the voters. Such is the nature of democracy at its most basic level.

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EDITORIALS

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Gaga for the Game — After wowing last year’s audience with her performance of the national anthem, Lady Gaga has confirmed that she will headline the halftime show at Super Bowl 51 in Houston, Texas.

L’shanah Tova — Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, began Sunday evening at sundown, marking the beginning of the 5,777th year in the Jewish calendar.

Money Talks — According to records leaked to The New York Times, Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 tax returns, which potentially exempted him from paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.

Aleppo Moment — Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson was unable to respond when asked to name his favorite foreign leader at an MSNBC town hall last Wednesday.

Long Road to Peace — Voters in Colombia narrowly rejected a peace deal with the rebel group FARC on Sunday, stopping a four-year process of negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC leaders in its tracks.

Oh, Rats! — The National Parks Service announced Saturday that it will partner with the D.C. Department of Health to combat the growth of rat populations in the District’s national parks by increasing the frequency of inspection and treatment.

Hometown Heroes — After defeating the Miami Marlins 2-1 on Saturday, the Washington Nationals will advance to the MLB playoffs with a home-field advantage against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Stormy Weather — Said to be the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, Hurricane Matthew has already struck Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba, inundating the Caribbean islands with heavy rain.

Diamonds Aren’t Forever — While visiting Paris for Fashion Week, Kim Kardashian West was robbed of millions of dollars in jewelry. The celebrity was reportedly tied up and held at gunpoint by two masked men in her apartment at the Hotel de Pourtales.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Noah Taylor

Bridging Science and Politics Last week’s presidential debate was an opportunity for the candidates to demonstrate familiarity, expertise and opinions on myriad issues facing the United States. The candidates shared their beliefs, or lack thereof, on climate change, cybersecurity and nuclear weaponry. Yet these issues were only covered briefly and with very little depth or scientific nuance. More often than not, the candidates’ positions were manipulated into political jabs rather than delivered as serious arguments backed up by evidence.

In 2016, citizens should not accept that the two major candidates for president fail to demonstrate scientific literacy and understanding of urgent issues. In a 2015 poll from the organization ScienceDebate.org, an organization lobbying for increased scientific literacy in public politics, 87 percent of citizens said it was important for presidential and congressional candidates to have a basic understanding of the science behind public policy issues. Even with such definitive public opinion, the issue of scientific literacy has plagued this election for over a year.

Climate change, an increasingly urgent issue with devastating and costly repercussions for America and the globe, was barely covered at the debate, and only in the context of one candidate’s lying about denying the issue’s existence.

The moderator, Lester Holt, did not follow up on the issue, and no questions were asked about policies to combat rising sea levels or greenhouse gas emissions. Candidates must be able to address the foundations of policies and the scientific origins of issues that will challenge our nation. In order to force an embrace of facts and robust scientific literacy, candidates should participate in a scientific policy debate.

This may seem like a lofty goal – one that could take years – yet with the growing impact of science on Americans’ day-to-day lives, discourse needs to shift for the betterment of all.

On Oct. 19, Fox News host Chris Wallace has said he would moderate the third presidential debate in a format similar to the first debate on Sept. 26. Wallace has an opportunity to pressure candidates to divulge their specific policy plans on scientific issues such as climate change and renewable energy rather than skirting

around the issues.

In any debate on scientific issues, the candidates should display a key understanding of policy topics and problems ranging from security to environmental regulation. Cybersecurity has already made rounds during this election, but neither candidate has been pressed for details. In an era of Russian hackers, and groups like Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the future president has more responsibility than ever to understand the modern data landscape.

Yet this cycle, we have seen one candidate struggle with formatting a secure server and the other suggesting that politicians simply “see Bill Gates” about “closing that Internet up” to prevent possible radicalization during a speech in South Carolina last year. Such misunderstanding of technology is unacceptable. These issues are not scientific intricacies, but baseline expectations for our policy makers.

Drone and automated technology, too, fall under the auspices of modern infrastructure.

Self-driving cars and Amazon drones are just around the mass-market corner, and trade will never be the same. Millions of truck drivers may be put out of work if 18-wheelers were to be automated, with approximately 3.5 million truck drivers in the United States. A president needs to understand the implications of rolling out the red carpet for new technologies while considering the economic outcomes.

Other issues any science-based presidential debate ought to include are scientific programs in public education, the rise of antibiotic super bacteria, HIV/AIDS rates in America and abroad, the rise of mosquito-borne illnesses due to warming climates, global droughts fomenting conflict, water safety and animal endangerment.

Our future leaders should not only strive to make our country a better place, but they should also display an aptitude and understanding of the science behind the issues dominating the 21st century. If we do not demand such literacy from current and future candidates, whether they are presidents, congressmen or mayors, then our society stands to lose both from their possible incompetence as well as our own complacency in the process.

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OPINION

Tuesday, october 4, 2016

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Wasil Rezk

Democracy Falters Following Coup

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he Turkish militaryled coup attempt in July caught the eyes of millions around the world.

As time progressed and it became clear that the coup had failed, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began cracking down on thousands of military members, academics, judges and civilians across the country. However, when one looks beneath the surface of the event itself, it becomes clear that the coup could have actually been guided by Erdogan’s own government to justify a major crackdown on political opposition, consolidate more power and chip away at the country’s democracy.

Turkey has had a history of successful military coups, occurring at a rate of about one per decade. Due to this history, many were surprised that the recent coup attempt failed. The coup plotters did not take the fundamental steps necessary to seize power such as arresting Erdogan and other government and parliament officials. The suspected coup plotters also failed to take control of media outlets with the exception of one local Turkish Radio and Television Corp. station and CNN Turk, from which they eventually retreated.

In all of Turkey’s prior coups, cutting communication was essential to taking power, yet Erdogan and his influential ministers were able to make appeals to party loyalists on television. The coup plotters even failed to intercept Erdogan’s plane before he he touched down at the Istanbul airport. It is reported that the main leaders of the coup attempt were in the Air Force and had access to F-16 aircrafts, yet Erdogan was still able to traverse the country by plane without being confronted by military force.

In the aftermath, Erdogan continues to claim that Turkey’s army wanted to overthrow a democratically elected government. There is no physical piece of paper or document that tells us who directly orchestrated this coup, yet Erdogan has used the event as justification for the arrest and

imprisonment of many civilians besides military members.

In Erdogan’s own words, “This coup attempt is a gift from Allah.” According to CNN, 35,022 soldiers and 17,740 civilians have been detained while 81,494 civil servants have been fired from their posts. All these arrests were made without charges or substantial evidence, and as recent as September, 1,200 soldiers were released. Through this crackdown, he will face less opposition in the future, while the arrest and subsequent release of military officials is an uncharacteristic reaction.

Yet such a strategy is historically ineffective in preventing further dissent. According to author Naunihal Singh, governments consolidate power following coup attempts rather than turn to outright retribution through mass arrests and executions. Such harsh responses have the potential to inspire countercoups, so governments find subtler ways to reassert their influence over institutions like the military.

Such logic is diametrically opposite to Erdogan’s methodology. When his party, the Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party, assumed government power in 2002, the military was seen as a guardian of the democratic and secular Turkish state. Yet Erdogan’s power consolidation as president, namely in attempts to revise the country’s constitution, created tensions with top military generals.

Therefore, the coup attempt gave him the perfect opportunity to arrest one-third of top military personnel along with journalists and academics.

The ineffectiveness and mismanagement of a coup that was supposedly led by experienced military officials is conspicuous enough, yet in its aftermath, the crackdown and arbitrary arrests of thousands should be evidence enough of what the future of Turkey looks like under Erdogan.

Wasil Rezk is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service. Nile Scope appears every other Tuesday.

As the election draws closer, citizens should be concerned not just with Trump’s deeply harmful ideologies, but also with the platform that is given to them.

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Legitimizing Dangerous Rhetoric

epublican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s appearance last month on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” left many criticizing the show’s host and his friendly treatment toward his guest. A notable part of the interview included Fallon tousling Trump’s infamous blond hair.

At the core of the outrage was the notion that Fallon was too easy on Trump, softening the edges of a man whose proven track record of racism, sexism and fraud poses a real threat to the United States. As late night host Samantha Bee reflected in an interview, “If [Fallon] thinks that a race-baiting demagogue is OK, that gives permission to millions of Americans to also think that.”

Trump’s appearance on the “Tonight Show” may have helped him appear friendly and easygoing.

However, last Monday’s debate helped him appear almost presidential. Despite soundly failing an unusually high number of fact-checkers and, by all accounts, losing to the more composed and well-prepared Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clin-

ton, Trump’s appearance on the debate stage lent his campaign a dangerous new validity.

By allowing Trump to stand in the prime-time spotlight and promote his racism, sexism and fundamental bigotry with little interference, debate moderator Lester Holt, NBC and mainstream media gave millions of Americans permission to believe that this is what a president could look like.

Of course, bigotry is nothing new for Trump.

Before it was revealed on Monday night that he referred to former Miss Universe Alicia Machado as “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping,” Trump was already on the record for calling Rosie O’Donnell a “pig” and a “slob” with a “fat ugly face” — comments that he defended during both the Republican primary debate and last week’s presidential debate. Trump has also been at the center of the birther movement for years, claiming President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

He has also repeatedly implied that Obama and Clinton have ties to radical

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Islamic terrorism, even so far as claiming Obama was “the founder of ISIS” during a rally.

Racist and sexist overtones appear not just in Trump’s campaign, but within his zealous voter base as well. In August, The New York Times posted a video of Trump supporters chanting violent and sometimes racist slurs at his rallies, including calls to “Trump that bitch!” in reference to Clinton.

In past incidents documented on CNN and Al Jazeera, Trump supporters have also shouted “Build a wall, kill them all.” Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” aired footage from a Trump rally, which featured a Trump supporter wearing a t-shirt with the words “Hillary sucks, but not like Monica.”

Within the greater context of the Trump campaign, many of last Monday’s comments were neither new nor particularly shocking. Is it surprising that the self-proclaimed “king of debt” and businessman with a history of refusing to pay workers considered it good business to cheer for the 2008 housing crisis and, more re-

cently, refuses to share his tax returns? Of course not.

Every day, media outlets, from CNN to The New York Times to The Economist, are saturated with criticisms and revelations concerning Trump, to the extent that almost nothing is able to rise above the clamor.

As the election draws closer, citizens should be concerned not just with Trump’s deeply harmful ideologies, but also with the platform that is given to them. The more we see Trump standing proudly and authoritatively on the debate stage, the more opportunities he has to further normalize and validate the messages of bigotry and hate that have proved so central to his campaign.

Whether it is his attitudes of misogyny, racism or xenophobia, simply giving the candidate more opportunities to display his message for all to hear supports a notion that the things he says are acceptable. It is time we stop asking whether or not Trump belongs in the political spotlight and instead start questioning the implications of allowing him there in the first place.

Lydia Turnage is a junior in

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BRAIN HISTORY

Duality of Cultures Within Art Digging Past Implausibility

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t first glance, the city of Amman is everything you would expect in the Middle East: military tanks at the airports, women in scarves, people staring at obvious foreigners and quickly hushed criticisms of the government.

When I first arrived, it appeared as though Jordan, like the rest of the Middle East, was not only unlike the Western world, but diametrically opposed.

The clash between Middle Eastern and Western culture was most apparent in how collectivistic attitudes seemed to pervade every corner of the culture, sometimes to a damning extent. A prime difference has typically been how each society weighs the importance of the individual’s independence versus the good of the majority.

Yet Jordan should be viewed as an archetype of how a country can co-opt aspects of the East and West into a more harmonious identity. When there is a meeting between Eastern and Western cultures, often a polarization emerges among the people. Yet within Jordan, there is an embrace of Western practices but also a desire to give value to Jordanian culture and livelihood.

Such a reality is apparent in the art currently produced in the country.

In September, Jordan held “Amman Design Week,” an event where Jordanian artists showcased their work, with pieces ranging from fashion designs available for purchase to interactive multimedia works. Despite the many differences in appearance and mediums used, almost

every artist drew on Jordanian culture for inspiration.

Modern art has generally been associated with the West because of the movement’s emphasis on individualism, long regarded as incompatible with many Eastern cultures, especially in the Middle East. Yet here, Jordanian artists created pieces that were true expressions of individual thoughts and feelings while focusing on analyzing the rich culture many had been raised in.

One artist went above and beyond in this pursuit, managing to make a collective experience individualized by producing an interactive work. In Sissel Tolaas’ piece, viewers were meant to identify unlabeled scents sitting on a map of Amman and then move the containers to the location on the map where they have smelled that particular scent. The work exemplified the yin-and-yang relationship Jordanians have managed to create between their Arab heritage and the influence of Western modern art.

Though the subject matter was broad, they took these shared experiences and feelings of their people and gave them value and individuality by creating art that communicated their personal interactions and understanding of Jordan’s collective culture.

Within Amman as a whole, there is an appreciation for modernity without needing to forsake the local culture. Old men sit around smoking cigarettes in front of their shops, often gazing curiously at Westerners. Yet ask them for directions and the whole group will point you in the right direction,

and they may even grab a young man from their shop to pull up a map on his iPhone.

Women might be wearing unfamiliar garbs — in Western eyes, at least — but they are also carrying backpacks full of books to their college campuses. Cafes on every corner of Amman are styled in Western fashion, with Michael Buble playing in the background and photos for sale on their walls. Yet they are photos of Petra or elderly women picking olives, and they are probably selling shawarma and not paninis.

There are no hourly clock tolls — or really any clocks at all — but the Islamic call to prayer tolls five times a day. It is easier to tell time in prayers rather than in hours.

Jordan defies the traditional all-or-nothing ideology of opposing cultures.

Instead of divided groups, you find people who are able to connect with various cultures because of their willingness to share and take. When peeling back the curtain, a harmonious relationship between cultures and norms is discovered, something many people would consider incredible.

Yet “Amman Design Week,” and the plethora of Jordanian art that is currently being created, shows how a people can mix the best of many cultures and perspectives while honoring the traditions and norms that define their homeland.

Laila Brothers is a junior

in the School of Foreign Service.

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friend who visited me a week ago swears by zodiac signs, claiming my personality was “such an Aquarius; so goal-driven, stubborn and opinionated.” Even when discussing another friend, this person asked if she was a Scorpio because “Scorpios tend to have really deeprooted emotional issues — you should watch out.”

Zodiac signs refer to astrological star formations that are supposed to classify people’s personality based on their birthdays While some take them seriously, many people dismiss zodiac signs. How can the stars that shined on a person’s birthday possibly influence something as complicated as that person’s future character?

Yet scientific history contains many similar, implausible explanations for psychological phenomena. Take the fad of phrenology, for instance.

Phrenology refers to a process of determining a people’s cognitive faculties by measuring their skulls. The idea was that certain areas of the brain were responsible for cognitive traits such as intelligence or aggressiveness. Having a bump on your skull near an area responsible for aggressiveness could mean that you may be more combative than a normal person, or so the ancient thinking went.

Despite phrenology’s past popularity, no study of which I am aware has found any kind of statistical association between skull shape and behavior. Yet the theory was highly influential in the 19th century, and it was accepted by nearly all European scientists. One must then wonder why those scientists dedicated

themselves to a theory that now seems quite preposterous.

Initially, the premises behind phrenology were not so outlandish. We know the brain is by no means homogenous, and certain brain regions are specialized for particular functions. Early scientists once thought people would be better at performing certain tasks if parts of their brains linked to the accomplishment of those tasks were larger. They linked size with increased effectiveness and performance.

Ayan Mandal In the 19th century, scientists had a general sense of what brain areas were responsible for by analyzing the cognitive symptoms of patients who had injured various brain areas. If patients who have strokes in one section of their brain — cutting off blood flow — experience difficulty speaking, maybe people who have an abnormally large section in the same region would prove more talkative.

Before the era of brain imaging, the sizes of specific brain areas were thought to be best approximated by looking at the skull. However, even if these approximations were close to accurate, the neural basis behind behavior is much too complicated to be explained by size. Cognitive neuroscientists have moved on to correlate behavioral traits

with variables such as white matter integrity or blood flow to brain regions, and even these measures are thought to be much too simple to clarify neural mechanisms.

Such pseudoscience has long been discarded, yet even when it is disproved, there are those who still cling to its claims. To return to the original example, why do people cling to simplistic, pseudoscientific theories such as horoscopes? It is universally acknowledged that the brain is one of the most complex creations that nature has ever fashioned. Why do we think that something as simple and implausible as star signs or skull size explain our unique personalities?

Perhaps it is because we love simple explanations. Rather than confronting the complex factors that underlie problems, such as an economic downturn, people seem to prefer answers that are easy to comprehend on a surface level. This is not the same as saying scientists do not respect simplicity; physicists endlessly search for evidence that link fundamental forces and biologists hail natural selection because the simple theory explains so much.

However, simple yet accurate theories are very rare.

And while we love simplicity, we should prefer accuracy. Horoscopes are fun, but if you are serious about finding a compatible romantic partner, you might want to consider more than just date of birth.

Ayan Mandal is a junior in the College. Brain History appears every other Tuesday.

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Secretary of Education Addresses FAFSA Deadline BEN GOODMAN

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The new filing date for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid will benefit current high school seniors applying for financial aid, according to United States Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. at a White House press briefing Thursday.

The new opening date, Oct. 1 — three months ahead of the application’s former Jan. 1 opening — delivered on President Barack Obama’s promise announced last September to provide a greater window for timely financial aid information to high school students and their families.

The FAFSA, released annually, determines the eligibility of college students for federal grants, loans and work-study funds based on information provided from a family’s tax returns from the previous year.

According to King, moving up the FAFSA release will contribute toward making the college process easier, more accessible and more affordable for American families by allowing them to provide the federal government with information confirmed by the IRS. “These changes to the FAFSA will help provide better information to families earlier to inform their decisions about where to go to college and also how they’ll be able to afford college,” King said. “These changes also mean accessing financial aid for a goodvalue school will be easier and faster, because students will be able to complete the FAFSA with information directly from their 2015 tax returns, information that the IRS has already verified.”

Previously, when the FAFSA was released in January, families either waited for their tax return from the just-completed calendar year or filled in the FAFSA with guesswork and estimation.

King framed the new FAFSA release date as the next step in Obama’s efforts to make higher education more accessible.

“These critical steps have helped open the door to a

college education for millions of Americans,” King said. “But they’re just one piece of the administration’s long track record of fighting to expand educational opportunity for Americans of all ages.”

“These critical steps have helped open the door to a college education for millions of Americans.”

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King claimed since Obama’s arrival in office in 2009, students have filed more than 160 million FAFSAs, and the average completion time for the FAFSA has been cut nearly in half.

King said the Obama administration is not only seeking to make applying to college easier. It has also worked on reducing the cost of college for middle and low-income Americans at a time when tuitions are on the rise.

“The administration has also made historic investments to keep college affordable for hard-working students and families, ending wasteful subsidies for banks and giving tens of billions back to students,” King said. “Pell Grants are more generous and are helping more students. The American Opportunity Tax Credit is cutting taxes for millions of families who are trying to afford college each year.”

King touched upon other Obama administration initiatives concerning higher education, such as the Every Student Succeeds Act signed last winter, which modified the No Child Left Behind Act leftover from the presidency of George W. Bush. ESSA transferred many of the accountability provisions allotted to the federal government in NCLB to individual states.

Since Republicans generally support limitations on federal power, preferring to grant state and local governments more control over

policy, King said Obama’s education initiatives have bridged political divides and achieved bipartisan support.

King said the Obama Administration considers graduation rates important as well. Obama has proposed financial incentives to needy students who enroll in at least 15 credits per semester — thereby staying on track to graduate.

“We know even as we grapple with issues of access and affordability, ensuring that students who start college actually finish is critical to ensuring that they are able to manage their debt,” King said.

Government professor Douglas Reed, who is also the new director of Georgetown’s Educational

Transformation Master’s Program, a program that prepares students to teach, advocate for education and understand policy, praised the Obama administration for easing some of the incongruities that occur when financial aid deadlines do not align with FAFSA deadlines.

“I think the good thing about this is it gives families more time to get the FAFSA in, but it also means that there’s not a big scramble in January when you have to look at last year’s income and figure out what you’re going to do,” Reed said. “Any time you get more time to fill out the forms, that’s a good thing.”

However, Reed said other problems persist with the Obama administra-

tion’s record on college financial aid.

“We have to really pay attention to the real problem, which is access and tuition.”

DOUGLAS REED Director, Educational Transformation Master’s Program

“I’m worried we’re not paying attention to the real goal, which is making sure everyone who is able to go to college can afford to go,” Reed said. “While it’s good to make some bureaucratic adjustments on FAFSA, we have to really pay attention

to the real problem, which is access and tuition.”

Luis Gonzalez (COL ’19), who is pursuing a career in education, lauded the Obama administration for implementing policies allowing low-income families more time to weigh different options for financial aid.

“From personal experience, I have seen how much disparity there is between schools with a high percentage of lowincome, minority students compared to schools in more affluent communities,” Gonzalez wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “In terms of the Obama administration, I think they’ve done a great job pushing for high school graduates to be ready for college and for a career.”

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GU Votes Registers Students Council Addresses Wage Gap Will Linde

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Last Wednesday and Thursday, the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service voter registration initiative, GU Votes, registered more than 1,000 students to vote as part of its “Storm the Dorm” event. The drive helped students request their absentee ballots at dorms across campus.

The student-led initiative is now looking to register 1,500 students before the middle of October. More than 20 volunteers from various student organizations sat at tables in New South Hall, Village C West, Harbin Hall, Darnall Hall and Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall to help register students.

Students founded GU Votes last year as they sought out a means to register more voters and to increase political participation on campus in preparation for November’s presidential election between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump.

GU Votes co-founder and Undergraduate Outreach CoChair Bethan Saunders (SFS ’17) worked with members of the GU Politics Student Advisory Board to find a way to revitalize the use of online voter registration program TurboVote after the Georgetown University Student Association used it in 2014.

Co-Chair for Undergraduate Outreach for GU Votes Omar Torres (COL ’18) said this initiative focuses on first-year students since they are most likely to be both eligible to vote and not yet registered.

“We thought of ‘Storm the Dorms’ to hit the freshman dorms, because those are the people who are turning 18 this year,” Torres said. “Those are the ones who maybe don’t know how to get registered or they don’t know what to do.”

Millennials have the lowest voter turnout of any age group.

According to the Pew Research Center, only 46 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 35 voted in the 2012 presidential election. This is in stark contrast with eligible voters over the age of 71, of which 72 percent voted.

According to Saunders, GU Votes’ current voter registration methods employ a greater use of technology than those

of previous presidential campaigns, much like similar nationwide voter registration efforts.

“This is a very online-focused platform that makes it accessible to everyone,” Saunders said. “The online efforts to register voters is a national trend. Twitter, too, promoted National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Sept. 27.”

GU Votes sought to connect and engage with undergraduates and student organizations through campus and social media.

“This was our way of reaching out to the freshmen and sophomores and being very present,” Saunders said. “So we had our signs, we had our computers, we had all these flyers, and it was a way to get people registered.”

Various campus organizations worked with GU Politics to raise awareness of the program. Students of Georgetown, Inc. catered brownies to attract students, while GUSA, the Asian American Student Alliance, the NAACP chapter at Georgetown, Delta Phi Epsilon, Georgetown Weeks of Welcome, Students for D.C. Statehood, GU College Democrats and GU College Republicans all partnered with GU Votes to encourage students to register to vote.

A partnership with the Students of Color Alliance sought

to increase voter registration rates among minority students.

GU Votes also received administrative guidance and support from the Office of the President, the Office of Community Engagement and the Office of Government Relations.

Jacqueline Beveridge (SFS ’19), a GU Votes member responsible for student volunteer engagement and coordination, tabled during the event Thursday evening and said she was pleased by the general enthusiasm and excitement.

“Voting can be intimidating because it seems like an intense process, but I was really impressed by how many students came up and asked questions about what they could do to vote and get their absentee ballot,” Beveridge said.

Torres, who is from Puerto Rico, cannot vote in presidential or congressional races, but said he recognizes the importance of civic engagement.

“I feel like it’s really important to make people participate because you have a right, and some people maybe have that right limited, so you might as well take advantage of it and try to affect the outcome of an election,” Torres said.

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A bill presented to the Washington, D.C. Council aims to prohibit employers from asking prospective employees about their wage history, a provision intended to combat the wage gap between men and women working in the District.

The Fair Wage Amendment Act of 2016, which is currently under council review, lists 11 of the 13 D.C. councilmembers as co-sponsors. If passed, D.C. would join Massachusetts, the only state in the nation that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about salary history.

At-Large Councilmember David Grosso introduced the bill on Sept. 20, saying it would help D.C. residents get the salaries they deserve for the work they do, regardless of their gender. According to a report released by the National Partnership for Women and Families in April of this year, women in D.C. make 90 cents for every dollar men make. The wage disparity is even more evident in the District’s minorities, with AfricanAmerican women making 56 cents and Hispanic women making 50 cents to every dollar made by white men.

“Historically, what we’ve seen happen is that the wage gap between genders is exacerbated and continued, because, if someone asks a woman what her salary was at her former job, it’s often lower than what it should have been,” Grosso said.

Grosso said he introduced the bill to further efforts in Washington to reduce gender pay inequality.

“I spent a big part of my career trying to create a society where everyone is treated with respect, and everyone is treated equally,” Grosso said.

Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor Director of Research Joseph McCartin, explained that, without this provision in place, employers can ask prospective employees what they were paid at their last job before making an offer. This then allows the employer to offer the

lowest wage they think the employee will accept rather than what the employee’s labor is actually worth.

“When employers know what workers earn, they have a little bit of an advantage in the labor market, in terms of setting prices,” McCartin said.

“When employers know what workers earn, they have a little bit of an advantage in the labor market, in terms of setting prices.” joseph mccartin Director of Research, Kalmanovitz Initiative

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce Director of Research Jeff Strohl said there are a number of subtle factors also perpetuating wage gaps during a job search. The discrimination, he said, is not necessarily intentional.

“There are a lot of ways wage gaps can continue, especially during job interviews,” Strohl said. “Men are more likely to inflate their previous wages — if they made $65,000 at their last firm, they’ll claim they made $70,000. Women are less likely to do that.”

McCartin said this bill, if it passes, will build on other recent workers’ rights legislation passed by the council.

“Simply this provision alone won’t solve the problem, but it’s a help,” McCartin said. “But you need to match that with the other things that the council has tried to do, which is raise the minimum wage to something more like a living wage.”

Three months before Grosso introduced the Fair Wage Amendment Act, the D.C. Council made headlines by passing a bill

gradually increasing D.C.’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.

McCartin said the District’s recent legislative push has compensated for a lack of leadership on the federal level.

“The cost of living has increased in recent years, but the federal minimum wage has stuck,” McCartin said.

“The federal minimum wage is no longer anything like a living wage, so what has had to happen is that localities have had to step into the breach. Cities have stepped up and tried to enact wage laws, like D.C. has done, to rectify the problem.”

Justin McCartney (SFS ’19), a student involved with the Center for Social Justice, said the bill addresses the problem of wage inequality head-on.

“You hear a lot of talk about how it’s important to close the wage gap in presidential campaigns, but [this amendment] actually takes action to do it,” McCartney said. “I think that’s really important.”

McCartney stressed the importance of Georgetown students engaging themselves in issues of gender and racial equity.

“There’s a sociological disconnect between Georgetown students and their experience for four years or longer in Georgetown versus the whole broader community of D.C.,” McCartney said. “Students being educated and aware that awesome initiatives like this are being worked out in local government is super important.”

Councilmember Grosso said that the D.C. Council always benefits from a student perspective, particularly on a bill that could be relevant to Georgetown students pursuing careers in the District.

“Anytime I can get more engagement from students in the District of Columbia, and, certainly, from Georgetown students, it’s a big help here at the legislative offices at the D.C. Council,” Grosso said. “The fact is: Engagement from students gives us a different perspective that I think we can use more of.”

Chicken Madness Ticket Barred From Senate After Victory Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Special to The Hoya

This year’s Georgetown University Student Association Senate swearing-in ceremony, held in Dahlgren Quad on Sunday, featured an unusual sight: A Wisemiller’s Deli Chicken Madness sandwich, represented by Matthew Gregory (SFS ’17), attempted to assume the off-campus electoral district position it won during last Thursday’s elections.

However, before Chicken Madness could pledge to assume the Senate seat, it was officially unrecognized by the previous senate through an almost unanimous vote, as its status as a non-undergraduate violated GUSA’s bylaws regarding candidacy.

Chicken Madness’s seat was transferred to fifth-placed candidate Alejandro Serrano (MSB ’17).

This year’s election also saw an increase in turnout from 19 percent to 24 percent compared to last fall’s election. Senate Speaker Richard Mullaney (COL ’18) attributed this to last year’s redistricting — which consolidated the number of districts from 11 to 7 — and a general increase in interest towards GUSA. Matthew Gregory (SFS ’17), who assumed the de facto leadership role of the Chicken Madness ticket this year, delivered a speech to the rest of the newly elected senators arguing that the satirical movement was a representation of what he called the average Georgetown student’s unfulfilled desires.

Anirudha Vaddadi (SFS ’16) represented the Chicken Madness ticket in the GUSA Town Hall last year during the executive election.

Chicken Madness was previously a candidate in last year’s executive elections, where it lost to current GUSA President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17) and Vice President Chris Fisk (COL ’17). The election saw the Hot Chick and Chicken Madness ticket come in

second, with 878 votes in the final round of voting.

Gregory said its recurrent appearance as a candidate signifies much more than an attempt to make students laugh.

“It doesn’t represent the factors that impact daily student life.

It doesn’t represent anything that students have a reason to care about.” matthew gregory (SFS ’17) Spokesperson, Chicken Madness Ticket

“We see the campaign as a symbolic movement that represents the fact that for the vast majority of students, GUSA does not represent the concerns that they care about,” Gregory said. “It doesn’t represent the factors that impact daily student life.

It doesn’t represent anything that students have a reason to care about.”

Khan, who attended the ceremony, said she saw Chicken Madness’ victory as a reflection of the student body’s humor.

“I think it also shows that GUSA can continue to be engaging with the student body and showing that it is a serious body,” Khan said. “It’s important for GUSA to also take itself not too seriously at times and to have fun.”

Gregory said the fact that many students were willing to vote for a sandwich in lieu of a regular student candidate for GUSA is illustrative of the gap that exists between them and the government that represents them.

Although the Election Commission reported an in-

crease in turnout, fewer than 50 percent of students in each district casted their vote.

In spite of a 10 candidate increase with respect to last year, some districts had no candidates for available seats.

South Campus Senator Christopher Grocki (MSB ’17) said a variety of factors, beyond perceived misrepresentation, could potentially account for these phenomena.

“As time goes on and Georgetown students settle in their niche in different social circles, they just find less of a desire to participate,” Grocki said.

Grocki said voter turnout declines as students grow older, because freshmen are more enthusiastic about getting involved. Upperclassmen are usually busier and miss out on the short fall senate election period, according to Grocki, while the longer executive election campaign season allows more students to be involved.

“While the information’s out there, it becomes an oversight,” Grocki said. “Ultimately, I think it’s important. There are issues that matter, there’s a body that can deal with those issues, and it would be really great to have input from as many students as possible. For us, trying to increase that is going to be a priority.”

Mullaney, who is representing the at-large seat, said he believes the election’s results indicate the success of previously implemented measures such as redistricting but also pose new challenges for this year’s administration.

“A lot of people laugh at the Chicken sandwich. I don’t,” Mullaney said. “I take it seriously. I know it represents apathy and exhaustion. A lot of people know that GUSA exists, but they don’t know what GUSA does. This year, my task as Speaker of the Senate will be to address the concerns of the Chicken Madness cohort and make

GUSA

The Georgetown University Student Association senate validated the results of Thursday’s senate election Sunday, which saw a 5 percent increase in turnout. sure that they know that the students in GUSA are actually working to make Georgetown a better place.”

Mullaney said students incorrectly believe that GUSA does not represent them. According to Mullaney, this is partly the result of students not seeing the executive and the senate as separate bodies.

“Last year, Enushe and Chris restructured all of GUSA, so, instead of committees, in the Senate, we now work in policy teams,” Mullaney said. “It used to be that the Senate worked on the

same things that the Executive worked on but in a completely different sphere.”

This year, besides managing the Finance and Appropriation Committee which assigns over $1 million to the different advisory boards that further divide them among student organizations, senators will also work to enact policy concerning a wide array of areas, from residential living and dining to mental health and security.

Mullaney said he hopes this strategy, combined with a higher degree of outreach,

will make the Senate’s actions more tangible to the rest of the Georgetown community. He also considers the inclusion of more communities on campus in policymaking a primary objective for this year. “[These students] don’t necessarily feel that they can be a part of the Georgetown community,” Mullaney said.

“I want to make sure that everyone makes sure that they have a place in GUSA, because GUSA does not belong to people in GUSA, GUSA belongs to all Hoyas.”

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Offensive Graffiti Clubs Evaluate 2016 Candidates Found in GUMC quired for the office,” Coopersmith wrote in an email to The plans to participate in a college Hoya. “Additionally, she prides canvassing weekend Oct. 8 and herself on working across the Oct. 9 and a “Get Out the Vote” aisle and is far more comfortweekend Nov. 5 to Nov. 8, both able governing than she is of which are in Philadelphia. campaigning.”

GUCD’s Vice Chair and DiSome Democrats at Georgerectory of Advocacy Meredith town who supported Sanders Forsyth (SFS ’19) said GUCD’s in the primary election have campaign efforts start local. now united behind Clinton.

“We are Matthew doing a lot “I see a woman B e r n ste i n of grassroots (SFS ’19) said, work, since who has dedicated even though we are stu- her entire life to he is not dents, and completely we are able making America a supportive to do things better place.” of Clinton’s like get out policies, it is MATTIE HAAG ( COL ’18) there, walk important to Chair, GUCD around, support her knock on over Trump. doors, since we have the en“I’m a pretty moderate ergy to do that,” Forsyth said.

Democrat, so I’m not fully Unlike the College Repub- comfortable with 100 perlicans, the GUCD leadership cent of Hillary’s positions, is united behind Clinton. but I think in this election Haag said she trusts Clinton the choice couldn’t be easier,” and believes Clinton would Bernstein wrote in an email to be a dedicated president if The Hoya. “I try to focus more elected. on policy than rhetoric, so it “I see a woman who has ded- isn’t Trump’s words that scare icated her entire life to making me but rather his shockingly America a better place, better- incoherent lack of foreign poling the lives of women and icy knowledge and isolationist, children and everybody, and, protectionist policies.” after every single vicious, hateAllison Webb (NHS ’20), who ful attack on her, she’s gotten formerly supported Sanders, back up and said, ‘I don’t care, said Clinton has begun to earn I’m going to keep fighting for her vote. what I believe in,’” Haag said.

“When Bernie was out, I “To me, when I see a person was like, Hillary is the second who has dedicated their entire best,” Allison Webb said. “With life to making this country the rise of progressivism and a better place, I don’t think Bernie Sanders’ campaign, there’s anything there not to [Clinton] has moved further trust.” left now on a lot of issues like For Forsyth, voting for Clin- income inequality and keepton is especially important giv- ing money out of politics, and en that her home area, Staten I like a lot of her policies there Island, N.Y., is likely to vote for now.”

Trump.

According to Marshall Webb “To me, being on Hillary’s (SFS ’20), some Bernie supportside is so important, because ers were not convinced that I’m from Staten Island, N.Y., Clinton was the right choice and Staten Island, N.Y., is prob- for president. ably going to vote majority “Quite frankly, Bernie SandTrump in this election,” For- ers is just a different kind of syth said. “So it’s really frus- politician,” Marshall Webb trating for me to see a lot of said. “There is this sincerity my family members, a lot of about him.” my peers, succumb to the fearAndrew Adams (NHS ’20), mongering that Trump has so who recently joined GUCD, viciously promoted.” previously supported Sanders Hoyas for Hillary President but accepted Clinton in the Grant Olson (COL ’19) said he name of party unity after Sandjoined the organization out of ers formally lost the nominaa deep-seated desire to see Clin- tion in July at the Democratic ton elected. Hoyas for Hillary is National Convention. an independent student group “You support the nominee, campaigning for Clinton. because you want to support “I have been a fan of Hillary progressive values,” Adams Clinton since I was 11 years said. old, and I was inspired then Bernstein said he hopes to join her campaign,” Olson Clinton is able to find comsaid. “There is no one else like mon ground if she is elected. her. She will put herself out “I feel that a lot of this anthere, time and time again, ger is misguided, and movfor 30 years, to do good for the ing away from free trade and country.” global engagement would be Alex Coopersmith (COL ’19), a grave mistake for the United who has supported Clinton States and European countries since the beginning of the pri- like the UK,” Bernstein wrote. mary season, said Clinton will “It upsets me that Hillary was be an effective president, even forced to the far left on issues if she has displayed weakness- like the TPP, something that es on the campaign trail. is a cornerstone of Obama’s “Is anyone more qualified foreign policy legacy, but I am to lead the most powerful hopeful that she will seek tannation on earth? She has the gible, bipartisan efforts once resume and skills that are re- elected.”

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VANDALISM, from A1 a safe space for its Jewish members.

“I think it’s rearing its head in a way that I didn’t experience when I was in college,” Gartner said. “We’re starting to see blatant anti-Semitism pop up in some circles that used to feel safe for Jews. I feel this security on one hand as Jew in this country, but this ever-awareness of the contingency of that security.”

Medical student Allix Hillebrand (GRD ’19) said she was taken aback by the graffiti, especially if it was another student in the GUMC community.

“It was very surprising, given that most of the stuff that takes place in that building is specifically for medical students, and there are a lot of graduate student classes in there too, but most of the people have dedicated their lives to helping other people and it’s surprising that someone among us would think that was an appropriate thing to do or that they feel that way about some of their peers,” Hillebrand said. “To that end, I was talking to someone about it, and we’re almost skeptical it was someone who was in our community, but, regardless, it was frustrating, especially for my friends who are of color and who are really shocked that this happened.”

Black Student Alliance member Justus Pugh (MSB ’20) said the vandalism changed his perception of the university as a safe space.

“Being a freshman and

coming into an institution like Georgetown, you just wouldn’t expect that. It just shifted my view of what I perceived Georgetown to be before coming here, what I thought Georgetown to be while I’m here,” Pugh said. “It would feel a lot better to know that it wasn’t a fellow Georgetown student that did that, but it doesn’t change the hate behind it.”

In April, graffiti bearing messages including “Support Officer Wilson” — a reference to Darren Wilson, a former Ferguson, Mo. police officer acquitted of the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown — and “Trump ’16 Build the Wall” previously surfaced on six on- and offcampus buildings.

Pugh said, although the incident was not violent, it served as an act of aggression and intimidation to minority students.

“Those symbols were meant for me to see and for me to not feel safe, to not feel comfortable, to not feel good about the space that I’m in,” Pugh said.

“That is what it was meant for.”

Gartner added that she wanted people to examine carefully their internal biases in order to make sense of the anti-Semitism in the world.

“I feel Jews, as people like anyone else, should be taken seriously when we ask that people look inside themselves and ask hard questions regarding the possible presence of unexamined anti-Semitism,” Gartner said.

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to provide an outlet for people to express their conservative ideals.”

Pohl said GUCR general body members hold various opinions on the general election. Some members plan to vote for the Republican Party nominee Donald Trump, some favor Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton, others support third-party candidates and still others have yet to make up their minds.

“We thought not going one way or the other on Trump would also provide the best environment for our members to feel comfortable being a conservative on a college campus, where it is becoming increasingly difficult to identify as conservative,” Pohl said.

GUCR Director of Membership Hunter Estes (SFS ’19) said that GUCR, in holding its neutral stance, is following the guidelines originally given to the organization by the Student Activities Commission.

Estes said SAC has traditionally asked organizations that receive university funds to abstain from making political endorsements, because these political activities might risk the university’s non-profit status.

The Hoya reported Sept.

13 that previous SAC leaderships had communicated misaligned university policies for clarification purposes. According to Senior Director for Strategic Communications Rachel Pugh, student political organizations may endorse their party’s candidates, as long as the students or student organizations are clear that their views are not representative of the university.

SAC has clarified the university’s policies since that reporting.

Estes said that, while administrators do condone endorsements from political clubs, GUCR took the best stance for its club’s stability.

“If we’re going to lean one way, we’re going to the group that’s funding us,” Estes said.

According to Estes, when the Harvard University Republican Club refused to endorse Donald Trump this summer, Georgetown students — especially the Georgetown University College Democrats — began to inquire about GUCR’s position.

The Georgetown University College Democrats had specifically tagged GUCR’s Twitter handle in a tweet commenting on Harvard’s decision, according to Estes.

“All the College Democrats were trying to do in this case was to put us in a position where we’re forced to endorse someone,” Estes said., “and we’re just not going to respond to that kind of pressure.”

Meanwhile GUCR members and non-members expressed similar dismay about the state of the election. These conservatives represent different plans come Nov. 8.

GUCR member Peter Hamilton (COL ’20) said he supported Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in the Republican primary election but will now reluctantly back Trump for the Oval Office.

“I would not exactly describe Trump’s temperament as presidential,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton said the possibility of future Supreme Court nominations motivates him to support the Republican nominee. He said a Clinton win would guarantee a swing in the ideological balance of the court away from conservatism.

“If Hillary is elected, that will shift the Supreme Court left for the next 50-something years,” Hamilton said.

Chase Wagers (COL ’20), who formerly volunteered for Rubio in the primary, said he will also vote for Trump due to his contempt for Clinton.

“I told myself I would never vote for Trump,” Wagers said.

“But I think he truly cares about restoring America to being a great power. But I’m really motivated by my dislike of Hillary.”

Some GUCR members plan to support Clinton. Casey Doherty (COL ’20), who interned for New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), said despite identifying as a conservative, she will vote for Clinton.

“Hillary has a personality that would much better suit the White House than Trump, although she has an entitlement issue,” Doherty said.

Doherty said she believes Clinton’s experience with leadership makes her a better candidate than Trump.

“I don’t love her — she has been in politics almost all her life, so she’s bound to make some mistakes — but Donald Trump hasn’t even had the chance,” Doherty said.

Sean Lerner (SFS ’20), who identifies as a libertarianconservative and originally planned on voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, said he will vote for Clinton after commentators questioned Johnson’s foreign policy knowledge for not being able to identify the Syrian city of Aleppo, a flashpoint of the Syrian refugee crisis, in an MSNBC interview.

Lerner said Trump’s character has helped push him to support Clinton.

“I think Trump is just a really bad character,” Lerner said.

“He’s selfish [and] doesn’t care about the welfare of everyone.”

Regardless, Lerner said he still harbors distrust for Clinton.

“Hillary’s been untrustworthy in the past, and I’m not happy to be voting for her,” Lerner said.

Some Georgetown conservatives remain undecided.

Havens Clark (COL ’20), who identifies as a social moderate and strong fiscal conservative, said she is torn in the choice between either her preferred candidate or her preferred ideology.

Student Veterans Reflect on Support, Stigma at Georgetown VETERANS, from A1 them has grown over the last few years.

This has resulted in an active Georgetown University Student Veteran Association membership body and a number of faculty members dedicated to helping student veterans assimilate and thrive. Georgetown also has a Veterans Support Team, a group of students, faculty and administrators interested in veterans’ issues.

Among these resources, GUSVA has developed into an active advocacy organization for student veterans.

Student veteran and GUSVA President Cristine Starke (SFS ’18) said the size and stature of the group has significantly increased over the past few years.

“The GUSVA has become a vehicle to advocate for student veterans’ issues. Veterans on campus have a lot more power now with this organization,” Starke said.

Henderson said joining GUSVA facilitated his transition to Georgetown, a process that challenged his identity ,after having gone through extensive training while joining the Army.

Before Georgetown

For Henderson, enlisting was an opportunity to mature.

“I wanted to be a part of something bigger than myself and had a calling to service,” Henderson said. “I’m from a

small town where there aren’t a lot of opportunities to do big things. This was a way to try to get the next level when I had the right mindset.”

The hardest part of transitioning to civilian life for Henderson was adjusting his worldview.

Henderson said military life is regimented, and obedience is paramount; soldiers are trained to follow orders, so acting as an individual is not a realistic option.

“I think the hardest part was the lack of your own sense of agency. You don’t really have to think much beyond being told what to do, because you’re told where to be and what to think,” Henderson said. “Maybe that’s why I wasn’t the world’s greatest soldier. I had an officer who told me I think too much.”

After being discharged, Henderson said he was overwhelmed by the options he had. He considered becoming a teacher and a baseball coach.

“I definitely struggled when I first got out,” Henderson said. “A lot of vets go through difficult transitions. Your identity becomes wrapped up in your service, community, uniform and you know who you are and what you’re doing and, all of a sudden, you have this new freedom. I was one of those people. I remember waking up the first few days and wondering what I was going to do.”

Prior to applying to Georgetown in 2014, Henderson had coached a baseball team in his hometown of Lynchburg, Va., then enrolled at James H. Faulkner State Community College, a community college in Alabama, before transferring to the University of South Alabama.

“My first class was an Intro to Gov. course, and from then I knew that I wanted to study government. I wanted to pursue politics,” Henderson said.

“It’s kind of ironic to swear to defend a constitution that you don’t know much about.”

Henderson contacted his congressman for an opportunity to intern at his Washington, D.C., office. Once in the District, he applied to Georgetown.

“I sold everything I owned, came up here and moved in with a stranger and fell in love with D.C. and didn’t want to leave and applied to Georgetown on a whim,” Henderson said. “I almost didn’t even apply, because I knew I wouldn’t get in, and then I got an acceptance letter in May [2015], and the rest is history.”

Life at Georgetown

When Henderson joined GUSVA, he met Starke, a Marine Corps veteran who came to Georgetown from a different background. Starke enlisted in the Marine Corps when she was 17 and served as an Arabic linguist and translator for the majority of her time in the military. Starke faced some difficulties applying to

Georgetown.

“I got a lot of pushback from my command, and this is true regardless of your job,” Starke said. “I had trouble getting a recommendation from my commanding officers. If they’re trying to keep retention numbers, it’s hard to get out. I had to really advocate for myself in the college application process, because they really want you to stay in.”

Once Starke was admitted to Georgetown, she took the advice of former student veterans and immersed herself in student life: She joined the professional foreign service sorority Delta Phi Epsilon and became part of the OWN IT Summit team for women’s leadership.

Still, Starke said she was not prepared for the stigma associated with being a veteran.

“It’s definitely case by case.

Some faculty and administrators are ambivalent, but I feel like many of them are uncomfortable sometimes,” Starke said.

Starke said this environment encouraged her to become involved in GUSVA. As the president, Starke said she wants to help other student veterans in as many ways as possible. This includes providing veterans with similar networking opportunities available to other students.

“At Georgetown, everyone has alumni connections.

Some veterans are often not tied into those connections because they transfer in. So I think about how we can get

them connected to alumni or tied into various programs on campus they’ve felt excluded from,” Starke said.

Along with advocating for veterans’ issues, GUSVA also plans events and gatherings for both its members and the broader Georgetown community. On Nov. 10, GUSVA will host a Veteran’s Day ceremony honoring student veterans on campus and Georgetown alumni who have served.

GUSVA will also host a panel discussion on Oct. 21 called “Women Who Write About War.” The panel will bring together professional women writers whose work focuses primarily on war. Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Barbara Mujica, who serves as GUSVA’s faculty advisor, will speak at the event.

Mujica is also an associate facilitator of the Veterans Support Team. Mujica played an important role in strengthening GUSVA’s role on campus, especially in the acquisition of a central office for the organization.

“Georgetown was very active in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War, so I feared that I would not get great reception. But the exact opposite happened.

The receptions from the provost’s office, the president’s office, and the dean’s offices were all very supportive and helpful,” Mujica said.

Currently, hundreds of both undergraduate and graduate students make up

GUSVA’s membership.

Henderson said veterans should immerse themselves in everything Georgetown has to offer.

“As I got more comfortable, I became involved on campus, which made the adjustment much easier,” Henderson said. “I’ve since made some incredible friends here.”

Like Henderson, Starke said she would urge new students to be resourceful.

“You can’t force a student to use his or her resources or to identify as veterans.

That being said, I’d encourage every student here to get involved with anything and everything,” Starke said. “I’d also tell them not to hide who they truly are, either.”

Mujica said she hopes veterans and non-veterans will continue to interact and that the issues surrounding student veterans — including a potential stigma and transitioning to civilian life — will continue to be addressed.

“Student veterans make tremendous contributions to campus life. They’ve been all over the world and really add different and important dimensions to our campus,” Mujica said.

For Henderson, being at Georgetown after serving in the military is a privilege.

“To me, Georgetown is a miracle. Every day I walk up, and I see Healy [Hall]: I have to pinch myself,” Henderson said. “I ask myself if that’s really where I get to spend my time.”

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Junior midfielder Arun Basuljevic scored one goal against Butler on Saturday.

Basuljevic is second on the team in goals with two and points with four.

Butler Controls GU Defense MATTHEW SACHS Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown University men’s soccer team (3-7-0, 1-2-0 Big East) lost a tough 2-4 game Saturday night against the Butler University Bulldogs (8-1-1, 3-0-0 Big East). While the Hoyas finally managed to create offensive scoring chances, defensive breakdowns cost them the match.

Georgetown junior midfielder Arun Basuljevic started the scoring in the 14th minute off a pass from senior midfielder and co-captain Bakie Goodman. Basuljevic shot the ball through a screen of Bulldog defenders, ultimately finding the back of the net.

Butler, however, responded quickly, scoring five minutes later to tie the game at 1-1.

Freshman midfielder Issac Galliford took a cross to the middle of the field and fired one into the net off a quick release.

The score stayed tied until the 30th minute where Butler senior forward David Goldsmith connected with a lefty boot to the back of the net.

This was the last goal in the first half and put Georgetown in a hole moving forward.

The Hoyas, despite playing hard defense, struggled to contain the Bulldog’s strong offensive attack. Butler’s spread-out approach worked very well and carried into more scoring later on.

“They’re one of the better teams to keep it and space with good numbers that you’ll play … they will score a ton of goals, they’re pretty comfortably the most efficient team

we play in terms of efficient scoring when they get the chances, they just have pieces up there that are efficient, talented, attacking players,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

In the second half, Georgetown’s defense continued to struggle against the surging Butler offense. Freshman midfielder Lewis Suddick doubled the Bulldogs’ lead to two goals in the 54th minute. After an intercepted pass and an assist

by Galliford, Suddick’s impressive footwork resulted in another goal for Butler.

Georgetown worked hard to climb back from the 3-1 deficit but lost possession and control of the ball to Butler for long stretches at times.

After 24 scoreless minutes, Georgetown sophomore midfielder Brendan McDonough scored off a deflection from a free kick, chipping away at the Butler lead. McDonough’s first goal of the season put the Hoyas into a desperate situation to tie with less than five minutes left in play.

Georgetown’s comeback hopes were dashed less than a minute later. A defensive miscommunication allowed Butler’s Goldsmith to score his second goal of the night, keeping the game out of the Hoyas’ reach. Goldsmith’s two goals give him 10 on the season, enough to lead in the Big East Conference.

The Hoyas were outmatched in shots on goal by Butler 8-2.

Throughout the game, Georgetown sophomore goalkeeper and co-captain JT Marcinkowski helped the

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team with four saves. Junior midfielder Christopher Lema contributed with three shots in the game for the Hoyas.

Bakie Goodman also had a great shot on goal, missing by about six inches. Wiese described the level of intensity throughout the game. “[The play felt] like a championship game that if you lose the ball you might not see it for a while and vise versa,” Wiese said. “The difference was [that Butler] buried both their chances, and we buried one and almost the second [in the second half].”

Despite the outcome, Weise was pleased with how the team matched up against a strong Butler team and knows that the team is able to improve. “[We did a] good job of keeping [possession] for some time” Wiese said. “For as good as they are, if we lined up with them next weekend, the guys would feel really good about their ability to get a result.”

Aware of the tight Big East standings, Wiese described the Hoyas’ upcoming game against Marquette as a challenge due to both teams’ desperate need for wins. “[We] have six league games left to play and [after being] dealt a really tough start.

There’s a lot of [Big East] points there for the taking,” Wiese said of the competitive Big East schedule.

The Hoyas take on the Marquette University Golden Eagles (3-3-3, 0-2-1 Big East) on the road Saturday, Oct. 8th at 8 p.m.

Both the No. 8 and No. 19 Georgetown men’s and women’s cross-country teams claimed second place at the Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The men were second out of 38 teams scoring 115 points. No. 16 Iona won the meet. On the women’s side, the Hoyas claimed second place out of 45 teams, recording 119 points. No. 29 Yale took home first with 92 points.

Senior Scott Carpenter led the way for the Hoyas winning the meet with a time of 23:37. Junior Christian Alvarado continued his hot start to the season as he was the second Hoya to cross the finish line. Alvarado recorded a time of 24:03, earning him 20th place.

Head Coach Brandon Bonsey expressed his pride for Carpenter after the meet.

“Really excited for Scott Carpenter,” Bonsey said.

“For him to get the win at a meet of that caliber is really, really exciting. It was pretty cool to see how much he’s improved.”

Carpenter expressed happiness about his individual win, but he was more focused on the team’s overall performance.

“It felt really cool,” Carpenter said. “I haven’t won any race in college and it’s a feeling that we all obviously want and we strive for, but doesn’t come around all that often. It would have been a lot sweeter if we had won as a team as well, but it was still cool to win

individually for sure.”

Graduate student Michael Lederhouse captured 26th place overall with a time of 24:11. Senior Amos Bartelsmeyer finished directly behind Lederhouse in 27th, running a 24:12. Regardless of these performances, Bonsey expects his squad to continue to improve.

“It’s exciting to see week to week who is going to be in the top seven.”

PIPER DONAGHU Junior

“The team, to be honest, we got crushed by Iona, and that’s okay,” Bonsey said.

“Iona is really good and it’s early, and Iona beat us last year and they have a lot of returners. But we will be fine. I think if you look at last year, we weren’t the team that we wanted to be probably until the Big East meet. We ran okay at Paul Short last year, but the competition wasn’t great. Then we were mediocre at Pre-Nationals and then really came around. I think we are going to have a similar trajectory this year.”

The women athletes also turned in strong performances. Freshman Paige Hofstad continued to show her potential, capturing 11th place in 20:24. She was the first Hoya to cross the finish line, and junior Piper Donaghu was the second Hoya to finish. Director Julie Culley lauded both

of their showings this past weekend.

“We had a couple of breakthrough performances this weekend, one being Piper Donaghu,” Culley said. “That was an incredible effort and the best cross-country race she’s ever run for Georgetown. I think she’s definitely going to be a big-time player for us in the future … It’s not a surprise to see her excelling at this point, so we’re very excited to see what she can do in the second half of the season.”

Junior Autumn Eastman claimed 16th place with a time of 20:29, and sophomore transfer Jossette Norris followed her as the fourth Hoya, coming in 27th place with a time of 20:40. Junior Madeline Perez rounded out the top five for the Hoyas, recording a time of 20:54 and coming in 53rd overall. Donaghu spoke about how strong the Hoyas are as a team and how that will help them later in the season.

“I think that our team is very special because there are a lot more than seven people who can contribute,” Donaghu said. “It’s exciting to see week to week who is going to be in the top seven and to see it change. And I think our biggest strength is how we work together and how we run together in workouts and races.

We are a very tight-knit group and really supportive, so that makes doing hard workouts and races a lot easier and more fun.”

After a week off from competition, both the women’s and the men’s cross-country teams will travel to Madison, Wis. to compete in the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational on Oct. 14.

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Trump Reflects WWE Tactics

“I

’m taller than you.

I’m better-looking than you. I think … I think I’m stronger than you.

And I’m here to challenge you to a match … .”

Yes, that is a direct quotation from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

However, he was speaking to neither Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton nor any of the candidates who he ran against and beat for the Republican nomination for president.

Instead, this quotation dates back to a time when Donald Trump was primarily known for his television appearances.

In 2007, Trump challenged Mr. McMahon, the egoistic character based on and played by CEO and chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment Vince McMahon, to a TV wrestling match that was billed as the “Battle of the Billionaires.”

Though the two “billionaires” ultimately chose professional wrestlers to do the wrestling for them, the matchup between Trump and McMahon was hailed as one of the highlights of WrestleMania 23 and earned Trump an enthusiastic following within WWE. Trump’s rise in the world of professional wrestling — a realm in which he has no particular experience — is interesting in itself, but can also help an increasingly puzzled American public understand how a real-estate-mogul-turned-TVpersonality became a veritable presidential candidate.

Though professional wrestling and national politics may initially seem unrelated, Trump has the unique credit of recognizing the two worlds’ similarities and playing to his strengths in each of them.

First and foremost, Trump recognized that WWE’s value lay neither in truthfulness nor the sport it purports to be about. WWE’s programs

are less about wrestling as we see them in high school gyms than they are about entertainment — a fact that Trump capitalized on and continues to do so.

Notably, in the midst of the 2007 “Battle of the Billionaires,” Trump surprised the crowd by briefly tackling McMahon to ground. The move caused McMahon no physical harm, but the audience was entertained nonetheless.

Kara Avanceña Trump took WWE’s central principle and successfully applied it to his presidential run. Showmanship took precedence over policy as early as August 2015 when the first Republican primary debate attracted a record-24 million viewers — largely due to Trump’s presence.

Bravado ruled from the opening minutes of Trump’s campaign as he singled himself out as the sole candidate who refused to rule out a third-party run if he did not earn the Republican nomination. From that evening onward, Trump set a precedent of highlighting his ability to command attention as a standard of measuring his popularity and success, thus glossing over his sparse political experience and inconsistent platform — typical aspects that conventional presidential campaigns have deemed important.

Moreover, in both professional wrestling and politics, Trump has positioned himself as a heroic outsider who challenges well-established “villainous” characters. In

WWE, this became most apparent in a 2007 episode of Monday Night Raw that pitted McMahon and Trump against each other once again in a fight for the audience’s affection on “Fan Appreciation Night.”

As McMahon cast himself as the villain who “appreciated” fans by showing off a fake magazine with himself on the cover, a benevolent, godlike Trump appeared on the big screen and cued the moment for thousands of real dollars to rain down on the audience.

The scripted nature of the moment or the likelihood that it was not Trump’s own money falling from the arena ceiling was unimportant; for WWE fans, the staging of the moment cemented Trump’s heroic role on WWE. Nine years later, Trump has applied the same tactics to his presidential race with Hillary Clinton. Trump’s campaign has endeavored to portray Clinton as a wealthy, corrupt Washington politician, and Trump has referred to Clinton as “Crooked Hillary” on Twitter to further his point.

Trump considers himself the champion of Americans.

Trump has assumed the responsibility of saving America from Hillary, despite his significant personal wealth and engagement in questionable practices — both of which are points he has criticized Clinton for.

With polling suggesting that neither Clinton nor Trump can gain a sizable lead on the other, every advantage counts. And if entertainment and staged grand heroic acts become the standard that we hold our politicians to, consider Trump the next U.S. president.

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Junior midfielder Meghan Parsons, third from left, tied a career high with three points in Sunday’s 4-2 win against Longwood. She scored one goal and recorded one assist.

Hoyas Synergize inVictory EMILY DALTON Hoya Staff Writer

After jumping out to a 4-0 lead, Georgetown field hockey (4-8, 0-3) was able to apply enough defensive pressure to hold Longwood (6-5, 0-1 Mid-American) scoreless for 60 minutes, ultimately defeating the visiting Lancers 4-2 on Sunday.

Junior midfielder Meghan Parsons scored first for the Hoyas in the 17th minute off of a redirected shot from sophomore back Katie Maransky, tallying the first point of her career-high three-point performance.

This was the fifth time this year that the Hoyas scored the first goal of a game, and after Sunday’s victory, Georgetown improved to 4-1 in those matches.

In the 23rd minute, the Hoyas converted on another penalty corner for their largest lead of the season when sophomore Helena Masiello scored the first of her two goals.

The Hoyas’ third goal by freshman forward Lindsay Getz was a product of the play of the team, as it included three Hoya strikers — Getz, senior forward Aliyah Graves-Brown and senior midfielder Maria McDonald — and a selfless feed across the face of goal.

Masiello rounded out the scoring for Georgetown, as her second goal gave her the team lead with nine points and tied her with Getz for a

team-high four goals.

“I think we really came together today,” Masiello said.

“Sometimes we play individually, but today we had a lot of passes and connected really well with each other, and it showed in the score.”

When reflecting back on the team’s improvement since last Friday’s loss to Temple (4-8, 1-2 Big East), Masiello noted a sense of urgency in the attacking circle. In Sunday’s match, the Hoyas outshot the Lancers 21-14, compared to Friday’s game in which they were outshot 31-8.

“I think overall our energy and just getting shots off, we were more relentless in the attacking circle, whereas before we didn’t have as many shots in the other game, so we were just working harder during this game to get shots off,” Masiello said.

On the defensive end of the field, the Hoyas posted an impressive 60 minutes of shutout play, making sure the talented Longwood front line did not get on the scoreboard for the majority of the match.

The Lancers began their unsuccessful comeback bid in the 61st minute with a goal by junior forward Abbey Ripley, followed by another goal two minutes later by sophomore forward Leonie Verstraete. In the end, the four-goal deficit proved too steep for the Lancers.

“One of our points of fo-

cus today was stepping in front of our opponent and not letting them receive the ball,” Maransky said of Sunday’s defensive strategy. “Friday, we realized that we let them into the circle over 20 times in one half, so learning from Friday to just step in front of our opponents was the most important thing.”

In terms of her personal role on the back line, Maransky mentioned poise under pressure as her main focus this season.

“Being calm and outletting the ball calmly and not frantically, it keeps the rest of the team and the defense calm,” Maransky said.

Up next, Georgetown seeks its first Big East win of the season as it travels to face Liberty (3-6, 2-1 Big East) next Saturday. The Hoyas are hoping to keep the momentum from this weekend going forward into their upcoming road game.

“I think as a team we are looking to upset the Big East as much as we can and hopefully make the tournament,” Maransky said. “[We’re looking] to prove ourselves, to show that our record does not define how we’ve been this season, so we’re looking to move forward and do well,” Masiello said.

The Hoyas will travel to Lynchburg, Va., next weekend to face the Flames on Oct. 8 at 12 p.m.

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national team.

While Allardyce is known for his outspoken behavior, everyone thought that becoming the England manager would mean that he would behave in a more dignified manner.

To make matters worse, The Telegraph also claimed that Allardyce agreed to a £400,000 deal to represent the false firm the undercover reporters had created.

While Allardyce insisted that he would have to run the deal by the FA first, the fact that he potentially agreed to such a deal is horrific and highlights the corruption that still runs rampant in the soccer world. It is not as though he needed the money; Allardyce was reportedly set to make £3 million per year as manager.

When news of the scandal broke, it became very evident that the FA would need to take swift action. The dream appointment of Allardyce had turned into a PR nightmare.

Mere hours after the scandal was revealed, Allardyce was out.

This ordeal is a further embarrassment to English soccer and highlights just how far the English team has fallen. What seemed like a perfect match between team and manager has ended up being incredibly damaging to the entire sport.

The frantic search for a new manager will begin again and the FA can only hope to make a better decision this time.

It was announced the U-21 England manager Gareth Southgate will take over the

team for the next four games, including three World Cup qualifiers. Southgate was initially one of the candidates touted as the successor to Hodgson before he ruled himself out due to inexperience.

Depending on how these games go, it is entirely possible that Southgate will ultimately be named the permanent manager.

Other possible candidates include Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger, B o u r nemouth’s Eddie Howe and Crystal Palace’s Alan Pardew. Unlike in the summer, it is difficult to say which man the FA will decide to go with. Wenger would be an excellent choice, thanks to his distinguished 20 years at Arsenal and the team’s great start to the season.

While Wenger has admitted that he would be open to the job, he has also been adamant that he will not break his contract with the Gunners.

I doubt that the FA will be willing to wait until the end of the season to appoint the next manager. Of one thing we can be certain: The next England manager will need to have a pristine reputation.

Sixty-seven days in charge.

One match. While Big Sam will leave his brief tenure in charge of the Lions with a perfect record — a feat that will surely never be matched — it is an ignominious end to a stellar career. As for England, one can only hope that things will get better from here.

As for England, one can only hope that things will get better from here.

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Junior midfielder Chloe Knott, number 14, grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. She was the captain of her high school soccer team from 2010 to 2013. At Georgetown, she has appeared in 44 games and has seven career assists.

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love.

The decision to leave New Zealand proved surprisingly easy.

“One of my best friends at the time came to America, went to UNC, and she came back twice a year,” Knott said.

“Every time she came back, she was like, ‘It’s the best thing I’ve ever done, I don’t want to come home. … Chloe, you have to do it.’ So I wanted to at least try to do it.”

With a lack of high-level women’s professional soccer in New Zealand, the pursuit of a professional soccer career required a move abroad; seeing the success her friends were enjoying only solidified her intentions.

Knott enjoyed full support from her parents in her decision to leave home.

“My dad watches every single game at home,” Knott said. “He definitely missed me; he wants footage all the

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time. I think he wants me to go back to New Zealand instead of staying here, and I really want to stay here for a bit longer. But my mom was like, ‘You have to, you have to go.

This is something you can’t turn down.’”

Knott knew little of American colleges, and only opened her search for a school towards the end of her senior year of high school. She nearly chose Colorado College, but was ultimately swayed by Georgetown’s urban setting and academic prestige.

“I think anywhere, I would have been happy. I like to think that if I’d come over here I would’ve been happy anywhere,” Knott said.

Just as she did when she first moved to New Zealand, Knott has again fully seized her opportunity in entirely new surroundings.

“I’m going to be honest, she’s far different than what I expected,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “Typically what

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happens with international kids, is they’re super technical and have the athleticism of a manatee. Chloe’s actually the opposite; she’s probably our fittest kid, covers the most ground and runs more than anybody.”

Earning a team award for most improved player at the end of her sophomore season, Knott has refined her technical ability and fits in well with junior midfielder Taylor Pak and junior midfielder Rachel Corboz in a starting midfield lineup that could rival any in the nation.

Knott, Pak and Corboz constitute part of a junior class that contributes nine players to the team, including five starters, which as a result forms the core personality of the squad off the field.

“It was more sophomore year, when we actually started playing together, that we actually spent more time together and became close friends,” Knott said. “There’s

nine of us, and we’re all just best friends. It’s like a family. … I feel like the whole team is as well, this year is like a family.”

That chemistry has translated into success on the field. For the second straight season, Knott has started every game in defensive midfield alongside Pak, both proving vital cogs in a Georgetown team that has risen towards the top of national rankings thanks to major upsets over No. 7 Virginia (8-2-2, 1-1-2 ACC) and No. 2 West Virginia (10-1-1, 2-0-0 Big 12).

The team now stands as an unexpected contender for a deep run into the postseason. If a conference title or NCAA tournament success comes to Shaw Field this year, it will be with the help of Knott, a midfielder who has truly covered more ground on her journey to college soccer than any other Hoya.

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Junior midfielder Rachel Corboz leads the team in assists with six and is second on the team in goals with eight. She also leads the team in shots and shots on goal.

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didn’t get anywhere near the number of counterattacks against us that Providence did.”

As more conference teams understand Georgetown’s strength in pace and counterattacking, they have started to concede more possession, content to defend in their own final third.

The Musketeers did enjoy a period of ten minutes late in the second half where the Hoyas, pinned back, failed to fully clear the ball.

Other than that one spell, though, along with sophomore forward Samantha Dewey’s occasional isolated hold-up play, Xavier never really mustered the threatening attacks.

Nolan remarked that Carolan has undergone a change in playing style since high school. While

she used to float in behind defenders, she now plays more with her back to goal in a post-up role. Regardless, she remains a natural goal scorer.

“She’s proven it with the three goals she’s scored this year, that Amanda is probably our best finisher,” Nolan said. “She’s the player that you’d want with the ball at her feet, going in on goal … All three goals she’s scored for us have been very good finishes, and I don’t really remember her having chances that she’s missed. When she does get a chance, she tends to score it.”

Though initially nervous about changing her playing style, Carolan believes she has now found a home in her new position.

“Offensively, we have been doing well with getting more comfortable

playing together,” Carolan said. “And we’re starting to understand how each other player likes to play … And the more we’re able to create opportunities for one another, the overall performance has been better.”

The next test for the Hoyas will come at St. John’s (6-2-4, 1-1-1 Big East), where the field will likely provide an even larger test than Northern Kentucky’s.

Located on top of a parking lot, Belson Stadium’s wind and irregular surface make it a particularly difficult place to play, as well as a common field for injuries to occur. Graduate student Marina Paul first injured her knee there in the Big East Championship Final against DePaul in 2015.

The match against St. John’s will be played at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Queens, N.Y.

wide receiver Brandon Williams caught a screen pass from Barnes on the right sideline and continued for a 76-yard touchdown catchand-run to bring the Blue and Gray within a touchdown.

The Hoyas then got a boost from their special teams when a Harvard punt was blocked by freshman defensive lineman Khristian Tate and recovered by junior linebacker Matt Apuzzi.

However, the Georgetown offense squandered the opportunity, missing a conversion on fourth down when Tim Barnes threw an errant pass to junior wide receiver Justin Harrell.

The Crimson gained more separation in the beginning of the second quarter when Firkser shook his defender free with a double move on a post route, racing into the end zone for a 75-yard touchdown to put Harvard up 21-7.

“He’s tough,” Georgetown Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said with regards to Firkser’s performance. “He should be playing with his hand on the ground next to the tackle but they split him out there … He had the one double move in the first half for the big play which was tough.”

To compound an already uphill battle, sophomore linebacker J’V’on Butler was ejected in the second quarter for a hit to the head. Butler’s ejection was a loss that the Hoyas could ill afford, with injuries already plaguing the team.

Georgetown, however, got a break when sophomore quarterback Tom Stewart — in for Viviano — threw a pick in the end zone to sophomore cornerback Blaise Brown. Still, the Hoyas failed to capitalize on the Crimson turnover.

After the Hoyas got the ball back after the turnover, Tim Barnes was flushed out of the pocket on the first play of the series and was tackled to the ground hard after running to the outside. He came out of the game with a shoulder injury; sophomore

quarterback Clay Norris took his place for the remainder of the contest.

Georgetown’s offense could not gain any traction with Norris at quarterback and had just one first down in his first four drives. For the game, he finished 10-of19 on throws that totaled a mere 45 yards.

“I thought Clay did a good job for us coming into the game and managing it. It was his first real college experience against a good defense,” Sgarlata said.

Despite the Hoyas’ defense holding the Crimson scoreless in the third quarter, they responded with an impressive fourth-quarter drive. The 12-play, 55-yard touchdown march spanned 4:35, the finishing touches coming in the form of a touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Cam Tripp to freshman receiver Cody Chrest.

The score was 31-7, and the Blue and Gray had stalled against the Harvard defense.

However, the Hoyas attempted to mount a comeback, with Henry Darm-

stadter’s 43-yard field goal making it 31-10 with five minutes left.

The next possession, junior running back Isaac Ellsworth broke through for a 74-yard touchdown run to make it 31-17. Georgetown’s comeback bid ran out of gas when Norris threw an incomplete pass to Williams on fourth down as time expired.

Despite the loss, Sgarlata remained confident in his team and was proud of the resilience the Hoyas showed, a distinguishing mark of the team four games into the season.

“When you come up to Harvard on a Friday night and you play a team that is 42-2 in the last 44 [games] … you got to take your shots when you have them, and that’s what we said we were going to do, even down towards the end,” Sgarlata said. “I told the kids in there, we’re 3-1, and I was more proud of our football team after this game because they fought their tails off all the way to the last play.”

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Junior wide receiver Brandon Williams, number 82, caught a touchdown pass in Friday’s 31-17 loss to Harvard.

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NUMBERS GAME

There’s nine of us, and we’re all just best friends.

It’s like a family.”

JUNIOR MIDFIELDER CHLOE KNOTT

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A World From Home, Knott Thrives Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

It was only after travelling halfway around the world from New Zealand to play for the Georgetown women’s soccer team, that junior midfielder Chloe Knott — then a freshman — realized her homesickness.

“It was really cool. It was a lot,” Knott said about her first few days in the United States “I was just taking it all in, so excited about everything.”

Knott had made the decision without hesitation to leave New Zealand with the support of friends and family in fall 2014, diving headfirst

into a foreign culture with New Zealand at age 13 proforeign teammates, far from vided Knott with a real opportunity to play soccer at a home.

In the first days of pre- higher level.

“I didn’t season think I would freshman “It was really cool. ever go far year, she with soccer found her- It was a lot. I was in England, self caught just taking it all in, because so up in a many people whirlwind so excited about were trying to of getting everything.” do the same gear and thing, and it experiencChloe Knott was such a big ing new Junior Midfielder thing.

Like, culture you grew up and learning names. She loved it. playing football in England, And at Georgetown, she has from age 3,” Knott said. “But then when I came to New thrived.

Moving from England to Zealand, not many girls

The number of shots on goal the men’s soccer team had in its 4-2 loss to Butler on Saturday.

were playing, and I was already ahead of most of them.”

Knott seized her chance, captaining her high school, Rangitoto College, for four years. She also earned spots in New Zealand national team squads at various levels, though was unable to play in competitive matches under FIFA rules concerning time lived in a country.

Still, Knott stands proudly on the sideline in exhibiFILE PHOTO: ISABEL BINAMIRA/THE HOYA tion games for the New ZeaSenior defensive lineman Hunter Kiselick, center, recovered land national anthem, an anthem that represents the one fumble and recorded seven tackles against Harvard. home she quickly came to See FEATURE, B9

Despite Loss, Late Surge Inspires GU

Aidan Curran Hoya Staff Writer

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Junior midfielder Chloe Knott has played in and started all 11 games for the Hoyas this season. She currently has two assists on the season, the third highest assist total on the team.

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

Despite putting up its best showing against No. 19 Harvard (3-0, 0-0 Ivy League) in recent years, the Georgetown football team (3-1, 0-0 Patriot League) ultimately fell to the Crimson with a final score of 31-17.

Losing by just two scores to the top team in the Ivy League — in a game that saw the Hoyas lose senior starting quarterback Tim Barnes to injury — is an indication that this year’s football team has the fortitude to compete for a conference title.

At the start of the game, the Crimson looked to be on the fast track to repeating last year’s 45-0 drubbing of the Hoyas when sophomore

wide receiver Brian Dunlap hauled in a 17-yard pass from senior quarterback Joe Viviano in the corner of the end zone, just three minutes into the game.

Harvard came right back on its next possession to make it 14-0 midway through the first quarter when senior tight end Anthony Firkser picked on sophomore defensive back Ramon Lyons in coverage again and came across the end zone and hauled in the pass from Viviano for the score.

In previous matchups against the Crimson, the Hoyas let the deficit build, but this year they kept on the attack. The Hoyas finally broke through at the end of the first quarter, when sophomore See FOOTBALL, B9

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Hoyas Notch First Conference Win Chris Balthazard Hoya Staff Writer

Vanessa Craige

Allardyce Sacked Amid Scandal

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ollowing England’s disastrous Euro Cup campaign this summer, it was obvious a change in management was needed. Nobody expected such a youthful England squad to lose against Iceland, yet that is exactly what happened.

Manager Roy Hodgson was shown the door, and to no one’s surprise, Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce got the job he had spent his entire career working toward. It seemed that a new era for English football was set to begin, one that would hopefully erase the horrors of the past few years.

An unconvincing victory over Slovakia in early September demonstrated that Allardyce still had much work to do, but it was to be expected after less than two months on the job.

And then, the unthinkable happened.

Last week, the British newspaper The Telegraph published an expose revealing that the manager fondly known as Big Sam had been caught in a sting operation. According to a report backed by video evidence, Allardyce had met

with undercover reporters and claimed to have a way to bypass third-party player ownership.

Third-party player ownership means there are people who have a stake in the player other than those directly involved in the transfer of the player. It is a practice that is banned by both England’s Football Association and the FIFA governing body itself.

Allegations like the ones made against Allardyce are incredibly serious, and the FA announced that it would immediately begin looking into the matter.

Also emerging during this meeting was the fact that Allardyce heavily mocked Hodgson, who is well-known for having a soft lisp.

The England manager also criticized former assistant manager Gary Neville’s work with the team and Prince William — who is the president of the FA — for never appearing at meetings. All in all, it was shocking behavior for a manager of the English See CRAIGE, B9

The No. 6 Georgetown women’s soccer team (9-11, 1-0-1 Big East) defeated Xavier (6-6-1, 0-3-0 Big East) on Sunday at Northern Kentucky University to pick up its first conference win and extend its unbeaten streak to nine matches.

“What we’re starting to face now is that we do have a bull’s-eye on our back.” dave Nolan Head Coach

The 2-0 Hoya victory was thanks to an early goal from sophomore forward Amanda Carolan and a late counterattack finished off by graduate student Crystal Thomas.

The game came after a week off for Georgetown, as weather necessitated the postponement of Thursday’s scheduled match against Villanova (3-8-0, 1-10 Big East), which the team will make up Wednesday, Oct. 12.

Carolan noticed that the first goal, which stood as the lone goal for much of the match, mimicked almost exactly her score against Virginia, which also involved an assist from junior midfielder Chloe Knott.

“There was a punt, and their midfielder actually had it,” Carolan said.

“Chloe stepped in and won the ball, and as the centerback stepped toward Chloe,

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Graduate student forward Crystal Thomas scored one goal against Xavier, increasing her season total to four goals, the third highest on the team.

I spun out and Chloe perfectly played the ball into the lane, and I took a touch and put it far post.”

The large size of the field would seem to favor the pace of Georgetown’s attacking midfielders, including senior forward Grace Damaska, who has scored eight goals already on the season. However, Xavier’s five defenders managed to keep much of the Hoya attack in check.

Head Coach Dave Nolan acknowledged the lack of clear-cut chances created.

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“The problem with the field being so big was that we were so far from each other that we never managed to get enough numbers around the ball to combine well enough,” Nolan said. “It wasn’t like they played a 3-5-2, it was a 5-3-2, and it was almost like they man-marked our two wide players, and then their three center backs were going against Amanda and our midfield players.”

Georgetown’s impressive nonconference wins have propelled the team toward

the top of national rankings, but have also made future conference foes wary of a formidable attack that has scored nearly 2.5 goals per game.

“What we’re starting to face now is that we do have a bull’s-eye on our back, and in some ways teams are over-respecting us by just sitting back in, and hoping to counterattack,” Nolan said. “Providence did it, and they got a tie out of it, and Xavier did it … But they See XAVIER, B9