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CREATURE COMFORTS

Students navigate the bureaucratic processes of acquiring support animals at Georgetown.

EDITORIAL Casa Latina is a necessity for the Georgetown community as a whole.

RANKED OPPONENTS The No. 13 men’s lacrosse team will face No. 10 Virginia this Saturday.

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Santander Endows $2M Initiative Andrew Wallender Hoya Staff Writer

Banco Santander, the Eurozone’s largest bank, has pledged $2 million to Georgetown University to fund a new social economy initiative.

Banco Santander Executive Chairman Ana Botín and University President John J. DeGioia signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the initiative April 7.

The partnership is set to last five years, with an annual donation of $400,000. Although details are yet

to be finalized, the new initiative will include yearly faculty roundtables on social economic issues, as well as a student think tank composed of 24 students from around

“The point is to create new ideas that will have a social benefit from a financial point of view.”

the world.

“We are deeply grateful to Ana Botín and the leadership of the Santander Group, for their commitment to the social economy and their leadership on some of today’s most pressing socioeconomic challenges,” DeGioia said in a press release. “Our community looks forward to deepening our partnership and developing this new initiative together in the weeks ahead.”

Graduate School of Arts and

norberto grzywacz Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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WORLD BANK

Joel Hellman, the World Bank chief institutional economist, will assume the deanship of the School of Foreign Service on July 1.

Hellman Chosen To Lead SFS Katherine Richardson & Kshithij Shrinath Hoya Staff Writers

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Banco Santander Executive Chairman Ana Botín and University President John J. DeGioia signed an agreement on a $2 million, 5-year social economy initiative, entailing annual roundtables and a think tank.

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SFS-Q Conflict Program Recognized

GUMC, GULC Aid Refugees

Maureen Tabet Hoya Staff Writer

After seven years of exploring hotbeds of international conflict, Zones of Conflict, Zones of Peace, a co-curricular program for students at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, was honored for its promotion of international exchange and innovations in international education.

NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, an organization of 14,000 student affairs administrators in higher education, recognized the program with the Best Practices in International Education Award for International Exchange in a ceremony March 21 in New Orleans.

The program, which accepts 30 students per year, is a no-credit, three-month course focusing

Daniel Silbert Hoya Staff Writer

As refugees flee their home countries, they search for safety from persecution.

But even after reaching another country, their journeys are not over.

Instead, they face an arduous process of applying for asylum after landing in their

“Starting a clinic is not a joke.

It’s a really slow, clunky, difficult, but at the same time really enlightening ... process.”

NICHOLAS STUKEL (MED ’17) Co-Director, Georgetown Asylum Clinic

new homes, leaving their fate uncertain.

In 2014, 41,920 people applied for asylum in the United States, of which only 13,253 were actually granted asylum.

Georgetown University graduate students are working to make that process easier for applicants, with student-driven clinics at both Georgetown University Medical Center and Law Center providing crucial services to assist refugees on their path to safety.

Medical students opened the Georgetown Asylum Clinic in January to provide free physical and psychological evaluations to those seeking asylum in the United States.

The student chapter is the result of a collaboration with Physicians for Human Rights, a multinational organization of health care professionals dedicated to advancing human rights. Students started their clinic from scratch, and Kelly DiLorenzo (MED ’15), Nicholas Stukel (MED ’17) and Nathan Praschan (MED ’17) serve

World Bank Chief Institutional Economist Joel Hellman was selected as the new dean of the School of Foreign Service, blending experience in academia and development practice to steer the school into its second century.

Hellman will assume his role July 1.

He will succeed SFS Interim Dean James Reardon Anderson, who assumed the position in November 2013 after Dean Emerita

Carol Lancaster (SFS ’64) was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Lancaster died Oct. 22, 2014, at the age of 72.

“We believe that by building on our foundation, Georgetown can make unique contributions in the context of the increasingly complex and interconnected global landscape that we face,” University President John J. DeGioia wrote in a campus-wide email announcing the decision on Tuesday. “As we imagine our future ahead and seek to engage in ever deeper and more mean-

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COURTESY SHEENA MARTINEZ

Participants in the School of Foreign Service in Qatar’s Zones of Conflict, Zones of Peace cocurricular program pose at main campus. The program was honored this March.

FEATURED NEWS Residential Living Survey

A GUSA survey shed light on desired improvements to on-campus housing.

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SPORTS National Champions

Three members of club boxing earned title belts at USIBA Championship.

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OPINION Commentary

GUIDE Center Stage

Farmers Market favorite Chaia plans to open a restaurant in Georgetown.

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BUSINESS Zeeba Group

As time on the Hilltop winds down for the Class of 2015, execute your bucket list.

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An unofficial student group focuses on investing in emerging markets.

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Joe Luther and Connor Rohan sum up plans for the GUSA executive in a video interview. thehoya.com

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EDITORIALS

Dear Dr. Olson

With Georgetown Day quickly approaching, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson sent an email to the student body pairing gentle rhetoric with a familiar message: “We acknowledge that Georgetown students do not cause all the disruption and noise in the community,” Olson wrote. “In the interest of bettering our shared community we want to remind you of university policy.”

What the email actually says? Students, shut up.

Too often in this debate, the administration caters to the unrealistic demands of Georgetown residents, placing arbitrary and unnecessary restrictions on students living both on and off campus.

Such a stance is unjust, with both sides to blame.

This shared community of administrators, neighbors and students should seek an atmosphere at Georgetown where they do not look at each other as faceless masses bent on making the other’s lives more difficult.

This is a relationship that cannot simply come to be through arbitrary meetings and representatives. It requires a fundamental change in the way both sides consider each other. Looking specifically at each side’s perspective, it is of course reasonable to expect George-

town students to curb excessive noise during the hours when it can cause the most disruption to other members of the community, but bettering a community is a two-way street, not a one-way bulldozer.

Thus, Dr. Olson’s “brace and hold” stance when spring arrives and student activity outside ramps up has never proved successful at maintaining civility without angering either side.

Many residents undoubtedly hold some contempt for the student body and expect that students are nothing more than a noise-generating nuisance.

The students voiced their concerns in the campus plan debate partly by electing a satirical ticketas president and vice president of the Georgetown University Student Association. It is clear that the current relationship between the two parties lacks respect.

We are asking the university and adjacent neighborhoods to meet us halfway: We are not a horde of rowdy delinquents, and you are not the neighborhood police tasked with corralling us every weekend.

The bettering of our shared community is an overused phrase but holds much truth; moving beyond mutually antagonistic roles is the first step toward this goal.

A successful Georgetown experience entails transforming the Hilltop into a “home away from home.” Yet this task has been particularly cumbersome for those who identify as underrepresented minorities.

Fortunately, the activism of the Latino Leadership Forum — whose recent sit-in and presentation of a petition to University President John J. DeGioia’s office called for the creation of a permanent home for Georgetown’s Latino community — advances the attainment of this goal.

To foster the Latino community and the plurality of experiences on campus, the university must work to create a Casa Latina as soon as possible.

Rather than further displacing the Latino students who have housed themselves so far in temporary spaces, including themed Magis Row houses, or within the Black House, the university should take explicit steps to create the Casa Latina.

The current sharing of Black House between Black and Latino students diminishes the importance of the space for the black community by pooling multiple minority groups under its roof.

Furthermore, the creation of a Latino

affinity space on campus is not without a strong precedent. Since 1970, the Black House has been a longstanding Georgetown institution and has demonstrated its commitment to facilitating intersectional dialogue while simultaneously providing a safe space for its membership.

A Casa Latina would be another space that would be at the forefront of the university’s ongoing dialogue about race and privilege at Georgetown and in the United States.

With Casa Latina, the university has the opportunity to demonstrate a commitment to creating a designated space for its Latino population, while promoting engagement by all Georgetown students with Latino heritage and current issues.

This is a noble cause for a university whose priorities lie in the development of the whole person, who cannot develop, without a place to call home.

Georgetown should be able to pride itself in the fact that, despite one’s socioeconomic status, ethnicity or religion, any Hoya can find a home on campus.

Without the Casa Latina, the university forfeits its claim to plurality, and inadvertently denies a group a space to develop their cultural identity.

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Friday, April 17, 2015

THE VERDICT You’re Not a Wizard, Harry — The Washington Wizards have come under controversy for introducing a new logo that -— gasp — does not feature an actual wizard.

Maximum Wage — A coalition of labor and social justice groups in Washington initiated a campaign for a ballot measure that would raise the District’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Hope — Today marks Georgetown University’s annual Relay For Life, which will take place on Harbin field from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. today.

Earth Song — D.C.’s National Mall will host the Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day Concert, featuring performances by No Doubt, Fall Out Boy and Usher, this Saturday.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Janet Zhu

Casa Sweet Casa

School of Public Service

The School of Foreign Service announced this week that it will establish the Walsh Scholars Initiative, a program targeting students pursuing careers in public service.

The program’s aim is to make public sector careers more attractive by providing mentorship and institutional support in finding internships and career opportunities; by introducing the initiative amidst long-held criticisms of the SFS ignoring its original goals of service, it seems the administration has heeded student concerns.

The initiative has enormous potential to grow. We urge the administration to invest in the program and to make it a priority, especially in light of recent alarming post-graduation surveys showing that SFS graduates ultimately do not pursue careers in public service, with most choosing instead to pursue careers in banking and consulting.

Considering Tuesday’s appointment of Joel Hellman — former World Bank Chief Institutional Economist — to the position of dean, it is important to ensure that public service remains a legitimate op-

Carolyn Maguire, Executive Editor Alexander Brown, Managing Editor Jess Kelham-Hohler, Online Editor Katherine Richardson, Campus News Editor Kshithij Shrinath, City News Editor Kara Avanceña, Sports Editor Hannah Kaufman, Guide Editor Jinwoo Chong, Opinion Editor Daniel Smith, Photography Editor Shannon Hou, Layout Editor Zack Saravay, Copy Chief Emily Min, Blog Editor Molly Simio, Multimedia Editor

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Jinwoo Chong, Chair

Madison Ashley, Kit Clemente, Francisco Collantes, Ed Crotty, Johnny Verhovek

tion for students in the SFS. Hellman’s appointment could signal a restructuring of the school’s current resources and curriculum.

The administration and the SFSAC should continue to create and support similar programs in order to combat perceived image of the SFS as as a private-sector oriented school — a trend that could be addressed with a redistribution of the school’s resources and a renewed focus on its mission statement of service.

Programs like the Walsh Scholars Initiative are opportunities for the SFS to refocus itself and stay true to its original identity instead of focusing on private sector-orientated measures within the school such as the global business major.

While the Walsh Scholars Initiative is a step in the right direction, the program will initially accept just five students — not even a tenth of a percent of the total school.

The program must continue to grow and deliver its promises if it hopes to be more than a weightless venture in reaffirming the SFS’ commitment to public service.

This week on

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Duy Mai (SFS ’18) explains the effect of a concert, a good deed, and an unusual friendship: In 1892, a Stanford University student of the Pioneer Class arranged for the famous pianist, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, to come and perform at Stanford .​..​However, the Stanford concert was a financial disaster. Attendance was dismal, and so there were not sufficient funds from ticket sales to pay honorarium to Paderewski.

When the pianist learned of this predicament, he generously decided to not only waive his fee but also to cover the lease of the concert hall and other expenses .​.. ​Perhaps when Paderewski helped that poor foreign student in 1892 he never, in his wildest dreams, thought that the student would eventually return the favor in an immeasurable way .​.. ​In 1947, in recognition of his contributions and good works, the United States Congress unanimously ratified a resolution renaming a dam on the Colorado River after that student, declaring the site Hoover Dam, named after Herbert Hoover, who so happened to be the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the 31st president of the United States​.”​

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OPINION

Friday, April 17, 2015

The Century Cap

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UKIP and the Power of Fear Nikita Deshpande

Dangers Of Living Germ-Free A

lthough medical therapeutics can save you from the clutches of Hepatitis C, polio and tetanus, they have one glaring failure that dims their vast and storied accomplishments: ultimately, no medicine in the world will save you from your own immune system.

My best friend is allergic to gluten, my cousin is severely allergic to peanuts and my brother is allergic to dairy. At times, it seems like everyone I know has some sort of intolerance.

And as it turns out, I am not just being paranoid. According to a 2013 report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, food allergies have increased about 50 percent between 1997 and 2011. In fact, every three minutes an allergic reaction sends someone to the emergency room.

Though the number of people diagnosed with food allergies keeps increasing, there is no consensus on what process is responsible for the pattern. This is alarming because food allergies have no cure. Strict avoidance of potential allergens is recommended, but nothing can make allergies vanish.

Why has science failed us and why haven’t researchers developed a cure yet?

One prevailing idea is the hygiene hypothesis.

Though we often think of ourselves as individuals, our body is actually an ecosystem for a vast number of microbes.

We house over 10 trillion microbial cells (compared to our pitiful 1 trillion human cells) and these organisms coat our body surfaces to produce necessary vitamins, digest our food and help our immune system distinguish between friendly visitors and dangerous pathogens.

The hygiene hypothesis says that our complex body ecosystem has experienced a depletion in microbial diversity over the last century. Two contributing factors include increased consumption of processed items like sugar or pharmaceutical drugs and widespread usage of pesticides or harsh chemicals. However, the main reason why our delicate microflora balance seems to be under assault has to do with the physical environment.

Developed nations have become so clean that their surroundings do not contain the requisite germs needed to train our immune systems. As a result, our immune systems have not been educated to solely launch their defense systems against infectious agents. Since our naive immune systems do not receive the necessary input from their microbial neighbors, they tend to overreact when they come in contact with benign substances.

This environmental sanitation change has occurred within such a short evolutionary time span that humans have not had time to adapt without microbial guidance.

Examining the global incidences of food allergies shows that although most countries show increasing food allergy rates, this phenomenon is primarily a first world problem. How ironic that countries with the cleanliest environments suffer the most — who would have thought that the Western world’s quest for hygiene would be so problematic?

According to this hypothesis, we need to allow our microbiome to re-equilibrate. Perhaps stay away from antibacterial soaps, limit hand sanitizer use and eat more natural, organic foods.

Though these suggestions may help individuals temporarily cultivate a slightly richer microbiome, in the end these are very short-term fixes; the rise in food allergies seems more associated with specific lifestyles. It is literally the clean air we breathe and germ-free water we drink that is our downfall.

Scientists have not been able to develop a magical panacea for food allergies because this involves the enormous task of educating the immune system to stop misbehaving, and taking on the role of our microbiome. Who knows which specific organism allows our body to properly function? Each individual has a unique microbiome which continually changes throughout his life. It is the interaction of various organisms which allows our body to carry out specific tasks. Developing a cure-all is a monumental task. Though desensitization therapies exist — in which patients are gradually introduced to miniscule amounts of a food allergen until they can tolerate larger amounts without reacting to the substance — it cannot be tested on people with severe allergies.

As for now, all we can really do is find ways to change our lifestyle to incorporate more microbes into our body collections. Eventually if we wait long enough, evolution should do the trick and better equip our immune systems to deal with the clean environment. Regardless, we need to stop insulating ourselves from the world and its microorganism inhabitants!

So — for the sake of your health — get up, get out, and don’t be afraid to get dirty.

Nikita Deshpande is a freshman in the College. This is the final appearance of The Century Cap this semester.

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f you took a look at the United Kingdom in early 2010, you would have seen a country in desperate need of hope. After all, the economy was crashing, jobs were disappearing and every media outlet seemed to be reporting yet another national crisis.

When the general election came that year, we Brits scoured the political stage for a charismatic, forwardthinking, inspiring leader, the kind whose speeches would bring us all to our feet.

Alas, none was to be found, and so we begrudgingly settled for a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition instead.

However, twice over the past four years I have attended an annual student political conference where almost the entire 500-person crowd has gotten to its feet in applause. I have never seen such kind of wild political vigor in the UK, especially not from my typically apathetic generation.

What is so concerning, though, is that on both these occasions the crowd was rising for Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right UK Independence Party that is rapidly gathering up support in time for the next election this May. Despite originally gaining fame for standing simply as an “anti-EU” party, Farage has recently shifted the emphasis to focus on freedom.

For the past few months Farage has been telling us as loudly as possible that UKIP is the only party that can liberate the nation — not only from the European Union but also from political correctness.

To many, that sounds reasonable.

Who doesn’t want to support a party that appears to be the strongest advocate of free speech?

But here is the problem. When UKIP says it’s freeing the nation from over-the-top political correctness, what it actually means is that it’s freeing us to heap the blame for all our problems on one group – immigrants.

Despite a British Broadcasting Corporation report yesterday stat-

When UKIP says it is freeing Britain from political correctness, what it actually means is that it is freeing us to heap the blame for all our problems on one group — immigrants. ing that the number of people in work is at an all-time high, a large portion of the population is furious at being without work or holding jobs that they believe are beneath them.

Many have blamed cheap labor, with immigrants from Eastern European countries, especially Romanians, taking manual labor jobs at below minimum wage, thus pushing out British workers.

While British society in general has tried to prevent this from becoming a broader attack on immigration as a whole, Farage denounces this as political correctness gone mad and has taken it on as one of his central platforms for this election.

It would be a mistake to underestimate the danger of such a situation.

Whatever news story you read about Farage, it will be clear that he is a master of firing up the im-

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mensely damaging “us” and “them” mentality.

“This country in a short space of time has frankly become unrecognizable,” Farage said at UKIP’s spring conference in February.

“I got the train the other night from Charing Cross…it was not ’til we got past Grove Park that I could hear English being audibly spoken in the carriage. Does that make me feel slightly awkward? Yes it does.”

It was comments like this that I heard him spout endlessly at the student conference. Whatever the issue, Farage always came back to the damaging role of immigrants draining taxpayers’ money and job opportunities.

As the election approaches, UKIP appears to be increasingly capable of becoming a minority partner in what may well be another coalition government.

If it succeeds, we will have a governing party that recently promised to ban migrant children from state schools for their first five years in the country, and that includes members like Janice Atkinson, who was caught by a news crew referring to a British Thai constituent and UKIP supporter as “a ting-tong” last August.

Britain is in trouble, but UKIP is not the solution. What UKIP offers, and what it has already unleashed, is an easy and cheap way for us to find a culprit for the nation’s woes.

This is detrimental not only in the blatant way in which it encourages hatred and divisiveness but also in how it distracts us from seeing the many different flaws that have put us in this situation, and thus from finding valid solutions.

Farage, with his loud speeches and apparent answer for everything, may appear to be that charismatic leader the UK has been looking for.

To trust his confidence is to be misled because, ultimately, this is a party that represents fear, not hope.

Jess Kelham-Hohler is a sophomore in the College and Online Editor of The Hoya.

Eighteen Weeks

Working for a Greener A Handy ‘Last Week At University Party Georgetown’ To-Do List

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he average student does not associate a red Solo cup with much more than drinking.

The year’s first ever Georgetown Day cup seeks to change that. It’s time to make recycling fun.

The Georgetown University Student Association senate has partnered with Students of Georgetown, Inc., and Georgetown Day Planning Committee to organize an event that incentivizes students to recycle their party waste for cash. Natural Lite cans? Recyclable.

Solo cups? Recyclable.

The Georgetown Day cup is designed to clean up the Georgetown campus after the extravaganza that is Georgetown Day, while establishing a mentality of recycling on campus. Most party waste is recyclable, yet many students are not aware of this.

With the Georgetown Day cup, groups and individuals on campus will receive prizes if they are among the top recyclers of red Solo cups and aluminum cans.

The GUSA Senate’s Subcommittee on Sustainability, part of the Student Life Committee, spearheaded the planning process of the event as part of an initiative to educate the student body about recycling in a fun, engaging and humorous way.

During this school year, the subcommittee worked on setting up TerraCycle bins (bins for nontraditional recyclable items, like Brita filters) in all of the freshman dorms and improved signage on trashcans through a behavioral study to encourage recycling.

The TerraCycle initiative has been mainly focused on freshmen, as the focus of the initiative is to incorporate TerraCycle into the lives of Georgetown students new to the Hilltop.

In other words, TerraCycle has so far been geared more toward the Class of 2018 and beyond, or otherwise the future of Georgetown, as the goal is to incorporate recycling into the lives of Georgetown students as soon as they arrive on the Hilltop.

The Subcommittee on Sustainability has also focused on sustainability education, and has hung up posters highlighting different things most students don’t realize are recyclable.

Now, the Sustainability Subcommittee is focused on the George-

town Day cup – an initiative relative to all Georgetown students. In partnering with The Corp, GUSA has bridged the gap between two very present campus organizations to organize an event open to all Georgetown University undergrads.

For student groups that did not get all the money they requested this year from GUSA, this initiative serves as a means to attain extra funding in an easy and socially responsible manner.

The Georgetown Day cup serves as an opportunity for various student leaders across campus to show that recycling is a priority.

This one day event can serve as a reminder to students that most party materials are in fact recyclable, which will hopefully lead to changes in how students view recycling here on campus.

The student organization or group of individuals that bring in the most empty red Solo cups and aluminum cans to one of three collection centers April 26, the day after Georgetown Day, will be awarded 300 dollars.

The second-place group will receive $100. The event will be open to individual participants as well, so the individual who collects the most Solo cups and aluminum will receive $50.

For the event, GUSA has also partnered up with PNC Bank. PNC Bank will be providing free water bottles to the first 200 people to visit the three waste collection centers on the day of the event.

Sustainability isn’t the flashiest subject, which makes it a difficult subject to get students to prioritize. The Georgetown Day Cup seeks to highlight the connection between college partying and recycling.

Recycling after a party is easy to do, as most alcohol containers are recyclable, yet students are not aware of this fact. All interested students and student groups can take part in the event.

The average student does not associate a red Solo cup with much more than drinking. It’s time to change . It’s time to make recycling fun.

Enushe Khan is a sophomore in the McDonough School of Business and chair of the Georgetown University Student Association Senate Student Life Committee. Theo Montgomery is a freshman in the School of Foreign Serivce and chair of the GUSA Senate Subcommittee on Sustainability.

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ell folks, it’s that time of year. We’ve come to the last installment of our col-

Show support for a cause that has absolutely nothing to do with you; join a march, attend an event, donate money to something that umn.

We will spare you the inner exis- doesn’t serve you directly, but that tential turmoil all this is causing us, you believe in.

Go to those random lecture events and instead leave you with a compilation of our best stuff. Similar to in the evenings such as poetry readthe way we are trying to cram all the ing and business panels. These extra good of Georgetown in our last few opportunities to learn are one of the weeks here, this is our last attempt most rewarding, unique things about to cram in our best advice about how college and you’ll miss them when to navigate this place we call the Hill- you’re gone. Take advantage of the top. The following is a simple listicle fact that we have some of the most (because we are lazy millennials and interesting speakers taking Gaston listicles are fun) detailing our best stage.

Know D.C.; see the sights, eat the wisdom and advice for you to confood, do an internship and give back sider during your time here: Befriend a Jesuit. We can’t stress to the community. Don’t just “break the bubble” by gothis one enough.

Even if you ing to Busboys and haven’t had one Poets one night as a professor, but spend time knock on a door, learning about attend a cookie the city, the people night, whatever. who live here and The Jesuits are the issues that are awesome; they’re important to the people just like community.

Kendall Ciesemier us but with extra The Hot Chick is & Camille Squires insight into just the hidden gem of about everything.

Wisey’s. Beats the Chill out every Chicken Madness once in a while. You every time. will not remember Grapple with the night you had spirituality — go to to stay up late to a religious service finish a paper, but from a tradition you will remember different than the spontaneous your own. Go to a fun you had. Take religious service a midnight walk you think you’ll to the monuments, have a wild night hate. Read books, talk to professors. with friends, storm the White House You don’t need to come away with and leave the paper at home. answers, just face the hard quesAsk for help when you need it. tions. Pro tip: 7:30p.m. Sunday Mass There are people all over campus is one of our favorites. (not just in those places marked as reAs always, you’re free to take what sources for students) who really want we’ve written here, or leave it. These to help you. Find a dream team of ad- are some of the lessons that worked visers, mentors, counselors and wise for us, or at least, they would have friends at Georgetown. How do you if we’d taken our own advice, so we hope they are helpful to you. If we find them? Start talking.

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Take full advantage of this priviWalk up to the front gates or up lege. Spend your days here soaking the Lau steps and stop and pause and knowledge in, giving energy and take in a deep breath of gratitude ev- ideas back, questioning the status ery once in a while, but don’t step on quo, as well as your own assumpthe seal when you get to Healy. Seri- tions. Reflect on your experiences, ously, don’t do it. play, make lifelong friends and leave Develop friend crushes, and act this place in a better state than you on them; that cool kid in one of your found it and as a better person than classes? Ask him or her to coffee to get you’ve ever been. to know him or her better as a person and don’t think too much into it. Kendall Ciesemier and Camille Chances are he or she will probably Squires are seniors in the College. think you are just as cool as you think This is the final appearance of Eighteen Weeks this semester. he or she is.

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GUSA Executives Lay Out Plans for Youtopia KATHERINE RICHARDSON Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University Student Association President Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) began their term March 21 after winning the 2015 executive election with a satirical campaign. After less than a month on the job, the pair discussed their transition period, goals and future plans with THE HOYA. What has been the biggest challenge you have faced so far in your first few weeks in office?

Luther: I think the biggest obstacle for us is that we started from scratch. We came in with no real platform, no real budget and no real connections to GUSA. So I think the biggest challenge for us was getting acquainted with GUSA and really getting down to the details of the really important issues at Georgetown as well as the solutions and I think we’ve had a lot of help from both Trevor and other GUSA insiders which has been great. I don’t think we could have done this without Trevor or Abbey’s help so sort of getting that core team together.

Rohan: Something for me that’s been kind of difficult is getting caught up on initiatives that have already been started

by Trevor and Omika’s administration and following up with that because us, our cabinet and our staff are not intimately familiar with the specifics of the issues that they were covering, so to follow up and to push through those last final steps has been a little bit challenging in that now it’s time to get the nitty gritty of these things done. Because we are not as familiar with these details as people that were involved in the previous administration, it’s been a little bit tough. However, the previous administration has been accommodating and they have been willing to sit down with us and our cabinet and our staff to catch us up on specific policy changes and different university initiatives that they would like to see continue, and that they would like to see followed through.

How much continuity are you striving for from the Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Omika Jikaria (SFS ’15) administration? What do you plan to change or plan to continue?

Luther: One of the first conversations we had right after the inauguration was about the Multicultural Council. We sat down with the new leadership [of the MC] this year, and we’re making a really big priority for them to carve out a niche on campus. I think a lot of people have been sort of confused as to what their goal is and their real mission statement is — how it’s different from the current climate within cultural groups — so this year, we’re going to work with the leadership a lot to carve out a place

for it on campus.

Rohan: Another big change we’re making is with the Student Advocacy Office. We’ve completely restructured SAO so that now it includes an Office of the Free Speech Advocate. It’s going to include an Office of the Intellectual Health Advocate. SAO’s previous job was to focus specifically on conduct cases, so now there’s going to be offices under that that focus on conduct. This will create a larger student organization based on advocacy, where individual students and groups can come and get help when they need it. That’s going to be headed by Ryan Shymansky.

How will you collaborate effectively with a very large cabinet of 67 people? Are you concerned about the size?

Luther: I would say that I’m not worried about that. We have, our deputy chief of staffs, are great. I know it’s a lot of people to keep tabs on but we are creating new positions. They were representing issue areas that weren’t traditionally represented by GUSA. So by bringing all these areas into the fold, we felt as though we are going to better represent student life. I have nothing but confidence in them.

How much jurisdiction are you giving cabinet members compared to previous GUSA administrations?

Luther: We are giving them a lot more autonomy this year. We don’t want to micromanage them. We want to be there stride for stride with them.

Rohan: I want to let them flourish.

Luther: We want to be the wind in their sails.

Rohan: And that’s also part of it. In order to get autonomy, we had to get the right people. And that’s why we had such extensive applications. Because, in order to follow through with our plan of not micromanaging, we had to have faith.

How are you going to change the communications approach from the past GUSA approaches to make it more tailored to your personalities?

Luther: This is where we see the [cabinet position of] minister of fun coming in. I found it pretty easy right off the bat to get sucked into GUSA, the inner workings of student advocacy. It’s really important for us to stay true to the reason why we were elected — that we engage people in a way that’s fun, that they want to listen to. By keeping this tone constant throughout the year we really hope to change the culture of GUSA. Rohan: In a non-pretentious way. Which is part of the problem of GUSA — nobody wants to go to something called “Campus Planning” or “Master Workshop” or something. They will come to — next Wednesday we are having a

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Joe Luther and Connor Rohan began their GUSA executive terms less than a month ago, and have since recruited a 67-person cabinet and launched a petition to encourage student involvement in the campus plan.

“Scream at GUSA About Stuff” event.

This is going to be a general discussion where you get to scream at us about what you want.

Luther: You don’t have to scream at us.

You can whisper. You can hold up signs.

Connor: Telegrams. But honestly it’s about getting back to the roots of the community, making sure we are engaging people and making sure that we do what they want us to do and not us seeing problems and going off on our own.

There hasn’t been too much of a humor component to your campus plan petition campaigning. Was there a reason that you chose to make it more serious?

Rohan: We, during the campaign, had a lot of time to focus. Humor takes time!

If you look at our calendar, you see that we can’t be as hands on with it as we have been in the past. A lot of that is delegated into communications. But ultimately, I think that moving forward, what we learned from the campus plan petition and from the fact that the humor element wasn’t as infused in the dialogue as we wish it was, that should be one of our priorities moving forward.

We should have more of a hand in the humorous side of communications.

On a grand, macro level, what are your priorities for the entire term in office?

Luther: I would say that something that specifically falls on our timeline, whether we like it or not, is Campus Planning and then there are a few other issues areas on campus that because of how serious the effects are, it is very important for us to engage with them.

Those are things like mental health.

Rohan: One of the things I would like to engage with more is disability. Lydia Brown, who is fantastic, is leaving.

There’s such a big void and it’s something that personally touches me. I have a lot of friends who identify as people with disabilities and I see what they are going through as a result of entities that are not accommodating.

Georgetown is not ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] compliant and needs to get there. That’s a component of the campus plan, but I think that that’s definitely something I personally would like to see be improved.

What are you most excited for in the

future in this position?

Luther: I’m excited to be engaged with other areas of campus that I wouldn’t otherwise be engaged with. I have met so many different people, and people who have had so many different Georgetown experiences that I never knew about. Going into this I thought I totally understood what Georgetown was about. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what it meant to go to Georgetown, but now I understand that there is no such thing as the typical Georgetown experience. To be able to continue to hear about all these different Georgetown experiences this year — I’m excited about that.

Rohan: This is a crash course in Georgetown. I feel like it’s personally connecting me to the institution and to the people. It is giving me a much better view of not only how things work, but how things have functioned historically and what this university needs. It will be really interesting to see how that perception develops throughout the year.

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Concert Marks 45th Earth Day Gaia Mattiace Hoya Staff Writer

Global Citizen Earth Day 2015, a free eight-hour event aimed at raising awareness for the issues of poverty and climate change, will take place on the National Mall to mark the 45th anniversary of Earth Day on Saturday.

The Global Poverty Project and Earth Day Network have partnered for the first time to organize the event, which includes an open concert on the grounds of the Washington Monument, with headliners No Doubt, Usher, My Morning Jacket, Fall Out Boy, Mary J. Blige and Train performing throughout the day.

The organizers have not released the specific times for each of the artists, but the entire event will begin at 11 a.m. and end at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 10 a.m.

Justine Lucas, global programs director at Global Poverty Project, explained the correlation between poverty and climate change as well as why the organizations partnered for the event.

“We know you can’t end extreme poverty without addressing climate change,” Lucas wrote in an email. “As 2015 is a year when world leaders will establish the roadmap for ending extreme poverty and be negotiating on climate change and sustainability, it was the perfect opportunity for us to work together to unite citizens and drive commitments to help those living in poverty and protect the planet for years to come.”

Attiya Sayyed, communications and programs associate at Earth Day Network, also spoke about the link between these two issues.

“Those most affected by climate change are low-income or marginalized populations.

The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, for example — one of the poorest places on Earth — was the first country to declare its land uninhabitable due to sea level rise from climate change and has asked for help in evacuating its population,” Sayyed said. “Even more people will fall into poverty and food will become more scarce if we don’t stop our misuse of the planet.”

Additionally, organizers have advertised that the event coincides with the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Lucas said another goal of the day is to bring international attention to the event and incorporate people from across both politics and business.

“We will see commitments from corporations, world

leaders, policymakers and everyday citizens on stage, all committing to do their part to solve climate change and end extreme poverty,” Lucas said.

Sayyed also spoke of the event within the context of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference that is scheduled to take place in Paris, France, in 2015.

“This event is a platform to build on the road to Paris. We will show leaders all over the world that citizens require a binding climate change agreement,” Sayyed said.

One of the highlights of the day will be the concert, which Lucas hopes will draw publicity to the entire day. She added that all of the performers have participated in previous Global Citizen events, such as past summer concerts in Central Park.

Sayyed said the music brings people together to appreciate the importance of the issues.

“Music can rally people together for issues. … The artists participating are also strong proponents for the issues: ending global poverty and stopping climate change,” Sayyad said. “With the talent of many influencers from all over the world, the 250,000 people expected to come out and rally on the National Mall will be inspired to take action.”

Graham Willard (SFS ’18), a member of GU Fossil Free, is a student planning on attending the event. He said he sees the event as a strong grassroots movement to show popular opinion to representatives.

“I think this will be an exciting event to show our government that there is a grassroots movement that wants to solve the problems associated with climate change now — not at some point in the future,” Willard said.

Christina Libre (COL ’17), also a GU Fossil Free member, disagreed. She said she doubted Global Citizen Earth Day will bring about real change and cited the lack of any official collaboration with members from the International Monetary Fund or World Bank in the day’s programming.

“It doesn’t actually bring any of the leaders from these organizations to its event in conjunction with its concert,” Libre said. “In fact, it doesn’t seem to be hosting any speakers or events that are actually going to be referencing the social justice movements it purports to dedicate the concert to. Nor does it seem to be raising any money for environmental or global development causes, as it is a free event. As such, I’m somewhat cynically inclined to predict that this is more of a PR move for the sponsors.”

COURTESY EDILMA YEARWOOD

Edilma Yearwood will serve as the president of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses after training for a year as the president-elect and will help the ISPN advance its mission to better understand mental health.

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School of Nursing and Health Studies Interim Nursing Chair Edilma Yearwood was elected president of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses in late March. Yearwood will serve in the president-elect role for a year to train for the position before assuming the presidency in 2016.

The previous president of the organization, Sara Horton-Deutsche, is stepping down after a year of service and will work closely with Yearwood in the upcoming transition period.

Yearwood currently serves as the division director for the society’s Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, a role she has served since 2013. She was also chair of the Diversity and Equity Committee of ISPN from 2007 to 2012, during which she worked on promoting the mission of the organization.

“I love mental health,” Yearwood said.

“For me, it’s pretty exciting. I like to work with people who have behavioral and psychological challenges and to better understand them and also to help them deal with some of the things they are managing and working on.”

Founded in 1999, the ISPN promotes mental health care, literacy and policy around the world through conferences, online resources, community service and partnerships. The ISPN offers education, leadership positions and networking to its members and opportunities to interact with clients, families, communities and global partners.

Members participate in research, funding, presentations and publications. The ISPN holds an annual conference for members to learn about mental health issues in different countries.

Yearwood said that as president-elect, she will focus on awareness and prevention of mental health issues.

“One of the things I really, really want to do is develop a process for mental health literacy within our work with people globally,” Yearwood said. “That to me is going to be a huge part of my work as president — how do we educate the global community more about mental health, and how

do we help them focus on prevention? I’m a really strong advocate for preventing these challenges, so that’s something I’m going to be focusing on.”

Depression, anxiety and substance use are among the most common mental health issues, according to Yearwood.

“The World Health Organization is predicting, and there is lots of good data to show, that by 2030 depression is going to be one of the most significant problems globally,” Yearwood said. “Right now it might be number three, but by 2030 it will be number one. And usually depression and anxiety disorders co-exist. And I think substance use disorders are huge also.”

During Yearwood’s time at Georgetown, she created a graduate elective on child and adolescent behavioral health for family nurse practitioners and senior undergraduates. Yearwood will continue to work at Georgetown once she assumes the role of society president. Much of Yearwood’s work as president of ISPN will happen in Washington, D.C., since the organization’s members are trying to gain more of a presence in public policy.

Yearwood’s deep involvement in nursing and children’s mental health shows in her over-30 years of experience. She has been certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a clinical nurse specialist in child and adolescent psychiatric nursing. Yearwood is also a member of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Nurses Association, the Eastern Nurses Research Society and Sigma Theta Tau International. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing and also reviews manuscripts for 10 other journals. She is an editor and contributor to a 2012 childhood and adolescent behavioral nursing textbook, and she is also working on a global mental health nursing textbook scheduled to come out this fall.

Yearwood also participates in significant research on topics including minority, familial and immigrant youth mental health, cultural factors that affect mental health, the symptoms and treatment of mental health, and strategies for empowering the youth.

Yearwood was selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in 2007 and served in that role until 2012. Yearwood was also invited to the University of the West Indies School of Nursing’s Mona campus in Kingston, Jamaica, in 2008, where she taught mental health classes to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, led psychiatric treatment programs, created policies on nursing students with disabilities and initiated graduate courses in child and adolescent mental health.

NHS Interim Dean Patricia Cloonan said that the NHS community admires Yearwood and is excited for her new position.

“We are thrilled for Edilma,” Cloonan wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Her election to this leadership role at the society reflects her important contributions to the field of mental health and her steadfast commitment to the success of ISPN. Organizations of local, national and international prominence in the health sector look to our faculty members for their expertise and leadership abilities, and Edilma’s election is another strong example of this.”

Fiona Hogan (NHS ‘18), one of Yearwood’s students, said that she is an inspirational and helpful professor.

“Professor Yearwood has been a great influence in my nursing education at Georgetown,” Hogan said. “She dedicates herself to our class and is always willing to give extra help if we are in need. I think she will be a perfect fit for her new position and will be a great influence on future students to come.”

Emily Bower (NHS ’17) agreed and said that she is impressed by Yearwood’s ability to simplify complex ideas for her students.

“Dr. Yearwood has been an amazing role model to me during the course of my budding nursing career,” Bower wrote in an email to The Hoya. “She is a brilliant person, and yet is still able to translate her knowledge to more rudimentary level in order to help students understand. I am lucky to have found a professor who cares so much about her students, not only as it relates to her course, but to all of a students’ courses. She is truly the epitome of the Georgetown University value of men and women for others.”

Student Activists Share Georgetown Experiences Ashwin Puri Hoya Staff Writer

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Student activists discussed their experiences on Georgetown’s campus in a Pass the Torch event Monday.

A panel of student activists reflected on their personal stories, inspirations and visions for the future of student activism in the Healey Family Student Center Monday evening.

The event, titled Pass the Torch: A Celebration of Student Activism, was the second part of the three-part Ignite the Dream: Race and Socioeconomic Class in America, an event series aimed at increasing dialogue and awareness on the topics of race, class and social inequity.

The Pass the Torch event was organized

by Corey Stewart (SFS ’15), Jimmy Ramirez (COL ’15) and Bserat Ghebremicael (MSB ’17) and served both to incite dialogue among attendees as well as to inspire future leaders of student activism on Georgetown’s campus. Panelists consisted of student activists and leaders Citlalli Alvarez (COL ’15), Colleen Roberts (COL ’15), Dan Silkman (COL ’15), Esther Owolabi (COL ’15), Lydia Brown (COL ’15), Michael Le (MSB ’15) and moderator Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13).

The discussion opened with a video in support of the movement to create a Casa Latina on campus as well as a video of a spoken word performance titled “Am I Next?” conceived by LaDarius Torrey (COL ’17) and written and performed by Walter Kelly (COL ’16). The spoken word performance aimed to highlight the subjugation, racial profiling and discrimination black males continually face in modern day society.

Georgetown Scholarship Program Assistant Director Alberto Morales (COL ’12) delivered an opening statement affirming Ignite the Dream’s mission of inspiring dialogue and supporting its theme of passing the torch.

“We as seniors asked ourselves, who is going to take over and who is next,” Morales said.

“That is part of why we are here tonight, to discuss how we are going to go about that and what it means.”

The event continued with discussion among the panelists, beginning with the question of how each panelist’s perception of race and socioeconomic status has changed since arriving at Georgetown.

Roberts, a Georgetown Scholarship Program Advocate and Patrick Healy Fellow, spoke about growing up attending a predominantly white school and how coming to Georgetown allowed her to realize the prevalent disparities in race and class among her fellow students.

“I always saw a difference; I always saw a disparity; I always kind of knew something was wrong,” Roberts said. “But coming to Georgetown and being an AfricanAmerican studies minor really exposed me to the depth of the inequities that are ingrained in our institutions. We still are living the legacy and consequences of racism and sexism...it’s all ingrained in how we interact with each other.”

Alvarez, a Patrick Healy Fellow actively involved with Hoyas for Immigrant Rights and Undocuhoyas, expressed the difficulties that undocumented students face in higher education.

“I was very much told I was the ‘different’ Mexican, the one that is different in all of the senses,” Alvarez said. “I think you grow up believing that there was nothing wrong with that kind of marginalized racism you are around for a really long time.

When I came to Georgetown, I found my racial identity.”

The panel also discussed motivations to become involved with student activism and what Georgetown’s administration could do to foster greater equality and access to benefits on campus.

Brown advocated for the creation of a disability cultural center on campus, which she has advocated for since August 2012.

“We are in a place where our university is constantly talking about innovation or designing the future, but all of the money that is going towards events, programs and initiatives that are going towards designing the future innovation really only serve to perpetuate empire and do not serve to empower the most marginalized people that are already on this campus,” Brown said.

Owolabi and Roberts both encouraged the university-wide implementation of a diversity course requirement, while Alvarez advocated for the hiring of a dedicated university employee in charge of supporting undocumented students on campus.

Silkman, chair of Students of Georgetown Inc.’s philanthropy committee, advocated for increased institutional support of access to important Georgetown traditions such as Corp Gala and the Diplomatic Ball for students who may not be able to afford the cost of such events.

Le encouraged additional collaboration between student organizations focused on social justice in order to work together to build a more equal and inclusive Georgetown community.

The event ended with a discussion on the intersectionality of student activism on campus, emphasizing how certain marginalized groups working together could affect greater change at Georgetown.

Attendee Zackary Abu-Akeel (SFS ’18) said that he appreciated the opportunity to hear the stories of upperclassman leaders of student activism and that he enjoyed the diversity of the panelists.

“The event provided an inspiring example of a wide range of activists that we have on our own campus,” Abu-Akeel said. “Each of the panelists found their own way to elevate the issue about which they were passionate to a serious and visible fight on campus, and their story sharing made it possible to relate their paths to my own.”

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Contract Links Dean to Direct Post-Centennial Future Santander, Georgetown DEAN, from A1

ingful ways with these issues, we look forward to working with Dr. Hellman to lead the SFS into its next hundred years of excellence.

PARTNERSHIP, from A1 Sciences Dean Norberto Grzywacz will lead the social economy initiative for the duration of the partnership with Santander. Undergraduates will potentially be able to participate in the partnership pending approval from Santander, according to Grzywacz.

“I believe that all those programs, even if they are graduate programs, they will have a strong impact in undergraduate life because they will be creating new mechanisms in which undergrads will be involved in research,” Grzywacz said.

The initiative will engage the academic community at both a local and global level, according to Grzywacz.

The local level of engagement will be made up of the roundtables, which will bring together Georgetown faculty, banking professionals and banking customers to discuss social banking, social financing and responsible banking. The university will hold three roundtables a year on varying topics.

“The point is to create new ideas that will have social benefit from a financial point of view,” Grzywacz said. “So every year there will be a report, and the report will propose those ideas.

New knowledge will hopefully be created.”

The student think tank will form the global level of the new initiative and will engage the 24 participating students in projects devoted to bettering the social impact of banking. Students from across the world will apply to the think tank, though Grzywacz said that there will almost certainly be a number of Georgetown students in the group. Each year the student participants will compete to come up with new ideas for the banking world and the winning proposal will be granted funds from Santander to implement their project.

“We are hopeful that this new initiative on social economy will yield groundbreaking results,” Santander North America Public Relations Manager Nancy Orlando wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Renowned international scholars and experts will convene at Georgetown to conduct research and propose solutions to pressing global challenges.”

Santander Universities, the division of Banco Santander that partners with higher education institutions, currently has agreements with more than 1,100 other universities from around the world and has given out more than $1.3 billion in funding to schools since its founding in 1996.

“Santander believes that Georgetown University is especially suited to lead this new initiative on the social economy given its worldwide leadership in social issues, public and private management, and international affairs,” Orlando wrote.

Santander’s newly announced partnership with Georgetown builds off of previous collaboration between the two entities that began in 2007 when a digital magazine on “Globalization, Competiveness and Governance” was launched. The magazine was sponsored by Universia, a network of 1,250 universities that Santander has sponsored since 2000, according to Orlando.

“Georgetown has enjoyed a terrific relationship with Santander, through Universia.net, for almost 10 years through the publication of the Journal of Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability,” Office of the President Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“We look forward to this new opportunity to explore further work together.”

Additionally, Botín, Santander’s chief executive, was a former member on Georgetown’s board of directors.

Grzywacz said that he is hopeful that the partnership with Santander will lay the groundwork for permanent programs and classes in the arena of social banking.

“We might have educational programs that are permanent that will have as their subjects these issues so that students will be able to come here, even after five years,” Grzywacz said. “They can take courses and even get degrees in these kinds of subjects.”

Orlando wrote that while the initial partnership has a duration of five years, there is a possibility for Santander and Georgetown to renew the relationship.

“I think Santander has a vision, and we will follow that vision,” Grzywacz said. “But we will implement this with Georgetown’s strengths.”

A FUSION of Academia AND Practice Hellman, 52, holds a B.A. from Williams College, a M.Phil. in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford, and a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. He served as a faculty member in the department of political science at Columbia University and in the department of government at Harvard University.

Hellman left his career in academia in 1997 to become a senior political counselor at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. In 2000, he joined the World Bank, where he initially specialized in the European and Central Asia region, before serving as an adviser in the bank’s Indonesia office.

There, he coordinated the World Bank’s response to the 2004 tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia.

After serving in Asia, Hellman assumed the role as the World Bank’s first director for the Global Center on Conflict, Security and Development in 2011.

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, and the District of Columbia, Hellman played a large role in managing global development.

Hellman currently serves as the chief institutional economist for the Governance Global Practice at the World Bank, specializing in governance and institutional reform, which he also studied as an academic.

“While we are sad to see Joel leave, this is a remarkable opportunity for him to serve at a distinguished university. I am confident that Joel’s energy, vision and intellect will be put to good service at that venerated institution,” World Bank Governance Global Practice Senior Director Mario Marcel wrote in an email to World Bank staff. “He has long been among the most articulate and visionary staff ... and his wit, wisdom and insights will be missed.”

The university is currently collaborating with the World Bank on the two-year Global Futures Initiative. According to Mortara Center for International Studies Director Kathleen McNamara, who served on the selection committee, Hellman also coming from the World Bank was “a happy coincidence.”

SFS Faculty Chair Jeffrey Anderson, who interviewed Hellman and the other final candidates, said that Hellman’s background, which blends practical policymaking experience and academic scholarship, made him an attractive candidate for the position.

“It’s pretty striking how varied and rich his background in international affairs is as a practitioner,” Anderson said. “He also has very strong credentials as an academic. … He made the decision to go into development work, but by the time he left [academia], he established a reputation for academic excellence that is still with him today. For colleagues here in the school, I think they will see him as a wonderful choice on the scholarship front.”

McNamara echoed Anderson, pointing to Hellman’s extensive global knowledge and tangible experience in policy. In the past 20 years, Hellman has worked in

over 50 countries and four continents. “[He has] connections, relationships that he’s built. He spent a lot of time in India, he’s worked in Africa, Asia [and] Latin America,” McNamara said. “As we think about what are the emerging regions in the future: He’s going to have on-the-ground experience — even stature — with groups abroad, having already served so very ably in exactly the sort of places we’re going to be wanting to make sure that we are engaged.”

“[He] is really quite consistent with the legacy that Carol left us. I expect good things on that front.”

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Vision for the SFS In 2019, the SFS will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its founding. As the new dean will preside over the school during the occasion, the landmark milestone guided Hellman’s selection.

The selection criteria demanded someone with a vision for the school over the next century, according to Provost Robert Groves.

“We wanted someone who could lead and coordinate faculty and staff and student discussions about looking back on the first 100 years and looking forward to the next 100 years of the school and how we can use this fantastic moment in history and really propel the school forward,” Groves said.

The opportunity to consider the future at the 100th anniversary was attractive to Hellman, as well, who saw the centennial as a unique moment to reflect.

“I’m in an enviable position,” Hellman said in an interview with The Hoya. “First, building on a school that already has strengths that are widely recognized but also, because of the centenary, having this opening to really think through what the next 100 years are going to look like or should look like, and what changes need to be made. That doesn’t often come along in the history of most schools.”

When Hellman explained his vision for the direction of the SFS, he emphasized that planning for the future must be a collaborative process.

“What I’m going to do is really reach out to all the different parts of the SFS community and listen to what they think are some of the key issues, some of the key pressures, some of the strengths and what needs to be addressed,” Hellman said. “Obviously, coming in from the outside, I have experiences that I want to share in discussion, but it really has to be based on a collective vision.”

Anderson lauded Hellman as “sending the right signals” about valuing faculty and student input, and Groves concurred.

After participating in conversations with SFS leadership, Hellman said that he primarily wanted to increase levels of collaboration at three different levels: first, between professors of different disciplines on research questions; second, between re-

gional studies programs within the SFS; and third, between the different schools in the university.

“I think there is an openness of everyone I’ve spoken to at Georgetown of thinking more creatively about how [integration] is done in a way that preserves the strengths of the individual programs but also integrates global understanding,” Hellman said. “I think those are things that we will have conversations about with the students, with the faculty, with the staff, and see what possibilities there might be to look for linkages.”

Steven Radelet, chair of the Global Human Development program, which launched in 2014, expected Hellman to continue supporting the exploration of the grand questions of development.

“I suspect that Dean Hellman will continue to support that program, both given his own personal interests in development but also because of the recognition of how important development issues are in the future of the world economy and the world political system,” Radelet said. “It makes sense for the school to continue to build in this direction.”

As a specialist in governance and development, Hellman follows the legacy of Lancaster, who focused on issues of development and poverty reduction throughout her career.

“Carol was beloved by many colleagues here. We are still grieving her absence. She was a wonderful colleague and we miss her. Her great effort, her legacy is connected to programs involving global human development,” Groves said. “If you think about Joel’s work, if you just examine what he has been doing at the World Bank, it is indeed that. In a way, although it wasn’t planned, we have the next dean who, from everything he thinks about and cares about, is really quite consistent with the legacy that Carol left us. I expect good things on that front.”

The Executive Search Committee The extensive search process for a new SFS dean began in early fall, when DeGioia appointed an executive search committee of 17 individuals, including professors, university officials and undergraduate and graduate students.

Center for Eurasian, Russian and European Studies Director Angela Stent, who also led the 2010 dean search, chaired the committee. The group also included College Dean Chester Gillis, SFS Academic Council President Megan Murday (SFS ‘15) and Program in Science, Technology and International Affairs Director Mark Giordano, among others.

The committee utilized the recruiting and consulting firm Witt/Kieffer, which Georgetown previously used to hire Groves and fill dean vacancies in the School of Continuing Studies and Georgetown University Law Center, to manage the search.

Witt/Kieffer members declined to comment on the selection process, as the proceedings remain confidential.

McNamara said that they searched for candidates with tangible academic experience, in addition to real-world practice.

“As a committee, we were certainly very concerned that whichever name we sent up to the president, we made sure all of them understood the DNA of academic life,” McNamara said.

After an initial screening from Witt/Kieffer, the committee conducted preliminary and secondround interviews to narrow the pool to a small group of finalists.

Stent said that this smaller group visited the School of Foreign Service campus in Doha, Qatar, but because of the confidentiality of the search process, could not provide details on the number or names of finalists.

Murday, the only undergraduate student on the committee, said that she served to provide a unique perspective during the deliberation process. “[SFS undergraduates] have a specific set of concerns and a specific set of experiences that no other stakeholders, no other members of the committee have,” Murday said. “So [I was] making sure that not only was the candidate qualified in academic and professional regards, but also qualified as someone who would be there for students.”

After deciding on the list of finalists, the committee sent its top three recommendations to DeGioia and Groves, who both interviewed each candidate individually.

Groves said that he looked for three main attributes: an innovative mind, experience in both worlds of academia and practice and an ability to involve the community in discussions about the future of the SFS. “President DeGioia and I discussed the three after each of us interviewed the three separately,” Groves said. “We sort of got our heads together and in that capacity, I was sort of advising him with regard to how I absorbed the different search committee input and my own feelings to help him make his decision.”

DeGioia, ultimately, made the final decision after consulting with university leadership and notified Hellman last week. Hellman visited campus Tuesday, the day of the announcement, to meet with faculty and staff.

Transition Process Hellman currently lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Sharon, and his 18-year-old daughter, Isabel.

“We have two stray cats from Jakarta and one stray dog from Delhi,” Hellman wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We live in the Palisades just a few minutes Vespa drive from campus.”

Hellman will assume his position on July 1. He said that he hopes to meet with as many SFS faculty members and various stakeholders as possible in the coming months, a prospect made easier by the proximity of his current job at the World Bank, just a Vespa ride away on Pennsylvania Avenue.

In addition to his responsibilities as dean, Hellman also plans to teach a course on corruption.

Reardon-Anderson currently teaches the required Map of the Modern World course, and Lancaster taught a freshman proseminar on ethics and global development while serving as dean.

“I’m very excited about returning to teaching,” Hellman said.

“One of the early conversations I want to have with the faculty and the administration is, how quickly can I get back into the classroom?”

Hoya Staff Writers Toby Hung, Mallika Sen and Andrew Wallender contributed reporting.

Graduate Students Provide Aid to Asylum Seekers ASYLUM, from A1 as clinic co-directors.

“Starting a clinic is not a joke,” Stukel said. “It’s a really slow, clunky, difficult, but at the same time really enlightening and empowering process.”

The clinic provides free evaluations to asylum seekers as part of the legal process of being granted asylum. The seekers are referred to the clinic by Physicians for Human Rights, which receives the cases from lawyers for the asylum seekers.

After evaluating the patient, a physician or assistant writes a medical affidavit that becomes part of the legal testimony.

Sarah Kureshi, an assistant professor in the school of medicine who works with Physicians for Human Rights and has performed many asylum evaluations, provided guidance to the students as they set up their clinic. According to Kureshi, it is the physician’s job to determine if a patient’s story matches up with medical evidence, as well as decide if the patient is in legitimate danger if they return to their home country.

“We tell our students in training it is not our job to get emotionally involved or advocate for the patient,”

legal document that is a medical evaluation.”

Kureshi described graphic scenes of refugees she has evaluated who have been tortured both psychologically and physically, suffering from cigarette burns, beatings with metal batons, rectal trauma and mutilation.

Although Kureshi stressed that the physical and psychological evaluations are objective evaluations, their existence as official records increases the likelihood of being granted asylum.

“Your chances of getting asylum are typically 38 percent or so without a medical affidavit, and with one it goes up to about 90 percent, sometimes even a little higher,” Stukel said.

After three months of training and logistical preparation, the student-run clinic performed its first evaluation last week on an individual who fled Russia after being tortured for political activity and sexual identity. Elizabeth Pickle (MED ’18) assisted the physician in the evaluation and wrote the medical affidavit. In addition to helping the patient in their quest for asylum, Pickle said she was able to benefit from the experience as well.

“So much of medical school is get-

ting mired in the day-to-day stress of academics and learning biochemical pathways, and you always feel like you’re just setting up for the day when you’ll somehow be able to make a difference in a patient’s life,” Pickle said. “To be able to do

“It is a huge transformation that occurs because the students have the full responsibility.”

ANDREW SCHOENHOLTZ Law professor and CALS Director

that as a first year and go into a room and feel like I did something that could actually change a person’s life, I think that’s one of the greatest things the network has done for me.”

A second evaluation is scheduled to take place this week, with the goal of 10 completed evaluations by the end of June.

Medical students are not the only Georgetown graduate students helping refugees seeking asylum. The Center for Applied Legal Studies at the Law Center runs a 10-credit, onesemester clinic that assigns six pairs of law students to a real asylum case.

Unlike the student-run medical clinic that is just getting on its feet, CALS is a faculty-run program that has been assisting asylum seekers since 1995.

“The clinic for the students is a transformative moment because they’re moving from being students who listen to professors in front of classrooms or engage with them in dialogue to actual lawyers who are responsible for a case,” law professor and CALS Fall Director Andrew Schoenholtz said. “It is a huge transformation that occurs because the students have the full responsibility for the clients.”

Kelly Hughes (LAW ’16), a past CALS participant, said she was profoundly impacted by her work with a Hispanic male seeking asylum in the United States, which she said exposed flaws in the asylum system.

“We allow people to get asylum if they are facing persecution based on religion, race, political affiliation or membership in a particular social group, but we don’t allow them to get asylum if they are fleeing a civil war or the gang and drug violence in Mexico and Central America,” Hughes wrote in an email. “It really struck me that we have a law that creates this distinction that’s really

somewhat meaningless for the people who need protection.”

Although both law and medical students have become activists in a field that draws on both professions, they have yet to begin collaborating.

Schoenholtz indicated he was previously unaware of the student-run asylum clinic, but was optimistic about their efforts.

“I’m so glad to hear that we now have at Georgetown [University Medical Center] serious student engagement in this,” Schoenholtz said.

Praschan said medical students want to eventually work with the law center’s program.

“We want to build toward collaboration with the law school,” Praschan said.

At a time when civil and ethnic conflicts around the world are still prevalent, activists at both the law center and medical center hope to institutionalize and expand the programs for refugees in the future.

“Ultimately in the future it would be really nice to be able to be a lot more proactive with connecting the refugees with different services throughout D.C. or even having our own food and clothing bank or things like that,” Stukel said. “For right now, we’ve been pretty fortunate.”

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Exchange Explores Conflict Zones Residential Survey Calls for Changes CONFLICT, from A1

on conflict management and resolution, culminating in two trips to sites of conflict around the world.

Earlier this year, students visited Dearborn, Mich., and Washington, D.C., to explore the social conflicts of being Muslim in America and the emergence of the Islamic State’s recruiting efforts.

SFS-Q Associate Dean of Student Affairs Brendan Hill and SFS-Q Director of Research John Crist cofounded the program in 2008.

Hill said the idea for the program came from students in 2007 who expressed interest in better understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict by visiting those countries.

“It started off with a simple trip that I was planning for some of our students who expressed an interest in better understanding the IsraelPalestine conflict,” Hill said. “Due to the amount of logistical work that we had to do on it in order to get all the details in line to make sure everybody could go regardless of nationality, we had to delay it. So in the delayed year, we went to Jordan and looked at the Palestinian refugee problems in Jordan.”

A year later, Hill and Crist received all of the needed approvals and took the first group of students officially in the program to Israel and Palestine to study the ethnic cleansing of 1948 and the plights of refugees using a hands-on approach.

Hill added that Qatar Foundation, which provides funding and operational support for SFS-Q, was enthusiastic about the creation of the ZCZP program.

“Qatar Foundation said, ‘This is exactly the kind of thing we brought you here to do. We’re grateful that you did this,’” Hill said.

The foundation currently supplies the funding for ZCZP but, as with the Qatar campus at large, allows the program to operate independently without interference from either the Qatari government or Qatar Foundation.

“How incredible it is that Qatar Foundation has been behind this project from the beginning. You can

imagine how controversial it is to send Muslim students in Israel and Palestine. They have had unwavering support for this,” Crist said.

Although Hill characterized the first trip to Israel and Palestine as a success, interacting with both Israeli and Palestinian politicians, journalists and nongovernmental organizations, he said it presented its own challenges about how to interact with civilians.

“The Israel-Palestine trip … was incredibly eye-opening and illuminating. It was very hard to get the community to agree that this was

“We really want them to walk away with this nuanced perspective.”

JOHN CRIST SFS-Q Director of Research

an appropriate trip given that most of our students are Muslim and Arab, but I think we handled it with such balance and such delicacy,” Hill said. “It really helped to open the minds of many of our students to what’s really going on and some of the issues at play.”

Crist echoed Hill, saying that the goal of the program is to expose students to the full complexity of nuanced issues.

“We’re really inviting [the students] to contemplate just how complex these situations are.” Crist said.

“How many actors are involved, how many different perspectives there are and how really there are no clear good people, bad people, right way, wrong way of looking at things. We really want them to walk away with this nuanced perspective on conflict.”

ZCZP Organizer and SFS-Q Educational Enrichment Manager Sheena Martinez said that they took extra care planning the first trips to start off the development of the program.

“The earlier trips really have set the tone for what we’ve been able to establish as a very well-tuned

machine,” Martinez said. “What we’re really trying to deliver to the students is having them return to campus still interested and wanting to know more because they come back with so many more questions than they may have even started out with.”

Since its founding in 2008, the ZCZP program has directed 14 trips to locations all over the world, including Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa and the United States.

Crist highlighted the trip to Rwanda as particularly challenging and complex for looking at both the history of the genocide and the reconciliation efforts following the war crimes.

“If I had to pick the most moving trip I’ve been on … it’s probably still the first trip that I was part of, which was the trip to Rwanda,” Crist said.

As part of the ZCZP program, students complete mandatory coursework, including reading and writing assignments before trips, and are exposed to lectures and guest speakers throughout the program.

Each student relays his or her experiences in the program through a mandatory online blog.

“There’s a lot of learning that goes on before we ever hit the ground in the region because we don’t want the students to spend the first of seven to 10 days just trying to figure out what happened,” Hill said. “By the time they hit the ground, they have explored almost every aspect of the conflict, several aspects of conflict resolution and conflict management in general.”

While no students from Georgetown’s main campus have yet participated in the ZCZP program, Hill said he is interested in expanding the program to include more students.

“We are looking for ways to try to incorporate main campus students in this experience. It’s been very helpful for our students to … meet main campus people. We would like to figure out ways to incorporate main campus students in this project,” Hill said.

Bowser Launches Health Initiative Lucy Prout

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Mayor Muriel Bowser launched FitDC, a citywide health initiative aiming to connect residents to local nutrition and fitness resources, at the Takoma Recreation Center on Saturday.

The FitDC initiative will build on the city’s healthy reputation, working to broaden the scope of accessibility and affordability of health services to middle class residents, while also providing more personal wellness services.

Bowser expressed optimism that the initiative will further the gains the city has made in fitness over the past few years at the launch event.

“As we build pathways to the middle class for residents in all eight wards, it is equally important that our residents are healthy and living active lifestyles,” Bowser said at the launch event. “Through this initiative, we will educate, encourage and challenge our residents to adopt healthier life choices.”

In a 2014 ranking of 50 major cities around the United States by the American Fitness Index, the D.C. metropolitan area ranked first in community health and third in personal health. Among the indicators used, 81 percent of D.C. residents had exercised in some capacity in the past 30 days, while 59 percent reported being in excellent or very good health.

Since the launch, the initiative’s immediate goal has been to build a

coaching program, soliciting trainers from the community, to encourage residents to stick with their fitness and health goals.

The Department of Health and the Department of Parks and Recreation will coordinate the initiative, which is currently searching for sponsors and citizens to join its mission to bring more fitness and health options to the city’s middle-class population.

“The next step for this initiative is recruiting the FitDC Coaches, local residents who will lead the fitness challenges [and] serve as role models,” D.C. Department of Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt, who joined Bowser at the launch, said at the event. “[They will] encourage residents to eat healthy and move more.”

Nesbitt said she believes the program will be a solid foundation for city residents to improve their exercise regiments.

“We launched FitDC because we’re committed to the idea that everyone has the ability to improve their personal health,” Nesbitt said. “[Citizens should be] provided with the knowledge and support to take control and accomplish their goals.”

Yates Field House Associate Director Charles Kennedy said that Georgetown was not contacted about joining the program.

Regardless, Kennedy noted that the Georgetown facilities would probably not be able to accommodate FitDC due to the high volume of Yates users every day, a problem Kennedy

said many other D.C. facilities share.

Currently, Yates sees close to 3,000 visitors a day. “[O]ne of the problems I think [FitDC] might face is that the D.C. population is increasingly growing,” Kennedy said. “[And] the facilities to accommodate the youth, to do either outdoor recreation or indoor hasn’t really expanded.”

Kennedy added that the D.C. tax on health and fitness institutions, which went into effect in October, could be another challenge for the program to overcome, as it may inhibit those places from expanding to meet increased demand.

“I think they’re going to run into problems finding resources to support this program,” Kennedy said. “[A] lot of schools and areas don’t have what they need to take care of just their own student population.”

Alec Kingston (SFS ’18), who frequents CorePower Yoga, expressed hope for this initiative due to the high volume of workout facilities present in the city. He said that health and fitness options often come at a high price, which FitDC could help ameliorate.

“I feel that D.C. has so many options like Soulcycle, Purebarre, Washington Sports club, Core Power, Down Dog, et cetera, but unfortunately, especially for students on a budget, those options can just be too expensive,” Kingston said. “It would be nice if D.C. worked to find more reasonable options for day-to-day ways to say fit, like a YMCA.”

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Mayor Muriel Bowser’s new FitDC initiative is attempting to increase the access of health and fitness services in the District to middle-class citizens, but Yates Field House, above, is at operating capacity.

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dents stated that their Wi-Fi connection infrequently works. In New South, this number was much lower, only 15.5 percent.”

Students voiced a need for improved Around 30 percent of students felt that air conditioning and heating in dorms, the responsiveness of facilities met or exbetter responses to facilities requests and ceeded their expectations after submitupdated Wi-Fi infrastructure in a recent ting a work request. However, there was Georgetown University Student Associa- a stark divide between freshman dorms, tion residential living survey. whose rate was only 16 percent, and the The survey, which was conducted from upperclassman dorms, where 60 percent mid-February to mid-March, received of students thought that facilities met 1,238 responses, or 23 percent of students or exceeded expectations. Lysak said this living in on-campus housing. Darnall, may be due to a lack of proper education Harbin, Henle, New South, Village A and of freshmen when it comes to submitting Village C West had the highest amount work requests. of respondents with “I know that reover 100 students responsiveness of work sponding from each “I thought it was an requests are a big of these dorms. There concern for many was a higher fresh- effective way to get students,” Lysak said. man respondent rate my voice heard.” “[This] may cause adrelative to the rest of ministrators to think the student body. of new ways to articu“I thought the surlate the work request vey was valuable as I process more clearly.”

SAM PENCE (SFS ’16) think it is important Also included was a for students and the question on whether administration to have constructive dia- students would be interested in a prepaid logue, and I thought it was an effective laundry system covered for students with way to get my voice heard,” Sam Pence financial aid. Lysak and Lizza found an al(SFS ’16), a survey respondent, said. most even split by respondents regarding Air conditioning and heating prob- the proposal. lems were students’ top concerns in Lizza said that the goal of the survey was dorm rooms. Over 35 percent of respon- to increase effective collaboration with dents cited air conditioning and heating administration while exploring potential as improvement priorities. More than new innovations to on-campus housing.

30 percent of students were concerned “The students working on the survey with faulty showers in bathrooms, while have worked with the Office of Residential TV channel variety captured 33 percent Living throughout the whole process on in the common room improvement cat- the survey,” Lizza said. “The administraegory. tors are not ‘reacting’ or will be surprised David Lizza (COL ’15), a former vice by the data.” president of student advocacy for the InLizza said that more analysis is needed terHall Council, said that he will notify in order to garner a better sense of student the Office of Residential Living of the prob- ideas. He said he appreciated the strong lems cited by students. interest the university has shown in their “We are collecting [this data] so that in survey, as it has worked directly with the the future, we can hopefully produce a Subcommittee on Residential Living durreport with the findings,” Lizza said. “The ing the process.

Office of Residential Living and other relat“Overall, I think the survey was very ed offices can use it as a guide to see where successful,” Lizza said. “We received valuthings need to be improved.” able student input and worked well with Additionally, Wi-Fi access and connec- the Office of Residential Living in taking tivity were major issues for respondents, the results to the next steps.” as more than 20 percent of students said According to Lysak, the survey could be in the survey that it was infrequent and in- used as a template for future progress. accessible. However, GUSA senator Daniel “This is truly what I like to call a ‘Team Lysak (COL ’18), who helped co-design the Georgetown’ effort,” Lysak said. “Despite survey, noted that responses to Wi-Fi ac- the common student conception that adcess varied by dormitory. ministrators work against students, these “Wi-Fi success was also broken down administrators worked with us, meeting into individual residence halls, apart- after meeting, to make this survey somements and townhouses,” Lysak said. “For thing that can be used as a tool to improve example, in Reynolds, 25.6 percent of stu- the lives of all Georgetown students.”

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Norton to Hold Forum On Campus Assault Matthew Larson

and the Title IX Coordinator, on a panel to answer questions about campus sexual assault policy. The forum aims to encourDelegate Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D- age administrators to commit to specific D.C.) will be hosting a panel of officials initiatives. from various universities in Washington, Director of Media Relations Rachel D.C., to address the prevention of sexual Pugh noted that officials would be presassault on college campuses at American ent at the Georgetown forum, which has University on Thursday, April 23, but due been a long-standing commitment, and to a time conflict with a similar George- thus would be unable to attend Norton’s town event, no university representatives roundtable. will be officially attending Norton’s dis“Many campus leaders plan to attend cussion. this campus event,” Pugh wrote in an The event aims to formulate and exam- email. “[Students] should see some invites ine possible solutions to sexual assault on from student organizers soon.” college campuses by gathering univerGeorgetown University Student Assosity student leaders and advocacy groups ciation Deputy Director of Communicafrom a variety of institions Jenna Galper tutions from around (COL ’17) confirmed “We hope students the District. that because of the “Sexual assault is from every college conflicting times, an ongoing crisis here members of GUSA and on our college and university in the would not attend campuses nationNorton’s event and wide,” Norton said in city will join.” instead they would a press release. “[But] attend the GeorgeELEANOR HOLMES NORTON (D-D.C.) this is a problem that town one.

Congressional Delegate can be solved.”

Despite the time Norton confirmed conflict, Pugh also the attendance of officials from Ameri- encouraged anyone who wanted to attend can University, Howard University and Norton’s discussion to do so. She said the the George Washington University at the most important aspect of the two events event. There will be a chance for attend- was that they provide an arena to talk ees to ask questions of the panelists and about a major issue facing universities to submit ideas for discussion after the today with open and honest debate and initial roundtable. discussion.

“Education, candid discussion, out“Members of the Georgetown Univerreach and appropriate sanctions are sity community are invited to attend the among the tools that need to be put to roundtable hosted by Congresswoman work,” Norton said in the release. “We Norton,” she wrote in an email. “As [Uniwill seek the advice and recommenda- versity President John J.] DeGioia wrote to tions of those most concerned and most the community this fall, ‘At the heart of involved.”

Georgetown’s mission is a commitment In a separate statement to The Hoya, Nor- to serious and sustained discourse, even ton expressed a desire for students and when topics are difficult to discuss.’” administrators of universities around the Pugh added that Georgetown has been District to attend and express their opin- actively attempting to confront the issue ions in order to allow the event to be com- of sexual assault by focusing on three prehensive for all college experiences. areas: creating a culture where sexual as“We hope students and advocates from sault is not tolerated, providing prompt every college and university in the city resources to survivors, and responding will join our roundtable and speak out effectively when an incident is reported. to help all universities in the District preShe also said that, despite Georgevent campus sexual assault,” Norton said. town’s peer education efforts to teach Absent from those officially attending the student body about sexual assault, the panel are leaders from Georgetown, the forums were necessary to create a as the time of the roundtable conflicts structured and institutional conversation with a sexual assault forum to be held on about sexual assault.

Georgetown’s campus in Copley Formal “Effectively addressing this issue is Lounge on April 23. an enduring challenge to which we are Hosted by the Sexual Assault Working always adapting and renewing our longGroup, the forum will convene admin- standing commitment,” Pugh wrote. “We istrators from various offices of the uni- have worked through student affairs to versity, including the Office of Student build on our education efforts with new Conduct, the Division of Student Affairs programming for students.”

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me to entrepreneurship. There was a certain realization when I was like, I’m just going to start something.

How did you come up with the idea for Cove and what were the first steps that you took to turn this idea into the reality?

I came from having worked in a more traditional office setting, as well as having worked from home, and I never really meshed well with either.

So I liked the mobility factor of being able to work from a coffee shop, being able to work from your home, so Cove was really created with that mindset in the sense that we’re mobile. When you need places to go, it doesn’t have to be the same place every day. So that’s why you see a network of locations.

In terms of how we got here, I was in graduate school at the time and wrote the business plan for Cove. Harvard has an incubator system that they just started, and so I was part of that for a spring and a summer after graduation, and then spent about six months researching it. Then when I really felt comfortable enough to put it together on paper and felt like I had done enough research on it, then I pitched to angel groups.

That process took about five months, starting in January, and we closed on our seed round in May. Then we opened our first location in September 2013.

How did you go about raising this funding, and what advice would you give to entrepreneurs trying to raise funding for the first time?

Yeah, so there’s two things on that.

One, feel comfortable that, if you’re go-

ing to sit down and ask someone for their money, you’re asking for not only that but also for their time. Largely they value their time more than their money.

If the person isn’t interested in the idea, they’re not going to be a great support system for you, so there’s not as much value there. So come in really prepared.

You’re never going to be 100 percent there in terms of understanding the market or the idea but just being comfortable with knowing that you’re 75 percent of the way there and working to learn what that extra 25 percent is.

Second is really looking at your funders as partners. They’re really in this together with you. So if you take that approach, it’s going to be far more effective in terms of the communication line.

How would you describe the Cove community at large?

Cove has a great social component and really seeks to bring people together at the different locations.

What is a collaboration or a project that has happened at a Cove that you find really interesting or exciting?

What do you look for in a new hire?

What’s really cool conceptually, for me, is you have a lot of different categories of people that work from Cove. You have a big student population — whether that’s undergrads but largely more graduate students working on anything and everything. Then you have people who have traditional offices. You have people who work from home.

Everyone has their own little niche, and so we have different crowds. People who come here during the day and then leave, a new crowd at night — largely those are the people that are working on side projects and that have a traditional office. I think that’s the most exciting part for me and then hearing the excitement with which people talk about that.

I think it really is reflective of the neighborhood, the surrounding neighborhood. What I love is that we have eight locations — we have a ninth opening on K Street — but each one has its own personality. So you’ve got Georgetown, which has probably a fairly different feel. It does have the exposed brick.

Each location has a local artist who is from the neighborhood. Georgetown has an artist who has a studio on M Street. It’s little things: it’s consistency in terms of the branding and the color scheme, and we try to as best we can to facilitate an interaction with the neighborhood.

We are hiring! That’s the number one thing, if we can get something out of here.

When you’re a small team, each new addition is so important, not only to that person but to the team as a whole and to the organization. People who join Cove now can really have a fingerprint in how we develop, in the culture.

We spend a lot of time on hiring, and it takes away from some other things, but I think it’s really important for us because it will really facilitate and fuel our growth. Ultimately at the end of the day we all want to derive meaning from something and hopefully we can align that with people’s interests. So we look for three main categories, in terms of what we looking for: fit, competency and experience.

What advice would you give to college students who aspire to start their own business?

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Cove founder Adam Segal discussed the unique neighborhood feel of each of Cove’s nine locations in an exclusive interview.

If it’s something you’re interested in, and you have an inkling and a desire to do it, it’s definitely worth exploring and doing it. We have tons of failures here all the time, but if we kept being brought down by those failures, then we wouldn’t continue to grow.

Feeling comfortable with that failure can be super important, not just from personal growth, but also professional growth.

I think you create these very traditional buckets, and people from successful schools go to certain employers or certain types of industries. Starting some-

thing and failing at it is by no stretch of the imagination a downside.

If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why?

You always have that debate whether you want to be Batman or Spiderman, so I think I would go with — I can’t stop thinking about Spiderman.

He kind of has slight powers, but he’s just such a regular dude — I really like that. It would be awesome to have some sort of subtle power but then just being really normal.

Student Group Explores Research Talks Breadwinners Investments Around World BREADWINNING, from A10

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from students in different schools with an interest in global business.

“Since everyone is so diverse, they bring up a lot of different viewpoints and things that we wouldn’t think of at first,” Boisvert said.

Head of Operations John Snyder (MSB ’16) emphasized Zeeba’s egalitarian investment process, which he said included the opinions of a large number of the group’s members.

“Everyone has a lot of say on the investments we make. … You don’t have to go through a lot of red tape,” Snyder said. “There is also the ability for

younger kids to make an impact and move up.”

Students increasingly gain experience for future employment not solely through internships but also student groups such as Zeeba. Chief of Marketing Dara al-Sulayman (COL ’15) said the experience has been invaluable for both the knowledge of the financial services world she has gained but also the broad network it has established.

“I’m a senior and looking for a job and I have a network of people from all over. Even if they are not going to get you a job, they help you, give you interview questions, put you in touch with people,” al-Sulayman said.

swer as to whether gender matters or determines our skill sets as individuals. This ambiguity allows individuals to form their own beliefs surrounding gender determinism.

Some studies suggest that hormonal differences between genders contribute to differing cognitive strengths, but other studies suggest that there is no real difference between the male and female brains, that the gray matter in the male and female brains are both equally and highly interactive with our environments. Tinsley said that this divide among scientific research studies prompted her to conduct her own research.

For her research, Tinsley conducted a survey asking questions about marriage or marriage expectations, child care or child care expectations, workplace expectations, expectations about wages and more.

A random sample of men and women from around the country participated in the study.

The research showed that there were also no differences among age groups, different religious upbringings or race as to the extent to which people think gender matters. Tinsley was surprised by this result as millennials are typically considered to be “gender-blind” compared to groups of older ages.

Tinsley said that as Americans gradually get used to counter-traditional gender roles, behaviors regarding gender roles might change. Behavioral shifts often precede attitudinal shifts, which are usually deeply rooted in our society and difficult to change, according to Tinsley.

“We like to think that attitudes come before behaviors, that we have a particular attitude and then we engage in a particular way,” Tinsley said.

“But, what psychologists have known for decades is that attitudes are shaped by behaviors. I think our attitudes will change but I don’t think it’s been long enough that we’ve seen this type of behavior.”

Tinsley said that Hollywood also plays a major role in rigid

“Professor Tinsley’s work raises the question of whether we are culprits.”

Amalyah Oren Graduate Women in Business President

beliefs that the man should be the primary breadwinner.

“If you think about it, even in a lot of TV shows or movies where the woman is a working woman, there are so few in which the woman is the primary breadwinner,” Tinsley said.

“You still have the idealized version where the woman might be working but the man is still the primary breadwinner.”

Amalyah Oren, president of the Graduate Women in Business Club, which has very close ties with Tinsley’s work, said that her experience pursuing an MBA might change her preference as to who should be the primary breadwinner in a fam-

ily.

“If attitudinal shifts follow behavioral shifts, I would imagine that real tangible change for women seeing themselves as breadwinners is not far away,” Oren said. “Though I personally never saw myself being the primary breadwinner in my future life, now that I am pursuing my MBA and entering into consulting, I see that it may be inevitable that I end up as the breadwinner.”

Oren said that Tinsley’s work is important for both men and women, allowing them to understand their own assumptions about gender determinism and gender roles in our society.

“I think this research is important for enlightening us women to our own prejudices,” Oren said. “More often than not we can be quick to judge society for gender dynamics, but Professor Tinsley’s work raises the question of whether we are culprits in our own injustices. I now wonder if my own unconscious attitudes are holding me back.”

Rachel Samuelson (MSB ’16) said that Tinsley’s work paints a fuller pictures of opinions regarding gender determinism, rather than disproving the work of other researchers in the field.

“The surprising thing about Tinsley’s work is that she focuses on the way we are similar and sort of disproves some of those differences, focusing more on the ways women and men could behave more similarly if genders were socialized in different ways,” Samuelson said. “That’s what I’ve seen as being unique to Tinsley’s work.”

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Business & Tech FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015

Research Examines Family Economics

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Deirdre Collins Hoya Staff Writer

#SitWithMe Campaign Launches to Support Women in Tech The McDonough School of Business is helping to encourage the “#SitWithMe” campaign for Women in Tech. Even though women compose half of the U.S. workforce, only a quarter of the jobs in technical and computer fields are actually held by females. In the world, there will be 1.4 million computer specialist jobs by 2020, but only 29 percent of those will be in the U.S. In January 2014, Georgetown’s Chief Information Officer Lisa Davis launched the GU Women Who Code initiative, which was designed to help women at Georgetown learn coding skills. The Sit With Me campaign will encourage people to sit in red chairs during campus events and post a selfie with the caption “#SitWithMe” to raise awareness.

GEI Victorious at Venture Competition for Third Straight Year

The McDonough School of Business’s Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative team won for the third straight time at the Global Venture Capital Investment Competition. The team, which consisted of Eric Ellsworth (MBA ’15), Amir Kabir (MBA ’15), Ben Shopneck (MBA ’15), Coral Taylor (MBA ’16) and Jordan Edelman (MBA ’16) defeated 69 other teams from the top global business schools. The Georgetown MBA students had to analyze six startups to decide which would be best for a venture capitalist, interview the entrepreneurs, negotiate term sheets with the startup in which they were interested and present their case to judges from firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Foundry Group and True Ventures. GEI Founder Jeff Reid believes that the key to the Georgetown team’s success was its deeply connected network of alumni, who provided advice and expertise to the team.

MSB and Lecture Fund to Host Sustainable Oceans Summit

The McDonough School of Business will serve as the host of the inaugural Sustainable Oceans Summit on Saturday, April 25. The summit will be sponsored by the Global Social Enterprise Initiative, the Georgetown Sustainable Oceans Alliance and the Lecture Fund. The meeting, which is supposed to encourage “cross-sector collaboration,” will examine economic investments into restoring ocean cleanliness and saving its natural resources from a scientific, political and business perspective. Some of the experts will include Maria Damanaki, the global managing director for oceans at The Nature Conservancy, Greg Marshall, the inventor of National Geographic’s Crittercam, and Catherine Novelli, an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of State.

According to new research conducted by Catherine Tinsley, a professor of management and director of Georgetown’s Women’s in Leadership Initiative at the McDonough School of Business, the majority of Americans prefer men to be the primary breadwinners in families.

Tinsley said she researched the topic because she was interested in contributing to the conversation about gender determinism, the idea that gender is a distinct social category that can direct an individual’s skills, abilities or attitudes. Tinsley and her colleagues were surprised to find that while not all participants agreed, the vast majority of American men and women actually preferred the man to be the primary financial supporter of a family. The results suggested a high level of gender determinism.

Additionally, women who strongly believe in gender determinism tended to make life decisions, like working from home, which lowered their wages, according to the research. Controlling for the number of hours worked, the type of job and the education level of the women, Tinsley found that women working from home actually earned lower wages.

Aiming to facilitate the discussion of gender determinism, Tinsley said that she hopes her research will be a fresh and informative contribution to the literature on gender roles.

“I think my main goal was to document in a more precise way the kinds of gender dynamics that I see going on around me in the workplace and in the social sphere,” Tinsley said. “I wanted to

COURTESY CATHERINE TINSLEY

Georgetown’s Women’s in Leadership Initiative Director Catherine Tinsley released research that revealed that both men and women consider males as the primary breadwinners in famillies. add a little bit of a new vocabulary and new ideas to the discussion because I think the way we’ve been talking about it for 40 years feels

very stale, that either we have to be saying that there are no gender differences or act overly politically correct.”

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Cove Founder Discusses Entrepreneurship Lena Duffield Hoya Staff Writer

Adam Segal is the founder of Cove, a startup that operates a network of cheery, modern “productive spaces” in nine of D.C.’s unique neighborhoods.

Somewhere in between the informal atmosphere of Starbucks and the buttoned-up traditional office environment, Cove’s productive spaces allow members to study quietly, collaborate, hold meetings and even connect with other members of the Cove community through the startup’s companion smartphone app. Adam sat down with The Hoya to talk about Cove, superheroes and finding your passion after college. This interview has been edited for clarity and condensed for print.

Blackstone Real Estate Head to Discuss Investing Environment

On Thursday, April 23, the McDonough School of Business will host Jonathan Gray as part of the Real Estate Luminaries Series. Gray is the global head of real estate for The Blackstone Group, the largest “alternative investment” firm in the world. Gray will be asked by Roy March, the chief executive officer of Eastdil Secured, LLC, about his views on investing in global real estate. Prior to Gray’s talk, MSB Chair in Real Estate W. Edward Walter, chief of executive of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., will moderate a panel entitled “Go Public or Stay Private.” The event will be followed by a reception.

At Georgetown, there is a lot of pressure to go into careers like banking and consulting, directly after graduation, and a lot of students find it hard to leave those careers once they start. How did you find your way to entrepreneurship after graduating college?

GMAT Scores at MSB Increase by SEVEN Points Over FIVE Years From 2010 to 2014, the McDonough School of Business experienced a five-year increase in Graduate Management Admission Test scores by seven points, from 684 to 691. The MBA program with the largest increase was Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business, with a 30-point increase from 636 to 666. The GMAT is designed to test MBA program applicants in writing, verbal and analytical skills. According to Poets and Quants, who reported the news, the increase in GMAT scores shows more about institutions than applicants, with schools with higher GMAT scores being more attractive to prospective students.

Tinsley concluded that scientific research offers no definitive an-

COURTESY COVE

Cove, a startup founded by Adam Segal, operates “productive spaces” in nine neighborhoods throughout D.C., offering people a mix between coffeehouse and formal office environments.

I did something similar to consulting and research, also sprinkled in some banking. It really was a succession of having done a number of different jobs in different types of environments and realizing personally that it just didn’t align well with me. Really being a part of building something in an iterative and creative process was what really attracted See SEGAL, A9

Zeeba Group Invests in Emerging Markets Worldwide Katherine Cienkus Hoya Staff Writer

In an environment replete with student investing and consulting groups, Zeeba Investment Group, a student organization of around 25 members, attempts to set itself apart by focusing on investing in emerging markets around the world.

Sina Cherazi (COL ’13) and Dave Greek (MSB ’13) founded Zeeba through the Compass Fellowship in 2010, driven by an interest in investing and a desire to create educational opportunities outside of the classroom.

They focused on investing in Qatar because of the country’s favorable economic policies towards outside investors and the founders’ shared interest in the Middle East. Soon after

founding, the organization partnered with students at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, employing three students from that campus to better understand the investing environment in that country.

When focusing on investing in one country proved too limiting, the group turned their focus to emerging markets around the globe. Zeeba began investing in Canadian oil companies, Chinese tech firms and alternative energy groups. The investment shift sparked a growth in the company’s reach, according to board member William Fitzgerald (MSB ’16).

“Since we have since transitioned from focusing specifically on Qatar to emerging markets, that opens a lot more doors for us. Because you know oil is very global,” Fitzgerald said. “We have in the past looked at Canadian

oil companies that have a lot of resources down in Argentina.”

Zeeba now has holdings of around $25,000, funded by small contribu-

“You are really working for it because you do have a little bit of risk.”

WILLIAM FITZGERALD (MSB ’16) Zeeba Group Board Member

tions from group members and additional money coming from family, friends and former members.

“You are really working for it be-

cause you do have a little bit of risk and skin in the game,” Fitzgerald said.

Although Zeeba is not recognized as an official student organization by the university, the group claims that it has more autonomy than university organizations to take risks with its money and make independent decisions. Portfolio Manager Charles Boisvert (MSB ’16), who transferred to Zeeba from the Georgetown University Student Investment Fund after his freshman year, appreciates the flexibility.

“I was in another investment fund beforehand and I just really thought it was rigid, too structured. And for me that’s not something I wanted, so I thought this would give me a lot more flexibility, responsibility and independence,” Boisvert said.

Though Zeeba members are al-

lowed to participate in multiple funds, most choose just one because of the substantial workload involved and the different atmosphere.

Zeeba has four “desks” that each focus on specific regions: Middle East/ North Africa, Latin America, Commodities and Asia. New analysts are free to pursue their interests.

“We have created it so that you come in as an analyst pool, either your freshman or sophomore year, and we accept at all levels,” Fitzgerald said. “You can really do research in whatever. It allows for you to not get too focused too young.”

Zeeba, which trains all its admitted investors, attracts a wide range of applicants, not solely from the McDonough School of Business, but See INVESTING, A9