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YEAR IN REVIEW

THE LAST WORD The editorial board gives its take on the 20132014 academic year.

A look at the biggest themes and stories of the year at Georgetown.

SPECIAL PULLOUT ISSUE

PHILODEMIC Amanda Wynter (COL ’14) is the first woman to win the Merrick Medal.

HOPES SPOILED The men’s lacrosse team cannot make the Big East tournament.

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3 Years Required on Campus Molly Simio

Hoya Staff Writer

After considering the possibility in recent weeks, administrators confirmed Wednesday that students beginning with the Class of 2017 will be required to live on campus for three years.

The decision has upset some current freshmen, who think that the policy should be delayed to affect only students who have not yet arrived at Georgetown. The Freshman Class Committee created a Facebook event Thursday entitled “Change 3 Year On-Campus Housing Requirement for Class of 2017,” which had around 160 attendees as of Thursday night.

“When the email came out, it was like a bomb went off,” Freshman Class Committee Vice Chairman Nicky Rault (SFS ’17) said. “Everyone was going crazy that something had happened. The immediate feedback was pretty abrupt that students are not happy with this policy.”

The policy change is part of the university’s efforts to meet the requirements of the 2010 Campus Plan agreement, which obligates the

Colleges Surveyed On Assault

university to move 385 students on campus by fall 2015 and house 90 percent of students on campus by 2025. Other components of these efforts include the renovation of Ryan and Mulledy Halls — the former Jesuit Residence — into dorms, the construction of the Northeast Triangle Residence Hall for fall 2016, the

“It should be done with a class that’s incoming rather than a class that’s already been here.”

GRACE COLE (SFS ’17)

temporary conversion of two floors of the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center into dorms for the 2015-2016 academic year and added capacity to existing residence halls.

“One of the campus plan commitments we made was to bring more students back to campus,” Vice Presi-

dent for Student Affairs Todd Olson said. “In our view, the requirement is part of this whole set of changes and enhancements.”

At this time, students are guaranteed only two years of on-campus housing, though most do not run into trouble securing housing for junior year. The new policy will extend that guarantee to three years.

Currently, most juniors live on campus with some choosing to move off campus after only two years in campus housing. Many seniors live off campus, a trend that will not be limited by this policy.

“This is a requirement, but we’re also noting that it’s a guarantee that we’ll provide housing for students for three years,” Olson said.

The three-year requirement will be modified for transfer students so that all sophomore and junior transfers will be free to move off campus for their senior year, even if they have only lived in campus housing for one or two years. Similarly, time spent abroad will count toward a student’s three years in campus housing.

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Bon Appetit Takes Over Healey Pub Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

Maddy Moore The Senate Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight distributed an extensive sexual assault survey Tuesday to over 350 public and private colleges and universities, including Georgetown, as a way to collect information about how institutions across the country respond to sexual assault cases on campus.

Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) was inspired to create and send out the survey from her visits to colleges in her home state. During these visits, the senator met with several university officials to discuss federal policy concerning sexual assault.

“This survey will give us an unprecedented look into exactly how our colleges and universities act — or sometimes, fail to act — to protect students and bring perpetrators to justice,” McCaskill said in a press release. “We need to ensure we have a firm grasp on the policies in place, and the reality on the ground, to inform any specific solutions. This survey is an important part of that effort.”

The Office of the President at Georgetown received the survey and forwarded it to relevant administrators for their input, including Title IX Coordinator Rosemary Kilkenny.

“I think Senator McCaskill has taken a particular interest in this area. She just wants to see justice being done and I think it is very good that Congress is taking an interest in this,” Kilkenny said. “It’s important that this issue is being addressed on the national level.”

Kilkenny has reviewed the questions in the survey and plans to meet with other administrators within the week to complete it.

“The survey makes you take another look and do a serious examination to see what can be done differently ... [to see] how we could best address certain issues,” Kilkenny said.

The results of the survey will be aggregated and analyzed by McCaskill’s office to determine the future of federal action on sexual assault policy.

“The survey will probably show a hodgepodge of different practices schools are doing, a wide variation in knowledge and attitudes about sexual assault,” Sexual Assault Peer Educator Chandini Jha (COL ’16) said.

“This reflects a larger confusion — willful or not — that universities have about their precise legal obligations under federal policy like Title IX.”

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Interested students browsed potential designs and food at a forum introducing Bon Appétit as the new vendor for the pub in HFSC.

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Addison Williams (COL ’14) and David Strathairn honored Jan Karski’s centennial in a reading based on the late professor’s life.

Bon Appétit Management Company will manage the pub in the Healey Family Student Center, replacing Mason Inn owner Fritz Brogan, who backed out of the project in December, the university announced Tuesday.

Bon Appétit currently services over 500 restaurants and dining halls, including those at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, Google and eBay. The company will develop a menu specific to the pub, which is set to open along with HFSC in the fall.

“Bon Appétit offers a robust program, and the committee reviewing pub vendors really thought the program they offered would enhance the current on-campus food offering for students the most,” Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese wrote in an email. “I know I speak for many when I say we all want the pub to be successful — this is an exciting time for students. The pub will provide many wonderful memories for students and be a part of the campus for generations.”

The university had multiple criteria for a pub vendor, including latenight hours for students who are 18 years or older, a carry-out window, openness to student employees and engagement in student opinion, according to Wiese.

“These were all factors in the selec-

tion of the pub vendor, along with design and concept ideas, menu input and overall approach to the restaurant business,” Wiese wrote.

“There were many great vendors that were part of the process, and we thought that Bon Appétit was the best match for the students of Georgetown.”

While Brogan’s original plans for the HFSC space included a restaurant, the switch to Bon Appétit puts the pub in the hands of a vendor with a markedly different background. Bon Appétit is better known for its food, often in dining hall settings, while Brogan came to the project with a background as a local bar owner.

In planning forums over the summer, Brogan presented a vision for the pub as a gathering space for Georgetown students that would remain open until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. on the weekends, with late-night food also available. Brogan even floated the idea of staying open 24 hours if encouraged by student demand.

Under Brogan’s plan, the pub would also have served brunch, including mimosas and Bloody Marys, on the weekends, and included a catering arm for both food and alcohol. Brogan described the restaurant as relying on “Chipotle-style service” in August.

Bon Appétit’s background, by contrast, is more similar to a traditional large-scale food vendor, focusing on See PUB, A5

PNC Replaces Capital One as GU Partner Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

PNC Bank will replace Capital One as Georgetown’s banking partner, the university announced Tuesday, with a Leavey Center office opening in August.

The switch ends Capital One’s 10-year relationship with Georgetown, which the bank declined to continue in February.

A committee that included representatives from the Georgetown University Student Association, Department of Financial Affairs, Division of Student Affairs, Athletics Department and University Auxiliary Services voted for PNC Bank against eight other contenders. The university declined to disclose the other banks that it considered.

“A committee of Georgetown community members has unanimously chosen PNC Bank as Georgetown’s new banking partner,” Vice President of Finance and Treasurer David Rubenstein wrote in an email to members of the university community Tuesday.

“The university’s banking committee found that PNC demonstrated the highest standards of financial stability for our community. … We look forward to working with PNC to provide our community with the highest quality banking system for their financial needs.”

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officer for arts and sciences, said that the committee chose PNC Bank because it fit well with what Georgetown sees as its banking partner’s role.

“The committee chose PNC for their exceptional banking services and alignment with the university on important areas of scholarship and mission-driven programming,” Moore wrote in an email.

University spokesperson Stacy Kerr said that the committee had specific requirements in choosing a new banking partner.

“There’s a convenience factor that we’re committed to maintaining for our university. Also, special rates and special benefits for members, which makes it advantageous for members of our community to join with that partner,” Kerr said in an interview last month. “They also are very mindful of our population, and that for some people, maybe this is the first time that they’re having a bank account, and they’re sensitive and committed to working with our students and population on things like financial literacy, which is really important for financial planning.”

PNC Bank currently provides GOCard services for Georgetown and operates three ATMs on campus, in Darnall Hall, the Leavey Center and Village C West. Roger Wallace, vice president of corporate communications at PNC Bank, said that the bank is eager Published Tuesdays and Fridays

to further its relationship with the university.

“PNC is very pleased to be chosen as the bank for Georgetown University,” Wallace said. “We look forward to a long and mutually prosperous relationship, and I know we’ll be able to talk further about what we can do when we make an announcement in the next few weeks.”

The new partnership with PNC will include perks for students and faculty who create accounts.

“Students, faculty and staff are eligible for preferred benefits from the university’s official banking partner,” Moore wrote. “We’ve announced the partner and will be working with PNC to announce the range of benefits available through this partnership.”

Wallace said that PNC has plans to release details about benefits in the future, but is not yet ready to divulge them.

“There will be a lot of other programs and features,” Wallace said. “We probably don’t want to get ahead of the curve by talking about what all those things are until we make a public announcement. I can’t get into all the details, but they’re going to be good.”

The university began to consider new banking partners after Capital One did not apply to renew its partnership with Georgetown.

Capital One Corporate Communications Officer Amanda Landers

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PNC will carve out a presence on campus beyond its VCW ATM. said that the bank enjoyed its relationship with the university, but made a strategic decision to move on.

“This was a difficult decision to no longer operate on the campus of Georgetown University and one that our Bank leaders did not take lightly,” Landers wrote in an email last month. “Our relationship See PNC, A6

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n an eventful year for campus life, students made sure their voices were not lost in the university’s decision-making process. From Georgetown’s changing course of action on navigating the 2010 Campus Plan agreement to its responses to sexual assault and nontraditional gender identities on campus, students reacted dynamically and with fervent advocacy for their interests. Here is the editorial board’s final word on the 2013-2014 academic year.

Campus Plan From start to finish, this year has been marked by a series of student housing decisions that have often put administrators and students at odds.

While these decisions stemmed from requirements to comply with the 2010 Campus Plan agreement, which have been known since 2012, many of the proposed methods of implementation were clearly in opposition to student interests.

With the fall 2015 deadline to add 385 beds to campus almost two years away, the task of accommodating those 385 students became increasingly pressing. The time required to implement serious construction or renovation plans because of approval processes through the Old Georgetown Board and other governing bodies further limited available options under such a strict timeline. This concern, however, regrettably emerged as a more important priority than the needs of students themselves.

In particular, the option to build a satellite residence was floated with remarkable flippancy, as demonstrated by Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson. “Even if most students don’t like the option, to be blunt and crass about it, most students don’t need to live there,” he said When it became clear that the majority of students opposed a satellite residence, administrators wisely changed course. With construction on the Northeast Triangle dormitory and Ryan and Mulledy halls set to begin soon, it seems certain that the outcome of the housing debate will be more suitable to both parties.

Grievances with the 2010 Campus Plan agreement are at this point unproductive. But the fact that administrators waited so long to publicly consider options to comply with the campus plan is troubling. Had administrators sought student input earlier, perhaps the solutions to Georgetown’s housing concerns would not have been so dramatic or hasty.

Free Speech The extent of free speech on campus has long been a point of tension between students and administrators. Although the current 24-year-old free speech policy does not clearly restrict free speech to Red Square, the Georgetown University Police Department still enforces the policy as if it does.

When H*yas for Choice tabled in Healy Circle, they were escorted away by GUPD. When Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor were separately invited to speak in Gaston Hall, university administrators screened student questions. When then-Georgetown University Student Association executives Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) used their authority as student body leaders to send a campus-wide email, the Division of Student Affairs edited that email’s content.

At a free speech forum held in January, students made apparent their view that the frequent miscommunications about the free speech policy between administrators and students are unfair to students who follow the letter of the policy but are unduly reprimanded for activities of expression.

While the administrators present seemed to be sympathetic to student concerns, it remains that the free speech policy is outdated and unclear in both its wording and implementation.

While administrators have reason both to keep and to liberalize the university’s free speech policy, staying on the fence about free speech is no longer a viable option. Olson promised earlier this year to

clarify the free speech policy before the last day of classes, and with two days of classes to go, students have yet to hear from him. As students have demonstrated at January’s forum and in widespread demand for speech reform, the Hilltop deserves to have access to a clarified policy that allows student groups and students to function and freely speak without the possibility of unknown consequences.

Sexual Assault Since August, the university community has put forth a commendable effort to foster substantive dialogue and awareness surrounding sexual assault.

The push for more awareness surrounding sexual assault started as a cornerstone of platforms in last year’s GUSA executive race and gained further traction both within and without GUSA over the past year. In this case, student action has successfully translated into university-ratified policy change.

In February, the university officially added an alcohol amnesty clause in cases of sexual assault to the Code of Student Conduct. In the weeks following the addition of the amnesty clause, the university also launched a new website with information on sexual misconduct. The website, sexualassault. georgetown.edu, includes a revised policy on sexual misconduct as well as steps for reporting cases of sexual assault.

It is commendable that the university has clarified policy concerning sexual assault and admirable that administrators listened to student activists. As these clarifications help more survivors come forward and educate the student body on how to support survivors and increase awareness of assault, we hope the university and the student body continue to build on these advancements to further improve Georgetown’s approach to sexual assault.

Gender Identity This year, gender identity became a more prominent topic on campus. Efforts such as GU Pride’s addition of a trans* representative and increases in scale and promotion of events like the drag ball, GenderFunk, have encouraged the development of a broader movement to embrace students of all gender identities on campus.

Georgetown’s response to these developments, however, has been significantly less worthy of praise. When Olson said to the Georgetown Voice in September, “There is an emerging view that gender identity is sort of something you play with,” administrators’ reticence to changing the university’s perspectives on these issues was made perfectly clear. Georgetown has failed to capitalize on an opportunity to make campus a safer, more welcoming environment for transgender students and other traditionally excluded groups who often encounter challenges in living comfortably and openly on campus.

The effort of GU Pride and individual students to improve the Georgetown experience for transgender students has been one of the most promising trends on campus. Hopefully, over the next year, Georgetown will listen to transgender students and their allies to better understand how to more strongly support students of all genders on the Hilltop.

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Protests Georgetown’s rich history of political protest continued this year, as campus and national issues sparked activism from all corners of campus.

Students took to Red Square following the announcement that Georgetown was exploring the construction of a satellite residence to meet its housing needs, and students used hashtags like #BBGU, or being black at Georgetown University, to bring to light the experiences of minorities on the Hilltop.

Furthermore, students marched to Pennsylvania Avenue to spur change in this country’s immigration and environmental policies.

These examples highlight the wealth of passion students at Georgetown have for a diverse array of causes. As this year has demonstrated, Georgetown students are continuing to translate a desire for change into action.

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Early Curtain for J.J. — After a settlement with a family whose child was bitten by newly named mascot Jack Jr., the university removed the young bulldog from campus.

Lax Drinking — As part of the Outdoor Student Liv- Aug. 30 ing Pilot Program, students age 21 and older were permitted to drink outside in areas surrounding Village A and Henle Village.

Facelift on Lau 2 — Because of its popularity, the second floor of Lauinger Library was remodeled to include more study space for students, replacing periodical stacks with tables, chairs and outlets.

Sep. 10

Afraid of the Dark — The university cut What’s After Dark, a program founded in 2007 that supported sober nightlife activities on campus.

Nov. 1

Scheuer’s Recklessness — School of Foreign Service adjunct professor Michael F. Scheuer published a post on his blog that weighed the philosophical merits of assassinating President Barack Obama and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron.

Jan. 5

Scheuer’s Right — Thus far, Georgetown has not taken punitive action against Scheuer’s right to free speech and his own opinion.

Jan. 5

Domino’s Burglary — Six men robbed Domino’s Pizza on Prospect Street and held three employees at gunpoint.

Feb. 4

Ricin – ​Daniel Milzman (COL ’16) was arrested after ​manufacturing ricin in McCarthy Hall, and is currently in D.C. jail pending trial.

Mar. 28

No More News — After GUSA cut funding for the Collegiate Readership Program, free copies of The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today will no longer be available on the Hilltop.

Mar. 28

Champions of Debate – ​Andrew Arsht (COL ’14) and Andrew Markoff (SFS ’14)​won first place at the​National Debate Tournament for the second time in their college careers​.

Apr. 1

Dahlgren Reborn — Renovations to Dahlgren Chapel were completed this spring.

Apr. 12

Philodemic Feminism – A​manda Wynter (​COL ’14) won the annual Richard T. Merrick Debate Medal for the Philodemic Society ​, marking the first time a woman has won the award in the society’s history.

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It Got Uglier Than You Thought To the Editor: I read with interest Braden McDonald and Molly Simio’s feature story on the “protest culture” at Georgetown University [“Marching On,” The Hoya, B1, March 21, 2014]. In their recap of the history of campus protest beginning in May, they comment that “Georgetown’s Vietnam era response, while dramatic by today’s standards, was tame in comparison to the daily riots that gripped other colleges nationwide.” That was not actually the case.

The authors neglected to include the most dramatic campus protest to have ever taken place at Georgetown University on March 13, 1969, at Gaston Hall, when Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco was prevented from speaking. Prior to his visit to Georgetown, Mayor Alioto disrupted a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War and for social justice at San Francisco State. Alioto called in the National Guard and San Francisco police who tear-gassed, violently clubbed and handcuffed peacefully assembled students to bring an end to the protest.

As a result of that protest at Georgetown, which prevented Alioto from delivering his speech titled “Freedom of Speech on the Campus,” which was a mockery, considering he just prevented free speech of the students of San Francisco State University, I, along with 11 other Georgetown Uni-

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versity students, was investigated by the United States House of Representatives Committee of Internal Security.

Apart from being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee … I was also put on trial

by Georgetown along with two or three other students. It was the first trial of students of its kind at Georgetown. I was in my senior year at the college and was … ultimately acquitted.

Future accounts and histories of the protest culture of Georgetown should not neglect the single most significant protest to have occurred at the university in opposition of the Vietnam War. No other protest led to a Congressional investigation or initiated a trial of its own students by the university. It was this demonstration that began other political demonstrations at Georgetown University. At the time, The Hoya decried the protest as a “fracas” and the “assailant’s violent disruption.” We were not assailants, and were in fact nonviolent.

The recent story in The Hoya said that “The Hoya had become a bastion of conservatism in 1969.” That was true and the real story of what happened that important day in March of 1969 at Georgetown University has never been properly told.

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COLLEGE ON A HILL

Kent Carlson

Applying Past to Future I

n his Easter vigil homily, Pope Francis discussed Jesus’ call to his disciples to return to Galilee. It symbolizes the return home and the return to one’s origins after a long journey. In the Christian faith, returning to Galilee follows the return of Jesus Christ. The early disciples were called to rediscover their baptism and what it meant in light of their journey with Jesus.

The more I thought about this call, the more I began to appreciate the three parts of everyone’s existence — the beginning, the journey and the end — and the different roles that each part plays. Whether we think about this in terms of one year, four years or even a lifetime, an acute understanding of the beginning helps to put the journey and the end in context.

The beginning of any story sets the stage for all that comes afterward. For students at Georgetown, the beginning reminds us ourselves as freshmen with both our flaws and our strengths. It serves as a starting point, the standard by which we can understand all that has changed and how it finally ends. The clearer our historical understanding of the beginning, the better we will be able to judge the journey and the end.

When we look back at the beginning, whether we talk about the start of freshman year or even this year,

Change is inevitable, but we should make time to remember our heritage and our past. it can be hard to have an honest account. The journey shapes us not only in how we see the present, but also the past. With rose-colored glasses, we remember who we were, often pushing aside truth for the sake of sentiment. Through forgetfulness and selfdeception, we erase parts of our past and use our present experience to fill in the blanks. We forget what truly brought us to Georgetown, how we handled a stressful situation or how we neglected a friendship.

Practicing this revisionist history, although natural, robs us of our ability to appreciate how we have truly changed. False understanding of the past allows us to pervert it in the future. For our own personal development, we must be honest with ourselves concerning how we feel now and how we felt in the past. Whether we document our thoughts or just share them with loved ones, we must take active steps to prepare ourselves to be candid about our stories.

There is a phrase that I have seen used to describe Georgetown University’s historical development: festina lente, Latin for “Make haste slowly.”

In context, it describes how Georgetown, rooted in its traditions, manages to make great leaps forward while still holding on to that core Jesuit mission.

A place like Georgetown does not change quickly, but it must adapt.

It adapted to teach the sciences; it adapted to admit women into the College, and it will continue to adapt in new and different ways. None of these changes, however, took place without great care and reflection on Georgetown’s history, values and purpose.

It looked to its beginning in order to understand the end of each chapter in its history.

There is something about the phrase festina lente that should resonate with all of us. While change is inevitable, we should make the time to go back to the beginning — to remember our heritage and our past experiences as they affect the present and the future.

With the end of the year upon us, it is tempting to see how this year or these past four years have been significant. We cannot, however, truly understand what this journey means without first going back to the start in an honest way.

It is tempting to change quickly, to revolutionize, to charge forward. But take the time to pause and reflect. We can never forget to look back as we move forward.

Kent Carlson is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. This is the final appearance of COLLEGE ON A HILL this semester.

A Word for Women in Leadership I

spent last summer in India, running a nonprofit teaching program I started. I lived with my grandparents, who helped me with on-the-ground logistics. After getting into a contentious argument with my grandfather about a decision I had to make, I overheard him telling my grandmother that I was too opinionated, vocal and confident for a female.

While I did not take his comment to heart, I did realize that words have the power to shape our conceptions of the relationship between gender and leadership. Recently, I came across a campaign led by Lean In and the Girl Scouts of USA, called “Ban Bossy.”

The premise of the “Ban Bossy” campaign is that when young boys assert themselves, they are declared to be “leaders,” but when girls do the same, they risk being called “bossy.”

This translates into a loss of desire for girls to speak up and raise their hands in school, contributing to a confidence gap that starts early. In fact, between elementary school and high school, girls’ self-esteem drops 3.5 times more than that of boys. It is vital to change our language around

leadership in order to get more women to want to pursue impactful roles.

When I ran for Georgetown University Student Association vice president this past February, it seemed like conversations about my candidacy were often colored by the fact that I was the only female candidate in the race. This frustrated me because while, yes, it was shocking and disheartening that several very qualified female students did not choose to run, I wanted the conversations about candidates to focus on the issues. I was torn because I knew that I represented a part of the Georgetown population that may not have felt represented by other candidates, but I yearned to be appreciated for my qualifications and not my gender.

I quickly realized that there is a larger cultural issue at play in many of these conversations. We shouldn’t

only focus on the lack of women that pursue leadership in the American workforce; we should worry about the language we use to frame leadership and how it can reduce the ambition of qualified women.

Sheryl Sandberg has discussed the ambition gap extensively, explaining, “We teach women as young as four to lay back, to be communal.”

By socializing young girls to bite their tongues when they feel like speaking their mind, we restrict potential.

Unsurprisingly, the largest ambition gap exists in politics. According to a study conducted by American University’s School of Public Affairs, young women are less likely than young men to have ever considered running for office, to express interest in a candidacy at some point in the future or to consider elected office a desirable profession.

This is attributed to three things: young men being more socialized by

It is concerning that the language we use can reduce the ambition of qualified women.

their upbringing to think about politics as a career path, women being less exposed to political information and men having more experience in competitive sports and thus developing a competitive desire to win. Most importantly, women do not perceive themselves to be as qualified, and women are less likely than men to receive encouragement to run for office.

Some may argue that we need more women in politics in order to advocate for “women’s issues.” But these issues affect everyone, not just women. We cannot afford to shut out of decision-making people that are qualified and have potential, just because of the language we use and the perceptions we have of gender and leadership.

Better representation will start only with the language we use to discuss women in leadership. Let’s describe ambitious women as “persuasive” instead of “pushy,” “dedicated” instead of “selfish,” and “bold” more than “bossy.”

OMIKA JIKARIA is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. She is vice president of the Georgetown University Student Association.

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rom kindergarten onward, parents send their children to school expecting that they will return home having learned something. If not a fact or a skill, the thing that parents trust our schools to teach young Americans is that they have potential: to provide some form of positive reinforcement, to say, “Keep it up, you’re on the right track. You’ve got more than a fleeting chance.” In this vein, Congress declared in 2002, “No Child Left Behind.”

The trend of affirmation is not a new one. Take, for example, the rampant grade inflation that the American university system has observed over the past 40 years. Parents, employers and students demand that educational institutions provide the most bang for your buck, the most proof of potential on transcripts. Slowly but surely, professors, university registrars and administrators at public and private universities alike have capitulated to the fear of leaving their students further behind with B’s and C’s, compared to peers at (presumably) grade-inflating institutions that graduate students with straight A’s.

However, when examining the way educational institutions actually function, a well-documented and blatantly obvious conflict of interest arises. There is a point when everyone cannot get A’s. Most Americans receive their first letter grades in elementary school, and from the start, teachers assign some students B’s and C’s. Despite the fact that no child should be left behind, the American educational system makes it clear that some children have more potential than others.

So should everyone gets A’s? Definitely not. That does not serve a practical purpose.

Designing a fair, functional and feasible metric of assessment demands the demarcation of those who put in more time and effort, who produce work of a higher quality and who demonstrate more consistent progress than their peers.

This is a fact, and one that we as students and academics must deal with.

Yet our schools simply cannot utilize grades as the primary means of providing the affirmation that parents and students crave. Institutions like our university seem perfectly poised to do so because of their focus on Jesuit values.

As American universities endeavor to counteract grade inflation, which Georgetown aims to do by affixing

mean grades to our transcripts, it is precisely institutions like Georgetown that have the capacity to lead the charge on viable and sustainable alternative affirmations for their students. Armed with a long tradition of cura personalis, there are people on this campus already doing this; the Center for Social Justice, Campus Ministry and certain student organizations make it a particular priority.

These organizations concern themselves with ensuring that, during each student’s time at Georgetown, students all realize their inherent potential, the kind that cannot be summarized on a transcript.

Some of us realize it in service on an Alternative Spring Break trip, others in a profound moment of meditation or prayer on campus, others still in the discovery that they have reached down and helped a friend back up from rock bottom. It’s here.

It’s happening.

H owe ve r, G e o r ge tow n must do more to explore and institutionalize alternative forms of affirmation. Currently, the confidence, geniality and flexibility of a successful student on the Hilltop remain too contingent upon academic achievement.

We are told that success outside the classroom will only follow success in the classroom, and the stability of our success becomes dependent on the affirmation of the A. But isn’t the aim of our university to empower our independence, not engender insecurity? To embrace the magis in each of us? Such insecurity, even among the smartest and most successful minds, is poisonous at an individual, interpersonal, campuswide and professional level.

Our university must thoroughly convince its students that they are on the right track and should persevere not despite a bad grade, but because of the reality of bad grades. That Georgetown students can rest secure in their success, whatever form it takes. It is not only the Christian response, but it is the response that will play a formative role in higher (especially elite) education in the coming decades. Ensuring that every graduating Hoya leaves confident not only in the knowledge he or she acquired, but in his or her continuing potential to achieve must feature centrally in our university’s mission.

Anything short of that, and we will have left some children behind.

All students must be assured of both their knowledge and potential upon graduation.

DEREK BUYAN is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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mental blocks or physical hinfear apathy. I truly do.

Last week, I was walking to drances, but rather emotional disWhite-Gravenor Hall, and in connections from school. I worry typical springtime fashion, the that in such an intense educational campus was alive with an abun- arena, these types of gaps are unacdance of activity. GUGS was out ceptable. To exacerbate these woes, grilling, student groups peppered I feel as though I am fighting douthe lawn, music was playing and bly hard because of my gender — conversation mingled pleasantly people claim that being a woman with the warm, damp sky. I re- means I have something to prove. member a nice, light breeze blowIt’s the last week of school. And I ing softly across the red bricks. In think that I checked my academic that moment, any observer could emotions at the door a few days have sworn that life was perfect. ago. I have a STIA research paper The beautiful spread of cherry to write, an IPOL paper to finish, an blossoms. The unrealistically good accumulation of environmental smells permeating the air. The joy. ethics readings to do, Arabic gramThat sheer joy. mar that makes partial sense and It was almost disgustingly se- six entire chapters of econ that I rene. And in the have simply failed midst of the bustle, to understand in I was gripped by their full capacity. a nauseating feelThings are grim ing of complete over here. The apaand utter unhapthy is rampant. piness. Apathy had But here’s the managed to claw kicker: Apathy is its way through not the end of the all of the delight world. I think I reAllie Heymann to wrap its long alized about three fingers around my hours ago that I Apathy comes from a have an academic ribs. It was as if the oxygen was being running lack of time to share passion drained from my to my very core. As passions out loud. lungs, as if I had I am writing this, gotten punched I am hanging out without warning in the gut. I stood with one of my oldest Georgetown there in the middle of Red Square, friends, a boy who lived down the feeling panicked as it dawned on hall from me in Darnall freshman me that I had simply stopped car- year. We have been sitting here eating about school. ing ice cream and talking about We pay a significant amount climate science for two hours, the of money to attend Georgetown. pitches of our voices getting proFrom tuition to meal plans and gressively higher as we argue about amenities, the privilege of living on false information campaigns. the Hilltop is not cheap. It is an op- We’ve been researching, we’ve portunity that only a few fortunate been digressing, we’ve been writindividuals are given. ing. And we’ve been sharing ideas In doing direct monetary calcu- and interests in the coolest, most lations for credit hours, it is nearly organic way possible: conversation. unfathomable how much our I fear academic apathy. I fear education costs. Every time I miss wasting valuable resources. class or fail to grasp concepts dur- Yet, I have realized that I am ing lecture, I feel a sense of dread not truly apathetic; I am mute. that I have wasted valuable time Here at Georgetown, I am surand money. rounded by a collection of brilliant But the most overwhelming feel- minds, diverse personalities and ing of discomfort stems from sit- varying opinions. I want to discuss ting in a seminar and simply not the things I don’t understand. I caring. It branches from counting want to debate until the sun disapthe hours and minutes until sec- pears from the sky. I want to engage tion ends. It comes from the non- others in my interests and I want chalance of writing a polished, to bask in the simple joy of interproofread and absolutely brilliant action. The apathy I feel? It comes bulls - - t paper. These instances are from a lack of time to talk with othmanifestations of academic apathy. ers and to share passions out loud.

Like many students, I am ocTruth be told, apathy is in sicasionally struck by a feeling of lence. So start talking. paralyzing self-doubt. I get nervous about the future. I compare myself Allie Heymann is a sophomore to my peers and feel the acute pres- in the School of Foreign Service. sures of “measuring up.” I slack. This is the final appearance of Yet, it is the moments of apathy THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING this that scare me most; they are not semester.

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Wynter First Woman to Win Philodemic Medal JAMIE SLATER Hoya Staff Writer

Amanda Wynter (COL ’14) won the 139th annual Richard T. Merrick Debate Medal for the Philodemic Society this semester, becoming the first known woman to win the award.

Wynter’s victory, coupled with the increasing female leadership of the

society, demonstrates that the society — which was founded in 1830 — has deviated from the stereotypical “old boys’ club.”

“It was already really neat to be another woman representing [the Philodemic] population on campus,” Wynter said. “To win … was a lot less for me and more for the idea for plurality and that we have a number of

good speakers that look very different in all different ways.”

The Merrick Debate, which took place April 12, marks the culmination of the spring semester, with keynotes delivered by the four Philodemicians with the highest accumulation of points from weekly debates.

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Amanda Wynter (COL ’14) is the first known woman to win the Richard T. Merrick Debate Medal, receiving the 139th edition of the Philodemic Society honor, demonstrating the growing presence of women in the club.

to be the highlight of their Philodemic career if they’re actively involved,” Philodemic Treasurer Abby Grace (SFS ’16) said.

The honor dates back to Sept. 24, 1874, when Richard T. Merrick, a prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer and the son of a former Philodemician, donated 18 shares of railroad stock to the university for the purchase of the Merrick Medal. Today, the Merrick Medal is the only nonacademic award medal that can be worn during graduation.

A January all-society vote determined the theme for the debate, “Resolved: Certainty is a worthwhile pursuit.”

Judges included D.C. Councilman David Grosso (LAW ’01), theology professor Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J., Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of Labor T. Michael Kerr and former Vice President of the National Organization for Women Erin Matson (COL ’02).

“We reach out to people both at Georgetown and in the greater D.C. community who are accomplished,” Philodemic Vice President Anna Hernick (SFS ’16) said. “We try to get ideological diversity and people who bring unique experiences, especially in the realms of philosophy, politics, the things we love to talk about.

That’s really fun because we get to bring a lot of interesting people to Georgetown.”

The judges are not announced until the day of the debate, and deliberations are also kept secret. In order to win, a student must exemplify the Philodemic Society’s motto of “eloquence in the defense of liberty.”

Wynter delivered her keynote against contenders Jacob Arber (SFS ’14), Peter Prindiville (SFS ’14) and Patrick Spagnuolo (SFS ’14) and said that she respects them as speakers and friends.

“It’s always a hard decision, because everyone’s an amazing speaker,” Wynter said. “It was funny because I had kind of resigned myself to ‘these are three of my best friends not only in the Philodemic but at Georgetown,’ and it was kind of like anyone’s game.”

No alumni can remember a female winner in the recent past, since at least 2000. This summer, Philodemic President Chris DiMisa (COL ’15) plans to go through the archives in Lauinger Library’s Special Collections, as they are currently closed for renovations.

Nonetheless, Wynter’s success reflects changes that have been taking place over the past few years in the society, which is often stereotyped as an old boys’ club. Emma Green (COL ’12) was the last woman to speak at Merrick in 2012, but otherwise men have dominated the event. According

to Wynter, this gender gap has been closing within the society.

“Other than that it’s always white males — nothing wrong with that of course — but I think the Philodemic has a bad rep as being an old boys’ club,” Wynter said. “Since our freshman year, [the other senior females and I] have really seen it grow as a place that women feel comfortable, as a place where all kinds of minorities feel comfortable.”

Hernick agreed that the Philodemic Society has changed and no longer reflects its stereotype.

“It’s probably the most inclusive group of people I’ve encountered at Georgetown, just in terms of any aspect you could think of from gender to political beliefs to religious beliefs,” Hernick said. “There’s really been a focus … of welcoming in different perspectives and different people. [The old boys’ club stereotype] is almost not even a consideration anymore. It’s more just something people reference as being from the past.”

Grace credits Wynter and the other females in her class for this shift.

“There were a lot of fantastic women in [Wynter’s] group and two years above her that really said, ‘If you truly want to be the forum for debate on a campus, you can’t only have certain voices speaking,’” Grace said.

Wynter said this trend started with the women in the classes above her, especially Allison Wagner (SFS ’11), who was president in 2010.

DiMisa said that he is more excited about what Wynter’s victory says about her speaking ability, although he is proud of the direction in which the society is heading.

“I think that really, at the end of the day, the question for me is who is the best speaker?” DiMisa said. “Seeing Amanda win was fantastic, as not only the first woman but the fact that she gave one of the best speeches I’ve heard. … I’m very proud of the society and very happy with where we are and looking forward to the future, but I think Amanda is absolutely one of the best Philodemicians we’ve had.”

Wynter said that she hopes that her legacy helps to open Philodemic to anyone who wants to be a part of it.

“I know that the popular conception when people hear Philodemic is either stuffy old people or just a bunch of men, but the beautiful thing is that it has become a place for all people to thrive, all people who look completely different,” she said.

“I think it was awesome to win Merrick and I’m still really excited about it, but I think the more important thing is that it adds another level of accessibility to say that this too is not an impossibility.”

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Ellsberg, Whistleblowers Law Grads Defy Trends Decry Surveillance State CARLY GRAF & KSHITHIJ SHRINATH Hoya Staff Writers

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Daniel Ellsberg, the former United States military analyst who famously released the Pentagon Papers to national newspapers, spoke about mass government surveillance in the modern world in Gaston Hall on Tuesday evening. The event, called “Beyond Orwell: Surveillance, Secrets and Whistleblowers in the Security State,” was sponsored by the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice.

The evening opened with a videotaped address by Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Edward Snowden story. Ellsberg then delivered the keynote address, followed by a panel discussion.

Author and film producer Anthony Arnove, who co-produced the acclaimed documentary “Dirty Wars” last year, moderated the panel, which included former National Security Agency executive Thomas Drake, former National Intelligence Estimates Chair Ray McGovern, former Ethics Advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice and Snowden’s attorney Jesselyn Radack and former FBI agent Coleen Rowley. The panelists all shared the view that the current U.S. government has perpetrated constitutional violations.

Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing misperceptions of U.S. intentions during the Vietnam War and hastening its end. In his address, Ellsberg stressed the importance of a republican government in which information is public.

“Benjamin Franklin was asked at the end of the constitutional meetings, ‘What kind of government is it?’ and he said, ‘A republic, if you can keep it,’” Ellsberg said. “Have we kept it? No, we have not. Could we get it back? I would say not without people who are willing to take the risks.”

In order to make a change and preserve the republic, Ellsberg said it is important for citizens to listen to their consciences and take action in the face of injustice.

“Most officials, who were my colleagues at that point and people in Congress, never do find a degree of wrongdoing or injustice that will lead them to cross the line of exposing it or resisting it or putting themselves on the line,” Ellsberg said. “I asked [Snowden] what message he thinks I should give and he said, ‘If you believe in something, stand up for it.’”

Drake, a whistleblower who was indicted under the Espionage Act but exonerated of 10 felonies, argued that although citizens may not have anything to hide from the government, their privacy should be of the utmost importance.

“As sovereign human beings, we have a right to privacy and our own individuality,” Drake said. “What you do have to fear is that they can find out anything they want about you.”

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Daniel Ellsberg condemned government surveillance during his keynote Tuesday. ernment surveillance.

“If one branch of government has full knowledge of the private conversations, of the private lives … can it be that journalists can offer confidentiality to a source with any confidence?”

Ellsberg said. “I would say no, that’s gone at this point.”

Ellsberg also expressed his appreciation and respect for citizens who fight to protect civil liberties. He said that he applauds whistleblowers for their courage and actions.

“I go out of my way to meet whistleblowers when they’re exposed or they’re prosecuted because I do feel that we’ve come from the same trajectory as insiders and have a similar experience and I respect what they’ve done,” Ellsberg said. “I want to thank them and I want to let them know that I congratulate them for what they’ve done and will help them as much as I can in the pressures that are brought to bear on them.”

Greenwald also acknowledged the similarities in the public reactions to the work of whistleblowers like Ellsberg, and more recently, Snowden and Chelsea Manning.

“Essentially, everything that is said now about Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers was said, virtually down to the letter of the script, about Daniel Ellsberg 40 years ago,” Greenwald said. “History has vindicated Daniel Ellsberg in such a way that almost nobody is willing to stand up in public any longer and contest the fact that what he did was noble and heroic.”

Channing Ruff (COL ’16) attended the event and said that the discourse gave him hope for the future of the United States.

“I thought that the speakers were very compelling,” he said. “Though their assessments were quite grim, I believe that there was a glimmer of hope, by having conversations such as this our generation can act to ensure that our nation doesn’t trample on our civil liberties in the name of national security.”

In the face of the shrinking job market for recent law school graduates, the Georgetown University Law Center remains confident in its ability to connect its students to jobs in the industry.

A recent data release by the American Bar Association showed that only 57 percent of law school graduates in 2013 found long-term, fulltime jobs nine months after graduation, a mere 0.8 percent increase over 2012. The percentage of unemployed students seeking work rose from 10.6 percent in 2012 to 11.2 percent in 2013.

Despite the increased unemployment rates for law school graduates, employment statistics for Georgetown law school graduates are significantly above the national trend and have rebounded nicely from 2011, the worst year for law graduates. For the class of 2013, 93 percent were employed within nine months of graduation. Additionally, as of 2013, 83.7 percent of Georgetown law graduates are in bar-required, long-term full-time positions, a 21.1 percent increase from 2011 and a 10.4 percent increase from 2012, according to Assistant Dean of Career Services at the Law Center Marcia Shannon.

“Though the general legal market has been sluggish at best, Georgetown Law has shown a substantial increase in job prospects since 2011,” she said.

Shannon credited the Law Center’s rising graduate employment rate to the proactivity of students, along with increased resources to the Office of Career Services and Office of Public Interest and Community Service, as primary reasons for Georgetown’s relative success.

This decrease in job prospects for graduates nationally could also be attributed to the high number of law school graduates searching for employment. The graduating class of 2013, according to the American Bar Association, consisted of 46,776 students, a record number. Although the number is expected to fall, Shannon does not expect the national job market to flourish again soon.

“I suspect there will not be tremendous change in the overall employment statistics for law school graduates generally,” she said. “At Georgetown Law, we expect, given the quality of our students and the many new initiatives coming from the Law Center, our graduates will continue to have good prospects.”

Benjamin Lee (LAW ’14) noticed an improvement in the private job market during his personal search.

“I was always focused on private practice. It wasn’t great back in 2012, but things seem to be improving on the private market side,” Lee said. “I also found that the market for internships with the federal government was fairly strong for Georgetown students.”

Lee successfully landed a job with Clifford Chance, an international law firm based in New York.

Other law students acknowledged that the job market in its current state is stingy.

“The job market is tough.

No one should think that getting a great job in this economy is easy, even nearly six years after the start of the financial crisis,” Grant Dubler (LAW ’14) said.

Those interested in public service and law appeared to be particularly affected by limited prospects.

“The public interest job market is tough. There is a huge shortage of legal services for low-income people, but

organizations that offer these services often do not have the funding to hire a number of lawyers to meet the community need,” Allison Federoff (LAW ’14) said.

To navigate the tricky job market, Dubler emphasized the importance of flexibility.

“I wouldn’t say that it’s getting harder for law school graduates to find a job. It just might be getting harder for law school graduates to find a job at a large law firm,” Dubler said. “Phenomenal Georgetown Law graduates will always be able to write their own ticket anywhere, but there is no doubt that the old model of heading to an Am Law 100 firm to get a sixfigure salary is an option only for about a third of law graduates, even at the best schools.

However, there are plenty of great options outside of the corporate law world.”

Dubler will work as a Legislative Assistant for Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) next year.

Federoff, who will work as a staff attorney at Washington, D.C.’s Children Law Center, credits her success to the support she received from Georgetown.

“I feel so fortunate to have attended a law school that has an entire office dedicated to career counseling for public interest careers,” she said.

“Georgetown Law has many programs to make it easier to pursue a career in public interest, such as providing full loan repayment assistance to those who work in public interest for at least 10 years.”

In addition to praise from its students, the law school also recently received official acclamation. The National Law Journal named the Law Center as one of the top schools in terms of overall job prospects, jobs with large law firms, as well as jobs in government and public interest in 2013.

New Vendor Chosen for Pub PUB, from A1 “corporations, universities, museums and specialty venues,” according to its website.

Chefs customize menus for their customer base at each location, and the company’s focus is food rather than alcohol.

The university hosted a pub showcase Wednesday in Sellinger Lounge and the Leavey Program Room, where students could see pub designs, sample Bon Appétit food, apply for jobs and vote for names, designs and themes for the location.

“The pub showcase was held to provide students the opportunity to experience the pub as much as possible at this point in the process,” Wiese wrote in an email. “The student pub is for ‘the students,’ if you think about it, how could we not do the pub showcase?”

Emily Herman, a freshman at Johns Hopkins University, eats food provided by Bon Appétit almost every day in her dining halls.

“Although it’s not perfect, I think Bon Appétit does a pretty good job overall with providing many fresh and healthy options,” Herman said. “I love that they often serve season-

al, local vegetables. Also, the baked goods here have been so good recently that the baker has his own cult following.”

Grace Memmo, a freshman at University of Pennsylvania, said she enjoys the customization and variety that Bon Appétit provides to her dining halls.

“They’re very big on getting locally grown food, and we compost, so that’s good too.

Also, they can have delicious specialty items and good pasta and salad bars and make customized food,” Memmo said.

Architects from Buell Kratzer Powell, who are collaborating with Bon Appétit to create an ideal space for both groups, spoke to students at the showcase. Darrell Kratzer and Caitlin Daley, architects for the group, said that they tried to give the pub a community atmosphere.

“We really wanted a pub feel, a place that felt almost like a local bar that you really want to go to and spend some time in and meet your friends,” Daley said.

The architects decided to use natural materials, including a thick distressed wood bar top.

“We like natural materials,” Kratzer said. “We looked at some materials that are in the

great hall [Healy Hall] and we will be incorporating some of that in the bar, like stone and wood and a very thick wood bar top.”

Both architects said that their favorite element of the pub is a wall constructed of kegs, which will also serve as a room divider. The wall will create the “Blue Room,” a separate space designed for student rental for parties and events.

“We’re both really excited about the keg wall,” Daley said. “We think it’s a really unique design element and something that people can really look back on and say ‘Remember the pub? Remember how great it was?’ It’s great because it does provide that functional element to make a space for the Blue Room. We’re pretty pumped about it.”

Kait Wilde (MSB ’17) attended the showcase to learn about the plans for the pub.

“I like that the student body is encouraged to get involved in customizing the pub by selecting fabrics and choosing a name,” Wilde said. “I can see myself going there with friends on the weekends and expect it to be both welcoming and successful. For me, the Nutella milkshakes sealed the deal.”

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The university celebrated the centenary anniversary of the birth of Jan Karski, a late Georgetown professor and a member of the Polish World War II resistance, on Thursday afternoon with a panel discussion, “Responsibility to Protect,” and a staged reading, “Remember This: Walking with Karski.”

In 1942 and 1943, Karski alerted the Polish, British and American governments about the circumstances in German-occupied Poland, including the presence of concentration camps and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. Karski later taught Eastern European affairs and international affairs in the School of Foreign Service for 40 years.

Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service Anthony Arend (SFS ’80), Security Studies Program Director of Teaching Robert Egnell and Ambassador Melanne Verveer, the director of the Institute for Women, Peace and Security, spoke on the panel in Lohrfink Auditorium about Karski’s work and the “responsibility to protect” in cases of crimes against humanity. School of Foreign Service Acting Dean James ReardonAnderson introduced the panel, and said that Karski’s work set the foundation for the modern conception of foreign relations.

“In many ways, Jan Karski was the pioneer of the principal that is now so much tested in international affairs. We framed this panel and decided to bring Karski up to the 21st century and look at the implications of his work today,” Anderson said.

In his address, Egnell spoke about the meaning of Karski’s concept of the responsibility to protect and its place in the political sphere.

“The responsibility to protect is a new norm that seeks to address the international community’s failure to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. … These ideas aren’t going anywhere,” Egnell said. “However, in order to understand the promises and limitations of the responsibility to protect, we really need to place it in a political context.”

Egnell also pointed out the contradictions present within the concept of the responsibility to protect.

“We simply cannot protect individual sovereignty and human rights without at the same time honoring the principle of state sovereignty, and that is a contradiction we live with and is at the heart of responsibility to protect concepts as well,” Egnell said.

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Academy award nominee David Strathairn acted as Jan Karski alongside an ensemble of students in a staged reading of “Remember This: Walking with Karski” in Gaston Hall on Thursday evening.

Despite its flaws, though, Egnell said that the idea represents a shift in modern international affairs.

“While it might be seen as dysfunctional, it’s just a reflection of international politics and the different agenda that really define international states and peoples in the modern age,” Egnell said. “It represents ambition and normative direction in world affairs. And that is a much longer trend away from absolute interpretations and state sovereignty and towards respect to human rights and sovereignty as a responsibility.”

Verveer said that the idea of the responsibility to protect has evolved over the years, transforming towards humanitarianism.

“The words ‘the right to intervene’ slowly morphed into the responsibility to protect,” Verveer said. “It turned that issue of intervention for humanitarian purpose into responsibility to protect human lives, a responsibility of the international community to do so.”

Verveer also spoke about sexual violence against women and its implications in war and genocide.

“The obligation to protect is definitely an obligation to protect women against sexual violence, and the obligation to prevent and the obligation to rebuild certainly cannot succeed without understanding the

role that women have to play in conflict resolution, in reconstruction, in peace negotiations,” she said.

Additionally, Arend spoke about the benefits, setbacks and challenges to the responsibility to protect. To Arend, the primary benefit of the concept is that it helped alter the definition of sovereignty to hold states accountable for its internal affairs.

“Sovereignty doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want because you’re a state. Rather, it means to be a state, you have the responsibility to protect people in your state, not just nationals, but aliens, refugees, anyone who happens to be in your state,” Arend said. “If they’re in your state, you have to protect them from crimes against humanity, from genocide, from other forms of mass atrocities.”

In order to increase the effectiveness of the responsibility to protect, Arend said that states must alter their conceptions of it and extend it to regional organizations. States do not have the legal right to intervene, since the United Nations Charter of 2009 does not create any new international law, but Arend said that there are ways around this problem.

“What I’m suggesting is that important states in the international system need to work with regional organizations to come up with new norms when intervention can take

place to end these mass atrocities,” Arend said.

Sinéad Carolan (SFS ’17) attended the event and said that it helped her better understand crimes against humanity and the effect of the Holocaust.

“I came because I learned about Jan Karski and the fact that he was a professor at Georgetown in my Eastern European history class last semester, and I’m really interested in Europe and the Holocaust, as well as learning about the way we look at the Holocaust in history and how that applies to current events,” Carolan said.

Kiki Shim (SFS ’17) said that the panel gave her a better idea of threats to human rights in war.

“I think I’ve always been oddly, morbidly fascinated with the Holocaust and what its implications are in terms of morality,” Shim said.

“This panel was very illuminating in terms of telling us more about different policies, especially the right to protect, because I’m interested in global human rights.”

“Remember This: Walking with Karksi,” directed by Davis Performing Arts Center Artistic Director Derek Goldman, had its world premiere at Gaston Hall. Academy Award nominee David Strathairn featured as the titular figure in the reading, which chronicle Karski’s life.

“The competitive dynamic really isn’t going to be much different.”

Chris kelly (COL ’14) Former GUAFSCU CEO

would not change GUASFCU’s strategy on campus.

“At first, we were trying to think of how it would affect us specifically, and really a bank is a bank is a bank, and the same reasons that we were better than Capital One as far as rates and having a much more lenient fee schedule, much lower fees, being students serving students and having student-centric hours,” Kelley said. “For us, the competitive dynamic really isn’t going to be much different because at the end of the day, it’s just another bank.”

Other students agreed that Georgetown’s new partnership with PNC will have a minimal effect because of GUAFSCU’s established presence on campus.

“I don’t think it will make much of an impact,” Grace Cole (SFS ’17) said. “I think it makes more sense to have a credit union and a bank involved rather than two banks and a credit union. Capital One was just sort of excess.”

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Senate Surveys Housing Mandated for Juniors Colleges on Assault Housing, from A1

Assault, from A1 Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Services Coordinator Jen Schweer said that she hopes the survey would give a stronger voice to those who have experienced sexual assault.

“It’s critical that many voices are called upon to be at the table; this includes survivors and those who work with them on a day-to-day basis. These are perspectives that are crucial in informing survivor-centered policy and legislation,” Schweer wrote in an email.

“My hope is that Senator McCaskill’s efforts will reflect the many people and areas already deeply involved in this work.”

The survey questions will determine whether the institution is in compliance with Title IX and Clery Act requirements, which dictate the procedure for reporting a sexual assault and provide other information pertaining to sexual assault policy.

One question on the survey asked colleges to name the spaces on campus that can provide students with information on how to file a complaint with Title IX and if the admissions office could serve as a such a space.

“That is an example of a question that we can consider. Should we put information in admissions if that is where some students reach out to for guidance?” Kilkenny said.

Under Georgetown’s current protocol, students can report sexual misconduct to confidential resources in the offices of both Health Education Services and Counseling and Psychiatric Services, the Title IX office headed

by Kilkenny and the Georgetown University Police Department. A newly revised policy requires all university employees, except for specially designated confidential counselors, to report a sexual assault to the Title IX office within 24 hours after the report has been made.

Last summer, several administrators revised the Georgetown sexual assault policy, which was approved by the board of directors. The changes included creating a new policy on sexual misconduct, revising the grievance procedure and ensuring an emphasis on confidentiality.

Students expressed support for the changes that the administration has made over the last year.

“As I scrolled through the survey, I was both pleasantly surprised by the many questions I know we are now able to answer with a confirmation — questions that just one year ago we would not have been able to,” Sexual

Assault Working Group member and SAPE Mabel Rodriguez (COL ’14) wrote in an email. “The addition of a mandatory sexual assault training to NSO, an explicit alcohol amnesty clause, access to information on a website — all of these have been important steps for Georgetown this year.”

Rodriguez added that the survey offered a chance to remind the university of existent problems with its sexual assault policy.

“We need to be holding our universities accountable, especially if they are going to choose to adjudicate these crimes. We all need reminders of the options we are not considering,” Rodriguez wrote.

Jha agreed that Georgetown’s current sexual assault policy still has problems, notably the lack of transparency surrounding it.

“I think the current disciplinary process can be very difficult for survivors.

There is a lack of clarity on what topics are admissible for the board, though there are customary practices the hearing board uses when dealing with these issues,” Jha said. “The fact that its practices are not well publicized to the student body imposes significant barriers on survivors coming forward.”

This past year has seen increased government involvement in raising awareness about sexual assault on college campuses through efforts beyond McCaskill’s survey. In January, President Obama established the “White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault,” and the White House issued a report revealing the high sexual assault rates on college campuses.

White House officials visited Gallaudet University on Thursday as part of their nationwide university tour in honor of the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s Violence Against Women Act and the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women.

The event featured remarks from Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, who emphasized the importance of a coordinated response from both the federal government and from university administrators.

“While we believe that the federal government has an important role to play, we also know that the government alone cannot stop violence on campus,” Cole said. “It is essential to develop campus-based coordinated responses that include campus victim services, campus law enforcement, health providers, housing officials, administrators, student leaders, faithbased organizations, student organizations and disciplinary boards.”

Association leaders favored postponing the policy by a year so that it did not affect current freshmen. While they were not successful in persuading administrators to do so, they were able to compromise on certain matters, including the policy’s approach to transfer students and study abroad. GUSA representatives also spoke to administrators about housing options students would prefer under the new policy, pointing to areas like the Leavey Hotel and Conference Center.

“One thing that really informed the approach that we took to this was the student desire for on-campus locations.

What we really appreciate is that when we expressed to the university administration that we would prefer options that included Leavey and current residential space,” GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said.

Despite these considerations, some freshmen still find the new policy limiting. Rault said he felt that the policy is unfair since freshmen were under the impression that they would have the opportunity to live off campus after two years when they enrolled at Georgetown.

“Freshmen have been here for a year.

They came here under the impression that they would have the opportunity to live off campus junior and senior year.

Especially after this whole year where we saw at our friends’ houses or apartments off campus that this is a very different lifestyle than on campus,” Rault said.

Other students were in favor of postponing the policy for one year.

“I just think that if they want to institute a policy like this, it should definitely be done with a class that’s incoming rather than a class that’s already been here for a year and has seen what the

upperclassmen have,” Grace Cole (SFS ’17) said.

Some students said that they felt that the administration neglected the concerns of students when they instituted the new policy.

“They could have just as easily pushed back the plan for one year. It wouldn’t have impacted the plan that much … and everyone would be happy,” Mitchell Tu (SFS ’17) said.

Despite GUSA’s failed efforts to delay the implementation of the housing requirement, the Freshman Class Committee plans to petition the administration to postpone the housing policy so that it begins with the Class of 2018, according to Rault.

“The plan for now is to gather support for the Class of 2017 and then to meet with the appropriate administrators to see if we can compromise on the new policy,” Rault said.

New Bike Lanes Open on M Sydney Winkler Hoya Staff Writer

M Street will see the opening of new bike lanes from 14th Street NW to 29th Street NW within the next two weeks.

Sam Zimbabwe, the associate director for policy, planning and sustainability for the District Department of Transportation, said that the construction of the bike lanes was inspired by a need to protect bicyclists, pedestrians and vehicles on the busy street.

“The M Street cycletrack will provide a safe, protected facility for bicyclists on a busy downtown street where there currently aren’t facilities,” Zimbabwe wrote in an email.

According to a study conducted in 2010 by the DDOT exploring ways to improve downtown bike facilities, L Street and M Street would be ideal locations for improved facilities, namely bike lanes, due to the high bicycle traffic.

Acting upon this recommendation, the DDOT installed bike facilities in late 2012 on L Street, which provided an eastbound connection transecting downtown. The M Street cycletrack will serve as its counterpart going westbound.

“The L Street cycletrack has seen a big increase in bike traffic since installation, and our review of safety and usability has found that there has generally been an improvement since the installation,” Zimbabwe wrote.

Construction on the new M Street bike lanes began in December 2013,

but the high volume of snow this winter delayed construction until early April. The bike lanes will be completed within the next week or two, depending on the weather.

“The installation at this point consists of finishing the pavement markings, installing new signs and installing flexposts to create the barrier for the bike lane, and adding green paint at intersections,” Zimbabwe wrote.

Bill Starrels, the vice chair of Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission and the commissioner for the region including the expansion, noted that, based on previous experience, the construction of these bike lanes could result in an increase in congestion problems.

L Street has been horrendous with traffic,” Starrels said. “The street is just tough right now, especially making left turns.”

While he recognized this possibility for an increase in traffic, Zimbabwe pointed out the potential positive effects the bike lanes could have on sidewalk traffic.

“To create the cycletrack, we are reducing the capacity of the street for cars, but in our analysis, the impact will not be severe,” Zimbabwe wrote.

“So, depending on who you are, the cycletrack could both help and hinder traffic for all modes.”

Zimbabwe added that the bike lanes will pull cyclists off the sidewalk, where they put pedestrians in danger.

“The lack of facilities mean that some brave cyclists use the road, while others illegally use the sidewalks,”

Zimbabwe said. “The installation of the cycletrack will provide a protected facility in the street, which we think will not only attract more cyclists, it will actually attract them from other streets, like K, and get them off the sidewalks, where they are a hazard to pedestrians.”

At approximately $250,000, the cost of installing the bike lines will be paid for through local funds from the Capital Improvement Program, a six-year plan for the improvement of the District’s infrastructure and facilities.

“We just want to make sure it’s done in a safe and orderly way,” Starrels said.

Stephen Yin (SFS ’17) expressed enthusiasm for the changes in order to reduce congestion and improve travel in the Washington, D.C., area. “[The bike lanes] would make my commute time a lot shorter because I usually have to walk my bike because of the risk of getting hit by a car,” he said. “The current absence of biking lanes makes it very hard and sometimes even dangerous for bikers like me to get where I need to go.”

Eugene Kim (SFS ’17), however, said that he felt the bike lanes would be a negative addition to M Street since the street space is already limited.

“It’s just not that necessary. However, that is coming from a young kid who doesn’t mind taking risks at times. I can see how other cyclists, especially those who approach it as a serious sport, would desire to have a separate lane for safety concerns and simple convenience,” he said.

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UIS Introduces Mobile Printing After Suicides, GWU Revisits Counseling Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

In March, University Information Services implemented a pilot printing program on the second floor of Lauinger Library that allows students to print documents from their phones for free. The pilot, if successful, will be executed at all print stations on campus to augment the printing environment on campus by making it more mobile-friendly.

According to Jennifer Smith, coordinator of communications, outreach and programming at the library, UIS chose the location because of the popularity of the second floor as a printing location.

“The library supports the university’s efforts to find an affordable, convenient [and] sustainable solution for printing, including mobile printing,” Smith wrote in an email.

“The current initiative offering free printing on the second floor of Lauinger is a temporary pilot program

by UIS and Xerox to test the mobile printing technology. They chose Lauinger as the site given the high volume of printing done here.”

In order to utilize the system, students must download the Xerox Print Portal app, which allows any mobile user to send documents wirelessly for printing. UIS Mobile Program Manager Lee Emmert said that feedback from the pilot program will help UIS implement it across campus by the fall.

“Mobile print is part of our larger deployment of a modernized print program at Georgetown, something that we’re working on this summer,” Emmert said. “The goal behind the mobile print pilot in Lauinger is to collect student feedback about the mobile print environment to see what students think, to identify areas where we could make improvements and ultimately to ensure that what we deployed this summer for next fall is a solution that students really want and they can use.”

The partnership with Xerox stems from a desire to increase print efficiency and quality, according to Emmert.

“Partnering with Xerox is something that we’re doing, not just for student print, but also for faculty and staff print,” Emmert said.

“The goal there is to modernize the print environment at Georgetown for all and to bring more efficiency to our print environment.”

Emmert said that students have sent UIS positive and constructive feedback.

“We’ve received a lot of feedback, and generally, almost overwhelm-

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Printing is free on the second floor of Lauinger Library for the remainder of the semester while UIS tests a mobile printing program. ingly, positive feedback,” Emmert said. “An email that comes to mind is from one student who is a senior in the College, and he wrote that he wished that this mobile print solution was available four years ago when he first started at Georgetown, because he would have used it all the time.”

While the trial is free and covered by UIS, once implemented campus wide in the fall, the service will charge fees directly to the student’s phone through the app.

Rates will remain at 10 cents per page.

Christina Ling (MSB ’15) works in the McDonough School of Business Technology Center and said that she plans to use the system in the future.

“I think it’s a great idea, especially because nowadays, I think around 65 percent of people use smartphones. I personally use my iPhone more than I use my laptop, and being able to integrate mobile devices would be really useful and convenient for much of the student body,” she said.

According to Ling, the new system may pose problems for students working in the technology center, since changing operating systems could make installation difficult.

“If the mobile print system were to be implemented in the business school, I actually think it may make work for the employees at the tech center more burdensome because we’d also have to help install this printing system onto smartphones on top of installing the software onto laptops,” Ling said. “Technology is very fast-paced and changing with new developments and operating systems, there may not necessarily be a quick fix to make sure that the software works with each new technological development.”

Despite this, Emmert said that he hopes that the implementation of mobile printing, as well as the addition of more print stations, will make Georgetown a more mobile-friendly, efficient campus.

“We’re hoping to provide more convenient print options for students, to make it easier to print and to make it more widely available,” Emmert said. “As far as the larger student print project, we’re looking to bring print into spaces where students want to be able to print. We are actually upgrading all of the printers in the existing lab spaces on the main campus to new printers, and we’re also talking about adding some new spaces.”

In the wake of three suicides at its Mount Vernon campus earlier this year, The George Washington University has rushed to add counseling resources at its satellite campus. At Georgetown’s other Washington, D.C. locations, counseling services already present at the Law Center and the School of Continuing Studies ensured no mirrored response is necessary.

Three students in West Hall, a dormitory of George Washington’s satellite campus located in northwest D.C., have died since January — two in the first week of April. The first two have been confirmed as suicides, and the cause of death for the third is unconfirmed.

“We at [Counseling and Psychiatric Services], like many others on campus, were greatly saddened to learn of these tragedies and this premature loss of life. Our hearts go out to the students, families, friends and to faculty and staff at GWU,” Phil Meilman, Georgetown CAPS director, wrote in an email.

On April 5, GWU reacted to the events by offering counseling services to the Mount Vernon campus through the rest of the year, and the university is considering making those services public.

With all off-campus locations already holding psychiatric facilities, Georgetown administrators expressed confidence in the placement and availability of the university’s counseling services, though Meilman assured that CAPS remains vigilant about such incidents.

“On a regular basis, we work with other offices on campus to figure out the best ways to address behavioral incidents that are affecting the community,” Meilman said.

Located in Darnall Hall, the CAPS office aims to serve both undergraduate students and graduate students who take classes on the main campus.

There are satellite CAPS offices at the university’s other locations at SCS on Massachusetts Avenue and the Law Center near Capitol Hill, both staffed with professionals for all needs.

Mitchell Bailin, dean of students at the Law Center, explained that, while all Georgetown students have the opportunity to visit the main campus for counseling, he has found that the law students typically visit the law center’s CAPS office, which is staffed with two full-term clinical psychologists and a psychiatrist.

“They have a choice, and most of them choose, if they’re going to seek an evaluation, to seek it here on campus because it’s more convenient,” Bailin said.

Meilman stressed the importance of these satellite offices in order to properly meet the needs of graduate students at the Law Center and SCS. “For the most part, graduate students are older, have already chosen a field, more are partnered or married and some have children, so the issues tend [to] be somewhat different from those of undergraduates,” Meilman said.

Bailin saw the service as essential for law students because of the stress associated with their future profession.

“Many, many students every year go for at least one evaluative session, and sometimes more than one session, with one of the clinical psychologists,” he said. “Our students talk very openly about the need for self-care and for being attentive to their wellness as something that they need to do to prepare for a stressful profession.”

The SCS has similar resources in place for its students with staff members of CAPS available onsite at the downtown campus.

“Both CAPS staff members have offices at the SCS downtown campus,” Maggie Moore, ommunications officer of arts and sciences for Georgetown University, wrote in an email. “SCS students may call the intake line and are then referred to emergency services or may make an appointment to meet one of these counselors on the SCS downtown campus.”

The SCS also takes particular care to ensure the services are available at times that are convenient to students.

“Because many SCS students have classes there at night, one of the staff members there begins her workday at 4 p.m.,” Meilman said.

Bailin did not see any particular response to the GWU incidents, but considered the existing system attuned to the students’ needs and well-received by the student body.

“We ramped up our services four years ago now. We used to have the equivalent of one full-time clinical psychologist and we went to two, and that was consistent with increasing demand of law schools across the country for mental health care for law students,” he said. “I think we long ago saw the need to increase our resources and we successfully did that and it served the law students very well.”

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“Respect for the Dignity of the Person,” but not under the harassment policy itself.

Beverly Magda, the associate dean of the Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has reintro- master of professional studies in technoloduced the Tyler Clementi Higher Education gy management, said that academic instituAnti-Harassment Act, which would require tions have a responsibility toward their stuall colleges and universities that receive dents in the absence of a federal law about federal funds to explicitly recognize cyber- cyberbullying. bullying as harassment as well as establish “Because of the awareness of [cyberbullyanti-harassment policies. ing], parents are becoming more involved, The new legislation would require George- schools are becoming more involved,” Magtown to define cyberbullying in its Code of da said. “So I think it’s starting to change Student Conduct. The university already but I always find that a lot of laws, historihas an anti-harassment policy in place list- cally, are reactive, and it takes a lot of time ed under the violations of the code, which for laws to catch up to technology. We see defines harassment as “any intentional or it in the information security field also, it’s persistent act(s) deemed intimidating, hos- like something has to happen before a law tile, coercive or offensive.” is enacted or integrated.

The bill, named for the Rutgers freshman Murray reintroduced the bill, which the who jumped off the George Washington late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) had origiBridge as a result of personally invasive cy- nally sponsored, as a result of learning that berbullying in fall 2010, is co-sponsored by one of her interns in her Washington, D.C. several other senators, including Tammy office had undergone harassment because Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Al Franken (D-Minn.) and of his sexual orientation. However, SAO coKirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).

Director Ben Manzione (SFS ’15) said there Co-Director of the were no reported cases of Student Advocacy Ofcyberbullying at Georgefice Ryan Shymansky town in the year he has al(COL ’16) said he beready served as co-director. lieves that the policy as “We don’t have too many it is already functions cases regarding harasseffectively to serve ment, and we can really Georgetown students. only speak to the scope of “[The conduct code what we have,” Manzione RYAN SHYMANSKY (COL ‘16) is] actually very broad, said. “That said, there are Co-Director of the Student Advoacy Office in that it covers coermeasures in place, and the cive actions, intimidatcurrent policies do address ing actions, hostile actions,” Shymansky some of these issues. However, we haven’t said. “So it’s kind of a catch-all thing for seen too many cases regarding harassment what student conduct needs it to be. It so we can’t say for sure.” would be nice to have a formal definition Some students feel that Georgetown’s that was perhaps more specific and spelled policy should be expanded to include cyberout things better. But on the flip side of bullying. that, I will say the positive takeaway is that “I definitely think it should be a part of the harassment policy is broad enough that our code of conduct because now, more and Student Conduct is able to adjudicate what more social interactions are going online, they need to.” and I feel like cyberbullying is worse than Shymansky emphasized the balance of bullying especially in regards to sexual asthe code, and the potential danger of at- sault because the interactions are happentempting to add the cyberbullying portion ing online where other people can see and to it. there are records of it,” Soraya Eid (MSB “I don’t want to commit to saying that ’17) said. “Other people have access to it, so it [the general policy] is working because that can just worsen the situation for the clearly, specifically, I’m going to say that victim.” cyberbullying isn’t addressed in the policy Manzione noted the deficiencies in other as clearly as it should be,” Shymansky said. areas of the Code of Student Conduct, and “The con of that is you don’t want to limit how upcoming efforts to institute a hazing the ability to effectively adjudicate harass- policy and expand other sections have takment cases by perhaps limiting things too en priority. much.”

“It’s just a matter of prioritizing certain The new bill specifies harassment on the things,” Manzione said. “And I think the basis of “a student’s actual or perceived- recognition that we do have a harassment race; color; national origin; sex; disability; policy, harassment is adjudicated effectivesexual orientation; gender identity or reli- ly, I think that’s a good sign. And as long gion.” Georgetown’s Code of Student Con- as that’s working as it ought to, there are duct addresses some of these factors under things that are going to get changed in the headings such as the “Ethos Statement” and code first.”

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Catholic Studies professor Gerard Mannion discussed the recent trends of canonization of popes in the event titled “Continuity and Change in the Modern Papacy.”

Modern Popes Canonized Ashley Miller Hoya Staff Writer

Fr. John O’Malley, S.J., and Gerard Mannion, the amaturo professor in Catholic Studies, discussed the upcoming canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, and the former popes’ impact on the Catholic Church in Riggs Library on Wednesday. Vice President for Mission and Ministry Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.J., moderated the event, titled “Continuity and Change in the Modern Papacy.”

Although popes are commonly canonized, or declared as saints by the Catholic Church, O’Malley characterized this trend as detrimental for the church. Mannion agreed, saying that canonization has become a habit that the church must break.

“It’s harder to fall out of that habit than it is to fall into it. It’s a little bit like on a university campus when you start naming buildings after previous administrators. The habit gets established and it goes on and on and then it becomes expected,” Mannion said. “One has to ask what is the real purpose behind canonization, and what is it saying about the church’s process of sainthood, of having models of heroic virtue.”

Both speakers noted that Pope John XXIII will be remembered for his convening of the Second Vatican Council, which examined relations between the church and the modern world and renewed Catholic doctrines in accordance with a modern

perspective.

“This was a big event in the history of the Catholic Church and world history,” O’Malley said, “No doubt about it that John XXIII’s convoking of the council was a landmark, for better or for worse, however you want to look at it, it was absolutely a landmark for the Catholic Church.”

This council’s influence helps to explain the direction that the church has taken under Pope Francis, according to O’Malley.

“Whereas I really feel that with Paul VI, and John Paul II and Benedict XVI, they were still fighting the battles of the council. They were still too involved in the council,” O’Malley said. “Francis is not, it’s a given. These great movements of the council, he just takes it as the air he breathes.”

A strong sense of interfaith dialogue also ran as a common thread through the tenures of the two popes. John XXIII’s history made dialogue especially meaningful for him during his time in the military.

“Both of them were passionate about the importance of interfaith dialogue,” Mannion said.“[John XXIII] was posted to Turkey, Eastern Europe. He spent time there. He had to live dialogue. During the Second World War he was the go-between for the many sides in Istanbul.”

A sense of openness and an embracing of the world in its reality was also an important aspect of John XXIII’s pontificate, according to O’Malley.

“What he learned by experience was the goodness of people across confessional divides, and across religious faith divides and an optimism and a willingness and to take reality as it is and cooperate with it instead of the alienation of the church from the modern world that had taken place in the 19th century,” O’Malley said.

An attendee, Michelle Dailey (COL ’14), appreciated the timing of the discussion.

“I thought it was really cool that Georgetown decided to do this event in light of the canonization because I think it is really an important moment. And so I think it was really interesting that we got some of our biggest and brightest names out here,” Dailey said.

Dailey said that she sees the trend of increasing pope canonization as inspirational rather than troubling as it attests to each of our abilities to succeed spiritually.

“At the same time, part of me thinks it’s almost maybe a good thing in the sense that it does remind people that, for example, people can be good and holy people even if they aren’t perfect, whereas I think that when you submitted less people to the sainthood that set the expectation really high,” Dailey said.

Georgetown will host a musical celebration of the canonization of the two popes next week with a concert at DAR Constitution Hall in conjunction with Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Washington Archdiocese and the Embassies of Italy, Argentina and Poland.

Exploring Value of Nature Allison Cannella Hoya Staff Writer

Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, led a conversation entitled “The Value of Nature” in the Intercultural Center Auditorium on Tuesday. The event was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Center for the Environment, Georgetown’s Office of Sustainability and the Green Alumni Network in commemoration of Earth Day. Tercek took on his leadership position at The Nature Conservancy in 2008, after a 24-year career at Goldman Sachs. He uses this experience to lead The Nature Conservancy, a global conservation organization, as a big business complete with investments and marketing strategies.

Tercek’s talk focused on the main themes of his recently published book, “Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature.”

Tercek described three strategies that he claimed to be useful for any big business — gaining more supporters, gaining more financial resources and forming new ways to amicably conduct business.

“We have to be smart about what needs to be done and smart about doing it,” Tercek said.

In terms of supporters, Tercek emphasized how im-

portant it is to educate citizens on environmental issues and to get them involved. He stated that universities act as “catalysts for important conversations,” pointing out Georgetown’s numerous sustainability initiatives.

He then explained how an abundance of financial resources is essential to increase awareness and to execute successful operations.

“Nature is an investment opportunity,” Tercek said.

Since The Nature Conservancy relies heavily on philanthropy and government grants, Tercek emphasized how important it is for other big organizations to invest, reframing environmental issues as capitalistic ventures and thinking about nature as “green” infrastructure.

However, Tercek cautioned that creating new business models that please everyone can be difficult.

“There is too much fighting, disagreement and partisanship,” Tercek said. “It gets in the way of progress.”

When it comes to the environment, especially, there will always be issues that need to be discussed, but Tercek warned that fighting about them only turns away supporters.

“Environmentalists need to be polite and rebuild central support for environmental matters,” Tercek said.

Throughout his discussion, Tercek constantly stressed

how urgent it is to have a “robust regulatory oversight,” such as a tax on carbon emissions, that will provide feedback on initiatives and minimize environmental harm.

Tercek also noted how The Nature Conservancy has formed new partnerships with many successful organizations that have large carbon footprints, such as Goldman Sachs.

“These new alliances will enable us to conserve nature at a scale never before achieved,” Tercek wrote in his book.

At the end of Tercek’s talk, a number of students, alumni and professors participated in a question-and-answer session.

Greg Miller (SFS ’14), a former sustainability research fellow, asked Tercek about the business case for Georgetown, as a billion dollar organization, to invest in sustainability through both its educational and operational practices.

Tercek replied by saying that Georgetown’s underlining business is education, so teaching students to become “science literate citizens” and emphasizing new innovations would produce the best environmental outcomes.

“Georgetown could hugely benefit from better adopting the business logic approach to sustainability into its dayto-day operations,” Miller said after Tuesday’s conversation.

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What if Oklahoma City events in recent NBA history. Here, I’m doing my hadn’t traded James Harden own “What If” column with a year and a half ago?

Think about this: The an example from each of the four main professional Oklahoma City Thunder had three American Olympians sports.

What if the Boston Bru- at the 2012 Summer Olymins had not completed that pics, and they were aged 23, miracle comeback against 23 and 22 (Kevin Durant, Rusthe Toronto Maple Leafs last sell Westbrook, and James Harden, respectively). But May? On May 13, 2013, the heav- Thunder owner Clay Bennett ily favored Boston Bruins was incredibly cheap and were down 4-1 in Game 7 General Manager Sam Presti against the Toronto Maple was overconfident, and the Leafs. Then, the Bruins Thunder traded Harden for scored three goals in the fi- Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb nal 11 minutes, including and three draft picks.

Martin left after a year, two with their goalie pulled, and they went on to win in Lamb looks like a bust and overtime. Hockey fans seem none of the draft picks will to remember this game as likely make a difference for just another example of a the Thunder. Oklahoma good team like the Bruins City still earned a top two getting the better of the seed in the West in both cursed Toronto Maple Leafs. 2013 and 2014, but they are However, that is not accu- no longer expected to be a dynasty. As Simmons is fond rate.

Their biggest weakness un- of saying, you should never der the coaching of Claude trade paper for coins in Julien, who took over in the NBA, and the Thunder 2007, was that they would made that colossal mistake. not play to their potential at And they’ll be paying for it times, and they had appar- for the next few years.

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Really, this could be titled on him this winter, because “What if Dr. James Andrews it’d be hard to suspend a was never born?” because widely respected player orthopedic surgeon Dr. An- for a whole season. In fairdrews has saved more ath- ness to Rodriguez, though, letes’ careers than you could I also have to mention that imagine. If he hadn’t saved the Yankees might not have Brees, Brees would have won the 2009 World Series never led the Saints to the without Rodriguez’s six 2009 Super Bowl, and Saints home runs and .500 on-base Head Coach Sean Payton percentage in the playoffs. likely wouldn’t have been coaching the Saints long Tom Hoff is a junior in the enough to be suspended for McDonough School of Busithe bounty scandal in 2012. ness. This is the final apTherefore, Roger Goodell pearance of DOWN TO THE wouldn’t have suffered what WIRE.

Marquette in order to remain in consideration for a spot in the Big East tournament. Consequently, Georgetown’s final game of the season will be Saturday when it hosts conference rival Rutgers (7-7, 2-3 Big East).

Georgetown will have to adjust after Saturday’s loss in order to anticipate Rutger’s momentous style of play on offense. Warne believes that the Georgetown defense will need to be intuitive and reactive in order to take Rutgers out of its element.

“I think because Rutgers plays very fast, they want to play in transition,” Warne said. “They want to get a shot off in the first 20 seconds of their possession. We have to make sure our guys are on high alert as soon as they cross the

midfield line and be organized and get ready to go to understand that they’re going to play at a different pace than we saw this past Saturday.”

In particular, Georgetown will need to be on high alert to limit Rutgers redshirt senior attack Scott Klimchak, who has been a perennial offensive power for the Scarlet Knights. Klimchak currently leads the team with 36 goals and five assists and has proved to be a crucial asset to the Rutgers offense throughout his career; he also led the team in points during the 2013 season and was second in points in 2012.

Georgetown has added incentive to perform well on Saturday; the team will honor eight seniors as they conclude their careers. Because of this, Warne points out that Georgetown still feels the same pressure to earn a victory as

it did when faced with the possibility of making the postseason, and will work to send off its seniors with a memorable performance.

“I think this is a playoff game for us because it’s a playoff game for our seniors,” Warne said. “They deserve to go out on top …It’s their Senior Day and you always remember your last game as a senior, so I want to make sure that they walk off the MultiSport [facility] with a smile on their face.”

Warne believes this will be accomplished through executing fundamentals and showing the same intensity on the field that has brought the team success in the past.

“We’re not going to change, we’re going to keep coaching the same [way], and that’s what we need to do to make sure we walk out with a win,” Warne said.

TRACK & FIELD

Medley Stars Take on Penn Relays MORGAN BIRCK Hoya Staff Writer

After a successful weekend at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., and the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton University, the Georgetown track and field team will ready itself for the Penn Relays in Philadelphia this weekend. Director of Track and Field and Cross-Country Patrick Henner was extremely pleased with his team’s performances last weekend.

“We had some great performances,” Henner said. “The highlights on the sprint side were [All-American graduate student] Amanda Kimbers’ 23.6 200 [meter], which she won. Two years ago, Amanda was one of the very best sprinters in the country, and then she had some unfortunate injuries last year, but I think she’s getting back very close to being at her [previous] level.”

Kimbers’ 200m performance was a season best. She also ran the lead of the women’s 4-x-400m relay team that also included senior All-American Deseree King, sophomore Mirabel Nkenke and senior All-American Chelsea Cox. The team finished in first place with a time of 3:46.94.

Henner was impressed with the men’s sprinters as well. “[Senior] Hansel Akers [set a personal

record in] the 400m hurdles,” Henner said. “Hansel and I both know he’s going to be ready to run much faster in the future, but I’m just really excited about his training and his progress as of late.”

Akers finished ninth overall in the 400m hurdles, winning his heat with a time of 53.87.

Sophomore Darren Fahy received the nod as Big East Track Athlete of the Week after his second-place finish in the men’s 3000m steeplechase with a time of 8:43.12.

Senior Matt Howard and All-American graduate student Dylan Sorensen followed close behind at fourth place at 8:47.02 and fifth place at 8:47.07, respectively.

“Our best performances came in the men’s steeplechase,” Henner said. “Darren Fahy in his collegiate debut in the steeplechase ran 8:43, which is the number four time in Georgetown history and number three in the country right now. Matt Howard and Dylan Sorenson are also ranked among the top 10 to 15 in the country.”

Henner was pleased with the depth of his women’s 1500m athletes as well, and looks toward the Penn Relays this weekend.

“In past years, the times they ran have always gotten into the NCAA first rounds, so I was very excited about the depth we showed there,” Henner said. “Especially when a lot of our middle-distance athletes stayed at home last weekend just resting to get ready for this weekend’s Penn Relay.”

For the upcoming meet, Henner continues to stress the importance of balance between work and rest.

“It’s an interesting dilemma, because obviously we want to be very good at all of the relays out there,” Henner said.

“But at the same time, if you’re not careful with the athletes, you can leave them exhausted at the end of this weekend and heading into the postseason not ready to perform at their best. We want to field a really good relay squad so we’ve got to pick and choose our battles and figure out where we have the best opportunity of high-level success without exhausting our athletes.”

The 120th Penn Relays take place April 24 through April 26. It’s an extremely competitive race with thousands of athletes competing from all over the country. Henner is excited for what the meet offers.

“I feel like we’re going to field great relays. It’s something where you want to perform well because it’s one of the biggest stages in track and field,” Henner said. “Usually on Saturday there are 50,000 people in the stands.”

Henner is very optimistic about his team’s chances.

“On a national scale, our middle-distance relays, the women’s distance medley, and 4-x-8, the men’s distance medley and 4-x-8, I think are all in the hunts for the wins.”

SOFTBALL

Late Rally Secures Win Over GWU JULIANA ZOVAK Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown softball team (22-20, 8-7 Big East) defeated crosstown rival George Washington University (16-27-1, 2-8 Atlantic 10) in dramatic fashion Tuesday with a come-from-behind victory.

The nonconference win gave the team their 21st of the season, tying a team record for single-season wins set in 2008 and tied in 2013. On Thursday, the Hoyas defeated Towson (25-19) 10-1. The win was their program-record 22nd victory of the season.

Against GWU, Georgetown struck first, taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning when, with two outs, senior second baseman Hannah Slovacek drew a walk and scored on junior designated hitter Megan Hyson’s triple.

But the lead wouldn’t last, as the Colonials scored four runs in the first two innings, three off a home run, giving them a three-run lead early in the game.The Blue and Gray battled back, as Hyson plated two runs with a bases-loaded single in the third.

Sophomore shortstop Samantha Giovanniello followed with a sacrifice fly to score Slovacek and knot things up at four apiece.

“I think the team showed great poise and a lot of grit in climbing back into the game after going down early,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said.

It became a pitcher’s duel for the next two innings, with Hyson coming on in relief in the fourth. Neither team could break through until the sixth inning, when freshman catcher Alessandra Gargicevich-

Almeida drew a walk to start things off. After a sacrifice bunt advanced her to second, her older sister, junior first baseman Sophia Gargicevich-Almeida, singled to drive in the go-ahead run, giving Georgetown a 5-4 lead.

But things weren’t over yet. Georgetown still needed to close out the seventh inning.

With Hyson in the circle, a single and a sacrifice bunt quickly put a runner in scoring position. A single sent the lead runner breaking toward home, but a clutch throw gunned her down at the plate, getting the out and preserving the lead.

“Elyse’s throw home was a game-saving and game-winning throw,” Conlan said.

“To make that throw when the game is on the line shows her ability to perform under pressure.”

One batter later, Hyson recorded her seventh strikeout in four innings, the Colonials going down looking as she earned her 12th win of the season.

Georgetown capitalized on opportunities against GWU, making key plays that led to the victory.

“You protect leads with great defense, and we made big plays throughout the entire game,” Conlan said.

The win comes on the heels of a weekend visit from Butler (21-24, 7-7 Big East), where the Hoyas went 1-2 against their conference rivals. In the first game, Georgetown outlasted the Bulldogs in a nine-inning affair. It took a 5-2 lead into the seventh, but a two-out Butler single and a two-run home run quickly evened things out and sent the game into extra innings.

With the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, Graziano came through with a clutch single, giving the Hoyas a walk-off 6-5 victory to start the series. Graziano’s play this season has been essential to Georgetown’s success; she’s second on the team, hitting .305.

“Elyse is in the middle of a great senior year. She has been the catalyst of our offense and defense and the heart of the team,” Conlan said.

The second game did not feature the same success for Georgetown. Giovanniello had three hits, but Butler controlled the Hoyas in a 4-2 victory.

In the rubber match on Saturday, Georgetown suffered after not capitalizing on some key opportunities — when the Hoyas loaded the bases with one out in the first, Butler pitched out of the jam, getting a strikeout and a popout to end the threat.

Much of the game went the same way for the Hoyas, who had five hits but could not score in the 2-0 loss. Butler scored on a single and a suicide squeeze.

The weekend puts the Blue and Gray in second place in the Big East behind DePaul, which currently leads the conference with a 3-0 record. Georgetown has two remaining series, against last-place Providence and against Seton Hall, which also sports an 8-7 conference record.

Tuesday’s win marked an important victory for the team over their D.C. rivals, but for Conlan, the opponent is not as important as the success.

“I like to win every game no matter who we play,” she said.

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Sophomore midfielder Kristen Bandos scored four goals in the win over Temple. The Hoyas will face Cincinnati on Saturday with the opportunity to win a share of the Big East regular-season title.

baseball

Pitchers Dominate Hawks in Series Sweep Nadav Senensieb Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown baseball team swept a home doubleheader against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on April 22 and now looks ahead to a trip to Big East foe St. John’s on Friday. The Hoyas (15-22, 1-8 Big East) beat the Hawks (11-24) by scores of 7-2 and 7-3, respectively.

The Hoyas lost nine of their last 10 games going into the doubleheader. Head Coach Pete Wilk admitted it was nice to finally start adding wins to their record again. “[The wins] were much needed. We’ve been playing much better as a whole anyway and now it’s nice to have some wins to show that,” Wilk said.

Georgetown’s pitching staff led the way against UMES, anchored by freshman starters Chris Giordano and Nick Leonard. Both turned in five innings of solid work, allowing three runs or fewer and giving the bullpen a much-needed rest.

“To me, the big story on Tuesday was both starts,” Wilk said. “We’re running on fumes right now as a pitching staff, and for Chris and Nick to go out and put up 10 of the 14 innings was huge because our guys in that bullpen have pitched a lot. So for them to put up what they did, guys like [sophomore pitcher] Tim Davis and [junior pitcher] Matt Hollenbeck only got a tuneup, rather than have to put a lot of innings in, which we didn’t want them to have to do with the game coming up on Friday.”

As with most of the season, the Hoya offense was again jump-started by senior first baseman Steve Anderson and sophomore catcher Nick Collins, who was recently named to the weekly Big East Honor Roll for his performance against Seton Hall last weekend. Anderson contributed four base hits and four RBIs against UMES, while Collins added three hits and three RBIs of his own.

“Those guys are having fantastic years, and I think you have to put [junior shortstop Ryan] Busch in that group, too,” Wilk said. “Those three are just having monster years for us. I’m scared to think where we would be without them. And Busch is having a good year defensively too. He made some unbelievable plays yesterday. I really don’t know where we’d be without them.”

The entire Georgetown lineup contributed at the plate, compiling 24 hits in the two games.

Busch, senior leftfielder Patrick Camporini, freshman right fielder Joseph Bialkowski and

junior third baseman Eric Webber had three base hits apiece as the Hoya offense came through for Wilk.

“It was nice to see Webber get three hits and start to come around offensively. I thought we did a great job offensively yesterday. We had timely hitting, and every time I looked up there seemed to be a guy on second base,” Wilk said.

One of the biggest stories of the last few weeks has been Camporini, who, with his performance against UMES, has now reached base safely in 21 consecutive games. Camporini has not been one of the more heralded players this season, as Busch, Collins and Anderson are all having productive campaigns, but he is quietly putting together a very good season.

“I read about the streak and it kind of shocked me because he was hitting around .350 when we were in Florida and he’s come back to Earth recently,” Wilk said. “I didn’t realize it until I heard it the other day. Even though he’s gone through a bit of a lag swinging the bat, he’s still working his way on base. It’s awesome to see.

He’s a great kid.”

Georgetown now has to prepare for St. John’s (24-14, 4-2 Big East) this weekend in the hopes of improving on its last-place Big East record.

Sophomore pitcher Matt Pete wilk Smith will start Friday’s Baseball Head Coach game for the Hoyas, as he looks to add to his fantastic season in which injuries to other players forced him to assume the role of staff ace. He has an ERA of 3.90 on the season, and his 3-5 record does not do justice to how well he has pitched.

“He pitched a hell of a game at Creighton [on Apr. 11] where we got beat on a two-out blooper,” Wilk said. “That was only one start ago, and the last start against Seton Hall he pitched well enough for us to win. But every time Matt goes out and throws there’s little room for error because he’s going out against the other team’s ace. We have to get him some run support.”

Freshman pitcher David Ellingson will start Saturday’s game, while Sunday’s series finale starter has yet to be announced. Wilk hopes that this three-game stretch against the Red Storm in Queens, N.Y., will see the Hoyas’ recent winning play continue.

“I just want us to keep playing good baseball,” Wilk said. “I keep going back to the Xavier weekend [April 4-6] where we gave two games up and that’s had an enormously negative impact on where we are in the conference.

We got one [win] at Seton Hall [on April 18] and if we can get a couple at St. John’s that would be huge.”

“I thought we did a great job offensively yesterday.”

defeated 11-10. While the Blue and Gray are favored in this weekend’s matchup, the focus of the team has not shifted at all in preparation.

“Naturally, there is a little bit of relaxation, so it’s our job as coaches to maintain our focus and really concentrate on us improving so that we can continue to get better and extend our season as long as it will go,” Fried said.

Despite being outscored 207-131 on the season, the Bearcats have an important player on their last line of defense. Sophomore goalkeeper Meg Gulmi has six wins on the season and is the reason that Cincinnati is competitive in many games.

She leads the team in ground balls with 46 and is among the conference leaders in caused turnovers. She also recorded 13 saves in the game against Connecticut.

Although the Bearcats have struggled offensively, Gulmi has shined in their defensive zone. Gulmi’s teammate, sophomore midfielder Courtney Curtis, leads Cincinnati with 28 goals.

The key to Georgetown’s success in

the game will be controlling possession.

When the Hoyas get the ball regularly from the start, they are better able to execute their plays in the offensive zone.

Earlier in the season, when the Blue and Gray struggled to find wins, the matchups usually began with the opponent going on a multiple-goal run at the start of play.

While Georgetown will look to its top goal scorers in senior midfielder Kelyn Freedman, senior attack Meghan Farrell and junior attack Caroline Tarzian, it will also look to its quieter players for a spark of offensive productivity. Bandos’ exciting four goal contribution this past weekend showed that every player can have similar opportunities to contribute points in the coming games. The Hoyas’ confidence level is at an all-time high and it is evident in their recent play.

“We’re doing a lot of things well, we’re continuing to improve and a lot of different people are contributing,” Fried said.

“There are a lot of positives. The biggest challenge is to maintain our focus and concentration and continue to get better over a daily basis.”

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EUFA Wrongly Nulls Clause majd, from A12 pay Chelsea 3 million euros every time Courtois played against Chelsea.

As such, when draws were made for the Champions League semifinal, and Atletico Madrid and Chelsea remained as two of the four teams in the draw, it seemed almost assured that the two teams would be pitted against each other, if only because the drama surrounding the “Courtois Clause” was too delicious for fate to pass on.

Alas, EUFA stepped in with a ruling that declared the clause “null, void, and unenforceable,” stating that such clauses were against the “integrity of competitions.” The sports fan in me is happy to see this ruling play out; we all want to see teams at their best when they face off in the last stages of major competition. Atletico Madrid is a much better team with Thibaut Courtois in the lineup, and the team’s impressive defenses were on display when the two teams met Tuesday in an eventual 0-0 draw (during which Chelsea keeper

Petr Cech suffered an unfortunate and perhaps ironic seasonending injury).

However, EUFA’s ruling is also both unfair to Chelsea and not in keeping with its own precedents. The loan agreement between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid benefits both parties, and they negotiated a contract agreeable to both sides. Atletico agreed to the deal including the clause concerning monetary compensation for Courtois playing against Chelsea (and to the club’s credit, indicated a willingness to honor the clause when the two clubs were drawn together in the Champions League), and as such the clause can be considered fair. If EUFA believed the clause was unfair, then they should have made notice of such a policy before the clause was agreed to and implemented.

But of course, EUFA did not raise concerns when the contract was drawn up because the “integrity of competitions” is only important to the organization when serious money is on the line, and there is a huge global television audience to appease. Just last year,

when considering a similar clause between Celtic and Elfsborg, UEFA chose not to interfere: “Any agreement between the two clubs that this player wouldn’t play against Celtic should Elfsborg be drawn against them is purely between the clubs.”

Allowing Thibaut Courtois to play unrestricted against Chelsea in the Champions League is the best thing for football, and Chelsea would most likely have loaned Courtois anyway if the clause had been struck down in negotiations. However, although EUFA’s actions have brought out the best outcome, they were not taken with the best interests of the game in mind, and the legality of similar loan clauses is now mired in contradictions based on past precedent. If such rulings were to be declared void, EUFA should have done it before the issue came to a head in one of the sport’s largest competitions.

Darius Majd is a junior in the College. This is the final appearance of THE SPORTING LIFE.

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Freshman Jack Murphy is 20-11 in singles play this season. The Georgetown men’s tennis team will face DePaul in the first round of the Big East tournament Friday.

Men Face DePaul in Opener tournament, from A12 Ernst said.

In preparation for the tournament, the women’s team will need to improve upon a few aspects of their game, specifically in doubles play.

“If we can play better doubles by making more return of serves, closing and sticking our volleys a little more, playing with a bit more intensity at times when there are big game points in doubles, not double faulting. If we can clean those up then we’re going to do okay,” Ernst said.

Meanwhile, the sixth seeded men’s team will take on

No. 3 DePaul (9-13, 2-2 Big East). The teams are in the same conference, the last time Georgetown competed with DePaul in regular-season play was February 2008 in a match that concluded in a 6-1 win for DePaul.

“They’re always a good team,” Ernst said of the DePaul squad. “These are just going to be very competitive matches.”

The top seeds in the tournament are DePaul (9-13, 2-2 Big East) on the women’s side and St. Johns (13-7, 2-0 Big East) on the men’s side. Though Georgetown sits lower in the tournament’s seedings, the Hoyas have considerable po-

tential heading into future seasons.

“Our strengths are the qualities of the individuals, the qualities of the kids; this is a great group of kids, and that’s really our strength,” Ernst said. “Obviously we want to win more, but we have kids that enjoy playing and can get better in the future.”

The women will play against St. Johns at 11:00 today, and the men will compete with DePaul at 3:00. All the matches for the tournament will take place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.

SPORTS

MEN’S LACROSSE Georgetown (4-9) at Rutgers (7-7) Saturday, 12 p.m.

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SOFTBALL The Hoyas won their 22nd game of the season — a program record.

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This is a great group of kids, and that’s really our strength.

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The number of games Patrick Camporini has reached base in a row.

Tennis Head Coach Gordie Ernst

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Etchison, Bandos Big East Aspirations Dashed Lead Hoyas in Win ELIZABETH CAVACOS Hoya Staff Writer

MOLLY MALONE Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team is finally back near the top of the Big East, winning its past five matchups after suffering a brutal six-game losing streak midway through the season.

With the win streak, all five wins have come against conference opponents, the Hoyas clinched the second seed in the Big East tournament.

Most recently, Georgetown handled Temple (6-9, 3-3 Big East), winning by a 13-6 margin on Senior Day. Both sophomore attack Corrine Etchison and midfielder Kristen Bandos scored four goals for the Hoyas, while Etchison also added an assist. Meanwhile, in goal, senior goalkeeper Barb Black notched her fourth win of the season with three saves. Freshman goalkeeper Maddy Fisher also contributed five saves.

Fried emphasized the benefits of maintaining a wide range of offensive threats going into the postseason tournaments.

“I think [the variety of attacking options] is very valuable in a couple ways,” he said. “One, it makes it difficult to scout us. Two, I think it gives us a lot of confidence that anybody can step up on any given day and I think that’s going to build confidence for us across the board.”

Etchison was named to the weekly Big East Honor Roll after her efforts against Temple and Villanova earlier in the week. In addition to tallying five points Saturday, she also scored a goal and tallied an assist against Villanova. This marks Etchison’s first honor roll award this season.

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Sophomore attack Corrine Etchison scored four goals.

The win was Fried’s 114th win with the program, putting him at the top of the Georgetown women’s lacrosse coaching list for most wins. This is Fried’s 10th season as head coach of the team.

This Saturday, Georgetown will take on the University of Cincinnati (6-10, 0-6 Big East) in Cincinnati.

The game will be the final game of the regular season for the Hoyas.

A Georgetown win would give the Hoyas a chance to share the regular season Big East title with Louisville, providing that the Cardinals lose in their last game against Marquette.

Cincinnati has had little success in the Big East this season, losing all six games thus far by five goals or more. On April 19, the Bearcats lost to the University of Connecticut 17-6, a team that the Hoyas See TEMPLE, A11

Any hopes Georgetown had of making an appearance in the Big East lacrosse tournament were dashed after the men’s lacrosse team (4-9, 1-4 Big East) fell to Marquette (6-8, 4-1 Big East) 11-10 on Saturday. In the loss, junior attack Bo Stafford led the Hoyas, finishing with three goals and an assist.

The Hoyas led by six goals in the third quarter, but the Golden Eagles answered with a 7-1 run between the third and fourth quarters to tie the game at 10-10, allowing them a chance at overtime redemption.

That momentum carried into overtime for Marquette, which allowed it to pull away with the victory; freshman midfielder Ryan McNamara scored less than a minute into the period to seal the Georgetown loss.

Before Marquette’s comeback, Georgetown dominated possession and took advantage of the increased opportunities. In the first quarter, junior attack and co-captain Reilly O’Connor scored two goals in the first quarter, while freshman midfielders Devon Lewis and Eduardo White each contributed a goal.

Meanwhile, the Georgetown defense was able to control the Marquette offensive counters and limited them to one goal. At the end of the quarter, Georgetown held a sizeable 5-1 advantage.

Georgetown continued to control the ball through the end of the half and into the third quarter; however, a shift in momentum between the two teams allowed Marquette to close Georgetown’s lead.

One factor in this shift came from a key halftime decision made

by Marquette: redshirt sophomore midfielder Tyler Gilligan began taking the faceoffs against redshirt senior defender and Hoya co-captain Tyler Knarr. Although Knarr finished with a commanding 16-of-

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Junior attack Reilly O’Connor scored two goals in Georgetown’s 11-10 overtime loss against Marquette. Georgetown faces Rutgers on Saturday.

25 faceoff wins, Gilligan managed four faceoff wins that generated crucial offensive opportunities for the Golden Eagles, including the overtime play that resulted in McNamara’s game-winning goal.

Georgetown Head Coach Kevin Warne acknowledges the key adjustments Marquette made, and believes Georgetown failed to adequately respond.

“I think we had a few self-in-

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flicted wounds,” Warne said. “We didn’t make the best decisions. We just needed a little bit more poise in some of our decisions. … We actually reviewed the film and [Marquette] made some plays that were out of the box and kind of crazy, [but] they made lacrosse plays at the end of the day.”

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TENNIS

The Curious Case of Courtois’ Clause After Villanova Wins, Big East Awaits GU A

tlético Madrid has been the surprise of European football this season. After years and years of Barcelona and Real Madrid battling for Spanish supremacy without even a thought to other challengers, the small, cash-strapped club has stormed into the fray to break the stranglehold.

Atlético currently enjoys a slim, late lead atop the Spanish La Liga table, but perhaps the biggest signal of the club’s arrival was its deserved dispatching of Barcelona in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Atlético has seen the arrival of several playmakers to give them bite on offense, including Diego Costa and Barcelona cast-off David Villa. But the scintillating play of young goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and his near-impenetrable defense has allowed Atlético to contend with and take down the titans of Europe this season.

At 21, Courtois is still remarkably

young for a top-flight keeper. But the Belgian international is already among the best in the world at his position, and under normal circum-

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Loan contract threatens to impact the Champions League final. stances he would be too expensive for Atletico.

Fortunately for the Spanish club, Courtois was available for loan at

hefty discount because the club that owns his playing rights — Premier League power Chelsea — has another one of the best goalkeepers in the world — Petr Cech. The loan agreement helps both teams: Atletico gets a world-class player it couldn’t ordinarily afford, and Chelsea is able to hold onto both an elite goaltender and the best goalkeeping prospect in the world while offering them both the chance to stay in form as regular starters.

There is, however, one potential snag in the agreement, and that is the potential for Courtois to be pitted against the club that owns him and defeat them. This happened in the 2012 EUFA Super Cup, when Courtois and Atletico defeated Chelsea. To account for this issue, recent loan contracts have included a clause that Atletico Madrid would have to

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Former senior center Moses Ayegba will transfer and use his final year of eligibillity at Nebraska. In three seasons with Georgetown, Ayegba averaged 1.6 points per game and 2.5 rebounds per game.

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MADDIE AUERBACH Hoya Staff Writer

After roller-coaster seasons, the Georgetown tennis program concluded regular-season play April 16 with resounding victories against the Villanova Wildcats and will now turn its attention to the Big East tournament.

The last match held more importance than simply the season finale, as it was also Senior Day for senior co-captain Casey Distaso and senior co-captains Kelly Comolli and Madeline Jaeger.

“They put their heart and soul into the program, all three of them, and we’re really going to miss them,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said of the three seniors. “Replacing them is not going to be an easy task. They’re very, very special kids. They don’t grow on trees, kids like that, so I appreciate every moment I have with the three of them.”

The men’s tennis team (8-12, 1-1 Big East) downed the Wildcats (516, 0-1 Big East) in a 6-1 decision.

Distaso played in the fifth singles slot for the Hoyas and defeated Wildcat junior Tim Abbracciamento 6-4, 6-1.

Overall, Georgetown won five out of its six singles matches. Junior John Brosens suffered the only singles loss on the day, falling in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, at sixth singles. The loss brings Brosens’ record in his last six matches to 4-2.

He played in the sixth singles slot for five of those six matches, but played in the fourth singles slot in a victory against the University of Mary Washington in late March.

The women’s team (10-10, 3-2 Big East) also triumphed over Villanova (6-16, 1-4 Big East) 4-3. Both

Comolli and Jaeger won in the second and third singles spots, respectively. Comolli competed in a three-set contest concluding in a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 victory. The senior pair also competed in the first doubles slot and triumphed over Villanova pair senior Mikelle Mancini and sophomore Tori Smyth 8-4.

Georgetown lost in the second and third doubles slots, but won the match courtesy of four singles victories. In addition to Comolli and Jaeger’s wins, freshman Sophia Barnard and sophomore Liselot Koenen won in the fourth and sixth slots, respectively.

The matches round off inconsistent seasons for the Hoyas. The men’s tennis team began the season strongly with a 5-3 record, but proceeded to lose five straight matches mid-season. Meanwhile, the women’s team started off with a 1-7 record, yet notched six straight mid-season wins to bring its record to 7-7.

Now the Hoyas look toward the Big East tournament, which will take place from April 24 to April 27 in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The women, seeded fifth, will first compete against the fourthseeded St. John’s Red Storm (10-8, 4-0 Big East). In February, the Red Storm beat the Hoyas at home on the Yates courts in a 5-2 decision, breeding an even more competitive drive for the Hoyas to avenge their loss in the rematch.

“We lost to them at Yates earlier in the year and it did not leave a good taste in the mouth of our girls. They lost that match and were thinking ‘We’ve got to get them next time.’ They’re just a team that we really want to beat,” See TOURNAMENT, A11