The Hoya: September 15, 2015

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

HOME OPENER

Georgetown’s football team earned a dominant 34-7 win over Marist in its first home game.

FR. PAT RETURNS The popular priest returns to Georgetown after Tertianship.

EDITORIAL Rain cannot drown the growing arts scene, despite little official support.

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Nonprofit Serves Veterans

Chapter fosters expression through writing, comedy training

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The expansion of the ASAP nonprofit to Georgetown seeks to serve veterans on campus through writing and comedy.

Ashwin Puri Hoya Staff Writer

The Armed Services Arts Partnership, a nonprofit that mounts arts programs for veterans and military families, will begin offering a free veterans’ writing seminar and comedy boot camp at Georgetown this September.

Specifically geared toward veterans at Georgetown, the programs will take the form of weekend-long workshops and will be taught by Ron Capps, a renowned veteran author, and Chris Coccia, lead instructor of Five Minutes to Funny at D.C. Improv.

According to ASAP Director of Operations Megan Brew, the programs benefit veterans and military families by facilitating the vet-

erans’ artistic expression through comedy, writing and music.

“Our primary goal is to foster the development of our participating veterans’ expressive skills, allowing them to become better writers, musicians and comedians,” Brew wrote in an email to The Hoya. “In the process, veterans, service members and military families establish relationships with one another and begin to form supportive communities around these specific areas of common interest.”

After losing an uncle to suicide while in high school and learning of high suicide rates among veterans, Sam Pressler translated his experience into ASAP, using comedy as a coping mechanism, to launch a comedy class for veterans at the College of William and Mary.

After the class became successful, Pressler ventured into the areas of writing and music, transforming ASAP as a nonprofit and expanding his existing model into new communities with high military populations. ASAP was awarded the Echoing Green Global Fellowship in June as one of 50 global nonprofits “changing the world” in 2015.

Brew said that the positive impact of comedy, music and writing classes on veterans extends to veterans’ families and communities, observations that are rooted in scientific research.

“There is a growing body of academic research that links literary, musical and comedic expression to boosts in resilience and increases in well-being,” Brew wrote. “We are measuring the impact of our particular approach in facilitating these outcomes and also improving relationships with family, community members, classmates and employers.”

At Georgetown, the programs will be open for registration to veterans and military families. The nonprofit is collaborating with Veterans Office Director LeNaya Hezel and Special Programs and Group Initiatives Director Mary Dhuly to facilitate programming and coordinate logistics.

Additionally, ASAP is working closely with the Georgetown University Student Veterans Association to further engage nonveteran students, who will have the opportunity to sign up to be volunteers in the workshops.

Brew emphasized that expanding to Georgetown was a natural move due to the high population of servicemen in the District.

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COURTESY AARON EPSTEIN

Aaron Epstein (MED ’18) formed the Global Surgical and Medical Support Group, which travelled to a refugee camp in Iraq over the summer.

Med Student Founds Refugee Service Gaia Mattiace

Epstein could not provide specific details about the composition of the team and timing of the trip for security reasons.

In northern Iraq, many war refugees Epstein said that he was first inspired are subject to torture, abuse and injury to form GSMSG after he travelled to northyet receive minimal resources or access ern Iraq last fall, where he witnessed the to medical care. After he witnessed the gravity of the refugee crisis as populations dire need for aid on a service trip, Aaron fleeing the Islamic State group began to Epstein (MED ’18) settle in Kurdish formed the Globterritories.

Acal Surgical and “Peace of mind about their cording to the Medical Support health goes a long way in United Nations Group, a coaliRefugee Agency, tion of medical a population that has lost there are 271,143 students and prorefugees residing fessionals, which literally everything.” in Iraq as of Demade its first trip cember 2014.

AARON EPSTEIN (MED ’18) to the region this Founder, Global Surgical and Medical Support Group “[We saw] summer to prothe need for vide free medical services and education the services that GSMSG could provide in a refugee camp. from seeing firsthand the obvious During the few weeks that Epstein inadequacies in medical services available and his team were at the camp, they per- to populations that had fled [the Islamic formed surgical operations for injured State group],” Epstein wrote in an email refugees and taught medical techniques to The Hoya. “There is an overwhelming to local doctors. In addition, the team provided psychiatric services for the refugees.

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Q&A: Murphy Fills New Role New federal relations VP addresses challenges, controversies Tom Garzillo Hoya Staff Writer

Chris Murphy (GRD ’98) assumed the role of Georgetown’s first vice president for government relations and community engagement Aug. 10, filling a new position created within the Office of Federal Relations. Murphy’s past career experiences include working for President Barack Obama’s administration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Atlantic Media Company and City Year. Most recently, Murphy served as chief of staff for former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D). In an interview with The Hoya, Murphy spoke about his goals and the challenges he anticipated in this new position.

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Why was this position created?

I think there was a growing realization in the university over the past couple of years that engaging with both the neighborhood and the city, and frankly, the national level, was of strategic importance to the university. So, although the functions existed, this was an opportunity to restructure how they were being managed and to elevate them to a higher level.

Hillary Clinton, pictured here in Gaston Hall, became the first presidential candidate to address campus sexual assault in a speech Monday.

Clinton Broaches Campus Assault in 2016 Race Kristen Fedor Hoya Staff Writer

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pledged to address sexual assault on college campuses during a “Women for Hillary” meeting at the University of Northern Iowa on Monday, making her the first 2016 contender to formally discuss the issue at a campaign event.

“As president, I’ll fight to make sure every campus offers every survivor the support she needs and will make sure those services are comprehensive, confidential

and coordinated,” Clinton said at the event. “It is something deeply important to me to try to work together with everybody to bring about the changes that are necessary in behavior and attitude.”

Clinton’s plan, which remains nebulous, included three broad goals: to increase accessibility and transparency of support resources for survivors, to develop fairer treatment for both accusers and the accused and to improve preventative programming.

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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Chris Murphy (GRD ’98) heads the Office of Federal Relations in a newly created role.

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NEWS Gun Control

Mayor Muriel Bowser reiterates support of gun control at a press conference.

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Opinion Following Your Heart

Students must break free from what is expected of them to explore their passions.

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A conference that promotes female involvement in politics returned to campus Saturday.

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Sports Offensive Outburst

Brandon Allen and Alex Muyl each scored a brace in a 5-2 win over Radford.

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NEWS Green Campus

Students brainstormed sustainable initiatives on campus at an event Friday.

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OPINION

THE HOYA

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

THE VERDICT

C EDITORIALS C Greatness, Unendowed C C Founded January 14, 1920

The university’s capital campaign, “For Generations to Come: The Campaign for Georgetown,” reached its $1.5 billion goal by the end of August, almost a year ahead of schedule, marking a momentous feat in Georgetown’s effort to expand its modest endowment.

This news comes on the heels of the 2016 edition of the U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings released Wednesday that ranks Georgetown No. 21 of all national universities.

Georgetown’s consistent ranking alongside elite institutions with much larger endowments speaks to the university’s stellar values and promises a bright future — albeit one that can only come to fruition if Georgetown continues to build upon the campaign’s success.

The ten percent weight given to universities’ financial resources and the five percent weight given to alumni giving rate in the calculation of annual rankings puts Georgetown at a sizable disadvantage when compared to peer institutions.

Despite our disadvantage, the university still ranks well — a fact that can be partially attributed to the mixture of students’ academic and professional success with the

values expounded by the university. Combining this remarkable spirit with a larger endowment would ameliorate Georgetown’s rankings and, consequentially, national reputation, increasing applications and giving Georgetown the flexibility to curate new scholarships, improve student life on campus and expand educational opportunities for students of all backgrounds.

With this in mind, the university must continue the momentum of the successful capital campaign. By capitalizing on the best that “For Generations to Come” had to offer, this momentum can be maintained.

For one, future campaigns should reemploy the designation of specific priorities for the funds raised — a tactic which seems to have worked in the past. Undergraduate involvement in fundraising is also particularly encouraging. Current students could donate to the “One for Georgetown” campaign established by the 1634 Society.

Every year, the U.S. News rankings prove what those of us on the Hilltop already know — Georgetown is special. It is up to the Georgetown community to improve upon the success of the capital campaign and prove it to the rest of the country.

Keep ‘Em Coming — Sunday brunch at O’Donovan Dining Hall featured an unusual selection of bagels, smoked salmon, poached eggs and chocolate fondue. Weird.

Don’t Rain on My Parade — Despite the rainy weather, the Kickback Music and Arts Festival valiantly soldiered on into the evening on Saturday.

Speak Your Mind — Donald Trump called CEO pay in the United States “a complete joke.” Similarly, other candidates have called Trump a complete joke. Go figure.

It’s Been Ruff — After a near five-month hiatus, the Daily Dog has made a return to freshmen dorms around campus.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Michelle Xu

The Show Must Go On Last weekend’s Kickback Music and Arts Festival, organized by Students of Georgetown, Inc., Georgetown Week of Welcome and the Georgetown Program Board, might have struck some umbrella-toting passersby as a decidedly dreary affair. Yet, even as the day’s most violent rains lashed Copley Lawn, a small cluster of students remained. “Rain is a social construct,” one student band posted to its Facebook page. And so it was.

The small audience, soaked to the skin, danced like mad. They shouted lyrics to the skies, and the show went on.

The scene attests to a fledgling yet dynamic arts community found among the folds of Georgetown’s undergraduate body. Yet against the backdrop of this rain-soaked spectacle lies a glaring disconnect between the university’s rhetoric of cura personalis and the administration’s response to a burgeoning music culture.

The past several years have witnessed a modest revival of Georgetown’s chronically bemoaned “music scene.”

Although Kickback stands as the most visible element of that revival, other student-led initiatives such as the livemusic community GU Jam Sesh and record label Clock Hand Records serve as crucial pillars of support. Together,

these and other ventures reveal a small but emphatic pocket of students working to build a more nurturing environment for Georgetown musicians.

The university, meanwhile, has largely failed to accommodate such enthusiasm. Beyond the 2006 formation of the Guild of Bands, a course that serves as a songwriting and performance springboard for student groups, there has been almost no administrative response to the grievances of Georgetown’s music community. To cite some common refrains: Georgetown offers no music major and only provides six practice rooms for an undergraduate enrollment pushing 8,000.

While a reorganization of its academic departments and a full-scale construction project are perhaps not in order, the university owes even its smallest clusters of students a good-faith commitment to its promise of cura personalis. Introducing a music major, expanding the practice rooms and hosting more artistic programming are steps the university may consider if it wants to fulfill its promise. Failing to do so in its intransigence, Georgetown has skirted this commitment and denied its students a more enriching academic life.

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Be sure to check Chatter, The Hoya’s online opinion section, throughout the week for additional opinion pieces. melina Hsiao (col ’18) contemplates Kim Davis’ challenge to the Constitution: A few weeks ago, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was held in contempt for not issuing marriage licenses to a pair of homosexual couples. On the day of her release from jail, a rally was held in support of Davis, where Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made an appearance. He said in front of a large crowd that “if someone has to go to jail,” he is “willing to go in [Davis’] place.” Besides the clear problems the creation of such a precedent would pose to our entire judicial system, Huckabee’s reasoning behind this proclamation implies a lack of understanding of parts of our Constitution.”

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Grow Through Debate

The recent debate between Associate Professor and author Matthew Kroenig and Associate Professor and published writer Colin Kahl on the Iran nuclear deal is an exemplar for how academic and university discourse ought to be conducted. Campuses, due to the composition of their student bodies, often tend to favor a particular ideological bent, but crowd out viable opinions on the other side in the process.

Such practices sell students short. The university was designed as a forum for agreeable disagreement, where students can learn to appreciate nuance instead of polemic. The mission of a college education is to cultivate critical thinking. Pandering to the majority view and dismissing arguments purely out of ideological disagreement fosters intellectual laziness not only on the part of students, but in faculty as well.

Kroenig and Kahl displayed how there are salient viewpoints on both sides of the Iran deal. Both professors field undeniable expertise on Iran, so it can hardly be argued that one was more qualified than the other on the issue. And, despite their polar oppo-

site approaches to the topic — preemptive military intervention against diplomacy — students walked out of the debate with a deeper understanding of the topic.

This exercise of debate on public issues should be conducted more frequently within the Georgetown community, especially as events usually lack nuance or are one-sided. Students are clearly invested in the content — approximately 200 attended the debate. Georgetown faculty wield considerable influence, thus influencing media discourse. As a whole, such events facilitate more effective civic engagement.

Broadly speaking, Georgetown could also use this debate as a lesson on how to staff its faculty.

Too often in politics, candidates take extreme positions without justifying their stances. With presidential primary elections nearing, a better-informed student body would force candidates for public office to make more reasoned, detailed arguments.

People from every ideological persuasion should be welcome so that students can understand the spectrum of views associated with significant issues.

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CORRECTION In the article “Rabbi White, 83, Built Jewish Life, Programs” (The Hoya, A1, Sept, 11, 2015) White co-officiated the wedding of Erik Smulson and Jennifer Beard with Rev. James Shea, S.J., rather than Rev. James Schall, S.J., as the original article incorrectly stated.

The editorial “Check Your Syllabus” (September 11, 2015, A2) incorrectly stated that certain members of Campus Ministry, the Georgetown University Police Department and the LGBTQ Resource Center offered confidential support services.

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OPINION

Tuesday, september 15, 2015

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n all-male Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in the landmark decision Roe v. Wade. But when male legislators vote to restrict abortion and protect the unborn child, they are labeled misogynistic and cruel. According to the polls, nearly half of American women are pro-life, yet apparently these women are the marching soldiers in the “war on women.” This logic makes complete sense to the pro-choice lobby.

Identity politics may be fulfilling for some, but in the words of Geoffrey Chaucer, “all good things must come to an end.” As the president of Vita Saxa, Georgetown’s pro-life club, I know that the majority of our club is female. I know that every year we host Feminists for Life on campus. I know that the majority of pro-life organizations in America are run by women, and even our nation’s earliest feminists, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were devoutly prolife. I also know, however, that men are as much involved in sex and a child’s life as women. The vast majority of abortion doctors are male, like half of the babies aborted by those doctors every year in the United States.

Yes, I am male, but I also believe in the value of every human life.

The line popularized by Gloria Steinem — “if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament” — reaches down to the lowest rung of our public discourse and offers no meaningful addition to the abortion debate other than wild assumptions and baseless accusations. To me, in fact, being pro-life is even more important as a male student. All my life, I was told to side with the vulnerable, fight for the abused and raise a family built on conviction and values. My Christian faith implores me to reflect, and the chivalrous values on which I was raised compel me to speak out on behalf of those with no voice in the debate.

When I see so many pro-choice students disregard those with opposing viewpoints and harass fellow students who are pro-life at conferences and around campus, I cannot help but wonder what drives them to hate more than to love. My father, a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan, has a large, loving and deeply religious family.

His brother Jawad and his wife Aneela unexpectedly birthed their fourth child, Ali Khan, late in life, more than a decade after their last.

Sometimes, the surprises in life are all the more fulfilling of our human purpose. What life would be like without Ali is unimaginable. The idea that every baby deserves to live, grow and earn a chance at life is not a punishment for women, but is rather a liberating course of action for both a new family and a new human life.

Even if women choose adoption, they will find comfort in the fact that, according to studies by the Department of Health and Human Services, adopted children fare the same and often even better than other children. I should mention that Ali just turned seven, and I am happy to report, amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City life, second grade is going swell.

Yes, I am male, but I also believe in the value of every human life. If, based on science, life begins at the moment of conception, should it be the case that we make our judgments based on our gender rather than on the facts before us? What is morality if not the guiding principles regulating good and bad behavior?

The Blessed Mother Teresa famously said, “Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly antiwomen. Three quarters of its victims are women: half the babies and all the mothers.” Recently at the Council of Advisory Boards Fair, a pro-choice female student told us that abortion is a “women’s issue” and that we should not have men tabling.

Truthfully, she may be half right. Those most affected by the issue should be at the table — so, logically, I asked her about the unborn child. Funny enough, she kept on walking.

Witnessing all the rhetoric and hearing all the hate displays the cruelty of so much of the pro-choice movement in the United States. Viewing the recently leaked Planned Parenthood tapes proves further that this issue is more than just about abortion; it is about how we, as a society, treat fellow human lives — and even how we talk about them. Our callous disregard should make future generations look back at us with disgust — at the men and the women the same.

Michael Khan is a sophomore in the College. MR. RIGHT appears every other Tuesday.

he journey started about two months ago. Sitting in my hometown of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania at a trendy coffee shop called Juice and Java, I completed the payment for a combine — a kind of tryout — in Washington, D.C. It was held by Pro Soccer Consulting, an agency in the United Kingdom that likes to bring American players over to Europe for football tours with the intention of seeing them earn trials or contracts with European clubs. I didn’t really know what the combine would offer. Only a few players possess the skills to stand out at a combine. However, I hoped to impress a few European scouts who would be there, particularly those from Scandinavia.

I felt nervous and excited at the same time. Nervous that I had just wasted money, thinking the combine was a long shot. Excited, for the once-in-a-lifetime chance I would have to play in front of Scandinavian scouts. My heart was set on Sweden or Norway, where two of my friends, Bobby Warshaw (Baerum SK in Norway) and Chase Miller (Bodens BK in Sweden), were already playing.

“They’re living the life,” I thought to myself. I wanted to escape to Europe, get out of the Georgetown bubble and be somebody.

After graduation, it was difficult to go from one of the top soccer programs in the country at Georgetown to playing with a bunch of guys like me just trying to book a flight overseas. I missed Georgetown already, and I was left longing for a community I knew would be hard to find again.

I was embarrassed after a failed trial for New York Red Bulls II. My stomach felt uneasy, and I doubted myself.

But, even though life had dealt me a lemon, it was sweet instead of sour. I accepted a tour and booked a flight for my next adventure: a 12-day tour in Sweden and Norway. This was going to be my chance to earn a roster spot with a football club in Scandinavia.

Life has a funny way of completely altering your intended course. It’s good to have a plan, but it’s even better to remain open about the plan changing, because there’s always the certainty of the unexpected. When

Who would have thought that a small-town kid would be starting his professional soccer career on an island just south of Sicily?

I landed in Stockholm, Sweden it was cold enough for long sleeves and pants, but nowhere near cold enough to deter me. I yearned for a contract there.

Besides eating the same salad, dressing and really weird salty meat for 10 days straight, the trip went as well as I could’ve hoped. I scored arguably the best goal of my life in the first game. I rejoiced inside. It was a dream start. I was on cloud nine in Orebro SK’s stadium. Scouts watching, coaches watching, I fist-pumped after the shot. I even pulled my shirt over my head — yellow card.

A few days later, a Swedish Premier League side Orebro SK sent a scout to watch me play. Unless I had a perfect game, I wouldn’t find myself playing in the Swedish Premier League. Heart thumping, head on a swivel looking for the scout, I was antsy. The whistle sounded. I scored in the first 15 minutes that game, but the scout didn’t arrive until the 22nd minute. While I was so stoked about my game, I im-

mediately felt disappointment upon hearing this news. Sure enough, Orebro signed two Swedish wingers the next day. I couldn’t even get a trial.

My big opportunities were evaporating. I needed another spark.

Everyone needs a mentor; someone who’s been there, who’s done it. Someone who can give you comfort when all you feel is uncertainty.

Thankfully, Bobby was just a 20-minute metro ride from Oslo. We walked, we talked, we even had kebab together. At the end of it all, I felt comfortable. I was pursuing a dream I’d had for a long time, and there would be nothing to hang my head about if nothing worked out. That night in Bobby’s pad, I prayed. Prayed that I wouldn’t become selfish, prayed that I would be humbled by even having an opportunity to travel and play football in Europe. I prayed that I would trust in His plan for me, no matter what the circumstance. I felt peace, I felt okay. And the fire still burned.

Five minutes into the game against

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FC Lyn Oslo I rocked my kneecap going in for a tackle. I wanted to punch a wall. I wanted to walk off the field right then and there. Instead, I hobbled for 40 minutes, the remainder of the half, knowing a scout was there.

It hardly mattered. While the game only ended 1-0, we got worked. Possession wasn’t even close, and I maybe saw the ball a few times. Another big opportunity seemed to fall through.

Later that evening, Mark Miller, a Maltese coach on the trip, called me and told me to come to the hotel for a chat. I remained patient.

I was done assuming. I walked to the hotel to find all of the coaches sitting in a big circle waiting for my arrival. “You have an offer from Pembroke Athleta FC in the Maltese Premier League.” Wait a second, now we’re talking about Malta? Immediately, Mark filled me in, telling me that “my” team was promoted this year, that we’d be a new club to the premier league with a lot of good signings that would keep us in the league rather than facing relegation as most people would expect.

I left home thinking Sweden and Norway. But like I said, life has a funny way of altering your intended course. I hopped on the plane in Oslo, transferred to a new plane in Brussels, and at 10:30 p.m. on July 31, which happened to be my dad’s birthday (what a gift), landed in Luqa, Malta.

I was dripping sweat in a matter of minutes. Rather than waking up to cobblestone and fresh air, I wake up to humidity and sand because I live two minutes from the beach.

Preseason is almost over, and the season starts Aug. 21, but I still feel as though I’m on vacation. This island is beautiful. Google doesn’t lie. Who would have thought a small-town kid from Mechanicsburg would be starting his career on an island just south of Sicily? I’d say nobody. Merhba lill Malta!

AUSTIN MARTZ is a Class of 2015 graduate from the McDonough School of Business. He currently plays for Pembroke Athleta FC in the Maltese Premier League.

You can read more at his blog: https://austintaylormartz.wordpress.com/

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his summer, I turned down a D.C. summer internship and spent three months recording an album in my hometown of Quito, Ecuador.

I took two months to compose my songs, one week to practice them, one week to record them and two weeks to perform them live. The first copies of my album were printed just two days before I hopped on a plane back to D.C. Is that what most people here at Georgetown would say was a smart decision? Probably not.

At Georgetown, we are constantly met with a considerable amount of social pressure pushing us toward a certain version of success. Many times, I’ve found that we measure success by the number of internships, student organizations and academic achievements listed on our resumes. This comes at the expense of ignoring other ways in which you can make yourself and others feel fulfilled (since what is success without fulfillment?), especially in nonbusiness fields. Music and the arts at Georgetown are a prime example of that. If you’re a musician (or artist) on this campus, you can surely testify to this statement: the arts and their value on success are underappreciated by the general status quo. That’s just the way Georgetown is.

But this summer, I learned that I didn’t have to be that way.

I can guarantee that I learned far more about the meaning of success by playing guitar for an entire summer than I would have had I taken the internship.

When I asked for advice about my summer, most people I talked with seemed to view the idea of pursing an artistic endeavor as an unpractical, perhaps even childish, decision. “You’re an adult now and should make smart decisions, even if you don’t fully like them,” was the advice I seemed to get. But my own inner voice, as well as advice from a few others (who I now realize share my own vision of success), told me that the right decision is not the one others tell you to make, but the one that your own dreams point toward. I knew

that in Ecuador, I would face a challenge that would point me in new directions and help me learn from some Ecuadorian musicians I truly admire. I didn’t see a forced summer internship as something that would allow me to grow in the same way.

I listened to my own true desires, and it was the best thing I could’ve done. Sure, I didn’t become a renowned musician overnight, but I was happy, and I learned a lot about my own capacities — how it’s possible to do something that seems unlikely and stupid at first. I found that success is more gratifying when you achieve it doing the things you love.

Following your true passions and gut feelings, wherever they may take you, and tackling social constructs or obstacles in your own way can produce results you’re truly proud of.

There is no greater feeling of success than when you achieve something people thought you couldn’t — or shouldn’t. I learned that making something from nothing (a piece of art, a poem, an LP) can teach you so much more about your capabilities than following a preset path to success. Here’s the real catch: the only person who truly knows what will bring you success is yourself.

Don’t get me wrong; if you feel that an internship will fulfill you and your passions (and there is great value in working in the professional world), you should absolutely go for it. But, if my summer experience taught me anything, it’s that breaking the status quo and listening to your own desires can go a long way and make some of your dreams come true.

So, when this school year ends and you have to figure out what to do with your life, just know that if you’d rather spend those next months playing guitar, that’s an equally good decision.

I didn’t see a forced summer internship as something that would allow me to grow.

David alzate Proaño is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. You can find his album at hhtp://odyssnyx. bandcamp.com/album/on.

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e’ve always skimmed into our long-term memory becomes newspapers more ineffective if we dump too much inthan we’ve read them formation in too quickly. When we and we routinely run our eyes over are scanning and skimming and books and magazines in order to get jumping between different links and the gist of a piece of writing to decide different topics, the transfer becomes whether it warrants more thorough bottlenecked and the result is that reading. The ability to skim text is long-term memory only gets random every bit as important as the ability bits and pieces. This cuts short our to read deeply. What is different and journey to knowledge. troubling, is that skimming is beSo, in contrast with much of our coming our dominant mode of read- lives, the business of knowledge is ing. Once a means to an end, a way slow-moving.

Knowledge-seekers to identify information for deeper must stay still long enough to ask study, skimming is becoming an end questions and then develop strategies in itself…” to find the answers to those questions.

Nicholas Carr, “The Shallows: What Wrestling with material opens up the the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” opportunity for comprehension on a I love many parts of Carr’s book, deeper level than data storage. In your but this quotation pops into my mind years at Georgetown, you are going over and over again. Why? Because I to be exposed to more concepts and hate this trend, yet ideas than you can I find myself doing keep track of. it all the time. Life is I hope that data filled with the steady exposure is not the march of emails, only experience texts, links and sites you’ll have here. I that show up on my hope that you find desktop, in my inbox yourself in a class and on my phone. It that drives you crafeels like the choice zy, demands all of is either to ignore a your time and feels Jessica Ciani-Dausch random 50 percent slow. In that class, I or to skim, skim, hope you stay with it skim. Just because I’m “seeing” lots of because you want to face the puzzle information doesn’t mean I “know” and figure something out. When you any of it. Now, it’s okay that I may find yourself there, you are in the not contemplate (or even see) every business of knowledge and out of the Facebook update from my family and business of data storage. friends, read an entire email about an I need to remember this when I’m event I have no interest in or miss a big dealing with the information oversale on my favorite shopping website load in my inbox. I’ll pick and choose (although that does make me sad). I’m some things to skim, but I’ve got to concerned about information that slow down to read deeply when I find I’m supposed to have knowledge of, or the things that matter to me, the want to have knowledge of. things I want to puzzle through.

What is required to “know” someI’m lucky because the Internet thing? It’s not just memorization; it’s didn’t predominate my college years, not having all the right apps and fold- so I could dodge this issue for a while. ers so I can retrieve information quick- But today’s students do not have that ly when needed. There has got to be a luxury. You need to know the differdifference between data storage and ence between data storage and knowlknowledge. Let’s be honest: computers edge, and you need to be in the busican do the former much better than ness of the latter now. You need those humans can, so we’d better make sure classes that drive you crazy. You need we’re in the business of the latter. to stay still and wrestle with ideas Here’s the good news: the human instead of jumping from one piece brain has abilities to create, contem- of data to another. Why? Because we plate, compare and synthesize in need you to create tomorrow’s rich, ways computers cannot. As I learned diverse and meaningful ideas. That’s from “The Shallows”, the informa- something the most sophisticated tion in our long-term memory is software will never be able to do. woven into conceptual schemas or pictures that hold the information Jessica Ciani-Dausch is an together. This is where connections assistant dean at Georgetown and insights that weren’t previously College. She is one of the given to us can be realized. But there’s alternating writers for THE DEAN’S bad news too: the transfer of informa- DESK, which appears every other tion from our short-term memory Tuesday.

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Former Director of Catholic Chaplaincy Fr. Patrick Rogers, S.J., has returned to Georgetown after completing a yearlong Tertianship, the final program in Jesuit training.

Although Rogers is back on campus to work on his doctoral thesis, he will conduct masses and confession at Georgetown. In his previous nine years at Georgetown, Rogers expanded the ESCAPE program, fostered interfaith dialogue and founded the LGBTQ Catholic Prayer Group, which predated the establishment of the LGBTQ Resource Center.

THE HOYA spoke with Rogers last week to discuss his experiences in the Tertianship, his involvement in interfaith and LGBTQ issues and what brought him back to Georgetown.

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There’s a combination of things.

I started a doctorate while I was here. You’re called to Tertianship. I was here for a number of years, and my provincial and I were talking about it, and basically preparing for it when I started this doctoral program. So we thought it was best that I finish my classwork and my conference exams, all that stuff first, and then go off to Tertianship.

What was your biggest challenge during your Tertianship?

Every tertian at one point in Tertianship has to do an experiment with the poor, the dying or the sick. So I was sent to Honduras, and I was working at a Jesuit parish there part-time and also teaching music to a Jesuit theater troupe. But I had some very challenging experiences with the parish because there were some remote villages up in the moun-

tains near where we used to have to go, and it was very difficult to get there; very steep mountains, jungles, literally walking through jungle paths, and frankly, I was terrified constantly of the poisonous snakes that are up there.

What inspired you to become involved in Georgetown’s ESCAPE program? When you first started the ESCAPE program, what were your goals?

When I first got involved in ESCAPE, it was literally because I was asked to think about coming to Georgetown specifically to work with the ESCAPE program as a Jesuit. What has really evolved, at least from the time that I took over, is how the directors after me really trained the team on how to be sensitive to people’s issues that are coming on ESCAPE, and how to integrate an Ignatian sensibility in one’s life. This idea that [people

are] seeking the magis, always looking for the good in one’s self.

The thousands of people that this program has really welcomed to the Hilltop is astounding.

I know that you have participated in a number of interfaith programs.

How do you see students of other faiths fitting in at a Catholic university? And I wonder if you have any words about Rabbi Harold White, who passed away last week.

Absolutely. I knew Rabbi White very, very well. We worked together for years, and we even traveled together to the Holy Land. He’s one of the great figures in the history of this university. … He helped this university open itself to new possibilities and deeper possibilities with the Jewish community. …

There were many students of other faith traditions that sought out Rabbi White for pastoral care, just because they loved him and could

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Former Director of Catholic Chaplaincy Fr. Patrick Rogers, S.J., returned to Georgetown this year to work on his doctoral thesis aftter completing a yearlong Tertianship. Rogers is noted for his contributions to ESCAPE, interfaith dialogue and the formation of the LGBTQ Catholic Prayer Group.

go to him for spiritual guidance, regardless of faith traditions.

What’s extraordinary about this university is that it’s in the Jesuit tradition. Our way of proceeding is to, again, ask deep questions of anybody you’re with. So for example, St. Ignatius, in his day, could ask the person who had no idea of what God even was, or the greatest mystic alive at that time, “Tell me about your experience of the good of grace in your life, or light in your life, or however you want to name goodness in your life. Let’s start a conversation there, and then we can go from there.” So because it’s based on your experience, the student’s experience, it’s open to anyone.

You started an LGBTQ prayer group.

Do you believe that the Church under Pope Francis is becoming more tolerant of different sexual orientations? And how have you counseled these students to remain true to their faith even when traditional church doctrine is not supportive?

Doctrine about sexuality hasn’t changed at all in the Catholic Church. So Pope Francis hasn’t changed anything doctrinally about homosexuality in the church.

What has changed, I think greatly, is rhetoric about it. … It’s like Pope Francis has given us permission to have a conversation that’s not in the closet, so to speak. And again, Pope Francis is a Jesuit, so this is a very Jesuit way of proceeding. So he’s asking gay and lesbian people and all kinds of people, the poor, whoever it might be, “What is your experience? I’m not going to discount you because your experience is not one that I recognize. I’m going to ask about your experience and engage you from there.”

What is your favorite thing about Georgetown?

My favorite thing about Georgetown is how this again extraordinary university brings such diversity together, and all the fascinating things that happen because of that. Muslim voices, Jewish voices, secular voices, Hindu voices, whatever faith traditions, Protestant, Catholic, all coming together in dialogue with each other, and that’s just the spirituality side. Of course at the university we’re exploring all kinds of amazing ideas, and scholarship, and research. And so that’s what is so extraordinary about Georgetown, all the great things that happen here everyday in this human story.

But we’re all Hoyas, and we’re all looking for meaning in our lives.

Georgetown helps us find and discover meaning in our lives.

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Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies Kathleen McNamara discussed political authority in the European Union at the launch event for her new book, “The Politics of Everyday Europe: Constructing Authority in the European Union,” Wednesday in the Mortara Center.

At the event, McNamara discussed the main topics of her book, which focuses on the importance of culture, symbols and practices to the unity created by the leaders of the European Union.

Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Service Abraham Newman introduced McNamara at the beginning of the event and praised the book’s analysis of the European political climate. “’The Politics of Everyday Europe’ … takes a central question to political science, the question of political authority, and investigates it from a novel perspective,” Newman said.

“She looks at the everyday symbols and practices that elites use in order to construct that political authority.”

McNamara, who began work on the book six years ago, led the discussion on common ideas regarding the European Union and how she sought to redefine these notions.

“Many people think about the European Union as this sort of technical morass of mind-numbing regulations,” McNamara said.

“My argument is that we should also think about the E.U. as a new emergent political form. We should really step back and think historically about what the E.U. represents in this broader geopolitical, historical sense.”

In the book, McNamara argues that the European Union deserves special attention in the field of comparative politics, as it presents a new form of political organization that will continue in years to come.

McNamara said that although the Union centralized power and has brought together a large number of states under one political entity, it has not encountered a large degree of opposition.

“There has been a remarkable centralization of policy capacity within the E.U.,” McNamara said.

“Over the past decades we’ve actually seen remarkably little mass politics and contestation around that centralization until … the last

five or six years.”

McNamara said that the acceptance of the E.U. and its success in constructing political authority has come through symbols and practices, which have allowed it to become accepted as a legitimate entity by its constituent member states.

According to McNamara, the E.U. has used symbols and practices in a way that has allowed national culture and identity to continue to thrive, while also creating a European identity that it has legitimatized through a new form of political organization.

“It’s really this everyday Europe that we should look to, to understand the symbols and practices creating Europe and Europeans,” McNamara said. “It doesn’t engage passionate feelings of belonging and identity, because the E.U. has always tried to pitch these symbols and practices as complementary to and not competing with the nation-state.”

McNamara said that culture is an important tool that can be used by politicians.

“Culture can be a tool for power,” McNamara said. “It can actually be a really important mechanism for interested parties to create a sense of certainty about their political authority.”

McNamara also discussed the formation of political authority in Europe.

“Political authorities try to redraw the boundaries of political authority and … try to rewrite history in order to promulgate certain understandings of their political projects and to create a sense of identity,” McNamara said.

McNamara concluded by emphasizing how the E.U. in particular has benefited through the use of these tools and has been able to create a continental European culture.

“The E.U. has been very conscious of this type of historical work and has in fact spent a lot of time and money trying to think about how to create Europeans,” McNamara said.

Miika Tomi (SFS ’17), who attended the event, said she found McNamara’s argument about everyday life in Europe fascinating.

“I think the issue of Europe is ever more pressing, and Professor McNamara had interesting thoughts on how to look at constructing identities,” Tomi said. “Having worked for the E.U. government for the past four years, I thought it was a very interesting perspective.”

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Approximately 50 students participated in Elect Her, a national program that encourages college-aged women to participate in student government and run for political office, in the Healey Family Student Center Saturday.

Sarah Fisher & Tom Garzillo Hoya Staff Writers

Elect Her, a national program that prepares college-aged women to run for student government and political office, held its second annual program at Georgetown in the Healey Family Student Center Saturday.

The three-hour event, hosted by the American Association of University Women and Running Start, featured a series of lectures and an address from Washington, D.C. City Councilwoman Anita Bonds. Other sponsors of the session at Georgetown included the Georgetown University Women’s Center, the Biondi Copeland Family Fund, the Institute of Politics and Public Service, the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Women Policy Makers House.

Approximately 50 participants learned about planning campaign strategies and giving elevator pitches, and also participated in a campaign simulation. A panel of current Georgetown students, such as Georgetown University Student Association Chief of Staff Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) and Secretary of Sexual Assault Policy Sarah Rabon (COL ’16), also explained how students can become involved in GUSA. In her speech, Bonds encouraged at-

tendees to become involved in politics.

“We would love to have a woman lead our nation,” Bonds said.

Running Start Vice President Melissa Richmond led the majority of the presentations, kicking off the event with an address titled “The Importance of Young Women Running for Office.”

According to Richmond, Running Start was formed in 2007 to support young women who are considering careers in politics.

“Young women and girls need to be educated about politics earlier in life if the makeup of the political leaders in our country is to transform,” Richmond said.

Despite comprising a majority of the electorate, women account for only 24 percent of state legislators, 23 percent of statewide executives and 19 percent of Congress.

At colleges in D.C., women account for 39 percent of student government executives.

“I don’t think there are enough women in the pipeline,” Richmond said. “Unless women start running young, they’re behind. Men start running young and often. … They get a lot of experience.”

Elect Her is held on college campuses around the country, with sessions planned at around 50 schools for 2016.

According to its website, 76 percent of 2015 participants who reported running for student office won their races.

Other speeches in the program cited a number of barriers to women running for office, including feelings of inferiority, media scrutiny and concerns about family and home life.

Despite the event’s overall focus on politics, Richmond stressed that the skills taught at Elect Her can be applied to a wide range of fields.

“Even if you don’t run for office, the skills of building a network or giving an elevator speech could help you to start a business, be a nonprofit leader or be a good servant in your community,” Richmond said.

Participants of Elect Her also automatically join the AAUW’s network of 170,000 members and supporters, 1,000 local branches and 800 college partners, including Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Kelli Baker (COL ’19), an attendee of the event, said that she was drawn to Elect Her after encountering criticism during a campaign for student government in high school.

“They would say, ‘There’s no way she can win, she’s a girl,’” Baker said. “It’s 2015 — are [they] crazy? It made me very angry.”

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Sustainability Forum Solicits Student Input Jack bennett

terms of how they would then meet those goals,” Anderson said.

Steward said she was impressed by The Georgetown Office of Sustain- the quality and ambition of student ability, Beeck Center for Social Impact feedback at the workshop. and Innovation and Georgetown Uni“We got great feedback from stuversity Student Association held a day- dents on both big-picture goals for long Sustainability Visioning Work- our campus footprint and operations, shop Friday to discuss university-wide and also specific project ideas,” Stewsustainability goals. ard wrote in an email to The Hoya. “In With approximately 20 students general, the feedback was in support and multiple administrators in atten- of thinking very ambitiously about dance, the workshop solicited student the topics and really challenging ourinput about the university’s environ- selves as a university to set an ambimental efforts. Students were placed tious vision.” into groups charged with proposing Steward also emphasized that unisolutions to issues related to waste, versity officials would take student carbon and water, which will directly opinion into account in their sustainguide the university’s sustainability ability planning. plan later this year.

“Our goal is to support the student Some of the changes that students leaders who developed the ideas, and suggested include implementing an to work collaboratively with students energy retrofit process for existing and other partners in refining and buildings, reimagining the annual testing the solutions on campus over move-out drive and creating an um- the coming year,” Steward wrote. brella structure to increase the exThe workshop used a process called change of sustainability ideas between the Smallify Rapid Innovation Lab, an students, faculty and other partners. idea development model intended to Office of the President Chief of Staff facilitate expedited brainstorming Joseph Ferrara introduced the event and problem solving. Initially, the with a quote from Pope Francis’ envi- workshop focused on design thinkronmental encyclical. Ferrara linked ing, then transitioned into narrowing the workshop to the Pope’s concept of down ideas during the afternoon. a “circular economy,” which encourDeputy GUSA Secretary for Sustainages reusing and recycling materials ability Aaron Silberman (SFS ’18) credrather than producing nonsustain- ited Smallify for leading the workable products. shop.

“He stresses the importance of hav“What we’ve been doing is engaging ing the right attiin a multiplicity tude versus talking of conversations the talk but not “Everybody is coming thanks to Smalreally walking the from different lify, who is the walk,” Ferrera said. organizer and “Sometimes people perspectives, so we’ve all lead facilitator of can have all the corthis meeting, rerect attitudes … and got specific expertise.” garding energy, that sounds good, waste and water,” but what are you acSilberman said.

AARON SILBERMAN (SFS ’18) tually doing?”

“And so far, we’ve Deputy Secretary for Sustainability, GUSA Senior Vice Presimanaged to get dent and Chief Opdown a ton of erating Officer Christopher Augostini good ideas. Everybody is coming from followed Ferrara, presenting the ori- different perspectives, so we’ve all got gins of the workshop and encourag- specific expertise.” ing participants to adopt ambitious Elena Itameri (COL ’18) was a memgoals. ber of the carbon innovation group, “The origins of creating this labo- which was tasked with the problem of ratory came from a meeting that making the university carbon-positive Audrey [Stewart, Office of Sustain- by 2025. ability director], Robin [Morey, vice “We essentially started out in president for planning and facilities pairs, and we brainstormed what management] and I had with a few of we thought were the most efficient you on Earth Day earlier this year,” actions we could take to get the uniAugostini said. versity to that point, and then we Augostini also stated that although regrouped,” Itameri said. “We found the university would likely continue similarities between our ideas, and its sustainable investments — like its we started trying to come up with partial divestment from coal last year a larger solution or action to take — he hopes that the workshop will based on all the ideas we compiled.” “broaden the conversation.”

Itameri said that she was impressed Additionally, Augostini hopes that with the outcome of the workshop. the university will become “carbon “I think it’s relevant because most positive” by detracting from the people who are in attendance today amount of overall carbon dioxide either have a specific interest in susemissions produced each year. tainability or are actively involved in “Let’s be carbon-positive, however a campus organization. … I thought it long that takes us,” Augostini said. “I went really well,” Itameri said. think the objective ought to be the Silberman said he expects the uniprinciple, not the time frame. We versity to take action on many of the want to place that out there as some- student proposals from the workthing for this group to think about.” shop.

Beeck Center Director of Engage“The plans are going to go directly ment Liz Anderson explained that into the sustainability plan for the the goal of the workshop was to tack- university, so the university is develle issues related to the treatment of oping a framework and this is going waste, energy and water on campus. to inform the direction of the plan, “We had students refine those and then the specific actions,” Silgoals and create actionable plans in berman said.

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Approximately 400 unsatisfied public transportation users from the D.C. area formed an independent Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Riders’ Union last week to address their concerns.

Metro Riders Create Union Emily tu

Hoya Staff Writer

A group of Washington, D.C. Metro users formed the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Riders’ Union Sept.

3 in response to consistent transit issues and rider frustration.

The Riders’ Union, an independent organization made up of approximately 400 riders, seeks to represent the interests of Metrorail, Metrobus and MetroAccess users. The union intends to work with community groups, the media, officials and WMATA employees to address the concerns of the riding public.

Riders’ Union spokesperson Graham Jenkins emphasized the group’s goal in actively listening to and representing the voice of Metro riders.

“We represent the voice of the riders, the feedback, criticism and changes people would like to be seeing in the Transit Authority,” Jenkins said. “Somebody should be taking those concerns into account. We’re trying to be truly representative and nonexclusionary, to hear everyone’s voice, not just a limited subset, and not just the loudest either.”

Chris Barnes, another Metro user leading the group, began operating a blog titled FixWMATA in 2010 with goals similar to those of the Riders’ Union. Business analyst Roger Bowles and transit specialist Ashley Robbins are the two other principal figures in the group.

According to the Riders’ Union website, WMATA has struggled to respond to train derailments and excessive delays while often neglecting users’ points of view.

Additionally, the website details frustrations with WMATA’s system of charging users for a commute they did not take if they swipe in at a station but attempt to leave after seeing the rail service is running late.

Specifically, the union has outlined both strategic and operational goals it aims to achieve af-

ter establishing its membership.

Strategic goals include obtaining rider representation on the WMATA board of directors and rider involvement in WMATA drills and incident investigations. However, the District, Maryland, Virginia and Congress would all have to pass a law before any rider could acquire a seat on the board of directors.

Operational goals include seeking the elimination of “peak” fares between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. and a grace period for same-station entrance and exit before users are charged.

“For the time being, [our goals] fit into two categories,” Jenkins said. “We’re looking to push the [Transit] Authority into communicating better. You look at the [Transit] Authorities across the country, in New York, in Boston, and they’re very active in publicizing all the work they do.”

More than 400 people have completed the membership form on the Riders’ Union website, and the group’s Twitter account has more than 1,100 followers. No dues will be required to maintain accessibility. An agreement form will be created for members to consent to certain principles regarding dues and donation.

The Riders’ Union does not yet have a definite plan for funding but is considering a combination of private donations and crowdsourcing strategies, such as GoFundMe. The group also plans to host monthly meetings.

Along with Barnes’ FixWMATA blog, past campaigns have been initiated in response to challenges Metro users face. MetroTag, a group also formed by Barnes, focuses on issues concerning all D.C. transit, covering a larger scope than the Riders’ Union, which will only focus on WMATA matters.

Meanwhile, the WMATA Riders’ Advisory Council, established in 2005, consists of 21 members and reports directly to the WMATA board of directors, acting as a focus group. It is not independent of WMATA. Monthly council meetings are

open to the public and applications to serve on the council are always available online. At the start of every session, members of the public are given the opportunity to address the council.

Although the official WMATA council provides riders with the opportunity to air their grievances, Jenkins said the Riders’ Union is a more effective forum for change.

“We’re looking to raise awareness of some of [the riders’] concerns, and certainly to push for specific policy goals and changes we’d like to see implemented,” Jenkins said. “In that aspect, we’ll be different from previous attempts at this sort of thing, such as the Riders’ Advisory Council, in that we’re not just presenting WMATA with issues, we are recommending changes and we’re going for specific policy goals.”

Steven Xie (COL ’18), who has frequently used D.C. public transportation to commute to an internship at the Executive Office of the Mayor in D.C., expressed both hope and doubt about the success of the Riders’ Union.

“First of all, I’m not too sure they’ll get everything they desire, because things like delays and accidents, they happen all the time,” Xie said. “But what I do think they can really do is bring some accountability into Metro services, which is the biggest complaint I’ve had riding the Metro. … I think it’s a good initiative, the Union, and hopefully it can bring some positive change to the staff of the Metro system.”

Lauren Stricker (SFS ’18), another frequent Metro user, was also even less optimistic about the Union’s feasibility.

“I don’t think forming a union is worth all of the time, effort and resources when its central goal of communicating the needs and wants of riders could be achieved in a less formal and more immediate way,” Stricker said.

WMATA did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

announced increased rewards for tips leading to the seizure of illegal firearms in August. While the MPD previously offered $1,000 for all tips about illegal guns, changes increased the reward to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest and seizure of an illegal firearm and $10,000 for a tip resulting in an arrest and conviction in a shooting. Anonymous tips can also be submitted.

Georgetown University Police Department Chief Jay Gruber said the program is a positive step toward reducing violence in the D.C. area.

“Any program such as GunStat that reduces gun violence is a good thing and a step in the right direction,” Gruber wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The impact to the Georgetown community is an overall safer Washington, D.C.” Georgetown Against Gun Violence President Emma Iannini (SFS ’16) praised Bowser’s efforts and highlighted the need to look at firearms regulations not only in D.C., but in other states as well.

“I applaud the work of Mayor Bowser and local law enforcement for trying to get as many illegal guns and dangerous military-style weapons out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them,” Iannini said. “However, I think they have a very difficult problem on their hands, a problem whose roots are outside of their ability to control.”

Current District policy includes universal background checks and re-

strictions on military-style weapons.

However, people can still purchase these guns in neighboring states, such as Virginia and Maryland, without these background checks.

“It’s important to realize that the homicide rate and amounts of illegal guns that are being trafficked and eventually confiscated by the police here in Washington is really an issue that originates outside of D.C.,” Iannini said. “As citizens of Washington, we need to put pressure on elected officials in places like Maryland and places like Virginia to acknowledge the responsibility for the violence.”

Some of the most notable opposition to Bowser and Lanier’s tighter gun control has come from the American Civil Liberties Union in D.C. The group has raised concerns that the GunStat Program violates the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

According to former ACLU director Johnny Barnes, the ACLU may file a lawsuit against the city for this violation. Barnes also expressed dissatisfaction over GunStat’s close monitoring of people with violent criminal records.

“They’ve paid their debt to society,” Barnes said to the D.C. bureau of ABC News. “They’ve served their time. Now you want to say, ‘Let’s watch them every day.’ That’s wrong.”

Nonprofit Teaches Arts Mayor Tightens Gun Control To Georgetown Veterans Emily tu

Hoya Staff Writer

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier displayed more than 60 illegal guns recently seized by the MPD at a press conference Sept. 8 to highlight the Bowser administration’s commitment to reducing the number of illegal guns bought and sold in the city.

The women discussed the MPD’s GunStat program, which was developed in 2008 to monitor citizens in Washington, D.C. with violent criminal records. The program aims to closely observe these people, ensuring they remain in direct contact with law enforcement and parole agencies.

This program is intended to decrease the District’s homicide rate, which currently, at 109, is already higher than 2014’s total of 105 murders.

During the press conference, both Lanier and Bowser stressed the importance of addressing the root causes of the illegal firearms issue, rather than looking at one particular part of the system.

“Instead of seeing where else there’s blame, we’re looking to see where there are gaps in the system,” Lanier said at the conference.

Bowser agreed and evaded reporters’ questions that asked her to assign blame.

“It does no one any good to point fingers,” Bowser added.

Additionally, Bowser and Lanier

Hoya Staff Writer Sarah Smith contributed reporting

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classes from D.C. area veterans, establishing our second community in D.C. became a no-brainer,” Brew wrote.

Georgetown ranked as the No. 1 school for veterans in the country in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report. Despite dropping to No. 16 on the recently released ranking this year due to a change in the qualifications process, Brew notes that there is a strong tradition of volunteer involvement, particularly for veteran causes.

“The university was recently ranked the best school for veterans in the country,” Brew wrote. “Volunteer involvement is also hugely important to our work, and Georgetown’s reputation of having serviceminded students and faculty made it an even more appealing partner.”

According to Zach Busch (SFS ’16), a student representative for ASAP at Georgetown, the nonprofit serves to better connect the Georgetown student body with the United States Armed Forces. Busch, who was drawn to the organization as he grew up around military families, also said that students can contribute to the program in a variety of ways.

“Hoyas are intelligent, enthusiastic and motivated people and have a lot to offer a program like ASAP,” Busch wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Apart from the efforts of a couple of very dedicated student groups, such as Hoyas for Troops, which does great work, and of course, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, the Georgetown community as a whole is a little disconnected from our armed forces and our veterans.”

From an artistic perspective, Busch also emphasized that Georgetown fosters artis-

tic talent that can be channeled into positive avenues in ASAP. “When it comes to bridging a community gap between Georgetown students and our armed forces, art can do what ordinary conversation cannot — create a shared experience,” Busch wrote.

According to Shannon Smith, a U.S. Navy veteran, ASAP provided an opportunity for him to grow his writing skills. Smith also commended the participation of young people in ASAP’s programs.

“It’s amazingly thoughtful and kind that people out there — particularly young people — want to help veterans get our stories out there,” Smith wrote in a testimonial on ASAP’s website. “It’s not just valuable writing instruction — it’s tangible proof that people out there actually care. I was blown away by that.”

Jim Cornish, a U.S. Army veteran, noted how ASAP helped him to cope with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.

“When my helicopter was shot down by enemy gunfire and my co-pilot was killed, it seems like just yesterday. I relive it just about everyday and suffer greatly with chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,” Cornish wrote on the ASAP website. “My music instructor knows that I am a war veteran and is very considerate in our progress.”

According to Busch, ASAP’s arrival at Georgetown provides an exciting opportunity for veterans and students alike.

“We can learn a lot from these veterans and put our own ambitions into perspective. So volunteering with a group like ASAP doesn’t just help veterans, it also helps Hoyas on a humanistic level,” Busch wrote.

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Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

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GUMC Murphy Discusses Neighborhood Relations Student Aids Refugees MURPHY, from A1

COALITION, from A1 medical burden in the Kurdish territories where most of the refugees have fled from the sectarian slaughter.”

When he returned, Epstein formed GSMSG, recruited surgeons and medical volunteers and raised funds for the group’s first trip.

Epstein contacted representatives from Iraqi organizations, such as Health Outreach to the Middle East, to push for Georgetown Medical School to support the initiative.

Regional Representative of HOME Janan Zora wrote a letter to GMS predating Epstein’s trip.

“While we have tried our best to accommodate the needs of the population, our medical system has become overwhelmed,” Zora wrote.

Regional Director of Jesuit Refugee Service Fr. Michael Zammit, S.J., also sent a letter to University President John J. DeGioia, citing the lack of basic resources in the region.

“Basic needs such as food, shelter, water and sanitation, [and] health care are what ... refugees, are mostly in need of,” Zammit wrote in the letter, of which The Hoya received a copy. “As often happens, the gaps in all these areas can be significant. Gaps in health services are related to life and death. I can assure you that the contribution of GMS would fill a huge need, since the existing gaps are huge.”

The initiative gained traction, leading GMS to help promote the cause and recruit surgeons in senior positions to participate as volunteers.

Epstein assembled a group of individuals from diverse backgrounds to provide a broader range of skills to the local doctors.

“We had a range of medical skill sets all the way from board certified surgeons … to neuropsychiatrists to fire department medics, essentially offering a full range of medical, surgical and psychiatric services,” Epstein wrote.

According to Epstein, medical professionals in the area were eager to learn from his team.

“While one of our surgeons was performing a simple hernia repair, the operating room was absolutely packed with local medical professionals trying to see how the procedure was being done,” Epstein wrote.

However, Epstein said that the team provided help outside the medical scope, as it helped raise the morale and sense of security among refugees.

“I asked our local liaisons why there were literally dozens and dozens of people in line to be seen by our doctors even if they [had] nothing wrong with them. The reply was they know they have nothing wrong with them, but they just want to hear it from an American doctor,” Epstein wrote.

“Peace of mind about their health goes a long way in a population that has lost literally everything and whose future is unclear.”

Deirdre Byrne, a retired U.S. Army colonel and doctor who went on the trip, said Epstein’s passion made a positive impact on the community.

“Aaron is the remarkable force behind this inspiring effort,” Byrne wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“God works beautifully through him.”

Zora also praised GSMSG for its efforts to rebuild the country’s medical infrastructure and provide medical care and renewed hope.

“We believe [Epstein’s] unique background and the goodness and the charity of the people he interacts with will be able to help see our population through some of our hardest times,” Zora wrote in his letter to GMS. Epstein said that the next step for GSMSG will be to establish mobile medical clinics to serve the thousands of refugees outside the camps who lack access to the main city and its medical surgical centers. Through these efforts, he hopes that the medical infrastructure in northern Iraq can become self-sufficient and eventually provide in-depth medical and surgical care to the burgeoning population of refugees in the area.

“If we can bring in the medical expertise, education and supplies necessary … the locals [will be] able to take care of their entire population,” Epstein wrote. “This is the marathon we are running and every step, every medical trip of experts and supplies, is movement in the right direction.”

What does Georgetown gain from its involvement in the community?

Given Georgetown’s Jesuit tradition, as an institution, we all believe we share an obligation to interact with the real world and the people around us. We’re not an island here, and we have to take our responsibility in the broader community seriously. There’s a moral imperative there. I also think there’s strategic value in having good relationships with our neighbors.

We recently joined a coalition of our neighbors to question whether the Federal Aviation Administration has done the right research to justify flying these planes directly over campus. Because we have a good relationship with our neighbors, we make sure that quality of life issues like airplanes constantly going overhead are taken seriously. Those strategic partnerships help the university, faculty, students and staff.

Who are some of the institutions and groups you will be dealing with?

In the neighborhood, it’s going to be the Advisory Neighborhood Commission and various citizen associations. At the

same time, we’re having really important conversations with the city and with community organizations that Georgetown partners with to hopefully leverage opportunities where students can engage in the real world in an academic setting, community service setting and a public service setting, as they think about what kind of careers they want to have. There are no limits to what kinds of partnerships we can have that benefit our partners and students.

One theme has emerged in a lot of conversations I’ve had with community groups. I think there is a sense that not enough people know about all the good work that’s going on. So I’ve started to have conversations with them about how we can better articulate and better tell the story about how Georgetown is already engaging in the community. I think the more we do that, the more it will open up opportunities to do it even more, and even more effectively. The Center for Social Justice is a critical partner of ours, and that’s just one example of how we can tell this story better.

What has your relationship been like with Georgetown University Student Association? [Editor’s Note: GUSA Presi-

dent Joe Luther (COL ’16) and Vice-President Connor Rohan (COL ’16) co-wrote an op-ed in The Hoya (“Engaging the Wrong Community,” thehoya.com, July 20, 2015) that was skeptical of Murphy’s new position.]

I’ve met with GUSA leadership several times, and we have a terrific working relationship. I think first and foremost it’s important to think about the strategic role that these functions play. If we as a university do not have a good relationship with our neighbors, that hurts everybody, including students. By recognizing the importance of these functions, I think everybody wins.

If you asked GUSA leadership now, I don’t get the sense that there would be any concerns. What we’re also able to do is make sure the student voice is at the table when we do have conversations with neighbors. I do know that there is a sense that voice hasn’t been there enough, and the position that I am in now uniquely positions me to help be a bridge between those two voices.

What do you see as the biggest challenge or obstacle facing you in this position?

We’ve come a long way. The university

has come a long way in terms of developing mechanisms through the Georgetown Community Partnership to talk to each other respectfully and to understand the unique perspectives we all bring to the table. We’re in a very good place, but that’s not something we can take for granted. We always have to keep working at it and make sure that we’re really listening to each other and recognizing the unique perspectives that everybody has.

I’m glad we have great mechanisms now, through the Georgetown Community Partnership, through monthly meetings through GUSA and through constant communication through neighbors.

How have your past experiences helped prepare you for this?

What I love about this job is that it brings together pieces of every job I’ve ever had. I’ve worked on Capitol Hill and for the federal government; I’ve worked for the city government; I’ve worked for a local nonprofit, and I’m a Georgetown alum.

The position I’m in now really brings all those skills together to help advance the strategic goals of the university. Specific skillsets around how those specific institutions work but also relationships are critically important to getting things done.

Clinton Announces Sexual Assault Platform

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Hillary Clinton spoke about plans addressing sexual assault on college campuses. She is the first presidential candidate to do so.

POLICY, from A1 “Rape is a crime wherever it happens, and schools have an obligation — I think it’s both a legal obligation and a moral obligation — to protect every student’s right to get an education free from dis-

crimination, free from fear, particularly as to one’s safety,” Clinton said.

Although Clinton did not provide concrete policy plans or methods of implementation, she recommended improving education in high schools to create a safer college culture.

“There are the issues of responsibility and respect that start long before students arrive on campus. I don’t think it’s enough to try and get a better response once an assault has happened,” Clinton said. “We need to stop sexual assault from happening in the first place, and we need strong prevention efforts to change attitudes associated with violence.”

Clinton’s speech came in the footsteps of President Barack Obama’s “It’s On Us” campaign. Launched in September 2014, the campaign aims to raise awareness of sexual assault on college campuses.

Nearly one year after its launch, the campaign has thousands of members, including notable corporate partnerships with companies like MTV and Snapchat.

Take Back the Night President Maddy Moore (SFS ’17) said she is optimistic about other candidates creating platforms that look at sexual assault on college campuses as well.

“It’s really important that Hillary Clinton is bringing this topic up, and I think there’s a lot to how student activists have built momentum around the issue

throughout the last years, so I think it will continue to be an issue that is brought up by the other candidates and hopefully candidates will create really strong platforms around the issue,” Moore said.

Amanda Shepherd (SFS ’18), campus lead for Hoyas for Hillary, a Georgetown student organization of Clinton supporters, also praised Clinton for bringing the issue of sexual assault into the presidential race.

“I am very happy to see Secretary Clinton take a stance on the important issue of campus sexual assault, but more importantly I am happy to see her propose ways to change the way in which college campuses support survivors,” Shepherd wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Hillary Clinton prioritizing this conversation and stating her dedication to aiding universities in addressing this debate brings it to the forefront of the political world and gives me hope that with her in the White House, survivors of sexual assault will receive the support they deserve on campuses and nationwide.”

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Sinette, McKnight Lead GU in Close Win Over Georgia Kara Avanceña Hoya Staff Writer

Just two days after sweeping Morgan State (2-9) on a Tuesday night, the Georgetown volleyball team (45) traveled to a university 800 miles away from home on its farthest road trip yet to compete against one of its toughest tournaments of the season.

Facing Kent State (5-4) and Georgia (45), Georgetown sought to gain experience during the nonconference part of its schedule and to build on the two-game winning streak it had going into the weekend matches.

Though Georgetown fell to Kent State in four sets at the outset of the UW-Madison Tournament in Madison, Wis. Sept. 10, the Hoyas fought back one day later, defeating Georgia in four tight sets.

The Hoyas’ 3-1 effort over the Bulldogs marks Georgetown’s first victory over an opponent in one of the Power Five conferences since the 2012-13 season, when Georgetown defeated Atlantic Coast Conference opponent Virginia in three straight sets.

Head Coach Arlisa Williams attributed the victory to the team working hard and coming together as a unit, but added that facing one of the team’s toughest opponents this season made for a meaningful match.

“It’s a huge win, just being able to defeat an opponent from the Big Five, coming out of the [Southeastern] Conference,” Williams said. “Georgia’s

been an NCAA Tournament team; this was a very significant win for us.”

Freshman outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette and freshman setter Paige McKnight epitomized Georgetown’s effort against Georgia, with both players earning double-doubles in the match.

Sinnette led the team offensively, earning 22 kills in addition to diving for 12 digs. McKnight contributed 42 assists and 13 digs, as well as six service aces, the most service aces recorded for a Georgetown player since 2012.

Sinnette, whose 133 total kills and 3.80 kills per set are team highs this season, noted that the victory was particularly important for her and her teammates as evidence of the team’s resilience following a 3-1 loss to Kent State the night before.

“After we lost to Kent State, for us to come back together, be even stronger and beat Georgia was huge,” Sinnette said.

Freshman middle blocker Symone Speech also contributed offensively over the weekend, recording a .414 hitting percentage against Georgia and slamming down a match-high 13 kills in the loss to Kent State. Speech currently leads the team with a .337 hitting percentage on the season, a statistic that Speech credits to being ready to hit for the team at any given moment. “[Coach Williams] always wants me to be an option, so I’ve just been really working on that — getting up when I

can, calling my hits, trying to be available for Paige,” Speech said.

The match against Georgia was tight from end to end, beginning with a 6-6 tie to open the first set of the game. The Hoyas won the first two sets with scores of 25-22 and 25-23, respectively, and dropped the third set in a tight 29-27 game. Georgetown sealed its victory by winning the fourth set 28-26.

Georgetown will wind down its nonconference schedule with one match against D.C. rival George Washington (6-4) this Wednesday followed by its final nonconference tournament this weekend.

The Colonials boast a sharpshooting middle blocker in junior Chidima Osuchukwu, who currently has a .350 hitting percentage in addition to a team-high 4.29 kills per set. In addition, senior setter Jordan Timmer averages 11.29 assists per set and senior defensive specialist Maddy Doyle records an average of 4.05 digs per set.

The Wednesday evening matchup against the Atlantic 10 team will be Georgetown’s first match in McDonough Arena this season, and, for many of the players, the first home game of their college careers.

“I’m a little nervous because it’s family and friends; it’s going to be a lot of people. But it’s good energy, good nervous energy,” Sinnette said.

“I can’t wait for people here to see how far the volleyball program has come and how far it’s going to go.”

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Freshman setter Paige McKnight (4) had 42 assists and 13 digs, and freshman middle blocker Symone Speech added 15 kills against Georgia.

Women’s soccer

GU Edged by No. 12 Virginia Tech HOKIES, from A10

the 42nd minute, when a scramble in the sixyard box following a corner kick resulted in a goal for junior midfielder Candace Cephers.

“We had prepared for their corner kicks. We knew that was a big threat for them,” Newins said. “They were just really aggressive and they got on the ball and put it in the back of the net. That’s just their mentality, so it was hard to get the ball out of the box.”

The Hoyas were unable to level the score before the period came to close, but came out firing in the second half, maintaining the majority of the possession and testing the Virginia Tech back line.

The Hoyas were finally able to break down the Hokies’ defense in the 55th minute when junior forward Grace Damaska ran onto a ball played down the right flank and crossed the ball into the six-yard box. Thomas, who was waiting in the box, fired a shot past Virginia Tech’s goalkeeper, tying the match. “[Damaska] played a perfect ball in front of the face of the goal and I just ran in and kicked it in. It was a good goal and I think we’ll have more coming like that,” Thomas said.

Damaska nearly added a goal of her own in the 69th minute. She ran onto a ball played into the 18-yard box, beating Virginia Tech’s defense for a one-on-one with the goalkeeper.

As the goalkeeper came flying off her line, the forward took one stray touch on the ball that gave senior defender Morgan Conklin time to recover and ultimately block Damaska’s shot attempt.

With the score still tied, the match was headed for overtime. However, in the 88th minute Virginia Tech’s junior forward Kallie Peurifoy slotted a ball through the Hoyas’ defense to sophomore forward Laila Gray.

Thinking Gray was in an offside position

and expecting a call from the referee, the Hoyas’ defense eased up. But when the whistle did not come, it was too late for Georgetown to recover. Gray fired a shot from 10 yards out that found the back of the net, giving the Hokies a one goal lead with only two minutes left to play.

“Someone called ‘offside’ and we stopped,” Thomas said. “In the future, we won’t do that.”

The Hoyas forced a corner kick as time was running out, giving the team one last opportunity to score. Sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz played the ball into the box with 40 seconds remaining, but was unable to connect with one of her teammates in front of the net.

Virginia Tech’s goalkeeper ultimately scooped up the loose ball and sent a towering dropkick towards midfield as time expired, securing victory for her side.

For the Hoyas, the result was disappointing, but putting up such a strong fight against a very talented Hokies’ side bodes well for the team’s prospects going forward.

“I told [the team] after the game, I’m not one for moral victories. I don’t believe in them because it still doesn’t taste any better. But … I think in some ways this will be a breakout game for this crew,” Nolan said.

“It will give them the confidence to know that we can go toe-to-toe pretty much with anybody. I think the kids will come out of it with far more confidence once the disappointment of the result goes away. We’re not going to play anyone better than that for the rest of the season.”

Georgetown will play its next game Friday against University of Central Florida (4-2-1) in Orlando. Kickoff is set for 5:30 p.m.

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Graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins had five saves in Georgetown’s Sunday matchup with the No. 12 Virigina Tech Hokies. The Hoyas fell, 2-1.

Women’s soccer

Failed de Gea Transfer Draws Headlines

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t’s been a long, hard two weeks without soccer, as the leagues have all been on an international break. Fortunately for soccer fans, the break is over and we can go back to watching the teams that we so dearly love.

Here’s a recap of the major highlights from the past two weeks, as well as my predictions for upcoming matches.

What we missed: The summer transfer deadline passed on Sept.

1. As usual, it was not without drama. Perhaps the biggest event was one that did not even occur; Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea’s expected transfer to Spanish club Real Madrid never became a reality.

The summer was filled with stories that United would only give de Gea up in exchange for star defender Sergio Ramos. After Ramos signed a new deal with Madrid, it appeared that any deal was dead. The day of the transfer deadline, the necessary paperwork for de Gea’s transfer was not submitted in time. The two clubs spent the next few days blaming each other, while de Gea himself said nothing.

In an even more bizarre twist, de Gea ended up signing a four-year contract extension with Manchester United after trying to force a deal. He made his season debut for United against Liverpool Sept. 12.

In other transfer-deadline-related news, Manchester United finally said farewell to struggling striker Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez. Hernandez had floundered under manager Louis van Gaal. Here’s to hoping that his time at Bayer Leverkusen will be happier.

United also shelled out 49 million euros at the deadline for French teenager Anthony Martial, who already seems to be making an impact with the team. Manchester City made itself even more lethal with the acquisitions of defender Nicolas Otamendi (45 million euros) and midfielder Kevin de Bruyne (76 million euros).

England became the first team — excluding the French hosts — to qualify for the 2016 Euro Cup with its 6-0 victory over San Marino. It is also the only team that has maintained a perfect record. Captain Wayne Rooney became the top goal-scorer in English history, overtaking Sir Bobby Charlton’s 49-goal record in a 2-0 victory over Switzerland.

Vanessa Craige In a heartwarming story, Iceland also qualified for the 2016 Euro Cup. It will be Iceland’s first-ever appearance in a major tournament. Is anyone else wondering whether the United States’ striker Aron Johannsson regrets not playing for Iceland?

Austria and the Czech Republic also qualified for Euro 2016, bringing the total up to five teams.

The Netherlands continued its dismal season under new coach Danny Blind, losing to both Iceland and Turkey. This means that the Dutch can no longer automatically qualify for Euro 2016, as the top two spots have already been taken. If the Netherlands can overtake Turkey for third place, it will face a playoff to get into the tournament.

The current version of the team is a far cry from the team that finished third in the 2014 World Cup. The United States also continued to struggle, losing 4-1 to Brazil in a friendly match. The Brazilians dominated the entire match, with the Americans only managing to squeeze in a late goal in the dying seconds of the game. It appears

that head coach Jurgen Klinsmann’s future may be uncertain.

Chelsea’s season continued its rocky start, with the defending champions losing 3-1 to Everton. This is Chelsea’s worst start to a season since 1988. The Blues are about to concede more goals than they did in the entirety of the 200405 season, the first season that Jose Mourinho was in charge.

In another blow, Chelsea lost its stellar goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for a good portion of the season to a knee injury. It will be interesting to see whether or not Chelsea can turn things around.

For me, this weekend was tough. Liverpool, the club that I support, lost spectacularly against rival Manchester United. The entire game was rather dull compared to how fierce the rivalry games have been in the past. United earned a deserved win against a Liverpool side that looked boring without suspended midfielder Philippe Coutinho. This will be a tough one to swallow.

What to look forward to over the next two weeks: Arsenal will play Chelsea Sept. 17. The game between the two London giants is always great to watch. Expect this one to be even better, due to Chelsea’s current woes and Arsenal’s good form.

Prediction: 2-1 Arsenal.

Manchester City will face off against Tottenham Hotspur Sept. 26. City has continued to dominate the league, while Tottenham has gotten off to a terrible start. Prediction: 3-0 Manchester City.

The Champions League group stages also get underway this week. Make sure to find some time to catch a game.

Vanessa Craige is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service. The Beautiful Game appears every other Tuesday.

Cross Country

Lederhouse, Nadel Post Strong Times Peter Higgins Hoya Staff Writer

Off to a blazing start to the season, the Georgetown women and men’s cross country teams outpaced their competition, finishing in first and second place in the James Madison University and Navy Invitationals, respectively.

Heading into 2015, the women’s team earned a spot in the top five of the preseason rankings, while the men’s team was ranked No. 16.

Senior All-American Samantha Nadel led the women with a first-place overall finish and a time of 18:37.30 in the 5200-meter race. Sophomores Piper Donaghu and Autumn Eastman finished in second and third with respective times of 18:43.50 and 18:59.40.

“This first meet was more of a rust-buster and just about feeling what racing cross country is like.

Overall, this weekend was more of a relaxed environment,” Nadel said. “I think we need to come to [future] races with the mindset that we’re just going to destroy everyone. We need to be focused on what we want to accomplish.”

Nadel made it clear that the team has high expectations for the season.

“Moving forward, I think we’re focusing on trying to be one of the best teams in the country. The flowcheck preview just came out and ranked us fourth, so our goal is to be no lower than fourth,” Nadel said.

The Hoyas’ victory seems even more impressive when considering the bevy of injuries the team has suffered. The team hopes to regain its health and return runners to full fitness before Nationals.

“A lot of people on our team right now are injured or are coming back from injuries. I think that having everyone come together at the right time of the season will be one of our most important challenges of the season,” Nadel said.

In a similarly impressive showing, the men’s team finished second in its race in Annapolis, Md. Senior Mike Lederhouse led the team, finishing third overall in the 8000-meter race with a time of 25:02.36.

“Overall I was pleased with the effort that the men put in today. Mike Lederhouse showed great leadership finishing third overall, while Christian Alvarado made his cross country debut and proved why he was one of the top recruits in the country coming out of high school,” distance coach Brandon Bonsey said.

Alvarado finished fourth overall with a time of 25:05.77, while junior Connor Sheryak finished eighth overall with a time of 25:15.53.

The Hoyas’ strategy centered on running as a team and competing as a group, rather than as a collection of individuals. Bosney instructed track All-Americans junior Jonathan Green, senior Darren Fahy and junior Amos Bartelsmeyer to complete a tempo run within the race. The trio executed the plan perfectly and made the race easier for their teammates.

“We worked last spring on running as a team. If we keep that focus and remember who we are running for, I think that’ll lead us to a lot of success,” Lederhouse said. “This is definitely an exciting year.

All the guys are looking very fit, and we’ve really expanded on our mentality of running as a team.”

The top finishes for both teams established a strong foundation to build on. The team hopes to continue its momentum throughout the season and into the NCAA Championships in November.

“Pretty much all of our training and preparation is focused on Nationals in November. That’s kind of what everything we’re doing is looking towards,” Lederhouse said. I think we can do a lot of big things at Nationals. I can’t say what place we’ll finish exactly but with our talent and strengths, we’ll be a top-10 team for sure.”

Before the team makes it that far, however, it has months of racing, practicing and team building. The creation of team building has been a special focus of several runners and is a task that many have enjoyed.

“Being together as a team, without any distractions, is awesome,” Nadel said.

The women’s team races next Sept. 25 in Boston, Mass., while the men’s team races next Oct. 2 in Bethlehem, Pa.

SPORTS

TUESDAY, september 15, 2015

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Flawed Yankees Battle for Playoffs RAMLOW, from A10

Gardner has been consistent and healthy in the two spot. Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira have provided an unexpected amount of power in the three and four spots. Rodriguez struggled in August but is enjoying a strong season overall.

Rodriguez and Teixeira lead the team with 31 home runs each, but the Yankees just announced that their veteran first baseman is out for the season with a leg fracture.

This is a huge blow. His slugging percentage is over 100 points higher than that of his replacement, rookie Greg Bird.

Several capable veterans have supported Gardner, Rodriguez and Teixeira in New York’s lineup. Carlos Beltran, Brian McCann and Chase Headley are overpaid, but they provide solid power and consistent contact. McCann and Beltran have onbase plus slugging percentages hovering around .800, respectable numbers for two power hitters. Headley’s switch-hitting ability promises to give Girardi some flexibility in maneuvering elite AL bullpens.

At the bottom of the lineup, shortstop Didi Gregorius and second baseman Stephen Drew make Yankee fans long for the glory days of Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano. Gregorius has actually had some success, hitting .270 this season. Drew has not, hitting .203.

On the mound, the Yankees rely heavily on the back end of their bullpen, which is the best in baseball. Setup man Dellin Betances is a strikeout machine. And when you follow up Betances’ lethal fastball with Andrew Miller’s devastating sliders, you’ve got a recipe for happy Yankees fans. The duo both have sub-2.00 ERAs and sub-1.00 walks plus hits per innings pitched ratios. Having those two guys coming out of the same bullpen? Ridiculous.

The Yankees’ starting pitching is the biggest question mark. Masahiro Tanaka proved his status as the team’s ace Sunday when he dominated To-

ronto in seven shutout innings. Tanaka will lead the rotation into the playoffs, but the rest of the rotation is not as reliable. After going 14-3 in 27 starts, Nathan Eovaldi was shut down for the rest of the regular season with a sore elbow. Although he will likely be available for the playoffs, his uncertain health means the Yankees will likely rely on Ivan Nova, C.C. Sabathia, Luis Severino and Michael Pineda in the meantime.

In Nova’s last start, the righty gave up six runs in less than two innings of work. This poor performance has unfortunately been common this season as Nova’s ERA has ballooned to 4.91. If the Yankees want to make a run, Nova needs to return to his 2013 self, when he went 9-6 with a 3.47 ERA. The veteran Sabathia has the worst ERA and WHIP among the starters at 5.16 and 1.45, respectively. He’s been banged up, sure, but that doesn’t account for his declining velocity or high walk rate.

The big fella is getting old.

Pineda broke into the rotation in 2014 and dominated immediately, posting a 1.89 ERA and a .83 WHIP over 13 starts. But this year, Pineda has struggled. He strikes out batters (8.7 strikeouts per nine innings), but the righty’s ERA has climbed above 4.00 on the season. Strikeouts only mean so much.

Severino broke into the league in August and was on a tear until his Sept.

11 start against the Jays when he got absolutely shelled. The 21-year-old is the Yanks’ top prospect and has progressed well, but the kid was pitching in Double-A ball at the beginning of the year. We’ll see if he can have sustained success in the bigs.

The Yankees aren’t flawless. But overall, their balance in the lineup and on the field, experience in the rotation and lights-out bullpen make them a tough out in the AL. They’re a legitimate ALCS contender.

Hugh Ramlow is a sophomore in the College.

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Strong Defense Stifles Marist

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Senior quarterback Kyle Nolan was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week following a 200-yard performance against Marist. Nolan threw for two touchdowns and zero interceptions and also rushed for 26 yards.

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and broke up a pass in the end zone that would have been a touchdown.

Once the Hoyas had opened up the scoring, they were rarely stopped. Georgetown scored points on six of its next seven drives.

After Akere picked off Marist senior quarterback Ed Achziger in the first quarter, Nolan found Hill on the next play for the 9-yard touchdown to make it 10-0 in the first quarter.

Senior running back Jo’el Kimpela joined the offensive outburst when Georgetown got the ball back, plowing through multiple defenders for the 15-yard touchdown run.

In the second quarter, sophomore quarterback Michael White replaced

Achziger. White’s first pass was promptly intercepted by Williamson, who gave the Hoyas a 24-point advantage by reaching the end zone.

After Marist got the ball back, White threw his team’s only touchdown of the night to senior running back Garrett Clay. White finished the game, completing 16 of 32 passes for 177 yards. Sophomore wide receiver Lawrence Dickens caught six balls for 90 yards.

Georgetown’s offensive line did an excellent job of protecting Nolan throughout the game. Marist’s blitzheavy defense did not record a single sack. “[Head Coach Jim Parady] and their defensive coordinator do a really good job up there,” Sgarlata said. “We told Kyle to take what they

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were giving us, and you really can’t do that unless the guys up front are doing their job. They absolutely gave him time to throw the football, which was great.”

Nolan and Hill combined for a highlight-reel play before the end of the first half, with Hill leaping over the back of his defender in the end zone and snatching the ball away for the score.

“It was a fade play, and me and Kyle spent a lot of time in the summer working on that and trying to get that connection, and it paid off,” Hill said.

The play was the highlight of a half that saw Georgetown explode offensively — an occurrence that was uncommon last season. Despite the offensive success, Hill maintained that there are still some errors that need correcting.

“We just want to keep the ball rolling, but we need to correct some things,” Hill said. “Obviously, we only scored three points in the second half, which is something we need to correct.”

Going into next weekend’s looming matchup with Darmouth, Sgarlata reiterated the need to fix their mistakes.

“I think Justin is right, three points in a half is not where we want to be, so we need to build off a good first week and get ready for a really good Dartmouth team that’s coming to town,” Sgarlata said. “Right now I think we’ll enjoy this one tonight and worry about that tomorrow.”

Saturday’s matchup against Dartmouth is set to kick off at 12 p.m. at MultiSport Facility.

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team led 4-1.

“After starting the season not scoring many goals in the first few games, we were doing the right things but it just wasn’t happening for us. We’ve kept a good mentality and it showed today,” Muyl said.

Radford scored the first of its goals immediately after the weather delay late in the first half. The Highlanders exited the break pressing for a goal, while the Hoyas seemed slow to respond. Sophomore forward Declan McCabe ended any Radford momentum when he put Georgetown ahead 4-1 with a goal in the 41st minute.

Muyl would add his second goal of the day in the second half. Both Muyl and Allen would each finish the match with two goals and an assist.

In addition to Muyl’s goal, the second half included wholesale personnel changes for Georgetown. Wiese used 19 different players in the match, including junior goalkeeper Mitchell Auer and freshman midfielder Edson Martinez, who each made their Georgetown debuts.

The heavy use of substitutions allowed the team to rest players in advance of a series of three games in seven days starting Thursday. It also gave the coaching staff a chance to work with the team and use in-game situations without the immediate pressures of a close contest.

“That 45 minutes is really important for [Martinez] so we can sit down and say, ‘You are doing this right and you are doing this wrong.’ All these guys need that.” Wiese said.

The Hoyas are starting to return to full health, with only senior midfielder Melvin Snoh and junior defender and co-captain Joshua Yaro missing the match due to injury. Yaro warmed up with the team before the game, indicating that his recovery is progressing.

A healthy lineup will be essential in the upcoming weeks as Georgetown

begins one of the toughest stretches of its schedule. Trips to Virginia Commonwealth University (2-4) and West Virginia University (2-3) precede a matchup against No. 4 Maryland (2-1).

Then the daunting Big East schedule begins. Preparation for those tests began with this past week’s schedule and Saturday’s comfortable win.

“The one game this weekend, for a lot of reasons, was nice. Hopefully, it

slingshots us into this hard two-week stretch,” Wiese said.

For senior defender and co-captain Cole Seiler, Saturday’s game highlights areas of play that need to be remedied heading into the more challenging portion of the schedule.

“We definitely have to lock it up more, stay more focused, especially with our clearances. Those two goals are kind of upsetting us,” Seiler said.

FILE PHOTO: CLAIRE SOISSON/THE HOYA

Senior forward Brandon Allen has two goals on eight shots and three assists in the 2015 season, giving him a team-high seven points.

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TALKING POINTS

CROSS COUNTRY Samantha Nadel and Mike Lederhouse led a successful weekend for the Hoyas.

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The opportunity to stain an undefeated team’s record is a particularly motivating force. When that undefeated opponent ranks among the best teams in the country, the prospect of delivering that first loss becomes even more exciting.

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (4-3-0) had the chance to tarnish No. 12 Virginia Tech’s record (8-0-1) when the two teams faced off Sunday afternoon. The fact that it was a heartbreaking 4-3 overtime loss to the Hokies in the second round of the NCAA Tournament that ended the Hoyas’ season last year only added fuel to the already burning fire.

“We knew it was going to be a tough game since we played them twice last year and lost both games, so we were really coming out trying to get a win,” graduate student goalkeeper

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In the first half, both teams had chances to score. Senior forward Crystal Thomas led the way for the Hoyas, tallying all four of the team’s first-half shots and putting each of those shots on goal.

The Hokies took nine shots in the opening period and managed to put four of them on frame. Newins recorded three saves and came off her line on numerous other occasions to quiet the threatening Virginia Tech offense.

“Emma is a very, very good goalkeeper,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “We knew this was a game where physically she was going to be questioned because of the nature of how they play.

I thought she stood up to it and played really well. She made the saves that we needed her to make when we needed her to make them.”

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Sophomore defensive back Jelani Williamson returned an interception in the Hoyas’ 34-7 win over Marist. Fellow sophomore defensive back David Akere also had an interception in the game.

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Junior forward Grace Damaska assisted the Hoyas’ only goal in their 2-1 loss to No. 12 Virginia Tech. Damaska leads the team with four goals on the season.

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The Georgetown football team (1-1) began the home portion of its schedule Saturday when it played host to Marist (0-2). A field goal from junior kicker Henry Darmstadter gave the Hoyas an early lead and they never looked back, going on to steamroll the Red Foxes by a final score of 347. The game was the Hoyas’ first since junior linebacker Ty Williams suffered a severe neck injury, and the team wore decals with Williams’ number two on the side of their helmets to honor their teammate. According to a Fox News report, Williams will be transferred from the UPMC Altoona hospital to a rehab facility in Atlanta in the coming days.

Against Marist, Head Coach Rob Sgarlata’s team was effective

on both sides of the ball. On offense, senior quarterback Kyle Nolan tallied 200 passing yards, completing 21 passes on 34 attempts. Nolan threw for two touchdowns, both to junior wide receiver Justin Hill.

“We came out throwing it because we knew they were going to load the box.”

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“We want to run as many plays as possible, we want to be up-tempo and we want to take what the defense gives us. At the beginning of the game we came out throwing it because we knew they were going to load the box,” Sgarlata said.

Defensively, the Hoyas stifled the Red Foxes throughout the night, allowing only one touchdown and recording two interceptions and three sacks. Georgetown’s secondary silenced the Marist passing game throughout the matchup. Sophomore defensive backs David Akere and Jelani Williamson each had an interception, with Williamson returning his pick for a touchdown.

“Coach made a really good call on defense, and I was just doing what I was supposed to do,” Williamson said. “[Senior defensive back] Garrett [Powers] came down, made a good play on the ball and tipped it and it just fell into my hands. I was really fortunate.”

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Early Goals Secure Home Win for GU ANDREW MAY Hoya Staff Writer

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Playoffs Still Within Reach For Yankees

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he New York Yankees are locked in a tight battle with the Toronto Blue Jays for the American League East. Currently, they trail Toronto by 3 1/2 games in the East and are up three games in the AL Wild Card race. They have a .549 winning percentage and boast an over 78-run differential.

By all accounts, they are having a good season.

But this weekend, they dropped three of four games to the Jays, bringing their overall record against their division rival to just 3-7. Which brings me to my question: do the Yankees have what it takes to beat the elite teams in the AL and make a deep playoff run?

At the top of the lineup, center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury has been a mixed bag. In the first half, the former All-Star hit .324. But an extended recovery from a nagging knee injury sidelined him for two months. Ellsbury has shown alarming inconsistency since returning, going on a short hot streak in August but posting an appalling .167 on-base percentage thus far in September.

The remainder of manager Joe Girardi’s lineup has made up for much of Ellsbury’s troubles. Brett See RAMLOW, A9

The game plan could have derailed in any number of places in a lopsided, storm-struck match. The Hoyas had to work through an underdog opponent sandwiched in between two tough sections of the schedule, a lightning delay in the first half, a small crowd and frequent substitutions. Despite all this, the No. 25 Georgetown men’s soccer team (2-2-1) avoided the upset against Radford (3-1-1), routing the Highlanders 5-2.

The Hoyas may have started the season slowly, but they entered the match coming off a marquee win over the No. 8 UCLA Bruins (1-3). On Saturday afternoon at home, Georgetown was clearly the better team, though Radford held its own at times, especially for the first 10 minutes. The talent of Georgetown’s individual players, however, began to turn the tide of the game in the 13th minute.

Senior forward Brandon Allen brought down a pass in front of the Radford back line with a very strong piece of holdup play before starting a quick series of passes. He then collected the ball again, drove through the Highlanders’ defense at the top left of the 18-yard box and buried his shot in the far post. Allen would score again less than a minute later when he converted a penalty kick earned by junior

midfielder Bakie Goodman, who drew the foul in the box after falling on a poor Radford back pass.

Those two plays set the tone for the majority of the match.

Georgetown’s front line easily bypassed the Radford defense on several occasions, with forwards

scoring all five of the team’s goals Saturday.

“Today was a good example of the quality up front. You don’t get a lot of chances, but the chances you get you put away nicely. And that is the difference in the game, possibly,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said.

After Allen’s brace, the Hoyas experienced little pressure from the Highlander offense. Junior forward Alex Muyl netted the first of his two goals in the 32nd minute to stretch the lead to three. Entering the half, the See RADFORD, A9

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Junior forward Alex Muyl scored two goals in Georgetown’s 5-2 victory over Radford on Saturday at Shaw Field. Senior forward Brandon Allen also added two goals in the win.

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