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AIR ATTACK

Quarterback Kyle Nolan led Georgetown to a 2416 win over Columbia, moving to 2-2.

EDITORIAL Georgetown should take measures to better support adjuncts.

DIS-ORIENTATION This year’s Senior Dis-Orientation week featured fewer events.

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NEWS, A7

SPORTS, A10

Petition Advances Major

Group to Address Slavery, Memory Toby Hung

Hoya Staff Writer

In response to the recent dialogue sparked by the naming of Mulledy Hall, University President John J. DeGioia has charged a working group of faculty, students and alumni to discuss the memorialization of the history of Jesuit slaveholding at Georgetown.

The Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation announced that it will seek to address the history and ongoing ramifications of slaveholding

by Jesuits at Georgetown during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This is the first working group on slavery charged by the president of a Jesuit university in the United States.

The announced retention of Mulledy Hall’s name reignited discussion of the history of slavery at Georgetown earlier this academic year. The hall,

which comprises the Former Jesuit Residence alongside Ryan Hall, was named after former University President Fr. Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J., who authorized the sale of 272 slaves owned by the Society of Jesus in Maryland to two plantations in Louisiana after he completed his term as president in 1838, ensuring their continued enslavement.

In a university-wide email sent last Thursday, DeGioia identified the primary objective of the working group as providing recommendations on how the university should reconcile with the historical connection between Georgetown and slavery.

“I have asked this working group to provide advice and recommendations to me on how best to acknowledge and See HISTORY, A6

2016 Descends Upon the Hilltop

African American Studies looks to expand Patricja Okuniewska Hoya Staff Writer

The African American Studies Program and the Provost’s Committee on Diversity created a petition to establish an African American studies major last Wednesday, five years after the idea was first discussed.

The petition calls for an increased allocation of resources and faculty to the African American Studies Program. The program currently consists of a minor as well as elective courses.

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Mulledy Hall, whose name retention has sparked controversy, is one of the components of the Former Jesuit Residence, pictured.

“I think this will be a valuable addition provided that there is sufficient demand for it.”

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Student organizers of the petition declined to comment on the number of signatures received to date. As of press time, the Facebook event page of the petition has received over 200 RSVPs. Director of African American Studies Robert J. Patterson said that the program and students on the Committee on Diversity will use the petition to assess student, faculty and alumni support for the major before submitting a proposal to the college dean’s office.

“The petition helps us to project how the major, and minor for that matter, might expand. … They have played an important role in making the case for this major,” Patterson said. “Students demonstrate demand by taking courses, and have expressed in numerous settings … that

With race underway, students form campaign chapters across parties Jack Lynch

not yet have a definite strategy.

“It’s a very organic kind of process,” Weaver said. “There’s With the 2016 general presi- not a lot of strategy to it. We dential election over a year try to keep it relevant to curaway, student groups in sup- rent events. … As we’ve started a port of candidates from both little bit of activity on campus, major parties are beginning to we’ve used it to promote our gain momentum on campus. events and meetings.”

So far, several groups have Weaver added that memcreated Facebook pages and bers of “Georgetown for Bernie held interest 2016” hope to meetings to “I think you’ll see the increase their support their popularity preferred can- groups grow in size on campus in didates. the coming as well as number The group semester, and s u p p o r t i n g once the number of has already Senator Ber- candidates decreases.” hosted several nie Sanders general inter(I-Vt.), a canest meetings Amber Athey didate in the and a “BerChair, GU College Republicans Democrat prinie Birthday maries, stands out as the most Bash” fundraiser to celebrate vocally supported by Hoyas on the senator’s birthday earlier social media. More than 350 this month. people follow the “Georgetown Weaver highlighted these for Bernie 2016” Facebook page. gatherings as a way to both Caleb Weaver (SFS ’16), Irene build awareness and identify Koo (COL ’16) and Erin Leonard students with expertise who (SFS ’16) run the Sanders group can contribute to the group. and regularly contribute to its “Those events really helped page, promoting its events. (full us find people at Georgetown disclosure: Koo is a community who are excited about Bernie member of The Hoya’s editorial and who have skills … in board).

Weaver said the group does See ELECTIONS, A6

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Rapper and D.C. native Wale performed a set at the two-day Landmark Music Festival this weekend to a packed audience.

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SafeRides to Accept All Requests Marina Pitofsky Special to The Hoya

Amid increasing concerns and complaints from the community regarding the SafeRides program, the Georgetown University Police Department updated its LiveSafe app over the summer and changed its policies for the program to mandate drivers to accept all requests made by students and faculty.

To improve user experience, GUPD further integrated SafeRides and LiveSafe, which was created in September 2014 as a digital platform for GUPD to respond to campus safety concerns. With the new update, users can message GUPD while they are waiting for a SafeRide and check the See SAFETY, A6

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With policy revamped this summer, GUPD has directed SafeRides to respond to all requests made by students and faculty.

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“Georgetown for Bernie 2016” has amassed the most popular support on social media of all election groups thus far.

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Administrators should have made the setbacks to Greek life clearer in their recent email.

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Rachel Corboz scored in the 105th minute to give Georgetown an overtime win.

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OPINION

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

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EDITORIALS

The Right to Teach Well Colleges and universities nationwide are in the midst of an adjunct crisis, coinciding with skyrocketing operating costs and burgeoning student debt in higher education. Numerous studies suggest that the quality of student education is negatively impacted by the instruction of adjunct professors. This does not bode well for Georgetown, where 54 percent of undergraduate professors are adjunct.

A recent study published by Educational Policy demonstrates, through no fault of their own, that adjuncts are often forced to take on unrealistic, heavy teaching loads because of dismal financial compensation — the national average stands at $2,700 per semester-course. At Georgetown, this potentially hinders their ability to adequately prepare for instruction and engage in responsibilities outside of the classroom, such as holding regular office hours, advising students, writing letters of recommendation and engaging in independent research.

Adjunct professors at Georgetown organized a successful campaign two years ago to form a union, voting overwhelmingly in support of union representation during the election process. Thus was formed the Service

Employees International Union Local 500. The collective bargaining agreement resulted in a negotiation with the university in the fall of 2014 that saw improvements for adjuncts, including a higher floor for adjunct compensation rates and formalization of rights in the workplace.

Although conditions for adjuncts at Georgetown have improved, there is still more that the university can do to ensure quality education for its students and the dignity and well-being of its workers. A starting point is using some of the $500 million designated for faculty and academic excellence from the “For Generations to Come” capital campaign to provide better resources that can be used by adjunct professors.

Designating offices where instructors might hold regular office hours and funding adjunct research are good starting points.

It is not enough to recruit more faculty and invest in buzzwords like “innovation” and “interdisciplinary” — Georgetown needs to prioritize the improvement of the quality of adjunct positions. As an institution of higher education, the quality of our faculty is not where we should be seeking to cut costs.

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D.C. Don’t Kill My Vibe — Rapper Kendrick Lamar announced that he will perform with the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Preforming Arts on Oct. 20 for one night only.

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Run On — A group of runners honored wounded veterans by running 185 miles, finishing up this past Saturday by running to Georgetown’s front gates alongside members of the Georgetown Running Club!

Concert on the Mall — Landmark Music Festival wrapped up over the weekend, and despite some initial challenges, impressed the crowds. #facebookdown — Facebook crashed for the second time in three days Monday, frustrating users and causing #facebookdown to trend on Twitter.

Supermoon — Last night, a total lunar eclipse occurred in the night sky for the first time in 33 years. Everyone who couldn’t see the blood moon or supermoon through the clouds only has to wait until 2033 for the next chance to witness the rare phenomenon.

EDITORIAL CARTOON by Derek Nelson

Put a Dent in Debt A Georgetown education is expensive, and the university needs to do more to help its students deal with the rising costs. The upward trend in tuition costs shows no sign of slowing, and students increasingly rely on loans to finance a substantial part of this cost. Student loans notoriously cannot be easily forgiven — it is only written off if a borrower is deemed physically incapable of working or if the borrower dies (as long as there are no co-signers to the debt).

Thus, Georgetown needs to provide more diverse and innovative options for students burdened with debt. With perceived postgraduation employment rates at a low and student loans at historic highs, students deserve a less restricting option than traditional college debt. One alternative proposed by The Economist is a system in which charitable alumni fund individual students’ cost of attendance, with students paying a prearranged, reasonable percentage of their incomes back to alumni for a fixed number of years. Under this plan, a student would not bear the risk or financial hardship that uncontrollable factors like financial crises may pose. Georgetown alumni would be given the opportunity to make a direct and tangible impact on students’ educations, obtaining a nice return for their generosity.

This may sound analogous to the stock market, but it does not exactly mirror a market as the measure would be accompanied by stipulations that protect students

from the most concerning drawbacks. Specifically, the student would not interact directly with the alumnus who invests in his education, and the alumnus could not influence a student’s academic path, beyond what is initially disclosed at the moment the investment is made. While this system failed at Yale University due to adverse selection, the option proposed here resolves this issue with an equitable spreading of risk.

This means that alumni can pool their money into a fund that collectively pays the cost of tuition for many students. This would ensure that investors don’t exploit students with more profitable career prospects. Such a pool differs from a scholarship since the economic incentive of a return on investment would bring in more money than a standard pro bono scholarship fund. Of course, an office would need to be set up within Student Financial Services to handle origination, manage coordination and disbursement, establish a quota system to limit alumni investments beyond a certain threshold, and handle any ad hoc issues that may emerge.

The university needs to view its current method of educational financing as an opportunity to promote a different kind of cost management beyond its own front gates.

Georgetown can set an example and inspire a much-needed conversation about higher education policy in the country by replacing its debt-based loan model by an equity-based debt model.

A Major Necessity Thanks to the efforts of the African American Studies Program and the Provost’s Committee for Diversity, Georgetown students may have the option to major in African American studies in the near future. The proposal has the support of many Georgetown students and boasts an intrinsic value important to any institution of higher learning. It has shown that Georgetown is ready to seriously address questions of power and privilege. The community is eager to engage different ways of knowing, unsatisfied with its intellectual starvation and conscious of its confinement to the status quo concept of truth.

Several students engaged in the African American Studies Program, which currently offers a minor option, began circulating a petition to demonstrate Georgetown students’ support for the major proposal. As of publication, the event has upward of 215 signatories from a diverse array of backgrounds. These participants span class years, including alumni, and come from a breadth of majors, from marketing to culture and politics.

This wide appeal indicates that the African American studies major proposal is neither radical nor naive. Rather, the proposal prom-

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ises to meet Georgetown’s desire for intellectual curiosity and inclusivity. Georgetown students are hungry for a whole truth that has not yet been sufficiently articulated in available course offerings.

The Main Campus Executive Faculty voted to add a diversity requirement to the core curriculum in April. Georgetown students had entertained the idea of such a requirement for several years, with leaders of campus movements like #BBGU — Being Black at Georgetown University — and Dangerous Black Kids of Georgetown University calling for the change in 2013. Drafting and passing the diversity requirement proposal took several semesters of tireless and inspired effort on the part of students as well as faculty. If the push to establish this major meets similar challenges, those pushing for the major must hold the administration accountable for follow-through as the proposal is negotiated and hopefully implemented.

The proposal should move through the university bureaucracy unimpeded, with all parties focusing on next steps and prioritizing follow-through.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Cabaret Crucial to Georgetown Arts Scene I would like to firstly express my appreciation for The Hoya’s commitment to Georgetown’s musicians and performers, reflected in the recent editorial piece “The Show Must Go On” (The Hoya, A2, September 15, 2015) Student efforts such as Kickback and GU Jam Sesh are certainly important in providing the university’s musicians with opportunities for performance and visibility.

I wish to respectfully submit, however, that Georgetown Cabaret has been a “crucial pillar,” to borrow your phrase, of the Georgetown music community for the past

40 years.

Cabaret was founded in 1976 by undergraduate performers and has been an annual staple of Georgetown’s spring semester. Last year, Cabaret drew an audience of more than 500 members of the Georgetown community to Black Cat on the U Street Corridor. The production brought together musicians and vocalists from backgrounds in a cappella, jazz and pep band and was praised in The Hoya’s article “Cabaret Reveals School Music Scene” (The Hoya, February 27, 2015).

To quote from that piece,

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“Cabaret was the golden intersection of all parts of Georgetown music; it brought together various pieces of the school’s musical puzzle — musicians, drummers, guitarists, saxophone players — seamlessly into a high-energy rock ‘n’ roll act.”

I appreciate The Hoya’s efforts to support student musicians and I hope that our organizations can work and communicate together in the future to further promote musicianship on our campus.

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OPINION

Tuesday, september 29, 2015

Mr. Right

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VIEWPOINT • Howard

New Students, All Hands on Deck Michael Khan

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true liberal arts education is meant to introduce students to a wide variety of thoughts, and professors are supposed to be the well-intentioned and informed mediators of discussion. However, it is very clear that, as stated by a New York Times reporter in 2010, a “professor is a label that leans left.”

Robert Lichter of George Mason University, Stanley Rothman of Smith College and Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto conducted the last comprehensive study on the topic in 2005, examining the political affiliations of professors on college campuses nationwide. The findings were based on a survey of 1,643 fulltime faculty members at 183 four-year universities. The researchers relied on 1999 data from the North American Academic Study Survey. The study found that 72 percent of American professors are liberal and only 15 percent are conservative.

Not surprisingly, the disparity was found to be the largest at elite schools, where 87 percent of faculty identify as liberal. According to a more recent study by UCLA in 2013, the trend is only getting worse.

Additionally, among other interesting tidbits, the 2005 study found that 65 percent of faculty members want the government to ensure full employment, a stance to the left of the current Democratic Party’s position. It should be noted that, according to Gallup, self-identified conservatives outnumber liberals two to one in the country; therefore, you would expect to see college campuses be at least a little bit more balanced, especially considering that they pride themselves on their “diversity.” Well, think again.

The history of college radicalism and liberalism is a rich one. Ward Churchill, who infamously compared 9/11 victims to Nazis, was a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder for 17 years. Bill Ayers, an unapologetic terrorist in the Weather Underground, was a professor at the College of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, once even holding the title of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.

His like-minded wife, who put forth a “Declaration of a State of War” against the United States and was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, was a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law until 2013. Both individuals, under the umbrella of the Weather Underground, staged the bombings of various public buildings to express their outrage over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Moreover, in April 2013, former Weather Underground member and convicted murderer Kathy Boudin was named scholar-in-residence at New York University; at the time, she was also a professor at Columbia University. After serving 20 years in prison for murder, Columbia offered her a full-time position.

And these are only the terrorists. Leftists with wacky views about world politics can be found all over American college campuses — including at Georgetown.

Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson has accused former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani of thinking like a white supremacist and insinuated that the Bible teaching of loving Jesus could be considered homoerotic. Another Georgetown professor, Preston Mitchum, has called on Americans to celebrate “Parent’s Day” because gendered nouns are somehow offensive. The university as a whole also endorses liberal moves on climate change, with professors touting it and hiding behind our Catholic identity to promote it — only because it aligns with their own personal political views. On the issue of traditional marriage, however — another tenet of Catholic doctrine — the university is notably silent.

By taking stances on political issues, hiring like-minded professors who sing the same tune and holding one-sided panel discussions on issues such as racial strife in America — all of which Georgetown has done — the very concept of a university of free thought is made into a punch line.

What a disservice this does to students who actually believe going to college will better their lives and their understanding of the world — little do so many know that, on the contrary, elite universities are turning into mobilization centers for hard-core leftist activists, while kicking all others to the curb.

Former conservative Georgetown government professor Patrick Deneen left the hilltop for the University of Notre Dame in 2012, saying that he felt he had no support or encouragement from his colleagues.

He wrote at the time, “I have felt isolated from the heart of the institution where I have devoted so many of my hours and my passion. Over time, I discovered that I was lonely at Georgetown.” Unfortunately, too many conservative students here feel exactly the same way.

Michael Khan is a sophomore in the College. Mr. Right appears every other Tuesday.

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s Georgetown enters a new year, it faces a broad set of complicated challenges and opportunities. I believe as students, we have the desire and potential to affect great change on this campus. I want to enumerate some of the areas where students can make progress this upcoming school year with the hope of providing a launching pad for all the new students on this campus who want to make a difference, but might not know exactly where to begin.

We are empowered to address cultural and diversity issues on this Hilltop. The diversity requirement passed; now we need to ensure its smooth implementation.

In addition to our curriculum, we need a more diverse faculty. Culture and diversity problems extend to student life as well. Student groups have a stunning lack of diversity; now more than ever, we need inclusive leadership.

Groups should use Leaders in Education About Diversity and the Center for Multicultural Equity & Access resources to host diversity trainings for their membership, especially regarding the recruitment and hiring processes.

We should note that cultural groups have special funding needs and codify this understanding in funding boards.

SafeRides and the Center for Social Justice need to add a disability accessible van and we should consider a Disability Cultural Center. We should also support Casa Latina. Incoming transgender and gender-nonconforming students should be able to enter Campus Housing Roomate Matching System as their identified gender and club sports teams should follow the NCAA policy on transgender athletes.

We are empowered to lead the conversation on master planning and neighborhood relations. Highlights include: renovate residence halls on campus (starting with Henle and Village A), establish a regular schedule for hall renovations, oppose any increased on-campus housing requirements, protect the right for seniors to live off campus, institutionalize TurboVote, increase alumni awareness of master planning, encourage students membership in Burleith Citizens Association and Citizens Association of Georgetown and increase student

We are empowered to lead the conversation, tackle socioeconomic diversity and make conduct reforms. involvement in Georgetown Community Partnership working groups.

We are empowered to tackle socioeconomic diversity. Georgetown should freeze tuition and be more transparent in tuition allocation. We should consider tuition deferments.

We need to endow and expand the Georgetown Scholarship Program and offer more scholarships for middle class students. We should allow preregistration without a receipt of full semester tuition and expand the Georgetown Summer Fellowship Program.

Let’s continue the Committee on Class, Equity and Access, advocate for RAs on financial aid and permit college credit for certain internships.

Student organizations ought to provide financial assistance options for members (i.e. International Relations Club gives aid for conference travel).

We should also address the real cost of college attendance, including book expenses, travel costs, laundry and printing.

We are empowered to improve student group funding by reducing costs of Gaston and ICC Auditorium, negotiating a billing deadline when charges to student group accounts for university services are void, raising the

student activities fee to $200 through a referendum and implementing the Student Activities Capital Campaign.

We are empowered to improve Residential Living by utilizing InterHall as advocates, continuing Adopt-AHall, expanding CHARMS (especially to sophomores, transfers and study abroad), establishing a landlord fair and opening housing eligibility for senior year at the end of sophomore year. We should ensure fourth-year housing eligibility and the right for seniors to live off campus.

We are empowered to improve food and auxiliary services. Aramark’s contract is ending, so students can explore new service providers. Let’s increase meal plan options, implement the Fall 2014 Hoya Court meal swipe exchange, support O’Donovan Hall’s workers’ rights and discuss mail consolidation efforts.

We are empowered to make conduct reforms. We need to expand clear and convincing evidentiary standard to off-campus violations, eliminate all fines from the sanctioning guide and explore a restorative justice sanctioning model.

We are empowered to fight sexual assault and dating violence by sup-

VIEWPOINT • Germano

The Alternative to The Greek Email

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eorgetown’s policy not to recognize, support or interfere with fraternities and sororities is appropriate. Despite this, a recent email from Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson and Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Jeanne Lord regarding it was highly objectionable.

The email was strange. It seemed designed to inform students of a controversial policy, but provided no defense of it except an obviously out-of-touch statement suggesting incredibly competitive university-sanctioned groups “comply with a standard of open membership.” The email consisted of bad reasoning in support of a good policy. It left Greek students feeling arbitrarily attacked and everyone else confused.

Olson and Lord should try again. Their new email should cite the litany of research that backs Georgetown’s policy by showing that participating in a fraternity or sorority is a high-risk behavior. It is their place to discourage involvement in high-risk behaviors, and they should merely communicate that Greek life is one of them.

Their new email should include the U.S. Department of Justice analysis that found sorority membership was a risk factor for sexual assault, a correlation it attributed to two separate academic journal findings that men in fraternities were more likely to perpetrate sexual assault or sexual aggression than their non-Greek peers.

Their new email should include data from a University of Maine study on hazing, which found that 73 percent of students nationwide who sought to join a social Greek-letter organization experienced hazing. It should also note that, according to research cited in The New York Times, the United States experienced an average of 2.5 hazingrelated college student deaths a year between 1970 and 2012.

Their new email should include a National Institute of Justice report that found fraternity and sorority members were almost twice as likely to experience negative alcohol-related events, including but not limited to injury, assault and property damage. Importantly, this statistic is not that Greek students drink more heavily and more often than non-Greek students; while true, this alone must presuppose that alcohol consump-

tion in college is bad in order to be concerning. Instead, it is that fraternity and sorority members experience serious, negative consequences related to alcohol consumption — things that are actually bad — at disproportionately higher rates.

And, their new email should include information from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, published in TIME Magazine, which ranked fraternities the sixth worse insurance risk in the country, hovering around peers in the hazardous waste disposal and asbestos removal industries.

The list, of course, goes on.

Greek students would still object to this new email, in fact more vigorously than they objected to the previous one. They would cite many legitimate benefits that come with fraternity and sorority life. Tribal associations, as they have for centuries, obviously provide benefits. The question is not “Do fraternities and sororities do good?” but instead “Does the good they do outweigh the bad?”

Another objection would question whether socially dominant, non-Greek student groups play the role of Greek life on campus. They do to some extent.

But maybe, for example, The Corp’s ostensibly non-social mission limits the degree to which it assumes the risks of social fraternities. Maybe it doesn’t.

Georgetown’s policy is appropriate because it allows students to answer these questions for themselves. In doing so, they should consider research and analysis that supports the university’s position, which Olson and Lord could have provided, as well as contextual realities that may mitigate it: Georgetown’s Greek scene is by all accounts tame, and non-Greek student groups might just be fraternities in disguise anyway.

The point is not that Greek life is totally bad or good, but that a conversation on this topic is worth having. Future emails from Olson and Lord should contribute to it by informing students’ decisions, rather than offering unsubstantiated criticism. In this case, their delicate dance around the issue led them to trip and fall.

Ben Germano is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is a contributing editor for The Hoya.

porting the addition of sexual assault language for all syllabi, increasing awareness about who are mandatory reporters on campus and expanding participation in Sexual Assault Peer Education workshops.

We are empowered to enhance academic and intellectual life on campus. We should allow languages to be taken pass/fail, permit double majoring across schools and bring critical reforms to the study abroad office.

We should also include an option for deans to make transcript notes, which indicate reasons that influenced grades during certain semesters.

Other areas for change include advocating for tabling as an expression of speech, including “immigration status” in the non-discriminatory Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity statement, commissioning student artists and pushing for more space for the arts on campus and ensuring Georgetown adheres to and expands its sustainability goals.

We also need to continue talking about mental health, reforming Counseling & Psychiatric Services, offering more free CAPS appointments and establishing a Mental Health Peer Educators program. We should convert the sixth floor of Reiss into club office space, expand student workers’ rights, consider a smoking ban across campus, better assist student entrepreneurs, consistently fund the club sports athletic trainer, add a second academic advisor for student athletes, create an accountability tracker for facility requests, install broadcast TVs across campus to advertise student events and dispel the misconception that groups will be penalized for co-sponsoring events with unrecognized groups.

By raising awareness about these topics, I hope my fellow Hoyas will find an issue that resonates with them and pick up the banner to move this university forward. One person cannot enact the change we need, we must go far and we must go together.

This is a call for all hands on deck.

Reed Howard is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. He is an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and a GUSA deputy chief of staff.

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The Real Value of the Hashtag Education #CriticalThinking #CommunicationSkills customer problems and writing business #InterculturalUnderstanding plans for marketing communications.” #ProblemSolving #Ethics He calls his liberal arts education the hese are the hashtags of higher “launching pad” for his career, providing education, the buzzwords of the him, “a strong grounding in a variety of liberal arts in particular. Search disciplines and the ability to quickly learn the website of any arts and sciences new subjects when my interests or my job school, and you’ll find them there: the demanded it.” #problemsolving. guaranteed return on your liberal arts The common theme here is imaginainvestment. But what do these buzzwords tion, without which there is no such actually mean, and do we (colleges) deliver thing as innovation. Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, on our promises?

S.J., describes imagination as “what you Let me tell you about a few of my life- use when you meet a challenge, when long friends, Adam, Bettina, Liora and you see something you want to make difPhil. Adam is a senior spokesperson for ferent.” Or, as Albert Einstein said, “Logic Microsoft. Bettina is a successful blog- will get you from A to B. Imagination will ger and activist on issues relating to chil- take you everywhere.” dren and food policy. Liora runs her own “Everywhere” includes not only technolhigh-tech public relations business. Phil ogy, but also business, education, design, is vice president of project management nonprofit work, etc. — all industries where at a company that provides cloud video the liberal arts imagination is highly valservices. They majored, respectively, in po- ued. Earlier this year, the British Council litical science, psychology, commissioned a report on American studies and Engthe crucial role of humanlish. None had academic istic study in meeting intertraining in computer scinational development chalence, technology, commulenges. A 2013 survey of 318 nications or business. None executives at mid-to-large immediately entered their companies about hiring fields upon graduation practices found that 95 perbecause, well, those fields cent prioritized candidates didn’t exist in the early 90s. who demonstrated skills Sue Lorenson Instead, Adam worked likely to contribute to workon the Bill Clinton camplace innovation. Those paign. Bettina went to law school. Liora skills included critical thinking, problem was an account coordinator at a market- solving, communication abilities (deemed ing agency. Phil taught high school Eng- more important than a student’s major lish. by 93 percent of respondents), ethical So, how did they end up where they are? judgment (96 percent) and intercultural By the ’96 campaign, Adam envisioned understanding (96 percent). Communicanew opportunities for youth outreach via tion though writing, scientific and social something called the World Wide Web; he scientific problem-solving, understanding was dubbed the campaign’s “technology others through religion and language, the czar” and was later recruited by Microsoft. study of ethics … Someone should really Of his career, Adam says, “A passion for build a core curriculum around these. ideas and the skills to ask the questions In a recent National Association of Colthat bring focus to an opportunity are the leges and Employers survey of 130 competimost valuable traits anyone can have, and tive colleges, Georgetown ranked seventh they are nurtured particularly by the cul- with regard to starting salaries of liberal ture of the liberal arts institution. Learn in arts graduates. Why do we do so well? Bethe classroom, and then hone your skills cause, per a recent article in Forbes (echoed in late night conversations with fellow stu- by pieces in The Washington Post and U.S. dents.” #criticalthinking.

News), while technology improves and Bettina left a successful career as an in- takes care of routine tasks, there will be an tellectual property attorney to work as an increased need for “what mortals do best: advocate for food labeling and children’s generating creating ideas and actions in a health issues. She notes that her blogging data-rich world.” This also explains why, and web petitioning “is grounded in criti- according to another AACU survey, at peak cal thinking and persuasive communica- earning potential, humanities and social tion.” #ethics #communicationskills. science grads earn more than grads with Liora, trilingual and a world traveler, professional and preprofessional degrees. built a huge client base in her early jobs, One group has been prepared for the based in part on her ability to charm and world that is; another has imagined the connect with a diverse set of colleagues and world that will be. #promiseskept. consumers. #interculturalunderstanding.

Phil initially left teaching to take a job Sue Lorenson is a senior associate at Adobe, where he found both happi- dean at Georgetown College. She is ness and success in the opportunity to one of the alternating writers for The move “between lots of different areas — Dean’s Desk, which appears every designing technical products, discussing other Tuesday.

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Peace Activists Discuss Christianity in Palestine SYED HUMZA MOINUDDIN Special to The Hoya

Anglican priest Naim Ateek and Mandela Institute for Palestinian Prisoners co-founder Jonathan Kuttab discussed several issues faced by the Christian minority in Israel and Palestine in a panel discussion in Copley Formal Lounge on Friday.

The event, which was titled “Christians in the Holy Land,” was organized by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Around 10 attendees joined Ateek and Kuttab in the discussion.

Ateek, who is a native of Palestine and a former canon of St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem, is the cofounder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, an organization dedicated to overcoming denominational barriers to peace in Israel and Palestine.

Kuttab, who serves on the board of SELTC, is a practicing lawyer in Washington, D.C. and Israel, where he spe-

cializes in human rights violations and social justice in Palestine.

According to Ateek, he founded SELTC with the intention of joining Muslims and Christians together through dialogue.

“SELTC took on itself that responsibility of trying to really bring the Muslims and the Christians together,” Ateek said. “This interfaith ministry is trying to bring down any prejudices between our communities, yet there is still so much more to be done.”

As the discussion progressed, Ateek highlighted the achievements of Palestinian Christians in establishing interfaith networks and communitybuilding institutions. He also discussed particular instances in which the Christian minority continues to be victims of racism and violence. “[The Christian community] has a number of organizations — not only schools, but clinics, hospitals, guest houses — and we make sure there is no discrimination on any basis, in-

cluding religion,” Ateek said. “Yet Israel is an apartheid state — a racist state — and racism is spiraling. Many of the outside settlers coming into Palestine are burning churches, and there is no action on the part of Israel.”

“The battle for human rights, for international law, for equality before the law, is no longer theoretical and theological and academic.”

JONATHAN KUTTAB Co-Founder, Mandela Institute for Palestinian Prisoners

Over the course of the discussion, audience member Kathy Aquilina, the program director of local nonprofit Initiatives of Change, commented on Ateek’s views of Zionist

settlers in Palestine and the violence they influence.

“One of the scourges against Palestinians are some Americans who have become stridently religious settlers who exhibit violence and racism against them,” Aquilina said. “[Palestinians] feel that the United States has continually disappointed them by not standing up for justice in the area.”

Ateek recalled his own experience with early Zionist settlers during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The conflict broke out as a result of tension between Zionists and Arabs as a result of the negative feedback to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, which displaced more than 700,000 native Palestinians.

“Israel has never treated Christians in any special way,” Ateek said.

“I recall that I was a boy in 1948 when the Zionists came and occupied our town. There were Christians and Muslims living in it, and the Zionists drove us out and we had

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School of Foreign Service Professor Yvonne Haddad, Anglican priest Naim Ateek and human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab discussed the problems faced by the Christian minority in Israel and Palestine at a panel discussion Friday in Copley Formal Lounge.

nothing. To them we were just Palestinians, and they wanted to occupy the land and everything we owned was confiscated. The discrimination going on today has continued and is against Christians and Muslims.”

Kuttab then turned the conversation toward questions on the implementation and practice of international law and human rights as a way to protect the Christian minority.

“The battle for human rights, for international law, for equality before the law, is no longer theoretical and theological and academic,” Kuttab said. “It becomes an issue of practical, daily survival. The reality is that there are laws on the book that lead necessarily to discrimination, to racism, to denial of rights. This is where we must concentrate our efforts.”

Kuttab then mentioned that while there are laws in Israel that protect individuals from racism and discrimination, these laws only apply to Israeli citizens and do not extend to non-Jewish individuals living in the Palestinian territories.

“If a system of law and a legal system grant rights to one particular portion of the population and denies it to a portion of the population on the basis of religion or race or creed, then it has a name. It is called apartheid, and it is evil and improper and worthy of a fight against it,” Kuttab said.

Afterward, the panel opened up the discussion to the audience. Fr. Drew Christiansen, S.J., the co-director of the Program on the Church and the World in the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, asked both panelists to go into further detail on the space nonviolence plays in pushing for equality and justice among Palestinians.

“I really wanted to know what space there was for nonviolence,” Christiansen said. “The Israelis don’t allow nonviolent demonstrations to occur, so the military action and police action that occur, depending on what side of the green line you’re on, most often prevent there from being any nonviolent resistance.

And without that kind of space, you are going to have clashing.”

Kuttab responded to Christiansen’s question by discussing the role nonviolence should play in the activism for justice and equality, while linking the theme of this activism to faith and Christian dogma.

“I think nonviolence is the only effective method and Palestinians have practiced it intermittently with varying results,” Kuttab said. “Nonviolence has to be the only way because violence only breeds more violence.

We must find a better way than to out-violence the other side. Nonviolence is the way to go.”

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changes did not have a noticeable effect on tourism to the National Mall and nearThe Washington Metro by monuments.

Area Transportation Au“I know our visitation has thority resumed full eight- been up this year,” Litterst car service this week in con- said. “So anecdotally, no.” clusion of a summerlong The maintenance project project that repaired 100 of also aimed to fix the aging its rail cars. status of WMATA’s fleet. In The renovated 4000-se- particular, the 4000-series ries rail cars, each of which cars have been the most probincludes eight cars, were lematic, according to Jordan. removed from service for “The 4000s are ones that resafety inspections, which in- quire the most maintenance volved fixing door operation for some reason,” Jordan said. issues to enhance customer “It is the least reliable.” safety after multiple reports As a result, WMATA plans of doors opening on mov- to replace the 4000-series ing cars. Although no doors and the 1000-series, which failed the safety inspections, are approaching 40 years of several door components service, with the newest bedid not meet minimal ac- ing the 7000-series, in the ceptable standards. coming months.

WMATA reduced the numSamantha Menegas (COL ber of eight-car trains in ser- ’19) used the Metro to comvice on Mondays and Fridays mute to her internship over so that the cars could spend the summer and said she more time in encountered the mainteproblems nance yards. due to a lack WMATA meof available dia spokestrains. man Rich“I took it ard Jordan during rush explained hour from that main9 to 5 and it tenance was was always scheduled insanely for the sumcrowded,” mer, since Menegas fewer comsaid. “There muters take was this one the Metro time ... they during the off loaded RICHARD JORDAN Media Spokesman, WMATA warmer seathe whole son.

MonMetro onto days and Frithe platform days are also typically the that already had people on lightest ridership days of it. I had to wait for three the week. Ridership is about more Metros to go by before 10 percent lower on those I could get on another one.” days, according to a WMATA Melissa Crawford (MSFS press release. ’16) said she noticed that “We thought it would be Metro service slowed in the a good time to for us to ad- summer. After using the dress some of the mainte- blue-orange line last year, nance issues that we could she switched to the greentake care of,” Jordan said. yellow line for her summer “That’s why we took advan- commute and experienced tage of the summer and why frequent delays. we were down to six cars for “Over the summer I lived some trains.” on the green-yellow line According to National and that was the one with Parks Service spokesperson a lot of problems,” Crawfor the National Mall Matt ford said. “It takes forever Litterst, the summer Metro to get places.”

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“We thought it would be a good time for us to address some of the maintenance issues that we could take care of.”

The BEACH, a summer installation of 650,000 translucent plastic balls at the National Building Museum in the District was moved to Dupont Underground for a second installation and art competition Sept. 7.

Designed by architecture collective Snarkitecture, the BEACH was open at the NBM July 4 to Sept. 7. The interactive collection was modeled to resemble a beach, with beach chairs lining the “shore” and mirrored walls creating a seemingly infinite mirage.

The NBM’s Vice President for Marketing and Communications Brett Rodgers said the installation was a massive success this summer. While the previous summer’s exhibition, an 18-foot maze, drew 50,000 visitors between July and September, The BEACH attracted 180,000 beachgoers within the same timeframe.

“It exceeded our expectations by a lot,” Rodgers said. “People enjoyed it a lot of different ways for a long amount of time and seemed to really appreciate that. Not to mention that it’s completely unique, there’s just literally nowhere else you can

have this experience.”

After the installation closed in September, 100 volunteers moved the installation to Dupont Underground, an art collective that is transforming an abandoned trolley station under Dupont Circle into a retail, exhibit and performance space. The move required 25 hours of work, aided by four donated trucks from Bookstore Movers.

Dupont Underground Managing Director Braulio Agnese said The BEACH reinstallation was a chance opportunity, after meeting with representatives from the NBM and spontaneously offering to craft the plastic balls a new home.

“It’s something of a rarity, I think, for something like this to be repurposed,” Agnese said. “We are trying to open a 14,000 square foot space. ... Here’s a chance to fill it with something unique and different, a chance to showcase our mission, what we’re trying to bring to the city. ... It’s ambitious but I think it has amazing potential.”

To repurpose The BEACH’s balls, Dupont Underground plans to host a design contest for the unveiling of the space that makes use of the balls in an innovative way that differs from the NBM’s original setup. The collective aims to closely tie the competition to

the opening of the new exhibit, which will take place late October or early November.

Representatives from the NBM, Dupont Underground and the D.C. art community will judge the contest.

Agnese emphasized the versatile nature of the reinstallation contest and the Dupont Underground project.

“We always hope to have something that will interest different types of people who like different types of cultural activity, whether it’s a public event — we’re developing a relationship with D.C. Public Library — or it’s a pop-up, drink thing, retail experience or experimental theatre,” Agnese said. “We think there’ll be something to attract a lot of different types of crowds. We have ideas, and we know what the solutions are.”

Sabrina Landegger (COL ’19) visited The BEACH installation over the summer and said she enjoyed the interactive nature of the art piece.

“It’s a really fun way to bond with friends, if you’re looking for something outside of the Georgetown bubble to do,” Landegger said. “People were really happy. ... It’s just really enjoyable, super random. You’re not going to find [it] anywhere again.”

DC Trainers Face Possible Regulations IAN SCOVILLE

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Washington, D.C. government officials are in the process of introducing new licensing regulations on personal trainers, which will require that personal trainers looking to break into the fitness industry either obtain a two-year degree or submit certification from a recognized fitness program.

The regulations are a result of last year’s Omnibus Health Regulation Amendment Act, which granted oversight of any possible regulations to the Board of Physical Therapy Licensing. This board will create draft regulations pending approval from other city government departments. Set to be released next month, any proposed regulations will also have to go through a public consultation process before they can be published as law and formally implemented.

The current proposal drafted by the Board would grandfather in those who have been personal trainers for more than two years, with new personal trainers feeling the most drastic effects of the new regulations.

This specific move, however, is being met with resistance by both gym owners and certain members of the D.C. City Council.

Graham King, founder and owner of local gym Urban Athletic Club, said details of the final regulations, such as new certification requirements for training activities as well as the possibility that the limitations

may discourage newcomers to the industry.

“There’s so many different sorts of caveats,” King said. “[If there were regulations] maybe I wouldn’t have started the gym, gone into business. ... These regulations [could] stop this 20-year-old, 22-year-old person from starting their dream.”

King added that he is worried about the possibility of the regulations spreading elsewhere in the country with D.C. as a precedent.

“D.C.’s a lot easier to try [to implement regulations], and once you have it done, you can take that and say, ‘Look it worked here, let’s go to every other state,’” King said.

King also expressed concern about the impact the regulations will have on his business and the rest of the local fitness industry.

“I’m going to get fewer people fit, or people are going to pay more money, so the customer pays more,” King said. “I can’t expand my business like I would, which means I’m not creating any jobs.

So it’s hurting my own location; it’s hurting everyone else; it drives prices up, so people are paying more for training, [and] we can help fewer people.”

Additionally, King raised doubts about the proposal to give the responsibility of drafting new regulations to the Board of Physical Therapy Licensing, rather than to experts in the fitness industry.

“Physical therapy deals with injured people,” King said. “Personal trainers deal with well people.”

However, the Board of Physical Therapy Licensing is confident the regulations are necessary, and that they will have a positive impact on the industry.

“The Board of Physical Therapy remains firm in its belief that there should be regulatory oversight of the personal fitness profession and is aware of recently raised concerns over the drafting of regulations,” Director of Communications and Community Relations in the Department of Health Marcus Williams wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “The Board is working to achieve a balance that would address both public safety and protection as well as maintain an open and supportive approach to both the public demand for fitness services and the industry that responds to that demand.”

In response to the concerns of local gym owners, Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) introduced legislation this week to repeal the licensing requirements for personal trainers.

“The proposed regulation of personal fitness trainers is an overreach by the District that would significantly harm the well-being of our residents and the entrepreneurial climate of the District,” Evans said in a statement posted on his website.

Additionally, Mayor Muriel Bowser did not reappoint Senora Simpson, former chair of the board of Physical Therapy Licensing, who led the initial drafting process. Simpson has been replaced by Timothy Vidale, who proposed the current licensing requirements.

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Group Discusses History Petition Pushes for HISTORY, from A1 recognize Georgetown’s historical relationship with the institution of slavery, examine and interpret the history of certain sites on our campus, to include Mulledy Hall, and convene events and opportunities for dialogue,” DeGioia wrote.

DeGioia selected history professor Rev. David Collins, S.J., to serve as chair of the working group, as well as 13 other members representing different facets of the university community, including English professor Carolyn Forché, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Rosemary Kilkenny and student Matthew Quallen (SFS ’16), a columnist for The Hoya who has previously written on the history of slaveholding at the university.

After the addition of a member from the Black House, which has yet to select a representative to the committee, the membership size will increase to 15.

In his position, Collins will lead the committee in not only evaluating a potential change to the name of Mulledy Hall, but also in consolidating resources regarding the history of slavery at Georgetown.

“It’s more than about the name of a building,” Collins said. “It’s about bringing into consciousness and expanding our concrete knowledge of what happened, what the implications and significance are for that and how it should be part of our self-understanding as not just any university, but as Georgetown University.”

At the group’s first private meeting on Thursday, Collins distributed a reading list of books and online materials, which included a selection from Professor Emeritus Robert Emmett Curran’s “The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University.”

Collins also said that the committee considered similar initiatives in other universities with histories involving slavery, such as Brown University, the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary.

In 2003, Brown University President Ruth Simmons charged a steering committee to address the historic relationship between the university and slavery, particularly the Brown family’s involvement in the slave trade.

However, Collins said that the working group will specifically focus on slavery in the context of Georgetown’s history. “[Brown] is a kind of a gold standard for how it might be done,” Collins said. “Our situation is different. Our history is different. There is no absolute boilerplate.”

After developing a comprehensive understanding of the university’s slaveholding history, Collins said that the group will shift its focus to the current implications of slavery on the university community and society as a whole.

“We’re not going to do it overnight.

There are ways that that might be easier, but the lesson would be lost.”

REV. DAVID COLLINS History Professor

“The question [is] not just ‘Well then, how do we airbrush somebody out of a photograph that did something deplorable?’ but ‘How do we look at a blindness that had a vicious dimension to it in the early 19th century, and use that as a moral example to find the blindness and the viciousness in ourselves?’”

Collins said.

Although the group has not made specific plans yet, Collins referred to artistic projects and events such as public forums as ways to increase the community’s awareness of the issue.

Office of the President Chief of Staff Joe Ferrara said that DeGioia acknowledged the difficulty of the committee’s work.

“Talking about slavery in our country is not always pleasant. It’s a painful memory,” Ferrara said. “[DeGioia] really thanked the group and said, ‘This is not always easy work.’”

Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., a member of the working group, said that the committee will work to engage the entire community through its work.

“It’s not that this group is a closed group that’s having this conversation on campus. It’s actually in dialogue with so many other actors

on campus: student groups, residential life, student affairs, our academic departments. All of these will be in dialogue,” Carnes said.

“We are going to learn a lot from what others bring to us throughout the year.”

Associate professor of history Marcia Chatelain, another member of the committee, agreed that the group will help the community understand more about Georgetown’s history.

“I hope I can bring my experiences in helping communities have difficult dialogues with openness and respect. Also, as a historian, I’m always happy to see any process that allows people to learn more about institutions they hold near and dear,” Chatelain wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Connor Maytnier (COL ’17), a resident assistant at the FJR and one of three students on the committee, said that he looks forward to including the voices of the wider community in the group’s discussions.

“While there will always be the 14 of us working diligently as a group to continue researching, interpreting and discussing, it is important that we engage the greater university community, both past and present, throughout this process as best we can,” Maytnier wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Christopher Wadibia (COL ’16), who has served as a student delegate to the FJR planning committee and was selected for the committee, said that he hopes the group will reflect the values of the community.

“I would like to see the working group come to a conclusion honestly representative of the will of Georgetown’s heterogeneous yet singular community,” Wadibia wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Through the working group, Collins said that he hopes to start a meaningful dialogue on campus ref lecting on the university’s history.

“President DeGioia could have administratively changed the name [of Mulledy Hall] just overnight,” Collins said.

“But this is the virtue of being at a university and taking that aspect of our identity very seriously. We’re not going to do it overnight.

There are ways that that could be easier, but the lesson would be lost.”

Students Back Candidates ELECTION, from A1 anything campaign-related that we could potentially use,” Weaver said.

Also on the Democratic side, “Hoyas for Hillary,” which supports former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is also active on campus and social media.

It boasts more than 100 Facebook followers, the secondhighest following among active Georgetown groups.

Amanda Shepherd (SFS ’18) founded the group this semester after interning in Clinton’s national headquarters in Brooklyn over the summer.

She said the group aims to have an impact beyond campus as well.

“Because we are officially affiliated with the campaign, we can actually go out in the D.C. or the [D.C., Maryland, Virginia] area and do things like clip-boarding events and canvassing days that can really connect us to the larger voting base,” Shepherd said.

No other groups in support of other Democratic candidates have been formed at this time.

On the Republican side, no sizable Georgetown student groups have yet formed in support of anyone in the crowded primary field of over 15 candidates.

The most prominent so far, “Georgetown Students for Carly,” supporting former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, has 43 likes on its Facebook page.

Alexander Bobroske (SFS ’17), also a columnist for The Hoya, started the group as a subset of the national grassroots organization Carly for America. Bobroske said he has been interested Fiorina and her campaign since last year.

“We already have a core team of past and current [College Republican] board members on our core Georgetown team, but also a lot of College

Republicans now view her in their top one or two candidates,” Bobroske said.

Bobroske added that “Georgetown Students for Carly” has also helped similar groups across the country gain momentum.

“A big thing we’re focusing on now is we’re all tapping into our personal networks from internships and from different places across the country to start recruiting chairs in to other states,” Bobroske said. “Just the other day I was setting up a team in North Dakota.”

“There are a lot of campuses ... that are sort of very right or very left. ... I think we really do have a big representation of all points of view.

CALEB WEAVER (SFS ’16)

Other Republican candidates that have organized support on campus include “Georgetown Students for Rand” supporting Rand Paul (R-Ky.) with 19 Facebook likes, and “Georgetown Students for Rubio” supporting Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), which currently runs a closed Facebook group for its eight members.

Georgetown University College Republicans Chair Amber Athey (COL ’16) said she believes pro-Republican groups will emerge stronger as the primary elections continue.

“I think you’ll see the groups grow in size as well as number once the number of candidates decreases,” Athey said. “I think when the candidate pool gets below 10, that’s when we’ll see a group for every remaining candidate.”

Bobroske said leaders of different campaign groups have also discussed organizing a presidential candidates exposition or debate among student campaigners.

“Students could come to one location and talk to our teams … so they can compare candidates and have someone tangibly there,” Bobroske said. “I think that’s something really good that all the campaigns seem excited about.”

Although several members of both Georgetown University College Democrats and College Republicans are involved in these groups, the organizations as a whole are not permitted to endorse specific candidates.

However, the university’s strict campus campaigning regulations could halt the growth of these organizations.

As a tax-exempt organization, the university cannot use its resources to support any particular candidate. According to the restrictions, campaign groups may not use official student email addresses to send anything campaign-related, print any campaign-related material with university-owned printers or officially reserve space in a campus facility.

Weaver said he believes that these limitations could potentially hinder political participation on campus.

“The practical effect of those rules are really chilling for the ability to participate in politics on this campus,” Weaver said.

Despite these restrictions, Shepherd was still optimistic about balanced political engagement on campus.

“In general I think that this is a really interesting campus for political work,” Shepherd said. “There are a lot of campuses across the country that are sort of very right or very left and we aren’t. I think we really do have a big representation of all points of view.”

Black Studies Major PETITION, from A1 this major is something that they desire.”

Daniel Zager (COL ’18), a member of the provost’s Committee on Diversity, said that the committee will continue to advocate for increased support for the major.

“Our role as students so far has mainly been to connect with other students, survey interest in the potential major and gain student support for this proposal,” Zager said.

The idea for the major program came as a result of recommendations from the Initiative on Diversity and Inclusiveness in 2010. The petition also comes after the Main Campus Executive Faculty voted in favor of adding a diversity requirement to the core curriculum in April 2015.

According to Patterson, the proposed major will address a series of topics that relate to African American history and culture. “[It would include] issues of race and power, issues of epistemology and cultural production, the improvement of black life [and] how globalization has affected our study of race,” Patterson said.

Currently, a preliminary description for the major includes its requirement of the “Introduction to African American Studies” course.

The major will also include a thesis-based capstone course that students would take their junior or senior year.

According to Patterson, the major will require a total of 10 courses, and will be divided into two concentrations, which have yet to be determined.

Patterson said that, although he hopes the major will be in effect by next fall, it would require a large amount of work for both himself and his team.

“Part of my responsibility is to oversee the curriculum, and so, in that capacity, I have been working with a group of faculty members for the past two years to do the necessary research, gather the necessary information to make sure that we have the resources, the demand and even the institutional support to move forward with creating the major,” Patterson said.

Patterson also said that submitting a proposal for the major will be an extensive process.

For instance, students campaigned for nearly a year and a half before the justice and peace studies major was established.

“The next part of the process involves submitting the proposal that justifies the reasons for going from a minor to a major, the requirements of the major, the resources that we would need in terms of faculty and finances and other related issues,” Patterson said.

After the proposal is submitted to the College Dean’s Office, the Curriculum Committee of the College Executive Council will review the proposal and provide a report with feedback and suggestions before voting on the proposal.

If the Dean’s Office is in favor of the proposal, it will go to the university’s board of directors for a vote.

Many faculty members have expressed their support for the major, citing the importance of the African American Studies Program.

College Dean Chester Gillis said that the major would be a good addition to the school considering its increasing popularity.

“I think this will be a valuable addition provided that there is sufficient demand for it,” Gillis said. “I think African American studies is an important program. It represents an important community, an important literature and history and academic discipline.”

Marcia Chatelain, a professor of history who is also in the African American Studies Program and an associate professor in the Department of History, said that the addition of the major will put Georgetown on the same level as other elite universities who already have such programs.

“If Georgetown decides to create an African American studies major, we will join other elite universities and the finest Catholic universities in ensuring that students can focus their intellectual interests within a field that has produced some of the most important and relevant scholarship over the course of nearly 50 years,” Chatelain wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Zager agreed that the establishment of an African American studies major is overdue, when compared to peer institutions. For instance, Princeton University began offering an African American studies major this academic year.

“As for the major itself, it’s long overdue.

Many of our peer institutions are already far ahead of us in instituting the major, and, simply put, only having a minor at Georgetown is not enough to study the topic in depth,” Zager said.

SafeRides Revamped for Efficiency, Inclusivity SAFETY, from A1 check the location of their SafeRide vehicle.

GUPD Chief Jay Gruber worked with SafeRides staff in the past few months to ensure that the revamp occurred as smoothly as possible.

According to Gruber, this added functionality has made the app much more user-friendly.

“We’re getting an increasing number of people using the LiveSafe app. It’s very accurate, and I think that students are more comfortable texting back and forth,” Gruber said. “I look at all of the conversations between the end user and my dispatcher and really, they’re very cordial conversations.”

Gruber also said that the new policy of accepting all riders ensures that the SafeRide program is completely inclusive, though there has not been an increase in the number of riders.

“Anybody who calls will get a ride,” Gruber said.

Students have reacted positively to these changes to the program. Since SafeRides was created 15 years ago, it has faced difficulties with poor response times.

Tatiana Shashou (MSB ’17) recalled an experience from her first year on campus, in which she found SafeRides to be inefficient. According to Shashou, each time she called SafeRides, the GUPD dispatcher either told her to take a bus or sent a driver who never showed up.

“I was out with my friends and it was dark and we didn’t want to walk home, Shashou said. “We called SafeRides and said that we were scared and asked if they could come

get us, and they said ‘Oh no, here’s a bus you can take instead. ... Though, I’ve heard that they’ve really upped their game.”’”

While accessibility issues have abated, SafeRides drivers, some of whom participate through the Georgetown University Student Association, have expressed discontent at some of the program’s practices.

Caroline James (COL ’16), a student driver for SafeRides, said that that the working conditions are poor and disorganized for drivers.

“They should know where the van is, full of gas, with a working radio. I don’t think that’s too much to ask,” James said. “The students have been working so hard to keep the SafeRides program going that they have been volunteering to drive. If students are going to volunteer to drive, then GUPD needs to do their part and have the vans ready to go on those nights.”

However, Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) said that all of his experiences with driving for SafeRides have been positive.

“I’ve driven it three times, and each of the times it’s been an awesome experience.

I sign up with a friend and we show up and are guided through the process with GUPD. They show you how to get the radio and where to get the car and everything,” Goldstein said.

Goldstein also said that the program is an effective way to help members of the community feel safer.

“I’m really appreciative to Chief Gruber and everyone that makes this possible because when it’s dark and cold, a long walk can actually be dangerous,” Goldstein said.

“SafeRides provides a real service to the Georgetown community and I’m glad that I can play a small [part] in that.”

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Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

UIS Fends Off Phishing Attacks Matthew Larson Hoya Staff Writer

In response to a recent uptick in email phishing attacks early this year, University Information Services has continued to deter hacking attempts and warn students and faculty against clicking on suspicious links through email messages.

A phishing attack occurs when a hacker emails a link to gain personal information from the recipient’s account. According to Interim Vice President for Information Services Judd Nicholson, several of these attacks have resulted in the loss of personal information, such as contact lists that are then used by hackers to send out further emails.

“There have been a handful that have been successful, but it’s usually varying degrees of success,” Nicholson said. “It usually depends on the information that they’re trying to gain from you.”

In the email sent to the university community last Tuesday, Nicholson said that UIS has been able to block 95 percent of phishing and spam before they are received.

However, Nicholson said that users need to exercise caution to prevent the remaining five percent of phishing emails from materializing into attacks.

“We need your help with the five percent that gets through,” Nicholson wrote. “Please exercise caution before clicking on links or downloading attachments, even from senders you know.”

According to Nicholson, phishing emails received by students and faculty at Georgetown often come from contacts one may be familiar with.

“Some of the e-mails that have been sent to our community look like they come from a legitimate source … but are not,” Nicholson said. “It is an attempt by someone to get account information from you.”

While Nicholson declined to provide specific details on how many phishing attacks had been launched against Georgetown accounts, he noted most universities often experience a greater amount of attacks during the beginning of the semester. He attributed the phenomenon to hackers who intentionally target student accounts during this time.

“I don’t know if I can quantify it,” Nicholson said. “But it’s important to know that attempts to compromise accounts occur almost continuously.”

Chief Information Security Of-

ficer Joseph Lee explained that if hackers gain access to one’s user identification and password, the whole network of their Georgetown accounts, which includes MyAccess and GOCard information, could be compromised.

“UIS has identified several compromised GU NetID accounts,” Lee wrote in an email to The Hoya.

“If a GU account is hacked … the hacker may have access to the GU email and other GU systems.”

Nicholson explained that while students need to be careful when handling all emails, accounts are generally safe from spam, as UIS filters the vast majority of emails containing spam.

“Spam and phishing emails make up over half of the emails sent worldwide,” Nicholson said.

“We basically filter through our systems 90 percent of those e-mails, so … we are filtering through quite a bit of that.”

Nicholson praised the efforts of different departments to prevent against phishing emails by taking extensive precautions. He explained that all e-mails sent to the community by his office can be validated by checking the website for the subject line.

“At Georgetown, we’ve tried to institute a process where our community can validate any emails sent,” Nicholson said. “Folks can go back and look to see if it is a legitimate email.”

Lee explained that the main way to prevent hackers from gaining information was to change one’s password at times allotted by UIS and to make it as complex as possible. In addition, Lee recommended that a Georgetown password should be different than other passwords adopted by the user.

“Ideally, the password used for your NetID should be different than passwords you may use for other online accounts,” Lee wrote. “Passwords should also be complex enough to prevent guessing or ‘cracking.’”

Ariana Sadoughi (SFS ’19), who works at the UIS desk at Lauinger Library, said that while she has not been approached by a victim of an attack yet, students unfamiliar with phishing attacks should use their instincts in determining whether an email is from a valid source. “[Students] should be cautious when they open their e-mails,” Sadoughi said. “They should carefully look at who sent the e-mail. … If it looks suspicious, don’t open it.”

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IPPS Event Discusses Papal Visit Molly cooke

Special to The Hoya

The Institute of Politics and Public Service hosted Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and former Gov. Luis Fortuño (R-Puerto Rico), an IPPS fellow, for a dialogue on the political implications of Pope Francis’ Congressional address to a crowd of around 60 people in McCarthy Hall on Friday.

Promoted as a conversation between both Democrat and Republican Catholic politicians, the dialogue centered on Pope Francis’ theme of seeking bipartisan solutions to address ethical issues.

Director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life John Carr moderated the discussion. He began by recalling that when John F. Kennedy ran for president, he was criticized by other important politicians because he was Catholic and they worried he would be influenced by the pope.

“Now, it seems like the only thing the Democrats and Republicans agree on is they need advice from this pope,” Carr said.

When Carr asked the panelists what areas of the pope’s speech most resonated with them, both Kaine and Fortuño mentioned the pope’s affirmation of American service.

“It is important to look at what our personal responsibilities are, and I believe he admires that of our nation, but at the same time he feels that we have a social responsibility as well,” Fortuño said. “It’s a dual responsibility; it’s not only one or just the other — it’s both.”

Kaine agreed and highlighted the pope’s encouragement of both the public and Congress to accept greater social responsibility. “[Members of Congress] contribute to a denigration of the entire enterprise [of politics] and a lowering of expectations,” Kaine said. “But his speech was to set high expectations, and not only for us, but through us to the American public.”

Carr continued by asking about the challenges Pope Francis posed to Washington politics and partisan divides.

One issue Fortuño highlighted was the difficulties regarding immigration.

“The greatest challenge, and a challenge that he has thrown back at the European leaders as well, with the migrant crisis that is actually overcoming many cities in Europe, is that we also have a responsibility in our hemisphere with our own migration issues and how to deal with it,” Fortuño said.

Kaine pointed to how the vote to defund Planned Parenthood was timed for the papal visit, and how the pope’s words could influence future negotiations.

“The challenge is how to grapple with the church’s teachings about sexuality and reproductive rights and con-

traception and abortion,” Kaine said.

“To what degree are those doctrines about our personal behavior and to what degree are those doctrines about what laws we should pass for people who are in different churches and have different traditions?”

Kaine also referenced the Catholic doctrine on the sanctity of life in terms of his role on the Armed Services Committee and the decision to sell weapons to Egypt.

“If they’re using them against political opponents,” Kaine said. “I mean, are we giving them arms for money that’s ‘drenched in the blood of the innocent?’”

Later in the discussion, Carr raised the question of how politics and morality are connected and what may possibly result from the pope’s call for cooperation .

Fortuño went on to discuss his belief that the pope’s visit played a pivotal role in Speaker of the House John Boehner’s decision to resign in October. Fortuño expressed hope that the resignation will improve political dialogue in Congress over the next few weeks, with the government shutdown approaching.

Kaine also addressed the sentiment that both parties were committing sins of omission when handling issues regarding migrants, particularly in the context of the Syrian refugee crisis. Kaine touched upon the debate over whether or not the U.S. should become further involved in the Syrian Civil War. Richie Mullaney (COL ’18), a member of the Georgetown University College Republicans, attended and spoke about the importance of listening to the

pope’s call for bipartisan collaboration.

“What I think is so important for conservatives to recognize is the universal theme of Pope Francis’ papacy,” Mullaney said. “That they’re not partisan goals that Pope Francis is advocating for, that they’re universal goals and that we shouldn’t be worried about whether to achieve his ends, but rather the means to achieve them. I think that once we recognize that Democrats and Republicans can agree on Pope Francis’ goals, then we can debate about how we get there.”

President of the Georgetown University College Democrats Matthew Gregory (SFS ’17) agreed and noted the unifying nature of the pope’s call to action.

“When you look at a visit of someone like the pope coming in and treating these as moral issues rather than political [ones],” Gregory said, “it really allows us to reevaluate some of the things that have brought us apart, both Democrats and Republicans and within the Democratic Party.”

IPPS Executive Director Mo Elleithee said the event was intended to look at the combination of varying faiths and political views, especially given the Jesuit values of the university.

“People practice their faith differently in their lives and public officials are no different,” Elleithee said. “To be able to put those pieces together, and I think Georgetown is uniquely positioned to be able to do that because faith is part of our DNA here at Georgetown, I think it does help give people a window into what makes the people that make the system work.”

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Luis Fortuño (R-Puerto Rico), John Carr and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) discussed the pope’s address to Congress in McCarthy Hall on Friday.

Senior Dis-O Tradition Returns With Fewer Events Susannah price

min’ Jerseys: Senior Night at The Tombs and a keg party in Leo’s and the toga partyclosing ceremony on Leavey Esplanade.

The Senior Class Committee hosted fewer Seniors of legal drinking age said that activities for this year’s graduating class they anticipated these events. than previous years’ at its annual weeklong “I was mainly looking forward to the “Dis-Orientation” celebration, which took events with alcohol,” Channing Ruff (COL place last week. ’16) said.

While the general schedule of the week Ruff said that he was disappointed that remained consistent this year’s program with past years, the featured fewer events committee cancelled with alcohol than traditional events those in previous such as the bar crawl years. and Oktoberfest in an “The Tombs usually effort to focus their redoes have a lot of sesources on improving niors in it anyways bethe quality of events. cause of the age group, “I wanted to focus so Senior Night was on making better very similar to a reguevents,” Senior Class lar night out at The Committee Events Tombs,” Ruff said.

Chair Lauren Sinclair Sinclair also said (COL ’16) said. that events that feaFor a registration tured alcohol tended fee of $30, seniors parto be the most popular. ticipated in a variety “I’ve noticed that it’s of social activities, inthe events with alcocluding two keg parhol that people usually ties. stick around at the lonLAUREN SINCLAIR (COL ’16) Other events, such gest,” Sinclair said.

Events Chair, Senior Class Committee as the fall career fair, Seniors under 21 were open for all sewere not allowed to niors. participate in Ri Ra Night, an event that Sinclair said that her team worked care- raised donations for the Class of 2016 fund. fully to develop the week’s programming.

However, seniors who were not of legal “It’s hard to plan a week full of events,” drinking age were still allowed to take part Sinclair said. “You have to get creative with in the keg parties at Leo’s and on Leavey Esthe type of events you have.” planade, although they were not allowed to The day after an opening ceremony in drink.

O’Donovan Hall on Sept. 18, seniors took to According to Sinclair, the committee Multi-Sport Facility to cheer on the football did not want to exclude any students who team in its loss against Dartmouth College, signed up for the activities. which also included a giveaway.

“Eighteen-year-olds [could] go to those Other planned activities included a and [could] still enjoy the parties with sebeach volleyball tournament in the South- niors, whereas with the bars they wouldn’t west Quadrangle and a movie screening necessarily be able to get in,” Sinclair said. and barbecue on Copley Lawn.

Lizzie Pinede (COL ’16), a 20-year-old seHowever, the screening and barbecue nior, said that she wished there had been were eventually cancelled because of the a less expensive alternative registration fee collapse of the projector screen and rainy for students who were unable to drink. weather.

“It would have been nice if there was a Sinclair said that, while it was difficult cheaper option, since I couldn’t drink and to entice seniors to attend events, offering there were two 21-plus only events that I free food seemed to be a successful strategy. couldn’t attend,” Pinede said.

“Motivating people to come out on busy However, Matthew Fried (COL ’16) reweeknights has been one of the toughest sponded positively to the program this year. obstacles that I’ve had this week,” Sinclair “I loved getting together with my senior said. “But usually free food is always a good friends,” Fried said. “I’d say find a group of incentive to get people to come out.” friends to commit to going to the events Seniors over 21 years old also partook in early and often, and it will end up being a events that featured alcohol, such as Jam- lot of fun.”

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“I’ve noticed that it’s the events with alcohol that people usually stick around at the longest.”

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Hoyas Fall to Wildcats and Pirates in Conference Matchups Kara Avanceña & Ryan McCoy

Hoya Staff Writer & Special to The Hoya

For the first time since 2010, the Georgetown volleyball team (6-9, 0-2 Big East) played its first conference match of the season in the comforts of its own McDonough Arena. However, a home-court advantage was not enough to pull the Hoyas to a victory as Georgetown fell to Villanova (11-4, 1-1 Big East) Friday and was defeated again Sunday

by Seton Hall (7-7, 1-1 Big East).

The loss to Villanova marked the eighth straight year that the Hoyas dropped their first conference match of the season.

Though both matches went down as losses, the Hoyas’ performances against their two opponents differed wildly. In the conference home opener against Villanova, the Wildcats dominated for long stretches on the way to a victory in straight sets, whereas in Sunday’s match against Seton Hall, the Hoyas pushed the Pirates to five sets in a tightly fought contest.

Head Coach Arlisa Williams attributed the team’s effort against Villanova to the difference in the team’s preparation for this match as opposed to previous matches. Prior to their match against the Wildcats, the Hoyas had played 12 of its 13 matches on the road.

“I think one of our biggest challenges is learning a routine that’s going to allow us to be effective. We have

been on the road a whole lot,” Williams said. “Today, we have players on campus for the first time. … It’s just a whole different routine. Getting mentally prepared is a new experience for them and I think that was the biggest challenge today.”

Georgetown struggled from the outset as freshman outside hitters Liv King and Alyssa Sinnette, two of Georgetown’s most prolific and effective hitters this season, put up 21 and 33 kill attempts, respectively, but struggled with efficiency against Villanova’s block.

As Georgetown’s offense scrambled, Villanova sophomore outside hitter Allie Loitz, the Wildcats’ leading offensive player this season, earned 12 kills on a .438 hitting percentage in addition to her match-high five service aces.

Georgetown dropped the first two sets in twin scores of 25-13 and never led by more than one point. The Hoyas turned the tide in the third set, earning a 10-6 advantage and forcing Villanova to call its first timeout of the match. In spite of the team’s effort out of the break, Georgetown could not sustain its momentum for the entirety of the set and fell to Villanova 25-20.

Facing a loss in her first Big East match, freshman middle blocker Symone Speech, who had five kills and earned a team-high four block assists, recognized that playing against a more experienced team like Villanova can be a opportunity for team growth.

“The outcome wasn’t exactly what

I want it to be — Villanova’s a good team, lots of very experienced players, we’re all very young, so it’s just getting used to it,” Speech said. “I know it’s a process. It’s a long season so we just have to keep getting better; you learn from every game.”

While Georgetown struggled to find its offensive rhythm against Villanova, the team battled from the start to the finish in its loss against Seton Hall.

King led the Hoyas with a career-high 23 kills, while Sinnette and senior outside hitter Lauren Saar each chipped in with 12. Freshman setter Paige McKnight recorded a match-high 54 assists, while freshman libero Kenzie Higareda led the Hoyas with 18 digs.

The tone of the match was set from the first serve, as the Hoyas and Pirates traded points in a highly contested first set. Neither team was able to sustain a long run, but Seton Hall took the first set 25-23 on a kill from junior outside hitter Danielle Schroeder, who led the Pirates with 15 kills against the Hoyas in the match.

The second set mimicked the first with both squads vying for a lead before the game ended up tied at 25 points. The Hoyas grabbed their first set of the weekend 28-26 on a pair of Georgetown kills and a Villanova error.

With the Pirates taking the third set and the Hoyas taking the fourth set, the match was left to the fifth and final set. The Pirates sprinted out to a 13-6 lead and held on for a 15-7 victory.

While disappointed with the result,

Williams emphasized the adjustments the team made between its lopsided effort against Villanova and its more cohesive performance against Seton Hall.

“They looked like a much more tightknit unit on the floor,” Williams said.

King, whose 23 kills led all players on the floor, agreed that the team’s

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Freshman outside hitter Liv King had a career-high 23 kills in the Hoyas’ loss to Seton Hall. King ranks second on the team in kills with 137.

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Nadel Leads GU to 3rd-Place Finish Daniel Baldwin Special to The Hoya

The No. 4 Georgetown women’s cross country team earned third place out of 24 competing teams at the Coast-to-Coast Beantown Invitational meet this weekend. Georgetown, which recorded 134 points, placed behind Providence and Syracuse, which had 42 and 127 points, respectively. Purdue, with 141 points, and Lipscomb, with 151 points, finished behind the Hoyas in fourth and fifth places.

The No. 18 men’s cross country team did not participate in the meet this season.

“We were running a lineup of people who need experience at the top level of college running,” Head Coach Michael Smith said. “We had a bunch of sophomores in there that only raced two or three times as freshmen. Our team this year is going to rely heavily on them, so these early season meets are giving them a chance to race. One of the things I was most excited about was running a fairly inexperienced squad.”

The lead runner for the Hoyas was senior Samantha Nadel, who ran a time of 17:11.3 on the 5000-meter course and placed eighth overall in the meet. She was followed by graduate student Andrea Keklak who, in her first race back since

last season, turned in a time of 17:29.7, ranking 22nd overall. Keklak’s resilience and grit were not overlooked by her teammates or her coach.

“She was hurt last year and missed both the indoor and outdoor track seasons.

She stepped back in and was counted on by her teammates. Most people who step back in want to be behind the scenes and ease into it. At this level, there is pressure at every turn, so it was a big task, and she did great with it,” Smith said.

Sophomores Piper Donaghu and Autumn Eastman continued their strong start to the season with fine outings.

Donaghu finished with a time of 17:35.6 (26th overall) and Eastman with 17:41.1 (32nd overall). The duo appears ready for a breakout season after running well at the JMU Invitational and handling the pressure of a larger meet on Friday. For the Hoyas to continue to enjoy success at these large-scale meets, Donaghu and Eastman must maintain their intensity and focus.

“They showed a lot of promise last year.

What they needed was a year under their belt. Now they have a year of training and have settled into school, so I think they are ready to show what they can do,” Smith said.

Unlike indoor and outdoor track and

field, each cross country course has its own advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, weather conditions can alter a runner’s preliminary strategy in a race.

As a result, familiarity with the course and the weather forecast can boost a runner’s confidence before the meet. “[The course] is a flat, fast course and 1000 meters shorter than what we will run at the national meet,” Smith said.

“That makes the pace even faster. It is a place if you know how to run it, it can really help you.”

The Hoyas will look back on their performance and assess the strengths and weaknesses of their running. Smith stated that while strategy is unique for each runner, the team needs to find the energy to push itself during the final moments of the race.

“We had a good first half of the race for sure. We executed our race plan as far as where we wanted to get position and where we wanted to settle into the pack.

But we have to work on finishing and fighting in that last mile. That is the difference between a solid race and a great race,” Smith said.

Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will traveling to Bethlehem, Pa. to compete in the Paul Short Invitational meet on Oct. 2.

tennis

Mahlangu, Saperstein Win Brackets oliver hill

Special to The Hoya

The Georgetown men’s and women’s tennis teams split last weekend to play separate tournaments, with the men heading to the Joe Hunt Invitational at Navy while the women travelled to Boulder, Colo. to compete in the University of Colorado Fall Invite. Both teams rolled into the weekend’s competition with momentum after sweeping the University of D.C. teams in a collective 18-0 finish last week in the season openers.

The women landed in Colorado to take on the heat, high altitude and several tough Pac-12 tennis programs. Though the new team is still in its early stages, Head Coach Gordie Ernst reflected positively on the experience and its significance for the team moving forward.

“I thought they handled it beautifully.

We got in the night before at midnight and had to play the next day in high altitude, so we struggled at first, but we got it together the next day and had some good wins. The whole idea of a trip like that is that it’s great team bonding: playing a ton of competition in less than ideal conditions — it’s high altitude, it’s really hot and sunny — I think it’ll just make them tougher as the year goes on,” Ernst said.

The women faced high-quality competition in matchups against larger programs such as Colorado, New Mexico and Colorado State. Junior Victoire Saperstein showed her experience and grit, reaching the finals of the tournament’s gold draw consolation bracket where she defeated Colorado State senior Laia Hernandez Soler in a 6-3, 6-2 finish.

Freshman Sydney Goodson exemplified the Hoyas’ strong new talent. She played hard through the Ralphie draw, winning a tough match against teammate and sophomore Sara Swift 6-2, 6-2. She produced a strong performance in the tournament’s black draw as well where she eventually fell to Colorado’s Nuria Ormeno Ruiz 6-1, 6-1.

“I don’t think we played our best, but we’re not ready yet. We’re still in the infant stages of the year but you

look at some of my freshman like Sydney Goodson. … She won some tough matches and battled it out. She didn’t play her best, but found a way to win and when you see your freshmen do stuff like that it makes you really happy,” Ernst said. “Victoire … and [junior] Sophie Barnard just played so much tennis and so many matches, they won some good ones as well to show that they’re ready to go for the year.”

The men’s team headed to Maryland where it produced a gutsy performance despite being without two players due to sickness. Its bracket included George Washington, Delaware, George Mason, Mary Washington, Maryland, Morgan State, University of the Redlands, Saint Bonaventure, Temple, Army West Point and host Navy.

“It was pretty clear that once again GW has some real studs in this region and [University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s] number one guy as well. We did fine against everyone else except those guys, I think we did as expected,”

performance was much improved.

“It’s not just that I had a good game, but the team had a good game” King said.

Georgetown will return to action this weekend when it travels north to face Providence (9-7, 0-2 Big East) and St. John’s (11-6, 1-1 Big East).

Ernst said.

Despite the difficult competition and untimely illness, there were moments of brilliance. Junior Yannik Mahlangu battled through the competition to win the Flight D tournament, impressively doing so without dropping a single set. His closest match of the tournament was the hard-fought championship match in which he edged Delaware senior Tim Puterio 6-4, 6-4.

The other bright spot of the weekend’s events for the men was reaching the finals of the Flight A doubles tournament — a charge led by junior Jordan Portner and sophomore Peter Beatty.

They fought through three rounds of intense competition to reach the finals where they were ultimately bested by George Washington’s leading duo.

Looking ahead, the men head to the Princeton Invite on Oct. 9. The women will compete at the Cissie Leary Memorial Tournament in Philadelphia on Oct. 2.

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Junior Jordan Portner (above) along with sophomore partner Peter Beatty fought through three rounds to reach the finals before falling to GW.

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Champions League Dominates Headlines

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he past few weeks of the international soccer season have been filled with excitement and, if you’re like me, filled with woe at the same time. Massive upsets, “what were they thinking” moments and incredible goals have provided us with a fantastic start to the soccer season. Here’s a look at what has been going on.

Champions League finally got underway, and I already have the feeling that it will be a very interesting tournament this year.

Much to the delight of everyone (sorry, Manchester City fans), Juventus beat the top English team 2-1. Rather unsurprisingly given English teams’ lack of Champions League success in the past, Chelsea was the only English team to earn a successful result, beating Tel-Aviv 4-0. Arsenal and Manchester United both lost 2-1 each. The other notable result to come out of the first game of the group stages was FC Barcelona’s tie against Roma. This week, keep an eye out for the Porto-Chelsea and Manchester United-Wolfsburg games. As always, Champions League games are on, usually at 2:45 p.m., at our very own Epicurean restaurant.

Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich put on a phenomenal display against VFL Wolfsburg to lead his team to a 5-1 win. He scored an incredible five goals in nine minutes, something that is almost unheard of.

Lionel Messi fans, beware: The Argentine striker tore a ligament in his knee and will be out for at least seven weeks. How will this affect Barcelona? I’m sure they’ll be just fine, as always.

In other injury-related news, defender Luke Shaw of Manchester United suffered a horrific collision with PSV Eindhoven defender Hector Moreno in a Champions League game and broke his tibia and fibula.

He is expected to be out for at least six months.

Polarizing striker Diego Costa was handed a three-match suspension for violent conduct that took place in the Arsenal match.

Costa appeared to incite Arsenal defender Gabriel into lashing out at him, which resulted in Gabriel receiving a red card. To make matters worse for the Gunners, Santi Cazorla also picked up a red card after his second yellow, leaving them with only nine players on the field. Not surprisingly, Chelsea beat Arsenal in what could be a sign of changing fortune for the struggling Blues.

Jose Mourinho’s only comment was that Costa’s suspension paved the way for retaliation.

The best thing to happen was Tottenham’s absolute destruction of current league leader

Manchester City. I know fans everywhere were giving thanks for Harry Kane’s return to glory. Prior to the 4-1 victory, Kane had yet to score for the Spurs, although he was doing well for the English national team. Tottenham has now climbed into fifth place in a decided turnaround from their previous woes. It appears that my bad luck continues because Kane of course decided to score after I had already dropped him from my fantasy team.

These past few weeks have been a struggle for Liverpool fans such as myself. Prior to the victory over Aston Villa this past Saturday, the only consolation I had was that at least we were higher up the table than Chelsea. It has been a dismal start to the season, with the Reds having only won two of their last seven games. Rumors have been swirling about manager Brendan Rodgers’ job, with many saying that he might be fired and replaced with either Carlo Ancelotti or Jurgen Klopp.

Personally, I am of the unpopular opinion that Rodgers should stay for now, but I would not be surprised to see him go if things continue on as they have. Hopefully, the return of striker Daniel Sturridge will boost confidence and Liverpool will turn the tide around.

We are in for an exciting week, with Oct. 4 being a day of huge matches. Here are a few of the games you should catch, as well as my predictions.

The Merseyside Derby between Everton and Liverpool is always highly entertaining, due to the fierce rivalry between the two Liverpool clubs. Liverpool leads the all-time totals, with 88 wins compared to Everton’s 66. Much like Liverpool, Everton is off to a sluggish start this year. Seeing as the last few games have ended in ties, I would expect this derby to end in a 2-2 tie.

Also in the Premier League, Manchester United takes on fellow powerhouse Arsenal. United has a slight edge historically, with 93 wins compared to 79.

Furthermore, United is currently on top of the table and I expect it to beat Arsenal 2-1.

One of the Bundesliga’s biggest matchups also takes place on this glorious day, with Borussia Dortmund facing off against Bayern Munich. Expect a highly energetic game in which Munich will prevail 3-2.

As midterm week looms ahead, remember to take care of yourself, and catch a game if you can.

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

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catch to Columbia’s 28-yard line.

The Hoyas eventually settled for a field goal to tie it up.

After Columbia went ahead 10-3 on senior running back Cameron Molina’s touchdown run, Georgetown marched down the field methodically, capping off the drive with Nolan’s fouryard touchdown run for the equalizer with 29 seconds remaining in the half.

On the ensuing kickoff by junior kicker Ben Priddy, Columbia fumbled the ball and senior fullback Troye Bullock recovered it at Columbia’s 29-yard line. After a 6-yard completion to senior wide receiver Jake DeCicco, Nolan found Justin Hill for a 16-yard touchdown catch to make it 17-10 going into halftime. Sgarlata said he was pleased with how his team capitalized on the opportunity.

“You look at the drive at the end of the first half to make it 10-10 going into halftime. Then Troye Bullock did a great job recovering the squib kick. To be able to turn that into two plays and a touchdown for us to go in 17-10 is a huge step for our team.”

Georgetown never looked back after that. Nolan and Hill delivered the knockout blow on the team’s first possession of the second half, with Nolan finding Hill on the first play of the drive for the 80-yard touchdown catch to make it 24-10.

“Kyle put the ball where I could go get it,” Hill said. “We have other talented receivers that do great and opened up the field for me.”

Columbia would go on to score one more touchdown, but missed the extra point attempt, and the Georgetown defense smothered

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that Texas has a 97.6 percent chance of holding onto a playoff spot. However, with eight games left, it’s not as sure a thing as the statistics make it sound. That being said, I predict that the Rangers will hold on to their lead.

Houston has the easiest remaining schedule, finishing on a six-game road trip at the Seattle Mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks, both sub-.500 teams. At first glance, it would appear that having games in Seattle and Phoenix would seem like an advantage to the Astros, as the Mariners and Diamondbacks both have worse home records than away records. The Astros, though, are terrible outside Minute Maid Park, their home stadium. They have the worst road record in the American League at 29-46. A 2-8-road trip against division rivals earlier this month drives the point home.

Although Houston’s stars are hitting well, its pitching is struggling down the stretch.

The Astros’ bullpen has been less effective and their starters less consistent of late. This has been costly. Only a few weeks ago, they were holding a firm grip on the AL West lead; now they are barely holding off the Angels for the second wild card spot.

The Angels’ season is going to come down to their upcoming three-game series against the Oakland Athletics. If they don’t sweep the A’s, Los Angeles is going to find it very difficult to make up ground on the Astros in their final series against the red-hot Rangers.

The Angels are in luck with the pitching matchups, as they are scheduled to face Felix Doubront, Chris Bassitt and Sonny Gray of the Athletics. Bassitt has respectable stats (3.07 ERA, 1.17 WHIP) but rarely goes deep into games, putting pressure on an embattled Oakland bullpen. Doubront has been awful but is unlikely to lose his spot in the rotation this late in an already-lost season for the A’s. Sonny Gray, whom David Ortiz just named as one of the five toughest pitchers he’s ever faced, is in his worst stretch of the season, getting shelled in three of his last five starts. All in all, L.A. has a good chance of sweeping the A’s.

In their final four games against Texas, the Angels are unlikely to take more than two.

The Rangers are the better, more complete team and have home field advantage. The Angels are also scheduled to use all of their starting pitchers except Garrett Richards at Texas, missing their best pitcher’s start. In a battle of AL West, they will be high energy and entertaining games, but the Angels will at best split the series.

Ultimately, it will be an uphill battle for the Angels to steal the final American League playoff spot from the Astros, but the Angels are on the rise and the Astros are on the decline. If Los Angeles doesn’t get in, it will be because they ran out of time, not because the Astros have looked like the better team.

They just might pull it off.

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Junior wide receiver Justin Hill had four receptions for 118 yards and two touchdowns, including an 80yard touchdown catch, in the Hoyas’ 24-16 win over Columbia. Hill has 292 receiving yards this season. them for most of the second half.

“They’re a good football team.

We knew going into the game they would score some points. It didn’t surprise me that we were

the Hoyas a beat down, handing Georgetown an embarrassing 34-3 loss in front of Georgetown’s home fans. Kickoff is slated for Friday night at 7 p.m.

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seconds after a shot attempt by her teammate, senior forward/ midfielder Courtney Maguire.

Elia sent the ball to Zimmerman who placed it in the left corner of the net and forced the game into overtime after the Hoyas had held the lead for 79 minutes of the game.

Graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins started in goal for Georgetown and recorded four saves. Junior goalkeeper Kristyn Shea matched Newins with four saves for Providence in her 104 minutes of play for the Friars. Ne-

wins was not challenged by Providence at all during overtime, while Shea faced five attempts by the Hoyas in her 15 minutes of overtime action.

“Going into the conference with one win was really important for us because it kind of sets the standard for the rest of the season.”

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The Hoyas played a physical

game, recording 16 fouls, 8 of which occurred in the first half of play. The Friars committed 10 fouls, and each team received one yellow card. Georgetown was able to convert on one of these opportunities, leading to their victory, while Providence was not able to make any of Georgetown’s 16 fouls work in their favor.

This win is a great start for the Hoyas, who improved their record in Big East openers under Coach Nolan to 6-3-3 today. They are now undefeated in their conference opener over the last four years.

“I think it’s really important to … start it off on a high note. … Go-

ing into the conference with one win was really important for us because it kind of sets the standard for the rest of the season,” Corboz said.

Georgetown now looks ahead to Oct. 1, when they will play away at Villanova (1-9-0, 0-1), another Big East opponent. The Wildcats will be looking to come back from a 3-0 loss to Butler (8-31, 1-0) in their first Big East game.

In last season’s matchup between Georgetown and Villanova, the two conference rivals finished in a 1-1 tie.

Kickoff against Villanova is set for 4 p.m.

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but the Georgetown attack could not manage many clear-cut opportunities to score in the first 45 minutes.

Providence, meanwhile, grew frustrated as it was forced onto the back foot to defend throughout the half.

The Friars managed just one shot in the half, which Georgetown freshman goalkeeper J.T. Marcinkowski watched sail harmlessly wide of the goal. Senior defender and co-captain Cole Seiler, along with fellow co-captain and junior defender Joshua Yaro, played a major role in Saturday’s defensive success, breaking numerous Providence attacks and organizing the back line.

“It started from the forwards maintaining pressure on their center backs and not letting them pick their heads up,” Seiler said. “I felt like Yaro and I … were both full energy and in step and not letting them get good looks at the ball.”

The defense’s only lapses came in the first five minutes of the second half, when Providence had its best run of play of the day. The Friars forced Marcinkowski, who was named the Big East Rookie of the Week after the game, to make an acrobatic doublesave to preserve the tie less than two minutes after the second kickoff.

After seeing that danger out, the Hoyas returned to controlling the match. Their breakthrough came when a deft series of short passes between junior forward Alex Muyl and senior forward Brandon Allen created space for Campbell to score the only goal of the match, which Wiese called a world-class finish.

Saturday’s shutout was Georgetown’s first since the opening match of the season. It was also one of the few low-scoring contests the Hoyas have played this season, but the team expected a close contest against a familiar conference opponent. Muyl, the Big East Offensive Player of the Week, attributes the win in part to the team’s mental discipline in what could have been a very frustrating match.

“They put a lot of guys behind the

ball and they counter really quickly,” Muyl said. “We knew it was going to be frustrating to play against. … We all did a good job keeping our heads. Groups in the past, it has gotten to us, and that is when they hurt us.”

The win extends the Hoyas’ winning streak to three games. The team now has several much-deserved days off before travelling to Cincinnati to take on

Xavier (7-2, 1-0 Big East) and attempting to extend that streak to four. Georgetown defeated Xavier 1-0 in last year’s regular season before falling to the Musketeers in the Big East tournament.

“Now we have to go on to Xavier, who is always hard to beat, especially at their place. It will be a good test, and I think we’ll use this momentum to help us out,” Seiler said.

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Senior defender Cole Seiler led the Hoyas’ defense in their shutout win over the Friars. It was Georgetown’s second shutout of the season.

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Until the 64th minute of its game against Providence (4-3-1, 0-1-0 Big East), the No. 25 Georgetown men’s soccer team (5-2-2, 1-0-0 Big East) had done everything right — with the exception of putting the ball in the back of the net.

Nearly 20 minutes into the second half, junior forward Brett Campbell collected the ball at the top of the 18-yard box and found space to his left to finally fire a perfectly placed, curling shot to the top left corner of the goal. That piece of individual effort put Georgetown over the top in its 1-0 win over Providence on Saturday afternoon.

Georgetown entered its first conference game of the season in good form.

Prior to Saturday afternoon’s home match against Providence, the Hoyas had won two straight games, including one against No. 11 University of Maryland (3-

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2-2, 0-0-2 Big Ten). The team had also not lost a game in its last five matches.

That run, however, took its toll on the team. Georgetown’s meeting with Providence was its fourth game in 10 days, and one of those matches had gone into double overtime. The rapid string of games meant that Head Coach Brian Wiese and his staff could not prepare the team for each individual opponent and had to rest the players instead of conducting full practices.

“All you’ve been able to do is play a game and get ready for the next one, without any time to really recover, without any time to really look at the other team. We’ve relied on our ability to just to be who we are and say ‘Let’s see if we can manage it,’” Wiese said.

That strategy worked Saturday, as the Hoyas controlled possession and the pace of the game for much of the first half. That possession translated into a few half-chances, See PROVIDENCE, A9

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Senior quarterback Kyle Nolan threw for 264 yards and two touchdowns in the Hoyas’ 24-16 win over the Lions. Nolan also ran for 41 yards and another touchdown in the victory.

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Junior forward Alex Muyl was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week after he had a goal and two assists in Georgetown’s two home wins.

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The Georgetown football team (2-2) and the Columbia Lions (0-2) began a 10-year football series on Saturday with the Hoyas claiming the Lou Little Trophy with a 24-16 victory over the Lions. Lou Little is a former head coach of both Georgetown and Columbia and is now honored in the College Football Hall of Fame. Little was also the athletic director during his time at Georgetown from 1924 to 1929. The trophy will stay with Georgetown, the winning team, until next year’s matchup.

“It means a lot. Historically here, football has been a big part of the Hilltop. … Lou Little was a great coach here. For our kids to connect to our alums and be able to connect to the Lou Little Trophy, I think is important,” Head Coach Rob Sgarlata said after the victory.

Columbia entered the game on a 22-game losing streak, and Georgetown kept that streak going thanks

to an efficient performance from senior quarterback Kyle Nolan. Nolan threw for 264 yards and two touchdowns, completing 21 of 32 passes. Nolan also ran for 41 yards and scored a touchdown on the ground. Junior wide receiver Justin Hill continued his hot start to the season with another dominant performance, catching four balls for 118 yards, including an 80-yard touchdown catch.

“For our kids to connect to our alums and be able to connect to the Lou Little Trophy, I think is important.”

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“Making smart decisions on my part [was important],” Nolan said.

“Against Dartmouth I made a couple of bad decisions. We executed well and got the ball in the play-

makers’ hands.”

For Columbia, junior quarterback Skyler Mornhinweg — son of former NFL Head Coach Marty Mornhinweg — was the team’s leading rusher and passer, completing 23 of 38 passes for 232 yards and racking up 78 yards on 19 rushes, including two touchdown runs.

Senior wide receiver Scooter Hollis caught a game-high 10 receptions for 131 yards.

Both teams struggled to get points on the board in the first quarter, with Georgetown’s junior punter Harry McCollum punting twice and Columbia’s junior kicker Cameron Nizialek missing a 40-yard field goal. However, Nizialek made up for his error when he made a 29-yard chip shot to put Columbia ahead 3-0 with 12:43 left in the second quarter.

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arring a historic collapse by the New York Yankees, there are only two spots left up for grabs in the American League Playoffs: the AL West title and the second wild card spot. In my opinion, neither of the teams in the AL Central vying for the wild card, the Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians, have a legitimate shot at making the playoffs. So really, it comes down to the Texas Rangers, the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Angels. My prediction? It is going to be extremely close, but the Rangers will keep their lead and win the West and the Angels will pass the Astros for the second wild card.

With the Astros finishing a series at Texas this weekend and the Rangers finishing their season at home against the Angels, this is major league baseball at its finest.

The Rangers have pulled off one of the most spectacular comebacks in recent memory. Texas was awful last year and looked just as bad at the beginning of this season. Now the Rangers are set to finish as one of the hottest teams in the league. As of Sept. 28, the Rangers held a 2.5-game lead in the AL West. ESPN calculates See RAMLOW, A9

Going into Sunday’s match against Providence (7-4-0, 0-1 Big East), the Georgetown women’s soccer team (5-4-0, 1-0 Big East) had a record of 10-2-1 in its previous matchups with the team. Facing their first Big East Conference opponent, the Hoyas rose to the challenge, winning 2-1 in double overtime.

The Hoyas got on the board first with a goal in the 12th minute by sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz, marking her third goal of the season. Corboz scored directly off a corner kick, which she hooked into the goal’s left side netting.

Georgetown held its lead until the 90th minute, when Providence senior forward Catherine Zimmerman evened the score by putting one in the back of the net, assisted by senior forward/ midfielder Lauren Elia.

“To give up a goal with 45 seconds to go in regulation would kick the stuffing out of most teams, and I could sense that the girls were really frustrated because we’d had the game won,” Head Coach Dave Nolan said. “It was more of a situation where you have to give credit to Providence for not giving up and finding a way to score.”

The match then went into overtime, and the Hoyas were determined to pull out a win.

“We just knew . . . once the whistle blew and it was overtime,

we kind of got together in a huddle and told ourselves that we aren’t going to come away from this game with a loss or a tie, that we’re going to come out there and win,” Corboz said.

With neither team able score in the first overtime — despite opportunities for Georgetown in the 92nd, 95th and 98th minutes — the game then went into a second overtime, during which Corboz was able to convert another opportunity and score her fourth goal of the season in the 105th minute.

“I honestly did not really care who scored . . . it was just important that we get that win,” Corboz said.

Georgetown allowed Providence no scoring opportunities in overtime.

“I thought in … both overtime periods, we were the team more likely to win than they were. We had two great opportunities in the first period … and then Rachel obviously, with a bit of quality scored a great direct free kick over the wall to win the game,” Nolan said.

Going forward from the victory over the Friars, the Hoyas are working toward gaining more opportunities from set pieces.

“First and foremost you need consistent delivery, so that if the players in the box challenging for the ball can somewhat rest assured that their chances of getting on a ball will be good … they have a greater chance of success, and we’ve been a little bit inconsistent with that,” Nolan said.

Georgetown led Providence in

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corner kick attempts 13-1, and had 14 shot attempts to Providence’s 10.

Corboz’s second goal, scored during double overtime in the 105th minute, was also scored off a set

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Sophomore midfielder Rachel Corboz scored two goals in the Hoyas’ win, including the game-winner in the second overtime.