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A handbook to the places, food and events that should not be missed in D.C. this summer.

The university should seek to support students doing unpaid internships.

Senior wide receiver DeCicco found success as COO of Sunniva Caffe.

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Johnson Meets Students toby hung

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In light of student and alumni advocacy efforts opposing his selection as the School of Foreign Service commencement speaker, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson met with university administrators and members of the Georgetown community — including undocumented students — during a three-hour visit on campus Monday.

“I told them that their voices are voices that deserve to be heard, that they inform policy and that I admire and respect the passion of their commitment.” jeh johnson Secretary of Homeland Security

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United States Agency for International Development Administrator Gayle Smith addressed students graduating from the McCourt School of Public Policy outside Healy Hall on Thursday evening in the first of 10 commencement ceremonies this weekend.

wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Johnson will address students from the School of Foreign Service at 6 p.m.

Saturday. Johnson, who previously served as general counsel of the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2012, has sought to improve the department’s ability to respond to threats and has overseen the Obama administration’s

During the meetings, which were organized by the SFS Dean’s Office, Johnson reportedly spoke with 12 students about their concerns regarding current immigration issues and his forthcoming speech. Selected by the Dean’s Office, the group consisted of graduating student leaders from a variety of backgrounds.

In an interview with The Hoya, Johnson, who will also receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the SFS on Saturday, said he found the discussion to be constructive.

“I would say that it was an informative meeting,” Johnson said. “I told them that their voices are voices that deserve to be heard, that they inform policy and that I admire and respect the passion of their commitment.”

In addition, Johnson met with administrators including SFS Dean Joel Hellman and University Provost Robert Groves.

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Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, United States Agency for International Development Administrator Gayle Smith, Humana CEO Bruce Broussard, National League for Nursing CEO Beverly Malone and National Geographic Social Environmental Advocate Alexandra Cousteau are among 11 speakers addressing students

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during Georgetown’s commencement weekend.

A total of 10 ceremonies will be held for Georgetown’s schools. Smith addressed students in the McCourt School of Public Policy yesterday evening, while Disability Rights International founder and Executive Director Eric David Rosenthal (LAW ’72) will address students graduating from the Georgetown Law Center on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the weekend’s final

ceremony.

Smith said she hopes students will understand the role they can play in making the world a better place after her address.

“The graduates will have so many opportunities to do good in the world. I hope they remember what an extraordinary privilege that is, and I hope they pursue opportunities that challenge and stretch them, and that leave the world a better place than when they found it,” Smith

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SPORTS Tough Break The tennis teams fell in the Big East tournament despite strong showings.

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NEWS Campus Plan Proceeds The GCP will announce a campus plan framework in early June.

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news Draft Constitution Proposed Mayor Bowser announced an outline of a consitution for “New Columbia.”

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A total of seven students — including a record four students from Georgetown College — will be honored as valedictorians and Dean’s Medal recipients for their GPAs this weekend.

Adam Barton (COL ’16), a Spanish and Portuguese studies major with a minor in education, inquiry and justice, Adam Jacobson (COL ’16), a computer science and math major, Chandini Jha (COL ’16), a women’s and gender studies and government double major and Grace Fenton (COL ’16), a classical languages and French double major all tied with perfect 4.0 GPAs to be named as valedictorians for the College.

Barton and Jha will give a joint speech in the College’s Tropaia ceremony today after they submitted a speech to the College Dean’s Office for consideration.

Rahul Kaul (SFS ’16), an international economics major, and Jeff Haake (NHS ’16), a human science major, will both be awarded Dean’s Medals for their 3.99 GPAs. The School of Foreign Service and School of Nursing and Health Studies do not name valedictorians.

Jack Harrington (MSB ’16), a marketing and finance major with a minor in sociology, maintained a 3.99 GPA to be named as valedictorian from the MSB. Barton said the four-way tie in the college is representative of the school’s academic culture.

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Admissions Yield Holds Steady Around 50 students expected to be accepted off the waitlist ALY PACHTER Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown University’s admissions yield for the Class of 2020 remained steady, increasing slightly to 48 percent from last year’s rate of 47.6 percent, as of May 2.

The admissions yield refers to the number of accepted students who choose to enroll in the university. The target enrollment for each class is 1,580 in accordance with the 2010 Campus Plan agreement. This year, out of the 3,276 students offered places in the Class of 2020, 1,574 accepted.

Due to the expected fluctuations in acceptances of admissions offers because of deferrals or withdrawals of acceptances, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon said around 50 students will come off the waitlist and be offered admission.

Early action yield, which came in this year at 51 percent, tends to vary from the regular acceptance yield. This year, early action yield came in lower than last year’s rate of 56 percent.

At 52 percent, the yield for those not requesting financial aid was higher by 11 percent compared with those requesting financial aid, whose yield stands at 41 percent. Georgetown commits itself to meeting full demonstrated financial need for students requesting financial aid.

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The admissions yield remained constant, with a disparity in yield for those who did and did not apply for financial aid. ference to the disparity in ability of various socio-economic classes to afford Georgetown’s tuition of around $48,000 per year, before room, board and fees are included.

“If you were to look at demographics, in many ways what you see here is a microcosm of what’s happening in the country. It does say that Georgetown truly is a national university and it does reflect that changes of the country. It is still skewed toward the more affluent, because of the price tag and because the highest-achieving population is the more affluent population,” Deacon said.

“That’s why the pressure is on all of us to try to level the playing field and provide more upward mobility for students of lower-income areas.”

The yield for the 150 students admitted into the Georgetown Scholarship Program, the goal of which is to level that playing field by assisting students receiving scholarships, stands at 67.31 percent. GSP Program Director Missy Foy attributed the high yield rate to the benefits provided by the program, which assists many first-generation college students.

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THE VERDICT

With every graduating class, both at Georgetown and at other elite universities, there is always talk of who will deliver the commencement address. This year, a leading health educator will share her years of wisdom, a globally recognized filmmaker will highlight the importance of environmental conservation and an innovative CEO will ref lect on his experience in the health insurance industry.

While these speakers bring their own expertise and experiences, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, scheduled to speak to the graduates of the School of Foreign Service on May 21, has prompted protests from members of the student body, with members of UndocuHoyas delivering a letter to the SFS Dean’s office calling for Johnson’s invitation to be rescinded. Alumna Hemly Ordonez (SFS ’08) also began a petition on change.org calling for the invitation to be rescinded, with the page receiving 741 supporters as of Thursday at 5 p.m.

Both Ordonez and UndocuHoyas, as well many other members of the community, take issue with the work done by the Department of Homeland Security in deporting undocumented immigrants. They see the presentation of an honorary degree to Johnson and graduates receiving diplomas from the secretary as insulting. In her petition, Ordonez equate the invitation as “an insult to my family, to the myriad of Georgetown alumni from mixed-documented families, and to the undocumented students who are preparing to graduate this month.”

Though the secretary has received pushback and some negative response from community members, it must be ensured that his speech proceeds without further interference in order for Georgetown to maintain its position as a center for the free expression of ideas.

Johnson is not unaware of the concerns of members of the student body, and he has demonstrated his willingness to confront the nuances of students’ concerns through a meeting with six undocumented Georgetown students and interviews with student publications.

In a typical setting, students have the simple choice of not attending a speech if they disagree with the ideologies and beliefs of that speaker.

Yet a commencement speech is mandatory for graduates and thus those who disagree with their commencement speaker may find it difficult to opt out of the address.

Even so, students are perfectly free and capable to voice their disagreements and should absolutely be encouraged to do so in order to uphold our community’s commitment to free expression and exchange of ideas. But to rescind the invitation would be a misstep and an unwelcome change from the direction this university took when it accepted a talk from Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards earlier in the semester.

What the outcry surrounding Johnson’s commencement speech should demonstrate is that student voices should be taken into consideration for commencement speakers in the future. Through focus groups, the administration can further learn of the needs and concerns students wish to address, while a future panel integrating both administrators and Georgetown University Student Administration members may prove helpful in securing speakers who will deliver powerful pieces of wisdom to graduates while acknowledging the present issues affecting our nation.

When it comes to Georgetown’s dedication to the free exchange of ideas, an interaction between the desires of the administration and the voices of students can only lead to progressive dialogue and fruitful exchange.

Logo Woes — The photo app Instagram unveiled a new logo in a software update Wednesday, prompting some pushback. Twitter user @trecoast called the new icon “a rejected starburst flavor.”

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The Fittest — Washington, D.C., was named the fittest city in the U.S. for the third year in a row by the American Fitness Index. The study analyzed factors such as exercise habits, health data and smoking.

Honoring History — Media outlets like Newsweek and The Washington Post received a first look at the Smithsonain’s new Museum of African American History and Culture, a $540 million project. The new museum is scheduled to formally open Sept. 24.

New Columbia — Leaders of the D.C. statehood commission unveiled a draft constitution for the proposed state, called New Columbia. While the draft is meant to spur a referendum over potential D.C. statehood in November, the name New Columbia is not set in stone, according to Mayor Muriel Bowser (D).

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Swiping on Brexit — The office of Britain’s Prime Minsiter David Cameron announced it had explored connecting with younger voters through various programs, including the dating app Tinder.

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Nats on a Roll — The Washington Nationals beat the New York Mets 7-1 on Wednesday, extending their season record to 24-16. They are ranked first in the East division of the National League.

Wasted Time — Due to staff shortages within the TSA, travellers at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport missed flights after suffering three-hourlong security lines. The delays and innefficiency prompted outrage from customers and U.S. carriers such as American Airlines.

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‘Coloring Book’ — Chicago-based artist Chance the Rapper released his third solo mixtape to much critical acclaim and positive consumer repsonse. The album has received a 9.1 score from Pitchfork and features artists such as Kanye West, 2Chainz and Jamila Woods.

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The Future Is Now — Google kicked off its annual developer conference, Google I/O, on Wednesday, announcing a slate of new messaging apps, updates to its Android operating system, showcasing virtual reality technology and releasing a new home assistant product called Google Home.

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Costs of Unpaid Work One of the great attributes of Georgetown is its proximity to Washington, D.C., a city filled with diversity and opportunity. Many students find employment opportunities over the summer in forms of internships with consulting firms, U.S. senators and nonprofits to name a few, before returning to campus for full-time academic work in the fall.

After students finish overcoming the rigorous academic challenges posed by the normal academic year, summer internships provide valuable experience for our student body and provide individuals with exposure to fields they want to pursue as full-time careers in the future. Yet there is a particular issue when it comes to such internships: many of them are unpaid.

Every year, according to statistics published by The New York Times and The Atlantic, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million interns are unpaid in their positions. It is safe to assume some individuals can afford the time they invest into such positions and will gain the experience they deem necessary to further their life goals.

But many cannot afford to work without pay. Certainly there are members of this community who wish to further their pursuits and attain relevant experience in fields ranging from nonprofits to finance to consulting and anything in between.

What is more, there currently lacks a national movement among most Americans to change the status quo of unpaid internships, many of which, according to former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, are not in compliance with federal standards for unpaid work and are therefore illegal.

If Georgetown wishes to foster students’ career interests and professional development, there should be renewed efforts to assist as many students as possible who wish to work in Washington, D.C., over the summer while they intern.

This could range from providing less expensive summer housing on campus, establishing scholarships to cover for varying expenses or even providing stipends to students in place of wages they should receive from their place of employment. Perhaps organizations like the Georgetown University Student Association can spearhead efforts to increase potential scholarships for students over the summer.

In an ideal scenario, students would not have to worry over the costs they may or may not be able to cover while participating in an unpaid internship during the summer.

Until that reality changes, Georgetown can do its part to assist the needs of students when they break from academic challenges and move to professional ones.

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The Journey in Learning and Faith Self-Care As An Act I Of Resistance

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lmost half my time at Georgetown has been a time of deep, resounding depression. Sophomore and junior year were some of my worst and best times at Georgetown. I have enjoyed this place, but I had given so much to people that I did not leave much for myself. An old saying sums up my experience with giving and caring for the community, “Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”

It was not until about a year ago that I learned about the beauty of self-care and how self-care is truly a radical act of resistance. When I think about my time at Georgetown, I wonder: If I had taken greater care of myself, more than I did others, what would I be like today? If I had not had those hourlong conversations in O’Donovan Hall, Lauinger Library or wherever else several times a week, would my body be more fit, my pocket fatter, or would I maybe have Latin letters next to my name on that giant diploma?

The answer? I do not know. I do know that I have gained weight, hustled hard for my money and received many bad grades. I often tell people my transcript is an alphabet soup because I have about every letter grade you can get on there. I have asked for more extensions and turned in more late papers than the average Hoya. I have used period tricks, f---ed with page margins, skipped classes and fallen asleep in them too, all for the sake of being present for other people.

I loved the moments I gave up to be present for my friends, but I wish I could have found the balance to love myself in those moments.

While I do not regret what or whom I poured myself into during my time at Georgetown, I do regret not caring enough for myself to know when to say “No.” Those long nights and hours were important, but because those hours were precious to my whole being, they came at a cost. They came with the cost of depression, anxiety, not being able to study abroad, gaining weight — and the list goes on.

While I am not saying my commitments and loyalty to people were a direct result of my perpetual struggles, I will say that they were a catalyst and build-up of a supersonic tornado that I simply could not escape. I loved the moments I gave up to be present for my friends, but I wish I could have found the balance to love myself in those moments.

As a black woman, I am almost destined to carry the burden of others and be seen as someone who can handle more — if you do not believe me, then take an African American studies class for the receipt. I have realized over these four years how many folks have ideas of who I am and project qualities that I do not necessarily claim for myself. Slowly I have learned to deconstruct those labels and claim my identity for myself. Whether it be my Blackness, my fatness, my mental health, my faith or whatever, these identities are mine and are here for myself to deconstruct only.

That is why I see self-care as an act of resistance. I am now choosing to take care of myself, whatever the circumstance. In a world where I am told that I am not worth the time, worth taking care of or worth loving, I now resist these notions.

If I could talk to my past self, I would tell her to give a little less to others and give more to herself. Because if I am not here for myself there is no possible way I can be present for other people in my life, especially those whom I love. It is perfectly okay to give, discover and grow in ways that you may have never imagined before, but remember to always keep yourself at the center. The phenomenal Shiva Subbaraman, director of the LGBTQ Resource Center, said something I will never forget at this year’s Lavender Graduation: “Go where the silences are, draw brave maps, grow some wild things.” And, if I might add, take care of yourself in the process.

Crystal walker is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

first left the Hilltop when I graduated in 1988. Leaving Georgetown a second time is even harder. Revisiting places made holy by our time together helps us to say goodbye. Join me then for one final walk around campus.

We begin in the graveyard.

Here lie Jesuits who first stirred up in me the notion that I might be a Jesuit someday. Among the newer graves are Jesuits with whom I lived and learned these last eight years. Being a Jesuit is not a career; it is a calling lived out in a community of men dedicated to the greater glory of God and the service of others.

This curious centerpiece of our campus reminds us that we rely on a tradition far greater than any one of us. The Jesuit tradition serves not as an anchor, fixing us in place, but as a rudder, guiding us to the next horizon.

Up the hill is Copley Hall.

I spent two years living there as an undergraduate, and the past eight years as a Jesuit-inresidence. No roommate this time, but lots of visitors. Each week, students brought hungry appetites, curious minds and occasionally broken hearts. Over dessert, I raised questions: What gives you joy? What matters most to you? What do you most deeply desire in life? Jesuit education incites conversations that matter, those that go deep.

We walk over to Dahlgren Chapel, the spiritual heart of campus. I love Dahlgren because the walls hold countless prayers, including my own, uttered across the decades. The walls echo with joy, hope, grief, fervent petition and gratitude. I have celebrated innumerable Masses, baptisms and weddings there.

Too often, we have also gathered in times of loss, when a student

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dies or when violence rocks our world. Dahlgren stands as an important symbol that learning, faith and service can go together, and that community makes our individual journeys all the more meaningful. Within the chapel, the transcendent gently breaks into our ordinary lives.

Crossing the quadrangle into Healy Hall, we visit my classroom.

Every semester in Healy 104, students and I grappled with questions about the meaning of faith and the role of the Catholic Church in the 21st century.

Pope Francis stirred things up midway during my time here, enlivening the conversation even more. I can still hear my constant refrain about the meaning of Jesuit education: “Be attentive, be reflective and be loving.” Go deep, I pleaded. To borrow an image from a favorite book, we are made to scuba dive, not Jet Ski through life.

Down the hall are the Campus Ministry offices. As I leave a second time, I am even more convinced that the path to enduring peace in our world will come through

faith communities. There is no university as committed to this earth-saving project as Georgetown. More personally, I know that I am a much better Catholic priest and person because of my friendship with the Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox Christian and Hindu communities. Our diversity reflects the utter creativity of God. We walk out onto Healy steps andtotheright,throughthelarge windows of Lauinger Library, we see the often unnoticed Latin phrase etched on the high wall.

It is from John’s Gospel: “Know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Recall the freedom when a new idea explodes tired intellectual categories and self-awareness exposes bias, renewing relationships once stagnant. Savor the freedom that pushes aside fear to realize new opportunities. Relish the joy we experience when what we do flows from the deepest sense of who we are most truly.

On the other end of the quad is White-Gravenor Hall, with the

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statue of St. Ignatius before it. The founder of the Jesuits carries the staff of a pilgrim, his chosen selfdescription. His home was the road. Learning and faith are more like journey than a destination.

We live our questions and wrestle with doubts, loving the best we can along the way through the beauty and messiness of human living.

Look closely at his feet: One is firmly planted, the other steps forward. This is the stance of a Jesuit, ready to go when called to serve another need. We who leave the Hilltop adopt Ignatius’ stance. We will always have a firm footing on this holy ground, yet we step forward toward a future not yet our own.

Finally, in Healy Circle, we come to John Carroll’s statue, another pilgrim Jesuit. He greeted us when we first walked through Healy Gates. Look carefully at Carroll’s gaze as his eyes are fixed well beyond the hilltop to the city and the world. That gaze missions us to go and put everything we have learned here in service of others. We arrive here only then to be sent back into the world beyond the gates.

In the end, Georgetown is not just a collection of nicelooking buildings and beautiful landscape. Georgetown has a soul, a spirit that animates this place. God is at work here in every approach to truth, beauty and goodness, in every conversation that matters, and in every impulse to make the world a more just and gentle place. Whether we leave a first or second time, we carry that spirit with us.

Fellow pilgrims, Godspeed on the great adventure ahead.

Fr. Kevin O’Brien, S.j., is vice president for mission and ministry.

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Securing a Future The School That For Years to Come Tests and Heals

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n May 21, I will walk onto a stage on Healy Lawn, shake University President John J. DeGioia’s hand and receive my Bachelor of Science diploma. Like many students at Georgetown, I will be the first in my family to experience this moment.

When DeGioia shakes my hand, however, he will not only be shaking my hand — he will also be shaking my grandfather’s.

My grandfather’s name is Juan Garcia, but to me, he has always been Papa Juan. In the late ’60s, when his family was living in Chihuahua, Mexico, Papa Juan did the unthinkable. He left my grandmother and their eight children to work as a janitor at Flamingo’s — a hotel casino on the Las Vegas strip. He was there without papers and barely knew any English, and his work was tedious and demeaning. The emotional and physical toils Papa Juan endured made it possible for the Garcias to eat and make it by back in Chihuahua. Those were the sacrifices deemed necessary to provide for an ever-growing family, and Papa Juan was committed to taking them on.

He was only able to go back to visit Chihuahua twice a year. Even though he was able to consistently send money back home, Papa Juan had bigger plans for his family.

But his arrangements then were not enough. He could not simply work away his life in separation from his loved ones, but he also knew that if he went back to Chihuahua, he would be unable to bring his family out of poverty. As a man with limited education and little social standing, socio-economic mobility was out of the picture.

After saving up enough money, Papa Juan was able to relocate his family to Tijuana, where my mother was born.

The hope was that by living

closer to the border, it would facilitate Papa Juan’s ability to visit more often and perhaps, one day, he would be in the position to bring his family to el Norte — to the United States.

After years of saving and securing the necessary funds, and enduring a long and tedious immigration process, Papa Juan was able to obtain green cards for every member of the family. And so, with the proper documentation to live in the United States, the Garcias moved to America’s finest city: San Diego, Calif.

Even though the Garcias were living in San Diego, their life was not one of luxury as their primary source of income revolved around selling used electronics at the local swap meet. They could barely make ends meet and they all had to pull their weight. My mother’s older siblings lived at home and contributed to the rent. Even the youngest Garcias helped out on swap meet day.

But in Papa Juan’s point of view, he had made it. He had secured a future for his children in a country where it did not matter what your last name was. A country where drive, integrity and hard work opened doors that simply did not exist in Mexico for people from lower classes. Papa Juan was proud that his children would receive an education in the United States. He was proud that his grandchildren would be born American and have the opportunity to go even further.

To say Papa Juan’s journey motivated me throughout my time at Georgetown would be an understatement. His story has not only placed my own obstacles in perspective; it has also been the source of my passion for immigrant rights.

My privilege of never having to worry about my citizenship status is one that I do not take for granted and one that I completely owe to Papa Juan.

Though my grandfather will be unable to attend commencement due to his health, when I proudly shake DeGioia’s hand, I will not be thinking of the countless hours I have spent in Lauinger Library, the parties I have been to or the amazing classes I have taken. At that moment, I will be thinking of Papa Juan, who sacrificed it all so that I could walk across that stage.

Martin De Leon is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

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hroughout my first semester at Georgetown, I was presented with the biggest challenges I have ever had to overcome in my life. I first explored this school during Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program Weekend in April 2012, and had been genuinely excited to begin a new chapter of my life. Little did I know that the fall would be a rude awakening. I had imagined a different kind of Georgetown, one that was diverse, friendly and focused on the liberal arts. At least that was the impression I received when I toured campus and participated in a pre-orientation program aptly called Young Leaders in Education About Diversity.

Come fall semester, the illusion was shattered beyond repair. Georgetown was not really diverse at all — perhaps that is why we need programs like YLEAD, — people seemed snobby — why doesn’t anyone smile here? — and the ethos was distinctly pre-professional, a conveyor belt bent on producing mediocre consultants.

Added to this sense of disappointment was the fact that I was still undergoing treatment for leukemia and was diagnosed with a side effect of chemotherapy, impairing my ability to walk. I had plans to join a South Asian dance troupe, but was relegated to a power scooter, bringing to the fore another aspect of the campus’s inadequacy: It was not really accessible at all.

Suffice to say that I was having a miserable time, and had to withdraw from three courses due to a severe depressive episode. However, throughout the ordeal, my deans and the Academic Resource Center provided me with immense support.

Things soon changed for the better. I focused on the two classes I was taking that semester — “British Poetry” with Duncan Wu and “Problem of God” with Ori Soltes — remarkable professors who convinced me the liberal arts were alive and well on campus, even if they were often occluded by other disciplines such as politics and international relations. I found friends through the literary magazine The Anthem, the Muslim Students Association, and the thenInterfaith Council. That Christmas, I got my knees operated on right here at Georgetown, and I was able to walk in the spring and able to take a full course load — I even danced at the Kennedy Center as part of Rangila.

I was later accepted to the Carroll Fellows Initiative, a rigorous program dedicated to

academic excellence and one of the most formative experiences during my time here. The program drove me to embrace the complexity of my circumstances and to combine my varied academic interests: medicine and literature. I declared a major in English and continued my premed coursework. My immersion in both science and the humanities has made me a better writer and thinker. I got to write an English honors thesis under the guidance of one of the most well-known poets writing today, Carolyn Forché, whose mentorship has been invaluable in my development as a poet and future physician and writer.

I want future graduates from Georgetown to find hope in my story. Even when the odds seem insurmountable, do not underestimate the power of the will and the compassion of friends and teachers. Georgetown might first strike you down then blow you to smithereens, but it will rebuild you into a smarter, more independent and more fearless version of your former self. Even when everybody around you may seem to tread paths already trod, Georgetown will give you the tools to fashion a unique niche for yourself.

We tend to sentimentalize our undergraduate years come graduation day, but we must not shy away from complexity, wearing both the good and the bad proudly like our gowns and chords and hats. To overcome the bad is part and parcel of growing up, and I have grown more during my four years at Georgetown than in my initial 19. Georgetown has raised me, pushed me to my limits and tested my resolve. But this campus has healed me as well.

Bassam Sidiki is a senior in the College.

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ommencement weekend is a noteworthy benchmark for graduating seniors. For students involved in ROTC, it represents a new path in life as we begin our careers as Army officers.

This morning, in a short ceremony in Gaston Hall, I, along with the nine other graduating seniors in Army ROTC, will be sworn in as newly commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army.

While this weekend marks the end of our time at Georgetown, this is just the beginning of Army careers that will take us around the world, test our ability to lead in stressful circumstances and grant us the amazing opportunity to serve our country.

You might have seen us on campus in action during your time on campus: presenting the flag at basketball games, doing pushups at Yates or running laps at Relay for Life. We are in your classes, your clubs and often across the bar from you at The Tombs.

We have embraced our four years at Georgetown knowing that at the end of the tunnel, we will be leaving the Georgetown family to join the ranks of the Army.

te, inflammate omnia — go forth and set the world on fire. An often-heard phrase at a Jesuit school, these are the words St. Ignatius of Loyola used to encourage the Jesuits in their global mission, and the same that have been at the heart of my interactions at Georgetown. The students of our graduating class are no strangers to this fire. I have witnessed it in our passion for learning and care of others over the course of my three years on the Hilltop.

I first encountered this dedication when I arrived at Georgetown as an anxious sophomore transfer student. I was nervous mostly because I was a year behind my classmates in terms of getting familiar with the campus, classes and friends. Despite this concern, I was still excited to begin my studies and my first class for my international health major, “International Health Promotion.” I was not aware that the course predominantly comprised juniors, and when the professor began by asking us to form groups for a project to be completed throughout the semester, I remember slumping into my seat and desperately scanning the faces in the class to find someone to turn to.

What happened next took me by surprise. Some students in the class began calling out, “We want the transfer!” and tried pulling me into their groups. It was not what I had expected at all, and it made me realize I had made the right choice in transferring to Georgetown and the right choice in my program. The fire that Ignatius called for had been kindled.

Jack Moore is a senior in the School of Foreign Service.

That feeling has never left me.

Never before had I been so warmly welcomed into a community as I have to the School of Nursing and Health Studies, as well as the greater Georgetown University body.

Georgetown is certainly a prestigious school and deeply rooted in history that is inspirational in itself. The university is beautiful, from the weathered stone steps of Healy Hall to archways of WhiteGravenor Hall, and it is placed in an exciting city rich with opportunities. Despite these qualities, perhaps the most notable character of the school is the trait of humility among the students on campus. Maybe it comes with the mission of the university — and particularly the NHS — but my classmates have been some of the most selfless, caring, honest and devoted people I am grateful to know.

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Students at Georgetown bear impressive experiences and intimidating skills, but they are not flaunted. They are taken seriously, never short of a chance to learn. Within the NHS, students have spent countless hours in clinical rotations, performed research in some of the world’s most remote regions, been published in journals, pulled arguably more all-nighters than anyone else and served the communities in the greater Washington, D.C. area through internships and volunteerism.

Georgetown students should be proud of their accomplishments, yet their modesty and authentic interest in others makes them stand out from the rest.

I am grateful for many aspects of my term at Georgetown, but I am most appreciative of the students who have answered the call of Ignatius to share their fire. They have provided

Nicholas Dellasanta is a senior in the School of Nursing and Health Studies.

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We are green and untested, but nevertheless we are thankful for the opportunity to serve.

ROTC has given us invaluable opportunities to develop and succeed at Georgetown.

For one, it has provided scholarships without which many of us would have not been able to afford Georgetown. It is a privilege and an honor to call the Hilltop our home, and ROTC has made our education possible.

Through ROTC, we have found mentors and teachers who have guided and motivated us along the way to becoming officers. As a freshman I was welcomed and harbored by peer mentors who showed me the ropes and were not afraid to give me tough love when I needed it. They have challenged me physically, intellectually and morally while motivating me to aspire to be a better person.

ROTC has prompted us to be globally minded and better understand the Army’s role internationally. The Army has sent my peers and me to train with militaries around the world, including Senegal, the Philippines, Ghana, Paraguay, Spain and Tanzania, to name a few places.

I myself spent a summer at the Royal Thai Military Academy living and working with Thai Army cadets, and it was one of the most formative experiences I have had as a student and soldier. I gained amazing friendships with both my fellow Americans and the young men I trained with in Thailand that have endured over the years. I learned firsthand about the Thai military and society working to foster positive perceptions between our two countries that will hopefully persist over time.

ROTC has forced us to grapple with the ethical, moral and legal questions surrounding war and violence to prepare us to make just decisions in dire circumstances. We do not take lightly the ambiguity and confusion of war. We have not experienced war’s dark narrative personally but have learned from the experiences of those who have seen it firsthand — willful combatants and innocent victims alike. We know that by signing the dotted line and taking the oath, we now play a small role in that narrative.

The 10 of us graduating and commissioning this weekend have trained in ROTC for four years, but overall, we have had it easy in comparison. We have not been to war. We have not been separated from our families for extended periods of time. We have not endured the devastating impact that partaking in conflict can have on the individual.

We are green and untested, but nevertheless we are thankful for the opportunity to serve and eager to contribute to the Army and our country.

We enter an Army with a culture that has changed from previous generations. This is an Army that has progressed with changes in American society and culture and reflects the attitudes and perceptions of our nation.

As Army officers, it will be our responsibility to lead soldiers in this constantly developing institution as we prepare to tackle global security challenges in the coming years.

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support and perspective in the most challenging of times and have always encouraged the pursuit of my true interests, whether those in a class titled “Art and Medicine”, on the crew team or in a club for neglected tropical diseases. Students at Georgetown are not afraid to be pushed, and they value and apply their academic knowledge for a practical purpose.

I am saddened to leave these students as I move on to a graduate school environment, especially because I was only able to spend three years with them in a place that presented and acknowledged academic challenges I sorely wanted.

Nevertheless, I do know, as trite as it may sound, they will do great things, whether it is going on to graduate school, into research, consulting, nursing or any other professional position with the same fire shared in and out of the classroom.

Georgetown has provided an education encompassing the principle of cura personalis — care for the whole, unique person — on a global, national, community and individual scale. My studies in the NHS have been inherently tied to the well-being of others, and we have been taught how to compassionately address needs through the example of our classmates, professors and staff. Maintain this standard with the same humility and passion that has been shared thus far, and I guarantee it will be noticed.

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nce I entered senior year, I felt as though I was dubbed with a flashing neon sign constantly poised directly over my head reading, “Ask me any question and receive the wisest, most well-planned response.”

Amid the classic questions regarding my postgraduation plans, my new location and how I will pursue my interests, classmates, mentors, professors and friends have peppered me with many more philosophical questions. When they do ask these profound questions, they will often pause and wait for me to deliver an appropriately well-thought-out response because I am, after all, a senior, and that automatically means I have most of my life sorted out.

These seemingly casual questions, ranging from my biggest regret, my most joyous occasion or my most classic college story always catch me off-guard. But the hardest question of all is one I usually stumble through with a 30-second rambling response of the most cliched phrases strung together with the “likes” and “ums” that my favorite professor, Barbara Mujica, worked so hard to eradicate from my vocabulary. The question: What do you wish you could tell your freshman self?

I am always puzzled by this question, because I have to think that as soon as I figure something out, I always tell it to myself. At the same time, I cannot go backward, and, though I have been tempted by the thought of reliving a few moments differently, that would not be true to the Georgetown education. Because even though it is easy to try to sum up four years of education, it is not a worthwhile task.

Hindsight is 20/20, and it is a lot easier to look back and draw conclusions to make sense of different decisions than it is to actually forge through those deci-

sions without knowing the outcome. In fact, despite my anxiousness surrounding all of these seemingly unanswerable questions, they have helped me to begin to realize what is perhaps Georgetown’s greatest gift of all: its emphasis on the process of becoming rather than the outcome of being.

During commencement weekend, we celebrate the many accomplishments of each senior, the unity of our senior class and the memories that we have made every day on the Hilltop. But at Georgetown, our celebration does not stop there.

With excitement, we look to the future on graduation day. We consider how this education has made us better men and women for others and what we can do now to impact society.

What makes the Georgetown experience so unique is the idea that we rely on all the conversations, interactions, assignments and experiences that the past four years have provided to make ourselves better for the future of our society.

The continual desire to be better, do better and give better forces us to never become complacent or stagnant in our growth.

I have been so lucky to be surrounded by a support system of peers, professors, mentors and friends who ask me to do not just what is easy but what is rewarding, not just what is popular but what is right and not just what is normal but what is exceptional. Having people on campus continually reminds me to give back in whatever small way I can.

So, no, I cannot go back in time and tell my freshman self to get excited about the amazing classes she would get to take, to take advantage of Washington, D.C., right from the start or to not worry too much about when she would find her best friends because that would take the college out of the college experience. Just as we crafted the right paths for ourselves on the Hilltop, amid a number of failures and success and a course of trial and error, we will continue to do so as we transition into this next phase. I am confident that as Hoyas, we will push ourselves to continue to become our best selves rather than settle for simply being who we are.

Janie Mcdonough is a senior in the College.

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was never supposed to come to Georgetown. My first thin letter moment — the one where your high school senior heart skips a beat and you dream of moving into Darnall Hall in a Georgetown T-shirt — ended in a rejection letter thanking me for my application and wishing me the best in my future academic endeavors. The next year, after submitting an application to transfer from Babson College, a small business school outside of Boston, I wholeheartedly expected a repeat.

I applied and committed to transfer to a different school, and put my thoughts of life on the Hilltop in the rearview mirror.

When I got an email from Georgetown congratulating me on my acceptance while leaving the transfer orientation program at the other school, I was so shocked that I dropped my phone and shattered the screen. At first, I was convinced it was a mistake.

I was still sure that Georgetown’s transfer admissions committee had made a mistake when my family and I drove down the Clara Barton for movein and I realized I had not taken a tour. The feeling only amplified throughout New Student Orientation, when I met other new students who seemed to fit seamlessly into a Jack Hoya mold. After I walked out of my first accounting class, I called my dad in tears, telling him I did not belong here.

As a transfer student, I could not make heads or tails out of Georgetown’s application-based club culture, and my Babson friends alternated between laughing and crying when I told them students had to apply and interview for the privilege of walking Jack the Bulldog. I felt like a freshman all over again. I had been happy at Babson and I found myself missing my friends and life there. Georgetown felt like a mistake until the end of my second semester, when I walked into a room full of strangers who sang the fight song obsessively and seemed to love “showing us how to NSO.” I found glimmers of my Georgetown in the Intercultural Center auditorium that summer, amid matching orientation adviser shirts and late-night Domino’s.

I did not know a single person in the program when I had applied, but left my OA experience feeling like I maybe had a chance here. When I was offered a spot as a coordinator for NSO 2015, I was pretty sure that had been a mistake, too. I still introduced myself as a transfer first and Hoya second. I still had never set foot in a first-year residence hall.

I was a total imposter, preaching the best of Georgetown while not knowing what Brown House was

or why it mattered.

Yet I found my home in NSO. I found the four best friends I could ever imagine, four people I never would have picked for myself, but in hindsight, fit perfectly together as my Hilltop family. They helped me shape my Georgetown through more late nights, early mornings and extensive staff meetings than any five people should have to endure. They introduced me to a Georgetown I could really like.

My first real Hoya moment, the one where I felt like I belonged here, did not happen until September of my junior year during a break in our NSO staff training, where I sat in the ICC auditorium and blasted music completely alone. One of my fellow coordinators came in, confused why I was half crying and half laughing. That is the moment when I became a Hoya: sleep deprived and in the middle of handling one crisis after another, but with the knowledge that I could do anything and I had the people to back me up.

My Georgetown is ultimately a story of the moments when I doubted if I belonged here and then proved myself wrong.

Georgetown is not a place that can be handed to you with an admissions letter or a convocation ceremony. You have to earn it. To get the most out of it, to claim that you belong here, is to accept that we expect the very best from each and every Hoya.

Ultimately we expect each Hoya will leave this place and do spectacular things to change the world. I earned my three years here, and I am a completely intimidated about what will happen after I cross the stage on Healy Lawn.

Because I am stubborn, I know it will be OK. But because I am a Hoya, I know it will be remarkable.

Bridget Morton is a senior in the McDonough School of Business.

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Campus Plan Framework to Be Announced SFS-Qatar Graduates Eighth Cohort

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Student leaders and university administrators in the Georgetown Community Partnership expect to announce the 2017 Campus Plan’s framework — which will include plans to prioritize student housing renovations — for public consultation in early June.

The draft plan is set to be submitted to the Office of Zoning

by July 1, before the final plan is submitted to the Office of Zoning Sept. 1. In Washington, D.C., campus plans are the formal structure for universities in residential areas to plan anticipated growth and development. This new plan will last until 2037.

The GCP serves as a forum for consensus-based decision-making among university administrators, students and members of the community to develop the framework for the 20-year plan. Georgetown University Student Association President Enushe Khan (MSB ’17), Advisory Neighborhood Council 2E Commissioner Kendyl Clausen (SFS ’16) and Advisory Neighborhood Council 2E Commissioner Reed Howard (SFS ’17) serve on the GCP. The GCP was formed in 2012 as part of the implementation of

the 2010 Campus Plan, following a lengthy legal battle between several Georgetown resident associations and the university during the plan’s negotiations.

Khan said student leaders have a framework for an agreement with university administrators and neighborhood representatives for the draft of the plan, which will focus heavily on student housing and renovations.

“For students, we have made it very clear that our number one priority in terms of housing is renovations. That is something that we are working toward getting into an agreement,” Khan said. “It is essentially saying that renovations will be a priority and that the university’s emphasis will be to create quality housing on campus, which is a win for students, so that students then choose to live on campus, which is then a win for neighbors.”

In addition to housing, the campus plan will also aim to create new campus facilities, including a student life corridor with restaurants and study spaces for students, which will run from the Leavey Center to Village C West, new academic spaces, an updated Yates Field House and recreation fields. The plan will also continue to upgrade the bus turnaround by McDonough

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The Georgetown Community Partnership plans to announce the 2017-37 Campus Plan framework in early June.

Arena, seek to minimize the impact of buses travelling through neighborhood streets and enhance pedestrian walkways.

Khan said GUSA will cosponsor a public information session with university and neighborhood leaders to share the plan’s framework with students and community members in early June. The university will also announce a period for the public to comment on the plan and submit ideas or concerns, which could be incorporated into the draft in June.

Khan emphasized that the plan in its current stage is not final.

“Right now, nothing is final. We have a framework for agreement and the next step is to show what we have been discussing to the various constituencies, to the students, to the neighbors. We want to share what the GCP has been discussing,” Khan said. “After that, once we have public comment, we can go into the finalizing stage where GUSA will be there to answer any and all questions.”

Clausen said renovations are expected to be a part of the final agreement.

“Housing renovations have been a priority for students during the Campus Planning process. An agreement is starting to take shape as the process nears its conclusion, and I am happy to report that renovations are looking like a main priority in the agreement,” Clausen wrote in an email to THE HOYA. Assistant Vice President for Strategic Communications Stacy Kerr said the administration is working to prioritize renovations.

“The university also agrees that doing renovations is an important priority,” Kerr said.

“Renovating on-campus housing is consistent with what students have been telling us that they want to live on campus, but they want to live on campus not because of a physical location but they want it to be attractive, because they want good housing.”

The summer housing study authorized by the university will highlight the campus locations in need of most renovations, according to Khan.

Administrators and students will take university contractors from architecture firm Ayers Saint-Gross and subconsultant Brailsford & Dunlavey on tours of campus to survey dorms, who will then provide feedback on how to maximize campus space and improve student life.

According to Khan, junior and senior housing are in greatest need of attention, particularly Henle Village, Village A and Alumni Square.

Khan said the study is important to show the flaws of the last campus plan, which prioritized new construction over renovations of existing student housing.

“Because of the last campus plan, to meet that bed requirement, we focused so much on building new dorms that all that money, hundreds of millions of dollars, was spent to build new beds and dorms,” Khan said. “That was money that should have been spent on ongoing renovations that need to occur that just didn’t because the university’s focus was on building new beds and maintaining existing ones.”

Kerr said renovations are part of the master planning goal to create more vibrant student life on campus.

“If we’re renovating housing and prioritizing junior and senior housing, that is consistent with what we’ve been saying about creating these corridors for student life and making it attractive to live and study on campus,” Kerr said.

Vice President for Government Relations and Community Engagement Chris Murphy (GRD ’98) said the GCP has given student leaders an opportunity to advocate for student concerns in drafting the new plan.

“Working through the Georgetown Community Partnership, students have worked closely with university administrators and neighborhood leaders to develop a thoughtful framework for the next campus plan. The process has helped us identify our shared interests and a promising way to move forward together,” Murphy wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “Student leadership — whether serving on the GCP, as ANC Commissioners, or participating in regular meetings with senior university leaders — has been critical to getting us to where we are today.”

Kerr said the final plan would show the success of the GCP model.

“The elements of this campus plan are the result of consensusbased planning. It’s a unique model that no one else in the country is doing,” Kerr said. “It’s really been about advocating and finding alignments about where the university and the neighborhood and the students all share priorities.”

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In a commencement ceremony featuring the Qatari royal family and main campus officials, the School of Foreign Service in Qatar graduated its eighth and largest cohort May 5.

The graduating class numbered 68 students, with 44 women and 24 men receiving the same Bachelor of Science in foreign service degrees conferred upon students at the D.C. campus, with available majors in international politics, international economics, international history and culture and politics.

Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the sister of the ruling emir of Qatar, delivered the commencement address at the ceremony. Sheikha Al Mayassa is a prominent art collector who serves as the chairperson of Qatar Museums and co-chair of the SFS-Q’s Joint Advisory Board. Three of her siblings in the royal family attended the School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

“Already, your fellow Hoyas have made a mark in Qatar and worldwide,” Sheikha Al Mayassa said in her address. “Tonight you join Georgetown’s extensive orbit of graduates.”

In the speech, Sheikha Al Mayassa referenced the impact left by SFS-Q graduates, offering the upcoming FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar in 2022 as an example. The chairman of Qatar’s bid to win the World Cup — a hotly debated event featuring allegations of bribery and migrant worker abuse — graduated from SFS-Q. “If a Hoya could bring the FIFA World Cup to Qatar, I have no doubt you can achieve great things,” Sheikha Al Mayassa said. “No matter where you go, you will always be a part of Qatar Foundation and Qatar’s narrative.”

Officials from the D.C. campus were on hand to participate in the ceremony. SFS Dean Joel Hellman, in his first commencement ceremony since assuming the position last July, presented the candidates and University President John J. DeGioia conferred the degrees on the 68 graduates.

“During your time on campus, you’ve come to know the practice of pilgrimage, the commitment to a journey,” DeGioia said in his closing reflections at the event. “We celebrate today a significant moment in your lives, the beginning of great things to come. Congratulations on taking the next step in your journey.”

The ceremony was the final commencement presided by SFS-Q Dean Gerd Nonneman, who assumed the position in 2011 and will step down in June, returning to the faculty as a professor of international relations. Senior Associate Dean of the SFS James Reardon-Anderson will replace Nonneman and serve from July 2016 to July 2018.

Last February, when the school celebrated its 10th anniversary, Nonneman reflected on the impact of SFS-Q graduates in an interview with THE HOYA. “The Jesuit enterprise has always been about going out there and engaging on the frontiers,” Nonneman said. “In the broader debate that goes on within Qatar about how they want to take that society forward … we’re a small fish, but I think we’re a small and exquisitely formed fish that actually has an impact which is bigger than its numbers imply.”

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both Secretary Johnson and the people who oppose him coming Groves supports Johnson’s selec- a place in the conversation. That’s tion and honorary degree, according the best thing they could have done to Chief of Staff to the Executive Vice and Secretary Johnson coming to meet people was a very positive President and Provost Ali Whitmer.

According to Hellman, Johnson step. At least all voices were heard had planned on visiting campus and the forum was open.”

Johnson’s selection sparked ire prior to the backlash surrounding his selection to meet with students across the university community. and better understand the commu- After the university announced the nity — a procedure that Johnson selection two weeks ago, advocacy said he tries to follow for all his group UndocuHoyas delivered a speaking engagements at universi- letter to the SFS Dean’s Office requesting that the university rescind ties.

During the meeting, Johnson the speaking invitation. The letsaid he explained to students the ter received support from student difficulty of balancing his personal groups including the Georgetown beliefs with his professional obliga- University Student Association and Hoyas for Immigrant Rights. tions.

A change.org petition started by “When I go to the southern border and I encounter a lot of unac- Hemly Ordonez (SFS ’08) May 9 also companied children who have been called for the university to cancel apprehended by our border patrol Johnson’s speech and revoke his — there are hundreds of them — nomination for an honorary deas a father and a Christian, I want gree. The petition has amassed 742 to scoop them up and bring them signatures as of 8 p.m. Thursday.

Ordonez, who is from a mixedhome with me, but I know I can’t,” status family, supported student Johnson said.

Johnson said he also emphasized advocates by providing her consultation as a digital the importance strategy profesof enforcing “I think the sional specializborder control ing in cause marand regulations. university has given keting.

“There are both Secretary According to lots of other conOrdonez, the siderations that Johnson and the meeting between go into border people who oppose Johnson and the security and the students is unenforcement of him coming a place likely to change our immigrathe emotional retion laws, and in the conversation.” so to the fullest sponses from unEDWIN LOPEZ extent possible, documented stuSFS ’16 I want to acdents and their count for my personal convictions families during commencement. and my personal compassion, but “It still doesn’t take away this I also have to enforce the law, con- hurt that some of the students and sistent with our priorities,” Johnson their families may be experiencing said. “We don’t have an open border during this graduation cycle. It still to illegal migration, and if we don’t doesn’t take away the fear that the prioritize those apprehended at the students experience when encounborder, then we effectively have an tering anyone from homeland secuopen border.” rity,” Ordonez said. “One meeting Throughout his tenure, John- does not remedy that.” son oversaw the expansion of the Although the university currentDeferred Action for Childhood Ar- ly has no plans to rescind the invirivals program, which increased tation, Ordonez said she would like the number of deportation exemp- the university to apologize for setions for immigrants who entered lecting Johnson as the commencethe country illegally before their ment speaker.

16th birthday, and the creation of “I think that they need to issue an the Deferred Action for Parents of apology to the students and their Americans policy, which grants de- families for causing undue harm ferred action to individuals who en- on a weekend that’s supposed to be tered the country illegally but have a celebratory weekend for all of the children who are American citizens graduates,” Ordonez said. or legal permanent residents. The Ahead of commencement, Helltwo acts, which resulted in several man said he is in favor of students lawsuits filed against the United expressing their personal viewStates by states with Republican points and experiences symboligovernors, are now in litigation be- cally during the ceremony. fore the Supreme Court.

“We want to highlight the Edwin Lopez (SFS ’16), who partici- achievements of undocumented pated in a meeting between student students, and we don’t want to do leaders and Johnson, said the meet- anything to suggest that they don’t ing was an important step forward. have the full support of the com“I think the university has given munity,” Hellman said.

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“It wasn’t a fight to the death at the end to find the one valedictorian or the one salutatorian, but rather we have four people who are all carrying the banners together in some combination, which I think is pretty reflective of the Georgetown experience,” Barton said.

Jha said her and Barton’s speech will reflect on the last four years with a more casual structure.

“We met with [Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J.], and that’s why our speech is — we all agreed we wanted to look at reflecting over the four years — a lot of discernment. The format of the speech is essentially a conversation between two friends — which it is,” Jha said.

According to Harrington, his speech will focus on both academics and business ethics.

“My draft right now is about intellectual curiosity … and about ethics in business, which are two topics I think that MSB kind of hits home and that I think are valuable as we all leave Georgetown and go into these different fields, whether it’s banking or consulting or marketing or whatnot,” Harrington said.

Jha said it is important for students to find enjoyment in even the seemingly boring moments on campus.

“I would say my advice would be to really enjoy every moment even though you might sit there and wonder what you’re doing,” Jha said. “I think that’s what helped me a lot in my classes. Even though sometimes you’re there in classes and you really want to go check your email for the 150 clubs you’re involved in as a Georgetown student, per the stereotype, sometimes it’s better to be present in that moment and actually pay

attention.” Jha said.

Fenton said her time at Georgetown helped her discover an often underappreciated and misunderstood department in classics.

“A lot of people don’t know what it is. I’ve had a lot of people come up to me and say, ‘Oh, classical literature?’

And I explain, ‘No, Latin and Greek.’

It’s a lot bigger than people think, and it’s a pretty tight-knit group, which is really nice,” Fenton said.

Barton said he has learned the value of perseverance and optimism on his path to becoming valedictorian.

“Everything won’t necessarily work out just because you take a step back, but every time things seem to be falling apart, they’re going to be put back together in some way, even if it’s in a way that you don’t like, even if it’s a way that’s scary. But through that you’re going to learn something,” Barton said.

Kaul said knowing he could not achieve a perfect 4.0 GPA after his freshman fall ended up helping him on his road to earning a Dean’s Medal.

“After I got an A-minus freshman fall, I actually was relieved of any pressure to have a perfect GPA and just sought out to do the best work possible in interesting classes,” Kaul wrote in an email to The Hoya.

According to Haake, his success stemmed not from a desire for good grades, but to learn as much as possible.

“Initially, it was like, ‘OK I want to get these good grades so that I can go to medical school,’ but then it really did turn into, ‘I want to get as much out of my education as I can,’ — that’s something that I think you’ll definitely come to appreciate,” Haake said. “And a lot of the times those things do come in parallel. Taking a lot from the class, learning a lot

from the class, and then doing well and being successful in the class, and actually learning the information from the subject.”

Haake said a clearer vision of what he wanted to do after college — driven by a year off between his freshman and sophomore years spent volunteering in a Palestinian refugee camp — helped motivate him academically.

“I definitely do think that my academic rigor, discipline, whatever you want to call it, was driven by sort of this future idea that I knew what I wanted to do in terms of medicine and health care,” Haake said. “I knew that in order to make the biggest impact I would just have to work my hardest from here on out, and I was OK with that.”

Harrington said approaching his education with an open mind helped him academically.

“I’m pretty open to different subjects and stuff like that, and I’d say intellectually curious. I did marketing and finance, which are kind of two opposite disciplines in the MSB but I didn’t really feel the need to shoehorn myself into one, or I don’t think I’m really stronger at one or the other,” Harrington said.

According to Jacobson, academics were not the most valuable part of his Georgetown experience; the people at Georgetown were.

“Honestly, I’d say it was the people in general. The people who applied and get accepted to Georgetown [are] a lot of very, very interesting people.

People who are fun to talk to, have classes with, intellectually interesting to talk with,” Jacobson said.

Hoya Staff Writers Jess KelhamHohler, Kshithij Shrinath and Emily Tu contributed reporting.

Yield Remains Steady YIELD, from A1 “We are very pleased with the results,” Foy wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We’re increasingly hearing that GSP students’ enhanced scholarships as well as the assurances of a robust program make a significant difference in college choice.”

Additionally, Georgetown’s yield fluctuated in various minority groups. For black students, the yield stands at 40 percent, in the Asian-American community yield is at 37 percent and in the Latino and Hispanic community yield is at 46 percent.

Despite the overall lower yield for minority groups, Deacon said the number of applications the university received from these groups increased.

“The applicant pool itself was a little over 20,000, which is up about 3 percent from last year, but it was up primarily from students of color,” Deacon said. “The majority population, which is the white

population, is continuing to go down and is being replaced actually, more than being offset, by the increasing students of color.”

According to Deacon, the slight increase in overall yield from years past is due in part to Georgetown’s location. The yield has increased by 5 percent since 2009.

“The Georgetown brand is getting better,” Deacon said. “I think that we are situated in a very desirable location and essentially we are the school to apply to.”

Deacon added that social media as well as the Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program’s open houses for admitted students has helped increase yield.

“At the end of the day, the GAAP open house has really sealed the deal for a lot of people,” Deacon said.

Deacon added that yield tends to vary by geographic location, which is due to factors such as students with legacy status or recruited athletes because these

students tend to come from closer geographic regions.

“California is by far the largest state in terms of applicant pool. New York is the second and New Jersey is the third,” Deacon said. “But our yield rate is better in New Jersey and New York than it is in California.”

Despite the increase from last year, Deacon said Georgetown might compete better if the university were able to dedicate more money toward helping those in the middle income range. Deacon attributed the deficit in this population to the prospective students’ financial aid need that might not be covered by Georgetown.

“If there were a place we would really need to work at to really do much better, it would probably be in that middle-income population where financial aid is a particularly difficult issue,” Deacon said.

“Would we compete better if we had more money? I think probably, we would.”

University Welcomes Graduation Speakers COMMENCEMENT, from A1 laws. Johnson will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Johnson’s planned address and honorary degree conferral have been met with resistance by undocumented students and allies. As of 8 p.m. Thursday, 742 students, faculty and alumni have signed an online petition launched by Hemly Ordonez (SFS ’08) asking the university to rescind Johnson’s invitation due to the Department of Homeland Security’s role in the deportation of individuals, while 442 people have signed an online petition headed by Reed Howard (COL ’17) pushing for the university to keep Johnson as commencement speaker on the grounds of free speech as of 8 p.m. Thursday.

SFS Dean Joel Hellman said the school expected passionate responses given Johnson’s role as a public servant.

“That’s what we can hope and expect of our best public servants: that they’re trying to find ways to move issues forward in a very very complex environment where they’re going to gain a lot of opponents and supporters,” Hellman said. “We knew that any cabinet secretary we select will have deep and passionate supporters and deep and passionate opponents and that that’s part of the business of public service that we’re training and engaging students in the SFS to do.”

Hellman said Johnson’s work in the Department of Homeland Security is particularly important for graduating students from the SFS. “The issues that Jeh Johnson is working on — migration, international and homeland security, disaster response, the Ebola crisis, a whole range of things — we felt that these were some of the most important and pressing issues globally and in the United States. And so we thought it was a good time for us to highlight the importance of those issues,” Hellman said.

Johnson — who writes his own speeches — will use input from meet-

ings held with undocumented students and student leaders Monday in developing his remarks, according to Hellman.

“He created a remarkable environment for our undocumented students to actually talk to him, the cabinet secretary responsible for immigration policy and issues, about sharing their experiences and sharing their concerns,” Hellman said.

“And I believe — and we’ll see what happens on Saturday — but I believe that’s had an impact on what he wants to talk about and how.”

Hellman said he hopes students will better value the balance between their personal beliefs and making political progress after Johnson’s remarks.

“Namely the types of moral and ethical dilemmas that a public servant has in trying to make progress in a very, very complex political environment on very difficult and sensitive issues. And often — and he discussed this in detail with students — that requires choices that he’s had to make in the course of his life that actually sometimes go against his own personal conviction but were necessary to make incremental progress in the areas that he was working on,” Hellman said.

Cousteau, who is the daughter of renowned filmmaker Jacques YvesCousteau, will address students in the College at 9 a.m. Saturday. Cousteau’s career has centered on environmental issues; she founded EarthEcho international, an organization that helps young people develop solutions to environmental problems, with her brother Philippe Cousteau in 2000.

Cousteau also founded Blue Legacy, a charity that seeks to use storytelling to encourage environmental protection, in 2008.

College Dean Chester Gillis said Cousteau’s work with the environment makes her a particularly suitable speaker for Georgetown.

“It could be public policy, it could be from the natural sciences, it could be from a legal perspective, it could

be from the historical perspective, that this is an important element of our curriculum, it’s an important element of what we do at Georgetown,” Gillis said. “So it fits academically with what we do, as well as ethically.

And I do think it’s something students are very interested in.”

Gillis said he expects Cousteau’s address to leave a lasting impression on graduating students.

“I will share some of the highs and lows of my journey, particularly how critical the lowest points in my life were to shaping who I am today.”

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“I think it’s one of the most intimidating things for any speaker to be asked to give a graduation speech, because the stakes are so high, and because the expectations are so high.

And we want it to be memorable, we want it to be inspiring, we want it to touch the entire audience if possible,” Gillis said. “All that’s again a tall order to do. I think she’ll do it.”

Cousteau, who will also receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, could not be reached for comment before 8 p.m. Thursday.

Malone, the former general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing in the U.K., will address students from the School of Nursing and Health Studies at 12 p.m. Saturday. Malone has advocated on the shortage of nurses and nurse educators in the United States, as well as the importance of nursing in serving diverse communities.

Malone said her speech will focus on the importance of decision-making and leadership skills.

“I’ll be talking about sort of the

fork in the road,” Malone said. “Robert Frost speaks about how it’s a nice time to have that opportunity of [asking], ‘Which way do I go?’ And the excitement that goes with it, and at the same time, the [tugging] of the heart and how should I choose which way and if I am going to make the right decision. All of those things. And leadership of course, because I think that that’s always a big part of life.”

Malone said she hopes students take away the importance of caregivers taking care of themselves.

“I always think about while you’re taking care of others, make sure you take care of yourself. And that those who take care of themselves will have more to give for people that they care for. And if you don’t take good care of yourself, you have less to give to those you are providing services to and for,” Malone said.

Malone will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree.

Undergraduate students in the McDonough School of Business will hear from Broussard at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Broussard has worked in the health care industry for almost 30 years: Before becoming CEO of Humana, a health insurance company, in 2011, Broussard was the chairman and CEO of McKesson Specialty/US Oncology, Inc. Broussard said his address will focus on the importance of perseverance and service to others.

“I will share some of the highs and lows of my journey, particularly how critical the lowest points in my life were to shaping who I am today. These experiences pushed me to discover what really matters in life, they taught me about courage and how sometimes you must ‘put it all on the line’ to stand for what you believe,” Broussard wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I also discovered the power of serving others and the unmatchable reward and joy this brings: life-changing for everyone involved.”

According to Broussard, graduates from the MSB will play an important

role in altering the role businesses play in society.

“It’s the business leaders of the future who will play a key role in leading a paradigm shift — to a business model that takes a more holistic approach, and one that enables companies to do well by doing good.

This shift requires a new leadership approach. I believe Georgetown puts all the necessary tools in the toolbox to develop the leader characteristics necessary for this new approach,” Broussard wrote.

Broussard will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Smith featured in the commencement ceremony for the McCourt School. Before her appointment as USAID director in 2015, Smith was a Special Assistant to the president of the United States and senior director for development and democracy at the U.S. National Security Council. Smith also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Elena Poniatowska Amor — a journalist, novelist and poet and the first woman to receive Mexico’s National Journalism Award — will address students graduating from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences today at 9 a.m. Daniel Pink, author of The New York Times bestsellers “A Whole New Mind,” “Drive” and “To Sell is Human,” will address graduating students in the School of Continuing Studies at 3:30 p.m. today, and Penny Pritzker, the U.S. secretary of commerce since 2013, will address MBA students at 12:30 p.m. today.

Stanford University professor of medicine Kelley Michael Skeff will feature in the Georgetown School of Medicine’s commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Rosenthal and World Trade Organization Appellate Body Member Zhang Yuejiao will receive honorary Doctor of Laws degrees, while Skeff will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree. Amor, Pink and Pritzker will receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) released a draft of a potential District constitution May 6 that delineates the steps for elevating the nation’s capital from a federal district to a state tentatively called New Columbia.

The New Columbia Statehood Commission, a facet of the D.C. Council, will hold a convention June 17 and 18 to finalize the constitution before a citywide ballot in November to petition Congress and the incoming president to establish the District as the nation’s 51st state.

In her remarks from Lincoln Cottage, where President Abraham Lincoln drafted his Emancipation Proclamation and spent his summers during the Civil War, Bowser highlighted the plight of District residents who argue a lack of Congressional representation relegates them to a second-class status.

“We chose this site because of the significance of Lincoln being here and writing the document that freed people across the United States,” Bowser said. “It’s a fitting reminder that we are not fully free. We don’t have full democracy in the District of Columbia.”

Advocates for D.C. statehood argue that the District deserves full autonomy and representation in Congress as Washington boasts a population of 670,000, greater than either Vermont or Wyoming.

D.C. residents contribute more in federal taxes than 22 states.

Under the new constitution, the city would become its own state, excluding federal land devoted to the United States Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court Building, Union Station, the Kennedy Center, the Navy Yard and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.

Executive power would be vested in a governor rather than a mayor, who will nominate judges to form a judicial branch. The city’s current 13-member D.C. Council would become representatives in a new legislative body, the House of Delegates, and residents would elect two senators and a representative to serve at the federal level.

Currently, Congress has final oversight over the District’s laws and the distribution of its tax revenue as the seat of the federal government. District residents vote for a Congressional representative, currently Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who sits in the House of Representatives but does not vote on legislation.

Congress has occasionally used its legal authority in Washington, D.C., to turn the District into a proxy battleground over

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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) released a draft of a potential D.C. constitution, which will be finalized at a convention June 17 and 18 before a citywide vote in November. politically divisive issues. Earlier this year Congress changed budget allocations to prevent the full legalization and taxation of recreational marijuana, despite 64 percent popular support in a referendum vote on the issue.

Kotryna Jukneviciute (COL ’18), executive officer of the Georgetown University Student Association senate, said D.C. statehood should be addressed with a bipartisan approach.

“It’s ultimately a civil rights issue. You have 700,000 people in the District of Columbia who don’t have a voice,” Jukneviciute said. “We have people of very different political opinions in our office, and what’s really important to understand is that everyone in the office is behind this. Regardless of political views, we try to take the politics out of such a controversial issue and try to make it not as controversial, because it’s ultimately people having a voice and a say in what goes on.”

The push for statehood has encountered resistance from conservatives, including former presidential contender Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio), who said D.C. statehood would skew the balance of political parties.

“What it really gets down to, if you want to be honest, is because they know that’s just more votes in the Democratic Party,” Kasich said in an interview with The Washington

Post.

Democratic presidential candidates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have both expressed support for D.C. statehood. Sanders was one of 16 co-sponsors of the New Columbia Admission Action, a bill initiated last June to make the District a state.

“You have 700,000 people in the District of Columbia who don’t have a voice.”

KOTRYNA JUKNEVICIUTE (col ’18)

Clinton penned an editorial for the Washington Informer published May 11 demonstrating solidarity for statehood.

“As president, I will be a vocal champion for D.C. statehood,” Clinton wrote. “Washingtonians are Americans, too, and it’s time they had a say in their own status.”

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has not yet taken a definitive stance on the issue, though he stressed the difficulties present in the push for statehood.

“I think statehood is a tough thing for D.C.,” Trump said to The Washington Post.

“I don’t have a position on it yet. I’d like to study it.”

Cheryl Liu (COL ’19), secretary of GUSA’s D.C. statehood body, a branch formed this year, emphasized the need to consolidate the constitution in order to make statehood a reality, regardless of the presidential election outcome.

“From the point of view of the federal relations office, we’re much more focused on the issue at a local level,” Liu said. “While we obviously do follow national politics and pay close attention to what candidates are saying, that’s not really our focus, and regardless of who is elected in November, if the referendum passes we hope that we can present that package to the next Congress.”

Liu highlighted the relevance of the issue to Georgetown and the opportunity it provides to students to become actively involved in the wider D.C. community.

“We talk a lot about being a school about social justice and getting involved in the community, and I think that as Georgetown students, we are in a very good position to advocate for the rights of the people around us,” Liu said. “I think it’s only right that we as a school very focused on social justice take this issue under our wing.”

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Counseling and Psychiatric Services will form a support group for students returning from a medical leave of absence as part of a series of recommendations from Georgetown’s Mental Health Advisory Board seeking to improve the medical leave of absence process, according to a campus-wide email Wednesday.

Currently, students returning to campus from medical leaves of absence are required to check in with Health Education Services before their arrival and to arrange requests for academic accommodations with the Academic Resource Center individually.

Will Emery (COL ’19), who will co-chair the MHAB next year, said the new CAPS services will better help students during a particularly challenging time.

“There are few situations more challenging for a student than a voluntary MLOA. It is great to see CAPS offering students avenues of support when they return,” Emery wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Returning students will also be able to provide CAPS with their preferred support outreach group — such as Campus Ministry or deans — to reach out to them when they return to campus.

In addition, CAPS will develop a document to support students on MLOA in finding care at home.

Director of Residential Ministry Rev. Jonathan Rice, who co-chairs the MHAB, said the changes are designed to better support students throughout the MLOA process.

“We hope the recommendations we’ve made will help students from the time they decide to take a medical leave, throughout their care, until they successfully re-integrate back into campus life,” Rice wrote in an email to The Hoya.

Emeritus Counseling Director at the University of Delaware Dr. John Bishop will also publish a report on Georgetown’s MLOA processes in the next two weeks after consulting students who took MLOA, deans and university mental health professionals this year.

The MHAB has made additional recommendations this year, including changes to peer-oriented student support services, sexual assault protocol, deans’ efforts to better support students and services provided by HES — including the Stall Seat Journal — and feedback mechanisms for HES and other campus services.

In that vein, during its first year, the MHAB created an online client satisfaction survey for students to submit feedback to CAPS in lieu of the existing paper form in the waiting room.

The MHAB, which comprises eight students and eight adult members from the community, was formed this year by the Division of Student Affairs to ensure an ongoing conversation about mental health, according to Rice. Department heads from services related to mental health, such as CAPS, were chosen to serve on the board, while former Georgetown University Student Association Undersecretary of Mental Health Ben Johnson (NHS ’17) nominated students to serve on the board.

Rice said MHAB is committed to improving both mental health resources and the campus climate toward mental health.

“The Mental Health Advisory Board is a newly formed team of students and professionals committed to evaluating mental health support organizations, student mental health organizations and changing the conversation about mental health on campus in a more positive direction,” Rice wrote.

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GU Earns Six Big East Titles dan baldwin Hoya Staff Writer

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Sophomore Sam Madsen took 29th individually at the NCAA regional golf tournament in Nashville, Tenn.

Hoyas Exceed Expectations RYAN MCCOY

Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s golf team finished its season at the NCAA regionals in Nashville, Tenn., this week. Despite a solid showing on its second and third days, Georgetown finished 12th, outside the top five spots necessary to advance, and will head home at the tournament’s conclusion. The Hoyas finished with an overall team score of 877, 13 over par for the tournament.

Georgetown qualified by winning the Big East championship tournament between April 30 and May 3 at Callawassie Island in South Carolina. It won that competition comfortably, beating second-placed Xavier by 27 strokes.

The team was not expected to take first, but it capitalized on a steak of consistently good play, especially in terms of putting.

“We were waiting the whole spring season for all of us to put together rounds at the same time. We’d have tournaments where two guys would play well, and the next one two other guys would; stuff like that,” sophomore Sam Madsen said. “We were just waiting for the whole team to come together and have a good tournament collectively. We know how good we are when that does happen. Before the tournament, we just said, ‘Why not us? Someone’s got to do it.’”

In Nashville, the team’s expectations took on a more realistic tone. The Hoyas had to finish in the top five of 13 teams at the NCAA Regionals, which is no small feat. Even after an improved showing on the second and third days, the Hoyas came up short. Before the final round, Madsen, who finished at two under par and took 29th individually, talked about the team’s outlook.

“We would have to go real low … to get in the top five. When we put this whole thing in perspective, if we just improve … like we did [in the second round], that’s really an accomplishment for us,” Madsen said.

That sentiment was echoed by

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Head Coach Thomas Hunter.

“This is probably the most realistic group of guys I’ve coached at Georgetown. They’ve done a heck of a job understanding that a golf season is like a marathon, and you’re going to have your ups and downs. You heard [Madsen] talk about how we gelled together down at the Big East, and that’s really what happened; we finally played three rounds of golf, and all five guys played really nice rounds,” Hunter said with regard to the team and how well it performed under the pressure of the playoffs.

“So now what happens is that you get sent to these NCAA regionals, and that’s really a step in the land beyond in terms of how the Georgetown golf program is set up. This is an opportunity for us to be around people who aspire to be on the PGA Tour.”

Instead of wasting the occasion and opportunity, however, the Hoyas enjoyed the successful season. They travelled to Nashville looking to improve upon each round’s score. They wanted to play their best and as the season winds to a close, the prospects for next year look bright with the entire lineup returning.

“We’re really young; we’ve got two sophomores and three freshmen in the lineup,” Hunter said.

However, Hunter was wary of expectations creating a burden for the next season. He explained the mentality he wanted the team to have going into next year in light of its triumphs this past season.

“When you have success, you worry about the pressure that success brings next year.

This team is very realistic, and they know that next year, it starts all over again. They know the grind, and it’s not easy to win,” Hunter said. “I want to make sure that they enjoy every moment that they’re having right now. And then, when they come back in the fall to start the [2016-17] year, that they just go back to basics, playing good golf and trying to improve every time they play.”

Both the men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams competed at the Big East championship meet in Geneva, Ohio. The men finished in fourth place out of seven teams, winning four individual titles in the process. The women came in fifth out of eight, claiming two events, including the 4x800-meter relay.

For the men, sophomore Joe White led the Hoyas as he captured his seventh Big East championship in his career. In the men’s 800m finals, White finished with a time of 1:50.77, winning the event. White became the third Georgetown runner to defend an 800m championship. Freshman Spencer Brown secured sixth place overall in the event with a time of 1:52.67.

White credited strength training to his development from freshman year.

“We have done a lot more strength work,” White said. “We have also been doing a lot of longer stuff, which has been benefitting me a lot. I’ve been working out with some of the longerdistance guys, and I’ve been really liking it and getting stronger.”

Senior Ahmed Bile tallied his seventh Big East title win as well, winning the men’s 1500m finals. Bile clocked in at 3:55.48. Graduate student Cole Williams finished in second place overall with a time of 3:55.58. Bile and Williams battled down the final stretch of the race for first place overall. Senior Darren Fahy crossed the finish line in fifth place at 3:56.88.

In the 4x800m relay, the foursome of junior Scott Carpenter, senior Andrew Ogle, Williams and Bile finished in second place overall with a time of 7:39.31. Bile was tripped on the final turn of the anchor leg and could not recover.

In the men’s 5000m event, senior Michael Crozier captured fifth place, clocking in at 14:32.8. This time was a personal record by more than 10

seconds, helping the Hoyas add more points.

Fahy claimed first place for the Hoyas in the 3000m steeplechase, marking the third straight year a Hoya has won this event. Carpenter followed Fahy, finishing with a time of 8:55.04, claiming second place overall.

Junior Jonathan Green secured another victory for the Hoyas as he won the men’s 10000m race with a time of 31:06.24. Green was followed by junior Connor Sheryak who captured fifth place with a time of 31.12.90.

With the season near its end, White reflected upon the seniors’ role on the team.

“Those guys are awesome,” White said. “I’m really going to miss them.

They are such great leaders and they have always taught me to keep my head clear no matter how many outside pressures there might be. They always reminded me to laugh a little.”

For the women, graduate student Katrina Coogan claimed the seventh Big East title of her career donning the Blue and Gray. Coogan emerged victorious in the women’s 1500m race, defending her title and clocking in at 4:26.24. Sophomore Piper Donaghu and freshman Audrey Belf placed third and fourth overall with times of 4:29.53 and 4:32.27 respectively. Coogan said she relished the meet because it brought the whole team together.

“It was just a fun weekend overall,” Coogan said. “It’s one of the few meets where the whole team gets to compete at the same time so it was fun to be a part of that and contribute to the team’s score.”

Relay team members sophomore Aleta Looker, junior Emma Keenan, Coogan and senior Heather Martin defended their championship in the women’s 4x800. They crossed the finish line at 8:47.89 for the 10th event win in Georgetown’s history. Coogan said she was pleased with the effort of the team as a whole throughout the meet.

“In every event we entered in we

pretty much had someone score, which was awesome because that just means we are doing really well in the events that we have people in,” Coogan said.

“That was really exciting. At this point in the season, running our best is really important; it shows that our training is working and doing what it’s supposed to.”

In the women’s 800m race, Martin captured second place with a time of 2:07.78. Graduate student Andrea Keklak finished at 2:07.93, good for third overall. Martin and Keklak were followed by Keenan, who claimed fourth at a time of 2:08.22, and senior Jocelyn Hubbard, who crossed the finish line at seventh place at 2:13.41.

The relay of sophomore Jody-Ann Knight, Keklak, Donaghu and Hubbard secured third place in the women’s 4x400m relay. with a time of 3:50.8.

In the women’s 10000m event, sophomore Autumn Eastman, who finished at 34:55.11, senior Sarah Cotton, who finished at 35:04.03, and sophomore Madeline Perez, who finished at 35:23.27, finished in third, fourth and fifth place respectively.

Eastman followed up her performance in the 10000m event with an impressive showing in the women’s 5000m. Eastman claimed fourth place with a time of 16:42.7.

Coogan spoke about what she wishes to impart to the athletes and friends she will be leaving after this season as her eligibility runs out.

“I think it’s just remembering to focus on the process,” Coogan said.

“It’s really easy in track to be outcomedriven, but it’s all about the process and improvements each day. Also just remembering that the team and what we have a Georgetown is really special culture-wise and making sure everyone is focused on doing the best they can for the team.”

The Georgetown men’s and women’s track and field teams will travel to the NCAA East Preliminary meet in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 26.

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Series Loss Dooms Playoff Hopes tyler park

Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown baseball team (2529, 8-10 Big East) missed out on an opportunity to solidify its spot in the Big East tournament by losing two of three games to Villanova (20-29, 5-10 Big East) over the weekend. The Hoyas will not play next weekend and will instead wait for the other Big East results, which will determine whether they will receive a bid to the Big East tournament.

The Hoyas fell to the Wildcats on Friday by a score of 6-1, won Saturday’s game 10-8 and lost in Sunday’s series finale 10-5. Head Coach Pete Wilk was not pleased with his pitching staff’s performance after it surrendered 24 runs in the three-game series.

“I think if you looked at our entire year from a pitching standpoint, we picked the worst weekend to pitch our poorest,” Wilk said. “We’ve faced much tougher lineups than we just went through and we’ve done a lot better against them.”

In Friday’s game, senior right-handed pitcher Matt Smith set school records in career starts and career strikeouts by making the 49th start of his career and recording seven strikeouts to increase his career total to 229. Smith passed Tim Adleman (MSB ’10), who currently pitches for Major League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds, in both categories.

“When you start a career, I mean as a freshman, you’re trying to be the best you can be, but you’re not really looking at the records and saying, ‘Okay, I’m going to break these,’” Smith said. “I’m just happy that I had the opportunity to play so long, four good years, and breaking [the records] does mean a lot to me. It’s just kind of a testament to the four years of hard work that I put in.”

However, Smith surrendered five runs, four of which were earned, in six innings and took the loss to drop his season record to 3-6. Georgetown was limited to only six hits in the game, including two hits each by junior designated hitter Jake Kuzbel and sophomore right fielder Michael DeRenzi.

Villanova junior left-handed pitcher Hunter Schryver pitched seven innings, allowing just four hits and one run.

“You finish your last regular season game but you’re also kind of on edge because you don’t know whether it’s your last game in general as a college athlete.”

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“To me, [on] Friday you tip your cap. We got beat by a damn good pitcher. That’s baseball,” Wilk said.

On Saturday, the Hoyas’ pitchers allowed eight runs on 13 hits and four walks. However, Georgetown overcame its pitching struggles with an offensive outburst, as each of its nine starters had at least two hits.

The Hoyas finished with 20 hits, including a home run by junior center fielder Beau Hall. Hall and junior first baseman Joseph Bialkowski led the team with three hits apiece.

The Georgetown pitching staff struggled again on Sunday, allowing

13 hits and 10 runs. Freshman righthanded pitcher Jack Cushing made the start and allowed seven hits and six runs in two innings.

“I would say the biggest thing was the big innings, as a pitching staff,” Smith said. “I gave up three runs on Friday in one inning, and I think that kind of deflated our sails. And on Sunday we had a big inning, and there were times in both games where the bats went cold. It’s baseball, it’s going to happen.”

While Georgetown rests next weekend, it will keep an eye on the series between Seton Hall (35-18, 7-8 Big East) and Butler (14-37, 4-11 Big East).

For the Hoyas to advance to the Big East tournament, the Bulldogs would need to win at least two of the three games against the Pirates.

“It’s rough,” Smith said of the Hoyas’ situation. “I think it’s rough especially for seniors as well, because you finish your last regular season game but you’re also kind of on edge because you don’t know whether it’s your last game in general as a college athlete. So it’s tough.”

Despite a somewhat inconsistent season, Wilk had some positive takeaways from his team’s results.

“From a positive standpoint, we beat some of the best teams in the country,” Wilk said. “And we have most of the guys coming back who were pretty important cogs in those victories. So that’s pretty encouraging. Yeah, we’re losing some important seniors, but I’m optimistic about the club coming back as long as the [MLB Draft] doesn’t hurt us that much.”

Seton Hall and Butler will play a three-game series with one game each on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The first pitch of Friday’s game will be thrown at 3 p.m.

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could work for me.’”

Other members of the club basketball team had intercollegiate athletic opportunities elsewhere as well. Sophomores Michael Martinez and Ryan Wall had baseball and basketball looks, respectively. However, they both chose to come to Georgetown on the basis of academics and have both found homes on club sports teams, with Martinez also playing for club baseball.

Martinez, in recognizing Crowley’s leadership, did whisper his doubts about sustaining the program’s level of organization.

“I’m nervous for [Crowley leaving] because he was indisputably the leader on this team in every way, whether it was getting stuff done behind the scenes or getting us a bucket whenever we needed it,” Martinez said. “It’s going to be tough to replace him. So I’m nervous for what the future is, if we’ll continue on this path or if we’ll kind of stray away from it because our leader’s gone.”

Regardless of what happens after Crowley’s departure, the program is undoubtedly in a better place than it was three years ago, in part thanks to all those who came before the Class of 2016.

“This was the perfect culmination of four years of hard work by a lot of different people.

There’s a lot of people, seniors, juniors, graduated. ... The officers this year took on so much this year, our finances, helping me get rest,” Crowley said. “As much as it was about the team getting better, it was also a lot of hard work off the court.”

After years of toiling away and working to a join league — the team joined the NCBBA

in the 2014-15 school year — the team finally had a plan. Despite qualifying as an at-large team last season, the Hoyas could not travel to nationals. But this year was different.

“I can remember sending out a GroupMe message, in probably August, saying, ‘Circle April 17 on your calendars. That’s the date of nationals. Make sure you’re free,’” Crowley said. “It was really awesome both for the team and me personally to be able to get there.”

The other seniors who might not have been able to participate more fully in years’ prior stepped up as well. “[Freshman] Malik Williams texted me over [last] summer and said, ‘Senior year, I’m willing to do whatever I have to do to make this work. And I know you share that feeling; let’s drive this home,’” Crowley said.

And the team did drive it home. In reaching nationals and playing more games than ever before, it created an experience that was as close to varsity basketball as it would ever see on the Hilltop. However, beyond just the actual level and frequency of competition, the close-knit nature of the team was perhaps the most unforgettable part about this whole experience for the Hoyas’ captain and all his other senior teammates.

“This was the college basketball experience I really never thought I’d have coming here. … Even though we didn’t win the national championship, we had so much fun. That’s what I’m going to miss the most,” Crowley said. “I’m going to miss the camaraderie and hanging out with these guys because they’re the best part of it all.”

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something that was there, to play athletics,” DeCicco said. “My focus was athletics; academics was a second priority. Entrepreneurship and athletics competed for head to head. The way you saw my MSB classes, they affected my business, I became much more engaged in the classroom.”

His engagement in the classroom helped give DeCicco a heightened experience at Georgetown, despite his overstretched schedule. The time commitments of football, academics and Sunniva equated to having three full-time jobs amid the inherently hectic nature of senior year.

“The best piece of advice through this process was from a fellow Hoya, Ann Yang (SFS ’16), who [co-founded] the Misfit Juicery. She said to me, at the beginning of the summer startup launch program, ‘Hey, senior year starts, you need to ask yourself if this is something worth giving up parts of your senior year for. There will be times when you will have to choose not going to senior night [at The Tombs] because you have a meeting Thursday morning,’” DeCicco said.

DeCicco did not stop connecting the different parts of his schedule or let his lives and jobs exist separately. Using the football team’s existing camaraderie that already existed there, he received feedback and takeaways from the team on his product.

“My teammates were our focus groups. Those were the guys that were testing our stuff, letting us know what tasted good, if it was too sweet, how much protein they wanted,” DeCicco said.

“The support that came from that was beyond anything I could expect. It really shows you that all those guys are your brothers and they helped so much.”

Looking back on his time at Georgetown, as

an athlete, student and entrepreneur, DeCicco has made an impact beyond the field. And with 1,553 career receiving yards and seven touchdowns to his credit, that truly is a special accomplishment. In his humble words, his work ethic is nothing special, but instead is emblematic of any Georgetown student.

“If you look around, everyone is grinding nonstop so I think being an athlete helped, personally, but this is such a fast-paced environment,” DeCicco said. “The Georgetown mentality is more of a reflection of ‘Get the job done. If you’re not busy, you’re probably just lazy.’ That’s the Georgetown approach.”

Regardless, DeCicco’s accomplishments should not be understated. While juggling football, the rigors of the MSB and a position as COO of a successful startup company, DeCicco has excelled in all three and left a legacy that can be seen almost anywhere on campus.

“Nothing is as exciting as walking through [Lauinger Library] and seeing someone drinking it. I was leaving Lau at 1:30 a.m. after writing a paper, and I saw a group of three girls coming in and they were talking about how they were pulling an all-nighter, and all three of them had a Sunniva,” DeCicco said. “That was one of the times when I thought, ‘This is awesome.’”

Now moving on from Georgetown with a successful and budding business and immediate and concrete goals for the future, DeCicco would not be where he is today without the Georgetown community. As he prepares to graduate on Saturday, he said he remains forever grateful to the place that gave him so much.

“I view Georgetown as the best decision I have ever made,” DeCicco said. “There is something special about this campus, the kids that go here, the community around it. Hoyas helping Hoyas is a real thing, and this is such a special place.”

of struggles plagued the Hoyas through the first stretch of the season.

Losses to Delaware (11-6, 3-3 Colonial Athletic Association), Maryland (200, 5-0 Big Ten), Princeton (11-6, 6-1 Ivy League) and Towson (16-4, 5-1 Colonial Athletic Association) held Georgetown winless for nearly a month, with its first victory finally coming in a close 10-9 win over No. 17 Duke (11-9, 5-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) March 9. The Hoyas entered conference play at 2-7, with only a small margin of error if they hoped to end the season at or slightly above .500.

But things started turning around; a win over Vanderbilt (5-11, 1-5 Big East) April 2 in Georgetown’s conference opener was a promising start, and two more wins later in the month over Villanova (4-13, 2-5 Big East) and Cincinnati (4-13, 0-7 Big East) put Georgetown in a good position to fulfill its preseason projected finish at second in the Big East.

Though it battled its way through the rest of conference play and managed to clinch the remaining No. 4 seed in the conference tournament, Georgetown once again lost in the semifinals of the tournament, this time to No. 2 Florida (18-2, 7-0 Big East). The Hoyas managed to improve on their earlier 14-7 loss to the Gators in conference play, dropping the semifinal game by only three goals, 11-8.

But again, Georgetown stopped short of its predicted finish.

Georgetown plays a significantly more difficult nonconference schedule than most of the other teams in the Big East; seven of the nine teams Georgetown played in its nonconference schedule earned bids to the NCAA tournament, and two of those teams, Maryland and Penn (15-4, 6-1 Ivy League), are still in the running for the national championship title.

Florida’s Big East debut in 2015 has also raised the level of competition during conference play, and with Denver entering the conference next season, Georgetown will continue to adjust to the changing dynamics of the Big East.

The Hoyas will lose several key players to graduation after this season.

But Georgetown has entered the past few seasons sitting in the rankings right alongside its nonconference opponents and shows no signs of easing up its preconference schedule, leaving the question of whether the team will turn things around and step up to the early-season challenge in the future.

The Hoyas will lose several key players to graduation after this season, including attack Corinne Etchison and midfielder Kristen Bandos, who were both at the top of the leaderboard in points at the end of the season — Bandos finished with 34 points and Etchison fin-

ished with 33. Etchison also led Georgetown in assists with 12.

On the defensive end, the Hoyas will lose senior goalkeeper Megan McDonald, who started splitting time with junior goalkeeper Maddy Fisher this season, usually stepping into the cage for the second half. McDonald finished with 63 saves this season for a .453 save percentage in 16 games played.

But Georgetown also has key returners stepping into the roles its seniors leave behind. Junior attack Colleen Lovett bounced back from a midseason injury to reclaim her role on offense, netting consecutive hat tricks against Villanova and Cincinnati. Lovett has made significant contributions in each of her three seasons on the Hilltop; as a sophomore, she was second on the team in goals with 21 and led Georgetown in assists with 12.

Freshman attack Taylor Gebhardt and freshman midfielder Francesca Whitehurst will also return after stellar rookie seasons; the two were tied for first with Bandos in points with 34 each, and Whitehurst started all 17 of the Hoyas’ games this season.

If Georgetown can redeem the past two years in its 2017 nonconference schedule and use its depth to make up for the vacancies on its roster left by this year’s seniors, then all the pieces for a stellar season may finally fall into place.

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tournament — in a 4-0 finish in the semifinals. The Blue Demons won all three doubles matches to swiftly earn the first point of the match.

DePaul earned wins in the second, third and fourth singles matches to defeat Georgetown. Even though the score said otherwise, Ernst explained that the match was extremely close on all levels, which he attributed to the number of games that went to deuce.

“Sara lost six deuce games in the first set and she lost 6-0. In doubles, Sophie and [sophomore] Casey [Marx] at third doubles lost five deuce games,” Ernst said. “I think we were in good shape, it just came down to a handful of points. We could have beaten them.”

The men’s team (9-9, 2-1 Big East) faced fifth-seeded Xavier (12-9, 3-3 Big East) in the quarterfinal round. The tournament matchup was the teams’ second meeting on the season, the first of them being a 4-3 decision in favor of Georgetown on March 18. The Musketeers evened the score against the Hoyas, defeating Georgetown 4-0 in the quarterfinals.

“It was a really competitive match from the get-go in doubles. … They just got the better of us,” sophomore Peter Beatty said.

“When we played them earlier in the year we won the doubles point and that set the tone for singles. …

The singles lineup between Xavier and us, it’s pretty much dead even, all six matches can go either way.”

Xavier won the majority of the doubles matches to get on the scoreboard first. The Musketeers then notched victories in the first, second and sixth singles positions over senior Daniel Khanin, sophomore Marco Lam and freshman Will Sharton, respectively.

Despite the 4-0 score, Beatty said the match was deceivingly close. If all the other matches continued after Xavier clinched the victory, Beatty said it likely would have resulted in a 4-3 overall decision.

“We were close in every other match that was left on the court,” Beatty said.

“I was still playing, [freshman] Mike Chen was still playing and [junior] Yannik Mahlangu was still playing, and all three of those matches we would have won.”

Georgetown went on to defeat eighth-seeded Villanova (8-14, 0-2 Big East) in the back draw in a 4-0 finish.

Overall, both Georgetown teams saw success on several fronts this year that show promise for the future of the programs. Most recently, Saperstein and Nakagawa earned All-Big East selections.

“For Risa to get it as a freshman, that just shows how much respect she’s earned from the other coaches,” Ernst said. “She had a great year, I mean a really great year. What a teammate too, she’s just the ultimate team kid. She was meant to play college tennis.”

“We want to win it, we want to win the Big East next year, and we’re ready to perform at that level.”

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However, Saperstein also explained that the awards are also indicative of Ernst’s effective coaching.

“It’s really exciting for Gordie, it shows that he really does great recruiting but also does great shaping because going from junior tennis to college tennis,” Saperstein said. “There’s a very big transition that needs to happen and the fact that as freshmen he’s able to have his players transition so smoothly, you know that just shows how good of a coach he is so it’s mostly about Gordie, not about us, honestly.”

On the men’s side, Beatty saw potential and the possibility of growth throughout the entire season. One encouraging match in the fall was Georgetown’s matchup against No. 3 North Carolina (25-4, 10-4 Atlantic Coast Conference),

where even though Georgetown fell 6-0, it showed competitive spirit.

“We played them really close and every match was really competitive against kids who are playing in the junior U.S. Open in the summer. … They’re all on full rides, they’re playing top-level tennis,” Beatty said. “Seeing how close and competitive we were with them was a really positive thing, and I think everyone left Chapel Hill really excited for what the season had in store.”

Ernst referenced the team’s matches in California during spring break.

When the Hoyas defeated UC San Diego (14-9, 1-0 California Collegiate Athletic Association), Ernst said he saw that his team had truly improved from the beginning of the season through the spring.

“I just remember thinking, ‘Wow, these guys have grown up a lot.’ They’re getting better and better and it was just great to see, and sure enough we come home and beat Xavier. So it’s like, you just have these moments where you feel like your team is coming together,” Ernst said.

Going forward into next season, Georgetown will lose three seniors in Khanin, senior Liselot Koenen and senior Mimi Lynham. Khanin has played number one singles for most of his athletic career at Georgetown.

“He’s been our number one player for four years and been a huge contribution to the team as both a player and as a person,” Beatty said. “The team is going to miss him for sure, but at the same time, we have a lot of potential going forward.”

Saperstein anticipates the chance for the women’s team to go back into the Big East tournament with the goal of winning the title.

She believes that next year, they will have the team to accomplish that feat.

“Now we really believe and we’re ready, we want to win it, we want to win the Big East next year, and we’re ready to perform to that level,” Saperstein said. “Especially because it’s my last year, so it’s happening.”

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After spending four years as one of Georgetown football’s most consistent and reliable wide receivers, senior Jake DeCicco will graduate from the McDonough School of Business with far greater a legacy than his athletic and academic accomplishments.

Since February of 2015, DeCicco’s junior year, he has been an integral part of Sunniva Caffe, serving as its chief operating officer. Beginning with a pitch competition, Sunniva went from coffee specially made for DeCicco’s younger brother Jordan at Philadelphia University to a blooming business that will now serve as the senior receiver’s immediate career path.

“We pitched at Georgetown in the StartupHoyas Pitch Competition,” DeCicco said. “We were finalists, and as a result we got into the StartupHoyas summer launch program. Going into the summer, we knew this was something we wanted to develop into a national brand. This [past] summer was a foundation, and it was a transition period.”

Using the summer as a fulltime work opportunity, DeCicco and his brother built Sunniva up and sold it to what is now more than 100 Whole Foods stores in the Mid-Atlantic, North Atlantic and Northeast regions. The DeCicco brothers brought on their third brother, Jim, and continued to market Sunniva as healthy, delicious bottled coffee that also served as an energy drink.

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Senior wide receiver Jake DeCicco started 11 games and had a team-high 60 receptions and 705 receiving yards this season. mer, DeCicco now carries the title of StartupHoyas’ Entrepreneur of the Year.

“After graduation … we will be back full time, locally based … Our growth strategy is to grow from D.C. all the way up to Maine,” DeCicco said. “[There are] 103 Whole Foods that we will be moving into and 111 specialty accounts — universities, gyms. … Occupying the Northeast is our summer expansion plan.”

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Beyond just the corporate experience, however, Sunniva has taught DeCicco many lessons about life at Georgetown and beyond. He has since widened his perspective, connecting business, athletics and more.

“It definitely let me appreciate my academics. It might sound cliche, but as an athlete, athletics is all of your time. Academics were See DECICCO, A9

The Georgetown tennis teams closed their 2015-16 campaigns in late April with strong showings at the Big East tournament in Cayce, S.C., where both sides earned four seeds. The tournament marked the conclusion of a successful year for the men’s and women’s teams, both of which saw immense growth and consistent success.

“Both teams showed such great character this year,” Head Coach Gordie Ernst said.

The women’s team (13-5, 2-3 Big East) competed with Marquette (12-9, 1-2 Big East) in the quarterfinal round, topping the Golden Eagles in a 4-1 finish. Georgetown fell to Marquette last year in the Big East tournament, which drove the Hoyas to avenge the loss.

“We lost to them last year so it was also very personal because last year we were the fifth seed and they were the fourth seed,” junior captain Victoire Saperstein said. “There was a lot of build to this match beforehand. …We made it pretty clear how much of a big deal this one was going to be and how much we felt like we needed to prove ourselves and that’s exactly what we did.”

Marquette started off strong in the 90 degree South Carolina weather, winning the doubles point with victories at the first and third doubles slots. Even though Marquette did have momentum entering singles play, Georgetown bounced back and went on to find victory in four singles matches.

“We were down, we lost the doubles point, [and] we lost three first sets,” Ernst said. “And then you could just feel the momentum shift, you know? You could just feel it. [Junior] Sophie Barnard won an unbelievable three-set match. [Sophomore] Sara [Swift] and [freshman] Sydney [Goodson] just completely crushed their opponents, and now we’re at 3-1.”

With the score at 3-1, Saperstein and freshmen Cecilia Lynham and Risa Nakagawa competed concurrently in their singles matches. Nakagawa won the first set in her match but fell quickly in the second. However, she rebounded to win the third set over Marquette senior Erin Gebes and clinch the match for Georgetown.

“It was incredible. … Risa won and everyone was just so excited,” Saperstein said. “It was [an] amazing, incredible moment — just proving to ourselves that we did deserve the four seed and that we can beat Marquette and are competitive in the Big East which is what we’ve been trying to prove all season which is really exciting.”

“It was one of the better wins I’ve been a part of as the Georgetown coach,” Ernst said of the match overall. “We’ve never beaten them. We lost to them last year, so it was jut a great way to get revenge.”

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or the second season in a row, the Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (6-11, 4-3 Big East) has failed to meet expectations. Though the team managed to bounce back from the opening stretch of its schedule, which saw the Hoyas lose four straight games and seven of its first nine, its sub-.500 overall record and fourth place finish in the Big East tournament mark another year of falling short of its goals.

In 2015, Georgetown entered the preseason polls at No. 17 in the nation and was projected to finish second in the Big East. But when Georgetown was stunned by Delaware (11-6, 3-3 CAA) in a 17-5 loss in its season debut and subsequently plummeted from the rankings, its lofty preseason goals started to move out of reach. It did not take the team as long to put together a win last year as it did this year — Georgetown won a close 11-9 decision over George Mason (116, 7-2 CAA) in the third game of the 2015 season — but the victory stood alone as the team’s one win in nonconference play.

An eventual loss to the University of Connecticut Huskies (12-5, 6-1 Big East) in the Big East semifinals ended the Hoyas’ season and snapped the five-game win streak that they built during conference play. Though Georgetown fell short of its projected second-place finish in the conference, it ended its season in a better place than it started.

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tepping up to the podium after losing 94-80 to Ohio State in the final four of the National Club Basketball Association National Championships, senior captain Brendan Crowley and the rest of the Georgetown club basketball team had made it.

Despite the tough loss, the team had arrived at a point no one ever thought it would when Crowley and senior Brody Garrity joined the club team in 2012.

“It was a great group of guys running it here,” Crowley said of the club basketball team his freshman year. “But they just didn’t have the support.

I made it my goal [to improve the team’s organization]; Brody Garrity also made it his goal. We weren’t just going to let it fade away.”

Even then, sports junkies perceive club basketball as a far cry from varsity-level sports, nothing more than slightly organized pickup games.

However, the NCBBA National Championships were anything but that. Played at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, Pa., the tournament was extremely organized and ran, at the very least, like a prestigious AAU tournament.

“They arranged for us to be in a hotel; they had a big staff there. It was just really

well-organized,” Crowley said.

“When you walked in, they had the trophy there waiting.

They had a big bracket printed out, they had shirts for everyone. Also it was really cool because it was just eight of the best teams for club in the country.”

Moreover, the tournament had sponsors, including big names like Wilson and Enterprise. For those questioning club basketball as a legitimate and competitive outlet, look no further than the effort and pomp and circumstance put into the tournament.

“They had guys doing radio interviews at halftime,” Crowley said of the lengths the NCBBA went to put on an organized tournament. There were also live webcasts of ingame statistics, as well as radio broadcasts available for streaming.

“When Georgetown fell into place, it had always been above everything else.”

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Senior captain Brendan Crowley is one of six seniors on the club basketball team graduating this year. but clawed back in the second half.

The Blue and Gray ended up winning 67-66.

Next up was No. 2 Ohio State. Though the Hoyas fell in what looked to be nothing more than a 14-point blowout, they came back in the second half and cut the lead to one before the Buckeyes pulled away for good.

Despite the loss, this team is now a program. It is now a program because of the effort of Crowley, Garrity and the other seniors who came before them.

But, like some other star

high school athletes, Crowley was not always set on Georgetown and had the option to continue his basketball career at the intercollegiate level.

“I could have played at some small-time Division III programs,” Crowley said. “I basically had two lists: DIII schools I could play at and academic institutions I wanted to go to. And when Georgetown fell into place, it had always been above everything else. So my parents and I talked, and I said, ‘I think I can find a basketball experience there that See BASKETBALL, A9