The Hoya: January 30, 2015 by The Hoya

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FridaY, JANUARY 30, 2015

TAINTED BY SLAVERY

The legacy of this Jesuit university is inextricably intertwined with that of slavery.

COMMENTARY Limiting student voices on the board of directors silences true dialogue.

CHALLENGING COMPETITION Men’s lacrosse will face several ranked nonconference teams.

OPINION, A3

SPORTS, B10

GUIDE, A1

Students Fight Lottery Restriction Kelsey Quackenbush Special to The Hoya

More than 700 students have signed a student-created petition on Facebook calling to repeal the university’s new housing policy that denies housing lottery access to students studying abroad in fall. The policy was issued on Feb. 6, 2014. The petition, titled “Student Against Restrictive Housing Policy (2015),” was created Jan. 25 as an event page by Declan Kelly (COL ’17) and Will Simons (COL ’16). “It’s the freshmen and the sophomores that are at stake here, so naturally, we thought a sophomore should lead the charge and that’s what I’m doing,” Kelly said. According to Georgetown’s Selection Handbook, a student who confirms their fall study-abroad plans with the Office of Residential Living will forfeit their eligibility to go through the housing selection process during the fall semester. Fall study-abroad students will be assigned to a random roommate or fill in for a student studying abroad in the spring through a direct swap when they return to campus. Students studying abroad in fall 2015 will be notified while they are abroad about applying for spring semester housing. There is no guarantee that students will receive specific housing on campus. Study-abroad applications for the fall semester are due in February while applications for the spring are due in October. Approximately 57 percent of Georgetown students study abroad, which totals to about 900 students a year. “Students who study abroad [are] making a decision to not have a ‘typical’ junior year on campus. … However, by deciding to study abroad, there are payoffs. One of those is not having the exact housing experience one might have had if they did not go abroad,” Executive DiSee HOUSING, A6

Petition Seeks Aramark Renegotiation Katherine Richardson Hoya Staff Writer

Aramark workers on campus are engaged in efforts to renegotiate their contract with the company, demanding better work and wage conditions, since their current three-year contract expires in March. A group of 20 Aramark workers from O’Donovan Hall, Cosi and Starbucks and a group of 30 students from the Georgetown Solidarity Committee marched together to Aramark leadership at Leo’s Friday to present their demands. In addition, “Equality at Georgetown,” an online petition created two weeks ago by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee in support of the workers’ demands, has already amassed over 900 student and community member signatures. Georgetown Aramark workers from Leo’s, Cosi and Starbucks unionized in March 2011 under UNITE HERE, a company that provides guidance to over 90,000

food service employees around the world. The company runs an office on K Street in Washington, D.C., as well as other offices around the country. The workers have utilized the union in the past to renegotiate contracts, specifically in March 2012, when they negotiated a three-year contract with Aramark that provided workers with a 50-cent-per-hour wage increase and coverage of 85 percent of their health care costs by the third year. This contract expires this March, and the employees are now involved in contract renegotiations with Aramark leadership. The workers’ demands include a 40-hour paid workweek, better benefits and raises, protection for immigrant workers and sustainable food practices for on-campus food. Georgetown Aramark employee and union representative Rhonda Smith said that the workers are See ARAMARK, A6

DEGIOIA DECODES GLOBAL GEORGETOWN

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Aramark workers, including Leo’s employees, are pursuing more workers’ rights in a new contract. The current one expires in March.

MPD Raids Local Establishments Patricia Okuniewska Special to The Hoya

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University President John J. DeGioia spoke about global endeavors and student engagement in a video interview on thehoya.com.

Local Mexican restaurant Los Cuates and convenience store Wisemiller’s Grocery & Deli were raided in the past two weeks by the Metropolitan Police Department in attempt to locate use of fake identifications among customers, as well as the sales of alcoholic beverages to the underaged. On Saturday, around 20 underage students were caught with fake identifications by undercover police officers in Los

Cuates. Manager Sergio Kehl said that no prior warning was given to the management, as three police officers entered and began to question customers in the restaurant. Although the identifications were confiscated, no students were arrested. The officers said to the students involved at the restaurant that their names would be referred to the university, where further discipline would be carried out. The disciplinary measures to be carried out by the See RAIDS, A6

World Bank Talk Inaugurates Series Toby Hung

Hoya Staff Writer

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim delivered a lecture on the role of economic development in improving the pandemic response against the Ebola virus outbreak at Gaston Hall on Tuesday as part of the inaugural lecture series sponsored by the university’s Global Futures Initiative. The lecture, entitled “Lessons from Ebola: Toward a Post-2015 Strategy

for Pandemic Response,” marked the launch of a series of presentations hosted by the initiative on the topic of “The Global Future of Development,” which will continue throughout the semester with one more lecture from Kim and two lectures from World Bank Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Kaushik Basu. University Vice President for Global Engagement Thomas Banchoff inaugurated the lecture series by emphasizing the importance of the university’s role in addressing global

issues. “In addressing global issues, we want to build out the model of an engaged global university in service to the world,” Banchoff said. “We are in the position to convene structured conversations with world leaders like today’s. Conversations that address not only practical questions of power and interest in survival, but also ethical imperatives of justice, peace and the global common good.” University President John J. DeSee INITIATIVE, A6

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A Los Cuates bust yielded the confiscation of several fake IDs, but no arrests. The university will handle disciplinary measures.