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EDITORIAL Georgetown must protect employees by investigating potential employment violations.
GUSA SENATE ELECTIONS Thirty-three candidates vie for 14 open GUSA senate seats this weekend.
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In a First, Georgetown Launches Kavanaugh Hearing Elicits Racial Justice Institute Student, Alumni Responses MEENA MORAR Hoya Staff Writer
Georgetown University is set to begin faculty recruitment to launch the Institute for Racial Justice, a multidisciplinary research and advocacy organization, as part of a series of commitments the university made to racial equality. The institute’s launch will mark the completion of University President John J. DeGioia’s commitments made in February 2016 to expand the university’s commitment to racial justice. Other steps toward inclusivity included the establishment of an African American studies department, which was accomplished in June 2016, adding faculty to support these new institutions and the establishment of the Working Group on Racial Justice. Georgetown is recruiting four faculty members for the institute, according to an email from the Office of the Provost sent Thursday morning. The institute will be an outreach center to explore a range of racial inequities in health, education, income and employment, among other topics; it will bring together university scholars from Georgetown and other universities, according to the email. The university has not
announced an official launch date. On Oct. 4, 2017, Robert Groves, provost and executive vice president, extended an invitation for proposals from departments across the university for ideas on confronting racial inequities.
“Our focus is making sure that the most vulnerable members of our population are cared for.” CHRISTOPHER KING Director, Health Administration Graduate Program
The guidelines for proposals, which establish the goals each of the four new faculty members are to pursue, were based on themes established by the institute and the working group such as inequality and difference, and structures and solutions. A university faculty committee selected four proposals from the department of health systems administration in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, the departments of performing
arts and African American studies in Georgetown College, Georgetown University Law Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy to comprise the institute. Christopher King, director of the health administration graduate program, drafted a proposal to inform Georgetown students and those outside the community about how health care systems can be made more equal. “Our focus is making sure that the most vulnerable members of our population are cared for,” King said in an interview with THE HOYA. “In a health care space, we’re teaching our students on how to be leaders with a focus on making sure that the most vulnerable individuals have access to quality health care. … We want our department to be perceived as a national leader in academia in helping health systems across the country apply racial justice lens in how they deliver care.” In February 2016, DeGioia emphasized the need to confront the racial inequalities present in the United States, as well as on campus, at an address to the community. “The moral imperative for complete social justice continues to summon us not to discussion but to action and that summons will not go
Community responds to testimonies on Capitol Hill
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Students and congressional alumni shared messages of support for Christine Blasey Ford after her Thursday testimony on Capitol Hill regarding allegations of sexual misconduct, but expressed unease about the greater implications of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s potential confirmation. Ford and Kavanaugh testified Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Ford’s recent allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers. Ford’s account came out following Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Sept. 16; she accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17. Kavanaugh has denied the accusations, along with two accusations that have surfaced since Ford’s came to light. In the days leading up to Ford’s testimony, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick came forward with allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, and reports of Kavanaugh’s alleged heavy drinking in high school surfaced. Georgetown alumni on the
GU Votes Seeks to Bolster Absentee Ballots DEEPIKA JONNALAGADDA Hoya Staff Writer
Students can now request absentee ballots through a voter drop box system implemented in Residence Hall Offices across campus as part of an ongoing effort headed by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service. The student-led voter registration initiative, called GU Votes, aims to simplify the voting process and increase student turnout rates on Election Day. The drop box system launched Sept. 24, and boxes will be checked nightly by GU Votes volunteers for absentee ballot requests through lateOctober. The development is part of GU Votes’ attempt to register students to vote in the upcoming Nov. 6 elections. Prior to the 2016 election, 90.4 percent of Georgetown students were registered to vote, with 71.1 percent of registered students turning out to vote and 64.2 percent of students voting nationwide, according to a 2016 report by the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. Since the initiative was launched, GU Votes has helped either register or get absentee ballots for over a third of undergraduate students, according to GU Votes Co-President Andrew Starky
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GU Votes held a “Storm the Dorms” event Sept. 25 to register voters on campus in advance of November’s midterm elections. (COL ’20). Conveniently located in RHOs, the drop boxes simplify the process of requesting an absentee ballot for many students interested in voting, Starky said in an interview with THE HOYA. The typical process of casting your vote involves filling out a state-specific absentee ballot request form, printing
out and mailing the form, receiving the ballot in the mail, and then mailing the ballot back to a state or local registrar office. GU Votes hopes to reach every student on campus, Starky said. “We’re going to effectively reach every single Georgetown student at the undergraduate and graduate level,
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Students participated in a walkout on Wednesday to show support for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified Thursday. committee, Sens. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) (SFS ’66, LAW ’69), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) (LAW ’64), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) (LAW ’78) all expressed support for Ford. Ford testified first, describing the incident and the impact it had on her life. Ford could not remember several details about the party at which she said the incident occurred, such as exactly when or where it was, but
said she could remember distinctly the feelings of Kavanaugh’s hand covering her mouth. When Leahy asked Ford how certain she was that Kavanaugh was her assailant, Ford responded, “100 percent.” H*yas for Choice President Angela Maske (COL ’19), Casey
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and it would not be possible without the level of support in Georgetown voter engagement across the board,” Starky said. “It’s something that everyone can get behind, and we’re just happy that we have the opportunity to be able to facilitate that process.” In partnership with the Office of Residential Living, GU Votes is providing prestamped envelopes at six RHO drop box locations, eliminating one step of the process. Ballot requests can also be dropped off at the GU Politics office located in Healy Hall. “Very few students know where you can buy a stamp on this campus, so that in itself can prevent a lot of people from voting,” Starky said. “If you’re passing by an RHO several times a week, there’s no reason why you can’t take the time to log on and vote if you’re interested in doing so.” Housed in the GU Politics office in the basement of Healy, GU Votes is funded by the Andrew Goodman Foundation, which works to inspire young voters; the Georgetown University Student Association; the Office of Student Affairs; and the Office of Federal Relations. GU Votes was founded in 2015 with the mission of registering more voters and increasing political participa-
At a discussion on Tuesday, panelists emphasized the significance of lay people in reforming the Catholic Church.
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Wrongfully Convicted A Georgetown seminar helped exonerate a wrongfully convicted man, Valentino Dixon. A4
Finding God in Music Through singing in the chapel choir Truc Nguyen (NHS ’20) came to understand her Catholic faith more deeply. A3
Defense Shines The women’s soccer team recorded its sixth shutout of the season in its win over St. John’s. A12
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OPINION Advice from the Outside
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Catholic student groups held a prayer service for survivors of clerical church abuse. A7 Published Fridays
In a new miniseries about job hunting, a young alumna encourages students to highlight their unusual side. A3
The Georgetown football team lost 23-3 against Columbia on homecoming weekend. A12 Send story ideas and tips to news@thehoya.com
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Protect Workers From Exploitation For the last decade, workers at Epicurean and Company have been pleading for help against an employer seemingly uninterested in treating them fairly. Georgetown University is long past due to take up the workers’ cause by investigating Epicurean’s labor practices. Historically, Epicurean has underpaid, threatened and generally mistreated its employees. The company’s substandard practices have allegedly continued through its recent acquisition of Bulldog Tavern. Georgetown, which oversees Epicurean’s contract with Bulldog and thus is responsible for ensuring the company follows strict employee protection policies, should demonstrate a commitment to workers’ rights by calling for a full investigation of Epicurean’s management. By allowing Epicurean to take control of Bulldog Tavern, Georgetown has ignored the company’s appalling and well-documented history of workers’ rights violations. Further, Epicurean’s expanded domain on campus has exposed Georgetown’s inadequate methods of enforcing its own standards for employees. In 2013, Chang Wook Chon, who owned Epicurean at the time, pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in a case involving alleged mistreatment of several employees. According to the suit, four employees claimed Chon failed to fully compensate them for their hours worked then threatened to report the employees to immigration authorities if they continued communicating with attorneys. The year before, a judge found that Epicurean had stolen wages from four employees. By the time the matter had been resolved, 12 workers received compensation for unpaid wages dating back to 2007. Epicurean has failed to leave these insidious practices in the past. Last month, UNITE HERE Local 23, the labor union representing Aramark employees, sued Epicurean for failing to offer workers jobs when ownership of Bulldog Tavern changed hands in July. The workers have since been offered jobs, but their wages are in open violation of Georgetown’s own policies: Tipped workers will make $3.89 hourly, far less than the $10 to $12 they made under Aramark, while cooks will receive $14 per hour. Georgetown’s Just Employment Policy, which outlines standards for wages, unionization and other labor issues, maintains that all Georgetown workers should be compensated at $16.77 per hour. The university had a responsibility to do all that it could when making the crucial decision of assigning Bulldog’s contract. Marking a desire to protect Epicurean from the scrutiny it clearly deserves, Georgetown did not consult the Advisory Committee for Business Practices while this contract was being approved. “The University cares little about our input,” ACBP
member Chad Gasman wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Student representatives to [the ACBP] have been given little to no information.” In direct contradiction to the lawsuit, Georgetown contests the union’s allegations, claiming the Bulldog Tavern workers formerly employed by Aramark were treated in accordance with university policy. “All Aramark hourly employees employed at Bulldog Tavern were offered positions in other Aramark food service locations on campus,” Rachel Pugh, the university’s director for strategic communications, wrote in an email to The Hoya. By allowing Epicurean to expand its reach, Georgetown has allowed workers to be subjected to outright mistreatment. This concern is, unfortunately, familiar. During a 2016 blizzard and ensuing four-day weekend, many of Georgetown’s dining and facilities employees remained on campus. While senior-level management officials were given rooms in the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center or nearby Rosslyn Marriott, many facilities workers were given only a blanket and pillow and expected to sleep on benches or floors in campus buildings. The same year, multiple employees of Georgetown’s bookstore — one of whom had worked there for over 30 years — lost their jobs when Barnes & Noble took control from Follett, an educational products distributor. Georgetown failed to enforce the JEP then, but it has a chance to ensure compliance now. Georgetown has acknowledged that workers at Bulldog Tavern are entitled to the same protections as university employees. However, current methods of assessing JEP compliance are inadequate and do not equip Georgetown to ensure its contracts are being enforced. Workers are encouraged to call a Georgetown hotline in cases of JEP violations. While this policy may protect Georgetown from oversight criticisms, it does little to hold employers accountable. By deferring to the hotline as a solution for potential workers’ rights abuses, Georgetown abdicates responsibility, adding to the burden of already aggrieved workers. To avoid another instance of mistreatment of the people who keep campus operating, Georgetown should call for an audit of Epicurean, including the ongoing situation at Bulldog Tavern. The committee performing this audit should include expert faculty and engaged students, such as members of the ACBP. Most importantly, though, the voices of university workers must be heavily considered as the university investigates potential violations of its own policies. Employees of Epicurean — and Georgetown’s on-campus workers in general — have waited for university action for far too long.
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THE VERDICT More Flags, More Fun(eral) — On Tuesday, Six Flags launched a new competition: its Fright Fest 30-Hour Coffin Challenge. The park will offer $300 and other park prizes to anyone who can spend 30 hours in a wooden coffin, with a bathroom break every hour. Flamin’ Hot Rehab — Rapper Lil Xan wrote on an Instagram post that Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were the reason for his recent hospital visit and gruesome stomach injury. Lil Xan warned his followers to stay away from the snack, saying, “Hot Cheetos are one hell of a drug.”
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Charlie and the Chocolate Cottage — A cottage in France made of chocolate will be available to book for a limited amount of time. The cottage comprises 3,000 pounds of chocolate and features a chocolate fireplace, dresser, clock, walls and cups Diplomatic Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work — Singer Rihanna has been appointed as “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary” in her home country of Barbados. Her new title gives her responsibility “for promoting education, tourism, and investment for the island.”
EDITORIAL CARTOON by Adam Semprevivo
Encourage Internships Across GU On campus tours and in promotional materials, students and administrators alike emphasize Georgetown University’s geographic and institutional proximity to impressive internship opportunities. Academic policies across all four undergraduate schools should consistently reflect this advantage by giving students appropriate course credit for part-time internships during the academic year By ensuring all students have the opportunity to earn academic credit for approved professional experience during the academic year, Georgetown can enhance future job prospects for its students and set the university apart from competitors in the eyes of future applicants. Georgetown’s location gives students interested in internships a substantial advantage. Rather than applying for a summer position — a process accompanied by the burdensome stresses of housing, food, transportation and planning — students can gain both academic and professional experience in the same semester. For many students, summer internships are financially impractical; for others, working during the academic year is strongly preferable — and a key reason they chose Georgetown. Many programs at Georgetown already recognize the value of assigning credit for internships. The School of Nursing and Health Studies requires varying forms of relevant work experience across its five majors. All NHS students are required to work an internship or similar out-of-the-classroom professional commitment during their senior year. This work is accompanied by a different course based on the student’s major; courses range from three to eight credits. The College also offers three credits for students working internships in particular professional fields. The journalism minor, for example, require students to complete an internship, along with a three-credit course centered on developing professional skills. Juniors and seniors in the McDonough School of Business who are working internships can take “In-
ternship in Business,” a three-credit course designed to enhance the skills students learn at their jobs. Internships give students an advantage in their job search. In addition to helping students develop important professional skills, these courses provide undergraduates with more professional credibility as they leave college for graduate schools and apply for jobs. The university should expand this mindset across its academic expanse. Most notably, students in the School of Foreign Service and most of the majors in the College are unfortunate exceptions to an academic environment that otherwise encourages learning outside of the classroom. Currently, SFS students can take Internship in “International Affairs” alongside an internship. However, the course, which is worth only one credit, does little to advance a student along the path to graduation, nor does it fill any curriculum requirements. The College offers course credit in certain programs, like journalism, art and art history, but lacks an established system for rewarding students who do other internships relevant to their field of study. The two schools, which enroll a combined 74.3 percent of undergraduate students, can remedy this problem by offering three credits to those who complete a part-time internship, typically defined by a 20hour commitment per week. These credits could be allocated in either a formal course setting, meant to build on the professional skills being developed in an internship, or an independent study supervised by an academic adviser. The SFS and College must adapt their academic policies to reflect the importance of professional experience in finding work after graduation, as recognized by other programs within Georgetown. Employers prioritize internship experience in hiring, and Georgetown has every resource to give its students an advantage. In pursuit of this goal and in recognition of a vital opportunity, the university should provide requisite academic credit to students looking to further their education out of the classroom.
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Nixon Eliminates Deferral Option Last week’s U.S. Senate passage of amendments to the Selective Service Act has caused a scramble among Georgetown University freshmen for draft counseling. The amendments will allow President Richard Nixon to eliminate the “2-S” college deferment for the Class of 1975 but will retain deferments currently held by Georgetown upperclassmen. After publication of an article in the Sept. 23 issue of The Hoya explaining the nature of the new draft regulations, the number of freshmen seeking help at the Georgetown University draft counseling service center dramatically increased. “It would indicate to me that after this date I’ll probably be swamped with a lot of freshmen,” draft counselor John Daley
said. The counseling program was initiated Sept. 20 in the center, located next to student government offices in the basement of Healy Hall. The service is available to students from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday. Daley, a newcomer to the Georgetown campus, was trained at the Tempe Peace Center near Phoenix, Ariz. He pointed out that he is “in a rather unsettled position now and that will continue for another week and a half or so.” “When I finally get settled and when I have all the information that is current, I should be able to counsel people at times that are convenient to them” in addition to “the open hours I have here
in the office when anybody can walk in,” Daley said. Daley explained his duties in relation to student medical deferments. “I do a little bit of screening myself to try to find out what the nature of their problem is, give them the name of a person who is probably a medical student who will then further screen them and decide if their problem is of a serious enough nature to submit to a doctor, Daley said. “The doctor will examine and then, if he feels they should be exempt from the draft, he will write a letter to that effect and give the necessary supporting materials.”
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INTO THE FEMININE GENIUS
Truc Nguyen
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efore coming to college, my faith felt like an obligation. I come from a long line of Catholics who taught me belief in God was a necessity — and anything short of complete faith would guarantee damnation. I associated Mass with loss of my free will and wondered how many countless hours I had wasted in the pew of a church. But once I got to Georgetown University, I found my old habits hard to bury. Soon, I was attending 9 p.m. Mass in Dahlgren Chapel every Sunday. As a freshman, church was the only place where life didn’t feel new, and I didn’t feel so different or weird. I knew how to be Catholic; I had been doing it all my life. I went to Mass because I knew my parents would be happy knowing faith was still part of my life. But I didn’t expect to find something deeper.
I started to ask myself how I was serving God in everything I did, as it gave me the strength to persevere knowing that I was doing everything for His glory. I found God in the dingy choir room of my home parish singing “Ubi Caritas.” When I sang classics like “On Eagle’s Wings” and “Do Not Be Afraid,” I was reminded of the existence of a God who was bigger and stronger than the problems in my life. These hymns comforted me, as they told me I am never alone or forgotten. I held onto the joy and happiness I felt when I sang those hymns at my home parish and took them with me when I signed up for chapel choir freshman year, hoping for another place where I could find God. As a freshman, chapel choir became a harbor of sorts from the constant newness of living on my own. I found the same God I found when I was 10 years old, but in newer hymns and psalms. In “The Servant Song,” I found a Jesus who was willing to laugh and cry with me, even though I never asked him to. In “These Alone Are Enough,” I
found a Jesus who challenged me to forgo my worries and fears and follow him. This simple and pretty tune, based on St. Ignatius’ “Suscipe” prayer, challenges us to return to God our “liberty, memory and understanding” with the blind faith that He will use them to create a better world according to His will. There’s a grandness in this request that demands an absolute surrender of free will: Am I capable of shedding all that I am and letting God’s love and grace be enough for me? Sometimes I don’t think I am. On those days, I tuck myself away in Dahlgren Chapel and remind myself that there are bigger and better things than what conventional society tells me to worship. Even though there are some days when I cannot say truthfully that God’s love and grace are enough for me, it’s something I aspire to. Chapel choir was a place where I learned how to love God and, through that love, how to love myself. There was a freedom in serving God that allowed me to stop worrying so much about resume-building or good grades. I started to ask myself how I was serving God in everything I did, as it gave me the strength to persevere knowing that I was doing everything for His glory. If you had told me when I first got to Georgetown that God would become my reason for fulfillment, I would have laughed. As a freshman, I thought happiness meant being the best pre-med student with the most impressive resume. I wasn’t looking for God’s love and grace because I didn’t think I needed them to be happy. I didn’t set out to be devout or religious, but it was through the hymns sung in chapel choir and the quiet moments sitting in Dahlgren at odd hours of the night that I found a God who loved all parts of me, even though sometimes I have found it hard to love Him back. Through Him, I found a happiness that revealed the most authentic version of me. Truc Nguyen is a junior in the School of Nursing and Health Studies. Into the Feminine Genius appears online every other Wednesday.
The murky legal status of ride-sharing apps and a dearth of efficient, inexpensive public transportation options contribute to the mounting frustration plaguing Amman — impenetrable traffic.
Untangling Amman’s Traffic Crisis
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n a typical morning in Amman, Jordan, the 4.5-mile commute from my apartment in the western part of the city to my school can take anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes, often involving several cancelled Ubers, some haggling over taxi prices and the occasional lie to a police officer — “No, sir, this is not an Uber!” I can pay close to $5 a day for the route that Google Maps estimates should take 17 minutes in “normal” traffic conditions. However, traffic conditions here are anything but normal. Amman’s streets are plagued by myriad problems: The murky legal status of ridesharing apps, cumbersome taxi encounters and a dearth of efficient, inexpensive public transportation options contribute to the mounting frustration plaguing Amman — impenetrable traffic. This flawed system requires comprehensive and collective action on the part of the Jordanian government, daily commuters, and private companies and investors who have vowed to make a difference. Here, the streets are the great
equalizer. Regardless of where you come from, everyone suffers, and all must work to address Amman’s urban mobility crisis. With few large-scale public transportation options, most Jordanians own their own cars; nearly 1.5 million cars are registered in Amman. Some resort to taxis and ridesharing apps like Uber when necessary, while others use the 350 large buses designated for the city of more than 4 million people. These rides account for less than 5 percent of journeys in Amman each day, according to a transportation consultant. Uber, which is unlicensed in Jordan, creates plenty of problems, causing frenzied drivers to concoct a plausible story to deny that they’re paid to drive me. If caught working for Uber, drivers are fined heavily. My first Uber ride in the country from the airport ended with my driver receiving a 100JD — US$140 — ticket and me getting a curt “Ahlan wa sahlan” from the police officer: Welcome to Jordan. Taxis, while legal, come with risk of a “broken meter,” a tactic often used by drivers who prefer to negotiate prices with their passenger. Cabs are cash only and require precise directions to the destination. All in all, they can be cumbersome and unreliable. Smaller “coaster buses,” which operate along a fixed route throughout the city, may be a cheaper option but cost more time. Holding space
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for 20 to 25 passengers, these buses don’t depart until they are completely full, which can take over an hour during certain times of the day. Regardless of the transportation method, the inevitable soul-crushing, maddening traffic remains. In what is designed as a two-lane street, I’ve counted up to 13 distinct lanes of cars attempting to merge into seven new lanes of their own creation. The sheer volume of people and the speed at which they migrated to Amman is a significant factor in the city’s traffic nightmare. The population of Jordan has grown by over 87 percent within the past decade, while Amman’s population has more than doubled. Infrastructure simply hasn’t been able to keep up, and some believe the country may have already lost its opportunity to implement another viable option like a subway or above-ground tram: New construction undertakings would only exacerbate the existing traffic problem. Still, a Rapid Bus Expansion project, which would involve operating modern buses that could carry about 120 passengers on their own designated lanes along Amman’s busiest streets, is expected to launch later in 2018. This project, if it moves forward, would be a great step in the right direction. These issues are felt profoundly by members of society at each level. A 2014 govern-
ment study on youth unemployment, currently at about 39 percent in Jordan, found that about 55 percent of respondents cited transportation barriers as a primary reason for failing to keep or find a job. Not only are ride-sharing apps convenient and affordable when they work without police interference, but they also have the potential to address the high unemployment rate in Jordan. Careem, a ride-sharing app for the Arab world, planned to create 10,000 jobs in the country by 2018. Even Syrian and Iraqi refugees cite the traffic and cost of transportation as a major deterrent to accessing many of the resources the Jordanian government has made available to them, including NGOs, community centers and support groups. In the end, everyone loses. Valuable time, money and energy are being wasted in 13 lanes of cars crowded around a single roundabout. Ride-sharing apps should be allowed to operate unambiguously in Amman; road conditions must be improved and legitimate; and accessible public transportation projects need to be undertaken if the capital is to continue to grow as a hub of prosperity and stability in the Middle East. Hannah Urtz is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. Amman It appears online every other Thursday.
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Adding Personality to the Job Hunt Sustaining Art as a Public Good
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spent a significant part of my senior year sitting in the upper level of the new Peet’s Coffee applying for jobs. I vividly remember walking down steep 35th Street, turning left on M, and rushing to my table overlooking the line outside Georgetown Cupcake. Some days, I’d browse jobs by sector. Sometimes, I’d do it by geography. Often, I turned to LinkedIn: I’d search companies that seemed interesting, looking for alumni to whom I could reach out. I bookmarked the career pages of companies whose products I loved and whose missions I respected, like Clif Bar, Patagonia and Trek, as well as institutions in which I was already a participant. By Christmas break I was bruised from the process; as a biology and classics major, I put too much pressure on myself too early and held myself to the standard of consulting or finance kids, even though science and related jobs hire on an entirely different cycle. When I returned for my last semester, I approached the search with a fresh heart, taking it as an opportunity to learn and trying my best to enjoy it as an experience. It was in that upper level of Peet’s where I scheduled a final-round interview for a job I knew I didn’t want, where I refreshed my email at least 10 times waiting to hear back from a startup that ultimately ghosted me; where I attempted my first salary negotiation after receiving an offer that I later turned down; and where I texted my mom at least a hundred crying emojis. But in between working on my computer science proj-
ects and drinking at least two dozen hot chocolates, I grew up a lot up there. In particular, I learned to apply for jobs I would actually have been happy to work in, rather than limiting myself to work in a specific field.
Sara Carioscia In January, I finally found the job I have now — from the comfort of my beautiful yellow townhouse. I decided to be entirely myself in my application: I wrote parts of my resume in aquamarine font, told my personal statement like a story and submitted an essay about wolves in Yellowstone National Park as my writing sample. This personality mattered: People told me, “Your resume looked good, but when I saw you studied Egyptian hieroglyphs, I knew I had to meet you.” By the time I arrived to interview for my current job, the interviewers had seen my transcript and knew I’d studied biology. Instead of focusing on these basics, I directed the conversation toward the science writing contest I’d helped establish in the Writing Center and the sponsorships I set up for our triathlon team. I was excited to talk about things I was passionate about and even happier that the interviewers were interested in discussing them with me. More than a
year later, I’m still working there — continuing to use the skills I developed through my own projects. The job search was difficult, and there are a number of ways to measure whether any aspect of it was successful. But I think the most important part of the process is to enjoy each step. I expanded my network and am still in touch with a few people at places I ended up not working. Asking for letters of recommendation gave me the opportunity to start new conversations with old professors, who I now keep updated on my job and life. Putting pieces of myself out on the internet and never hearing anything back was difficult; opening a rejection email six months after applying was worse. However, I am grateful to the people who helped me through the process, by pushing me to write out everything I enjoy, spending hours with me in the Cawley Career Center or taking me to Epicurean for sushi to celebrate when I finally got my job offer. Searching for a job is an awesome opportunity to learn — about a topic, about working and about yourself. And it’s a chance to grow professionally, personally and culturally. It doesn’t have to be defining, and it doesn’t have to be forever. I learned firsthand the value of twice-removed connections and the LinkedIn cold message, and I’m always happy to talk — you can find me at sac258@ georgetown.edu. Sara Carioscia graduated from the College in 2017. This viewpoint is the first installment of Hired from the Hilltop.
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y parents cried tears of frustration when I told them I was pursuing a degree in art history instead of STEM. Naturally, museums became my safe haven. I grew up north of Boston, with the Museum of Fine Arts a train and subway ticket away. But to visit the museum, I had to pay $18 for a round-trip train ticket and an additional $10 for a child’s ticket. Once I turned 18 and the price doubled, my respite became prohibitively expensive. Museums perpetuate a narrative that the art on their walls belongs to the public. At the same time, though, they need to function as businesses. In 2014, Washington, D.C., lost the Corcoran Gallery of Art when the museum entered financial insolvency. The battle between public trust and business is most evident in the case of rising admission costs. Anger against the increasing fees stems from pricing people out of attending museums and evidence of mismanagement. The battle between public interests and business reality is particularly evident with the second-most visited art museum in the world, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which uses public funding and sits on public land. Just last year, the museum ended its pay-as-you can entrance fee, citing increasing business costs. New Yorkers with residential documentation are grandfathered into the pay-as-you-can rule as long as they bring their New York identification. This policy makes the mu-
seum inaccessible to immigrants without documentation or people who commute to New York from neighboring states. Museum patrons are already overwhelmingly upper-middle-class white people, and these new pay barriers represent an increased gentrification of knowledge. The gentrification of knowledge bars low-income people of color from viewing their objects of cultural patrimony, which were often forcibly taken or unfairly acquired by white colonizers. Museums seem to be rebuffing visitors who do not have the means to upgrade an admissions fee to a membership. Beyond pricing out visitors, many critics of the Metropolitan Museum argued that a museum should not burden its visitors because of its mismanagement. Paying visitors find the idea that museums are spending their money responsibly hard to believe. Just this week The New York Times reported that the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum paid $6.7 million for a hat that scholars now believe may have never actually belonged to Lincoln. Moreover, from a personal standpoint, it is hard to justify paying for a visit when only 8 percent of museum interns receive a living wage. At the same time, stories about reckless and disrespectful visitors damaging museum artwork seemingly support exclusivity. While we are all taught not to touch the art, not everyone is a respectful guest. In 2017, a selfietaker smashed a pumpkin in Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrored
Room — All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” at the Hirshhorn Museum. More maliciously, in 2011, a woman at D.C.’s National Gallery of Art attempted to attacked a Paul Gauguin painting but was prevented from causing damage by its plexiglass protection. Museums face large crowds, and they have to be mindful and prepared for future damage. Accessibility and conservation are not mutually exclusive. If museums want to stop the tide of people jumping ship because they now have to pay admissions fees, museums must be more transparent to the public about affordable ways to enjoy the museum and where admissions revenue goes. One example of maintaining accessibility is advertising free admission days. Notably, Bank of America offers monthly free days at over 200 museums for its customers. In regard to conservation costs, museums could adopt the National Portrait Gallery’s “Portrait Circle” model. This model allows members to adopt an artwork, with the higher cost of their membership covering conservation fees that would usually come from general admission fees. There are ways of balancing conservation and accessibility, but raising admissions fees and citing growing business costs without explaining to the public what these costs are is a detrimental way to handle the dilemma.
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GU Student Seminar Helps Free Wrongfully Convicted Man EMMA KOTFICA Hoya Staff Writer
A team of Georgetown undergraduate students and professors helped exonerate Valentino Dixon, who spent 26 years in prison after being found guilty of murder, on Sept. 19. Three undergraduate students in professor Marc Howard’s spring 2018 “Prison Reform Project” seminar assisted with the case, unearthing new evidence that led to Dixon’s release. Dixon was convicted in 1992 for the murder of Torriano Jackson in Buffalo, N.Y., and released Sept. 19, 2018, from the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility. “The Georgetown students made me a believer that anything is possible — and that justice can be done,” Dixon said in a Sept. 19 news release. The three students who studied the case, Julie Fragonas and Naoya Johnson, who both attended Georgetown as part of a study abroad program, and Isobella Goonetillake (COL ’18), worked alongside foren-
sic and legal professionals to investigate the case. They produced social media content, a website and a documentary outlining the details of the case and their findings. Fragonas said the work she did on the case changed her perspective on the criminal justice system and the impact she could have. “Meeting Valentino and the rest of his family made me understand the power of strength and dedication,” Fragonas wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “I think it made me realize the realities of the system. Never will I ever see a prisoner the same from now on.” The “Prison Reform Project” seminar, taught by Howard and adjunct professor Martin Tankleff, brought together 16 undergraduate students to tackle four cases of wrongful conviction. Tankleff himself,is an exoneree and served 17 years for his parents’ murder before his 2007 release. Howard and Tankleff are lifelong friends, and Tankleff’s experience led to Howard’s interest
in wrongful convictions and pushed him to begin teaching the seminar. “One of the reasons I was interested in wrongful convictions is because my childhood friend Marty Tankleff — who co-taught the course with me — was, himself, wrongfully convicted, and I was part of a team that pushed and eventually succeeded in getting him exonerated,” Howard said in an interview with THE HOYA. “So, it was very personal, and I really understood deeply how hard it is, how painful it is, for someone to be wrongfully convicted, and how difficult it is to get that person exonerated.” Tankleff said the opportunity to teach the seminar at Georgetown and participate in the processes of tackling other cases of wrongful convictions is important and meaningful to him. The goal of the class, according to Tankleff, is to produce a successful outcome in all four of the cases studied in the class. “The ultimate goal would be to get at least one person out,
but our goal now is to really have success in all four of our cases,” Tankleff said in an interview with THE HOYA. “And we believe this is absolutely possible because we believe that our students, in conjunction with the experts who work on the cases, really uncovered some great evidence.” Both Howard and Tankleff said the amount of work the students did was extraordinary and showed dedication to the overarching goal of the seminar: to help those who have been wrongfully convicted. “This was something they invested all of their heart and soul and energy and blood, sweat and tears because they realized that another person’s life was at stake, and they took it really seriously,” Howard said. “They were really fully invested in his case, and that’s what you have to do if you want to get someone exonerated.” Tankleff said the students, by doing the work necessary to exonerate a person, defied many common expectations about undergraduates’ ability and dedication and highlight-
ed the impact the students’ efforts had on Dixon’s life. “People said it can’t be done; I think we just proved them wrong,” Tankleff said. “They gave someone their life back, which is kind of incredible.” One of Dixon’s lawyers, Donald Thompson, said the Georgetown students’ work was instrumental in calling attention to Dixon’s case and providing additional resources and information that were key in his release. “It generated some great interview videos with a number of people that I never expected they would be able to talk to — the trial prosecutor being one of them — and in the course of the interview with the trial prosecutor, got him to represent that, in fact, there was gunpowder residue testing at the time of trial that was negative for Mr. Dixon’s clothing or hands or whatever,” Thompson said in an interview with THE HOYA. “There was never any disclosure of gunpowder residue testing at the time of trial. There were never any results from any gunpowder residue
testing at the time of trial.” These negative gunpowder residue test results for Dixon were crucial in his exoneration. Thompson also said that he was encouraged by the investigation done by the Erie County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation that ultimately led to Dixon’s exoneration, and he hopes that this case can serve as a model to other district attorney’s offices looking to improve their handling of wrongful conviction cases. “If you frankly and without fear search for the truth, no matter whom it hurts or helps, you may get to the bottom of it, and you may be instrumental in righting a wrong,” Thompson said. Howard said that, although he, Tankleff and the course’s students were thrilled by Dixon’s exoneration, there is still much more work to be done. “We’re happy, but we’ve got so much more work to do because our criminal justice system is bankrupt, and we’re doing one small part in trying to fix it,” Howard said.
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Marc Howard, left, and his class of 16 undergraduate students, including Julie Fragonas, left, and Isobella Goonetillake (COL ’18), worked, as part of a seminar titled “Prison Reform Project,” to help free Valentino Dixon, a man wrongly convicted of the murder of Torriano Jackson in 1992. Dixon served over 25 years in a maximum-security correctional facility and was released from incarceration Sept.19.
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GU Professor Recipient of $4.5 Million DOE Grant Karena landler Hoya Staff Writer
The United States Department of Energy awarded a $4.5 million grant to Georgetown University physics professor James Freericks and a team of academics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, to research how X-rays can be used in solids, according to a Sept. 13 news release. The study will focus on the Linac Coherent Light Source, a machine at Stanford that delivers powerful and quick x-ray pulses. The machine is currently under development and will ideally be functional within the next two years, according to the news release. “I have been working in this general field for over a decade,” Freericks wrote in an email to The Hoya, “But this work takes me much more directly into experiments with X-rays which I have less experience with.” Because of the relatively new nature of the field, little is known about how the continued quantum systems will respond to the experimental choices the researchers make, Freericks said. Machines like the LCLS are just now enabling research on this to occur. The technology will allow the research team to study how X-rays can be used in solids, Freericks said. “The simplest analogy is to think of hitting a matXRAYSerial with a really big hammer and then watching how it changes at distinct times afterwards…” Freericks wrote. “They allow us to measure how materials change their energy by exchanging it … after they have been highly excited. These types of require everything to be done really, really fast. This has only become pos-
sible recently with machines like LCLS being built.” A portion of the grant funds will be used to fund a graduate student and post doctorate fellow to work in Freericks’s lab for the next three years. Freericks is slated to be the team’s theorist and will be responsible for putting the theory behind the experiments into practice. Freericks is also on teams for two other projects that recently earned grants from the Department of Energy to study quantum computing, a field that “represents the next frontier in the Information Age,” Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said in a DOE press release. Freericks’ other Department of Energy-funded project supports research to provide faster quantum algorithms, which can help explain how electrons move. Georgetown will receive $500,000 of the four-year, $8 million grant to help fund a graduate student working in the lab. “[Freericks] is one of the world’s experts in developing theory for describing these types of novel and important experiments,” Professor Jeffrey Urbach, chair of the Physics Department, wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This funding will support extending that work into a new area where the experiments are using X-rays as the probes.” The LCLS X-ray research has important implications for everyday life, Freericks said. Many of the electronics people use in their daily lives operate based on the nonequilibrium effects that he and other researches study, he said. “It’s a great example of the kind of thing that can happen when Georgetown scientists team up with leading researchers from other top institutions,” Urbach wrote.
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Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) advocated for a bipartisan approach to U.S.-Israel relations at an event co-hosted by the Georgetown Israel Alliance, GU Politics and Georgetown University College Democrats on Tuesday. GIA President Ben Goodman moderated the discussion.
Rep. Calls for Bipartisan US-Israel Policy NOAH BERMAN Hoya Staff Writer
Being progressive and being proIsrael are not mutually exclusive, but compatible, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) said at an event Tuesday. Deutch, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, discussed the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship and potential solutions for the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Deutch has frequently travelled to Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The event, cohosted by the Georgetown Israel Alliance, Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service and Georgetown University College Democrats, included a conversation with Deutch moderated by President of GIA Ben Goodman (SFS ’20), who is also a Hoya Staff Writer. Deutch describes himself as a “passionate supporter of Israel,” according to his official website. In September, Deutch and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) introduced legislation that authorizes new collaboration be-
tween the U.S. and Israel on issues related to humanitarian projects, drones and outer space. Israel is losing the support of Democratic American voters, according to a New York Times Magazine article published March 2015. Netanyahu has turned to Deutch to find support, according to the article. His Democratic values and progressive outlook do not conflict with his support for Israel, Deutch said. “I am a progressive and argue that my support for Israel is not something that I need to fit with my progressive views; rather it is entirely consistent with those views,” Deutch said. Deutch’s belief in a two-state solution, which would mean the creation of two distinct nationstates between Israel and Palestine, reinforces his progressive politics, he said. “In order for there to be peace, we try to ensure that the facts on the ground don’t preclude the possibility of getting to a two state solution,” Deutch said. In a news release on his official website published Sept. 12, Deutch said that the United States must support Israel in its national security endeavors. “Israel is under constant threat
from every direction. A threat to Israel, our strategic ally in a turbulent region, is also a threat to our national security,” Deutch said in a press release about the bill. “Enhancing Israel’s security is a step toward strengthening our own national security,” he said. Members of Congress sometimes use the U.S. policy toward Israel as a political bargaining chip because the topic has turned partisan, Deutch said. “In my own party there are some democrats who have challenges with Trump, and so it gets to be challenging if people start to equate support for Israel as something President Trump has,” Deutch said. “It’s important to always remember the relationship has always been bipartisan and that’s why it has been so successful.” Deutch said that both sides of the political spectrum support the U.S.-Israel relationship and engage with Israel. “Giving my colleagues the chance to hear from different political officials in Israel helps people understand when we talk about shared values, its more than just belief in equality and human rights, but it actually focuses on the free exchange of ideas,” Deutch said.
According to Deutch, debates about U.S. policy toward Israel lead to broadened bipartisan discussions. “It’s a chance to start with the discussion of the U.S.-Israel relationship and sometimes broaden to other discussions,” Deutch said. Deutch first got involved with the Israeli community as an undergraduate and law student at the University of Michigan and has developed a fuller appreciation for the issues that Israel encounters since becoming a congressman, he said. “There’s still that same passion about the country and the change I’ve seen over the past number of decades, but a more sophisticated understanding of the challenges now,” Deutch said on Tuesday. The event was successful because it brought in an audience with varying levels of knowledge and opinions, Goodman said in an interview with The Hoya. “As the Georgetown Israel Alliance, we run the gambit from knowing and caring a lot about Israel to not knowing much at all,” Goodman said. “The event was a big success for us as an organization in that such a variety of people were able to come and make their voices heard and hear from Congressman Deutch.”
Panelists Urge US to Protect SFS Associate Dean, Foreign First Amendment Rights Service Officer Steigman Dies OLIVIA EGGERS
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At a time when the press’s relationship with the executive branch is increasingly strained, protecting the First Amendment rights of both journalists and whistleblowers — those who leak information about a person or organization engaged in illegal activity — is increasingly important, panelists said at a forum in Gaston Hall on Monday night. Held in partnership between Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, “Secrets and Leaks: Whistleblowers, Journalists, and National Security,” focused on the intersection of investigative journalism and national security. Speakers included Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post; Carrie Cordero, former counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general; Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight Institute; Alberto Mora, former general counsel of the U.S. Navy known for leaking information about torture at Guantanamo Bay; and Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker who reported on the National Security Agency’s PRISM surveillance program after receiving classified information from Edward Snowden. Sanford Ungar, the director of Georgetown’s Free Speech Project, moderated the event, which was co-sponsored by The Hoya and Lecture Fund. Panelists analyzed the current relationship between media and the government, addressing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about the press and its impact on potential leakers. “People are afraid,” Baron said of potential government sources. “They’re afraid they’ll be prosecuted; they’re afraid of being blackballed, that they’ll be shifted into a lower-level position or into some obscure corner office.” Jaffer said the White House’s public attitude toward the media affects not only government sources but also journalists. “I think that the statements
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From left to right: Jameel Jaffer, Laura Poitras, Alberto Mora, Martin Baron, Carrie Cordero and Sanford Ungar discuss freedom of the press. that the White House is putting out there have an inevitable, and I think quite deliberate, chilling effect on would-be leakers and probably on journalists too,” Jaffer said. “I think they’re a lot more careful about decisions with sources than they might have been 10 years ago.” The panel used the cases of Snowden and panelist Mora, among others, as examples of whistleblowing, noting that while rhetoric toward journalists who publish leaked information has become more hostile, protections for those who release classified information related to national security have historically lacked protection under the First Amendment. Looking at more recent cases, including a New York Times op-ed published Sept.. 5 written by an anonymous source in the White House, Baron argued that the Trump administration has inaccurately characterized leaks as threats to national security. “What’s at risk is reputations, with the politicians involved, the president involved, and his administration, and they fear risk of embarrassment,” Baron said. The panelists debated benefits and drawbacks of government leakers and the dangers they face when disclosing confidential information to the press. Ungar pointed out an apparent contradiction in the
protections afforded journalists but not whistleblowers. “This is an odd system we seem to have around here, where reporters have protection but often people who give them information do not have protection,” Ungar said. Jaffer indicated that whistleblowers should be given the same protections as journalists when releasing the information is beneficial to the public. “Why should we deny whistleblowers the protections we give to the press in those instances in which the disclosures are in the public interest?” Jaffer said. Those who release classified information on national security, like Snowden, have little protection under the First Amendment. However, Poitras and Mora argued that leakers make this sacrifice to fulfill their civic duty. “It’s the burden of the press and the public to demand the government tell us what it’s doing,” Poitras said. Baron said First Amendment protections should extend to leakers of classified information, referencing the intentions of the founders who initially articulated these free speech protections. “The public is supposed to be a check on government, and the reason we have this amendment is not just a guarantee of a free press, but of free expression for all,” Baron said.
Andrew Steigman, a professor and associate dean in the School of Foreign Service for over twenty years, died Sept. 7 after a stroke in August. Steigman was born in 1933. Before coming to Georgetown University as a professor in the practice of diplomacy in 1985, Steigman spent 27 years as a foreign service officer. Steigman served several posts in Africa, including as U.S. ambassador to Gabon and to Sao Tome and Principe between 1975 and 1977. Steigman is from Mountain View, Calif., and attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a prestigious undergraduate honor society, in 1954. After graduation, Steigman was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics, where he studied international relations. Steigman first became interested in political affairs in Africa while studying in London, he said in a 1998 interview with the Library of Congress for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Princeton had no courses on Africa at the time, he said, so he began studying the continent to fill his knowledge gaps. Steigman said that the experience drew him to-
ward working in the region. “I came into the Foreign Service with an eye on Africa clearly,” Steigman said in the interview. “I already had the interest in Africa.” Steigman entered the Foreign Service in April 1958 and served foreign postings, in addition to his ambassadorships, in the Republic of Congo, Libya, France and Nigeria over the course of his career. His wife, Meryl Steigman, who died in 2017, joined him at these posts. Andrew and Meryl Steigman were married in 1959, and had two children, according to Volume 60 of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Meryl also worked on international affairs, working with the State Department to write and edit reports on issues affecting women in the foreign service, according to the Bulgarian-American Society, which she worked with. Upon retiring from the Foreign Service in 1985, Steigman joined the SFS. He said in the Library of Congress interview that this career move was one of his best decisions. “And then what turned out to be perhaps in some ways one of the most useful things I ever did, I came over to Georgetown as diplomat-in-residence and found a new home,” Steigman said. With his extensive experience in the Foreign Service, Steigman took on a role as a counselor to mentor those interested in similar work. For 25 years, Steigman oversaw the
Friends of the School of Foreign Service, a networking opportunity for SFS undergraduates to meet with professionals in their fields of interest. “Steigman had an amazing impact on hundreds of students in the School of Foreign Service,” the SFS wrote in a news release. “He served as a committed administrator and enthusiastic academic adviser.” As an associate dean in the SFS, Steigman served as an academic adviser, mentoring students on their career paths and in completing applications for scholarships, such as the Fulbright and Carnegie and Mellon fellowships, according to the SFS news release. Steigman also stayed involved with the Washington, D.C., chapter of Phi Beta Kappa throughout his life, serving as president from 2008 to 2010 and as interim president from 2012 to 2013, according to the D.C. Area Phi Beta Kappa Association. Steigman also was chapter secretary for Georgetown University’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and made a point to ensure SFS graduates were represented after they graduated, according to the SFS news release. Steigman is survived by his daughter, Daria Steigman, who lives in D.C., his son, Jonathan Steigman, who lives in Mountain View and his grandson, Daniel Steigman, according to an obituary published in The Washington Post.
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Christopher King, director of the health administration graduate program, drafted a proposoal for the new Institute for Racial Justice.
University Set To Launch Racial Justice Institute institute, from A1 away — we ignore social morality at our peril,” DeGioia said in his 2016 talk. The Thursday email was written by the three executive vice presidents of the university’s main campus, Medical Center and Law Center, and it noted the university’s progress on tackling racial injustice since 2016, specifically with establishing a department of African American studies. The university also created a Working Group on Racial Justice to create a plan to address racial inequities. “Georgetown has established a Department of African American Studies and hired three faculty members,” the email read. “Last year, we led a faculty advisory committee to solicit and review proposals—from departments across all of Georgetown’s campuses—for four faculty appointments that will be critical in the development of a new Institute for Racial Justice.” While the faculty members have not yet been selected, all four departments chosen to head the institute have a clear vision of how to integrate racial justice within their respective concentrations. The departments will “connect to the scores of scholars at Georgetown whose own scholarship relates to the social, economic, and health consequences of racial differences,” Groves wrote in a Sept. 12 blog post. “It will use, whenever possible, the Washington community as a partner in its work and through those partnerships solidify the University as a good citizen of the city.” According to the post, the department of performing arts and the department of African American studies are working together in their approach because of the
entwined history of activism and art. “It is crucial to keep the very public role of the humanities and the arts at the heart of our work on transformative social justice, as an acknowledgement of the long history of African American engagement with arts as activism,” the departments wrote in their post. The McCourt School of Public Policy proposal emphasized the need to look at the intersectionality of public policy and racial injustice. “From public classrooms, to courtrooms, to voting booths, institutions meant to upheld the American ideals of ‘free and equal’ continue to be manipulated and corrupted,” the McCourt School wrote in the post. Similarly, the Law Center focused on the civic implications of racial injustice, and department leaders reflected on the racially biased disparities within every step of the criminal justice system. “Too often, we are reminded that the actions of the US justice system—from law enforcement, prosecution, trial outcomes, and incarceration—tend to vary by the race of the person experiencing the system,” the Law Center wrote in the post. King urged each scholar to use their voice to help shape the continued discussion of difficult issues on Georgetown’s campuses, such as racial inequities. “We see this person as a key player and facilitator in discourse and stimulating synergy upon this campus with a focus on racial equity,” King said. “We see this resource as someone who can connect faculty and scholars to renowned content experts in the racial justice space. We’re also looking forward to this person informing curricula.”
tion on campus. It organized its first “Storm the Dorms” event in the fall leading up to the 2016 presidential election between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. One barrier preventing registered students from voting is the early deadline to submit an absentee ballot, which often comes 25 days before Election Day, Starky said. “Voting deadlines are often 25 days or more before Election Day so it makes it very difficult for students who don’t even realize that it’s mid-October and it’s already too late to vote,” Starky said. The addition of the drop box system and the inclusion of pre-stamped envelopes removes obstacles that may prevent students from participating in the 2018 election, Georgetown University College Republicans President Jake Lyons (COL ’20) wrote in an email to The Hoya. “GU Votes was a great resource to students during the 2016 cycle, but have improved by breaking down even more barriers that may
prevent Hoyas from being able to vote in November,” Lyons wrote. “Having simple things like letters and stamps, a drop off box, and a responsive GU Votes community who will answer any question you might have makes a profound impact on the ability for Hoyas to vote.” GU Votes also held a “Storm the Dorms” event Sept. 25, which was National Voter Registration Day, to push voter registration and turnout. Fifty volunteers from student groups across campus, including Georgetown University College Democrats and GUCR, tabled inside freshman dorms, the Southwest Quad and the Leavey Center. Volunteers helped students register to vote, check their voter registration status, fill out an absentee ballot request form and view the candidates on their specific ballot through the GU Votes student portal, a website outlining the voter registration process for students. “Storm the Dorms” is crucial in reminding students to register to vote, GUCD Director of Campaigning and Off-Campus Affairs Rebecca Hollister (COL ’21) said in an interview with The Hoya.
“Especially during this time when there are midterms happening, it can be really difficult for college students to have anything on their minds but that,” Hollister said. “We’re definitely focused on getting people registered to vote because the work we do at College Democrats would mean nothing if people don’t actually vote.” Community outreach events like “Storm the Dorms” is part of the ongoing effort to encourage civic engagement, GU Votes Co-President Jacqueline Beveridge (SFS ’19) said in an interview with The Hoya. “One of our goals is to create a civic engagement ecosystem and voter engagement within the campus community,” Beveridge said. “Something like ‘Storm the Dorms’ really brings the campus together to unite around National Voter Registration Day.” Ongoing support from the university and student groups enable voter registration efforts to have a wide reach across the student body, Starky said. Although student groups are traditionally not allowed to table inside the residen-
tial communities, the Office of Residential Living has granted special permission for voter registration drives, according to Starky. GU Politics plans to continue offering support to the student-led initiative in the future, according to Jennifer Solorio, GU Politics manager, student engagement and logistics. “GU Politics is proud to be the home of GU Votes,” Solorio wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We’re definitely going to keep supporting this project long-term, we are so proud that students run the initiative, and thrilled that this has truly become a community effort.” Moving forward, GU Votes hopes to better integrate voter registration both on campus and in the greater D.C. community, Beveridge said. “One thing that has been in the back of our minds, and we’re trying to figure out how to do it, is reaching out to the larger Georgetown community beyond the gates,” Beveridge said. “That is really an important step forward because Georgetown is such an open campus and we do engage with the larger Georgetown and D.C. com-
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GU Votes, an initiative funded by GU Politics, tabled outside residence halls in an effort to increase student voter registration.
Students, Alumni React to Ford Senate Testimony hearing, from A1 Doherty (COL ’20), Venishea Smith (COL ’21) and Andrew Straky (COL ’20) were among the Georgetown students who protested at the Capitol today. This comes after messages of support for Ford were written in chalk in red square last week. Doherty went to the Capitol Thursday because she felt a responsibility to support Ford. “I felt like I needed to be there to show support for Dr.
Ford,” Doherty wrote in an email to The Hoya. “She is so courageous and deserves all the support in the world, and I wanted to be at least a small part of that. Dr. Ford has upended her life because she felt a responsibility to share her story.” Kavanaugh testified next, saying that those on the left of the political spectrum have unfairly worked to prevent his confirmation. “The Constitution gives the Senate an important role in
the confirmation process, but you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy,” Kavanaugh said. “Since my nomination in July, there has been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything to block my confirmation.” Durbin said Ford showed bravery in her testimony today, which he says will undoubtedly serve to empower survivors of sexual assault nationwide. “Dr. Ford, no matter what
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Multiple students and alumni expressed support for Christine Blasey Ford on Thursday as she testifed before the Senate Judiciary Committee recounting her interactions with Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
happens with this hearing today, no matter what happens to this nomination, I know, and I hear from so many in my home state of Vermont there are millions of victims and survivors out there you have been inspired by your courage,” Leahy said. “We owe you a debt of gratitude for that, Doctor.” Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) (CAS ’80), Susan Collins (RMaine) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) are still undecided as to how they will vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said. The Judiciary Committee is set to vote Friday morning on whether to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination. Doherty said Kavanaugh’s confirmation would send a harmful message to those watching. “If Kavanaugh is confirmed to the highest court in the United States, the message to the public will be: Our lawmakers care more about upholding traditional structures of power and powerful men than listening to, respecting, and responding to survivors of sexual assault,” Doherty wrote. “It will hurt me, many people I know, and many more people I do not know irreparably.” Maske, who has been regularly visiting the Senate office buildings to urge Collins to oppose Kavanaugh’s confirmation, said to Refinery 29 she went to the hearing to continue her opposition. “I’m here in the Hart Senate Office Building to show that I stand with survivors and that Brett Kavanaugh should not be confirmed to the supreme court,” Maske told Refinery 29. A spokesperson for H*yas for Choice said the organization firmly opposes Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme
Court and praised Ford for her decision to come forth with her accusations. “It is now even more clear that Kavanaugh cannot be confirmed to the Supreme Court— no person who has perpetrated sexual assault should sit on the nation’s highest court, or in any position of power, period,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Further, we would like to commend and acknowledge the bravery and selflessness demonstrated by Dr. Blasey Ford while she testified today.” The members of GU Women of Color wrote in an email to The Hoya that they support Ford and worry about certain senators’ reaction to Ford’s testimony. “We are in support of Dr. Ford and her authentic testimony and we hope that the Senate does not allow someone who can manipulate people and bodies into the Supreme Court,” GUWoC wrote. “However, it is unsettling to know that women of color are even less empowered to speak up about sexual assault and harassment because of the negligence apparent in the testimony.” Georgetown University College Democrats President Maria Cornell (SFS ’20) said that what happens tomorrow at Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote will be a watershed moment for U.S. history. “This is a very pivotal moment in American politics and on our campus as it represents how deeply embedded misogyny and rape culture are in our society,” Cornell wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Especially when considering the accusations brought up against the previous GUSA president and conversations about sexual misconduct in the Catholic
Church, this has been a very difficult time for students on campus, whether they are a survivor of sexual assault or not.” Former Georgetown University Student Association President Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) resigned on Sept. 11 amid allegations of sexual assault. Georgetown University College Republicans were unavailable for comment. Cornell hopes the university will begin to use its platform and address the current climate surrounding sexual assault. “I hope that the University administration will end its quite deafening silence around what is happening both on and off campus and will start providing resources and spaces students and workers need to heal from this trauma,” Cornell wrote.
Resources: On-campus resources include Health Education Services (202-687-8949) and Counseling and Psychiatric Services (202-687-7080); additional off-campus resources include the D.C. Rape Crisis Center (202-333-7273) and the D.C. Forensic Nurse Examiner Washington Hospital Center (844-443-5732). If you or anyone you know would like to receive a sexual assault forensic examination or other medical care — including emergency contraception — call the Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. at 202-742-1727. Emergency contraception is available at the CVS located at 1403 Wisconsin Ave NW. To report sexual misconduct, you can contact Georgetown’s interim Title IX coordinator at 202687-9183 or file an online report here.
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Students Participate in Walkout to Support Blasey Ford Connor Thomas Special to The Hoya
Nearly 50 people gathered in Red Square to demonstrate their support for Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, two women who made allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as part of a nationwide protest at 1 p.m. Monday. Over 19,000 Facebook users said they were “going” to the “National Walk Out: Support Dr. Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez” event, organized by 24 political interest groups, including Queer People of Color, GU Women of Color and Black Student Alliance. The Facebook event for the national walkout encouraged those in D.C to join protesters in the Senate Hart Atrium. Participants walked from there to the Supreme Court for a “National Speakout.” The Georgetown walkout was planned by GU Women of Color, the Black Student Alliance and Queer People of Color. As sexual assault is an issue affecting women from across different identities and backgrounds, it was necessary for GUWoC to help organize the walkout, GUWoC President Shakera Vaughan (COL ’19) wrote in an email to The Hoya.
“Being that GUWoC’s mission centers around supporting, encouraging, and uplifting women, we wanted to be intentional in making sure that encompassed the many issues and barriers that women face,” Vaughan wrote. “This, of course, includes sexual assault.” Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez shared allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh in The Washington Post and the New Yorker, respectively. Julie Swetnick brought forward her own allegations two days after the walkout. Stories of sexual violence shared by women at Georgetown and across the country helped motivate students to organize the walkout on campus, former BSA member Kylen Small (COL ’18) said in the event’s opening speech. “2018 has been a year of cases coming to light and survivors bravely coming forward, and we want to start the school year right by echoing calls for justice,” Small said. Students and faculty present at the walkout observed a moment of silence for victims of sexual assault at Georgetown. The 20-minute walkout was an opportunity for survivors and allies to stand in solidarity on instances of sexual assault, Vaughan said.
“In a time where sexual assault instances are being highly publicized at the Hilltop, it is critical that survivors of sexual assault know that they are supported, believed, and loved,” Vaughan wrote. “This walk out was especially important for Georgetown students because it allowed for a physical visualization of other students expressing solidarity on such a sensitive and emotional topic.” The walkout protested incidents of sexual assault affecting a wide variety of people, Small said. “From governing figures to Hollywood executives, our day-to-day relationships, we as students say no to more silence,” Small said in her speech. “When the most intimate boundaries of men and women and gender nonconforming folks are being crossed, we say no.” After Small finished speaking, several students took turns sharing their thoughts. One survivor thanked the crowd for walking out, and other students offered words of encouragement for survivors and those gathered. Vaughan said that GUWoC hopes to hold a “Sexual Assault Survivor’s Dinner” later in the fall semester for survivors on campus.
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Student groups participated in a walkout Monday in Red Square in support of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, who both came forward with accusations of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Church Must Reform Internal Christian Student Groups Hierarchy, Panelists Say Hold Holy Hour for Survivors will Cassou
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Catholic clergy cannot be trusted to initiate meaningful reforms combatting widespread clerical abuse, leaving the responsibility to lay people, former federal prosecutor and original member of the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People Robert Bennett (CAS ’61, LAW ’64) said at an event in Gaston Hall on Tuesday. The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life hosted an event titled “Confronting a Moral Catastrophe: Lay Leadership, Catholic Social Teaching, and the Sexual Abuse Crisis,” at which Bennett sat on a panel of lay people, members of the church who are not clergy, sharing their reactions following revelations of clerical abuse this summer. The panel also featured Kevin Byrnes, a former criminal trial attorney and survivor of clerical abuse; Karen Tumulty, a columnist for The Washington Post; and Dawn Eden Goldstein, a theologian. John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Pubic Life, moderated the discussion. Former Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C. Theodore McCarrick resigned this summer amid mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, which an investigation by the Archdiocese of New York found credible. Less than a month after McCarrick’s resignation, a Pennsylvania grand jury report released in August detailed seven decades’ worth of sexual misconduct in Pennsylvania churches and the Catholic Church’s efforts to cover up the potential scandals. Bennett said the leadership of the Catholic Church simply will not change unless it is forced to change. “Until the laity takes on the hierarchy, there’s never ever going to be a change,” Bennett said. “What I found was an attitude on the part of the bishops of ‘Well, we’ve been around for a thousand years, and this too will pass.’” Tumulty said that she does yet believe the church is even willing to take full responsibility at this time for the ‘moral catastrophe’ it has created. “I’m just not sure yet that the leadership of the church is ready to, first of all, share power with the laity as much as they give lip service to that, and, second of all, really themselves confront the damage they have done to our church,” Tumulty said. Bennett said the hierarchy of the church, especially in its higher levels, will protect itself against efforts to enact reforms necessary to stop clerical abuse. “It’s a very selective men’s club, mostly all white, mostly old,” Bennett said. “They resist change. They have some sort of an inherent dislike of
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Catholic Women at Georgetown and Georgetown’s chapter of Knights of Columbus hosted a joint prayer service for victims of clerical sexual abuse Sept. 21 in Dahlgren Chapel as allegations of sexual abuse by priests continue to surface across the country and world. Large numbers of Catholic clerics have faced allegations of sexual abuse in recent years, particularly since the Boston Globe’s 2002 Spotlight investigation, and a Pennsylvania grand jury report released in August revealed that over 300 Catholic priests had sexually abused children over seven decades. The Holy Hour consisted of Eucharistic adoration, a form of prayer in which participants pray in front of the Eucharist, and praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and benediction. It was a way for Georgetown Catholics to come together as a religious community and pray for survivors of abuse, according to organizer Madeleine Ostertag (COL ’21). “The Eucharist is the center of our faith. In the Eu-
charist we believe that God becomes present to us in the humble appearance of a host,” Ostertag wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Dedicating a time of prayer in His presence for the victims of this crisis allowed us to honor the dignity of the victims abused sexually.” 20 individuals attended the event and Fr. Jerry Hayes, S.J., presided over the service. The Pennsylvania report shed new light on the ongoing scandal, and included allegations that Cardinal Donald Wuerl, an honorary degree holder from Georgetown University, covered up sexual misconduct. Furthermore, allegations of sexual misconduct also surfaced against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, another honorary degree holder from Georgetown University, in June. At least 1410 individuals have signed a student-led petition, calling on Georgetown University to revoke Wuerl and McCarrick’s honorary degrees. Ostertag said that amidst this crisis, it is important for Catholics to remember why they are Catholic and work towards healing the Church. “While we as an organiza-
tion condemn the heinous acts perpetrated by those implicated in this scandal and would like to see more concrete action taken by the university, what unites us as a community of faith demands something more: a call for each of us to participate in the renewal and healing within our Church,” Ostertag wrote. “Dedicating this Eucharistic Holy Hour to the victims of the sexual abuse crisis allowed us to respond to that call.” Erica Lizza (SFS ’19), president of Catholic Women at Georgetown, also said that the allegations are challenging for those who are Catholic, and that this challenge was part of the decision to hold the Holy Hour as Catholics consider how to confront and respond to allegations. “One of the things that I treasure about Catholicism is that we have a tradition which combines prayer and action,” Lizza wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The Holy Hour was a way for us to pray for all victim-survivors of clerical sexual abuse and to keep their suffering at the forefront of our minds as we struggle with how to move forward as a Church.”
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Robert Bennett (CAS ’61, LAW ’64), Karen Tumulty, John Carr, Dawn Eden Goldstein and Kevin Byrnes react to sexual abuse in the church. women, except for the blessed mother maybe.” Tumulty said that she also doubts the ability of church leadership to handle the crisis but that she does not have faith the hierarchy will allow lay people to receive greater authority. “I’m not sure that the church leadership is really going to do that because that means giving up power, which seems to be a very difficult thing to do,” Tumulty said. Tumulty explained that frustration with the church stems in large part from its failure to take significant punitive action against abusers within the Catholic Church. “Most lay people, they don’t want to hear about canon law, until we feel that the church is doing the first thing, which is dealing with the kind of law that puts people in jail,” Tumulty said. Byrnes, speaking of his own experiences of clerical abuse, said it represented a massive betrayal of the faith. “In Catholicism, we call our priests fathers,” Byrnes said. “Any father that will not protect his children or will abuse them has no right to wear a collar.” Byrnes said it permanently altered his life, contributed to self-destructive behaviors
and irrevocably damaged his faith. “I’m just not sure I can convey to you what a horrible experience it is to wake up in the middle of the night, thinking one thought and one thought only from the Bible,” Byrnes said. “‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me.’” Still, Goldstein said she, a survivor of sexual abuse, converted to Catholicism believing both in its teaching and in the church’s ability to change. “What I realized is that if every human being on earth believed and practiced what the Catholic Church teaches on human dignity, I wouldn’t have suffered abuse,” Goldstein said. “No one would have suffered abuse.” Goldstein said she converted, despite the scandals, because she had faith in the church’s potential to grow. “Only on the inside, with that faith and strengthened by the sacraments, could I be part of the solution,” she said. Bennett echoed that change is not impossible, but that action must occur from outside the church hierarchy. “What we have to do is realize that we are the church,” Bennett said. “They’re not the church. We are the church.”
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Christian student groups Catholic Women at Georgetown and Knights of Columbus held a holy hour for survivors of sexual assault in Dahlgren Chapel on Sept 21.
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Bowser Reduces Custodial GUSA Senate Elections Arrests for Marijuana Use To Fill 14 Vacancies Josh metzger Hoya Staff Writer
Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham announced a new policy aimed at reducing the number of Washington, D.C. residents taken into custody for public consumption of marijuana in a Sept. 21 news release. Under the new policy, arrests made in connection to public marijuana usage, for those who are eligible, will result in field arrest citations — formally referred to as Form PD 61-D — rather than custodial arrests, which involve detention by law enforcement officers. The change in protocol will allow MPD to allocate time and resources toward other public safety measures, Bowser said in the Sept. 21 news release. “We cherish the trust we have built between residents and the police,” Bowser said. “This policy will reduce the number of people who are taken into custody and allow us
to better focus our efforts and resources on building a safer, stronger D.C.” Issuing a citation was an option to be used at police officers’ discretion in the past, but the new policy now makes it mandatory to exercise a non-custodial arrest. The policy will reduce the conflict associated with a marijuana consumption arrest, Executive Director of the MPD Strategic Change Division Kelly O’Meara said in an interview with The Hoya. “Generally, what is the most problematic in the police interaction is taking somebody into custody, putting the handcuffs on somebody,” O’Meara said. “If we don’t have to do that, if they can just report later, that removes that point of conflict.” Under the new standard, issuing a citation requires the person under non-custodial arrest to report to a police station within 15 days to complete processing of the field arrest, including booking and fingerprinting. The case can then either end immediately
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Under a D.C. policy change, arrests made in relation to public marijuana consumption will result in field citations rather than custodial arrests.
through the payment of a $25 fine or can be taken to court, according to MPD. While possession charges of marijuana have plummeted since 2013, marijuana distribution charges have increased almost 300 percent in the district since its decriminalization, according to O’Meara. Public consumption charges of marijuana have increased to 265 in 2017 from 99 arrests in 2014. People who are ineligible for non-custodial arrest for public consumption of marijuana include juveniles, individuals with outstanding warrants and people who may have damaged property or caused injury or harm to themselves or others, according to the Sept. 21 news release. The announcement of the new policy is the most recent development in the Bowser administration’s campaign to reduce the legal consequences of recreational drug use, an effort that continues a trend toward decriminalization of marijuana in the District. Marijuana in quantities of one ounce or less for personal recreational use was decriminalized in July 2014 through the Marijuana Possession Decriminalization Amendment Act of 2014. When Bowser took office in 2015, she passed Initiative 71, which legalized the drug in quantities of two ounces or less. Custodial arrests for marijuana consumption were important to resolve as MPD seeks to improve D.C. residents’ quality of life, O’Meara said. “One of the things we recognize is we need to be able to prioritize the most serious crimes and work with the community to address what are quality of life issues,” O’Meara said. “The public consumption of marijuana is definitely a quality of life issue and it’s very important to our communities, but we want to make sure that we can resolve the charge in the best manner possible.”
New Sports Center Opens deepika jonnalagadda Hoya Staff Writer
An entertainment and sports arena set to house Washington, D.C. professional women’s basketball team the Washington Mystics, as well as NBA G-League team Capital City Go-Go, opened Sept. 22 in Congress Heights and is anticipated to bring jobs and increased economic opportunities to residents of the neighborhood. The opening of the $65 million arena offers the District more than just a new sports facility, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said in a Sept. 22 news release. “The Entertainment and Sports Arena is the home our Mystics deserve. But this project is even bigger than basketball,” Bowser said. “The ESA is about jobs, opportunity, and community; it’s about ensuring that every neighborhood, in every corner of our city has world-class housing and amenities.” The ESA also serves as the official practice facility for D.C. professional men’s basketball team, the Washington Wizards. The Wizards will continue playing their home games at the Capital One Arena, located in Chinatown. The construction of the new arena is a rare development effort in the Congress Heights neighborhood, which often gets passed over, according to The Washington Post. The venue was built on the former site of the St. Elizabeth’s East Hospital as a District-led effort to revitalize the neighborhood. The arena is anticipated to create almost 3,000 jobs for community members, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner told The Washington Post. The Bowser administration announced its plans to construct the ESA in 2015 as part of an initiative to increase economic prosperity in the surrounding neighborhood. The initiative is in partnership with the District’s convention and sports authority, Events D.C., and sports company Monumental Sports & Entertainment. Monumental Sports & Entertainment, owner and operator of the Washington Capitals, Wizards, Mystics and Capital One Arena, has pledged to invest $10 million in Congress Heights over the next 19 years of its contract on the property, according
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A new entertainment and sports center opened Sept. 22 in Congress Heights as part of an effort to bring economic development to the area. to NBC. Bowser was joined at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the arena by Kenner, Ward 8 councilmember Trayon White, officials from Events D.C. and representatives from Monumental Sports & Entertainment, according to the Sept. 22 news release. Although the District owns the arena, officials from Events D.C. will manage the day-to-day programming of the ESA, according to Washingtonian. The 4,200-seat arena will feature cultural and community events for citizens in addition to economic opportunity, said President and Chief Executive Officer of Events D.C. Gregory A. O’Dell in a Sept. 22 news release. “Similar to some of our other venues like the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and Nationals Park, this arena is important not only for the attraction of new events and experiences to the city, but for DC’s greater economic development and job creation,” O’Dell said. The ESA will host a variety of entertainment events ranging from sports games to musical performances, O’Dell said in a Sept. 22 news release. “We look forward to delivering unmatched event programming from esports and boxing to amateur sports and electri-
fying concerts – starting with our grand opening celebration blockbuster lineup,” O’Dell said. The venue will host its grand opening concert featuring R&B artist Mary J. Blige and singersongwriter Jacob Banks on Saturday, Oct. 6. Popular American bands Cage the Elephant and Judah & the Lion are set to perform at the arena’s second grand opening ceremony the following week on Oct. 13. Other future events will include the semifinals of a mixed martial arts Professional Fighters League in October, as well as the Colonial Athletic Association’s men’s basketball tournament games from 2020 through 2022. The ESA and other development efforts are expected to bring Congress Heights economic prosperity similar to that of other D.C. neighborhoods, Ward 8 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Chairperson Mary Cuthbert told The Washington Post. “Development has been very slow and very rare, and that’s why we’re so excited about it,” Cuthbert said. “It’s going to change the whole neighborhood completely. Just as all the other neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., have changed, this too will change.”
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Georgetown University Student Association Senate elections, set for Sept. 30, include 33 candidates running for 14 open positions. The open seats include seven vacant spots for freshmen, four at-large seats available to students from all years, and three open seats for senators from the junior class. Vacancies for the class of 2020 resulted from the appointment of former transition chair of the senate Juan Martinez (SFS ’20) as president Sept. 16, and from senator Josh Sirois (SFS ’20) being abroad for the fall semester. Former GUSA President Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) resigned Sept. 11 amid misconduct allegations. Senior members of the GUSA executive, including former Vice President Naba Rahman (SFS ’19) and former Chief of Staff Aaron Bennett (COL ’19), resigned Sept. 14, prompting Martinez’s presidency. Chad Gasman (COL ’20) resigned from the Senate after the executive resignations, creating another senate seat vacancy for the junior class. “I left for mental health reasons primarily,” Gasman said. “As a survivor, the situation was too much to continue to be a part of GUSA.” Despite Gasman’s resignation, they expressed confidence in Martinez’s ability to move GUSA forward. “I wholeheartedly trust Juan to push GUSA in the right direction,” Gasman said. Winston Ardoin (SFS ’21), a candidate running for an at-large position, said the surfacing of the allegations against Nair almost dissuaded him from running this semester. “The recent events actually led me to think about not running,” Ardoin wrote in an email to The Hoya. Senate candidate Alec Camhi
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Elections for the senate of the Georgetown University Student Association will take place Sept. 30. Fourteen seats are open this semester. (COL ’20), who is running for one of the junior class senate seats, believes this election will be challenging for some senate candidates. “I think that this would’ve actually been an easier [election] to sit out than get into,” Camhi said. “It’d be easy to kind of keep an arm’s length from the fight.” Ardoin is concerned that the GUSA executive resignations may have been many Georgetown students’ first large-scale exposure to GUSA and its representatives. “Before the recent events, I cannot say that I thought many people even knew or understood what GUSA did,” Ardoin wrote. “Quite frankly, this event has, for the first time, introduced many to the world of our student government. Sadly, these events highlight many of the negative factors both in our school as a whole and in our student government.” The resignation of the executive might inspire more students to vote in the GUSA senate elections
this fall, Graisnt Castle, Vice Chairman of the GUSA Election Commission, wrote in an email to The Hoya. “With heightened news and scrutiny of GUSA, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw higher turnout than normal this fall,” Castle wrote. “The Election Commission has remained committed, since the beginning of the resignations and recent events in GUSA, to ensuring that the Senate elections take place as planned.” Zaki Thabet (SFS ’21), a candidate running for an at-large position, decided to run for senate after the resignations. Thabet created a platform on the idea of a more transparent GUSA. “In order for GUSA to get any kind of good reputation back, they really need to be focused on outreach and on reaching students where they stand on campus, and not forcing students to go to GUSA to find out more,” Thabet said in an interview with The Hoya.
Businesswomen Strengthen Economies, Panelists Say emily leng
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Female economic participation cultivates a more equitable and productive economy, women’s rights experts said at a panel in Riggs Library on Friday, Sept. 21. Hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the panel provided intervention strategies to overcome systemic barriers to women’s economic participation in Latin and Central America. The panel featured Greta Schettler (GRD ’11), chief operating officer of WEConnect International; Lucia España, project director for the Women’s Empowerment for Economic Development and Resilience Project; Miriam Müller, World Bank social scientist; and Andrea Saldarriaga Jiménez (GRD ’16), gender parity task forces coordinator at the Inter-American Development Bank. GWIPS Executive Director Melanne Verveer moderated the event. Verveer emphasized the benefits of having a society in which men and women participate in the economy equally. “Where the gap between men and women on a certain number of metrics is closer to being closed, those countries are far more prosperous and economically competitive,” Verveer said. “As the former head of the World Bank said, ‘Gender equality is smart economics.’” Entrepreneurial women and working women can have positive impacts on both the economy
at large and local communities, Schettler said. She has previously worked at the U.S. Department of State. “We’re starting to capture some really great data that not only are women really growing their business, but they’re also employing more women, and then also giving back,” Schettler said. “They are women who care about their communities deeply, and they want to look at how they can also contribute back to their communities and their economies.” According to Schettler, economic gender equality can also improve the global economy. “If we think globally about women, women control 80 percent of the consumer purchasing power,” Schettler said. “This is not just about human rights; this is smart business.” España, who oversees development projects that help female entrepreneurs learn business and finance skills in Guatemala and El Salvador, highlighted the importance of empowering women through economic and business knowledge. “With this project, they were able to connect the economic knowledge with resilience in order to not lose their own small business operations after the natural disasters,” España said. “This was also helpful to empower them and to have more impact outside the community.” All of the panelists agreed that ingrained gender roles and social expectations present challenges
to establishing economic equality between men and women in Latin America. Systemic barriers influence the low female labor force participation rates in Central American countries as compared to the rest of the world, Müller said. “Norms in a country affect which types of policies are put out, how they are implemented, but they also affect women’s individual choices; they may affect discrimination, so they really play a fundamental role at the micro level,” Müller said. Governments and selection boards often overlook women’s projects because of pre-existing gender norms, according to Jiménez. “These norms also translate into how governments are also implementing policies and programs, and it’s just astonishing to see that even in this day and age, with all of the experience that we have, countries still feel like women are just secluded to the household,” Jiménez said. Governments must include more people in policy development in order to reform the current cultural norms that exclude women from the mainstream economy, Schettler said. “They don’t understand how to unpack the cultural norms; they don’t understand what really works, what doesn’t work, how do we really make change happen,” Schettler said. “The more that they can bring people in, and bring these ideas in, the more likely that they’re going to see movement.”
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Hoyas Tie for 8th at Penn JP Harrison Hoya Staff Writer
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Sophomore guard Jamorko Pickett averaged 9.6 points per game last season, with 53 assists in 30 games. The men's and women's teams start their seasons in November.
Rivalries Highlight Schedules Ethan cohn
Hoya Staff Writer
The Georgetown men’s and women’s basketball teams released their Big East and nonconference schedules Sept. 13 and Sept. 17, respectively, with important rivalry and conference matchups for both squads. The men’s team will open its 13-game slate of nonconference games with a home matchup Nov. 6 against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Notably, the Hoyas will also compete in Jersey Mike’s Jamaica Classic from Nov. 16 to 18 in Montego Bay, Jamaica — the country where Head Coach Patrick Ewing was born. Georgetown will also travel to the Carrier Dome to face longtime rival Syracuse on Dec. 8. Ewing is looking forward to the Hoyas’ nonconference matchups. "We are very excited for the upcoming season," Ewing said in an interview with GUHoyas. "I am obviously
looking forward to taking my team to my home country of Jamaica, and going back to Syracuse will undoubtedly bring back many memories for me." The Hoyas will play their first Big East matchup Wednesday, Jan. 2, against Butler. Georgetown will also travel to Madison Square Garden to face St. John’s on Jan. 27. The following week, the Hoyas will meet defending national champion Villanova on the road in Philadelphia. Ewing, in his second season on the Hilltop, will face the more experienced Jay Wright, who is entering his 17th season as Villanova head coach. At the end of the season, Georgetown will compete in the Big East tournament from March 13 to March 16. The women’s basketball team will begin its season on Nov. 9 in McDonough Arena against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Women’s basketball Head Coach James Howard is looking forward to the Hoyas’
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strong nonconference schedule. "We are excited about the lineup that we have for the upcoming season," Howard said in an interview with GUHoyas. "It is a very challenging schedule, as we play a number of NCAA teams from the 2017-18 season. Our nonconference schedule will definitely prepare us for the Big East." Over Thanksgiving weekend, the women’s team will compete in the South Point Thanksgiving Shootout. The University of Baylor and the University of Buffalo will also participate. Both teams earned spots in the Sweet 16 in last season’s NCAA tournament. Georgetown will face Xavier in McDonough Arena on Dec. 29 to begin its conference schedule. Defending Big East champion DePaul will head to the Hilltop to meet Georgetown on Feb. 27. The women’s basketball team, which advanced to the Big East tournament semifinals last spring, looks to continue its conference success this upcoming season.
The Georgetown women’s golf team tied for eighth place out of 16 teams at the 42nd annual Nittany Lion Invitational this past weekend, which was hosted by Penn State. The Hoyas, who returned four out of the five members from their second consecutive Big East championship victory last season, faced off against Big East rivals Seton Hall and Xavier in the tournament, as well as the University of Pennsylvania and hosts Penn State. The Hoyas carded a team score of 54 over par 918. All teams completed three rounds over the course of two days at the par-72 Penn State Blue Course in University Park, Pa.
Georgetown competed without senior Christina Parsells, the team’s leading returning scorer. Parsells averaged 76.37 strokes per round last year and tied for second at the Big East championship, earning All-Big East Team honors for her performance. Penn State recorded a 9-under par final round score of 279 to complete a comeback tiebreaker victory that marked its third Nittany Lion Invitational Championship in the past four years. Rutgers, Seton Hall, Navy and Xavier filled out the top five. The Hoyas finished tied with the UPenn. Senior Pendleton Bogache scored a 9-over-par 225 over three rounds, finishing tied for 29th place. As a junior, Bogache competed in 27 rounds and
earned three top-10 finishes. Bogache averaged 78.22 strokes per round and tied for ninth at the Big East championship last season. In her first tournament of the season, junior Kate Evanko shot an 11-over par 227 to tie for 33rd place, while senior Alexa Popowitz carded a 14-over par 230 to tie for 45th place. Popowitz medaled at the Rutgers Invitational and added two more top-10 finishes throughout last season. She and Parsells were the two members of the women’s team who played in all 33 rounds last year. The Hoyas travel to New Jersey on the weekend of Sept. 29-to-30 to compete at the Princeton Invitational where they earned a victory last year, defeating second-place Harvard by 14 strokes.
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The women's golf team earned an eighth-place finish at the Nittany Lion Invitational last weekend. Senior Pendleton Bogache recorded a 9-over par 225 to finish the tournament tied for 29th place.
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Teams Dominate Fall Regattas Vikram Sud
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After starting the season with five straight victories, the Georgetown field hockey team has lost three of its last four matches. Sophomore Cami Osborne scored on a penalty corner for her sixth goal of the year.
The Georgetown sailing team started its fall schedule of regattas with a series of victories, taking home the Riley Cup in Norfolk, Va., on Sept. 9, and recording top-five finishes at the Chesapeake Invitational on Sept. 15 and the Coed and Women’s Regatta last weekend. In the first division at the Riley Cup, seniors Andy Reiter and Claire Mohun placed first out of 17 teams with eight points, while senior Noah Kelleher and sophomore Juliana Rustum earned eighth place with 45 points. Freshman Jack Reiter and junior Gwyneth Dunlevy earned first place in the second division at the event. In his Georgetown debut at the Laser South Qualifier on Sept. 8 in Annapolis, Md., freshman Ford McCann finished second behind Leo Boucher of St. Mary’s College. The following weekend on
Sept. 15, Georgetown competed at the Chesapeake Invitational in St Mary’s City, Md., and continued to find success. The Hoyas finished second on Saturday and took the top three places in Sunday’s regatta. Junior William Logue and sophomore Caroline Teare finished first with 39 points, while Reiter and senior Hayley Shea earned 43 points to finish second. Junior Sean Segerblom and senior Rebecca Fung completed the Hoyas’ sweep, placing third with 53 points. At the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s Men’s Singlehanded Championship in Annapolis, Md., on Sept. 22, Ford McCann recorded a second-place finish with 55 points, again finishing behind Leo Boucher. Freshman John Patrick Panarella placed 15th out of the 18 competitors. McCann finished in the top five in 10 of the weekend’s 14 races to earn a spot at the
ICSA Singlehanded Nationals in November. The Hoyas, who co-hosted the Coed Regatta on Sept. 22 with The George Washington University, placed first out of nine teams at the event. Reiter, Mohun and Shea, along with sophomore Jack Hogan, finished first in seven of 14 first division races. Georgetown finished 101 points ahead of second place finisher Fordham. In the second division, Logue, Teare and Fung also placed first, finishing in the top five in nine races and recording 70 points. Georgetown also co-hosted the Women’s Regatta last weekend in Washington, D.C. The Hoyas, who competed in a race with both first and second division squads, placed 10th and 11th out of 18 teams. Next weekend, the Hoyas will compete in two regattas, the MAISA Match Race Championships in Kings Point, N.Y., and the Women’s Showcase in Annapolis, Md.
GU Struggles Against Brown Emily Lewis
Special to The Hoya
After a 2-1 loss to Quinnipiac on Sept. 21, the Georgetown field hockey team was unable to rebound on Sunday, falling 4-2 to Brown. Georgetown (6-3, 0-2 Big East) began the season with a five-game winning streak but has lost three of its last four matches. The Hoyas recorded nine shots in the first half of their matchup against the Bears (35, 0-1 Ivy League), who scored on their one shot on target in the first half. Georgetown outshot Brown 15-to-7 over the course of the game and took 3 penalty shots more than the Bears. Brown took the lead 27 minutes into the match, when Brown senior Rachel Lanouette knocked in a goal off a Hoya defender. With 23 seconds left in the half, Georgetown responded,
as sophomore Cami Osborne scored on a penalty corner, tying the game at one. The assists for the goal were awarded to fellow sophomore Ali Cronin and junior Ashley Leverrett. Five minutes into the second half, junior Lindsay Getz added a goal to give Georgetown the lead. The Hoyas were unable to hold their advantage, conceding a goal three minutes later on a penalty corner by Brown’s freshman Danielle van Rootselaar. In the 54th minute, Brown broke the tie as junior Ali Dunning recorded a goal. Three minutes later, junior Corinne Condie scored the Bears’ fourth goal, sealing the victory. Georgetown Head Coach Christy Longacre discussed the Hoyas’ drop in play in the second half. “We played our game plan really well — we were on our toes and in the second half we started on our heels and kind
of sank and went into defense mode and weren’t attacking like we were in the first half,” Longacre said in an interview with The Hoya. “For the most part we played pretty well this weekend and tried to stick to our game plan.” Now that the Hoyas have passed the halfway mark of the season, Longacre is looking forward to Georgetown’s upcoming matches. “Winning builds confidence and trust and definitely with a different coaching staff this fall, it built a lot of trust with the girls sticking to the game plan,” Longacre said. “The girls continue to get better and continue to grow each game. […] The team can be great and hang with teams ranked in the top 20 and it will be good for them to see that they can do it.” The Hoyas will return to Cooper Field this Friday to take on Big East opponent Old Dominion at 12 p.m.
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The Georgetown sailing team has earned multiple victories so far this season. Freshman Ford McCann earned a spot in the ICSA Singlehanded Nationals in November with his second-place finish.
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effort of his defensive players. “Our job is to get the ball back to the offense. I thought we fought well all day,” Sgarlata said. “I was impressed with how they kept coming
out, I was proud of how they responded especially down early.” With five minutes to go, Reddick picked off the Columbia quarterback to give Georgetown the ball at midfield with just over five minutes to go.
The offense drove the ball down the field and capped the drive off with a catch and throw to Williams in the corner of the end zone. A stop on the ensuing Columbia drive gave Georgetown another chance to tie the game, but three incom-
pletions and fourth down sack on the goal line halted Georgetown’s second-half comeback. The Hoyas look to end their losing streak as they go on the road to Providence, R.I., to face Brown in their last nonconference game.
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The Georgetown women’s soccer team defeated St. John’s and Depaul this week, improving to 2-0 in the Big East.
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Sophomore linebacker Owen Kessler recorded 11 total tackles in Georgetown’s 23-15 loss to Columbia on Saturday. Kessler has 23 total tackes so far this season, to go along with one sack and two interceptions. He recorded three forced fumbles last year.
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On Monday, Farrell was further recognized for her contributions in the victory over St. John’s by being named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll. Georgetown’s defense also played a role in the team’s victory, as the Hoyas limited the Red Storm to one corner kick throughout the entire game and nine shots, six of which were on goal. Senior forward Christina Bellero, redshirt sophomore Zsani Kajan and sophomore midfielder Maia Cabrera ac-
counted for eight of St. John’s nine shots but were ultimately shut down by the Hoyas’ defensive line and senior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman. Schechtman had six saves on the day compared to St John’s redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Meredith Reinhardt’s three. Schechtman has since been named the Big East Goalkeeper of the Week for her performance against the Red Storm. Georgetown will travel to South Orange, N.J., on Sunday to face Big East rival Seton Hall. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.
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30th minute. Louisville senior Adam Wilson hit the corner toward the near post where he found his teammate, senior Tate Schmitt, unmarked a few yards away from the net. Schmitt converted the chance and the Cardinals took a 1-0 lead midway through the half. Head Coach Brian Wiese lamented the Hoyas’ defensive lapses. “[We’re] trying to get the mentality of being harder to score against,” Wiese said in an interview with The Hoya. “We’re having these moments where we’re sort of scratching our heads saying, ‘Well, I don’t know how we just lost a goal.’ And then suddenly the game complexion has changed.” The Hoyas responded quickly, equalizing the match in the 37th minute following combination play between junior defender Dylan Nealis, junior forward Riley Strassner and sophomore forward Derek Dodson.
At the top of the box, Nealis found Strassner, who played a one-touch pass to Dodson into space in the right side of the box. Dodson fired a shot past the Cardinals’ keeper and into the bottom left of the net to give the Hoyas the equalizer. Dodson’s goal was his fifth of the season. Two minutes later, freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis made a save at his near post on a Louisville shot from outside the box to preserve the deadlock. Neither team would generate another chance, and the game headed to halftime tied. The Hoyas continued to exert pressure on the Cardinals’ defense in the second half through attacks down the right wing. An opportunity to score arose as freshman midfielder Sean Zawadzki played a through-ball to junior forward Achara down the right wing. Achara attempted to put a cross in, but it was cleared and bounced back to him. Achara then hit a shot on net that was
saved by the Louisville goalkeeper. In the 73rd minute, the complexion of the game changed once again as Louisville junior Louka Masset was sent off the pitch after receiving his second yellow card of the game. Wiese explained that the red card caused Louisville to defend more resolutely. “In a funny way, [the red card] makes it harder because they were suddenly very defensive. Whereas when they were playing 11 vs. 11, they would leave some gaps we could play through,” Wiese said. “We increased possession, but it made things harder for us to find a way to get good shots on goal.” The Hoyas continued to control the game after the Cardinals went down to 10 men but were unable to find a goal to take the lead. Louisville ended up finding the eventual game-winner in the 82nd minute. Goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis came out to deal with a bouncing ball that the Cardinals played over the Hoyas’ de-
fense. A Georgetown defender attempted to head the ball back to Nikopolidis but ended up heading the ball over the goalkeeper’s head. Nikopolidis could not recover in time and Louisville sophomore Izaiah Jennings ended up scoring on the open net to give Louisville a 2-1 lead. The Hoyas continued to threaten during the final eight minutes of the game but were unable to equalize and ended up falling to the Cardinals 2-1. The loss was tough to take, Coach Wiese explained, as the Hoyas played well for the majority of the match. “[When] you play really good teams, those moments define the game and so we did everything right for pretty much 89 minutes, and then we had the moment,” Wiese said. “Soccer is made up of moments, so unfortunately, it’s a really sour taste from a really good performance.” The Hoyas return to Big East play Saturday, Sept. 29, as they head to Wisconsin to play the Marquette Golden Eagles at 8 p.m.
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Freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis has made 29 saves this season in nine matches with three shutouts. The freshman also has a 1.07 goals against average and a save percentage of 73 percent. The Hoyas travel Saturday to Wisconsin for a matchup against the Golden Eagles.
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Georgetown Shuts Out St. John’s on Road Rachel gaudreau Special to The Hoya
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The men’s soccer team lost its third match of the season against Louisville last Tuesday. The Hoyas are 1-1 in the Big East.
No. 6 Cardinals Defeat Hoyas 2-1 With Late Goal DREW SEWALL Hoya Staff Writer
On Tuesday, the Georgetown men’s soccer team fell 2-1 against No. 6 Louisville in its penultimate nonconference game. The game was played on Cooper Field rather than Shaw Field because of the poor weather conditions. Gameplay flowed back and forth in the opening minutes of the game as both teams maintained long bouts of possession. Yet neither team was able to break down the opposition and generate any chances to score. The first quality chance
for the Hoyas (5-3-1, 1-1 Big East) came midway through the first half, off a shot from graduate student midfielder Matt Ledder. Ledder hit a shot from the left side of the box that ricocheted off multiple Louisville (6-1-1, 3-0 ACC) defenders and past the team’s keeper. However, a Louisville defender made a goal-line clearance and kept the game tied at zero. A few minutes later, the complexion of the game changed as Louisville capitalized off a corner kick in the See louisville, A11
Last weekend, the Georgetown women’s soccer team blanked St. John’s 3-0, recording its second consecutive shutout. The No. 10 Hoyas (8-0-2, 1-00 Big East) defeated the Red Storm (4-6-0, 0-1-0 Big East) at Belson Stadium to continue their undefeated season. Despite earning three corner kicks within the first 12 minutes of the game, Georgetown failed to score off the free kicks and was outshot five shots to three in the first half. The Blue and Gray gained momentum following a goal
by senior forward Caitlin Farrell in the 38th minute, assisted by graduate student forward Kyra Carusa. Soon after, junior midfielder Carson Nizialek scored a penalty kick in the 44th minute, giving the Hoyas a 2-0 lead at the end of the half. Head Coach Dave Nolan recognized the team’s slow start in the first half and spoke about the importance of both Farrell’s and Nizialek’s capitalizing on offensive opportunities. “This was a gritty road win against a tough St. John’s team with some special attacking players,” Nolan said in an interview with GUHoyas. “They
put us under pressure as early as we expected, and thankfully Caitlin scored a great goal to give us the lead and it helped settle us. The key goal was the penalty kick just before the break, which was well deserved.” The offense gained control in the second half, recording 13 shots to the Red Storm’s four. While the Blue and Gray failed to capitalize on any of its five corner kicks during the second half, Farrell contributed her second goal of the game in the 79th minute to secure the Hoyas’ first Big East win. Nolan was impressed with the team’s offense in the sec-
ond half. “In the second half, we were very good and could have scored a few more. It was a great team effort, but our front four were very good,” Nolan said. Farrell, who now has seven goals on the season, has become a key offensive player for the Blue and Gray. Last week, Farrell was selected as the Big East Offensive Player of the Week for her performance in the team’s victories against No. 25 Princeton (6-2-0) and Columbia (4-4-1), in which she recorded two goals and one assist. See St. John’s, A11
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Senior defender Jenna Staudt has started all 11 matches so far this season for the Hoyas. Georgetown has recorded six shutouts this season and is currently on its longest winning streak since the 2005 fall season.
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The Georgetown football team’s late comeback fell short on homecoming weekend as the team dropped its third straight to Columbia, 23-15 on Saturday. The Hoyas (1-3) had a chance to tie the game in the final seconds, but the Lions (2-0) recorded a sack on fourth down on the goal line to seal the win and the Lou Little Trophy for the second straight year. Head Coach Rob Sgarlata felt the Hoyas were close to coming out on top. “I don’t feel like we lost. We just ran out of time. I wish we
could still be out there playing right now,” Sgarlata said in an interview with The Hoya. Senior receiver Brandon Williams jump-started Georgetown’s offense. He caught seven passes for a career-high 121 yards and a touchdown, including a 20yard over-the-shoulder grab on a fourth down to bring Georgetown within one possession with five minutes left in the game. Williams was impressed with the team’s response in the second half. “I feel like we prepared well. We just said, ‘keep pushing, keep fighting.’ We showed them what we were
about in the second half,” Williams said in an interview with The Hoya. Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson completed 18-of38 for 228 yards with an interception and a touchdown. Junior tight end Isaac Schley hauled in four passes for 37 yards and a two-point conversion, while sophomore running back Jay Tolliver carried the ball 12 times for 33 yards and a touchdown. He also picked up key first downs for the Hoyas on their scoring drives. Senior defensive back and captain Blaise Brown once again led Georgetown’s defense. The senior recorded a
career-high 14 tackles, while junior defensive lineman Khristian Tate also had a career high in tackles with 11, including 3.5 tackles-for-loss and one sack. Sophomore linebacker Owen Kessler recorded 11 tackles as well. The Hoya defense continued to generate turnovers against the Lions. Georgetown totaled three interceptions on the day, as junior defensive back Leon Agee, sophomore linebacker Wes Bowers and sophomore linebacker Xavier Reddick each forced an interception. Coach Sgarlata praised the See Columbia, A11
The Georgetown volleyball team, coming off a fiveset victory over St. John’s on Sept. 19, won its fifth straight game, defeating Villanova on the road last Saturday, again in five sets. After losing their first two sets against the Wildcats (9-6, 2-1 Big East), the Hoyas (10-5, 3-0 Big East) bounced back, winning three consecutive frames to close the match. The third, fourth and fifth sets were all decided by two points. Georgetown won all three, including a comeback victory in the decisive final set.
The Georgetown volleyball team finished 8-22 last season and 2-16 in conference.
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The Hoyas have played five games that have been decided in the final set and have won three of those matches. Trailing 8-3 in the deciding fifth frame, the Blue and Gray rallied with kills down the stretch from junior outside hitter Iva Vujosevic, senior middle blocker Symone Speech and sophomore setter Margo Pivonka. The Hoyas won the final set 16-14, continuing their momentum from the previous two sets in which they edged out the Wildcats 25-23. Villanova set the pace in the beginning of the match. Villanova sophomore outside hitter Mallory Potts and freshman outside hitterClare
Delaplane dominated throughout the contest, finishing with 18 and 14 kills respectively. Senior middle blocker Amanda Pedersen-Henry added 11 kills for the Wildcats, and junior libero Regan Lough contributed 30 digs, more than all other players. Villanova took the first set 25-22, and the second 25-14. The Hoyas also had multiple standout performers. Vujosevic led Georgetown with 22 kills and 19 digs, recording her seventh double-double of the season. Pivonka was a key facilitator with 46 assists, and added the match-winning kill. Meanwhile, senior libero Kenzie Higareda had 27 digs, leading the Hoyas’ defense. Four days later, on Wednesday, Sept. 26, Georgetown swept Seton Hall in straight sets (5-12, 0-4 Big East) for its sixth consecutive victory. Each set was closely fought: 25-21, 25-16 and 25-18. The third frame was defined by back-andforth play, consisting of nine ties and seven lead changes in total. Georgetown sparked an 8-1 run in the third set, winning the final frame by seven points. As a team, the Hoyas hit .419, including a .600 mark in the second set. Vujosevic and Speech led Georgetown in kills again, both recording 13 kills to lead the attack. Senior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette also reached doublefigures, adding 11 kills to the total. The Hoyas will face Marquette this Friday and DePaul on Saturday, a doubleheader of Big East road matches.