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The Music Issue

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EDITORIAL Georgetown must establish a permanent women’s and gender studies department .

HYPERLOCAL HAPPENINGS GeorgetownForum users will need to join a new site for neighborhood updates.

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Harbin Hall Elevator Abruptly GUSA Fund Dissolved, Falls, Trapping Student Inside FinApp Absorbs Resources HANSEN LIAN

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Two elevators in Harbin Hall malfunctioned Tuesday night, with one elevator falling one floor and trapping a student inside for nearly two hours. An elevator car in the freshman dormitory dropped from the sixth floor to the fifth floor around 11 p.m., according to eyewitnesses Micah Hamilton (COL ’23) and Araya Zackery (COL ’23). Giovonni White (MSB ’23), who was riding the elevator at the time, was stuck in the elevator from around 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Hamilton, who was stand-

ing near the elevators on the sixth floor when the accident occurred, said that shortly after White entered the elevator, he heard a loud crashing noise from the elevator shaft. Several other residents also heard the crash and contacted the Georgetown University Police Department. Zackery, who was in the lobby when she saw that the elevator was stuck on the fifth floor, said students in Harbin have experienced the two elevators malfunctioning since the beginning of the semester. “I enter the dorms and see 3-4 people waiting for an elevator,” Zackery wrote in a message to The Hoya. “I ask

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A faulty elevator car in Harbin Hall suddenly fell one floor, trapping a student inside for two hours late Tuesday night.

if the elevators are broken or not because it’s such a common occurrence.” White, who was stuck in the elevator car without his phone and computer, said he ended up napping during the long wait as GUPD, the Office of Planning and Facilities Management, and the fire department worked to free him. “I was going down — down the elevator — and I got stuck, and I was just sitting there for like two hours. I was there tired, sleepy — it was late at night.” White said. “It just fell down and stopped working. It was crazy.” The facilities employees addressed the issue by freeing the student and bringing the elevator back into operation in what they believed to be a timely manner, according to Vice President for Planning and Facilities Management Benjamin Kuo. “We promptly responded to a report of a student trapped in a Harbin elevator,” Kuo wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Facilities was able to successfully release the student and identified the problem as an improperly functioning governor’s switch.” The governor’s switch, which acts as a stopping See ELEVATOR, A6

HARRISON MCBRIDE Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate unanimously voted in support of a bill to dissolve the GUSA Fund, a committee that redistributed a small part of the student activities fee to clubs that request additional funding, at its weekly meeting Oct. 20. Senators voted to amend the GUSA bylaws to eliminate the GUSA Fund, an executive-appointed, fivemember committee to the senate finance and appropriations committee, according to GUSA senator Harrison Nugent (SFS ’20), who introduced the legislation. Under the new system, all clubs will apply directly to the FinApp committee for ad hoc funding. Granting funds will be up to the discretion of the 12-member FinApp committee, which votes on a majority basis whether to approve a request. The FinApp committee is the body that allocates the student activities fee, an $84 semesterly fee paid by students to fund seven student group advisory boards, the Georgetown Program Board, the Georgetown University Lecture Fund and the GUSA executive. The GUSA Fund historically managed approximately

4 Parents Plead Guilty in College Scandal CLARA GRUDBERG

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the scheme. Hodge’s daughter was accepted to Georgetown as a tennis recruit in 2008 but never played tennis at the university. Two of Hodge’s children were also accepted to the University of Southern California as fake athletic recruits. Michelle Janavs, whose uncle and father invented Hot Pockets, allegedly paid $400,000 for her son, Grant Janavs (COL ’21), to be admitted as a fake tennis recruit to Georgetown, according to an April 2019 indictment. Michelle Janavs is accused of perpetrating a similar scheme to admit her daughter into USC as a fake beach volleyball recruit, as well as paying for her children to use a fraudulent proctor for the ACT in 2017 and 2019, according to the April indictment. Attorneys for Janavs did not respond to a request for comment. Grant Janavs also did not respond to a request for comment. During his appearance in court, Manuel Henriquez, who became visibly emotional, conceded that he was guilty but maintained that he did not willfully participate in a bribe, according to The New York Times. Henriquez said he believed he was making a legal

Four Georgetown University parents implicated in the college admissions scandal who had previously pleaded not guilty changed their plea Monday in a Boston federal court.

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Four parents accused of bribery and fraud to gain their children’s acceptance to Georgetown University pleaded guilty for their roles in the college admissions scandal Monday. Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez, Douglas Hodge and Michelle Janavs, who all initially pleaded not guilty, changed their pleas to guilty in a Boston federal court. The

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plea change comes as trials from the March 2019 scandal are expected to begin soon; prosecutors have warned their clients about potential new charges that might come against parents who do not enter a plea deal, according to The New York Times. Prosecutors alleged that the Henriquez parents paid $400,000 for their daughter, Isabelle Henriquez, to be fraudulently admitted as a tennis recruit to Georgetown in 2016, in addition to paying

for both of their daughters to use a fraudulent test proctor on their college entrance examinations on four separate occasions. Attorneys for Manuel Henriquez, former CEO of a financial firm, declined to comment for this story. Attorneys for Elizabeth Henriquez did not respond to a request for comment. Hodge, former CEO of a global investment management firm, also pleaded guilty to participating in

$15,000 and distributed it to various student organizations that applied directly for additional need-based funding, according to its Facebook page. The GUSA executive’s discretionary funds, which fluctuate yearly based on FinApp committee deliberations, determined the fund’s resources.

“I think that this bill will truly increase the oversight of the money GUSA allocates.”

HARRISON NUGENT (SFS ’20) GUSA Senator

In March 2019, GUSA’s total funding, which includes the GUSA Fund, faced a drastic cut, receiving only 11% of the money requested from the FinApp committee during the club funding process. GUSA executives Norman Francis Jr. (COL ’20) and Aleida Olvera (COL ’20) were awarded just $1,735 in the budget approved by the FinApp committee March 17, with the money for the GUSA fund coming from that

amount. The previous year, the FinApp committee granted the GUSA Fund $13,955. Dissolving the GUSA Fund will not negatively impact campus organizations that use it for additional club support, Nugent wrote. “I think this bill helps clubs in the long run because, if Club X keeps having to request ad hoc funding from FinApp, members of FinApp are specifically equipped to provide a long-term solution to this club by adjusting their advisory board’s allocation,” Nugent wrote. “If clubs are keeping good financial records and show a demonstrated need for ad hoc funding, they will have nothing to worry about.” The ad hoc funding will still be set by the president and the senate speaker at an annual budget summit, according to Nugent. Though Francis and Olvera plan to sign the legislation, the pair expressed concern over the FinApp committee’s ability to fulfill GUSA Fund’s role as an executive-appointed funding source. “We made it clear that we want to preserve GUSA Fund as a power that is held within the exec, but we want to respect the Senate’s decision and work with them to find See GUSA, A6

FOSTERING PEACE SOLUTIONS

NATALIE REGAN FOR THE HOYA

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the current United Nations under-secretarygeneral for peacekeeping, visited Georgetown on Oct. 21. Story on A5.

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MSB Millions The McDonough School of Business received a $12 million donation for academic scholarships and local education programs. A5

Therapy Stipend A Georgetown student urges the university to continue supporting the Student Mental Health Fund to bolster student resource access. A3

Back Line Bullying Men’s soccer shut out Xavier 1-0 for its fifth-consecutive game without allowing a goal. A12

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Rallying for Periods Georgetown student organizations and clubs participated in the world’s first National Period Day. A8

Intersecting Identities Carlos Luna Luna (COL ’20) shares how his communities have been affected by President Donald Trump’s administration. A3

Aerial Aggression Football took down Lafayette 14-10 at home behind 21 completions and two passing touchdowns from Gunther Johnson. A12

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Gorgeous Gourd — A Wyoming man recently grew a 1,491-pound pumpkin, breaking his state record. His ambition doesn’t stop there, though, as he is hoping to grow three pumpkins weighing a total of 4,000 pounds.

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Neighborhood Emu-rgency — Massachusetts police caught a runaway emu terrorizing locals in the area Oct. 14. According to the owner, emus are very unfriendly and quite difficult to catch.

Establish WGST Department Two years after students demanded Georgetown University give the women’s and gender studies program departmental status, students’ demands for such a department remain unmet. Georgetown’s WGST program continues to face a lack of resources, depriving students interested in the field of the complete education they deserve. To fulfill the university’s core values of “community in diversity” and “academic excellence,” Georgetown should establish a WGST department as soon as possible. The WGST program was founded in 1987 and since then has supported Georgetown students in studying the historically overlooked subject. The program employs an intersectional lens in examining gender, according to its website. WGST classes provide new perspectives on diversity for majors, minors and other Georgetown students. Introductory classes provide students a gateway to explore a field they otherwise may not be familiar with. This semester’s electives further explore the intersections of gender with disability, race and the environment, among other topics. With these courses, students are able to explore different topics through nontraditional pedagogy, thus exposing them to traditionally underrepresented perspectives in academia. Additionally, in talking about the intersections of gender equity with other identities, WGST promotes student awareness of societal injustices and therefore fosters civic engagement. Though WGST yields many benefits in terms of both diversity and civic engagement, the program has the potential to do much more if given the proper resources. A department would allow WGST to hire more full-time and tenureline faculty members and receive more administrative assistance from Georgetown. The WGST program currently only has 12 professors, of which only two are full-time and none are tenure-line. The lack of full-time faculty not only overworks professors, but also deprives students of the same support their peers receive in academic departments. In an April 2019 op-ed in The Hoya, WGST major and coordinator of the current campaign for a WGST department Katarina Watson (COL ’21) described how professor You-Me Park, the direc-

tor of the program, has to advise all majors and minors, teach courses in the program and manage the administration of the program. Chad Gasman (COL ’20), in an October 2019 interview with The Hoya, detailed how their thesis project was left unsupported after their adviser, a former adjunct professor, chose to leave Georgetown for financial reasons. With the instability of faculty due to lack of departmental status, neither faculty nor students are able to further their academic pursuits without having to worry about how the program’s lack of resources might affect their work. As an institution that exalts “community in diversity” and “people for others” as some of its key values, Georgetown has clearly not provided students with sufficient resources to fulfill those commitments in the WGST program. The university has also moved painfully slowly in response to student demands for a department. The university has barely taken any concrete steps to pursue departmental status for WGST more than six months after a petition garnering over 270 student signatures was sent to College Dean Christopher Celenza in March 2019. In May, Watson met with the newly formed WGST board composed of Celenza, College Vice Dean of Faculty David Edelstein and four female faculty, according to Watson. But Watson felt the meeting did not sufficiently address the main issue of WGST’s lack of departmental status. “Although some of the steps stated will undoubtedly have a positive impact on WGST, they lack a sense of urgency and willingness to impart large change,” Watson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I worry that, despite the dean’s assurance that this is a top priority, I will return to campus and little progress will have been made.” A WGST department is long past due; the university can no longer sit idle on this issue two years after students began calling for the department’s creation. Students and faculty deserve the full range of benefits offered by a department — most importantly full-time and tenure-line faculty. Georgetown should create the department now.

Serenading Senator — Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), showcasing both his vocals and harmonica skills, played a Jimi Hendrix tribute in Georgetown’s Blues Alley last Monday. The senator is well known for his fluency as a musician, often showing off his skills to the media.

The Duality of D.C. — Washington, D.C., was recently named the second-best city in the world to visit by Lonely Planet, a travel guide book publisher. The District was specifically praised for its “innovative floating wetlands system” and fascinating museums, which are apparently equal in the judges’ eyes. Turtle Takeover — A New Jersey man recently pleaded guilty to smuggling over 1,000 turtles from Oklahoma to New Jersey as part of a wildlife smuggling syndicate. His illegal turtles were worth over $350.

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Avoid Racist Halloween Costumes With Halloween less than a week away, many students are looking for a costume. When choosing Halloween costumes, students must make sure they avoid racist and otherwise inappropriate outfits. This year alone has seen prominent politicians exposed for wearing racist costumes. In February, a yearbook photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam showed one man in a Ku Klux Klan costume and another man in blackface. Northam did not say which costume he was wearing, but apologized for his insensitive actions. And, last month, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was discovered to have worn brownface makeup at an “Arabian Nights”-themed party in 2001. Trudeau has since apologized, citing his ignorance on the racist nature of brownface makeup. The racist costumes of prominent politicians have dominated the headlines recently, but college campuses are certainly not immune to such issues. In 2017, students at Princeton University hosted a “Mexican-themed party” event, encouraging students to partake in such racist costumes as a “sombrero, bikini [and] fake mustache.” While this editorial board is not aware of recent cases of such costumes on Georgetown University’s campus, students should educate themselves on the historically problematic connotation of potential costume choices to avoid choosing offensive outfits. Blackface and brownface are among the most egregious cases of racist costumes, but costumes can be racist in other ways, such as cultural appropriation. The use of clothing and headdress that resemble items associated with Native American tribes is also an offensive and inappropriate costume choices. The use of culturally significant items of marginalized groups out of context by members not in the group for the sake of entertainment demonstrates a remarkable lack of

respect for those communities. Specifically, wearing costumes without considering their historical significance harms Native American communities, according to Tesia Zientek, tribal member and Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s education director. “It’s harmful, and it hurts to know that they are getting to use things that our ancestors were not allowed to use, and use them in a way that it is inconsistent with our culture,” Zientek said in an article on the Citizen Potawatomi Nation website. Costumes resembling Native American clothing are unfortunately often prevalent on Halloween, but other marginalized groups also suffer from appropriation. A simple Google search of the term “Halloween costume” paired with descriptions of different ethnic groups yields image results of people wearing large sombreros, “geisha” costumes or costumes that purportedly resemble ancient Egyptian deities. Such caricatures minimize entire cultures down to a cheap costume and inflict harm on the communities. Insensitive costumes do not stop at cultural appropriation: Any costumes that mock or diminish the experience of marginalized groups are similarly inappropriate. Halloween costumes should never make light of difficult experiences, such as the experiences of people with mental health struggles or people who have been convicted of crime. Halloween costumes should be a way for students to have fun dressing up as a character; they should not reduce any group to stereotypes or perpetuate racism and cultural appropriation. Students must, in the spirit of inclusivity and respect, think carefully about the historical and cultural significance of any costume they might choose to wear. If a student realizes that the costume is inappropriate, the solution is simple: Wear something else.

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Students Protest Vietnam Involvement In order to protest the continuing American presence in Vietnam, the National Peace Action Coalition has organized an Oct. 31 moratorium. “The rallies Oct. 31, in addition to sounding the call for immediate withdrawal, will expose Nixon’s false peace plan and in doing so will warn the American people of the dangers of a new escalation,” NPAC said. The coalition plans mass rallies in 40 to 50 cities throughout America, including Washington, D.C. The moratorium in D.C. is being organized by the Washington Area Peace Action Coalition, headed by Abraham Bloom. The program in the District will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday with small demonstrations and guerilla theaters. Guerilla theaters will consist of pantomimes depicting war and atrocities in Vietnam.

A mass rally featuring speakers and entertainment will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. in Lafayette Park, where tables and booths featuring displays from such groups as Women’s Strike for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Student Mobilization Committee and the Moratorium Committee will be open from noon until 5 p.m. The major speaker at the rally will be Ngo Vinh Long, a Vietnamese presently studying at Harvard, who will speak about the situation in his country. Also speaking will be William Simons, head of the Washington Teachers’ Union. Commenting on the aims of the Washington rally, Washington Area Peace Action Coalition program director Mike Jacobsen said, “Our main objective is to get a lot of people together to show the President that we are

against the war, that we want out now.” The organizer group, the NPAC, based in Cleveland, acts as a steering committee for the various anti-war groups across the country. Debby Ginsberg, an NPAC official, said, “Any peace group can affiliate with NPAC if they want to. Each group elects a representative to sit on the steering committee.” The Student Mobilization Committee, based in New York, is working with NPAC on the campuses. Steve Bloom of Student Mobilization said, “Student Mobilization is supporting NPAC. NPAC is a much broader, well-established anti-war group. Student Mobilization is building the support on college campuses.”

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RECONSTRUCTING DISABILITY

Stop Dehumanization

Esther Kang

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hroughout mainstream media, disabled lives appear to exist in just two dimensions. Either they are maudlin tragedies or inspirational stories in which an individual “overcomes” their disability. These two tropes are equally problematic. However, the latter narrative is most frequent in advertising and social media, and the unspoken notions that structure it infantilize disabled people and presume a disabled life is synonymous with misery. The derogatory nature behind sensationalizing disability is commonly recognized in Jerry Lewis’ telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which reached peak popularity in the 1990s. On the show, young children were used as representatives for people with muscular dystrophy, a tactic intended to generate pity and compel viewers to donate. Continuous with the show’s paternalistic campaign was the slogan “Save Jerry’s Kids,” which was used to refer to both children and adults. This generalization overlooked the reality that the majority of Americans with muscular dystrophy were adults, and the intense focus on children denied adults with muscular dystrophy both dignity and public significance. In the magazine Parade, Lewis imagined what it must be like to be someone living with muscular dystrophy: “I realize my life is half, so I must learn to do things halfway. I just have to learn to try to be good at being half a person ….” This speculation reveals how he saw disability as a barrier to personhood; the fact that Lewis did not recognize people with muscular dystrophy as fully human uncovers how, pity toward disabled people is driven by their dehumanization. Nondisabled society has continued to associate disabled people with regressive traits including childlikeness and incompleteness. For example, the popular motivational videos captioned “What’s your excuse?” show physically impaired people accomplishing

strenuous activities. The videos are meant to be uplifting for nondisabled people. However, the encouraging theme stems from the ableist complex of “If they, the disabled, can do it, then anyone — that is, any abled person — should be able to do it.” The disabled person is presented as setting the lowest bar for achievement, and the humbling of able-bodied viewers exposes how people with disabilities are typically supposed to be seen as “behind” nondisabled people in terms of human progress. Common reactions to these kinds of videos include astonishment as to how the people in the videos “overcame” their disabilities. At its surface, the expression functions as a compliment, seeking to recognize the hardships the disabled recipient faces. However, “overcoming” suggests that an individual has accomplished things in spite of their disability. Believing that disability is an obstacle again enforces the belief that the existence of disability obligates its correction. The emphasis on someone “overcoming” also reveals how the responsibility for a disabled person’s social inclusion is placed on the individual rather than society. Aside from donations, society removes itself from being accountable for a disabled person’s sense of recognition. Even when disability is recognized, visibility of disabled people is commonly reduced to images of children and relapse. In place of these typical depictions, we must amplify how disability prioritizes interdependence. Disability empowers by reassigning power from the shoulders of the individual to the bonds that form between people. Without individual incapacity, there is no need for human relationships. In this way, disability necessitates intimacy — that one essential resource people will never be able to provide for themselves. Esther Kang is a freshman in the College. RECONSTRUCTING DISABILITY appears online every other Tuesday.

Georgetown should illuminate the Healy Hall clock tower with blue lights after significant athletic achievements to increase the visibility of our teams’ accomplishments and to bolster school spirit throughout campus.

Illuminate Healy Tower for Athletic Events

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s another basketball season begins, it is a fitting time to remember that athletics at Georgetown University can bring students together with a sense of unity and pride in a special way that transcends sports. Georgetown’s dedicated student-athletes and loyal fans have made invaluable contributions to the overall Hoya experience by uniting generations of Georgetown alumni through athletic accomplishments. In 1984, our men’s basketball championship not only created an exciting culture at Georgetown, but also captivated the District and countless fans across the country. Athletic success in the 1980s contributed to a dramatic spike in applications and fueled Georgetown’s rise from a distinguished regional university to a preeminent national brand. But, today, distractions like our school’s “busy culture” can often leave many students feeling disconnected from a vibrant sense of school spirit. Many students are too preoccupied to go downtown to a men’s basketball game or walk up

to Shaw Field for a women’s soccer game. In order to revive school spirit and cultivate an even stronger Hoya community, Georgetown should take proactive steps to unite the student body in a fun, simple and bold way. Georgetown should illuminate the Healy Hall clock tower with blue lights after significant athletic achievements to increase the visibility of our teams’ accomplishments and to bolster school spirit throughout campus. This tradition would not only recognize our studentathletes, but would also serve as a way to engage our entire campus community, including people at Georgetown who do not closely follow sports. Athletics have long been at the forefront of Georgetown traditions that unify our student body and alumni community. In 1876, the crew team began using the distinctive colors of blue and gray so onlookers could spot them from ashore. The colors blue and gray quickly became inextricably tied to the university’s identity. In

the 1890s, students began chanting “Hoya Saxa” at football games. By the 1920s, the chant had become ubiquitous on campus, and students began referring to themselves as Hoyas. In the 1960s, the Student Mascot Committee adopted an English Bulldog named Jack to serve as Georgetown’s official mascot at athletic events. Today, students can spot members of the Jack Crew walking Jack the Bulldog across campus. All of these iconic traditions — inspired by athletics — have largely contributed to an experience that is special to Georgetown. As Georgetown approaches the 150th anniversary of athletics on the Hilltop, we believe Georgetown is due for a new tradition. At other colleges, similar traditions have successfully boosted school pride: Northwestern University’s Rebecca Crown Center clock tower is illuminated purple every time one of its sports teams wins a major victory. Northwestern got the idea from The University of Texas at Austin, where the

school’s landmark tower has been lit in orange for special athletic accomplishments since the 1930s. Earlier this year, a generous donor at the University of Pittsburgh made it possible for the school to include a blue beam of light that shoots into the sky as part of its iconic “Victory Lights.” At Georgetown, taking a picture in front of a blue Healy Hall could become as much a campus staple as stepping around the seal in front of Healy or sitting on John Carroll’s lap. This tradition would be iconic not only for our campus, but also for the Georgetown neighborhood and Washington, D.C., as a whole. Residents, commuters and tourists alike could take pride in Georgetown’s blue and gray. At Hoya Blue, our motto has always been “Bleed Hoya Blue.” Now, it’s time to “Bleed Healy Blue.”

WILL BALL is a senior in

the McDonough School of Business and ELLIE CUSH is a senior in the School of Nursing and Health Studies.

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Accepting UndocuQueer Identities

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Carlos Luna Luna

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carry with me various identities. UndocuQueer, the intersection of being both Undocumented and Queer, is one of them. At various points in my life, they were shameful identities that I could not speak of and had to keep hidden: The day after the election of President Donald Trump, I wanted to hide because I feared for myself and my family due to my undocumented status. Throughout my life, growing up in toxic hypermasculine spaces, I learned to take refuge in womxn-dominated spaces and not disclose my queerness for fear of the repercussions. I have come to reflect on my UndocuQueerness due to recent political events. Earlier in October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard cases on whether employers can legally fire LGBTQ+ people based on their identity. This November, the same court will hear a case deciding the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Being a DACA recipient since January 2015, I have been able to continue pursuing a college education. To live under Trump’s administration is to constantly question my humanity because of my identities. Because the personal is political, I want to share my story. Less than two months ago, I came out to my parents. Each of their reactions was different. “Una madre, siempre va amar a sus hijos” — a mother will always love her children unconditionally — my mother responded as she hugged me in the middle of Chicago Union Station. I heard my father’s reaction over the phone since I could not face telling him in person. After I said the words

“Soy Gay” — I’m Gay — there was a long period of silence followed by the click of an ended phone call. I no longer carry the burden of what my parents would think. I demonstrated a lot of bravery to follow my desire for the freedom of being my authentic self. I finally felt ready to come back to Washington, D.C., and finish my last year at Georgetown University, leaving behind the crushing weight of my family’s traumas and machismo upbringing. I now constantly reflect on what it means to live openly as Queer and Undocumented. Jennecit Eva Gutiérrez, a transgender undocumented woman said, “Mi existir es resistir” — My existence is resistance. As such, I owe it to myself and others to be my authentic self and carry my identity with pride. I stand on the shoulders of a community that has helped me to be where I am now. My mother, a crew worker at McDonald’s, and my father, a pallet repairman, would have never envisioned what I have now accomplished — soon to be the first in my family to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from an elite university. It was no easy feat to get here, and I have struggled often. Struggling with self-acceptance, being diagnosed with depression, family relations, and dealing with an institution that is inherently not for people like me — these struggles pushed me to leave Georgetown on a medical leave of absence. While growing up in the southwest side of Chicago, being Undocumented was the most salient identity I carried with me. My immigration status had closed many doors for me to pursue higher education. I have worked hard ever since I was a young boy because of my family’s low-income status: I would help my parents collect scrap metal from the dumpsters and alleys of Chicago so we could later resell it as a form of work. There were times when, because of our inability to pay for gas, we had

to heat our water and cook with propane gas tanks, especially during the harsh months of winter. But I always knew that if I were able to attend a school with a need-based aid policy, I would have the golden ticket to change my family’s trajectory — out of poverty. Transferring to Georgetown from Loyola University’s two-year Arrupe College was my golden ticket. Growing up, many conversations about me was around college admittance, but now the question I find myself asking as a first-generation college student is how to navigate college and life after graduation. My options for life after graduation have caused me more stress as the future of DACA is jeopardized because of the upcoming court case. As I continue to be a student at Georgetown, I find fellowship with other UndocuHoyas and the Queer community on campus; these communities have offered me the space to develop myself. University departments like the Georgetown Scholars Program and the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access have provided me with resources to excel. However, my experiences with Georgetown are not representative of the greater political context, in which undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ+ people are denied the dignity of basic human rights. Today, I urge my fellow Hoyas to take part of Hoyas For Immigrant Rights’ walkout, during which students will march from Healy Circle to Dupont Circle and finally to the Supreme Court on Friday, Nov. 8, as part of a series of campuses walkouts throughout the D.C.Maryland-Virginia area. We must stand with one another in solidarity, especially during a time when our humanity is constantly questioned. Carlos Luna Luna is a senior in the College. PROUD TO BE GSP appears online every other Monday.

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aving suffered from anxiety and depression throughout high school, I immediately sought Counseling and Psychiatric Services for therapy when I arrived at Georgetown University. However, I had no idea that CAPS does not provide long-term treatment to students. During my first session at CAPS, they had me fill out a survey about my mental health history. Because I had a history of self-harm and suicidal ideation, the people at CAPS informed me that I would eventually be referred to an off-campus therapist but that I could use CAPS services in the meantime. They did not tell me how long “the meantime” meant. By the end of my freshman year, I was left stranded without therapy. During my sophomore fall, I did not try to seek off-campus therapy because I knew I could not possibly afford it. Therapists in the Washington, D.C. area charge an absurd amount, averaging $210 per session. With my insurance, I have to reach a $280 deductible before the company will start paying 80% of the fee for each session with an in-network therapist. I would still have to pay $40 per session. This fact means that if the therapist I had my initial session with did not seem to be a good match for me, the fee of that session would be a waste, as it would not count toward my deductible. If the therapist is out of network, then I would have to pay everything out of pocket. It was too much work. I did not want to add to my laundry list of things I constantly worry about. During this period, I was horribly depressed and experienced frequent anxiety attacks. The only way I could cope was through sleep.

Even getting out of bed was challenging. On the occasions I miraculously dragged myself out of bed for class, I ended up falling asleep during most of them anyway, which was frustrating for both me and my professors. I had always been a straight-A student, including during my freshman year at Georgetown, but my grades dropped significantly sophomore fall. I ended up dropping a class. It was bad. Eventually, I was so depressed that I was scared I was going to harm myself. I ended up walking myself to the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, thinking it would be safer for me to be hospitalized. Having previously been hospitalized for suicidal ideation, I thought checking into a psychiatric hospital would be the best way to prevent me from killing myself. But I also felt that even a hospitalization could not help me at this point. I knew what to expect. I would be kept there for a week, and, afterward, I would be strapped with a medical bill I had no way of paying. I would have much more school work to catch up on and might risk being put on medical leave. I could not afford to take any of these risks. That was when I realized I really needed offcampus therapy. I learned about the Student Mental Health Fund, originally known as the OffCampus Therapy Stipend, through a newsletter from the Georgetown University Student Association. The fund would provide students who are referred to an offcampus provider with $500, an amount that would cover my insurance’s deductible as well as several months of therapy. The very fact that the program exists gave me hope — hope that I could get help. I attended the information session about how to apply for

the program. I had to complete some paperwork to confirm I had been referred out of CAPS, and discussedI discuss my financial constraints. After my application was reviewed, I received the stipend at the end of November 2018. I felt a wave of relief wash over me: I could finally seek the therapy that I so urgently needed. The money from the fund motivated me to find the help I needed and made the transition to off-campus services smoother. Through the stipend, I was finally able to find a therapist bestsuited to meet my needs by the end of my sophomore fall. My therapist specializes in the issues I struggle with: acculturation and adjustment, anxiety, self-esteem and peer relationships. All of these issues require continuous, long-term sessions to work on; the shortterm counseling sessions at CAPS would not be able to address them as thoroughly. By working with my therapist in cognitive behavioral therapy, I have developed positive coping skills that help me get through my panic attacks and depressive episodes. As of now, I am still working with my off-campus therapist. I am extremely grateful that the Student Mental Health Fund gave me the help I needed to remain in school and graduate. I am sharing my experience because I want this program to remain institutionally implemented. The fund has saved my life, and I hope it can continue to help other Georgetown students in the future.

THE AUTHOR is a student at Georgetown University.

Resources: On-campus resources include Health Education Services (202-687-8949); additional offcampus resources include the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255).

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Invisible Disability Accommodations Create Privacy Issues LIAM SCOTT

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When Kenna Chick (SFS ’20) tried to propose creating mental health days at Georgetown University, her idea was met with resistance. “It’s creating the idea that for someone with — anyone with — a disability, how much of our time is spent trying to prove that we belong here,” Chick said in an interview with The Hoya. Students with invisible disabilities — disabilities that do not manifest themselves in physical appearance — must also prove their needs and face potential unwanted exposure for accommodations in academic settings that they depend on. Invisible disabilities remain misunderstood by many students, professors and administrators in their efforts to make campuses more inclusive. To receive accommodations, students must go through an at times difficult process to receive proper documentation. As a result, recent activism has centered around moving past case-by-case accommodations in favor of making classrooms more accessible for these students.

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Often times, invisible disabilities can present students with difficulties in the classroom, but imperfect accommodations do not give students the level of support that prioritizes their privacy. Mental illness is considered an invisible disability, as well as hearing impairments, fatigue and cognitive impairments, according to the Invisible Disabilities Association. A study by the University of Massachusetts Amherst estimates that 10% of people in the United States have an invisible disability. Invisible disabilities can indirectly affect how students process, retain and communicate information, according to the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology Center at the University of Washington. Students may struggle to focus, work with others, communicate with professors and take assessments, according to the center. Despite these common struggles, however, each individual experiences their disability in their own way. Many people with invisible disabilities choose not to disclose them to avoid stigma, according to Georgetown professor Sylvia Wing Önder, who teaches anthropology, including courses about medical anthropology and biomedicine.

“One of the interesting things about an invisible disability is it can be hidden,” Önder said. “So, if you’re saying should all invisible disabilities just be exposed, and we should all just be open about it, as long as it’s stigmatized, it’s better for a lot of people who have invisible disabilities to keep them invisible.” Although providing accommodations — means for students with disabilities to learn most effectively — is important, receiving them in classrooms may unintentionally out students with invisible disabilities, according to Anna Landre (SFS ’21), a wheelchair user and a founder of the Georgetown Disability Alliance. “If you have an accommodation that you’re allowed to use a laptop because of a learning disability or some other sort of sensory disability, and you then take out your laptop and no one else has theirs out, you’re outing yourself,” Landre said. “Whereas if the professor just kind of said, ‘You know, I prefer you don’t use laptops, but if you need it, use it,’ then you wouldn’t be outing yourself as much.” Accommodations need to account for students concerned about outing themselves as disabled, Önder said. “We have to find a balance between giving people the support they need and requiring exposure in order to get benefits,” Önder said. Some ways that classes are structured function as obstacles for people with invisible disabilities. Pop quizzes generally do not accommodate for people who have ADHD and other invisible disabilities, according to University of California, Davis. Cold calling also can increase anxiety in students, according to the International Journal of STEM Education. Georgetown students can obtain accommodations through The Academic Resource Center. The ARC works with other resource centers and offices to help students balance their curricular and extracurricular commitments and establish an inclusive campus environment, according to ARC Executive Director Joseph Fisher. To receive accommodations, students must receive documents from a professional that corroborates their disability, which the ARC then examines to determine next steps.

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The processes for receiving accommodations do not vary significantly between invisible and visible disabilities, according to

Fisher. “There are not significant differences in the processes for establishing a connection with the ARC based on disability status,” Fisher wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The staff of the ARC prioritizes an interactive process in which they will meet individually with students to allow them space to represent themselves in their own terms.” After the ARC determines appropriate accommodations and measures, students receive a letter outlining what steps the professor can take to accommodate them in the classroom. Difficulty in determining appropriate accommodations for students with psychological disabilities contribute to the lengthy process, according to a 2016 external review of the ARC. “Often, these students require the closest consideration for appropriate accommodations and the greatest amount of time to collaborate with offices and colleagues throughout campus as well as external experts and parents,” the report reads. This provision can create extra hurdles for students whose invisible disability requires diagnoses from mental health professionals that some students do not have access to, according to Chick. “You need doctors’ papers and different notes to, sort of, document and support why you need a specific accommodation for your disability,” Chick said. “So, if you don’t have access to that, then you don’t get that accommodation in the first place.” This process is more ambiguous for students who do not have a diagnosed disability. Counseling and Psychiatric Services and the ARC do not provide psychological testing for students who suspect they have a learning disability, but students can contact the ARC for further information. Students seeking accommodations for ADHD will need to use other service providers, but CAPS will provide a screening test for ADHD to help students determine whether to seek a formal test, according to CAPS Director Philip Meilman. CAPS will also write letters in support of students seeking accommodation for anxiety, depression or other mental health conditions. Although a mental health fund exists to assist students in finding mental health care off campus, only 10 to 20 students are estimated to receive the benefits. The student health insurance plan will also provide coverage, but only after meeting a $200 deductible that students must pay out of pocket before coverage kicks in.

For students on their own insurance plan, only about 55% of psychiatrists accepted private insurance, according to a 2014 study by the National Institutes of Health.

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Professors often have a minimal role in determining accommodations. Students usually give the professor their accommodations letter, which outlines the accommodations they have been granted, according to Önder. Although professors are encouraged to engage in further conversations with students about accommodations, they often do not feel capable, Önder said. “There is a lot of reluctance to engage in the conversation because it’s almost as if you know something, you have to do something about it, or you have to do something differently,” Önder said. “I wish more professors felt comfortable having those conversations because a lot of people don’t feel qualified, a lot of people feel insecure about whether they can successfully have a conversation.” In an attempt to redesign the classroom, the ARC meets with faculty to create new approaches, according to Fisher. “The ARC routinely works with faculty in both formal and informal settings to prioritize curricular access matters for all students,” Fisher wrote. “These ef-

forts are collective and collaborative, and they are a central, ongoing component of our work.” Although professors are generally open to making adjustments based on accommodations, the burden of responsibility is still placed on individual students to advocate for themselves, according to Libbie Rifkin, a professor in the disabilities studies program. “There are ways to more broadly make classrooms more open that don’t put the burden on the individual student so much to both request the accommodation from ARC and then push for it, advocate for themselves in the classroom,” Rifkin said. Examples of accommodations that can be provided include preferential seating, gaining access to presentations after class and being allowed to take frequent breaks during class, according to Chick and Landre. Rifkin is trying to implement the idea of universal design, the idea that a classroom environment can be designed to be accessible and understood by the greatest amount of people possible. Universal design lightens the burden on students seeking accommodations for invisible disabilities, Rifkin said. “Universal design is this idea that you can think about access needs in advance and put in as many openings to as many different ways of accessing an environment as you can in advance,

rather than having to retrofit an environment for a particular individual,” Rifkin said. Universal design for learning is being actively implemented at other institutions of higher education, including Boston College, The George Washington University, Harvard University, and Stanford University. Georgetown has also created online resources to raise awareness of universal design in partnership with the Center for New Designs in Leadership and Learning and The Teaching Commons. Students in Önder’s “Disability and Culture” class take an anonymous learning styles survey at the beginning of the semester that asks questions regarding class participation and anxiety in class, among other topics. Önder then uses these data to make adjustments to her teaching style and help students feel less isolated, she said. “Someone who has a diagnosed anxiety problem might think they’re the only one in the classroom, but if I show on the screen that four people talk about anxiety as a regular part of their learning issues, then people know that there’s anxiety in the room,” Önder said. “So, we just try to surface that everyone learns differently and that people might not be as unique in their different learning styles as they might think.”

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Division Inhibits Peacekeeping University Holds Town Hall Efforts, Top UN Official Says On Blommer Library Closure GRACE BUONO Hoya Staff Writer

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UnderSecretary-General for Peace Operations at the United Nations, spoke about the challenges and misconceptions of UN peacekeepers at an Oct. 21 event. The largest part of the UN is the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and the Department of Peace Operations budget is more than all other entities of the UN combined, according to the UN’s 2019 annual report. Lacroix, as the head-secretary of this group, is responsible for some of the 90,000 uniformed peacekeepers currently deployed in 13 locations worldwide. In his address, Lacroix spoke about both the goals and complexities that peacekeeping operations face around the world. “Ultimately it’s about supporting peace and creating conditions for durable peace to prevail,” Lacroix said. “No matter what the mandate is and no matter what peacekeeping operation you’re looking at.” Lacroix stressed that this aspiration is not something that UN peacekeeping missions can achieve alone. Rather than conducting these missions on its own, the UN is intended to support international partners and efforts, according to Lacroix. “I think of peacekeeping as a bunch of people with blue helmets, women and men in uniform with the blue badge of the UN or the blue beret,” Lacroix said. “But it’s essentially a political proposition. It’s about supporting peace efforts.” The event, held in the Healy President’s room, was jointly sponsored by the School of Foreign Service, the Master of Science in Foreign

Service program, the African studies program, the Mortara Center for International Studies, the department of government and the M.A. in Conflict Resolution program. Government professor Lise Howard, introduced Lacroix. SJ Fernandez, a first-year graduate student in the Conflict Resolution program, found this element of Lacroix’s talk especially compelling. “Often time humanitarian aid work is supposed to remain independent and neutral and impartial,” Fernandez said in an interview with The Hoya. “However, this talk really discussed the collaborative efforts between peacekeepers and states in order to sustain peace.” In its 2019 annual report, the UN underscored the need for action to prevent global trends such as the rise of regional violence, terrorism and violent extremism. During 2018 alone, nearly 71 million people were displaced as a result of violence and persecution, according to the report. The year 2018 also marked the 70th anniversary of UN peacekeeping. Promoting international cooperation and partnerships is the number one challenge he faces, according to Lacroix. “It’s an even bigger challenge now because, as I was suggesting, we don’t have a united international community,” Lacroix said. “We have a divided international community less effective in getting together and supporting peace efforts in different places.” Looking back at the history of the UN’s peacekeeping missions, Lacroix believes there is still work to be done to shift international perception of these UN peacekeepers. “To our member states of

the UN, to all who have an interest in peacekeeping, there has to be a right understanding of what peacekeeping operations are,” Lacroix said. Learning about the UN peacekeeping operations in the context of different countries is important because it involves individual motives of leaders, according to Rolf Niederstrasser, a first-year graduate student in the MSFS studying Latin America. “Whenever the UN is present, there is some time of stability, like [Lacroix] was saying,” Niederstrasser said in an interview with The Hoya. “But also what might be the motive behind a president not wanting to have the UN there?” While there are examples of the UN successfully ensuring stability in a region, there may be flaws in both how UN peacekeepers are viewed as well why they are deployed, Niederstrasser said. “We see them as a force of good, but sometimes it didn’t happen,” Niederstrasser said. “Seeing that perspective, from what are their limits, what types of other organizations might resolve it better and does a country have the capacity to do it on their own.” Howard also stressed the importance of recognizing the successes and failures of past peacekeeping missions when considering the future of the UN, she said. “I started by saying it’s not so bad and we heard at the end that there are some places where it’s really not working so well,” Howard said. “We acknowledge and try to learn and try to figure out a path forward. That involves you. That involves young people thinking very deeply and seriously about how to help.”

Medical Dean Mitchell Will Step Down From Position SOPHIE HABER

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Students lobbied to preserve the Blommer Science Library at a Georgetown University Student Association town hall Oct. 23, in response to an announcement last spring that the library would permanently close within the next year. The town hall comes after university officials announced in April that Blommer, which is located in the Reiss Science Building, would permanently close and the library’s collections would be relocated to Lauinger Library because of renovations set for Reiss due to flooding and mold concerns. After the announcement, students started an online petition to keep the library open, which had obtained 421 signatures at time of print. The library’s relocation was then put on hold over the summer pending reevaluation. To address the backlash about the closure, the university created the Blommer Library Faculty Review Committee to help decide the library’s future, according to committee member and chemistry department CoChair Tim Warren. Committee members include Dean of the Library Harriette Hemmasi and a graduate student representative, as well as select faculty members from each science department, the School of Foreign Services’s science, technology and international affairs major and the School of Nursing and Health Studies. Relocating Blommer could create conflict for faculty and students who use the library as a collaborative research space, according to Warren. “The faculty are concerned as well because it’s used for lots of different ways in teaching and then in our scholarship that we jointly do with students,” Warren said in an interview with The Hoya. “We just want to make sure it doesn’t have a negative impact on all the academic programs and research that’s going on.”

The committee will meet during the spring 2020 semester and offer a recommendation to both the provost and main campus executive faculty, who will then vote to decide plans for Blommer, according to Warren. If the committee decides to move Blommer’s resources to Lauinger, the Blommer science librarians will be relocated to other Georgetown libraries, according to Blommer librarian Holly Surbaugh.

“I know many science students call Blommer their home, so not having the ability to have our own library is kind of jarring.” ALEIDA OLVERA (COL ’20) Vice President, GUSA

“We would try to compensate as much as possible,” Surbaugh said. “Jill and I would still be there would still be primarily focused on serving science students and providing access to science collections.” The town hall featured a question-and-answer session for attendees with Warren and librarians Jill Collinsworth and Surbaugh. GUSA historian Henry Westerman (SFS ’21) moderated the discussion. The event sought to clarify some of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the library, according to Westerman. GUSA vice president Aleida Olvera (COL ’20) frequents Blommer to find many of her science textbooks and use the scientific software downloaded onto the computers. Closing Blommer would negatively impact access to resources for science students, she said at the town hall. “I know many science stu-

dents call Blommer their home, so not having the ability to have our own library is kind of jarring — especially because now we will only have one library,” Olvera said at the town hall. Blommer regulars provided a passionate dissent leading to the reassessment, according to Collinsworth. “We had a haiku contest last spring and somebody posted a little haiku about, ‘Oh Blommer, we will miss you so,’” Collinsworth said in an interview with The Hoya. “That kind of sums it up.” Unlike many workspaces in Lauinger, the main library on campus, Blommer is quieter and provides a better study environment, according Blommer regular Kara Struckman (COL ’22). “I think Lau is very overcrowded. And for me having my own space, I can’t focus unless I have a big space, and that’s something I really like about Blommer,” Struckman said at the town hall. “There’s also more natural light and for me, the environment in Blommer is much more conducive to being productive.” Blommer is currently open until midnight Sunday through Wednesday nights with shorter hours Thursday through Saturday nights, which makes it available later than other alternatives to Lauinger such as the Bioethics Research Library in Healy Hall, which usually closes at 9 p.m. The committee will host at least two focus groups to learn more about how students use Blommer’s resources. As the plans for the library are decided, Warren hopes that the student engagement will shape the future of Blommer. “Student feedback is crucial for this process to work well for the Georgetown community. I’m excited that we have a chance to talk about the ways that students use the Blommer Science Library,” Warren said. “It’s very heartening to hear it serves as the glue in the community of science students here.”

MSB Receives $12M Donation For Use Toward Scholarships

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The Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Dean for Medical Education Stephen Mitchell will conclude his 20year term June 30, the university announced in a campus-wide email Oct. 22. After his term ends, Mitchell will assume the title of dean emeritus, an honorary title for a retired dean. University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95), will conduct a nationwide search for the next School of Medicine dean, along with Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine Edward Healton, according to the email. Mitchell hopes his successor will continue the growth and success of the medical school he cultivated as dean, Mitchell wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I am most deeply grateful for the recent privilege of serving as leader of medical education at Georgetown for nearly two decades,” Mitchell wrote. “Now new leadership will continue building on these improvements that will help maintain our School of Medicine as one of the top medical schools in the world.” As dean, Mitchell helped create the Longitudinal Academic Tracks, five tracks within the School of Medicine which allow students to engage with various areas of interest in conjunction with the four-year medical school curriculum, according to DeGioia’s email. Mitchell also contributed to establishing the medical school’s academic families, which provide mentorship for first-year and second-year medical students. Mitchell will continue to serve as a faculty member in the department of medicine while serving as dean emeritus. Mitchell will also continue his work as a clinician in the division of rheumatology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Mitchell wrote. Mitchell has epitomized Georgetown’s values through his maintained devotion to the school’s success, according to Healton. “We’re grateful to Ray for his years of service to Georgetown, his embodiment of the Jesuit principle of cura personalis, and for his passion, enthusiasm and dedication for medical educa-

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Dean for Medical Education Stephen Mitchell, center, has been widely recognized in his tenure for his accomplishments as an administrator. tion,” Healton wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are privileged to have him continue as a member of our community.” Mitchell has received every residency teaching award in the department of medicine in his tenure at the school, according to the university website. Mitchell’s teaching and mentorship have also been recognized by his students, who nominated him for multiple Golden Apple awards. The Golden Apple commendation recognizes professors with outstanding professional and personal qualities that have enhanced the medical education of members of the class. Mitchell first joined Georgetown’s faculty in 1988 when he accepted a position providing teaching and care for patients with rheumatic diseases at Medstar Hospital, according to DeGioia’s email. Mitchell began his tenure as dean for medical education in May 2002. Mitchell’s dedication to teaching and the practice of medicine has helped shape the course of medical education at Georgetown for over 30 years, DeGioia wrote in the email. “Over the course of his years of service, Ray’s leadership has had a tremendous impact, both here at Georgetown and throughout the medical community,” DeGioia wrote. “Our University is fortunate to continue to benefit

from Ray’s membership in our community as Dean Emeritus, and look forward to his contributions as part of our medical education faculty for years to come.” During his tenure, Mitchell oversaw an expansion of the Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies program, which prepares underrepresented students for success in medical education, according to DeGioia’s email. He also helped establish the Academy for Research, Clinical and Health Equity Scholarship, a sixweek pipeline program for undergraduate students interested in pursuing medical studies. Mitchell also played a role in the creation of the Curricular Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Learning Environment grant program, which has awarded $1.5 million in competitive curricular development grants. Mitchell cites his greatest accomplishment at Georgetown as fostering an environment at the medical school that prioritizes the health and prosperity of students. “As the nation deals with burn out among health professionals, I am perhaps proudest of work our team has done to focus on student well-being and our learning culture,” Mitchell wrote. “This promotes formation of the whole person as St. Ignatius would want us to do.”

The A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation donated $12.2 million to the McDonough School of Business to support scholarships and collaboration with local educational programs, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) announced in an email to students Oct. 16. The foundation’s donation will go towards expanding undergraduate need-based scholarships, strengthening education in real estate and providing leadership education in partnership with District of Columbia Public Schools and Public Charter Schools, according to a university news release. The Clark Foundation is a family foundation named after A. James Clark, a real estate executive whose firm designed many Washington, D.C. landmarks, such as the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and Nationals Park, as well as the Southwest Quadrangle buildings on campus. The new financial support will enable the MSB to expand programs that are central to the school’s goals, according to MSB Dean Paul Almeida. “The Clark Foundation funding addresses three key areas of importance for the McDonough School of Business — undergraduate scholarships, academic excellence, and leveraging our expertise as a world-class business school to make a difference in our community,” Almeida wrote in an email to The Hoya. The Clark Foundation will invest $3.5 million to expand the Robert J. & Elizabeth Flanagan Family Endowed Scholarship Fund, a fund for undergraduate scholarships. Broadening the Flanagan Family fund will increase the MSB’s ability to support individuals in need of financial aid, according to a university

spokesperson. “These funds are critical to the university’s ongoing priority of making a Georgetown education accessible to talented students with financial need,” the university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. The MSB hopes to ensure that financial need does not restrict students from attending Georgetown, according to Almeida. “At Georgetown, we believe a world-class education should be accessible to everyone regardless of their financial circumstances,” Almeida wrote. “I have met so many successful alumni—many of whom are the chief executives in their organization—who share that they could not have attended Georgetown without the financial support we offer as a need-blind institution.” The Clark Foundation will invest $6 million to establish the A. James Clark Endowed Chair in Global Real Estate at the Georgetown University Steers Center for Global Real Estate, an initiative launched in 2015 to strengthen real estate education, according to a university spokesperson. The establishment of the endowed chair in global real estate will strengthen the global aspect of the Steers Center, according to professor Matthew Cypher, director of the Steers Center. “The goal of the Steers Center is to build a globally preeminent real estate program so the A. James Clark Endowed Chair in Global Real Estate is another huge step in that direction,” Cypher wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This center is now directly tied to Robert Steers and Mr. Clark who are global figures that have meaningfully influenced real estate and the built environment over their careers.” The donation to the real estate program will also allow the MSB to expand its real estate faculty, providing stu-

dents with more opportunities, Almeida said. “Part of what makes the Georgetown experience so transformational for our students is our ability to attract the best professors to the school,” Almeida said. “Having an endowed chair allows us to offer more opportunities to our students.” The Clark Foundation is also investing $2.7 million to support the participation of DCPS and Public Charter School principals in the MSB’s Executive Master’s in Leadership program, a program for working professionals aimed at teaching effective leadership behaviors, the university spokesperson wrote. The donation to the EML program helps develop future leaders in D.C. schools, according to professor Robert Bies, founder of the EML program. “The generous support of the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation is so critical to the mission of this program— bringing together DCPS and Public Charter School leaders to deepen and broaden their capacity to lead their schools and make a difference in the lives of young people in Washington, DC,” Bies wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are so blessed to have the Clark Foundation support—and so are the school leaders and the students that they serve.” Part of the MSB’s responsibility as a leading business school is to change the world through teaching others, which is one of its priorities in utilizing this donation, according to Almeida. “As one of the world’s best business schools, Georgetown McDonough seeks ways to impact the world through our ability to teach others,” Almeida said. “I can think of no better way to impact our D.C. community than working with the public schools to strengthen the leadership and innovation skills of their principals and administrators.”

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Student Stuck in Harbin Elevator for 2 Hours GUSA Executive To Sign Senate Bill Ending GUSA Fund

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mechanism in case the elevator runs beyond its rated speed, was repaired early the next morning, according to Kuo.

Facilities wants to reassure residents that the elevators in Harbin meet safety standards, Kuo wrote. “Safety is a top priority for Facilities Management, and we are committed to ensur-

ing all elevators are operational, reliable, and safe to use,” Kuo wrote. “The Harbin elevators remain safe and operational. We encourage any community members to report any issues or concerns

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Giovonni White (MSB ’23) was trapped in a Harbin Hall elevator from about 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Tuesday night following a malfunction and took a nap while waiting for rescue.

to Facilities Management.” The second Harbin elevator stopped working shortly after midnight due to a bad relay, a device that controls the speed, position and door operation of an elevator. The second elevator was also fixed Wednesday morning, according to Kuo. Elevators in Reynolds Hall and Darnall Hall experienced similar issues last year, sometimes suddenly dropping floors and stranding students inside. Between September and November of 2018, facilities responded to about 29 work requests related to elevators, from elevators being out of service to light bulb replacements. Elevator malfunctions make up only a fraction of facilities issues reported on campus. Last fall, students reported unsafe living conditions and health concerns because of the prevalence of mold in dormitories. In February, 84 residents of topfloor apartments in Alumni Square were forced to relocate for the rest of the semester after structural engineers expressed concerns about water damage and pressure on the buildings’ roofs. Zackery said the incident of an elevator malfunction was not isolated, noting frequent infrastructural problems that affect the well-being of Harbin residents and claiming that repairs are not made in a timely manner. “Not only do the Harbin elevators break weekly, but they often fail to get fixed for up to 72 hours,” Zackery wrote. “Considering the people who attend this institution pay tens of thousands of dollars, it would be expected that we would have better facilities to use. Ones that don’t break, flood, or affect our health (mold or drinking water) would seem agreeable, but apparently not.”

GUSA, from A1 an optimal solution that does not completely erase the executive’s oversight of GUSA Fund,” Olvera wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We believe that by removing the executive team from control of GUSA Fund, we lose out on what GUSA Fund was created for.” Despite intentions to approve the bill, the administration believes the transition of the GUSA Fund will disproportionately affect underrepresented populations on campus. “In our conversations with student leaders across campus, many women-led and minority-centered groups that have utilized GUSA Fund in the past have expressed their dissatisfaction with the funding boards,” Aleida wrote. The structure of the new legislation does not encourage the FinApp committee to disadvantage minority groups on campus, according to Nugent. “There is no incentive on the part of any FinApp committee to cut costs by rejecting funding to minority and women’s based organizations,” Nugent wrote. “This bill was approved unanimously by the GUSA Senate specifically because it addressed those concerns, and any allegations of this nature are not validated by the facts of the bill.” Former senator and transition FinApp chair Matthew Buckwald (COL ’20) introduced legislation to amend the GUSA bylaws to abolish the GUSA Fund on July 29 but resigned before the GUSA senate could officially vote on his legislation. After Nugent introduced an act to abolish the GUSA Fund in the transition senate Sept. 15, Francis and Olvera expressed support for the GUSA Fund, ar-

guing that many organizations that benefit from the fund serve women and minority students. That legislation was met with criticism, and Nugent ultimately pulled it from consideration. Transitioning control of the fund will better meet the needs of the students, because the senators who compose the FinApp committee are directly elected, according to Nugent. “I think that this bill will truly increase oversight of the money GUSA allocates because FinApp is composed of elected representatives, has weekly public meetings, and publicizes all of its meeting minutes,” Nugent wrote. During the elections for committee leadership, Nugent and Juliana Arias (SFS ’20) both ran for FinApp committee chair on opposing platforms on the GUSA Fund. While Nugent called for dissolving the fund, Arias supported the GUSA Fund and called for ways to reform it instead. Arias won and became the current FinApp committee chair. “GUSA fund will stay, but we don’t have set parameters for how it will be reformed,” Arias wrote in a September email to The Hoya. But when Nugent introduced the new legislation Sunday, Arias voted in support of dissolving the GUSA Fund. The new funding mechanism will support student organizations better than the GUSA Fund, according to Arias. “The new bill will help the Senate better represent the student body and its needs when it comes to club funding allocation,” Arias wrote in an email to The Hoya, “As a Result, funding will be allocated more efficiently and distributed based on individual clubs’ needs, catering to the interests of our student body.”

Parents in College Admissions Scandal Change to Guilty Plea SCANDAL, from A1 donation to Georgetown’s tennis program but was misled by William “Rick” Singer, whose company, Edge College & Career Network, was at the center of the scheme. “I am deeply sorry for the actions that I have taken and the awful and destructive impact it has had on the family, my children,” Henriquez said in an exchange reported by The New York Times. “I provided a donation to the foundation rather than to the university directly, because Mr. Singer insisted that that was the way it had to be done.” Stephen Semprevivo, who paid $400,000 for his son to be accepted to Georgetown as a fake tennis recruit, was sentenced to four months in prison in September. His son, Adam Semprevivo, who would have graduated from Georgetown in 2020, was expelled in May 2019 and filed a lawsuit against the school, which he subsequently dropped. (Full disclosure: Semprevivo formerly served as the cartoonist for The Hoya.) Former Georgetown tennis coach Gordon Ernst was the key to the success of these schemes, enrolling the four parents’ children as fake tennis recruits. Ernst was asked to step down for his misconduct in admissions before the scandal was made public, according to Associate Vice President for Strategic Communications Meghan Dubyak. “In 2017, Georgetown’s Admissions Office discovered irregularities in the athletic credentials of two students who were being recruited to play tennis,” Dubyak wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Neither student was admitted. Georgetown immediately put former coach Gordon Ernst on leave, initiated an internal investigation, established a new policy concerning the recruitment of student athletes, implemented audits to check whether recruited student athletes are on team rosters, and asked Mr. Ernst to resign.” Ernst received at least $2.7 million in bribes through Singer to designate his clients’ children as tennis recruits, totaling at least 12 students, according to the March 2019 indictment. Following the March 2019 indictment, Georgetown contacted students who may have been involved to give them an opportunity to respond. After the univer-

sity’s review of information related to the admissions scheme, two students were dismissed from Georgetown, and their admissions offers were rescinded, according to Dubyak. The university has not named the two students, and Georgetown does not comment on individual cases, according to Dubyak. Grant Janavs is still enrolled at Georgetown, according to his LinkedIn. Knowingly misrepresenting information on an admissions application can be cause to rescind admission or dismiss a student, according to Dubyak. “Each student case was addressed individually and each student was given multiple opportunities to respond and provide information to the University,” Dubyak wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our review focused on whether students knowingly provided false information to the University or whether they participated in improper activity during the admissions process.”

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The Georgetown University Office of Undergraduate Admissions, located in White-Gravenor Hall, conducted an investigative review of students involved in the college admissions scandal this year and subsequently dismissed two students from the university but did not comment on individual cases.

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Embrace a diversity of narratives about the American experience, New York Times bestselling author Tayari Jones said at a Georgetown University Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice event Oct. 23. Jones is the author of four fictional novels, including “An American Marriage,” which was selected by former President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey’s reading lists. “An American Marriage” is her most recent book and has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. Jones currently serves as a Cornell University professorat-large and an Emory University professor of creative writing. Jones’ protagonists in “An American Marriage” are black; however, they do not represent all members of the black community, according to Jones. “I came from an era of black writers who don’t have to write about being black persay,” Jones said. “Blackness is the condition of our characters but it doesn’t have to be the exact subject matter. The characters don’t feel like a representative.” Although Jones’ works examine the black experience, the author sometimes faces criticism for not highlighting issues such as racism in her books, she said. “White writers write stories about families and their emotions,” Jones said. “But I sometimes get negative feedback where they are like, ‘Too much family, not enough racism.’”

The Lannan Center hosted the reading and conversation with Jones in Copley Formal Lounge as a part of its reading and talks initiative, which invites authors to Georgetown’s campus to speak about their works. Aminatta Forna, the visiting chair of poetics and interim director of Lannan Center, moderated the event. “An American Marriage” tells the fictional story of a newlywed black couple from Atlanta that faces marital struggles after the husband is accused of rape and sentenced to 12 years in prison. When deciding on a title for the novel, Jones initially disliked “An American Marriage” because “American” improperly characterized her story of the young black couple, she said. “I’ve never been called an American, not without another word in front of it,” Jones said. “I’ve been called a black American. I’ve been called an African American.” However, the author later warmed up to the title after an unnamed mentor reminded Jones about her American right to assert her citizenship, according to Jones. “She said, ‘So many people made so many sacrifices so that you might have the full benefit of your citizenship, and part of the benefit of your citizenship is that you can claim it for yourself,’” Jones said. Jones originally hails from Atlanta, Ga. The majority of her books take place in the city, including “Leaving Atlanta,” a novel which tells the story of young Atlantans coming of age during

the Atlanta Child Murders, a series of homicides that claimed the lives of 28 black children and young adults between 1979 and 1981. Jones’ works explore the Southern experience, which is often wrongly judged by those from Northern states, according to Jones. “I realized how misunderstood the South is, particularly the urban South,” Jones said. “They think the South is shorthand for black misery, and so I think at some point I did consciously start writing against that myth.” Jones tries to respect the vernacular of minority groups in her writing because people who have had the English language imposed on them reshape the dialect in valuable ways, she said. “When I tell people I am an English professor, they think, ‘Oh ,she’s going to be correcting me all the time,’” Jones said. “All over the world, people have taken the language and bent it for their own needs, and I always try to honor the way people speak.” While Jones had not received significant recognition or awards before “An American Marriage” gained public acclaim, she always felt that she wrote without an expectation of how many people would recognize her work. “I think that my invisible girlhood prepared me for the experience of being an invisible writer in writer in America,” Jones said. “I’m really used to satisfying only myself. I never thought anyone would pay much attention to what I did, so I wasn’t disappointed.”

ESPN Panelist Calls for the Protection of Athletes’ Speech MARGIE CULLEN Special to The Hoya

Sports journalist and ESPN panelist Kevin Blackistone stressed the need to address free speech restriction in professional and collegiate sports at an event in the Baker Living Room Tuesday. Blackistone started his career at The Boston Globe as a city reporter before transitioning to the sports section, becoming an award-winning investigative reporter and sports columnist. He frequently appears on the ESPN “Around the Horn” program, which features roundtable discussions of sports news. The event, “Free Speech and Sports,” was hosted by the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University, a nonpartisan project launched in 2017 that seeks to highlight issues of free speech around the world. Spectators pay for tickets to sports games expecting the event to be a form of entertainment separate from politics, which causes the restriction of free speech for athletes, Blackistone said. “There are a lot of restrictions, constrictions in sports that you won’t necessarily find other places which is why when an incident, a moment does take place in sports, where someone exercises their freedom of speech, it becomes such a big story,” Blackistone said. “We’ve set this up as an arena, a stage, a platform where this is not supposed to take place, and where you have surrendered your right to freedom of speech in order to participate in these games.” Beyond the restrictions placed on professional players, colleges also prevent their athletes from speaking on particular issues, according to Blackistone. “They can get away with what they do in terms of restricting speech,” Blackistone said. “I’m always gleeful when I see an incident where they lose that control, where athletes, sometimes coaches, but often athletes will speak their mind, very intelligently about a particular issue, or take a stance that winds up moving a needle.” Blackistone highlighted Paul Robeson, a successful college football player at Rutgers whose career was effectively ruined after he praised the Soviet Union’s treatment of black descendants of slaves. He also recounted the story of Rose Robinson, an African American high jumper who refused to stand during the national anthem in protest of American foreign policy at the 1959 Pan American games. Her career was over soon after that, Black-

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Scientific evidence supports a moral opposition to abortion and contraceptives, anti-abortion activists said at the third annual “Lives Worthy of Respect” panel on Oct. 18. The “Lives Worthy of Respect” panel was hosted in Dahlgren Chapel by Georgetown University Right to Life and co-sponsored by the Edmund D. Pellegrino Center For Clinical Bioethics, Catholic Ministry, the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Women at Georgetown and the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life. The event occurred during Respect Life Month, a month dedicated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to celebrating life from conception to natural death. Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., delivered the event’s opening remarks and previewed this year’s panel theme: “To be Pro-Life is to be Pro-Science.” “At the heart of this evening, the world of science is not opposed to the world of faith, nor is the world of faith opposed to the world of science,” Gregory said. The main event featured three Catholic panelists including Sister Grace Miriam Usala (MED ’16), RSM; Dr. Marguerite Duane, adjunct associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown and board-certified family physician; and Maureen Condic, an associate professor of human embryology at the University of Utah who was appointed to the National Science Board, a scientific advisory body, by President Donald Trump in November 2018. Director of the Pellegrino Center Dr. G. Kevin Donovan, a professor of pediatrics at Georgetown, moderated the event. Science does not acknowledge a fetus’s humanity, allowing proponents of abortion rights to justify the practice, according to Donovan. “The discussion of a baby in a mother’s womb being aborted, once considered unthinkable, is now tolerable as long as the embryo is not thought of as a human person,” Donovan said. “This perspective sought justification in both a philosophy of personhood and a science of biology that did not recognize the embryo or fetus as a fully human person.” Society has conditioned women to think pregnancy is

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The Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Catholic Ministry and the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life cosponsored the third-annual “Lives Worthy of Respect” panel. a problem they should prevent through contraceptives instead of embracing life created during pregnancy, according to Duane. Abortion can be compared to racial discrimination, Usala said. Fetuses are considered inhuman on the basis of age in the same way black Americans were considered inhuman for their race, she said. “What makes someone less human? So we used to think that black people were less human because of their skin color,” Usala said. “So now do we think embryos as not being human because they’re younger? That’s the same logic that a man and a woman can both express, and I’m sorry you’re offended by that, but I’m using logic.” Several anti-abortion activists and politicians, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), believe in exceptions in the case of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. However, fetuses resulting from cases of rape are innocent and therefore should not be aborted, according to Duane.

“The victim is the woman and the criminal is the rapist, and if a child should result from the act, the unborn child is innocent,” Duane said. “Is killing her child undoing the rape? No — it is another form of physical violence that will only hurt her further.” The panelists agreed the scientific community unfairly criticizes their credibility because of their commitment to their antiabortion beliefs. While Condic did not expect much support from professional colleagues, she wasn’t prepared for the pushback she received when she shared her anti-abortion views, she said. “I was astonished at how unsupportive they were, how blatantly antagonistic and hostile they were.” Condic said. “At no point was it ever a religious argument. It was simply a factual argument, and yet, because the facts only support a conclusion that is consistent with the teachings of the Church, it was interpreted as religious proselytizing, that somehow I was bending facts.”

Students March in 1st National Period Day Rally ASHLEY ZHAO Hoya Staff Writer

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ESPN panelist Kevin Blackistone advocated for athletes’ free speech at a Free Speech Project event in the Baker Living Room on Tuesday. istone said. On the other hand, sports offered one of the first opportunities for African Americans to express their opinions in ways that they were not able to before Emancipation, Blackistone said. “Athletics became a way for the enslaved to purchase their freedom, and, in purchasing their freedom, also purchasing some of the liberties that other citizens in this country had been afforded,” Blackistone said. “One of those liberties, within the context of free speech, was the ability to publish and the ability to share your thoughts with others.” Despite this history of sports serving as an avenue for new liberties, sports are also a domain in which free speech can be heavily restricted, according to Blackistone. “When you talk about free speech and you talk about sports, you are really talking about an arena within society that may be more constrictive and restrictive on free speech than anyplace else,” Blackistone said. The intersection of free speech and sports has become more of a topic of discussion in recent years because of protests by professional athletes during the national anthem and other forms of political protest. Former San Francisco 49ers

quarterback Colin Kaepernick received backlash when he refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance in a series of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racism, which sparked a conversation about the participation of professional athletes in political and social issues. Earlier this month, Los Angeles Lakers player LeBron James became the center of attention because of his comments about Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, after Morey retweeted a slogan in support of the protesters in Hong Kong. Despite the recent attention athletes like Kaepernick have received for their outspoken views on free speech, they are not the first athletes to use sports as a form of protest, according to Blackistone. “Everyone thinks Colin Kaepernick was the first, but he’s not,” Blackistone said. “He’s really just part of a lineage.” Athletes are held to separate standards from the general public for what they can and cannot say, according to Blackistone. “Sports is a really tight space in which to exercise freedom of speech,” Blackistone said. “In fact, it’s almost an oxymoron because you really don’t have any, and those who exercise it suffer consequences the rest of us don’t.”

Georgetown University student organizations and clubs protested period poverty at the Washington, D.C. National Period Day Rally on Oct. 19. Period poverty refers to how economic factors can decrease access to menstrual products for certain individuals. The rally, organized by PERIOD, a global youth-run nonprofit that seeks to end period poverty and the stigma around menstruation, was held in honor of the world’s first National Period Day. At least nine Georgetown students attended the rally from campus groups including the Period Empowerment Project, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Hoyas For Immigrant Rights. About 500 people attended the rally, gathering in front of the United States Capitol, according to Politico. Demonstrators advocated for an end to the “tampon tax,” a sales tax on feminine hygiene products in 35 states, and campaigned for easy access to menstrual products in all public schools, prisons and shelters, according to rally attendee and Period Empowerment Project Treasurer Rhya Evans (NHS ’22). “It is unacceptable that ignorance of such a normal and crucial biological process is so widespread and an accepted norm,” Evans wrote in an email to The Hoya. “It is this lack of knowledge that perpetuates myths, stigma and normalizes things such as the tampon tax and limited access to menstrual products in places where they should be free.” The rally also focused on

the lack of access that migrants and refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border and in detention centers have to menstrual products, according to the event’s Facebook page. In a lawsuit filed by 19 states against President Donald Trump’s administration in late August, several migrant girls and women reported the lack of access to menstrual products in detention centers, with many being forced to sit in soiled clothing and reuse products. The rally’s emphasis on increasing immigrant access to menstrual products was crucial in highlighting the low living conditions and injustices that migrant women face in detention centers, according to HFIR activism co-leader Rimpal Bajwa (SFS ’22). “As an organization, we think that it is admirable that the rally decided to focus on the intersection of immigrant rights and menstrual justice because migrant women are often the most vulnerable to facing such injustice, which is why we think it is imperative to broadcast the narrative of migrant women and the horrifying conditions down at the border and in the detention centers,” Bajwa wrote in an email to The Hoya. The issue of period poverty was at the forefront of the rally. One in every four women struggle to afford period products due to a lack of income, and a citywide study on period poverty revealed that 46% of low-income women had to choose between a meal and period products, according to PERIOD. In addition to the rally’s focus on ending period poverty and destigmatizing menstruation, participants and speakers also represented the diversity and intersec-

tionality of the period poverty movement, according to Georgetown NAACP co-President Brody Cook (COL ’20). “We cannot continue to bystand a society that denigrates and marginalizes people who menstruate,” Cook wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Additionally, the event created space for leaders of color to provide nuance on how race and class can create compounding conflicts.” In an effort to provide students with sustainable menstrual product options, the Period Empowerment Project held its third reusable menstrual product giveaway Oct. 22. The collaboration with the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service included a giveaway of 16 menstrual cups and 15 reusable cloth menstrual pads. The Period Day protest brought awareness not only to the inequality created by the tampon tax but also to the need for more reproductive health education, according to Evans. “Beyond the inequities reflected and caused by the tampon tax, I hope people recognize the other issues such as the underlying stigma concerning all things ‘period’ and greater lack of reproductive health education,” Evans wrote in an email to The Hoya. Attending the rally also raised awareness of the need to continue to destigmatize menstruation at Georgetown, according to Cook. “I believe that we need to take the fight against the period tax and accessibility to products to Georgetown’s campus,” Cook wrote. “We can do this by collaborating with aligned organizations on campus, and building visible awareness.”

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Increase Awareness of Campus Women’s Well-Being Around the Food Insecurity, Panelists Say World Improving, Report Shows BETSY RATLIFFE Special to The Hoya

Increasing education on nutrition and budgeting for lowincome students is a tangible way to combat on-campus food insecurity, panelists said at an on-campus discussion Oct. 23. The event, titled “Food for Thought,” featured a panel of Georgetown University faculty, students and other activists in the Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall Multipurpose Room. Panelists agreed that university students would benefit from education on nutrition and budgeting when starting at Georgetown. University administrators should integrate an informative program about the realities of food insecurity on campus into new student orientation, according to panelist and Hoya Hub student assistant Liz Fieschko (SFS ’20). “On a student schedule and on a student mindset, when I was also handling classes and working 15 hours a week, it was more difficult for me to plan that plate and find a good way for me to access it,” Fieschko said. “It’s really, really important, almost in a way, if there was somehow, sometime during orientation — or some sort of week before — all first-years in the school, that we talk about realistically what that looks like.” The panel also featured Adanna Johnson, Georgetown’s associate vice president for student equity and inclusion; William Hockaday (COL ’20), a food insecurity advocate; Janis Jibrin, a Georgetown adjunct faculty nutrition instructor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies and Erin McGeoy, the CEO of Last Call, a food technology business that communicates deals on sur-

plus food from local eateries. The event was co-sponsored by GU Students Advancing Food Equity, a student group seeking to alleviate food insecurity on campus, and the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service. Julianne Licamele (COL ’21), president of Hoya Hub, a food pantry which offers Georgetown community members free, nonperishable food options, moderated the panel. McGeoy recalled her struggles with food insecurity as a student at George Washington University and called for more transparency from universities to their low-income students around the expenses related to meals while in college. “When I sat down at my living room table with my family and we were budgeting which universities we could afford, GW seemed okay, but it wasn’t the true price tag that was revealed,” McGeoy said. “Universities are businesses, too.” In response to food insecurity within the Georgetown community, students launched the Hoya Hub last year, located in the Leavey Center. The panel comes after the pantry doubled in size over the summer. The Meal Swipe Drive, a Hoya Hub-hosted event in which students could donate meal swipes students students facing food insecurity, also doubled in contributions this fall. Despite growing on-campus resources for students facing food insecurity, Georgetown could still better combat the issue on campus, according to Johnson. “This feels like a band-aid on a bullet wound,” Johnson said. “If we’re not thinking about the larger structures that create the need for a food pantry, we’re missing the point.”

In 2016, the Georgetown University Student Association conducted a survey that found 54% of the 351 students surveyed — two-thirds of whom received need-based financial aid — experience food insecurity at Georgetown because of the cost of food. Students especially struggle with food insecurity during breaks or other times when on-campus dining options are closed, Fieschko said at the panel. “I know from my experience of staying on campus during breaks that when everything would shut down, I would have to figure out where to go to get food as a first-generation lowincome student,” Fieschko said. Johnson and the Office of Student Equity and Inclusion are focusing on the needs of the most marginalized students on campus, particularly on the issue of food security, she said. “I believe that when we center those students’ needs, that everyone benefits,” Johnson said. 57% of black students and 56% of Latinx students at American universities report food insecurity compared to 40% of white and 45% of Asian students, according to a 2016 College and University Food Bank Alliance-sponsored study. Food insecurity is an intersectional issue worsened for certain students because of multiple other parts of their identity, according to Johnson. “I see very much the intersection between race, class, gender, and how issues of food insecurity, the presence of food deserts in various communities, is compounded by issues of race and gender,” Johnson said. “I thought that in coming to Georgetown, this would not be as significant of an issue as it is.”

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The event, titled “Food for Thought,” featured a panel of faculty, students and activists, who discussed the importance of education on nutrition and financial budgeting for students at Georgetown.

Georgetown Listserv To Relocate As Yahoo Groups Scales Back CONNOR THOMAS Hoya Staff Writer

Georgetown’s neighborhood Yahoo group and listserv, moderated by the Citizens Association of Georgetown, long a popular forum for community discussion, will move to a new host site, Groups.io, on Oct. 28. Forums across Washington, D.C., are doing the same in response to Yahoo’s decision to scale back its Yahoo Groups service. D.C.’s neighborhood forums date back to the nineties and were brought under the Yahoo Groups umbrella after the service began in 2001. The forums are public message boards that allow users to post text and photos and respond to one another. On Oct. 28, the group’s over 3,000 users will no longer be able to post content to the site, and Dec. 14 all content will be permanently removed. Users can still save their uploads or download their data before that date and have the opportunity to join the new forum on Groups.io, but the GeorgetownForum and others are already closed to the public. The forum is a valuable way for people in Georgetown to stay connected to one another, according to CAG Program Administrator Nancy Carpenter. “We’re just always looking for a way — like a forum — to connect our community and share information, and people really depend on it in a way,” Carpenter said in an interview with The Hoya. “I think when it goes away, they’re really going to miss it, and then they’re going to wonder where the new one is.” She said that CAG’s main task right now is getting people to sign up for the new forum, although it can be difficult to

spread the news. “It really is just a logistic issue of getting people to join a new forum as opposed to remaining on the one that’s going to close, and it’s easier said than done because you have to reach everybody and motivate everybody and provide signage and reminders, and they still have questions,” Carpenter said. “It’s unfortunate that it’s happening so quickly.” For as long as they’ve been operational, neighborhood forums in D.C. have accomplished an important public good, according to local Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Commissioner Kishan Putta. “I’ve been a member of Yahoo Groups listservs since the 90s,” Putta wrote in an email to The Hoya. “They have been extremely important and beneficial both to me and my neighbors/constituents. They truly are a form of recorded history of our neighborhoods and neighbors’ lives.” The forum has served him in more practical ways as a neighborhood commissioner, too. “As a Commissioner, I have often looked back to see what has been said or done before on local issues,” he wrote. “They say that those who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it, so I have always tried to look back and learn from the past.” D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department also operates crimespecific listservs, which email crime reports to residents, and forums for community discussion using Yahoo for different city districts, including District 2, which includes Georgetown. MPD said in a statement Oct. 17 that it will create nine new Google Groups in response to Yahoo’s changes. Moving to Google will im-

prove functionality, according to the Oct. 17 MPD statement. Posts will be publicly visible to any site visitor, and users can sign up with any email rather than needing a Yahoo email to access the old groups. “The MPD police discussion groups were originally created in Yahoo over 15 years ago to virtually share public safety information and strengthen our police-community relationships using technology,” the statement said. “This format should provide better quality of service than Yahoo groups, which have been faltering for some time.” The university’s Office of Community Engagement subscribes to the GeorgetownForum to keep up to date with neighborhood news and to share information about the university, according to Engagement Coordinator Karen Salmeron. “Our office engages the community regularly, so we think it’s important for us to stay up to date on what’s going on in and around the neighborhoods,” Salmeron wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Our office also will post on these neighborhood listservs. We have a weekly publication called, ‘Georgetown University Neighborhood News,’ which shares information regarding University and community happenings for our local neighbors.” To join the new forum, email georgetownforum+subscribe@ groups.io. Georgetown students can benefit by joining, according to Carpenter. “You would find out about community events, you would find about maybe crime that’s happening,” she said. “People post things that are for sale, people post so many things — a lot of information.”

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Nearly 60 countries have significantly advanced the wellbeing of women in recent years, according to the 2019 Women, Peace, and Security Index released by Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security on Oct. 22. GIWPS, which was launched in 2011 by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95), examines the roles of women in fostering peace and security and growing economies around the world. The 2019 WPS Index compares women’s inclusion, access to justice and security in 167 countries. The index evaluates countries on 11 indicators of women’s wellbeing and empowerment, including average years of education, financial inclusion, employment and parliamentary representation. Each country is given a numerical score for each subindex and geometric means are used to aggregate the subindex scores into the WPS Index. This year’s study saw Norway surpass Iceland in ranking the best for women in the second edition of the index, while Yemen is ranked the lowest. The United States moved up from 22nd to 19th place in the rankings. Women’s empowerment globally is heading in a positive direction, according to Jeni Klugman, managing director of GIWPS and lead author of the index. “This is good news for everyone, as the world is more secure, peaceful, and prosperous when women are accorded full and equal rights and opportunities,” Klugman wrote in a GIWPS news release. Notable improvements for women worldwide include greater access to financial services and education and legal reforms, according to the report. However, progress towards women’s economic participation is still slow. Around the world, 2.7 billion women remain legally restricted from working in the same jobs as men. The most valuable takeaway from the index is that countries should continue to strive towards bettering the lives of women, as the practice benefits society as a whole, according to Lead Student Research Assistant

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The 2019 Women, Peace, and Security Index was presented by GIWPS representatives Oct. 22 at the United Nations Headquarters. Elena Ortiz (SFS ’21). “Data analysis finds that higher (better) WPS scores are correlated with lower rates of current intimate partner violence, political violence against women, and infant and maternal mortality rates,” Ortiz wrote in an email to The Hoya. “These findings in particular underline the importance of multidimensionally measuring women’s wellbeing while reinforcing that when women are doing better, society as a whole does better.” The index was developed in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, an independent peace and conflict studies research institution, and was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The partnership between GIWPS and PRIO began in 2016, before the first index was released in 2017. The 2019 index was presented by representatives from GIWPS on Oct. 22 at the United Nations Headquarters. Before its official release, certain key findings were featured in National Geographic magazine. Ortiz wrote that she is glad that the index has garnered attention from these major institutions. “Being part of a project reaching heights such as National Geographic and the UN feels surreal,” Ortiz wrote. “When I first started working at GIWPS at the start of the summer, I had no idea that the Index would be featured in their publication, but I think it’s an extraordi-

nary opportunity for the Index to reach a wider audience, ultimately amplifying the powerful impact I know it will have.” The new index looks at women’s security on three levels, taking into consideration intimate partner violence, sense of security in the local community and organized violence. The WPS index differs from other existing indexes because it takes into account these security factors, according to Marianne Dahl, who led PRIO’s part of the project. “If you want to capture how it is to be a woman in these countries, you can’t only focus on inclusion and justice,” Dahl said in an interview with PRIO. “Those are important, but if girls don’t feel safe as they walk home from school, if women are often sexually abused or experience violence in their partnerships, that affects their lives in profound ways.” Ortiz hopes the WPS Index will inspire more countries to adopt policies addressing gender equity. “I hope it can be a tool for advocates in enlightening policy-makers on the critical importance of women’s wellbeing for everyone in society,” Ortiz wrote. “Especially for countries that have stagnated or fallen in the rankings since 2017, I hope this year’s results put pressure on them to step up their game and prioritize gender equality at the top of their national agendas.”

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Local Organization Will Activists Protest World Host C&O Canal Cleanup Bank Fossil Fuel Assets LUKE DIMARTINO Special to The Hoya

Georgetown Heritage, a nonprofit working with the Georgetown Business Improvement District, will host a volunteer canal cleanup Saturday, Oct. 26, as the broader Chesapeake & Ohio Canal revitalization effort continues. Georgetown BID is a nonprofit that maintains and beautifies Georgetown’s commercial district. Georgetown Heritage, a group associated with Georgetown BID, is working with the National Park Service on a multiyear plan to revitalize the C&O Canal, addressing safety and accessibility concerns to increase more recreation and shopping along the canal, according to the NPS. Georgetown Heritage is hosting monthly volunteer cleanups to maintain the canal during the current phase of the renovations. The volunteers keep the towpath and the canal clean, according to Jeffrey Nichols, executive director of Georgetown Heritage. Nichols assumed the director position in early September, after serving as the president and CEO of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. “We’ve been doing monthly canal cleanups where we walk along the mile section of the canal in Georgetown,” Nichols said in an interview with The Hoya. “It’s an effort to keep on top of an urban environment where there’s lots of trash and lots of opportunities for things to fall into the canal.” The C&O Canal operated from 1831 to 1924 as a passageway for cargo ships. The canal runs for almost 200 miles along the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland. An

NPS Environmental Assessment released this month estimates 1.2 million people walk along the canal yearly. The canal revitalization project is currently in the planning stage, although two of its locks, which raise and lower boats by controlling the canal’s water level, have recently undergone repairs. This month, the NPS assessment also found that the canal lacks accessibility, lighting, seating and recreational areas, in addition to having uneven and narrow paths. The Environmental Assessment outlines two solutions; the NPS-preferred choice, as denoted by the assessment, involves widening and paving pathways, increasing bridge accessibility, adding lighting and native riparian planting to stabilize the banks. The no-action alternative extends current management operations and provides comparison for the environmental consequences of the proposed renovations. The NPS is requesting public comment online until Nov. 16 and at a Nov. 7 public meeting. The report concluded that the NPS-preferred plan would involve temporary closures of the towpath and elevated noise levels, but construction-related noise could be kept within D.C. regulatory requirements. There is a broad desire for a rigorous planning process, according to Nichols. “Georgetown-based groups are very keen on finding a way to preserve and restore and enhance the C&O Canal in the mile-long stretch that goes through Georgetown,” Nichols said. “It’s really taking a very detailed look at the canal itself, the structural integrity, how it’s used by the public, what businesses think

about it and want to see happen.” Georgetown Heritage, NPS and city officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Georgetown in September to mark the completion of renovations on the canal’s first two locks. Workers tested the locks by letting water flow through them back in April, and now water is flowing permanently, according to Curbed D.C. In August, NPS broke ground on a new headquarters for their operations along the C&O Canal in Williamsport, Md. The canal itself stretches 184 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md. Eventually, NPS hopes to have boats running along the canal again, according to WAMU. The canal renovation project will potentially lead to local business growth, according to Nichols. “It can be a great addition to the mix of businesses in a linear park setting. We think that as this becomes more engaging and more welcoming for people, that will naturally spill out into people walking along various side roads, going into restaurants, going into stores,” he said. The renovations are an opportunity to enhance a forgotten part of Georgetown’s downtown, according to Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Commissioner Matias Burdman (COL ’21). “The C&O canal renovation is very significant in that it has the potential to transform the canal — a neighborhood asset that has traditionally been underutilized and poorly kept — into a central feature of Georgetown that serves students, residents, and visitors alike,” Burdman said.

New Civil War Museum Embarks on Expansion

CAROLINE HECHT Special to The Hoya

Activists protested in a “Stop Financing Fossil Fuels” demonstration outside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund buildings on Oct. 18 to object against the organizations’ investments in fossil fuel energy. The protest included about 50 people and was organized by The Big Shift Global campaign, a movement comprised of over 40 international sustainabilityfocused organizations, according to protest attendee and Georgetown University Fossil Free member Sadie Morris (SFS ’22). The demonstration occurred during the World Bank’s and IMF’s annual Civil Society Policy Forum from Oct. 15 to Oct. 18, where members met to discuss the overall progress of the organizations on topics including sustainable development and climate change. The protest aimed to emphasize the need for the two organizations to invest in sustainable renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, according to the event’s Facebook page. The demonstration, which began at Edward R. Murrow Park at the corner of H and 18th and proceeded past the World Bank, IFC and IMF buildings, shut down a portion of H Street, according to Morris. The protest featured six speakers from developing nations, who spoke out against the World Bank and IMF investing in non-sustainable, environmentally-harmful energy programs in their native countries, Morris said. “There was a series of speakers from the global south, and the general theme was that they were looking for autonomy over their land,” Morris said. “They didn’t want these businesses coming in that were making decisions that were not good for their land. They didn’t want fossil fuels to be built into the loans and the programs that the World Bank or IMF is setting up in their countries.” The protest stemmed from activists’ frustration with the World Bank’s history of funding fossil fuel initiatives in developing countries in Asia,

Africa and South America, according to Morris. The World Bank helped with financing or developmental policies of fossil fuel companies in over 45 countries from 2014 to 2018, according to research from environmental group Urgewald, which is cited in The Big Shift Global’s letter to the World Bank. However, the Urgewald research does not highlight the changes made to energy financing over the years, according to a World Bank Group spokesperson.

“You could actually see people pausing and taking notice. I thought that made it feel very SADIE MORRIS (SFS ’22) GUFF Member

“The Urgewald report is inaccurate in its claims about World Bank Group energy financing, and highly selective in the projects and investments it focuses on,” a spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “By focusing on all open projects in our energy portfolio, including legacy projects where financing was approved many years ago, the report does not reflect the substantial changes that have happened in our energy financing over the past decade.” Investment in fossil fuels allows powerful organizations to brush off the responsibility of addressing timely environmental issues, according to Morris. “Fossil fuels are not the future,” Morris said. “They are not a sustainable source of energy, so I think any kind of investment that’s made there is both a sign that we’re not really looking to the future and it’s not a sustainable decision for our decision-makers to be making for people and our planet.” Among the roughly 50 people who participated in the protest, many were college stu-

dents who are a part of the local chapter of the national organization the Sunrise Movement, which advocates for the Green New Deal, proposed legislation that aims to address climate change. The balance between college students and seasoned environmental activists created an energized environment at the protest, according to Morris. “Even though it was a smaller group, it was a group of people who are really invested in the issue and so there was a lot of energy and knowledge in the space,” Morris said. “The crowd of people was a good combination of younger college students and also people who are more involved in climate organizations in D.C. itself.” This week’s protest had a tangible impact, as protestors grabbed the attention of both pedestrians and those who work at corporations like the IMF, according to Morris. “You could actually see people pausing and taking notice. I thought that made it feel very productive, especially because the police let us stay so long outside the IMF in particular,” Morris said. “People were coming and going from meetings and they were stopping and watching.” The “Stop Financing Fossil Fuels” protest showcases how the younger generation is motivated to address the climate crisis, and more specifically, the need to move away from fossil fuels, according to GUFF core member Juliette Leader (SFS ’20). These protests demonstrate to institutions that environmental issues are important and need to be addressed, Leader wrote. (Full disclosure: Leader is a former member of The Hoya’s editorial board). “Student protests regarding the climate crisis broadly, and fossil fuel divestment specifically, are important because they are an opportunity to demonstrate that these are issues people are passionate about,” Leader wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Young people care about not being complicit in the climate crisis. It’s important for powerful institutions to understand that.”

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser helped break ground on the future African American Civil War Memorial Museum housed at the Grimke School in an Oct. 17 ceremony. The museum tells the stories of 209,145 members of the U.S. Colored Troops who fought for the Union during the Civil War — stories history has largely ignored, according to the museum website. The museum originally opened in 1999. In April 2011, it moved to the gymnasium of Grimke, a historic building near U Street named after prominent abolitionist sisters. With the school vacant since 2013, the museum decided to expand to take over the school’s space with the assistance of the D.C. government, according to museum founder and director Frank Smith. “The building belonged to the city and they simply sold it to us,” Smith said in an interview with The Hoya. “It is a historic building that was built in 1870, that over the years has undergone great disrepair and neglect. So we’re bringing life back to a historic building and also providing a permanent home to the museum.” The expansion will create more space for exhibits, including primary and secondary sources from thousands of African American veterans and their descendants. Growing the museum continues the mission Smith and his colleagues began over 20 years ago. “The first thing was to correct the great wrong in history, which was to ignore the contributions of these African American soldiers in ending slavery and keeping America united under one flag,” Smith said. “They were pivotal to those things, and yet they got very little respect in history, literature, movies or any of the usual things that we use to celebrate and honor it.” The additional goal of the museum, Smith said, is to contribute to the U Street corridor’s rejuvenation. In 1968, riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. caused mass property damage and a dozen deaths in the area, and Smith hopes the museum can help contribute to the neighborhood’s ongoing growth.

Everlane Brings Denim Pop-Up to Georgetown NICK VERNI

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The site for the new African American Civil War Memorial museum was expanded at a ceremony attended by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. “We’ve had a small museum for years; we’ve always wanted to enlarge it — enlarge the story — and also to help improve the neighborhood,” Smith said. “We’re claiming this historic building and turning it into a community resource.” Smith noted the museum’s numerous outreach efforts, such as bringing more children to museums, as an example of the way the museum seeks to uplift not just the neighborhood, but also D.C. as a whole. “We have a study that says that children who visit museums do better in school and life than ones who do not, but it says also lower income kids don’t go to museums,” he said. “We have a team of people who go into the schools, work with teachers, arrange with them to bring the students to our museum.” He hopes that the museum will impact every D.C. student. “My goal is to, within five years, have every student who goes to a D.C. public school to have had at least one visit to this museum and several other museums,” Smith said. “A rising tide ought to lift all boats. If

going to museums helps kids, and we got the best museums in town, we ought to have it at their schools.” The project will also create 100 new jobs and 68 homes on the property, including 21 affordable units, according to an Oct. 17 news release from the Office of the Mayor. “The redevelopment of the historic Grimke School showcases how we can build more housing and create more jobs in a way that preserves our culture and history,” Bowser said in the news release. The project at Grimke began as a statue monument to the soldiers on U Street, which Smith said helped to ultimately increase the scale of the endeavor. “It’s pretty easy to go from a monument to a museum when you have the attention of the public, and the descendants are bringing in their documents, their artifacts, their uniforms,” Smith said. “We have paid honor where honor was due to the heroic efforts of African American soldiers, and their white colleagues, as were most of the officers that led them into battle.”

Online clothing retailer Everlane, which emphasizes a highly transparent production process, is hosting a denim pop-up shop at 1259 Wisconsin Ave. from Oct. 17 to Oct. 27. Instagram-based brand Everlane chose to solely feature its jeans, which typically cost about $70, for purchase at the pop-up shop. The first floor showcases a variety of designs and cuts, with styles for both men and women available. The second floor serves as a small event space which featured local style bloggers Sarah Phillips, Sylvia Colella and Rebecca Gallop earlier in the week, according to Washingtonian. Everlane is a primarily directto-consumer online brand, although it has four brick-andmortar stores across the country. After launching online-only in 2010, it gained traction with a streamlined aesthetic and marketing that prioritizes openness of its factory costs and ethics. Everlane partnered with Verb, a marketing and event planning company, to design and create the small pop-up shop and staff the event. The two-story storefront was refurbished and highlighted by bright interior design for the store’s short run. The pop-up shop’s marketing design serves both Georgetown’s market and Everlane’s goals, according to Verb Coordinator Lou Becker, who is supervising the Georgetown pop-up. “A lot of our customers are used to online shopping. So, this gives them an opportunity to try things on, feel the fabric, see what sizes and cuts they are, which can be difficult when you only do online shopping,” Becker said in an interview with The Hoya. “The benefit of coming in with a pop-up like this is that people can get a little more comfortable with our products.” This event is not Everlane’s first pop-up in Georgetown, as the company hosted a cashmere pop-up last fall, Becker said.

This is not the first event that the company has hosted, Becker added, pointing out a similar cashmere pop-up store that the company hosted last fall. “They’re becoming more common as we have more companies that are based online. Everlane started online, and then became brick-and-mortar,” Becker said. “Everlane has been here a couple times, once with a cashmere truck, this is a denim truck, so they’re always kind of focused on one aspect of the line.” The pop-up helps online retailers like Everlane market themselves to students who may not otherwise know who they are, according to Lauren Oliveri (COL ’22). “I rarely order clothes online, except those stores I know well, because you can never really tell how the item will look until you get it and try it on. I think a popup shop makes a lot of sense with the way the world is moving online because it’s a lot cheaper than a permanent storefront for some lesser-known companies,” Oliveri said. “I had never heard of

Everlane before a friend invited me to come but I’ll probably look at it online in the future.” Pop-up shops have become a popular marketing tool in D.C. and other major cities. They are typically publicized online in advance to build excitement and publicity. Brick-and-mortar locations help drive business to online retailers, according to CNBC. Other companies have experimented with distinct brick-andmortar concepts in Georgetown recently. Capital One opened a coffee shop-bank concept that doubles as a communal workspace on Wisconsin Avenue in September. The Wisconsin Avenue location, which is blocks away from the university and in the heart of the Georgetown shopping district, has drawn a range of customers, Becker said. “The price point is definitely attractive to a lot of people because they’re super affordable and they’re really high quality,” Becker said. “It’s a great spot for us. We’ve had a great response so far.”

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Three local style bloggers each visited and highlighted the popup store on Wisconsin Avenue in the first days of its operation.

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GU Takes Down DePaul, Suffers Sweep Against Golden Eagles TIAN SHI

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The Georgetown volleyball team took on DePaul University and No. 12 Marquette University over family weekend in Washington, D.C., with these two conference games both proving to be difficult for the Hoyas, as Georgetown took the win in the fifth set over DePaul before losing all three sets to Marquette. After last weekend, the team’s overall record improved to 12-10, with a 2-6 Big East conference record. In the first set against DePaul (10-10, 2-6 Big East), the two teams were neck and neck up until the game point, when DePaul lost the set because of an attack error. The next set proved even more difficult for the Hoyas when DePaul took a mid-game lead, establishing a seven-point difference between itself and Georgetown toward the end of the game. However, the Hoyas were able to reduce the deficit, eventually losing 25-17. The Blue and Gray entered the third set immediately leading over DePaul and sustained the lead until the game point. DePaul fought

back, finishing the game with three consecutive plays, but Georgetown still took the set 26-24. In the fourth set, Georgetown trailed DePaul until mid-game, when they battled, and DePaul took the competitive fourth set 25-23. Georgetown took a quick lead in the final set, ending the game 15-9. Senior outside hitter Iva Vujosevic led the team with 29 kills, followed by freshman right side Peyton Wilhite with 15 kills and sophomore outside hitter Elissa Barbosa with 11 kills. Barbosa also finished with three blocks and 13 digs behind while sophomore defensive specialist Jessica Cusi led the Hoyas with 21 digs. Riding off a big win, the Hoyas prepared for another conference game against Marquette the next day. Georgetown had a tough competition ahead, with Marquette’s overall record of 17-3 and a 7-1 Big East conference record. Starting the game, Marquette took a slight lead over Georgetown, which it maintained until the end, winning the game 25-15. The second set did not do much to hold off the loss, with the Golden Eagles leading the entire

time and finishing with a 15-point lead over the Hoyas of 25-10. The Blue and Gray fought back in the last set with renewed vigor, trailing Marquette by three points until a mid-game substitute by Georgetown. Marquette exploded for the rest of the game, finishing 25-17 with a total of one hour and 18 minutes of play. Vujosevic had another solid game, finishing with 11 kills, an ace, a block and three digs. Freshman middle blocker Kace Boland led the team with two blocks, while Plutnicki finished with a block, 16 assists and three digs. Cusi also added another nine digs to her record for this game. Despite the bad loss for Georgetown to Marquette, the Hoyas faced off with one of their perennially toughest opponents in the Big East. The last time Georgetown won against Marquette was in 2010, in a five-set face-off in McDonough Arena. Georgetown will travel to the Midwest next weekend to take on Xavier University on Friday, Oct. 25, in Cincinnati before competing against Butler University on Sunday, Oct. 27, in Indianapolis.

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Marquette University players were all over the place, with outside hitter Kaitlyn Lines, 9, and middle blocker Elizabeth Orf, 23, in great position to block this Georgetown spike.

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Senior forward Paula Germino-Watnick puts a move on an opposing defender as she attacks the box in a recent match. Germino-Watnick has recorded six goals and eight assists so far, both second on the team.

Georgetown, Butler Reach Draw in Scoreless Affair RACHEL GAUDREAU Hoya Staff Writer

No. 11 Georgetown held Butler University scoreless through double overtime Sunday to earn a draw, remaining undefeated in Big East play this season. The game remained even throughout play at the Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl, with both teams finding opportunities on net but ultimately failing to capitalize. Following the tie, Georgetown (10-2-3, 4-0-2 Big East) remains first-ranked in the Big East Conference and Butler (8-4-3, 3-1-2 Big East) holds on to the second spot. Georgetown defeated Butler during each of their two matchups last season and looked to extend the winning streak this year. From the whistle, possession switched sides several times, allowing the Hoyas to tally three shots and the Bulldogs to record two in the first 45 minutes of play. The match proved physical between the two teams, with Georgetown drawing 11 fouls and Butler drawing 16 fouls over the course of the match. A promising opportunity came for the Blue and Gray in the 43rd minute with a shot from senior forward Paula Germino-Watnick. Germino-Watnick powered the ball toward the net but sent it just wide of the post, sending the Hoyas to the break without a goal. Germino-Watnick went on to record six shots in the game, accounting for the majority of the

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Hoyas’ offensive chances in the 110 minutes of play. Georgetown earned another look on goal at the end of regulation in the 89th minute. Both a corner kick and shot culminated from the team’s final play, with sophomore forward Boo Jackson sending in a shot that was ultimately blocked by the Bulldogs’ defense. Butler answered Georgetown’s offensive pressure with several chances of its own, including one in the 54th minute of play. The chance arrived when Butler’s offense broke away down the right side of the field and crossed it into the feet of Butler forward Katie Soderstrom. Soderstrom slipped the ball toward the net unchallenged by the Hoyas’ defense but was ultimately stopped by freshman goalkeeper Anna Leat. Butler followed up the play with another shot in the 56th minute that traveled wide of the net. Another opportunity arose for the Bulldogs in the opening minutes of the first overtime. Butler’s offense sent a free kick into the box, finding the head of senior forward Annika Schmidt, who directed the ball toward net before it was deflected. Butler midfielder Celia Gaynor won the deflection and sent another shot back in, resulting in the ball ricocheting off the crossbar. Despite such chances for both sides, the teams exhausted all 110 minutes of double overtime play without finding the back of the net. While Georgetown outshot

Butler 11-9 on the day, the Bulldogs put five shots on frame to the Hoyas’ one. Georgetown had the advantage in corner kicks, earning seven to Butler’s two. Leat has since earned recognition as the Big East Freshman of the Week for recording her sixth and Georgetown’s eighth shutout of the season with five saves in the match. Leat now holds a 0.755 save percentage on the season and has an average of 0.91 goals allowed per game. She has now been recognized as the Big East Freshman of the Week three times this year. Head Coach Dave Nolan expressed satisfaction with the game, despite his team not securing a victory in the end. “This was another hard-fought game on the road against one of our biggest conference rivals. It’s not an easy surface to play on but we tried our best to make something happen,” Nolan said in an interview with GU Hoyas. “Unfortunately, the two teams canceled each other out, and the key was to try to score on a set piece and make sure they didn’t do likewise. We finished stronger but couldn’t find that moment.” With the draw against Butler, Georgetown extends its unbeaten streak to 10 games and tallies its second consecutive draw following a 2-2 tie with Creighton University last week. The Hoyas next head to Chicago to face DePaul University on Thursday at 3 p.m. in another Big East matchup.

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Hoyas Place 33rd in Head of the Charles Real Madrid Needs Zidane To Leave BRENDAN DOLAN Hoya Staff Writer

The Georgetown men’s and women’s rowing teams had another strong performance last weekend when they traveled to Cambridge, Mass., for the 55th Head of the Charles Regatta. This regatta is the largest in the world, as nearly 11,000 rowers compete each fall. Compared to the rest of the field, the Hoyas finished with a total of 316.99 points, which put them 33rd out of hundreds of contestants. The first place team, Yale University, tallied a total of 821.98 points. Altogether, the teams had four boats in the water for their third regatta of the season. The Head of the Charles consistently marks one of the biggest weekends of the year for a number of rowing clubs, collegiate and otherwise.

On the men’s side, just one boat raced for the Hoyas. In the men’s lightweight fours, Georgetown placed 10th out of 16 universities. The team’s final time of 16:41.077 put it about 41 seconds behind first-place finisher University of Pennsylvania, earning the Hoyas nearly 70 points. This boat was comprised of freshmen Gavin Ramm, Justin Taliaferro and Eli Raboniwitz, as well as sophomore Matthew Turner and senior Ryan Zuccala. The women’s team demonstrated strong performances in the lightweight eights and the club fours, placing third. The lightweight eights earned the Hoyas 97.128 points with a time of 16:10.108, just under three seconds behind winner Princeton University. This boat featured seniors Anna Kemmerer and Caroline O’Brien, juniors Monica Collins and Mia Tsudis, soph-

omores Caroline Sterman and Anastasia Sukharevsky, and freshmen Claire Shriver, Ana Orriols and Bailyn Prichett. The other third-place finish came from the Club Fours, a boat which competed in a field of 55 competitors. With sophomore Katharine Zarate as the coxswain, seniors Chloe Schalit, Grace Donabedian and Grace Calavan and freshman Graciella Leon put together a time 4:22.607. The Hoyas came in just behind the women of Duke University, which compiled a time of 18:37.474, and the University of Tennessee, with a time of 18:45.960. This result, however, was deemed invalid after this Georgetown boat was disqualified. For Georgetown’s last showing on the weekend, a final time of 4:17.830 was sufficient for the Hoyas to

earn a 10th-place finish in the Lightweight Fours. Leading for the Hoyas in this race was junior Taylor Villante, sophomores Claire Miller and Hannah Weingartner, and freshman Francesca Donovan. The men's lightweights will return to the water Oct. 27 for the Princeton 3-Mile Chase in Princeton, N.J. The heavyweights will also row in this race after competing in the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta just a day earlier in Philadelphia. The women’s team will also head to both Philadelphia and Princeton, as the lightweights will race on both days, while the openweights will be in the water Saturday. This race will be the last regatta of the season for the lightweights, as only the openweights will compete in the Head of the Occoquan on Nov. 2 in Fairfax, Va.

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The Georgetown rowing team celebrates with their boat following a strong performance in women’s Club Fours, a race in which the Hoyas placed third out of 55 boats, recording an official time of 4:22.607. The Hoyas placed 33rd overall at the Head of the Charles race.

Dean Hampers Sometimes, trying to relive the past does not end well. For Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane, currently with the club for his second managerial stint, this lesson has never been more apparent. Zidane’s second term with Real has been an abject disappointment, failing to capture any of the magic of his first stint as manager from 2016 to 2018. During his first run as manager, he was named “The Best FIFA Men’s Coach,” as Real embarked on a stretch of dominance over the Union of European Football Associations Champions League. When Zidane voluntarily stepped down in 2018, he likely recognized that an aging roster without striker Cristiano Ronaldo would require more work than he was prepared to undertake. Upon returning to the club one year later, his instincts appear correct. Real’s struggles this season have extended to both domestic and continental play. In Spain’s La Liga, the club has fallen behind a Barcelona team that has been missing its centerpiece, Lionel Messi, for most of the season due to injury. Last weekend, Real lost 1-0 to Mallorca, a club that finished fifth in the second division of Spanish football last season. The picture is perhaps even gloomier in the UEFA Champions League, in which Real has historically established its dominance. The team was throttled 3-0 by Paris Saint-Germain, another elite European club, in a game in which Real did not register a single shot on target. That calamity was followed by

a 2-2 draw to Club Brugge, a Belgian team that has never made it out of the group stage in the history of the Champions League and was destroyed 5-0 by PSG. Although the team rescued an unconvincing 1-0 win against Galatasaray on Tuesday, a group stage match against a Turkish squad with one-tenth the market value of Real should be a virtual guaranteed victory for one of the most decorated clubs in Europe. The fact that this game was discussed as a “make-or-break” point for Zidane’s second tenure as manager shows how far off the deep end things have gone. Real banked on continuing Zidane’s legacy again following a disappointing 2018 to 2019 season, but, after a summer of spending and the promises of a new-look roster, it is apparent that Zidane is not the man fit for the job. Eder Militio’s and Luka Jovi’s signings brought the potential for more youth and dynamism in the squad, but Zidane has regularly kept both players on the bench. Eden Hazard, the club’s prized $112 million signing from Chelsea, has struggled to find his form in Zidane’s system, registering just one goal in seven games for Real. Amid public feuding with Real star Gareth Bale — whom Zidane unsuccessfully tried to sell to Chinese team Jiangsu Suning this summer — a disappointing club performance and an overall dysfunctional squad, the manager is rightfully on the hot seat. With the news that former manager Jose Mourinho — whose accomplishments at Real included a La Liga record for most points in a season — would return if Zidane is fired, the time to act is now. Real cannot allow Zidane to continue to mismanage this immensely talented roster for a moment longer. Dean Hampers is a senior in the College. FREE KICK appears online and in print every other Friday.

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Last Saturday’s showcase was a perfect event for club boxers from Georgetown and other universities to display their talent in a new way.

rate than in previous matchups. On defense, the Hoyas were more successful in defending the run, although running the ball proved largely unsuccessful on both sides of the ball. Toward the end of the quarter, Lafayette’s freshman running back Jaden Sutton broke away with an 86yard touchdown run that could not be stopped by the Hoyas’ senior defensive back Leon Agee. The play tied the game 7-7 at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the first drive began with Johnson attempting to complete a pass while falling down, which did not land successfully. The Hoyas managed to punt to the 45-yard line, which allowed the Leopards to make a drive. Lafayette found few ways to advance the ball, as Georgetown’s defense dominated on the ground against the run. However, the Hoyas also found little luck in running the ball and ultimately turned over the ball. On its next drive, Lafayette attempted a field goal but picked up a holding penalty. It was able to complete a

44-yard field goal to bring its lead to 10-7 with seven minutes and six seconds left in the second. Toward the end of the second quarter, sophomore running back Herman Moultrie III, who had run 33 yards in the game up to this point, was injured with what appeared to be an ankle issue. As one of the team’s bigger presences on rushing, his absence was felt on the field afterward. Following this injury timeout, Johnson managed to complete a touchdown pass from fourth and goal to Stakely, making the score 14-10 Hoyas. The goal was the freshman’s first receiving touchdown at Georgetown, though he had one rushing touchdown against Catholic University earlier in the season. Head Coach Rob Sgarlata expressed admiration for Johnson’s ability to show leadership and drive the ball to finish out a strong offensive first half. “Gunther does a great job managing the game especially down the stretch,” Sgarlata said. “We had a 13-play, 7-yard drive to end the first half, and any time you can score going into halftime [with] the engineered

drive like that, it takes a lot from the quarterback.” The second half was dominated by defensive plays and found little offense on either side of the ball. A last minute decision by Johnson to throw the ball led to a lofty interception by Lafayette’s junior linebacker Major Jordan. However, Lafayette’s freshman quarterback Keegan Shoemaker could not complete passes against the secondary, as Georgetown’s defense proved strong against the running and passing game in this quarter. Johnson’s decision-making in this quarter proved slow, but with limited receiving options, it was difficult for him to make plays. Lafayette’s last drive of the quarter proved successful for the Hoyas as junior defensive back Cameron Deen was able to deflect a pass from Shoemaker, followed by an interception by junior defensive back Ahmad Wilson to give the Hoyas possession going into the fourth quarter. The Hoyas allowed their second sack of Johnson in the fourth quarter, as well as a missed field goal by Lafayette that could have produced a

1-point deficit for the Leopards. Lafayette finished with possession of the ball, arguing that two seconds were left off the clock as it had the ball on the opposing 42-yard line. However, the players stormed the field and the game ended with a Georgetown victory by a final score of 14-10. Sgarlata seemed optimistic looking toward the future for the Hoyas, particularly on defense. “We had some guys step up who haven’t played a lot throughout, and [I am] really looking forward to what Coach Gordon continues to do with his defense,” Sgarlata said. “The biggest thing moving forward for us next week will be finishing,” Johnson said. “There were times when we were third and two, fourth and two, and we didn’t finish. But we got the win, and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters.” The Hoyas will be on the road next week in Bethlehem, Pa., to face Lehigh University (3-3, 2-0 Patriot League). They will return to Cooper Field on Nov. 2 for Senior Day against Colgate University (1-7, 0-2 Patriot League).

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This match was followed by Vice President of Club Boxing Avery Rodriguez, who took a last minute spot up against Knowledge Boxing’s Martin Smith. The referee stopped the fight to protect Rodriguez before it could end in favor of Smith, but the Georgetown community rallied for Rodriguez with chants of “Hoya Saxa” and fellow club members shouting, “He’s so slick!” As always, Smith and Rodriguez hugged at the end of their bout. After an intermission period, sophomore Rachel Thomas faced off against Trinity Fung of the University of Michigan. Thomas won the fight, and proceeded to have great pride in the hard work she put into the bout. “The fight was favorite thing I’ve done all year. I had a great opponent; we both worked our butts off,” Thomas said in an interview with The Hoya. This match was her first fight. Thomas proceeded to discuss her appreciation for the hard work which they put into boxing on a consistent basis. The last fight of the afternoon was a fight between sophomore Marcux Dreux and Michigan’s Jordan Newland. Dreux was one of the boxers who had taken

part in intramural spars with other colleges last year, and his fight had quickly become a tight and tense match. His teammates and spectators were excited to see that intensity return for his first official fight, and it did. Dreux won his bout as well amongst three separate chants of “Hoya Saxa.” Most of Georgetown’s boxers start off in their freshman year without any experience in boxing, according to Price. They have a coach who attends Monday spars during competition season, but otherwise Club Boxing relies on older, more experienced boxers teaching new boxers from scratch. The club has never applied to become an official Georgetown team, as the tryout process would potentially weed out or scare away the very people they want to introduce to boxing. The pedagogy and emphasis on the development of inexperienced boxers has also motivated this hesitation to apply for team status. Price was proud of all the effort put into this event by her group. “We are so proud of them and all of the work they put into this - the sprints, the extra training practices, the diets to make certain weights, and the courage to get up into the ring,” Price wrote.

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tage, with the team relying heavily on its physical strength and height more than precise skills, Xavier found its striker six yards from net off a long throw-in. However, his header was off target and went over the crossbar. The two teams would go to the half with Georgetown leading 1-0 and outshooting Xavier 9-2. After the intermission, the Musketeers started the second half well with lots of upfield passing, looking to gain a foothold in the match. To counteract this, Wiese began subbing early in the second half. “Today, we didn’t start the second half well. Xavier can get a grip on a game like that and you have to start absorbing. Today we were able to say that ‘I didn’t like how the first 10 minutes of the second half went, so I can make a change,’” Wiese said. In the 57th minute, the Musketeers had their best

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net, though, and the shot went wide. In the 74th minute, the Hoyas had their best chance of the half to double their lead following a corner. The corner was played in toward junior defender Rio Hope-Gund, who flicked the ball to senior defender Dylan Nealis. From only a few yards out, Nealis had a fantastic chance for a tap-in to give the Hoyas a 2-0 lead. However, Xavier goalkeeper Matthew Rosenberg made a quick reaction save for the Musketeers to deny Nealis and keep the game at 1-0. In the 86th minute, Rosenberg once again came up clutch for Xavier to stop a flurry of Georgetown chances. Dodson hit a shot that was saved by Rosenberg diving to his right. The rebound went to junior midfielder Jack Beer, but his shot was directly at Rosenberg who once again made the save. The game concluded with the Hoyas earning a hardfought 1-0 victory in which

they controlled a large majority of the game and prevented Xavier from having many chances going forward. “Xavier is always a really tough opponent for us and they match up in a way that makes it hard for us, and I thought our guys fundamentally did a good job over 90 minutes of minimizing their strengths. They’re great on set pieces, and we didn’t concede a single corner,” Wiese said. Overall, Georgetown outshot Xavier 24-7 and had nine corners while limiting Xavier to zero. Nikopolidis made four saves for the Hoyas and picked up his sixth win of the season in net. This game also marked the fifth shutout in a row for Georgetown, defensively. Georgetown will next travel to New York to face St. John’s on Wednesday in a pivotal Big East matchup that will decide who is in the driver’s seat for the Big East regular season championship during the final few weeks of the season.

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opportunity to equalize the match after a quick run made their midfielder Derrick Otim free in the box. Otim’s shot was powerful but straight at sophomore goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis, who made a solid save. The rebound bounced straight to another Musketeers attacker who hit a second shot that sailed far over the crossbar. “Goalkeepers have been really steady. The goalkeepers have handled their business. There was a scary moment today, and Giannis handles it,” Wiese said. After the first 10 minutes of the second half, however, Georgetown once again started gaining control of the match. In the 64th minute, Dodson took a shot from 18 yards out that came close but went just wide of the net. In the 70th minute, Fischer played a ball from midfield that found Montes in the box six yards out from goal. Montes was unable to direct his volley from a tight angle onto

referees started consistently calling penalties whenever a defender’s stick even came near the puck carrier’s hands. Until that point, the game had tolerated slashing the hands of the puck carrier, which, of course, makes handling the puck and shooting very difficult. In a particularly gruesome moment of live television, Sidney Crosby, often the victim of these strikes at the hands, nearly hacked off Marc Methot’s finger with his stick in 2017. These slashes have now been virtually eliminated from the game. Greater enforcement of this rule coincides with increased scoring. However, and seemingly paradoxically, the players’ improvements in skills such as speed and puck shooting have actually made the game more dangerous in some ways. Last week, Joel Eriksson Ek blocked shots from one of the league’s hardest shooters, Montreal Canadiens defenseman Shea Weber. His shots, augment-

ed by improvements in hockey stick technology that improve the transfer of energy from the player through the stick to the puck, will cause Ek to miss weeks of play because of a leg injury. It is challenging to the safety of the game when a routine part of it — shot blocking — causes injury on a regular basis. These shots are dangerously fast. Shea Weber is reported to be unable to practice his shot because he fears injuring his own teammates. The fastest shot -ever recorded is by Zdeno Chára at 108.8 mph at the All-Star Skills Competition, but players, especially defensemen, are bringing these increasing speeds into games, forcing goalies to react even quicker and making it more likely than ever for slap shots from the blue line to reach the back of the net. Players themselves are also getting faster. In 2017, Connor McDavid scored a goal against the Calgary Flames while moving at around 25 mph. For frame

of reference, I would not want to get into a car accident at those speeds with a seatbelt strapped on and airbags deploying, let alone just have a body-on-body collision. Also, there are only 11 feet between the goal line and the boards, in which McDavid must decelerate. Speed is not the only danger in hockey. When the league was working to reduce fighting, dangerous penalties and reckless behavior, it was simple: get the players to stop punching each other in the face and using their sticks as weapons. Now, however, increased skill brings its own danger that is deeply embedded with what is, in my opinion, the most exciting form of the game, with more skill and strategy than ever before. The NHL describes its own game as “controlled violence.” The nature of the game, however, is that it is uncontrolled, which complicates efforts to make it safer. Hockey has some difficulty even measuring puck possession.

Neither team has really sustained control of the puck, so the possession is proxied by measuring shots taken for and against a team while a particular player is on the ice. The NHL has many tactics to continue the path toward safety. Many of its steps to enforce penalties have been effective, and the game is likely the safest it has ever been on paper. The NHL should continue to prioritize the elimination of head injuries. The fact that Crosby, the game’s biggest star, has suffered at least four concussions is unacceptable — head injuries have the most serious consequences of any injury. The NHL should also increase investment in technological advances in equipment. No one can ask McDavid to skate slower or Alexander Ovechkin to take it easy on his shot, but equipment and rules can protect players and preserve the excitement of watching the most skilled players in history play one of the greatest games.

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Men’s Soccer Georgetown (12-1-1) vs. Marquette (6-6-1) Saturday, Oct. 26, 12 p.m. Cooper Field

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Sophomore wide receiver Joshua Tomas catches a pass on a slant pattern while sprinting against the Lafayette Leopards at home Oct. 19.

Georgetown Tops Lafayette 14-10 The Georgetown football team faced Lafayette College on Cooper Field to collect its first conference win of the season. The game happened during Parents Weekend in front of a sold-out crowd Saturday, Oct. 19 and was a strong bounceback for the Hoyas following a loss to Fordham University on homecoming weekend. In the first quarter, sophomore defensive back Delano Salgado collected his second interception of the season, allowing senior quarterback Gunther Johnson to take over for the Hoyas (5-2, 1-1 Patriot League). He passed off to freshman running back Joshua Stakely, who failed to advance the ball forward, and after an incomplete pass to sophomore

wide receiver Joshua Tomas, he was sacked while trying to make a decision against the 0-7 Lafayette Leopards. On fourth down, Johnson was able to advance the ball for a first down and ultimately completed an eight-yard pass to senior wide receiver Michael Dereus for a touchdown. This game marked 1,500 receiving yards for Dereus during his Georgetown career. Johnson continues to have a passing percentage above 50% in every game this season. This game featured more of a downfield passing offense than previous home games this season. Johnson’s scrambles proved largely ineffective, but he completed successful passes throughout the game, also running screen passes at a less frequent See LAFAYETTE, A11

The No. 13 Georgetown men’s soccer team stayed in the hunt for a Big East regular season championship when it beat the Xavier University Musketeers on Saturday at Shaw Field. As has been the norm at home this season, the Hoyas (11-1-1, 4-0-1 Big East) got off to a quick start, putting the Musketeers’ backline under pressure. The coaching staff emphasized how the starts of games helped Georgetown maintain its current hot streak. “We have been able to come here and start games well pretty consistently, and that makes

a huge difference for where we are. It’s a home venue. The guys are comfortable here,” Head Coach Brian Wiese said. After concluding its nonconference schedule against Maryland, Georgetown returned to Big East play as it hosted Xavier (5-6-1, 1-4-0 Big East). In the 12th minute, junior midfielder Jacob Montes played a through ball that split two Xavier defenders and sent senior forward Achara in on net. However, Achara’s shot from the left side of the box went wide of the far post. Moments later, though, the Hoyas were able to grab an early lead courtesy of Montes. A ball crossed in from the right wing and found senior mid-

Georgetown University’s Club Boxing group held its annual Club Boxing Showcase on Healy Lawn on Oct. 19 for the first time in four years, a tradition that had previously been held on the Harbin Patio. Club Boxing began to prepare for the event this summer because it had to set up a sanction from its formal league, the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association, as well as organize vendors, get an official doctor, pay for officials and make sure its boxers would be registered with the league. Because of miscalculations in the process for receiving university money, Club Boxing

was given less than half of the budget that it was awarded last year, which it discovered in early October, according to Club Boxing President and senior Mackenzie Price. “I appealed to the board less than 2 weeks before our showcase to reevaluate our budget. They thankfully gave us back the funding we needed,” Price wrote in an email to The Hoya. She later mentioned that Interhall Council generously donated $500 to help with planning costs when the club had asked for $400. Ritmo y Sabor, a Latinx dance group on campus, the Midwest Club and the Georgetown Chimes also offered their services. The Chimes sang their rendition of the National

lead throughout the rest of the first half. Junior forward Derek Dodson sent a cross in from the right wing that went through the box untouched and nearly found Achara at the back post. Minutes later, freshman forward Will Sands hit a cross in from the left wing that arrived at the foot of sophomore forward Zach Riviere, about six yards out from goal. Riviere’s ensuing header was low and powerful but hit the outside of the post and bounced out of play. In the 38th minute, the Musketeers had their first real chance of the game by way of a throw-in. Using its size advanSee XAVIER, A11

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fielder JB Fischer in the box. Fischer’s shot was well-saved by the Musketeers’ goalkeeper, but the rebound found its way to Montes, who had an easy tap-in to give the Blue and Gray a 1-0 lead. When describing his sixth goal of the season, which leads all Hoyas, Montes said in an interview with The Hoya that it was a relatively simple goal, exemplifying his confidence. “I was just in the right spot at the right time. JB had a really good hit and the goalie made a nice save and I was there and got the tap-in,” Montes said. After the opening goal, Georgetown continued to search for another and had many chances to double its

Junior forward and captain Derek Dodson, 9, jogs back after an aggressive downfield run in a recent Georgetown home game. So far this season, Dodson has recorded five goals and six assists, and his 16 points pace the Hoyas at this point in the season.

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We are so proud of them and all of the work they put into this — the sprints, the extra training practices.”

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Anthem, Ritmo performed for a halftime intermission and the Midwest Club cooked tres leches and empanadas for free. Georgetown University Student Association President and senior Norman Francis Jr. took up the role of emcee for the afternoon, sporting a Club Boxing sweatshirt and leading Georgetown students in chants throughout the bouts of the afternoon slate. The University of Maryland was initially supposed to participate but had to pull out the Monday before the event because of registration issues with the League. Club Boxing reached out to a local gym, Knowledge Boxing, which was willing to fill in. The afternoon began with

sophomore Julia Sullivan’s first fight, facing off against Nicole Duan of Georgia Tech. It was a developmental bout, meaning that each round was one minute and no winner was announced. Sullivan, who has been training with Club Boxing since her freshman year, said of her match, satisfied with the fight as a whole. “It was a lot of fun. When you’re boxing your adrenaline kind of goes crazy,” Sullivan said. The second bout was between Georgia Tech’s Andres De Leon and Knowledge Boxing’s Antonio Brothers, and De Leon took the win for Georgia Tech by decision after the final bell. See BOXING, A11

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Georgetown Club Boxing hosted its annual showcase on Healy Lawn last Saturday. The event, which took place on Harbin Patio for the last three years, saw beautiful weather, large crowds and contributions from several on-campus groups. Visit us online at thehoya.com/category/sports

ON THIN ICE

Maddy Welch

NHL Goal Spike Must Lead to Real Increase in Safety Scoring is up across the four major North American sports: The NBA has seen an explosion of attempts and a spike in accuracy of three-point shots, more home runs are hit now than were hit during the steroid era of the MLB ago and even the NFL has experienced historically high-scoring seasons as strategies shift from defense to offense dominance. The NHL has also been enjoying its share of the scoring pie in its own distinct way, which has been extremely clear during the first few weeks of this young season. While the scoring boom has led to lots of excitement around the league, the players must still be protected at all costs, and the burden falls on the league to ensure that player safety remains a priority as all of the attention goes to the goals. Players throughout the NHL have been growing more talented and improving their training strategies. Teams have deployed analytics to begin joining the modern era that other sports have long inhabited, led by the MLB under Billy Beane and Bill James and followed closely by the NFL and NBA. Archaic thinking about the game, including ignoring statistical trends about how

to train and where on the ice to run plays, is also dissipating. The role of the enforcers, who are unskilled hockey players but talented, all-terrain boxers, has been all but eliminated from the game, with teams electing to store scoring talent on their fourth offensive lines. The NHL itself deserves some credit for this evolution. The modern game has awarded smaller, more agile and more skilled players the opportunity to demonstrate their talent during the last few seasons. Even though the league has made trivial rule changes to increase scoring for skaters of all sizes — such as mandating that goalies wear slimmer pants so more pucks can fit in the net — they have also made substantive changes to prioritize the safety and ability of the most skilled players the league has ever seen. The leaguehas made changes to rules and officiating styles to ensure the skaters stay safe and productive. The referees have also played a role in the scoring spike. At the beginning of the 2018 season, See WELCH, A11