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Artistic Accountability
In this week’s issue, join the conversation around whether to separate art from the artist.
EDITORIAL Bystanders must play a role in protecting Georgetown students from sexual assault.
NEW EXECUTIVE BOARD GUSA named 13 new members to its executive branch this week.
OPINION, A2
NEWS, A7
Men’s Group Files Graduate Students to Vote on Unionization Title IX Complaint Against University KATRINA SCHMIDT Hoya Staff Writer
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cent of undergraduates in both two- and four-year institutions are male. The Washington, D.C. The complaint, filed to the chapter of the National Co- Department of Education’s alition for Men, a nonprofit Office for Civil Rights on organization that advocates Oct. 3, lists 18 university-affor men’s rights, filed a filiated institutions through Title IX complaint alleging which, it claims, Georgethat Georgetown viotown Unilates Title versity disIX or that, criminates according against men to the comin its hirplaint, vioing practices late Title IX and by supthemselves. porting orGeorgeganizations town has that provide not yet been outreach to formally nowomen. tified of the “Georgecomplaint town Univerby the Ofsity is in viofice of Civil NATIONAL COALITION FOR MEN lation of Title Rights. If IX because the OCR it offers redeems the sources, funding, fellow- case a violation of Title IX, ships, and scholarships that the university will be notiare available to women only, fied, according to Campus even though men are a mi- Safety Magazine. nority both nationwide [42 Title IX protects individuals percent] and at Georgetown from discrimination based on University [44 percent],” ac- sex in education programs cording to the summary of that receive federal funding, the complaint. according to the Department According to the U.S. De- of Education website. partment of Education, nationwide in 2018, 43.56 perSee MEN’S RIGHTS, A6 Hoya Staff Writer
“The fact that these scholarships and programs are endorsed as ‘Women’s’ is sufficient, in and of itself, to infer disparate treatment.”
Georgetown University’s nearly 1,100 graduate student assistants are set to vote on whether or not to unionize, after a two-yearlong effort by the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees for university recognition of a graduate teaching assistant labor union. The election, to be held between Nov. 5 and Nov. 8, is being moderated by the American Arbitration Association, a neutral third party. Eligible students will be able to vote at Lauinger Library, the Intercultural Center, Regents Hall or the Preclinical Science Building between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day of the election. The ballots are secret, and graduate students eligible to vote include doctoral, graduate or student research assistants; doctoral, graduate or student teaching assistants; and doctoral teaching associates. Graduate student assistants, as they are called collectively, must either currently be holding one of these positions or have held one within the past two semesters to participate in the vote. If GAGE wins the election, the organization will gain collective bargaining rights on stipend amounts, wage rates, benefits, hours and similar matters, according to the April 2 election agreement between the GAGE and the university. GAGE would not gain bargaining rights on academic issues like tuition rates or degree requirements. Graduate student workers are not currently represented by a union and are paid at varying rates. “We value our graduate students, who are an important part
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Georgetown University’s graduate students will vote on whether to unionize in an election held between Nov. 5 and Nov. 8, the culmination of a two-yearlong effort by the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees. of our academic community,” Provost Robert Groves and Executive Vice President for Health Sciences Edward Healton wrote in an Oct. 22 universitywide email. “Georgetown is committed to continuing to enhance the resources provided
MPD Investigates Duke Ellington Teacher WALKER MILLER Special to The Hoya
The chair of the literacy and media department at Duke Ellington School of the Arts is being investigated by Washington, D.C. police after allegations of sexual assault against a minor were raised Oct. 14. The school placed the teacher on leave and the Metropolitan Police Department is conducting an investigation into the allegations. Ellington Principal Sandi Logan sent a letter Oct. 17 informing Ellington parents about the accusation of sexual misconduct by the staff member that allegedly occurred in 2013, according to The Washington Post. The accusation first materialized Oct. 14, when a former student emailed the Ellington administration, according to Kristen Metzger, a public affairs specialist for MPD. The student alleged that, in 2013, the department chair sexually assaulted a female student, who was at the time underage. “The Duke Ellington School officials then notified MPD’s Youth and Family Services division and this is currently under investigation,” Metzger wrote in an email to The Hoya. “At this time MPD does not have a name of the victim and cannot confirm the name of the suspect. MPD will look
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A teacher at Duke Ellington School of the Arts has been placed on leave during an investagation into sexual assault allegations. into all allegations and address this accordingly.” Logan referred inquiries about the accusations to D.C. Public Schools. DCPS Press Secretary Shayne Wells identified the suspect as the head of the literacy and media department at Ellington in an email to The Hoya. Wells emphasized that DCPS can play only a limited role in
the investigation because of the special status of Ellington in the school district. Duke Ellington School of the Arts, unlike the District’s other public high schools, is operated as a joint partnership between DCPS, The George Washington University, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Ellington Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit which helps raise
money for the school. “While Duke Ellington School of the Arts is part of D.C. Public Schools, it has a unique governance structure and its teachers are not represented by the union or considered city employees,” Wells said. “DCPS will support Duke Ellington as needed throughout the investigation.” The Oct. 14 sexual assault allegation against a staff member is not the first DCPS has seen this month. On Oct. 10, police in Montgomery County, Md., arrested Rudy A. Gonzalez, a DCPS music teacher at Shepherd Elementary School, on charges of second-degree rape, according to The Washington Post. The survivor alleged that she went to Gonzalez’s home for citizenship lessons, after which he served her drinks and she passed out. She was found unconscious the next morning in a Wendy’s parking lot. Gonzalez has been placed on leave, according to Wells, and was released on bail Oct. 12. DCPS has faced criticism for failing to inform parents of the reason behind Gonzalez’s absence in Shepherd Elementary Principal Jade Brawley’s initial letter, which was sent Oct. 8, according to WJLA. A second letter sent Oct. 16 notified parents of Gonzalez’s involvement in “an alleged incident” but did not provide details on the specific allegations.
to graduate students.” Douglas McRae, a graduate worker and fifth-year doctoral candidate in the department of history, said that the election will allow graduate students’ voices to be heard. “This election is important for
graduate workers because it is our chance to bring our collective voice to bear on our working conditions,” McRae wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We provide value to the See GAGE, A6
VARGAS ON MEDIA INFLUENCE
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Jose Antonio Vargas spoke Thursday about the influence of the media on national perceptions of immigrants without documentation.
NEWS
OPINION
SPORTS
Change the Catholic Church The church’s culture must fundamentally change to solve its sexual abuse crisis, panelists said Wednesday. A7
Catching Up on Sleep Construction constantly disrupts the sleep of Darnall students. One resident demands compensation from Georgetown. A3
Big East Champions The Georgetown women’s soccer team clinched the Big East regular-season title with its win over Butler on Sunday. A12
NEWS Alumnus Kidnapped
OPINION Pushing Past the Pictures
SPORTS Historic Win
Mohammed Dewji (MSB ’98), a member of the MSB Board of Advisors, has returned home after being kidnapped. A5 Published Fridays
Meaningful study abroad experiences require students to engage further than a photo op. A3
The Georgetown football team defeated Lehigh last weekend for the first time since 1925. A12 Send story ideas and tips to news@thehoya.com
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OPINION
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018
THE VERDICT
EDITORIALS
Intervene for Safer GU Community This editorial discusses sexual assault. Please refer to the bottom right of A3 for on- and off- campus resources. “I don’t think about it.” When Jackson Katz, co-founder of harassment prevention organization Mentors in Violence Prevention, asked men what they did every day to guard against being sexually assaulted for his 2006 book “The Macho Paradox,” he rarely heard any other answer. As sexual assault pervades national and campus news coverage, the Georgetown University community must extend Katz’s question in order to explore how students can protect each other to keep the people around them safe. This aim is not meant to shift the full burden of preventing sexual assault to bystanders. Our community must continue to reaffirm the importance of consent and take steps to prevent sexual assault in every way it can. Yet bystanders can also play a vital role in making our campus safer. Cisgender men are at much lower risk of sexual assault than those of all other genders and sexualities. Katz’s work proved they are also less aware of preventive behaviors than other groups, whose fear of assault pervades seemingly innocuous situations. “Always check the backseat before getting into a car,” female respondents said. “Don’t get on elevators with a lone man or group of men.” While Georgetown offers several resources to help students travel safely — most notably Georgetown University Police Department and SafeRides — the existing services have logistical flaws and long wait times. Even when these systems are operating at their best, they cannot be relied on to consistently protect the Georgetown community from all instances of assault. In many common situations, friends and other bystanders can offer more reliable support. Students should be ready and willing to help their friends, especially those who have previously expressed concerns for their own safety. This support can take simple forms: walking a friend home without making them feel like a bur-
den by asking for help or offering to talk to them on the phone until they get home. To further promote a culture of safety, bystanders should be willing to intervene in situations when someone appears to be getting harassed or potentially in danger. Even conversations that appear merely uncomfortable or tense from a distance can become dangerous. Small changes like these ones require little to no effort or sacrifice from others and can make members of the Georgetown community more comfortable. The most important precaution for Georgetown students — particularly men — to take is developing an awareness of the threats their peers and friends face every day. Just two weeks ago, a sexual assault occurred at 5:30 p.m. near the 3400 block of P Street, according to a universitywide email from GUPD sent three hours after the assault. For many women and marginalized communities on campus, this threat is already well-known. A Georgetown student was assaulted during the day, in full view of a residential neighborhood near campus. Incidents like these are why many students, especially women, feel unsafe walking alone, regardless of place or time. Fourteen incidents of stalking, harassment, assault and sexual assault have been reported in Darnall Hall, the Leavey Center, Village A, the Intercultural Center, Alumni Square, Healy Circle, Village C West, Kennedy Hall, McCarthy Hall and on the 3600 block of N Street since January, according to GUPD records. A student was also assaulted at El Centro on Wisconsin Avenue, according to their op-ed published in The Hoya last week (“A Survivor Will Never Forget,” The Hoya, Oct. 19, A3). All spaces must be protected; students play an important role in keeping their community safe. Through enhanced understanding of the problem of sexual assault and a willingness to actively support others in the Georgetown community, students can foster a safer environment on and off campus.
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All Bark, No Bite — A woman in Oklahoma City, Betsy Reyes, recently caught her dog sneaking out and begging for food at a nearby McDonald’s drive-thru. Reyes wrote on Facebook that her dog is a “gold diggin a-s b---h that be acting like she’s a stray so people will feel bad for her and feed her burgers.”
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Mac and Chick — Chick-fil-A is currently offering macaroni and cheese at six of its branches as part of a limited-time test of the dish’s popularity. The testing will help the company decide whether to make the dish a permanent addition to the menu.
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Four Eyes — On Tuesday, truck driver David Cheshire became the first person to receive “permanent” implantable contact lenses. The lenses, which are implanted behind the iris and in front of the natural lens, were approved by the Food and Drug Administration last month.
Trick-or-Trial — An ordinance in Chesapeake, Va., declares that any person over the age of 12 engaged in trick-or-treating is subject to a fine of up to $100 and potentially six months in jail. The city claims it will not be “actively seeking out” violations of the age limit.
Chick-or-Treat — To avoid infecting people with salmonella, Atlanta’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked chicken owners to refrain from dressing up their chickens for Halloween. Louisiana resident Stephanie Morse remarked, “Can you even imagine not being able to dress up your chickens?”
EDITORIAL CARTOON by Adam Semprevivo
Compensate for Housing Failures Faulty fire alarms. Disruptive, clamorous construction. Severe miscommunication from university officials to endangered student residents. Georgetown has proven unwilling or unable to address a wide array of housing and maintenance problems, many of which detract from residents’ health and safety. While these problems are not new to the Georgetown community, the degree to which they have interfered with the lives of students across campus merits not only an earnest effort to address the issues, but also compensation for affected students. For nearly three hours late on the night of Oct. 9, over an hour on the night of Oct. 10 and during the afternoon of Oct. 16, residents of Nevils were evacuated when the residential hall’s fire alarms went off, disrupting residents and fostering frustration with the university (“Circuit Failure Prompts False Nevils Fire Alarms,” The Hoya, Oct. 26, A5). None of these alarms were scheduled and none were in response to an actual emergency. Faulty fire alarms are hardly a new or surprising problem for Georgetown. In the Southwest Quad, five fire alarms were unnecessarily set off because of electrical issues between Jan. 19 and Feb. 16. The university is fully aware that fire alarms have caused problems for students before but has evidently failed to eradicate faulty alert systems from campus. The fire alarms in Nevils had substantial negative effects on residents. “Aside from the safety concerns, the alarms that occurred over two consecutive nights were a huge disruption to many of us,” Nevils resident Charlotte Hine (MSB ’19) said. “I had a job interview the following day. Others had early classes, midterms and work commitments. One of my roommates had to attend her grandfather’s funeral later that morning.” The university did not explain the faulty fire alarms to students until an Oct. 25 email sent to residents of East Campus, which blamed the problems on an “electronic circuit switch fail.” This kind of communication must be clear and immediate, but for two weeks, students had no indication that the problem was being addressed. The university claims to have attempted sending an email to East Campus residents Oct. 11 and is “investigating why residents did not receive the initial message,” according to an email to The Hoya
from university director of strategic communications Rachel Pugh. Nevils residents, like all other students who live on campus, pay Georgetown in exchange for shelter. The university failed to hold up its end of the deal: One fire alarm would have been a frustration; repeated instances imply an undue delay in addressing a clear problem. Georgetown should refund those students for the two nights of Oct. 9 and 10, when the fire alarms disrupted students’ sleep. These funds, which would amount to just over $100, could even be returned through Georgetown services, like money for printing and laundry or GOCard credit more generally. Students in other residence halls have faced similar intrusive problems throughout the semester. Residents of freshman residence Darnall Hall have battled late-night construction consistently since their August move-in, as explained by Elisa McCartin in her Oct. 25 op-ed (“Reward Darnall for Enduring Construction,” The Hoya, Oct. 25, A3). In this case, Georgetown has again failed to supply students with the fundamental basics of housing: a place to sleep soundly. For the consistent harm done to their health — and the university’s apparent unwillingness to ensure its contractors respect the sleep schedules of students — McCartin’s request of better odds in the housing lottery for Darnall residents as they find their sophomore homes is certainly justified. Just as Nevils residents deserve to see their housing payment equalized with the service they were provided, those living in Darnall can fairly expect a balance of their future housing with the poor conditions they were slotted into this year. The consequences of inadequate housing carry beyond short-term health and safety: Conversations with students revealed many also lost trust in the university system supposedly designed to keep them safe. “I’m scared that if there is ever a fire, people are going to die,” Marshall Webb (SFS ’20) said. Georgetown failed Nevils residents by failing to check the efficacy of their fire alarms, and Darnall residents by failing to enforce restrictions on when construction can occur. These problems have put students health in danger, and both merit compensation from the university for the subpar housing accommodations offered to them this year.
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Molly Cooke, John Curran, Nabil Kapasi, Erica Lizza, Philip Tsien, Emma Vahey
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HOYA HISTORY: October 29, 1976
Tuition Increase Prompts Disappointment A $230 tuition increase for upperclassmen and a $280 increase for incoming freshmen have been recommended for next year by the Main Campus Finance Committee. MCFC Chairman Donald Herzberg called the tuition differential proposal “a major departure … This is a reflection of the committee’s realization that tuition increases have been regular and sizable and those students already attending should be given something of a break.” Herzberg first proposed the tuition differential recommendation. MCFC student member Lou Kallas expressed disappointment with the size of the tuition increase. “I’m not proud of that budget at all… I’m disappointed that we had to write the budget before we asked the hard questions that we ought to,” Kallas said. The MCFC’s proposed budget also recommends that the present level of enrollment in the four
undergraduate schools — 4,600 — be maintained. This year’s enrollment target had been 4,565 students, and some university administrators had argued that maintaining the 4,600 enrollment would place undue strain on freshman admissions next year. Graduate school enrollment would be increased by 50 students under the plan. Graduate tuition would also increase by $250. Herzberg termed the graduate tuition increase figure a “compromise” between the freshman and upperclass undergraduate tuition hikes. The proposed budget also includes an 8 percent increase in financial aid allocations designed to offset the $200-plus tuition increase. With the increase the university will be offering over $1.5 million in student aid next year. Earlier in the year, the MCFC Subcommittee on Tuition had recommended that there be no increase in tuition until “all pos-
sible economies” had been explored. In the area of economies, the subcommittee had suggested the elimination of expense accounts not related to academics and fundraising and the freezing of personnel levels in administrative areas at the level of June 30, 1976. In its deliberations Tuesday, the full committee did not consider the subcommittee’s proposals, although Herzberg noted that the committee would devote the spring semester to the discussion of long-term priorities. “One of the major responsibilities of this committee is to find ways of reducing costs,” Herzberg said. “One of the areas [we’ll look at] is athletics … You can’t just superimpose the Recreational Complex on the existing athletic structure without sizable tuition increases.”
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018
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VIEWPOINT • McCARTIN
Hannah Urtz
Pursue Authentic Exchange
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few weeks ago, I was hiking with my classmates in Petra, the Bedouin site of ancient Nabatean ruins and a renowned UNESCO world heritage site in Jordan. The narrow canyons and spectacular rock carvings were dotted with vendors selling everything from bottled water to miniature replicas of the site. Marketing their goods, many of the men would often call out to us as we passed by. “Authentic Bedouin photo opportunity! Come drink some tea and take a photo — only 10 dinars!” At first, I was intrigued, thinking back to the glamorized shots I had seen on Instagram of tourists — somehow much less sweaty than I was — appearing to have a jovial time with a Bedouin man dressed in traditional garb. The photos I had seen portrayed genuine human connection: Worlds merged while overlooking a spectacular view of 3,000-year-old ruins. However, listening to the man selling the illusion of an experience and watching other tourists staging the perfect shot, I paused. It was all too contrived. While orchestrating scenarios for a story or photo is often acceptable, time spent studying abroad should be driven by authentic cultural exchange. Without deliberately pursuing meaningful interactions with locals, students in new countries are missing out on a huge part of the experience. As students in foreign lands, we must consider how we interact with our host country and strive for valuable interactions with locals. Meaningful cultural exchange can shatter stereotypes and misconceptions about a place and make one feel significantly more comfortable in their new and foreign environment. It deepens the abroad experience, making it richer and more worthwhile. A lack of authentic cultural interactions has underscored my time here in Jordan. I often feel disconnected from the locals I came to learn from and wonder how I can effectively seek out and participate in these experiences without being exploitative or derivative. By and large, many of my “organized” cultural exchange activities for study abroad students, like soccer matches between Americans
and Jordanians and discussions on differences between our societies, have fallen short of the mark. They often feel disingenuous; U.S. students sit patiently, waiting for their randomly assigned “cultural buddy” to expose the underbelly of Amman over a lunchtime conversation. I’ve often had to remind myself that I am not entitled to an all-access pass to Jordanian culture and that I must put in the effort to build relationships that allow me to feel integrated into my temporary home. In my quest for this kind of connection, I have triumphed in certain arenas. For instance, at my internship, where I work with several Jordanians and conduct myself primarily in Arabic, I thrive. A friendly office atmosphere and several spontaneous lunch meetings in which I had easy and natural conversations have left me feeling energized and fulfilled, as well as truly connected to the country in which I live. I have also failed, like at my program’s organized dinner with Jordanians where I spent the entire time talking with my U.S. friends when the conversation with our designated “buddy” fell flat. However, not all experiences devoid of pure cultural understanding are necessarily exploitative, and many are certainly worth doing. The tourism industry has been a huge boon for the Jordanian economy in the past decades, and it can play an important role in facilitating a dialogue through greater exposure to the country. As I finish out the remainder of my semester, I will try to chase the fulfilling moments of sincere connection. I will maintain an open mind in new conversations with unfamiliar faces, and I’ll let myself struggle and flourish in the discomfort of it all. While we may be able to buy our way to a semblance of meaning through a watered-down version of these experiences, we certainly won’t be able to stumble into them. Relationships with locals abroad, just like all others, require work. And perhaps fewer photo ops. Hannah Urtz is a junior in the School of Foreign Service. AMMAN IT appears online every other Thursday.
While every residence hall seems to suffer from problems like mold and leaks, the constant disruptions due to the construction project have made Darnall particularly unlivable this year.
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Reward Darnall for Enduring Construction
ike clockwork, every Monday through Saturday at 7 a.m., I am woken up by the deafening sounds of drills, trucks and bulldozers from the MedStar construction project happening right outside my second-floor window in Darnall Hall — and those are the lucky days. Several times throughout the semester, the construction has occurred in the middle of the night, making a normal night’s sleep almost impossible. While every residence hall seems to suffer from problems like mold and leaks, the constant disruptions due to the construction project have made Darnall particularly unlivable this year. Georgetown should give each Darnall resident a 0.5 housingpoint boost for the 2019-20 school year to compensate them for a year’s worth of disruptions. The construction often happens outside of reasonable hours. Washington, D.C. construction law states that construction without special permits must occur between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Yet this statute has been violated multiple times. Most recently, construction commenced at 3:33 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, even though the university did not give students due notice. On Thursday, Sept. 11, students spotted bulldozers working at 11:36 p.m., which contin-
ued through 3 a.m. the next day, according to messages in the hall GroupMe. Even if the construction company has legal permits to work outside the typical timeframe, Georgetown should inform Darnall residents prior to the nighttime work. Further, any work at these hours is inherently disruptive, regardless of legality or prior notice. In its defense, the Office of Residential Living claimed in a meeting last week that the construction company did not notify it in advance about the work on Sept. 11 and 12. However, I continued to be woken up by the construction for the following few days after this incident, indicating a continued lack of communication between Georgetown and the contractors responsible for keeping students awake. Even construction during the normal 7-to-7 window of operation is a severe impediment to Darnall residents’ daily lives. Being woken up at 7 a.m. six days a week severely limits the amount of sleep students are able to get, which has disastrous health and educational consequences. The mere fact of the construction is enough to warrant compensation because it makes a good night’s sleep or a full day’s work nearly impossible for anyone in Darnall.
When Darnall residents were first informed about the construction project — just four days before move-in day — Residential Living promised there would be “minimal noise from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, and 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. on Saturdays.” This claim has proven to be untrue. All the university has done to remedy these conditions is host an ice cream social to discuss the construction and provide free earplugs and noise machines to affected students. These measures are wholly insufficient to address the issue. The construction can be heard through earplugs and noise machines; an ice cream social does not make up for an entire year of little sleep. Georgetown should recognize the level of inconvenience Darnall students face and award corresponding compensation. Georgetown has a duty to provide adequate housing conditions to all its students, which it has failed to do in Darnall. Since the university has limited flexibility in what it can do about the construction project, it should offer each resident of Darnall an additional 0.5 housing points for the 2019-20 school year to make up for the insufferable conditions. An additional 0.5 housingpoint boost would ensure Darnall residents higher housing points
relative to other rising sophomores, but upperclassmen — who receive one or two baseline housing points based on their year — would be entirely unaffected by this proposal. The university might say this proposal could be perceived as unfair to students living in other residence halls, as a Residential Living official argued to me in a meeting last week. However, other students have not faced the same level and consistency of disturbance as students in Darnall have as a direct result of being adjacent to a large-scale construction project. While other dorms may have problems that arise during the year, Darnall residents must face these same problems and the construction every single day. Georgetown has not only a duty to correct for the violations that have occurred and the daily strains construction places on students but also an obligation to compensate Darnall students who have paid an equal amount for housing and have received severely subpar conditions. By giving Darnall students additional housing points, Georgetown can begin to fully address the impediments Darnall students face on a daily basis.
ELISA McCARTIN is a freshman in the College.
GLOBETROTTING FROM D.C.
VIEWPOINT • O’CONNELL
Reconsider Misdirected Sanctions
Support, Mentor Women in STEM
Victoria Liu
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hen the United Nations or the United States imposes sanctions against a regime [...] it does not intend to create unnecessary hardships for innocent people,” former Secretary of State and current Georgetown University professor Madeleine Albright wrote in a 2000 paper about economic sanctions. “Good intentions, however, do not automatically translate into good results.” Sanctions often lead to a misalignment of intentions and results. In the case of Iran, sanctions on humanitarian services disproportionately hurt innocent Iranian citizens, who largely make up the moderate base opposing the Iranian government. As November approaches, the administration of President Donald Trump should reconsider its stances on sanctions on humanitarian goods such as food, medicine and aviation equipment against Iran. On July 14, 2015, Iran, the P5plus-1 nations — China, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and Germany — and the European Union reached agreement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran deal. The deal lifts existing economic sanctions while opening up Iran’s nuclear program to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Counter to Trump’s criticisms of the JCPOA, the deal successfully curbed Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity. Based on the most recent IAEA report released in August, Iran has complied with verification standards of the deal. On May 8, 2018 — three years after agreeing to it — the United States withdrew from the Iran deal.
The Trump administration cited the deal’s ineffectiveness in bringing peace and stability. As replacements for the deal, the Trump administration worked with regional allies to contain Iran both economically and militarily. The administration also began implementing two rounds of sanctions on Iran’s purchase of U.S. dollar banknotes, transactions of petroleum and the energy sector. In August this year, the United States reinstated the first round of sanctions to target Iran’s gold trade and automotive sector. The second round of sanctions is scheduled to go into effect in November. Sanctions on humanitarian services represent a dilemma in U.S. foreign policy: Though the United States intends to pressure Iran’s political leaders to contain Iran’s military activities, humanitarian sanctions harm the basic welfare of innocent middle-class Iranians. These people are the backbone of the national protests in late 2017 and early 2018 that opposed government corruption and Iran’s military overtures. This group represents the exact demographic the United States should stand by. Sanctions should be an alternative to war, not a form of war. Exerting pressure on the Iranian regime cannot be justified by inflicting harm on Iranian people. The United States loses its moral legitimacy when it imposes sanctions on humanitarian services in on Iran. If the United States continues to enact sanctions in November, the vicious cycle of the Iranian economy in 2012 could reappear. From 2010 to 2015, sanctions on banks prevented Iranians from buying international services. Iranians were also unable to access life-saving drugs and medicines, and Iran confronted an increase in energy costs, unemployment spikes and shortage of basic necessities. Similar issues may re-emerge in a worse form along with these sanctions. The Iranian currency, under the United States’ August sanctions, quickly plunged this summer. From May to October of this
year, the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Iranian rial, based on statistics from Trading Economics, lurched from around 37,830 rial per $1 to 42,000. The currency’s free fall will only exacerbate the ordinary citizen’s suffering. In fact, sanctions on humanitarian services exacerbate economic inequality — already a serious problem in Iran. As of 2016, the top 10 percent of Iran controlled 48.5 percent of pre-tax national income, while the bottom 50 percent only saw 16.8 percent of the total national income, based on the World Inequality Database. The rich upper class has access to the international market through foreign investments, dual citizenship and green cards. Humanitarian sanctions produce no harm to this privileged group, but disproportionately hurt the middle class and the lower class. Sanctions also create a chilling factor that hinders businesses’ willingness to even legally trade with Iran. Though Iranian-Americans have legal protection to transfer funds to people inside Iran, few banks want to take on risks to complete the wire transfer. On May 8, the National Iranian American Council, an NGO dedicated to promoting understanding between the United States and Iran, accused Bank of America of discrimination against customers of Iranian descent. Specifically, the NIAC cited incidents when customers faced frozen accounts and asset withdrawal. Sanctions bear clear and inherent humanitarian costs on civil rights and protections. “We stand in total solidarity with the Iranian regime’s longestsuffering victims: its own people,” Trump said in an October 2017 address. “The citizens of Iran have paid a heavy price for the violence and extremism of their leaders.” Now is the time for the United States to demonstrate its solidarity. Victoria Liu is a freshman in the School of Foreign Service. GLOBETROTTING FROM D.C. appears on-
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or many women at Georgetown University studying hard sciences like physics and computer science, isolation can encompass and overwhelm their academic experience. To increase female enrollment and retention in scientific fields where they are underrepresented, Georgetown University must actively promote community and mentorship for women. At Georgetown, 60 percent of science majors in the class of 2021 are women, according to the Georgetown Office of Admissions, as reported by the Georgetown Voice. However, women make up only 44 percent of computer science majors and 36 percent of physics majors. While these on-campus numbers seem unbalanced and disheartening, they are higher than the national average. Women made up 18 percent of computer science majors and 19 percent of physics majors in the United States in 2014, according to the National Science Foundation. Even more concerningly, the percentage of women enrolled in each of these fields has decreased by 4 percent since 2004. To better understand these numbers, I spoke with Elana Fertig, an associate professor of oncology and applied mathematics and statistics at Johns Hopkins University. Our conversation touched on many potential reasons why women avoid or leave the hard sciences, including implicit bias, sexual harassment and lack of role models. These problems also plague women in health sciences — fields where women make up more than 75 percent of all graduate students, according to a report from the Council of Graduate Schools. While most of these factors were sadly expected, one
stood out as distinct to computational sciences: community, or rather, lack thereof. Hard science fields like physics and computer science undervalue the emotional intelligence that is essential for sensitivity to diversity and inclusion, leaving people from underrepresented groups, particularly women, feeling isolated. In this subset, as Fertig told me, “intelligence is valued above all else.” The lack of diversity among peers and mentors is compounded by the fact that these fields are inherently less social than other sciences. These sciences, therefore, create a uniquely difficult environment for women. Fortunately, institutions like Georgetown can still accomplish gender equality by promoting community through mentoring and community building. Programs like online mentorship, workshops introducing women to one another and stronger promotion of women-focused professional organizations within the department could greatly improve the retention rates of women in hard sciences. “Academic societies are playing an important role in advancing gender balance,” Fertig said. “At the same time, women are starting to spontaneously self-organize to provide peer support groups and conference meetups as never before.” To its credit, the physics department at Georgetown seems committed, in some capacity, to the increased inclusion of women in the program. The posters adorning the walls of the physics department include a sign promoting an upcoming conference for women in physics, in addition to newspaper clippings discussing the gender disparities within the field. Perhaps the physics department at Georgetown
has already begun promoting a sense of community for female students, which could explain their better-than-average enrollment statistics. Even though Georgetown’s enrollment rates for women in these sciences are better than the national average, increased intra- and inter-program mentorship opportunities could improve them. The Georgetown Women’s Center, the Georgetown Women’s Alliance, and Women in Science and Education provide mentorship opportunities for women in these and other fields. Hopefully, with time, increased mentorship opportunities and promotion of the importance of mentorship will increase both the enrollment and retention of women in these fields where they are severely underrepresented.
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Politics of Teaching: Impartiality in the Classroom SOPHIE ROSENZWEIG Hoya Staff Writer
Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., sat back in his brown leather chair with an earnest look on his face. As a government professor, Carnes regularly lectures on topics that could be deemed divisive, such as U.S. foreign policy and social welfare programs. The Jesuit professor opens the semester in his “Comparative Political Systems” class by warning students they will discuss politically charged topics — and by asking them to presume good intent in others, even during disagreement. The classroom is a space for students to express a wide variety of political opinions, not to preach his own political leanings, according to Carnes. “I hope at the end of the semester my students have no idea what my political leanings are,” Carnes said. “I want my students to think to themselves, ‘Oh, he said things about, for example, social justice that I might associate with the left, but he also made an argument for a side that I would cite as more conservative.’” Yet not all professors park their
political opinions at the door before entering the classroom. Surrounded by myriad Semitic language books in his office, Ori Soltes, a theology professor in the Center for Jewish Civilization, told The Hoya that he frequently incorporates politically sensitive topics in his courses to stimulate effective dialogue among students. In this week’s lecture for his “Unraveling the Middle East” course, Soltes invited his students to disagree with him, push back and ask questions. Standing behind a wooden podium and gesturing at a chalkboard covered in names and dates, Soltes spent an hour and 15 minutes demystifying complex terms to make the unclear clear. “Sometimes I ask questions to prod at things, other times I wait for my students to ask me questions to foster dialogue,” Soltes said. The choice to disclose political opinions in the classroom, in office hours or on personal social media accounts falls on Georgetown’s professors. While all faculty members agree on the importance of maintaining open dialogue in the classroom, they depart on how best to accomplish this goal. Without uniform university guidelines about
where professors should draw the line on revealing their personal biases, some professors color their lectures with political commentary. Others prefer to remain neutral, leaving students unsure of where their teachers lie on the political spectrum.
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Like most students, faculty members occupy both sides of the political spectrum. The extent to which professors choose to share their political beliefs in the classroom is up to their discretion. The university does not impose a formal policy or restriction on speech inside the classroom for professors, according to Carnes. The only guidelines that help professors navigate their rhetoric in classrooms are in Georgetown’s free speech policy, which mandates that the university “has a solemn responsibility not only to promote a lively and fearless freedom of deliberation and debate, but also to protect that freedom when others attempt to restrict it.” With Jewish civilization classes like “Moses to Muhammed,” Soltes deals with contentious subject
areas like the theological implications of the Holocaust and the ArabIsraeli conflict. Yet Soltes believes his political opinions prompt lively debate among his students. In class, he does not limit himself, speaking freely and revealing his viewpoints about U.S. politics, including those about President Donald Trump. “I’m not going to not say something anti-Trump because I’m worried about how it might affect the opinion of one student,” Soltes said. However, students who support Trump should not remain silent in his lectures. In the past, students with opposing political perspectives to Soltes have spoken up in class. These students are not penalized and are encouraged to contribute to class discourse, according to Soltes. Due to similarities between Nazi Germany and the Trump administration, Trump’s actions can sometimes help understand the content in his Holocaust course, Soltes said. “If it’s relevant to my course, then I’m going to bring it up,” Soltes said. “There are too many parallels for me to not talk about it.” Yet not all Georgetown professors are comfortable critiquing Trump in front of their students.
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Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., said that Georgetown University does not regulate the extent to which professors may voice their political opinions during their classes, aside from Georgetown’s free speech policy. Each teacher may decide if and when to insert their opinions into their classrooms.
School of Foreign Service professor Christine Fair, who teaches primarily Asian studies and security, said she avoids bringing politics — particularly U.S. politics — into her classroom. “I am much more concerned about the sensitivities of those students who may be from the areas in South Asia that we are studying,” Fair said. “I don’t discuss Trump or the presidency in my classes because there is no need to; there is no place for that.” Fair recently faced scrutiny from Georgetown students and alumni after she spoke out against Republican senators’ support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with a Sept. 22 tweet. Government professor Mark Rom also said personal opinions about the current U.S. administration should be kept aside. “I have my personal opinions about President Trump’s immigration, tax, environmental and trade policies, and our students probably do too,” Rom wrote in an email to The Hoya. “I do not believe my opinions about these policies are relevant to the class.”
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The flexibility that professors enjoy can leave some feeling unsure about how to navigate sensitive political topics, worried they may offend certain students, Fair said. Fair’s recent tweet sparked controversy due to its graphic imagery. “Look at [this] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps,” Fair wrote on her personal Twitter account. “Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.” After the message — which Fair explained was intended to make readers uncomfortable, but not to provoke violence — Fair and university administrators decided she would take immediate research leave out of “an abundance of caution for the security of our community,” Dean Joel Hellman wrote in an Oct. 5 email to members of the SFS community. The existence of a “contra-power” caused her to take a forced sabbatical, Fair said. “The university is under the impression that the professor has all the power, but that isn’t necessarily the case,” Fair said. People outside of the Georgetown community exert pressure on the school to take action against a member of the community, accord-
ing to Fair. While University President John J. DeGioia issued a statement Oct. 2 that condemned the “use of violent imagery,” he also reiterated the university’s commitment to protecting community members’ freedom of speech. In the hopes of fostering dialogue, Fair aims to create a safe environment in her classroom by discouraging her students from using social media during lectures. With an active social media presence, Fair also dissuades her students from following her various personal accounts: She believes her political views are not relevant to her classes and prevent the classroom from serving as a space for open dialogue.
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A frequent professor of the government department’s “U.S. Political Systems” course, Rom deals with U.S. politics in his classroom on a daily basis. Rom said he attempts to remain neutral, curtailing his opinions and analyzing politics from every angle. “Some professors believe it is their responsibility to reveal their political, partisan and ideological preferences and commitments as a matter of honesty and openness,” Rom wrote. “I am not one of those professors.” Maintaining political objectivity in the classroom is important so that students can develop their own political leanings and not feel pressured to appeal to their professor’s perspective, according to Rom. “First, I don’t believe it is my job to train students to be Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives. Those decisions are deeply personal matters, and I respect my students’ thoughtful consideration of them,” Rom wrote. “Second, students should know that their grades do not depend on their political views, and that they need neither curry favor by agreeing with mine nor fear retribution if they disagree.” Certain situations require professors to adapt their limits. Carnes dedicated a significant portion of his lecture after Trump was elected in November 2016 to students airing their grievances, concerns and support for the election result in hopes of fostering productive dialogue. Impartiality is Carnes’ end goal, but he admits it can be difficult in a class that discusses nationhood, identity and other political ideas. “I just want to emphasize that I’m not perfect, but I try my best,” Carnes said.
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Kidnapped Alumnus, MSB Adviser Mohammed Dewji Released Unharmed WILL CASSOU Hoya Staff Writer
Tanzanian billionaire and member of the Board of Advisors to the McDonough School of Business Mohammed Dewji (MSB ’98) returned home safely Oct. 20 after armed robbers abducted and held him for nine days. Two masked gunmen seized Dewji outside of the Colosseum Hotel on Oct. 11 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city and commercial capital. Dewji’s abduction received international attention from news media, and his family offered nearly $500,000 for information that could lead to his return. Police found Dewji nine days later in Dar Es Salaam around 3 a.m. after his captors released him uninjured. In a tweet attributed to Dewji from the account of the Mo Dewji Foundation, an organization he started to reduce poverty in Tanzania, Dewji announced his release. “I thank Allah that I have returned home safely. I thank all my fellow Tanzanians, and everyone around the world for their prayers. I thank the authorities of Tanzania, including the Police Force for working for my safe return,” Dewji wrote in a tweet. Dewji, 43, is Africa’s
youngest billionaire, according to Forbes. Dewji formerly served in the Tanzanian Parliament and is currently the CEO of MeTL Group, a multinational corporation founded by his father, Gulamabbas Dewji, in the 1970s and Tanzania’s largest company, bringing in annual revenues of $1.5 billion, according to Quartz. Dewji currently sits on the MSB’s Board of Advisors, and he has not only welcomed many Hoyas to Tanzania to assist in global study but also serves as an ambassador for the university and its values, MSB Dean Paul Almeida wrote in an email to The Hoya. “As a longtime member of the McDonough School of Business Board of Advisors, Mo has been invaluable to the school’s efforts to be the best in the world and the best for the world,” Almeida said. “He blends his successful business career with a responsibility to give back to others, particularly in efforts to create sustainable avenues for eliminating poverty in Africa. Through philanthropy and civil service, has made a significant impact in Tanzania.” Dewji said his abductors spoke a South African language, adding to police suspicions that his captors were
foreigners. Dewji also told Tanzanian authorities that despite offering to pay ransom, his kidnappers did not accept any offers. The motive for the abduction is currently unknown, Tanzania’s Inspector General of Police Simon Sirro said. “Mohammed Dewji told us that the kidnappers wanted money but were very afraid, even though they were armed. He asked them several times how much they wanted but they gave no figure,” Sirro said to Al Jazeera. Police also recovered a car and assault rifle that the kidnappers attempted to destroy. Tanzanian police are still investigating the incident, Sirro told Al Jazeera. “We now know their network; we know which country the plans were made,” Sirro said. News of Dewji’s abduction also affected the Georgetown community, and Almeida said the community is thankful Dewji is unharmed and back home. “We were saddened to hear of Mo Dewji’s abduction on October 11, and our entire community has been praying for his safety,” Almeida said. “We were relieved to hear the news that he was reunited with his loved ones over the weekend.”
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Mohammed Dewji (MSB ’98) returned home uninjured Oct. 20 after being kidnapped and held for nine days. Dewji currently serves as a member of the Board of Advisors to the McDonough School of Business.
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is offering students free admission to a three-part seminar series hosted in collaboration with Georgetown University. The performances will center on the theme of “The Human Journey.”
Kennedy Center Offers Free Seminars for Students SANA RAHMAN Hoya Staff Writer
The Georgetown-Kennedy Center Seminar Series, launching in November, will enable Georgetown University students to attend three performances at the center for free and engage in postperformance discussions centered on an annual theme, the university announced Oct. 17. The seminar series is a joint collaboration between the Georgetown College; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, which promotes academic discoveries in the humanities on campus; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and the Designing the Future(s) Initiative, which designs new models of teaching and learning to facilitate educational innovation. The 2018-19 theme is “The Human Journey.” Students will be able to attend performances of “Long Way Down” on Nov. 1, “Silent Night” on Nov. 14 and “Barber Shop Chronicles” on Nov. 28 and 29 for free. Each is designed to engage with the theme “The Human Journey” in a different way. The collaborative seminar series aims to show students
the opportunities afforded by Georgetown’s proximity to a cultural institution like the Kennedy Center and to enhance the student body’s understanding of arts’ applicability to today’s world, Vice Provost of Education Randall Bass said. “All three of these performances are engaging with really big, powerful themes. There’s a lot going on here about race, resilience, human relationships, peace, violence and hope,” Bass said in an interview with The Hoya. “I hope it’s a way for students to really think about how studying culture and the arts can be a very vital, vibrant activity that engages faculty, artists and the public.” Students have the opportunity to sign up for one of the three performances and to participate in an on-campus post-performance discussion led by performing arts professor Derek Goldman. These conversations will also include artists, other scholars and faculty members to help create a discussion about the process behind the performance’s production and the issues that the shows bring up, according to Goldman. “For each one, we will try to bring someone into the room
who will have something to add to that conversation. In some cases that will be artists who worked on the project, but in other cases it might be faculty from another discipline, like African studies, where they would have something to add,” Goldman said in an interview with The Hoya. “So that’s part of the fun, trying to curate these conversations so that it’s not a template each time where it’s always the same, but where each one has its own distinct flavor.” Students wishing to devote more time to the seminar series have the option to become a seminar scholar. Between three and six students will be selected as seminar scholars and will participate in indepth writing and reflection pieces on the performances, according to Goldman. These students will be mentored by visiting scholar and American University professor Isaiah Wooden (COL ’04). “We also wanted to give some students, who could give a bigger time commitment, the chance to really have a sustained engagement across a full set of performances where they can really engage a little more deeply with the conversations that may ex-
tend between the different performances, even though these are different pieces that occur in very different art forms,” Goldman said. Although all the slots for the seminar series in the fall semester are full, it will continue in the spring with a focus on three different performances. “Our intent is that this [will be] the first of a very long running Georgetown-Kennedy Center seminar that, even if we experiment with different formats, will essentially have the same principle of connecting students and faculty with performances and the creative artists, as well as some community patrons, around the role of the arts in our culture,” Bass said. As the seminar series is led in part by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, it will hopefully help create a path for a center of humanities at Georgetown in the future, according to Bass. “One of the hallmarks for a center of humanities at Georgetown will be partnerships between the university and cultural institutions in the city,” Bass said. “So for us, this is a really important prototype of a signature partnership with a great public cultural institution of the city.”
The Nevils dormitory experienced multiple false fire alarms on the nights of Oct. 9 and 10, as well as the afternoon of Oct. 16. An electronic circuit switch fail caused the false alarms, according to a joint statement made by Georgetown University Facilities Management and the Office of Residential Living in an email to East Campus residents Oct. 25. Nevils, an apartment-style residential community located on East Campus, houses mostly upperclassman students. “Upon identifying the fault, we inspected the relevant system and repairs were made. We will continue to monitor the system and will perform tests if necessary,” the email said. The Oct. 9 fire alarm sounded intermittently for over two hours, starting at around 2 a.m., according to Nevils resident Marshall Webb (SFS ’20). Residents evacuated from the building when the alarms sounded but became confused as the alarms continued and no police cars or fire trucks arrived at the scene, according to Charlotte Hine (MSB ’19). “It was close to 25 minutes before we saw anyone of authority,” Hine wrote in an email to The Hoya. “At 4:30 a.m., someone who appeared to have authority finally told us that we could re-enter the building, and that facilities would shut off the alarm shortly. It took over 90 minutes to shut off the alarm.” Students were given the allclear to return to the building before the fire alarms were turned off, according to Webb. The alarms sounding in the middle of the night posed a disruption to many students
who were trying to sleep, Hine said. “Many people chose not to go back into their apartments because the noise was too loud. Some slept in the hallways until the alarm stopped. I used earplugs and pillows to block the noise,” Hine said. “I had a job interview the following day. Others had early classes, midterms, and work commitments.” Alex Mitchell (SFS ’21), another Nevils resident, echoed Hine’s sentiment that the fire alarms disrupted his sleep. On the second consecutive night of alarms, Mitchell left Nevils and slept on a friends’ couch in another dormitory. “We sat on our little balcony while the sirens blared. We couldn’t even be inside,” Mitchell wrote in an email to The Hoya. As the alarms continued, some students stopped leaving their apartments, according to Webb. “With each evacuation, the number of people you see leave the building is lower and lower and lower,” Webb wrote in an email to The Hoya. Hine emailed the Office of Residential Living to ask about the possibility of receiving a refund of the nightly rate of the housing fee for the two dates in question. Her request was denied. “I was told they do not issue refunds for these types of issues,” Hine said. Students will be notified of the cause of any future fire alarms, according to the email from the Georgetown University Facilities Management and the Office of Residential Living. “In the spirit of open communication, we will notify all East Campus residents of the cause of each future fire alarm tests via e-mail within 12 hours of each event,” the email said.
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A series of false fire alarms sounded in Nevils on Oct. 9, Oct. 10 and Oct. 16. The alarms were triggered by an electronic circuit switch failure.
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Men’s Rights Group Claims Female Bias Graduate Group Prepares to Vote On Unionization MEN’S RIGHTS, from A1
The complaint calls for the dissolution of all female-only or female-biased groups, the conversion of female-focused programs into gender-neutral programs and the creation of equivalent male-focused programs to any remaining female-focused programs. The university does not discriminate based upon sex, a university spokesperson said. “Georgetown University is committed to an inclusive learning environment free from discrimination,” the university said in a statement. “Georgetown programs do not discriminate on the basis of sex and organizations on campus focused on gender equity are open to all genders.” The complaint lists 18 organizations as alleged violators of Title IX, including the Cawley Career Education Center,
the women and gender studies department, the Georgetown Women’s Center, the Georgetown Women’s Alliance, the Georgetown Women’s Foreign Policy Group and Women Who Code, among others. The document accuses the university of hiring practices explicitly biased in favor of women and endorsement of outreach organizations such as Asian Women in Business, American Business Women’s Association, the Society of Women Engineers and Women in Technology. “Georgetown University violates Title IX by expressing an unlawful preference for women in its employment/ hiring practices: ‘it is the goal of Georgetown University and its departments to advertise, recruit vigorously, and employ qualified candidates, particularly minority persons, women, veterans, and persons
with disabilities,’” the complaint reads. “This bias is systemic, since all applications go through the affirmative action process.” Even though the intent of these institutions may not be to discriminate, their designation as women’s groups is enough to warrant a Title IX response, according to the document. “The fact that these scholarships and programs are endorsed as ‘Women’s’ is sufficient, in and of itself, to infer disparate treatment,” the document reads. “Such endorsement has a clearly dissuasive/discriminatory effect on males.” Title IX complaints can advance to federal investigations if the Office for Civil Rights finds them to be credible violations of law, according to the Department of Education. If the recipient of a Title IX com-
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The Washington, D.C. chapter of the National Coalition for Men, a men’s rights group, filed a Title IX complaint against Georgetown University, alleging the university discriminates against men in its hiring practices.
plaint is determined by the investigation to have violated the law, it must either make the changes demanded by the Office of Civil Rights, risk loss of federal funding or face a referral to the Department of Justice, according to the Department of Education website. Once a complaint is submitted to the Office for Civil Rights, government officials evaluate if they will further investigate. If the complaint passes for an investigation, the OCR will notify parties involved with a letter, according to the Campus Safety Magazine. If the OCR determines that a Title IX violation occurred, it will seek negotiations and attempt to sign a written resolution agreement with the school and the group filing the complaint. The complaint also condemns Christine Fair, the School of Foreign Service professor who tweeted violent imagery about male senators during the hearings this month for then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Fair was placed on research leave after the tweets were condemned by faculty, students and alumni. Fair should be terminated as a result of her “terroristic threats,” according to the complaint. “[Fair] is an active and ongoing security threat to her male students, she cannot be expected to teach her male students in a fair manner, and her presence creates a hostile environment against young male students on campus,” the coalition wrote. In recent months, NCFM filed similar complaints against several universities nationwide, including the University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University and Yale University, and has filed Title IX complaints against other universities in the past. The complaints at the University of Pennsylvania and Northeastern are not currently pending investigation as of Sept. 28, according to the Office of Civil Rights and the investigation at Yale University began in April and is ongoing, according to the Yale Daily News.
GAGE, from A1 university through our teaching and research, and the recognition of GAGE will allow us to improve the conditions in which we provide that value, as well as affirm Georgetown’s commitment to social justice in the workplace.” GAGE is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, a nationwide union representing over 1.7 million members. The vote presents two options, to unionize or to not, and if a majority vote in favor of unionization, GAGE and AFT will become the collective bargaining agent for all graduate student assistants, according to Georgetown University. “I hope, of course, that we win our election, and by a large margin,” McRae said. “I hope not just that we win, but also that the administration recognizes those results and duly bargains with us as employees of Georgetown.” GAGE filed to hold an election this semester on Oct. 8, putting the actual election almost a month after the initial filing. The election filing came nearly a year after GAGE first demanded university recognition and the start of contract negotiations Nov. 1, 2017. Following GAGE’s November 2017 letter asking for recognition, the university initially declined to recognize the organization Dec. 4, 2017. GAGE continued to negotiate with the university, and on April 2, 2018, announced an agreement to hold an election during the fall semester. Over six months later, the upcoming election will determine the next steps for GAGE and graduate student assistants. “Organizing is a way to connect workers and teachers across departments and
make it easier for us to support each other,” Deidre Nelms, a teaching associate and fourth year doctoral candidate in the department of philosophy, said in an email to The Hoya. “When hundreds of us are united in a recognized union, we’ll be able to bargain with the university for an improved, stable contract.” The university maintains that it is remaining neutral during the election, encouraging graduate students to learn more about unionization and to vote. Graduate student teaching assistants are not considered university employees under regulations set by the National Labor Relations Board, the federal labor law enforcement agency, meaning a union election administered within the scope of the NLRB could be legally challenged and students could be prevented from unionizing. However, by having the AAA administer the election, the university cannot legally challenge the election’s outcome. Graduate students at Harvard University held a similar election in November 2017 under the NLRB, and the students elected to form a union, according to The Washington Post. The university challenged the election, but the NLRB rejected the appeal in July 2017 and mandated that another election be held. The students voted again in April 2018 to form a union, according to The Washington Post. Should Georgetown graduate students elect not to form a union in November, the university will continue to improve student worker conditions, according to Groves and Healton. “Georgetown will continue its efforts to improve conditions for graduate students if a union is not elected and will bargain in good faith if one is elected,” Groves and Healton said.
Pulitzer-Winning Poet:Media Shapes Immigration Narrative ALEC DEWAR Special to Hoya
Media organizations exacerbate discrimination against immigrants without documentation by misconstruing the role that immigrants play in the United States, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas said at a Gaston Hall event on Wednesday. The language used to describe immigrants without documentation in the media perpetuates the belief that immigrants without documentation do not contribute to the U.S. economy, Vargas said. “I have lied my way through my career in journalism. I felt guilty I had to lie just to get a job. Undocumented workers contribute billions of dollars in taxes and social security and people don’t realize that,” Vargas said. “The master narrative and how we talk about ‘illegal aliens’ in the country is what propelled Donald Trump to the presidency. The media, specifically the media in D.C., has been complicit in that.” Vargas won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 as part of the Washington Post team that covered the 2008 Virginia Tech shootings, according to NPR. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary for his 2015 documentary “White People,” which addressed issues of race and identity in the United States. Vargas is the CEO of Define American, a nonprofit media organization that uses storytelling to advocate for immigrant rights and fight discrimination. His new book “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen,” chronicles the story of his life as an immigrant without documentation. Vargas said he will donate his honorarium from the event to UndocuHoyas, a student group that advocates for the rights of students without documentation. Vargas reframed the issue of immigration for those without documentation as an issue about families. “We can’t talk about the policies and politics of these issues until we understand the human part of this issue,”
Vargas said. “This issue is not about immigration reform, not about border control or walls, it’s about families. Immigration has always been about families.” The evangelical community offers a support network for immigrants without documentation in the United States and helps them feel more integrated into U.S. society, according to Vargas. “I was at an event in Georgia, and I met a young Guatemalan man who said that he didn’t realize that white people liked him until they got into church, because that’s
where they hugged,” Vargas said. “I remember he told me ‘When I walk into that church, I don’t need papers to be equal under the eyes of God.’” Vargas, who only discovered that he did not have documentation when he was 16, said that the imperative for him to hide his identity damaged many of friendships and presented him with a personal struggle with his identity. “Being in the undocumented closet was tough because I realized I wasn’t just hiding from the government, but I was hiding from myself,” Vargas said. Despite the challenges that
Vargas faced as an immigrant without documentation in the United States, his experience and time in the United States allowed him to achieve his professional and personal success, he said. “It’s almost like America is one big dare: We are all being dared to dream as big as we can and find windows that reopen when doors close, to remind ourselves to be grateful,” Vargas said. “Even though [the United States] doesn’t know what it wants to do with me, it has dared me to be the person that I am.” Minority communities in the United States must over-
come their differences to advocate against discrimination, Vargas said. “I think this is a time for us to figure out what bridges have to be built. In the immigrant rights movement we don’t do enough with the African-American community,” Vargas said. “We cut each other into pieces and create borders where there are none.” First-generation college students can play a crucial role in reshaping culture in the United States, according to Vargas. “First-generation college students are remaking America and what civic participa-
tion looks like,” Vargas said. “I used the word ‘citizen’ very deliberately because that’s what we have to have in common.” He encouraged students without documentation to participate in U.S. politics despite their immigration status and to redefine what it means to be a citizen. “I would argue that there’s a citizenship that is deeper than the law you pass and the papers you have and what you are born to,” Vargas said. “There is a citizenship of participation and we have to participate and really engage.”
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jose Antonio Vargas spoke of the media’s role in shaping the country’s immigration discourse at an event in Gaston Hall on Thursday. Vargas, who is without documentation, also discussed his new memoir, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.”
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Georgetown’s fifth annual Latinx Heritage Month concluded Oct. 15, after a month-long series of events stemming from collaborations between a range of campus organizations. On-campus programming will continue through Nov. 2, ending with celebrations for Dia de Los Muertos. Collaboration between different Latinx student groups made a significant difference in planning the events this year, according to Mireya Iglesias-Ayala (MSB ’19), the cultural director of Georgetown’s Latin American Student Association, and Jose Ramos (MSB ’19), the president of Georgetown’s Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán, a national organization founded in the 1960s meant to foster unity among Chicanx individuals through political action. “We really attempted to work more together in order to bring about all these events, especially for the Día de los Muertos week long celebration,” Iglesias-Ayala and Ramos wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We are really content to have so many organizations on board promoting our cultures.” Increased collaboration in planning served to bring together the Latinx community, Iglesias-Ayala said. “This year we worked to have multiple orgs as hosts to promote unity amongst all Latinx orgs and the various cultures/social issues/ traditions that exist in our diverse home countries that we bring with us here at Georgetown,” Iglesias-Ayala said. “Since most of us are seniors leading these orgs we wanted to make the effort to collaborate and bring about more cross functional leadership because that is what a community is supposed to be.” Georgetown officially began commemorating Latinx Heritage Month in 2014, but students organized initiatives to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month over a decade earlier and to create a community on campus, according to Joseph Gomez (SFS ’19), resident director of La Casa Latina, which provides resources for Latinx students on campus and hosts events to share the narratives of these students. “In 2002, a group of Georgetown University students designed a dinner event for the Latinx community on campus to take place during Latinx Heritage Month,” Gomez wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Due to a lack of institutional
support and interest, it was necessary to gather as a unified group of aware, resolute individuals.” The schedule of events expanded dramatically in the following four years. Student organizations planned and hosted events to celebrate the month, beginning on the first day of National Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 15. These events include the 16th annual Latinx Leadership Forum and the first Spanish Mass of the fall semester. The event schedule for this year’s Latinx Heritage Month will culminate with a Día de los Muertos celebration from Oct. 26 through Nov. 2 hosted by various organizations, including La Casa Latina and Campus Ministry. This year’s celebrations will include a Spanish liturgy hosted by Campus Ministry, according to IglesiasAyala. “Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a celebration to honor those that have passed,” IglesiasAyala said. “We will be having various altars around campus to commemorate our loved ones who have passed. Spanish Mass will be included in the normal liturgical order of the masses.” Latinx Heritage Month is significant in the ways it empowers and creates community for Latinx-identifying students at Georgetown, according to IglesiasAyala and Rocío Mondragón Reyes (SFS ’19), the logistics coordinator of Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Georgetown, a dance group that performs traditional Mexican dances on and off campus. “The overall hope is that with these various events of celebration, those of us who identify as Latinx,
can each find space and time in celebrating, acknowledging and sharing our culture amongst the rest of the Georgetown Latinx community and the community at large,” Iglesias-Ayala and Reyes said. “It is a way to remind us of our identity as a community and to celebrate it.” Latinx Heritage Month has also led to the creation of other community-building initiatives for Latinx students at Georgetown, including the formation of La Casa Latina, according to Gomez. “Our success [in 2014], led us to contemplate and mobilize on other important issues our community faces here on the Hilltop. Thus, the movement to start a Casa Latina for Hoyas was born,” Gomez said. “On April 10, 2015, LLF and the Last Campaign for Academic Reform (LCAR) submitted our respective proposals and petitions to university administrators. After various meetings with administration, Casa Latina was established for the Fall of 2016.” Iglesias-Ayala, Reyes and Ramos said they are pleased with the outcome of this year’s celebration and look forward to the continuation of significant, increasingly strong Latinx presence on campus. “There is simply an overall hope to continue to strengthen our presence and alliances amongst each other so that the generations to come have a space and means through which they can celebrate and share their Latinx identity,” the trio said. “Given that we now have a physical space, Casa Latina, we just seek to ensure that the student run organizations continue in strength so that this space can be used to its full potential.”
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Georgetown University celebrated its fifth annual Latinx Heritage Month, which will conclude after Dia de los Muertos festivities Nov. 2.
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GUSA Policy Chair for Student Health Casey Kozak (NHS ’20) is leading an effort to eliminate tobacco and nicotine usage on campus, following a referendum on banning tobacco and nicotine products on campus.
GUSA Targets On-Campus Tobacco, Looks to Corp for Help CONNOR THOMAS Hoya Staff Writer
A Georgetown University Student Association effort to make Georgetown a smoke- and tobaccofree campus seeks to collaborate with Students of Georgetown, Inc., more commonly known as the Corp, to end tobacco and nicotine sales in Hoya Snaxa and Vital Vittles. GUSA Policy Chair for Student Health Casey Kozak (NHS ’20) sent an email to the personal email of Corp CEO Alex Gong (SFS ’20), copying two other Corp employees, asking them to speak with her about eliminating sales of tobacco products and replacing them with contraceptives Oct. 10. “I would like to meet with you and discuss a possible collaboration of working to replace nicotine sales on campus with contraceptives, which I believe could off-set [sic] the loss of profit,” Kozak wrote in the email. The Corp representatives did not respond to Kozak’s email and Chairman of The Corp Ricardo Mondolfi (SFS ’19) said he was not aware of the email until his Oct. 23 interview with The Hoya. “We have not been contacted by anyone in the community about our tobacco sales,” Mondolfi said in a phone message he left before an interview with The Hoya. “It’s an
issue we discuss and continue to look at.” Kozak created two surveys and sent them in the GUSA weekly email Oct. 24. The first asks about students’ opinions on tobacco and nicotine sales on campus, and the second asks about students’ opinions about the sale of contraceptives, which, Kozak said, could replace tobacco in Vittles and Snaxa. No on-campus vendor at Georgetown currently sells contraceptives, because it would violate their lease agreements with the university, which does not support or affiliate with any groups that offer contraceptives. The Corp has not yet seriously deliberated ending tobacco product sales, Mondolfi said. “There’s not even been an internal deliberation about this,” Mondolfi said. “It’s just we have sold tobacco products for who knows how long, certainly since I came to Georgetown, and the nature of it is that we’re going to continue doing it until we decide not to, and we just haven’t sat down to have that conversation.” The Corp would collaborate with GUSA on the issue of eliminating the sale of tobacco products on campus, Mondolfi said. “We’re happy and ready to begin a conversation with GUSA as we have on many other issues in the past,” Mondolfi said. “We close-
ly collaborated with them, and this is certainly an issue that we’re happy to engage on, and a lot of members of Corp leadership feel very strongly on this issue as well.” The Corp will consider student health, morals and finances as it decides whether to stop selling tobacco products, Mondolfi said. The Corp brings in $5.5 million in revenue annually, according to Mondolfi, but he could not offer any information about what percentage of that revenue comes from tobacco sales. In 2016, a majority of students voted in support of making campus tobacco-free in a schoolwide referendum. GUSA is pushing the university to meet its goal of going tobacco- and smoke-free by 2018, GUSA Press Secretary Jonathon Marek (SFS ’21) said. “University administrators have made clear that Georgetown is in the process of becoming a smoke- and tobacco-free campus, with full implementation expected by the end of this academic year,” Marek wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The administration must provide additional clarity on its plans for a smoke- and tobacco-free campus to align with its stated goal and to allow GUSA and others to examine its proposals and determine if they are in the best interest of the student body at large.”
GUSA Names 13 New Executive Board Members ALEXANDRA BOWMAN Special to The Hoya
The Georgetown University Student Association announced the names of its 13 new executive board members Oct. 21. These executive positions were left vacant following the Sept. 11 resignation of former GUSA President Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) and the Sept. 14 resignations of former GUSA Vice President Naba Rahman (SFS ’19) and Chief of Staff Aaron Bennett (COL ’19). After ascending to the positions of president and vice president respectively, Juan Martinez (COL ’20) and Kenna Chick (COL ’20) released applications for the executive board Oct. 7. Chick and Martinez aim to focus the administration’s efforts on three primary tenets: transparency, health and advocacy, according to Chick. Chick and Martinez appointed Alejandro Garcia Escobar (SFS ’21) as chief of staff, and Anna Naiyapatana (SFS ’21) as executive treasurer. Varsha Menon (SFS ’21) will serve as the director of student engagement, and Nav Khaira (COL ’21) will be the deputy director of student engagement. Jack Pelose (COL ’19) and Casey Doherty (COL ’20) will serve as the director of university affairs and the director of campus affairs, respectively. Darcy Palder (COL ’21) has been appointed director of communications, and Victoria McFadden (SFS ’20) will take over the position of director of student affairs. Madison Alvarez (COL ’21) and Sonia Adjroud (SFS ’20) will serve as co-directors of student activism. The new executive board held a GUSA Expo on Oct. 21 to introduce themselves to the
student body and highlight opportunities for students to get involved in GUSA. McFadden wants to use her role in GUSA to establish fundraising programs to benefit students, such as the Hoya Hub, Georgetown’s on-campus student-run food pantry, she said. Menon hopes to ensure that GUSA can be more representative of all students at Georgetown and that it will serve the diverse student body of the university. “I’m hoping to use my position as director of student engagement to encourage greater representation of diverse and intersectional voices on this campus, while simultaneously establishing stronger relationships with the student body,” Menon said. “As this current administration works to rebuild a lot of the issues that have weakened GUSA, we as senior staff hope to do more for the student body by reaching out to them.” The student engagement team plans to improve relations between GUSA and the student body through outreach efforts, according to Menon. “My team and I are working to have more transparent outreach to the Georgetown community,” Menon said. “We would also like to provide feedback avenues so we can better learn how to serve Georgetown.” In an email to all undergraduate students, members of the GUSA executive encouraged students to contact any member of the executive board with projects in which they are interested. “Please do not hesitate to reach out to any one of us, we are so excited to work with you,” GUSA executive members wrote.
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Anne Burke, a justice on the Supreme Court of Illinois, said that civil authorities should have oversignt to ensure a cultural change occurs in the church in order to curb clerical abuse within the Catholic Church, at a Dahlgren Dialogue on Oct. 24.
Panelists Seek Change in Church Culture MASON MANDELL Hoya Staff Writer
Empowering lay members and changing church culture are necessary for the Catholic Church to address sexual abuse, panelists agreed at a discussion held in the Dahlgren Chapel on Wednesday. The panelists examined the best path forward for the Catholic Church in light of the sexual abuse allegations that have surfaced against several members of the church, including former cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl. The panel included Anne Burke, a justice on the Supreme Court of Illinois and former interim chair of the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., Ph.D., psychologist and associate director of Protection of Minors for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men; Erica Lizza (SFS ’19), president of Catholic Women at Georgetown; and Kerry Robinson (CAS ’88), founding executive director and global ambassador of the Leadership Roundtable. (Full disclosure: Lizza is a member of The Hoya’s editorial board.) John Carr, director of the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, moderated the discussion. The empowerment of laypeople
could hold the church more accountable on issues such as cases of sexual assault and could force a shift in the church’s culture, Burke said. “Until the laypeople are involved and know what the procedures are and what the rules are, I don’t know what we can do,” Burke said. “We have to make sure we draft those procedures.” The problem of sexual abuse within the church remains ongoing, Burke said. “This isn’t 50 years ago,” Burke said. “It’s still happening, so the culture is continuing.” Civil authorities should step in to ensure the church undergoes a true cultural shift, Burke said. She also criticized the church for failing to incorporate the critiques of external review boards. “I don’t see us getting into the culture unless we stand straight to them and force them,” Burke said, calling on the audience to place more pressure on their priests and bishops to implement reforms. Wuerl resigned as archbishop of Washington, D.C., on Oct. 12 amid criticism over his handling of sexual abuse cases when he served as bishop in the Diocese of Pittzburgh. Wuerl remains the interim archbishop while the Archdiocese of Washington searches for a replacement, per the request of Pope Francis. McCarrick resigned from the Col-
lege of Cardinals in July following an allegation of sexual abuse. Since his resignation, four people have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse, which the Vatican is currently investigating. McCarrick served as Wuerl’s predecessor as archbishop of Washington, D.C, until 2006. Both McCarrick and Wuerl hold honorary degrees from Georgetown. McCarrick has denied the allegation, and Wuerl has defended his actions while in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Bishops should “come clean” by proactively releasing documents and files that could indicate whether, and to what extent, they were complicit in the cover-up of sexual abuse, Burke said. Releasing such information would be an opportunity to show accountability, as dioceses across the country have received federal subpoenas, she said. “It’s like substance abuse or alcoholism, where you hit rock bottom,” Burke said. “Until we know everything that’s going on, there’s no way for us to heal.” McGlone, as a psychologist who has treated abusers, called for increased transparency in the church to begin changing the culture. “Enough of the policy, enough of the criminal approach, enough of another report,” McGlone said. “We have to have significant cultural change and monitor that change.” The Georgetown community
should work with other Catholic universities to create a working group on addressing the issue, McGlone said. The university should conduct an internal investigation on ways in which it is complicit in ignoring abuse, according to Lizza. Georgetown should also revoke the honorary degrees currently held by Wuerl and McCarrick, Lizza said. “As to why this hasn’t been greenlighted or moving faster, I think it’s the same old culture of thinking that if we ignore it, it will go away,” Lizza said. The university should also continue holding events that foster conversation about abuse in the Catholic Church and should host community outreach with students, Lizza said. The Vatican needs to overhaul its system of promoting and selecting bishops in order to include women in Catholic leadership, according to Robinson. “Why not have women serving on the congregation of bishops?” Robinson said. “We should be ashamed of ourselves as a church for underutilizing women. That is a terrible example of stewardship.” The event showed the church’s reflection on its internal problems, rather than addressing issues like nuclear weapons, immigration, and racism, which Dahlgren dialogues have historically focused on, Carr said.
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DC Mandates Halfway Houses Eighth Cohort of StartupHoyas Accept High-Risk Criminals Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Named DUSTIN HARTUV
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Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz mandated that the residential re-entry management center that wins the next five-year contract from the BOP will be required to accept all high-risk prisoners, according to an Oct. 11 news release. The BOP addresses all issues related to the federal and Washington, D.C. prison systems, according to the BOP’s website. Because the federal government functions as a state government for the District, the BOP implemented its new policy without the D.C. Council voting on the issue. BOP contracts residential reentry management program centers, also known as halfway houses, to provide support and housing for inmates close to being released. The BOP is looking to replace or renew its current contract with Hope Village, the halfway house currently holding the five-year contract, according to the Oct. 11 news release. Fifty percent of inmates who return to Washington, D.C. are re-incarcerated within three years of release, according to The Washington Post. The new contract received immediate backlash from Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who condemned the policy in a Oct. 11 news release on her website. Norton expressed concern that inmates accused of harming children could be settled close to places where many children are located. “We must strongly contest this new decision to condition the contract on agreeing to accept child predators, even for facilities that may be located near schools, child care facilities and other places where children congregate,” Norton said in the news release. “Due to its high density, almost all locations in the District are within 1,000 feet of areas where children congregate.” The BOP will have to balance public safety with the
The Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative recently named its eighth annual cohort of Entrepreneurs-inResidence, a team of entrepreneurs and investors who will spend time on campus throughout the academic year to advise both undergraduate and graduate students on starting their own companies. The EiRs for the 2018-19 year are: Laura Clark; David Fogel (SFS ’93, LAW ’97, GRD ’97); Talia Fox; Shye Gilad (GRD’12); Patricia Henriques; John Jabara; Jay Kenny (COL ’95); Fiona Macaulay; Mike Malloy (COL ’12); Peter Mellen (COL ’89, GRD ’98); Miguel Monteverde; Jill Monk; Meghan Roman (MSB ’96); Mark Silverman (MSB ’72, LAW ’75); Marc Steren; Dave Terzian (COL ’76); Tien Wong and Khuram Zaman. The Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program focuses on connecting Georgetown students to a diverse network of accomplished alumni, industry experts, and business executives. Throughout the term, these EiRs hold office hours and weekly chalk talks, where they discuss their experiences in the startup world and provide networking opportunities between students and EiRs, according to Jake Yoon (SFS ’19), who has attended these events. Georgetown students are also able to reach out and schedule one-on-one meetings or calls. Yoon highlighted that EiRs can be helpful regardless of where one is in their entrepreneurship journey. Prior knowledge or experience of entrepreneurship is not necessary to sit down and chat with an EiR. Ahmed Ibrahim (MSB ’22) said that speaking with EiRs can spark a newfound interest in entrepreneurship. “I think often times the common thought about entrepreneurship is that it’s innate, but I think it’s really cool that in McDonough, you have so many opportunities
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Beginning with the next contract-holder, the Bureau of Prisons’ residential re-entry management center must accept all high-risk prisoners. need to provide crucial support and resources to formerly incarcerated offenders necessary for them to reintegrate after their release, Marc Morjé Howard, director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown, wrote in an email to The Hoya. “There is no easy solution to this dilemma. While the concern over sex offenders is understandable and real, finding effective ways to support returning citizens is one of the greatest challenges we face in the context of criminal justice reform,” Howard said. “Many formerly incarcerated individuals do succeed in becoming productive, responsible, and fully-engaged members of our community.” Instead of incorporating judicial or legislative approval, the BOP used its contracting power with residential re-entry management programs to change policy, Norton said in the Oct. 11 news release. “This new requirement appears to be a policy, not a statutory, decision,” Norton said. “Therefore, this change is unwarranted, unworkable, untenable and unacceptable.” The concern over high-risk
prisoners being allowed in residential re-entry management program housing neglects the needs of returning citizens, Howard said. “By focusing attention on a few of the most difficult cases, we tend to dehumanize these individuals and raise the general level of fear around the larger issue of returning citizens,” he said. “As a result, we then fail to come up with more nuanced solutions that recognize the range of personalities and circumstances involved (not unlike assuming falsely that all immigrants are violent gang members).” Norton previously challenged the BOP for failing to evacuate inmates during natural disasters in a Nov. 1, 2017 news release from her website. After her statement, she met with then-BOP Director Mark Inch to discuss the matter. BOP has not yet responded to Norton’s letter on this specific issue. However, earlier in October, Norton petitioned the BOP to relocate juvenile inmates from D.C. to facilities closer to the city, according to an Oct. 4 news release. This letter has also received no response.
and so many experts to consult with. Just by talking with them, you can realize certain aspects about yourself that you didn’t before,” Ibrahim said in an interview with The Hoya. Peter Mellen, founder of Netcito, emphasized the importance of mentorship in launching a startup. “I made virtually every mistake in the book along the way. Probably the biggest mistake was not seeking more mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs. Getting the right advice at the early stage of launching a business can be a game-changer for a founding team,” Mellen wrote in an email to The Hoya. EiRs can support students in their entrepreneurial endeavors in a number of ways. “When coaching students, we often use the phrase, ‘nail it before you scale it.’ Students often skip steps along the path to building a business… As Entrepreneurs in Residence, we help students test their business model and prove demand for their product with minimal investment,” Mellen said. “I am an early stage investor and much of what I do in my working life is very relevant to students who are trying to move their ideas and startups forward… I have invested in and been in a number of businesses in my career and it gives me a perspective that I can share with the Georgetown Community,” Mark Silverman, a venture investor, wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Where I think I’m able to help the most is to get students to think more critically about their ideas and whether or not there’s a real business opportunity. It all starts with ‘What problem are you trying to solve for your customer?’ If the student has a clear and defensible answer to that question... then they’ve got a huge head start and the greatest chance of success,” Miguel Monteverde, a D.C.-based tech and media executive, said in an email to the Hoya. Tien Wong, chairman and
CEO of Tech2000, who has been involved in the Entrepreneur-in-Residence program for the past six years, spoke to the rewarding nature of being a part of such a program. “I have always felt that it is incumbent on those who are fortunate and who have achieved some degree of success to always seek to give back. I have had the good fortune of having had a lot of help and mentorship in my journey, and only feel it fitting to be able to provide guidance and mentorship to students as a small way of giving back,” Wong wrote in an email to The Hoya. The Entrepreneur in Residence Program was founded under the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative with the support of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. Under the banner of StartupHoyas, the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative provides a plethora of academic, extracurricular, and off-campus programs, with the overarching goal of creating a culture of entrepreneurship on campus, according to the StartupHoyas website. The four facets of the initiative are encouraging entrepreneurial spirit, teaching about entrepreneurship, connecting students to a community of innovators, and encouraging students to launch their own new ventures, according to the StartupHoyas website. Mellen, who has been involved with the Entrepreneurship Initiative since it was started eight years ago, said that the initiative has made substantial progress towards its original goals. “Entrepreneurship education was virtually nonexistent when I was a student at Georgetown,” Mellen said. “Now we have an entrepreneurship minor, the Entrepreneur in Residence program, the Venture Lab, multiple student clubs, and many other resources for aspiring entrepreneurs. It’s thrilling to be part of this growth.”
Archdiocese of Washington Names District Establishes New 31 Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse Office Of Nightlife and Culture MASON MANDELL Hoya Staff Writer
The Archdiocese of Washington released the names of 31 priests who were considered “credibly accused” of sexual abuse toward minors in the last 70 years on Oct. 15. The list includes 28 ordained priests of the archdiocese and three religious order or non-diocesan priests, with details under each name revealing the actions taken by the archdiocese following reports of abuse. Seventeen of the named priests are deceased. The list was the product of an internal review ordered in 2017 by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, former archbishop of Washington, according to the Oct. 15 news release. Pope Francis accepted Wuerl’s resignation from the archbishop position Oct. 12 after Wuerl received criticism for enabling sexual abuse during his tenure as bishop of the Pittsburgh Diocese. The accusations against Wuerl surfaced in a Pennsylvania grand jury report released Aug. 14.
The list serves as a reminder of the ongoing effects of sexual abuse in the church, Wuerl said in the Oct. 15 news release. “This list is a painful reminder of the grave sins committed by clergy, the pain inflicted on innocent young people, and the harm done to the Church’s faithful, for which we continue to seek forgiveness,” Wuerl said. Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests criticized the list as incomplete, arguing several credible accusations had been left out and jeopardized the integrity of the list. Six of the names had not previously been made public, according to The Washington Post. “As it is, today’s disclosure appears to be a hastily assembled PR stunt, not a comprehensive effort to inform parishioners and citizens in Washington, D.C. about the extent of the scandal there,” SNAP said in an Oct. 15 news release. The internal review remains ongoing and the archdiocese will update the published list
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The names of 31 priests accused of sexual abuse of minors in the past 70 years were released by the Archdiocese of Washington on Oct. 15.
if necessary, Archdiocese Director of Media and Public Relations Chieko Noguchi wrote in an email to The Hoya. The Oct. 15 archdiocese news release reveals cases of priests who were credibly accused but were reinstated to ministry, including Thomas Schaefer, who was first accused of sexual abuse in 1967. Schaefer returned to ministry only to be reported again in 1982, and returned another time in 1983 before being permanently removed from parish ministry in 1986. Schaefer was arrested in 1995 and convicted in 1996 of sexual molestation, according to The Washington Post. The archdiocese has not found a credible allegation in nearly 20 years, and no priest in active ministry in the archdiocese has been subject to a credible sexual abuse allegation, according to Noguchi. Noguchi did not elaborate on the archdiocese’s process of determining whether an accusation against a priest is considered credible. The move was an important step in both coming to terms with the existence of abuse and demonstrating accountability for those who abuse or enable abuse, according to Erica Lizza (SFS’19), president of Catholic Women at Georgetown. (Full Disclosure: Lizza is a member of The Hoya’s Editorial Board.) “We hope that this and other efforts to cultivate transparency on the part of the Archdiocese can prevent future abuse and promote healing for the Church,” Lizza wrote in an email to The Hoya. The release comes after disarray in the Washington Archdiocese following Wuerl’s resignation. Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., resigned in July from the College of Cardinals following multiple allegations of sexual abuse. Both McCarrick and Wuerl have honorary degrees from Georgetown University. The Vatican is currently conducting an internal investigation into allegations against McCarrick.
MAXWELL SHEREMETA Special to The Hoya
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) signed legislation Oct. 18, establishing the office of nightlife and culture to serve as the intermediary between residents and late night venues. The position was created in response to Washington, D.C.’s booming nightlife industry, which encompasses 2,267 bars and restaurants, rakes in $3.8 billion in sales and employs 68,900 people, according to the National Restaurant Association. The office, which will be led by a chosen director of nightlife, will be tasked with promoting D.C.’s nightlife culture, while also ensuring that the needs of residents are not neglected as the industry grows. “We know that this creates fantastic opportunities as well as a few challenges,” Bowser said in reference to the growing nightlife scene in the district, in an Oct. 18 news release. “And the Office of Nightlife and Culture is going to ensure that we’re working across D.C. Government, with our residents and businesses, to ensure a vibrant D.C. nightlife that works for everyone.” The legislation was introduced in November 2017 by Councilmember Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4), who sees the position as an opportunity to coordinate the various interests surrounding D.C. nightlife. “This new office will help ensure that all stakeholders are working together to address concerns such as parking, noise, and litter, and that new and existing establishments have help cutting red tape as they seek to expand opportunities in neighborhoods across the District,” Todd said in the press release at the bill’s signing. D.C. joins a fast-growing list of cities around the world with an office to deal specifically with nightlife. Though the title varies, New York City, Orlando,
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D.C. is creating an office of nightlife and culture, after Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) signed legislation to establish it Oct. 18. London, Iowa City and other cities have established similar positions, according to The Washington Post. Interest in the position has been unprecedented, with the position receiving more applications than any other cabinet position, according to The Washington Post. “This job, man. People are excited about it. Around the country, across the oceans,” Lindsey Parker, Bowser’s deputy chief of staff, told The Washington Post. Applications are being accepted online and are open to all residents of the District or anyone willing to relocate within 180 days of getting the job. Ideally, the director will be someone that has experience in both public policy and the hospitality industry,
Todd told The Washington Post. The full-time position pays a $97,434 to $118,000 yearly salary. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled with a suitable candidate. The Office of Nightlife and Culture will also include five volunteers that will work under the director. Additionally, the director will meet quarterly with a 15-member Commission of Nightlife, which will include voices from business, residential and government interests. As with all legislation passed in the District, the Mayor’s signing begins a 30day review period in Congress before the law takes effect and the position is officially established.
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Woman Hurt in Waterfront Councilmember Urges Shooting, Police Investigate Scooter, Bicycle Safety CONNOR THOMAS
DUSTIN HARTUV
Hoya Staff Writer
Special to The Hoya
A woman shot at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Water Street was located by police near 20th and L streets Oct. 11 around 10:30 p.m., according to Metropolitan Police Department Communications Director Dustin Sternbeck. The woman sustained non-lifethreatening injuries after being shot while sitting in the passenger seat of a car, Sternbeck wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Officers located an adult female who had suffered from multiple gunshot wounds as a passenger in a vehicle,” Sternbeck said. “Our [Washington, D.C.] Fire and [Emergency Medical Services] partners arrived on scene and transported her to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.” MPD officers from the 2nd District Station responded to the area after a reported shooting, according to Sternbeck. The victim was found conscious and breathing after she had been shot in the stomach. The shooting was not random, and the suspect is still at large, Sternbeck said. The suspect is a black man who wore a mask and drove a black Dodge Neon with purple neon lights around the license plate, according to an Oct. 11 MPD tweet. MPD is asking anyone with information regarding the shooting to contact its detectives. This shooting is not the first to occur at the Georgetown waterfront. Nineteen-year-old Kennedy Javier Amaya-Olivares died after a double shooting that hospitalized another victim on the 3500 block of Water Street around 3 a.m. July 8, 2017, according to The Washington Post. Another shooting was reported in the same area May 29, 2016, according to WUSA9. The homicide rate in D.C. has risen by 43 percent this year, while the rate of assaults with dangerous weapons has decreased by 10
Recent deaths of bicycle and electric scooter riders have prompted Washington, D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) to call for stronger safety regulations as part of the city’s Vision Zero initiative. A 20-year-old man riding a Lime electric scooter was killed in a collision with an SUV on Sept. 21, and a 64-year-old man biking was killed in a hit-and-run on Sept. 24, according to The Washington Post. These incidents are cause for greater safety regulations, Cheh said to The Washington Post, particularly as D.C. aims to reach zero bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities by 2024 with its Vision Zero initiative. “I am a little concerned about safety issues, because I do see some [scooter] users who do appear to me to be a bit reckless, weaving in and out of cars and going up and down on sidewalks,” Cheh said in a Sept. 26 interview with The Washington Post. Lime and Bird are the two primary scooter rental companies in D.C., and Lyft launched its own fleet of 250 dockless scooters in the District on Oct. 18. They function through a smartphone app that unlocks the scooter for a few dollars, depending on the amount of time using the scooter and which company is used. The scooters can be found in cities across the United States and even internationally, according to their respective websites. Bird, which is valued at over $2 billion and has 1 million Americans users, according to CNN, affirmed its dedication to rider safety. “Bird is committed to partnering with cities to ensure that the community, and its visitors, safely embrace our affordable, environmentally friendly transportation option,” a Bird spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We strive to improve and enhance the wellbeing of our riders and communities through concrete action.”
MPD
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Water Street on Oct. 11. percent as of Oct. 23, according to MPD’s 2018 Year-to-Date Crime Data. This trend stands in contrast to most major U.S. cities, which have seen lower murder rates in 2018. Homicides are down 35 percent in San Francisco, 20.9 percent in Baltimore and 23.2 percent in Chicago, according to a Sept. 20 preliminary report by the Brennan Center for Justice. The District has taken measures to address the recent spike in violent crime, with the D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and
Public Safety hosting a public oversight roundtable on MPD programs combatting violence Sept. 25. In June, MPD Chief Peter Newsham demoted Regis Bryant, the police commander of the 7th district, following a surge in homicides in his jurisdiction, according to The Washington Post. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has also introduced legislation to reduce gun violence in D.C., banning the possession of 3D-printed “ghost guns” and other undetectable firearms without serial numbers, on Sept. 17.
Lime similarly affirmed its commitment to rider safety. “Lime advocates for city and state laws to require driver education for motorists around nonmotorist transportation to greater emphasize safe driving around scooters and bikes in roadways,” a Lime spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. As of Sept. 24, when the bicyclist was killed, there had been 27 traffic fatalities in D.C. this year, compared to 24 at the same time last year, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. This year’s total includes the bicycle rider, scooter rider and 14 pedestrians, according to The Washington Post. The District has constructed 80 miles of bike lanes since 2000, and about 5 percent of the city’s commuters bike, according to City Lab. The District Department of Transportation oversees regulating bikes and e-scooters of companies like Bird and Lime, deeming the vehicles “dockless vehicles,” according to a DDOT news release. Through the Dockless Vehicles Program for bicycles and scooters, each company is allowed 400 vehicles.
The program began in September 2017 and has been extended until the end of 2018, with new changes arriving in 2019. These new changes are set to align with regulations from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), according to the DDOT news release. The new regulations involve forcing the companies to educate riders about parking the vehicles, as well as implementing new racks for storing the vehicles. The death of a Lime rider in D.C. was the company’s second casualty, with the first occurring in Dallas earlier in September, according to TechCrunch. Numerous cities have begun to impose regulations on scooter companies, according to Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, scooter companies are continuing to implement their own safety precautions. “Bird recently formed the Global Safety Advisory Board, which will create, advise, and implement global programs, campaigns, and products to improve the safety of those riding Birds and other escooters,” the Bird spokesperson said.
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Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) is calling for increased safety regulations on bicycles and electric scooters following recent rider deaths.
DC Council Postpones Vote Regulating Home Rentals YOLANDA SPURA Special to The Hoya
UHUSTLE
A social media platform promoting student-led ventures is set to relaunch in January. Pictured is Tashnie Tucker getting her hair done by a Villanova University student, which is featured on the initial version of the site.
Student to Relaunch Social Media Marketing Platform SANA RAHMAN
Special to The Hoya
Christy Felix (MSB ’20) is preparing to relaunch UHustle, a social media and marketing platform she designed for students to advertise their entrepreneurial ventures on college campuses. The site is set to launch in January 2019 after experiencing technical problems due to fasterthan-expected growth following its initial launch Oct. 14. UHustle primarily aims to help students connect with student entrepreneurs who offer low-cost alternatives to goods and services, according to Felix. The idea of creating a streamlined platform for both consumers and entrepreneurs came from Felix’s own experiences as a student entrepreneur during her freshman year at Cornell University. “I decided to do it because I had a business doing hair for other people on campus, but it was so hard for them to find me and for me to find them,” Felix said. “It’s very limiting, because it’s constricted by my own social network — so who my friends know — but I needed to reach out to a broader network.” Due to the involvement of users from five different college campuses — Georgetown University, Cornell University, University of Connecticut, Northeastern University and Rutgers University — in the span of one week, the UHustle website slowed down, causing Felix to put the website on “maintenance” to help ac-
commodate for the platform’s fast growth. “I just got back from a software developer, and they said that there is another plug-in I can install to make it faster,” Felix said. “The website slowed down because I was using another system, and now I just switched to a new system which will help.” Felix plans to relaunch UHustle on Jan. 1, 2019, with the updated system and plug-ins. UHustle intends to reduce the number of forums through which students have to go as consumers to find a product or service and will provide a greater platform and audience for student entrepreneurs to market their own ventures, Felix said. The site gives users the option to register as a student or a business, depending on whether they want to be on the platform as a consumer or a seller. UHustle is also set to cater to users who register as a club or organization by giving them a marketing platform for uploading flyers and notifying users of events and meetings. UHustle would widen the scope of students who are exposed to the organization’s events, according to Georgetown University Women of Color President Shakera Vaughan (COL ’19). “Our organization has a focal point of women of color; however we encourage any and every one to come out to our events,” Vaughan wrote in an email to The Hoya. “UHustle will allow us to reach a diverse range of people and not just our typical
audience.” Although UHustle users do not have to register under their university name, users who choose not to register as a university student will not have access to students, clubs or organizations that only to advertise to students from their campus. Since UHustle’s initial launch Oct. 14, Felix has worked with other students to aid in the development process and to increase UHustle’s outreach on campus. According to Felix, UHustle Content Manager Sinclair Jones (MSB ’21) has helped come up with ideas about the platform’s potential to benefit student communities on college campuses everywhere. Being heavily involved in the Georgetown entrepreneurial community through Georgetown Aspiring Minority Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs and Georgetown Ventures, UHustle serves the group of student entrepreneurs who struggle to find a platform on which to promote their services with current oncampus offerings. “What I’ve noticed is that a lot of the businesses that we accept into those programs are more large-scale or aren’t businesses that are like ‘I braid hair’ or ‘I make art,’ but those are still student ventures,” Jones said. “So really, for me, UHustle is a way to call attention to the wide array of entrepreneurship that is present here on campus and uplifting everyone who considers themselves to be an entrepreneur.”
Washington, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) postponed the final vote on a bill limiting the use of Airbnb, a homestay service, and other short-term lodging services in the District after financial analysis revealed the high costs of enforcing the measures outlined in the policy Oct. 16. The vote is set to occur Nov. 13. The proposed legislation, which the Council passed unanimously on its initial vote, restricts the practice of vacation rentals, prohibiting D.C. homeowners from renting out their primary residences for more than 90 days when absent. The bill also creates new licensing and reporting requirements and prohibits short-term rentals on second homes. The bill seeks to minimize the commercialization of residential neighborhoods, Mendelson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “The intent of this bill is to strike a balance in the demand for shortterm rentals without commercializing residential neighborhoods,” Mendelson said. “What we’re trying to deal with are the adverse consequences of having transient guest traffic in our residential neighborhoods.” Implementation of the bill
would cost $104.1 million over the course of four years because of its limits on short-term rentals in residential zones, according to D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt’s fiscal impact statement. The proposed restrictions would eliminate 80 to 90 percent of short-term rentals, causing the city to lose out on expected tax revenue. Short-term rentals in residential zones are already illegal, although rarely enforced, Mendelson said in an interview with WAMU. DeWitt’s fiscal impact statement assumes that the passage of the bill would result in greater enforcement. Airbnb has lobbied against the bill, which would be implemented in October 2019, and has said that if it is approved, it will consider a ballot measure countering the policy in 2020, according to WAMU. If passed, the bill will hurt the District’s budget and negatively affect D.C. homeowners, Airbnb Head of Public Affairs Christopher Nulty wrote in an email to The Hoya. “We were disappointed to see Chairman Mendelson try to deceive his own Council and ram an amendment through that would sacrifice the city’s budget surplus to fund a $104 million hole created by these hotel-backed regulations,” Nulty said. “The negative fiscal impacts of this proposal — for taxpayers, families who share their
homes, and neighborhood businesses — are real and so we are glad cooler minds prevailed and this vote was delayed.” Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) supports the use of home-sharing services like Airbnb because of the economic benefits the short-term rental industry brings for D.C. residents, Press Secretary LaToya Foster wrote in an email to The Hoya. “D.C. residents use Airbnb to supplement their income, and visitors use it to check out our local neighborhoods,” Foster said. “The sharing economy is here to stay, and we want Washingtonians to have every opportunity to benefit from these industries. The Mayor wants to ensure that any regulations put in place are about building a more equitable and inclusive D.C. — not about locking Washingtonians out of emerging and profitable markets.” Mendelson plans to change existing restrictions to encourage many of the short-term rentals that are currently prohibited, he said in an interview with WAMU. “It’s my intent to ask the Zoning Commission to revisit its regulations so that the bulk of the shortterm rentals, that is the ones that are in residential neighborhoods currently prohibited by zoning, would be permitted,” Mendelson said.
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Teams Cap Fall Men, Women Face Top Teams in Boston Seasons, Earn Top-6 Finishes JAKE WEXELBLATT Special to The Hoya
JP HARRISON Hoya Staff Writer
The Georgetown men’s and women’s golf teams wrapped up their fall seasons last weekend with two top-six finishes. The women’s team travelled to Rehoboth Beach, Del. for the University of Delaware’s Lady Blue Hen Invitational, while the men headed to Powells Point, N.C., for the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate, hosted by Old Dominion University. The women’s team sent a squad of seniors -- Alexa Popowitz, Pendleton Bogache and Christina Parsells -- as well as juniors Ashley Fitzgibbons and Kate Evanko to the Lady Blue Hen Invitational. The women started out strong at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club with a season-low score of 291 in the early round on Saturday and followed their success with a 297 in the afternoon. Windy weather on Sunday led to higher scores across the board, but Georgetown turned in a 311, the secondbest score of the day. The Hoyas finished third
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Senior Alexa Popowitz carded a 221 at the Lady Hen Invitational.
at 47-over par, with a total score of 899. Seton Hall won the tournament with a threeround score of 890, and Delaware finished three strokes behind at 893. Popowitz carded a seasonbest score of 70 in her first round, which put her in sight of the top three places. She was the Hoyas’ top performer at the end of the three rounds, turning in an 8-over par 221 to finish third overall. Parsells finished in second place for the Hoyas, tying for 15th with a score of 226. In the final round on Monday, Parsells recorded a 3-over par 75 to move up 16 positions on the leaderboard. Rounding out the top finishers for the Hoyas were Bogache and Fitzgibbons, who both placed in the top 25 positions. Bogache finished tied for 19th with a 15-over par 228, while Fitzgibbons tied for 25th. Fitzgibbons started the weekend well with rounds of 71 and 75 but fell back on the leaderboard with a 13-over par round on Monday. Evanko missed the second round of the tournament due to illness but carded a 78 on Sunday, tying for second best on the team. The men’s team finished sixth overall at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate, played at Kilmarlic Golf Course. Coming into the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate tournament, junior Eduardo Blochtein led the men’s team with an average of 73.18 strokes per round. Freshman Will Rand had a strong fall season, placing second on the team in strokes per round with 75. The Hoyas carded rounds of 295, 289 and 291. Campbell University won the tournament at 34-under par. Junior Hardin Councill led the Hoyas’ effort with a threeround score of 1-over par 214, finishing in 12th place overall. Blochtein tied for 20th place, carding a three-round score of 3-over par 216 (7272-73). The two golfers were tied at 11th overall after two rounds, each recording scores of 143.
The Georgetown men’s and women’s crew teams headed up to Boston for the annual Head of the Charles Regatta last weekend, competing well against some of the top crew squads in the nation. Georgetown matched up against 804 other clubs racing down the Charles River over the course of the weekend in the largest regatta in the world. The men’s and women’s teams entered boats into five divisions for the two-day event — two teams of eight and three teams of four, with each of these divisions including anywhere from nine to 52 boats. The men’s lightweight fours had the best perfor-
mance for the Hoyas, cruising to a 20-second victory over a crowded field of 16 teams. Their unofficial time came in at 17:33.192. Junior coxswain Ryan Zuccala performed well, considering that the course’s length, sharp turns and upstream route make it one of the most difficult in the country. The men’s lightweight fours boat was filled with four of the team’s best rowers in senior Artym Hayda, junior Olivier Malle, junior Liam Lafferty and senior Hector Formoso-Murias. The men’s championship heavyweight eights faced a difficult field, finishing 29th with a time of 16:29.636. USRowing placed first in the race with a time of 14:49.616. Men’s Head Coach Luke
Agnini said the Head of the Charles is one of the most competitive regattas the Hoyas compete in throughout the year. “Until the national championships, [this is] the only race with the best teams in the world,” Agnini said in an interview with The H oya. The women’s team also travelled to the Head of the Charles Regatta last weekend, entering boats into the club fours, lightweight fours and lightweight eights races. Senior Katarina Stough served as the coxswain for the lightweight eights, navigating the Charles River and leading her boat to a fourthplace finish with a time of 18:25.512. Women’s Head Coach Kendall Mulligan emphasized the importance of racing at
a difficult course against a high level of competition. “In the fall, the Charles is something we build to,” Mulligan said in an interview with T he H oya . The women’s team made its way up to Boston on Friday before their Saturday afternoon races, enabling them to practice on the course Friday. These practice runs were especially valuable for first-time coxswains, freshman Regan Fisher and sophomore Schylar Jacobs, who gained familiarity with the difficult turns and bridges at the regatta before the competition started. On Oct. 27, the women’s squad will compete in the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, while the men’s team will head to Princeton, N.J., for the Princeton Chase on Oct. 28.
GUWRA
The Georgetown women's lightweight eights finished in fourth place at the Head of the Charles Regatta, recording a time of 18:25.512. The men's team earned a victory in the lightweight fours, finishing 20 seconds ahead of second-place Cornell.
V0LLEYBALL
FIELD HOCKEY
Georgetown Ends Nonconference Schedule With Shootout Win SIDNEY LEE
Special to The Hoya
NATALIE ISE FOR THE HOYA
Junior outside hitter Iva Vujosevic, right, recorded eight kills and five digs in Georgetown's loss against Seton Hall on Oct. 19. So far this season, Vujosevic has 252 kills and 184 digs.
Hoyas Fall Against Big East Rivals Seton Hall, St. John's VIKRAM SUD
Hoya Staff Writer
Last weekend, the Georgetown volleyball team fell to Seton Hall in three sets and dropped a close five-set match against St. John’s. On Oct. 19, Georgetown (1310, 6-5 Big East) was swept in straight sets by Seton Hall (815, 3-7 Big East). The first and third sets were decided by two points, while Seton Hall took the second set by a score of 2519. In the first frame, senior libero Kenzie Higareda’s ace provided the Hoyas with a 12-8 lead. The teams were tied at 21-21 and 24-24, but a late run allowed the Pirates to win the set 27-25. After a dominant second set by Seton Hall, the third frame was again tightly contested. The Hoyas were tied at 10-10 with the Pirates, but could not mount a comeback after going down by four points. Seton Hall took the frame 25-23 and
clinched the three-set sweep and the victory. Senior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette and senior middle blocker Symone Speech led the Hoyas offensively against Seton Hall, and each tallied double-digit kills. On the defensive end, Speech added seven blocks and Higareda recorded 12 digs. On Saturday, Oct. 20, Georgetown faced another Big East opponent, St. John’s (18-8, 7-4 Big East). The Red Storm rank third in the Big East standings, with the Hoyas one spot behind in fourth. The first set, which was decided by two points, started what would be a tightly contested match. With the score tied at 20-20, St. John’s pushed the score to 24-22, needing one more point to secure a first-set victory. The Hoyas came out firing from a timeout to tie the score at 2424, but the Red Storm scored three out of the last four
points to take the frame. In the late stages of the second set, with the score tied at 22-22, the Hoyas scored three consecutive points to win the frame and even the score of the match at 1-1. After the third set, which the Red Storm took 25-18, the Hoyas responded to send the match to a fifth frame. Georgetown faced an early 5-1 deficit, but came back to reduce St. John’s lead to 1312. The Red Storm ended the Hoyas’ hopes of a come-frombehind victory, scoring the final two points to win the match. Sinnette notched another strong performance against St. John's, recording 18 kills as well as eight blocks, leading the team in both categories. Sophomore setter Margo Pivonka added 38 assists in the five-set match. On Oct. 26, Georgetown will face Villanova at 5 p.m. in a Big East matchup in McDonough Arena.
The Georgetown field hockey team competed in two penalty shootout games last week, falling to Providence on Friday and edging out Longwood on Sunday. In Georgetown’s (11-6, 2-4 Big East) matchup against Providence (11-6, 4-2 Big East), the Friars scored the first goal of the game with a minute remaining in the first half off a short-range strike by junior midfielder Mary O’Reilly. In the 62nd minute, senior midfielder Sam Hickey scored her first goal of the season to tie the game at 1-1 and force the contest into overtime. During the two 10-minute overtime periods, the Hoya defense held strong and freshman goalkeeper Ciara Weets saved three scoring opportunities from the Friars. Georgetown’s attack could not find a way to break the tie and, after 20 minutes, the match went into a penalty shootout. The Friars grabbed a 3-0 advan-
tage in the shootout, and O’Reilly scored again to clinch the victory. Providence’s goalkeeper blocked all of Georgetown’s chances on cage. The loss eliminated the Hoyas from competing in the Big East championship. Before Sunday’s match against Longwood, Georgetown honored its four seniors for the program’s Senior Day: forward Helena Masiello, Sam Hickey, midfielder Katie Maransky and goalkeeper Chloe Verweil. The Hoyas defeated the Lancers 2-1, again competing in two overtime periods and a shootout. The contest marked Georgetown’s last non-conference game of the season. Sophomore back Anna Farley opened the scoring with a goal off a penalty corner, putting Georgetown on the board five minutes into the game. The assists were awarded to Masiello and Maransky. Longwood tied the score
1-1 in the 23rd minute with a close-range shot. By halftime, the Hoyas and the Lancers had each taken three shots. Georgetown and Longwood continued to be evenly matched for the rest of regulation, as neither team found the back of the net. After 70 minutes of play, the game headed into overtime. Once again, the 20-minute overtime period ended without a goal, and the contest entered a penalty shootout. Freshman back Sydney Stephenson and Masiello both scored in the shootout to give Georgetown the lead before the Lancers’ fifth shot. Weets blocked Longwood’s last shot in the shootout to secure the Hoyas’ victory. Georgetown will be back on Cooper Field on Oct. 26 to host the reigning national champions, No. 5 University of Connecticut. Game time is set for 2 p.m. and will be the final game of the Hoyas’ season.
KIKI SCHMALFUSS FOR THE HOYA
Sophomore midfielder Jax van der Veen has seven assists and one goal this season. The Georgetown field hockey team fell to Providence 2-1 in a shootout Oct. 19 and defeated Longwood 2-1 on Oct. 21.
SPORTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018
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FOOTBALL
Woods Dominates Competitors in Earnings MAHTANI, from A12
his net worth was a lofty $740 million in 2016. This number has most likely fluctuated somewhat, but it reveals how much money the legend has amassed in the last two decades. Monetarily, Woods shows up his competitors every year and beats each one by a landslide. On the course, however, he may struggle to perform like the Woods of years past, given his age and battles with back and knee surgeries. Woods’ most recent win may have marked the final victory for a long-revered legend, but his earnings show that he will always be an icon in the game of golf.
TIGER WOODS
Tiger Woods earned $1.62 million for winning the Tour Championship in September. Woods won his first tournament in over five years and remains No.1 in earnings in the history of professional golf.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Unbeaten Hoyas Defeat Bulldogs 2-0 BUTLER, from A12
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Junior wide receiver Michael Dereus caught three passes for 120 yards in Georgetown’s win over Lehigh. He has 17 catches this season.
Georgetown Wins 3rd Straight Patriot League Game LEHIGH, from A12
Georgetown the advantage. Lehigh then tied it on its first possession of the overtime period. Lehigh had possession to start the second overtime, until Francois picked off a pass to give the Hoyas the ball and a chance to clinch the victory. Two consecutive runs from Saffold marched the Hoyas 25 yards down the field for a touchdown and the victory. Next up for the Hoyas is a trip to Hamilton, N.Y., where they will put their undefeated conference record on the line against Colgate University on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 12 p.m.
of how the defense answered the bell,” Sgarlata said. Sophomore defensive back Cameron Deen and senior defensive back Jethro Francois each recorded interceptions against Lehigh. The Hoya defense now leads the nation in interceptions with 15 this season. Deadlocked at nine at the end of regulation, the Hoyas started their first overtime bout since 2010 with the ball. After a 19-yard pass from Johnson to Dereus, Saffold scored a touchdown to give
tournament with great confidence,” Nolan said in an interview with The Hoya. “We are excited by the challenges ahead in the Big East and NCAA also, hopefully.” The Hoyas and the Bulldogs remained even for much of the match, with Butler recording eight shots to Georgetown’s nine and six corner kicks to Georgetown’s two. On the whole, Georgetown tallied 13 fouls and Butler recorded 18. Senior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman saved three shots on the day and notched her 11th shutout of the season. Nolan praised the Hoyas’ response to the challenges they faced throughout the game. “I could not have been more impressed with the girls today. The weather and wind in particular made this a tricky encounter and in the first half we had to manage that against a very good Butler team,” Nolan said. “Butler posed us some problems; they are an excellent team and very well coached. However, in the second half, we really took ownership of the game and I felt we were well worth the win.” Despite being held to scoreless in the game, the Bulldog offense generated several scoring opportunities against a solid
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Junior defender Meaghan Nally was named the Big East defensive player of the week for her performances against Butler and Marquette, while Schechtman was recognized on the Big East weekly honor roll. Undefeated in Big East play,
Georgetown has secured the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Big East tournament. Georgetown will next travel to Cincinnati to face Xavier in its last regular season game Oct. 25 before kicking off the Big East tournament the following week. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
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Junior midfielder Paula Germino-Watnick has started 13 games this season and totalled four goals and four assists. Germino-Watnick added a goal in the Hoyas’ win over the Bulldogs.
rounded Seton Hall’s sophomore goalkeeper Andreas Nota and scored on an empty net to extend Georgetown’s lead to 2-0. In the 61st minute, Achara scored his second goal of the game and sixth of the season. Junior defender Dylan Nealis had an opportunity to score on a breakaway, but his shot was deflected by Nota. Achara found himself in the right position to put in the rebound and provide the Hoyas with a 3-0 advantage. Two minutes later, junior for-
ward Riley Strassner scored off an assist from Dodson, putting the game out of reach at 4-0. Sophomore goalkeeper Ethan Koehler tallied five saves and earned his first shutout of the season. Georgetown recorded another road victory in its midweek matchup against Providence (76-2, 4-2-1 Big East) Oct. 24. The Hoyas were under pressure early in the match, as the Friars’ junior midfielder Danny Griffin scored in the fourth minute. Providence dominated possession for the rest of the half and Georgetown entered the break down one goal.
The Hoyas found a breakthrough in the 70th minute when Nealis hit a cross toward sophomore midfielder Foster McCune, who finished the chance to even the score at 1-1. With 10 minutes remaining in regulation, the Hoyas took control of the match and began to generate chances in the Friar’s end of the pitch. In the 89th minute, Dodson received the ball at the top of the box and fired a shot past Providence’s goalkeeper to break the tie and give the Hoyas a 2-1 lead. Georgetown held on in the final minute to record its third straight victory.
Wiese emphasized the importance of the win and said it will provide the Hoyas with momentum for the rest of their season. “This was a great win and really a turning point in our year,” Wiese said. “This was a character game for our guys as we had to come back on the road against a very good team. This was a playoff-type atmosphere when the stakes were high and I was pleased with how the boys handled it.” Georgetown will play its final home game of the season Oct. 27 as it faces St. John’s at 1 p.m. on Senior Day.
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Against Maryland on Oct. 8, senior defender Peter Schropp started and helped the Hoya defense record its fifth shutout of the season. Georgetown will close out its home schedule this weekend against St. John’s, riding a three-game winning streak after wins over Seton Hall and Providence.
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Men’s Soccer Georgetown (9-3-3) vs. St. John’s (6-6-3) Saturday, Oct. 27, 1 p.m. Shaw Field
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Freshman midfielder Sean Zawadzki recorded three shots in the Georgetown men’s soccer team’s draw against Maryland on Oct. 8.
Hoyas Shut Out Pirates, Edge Friars With Late Goal The No. 24 Georgetown men’s soccer team earned two road victories in the Big East this week, shutting out Seton Hall 4-0 on Oct. 20 and defeating Providence 2-1 on Oct. 24. Georgetown (9-3-3, 5-1-1 Big East) started the scoring against Seton Hall (6-5-2, 2-4-1 Big East) in the seventh minute, as junior forward Achara scored his fifth goal of the season off an assist from senior forward Ethan Lochner. Head Coach Brian Wiese praised the efficient performance of the offense, which
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took advantage of its chances despite generating few shots on target. “Achara got us off on the right foot with a calm finish which really settled the team and resulted in some great goals,” Wiese said in an interview with GUHoyas. “It was one of our lowest shot totals of the season, and it was nice to see our guys rewarded with some goals. As always, three points on the road in the Big East is important, so we’re happy with the result.” In the 38th minute, sophomore forward Derek Dodson See SETON HALL, A11
In a double overtime thriller, the Georgetown football team defeated Lehigh University 22-16 in front of a soldout crowd Saturday. The game marks Georgetown’s (4-4, 3-0 Patriot League) first win over Lehigh (1-6, 0-2 Patriot League) since 1925. The Hoyas have won their opening three Patriot League contests for the first time since joining the conference in 2001. Although Georgetown’s offense has struggled recently, it found success against Lehigh. Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson completed 16 passes for 270 yards and a touchdown. Johnson’s main target of the day was junior wideout Michael Dereus, who hauled in three passes for 120 yards and a touchdown. Freshman receiver Joshua Tomas also had three grabs for 59 yards. Johnson said that the Hoyas are beginning to find their rhythm on offense. “The offense is starting to learn what we are capable of. We did a lot of good things, converted on third downs. I feel like we are on top of the world right now, but we will be ready to go next week,” Johnson said. In overtime, sophomore running back Jackson Saffold took control. He gained 31 yards and found the back of the end zone twice for two touchdowns in the overtime periods. Georgetown’s defense was headlined by some familiar names. Sophomore lineback-
ers Wes Bowers and Xavier Reddick led the team in tackles. Bowers also ran back a blocked extra point attempt for two points. Junior defensive lineman
Khristian Tate recorded a pair of sacks, and leads the team with 7 1/2 this season. Head Coach Rob Sgarlata praised the depth of Georgetown’s defense.
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Sophomore linebacker Wes Bowers, middle, recorded 11 total tackles in Georgetown’s win over Lehigh last weekend and returned a blocked extra point attempt for two points.
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GU Earns Big East Regular-Season Title RACHEL GAUDREAU Special to The Hoya
After 64 minutes of scoreless play between the Georgetown women’s soccer team and Butler on Sunday at Shaw Field, sophomore defender Kelly Ann Livingstone slotted a ball into the back of the net to give the Hoyas a 1-0 lead. Junior midfielder Carson
Nizialek found Livingstone’s feet off a free kick from junior forward Paula Germino-Watnick. Nizialek and GerminoWatnick earned assists on the goal. Georgetown (15-0-2, 8-0 Big East) went on to defeat Butler (12-6-1, 5-2-1 Big East) by a score of 2-0 to clinch its second straight Big East regular season title. Germino-Watnick
scored the Hoyas’ second goal of the game in the 82nd minute, finishing off a pass from senior forward Amanda Carolan in the 6-yard box. Senior forward Caitlin Farrell also recorded an assist on the play as Butler’s sophomore goalkeeper Leonie Doege deflected her shot, allowing Carolan to slip the ball to Germino-Watnick.
Head Coach Dave Nolan emphasized the importance of the title and the motivation that it will provide the Hoyas going forward. “Winning consecutive Big East Regular Season Championships is a goal that the team set for themselves and we now look towards the conference See BUTLER, A11
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Junior midfielder Carson Nizialek has started 15 games this season for the Hoyas. Nizialek recorded an assist and three shots against Butler and has two goals and four assists so far this season. The Georgetown women’s soccer team will be the top seed in the Big East tournament. Visit us online at thehoya.com/sports
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Aging Tiger Woods Remains an Icon In World of Golf Tiger Woods, one of the most famous golfers in the history of the sport, has once again pulled the impossible. Woods marked his official comeback and first win on the PGA Tour since 2013 by dominating at the Tour Championship on Aug. 25, finishing 72 holes at an impressive 11 under par. Considering his numerous back surgeries in the last decade, his age and the young talent in the game of golf, Woods’ win was monumental to say the least. However, Woods’ success on the course will most likely be shortlived. He will turn 43 in December and must manage his surgically repaired back. At the end of the day, Woods doesn’t need to win anymore. While most golfers claim that pride and honor are the greatest honors they can receive for winning tournaments, golfers earn more than athletes in multiple other sports. The PGA Tour had 47 official tournaments on its 2016-17 schedule, with prize money totalling $342 million. To put that into perspective, Woods has been playing professional golf for nearly 22 years and has won money from events outside the PGA Tour. Woods has made more than
$1.4 billion since turning pro in 1996, and more than $115 million of that came from on-course winnings. He ranks No. 1 all-time in earnings for professional golfers. And let’s not forget about endorsements. Before his reported infidelity in November 2009 and his eventual divorce, Woods was in no shortage of endorsements. Companies like AT&T Inc., General Motors Co., Gillette and Gatorade were his most notable sponsors. Not only did Woods have to cough up $100 million for the divorce settlement, but he also lost about $23 million worth of endorsements almost overnight following the news of his adultery. Naturally, with the news of his ugly divorce, Tiger’s standing as the highest earning golfer fell in the years after 2010. Tiger Woods sat in 17th place in winnings for the majority of 2017, making $37.1 million — contrasting with the $115 million he made in 2008. Woods’ earnings fell after 2010, but his multi-million dollar sponsorship deals continued to net him more than most golfers in the sport. Despite all of the money that Woods lost in endorsements and in his divorce over the past decade, See MAHTANI, A11