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Champions of Change
See how LGBTQ student activism has influenced the administration and changed the campus conversation.
EDITORIAL Jamal Khashoggi’s slaying sheds a harsh light on dangers faced by journalists globally.
WUERL RESIGNS Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
OPINION, A2
NEWS, A5
Faculty Petitions Mold Pervades Housing, Threatens Health Provost for Equal Parental Leave MYROSLAV DOBrOSHYSKYI Special to The Hoya
KATRINA SCHMIDT Hoya Staff Writer
A petition to increase the parental leave of non-tenureline faculty to equal that of tenure-line faculty is being “seriously considered” by the university, after 282 individuals signed the petition as of its Oct. 15 closing date. Full-time non-tenure-line faculty members, which includes about 300 assistant, associate and full professors, are entitled to eight weeks of paid maternity leave, while tenure-line faculty members are eligible for one semester of paid maternal and paternal leave.
On Oct. 12, the chair of the Joint Main Campus Committee on Full-Time Non-Tenure Line Issues and two signatories of the petition delivered it to the Office of the President and met with Vice President and Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara. On Monday, the petition was delivered to the Office of the Provost. The petition asks for the allotted eight weeks to be increased to a semester for fulltime non-tenure-line faculty and include maternal and paternal leave. Created by the Joint Main Campus Committee See PARENTAL LEAVE, A7
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Sylvia Önder, left, Clare Fieseler (SFS ’06) and Astrid Weigert delivered the petition to the Office of the President on Oct. 12.
Georgetown University students are reporting illness and repeated delays in response by the Office of Facilities and Planning Management to requests for mold removal. In the period from August through October of the fall 2018 semester, the Office of Planning and Facilities Management responded to 361 work requests relating to mold, according to Interim Vice President of Planning and Facilities Management Greg Simmons. For the same period last year, the office addressed 147 requests. Recent weather conditions have exacerbated the prevalence of mold in dormitories, as the District has recorded historic amounts of rainfall this fall, Simmons said. September saw a significant increase in precipitation, up to 9.73 inches this year from just 1.43 inches last September. Village C, Darnall Hall and Village A have had the most requests so far this semester. The Office of Residential Living and the Office of Planning and Facilities Management are collaborating to resolve student mold concerns and to try to expedite remediation efforts, according to Simmons. “Senior management from our facilities office reviews all requests relating to mold and directs safety managers to conduct mold assessments within two business days,” Simmons wrote in an email to The Hoya. Exposure to mold can pose various health risks, especially to those who are sensitive to the issue. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website,
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Georgetown University’s Office of Planning and Facilities Management has responded to 361 mold-related work requests since August 2018, with students reporting unsafe living conditions and health concerns. “molds can cause nasal stuffiness, throat irritation, coughing or wheezing, eye irritation, or, in some cases, skin irritation.” Sarah Mendelsohn (COL ’21) and her roommate, Deepika Jonnalagadda (COL ’21) noticed mold in their closets and drawers and on their clothing in their LXR Hall dorm room Sept. 28. (Full disclosure: Mendelsohn and Jon-
CSP Celebrates 50th Anniversary
nalagadda are news desk editors at The Hoya). The two immediately called facilities so the issue could be addressed. Facilities sent someone Sept. 30, two days later, to look at the mold and informed the two that a health inspector would need to examine the room. After Mendelsohn called facilities six times in the following two days with no response, her
mother called to report the issue. An inspector came Oct. 3. If a facilities visual inspection uncovers mold, cleanup occurs the same day: Professionals disinfect the room and complete HighEfficiency Particulate Air vacuuming to get rid of the mold spores, Simmons said. See MOLD, A6
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Community Scholars Program offers support for first-generation students MEENA MORAR Hoya Staff Writer
Since the Community Scholars Program was first proposed in 1964, it has grown from a small, faculty funded program supporting five local students to a large institutional presence serving at least 50 new students from across the United States each year. The program is celebrating 50 years since its official creation in 1968 this month, culminating in alumni reuniting Oct. 5. Housed in the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, CSP is a five-week summer program for incoming first-generation and low-income students, aimed at aiding their transition to higher education, according to the CMEA website. The current cohort of scholars includes 75 first-generation and lowincome students from across the country. CSP students take two courses in the summer and attend orientation workshops to build connections with other students and professors, according to CSP Senior Academic Advisor Elizabeth Velez. “In terms of Georgetown’s vision, [CSP] is working with the whole student,” Velez
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said. “It’s not just academic — it’s social, cultural. In the summer, they get to know their deans, their financial aid officers. To know how to navigate the system is part of what we’re doing in the program.” The attention paid to students’ lives outside of academics may just be paying
“The backbone of the program is the ability to have these close mentor-mentee relationships.” Omaris Caceres (NHS ’20) Community Scholar
dividends in students’ success in the classroom: CSP has a 91 percent graduation rate, 32 percentage points higher than the national graduation rate, according to a university news release. Both a participant in CSP and a former residential assistant for the program, Omaris Caceres (NHS ’20) feels like
the program provides an intentionality often missed in higher education. “Georgetown is recognizing that most students come to campus with a toolbox full of tools that they can use,” Caceres said. “That includes how to do office hours, how to take a test, how to interact with professors — tools that people usually have coming into college. Georgetown is recognizing that scholars who are usually first generation, come from low income backgrounds, are coming in with an empty toolbox, and Community Scholars is the opportunity to fill it because we haven’t really had the chance to collect them.” The 50th anniversary celebration featured a day full of panel talks on the program’s legacy and a reception, giving previous alumni a chance to reconnect with each other, CSP Director Devita Bishundat said. “We brought together alums through the years, as well as current students, folks who have taught in the program, to really pay homage to the folks that laid the ground work for this program,” Bishundat said. “Being able to honor that when this program started, it was because of faculty and staff and
students who gave money out of their pocket.” The first year of the program granted $45,000 in scholarships to five black students from Washington, D.C., according to a 1968 university news release. The funds were donated by 90 lay and 40 Jesuit professors in a drive organized by English professor Raymond Reno. At the time, only 40 black students were enrolled at the university. The deep connections and history of CSP allow students the ability to maintain close relationships with other students and mentors throughout their time at Georgetown and beyond, Caceres said. “The backbone of the program is the ability to have these close mentor-mentee relationships with so many different people,” Caceres said. “I actually met graduates who are succeeding and making money, and proved to me that people haven’t been lying to me this whole time. They had the same tools and access to things that I do, so I’ll be able to reach that too.” The program itself has shifted and grown significantly from its inception, according to Velez. “In 1968, Georgetown See CSP, A6
MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION
Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in a hate crime in 1998, will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral on Oct. 26.
NEWS
OPINION
SPORTS
Warner Warns of Cyber Attacks Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) spoke on the threat of cyberwarfare at an event Tuesday night. A5
Listening to Survivors A survivor of sexual assault in the Georgetown neighborhood shares their story. A3
Conference Success The Georgetown football team defeated Lafayette last weekend to earn its second straight Patriot League victory. A12
NEWS Drive for Thrive DC
opinion Ban Tobacco Sales
SPORTS Overtime Win
Magis Row hosted a drive to collect feminine hygiene products for Thrive D.C., a local nonprofit that serves Ward 1. A9 Published Fridays
By selling tobacco products on campus, The Corp is enabling risky behavior. A3
Senior forward Caitlin Farrell scored the game-winning goal in the women’s soccer team’s victory over Providence. A12 Send story ideas and tips to news@thehoya.com
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EDITORIALS
Understand Threats to Free Press Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed for criticizing his government. As students in the United States, we should take this moment to remember that violence against journalists is a more severe problem than we may recognize in our day-to-day lives. In this country, we too often take freedom of the press for granted: A September report from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press found that 52 percent of voters did not see press freedom as under threat Yet, outside of the United States, reporters and columnists — including members of the Georgetown University community, such as Austin Tice (COL ’02) — put themselves at great risk to keep readers informed of their governments’ actions. As many of us at Georgetown prepare for careers of public service in diplomacy, journalism and other fields aimed at peace and truth, we should remember that the work we take for granted in the United States — including reporting the facts, criticizing our own government and protesting for what we believe in — can be death sentences for those in other countries. In September 2016, Khashoggi was barred from writing his column in Saudi newspaper al-Hayat after criticizing then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to reports from the U.S. Department of State and Business Insider. Khashoggi then moved to the United States and began writing columns for The Washington Post in 2017. He wrote several articles critical of his home country’s intervention in Yemen and of the policies of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. On Oct. 2, Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, where he had an appointment to obtain documentation of his divorce so that he could marry his Turkish fiancee. Surveillance video footage of both doorways show that Khashoggi never left; multiple Turkish and U.S. outlets have reported that he has been killed. Agents of the Saudi government tortured, dismembered and beheaded Khashoggi, according to The New York Times. The civil liberties we can take for granted are not the reality in other countries.
In his final column, submitted to The Washington Post by his assistant the day after he disappeared from the consulate in Turkey, Khashoggi himself lamented the state-led attack on the free press across the Arab world. “Arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate,” Khashoggi wrote. “These governments, whose very existence relies on the control of information, have aggressively blocked the Internet. They have also arrested local reporters and pressure advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications.” Two weeks ago, one of these governments captured and mutilated one of its citizens. Khashoggi was punished for the grave sin of criticizing his home country, reminding us once again that honorable intentions are often pursued at a steep price. This issue is unfortunately pertinent to members of the Georgetown community. In August 2012, Tice was kidnapped while working as a journalist in Syria. His whereabouts are still unknown, and the U.S. government believes he was captured by either the Syrian government or pro-government forces. Freelancing for The Washington Post, McClatchy and several other news organizations, Tice was reporting on how the war in Syria affected the lives of ordinary citizens. Tice, a Marine Corps veteran, embodies the Georgetown prerogative of becoming a “global citizen,” as did Khashoggi. As Georgetown students study and explore the globe, seeking to better understand our world, we must remind ourselves how real these threats to freedom can become. Journalists are not the only people who experience these threats every day. Khashoggi’s fellow Saudi Arabians, along with citizens of other countries that restrict expression, must live with the risk of governmental retaliation if they criticize their government. Becoming global citizens means Georgetown students must recognize that troubling reality. Austin Tice showed the Georgetown community that threats against journalists are closer to home than we realize. Jamal Khashoggi should remind us that speaking the truth carries great risk — even for a man off the job, only looking to marry his fiancee.
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Tequilon Musk — Electric automaker Tesla recently filed a trademark application for the word “Teslaquila.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted out to his 23 million followers, “Teslaquila coming soon.” Tarred and Googly-Eyed — Officials from Savannah, Ga., are hunting for the “googly eye bandit” after the novelty eyeballs were stuck to eyes of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene’s statue. Officials said putting googly eyes on monuments is no laughing matter. Grande Disappointment — Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson broke up after a whirlwind summer romance and engagement in June. The singer and “Saturday Night Live” star have cited “unresolved personal issues” as the reason for the split.
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U.S. Gotta Be Kitten Me — The U.S. Embassy in Australia apologized Monday for sending a mass email with a picture of a cat wearing a Cookie Monster outfit. “Sorry to disappoint those of you who were hoping to attend this ‘cat pyjama-jam’ party, but such an event falls well outside our area of expertise,” an embassy spokesperson told the Australian Associated Press.
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Beef with Mazda — A runaway cow almost escaped a cattle market in Scotland but was apprehended when it made a wrong turn into a car dealership. The animal, described by locals as a fugitive bovine, went on a 20-second rampage, causing $2,000 worth of damage to two Mazdas.
EDITORIAL CARTOON by Adam Semprevivo
Reclaim Sellinger for Undergrads Sellinger Lounge is one of Georgetown University’s best efforts at developing a multifaceted space on campus. However, maintenance problems and confusion over the lounge’s primary goals seriously detract from functionality for undergraduate students. Sellinger, found just outside the university bookstore in the Leavey Center, serves a wide range of people in the Georgetown community. Tour groups pass through during the day, graduate and medical students eat there after going to Chick-Fil-A at night, and undergraduates study through the night. Each of these functions may benefit Georgetown as an institution but makes the Sellinger stray from students’ best interests. The university must address existing facilities concerns, in addition to working with undergraduates to provide the community a space that addresses their preferences and needs. Outlets across Sellinger are not working, which is frustrating for students who rely on their computers for work. This problem should not be difficult to resolve — Georgetown simply must prioritize functionality for students. The lounge, Hoya Court and bookstore are also overrun with mice. A space as recently renovated as Leavy should not be suffering from rodent issues already, but the problem has arisen nonetheless; Georgetown should deal with the intruders before the infestation spirals out of control. In addition to basic maintenance concerns, updates to the area around Sellinger have brought the lounge further away from its purpose as a student space. In fall 2017, Georgetown added Chick-Fil-A and salad shop Crop Chop to its offerings in Hoya Court, redesigned the university bookstore’s to bring in more customers, and restructured Sellinger around a more open layout. The overhaul was likely motivated by a desire to increase campus appeal, in addition to drawing customers to the bookstore. These aims seem to have been fulfilled but only at the expense of Sellinger’s appeal as a student space — which Georgetown desperately needs.
During the day, Sellinger is plagued by the heavy foot traffic of tourists, students from the Georgetown University Medical Center and other members of the Georgetown community uninterested in cultivating a productive study space. Around mealtimes, Sellinger becomes, effectively, a spillover area for customers to eat. This influx takes up the lounge’s limited space, restricting students’ ability to study in a comfortable space. In Sellinger, Georgetown should seize the opportunity to develop a space with undergraduates’ interests in mind. The Healey Family Student Center, opened in 2014, is a good space for students to both work and socialize. However, limited space provides an unavoidable obstacle in the way of addressing the needs of undergraduates. The 2016 opening of Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Residence Hall, whose ground floor includes a multipurpose meeting room, a kitchen and many couches for students, was also a positive step toward resolving issues around student space. However, the space only has one table for common use and is made up mostly of couches, leaving students in search of a comfortable study space. Sellinger is Georgetown’s best chance at further meeting the study and social needs of undergraduate students. Changes in Sellinger’s layout also resulted in coffee shop Uncommon Grounds moving to the second floor of the bookstore. UG has reduced its operating hours since the move, depriving students of coffee as they study late into the night. The university has extended the reach of Sellinger and its surroundings, but the space still lacks functionality for students. In a long-term effort to improve a campus lacking in student-centric spaces, the university must consult students to determine their preferences and needs during renovations and construction. In the short term, Georgetown must address the maintenance problems that currently plague Sellinger.
Ian Scoville, Editor-in-Chief Kathryn Baker, Executive Editor Maya Gandhi, Executive Editor Anna Kovacevich, Managing Editor Madeline Charbonneau, News Editor Erin Doherty, News Editor Ethan Cohn, Sports Editor Mac Dressman, Guide Editor Kiera Geraghty, Guide Editor Will Simon, Opinion Editor Yasmine Salam, Features Editor Caroline Pappas, Photography Editor Anna Kooken, Design Editor Cat Kendall, Copy Chief Kate Rose, Social Media Editor Laura Bell, Blog Editor Anne-Isabelle de Bokay, Multimedia Editor
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Molly Cooke, John Curran, Nabil Kapasi, Erica Lizza, Philip Tsien, Emma Vahey
Will Cassou Deepika Jonnalagadda Sarah Mendelsohn Katrina Schmidt Ben Goodman Matthew Sachs Faris Bseiso Sarah Cammarota Maddie Finn Vera Mastrorilli Harrison Hurt Yumna Naqvi Jonathan Wiersema Adam Semprevivo Elizabeth Ash Will Cromarty Amber Gillette Subul Malik Sheel Patel Amanda Van Orden Mina Lee Angela Perez Emily Shambaugh Susanna Blount Sarah Donofrio Robert Treval Barbara McDuffee Isabel Roemer Nora Gaul
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Journalism Pioneer Joins The Hoya The images from her 37-year career as one of Washington, D.C.’s most aggressive correspondents reflect a peppery history of nine U.S. presidents. Sarah McClendon, famous for her colorful style and blunt, often abrasive, press conference questions, will now share her experience with students as the new adviser of Georgetown University The Hoya. In this capacity, McClendon will evaluate, critique and aid the staff of this newspaper. Looking through a very large pile of articles about the woman, one glimpses McClendon making President Dwight Eisenhower blush, with a 1958 newspaper headline proclaiming, “Sarah is driving Ike nuts.” There is McClendon in a televised press conference asking President John F. Kennedy doggedly about security risks in
the U.S. Department, of State and him blowing up at her right there, perhaps the only time a president has gotten so angry over a press question. She is most famous for her questions to Preisdent Richard Nixon in 1975 about the payment of veteran benefits. Then again, there is McClendon patting Nixon on the head and telling him he was going gray. She has stopped press conferences with, as one presidential adviser said, her “leather-lunged voice.” Many presidents have been advised not to answer her questions and have tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore her. Away from the White House, there is McClendon in the early 1970s as the only woman in a group of 300 men at a desert military exercise sponsored by the government, and again the only
woman of 30 correspondents on a NATO trip during the Kennedy administration. In another story, there is McClendon continually applying for membership in the all-male National Press Club and finally, after many years, getting in and rising to the rank of vice president. McClendon, the reporter, has been news herself often. McClendon’s biography is an interesting one. She comes from Texas and started as a Washington correspondent in 1944 on the Philadelphia Daily News. In 1946, she started her own independent news service to serve newspapers in the southwest. Throughout her career, she has been a pioneer for women in the field of journalism.
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INTERFAITH INSIGHTS
Rabbi Rachel Gartner
Judaism Encourages Free, Responsible Speech
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abbi Mordecai Kaplan, a 20th-century leader of Jewish thought, once taught that U.S. Jews stand with one foot in the U.S. civilization and one foot in the Jewish civilization. In my experience, the values at the core of each are sometimes congruous; where they are, they fortify and fuel each other. Sometimes, though, they are conflicting; in those cases, we can engage the values of one to address the shortfalls of the other. Both of these civilizations are governed by underlying questions that guide broader values. The U.S. civilization asks: What’s my right? The Jewish civilization asks: What’s my responsibility? And so, with a foot in each place, U.S. Jews would do well to examine the interplay between responsibilities and rights. Ultimately, we are called upon to balance these in a way that brings the most good to ourselves and to others. When we apply that rubric to the question of speech, our actions and choices have immense implications — both materially and spiritually. Make no mistake: Nothing less than the character of our souls, the survival of our societies and ultimately the quality of the world we inhabit is at stake. Judaism holds speech in the utmost regard. Our Torah teaches that God created the entire universe through speech: God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. Ancient rabbinic teachings on the power and implications of speech fill thousands of pages, for the rabbis recognized our words create new worlds unto themselves — worlds of trust and compassion, empathy and kindness, or worlds of distrust and malice, hurt and suffering. So, yes, as Americans, we can choose to speak in any way within the legal bounds of free speech. That’s our right. But just because we can doesn’t mean we should. And just because it is our right does not at all mean it is righteous. At the same time, we should not censor ourselves because the truth may be hard to say or hard
to hear. Rather, the opposite is true. By no means does Judaism want us to play it safe with speech: Nothing cuts against the grain of Judaism more than to hold one’s tongue when one should speak. Only through honest, courageous conversation can we gain insight into transcendent truth and effectively pursue the common good. Rabbinic teachings on the importance of speaking what one thinks, believes or experiences to be true — particularly when it is unpopular or the stakes are high — likewise fill thousands of pages. Jewish spaces are not safe spaces. They are brave spaces. Indeed, the U.S. Jewish question is never whether to say what we need to say: The answer is almost always “Yes.” Rather, the question is how best to say it. Balancing rights and responsibilities around speech is certainly not impossible. Judaism provides abundant tools to help us do so, as does secular society. Speak for yourself, not on behalf of or in defense of a whole group; let others do the same. When you hear something that makes your heart race and your temperature rise, keep listening; breathe, slow down and consider how to say what you need to. When you feel hurt, be honest with yourself and the person who hurt you — but give them the benefit of the doubt first. The older I get, the more I find that saying what I need to say — regardless of how it may be received — is essential to my well-being. Even if I don’t get the result I want from the powers that be, I am not discouraged. When that gets really hard — as it sometimes does — I hold on tight to my conviction: Ultimately, the cumulative power of true speech will move the dial and change the world. Though sometimes it hurts a lot, I want to be a part of that long game. Rabbi Rachel Gartner is the director for Jewish life at Georgetown University. INTERFAITH INSIGHTS is a series of Viewpoints written by chaplains at Georgetown University.
Despite clear health risks to students and the Georgetown community, The Corp refuses to eliminate tobacco sales, instead prioritizing profit over community health.
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Prioritize Health, Stop Corp Tobacco Sales
he harmful effects of tobacco, as well as the addictive nature of nicotine, have been known since the early 1950s. The danger of second-hand smoke has been clear since the ’90s. Yet Georgetown University and Students of Georgetown, Inc. — commonly known as The Corp — have not yet made changes necessary to protecting students. Despite clear health risks to students and the Georgetown community, The Corp refuses to eliminate tobacco sales, instead prioritizing profit over community health. To keep the university healthy and better serve students, The Corp must stop selling tobacco products immediately. The Corp has demonstrated an interest in health advocacy before. As recently as this February, the organization was working closely and publicly with Relay for Life, a fundraising event for cancer research — all the while continuing t0 sell cancer-causing products such as cigarettes, Juuls and dip in both Vital Vittles and Hoya Snaxa. The Corp was founded out of advocacy for students. In 1971, then-student body
President Roger Cochetti (SFS ’72) and Vice President Nancy Kent (CAS ’72) founded the non-profit to protect students’ interest after Georgetown students were injured when the university authorized police to use tear gas against anti-Vietnam War protesters. Cochetti and Kent established The Corp “to assert and protect the inherent rights of its members [students] and the community,” according to the website. The Corp’s current leaders should apply their predecessors’ reasoning and protect the right of Georgetown students to a clean, healthy environment. Georgetown has chosen to dismiss this issue, rather than intervene to improve students’ health. In my work as the policy chair for student health in the Georgetown University Student Association, university administrators have defended their inaction by arguing students should have the freedom to make their own decisions on this matter. Georgetown’s invocation of “individual choices” as a defense is unconvincing. After all, this line of reasoning has been absent from its campus-
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wide ban on contraception sales. While Jesuit values are understandably at the core of Georgetown’s decision making, perhaps the health of its campus community should be as well. Smoking is an individual’s choice to make, but inhaling second-hand smoke is not. Second-hand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, 70 of which have been identified as carcinogens. Since 1964, over 2.5 million adults have died from causes related to secondhand smoke, according to the Center for Disease Control. Georgetown’s failure to clearly indicate smoking areas or enforce its vague smoke-free campus policies, as THE HOYA’s editorial board described last week, crudely displays its negligence of this issue (“Follow Through on Tobacco-Free,” THE HOYA, Oct. 12, 2018, A2). Georgetown must recognize that its goal of a tobaccofree campus is unattainable if tobacco products are still being sold in university buildings. Tobacco sales on campus also make recovery difficult for those trying to quit smoking. Encountering a triggering
cue, like the sight or smell of cigarettes, can bring on cravings that are difficult to resist. Moreover, buying tobacco products is often a spontaneous decision, which often originates directly from cravings. Considering how inadequate and unadvertised on-campus resources are for those trying to quit, recovery can seem like a very lonely process. The Corp needs to put community health over profits, where it should be. This change, though, may require a stronger stance from Georgetown. The university should also recognize that banning tobacco sales on campus is not the same as banning tobacco use; those who chose to smoke tobacco products can still have the freedom to do so in designated areas. Major social change cannot occur without a strong stance, and it is time Georgetown demands house rules around smoking on campus, for the good of its students.
CASEY KOZAK is a junior in the
School of Nursing and Health Studies. She is the policy chair for student health within the Georgetown University Student Association.
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Justice Delayed on Catholic Leaders ‘A Survivor Will Never Forget’ This Viewpoint discusses sexual assault. Please refer to the bottom right of A3 for on- and off-campus resources.
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y delaying the revocation of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s honorary degrees, Georgetown University is actively undermining its own efforts to address the sexual abuse crisis wracking the Catholic Church. In June 2018, the Archdiocese of New York verified allegations that McCarrick had sexually abused a minor; in July, more reports surfaced that he had abused seminarians. A Pennsylvania grand jury investigating predatory behavior in the Catholic church reported in August that Wuerl had, on several occasions, allowed priests repeatedly accused of abuse to return to ministry. In December 2004, the university granted McCarrick an honorary degree in recognition of his “compassionate service to others and [the] cause of peace.” In a special ceremony in September 2014, the university awarded Wuerl, McCarrick’s successor, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for his “extraordinary example of faith and service.” Over the past few weeks, student groups, the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, and Campus Ministry have hosted various events focused on addressing the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The two of us, as members of the Georgetown Catholic community, appreciate the university’s commitment to dialogue and call for these conversations to continue. Yet, each time we attend one of these events, we can’t help but remember that Wuerl and McCarrick — two men strongly implicated in the sexual abuse crisis — still hold honorary degrees from Georgetown. As a Catholic institution entrusted with the care, education and empowerment of young people, Georgetown must revoke their honorary degrees.
McCarrick’s and Wuerl’s honorary degrees, in addition to their long-standing role as powerful figures with close ties to Georgetown, have prompted a groundswell of activism. Students have been organizing their own programming in response to the crisis throughout this semester, including a petition circulated in September demanding that Georgetown revoke the honorary degrees it had issued to the cardinals. The petition, which now has 1,507 signatures, was delivered to the Georgetown administration Sept. 14 by a group of 10 students demanding the university listen to its community. Despite the significant number of signatures on the petition — in addition to condemnation of McCarrick and Wuerl and calls for university action from the editorial boards of THE HOYA and the Georgetown Voice — the university still has not revoked their honorary degrees. (Full disclosure: Grace Laria, an author of this Viewpoint, was a member of THE HOYA’S editorial board at the time of the editorial.) This week, we, along with Catholic Women at Georgetown President Erica Lizza (SFS ’19) and members of the Knights of Columbus, met with the university administration for the second time. (Full disclosure: Lizza is a member of THE HOYA’S editorial board.) Georgetown Vice President and Chief of Staff Joseph Ferrara told the group that the university initiated a working group in October among the university’s board of directors to assess McCarrick and Wuerl’s honorary degree, and the practice of awarding honorary degrees overall. Upon our request, Ferrara told us he would speak to University Secretary Marie Mattson, as well as the board of directors and University President John J. DeGioia about our participation in the working group. McCarrick and Wuerl are not just recipients of honorary degree, but also valued and celebrated figures in the university community.
As the archbishop of Washington, D.C., McCarrick was fully integrated into the fabric of the Georgetown community — in his own words, “a member of the family.” He celebrated masses, including at DeGioia’s inauguration, helped advise the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life in its infancy, and spoke frequently at events hosted by the Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Particularly given Pope Francis’ decision to accept Wuerl’s resignation last week, Georgetown must fulfill an ethical obligation to articulate to the community both Wuerl’s and McCarrick’s relationships to the university. Many students have consistently called on the university to revoke the honorary degrees since the allegations were brought against Wuerl and McCarrick over the summer. Members of campus ministry have repeatedly told Catholic students we are the hope for the church’s future. Yet the events we’ve attended that have addressed the crisis did not prioritize student voices, effectively calling on us to enact change without empowering us with the tools to do so. The university must make space for student voices on the working group; whether or not it does so will send a strong signal of whether it is truly willing to honor its commitment to valuing student input. In addition to valuing student voices, the university has an obligation to survivors and those harmed by this crisis on our own campus. Until the university acts to remove the honorary degrees, our community cannot move forward in the process of healing and seeking justice — demonstrating Georgetown’s complicity in the culture of overlooking the abuse pervasive in our church.
GRACE LARIA is a senior in the School of Foreign Service. JULIE BEVILACQUA is a senior in the College.
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fter my best friend was raped last year, I thought a lot about what I would do in a similar situation. Would I scream? Try to fight back? When I was sexually assaulted a few weeks ago during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, I did something I never predicted: I froze. I had never been to a club, let alone had a random guy dance with me. I typically avoided parties for fear of getting too drunk and/or having someone take advantage of me in an unfamiliar environment. I was afraid of being a statistic, and after hearing many survivors’ stories, it didn’t seem like most people got justice — or that others even believed them. After my assault, I realized how much courage people must have to tell their stories, for fear of being ostracized or having people refute their experiences. My own fear reinforced the importance of believing survivors. Lots of people were drinking at my friend’s Tombs night, but I stayed completely sober. At El Centro on Wisconsin Avenue, my friends and I danced in a circle in the middle of the bar when a large man came out of nowhere and grabbed my hands, pulling me in tightly. We started moving in a circle. I tried signalling to my friends, but they didn’t see me. I was confused and struggled to speak. Should I tell him that I have a boyfriend, or that I’m not interested? Before I could say anything, he started squeezing me so tightly, and then forcibly kissing me. Unable to breathe, I just stood there, praying that it would be over soon. Thankfully, one of my friends eventually saw
what happened and pulled him off of me but the damage was done. My friends watched in horror. He disappeared into the shadows. We left, and I remained in shock over what happened. My friends were sympathetic, but I wasn’t sure what to do. I felt guilty for letting a man violate me while I stood there. One of my friends, who is studying psychology, explained that my response was natural and that it wasn’t my fault, but I felt powerless. Why didn’t I scream or try to break free? I called El Centro two days after. The manager offered me free food but said he couldn’t do anything — management refused to release the video footage from that night. Lacking confidence in finding justice, I wanted to talk to a professional. Another friend recommended I talk to Health Education Services. They responded to my email quickly, and I set up an appointment for a couple days after the incident. Speaking with a HES staff member is one of the best things I could have done. She helpfully explained that yes, freezing is a natural reaction, but that the man had no right to do what he did in the first place. This assurance made me feel less guilty about what happened and helped me with the healing process. She explained different options for reporting the assault and answered questions I had about telling people, including my parents and the guy I was seeing. The story was mine to tell, if and when I felt comfortable. So, I am telling you all my story now, amid one of the most polarizing political times in U.S. history, and I am asking you to please believe survivors. Whether their trauma happened 50 years ago or yesterday, a survivor will never forget what happened to them. Despite eyewitnesses and evi-
dence, I will probably never get justice for what happened to me. Still, I also don’t want this incident to define my senior year. I am trying to move forward one day at a time. If something similar — God forbid — ever happens to you, know that you are not alone, and that there are many resources available. Most important, know that it is absolutely not your fault. THE WRITER is a student at Georgetown University. THE HOYA is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Viewpoint. We have done so at the request of the author, a survivor of sexual assault whose identity is known to us and whose safety could be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this Viewpoint anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to the Georgetown community. We invite you to submit a question about the Viewpoint or our vetting process by contacting the Opinion Editor at opinion@ thehoya.com.
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Matthew Shepard to Be Interred at National Cathedral CHELSEA HAFER Special to The Hoya
The ashes of Matthew Shepard will be interred at the Washington National Cathedral on Friday, Oct. 26, 20 years after his murder in a homophobic hate crime. When he was 21 years old, Shepard was killed in a hate crime that drew nationwide attention in 1998. Shepard’s parents cremated him and have held onto the ashes for the past two decades out of fear of attracting vandalism to his final resting place, according to The Washington Post. Shepard’s parents chose the Washington National Cathedral, a cathedral of the Episcopal Church, for the role of its community in Shepard’s life, his mother Judy Shepard said. “We’ve given much thought to Matt’s final resting place, and we found [that] the Washington National Cathedral is an ideal choice, as Matt loved the Episcopal church and felt welcomed by his church in Wyoming,” Judy Shepard said in the Matthew Shepard Foundation’s Oct. 11 news release. Shepard, who will be in-
terred following a public service celebrating his life, will be one of more than about 220 people whose remains have been interred at the Washington National Cathedral in the last century, according to the Oct. 11 news release. People previously interred at the cathedral include President Woodrow Wilson; Bishop Thomas Claggett, the first Episcopal bishop ordained in the United States; Helen Keller; Keller’s teacher Anne Sullivan; and U.S. Navy Admiral George Dewey. On Oct. 6, 1998, 21-year-old Shepard, an openly gay student at the University of Wyoming, left a local bar in Laramie, Wyo., with two young men, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, according to the Wyoming State Historical Society. McKinney and Henderson drove Shepard to an isolated area east of Laramie, where the two assaulted him with a pistol and left the unconscious victim tied to a fence after stealing his wallet and identification. Shepard was found almost 18 hours later by a cyclist who initial-
ly mistook him for a scarecrow. Although Shepard was rushed to a hospital in Fort Collins, Colo., the damage to his brain stem was severe, and he remained in a coma for five days before dying Oct. 12. Shepard’s assault became one of the most well-known anti-gay hate crimes in U.S. history, drawing attention to the need for federal hate crime legislation, evident by the passing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The Washington National Cathedral has been a longtime supporter of LGBTQ rights and considers LGBTQ equality the “great civil rights issue of church in the 21st century,” according to the cathedral’s website. Shepard’s upcoming interment functions as a reminder of the need for acceptance of LGBTQ individuals, Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, dean of Washington National Cathedral, said in the Oct. 11 news release. “Matthew Shepard’s death is an enduring tragedy affecting all people and should serve as an ongoing call to the nation to reject anti-LGBTQ bigotry and instead
embrace each of our neighbors for who they are,” Hollerith said. Rev. Becky Zartman, episcopal missioner to Georgetown University, also advocated the need for further progress in LGBTQ rights. “I’m sorry that violence against LGTBQ folks was accepted for so long, and that Matthew Shepard was so brutally attacked just for being who God created him to be,” Zartman wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “We’ve come a long way in twenty years, but we haven’t come far enough.” Law enforcement agencies reported 1,218 hate crime offenses motivated by sexual-orientation bias in 2016, 1,218 offenses in 2015 and 1,178 offenses in 2014, according to the FBI hate crime statistics. Students must be aware of the ongoing presence of anti-gay hate crimes, GU Pride President Jenny Xu (COL ’21) wrote in an email to THE HOYA. “Hate crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation have not been decreasing,” Xu wrote. “I would even speculate that the official numbers undershoot because not everyone reports due to fear of being outed or shamed.” Xu emphasized the increased
rates of homophobic hate crimes against members of other marginalized communities. “Furthermore, it’s important to note that trans people, women, and people of color experience sexuality-based hate crimes at disproportionately high rates,” Xu wrote. “Violence against LGBTQ+ people is certainly not a thing of the past; its reduction requires both cultural and institutional support.” GU Pride is working with students to foster an environment that promotes awareness and acceptance of people with all gender and sexual identities, Xu wrote. “We create a community on campus for LGBTQ+ people to share their stories and explore the diversity of experiences within the shared queer identity. By being an organization that is highly visible, we are helping to normalize the LGBTQ+ identity in the popular narrative,” Xu wrote. “This normalization and exposure is a key to curb bigotry and hatred; we’re queer, we’re here, get used to it.” Allies must share the burden
of combatting anti-LGBTQ culture, according to Xu. “Cultural stigma is the antecedent condition to physical assault, so we must stop it at its root,” Xu wrote. “What that looks like is intervening in speculations on someone else’s sexuality, use of homophobic language, or fetishization of queer people. LGBTQ+ folks should not be the only people speaking up for themselves, and the burden should not be on them to educate and justify their own existence to others.” Zartman welcomes members of the Georgetown community struggling to find acceptance to Commonplace, the Episcopal-Lutheran Campus Ministry. “Commonplace wholeheartedly welcomes all types of LGTBQ folks as they are, and we have many students who identify as LGTBQ,” Zartman wrote. “It’s a safe space to bring your whole self, to wrestle with issues of faith.” Zartman also invites students to join Commonplace on its trip to Shepard’s interment. The group will be leaving the front gates at 9 a.m. Oct. 26, to honor Shepard’s memory at the memorial service.
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Matthew Shepard will find his resting place at the Washington National Cathedral 20 years after he was targeted and killed for his sexual orientation. Shepard’s parents were initially reluctant to bury their son in 1998 following his murder, fearing potential vandalism at his grave, but have decided to inter his ashes at the cathedral Oct. 26 because of the importance of the Episcopal Church in Shepard’s life.
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Poets Without Documentation Sen. Warner Cautions Capitalism Address Bias Through Writing Is Undermining Democracy riley Rogerson Special to The Hoya
Immigrant poets without documentation face obstacles in the literary world because of their immigration status, poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and assistant professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State University Janine Joseph, both without documentation, said at an event Oct. 16 in Copley Formal Lounge. Castillo and Joseph lead the national Undocupoets Campaign, which aims to end discrimination based on immigration status in the literary community. Aminatta Forna, Lannan Foundation chair of poetics and interim director, moderated the event. Undocupoets lobbies for the inclusion of poets without documentation in literary awards, according to Lannan fellow Elizabeth George. It has also partnered with Amazon Publishing to build the Undocupoets Fellowship, which assists writers without documentation with paying entry fees into writing competitions. The Undocupoets Campaign, which began in 2015, helped bring immigrant authors without documentation into the mainstream literary world, but writers without documentation still face citizenship requirements for publishing, Joseph said. “People will actually email us and say: ‘Just so you know, I tried to submit my work for this particular prize, and, you know, I worked on my submission for a long time and right as I was about to hit submit, I realized you could only be a citizen just to submit your work,’” Joseph said.
Literature can be a form of activism, fighting stereotypes and misperceptions about immigrants, according to Joseph. She said she hopes her book “Driving Without a License,” published in 2016, will defy her teachers’ and peers’ expectations for her as a poet. “I realized that now, I was catering to a type of reader and a reader that was wanting for me to be more ethnic and more exotic. … This book is actively resisting all of that,” Joseph said. Castillo’s poetry emerged out of his experience as an immigrants without documentation, as writing served as an outlet to express his emotions, he said. “I couldn’t say a lot about me and yeah, I wanted to say all of it but finally I was just tired. I was tired,” Castillo said. “It was cathartic to locate myself in a poem. Just to start there. Not even to locate the poem in a place or in a time but just to locate myself in a poem.” Teachers’ biases and expectations surrounding themes of immigration in poetry shaped Joseph’s writing, she said. Teachers encouraged Joseph to write more about her Filipino heritage and her experience growing up in the United States, she said. “[In workshop] people would ask me to put in more of the Philippines. ‘More of your experience as someone who was borning (sic) in the Philippines,’” Joseph said. “I was largely educated in English so though I understand a lot of Tagalog, it seemed weird to just pick and choose which of these words am I going to switch into another language.” The challenges with overcoming biases and discrimination that
poets without documentation face in the literary world begin at a young age, Castillo said. “[My brother and I] went to the flea market to go buy [my first car], and it was between this red Pontiac and this brown Ford Torres and I was 18, you know; I wanted this red Pontiac, but I knew I had to get this brown sudan because it blended,” Castillo said. “That translated over into everything that I did.” Joseph, who flew to the United States on a tourist visa from the Philippines, said that the media’s coverage of immigrants without documentation exacerbated the discrimination and fear she felt because of her lack of documentation. “I grew up in Southern California, and pretty much every single day there was some kind of story about what was happening in the U.S.-Mexico border and what was happening in Southern California and what was happening in parts of California that I couldn’t go to because I was afraid of checkpoints,” Joseph said. “And so that shaped my understanding of who I was in the eyes of America and in the eyes of America I was someone who had crossed the border by foot.” The obstacles immigrants without documentation face permeate all parts of life, Castillo said, describing a feeling of having constant supervision as an undocumented immigrant. “We like to think that the border exists down in the U.S.-Mexico side, but, you know, the reality is that the border, we take it with us,” Castillo said. “It’s this overwhelming, oppressive force that always exists on top of you. You think that at any moment, somebody can come.”
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The United States’ system of capitalism weakens the global strength of Western democracy, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said at an event hosted by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service on Oct. 16. Warner was governor of Virginia before being elected to the Senate in 2008. Prior to being elected governor, Warner cofounded wireless service provider Nextel which merged with Sprint in 2005. He currently serves as the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The U.S. capitalist system’s failure to address the needs of enough people damages democratic progress throughout the world, according to Warner. “Let’s face it: Western liberal democracy is under assault,” Warner said. “I managed to do pretty well in business, and I believe in our system, but I don’t think modern American capitalism is working for enough people.” Cyberwarfare also threatens democracy in the United States, according to Warner. The Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election marked a new form of cyberwarfare through social media platforms, he said. “In 2016, we broke total new ground, and the American government and the social media companies and others were caught totally flat-footed,” Warner said.
The United States will need to adapt quickly to the immediate threat of cyberwarfare, and the country is facing a historically strong threat from it, Warner said. Cyberwarfare offers a new low-cost mode of attacking countries or groups, and according to Warner, cyberwarfare will reform politics and military intelligence globally. “This is both cheap and remarkably, remarkably effective, and you can do it from a remote location; you don’t have to send a spy in. It’s just a whole new world of intervention,” he said. “The least of the problems will be politics.”
“Let’s face it: Western liberal democracy is under assault.” Mark Warner (D-Va.) Senator
President Donald Trump’s administration must address Russia’s cyber interference in the 2016 election, Warner said, criticizing the White House for its failure to improve election security to prevent future cyber interference in American elections. “In a normal world, after this much evidence, a White House would say this is a federal, state and local responsibility, and we need to put a White House coordinator for election security,” Warner said. “This White
House, of course, has not done that.” The Trump administration will continue to grapple with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with the Russian government until the investigation ends, Warner said. “The sooner this process can come to a full, truthful conclusion the better. There will always be a cloud over this president until it’s either cleared up or until it’s confirmed,” he said. “We as Americans should know.” Trump has weakened United States’ role as a world leader, Warner said. He said he worries the Trump administration’s policies and actions do not meet the historic standard for U.S. behavior as a leader in international politics. “The rest of the world really looks to America for leadership,” Warner said. “I really fear at times that Trump does not understand that responsibility that he has.” Warner left students with a couple of pieces of advice about their roles as future leaders. Warner encouraged students and young people to vote and engage with politics. “Do not believe any of the bull that comes from people that your votes don’t count and your voices don’t count,” Warner said. “We need your ideas to help figure this out. At the end of the day, don’t lose faith. There’s never been a good bet against the United States of America.”
Former Spelman President: Universities Must Combat Racism Julia Friedmann Special to The Hoya
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., holds an honorary degree from Georgetown and will asssume his new role, interim apostolic administrator of the archdiocese, upon the request of Pope Francis, who accepted his resignation Oct. 12.
Wuerl Resigns as Archbishop Following Criticism mason Mandell Special to The Hoya
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., on Oct. 12. The resignation comes after an August Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed Wuerl’s inconsistent record of handling cases of sexual abuse as bishop of Pittsburgh. Francis’ move was awaited by those who pressured the church to take a harsher stance against officials they see as complicit in the protection of abusers. Though the pontiff accepted Wuerl’s resignation, he praised the former cardinal and took steps that maintain Wuerl’s influence within the Catholic Church. “You have sufficient elements to ‘justify’ your actions and distinguish between what it means to cover up crimes or not to deal with problems, and to commit some mistakes,” Francis wrote in a statement. “However, your nobility has led you not to choose this way of defense. Of this, I am proud and thank you.” Francis also requested that Wuerl, who had served as archbishop of Washington since 2006, remain as an interim apostolic administrator of the archdiocese while the church searches for a successor. Wuerl is set to remain in the Congregation for Bishops, granting him a lasting role in shaping the future of the American Catholic Church. Erica Lizza (SFS ’19), presi-
dent of Catholic Women at Georgetown, criticized the church’s response as failing to adequately acknowledge the ways in which Wuerl did not hold certain priests accountable. “This response is discouraging for Catholics who had hoped the church would punish not only abusers, but those who permitted abuse to occur or covered it up,” Lizza wrote in an email to The Hoya. (Full Disclosure: Lizza is a member of The Hoya’s editorial board) The resignation comes amid a movement for the university to rescind the honorary degrees it gave to Wuerl in 2014 and to Theodore McCarrick, who resigned from the College of Cardinals, in 2004. On Sept. 14, 10 students delivered a petition to University President John J. DeGioia’s office demanding the university revoke those honorary degrees. It has gained 1,507 signatures as of Oct. 17. The university stated that it will conduct “processes to address the deeply troubling revelations about Archbishop McCarrick” through an honorary degree review process but did not respond as to whether this process included Wuerl. Wuerl has spoken several times at the university, including twice in the fall of 2017. “As part of our University’s governance practices, President DeGioia has worked with our Board of Directors to assemble an ad hoc Working Group of Board Members to
examine the issues related to Honorary Degrees,” a university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. “This group will focus on the purpose and practice of granting Honorary Degrees; the selection of recipients; and the process around reviewing and rescinding such degrees.” Wuerl, an ally of Francis, previously developed a reputation as a reformer willing to address sexual abuse in the church. After arriving in Pittsburgh in 1988, he formed a review board for cases of sexual abuse and worked to extend the canonical statute of limitations on allegations from children. He also successfully lobbied the Vatican to prevent the reinstatement of a priest accused of molestation in 1993. Yet the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed moves by Wuerl that obscured the extent of sexual abuse and allowed priests accused of sexual abuse to continue in clerical roles. Wuerl “was actively engaged in the cover-up,” according to Attorney General of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro in an interview with The Washington Post. Wuerl maintains a group of supporters that defend his actions in the Pittsburgh diocese. The Archdiocese of Washington released a statement after the report’s release disputing certain elements and defending Wuerl’s tenure. “While I understand this Report may be critical of some of my actions, I believe the
Report confirms that I acted with diligence, with concern for the victims and to prevent future acts of abuse,” Wuerl said in a statement after the report. Francis’ letter is cryptic and does not necessarily make clear where the pope is saying Wuerl did the right thing in resigning, according to Gerard Mannion, Amaturo professor in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University. Mannion also noted that the amount of time before the Vatican took action regarding Wuerl was “a pity.” “It seems to suggest they do acknowledge Wuerl was not uniformly complicit, nor was he uniformly transparent and doing the right thing neither,” Mannion said in an interview with The Hoya. Wuerl released a statement after Francis’ acceptance of his resignation, which he offered when he passed the age of 75, as is customary, saying his move allowed the church to move forward. “Once again for any past errors in judgment I apologize and ask for pardon,” Wuerl wrote. “My resignation is one way to express my great and abiding love for you the people of the Church of Washington.” The resignation of Wuerl comes less than a week after Francis sanctioned deeper investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against former Cardinal McCarrick. He resigned in July from the College of Cardinals and remains the archbishop emeritus of D.C.
Academic institutions can combat racism by cultivating conversations and supporting research about national racial dynamics, former President of Spelman College Johnnetta Betsch Cole said at an event Wednesday in Riggs Library. The event was part of the Women’s Center’s Biondi Copeland Lecture Series, which aims to spread awareness about issues regarding women in higher education. The series was established by the Women’s Center in 2014 out of an endowment from Gianna Biondi (CAS ’85) and John Copeland (CAS ’84). In addition to Cole, this year’s lecture featured the provost’s distinguished associate professor of history and African American studies Marcia Chatelain. Cole was the first black woman to serve as the president of Spelman College, which was founded for black women’s education in 1881. She currently serves as the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, according to Spelman College’s website. Events like the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017, which led to an outbreak of violence that left one woman dead, are a call to action for universities, which can lead the fight against racism by supporting research on the topic, according to Cole. “It’s at a time like this — and this really is said with extreme sincerity — that we need universities,” Cole said. “We’ve got to understand [these circumstances]. We can’t just push back against it, we can’t run away from it, we’ve got, in order to change it, to first understand it.” The Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally mirrored racism of the 1950s and 1960s, Cole said, referencing her experience growing up in the South. “I grew up, as a very young girl, being very knowledgeable of the Klu Klux Klan,” Cole said. “My safety depended on it. To see such expressions of all of that in the streets of Charlottesville took me to my knees.”
The lack of representation of people of color in higher education hinders universities from engaging in an intentional conversation about race, according to Chatelain. “When you talk about colleges and universities and museums being the sites of these conversations, in terms of people being able to orient themselves intellectually, we have a serious numbers issue, a serious diversity issue,” Chatelain said. Historically black colleges and universities — schools founded before 1964 for the purpose of educating black people and other minorities — offer more diverse and welcoming communities for minority students and, according to Cole, can fight discrimination against minorities in higher education. “If our historically black colleges and universities didn’t exist, we ought to create them,” Cole said. “These are special mission institutions, where what they do and what they provide is what we hope is a great education, but they provide an atmosphere where a student’s humanity is never challenged.” People who are the first of their identity to serve in a position of power have a responsibility to mentor and help others, Cole said, referencing her experience as the first black woman president of Spelman College. “Anyone who becomes a ‘first’ has an unusual responsibility to make sure she is not the last,” Cole said. “So one of the things I have enjoyed so much is the opportunity to be a mentor to other AfricanAmerican women, women of color and white women, who perhaps don’t see in themselves what I can see in them.” Cole’s success in the academic community empowered women like Chatelain to pursue careers in higher education, according to Chatelain. “For many of us in this particular moment, we may take for granted that a black woman was president in a black women’s college,” Chatelain said. “But this wasn’t always the story. No one could see it until they saw Dr. Cole do it.”
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Former president of Spelman College Johnnetta Betsch Cole criticized higher education for lacking diversity at an Oct. 17 event in Riggs Library.
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Chief Financial Officer Assumes Role Anya howko-johnson Special to The Hoya
David Green, The George Washington University’s former associate vice president of financial operations, began as Georgetown University’s chief financial officer on Oct. 15. Green has 17 years of experience in higher education, and utilizing this expertise to serve Georgetown is one of his aims. He says he hopes to use financial planning to improve the Georgetown community and enhance Georgetown students’ university experience. “I hope to support the Georgetown community and ensure that the university stewards its resources and budgets to best support the research, scholarship, and service to our faculty, staff, and student,” Green wrote in an email to The Hoya. Green succeeds David Rubenstein, whose retirement last month came after 15 years serving as Georgetown’s CFO. During his tenure at Georgetown, Rubenstein advocated for the 4 percent tuition increase for the 2016-2017 academic year.
This act was met with a student appeal for university leadership, including Rubenstein, to hold a town hall to discuss the causes for the tuition hike. Georgetown’s Chief Operating Officer Geoffrey Chatas (CAS ’85) expressed his enthusiasm for hiring Green in a Sept. 19 campuswide email. “It is with great pleasure I write to share that, in consultation with our president and executive leadership team, I have appointed David B. Green as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Georgetown University,” Chatas wrote in the email. As Georgetown’s new CFO, Green manages the university’s financial position, both in the short- and long-term. “He will be responsible for managing all central financial functions, including accounting and financial reporting, budgeting and planning, the long-term debt portfolio and treasury services,” Chatas wrote. According to his university profile, Green’s duties include maintaining and overseeing the internal financial operations of the university and
allocating resources to the many programs on campus. A native of the area, Green graduated from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Va., later receiving a bachelor’s degree in business from Virginia Wesleyan University and an MBA from The George Washington University. Since 2001, Green held several financial leadership positions at GWU, including head of its Financial Operations team. Growing up close to Georgetown and later working in Washington, D.C., provided Green with the opportunity to develop a sense of Georgetown’s character and an appreciation for its Jesuit values. “I have always admired and known Georgetown as a preeminent university,” Green wrote. “I was drawn to the university because it incorporates core values – like service to others, cura personalis, and the common good – to build upon its mission rooted in education and research.” In addition to the Georgetown community specifically, Green values the power of higher education and the
ability to witness the influence students and professors can have on other people and the world. Seeing student and professor accomplishments first-hand is part of what he enjoys about higher education, Green said. “It’s rewarding to see a student walk across the stage at graduation years after you see them walking on a campus tour.” Green wrote. “It’s inspiring to see how groundbreaking medical research can save people’s lives.” Outside of his work, Green devotes most of his time to his family. He and his wife, Therese, have four children who are involved in sports, and Green spends time coaching and watching them play. When he’s not with his family, Green likes to relax by playing ice hockey or soccer. “I have always loved Georgetown and known it to be a dynamic community dedicated to teaching, research, scholarship, and service,” Green wrote. “I’m eager to join the community and maximize its financial services and resources to provide faculty, students, and staff with the excellence they deserve.”
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David Green, former associate vice president of financial operations at The George Washington University, began serving as Georgetown University’s chief financial officer Oct. 15. Green seeks to improve Georgetown students’ university experience through financial planning.
reached out to the D.C. Public School community — most of those students which were African American,” Velez said. “Since then, the program has evolved. We have 75 students that come from all over the country, they are almost always first-generation students.” The first CSP cohort was six local black students, as Georgetown sought to “address the extreme disparities experienced by black Americans living in Washington, D.C.,” according to Georgetown’s blog. In her three years as director, Bishundat has seen the program’s cohorts increase from 50 to 75, with 100 percent of the last cohort being first-generation students. As a first-generation college student and low-income woman of color herself, Bishundat recognizes the value of investing in a strength-based approach. “Often times, communities of color, first gen students, low income students, really any
marginalized community, are always talked about from a deficit approach – that they’re lacking,” Bishundat said. “For me, it’s really important that we flip the script to take a strength based approach to this work, and really focus on the gifts, the talents, the experiences, the resilience that our students bring to this campus.” The effect CSP leaves on its community extends past its scholars, but also to the faculty and staff as well. “If in my twenties somebody could’ve said to me, ‘what would be a good job in the whole world that you would like the best,’ I wouldn’t have been able to articulate it,” Velez said. “This job is amazing working with the students. I’ve been to their weddings, I’ve been to their grandparents’ funerals, some of them are very close friends. They come to Georgetown knowing that their parents haven’t been to college — to watch them do the work and be motivated in this desire to give back to their communities, to their families, is an incredible privilege.”
Mold Reports Double, Raise Student Health Concerns Mold, from A1 Professionally recommended mold treatment varies depending on the severity of the mold present, and can range from simply disinfecting and using HEPA vacuums to removing deeply infested surfaces like drywall and carpeting, according to Servpro, a mold removal company. However, cleanup did not occur until Oct. 3, three days after the initial inspection by facilities, Mendelsohn said. Mold removal and cleanup usually takes anywhere from three to five days, although this can vary depending on the severity of the problem, according to Andrew Ross, founder and CEO of Triangle Legacy Flood Restoration & Carpet Cleaning, a company serving the greater D.C. area that specializes in mold remediation and removal. “The cleanup time depends on how large the area is, but of course you have to use a HEPA vacuum to vacuum all the dust and the debris, and the HEPA vacuum collects 99.9 percent of any mold spores or any particles,” Ross said in an interview with The Hoya. Facilities employees installed a dehumidifier to combat the mold and fixed the air conditioning unit on Wednesday, and PBI Restoration, a mold removal company was hired to clean the room, which had mold visible on the desks, chairs, closets and the students’ clothes. “They shampooed the carpets, washed down all the surfaces, and they took most of our clothes to have them dry-cleaned,” Mendelsohn said in an interview with The Hoya. On the day of the initial cleanup, facilities informed the two that the room was no longer safe for habitation and would need to locate other housing arrangements themselves. The health inspector returned Oct. 4 to see if the issue had been, and discovered that there was still mold in the room. The following
day, the cleanup crew returned to remove the remaining mold. Residential Living usually facilitates temporary housing arrangements when mold cleanup is underway, according to Simmons, but Mendelsohn and Jonnalagadda were not offered alternative housing, and instead had to stay with a friend during the mold removal process. Mendelsohn and Jonnalagadda were not informed their room was safe to return to until midday Oct. 8. Mendelsohn felt that there was a lack of communication between the departments responsible for handling the issue, which made the process more frustrating and time-consuming. “Facilities didn’t do a very good job at responding efficiently and quickly to the problem, given that we had to call them so many times, and that my mother had to get involved,” Mendelsohn said. Mendelsohn also suspects that mold was not completely removed from the room due to continued odors and mold-related health symptoms. Mendelsohn received a diagnosis Thursday of cough variant asthma, a type of asthma exacerbated by mold, according to the National Institutes of Health. Mendelsohn said her doctor told her that the mold likely exacerbated the symptoms she was already experiencing from pneumonia. Additionally, Mendelsohn and her roommate both were coughing and felt chest pain after being in the room for a few hours. Despite her requests to be moved, residential living has said they have no additional housing Mendelson and her roommate can be relocated to, Mendelson said. The increase in mold reports at Georgetown comes as University of Maryland at College Park also grapples with significant mold, moving hundreds of students from their dorm due to safety concerns, according to The Washington Post. UMD also attributed a rise in a recent rise in reports of mold
to increased humidity and rainfall in the past month. These complaints also come after a former GUPD Aleta Mack officer sued the university in 2015 for failing to accommodate her appropriately when dealing with mold related illnesses in 2014 amid concerns the university had not appropriately removed drywall infected with mold. However, a judge ruled in favor of the university in August 2017, and an appeal was denied in July 2018. After discovering mold on a wall in their Alumni Square apartment, Emma Ladouceur (MSB ’21) and her roommates submitted multiple work orders and called emergency services, but no one responded to their concerns. After a week, Ladouceur’s father contacted facilities himself, and facilities responded and sent someone the following day, Ladouceur said. “Once my parents got involved, [Facilities] were helpful, and I just think that they need to be more responsive to student requests for help, and not let the problems go on this long,” Ladouceur said in an interview with The Hoya. “And I know that other people have not gotten responses because their parents haven’t called.” Facilities removed the wall with mold; however, about a month after the mold was removed, the wall has not been replaced, Ladouceur said. Maddie Rivers (SFS ’21) also experienced issues with mold when she and her roommates found mold on a wall of their Alumni Square apartment. They were surprised because their newly renovated apartment is supposedly one of the best spots to live on campus. “It’s so surprising that at an institution like Georgetown, some of the supposedly nicest places to live have pretty dangerous living conditions,” Rivers said. A roommate’s parents got involved because they were worried about health risks, Rivers said. Facilities eventually removed part of the wall with the mold and in-
stalled a dehumidifier. Rivers said that the root of the problem was never explained, and she and her roommates are unsure if the mold is completely gone. Though the panel with the mold was removed, her wall, like Ladouceur’s, still has not been fully repaired and a large hole remains to be addressed by facilities, Rivers said. Malachy McLaughlin (SFS ’22) and his roommate similarly experienced issues with mold this semester. They were relocated to Kennedy Hall after they discovered mold on the ceiling of their room in Darnall. “The first time my roommate and I noticed [the mold] we just saw a bunch of black spots on the
ceiling, but assumed the ceiling was dirty, we didn’t think it was mold,” McLaughlin said in an interview with The Hoya. It wasn’t until McLaughlin roommate’s mother smelled the odor in the room, that they realized the black spots were mold. McLaughlin was tested to check if he had spores in his lungs or had developed a mold allergy, but the tests returned negative results. McLaughlin’s roommate also visited a doctor because he had a previous experience with black mold that made him more susceptible to the effects of the spores. Rivers said the administration needs to improve its efforts to sup-
port students who are affected by mold. “I think there needs to be a larger allocation of funds focusing not only on housing but focusing on supporting students at large,” Rivers said. Facilities was quick to address the issue, according to McLaughlin, although he feels that the underlying problem of mold in campus dorms is unresolved. “When [facilities] did respond, they’ve been really nice and really consolidating [sic] with us, giving us this nice room and letting us keep it,” McLaughlin said. “But obviously, there was the problem in the first place.”dents at large,” Rivers said.
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The number of work requests related to mold more than doubled from August through October this semester compared to the same time period last year.
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LGBTQ Resource Center Celebrates Student Activism Olivia eggers Hoya Staff Writer
Student activists brought about the establishment of the LGBTQ Resource Center and their energy helped sustain the center, Dan Porterfield (CAS ’83), Georgetown University’s former senior vice president of development, said Monday at a discussion in honor of the 10th anniversary of Georgetown’s LGBTQ Resource Center. The event, cohosted by the LGBTQ Center and the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBTQ Life, featured a conversation between Porterfield and provost’s distinguished professor of history and African-American studies Marcia Chatelain. Porterfield, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, an education and policy research organization, helped establish the LGBTQ Center when he served as Georgetown’s senior vice president of development in 2008. The center formed after student working groups that formed as part of the Out for Change campaign, created in response to a hate crime targeting gay students on campus in 2007, recognized the need for a center to support LGBTQ students. During that year, Porterfield also led a campaign to share the stories of LGBTQ students on the front page of Georgetown Magazine, a university publication highlighting stories about students, faculty and alumni. The LGBTQ Center officially opened its doors in August 2008 under the leadership of Sivagama Subbaraman, the first and current director of the center. Today, the center offers resources for LGBTQ students, including the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBTQ Life. The Tagliabue Initiative, funded by a gift from Chandler and Paul Tagliabue (CAS ’62), who also served as chairman of the university’s board of directors from 2008 to 2015, includes Journeys, an annual LGBTQ center retreat; a discussion-based initiative to explore LGBTQ identities; and a series of workshops to provide LGBTQ students with a space to reflect on and engage with their identities. Student activism drove the movement that established the LGBTQ Center and has sustained it to this day, Porterfield said. Student involvement in movements like the one to establish the LGBTQ Center helps cultivate a culture and a community that
DeGioia said in his opening remarks. “This center is something. This community that the center has sustained is something. Because of all of you, it is something wonderful.” Getting students to speak up about their experiences helped cultivate a more welcoming community at Georgetown for LGTBQ students, Porterfield said, discussing the 2008 Georgetown Magazine issue that shared the stories of LGBTQ students. “Real people talked about how it hurt to be not able to express their identity, to share their whole selves,” he said. “Storytelling is a part of how an institution knows itself, and if we can get ourselves GAGE to point where we’re listening to each other, sharing stories hu- The Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees filed with the American Arbitration Association to man to human, some of those hold an election on unionization for graduate student teachers and research assistants this fall. seemingly hard positions become a little more flexible.” Student activism also drives the growth of Georgetown’s community, Angela Maske (NHS ’19), who spoke at the event and is the president of H*yas for Choice, said. “Change is embedded in this institution, in all institutions,” Douglas McRae, a graduate privately by the AAA, a neutral Maske said. “In order to realize our amy li worker and fifth year doctoral can- third-party organization, outside Special to The Hoya vision of a truly justice-oriented didate in the department of his- the scope of the NLRB, to ensure Georgetown, we must embrace The Georgetown Alliance of tory, said unionizing would have Georgetown University cannot lethis change with open arms.” Graduate Employees announced a positive influence on the quality gally challenge the election’s outits intention to file for an election of life for graduate workers across come. with the American Arbitration As- Georgetown’s programs. The university will stand by the sociation on Oct. 8, beginning the “Collective bargaining has al- decision of the graduate students, process to hold a union election lowed graduate workers to achieve Provost Robert Groves and Execufor graduate student teachers and better compensation and working tive Vice President for Health Sciresearch assistants this fall. conditions, as well as gains in ar- ences Edward Healton said. The election will ask eligible eas, such as healthcare and child“We will work together to engraduate students to vote by secret care,” McRae wrote in an email to sure a free and fair election that ballot on whether they wish to The Hoya. “We’ve seen the benefits encourages dialogue and gives eliunionize. If the majority votes in of unionization at places like NYU, gible graduate student assistants favor of unionization, GAGE will as well as public universities like the opportunity to decide if they be able to negotiate on behalf of all UConn, Michigan, and Illinois.” would like to be represented by a graduate student assistants. The Georgetown Solidarity union,” Groves and Healton said This development comes after Committee, an organization dedi- in a joint statement released to a two-year effort by GAGE for uni- cated to workers’ rights and social the university. versity recognition of a graduate justice issues on campus, stands in If the election has an affirmateaching assistant labor union. solidarity with GAGE as they move tive result, GAGE’s next steps will GAGE reached an agreement with towards an election. be collective bargaining for and the university to hold an election “Graduate employee’s work- signing a contract intended to April 2. ing conditions are our learn- benefit graduate employees. Deidre Nelms, a teaching associ- ing conditions,” a spokesperson GAGE shared a priorities surate and fourth year doctoral can- for GSC wrote in an email to vey with its members for gradudidate in the department of phi- The Hoya. “Graduate workers de- ate workers to list what it would losophy, believes forming a union serve to see a doctor, pay their rent, like to see in a new contract and will give graduate students greater and have a say in their employ- what they think would improve bargaining power. ment without jeopardizing their their experiences working at “Organizing is a way to connect savings, their research, or our Georgetown. workers and teachers across de- classes.” “Our ultimate goal is to negotipartments and make it easier for Under the regulations of the ate the best possible contract for us to support each other,” Nelms National Labor Relations Board, graduate workers at Georgetown,” wrote in an email to The Hoya. graduate student teaching assis- GAGE wrote in a statement on its “When hundreds of us are united tants are not considered university website. “One that truly values our in a recognized union, we’ll be employees, and so a union election contributions to the university as dennis kim for the hoya Former Senior Vice President of Development Dan Porterfield (CAS ’83), able to bargain with the university could be legally challenged. The teachers, researchers, and graduelection is set to be administered ate assistants.” left, and professor Marcia Chatelain discuss LGBTQ student activism. for an improved, stable contract.” students need, Porterfield said. “We have to challenge students to be partners in creating the community that they want,” Porterfield said. “They are people who shape the traditions and the culture of the school.” While student activism was the driving force behind the creation of the LGBTQ Center, only with university support could the center gain the traction and necessary funding to develop into its current form, according to Porterfield. University President John J. DeGioia’s endorsement of the LGBTQ Center in 2007 jumpstarted the process to establish the center, he said. “What [DeGioia] was able to do was frame the work in a way that was coherent with the core values of this institution,” Porterfield said. Student activists need to work with the school administration if they want to create lasting change, according to Porterfield. “Genuine, authentic process makes the roots grow deep,” Porfterfield said. “That keeps the tree up.” DeGioia introduced the Monday event and praised the work of the LGBTQ Center in expanding during its 10 years on campus. “A decade ago we took one step,”
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Petition Urges Non-Tenure-Line Faculty Parental Leave Increase parental leave from A1 on Full-Time Non-Tenure Line Issues, a nine-member committee for the main campus that addresses issues affecting full-time non-tenure-line faculty, the petition seeks a decision on the issue by the end of the semester. “We’re not asking for any new structure or something really new — we’re just saying we’re also faculty and just include us in the benefits,” Astrid Weigert, chair of the Joint Main Campus Committee on Full-Time Non-Tenure Line Issues, said in an interview with The Hoya. “We really feel a sense of urgency about this because people try to plan their lives and their pregnancies.” The petition will receive serious consideration from university administrative bodies, Provost Robert Groves wrote in an email to The Hoya. Consideration of the petition will be expedited by the Benefits Advisory Committee, which provides feedback on university employee benefit plans, according to Groves. “We appreciate the important role of full-time faculty members on our campus, including those who are primarily engaged in teaching. We have received a request, initiated by the Joint Committee on Full Time Non-Tenure Line Faculty, which calls for all full-time faculty members on the Main Campus to receive the same new parent leave benefits,” Groves wrote. “This is a reasonable proposal that deserves prompt consideration, and we will expedite its consideration by the Benefits Advisory Committee and other appropriate faculty consultative bodies.” The group raised the issue to the provost’s office at the annual faculty town hall meeting every year for the past four years, in faculty senate meetings and the main campus executive faculty before deciding to draft a peti-
tion, Weigert said. “Every time we got the reply ‘we are working on it,’ but nothing happened,” Weigert said. “We needed to show that there is really a very strong support for this petition among faculty.” The distinction between full-time tenure-line and non-tenure-line faculty was not clearly defined until 2001, according to Weigert. A tenure-line faculty member is full time and their responsibilities include teaching, research and university service, according to the Faculty Handbook. The responsibilities of faculty who are not tenure-line include teaching and research, and sometimes service, according to the handbook. Before the positions were differentiated in 2001, fulltime non-tenure-line professors were considered “visiting,” a confusing definition as many stayed at Georgetown for extended periods of time, Weigert said. “Both groups are essential and complement each other, allowing us to achieve the mission of the University,” a university spokesperson said in a statement to The Hoya. The leave for non-tenureline faculty is covered under short-term disability insurance and applies to pregnant mothers. Tenure-line leave, conversely, applies to the primary caregiver of a child under 1 year old, or under 5 years old and new to the home, according to the Office of Faculty and Staff Benefits, meaning it also applies to new fathers or adoptive parents. At The George Washington University, a regular, active full-time member of the faculty is granted one semester of paid parental leave, according to the provost office of GWU. A “regular” faculty member can be tenure or non-tenure track, according to the GWU faculty code. Science, technology and
international affairs professor Clare Fieseler (SFS ’06) is a full-time non-tenure-line faculty member and is 34 weeks pregnant. She signed the petition because it relates to her directly, Fieseler said in an interview with The Hoya. “To have such stark discrepancy in the benefits is really striking, especially at a place like Georgetown,” Fieseler said. James Sandefur, committee member and former chair of the department of mathematics and statistics, considers educational continuity as one of the key reasons to improve parental leave for nontenure-line faculty. In the department of mathematics and statistics, nontenure-line faculty teach three courses, while tenureline faculty teach two. If a
non-tenure-line faculty member gives birth in the middle of semester and takes several weeks off rather than the whole semester, it can be disruptive for the students, Sandefur said. “While it’s very inconvenient for the faculty member too, it’s also very inconvenient for the students, and it makes it hard for the department because we have to find people to cover for them while they’re away,” Sandefur said. Sandefur suspects the discrepancy in benefits is rooted in the pre-2001 faculty member definitions. However, Sandefur said, the issue should have been resolved long ago. “It’s amazing it has gone on this long,” Sandefur said in an interview with The Hoya.
“This petition should have come out in 2002.” Weigert has been working to improve non-tenure-line parental leave for at least four years, she said. Although the Joint Main Campus Committee on Full-Time NonTenure Line Issues was established in 2016, Weigert and a group of interested faculty attempted to adjust the benefits through bringing up the topic at senate meetings and the annual faculty townhall. Joint Main Campus Committee member and Faculty Director of the School of Continuing Studies Maria Trujillo began attending committee meetings in October 2017. “We have had the parental leave item on the Committee agenda since the first day I attended,” Trujillo wrote in an
email to The Hoya. Weigert opened the petition Oct. 2 and began circulating it Oct. 4. The petition closed Oct. 15, receiving 282 signatures in the time that it was open. Weigert is pleased with the response, she said, as she set the petition’s goal at 300 signatures, roughly the number of full-time nontenure-line faculty. “I’ve signed some petitions at Georgetown but they were always for DACA issues or kind of larger societal issues that impact the campus, but I’ve never seen a petition that was about some benefits issue, so I had no idea how it would go,” Weigert said. “It was amazing.” Hoya Staff Writer Alexandra Bowman contributed reporting.
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Chair of the Joint Main Campus Committee on Fulll-Time Non-Tenure Line Issues Astrid Weigert launched the petition to equalize parental leave benefits for non-tenure-line faculty to that of tenure-line faculty. When the petition closed Oct. 15, it had 282 signatures.
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Program Helps Formerly Imprisoned Kanye West Delivers Impromptu Residents Obtain Driver’s Licenses Speech at Georgetown Apple Store Alexandra Bowman Special to The Hoya
The Pathways to Work Reentry Program allowed its 250th previously incarcerated resident to reobtain a Washington, D.C. driver’s license, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced Oct. 4. The Bowser administration established the program in November 2017 to help integrate returning citizens back into society, according to the Oct. 4 news release. The program was established in collaboration with the Central Collection Unit, a District government office that collects delinquent debts housed within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. Managed by the Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizens Affairs and the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, the program assists returning D.C. residents who would otherwise be unable to acquire a driver’s license because of previous automobile ticket debts or insurance lapses. The Pathways program seeks to address one of the main causes for reincarceration: driving without a license, MORCA
director Brian Ferguson (COL ’18) said in an interview with The Hoya. “Driving without a license or only a suspended license is the main cause of being rearrested in Washington, D.C., for returning citizens in the district,” Ferguson said. Ferguson, who majored in justice and peace studies while at Georgetown, was wrongfully convicted of murder in 2002, and exonerated in 2013 after serving 11 years in prison. After leaving prison, Ferguson began his education and advocacy career in prison justice and reform. Ferguson launched Start Line — a startup company addressing the challenges of previously incarcerated citizens by allowing people to identify, locate and rate available resources— before joining the Bowser administration as an advocate for returning residents. Easing the transition period for returning citizens while ensuring their future success was one of the key considerations in developing the Pathways program, according to Ferguson. “The challenge was to create
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Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced 250 formerly incarcerated Washington, D.C. residents reobtained their driver’s licenses Oct. 4.
the system that enabled [returning citizens] to be able to pay the debt that they owed but also make it more manageable for them,” he said. The idea for the Pathways program was based on Bowser’s work to obtain an exemption for District residents from a federal law that required the automatic revocation of a driver’s license following a drug conviction, according to Ferguson. The Pathways program brings D.C. residents back into legal compliance, so they are not tempted to drive without a license. The driver’s licenses obtained through the program also enable returning residents with access to increased job opportunities, Ferguson said. “Having a license is often a prerequisite for a lot of employment opportunities, especially ‘low barriers to entry’ employment. If you didn’t have a job, it was a vicious cycle,” Ferguson said. “You would not be able to pay the money to get the license, but you needed the license to get the job. We wanted to break that cycle and not have finances, or the lack thereof, determine people’s access to opportunities in the city.” Ferguson said the Pathways program is currently working to expand to other communities stifled by barriers to employment, including low-income and immigrant communities. A restored or renewed driver’s license allows returning citizens to pursue job opportunities that are not easily accessible or walkable, and offers appropriate credentialing for jobs that directly require driver licenses, according to the Oct. 4 news release. A driver’s license is one of the key tools for a returning citizen to reintegrate back into society, Bowser said in the news release. “A core D.C. value is believing in second chances,” Bowser said. “Returning citizens deserve the chance to contribute to their community, earn a living, and make choices to put their lives back onto a pathway to the middle class, and a driver’s license is a fundamental building block to making those dreams a reality.”
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Rapper Kanye West delivered a speech on a table at the Apple Store in the Georgetown neighborhood on Oct.11, while visiting Washington, D.C. to meet with President Donald Trump. It was unclear if West planned to give the speech or if it was an impromptu event, Sarah Hirshorn (COL ’20), who was in the store at the time, wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Kanye was pacing around the back of the store,” Hirshorn wrote. “A few people had their phones out to take photos and videos but the majority of people didn’t seem to care or know what was going on!” Jack Jenkins, a national reporter for the Religion News Service who was in the store at the time, chronicled the moment on Twitter. Apple Store patrons gathered around West with phones in hand while he gave a “keynote,” Jenkins tweeted. West said he made a “Make America Great” hat for Trump, and showed the crowd a picture of him wearing it, Jenkins said. The original slogan is insulting to black people, West said, according to CNN breaking news reporter Caroline Kelly. “‘It hurts us as people, specifically black people, the idea, because we say, was America ever great for us?’” Kelly tweeted. West declared he was heading to Africa before leaving the store, according to Jenkins. West has delayed his forthcoming studio album “Yandhi” past its expected Sept. 29 release date and is travelling to Africa to record it. The album is set to drop on Black Friday, West said in an interview with TMZ. Apple Store employees declined to comment on the incident, but one said that West was, “man, I think just being extra,” Jenkins tweeted. Georgetown’s Apple Store has a history of celebrity sightings. In September, its Genius Bar helped Special Counsel Robert Mueller with his MacBook Pro, according to Business Insider. In March 2017, a woman confronted former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in the store, calling
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Kanye West visited the Georgetown Apple Store, where he climbed onto a table and gave an unplanned talk to the store patrons Oct. 11. him a fascist. Back in 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the day the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus launched. West’s impromptu speech followed his meeting with Trump in the Oval Office earlier that day. The pair discussed, among other topics, North Korea, the 13th Amendment, prison reform, police brutality and crime in Chicago, according to the Oct. 11 White House transcript. Former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown also attended the meeting. Brown has been noted for his conservative views, including his opposition to fellow players kneeling for the national anthem, and for his service work in inner cities with his Amer-I-Can program. Trump lauded West for his contributions, commenting on the visibility of the meeting, according to the transcript. “And what Kanye is doing has been incredible,” Trump said. “All over the world they’re talking about this. And I have to tell you, I had important meetings today with senators and with everything. Nobody cared. They wanted this meeting. This is the meeting.” During the meeting, West pitched his idea for replacing Air Force One with the iPlane 1, a theoretical hydrogen-powered aircraft, which he said would bring jobs back to the United States. It is unclear if his visit to the Georgetown Apple Store is connected to his suggestion at the White House meeting that Apple should produce the iPlane. West said at the White House meeting that black people prioritize owning name brand items over land, in response to a report-
er’s question on Trump’s view of the black community. “I think that with blacks and African-Americans, we really get caught up in the idea of racism over the idea of industry. We say if people don’t have land, they settle for brands,” West said. “We want polo-sporting Obama again. We want a brand more than we want land. Because we’ve haven’t known how it feels to actually have our own land and have ownership of our own blocks.” West also argued that black-onblack violence is similarly dangerous to police brutality. “You know, we talk about police murders, which we definitely have to discuss, and we have to bring nobility to the police officers and make — the police officers are just like us,” West said in the White House meeting. “But there’s this whole hate-building, right? And that’s a major thing about racial tension.” West has drawn criticism in the past for his support of Trump. During a Sept. 29 appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” he gave an impromptu pro-Trump speech on stage after the show, while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. Many in the crowd booed West, though one supporter clapped, according to The Washington Post. The speech did not air. The Oval Office meeting ended with a hug between West and Trump. “I love this guy right here,” West said of Trump. “Let me give this guy a hug right here.” West did not respond to a request for comment regarding his visit to the Georgetown Apple Store over Twitter.
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SFS Sees First Semester ADL Director: Trump Of Science Requirement Legitimizes Anti-Semitism sana rahman
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This fall marks the first semester of the new core science requirement for students in the School of Foreign Service. The Class of 2022 is the first group of students subject to the new core curriculum. Accommodating the addition of a science requirement necessitated a reduction in economics courses, major courses and the three — or more — credit courses needed to graduate. The SFS science classes aim to explore the intersection between science and international affairs through courses including “The Science of Extinction and De-Extinction” and “Examining Crises Through the Lens of Science,” according to Mark Giordano, science, technology and international affairs program director. “We wanted to make a set of science classes that were directly oriented toward SFS students,” Giordano said in an interview with The Hoya. For Christina Luke (SFS ’22), “The Science of Extinction and De-Extinction” was not a class she initially thought she would be interested in. After being in the class for seven weeks, Luke’s perception on science courses has shifted. “It’s interesting subject matter that I usually would not have picked for myself, and now being in the class, it actually makes me want to take more SFS science classes and further delve into how science engages with the international community and international studies,” Luke said in an interview with The Hoya. The course’s varied methods of learning, ranging from using 3D printers to create prints of dolphin
skulls to understanding how to write science-related policy briefs, is what has made the class interesting, according to Luke. “With the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument in Utah, there were so many cretaceous fossils, and there was an effort to preserve the national monument because [President Donald] Trump wanted to open it up to privatization,” she said. “We had to write a policy brief as if that had not already happened and it was a way to connect what we were learning to present day events.” Danny Livingston (SFS ’22) said the connections between science and international relations in his “Examining Crises Through the Lens of Science” class is discussed using different case studies, focusing on topics like biological weapons and infectious diseases. “It has a lot to do with international events and how different countries are responding and working together to solve these crises,” Livingston said in an interview with The Hoya. Although the courses are meant to spotlight the presence of science in the international community, more emphasis could be put on the science aspect of the course, according to Livingston. “We had one day in a lab; it would be cool if we had more actual science, more hands-on stuff,” Livingston said. “I’m a STIA major, so I’ll have more experiences in the future, but I know for other students who are IPOL [international politics] or IPEC [international political economy] majors that this could be their only exposure to science.” Going forward, the SFS Aca-
demic Council hopes that the SFS science classes continue to be taught by professors who are knowledgeable and passionate about their subject area to make the class interesting for all students, including those who may not wish to pursue a field relating to science, according to SFSAC Vice President Forrest Gertin (SFS ’20). “This is something that the SFS Academic Council has been pushing for, is that any class that we are requiring you to take — even though, say you’re an IPEC major, so you’re not particularly interested in science — we want the class to be taught by someone who really knows how to teach and is one of the best teaching professors at the university,” Gertin said in an interview with The Hoya. “We’ve found some success in lobbying the dean’s office so that the people who are teaching those courses are, and will continue to be in the future, the best teachers that we have at the university.” Although the SFS science classes currently have a biology focus, as the program expands, more classes integrating aspects of chemistry, such as a class focusing on weapons of mass destruction or global health, will hopefully be added, according to Giordano. “It’s not that science and technology issues weren’t always part of international relations, but I think that it is blatantly obvious right now its importance and not having something looked like a big gap,” Giordano said.
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President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 inspired a growth of anti-Semitism, said American Defamation League National Director Emeritus and Holocaust survivor Abraham Foxman at an event Oct. 10 at the Mortara Center for International Studies. Foxman heads the Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. He was joined by Rabbi David Saperstein, who served as the director and chief legal counsel at the Union for Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center for nearly four decades. Saperstein also worked at the U.S. Department of State as the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom until January 2017. The event, hosted by the Center for Jewish Civilization, sought to explore the status of anti-Semitism today. The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by 57 percent in 2017, the largest single-year increase on record since 1979, according to the ADL. Incidents of antiSemitism on college campuses and in schools nearly doubled in 2017 for the second year in a row. Foxman blamed Trump’s influence in part for the rise of anti-Semitic behavior in the United States in the past few years; he cited the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va., as evidence of a rise in anti-Semitism in re-
cent years. “Trump is not an anti-Semite. He did not create Charlottesville, nor did he create the 200 anti-Semites in the angry, disgusting march,” Foxman said. “But he has legitimized uncivil behavior and disrespect. He does this every day. He empowers and gives chutzpah to the Charlottesville 200, who believe that it’s OK to act out their hate.” Norms against anti-Semitism in the United States have protected Jews since the end of World War II, according to Foxman, but recently, antiSemitic rhetoric has been on the rise, he said. “[Anti-Semitism] has been in the sewers, with the covers on. Now, there is nothing you cannot say. There is no one you cannot criticize or attack or denigrate, etc.,” Foxman said. “This has now become part of our environment — an environment where lies are tolerated.” The Internet has provided a new platform for anti-Semitic thought by allowing individuals to conceal themselves, according to Foxman. “The Internet puts the mask back on the bigot. It provides the bigot the anonymity of expressing, promoting and advocating their bigotry under the guise of a mask,” Foxman said. “And here are serious issues. How do you balance freedom of speech and security? It’s a constant balance. But the Internet gives them a lot of cover.” The anti-Semitic trends in the United States reflect a global rise of anti-Semitism
and xenophobia. “We’ve seen the removal of established taboos in the political and civil establishment and legitimizing the singling out and denigrating [of] ethnic, religious, color, gender minorities,” Foxman said. Media outlets have historically offered a method to combat anti-Semitism, according to Foxman. “The media has been a very important vehicle and instrument in fighting lies. AntiSemitic beliefs are lies. They are conspiracy theories,” Foxman said. “To a large extent, in civil society, in democratic society, in the last 50 to 70 years, one of the areas where we could expose, where we can challenge, where we can educate, was the media.” Yet Trump’s consistent critique of the media — such as calling media outlets “fake news” — weakened the media’s ability to combat antiSemitic ideas, Foxman said. “The media is under attack. It’s under attack here and around the world,” Foxman said. “Here it’s fake news, here it’s the enemy of the people, etc., and [this] has a very specific impact on Jews and anti-Semitism.” The recent rise in anti-Semitism threatens Jews around the world, even in places traditionally welcoming to Jews, like the United States, according to Foxman. “I worry about democracy. Democracy is fragile,” Foxman said. “I worry today more for the safety of my children and grandchildren as Jews even in this country.”
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Sidney Milkis, distinguished teaching professor in the department of politics at the University of Virginia said that political polarization beginning with the civil rights movement led to President Donald Trump’s election in 2016.
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Today’s political divisions and partisanship in the United States originate from the fracturing of the moderate political ideology in the 1960s, Sidney M. Milkis, distinguished teaching professor in the department of politics at the University of Virginia, said during an event in the Intercultural Center auditorium Oct. 15. Richard Boyd, the director of the Tocqueville Forum for Political Understanding, moderated the event, titled “What Happened to the Vital Center: The Fracturing of America and the Rise of Donald Trump.” The event’s lecturer, Milkis, authored multiple books about political parties in the United States, including “The Great Society” and the High Tide of Liberalism, and currently teaches U.S. government. While modern modes of mass communication such as Twitter exacerbate the divisions in U.S. politics, divisions originated with the destruction of the center in U.S. politics during the 1960s, Milkis said, referring to what historian and writer Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the tearing apart of the vital center of U.S. politics in 1960s. “The disruptive 2016 election, and the first two years of the Trump presidency, did not come out of nowhere. In fact, the current circus maximus is the culmination of developments that have been festering for more than five decades,” Milkis said. “The contemporary battles between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, represent the legacy of
the tearing apart of what Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the ‘vital center of American politics’ during the 1960s.” Liberal movements in the 1960s like the civil rights, women’s rights and anti-war movements pulled apart the center of U.S. politics by criticizing the New Deal state, which expanded national administrative power through bipartisanship, for encouraging indifference to the injustices occurring around the world, according to Milkis. “Most critics of partisan rancor blame the Republicans for fracturing America, but really it was the leftists, especially the leaders of the civil rights and anti-war movement, who first threw American politics offcenter, who rejected the working arrangements of the by-then fatigued New Deal state that appeared to insulate American government from public accountability,” Milkis said. The advocacy movements in the late 1960s gave rise to more militant conservatism of politicians such as Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) causing conservatives to stray further from the center and to reject the moderate republicanism that President Dwight Eisenhower advocated, Milkis said. “Security from domestic violence, no less than from foreign aggression, Goldwater told to the GOP delegates, is the most elementary and fundamental purpose of any government,” Milkis said. “A government that cannot fulfill that purpose is a government that cannot long command the loyalty of its citizens. So Goldwater preached the gospel of law and order that
would become a rallying cry for the new right.” The 2016 presidential election exacerbated partisan divisions, Milkis said. Trump followed in Goldwater’s and President Richard Nixon’s footsteps, presenting himself as the law and order candidate and contributing to the Republican Party’s shift right. Republican politicians claim that they will establish security and order, which reflects how the Democrats and the Republicans have moved away from debating the role of a large national government and toward defending one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear and freedom from want, according to Milkis. “Put simply, the liberals are devoted to the welfare state; they embrace freedom from want, and conservatives embellish the national security state,” Milkis said. “Conservatives embrace freedom from fear. And the politics of fear is at the heart of Trumpism. All this suggests that Trump is a symptom, not a cause, of America’s discontent.” While Trump pulled the Republican Party more to the right, other politicians such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also pulled the Democratic Party further from the center, according to Milkis. “Even though his revolution fell short, Bernie’s remarkable campaign made its impact on the election,” Milkis said. “Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were pushed far more to the left than they would have been in the absence of the Sanders’ campaign on education, on trade, on healthcare policy.”
A drive organized by students who live on Magis Row is set to donate feminine hygiene products to Thrive D.C., a nonprofit organization and the sole provider of homeless services in Washington, D.C.’s Ward 1. Magis Row, the 16 townhouses located mostly on 36th Street, is one of Georgetown’s independent Living Learning Communities. Reflecting on the Jesuit value of “magis,” residents of Magis Row strive to pursue individual passions while contemplating how to ask “more” of themselves and others, according to the Georgetown University Residential Living website. In line with this core ideal, the Agape, Men’s Socioeconomic Ties and Network of Dialogue, Queen, Frontier and Women in Tech houses sponsored this weeklong drive. Starting Oct. 9, the Magis Row houses set up a donation station outside of the Agape House on 37th Street to collect individually wrapped pads and tampons; the drive ran through midnight Oct. 16. Magis Row is set to deliver the supplies to Thrive D.C. at the conclusion of the drive. Founded in 1979 to serve dinner to women experiencing homelessness, Thrive D.C. has grown to become a comprehensive, professionally staffed
organization providing a wide range of services to more than 2,000 men, women and children each year. Feminine hygiene products are often overlooked when assessing the needs of people experiencing homelessness, said Kate Rogers (NHS ’20), copresident of the Georgetown Period Empowerment Project, a student organization that seeks to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene. “Menstrual products are very expensive, and they are one of the least donated products,” Rogers said. “Without adequate menstrual hygiene, many people are forced to stay home from school or work, and it becomes a vicious cycle.” Many basic necessities like groceries are tax-exempt in states across the country to prevent excessive costs from harming lower-income individuals, according to The New York Times, but feminine hygiene products used to manage menstrual flow are subject to a value-added tax. Their cost can often be prohibitive for women who are struggling financially, according to Thrive D.C.’s website. “We really wanted to find a need in the DC community that was not already being met,” Agape resident Ellie Staab (COL ’20) wrote in an email to The Hoya. “Oftentimes homeless shelters receive donations
of food, clothing and personal hygiene items such as shampoo or toothpaste. Rarely do they receive donations of feminine hygiene products.” Through this drive, Staab said, Magis Row aimed to not only collect products for Thrive D.C. but also raise awareness of this issue, which is often considered taboo and goes undiscussed. Menstruation products are a major component of Thrive D.C.’s aid. The organization has specifically sought donations for tampons and heavy-flow/overnight maxi pads. Many women go without sanitary products because they are too embarrassed to ask for them, forget to get some at a shelter or are unable to obtain the type of product they need, according to Thrive D.C.’s website. Georgetown University students sponsored a similar drive last December. As a project for the course “The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship,” students donated 810 tampons and pads to Thrive D.C. Staab hopes future Georgetown students will continue to stay involved with this cause. “I think this is definitely something we would consider doing again,” Staab wrote. “Homeless shelters have so many unmet needs besides lack of feminine hygiene products, that this is really just a start.”
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PSG Dominance GU Falls to Liberty, Defeats Towson Highlights Soccer's Wealth Inequalities Sidney Lee
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Dean Hampers When Paris Saint-Germain faced Lyon on Sunday, Oct. 7, in France’s top soccer league, Ligue 1, standout 19-year-old forward Kylian Mbappé stole the show with an astonishing four goals in 14 minutes. Mbappé’s performance overshadowed a more significant takeaway from the game: The gap between PSG and every other French club team has reached an absurd level. To prevent one-team dominance in every league, regulations should be implemented that exclusively apply to the biggest clubs, rather than broad guidelines like those implemented by the Union of European Football Associations. UEFA’s current rulings only make it harder for smaller clubs to grow. In FiveThirtyEight’s global club soccer standings, Lyon is the only French team other than PSG to rank in the top 50. By thrashing Lyon 5-0, PSG has solidified its position as head and shoulders above even the next best team in France. In fact, just nine games into the season, FiveThirtyEight gives PSG a 98 percent chance of winning Ligue 1. At this point, the only games PSG must take seriously are Champions League fixtures against other European heavyweights. The rest of the team’s matches are simply opportunities for star players like Mbappé and Neymar to show off their skills and boost their statistics. PSG’s dominance of French soccer underscores the degree to which money now determines a club’s success. For most of the club’s history, PSG was largely a mediocre team, winning Ligue 1 only twice between 1974 and 2011.
In 2011, however, businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi and his organization Qatar Sports Investments acquired the club. Since then, PSG has spent over 1 billion on transfer players, including a world-record 222 million transfer fee for Brazilian superstar Neymar. PSG is not the first soccer team to benefit from enormous financial contributions from a foreign businessman. Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich has spent over $2.97 billion in the last 10 years on English club Chelsea, which he has owned since 2003. In today’s era, mid-tier European clubs are simply left with no ability to compete. Any clever business maneuver, marketing campaign or transfer gamble that a mid-sized club owner might make to try improving his club’s standing can never match the money from owners with vast personal wealth. UEFA, which theoretically regulates clubs to maintain competitiveness, has in fact made the inequalities worse. According to a study from the Technical University of Munich, UEFA’s 2012 Financial Fair Play Regulations solidified the existing hierarchies by setting barriers that discourage investment in smaller clubs. The lucrative nature of starfilled teams encourages organizations like UEFA to protect the wealthiest clubs and block smaller ones from growing, as UEFA can profit off a handful of competitive Champions League games each year that draw huge audiences. Yet, as these inequalities have grown and poor regulation has continued, domestic leagues are becoming much less competitive, which is to the detriment of clubs that are not already worth billions of dollars. The history, enthusiasm and tradition of domestic leagues make soccer unique. In the new era of commercialized soccer, when a team like PSG can rapidly conquer its country’s sport, that tradition is clearly in jeopardy.
The Georgetown field hockey team fell to No. 19 Liberty last Friday but bounced back with a victory against Towson on Sunday. In a game where both teams were looking for their 10th win, the Liberty Flames (104, 5-0 Big East) defeated the Georgetown Hoyas (10-5, 2-3 Big East) with a score of 2-1. Liberty senior forward Moniek van Aarle put the Flames on the board in the first four minutes of the match, but the Hoyas’ defense did not allow another goal for the rest of the period. Sophomore forward Cami Osborne, junior midfielder Michaela Bruno and sophomore forward Nell van Schaack each totalled a shot, while freshman goalkeeper Ciara Weets
made three saves in the first half. The score remained 1-0 until the 57th minute when Liberty senior midfielder Abby Julius converted a goal off the team’s fifth corner of the contest, increasing Liberty’s lead to two goals. Georgetown responded late, scoring a goal with just over a minute left in regulation. Bruno passed to junior forward Lindsay Getz, who knocked the ball into the left corner of the net for a goal. However, it was too little too late: Liberty held on to the lead, winning the match 2-1. The Flames outshot the Hoyas 18-4 and drew all eight corners of the match. Weets finished the game with eight saves. Following its loss to Liberty, Georgetown edged Towson (112, 0-3 CAA) in a tight match, winning 2-1 on Sunday. The
Hoyas’ win marks the first time the program has reached double digit victories since 2001. Towson sophomore defender Jenna Florenzo opened the scoring off a rebound in the 25th minute to take the lead. In the 31st minute, junior back Emily Fraser passed the ball to Osborne, who tied the score with a long-range strike. The Hoyas took the lead 12 minutes into the second half when sophomore back Anna Farley found the net off a rebound, putting Georgetown up 2-1. In the 65th minute, the Hoyas survived a breakaway scoring opportunity from Towson’s leading scorer, senior midfielder Katie McNeel. Weets came up with a diving save to preserve the lead and grab the win. Head Coach Christy Longacre said the Hoyas were
more organized defensively in their loss to Liberty but found space to score in their win over Towson. “Friday we did a better job of communicating and organizing. … We were more aware in trying to use each other better defensively.” Longacre said in an interview with The Hoya. “Today we made it very difficult on ourselves by trying to go through the middle. When we did move the ball and moved it outside, we were very successful.” Georgetown outshot Towson 8-5 and had 15 penalty corners to Towson’s one. Weets achieved three saves in the game. The Hoyas will be back at Cooper Field this weekend, facing Providence on Friday, Oct. 19, at 2 p.m. and Longwood on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 1 p.m.
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The Georgetown field hockey team defeated Lehigh 7-1 at home Sunday, Sept. 30, to win its eighth game of the season. The Hoyas, now 10-5, lost 2-1 at Liberty University and defeated Towson 2-1 at Cooper Field this weekend. Georgetown hosts Providence on Friday.
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Senior middle blocker Symone Speech has recorded 1,280 kills over the course of her four-year Georgetown career. Against Creighton on Oct. 12, Speech had seven kills and two digs.
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The Georgetown volleyball team split its home matches in McDonough Arena last weekend, falling to Creighton on Oct. 12 and defeating Providence on Oct. 13. Georgetown (13-8, 6-3 Big East) entered its matchup against Creighton (16-4, 8-0 Big East) as the underdog. The Blue Jays sported a No. 10 national ranking, with wins over No. 5 Kentucky and No. 21 Marquette, and boasted an undefeated record in Big East play. Georgetown defeated Big East rivals Butler and Xavier in convincing fashion the week prior on its Midwest road swing. The Blue and Gray, however, could not replicate its road success at home, losing in straight sets by scores of 25-17, 25-20 and 25-15 to Creighton. The Blue Jays registered five or more unanswered points in each of the three sets. Senior outside hitters Taryn Kloth and Jaali Winters led the
Blue Jays and recorded 10 kills apiece. Junior setter Madelyn Cole led all players with 12 digs and picked up 23 assists. Junior outside hitter Iva Vujosevic led the Hoyas with 11 kills, while senior outside hitter Alyssa Sinnette added eight kills. Sophomore setter Margo Pivonka registered a game-high 26 assists. Senior middle blocker Symone Speech contributed seven kills while leading the Hoya defense with three blocks. Georgetown bounced back from the Creighton loss, defeating the Providence Friars (7-12, 1-7 Big East) the next day in four straight sets by scores of 25-16, 1625, 25-20 and 25-20. The Hoyas and Friars were knotted at 3-3 in the first set before the Blue and Gray pulled away on an unanswered 6-0 run to go up 9-3. Georgetown struggled to hold off Providence throughout the rest of the set. The Friars clawed back to reduce the Hoyas’ lead to four, but Georgetown withstood the Friar onslaught and went on
a 6-1 run to win the frame. Providence dominated the second set, opening with seven unanswered points and winning the frame convincingly 25-16. Georgetown started the third set strongly, taking a 7-3 lead. Providence rallied back to reduce its deficit to two and make the score 12-10. Georgetown pulled away with a 5-2 run to settle the match at 25-20. The Friars and Hoyas battled through 10 ties and four lead changes. Georgetown pulled ahead by four at 20-16 after the score was tied 15-15 in the final set. Providence came back to within one at 21-20, but Georgetown remained poised and won the next four points to claim both the frame and the match. Speech led the Hoyas with 12 kills and four blocks while junior Addison Root led the Friars with 14 kills. Georgetown travels to South Orange, N.J., and Queens, N.Y., next week for matches against Big East opponents Seton Hall and St. John’s.
The Georgetown men’s and women’s cross country teams travelled to State College, Pa., last weekend to compete in the Penn State National Open, where the men finished the 5.2-mile race in fifth place, while the women finished the 6-kilometer race in 13th place. Junior Paige Hofstad led the women’s team and finished 11th overall in the 6k race with a time of 20:57. Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Julie Culley said Hofstad has the ability to improve her performance even further by her final meet of the regular season. “Paige’s performance at Penn State was good, but she knows she can be even further up in these races,” Culley said in an interview with The Hoya. “She will continue to build upon the regular season races as we head into the postseason.” Junior Margie Cullen followed behind Hofstad, finishing in 43rd place with a time of 21:22. Freshmen Katie Dammer and Katherine Modrall and junior
Meg Mathison rounded out the top-five finishers for Georgetown. Dammer, Modrall and Mathison, like Hofstad, are capable of earning higher finishes as Georgetown heads into its postseason schedule, according to Culley. “Finishing within 10 seconds of each other is a fantastic improvement after [our last race in] Wisconsin, but we need to have those same three runners further up in the field in order to perform at the level they are capable of and what their workouts indicate they are ready for,” Culley said. On the men’s side, junior Jack Van Scoter and senior Nick Wareham ran strong races, recording the same time of 25:21 and earning the 14th and 15th overall spots. Men’s Cross Country Head Coach Brandon Bonsey was impressed with the team’s efforts but knows there is still potential to improve. “Jack and Nick are very talented and they have trained well,” Bonsey said in an interview with The Hoya. “They did a good job at Penn State, but there’s a lot more in the tank there and I think they should continue to get better as we move on in the season.”
The remaining men’s runners who placed in the top five for the Hoyas finished within four seconds of each other. Junior Matthew Bouthillette followed Van Scoter and Wareham, finishing with a time of 26:04. The next two runners were not far behind, as senior Adam Barnard came in at 26:07 and freshman Rusty Kujdych recorded a time of 26:08. The men’s team was missing two of its top runners this past weekend, graduate student Christian Liddell and senior Spencer Brown, who will be returning for the team’s next race. Bonsey said the Hoyas must close the gap behind their top finishers, Scooter and Wareham. “We need to get the 3-5 runners closer to where Jack and Nick are,” Bonsey said. “We had a 40 second gap from where Nick finished to where Matt, our number-three guy, finished. We have to close that down, and obviously adding in Spencer and Christian will help with that a lot. I am confident they will be a lot closer when we line up at the Big East meet.” The men’s and women’s teams will next race at the Big East championships on Oct. 27 in Indianapolis.
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Sophomore Ty Brownlow finished 104th at the Penn State Nationals Open in the 8.369K race. The Georgetown men's team placed fifth and will travel to Indianapolis for the Big East championship Oct. 27.
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Bellinger made an incredible superman diving catch in right field — a position in which he never started this season — in the top of the 10th inning to prevent what could have set up a fatal Brewers scoring opportunity. Half an inning later, Machado caused both team’s benches to clear when he appeared to step on the back of Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar’s leg. Machado was later fined for the transgression. The move invoked memories of a suspension Machado served in 2014 for throwing his bat in the direction of third base during a game between his former team, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Oakland Athletics. Though Machado and Aguilar made nice after the game Tuesday, Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich was clearly fired up by the incident.
Although Tuesday’s game was packed with intensity, the game may have epitomized Manfred’s worst nightmare. As a fierce advocate for quickening baseball’s pace-of-play, over his three years as commissioner, Manfred has implemented a number of rules to speed up the action in baseball this season — to no avail, as was seen on Tuesday. What was wrong with Tuesday’s pace-of-play besides the fact that the game lasted over five hours? First, the start time was set at 6:09 p.m. PST, meaning the game ended after 11 p.m. on the West coast, 1 a.m. for Brewers fans in Milwaukee and close to 2 a.m. for displaced East Coast fans. Second, instant replay — a somewhat new phenomenon in baseball — all but halted the pace of the eighth inning, just as the game’s action was picking back up. Finally, almost no one scored
the entire game, meaning fans looking for a flashier game — I’m looking at you, NBA fans — could have lost interest quickly. Yet, after being criticized for its lack of energy at the previous night’s NLCS game, Dodger Stadium was rocking. The Dodger fan base, which is notorious for leaving games early to beat traffic, stayed all five hours and 15 minutes, even as the game approached midnight and fans risked sitting in the stadium parking lot for up to an hour in postgame traffic jams. In other words, Dodger fans illustrated that the pace-of-play question may be irrelevant in October. Perhaps the riveting tensions and strategies that postseason baseball provides — who doesn’t love a team pitching entirely out of its bullpen? — are enough to hold even the most casual baseball fans’ attention for the dura-
tion of these insanely long games. Or, better yet, maybe pace-ofplay isn’t the issue at all. Because the game spent the better part of two hours in “sudden death” mode, it arguably invoked more nail-biting anxiety than any other sport’s postseason would. Between the fascinating pitching strategies, controversial calls and extra innings, fans didn’t turn this game off out of boredom — and anyone who did is a lost cause to baseball fandom anyway. They turned it off because they were tired. Until Manfred adjusts the start times of games, expect every fan during postseason baseball to be sleep deprived. For many fans, most of baseball’s best moments are happening after midnight.
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Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson has thrown for 1,205 yards and six touchdowns this season. Johnson also has 36 yards on the ground.
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Ahmad Wilson recorded an interception to seal the victory late in the fourth quarter for the Hoyas. On special teams, junior punter Brad Hurst pinned Lafayette many times near its own end zone. Sgarlata emphasized Hurst’s key role in preventing Lafayette from scoring a touchdown. “Brad Hurst came up big for us in controlling the field position, and that really was the difference in the game,” Sgarlata said. The Hoyas will return to the Hilltop riding an undefeated conference record. They will aim to get back to .500 as they face Lehigh on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m.
Sophomore linebacker Xavier Reddick totalled a team-high eight tackles. The Hoyas’ senior secondary duo, Ramon Lyons and Blaise Brown, each had seven tackles. Lyons also came away with three pass breakups and one of Georgetown’s three interceptions on the day. Junior defensive lineman Khristian Tate recorded two of Georgetown’s four sacks. Sophomore linebacker Owen Kessler also got in the action by recovering a fumble forced by Brown in the fourth quarter. Sophomore defensive back
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really put Providence under pressure the whole game, and we were a little unlucky not to have scored a few more.” Thirty seconds into the first half, Georgetown’s senior goalkeeper Arielle Schechtman made a save off an effort from Providence junior defender Alessandra Arace. The Hoyas countered with a pair of chances in the following minutes. In the seventh minute, GerminoWatnick powered an effort wide of the goal. Sophomore midfielder Grace Nguyen had a chance to score in the eighth minute, but Providence’s sophomore goalkeeper Shelby Hogan made the save. In the remainder of the first half, the Hoyas recorded eight more shots. Both Hogan and Schechtman recorded four saves in the half. The Blue and Gray generated several scoring chances at the start of the second half, including a pair of chances by Farrell and Germino-Watnick in the opening two minutes. Hogan recorded four more saves before Farrell broke through with the game-winning goal. The Georgetown defense remained strong against Providence’s offensive pressure in the second half and limited
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the Friars to one shot, which came in the 78th minute from Providence sophomore midfielder Christina Rodgers and went wide of the net. The defense, backed by Schechtman, secured Georgetown’s 10th shutout of the season. Senior defender Jenna Staudt was recognized as the Big East
defensive player of the week on Monday for her play in the Providence game. Nolan commented on the importance of the defense to the victory and how the team is looking forward to more difficult upcoming matches. “[Providence was] always dangerous on the counter attack and on set pieces, and I thought
Strassner Scores Winner in Overtime Moments later, graduate student midfielder Matt Ledder was fouled just outside the box. Senior midfielder Kyle Zajec played the ensuing free kick into the box toward senior defender Brendan McDonough. McDonough connected with the end of the cross, but his header went wide, and the game remained scoreless. As the game wore on, Villanova found its footing and generated its first opportunities of the match. In the 21st minute, Koehler made a save diving to his right and the ensuing rebound was cleared by the Hoyas’ defense to keep the game scoreless. With around eight minutes left in the half, the Hoyas had
another scoring opportunity, this time courtesy of sophomore midfielder Foster McCune. After a clearance from the Wildcats’ defense, McCune received the ball at the top of the box. He hit a powerful effort that looked to be heading on target but was deflected following strong defending from Villanova. The game remained scoreless and headed into half tied at 0-0. The Hoyas started the second half well with two quick opportunities from sophomore forward Derek Dodson and Achara. Following a counter from the Hoyas, Achara found himself in on net. His effort curled outside of the far post and went wide. Just a few moments later, Zajec played
a lofted free kick into the box toward the far post. Dodson headed the ball, but his effort hit the woodwork, and the Hoyas could not break the scoreless tie. The Hoyas broke the deadlock in the 59th minute after junior defender Dylan Nealis was brought down in the box. Wiese praised Nealis’ performances throughout the season and his play against Villanova in particular. “Dylan Nealis has been really good. I thought he was a really important piece for us today,” Wiese said. Dodson stepped up to take the ensuing penalty and sent Villanova’s goalkeeper the wrong way before placing his shot in the top corner of the net to give the Hoyas a 1-0 lead.
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our back line did a great job of limiting them to a few moments. We now head into a tough week with two big games, away to Marquette on Thursday and then at home to Butler next Sunday,” Nolan said. The Hoyas will next travel to Valley Fields in Milwaukee to face Marquette on Oct. 18. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m.
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On Oct. 7, Georgetown defeated Villanova 1-0, and senior forward Caitlin Farrell scored the winning goal in overtime. Farrell scored another late goal against Providence, her 14th of the season.
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The men’s soccer team drew Maryland 0-0 in double overtime Oct. 8. On Oct. 13, the Hoyas faced Villanova, and the match again went to overtime. Junior forward Riley Strassner scored the winning goal in overtime.
Following the opening goal, the Hoyas continued to press for a second goal while stifling Villanova’s counterattacks. Wiese said that Georgetown’s defense remained stout throughout the match. “I thought our back four was really steady today. McDonough and [Peter] Schropp were really good handling little moments. They put out a lot of little fires that could have become bigger problems,” Wiese said. Villanova grabbed an equalizer in the 78th minute following an individual effort from junior midfielder Evan Vare. Following a Georgetown turnover, Vare hit a shot from far outside the box that beat Koehler and dipped under the crossbar to tie the game at one. After the goal, the Hoyas continued to control play but were unable to find a winner with any of their chances and the game headed to overtime. Five minutes into the second overtime period, Georgetown scored the game-winner courtesy of Strassner. Strassner explained that the team worked on the setup to the goal in training. “So, we decided on this little play we’ve been working on in practice where it goes one way and then a header across,” Strassner said. “Great ball from Kyle [Zajec] and McDonough did an excellent job squaring it across goal and I found a way to put my noggin on it. We’ve been getting into great spots and we’ve been able to get a lot of shots off. So, to put one in the back of the net was a great feeling.” Overall, the Hoyas outshot the Wildcats 27-13. Koehler earned the first win of his Georgetown career with five saves while Strassner scored his first goal as a Hoya. Next up, the Hoyas will travel to New Jersey to play Seton Hall Saturday, Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m.
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Freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis was called up to the Greek national soccer team this week and has 39 saves this season.
Hoyas Earn Double Overtime Victory Against Wildcats On Saturday, Oct. 13, the Georgetown men’s soccer team defeated Villanova in double overtime following a game-winning goal from junior forward Riley Strassner. Head Coach Brian Wiese said that the Hoyas (7-3-3, 3-1-1 Big East) created multiple chances to score against the Wildcats (6-5-1, 1-4-0 Big East) and maintained an attacking mindset. “I actually was pretty happy with the way the game went in a lot of ways. From the beginning of the second half through the overtimes, I thought our mentality was really good,” Wiese said. “We played the game in attacking parts
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of the field. I thought we were generating a lot.” Sophomore goalkeeper Ethan Koehler made his debut in net for the Hoyas after freshman goalkeeper Giannis Nikopolidis was called up to the Greek national soccer team. Georgetown controlled the tempo of the game early on as it saw more of the ball than Villanova and generated four shots before Villanova generated its first. The Hoyas nearly took the lead in the 17th minute following a strike from junior forward Achara from outside the box. Achara’s powerful shot struck the far post and bounced away from danger. See Villanova, A11
The Georgetown football team earned its second straight victory last Saturday, defeating Lafayette 13-6 on the road. Junior quarterback Gunther Johnson commanded the Georgetown (3-4, 2-0 Patriot League) offense against Lafayette (1-5, 0-2 Patriot League). He completed 11 of 21 passes for 73 yards through the air and ran the ball eight times for 20 yards, scoring both Hoya touchdowns. Johnson enjoys getting involved in the rushing attack. “I love running the ball, so it was great to get in the end zone on the ground,” Johnson said in an interview with The Hoya. Sophomore wide receiver Max Edwards, the Hoyas’ leading receiver on the day, added four catches for 40 yards. Sophomore running back Jackson Saffold rushed for 43 yards, while freshman running back Herman Moultrie III notched 40. The Hoyas performed well despite their low offensive numbers, according to Head Coach Rob Sgarlata. “The stats don’t tell the story of this game. Our kids just kept coming after it,” Sgarlata said. “We talked about winning your one-on-one battle. I think they did a great job of dealing with adversity today.” Early in the second quarter, junior defensive back Leon Agee recorded an interception off a tipped pass. The turnover gave Georgetown’s offense the ball deep in Lafayette territory.
Johnson ran the ball in from the 6-yard line to cap a seven-play scoring drive. Georgetown scored on its ensuing possession on another quarterback run.
The Hoyas led 13-0 early in the second quarter and headed into halftime leading 13-3. After halftime, the Georgetown offense stalled at 13 points, leaving the defense
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The Georgetown football team fell to Harvard last season on Sept. 30 in RFK Stadium. Last weekend, Georgetown’s defense held Lafayette to two field goals.
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Farrell Leads Team in Big East Win Rachel gaudreau Special to The Hoya
With eight minutes remaining in a Big East matchup between the Georgetown women’s soccer team and the Providence Friars at Shaw Field on Sunday afternoon, junior midfielder Paula Germino-Watnick fired a shot that rebounded off a Provi-
dence defender and landed at the feet of senior forward Caitlin Farrell. Farrell scored off the pass from Germino-Watnick, propelling Georgetown to a 1-0 victory. The goal marked Farrell’s 14th of the season and earned her recognition on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll for the fifth consecutive week. Farrell has recorded
goals in each of the Hoyas’ last nine games. Providence (8-5-2, 2-3-1 Big East) held Georgetown (13-02, 6-0 Big East) scoreless for 82 minutes in the game. The Hoyas created multiple scoring chances, recording 20 shots on the day to the Friars’ six. Georgetown added 10 corner kicks to Providence’s four. Head Coach Dave Nolan
said that Georgetown’s attack remained dangerous throughout the match against Providence’s strong defense. “[Providence doesn’t] give up a lot of goals, and we knew we would have to be patient,” Nolan said in an interview with GU Hoyas. “Our front four were very dynamic and See providence, A11
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Freshman defender Boo Jackson has one goal and one assist this season for the Georgetown women’s soccer team. Against Villanova on Oct. 7, the Hoyas’ defense shut out the Wildcats. On Oct. 14, Georgetown recorded its 10th shutout of the season in a win over Providence. Visit us online at thehoya.com/sports
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Late Starts in MLB Postseason Risk Losing Viewership Somewhere between the Milwaukee Brewers’ star reliever Josh Hader’s pitching out of a jam in the eighth inning and the start of the bottom of the ninth during Tuesday night’s National League Championship Series Game 4, I got up to take a shower. “Where are you going?” one roommate asked. “Don’t you want to just wait until the game ends? It’s the bottom of the ninth — the game is almost over.” Glancing back at the television, I scoffed. The Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers had been locked in a pitcher’s dual since Milwaukee tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth inning. “This game is probably going to go until, like, the 13th inning,” I responded, rolling my eyes. Not to my surprise, that’s exactly what happened. In the bottom of the 13th, Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger ripped a screaming walk-off single to right field, allowing shortstop Manny Machado to score from second base to win the game — five hours and 15 minutes after the first pitch. Despite the fact that the two teams had scored only two runs after the first nine innings of baseball, by the time Bellinger’s
teammates ripped the jersey off his body in celebration at around midnight PST, an entire lifetime of baseball had been played. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has expressed his concern that younger viewers are less interested in baseball than other sports. Rather than worrying solely about the pace of play and these low-scoring, extra-inning games, Manfred should move up the start times of playoff games to retain younger viewers who miss out on most of the game’s action in favor of sleep. Such a change would also keep the interest of fans who work and cannot stay up past midnight. Tuesday’s game, although slowpaced, was filled with drama. In the eighth inning, the Brewers used two challenges during the course of Dodgers second baseman Brian Dozier’s at-bat: the first to challenge the failure to call fan interference on a foul ball, and the second to see if Dozier had beat out a throw at first and whether first baseman Max Muncy, running to second, had violated the slide rule. Both challenges delayed the game considerably. Before his walk-off heroics, See christovich, A11