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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 20, 2022 20:42:36 GMT -5
Yeah...I got nothin'. Just titanic amounts of talent being wasted at the moment.
Perhaps it is time to let Mr. Schewe (pronounced "Shayway" according to the JMU announcers) play both halves in net. Beyond that, though... not sure anyone has figured out a solution to "chemistry." Maybe some more intentional playing for set pieces, I guess, although there seemed to be plenty of that tonight as well.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 20, 2022 17:23:41 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 19, 2022 19:16:08 GMT -5
And you didn't say hi? Sorry, DA, didn't want to out myself to the neighbors as a Friend of The U
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 18, 2022 14:46:36 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 18, 2022 14:37:46 GMT -5
I would submit that Father Arrupe arguably had a more direct impact on Georgetown than Loyola and Xavier... and, if you take a broad view, Ryder as well. James Ryder is an underrated figure in Georgetown lore and probably deserves more recognition than that nondescript building on East Campus. In no particular order he eliminated the University debt of the 1830's, was a founding member of the Corporation, built the Observatory, founded the Medical School, allowed Holy Cross students to get their degrees from Georgetown, was a president at Holy Cross, and later help found St. Joseph's in Philadelphia and was its second president. And, if it counts for anything, he's a Georgetown alumnus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._RyderThis is all well and good and true. And considering how unremarkable and forgotten most Georgetown presidents are (if they're lucky, as opposed to being consigned to ignominy like Mulledy and McSherry), having his name on a building alongside the two architects of the Society... well, that's pretty good company for a Jesuit! Having said that, Georgetown was a small, regional institution when he started and a small, regional institution when be departed. Enrollment remained south of 200 (though it did rise afterwards, undoubtedly thanks in some part to his efforts) and the stage was set for near-extinction during the Civil War due to the heavily Southern pool from which the student body was drawn. Meanwhile, modern Georgetown's emergence is heavily shaped by Arrupe and the Jesuits' response to Vatican II. Whatever philosophical disagreements Henle, Healy, and O'Donovan (and, for that matter, DeGioia) may have had with Arrupe, they were clearly both influenced by the direction in which he took the Society and the beneficiaries of the permission structure he created for transforming GU into a Top 25, global institution. Back to the original point, though... it's true that the approach to naming has been rather scattershot, and things like "Village C" and "Building D" are an embarrassment. But naming, and monuments generally, has long been a complicated endeavor, and it's one that is only getting more fraught. A considered and deliberate - if inevitably bureaucratic - approach seems preferable to the deprioritized treatment of years past.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 17, 2022 21:40:32 GMT -5
One name (Arrupe) does not make a trend... unless you want to argue that Anne Marie Becraft and Isaac Hawkins have "nothing to do with GU," which... is not an argument I think you want to make. Arrupe is not a trend but a sign of the bureaucracy at work. Were there no other candidates? Isn't being "at work" what bureaucracies are supposed to do? The alternative is that they... not work? I would submit that Father Arrupe arguably had a more direct impact on Georgetown than Loyola and Xavier... and, if you take a broad view, Ryder as well.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 17, 2022 20:10:18 GMT -5
It just speaks to a completely haphazard approach, one which the current trend of retrofitting building names of people who have nothing to do with GU are no better. One name (Arrupe) does not make a trend... unless you want to argue that Anne Marie Becraft and Isaac Hawkins have "nothing to do with GU," which... is not an argument I think you want to make.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 17, 2022 19:27:42 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 17, 2022 17:47:06 GMT -5
I did get the chance to attend the Zoom call with the community providing an overview of the Henle Rebuild project. Here are the bullets from the top two slides: If a naming gift is out there, might be a good time for a rename. In most cases, there is no interest in putting your name on a renovation, even if it is a total teardown and new build-up, as is the case here. Heck, we couldn't find a naming donor for Arupe, and that was the first construction on that footprint. Given the noted dearth of buildings named after women on campus, my vote would be to name it after Sister Mary E. Markham O.S.F., who was the first woman to ever receive a John Carroll award back in 1957: You've got something for everyone - an accomplished professional woman those for whom gender diversity is a priority, but also a Woman Religious for the more conservative and Catholic crowd. And it's right next to St. Mary's and the hospital, so it even makes sense spatially! That said, they'll probably just stick with Henle to avoid any negative reaction to removing the name of a president who has not (yet) been cancelled.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 17, 2022 17:11:44 GMT -5
A particularly interesting 2022 edition of the annual matchup with the 'eers.
For starters, Cara Martin was back in goal, even as Allie Augur was dressed out. If she has earned herself an alternate starts arrangement, or even spot starts, she could well push for all-conference accolades. She seemed much more assertive and in command in quarterbacking the defense this game, and while WVU had a couple of dangerous moments, it was - as Dan said - a much more organized effort all around.
The biggest surprise for me was just how... low-energy WVU looked, compared to their usual selves. They haven't really done a whole lot in the non-conference - their best result is what, a draw against Samford in a game played at Auburn? For large stretches of both halves, they just looked kind of aimless, and the game was much, much less physical than usual.
The Hoyas didn't really punish them for this listlessness until the absolutely best sequence of the season. Claire Manning wins a one-on-one battle just outside the Hoyas' defensive box and then sends a beautiful leading long ball into the WVU half that Maja Lardner runs onto. With one defender immediately on her and a second defender shadowing her from inside the box on the near post side while a third and then a *fourth* WVU defender charge into the middle of the box, Maja waits patiently just outside the 18 until Tatum Lenain is close enough in her run toward the top of the box to zip her a diagonal pass. Tatum has a defender on her heels, so with no time to take a touch and settle, she slows up just a bit while shielding the trailing defender off with her body and then hits it in stride with a brilliant left-foot drive. Ahead of the game, Nikki Izzo-Brown referred to her keeper as the best in the NCAA. Well, there's nothing she or any other keeper could've done about that one.
The second goal was Gia taking the ball herself against 3 defenders in the box plus the goalie and still sneaking it through. Just a great combo of skill and effort.
The thing I found most heartening was the number of on-target through balls. They were of the longer variety, rather than the high-speed, precision tic-tac-toe we saw from UVA earlier, but they were nonetheless effective at unsettling the WVU defense time and again. On at least one occasion, the entire Mountaineer backline was just yelling...at each other? At themselves? Who knows! after yet another such pass left them backpedaling and full speed and trying to figure out who was supposed to do what.
On to the Big East slate!
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 17, 2022 11:03:00 GMT -5
I'm finally uncorking that post now, btw, because there's a non-zero chance Georgetown is going to be in the public spotlight for a test case of the contours of our new normal: is moving a class entirely online an appropriate - nay, required - form of reasonable accommodation?
Already you are seeing battle lines being drawn and people lining up to argue that any claim that in-person instruction is superior to Zoom School is unsound, empirically unproven, and therefore motivated by MAGA anti-intellectualism and hatred of people with disabilities.
As with most things, I pin far more blame for this dynamic on the right in this country than I do the left, but those of us on the left must take care to make sure we don't go down the same path of epistemic closure that the conservative movement did.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 17, 2022 10:58:38 GMT -5
Russky - I think we both want the same thing. It's easy to pick an example here or there and broad brush everything. My point about our professional conference is exactly that there is still risk and such a congregation is a big enough risk that mitigation is warranted. And I meant what I said, it's not over (now). Someday it may be, but not when case rates are still as high as they are. As for Georgetown, they're just like public health agencies - whatever they choose will get lampooned from either side. They're just trying to do the best they can given the available data. Those decisions are made in consultation with the Infectious Disease group at the med school, who are more than competent. Yes, I am fairly confident we do indeed want the same thing and agree far more than we disagree. The main reason I am so 'stuck in' on this topic is that I see public health making many of the same exact mistakes that I have seen my own field of emergency management make - and in both cases, the consequences have been very costly and will only become more so. In fact, this is one of the key contributors to my leaving said EM field, at least for now. The crux of those mistakes is the unwillingness or inability to deal with the fact that public health in practice is inherently political. Not inherently partisan, but inherently political. Like EM, the implementation of public health measures entails the application of the state's claimed monopoly on the legitimate use of force - that is, the police power - as well as the power to redistribute resources in furtherance of the collective good, as understood by the body politic. Admitting this is uncomfortable, because in the U.S. more than in most democracies, we have denigrated politics and made it a dirty word. For that reason, I am sympathetic to the temptation to avoid affirming the political nature of the work and instead hiding behind a veil of technocracy, as is typical in EM, or science, as the "follow the science!" mantra has come to symbolize for public health. But there is a real and damaging dishonesty to sticking to a story that everything you do and advise is because "we're the disaster pros, we know best" or "we're following the science, we know best" when in reality, what you are implementing is a politically negotiated compromise that cannot help but be dictated by what the people, and their elected representatives, are willing to bear. The attitude that '50% of people will hate us for being too strict, 50% will hate us for not being strict enough - that must mean we're doing a good job!' is exactly the kind of bothside-ism we mock in the likes of CNN and smarmy centrist bloviators. If everyone thinks your story doesn't make sense, it may not be because that's some kind of iron law of the universe - it just might be because your story is incoherent. Rather than trying to construct a more coherent program, one that internalizes the inherently political and consensus-driven nature of the task and focuses on measures where broad or at least majority support is viable, far too many have decided to pursue an approach of "Let's just throw restrictions against the wall and see which ones stick politically." What this has lead to is a perverse situation in which the vast majority of the NPIs that stick are ones imposed on those least able to resist, i.e., small children, even though they are the ones at least personal risk from Covid and at greatest personal harm from interventions that limit unobstructed socialization: When Americans look at this mess, they quickly recognize that there is no pure, untainted 'science' and accompanying set of evidence-based prophylactic practices that one must robotically follow if one wants to remain a Covid-free member of the reality-based community in good standing. They see that 'the science' is in many ways as stochastic as the virus itself, and while there are some very strong patterns (e.g., vaccination = massive reduction in morbidity and mortality), most things are not deterministic and dispositive in real-world conditions. The public health field, like all public policy practitioners, must recognize, openly accept, and adapt to this reality. Every day it fails to do so, digs in its heels, and insists, "No no, we've always been right all along about everything, it's you stupid public and politicians that have messed up our flawless suppression measures" is another day down the path of public distrust and societal atomization.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 16, 2022 22:42:01 GMT -5
Lots of talent, but lots of youth as well. The youth's not really at the back, though - at least not this game. Have got to fix those mental errors on the part of players who should know better - and fast.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 16, 2022 22:23:19 GMT -5
I did get the chance to attend the Zoom call with the community providing an overview of the Henle Rebuild project. Here are the bullets from the top two slides: Project Overview- New Henle will replace ~470 beds with ~730 beds
- Fulfills Campus Plan requirement to add 244 on-campus beds by 2030 (5 years early)
- Combined with past projects, the Henle reconstruction will result in:
- 720+ new on-campus beds added since 2012 - $75M invested to renovate existing on-campus beds since 2020 - Project expected to begin with demolition in May 2023 and conclude in time for Fall 2025
- Campus Plan requires Georgetown to offer no fewer than 5,438 on-campus beds
- During construction, campus hotel will be repurposed (~300) and existing capacity optimized (~70) to create ~370 replacement beds
- Commitment to address the ~100 student bed "gap" has been developed - and supported by the Georgetown Community Partnership - based on increasing campus occupancy such that an equal or greater number of undergrads will be housed on campus as in a typical semester before Henle is demolished
Timeline and Next Steps- Preliminary presentations made to ANC 2E and 3D on May 31 and June 1, respectively
- Campus Plan Amendment and Further Processing Application filed with the Zoning Commission in June
- Design filed with OGB in May and Concept Approval Secured on September 1
- Scheduled to present again to ANC 2E and 3D on October 3 and 12, respectively
- Zoning Commission hearing scheduled for November 3 - approval sought for:
- Campus Plan Amendment and Further Processing Application
- Variance relief from height setback requirement to accommodate top floor near boundary with Visitation
- Special exception relief for multiple penthouses
- Special exception relief from loading requirements to allow shared loading
- Demolition to begin in May 2023 and construction to conclude by Fall 2025
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 15, 2022 11:11:03 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 14, 2022 22:56:46 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 13, 2022 20:53:25 GMT -5
right - and the guarantee game should pay GU considerable $ which would offfset the cost to going scholarship from our current 'needs' based structure. i have always heard that from GU admin is going scholarship costs too much vs overall athletics budget. A Duke, WF, MD, Northwestern, Vandy type school is going to pay GU handsomely to get a guarantee win. it'd be interesting to learn what Colgate received to play Stanford. a different approach is more than warranted with this program Ummm... no, no number of guarantee games would "offfset the cost to going scholarship." One year of Georgetown tuition is $62,000 right now. Housing is another $12,000-14,000 and board is $6,000-7,200. So one year of a football player is around $80,000. A million dollar guarantee game buys you ~12.5 players. Three such games gets you ~37.5. That's a little over half of the 60-scholarship Patriot League limit. Btw, that cost of each football player? Take it and double it for Title IX compliance matching.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 13, 2022 20:27:17 GMT -5
All kinds of urbanist comedy in this article, including proposing a "fast bus connection originating at Farragut Square, running along K Street NW, Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and M Street NW", or the rejected option extending the Blue Line, noting that "WMATA is still weighing this option". Really? I mean, the separated Blue Line is at least hypothetically still under consideration, even if we're still at least a decade from shovels in ground. As a reminder: Also, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority recently released their updated list of 429 transportation projects. Included on that list: "Metrorail Blue/Silver Line, $20 billion: Realignment of either Metro’s Blue Line or Silver Line between Rosslyn and Union Station, via M Street NW in Georgetown, with a second rail tunnel beneath the Potomac River and a second Rossyln Metrorail station." As for the other one, while M Street remains a third rail, the transformation of the lobbyist corridor of K Street is advancing: www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/07/dc-k-street-transitway/
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 13, 2022 19:32:05 GMT -5
The Gondola Lives!!!
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Post by RusskyHoya on Sept 11, 2022 22:13:59 GMT -5
I work with someone who sits on the board of a top-20 institution, so I know how the USN&WR game is played. These rankings are a major focus and are gamed at every level. Many things are (jokingly) called eleven-dimensional chess. USNWR rankings might be the only thing that actually qualifies. Anyway:
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