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Vintage Vogue EDITORIAL LOCAL LANDMARK This fall’s fashion issue looks at the resurgence Nontenured faculty deserve the same Georgetown residents proposed naming of ’80s styles in modern trends. parental leave as their tenured peers. Steps a historic landmark. OPINION, A2 NEWS, A9

Alumni Secure Seats as Democrats Seize House Bowser Secures 2nd Term, Incumbents Sweep in DC Area KATRINA SCHMIDT AND Alumni Del. Stacey Plas- State Senate, according to AMY LI ket (D-U.S. Virgin Islands) The Connecticut Mirror. Staff Writers (SFS ’88), Lori Trahan (SFS Obama-endorsed, 22-year-old ’95), Rep. Pramila Jayapal candidate defeated Republi- Incumbents picked up (D-Wash.) (CAS ’86), Jim Max- can incumbent and 22-year wins across major races in well (CAS ’71), Rep. Debbie veteran of the state legisla- Washington, D.C., Maryland ture Toni Boucher. and Virginia on Tuesday, Bowser became the first with Mayor Muriel Bowser “Together with all D.C. mayor to win re-elec- (D), Sen. (D-Va.) of our neighbors, tion since 2002, with an un- and Maryland Gov. Larry Ho- precedented 43.15 percent gan (R) winning re-election. whether you have voter turnout, one of the Georgetown faculty, stu- highest turnouts ever for a dents and alumni also won been here for midterm election in the Dis- MAGGIE CHEN FOR THE HOYA races across the city and trict since 2002, according Tuesday night’s midterm elections elicited a mixed response from the audience at the Georgetown University five generations to the Election country, including Matias Institute of Politics and Public Service’s watch party in the HFSC, co-hosted by GUCR and GUCD. Burdman (COL ’21) and Anna like us, or five Project. Bowser received Landre (SFS ’21), who both 76.18 percent of the vote, won uncontested seats for minutes, I am ahead of second-place Green the Advisory Neighborhood Party candidate Ann Wilcox, your mayor.” who received 9.4 percent. Across Party Lines, Students Commission 2E, and George- “Together with all of our town professor Emily Gasoi, MURIEL BOWSER (D) who won the election to rep- D.C. MAYOR neighbors, whether you resent Ward 1 on the D.C. have been here for five See Victory in Split Election State Board of Education. generations like us, or five Dingell (D-Mich.) (CAS ’75), minutes, I am your mayor,” The results come as the MEENA MORAR open throughout the night. results rolled in, from the Demo- Democratic Party gained Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) Bowser said in her election (SFS ’78), Rep. Filemon Vela night speech. “We’re going Hoya Staff Writer The midterms watch party’s at- cratic sweep of the House of Repre- control of the U.S. House mosphere in the HFSC on Nov. 6 sentatives to the strengthening of of Representatives, while (D-Texas) (CAS ’85), Rep. Fran- to get it done together.” A pile of stickers lay on a table in cis Rooney (R-Fla.) (CAS ’75, Despite Bowser’s endorse- was marked by such scenes. The Republican control in the Senate the Republican Party main- the Healey Family Student Center, Georgetown University Institute of and tight gubernatorial races. tained control of the U.S. LAW ’78) and adjunct profes- ment of third-generation reading “friends don’t let friends sor Lauren Underwood all Washingtonian and restau- Politics and Public Service hosted Senate on Tuesday night. miss elections” and “civically en- the event alongside Georgetown The only one of three won elections to the House rant owner Dionne Reeder, gaged AF.” Hand-drawn maps, GETTING OUT THE VOTE of Representatives. an independent, incumbent University College Democrats and In an attempt to increase voter Georgetown alumni senators depicting where students voted, Georgetown University College up for re-election this year, Recent alumnus and Councilmember Elissa Sil- either via absentee ballot or in per- turnout, GU Votes, the student-led Democratic candidate Will verman (I-At Large) won a Republicans. Accompanying a initiative housed under GU Poli- Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) son, surrounded the room. A mock livestream of CNN’s elections cov- (CAS ’74, GRD ’78) was elect- Haskell (COL ’18) won his second term as one of the polling station, where students tics, launched a voter drop box sys- race for Connecticut’s 26th erage, scattered cheers and sighs ed for another term, accord- could predict election results, was of defeat arose from the crowd as ing to . District in the Connecticut See ELECTION, A7 See REACTIONS, A7 Hundreds Vote in Graduate Union Election Students Call WILL CASSOU members from over 3,000 af- uate student workers, accord- the Intercultural Center, Lau- Hoya Staff Writer filiates. If a majority of the ing to the April 2 agreement inger Library and the Preclini- students who vote support between GAGE and the uni- cal Science Building. For Transparency Hundreds of Georgetown unionization, GAGE and AFT versity. Polling stations remained University graduate student will become the sole collec- All graduate research as- open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. workers voted this week on tive bargaining agents for all sistants, as well as gradu- throughout the four days of In Degree Reviews whether the university will graduate students at the uni- ate teaching assistants and voting, and poll observers recognize the Georgetown Al- versity. doctoral teaching associates, from GAGE were present to the working group. liance of Graduate Employees GAGE would then be able to were eligible to vote in the help ensure fairness, according MASON MANDELL Hoya Staff Writer The working group is set to as a union, allowing it to en- negotiate stipend amounts, election. Graduate students to Sarah Fisher, a GAGE mem- meet this week, according to uni- gage in collective bargaining wage rates, benefits, hours were able to vote at four poll- Students are pushing for expedi- versity spokesperson Matt Hill. with the university. See GAGE, A6 and similar matters for grad- ing locations in Regents Hall, ency and greater input into a new- The same five students from Results are set to be an- ly formed working group evaluat- Catholic-affiliated student groups nounced Friday morning: ing honorary degrees, including met with Ferrara and Vice Presi- Official counting begins at 9 those held by cardinals implicated dent for Mission and Ministry Fr. a.m. in New North 204. in the sexual abuse crisis, as it met Mark Bosco, S.J., on Oct. 17. Over 400 graduate students the first time this week. Ferrara informed the students had voted by the time polls The launch of the working of the creation of an ad hoc work- closed Wednesday evening, group comes after student con- ing group at the board of directors’ according to a spokesperson cerns about honorary degrees standard fall meeting to exam- for the university. Approxi- held by the cardinals. On Nov. 2, ine the issue of honorary degrees mately 1,100 graduate stu- Georgetown University Vice Presi- broadly and to reconsider those dents were eligible to vote. dent Joseph Ferrara informed five given to McCarrick and Wuerl. Official estimates after the students from Catholic-affiliated Catholic retreat leader Julie Bevi- polls closed Thursday were student groups that they would lacqua (COL ’19) was one of five not available as of press time. be able to voice their concerns to students in the meeting and urged 0000 the working group, according for greater transparency from the The American Arbitration to Grace Laria (SFS ’19), who was university. Association, a neutral third- present at the meeting. Laria co- “We wanted more transparency party organization, moder- authored a petition in September from the university; we wanted ated the election, which be- urging the honorary degree revo- more information about what was gan Nov. 5 and ended on the cation of former Cardinal Theo- happening — why action hadn’t evening of Nov. 8. GAGE filed dore McCarrick and Cardinal Don- been taken yet — just kind of what for election with the AAA on ald Wuerl. (Full disclosure: Laria is was going [on] administratively, Oct. 8, after a yearlong push a former member of The Hoya’s because I think that hasn’t been to receive official recogni- editorial board.) made clear to the student body,” tion from the university as a However, students said the uni- Bevilacqua said in an interview union. versity fails to adequately commu- with The Hoya. GAGE is affiliated with nicate the status of the honorary The four-person working group the American Federation of AMBER GILLETTE/THE HOYA degrees to students. In the meet- composed of members of the Teachers, a national union Hundreds of graduate students voted in this week’s elections on whether the Georgetown ing with Ferrara, students also that represents 1.7 million Alliance of Graduate Employees should unionize. Polls were open from Nov. 5 to Nov. 8. asked for students to be placed on See HONORARY DEGREES, A6

FEATURED NEWS OPINION SPORTS Campus Sexual Assault Response Failures of Justice Conference Title After student efforts, the university Georgetown’s Title IX investigations The Georgetown women’s soccer team released updates on its response to the are conducted without regard for earned its third straight conference title 2016 Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey. survivors’ interests. after defeating Butler on Sunday. A5 A3 A12 NEWS OPINION SPORTS #FreeMeekMill Honoring Veterans Opening Victory Rapper Meek Mill spoke Wednesday in The daughter of a U.S. service The men’s basketball team cruised Lohrfink Auditorium on the importance of member makes the case for observing past UMES on Tuesday to open its criminal justice reform. Veterans Day at Georgetown. 2018-19 season. A4 A3 A12

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