As I write this, students have recently returned to Georgetown’s campus and begun classes. The time has been a blur of joyful, energy-filled events—from community cookouts and open-air movies on the lawn to a goat-petting station. Unfortunately, the happy normalcy that radiates campus life is sadly discordant from the larger reality beyond our gates, where thousands of National Guard troops have arrived in the nation’s capital, purportedly to combat crime.