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The Jesuits’ Slaves

“Can a man serve God faithfully and posess slaves?” Brother Joseph Mobberly, S.J. asked in his diary in 1818. “Yes,” he answered. “Is it then lawful to keep men in servitude? Yes.”

By February 8, 2007

Editorials

Free advice for Ben and Matt

During their campaign, Ben Shaw (COL ’08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL ’08) made many promises. Of course, student government is limited in what it can accomplish, and can only be relevant if it listens to students and represents their interests. The Voice urges our new leaders to focus on a few very important, relatively accomplishable issues.

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Editorials

Somebody buy this girl a drink

Although it took her long enough to get her act together, Jenna Lowenstein (COL ’09), who represents Georgetown students on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, deserves recognition for finally listening to student demands and reversing her position on an ANC petition to the University to limit student parties off-campus to one keg.

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Editorials

GU needs more diversity

Pearls and freshly fallen snow aren’t the only overwhelmingly white features of the Georgetown campus; the student body here on the hilltop remains true to its tradition of a prevailing Caucasian majority.

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News

Ben and Matt win

Ben Shaw (COL ‘08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL ‘08) won the Student Association’s executive election last night. Election commissioner Alison Noelker (COL ‘07) announced that the ticket had won the election with 52 percent of the vote.

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Student ANC rep reverses vote

Georgetown’s student representative on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission reversed her vote on Tuesday night, deciding to oppose a measure she originally co-wrote which would have encouraged the University to extend its one-keg-per-party rule to off-campus residences. The resolution passed unanimously at a Commission meeting last week.

By February 8, 2007

News

TBGD speaker loves the classics

Government Professor and keynote speaker Patrick Deneen criticized the University’s diversified curriculum at last Saturday’s second annual Take Back Georgetown Day, and proposed a return to a more classical curriculum, even as the History requirement changed the College’s general education requirements to include a more diverse range of courses.

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Natsios describes on-going Sudanese crisis

The on-going Darfur crisis is no longer a genocide situation, according to U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios. Natsios, a Professor in the School of Foreign Service, spoke on Wednesday in Gaston Hall.

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Saxa Politica: Ms. President

One thing was guaranteed in Tuesday’s Student Association executive elections: the winners had to have Y chromosomes. None of this year’s four tickets featured a woman candidate, denying voters a varied slate and failing to represent the female half of the University’s population.

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