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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


News

Lauinger collection reveals Jackie Kennedy’s spiritual struggle

NEWS BY CHRIS STANTON Another chapter in the story of America’s most famous political family unfolded this week at Lauinger Library as it unveiled to the general public the personal correspondence of Jaqueline Kennedy with a Georgetown priest. Within the writings, a recently widowed Kennedy ponders suicide, solitude, and the meaning of the Catholic faith.

Voices

Tale of a Georgetown jailbird

Languishing in jail for six hours provided me with one of the most educating and enlightening experiences of my time at Georgetown. Several weeks ago, I, along with two other students and a former Burmese political prisoner, Aung Din, was arrested at a protest in front of the Burmese embassy.

News

CFO details endowment plan

Georgetown University Chief Financial Officer Christopher Joyce discussed plans for Georgetown’s endowment’s growth and its role in financing the University in the ICC Auditorium last night. Joyce walked approximately 40 students through the structure of the endowment using PowerPoint slides of graphs and charts.

Voices

Continuous reconstruction

On Monday, Georgetown University hosted the “Afghanistan-America Summit on Recovery and Reconstruction,” a half-day affair in Gaston Hall that featured speakers from Afghanistan’s two year-old government, several American officials, and a panel of journalists from American publications.

News

Leaders hopeful about Afghanistan’s future

Optimism dominated the discourse of Afghan and American leaders on Monday. Addressing a sparsely filled Gaston Hall, they agreed that Afghanistan is primed to assume democratic government and a successful capitalist economy.

United States government officials, who were mostly Georgetown graduates, leaders in the Afghan government, and members of United States business and media communities spoke at the Afghanistan-America Summit for Recovery and Reconstruction.

Voices

Letter to the Editor

Clarification of Mauney resolution opposition I would like to clarify a citation in the Nov. 6 issue of the Voice that indicated that the Knights of Columbus had pledged their opposition to Matt Mauney’s GUSA resolution (“GUSA rejects affirmative of Arinze address,” News).

Sports

Big beast

What up now, ACC? You ain’t got nothin’ on the Big E. Well, in terms of basketball, at least. But we’re from Georgetown, so as far as we’re concerned, we goin’ sizzla, we goin’ sizzla!

As I checked my e-mail at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, I almost by habit deleted the broadcast e-mail from the Office of Communications entitled “A message from the President.

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Letter to the Editor

As a cosignatory of the original petition that prompted the Senate’s resolution rejecting Cardinal Arinze’s Commencement comments, I am saddened by the University administration’s unresponsiveness to the Senate’s concerns, as reported in your article of October 30.

Sports

Men’s soccer celebrates 50th anniversary

Georgetown’s 1-0 loss on Saturday to the Connecticut Huskies on North Kehoe Field didn’t marr the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Georgetown men’s soccer and the twentieth anniversary of Head Coach Keith Tabatznik’s career at Georgetown.

The game brought back Georgetown alumni from as far back as fifty years ago, as well as the remnants of the pots-and-spoons- the raucous fan club banned by the NCAA for being too radical in the mid 90’s.