Comments for Vox Populi

Comment on Poll: How much debt will you have when you graduate? by Mitt

Mitt — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:07:03 +0000

I do enjoy how the Voice is pushing this as a huge issue even though the majority of Vox readers seem to have no debt.

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by Chandler

Chandler — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:14:24 +0000

Sounds like someone didn’t get in.

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:06:13 +0000

@ Asuka.

Here, here!

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by Asuka

Asuka — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:04:06 +0000

What do those ad hominems and straw men have to do with Blatty’s position?

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by @no surprises here

@no surprises here — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:04:04 +0000

GW troller? Georgetown students don’t avoid GW because they’re too proud; and with lower acceptance rates than Cornell and, until recently, Penn, we’re not ivy envious. We don’t really consider GW to begin with, with regard to the types of schools we want to attend. While people attend GW because they want to be in DC, no matter what, we chose Georgetown because we wanted to be at a great university, all the better because it’s in DC. That’s why a significant portion of GW students also applied to Georgetown, but relatively few of us applied to GW. GW is the next best school in Washington, but that doesn’t make it the next best school to Georgetown. There are dozens of universities between the two schools, they’re just not in Washington.

(On the history of GW: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/the_prestige_racket.php?page=all)

Comment on Small group of pro-life Catholics protest Sebelius’s lecture at GPPI by Asuka

Asuka — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:57:06 +0000

@JS

So you don’t have any data to substantiate your position?

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by no suprises here

no suprises here — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:46:23 +0000

Most students at Georgetown couldn’t give to shits about Georgetown’s history. They’re just pseudo-pretentious fucks who weren’t smart enough to get into an Ivy League school, but were too proud to go to a non-Catholic school in DC (IE: GW). This is epitomized no better by the commenters above, who pretty much have been lusting to say “OMG I GOT IN TO AN IVY SCHOOL TEEEHEHEHE” since their senior year of high school.

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by Desiree Hellegers

Desiree Hellegers — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:59:34 +0000

Are we to understand then, that Blatty was silent on the appointment of Alvaro Uribe to the faculty at Georgetown? Where was his outrage—and where was the Vatican’s–for example, when Jeanne Kirkpatrick was commencement speaker back in the early 1980s? Where was Blatty’s outrage when the late Salvadoran President Roberto D’Aubuisson was invited by a conservative student group to speak on campus in the 1980s? D’Aubuisson, of course, was one of the architects of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the rape and murder of Sisters Maura Clarke, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, and lay missioner Jeanne Donovan. He was responsible for the deaths of countless union and human rights organizers and Salvadorans who were tortured and murdered in unspeakable ways—that as Noam Chomsky has observed, “often had…Satanic overtones”?

But I’m glad to see Blatty stepping into the forefront of this debate.
After all, he’s probably done more to popularize Satanism in the U.S. than anyone since Cotton Mather. Among his many cinematic achievements—still seared in my teenage consciousness—is a scene in which Linda Blair masturbates with a crucifix.

The problem, though, is that Blatty doesn’t go far enough in his desire to return Georgetown—and Catholicism—to its conservative roots. Instead of having Sebelius preside over commencement, can’t we burn her at the stake? Now that’s a tried and true solution for women who try to advance health care options for women. But barring the resurrection of that tradition, I guess a good old inquisition will do. And who better to advance it than Blatty, with his appeals for justice to a pope whose qualifying credentials include membership in the Hitler Youth Brigade? And those students who, as I understand it, voted for Sebelius as their graduation speaker? Simply explain to them that democracy and independent critical analysis have no place in a Catholic institution. Jesus, I’m sure, would have loved all of this stuff.

Finally, as someone who really loved Father King and attended his masses–almost nightly for a time—as an undergraduate, I’m sorry to see this witch hunt unfolding under the banner of his name.

Desiree Hellegers GU 1983

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by Anon

Anon — Sun, 20 May 2012 04:47:45 +0000

@CO Hoya

BUT, if you are in the Ivy League you’re pretty “endowed” lol

Comment on Author of The Exorcist William Peter Blatty to sue Georgetown in church court by CO Hoya

CO Hoya — Sun, 20 May 2012 04:37:46 +0000

Update (12:27 a.m.) In response to a request for comment, University spokesperson Stacy Kerr recommended using the quote from President John J. DeGioia‘s letter: “We are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas.”

Subtext: “Your Mom!” hahahaha