This week, as the semester came to a close, a new set of Healy clock hands adorned the face of the tower. As Hoyas slowly leave the hilltop, Vox commenters had a few things to say.

Students woke up to replaced clock hands at the top of Healy Hall; it was initially unclear who the mysterious angels were who put them back up. GFK and Admiral Ackbar began ruminating on the possibilities:

GFK: The University did point out that extra hands were available in case the stolen hands were not recovered shortly. They must have gotten tired of waiting and installed the backups.

Admiral Ackbar: Or it’s a trap!

When Georgetown tapped Kathleen Sebelius as a graduation speaker, conservative Catholics condemned the University for its decision to honor a pro-choice politician. not typical anymore proposed we find more ways to incite the anger of the Cardinal Newman Society:

Can we do more things that get the CNS angry with us? As a non-reactionary Catholic, nothing would make me happier.

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Finals week has taken a toll on Vox lately, but Comments of the Week will be running regularly. This past week, we saw the disappearance of the Healy clock hands and the selection of commencement speakers.

Last Monday, Georgetown woke up to a handless Healy clock face, continuing a longstanding prank. Fortunately, according to Benjamin Gates, the heist was only part of a greater storyline:

No current students were involved in the clock hand theft, only a well-meaning alumnus on the hunt for history’s greatest lost treasures. But what do the clock hands have to do with history’s greatest lost treasures?

It all started when a rival treasurehunter accused my great uncle Theodore Gates of that my great uncle Theodore Gates sunk the battleship Maine and started the Spanish-American War. I had to defend my family and find the truth, which somehow led me on a chase for the lost platinum hoard of the Committee of 300. One clue led to another until I discovered that the latitude and longitude coordinates were sealed into the Healy tower clock hands after they survived the British burning of Washington in the War of 1812 and were eventually given to Georgetown as a gift for harboring America’s founding documents during that troubling time. The clock hands form a sort of puzzle that only a master historian/treasure hunter/puzzle enthusiast/Georgetown alumnus/somehow both dashing and approachable man such as myself could figure out.

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The debate over the appointment of Robert Groves as Provost and what it means for Georgetown’s Jesuit identity notwithstanding, most of the comments this past week concerned animalian topics.

With the official induction of JJ into the hallowed fraternity of Hoyas mascots, momzerme thinks Jack the Bulldog’s days are numbered.

Georgetown has cheerleaders? Who knew? Now that the puppy is here, what does that portend for Jack? Upcoming vet appointment?

@momzerme also thinks the injured Jack is headed for greener pastures:

I would assume as such. Doggy ACLs are so expensive to repair.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

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Last week, neighborhood groups and the University announced the restart of negotiations over 2010 Campus Plan, asking the Zoning Commission to postpone their hearings on the matter to allow the new round of talks to proceed.

An exasperated Steven sees the process extending into the next calendar year:

It’s literally going to be 2013 before we approve a plan that was supposed to affect what we did in 2010.

typical asked the question that immediately came to Vox‘s inflatables-obsessed mind. And the answer is no:

does this mean we can have georgetown day back?

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On Wednesday evening, GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich spoke to a sizable audience in Gaston Hall, while a protest of slightly smaller size took place outside Healy Hall.

If we told typical that a former Vox editor was Chair of GU College Republicans, he might actually die of shock.

“[Editor's note: Stangler is a Voice staffer]”

[Reader's note: excuse me while I die of shock]

Very Impressive thinks very highly of the protestors‘ loquacious expostulation, based on a de/gendered-Baudrillardian discourse of granulated subjectivity:

You must have gone to college Gina!!! You already sound like a po-mo professor infused with some lefty mysticism (voices amplified by their collectiveness). Great work. For the perplexed, a great guide on how to speak post modern. You are an inspiration to us all.

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/how-to-talk-postmodern.html

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Last week, Vox commenters were up in arms over the administration’s scaling back of Georgetown Day. Concerned Senior exhorted the senior class to never surrender its Solo cups!

A message to the Class of 2012:

Even though large tracts of Copley Lawn and many old and famous Georgetown Day traditions have fallen or may fall into the grip of Jeanne Lord, Erika Cohen Derr, and all the odious apparatus of the Center for Student Programs, we shall not flag or fail. We shall drink on to the end.

We shall drink in France, we shall drink on the seas and oceans, we shall drink with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall drink on our sacred Georgetown Day, whatever the cost may be. We shall drink on the beaches, we shall drink on the landing grounds, we shall drink in the fields and in the streets, we shall drink in the hills; we shall never sober up, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this senior class or a large part of it were subjugated and sober on Georgetown Day, then our underclassmen allies, armed and guarded by the Spirit of Georgetown, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the whole student body of Georgetown University, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of Georgetown Day.

Why, Barack, now you’ve outdone yourself:

Let’s make Georgetown Day about alcohol this year.

A capital idea!

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After Georgetown’s disappointingly routine early exit from the NCAA tournament yesterday, Caleb King was already pointing fingers:

It’s hard for me to say this but, its time to FIRE JTIII!

@Caleb King defended our oft-criticized head coach:

You are a dumbass.

Why would they fire him? Because he took a team with zero expectations and favored by many to finish at the bottom of the big east to the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament?

In non-incredibly sad basketball news, Wiz Khalifa was announced last week as the headliner of the Spring Concert. Here is one Hoya‘s reaction:

Great to see a headliner for my senior year be someone who just casually drops “faggot” in his lyrics. Hoya Saxa everyone!

That’s odd, we feel like that’s not something to be excited about. It’s so difficult to distinguish tone on the Internet.

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Last week, Clara Gustafson (SFS ’13) and Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13) won the 2012 GUSA executive election after two weeks of contentious campaigns and at least one act of defacement. Maybe now that the election is over we can all be nice to each other again.

The day before the vote, Jacob said:

I wouldn’t trust any of these egoists and serial flatterers with running a 7/11 cash register. Chicken Madness remains the only candidate who has not promised more than they can deliver.

When the results were announced, some commenters pointed to the invisible hand of Georgetown’s own league of extraordinary gentlemen. Typical commented:

And the stewards win again

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Last week was a great week for Vox commenting—it would be impossible to highlight all the noteworthy comments from this week, so if you have some time to kill this President’s Day, Vox suggests you check out these posts about the GUSA election (one, two and three). This week’s post will therefore have a theme: Vox‘s reprehensible moral failings. Last Thursday, we published a photograph of the debate notes of GUSA vice presidential candidate Markel Starks (COL ’14), in which he wondered if he was hungry and played tic-tack-toe with himself. Not particularly respectful? Perhaps not. And the commentariat called us on it.

@wtf reminded me that I will have to explain my behavior to a higher power someday, or President DeGioia:

i totally agree “wtf” jackson this is pathetic you ought to be ashamed of yourself and be glad markel isn’t taking this to the administration or the cops as an invasion of privacy or hypothetically theft (my brother is a graduate of the law school, he and i had an interesting conversation about this). you have no moral codes, you have no ethical codes, and I have no clue how on earth you are going to defend yourself to God

Another @wtf gave us legal advice, but there’s no way someone using the word ‘behoove’ is speaking seriously.

Jackson Perry, you are walking dangerous legal lines, and it would highly behoove you to not break laws. I love vox populi, but this post is just unacceptable. no bullcrap.

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