Nearly 500 Hoyas took time out of their weekends to attend Sunday’s Lecture Fund event featuring Hayden Panettiere in Gaston Hall. The turnout speaks for itself in terms of what the Lecture Fund seeks to achieve: to educate, to enlighten and to entertain the campus community. It just so happens that this event accomplished all three.

In response to THE HOYA’s article on The Corp’s Annual Report and revenue this year, several students have commented on what they have perceived to be a discrepancy between The Corp’s profits and its philanthropic returns to its shareholders, the students of Georgetown.

In response to “A Whale of a Distraction,” (THE HOYA, Jan. 29, 2008, A2), I wish to bring attention to a crude stereotype. The Editorial Board criticized the Lecture Fund for choosing to host a “laughable and frivolous” event.

Kory Kantenga’s recent condemnation of Vital Vittles’ playing of explicit music (“Vital Vittles Needs to Show Some Respect,” THE HOYA, Jan. 25, 2008, A2) struck me as a fair complaint taken to a disappointing and, ultimately, ignorant end.

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Maybe Yates should find at way to market itself as a Retro gym. Maybe it needs a marketing campaign featuring students in 70s attire (tight shirts, short shorts and knee socks … maybe some Converse All Stars) working out with the matching “old school” equipment. Honestly, if students used Yates I’d say, who cares, keep it as is and let it be, but we have a serious problem: Hundreds of Georgetown students belong to Washington Sports Club Georgetown (in the Georgetown Mall next to Dean & Deluca).

TO THE EDITOR:

Like most other establishment institutions, THE HOYA’s editorial board seems eager to impress the necessity of essentially legitimizing the status quo in its demand that college students do their “duty” by voting for one of the two tickets that will emerge from the 2008 presidential campaigns (“Don’t Put Off Your Vote,” THE HOYA, Jan. 11, 2008, A2). The editorial board rather dogmatically assumes that, within the realm of politics, “whatever excites you” must be the candidacy of McCain, Obama, Clinton, Huckabee or Ron Paul. It further claims that the “choice” that college students face is “a pretty simple one”: students can continue with their apathy and solipsism in claiming either that voting isn’t worth it or that none of the candidates appeal to them, or they can “finally stand up and end politics as usual.” After all, we are told, “Democracy won’t work if people don’t vote.”

TO THE EDITOR:

I find some fault in the conclusions Brendan Roach reaches in his article (“Curriculum Should Reflect the Times and the Diversity of GU Students,” THE HOYA, Dec. 7, 2007, A3). He claims that requiring a Catholic theology course seems “a waste of a course for non-Catholic Hoyas”, however I beg to differ.