I have a confession to make: I can’t stand senior viewpoints.

For nearly four years, I’ve watched this newspaper’s departing staffers discuss the late nights, the disputes over the niceties of AP style, the friends they’ve made, the beer they drank, the controversies they covered and, inevitably, the feeling that it all just seemed too brief.

The man accused of killing a Georgetown student while driving drunk on a Massachusetts highway in 2005 pleaded guilty Wednesday to motor-vehicle homicide and was sentenced to three to five years in state prison.

Paul Mscisz, 30, of Haverhill, Mass., accepted a plea agreement with prosecutors before a judge in Salem Superior Court in Salem, Mass., on the day he was scheduled to begin standing trial for manslaughter for the death of rising School of Foreign Service sophomore Matthew Navien.

A former administrator apparently fled the country after he was accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from the university, in the second major fraud case to come to light at Georgetown in as many years, according to recently unsealed court records.

Federal prosecutors accuse Pedro Paulo dos Santos, who held various positions at Georgetown from 1998 to 2005, of falsifying documents, diverting funds and inventing a fictitious company in order to obtain more than 100 fraudulent checks for nonexistent goods and services.

After more than a year and a half of hearings and legal maneuvering, the man accused of killing a rising sophomore while driving drunk on a northern Massachusetts highway is scheduled to begin standing trial next week.

Prosecutors have accused Paul Mscisz, of Haverhill, Mass., of driving with a blood alcohol level above the state’s legal limit early on the morning of June 18, 2005, when he crashed into a vehicle being driven by Matthew Navien.

Witnesses said Mscisz, 30, was driving erratically, revving his engine at stoplights and speeding before he swerved into oncoming traffic on Route 125 near North Andover, Mass., and struck Navien’s car, according to a police accident report and court filings.

Georgetown bid farewell to one of its most prominent and longest-serving faculty members last month following the death of Jeane Kirkpatrick, the first female U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a hard-nosed champion of the Reagan administration’s anti-communist policies.

Kirkpatrick, who joined the university’s government department in 1967 and had retired from most of her active teaching duties in recent years, died Dec. 7 at her home in Bethesda, Md. Her family indicated that the cause of death was congestive heart failure.

But despite an appearance the day before by another prominent Hoya — former President Bill Clinton (SFS ’68) — Scalia still packed Gaston Hall for a keynote address that called for a return to the nation’s constitutional roots and criticized “activist” judges for restricting American religious education.

Scalia, who spoke as part of a forum on civic education, said the theory of a “living constitution” had crippled students’ ability to relate to the founding fathers by removing religion from the classroom. Without religion, morality and civic virtue can be taught only with difficulty, he said.

Hoya Staff Writer Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Lindsay Anderson/The Hoya Members of the Georgetown community gathered in Gonda Theater in the Davis Performing Arts Center last night to hear lawyers, politicians and others read the U.S. Constitution to mark Constitution Day.

Last night, the Davis Performing Arts Center threw open its doors for a performance — but the main attraction wasn’t a Timberlake Wertenbaker play or a poetry reading. It was the U.S. Constitution, the nation’s 7,500-word founding document, presented just the way the Founding Fathers intended, in a dramatic staged reading by lawmakers and other dignitaries. Georgetown has always played up its ties to the supreme law of the

Hoya Staff Writer Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Lindsay Anderson/The Hoya Students, faculty and other members of the university community gathered on Healy Lawn yesterday and planted a tree to commemorate the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. The event included the reading of the names of victims who had a connection to Georgetown.

Over 100 people gathered under a cloudy sky on Healy Lawn yesterday for the dedication of a new tree meant to commemorate the dozens of members of the Georgetown community who died during the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Students and faculty cried and comforted each other during the event, marking the fifth anniversary of 9/11,

Hoya Staff Writer Friday, September 1, 2006

Dozens of students circulated petitions in Red Square on Wednesday criticizing the university’s recent decision to bar six Protestant ministries from campus, following a week of extensive media coverage and complaints from alumni and students. Members from three of the organizations manned tables and distributed letters declaring the expulsion of the groups, known as affiliated ministries, “inconsistent with the very ideals that Georgetown seeks to uphold.” “The decision has brought a lot of us together. … Now we’re teamed up, we’re organizing together, we have a lot of coordinating toward the same goal,” said Javier Garcia (COL ’09), a

Hoya Staff Writer Friday, August 25, 2006

Citing a desire to centralize the administration of Protestant campus ministry groups, Georgetown abruptly severed its ties with all of its affiliated ministry organizations last week, barring several long-established religious groups from campus. The move will not affect organizations composed solely of students, but it will prevent many ministry groups run or directed by outsider groups, like local churches, from conducting any activities on campus. Such groups include InterVarsity, the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship and Crossroad Campus Christian Fellowship. “As a result of our new direction for the upcoming academic year, we have decided to not renew any covenant agreements with any of the