Take Back Georgetown Day
February 13 , 2006

The shift to the right in the past few decades among college students can be seen even at Georgetown University, a school known for promoting the causes of the extreme left.

Anyone strolling across Georgetown University’s beautiful campus on January 28 could appreciate signs fastened to fence posts, trees and benches announcing a new conservative student-run event: Take Back Georgetown Day.

Even though Georgetown is the oldest Catholic University in America, its traditional Jesuit identity has become hazy, favoring the widespread moral free fall witnessed in academia.

Consider these facts which occurred at Georgetown in recent years: Francis Cardinal Arinze was booed for objecting to homosexual vice while delivering a commencement speech. Pornography publisher Larry Flynt was a hosted speaker. The immoral “V-Monologues” play has staged on campus year after year. A pro-homosexual group was granted recognition as a student organization. Two TFP Student Action members were booted off the campus “free speech” zone for peacefully distributing flyers containing quotes from the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding the sin of sodomy. In fact, Georgetown security guards threatened to arrest them for supposedly creating “emotional violence,” as one university official strangely put it.

However, a sizeable group of tenacious and well-organized students hope to buck this negative trend. They partially succeeded, at least for a day, as throngs of impeccably dressed students made their way across campus to the Intercultural Center – the same building that does not allow the display of crucifixes – where Take Back Georgetown Day was held.

“I hear far too often from friends and classmates that they are conservative, but intimidated by professors to bring up their opinions in class,” said Georgetown student Alex Bozmoski, founding chairman of Take Back Georgetown Day. “They are afraid of being labeled ‘conservative’ on a liberal campus; they are afraid of grade discrimination.”

Many students were interested in the activities of TFP Student Action.

A busy line-up of prominent conservative speakers and workshops ran from 9:30AM to 4:30PM. In the lobby, representatives from various Washington, D.C. think tanks displayed literature and shared information. Members of TFP Student Action had their own table and were engaged in lively discussion during the greater part of the day. Many students promptly joined the TFP’s petition against the immoral “V-Monologues” scheduled to play again at Georgetown on February 17-18.

“History has demonstrated that if allowed unchecked by students, Georgetown University will be guided further and further to the left by the administration and faculty,” Bozmoski continued. “…This dangerous drift will be slowed, and with a lot of diligence and perseverance we will all continue what is started today – we will Take Back Georgetown University.”

From Heaven, Saint Ignatius must be pleased with this effort. Let us pray for the complete restoration of Georgetown’s Catholic identity. Saint Ignatius would have us focused on the single most important goal of life itself and the ultimate purpose of education – Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam, for the greater glory of God.

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