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...administrators cast aside a student-faculty committee’s recommendation to eliminate a new tax on donations to student groups’ accounts, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 indicated yesterday...
...alumni have been planning to put together an event-filled weekend since December of last year. The festivities were scheduled to begin yesterday with greeting remarks from one of HRG&SP’s founding fathers, Wayne C. Paton ’56, and faculty advisor and alum, Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71. It will also offer film screenings, interactive events like a sing-along and orchestra play along, various workshops, a “Founders’ Story Session” to hear founding members set the record straight about the organization’s past...
Papal trips are often as much about what is not said and done as the words and gestures actually delivered by the Roman visitor and his local hosts. As Pope Benedict XVI's four-day trip to Turkey drew to a close Friday, here is an initial tally of what did and didn't happen on this most delicate visit...
...Words: The Pope has had only nice things to say in Turkey about a religion that he'd bluntly questioned in September for being susceptible to violence. Benedict spoke repeatedly of friendship, respect and reconciliation, citing the common roots of the two religions in their ancestry in Abraham. Rather than again propose the new approach to relations between the two faiths he'd launched in his Regensburg speech, he quoted his predecessor Pope John Paul II, who said on his own trip to Turkey in 1979 that Christians and Muslims must "recognize and develop the spiritual bonds that unite...
...Gestures: The late addition to Benedict's itinerary - a visit to Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque - will go down as the defining moment of this visit. His host on Thursday, the head cleric of Istanbul Mustafa Cagrici, had been one of 38 world Muslim leaders to sign a letter in response to Benedict's speech in September. Offering a tour of the mosque and explaining step-by-step what happens when Muslims come to pray, Cagrici continued his respectful lesson to the professor Pontiff on what he sees as the true, moderate nature of Islam. The two later gathered...