Author Archives: mcguirep

About mcguirep

Pat McGuire has been the president of Trinity Washington University since 1989.
Mob Rule and the Tree of Life

- In our grief over yet more tragedy, we must insist that our leaders stop the hateful rhetoric and confront the violence that courses through the dark corners of American life.
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Voices of Trinity: Symposium Topics, Trinity Resources

- The results of the campus survey on sexual violence will lead to a spring symposium on this topic, and also improved services and resources for victims of sexual harassment and abuse.
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Voices of Trinity: Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis

- 97% of the Trinity community responding to our survey agree that priests who abuse children should be prosecuted, and 87% believe that bishops who fail to report child abusers should also be prosecuted. Read more in our continuing analysis of the campus survey on sexual violence.
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Voices of Trinity: Sexual Violence and the Kavanaugh Hearing

- Read Trinity faculty, staff and student opinions of the Senate hearing and Christine Blasey Ford's testimony.
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Voices of Trinity: Survey on Sexual Violence

- Trinity students, faculty and staff are deeply concerned about issues of sexual violence in our society. Participants in our campus survey on #MeToo have a lot to say on these critical issues, this blog will carry summaries of the survey all week.
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Stand Up, Speak Out: The Trinity Imperative

- A Trinity education demands that we exercise our Freedom of Speech confidently and urgently in service to others.
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Constitution Day Continues: Thoughts on the Supreme Court

- Members of the Trinity community have a LOT to say about lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court!
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Constitution Day Continued… Second Amendment Opinions!

- 48% of students, faculty and staff responding to the Constitution Day Straw Poll say the Second Amendment must change.
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Voices of Trinity: Constitution Day 2018 – First Amendment Discussion

- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." (First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States)
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Engaging the Church in Crisis

- Lay persons must be included in crafting solutions to the profound damage wrought by the clergy sex abuse crisis in the Church.
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