May 14, 1999

Georgetown U. Students Protest Cuts in Campus Ministry

More than 300 students gathered last month at Georgetown University to protest the Roman Catholic institution's decision to eliminate the jobs of the university's two full-time Protestant ministers, a Jesuit priest, and the coordinator of music for Catholic and Protestant religious services.

The four religious employees -- one of whom had worked there 17 years -- had been told that their contracts would not be renewed in June, and that