Party At Ground Zero: It's holiday party season for everyone, the D.C. Council included. Ethics controversies notwithstanding, the council will throw a $5,000 party for members and aides tomorrow night at the Washington Court Hotel; the money comes from donations of up to $380 per member from constituent service funds. Which, every councilmember would hasten to [...]
In its endorsement of Georgetown University's campus plan—which seeks to cap the number of undergraduate students at current levels and increase graduate students by 1,000—the Post notes: "What’s most troubling about the city’s posture is the notion that an increase in young people, particularly those in search of an education, is somehow undesirable."
Today, the Georgetown [...]
The Georgetown Voice offices are being downsized after three students caused damage to the ceiling of their on-campus space.
Last month, during Hurricane Irene, the students were in an area closed off due to the threat of flying debris. The students ignored "repeated, reasonable requests" from campus police officers to vacate the space, says the university's [...]
The Georgetown Hoya reports that school administrators make double the median salary of administrators at peer institutions nationwide:
Eleven top administrators earned an average of 202 percent more than the national median salary, according to analysis of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources Administrative Compensation Survey and university financial disclosure documents.
The CUPA-HR survey [...]
Just a little of the tasteless and odorless "date rape drug" gamma hydroxybutyric acid slipped into a drink can cause drowsiness, unconsciousness, and also amnesia, so it's scary to think of someone receiving gallons of the stuff in the mail. But that's what a Metropolitan Police Department source says happened in the area of the [...]
Spell check has doubled its lead over Georgetown.
At the school's commencement this weekend, programs were distributed with "Georgetown University" spelled "Georgetown Univeristy" on the cover. To fix the problem, Georgetown told disappointed grads, families, and friends to contact the registrar, who will provide corrected copies of the program to anyone requesting one.
Alas, the bottom of [...]
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Hine Times: The Eastern Market Metro Community Association has deigned several elements critical to the redevelopment of Hine Elementary School, as Stanton-EastBanc seeks the approval of the Historic Preservation Review Board. The five priorities of the neighborhood are: "1) [...]
When police roused and evacuated residents of Georgetown University's Harbin Hall after discovering a "clandestine" drug lab early in the morning of October 23, they did so because they thought the place might explode.
Meth labs are extremely combustible. But as it turns out, the process for manufacturing Dimethyltryptamine [DMT] is not nearly [...]
Today at about 2 p.m., two college students charged with manufacturing drugs in a Georgetown University dorm room will learn their fate. Charles Smith and John Perrone are slated to appear before federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. The two were busted in October for allegedly manufacturing the illegal, hallucinogenic substance DMT. The crystal [...]
For most college freshmen, being enterprising means setting your sights on a study abroad program, or maybe throwing in with the Future Business Leaders of America. For first-year Georgetown University student Charles Smith, and his buddy, first-year University of Richmond student John Perrone, it allegedly meant converting a GU dorm room into a drug [...]
The lawyer for one of two college students arrested for manufacturing DMT, G. Allen Dale, points out that the accused aren't "thugs." He tells City Desk: "We've got some very young kids from good families, who've done some good things." (Which, clearly, means they shouldn't be treated the way most other accused drug dealers in [...]
One of D.C.'s most privileged neighborhoods seems to be a good place to find DIY druggies. First, Georgetown journalist Howard Arenstein decides to grow giant pot plants in his backyard, now a clandestine dimethyltryptamine (DMT) lab shows up in a dorm at well-heeled Georgetown University.
But the two GU freshmen and campus visitor who were arrested [...]
Attention, Georgetowners! There's about to be an old-fashioned newspaper war in your old-fashioned neighborhood. OK, maybe not a newspaper war. But the market for online scoops about Jack Evans' electoral ambitions, Thomas Sweet's ice-cream menu, and NIMBYish complaints about those slovenly Georgetown University student group houses is about to get a lot more competitive.
Now joining [...]
While the recent grave mismanagement scandal at Arlington National Cemetery may dampen local enthusiasm for the national trend of finding creative new uses for cemeteries, in a backwards-kinda-way, it does spark questions about whether D.C. could taking better advantage of its cemetery spaces for the public good.
As The Wall Street Journal reports, cemeteries across the [...]
The Issue: Neighbors expressed frustration and concern over Georgetown University’s 2010 Campus Plan at a meeting last night. “It’s possible there’ll be changes as a result of tonight–but some of the big issues–on-campus housing–I don’t expect change,” says Linda Greenan, assistant vice president for external relations at Georgetown. Noisy, late-night partyin’ students already plague life [...]
