Tomorrow at RFK Stadium, Howard University will play Morehouse College in football for the first time in nearly 15 years at the rebooted Nation's Classic. And because it's Friday, here's my favorite Showtime Marching Band tune:

For the partied-out print version of Washington City Paper, I wrote this week about Howard University's new athletic director and the school's historically touchy relationship with its athletes. Mostly, now that I think about it, I wrote about Howard's history of failing to feed its jocks.
Good golly, it's an odd history.
There have been at least [...]

Forget Fenty, Write In Ahmadinejad: Turns out the University of Michigan wasn't the only place hacking into D.C. elections computers recently. Iranian and Chinese hackers also managed to access a test site set up by the Board of Elections and Ethics to demonstrate online voting for overseas Washingtonians. This doesn't explain the long delays in [...]

This summer, Howard University's Dr. Edward Jones fielded a lot of phone calls and e-mails. People wanted to discuss why black people run faster than white people, and why white people swim better than black people. One particularly strange caller, he says, wanted to talk about this subject in connection with [...]

Remember all the brouhaha over Yale's kitschy admissions video "That's Why I Chose Yale"—in which a bunch of Ivy League-ers extol the virtues of their bazillion-dollar campus in song? Well, as it turns out, harmonizing elites aren't the only people who get to like their school. HU Reaction, a student-run website that [...]

According to an arrest warrant, the triple shooting near Howard University on June 9 was over weed. The documents indicate that four men in a White Chevrolet Yukon near the corner of 8th and V streets NW were attempting to do a drug deal around 7:30 p.m. when things went sideways.
An argument ensued "over the quality [...]

From the prolonged "Go Vince Go!" cheers to the loud boos that accompanied incumbent Adrian Fenty's formal introduction, it wasn't hard to tell how the crowd swung at Saturday's D.C. Democratic State Convention mayoral debate. The audience at the Howard University School of Law was so vocally anti-Fenty that former pornographer turned candidate Dennis Sobin took time [...]

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The Washington Post is reporting that a triple shooting occurred at around 7:40 p.m. tonight near Howard University.
"While they investigate, police have closed 8th Street NW between and V Street and Barry Place, near a Howard dormitory and the 9:30 club. Southbound lanes of Georgia Avenue are closed at Barry Place," says the Post." The [...]

A gunman who allegedly robbed the Howard University Starbucks earlier this afternoon is now in a latte trouble.
According to police, the armed suspect entered the java joint in the 2200 block of Georgia Avenue NW and (instead of specifying tall, grande or venti) demanded cash.
The man fled after the crime, but police caught up with him. "A subsequent search resulted in the recovery of [...]

Good morning, Friday lovers. It's amazing how, if you just keep working for four straight days starting Monday, the fifth one that comes around is Friday. Every single week!
Just so you know, there will be no references to Alex Chilton in this Morning Roundup (except for an indirect one at the end).
There will, however, be [...]

WTOP is reporting that a student at Howard University is among several D.C.-area students who have been detained in Pakistan on terrorism charges.
A federal enforcement source says Howard University dental student Ramy Zamzam and four unidentified D.C.-area students were arrested Wednesday after Pakistani police launched a raid in Sargodha, a town in the eastern [...]

Reading about the "Booty Wall" at Howard University last week sent one regular City Paper reader on a trip down memory lane. A graduate of Virginia Tech, she wrote in to share some of the particulars of her time living in that school's "Virgin Vault."

Redecorating? Try the "Funny Pirate Booty Wall Clock"!

Note: This item is not affiliated with the Booty Wall at Howard University (as far as we know).

To anyone who is continuing to question the existence at Howard University of the so-called "Booty Wall," please stop. Or at least direct your questions to Marquis Barnett, the nation and world editor at the campus' own Hilltop newspaper, who just interviewed me for a story he's writing about me having written about the Booty [...]