According to D.C. police, a sexual assailant known as the “Cuddler” has been terrorizing dorms and townhouses around Georgetown University since January 13, 2008. But when did that other scourge of the Georgetown campus—the suspect’s creepily innocuous nickname—first hit the Hoyas? No one knows for sure. Below, track the moniker’s rise in the campus lexicon. (Suspected “Cuddler” assaults are marked in red).

! January 13, 2008. According to D.C. police officer Helen Andrews, as quoted in Georgetown Voice blog Vox Populi, “The first incident” in the string of sexual assaults “occurred on January 13, 2008 in the 3700 block of R Street, NW.”

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He Who Shall Not Be Named: TheVoice Doesn’t Like to Have to Use “Cuddler”

On Sept. 4, Georgetown University told its students to stop calling him “The Cuddler.”

Because cuddle is far too soft a description for what the suspect does. In a typical attack, a man enters a student’s residence through an unlocked window or door, lies down next to her, and attempts to sexually assault her. He’s been accused of everything from laying a blanket atop his victim to placing his penis on his victim’s thigh. According to D.C. Police, the episodes span a 20-month period stretching back to January 2008.

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“Sex-positive porn”: Actually just like regular porn, but with hipsters.

Molly Redden from The Georgetown Voice is exhaustively covering the university’s “Sex Positive Week” over at student blog Vox Populi. Some Hoyas are pissed off that GU is helping fund the week’s activities. So—what exactly are they upset about? What does “Sex Positive” mean, anyway?

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Molly Redden over at Georgetown student blog Vox Populi wrote a great primer yesterday on the history of the scourge to the Georgetown campus known only as the “Georgetown Cuddler.” The Cuddler is a sexual assailant who’s been linked to as many as seven assaults around campus (and possibly more near the University of Maryland). In one incident, the suspect “entered [the victim's] bedroom, got into her bed, and put his arm around her.”

Cuddler, eh? That’s a pretty good nickname for a villain who holds damsels hostage, thwarts heroes, etc. (Redden credits the UMD Diamondback with first coining the name). As a real threat to a community, though, it’s a bit of a misnomer. Oh yes, the Cuddler does more than cuddle. He also:

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Will Sommer over at Georgetown Voice blog Vox Populi gives the Manliest Workplace treatment to the university’s many campus rags. According to Sommer’s calculations, the Georgetown Academy is the manliest of GU’s publications, while the Independent scores lowest on the Manly Index with a mannish 13.

Sommer also notes that, as Vox Populi’s sole editor, Sommer’s maleness scores his outfit “a perfect ten out of ten in manliness.” By that same token, The Sexist scores a big fat zero.

Will Sommer have the guts to blog this blog about the blog he posted about my blog? Stay tuned!