As far as Georgetown’s performance in this year’s reshuffling of the Princeton Review’s rankings goes, there’s some good news and some bad news. On the plus side, our 10th place showing on both the Most Politically Active Students and Best College Towns lists is an improvement over last year, when we were only 18th and 13th on those respective lists.

However, we’re inexplicably out-done by nearby schools. American University students were named the most politically active, with GW kids coming in second. And while Princeton Review shows an admirable appreciation for DC (with 3 of the 20 spots on the Great College Towns list going to schools in the district) their preference for Foggy Bottom (3rd) and Tenleytown (5th) is puzzling. Have they even tried to get around Tenleytown? You need to take five buses just to switch parties.

Of course, it could be worse: our co-religionists over at Catholic took a beating, getting cited for a lackluster library, a dearth of diversity, and cumbersome bureaucracy. Serves them right, for getting the Pope.

For perspective, consider this: Howard’s The Hilltop clinched the number three spot on the Best College Newspapers list, even though it was forced to suspend publication earlier this year due to $48,000 in outstanding printing costs.

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