If it seems like a lot of recent break-ins and possible sexual assaults near campus have had the same MO, you might be right. From the Post:

D.C. police said one man might be responsible for at least five incidents in which women in or near Georgetown were accosted or sexually assaulted in their homes since January, each by an early-morning intruder.

These assaults are in the news again because of a recent public safety alert about a man breaking into a Georgetown student’s apartment last Friday. The alert says he got in bed with the victim and put his arm around her. NBC4 goes further and says he fondled her.

That’s creepy enough, but DC’s Fox affiliate says a similar June break-in in Georgetown almost involved rape:

But police say in some cases, the man isn’t just cuddling. Back in June on the 2400 block of Tunlaw Street, police reports show a woman woke up to a man kissing her on the neck and trying to rape her. When she asked what he was doing, the suspect took off.

Scary stuff. The solution for now seems to be locking doors and windows.

Additional reporting from Eric Pilch

Another week, another attempt by the print version of this paper to remain relevant. You and I know how it’ll end, but there are articles worth reading while we wait for the triumph of digital ink:

• It might not feel like it, but apparently there’s grade inflation at Georgetown. Alisha Crovetto investigates in this week’s cover story.
• In News, Georgetown gets a crime wave, and GUSA VP James Kelly shoots his mouth off.
• In Sports, Hoyas go to the DC Cup to support the football team “no matter what” (is there any other way?)
• In Leisure, Vivian Chen reviews Glover Park’s Surfside, a water polo art exhibit is judged and found lacking, and I feel the same way about Bangkok Dangerous.
• In Voices, Traviss Cassidy answers a long-standing question about him: what’s up with when he was almost a Mormon?

We also had an inserted issue of College Magazine, which will be covered in depth here if I can get past the “Is Your Roommate a Drug Dealer?” article.

“Spread to the four winds!”

The GUSA Senate formed the Student Commission for Unity last spring in response to last year’s bias-related incidents and The Hoya’s “Jena 6″ snafu last fall. In April, the SCU conducted a survey on race, discrimination, and segregation at Georgetown which gleaned over 1,500 student responses. While they’re not publishing the numbers just yet, a sneak peak on Tuesday night revealed:

• Only 4% of bias incidents that occur on or near campus get reported to DPS
• Black and Hispanic students often feel uncomfortable here because of their race in face greater numbers that white students
• Catholics and Protestants find religious discrimination to be less of a problem than Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu students
• New students find the bias reporting system far more adequate than veteran Hoyas do
• SFS kids are pretty convinced that self-segregation is a problem (frustrating for their vigorous networking efforts)

For some reason, when they break down their survey based on religion, responses from Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindi students get grouped together. Kesten said it’s because they’re fewer in numbers. Unfortunately, if they respond in radically different ways to specific questions, we may never know.

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I lamented Monday that Georgetown doesn’t have a pitbull in the anonymous gossip dog fight that is Juicy Campus because we don’t have a section of the site for ourselves, even though Juicy Campus added more colleges.

Disregard that. Apparently, there is a Georgetown section–it’s just that no one posts in it. Someone kicked things off with a charming question. If you follow that link, check out the four widemouth basses and their friend a grouper on the ad on the left side of the page.