Ahem, Mr. Brown. There are actually a lot of people who are PNG in Israel. They’re called Palestinians.

Also, the 1st Amendment in your bizzaro Constitution while not shield you from a false light claim by one of the people you are blanketly labeling as an alcoholic.

If you get your footage on Inside Edition I’m sure you’ll impress all the people still watching TV in 1996.

Please keep talking your nonsense Mr. Brown. I can’t wait for you to become the Lyndon LaRouche of the Georgetown neighborhoods.

so glad he realized his titling mistake – though he should really aim for consistency within his post-xanga travesty he calls a website.

This guy is legitimately insane. The part about Israel and Google is bizarre. I hope “Inside Edition” embarrasses him.

you posted the wrong link. its drunken not drunk. Gosh! Be careful. This crazy old man will probably come for you with his pitchfork and torch.

@reader

Thanks for catching my mistake. The links should be fixed now.

Brown lacks the writing skills of any Georgetown student (not in the MSB).

This crank is nothing but good news for students and GU. Now even the most reasonable neighborhood arguments (and there are plenty that are reasonable) become part of the group that includes this raving lunatic. It’s like the moderate republican who gets sucked into the tea party vortex. Bummer…

Messiah complex anyone?

I am grateful that the student body is now engaged in this. My house has been dealing with this guy for almost a year. I have tried to have a conversation with Mr. Brown and he is belligerent – literally will not listen to me. Nice to have outside validation that this guy is nuts and unfair, and the situation sucks!

Guys, maybe we’re being a little hard on him… after all, he does “hang out with a lot cooler people than you’ll ever know”. (right before the april 26th post).

Although some of his rantings and ravings seem insane now, maybe, over the course of time, we will all grow together and come to understand his incomprehensible scribblings as overlooked nuggets of wisdom in a heartwarming coming-of-age tale.

We’ll all laugh a little… cry a little… learn a little… and grow a little… and georgetown and the neighbors will walk off hand in hand into the sunset as the credits roll.

Man, look at those photographs!

-Chad

His website reads like a Dr. Bronner’s soap bottle.

On the bright side, he finally seems to realize that the University itself was not likely pressuring him to take down the site, and has edited the new site accordingly.

That’s true.

But also…why isn’t the university standing up for it’s students?

here’s a photo of him from another one of his sites: http://coolfoto.blogspot.com/

can anyone say photoshop contest? (because i can’t. this thing only let’s me type.)

Boy, he’s just getting crazier and crazier… starting to sound like the TimeCube guy.

GEORGETOWN HAS 4 CORNER
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
DRUNK STUDENTS

http://www.timecube.com/ (only click if you have a lot of time on your hands.)

The easiest way to stop this nonsense is to go to the Blogspot website, click ‘Report Site’ and report it for defamation/libel. Google will not remove the site because of the flagging, but if it’s flagged enough, they will make it ‘unlisted’, meaning it doesn’t show up in search results.

So if Brown wants to publish to his hearts content in the hopes that students pictured won’t get jobs, a Google search, at least, won’t reveal anything. And he’s just setting himself up for one false light/defamation claim after the other, so I hope the prick does continue.

@Matt, I don’t think clicking flag simply for defamation/libel actually does anything, it just takes one to a site explaining one needs to get a court decision. Now granted, I think there are plenty of other parts of the Blogger terms of use it’s violating, but that link won’t do it.

@@Doug: eh, I’m not too worried. I wouldn’t expect the university to get involved unless student efforts are insufficient, which so far they haven’t been.

@Doug: I think if enough people do flag it, it indexes the blog as ‘unlisted’, meaning it’s still accessible, but it won’t show up in search results. It’s Google’s way to balance freedom of expression, absent court order.

Wow, this guy needs to get a life. He’s crying wolf over a bunch of teenagers who are behaving more reasonably than he is. College students drink. The college has been there for hundreds of years. Don’t like it? Shouldn’t have moved there.

Maybe this self-righteous hack should try being social like the students he’s persecuting. Also, by putting pictures of students online and calling them drunken, you are committing libel. Maybe before Mr. Brown starts whining about his First Amendment rights he could ask a drunken college student for a lesson in semantics.

Wow, he really needs to get laid. poor guy.

This is mainly intended for non-GU community members reading about the whole issue. I posted the below at the video on Fox 5.

“The introduction to this video begins with “pictures of drunk college students”-this is an unsubstantiated claim being made by Mr. Brown that Fox 5 is perpetrating without any evidence beside photos that may or may not contain beer. Both parties don’t seem to realize that one’s presence at a party does not dictate his/her being intoxicated.

Mr. Brown fails to recognize that it is possible for students to enjoy a weekend party at a reasonable hour without getting inebriated in the process. Furthermore, the manner in which he is approaching the situation seems petty and childish—he appears to have an unwarranted vendetta with the school and is trying to do as much damage as possible.

Though he complains about raucous parties that are keeping him up at night, Mr. Brown’s photos seem to feature small groups of around ten students. If he really wants to see a big east coast party school he ought to trek up to UMD or Delaware. In fact, in 2007 Georgetown made its alcohol policy much more stringent, an act that may have inadvertently sent students into Burleith to party.

I would like to know what legitimate steps Mr. Brown took to speak with President DeGioia or direct of student affairs Todd Olson before starting up his blog/website. Furthermore, does he believe that residents who are of age and paying rent should not be able to entertain on a weekend night past ten o’clock?

In many situations, there is a high road, and a low (not high?) road. Regardless of student behavior, Mr. Brown indubitably chose to take the low road. Intentionally and deliberately trying to damage students and their reputations is malicious at the least. Whether or not students are misbehaving does not mean he, a man of 62 years and former college professor, should stoop to their level. Though some might applaud him for his initiative, I think Mr. Brown ought to think long and hard about how this whole episode reflects on him. Calm and reasonable are not two words I would use to describe him. I hope that this situation sorts itself out, that the University actually steps up for its students, and Mr. Brown figures out that he is making a fool of himself in the process.”

Shout out to my boy Jim Vance. Keep it real man, loved ya in Without Bias.

It appears the story ran on both the NBC and FOX local affiliates this evening. Interesting to watch how the story goes from student media all the way up without you all ever receiving any of the credit.

Would somebody blingee this guy already?

WAPO: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2010/04/no_de-tagging_option_georgetow.html

The Georgetown student blog, Vox Populi, warns students to “be wary the next time you head out to an off-campus party” because their picture might show up on the site. An NBC 4 Washington online headline exclaims: “Website Documents Hoyas Gone Wild.”

Here is NBC’s “rated R” version, LOL.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Hoyas-Gone-Wild-92172524.html

That’s yellow journalism, right?

I’M WORKIN ON IT, ALRIGHT? calm down.

Can we stop talking about this guy? I don’t know if it was a direct result of Vox yesterday (I would love to assume so!), but this business with him being written up in the WP and Huffington post is ridiculous. We’re just inflating an already huge ego. We all know the bizarre claims he makes are BS, and that the vast majority of Georgetown students are generally enjoyable people. (As I write this at 1:46 am, there is a horde of drunken male revelers outside of my off-campus home on Prospect, and yes, I want to kill them. I have a thesis due tomorrow, bitches.) But seriously- the more attention we give him (and I know Blogspot has a way of tracking visitors), the more outrageous he’ll become.

The man doesn’t know how to write properly. Can we pity the idiot and walk away?

Not that it probably matters, but I just e-mailed Todd Olson asking the same thing. Georgetown’s reputation is being mocked on national news networks… I’m not okay with that. Even if the guy is legitimately crazy, and it’s blatantly obvious to anyone who visits the site, we don’t need any more excuses for people to label us as “elitist alcoholics”… and in reading some of the comments in the HuffPo mention of him today, it seems like a lot of people like to throw that around.

Sounding more and more like a conspiracy theorist, Brown…

I was really hoping no one else would do this, so that I could have a chance to do this.

http://douchebagburleithresidents.info/

It’s crazy how NBC and Fox didn’t mention how vicious Brown is in his attacks on students. They make him out to be a guy who just wants to get some sleep, when he’s obviously after more than that, between calling us alcoholics and threatening that his site will keep people from security clearances.

[...] The story of the Burleithian anti-drunk vigilante just got weirder. [...]

Bookmarked, bro. Looking forward to where you go with it.

Students need to make sure their side of the story gets told. The NBC piece at least interviewed 2 students. The Fox piece was just a mouth piece for his agenda. This is getting out of hand. Students do not provoke him unnecessarily. Do not vandalize deface his house, do not be extra loud to punish him. Continue to be reasonable and have parties.

That would appear to be the world of journalism that you are on the verge of entering.

Rather than complain on a message board, why don’t we follow the theme of Georgetown 09-10 and stage a protest by chaining ourselves somewhere? That always seems to work.

Or people can just follow through on these cease+desist/lawsuits everyone is talking about so we can just end this charade… obviously this guy is breaking some sort of law. If this were a off-campus party, SNAPS would have already arrived by now.

“Even my cat was threatened today by someone calling himself ‘Jack Hoya.’ ”

HAHA, i never would of guessed he owned a cat…

@LoL: It’s a squatter.

I say, good for you Mr. Brown!

I’m no teetotaler, but perhaps these spoiled children whose parents shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for their education should start focusing on their books instead of wasting their time defending public drunkenness like a bunch of pre-law snots!

“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
-Abraham Lincoln

Was that quote directed at Georgtown/Burleith residents?

@ Georgetown Resident,

Funny, when I was an undergrad, I wasted my time defending public drunkennes like a pre-law snot. Now, I’m graduating law school (GU) and am doing pretty damn well for myself. How are your own worthless kids (assuming you could actually find someone joyless enough to reproduce with you)?

Like it or not, your student neighbors who like to drink are also going to do damn well for themselves in the future, too. You would be wise not to so cavalierly lose their respect and esteem.

Or, here’s another idea – quit painting 7,000 students with a broad brush as “spoiled children” (I’ve worked all four years here), and move out of Georgetown. Find yourself a quiet house in Foxhall, or Friendship Heights, or someplace not near an established university.

Dear Georgetown Resident,

Fuck you.

-AL

Being studious and going to parties are not mutually exclusive. When I was there, I somehow managed to get good grades, work 3 days a week, study, still hit parties nearly every weekend, graduate with honors and have a full time job locked down before I even started my senior year. I thank God that even though I graduated many, many years ago, I have not yet turned into a humorless killjoy that picks on college students for having some fun.

I can’t believe college students drink. Thats an outrage. I guess since this guy has been living in burlieth since before 1789 he has legitimate argument.

That’s our boy, Stephen Brown!

@Tim. Graduating Law School? Congratulations!! You and thousands of others managed to drink your way through another few years of pay to play education. You ARE doing pretty well for yourself scamming your parents! Now you’ll be able to afford all that good coke at Smith Point! Grow up and just keep the noise down, BRO.

@@gtown resident: I’m not painting the whole student body as spoiled douchebags, just the children taking the time to get hot and bothered about their “right” to disturb the peace! I’m sure there are plenty of hardworking kids toiling at double shifts at the local pizzeria to scrape together enough money for tuition and a group house in the most expensive neighborhood in DC.

Keep it coming this is fun!!!

The Masons? Why don;t you just pick on the Knights of Columbus or the girl scouts? You are dumb.

Shouldn’t you be working in the middle of the day on a Thursday?

I am working! I’m a comedian.

I’m just kidding ya’ll!! LOL! Lets par-TAY, keggerzzz 2nite on Stephen Brown’s lawn!!!

@ Georgetown Resident,

The more you and neighbors like you speak, the better you make the students look.

For starters, all private education is, in a sense “pay to play,” at least to the extent that you have to pay to enroll. (I guess by your definition, going to a movie is also “pay to play” because you have to pay in order to receive a service. Come to think of it, that’s how our entire economy works. Anyway…) Do you think that no one should attend a private school because it is a “scam”? Are movie theaters “scams” too, because you have to pay to get in?

You sound like you know a good deal about the coke at Smith Point. I personally have no idea where Smith Point is, so I’ll have to take your word on that. Anyway, I don’t do drugs.

Finally, you refer to all of the students who take the time to debate these issues as “children.” I think it is worth pointing out here that: (1) you are also on this same website—a website that I add is maintained by students—debating these same issues, and (2) you’re actually engaging with us. Do you really fight with “children” in your free time? Shouldn’t you be at work right now? Your job (and life, in general) are pretty unfulfilling, aren’t they?

Don’t worry, your not alone in hating Georgetown students. I’m pretty sure there are a lot of other menopausal, child-less virgins in the area. Enjoy the rest of your years!

You too Mr. Brown, especially with all those cats! I hope your job as an AU professor was a full-filling one!

Check this out hahahah: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6489705/

I say we invite Mr. Brown to take pictures of us at Georgetown Day tomorrow! Whose with me?

@megan berard: that is some really funny sht. touche!

It’s okay, we know you cry yourself to sleep at night and use your tears as lube while surfing chatroulette. You’re probably an alcoholic yourself, but are projecting onto younger, smarter, healthy individuals that you envy. Sorry you’re too stupid to psychoanalyze yourself, sport.

I am so ashamed! C’mere kitty. Let’s go spy us some co-eds.

Seriously, Vox commenters? You guys are getting trolled. Hard.

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/757/9ac/7579acc2-682a-48ad-b947-8b83a533298f

That image is a generous one, Steven.

http://srbphoto.zenfolio.com/p801347366

I’m assuming that when he was told to censor photographs, he forgot that the same images he uses on his drunkgeorgetownstudents are located on his professional website (for example img 1977) on zenfolio. As some people captured in his photos would most likely NOT sign a waiver to be included in his failed money making adventures in photography (an amazon ranking lower than that of Heidi and Spencer Pratt personal photography), I believe that Mr. Brown should act accordingly and censor/remove the same photos.

At the most recent campus plan meeting, one neighbor actually argued that her interest was in “diversity” in their community (some families, some students, etc.). From Stephen Brown’s website, here’s a photo of what counts as “diverse” in Burleith: http://srbphoto.zenfolio.com/p801347366/h287c29f3#h67ea765

There’s old, and there’s older. There’s white, and there’s whiter.

(I think I see a black lady towards the back, but she’s standing with Jeanne Lord, so I assume she’s with the University.)

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Including keeping up the uncensored photos on his website, he’s got this “Cranky Neighbor” gem:

http://srbphoto.zenfolio.com/p801347366/h29271575#h29271575

A picture of some sort of screen (perhaps abutting his property?):

SCREENING IS BREAKING WALL TO RIGHT IS NEW AND ILLEGAL W/O VARIANCE

ALSO DISTANCE FROM PROPERTY LINE TO CONDO ON RIGHT IS 4.8 FEET RATHER THAN 6 AND WOULD REQUIRE A VARIANCE.

Just look at it, guys, FOUR POINT EIGHT FEET RATHER THAN SIX. THAT IS A DIFFERENCE OF ONE POINT TWO.

[...] “@photoshop contest?” had other things in mind: Would somebody blingee this guy [...]

I don’t think the drunken rowdy noisy behavior the neighbors are objecting to would be accepted on campus either. Certainly no one would claim that the complaints of students about noisy, drunken and rowdy students on campus should be ignored simply because “They chose to live here.” Certainly no one would dream of ganging up on the campus police for dealing with the subject of the complaints. It would be more likely that students would object if actions were not taken to restore the Peace or other students threatened for making a complaint.

I do recall that GTU completely turned around on this very issue – like twelve years ago- when a neighbor videotaped a really raucus party and then taped the nice quiet totally peaceful campus at the same time of Saturday nights. The Board was OUTRAGED. They believed the reputation of the University was ,um, valuable to students past present and future. The Administration swore they had “no idea” things were so out of hand a few blocks off campus. I don’t know that anyone believed the Administration had no idea, since they had been told over and over, but for whatever reason, the Administration was changed. I don’t think that tack will work any better this time.

The University is in a residential neighborhood, and by Municipal Regulaltion 210.2 states clearly any University may not disrupt or even “create conditions that may become objectionable” in residential areas, SO: if people are objecting, the University is in violation of DC Law.

Fred, your comparison is ridiculous. No one is saying that raucous behavior is acceptable, on campus or off. Unfortunately, many residents are not calling for better behavior, they’re trying to drive all students out of the neighborhood, even the ones who are ideal neighbors. Bad behavior is unacceptable, whether or not you’re a student, and if you really believe so, you’ll condemn Brown’s stalking of students and his incendiary rants.

By the way, the main reason that relations improved in the late 1990s was because two of the most dishonest and hostile neighborhood activists were defeated by students in the ANC elections of 1996. As a result, some more moderate voices arose from the neighborhood, and for a while many neighborhood leaders actually focused on issues of behavior and home safety, instead of mindless attacks on everything related to GU.