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Latest break-in resembles “Cuddler” attacks

Early Wednesday morning a man entered a house on the 3300 block of Prospect Street and lay on top of one of the female residents. This is the fourth suspicious incident the residents of the house have experienced. The Wednesday morning break-in bears a striking resemblance to the string of sexually motivated burglaries in the Georgetown area which some students attributed to “the Georgetown Cuddler.”

By March 19, 2009

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MPD suspects “Cuddler” crimes are related

The Metropolitan Police Department has indicated that one person may be responsible for the string of at least eight incidents in which a man has climbed into women’s beds in the Georgetown area.

By March 5, 2009

News

Local assaulter convicted

Todd M. Thomas, 24, was sentenced to 26 years in prison last Friday after a D.C. Superior Court jury found him guilty of 11 separate crimes, including burglary and assault of Georgetown students. While some local media outlets, including the Washington Post and Saxaspeak, identified Thomas as the “Georgetown Cuddler,” the victims in Thomas’s case were male and Thomas has not been found to be connected to other cases of sexual assault on and near Georgetown’s campus.

By March 18, 2010

Editorials

Sexual assault rhetoric should be revisited

Last week, a man allegedly committing serial sexual assault in Dupont Circle was charged with a misdemeanor, specifically, “misdemeanor sexual abuse (with aggravating circumstances).” According to D.C. Official Code, his... Read more

By the September 6, 2012

Features

Freedom of the Press: The Hoya’s struggle to buck the University

On March 31, the day before April Fools’ Day, Max Sarinsky (COL ’09), then chair of The Hoya’s Board of Directors, received an e-mail that his newspaper had been awaiting for over five years and dreaming about for decades more. Meeting in two days, it read. Bring your pens. Let’s make a deal.

By the September 10, 2009

News

This summer’s six biggest stories

2010 Campus Plan Every ten years, Georgetown must draw up a new campus plan and present it to the District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment. The plan dictates how... Read more

By August 28, 2009

Voices

Getting to know a grandfather, even after his death

Today, the weather is good for the first time in a long time. Come walk with me, down to the Washington Harbor. Past the shop windows of shiny, plastic women wearing soft things and summer things and silver things, who nod at you as you go by.

By March 26, 2009

News

Saxa Politica: Silence and its dangers

On Saturday night, a diminutive sophomore was walking home from a Halloween party by herself. When she reached the end of Prospect Street, a male Georgetown student jumped out in... Read more

By November 6, 2008

Editorials

For DPS, fighting crime doesn’t pay

Patrolling a campus in one of America’s most violent cities, Department of Public Safety officers put a lot on the line to protect Georgetown students. Only a few years ago,... Read more

By the November 12, 2009

Editorials

GU fumbles response to summer rape

On July 10, 2009, a Georgetown student was raped at her residence on the 3500 block of O Street, according to a report filed with the Metropolitan Police Department. Most of the student body, however, could be forgiven for not understanding the gravity of the event. Georgetown’s Department of Public Safety’s subsequent Public Safety Announcement, released five days later, described the incident as a “sexual assault,” a vague term whose varying degrees of seriousness can indicate anything from groping or fondling to rape.

By the August 28, 2009