A young man visiting from out of town was thrown into a stop sign by Metropolitan Police last night at Philly Pizza, according to sophomore Dan Nunn.

Nunn and his friends were eating pizza across the street from Philly’s last night around 1:45. They were sitting on the curb with their feet in the street. An unmarked Metropolitan Police Department car pulled up with its sirens on. Three officers demanded that Nunn and his friends get their feet out of the street and threatened to arrest them.

After, the officers crossed the street to the pizza line. They turned someone in line around, and the guy put his hands up to show he wasn’t doing anything. Nunn said then the police started shoving him.

“Everybody starts freaking out,” Nunn said. The police then pushed the man into a stop sign and put him on the ground, where they got on top of him and cuffed him. After that he was taken away in their car.

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It happened early this morning (emphasis mine):

She was awakened at 2:50 a.m. the same day by an unidentified white male who was crawling on the floor near her bed. When the student confronted the suspect, he stood up and exited the room. The student reported that the door to her room was unlocked at the time of the incident.

Crawling on the floor? When will creepy things stop happening at Georgetown? On the bright side, we continue to learn that “burglary” does not necessarily imply theft.

Buried in the Jack the Bulldog ascension story was the fact that DPS’s Crime Awareness Report made Georgetown seem more like the Thunderdome than it actually is. The report said 7 prohibited weapons were found, but according to DPS Director Jeffrey Van Slyke, that should actually say prohibited items–things like a Foreman grill in a dorm room or an illegal lamp.

So they didn’t find your Tek-9Tec-9. But there’s also bad news: Georgetown’s alcohol violations haven’t dropped as much as the report suggests. In 2005, there were 882, and in 2006, there were 900. Last year there were only 512, but John Barleycorn isn’t dead–Georgetown just started only reporting the incidents it has to under federal law, where in the past it included some it didn’t.

The victim of last Friday’s alleged hate crime talked to Fox 5 today:

“I’m scared, I’m startled, I’m sad, I’m ashamed.”

Follow the link for the video. More information, including an interview with the victim, in tomorrow’s Voice.

In August, the Executive Cabinet of GW’s Student Assocation went to a Nationals game together as part of a cabinet retreat. The GW Hatchet, fearless newspaper that it is, started poking around to see how the tickets were paid for, prompting this gem of an email to be sent to the entire cabinet (emphasis mine):

Guys,

Emily Cahn from the Hatchet is calling around looking to find out how retreat was paid for. You are to tell her the following and ONLY THE FOLLOWING:

You paid for your own food and tickets to all events. This includes Nationals, Redskins, Nooshi, Froggys, etc. Then try and throw in something about how you had to stop Vishal from paying himself and you insisted on paying.

This is very IMPORTANT and this email must remain CONFIDENTIAL. Anyone found leaking this email will have appropriate action pursued against them. Do not seek her out, but if she contacts you the above is what you are to say.

–
Greta Twombly
SA President Chief of Staff

Rule no. 1, Greta: you have to be a little more specific in your threats if you expect them to have any effect. Does “appropriate action” mean the leak won’t be allowed to sit at the SA Executive Cabinet lunch table for a week or are we talking death by public stoning?

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The Washington Blade is reporting an assault on a gay Georgetown med student early Friday morning (emphasis mine):

The source said the men, who he described as Muslim and being of “Middle Eastern descent,” asked the other men if they were gay. When one of the men answered yes, the source noted that the man and his companion began using “profane language.”

At one point, the source said, the two men told the gay men, “If you were to do this type of behavior back in our country, you’d be stoned,” and that “a man’s asshole is for shitting not fucking, you fucking faggots.”

The source said one of the Muslim men eventually goaded his companion, who held a glass bottle, into attacking one of the gay men. The source noted the man who wielded the bottle struck the Georgetown student’s left cheek with it. The two men then fled.

An hour after the arrest, police arrested the two suspects.

The Department of Public Safety published the annual Crime Awareness Report (PDF) Tuesday, but all the good stuff turned out to be clerical errors. All the good stuff, that is, except for this front page picture of Jeff Van Slyke, Director of Public Safety, and Jack the Bulldog.

There’s a reason why Jeff and Jack are getting acquainted. Yesterday, Van Slyke told me that Jack is getting deputized into DPS–seriously. He said there’s going to be a photo-op with DPS officers in the Adopt-a-Cop program, and Jack is going to come along to be sworn into the canine unit. He speculated about the possibility of using fishing line to raise Jack’s right paw for a swearing-in.

It’s weird, but it’s not student informants weird, and that’s something to be grateful for.

Update: Housing changed its mind. Scroll down on this post for the information you need for cleaning.

There are now 146 food-poisoned students who went to Georgetown Hospital, according to today’s email from Todd Olson. Despite this high number, the University has apparently instituted a you-puke-it, you-clean-it policy for affected students.

Kathrin Verestoun’s roommate vomited on their carpet after eating at Leo’s, and Verestoun sent a request to Facilities asking them to clean the vomit under her roommate’s bed. She got this email back from Facilities (caps lock theirs):

We have assigned work ticket number SEE NOTES
to the following request:
Comment: YOU ARE RESPONSILBLE FOR ANY CLEANUP INSIDE OF YOUR APT.

It’s outrageous enough that the University is deducting from your meal plan for the privilege of dining in their laughable Leo’s replacement, Leavey’s Center Grill, which offers a only smattering of fried goodies and a dismal, withered salad bar. But making students cleanup the University’s mess, too? That ain’t right.

“And it all started with the Voice!”

The Voice is looking for students who are good with numbers and sales to work on our business staff. Work hard here and who knows, maybe you’ll be running naked women on page 3 and menacing the New York Times.

Interested? Apply by sending an email to thevoice at georgetown.edu.

Photo from Flickr user Mike Goat used under a Creative Commons license

That was the big scoop from tonight’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting. Metropolitan Police Department Sergeant Hackley said during the crime report that the bull’s head, which was stolen a little over a week ago from Halcyon House on Prospect St., had made its way back to the House and owner John Dreyfuss. The statue’s valued at $25,000.

No word yet on the identity of the Brazen Bull Bandits or what punishment they might face, but Commissioner Bill Starrels said that as soon as he heard about the theft he got in touch with Georgetown’s Ray Danieli and set up a meeting between Dreyfuss, school officials, and MPD, so it looks the Bandits are students.

Photo from Flickr user Big Grey Mare used under a Creative Commons license