Usually, when Vox runs a post about the neighbors organizing against Georgetown and its students—like CAG President Jennifer Altemus’s announcement of a monetary campaign against the 2010 Campus Plan—we get comments from students belittling the neighbors. Like this one, from jacob:

“It’s not like I knew there was a university with college students in the neighborhood when I moved here…”

But not this week. This week, neighborhood residents were commenting in full force on Vox—profane, united, and angry.

When students left indignant comments on the aforementioned 2010 Campus Plan post, for example, Altex shot back:

“Hey Kiddos, this is not your neighborhood and you are not liked nor welcome here. Just make sure you follow the law or you will get arrested. Your parents will not like it and it will be hard to get one those middle management jobs you are drinking so hard for.”

And when a student suggested that Hoyas protest at the next CAG meeting, Altex was there again:

“LOL! Protest? Please! You white trash kiddos can’t even find the address unless it smells of horse manure.
Let’s see how many present and future losers will show up. Wanna bet?”

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ughh was really bummed to hear that Georgetown students voted Lupe Fiasco into the top spot for our Spring Concert:

“This campus’s taste in all things arts related is sh*t. Congrats, Georgetown student body on voting in yet another terrible spring concert.”

wawawa said ughh could love it or leave it:

“go to NYU hipster. The music is fine. It’s better than Jason Mraz, Fountain’s of Wayne, and Coolio (although the nostalgia of coolio is unparalleled).”

Which bro is which? responded to reports that Vice President Jason Kluger was everywhere on Election Day:

“I have it on good authority that Calen and Jason were confused for each other that night. Both are handsome, scruffy, and quite good at articulating ideas-no wonder students couldn’t tell the difference. Or possibly even more plausible…maybe Calen and Jason are one in the SAME?”

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Joe C didn’t see any point to it when GUSA President Calen Angert (MSB ‘11) and Jason Kluger (MSB ‘11) won reelection:

Why do we have GUSA elections every year? Isn’t Matt Stoller the secret Omnipotent Supreme Commander of GUSA?

A Voice commenter on our post about high GUSA voting turnout prompted Tim to defend a daddy-issue-plagued GUSA:

“The Voice is like the cold, emotionless, and disapproving father to GUSA. Nothing is ever good enough. WHY WON’T YOU LOVE ME DADDY?”

Daddy replied:

“Because you’re not. good. at. BASEBALL!”

When he or she read that the Voice may have caused a rash of drug violations, ? didn’t understand how we could be so cruel:

Why would the Voice write an article calling attention to how lenient our drug policy is here? Not cool. Seriously.

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Glenn Beck stopped by to freak out about having Monday classes and the mysterious anagrams you can make from ‘Jim O’Donnell’:

“Lay off George Washington, commenters. He’s just worried about the direction this country is going and, like any God-fearing, country-loving American citizen/founding father, is JUST ASKING QUESTIONS. Like, is it a coincidence that Monday President’s Day classes were REinstituted just days before the Winter Olympics kicked off IN CANADA? Why can Jim O’Donnell’s name be rearranged to form the words “NO MIND JELLO”?! WHO IS KING GEORGETOWN?!!?? WHY AM I YELLING?! WHY AM I CRYING?!!!?”

Tuscany’s time to shine mourned the loss of Philly Pizza when he heard that it was going to be shut down by the city:

“Nooo!! The neighbors can take my right to urinate publicly, my right to drink on a stoop without fear of their police goons who should be solving real crimes, my right but not my right to RAAANCH!”

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This may shock you, but with arctic weather conditions and no school for four days, readers posted an astounding number of comments on Vox this past week. (Even Hitler spent a day futzing around on the blog in his boxers).

For starters, students chafed at Provost James O’Donnell’s suggestion that professors find creative ways to continue teaching through the snow. CF said:

I don’t know what was more moving, google’s super bowl ad or Provost O’Donnells heartfelt email of encouragement

ATalbot said:

“I think the Provost’s heart is in the right place. He clearly cares passionately about his school and his students and I think it’s really good to see him engaging students in the comments.”

@Jim O’Donnell said:

“Dear Provost O’Donnell,

“I commend you for discovering the rich, rewarding nuance of texting abbreviations. Why not sprinkle your otherwise forgettable e-mails with the following (I include quotations from your previous e-mails to show how you can utilize the plebian dialect of the student body):

“- 2EZ: Too Easy: After considerable discussion and consultation involving individual students, faculty members, the Council of Associate Deans, and the Main Campus Executive Faculty (2EZ!!!!!)
- LOLO: Lots of Love: With best wishes as the semester comes to a close (+LOLO<3<3<3),
- 420: Marijuana: I invite you to join us as we celebrate [Georgetown Day] with food, festivities, (420) and friends.
- LTLWDLS: Let’s Twist like we did last summer: Working together, we can create a community that maximizes the blessings of diversity. (So LTWDLS!!!!)

“And perhaps you, like I, should omit the nonsense “Best Wishes” and simply bid farewell by saying,

“LMIRL (Let’s Meet in Real Life) [you know, for an f2f],

“L. Bay
P.S.: U R 7K *w*”

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Bob wanted the shoptlifter who fell off the Leavey Center bridge to get special recognition:

“He deserves a Darwin Award.”

@Bob wasn’t sure that he qualified:

“Darwin Awards are specifically for those who “do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool.” Unless he landed in a particularly awkward position, I imagine he retains the ability to procreate.”

VCR and Alex mourned Father John Witek, a Jesuit professor who passed away on Sunday:

“Really sad to hear he passed away. I had him in Fall 2008 and was astounded by how much he knew. You could tell how much he really loved the Jesuits.”

Alex:

“Took both of his History of Asian Cultures classes and learnt so much. The university has lost a great professor. I will always remember his trademark sayings, ‘alllright..’ RIP.”

Did one Georgetown Senate bash another this week? A commenter who ID’ed himself as ATalbot was embarrassed for the Faculty Senate, which recently passed a resolution condemning the Heckler:

“Glad to know we’re not the only ones passing toothless resolutions, but at least we’re not getting paid.”

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Biology let the news that the Trans-state Actor concentration had been eliminated go in one ear and out the other.

I don’t even know what that means!
Hooray, College!

Fact Checker noticed an uncanny resemblance between a TV personality and the Georgetown doctor who helped deliver a baby in Haiti via iPhone:

Is Dr. Mishori also Special Agent Dana Scully of the X Files?

The Voice’s Sam Sweeney was surprised to find that he supported the counterprotest to the Petraeus protest:

The first letter is signed by the students of Georgetown University? I don’t remember throwing my not-inconsiderable support behind any such letter. WTF, counter-protesters?

P.S. Does this make me a counter-counter-protester? I certainly hope so.

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It’s not your typical week at Vox if the neighbors haven’t given us another unique example of how much they hate us. This week, they discussed where Georgetown could put its hospital, freeing up space for more student housing. To which Georgetown Resident replied:

Can’t we just move Georgetown University to the National Mall? There’s empty space, it’s being underutilized and it would solve all our problems. We could also launch Philly P into space. While we’re at it, can’t we move the residents of Anacostia to another area? Like Africa? That’s where they’re from, right?

Sincerely,
“RR”

And I thought there was no judgment in brainstorming. Meanwhile, Steven was in a huff about the GUTS buses, which, while now running on biodiesel fuel, don’t take the most efficient of routes…:

I bet driving on a bus route that is half the distance and uses half as much fuel would contribute even more to reducing carbon emissions.

Everyone had something to say about Vox’s coverage of the Georgetown Student who flirted with the Panda-hat donning Andrew on the Real World D.C. Some, like Ann, shamed us:

To write such an article about a fellow classmate is mean-spirited and cruel. Next time I would suggest learning the whole story or actually getting to know the person before imposing judgement on his or her personal life.

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Vox’s choice of vocabulary in its Real World DC Power Rankings sent Marc to the dictionary:

Thank you, Vox, for causing me to look up “snowballing” on Urban Dictionary. This being another first-day-of-class, this is the one thing i’ll learn all day.

wow couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the mock-up of the new science building:

If the grass at Georgetown is ever as green as it is in that picture, I will eat a basketball signed by Austin Freeman.

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When Vox listed its favorites study spots, @Sam didn’t appreciate being told by another commenter that the MSB building was only for MSB students:

Fine. Then the library is only for the college, sfs, and nhs, ’cause it has books.

ZING!

K. bashed Georgetown alumni JP Medved (MSB ‘09) and Anthony Sessa (SFS ‘09) for selling crude polo shirts:

“Subversive”? Yeah right. Reinforcing sexism (boobs), heteronormativity (because only girls would buy vampire/Twilight shirts) and restrictive gender roles (because all any guy cares about is beer pong and boobs) is soooo subversive.

…if they want to live up to their purported subversiveness, maybe they should make a shirt with a penis logo on it. Hmph.

To which a commenter who identified himself as Anthony Sessa responded…

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