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Vice President Joe Biden has long been a friend of the Hoyas. Who could forget that snowy Saturday in 2010, when he and President Barack Obama joined thousands of cold, reveling students in the stands (well, for them it was the sidelines) to watch us show Duke who’s boss?

Well now, the VP is showing the rest of the student body who’s boss in terms of Hoya dedication. Earlier today, Biden met up with the basketball team on their current trip to China, and watched them play a “friendship match” against the Brave Dragons from Shanxi Province. According to the VPOTUS Pool Reports, this stop was “unplanned,” and that the VP “seemed to crack a few jokes,” took a seat next to University President Jack DeGioia, and then left after the first half. Ouch.

But despite his early departure, Biden certainly did his civic duty to pump up our boys for their game. According to this picture, tweeted by Mahen Gunaratna, Biden stopped in the locker room to give the team a vice presidential pep talk. And apparently it worked, because the Hoyas wound up winning 98-81.

The team members, needless to say, were pretty excited about the chance to hang with our VP. “He’s a real funny & good dude!” tweeted Jabril Trawick.

No word on the next time Biden will pop up in our Georgetown lives, but he does seem to have a habit for doing so, so our guess is it won’t be too long.

That photo up above? Oh, you know, that’s just Vice President Joe Biden taking a stroll across Copley Lawn. No big deal.

Fresh off what we can only imagine was a trip to Mexico, Biden took a tour of Georgetown on Sunday afternoon with his granddaughter. He was spotted in Sellinger Lounge, Lauinger Library, and Leo’s Dining Hall, among other spots on campus.

And most importantly, he was wearing a leather jacket and aviators.

Photo: Max Blodgett

Want more? Check out the Voice‘s post-game coverage.

Photos by Lynn Kirshbaum

FACT: It is actually impossible to be angry at Joe Biden while looking at this picture.

The Georgetown Law Center is holding a symposium today celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act. At the ceremony, Vice President Joe Biden will be given the “Legal Momentum Hero Award” for his work on the bill. Sounds like a pretty sweet, harmless event right?

Well, the Cardinal Newman Society is saying that giving the award to Biden—who is a pro-choice Catholic—violates a 2004 U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops policy that prohibits honoring individuals who “act in defiance of [the Church's] fundamental moral principles.”

“Even as Notre Dame publicly snubs the Catholic bishops, Georgetown appears to be saying, ‘Me, too!,’” said Patrick Reilly, president of The Cardinal Newman Society. “Just last week, Georgetown covered the name of Jesus Christ at the request of the White House. Scandal after scandal at Georgetown, including the stunning 2007 law school policy that offers paid internships for students to work at organizations that advocate for abortion rights, has severely compromised its integrity as a Catholic institution.”

According to the Christian Newswire, pro-life activists will be protesting the event. And just as IHS-gate was dying down…

On Sunday Joe Biden went to church at St. Ignatius Loyola (the church across the street from Nevils—and where JFK attended Mass). Tens of students heard the rumor and lay in wait for the VP-elect, including one very solemn-sounding girl with a video camera:

Forgive our star-struck.