The graffiti that appeared on the Village A rooftops last week is gone, and with it, all potential community charges.

Area Coordinator Cory Peterson, who sent an email to rooftop residents last week about the incident, told students on Friday they would not be charged for the graffiti clean-up.

“Thank you to those who emailed and stopped in the office to chat about the graffiti and your knowledge of when it appeared. And thank you to those residents who voluntarily cleaned it up,” he wrote in an email. “As a result of the quick community response, the matter was addressed and no community charges are necessary.”

Oddly enough, Georgetown isn’t the only D.C. school with response-to-vandalism problems.

GW’s Residential Property Management office emailed students in the Ivory Tower dorm last Friday, threatening to levy community charges on all residents for damages to the building. However, the message “was not authorized,” according to a successive email sent Friday night. Now, GW plans to reevaluate its listserv email policies.

Photo: Georgetown Housing

[Editor's note: The photo attached to this post is not the graffiti in question, but since it was on the Village A rooftops a few weeks ago, we figure it's close enough.]

After graffiti appeared on the Village A rooftops this week—and presumably startled tour groups—Office of Residence Life Area Coordinator Cory Peterson sent out one hell of an email to rooftop residents.

“The 400 level rooftops are an important part of the daily tours given of Georgetown and the graffiti has demonstrated an unconscionable lack of regard for the property of his or her community,” he wrote.

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