“Sadly, your man doesn’t look like me”

Cosmopolitan magazine, the world leader in water-sex-position reporting, decided to weigh in on the NCAA tournament this year—in ways you would pretty much expect. The editors at Cosmo ranked Georgetown’s Markel Starks the 12th hottest player in the competition: “Markel is great at protecting the ball. With arms like that, he can protect us all day and night.”

So here’s the bad news. Last week, Georgetown University appeared as number 47 (right after Columbia University!) on college rankings website thebestcolleges.com. The website claims to look beyond the traditional measures used by other ranking systems and “consider indicators of the economic value of a school and the quality of life offered by the city or town it is located in” (bold formatting theirs).

Moving on to the good news. Remember when, earlier this summer, Georgetown’s very own “Noble” (pictured right) modeled for an online shopping site, Uscoop? Well Georgetown men just added sexy to the list right after fashionable. A few days ago, in Glamour magazine’s recent blog post, Georgetown University appeared as ninth in a list of the “10 Colleges With the Hottest Guys.” The description reads: “Nerd alert, nerd alert! One senior says they’ve got ‘the sexiest nerds around.’”

The list was originally compiled by Her Campus, an online community that provides “collegiettes” with vital and invaluable advice about life as a college student. According to the site’s post, Georgetown’s guys range “from ‘prepsters’ to ‘hipsters’ [Editor's Note: Who the hell is perpetuating this myth?], all of whom share the cultural melting pot that is our nation’s capitol.”

So while we may have landed a questionable ranking on some arbitrary list, take heart, Hoyas—the real authorities have spoken, and our nerds are hotter than Columbia’s nerds.

No Hottest Professor list would be complete without Ivo Jansen’s name right at the top. The Dutchman came to the U.S. for his MBA and, lucky for us, decided to stay.

He is tall, slim, and blonde with an angular jaw and bright blue eyes. But his hottest feature is his sense of humor. He always starts out class by asking students, by name, their best story from the past weekend. He laces his lectures with jokes and when he sees students’ eyes begin to glaze over, he immediately changes the subject away from accounting to drag the class back in before he continues with the lesson.

Proof of his excellent teaching ability? Most students raise their grade a full step from Financial Accounting, the class that Jansen teaches, to Managerial Accounting, taken the following semester. I, on the other hand, dropped from an A- to a C+ when I no longer had Ivo’s lovely smile to engage me in the world of debits and credits. Oh well, it wasn’t meant to be; I am now an English major but still look back oh so fondly on afternoons in Accounting.

Posted by Kathryn Brand, Contributing Editor

The Voice is pleased to announce an open call for nominations from its readers for the hottest professors you’ve spent hours batting your eyes at in countless dreary seminar rooms and lecture halls. They might be an Eros of economics like Sanjay Chugh, a foxy Portuguese prof like Valeria Buffo or some as-yet-undiscovered starlet out of a more remote department like Cell Biology or Polish. The discipline doesn’t matter, as long as your heart’s set a-flutter at every irregular conjugation, supply graph and textual analysis that floats like a gentle breeze through your lovelorn ears.

Email your favorites to thevoice@georgetown.edu, or just leave a comment right here. We’ll start posting the results by next week, with accompanying interviews, bios and high-resolution photos of the cooperative winners.

Posted by Chris Norton, Editor in Chief