On Tuesday, the president of the SFS Academic Council emailed SFS undergraduates the findings of their undergraduate survey. Intended as a response to the BSFS External Review consultations last spring, the survey was conducted by [Edit] the SFS Academic Council for the BSFS review committee to help them evaluate the SFS experience.

The report has both statistics on student perceptions of the SFS curriculum and the unabridged comments from students. It also makes some preliminary recommendations, like reevaluating which classes can fulfill requirements. On the whole, SFSers seems dissatisfied with having to study four economics courses, happy about their Prosems, and skeptical of adding a science requirement to the core curriculum. In general, the report paints a picture of a student body that is satisfied with its academic experience.

You can read the entire report after the jump, but we thought we’d share this recommendation from the report first:

Allow students to acquire language proficiency in languages not offered at Georgetown – a student coming into freshman year with proficient knowledge in Urdu should not be at a disadvantage over an incoming freshman with proficiency in Farsi.

#SFSproblems

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It’s a Saturday afternoon, you’re headed down M Street, and there’s a massive line outside of Georgetown Cupcake. You’re probably wondering, “Who are these people and why are they willing to stand in that line? Are they fans of D.C. Cupcakes? Are they even from D.C.? Had these customers ever heard of Baked & Wired?”

At least, that’s what we think.

In September, we performed a thoroughly unscientific survey of people standing in line outside of Georgetown Cupcake. The surveys were done at both busy and slow periods of the day in order to have a more accurate picture of all types of customers.

The charts above illustrate the make-up of the average Georgetown Cupcake line, and after the jump, we’ve got some of the highlights of our fact-finding mission. Enjoy!

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To help foster a (hopefully) more informed student body for this year’s Georgetown University Student Association Senate Elections, Vox invited all candidates to complete a short questionnaire regarding their candidacies. And, to our surprise, some of them even responded!

The election is scheduled for this Thursday, although the exact 24-hour voting period is dependent on when the e-mail from the University goes out to students. Students are allowed to vote in their respective districts and for the at-large positions. If your district is sans a candidate, or you do not want to vote for the candidates listed, write-ins are allowed.

Today, we’re covering the candidates from the Class of 2014. Check back tomorrow for the rest of the candidates.

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