The Examiner, the right-tilting daily known for its dogged free delivery, has recently started running a “Georgetown University Examiner” column on its website.

Penned by Georgetown philosophy major and American Enterprise Institute intern Peter Grace (COL ‘10), the first seven installments of the GU Examiner have mostly stuck to covering some already over-exposed Georgetown institutions (the Tombs! Dumbarton Oaks!) or critiquing campus culture (the verdict: too many sweatpants, not enough Catholicism).

In one post, though, Grace uses Georgetown as a springboard for discussing some lofty political ideals, highlighting the potential arrest of a former Bush administration official who is also a “professor of government at Georgetown University” by the Spanish court for violating international law in providing the legal framework for our Guantanamo torture policy and argues that such an arrest would undermine national sovereignty.

Disagreements with his political position aside, the post gets one fairly crucial fact wrong: the “Georgetown professor” in question is Douglas Feith… who left Georgetown over a year ago.

According to an email from Grace, the column was born when he responded to an ad on the Examiner’s website soliciting writers with a draft of The sweatpants scrouge.” Covering a college campus over the summer is tough, he wrote (Vox can certainly say amen to that!), so for now he’s just hoping to draw in whatever audience he can. Come the fall, though, his columns will be directed principally at Georgetown students.

In his email, Grace wrote:

For the most part, I try to restrict the column’s ambit to matters directly related to Georgetown University. (If you’ve read any of the articles, then you’re well aware how I rarely succeed.) There’s no shortage of news related to GU, so when I come across something interesting or relevant, I often use it as a launching pad to deploy one of my lunatic dithyrambs, of which there is also no shortage. In the minority of instances, I write about an observation I made at GU and what kind of an impression it left on me.

When I’ve finished reviewing the preliminary draft to an article inspired in such a fashion, I often think I’m positively non compos mentis (see “The sweatpants scourge”), but the articles often strike me as a little funny, so I polish and post them anyways.

Au revoir, Madame?

Could Georgetown professor Madeline Albright be in line for a promotion? That’s what NY Foreign Policy Examiner heard from French Nouvel Observateur:

“An article in today’s French Nouvel Observateur hinted at the possibility of Barack Obama appointing Madeleine Albright as special ambassador to France.

From the French point of view, they are just tickled pink. Mrs. Albright is a francophile, knows France quite well …. She has also been an advisor to President Obama on foreign affairs.”

University Spokesperson Julie Green Bataille hasn’t responded yet to questions of what an ambassadorship would mean for Albright’s availability to continue teaching at Georgetown is she made our list, but we’ll keep you posted.

Scoop via the amazing Hunter Kaplan.

Photo from Flickr user Ross Mayfield used under a Creative Commons license.