Two unidentified men allegedly robbed a Yates employee early this morning, assaulting him and locking him in a closet after entering the building through unknown means, according to a Department of Public Safety PSA. From the PSA:

On Monday, November 30, 2009 at approximately 2:00 a.m, a contract employee at Yates Field House reported to DPS that at approximately 1:46 a.m., two unidentified males entered the field house through an unknown means, assaulted him, took his car keys and cell phone, forced him into a closet, and locked him inside. DPS notified MPD who responded to the scene. The investigation determined that in addition to the theft of the keys and cell phone of the complainant, two safes and petty cash were stolen.

The PSA said that the employee was treated for minor injuries by GERMS, taken to the Georgetown Hospital, and released. There was also damage to property and office equipment in Yates.

The PSA describes the suspects as “[t]wo unknown black males wearing ski masks” and said that DPS is cooperating with MPD’s continuing investigation.

Nathan Srinivas found out what Georgetown’s being a “global university” really means.

Kelsey Ryan was not impressed by the programming at Yates.

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The University is formulating its 2010 Campus Plan, which, once it passes ANC and D.C. Zoning Commission muster, will dictate how the University can expand over the next decade. Previous Campus Plans excluded neighborhood input in their planning stages, much to the neighbors’ dismay. So this summer, University officials will hold a series of meetings to gather community input. For those of you who aren’t here, Vox will be attending all meetings and recapping them here on the blog. Keep in mind that the proposals under discussion are only tentative. At the same time, they do comprise, as University architect Alan Brangman told Vox, Georgetown University’s “wishlist.”

This Saturday, some Georgetown administrators, including Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson, Vice President for External Relations Linda Greenan, and University Architect Alan Brangman, were lucky enough to spend nearly five hours in the cafeteria of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts’ cafeteria presenting the skeleton of Georgetown’s 10 Year Campus Plan to a group of about twenty neighborhood residents and their Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners. It was the second of such meetings, the first having taken place in November, that will occur before the University must present a plan for review near the end of the calendar year.

Aside from a handful of miscellaneous issues, the bulk of the meeting was spent on often heated discussions about student housing and the effect the University’s plan would have on traffic and human congestion (two posts, one about the University’s housing proposals and one about transportation, including GUTS buses, will follow this week).

For their part, the neighbors were present to insist that the Campus Plan address the perennial issues that they feel plague the neighborhood, such as trash and the number of students living off campus. And the ANC commissioners who were present, Bill Skelsey, Bill Starrels, and Ron Lewis were clearly advocates of all the neighbors’ proposals (Georgetown University’s student ANC commissioner, Aaron Golds, attended a wedding yesterday but wrote in an email that he plans to attend subsequent meetings).

Among these is the demand that the University cap its undergraduate enrollment at its present maximum number, 6,016. University administrators plan to do so, they said, largely because they anticipate the expansion of their graduate programs instead.

The incomplete state of the University’s 10 Year Plan—it is currently more a collection of suggestions than an actionable plan and lacks some of the studies that will be critical to it finalization—visibly upset the neighbors in attendance.  They were dismayed, for example, to hear that the University would like to build a “whole new hospital facility more internal to the campus” but could not specify the location or coordinate its affect with other aspects of the plan, like traffic, until negotiations with MedStar, the company that owns the existing hospital buildings, had concluded (The preferred location for the new hospital is on what is currently the hospital parking lot).

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They say D.C. is the Hollywood for ugly people, so if you’re sick of gazing at the pulchritude in US Weekly while you work out at Yates, try looking around the gym instead for some political heavyweights.

Adrian Fenty, for instance, has been a member of Yates for quite some time. Though his attendance has dropped off since the beginning of his mayoral campaign, he still occasionally shows up for an early morning swim, accompanied by an imposing-looking but friendly security detail. His crawl isn’t quite as smooth as his political maneuvering, unfortunately.
If the objects of your star-gazing lie along the other end of the political spectrum, then you might want to drop by the natatorium when the Hoyas have a home swim meet. Justice Samuel Alito often comes to cheer on his daughter Laura, a freshman standout butterflyer.

Keep looking–I’m sure there are more politicos sweating it out at Yates. Who knows, maybe you’ll see our own Madeline Albright bouncing along girlishly on the elliptical next to you, or perhaps spot George Tenet showing off one of his famous slam-dunks in a game of pick-up basketball.

Posted by Noreen Malone, Contributing Editor

Looks like all those hours at Yates finally paid off, as Georgetown ranked 18th in the 2006 “fittest colleges” edition of Men’s Fitness. The rankings were based on a 17-question survey that took into account student diets, life habits (i.e. smoking) and of course exercise. Sweet.

The top college, Dickinson, requires four phys ed classes for graduation (two for varsity athletes). I don’t know exactly how they operate them, but I think requiring a couple of one-credit gym classes over the course of four years isn’t such a bad idea. Cura personalis, right? Besides, I’ve seen people get winded after climbing up the Village C steps. Not good.

I have always thought we’re a pretty attractive campus overall. Now it’s a scientific fact.

Posted by Mike Stewart, Feature Editor