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The Washington City Paper's Angela Valdez provides a two-pronged update today to the monstrosity that could be the Late Night Shots reality TV show we told you about earlier this month.

Written by DCist Contributor Josh Kramer The Hatchet — George Washington University >>The big news at GWU this week is that Freshman Sarah Marshak, who reported six swastikas being drawn on her dorm room door's whiteboard, actually drew five of them herself, which she has now said she did to bring attention to the first incident. Marshak, who is Jewish and a former reporter for the Hatchet, was informed she will most likely be expelled....

It's always interesting to compare collegiate news coverage with larger news outlets whenever a story breaks out of a campus publication. In the case of today's news about the apprehension of one suspect in the recent spate of hate graffiti on the George Washington University campus, the differences are pretty tangible. Both the Examiner and the Washington Post have stories up about the arrest by University Police of an unnamed student for his or her...

Written by DCist Contributor Josh Kramer The Hatchet — George Washington University >>David Horowitz, organizer of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, spoke Thursday night at GWU. Horowitz criticized the university and for its reaction to the students who hung ironically critical posters on campus, but spent most of the talk explaining the history of the Ottoman empire and what he believes is the rise of "Islamo-fascism." Horowitz also tried to claim that he is not a racist....

Written by DCist Contributor Fredo Alvarez Campus Pride, the nation's largest non-profit student LGBT organization, this week launched its Campus Climate Index, an online report card that allows LGBT students from colleges across the country to rate their schools on their inclusiveness and support of LGBT students, employees and their allies. Schools are rated on a scale from one to five stars based on a voluntary survey. Of 80 public and private institutions that...

By DCist Contributor Sarah Stonesifer The Eagle - American: >> At American University, officials decided that an official record will be kept along with possible judicial action after students receive their "second medical transport due to alcohol consumption." So remember kids, the first case of alcohol poisoning is free. >> There was an attempted robbery in an American University dorm last Saturday, but the suspect was quickly apprehended and identified. The Hoya - Georgetown: >>...

Our friends over at Campus Progress sent us an email about a contest they're sponsoring that should be good for a few laughs. The Social Capital blog's Free Food-a-Thon promises to pit two of the most demanding needs of any Washington intern -- to save money and to eat -- in a battle of epicurean proportions. Here's the deal: Next week, Campus Progress interns will compete, two a day, where they will document their meals/snacks/crumbs...

A flurry of frantic, angry emails began around 6 p.m. last night on the Cleveland Park Listserve and moved seemingly all over town by 8 p.m. It was the end of civilization as we know it! A catastrophe of epic proportions! Alert the National Guard! The Uptown Theater might be closing! Thankfully, cooler heads have now prevailed. Turns out the rumor got started because the Jews for Jesus outfit McLean Bible Church put up...

>> Must Love Trash, DJ Adrian Loving and DJ Gavin Holland have all volunteered their services at Wonderland tonight to benefit a group putting together a Columbia Heights Day festival. The party starts at 9 p.m. upstairs. Help these guys get their web site and street festival off the ground by having a good time. For more details about Columbia Heights Day, email ColumbiaHeightsDay (at) gmail.com >> The Hej Hej DJs, DJ Yum Yum...

>> Two quality offerings from the Black Cat tonight: Japan's uber-weird noise outfit Melt-Banana take the mainstage with Hex Machine at 8:30 p.m., $13. Plus Falls Church native and now Richmond-based newgrass singer Josh Small is in the Backstage tonight, with Tim Barry and The Wading Girl, for a paltry $8 at 8 p.m. >> Campus Progress is calling all summer interns and other young folks to head over to Science Club tonight for...

Hey, Washington, how are ya? If you like hot weather and uninterrupted sunshine (and who doesn't) you're sure to enjoy this fine Tuesday. If instead you're not savoring the thought of arriving at work covered in a fine sheen of sweat, think twice about cutting out your walk by hopping in the car. Gas prices hit a new high yesterday, with the cost of a gallon over $3.00. Are there any good deals at...

We're not quite sure what to make of HBO's Entourage. On the one hand it consistently provides a breezy half hour filled with laughs, wish-fulfillment, and little to no plot to slow things down. On the other, its sensibility seems geared toward the sort of despicable lunkheads who insisted on calling everything "money" in college; and we're pretty sure that if we ever met Turtle in a bar, punches would end up being thrown.

In the wake of last Monday's deadly shootings at Virgina Tech, many local college students are discussing campus security and the implications for their schools. In addition to holding a slew of vigils and showing support for their peers in Blacksburg, collegians wonder how such a tragedy could occur on American campuses and what university officials are doing to protect their students. American University administrators are taking a second look at their emergency response plan,...

Yesterday several thousand hearty Washingtonians, DCist included, went to the Hill to demand equal voting rights. While the shortened rally was in and of itself a success, good times were also to be had at a post-march reception hosted by Sen. Joe Lieberman at the Dirksen Senate Office Building. There, a few intrepid DCists even got to chat with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (pictured above with, from left to right, Sommer Mathis, Martin Austermuhle...

It's almost graduation time for colleges around the D.C. area, but many George Washington students aren't that thrilled about it. Why? The keynote speaker at their commencement is none other than... their outgoing university president. We guess that's what the highest tuition in the country gets you these days. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, who has been president of the Foggy Bottom university for 19 years, always speaks at graduation, but he usually does so alongside folks...

Over at Georgetown's daily twice-weekly newspaper The Hoya, we learn that a part-time chaplain in the Office of Protestant Ministry has resigned after a ban against a handful of Protestant Evangelical student groups went into effect on the Catholic University's campus.

The chaplain, Reverend Derrick Harkins, said his decision stemmed largely from the additional work he was assigned resulting from the ban, which he said was more than he agreed to take on before he began the job on Aug. 25. He said that he was assigned many of the functions that the affiliated ministries had filled within Campus Ministry, including programming and leading services ... Jacques Arsenault (COL ’01), the university’s media relations officer, did not comment on details surrounding Harkin’s resignation. Harkins said that he thought Campus Ministry should have worked more closely with the affiliated organizations, and that they should not have been removed from campus.

Campus Progress is determined to keep you busy. Last week they hosted an early peek at an episode of The Wire. Tomorrow they'll be continuing their advance screening M.O., offering an opportunity to watch an episode of the civil rights documentary Eyes On The Prize prior to its return to PBS later this fall. A screening of a twenty year-old documentary may not sound like a big deal, but in this case it is. Despite...

You're probably sick of hearing it by now. We're sorry about that. But we're only thinking of your well-being when we say it: you really ought to be watching The Wire. The stunningly complex and believable series about Baltimore's drug trade and pervasive institutional decay is only a couple of weeks into its fourth season on HBO, but the plaudits are already here in force. A 98 out of 100 on metacritic should provide some context. This is, at the very least, among the best dramas currently on TV. And now's a great time to get into it: taking a relatively fresh start, this season promises to examine Baltimore's failing school system. We're confident that by the end of it the D.C. educational system will look like the School of Athens by comparison. Lucky for you, Campus Progress wants to help you discover the show. They'll be hosting a screening of the season's third episode at 7 p.m. this Wednesday at the Mayflower Hotel. Unfortunately, all of the RSVP slots are currently taken — but you should think about getting on the waiting list anyway, because in addition to a chance to catch the new episode early, there'll be a Q&A with creator David Simon and writer Ed Burns immediately after. If this lengthy interview with Simon is any indication, it should be an interesting chat. Besides, they've already changed venues to accomodate the large crowd once. Who knows — by the end of this process, we might all be watching it at RFK. But if you don't get lucky on the wait list, you should tune in this Sunday anyway. And while you're at it, you might want to check out our interview with novelist and Wire writer George Pelecanos.

Pity the poor interns. It's about this time every year that one begins reading articles that warn about the coming summer crop by comparing them to a descending swarm of locusts. It's grossly unfair. Okay, sure — it's true that they'll soon be here, covering every available outdoor surface, their mandibles clicking unpleasantly in the still night air. And yes, there'll be a certain "swarming" quality to the proceedings, as they form a furious and...

During the dark years before neo-garage and 1980s post-punk revivalism saved modern rock radio from itself, the airwaves were ruled by a gaggle of stultifyingly awful rap-rock outfits united in their middle class yowl and bent on demonstrating that the suburbs were, indeed, killing them. During that period, however, a critical need emerged for the fans of the popular mook rock: namely, some vaguely sensitive sounding shit that could help them convince that girl...

"Wisey's" -- another Georgetown tradition and the undisputed closest alcohol vendor to campus) will not renew the lease that has allowed Chol Kim and his wife to feed the milkshake-craving regulars for generations. Although some Hoya faculty, students and alums would prefer that Sugar's not go gently into that good night, another vocal camp is aggressively welcoming the legendary mom-and-pop shop's demise. And among the student community, much of the flight over the future of Sugar's is playing out over on The Facebook -- that student procrastination tool/excuse to score a poke.

This post is from DCist intern Maureen Miller. If conservative interns get a dorm and fitness room to enjoy at the Hertiage Foundation while they're cranking out reports on privatization, what sort of extra-curricular perks do interns for lefty groups get? While they might not live adjacent their offices, a project of the new Center for American Progress has been working hard to plan a smattering of events for interns for left-leaning groups. This week,...

The cold temperatures will ease somewhat today with highs reaching around 60 under partly cloudy skies. The photo of the National Cathedral was posted to DCist Photos by Flickr user Melissa. Bus Crash Analyzed: Authorities re-enacted yesterday an accident between a trash truck and a school bus that occured one week ago that left two children dead and 15 wounded. Police stressed that it might be weeks before the final results of their investigations...

The activists who recently won a living wage policy at Georgetown University have planned a celebration rally tomorrow from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Copley Lawn on Georgetown's campus. After workers and students worked for over a year on lobbying the university and 20+ activists launched a 9-day hunger strike Georgetown recently adopted a Just Employment Policy which will mean a $2 increase per hour for the university's lowest paid employees, as well as other benefits. Scheduled speakers include AFL-CIO President John Sweeny and Metro Washington Central Labor Council President Jos Williams, among others.

When 25-year-old filmmaker Steven Greenstreet heard director Michael Moore had been invited to speak at Utah Valley State College during the heat of last fall's election, he knew things might get interesting. He was right, and his documentary of the events, which he dropped out of nearby Brigham Young University to create, is also generating some attention. The film is called This Divided State and has been picked up by the liberal Center For American Progress for a nationwide campus tour. Their Campus Progress project is sponsoring a free screening tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. at the E Street Cinema downtown. Although the screening is free they're asking attendees to RSVP on the web, and we heard as of yesterday there was still space.

The Howard University student newspaper The Hilltop has just finished its first week of daily publication. The change makes Howard University the first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) to have a daily student newspaper. Editors at the award-winning 81-year-old paper told the Washington Informer they were inspired to switch from publication twice weekly to every weekday after meeting the editors of Wayne State University's South End. Editor-in-chief Ruth Tisdale told the Informer: "I thought to myself, they are a smaller school with a smaller staff and they produce a daily. If they can do it, then why not the Hilltop?" Editor-in-chief Tisdale also explained in a column the newspaper also made the switch to help their reporters get experience working for a daily newspaper in order to find work after graduation: "Because there has not been such an endeavor undertaken student journalists at HBCUs before, many recruiters passed over qualified and talented students from HBCUs because of lack of college daily experience."

DCist would like recommend White start riding metrobus, especially some of our most love-to-hate lines, including the D2, 30-series and 90-series. We'd also like to note that Mayor Anthony Williams drives to work from his Foggy Bottom apartment while Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York is a regular rider of his city's subway.

Transportation News: -- Flooding had closed the Mount Vernon Square-7th St. Convention Center station on the Green and Yellow lines. Shuttle bus service had been provided from Gallery Place-Chinatown. This morning, a WMATA alert referred to the station by its old name, Mount Vernon Square-UDC, which the wires and the Post picked up as well. As of 7:55 a.m., the station had reopened, though escalators were not working. -- WMATA's police chief, Polly Hanson, has...

Questions about the character of rapper-turned-religous leader Mase, or Pastor Mason Betha, arose when the married performer gave his number to a Howard University student during a promotional visit last week.