Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid 50s.

Hunger Strike at Georgetown: A hunger strike by group of 22 students at Georgetown has entered its sixth day. The students are members of the Georgetown Living Wage Campaign, which has been pressuring the university to increase the wages of its lowest paid employees for a year. David Swanson has posted a column and photos about the strike on his website and Indymedia, and the Post has a story about the strike today. A university spokesperson told the Post the living wage would cost the university $1.8 million annually, but the protestors argue it’s a matter of priorities, pointing out the school raised $15 million for a new boathouse.

Alston Remembered: The Post reports Wanda Alston was “remembered as a gale-force personality who stormed through Washington, bringing people together and inspiring them to fight for social justice” at a special service yesterday. Her funeral is at All Souls Unitarian Church today at 11 a.m.

State of the District Tonight: Mayor William’s State of the District address is tonight at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Theater. Although the event will be broadcast live on Channel 16 and webcast on DC.gov it won’t be open to the public, causing DCWatch’s Gary Imhoff to title the group’s biweekly email newsletter “Uninvited,” writing “He doesn’t trust average residents of DC to react positively to him or his speech, so he bars the door against us.”

Cherry Blossom Preparations Underway: The National Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off this weekend, and preparations are well underway. WMATA officials promise their preparations will avoid a repeat of the “cherry blossom meltdown” of 1999. The festival website is still accepting applications to volunteer. See a complete list of events this Saturday.

Briefly Noted: Robert Johnson may step down as head of BET Television … Leiby to quit Reliable Source “this spring” … testing period over for four new speed cameras in the District … the Washington Monument will re-open April 1 …