After 85 years in operation at the doorstep of Georgetown Unversity, Sugar’s Campus Store will be shutting its doors in May. According to Georgetown’s student newspaper The Hoya, property owner Nabeel Audeh (who also owns Wisemiller’s Deli a/k/a
“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.

Soon after The Hoya caught wind of the forthcoming closure, four Sugar’s-related groups popped up on The Facebook — three opposing the close and one adamantly supporting it. Most folks do seem upset about losing the classic corner spot, but all camps often agree that it ain’t the happening number it was for previous Georgetown generations.

In fact, the “Close Sugar’s Campus Store” group would prefer that the diner stopped serving as soon as possible, ideally before the expiration of the lease. This 35-member anti-Sugar’s brigade — which endorses “Booey’s” around the corner — takes issue primarily with the shop’s bizarre hours. For what some students have guessed to be religious reasons, the Kims pull a Chick-Fil-A and keep the store closed on Sundays, posing a major inconvenience to hungover, carb-craving Hoyas, not to mention those just looking for some eggs and a copy of the Post on a Sunday morning.