Good morning, Washington, and thanks for sticking around. Whether you were just too lazy to make beach plans, are engaging in a little staycationing, or simply forgot that Monday was Labor Day until a couple of days ago, it’s one of those weekends that feels like a good time to get something done that you’ve been meaning to do. For instance: making sure that if you’re attending one of the D.C.’s universities, that you’re actually validated as a student. Seems like an easy enough task, right? Not so for attendees at Howard University. WJLA reports on protests at the historic campus, where students’ frustration over slow financial aid processing, guaranteed housing which is nowhere to be found and “all-around bureaucratic sloth” boiled over at a protest yesterday. The President of the college has said that he will meet with students next week — hopefully before validation deadlines pass and students who are rightfully enrolled at the school have to vacate.

And if that doesn’t pan out, Howard alum P. Diddy has their back. So they’ve got that going for them, which is nice.

In other news this morning:

>> Two Nationals Park employees got into an argument in the Presidents Club section of the at the stadium, which led to one stabbing the other.

>> Bon appetit! A Frederick woman realizes that a cashier had bled on top of her McDonald’s ice cream cone; sadly, she only made this realization after eating part of it.

>> @metrocurean: “Need a Labor Day plan? There’ll be a 300+lb pig from EcoFriendly Foods roasting at Saint-Ex for a bbq sauce competition Monday from 11-5.” (Done and done.)