Photo by Jennifer DuMars

Good morning, Washington. That midweek sunshine we enjoyed yesterday was a one-day thing, turns out. It’s going to be gray and drizzly all day.

Class Nightmare: D.C.’s universities and their residential neighbors are far from the best of friends, Shani Hilton writes in a City Paper cover story, and it seems tensions are unlikely to fizzle even when the schools go out of their way to accomodate local needs. In Burleith, where longtime residents complained that Georgetown students living in the neighborhood were creating more refuse, the school redoubled its efforts to clean up. But, Hilton writes: “The school’s effort to clean up stinky student garbage was clear and damning evidence of that garbage’s all-pervasive stink.”

Fixing It With Footnotes: An essay on Grantland proposes to fix all the Wizards’ problems. The prescriptions are nothing fans haven’t groused about before—toss Ernie Grunfeld, float the most disgruntled players, “hit it on the draft pick”—but this time there’s a sidebar filled with annotations. The writer, Vishnu Parasuraman, proposes the Wizards ditch most of the roster, save a core of John Wall, Jan Vesely and Chris Singleton. And then the team, assuming it follows the precepts of Malcolm Gladwell and reads Infinite Jest, will be able to successfully rebuild. Oh, and they have to build a shrine to Johnny Pesky. (Not really.)

No-Tags Man: This is a kind of funny joke that backfired horribly for its executor. Years ago, a man named Danny White thought it would be clever to get vanity plates that reading “No Tags,” but NBC Washington reports that it’s just meant that whenever a car in D.C. is ticketed for having no tags, a DMV database search turns up White’s custom job and he gets the bill. His cheek has brought him upward of $20,000 in parking tickets, enough of a bureaucratic headache where the DMV, Department of Public Works and District Department of Transportation have all had to get involved. Yeesh. What’s wrong with a dirty bumper sticker?

Briefly Noted: Defense in U. Va. lacrosse murder case says Yeardley Love “probably smothered in her own pillow” … Are there any good federal building cafeterias? … Scores of GWU students sick with norovirus … Dead birds fall on I-95 in Prince George’s … Andrea McCarren goes national on the backlash to her underage drinking story … Long waits ahead at the library … One of Spiv’s many bands to reunite in May (and in England).

This Day in DCist: In 2011, we were shocked (not really!) to find the Prince George’s County ethics board was powerless, and witnessed the beginning stages of Borders’ slide into oblivion. Two years ago, yeah, still digging out from one of those blizzards with the silly names.