Photo by Pete Solecki.
Georgetown University has a pressing problem, and its apparently not the cost of tuition or another creepy rabbi neighbor. Students are wearing too many t-shirts from other schools, and the Athletics Department wants to put a stop to it.
“We see a lot of students walking around campus with shirts from ‘other’ schools,” the Athletic Department writes on its Facebook page, where they are advertising a swap: Hand over your apparel from those ‘other’ places and get brand-new Hoya t-shirts.
Maybe they were embarrassed in front of Messi?
“I walk around campus and I’m shocked with the stuff that [students] wear,” Georgetown director of marketing Chris Grosse told The Washington Post. “A girl in Marquette sweatpants, or a guy in a Villanova or Harvard shirt. At the gym, it’s insane.”
Not quite the definition of insane, but okay. The swap will take place during two lacrosse games on April 11, and non-students can take part, too.
Note: not all schools are considered equal. The shirts that Georgetown is giving away will each be redeemed for a different number of points. Shirts from Syracuse and Villanova are worth three points; Big East, ACC, Big Ten, and Ivy League schools are worth two; and other ‘other’ schools are worth one.
The traded-in shirts will be given to the D.C. Coalition for the Homeless, Grosse said.
Courtesy Georgetown Athletics.
Rachel Sadon