The Hoya: September 10, 2021

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Unidentified Culprit Eggs Georgetown Students, Residents in Neighborhood

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An unidentified perpetrator has been egging Georgetown students and neighborhood residents near Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW, prompting confusion and curiosity.

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Jack Buckley (MSB ’22) was standing outside the restaurant Clyde’s of Georgetown on M Street two weeks ago when he felt something suddenly hit the side of his body. To his surprise, it was a raw egg, splattered all over his clothes. The attack took place shortly after 11 p.m. on Aug. 26, according to Buckley, who said the unidentified perpetrator threw the egg out of the passenger side of a car window while driving past the restaurant. Buckley was not seriously injured, and he told The Hoya that amid the confusion, he was unable to identify the egger before they sped away in a red sedan. “I was drenched in egg yolk,” Buckley said in an interview with The Hoya. Clyde’s could not provide footage from their security cameras by the time of publication. Buckley is not the only person who has recently gotten egged in the Georgetown neigh-

borhood. Since June, The Hoya has verified at least six separate egging incidents, five of which have occurred in the last two weeks. Students and community members alike have become victims of these eggings. A more recent egging attack took place Sept. 2 outside Foxtrot Market on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown. Just before 9:15 p.m., Bobby Smallman (COL ’24) was sitting at a table outside the market when something flew past him, grazing his neck. He was shocked to realize it was a raw egg when it landed on the sidewalk nearby. The egg left a minor scrape, according to Smallman, who also witnessed a red sedan driving away after the attack. Smallman said he was surprised by the ambush. “I was just totally shocked. It didn’t even occur to me that I could get egged,” Smallman said in an interview with The Hoya. Smallman said he wishes he could have identified his attacker. See EGGINGS, A6

Students Living in GU Hotel

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Students and faculty have expressed concerns about safety after the Georgetown University Health Education Services postponed AlcoholEdu and Sexual Assault Prevention trainings, which usually take place before students arrive on campus.

1st-Year Safety Trainings Delayed Caitlin McLean Hoya Staff Writer

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ealth Education Services has postponed required Sexual Assault Prevention trainings and AlcoholEdu, an alcohol safety course, for incoming students until mid-September. HESs postponed the two online safety trainings for firstyears and incoming transfer students until the week of Sept. 13, a university spokesperson wrote in an email to The Hoya. In past years, HES required incoming first-years to complete these online workshops prior to arriving on campus. Now, incoming first-years will not

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The Tombs is set to reopen in mid-October following its yearand-a-half closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages. The Tombs, a popular restaurant and bar located one block from Georgetown University’s main campus, shut down in March 2020 at the same time the university sent students home as COVID-19 began to spread throughout the United States. Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) allowed restaurants to reopen with capacity restrictions for indoor dining Jan. 22, but The Tombs remained closed. Students make up the majority of customers and employees at The Tombs, and without students on campus, staying open for business was not feasible, according to David Moran, managing director of Clyde’s Restaurant Group, The Tombs’ parent company. “In addition to the students being the main source of our customer base they also are the backbone of our employee workforce and we simply did not have enough people to operate the restaurant,” Moran wrote

in an email to The Hoya. “Our goal was to have The Tombs reopened when the students arrived a few weeks ago but again the lack of staffing prevented that from happening.” Now that the university has returned to full operation and all students are back on campus again, many students are looking forward to reuniting with their friends at The Tombs, according to Matthew Coyne (MSB ’22), who plans to frequent The Tombs. “I think there’s a lot of pentup demand for people wanting to get back in there and see all their friends,” Coyne said in a phone interview with The Hoya. “It’s a very Georgetown-centric spot, and the Georgetown community is not whole without The Tombs being back yet.” When The Tombs reopens in mid-October, customers will need to follow Washington, D.C. and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for COVID-19, meaning masks will be required indoors except while eating or drinking, according to Moran. News of The Tombs reopening was met with excitement by former and current students, with many looking forward to partaking in popular student

also unfamiliar with U.S. legal procedures and resources, according to Chung, who is from South Korea. “For international students who don’t really know a lot about American culture, ways that we can deal with sexual assault or just where to get help or deal with law, we’re just thrown into the deep end, and we don’t know what to do, and we have to kind of figure out on your own,” Chung said. Upperclassmen are also uneasy about the delay. According to New Student Orientation Captain Elena Evans (NHS ’22), See TRAININGS, A6

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Student favorite restaurant and bar The Tombs plans to reopen in mid-October following a year-and-a-half long closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages. traditions, according to Coyne. For Zach Magid (COL ’21), a former employee at The Tombs, traditions like “Tombs Nights,” when students go to the bar on their 21st birthday and receive a stamp on their head, are a hallmark of the Tombs experience. “You get to gather your friends and then make the walk to The Tombs where you get your forehead stamped,” Magid

said in a phone interview with The Hoya. “For me personally, as a doorman at The Tombs for three years, I’ve given so many stamps and seen the pride and revelry it induced.” Many seniors who already turned 21 are planning on holding alternate Tombs nights for their 22nd birthdays to emulate See TOMBS, A6

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Homecoming Canceled

Queer Campus History

A Legacy Honored

For the second year in a row, university officials have canceled in-person homecoming celebrations because of COVID-19 concerns.

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LGBTQ students should look back to the history of Queer campus activists for future inspiration and to further their legacies.

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to get help for sexual assault, where to report sexual assault or where to go,” Chung said in an interview with The Hoya. Students are the most at risk for experiencing sexual assault during their first year on campus, and more than 50% of all sexual assault on college campuses takes place between August and November, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Further, students are particularly vulnerable to binge drinking and unsafe alcohol practices during their first six weeks on campus, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Many first-year students are

Tombs Sets Reopening Date for October Hoya Staff Writer

Facing an unexpected influx of students living on campus, GU has used the campus hotel for extra housing.

receive these online trainings until the fourth week of classes. The trainings are a part of the HoyUS program, a tiered educational module about interpersonal violence designed for incoming undergraduates and student leaders. The trainings, which students complete asynchronously, seek to educate students about how to build safe, healthy interpersonal relationships, as well as safely navigate alcohol and other substances. Currently, some first-year students do not know how to report sexual assault on campus, according to first-year student Steven Chung (COL ’25). “I barely have any insight or any information on where

First time D.C. homeowners encounter structural issues in a Southeast condominium.

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Taking up Testing

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BLOG

Georgetown must implement mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing to prioritize community health.

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Georgetown athletics is named inaugural recipient of the John Thompson Jr. Award.

Senior Reflections

Returning Hoyas yearn for the campus life of a pre-COVID-19 world.

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