Let’s be honest: I’m not so sure THE HOYA’s traditional senior viewpoints really do justice to our readers. They’re mostly a way to pat ourselves on the back and pretend college journalists have some special insight no one else does.

One roommate said he was just making a joke about the Virginia Tech shootings.

But the other wasn’t laughing. And apparently, neither was Georgetown.

Now Reynold Urias (COL ’10), who calls himself Rei Sairu, says he’s been asked to leave campus by university officials.

On Tuesday night, Urias said, he and his father voluntarily loaded Urias’ things into a Buick Regal and began the drive back home to West Palm Beach, Fla.

So was it just a joke or a serious threat?

University officials declined to comment on the specifics of what happened, although spokeswoman Julie Bataille said that city and campus authorities investigated a potential threat last week. She added that the university was safe and no one was barred from campus.

Although varsity student-athletes make up just over 11 percent of Georgetown’s undergraduate population, they have been arrested on and around Georgetown’s campus and charged with violent assaults by D.C. prosecutors at a rate more than double that of the general student body. And charges against them have been dismissed every time over the last year and a half, court records shows.

The fallout from a recent sexual assault scandal at Duke University, in which two Duke lacrosse athletes were indicted on charges of sexually assaulting an exotic dancer at a house party in March, has put the spotlight on student-athletes who have committed crimes on college campuses.

Part Two: Some Find Symbols of Intolerance in Doha Part Three: Culture a Delicate Balancing Act in Doha By Moises Mendoza Hoya Staff Writer Friday, March 24, 2006; Page A1

DOHA, Qatar — In downtown Doha, where yellow cranes and men in hard hats are building some of Qatar’s sparkling new skyscrapers, SFS-Qatar put on a women’s conference earlier this month.

Inside the five-star Four Seasons Hotel, fair-skinned Europeans and women in flowing black burkhas debated topics considered taboo in many parts of the Middle East. Sexism. Female empowerment. Sex abuse.

Two Georgetown juniors were arrested on suspicion of burglary charges after they allegedly broke into and trashed an N Street townhouse on March 11.

Prosecutors dropped charges against Ryan Still (COL ’07) and Garrett Wilson (COL ’07) last week. Channing Phillips, a spokesman in the U.S. Attorney’s office, declined to discuss why charges were dropped, although he said prosecutors reserved the right to file them in the future.

Part Two: Some Find Symbols of Intolerance in Doha

DOHA, Qatar — On a recent night in Palomas, the Intercontinental Hotel’s kinky Tex-Mex bar, young Qataris, hairy old expatriate men and trolling prostitutes in tight skirts throw back vodka shot after vodka shot.

Several middle-aged men leer at two women with bleached blond hair as they stand on a makeshift stage belting out Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much.”

“You’ve got the look but have you got the touch!” they croon.

Palomas is a greasy Tex-Mex restaurant with icky burritos by day and a swinging club at night. Inside, alcohol is always tolerated. And much of Doha’s elite expatriate and local community flocks here every weekend.

DOHA, Qatar — It’s on a second-floor bulletin board in Education City’s Liberal Arts and Science building, home of the School of Foreign Service’s new campus. A poster with the flags of every country in the world — except Denmark and Israel.

Both have been unceremoniously ripped out. Where Israel’s flag used to be, only tattered bits of blue and white stick out.

It’s been like that for over a week, students say, but nobody has thought to remove the poster.

DOHA, Qatar — On one side of Georgetown’s new Qatar campus — inside a huge box of a post-modern edifice full of glass and geometric patterns called the Liberal Arts and Sciences Building — is a giant parking lot full of late model cars. On the other lays a giant mound of dirt. Like much of this country swooning from newfound oil wealth, this building is quite literally under construction.

And in more ways than one, SFS-Qatar’s community is, too.

Located in Doha, the quiet, sleepy capital of Qatar, a place that’s been independent for just 35 years, the new SFS campus’ mission is to educate the Middle East’s best and brightest as an extension of the Hilltop.

As Helen Obregon (SFS ’06) and two close friends began walking through Georgetown’s darkened streets late Saturday night, they were only thinking of another friend’s warm Prospect Street house that was to be their escape from the cold.

Only minutes later, at 10:30 p.m., the three were mugged, Obregon was shot and had collapsed onto the black street. A bullet had torn through her left arm and two muggers had made a quick escape. Nicklas Holgersson (MSB ’06) frantically called police for help as Maria del Mar Zavala (SFS ’06) remained with Obregon.

The three friends had spent the evening enjoying each others’ company, eating dinner and chatting in Obregon’s P Street apartment, Holgersson said.

Prosecutors dropped simple assault charges against three Georgetown football players and a fourth student last week stemming from an alleged Henle Village beating in October. Another athlete charged with simple assault — lacrosse player Daniel D’Agnes (COL ’08) — has his next court date set for April, court records show.

Football players Daniel Mita (COL ’08), Charles Curtis (COL ’08) and Christopher Higgins (COL ’08) stood charged with Richard Calle (MSB ’08) of beating Daniel Kennedy (MSB ’08) after Kennedy tried to get into a Henle Village party last Oct. 15.