Amid a weak national lending market that has already led to losses for large and small lenders across the country, some officials are worried that a new victim might emerge: students who take out private loans to pay for college.

Although President George W. Bush calls him “the Pinkster” in letters, Santiago Gonzalez goes by “Pinkey” to the Georgetown residents who visit his store on M Street. Gonzalez, who immigrated to the US from Spain, is a bicycle mechanic and co-owner of Revolution Cycles, a four-store chain of bicycle shops in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

Georgetown residents have seen enough of rats.

With the goal of tackling the city’s rodent infestation, the Citizens Association of Georgetown met last night at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Potomac and O Streets to discuss proposals for rodent control initiatives.

Georgetown’s caffeine supply, which wasn’t exactly in danger of dissipating before, got an extra shot last month with the addition of a new Starbucks store near campus.

Students are going to have to wait a little while longer for the return of an old favorite.

The new owners of Dixie Liquors on M Street said that construction has delayed the store’s reopening and that the store will not open for at least a few more weeks.

Good news for all procrastinators — students now have access to yet another distraction from the monotony of work with the availability of GUTV online.

GUTV recently announced that it had expanded its services by bringing its programming online to supplement its station on HoyaNet cable service.