A very Brown diamond to "Leaves of Grass" producer, writer and director Tim Blake Nelson '86 — 25 years out and he's still fixated on the grass.
Coal to the large glass structure on the Main Green this week. People in glass houses shouldn't throw parties.
Coal to the kids found sleeping in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center. You know that bed bugs follow you, even if you sleep on the floor, right?
A diamond to the Corporation members for their overdue revelation that Grad Center could use "more natural light." Forty years of cinderblock not doing it for you anymore?
Coal to Brown-Secure and those at the help desk who ask us to determine if other people in the area were able to connect. No, nobody has been able to connect in years. It is so dire that we cannot even send this coal by e-mail.
Diamond to Danah Boyd '00 for recognizing that there is an "entire server dedicated to the Bieber problem." Is that where Brown-Secure's resources have been diverted?
Coal to the deadlocked faculty, and to the withdrawal of the tenure motion, which President Ruth Simmons found "most unexpected." According to the meeting notes, that is indeed what she said.
Coal to Rhode Island Hall for only going after the silver. With that attitude, we're never going to rise in the U.S. News rankings.
Diamond to the flu vaccine — usually we have to do our shots before we get to Jo's. But the real question is, does this protect us from all that we might pick up at Fish Co.?
Diamond to Brown for hiring Wyclef Jean as a visiting fellow. We can't quite discern what that means, so we may as well applaud you now for the sneaky, early nabbing of a headline Spring Weekend act.
Coal to the Rhode Island Republicans, who "can't hit a six-run home run," according to former Red Sox player Mike Stenhouse. We're not a sports expert like you, but last we checked … nobody can.
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