A diamond to Occupy College Hill, which brought its fight against the hegemony of America's wealthiest 1 percent to the Main Green for the second day in a row yesterday. With a tax hike threatening to raise off-campus rents, and the Undergraduate Council of Students planning a statement on the "embarrassingly substandard" state of dormitories, occupying College Hill has become a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
Coal to Providence Equity Partners, the private equity firm led by Corporation Trustee Jonathan Nelson '77 P'07 P'09 that pitched a tent on Lincoln Field this week for what a company representative called "a private event." Looks like the 1 percent has decided to fight back.
A cubic zirconium to the Department of Facilities Management, which is finishing $200,000 worth of renovations to the limestone base of the 107-year-old Carrie Tower and plans to spend another half million on the belltower itself. Finally, resources are committed to give Brown's underserved hunchback population the on-campus housing it deserves.
A diamond to the Graduate School, which unveiled an innovative dual degree program for doctoral candidates Wednesday. As soon as the University wins its lawsuit to recover the Civil War-era Tiffany silver sword that mysteriously disappeared from the Annmary Brown Memorial, the Grad School can also unveil its much-anticipated duel degree program.
A cubic zirconium to David Targan, associate dean of the College for science education, who referred to Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn's CreatureCast video podcasts "science you learn on your iPhone." So that's what everyone's been doing in lecture.
A diamond to the football team, which beat URI at the homecoming game Saturday to take home the Governor's Cup. The only problem is that protesters, upset over the decision of Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 to support in-state tuition rates at public colleges for undocumented students, berated him Wednesday with shouts of "You are the governor, not a dictator!" and signs attacking "Santa Claus Chafee." With this many low blows, the governor may want his cup back.
Cubic zirconia to the undergraduate-led Collegiate Consulting Group and Sustainability Consulting Partnership. Finally, all the spreadsheets and PowerPoints of real-world consulting without all the money.
Coal to the University, which is considering axing popular campus security firm Green Horn Management when its contract expires later this year. If GHM had read Juvenal, perhaps they would have thought to ask themselves, "Who will guard the guards?"
A diamond to former Chilean President and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos, who recounted to The Herald the story of "Lagos' Finger," the historic moment in which he appeared on Chilean television, turned, pointed with his index finger into the camera and berated then-dictator Augusto Pinochet. Lagos, of course, hails from Santiago. If he were from Providence, it would have been a different finger.
