A diamond to Mike McCormick, assistant vice president for planning, design and construction, who said, “It’s not how long the walk is, but it’s how long the walk feels.” That’s our motto at the gym. Coal to New York University professor Paul Glimcher, who compared the process by which monkeys ...
A diamond to the undergraduate who acted as the production manager for “New Weird America” and said of the show, “The more and more I watch it, the more I laugh and am moved by it.” We understand — we feel the same way about “I Knew You Were Trouble: Goat Edition.” Cubic zirconia ...
A diamond to federal agencies that, with the prospect of the sequestration looming, “are just holding off until they know what’s going to happen,” according to Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. It’s reassuring to know they approach national policy the ...
A diamond to the student who submitted a proposal to the Royce Fellows program to study cycloptic sheep. We are eagerly awaiting the puppet show about the experience, “LambClops.” Coal to the student in the Sharpe Refectory who said of Kendrick Lamar, “I honestly thought he was a basketball player.” ...
A diamond to the University for calling the first snow day since the early 2000’s. We’re totally going to spend it doing work. A diamond to whoever used a replica of the Brown Concert Agency publicity chair’s email to send a fake Spring Weekend lineup to The Herald. We hope it helps you fund ...
A diamond to Harry Belafonte for telling students at the Rhode Island School of Design to “tell me the generosity of your soul, and I’ll tell you how far I think we can go.” We gave a half a scone to a squirrel once. How far does that take us? Coal to James Hall, executive director of the Providence ...
A diamond to the Brown Concert Agency booking chair, who said the musicians students most commonly listed as their preferred Spring Weekend performers were either unavailable or too expensive. We hope this gift will help cover the cost of poaching some top-notch artists from the Coachella Valley Music ...
A diamond to Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, who broke into an unexpected but well-received beatbox jam session at the Midyear Completion Celebration last Saturday. We think there's an untapped market for your vocal percussion skills. Do you do bar mitzvahs, too? Coal to Nigerian-German singer ...
Cubic zirconia to Linda Goldstein Knowlton '87, director of the documentary "Somewhere Between," who said, "adolescence is tricky for everyone - a time when all you want to do is fit in, and all you want to do is stand out." She overestimates our ambition - all we want to do is sleep. Coal to "Modern ...
Coal to the transcriber of the Dalai Lama's speech Wednesday at the Rhode Island Convention Center, who misheard His Holiness' last words and instead of writing "forget it," typed "fuck it." We look forward to your lucrative future work subtitling children's films.
A diamond to the first-year who said of the brothers featured in "Sons of Providence," "They each had immense passion for what they were doing, even if it didn't follow social norms." That's what we told our parents after they watched our final performance for "TAPS1281Q: Introduction to Dance Studies: ...
A diamond to the committee planning celebrations for Brown's 250th anniversary, which will last from spring of 2014 until Commencement of the following year. A year-long party? We're impressed - that dedication makes Spring Weekend look like just another Wednesday at the Whiskey Republic.
A diamond to the Brown engineering department for changing the department's introductory class to require that all students attend a Friday "grand lecture," a policy intended to build community among engineering students. It could have been worse - their original ideas for community-building included ...
A diamond to President-elect Christina Paxson, whose now-famous scarf has convinced us she will be the fashion icon Brown has been yearning for. Just wait - come September, her accessory choices will be all the rage among the denizens of the Rock steps.
A diamond to Kal Penn, actor and former White House associate director of public engagement, who told students gathered in Salomon 101 Wednesday night to "just bone diversely" as a way of promoting cross-cultural understanding. Looks like he found us a way to work activism into our resumes.
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