Coal to Ratty frankenfoods "French fusion taco sandwich" and "corn cobbets" — and a grateful diamond to the undergraduate population for removing them from the ecosystem.
One-hundred diamonds to the John Hay on its 100th birthday, and another for its copy of a book with handwritten notes by Galileo himself. We think we saw some annotations from him in the Rock bathroom, too.
Diamonds and Coal. An institution of The Herald. At the end of every week, we gather our staff, scour through the paper and pull out our best tricks. We try to make you laugh, we work to make you smile and we attempt not to be too inappropriate.Diamond to John Jenks 1838, the R.I. Hall curator who collapsed ...
A diamond to Diane Mokoro '11, vice president of the Undergraduate Council of Students and a candidate for next year's president, for calling her council a "hydra-type, many-headed monster." Perhaps when one prefrosh wrote that he hoped to concentrate in the "Defense against the Dark Arts," he actually ...
Diamond to the class of 2014 and to the prospective student who told The Herald Brown was "more chill" than other universities. Just wait until February.Coal to Art Speigelman P'13 for letting us put a photo of him smoking on the front page. Don't you know there are impressionable young pre-frosh around?Cubic ...
A diamond to the potential member of the class of 2014 who said, "I think I could see myself more in the Brown student body." We hope you see yourself in a lot of student bodies.Coal to the Rock security guard for underestimating the foresight and planning of Brown students. Of course we don't come ...
A diamond to the Senate panel for recommending decriminalizing pot. You're doing a much better job of preparing for Spring Weekend than the Brown Concert Agency's Web site. A diamond to the University for "not shrinking back" when it comes to construction. Just remember that bigger isn't always better. ...
A diamond to the money that will be saved from tableslip elimination after spring break. Maybe we'll have enough for Cancun by the time the next break rolls around. A diamond to the Corporation for deciding to seal its minutes for just 25 years. We're looking forward to learning the truth about Hot ...
Diamond to the Providence-based company that produces patches capable of dispensing three drugs simultaneously. We have that too — we call it a Spring Weekend concert. A diamond to Vlad the bat, whom Assistant Research Professor of Neuroscience Seth Horowitz MSc '93 PhD '97 called "the meanest ...
A diamond to students who faced a wet Providence and got excited by orgasms coming to Brown. Perhaps the lecture will help students craving early release… of the Spring Weekend lineup.
Diamond to the two-sport athletes who are having twice the play, twice the fun. After all, it is a Brown tradition to play on both teams. So mount those wins and play the field!Coal to the University for forming advisory councils on China, Asia and East Asia. While we do value internationalization, ...
Coal to cutting varsity teams. We thought they wanted to trim the University's budget — not FishCo's revenue.A diamond diamond to Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty Carolyn Dean, who told The Herald this week that postdocs received a salary increase last year to maintain equity. Who better to ...
Coal to faulty plumbing for abruptly closing our favorite Pembroke eatery. Rest assured, The Herald will not rest until Gategate is uncovered.A diamond to students applying for unpaid internships. Trust us — you'll need it.Coal to Pauly D for staying out of Providence till May. Good luck on making ...
Coal to Ken Miller '70 P'02 for being named to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. How can we even be sure he was appointed?A diamond to the Admission Office for placing excess applications in Alumnae Hall. We suppose this was just payback for the day after Sex Power God, when the organizers stashed ...
A diamond to the fact that early decision applications to Brown were up 21 percent in a year of economic turmoil. Dean of Admissions James Miller '73 adorably chalks this up to the fact that Brown is a "good value," but we have to credit the rising profile of Brown's up-and-coming Watson Institute for ...
A diamond to Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp, who received a "Leadership for Change through Education Award" from Brown on Wednesday. It's a pretty sweet deal, apparently — the award comes with a lovely plaque, an honorarium and the resumes of 500 Brown seniors who got turned down for consulting ...
Coal to UCS, which spent its Wednesday meeting proposing a resolution to make it easier for UCS to pass resolutions. If the meta-resolution passes, all you'll need for a successful vote is a simple majority — just about the same percentage of Brown students who don't know what you do (according ...
A diamond to Sayles Hall's world-famous organ, which, not unlike the newly crowned World Series champion Yankees, was born around 1903, fell into disrepair in the 1980s and was restored to glory in the 1990s. Despite those 16-foot pipes, though, it still doesn't whine as loudly as A-Rod. Coal to the ...
A cubic zirconium to activist students participating in a "climate action" rally and promoting the number 350 as the maximum sustainable level of atmospheric carbon dioxide. We love your passion, but we're concerned that you think 350 is also a sustainable number of days per year on which to protest.A ...
A cubic zirconium to the GCB, which just turned 40 but is still attracting lots of 21-year-olds. More power to you, but we hope we don't find ourselves still stuck in the basement of Grad Center when we hit middle age.Coal to engineering professors who claimed they were not consulted about a new cell ...
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