Coal to the fact that there are no freshmen this year from Arkansas,Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota or Wyoming. That's, like, 12 percent of the stars on the flag. Get it together, Dean of Admission Jim Miller '73.
A diamond to the new signage announcing construction projects aroundcampus - because otherwise we never would have noticed the giant pits and cooing construction workers around campus.
Coal to grammar. We agree, SUBU: It is classist and subjective. Damn that capitalist, chauvinist semicolon!
A coal to Harvard for losing its endowment manager. How are they going to keep it up now?
A diamond to our "commodes" getting cleaned on the weekends. We're not sure what that means, but it sounds good.
A virtual coal to Second Life and the Brown students wasting their cash on "Linden dollars" and imaginary special friends in what we understand to be some kind of enormous, animated chat room. Hey, it beats going to class.
A diamond to Mars, and being able to take RIPTA there for free. Take that, Richard Branson!
Coal to power the lights at Brown football's game Saturday, the first night game ever held at Harvard Stadium. Let's see if kicking the Crimson's ass looks any better under floodlights.
Diamond to what the Ratty's redesign director described as the "hard,smooth, rigid" surface of the Ratty's new noise-reducing ceiling. That's all.
A diamond to being able to watch the Peter Green House move down the street. We're sure the neighbors loved that.
Coal to the 17 first-years who ran for the five UCS class rep positions in Tuesday's election. If they had shown up to the UCS general body meeting the next night, their odds of getting elected would have gone up considerably. Plus, where were the newbies' campaign promises for double-ply toilet paper and larger cups in the Ratty? We miss our units - sometimes.
A diamond to the newly resigned dean of the College's Web site. ... Oops, we meant redesigned.
Coal to nobody showing up at Department of Public Safety chief Mark Porter's open office hours. If you had showed up, you could have helped him solve the Mystery of the Guy Who's Apparently Doing Drive-Bys on the Rock.
