Diamonds and coal: Jan. 24, 2014
A diamond to novelist John Banville, who reported once having seen “five snow-white seabirds fighting over a crust of bread with a duck. And the duck won.” We saw something similar going down over ...
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A diamond to novelist John Banville, who reported once having seen “five snow-white seabirds fighting over a crust of bread with a duck. And the duck won.” We saw something similar going down over ...
A diamond to the Office of Residential Life for assigning one student to single-gender housing in Andrews Hall, while placing her twin sister — who requested such housing — in Keeney Quadrangle. This ...
A diamond to Baxter, the new robot the Department of Computer Science acquired, who is learning to help bake pies. Somebody get Pixar on the phone — this screams “Wall-E 2: Wall-E Does Thanksgiving.” A ...
Coal to the Third World Center for discontinuing its Thanksgiving dinner, which one previous attendee said was “very homey, there (were) a lot of couches, and there was a lot of food, but it was very ...
Cubic zirconia to the student athlete who said, “We are a mature team now because a lot of the players are older.” Good to know Benjamin Button isn’t playing on the Brown volleyball team. Coal ...
Cubic zirconia to the sophomore who said of student activists in favor of coal divestment, “I wish that I had picked up a drum and beat it with my classmates as they walked across the green in their ...
A diamond to trustee Alison Cohen ’09, who said that every time there is a discussion about growing Brown’s student population, “people have said it’s already the perfect size.” We bet it doesn’t ...
A diamond to the student director of “In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play,” who said, “This was a time before pornography shaped these stereotypes, so these women’s reactions would have been ...
A diamond to the student who said, “Apparently I’m a love hipster,” after describing the ring he made in the seventh grade and eventually gave to his fiancee. Does this mean your engagement is ironic? Cubic ...
Coal to the federal government for shutting down, which could have a severe impact on the University. We’d give you a diamond, but you’d probably just argue over how to spend it. A diamond ...
A diamond to the team of University researchers who titled their article, “Speed dating, rejection, and finding the perfect mate: advice from flowering plants.” Normally we prefer to take romantic ...
A diamond to the student who broke the door to the Blue Room — baked goods are completely worthy of looting. But a word of advice to the owners of Meeting Street Cafe: You may want to consider steel ...
A diamond to Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughin P’12, who said of administrative turnover, “to a certain extent it’s part of an organic regeneration of the senior ranks.” That’s why when we ...
A diamond to the first-year who said, “I think it’s pretty cool that, at Brown, you have a convocation speaker basically telling you to question everything, even what he says and even what all of ...
Cubic zirconia to Chaplain of the University Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson, who said, “I mean think about it — when your family gives a gift in 1938, do you think it’s still going to be doing anything ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...