A couple weeks ago, the Corporation raised tuition for the 2010-11 year to $51,360 per student, a 4.5 percent increase from this year’s rate.

While that amount of money can buy you a good education, a fancy diploma and a stay in hedonistic paradise, we can’t help but wonder what else it could be spent on…

13,696 Ivy Room falafels

2,853 BBQ Chicken pizzas from Nice Slice

604 bottles of Patrón Silver

496 copies of Organic Chemistry, 2nd edition by Thomas N. Sorrell

93 Schwinn fixed-gear bicycles

1/9 of a 2010 Lamborghini

Apparently Jim Kim ‘82 — Brown alum, Dartmouth president, total public-health baller — made an appearance in an Michael Jackson tribute at Dartmouth’s annual talent show-type thing, to amazing results.  Check him out in all of his white-gloved glory around the 2-minute mark:

(h/t IvyGate)

Okay, is it just me, or has it been the LONGEST week? All this beautiful weather was lovely during the weekend, but when Monday rolled around, it made it incredibly difficult for me to drag my sorry self to class. All I’m saying is, thank everything that is good in this world that it is (almost. almost almost!) time for the weekend, which means another crop of exciting things to do TONIGHT. And I’m not just saying “exciting” so you’ll be excited. This weekend is packed with truly excellent things for you and me and everyone we know to do. To start us off, Thursday’s picks:

Three Sisters
Production Workshop (7 Young Orchard), 8:00
FREE FREE FREE
I don’t know if you went to see Lulu last weekend (or have plans to see it this week!), but that show left me reeling. And a little sick to my stomach (because of the content, not the production!). And longing for a show that was a little less… aesthetically minded is the phrase I’m sticking with, but absolutely out of its freaking mind is another valid option. “Three Sisters” is the most buzzed-about student production in a long time, but it also promises to be some darn good theater. And it’s a Chekhov play, which means you get that lovely classy & cultured feeling for the price of your (FREE) ticket.

The Last Station
Avon Cinema, 6:30 & 8:50
If tonight’s “What to Do” had a theme, it would be Russian writers form the late 19th century. Thank goodness it doesn’t! I don’t know if you remember me telling you to go see “Crazy Heart” because of my girl crush on Maggie Gyllenhaal, but that’s absolutely nothing compared to my deep, long-abiding love for James McAvoy. Yep, I’m mostly interested in this multiple-Oscar-nominated film because one of the actors is a hot hot hottie with soulful eyes. What of it?

Fusion Dance Show
Alumnae Hall Auditorium, 8:00, $5
Fusion Dance Company has a well-earned rep for putting on electric, high-energy dance shows and it looks like this one will be no exception. It also has the benefit of having nothing to do with Russian writers from the 19th century, so if you’re not into that (although really, how could you not be?), this one’s for you.

Patrick Kennedy let loose on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday, calling American policy in Afghanistan “shameful.”  He lambasted the press for paying more attention to the Eric Massa scandal than to the soldiers deployed overseas.  Check out the video to see the C-SPAN drama firsthand.

The NYPD has arrested a suspect in the hit-and-run accident that left Brown alum Erinn Phelan in a coma and injured Brown medical student Alma Guerrero.  The woman police believe to be at fault was charged yesterday.

Note to all who’ve been enjoying the recent bout of beautiful weather: things are about to change.  The karmic price of our five days of sun is what looks like five days of rain and clouds.  The spring showers won’t last forever though, and forecasters say the sun will be back by Tuesday.

This week’s Post- Top Ten, springtime edition:

1. Make fun of people on the slack line (one foot off the ground, five feet across; all danger).

2. Be naked on the Quiet Green—look it up, you can do it (we’re pretty sure).

3. Roll the grass. Or, roll in it. Or, um, whatever. Does everybody hate me? Do you guys want cookie dough?

4. Think of ways to deflate a bagpipe

5. Pretend to be comfortable in shorts, pasty-thighed member of DTau

6. Sit in a circle and talk about how sunshine almost makes you forget the unbearable lightness of being

7. Berge watchin’. She’s got her spring plumage.

8. Watch Marshall tell his friends it’s okay to drink Mike’s Hard Lemonade

9. Hey Harvard, watch where you step on your green.

10. It.

Check out Post-, on stands today, for more snark, weed references, and spring-themed fun!

Eat free or die trying.

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Short Attention Span Seminar
10-10:30 a.m.
John Carter Brown Library
Learn something new and get more than just knowledge — get a Blue State gift certificate

Thursday Night Interfaith Suppers: Chinese Religious Ethics
5-7 p.m.
Home of Head Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson, 58 Keene Street

Janus Conversation: The Constitutionality of Health Care
7-8 p.m.
Wilson 102
Get smart, ask questions, eat pizza

Sex and MTV
8-10 p.m.
MoChamp Lounge
The college hook up culture comes with “real food”

There’s some stuff that white people like, and then there’s some stuff they whine about. Think Larry David meets tumblr…

Snoop Dogg, MGMT, the Black Keys, Major Lazer and Wale are all playing Spring Weekend. It’s an embarrassment of riches. Who are you most excited to see? Vote in our poll (it’s over there on the right) and get ready for tickets to go on sale March 24.

In case we haven’t made it abundantly clear just how excited we here at Blog Daily Herald are about this year’s Spring Weekend lineup, we’ll be featuring various tidbits, musings and other exclamation-pointed nonsense in this space in the weeks leading up to the event. First up: apparently there’s a whole cottage industry devoted to people doing bizarre covers of songs by Saturday headliner Snoop Dogg, often in their living rooms. After the jump, we’ve plumbed the depths for of YouTube for our favorites: [Read more →]

If you think that guy wearing chainmail in your 9 a.m. biology class has an interesting fashion sense, wait until you see the pants on the Norwegian Olympic Curling Team. The brainchild of Scott Woodworth ‘82, these Argyle knickers caused a red, white and blue stir the world over as the team vacuumed — er — curled its way to a silver medal on Feb. 27 in Vancouver.

Woodworth designed the outlandish pantaloons for his company, Loudmouth Golf, which he founded in 2000. The Norwegian team apparently saw Woodworth’s Web site and ordered pants in the country’s colors. And though the team didn’t snag gold from the boringly black-pants clad Canadian powerhouse, at least the Norwegians did it with more style.

Take that, chainmail dude.