Felipe Umana ’11

Well ,Valentine’s Day to me is pretty much like any other day. I don’t know – I don’t really think of it as a holiday necessarily. Not really in a relationship, don’t really eat a lot of candies…

Jocelyn Bell ’12

I’m actually a big fan of Valentine’s Day, because at home whenever it comes up my dad always buys my mom, my sister and I a flower and gets us candy and gives us a card and just tells us how much he loves us. And he like taught my little brother and my older brother to do the same thing so they always do that for us too. So – I don’t know – it was never really a romantic sort of holiday for me because I never really celebrate it with a boyfriend or anything. It was always a family sort of event … for the guys to tell the girls how much they love them. I really miss it while I’m here, because I want to be home and have that sort of celebration.

Alex Ilstad-Minnihan ’13

I guess I didn’t used to like it – or I didn’t have any thoughts on it – but this is my first one with a boyfriend, so it’ll be interesting. I don’t know – maybe that’ll make it more exciting, maybe it won’t. I guess we’ll see.

Nathanael Lee ’10

It’s like every other day for me, just like my birthday, just like any holiday. There’s just work, and I go about the day normally.

<3

— Hannah Moser

Lunch: V-Dub. Chicken Finger Friday, enough said.

Dinner: Ratty. Cheesy Grits Souffle sounds like Paula Deen gone wrong. Stuffed shells and salmon provencal seem like classier options.

A Cranston native who entered his commercial in a Doritos Super Bowl contest didn’t see his work on TV this past Sunday. No matter, though, because Doritos is going to air his and other finalists’ commercials for the rest of the year in lieu of the company making their own.

A member of the Providence Board of Licenses wants make it illegal for nightclubs and other alcohol-serving establishments to allow people under 21 in. Sort of puts a damper on Fishkus’ inauguration.

The Rhode Island House of Representatives has a new House Speaker—Gordon D. Fox was elected today as the state’s first black and openly gay Speaker. He said in a speech that “change is absolutely necessary,” which is all fine and dandy, but we’re wondering how long it will take before someone declares Rhode Island’s House a “post-racial” (and post-sexual orientation?) body. (Disclaimer: we haven’t read the comments section yet.)

Screw Cupid

9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
King House (corner of Hope and Benevolent)

Enjoy, or indulge in not enjoying, a night of angsty poetry, snacks and sympathizers.  And though it’s usually below me to quote a table slip, St. A’s couldn’t have said it better: “Show that cheerful cherub how you feel about his unsolicited archery.”

The Matrix as Metaphysics (Philosophy DUG)

5:00  p.m.
Gerard House 119

Whether you’re a concentrator or simply curious about matrices, metaphysics or philosophy, this discussion sounds like a promising way to boggle your mind without illegal substances. If this prospect is not sufficient to lure you, perhaps the free food will be.

Kappa Alpha Theta PJ Party

9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Diman Lounge

First and second year girls are all welcome to Theta’s second recruitment party of the year.

Funerary Remains and the Dynamics of Maya Polities (Professor Andrew Scherer)
5:30 p.m.
Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street

Believe it or not, there’s more to the Mayans than their apocolyptic prophesies.

Wishing you a successful Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day,

— Suzannah Weiss

1. Natty in the Ratty

2. Dinner at Via Via, followed by a tour of the Narragansett River

3. Cappucinos at Roba Dolce, ice cream at Cold Stone

4. Romantic walk through Kennedy Plaza

5. Getting spotted at Brown

6. Awkward loitering at Prospect and Meeting

7. Date with Marshall

8. Berge’-watchin’

9. Getting caught in-coitus on the 13th floor of the SciLi

10.  Watch the premiere of season two of Tool Academy

In in its coverage of Sex Week at Yale, the Yale Daily News released its findings on a study of sex life in the land of the bulldogs. Apparently, Yalies have been quite busy in the bedroom and at the party scene lately…who would’ve guessed that? The article reports that Yale’s students “don’t like to fail, and that goes for their sex lives, too.” 1,770 students answered the survey that found 90 percent of the campus’s students have made out at some point in college, “75.3 percent have engaged in oral sex with someone, and 64.3 percent have had sexual intercourse.”

The article, complete with large graphs and pie charts (is Yale trying to compensate for something?) couldn’t resist a jab at the good ol’ Crimson. The article cites a 2009 Harvard Crimson poll that “showed that the median Harvard senior has had one sexual partner by the end of his or her senior year.” The Daily News immediately follows that up with “by comparison, the median Yale student has had sexual intercourse with two partners, and oral sex with three partners.” Sure Yale, whatever you say.

Let’s not leave Brown out of this competition. In a nonscientific study conducted last April, a Brown student decided to find out the sexual habits of her fellow Brunonians. From her findings, it seems that Brown is slightly behind their Yale peers, but to be fair, the number of students surveyed was considerably less (for instance, only 160 women and 91 men answered how many times they had sexual intercourse). Whatever, at least we’re still America’s Happiest Students.

—Brian Mastroianni

Don’t you love how everyone at Brown is so down-to-earth and chill?

This Web site is the opposite of that.

Our favorite is the guy who manages to brag about the size of his house while throwing in that he lost his baby in it. If we were his baby, we’d be hiding from him, too.

A general sentiment of “awww no fair” is sweeping campus this week as students learn of college snow days from their friends in the mid-atlantic region.

Georgetown, GW, Fordham, Rutgers, and many others had snow days this week due to the snow storms ravaging the East Coast.

Well folks, here’s one more bit of disheartening news: Penn will have yet another snow day tomorrow as all university exercises  were cancelled due to the inclement weather.

Wednesday’s snow day was Penn’s first in seven years and Thursday’s will mark the Quaker’s first double snow day since 1994.

There are still no signs of any class cancellations at Brown despite the flurries hitting College Hill as we speak.

Oh well…

—Max Godnick

Lunch: Ratty. Solely because of the Hawaiian pizza. It’s February in Providence, and anything with the word “Hawaiian” in it sounds pretty good to us.

Dinner: V-Dub. The Mexican salad bar and stir fry station win this round. The V-Dub also wins in part because the Ratty’s dinner menu seems to be the exact same as its lunch menu, leading us to wonder how good that Hawaiian pizza would be after sitting out all day.