HuffPo’s brand spanking new College section posted a great slideshow of the “Weirdest School Mascots.” While RISD’s giant phallus “Scrotie” made the list, our beloved Bear seems to have been overlooked.  Also making the list were the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs of Pulp Fiction fame and Scottsdale Community College’s Artie the Fighting Artichoke.  Anyone else down to start a petition to change our mascot to a giant clam?

Location: Kassar House Foxboro Auditorium

Description: In 1986, Brown University, as a part of an international movement for justice, divested from apartheid South Africa because of policies of systematic racial discrimination, violence, and disenfranchisement. Today we call on Brown to take the same stance in response to Israeli policies against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

Join Brown Students for Justice in Palestine for a presentation about what apartheid is, why this term applies to the Israeli Occupation, and what we can do to end our University’s support for companies that facilitate policies intended to deny Palestinians the most basic of human rights.

Want peace? Then fight for justice.

Company of fish
No seafood, but hot bodies
Flutter in the breeze

Get all over BlogDailyHerald’s newest feature: FishCo haikus, also known as fishkus! Instructions:
1. Go to FishCo
2. Write a haiku about it (or the aftermath)
3. E-mail or text it to us at fishco@browndailyherald.com
4. Tell all your friends

Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse both voted in favor of a U.S. Senate bill that will extend federal unemployment benefits another 30 days. The bill passed the Senate 78-19; a similar bill has already won approval in the House.

Governor Carcieri has declared today “Spread the Word to End the Word Day” to raise awareness for the use of the word “retard” as an insult. There’s also a chance that the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals will undergo a name change to remove “Retardation,” and all associated stigma, from the department’s name.

Oops! The state Department of Transportation got into a little trouble after a contractor tried to fix a sewer problem… by digging on a historic grave site. DOT has since apologized to the family; no word yet on whether any ghosts have showed up to exact vengeance.

Harvard just employed its first Professor of Egyptology, Peter Der Manuelian, since the last person to have this position died 68 years ago. The last professor, George A. Reisner, died in 1942 on an excavation in Giza, Egypt. It makes some sense that a discipline devoted to a 4,000-year-old civilization takes 68 years to get a new professor… so better late than never? Possibly, but Harvard still has a ways to go before competing with our Department of Egyptology.

Do you <3 female orgasm? Then come to the eponymous event tonight at 8:30 in Salomon 101. It’s hosted by two Brown alums, Marshall Miller ’96 (a Herald executive editor back in the day) and Dorian Solot ’95.

“Students are sometimes surprised that we really do cover it all: the G-spot, multiple orgasms, how to have your first orgasm, how to help your girlfriend,” wrote Solot in an e-mail to the Herald. The event has lecture and small group discussion components.

“The main theme here is personal empowerment and being comfortable with one’s sexuality,” said Aida Manduley ’11, Queer Alliance chair and a co-organizer of the event.

Sounds delightful.

See you there or check out the event coverage in The Herald Thursday.

Lunch: Ratty.
The Polynesian cookies still make us feel cultured.

Dinner: V-Dub.
As high-protein as the Ratty’s Plum Good Pork Chops sound, we’ll be getting our fiber for the week in with the V-Dub’s Red Flannel Sliced Root Vegetables. (Shirts would be high in fiber, right?)