Posts by Jordan Hendricks

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

It appears that brownbares.com, the NSFW subreddit that Brown students have come to know and love for its users’ nude photos artistic ability was shut down at least 15 hours ago, brought to the Internet’s attention by an alarmed user on the BrownU subreddit.

The reason? The moderator explains in a comment on the original thread:

That’s right. IvyGate, a blog renowned for its  meaningless (and slightly hateful?) campus gossip hard-hitting journalism of all things Ivy League, wrote a post about the site. According to the post, a tipster — ostensibly a member of the Brunonian community — sent IvyGate the name, description and personal OKCupid account link of a female junior who posted on Brown Bares. The tip was quoted with its identifying details redacted, but the leaking of personal information was enough for the BrownBares moderator to shut it all down, according to his comment. This is why we can’t have nice things.

The moderator hints in his comment that Brown Bares may only be on hiatus (“for the time being”), so we’ll be ready and waiting for its return.

[Edit: This post has been updated from an earlier version.]

DPS may or may not be looking for this man on College Hill next.

This afternoon various news outlets have reported that Jason Russell — co-founder of Invisible Children and a director of the most viral video in history, “Kony 2012″ — was detained for drunken, public masturbation yesterday.

Perhaps Russell is channeling our favorite campus figure, the one (or many?) masturbators who have #occupiedJohnSt. Or maybe this is his thinly-veiled attempt to give “Cover the Night“ a strange new meaning.

Either way, we can’t help but think that Russell’s alleged act of indecency and the recent reappearance of our favorite campus persona are anything but unrelated.

I apologize if it looks like I’m yelling at you. I can’t help that it’s Leap Day!

Wahoo! The Gregorian calendar is finally in sync with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun! We give you the 365.25 reasons why we love February 29th:

1. Leap Day babies turn 5 (or 6). Happy birthday to any five-year-olds (or six-year-olds?) on campus today. You never imagined that you would completely bypass kindergarten to become one of the youngest students at Brown University, did you? We also know you’ve never heard this joke before. We look forward to celebrating your 21st birthday with you in 2076.
2. Real life doesn’t begin until March 1. This means that you have an extra day to procrastinate on just about everything.
3. You have 24 more hours at your disposal — more time to watch Leap Day William in all his glory! [Read more →]

The large horn chilling in front of Darth Vader’s mini blinds actually makes noise, as shown by this random dude blowing into it. Wouldn’t it be great if someone stole this? And then the owner put up tons of posters around campus that said “Have you seen my 20-ft brown horn around campus? It was a gift for a friend! Reward: Visiting rights whenever you want, plus an extra $200 if you bring my fucking horn back”?

Just over 50 years ago, two historical legends — Malcolm X and the future American diplomat Richard Holbrooke ’62  — stood in front of a crowd of 800 in Sayles Hall. Thanks to Malcolm Burnley ’12, the entire world can hear exactly what they said.

Burnley recently discovered a recording of the May 11, 1961 speech given by Malcolm X, who was defending his views in response to a student-written Herald opinion piece that ran a few months earlier. Holbrooke, editor-in-chief of The Herald at the time, had welcomed the activist to campus to speak to Brown students and respond to the author of the critical opinion column.

Burnley found his way to the recording after coming across another Herald article about the event in the May 12, 1961 paper, as part of an assignment for a class. So, if we’ve learned anything from this story, it is to…

1) Read The Herald.
2) Write for The Herald / BlogDailyHerald.
3) Do your homework?
4) For best results, combine all three.

Check out the full story, including clips from the recording and interviews with Burnley, on the NPR website.