Posts by Seth Kleinschmidt

Scary, we know…finals have begun and there’s barely any free food to be had. KEEP YO’ CHIN UP!
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Health Services Research Seminar Series
4 – 5 p.m.
121 South Main Street

Peter Neumann, ScD, will present a lecture entitled “Comparative Effectiveness Research and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Where Are We Going?” Don’t know about where, but we know why we’re going — light refreshments.

Okay, so this study break might not provide a real respite for IR/Poli Sci/Econ concentrators, but for the rest of us it’ll do just fine. It slipped by without much hubbub, but the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Saturday was a slick affair. Sure, host Jimmy Kimmel can never live up to the standard set by Colbert’s scorching roast of Dubya back in 2006, but it doesn’t matter. Obama held his own for a solid 17 minutes, getting in some real zingers. And you know what? I actually believe that the guy knows who Young Jeezy is. Get on his level, Mittens W. Romneyton III.

Eat free or dine trying.
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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop: Funding Change?
5 – 6:30 p.m.
Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room

CLACS workshops always provide the best food, so don’t miss the last one of the semester. Come eat and (bonus!) get ejumacated about gold-funded wars and judicial reform in Bolivia.

GISP Talks!
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Salomon 101

In the spirit of the popular TED Talks, this year’s GISPs will get a chance to discuss their work and processes. Get there early for the “light snacks and refreshments”… such a tease…

We've graphed a bagel, now you solve for DELICIOUS

They’re rare, but oh, they’re good.

They’re gooey good.

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You know the sound the guy makes in Alien as the chestbuster is trying to emerge? That feral whine, part dying ox and part Joan of Arc mid-burning? Sigourney & co. are trying to hold him down while being sung to by Goody Proctor’s howler monkey.

Brown is no stranger to that sound. [Read more →]

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Although some poor souls still have midterms during the next two weeks, most of us are about to plunge headlong into the madness that is finals. Whether you’ve already sunk neck-deep into the sludge of final projects or are simply pondering the terrifying fall mid-air, the Internet always comes to the rescue. Never doubt its power, especially when this power comes in the form of a quick-and-dirty essay writer. Essaytyper.com makes it that much easier to compose that nasty treatise on “The Socioeconomic Deviations of Post-Racial Bolivia.” Go on, type it in…might be easier than you thought…

Eat free or dine trying.

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Well, events.brown.edu failed us – you can search all around campus this evening but you won’t find a gathering of fun folks with free food whose meeting you can crash.

…but why would you want to go to a lecture when Ruth Simmons’ going-away party will be filling up the Main Green with more free eats than you can shake an obese stick at? From 3–5 p.m. the Corporation, those feisty darlings of the BDH Opinions page, and SPEC, providers of the Spring Week carnival and sky/pole dancers, are going to provide us with pizza, some Mexican and Indian treats, hot dogs, and a variety of carnival munchies, including Rhode Island’s classic doughboys. Our arms might be too full with saturated fat to give Ruth one last hug, so follow our lead and just send thank-you postcards.

Producing a play is hell.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun. And maddening. And gut-wrenching.

Do you want all these emotions, and a kickass ensemble cast to go with it? Then hit up Kassar Fox at 9 p.m. tonight and enjoy the debut of “Nothing Productive,” an original webseries chronicling the trials and tribulations of dysfunctional students trying to create functional… stuff. Eight people stuck in one room with an overload of chaos and questionable levels of sanity, attempting to make theater things happen — what could possibly go wrong? Written and directed by Kate Doyle ’12, executively produced by Andrew Favaloro GS, produced by Josh Bloom ’14, and starring the cream of Brown’s acting crop, “Nothing Productive” is, honest to God, the best thing you can do to pump yourselves up for Spring Weekend. You won’t get any work done anyways, so why not have a laugh or ten watching others do the same?

And then watch ours afterwards…

It came to our attention that some fools on campus thought our inaugural Breakfast with Buddy post was fake. That we had a meal put together and photographed. That we were lying to you. That we had betrayed our blah blah… you know the drill.

To the haters we have only this to say: you don’t got no swag until you’ve worn a suit to breakfast. Haters gon’ hate.

Calorie crunch:

• Two slices of whole wheat toast, 100.
• Yogurt, 80.
• Grapefruit and banana, 120.

We also asked Buddy about his favorite restaurant in Providence, and he said, “Depends on what I am in the mood for!” Guess that means y’all better be on your best behavior during those 5 a.m. Loui’s runs…

Hudes (left) and Gander (right)

The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday, and in the category of Letters, Drama and Music, our lovely Literary Arts Program killed it. Quiara Alegría Hudes MFA ’04 scored the Pulitzer in Drama for her play Water By the Spoonful, while Forrest Gander, professor of literary arts and comparative literature, was a finalist in Poetry for his book Core Samples from the World. At this time neither author will confirm or deny rumors of a planned collaborative literary project, tentatively titled “Get On Our Level.”

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