Posts by Will Janover

The Pawtucket Red Sox, Boston’s AAA minor league affiliate, partnered with Brown Sports Business to make their Saturday, May 12 game against the Columbus Clippers “Brown Night” at McCoy Stadium. Professor Hazeltine is throwing out the first pitch, which might be worth the price of admission by itself. We expect his effort (and the crowd’s reaction) to resemble this (George W. Bush) a bit more than this (Mariah Carey). The Jabberwocks will perform the national anthem. The game is at 6:05 p.m., but buses are leaving from the corner of Brown and George at 3:30 p.m. The $20 ticket covers your transport, seat and food. Definitely a good deal. For more information, check the Facebook event here.

Note for Red Sox fans: Daisuke Matsuzaka will be making another rehab start that night as he works to recover from Tommy John surgery. So, if you would like to see what has become of the Sox’s questionable $100 million investment, you might have an extra reason to attend this game.

Our very own Alex Tounkara-Kone ’11.5 is getting a shot at the big time. The 6’4″, 220 lb. wide receiver may have missed out on being Mr. Irrelevant — the last guy chosen in the NFL Draft, who gets a parade thrown for him and goes to Disneyland, not kidding — but on May 11, he’ll have the chance to show the Bills what he’s made of at the team’s rookie mini-camp. The Belgian-born draft pick had never even seen a game of football before high school, making this feat all the more impressive. He had 49 receptions and 590 receiving yards in 2011. Best of luck, Alex!

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If you did last night, then this post is useless. If not, you are in for a serious treat. The venerable, ORIGINAL Thayer Street food truck is coming to the Blue Room. That’s right, the Blue Room will be serving Mama Kim’s starting tomorrow, THURSDAY, at 4:00 p.m., according to Morning Mail. The move to the Blue Room is, according to Hyun Kim ’01, all part of a plan to “bring Korean cuisine one step closer to the Brown community.”

The Hazeltine abides.

Now, the intensity with which one believes in the absolute truth of Morning Mail may vary from student to student, but I suggest you all heed this warning: If you really love Korean barbecue and can’t wait for the truck to get here, RUN — don’t walk, this is supposedly a “trial run” with a “limited amount of food available” — to the Blue Room Thursday afternoon. Adding Mama Kim’s to the 4:00 p.m. Blue Room rush is sure to cause a near riot in Faunce, so if you don’t like crowds or really good-smelling food, you might want to find another place to hang out tomorrow afternoon.

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In case you missed it, what seemed like about one-fifth of the student body (if you don’t believe me, check the picture below) stalked the Glitch Mob across campus on Saturday night after their killer Spring Weekend mix. Much to the Bro-Po’s chagrin, the LA trio was pretty insistent on getting an after-party in somewhere, leading to a cat-and-mouse chase from Meeting to Charlesfield and back.

No books.

Though it certainly beat any real or imagined Biltmore suite Ciroc-fueled orgy with Diddy & entourage, we do think the Glitch Mob missed some spots on campus — some better protected from the police, some just plain awesome. Here are six places where we think they might have been able to play a set for longer than 20 minutes: [Read more →]

Rumor has it that the Main Green will be closed to the public starting at 4:30 p.m. this Friday, the twentieth day of the fourth month of this fine year. Yeah. Enjoy your 10 minutes of freedom before BCA starts setting up for Friday’s concert.

When asked to comment on the Main Green’s closing so shortly after the most beloved time of day, BCA member Danny Sobor ’15 commented, “I hate to say it, but you do what you have to do to get Childish [Gambino]… It’s not a BCA decision; we wouldn’t be making that call, but it’s protocol. We’re not happy about it either.”

There you have it: reeling in a big act like Gambino involves making some sacrifices. I see a slightly mutated form of an Occupy movement taking shape on the Main Green this Friday. That, or a drastic shift in students’ bedtimes to around 5:00 a.m.

Hey, at least we don’t go to Colorado University.

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Our favorite 4/20 headliner (could we have asked for better?) just released the song “Eat Your Vegetables.” No lyrics about studying rape culture at Brown in this pretty chill track as far as we can tell, although it does include a very timely Trayvon Martin shout-out.

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… because his stoop is the porch outside of Faunce, and he’s a Lucky Strike-smoking, Wayfarer-sporting hamster. He even brought his rickety armchair in expectation of more unseasonably warm weather! After all, classy iron chairs are, like, so mainstream…

Brown Concert Agency is setting up camp on the Main Green today from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. They’re going to have a table near Faunce to answer any of your questions about their decision-making and booking processes, ticketing information, and, of course, the Spring Weekend 2012 lineup itself. If someone could ask how WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE can have both Balkan groove and Bollywood beat influences (and what those things even mean), it would be greatly appreciated.

Just don’t ask what Bro-Rape is.

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Students from the Student Labor Alliance and other groups have organized a lie-down protest against the University’s association with the Fair Labor Association (FLA). They claim the FLA has a conflict of interest that severely impairs their ability to rate businesses’ fair treatment of their workers, calling upon the University to instead “stand as a responsible leader in the Ivy League and recognize the conflicts of interest that keep the FLA from effectively monitoring sweatshop abuse.” Calls of “What do we want?” A living wage!” are echoed across the Main Green as the line extended all the way from Waterman Street past Sayles Hall. They’ve done their best to leave a path for people to walk on, so don’t step on them.

Editor’s Note: They have dispersed. The closest thing to protesters is a large population of students lying down in bikinis.

Sláinte Mhath! The leprechaun and pot of gold have adorned our masthead, which means it must be St. Natty’s Fratty’s Spatty’s Paddy’s Day!  And this isn’t just any old Saint Patrick’s Day. It’s a Saturday. It’s pretty nice out. Spring break is around the corner. Odds are that some people reading this post are going to drink, and one (or more) of them is going to take his/her anger out on an exit sign.

This, of course, would not be an isolated incident . You’ve all at least witnessed (or have taken part in) the notorious freshman pastime of celebrating newfound freedom by obliterating a public safety device. No matter where you go (at least in Keeney), you probably will find an exit sign in some state of disrepair. Dean Richard Bova, head of ResLife, says “we probably lose 75 or more” exit signs per year, “the bulk of them in Keeney.” Even if there’s no good way to know for certain what the motive was for each incident, let’s just say most well-adjusted human beings don’t run down the hall of Bronson 2nd floor clobbering every single exit sign with a broomstick on a Tuesday morning after drinking 14 cans of Fanta Grape. [Read more →]