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This Spring Weekend, there is one thing no one should be without: booze a bro tank. If you have been on Facebook at all in the past few weeks, you have probably seen a number of events with different bro tanks you can purchase. We have taken it upon ourselves to give you the best of the bro tanks, in superlative form! Here’s to hoping your decision about which tank to purchase is easier than your attempt to purchase Spring Weekend tickets…

That Tank is Sooo 10 Years Ago

This superlative goes to the Hey Ma tank in blue for reminding us of Cam’ron’s glory days in ’02.

Most Likely to Blind People

This winner has not one, but TWO tank options for you to choose from. In yellow and orange, Most Likely to Blind People goes to the neon tanks! These tanks are also runner up for That Tank is Sooo 10 Years Ago for their Cam’ron reference, and get bonus points in my book for the Binder reference on the other tank.

Least Subtle in its Party References

Nothing says “party” more than a Solo cup. So with a nod at Toby Keith, the winner of Least Subtle is the Proceed to Party tank. [Read more →]

Remember that four-eyed brown M&M in those white high heels who made us all LOL on Super Bowl Sunday? Ms. Brown (not to be confused with Chris Brown) is the newest addition to the colorful M&M crew that rolls deep: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Orange have all embraced their posse’s newest sassy, smart and sophisticated member. For these reasons (among some other fairly obvious ones), we think Brown University would be the perfect fit for the little lady. Here’s why:

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Follow @techaccino for semi-instant updates, and check out our Spring Weekend playlist.

By now, you’ve already either received/purchased an iPad or heard about it from your friends enough to know that there are a million and a half things to do with it. (If not, check this out!) (By the way, I’m talking here about Apple’s tablet, unlike the AP…) From note taking to airplane crashing to star gazing, there really isn’t a lot more out there we could ask it to do. But let’s think outside the box…What about that 30-pin connector at the bottom or the Bluetooth capability? Sure you can connect it to your computer, a wireless keyboard, or (if you’re lazy and have money to waste) your digital camera, but imagine all the possibilities…So stop shopping at censoring Apple Stores, and let’s take a gander inside the intertubes to find how you should actually be using your iPad. [Read more →]

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.]

Michael arrived early for TWW so he decided to go to breakfast at the Ratty. Mmmm…bacon. [Read more →]

College students’ love of Stephen Colbert is pretty widespread, so it wasn’t too surprising to see a group of Brunonians translate his super PAC parody, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow to a University setting. The group, Brown Students for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, was founded by the University’s Democracy Matters branch, and claims to be “secretly pulling the strings behind UCS elections since 2012.”

Besides just having a website, the group recently hired professional professor of psychoceramics, Josiah Carberry, as its director and maintains a hyperactive Twitter feed that spent last the 18 hours spewing out 40+ tweets including, “Remember when Barack Obama killed bin Laden? That was big, but we’ve got an announcement that’s even bigger.”

Earlier today, the super PAC, which is satirically designed to promote awareness about campaign finance reform, recently released a campaign ad attempting to stir up a birther crisis over the UCS presidential candidates’ University acceptance letters. The video’s pretty funny and overtly reinforces the group’s satiric nature; a real super PAC might have enough money to shell out for some better production values.

That being said, you’ve got to like anything that’s sprucing up a presidential race that almost lulled a Herald opinions editor to sleep. Also, we know you all invested $99 in a Colbert Super PAC Super Fun Pack. We want to try a piece of Ham Rove.

Head over to the Main Green tonight at 6 p.m. to participate in a vigil for Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja. Falsely imprisoned for life over a year ago by the Bahraini government for taking part in a pro-democracy marches, Al Khawaja is on a hunger strike that is into its 10th week. Media exposure and international outcry  is part of what is keeping Al Khawaja alive, and tonight’s vigil will raise awareness of the continued abuse of human rights, violence against peaceful protesters, and false arrests of activists in Bahrain and the world over misfortunes that Al Khawaja is fighting to end.

Al Khawaja’s plight is especially relevant to Brown students because his daughter, Maryam, was a Fulbright Fellow here in 2009 and served as an Arabic TA. Both she and her father are members of the Brown community, so come out to the Main Green tonight at 6 p.m. and show your support for Abdulhadi Al Khawaja!

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Originally formed in 2006, The Glitch Mob got its start as a five-member electro group based in the city of Los Angeles. As part of L.A.’s burgeoning bass-driven ‘beat’ scene, the group quickly gained notoriety for its incredible live performances and use of multi-touch sound devices to remix popular songs on stage. Though they spent much of their early days touring up and down the West Coast, the group now performs at electronic music festivals around the world and will be touring all across the country later this year. Their first album, Drink the Sea, debuted on the iTunes electronic music chart at #5, and their single “Drive It Like You Stole It” was listed as number two on XLR8R magazine’s list of top downloads of 2010.

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After two years of nagging, pleading, and incessantly bragging about the grandeur of Thayer Street at lunchtime, I finally achieved the seemingly impossible: I convinced my friend from home to come visit me. In a very fortunate turn of events, our availability matched up on Spring Weekend. If you haven’t caught on by the midnight raging on Wriston our festive banner, Spring Weekend is kind of a big deal. However, your non-Brunonian friend might not know that.

My goal for this weekend: convince my friend that Brown, Spring Weekend, and everything that goes with them, are awesome. So if your friend, sibling, or acquaintance from ADOCH who chose Harvard is crashing on your floor for the most wonderful time of the academic calendar, here’s a guide to making Spring Weekend as authentic and memorable for your friend as possible, after the jump.  [Read more →]

At 6”6′ 15′, Michael is the newest pre-frosh on campus. He’s not just an international sports star — he’s a potential Brown student here for ADOCH (and Spring Week). So let’s give Michael a warm welcome and hope he matriculates. Maybe Furby will be his RC?