by Georgia Tollin
I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far, whether you’re relaxing, catching up with family, or even partying your asses off visiting a friend at another school. Campus has been pretty quiet, but I can’t say there aren’t pros to having much of the student body away. Here are some things that have made this long weekend a staycation of its own:
1) No lines in the Blue Room, Ratty, or Jo’s.
2) Availability of every type of machine and weight equipment in the Nelly.
3) No wait for Sunday brunch at Loui’s.
4) Unlimited access to the comfortable orange couches above the Blue Room (to read in? No, to nap in).
5) Vacant laundry machines.
Long story short, we miss you guys, but we’re doing alright here, too.
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by Seth Kleinschmidt
CareerLAB is not prepared to deal with this type of CV
Ah, yes. It’s that time of year again: Fall Weekend, that lovely three-day holiday where we steadfastly refuse all attempts to honor that one European dude despite the fact that we’re totally taking the day off anyways. Try explaining that one to your friends back home.
Politics aside, how will YOU be filling the hours during this most historic of breaks?
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by Meredith Bilski
The weather gods have spoken. This Columbus Day Weekend Fall Weekend forecast couldn’t encapsulate Providence’s erratic fall weather patterns any better. If you’re planning on hanging out in PVD, you’ll maintain a balanced work to play ratio this weekend: Friday and Monday shall be days for frolicking and apple picking; Saturday and Sunday shall be days for studying and Orgo-ing. Sounds like both a productive and enjoyable weekend. Do it big.
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by Liam Trotzuk
Fall Weekend is approaching, and it seems like just about everyone’s got plans. Some will be cramming for exams, some will be heading home, and still others will be visiting friends at other universities. Finding myself in the third category, I began to ponder how I might, as a Brown first-year, assert my newfound school pride at rival universities. As it turns out, the solution is obvious.
In order to express my love for Brown and cultivate our school’s reputation as an open, tolerant place, I’ve cultivated a list of ruthless insults for use on any rival Ivy League school and its students. Be a good ambassador for Brown and mercilessly mock your Yale, Cornell, or Dartmouth friends on this beautiful Fall Weekend.
Harvard
You didn’t have to encounter the terribly pretentious Harvard cheering squad at the Harvard-Brown game two weekends ago to realize that Harvard students are literally all, without exceptions, a bunch of raging douchebags. Behind enemy lines in Cambridge, your only choice is to fight fire with fire. Establish academic dominance by telling those fools that Harvard’s undergraduate reputation “is mixed at best,” while you trump them socially by noting that you didn’t want to go to school “with a bunch of losers and lightweights,” anyway. Alternatively, pull a Will Hunting.
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by Meredith Bilski
If you’re agonizing over the prospect of planning a fun-filled Columbus Day Fall Weekend, you should consider ditching the pumpkin patch or the apple orchard and head to the other side of the pond.
According to a recent Fox News article, there’s never been a better time to spontaneously pick up and go to Europe. After years of planning, developing, and building in anticipation of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the entire continent is now feeling the effects of the Olympic comedown after the masses of humanity have returned to their respective countries. You don’t need to have taken ECON0110 (or Logic, for that matter) to know that thousands of empty hotel rooms = low demand, and low demand = cheap prices. You do the rest (hint: use the transitive property).
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by Matt Klimerman
The Brown Concert Agency sent out a press release this afternoon announcing Starkey and (7th place finishers in the BlogDH poll) Real Estate will be performing at this year’s Fall Concert. The concert will take place on September 24th, ideally on Lincoln Field (with the RISD Auditorium serving as Meehan Auditorium). Tickets will be free.99 and available on the BCA’s website on Monday, Sept. 19th. For the full press release and the answer to the inevitable question “who the fuck are these people?” click through!
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by Anne Simons
For our freshman readers (or anyone else who happened to be living under a rock for the past couple of years), we thought it might be helpful to have a brief run-down of of the controversy surrounding Columbus Day on the Brown campus, as told by The Herald’s archives.
Oct. 7, 2008: Protests on Lincoln Field, part of a larger movement within the Native American community to end celebration of Columbus Day
Oct. 28, 2008: The Brown University Community Council voted that a student proposal to stop observing the holiday should be addressed.
Feb. 10, 2009: The Faculty Executive Committee delayed a vote on renaming Columbus Day on the University calendar, stating while the majority supported the measure, they felt they lacked the political authority to make such a call.
Mar. 3, 2009: A motion to rename Columbus Day to Fall Weekend was agreed upon at a faculty meeting, but there were not enough voting members present to make it official.
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Mar. 30, 2009: According the a Herald Poll conducted in March, 67.2 percent of students said they would change the name of Columbus Day, with 27.2 percent saying they’d like to stick with Columbus. Luckily Tomato Day never made it off the ground.
Apr. 2, 2009: Follow-up article about The Herald’s poll results, featuring more student and faculty opinions.
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by Opinions
Newly-christened Fall Weekend 2009 has come and gone, leaving Columbus Day behind for the first time…but not without protest and debate. You tell us: which name is more fitting for the holiday weekend? Or should the observance be moved to a different date altogether?
