In an article appearing in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, a few Brown events were mentioned as creative, alcohol-free alternatives to the traditional binge-drinking infused college parties the media tends to report on:

At Brown University in Providence, R.I., an alcohol-free “foam party,” a dance with the floor flooded with bubbles, draws about 600 students during Spring Weekend, a series of student-run events to celebrate the near-ending of the school year, when drinking is higher than usual, says Erin Hannen, a junior at Brown.

Others, however, are up-front. At Brown University, an “Art Gallery Mocktail Party” at fall orientation for the past two years has drawn 20% of incoming freshman,” says organizer Halie Rando, a senior at Brown.

While this is possibly the first time the phrases “alcohol-free” and “Spring Weekend” have been mentioned in the same sentence, it is nice to see a News Corp subsidiary highlight something nice about our University as opposed to trashing our “pure debauchery”.

Ted Turner ’60 never technically graduated from Brown, but the billionaire mogul is cool with it. According to Turner, he’s OK with having had financial trouble end his tenure at the University. In a Wall Street Journal article yesterday, he boasted, “I did everything I did without a college degree. … You can be successful without it.” While that may be true, he also was expelled from Brown after he was caught living with his girlfriend. Scandalous.

He didn’t need no Brown BA to recently take about 100 bison from Yellowstone Park. I guess he didn’t hear that Brunonians no longer use wild animals as mascots anymore.