Puppies, everywhere!

Health Education and Health Services held Heavy Petting on the Main Green, when Brown staff and faculty brought their dogs to school for the petting/making-silly-noises benefit of the student body.

Held once or twice a semester, Heavy Petting helps relief the stress of upcoming final exams, papers and projects.

Better hurry: The dogs are only here from 11:30 to 1:00.

… 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.

…and the tour guides were loving every minute of it. So were we.

The Brown Bear statue is sending some “Brunonian Love” on the eve of Singles Awareness Valentine’s Day. Though the toga might have looked better on Caesar Augustus or Marcus Aurelius, the bear is certainly more loving and tender.

Check him out when you head to the Blue Room for some ice cream…

Pink tees and pumping iron collide on the Main Green this afternoon, as the Brown Football Team hosts its “Bench Press for Cancer” fundraiser.

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Brown University Health Services sponsored a “Heavy Petting” event this morning, which featured Brown faculty and staff and their furry friends as a great way to de-stress from the barrage of mid-October mid-terms and papers.