The only remark I’ve heard among my friends more than “I have like noo points left” is “I am in love with my TA.”

First, the reasoning behind this how-to post not only comes from my friends’ whining, excessive Facebook stalking, and primping before section, but also a(n) pathetic inspirational post from a certain New Haven school’s blog. The writer of the column confessed that he professed his love for his TA with the timeless “Hi, I love you, sushi tastes good with me” pick-up line.

Side note: You want to know the real difference between us and Yalies? We have social skills and they don’t. (If you don’t get that reference, please cancel your next Wednesday night debauchery-filled plans and watch the late current train wreck Lindsay Lohan’s masterpiece.)

While we don’t suggest you use the aforementioned Yalie’s pick-up line, here are a few tips on how to woo your TA into bed this Valentine’s Day: [Read more →]

While you were enjoying your last week or so on break at home, the men’s ice hockey team was busy taking down the #1 college hockey team in the nation in dramatic fashion! Just a day after falling to the Bulldogs 5-2 in New Haven, Bruno enacted its revenge back in Providence on Sunday. [Read more →]

Harvard CS students seem to be spending their time on something a little bit different.  Type www.safetyschool.org into your web browser, press enter, and see what page it redirects to.  Welcome to the Crimson life, y’all.

To check out a similar feud on the west coast, enter www.stanfordrejects.com or www.crappyschool.org into your browser’s address bar.  Here’s a hint: both redirect to the main page for a certain state school in Cali that starts with a B and ends with an –erkeley.

After pledges to a Yale fraternity chanted “No means yes, yes means anal” as part of an initiation ritual two weeks ago, women’s organizations and commentators have called upon Yale to reassess its commitment to women’s rights on campus.

An op-ed in Slate decried the “flippant” response from the Yale Daily News, citing an editorial in the student newspaper on Oct. 18 that described the Yale Women’s Center’s response to the event as “initial overreaction” and “histrionics.” The Huffington Post has also reported on the controversy, and at least three online petitions urge Yale administrators to take further action against the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Photo via The Yale Daily News

According to The Yale Daily News, police officers raided an off campus More-Ezra Stiles “screw” (a Yale version of SPG?) as part of “Operation Nightlife” to “curb violence in the downtown entertainment district.” Apparently, a dozen police officers stormed the club with SWAT gear and assault rifles, ultimately resulting in the Tasering of one student and arrest of 5…and I thought Brown was supposed to be a dangerous place.

So in the problem-free utopia that is New Haven, the question begs to be asked, why is the NHPD spending $15,000 a weekend targeting college kids, especially Yalies?  Has ResCollege competition gotten out of hand? Are the Whiffs at war with the Doox? Is tapping stirring up strife between secret societies?   We Brunonians may never know. But hey, that’s why we didn’t choose Yale.

A video, clearly showing that the popo meant business, after the jump.   [Read more →]

After sampling Tuesday’s poor excuse for fusion cuisine (need you be reminded of los tacos del refectorio Sharpe?), this die-hard omnivore wondered: perhaps it’s time for a change of pace at BUDS?  After CFF at the V-Dub and eating seven of these over the weekend, it’s appropriate to wonder: do any of us really need meat when we trudge back to the Ratty for the first lunch of the week?

Call it blasphemy, but perhaps it’s time to take a leaf out of Yale’s book.  No, we don’t mean that Brown students should make a nauseatingly campy admissions video.  “Meatless Mondays” is a new initiative pioneered by the Yale Student Environment Coalition to raise student consciousness about eating sustainably and reducing the university’s carbon footprint.  If, like Yale Dining, BUDS committed to make its Mondays meatless (or Tuesdays, or Wednesdays, or Thursdays), maybe Brown students could learn a thing or two about living without being hooked up to an IV of meat.

Now, this blogger enjoys la charcuterie alsacienne just as much as the next person.  But when it’s a choice between brackish chana masala and rock-hard pork chops, why not give old Mother Nature a hand?

Sarah Forman writes in today’s Brown Daily Herald about the University’s spike in applicants in the last few years. But the article notes that most other highly selective schools are getting similar attention, leading to a decrease in matriculation rates. A prominent college consultant told The Herald that about 95 percent of her students would choose Yale over Brown if they got into both schools. There’s no way to know for sure, but this 2005 study details preferences more specifically. Faced between Princeton and Brown, 73 percent of admitted students would choose Princeton; between Brown and Columbia, 56 percent would matriculate to Brown, according to the mathematical estimate. Read more in the next few weeks about how Brown is branding itself.

“It really is kind of simple. Parents don’t send their kids to Yale to sleep with their professors.”

Intentions aside, such extracurricular activities are now off the table, err … desk. A brand new policy at Yale will make office hours officially a PG activity.

But before all Yalies run screaming (and try to transfer to the Rhode Island land of free lovin’): TAs are still fair game.

Brown got a shining review from a Washington Post College Tour ’10 contributor today. It sounds like she didn’t find Emma Watson or Scout Willis (Brown is “known for” its celebrities?), but she was impressed by other (maybe less important?) features of Brown, such as the open curriculum. She was also happy with her tour and info session, when an admission counselor told them, “Please make sure there are no typos in your applications. For instance, please don’t spell Brown Y-A-L-E.”

The series provides a nifty map of other schools they’ve reviewed.

Landed on the “Yale Spring Fling” Facebook page and they’re trying to start shit with us.

Their posts read: ” Brown’s getting MGMT too…but they’re straight posing, cuz we booked them back in NOVEMBER. Yale 1, hippies 0″

and

” New score, we forgot: Brown is getting Wale. Too bad we got him LAST YEAR. Yale 2 hippies 0″

Sorry, but:
1. Who cares when someone was booked?
2. Anyone who says “straight posing” like that is, well, straight posing.

Enough said.