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Clarke Miekeljohn ’14 held a press conference in Solomon 001 this morning to settle things once and for all: he is not a Miekeljohn. The sophomore fielded questions from students and faculty in an effort to clear up the misunderstanding. “My last name is a reflection of my Swiss heritage,” Miekeljohn said. “It is not a testament to my ability or desire to mentor and advise the freshman class.”
The students in attendance responded to this opening statement with questions of their own: “I was wondering if you could shed some light on the benefits of taking larger classes compared to smaller ones,” asked Maggie Campbell ’15.
“Do any professors smoke weed with the students?” Luis Porta ’15 inquired. “I’ve been saving this question for you because I know you can answer these types of things from a student perspective, which is cool!”
A frustrated Miekeljohn then attempted to explain that he was neither faculty nor student adviser and while “sure, he could try to give some advice,” he was a transfer student and did not think his advice held any clout over the advice of any other student.
“I don’t know how I can continue to live a normal life at Brown if students are going to show up at my dorm every day asking if they could go over their shopping period plans,” Miekeljohn said. “I just got here myself and don’t even know what shopping period is.”
Miekeljohn also spoke of a terrifying encounter he had with another student earlier in the semester, when a senior Miekeljohn peer adviser scolded him for not wearing the Miekeljohn t-shirt all advisers are required to wear during orientation week.
“He said he was a senior Miekeljohn, and at first I thought he was making fun of my late grandfather, Arte Miekeljohn,” Clarke said in an interview with the Noser.
“He then asked why I wasn’t wearing ‘the shirt’, and I told him I thought it was more of a ‘sweater weather kind’ of day,” Miekeljohn said.
The senior then warned Miekeljohn that if he saw him without the shirt again, he’d get kicked out of the program, before punching him and running away.
