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On Wednesday April 10th, students stampeded into Sayles Hall for the first night of Brown’s annual Housing Lottery, an event that entailed a stressful scramble for most students and an embarrassing misunderstanding for one. Moments after Joe Hutchinson ‘14 selected his housing, the first pick of the evening, Caleb Smith ’16 began to pelt the rising senior with an armful of stones.
Smith discharged several stones before he realized he was the only student throwing and stopped. Looking at the group of students standing next to him, Smith said, “You guys said he ‘won the lottery.’ I just asked you. Come on, you all know how this works.” Smith proceeded to half-heartedly throw another stone before several students explained to Smith his mistake.
“Oh man,” Smith said, his cheeks turning scarlet. “Boy do I have egg on my face. It’s just that, with all the dread in the air and the people shouting, I thought that, well, you know. Guess this isn’t that sort of lottery.”
Smith quickly left Sayles amidst students rolling their eyes and several murmurs of “typical freshman.”
Hutchinson later made a full recovery from his light wounds after treatment by Brown EMS, reluctantly summoned by students despite what witnesses agreed was a “dick move” by Hutchinson in picking one of the Minden top-floor singles and “totally ruining” several groups’ housing choices.
