Providence resident Gary Walton was channel surfing Wednesday night when he stumbled across an episode of Animal Planet's "Pet Star," a show featuring animals tricked into performing wild and zany feats with the elusive promise of being fed.
"I saw the dog on the TV," recounted Walton, "and that's when I got the idea: what if my dog saw the dog on TV?"
Walton had many hypotheses about what would happen when his dog Atticus, a Chow Hound whose name he denies comes from the father in "To Kill A Mockingbird," would see the dog on television.
On Monday, Providence resident Jonathan Schmidt finally issued a heartfelt confession to his alleged theft of over a dozen chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies from their proper places in the jar. Schmidt had been apprehended near the scene of the crime months ago and charged with stealing the cookies, but prior to his confession yesterday he planned to plead not guilty on the basis of his defense, "Couldn't be.
It was past 11 p.m., but the night was just beginning at The LonelyMasturbation Company, where an unprecedented swell in attendance since the beginning of the semester has turned the Water Street bar into Providence's hottest late-night destination.
Owner Adrian Campbell described LonelyMasturbation Co as "a great place for people to get together, unwind and wallow in their emotional isolation.
At the start of this semester, Modern Culture and Media concentrator Victor Skrovan '11 was invigorated by the prospect of starting his own student-run film society. He had procured all the necessary signatures and quickly received approval from the Undergraduate Council of Students.
A new course offered this semester by the Department of Comparative Literature, COLT1740F: "Comparative Textbook Analysis," has drawn criticism from students for its heavy workload and costly reading materials.
Required reading for the class includes several editions of several textbooks on each of several scientific subjects, as well as two editions of the course text, Modern Approaches to Textbook Analysis, a compendium containing full reproductions of dozens of textbooks.