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The Brown Noser

Andrew White

Writer (Retired)

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Hipsters Rave: Avatar was "Alright, I Guess" | Feb 26 2010

David Garcia '11 is known across campus as one of the most accomplished film critics at Brown University. Thanks to eloquent, gushingly positive reviews such as "Citizen Kane: Not So Bad, Except That One Part" and "Casablanca: I Dunno, Dude," Garcia has risen above the confines of his plaid button-downs, tight jeans and independent concentration in "Ideas and What They Signify" to become what some have called "Ebert and Roeper's deformed, slightly autistic film critique lovechild.

That One Story You Always Tell Not Actually Funny, Researchers Find | Dec 04 2009

A study led by Brown alumnus James Chun '03, to be published in the Journal of Natural Science, has made an astonishing breakthrough in the exciting new discipline of Asshole Studies - or, as the field's experts call it, Asshole Studies. Chun has demonstrated that there is a clear inverse relationship between the interesting or humorous factors of a story and the regularity with which that story is told.

Study Shows 95% of Bills on Campus Contain Trace Amounts of Pretension | Oct 23 2009

A recent study led by Brown graduate student Arvind Amernath on the chemistry of dollar bills in circulation on College Hill has revealed a frightening statistic about life at the university. As Amernath explains, "We, um, borrowed a large sample of cash from various locations around campus and studied its chemical composition.

Freshman in Search of Party Walks to Canada | Oct 23 2009

On the evening of October 9th, Rob Fischer '13 was "just looking for a party, man." Yet Fischer's plans got set aside when he found himself being held in a Canadian prison. Brown Noser operatives were able to interview Fischer under the ruse of a maximum security conjugal visit, where Fischer claimed that his ill-fated journey began at approximately 8:43 p.