Chris's articles
Dear Chris,
There's so much pressure to donate blood, but I just don't want to. What do you think about blood drives?
-Harold Spade
Harold,
I love donating blood. I'm just really good at it, I don't particularly like to save people.
Dear Chris,
Summer is almost here and I still don't have a job! What should I do?
- Wendy McKowen
Wendy, as my frequent readers should be aware, I'm all about saving the world. The best way to spend your summer to this end is interning for some sort of non-profit or NGO something or other that all the hipsters love.
Colin Brady '10 envies most of his fellow Brown students. He watches them go about their days without the sorts of worries he has come to accept as unavoidable, and he wishes he could join them in a life that must be infinitely easier than the one he has been fated to lead.
Many students were shocked and amused when, on return from Spring Break earlier this month, they saw the harmless, playful vandalism of the statue of Marcus Aurelius.
[b]Dear Chris,
I have some ADOCH kids coming to stay with me, what should I do to show them a good time?
-Melanie Chisholm [/b]
Melanie,
Your question comes at a perfect time, for me if not for you. I just recently finished the preparations for my pre-frosh, so a response to your inquiry takes very little work on my part.
Matt Carter '08 was shocked last Wednesday when, on a trip to the Rockefeller Library, he inadvertently stumbled upon Academy Award-winning actor Sean Connery. Carter, an admittedly amateur library user, was "looking for a quiet place to study" when he turned a corner and found himself face to face with one of the sexiest men in the world.
This month, Chris addresses hard-hitting personal questions, such as "Do you have any spring break ideas?" "What are your feelings about BANNER?" and "Do you think someone stuck their you-know-what in the apple pie ice cream?"
In accordance with long-standing tradition, January 2007 saw the Brown Interdepartmental Games and Pageant, in which the German department was voted "Fittest on Campus" for the 56th consecutive year.
This month, Chris addresses hard-hitting personal questions, such as "Do your parents know you're gay?" "What are you doing to combat the cold?" and "Should I have sex with my professor?"
After an unexpectedly disappointing fourth quarter in 2006, the Brown Bookstore publicly admitted that the sales of its highly touted Physics Department sweatshirt lagged considerably behind early expectations. After the pervasive advertising campaign that accompanied the release of sweatshirt, the lack of a market came as a surprise to many.
Pawtucket, RI - The scene in this Providence suburb last Thursday had the potential to be grizzly. The remains of a white fence lay scattered and smashed across a lawn scarred by deep ruts. An out-of-control van had careened off the road and across this lawn, ending up mostly submerged in a swimming pool.
As a casual pedestrian, it is easy to assume that the white markings at the intersections on Thayer Street represent an aesthetic aspect of the massive construction project currently underway in that area. However, this is not the case. These "designs" are a symptom of what has been described by Douglas Brinkley as a "scatological phenomenon."