Eric's articles
No matter the persistent Providence rainstorms of late, residents of Keeney Quad say spring fever is already here. While a fire alarm that went off late last Saturday night caused firefighters to search through Keeney for signs of smoke, the real sparks seemed to be happening outside where students clad in various states of undress waited patiently to be allowed back inside.
Cornell students were disappointed this past Saturday when campus police broke up a party at the school's Delta Chi fraternity house, but not too disappointed. Many students have reported that the party was already dying down when law enforcement arrived, although not because it was getting late.
Residents of New Dorm B's first floor were shocked Sunday morning to find janitor Philip Taylor, a longtime worker for the Office of Residential Life, peeing from outside the entrance to the bathroom, aiming his trail of urine off of a hand dryer to get it to land safely in the urinal.
For many, the ongoing financial crisis that has swept American and global markets has been a source of continual anxiety and panic with unemployment rates on the rise and stocks falling to their lowest levels in years. For Miller, however, it has provided a potential source of fame.
Scott Mound '08 is many things: a budding poet; a moderately skilled athlete; a triple concentrator in English, Political Science, and University studies; an asset in a game of flip cup. But one thing he is not is a college graduate, unlike the former students he calls "those quitters in my graduating class.
Residents of Harkness House have been hard-pressed recently to ignore the incessant rants of Timmy Gibbs '10, a resident of the dorm and an avid fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's film "There Will Be Blood." The sophomore, who purchased the DVD of the film a week ago at a nearby Newbury Comics, insists that the movie he won't stop quoting is a "modern masterpiece.
A new CNN/Gallup poll released Wednesday revealed that Jimmy Baker, a Vietnam veteran and former construction worker living under Route 95, has begun to stage a comeback in the hearts and minds of voters still undecided on which candidate to support in the 2008 presidential election.
Despite putting considerable effort into his most recent YouTube video, Jared Plimpton '10 was disheartened last Sunday to discover that, after 420 views, his user rating sat at a thoroughly mediocre 2.34 stars.
"One of my Top 8 on MySpace wrote on my wall to break the news," Plimpton said in an interview with The Noser.
In a move sure to send shock waves throughout Brown's social scene, Fish Company manager Shane Boxerhausen announced publicly last week that, despite its long-standing policy to the contrary, the popular bar and grill will no longer accept fake IDs or baseball cards as proper identification.
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