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Last year, a number of Brown’s eating establishments invited students to put their original art on the walls. Since then, the walls have slowly become smattered with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the sometimes funny art of Brown University students. Despite the seemingly innocuous nature of wall art, however, here is where we [...]

Last year, as a group of black students were put on a very public trial in a case known as the Jena Six, we saw a reemergence of the often sugar-coated race debate. For those of us who do not come from towns where there is a high amount of racial tension, we have no [...]

I ran into this cartoon today at World on the Web. I couldn’t stop laughing.

If you haven’t seen the video yet, here it is. Hillary crying. Boo hoo hoo!! I can’t believe it, but a lot of analysts are saying that this moment of rehearsed pitiful weakness won a bunch of female voters over. I even heard one woman interviewed who said the moment changed everything for her because [...]

FemSex and MSex, please accept my deepest, most sincere apology.You’re right. I was ill-informed, and I didn’t mean to spread my ill-information like a plague. How could I have been so ignorant as to not assume that those things done in FemSex (discussions of dildos, vibrators, strap-ons, and other various as-sistors of deviancy) are also [...]

A couple weeks back I got an email from Dean Takesue. It read: “FALL RETREAT FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR. Leaders with a Life: Balancing Organizational Demands with Personal Responsibilities or Why am I licking envelopes at 3:00am?” The event was to take place on Friday, October 12 in Arnold Lounge. The invite went on to [...]

Bad food at the Ratty is a Brown tradition as entrenched as the naked donut run and as pervasive as hippie girls who do not shave their legs. It is as expected as the verdict in an OJ Simpson murder trial, and as customary as the singleness of Catholic clergy. There is no getting around [...]

From accusations of police brutality, and BUDS employees seeking increased wages and reduced hours, to gays demanding the restoration of their constitutionally protected blood-giving privileges, and the creation of gender-neutral bathrooms, this year has been one for the books. I have never seen so much protesting in all of my life. But as I recall, [...]

On a campus such as this, there is a tendency to be quite unreasonably left politically. Political extremities tend to breed political polarity of an equal and opposite nature. Thus, those that hold to an opposite viewpoint tend to think themselves as the proprietors of real truth. My
purpose for writing this article is not to [...]