By Phileda Tennant on October 24, 2008
Tired athletes, ravenous snackers and generally everyone who missed the 7:30 Ratty/V-Dub deadline descended as usual upon Josiah’s on the evening of Friday, September 25th. Walking through the doors they were first greeted by displays of balloons, and as they wondered what was going on while they waited innocently in line for their hamburgers, they [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Phileda Tennant on September 15, 2008
One quiet country evening, I convinced my trusty amigo Travis to join me in the long country drive to the nearest picture show to see Pineapple Express. “So what’s this movie about?”,Travis asked. Eager to appear hip to someone fresh from a summer at UT Austin, an Indie-culture-saturated university, I pretended to have heard Pineapple [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Phileda Tennant on April 17, 2008
On January 11, 2007, China, after a few misses, succeeded in blowing up one of their own low flying weather satellites, proving an intent toward scientific development that could one day challenge that of the United States. From March 2007 to 2008, there have been 12 arrests charging Chinese and Chinese-Americans with espionage against the [...]
Posted in International | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Phileda Tennant on March 21, 2008
On February 21, 2008, the seats in Salomon 101 quickly filled, as the attendees anticipated seeing former United Nations ambassadors John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke ‘62 duke it out over the importance of an organization “criticized as an irrelevant…debating society.” Or, at least, Janus Forum leader Jess Maddox ‘08 told the audience this was the [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged March 2008, Volume VI Number V
