By Ryan Fleming on December 8, 2010
The event has noble goals (make sure people know their boundaries,
ensure all sexual intercourse is consensual), but the message is
blurred by the condom dart throw and the dildo ring toss. Instead of
talking about anything related to consensual sex, the event mostly
just involved games using sexual objects while people mentioned facts
about STDs or sexual assault. Unfortunately [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on November 16, 2009
On September 13th, Kanye West once again sated his addiction to making a fool of himself through outbursts on live programs. Remember his statement during a live benefit concert on NBC, next to a stunned Mike Myers, that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”? This time, during the Video Music Awards, he grabbed the [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged October 2009, Volume VIII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on January 28, 2009
John Murtha has certainly earned his reputation as an impulsive creature who frequently speaks, publicly no less, before he thinks. His many ragings over the conflict in Iraq are just one example. Think back to his rant about John McCain’s appearance on The Daly Show, in which the Senator joked about putting an IED under [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By The Brown Spectator on October 24, 2008
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) should perhaps be renamed “The Students for Disturbing Society” after another month of act-before-you-think protests. From disrupting a RIPTA board meeting to the point where police had to be called to making career decisions for Brown students as they entered the career fair, when will it become obvious [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
Speaker Pelosi and the House Majority Leadership for adjourning before passing an energy bill, turning off the lights and CSPAN cameras in the House Chamber, and leaving the ‘Guerilla Congress’ in control. To make matters worse for the Speaker, her book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters, has tanked and should be appearing [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on May 8, 2008
The controversy over Yale student Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project, in which she claimed to have artificially inseminated herself, then taken herbal abortifacient drugs to induce what she called “miscarriages,” is justified whether or not she actually performed any of the actions she described. If she truly performed these acts, she should be examined to [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By The Brown Spectator on April 17, 2008
Dutch MP Geert Wilders may have hoped that his incendiary documentary Fitna would incite extremists to commit horrible human-rights violations. And it did, though not from the Middle East. Throughout the European Union, fear and political correctness drove politicians and journalists alike to call for the documentary to be censored, and for Wilders to be [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By The Brown Spectator on February 21, 2008
As it turns out, the John Carter Brown Library may be in possession of one of the most important relics of early America: a map, dated to 1505 or 1506. What makes this relic special is its use of the word “America” over a mass of land approximating the location of Brazil. This makes the [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By The Brown Spectator on October 26, 2007
For a number of years, the Brown College Republicans have respected a tradition of passing down a large GOP flag to each successive CR president. This came to an end recently. One or more thieves stole the flag from CR President Marc Frank’s room in Keeney Quad. Since the robbery, the criminal(s) have left 3 [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By The Brown Spectator on February 1, 2007
For undermining the surge and the larger American effort to secure democracy in Iraq. In politicizing the war, the Democratic Congress, alongside a growing number of cowardly Republicans, has sent an unmistakable message of defeatism. As Defense Secretary Gates’s put it, a Congressional resolution against the troop surge simply “emboldens the enemy” and lends credence [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
