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Cord Jefferson · 03/11/13 07:36PM
Emma Watson Becomes the Latest Celebrity College Casualty
Richard Lawson · 03/07/11 03:39PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k23upq5lqlkjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Everyone loved that Emma Watson, cute British pixie, had decided to hole herself up in Providence and spend a few years at Brown. But now the Harry Potter actress and blossoming starlet has announced on her website that she's taking some time off from school to focus on promoting the final Harry Potter movie and to work on other film projects.
Brown Student Just So Happy to Be Out of Providence
Richard Lawson · 11/11/10 02:51PMSorry, Those Topless Photos of Emma Watson Are Fake
Adrian Chen · 11/07/10 10:51AMWarning Snooki: Your New Boyfriend Pulled a Shotgun on an Ex
Adrian Chen · 08/28/10 09:39AMIvy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
Foster Kamer · 10/03/09 01:30PMPaula Abdul's Diet Of Sour Skittles, SkatKat Scaries, And Gravity About To Go Terribly Wrong
Foster Kamer · 08/09/09 10:00AMIn Which Thomas Friedman is Hit With a Pie
Pareene · 04/23/08 05:34PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/17lzv84ih7lx4jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Reliably wrong New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was hit by a pie at Brown yesterday. There's a video! And also a leaflet. The leaflet is transcribed below, because we're sure you all want to know why Thomas Friedman was hit by pies. Oddly it had nothing to do with his mustache or defamation of cab drivers around the world. If a leaflet is not enticement enough, a clip of the pieing is after the jump.
Facebook chat beta required a 1500 SAT score, or at least a legacy
Nicholas Carlson · 04/09/08 11:20AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.png)
Facebook Chat launched in beta earlier this week, available first to students at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Berkeley, Brown, Dartmouth and MIT— schools known for their brilliant graduates who go out and change the world. Or at least make a lot of money. Or write nasty things about the people who do. Also: Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Berkeley, Brown, Dartmouth and MIT were the first schools to make Facebook popular, having been the first networks allowed access Mark Zuckerberg's creation. So we have that to thank them for too. Harvard's Alexander Konrad begins to earn our forgiveness, panning the new feature in the Crimson.
TV Reporter Attacked By Racist Crowd In South Carolina
Hamilton Nolan · 03/12/08 09:22AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/17lzrdwehetftjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Oh, this is just bad. A black female reporter in South Carolina was standing on a street covering a crime story when she was attacked by an entire white family, yelling racial slurs [CNN]. The reporter, Charmayne Brown, was thrown down on the ground, punched, and, it appears, strangled a bit. The entire attack was caught on tape by another (white) TV crew on the scene. Which raises the point: WAY TO JUMP IN AND STOP THE ATTACK, RIVAL TV CAMERA CREW. Jesus. News is a rough business. The entire ugly video is below—Brown's own (black) cameraman helped pull her to safety, and she is fine.
Brown U. Wannabe Writer Misses Phenomdom By A Hair
Emily Gould · 12/05/06 10:20AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.png)
Sophia Choukas-Bradley has been paying attention — not just to her professors at Brown, but to the current literary landscape. She knows that to have a truly impressive writing career — like a Foer brother or a Nick McDonell or a Marisha Pessl — you have to sell yourself based on that most valuable and fleeting of commodities: your precious talent youth. So she was completely correct to freak out as her 20th birthday approached: