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Monday, November 21, 2005
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Well, say what you will… …the merde’s definitely hit the ventilateur at Brown University over the SEX POWER GOD party (“The party was named after a lecture given on campus in the 1980s,” Brown‘s student newspaper somewhat pedantically explains. Brown holds a presumably more traditional annual party with the cornpone name, “Freshman Fling.”) and related events. The university has decided, for instance, to “prohibit loud parties and other ‘rowdy’ social events in Sayles for the rest of the semester in response to Sex Power God.” Plus officials have emailed a letter to parents and alumni describing some of what they’re doing in response to events: Student life deans are investigating student groups that organized last weekend's events, an ad-hoc committee will be created to review social event policies, administrators will review which types of events are suitable to be held in Sayles Hall and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Nancy Barnett of Brown's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies will lead a review of the University's alcohol policy. (UD, always looking for the silver lining, found two things to smile about in the campus newspaper’s account of the ill-starred SEX POWER GOD: (1.) "[Our campus group’s party’s cancellation] was a huge problem," said Michael Kum '06. (2.) "That is a very important space on campus [said one official]. “There are portraits and … the organ that are very valuable to the University.”) |