Times Columnist Hit In Face With Pie During Speech At Brown

Political Activism At Its Best: A female Brown University student leaped on stage during a talk by NY Times Columnist Tom Friedman and hit him square in the face and chest with a lemon meringue pie. But this was no ordinary pie-throwing protest: the student, who was caught shortly after her sweet stunt, had thrown leaflets around the auditorium explaining that she had thrown the pie to raise awareness of what she saw as Friedman’s fake, facetious environmentalism.

The pamphlet declares “Thomas Friedman’s ‘Green’ as fake and toxic to human and planetary health as the cool-whip (sic) covering his face.”

That’s gotta hurt, Tom.

There’s an uplifting end to the story, though; ten minutes after the pie incident, Friedman returned to the stage sans Cool Whip and gave the rest of his talk.

Brown drops tuition for the poorer folks, too

Harvard did it, then everyone else did it: Now Brown is the latest school in the long, long falling domino line of elite schools offering tuition cuts to middle class students and their families. It’s about time. Families making under $100k a year won’t be expected to take out loans, and families earning less than $60k won’t pay a thing.

NIU resumes classes: Ten days after a gunman shot and killed five students and then himself in a lecture hall at this Illinois university, students are finally returning to their classes. One student called it a “lean on me” kind of day. In less happy news, after the shootings, 12 states are now considering allowing concealed handguns to be carried on their campuses for greater protection in case of another shooter. Bad idea? BAD IDEA.

Facebook dying, maybe? The incredibly popular college social networking site recently saw its site hits level off and even decrease by 800,000 individuals in January. I blame all those goddamn invitations to start “biting chumps” and “comparing what movies I like.” I hate that shit.