<p>Well, supposedly Brown was sending their decisions yesterday. Can anyone confirm or refute this? Also, has anyone gotten the news yet?</p>
<p>where did you hear that they were sending the news yesterday? i haven't gotten anything yet, anyway. and tomorrow's sunday...so hopefully monday is the day. god.</p>
<p>Not I.</p>
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<p>I talked to admissions on Thursday and they said they were being mailed out Friday afternoon (May 13th). I know they give a lot of contradictory information, but the person sounded confident...whatever that means.</p>
<p>Well, I guess I face my perdition Monday then. 0 for 2 hitherto....</p>
<p>Just for the record: If Maize does not get in, I am never going to make another prediction concerning college admissions.</p>
<p>Need-aware admissions decisions are completely unpredictable. . .</p>
<p>I think I'm in good shape if they considered my new test scores (<em>knocks on wood</em>). If not it might be a little (much) more iffy.</p>
<p>Unless, of course, there's anyone from the Brown admissions office on this board. One glance at my posts on affirmative action, homosexuality, or overpriced educations and I'm in the insta-reject pile :p Hey, someone has to keep the Brown kids from drifting left of Lenin! (not that I really think that would happen but I did get a few hits from admissions.brown.edu on my website when I posted something on the Brown board if anyone's looking to make an impression!)</p>
<p>...or they got that ugly snapshop I sent of myself a few weeks after I sent my pictureless application. That might hurt my chances.</p>
<p>Not really nervous, I'm into some other schools so I'll be happy either way.</p>
<p>maize, you're hilarious. it's too bad humor stands as your only basis in lambasting left-wing students though.</p>
<p>Humor is the rubber sword of politics - it makes your point without drawing blood.</p>
<p>Actually..
You're a philosophy girl, right? You should have read:</p>
<p>"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious"</p>
<p>recently. You know who it is w/out googling it?</p>
<p>no. and why should i have read that lately?
and no again: you're wrong. humor is not the rubber of sword of politics, it is the masked killer of the pure idea. both sides of the political spectrum in this country receive perhaps equal amounts of stereotyping, and raw satire in the hopes of discrediting whom they are, and what they believe in. comedy rules american politics. look at the last election. the problem is, so much bull-**** emphasis is placed on attacking the other side with humorous denigrations that underlying political ideas and theories are never really seen by the general public. a presidential candidate is not seen for his ideas and vision -- but his image. in the end, humor is great, but it's tendency to float near the surface can be dangerous.</p>
<p>janel89,</p>
<p>Do you not realize that strawmans are the only weapons the conservatives can employ?</p>
<p>Don't turn this into a politcal debate. Sheesh, jane, you sure got angry in a hurry.</p>
<p>Either way.</p>
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<p>Do you not realize that strawmans are the only weapons the conservatives can employ?
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<p>Huh? Are you kidding? Do you really want to make that argument? Remember that GW is a coke addict who got the gentleman's C's to get a Yale BA and Harvard MBA while choking on a pretzel and slurring words beyond the comprehension of a 6-year-old girl (while only using the diction of a 5-year-old). </p>
<p>...and that was BEFORE he decided to plan the 9/11 attacks, kill Muslims civilians for sport, and steal all the oil in the middle east (he's currently looking into the tea situation in China). I mean its common knowledge that he and Cheney did it all for the Bin Laden family and Haliburton, right?</p>
<p>...and that was before he started personally arresting citizens in good standing and personally beating, torturing, and killing them for giggles.</p>
<p>Ohh, yeah, he mispronounced nuclear once too.</p>
<p>haha, maybe. i've met plenty of conservatives with developed rationales, though i think that if the idea was sold moreso than the image, the majority of americans would vouch for the left. i'm a liberal...but i admit that this side is just as guilty -- if not more -- of the strawman. how much more bush pounding could possibly have been done? it hurts us more than it helps us; moderates and apathetics start simply wanting to go against the crowd, stand up for the guy who's getting shoved around. which, as they say, is what happened. but damnit i won't bring us into the election! hehe</p>
<p>...anyway.</p>
<p>yes, Brown mailed their stuff yesterday.</p>
<p>"...and that was BEFORE he decided to plan the 9/11 attacks, kill Muslims civilians for sport, and steal all the oil in the middle east (he's currently looking into the tea situation in China).</p>
<p>...and that was before he started personally arresting citizens in good standing and personally beating, torturing, and killing them for giggles."</p>
<p>maize, how the hell is that ad hominem, strawman, or any of that jazz? that's pure policy, dude. you were making a valid point up until there</p>
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haha, maybe. i've met plenty of conservatives with developed rationales, though i think that if the idea was sold moreso than the image, the majority of americans would vouch for the left.
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<p>I disagree. Fiscal responsibility was never the territory of the left before they saw an opportunity this election, so you can cross that off (ever hear of tax-and-spend?).</p>
<p>I think if ideas stood by themselves conservatives would be in an even more dominant position. </p>
<p>You may not know this if you live in an liberal enclave and have never left it (NYC, a college town etc), but most of the country is against things like unfairly progressive taxes, affirmative action, and gay marriage. These elitists somehow get the idea that everyone thinks like them.</p>
<p>I say this with the utmost sincerity even though I know it has grown cliche: The Northeastern limosine liberals have lost touch with America. If they ran on their pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-affirmative action, pro-tax burden, pro-welfare/social services agenda (instead of their "Bush is a moron and we're not Bush") - they would have lost be even more.</p>
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The Northeastern limosine liberals have lost touch with America. If they ran on their pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-affirmative action, pro-tax burden, pro-welfare/social services agenda (instead of their "Bush is a moron and we're not Bush") - they would have lost be even more.
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<p>Ad populum.</p>
<p>By the way, I am Libertarian, so my contempt for both Republicans and Democrats is equal; however, one only needs to listen to the diatribes of Rush Limbaugh to become cathartic.</p>
<p>Uhhhm....Ad populum is the fallacy of trying to argue that x is right because lots of people think x is right. Thats not what I did! Try again :p</p>
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<p>So am I, but I'm also realistic.</p>
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Uhhhm....Ad populum is the fallacy of trying to argue that x is right
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<p>That is an incorrect rendition; the rendering of normative statements is but one form of the ad populum fallacy.</p>
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<p>Wait, I thought you were humorous...</p>