Birthday Dunkings

Whether it’s someone in your O-Week group, a friend, or a roommate who is celebrating their birthday, this person must be soaked in the sacred waters of the Fairy Fountain to ensure good luck and success over the next year. Whether it be at lunch, at midnight, or taken straight out of class, we're sure to swing the Brownie over the fountain while singing before they get tossed. Sometimes this involves a long, intense chase, but other times it works as a quiet ambush. Afterwards, the birthday Brownie chases all the spectators for a (super wet) hug :)

Fridays/Nights in the Quad (FITQ/NITQ)

The week can often be hard, and to help kick off the weekend, the Brown EC and Committees host Fridays in the Quad! Filled with food, music, games, and drinks, a FITQ is a great way to just hang out in the quad as you pass by or for the whole afternoon. Sometimes, various committees also host FITQs, so you come down those days for extra fun and games. Throughout the year, some FITQs are turned into NITQs complete with a bonfire and s’mores.

Brown Defense

Baker 13 has its fun all year, but on the Halloween and Senior Runs, Brown College has had enough. We won’t take the injustice of shaving cream on our windows and walls. Instead, we build barricades and bombard the runners with water balloons as they try to infiltrate our home. Brown is known for having THE largest and most elaborate defense, and we are proud of it!

Jacks

The lesser colleges must be made to Bow Down to Brown.

Under the supervision and permission of the Chief Justice, jacks are (mostly) harmless pranks played between members of different colleges, or on the university as a whole. Anyone (even you!) can think of and execute a new jack.

Popular jacks by Brown include (but aren’t limited to):

• taking over other college’s commons

• TP’ing other colleges

• stealing Wiess’ War Pig

• The Hanszen Diagnosis.

• leaving cars in the parking lot next to Jones (apparently renamed to martel college?)

• much more (can’t put all our secrets online…)

Loop Troop

Every Sunday morning, our lovely RA Hossam leads a group run around the outer loop of campus (about 3.1 miles or a 5k). Everyone can walk, jog, or run at their own pace until meeting back at Brown at the finish line, no running experience required! Afterwards, Hossam often offers fruit, snacks, hot chocolate, and good vibes.

Floorlympics

At the beginning of the year, all the floors are equal. But after Floorlympics, one floor will dominate all others. Floorlympics is a great exhibition of Brown’s floor culture. Each floor comes down in their own special jerseys (shirts/tanks), and we compete in watermelon eating, juice pong, volleyball, tug of war, and cheer battles. Nothing brings the Brown community together more than a bit of floor rivalry.

Brown Skate

During O-Week, Brown rents out a roller rink and takes our newest Brownies skating! Later in the year, Brown rents out the Galleria ice rink and invites the entire college for a night on the ice.

It’s a great way to bond as a college either as a clumsy novice or an experienced pro.

Trivia Night

Once a semester, the B-Team hosts a rowdy, competitive trivia night in Commons with food and drinks. Brownies form their own teams as friends, floors, or o-week groups to battle head to head for glory, prizes, and the winner’s trophy. We take this VERY seriously, so no phones allowed.

Casino Night

In the fall, Brown Commons transforms into a casino floor complete with blackjack tables, poker tabkes, craps, and roulette ran by real dealers. Brownies are invited to dress their best and have fun trying to win as many chips as possible to transfer into raffle tickets at the end of the night. Masks for decoration, photo opportunities, food, and drinks are provided.

Brown’s Finest

Our talented community gets to show off their amazing skills once a year in a talent show in commons! We’ve seen musical performances, dance routines, fight choreography, and even a musical puppet show. The winner is sent to Rice’s Finest to represent Brown College on the university’s stage.

Branszen Camping Takeover

One night of the year Brownies rent tents from the rec center and invade Hanszen College’s quad for a cookout, movies on the lawn, music, games, and an overnight stay under the stars.

Hanszenites are invited for games and food during the afternoon, but while they sleep, Brownies are hard at work at a jack prepared to surprise the college when they awake.

College Night

College Night is an event held by every college one Friday per semester, often on the same day.

For Brown, it is a day filled with donuts, drinks, and dares as we wear matching themed shirts and visit each other’s classes all day, then continue the fun with games and a special FITQ in the afternoon. The night is often accompanied with jacks and panel debates.

Hanszen College

Does your sibling ever piss you off? So does ours! In between all of our bonding and social events throughout the year, we like to butt heads with our sister college Hanszen and settle the score.

Don’t worry—whether it’s a Mock Bike competition, a jack war, surprise late-night takeover, or Jello Scoot (ifkyk), Brown always ends up on top. Pull up to help put these clowns in their place.

Jones College

Our neighbor and fellow all-female college.

Despite being labeled “off-campus,” we are literally connected to Jones (ugh) so don’t believe their lies.

Also, somebody needs to teach these tryhards who really owns the Fairy Fountain. If you find yourself with a full roll of toilet-paper and a need to blow off some steam, text your Brown President, you know where to find me.

Remember: Jones Blows Goats