The school colors are lame, but the students are happy

	Fritz Pollard, Brown class of 1919, was a recent Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee. Go Bruno! Brown University Archives

AFTER 5 A.M. There are those nights at school when you look at your watch and can't believe it's after five a.m. Brown students revel in such events and head for Louis, the definition of a greasy spoon. You can get two eggs, toast and potatoes for under four dollars, and if you want the party to keep going, Louis will serve your group pitchers of beer for only $4.50. The night before graduation Louis also hosts a champagne toast at 2 a.m. for graduating seniors.

MUST-EAT: East Side Pockets. Thayer Street, the main strip of Brown's campus, offers plenty of awesome food, but the best is East Side Pockets and its falafel sandwich (it's a wrap). If you don't think God blessed the chickpea, order the chicken pocket for a dollar more ($6). Warning: When you get to the front of the line -- and there is usually a line -- be prepared to answer quickly when asked what you want on your pocket. You've never heard the words, "hummus, tabouli, hot sauce," spit out so fast.

MUSIC MUST-STOP: Lupo's. Located down the hill from Brown in downtown Providence, Lupo's is a small club that caters to all musical tastes. In recent years Lupo's has hosted Jurassic Five, O.A.R. and Toots and the Maytails. (Toots is known to invite students backstage after their sets.) This fall Lupo's will host the Decembrists, Death cab for Cutie, Tony Yayo and the Wailers.

DOSE OF CULTURE: Counterculture is more like it. If you have ever thought of wrapping yourself in saran wrap or wearing only pleather, then the LGBTA's "Sex, Power, God" party is for you. If you miss SPG in the fall, don't worry, the group throws "Starf---" in the spring.

RULE TO LIVE BY: Brown women must be very wary when walking on the Pembroke side of campus. On the steps of Pembroke is the Pembroke Seal, and legend states that if a Brown girl steps on the seal, she will get pregnant and fail to graduate.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: First Friday night soccer game of the year. Soccer under the stars at Brown can't be beat. It's still warm out, you don't have a paper due for three weeks and the men's soccer team is an Ivy league powerhouse. It's also a great place to mingle and make plans for the night.

BEST NIGHT TO GO OUT: Wednesday Night at Fish Co. Some schools like to party on Thursday, but at Brown it's all about the midweek shindig. Football players work the door, and athletes, frat boys and girls wearing short skirts in February populate the bar. Just don't schedule any 9 a.m. classes on Thursday. You just won't make it.

ONLY AT BROWN: "The New Curriculum." Don't want to take math ever again? Well, you don't have to. Starting in 1969, Brown students were no longer forced to take a core curriculum, meaning classes outside of your concentration (Brown-speak for major). Every class became an elective. Part of the progressive program is that students can take all classes S/NC (pass/fail). No wonder the Princeton Review named Brown students the third happiest in the country.

RITE OF PASSAGE: Having sex on the 13th floor of the Science Library is one, and walking through the Van Wickle Gates might spring to mind first, but the truly well-informed point to two Spring Weekend events, SpagFest and Dave Binder. On the Friday of Spring Weekend the quirky members of the coed frat Zeta Delta Chi open their dorms and serve spaghetti and the cheapest boxed wine Providence offers. The room is packed for over six hours and plate after plate of spaghetti is passed out. Dave Binder is a local cover artist who comes to play on Wriston Quad on Sunday afternoon. Students pack the green (which the school covers in garbage bags and blankets so students won't tear up the grass) and sit in the sun for the afternoon drinking and listening to Jimmy Buffet covers. The lucky ones on Wriston get to enjoy "steak and lobster" day at Sigma Chi as the weekend winds down.

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