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The Brown Jug Versus Exit 20

by Andrew Barlow


Change. We have just changed the name of our magazine to The Brown Jug. Once a continuation of the Jug, now a continuation of Exit 20,Brown’s humor magazine may finally have reached the full awkwardness of its adolescence. Our choice of name is sure to raise a few eyebrows. To be sure, dozens of alternate names were carefully evaluated before we made our decision, among them “The Brown Misnomer,” “The Brown Sucks,” and even “Jugxit 20.” But after all our deliberation, we went with the Jug. Our readers and alumni may ask us in perfect unison: “Does this name change reflect any real change in the magazine itself?”; and, “Does this change in name not insult and degrade thirteen years of high-class humorific tradition embedded firmly in Prohibition Era Brown culture by the original Jug?”; and, “When you now boast your editorship of ’Brown’s Second Oldest Student Publication Excluding The Yearbook (For Obvious Reasons)’, are you not blatantly overlooking the fact that other, more respectable publications such as The Critical Review and Issues Magazine--while younger--have published continually for more years than The Brown Jug has published intermittently?”; and, finally: “Does this nomenclatural alteration betray a deep lack of appreciation and even a hatred for each Exit 20 alumnus and everything he or she stood for?” The answer to each of these questions, we believe, is a resounding “talk to the hand.” Exit 20 was a reference to an interstate highway exit. We’ve decided that, with each issue, we would like to tarnish the university’s name by including it in ours. So, however sadly, Exit 20 Magazine will not make it to see its twentieth edition. After pausing for a brief retrospective on pages twenty-eight and twenty-nine, this is where Exit 20 gets off. If it is any consolation to our alumni, we believe the interstate exit is going to keep its name.

Kick Tom Roache Off Campus

by Andrew Barlow


Thomas Roache, Class of 2002, is a disgrace to this university. He has had almost one year to prove himself and he has failed and failed. It is time to get out the Raide. (the ’e’ is silent, right Tom?). Let us make our voices heard, in perfect unison, unabashedly supporting the immediate banishment of Tom Roache from this glorious campus. Please, Brown students, if we can agree on one thing, let us agree that the Brown Jug’s 1999 President Gee Phone Poll (pages six and seven) was a good idea and that just not enough people participated. And please, Brown students, if we can agree on two things, let us agree upon the expulsion of Tom Roache as our second thing. Thank you, and enjoy the nice weather at press time.