As a crescent moon rose to join a canopy of glowing paper lanterns above Brown University’s College Green, thousands of alumni, soon-to-be graduates, families and friends gathered on Friday night for one of Brown’s most beloved Commencement and Reunion Weekend traditions: Campus Dance. This year’s Campus Dance lineup included MAMBO, Brown’s premier salsa and merengue orchestra; the Stowaways, a student-led ensemble that performs energetic and faithful renditions of harmony-drenched, high-energy oldies; and Class of 2016 alumnus DAP The Contract, a hip-hop and Afro-fusion producer and rapper from Lagos, Nigeria. Class of 1986 graduates Mary-Jo Haronian and Scott Joy had extra reason to be excited for Brown University’s Reunion 2026 — it was also their wedding. More than 40 years ago, Haronian and Joy met on their very first day on Brown’s campus as next-door neighbors in the Champlin residence hall. They were friends through their first year but then lost touch — until Brown brought t...