To the Editor:
I strongly agree with Kurt Walters's exhortation ("Off the Hill," Sept. 24) to his fellow Brown undergraduates to get off the hill.
I remember that when I started at Brown in 2000, the only time most undergrads left campus was to go to the Providence Place Mall. Most of them took the trolley — I was surprised in my first week when I walked down the hill and discovered that the mall was just a 15 minute (at most) walk away.
A decade later, and six years after graduating, I am still in Providence, a result of the strong bond I made with the city due to my involvement as a student journalist and activist at Brown. Most of the people I know from Brown who are still here had a similar experience at college, spending plenty of time learning and having fun on campus but also enjoying what the wider city has to offer.
Most of them also were involved in some kind of local (off-campus) political activism or community service, often through Swearer Center programs. The column's claims are one hundred percent true.
Peter Ian Asen '04
Sept. 27
