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Simon Liebling '12: Good riddance, Goldman
By Simon Liebling | February 15Ruth Simmons stole my column idea.
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William Tomasko '13: Brown, ROTC and DADT
By William Tomasko | February 15This year, if President Barack Obama can fulfill a promise he made in Wednesday's State of the Union address, Congress will finally repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. When — and only when — this national injustice is remedied, ...
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David Sheffield '11: A skeptic's response to Oscar the Cat
By David Sheffield | February 9Human interest stories are an easy way for newspapers to fill space. They appeal to readers without having journalists spend much time with pesky fact checking. Especially as newspapers and other organizations lay off science journalists, it is increasingly clear that entertaining consumers, rather ...
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Will Wray '10: To the nay-sayers in Congress, keep naying.
By Will Wray | February 8Barack Obama recently took the opportunity during his State of the Union address to chide you nay-sayers for your negativity. "Just saying no to everything," he condescended, "may be good short-term politics, but it's not leadership."
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Yue Wang '12: For the sake of hope
By Yue Wang | February 8Born to a small Chinese village two thousand miles away from Beijing, my father traveled to the nation's capital in the spring of 1978 and toured the city for the very first time.
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Rosenbaum '11: State of the state
By Tyler Rosenbaum | February 7Late last month, Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 gave his final State of the State address. For me — and I venture to suppose for the majority of The Herald's readers as well — the governor's imminent departure from Smith Hill is a rare ray of sunlight in what will undoubtedly otherwise be a cloudy ...
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Tomasko '13: Rankings schmankings
By William Tomasko | February 7CollegeConfidential.com is a pretty frightening place.
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Martinez '08: Ending educational inequity
By Marco Martinez | February 5My 30-minute commute to work, with the potent three cups of coffee en route and the beauty of the sun shining between sporadic trees, offers a nice snapshot of my past two years. Teaching fifth-grade science to 140 wide-eyed students at PFC David Ybarra Middle School in Edcouch-Elsa, Tex., has been ...
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Liebling '12: Police brutality comes to College Hill
By Simon Liebling | February 4There are days in Providence when it feels like the only thing more common than rain is the police, when, with the Brown, RISD and Providence departments, you can't turn a corner, right here on the East Side, without running into yet another cop car. But even though we live next door to a precinct office, ...
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Andrea Matthews '11: Eating a hole in our wallets
By Andrew Matthews | February 2I love hosting prospective freshmen. Last semester, I showed a delightful young woman from New York City around campus. I took her through the Main Green, to Jo's for a late night snack and, the next morning, to the Ratty for breakfast. (I figured it would be honest to expose her to ...
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Yue Wang '11: Repeal Rhode Island's Amazon tax
By Yue Wang | February 1Between the two sure things in life — death and taxes — Amazon.com seems determined to eschew at least the latter in many places in this country. Collecting sales tax on Amazon.com was a largely ignored issue because, in most states, the online store has no legal obligation to collect taxes ...
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Sarah Yu '11: Our say in academics
By Sarah Yu | February 1During a reception for international students at the Faculty Club last month, Vice President for International Affairs, Matthew Gutmann, was questioned by concerned students about why the Watson Institute has not yet taken to starting programs on contemporary China and Southeast Asia.
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Brian Judge '11: Haiti: where morality meets reality
By Brian Judge | January 31As I read the heart-wrenching accounts of people being pulled from the rubble in Port-au-Prince, I couldn't help but wonder what we hope to do for Haiti in the long term. Eventually the streets will be cleared of rubble and the wounds will start to heal. But what comes next?
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Nida Abdulla '11.5: A meal credit or a snack credit?
By Nida Abdulla | January 28I feel like someone out there in the intricate corporate web that is Brown is sticking it to me every time I buy food at the Gate, Jo's or the Ivy Room. The other day I missed dinner in the V-Dub, so I decided to go to the Gate for a meal. A meal at the Gate is six bucks, and it bought me a cup of soup, ...
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David Sheffield '11: Don't hesitate to vaccinate!
By David Sheffield | January 27The second wave of novel H1N1 influenza — the swine flu — is over, and the number of new cases continues to decrease. However, this does not mean that the virus is finished. The 1918 flu swept the world in three waves: first in the spring and summer of 1918, then in the fall, and finally ...
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Mike Johnson '11: Money can't buy me ... text
By Mike Johnson | January 26As spring kicks into high gear far too early for any of us to handle, all of our hard-earned summer cash is doomed to spiral (counter-clockwise, since we're in the northern hemisphere) straight down the drain. The city of Providence is looking forward to the Brown community returning to its stores and ...
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Ethan Tobias '12: Who is this for?
By Ethan Tobias | January 26The semesters are always extremely busy, with tons of classes, exams and papers. On top of all the coursework, students have many extracurricular responsibilities. Most students can barely cram in a social life, let alone an occasional full night's sleep. Overwhelmed by the breadth of work and ...
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Kate Fritzsche '10: Is 'good and getting better' enough?
By Kate Fritzsche | December 3Yesterday, Psychological Services announced its plans to hire a new psychotherapist in order to expand resources available to students. This move will increase the number of free visits students are allowed each year from five to seven, and it should also reduce the waiting time before students are ...
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Mike Johnson '11: Sticky fingers
By Mike Johnson | December 3If you're like me, you look forward to the crime updates that the Department of Public Safety sends us. Perhaps it's a healthy dose of schadenfreude, but the Campus Safety reports are much more interesting to read than Morning Mail messages, as they practically embody an e-mail version of "Cops," minus ...
