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Corvese ’15: Big hits, bigger consequences

On Sunday, the body of missing Ohio State University football player Kosta Karageorge was found in a dumpster. Officials believe the cause of death is suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot. Shortly before his disappearance a few days prior, he texted his mother, “I am sorry if I am an embarrassment ...


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Hillestad ’15: The dangers of a Brown education

As a Brown student, odds are you’re going to make a lot of money. You’re probably going to translate your Ivy League education into a lucrative and successful career. You’ll go into tech or consulting or finance, and you’ll make bank, partly because you’re good at what you do and partly because ...


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Blake ’17: Recruiting is not to blame

Earlier this semester, The Herald conducted a poll of undergraduates to determine their views regarding athletes and athletics on campus. The results were hardly a surprise. Fifty-nine percent of the non-athlete portion of the student body expressed negative views regarding the reservation of admission ...


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Kenyon GS: Is this goodbye, Dr. Huxtable?

We all carry the memory of special people in our soul. We grow with these individuals, age with them. As we develop our own senses, we watch what were once the mighty oaks of our childhood dwindle and dwarf before us. It is far too often that our rosy memories of these titans of our youth transform ...


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Mills ’15: The NFL’s troubled roots

We’ve all seen the recent spate of NFL scandals: Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, Ray MacDonald and others. The National Football League is facing a behavior crisis large enough to merit an internal review and repeated apologies from the league commissioner, Roger Goodell. It’s clear that the NFL needs ...


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Cohan ’17: ‘Transparent’: the best show not on television

“I thank you heavenly father for this food, this great day, these lovely people, in Jesus’s name we pray.” “Oy gevalt.” Let’s start here: “Transparent” is very funny. “Transparent” is a half-hour show about a Jewish family in Los Angeles, but to call it a sitcom would be a horrendous ...


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Shin ’17: Women, their rights and nothing less

Environment influences one’s thinking and experience. Experiences shape one’s identity. Society dictates certain ideals and expectations for each gender. And expectations and stereotypes confine us to set frames. Hence the idea of gender roles and “masculinity” are illusions fostered and intensified ...


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Sweren ’15: The reverse art heist

These days, I’m not surprised when someone gets away with stealing millions of dollars of art. Just the other day, three men posing as volunteers walked out of a gallery in London with thousands of dollars tucked beneath their arms. Some incidents have fairy-tale endings in which the work and the ...

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Tennis ’14.5: Where is the provost?

As Brown’s provost, Mark Schlissel P’15 was arrogant and dismissive — but at least he was upfront about it. Meanwhile, our new provost is nowhere to be found. The provost is Brown’s chief academic officer, responsible for all academic and budgetary affairs of the University. Notably, she chairs ...


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Sundlee ’16: Cultures of hatred

Indonesian female police recruits are being forced to undergo virginity tests, the Guardian reported Tuesday. Not only is this process humiliating, it also leaves these women in pain. This is yet another example of gendered violence based on cultural values. Indonesian culture is patriarchal and prizes ...


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Isman ’15: BrownConnect — encouraging exploration

Simply finding an internship is hard. What do you do if you don’t even know where to start looking or who to ask? Now imagine finding and even obtaining an internship you really like but not being able to take it because the pay is too low. The University’s recently debuted BrownConnect service ...


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Hillestad ’15: Why Brown Hookups feels wrong

I wasn’t the only one excited when Brown Hookups burst onto the scene. It seemed very “Brown” — countercultural, sexually liberating and forward-looking. My curiosity was piqued. Like many of my peers, I quickly friended Brown Hookups on Facebook, eagerly awaiting where this new development ...


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Al-Salem ’17: Debunking the international stigma

As someone who has to travel 26 hours to go home, I have experience as an “international student” at Brown. While I definitely do not speak for the international community here, it’s time someone addressed the stereotype on campus that international students are exclusive, elitist and “rich.” These ...


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Rotenberg ’17: 51 shades of gray

The fallout from the ill-conceived, poorly construed and seemingly never-ending “war on terror” has been decisive. Americans now hold an aversion to large-scale ground troop intervention, especially in the Middle East. According to a recent CNN poll, less than 40 percent of Americans favor sending ...


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Bai ’16: Another reason to discredit trickle-down

What happens when people in lower income brackets find themselves aggressively courted by the corporate elite while simultaneously being dismissed by that very elite’s political representation? The nation’s poor finds itself in a dichotomous predicament as both a target consumer and the target of ...




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