As I sat in the airport waiting for my flight back to Providence last week, the terminal was filled with college students heading back to school. A few were reading books and a few were napping, but the vast majority was looking at their iPhones or iPads. Not a single one of them was talking to someone ...
While the term “library” signifies for students anything from research help to workplace to social hub, the image of libraries in popular culture is decidedly more negative. As the 2007 documentary “The Hollywood Librarian” explored, “library” mostly conjures up images of stuffy old rooms ...
There are many religious students at Brown. Cheery students from the Christian Fellowship frequently give out hot chocolate on the Main Green. Catholic Mass is packed with students. The Muslim Students’ Association and Brown/RISD Hillel are central parts of many students’ college experiences. But ...
Everyone who had plans to attend the 2014 Winter Olympics most likely experienced a nervous pit in their stomachs when watching the news in December. Eyes plastered to the television screen, the world learned of violent obstacles that may interfere with the Olympics and make traveling there unsafe. People ...
Being powerful makes you a worse person. Now the above is a generalization, but it is a claim made by a growing number of studies. Multiple publications have found that the more social power a person has, the less they pay attention to those under them. Certain studies have analyzed five-minute meet-and-greets ...
Last week, President Christina Paxson announced a new initiative for students who receive financial aid. Her effort seeks to extend funded research and work opportunities to undergraduates on a need-based criterion. This demonstrates Brown’s commitment to students who lack the financial resources ...
Graduate schools constantly look for an objective way to predict a student’s potential. When looking at undergraduate applications, admission counselors strongly consider SAT and ACT scores. These scores can make the difference in whether or not one earns admission, but they aren’t necessarily an ...
Brown is a beautifully diverse campus, but there is a demographic that is underrepresented both here and at other elite institutions: students from rural backgrounds. It’s rare to come across someone who isn’t from a suburb or major metropolis. Only 8 percent of the class of 2016 is from the Midwest, ...
Here is what I understand about the recent resolutions passed by the American Studies Association (ASA) and Modern Language Association (MLA) regarding Israel and the Palestinian territories. The ASA resolved to boycott all Israeli academic institutions, forbidding its members from collaborating with ...
If you are a student enrolled in an accredited college or university, I think you should know how to read. That statement isn’t too controversial, is it? How about this one: If you are a student-athlete enrolled in an accredited college or university, I think you should know how to read. Or this ...
Yep, it’s that time of year again. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and the holiday season is right around the corner. But as ABC Family starts its “25 Days of Christmas” countdown, I eagerly watch the clock tick toward the upcoming NFL playoffs. I understand that Santa’s elves are pretty busy ...
We have all heard the saying, “a penny saved is a penny earned,” but today, nobody believes it’s true. Recent statistics about spending and saving habits in America tell the story. According to the Huffington Post, three quarters of Americans do not have enough savings to cover six months of expenses, ...
As the weather gets colder, it brings a constant reminder that winter is here. With winter comes the Winter Olympics, and in 2014, the games will be hosted in a country that many consider to be the definition of cold. But this year, in the midst of Russia’s anti-gay legislation, the Olympics will ...
Over the course of this semester at Brown, we have seen a breadth of issues put at the forefront of both discussion and controversy. From questions of environmental awareness to new University policies, there seems to be clear division among different groups of students. These differences often seem ...
A few days ago, I watched the widely circulated video, “UCLA Has More Championships than Black Male Freshmen.” I was proud to see a group of black men acting to expose and counter an important issue: the lack of minority representation in the post-secondary education system. Pride was then followed ...
In my five years working on ambulances as an emergency medical technician — both at home and in Rhode Island — only once have I seen a patient come close to dying before my eyes. To my surprise, the cause of almost-death was neither heart attack nor car wreck, nor stroke nor stabbing. Instead, it ...
What Republicans are doing is wrong. Refusing to fill vacancies on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, regardless of President Obama’s choice of nominee, is an unacceptable response to the reality of a Democrat occupying the White House. It is inexcusable to hold arguably the ...
Tuition is skyrocketing and financial aid remains insufficient. The Brown administration is very, very good at offering nonsensical but reasonable-sounding explanations for why this might be. Of these explanations, probably the silliest is our so-called $4 million “deficit.” As Provost Mark Schlissel ...
What do you notice as you walk down a street? Do you notice the deep hued greens of the ginkgo leaves? How the clouds are shaped like dollops of ice cream? The way cracks in the sidewalk resemble capillary veins? These are three basic elements of art — color, shape and line — that everyone should ...
Over the past few months, I have read countless articles on why the humanities still matter. Even President Christina Paxson wrote a piece titled, “The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities,” published in The New Republic, in which she declared that “support for the humanities is more than worth ...
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