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Asher '15: North Korea: our generation’s moment

In light of the country’s recent nuclear testing, it’s a safe bet we’ll be hearing about North Korea a fair amount in the coming months. It’s no secret that North Korea is an extremely oppressive place — one of the last strongholds of totalitarian communist government. Kim Jong-Un, like his ...


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Enriquez '16: Killing Pablo

Hank Crumpton is someone who knows national security. Not only was he one of the top CIA agents in Afghanistan, but he was also the coordinator for counterterrorism. Recently, I went to see Crumpton speak about the issue that poses the biggest threat to our national security. I expected to hear a lot ...


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Romero '14: Beyond righteous indignation

The Kappa Sigma fraternity at Duke University threw a Feb. 1 Asian-themed party called “Asia Prime,” in which the predominantly white frat brothers and their guests were invited to wear stereotypical Asian clothing to fit the party’s theme. When members of Duke’s Asian Students Association and ...


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Moraff '14: Secret bad decisions

We heard the first of it February 2012. The Gate, said a line in The Herald, would be shuttered and a new dining facility opened in Andrews Dining Hall. It was a weird idea — after all, the Gate has been renovated recently, it’s not exactly jammed to capacity and in this age of rapidly rising tuition ...


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Carty '15: Cynicism is easy, and so is naivete

Being naive is easy. Being cynical is easy. The trouble, the test of real engagement with the rest of the world, lies somewhere in between. By naivete, I mean that instinctual, overcredulous belief that others are almost always well-intentioned. When one of your moderate, optimistic friends cannot ...


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Shaw '13: Down the deep rabbit hole of intergalactic competition

A few weeks ago, “His Airness” and “Sir Charles” reached new milestones in their careers. Michael Jordan proved he was still the best Michael on his own underachieving team, while Charles Barkley finally got his total cholesterol under 300. Oh, and they also both turned 50. “But with advances ...


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Husted '13: Room and board: A part of the college experience

In a recent Herald opinion column (“Fuerbacher ’14: Room and board: You don’t get what you pay for,” Feb. 20), Elizabeth Fuerbacher ’14 questions the necessity of forcing students to live in dorms and pay for Brown dining. Specifically, she calls dorms and dining plans “overpriced propaganda ...


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Hudson '14: Are universities becoming obsolete?

Graduating from college is part and parcel of the American dream. Holding a college degree has been a major advantage for graduates for decades. In 1980, average tuition at a four-year institution was $8,756, adjusted for inflation. Then, only about a quarter of 18-24 year olds enrolled in college. ...


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Brundage '15: Stop watching so many TED Talks

Our generation has both the collective attention span and the curiosity of a caffeinated squirrel. Though many students have the intellectual curiosity to explore beyond the syllabi of their courseloads, many lack the focus span or extrinsic incentives to move far beyond the surface level of multiple ...


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Zacks '15: I don't

Here’s the thing: I don’t want to get married. I didn’t want to get married when I was straight, and the prospect of having to pay for two bridal dresses has done precious little for my enthusiasm. Now that Rhode Island is inching toward “legalizing love,” and committed activists for whom ...


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Delaney '15: The lessons that can't be learned in class

There’s been a lot this year written about athletics at Brown — why they benefit or don’t benefit the University, what athletes represent, issues about laundry. Before anyone gets upset, what I say applies not only to athletes here, but also to other community members who relish in demanding athletic ...


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Moffat '13: The rise of the pragmatists

It’s been a long time coming, but the decades-long “war on marijuana” appears to finally be winding down. In November, voters in Colorado and Washington passed initiatives to allow for the establishment of legal, state-regulated industries for recreational marijuana and hemp. When asked how the ...


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Newlon '14.5: Don't Rape

“They peed on her. That’s how you know she’s dead, because someone pissed on her… They raped her quicker than Mike Tyson raped that one girl. They raped her more than the Duke lacrosse team… It isn’t really rape because you don’t know if she wanted to or not.” These are perhaps the ...


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Powers ’15: Why do Brown students vote?

Every election cycle, millions of Americans representing a diverse cross section of the nation turn out to cast their ballots. The concept of voting is entrenched in western civilization, and while it might be easy to blindly engage in a tradition with cultural roots dating back more than two millennia, ...


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Corvese ’15: Putting action back in activism

A pink ribbon. An inspirational YouTube video. A group of women dancing. What do these things have in common? While they are symbols of important movements, they are also symbols of a dangerous trend in activism: “slacktivism.” Slacktivism, as the name suggests, involves supporting a cause on an ...




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