Brown should strongly consider moving up the deadline for the declaration of concentrations during sophomore year. Because an earlier deadline would not presume students have a total plan for the future, students would realize that one’s concentration does not define one’s life path or personality. ...
Since last fall, the Task Force on Sexual Assault has worked tirelessly to draft a formalized and comprehensive series of recommendations to more effectively address the pervasive issue of sexual assault on campus. The interim report, published in December, emphasized the pressing need to reform the ...
Recently, Indiana Governor Mike Pence started a national media firestorm by signing a religious freedom law, which would allow businesses to refuse service to gay and lesbian individuals on religious grounds. Many politicians and writers condemned the law, arguing that it would inevitably lead to the ...
When the University sent decision letters to applicants to the class of 2019 last week, not every future Brown student received a response. The future members of the transfer classes of 2018 and 2018.5 won’t find out about their application until the middle of May. The process that transfer students ...
While the media is currently focused on the prelude to the 2016 elections, Rhode Island has the chance to make history by passing a statewide price on carbon. With the “Energize Rhode Island: Clean Energy Investment and Carbon Pricing Act of 2015,” the Ocean State can address the impacts of global ...
America’s political landscape received an unexpected shock Thursday with a surprise from former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17. He announced that he had formed an exploratory committee to consider running for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination. Though Chafee ...
This year, advising was not at the forefront of any Undergraduate Council of Students presidential candidate’s platform. This is a marked change from candidates campaigning on “fixing advising” as one of their lofty goals. Improving advising has been an issue in the student body’s psyche for ...
Last week was a difficult one for Brown. We lost a member of our community in a rare campus-wide tragedy. I did not know Hyoun Ju Sohn GS, and so I mourn for his loved ones: friends, students and teachers on campus. I hope he has found peace; I hope those affected by his death also find it. This tragedy ...
For the past two years, the Undergraduate Council of Students has discussed the alarming deficit in the mental health resources available to Brown students. We have previously proposed tangible solutions that have not yet come to fruition, and we feel compelled to reiterate our concerns, particularly ...
In the last two weeks, one installment of the Republican presidential primary began in Lynchburg, Virginia with Senator Ted Cruz announcing his candidacy; another installment, elsewhere, died. At the Indiana State Capitol in Indianapolis, Gov. Mike Pence signed into law Senate Enrolled Act 101, the ...
Though there are not sufficient words to describe the tragedy of Hyoun Ju Sohn’s GS death on March 31 and we cannot know what led to his suicide, we can take steps to help members of our community who are suffering psychologically and who are not getting the help they need by continuing our dialogue ...
On Monday, 44 Rhode Island School of Design technicians ended a strike protesting the school’s stance in union contract negotiations, which centered on health care premiums, wage increases and retirement contributions. The strike lasted five days. The technicians at RISD are vital to the basic functioning ...
Before coming to college, I thought I was unsure of many things but one: I would never drink alcohol. I was lucky enough to grow up in an environment where drinking wasn’t a part of the culture, so I definitely attribute that lifestyle to my pre-college mentality. But I never expected to find myself ...
There’s nothing quite like April at Brown, which brings increasingly warmer weather, leisurely afternoons on the Main Green and the countdown to Spring Weekend. But we cannot forget about the less glamorous scenes appearing around campus: hordes of seniors racing to finish their honors thesis projects. The ...
Polls for the Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board elections open online Tuesday at noon, when all undergraduates will be emailed a link to the ballot. As voters consider the important choice of whom to select to lead next year’s student government, we endorse Sazzy Gourley ...
To the Editor: In a March 18 editorial, The Herald’s editorial page board argued that students’ social media accounts should be cleaned up because inappropriate material on them reflects badly upon Brown. How about The Herald clean up its Blog by removing the juvenile, vulgar, obscene, pornographic ...
Graduate studies are isolating by nature: The time it takes to conduct independent research, mixed with high standards and stringent deadlines, leads to long hours and irregular routines. Adding to the claustrophobic, often competitive tenor of graduate student scholarship, there are challenges to collaboration ...
During one of many thought-provoking conversations, the type that can only occur when hiking, a friend reshaped my thoughts on mental health. She asked, “How would you confront your mental health if it were a course you were taking for a grade?” Mental health is an issue I did not consider prior ...
The upcoming Undergraduate Council of Students elections provide a valuable opportunity for the Brown community to shape the character of student leadership on campus — an impact that is all too often overlooked. Thursday’s debate offered a window into the platforms of both the UCS presidential and ...
As students all across the globe review acceptance and rejection letters, many will wonder what determined their fate. There are some mysterious factors, as David Ha ’18 noted in The Herald March 30, and many are in favor of demystifying these secrets. But there are other practices that occur in broad ...
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