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Letter: ‘Cleaning up’ campus culture

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  ...


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Simundich GS: Support for international graduate students

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 ...


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Mirchandani '15: Putting a grade on your mental health

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 ...


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Editorial: Weighing UCS candidates

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 ...


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Editorial: Revamp the UCS/UFB voting process

Now that spring break is over, everyone’s favorite time at Brown is right around the corner: the annual elections for leadership positions on the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board. Readers who chortled or scoffed at the previous sentence would be forgiven for doing ...


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Secondo '16: Spring break musings

One of the most sacred weeks of the spring semester, spring break is a well-deserved respite from the daily grind and unpredictable March weather. Whether jetting off for a change in scenery or settling in at home, those few sacred days arrive just in time. Netflix and your mother’s best home-cooked ...


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Asker '17: The importance of safe spaces

Last week Judith Shulevitz, a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times, wrote a column ridiculing the idea of safe spaces on college campuses. The problem is, she simply doesn’t do the concept of safe space justice. Saying that there are hypersensitive students on college campuses who push ...


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Editorial: Tracks for the public health concentration

The newly-coined public health concentration replaces community health for students in the class of 2016 and beyond. This public health concentration does not currently offer a selection of tracks to choose from, and students could greatly benefit from having this option. The program attracts a diverse ...


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Editorial: Crafting your own survival guide

Hopefully no matter how students spent their spring break, they returned to campus at least marginally more well rested. After a bitterly long, snow-filled winter and exposure to health risks inherent on college campuses, a week away from College Hill — or at least a week without class — is truly ...


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Letter: Mills ’15 and others misunderstand safe spaces

To the Editor: I am greatly disappointed that Walker Mills ’15’s opinion piece “Playing it Safe — Too Safe” falls into the same semantic trap that New York Times contributing opinion writer Judith Shulevitz and many other generational pundits have been making in recent editorial comments across ...


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Isman '15: The future of education

Higher education — including the types of institutions, varieties of advanced degrees and selection of available courses — must adapt to meet the needs of our rapidly changing world. As a senior, I recognize that students need to be ready to enter a transforming workforce, where new fields are constantly ...


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Weinstein '17: Why MLB Needs a Hard Salary Cap

Opening Day is next week, but it’s unlikely anyone will be taking me out to the ball game this year. That’s because average ticket prices have increased from $14.94 in 1998 — when a player signed a $100 million contract for the first time — to $27.93 in 2014, adjusted to 2014 dollars. While ...


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Editorial: Centralizing research recruitment

Brown students would benefit from one centralized website and database that posted all the opportunities to participate in research on campus. While many services exist — SONA, the research participation network for the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences; the Brown University ...


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Ha '18: The prisoner’s dilemma in college admission

It is that time of the year again — college admission decisions are now being released. All of the hard work and dedication that current high school seniors have demonstrated for the past four years will now be tested, scrutinized and reviewed. To those who have been accepted to their first-choice ...


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Mills '15: Playing it safe — too safe

Brown was in the New York Times last week — we were on spring break. It didn’t make my day, but it came close. Judith Shulevitz, a contributing writer for the Times, wrote an op-ed about college students and how they avoid ideas that they don’t like. Her first example was Brown’s safe spaces, ...


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Mirchandani '15: The myth of the Brown bubble

By the time I came to Brown, I was not a child who took everything her parents said at face value; to their dismay, I never really was. “See Ria, this would never happen in America,” my father would tell me when I was younger, fuming at a taxi driver who had just run a red light and almost knocked ...


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Powers '15: Effective altruism

When one lists the defining characteristics of an archetypal Brown student, “socially conscious” is a phrase that inevitably comes to mind. Brown students have a long history of protesting anything and everything as well as a seemingly insatiable thirst for increasing the University’s social responsibility, ...


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Editorial: Establishing trust

Brown has a trust problem. When an estimated 400 students rallied on the Quiet Green March 11 to protest the University’s handling of the widely discussed sexual assault and date-rape cases last semester, it signaled yet another instance of increased friction between students and administrators. Beyond ...


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