257 Thayer: sophisticated and sustainable college living. No doubt, that’s a catchy slogan. I understand why that’s appealing to a lot of Brown students. After all, I like to consider myself sophisticated and environmentally conscious. And I wouldn’t want to feel guilty about my fancy new digs, ...
Anti-Semitism is not something we talk about on college campuses. While we may discuss anti-Semitism abstractly in academic conversations, it is something we believe we are beyond, something reminiscent of backward 20th century totalitarian regimes. But this ancient hatred of Jews persists around the ...
As student-led movements like fossil fuel divestment, sexual assault reform and student representation on the Corporation gain momentum and capture administrative attention, there exists a clear and growing desire for institutional change at Brown. As students, the type of change we envision as possible ...
To the Editor: It was a pleasure to participate in last Wednesday’s Brown University mayoral debate (“Elorza, Harrop target Cianci’s record,” Oct. 16). As an institution that competes to attract the best and brightest students and faculty members in the world to Providence, Brown has a big ...
The passage of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in 2013 struck a controversial chord in the ongoing battle to reach an effective and lawful balance between gun control and gun rights in the United States. The SAFE Act requires mental health care professionals to input any ...
Academia and religion have long struggled to coexist because they seem based on mutually exclusive ideals. Academics generally rely on facts and reason, while religion relies on faith. This conflict can be epitomized in theories characterizing creation, such as the theory of evolution and the Big Bang, ...
The Big Ten, one of the five power conferences of the NCAA, recently announced that all its member institutions would guarantee athletic scholarships for all four years that an athlete attends college. This is a drastic step toward reaffirming the importance of academics in the collegiate model of athletics, ...
Over the fall weekend, as I was enjoying leisurely post-midterm cleanup in the afternoon sunlight, I came across a copy of Patrick Suskind’s “The Story of Mr. Sommer” helplessly squashed underneath a pile of overbearing textbooks. Tucked inside the book was a receipt showing that it was purchased ...
There are many reasons to be skeptical of conversation for conversation’s sake. One conversation does not undo hundreds of years of systematic oppression. One conversation does not eliminate privilege or even make a critical mass of community members aware of its own. Last Wednesday night’s conversation ...
This is the first in a series on Brown’s libraries and study spaces. If you haven’t been to the newly renovated Rockefeller Library, don’t bother. If you haven’t been to the newly renovated John Hay Library, hurry quick or its doors might close. When Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library reopened ...
If you have not seen it already, you have probably heard about the Slavery Memorial. Stemming from the recommendation of the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice’s report, the Slavery Memorial takes the form of a ball, chain and plaque on the Quiet Green in front of Manning Hall. Last week, students ...
To the Editor: At the moment, tensions are running high due to Ebola, which last week resulted in its first U.S. death and this week resulted in its first U.S.-acquired case. Thousands are dead in West Africa, and many thousands more will probably die before the epidemic is brought under control. ...
In the last month, two major student protests have emerged on opposite sides of the globe, yet they have differed in both press coverage and international support. The pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, now known as the Umbrella Revolution, has been covered by all major media outlets and publicly ...
The Sept. 16 edition of The Herald unveiled one of the largest changes within the University this year: the integration of the Taubman Center for American Institutions and Public Policy into the Watson Institute for International Studies (“Taubman to integrate with Watson Institute”). A town hall-style ...
Suppose that you are walking down the hallway of a large building. Every time you pass a door, you open it and peek inside. Nine times out of 10, you see that the person at the front of the room is a man. If asked later about this experience, you would probably conclude that whatever activity was being ...
The University’s Statement on Liberal Learning at Brown lauds the open curriculum as one that “ensures you great freedom in directing the course of your education …(in order) to chart the broadest possible intellectual journey.” The following is a paradigm most Brown students are familiar with: ...
This past week, a video entitled “Harvard students think U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than ISIS” was posted. The video featured several students on Harvard’s campus being interviewed by “Campus Reform,” a conservative watchdog group that claims to “expose bias and abuse on the ...
Right now it seems most of the country is suffering from hypochondria — Americans have an unwarranted fear that they are infected with a disease. The arrival of Ebola in the United States has people clearing their throats and rushing to emergency rooms claiming near death. Is this an overreaction? Yes, ...
Last year, the Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution calling for an increase in the proportion of faculty of color at the University, particularly in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. There are many kinds of diversity, and I would never want to overshadow or disregard ...
To the Editor: The Herald has written about the Brown Divest Coal Campaign being renamed Fossil Free Brown, but why not look back at the idea of a resource-depletion tax applied to all fossil fuels, as proposed by David G. Wilson, now an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts ...
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