Opinions

Letter: Lecture Board needs new ticket system

Fuerbacher '14: Rethinking 'having it all'

In September, Marissa Mayer, the exemplary "Employee No. 20" of Google and new CEO of Yahoo!, gave birth to her first son. As a high-profile businesswoman who has ostensibly attained both personal and professional success, Mayer reignited the debate over whether women can truly "have it all." This discussion ...

Editorial: The dubious sagacity of college rankings

Last week, Brown received the dubious honor of being proclaimed "the number one college in the world" by the Best 50 Colleges list, a poorly-formatted, stencil-font website that sprang onto students' radar via Facebook. While we do not believe this is a ranking meant to be taken seriously - though kudos ...

Brundage '15: Redefining success in college

No matter how much we may have hated or loved our respective high school experiences, there was at least one comfort we all shared: Success was easy to define. Whether you attended Phillips Exeter Academy or a public school in a poor neighborhood, there was a fairly consistent success formula. You were ...

Tobolowsky GS: Work ban for grads bad for students, U., future

As many of you may be aware, the Graduate School has recently proposed establishing a firm limit on outside work for graduate students, capping it at 20 hours a semester. Not 20 hours a week, though I can certainly understand how your eye would read that for you. Twenty hours a semester - which works ...

A real solution to the Brown Dining Services dilemma

Dorris '15: Why therapy is cool

It's midterm season again. Our stress levels are rising. As the week goes on, listen to the conversations around you. Haven't you heard at least one person jokingly begin a sentence with "My therapist thinks..." or end with, "That's what my therapist said"? Do you ever see self-critical jokes on Twitter ...

Editorial: Making right by the writing requirement

Drechsler '15: A real solution to the Brown Dining Services dilemma

Hudson's Rebuttal: Should financial aid be the University's top priority?

Zacks '15: Should financial aid be the University's top priority?

Last spring, the Herald poll revealed that a plurality of students - 37.8 percent - believe increasing financial aid ought to be the University's top priority, a far greater percentage than that supporting the second-place priority - improving on-campus housing. Yet anyone walking through the newly ...

Zacks' Rebuttal: Should financial aid be the University's top priority?

Hudson '14: Should financial aid be the University's top priority?

Mention the words "financial aid" and you will likely pull yourself into a heated discussion about Brown's priorities. Financial aid has helped many. Without financial aid, thousands of talented and motivated students could not attend Brown. But, though important, increasing financial aid should not ...

Mayo '13: Negating affirmative action

Nine years ago, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor penned a 5-4 majority opinion in the case of Grutter v. Bollinger that upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School. In that opinion, the Court ruled that a race-based criterion for university admission ...

America's only open curriculum, WRITten off

Until last year, Brown was in a curricular league of its own. There are plenty of colleges that purport to have some variety of "open curriculum." Some are very close to open - like Amherst College - and others are pretty far from it - like the University of Rochester. But to our knowledge, not a single ...

Tomson '15: Terminate Adidas contract now

The streets of Jakarta roared Oct. 3 when two million workers in factories throughout Indonesia went on strike. They are calling for an end to labor practices that have led to a severe lack of job security and lower wages as workers become increasingly temporary, expendable and exploitable to companies. ...

Moraff '14: The horrifying makeup of the Brown Corporation

Every so often, we hear that x percent of Americans don't know their own congressman. We are then supposed to nod sagely and share a chuckle about dumb, ignorant Americans. But here at Brown, our lives are mostly run by the Corporation, and we generally have no idea who they are.

Editorial: A lesson in local policy

Letter: Student activism should be celebrated, too

Editorial: SafeTalk

On Oct. 12, two men - one wielding a knife - attacked a student walking near the intersection of Brown and Waterman streets. Though the perpetrators were arrested and charged with felony assault, the victim sustained injuries, and there was no obvious motive for the crime. Having an attack so close ...