Opinions

Editorial: Reconsidering ROTC

Letter: Renovations undercut financial aid funds

Katz '14: Why Brown should have minors

Like most Brown students, before arriving on campus for the start of the semester, I spent time playing around on Banner. With two concentration requirements set, I had two courses to choose from among over 40 academic departments.  

Fuerbacher '14: If the Choo Fits, Wear It!

Last December, the Democratic National Committee released an attack ad against Mitt Romney that blatantly painted him as "simply out of touch." This appears to be the theme of the Democratic agenda. Liberals summarily equate wealth with a lack of empathy for the average person. While this rhetoric might ...

Letter: Column takes issue with wrong policies

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Editorial: Dancing duos

If you haven't yet heard of the uproar surrounding the demise of the father-daughter school dance and mother-son ballgame in Cranston, you must not be an avid reader of the Providence Journal. While Brown is renowned for a student body committed to social justice and active in causes for the greater ...

Drechsler '15: Two ideologies, one education

When I explain that I am a registered Republican studying political science at Brown, people love to point out that Brown is very liberal - somehow thinking I never before realized. I laugh halfheartedly, nod my head to acknowledge their presumed novelty and proceed to explain the aptness of my choice. ...

Letter: Column ignores actual athlete needs

To the Editor: I took issue with points raised in Daniel Moraff's '14 column in Thursday's paper ("Hiking tuition and blowing money on sparkly things," Sept. 27). In the piece, Moraff decries the new Nelson Fitness Center as a "pile of unnecessary excess." He questions why the "swimmers, divers and ...

Drechsler '15: Should the Bush-era tax cuts be repealed for the wealthiest Americans?

Brundage's Rebuttal: Should the Bush-era tax cuts be repealed for the wealthiest Americans?

Drechsler's Rebuttal: Should the Bush-era tax cuts be repealed for the wealthiest Americans?

Brundage '15: Should the Bush-era tax cuts be repealed for the wealthiest Americans?

In fiscal year 2011, government outlays totaled approximately $3.83 trillion while revenues totaled only $2.57 trillion, leaving the nation with a nearly $1.3 trillion deficit. At this point, a common goal among most ideologies is to eliminate this deficit. The two methods of reducing the national deficit ...

Letter: Clarifying the 'student-lawyer' system

To the Editor: In an article in Wednesday's Herald ("UCS discusses dorm renovations, maintenance," Sept. 26), Undergraduate Council of Students Admissions and Student Services Chair Abby Braiman '15 was quoted as describing the developing Student Advocate Service as a "student-lawyer" system. Because ...

Editorial: Deconstructing the dichotomy

Moraff '14: Hiking tuition and blowing money on sparkly things

Editorial: WE ARE ... Brown State

Katz '14: The perils of gun ownership

This past summer James Holmes, a former graduate student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado, opened fire at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., murdering 12 people and wounding 58. 

Pfaff '14: The technology unpocalypse

Zacks '15: Suffering on the path to freedom

Hudson '14: Obama's war on students

No president in American history has been as popular with college students as President Obama. Ironically, no president in American history has been as threatening to college students as President Obama. After investing considerable time and money in a college degree, students want to graduate into ...