Opinions

Editorial: Staying safe

Silverman '13: Ron Paul is not a libertarian

Editorial: An inadequate civil unions law

Kalyanpur '13: The advising fallacies

Sheehan '12: All-Star selection in compromising position

As the last NBA games of the first half of the season wrap up, and we prepare for the All-Star game, I would like to point out something that has really bothered me over the past couple of years. It's also something that applies to All-Star game selection. It's a matter of positioning.

Brundage '15: The appeal of mainstream music

Chizen '14: RIPTA's educational value

For the overwhelming majority of Brown students who are not from Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority is most likely a foreign concept. While the College Hill campus fosters education through intellectually stimulating classes, it fails to expose students to a working society and ...

Thomas '15: Rape jokes cause more damage than offense

Johnson '14: Super PACs bring out the worst in politicians

High stakes for Rhode Island

Carty '15: The essence of America

I love capitalism and believe in the profit motive inherent in it. I also love societal progress and believe in the selflessness existing outside of the profit motive that makes that progress sustainable and kind.  

Editorial: Shedding light on election spending

Last Thursday, Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 stood with the leadership of the Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives to introduce the Transparency in Political Spending Act. In a post-Citizens United world of potentially limitless, unregulated and undisclosed donations to so-called SuperPACs, ...

Husted '13: Lessons for Spring Weekend

Spring Weekend is the largest and most widely attended event occurring on campus before Commencement week. Students eagerly anticipate the bands, agonize over getting tickets and even schedule their work or study abroad plans around the event. Spring Weekend is a time when people gather in large numbers, ...

Hefer '12: A discussion of rape and consent

Look around anywhere on campus, and you are bound to see a highlighter-colored shirt proclaiming the value of consent. We know a lot about consent. When is it required? Always. How should it be given? Enthusiastically.

Moffat '13: U.S. drug policies are a crime against humanity

Tobias '12: No cuts to mass transit

Obama's contraception proposal is a sensible compromise

Cao '13: How unique are you?

Letter: To end hazing, students must report concerns

Fernandez-O'Brien '12: Proposing a UCS-UFB compromise

Dear friends, let us first give thanks that the state of political debate at Brown University remains an inspiring beacon, an example that certain national political leaders would do well to follow. Throughout the course of discussions about the amendment changing the way Undergraduate Council of Students ...