Opinions

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 ...

Levison '14: The self-conscious me

When I recently told a classmate that I was considering writing my first opinions piece on the topic of opinions, he declared with irony fit only for south of Power Street, "That's so meta, bro." What he meant to exclaim was "Have you no shame!?" — a statement meant to highlight the meaninglessness ...

Editorial: A haze of excuses

In a shocking op-ed published in the Dartmouth student newspaper The Dartmouth at the end of January, former Sigma Alpha Epsilon member and Dartmouth senior Andrew Lohse revealed intimate details of his fraternity's hazing practices and criticized university president Jim Yong Kim '82 for not cracking ...

Lauren Schleimer '12: Enforcing integrity on the MCAT

Editorial: Remnants of Jim Crow

Daniel Prada '12: Every entrepreneur is a social entrepreneur

Letter: The Perkins experience

Adam Bouche '14: How hip-flipped

Editorial: No special treatment for UCS

Letter: Article misinterprets lecture's message