Opinions

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

Kevin Carty '15: Is Brown a tool of the 1 percent?

Cara Dorris '15: The fiction of relationship?

Letter: UCS does not justify amendment

Raaj Parekh '13: UFB: Vote 'no' to UCS-UFB role amendment

The Undergraduate Council of Students announced a proposal and subsequently ran an opinions column in The Herald yesterday ("UCS: Vote ‘yea' to UCS-UFB role amendment," Feb. 9) recommending a constitutional change that would give it the right to set its own budget, with the approval of the director ...

UCS: Vote 'yea' to UCS-UFB role amendment

For the past 27 years, the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board have collaborated to serve the Brown community by formally categorizing and funding student groups. While the two bodies have served the community admirably, we admit there is room for improvement.

Editorial: A luxury we can't afford

Last Thursday, the state Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education voted to establish two Achievement First charter schools in Providence. Though the supporters of this proposal argue that Achievement First will bring academic success to a school district plagued with low expectations ...