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Letter: ROTC decision inspires Brown pride
By Brown Daily Herald | October 25To the Editor:
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Cao '13: Across the strait: Chinese, Taiwanese or both?
By Jan Cao | October 25Last Thursday night, students almost overflowed Salomon 001 to hear a speech by Justin Lin, the current chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. The title of his talk was "Demystifying the Chinese Economy." It was a very insightful and inspiring speech, but I find Lin's personal ...
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Eppler '13: Reform Brown's email privacy policy
By Ian Eppler | October 25The University's "Emergency Access to Accounts and Information" policy grants University administrators and law enforcement officers unfettered access to seemingly private information stored in student, faculty and staff email, calendar and document accounts, and does so with an alarming lack of transparency. ...
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Editorial: Maintaining med students' mental health
By Brown Daily Herald | October 25Medical students studying pathology are often warned not to self-diagnose, lest they find themselves suffering from full-blown hypochondria. Yet one area of illness that is too often overlooked by medical students is deterioration of one's mental health. Though rates of depression and anxiety among ...
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Editorial: Making research accessible
By Brown Daily Herald | October 24Will Brown join the ranks of some 135 institutions with open-access research mandates? As University officials investigate this possibility, we direct their attention to Brown's mission: "To serve the community, the nation and the world by discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding ...
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Letter: The changing reasons for banning ROTC
By Brown Daily Herald | October 24To the Editor:
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Letter: Agencies should use powers properly
By Brown Daily Herald | October 24To the Editor:
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Jaeger '14 and Samuels '13: A Frank conversation about Israel on Capitol Hill
By Harpo Jaeger | October 24In the summer of 2009, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., wrote in a letter to President Obama: "I believe it is very important for the Israeli public to know that there is strong disagreement within the United States — not just within our government — over exactly how to deal with the ...
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Moraff '14: Injustice and soup kitchens
By Daniel Moraff | October 24Garret Johnson '14 makes a case for why the Occupy movement is misguided and stupid ("Give back, vote, but don't Occupy," Oct. 24). I think his reasons are mostly bad ones. Here's why.
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Editorial: Finally ending the overnight parking ban
By Brown Daily Herald | October 23Earlier this month, Mayor Angel Taveras unveiled a plan to do away with the city's overnight street parking ban. Under the proposal, the city government would offer $100 year-long permits to allow citizens to park their vehicles overnight. The ban currently forbids residents from keeping their cars ...
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Trupin '13: A case for community investment
By Ian Trupin | October 23Judging by the looks in people's eyes, I was far from the only one impressed by both the level of public interest and the coordination evident at the Oct. 12 Occupy Teach-In. I was particularly happy to see the number of non-student residents among the hundreds who packed Salomon 101.
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Wemple '14 and MacDougal '15: Keystone XL and activism at Brown
By Kyle Wemple | October 23Here at Brown, students are immersed in an activist culture. Every day — even multiple times a day — we are hounded with requests like "Come fight for the rights of Palestinians!" or "Take one minute to call your Senator!" It can be a bit overwhelming to have the burden of all these great ...
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Letter: Transgender inclusivity starts at home
By Brown Daily Herald | October 23To the Editor:
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Letter: Trustee Cohen part of a long tradition
By Brown Daily Herald | October 22To the Editor:
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Johnson '14: Give back, vote, but don't Occupy
By Garret Johnson | October 22Watching the Occupy College Hill movement, one cannot help but sympathize with the protesters' cause. Who doesn't want to support a group aimed at fighting for social justice, as the Occupy parent organization describes itself as doing on its website? Who doesn't wish that the lower 99 percent of America ...
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Editorial: In defense of law school
By Brown Daily Herald | October 22As The Herald recently reported, seniors considering law school are increasingly concerned that the investment may no longer pay off ("With downturn, some grads reconsider law," Sept. 28). Today's law degree recipients often graduate with enormous debt only to face a job market depleted by the recession. ...
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Enzerink '12: 'Miss Representation?'
By Suzanne Enzerink | October 22Why is President Ruth Simmons consistently referred to as the University's first female president by non-campus media, or its first African-American president, when up until her ascent, it had sufficed to simply write "President" without the addition of "white" or "male"? The answer is, of course, that ...
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Park '12: Why we need an Occupation on this campus
By Julian Park | October 19Brown, as sorely as Wall Street a month ago, needs to be occupied. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not even next week, but soon.
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Norris-LeBlanc '13: Objectification is not gender-blind
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | October 19David Hefer's '12 column ("Objectification for fun and profit," Sept. 30) serves as a comprehensive example of all the things that can go horribly wrong when men try to confront issues of physical objectification from a specifically male perspective.
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Hefer '12: Human value as monetary value
By David Hefer | October 18The second Steve Jobs died, a dam burst somewhere. Gallons of elegies and eulogies spilled forth, flooding the surrounding low-lying areas with a lot of sentimental goop. People praised Jobs as if he were a real-life John Galt.
