According to an article in Tuesday's Herald ("Study abroad participation drops," Nov. 15), the number of students who studied abroad in the 2010-2011 academic year was the lowest in a decade and represented a 7.4 percent decrease from the previous year. Though 414 students studied abroad last year in ...
To the Editor:
I have just become reacquainted with the William McCormick case and it troubles me as an alum and a father. The purpose of my column is neither to defend nor to disparage any of the parties involved, but to defend a basic tenet of a democratic society. Brown had to deal with a terrible situation and ...
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I was recently contacted by an acquaintance still in high school for some advice on her application to Brown. I am sure you clearly recall stressing over the many generic questions that the supplemental application loves to throw around. But the class of 2016 has to answer the following: "If I could ...
To the Editor:
You may have noticed the swarm of seemingly younger-than-average students taking over the Main Green this past weekend. Judging from the neat display of blazers, folders and nametags, you may have thought it was yet another job recruitment event or career fair aimed at those 2012-ers seeking to be employed ...
Recent developments on the Pennsylvania State University campus have raised deep concerns about failures in reporting campus sexual assaults. The vice president and athletic director have resigned. The school's president and legendary football coach and former Brown football star Joe Paterno '50 have ...
I may be the only fan of NBC's "Chuck" left in the world today. Tied with the History Channel's "Pawn Stars" as one of the dumbest premises of a show on air, "Chuck" is about the adventures of a computer store employee who ends up with a government supercomputer in his brain. I won't go too far into ...
Last week's Janus Forum debate on drug legalization was a refreshing break from mainstream political discourse. Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald and former drug czar John Walters delved into an issue that our political leaders rarely address in any meaningful way.
A recent New York Times article lamented high attrition rates among undergraduates in STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math ("Why Science Majors Change Their Mind," Nov. 4). Targeted improvements in elementary through high school curricula have received attention and yielded promising ...
The University's highest priority should be the health and safety of its students, yet this does not always seem to be the case at Brown. When I applied, I was told that students seeking Emergency Medical Services would have access to Brown's Health Services 24 hours a day and that all such visits would ...
A topic that rarely gets addressed in The Herald's opinions columns is the drinking culture here at Brown. After recently learning that Sex Power God saw 12 students EMS'd from the party this year and that this semester's first-year Orientation had a similarly alarming rate of reported drinking incidents ...
To the Editor:
Our favorite new smartphone application is the "Ride Systems Real Time Shuttle Tracker."
Today, let us start with some truisms. Racism is bad. Sexism is bad. Classism is bad. Any discrimination of this sort is bad. Identifying instances of these things is important. We cannot effect change if we do not know what we have to change.
As Brown begins the search for its next president, it is important that we choose a candidate who values students' rights of due process and freedom of speech. Unfortunately, over the last decade, the Brown campus has become hostile to these individual rights. Administrative decisions, student actions ...
Two pieces caught my eye in the past week: "The Tyranny of the Meritocracy" by Megan McArdle in the Atlantic and "The Downward Path of Upward Mobility" by Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post, both of which found their inspiration in a piece written by Brookings Institute fellow Scott Winship in the ...
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