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Spencer-Salmon '14: A false choice

I go to Brown's Focal Point page a lot. It's handy because, despite frequent navel-gazing, my thoughts­­ — and those of fellow students — about life goals usually don't go further than "I am he as you are he as you are me ... what?" The page description suggests that I should use ...


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Editorial: Parsing the pension problem

As many of us prepare for the first round of midterms, Rhode Island lawmakers are getting ready for a test of their own. The General Assembly will soon convene for a special session to address the state pension system's $7.3 billion unfunded liability. There will almost certainly be major changes in ...


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Park '12: We are all subjects

There are a plethora of ways in which our society normalizes able-bodied people at the exclusion of those whose bodies are differently- or dis-abled. Ability or disability is judged at a glance, frozen in place with a stare, and in part separates those we consider capable subjects from incapable objects ...


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Tobias '12: Time to relax

No champagne was popped and no balls dropped, but last week marked the Jewish New Year. The time now between the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, is a period to reflect on the previous year. It is a time to take an accounting of one's self and one's deeds.


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Seda '12: Let's not forget Somalia

It is early summer in the year 2011, yet it feels like 1992 to the oldest residents of Somalia. For the second time in 20 years, a succession of days without rain has drained the soil and their hopes. The outlook is as bleak as ever. Family members are forced to pack their few belongings and abandon ...


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Kalyanpur '13: The golden age?

College is consistently and, quite frankly, too frequently heralded as the time of our lives. We are constantly reminded to appreciate these four years before we set out into the real world. It is the golden age of our own time. I find this exalted distinction far too disconcerting. When we graduate, ...


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Editorial: Old problem, new fixes

We applaud recent advances made by the University to improve undergraduate advising with practical web-based tools. Particularly important at Brown because of the New Curriculum's open, design-your-own approach to education, advising has long been the source of complaints from undergraduates. We are, ...


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Editorial: Honey, I reared the kids

Last week, the White House and the National Science Foundation announced a new NSF Career-Life Balance Initiative aimed at increasing "the placement, advancement and retention of women in (the science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields" through "gender-neutral, family-friendly policies" ...


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Shanks '12.5: Dear white guy in my class

Dear white guy in my class. This is awkward. I know that you feel it, and I know that I feel it. But we can't get around it. We're going to have to talk about race. We're talking about identity — or class, American history, slavery or anything else that Europeans have been involved in on a state ...


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