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Letter: Cutting athletic teams hurts recruits
By Brown Daily Herald | April 23To the Editor:
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Letter: University values underrepresented voices
By Brown Daily Herald | April 21To the Editor:
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Fast '12: In the drug war, keep your eyes on the real killer
By Hunter Fast | April 21Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa '11 recently opined in The Herald that the breakdown of the rule of law in Mexico at the hands of vicious drug cartels can be blamed unequivocally on common cannabis users like the ones who appeared Wednesday on the Main Green ("4/20 and the drug war," April 18). While a subsequent ...
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Letter: Fuel-efficiency would help save at the pump
By Brown Daily Herald | April 21To the Editor: Your article on Rhode Island's skyrocketing gas prices ("R.I. still plugged in to renewable energy," April 19) underscores the need to build cars and trucks that guzzle less gas. In the coming months, President Obama has an opportunity to break our oil dependence, save Rhode Islanders ...
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Letter: Grad student 'support' needs clarification
By Brown Daily Herald | April 21To the Editor:
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Wicken GS: Knowing and kneeing
By Stephen Wicken | April 21Human knowledge, dear reader, is a funny thing, and our pursuit of it is even funnier, especially when we are wearing flip-flops. We spend a large proportion of our waking hours trying to come to know things. And yet we never seem to know that we know something until we realize that, without knowing ...
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Norris-LeBlanc '13: AG dishonestly uses semantics to obscure truth
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | April 20In his recent guest column ("Secure Communities will protect all communities," April 19), Attorney General Peter Kilmartin informed us that "it is not and has never been our mission to crack down on illegal immigration." He justifies this statement by stating, "That role is limited to federal officials, ...
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Uhrick '11: The gender wage gap
By Michelle Uhrick | April 20I remember sitting in one day on one of those ad-hoc social experiments that professors often conduct to prove a point. The professor asked the women in the lecture hall who wanted to have children to raise their hands. A handful went up. The professor then asked for the same show of hands from the ...
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Editorial: An unwelcome diversion
By Brown Daily Herald | April 20At the beginning of this month, the state Senate took up an uncontroversial bill that would start the process of setting up a state health care exchange. The legislation is necessary to comply with the federal health care reform law President Obama signed last year. In fact, the Providence Journal reported ...
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Letter: Coverage skews success of Spring Weekend
By Brown Daily Herald | April 19To the Editor:
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Letter: ROTC broadens students' career options
By Brown Daily Herald | April 19To the Editor:
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Moffat '13: Reefer madness
By Jared Moffat | April 19On the evening of Sept. 7, 2010, a crowd of at least 50 Brown students huddled in Wayland Arch, all raising their hands in unison. After an hour-long debate, they were answering the question posed by the Janus Forum, "Should marijuana be legalized?" The affirmative response was nearly unanimous.
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Editorial: Facilitating summer storage
By Brown Daily Herald | April 19It's nearing that time of the school year again — the end, that is. A quarter of us are leaving for good, but most of us will be back in the fall — and those of us who aren't from the area will need somewhere to store our stuff over the summer.
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Najera GS: Untangling your mind
By Hector Najera | April 19I want to explicate what many Brown students already know — that the classroom does not have to be composed of four walls. The stories students and faculty bring to Brown are one example. From traveling in South America to working in the community, it is clear that growth emerges everywhere. This ...
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Editorial: A new day at the TWC
By Brown Daily Herald | April 18On Monday, the fourth and final candidate for director of the Third World Center gave a presentation at the Sharpe Refectory. As evidenced by the fact that each candidate gave a presentation, the search process for the new director is placing a high priority on student input.
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Editorial: Making primary care a priority
By Brown Daily Herald | April 17As the Alpert Medical School prepares to make its transition to the Jewelry District, we are pleased to see that it is looking to make other expansions as well. Thanks to a generous grant of over $87,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation, the Med School is capable of funding new initiatives to get students ...
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Kilmartin: Secure Communities will protect all communities
By Peter Kilmartin | April 17As your attorney general, protecting Rhode Island communities from harm is my highest priority. We have taken a strong step toward enhancing the safety of our communities by signing on to the federal Secure Communities program.
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Ortiz-Hinojoso '11: 4/20 and the drug war
By Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa | April 17Brown students are generally very socially conscious, as far as college-age students go. We protest sweatshop labor, the lack of government transparency, funding for unethical projects and the lack of funding for ethical projects. We encourage the purchasing and consuming of locally grown, organic and ...
