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Reactions to yesterday's full-page advertisement
By Brown Daily Herald | March 14To the Editor:
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Wicken GS: Advice from a young fogey
By Stephen Wicken | March 14It's that time again. Spring Weekend is coming, hopefully bringing spring with it. And now we know who's doing the bringing.
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Johnson '11: The money pit
By Mike Johnson | March 14Minden Hall stands augustly at the corner of Brook and Waterman streets, stoically watching over the enormous potholes in the middle of that intersection. Its large rooms and relatively secluded location on the other side of Thayer Street, away from the hustle and bustle of the main campus, make it ...
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Letter: Concealed firearms mean safer campuses
By Brown Daily Herald | March 13To the Editor:
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Letter: Teacher layoffs no reason to villify Taveras
By Brown Daily Herald | March 13To the Editor:
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Rosenbloom '13: Sarah Palin: created at Brown
By Oliver Rosenbloom | March 13As the race for the Republican presidential nomination begins in earnest, Sarah Palin will receive even more publicity than she normally does. Liberal intellectuals will continue to dismiss her as an ignorant country bumpkin. This anti-Palin rhetoric will be just as intense at Brown, where Palin certainly ...
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Letter: Alums in service support ROTC reinstatement
By Brown Daily Herald | March 13To the Editor:
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Editorial: Stomp out the vote
By Brown Daily Herald | March 13One of the major sources of student unrest during the Vietnam War was this simple injustice — although 18- to 20-year-olds could be forcibly shipped off to fight in a foreign war, the vast majority could not vote at home. In 1971, Congress and the states, recognizing the unfairness of preventing ...
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Jennewein '14: Confronting transgender discrimination in ROTC
By Maddy Jennewein | March 13In the current debate over the potential return of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps to campus, much attention has been given to economic, administrative and militaristic concerns. But little attention has been paid to the rampant discrimination within the military against transgender people. Though ...
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Yu '11: Busting the myths about card-swiping
By Sarah Yu | March 10It has been a few weeks since I stepped down as a cashier supervisor for Brown Dining Services, and I am still feeling the gaping hole in my life that comes from not having this huge responsibility and time commitment. I find it strange that I no longer receive emergency phone calls in the middle of ...
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Kroeber '11: Why do our parents think we are crazy?
By Susannah Kroeber | March 10I recently had a brief conversation with a group of parents whose kids were either recently admitted to college or not far behind. One mother in the group expressed horror at the fact that college students do not date anymore. She recalled how much time she had spent dating in college, going to movies ...
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Park '12: Is there any justifiable reason to reinstate ROTC?
By Julian Francis Park | March 9If identifying the empirical implications of U.S. military culture and policy is to "demonize the military," as Oliver Rosenbloom '13 has argued ("ROTC and human rights: putting the military's record in perspective," March 1), then this says nothing of those of us identifying these implications. To ...
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Nicholson '12.5: Please, 'gimme gimme more'
By Lorraine Nicholson | March 9Britney Spears' video for her Billboard smash hit "Hold it Against Me" dropped last Thursday, and I had absolutely no idea. Normally, such events would fly under my own aesthetic radar. Things changed, however, when CNN told me Katy Perry was outraged. Things changed when I heard the blonde pop star ...
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Editorial: endowment in name only
By Brown Daily Herald | March 9If we put down a six-figure initial donation to a fund intended to raise at least $17 million and no one else followed suit, we might be a bit more upset than President Ruth Simmons seems right now.
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Hammerman '13: The mission and purpose of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Week
By Ethan Hammerman | March 8Correction appended.
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Letter: Teaching English benefits students in rural China
By Brown Daily Herald | March 8To the Editor:
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Editorial: A Bridge to opportunity
By Brown Daily Herald | March 8Graduation may still be months away, but it is already a safe bet that few seniors will stay in Rhode Island to begin work. Dan Egan, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island, told The Herald last week that the state retains fewer graduates from Brown than ...
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Editorial: Leaving the paper trail behind
By Brown Daily Herald | March 7The University's decision to phase out the paper Course Announcement Bulletin inspired a sophomore to print his own hard-copy course listing and sell it for $10.
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Sheffield '11: Truthiness Tuesdays
By David Sheffield | March 7Chelsea Waite '11 provides a varied array of claims about how religion is benign and beneficial ("Truth Tuesdays," March 2). According to her column, it is not the tenets of religions that are problematic — it is their corrupted lust for power and thirst for domination. Apparently, if it were ...
