The debate about the Reserve Officers' Training Corps has caused many students and alums to demonize our military and portray it as a habitual human rights violator. Even if these critics have some valid points, their overall impression of the army is distorted. Far from being a force for evil in the ...
The Rogue Island Jitney — a proposed shuttle between the University of Rhode Island and bars in Narragansett — is eliciting furious opposition from school administrators and local leaders. The Providence Journal's editorial page indignantly asked Feb. 13, "What were they thinking?" of state ...
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So the new international relations requirements have been announced. Mark Blyth, professor of political science and director of undergraduate studies for international relations and development studies, sent out a letter that was, as promised after all the uproar last semester, completely devoid of ...
As a senior about to graduate with a bachelor of arts in international relations, the current reflections and debate surrounding the new IR concentration requirements have definitely caught my attention.
At the most recent Undergraduate Council of Students meeting, the council evaluated a new initiative that would provide alums with permanent Brown e-mail addresses even after graduation. Jake Heimark '11 conceived the idea and has since started working in collaboration with the Alumni Association, Computing ...
By now, many of us are familiar with the recent attempts by the House to legislate degrees of rape — "forcible" and otherwise — in order to further restrict the already narrow circumstances under which abortions can be federally funded. In late January, lawmakers proposed to change the term ...
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The debate about bringing the Reserve Officers' Training Corps back to campus has left two concerns — profit and prestige — unmentioned. In my analysis, these are the implicit justifications for considering ROTC's return, though students have not been included in this part of the discussion ...
The coming weeks could bring big changes to Rhode Island's marijuana policy. Not only are state Sen. Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, and Rep. John Edwards, D-Tiverton and Portsmouth, pushing to decriminalize possession of up to one ounce of pot, but the state Department of Health will soon select up to three ...
You, dear readers, are a tough lot to keep up with.
Funding a Brown education is already hard, and it isn't getting any easier. The Corporation just accepted a 3.5 percent increase in tuition for the next academic year, raising total undergraduate tuition and fees to a voluminous $53,136. And that's only for next year. Given the Corporation's past increases ...
The 1960s and early 1970s were a very interesting time to be in college. Sure, being college-age could get you sent off to war, but that led to large demonstrations, which made the period unique. There was free love, drugs and protestors. The University changed its curriculum based on student suggestions, ...
Earlier this month, in a letter to the Brown community, President Ruth Simmons announced an increase in budgeted undergraduate enrollment to 6,000 students. At a time when the number of college applicants is growing disproportionately to available spots, particularly at selective universities, we find ...
Mutiny! With last week's announcement of sweeping changes to the international relations curriculum, first-year and sophomore disciples of Brown's second-most popular concentration were up in arms against the administration of the Watson Institute for International Studies for what they deemed to be ...
As I face my graduation and possibly the last semester of my education, I am tempted to look back and ask, "What have I learned?"
Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 recently announced that Rhode Island state employees would be forbidden from speaking with talk radio hosts, arguing that public resources should not "support for-profit, ratings-driven programming."
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