One of the amazing characteristics that distinguishes Brown from other universities in the United States is its diverse student body. Everywhere you look, there's bound to be another student from some place in the world you've always dreamt of visiting or from a country of which you've never even heard. ...
The process to reform the University's tenure review procedures stalled last week after the faculty voted to withdraw the proposals from consideration and refer them to the Faculty Executive Committee. The proposals would, for instance, stop departments from revealing the identities of outside references ...
When I was in high school, I used to believe that college was the end-all. I thought that if you achieved enough, ticker-tape would fall from the sky and you would win at life, with Happiness guaranteed forever.
The new Brown.edu home page, up for just a few weeks, greets us with a new layout and features. While it is hard for anyone to miss the huge video frame on the new page, it is now nearly impossible for a new user to locate any popular resources right away.
When Congress reauthorized the Higher Education Opportunity Act in 2008, a provision in the bill required the Government Accountability Office to study "the feasibility of developing a national student loan clearinghouse on the (Education) Department's website that helps prospective borrowers make informed ...
Disclaimer: This column may contain information unpalatable to Brunonians of all political affiliations, socioeconomic classes and other societal groupings. The most unpopular debate on Capitol Hill is always taxes. No matter how many times the Obama administration points to the deficit, Congress will ...
I want to assimilate. After all, it sounds fair that, to live in this land, one must learn the American language and the American way. So I sat down and made a list of things to which I must adapt. Item one: speak English. Check. Next?
Brown University's recent appointment of recording artist and activist Wyclef Jean to a visiting fellowship in the Department of Africana Studies was severely ill-guided. It represents an aspect of this University's character that I ardently believe we should push against: the tendency to be a stature ...
In the past several weeks, there have been myriad opinions columns in The Herald discussing the idea of "Brown, Inc." The discourse so far has largely been centered around the economic consequences of this shift in University policy, showing how it is affecting and will affect the lives of students, ...
Last week, The Herald reported on a study that found that delaying school start times could improve students' academic performance. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Judith Owens '77 MD'80 conducted an experiment at St. George's School in Newport, R.I., that observed the impact of a later start time ...
Tuesday, Nov. 2 — midterm election day. If you're someone like me, you're probably looking forward to this day with some mixture of dread, revulsion and dark humor (at the prospect of Christine O'Donnell getting elected and lecturing America on the evils of masturbation from the Senate floor). ...
We were deeply saddened to learn that Raymond Chase, a student at Johnson and Wales University, took his own life last Wednesday. Chase, who was openly gay, was the fifth LGBT teenager to commit suicide in the past three weeks. All of the students are believed to be victims of bullying and harassment ...
In his column "God and man at Brown" (Sept. 21), David Sheffield '11 claims, "A religious university is conflicted on a fundamental level." However, it is his column that is fundamentally flawed. Through the use of twisted logic and poor, if any, research, Sheffield claims that religious schools are ...
To the Editor:
The recent defeat of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act by a Republican filibuster in the Senate has cast new light on the sorry condition of immigration politics in the United States. While the bill does nothing more than temporarily set up a path to citizenship for undocumented ...
Last Friday, "The Social Network" swooped into movie theaters across the country, earning sky-high reviews and a "98 percent fresh" rating from RottenTomatoes.com. The movie describes how Facebook was founded, offering a creation myth for the addictive, ubiquitous website.
We were extremely disappointed to read last month that the U.S. Senate failed to pass the National Defense Authorization Act because only 57 of its 100 members supported the bill on a party-line vote. We miss the days when the defeat of a bill authorizing military operations at the hands of arcane procedural ...
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