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Editorial: Consolidation
By Brown Daily Herald | November 23Rhode Island's dismal financial condition is no longer news, and the state's economic problems have only worsened in recent months.
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Scandalous
By Brown Daily Herald | November 22If there's one thing we're sure about, it's that most Brown students don't want their ability to party on campus shut down by the Providence Police. We came too close for comfort last week, when PPD Chief of Police Dean Esserman was quoted in the Providence Journal saying "The position this department ...
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Jared Lafer '11: The one that got away
By Jared Lafer | November 22The open curriculum provides us with a framework for incomparable academic freedom. We can take basically whatever course we want, choose our grading system, add and drop courses on a whim and create courses and concentrations if the current availabilities don't meet our fancies.
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Ethan Tobias '12: Bicycle bewilderment
By Ethan Tobias | November 22It is not surprising that many students bike around campus. The bicycle is the most efficient means of transportation ever invented. For environmentally conscious Brown students, biking is a way to avoid having a car or renting a Zipcar. For those who have jobs, volunteer off-campus or are in a rush, ...
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Editorial: Scandalous
By Brown Daily Herald | November 22If there's one thing we're sure about, it's that most Brown students don't want their ability to party on campus shut down by the Providence Police. We came too close for comfort last week, when Providence Chief of Police Dean Esserman was quoted in the Providence Journal saying "We're against anything ...
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Anthony Badami '11: A death in Bobst
By Anthony Badami | November 22It was in the early hours of a Tuesday morning this month that Andrew Williamson-Noble, a 20-year-old student at New York University, leapt to his death from the 10th floor of the Bobst Library. He was found on his back, with nothing but a suicide note left in his dorm to give his grieving family and ...
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Editor's note
By Brown Daily Herald | November 22An article in last Monday's Herald ("Taking dance to another level," Nov. 16) contained a number of passages that presented as direct quotations language that differed from the wording originally used by the individuals quoted.
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Tyler Rosenbaum '11: Ever vigilant
By Tyler Rosenbaum | November 21Sean Hannity is fond of proclaiming America the "greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth." Bill Maher has an interesting response: "America must stop bragging that it's the greatest country on Earth and start acting like it."Obviously Bill Maher's job depends on his saying ...
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Julianne Fenn '11: Too much information, not enough context
By Julianne Fenn | November 19Due to a production error, an outdated version of this column ran in Friday's print edition. The correct version of the column is below.
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Editorial: Fighting words
By Brown Daily Herald | November 19Dear Columbia,We're better than you. Yup, we said it — better. Better at sports, better at academics, better at life. We square off in football this weekend and, to be 100 percent honest, nobody really thinks you have a chance.
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Jonathan Topaz '12: Killing the boredom-killing business
By Jonathan Topaz | November 19In the satirical movie "Network," Howard Beale, an established and respected nightly news anchor, is fired for his newscast's poor ratings. In his farewell address, Beale goes on a shocking tirade and consequently earns the name "mad prophet." Beale starts a new show, which quickly becomes the most ...
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Reviewing the Review Board
By Brown Daily Herald | November 18Academic research involving human subjects — from a straightforward interview to advanced biomedical testing — raises a host of difficult technical and ethical questions. To ensure that students and researchers on Brown's campus work effectively and conscientiously, and to comply with federal ...
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Seven reasons to oppose the public option
By Will Wray | November 18Brown students agree that there is a problem in the current U.S. health-care system: It isn't meeting its tremendous potential to deliver quality, affordable and timely treatment. In response, Congress is likely to adopt one of the following methods: institute the public option, or change the arena ...
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Having the courage to be free
By Brian Judge | November 18There are two types of people in politics: those who accept the burden of freedom and those who cling to the comfort of their own delusions. Contemporary American politics and culture has been a feeding-frenzy for the desperate fury of weak (not stupid) people who would rather believe in absurdities ...
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Dominic Mhiripiri '12: Toward a more soccer-loving Brunonia
By Brown Daily Herald | November 17I grew up in one of the most picturesque places you could imagine, a township that bustled with life in a small and beautiful country on Africa's southern tip — just twenty years after it played host to a fiery national liberation war. For me, childhood was not a collection of wonderland adventures ...
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Michael Fitzpatrick '12: Today, PLME killed my dreams. FML.
By Michael Fitzpatrick | November 17A few friends of mine really got shafted last week. As students enrolled in the Program in Liberal Medical Education, they discovered that their guaranteed acceptance into Warren Alpert Medical School will be rendered null and void if they send out applications to any other medical schools.I shouldn't ...
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Letter: Good without the Loch Ness monster
By Brown Daily Herald | November 17To the Editor:I want to address a couple key points in Anish Mitra's '10 recent column ("Good without God? A response," Nov. 16). The thrust of Mitra's piece is a critique of the militancy and vocalness of the atheist movement today. He begins by positing that taking a missionary strategy toward ...
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Editorial: On the path to leadership
By Brown Daily Herald | November 17The addition of Chinua Achebe to Brown's faculty marks a bold step in the University's efforts to establish itself as a leader in Africana studies. With the "father of modern African literature" on College Hill, Brown's Africana studies faculty now includes several distinguished writers and scholars. ...
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Quigley '10: It's my car and I'll text if I want to
By Sean Quigley | November 16On several occasions this past summer, as I was making the trip from my internship office in Princeton to my family's house in Rhode Island, pride for my state consumed me. I was not sure about the laws in New Jersey or New York, but I was certain that Connecticut had made texting while driving illegal, ...
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Editorial: The departed
By Brown Daily Herald | November 16Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 made prodigious use of his veto powers last week. Carcieri nixed more than two dozen of the 243 bills that the General Assembly passed during the recent special session. Some of these vetoes were reasonable, some were questionable and a few were downright wrong. Particularly ...
