The deadline for the Wellness Residential Experience at Sternlicht Commons — or what most students simply call Wellness — recently passed. The dorm is in high demand among students, owing to its spacious suites and brand-new furnishings. The goal of the dorm is lofty: to create a community where ...
The civil rights movement transformed the United States. While there were many reasons for its success, nothing was more important than the rise of strong African American leaders who displayed great courage in confronting injustice and righting past wrongs. They publicized racial inequities and ...
Strawberry Switchblade’s song “Trees and Flowers” can lull you into a drowsy, blissful state. The guitar strums with a lazy elegance, the drums and bass follow with hippie simplicity and Rose McDowall sings in an elongated, careful tone. The grace captured in this song's instrumental is that ...
Before beginning my work for the day, I unabashedly require an oat milk chai latte as served by the Barus and Holley Cafe. However, as much as I love those morning visits (and hate the constant draining of my Flex Points), I resist the urge to sit down in the warm, bustling cafe to start my studying. ...
When I try to check in for international flights online, I’m not always able to. The country of birth listed on my passport — Hong Kong — is only sometimes listed as an option when selecting a country, depending on the airline. When it isn’t, I have to head to the airport early, explain to ...
Thanks to Brown’s conveniently compact campus, the main modes of transportation on College Hill are walking, biking and scootering. Unfortunately, many neighborhood ...
One of the first ads I saw on the Paris metro when I arrived as an exchange student was for a French dating app called Fruitz. The app asks you to choose between four fruit ...
For every minute I spent thinking about climate change last year, I probably spent another twenty minutes scrolling through Zara’s massive summer sale. And while I’m genuinely terrified of the
At the beginning of this semester, I shopped an introductory photography class. As usual, the classroom had more prospective students than seats available, so the professor informed us that VISA concentrators would be prioritized in class registration. After all the concentrators had been admitted, ...
In March 2020, right before the United States began to shut down due to COVID-19, I woke up so sick I could barely stand. My joints were inflamed, and my throat felt like it had been mangled by barbed wire. When I looked at it in the mirror using my flashlight, the deep crimson color I saw did not ...
“Sorry, we’re short-staffed.” Over the past two years, I’ve heard those words countless times, seen them on signs in cafes, bookstores, even doctors’ offices. They’re words I’ve said myself, leaving customers waiting at the door while I scramble to balance hostessing and serving pizzas ...
Amid contentious disagreements among policymakers, teachers, parents and students about critical race theory in public K-12 schools, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed
On Jan. 12, Brown University updated COVID-19 policies for the spring semester. With two days’ notice, the PCR testing program for vaccinated community members was replaced by self-administered rapid antigen tests. The University discontinued the “Healthy Brown'' dashboard, which had been showing ...
The deadline to opt for the Satisfactory/No Credit grading option is fast approaching, and as shopping period comes to a close, students are doing their best to make the right call. Taking a class S/NC can help alleviate students’ stress about grades when taking a course, allowing them to focus ...
I now sadly must say goodbye to all the students whom I call friends, to everyone in the Brown community whom I have had the pleasure to meet and especially to my coworkers from Dining Services. They worked tirelessly beside me. We were a team and, most of all, a family. I will miss all of you very ...
Engineers around the world all face the same fundamental challenge: How do we protect flood-prone cities from the rising tide of climate change? Since the 1970s, climate change has caused weather-related disasters to become five times more common and seven times more damaging. What is particularly ...
To the Editor:
The first thing I noticed about the woman behind the counter at Copenhagen’s Immigration Services was her Bruce Springsteen graphic tee. “I like your shirt,” I said as I handed over my passport. She looked me directly in the eye: “He is the love of my life.” We sat with this for a moment. ...
Like many other computer science concentrators at Brown, I began searching for a summer internship early last fall. In the weeks leading up to winter break, I saw many of my peers notify their LinkedIn connections that they would be spending their summers working for top tech companies. To my surprise, ...
Even as the pandemic rages on, public health measures have increasingly become a matter of personal responsibility on College Hill. Students on campus are now accountable for administering their ...
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