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Letter: Institutional “neutrality” is not the answer
By Garrett Brand | March 4To the Editor:
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Letter: Response to “Why we walked out of Jonathan Greenblatt’s talk”
By Theodore Horowitz | March 4I am very disappointed with the latest op-ed written by jonath ’24 and Rosenzweig ’24. The authors are uninformed as to what Jonathan Greenblatt actually said. If they had stuck around for more than four minutes, they would know that he discussed far-right racism and antisemitism at length, giving ...
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Aizenberg ’26: Brown should implement lottery-based admissions
By Benjamin Aizenberg | March 3At the Olympics, each track event starts with nearly 50 competitors in “heats,” where a certain relative time is required to reach the next round. The field is slowly whittled down until about 10 advance to the final.
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Brownsword ’18: The Brown community can't miss the chance to impact men's basketball history
By Matthew Brownsword | March 1Friday and Saturday night mark perhaps the most important Brown men’s basketball games in over a decade.
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Rahman ’26: Brown must adopt institutional neutrality
By Tasawwar Rahman | February 28In a hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, then-Presidents Liz Magill of Penn and Claudine Gay of Harvard, as well as President Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were asked if “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates each president’s ...
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jonath ’24, Rosenzweig ’24: Why we walked out of Jonathan Greenblatt’s talk
By monique jonath and Ariela Rosenzweig | February 28On Feb. 22, Brown’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity hosted Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, to give a talk titled “An Evening with Jonathan Greenblatt.” We are the Jewish students who initiated a walkout during Greenblatt’s talk, along with ...
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Chang ’27: Paying CCB members is a misguided idea
By Victor Chang | February 27The purpose of the Class Coordinating Board is to plan events. Yet, despite being an organization that is supposed to represent the student body, CCB has a track record of being undemocratic. I find it concerning that members of CCB are now attempting to compensate themselves using University funds. ...
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Sandhu ‘25: Shiny object syndrome plagues our generation
By Meher Sandhu | February 26In a fast-paced world, our generation’s obsession with the new is pervasive. From the latest smartphone to fleeting fashion trends, we have grown up in a society caught in an incessant cycle of novelty. This fixation with the new has become deeply ingrained in our culture, shaping our consumer behaviors, ...
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Editorial: Brown should prioritize its foundational learning goals when addressing AI
By Editorial Page Board | February 25This semester, there is a new phrase haunting professors’ syllabi: artificial intelligence. Each course seems to have a different statement on AI: For some classes, the use of AI is defined as plagiarism; for others, it is permitted as long as students cite how the technology was used. Some ...
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Hudes ’27: Literary arts courses are small because they have to be
By Paul Hudes | February 25I first sought to write this column about how competitive classes and tedious waitlists plague the literary arts department. I was ready to argue that Brown must reform the department’s exclusive seminars and complicated registration processes making it the nebulous, untouchable bastion of ‘not ...
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O'Riordan ’27: Brown needs to do more to close the information gap for applicants
By Mary O’Riordan | February 25In early February, Brown announced that the University would once again raise tuition by 4.5%, bringing annual tuition to $68,612 and total direct charges to $88,856. Since 2013, Brown’s tuition has gone up every year, increasing by over 46% in 10 years. And while Brown gives some of the most generous ...
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Bolton: Jonathan Greenblatt’s talk was a missed opportunity for campus dialogue
By Josh Bolton | February 23I’ve just come from the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity’s “Evening with Jonathan Greenblatt.” I admire the ADL and Greenblatt — and I commend OIED for bringing his voice to campus — but I thought the evening represented a huge missed opportunity.
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Aizenberg ’26: In Defense of Ryan Lochte
By Benjamin Aizenberg | February 23During the 2016 Rio Olympics, American swimmers Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were robbed on their way back from a club. Their taxi was pulled over by individuals posing as police officers who ordered the intoxicated swimmers to the ground and stole their wallets. Lochte had ...
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Warzer MA’22 GS, Goldman GS, Gitlis GS: For Jewish workers, divestment and organized labor go hand in hand
By Matthew Kateb Goldman, Zohar Gitlis and Beckett Warzer | February 22Editor’s Note: This op-ed was signed by multiple graduate students. The full list of signatories is presented at the end of this op-ed.
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Schapira MFA’06, Ophir, Smulyan: Brown doesn’t need to hear from the ADL
By Susan Smulyan, Adi M. Ophir and Kate Schapira | February 22Brown’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity recently announced plans to bring Jonathan Greenblatt, Director of the Anti-Defamation League, to speak on campus later today. This invitation shows a disregard for the Brown community and for the safety of its Palestinian and Muslim members, as ...
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Reinstein: We should condemn Brown’s invitation to Jonathan Greenblatt
By Joel Reinstein | February 22In bringing Jonathan Greenblatt to speak at Brown, the University’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity tells “anyone who might be upset” to understand that the OIED is “bringing in a viewpoint and bringing understanding and awareness.”
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Lopes de Almeida PhD '21: Brown should listen to students who protested in Campus Center
By Pedro Lopes de Almeida | February 21Throughout its more than 250-year history, the Brown community has consistently stood up for ethical causes, sending a message to the nation and to the world at moments when others remained silent. Generation after generation, the leaders of our university have understood that Brown does not exist in ...
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O'Riordan ’27: ‘Barbie’ should not overshadow the achievements of women of color
By Mary O’Riordan | February 16Since the #OscarsSoWhite Campaign gained traction on Twitter in 2015, it seems the Oscars have come to represent deep the flaws in our society rather than a celebration of art. While at times they provide memorable pop culture moments and a few inspirational speeches, it seems like the Oscars ...
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Threats to NATO should be taken seriously
By Lucas Guan | February 16This year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) turns seventy-five. In the course of its lifetime, NATO has seen the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War and, more recently, the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Indeed, NATO has played a key role in American and global geopolitics for ...
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Editorial: Antisemitism at Brown is a wound to our community
By Editorial Page Board | February 14On Sunday morning, Brown-RISD Hillel leaders received violent threats in their inboxes, specifically targeting Hillel employees, their families and the Brown-RISD Hillel Weiner Center. The incident came just four days after Christina Paxson’s school-wide email which stated that the University is working ...
