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Adrienne Langlois '10: Toward a more productive dialogue on the Catholic Church and religion

By Adrienne Langlois | April 18

In the wake of any disaster, both victims and bystanders find themselves haunted by difficult questions. The recent child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is one such disaster. With such a widespread range of harm and a confounding reaction from the Vatican, the scandal has sparked many tricky discussions.Initial ...

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Adrienne Langlois '10: More UTRAs, please

By Adrienne Langlois | March 21

When we, as college students, go home for spring break (or, if we're lucky enough to be going somewhere exciting, when we call home) we're likely to be asked one terrifying question: "What are you doing this summer?"

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Adrienne Langlois '10: Life after Brown

By Adrienne Langlois | March 1

It's about that time of year again. As the days until June fly off the calendar, students are rushing to find summer internships and post-graduation jobs in a still relatively weak economy. With so many possibilities and so little time, finding something to do when classes end can be a daunting, ...

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Adrienne Langlois '10: R.I.P. Howard Zinn

By Adrienne Langlois | February 16

Admit it: regardless of how much we enjoy our academic pursuits at Brown, they can sometimes seem very distant from reality. The journal articles and academic books we read can seem too specific to be useful in "real life," and the papers we write rarely see the light of day once their due dates have ...

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Adrienne Langlois '10: The real language barrier

By Adrienne Langlois | February 15

Learning a foreign language is serious business. Although the rewards are great, the path to "fluency" — a concept which becomes more elusive the longer one pursues it — is long and arduous. And just when it seems like you've significantly expanded your abilities, you realize just how much ...

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Adrienne Langlois '10: There's no vote like home

By Adrienne Langlois | November 30

Time for a warm and fuzzy moment: after nearly four years at Brown, I've come to consider this University, as well as Providence, another home. While I still look forward immensely to returning home to Asheville, North Carolina each and every break, I equally relish returning to Brown and the surrounding ...

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Adrienne Langlois '10: The good, the bad and the stressful

By Adrienne Langlois | November 10

If you're reading this, there's a good chance you're pretty happy you're at Brown. After a tense year in which Brown was bumped to number two, our university has regained its place as the happiest school in the Princeton Review rankings.

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Adrienne Langlois '10: A sound decision

By Adrienne Langlois | October 28

If you've been at Brown longer than, say, three days, you've probably noticed that there is always a significant amount of construction on campus. Indeed, wherever one turns, there are tarp-covered fences labeled "Building Brown" — the undeniable sign of all sorts of construction, from new science ...

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Adrienne Langlois '10: Not a funny column

By Adrienne Langlois | October 8

It's hard to go anywhere without encountering some sort of celebrity gossip. Most of it is pretty frivolous; the sun will still rise and set, regardless of whether Brangelina and Jennifer Aniston get into another spat tomorrow.

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Adrienne Langlois '10: International studies at Brown: Things come together

By Adrienne Langlois | September 27

Books and their authors have defined my life from before I could even speak, though the cast of characters has rotated as I've grown. When I was five, my favorite authors were Robert McCloskey and Kevin Henkes; at 10, I preferred Madeleine L'Engle and Lois Lowry. At 15, however, it was Chinua Achebe ...