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Dana Goldstein '06: Work and motherhood: a Brown study
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | October 25What do women want to be when they grow up?
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Do women have opinions?
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | September 11This semester, you'll see four female writers contributing regularly to this opinions page - Maha Atal '08, Laura Martin '06, Courtney Jenkins '07 and myself. That's four writers out of a current stable of 16 regular columnists. Last semester, the figure was the same. Four women -Marjon Carlos '05, ...
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Between minimum wage and a moral conscience
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | March 8In our consumption culture, buying and not buying are becoming preferred modes of activism. Isn't it easier, after all, to boycott labor-abusing Wal-Mart than to lobby for a national living wage? Anti-Bush groups tried - and failed - to organize a zero-consumption day to coincide with the president's ...
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Gender offender?
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | February 14The volume of responses to Harvard President Lawrence Summers' comments last month on the supposed futility of achieving gender equality on his science and mathematics faculty seems to represent a collective exhalation. University campuses are somewhat accustomed to considering questions of gender difference ...
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Task force overhauls Museum structure, searches for new director
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | November 17Last month, Peter Weiss, chair of the RISD Museum's Board of Governors, visited a Student Alliance meeting to discuss the relationship between the Museum and the college's undergraduates, a relationship that has sometimes been strained due to a lack of communication and lingering questions about the ...
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Top supermarket
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | November 1You will go through a Whole Foods stage, infatuated with the huge selection of tofu consistencies. Then you will graduate to East Side Marketplace, realizing that a supermarket isn't worthy of the name if it doesn't stock carbonated sugar water made by evil corporations. And then you will check your ...
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As Iraq conflict continues, young voters wonder if a draft is coming
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | October 28When former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean visited Brown on Sept. 9, he told The Herald that college students should mobilize against the possibility of a military draft.
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Ball '82, award-winning author, to speak this afternoon
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | October 4The University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice continues its program tonight with a lecture by Edward Ball '82, the National Book Award-winning author of "Slaves in the Family." Ball's memoir, published in 1998, recounts the writer's experience of searching for both the black and white descendants ...
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Franklin: Contemporary discussions of race should be rooted in history
By DAISY GOLDSTEIN | September 21For a man who has dedicated his life to researching, writing and teaching about race in America, John Hope Franklin says he seldom stops to note a person's skin color.
