Yue Wang

Yue Wang '12: In defense of humanities

Yue Wang '12: Let's talk about love

The recent campus news about the group independent study project, "The Study of Love" ("Love, Factually" Sept. 30) really caught my sleepy eyes at breakfast and made my day.

Yue Wang '12: Learn to be American

I want to assimilate. After all, it sounds fair that, to live in this land, one must learn the American language and the American way. So I sat down and made a list of things to which I must adapt. Item one: speak English. Check. Next?

Wang '12: Care for those around you

The result of a recent nationwide survey in Japan shocked the nation's psyche and put a dent in its pride for its people's renowned longevity: in the country with one of the world's largest populations over the age of one hundred, 234,000 Japanese centenarians listed in government records are now reported ...

Yue Wang '12: Questionable democracy in the classroom

The beginning of a new semester is always marked by the frenzied course shopping season that lasts for a couple of weeks. Each shopper usually asks herself: Does this class conflict with my overall schedule? Does it really interest me? And increasingly, whether we like the way the professor, or sometimes ...

Yue Wang '12: A more serious commitment to physical education at Brown

Adding to the numerous buzzing construction sites on College Hill, the ongoing project of the new aquatics and fitness center seems to appeal to everybody. For varsity athletes, it means a permanent home for the swimming and water polo teams, a much less crowded strength and conditioning area, separated ...

Yue Wang '12: What to do with Uganda?

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill introduced in Uganda last fall is deeply disturbing: it called for the death penalty for "any form of sexual relationship between persons of the same sex," which was later lightened to life imprisonment. However, capital punishment is still applicable for "serial offenders" ...

Yue Wang '12: A labyrinth for on-campus job seekers

It is a typical Kafkaesque situation where one can never figure out where the chain of hierarchy ends and who is accountable for making a fateful verdict. The world is neither understandable nor escapable, indeed a boundless labyrinth.

Yue Wang '12: For the sake of hope

Born to a small Chinese village two thousand miles away from Beijing, my father traveled to the nation's capital in the spring of 1978 and toured the city for the very first time.

Yue Wang '11: Repeal Rhode Island's Amazon tax

Between the two sure things in life — death and taxes — Amazon.com seems determined to eschew at least the latter in many places in this country. Collecting sales tax on Amazon.com was a largely ignored issue because, in most states, the online store has no legal obligation to collect taxes ...