Chris Norris-LeBlanc
Norris-LeBlanc '13: Objectification is not gender-blind
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | October 19David Hefer's '12 column ("Objectification for fun and profit," Sept. 30) serves as a comprehensive example of all the things that can go horribly wrong when men try to confront issues of physical objectification from a specifically male perspective.
Norris-LeBlanc '13: AG dishonestly uses semantics to obscure truth
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | April 20In his recent guest column ("Secure Communities will protect all communities," April 19), Attorney General Peter Kilmartin informed us that "it is not and has never been our mission to crack down on illegal immigration." He justifies this statement by stating, "That role is limited to federal officials, ...
Norris-LeBlanc '13: The United States is on the brink of fascism
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | March 15I would like to look at two famous scholars' definitions of fascism and examine them in the context of current events in the United States.
Norris-LeBlanc '13: Who needs teachers anyway?
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | March 7Nationwide, educators in public schools are facing an unprecedented attack on their salaries, collective bargaining rights and in many cases, their jobs. Behind the euphemisms of "flexibility" and "working together to balance the budget" lay much more sinister motives — power-grabbing, union-busting ...
Norris-LeBlanc '13: The Corporation is back in town!
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | February 15Yes, everyone, it is once again that time of the year. The body of people who have the final say in every decision pertaining to this University has graced us with its presence and, so to speak, laid down the law. After reading President Ruth Simmons' e-mail to the community informing us of the Corporation's ...
Norris-Leblanc '13: The ROTC Question
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | January 27After 18 years, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was finally repealed by a Senate vote of 63 for and 33 against. This historic legislation marks the end of an almost two-decade period when gay and lesbian members of the armed forces had to face a dishonorable discharge if they divulged their sexuality ...
Chris Norris-LeBlanc '13: On sharing resources
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | November 18As Brown University is an internationally acclaimed institution, we the students graduate with a number of opportunities and privileges not afforded to the majority of the world's population. The diploma, possibly the most ponderous of these privileges, is not easy to conceptualize sharing with a large ...
Chris Norris-LeBlanc '13: Wriston - Shape up, or ship out
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | November 3Last week, Alyssa Ratledge '11 delivered in her column ("Sex crimes, complacency and complicity," Oct. 29) a scathing critique of the sexual assault policies at universities across the country, specifically citing the recent incident at Yale as well as an incident during Spring Weekend at Brown in years ...
Chris Norris-LeBlanc '13: In support of Brown library workers
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | October 19Right now, the team responsible for Brown investments and endowment security is gloriously exhaling a sigh of sweet relief. In the calm after the economic storm, Brown's endowment returns were 10 percent in the fiscal year 2010, and Alice Tisch, our esteemed chancellor's wife, can finally stop living ...