It seems like any time an NBA superstar reaches an extreme level of success at a young age — with LeBron James being the most recent case — basketball fans and sports media alike are eager to draw comparisons between these players and Michael Jordan. And the conclusion that these parties reach, ...
After Sunday’s victory at home over the Charlotte Bobcats, the Miami Heat are in the midst of their quest to capture a rare third consecutive NBA title and even rarer fourth consecutive trip to the NBA Finals. LeBron James, the four-time league Most Valuable Player and reigning back-to-back Finals ...
On the first day of April, the official enrollment numbers for the health care exchanges of the Affordable Care Act were first made public. Obama and his administration claimed victory: 7.1 million Americans had signed up, beating their forecasts by 100,000 enrollees despite technical difficulties with ...
After The Herald reported recent Office of Institutional Research data regarding the grade distribution at Brown last week, our grading system has come to the forefront of campus conversation. With over half of all students receiving As, our skewed distribution of grades indicates inflationary trends, ...
Not a week goes by when I don’t read or hear a criticism of the Corporation, President Christina Paxson or her administration. Student-run publications are often filled with commentary about our leaders’ purported detachment from undergraduate needs, exorbitant spending and general lack of direction ...
Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, once said, “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” While Andrew Powers ’15 claimed in a recent Herald opinions column that policy evaluation should be based in ethics (“Powers ...
Last week, President Obama gave his State of the Union address, which outlined his goals for the remainder of his term and highlighted aspects of his presidency to date. While I agree that progress has been made on several fronts, be it curbing Iran’s nuclear program, working to provide a temporary ...
Last week, President Christina Paxson announced a new initiative for students who receive financial aid. Her effort seeks to extend funded research and work opportunities to undergraduates on a need-based criterion. This demonstrates Brown’s commitment to students who lack the financial resources ...
Over the course of this semester at Brown, we have seen a breadth of issues put at the forefront of both discussion and controversy. From questions of environmental awareness to new University policies, there seems to be clear division among different groups of students. These differences often seem ...
As a student who transferred to Brown in the middle of my sophomore year, I’ve had the unique opportunity to compare my time here with that at another university. While I cannot really speak to the first-year experience in one of the 90 or so first-year seminars offered at Brown, my impression of ...
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