Simon '16: Viva classism!
On Nov. 19, the University released a draft document entitled “Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University.” Though the plan’s merits have been highly disputed, I give ...
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On Nov. 19, the University released a draft document entitled “Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University.” Though the plan’s merits have been highly disputed, I give ...
I don’t remember too much of my freshman orientation. It was both four years ago and, well, let’s just leave it at it being four years ago. And yet I have the distinct displeasure of vividly remembering ...
Few people can lay claim to ever having removed articles of clothing for monetary gain. Fewer of these people can say they did so while studying at an Ivy League university. And the fewest of this motley ...
The Soviet Union. That pretty much sums up everything I know about the Soviet Union. History was never my forte. I rarely found myself beating down the doors of my high school history classes to discover ...
Like too many Brown students, I find myself critical of President Christina Paxson P’19 more for sport than because I actually have any reason to be. If I’m being honest, I hardly know anything about ...
I studied abroad in Granada, Spain, a city so unrivaled by any I have ever visited that I can definitively claim it will remain unrivaled for as long as I have breath in my body. I have also decided in ...
It is my sole conviction that the intended benefit of class discussion has taken two steps back and then an additional five in the same direction. I am also exhaustively convinced that chivalry is dead. ...
Unless you have been living under a slab of granite these past few weeks, I do not need to tell you about the fresh hell that opened its doors this fall to America’s gravy-train-riding darlings. Having ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 was not shy about encouraging first-years to avail themselves of everything Brown’s widely trumpeted open curriculum has to offer at Convocation. But she delivered ...
The decades-long saga of the University’s missing Civil War-era sword can finally be put to rest. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled June 4 that a sword that disappeared ...
Every summer, about 300 teens between 14 and 16 years old from global regions plagued by conflict arrive on the shores of a secluded Maine lake. For three weeks, these students participate in a camp run ...
Speakers with controversial viewpoints who hail from diverse corners of the world have long been coming to Brown to expose students to perspectives outside their comfort zones. From civil rights activists ...
Five members from the Student Labor Alliance traveled to Florida to take part in a march held March 14-18 to protest corporations’ alleged abuse of farm workers in the state. The students joined the ...
President Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 per hour is unlikely to affect either student employment in college or financial aid packages, Brown administrators and professors ...
High schoolers descended on campus Saturday afternoon to put their neurons to work, answering questions about topics that included memory, sleep and addiction in Rhode Island’s first Brain Bee, a neuroscience ...
Mayor Angel Taveras announced a partnership with Southside Community Land Trust and the Rhode Island Foundation Jan. 14 in a project aimed at renovating the vacant lots that sprinkle the city’s undeveloped ...
This year’s flu outbreak has been responsible for more deaths and hospitalizations in Rhode Island than any influenza virus within the past 10 years. Rhode Island recorded 90 cases of the flu during ...
Seventy dormitory rooms were found in violation of residential policies during this semester's health and safety inspection from Oct. 23 to 25. The most common of these violations was the presence of ...
For upper limb amputees, adjusting to a new prosthetic arm can be difficult. While getting physically comfortable with new prosthetics is its own challenge, another difficulty is being able to objectively ...