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Cannuscio ’92 P’26: Vaccines save lives — far beyond your own

Well before you jam into trains and cars and planes for the holidays, please get your flu shot, and your COVID-19 shot, too.

Identity-based student groups report more pushback from SAO on constitutions, event descriptions

Leaders of several identity-based student groups said their publicized event descriptions and club constitutions have faced more scrutiny from the Student Activities Office over the past few months.

Inside the seminars shaping Brown’s first-year class

Since 2002, first-year students at Brown have had the opportunity to take first-year seminars — small courses, capped at about 20 undergraduates, that are designed to build community and introduce new ...

‘Falsettos’ is one of the best student-theater performances of the year

Over the weekend, Brown Musical Forum staged a rendition of William Finn and James Lapine’s 1992 musical “Falsettos” in the Fishman Studio at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. With witty ...

‘They would be ostracized’: Over 45% of students have felt uncomfortable expressing political beliefs, Herald poll finds

In The Herald’s Fall 2025 Poll, 46% of respondents said they felt uncomfortable expressing their political beliefs at Brown, but this trend is more pronounced among conservative students.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul criticizes Trump at BPU event

While most Republicans in Congress have consistently supported President Trump, one has repeatedly voted against critical portions of the president’s agenda. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a self-described libertarian ...

Student-athletes leverage social media, NIL policies to score brand deals

When Rosie Volpintesta ’27 was in high school, she made her first brand deal with an apparel company. Now, in her third year on the women’s track and field team, she receives at least 10 emails every ...

AI therapy chatbots regularly commit ethical violations, Brown study finds

Over the past few years, stories about teenagers taking their own lives after seeking mental health support from artificial intelligence have gained national attention. Amid high demand for mental health ...

Geese’s ‘Getting Killed’ is glorious

On their latest album, “Getting Killed,” rock band Geese whirls listeners through 11 songs of clattering chaos. Released on Sept. 26, the band’s fourth studio album inspires in listeners a restless ...

Oklou’s ‘choke enough (Deluxe)’ is subtle and stylish

French musician Oklou recently released a four-song expansion of her alt-pop LP “choke enough,” which came out earlier this year. The deluxe record, launched on Oct. 30, adds four new singles to the ...

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Dear Readers,

en route [feature]

In another life, I never moved away from Illinois. I spend summers laying out picnic blankets in the fenceless backyard that we share with eight of our neighbors. We drink iced tea out of plastic cups ...

banana children [narrative]

Baba talks like he will never stop again.

the mind’s eye [A&C]

Consider, for a second, the value of forcible constraint: the weight of the absent “e” in Georges Perec’s lipogram A Void, or the mysterious vividness of the paper cutouts Henri Matisse made when ...

on identity and the unfamiliar [lifestyle]

It’s funny to think how much the passage of time can change our relationships to ideas, hobbies and beliefs. This is something I’ve been grappling with lately: How much of our present selves are defined ...

college hill icks [post-pourri]

i might permanently dye my hair red [narrative]

I walk out of my dorm in my polka-dot pajamas and short-sleeved crushed watermelon T-shirt to get myself some food. Halfway to the Ratty, I realize I have made a pathetic decision. I pull my phone out ...

Hannah Pingree ’98 enters race for governor of Maine

This summer, Hannah Pingree ’98 announced she was running for governor of Maine, her home state. On Oct. 31, Pingree made a fundraising stop on College Hill at the University Club, where she was ...

A behind-the-scenes look at ‘gamified’ courses at Brown

While some students trek to the Salomon Center for large lecture-based courses or gather in a Page-Robinson Hall classroom for seminars, others turn on their computers and enter the world of gamified ...

RISD Painting Department’s triennial exhibit showcases students’ diverse artistic practices

On Nov. 6, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Painting Department opened its triennial exhibition in the Woods-Gerry Gallery, featuring selected work from the department’s undergraduate seniors and ...