Columns

Moraff '14: Hiking tuition and blowing money on sparkly things

Katz '14: The perils of gun ownership

This past summer James Holmes, a former graduate student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado, opened fire at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., murdering 12 people and wounding 58. 

Pfaff '14: The technology unpocalypse

Zacks '15: Suffering on the path to freedom

Hudson '14: Obama's war on students

No president in American history has been as popular with college students as President Obama. Ironically, no president in American history has been as threatening to college students as President Obama. After investing considerable time and money in a college degree, students want to graduate into ...

Take care of day care

I'm not a parent. I have no plans to be a parent in the near future. But if I did, I would definitely have some core concerns about my childcare options should I choose to study or work at Brown. I'm aware of the struggles that working parents and student parents face in finding convenient, affordable ...

Eppler '13: Why college isn't irrelevant

Hard times tend to produce radical ideas, and the current economic crisis is no exception. Many observers have noticed the hardships faced by recent college graduates - limited job prospects, crushing student loan burdens - and suggested that the current American educational paradigm of college for ...

Lattanzi-Silveus '14: What the Chicago teachers have taught us

Last week, an editorial in The Herald criticized Chicago's teachers for putting their own interests in front of those of students by striking ("Have your apple and eat it, too?" Sept. 18). The editorial portrays Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on the other hand, as "trying to end something that clearly ...

Heath Mayo'13: Should Obamacare be repealed?

When the 2,700-page Affordable Care Act stepped up to the plate and was passed two years ago, grand promises of increased coverage, lower costs and better outcomes that accompanied its passage all inspired a sense of hope. A few years removed from that excitement, deeper consideration of the act's long-term ...

Mayo's Rebuttal: Should Obamacare be repealed?

Garret Johnson '14: Should Obamacare be repealed?

Obamacare attempts to address the three major shortcomings in the American health care system - lack of access, high costs and mediocre quality of care. While there remains work to be done, repealing Obamacare would be a major economic and moral setback for the United States.

Johnson's Rebuttal: Should Obamacare be repealed?

Ingber '15: Responsibility to protect (ourselves)

A column in Tuesday's Herald suggested not only that study abroad programs are relatively frivolous, but also that circumventing State Department travel advisories is an acceptable way to have a meaningful international encounter ("Want a real international experience? Take time off," Sept. 18). Katie ...

Zacks '15: Beasts of the southern wild

There is no place like home, and the Dorothies of the West Bank will tell you - there is no raging tornado like the State of Israel. Other tornadoes eventually run their course and allow their victims to heal and rebuild. But this whirlwind of violence and dispossession does not subside and disappear, ...

Newlon '14.5: A pattern of prejudice

Mills '13.5: Why so down on Brown?

Sola '14: Want a real international experience? Take time off

Hundreds of Brown students study abroad each year, often with the intention of learning a language. They join other American students as they jet off on mass-booked planes, fidget through orientation sessions, drink supermarket wine from the box and roam their new cities toting backpacks of phrase books ...

Gianotti '13: Respect, just a little bit

At the Democratic National Convention this year, former president Bill Clinton appeared a true statesman, urging a ceasefire to this country's bipartisan politics. With great finesse, he effectively appealed to Americans' deepest frustrations with a legislative government that seems to have been rendered ...

Dorris '15: Who's the happiest?

I recently stumbled upon happiness in a seemingly unhappy place: the Sharpe Refectory salad bar. The very happy conversation went something like this: "Don't you love this?" "Literally, these garbanzo beans are like, so incredible." "Right? This salad is like, so great." I was surprised. Because somewhere ...

Fuerbacher '14: Should Brown embrace pre-professionalism? Yes.

Every family has its cast of characters whose DNA matches but whose personalities diverge, and the Ivy League is no exception. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale all promote educational excellence and intellectual innovation, yet our attitudes toward the pursuit and ...