Columns

Brundage '15: The appeal of mainstream music

Chizen '14: RIPTA's educational value

For the overwhelming majority of Brown students who are not from Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority is most likely a foreign concept. While the College Hill campus fosters education through intellectually stimulating classes, it fails to expose students to a working society and ...

Thomas '15: Rape jokes cause more damage than offense

Johnson '14: Super PACs bring out the worst in politicians

Carty '15: The essence of America

I love capitalism and believe in the profit motive inherent in it. I also love societal progress and believe in the selflessness existing outside of the profit motive that makes that progress sustainable and kind.  

Husted '13: Lessons for Spring Weekend

Spring Weekend is the largest and most widely attended event occurring on campus before Commencement week. Students eagerly anticipate the bands, agonize over getting tickets and even schedule their work or study abroad plans around the event. Spring Weekend is a time when people gather in large numbers, ...

Hefer '12: A discussion of rape and consent

Look around anywhere on campus, and you are bound to see a highlighter-colored shirt proclaiming the value of consent. We know a lot about consent. When is it required? Always. How should it be given? Enthusiastically.

Moffat '13: U.S. drug policies are a crime against humanity

Tobias '12: No cuts to mass transit

Cao '13: How unique are you?

Fernandez-O'Brien '12: Proposing a UCS-UFB compromise

Dear friends, let us first give thanks that the state of political debate at Brown University remains an inspiring beacon, an example that certain national political leaders would do well to follow. Throughout the course of discussions about the amendment changing the way Undergraduate Council of Students ...

Levison '14: The self-conscious me

When I recently told a classmate that I was considering writing my first opinions piece on the topic of opinions, he declared with irony fit only for south of Power Street, "That's so meta, bro." What he meant to exclaim was "Have you no shame!?" — a statement meant to highlight the meaninglessness ...

Lauren Schleimer '12: Enforcing integrity on the MCAT

Daniel Prada '12: Every entrepreneur is a social entrepreneur

Adam Bouche '14: How hip-flipped

Kevin Carty '15: Is Brown a tool of the 1 percent?

Cara Dorris '15: The fiction of relationship?

Raaj Parekh '13: UFB: Vote 'no' to UCS-UFB role amendment

The Undergraduate Council of Students announced a proposal and subsequently ran an opinions column in The Herald yesterday ("UCS: Vote ‘yea' to UCS-UFB role amendment," Feb. 9) recommending a constitutional change that would give it the right to set its own budget, with the approval of the director ...

UCS: Vote 'yea' to UCS-UFB role amendment

For the past 27 years, the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board have collaborated to serve the Brown community by formally categorizing and funding student groups. While the two bodies have served the community admirably, we admit there is room for improvement.

McDonald '14: Playing it safe and the risks of student life