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Michael Bechek '10: Principles and the professor
By Michael Bechek | May 29Professor Ivory Franklin Frisbee seems like a know-it-all. He is.
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Kelly McKowen '10: Brunonia abroad
By Kelly McKowen | May 29After four strenuous years on College Hill, most Brown students are ready for something new. Taking jobs or enrolling in graduate programs, the majority will relocate to popular alumni hubs in New York, Massachusetts and California.
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Chaz Firestone '10: Beyond skin and skull
By Chaz Firestone | May 29Sit in the back of a physics classroom during a final exam, and you'll bear witness to an odd bit of behavior. As soon as the students reach a question about electricity and magnetism, they drop their pencils and stick their right thumbs in the air, with their remaining four fingers curled into their ...
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Ethan Tobias '12: Get out of line
By Ethan Tobias | April 28Maybe it is the restlessness of springtime, but it feels like Brown students are constantly being forced to wait for things. After hours in line waiting for Spring Weekend tickets, hundreds of students were turned away empty-handed. Their peers who already had tickets only needed to think back a couple ...
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Emily Breslin '10: The unexamined life is not worth living
By Emily Breslin | April 28As universities are trying to figure out how to juggle their decreasing endowments, they are cutting programs, and philosophy is among the cuts because of declining interest in the subject. There are two obvious and understandable practical reasons for this. Students are wary about choosing a concentration ...
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Hunter Fast '12: The case for ROTC at Brown
By Hunter Fast | April 27Since the height of the Vietnam War, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps has been absent from Brown's campus, as it has from the campuses of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. Much of the current opposition to the existence of a Brown ROTC chapter stems from the policy of "don't ask, don't tell" — DADT ...
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Nida Abdullah '11.5: Staff Appreciation Day: 'Like'
By Nida Abdullah | April 27I was really pleased with the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Office of Campus Life and Student Services' effort in coordinating Staff Appreciation Day. The staff appreciation buttons were really cute, and it didn't seem condescending at all to present them to our favorite Brown staffers. ...
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Kshitij Lauria '13: The case for markets
By Kshitij Lauria | April 26In the last few weeks, the Brown community was faced with several issues that are connected by a single thread, and barely a day goes by when a glance through The Herald does not turn up something that economic thinking could greatly clarify. This alone does not surprise me, for, like the ancient Chinese ...
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Anthony Badami '11: I am embarrassed
By Anthony Badami | April 26I first encountered the work of Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a wide-eyed freshman in high school. My inchoate intellectual views were just starting to take shape, and I had developed a keen interest (nay, an obsession) with political philosophy ...
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William Tomasko '13: White people have a tortured relationship with the Ivy League.
By William Tomasko | April 25Correction appended.
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David Sheffield '11: Time for the Glorious Recapitulation!
By David Sheffield | April 24Once again, Spring Weekend has come and gone, along with its large, drunken concerts. I cannot blame concert-goers for their inebriation. I certainly would not want to listen to such decrepit music without numbing my higher functions first. Music on campus, along with the wider world, has made a long, ...
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Jonathan Ben-Artzi: Yes, apartheid
By Jonathan Ben-Artzi | April 21In their recent columns, Simon Liebling '12 and Ethan Tobias '12 debated the comparison of the contemporary struggle against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the struggle for divestment from the apartheid state of South Africa in the 1980s ("The right side of history" and "No ...
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Dr. Jack Schwartzwald: Remembering Theodor Herzl
By Dr. Jack Schwartzwald | April 21May 2, 2010, will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Herzl — the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl's desire for Jewish self-determination in Judaism's ancestral homeland came to fruition on May 14, 1948, an uncanny fulfillment of a fifty-year prediction he had made in 1897. ...
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Sarah Yu '11: For the right reasons
By Sarah Yu | April 20I had the fortunate experience last Friday to sit in the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, manning a lonely stall for the A Day on College Hill Activities Fair with nothing to occupy me but a can of diet soda and a pending sense of doom for an upcoming thesis proposal deadline. Many pre-frosh, too shy ...
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Lauren Crapanzano '12 and Josh Rodriguez-Srednicki '12: On being Catholic
By Lauren Crapanzano | April 20We write with humility at the challenge placed before Catholic students at Brown University. Though it may not be obvious to the general University population, Catholicism plays a large role in the lives of hundreds of students on campus. Each week, over two hundred people gather in the upper ...
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Anthony Badami '11: Consider Berlin
By Anthony Badami | April 19You know the dichotomies: east meets west, communism versus capitalism, classical goes contemporary, etc. Throughout the span of modern European political and cultural clash, the tension between these sets of ideas has bred conflagrant rebellion and uproarious revolution, new beginnings and salient ...
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Brian Judge '11: Affects are privileges
By Brian Judge | April 19Recently I attended a lecture by photographer Fazal Sheikh, a MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient, during the opening of his exhibition "Blessed Daughters." Mr. Sheikh began by showing the audience photographs of Sudanese refugees in Kenya. He went through a dozen or so pictures of gatherings of refugees ...
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Adrienne Langlois '10: Toward a more productive dialogue on the Catholic Church and religion
By Adrienne Langlois | April 18In the wake of any disaster, both victims and bystanders find themselves haunted by difficult questions. The recent child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is one such disaster. With such a widespread range of harm and a confounding reaction from the Vatican, the scandal has sparked many tricky discussions.Initial ...
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Yue Wang '12: Take (ac)count of immigrants
By Sue Wang | April 18The National Census Day passed quietly on Brown campus on April 1, 2010. In fact, many of us didn't receive the census form in our mailboxes until the second week of April, while average American households received the forms in early March. The American Constitution stipulates that all residents of ...
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Ethan Tobias '12: No apartheid here
By Ethan Tobias | April 15If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, don't call it a chicken. Yet this is exactly what those who constructed a makeshift wall on the Main Green last week were doing. The wall stood as a protest to both "Apartheid in the Occupied Territories" of Israel/Palestine and the U.S.-Mexico border ...
