Consider two prospective Brown students. One, Alice, is unsure of whether or not to attend Brown, while the other, Bob, has been committed to Brown from the start. Alice decides to fly to Providence to visit College Hill and finds while purchasing her airline tickets that there are three different classes ...
As September turns into October, and October meekly limps away into November, the nation prepares for its glimpse into the ugliest part of American politics — midterm elections. Historically a time of mudslinging and the bludgeoning of the majority political party, the midterm elections are a ...
I think we can all agree that our physical presence at Brown completely distorts our perception of time. Deadlines seem like a distant reality, and in the midst of writing that eight-page paper for that one class you rarely attend, you find yourself endlessly watching videos on YouTube and falsifying ...
I was present on the Main Green in May when thousands of people gave Nelson Mandela a rapturous standing ovation in absentia. Alongside Morgan Freeman and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Rohde, the former president of South Africa was receiving an honorary degree from Brown. The award recognized ...
It was refreshing to read Susannah Kroeber '11 argue that Brown should raise tuition ("Raising our Brown taxes," Oct. 7), a stance I can't recall ever hearing support for. Yet while I applaud her willingness to stake out an unpopular position, I must take issue with some of the assumptions her column ...
The recent campus news about the group independent study project, "The Study of Love" ("Love, Factually" Sept. 30) really caught my sleepy eyes at breakfast and made my day.
We've probably all been there — looking up a final transcript on Banner and seeing that dreaded "B" letter grade. The subsequent feeling is something akin to the final landing of a punch in the gut that you've been anticipating for a while, knowing that there was no one to blame but yourself for ...
In most of the Asian education systems, students have to take entrance examinations for admission to engineering, business or medical colleges. Depending on a student's performance on just one test, the student is given a rank. In India, a university might have 3,000 spots to fill (after a 50 percent ...
As the trees shed their leaves and restless New England winds foretell winter, there is an inclination among Brunonians to draw into their work and away from the community. One community issue, however, that students cannot afford to ignore is the local and state elections this November.
Two incidents have caught the nation's attention in the past two weeks. In one, a Rutgers freshman named Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate filmed him having sex with another man and put the video online. In the other, a recent Duke graduate named Karen Owen sent ...
One of the amazing characteristics that distinguishes Brown from other universities in the United States is its diverse student body. Everywhere you look, there's bound to be another student from some place in the world you've always dreamt of visiting or from a country of which you've never even heard. ...
When I was in high school, I used to believe that college was the end-all. I thought that if you achieved enough, ticker-tape would fall from the sky and you would win at life, with Happiness guaranteed forever.
Disclaimer: This column may contain information unpalatable to Brunonians of all political affiliations, socioeconomic classes and other societal groupings. The most unpopular debate on Capitol Hill is always taxes. No matter how many times the Obama administration points to the deficit, Congress will ...
I want to assimilate. After all, it sounds fair that, to live in this land, one must learn the American language and the American way. So I sat down and made a list of things to which I must adapt. Item one: speak English. Check. Next?
In the past several weeks, there have been myriad opinions columns in The Herald discussing the idea of "Brown, Inc." The discourse so far has largely been centered around the economic consequences of this shift in University policy, showing how it is affecting and will affect the lives of students, ...
Tuesday, Nov. 2 — midterm election day. If you're someone like me, you're probably looking forward to this day with some mixture of dread, revulsion and dark humor (at the prospect of Christine O'Donnell getting elected and lecturing America on the evils of masturbation from the Senate floor). ...
In his column "God and man at Brown" (Sept. 21), David Sheffield '11 claims, "A religious university is conflicted on a fundamental level." However, it is his column that is fundamentally flawed. Through the use of twisted logic and poor, if any, research, Sheffield claims that religious schools are ...
The recent defeat of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act by a Republican filibuster in the Senate has cast new light on the sorry condition of immigration politics in the United States. While the bill does nothing more than temporarily set up a path to citizenship for undocumented ...
Last Friday, "The Social Network" swooped into movie theaters across the country, earning sky-high reviews and a "98 percent fresh" rating from RottenTomatoes.com. The movie describes how Facebook was founded, offering a creation myth for the addictive, ubiquitous website.
Many of my friends would like to consider themselves good-natured socialist-populists. Aside from the fact that they won't be running for office anytime in the near future, this means that they consider themselves to be open-minded yet distinctly anti-establishment political thinkers. And like many ...
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