I wasn’t expecting to discover much about myself in a twenty minute Uber ride I took last week. In fact, I really only planned on scrolling quietly on my phone as we weaved through the evening D.C. traffic. But somewhere along the way, maybe five or so blocks in, my driver broke the silence with a ...
My decision to attend Brown ultimately came down to its reputation as “the Happy Ivy.” I was anxiously weighing my options until a viral video of the Main Green popped up on my TikTok feed. The sun was shining down gloriously and groups of students filled the green — it was a picturesque image ...
Like nearly 45 million people, I spent the start of October watching the 2024 vice presidential debate. As a Harris-Walz hopeful, I was prepared to not only support the governor of Minnesota, but vehemently oppose J.D. Vance's stances. But as I watched the debate, I found myself disagreeing with only ...
Neon lights, the thump of 2010s pop, pizzas served on red checkered paper and the sounds of blistered pies being thrown in and out of deck ovens: Pizza Marvin on the corner of Wickenden and Governor streets is a well-frequented neighborhood spot.
In his column, Tas Rahman ’26 argues that Brown students should redirect pro-Palestinian activism away from divestment.
It’s easy to see why college-aged students would be vulnerable to mental health troubles. Beyond the effects of hormones and our still-developing brains, college is the first time many people are away from their families and forced to confront their futures. In an age of climate change, political ...
In April 2023, Alexia Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Progressive Caucus, and Matt Gaetz, a Trump loyalist, unexpectedly introduced the Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act. The new legislation would restrict members of Congress and their spouses from directly investing in stocks, bonds, ...
Less than five miles down the road from Brown’s campus sits Bradley Hospital, the state’s only acute-care psychiatric facility for children experiencing mental and behavioral health crises. A recent investigation by Rhode Island’s U.S. District Attorney’s Office found that the state has used ...
Yes, neoclassical buildings are beautiful. Yes, boring glass boxes and federal concrete facades can be eyesores to some. And yes, it would be cool if every new I.M. Pei-style building on Brown’s campus was a beautiful Romanesque palace like Sayles. But imagine for a second neon-clad construction workers ...
A few weeks ago I attended “The Trauma of Activism: The Black Freedom Struggle,” a two day event hosted by Brown’s Africana Studies department. David Dennis, Sr., a civil rights activist and panelist at the event, described his trauma for the room, recalling memories of being sprayed by water ...
A recent survey by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People found that 26% of Black men under 50 would support former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election, with 82% of said Black men citing economic issues as the most pressing topic facing Black Americans. In an interview ...
This fall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is bedecked with pastels, broad brushstrokes and light –– the French Impressionists have arrived. While the muggy autumn weather outside is yet to cool, springtime blooms inside the gallery. I join the flow of onlookers as they peer into ...
To say we live in an imperfect world would be a gross understatement. Today, we face war in the Middle East and Europe, genocide in Sudan and a refugee crisis in Venezuela, among other crises. Conflict, at its core, is a failure to reach an acceptable agreement for all parties involved. In our daily ...
A few weeks ago, I went to the beabadoobee concert in Boston. My friends and I were in the standing room only section of TD Garden, and we ended up behind a mom, her daughter and her daughter’s friend. When beabadoobee came out on stage, everyone stood up. For the first few songs, the mom did too. ...
I once took a tour of the Centre Pompidou led by an older man, about fifty or so, with small blackened teeth and old clothes that snowed ash. He led us past every Chagall, Duchamp, Herring, and de Kooning in favor of the lesser known artists of the expressionist movement. In a cadence vaguely resembling ...
At the peak of the Balkans War in the early ‘90s, Joe Cusack and Graham Johnson sat cloistered in a compound with members of the Croatian Defense Force. Serbian fighters had the city surrounded and were shelling it relentlessly. All Joe, Graham, and their young Croatian friends could do was idle around, ...
This shopping period has been wild for anybody hoping to take a Brown CS course. In response to unprecedented enrollment demand, the Computer Science department instituted enrollment limits on “almost all” of its courses this semester, which has left students scrambling to enroll in CS courses they ...
The United States is in the midst of a media literacy crisis, and it's only getting worse.
I “came out” as a leftist when I was 16 years old, after what was probably the most defining moment thus far in the development of my political thought. After new information surfaced in the case of Julius Jones, a then-death-row inmate who has maintained his innocence for decades, I urged our governor ...
In almost every regard, Brown is one of the most generous universities in the United States when it comes to financial aid. They are in the top 20 universities with the most generous financial aid packages, they are one of only around 100 universities that are need-blind in their admissions process ...
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