Too often, I hear students tell me that politics is always about voting for the lesser of two evils. Liberal Brown students sometimes complain that no candidate in a race fully represents their interests. And while I tend to disagree and believe that the Rhode Island Democratic ticket is filled with ...
"When some loud braggart tries to put me down," sang Mike Love in 1963, "and says his school is great, I tell him right away, ‘Now what's the matter, buddy, ain't you heard of my school? It's number one in the state.' " The Beach Boys' "Be True to Your School" no doubt meant more to teenagers ...
Decision making is based on incentives. These incentives may be rational to some and irrational to others. Most of the attractive incentives and decisions we make are linked to survival and intellectual growth. However, there is a culture of self-doubt that is superseding the culture of growth and development. ...
It was a special night. For one night, and one night only, the too-tight pants of hipsters would be replaced by the too-tight pants of football players. A student body that treasures its apathy and ironic detachment would embrace an American pastime with corny whole-heartedness. Under the glare of the ...
In Admission Office literature, the diversity of Brown's student body receives a good deal of emphasis. All 50 states and almost 100 countries are represented, and "about 29 percent of undergrads are people of color." These statistics don't take into account the variety of life experiences we bring ...
We live in financial times.
Four weeks into the fall 2010 semester at Brown, the group of new students specially invited to President Simmons's August 29 welcome speech seemed to be gradually adjusting to the new community. Among this new student group is not only Brown's freshmen, but also the University's newly-admitted transfer ...
Brown hosts many talks throughout the year. The lecture board brings in well-known speakers, departments hold colloquia and numerous groups and organizations get interesting people to talk about various subjects. This makes the University a livelier place — one with an exchange of ideas and discussion. ...
The first athletic event I attended this semester was a men's soccer game against Providence College. Not a particularly zealous fan of soccer, I didn't expect to be enraptured for the entirety of the game. However, as the clock counted down, I found myself unable to tear my eyes away from the field. ...
I grew up under a hole in the ozone layer.
Welcome to the recession. In just the three short weeks since we all arrived back on campus, we've seen an explosion of money-related articles and opinions columns published in The Herald. Brown students are pinching their pennies, and whenever one slips through our collective fingers, we're going to ...
On Thayer Street, the last remnants of warm weather often herald a panoply of activists handing out literature for causes reputable and otherwise. Thayer has recently played host to demonstrators for eight-time Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
Education — the one-size-fits-all defense for the transgressions of Brown, Inc. in the age of university corporatization, the easy rationalization of the contradiction of the profit-seeking non-profit institution.
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. After him came Vasco da Gama, Cortés, Pizarro and a whole slew of other Spanish and Portuguese explorers who set off to find the "New World." In high school we learned that these were great men — fearless explorers, pioneers of their time. They set ...
The University of Phoenix's prominent sponsorship was among the many comical elements of LeBron James's summer prime-time special, "The Decision." It was bizarre that King James associated his brand with an institution more often the butt of jokes than the recipient of celebrity donations, and the irony ...
In 1764, a group of Baptists founded the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Two and a half centuries later, we've changed the name and have few remaining vestiges of our former religious affiliation. The location of commencement, our motto and our seal are among ...
I started saving for college when I was three years old. Granted, I had no clue what college was for, nor did I know where I wanted to matriculate, but I wanted to go to college. I was a toddler on a mission, and dollar by dollar, I knew I was drawing closer to my goal.
When I started my sophomore year of high school, I felt like a freshman again. That was because my school had substantially renovated its campus, meaning that more than half of the building was brand new when school started in September.
While Brown has been doing an excellent job of renovating the campus by remodeling the Blue Room and beginning construction on the Metcalf Lab, it needs to seriously consider refurbishing certain older dorms around campus. Not everyone enjoys waking up to scratched, dirty walls or viciously beaten up ...
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