September is here again, and with it comes the usual russet leaf pile of beginning-of-the-year questions. Which concentration should you pick? Is your synchronized figure-biking team finally going to take Cornell down this year? What was the name of that guy you met at that thing last semester, and ...
It's common knowledge that the international relations department is a flagship institution at Brown. The department peaked as the single most popular concentration among graduating Brown students in 2005, and since then has hovered around third place. However, this common knowledge is mistaken.
I am back this fall for my final year on campus, only this time, I'll be living off-campus. That's right: I'm in the process of fulfilling my final test toward becoming an independent young adult, mastering the ability to live, cook, clean and pay rent and bills all on my own.
In his recent column ("Brown, Inc.", Sept. 10), Simon Liebling '12 made it very clear that he has forgotten Brown University's primary objective — education. It is not to provide healthcare to Dining Services or to take care of Rhode Island's destitute, but to provide an education and a remarkable ...
As is commonly analogized, Brown is like a self-contained bubble, set apart from Providence and its people. This bubble does much to sequester students from the realities of the outside world. Though some lament the bubble's tendency to insulate Brunonians from the pitfalls of urban living, little is ...
We return to campus to find the latest evidence of the Building Brown binge, the fresh paint and scaffolding like broken bottles shattered across the floor — evidence of an administrative addiction out of control.
Is it just me, or does something seem stale at Brown? That fundamental Brunonian institution, the New Curriculum, turned forty years old last year and yet, even solidly into middle age, it has never had a systematic re-evaluation.
As the class of 2014 walked through the Van Wickle Gates, tanned on the Main Green and emerged convocated, the rest of us settled into our dorm rooms and picked out the classes we'll take. But this isn't last semester's Brown — widespread changes are already taking hold.
As a naive, wide-eyed freshman moving into Keeney, I was extremely unprepared for the interesting events that were to come in my college experience. Upon arriving at Brown, I was impressed by its beauty and superb maintenance; the fall foliage of the trees seemed to perfectly complement the brick buildings, ...
Tuesday, November 2 seems as if it will be a bleak election day for progressives. Democrats look likely to lose a substantial number of seats in Congress. In fact, Republicans could take control of both the House and the Senate.
The Brown Bookstore's recent cancellation of its merchandising contract with Nike has returned to prominence the debate over low-wage labor in developing countries. The cancellation stemmed from alleged illegal labor practices on the part of two Nike subcontractors based in Honduras.
The mainstream alarmist posturing on climate change by the likes of Al Gore, regardless of whether it meets the demands of scientific accuracy or not, is resetting political priorities and imposing billions of dollars in costs for governments the world over.
The United States' founding was one of setting a new expectation for the protection of individual and group freedoms, surpassing the so-called assurances of freedom in European monarchies. The revolutionaries sought to create a republic far freer than any other state.
Youth, in the popular imagination, is supposed to be a time of naivete and courage, all born from a sense of invincibility.
The beginning of a new semester is always marked by the frenzied course shopping season that lasts for a couple of weeks. Each shopper usually asks herself: Does this class conflict with my overall schedule? Does it really interest me? And increasingly, whether we like the way the professor, or sometimes ...
When the votes are counted after November's midterm elections, don't expect to hear much about how voters under the age of 30 influenced the results. Despite a presidential election that saw large numbers of young people take to the polls, politicos aren't wondering if all of these voters will return ...
Last week, a committee at Harvard ended a three-year inquiry into one of the school's professors, Marc Hauser. It concluded that he engaged in scientific misconduct. Hauser is a psychologist who studies animal cognition, particularly moral behavior. Scientific misconduct is a serious offense that hampers ...
A student's journey through college education is about challenges. For us, this means thinking about and accepting ideas outside of what we have become accustomed to, realizing the potential in the cosmic grandeur of the universe and leveraging ourselves to be successful for the rest of our lives.
It is that time of the semester: the fresh start where we find ourselves running from one class to another trying to figure out our schedules before the Banner registration system closes. This fall, registration for courses starts on Aug. 31 and ends on Sept. 14 . We can change a course from the traditional ...
Welcome, first-years! Congratulations on being so awesome. You had the lowest admit rate, the best grades and SAT scores, even halos polished super-shiny by virtuous extracurriculars, and Ruth will no doubt praise you to the skies for it.
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