On Saturday, October 30, so-called "rivals" Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Assembled on the National Mall in Washington D.C, the event was intended to gather all sane, moderate humans who are tired of the inflammatory discourse so prevalent in the media ...
I spent my formative adolescent years at an absurdly secular and progressive educational institution. One very important thing that my school's curriculum did to prepare me for my journey into the real world was provide honest, effective and informative sex education.
Obama is in trouble. Our very own Rhode Island candidate for Governor, Frank Caprio, has made national headlines by telling the once wildly popular president to take his endorsement and "shove it." The independents who once voted for Obama are now backing Republicans by a 14-point margin, according ...
"Brown University," our president once wrote, "occupies a unique educational position. It is set apart from all but a very small group of institutions by the fact that it is a university college." Unlike so many similar institutions, it had avoided the tempting, easy fallacy "that ‘bigger' and ...
"No means yes! Yes means anal!"
Today I bought a stamp from the post office, affixed it to an envelope and mailed my ballot off to the Burlington County Clerk's office. Despite the suggestion by Mike Johnson '11 not to vote for a candidates I dislike ("Omens and prognostications," Oct. 19), I abandoned simplistic idealism and did ...
As the demolition of the old I-95 overpass opens up a channel of real estate across the northern boundary of Providence's Jewelry District, plans are being laid for a new belt of development to encircle this historic neighborhood, which lies across the Providence River from College Hill. An amoeba-like ...
This coming week, students are joining with hotel workers across the country to declare a national week of action against HEI Hotels and Resorts.
Allow me, gentle reader, to tell you a brief story. It happened at Yale, where I was an MA student and first-time TA in a large lecture class. My fellow TA and I had just graded and returned 100 midterms when one of my students approached me. He radiated a quiet fury and might have been a little intimidating ...
When was the last time, walking along Thayer, you stopped a classmate to tell her you appreciated her comment in yesterday's section? It's my experience that this rarely, if ever, happens — especially with people who don't know each other apart from happening to be assigned the same section. But ...
Toward the end of July, the usual meal plan brochure arrived in my mailbox, announcing all of the familiar meal plans for the upcoming Academic Year. At the time, I checked off my current meal plan option on the card and mailed it back by the first week of August, without giving too much thought to ...
The weekday lunch and dinnertime rush at the entrance to Brown's Verney-Woolley Dining Hall is well known to students on and off meal plan. The line of students winds through the hallways of the Emery-Woolley Hall, moving at a snail's pace, due in no small part to the fact that at the start of ...
So you all know BrownFML and Spotted@Brown, but how about a website where you can procrastinate and actually end up knowing about what's going on in Rhode Island?
"The Social Network" hit theaters a couple of weeks ago, capturing the number one slot at the box office for two weeks and counting. The "Facebook movie," as my mother would call it, was extremely well-done. Director David Fincher relies on muted colors and a fast-paced script penned by Aaron Sorkin ...
In about two weeks, Americans will vote in the Congressional midterm elections. The media is focused on predicting how many seats Democrats will lose, particularly whether the party will lose caucusing majorities in the House and Senate.
Right now, the team responsible for Brown investments and endowment security is gloriously exhaling a sigh of sweet relief. In the calm after the economic storm, Brown's endowment returns were 10 percent in the fiscal year 2010, and Alice Tisch, our esteemed chancellor's wife, can finally stop living ...
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 ...
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