Many political commentators, anticipating the newly divided U.S. Congress, are predicting record levels of discord and gridlock in 2011. In Rhode Island, however, we may find ourselves hearing a word rarely uttered in conjunction with stories about national politics: cooperation.
As students finish pre-registration for Spring 2011, once again some popular liberal arts classes, such as VISA 0100: "Studio Foundation," are quickly filling up. As the popularity of these courses shows Brown students' general enthusiasm for a liberal education, it might be exciting for the entire ...
We've all seen "You've Got Mail"… No? The masterful romantic comedy about Internet-love circa 1998? Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks' reunion hit after "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Nov. 9 marked the end of pre-registration for spring courses, in which many students scrambled for places in limited-enrollment classes. However, a number of students were unable to sign up because of Brown's reinstatement of a policy barring those with significant unpaid balances from pre-registering. ...
As Brown University is an internationally acclaimed institution, we the students graduate with a number of opportunities and privileges not afforded to the majority of the world's population. The diploma, possibly the most ponderous of these privileges, is not easy to conceptualize sharing with a large ...
I will admit this immediately: This column is self-serving, commercialized and part of the liberal communo-fascist capitalistic tendencies of Brown, Inc. As a writer, I feel compelled to ignore any sense of political correctness, preferring instead to send my meager sentences out into the free marketplace ...
After the recent election, you might think that I'm about to talk about politics. Nov. 2 was a great upheaval, a polarizing election, and we need something similar here at Brown. One of the greatest issues today is the fact that people on both ends of the political spectrum do not regularly engage in ...
Lately, the Social Network par excellence (a.k.a. Facebook) has been the epicenter of numerous changes that range from aesthetic modifications of profile pages to the introduction of new features for registered users. One of these is the "long awaited location feature, Facebook Places." With this new ...
Advising at Brown is much more laid-back than I had initially expected it to be. Students are rarely required to meet with their advisors and don't have to get involved with advising unless they choose to do so. Adam Davis '13, believes that "the advising experience at Brown is largely student-initiated," ...
Liz Lemon had a dilemma. She loved the jeans she had bought from "Brooklyn Without Limits," a store she wanted to support because it was "all about fair trade and local artisans and staying green," but then she discovered that the store was actually owned by Halliburton. She couldn't decide if she should ...
Last year, I was with the visiting family of a friend of mine when we received the seemingly unavoidable Providence parking ticket.
The last 24 hours of my life have been filled with forgetting. No, I did not have any unfortunate experiences at Sex Power God, nor did I accidentally walk into a men's bathroom. Rather, I had begun the mind purging process that is necessary after any exam that requires one to "study" by rote memorization. ...
Announcing the end of a 45-year transformation from one of the University's foremost student radicals to a bureaucratic Brown, Inc. acolyte, President Ruth Simmons took the opportunity last week to praise departing Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 for what will likely be his last administrative pet ...
In the wake of election day, Republicans eagerly pointed out the many specific policy proposals voters rejected with their ballots. As in years past, when it was the Democrats explaining which Republican ideas voters repudiated, few in the media are pointing out that these "analyses" are nothing more ...
Organization theory posits that when a group no longer has a reason to exist, constituents of that organization will find new purposes for it to pursue. If this is the case, then it is high time for the body of Brown's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, or ACCRIP, ...
I recently read some above-average graffiti in a bathroom stall: "The unexamined life is not worth living." Props to Socrates and the lawless student who rewrote it 2,500 years later. Let us apply it, for now, with an environmental lens. Every object we see around us came from the earth: this ...
Walking past the recent Sophomore Concentration Fair in Sayles Hall, I thought about what I would say to any potential history concentrators. Something along the lines of, "Want a concentration that will kick your ass every day of the week, will leave you pale and sickly from hours in the library and ...
"What do you call yourself?" CEO Jack Donaghy asks his Latin romantic interest Elisa, to which she replies, "A Puerto Rican." Dumbfounded, he retorts, "No, I know you can say that but what do I call you?" She insists once again, "A Puerto Rican." Flabbergasted by the idea that the politically correct ...
As a queer person who considers himself socially conscious, I was frustrated to hear about the recent Brown/RISD Hillel event featuring Ivri Lider, a gay Israeli popstar. He argued that Israeli queers live in relative freedom, while Palestinian queers may be persecuted for their sexual identity. Let ...
French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once quipped that "man is condemned to be free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything that he does." But while some in the face of this truth use their freedom to illuminate the human condition, others among us use it to wear T-shirts ...
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