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Jonathan Topaz '12: SDS' golden opportunity
By Brown Daily Herald | September 12A quick piece of advice to the new Class of 2013: be wary of the Corporation Crazies.
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Ethan Tobias '12: A truly open curriculum
By Ethan Tobias | September 10At the start of the fall term, many Brown students will have to make difficult decisions about which classes they plan on attending. Shopping period is an essential part of Brown's open curriculum, as it allows students to experience a multitude of classes before deciding which ones would be best to ...
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Jared Lafer '11: Dorm shopping
By Jared Lafer | September 10Let's go back in time to the summer before your freshman year. You've just received your housing assignment and find that you've landed in some residence hall — let's call it "A" in the spirit of non-discrimination.
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Michael Fitzpatrick '12: A beak critique
By Brown Daily Herald | September 9This summer, the students of the incoming freshman class were told to read "The Beak of the Finch" by Jonathan Weiner in preparation for their entrance into Brown University. The book tells the story of Rosemary and Peter Grant, evolutionary biologists whose research with Darwin's finches in the Galapagos ...
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Ivy Chang '10: Balancing facts and fear
By Brown Daily Herald | September 9The start of the school year brings with it the usual anxieties about moving in, shopping for classes, meeting roommates and more. This fall, fears of swine flu are added to the mix.
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Tyler Rosenbaum '11: Uncle Ruth wants you!
By Tyler Rosenbaum | September 7We're back at Brown! Another year passed, another anticipated yet somehow still jarring transition from the indolent laze of summer to the purposeful buzz of academia. It's been four long months. So long, in fact, that I even missed the Ratty! I suppose a summer of shopping and cooking and cleaning ...
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Anish Mitra '10: First-years, welcome to Brown
By Anish Mitra | September 7I still remember the first day I stepped on campus as a freshman. Trying desperately to find Hope College (map in hand), I studied my new surroundings with great excitement. Eager anticipation and promise resided in every building and structure I laid eyes upon. Finally, all my questions about Brown ...
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Jake Heimark '10: An unfair burden
By Jake Heimark | September 6Itinerant Brunonians are welcomed back to Providence this fall with a slap in the face — a proposed $300-per-student tax for out-of-state students who attend private colleges in Rhode Island. The message from City Hall is clear: students at Brown, RISD, Providence College and Johnson and Wales ...
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Tory Hartmann '11: Extend first-year orientation for the class of 2014
By Tory Hartmann | September 6I lived on Pembroke my first year — Woolley, to be specific — and I remember a unit-mate of mine calling me from the Main Green on the third day of school, asking me for directions to the Ratty. Thankfully, today I would be hard-pressed to name a building on campus that this friend could ...
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Sarah Rosenthal '11: Li'l Rhody's big name change
By Brown Daily Herald | July 18Rhode Island is the littlest state with the longest name. I tell people this and watch as they try to figure out whether "Rhode Island" has more letters or syllables than "Pennsylvania" or "South Carolina." Usually, they conclude that it doesn't, and then I bust out that arcane but wonderful fact about ...
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Jonathan Topaz '12: The Brown fantasy tour
By Brown Daily Herald | July 18Sitting on the steps of Faunce during peak high school visiting, a couple friends and I began talking about a few rough patches we encountered in our first semester at Brown. One had trouble finding small, intimate classes. One felt disconnected from his professors. One felt that Providence was inaccessible ...
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Will fortune favor the brave?
By Lindsey Meyers | May 20While I do not normally hobnob with famous journalists, last summer I had the special opportunity to meet Bob Herbert — the New York Times columnist — when I was an intern on the "Morning Joe" Show at MSNBC news. After I discussed his commentary on the show that day, he amicably fished ...
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Fortunate circumstances
By Taylor Barnes | May 20"I feel like we're at a standstill." That's what a friend said to me over a mid-semester coffee break. Since freshman year we had shared our Brown lives over weekly dinners and e-mail chains, four years of new classes, semesters abroad and summer jobs up and down the East coast. Then here we were, just ...
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I was graduated from Brown
By Irene Chen | May 20Before I started writing this column, I looked up quotations about saying goodbye. They were all cheesy one-liners about not really leaving, just sort of saying goodbye before paths would cross again. I asked friends for their thoughts on graduating from Brown. But I have to give credit here to my Comp ...
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Ben Bernstein '09: Always believe in the power of your dreams!
By Ben Bernstein | April 22I've always been a dreamer. When I was in pre-school, my recurring dreams centered on being kidnapped. I would often be at a restaurant with my parents, sitting in a wrap-around booth, one of those leather-bound semi-circles, and some faceless men would come and try to pull me away by the arm while ...
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Kevin Roose '09.5: As the world interns
By Kevin Roose | April 22If there's one thing I've learned, it's that Brown students love unpaid internships. We love unpaid internships the way Romeo loves Juliet, the way Joanie loves Chachi, the way Angelina Jolie loves adopting third-world babies. Every June, thousands of us leave College Hill and spread across the nation ...
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Michael Fitzpatrick '12: (Don't) stop the presses!
By Michael Fitzpatrick | April 21I learned to read when I was three. I still remember reading nightly with my father, sitting in his lap with a book in my hands and a blanket around my shoulders. I was brought up on "Green Eggs and Ham," "Goodnight Moon" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." I wonder what books my sons and daughters will ...
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Anish Mitra '10: Fall Weekend fiasco
By Anish Mitra | April 21In a recent Herald poll, more than two-thirds of undergraduates supported the changing the name of Columbus Day. Heeding students' interests, Brown faculty voted to ensure that next year's holiday will indeed be called "Fall Weekend," killing Columbus Day for good.
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Tory Hartmann '11: Blue book exams are the way to go
By Tory Hartmann | April 20Christina Domenico, a regular opinions columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania, recently wrote a column that described the benefits of implementing Securexam, a word processing program that allows students to take in-class exams on their laptops. ...
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Fatima Aqeel '12: The election race
By Fatima Aqeel | April 20As the election period for the Undergraduate Student Council here at Brown drew closer, many students eating at the dining halls were confronted by their peers in UCS who were hunting for signatures.
