After a year of online school, I was stunned when I walked into the first class of my sophomore year, an upper-level computer science lecture of 70 students. I couldn’t see a single other woman in the classroom. I scanned the room a few times, then felt relief as I found at least a couple of female ...
When I was growing up, I didn’t know that scheduling biannual dental appointments was commonplace. Due to the economic recessions of the 2000s, my family’s income was shaky for many years, and ...
If you have a TikTok account, you’re probably familiar with Duo — the bright green owl mascot of the language learning app Duolingo. On Duolingo, Duo encourages users to practice daily conjugations and vocabulary, but on the official Duolingo TikTok account, ...
It’s officially springtime: The birds are chirping, the trees are blooming on the Main Green and campus is abuzz with outrage about housing selection for the 2022-23 school year, which can be described as nothing less than a total mess. With few resources about housing options, confusing information ...
Last Sunday, April 3, the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony took place in Las Vegas. Hosted by the Recording Academy, the Grammys are heralded as the most prestigious music awards event in the country. But, especially in recent years, viewership is declining and critics say the awards show is becoming ...
“So yes, I am furious at the unvaccinated, and I am not ashamed of disclosing that,” wrote Charles M. Blow in a December New York Times op-ed. “I am no longer trying to understand them or educate them.” While one columnist certainly can’t speak for the masses, you don’t have ...
In a famous column from a couple of years ago, Martin Scorsese explained his viral Empire magazine interview where he said that Marvel movies aren’t cinema. “Nothing is at risk,” he wrote about the franchise. “The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are ...
The first time I really saw “social media activism” in action was during the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in May 2020. I was just getting used to the new virtual status quo brought on by the pandemic when, overnight, nearly every online platform I was active on was saturated with media ...
Spring is here, and with it, crocus buds, blustering winds and college decisions from schools across the country. Brown offered admission to a mere 3.6% of its regular decision applicants and 5% of applicants overall for the class of 2026. Applications were at an all-time high this year, breaking ...
Beginning next fall, the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan: Race, Gender and Inequality course designation will be replaced with a more specific and explicit curriculum program called Race, Power and Privilege. Courses with ...
So-called “pick me” girls have quickly become the internet’s favorite punchline. The subject of countless TikTok parody videos, the now-viral “pick me” girl trend pokes fun at straight women who desperately want men to “pick” ...
In 2011, Providence took a major step in redressing the damages wrought by highway construction by relocating a portion of Interstate 195 so that it circles around downtown rather than cutting through it. This opened 26 acres of prime downtown real estate for development and productive uses, such as ...
A few years ago, I saw one of my grandfather’s friends copying an email into a Microsoft Word document word-by-word so that he was re-pasting the entire body of text. I curiously asked what he was doing, and he said that he needed to print out the email so he was painstakingly transferring it over ...
Disney’s live action remakes are infamous in some movie review and filmmaking circles for being soulless cash grabs piggybacking off of the success of their classic source material. But certain creator-driven remakes in the past indicate that originality and artistry are not incompatible with success. ...
Forty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that a woman’s right to privacy, bodily autonomy and choice was protected by the U.S. Constitution — legalizing abortion and outlawing states from placing undue restrictions on a woman’s right to choose. Four months ago, I bundled ...
From Sylvia Plath to Lana Del Rey, many women artists have embraced a keen sort of sadness that feels both delicately feminine and inseparable from their womanhood. It is not the kind of sadness that can be gone and forgotten after a few good cries. It is all-encompassing: an illogical, inexplicable ...
The Bay Area is home to one of the most dire housing crises in the nation. In order to increase the housing supply, in 2013, the Palo Alto City Council drafted plans to change zoning laws to allow the creation of a new multi-family housing development in the middle of a local suburban neighborhood. ...
As a new vegetarian, my most devastating loss was Lucky Charms marshmallows. The delicious treats, which I would dutifully pick out from bags of bland cereal, unfortunately contain gelatin, an animal product. Unable to bear the thought of abandoning my favorite snack, I turned to an ethically questionable ...
Since its construction in the 1800s as Exchange Place, Kennedy Plaza has been a location of constant change in the heart of Providence. Over time, many different iterations of the transportation center have graced the city, from a horse-drawn carriage hub to a parking mecca. Each time the plaza has ...
On a trip home this weekend, I — for the first time in a long time — found myself sitting down to watch something on an actual television screen. I had never seriously considered buying a TV for college, but it was jarring to me how little I noticed the absence of one. I initially thought to ...
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