Students have no shortage of works to read. From our very first days of kindergarten we are led through exercises that shape our understandings of letters, words and sounds, with the ultimate goal of teaching us to read. But with reading presented as a school-related task, many students come to dislike ...
Like many members of my generation, I learned to love modern political satire by watching “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” I discovered “The Daily Show” very late — I was a senior in high school when I finally started watching Stewart’s monologues on a regular basis. But I quickly became ...
Like too many Brown students, I find myself critical of President Christina Paxson P’19 more for sport than because I actually have any reason to be. If I’m being honest, I hardly know anything about her save that she went to Swarthmore College, prefers vegetables to pepperonis on her pizza and ...
In an era of breaking glass ceilings, it still remains that a Brunonian has yet to break through to the highest elected office in the land. Last Tuesday, the Twittersphere was abuzz with commentary on the first Democratic primary debate of the 2016 presidential campaign cycle. The two Democrat front-runners, ...
It’s Saturday morning, and there’s an energy across campus. Students meet up with friends and don their school gear, applying temporary tattoos and face paint for the afternoon’s football game. Tailgating starts two hours before game time. The student body packs the stands and holds its collective ...
Last week’s controversy over two opinions columns published in The Herald demonstrated the misconceptions and misgivings many members of the Brown community have toward the principle of free speech. Luckily, Brown’s mission statement provides a strong affirmation of this principle. It states, “The ...
I received several interesting responses to my article, and since half of them were positive and the other half posed questions, it seemed appropriate for me to write a continuation of my first to provide further insight. Question one: What about B12? Answer: As some of you may have seen, an Oct. 8 ...
Every time I visit a professor during office hours, I feel nervous. The most recent time, I felt especially anxious. I was worried that I was wasting my professor’s time, despite the fact that my professor seemed happy to see me and had told me a couple of times that it’s completely okay if I drop ...
Native Americans at Brown’s demonstration Monday is a fight for visibility and a call for the University to oppose the acts of genocide against Native peoples. By changing the name from Fall Weekend to Indigenous People's Day, we aim to turn this holiday into a celebration of the cultures and histories ...
Disclaimer: This piece represents the writer’s views on Indigenous People’s Day. It is in no way representative of all Native Americans at Brown (NAB) or Indigenous Peoples across the world. Yá’át’ééh, shí éí Ronald Charles Scott, Jr. yinishyé. Naasht’ézhí Tábaahá nishłí, Tsénjíkiní ...
As both a philosophy and economics concentrator, I walk the line between curiosity on the one hand and practicality on the other. Through the former, I chase my passion and try to make the most of my liberal arts education; Through the latter, I will most likely seek employment. Of course, there are ...
I studied abroad in Granada, Spain, a city so unrivaled by any I have ever visited that I can definitively claim it will remain unrivaled for as long as I have breath in my body. I have also decided in earnest that I will retire (provided retirement is still feasible in 40 years) to a casa tucked away ...
Last week, AEPi went vegan. Along with members’ significant others, independents living in Marcy House and representatives from four other Greek organizations, the members of the house feasted on food donated by several companies focused on creating nutritious and satisfying plant-based products (such ...
In the wake of Thursday’s mass shooting tragedy at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., President Obama gave a statement to the press. As he expressed sympathies to the community and the lives affected, he offered a strong disdain for the repetitive nature of mass shootings in the United States. ...
Editors' Note: This column has been removed after it was unintentionally published due to an internal error. The column made a racist argument about how Native Americans should interpret the meaning of Columbus Day and its history. We apologize to our readers for the offensive claims made in the column ...
Editors' Note: This column did not meet The Herald’s standards for writing and clarity, and, more importantly, contained several factual inaccuracies regarding biology and race that cannot be corrected without compromising the argument of the entire column. The column relied on the repeatedly disproven ...
I recently read an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that almost broke my heart. In his piece “The Humanities at the End of the World,” Alexander Jacobs, a PhD candidate in history at Vanderbilt University, discusses the debate over the study of the humanities. He contends that despite ...
If you have checked Facebook, picked up a newspaper or spoken to a Brown student over the last few days, you are likely well aware that the University has chosen to revoke Bill Cosby’s honorary degree awarded to him in 1985, following the lead of Fordham University and Marquette University. This decision ...
Never drop your guard. Never wear revealing clothes. And never, ever venture out at night. These are just some of the lessons I learned as a teenage girl in India. Since 2012, India has become notorious for violence against women — and with good reason. Indian women are subjected to a range of indignities ...
Being a feminist is chic. After centuries, it seems we’re finally winning the culture war. Long gone are the days of feminism being seen as the domain of frumpy, grumpy spinsters. We’ve got Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and, of course, Emma Watson in our ranks. We have sex appeal. We have commercial appeal. But ...
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