Anyone who has sat in the back of a lecture hall knows that students with computers get distracted. This is immediately obvious, and it makes sense; lectures can get boring, and when they do it’s hard to avoid the allure of the bountiful Internet. Many parents and faculty members I’ve spoken to ...
It is my sole conviction that the intended benefit of class discussion has taken two steps back and then an additional five in the same direction. I am also exhaustively convinced that chivalry is dead. But for the sake of clarity and my sanity, let us now and forever cleanly wipe Saturday’s failed ...
If you ever see me waiting for the shuttle on a weekday evening in the dead of winter, you will most likely hear me whine about the godforsaken 10-minute. In fact, more often than not, whenever and wherever you see me, you will find that I am probably complaining about something or another related to ...
In an Aug. 31 Chronicle of Higher Education article, Robin Wilson reported on the overwhelming student demand for mental health care services faced by colleges and universities. This demand has arisen from mental health needs that Wilson labels an “epidemic of anguish” on campuses across the county. ...
This morning, in the midst of my rush to class, I was stopped by a group of men with microphones and pamphlets proclaiming their faith outside the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center. I watched most students ignore the disruption and refuse the pamphlets. This is a common occurrence on campus. I’ll ...
We live in a hypersensitive age of anxiety and fear. Everywhere we turn, we are reminded of threats and problems that are gradually clawing away at our sense of security. Crippling inequality, racial injustice and rampant gun violence, along with sluggish Main Street growth, gridlocked government and ...
Even though I’m not a 257 Thayer resident and I don’t intend on becoming one, I was piqued by the inflammatory style of Herald Opinions Editor Chad Simon’s ’16 column this week. I suspect many readers were, too. Of course, this was the point of his melodramatic piece, so I suppose a mission ...
Not long ago, The Herald published an article about the rising costs of textbooks and how this places a financial burden on students. The piece mentioned numerous ways in which students and faculty members try to reduce costs by exchanging used textbooks, renting textbooks from the Brown Bookstore and ...
On Sept. 26, thousands of people will gather in Central Park with one common goal: to end poverty. The Global Citizen festival occurs annually in September to promote campaigns such as investing more in education or making the world polio-free. Top musicians will perform at this year’s show, including ...
One of the things I love most about Brown is the sheer passion of the entire student body. Every day, I feel privileged to work with so many people who have ambitious dreams and are not afraid to strive for them. The enthusiasm I see around me has pushed me to try many unfamiliar activities and take ...
Last week, I sat in MacMillan 117, listening to a lecture I’d heard before. It was much like any lecture at Brown, except the lecturer was an administrator, not a professor, and no one was taking notes. I was attending the annual compliance meeting for all of Brown’s student-athletes, an hour-long ...
I woke up this morning to yet another incorrect weather report. Rhode Island has notoriously fickle weather, so it makes sense that the weatherman is wrong most of the time. It got me thinking, however, about the all-encompassing role that probability and prediction play in our lives. From the moment ...
Unless you have been living under a slab of granite these past few weeks, I do not need to tell you about the fresh hell that opened its doors this fall to America’s gravy-train-riding darlings. Having displaced many during construction and angered many more, 257 Thayer is a glittering new luxury ...
I had such lofty plans for the summer. I was supposed to read 20 books and write several essays and short stories, but I only managed to read about seven books, and I wrote little. I returned to Brown feeling a bit disappointed and frustrated for not even coming close to the goals I had set for myself. Soon ...
Last Wednesday, the CNN Republican Primary Debate showcased a parade of suited men, best differentiated by their accompanying ties — and in one case, hair — and one candidate in heels: former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Fiorina has quickly grown to become one of the most notable personalities ...
Does a text written entirely in the interrogative merit a trigger warning? Is this is the sort of thing Ameer Malik ’18 was talking about when he talked about protecting students psychologically in his column in Wednesday’s Herald (“Don’t pull the trigger warning,” Sept. 17)? Perhaps you know ...
If you’re a college student, you’ve probably already pictured dozens of ways you could get yourself kicked off campus. But here’s one you might not have considered yet: speech. Colleges across the country have begun cracking down on student and faculty speech through the means of speech codes, ...
In their article “The Coddling of the American Mind,” featured in the September 2015 issue of The Atlantic, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt write that they believe certain student actions illustrate a general trend toward students protecting themselves from “words, ideas and subjects that might ...
At the beginning of this summer, I found myself in a very peculiar situation. I was to be sharing a house with a band of men in Georgetown. But these men were not just any men — these were bona fide, socially conservative, entitlement-hating, Bush-apologist, Republican men. I noted with a wrinkled ...
In the never-ending battle against the diseases that plague humanity, genetic markers are an increasingly common weapon on the scientific front. Since the first sequencing of the human genome in 2003, geneticists have tirelessly searched for evidence linking gene mutations with diseases. In recent years, ...
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