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Secondo '16: Listen to the Music

As the sun slowly begins to shine and the birds test out their vocal chords, spring becomes more of an everyday reality. Besides shorts-wearing weather and Main Green lounging, spring also signals the beginning of the summer concert season. With big-name festivals, touring artists and our very own Spring ...


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Ha '18: The blame lies with all of us

As we are all aware, Hyoun Ju Sohn GS killed himself on campus March 31. It was a tragic loss for our community and has affected many of its members. Yes, this has been discussed often both in print and elsewhere. Some may believe that we must move past this. But there are two reasons preventing me ...


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Isman '15: We shouldn’t succumb to senioritis

As graduation day inches closer, I increasingly feel waves of uncontrollable emotions ebbing and flowing through me. While sometimes I’m excited to be done with classes or sad to think of saying goodbye to Brown, I mostly feeling no sense of urgency anymore. Throughout the last four years at Brown, ...


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Asker '17: Universities shouldn’t speak freely

The University of Michigan made a big mistake last week that led to a firestorm of controversy. The case highlights how easy it is for universities to shape their students’ beliefs by exposing them to one particular viewpoint under the guise of promoting free speech. Universities, to be consistent ...


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Weinstein '17: The problem with divestment

This spring, many student climate activists are turning up the heat. On campuses across the country, student activists have turned to sit-ins to pressure their schools to divest from fossil fuels. At Swarthmore College, where a student divestment proposal was rejected at 2013, students have been sitting-in ...


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Khleif '15: Why not 'Be the Match'?

While Tinder seems to be occupying the minds of students these days, as spring fever begins to take hold, there are other ways to get matched. Today, April 14, our football team will host Brown’s 6th annual Be the Match bone marrow testing drive. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., members of the team will be ...


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Powers '15: The right to discriminate

Recently, Indiana Governor Mike Pence started a national media firestorm by signing a religious freedom law, which would allow businesses to refuse service to gay and lesbian individuals on religious grounds. Many politicians and writers condemned the law, arguing that it would inevitably lead to the ...


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Feldman '15: Transfer tribulations

When the University sent decision letters to applicants to the class of 2019 last week, not every future Brown student received a response. The future members of the transfer classes of 2018 and 2018.5 won’t find out about their application until the middle of May. The process that transfer students ...


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Mitra '18: Energize Rhode Island

While the media is currently focused on the prelude to the 2016 elections, Rhode Island has the chance to make history by passing a statewide price on carbon. With the “Energize Rhode Island: Clean Energy Investment and Carbon Pricing Act of 2015,” the Ocean State can address the impacts of global ...


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Khleif '15: Depression’s public persona

Last week was a difficult one for Brown. We lost a member of our community in a rare campus-wide tragedy. I did not know Hyoun Ju Sohn GS, and so I mourn for his loved ones: friends, students and teachers on campus. I hope he has found peace; I hope those affected by his death also find it. This tragedy ...


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Kenyon GS: The Republican primary’s first casualty

In the last two weeks, one installment of the Republican presidential primary began in Lynchburg, Virginia with Senator Ted Cruz announcing his candidacy; another installment, elsewhere, died. At the Indiana State Capitol in Indianapolis, Gov. Mike Pence signed into law Senate Enrolled Act 101, the ...


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Malik '18: Reducing mental health stigma

Though there are not sufficient words to describe the tragedy of Hyoun Ju Sohn’s GS death on March 31 and we cannot know what led to his suicide, we can take steps to help members of our community who are suffering psychologically and who are not getting the help they need by continuing our dialogue ...


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Al-Salem '17: Being sober in college

Before coming to college, I thought I was unsure of many things but one: I would never drink alcohol. I was lucky enough to grow up in an environment where drinking wasn’t a part of the culture, so I definitely attribute that lifestyle to my pre-college mentality. But I never expected to find myself ...


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Corvese '15: Is an honors thesis right for you?

There’s nothing quite like April at Brown, which brings increasingly warmer weather, leisurely afternoons on the Main Green and the countdown to Spring Weekend. But we cannot forget about the less glamorous scenes appearing around campus: hordes of seniors racing to finish their honors thesis projects. The ...


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Simundich GS: Support for international graduate students

Graduate studies are isolating by nature: The time it takes to conduct independent research, mixed with high standards and stringent deadlines, leads to long hours and irregular routines. Adding to the claustrophobic, often competitive tenor of graduate student scholarship, there are challenges to collaboration ...


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Mirchandani '15: Putting a grade on your mental health

During one of many thought-provoking conversations, the type that can only occur when hiking, a friend reshaped my thoughts on mental health. She asked, “How would you confront your mental health if it were a course you were taking for a grade?” Mental health is an issue I did not consider prior ...



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