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 ...
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 ...
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