On Friday, we received an email from Provost Vicki Colvin about the formation of a Winter Term Working Group tasked with examining the possibility of implementing a new winter term. While Wintersession has worked well at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown would not benefit from a winter term. ...
A few weeks prior to my return to Providence at the beginning of this semester, I decided to revisit my old essays that I had written as part of my college application. While scrolling through the folder, I stumbled upon one of the drafts for the “Why Brown” prompt. I remembered that I lackadaisically ...
Let’s be honest, we all love to learn. Every Brunonian who sets foot through the Van Wickle Gates and commits to obtaining a degree carries a devoted passion for expanding intellectual capacity. I, too, walked through the Gates and took this pact last August. Learning is great, and the opportunity ...
There are days when I sit on the steps outside the Stephen Roberts ’62 Campus Center and take in our college; there is no better place to view and experience what it means to call Brown home. There are students tossing Frisbees outside University Hall, a capella groups selling concert tickets outside ...
Being a senior girl at Brown is kind of terrifying. Upon learning of my seniority, some may suspect — or expect — that I am a carefree and perpetually over it SWUG: a “senior washed-up girl.” More than just obnoxious millennial slang, the term was popularized by Yale students and featured in ...
Last month, an NBC News article detailed the case of Cassandra Callender, a Connecticut seventeen-year-old who was forced by the Connecticut Department of Children and Families to undergo chemotherapy against her and her single mother’s wishes. Callender was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in ...
I didn’t make my college decision based on potential dining experiences. Sure, it might have helped to consider how each school feeds its students — just another barometer of an institution’s financial resources and dedication to student life — but in the multivariable game of college roulette, ...
Sixty-five years ago the Sharpe Refectory opened its doors on our campus. No space has had more of an impact on the daily lives of Brunonians since. We eat there, we socialize there, we study there and some of us even work there. I would bet that by the time we graduate, we will have entered the Ratty ...
Today and tomorrow, fossil fuel divestment campaigns from around the world will call on universities, cities, banks and other institutions to pull their investments from the fossil fuel industry as part of Global Divestment Day. On these two days, united by the knowledge that keeping our economies so ...
This year marks the 51st anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, which heralded the end of de jure segregation in the United States. The phrase “separate but equal” is now an infamous but distant memory in our collective psyche, synonymous with a darker era. Unfortunately, movements to reinstitute ...
After five years of discussion, proposals to renovate the Sharpe Refectory are moving along, as The Herald reported last week. Part of President Christina Paxson’s P’19 strategic plan, renovations would likely include a remodeling of the dining room, as well as the electrical, plumbing, heating ...
I remember distinctly the first time I had a bad impression of Brown’s dorms. I was in one of those overly energetic tour groups in summer 2013 — after I had already been accepted to the University — and the tour leader was talking about residential life. I vaguely remember that she said some ...
Everyone at Brown gets As. At least, that’s what my international relations TA told me. That morning, our professor had handed back our midterm research papers. Having earned a B+ on the short essay before it, I had spent days navigating the longer and more difficult prompt she had distributed in ...
From the standpoint of an outsider, Brown has many unique and attractive features. It seems to have liberal academic, social and financial traits that are drastically different from those of other institutions: the open curriculum, the progressive student body and the University’s promise to meet ...
The administration has been working hard to prevent sexual assault on campus in the aftermath of last semester’s incidents. The new alcohol policies on campus have received mixed responses, and they definitely demonstrate a concerted effort to prevent sexual assault. But they have also overshadowed ...
Much like our midterms, finals and course papers, the upcoming presidential campaign looms in the back of our minds. We prepare for a presumably clear-cut Democratic primary and a heavily contested Republican one. As a proud and openly secular liberal institution of higher learning, most members of ...
Last week, many Brown community members were disappointed to learn that classes and administrative functions would not be cancelled on Monday, Feb. 2. The bad news came during the first quarter of Super Bowl XLIX in an email from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, ...
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom” may be the U.S. Postal Service’s unofficial motto, but it sounds like the narrative of a Brown student trudging to class through a Providence winter. One of the most unexpected lessons I have learned during my time at Brown is that the aftermath of any ...
Thursday’s Herald featured a column by Peter Makhlouf ’16 titled “ROTC: Return of the Criminals.” I and many to whom I have spoken disagree with Makhlouf’s stance, and I feel compelled to address some of the points made in his piece. First and foremost, attempting to obtain a college degree ...
Last week, New England faced Winter Storm Juno, which dumped enough snow on Brown’s campus to cancel classes and close all nonessential University buildings. Much to the dismay of Pembroke students, dining operations were centralized to the Sharpe Refectory. Anyone who went to the Thayer Street CVS ...
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