On Oct. 29, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was invited by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions to give a talk on ‘Proactive Policing.’ Before he was able to give his talk, he was shouted off stage by protesters from Brown and the greater Providence community. ...
If a liberal arts university hosted a group of former American soldiers that proudly took part in war crimes in Iraq or Vietnam, attendance were limited to an exclusive group of students and the meeting were held in a confidential setting, surely there would be a public outcry. Similarly, if a student ...
On the morning of March 22, one million cubic yards of earth slumped off of a hillside in Snohomish County, Wash. The wall of mud has taken the lives of 30 people so far. The immediate cause of this horrific tragedy is unseasonably warm weather accompanied by heavy rainfall. The area had recently been ...
I wasn’t going to say anything, as I have been in the habit of doing for the past four years whenever this particular topic comes up and the brawl ensues — in its usual brief and violent sort of flare-up. But this time, the pang in my chest was a little more assertive. Maybe it’s because I’m ...
When I came back to Brown for the start of the new semester, I saw many faces I hadn’t seen in almost a year. Junior fall is a time for many students to travel abroad, and my friends were newly returning to life at Brown. At the start of the semester, I also found that I no longer had a kitchen in ...
It was with a mixture of interest and pain — and a powerful sense of deja vu — that we read The Herald’s recent article on the newly formed Sexual Assault Policy Task Force. In the spring of 2007, when we were all undergrads on College Hill, we found ourselves having similar conversations about ...
I admit — until recently I had never been to the Leung Family Gallery. I have long admired its beauty from afar, and its elegant chandelier is a highlight of the Main Green. But my curiosity was piqued when I read a column by James Rattner ’15 arguing that Leung should be a space for conversation ...
On Wednesday, the Brown/RISD Hillel is scheduled to host an invite-only talk entitled “The IDF Firsthand: A Dinner and Lecture,” featuring Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, a veteran and reservist of the Israeli Defense Forces. Anthony is the founder of the organization Our Soldiers Speak, which facilitates ...
We all hate the housing lottery. Tension and emotions run high. We all have a dream that once we move off campus — if we are lucky enough to get permission — life will magically get better. But though there are many great things about moving off campus, it’s not as easy as we want to believe. As ...
On March 19, I opened my inbox to find an email inviting “student leaders” to an event on Wednesday, April 2, titled “The IDF Firsthand: Dinner and Lecture with Sgt. Benjamin Anthony.” The event is being coordinated by a member of Brown Students for Israel and hosted by Brown/RISD Hillel and ...
After The Herald reported recent Office of Institutional Research data regarding the grade distribution at Brown last week, our grading system has come to the forefront of campus conversation. With over half of all students receiving As, our skewed distribution of grades indicates inflationary trends, ...
The University’s greatest resource is its students. We learn a tremendous amount from professors, but the most profound development comes from engaging with each other and forming meaningful friendships. Campus space should serve that purpose, and to that end, the Leung Family Gallery should not be ...
Last winter, I learned that no fewer than four of my close friends had contemplated suicide during high school or their freshman years of college. Their motivations for considering ending their lives were tangled webs of depression, anxiety, family problems, self-image issues and academic pressures. I ...
The purpose of college is often questioned. Is college meant to train someone to be a competitive job applicant? Maybe the point of college truly is just to expand your horizons and to experience intellectual growth. What if the point of college is just to meet the person you will spend the rest of ...
Many years ago, the elders of education sat down and revolutionized modern teaching. They came up with an invention that taught students to think critically, synthesize data and open our minds to the wonders of science. Indeed, without this development in education, students would be hopelessly adrift ...
According to the FBI, a criminal enterprise is “a group of individuals with an identified hierarchy, or comparable structure, engaged in significant criminal activity.” Last November, SAC Capital Advisors L.P., the hedge fund of Steven A. Cohen P’08 P’16, was fined a staggering $1.8 billion ...
Members of top-tier universities like Brown often cite grade inflation as a major problem. But diagnosing grade inflation as the problem is an archaic way to approach college academics. Grade inflation is not the problem — grades are. In actuality, grade inflation is a part of the solution. It reduces ...
In preparation for Spring Weekend, student entrepreneurs are marketing a colorful array of festive tank tops. Most make reference to the headlining artists slated to perform in April. There is one, however, that has seemingly caught everyone’s attention. Its plain white background sports a bright ...
Brown has a requirement that undergraduates spend at least six semesters living on campus. There are exceptions for Resumed Undergraduate Education students, married students, students with special needs and students who live close enough to campus to commute. There are also several dozen juniors who ...
As an avid reader and lover of books, I find the evolution of the physical book both fascinating and unnerving. The slow and gradual shift from reading print to reading on a screen is changing how we relate to what we read and why we read. From the appearance of Google Books to the creation of the Kindle ...
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