Yes, neoclassical buildings are beautiful. Yes, boring glass boxes and federal concrete facades can be eyesores to some. And yes, it would be cool if every new I.M. Pei-style building on Brown’s campus was a beautiful Romanesque palace like Sayles. But imagine for a second neon-clad construction workers ...
A few weeks ago I attended “The Trauma of Activism: The Black Freedom Struggle,” a two day event hosted by Brown’s Africana Studies department. David Dennis, Sr., a civil rights activist and panelist at the event, described his trauma for the room, recalling memories of being sprayed by water ...
A recent survey by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People found that 26% of Black men under 50 would support former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election, with 82% of said Black men citing economic issues as the most pressing topic facing Black Americans. In an interview ...
This fall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is bedecked with pastels, broad brushstrokes and light –– the French Impressionists have arrived. While the muggy autumn weather outside is yet to cool, springtime blooms inside the gallery. I join the flow of onlookers as they peer into ...
To say we live in an imperfect world would be a gross understatement. Today, we face war in the Middle East and Europe, genocide in Sudan and a refugee crisis in Venezuela, among other crises. Conflict, at its core, is a failure to reach an acceptable agreement for all parties involved. In our daily ...
A few weeks ago, I went to the beabadoobee concert in Boston. My friends and I were in the standing room only section of TD Garden, and we ended up behind a mom, her daughter and her daughter’s friend. When beabadoobee came out on stage, everyone stood up. For the first few songs, the mom did too. ...
I once took a tour of the Centre Pompidou led by an older man, about fifty or so, with small blackened teeth and old clothes that snowed ash. He led us past every Chagall, Duchamp, Herring, and de Kooning in favor of the lesser known artists of the expressionist movement. In a cadence vaguely resembling ...
At the peak of the Balkans War in the early ‘90s, Joe Cusack and Graham Johnson sat cloistered in a compound with members of the Croatian Defense Force. Serbian fighters had the city surrounded and were shelling it relentlessly. All Joe, Graham, and their young Croatian friends could do was idle around, ...
This shopping period has been wild for anybody hoping to take a Brown CS course. In response to unprecedented enrollment demand, the Computer Science department instituted enrollment limits on “almost all” of its courses this semester, which has left students scrambling to enroll in CS courses they ...
The United States is in the midst of a media literacy crisis, and it's only getting worse.
I “came out” as a leftist when I was 16 years old, after what was probably the most defining moment thus far in the development of my political thought. After new information surfaced in the case of Julius Jones, a then-death-row inmate who has maintained his innocence for decades, I urged our governor ...
In almost every regard, Brown is one of the most generous universities in the United States when it comes to financial aid. They are in the top 20 universities with the most generous financial aid packages, they are one of only around 100 universities that are need-blind in their admissions process ...
Caught between geopolitical tensions, political polarization and a chaotic candidate swap, the 2024 United States Presidential Election is set to become one of the most consequential in American history.
One hundred years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, I, an American woman, cast my first vote. The National Woman’s Party triumphed in obtaining women’s suffrage in August 1920, after decades of determined advocacy and brave leadership fighting for political equality in America. ...
As a Meiklejohn peer advisor, I often remind my students that college is a transformative experience intellectually, socially and emotionally. Learning does not only happen in the classroom – it happens in clubs, dining halls and especially in the wilderness. Yet Brown is failing to provide an outdoor ...
Dodie’s six-year-old daughter frequently suffered from lung infections and struggled to maintain a healthy weight. As a registered nurse, Dodie was understandably concerned, but since her daughter exhibited no other symptoms, she attributed the issue to a common childhood illness from being surrounded ...
Ozempic. Oprah, doctors and aunts everywhere seem to be raving about its miraculous weight loss effects. Since its approval by the FDA in 2017, the drug has somehow made its way into bariatric clinics and spas alike. But beyond the infamous brand name, what is it?
Our columnist argues that the upcoming presidential election in November is the best opportunity for a third-party candidate to win since 1992.
As protests erupt and discourse on Israel-Palestine once again takes center stage, it seems as though there are many more questions than correct answers. Last week, I attended a discussion hosted by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life with American journalist Peter Beinart — who's written ...
Behind Brown is a series of vignettes about staff members of the University.
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