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Editorial: Brown is back

By Editorial Page Board | December 6

We spent the last year and a half craving the small pleasures, the ones we took for granted before the pandemic hit. Hugging friends and seeing their unmasked smiles. Chatting with classmates before and after lecture.

Editorial: CAPS must expand access

By Editorial Page Board | November 17

Despite high demand, mental health resources remain in short supply on College Hill. Counseling and Psychological Services, Brown’s main provider of therapy and mental health support for students, is failing to address the needs of a struggling student body.

Editorial: First-year advising falls short

By Editorial Page Board | November 10

First-year advisors — the professors, deans and academic administrators who offer advice to students as they navigate their first months in college — are students’ first guides through a daunting Open Curriculum. These advisors have the potential to positively shape a student’s college experience, ...

Editorial: For a truly accessible Brown, abolish legacy admission

By Editorial Page Board | November 1

The University recently announced a significant expansion of its financial aid program, along with plans to transition to

Editorial: Brown Dining is broken. Our workers deserve better.

By Editorial Page Board | October 15

Brown Dining Services is broken. As recent reporting has revealed, staff at campus dining halls are suffering due to overwork, communication failures and disorganized management. Our workers deserve better. They deserve a University that acknowledges their struggles, at the very least, and commits ...

Editorial: We shouldn’t have to live in Wellness to live well

By Editorial Page Board | October 3

The Wellness Center dorm certainly sets a promising tone for future expansions of University housing, and its mission of promoting well-being is admirable. At the same time, the building’s almost luxurious design highlights existing inequities in the Brown residential experience, setting a worrying ...

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Editorial: Hungry for change

By Editorial Page Board | October 1

With students once again flooding into the Ratty, clamoring for sandwiches at the Blue Room and foraging for a late-night snack at Jo’s, Brown dining is back — but for many, it is not back to where it needs to be.

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Editorial: How can we identify with public art we don’t understand?

September 27

One of the values of public art on campus, according to Brown, is that it “contributes to a sense of place, and inspires identification with this institution, its history and its values.” But the “Large Concretised Monument ...

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Editorial: On loss and tradition

By Editorial Page Board | September 17

Vartan Gregorian Quad has been called “New Dorm” by Brown students since the days when it was actually new. But over the past year, as an incoming class of students entered onto a mostly empty campus, a new name for the residence hall emerged: “Greg.” This change, while amusing, was also alarming. ...

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Editors’ Note: This fall, The Herald will print three times a week and publish online daily

By 131st Editorial Board | September 2

After an unprecedented summer of publishing online daily during Brown’s first-ever summer term, The Herald will print three times a week this fall semester on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — up from the once-per-week frequency implemented in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue ...

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Editorial: Accessibility in a post-pandemic world

By Editorial Page Board | April 6

As vaccines become much more widespread, we’re all ready to leave the horrors of the pandemic behind us. But there have been some silver linings. Looking forward as an institution, we ought to preserve the culture of understanding and accommodation that we were forced to develop in the face of the ...

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Editorial: UCS, an unnecessarily complicated system

By Editorial Page Board | March 18

It’s that time of year again: The weather’s improving, student government campaigns have begun and the student body, as usual, appears indifferent. This is not a new phenomenon. In 2013, the editorial page board wrote that “a strong culture of apathy undeniably exists” among students with respect ...

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Editorial: Brown, be kind

By Editorial Page Board | March 5

As we approach COVID-19’s anniversary on College Hill, the University is better equipped than ever before to handle a pandemic. From the automated COVID-19 test reminders to the plexiglass dividers in the dining halls, Brown has created its own “new normal” to keep members of the campus community ...

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Editorial: If Brown cares, where are the CARES Act funds?

By Editorial Page Board | February 19

Brown undergraduates have long opined on the costs associated with attending this institution, rightfully raising concerns over where tuition dollars go, how University funds are leveraged and the experience students receive in return. Perhaps never before in Brown’s recent history have such concerns ...

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Editorial: A Letter to the Class of 2024 in the Time of COVID-19

By Editorial Page Board | November 19

To incoming first-years: As you prepare to join our campus ranks in a semester like no other, we write to share words of wisdom (we hope) that may help guide you through the months ahead. When you were completing your applications last fall, we imagine none of you envisioned spending your first semester ...

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Editorial: Voices Still Unheard

By Editorial Page Board | November 2

In late June, Voices of Brown launched among a wave of similar accounts sharing anonymous submissions from sexual assault survivors. The purpose of the account is to serve as “a safe and dependable space for survivors within the Brown community to be heard and validated.” Today, more than 100 horrific ...

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Editorial: It’s time for better COVID-19 guidelines

By Editorial Page Board | October 8

As students have adjusted to a new normal of mask-wearing and social distancing on College Hill, the University has done well keeping student COVID-19 cases in check, boasting a remarkably low positivity rate. More students have been invited back to campus, and as we enter level two of campus activity, ...

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Brown, update the Open Curriculum; DIAP shouldn’t be optional

By Editorial Page Board | July 31

On June 15, President Christina Paxson P'19 announced a series of measures to address racial injustice through the University's institutional power and resources. The measures include a new task force, funding for research on policy and awareness projects related to structural racism, a reaffirmed commitment ...

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Editorial: Reflecting on Brown's financial responsibilities to students, employees and Providence

By Editorial Page Board | April 13

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the University has closed down for an indefinite period of time and sent most of its students home. As students and professors alike learn to navigate the complications of “virtual learning,” the pandemic also has introduced a multitude of financial concerns ...

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Editorial: To our administration: we ask for clear, caring communication regarding grading policy change

By Editorial Page Board | April 5

On Monday, March 30, the undergraduate community received an email from Dean of the College Rashid Zia ‘01 outlining the University’s updated grading policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s sweeping academic consequences this semester. According to this email, students would be able to change ...