Editorials

Editorial: Debunking the student-athlete myth

Editorial: Don't bet on it, Rhode Island

On March 5, an 81-year-old Newport woman embraced her son and daughter-in-law in sheer, uncontrollable delight. In her frail but resolute hand, she grasped the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot, valued at $336.4 million. Louise White, now a millionaire, is in the midst of reformulating her plans ...

Editorial: Brown is not Goliath

Editorial: Pricing us out at the Providence Journal

If you've perused the Providence Journal's website recently, you may have noticed that the articles seem shorter than they used to be. Links on the front page often lead to articles of just one or two paragraphs, many reprinted from the Associated Press. In-depth analysis, multipage exposes and regular ...

Editorial: War on women arrives in Rhode Island

Rhode Island is currently considering a bill that would require physicians not only to perform an ultrasound on women before performing an abortion but also to display and describe the ultrasound's images. It is already Rhode Island law for a woman to undergo an ultrasound before an abortion in order ...

Editorial: Mastering the undergraduate experience

Last week, The Herald reported that the long-planned master's degree curriculums for mid-career professionals will likely be launched in fall 2013. The proposed program of study, called the Professional Executive Master's Program, would offer courses taught by Brown professors to busy professionals ...

Editorial: The myth of meritocracy

Editorial: Stop (and think about) Kony

On March 5, the Kony 2012 campaign launched when the nonprofit, Invisible Children, created a 30-minute video in order to call attention to Joseph Kony, the now-infamous leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. We fully support the intentions behind the video, as there is no doubt in our minds that ...

Editorial: Concentrating on the declaration process

Concentration forms are due for sophomores April 1. We believe this is an exciting and formative time in students' academic careers, but we worry that the concentration declaration has become a somewhat perfunctory process. As such, we are proposing some reforms that might help students connect more ...

Schleimer '12: What happened to student activism?

Back in October, when the Occupy Movement was spreading like wildfire, The Herald reported that a majority of Brown faculty members think student activism is lower than when they were in college ("Profs see waning student activism," Oct. 25). Among those working here for more than 20 years, 82.6 percent ...

Editorial: Stop railing on the system

More than $5 billion in debt and $161 million in annual deficit. Though these figures may remind us of Rhode Island's fiscal woes, they are actually the financial burdens on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. As extensively covered by The Herald, the MBTA recently presented proposals to ...

Chizen '14: Rebooting college life

In the middle of frantically typing notes for HIST 1630: "Modern Latin America I," my computer freezes. With a final shudder, it turns black and powers down. Everything is obliterated: an eight page paper due that evening, a year's worth of schoolwork, 6,000 songs, 3,000 pictures and dozens of programs. ...

Editorial: Getting carded

We've all been there: rooting through old wallets, searching on our hands and knees under the bed, even — as in one unfortunate editorial board member's case — buying unneeded assorted items from the East Side Mini Mart, just to get the right combination of quarters for laundry because the ...

Editorial: Santorum is totally not a snob

Republican Presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum recently called President Obama a "snob" for encouraging all Americans to go to college. We are thankful that someone has finally stood up for the (heterosexual) worker and commend Santorum for sticking it to the president. ...

Editorial: Brown's next step

Editorial: The persistence of prejudice

Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported that the New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students at several universities in the Northeast, including Yale and Columbia, during a period from 2006 to 2007. The surveillance, which included both screening their Internet activity and ...

Editorial: A second bill of rights

Legislators and activist groups have collaborated recently to introduce legislation to alleviate the burdens of the homeless. One bill would provide $12.5 million in funding to the Neighborhood Opportunities Program in the name of affordable housing, and another would delineate a homeless bill of rights. ...

Editorial: Staying safe

Editorial: An inadequate civil unions law

High stakes for Rhode Island