Editorials

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

Editorial: Shedding light on election spending

Last Thursday, Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 stood with the leadership of the Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives to introduce the Transparency in Political Spending Act. In a post-Citizens United world of potentially limitless, unregulated and undisclosed donations to so-called SuperPACs, ...

Obama's contraception proposal is a sensible compromise

Editorial: A haze of excuses

In a shocking op-ed published in the Dartmouth student newspaper The Dartmouth at the end of January, former Sigma Alpha Epsilon member and Dartmouth senior Andrew Lohse revealed intimate details of his fraternity's hazing practices and criticized university president Jim Yong Kim '82 for not cracking ...

Editorial: Remnants of Jim Crow

Editorial: No special treatment for UCS

Editorial: A luxury we can't afford

Last Thursday, the state Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education voted to establish two Achievement First charter schools in Providence. Though the supporters of this proposal argue that Achievement First will bring academic success to a school district plagued with low expectations ...

Editorial: In Rhode Island we trust

Rhode Island officials approved a decennial redistricting bill last Wednesday that will restructure political boundaries throughout the state's two congressional districts. The legislation's passage has left politicians and citizens alike questioning the bill's impartiality and the degree of influence ...

Editorial: The wrong way to balance a budget

Editorial: Earning the first pick

Last Monday, 755 undergraduates entered the Office of Residential Life's housing raffle, the winner of which will have first pick for his or her group in the upcoming housing lottery. In related news, no one is excited about this development. We urge ResLife to bring back our beloved first pick video ...

Editorial: A taxing dilemma

While students were enjoying their holidays, tensions flared between the city of Providence and Brown. Most notably, there was a disagreement between Mayor Angel Taveras and President Ruth Simmons over the University's voluntary payments to the city. Since the beginning of the semester, Providence has ...

Editorial: An education for all

State Rep. Doreen Costa, R-Exeter and North Kingstown, introduced a bill Jan. 26 in the Rhode Island General Assembly that would prevent undocumented Rhode Island students from receiving in-state tuition discounts. The legislation is intended to nullify a decision made last fall by the Rhode Island ...

Editorial: Respecting religious freedom

Editorial: An unrestricted internet

On Jan. 18, approximately 75,000 web domains, including the American-version of Wikipedia and Reddit, effectively blacked out in protest of what is arguably the greatest legislative threat to web content since the advent of the Internet: the Stop Online Piracy Act and  the Protect IP Act. We are ...

Editorial: All's wool that ends wool

As we discussed in yesterday's editorial, Brown is at a critical juncture in its institutional odyssey. Though no single policy can undo the devastation that years of corporate influence and human greed have wrought upon the University, there is a bold move the administration can make to reset our course ...