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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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