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Editorial: A sensible Mailroom makeover

When Brown students received an email this summer letting them know that Mail Services was undergoing a dramatic restructuring, many of us were nervous. In an effort to make the postal system at Brown more efficient, the University was eliminating students’ physical mailboxes and instead treating ...


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Editorial: Come back, Professor Ruth Simmons

This coming weekend, President Christina Paxson P’19 will unveil the University’s new comprehensive fundraising campaign that will fund her vision for Brown, as laid out in her 2013 strategic plan, “Building on Distinction,” and detailed in the operational plan released earlier this semester. ...


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Editorial: Sorry, Malia Obama

The college application and selection process is stressful for most students who go through it, but one can only imagine how much the stress multiplies when the whole nation is watching. That is what Malia Obama is experiencing right now. News outlets as prominent as the New York Times are covering ...


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Editorial: Balancing midterms and life

It is no novel idea to note that college is hard. For academic, social, personal and other reasons, college often feels like a balancing act. Now that we have passed the halfway point in the semester, which occurred last Friday, midterms can be an additional point of stress and anxiety for many students. ...


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Editorial: Sophomores searching for support

As sophomores approach their spring semester, they are expected to reflect on their time at Brown and determine which concentration provides them with the right departmental fit, curriculum and job prospects. Unfortunately, too few departments and concentrations provide students with substantive and ...


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Editorial: High school is not a means to an end

Brown is one of the over 80 institutions to have joined the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success. The coalition presents itself as an alternative to the Common Application and, according to the organization’s press release, its “goal is to recast admission process, broaden access and ...


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Editorial: Shootings and college campuses

Last week, stories about shootings on college campuses in Oregon, Arizona and Texas made national headlines. The 11 students whose lives were taken so violently over the past two weeks remind us of a sobering national trend — one that should be of immediate concern to our community. Mass shootings ...


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Editorial: Keep renovating, ResLife

According to a recent Herald article (“Residents react to dorm renovations,” Oct. 2), students living on Wriston Quadrangle were pleasantly surprised to happen upon the results of summer renovations in their respective dormitories. Though we certainly commend the Office of Residential Life’s attention ...


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Editorial: Boycott the Hilton Providence

Last Tuesday at the Brown University Community Council meeting, the Student Labor Alliance brought forth a resolution advocating a boycott of the Hilton Providence Hotel. Based on testimony that the hotel puts employees in unfair working conditions, we support the boycott. Hilton employees report being ...


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Editorial: Career (un)fair

Career fairs are funny phenomena at Brown. For the past couple of days, nonchalant or otherwise “chill” students have donned business casual garb and paraded down to the Main Green to pursue a consulting, tech or banking offer. While Brown is well-known for being both a liberal and a wealthy campus, ...


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Editorial: Spacing out assignments

To say that the average Brown student is overcommitted is probably an understatement. From juggling work, holding office hours as a teaching assistant, completing their assignments, working out and having a social life, many Brown students are in a constant state of negotiating their time with their ...


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Editorial: A ranking we should be proud of

According to the new online federal tool College Scorecard, Brown students who receive federal financial aid earn the lowest mean salaries 10 years after starting college out of their counterparts at all Ivy League institutions. Concerns about the limited sample size — given that a significant number ...


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Editorial: An unacceptable budget cut

Last week, we wrote about our concerns regarding the impact of the newly announced operational plan on the quality of undergraduate education at Brown and the university-college model. The week prior, we wrote about our concerns regarding the University’s plan to reduce its structural deficit. Both ...


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Editorial: Crowded lunch eateries

During the peak lunch hours of 12 p.m. or 1 p.m., hoards of students attempt to enter the Sharpe Refectory, Verney-Woolley Dining Hall, Andrews Commons and the Blue Room. During these time periods, the line to grab food can resemble the horrendously long lines at busy theme parks like Disneyland. And ...


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Editorial: Against the new housing ordinance

On Friday, Mayor Jorge Elorza signed into law a new ordinance that will prohibit more than three college students from occupying single-family homes in R-1 and R-1A zones in Providence. The ordinance will likely have little impact on the neighborhood issues it was designed to address and will only complicate ...


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Editorial: Sad but expected

The sexual assault statistics released Monday by the University are atrocious but not unexpected. From the rape lists scribbled on the bathroom walls of the Rockefeller Library in 1991 to the Imagine Rape Zero movement of the past few years, Brown has a long history of students demanding justice for ...


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Editorial: The university-college model

At 4 p.m. today, students, faculty, staff and other Brown community members will join President Christina Paxson P’19 at an open forum to discuss the operational plan that will shape the University’s expansion over the next decade. The “Operational Plan for Building Brown’s Excellence” will ...


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Editorial: Cutting the summer contribution

Brown, alongside its wealthy peers, has a long history of promoting inequality and helping the elite build and maintain their wealth. We cannot forget that it has been less than 12 years since Brown committed to need-blind admission for domestic students, a fraction of its 251 years of existence. But ...


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Editorial: An unproven alcohol policy

On Sept. 4, 2015, the interim assistant vice presidents for campus life and student services sent a campus-wide email detailing alcohol policies for the fall semester. The updated report contains few changes from last semester and, perhaps most significantly, continues the ban on events with alcohol ...






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