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Letter: Response to 'Mayor Smiley pushes for noise camera installation in Providence'
By John Wilner | April 11To the Editor:
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Letter: The dehumanization of Palestinians is inappropriate
By Aboud Ashhab | March 12To the Editor:
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Letter: Vanguard’s climate record undermines Brown’s new ESG retirement fund
By Ben Safran | March 10To the Editor:
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Letter: Institutional “neutrality” is not the answer
By Garrett Brand | March 4To the Editor:
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Letter: Response to “Why we walked out of Jonathan Greenblatt’s talk”
By Theodore Horowitz | March 4I am very disappointed with the latest op-ed written by jonath ’24 and Rosenzweig ’24. The authors are uninformed as to what Jonathan Greenblatt actually said. If they had stuck around for more than four minutes, they would know that he discussed far-right racism and antisemitism at length, giving ...
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Letter: Clarifying the Center for Career Exploration’s recruiting policies
By Matthew Donato | February 7To the editor:
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Letters: Responses to op-ed from anti-occupation Jewish students
November 21Editors’ note: In the days following the Nov. 7 publication of “An open letter from Jewish students,” written by a collective of anti-occupation Jews, The Herald received many letters responding to the piece. Here is a small representative collection of them:
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Letter: Respecting and appreciating differences in responding to war
By Alan Cole | October 26To the Editor:
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Letter: Financial aid matters for medical students
October 17In his recent column, Tasawwar Rahman ’26 makes it clear that medical school affordability is a major issue at Brown — which I know all too well. Four years ago, I walked through the Van Wickle Gates with friends I had just met over a PLME breakfast. We talked about how we’d attend the Warren ...
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Letter: Brown had no choice but to pay full tax on the new provost residence
By Peter Ian Asen | April 24To the Editor:
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Letter: Remembering John Owen Habib ’24
By Deborah Chiaravalloti | April 20John Owen Habib, 21, died on April 11, 2023 following a fall while hiking in Morocco. He was pursuing one of his greatest passions — traveling and exploring the world. For John Owen, the world was a place of extraordinary wonder: The more he could meet, talk and learn from people, the richer his life ...
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Letter: Staying in touch and giving back with Pembroke peers
By Sally Kusnitz Horn | April 13To the Editor:
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Letter: Athletics are another important legacy of Pembroke
By Peter Mackie | April 12The April 9 article, “‘End of an era’: Exploring the legacy of Pembroke College” omitted one important Pembroke cohort — student-athletes. As a result of the merger of Pembroke College and Brown University, intercollegiate athletics moved from oversight of the Pembroke physical education ...
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Letter: John Nicholas Brown Center changes should have more transparency
March 7In recent weeks, I have followed news of changes to the John Nicholas Brown Center with a combination of alarm and curiosity. Despite coming across several announcements regarding its renaming and restructuring, I have yet to see a fully satisfactory explanation for these developments.
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Letter: The CS Department has supported TAs, and will continue to regardless of unionization
March 1"We are happy to work with a union representing our UTAs, if one is approved by the election. UTAs have been an important part of our program for many decades, and we fully expect them to continue to be."
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Letter: Noise enforcement can take many forms
By John Wilner | November 10We at the Providence Noise Project greatly appreciated the op-ed by Juliet Fang ’26, “We need to reduce noise pollution,” which we thought did an excellent job covering the sources and detrimental impacts of excessive noise in Providence and elsewhere. Unnecessary ...
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Letter: Brown’s response to antisemitism is lacking
By Willis J. Goldsmith | November 2he note containing “several expletives and violent threats against Jewish people” discovered Sunday at Brown RISD Hillel and the “swastikas carved into surfaces” around campus over the summer are incidents of antisemitism — nothing more, nothing less. By broadly linking such events to “incidents ...
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Letter: End the use of pigs in medical training now
By Shalin Gala | October 20The ongoing use of pigs for operation training in the University's emergency medicine residency program reflects poorly on the University and provides inferior training to residents who deserve the best. It's time Brown joined the right side of history and ended this cruel, outdated practice. ...
