To the Editor: At the faculty meeting Tuesday, President Christina Paxson initiated a very important and welcome discussion about increasing efforts here at Brown to diversify the faculty. The Herald article (“Paxson aims to double underrepresented minorities on the faculty,” Nov. 5) reports ...
To the Editor: In her Monday Herald opinions column (“Are religion and academics incompatible?” Nov. 3), Divya Bhatia ’15 argued that the lack of religious dialogue in academic settings goes against our “liberal” values. While I agree with the point that there should be more open and prevalent ...
To the Editor: As a Brown alum, Asian American woman, and executive director of Teach For America Rhode Island, I want to share my perspective on an article in Friday’s Herald, “Number of Brown grads entering TFA drops sharply,” Oct. 24. I appreciate that the article shares Teach For ...
Dear Brown community, On Friday, the Brothers of Phi Kappa Psi, along with the rest of the Brown community, received an email from Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, and Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy. The email stated ...
To the Editor: This is about “Fossil Free Brown: Imagining Brown fossil-free,” the opinions column in Thursday’s Herald. The fight against global climate change is so important that it far outweighs all other considerations. Thus it should be recognized that the Corporation members are generously ...
To the Editor: I am pleased to see that The Herald is covering the crucial mayoral election in Providence. However, “Cianci touts past as he aims for comeback” repeats Vincent “Buddy” Cianci’s talking points largely unchallenged, leaving it to readers to cast their votes based on what they ...
To the Editor: On Tuesday, Zachary Ingber ’15 published a column regarding anti-Semitism and several cases of it that he claims have recently materialized. Ingber writes that one such case occurred when a panelist from “Students on Palestine and Israel: Perspectives on the Gaza War” supposedly ...
To the Editor: I grow increasingly wary of the Corporation’s dodges to avoid student representation. The facts are clear: This institution depends on students for its existence. The Corporation is the highest governing body of the institution. As a result, the best governance of the institution depends ...
To the Editor: It was a pleasure to participate in last Wednesday’s Brown University mayoral debate (“Elorza, Harrop target Cianci’s record,” Oct. 16). As an institution that competes to attract the best and brightest students and faculty members in the world to Providence, Brown has a big ...
To the Editor: At the moment, tensions are running high due to Ebola, which last week resulted in its first U.S. death and this week resulted in its first U.S.-acquired case. Thousands are dead in West Africa, and many thousands more will probably die before the epidemic is brought under control. ...
To the Editor: The Herald has written about the Brown Divest Coal Campaign being renamed Fossil Free Brown, but why not look back at the idea of a resource-depletion tax applied to all fossil fuels, as proposed by David G. Wilson, now an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts ...
To the Editor: I would like to thank David Katzevich ’16 for his enlightening opinions column. Unlike many young radical collectivists, Mr. Katzevich acknowledges that capitalism has improved the human condition by causing “rapid technological progress and an unprecedented jump in human ...
To the Editor: Though University officials have presented a seamless case for demolition of four historic houses in order to build the proposed engineering complex (“Engineering building plan calls for demolition of historic houses,” Sept. 24), Dean of Engineering Lawrence Larson’s statement ...
To the editor: Imagine that. Though Brown trustees, administrators and faculty members rejected reestablishment of Navy ROTC on campus because they felt our military services discriminate against transgender individuals, our elite leaders are now excited by a partnership with the Naval War College ...
To the Editor: In response to Spencer Caplan’s ’15 letter to the editor in Tuesday’s Herald: Brown still does buy all its milk from the Rhody Fresh program. Unfortunately, the program ran out of its specially marked packaging for the half-pint containers sold at some Brown eateries. So, unbeknownst ...
To the Editor: I was disappointed this weekend to discover that Brown’s tradition of providing Rhody Fresh milk, and only Rhody Fresh milk, to its students had ended. On what I expected to be a normal evening’s trip to Josiah’s for some milk and a snack, I was surprised to find a fridge stocked ...
To the Editor: I wanted to express my disappointment with the name chosen to replace the admittedly awkward “Third World Center.” The “Brown Center for Students of Color” was, in my opinion, an ill-considered name. It lumps together many historically and culturally unrelated groups, ...
To the Editor: I’m glad to hear the Third World Center has determined a new name and a more specific mission (“TWC creates new name, mission,” Sept. 11). Institutions should continuously evolve and adapt to meet student needs; following its strategic planning process, the new Brown Center ...
To the Editor: The Herald’s editorial on Sept. 9 raises a good issue. As a scholarship student as an undergrad, I found it useful to buy printed copies of final exams from previous years, with the names of the examiners on them, from our in-house bookshop to help define what to prepare for ...
To the Editor: With the planned construction of a new School of Engineering and a new Division of Applied Mathematics building, it is my hope that consideration be given to determine the feasibility of utilizing geothermal heat pump technology. Geothermal heat pumps have proven themselves to be reliable ...
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