To the Editor: Interim Dean of the College and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn stated in her email Tuesday to the Brown community that “incidents of sexual assault do irreparable harm, and we must engage the entire community in reinforcing the fact that sexual ...
To the Editor: In the lively and often confusing campus discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Brown Students for Israel feels that its values and identity have frequently been misrepresented, and it would like to take this opportunity to clarify its purpose on campus. Brown Students for Israel ...
To the Editor: In response to the April 17 article “Busy schedules, boring lectures drive students to skip classes”: As a student commuting to school in London many years ago, I was dependent on train service. When there was a train strike, I rode my bike more than 20 miles each way through ...
To the Editor: Thank you for your April 10 article “Students confront substance dependency.” During my college days in the mid-1970s, I was one of those students with a budding alcohol and marijuana problem. If there was an on-campus place to turn, I was unaware of it, nor did I ask. Brown ...
We write to offer a broader perspective on the University’s work to address alcohol and substance use, in response to the article by Riley Davis and Joseph Zappa. We appreciate the authors’ clear description of Emergency Medical Services and how well they are embraced by students. However, the ...
To the Editor: I am a recent Brown alum. Since I graduated in May 2012, two moments have made me proud to claim my alma mater. The first was the protest of former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s speaking event in October. The second is the protest of Israel Defense Forces Sgt. Benjamin ...
To the Editor: We wish to compliment you and Ms. Isobel Heck for publishing on April 2 the article “Controversial Paxil paper still under fire 13 years later.” While we strongly believe it is the moral duty for all of us to explore and protest wrongs, we appreciate that it calls upon one ...
To the Editor: I opened Thursday’s Herald to find Nava Winkler’s ’14 column, which I hoped would be another insightful view on the conflict, among the various op-eds and letters to the editor this week. But the opinion unfortunately perpetuated some of the most harmful paradigms around discussion ...
To the Editor: This is a letter to everyone comparing the protest against Brown/RISD Hillel hosting an invite-only talk with Israel Defense Forces Sgt. Benjamin Anthony to the incident with Ray Kelly. This is a letter for anyone whose reaction upon hearing of the protest was: “We’re at an Ivy League ...
To the Editor: Nearly 50 years ago, in 1966, the Brown University faculty voted to establish the right of any faculty member or student group to invite any speaker of their choosing to campus. This new policy was affirmed by the Brown University Corporation, and it remains in effect today. This policy ...
To the Editor: We stand behind our decision to create a space for Sgt. Benjamin Anthony to share his experience as an Israeli soldier with students at Brown. Hillel could not be the big tent it strives to be without responding to students interested in hearing voices on the right as well as those on ...
To the Editor: I am an undergraduate student at Brown and a Palestinian refugee who was born and raised in Dheisheh, a refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem, West Bank. I am considered a “refugee” because my family was displaced from its own home in Jerusalem in the catastrophe (or Nakba) ...
To the Editor: A recent Herald article brought attention to the high proportion of As awarded at Brown — 53.4 percent, to be exact. Unfortunately, the response so far has been that grade inflation is no big deal. Grade inflation undermines an incentive to learn more. It denies excellent students ...
To the Editor: Walker Mills’s ’15 column last week (“Mills ’15: Who needs whom?” March 10) on the University’s military community did not clarify that while Navy and Air Force ROTC are not available, any student can join Army ROTC at Providence College. Several Brown undergraduates ...
To the Editor: We read the March 11 article “U. to evaluate AP and IB weight” and want to clarify how AP and IB credits will work under the College of William and Mary’s new undergraduate general education curriculum, also called the College Curriculum (COLL). The new curriculum requires ...
To the Editor: I was outraged to read a recent article about the Brown University 250th anniversary cake in the Providence Journal. If Brown has the financial resources to commission a celebratory cake on the scale of royal weddings and fireworks from the roof of University buildings, perhaps that ...
To the Editor: In a letter in last Monday’s Herald, Dr. Bruno Harris writes of the benefits of physical libraries as opposed to electronic sources, at least with respect to the current status and availability of e-books. I must admit that at first, I idly read through and thought to myself how inconceivable ...
To the Editor: The article in Thursday’s Herald about the State of Brown (“U.’s next decade surveyed in State of Brown,” March 6) does not accurately capture the University’s plans in the area of online education. In fact, online educational technology will play a large role in Brown’s ...
To the Editor: I very much agree with the article in Thursday’s Herald on e-book difficulties. As books are moved from the library into high-density storage outside of Providence (stored just by size!), the traditional activity of browsing is eliminated. Browsing means that one looks perhaps ...
To the Editor: I am a former child garment worker and executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, one of Bangladesh’s leading labor rights organizations. Last week, I concluded a tour of U.S. college campuses with Reba Sikder, a survivor of last April’s deadly Rana ...
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