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Letter: U. presidents don't need Goldman association
By Brown Daily Herald | February 14To the Editor:
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Letter: Amenities not key to college quality
By Brown Daily Herald | February 11To the Editor: Ethan Tobias' column ("What Toyota can teach Brown," Feb. 11) sadly condones the continued race of colleges and universities to compete on the basis of country club-like amenities. Brown's reputation is built not on newspapers and paninis, but rather the quality of its faculty and students. ...
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Letter to the Editor: One day at Brown not enough
By Brown Daily Herald | February 10To the Editor:
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Letter: Banner needs to fit values of New Curriculum
By Brown Daily Herald | February 9To the Editor:I'm writing to thank Pacifica House for their thoughtful analysis of the effect that Banner course registration has had on Brown students' enjoyment of their curriculum. I was lucky enough to find myself on campus this weekend, and I got a chance to look at the special report that they ...
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Letter: China studies a growing discipline for students and faculty at Brown
By Brown Daily Herald | February 3To the Editor:Many thanks to Sarah Yu '11 for her thoughtful column ("Our say in academics," Feb. 2) regarding student involvement in curricular matters, especially those relating to international studies. Either I didn't express myself well or Yu may have missed part of my comments, so let me try again.Since ...
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Letter to the Editor: Numeric illiteracy to blame for typo
By Brown Daily Herald | February 2To the Editor:In Hunter Fast's recent column ("In defense of Ruth," Jan. 28), he erroneously states that the Brown endowment lost $800 billion during the financial meltdown. In fact, the endowment lost $800 million. I'm sure Fast simply made a typographical error, but I worry about the fact that this ...
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Letter: Bookstore not to blame for textbook prices
By Brown Daily Herald | February 1To the Editor:
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Letter to the Editor: Flu misconceptions must be corrected
By Brown Daily Herald | December 3To the Editor:As a teacher of immunology and vaccine science at Brown, I am quite pleased to read of the popularity of the H1N1 vaccine among undergraduates ("Students go hog-wild over vaccine," Dec. 3). I am compelled, however, to address certain quotes in the article as they echo common misconceptions ...
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Letter: 'Ethical vegetarian' analogy flawed
By Brown Daily Herald | December 2To the Editor:Regarding Will Wray's '10 column ("Tobin plays hardball," Dec. 2): A Catholic supporting pro-choice legislation is nothing like an ethical vegetarian working on a factory farm. First, an ethical vegetarian, by definition, opposes eating meat for ethical reasons. Being pro-life, however, ...
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Letter: Cheaters cheat on everyone
By Brown Daily Herald | November 30To the Editor:Regarding Tuesday's article ("Poll: 17 percent of students say they have cheated," Nov. 24): I am bitterly disgusted to think that nearly one in five of my classmates is an academic cheater.Professor of History Omer Bartov questions why students would spend tuition money in order to cheat. The ...
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Letter to the Editor: The hidden costs of inaction
By Brown Daily Herald | November 30To the Editor:Regarding Monday's editorial ("The price of tuition," Nov. 30): Granted, parallels exist between the situation at Brown and the one Californian students are dealing with. That these should be understood by a comparison between what the editorial page board termed Rhode Island's "attempt ...
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Letter: Good without the Loch Ness monster
By Brown Daily Herald | November 17To the Editor:I want to address a couple key points in Anish Mitra's '10 recent column ("Good without God? A response," Nov. 16). The thrust of Mitra's piece is a critique of the militancy and vocalness of the atheist movement today. He begins by positing that taking a missionary strategy toward ...
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Letter: PLME program decision makes sense
By Brown Daily Herald | November 15To the Editor:There has been a lot of fuss lately about the PLME program's decision to start implementing its new applying-out policy immediately rather than waiting five years for a new batch of PLME students to matriculate into the medical school.I'm a senior in the PLME program, so this new policy ...
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Honoring the war dead at Brown
By Brown Daily Herald | November 12To the Editor:I was glad to see Alyssa Ratledge's '11 recent column ("Do you know what today is?", Nov. 11), because I too grew up formally recognizing this day. I grew up in the UK during World War II. We lived on a hilltop south of London, on a regular night flight path for German bombers. I witnessed ...
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Letter: University should welcome ROTC
By Brown Daily Herald | November 10To the Editor: After reading Friday's article ("Herald Poll: Students more satisfied with advising," Nov. 6) concerning the results of the recently conducted BDH survey of Brown students, I was disappointed with the choice of title. While student opinion of academic advising is important, I thought ...
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Letter: Jewelry District already a great neighborhood
By Brown Daily Herald | November 9To the Editor:We are writing in response to the article about Providence's Jewelry District ("Downtown, big ideas are soon to be tested," Nov. 2). The article suggests that the Jewelry District is empty (of businesses, of Brown University students, etc.) and dead, and therefore ripe for University development. ...
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Letter: Middle East no simple matter
By Brown Daily Herald | November 8To the Editor:We would like to address Avi Schaefer's '13 concern about the character of Common Ground ("To those interested in creating peace in the Middle East," Nov. 2). Our full name is Common Ground: Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel, and our stated mission is to supplement campus dialogue ...
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Letter: Committee cares about HEI's labor practices
By Brown Daily Herald | November 5To the Editor:As current chair of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, a committee representing students, faculty, staff and alumni charged with advising the President and the Corporation on matters relating to the social impacts of the University's investments, ...
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Letter: W Week activities are aimed at all students
By Brown Daily Herald | October 27To the Editor:
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Letter: Think before you eat
By Brown Daily Herald | October 25To the Editor:In Fatima Aqeel's '12 recent article ("For the love of animals, and of meat," Oct. 15), there were some nuanced insights made about differing views on animal rights, and for that the members of the Brown Animal Rights Club are grateful. There were also some insinuations about BARC ...
