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Chang ’27: The pandemic isn’t over. Bring back isolation housing.

By Victor Chang | September 26

In his op-ed, Victor Chang ’27 argues that Brown’s inadequate COVID-19 isolation protocols are putting students at risk.

Gelb-Bicknell ’23.5: UFB’s financial recklessness turned a budget surplus into a deficit

By Corey Gelb-Bicknell | September 25

The University’s Undergraduate Finance Board is more important than it sounds. As the student government branch responsible for coordinating funding across undergraduate student groups, UFB finances everything from Senior Week to Brown Outing Club hiking trips to Spring Weekend.

Angelino GS: We need the government to fight the fitness misinformation epidemic

By Domenic Angelino | September 19

In his op-ed, Domenic Angelino GS argues that government regulation of fitness practitioners would combat rampant fitness misinformation.

Arment ’23: No, Grad Center was not built to be riot-proof

By Toby Arment | May 19

The Sciences Library, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, the List Art Center, Graduate Center — these brutalist buildings have a defined presence on campus, even if their aesthetics are highly controversial. Some hate the sight of Grad Center's concrete walls while others praise the striking ...

Farrell-Rosen ’24, Cline ’26, Turman ’26: The Israeli government must be held accountable to progressive values

By Michael Farrell-Rosen , Mazie Cline and Georgia Turman | May 8

"In addition to the abuses it continually commits against Palestinians, the Netanyahu government is committed to undermining the fabric of Israeli democracy. It remains committed to its radical plans to gut the independence of the Israeli Supreme Court, a key pillar of the country’s liberal democracy." ...

Singh ’24: The Pentagon’s continued imprisonment of art at Guantanamo Bay

By Salonee Singh | April 26

Detainees in Guantanamo Bay should have ownership over the art they have created while imprisoned.

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Konigsmark ’26: ExxonMobil lied on our campus — will we invite them back?

By Augustus Konigsmark | April 24

In his op-ed, Augustus Konigsmark ’26 argues that Brown should ban fossil fuel companies from recruiting and advertising on campus.

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Sandoval ’23, Spencer-Blume ’23, Sarmas ’24: Rhode Island needs to increase its financial aid for students from R.I.

By Amienne Spencer-Blume , Mina Sarmas and Carina Sandoval | April 14

Rhode Island must restore funding to the Rhode Island Promise 1.0 scholarship program for students at nonprofit institutions to its pre-pandemic level of $2 million. In March, Brown University’s Student Government Association — composed of the Class Coordinating Board, the Undergraduate Council ...

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Brand ’26, Lew ’26, Larkin ’26: Brown is failing to support the Providence community. Students can change that

By Garrett Brand , Henry Lew and Christelyn Larkin | March 23

As first-years, we had no idea what it really meant when we stepped through the Van Wickle Gates and, finally, into Brown for the first time. For so long, getting here had been the mission that defined our lives. We all came from unique backgrounds, but one unifying goal tied us all together: making ...

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Shashoua ’25, Abdelaziz ’25, Maffa ’25: CS TA unionization will improve democracy, institutional memory in our workplace

By Joseph Maffa , Ronnie Shashoua and Yasmine Abdelaziz | February 27

This week, undergraduate teaching assistants in Brown’s Department of Computer Science will vote to determine whether the Brown administration must legally recognize and bargain with our union, the Teaching Assistant Labor Organization. We are pursuing unionization because we believe in democracy, ...

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Collins ’23.5: In limbo: Participating in Commencement as a 0.5er and cancer survivor

By Elon Collins | February 23

As a result of commencement policies that need to be revised, I have been barred from fully participating in what should be one of the happiest ...

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Vanderpool ’24: Reclaiming our student democracy means voting ‘yes’ on the recall

By Christopher Vanderpool | February 5

An election to recall Undergraduate Council of Students President Ricky Zhong ’23, finally, is imminent. As this election begins, there are two topics I’d like to address: why I helped organize this recall, and what it can accomplish.

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Wellisch ’26: Consumers must put pressure on companies to intervene on political issues

By Yael Wellisch | October 12

Turning on CNN and then visiting Fox News might be the best way to see how polarized American politics have become. News anchors report on the same national issues, yet their presentation of these events are often diametrically opposed. Polarization has hijacked our politics, making legislative response ...

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Vanderpool ’24: Where is our democracy?

By Christopher Vanderpool | October 2

After a tumultuous student council election last spring, another article concerning the Undergraduate Council of Students is likely the last thing this campus wants to read. ...

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Glickman ’23: Not censorship, respect.

By Noah Glickman | September 21

Self-censorship must have existed since humans first formed groups. Some powerful majority always decides which values, ideas and ways of being are permissible, and those who transgress these norms face the backlash of the community. As a result, we often censor ourselves, filtering out certain thoughts ...

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Johnson ’24: Rural students deserve more

By Colby Johnson | April 20

I recently presented a group project to my EDUC 0830: “Sociology of Education” classmates. On one slide, my group featured a link to a Mentimeter word cloud (a tool used to visually arrange keywords from respondent answers) for our classmates to anonymously respond to questions. The first question ...

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Hemmatian GS: No amount of weapons can end the Ukraine war, but a peace mindset might

By Babak Hemmatian | April 20

In 2017, I co-founded Brown War Watch, a student-led activist group driven by the vision of a more peaceful world. One mechanism for advancing this goal has been to strive for a change in U.S. public discourse, and consequently a less aggressive foreign policy. This strategy is driven by the outsized ...

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Khan '24: This is Narragansett Land

By Shazain Khan | March 21

This is Narragansett land. This is Narragansett land. This is Narragansett land. I could say this phrase 1,000 times, and it still wouldn’t change the centuries of oppression the Narragansett tribe has faced in the Providence area. But saying it still matters ― in order to start ...

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Gupta ’22: Learning to acknowledge our loss

By Deepak Gupta | March 16

“I’m just thankful to end my Brown career with a semi-normal semester.” Every time I’ve been asked how my senior year has been going, that has been the answer. And it is certainly true. After missing a year at Brown due to coming in as a sophomore transfer student and then spending ...

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Fasseas ’23: French hijab ban in sports should be seen for what it is — gendered Islamophobia

By Alex Fasseas | March 1

On Jan. 19, the French Senate voted 160 to 143 in favor of banning the hijab in sports competitions, the latest in a long line of gendered Islamophobic policies that expose the state’s willingness to police and target Muslim women in the name of secular liberation.