Sacks ’22: Institutional neutrality comes before viewpoint diversity

By David Sacks | November 30

Last month, my friend and former peer Thomas Bickel ’22 advocated for greater intellectual diversity at Brown. While I too consider viewpoint diversity vital for the academic health of the University, a different approach would produce better results. Bickel glosses over the most important aspect ...

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Lin '23: Brown is no place for hate

By John Lin | November 16

As a bright-eyed first-year, I was tripped and pushed on Thayer Street by a man calling me an anti-Asian slur. I was harassed and threatened by six teenagers on a bus who shouted that I had caused COVID-19. Hate crime figures have risen dramatically nationwide, increasing 13.4% in 2020 according ...

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Bickel ’22: Brown must take concrete steps to foster intellectual diversity

By Thomas Bickel | November 14

Brown’s chronic lack of countervailing viewpoints both within the student body and among faculty is unbecoming of an institution supposedly committed to diversity and inclusion.  Put differently, it is difficult to understand how students could possibly receive a well-rounded education ...

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Spilker ’24: Brown’s response to the antisemitic Hillel note fails to center the Jewish community

By Eiden Spilker | November 7

In a Nov. 1 email from Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity Sylvia Carey-Butler and Vice President for Campus Life Eric Estes to the Brown community, the hateful and violent note left at Brown RISD Hillel last week did not even get its own sentence before Carey-Butler and Estes moved ...

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Brandt ’24: Brown requires a culture change around civic engagement

By Adam Brandt | November 1

Brown students pride themselves on being politically minded. As a school, we’ve had a long history of protest over the decades, continuing to the present day. However, those feelings don’t necessarily translate into voter turnout. In 2018, a measly 45.1% of eligible Brown students voted in the ...