On Oct. 31, R.I. Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello, D-Cranston, told the Providence Journal that he does not believe in white privilege. “I’m not sure I’ve ever thought of the phrase ‘white privilege.’ I don’t think there is a white privilege,” he said. Ironically, Mattiello denied ...
Brown is a place where you are empowered to do whatever you want. It’s fantastic. By all means, devote these four years to as wide an assortment of courses and activities as you see fit. But community involvement should always be a part of that. This is not a given for many of us, and I understand ...
Being a Brown student, one has the opportunity to explore an untold number of resources and events. Because of this, it always troubles me to see students who come to Providence spend four years working on nothing but their academics and graduate having dedicated all of their time to studying. To me, ...
A few weeks ago, I faced a significant academic dilemma: I was very close to dropping one of my courses. I told myself that the course did not count toward my concentration and that it was too hard to handle in addition to the concentration-related ones I was taking. I feared that I could not devote ...
We are pleased that one of the chief emphases of BrownTogether, the University’s recently released $3 billion comprehensive campaign, is the development and cultivation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Brown is an international hub for interdisciplinary research, answering some of the world’s most ...
No recreational marijuana for Ohio. A defeated measure that would have fought discrimination against the trans community in Houston. The victory of a Kentucky gubernatorial candidate who championed Kim Davis. These and other similar results paint the picture of a liberal failure on election day. The ...
In October, The Herald published an article entitled “‘Walk of No Shame’ celebrates sex positivity,” which described some Rhode Island School of Design students’ march to end slut shaming and promote sex positivity on College Hill. After reading the article and reflecting upon my own personal ...
Few people can lay claim to ever having removed articles of clothing for monetary gain. Fewer of these people can say they did so while studying at an Ivy League university. And the fewest of this motley bunch can say it was their Ivy League university that paid them to bare it all in front of their ...
I fear that the #BlackLivesMatter movement may have gotten off on the wrong foot (with tactics that alienate needed allies) and that it may be barking up the wrong tree (by focusing inordinately on anti-black police violence.) This concern derives from my definition of the core problems and my convictions ...
About a week ago, a trial closely watched by many (myself included) came to an anticlimactic close. Owen Labrie, a former student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School of New Hampshire, was given a year in jail for the sexual assault of a young girl. At the time of the assault, he was 18, while she ...
Last Wednesday, I sat in my hotel room in Cleveland, Ohio with great anticipation to watch the third Republican Party debate. To my dismay, the debate hosted by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado, signified the larger problems surfacing within the party, as candidates stumbled over one another to deliver substantive ...
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen campus debate unfurl over whether a couple of recent Herald op-eds are a matter of freedom of speech. This discussion, stemming from The Herald’s offending many students of color by publishing two controversial op-eds in early October, pits a slippery-slope argument ...
When Brown holds campus-wide events such as the Annual Spring Gala or Spring Weekend, the atmosphere on College Hill is filled with excitement and a sense of camaraderie among students. The divides among students of different ages, concentrations and extracurricular interests melt away as they dance ...
The teaching I do as a professor of American studies, ethnic studies and English finds me regularly engaged with matters at the core of whom we consider ourselves to be and how others consider us. This semester, for instance, I’m teaching an undergraduate course, ETHN 1890E: “Johnny, Are You Queer: ...
The third Republican presidential debate received no shortage of media attention. Before, during and after the debate, the homepages of mainstream newspapers were rife with speculation: News analyses guessed at the possible implications of every little interaction and chose winners based, subjectively, ...
Now that midterms are mostly over — though it sometimes seems they never truly end until reading period — many of us are starting to see which final grades are likely or within reach for each of our classes. These realizations are daunting for everyone, but especially first-years, who will soon ...
In light of the ongoing campus discussion of free expression, responsibility and identity, who are you? What do you stand for? We find ourselves in unsettled times here at Brown where people, places and paradigms are under incessant scrutiny in the quest for what? Resolution? Blame? Healing? Regardless ...
Undoubtedly one of the most pressing issues in American politics today is wealth distribution. The divide between the haves and the have-nots in this country has grown, and many across the nation are clamoring for a change. While such a change is likely necessary, I find the way in which this issue ...
Just like that, we have entered the last full month of the semester. At this point the daily grind of classes, meetings and other commitments has taken its expected, monotonous form. Rather than an opportunity to find something new, Morning Mail has become a time marker of sorts — a regular staple ...
Privilege exists on many levels at Brown — sometimes more conspicuous, sometimes less apparent. While not wanting to overstep any boundaries or talk about other peoples’ struggles, I can say that my Brown experience was significantly shaped by the very fact that I was an international student, and ...
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