Last week, stories about shootings on college campuses in Oregon, Arizona and Texas made national headlines. The 11 students whose lives were taken so violently over the past two weeks remind us of a sobering national trend — one that should be of immediate concern to our community. Mass shootings ...
Every time I visit a professor during office hours, I feel nervous. The most recent time, I felt especially anxious. I was worried that I was wasting my professor’s time, despite the fact that my professor seemed happy to see me and had told me a couple of times that it’s completely okay if I drop ...
During the spring semester of 1989, a series of racist incidents — ranging from graffiti to slurs yelled from windows to physical violence — took place at Brown. The impact on the community was deeply felt. A campus meeting was held in Sayles Hall where students, faculty and staff voiced their feelings ...
Native Americans at Brown’s demonstration Monday is a fight for visibility and a call for the University to oppose the acts of genocide against Native peoples. By changing the name from Fall Weekend to Indigenous People's Day, we aim to turn this holiday into a celebration of the cultures and histories ...
Disclaimer: This piece represents the writer’s views on Indigenous People’s Day. It is in no way representative of all Native Americans at Brown (NAB) or Indigenous Peoples across the world. Yá’át’ééh, shí éí Ronald Charles Scott, Jr. yinishyé. Naasht’ézhí Tábaahá nishłí, Tsénjíkiní ...
To the Editor: The only standard that you should use to determine whether to publish anything is the quality of what is written. If you made an error by publishing something that was of inferior intellectual quality and included factual errors or widely discredited and offensive or inciteful material, ...
To the Editor: Your recent editors’ note ends, “We do not and will not tolerate racism,” but this begs the question: What are you actively doing to dismantle it? I mean, if you ain’t for us, you’ve got to be against us. It seems many organizations at Brown and beyond think recruiting a few ...
As both a philosophy and economics concentrator, I walk the line between curiosity on the one hand and practicality on the other. Through the former, I chase my passion and try to make the most of my liberal arts education; Through the latter, I will most likely seek employment. Of course, there are ...
To the Editor: I am writing in response to a recent column (“Horowitz ’16: The FAQs of veganism,” Oct. 7). While I commend AEPi for going vegan on moral grounds, I find blanket statements about veganism being healthier than omnivorism troublesome. Horowitz writes, “Plant based sources of protein ...
To the Editor: Robyn Sundlee’s excellent opinion piece (“Sundlee ’16: Selling out the patriarchy,” Sept. 30) identifies numerous oft-ignored points about the intersection of feminism and capitalism. Sundlee points out that when we buy “F*** the Patriarchy” t-shirts, we are probably “courting ...
I studied abroad in Granada, Spain, a city so unrivaled by any I have ever visited that I can definitively claim it will remain unrivaled for as long as I have breath in my body. I have also decided in earnest that I will retire (provided retirement is still feasible in 40 years) to a casa tucked away ...
Last week, AEPi went vegan. Along with members’ significant others, independents living in Marcy House and representatives from four other Greek organizations, the members of the house feasted on food donated by several companies focused on creating nutritious and satisfying plant-based products (such ...
Earlier this week, The Herald published two opinions columns that were not only controversial but also deeply hurtful. Errors in the editing process aside, we understand that these columns contained racist content that has no place in our paper or community. The first (“The white privilege of cows,” ...
To the Editor: Because these letters are usually short, I will focus on just one part of the generally incoherent opinions column in Monday’s Herald (“Maier ’17: The white privilege of cows,” Oct. 5). Before that, I would like to acknowledge my position as a middle-class cisgender white male, ...
According to a recent Herald article (“Residents react to dorm renovations,” Oct. 2), students living on Wriston Quadrangle were pleasantly surprised to happen upon the results of summer renovations in their respective dormitories. Though we certainly commend the Office of Residential Life’s attention ...
In the wake of Thursday’s mass shooting tragedy at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., President Obama gave a statement to the press. As he expressed sympathies to the community and the lives affected, he offered a strong disdain for the repetitive nature of mass shootings in the United States. ...
Editors' Note: This column has been removed after it was unintentionally published due to an internal error. The column made a racist argument about how Native Americans should interpret the meaning of Columbus Day and its history. We apologize to our readers for the offensive claims made in the column ...
To the Editor: From the Sept. 18 Herald article “First-year sexual assault training to be reevaluated,” some readers may have gotten the impression that BWell has been resistant to change and taken an obstructionist stance on the first-year orientation sexual assault training. This is not the case. ...
Last Tuesday at the Brown University Community Council meeting, the Student Labor Alliance brought forth a resolution advocating a boycott of the Hilton Providence Hotel. Based on testimony that the hotel puts employees in unfair working conditions, we support the boycott. Hilton employees report being ...
Editors' Note: This column did not meet The Herald’s standards for writing and clarity, and, more importantly, contained several factual inaccuracies regarding biology and race that cannot be corrected without compromising the argument of the entire column. The column relied on the repeatedly disproven ...
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