It is that time of the year again — college admission decisions are now being released. All of the hard work and dedication that current high school seniors have demonstrated for the past four years will now be tested, scrutinized and reviewed. To those who have been accepted to their first-choice ...
Brown was in the New York Times last week — we were on spring break. It didn’t make my day, but it came close. Judith Shulevitz, a contributing writer for the Times, wrote an op-ed about college students and how they avoid ideas that they don’t like. Her first example was Brown’s safe spaces, ...
By the time I came to Brown, I was not a child who took everything her parents said at face value; to their dismay, I never really was. “See Ria, this would never happen in America,” my father would tell me when I was younger, fuming at a taxi driver who had just run a red light and almost knocked ...
When one lists the defining characteristics of an archetypal Brown student, “socially conscious” is a phrase that inevitably comes to mind. Brown students have a long history of protesting anything and everything as well as a seemingly insatiable thirst for increasing the University’s social responsibility, ...
Brown has a trust problem. When an estimated 400 students rallied on the Quiet Green March 11 to protest the University’s handling of the widely discussed sexual assault and date-rape cases last semester, it signaled yet another instance of increased friction between students and administrators. Beyond ...
The recent date-rape drug and sexual assault cases have many criticizing or lauding the University’s maneuvering around the issue and have made way for many suggestions on how to address such cases in the future. In a March 12 letter to the editor in The Herald, the Undergraduate Council of Students ...
On my college applications, I wrote that my greatest goal in life was to leave a mark on the world before I leave. During senior year of high school, making that grand statement, I imagined that mark would be some amazing combination of winning a Nobel Peace Prize for literature and rescuing Palestine ...
With spring break coming up, students should exercise judgment when posting incriminating pictures, statuses and videos on social media. When students post pictures of themselves participating in illegal or questionable activities, their online presentation could reflect poorly on Brown’s image. With ...
Last week, the Internet imploded in yet another chapter of the saga over political correctness in patriotism: Is it okay to photograph a newborn wrapped in the American flag? As Fox News reported, U.S. Navy sailor Rodney Clevenger and his wife Samantha approached Vanessa Hicks, a photographer based ...
The revelations of the past week have shaken Brown’s campus and will undoubtedly continue to send shockwaves as time progresses. As evidenced by the #moneytalksatbrown movement and social media campaigns, Brown’s internal justice system is increasingly perceived as a paragon of injustice and unfairness. ...
In my six months at Brown, I’ve grown to love its greens and quads, its eclectic architecture and even its prehistoric dining halls. I’ve been inspired by my peers, motivated by my professors and excited by a wealth of new opportunities. But, most of all, I’ve come to love the spirit of unity ...
What do statistics, 20th-century American politics, 19th-century architecture and the Vikings have in common? Those are the four classes I’m taking this semester, and I can tell you from experience they have almost nothing in common. This is not unusual for me. As a history concentrator who takes ...
On March 3, Dean of the College Maud Mandel and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn sent all enrolled students an email with a link to the Enrolled Student Survey, designed by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education. The administration sends students numerous emails, ...
Today, we’re proud to bring you a revamped Brown Daily Herald website, which boasts a sleeker design and new features geared toward enhancing the reader experience. As more readers engage with our work online, this redesign will make our site more user-friendly and conducive to reading and sharing ...
In light of the continuing conversation and controversy regarding sexual assault on our campus, I decided to attend Ivy Film Festival’s March 2 screening of “The Hunting Ground” to gain further insight into the magnitude of this national collegiate epidemic. After a harrowing 90 minutes, silence ...
It seems like any time an NBA superstar reaches an extreme level of success at a young age — with LeBron James being the most recent case — basketball fans and sports media alike are eager to draw comparisons between these players and Michael Jordan. And the conclusion that these parties reach, ...
If the two recent cases regarding the alleged spiking of two women’s drink with GHB at a Phi Kappa Psi party and the alleged sexual assault of one of the women have conclusively proven anything, it’s that many people do not trust Brown’s disciplinary system. Two of the biggest issues in the recent ...
As I sit here writing this piece, all I am thinking about is the lemon cake on the bakery counter, waiting to be purchased. Feb. 22-28 was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. And while our Facebook pages and campus emails are usually riddled with information for various causes, this specific ...
To the Editor: The announcement that we will soon know the proposed site for a new and long overdue performing arts center is welcome news. Of the many potential locations on campus, my hope is that it will be sited somewhere on the Walk. The Walk was created in part to celebrate Brown with new and ...
On the night of Oct. 17, two female Brown University students reported receiving a spiked drink at an unregistered fraternity party, and one of the two women reported being sexually assaulted later that night after leaving the party. In recent weeks, students standing in solidarity with the two women ...
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