Brown boasts a reputation as one of the happiest colleges in the country. This perception stigmatizes students navigating mental health concerns and minimizes healthy conversation around such topics. National trends in mental health reflect this concern. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill reports ...
In their first jobs and internships, students realize that the real world operates on a vastly different schedule than college. Work is done at the same time every day, and one cannot simply pull an all-nighter and then sleep through the next day’s lectures. Success is decided not by one all-encompassing ...
Through the long-standing arrangement between Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, students have the opportunity to take courses at either of the Providence schools. This option opens RISD’s creative prowess to Brown and Brown’s range of departments to RISD. Unfortunately, the difficulty ...
As a Brown student, odds are you’re going to make a lot of money. You’re probably going to translate your Ivy League education into a lucrative and successful career. You’ll go into tech or consulting or finance, and you’ll make bank, partly because you’re good at what you do and partly because ...
Earlier this semester, The Herald conducted a poll of undergraduates to determine their views regarding athletes and athletics on campus. The results were hardly a surprise. Fifty-nine percent of the non-athlete portion of the student body expressed negative views regarding the reservation of admission ...
The new and improved Sex Week is slated for mid-March — you should get involved. The Sexual Health Education Empowerment Council and its co-chairs — Anna Hendrickson ’16, Alexandra Sepolen ’16 and Lytisha Wyatt ’15 — have been working hard to plan and promote 2015’s Sex Week. SHEEC, ...
President Paxson, I am writing to you on behalf of young alums. I am not speaking for all young alums, but for the many recent graduates from the classes of 2012, 2013 and 2014 whom I know well and speak to frequently. We are angry. We take the issue of campus sexual assault seriously. Lena Sclove’s ...
Updated Sunday, Dec. 7 at 8:53 p.m. The Brown community of students, faculty members and staff members is unique in its commitment to advancing fair, supportive and just treatment for all. It is this quality that has inspired interest in the current negotiations taking place between the University ...
The movement surrounding Ferguson and Michael Brown’s death is not merely a controversial issue, it is a civil rights issue. According to data from ProPublica, young black men are “21 times as likely as their white peers to be killed by police.” Furthermore, “blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed ...
We all carry the memory of special people in our soul. We grow with these individuals, age with them. As we develop our own senses, we watch what were once the mighty oaks of our childhood dwindle and dwarf before us. It is far too often that our rosy memories of these titans of our youth transform ...
Nov. 24 at 9:37 p.m., aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from New York City to Atlanta. The moment at which I glanced at my neighbor’s open iPad and witnessed that which I had hoped against hope would not happen. The grand jury delivered its verdict that Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted ...
The Herald will not be publishing a newspaper in print for the rest of the week. We’ll resume printing next Monday; until then, check online for any breaking news updates at browndailyherald.com. Happy Thanksgiving!
Blue State, Metro “Mini” Mart, Alice, “1989,” East Side falafel, BBC falafel burgers, Falafel the fish, warm and fuzzies, Wings Over Providence, La Creperie (x5), Chewy Chips Ahoy, capitalists and copy editors. Fresca, late-night chats with Kim, software installation, Advil, twins, our web ...
We’ve all seen the recent spate of NFL scandals: Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, Ray MacDonald and others. The National Football League is facing a behavior crisis large enough to merit an internal review and repeated apologies from the league commissioner, Roger Goodell. It’s clear that the NFL needs ...
“I thank you heavenly father for this food, this great day, these lovely people, in Jesus’s name we pray.” “Oy gevalt.” Let’s start here: “Transparent” is very funny. “Transparent” is a half-hour show about a Jewish family in Los Angeles, but to call it a sitcom would be a horrendous ...
Environment influences one’s thinking and experience. Experiences shape one’s identity. Society dictates certain ideals and expectations for each gender. And expectations and stereotypes confine us to set frames. Hence the idea of gender roles and “masculinity” are illusions fostered and intensified ...
These days, I’m not surprised when someone gets away with stealing millions of dollars of art. Just the other day, three men posing as volunteers walked out of a gallery in London with thousands of dollars tucked beneath their arms. Some incidents have fairy-tale endings in which the work and the ...
As Brown’s provost, Mark Schlissel P’15 was arrogant and dismissive — but at least he was upfront about it. Meanwhile, our new provost is nowhere to be found. The provost is Brown’s chief academic officer, responsible for all academic and budgetary affairs of the University. Notably, she chairs ...
As the White House prepares to unveil President Obama’s executive action on immigration this week, and as Republicans reaffirm their intention to reduce the reach of such action by all means available, it is important to consider the impact that this executive action will have for immigrants and for ...
To the Editor: There have been a lot of conversations generated by the Janus Forum event, “How Should Colleges Handle Sexual Assault?” To respond, two alternative spaces were created: the “BWell Safe Space” and “The Research on Rape Culture,” a lecture by Lindsay Orchowski, assistant professor ...
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