Earlier this month, the Trump administration broke news about plans to freeze $510 million of Brown’s federal funding. The threatened cuts are nothing short of extortion, an attempt to use the power of federal research dollars to force universities like Brown into policy changes that would destroy ...
Over the past two weeks, I’ve had the pleasure — if you can call it that — of attending a series of consulting career events on campus. Every student I met seemed exceptionally eager and their questions to the recruiters were practically dripping with their anxious sweat. How’s the work culture? ...
As Indigenous Oklahoman Joy Harjo writes, “in a sense, we never leave Oklahoma, or maybe it would be better said that Oklahoma never leaves us.” Even though I now attend college over 1,000 miles away, it doesn’t change this fact: Oklahoma is an intrinsic part of me and directly alters how I view ...
In this fraught moment for higher education, student government is more important than ever. The upcoming Student Government Association elections — and particularly that of the Undergraduate Council of Students — are an opportunity for our student body to influence how we are represented both on ...
Brown faculty must reject or revise the recent “Draft Statement on University Values” to ensure that it includes strong, explicit protections for shared community governance in every aspect of University operations.
Two weeks ago, I learned that spaghetti for 25 people isn’t a great camping meal.
After U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) delivered a 25 hour-long speech to Congress in protest of President Trump’s executive actions, internet users claimed the appearance lacked substance. Some people argued Booker’s speech was a virtue signal that was impractical and accomplished nothing. Others ...
On January 11, 1908, Theodore Roosevelt designated the Grand Canyon as a national monument, declaring: “You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and all who come after you.”
To the Editor:
Although the Editorial Page Board is divided on the issue of divestment of Brown’s endowment from companies affiliated with Israel, we agree on this: Detaining a student for writing an op-ed is a grave violation of free speech and due process. It is antithetical to the values of a democratic society. ...
To the Editor:
Eighty years ago Wednesday, Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis for his dissident activities, which included helping Jews escape Germany and joining an attempt to assassinate Hitler. In a country whose church and people largely stood complicit in the actions of Hitler’s ...
In 2023, Brown opened its long-anticipated Lindemann Performing Arts Center. Though it was touted as “state-of-the-art,” the Lindemann has largely disappointed students, becoming a frequent target of criticism. This reaction points to a deeper issue: Some of Brown’s modern architectural choices ...
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
On March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was followed into his Columbia apartment building by federal agents. He was arrested without a warrant, transported to a detainment facility in New Jersey and then Louisiana and forced to sleep on the floor of a cold cell. Khalil, a U.S. permanent resident, demanded an explanation ...
At Brown, the dream of diversity has in many ways been realized. The University’s student body boasts an incredible range of cultures, nationalities and socioeconomic backgrounds. Its need-blind policy for domestic students has ensured that financial constraints do not prevent talented individuals ...
Brown is just the latest major university to be threatened with the loss of federal funds by the Trump administration. But while the White House has not yet formally frozen Brown’s federal funding nor presented the University with a list of demands as conditions of restoring that funding, we can be ...
On Thursday night, a White House official confirmed to The Herald that the Trump administration plans to cut $510 million in federal funding to Brown, making the University the fifth Ivy League institution to have its funding threatened in recent weeks. This development represents another volley in ...
I first began giving tours of Brown as an impressionable first-year. On the second stop of the tour outside University Hall, I would gather my modest crowd of overachieving high schoolers and their anxious parents to extol the virtues of Brown’s unique curricular system. After responding to a host ...
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