Three months ago, a mass grave was discovered in Pakistan. More than 100 bodies were found in three different pits, decomposed beyond recognition. These casualties were not products of the war on terror or religious strife, as many might be quick to assume. Rather, they were victims of pure persecution. ...
I became involved with student government this fall. I had been going to Brown for two years and had accrued a laundry list of gripes and grievances against the University. Paying over $200 a semester for books, getting stuck with summer assignment and living in a quad, paying the fee for missing the ...
Yesterday, President Obama and Vice President Biden announced $550 million in grants for community colleges and apprenticeships. The programs are designed to produce graduates whose skill sets are tailored for open jobs in local industries. Of course, this figure is but a drop in the bucket compared ...
Studying abroad is a popular part of life at Brown. Students travel all over the world to experience different countries, cultures and languages. Often they embrace new outlooks and even life-changing perspectives. Having participated in a study abroad program during high school, I recognize the incredible ...
If you’re a female writer, don’t read the comments. We’ve both been opinions columnists for the majority of our college careers. Maggie currently counts herself as one of three female editors, leading a roster of columnists that is 42 percent female. Women are a strong presence in The Herald: ...
A recent Herald poll and article reveal that over half of students disagree with the consideration of legacy status in Brown admission. We stand with the majority of the student population against this consideration and believe the Admission Office ought to eliminate it during its next policy review. Dean ...
We hear a lot about oppression these days, especially at Brown. Listening to the hyperbolic language employed by social justice activists, one might think times are worse now than they were 50 years ago. These aren’t cases of the boy who cried wolf, as the considerations put forward are not completely ...
In today’s media and public discourse, government policies and current events typically get categorized into two camps: domestic and foreign. But the two cannot be divorced and should not be treated separately. The New York Times, think tanks and even presidential debates label issues as either American ...
On Monday, Brown Athletics announced that the women’s rugby team will finally receive varsity status. This designation is well-deserved and represents the culmination of a decade-long drive for recognition. Even before the change to varsity status, the women’s rugby team has been a model for how ...
Spring Weekend is supposed to be a memorable time on campus, devoted to relaxation and a healthy amount of debauchery. But there was a less savory aspect of the weekend that grabbed my attention early and continuously. All too often, the sheer magnitude of the police and security presence made Spring ...
To the Editor: Thank you for your April 10 article “Students confront substance dependency.” During my college days in the mid-1970s, I was one of those students with a budding alcohol and marijuana problem. If there was an on-campus place to turn, I was unaware of it, nor did I ask. Brown ...
An article in Wednesday’s Herald reopened a perennial debate about the definition and value of courses on campus. Currently, all courses are credited equally (except for .5 credits for some music groups and lessons) regardless of hours of class time or the inclusion of a section or laboratory. Such ...
On Nov. 10, 1975, the United Nations adopted a resolution in which it declared, “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” The United States staunchly opposed the resolution, with then-Ambassador to the United Nations (and future Democratic Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan noting before ...
There is a fundamental mismatch between Brown’s laissez-faire alcohol policy and the strict enforcement of rigid drinking laws that accompanies it. The former encourages experimentation by providing a generous safety net and removing any risk of disciplinary consequences. The latter, on the other ...
We write to offer a broader perspective on the University’s work to address alcohol and substance use, in response to the article by Riley Davis and Joseph Zappa. We appreciate the authors’ clear description of Emergency Medical Services and how well they are embraced by students. However, the ...
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (known as the G.I. Bill) is widely recognized as a major driver of the postwar growth that also changed the character of American universities. Over 2 million veterans used funding from this bill to pursue higher education, while other veterans received low-cost ...
On the first day of April, the official enrollment numbers for the health care exchanges of the Affordable Care Act were first made public. Obama and his administration claimed victory: 7.1 million Americans had signed up, beating their forecasts by 100,000 enrollees despite technical difficulties with ...
And then there was one. In the span of just 19 days, 67 out of the 68 teams in the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament have been eliminated. Despite its brevity the tournament has become firmly ingrained in the country’s cultural fabric since its inception in 1939. Its popularity — and notorious ...
For years, students have talked about the law school crisis. After an explosion of law students led to a massive oversupply, recent difficulties for law graduates in the job market have sharply depressed application numbers, causing five law schools to shut down in the last two years. It seems likely ...
Over the past few weeks, thousands of high school seniors around the country went online and discovered whether they had been admitted to America’s most prestigious colleges. Getting into college today is as difficult as it has ever been, and American colleges love to trumpet just how selective they ...
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