The Herald reported Wednesday that acceptance to the Meiklejohn Peer Advising Program was more competitive this year, due in part to earlier online outreach. We are excited to see a more competitive process, since it implies improvement in advising, but we believe the program could be improved even ...
To the Editor: Nearly 50 years ago, in 1966, the Brown University faculty voted to establish the right of any faculty member or student group to invite any speaker of their choosing to campus. This new policy was affirmed by the Brown University Corporation, and it remains in effect today. This policy ...
The movement for student representation on the Corporation has recently stirred a wave of discussion around campus. As the University celebrates its 250th birthday and looks forward to the future, the Corporation has been highly scrutinized and, at times, criticized. Its decision last fall not to divest ...
It was with a mixture of interest and pain — and a powerful sense of deja vu — that we read The Herald’s recent article on the newly formed Sexual Assault Policy Task Force. In the spring of 2007, when we were all undergrads on College Hill, we found ourselves having similar conversations about ...
I admit — until recently I had never been to the Leung Family Gallery. I have long admired its beauty from afar, and its elegant chandelier is a highlight of the Main Green. But my curiosity was piqued when I read a column by James Rattner ’15 arguing that Leung should be a space for conversation ...
On Wednesday, the Brown/RISD Hillel is scheduled to host an invite-only talk entitled “The IDF Firsthand: A Dinner and Lecture,” featuring Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, a veteran and reservist of the Israeli Defense Forces. Anthony is the founder of the organization Our Soldiers Speak, which facilitates ...
We all hate the housing lottery. Tension and emotions run high. We all have a dream that once we move off campus — if we are lucky enough to get permission — life will magically get better. But though there are many great things about moving off campus, it’s not as easy as we want to believe. As ...
The University recently reported its decision to increase the number of Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award recipients and expand the monetary award from $3,000 to $3,500. This action was made in part as an element of President Christina Paxson’s drive to get more undergraduates involved in ...
To the Editor: We stand behind our decision to create a space for Sgt. Benjamin Anthony to share his experience as an Israeli soldier with students at Brown. Hillel could not be the big tent it strives to be without responding to students interested in hearing voices on the right as well as those on ...
Last Wednesday, in a surprise decision, a regional division of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern University football players seeking to unionize were employees of the university. While Northwestern will certainly appeal the decision, the implications, if the decision holds, ...
To the Editor: I am an undergraduate student at Brown and a Palestinian refugee who was born and raised in Dheisheh, a refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem, West Bank. I am considered a “refugee” because my family was displaced from its own home in Jerusalem in the catastrophe (or Nakba) ...
On March 19, I opened my inbox to find an email inviting “student leaders” to an event on Wednesday, April 2, titled “The IDF Firsthand: Dinner and Lecture with Sgt. Benjamin Anthony.” The event is being coordinated by a member of Brown Students for Israel and hosted by Brown/RISD Hillel and ...
I am one of those Brown students who receive financial aid to cover the majority of their tuition. My parents are well educated by the standards of their home countries — El Salvador and the United States — though not particularly wealthy. As a young adult, my mom fled to the United States during ...
After The Herald reported recent Office of Institutional Research data regarding the grade distribution at Brown last week, our grading system has come to the forefront of campus conversation. With over half of all students receiving As, our skewed distribution of grades indicates inflationary trends, ...
The University’s greatest resource is its students. We learn a tremendous amount from professors, but the most profound development comes from engaging with each other and forming meaningful friendships. Campus space should serve that purpose, and to that end, the Leung Family Gallery should not be ...
Throughout all the recent debates concerning the value of a liberal arts education versus a sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, we’ve tended to ignore a critical fact. Not all STEM subjects are equal regarding employment prospect and national need, and in several of ...
Last winter, I learned that no fewer than four of my close friends had contemplated suicide during high school or their freshman years of college. Their motivations for considering ending their lives were tangled webs of depression, anxiety, family problems, self-image issues and academic pressures. I ...
The purpose of college is often questioned. Is college meant to train someone to be a competitive job applicant? Maybe the point of college truly is just to expand your horizons and to experience intellectual growth. What if the point of college is just to meet the person you will spend the rest of ...
To the Editor: A recent Herald article brought attention to the high proportion of As awarded at Brown — 53.4 percent, to be exact. Unfortunately, the response so far has been that grade inflation is no big deal. Grade inflation undermines an incentive to learn more. It denies excellent students ...
If Ivy League schools come with characters, Brown’s is certainly established as one of progressivity and one that challenges established perspectives. Regardless of one’s personal views — or how one perceives the general culture at the University — the general consensus is that the political ...
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