“Work with us” is the mantra of the modern university administrator. Collaborate. Compromise. Be polite and considerate, and you will be heard. You have a voice. We will listen. Brown Divest Coal did everything right. Its members collected petitions. They held peaceful and nondisruptive rallies. ...
In deciding not to divest from companies involved in the production of coal, President Christina Paxson and the Corporation are ignoring the voices of students, faculty and staff members and alums, as well as the opinion of their own advisory committee. Paxson’s letter to the community acknowledges ...
It’s about Brown’s legitimization of racial profiling. Imagine that New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s aggressively promoted stop-and-frisk program were to be implemented at Brown. If New York stop rates were replicated proportionally on campus using data from last year, 411 undergraduates ...
This Tuesday, the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions is hosting Raymond Kelly, the New York City Police Commissioner known for the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, for its Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture. The lecture is entitled “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest ...
We’ve all done it. We spend hours studying for that one final, and then in the face of pressure, we forget one word, one formula, one number, so we sneak a glance to the side and then continue as if nothing happened. It’s not cheating, because we didn’t copy a whole sentence or a whole answer. ...
“We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence,” said President Obama. “Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science and act before it’s ...
In the wake of last week’s end to the government shutdown, a slew of national commentary has focused on an apparent rift forming between the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans. But here in Rhode Island, a local political rift appears to be brewing in the Democratic Party. Disagreements over the ...
I recently had the pleasure of reading Zach Ingber’s ’15 opinion piece in which he suggested that the bias against minority groups at Brown — particularly against political conservatives — threatens the spirit of free inquiry embedded in the University’s mission (“Free speech at Brown?” ...
At universities such as Brown, students often report a pressure to remain on a prescribed path: graduating from college in four years and transitioning straight to a career or graduate school. These expectations — both external and internal — can make it seem impossible to deviate from the prescribed ...
As mentioned this week in the New York Times, two states — Florida and Texas — have begun experimenting with low-cost undergraduate degree programs, programs supported by their respective governors, Rick Scott and Rick Perry. Over a dozen institutions are now offering baccalaureate degrees that ...
At the start of this year’s college football season, reigning Heisman Trophy winner and Texas A&M University quarterback Johnny Manziel was suspended amidst reports that he was paid to sign autographs for the first half of his team’s opening game. Some would argue these reports suggest that ...
Last week, representatives from the United Nations Security Council and Iran engaged in talks about Iran’s nuclear program in Geneva. In exchange for loosening economic sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani claims to be willing to employ greater transparency in Iran’s nuclear development. ...
It wasn’t that long ago that we watched with wonder as social media went public with Facebook’s initial public offering. For a moment, as Facebook stock plummeted, many shook their heads and declared the moment a failure for the company and for the future of social media companies. Ironically, ...
Hundreds of students camped outside of Kasper Multipurpose Room Sunday night to secure tickets to one of Brown’s most renowned events of the year: Sex Power God. The Queer Alliance will host the annual party — a venue where attendees are free to explore their sexuality in a safe space — on Nov. ...
This past week, The Herald published “Testing Success?,” a four-part series examining the new role of the New England Common Assessment Program in public high school graduation requirements. For the first time, seniors are required to either demonstrate “partial proficiency” or improve their ...
With all the buzz about the strategic plan, there has been no shortage of discussion surrounding Brown’s mission statement and larger purpose as a university or university-college. And while the debate has often revolved around the centrality of undergraduates to our educational philosophy, I’d ...
A diamond to the student director of “In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play,” who said, “This was a time before pornography shaped these stereotypes, so these women’s reactions would have been very natural and organic.” We also like our orgasms cage-free, farm-raised and grass-fed. Cubic ...
When I tell people Tiger Woods is my favorite athlete, I invariably receive either a quip about the irrelevance of golf or a quibble about Woods’ infamous marital problems. Either way, I seem to be pretty alone in my opinion — Woods currently ranks as the third-most hated athlete in America. Woods’ ...
In one week, the University’s Corporation will meet, discussing and likely voting on whether the University should continue to profit from any of the 15 largest coal companies it’s currently invested in. This decision is critical: for those suffering in communities impacted by mountaintop removal, ...
It has been almost nine years since Dutch film director Theo van Gogh was murdered while biking to work in Amsterdam. Dutch-Moroccan terrorist Mohammed Bouyeri shot Van Gogh while he begged for mercy, slit his throat and used a dagger to pin a warning message to “America, Europe, the Netherlands and ...
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