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 ...
Last week, Emma Hall ’16 created the short film “Autofill: A Gender Study.” This 4 minute and 41 second video focuses on societal microaggressions that have become “norms” and stereotypes of gender and feminism revealed through Google searches, including one-line statements such as “rape ...
It seems to be almost a constant background fixture of national debate — periodically taking to center stage in the aftermath of horrific tragedy. Just last month, Nico Enriquez ’16 wrote a column calling for stronger firearms regulation (“The blind gun,” Sept. 20) in which he made many points ...
Earlier this month, Kamala Harris, California’s attorney general, filed a lawsuit against Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit company that specializes in selling one product: education. In this instance, the company was accused of distorting job placement rate figures, providing false and deceitful ...
The Herald editorial acknowledging the beneficiary growth in computer science (“Undergraduates benefit from studying computer science,” Oct. 15) is a positive statement to Brown students’ desire to be educated in our current age of technology and information. The department leaders at the Center ...
Last week, President Obama announced he would nominate Janet Yellen ’67 to be chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. We commend this well-considered choice, made after months of confusion and national speculation. The move has seen widespread approval, with the Washington Post, for example, ...
A quarter of all startup businesses will fail within a year of inception. After five years, over half of all small businesses will have failed. In fact, research released last year by Shikhar Ghosh, a professor at Harvard Business School, concluded that three out of four startup companies don’t return ...
President Calvin Coolidge once said, “the chief business of the American people is business.” Indeed, to many, America is the land of entrepreneurs. Plenty has changed since 1925, but entrepreneurship remains popular today. College-age students especially are drawn to join or found startups, ...
As an African-American man, I have long been surrounded by the images and ideas of the ideal — albeit subjectively determined — black man. This man should be confident and prepared at all times, in a world in which many will try to strip him of his self-worth. He should be articulate, and, as a ...
John Lonergan ’72 writes of higher education as many in the business world do, as just another “product” that needs to be packaged for consumption (“What’s the future for professors at Brown?” Oct. 7). But education, like health care, doesn’t always fit neatly into the capitalist equation. That’s ...
Enrollment in computer science classes at Brown has doubled in the past eight years, a recent Herald article reported. Not only are 12 percent of all undergrads enrolled in computer science classes this semester alone, but the number of concentrators has also increased by 35 and 22 percent in the past ...
Enzerink GS: Helping grads helps undergrads Will the strategic plan benefit undergraduates? The question can be answered succinctly: yes. While the phrasing presupposes there are discrete interests for the constituencies within the University, most commitments made in the plan will reverberate beyond ...
Last Thursday, cable funnyman Bill O’Reilly sent his cut-rate goon Jesse Watters with a challenge for the “students of Brown” to justify our nakedness in terms of the tuition cost and elite status of our university. According to BlogDailyHerald, the duo wanted to portray Brown students as “over-privileged ...
The federal government is the third biggest employer in Rhode Island and employs about 11,581 people in the state. About 7,000 of these people have already been furloughed. The government shutdown will have an impact on Rhode Island, even now that employees are sure they will receive back pay. Given ...
Even before the government shutdown, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — nicknamed “Obamacare” by many — had entered the national spotlight. On Oct.1, we saw one of the first major effects of the Affordable Care Act, where conditions of the individual mandate supplemented the creation ...
The face of Thayer Street has changed significantly this semester, with storefronts previously situated around Meeting Street moving further down the street or shutting down completely. Construction on new luxury apartments is underway, and community organizations seek to revitalize the area around ...
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