In the United States, any citizen who is at least 18 years old and not a convicted felon has the right to vote. Most of us accept and celebrate our universal suffrage. But is it a good idea? In my view, no. Not every adult U.S. citizen should have the right to vote. Instead, only those who pay taxes ...
Marc Andreessen, the distinguished web browser pioneer, once bluntly stated that "newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But (they) will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business ...
One of the most memorable figures from my time at Brown was then University Chaplain Charles Adams Baldwin. "Chaplain Charlie," as we called him with affectionate irony, offered counseling, conducted discussion groups and hosted dinners for students in his home, among other important campus activities. ...
In 1880 Lincoln Field was just a swamp. Over 130 years later, Augustus has conquered it, and it is now central to our campus, serving thousands of students every year. Brown is growing and always has been. Just in the next few years, for instance, the University will continue to creep its way up Thayer ...
To the Editor: In the midst of all the excitement regarding the election, there was another announcement Wednesday that many people missed - Maine's Unity College just became the first college in the nation to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Unity College is proving that colleges and universities ...
Coming into the 2012 elections, Republican nominee Mitt Romney most likely expected his success to be one of his strongest assets. He probably did not expect that his experience would one day become part of his greatest vulnerability, wrapped up in an ill-judged statement about the "47 percent" and ...
I was thrilled a couple of weeks ago to see that the most read article in The Herald was entitled "Why therapy is cool." At last, I thought, somebody agrees with me!
If you can, please take a moment from your espresso-fueled working binge to hear me out.
"Think like a parent. Consider the students."
Rape on college campuses has re-emerged as a topic of national conversation since Angie Epifano published a gut-wrenching op-ed column in the Amherst Student Oct. 17. The column details her experience of being raped by a fellow Amherst College student and her decision to withdraw from the college after ...
The winner of this election will be one of two terrible men.
Four years ago, America was heading into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Today, the economy is getting better. We have ended the war in Iraq, we are pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden is dead. In these trying times, President Obama has provided steady leadership, ...
"Hope" and "change" were the key words that candidate Barack Obama infused into his campaign rhetoric four years ago. Today, with an additional $5.5 trillion in U.S. debt, elevated unemployment and no clear foreign policy, all the United States can hope for is change. If the country is to move forward, ...
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