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Eppler's Rebuttal: Do you support Brown's online learning venture?

Eppler '13: Do you support Brown's online learning venture? No

It's understandable why Brown would want to participate in Coursera. The rhetoric surrounding Coursera and other massive open online courses - MOOCs - is certainly lofty. Advocates promise nothing less than the democratization of education, liberating the world's best educators and thinkers from the ...

Corvese's Rebuttal: Do you support Brown's online learning venture?

Eppler '13 seems to be surprised by the prospect of people wanting a university education, even if plenty of knowledge is readily available in books. Unfortunately, simply reading a book is not the key to acquiring knowledge. That is why we have classes - to provide discipline and guidance in learning ...

Carty '15: Empathy over egotism

White guilt: the assurance that your fair skin color pegs you as prejudiced.  

Editor's Note

The version of the column entitled "The problem with a 'bipartisan' education" that appeared in Wednesday's Herald was published without the author's approval. The version published was based on a rough draft the author had composed that found its way into the paper due to an editing error. The correct ...

Asher '15: Bloody, bloody Israel

Down the street from each other in Jerusalem lived two families, both named Harel, both with sons named Yuval. Though both Yuvals were the same age, their families didn't know each other, and as a result they didn't know that both were fighting with the Israeli Defense Forces in the 1982 Lebanon War. ...

Editorial: Signs of immaturity

For a student body that considers itself the coolest in the Ivy League, we sure have a warped idea of what is "cool." Ever since we can remember, Brown students have been head-butting, karate chopping, punching or finding some other way to break the exit signs that hang in dorms around campus. It's ...

Davidson '14: The problem with a 'bipartisan' education

Note: This column is a revised version of the original column, which was published by mistake. The Herald regrets the error.

Editorial: Hanna-Barbarism

Hudson '14: Major in debt

Newlon '14.5: Let's get personal

Mitt Romney likes to talk about "personal responsibility." So let's talk. "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney said in a leaked video from a May fundraiser, "(They) believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name ...

Editorial: Save Rhode Island's brain

Why are we at Brown? Ideally, we are here because we share a deep passion for learning. Perhaps we seek to translate our experiences from the classroom and apply them in a meaningful contribution to society. At the very least, we realize the financial and social worth of being educated. This appreciation ...

Tennis '14: Do more by doing less

College provides a great opportunity to learn from your peers as well as your professors. Every day, I am impressed by the thoughtfulness and eloquence of my fellow students, and I feel truly honored to attend a school where the student body is contemplative and involved. "Getting involved" is certainly ...

Ingber's Rebuttal: Is the United States the greatest country on earth?

Ingber '15: Is the United States the greatest country on earth?

Sola's Rebuttal: Is the United States the greatest country on earth?

Sola '14: Is the United States the greatest country on earth?

When considering this concept, two quotations spring to mind: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism, and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism," President Obama said on his 2009 overseas presidential trip. And the second: "Every ...

Rosenbloom '13: The truth about pre-professionalism at Brown

Brown Divest Coal: Let's get the coal industry out of the Brown endowment

Letter: U. should examine coal investments

To the Editor: We find it hard to believe that the vice president for finance could be unsure about the University's investments in the 15 filthiest coal companies. We again call upon the University to publically divest from coal and to commit to not reinvesting in the future. The coal industry threatens ...