Opinions

Editorial: WE ARE ... Brown State

Katz '14: The perils of gun ownership

This past summer James Holmes, a former graduate student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado, opened fire at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colo., murdering 12 people and wounding 58. 

Pfaff '14: The technology unpocalypse

Zacks '15: Suffering on the path to freedom

Hudson '14: Obama's war on students

No president in American history has been as popular with college students as President Obama. Ironically, no president in American history has been as threatening to college students as President Obama. After investing considerable time and money in a college degree, students want to graduate into ...

Editorial: Advocating cautious optimism about online courses

Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron announced to the Brown community Sept. 5 that the University will launch two pilot programs of online courses "to help advance our understanding of online environments and their creative potential for enhancing the Brown curriculum." The University will begin offering ...

Take care of day care

I'm not a parent. I have no plans to be a parent in the near future. But if I did, I would definitely have some core concerns about my childcare options should I choose to study or work at Brown. I'm aware of the struggles that working parents and student parents face in finding convenient, affordable ...

Letter: Paxson should reinstate ROTC on campus

To the Editor: Start on the right foot, Mrs. President.

Letter: Paxson should reinstate ROTC on campus

To the Editor: Start on the right foot, Mrs. President. I encourage President Christina Paxson to right one of the few wrongs of former president Ruth Simmons' tenure: Allow Reserve Officer Training Corps back on campus. The U.S. Military and President Obama have shown remarkable leadership in revoking ...

Eppler '13: Why college isn't irrelevant

Hard times tend to produce radical ideas, and the current economic crisis is no exception. Many observers have noticed the hardships faced by recent college graduates - limited job prospects, crushing student loan burdens - and suggested that the current American educational paradigm of college for ...

Editorial: The elite presidency

Last week, the popular liberal magazine Mother Jones released online the now infamous videotape of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaking at a fundraiser in May. At the private campaign event in Boca Raton, Fla., a confidential source secretly recorded Romney candidly expressing his views ...

Lattanzi-Silveus '14: What the Chicago teachers have taught us

Last week, an editorial in The Herald criticized Chicago's teachers for putting their own interests in front of those of students by striking ("Have your apple and eat it, too?" Sept. 18). The editorial portrays Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on the other hand, as "trying to end something that clearly ...

Letter: Corporation should reconsider name change

Heath Mayo'13: Should Obamacare be repealed?

When the 2,700-page Affordable Care Act stepped up to the plate and was passed two years ago, grand promises of increased coverage, lower costs and better outcomes that accompanied its passage all inspired a sense of hope. A few years removed from that excitement, deeper consideration of the act's long-term ...

Mayo's Rebuttal: Should Obamacare be repealed?

Garret Johnson '14: Should Obamacare be repealed?

Obamacare attempts to address the three major shortcomings in the American health care system - lack of access, high costs and mediocre quality of care. While there remains work to be done, repealing Obamacare would be a major economic and moral setback for the United States.

Letter: Column on Israel is unbalanced and naive

Johnson's Rebuttal: Should Obamacare be repealed?

Ingber '15: Responsibility to protect (ourselves)

A column in Tuesday's Herald suggested not only that study abroad programs are relatively frivolous, but also that circumventing State Department travel advisories is an acceptable way to have a meaningful international encounter ("Want a real international experience? Take time off," Sept. 18). Katie ...

Zacks '15: Beasts of the southern wild

There is no place like home, and the Dorothies of the West Bank will tell you - there is no raging tornado like the State of Israel. Other tornadoes eventually run their course and allow their victims to heal and rebuild. But this whirlwind of violence and dispossession does not subside and disappear, ...