Opinions

Editorial: Righting the writing requirement

Asher '15: The Super Bowl test

You're in the locker room after your team just won the Super Bowl when the phone rings. You pick up. Who do you want on the other line congratulating you: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?

Editorial: A party without a name

Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 P'16, an Independent, took the stage Sept. 4 at the Democratic National Convention to address and potentially sway moderate and independent voters. Chafee reached out to those with political beliefs that - like his own - fall toward the middle of the spectrum, who "all too ...

Ingber '15: The myth of Brunonian decline

The U.S. News and World Report college rankings, which place Brown at number 15, are bound to shock students. It is not that we care so much about the actual number - it's just that we just know that we are better than number 15. Why do we always have to justify to outsiders that having an open curriculum ...

Resnik '15: Starting the conversation - a manifesto

I firmly believe that Brown students are capable of anything.

Editorial: Deconstructing constructive irreverence

Gianotti '13: A humanist's call to arms

Pfaff '14: Chick-fil-A and the First Amendment

Romero '14: Let's talk about privilege

Tennis '14: Going abroad sooner?

Editorial: Keep the facts straight

Katz '14: 'Freedom' taken too far

Apparently Abraham Lincoln needs to revise the Gettysburg Address. It says America is a "government of the people, by the people, for the people." It won't take him long to update it. Just insert "corporations" where "people" once was. Over two years ago, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, ...

Fuerbacher '14: R.I.'s status quo: Kill business, long live decay

Literally translated, the "status quo" means "the state in which." It is a phrase we encounter in our everyday activities as we listen to the news, discuss politics and bemoan the economy. Simply put, the status quo is a snapshot of how life is at this very moment. Right now, I would like to invite ...

Johnson'14: The extinction of the moderate

While most coverage of the 2012 election focuses on Barack "You Didn't Build That" Obama and Mitt "Corporations Are People, Too" Romney, there is a monumental story that is getting almost zero media attention: the extinction of the moderate politician.

Hudson '14: Abolish the lecture

A lecture is a great way to acquire knowledge and a poor way to receive an education. A lecture transmits information to students - a line from "Hamlet," the properties of the mitochondrion or Newton's second law, for instance. But education has a different goal. Education is not about the absorption ...

Editorial: First glimpse into November

Husted '13: A modest proposal

It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great school or travel through Providence, when they see the streets, the roads and cabin doors, crowded with freshmen, followed by three, four or six additional freshmen, all in new clothes and importuning every passenger for directions to Wriston. ...

Moffat '13: United we stand, divided we fall

More tribal than ever, the mainstream political scene recently has devolved into utter superficiality. Pundits, politicians and their SuperPACs, increasingly rely on finger-pointing, identifying "the other" as the cause of America's economic, cultural and political problems. Hatred and fear seem to ...

Editorial: Welcome, class of 2016!

Schleimer '12: The myth of giving back

For many students at Brown, it seems as though the world beyond College Hill is just waiting for us to change it - and this attitude is fantastic. The passion and sheer optimism that many students display for good causes merit appreciation. Whether it's bringing clean water to the slums of Mumbai, mentoring ...