Opinions

Hefer '12: Objectification for fun and profit

Letter: Online comics superior to print strips

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Letter: Student comics worse than Providence Journal's

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Shanks '12.5: Dear white guy in my class

Dear white guy in my class. This is awkward. I know that you feel it, and I know that I feel it. But we can't get around it. We're going to have to talk about race. We're talking about identity — or class, American history, slavery or anything else that Europeans have been involved in on a state ...

Braslow '14: A dance dance revolution?

It's a common dilemma for any skill-based student group on campus: Do we take in students who already show talent or inexperienced ones who will enable us to expand student opportunities at Brown? Ideally, students would be able to step through the Van Wickle Gates and try their hand at any activity ...

Letter: Fair Labor Association responds to criticisms

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Liebling '12: The Simmons legacy

No prospective student priced out of Brown has ever been the talk of campus. There have been no Associated Press obituaries lamenting the loss of tenure, teaching or the university-college. But as we bemoan the departure of Brown's most beloved president, let us interrupt the admiration for a moment ...

Editorial: Crossing borders

Carnegie Mellon University proudly announced its partnership with the Rwandan government to open the first American graduate program in Rwanda Sept. 16. Even as Rwandan President Paul Kagame was delivering his keynote address to CMU students in Pittsburgh, news of the partnership was raising concerns ...

Cao '13: Calculus and pirates

One of my friends is taking her first college math class. Being a humanities student, she just bought her most expensive textbook yet — a 2011 edition of James Stewart's "Calculus" for $180. The past editions cost no more than $30. Some can even be downloaded online for free.

Editorial: Still out of shape

Last year, we expressed our concern for the condition of campus gyms ("A little out of shape," Oct. 26, 2010) and called on the University to repair equipment and improve satellite gym facilities. Unfortunately, the Department of Athletics failed to adequately plan and secure funding for equipment acquisition. ...

Henriques '12: Evaluating grades

At some point in your college career, you've encountered them — the person who, upon learning that you go to Brown, quizzically says, "Isn't that the school without any grades or something?" You gently correct them, laughing at their naivete. But while they may be misinformed, they ought to be ...

Trupin '13: Celebrating 10 years of the Worker Rights Consortium

In the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, Feb. 20, 2000, campus police entered Chancellor David Ward's office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ordered a group of students within to get on their knees and put them in handcuffs. These students were part of a group of over 150 who had been occupying Bascom ...

Moraff '14: These comics are not very good

If I know Brown students, and I don't, there's nothing we enjoy more than cracking open a fresh Providence Journal. The Journal has one huge difference from the New York Times — the comics page. Every day, bright-eyed citizens across the state flip to the back of the paper and drink in the funnies, ...

Editorial: Alpert goes Apple

What one-and-a-half pound structure are anatomy students at the Alpert Medical School handling with care at this very minute? Hint: It is not a human organ we're talking about.

Enzerink GS: The great subjects merit more attention

After watching the first Harry Potter film once again, a friend remarked that he wished all libraries had "a badass Restricted Section full of secrets and mysteries to be solved." His sentiment is certainly not unique — who wouldn't want to be the next Harry, stumbling upon references to something ...

Editorial: Alex Morse '11 for Mayor

As the remodeled CareerLAB works overtime to find opportunities for the Class of 2012, there is one option they won't suggest to too many students: Run for mayor.

Letter: Dean McSharry's comment offends Asian undergrads

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Seda '12: Are we humans, dancers or both?

Every fall, students of all class years join in the fun during shopping period and attend the Activities Fair at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center. It's close to impossible not to be dazzled by the myriad of student organizations that, stretched out along the indoor track, seem to open up new possibilities ...

Cook '13: How is ROTC dangerous?

After reading the recent column by Julian Park '12 ("ROTC expansion threatens the integrity of our community," Sept. 19) I was baffled as to the specific point for which he was trying to argue. Park assumes from the start that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is harmful to Brown, and by the end ...

Editorial: Tolls could be necessary for R. I. transportation funding

Rhode Island's transportation funding dilemma is old news. In 2008, the Providence Journal mentioned the city's consideration of "drastic measures" such as imposing tolls on major highways to raise money to address the state's worsening transportation budget deficit. The potential tolls were some of ...