On a strictly academic basis, the number one reason I chose to attend Brown over other more or less academically equivalent universities was the open curriculum. I appreciate that the open curriculum, along with the S/NC option, gives students the freedom to take classes in unfamiliar subject areas ...
Last week, The Herald reported that the long-planned master's degree curriculums for mid-career professionals will likely be launched in fall 2013. The proposed program of study, called the Professional Executive Master's Program, would offer courses taught by Brown professors to busy professionals ...
When confronting a social issue, people mobilize around gender. The transvaginal ultrasound bill, domestic violence and sexual assault are presented as women's issues. Child custody injustices are men's.
March is Women's History Month. Events sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Women's Center will be happening all month, recognizing past and present contributions and experiences of women worldwide. While these events represent a positive approach to the inclusion of women in academia, they remind me of what ...
For the past 20 years, there has been a consensus on a starting point to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: "Two states for two peoples" is something that experts including government officials, academics and journalists have espoused. The Jewish people deserve a sovereign nation as do the Palestinians. ...
On March 5, the Kony 2012 campaign launched when the nonprofit, Invisible Children, created a 30-minute video in order to call attention to Joseph Kony, the now-infamous leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. We fully support the intentions behind the video, as there is no doubt in our minds that ...
Concentration forms are due for sophomores April 1. We believe this is an exciting and formative time in students' academic careers, but we worry that the concentration declaration has become a somewhat perfunctory process. As such, we are proposing some reforms that might help students connect more ...
Welcome to Brown, home of one the most accomplished and diverse student bodies in the world. You have some big shoes to fill — we all love President Ruth Simmons. But here are a few places that you can make a positive impact on our school, picking up where Simmons left off.
A diamond to incoming President Christina Paxson, who told an audience in Sayles Hall last Friday that she realized the effects of spending time at Brown when her formerly "clean-cut, studious" brother "had long hair," started "listening to new music" and debated "the ethics of eating meat" after coming ...
The point that the academic arena is a cooperative, not a competitive enterprise is a compelling one. But I believe that it is incorrect, as the academic arena has an element of meritocracy inherent to it that is important to society as a whole.
To state the obvious, Ritalin and Adderall make studying easier. They provide for unnatural focus and absurd alertness during times of high stress and little sleep, to the benefit of thousands of improved grades and to the detriment of countless study habits. Going to a university that provides for ...
To the Editor:
Carty argues that part of the "test" of college involves stamina and willpower, something that study drugs can induce artificially and, therefore, unfairly. There are a number of problems with this position.
Back in October, when the Occupy Movement was spreading like wildfire, The Herald reported that a majority of Brown faculty members think student activism is lower than when they were in college ("Profs see waning student activism," Oct. 25). Among those working here for more than 20 years, 82.6 percent ...
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