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Letter: More can be done to prevent pedestrian accidents
By Brown Daily Herald | April 13To the Editor:
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Park '12: Students can change the military - by keeping ROTC out
By Julian Park | April 12The only way the United States and its military are going to cease conducting themselves as they have is through symbolic and physical pressure consistently applied in opposition to their conduct. The Brown community has a unique opportunity to apply such opposition by refusing to reinstate the Reserve ...
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Editorial: Iway or the highway
By Brown Daily Herald | April 12Over the last several weeks, a significant amount of downtown land in Providence was freed up when the state began the final stages of removing the ancient vestiges of Interstate 195's former path through the city. This is the culmination of a 10-year construction project, known as the Iway, whose astronomical ...
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Wicken GS: Trousers and traumas
By Stephen Wicken | April 12This week, dear reader, I want to talk to you about something uncharacteristically serious. And not in the fun way, where I pretend I'm going to talk about something weighty, feint in a semi-grown-up direction and then make a joke about trousers.
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Johnson '11: Drive home safely, Glenn
By Mike Johnson | April 11Society scored a huge victory Wednesday when Fox News Network announced it is taking the hatchet to Glenn Beck's television show. In recent weeks, as the economy continued to create jobs, the esteemed Beck became increasingly erratic, spouting more and more ridiculous anti-Semitic drivel in an effort ...
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Tobias '12: Government is good
By Ethan Tobias | April 11The center of substantive policy debate has shifted to the far right. The question is not whether to cut government services, but by how much. Not whether to increase or decrease taxes, but who can decrease them more. Republican rhetoric that spending must be slashed because we are broke has carried ...
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Editorial: Nelson '12 for UCS President
By Brown Daily Herald | April 11Beginning today at 12 p.m., students will have two full days to vote on MyCourses for leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board. We encourage students to support Ralanda Nelson '12 for UCS president.
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Rosenbloom '13: Ceding the moral high ground
By Oliver Rosenbloom | April 10The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property staged a protest against gay marriage March 23. Students responded with a spontaneous rally for gay rights. On the whole, the Brown community deserves praise for mobilizing to support gay rights. But certain aspects of this counter-protest ...
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Editorial: Chanin '12 for UFB chair
By Brown Daily Herald | April 10Beginning tomorrow at noon, students will have 48 hours to vote for chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board. We strongly encourage students to read up on the campaign and cast a ballot. As the organization in charge of apportioning funds to student groups, UFB plays a major role in our lives on campus. ...
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Sheffield '11: Hello, soft-bellied targets
By David Sheffield | April 10The public's conception of domestic terrorism has changed drastically over the past decade. As apparent from Rep. Peter King's (R-N.Y.) Congressional hearings, domestic terrorism is almost exclusively associated with Muslim extremists. While Muslim extremism is certainly one of the main types of threats ...
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Fast '12: Why we still should not fear nuclear power
By Hunter Fast | April 7In the aftermath of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan March 11 and the consequent release of radioactive material from the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, many have raised concerns regarding the safety of nuclear energy. But when compared with feasible alternatives, it ...
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Talking about first generation
By Jon Birger | April 7As an alumni interviewer for Brown, I read Monday's story on 2015 admissions ("University admits record-low 8.7 percent of applicants," April 4) with a mix of awe and frustration. It is fantastic that a Brown degree is in such high demand. The 8.7 percent acceptance rate is stunning, as is the fact ...
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Editorial: Elephant in the room
By Brown Daily Herald | April 6Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited the University of New Hampshire Monday, the same day President Obama officially announced his campaign for re-election. But this visit was no campaign rally. Instead, Biden and Duncan kicked off an effort to remind public schools ...
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Najera GS: Compromising University values
By Hector Najera | April 6Recently, the Graduate School published a new policy for sixth-year funding. In short, it asks graduate students to compete and be ranked against each other for a limited pool of money that would go toward their sixth year of doctoral study. Although it is characterized by the Grad School as increasing ...
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Nida Abdulla '11.5: Another Selfish War
By Nida Abdulla | April 6I understand that a massacre of people by the Libyan government would have been a tragedy — one that U.S. fighter planes helped to avert. But lives are lives, and I don't believe Americans care as much as we say we do about the Libyan people. Is a good deed still good if the intentions aren't ...
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Editorial: College overload
By Brown Daily Herald | April 5As Brown's admissions statistics for the class of 2015 roll in, current students may find themselves wondering if they would have survived the selective cut had they been high school seniors applying this year. In the face of a shrinking acceptance rate, it's no secret that one's chances of getting ...
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Judge '11: In Good We Hope
By Brian Judge | April 5At first glance, it might seem inappropriate that the motto of an institution such as Brown would be "In God We Hope." The God of our Baptist forbearers has had very little to do with our experience of the last four years. However, I believe that "In Deo Speramus" expresses something more relevant than ...
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Kroeber '11, Ratledge '11: Pro-lifers fail to provide alternatives
By Susannah Kroeber | April 5Before spring break, Sarah Gassel '12 bravely wrote in her column ("The case for infant rights," March 18) about her personal relationship with abortion, making a case for adoption over abortion and criticizing Planned Parenthood for not providing sufficient adoption support services. Not many of us ...
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Trupin '13: An abusive relationship
By Ian Trupin | April 4As global economic recovery remains a subject of uncertainty and scrutiny in the wake of the financial crisis, it is high time to remember some actors whose perennial crises are now all the more severe. Despite predictions that the economies of the poorest nations would be insulated from the global ...
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Uhrick '11: Education spending
By Michelle Uhrick | April 4The American education system is in trouble. International assessments reporting that the U.S. is falling behind other developed countries have become so common that we have become almost indifferent. At a time when, in absolute terms, Americans with only a high school education are earning less than ...
