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McDonald '14: 'Mhm, Whatcha Say?'

"We just take so much for granted," a female student admonishes in the recent viral video, "Sh*t Brown Students Say." The three-minute YouTube clip attempts to poke fun at Brunonians for the ridiculous, Brown-specific idioms we use from day to day. From mailroom struggles and SafeRide hunting to the ...


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Tobias '12: Putting affirmative action in context

Affirmative action is back in the news. The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of racial consideration in admissions at public universities. Because many private institutions accept government funds, any ruling that ends racial considerations ...


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Editorial: The persistence of prejudice

Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported that the New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students at several universities in the Northeast, including Yale and Columbia, during a period from 2006 to 2007. The surveillance, which included both screening their Internet activity and ...


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Editorial: A second bill of rights

Legislators and activist groups have collaborated recently to introduce legislation to alleviate the burdens of the homeless. One bill would provide $12.5 million in funding to the Neighborhood Opportunities Program in the name of affordable housing, and another would delineate a homeless bill of rights. ...


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Sheehan '12: All-Star selection in compromising position

As the last NBA games of the first half of the season wrap up, and we prepare for the All-Star game, I would like to point out something that has really bothered me over the past couple of years. It's also something that applies to All-Star game selection. It's a matter of positioning.


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Chizen '14: RIPTA's educational value

For the overwhelming majority of Brown students who are not from Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority is most likely a foreign concept. While the College Hill campus fosters education through intellectually stimulating classes, it fails to expose students to a working society and ...


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Carty '15: The essence of America

I love capitalism and believe in the profit motive inherent in it. I also love societal progress and believe in the selflessness existing outside of the profit motive that makes that progress sustainable and kind.  




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