Opinions

Letter: Teaching English benefits students in rural China

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Editorial: A Bridge to opportunity

Graduation may still be months away, but it is already a safe bet that few seniors will stay in Rhode Island to begin work. Dan Egan, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island, told The Herald last week that the state retains fewer graduates from Brown than ...

Tobias '12: Shooting for safety?

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Editorial: Leaving the paper trail behind

The University's decision to phase out the paper Course Announcement Bulletin inspired a sophomore to print his own hard-copy course listing and sell it for $10.

Sheffield '11: Truthiness Tuesdays

Chelsea Waite '11 provides a varied array of claims about how religion is benign and beneficial ("Truth Tuesdays," March 2). According to her column, it is not the tenets of religions that are problematic — it is their corrupted lust for power and thirst for domination. Apparently, if it were ...

Letter: Criticism of conference based on false dichotomy

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Norris-LeBlanc '13: Who needs teachers anyway?

Nationwide, educators in public schools are facing an unprecedented attack on their salaries, collective bargaining rights and in many cases, their jobs. Behind the euphemisms of "flexibility" and "working together to balance the budget" lay much more sinister motives — power-grabbing, union-busting ...

Letter: LGBTQ's against ROTC aren't hypocrites

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Letter: ROTC should not receive special privileges

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Lachgar GS: From Marrakesh to Brown

Hans Kung, a Catholic priest, once said, "There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions." After Sept. 11, things have changed in the world, and religious intolerance has become widespread. ...

Editorial: The practical value of a humanities degree

Last month, a Herald article ("Humanities departments tout practicality," Feb. 24) reported that Brown has maintained a relatively constant number of concentrators in the humanities, even in the face of a decreasing national trend. We find this heartening given the temptation to forsake one's passions ...

Contreras '11: Shalom-Salaam: dialogue as distraction or dialogue as action?

Israel's public relations machine is working full force on campus this month in the form of the Watson Institute for International Studies' conference "Israelis and Palestinians: Working Together for a Better Future" and Brown-RISD Hillel's Israeli-Palestinian Peace Week. The events' respective goals ...

Letter: Coal to The Herald

Badami '11: Just saying

At the heart of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps debate is the question: Whom does Brown University exist to serve? Ostensibly, it is the students, though the mission statement claims it's "the community, the nation and the world," so perhaps it's one of those train-and-educate-the-students-who-are-our-future ...

Braine '11.5: Keeping my head down no longer

Letter: LGBTQ activists hypocritical on ROTC

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Letter: Remembering Asst. Coach Denis Chartier

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Editorial: IR is on the right track

International relations is one of the largest concentrations at Brown and by far the biggest without a department. So it is not surprising that a recent change in the concentration's requirements precipitated a widespread brouhaha on campus. Though the revisions include a few minor changes, perhaps ...

Ian Trupin '13: Painting Brown Khaki

Arguments for and against reinstating the Reserve Officers' Training Corps as a credit-bearing institution on campus have animated this opinions section for some time now. But as lengthy as the debate has been, an important consideration has not received enough attention — the University's reputation ...

Susannah Kroeber '11: Evangelizing English

It is not elitism that worries me about Brown graduates. That elitism is defined by a quest for higher learning and knowledge. It is not the large number of students who pursue careers for no reason other than a desire for money. It is not the graduates who spend their first year out of Brown engaging ...