While students were enjoying their holidays, tensions flared between the city of Providence and Brown. Most notably, there was a disagreement between Mayor Angel Taveras and President Ruth Simmons over the University's voluntary payments to the city. Since the beginning of the semester, Providence has ...
Before the event itself, Sex Power God was touted to me as a naked party and an environment for students to express their sexuality in whatever way they wished. But, after the party was thrown, the narrative changed significantly. Sex Power God was described to me as a night of hookups and non-monogamous ...
State Rep. Doreen Costa, R-Exeter and North Kingstown, introduced a bill Jan. 26 in the Rhode Island General Assembly that would prevent undocumented Rhode Island students from receiving in-state tuition discounts. The legislation is intended to nullify a decision made last fall by the Rhode Island ...
The search for Brown's next president has sparked a heated discussion about the future of our University. Some view President Ruth Simmons' legacy favorably and want her successor to maintain a steady course. Others, however, take issue with the fact that under Simmons' leadership Brown moved away from ...
This December my fellow first semester freshmen and I returned home to a flurry of college experience comparisons among old high school friends. Of all the comments and the bragging, one phrase consistently resurfaced: "I forgot that drinking was illegal!"
In 2010, Newsweek rated Brown the second most diverse university in America, losing only to University of Pennsylvania. According to the magazine, "Forty-five percent of Brown's student body is white, while the rest are African American, Latino or Asian." The magazine further noted, "The most diverse ...
A new year is in full swing, and as we feel the blistery bite of Providence weather, the next four months on College Hill occupy our thoughts. With the start of a new semester, we are often filled with a blend of excitement and anxiety that is best exemplified by shopping period. It is a time to experiment ...
Shopping period is an unnecessarily frantic period. Everyone gets caught up in minutiae that rarely have a large impact on their final classes. Oh no, my schedule has room for an introductory archeology class, but I'd rather not take it because it's too far from the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall, and I'll ...
Society is a wonderful thing. As Hobbes pointed out, without it life would be nasty, brutish and short. However, despite — and sometimes because of — our cultural and political institutions, some lives are not much better than the state of nature. This is the starting point for the social ...
New Year's resolutions are always a list of recycled intents: to get more sleep, to do better in school and to party less (or more). But the most important one is always the same: to lose weight.
New Year's resolutions are always a list of recycled intents: to get more sleep, to do better in school and to party less (or more). But the most important one is always the same: to lose weight.
On Jan. 18, approximately 75,000 web domains, including the American-version of Wikipedia and Reddit, effectively blacked out in protest of what is arguably the greatest legislative threat to web content since the advent of the Internet: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. We are ...
As Brown students were recuperating over break, we received a rather dramatic email from President Ruth Simmons detailing the University's recent squabbles with Providence Mayor Angel Taveras over Brown's contributions to the city's coffers.
Several lab tests and a week later, my diagnosis was in: Stress was the cause of my restless nights, my lack of appetite and my racing heartbeat. But my medicine is not a barbiturate or an exercise; it is 87 pounds, has a wet nose, and a heavy dose leaves me covered in golden fur. My medicine is a 5-year-old ...
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