Opinions

Letter: Defining Brown Students for Israel

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Letter: Language program mischaracterized

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Conyers '13: Brown and its chase for visibility

Much decrying of the state of our school has recently appeared in The Herald. This includes complaints about decreasing student involvement in the shaping of Brown's future, the inhumanities and pre-professionalism of "Brown, Inc." and the philosophic deterioration of the New Curriculum. The status ...

Letter: Praise for the 'Mission drift?' series

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Seda '12: Success revisited

Early last July, I decided to take a temporary break from my literature-laden summer reading list and instead picked up Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers." With its catchy subtitle — "The Story of Success" — Gladwell's latest original work of nonfiction relates the stories of several individuals ...

Editorial: All's wool that ends wool

As we discussed in yesterday's editorial, Brown is at a critical juncture in its institutional odyssey. Though no single policy can undo the devastation that years of corporate influence and human greed have wrought upon the University, there is a bold move the administration can make to reset our course ...

Letters: 'Mission Drift?' holds lessons for presidential search

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Jaeger '14: SATs do, in fact, measure wealth

In response to a column by Ethan Tobias '12 ("Changing a cheating culture," Nov. 28), Aaron Larocque GS wrote in a letter, "The SAT can in no way be a means to judge a student's socioeconomic status … I doubt there is any correlation between wealth and SAT scores" ("SATs do not measure wealth," ...

Lu '12.5: The problems with chick flicks

With the long-dreaded finals period looming ahead, many students are starting to share their strategies for coping with the general gloom that characterizes the end of each semester. Some will turn to comfort food, others will rely on daily whiny phone calls to parents and still others will depend on ...

Schwartz '13: Questioning the implementation of the New Curriculum

The most sacred dogma at Brown may be that the New, or open, Curriculum benefits all students, yet it can hardly be expected to fulfill that charge if most students, faculty and administrators have not really considered what it is actually about. Few have read the original "Draft of a Working Paper ...

Editorial: Brown, going forward

In last week's four-part series ("Mission Drift?"), The Herald cataloged the many and varied ways Brown has abandoned its roots. It is not hyperbole to characterize the situation it now faces as existential.

Zacks '15: An open letter to Brown Students for Israel

"With friends like these, who needs enemies?"

Letter: Graduate students matter, too

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Letter: Series encapsulates developments

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Moraff '14: Scientists, do not help murder anyone

Giving $50,000 minus some-odd dollars per year makes us all more or less responsible for things at Brown — what the University does for society, how it helps it and how it hurts it. So we should all be a little worried about the sciences because some scientists make terrible things happen.

Moffat '13: Divided we stand

Spurred by the radical discourse within the Tea Party and Occupy movements, more and more political debates I witness express themes of desperation and animosity. They are desperate in the sense that each participant perceives an urgent crisis. According to recent polls, three out of four registered ...

Letter: Saferide reforms and the role of UCS

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Hefer '12: The right to public masturbation

As a member of the College Hill community and choker of the occasional chicken, I could not help but take an interest in the recent spate of public masturbatings. While the John Street and the copycat masturbator are doing something reprehensible, they are not necessarily doing anything unjust.

Husted '13: It's high school all over again

Editorial: Bolstering Providence traffic safety

 Earlier this month, Providence City Councilman Michael Correia, Ward 6, was the victim of a hit-and-run on Atwells Avenue. Luckily, Correia sustained only minor injuries. The incident was particularly notable because it occurred roughly a year after Councilman Terrence Hassett, Ward 12, was seriously ...