Opinions

Tobias '12: The university-college in the Internet age

David Hefer '12: The aim of activism

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 ...

Cara Dorris '15: Resolutions reach the wrong audience

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.

Resolutions reach the wrong audience

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.

Editorial: An unrestricted internet

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 ...

Letter: Brown is not need-blind

Garret Johnson '14: Defending President Simmons

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.

Rebecca McGoldrick '12: The student-dog relationship

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 ...

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?"