Unemployment for recent college graduates topped 9 percent last year. In addition to this anemic job market, young degree-holders are often burdened by debt. The average debt for a graduate from the class of 2010 was $25,250.
It is time for Brown to come clean about the William McCormick affair. Five years ago, a female first-year accused McCormick, a fellow first-year, of rape. Banished from campus and pressured to withdraw from school, McCormick filed suit against Brown, senior administrators, the accuser and the accuser's ...
To the Editor:
A friend recently complained to me that the expectations of a liberal arts education and the demands of the real world go in two opposite directions. On the one hand, he said, students are expected to gain higher awareness of the human and natural worlds they inhabit. On the other, the real world asks ...
A recent Herald article ("First-years ‘somewhat prepared' for Brown," Nov. 11) reported that nearly half of Brown faculty members find first-years to be "somewhat prepared" for Brown, and 11.4 percent considered them to be "somewhat unprepared." This may not sound dire or even particularly surprising ...
Despite the hostile looks that some student bikers report receiving from Providence drivers, we find it hard to believe that there are many people who truly think biking is a bad thing. Biking is an environmentally friendly alternative to motor vehicle usage and is well-suited to student travel. It ...
It's said that a woman approached Benjamin Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention and asked him whether the government he and his compatriots had just founded was to be a monarchy or a republic. "A republic," Franklin replied, "if you can keep it."
"If apple polishing the shrewd professor has got you where you are today, how much more simple to apple polish a young innocent into leading you to the altar — the getting of a husband should be mere child's play."
It does not take a detective to know where Brown banks. As anyone who receives checks from the University as an employee or has ever walked into the basement of the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center can tell you, this is a Bank of America school, though Sovereign Bank's campus center ATM and strategic ...
The Herald recently reported that the Undergraduate Council of Students has recommended a $72 dollar increase in the student activities fee for the upcoming year ("UCS votes for $72 activities fee hike," Oct. 27). This would put the fee at $250, which The Herald reported is higher than at wealthier ...
To the Editor:
At many colleges, junior year is the time when students can finally take the plunge and sign their very first lease for their very first apartment. It's a pivotal moment in our lives — out of the house, out of the dorm and into the almost-real world.
Six professors sit on the Presidential Search Campus Advisory Committee. Only one of them is a faculty member in the humanities. They are joined by three undergraduates — all studying economics or commerce, organizations and entrepreneurship. The two graduate students study cognitive science and ...
Tomorrow, the Queer Alliance will host the famous night of debauchery known as Sex Power God. Though the event has reportedly become much less chaotic since Bill O'Reilly aired his moralistic critique of it on Fox News in 2005, the fact of the matter is that a free and open society demands that such ...
Mayor Angel Taveras must realize that the unemployment rates in his city and the rest of Rhode Island are simply astounding. Rhode Island lost 7,400 jobs in August and September and has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country at 10.5 percent — a far cry from the state's real unemployment. ...
The accomplishments of modern medicine are undeniable, including cutting-edge vaccines and easy access to Tylenol, but we often fail to value its wonders. Instead we reserve our revel for mostly illicit or prescription substances. Ignoring cannabis, the Brown student's most common drug of choice has ...
Rest in peace, Projo.com. The Providence Journal put down the ailing website two weeks ago, replacing it with a sleeker providencejournal.com. The new website offers condensed news, but full print edition content will only be available in an eEdition behind a pay wall for those who do not subscribe ...
Brown's celebrated open curriculum affords us great power in directing our own education, but as we have all been told in some way or another many times, with great power comes great responsibility. Luckily, the University recognizes that higher education is serious business and therefore assigns each ...
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