Here at Brown, students are immersed in an activist culture. Every day — even multiple times a day — we are hounded with requests like "Come fight for the rights of Palestinians!" or "Take one minute to call your Senator!" It can be a bit overwhelming to have the burden of all these great ...
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Watching the Occupy College Hill movement, one cannot help but sympathize with the protesters' cause. Who doesn't want to support a group aimed at fighting for social justice, as the Occupy parent organization describes itself as doing on its website? Who doesn't wish that the lower 99 percent of America ...
As The Herald recently reported, seniors considering law school are increasingly concerned that the investment may no longer pay off ("With downturn, some grads reconsider law," Sept. 28). Today's law degree recipients often graduate with enormous debt only to face a job market depleted by the recession. ...
Why is President Ruth Simmons consistently referred to as the University's first female president by non-campus media, or its first African-American president, when up until her ascent, it had sufficed to simply write "President" without the addition of "white" or "male"? The answer is, of course, that ...
Brown, as sorely as Wall Street a month ago, needs to be occupied. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not even next week, but soon.
David Hefer's '12 column ("Objectification for fun and profit," Sept. 30) serves as a comprehensive example of all the things that can go horribly wrong when men try to confront issues of physical objectification from a specifically male perspective.
The second Steve Jobs died, a dam burst somewhere. Gallons of elegies and eulogies spilled forth, flooding the surrounding low-lying areas with a lot of sentimental goop. People praised Jobs as if he were a real-life John Galt.
To the Editor:
As a Women Peer Counselor, last year was a struggle. The program needed to assert itself. We needed to find, develop or craft a WPC identity. Somewhere in this honorable mission to revitalize the WPC program, shoring up our collective worth was supposed to come through broadcasting ourselves in an unattainable ...
Yesterday, President Ruth Simmons recommended Brown not remove its campus ban on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and instead pursue more cross-institutional avenues for participation. Though we are satisfied that this proposal was the product of a deliberative and inclusive process, we disagree ...
Dear Gov. Chafee '75 P'14,
On Tuesday, Oct. 4, The Herald published a political cartoon by Loren Fulton '12 that echoed a sentiment often perceptible in the mainstream media. The subject of the artist's satiric drawing was the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the gist of it suggested that the rallying cries of these protesters ...
In a recent column ("Rock beats SciLi", Oct. 7), Chip Lebovitz '14 sings the praises of the Rockefeller Library while he vilifies what he considers to be the intellectually absent social scene at the Sciences Library. Lebovitz has a very valid point in observing how the topic of the Rock versus the ...
Something is rotten at Brown Dining Services, and it is not just the food ("Campus eateries found selling expired food," Oct. 13). Dining Services forces its mediocre food upon us at exorbitant prices while many students have no choice in the matter — first-years are required to participate — ...
Brown's guiding principle is that students should be the masters of their own education. The Office of International Programs' decision to disallow semester-long study abroad programs at Cambridge University and Oxford University is not in keeping with this basic value.
As some seniors start to rent out library carrels in preparation for the long hours they will spend researching and writing their honors theses, most of them can predict what their final product will look like: dozens of pages pressed and bound, and once presented, stacked away on a shelf to gather ...
Earlier this year, 2,800 workers in Curug, Indonesia suddenly found themselves without jobs when their factory, PT Kizone, was closed down. The owner had fled, leaving the workers without the severance pay that was legally owed them — an amount totaling $3.3 million. Former machine operator Budi, ...
The Occupy Wall Street/Providence/College Hill movement has the potential to be a generation-defining protest movement. It could make our political landscape more compassionate and equitable. Yet this movement could also become a force for further polarization, discord and folly. As a student body with ...
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