Today, let us start with some truisms. Racism is bad. Sexism is bad. Classism is bad. Any discrimination of this sort is bad. Identifying instances of these things is important. We cannot effect change if we do not know what we have to change.
As Brown begins the search for its next president, it is important that we choose a candidate who values students' rights of due process and freedom of speech. Unfortunately, over the last decade, the Brown campus has become hostile to these individual rights. Administrative decisions, student actions ...
Two pieces caught my eye in the past week: "The Tyranny of the Meritocracy" by Megan McArdle in the Atlantic and "The Downward Path of Upward Mobility" by Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post, both of which found their inspiration in a piece written by Brookings Institute fellow Scott Winship in the ...
The recent child molestation scandal at Pennsylvania State University and its fallout prompt reflection on the set of circumstances that allowed these atrocities to continue unabated for years. Jerry Sandusky, retired assistant football coach and alleged perpetrator, remained free to commit unspeakable ...
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
A variety of issues surround the University's search for its 19th president, and many of them have already been discussed in these very pages. There are concerns about the search process itself, the selection of members who will comprise the committees so fundamental to this search process and the extent ...
Do you believe in a heavenly Father?
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.
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