No champagne was popped and no balls dropped, but last week marked the Jewish New Year. The time now between the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, is a period to reflect on the previous year. It is a time to take an accounting of one's self and one's deeds.
It is early summer in the year 2011, yet it feels like 1992 to the oldest residents of Somalia. For the second time in 20 years, a succession of days without rain has drained the soil and their hopes. The outlook is as bleak as ever. Family members are forced to pack their few belongings and abandon ...
To the Editor:
College is consistently and, quite frankly, too frequently heralded as the time of our lives. We are constantly reminded to appreciate these four years before we set out into the real world. It is the golden age of our own time. I find this exalted distinction far too disconcerting. When we graduate, ...
Last Monday, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education voted unanimously to approve a measure that allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at Rhode Island public colleges and universities. The discounted rates will only apply for individuals who attended a state high school ...
We applaud recent advances made by the University to improve undergraduate advising with practical web-based tools. Particularly important at Brown because of the New Curriculum's open, design-your-own approach to education, advising has long been the source of complaints from undergraduates. We are, ...
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The debate about whether to recognize the Reserve Officers' Training Corps on campus is indicative of a more fundamental struggle facing the community. How do we, as members of an extremely liberal university, engage with a world that does not share our deep commitment to liberal values?
Last week, the White House and the National Science Foundation announced a new NSF Career-Life Balance Initiative aimed at increasing "the placement, advancement and retention of women in (the science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields" through "gender-neutral, family-friendly policies" ...
When the Rhode Island Legislature enacted the 2006 Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana Act — in large part thanks to the work of Jesse Stout '06 — many celebrated the achievement as a victory for patients' rights. The act created a legal path for people who suffered ...
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Dear white guy in my class. This is awkward. I know that you feel it, and I know that I feel it. But we can't get around it. We're going to have to talk about race. We're talking about identity — or class, American history, slavery or anything else that Europeans have been involved in on a state ...
It's a common dilemma for any skill-based student group on campus: Do we take in students who already show talent or inexperienced ones who will enable us to expand student opportunities at Brown? Ideally, students would be able to step through the Van Wickle Gates and try their hand at any activity ...
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No prospective student priced out of Brown has ever been the talk of campus. There have been no Associated Press obituaries lamenting the loss of tenure, teaching or the university-college. But as we bemoan the departure of Brown's most beloved president, let us interrupt the admiration for a moment ...
Carnegie Mellon University proudly announced its partnership with the Rwandan government to open the first American graduate program in Rwanda Sept. 16. Even as Rwandan President Paul Kagame was delivering his keynote address to CMU students in Pittsburgh, news of the partnership was raising concerns ...
One of my friends is taking her first college math class. Being a humanities student, she just bought her most expensive textbook yet — a 2011 edition of James Stewart's "Calculus" for $180. The past editions cost no more than $30. Some can even be downloaded online for free.
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