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Letter: Concentration DUGs combine social interaction with intellectual stimulation

To the Editor:

Editorial: Play it safe

Earlier this month, the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card ranked the University fifth in the nation in a study of sexual health on college campuses.  

Stephen Wicken GS: Of grade-grubbing and toe-stubbing

Allow me, gentle reader, to tell you a brief story. It happened at Yale, where I was an MA student and first-time TA in a large lecture class. My fellow TA and I had just graded and returned 100 midterms when one of my students approached me. He radiated a quiet fury and might have been a little intimidating ...

Sarah Rosenthal '11: When campaign ads attack

Editorial: A little out of shape

Last year, the Corporation announced that it had approved a new, mandatory $64 "recreational facilities" fee to be paid by every undergraduate student. As President Ruth Simmons wrote in an e-mail to students, the fee would "reduce the amount we will need to cut from the Athletics or other budgets." ...

Yue Wang '12: In defense of humanities

Chelsea Waite '11: Classrooms should create learning communities among students

When was the last time, walking along Thayer, you stopped a classmate to tell her you appreciated her comment in yesterday's section? It's my experience that this rarely, if ever, happens — especially with people who don't know each other apart from happening to be assigned the same section. But ...

Editorial: Up for negotiation

For the second time in as many years, the University is engaged in a tense labor dispute with a segment of employees who are fundamental to the school's functioning. Last October, Brown Dining Services workers threatened to strike in response to a proposed increase in workers' contributions to health ...

Lucia Seda '12: Where did my kitchen go?

Toward the end of July, the usual meal plan brochure arrived in my mailbox, announcing all of the familiar meal plans for the upcoming Academic Year. At the time, I checked off my current meal plan option on the card and mailed it back by the first week of August, without giving too much thought to ...

Sissi Sun '12: V-Dub machine crisis

The weekday lunch and dinnertime rush at the entrance to Brown's Verney-Woolley Dining Hall is well known to students on and off meal plan. The line of students winds through the hallways of the Emery-Woolley Hall, moving at a snail's pace, due in no small part to the fact that at the start of ...

Kurt Walters '11: Your guide to R.I.'s blogosphere

So you all know BrownFML and Spotted@Brown, but how about a website where you can procrastinate and actually end up knowing about what's going on in Rhode Island?

Nicholson '12.5: 'The Social Network': zeitgeist of our generation?

"The Social Network" hit theaters a couple of weeks ago, capturing the number one slot at the box office for two weeks and counting. The "Facebook movie," as my mother would call it, was extremely well-done. Director David Fincher relies on muted colors and a fast-paced script penned by Aaron Sorkin ...

Editorial: Questions for the mayoral candidates

Last week, the candidates for governor of Rhode Island came to campus for a debate. On Thursday night, the campaign will return to Brown as Democrat Angel Taveras and independent Jon Scott, candidates for mayor of Providence, debate in MacMillan 117 at 7 p.m.

William Tomasko '13: Blame it on the filibuster?

In about two weeks, Americans will vote in the Congressional midterm elections. The media is focused on predicting how many seats Democrats will lose, particularly whether the party will lose caucusing majorities in the House and Senate.

Chris Norris-LeBlanc '13: In support of Brown library workers

Right now, the team responsible for Brown investments and endowment security is gloriously exhaling a sigh of sweet relief. In the calm after the economic storm, Brown's endowment returns were 10 percent in the fiscal year 2010, and Alice Tisch, our esteemed chancellor's wife, can finally stop living ...

Editorial: What happens in college

In an op-ed about the upcoming elections last week in the New York Times, Gail Collins asked, "How far back in a candidate's history do we want to travel?" With multiple campaigns across the country bringing up opponents' college writings and actions, what counts as fair game is a now a particularly ...

Hunter Fast '12: Brown Airlines

Consider two prospective Brown students. One, Alice, is unsure of whether or not to attend Brown, while the other, Bob, has been committed to Brown from the start. Alice decides to fly to Providence to visit College Hill and finds while purchasing her airline tickets that there are three different classes ...

Editorial: A building Block

Like many other debates this election season, the debate between the four Rhode Island gubernatorial candidates that took place at Brown last Thursday was at times enlightening, at times entertaining and occasionally a little disconcerting. But amid the fray, one idea stood out as particularly fresh ...

Mike Johnson '11: Omens and prognostications

As September turns into October, and October meekly limps away into November, the nation prepares for its glimpse into the ugliest part of American politics — midterm elections. Historically a time of mudslinging and the bludgeoning of the majority political party, the midterm elections are a ...

Elizabeth Perez '13: A product of procrastination

I think we can all agree that our physical presence at Brown completely distorts our perception of time. Deadlines seem like a distant reality, and in the midst of writing that eight-page paper for that one class you rarely attend, you find yourself endlessly watching videos on YouTube and falsifying ...