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Editorial: Maintaining med students' mental health

Medical students studying pathology are often warned not to self-diagnose, lest they find themselves suffering from full-blown hypochondria. Yet one area of illness that is too often overlooked by medical students is deterioration of one's mental health. Though rates of depression and anxiety among ...


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Editorial: Making research accessible

Will Brown join the ranks of some 135 institutions with open-access research mandates? As University officials investigate this possibility, we direct their attention to Brown's mission: "To serve the community, the nation and the world by discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding ...


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Editorial: Finally ending the overnight parking ban

Earlier this month, Mayor Angel Taveras unveiled a plan to do away with the city's overnight street parking ban. Under the proposal, the city government would offer $100 year-long permits to allow citizens to park their vehicles overnight. The ban currently forbids residents from keeping their cars ...


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Trupin '13: A case for community investment

Judging by the looks in people's eyes, I was far from the only one impressed by both the level of public interest and the coordination evident at the Oct. 12 Occupy Teach-In. I was particularly happy to see the number of non-student residents among the hundreds who packed Salomon 101.


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Johnson '14: Give back, vote, but don't Occupy

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 ...


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Editorial: In defense of law school

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. ...


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Enzerink '12: 'Miss Representation?'

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 ...


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Hefer '12: Human value as monetary value

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.


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Stephenson '13: WPCs are worth having around

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 ...


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Editorial: A plea for ROTC's reinstatement

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 ...




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