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Editorial: Career move
By Brown Daily Herald | January 27In a recent national survey of college freshmen, 56.5 percent said that future job prospects were a "very important" factor in deciding which school to attend. According to the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, which conducts the survey annually, ...
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David Sheffield '11: Don't hesitate to vaccinate!
By David Sheffield | January 27The second wave of novel H1N1 influenza — the swine flu — is over, and the number of new cases continues to decrease. However, this does not mean that the virus is finished. The 1918 flu swept the world in three waves: first in the spring and summer of 1918, then in the fall, and finally ...
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Mike Johnson '11: Money can't buy me ... text
By Mike Johnson | January 26As spring kicks into high gear far too early for any of us to handle, all of our hard-earned summer cash is doomed to spiral (counter-clockwise, since we're in the northern hemisphere) straight down the drain. The city of Providence is looking forward to the Brown community returning to its stores and ...
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Editorial: Haiti and Beyond
By Brown Daily Herald | January 26The earthquake that ravaged Haiti earlier this month was a powerful reminder of the country's deep-seated poverty and political misrule. But it was also a reminder that humans are sometimes powerless against the earth — that natural disasters can kill thousands, wound many more and turn civilization ...
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Ethan Tobias '12: Who is this for?
By Ethan Tobias | January 26The semesters are always extremely busy, with tons of classes, exams and papers. On top of all the coursework, students have many extracurricular responsibilities. Most students can barely cram in a social life, let alone an occasional full night's sleep. Overwhelmed by the breadth of work and ...
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Kate Fritzsche '10: Is 'good and getting better' enough?
By Kate Fritzsche | December 3Yesterday, Psychological Services announced its plans to hire a new psychotherapist in order to expand resources available to students. This move will increase the number of free visits students are allowed each year from five to seven, and it should also reduce the waiting time before students are ...
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Letter to the Editor: Flu misconceptions must be corrected
By Brown Daily Herald | December 3To the Editor:As a teacher of immunology and vaccine science at Brown, I am quite pleased to read of the popularity of the H1N1 vaccine among undergraduates ("Students go hog-wild over vaccine," Dec. 3). I am compelled, however, to address certain quotes in the article as they echo common misconceptions ...
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Editorial: Rites of passage
By Brown Daily Herald | December 3Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School is on track to implement a new standard that will bolster its rising status. After careful consultation with the Medical Curriculum Committee, which includes medical students and undergraduates in the Program in Liberal Medical Education, the school's officials have ...
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Mike Johnson '11: Sticky fingers
By Mike Johnson | December 3If you're like me, you look forward to the crime updates that the Department of Public Safety sends us. Perhaps it's a healthy dose of schadenfreude, but the Campus Safety reports are much more interesting to read than Morning Mail messages, as they practically embody an e-mail version of "Cops," minus ...
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Simon Liebling '12: Et tu, Ruth?
By Simon Liebling | December 2If there has been a poster child for shameless corporate excess in the throes of the Great Recession, Goldman Sachs — payer of $17 billion worth of bonuses so far this year — must be it. Fortunately, the firm's outlandish compensation, heedless disregard for its civic debts and cynical attempts ...
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Editorial: To live and drink in Providence
By Brown Daily Herald | December 2Trust us: Bar fights aren't all they're cracked up to be. Broken bones, property damage and police calls make Friday nights less fun. These problems are exacerbated when fights spill out of the bar and onto the sidewalk, potentially turning innocent bystanders into collateral damage. Needless to say, ...
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Letter: 'Ethical vegetarian' analogy flawed
By Brown Daily Herald | December 2To the Editor:Regarding Will Wray's '10 column ("Tobin plays hardball," Dec. 2): A Catholic supporting pro-choice legislation is nothing like an ethical vegetarian working on a factory farm. First, an ethical vegetarian, by definition, opposes eating meat for ethical reasons. Being pro-life, however, ...
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Dan Davidson '11: Think of the children!
By Dan Davidson | December 2Much was made of the GOP's mid-summer conversion to the party of seniors, despite years of diatribes against Medicare and Social Security. Equally astonishing is Republicans' assertion that by stonewalling the Democratic agenda they are acting as the noble guardians of young people.
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Editorial: Give us a break
By Brown Daily Herald | December 1Ordinarily, we would never recommend that Brown try to be more like Yale or Wesleyan. But in one regard, these schools set an example that we believe Brown should consider following. At both colleges, students trade a shorter winter break for a two-week spring break. By contrast, Brown's schedule strikes ...
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Adrienne Langlois '10: There's no vote like home
By Adrienne Langlois | November 30Time for a warm and fuzzy moment: after nearly four years at Brown, I've come to consider this University, as well as Providence, another home. While I still look forward immensely to returning home to Asheville, North Carolina each and every break, I equally relish returning to Brown and the surrounding ...
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Letter: Cheaters cheat on everyone
By Brown Daily Herald | November 30To the Editor:Regarding Tuesday's article ("Poll: 17 percent of students say they have cheated," Nov. 24): I am bitterly disgusted to think that nearly one in five of my classmates is an academic cheater.Professor of History Omer Bartov questions why students would spend tuition money in order to cheat. The ...
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Editorial: Practice makes perfect
By Brown Daily Herald | November 30The news from the recent Herald poll that over 17 percent of undergraduates have cheated during their time at Brown has raised questions about the University's academic integrity.
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Brian Judge '11: Teach teachers how to teach
By Brian Judge | November 30Publish or perish. This is the mantra of the aspiring professor in the American university system. If the only purpose of universities was research, this wouldn't be a problem. "Publish or perish" is merely a narrower version of the more comprehensive mantra of the American economy: do your job, or ...
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Letter to the Editor: The hidden costs of inaction
By Brown Daily Herald | November 30To the Editor:Regarding Monday's editorial ("The price of tuition," Nov. 30): Granted, parallels exist between the situation at Brown and the one Californian students are dealing with. That these should be understood by a comparison between what the editorial page board termed Rhode Island's "attempt ...
