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Editorial: A new day at the TWC
By Brown Daily Herald | April 18On Monday, the fourth and final candidate for director of the Third World Center gave a presentation at the Sharpe Refectory. As evidenced by the fact that each candidate gave a presentation, the search process for the new director is placing a high priority on student input.
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Editorial: Making primary care a priority
By Brown Daily Herald | April 17As the Alpert Medical School prepares to make its transition to the Jewelry District, we are pleased to see that it is looking to make other expansions as well. Thanks to a generous grant of over $87,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation, the Med School is capable of funding new initiatives to get students ...
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Kilmartin: Secure Communities will protect all communities
By Peter Kilmartin | April 17As your attorney general, protecting Rhode Island communities from harm is my highest priority. We have taken a strong step toward enhancing the safety of our communities by signing on to the federal Secure Communities program.
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Ortiz-Hinojoso '11: 4/20 and the drug war
By Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa | April 17Brown students are generally very socially conscious, as far as college-age students go. We protest sweatshop labor, the lack of government transparency, funding for unethical projects and the lack of funding for ethical projects. We encourage the purchasing and consuming of locally grown, organic and ...
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Nicholson '12.5: An apology for higher education
By Lorraine Nicholson | April 17Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and famed foreseer of the first tech bubble, has made another prediction. No, he has not anticipated another Internet bubble implosion or an over-evaluation of emerging markets. According to Thiel, the newest bubble ready to burst is the "higher education ...
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Trupin '13: The African student's burden
By Ian Trupin | April 17As we anticipate the arrival this fall of the most geographically diverse group of admitted students ever to enter Brown, a moment presents itself to reflect on the aims of internationalism at Brown and on the experiences that face students from abroad. Specifically, I want to talk about what awaits ...
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Lattanzi-Silveus '14: Changing the debate on ROTC - a socialist's perspective
By Luke Lattanzi-Silveus | April 13In the debate over whether the Reserve Officers' Training Corps should return to campus, the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is usually given as an answer to the question "why now?" This is not the real reason, as ROTC's history shows.
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Editorial: Do not target legal immigrants
By Brown Daily Herald | April 13A committee in the Rhode Island State Senate heard a bill late last month that would require businesses with at least three employees to use E-Verify, an online database that checks a job applicants' eligibility to work in the United States. The bill is meant to discourage businesses from hiring unauthorized ...
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Letter: More can be done to prevent pedestrian accidents
By Brown Daily Herald | April 13To the Editor:
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Park '12: Students can change the military - by keeping ROTC out
By Julian Park | April 12The only way the United States and its military are going to cease conducting themselves as they have is through symbolic and physical pressure consistently applied in opposition to their conduct. The Brown community has a unique opportunity to apply such opposition by refusing to reinstate the Reserve ...
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Editorial: Iway or the highway
By Brown Daily Herald | April 12Over the last several weeks, a significant amount of downtown land in Providence was freed up when the state began the final stages of removing the ancient vestiges of Interstate 195's former path through the city. This is the culmination of a 10-year construction project, known as the Iway, whose astronomical ...
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Wicken GS: Trousers and traumas
By Stephen Wicken | April 12This week, dear reader, I want to talk to you about something uncharacteristically serious. And not in the fun way, where I pretend I'm going to talk about something weighty, feint in a semi-grown-up direction and then make a joke about trousers.
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Johnson '11: Drive home safely, Glenn
By Mike Johnson | April 11Society scored a huge victory Wednesday when Fox News Network announced it is taking the hatchet to Glenn Beck's television show. In recent weeks, as the economy continued to create jobs, the esteemed Beck became increasingly erratic, spouting more and more ridiculous anti-Semitic drivel in an effort ...
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Tobias '12: Government is good
By Ethan Tobias | April 11The center of substantive policy debate has shifted to the far right. The question is not whether to cut government services, but by how much. Not whether to increase or decrease taxes, but who can decrease them more. Republican rhetoric that spending must be slashed because we are broke has carried ...
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Editorial: Nelson '12 for UCS President
By Brown Daily Herald | April 11Beginning today at 12 p.m., students will have two full days to vote on MyCourses for leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board. We encourage students to support Ralanda Nelson '12 for UCS president.
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Rosenbloom '13: Ceding the moral high ground
By Oliver Rosenbloom | April 10The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property staged a protest against gay marriage March 23. Students responded with a spontaneous rally for gay rights. On the whole, the Brown community deserves praise for mobilizing to support gay rights. But certain aspects of this counter-protest ...
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Editorial: Chanin '12 for UFB chair
By Brown Daily Herald | April 10Beginning tomorrow at noon, students will have 48 hours to vote for chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board. We strongly encourage students to read up on the campaign and cast a ballot. As the organization in charge of apportioning funds to student groups, UFB plays a major role in our lives on campus. ...
