Opinions

Chris Norris-LeBlanc '13: Rx for Brown: a healthy dose of active cynicism

Editorial: Full house

Sarah Rosenthal '11: How Proust did not change my life

Letter: Climate change still real despite scandal

Editorial: Elections have consequences

Brown students' involvement in local politics varies widely — while some were out canvassing in advance of today's primary election, others might not have even known an election was happening. As Rhode Islanders and at least some students go to the polls today to choose their party's candidates ...

Stephen Wicken GS: Be kind to your TAs, for once they were like you...

September is here again, and with it comes the usual russet leaf pile of beginning-of-the-year questions. Which concentration should you pick? Is your synchronized figure-biking team finally going to take Cornell down this year? What was the name of that guy you met at that thing last semester, and ...

Michelle Uhrick '11: IR is the University's cash cow

It's common knowledge that the international relations department is a flagship institution at Brown. The department peaked as the single most popular concentration among graduating Brown students in 2005, and since then has hovered around third place. However, this common knowledge is mistaken.

Sarah Yu '11: Get a room ... off campus

I am back this fall for my final year on campus, only this time, I'll be living off-campus. That's right: I'm in the process of fulfilling my final test toward becoming an independent young adult, mastering the ability to live, cook, clean and pay rent and bills all on my own.

Manas Gautam '12: In defense of Brown, Inc.

In his recent column ("Brown, Inc.", Sept. 10), Simon Liebling '12 made it very clear that he has forgotten Brown University's primary objective — education. It is not to provide healthcare to Dining Services or to take care of Rhode Island's destitute, but to provide an education and a remarkable ...

Letter: Coverage of mayoral race missed Taveras' strengths

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Editorial: The other senior scramble

As most seniors are well aware, the University places a great deal of emphasis on the idea of a senior capstone project — a thesis, independent study, performance, internship or other major undertaking that punctuates a student's four years at Brown. The Dean of the College's website remarks, ...

Terrence George '13: What Brown can learn from Prop 8

As is commonly analogized, Brown is like a self-contained bubble, set apart from Providence and its people. This bubble does much to sequester students from the realities of the outside world. Though some lament the bubble's tendency to insulate Brunonians from the pitfalls of urban living, little is ...

Simon Liebling '12: Brown, Inc.

We return to campus to find the latest evidence of the Building Brown binge, the fresh paint and scaffolding like broken bottles shattered across the floor — evidence of an administrative addiction out of control.

Kurt Walters '11: The A/B/(N)Cs of Brown grading

Is it just me, or does something seem stale at Brown? That fundamental Brunonian institution, the New Curriculum, turned forty years old last year and yet, even solidly into middle age, it has never had a systematic re-evaluation.

Mike Johnson '11: David Bowie loves Brown

As the class of 2014 walked through the Van Wickle Gates, tanned on the Main Green and emerged convocated, the rest of us settled into our dorm rooms and picked out the classes we'll take. But this isn't last semester's Brown — widespread changes are already taking hold.

Letter: Column skews sweatshop position

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Editorial: The private network

We've all been warned countless times: Everything we post on Facebook can and will be used against us. Internet privacy is almost an oxymoron these days, as companies track our online purchases and distant acquaintances browse our pictures. Most people seem to feel that the responsibility to keep a ...

Deniz Ilgen '13: Brown: clean campus?

As a naive, wide-eyed freshman moving into Keeney, I was extremely unprepared for the interesting events that were to come in my college experience. Upon arriving at Brown, I was impressed by its beauty and superb maintenance; the fall foliage of the trees seemed to perfectly complement the brick buildings, ...

Editorial: Committing to respond

When students returned to campus to begin the spring semester last January, an earthquake had just ravaged Haiti. While relief efforts in Haiti are far from complete, we now again find ourselves back at school with another major humanitarian crisis unfolding abroad. Pakistan's prime minister said that ...

William Tomasko '13: Segal for Congress

Tuesday, November 2 seems as if it will be a bleak election day for progressives. Democrats look likely to lose a substantial number of seats in Congress. In fact, Republicans could take control of both the House and the Senate.