Sit in the back of a physics classroom during a final exam, and you'll bear witness to an odd bit of behavior. As soon as the students reach a question about electricity and magnetism, they drop their pencils and stick their right thumbs in the air, with their remaining four fingers curled into their ...
Maybe it is the restlessness of springtime, but it feels like Brown students are constantly being forced to wait for things. After hours in line waiting for Spring Weekend tickets, hundreds of students were turned away empty-handed. Their peers who already had tickets only needed to think back a couple ...
The editorial page board has complained a lot this year. We've complained about everything from garbage cans on the Main Green to national politics. So, as another school year comes to an end, we'd like to wrap things up by doing what we do best.On December 16, 1964, The Herald's editorial offered a ...
As universities are trying to figure out how to juggle their decreasing endowments, they are cutting programs, and philosophy is among the cuts because of declining interest in the subject. There are two obvious and understandable practical reasons for this. Students are wary about choosing a concentration ...
Since the height of the Vietnam War, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps has been absent from Brown's campus, as it has from the campuses of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. Much of the current opposition to the existence of a Brown ROTC chapter stems from the policy of "don't ask, don't tell" — DADT ...
I was really pleased with the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Office of Campus Life and Student Services' effort in coordinating Staff Appreciation Day. The staff appreciation buttons were really cute, and it didn't seem condescending at all to present them to our favorite Brown staffers. ...
To the Editor:While it has a somewhat valid premise, David Sheffield's '11 column ("Time for the Glorious Recapitulation," April 26) about the "decrepit music" that is pervasive in modern society is a bit narrow-minded. As an avid listener and player of jazz and classical music, I can understand his ...
Two weeks ago, The Herald reported that the Swearer Center for Public Service is being forced to make significant budget cuts. The Swearer Center will lay off four of its nineteen employees, according to the Providence Journal's news blog. The full impact of the cuts is still being determined, and programs ...
On April 14, faculty members and administrators gathered to discuss a set of proposed changes to the University's policies governing tenure. At this meeting, four undergraduates were kicked out because they attended without permission, The Herald reported. It is unfortunate that these students did not ...
In the last few weeks, the Brown community was faced with several issues that are connected by a single thread, and barely a day goes by when a glance through The Herald does not turn up something that economic thinking could greatly clarify. This alone does not surprise me, for, like the ancient Chinese ...
I first encountered the work of Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a wide-eyed freshman in high school. My inchoate intellectual views were just starting to take shape, and I had developed a keen interest (nay, an obsession) with political philosophy ...
To the Editor:I am an ethnic Jew from Budapest, Hungary, where Theodor Herzl was born. Reading Dr. Jack Schwartzwald's column in Thursday's Herald ("Remembering Theodor Herzl," April 22) upset me in a number of ways. Here is why:
To the Editor:Regarding the State of Brown lecture ("Simmons: Dorms, grad school, internationalization on agenda," March 19): President Simmons is frustrated over Brown's place in national rankings and feels the rankings do not give Brown credit for the excellence of its standards and programs. Maybe ...
To the Editor:From the article I read in The Herald ("Chomsky: U.S. policies hurt Middle East relations," April 21), it seems as if Noam Chomsky, outspoken ardent critic of Israel, was received quite well in Brown.
Correction appended.
Once again, Spring Weekend has come and gone, along with its large, drunken concerts. I cannot blame concert-goers for their inebriation. I certainly would not want to listen to such decrepit music without numbing my higher functions first. Music on campus, along with the wider world, has made a long, ...
Last year, Providence Mayor David Cicilline '83 advocated for imposing a property tax on Rhode Island's private universities and levying a fee on these schools' out-of-state students. Now, politicians are once again setting their sights on the tax status of organizations that already make major contributions ...
To the Editor:This weekend, Brown students will celebrate the arrival of an artist whose lyrics explicitly advocate violence against women. In light of The Herald's past commitment to investigating and encouraging discourse about women's issues, we are surprised at the paper's lack of commentary on ...
The sea of students lounging on Main Green and the sound of music blasting on Wriston Quad serve as constant reminders that Spring Weekend is only a day away. Yet it seems one can hardly go five minutes without hearing the all-too-familiar gripes of students who have midterms, papers or projects due ...
In their recent columns, Simon Liebling '12 and Ethan Tobias '12 debated the comparison of the contemporary struggle against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the struggle for divestment from the apartheid state of South Africa in the 1980s ("The right side of history" and "No ...
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