In about two weeks, Americans will vote in the Congressional midterm elections. The media is focused on predicting how many seats Democrats will lose, particularly whether the party will lose caucusing majorities in the House and Senate.
Right now, the team responsible for Brown investments and endowment security is gloriously exhaling a sigh of sweet relief. In the calm after the economic storm, Brown's endowment returns were 10 percent in the fiscal year 2010, and Alice Tisch, our esteemed chancellor's wife, can finally stop living ...
In an op-ed about the upcoming elections last week in the New York Times, Gail Collins asked, "How far back in a candidate's history do we want to travel?" With multiple campaigns across the country bringing up opponents' college writings and actions, what counts as fair game is a now a particularly ...
Consider two prospective Brown students. One, Alice, is unsure of whether or not to attend Brown, while the other, Bob, has been committed to Brown from the start. Alice decides to fly to Providence to visit College Hill and finds while purchasing her airline tickets that there are three different classes ...
Like many other debates this election season, the debate between the four Rhode Island gubernatorial candidates that took place at Brown last Thursday was at times enlightening, at times entertaining and occasionally a little disconcerting. But amid the fray, one idea stood out as particularly fresh ...
As September turns into October, and October meekly limps away into November, the nation prepares for its glimpse into the ugliest part of American politics — midterm elections. Historically a time of mudslinging and the bludgeoning of the majority political party, the midterm elections are a ...
I think we can all agree that our physical presence at Brown completely distorts our perception of time. Deadlines seem like a distant reality, and in the midst of writing that eight-page paper for that one class you rarely attend, you find yourself endlessly watching videos on YouTube and falsifying ...
I was present on the Main Green in May when thousands of people gave Nelson Mandela a rapturous standing ovation in absentia. Alongside Morgan Freeman and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Rohde, the former president of South Africa was receiving an honorary degree from Brown. The award recognized ...
The Herald reported last week that students' grades have been improving steadily in recent years, and that last year 54.4 percent of all grades were A's. While this trend is worth keeping an eye on, we certainly wouldn't support a Princeton-like policy in response.
It was refreshing to read Susannah Kroeber '11 argue that Brown should raise tuition ("Raising our Brown taxes," Oct. 7), a stance I can't recall ever hearing support for. Yet while I applaud her willingness to stake out an unpopular position, I must take issue with some of the assumptions her column ...
The recent campus news about the group independent study project, "The Study of Love" ("Love, Factually" Sept. 30) really caught my sleepy eyes at breakfast and made my day.
We've probably all been there — looking up a final transcript on Banner and seeing that dreaded "B" letter grade. The subsequent feeling is something akin to the final landing of a punch in the gut that you've been anticipating for a while, knowing that there was no one to blame but yourself for ...
In most of the Asian education systems, students have to take entrance examinations for admission to engineering, business or medical colleges. Depending on a student's performance on just one test, the student is given a rank. In India, a university might have 3,000 spots to fill (after a 50 percent ...
As the trees shed their leaves and restless New England winds foretell winter, there is an inclination among Brunonians to draw into their work and away from the community. One community issue, however, that students cannot afford to ignore is the local and state elections this November.
Thursday night, Brown will host a debate between the four candidates to succeed term-limited Gov. Donald Carcieri '65. The candidates — Democrat Frank Caprio, independent Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14, Republican John Robitaille and Moderate Ken Block — will debate in Salomon 101 at 7 p.m. The ...
Those who saw the "The Social Network" over the long weekend might have been surprised by the reminder of how different life was before Facebook — when "networking website" was a euphemism for online matchmaking and writing on someone's wall would have been considered vandalism. It's undeniable ...
Two incidents have caught the nation's attention in the past two weeks. In one, a Rutgers freshman named Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate filmed him having sex with another man and put the video online. In the other, a recent Duke graduate named Karen Owen sent ...
One of the amazing characteristics that distinguishes Brown from other universities in the United States is its diverse student body. Everywhere you look, there's bound to be another student from some place in the world you've always dreamt of visiting or from a country of which you've never even heard. ...
The process to reform the University's tenure review procedures stalled last week after the faculty voted to withdraw the proposals from consideration and refer them to the Faculty Executive Committee. The proposals would, for instance, stop departments from revealing the identities of outside references ...
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