Opinions

Letter: Editorial mischaracterized Banner opposition

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Editorial: How we learned to stop worrying and love Banner

With the departure of the class of 2010, an era has passed. They were the last to register for classes using the University's Stone Age pre-Banner system, under which even the smallest changes required trekking to University Hall. For some classes that filled on a first-come, first-served basis, students ...

Editorial: Sleep tight

Your parents may have warned you about bedbugs before wishing you sweet dreams as a child, but it turns out that recently, the threat of bedbugs has become a veritable nightmare. At Brown, no case of bedbugs has been reported on campus this year, according to Senior Associate Dean of Residential and ...

Letter: Prop 8 decision about justice, not popularity

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Wang '12: Care for those around you

The result of a recent nationwide survey in Japan shocked the nation's psyche and put a dent in its pride for its people's renowned longevity: in the country with one of the world's largest populations over the age of one hundred, 234,000 Japanese centenarians listed in government records are now reported ...

William Tomasko '13: Ch-ch-ch-changing the campus and the college

When I started my sophomore year of high school, I felt like a freshman again. That was because my school had substantially renovated its campus, meaning that more than half of the building was brand new when school started in September.

Deniz Ilgen '13: Tradition: good or bad?

While Brown has been doing an excellent job of renovating the campus by remodeling the Blue Room and beginning construction on the Metcalf Lab, it needs to seriously consider refurbishing certain older dorms around campus. Not everyone enjoys waking up to scratched, dirty walls or viciously beaten up ...

Susannah Kroeber '11: America's better angels

Cynicism runs rampant at Brown. We are taught to question everything we hear in the classroom, and we often turn this cynicism into inaction, into a belief that the really big issues are the ones we shouldn't work on by virtue of how monumental the problems facing us are. Dr. Eboo Patel, in his talk ...

Letter: Campus trash not just caused by laziness

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Editorial: How to throw a legal party

If you live in an off-campus house or just like to visit on weekend nights, you might have noticed that police are breaking up party after party, fining hosts and dispersing disappointed guests into the streets.  

Kshitij Lauria '13: Refactoring the Refectory

If you really love the food at the Ratty, you can stop reading right now: we have fundamental disagreements that no opinions column of mine can change. I spent all of freshman year avoiding the Ratty, camping outside the V-Dub waiting for the doors to open, going through my flex points way too fast, ...

Letter: Column oversimplifies Prop 8 ruling

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Anthony Badami '11: Arguing against Elginism

The view of Athens from atop the Acropolis, more accurately known as the Citadel of Athens, is heart-stirring and breathtaking. The matrix of bleached-white stone which comprises the city below provides an impressive foreground, while the surrounding cerulean sea is pleasant and welcoming in comparison, ...

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.