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Mike Johnson '11: From one lemming to another
By Mike Johnson | September 23Welcome to the recession. In just the three short weeks since we all arrived back on campus, we've seen an explosion of money-related articles and opinions columns published in The Herald. Brown students are pinching their pennies, and whenever one slips through our collective fingers, we're going to ...
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Hunter Fast '12: A field guide to Thayer Street
By Hunter Fast | September 22On Thayer Street, the last remnants of warm weather often herald a panoply of activists handing out literature for causes reputable and otherwise. Thayer has recently played host to demonstrators for eight-time Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
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Editorial: Meal plan math
By Brown Daily Herald | September 22It's a generally accepted fact that the larger meal plan options are a better deal than the smaller ones. But just how much better are they?
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Simon Liebling '12: A Brown, Inc. education
By Simon Liebling | September 22Education — the one-size-fits-all defense for the transgressions of Brown, Inc. in the age of university corporatization, the easy rationalization of the contradiction of the profit-seeking non-profit institution.
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Chris Norris-LeBlanc '13: Brown's conquistadors
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | September 21In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. After him came Vasco da Gama, Cortés, Pizarro and a whole slew of other Spanish and Portuguese explorers who set off to find the "New World." In high school we learned that these were great men — fearless explorers, pioneers of their time. They set ...
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Dan Davidson '11.5: Will online colleges transform higher education?
By Dan Davidson | September 21The University of Phoenix's prominent sponsorship was among the many comical elements of LeBron James's summer prime-time special, "The Decision." It was bizarre that King James associated his brand with an institution more often the butt of jokes than the recipient of celebrity donations, and the irony ...
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Editorial: Soften up
By Brown Daily Herald | September 21After one is admitted to college and matriculates, entrance exams like the SAT or ACT quickly become a distant memory. However, given the advertisements for test prep programs we see all around campus, it's hard to forget that the LSAT, MCAT or GRE are perhaps lurking in the not-so-distant future. Of ...
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Letter: Mission statement affirms U. priorities
By Brown Daily Herald | September 21To the Editor:
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David Sheffield '11: God and man at Brown
By David Sheffield | September 20In 1764, a group of Baptists founded the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Two and a half centuries later, we've changed the name and have few remaining vestiges of our former religious affiliation. The location of commencement, our motto and our seal are among ...
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Terrence George '13: A lesson in responsibility
By Terrence George | September 20I started saving for college when I was three years old. Granted, I had no clue what college was for, nor did I know where I wanted to matriculate, but I wanted to go to college. I was a toddler on a mission, and dollar by dollar, I knew I was drawing closer to my goal.
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Letter: Editorial mischaracterized Banner opposition
By Brown Daily Herald | September 20To the Editor:
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Editorial: How we learned to stop worrying and love Banner
By Brown Daily Herald | September 19With 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 ...
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Editorial: Sleep tight
By Brown Daily Herald | September 19Your 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 ...
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Letter: Prop 8 decision about justice, not popularity
By Brown Daily Herald | September 19To the Editor:
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Wang '12: Care for those around you
By Yue Wang | September 19The 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 ...
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William Tomasko '13: Ch-ch-ch-changing the campus and the college
By William Tomasko | September 19When 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.
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Deniz Ilgen '13: Tradition: good or bad?
By Deniz Ilgen | September 16While 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 ...
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Susannah Kroeber '11: America's better angels
By Susannah Kroeber | September 16Cynicism 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 ...
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Letter: Campus trash not just caused by laziness
By Brown Daily Herald | September 16To the Editor:
