Opinions

Editorial Cartoon 4/16/09

Alyssa Ratledge '11: Lawyers won't kill IR

Since the publication of a scathing article on Interim Director of the Watson Institute David Kennedy '76 ("Watson director's unpopular agenda draws ire," March 16), several Herald letters and columns have stepped up to defend Kennedy from personal criticism. Few, however, challenged the article's angle: ...

Katharine Hermann '09: A love letter to two of Brown's libraries

Over the course of my four years at Brown, I have spent an estimated 2,040 hours in the Rock. Add another 476 hours for the Hay, where I have worked for the last two years, and that makes about 2,516 hours spent in Brown University libraries. I love the Brown libraries and have two points to make on ...

Diamonds and Coal

A diamond to the sophomore who runs a business making "pupcakes" and other baked goods in need of quotation marks. With Spring Weekend coming up, you may want to whip up some "brownies." A sympathetic diamond to Latin American countries, who former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Escobar said had ...

Letter: No divestment at Hampshire, no divestment at Brown

To the Editor: Tuesday's column, ("Student power for Palestine," Apr. 14) contains factually incorrect and vitriolic information. It claims, "Students at Hampshire College won a two-year campaign for their university to divest from Israel." This lie is propagated by anti-Israel students on Hampshire's ...

Editorial: Beyond forgiveness

The current state of the economy is taking a toll on all levels of the University — the endowment has already shrunk from $2.8 billion to $2 billion, employees are being laid off and, most pervasively, students and their families are having trouble paying tuition. University administrators have ...

Editorial Cartoon, 4/15/09

Tyler Rosenbaum '11: Rhode Island falls behind

Many of you have probably heard that two more states will join Massachusetts and Connecticut in recognizing same-sex marriages this year. For those of you who haven't, can you guess which ones they are? One is Vermont. And the other? Oregon, perhaps? Hawaii? Another coastal bastion of liberalness, like, ...

Jeremy Feigenbaum '11: The Passover story

For most Jews, Passover provides an opportunity to spend time with friends and family — and to grumble about how much they miss eating bread. But Passover also provides important lessons for modern Jews and non-Jews alike about the freedoms they enjoy.Jews are not just required to remember that ...

Editorial Cartoon 4/14/09

Dan Davidson '11: Why R.I. reformed court debt

A recent New York Times article highlighted one of the ways that states, burdened with massive budget shortfalls, are filling their coffers. In Florida, Georgia, Michigan and elsewhere, state judicial systems are cracking down on people who owe fees and fines to the courts.

Corrections

An article in Friday's Herald ("Panelists discuss being gay in the business world," April 10) quoted Kyle Poyar '10 as saying that Brown University does not give medical coverage benefits to domestic partners. In fact, same-sex domestic partners are covered under the University's Health coverage plan, ...

Editorial: Wertheimer for UCS president

Several of this year's presidential candidates are dedicated members of the Undergraduate Council of Students who have served in leadership positions and taken the lead on important initiatives. But of the four candidates in the running, Clay Wertheimer '10 is the best choice.

Letter: Awareness of impact key to sustainability

To the Editor:In response to Katherine Hermann's column ("First things first — learn how to recycle a bottle," Apr. 10): Anyone who says that Brown students are not excited about the small problems with sustainability does not know the right Brown students.

Simon Liebling '12: Student power for Palestine

Students at the New School withstood pepper spray attacks by police last week while trying to force the ouster of their controversial president, continuing the tradition of a year of occupations as part of a national campaign for accessible education. The beleaguered administrators they target could ...

CORRECTION: SEDER

Nick Hagerty '10: Academic Inequality

My last column ("Picnics or John Edwards?", March 16) stressed the need for greater emphasis on teaching abilities in decisions about faculty hiring and promotions. But since faculty turnover can proceed even more slowly than a UCS meeting, here are two proposals that could improve undergraduate academics ...

Editorial: UFB leadership endorsements

Tomorrow, Brown students will choose the new leadership of the Undergraduate Finance Board, the body that allocates funding for officially recognized student groups. We strongly urge you to vote for Salsabil Ahmed '11 for UFB chair and Neil Parikh '11 for vice chair. Of the candidates running for these ...

Editorial Cartoon 4/13/09

Andrea Matthews '11: Brown's brain drain

In a few weeks, about a quarter of our population will process out of the Van Wickle Gates and into the real world. But once they're in the real world, where exactly will they go? If I had to hazard a guess, I'd put together a list that goes something like: New York, Boston, D.C., San Francisco, Los ...