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 ...
May 2, 2010, will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Herzl — the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl's desire for Jewish self-determination in Judaism's ancestral homeland came to fruition on May 14, 1948, an uncanny fulfillment of a fifty-year prediction he had made in 1897. ...
I had the fortunate experience last Friday to sit in the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, manning a lonely stall for the A Day on College Hill Activities Fair with nothing to occupy me but a can of diet soda and a pending sense of doom for an upcoming thesis proposal deadline. Many pre-frosh, too shy ...
We write with humility at the challenge placed before Catholic students at Brown University. Though it may not be obvious to the general University population, Catholicism plays a large role in the lives of hundreds of students on campus. Each week, over two hundred people gather in the upper ...
Some of Brown's courses are retreating from the digital age. Last Thursday, The Herald reported on professors who discourage or outright prohibit laptop use in their classes. When Associate Professor of International Relations Nina Tannenwald taught POLS 0400: "Introduction to International Politics," ...
To the Editor:As a Brown alum, I was proud to see the University's rapid and generous response to the floods that have devastated the lives of so many Rhode Islanders ("U. donates $50,000 for flood relief," April 15). As President and CEO of The Rhode Island Foundation, I was delighted that Brown added ...
You know the dichotomies: east meets west, communism versus capitalism, classical goes contemporary, etc. Throughout the span of modern European political and cultural clash, the tension between these sets of ideas has bred conflagrant rebellion and uproarious revolution, new beginnings and salient ...
Recently I attended a lecture by photographer Fazal Sheikh, a MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient, during the opening of his exhibition "Blessed Daughters." Mr. Sheikh began by showing the audience photographs of Sudanese refugees in Kenya. He went through a dozen or so pictures of gatherings of refugees ...
To the Editor:I write in response to the April 13 editorial, "Not forgotten and not forgiven," which discourages students from supporting Mayor David Cicilline's '83 Congressional bid. I am surprised that the paper would offer such a myopic outlook on the matter. An editorial that suggests campus-wide ...
Today and tomorrow, students will have the opportunity to log on to MyCourses and elect representatives to the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board. We encourage students to support Diane Mokoro '11 for UCS president.
To the Editor: Emily Breslin's '10 column ("Brown, the FDA, ROTC and discrimination," April 15) states that, because 48.1 percent of people living with HIV attributed their infection to male-to-male contact, indiscriminately excluding MSM (men who have sex with men) from donating ...
In the wake of any disaster, both victims and bystanders find themselves haunted by difficult questions. The recent child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is one such disaster. With such a widespread range of harm and a confounding reaction from the Vatican, the scandal has sparked many tricky discussions.Initial ...
On Tuesday, the Brown student body will have the task of choosing the leadership for next year's Undergraduate Finance Board (UFB), the group responsible for apportioning funding for student groups. We first want to encourage the entire student body to take time to research the candidates and vote. ...
The National Census Day passed quietly on Brown campus on April 1, 2010. In fact, many of us didn't receive the census form in our mailboxes until the second week of April, while average American households received the forms in early March. The American Constitution stipulates that all residents of ...
To the Editor:Your article on how the impending staff cuts will impact the institutional knowledge and skills at Brown's libraries ("University libraries face staff cuts," April 8) is just the tip of the iceberg. The University's cutting of 60 staff positions, on top of 31 positions cut last year, is ...
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, don't call it a chicken. Yet this is exactly what those who constructed a makeshift wall on the Main Green last week were doing. The wall stood as a protest to both "Apartheid in the Occupied Territories" of Israel/Palestine and the U.S.-Mexico border ...
We fondly remember A Day on College Hill as a time of great excitement and anticipation. The ADOCH planning committee has put in a lot of hard work and done a great job of setting up informative and entertaining events, and you should absolutely make the most of this brief introduction to life at Brown. ...
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