It is somewhat very reluctantly that I find myself penning an article related to religion. Not that I consider it to be an unimportant issue unfit for community-level conversation at Brown, or that I lack interest in the tried, tested and yet still unexhausted "theories" and "proofs" that are replete ...
Time to get meta. What's the opinions page for, anyway?
Last month, the Texas Board of Education approved of a series of curriculum changes in the social sciences for public elementary, middle and high school programs. These changes will lay out a set of guidelines for textbook publishers that may affect a larger demographic than just Texas students, as ...
Adding to the numerous buzzing construction sites on College Hill, the ongoing project of the new aquatics and fitness center seems to appeal to everybody. For varsity athletes, it means a permanent home for the swimming and water polo teams, a much less crowded strength and conditioning area, separated ...
There is no doubt that Brown is in the midst of serious financial stress. To cope with endowment losses, the Corporation recently approved $30 million in budget cuts and spending reductions for fiscal year 2011. The University let go of 31 staff last year and plans another 60 layoffs this year. On top ...
To the Editor: We are writing to correct mistaken statements in an opinions column and a news article that The Herald has published ("Shame on Ruth," Feb. 17; "Faculty stick together in work and marriage," March 15) about our successful lawsuit to force Brown University ...
Editor's Note: This story improperly used opinions, facts and language from a Providence Journal article ("Bill would require drug testing for R.I. welfare recipients," March 26, 2010). An Editor's Note was published in the April 14, 2010, Herald. That Editor's Note can be found here.
Recent efforts to approve a proposal to create an engineering school are laudable. Approval would increase the intellectual capital of the University while simultaneously helping Brown join the ranks of all the other Ivy League institutions with engineering schools. It will pull graduate students to ...
The opposite of discrimination isn't indiscriminateness. In our quest to create an inclusive, pluralistic society, we have abandoned the standards and expectations that give us a vision of how to conduct oneself properly. This isn't an inevitability. I firmly believe that there is a way to hold one ...
Starting college is always a significant transition. Students are — often for the first time — experiencing roommates, sharing bathrooms with strangers, figuring out how to work laundry machines and spending months at a time away from their families.
To the Editor:As a faculty member with a long commute, I read with interest your recent article ("From afar, profs make the commute," March 11) on the subject. In my case, the round-trip drive from my home in Madison, Conn., is approximately 175 miles, which I am able to make every weekday with the ...
The statement that investment bankers have replaced lawyers as the most hated professionals in America has become a common throwaway line, but it makes me wonder why lawyers apparently occupied that place to begin with. Like many Brown graduates before us, many of my friends and I will probably be headed ...
Brown students were lucky to get away from school last week, as Rhode Island was hit with record rainfall and devastating floods. In one 24-hour period, some areas received an astounding seven inches of rain, resulting in floods that forced hundreds from their homes and left thousands without electricity. ...
To the Editor:In his recent column ("Why spare athletics?", March 20), Tyler Rosenbaum '11 calls into question the Corporation's decision to incorporate a $64 fee for recreational facilities, arguing that the Department of Athletics should not be exempted from University-wide budget cuts, especially ...
Organizing back-to-back concerts featuring well-known acts is extraordinarily hard work.
Another year, another tuition hike, another chorus of compliant students racing to be the first to thank our benevolent administrators for once again balancing their budget on our backs. Judging just by the gratitude some of us expressed for the Corporation's infinite financial wisdom, you'd think they'd ...
Five years ago, Lawrence Summers, then-president of Harvard University, made a remark at a conference that ended with his resignation from the post. Many students now in their junior or senior years of college might remember this as the mar on Harvard's name at the time they were applying to colleges ...
Many of my friends at other colleges have related to me stories of Christian fundamentalist protestors visiting to lambast them for the sins of showing their ankles and listening to hip-hop music. In light of this, they are invariably surprised and disappointed that I have had few interactions with ...
Unpredictable as they may have been, a few of the greatest feuds in recorded history occurred safely outside the realm of ancient Roman wars or the hard-line rhetorical exchanges of the Cold War. Science and mathematics, long regarded as essential learning for the most gifted in society (and somewhat ...
No one will be surprised to hear that a group of Brown students supports reduced penalties for marijuana possession. And with Snoop Dogg scheduled to perform on campus in just a few weeks, some might question our timing in writing this piece. However, we in fact have another pertinent reason. A Rhode ...
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