Your stomach starts cramping and laughter erupts out of you: It’s easy to tell when a joke is good. Humor can be harnessed to diffuse awkward situations, flirt, demonstrate humility, express political opinions or, most importantly, authentically bond with those around you. Humor is undeniably one ...
Today is Election Day. Voters across the country head to the polls to decide crucial contests for the Senate, House and governorships, as well as critical local and state offices. Marred by polarization and bitter divides, the United States faces a deeply uncertain future. Whatever happens today ...
In a Nov. 1 email from Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity Sylvia Carey-Butler and Vice President for Campus Life Eric Estes to the Brown community, the hateful and violent note left at Brown RISD Hillel last week did not even get its own sentence before Carey-Butler and Estes moved ...
It is without question that the housing crisis in Providence has reached a breaking point. Local universities are seen as major contributors to this crisis, with Brown as a prime example. Brown squeezes Providence’s housing market in two ways. University students often come from families ...
he note containing “several expletives and violent threats against Jewish people” discovered Sunday at Brown RISD Hillel and the “swastikas carved into surfaces” around campus over the summer are incidents of antisemitism — nothing more, nothing less. By broadly linking such events to “incidents ...
Brown students pride themselves on being politically minded. As a school, we’ve had a long history of protest over the decades, continuing to the present day. However, those feelings don’t necessarily translate into voter turnout. In 2018, a measly 45.1% of eligible Brown students voted in the ...
When Taylor Swift’s new album “Midnights” came out over a week ago, some were up in arms about one line in the song “Anti-Hero”: “Sometimes, I feel like everybody is a sexy baby and I’m a monster on the hill.” ...
I grew up in a house directly adjacent to a noisy street. Honking cars, revving engines and shrieking sirens droned in the background constantly. Similarly, here in Providence, modified cars and motorbikes racing through downtown and on Thayer Street is a common weekend occurrence. Sometimes, my ...
Last week, the Providence City Council heard public testimony on a proposed zoning amendment that would further restrict students renting on College Hill. While currently no more than three students can live together in single-family zones, the amendment would extend that prohibition to two-, three- ...
We love morally gray characters — from Snape in “Harry Potter” to Wanda in Marvel movies, viewers and readers have continually gravitated toward those who seem to do clear moral wrong. But why do we love characters who often do awful things?
In an age of hyper-connectivity, we have lost our capacity for solitude. Driving in a car or walking the dog were once moments of solitude. Even air travel was once a valuable block of time during which one could ruminate, cut off from phones and the rest of the world. However, today, ...
When the United States became its own nation, it was chiefly an agrarian one, dominated by farmers and designed to appease their pastoral mindsets. Just one in 20 citizens lived in cities. In today’s America, the demographics of the Constitutional Era have entirely ...
While applying for post-graduation jobs this semester, I’ve stumbled across a baffling aspect of the application process for some companies: a personality test. When the company I applied to requested I fill out a short character assessment, I assumed the test would consist of relevant questions, ...
Growing up one of very few children of immigrants in a community composed primarily of white people whose families have been in this country for generations, I often felt that my complex identity was something that should be suppressed. For me, it was all about blending in. I resisted my parents’ ...
The ongoing use of pigs for operation training in the University's emergency medicine residency program reflects poorly on the University and provides inferior training to residents who deserve the best. It's time Brown joined the right side of history and ended this cruel, outdated practice. ...
Social media, without a doubt, has been my vice. For many of us, social media is integral to our lives. We check it daily, use it to communicate with our loved ones and share details of our lives. I’ve always seen social media as essential to maintaining contact with my friends and family ...
For years, the Warren Alpert Medical School has been criticized by physicians, legislators and even one of the country’s largest newspapers for its continued abuse of live pigs in the emergency medicine residency program. Even as nearly every other medical center in the country has moved toward ...
I’m irresistibly drawn to personality tests — but not for the reasons you might think. While I enjoy taking these tests myself, my real interest comes from seeing my friends consider their answers. Through these experiences, I see how different people perceive the world and react to difficult ...
Turning on CNN and then visiting Fox News might be the best way to see how polarized American politics have become. News anchors report on the same national issues, yet their presentation of these events are often diametrically opposed. Polarization has hijacked our politics, making legislative response ...
With Thayer Street a one-minute walk from my dorm, I’ve often found myself browsing Yelp for food options. I love the category search function in particular, which allows users to browse for food options by cuisine. One category I’ve noticed is “ethnic” restaurants. The word “ethnic” ...
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