I graduated from Brown last spring with a triple concentration in modern culture and media, literary arts and English. Every semester, someone would ask why I would willingly take on five classes of work to fulfill my requirements. My answer was simple: I like learning these subjects, and I’m using ...
In far too many of my classes, I see students shopping for a new outfit, playing an intense game of Catan or watching their favorite shows. Even if you are doing the readings and acing the homeworks, an essential part of attending Brown is contributing to an engaged classroom — whether that means ...
I was gifted Patti Smith’s “Just Kids” on my 16th birthday and was instantly enamored. Since then, I have been known to gift it to my friends. Sometimes college students feel that they need to have their futures all figured out — this book shows that you don’t. In an Ivy League culture obsessed ...
Well before you jam into trains and cars and planes for the holidays, please get your flu shot, and your COVID-19 shot, too.
Everyone worried it might rain, but the night of Nov. 7 was crisp and clear, as beautiful an evening as you can imagine in New England. Under a tent on Pembroke Field, Cantor Lizzie Shammash ’91 sang Shalom Aleichem and Rabbi Ayelet Cohen ’96 recited Motzi and Kiddush — the Jewish blessings for ...
On Nov. 11, The Herald reported that residential theme and program house leaders will no longer be allowed to select their residents, with the current system being replaced by a lottery starting next year. As current and former presidents of Harambee House — “a place where Black scholars and allies ...
“And that’s … where again?”
There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that can feel almost embarrassing to admit out loud.
Providence was recently ranked the least affordable city for renters in America. To address the cost-of-living crisis, the Providence City Council plans to embark on an ambitious housing and affordability agenda. One proposal on the table is a Student Impact Fee, which would require college students ...
Nov. 4 wins in New Jersey, New York City and Virginia, as well as staggering blue margins across the country, have given the Democrats a gift that we have yearned for since the beginning of the Trump administration: a rebuke to the president’s cruel agenda that gives reason for the Republican caucus ...
It has been just over three years since oral arguments began in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a landmark Supreme Court case that ruled race-based affirmative action in higher education unconstitutional. Since that moment, selective universities have seen sharp declines in the number of Black ...
Since we were old enough to use Google, Gen Z has been told Wikipedia is unreliable. I remember sitting criss-crossed on the floor of my elementary school classroom, listening to my teacher lecture about how, since anyone on the internet can edit a Wikipedia page, it shouldn’t be trusted. To this ...
Few philosophers have been more misunderstood than Friedrich Nietzsche. While his more flamboyant assertions — like his claim that God is dead — are crucial to understanding his work as a whole, discussion about Nietzsche is often limited to these statements alone. Among his more profound teachings, ...
The Herald’s Fall 2025 Poll found that two-thirds of Brown students believe sharing political beliefs is important when forming friendships. Among very liberal or progressive students, this rate is much higher. While it is undoubtedly easier to pursue friendships with people you relate to politically, ...
In recent months, elite American universities have been forced into highly publicized and contentious negotiations with the White House on topics from federal research funding to free speech. As a result, we have entered an era where universities like Brown are morphing into the government’s ideological ...
On March 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Deterrent Act. As it awaits a Senate vote, Brown is continuing its yearslong fight against the piece of legislation. The Deterrent Act is purported to improve research security and reduce foreign malign influence on universities. In reality, ...
Amid the Trump administration’s attacks on academic institutions, the sphere of higher education has faced strained public scrutiny, exacerbating longstanding perceptions of elitism and inequality within higher education. As a result, the concept of the Ivy League has been placed on trial and America’s ...
Between 2010 and 2020, Rhode Island experienced the highest growth of multilingual language learners in the nation, according to a recent report from the Rhode Island Department of Education. MLL enrollment more than doubled statewide between 2013 and 2023, while some urban core districts, such as North ...
As one of the first two Jews to graduate from Brown, Israel Strauss, class of 1894, was told by then-University President Elisha Andrews, class of 1870, to pursue different career paths because of his religion. Such comments were not unique in the long history of Jews in the diaspora. It would be hard ...
Situated between the chaos of midterms and the impending stress of finals, Thanksgiving offers a coveted opportunity for Brunonians to visit loved ones and take time off from our campus commitments. But Brown’s academic calendar provides only three days off during the week of Thanksgiving. Although ...
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