On January 11, 1908, Theodore Roosevelt designated the Grand Canyon as a national monument, declaring: “You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and all who come after you.”
To the Editor:
Although the Editorial Page Board is divided on the issue of divestment of Brown’s endowment from companies affiliated with Israel, we agree on this: Detaining a student for writing an op-ed is a grave violation of free speech and due process. It is antithetical to the values of a democratic society. ...
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Eighty years ago Wednesday, Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis for his dissident activities, which included helping Jews escape Germany and joining an attempt to assassinate Hitler. In a country whose church and people largely stood complicit in the actions of Hitler’s ...
In 2023, Brown opened its long-anticipated Lindemann Performing Arts Center. Though it was touted as “state-of-the-art,” the Lindemann has largely disappointed students, becoming a frequent target of criticism. This reaction points to a deeper issue: Some of Brown’s modern architectural choices ...
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To the Editor:
On March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was followed into his Columbia apartment building by federal agents. He was arrested without a warrant, transported to a detainment facility in New Jersey and then Louisiana and forced to sleep on the floor of a cold cell. Khalil, a U.S. permanent resident, demanded an explanation ...
At Brown, the dream of diversity has in many ways been realized. The University’s student body boasts an incredible range of cultures, nationalities and socioeconomic backgrounds. Its need-blind policy for domestic students has ensured that financial constraints do not prevent talented individuals ...
Brown is just the latest major university to be threatened with the loss of federal funds by the Trump administration. But while the White House has not yet formally frozen Brown’s federal funding nor presented the University with a list of demands as conditions of restoring that funding, we can be ...
On Thursday night, a White House official confirmed to The Herald that the Trump administration plans to cut $510 million in federal funding to Brown, making the University the fifth Ivy League institution to have its funding threatened in recent weeks. This development represents another volley in ...
I first began giving tours of Brown as an impressionable first-year. On the second stop of the tour outside University Hall, I would gather my modest crowd of overachieving high schoolers and their anxious parents to extol the virtues of Brown’s unique curricular system. After responding to a host ...
Columbia has become something of a poster child in the battle over higher education in the United States. From a crisis-filled 2024 spring semester to cycling through four presidents in less than two years, headlines around Morningside Heights seem to convey nothing but perpetual crisis.
The University has once again found itself in the national headlines after the deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Rasha Alawieh. The Department of Homeland Security claimed Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the terrorist organization ...
About a year ago, I received a text from Brown’s Southeast Asian Studies Initiative about an upcoming course, taught by SEASI and Filipino Alliance ally Grace Talusan: ENGL 1050Y: “Traces of Empire: Writing Filipino and American Experiences.” The title alone lingered with me — an invitation ...
When I lived on campus last summer, I had an overwhelming amount of free time on the weekends. On Friday nights, I would go to Shabbat dinners hosted by Jewish friends. We would pack into sweltering un-air-conditioned living rooms and share potluck dinners and wine. On Sunday afternoons, I would go ...
A good-looking, Ivy League man raised from Maryland wealth, caught up in an uncharacteristic murder — what better story to capture the American eye.
Earlier this week, inspired by a Harvard Crimson op-ed, I sent a letter to President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 and Provost Francis Doyle with recommendations on how Brown might help our country’s academic institutions escape the Trump administration’s encroaching darkness.
When things are going well, there are many things in our lives that we take for granted. It’s like flying an aircraft in clear skies on autopilot. We zone out, taking in the scenery, losing sight of the myriad of complex calculations being done on our behalf by the computer. But, when severe turbulence ...
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