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Letter: Response to ‘Brown Corporation members praise University’s protection of Jewish life amid $510 million federal funding threat’
By Kenneth Cohen | April 10To the Editor:
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Editorial: Trump’s attack on international students’ free speech is an attack on American values
By Editorial Page Board | April 9Although 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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Letter: Response to ‘University investigating student who sent DOGE-style emails to administrators’
By Jeremy Mumford | April 9To the Editor:
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Tao ’27: Christians need to fight like hell
By Evan Tao | April 9Eighty 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 ...
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Barrozo ’26: Brown must make intentional architectural choices
By Julia Barrozo | April 9In 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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Letters in response to Walhout ’25: It’s time to close the Open Curriculum
By Andrew Clark and Jane Zafran | April 9To the Editor:
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Letter: Response to Cheong ’27: Stop glorifying Luigi Mangione
By Garrett Brand | April 8To the Editor:
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Ricks ’27: Keep talking about Palestine
By Kendall Ricks | April 8On 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 ...
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Ahmed ’27: Brown’s universal need-blind policy won’t reach Asia
By Shayyan Ahmed | April 6At 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 ...
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Miller ’70: What if Brown just says no?
By Kenneth Miller | April 6Brown 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 ...
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Editorial: In attempting to destroy universities like Brown, Trump abandons America’s future
By Editorial Page Board | April 4On 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 ...
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Walhout ’25: It’s time to close the Open Curriculum
By Samuel Walhout | April 4I 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 ...
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Guan ’27: Columbia isn’t a blameless victim
By Lucas Guan | April 3Columbia 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.
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Davis ’27: When it comes to Assistant Professor Rasha Alawieh, the injustice isn’t who, but how
By Christian Davis | April 2The 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 ...
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Theodoropoulos ’27: John Hay helped colonize the Philippines. The least Brown can do is give us a language class.
By Alexa Theodoropoulos | March 31About 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 ...
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Tao ’27: The Sabbath is for everyone
By Evan Tao | March 31When 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 ...
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Cheong ’27: Stop glorifying Luigi Mangione
By Daniel Cheong | March 30A good-looking, Ivy League man raised from Maryland wealth, caught up in an uncharacteristic murder — what better story to capture the American eye.
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LeVine ’93 P’25 P’27: We can thwart Trump’s attack on our nation’s universities
By Suzan LeVine | March 20Earlier 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.
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Sandhu ’25: Freedom of thought requires freedom from the purse
By Meher Sandhu | March 20When 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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Lair ’28: The solution you're looking for isn’t trending
By CJ Lair | March 20When I opened TikTok to see a pink bedazzled Motorola flip phone, I immediately wanted one for myself — maybe minus the glitter. I envisioned myself reading at a park, browsing vintage stores, enjoying a cup of coffee, completely engulfed in the moment. A flip phone seemed like the key to my dream ...
