Last week, on Sept. 10, 2020, President Christina Paxson P’19 sent an email to the Brown community announcing that the University would be moving forward with Phase 2 of its reopening plans.

Shopping period is in full swing, and while the start of the semester is normally a time filled with options and new opportunities, students face obstacles to accessing their education.

In the same year that Congress defined marriage as between a man and a woman, Justice Antonin Scalia opined that some groups among LGBTQ+ people were actually quite privileged.

“Why Brown?” Thousands of prospective students have answered this question as they vied for a coveted spot in the next class of Brunonians.

Since the University administration announced its plans for the fall 2020 semester on July 7, 2020, students have been focused on making their decisions about whether or not to return to campus.

The first time I went swing dancing, I simply followed the music. It was a snowy February night, and I was walking home from a late shift at The Herald when the soft notes of Ella Fitzgerald found me on the sidewalk behind Sayles.

Last fall, I attended a workshop hosted by legendary public-speaking professor Barbara Tannenbaum.

Over the past four years, my professors taught me about the history of museums, how to read like a writer and to question who has the right to tell what stories.

A couple days before classes started last fall, I learned that my grandmother was dying. She was the oldest member of my family, but we did not expect such a rapid decline in her health.

Anticlimactic. That is the descriptor most used when discussing graduation for the class of 2020.