To the Class of 2009 and those who are new to Brown, I'd like to bring you up to date on a controversy that is currently taking this campus hostage: the issue of intellectual diversity.
As part of an ambitious new plan, New York City doctors are beginning to screen patients for depression, using a questionnaire that inventories mood and behavioral symptoms. Though the test will not be mandatory, health officials hope every doctor in the city hospital system will be using the screening ...
In the weeks following the suicide of a fellow Brown student, I've been thinking about the sense of community we share on campus.
I have spent two weeks riding elevators. I spent hours inside those small cages - up, down, up, down, up - as a class assignment. It was a social experiment to investigate what people do when forced into mutual company within such a confined space. I took the elevators at the Rock as high as they would ...
It was an early Saturday morning last October when I found myself leaving Philadelphia by train, trapped next to a group of Brown and Penn students. As we made our way to the Philly suburb where we'd soon be canvassing door-to-door, I thought to myself how we, students from two different schools, were ...
The bustle of urban streets and neighborhoods remain sustainable only for so long. With time, paving begins to wear, parking facilities become overcrowded, and security lags in the face of escalating crime.
I think general sentiment around this campus is that Brown's winter vacation is incredibly long.
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