For those Brown students who are not native Rhode Islanders, even a short trip home during the school year is a major affair. My three-day visit this past weekend was no different, as I interrupted a rather taxing internship in New Mexico to take care of some business as home. Our family pet, a grizzled ...
The first time I smelled marijuana smoke, I distinctly remember thinking what an odd odor it is. Wood smoke has a crisp, full odor. Cigarettes give off a fainter aroma, light, but sharp. Marijuana is more difficult to describe: sharp like a cigarette, but distractingly sweet-and-sour. It's an unpleasant ...
A few friends of mine really got shafted last week. As students enrolled in the Program in Liberal Medical Education, they discovered that their guaranteed acceptance into Warren Alpert Medical School will be rendered null and void if they send out applications to any other medical schools.I shouldn't ...
If you plan on visiting New York City over the Thanksgiving holiday break, I insist that you ride the subway at least once. While you're at it, take a good look at the ads — you may read something thought-provoking.
On Oct. 9 at 7:31 a.m. EDT, the world witnessed a momentous occasion: NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) fired two large projectiles into one of the moon's polar craters to study the composition of the lunar surface.
Anyone who wandered through the Main Green this past week was granted a rare opportunity to see some profoundly horrifying images: a seal being brutally clubbed to death for its fur; an innocent piglet being castrated; a poor cat being pinned down on a dissecting table.
I learned to read when I was three. I still remember reading nightly with my father, sitting in his lap with a book in my hands and a blanket around my shoulders. I was brought up on "Green Eggs and Ham," "Goodnight Moon" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." I wonder what books my sons and daughters will ...
When it comes to the newspaper, I'm not a particularly difficult person to please. I love crossword puzzles, editorials, columns and comics. But since the start of the new semester, I have noticed a large decline in the number of comics.
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