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Oscar Noxon

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Noxon ’27: Brown needs to reclaim the legacy of semiotics

Once upon a time, there was a program at Brown called semiotics. Robert Scholes, an English professor, was hired to teach at Brown in 1970, arriving on College Hill to discover a “campus whose openness to new lines of teaching and research would make it the perfect incubator for these new ideas,” ...

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Noxon ’27: Students should have swipe access to all dorms

It’s February. It’s 20 degrees outside, give or take. You’ve gone to see one of your friends in a different dorm. You call them to let them know you’re outside — that you’re waiting — but get sent to voicemail. You send a text. Then another. Then another. They’ve fallen asleep, a nap ...

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Noxon ’27: National attention kills student movements

In many ways, it is the ultimate dream of a student movement to become the sparkplug for a national debate. The more a student movement is talked about, the more supporters it garners beyond the confines of a given campus, and logic seems to follow, the more likely the movement is to succeed. 

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