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Letter: Brown had no choice but to pay full tax on the new provost residence
By Peter Ian Asen | April 24To the Editor:
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Letter: Brown breaks education funding promise
By Peter Ian Asen | September 16To the Editor: I am disappointed in the Brown administration’s efforts to cite its current programmatic investments in Providence schools as a way to excuse Brown’s failure to meet its more than decade-old commitment to raise $10 million for a permanent fund to support K-12 education in Providence. While ...
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A reality check long overdue
By Peter Ian Asen | September 21This year's April Fool's Day issue of The Herald had an article with Brown Director of Admissions Michael Goldberger declaring a muffin in the Blue Room to be "the best muffin ever."
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Mouths run amok
By Peter Ian Asen | September 20The Daily Jolt asks students to send in absurd remarks made by their professors, but recently I found myself taking furious notes to get down the verbatim commentary of a fellow student. In my West African literature class, a male student commented on a Senegalese novel in an approving tone by saying, ...
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Defeat Bush and build the (third) party
By Peter Ian Asen | August 29I voted for Al Gore four years ago. My favorite political bumper sticker of the season, however, was without a doubt the one that said, "Al and George make me wanna Ralph." Though I did not participate in the reductive thinking of Naderites who said there was no important difference between the Democratic ...
