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Letter: Response to ‘Brown vs. Harvard over the years’
By Peter Mackie | October 7To the Editor:
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Mackie ’59: Brown’s unfinished business: pedestrianizing Brown and Benevolent Streets
By Peter Mackie | March 9On April 30, 2012, Brown and the City of Providence signed a Memorandum of Agreement in which the University purchased sections of Benevolent, Brown and Olive Streets. In addition, the City licensed 250 revenue-producing on-street parking spaces to Brown for faculty and staff use. In turn, the University ...
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Letter: Responding to ‘Fmr. US Rep. David Cicilline and six others join Brown Corporation’
By Peter Mackie | November 17To the Editor:
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Letter: Athletics are another important legacy of Pembroke
By Peter Mackie | April 12The April 9 article, “‘End of an era’: Exploring the legacy of Pembroke College” omitted one important Pembroke cohort — student-athletes. As a result of the merger of Pembroke College and Brown University, intercollegiate athletics moved from oversight of the Pembroke physical education ...
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Letter: Now is the time pedestrianize the streets of Brown
By Peter Mackie | March 2To the Editor: The Feb. 14 column by Gabriel Sender ’25 calling for the pedestrianization of Brown and Thayer streets is an ambitious and important proposal from a number of perspectives. The elimination of personal vehicles in and around campus is an idea that has been bandied about for ...
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Mackie '59: Cliff Stevenson and the coaching road less chosen
By Peter Mackie | March 5It was 1960, and Brown was trying to gain a foothold in the newly-minted athletic Ivy League. Overmatched in facilities, financial resources and athletic pedigree, one question dogged the program: Do we really belong in the Ivy League? Historically, Bruno had been an outlier, faring poorly when taking ...
Sports
Mackie '59 — An Open Letter to the Brown Community: The Price of Winning
By Peter Mackie | June 7The May 28 announcement arrived without warning — a thunderbolt from above, striking the hearts of legions within the University athletic community. The hand-picked Committee on Excellence in Athletics, composed of seven alumni and trustees chosen in part because of their “capacity to make very ...
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Mackie '59: Honoring the Legacy of Arlene Gorton ’52 — Brown’s Opportunity
By Peter Mackie | February 6Today, few people on campus know of Arlene Gorton ’52, a Brown athletic administrator who recently passed away. Anyone who participates in athletics at any level, however, is a beneficiary of Arlene’s inclusive philosophy that athletics are for everyone. Arlene Gorton graduated from Pembroke College ...
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Letter: Landscape the hardscape
By Peter Mackie | February 21To the Editor: Now that the University has wisely changed course about the site of the future performing arts center, it should also turn its attention to the area around the five historic structures which were spared from the wrecking ball or relocation. The ugly, barren hardscape behind the Waterman ...
