Opinions Editor Tas Rahman is an opinions editor at the Brown Daily Herald writing about issues in higher education. When he's not coding or studying biochemistry, you can find him hiking and enjoying the great outdoors.
During my 9th-grade student council election, I campaigned in a crowded field with a simple promise: an end-of-year school-sponsored trip to Cedar Point. Needless to say, I won in a landslide. Though well-intended, it became clear to me that I had overpromised and underdelivered. Voter backlash was ...
The Herald’s Fall 2025 Poll found that two-thirds of Brown students believe sharing political beliefs is important when forming friendships. Among very liberal or progressive students, this rate is much higher. While it is undoubtedly easier to pursue friendships with people you relate to politically, ...
In one of the earliest stories of the Hebrew Bible, God asks Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” Feigning ignorance, Cain responds, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” But Cain did know what had happened — he and his brother had fought in jealousy, and Cain had killed him. It was ...
On Nov. 6, I, like many of my classmates, woke up disappointed by the results of the U.S. election. As a lifelong liberal, I thought the choice was clear — a prosecutor over a felon. But I was not surprised that so many of my fellow Americans turned to Trump.
If we wake up on Wednesday morning and Donald Trump is elected president, our world will fundamentally change for the worse. When we wake up a year later and lament the damage, what will we say we did to prevent it?
In his column, Tas Rahman ’26 argues that Brown students should redirect pro-Palestinian activism away from divestment.
To say we live in an imperfect world would be a gross understatement. Today, we face war in the Middle East and Europe, genocide in Sudan and a refugee crisis in Venezuela, among other crises. Conflict, at its core, is a failure to reach an acceptable agreement for all parties involved. In our daily ...
As a Meiklejohn peer advisor, I often remind my students that college is a transformative experience intellectually, socially and emotionally. Learning does not only happen in the classroom – it happens in clubs, dining halls and especially in the wilderness. Yet Brown is failing to provide an outdoor ...
Publish or perish!
In a hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, then-Presidents Liz Magill of Penn and Claudine Gay of Harvard, as well as President Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were asked if “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates each president’s ...
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