Opinions Editor Tas Rahman is an Opinion Editor and a member of the Editorial Page Board. He hails from Detroit, Michigan and is concentrating in Computational Biology and Judaic Studies. In his free time, you can find Tas hiking and reading the Atlantic (alongside the Herald).
Imagine you are a 19th-century shipowner about to send one of your vessels to the New World, carrying a cargo of hopeful families seeking a better life. While your ship has historically been sturdy, she has seen many rough seas and often needs repair. Doubt begins to creep into your mind about whether ...
On April 10, Undergraduate Council of Students President Talib Reddick ’26 and Undergraduate Finance Board Chair Naomi LeDell ’26 stood on the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center to announce that Ariel Shifrin ’27 was elected as UCS president and Aidan Lu ’27 as UFB chair. Back in ...
This spring break, my friends and I travelled through Germany, Poland and Lithuania, visiting Holocaust sites and learning about its legacy. Despite being a Judaic studies concentrator and being currently enrolled in JUDS 0902: “History of the Holocaust,” this trip was eye-opening in a way few other ...
Last Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that, starting next school year, the Department of Defense will cut sponsorships for active duty U.S. military personnel to attend graduate programs and fellowships at Brown and other elite institutions. The cancellations affect 93 fellowships at ...
In 1928, Brown had a problem. Despite its reputation as a finishing school for white elites from the East Coast, 38% of the class of 1928 was Jewish. These young men were largely the sons of Russian Jewish immigrants and hailed from public schools, which was considered a real shonda — a scandal — ...
The editorial page board has identified the obvious: Providence faces a cost-of-living crisis that is harming working and middle-class families. They have aptly noted that the state places last in new housing development, and have commended the City Council’s push for rent stabilization as a way out ...
250 years ago, our founding fathers declared that we are “endowed by (our) Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” And that “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter ...
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 ...
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