"I feel like we're at a standstill." That's what a friend said to me over a mid-semester coffee break. Since freshman year we had shared our Brown lives over weekly dinners and e-mail chains, four years of new classes, semesters abroad and summer jobs up and down the East coast. Then here we were, just ...
Most Brunonians probably haven't seen a color guard since high school football games, and never as part of a tango performance. But Brown's Latino performing arts troupe, Mezcla - "mix" in Spanish - mixed traditional mariachi with Shakira's music, spoken word with acrobatics and flag corps with tango ...
Up until the 1950s, Brown - which has historic ties to the Baptist church - produced "tons of Baptist clergy," said University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson. Now, up to four dozen Brown graduates in each class pursue religious occupations encompassing many faiths.
While studying for political science exams, students may turn to textbooks to brush up on dependency theory, a framework of international relations which argues that poorer developing nations are economically exploited by wealthier developed nations. But more resourceful students could arrange office ...
When Shahryar Mandanipour's fellowship with the International Writers Project ends this June, he will be forced to return to Iran and potentially face arrest unless he finds a job in the United States that will allow him to extend his visa.
Iranian author Moniro Ravanipour was too scared to shower when she was in Germany for a writers' conference in 2001. Soon after she arrived, her husband called to tell her Iranian authorities opposed the conference. She feared they might have installed secret cameras in her hotel bathroom and would ...
While making copies at an MTV office, a researcher complained aloud that she did not graduate from Wesleyan University to do such menial work. Alison Stewart '88 looked at her and demanded 60 copies.
After delivering her remarks at Career Week Saturday, Alison Stewart '88 spoke with The Herald about her career in broadcast journalism.
Spring break in 2006 became stressful rather than relaxing for one undergrad when she could not easily obtain emergency contraception after she had unprotected sex.
The international community remains unwilling to take action to end the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region despite "three World Trade Centers' worth of death occur(ing) each month," said Eric Reeves, a Sudan expert and professor of English language and literature at Smith College, during this weekend's ...
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