To the Editor: It is disheartening to read that Brown students want to offer Chelsea Manning a visiting fellowship at the Watson Institute (“Ricci GS, Hemmatian Borujeni GS: Invite Chelsea Manning to Watson,” Jan. 24). I’m all for controversy. Invite Ray Kelly, Rick Ross and Milo Yiannopoulos ...
This will probably be the last column I write — graduation is rapidly approaching and The Herald doesn’t retain its columnists as alums. In preparation for this column, I wanted to think about what I would say to someone, maybe an incoming freshman, who asked for one piece of advice. What do I wish ...
Brown was in the New York Times last week — we were on spring break. It didn’t make my day, but it came close. Judith Shulevitz, a contributing writer for the Times, wrote an op-ed about college students and how they avoid ideas that they don’t like. Her first example was Brown’s safe spaces, ...
Bundled with its approval for the expansion of Brown’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps partnerships in a faculty resolution was a smaller provision calling for transcript notation of involvement with ROTC. The core of the proposal is that Brown students who are part of the ROTC at Providence College ...
Last year, CVS underwent some changes. In addition to changing its name to CVS Health, it stopped selling cigarettes in all of its nearly 8,000 stores nationwide. The company paired this with programming in its pharmacies and MinuteClinics designed to help customers actually quit. According to its website, ...
Sixty-five years ago the Sharpe Refectory opened its doors on our campus. No space has had more of an impact on the daily lives of Brunonians since. We eat there, we socialize there, we study there and some of us even work there. I would bet that by the time we graduate, we will have entered the Ratty ...
I recently had the chance to watch the new movie “American Sniper” about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. It is, to use one of my Brown vocabulary words, “problematic.” A good versus evil story that doesn’t capture the muddied reality of the Iraq War, it paints Chris Kyle as a Texas cowboy hunting insurgents ...
We’ve all seen the recent spate of NFL scandals: Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, Ray MacDonald and others. The National Football League is facing a behavior crisis large enough to merit an internal review and repeated apologies from the league commissioner, Roger Goodell. It’s clear that the NFL needs ...
Mason jars. I know you’ve seen them used as cups at parties, in dorm rooms and in campus kitchens. Or perhaps you’ve seen them starring in your Instagram feed. They’ve become a ubiquitous accessory for anyone trying to buck the mainstream. There is much less of a chance you’ve seen them where ...
Ebola in Dallas. Ebola in New York. Even our small state cannot escape the news coverage – “NBC news cameraman from Providence diagnosed with Ebola,” ran one recent headline. It seems hard these days to get away from the Ebola hysteria. Parents are pulling their children from school, families ...
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