On my desk right now sit maybe a hundred studies on the SAT. They are written by the College Board, the Educational Testing Service and academics from UPenn, Chicago and Duke, as well as people from the dubious National Center for Fair and Open Testing. These studies correlate things like SAT, SAT II ...
We all realize how hard it is to get into Brown. Each of us here went through a grueling process and were each validated by being accepted. However, some applicants have an easier time being admitted than others: sons and daughters of alums were offered admission at a rate about three times higher than ...
This semester, a group of Brown students launched a campaign condemning the policies of Israel and demanding the University's withdrawal of all investments from that country. Having read Anti-Racist Action's open letter to President Ruth Simmons, I'm upset by several of its contentions.
Over the last few days I have felt a great deal of shame. A disbelief, felt by many, that the world's sole remaining superpower could not, or at least did not, respond more quickly to a disaster that had been our own government's worst-case scenario for years. Around the nation, the world, my household ...
The Herald has printed several articles in the last few weeks about the Integrative Science and Engineering Program. According to the most recent proposal presented to the faculty, this program would select a group of 60 entering students in addition to our normal class; each student would take five ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students needs change. It is my desire to be candid with you about what is happening to the organization and to this university.
Last month I had the pleasure of representing students in a College Curriculum Council meeting where administrators, faculty, staff and other students discussed the addition of pluses and minuses to Brown's grading system. Some say the UCS representatives, of which I was one, left the meeting with a ...
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