I remember distinctly the first time I had a bad impression of Brown’s dorms. I was in one of those overly energetic tour groups in summer 2013 — after I had already been accepted to the University — and the tour leader was talking about residential life. I vaguely remember that she said some ...
Everyone at Brown gets As. At least, that’s what my international relations TA told me. That morning, our professor had handed back our midterm research papers. Having earned a B+ on the short essay before it, I had spent days navigating the longer and more difficult prompt she had distributed in ...
From the standpoint of an outsider, Brown has many unique and attractive features. It seems to have liberal academic, social and financial traits that are drastically different from those of other institutions: the open curriculum, the progressive student body and the University’s promise to meet ...
The administration has been working hard to prevent sexual assault on campus in the aftermath of last semester’s incidents. The new alcohol policies on campus have received mixed responses, and they definitely demonstrate a concerted effort to prevent sexual assault. But they have also overshadowed ...
Much like our midterms, finals and course papers, the upcoming presidential campaign looms in the back of our minds. We prepare for a presumably clear-cut Democratic primary and a heavily contested Republican one. As a proud and openly secular liberal institution of higher learning, most members of ...
Last week, many Brown community members were disappointed to learn that classes and administrative functions would not be cancelled on Monday, Feb. 2. The bad news came during the first quarter of Super Bowl XLIX in an email from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, ...
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom” may be the U.S. Postal Service’s unofficial motto, but it sounds like the narrative of a Brown student trudging to class through a Providence winter. One of the most unexpected lessons I have learned during my time at Brown is that the aftermath of any ...
Thursday’s Herald featured a column by Peter Makhlouf ’16 titled “ROTC: Return of the Criminals.” I and many to whom I have spoken disagree with Makhlouf’s stance, and I feel compelled to address some of the points made in his piece. First and foremost, attempting to obtain a college degree ...
Last week, New England faced Winter Storm Juno, which dumped enough snow on Brown’s campus to cancel classes and close all nonessential University buildings. Much to the dismay of Pembroke students, dining operations were centralized to the Sharpe Refectory. Anyone who went to the Thayer Street CVS ...
Some students reacted to the University’s recent announcement that alcohol is prohibited at large-scale parties in residential spaces as if the administration had resurrected the Eighteenth Amendment. The immediate reaction was laughable. In a recent Herald article gauging campus reactions to the ...
A November 2014 Herald article described the lack of military support on Brown’s campus. The article outlined how students considering careers in the military and participating in ROTC programs on campus feel marginalized by “the anti-military — and even hostile — stigma attached to ‘schools ...
Editors’ note: This piece discusses depression and its effects. It began — where else? — in chemistry class. Tenth grade. A girl that I had always found annoying bounced into the room, chattering about her new endeavor to ask friends about their first kisses. The stories were adorable, she recounted, ...
I come from a region of the United States that is regularly referred to as the “snowbelt.” It’s an unofficial term for those states directly due east and those southeast of the Great Lakes that receive gargantuan quantities of lake-enhanced snowfall every winter. Buffalo, New York — part of ...
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 ...
There are very conflicting feelings permeating the senior class. On one hand, it is exciting to decide what we want to do with the next chapter of our lives and where we want to be next year. But it is also bittersweet to remember that this is our last semester at Brown, a place that many of us love. Shopping ...
On the papal plane from Sri Lanka to the Philippines Jan. 15, Pope Francis, speaking about the terrorist attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo earlier this month, put the world on notice. “If (my aide Alberto Gasparri) says a swear word against my mother, he’s going to get a punch,” ...
Amidst the heat of continued Republican opposition, President Obama has faced many a stalemate and government shut-down. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it best before the 2012 election: “The single most important thing (Republicans) want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term ...
The problem with Brown’s interim response to the White House directive to address sexual assault on college campuses is that it has chosen to address procedures and not substance. The University has refined and expanded procedures for adjudicating charges of sexual assault instead of seeking to prevent ...
In response to the shootings that targeted the staff of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, many have recently risen up under the slogan “Je suis Charlie,” which translates from French to “I am Charlie.” The slogan sympathizes with those who were killed in the massacre, thereby supporting freedom ...
The old joke goes that graduate students are paid to read. It’s true, we read. A lot. But reading is not solely what we are paid to do: We are also paid to teach and mentor undergraduates, conduct research for faculty members and conduct our own research in order to write journal articles, papers ...
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