Almost seven months ago, police arrested former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for domestic violence. Now, new information is still being released about the details of the case. At this point, video evidence has shown everyone what occurred. Footage depicts Janay Palmer, Rice’s fiancee at ...
Over the weekend, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria executed a third westerner, British aid worker David Haines. The United States, the United Kingdom and our allies around the world are increasingly inclined to escalate action in the conflict. While the civil war is certainly, to a degree, a global ...
Brown in no way conforms to the paradigm presented by William Deresiewicz in his book, “Excellent Sheep.” Though Deresiewicz conceded in his lecture that Brown is halfway toward promoting and perpetuating a liberal arts system, we firmly believe that the University is uniquely positioned within ...
We’re not done yet. And I don’t see the end coming anytime soon. Last Wednesday, in a prime-time speech addressing the nation, President Obama announced that he was opening a new chapter in the War on Terror and in our involvement in the Middle East. The new campaign would be limited to air strikes ...
Last week, Jason Ginsberg ’16 wrote an article on what he believes to be the misleading nature of the Middle East Studies Initiative’s programming (“Brown’s Middle East misnomer,” Sept. 11). To begin with, the central premise of his argument needs to be clarified, as the author himself seems ...
To the Editor: I was disappointed this weekend to discover that Brown’s tradition of providing Rhody Fresh milk, and only Rhody Fresh milk, to its students had ended. On what I expected to be a normal evening’s trip to Josiah’s for some milk and a snack, I was surprised to find a fridge stocked ...
The University should seek to minimize the discrepancy in difficulty among its various departments and concentrations. In general, courses offered in the sciences require significantly more effort and time. Though we acknowledge the recent conversation regarding grade inflation, we firmly believe the ...
I love football. There is nothing better than grabbing a bunch of friends and watching a close NFL game on a Sunday afternoon in the fall. Rivalries are intense, traditions loom large, and the Super Bowl never ceases to disappoint. But the recent events surrounding Ray Rice’s battering of his fiancee ...
Before diving into my response to Peter Makhlouf’s ’16 column in last Monday’s Herald, “Where is my Birthright?” I’d like to address certain things. Firstly, as we are all products of Brown’s environment, I think it is within our culture to try and understand various different arguments. ...
During your summer months you have, no doubt, seen various postings and re-postings of the near-ubiquitous William Deresiewicz article in the New Republic, “Don’t send your kids to the Ivy League.” And you — as an Ivy League student yourself — almost certainly read it. And if you are like ...
I remember my first technology career fair. There was a girl who couldn’t stop laughing. As resumes were scattered and business cards compared, the artists were separated from the analysts, the social workers from the computer programmers. Soon the laughter turned to tears. Apparently not a single ...
To the Editor: I wanted to express my disappointment with the name chosen to replace the admittedly awkward “Third World Center.” The “Brown Center for Students of Color” was, in my opinion, an ill-considered name. It lumps together many historically and culturally unrelated groups, ...
To the Editor: I’m glad to hear the Third World Center has determined a new name and a more specific mission (“TWC creates new name, mission,” Sept. 11). Institutions should continuously evolve and adapt to meet student needs; following its strategic planning process, the new Brown Center ...
In 1998, five Cuban counterterrorism agents were arrested in Miami and held in solitary confinement for 17 months. Then — after a dubious seven-month-long trial in which no hard evidence was ever presented — the group was convicted and given the equivalent of more than four life sentences. The ...
Much has been written about Ferguson. The rhetoric of self-defense espoused by law enforcement to justify its use of military-grade weaponry against black and brown bodies is mirrored by civilians’ use of firearms for the same purported reason. Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, Jonathan Ferrell, now ...
It is the start of my third year at Brown, but every morning at around 1 a.m., I still find excitement in opening the latest Morning Mail. There is something liberating about having so many lectures, events and performances to choose from in the day ahead. Lately, however, my usual sense of comfort ...
Last week, the University of Arizona’s student newspaper, the Arizona Daily Wildcat, published an op-ed column by senior Rob Monteleone entitled “Only responsibility can stop rape” that featured much of the misogynist rhetoric we are unfortunately familiar with these days: Women shouldn’t go ...
While often articulating a muddled view of the proverbial collegiate hierarchy, the rankings provided in U.S. News and World Report inevitably — in ways both tangible and intangible — shape the mindset of prospective high school applicants. These rankings’ calculated data points on higher education ...
At both an institutional and a personal level, current and formerly incarcerated people are consistently dismissed when they ask for help — for some people, it seems fair that they deal with the consequences of their actions on their own. But what about consequences that go above and beyond what we ...
To the Editor: The Herald’s editorial on Sept. 9 raises a good issue. As a scholarship student as an undergrad, I found it useful to buy printed copies of final exams from previous years, with the names of the examiners on them, from our in-house bookshop to help define what to prepare for ...
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