When I walk outside the Rockefeller Library or my dorm room, I feel vaguely like I've stepped into a 1960s bar on an episode of "Mad Men."
Banning smoking near Brown campus buildings is ill-advised because such a ban does not advance public health or change personal incentives in any meaningful way.
I am not a doctor. I am not a pharmacist. In fact, I have no medical training. But I do know enough about trends in infectious disease to know that flu shots are a very important part of promoting health and wellness of self and others, especially during these coming winter months. For this reason, ...
We're less then two weeks from the presidential election. President Obama and former governor Mitt Romney are each whipping up a storm about how we should vote for them because the other will lead us all to ruin. Both are eager to agree that there is a clear choice between the two of them and the two ...
The decision between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney won't be the only important one for Rhode Islanders on the ballot sheet come Nov. 6. Rhode Island's ongoing efforts to sustain and ultimately grow the state economy have led to two crucial ballot measures, which will be featured on the state ballot this ...
Daniel Moraff '14 wrote an op-ed article complaining, essentially, that the Brown Corporation is rich ("The horrifying makeup of the Brown Corporation," Oct. 17). To be more specific, he is outraged that half of the members of the Corporation come from the financial services industry.
In September, Marissa Mayer, the exemplary "Employee No. 20" of Google and new CEO of Yahoo!, gave birth to her first son. As a high-profile businesswoman who has ostensibly attained both personal and professional success, Mayer reignited the debate over whether women can truly "have it all." This discussion ...
Last week, Brown received the dubious honor of being proclaimed "the number one college in the world" by the Best 50 Colleges list, a poorly-formatted, stencil-font website that sprang onto students' radar via Facebook. While we do not believe this is a ranking meant to be taken seriously - though kudos ...
No matter how much we may have hated or loved our respective high school experiences, there was at least one comfort we all shared: Success was easy to define. Whether you attended Phillips Exeter Academy or a public school in a poor neighborhood, there was a fairly consistent success formula. You were ...
As many of you may be aware, the Graduate School has recently proposed establishing a firm limit on outside work for graduate students, capping it at 20 hours a semester. Not 20 hours a week, though I can certainly understand how your eye would read that for you. Twenty hours a semester - which works ...
It's midterm season again. Our stress levels are rising. As the week goes on, listen to the conversations around you. Haven't you heard at least one person jokingly begin a sentence with "My therapist thinks..." or end with, "That's what my therapist said"? Do you ever see self-critical jokes on Twitter ...
Last spring, the Herald poll revealed that a plurality of students - 37.8 percent - believe increasing financial aid ought to be the University's top priority, a far greater percentage than that supporting the second-place priority - improving on-campus housing. Yet anyone walking through the newly ...
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