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Curry '51: A proposal for a novel fiscal measure
By David Curry | September 7To the Editor:
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Editorial: Cleaning up after Irene
By Brown Daily Herald | September 7In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Irene, it seemed that the storm had been hyped up. After all, many of the direst predictions failed to come true — particularly massive flooding in the New York metro area.
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Hefer '12: Productive debate among reasonable people
By David Hefer | September 7This fall, you'll find yourself engaged in familiar conversations. You'll be lounging on the Main Green or trying to get the Keeney hallway to stop spinning for just one second when a friend will say, "Those idiots in Congress ought to x!" or "The average person needs to realize that z!" What these ...
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Rosenbloom '13: Even on liberal campuses, you're not as free as you think
By Oliver Rosenbloom | September 6The prevalence of restrictive speech codes on college campuses is an underreported travesty of our time. The modern university ought to be a bastion of intellectual freedom where every idea is protected, and the college experience should empower individuals to learn how to deal with adult freedom responsibly. ...
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Lebovitz '14: STEM degrees for green cards
By Chip Lebovitz | September 6Mid-September last year, members of Brown's activist student body took to the Main Green in what was the first act in their three-month-long campaign to rally support for the DREAM Act. The proposed federal DREAM Act would have provided undocumented immigrants with U.S. residency in exchange for their ...
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Emmy Liss '11: You are what you do
By Brown Daily Herald | May 28"So, Emmy, what do you do at Brown?"
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Commencement 2011: Editor's note
By The 120th Editorial Board | May 28Graduation is a time for cliches, and in this moment of finality, we have decided to embrace it. And indeed, oh, the places we'll go!
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Chaz Kelsh '11: Learning to swim
By Chaz Kelsh | May 28For the last four years, I have had the privilege of telling friends and family back home that I went to school with the happiest students in America. Of the many things that have been great about Brown, that has been by far the best, and I think it's something we take for granted. We're beyond lucky ...
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Ben Hyman '11: Proud songsters
By Brown Daily Herald | May 28To the rain gods: Why? When the Class of 2011 had gotten used to warm, blue-skied Providence springtimes, why bid us farewell with a chilly, rain-soaked April and an even more depressing May? — More depressing, that is, because we were even more painfully aware of what we were missing.
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Claire Kiely '11: An economic approach to college
By Brown Daily Herald | May 28Economics uses a term called utility to refer to an individual's satisfaction or happiness at a given point in time. An individual's utility is expressed by a model or function that demonstrates how and from where a person derives their happiness. An individual actively "maximizes" the variables of ...
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Fast '12: In God we hope, in reason we trust
By Hunter Fast | April 27Brown's motto, "In Deo Speramus," is a vestige of the time of the University's founding, when our collected scientific knowledge often failed to protect us from nature's vicissitudes, whether they came in the form of plagues, floods, earthquakes or whatever else. In that era, it made sense for us to ...
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Crowell '13: Pot is actually illegal
By Daniel Cromwell | April 27In a recent opinions column ("In the drug war, keep your eyes on the real killer," April 22), Hunter Fast '12 was incensed by the suggestion that Brown students should be mindful of their participation in the illegal drug market. According to Fast, we should be proud to exercise our right to smoke marijuana, ...
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Letter: Judicial system still unfair to women
By Brown Daily Herald | April 27To the Editor:
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Rosenbloom '13: Overlooking personal responsibility
By Oliver Rosenbloom | April 26In her recent column, Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa '11 castigated Brown marijuana users, arguing that their consumption funds gang violence in Mexico ("4/20 and the drug war," April 18). Her column incited a strong backlash from readers because no one wants to hear that the Brown community has a hand in gang ...
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Park '12: Liberal Learning is under attack
By Julian Park | April 26Much like a cancer, the University's growths, initiated in the name of profit and prestige, threaten its health.
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Letter: UCS presidents oppose cutting teams
By Brown Daily Herald | April 26To the Editor:
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Editorial: All's well that ends well
By Brown Daily Herald | April 26As reading period approaches, we are all looking for ways to avoid studying for finals, and seniors especially may find the best tactic to be nostalgia. Reflecting over the last year, we have seen Brown evolve in many areas, and we are proud to see most of these changes have been for the better.
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Tobias '12: 'Next year at home'
By Ethan Tobias | April 25Swarms of prospective students descended on campus this past week. Walking between classes, I found myself doubling back to get around groups of 50 or more high schoolers, parents in tow, listening attentively to a hoarse Brown student yelling ineffectively at the top of his lungs.
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Editorial: Priorities
By Brown Daily Herald | April 25Last week, the Athletics Review Committee presented a set of proposals for review by President Ruth Simmons and the Corporation. Among its recommended policy changes, the committee suggested cutting four athletic teams — men's wrestling, women's skiing and men and women's fencing — and increasing ...
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Johnson '11: Thanks for all the fish
By Mike Johnson | April 25My four years at Brown have been a welcome experience of maturation, and like fine wine and deliciously stinky cheese, the school only improves with age. From the moment wide-eyed first-years walk up the impossibly steep College Street and through the gaping Van Wickle Gates, there is something about ...
