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Letter: Student interests aligned with library workers'
By Brown Daily Herald | November 18To the Editor:
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Chris Norris-LeBlanc '13: On sharing resources
By Chris Norris-LeBlanc | November 18As Brown University is an internationally acclaimed institution, we the students graduate with a number of opportunities and privileges not afforded to the majority of the world's population. The diploma, possibly the most ponderous of these privileges, is not easy to conceptualize sharing with a large ...
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Letter: Advising from an adviser's viewpoint
By Brown Daily Herald | November 17To the Editor:
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Mike Johnson '11: This TV has words on it!
By Mike Johnson | November 17I will admit this immediately: This column is self-serving, commercialized and part of the liberal communo-fascist capitalistic tendencies of Brown, Inc. As a writer, I feel compelled to ignore any sense of political correctness, preferring instead to send my meager sentences out into the free marketplace ...
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Editorial: Metcalf Auditorium, R.I.P.
By Brown Daily Herald | November 17Most of the classrooms at Brown are quite good. MacMillan 115 and Smith-Buonanno 106 in particular are very nice places to watch a professor lecture, and the two auditoriums in the Salomon Center definitely get the job done. The same cannot be said of what used to be the Metcalf Chemistry Lab auditorium. ...
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Susannah Kroeber '11: One campus, divided
By Susannah Kroeber | November 16After the recent election, you might think that I'm about to talk about politics. Nov. 2 was a great upheaval, a polarizing election, and we need something similar here at Brown. One of the greatest issues today is the fact that people on both ends of the political spectrum do not regularly engage in ...
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Lucia Seda '12: Checking into 'Places'
By Lucia Seda | November 16Lately, the Social Network par excellence (a.k.a. Facebook) has been the epicenter of numerous changes that range from aesthetic modifications of profile pages to the introduction of new features for registered users. One of these is the "long awaited location feature, Facebook Places." With this new ...
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Letter: Column missed tenure reform facts
By Brown Daily Herald | November 16To the Editor:
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Editorial: Letter of recommendation
By Brown Daily Herald | November 16It's pretty much inevitable that we will all have to get letters of recommendation at some point during our time at Brown. Whether we're applying for jobs, internships, grants, study abroad programs or graduate schools, the time will invariably come to confront this rite of passage.
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Deniz Ilgen '13: Advising - Is less really more?
By Deniz Ilgen | November 15Advising at Brown is much more laid-back than I had initially expected it to be. Students are rarely required to meet with their advisors and don't have to get involved with advising unless they choose to do so. Adam Davis '13, believes that "the advising experience at Brown is largely student-initiated," ...
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Editorial: Walk away
By Brown Daily Herald | November 15An editorial in the Providence Journal recently called out students at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design for being careless when crossing streets and riding bicycles. The Journal brings up a good point — one that we already made in an editorial last March. We asked students to take greater ...
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William Tomasko '13: What Brown, Inc. would actually look like
By William Tomasko | November 15Liz Lemon had a dilemma. She loved the jeans she had bought from "Brooklyn Without Limits," a store she wanted to support because it was "all about fair trade and local artisans and staying green," but then she discovered that the store was actually owned by Halliburton. She couldn't decide if she should ...
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Editorial: Apply yourself
By Brown Daily Herald | November 14In May, The Herald reported that the Admission Office saw a nearly 21 percent spike in applicants for the class of 2014. The record number of 30,135 applicants was cited by the New York Times in a recent article on a nationwide push by many universities for more applications without a corresponding ...
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Michelle Uhrick '11: When is a university just a university?
By Michelle Uhrick | November 14Last year, I was with the visiting family of a friend of mine when we received the seemingly unavoidable Providence parking ticket.
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Sarah Yu '11: The graduate repining experience
By Sarah Yu | November 14The last 24 hours of my life have been filled with forgetting. No, I did not have any unfortunate experiences at Sex Power God, nor did I accidentally walk into a men's bathroom. Rather, I had begun the mind purging process that is necessary after any exam that requires one to "study" by rote memorization. ...
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Simon Liebling '12: Kertzer's Brown, Inc. legacy
By Simon Liebling | November 11Announcing the end of a 45-year transformation from one of the University's foremost student radicals to a bureaucratic Brown, Inc. acolyte, President Ruth Simmons took the opportunity last week to praise departing Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 for what will likely be his last administrative pet ...
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Dan Davidson '11.5: Net neutrality, dead for some, ripe for compromise
By Dan Davidson | November 11In the wake of election day, Republicans eagerly pointed out the many specific policy proposals voters rejected with their ballots. As in years past, when it was the Democrats explaining which Republican ideas voters repudiated, few in the media are pointing out that these "analyses" are nothing more ...
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Ian Trupin '13: Saving investment responsibility from death by boredom
By Ian Trupin | November 10Organization theory posits that when a group no longer has a reason to exist, constituents of that organization will find new purposes for it to pursue. If this is the case, then it is high time for the body of Brown's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, or ACCRIP, ...
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Spencer Lawrence '11: Environmental sustainability - the 21st century challenge
By Spencer Lawrence | November 10I recently read some above-average graffiti in a bathroom stall: "The unexamined life is not worth living." Props to Socrates and the lawless student who rewrote it 2,500 years later. Let us apply it, for now, with an environmental lens. Every object we see around us came from the earth: this ...
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Letter: Hillel event not about Palestine
By Brown Daily Herald | November 10To the Editor:
