Isabella Gardiner is an opinions editor and a member of the editorial page board. She is a sophomore from London, UK, and plans on concentrating in history.
Since its inception in 1969, Brown’s Open Curriculum has been adapted, from changing requirements for the number of courses required to graduate, adding the WRIT requirement and, most recently, eliminating triple concentrations. Elliot Maxwell ’68, one of the pioneers of Brown’s Open Curriculum ...
First-years, what came to your mind when you pictured a Brown education? When I first got to Brown, I imagined a life of vigorous discussions led by bespectacled, sweater-clad professors in warm wooden classrooms. It’s the experience advertised in admissions materials, and one that you might be looking ...
On March 11, Mexican investigative journalist Marcela Turati delivered the keynote address at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies’s inaugural Human Rights Lecture and Symposium. After the killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — also known as El Mencho — two weeks prior, we ...
On May 22, I was listening to music at the wryly named 1984 Jazz Club in Tbilisi, Georgia when I learned that President Trump had attempted to revoke Harvard’s ability to enroll international students. Five months later, Georgia’s government introduced a similar restriction on its own universities. ...
The editorial page board has identified the obvious: Providence faces a cost-of-living crisis that is harming working and middle-class families. They have aptly noted that the state places last in new housing development, and have commended the City Council’s push for rent stabilization as a way out ...
The first day of the spring semester on College Hill was an unsettling one. After the shooting that took the lives of two of our classmates and injured nine others, most of the Brown community promptly fled campus. We were left scattered across the world, away from the site of some of our fondest, and ...
As the next generation of Brunonians walks through the Van Wickle Gates, these students may be left wondering how they ended up on College Hill. But that’s not a question any of us can completely answer. The journey an application takes from the Common Application portal to an acceptance letter is ...
Since we were old enough to use Google, Gen Z has been told Wikipedia is unreliable. I remember sitting criss-crossed on the floor of my elementary school classroom, listening to my teacher lecture about how, since anyone on the internet can edit a Wikipedia page, it shouldn’t be trusted. To this ...
If you’re reading strangely intimate, nameless comments about your classmates’ eating habits, midterm schedules or sex lives, you’re probably doomscrolling on Sidechat. The app is an anonymous forum for users to post about whatever is on their mind, anytime they want, to a community of predominantly ...
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