In the weeks since Brown returned to more traditional operations for fall 2021, a news story,
The University is planning to sink at least $125 million over five years into a hospital mega-merger that, if approved, would effectively monopolize inpatient care in Rhode Island. It鈥檚 a huge deal that could have serious consequences for the cost and quality of health care in the state. So why isn鈥檛 ...
Long lines might be the hallmark of the student dining experience at Brown. But these lines are a symptom of a deeper crisis: the shocking conditions facing our dining hall workers. ...
Though recent promises to increase global vaccination distribution point in the right direction, a big question remains: Why are we allowing waste of these life-saving vaccines daily and why has our global response been so delayed?
Driving on I-95 in the late summer, I feel something tugging me back to College Hill. As I stroll past University Hall, the Rock and the Ratty, I get wistful. Why didn鈥檛 I make the most of those undergrad years? What if I knew then what I know now?
Elijah is my favorite biblical prophet; he鈥檚 got fire and he鈥檚 got pain 鈥� like all of us. When his fears threaten to snuff out his fire, he runs away 鈥� like we sometimes do. God finds him hiding in a cave and, quite literally, calls him out (if you鈥檝e got God hang-ups or anthropomorphism isn鈥檛 ...
On May 15, the Palestine Solidarity Caucus first shared Brown Community鈥檚 Letter of Solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle, which condemns the May 2021 escalations in Israeli state and settler-mob violence against Palestinians across historic Palestine. In that period, Israel forcibly ...
It seems almost poetic that the first significant financial explosion caused by digital communities was centered on, of all things, video games. Reddit, colloquially known as the social media platform most concerned with video games and nerd culture, made headlines in the last few weeks when the investing ...
Last week, Democrat House impeachment managers presented piercing arguments to the Senate in their bid to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In doing so, however, they repeatedly struck a curious chord: lavishing praise on former Vice President Mike Pence. Perhaps ...
Brown University holds a miserable track record of supporting its U-FLi (undocumented, first-generation college, low-income) students, who thrive in this hostile environment only by virtue of our own community鈥檚 organizing, care and mentorship. As U-FLi students, we feel like tokens whose life struggles ...
In the eighth circle of Hell, Dante describes the fate of the beloved Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him): 鈥淗is guts hung between his legs and displayed his vital organs.鈥� Dante goes further to paint, in lurid detail, the prophet鈥檚 immense pain and physical deformities. The Inferno鈥檚 contemptuous ...
In June, the Democratic National Committee ended its long-standing policy of accepting money from the fossil fuel industry. But in August, a resolution put forth by party Chairman Tom Perez 鈥�83 P鈥�18 reversed the June decision. As Clare Steinman 鈥�19 wrote in a column back in September, Perez鈥檚 ...
Truth. Respect. Fairness. A climate that supports the free exchange of ideas without fear of harassment or intimidation. These are the University鈥檚 values. It is precisely these values that have guided the University鈥檚 actions since the August 2016 National Labor Relations Board decision granting ...
Criticism is part of science 鈥� indeed, science couldn鈥檛 move forward without it 鈥� but sometimes that criticism can be brutal. Assistant Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences Lisa Littman is getting a taste of that right now in the reaction to her paper on rapid-onset gender ...
Editor鈥檚 note: This聽column is part of a two-part piece on the Brown History Education聽Initiative and the Brown Incarceration Initiative. For a Brown student鈥檚 perspective, click here. 聽Jean-Paul Sartre said, 鈥淎s far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they may become.鈥� ...
Editor's note: This聽column is part of a two-part piece on the Brown History Education聽Initiative and the Brown Incarceration Initiative. For an incarcerated student's perspective, click here. Jeremy Pontbriant is incarcerated in the medium security facility at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institute. ...
Earlier this week, a group called Students Supporting Israel 鈥� which has no affiliation with Brown Students for Israel or, as far as we know, with any student group on campus 鈥� tabled outside of the Stephen Robert 鈥�62 Campus Center last Wednesday. We, as leaders of Brown Students for Israel, approached ...
In 37 states and Washington D.C., voters may cast a ballot in person at some point before election day; in Rhode Island, you cannot. This poses a barrier to accessing the ballot for people with inflexible work schedules, childcare responsibilities, lack of access to transportation and other reasons ...
Jeb Bush should be allowed to speak at Brown. In his Apr. 9 op-ed in The Herald, Mark Liang 鈥�19 offered many good points for why this should be the case. But his arguments about why Bush should be allowed to speak endanger liberal democracy by encouraging tribalism and exacerbating political polarization. ...
I read The Herald鈥檚 April 1 column 鈥淪chapiro 鈥�19: Rob Manfred crosses the Rubicon鈥�, and while I don鈥檛 love what Rob Manfred is doing to baseball, denouncing the implementation of an international tiebreaker in the minors is not the right battle to choose. There are plenty of problems to solve ...
