On Feb. 5, Dartmouth became the first Ivy League school to reinstate mandatory standardized testing for its 2025-26 admissions cycle. In the coming weeks, Brown鈥檚 Ad Hoc Committee on Admissions Policies plans to release a report regarding our current test-optional policy. Brown must follow Dartmouth鈥檚 ...
This past Friday, 19 Brown students announced an indefinite hunger strike in a call for Brown鈥檚 Corporation 鈥� the University鈥檚 highest governing body 鈥� to hear and consider their calls for divestment from companies identified in a 2020 report which it says 鈥減rofit from human rights abuses ...
鈥淪ingle-use is out. ReusePass is in,鈥� reads the signs posted in the entrance of the Verney-Wooley Dining Hall, referring to the electric green reusable takeout boxes newly available at the larger dining halls on campus. Whether you鈥檝e seen people carrying them around or you already have a few ...
On Feb. 2, as part of a protest for Brown to divest from 鈥渃ompanies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine,鈥� hundreds of students on the Main Green chanted: 鈥淵emen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around!鈥�
Editor鈥檚 note: This op-ed was signed by a group of 85 alums. The full list of signatories is linked at the bottom of this op-ed.
What do you think about the ongoing civil war in Cameroon that has displaced millions of people? Do you side with the Francophones or the Anglophones? Most likely, you cannot locate Cameroon on a map (neither could I, before writing this), let alone hold opinions on its civil war. It would thus be silly ...
The University announced Jan. 25 that it will shift to a need-blind admissions process for international students, beginning with the class of 2029. The decision comes just over 20 years after Brown adopted a need-blind policy for domestic applicants in 2003, which barred financial background or ability ...
Editor鈥檚 note: this op-ed was signed by 17 parents of protestors arrested during a Dec. 11 sit-in at University Hall. The full list of signatories appears at the bottom of this op-ed.
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Editor鈥檚 Note: The authors are faculty and staff members of Brown Academics for Justice in Palestine, a coalition of faculty and staff across various Brown departments.
The Ivy League is no stranger to criticism and scrutiny. From producing mindless 鈥渮ombies鈥� to upholding socioeconomic inequality, critics have already levied almost any accusation one could imagine. But amid social and political upheaval in the aftermath of the October 7 attack, right-wing commentators ...
Two weeks ago, I was sitting at Saloniki Greek in Harvard Square visiting two friends from high school. I looked at my phone and saw a bombardment of anxious text messages from my parents: 鈥淕o home.鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 already 8:30鈥� 鈥淪afety should be your first priority.鈥� 鈥淚s it worth throwing your ...
I don鈥檛 like cars. They鈥檙e loud, expensive and they spew carbon dioxide everywhere. However, rentable electric scooters are not the solution, and actually contribute to net emissions. It鈥檚 time for Providence to promote more a environmentally friendly mode of transportation: the RIPTA bus system. ...
As you weave through parked cars and scattered shopping carts, the bold red lettering on the warehouse beckons you: COSTCO. At the door, you confidently display your membership card as a smiling employee welcomes you inside. Flat-screen TVs line the walls, displaying vivid images that catch your eye. ...
On Feb. 8, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump鈥檚 appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court鈥檚 decision to bar Trump from being on the Colorado primary ballot. The country鈥檚 highest court will be dipping its toes into the dangerous waters of American electoral politics. In the wake of unprecedented ...
Consider this alternate history: World War II has just ended and the U.S. surprisingly fails to stop Soviet communism from spreading past the Eastern Bloc. As a result, the USSR and Western Europe become close economic and military allies. Isolated and stuck with a faltering economy, the U.S. cedes ...
It鈥檚 a shocking reality that children and young adults in my generation have been forced to face: Some people in the United States would rather protect guns than the lives of American students.
Brown鈥檚 administration has long insisted that the University鈥檚 endowment is 鈥渘ot a political instrument,鈥� part of its doctrine of political neutrality 鈥� a doctrine with serious limits. Political neutrality is all fine and good when it comes to mundane issues like the federal deficit. ...
Editor鈥檚 note: This op-ed was signed by the 41 members of the Brown Divest Coalition that sat in University Hall on Dec. 11. The full list of signatories is included at the bottom of the op-ed.
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