We spent the last year and a half craving the small pleasures, the ones we took for granted before the pandemic hit. Hugging friends and seeing their unmasked smiles. Chatting with classmates before and after lecture.
Despite high demand, mental health resources remain in short supply on College Hill. Counseling and Psychological Services, Brown鈥檚 main provider of therapy and mental health support for students, is failing to address the needs of a struggling student body.
First-year advisors 鈥� the professors, deans and academic administrators who offer advice to students as they navigate their first months in college 鈥� are students鈥� first guides through a daunting Open Curriculum. These advisors have the potential to positively shape a student鈥檚 college experience, ...
The University recently announced a significant expansion of its financial aid program, along with plans to transition to
Brown Dining Services is broken. As recent reporting has revealed, staff at campus dining halls are suffering due to overwork, communication failures and disorganized management. Our workers deserve better. They deserve a University that acknowledges their struggles, at the very least, and commits ...
The Wellness Center dorm certainly sets a promising tone for future expansions of University housing, and its mission of promoting well-being is admirable. At the same time, the building鈥檚 almost luxurious design highlights existing inequities in the Brown residential experience, setting a worrying ...
With students once again flooding into the Ratty, clamoring for sandwiches at the Blue Room and foraging for a late-night snack at Jo鈥檚, Brown dining is back 鈥� but for many, it is not back to where it needs to be.
One of the values of public art on campus, according to Brown, is that it 鈥渃ontributes to a sense of place, and inspires identification with this institution, its history and its values.鈥� But the 鈥淟arge Concretised Monument ...
Vartan Gregorian Quad has been called 鈥淣ew Dorm鈥� by Brown students since the days when it was actually new. But over the past year, as an incoming class of students entered onto a mostly empty campus, a new name for the residence hall emerged: 鈥淕reg.鈥� This change, while amusing, was also alarming. ...
After an unprecedented summer of publishing online daily during Brown鈥檚 first-ever summer term, The Herald will print three times a week this fall semester on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 鈥� up from the once-per-week frequency implemented in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue ...
As vaccines become much more widespread, we鈥檙e all ready to leave the horrors of the pandemic behind us. But there have been some silver linings. Looking forward as an institution, we ought to preserve the culture of understanding and accommodation that we were forced to develop in the face of the ...
It鈥檚 that time of year again: The weather鈥檚 improving, student government campaigns have begun and the student body, as usual, appears indifferent. This is not a new phenomenon. In 2013, the editorial page board wrote that 鈥渁 strong culture of apathy undeniably exists鈥� among students with respect ...
As we approach COVID-19鈥檚 anniversary on College Hill, the University is better equipped than ever before to handle a pandemic. From the automated COVID-19 test reminders to the plexiglass dividers in the dining halls, Brown has created its own 鈥渘ew normal鈥� to keep members of the campus community ...
Brown undergraduates have long opined on the costs associated with attending this institution, rightfully raising concerns over where tuition dollars go, how University funds are leveraged and the experience students receive in return. Perhaps never before in Brown鈥檚 recent history have such concerns ...
To incoming first-years:聽 As you prepare to join our campus ranks in a semester like no other, we write to share words of wisdom (we hope) that may help guide you through the months ahead. When you were completing your applications last fall, we imagine none of you envisioned spending your first semester ...
In late June, Voices of Brown launched among a wave of similar accounts sharing anonymous submissions from sexual assault survivors. The purpose of the account is to serve as 鈥渁 safe and dependable space for survivors within the Brown community to be heard and validated.鈥� Today, more than 100 horrific ...
As students have adjusted to a new normal of mask-wearing and social distancing on College Hill, the University has done well keeping student COVID-19 cases in check, boasting a remarkably low positivity rate. More students have been invited back to campus, and as we enter level two of campus activity, ...
On June 15, President Christina Paxson P'19 announced a series of measures to address racial injustice through the University's institutional power and resources. The measures include a new task force, funding for research on policy and awareness projects related to structural racism, a reaffirmed commitment ...
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the University has closed down for an indefinite period of time and sent most of its students home. As students and professors alike learn to navigate the complications of 鈥渧irtual learning,鈥� the pandemic also has introduced a multitude of financial concerns ...
On Monday, March 30, the undergraduate community received an email from Dean of the College Rashid Zia 鈥�01 outlining the University鈥檚 updated grading policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic鈥檚 sweeping academic consequences this semester. According to this email, students would be able to change ...
