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Letter: Response to the recent Spring Weekend editorial

By Danny Greenberg | April 22

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Letter: Response to 'Mayor Smiley pushes for noise camera installation in Providence'

By John Wilner | April 11

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Letter: The dehumanization of Palestinians is inappropriate

By Aboud Ashhab | March 12

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Letter: Vanguard鈥檚 climate record undermines Brown鈥檚 new ESG retirement fund

By Ben Safran | March 10

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Letter: Institutional 鈥渘eutrality鈥� is not the answer

By Garrett Brand | March 4

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Letter: Response to 鈥淲hy we walked out of Jonathan Greenblatt鈥檚 talk鈥�

By Theodore Horowitz | March 4

I am very disappointed with the latest op-ed written by jonath 鈥�24 and Rosenzweig 鈥�24. The authors are uninformed as to what Jonathan Greenblatt actually said. If they had stuck around for more than four minutes, they would know that he discussed far-right racism and antisemitism at length, giving ...

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Letter: Clarifying the Center for Career Exploration鈥檚 recruiting policies

By Matthew Donato | February 7

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Letters: Responses to op-ed from anti-occupation Jewish students

November 21

Editors鈥� note: In the days following the Nov. 7 publication of 鈥淎n open letter from Jewish students,鈥� written by a collective of anti-occupation Jews, The Herald received many letters responding to the piece. Here is a small representative collection of them:聽聽

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Letter: Accuracy of claims about Al-Shifa hospital in op-ed

November 20

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Letter: Respecting and appreciating differences in responding to war

By Alan Cole | October 26

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Letter: Financial aid matters for medical students

October 17

In his recent column, Tasawwar Rahman 鈥�26 makes it clear that medical school affordability is a major issue at Brown 鈥� which I know all too well. Four years ago, I walked through the Van Wickle Gates with friends I had just met over a PLME breakfast. We talked about how we鈥檇 attend the Warren ...

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Letter: Brown had no choice but to pay full tax on the new provost residence

By Peter Ian Asen | April 24

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Letter: A gathering of remembrance and celebration for John Owen Habib 鈥�24 at the First Unitarian Church of Providence

By The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life | April 24

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Letter: Remembering John Owen Habib 鈥�24

By Deborah Chiaravalloti | April 20

John Owen Habib, 21, died on April 11, 2023 following a fall while hiking in Morocco. He was pursuing one of his greatest passions 鈥� traveling and exploring the world. For John Owen, the world was a place of extraordinary wonder: The more he could meet, talk and learn from people, the richer his life ...

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Letter: Staying in touch and giving back with Pembroke peers

By Sally Kusnitz Horn | April 13

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Letter: Athletics are another important legacy of Pembroke

By Peter Mackie | April 12

The April 9 article, 鈥溾€楨nd of an era鈥�: Exploring the legacy of Pembroke College鈥澛� omitted one important Pembroke cohort 鈥斅爏tudent-athletes. As a result of the merger of Pembroke College and Brown University, intercollegiate athletics moved from oversight of the Pembroke physical education ...

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Letter: John Nicholas Brown Center changes should have more transparency

March 7

In recent weeks, I have followed news of changes to the John Nicholas Brown Center with a combination of alarm and curiosity. Despite coming across several announcements regarding its renaming and restructuring, I have yet to see a fully satisfactory explanation for these developments.

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Letter: The CS Department has supported TAs, and will continue to regardless of unionization

March 1

"We are happy to work with a union representing our UTAs, if one is approved by the election. UTAs have been an important part of our program for many decades, and we fully expect them to continue to be."

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Letter: Noise enforcement can take many forms

By John Wilner | November 10

We at the Providence Noise Project greatly appreciated the op-ed by Juliet Fang 鈥�26, 鈥淲e need to reduce noise pollution,鈥� which we thought did an excellent job covering the sources and detrimental impacts of excessive noise in Providence and elsewhere. Unnecessary ...

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Letter: Brown鈥檚 response to antisemitism is lacking

By Willis J. Goldsmith | November 2

he note containing 鈥渟everal expletives and violent threats against Jewish people鈥� discovered Sunday at Brown RISD Hillel and the 鈥渟wastikas carved into surfaces鈥� around campus over the summer are incidents of antisemitism 鈥� nothing more, nothing less. By broadly linking such events to 鈥渋ncidents ...