At the Olympics, each track event starts with nearly 50 competitors in 鈥渉eats,鈥� where a certain relative time is required to reach the next round. The field is slowly whittled down until about 10 advance to the final.
Friday and Saturday night mark perhaps the most important Brown men鈥檚 basketball games in over a decade.
In a hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, then-Presidents Liz Magill of Penn and Claudine Gay of Harvard, as well as President Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were asked if 鈥渃alling for the genocide of Jews鈥� violates each president鈥檚 ...
On Feb. 22, Brown鈥檚 Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity hosted Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, to give a talk titled 鈥淎n Evening with Jonathan Greenblatt.鈥� We are the Jewish students who initiated a walkout during Greenblatt鈥檚 talk, along with ...
The purpose of the Class Coordinating Board is to plan events. Yet, despite being an organization that is supposed to represent the student body, CCB has a track record of being undemocratic. I find it concerning that members of CCB are now attempting to compensate themselves using University funds. ...
In a fast-paced world, our generation鈥檚 obsession with the new is pervasive. From the latest smartphone to fleeting fashion trends, we have grown up in a society caught in an incessant cycle of novelty. This fixation with the new has become deeply ingrained in our culture, shaping our consumer behaviors, ...
This semester, there is a new phrase haunting professors鈥� syllabi: artificial intelligence. Each course seems to have a different statement on AI: For some classes, the use of AI is defined as plagiarism; for others, it is permitted as long as students cite how the technology was used. Some ...
I first sought to write this column about how competitive classes and tedious waitlists plague the literary arts department. I was ready to argue that Brown must reform the department鈥檚 exclusive seminars and complicated registration processes making it the nebulous, untouchable bastion of 鈥榥ot ...
In early February, Brown announced that the University would once again raise tuition by 4.5%, bringing annual tuition to $68,612 and total direct charges to $88,856. Since 2013, Brown鈥檚 tuition has gone up every year, increasing by over 46% in 10 years. And while Brown gives some of the most generous ...
I鈥檝e just come from the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity鈥檚 鈥淓vening with Jonathan Greenblatt.鈥� I admire the ADL and Greenblatt 鈥� and I commend OIED for bringing his voice to campus 鈥� but I thought the evening represented a huge missed opportunity.
During the 2016 Rio Olympics, American swimmers Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were robbed on their way back from a club. Their taxi was pulled over by individuals posing as police officers who ordered the intoxicated swimmers to the ground and stole their wallets. Lochte had ...
Editor鈥檚 Note: This op-ed was signed by multiple graduate students. The full list of signatories is presented at the end of this op-ed.
Brown鈥檚 Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity recently announced plans to bring Jonathan Greenblatt, Director of the Anti-Defamation League, to speak on campus later today. This invitation shows a disregard for the Brown community and for the safety of its Palestinian and Muslim members, as ...
In bringing Jonathan Greenblatt to speak at Brown, the University鈥檚 Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity tells 鈥渁nyone who might be upset鈥� to understand that the OIED is 鈥渂ringing in a viewpoint and bringing understanding and awareness.鈥�
Throughout its more than 250-year history, the Brown community has consistently stood up for ethical causes, sending a message to the nation and to the world at moments when others remained silent. Generation after generation, the leaders of our university have understood that Brown does not exist in ...
Since the #OscarsSoWhite Campaign gained traction on Twitter in 2015, it seems the Oscars have come to represent deep the flaws in our society rather than a celebration of art. While at times they provide memorable pop culture moments and a few inspirational speeches, it seems like the Oscars ...
This year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) turns seventy-five. In the course of its lifetime, NATO has seen the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War and, more recently, the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Indeed, NATO has played a key role in American and global geopolitics for ...
On Sunday morning, Brown-RISD Hillel leaders received violent threats in their inboxes, specifically targeting Hillel employees, their families and the Brown-RISD Hillel Weiner Center. The incident came just four days after Christina Paxson鈥檚 school-wide email which stated that the University is working ...
鈥淪o 鈥� why would you not just take everything pass/fail again? Why buy the cow when the milk is free?鈥�
In a recent New York Times Magazine interview, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Charan Ranganath explains how memories are far more complicated than a chronological record of past experiences. He claims that 鈥渨e update our memories through the act of remembering,鈥� creating a biased sense ...
