Brown recently announced the formation of an ad hoc committee to investigate the University鈥檚 admission policies, including the use of standardized testing, early decision and 鈥斅爌erhaps most notably 鈥� legacy preference. The committee鈥檚 role is to review data related to admission and to make ...
Statistician Nassim Taleb often points to an allegory of a fragile bridge. Regardless of what car drives over it, it will eventually break. The Swiss author Rolf Dobelli adds on to that: When the bridge collapses, what does the news focus on? It reports on the driver, on his life and on his family. ...
As the new academic year on campus coincides with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, I鈥檝e noticed that some of the central figures in the stories associated with the season, specifically the biblical Abraham and Sarah, have valuable lessons to impart about transitioning into the new school year. ...
Have you ever used bases to describe a sexual encounter? The baseball bases analogy has been used for decades in literature, media and real life to not-so-subtly indicate the extent of physical intimacy in a hookup. According to the teen magazine, Seventeen, one definition of the bases is as follows: ...
Today鈥檚 higher education landscape looks drastically different from that of our parents. In a dramatic reversal of the United States鈥� higher education gender breakdown, 59.5% of college students today are women. While both men and women this century are more likely to attend college than in the ...
In his column, Ben Aizenberg 鈥�26 argues that we all have a moral obligation to donate a large portion of our extra income to people in dire need.
The meteoric rise of Harry Styles has been impossible to ignore. Once just another face in the long line of boy-band heartthrobs, Styles has since grown into an artist whose very name is associated with the subversion of male gender stereotypes. He has been lauded as a fashion icon and even a queer ...
This fall, The Herald will publish stories online every day and print weekly on Thursdays.
On June 29, the Supreme Court, in a decision penned by Chief Justice John Roberts, ruled that the use of race-based affirmative action in college admission processes 鈥渃annot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause.鈥� Though the ruling was long expected, its announcement sent ...
In their column, Paulie Malherbe 鈥�26 argues that the fading of rainbow capitalism is both a sign of threats to LGBTQ+ people and a reminder of the importance of protest and activism.
With the Pride 2023 Special Issue, The Herald aims to highlight queer experiences on Brown鈥檚 campus.
鈥淚s it Greg or New Dorm?鈥� 鈥� that was the headline of a Herald article from fall 2021. The concept was straightforward: Newer members of the campus community were calling the Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle 鈥淕reg鈥� 鈥� an abomination to upperclassmen who knew the building as 鈥淣ew Dorm.鈥� ...
The first column I ever wrote for The Herald was titled 鈥淚 did not like the first-year reading.鈥� Perhaps you remember that book 鈥� 鈥淭he Idiot鈥� by Elif Batuman. The pink paperback Brown mailed us the summer before our first year, with the picture of a gray rock on the cover. Our first homework ...
Where has the time gone? It鈥檚 as if I closed my eyes on my first night here at Brown and opened them on the morning of our graduation. When we said yes to Brown, we decided that this was the place to become young, independent scholars. We decided that we loved every blade of grass on the Main Green, ...
I wrote my Common App essay about food. There was no other topic so significant to me then, and though much has changed since, there鈥檚 still nothing I would rather write about as I reflect on these last four years.
I鈥檝e learned many lessons both inside and outside of the classroom during college. But one of the most profound lessons changed my outlook on college, and on life 鈥� and it happened on an otherwise mundane day in 2020.
College is the time to find yourself 鈥� at least that鈥檚 what movies tell us. But reality is not often like what we see on the silver screen. While I wish that my time on College Hill had a nicely wrapped message like the American coming-of-age films I grew up watching, the truth is that trying ...
Freshman year 鈥� and especially that maiden semester 鈥� each of us had to blaze trails and enforce good habits. Many of us had never lived on our own or been without a nagging parent regulating our whereabouts on a Friday night. Luckily, in this uncertain and occasionally intimidating climate, ...
The day after he delivered the Noah Krieger 鈥�93 Lecture on the future of American democracy here at Brown, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy published an Atlantic piece on the same topic. He wrote that 鈥渄espite the nonstop information flow, more Americans report greater feelings of intense loneliness ...
The Sciences Library, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, the List Art Center, Graduate Center 鈥� these brutalist buildings have a defined presence on campus, even if their aesthetics are highly controversial. Some hate the sight of Grad Center's concrete walls while others praise the striking ...
