Gabe Sender is a Staff Columnist at The Brown Daily Herald with a particular focus on campus issues and development challenges in Providence. He is currently pursuing an independent concentration in urban environmentality.
In his column, Gabe Sender 鈥�25 argues that Providence is well-poised to thrive amid the shift to remote work, so long as it capitalizes on its advantages.
Brown has a long and proud tradition of student activist movements leading to notable achievements. One movement, opposed by top University administrators, led to the institution of the New Curriculum, coinciding with University President Ray Heffner鈥檚 resignation. In 1975, students in the Third World ...
Brown University is facing what could be a serious challenge to its institutional reputation: The University, along with 16 other top universities, is being sued as part of a class action suit that could apply to 200,000 students. From 1994 until the early 2010s, Brown was part of the now-defunct 568 ...
Set on Point Judith in the town of Narragansett, the picturesque community of Galilee is currently engaged in a battle over the future of its sizable harbor, a fight which could have far-reaching consequences. The small village of just 3,400 is one of the most important economic centers in the state ...
Brown has a tremendous wealth of historic buildings that make its campus one of the country鈥檚 most beautiful. This does not come without a cost: These buildings require intensive maintenance that cannot be deferred without serious consequences. Even a century ago, this issue was well understood, when ...
For years, Brown has struggled to accommodate the parking needs of faculty and students. The available parking spots are currently allocated through a waitlist system and are ostensibly highly limited; in 2021, only around 50 juniors and seniors were granted parking spaces in this way. But closer inspection ...
Across the nation, a deluge of public works projects are preparing to take advantage of the plentiful infrastructure dollars recently unleashed by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. While cities, counties or states may take the lead in authorizing these projects, it is exceedingly rare to ...
Across the country, private universities are generally exempt from federal taxes and are classified as nonprofit institutions, often referred to by the statute that defines them:
It is without question that the housing crisis in Providence has reached a breaking point. Local universities are seen as major contributors to this crisis, with Brown as a prime example. Brown squeezes Providence鈥檚 housing market in two ways. University students often come from families ...
When the United States became its own nation, it was chiefly an agrarian one, dominated by farmers and designed to appease their pastoral mindsets. Just one in 20 citizens lived in cities. In today鈥檚 America, the demographics of the Constitutional Era have entirely ...
