I have this weird ritual at the end of every year. Instead of packing clothes for home as many folks do, I fill my suitcase with books and course packets, napkins and brochures, letters received and written 鈥� piles of printed material that I collected over the academic year. There鈥檚 the Orgo midterm ...
Michael Froid 鈥�21 wrote an op-ed published in The Herald on April 6 that argues against the University鈥檚 decision to invite Jeb Bush to give the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. 鈥�60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs. Froid鈥檚 op-ed is an excellent piece, and it makes this dissent especially difficult ...
When it was announced last week that Chinese actress Liu Yifei would play the titular role in Disney鈥檚 live-action remake of 鈥淢ulan,鈥� I almost cried with relief. 鈥淢ulan鈥� is one of the very few American movies (and by far the only animated one) that I think represents my culture and history ...
Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. These companies are everywhere 鈥� in our homes and computers, in our schools and on our screens. They鈥檙e in places I never imagined they鈥檇 be. (Whole Foods? Really? Is nothing sacred?) They make life so, so easy. And, as The Herald鈥檚 127th editorial ...
Ah, Nov. 1. Amid the wafting breeze of pumpkin spice and sepia-tinged sunsets, there鈥檚 another thing about today that truly makes my heart sing. It鈥檚 the anxious typing of teens all over the world as they send in their early decision applications. Think of all those essays about scuba-diving in ...
My hometown is not known for its public transportation. In Los Angeles, we care more about our car culture and our avocados than we do about the local Metro stations, though the city is currently trying to build infrastructure on the levels of New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. So when I came to ...
My mother has breast cancer. It takes a lot for me to write that. It was caught early. The timeline, as it often does in times of trauma, flashes in bits and pieces. I remember whispered conversations in the shoe aisles of thrift stores. There are the hushed phone calls, the second opinions and the ...
Joel Stein and Nancy Gibbs. Gene Roberts. Anderson Cooper. The team from Spotlight. When I think of journalists who inspire me, these are the men and women who immediately come to mind. It is saddening that, off the top of my head, I can鈥檛 think of a single print journalist or columnist of color. ...
This summer, students received word that Brown is switching the management of its student health insurance plan to Gallagher Student Health, an insurance company that provides plans for a multitude of universities nationwide. While this might seem like a technicality, the change creates another difficult ...
This spring marks the fifth anniversary of one of the largest cheating scandals in recent Ivy history: the Harvard Government 1310 case, where nearly two percent of the entire undergraduate student body had individual cases brought against them for plagiarism on the take-home final. I wish I could say ...
