SB:1070 Debating the Merits of the Arizona Immigration Law

SB:1070 Debating the Merits of the Arizona Immigration Law

By Ryan Fleming on December 8, 2010

Racism, by its nature, stems from ignorance. For that reason there is a touch of bitter irony when opponents of Arizona’s law SB 1070 call it, out of ignorance, racist. I plan on shedding light on the merits of Arizona’s law and show why it is not the law many perceive. It retains [...]

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The Great Debate Over Sarah Palin Con

By Poppy Addison on May 6, 2010

Sarah Palin may appear an earthy cookie-baker, but the cutesy provincialism neither advances nor represents conservatism. Rather than garnering public trust, the hockey mom routine has made her primetime laughingstock.
The winks, insipid buzzphrases (“You betcha!”), and muddled policy perscriptions show Palin to be fatally flawed and not of, for, or by the real right.
Cursory [...]

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The Great Debate Over Sarah Palin Pro

By Ivayla Ivanova on May 6, 2010

Pro:
Not long ago, I was at a dinner with a couple; a professor and his wife. When they discovered that I was a conservative, and that on top of that I like Sarah Palin, the wife exclaimed: “Sarah Palin is a bitch! And I never, ever use that word.” This from a woman [...]

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The Street

By Hari Tyagi on May 6, 2010

Greedy, money-grubbing, arrogant. These are a few of the many insults bandied about by President Obama and his media allies to describe the scapegoat du jour: Wall Street bankers.
Similar epithets can be heard all over this campus, spat by aggrieved students and professors, their faces flushed with the venom of self-righteousness. These loudmouths [...]

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Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

By The Brown Spectator on November 16, 2009

This month the Brown Spectator put together a best of issue in celebrating our storied 8-year history. We are proud of our publication, and are excited to dig up some of our forgotten history. And so, sit back, and enjoy the Brown Spectator’s greatest hits!

Sexual Assult Victims
Intellectual Diversity
Waterboarding is Not Torture
War Poetry Politics
TS Eliot and [...]

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Fear Not the Radical Professor

Fear Not the Radical Professor

By The Brown Spectator on December 8, 2010

Though it may not have been the intended reaction, I was greatly amused that William F. Buckley, Jr. actually seemed to take his professors so seriously in his classic God and Man at Yale.  Of course, this book was published before the countercultural movements of the 1960s.  That era and the subsequent generation of academics [...]

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Right Stuff for Rhode Island

By Philip Primeau on April 28, 2010

Might another “Kennedy seat” become “the people’s seat”? Republicans across Rhode Island, as well as plenty outside the state, are praying that will be the case. Their aspirations ride on John Loughlin, whose campaign for the first congressional district many see as a reprise of Scott Brown’s smash insurgency.
The three term representative from [...]

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Something Borrowed?

By Will Wray on April 8, 2010

EDIT: As of 4/14/10, the editor-in-chief of the Herald published a note explaining that the author was dismissed from the staff. A “thorough review” found two other articles by the same individual that “…used facts and languages from other sources without attribution.”
As I was doing research for a column opposing ‘Just Say No’ (April 6, [...]

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To Whom Do We Owe Our Allegiance?

To Whom Do We Owe Our Allegiance?

By Susannah Kroeber on August 1, 2009

Creating an appropriate topic for an article in any publication is the most daunting part of writing. Inevitably, it takes some degree of invention especially when your focus is not on news, and even if you are simply trying to report the facts, a good reporter learns to write between the lines. This prelude is [...]

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The Libertarian Brown

The Libertarian Brown

By Kevin Kay on July 9, 2009

Esquire magazine recently called Brown “That Maoist collective in Rhode Island.” Bill O’Reilly lambasted both the institution and the administration as “pinheads” and “liberals.” The Princeton Review ranked us as #18 on their list of “Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians.” Yet as I spend more and more time at Brown, the question for me is not [...]

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