By Drew Edwards on November 16, 2006
As the author of a New York Times article revealing the existence of President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program (“Bush Lets US Spy on Callers Without Courts,” 12/16/2005), James Risen has been a controversial figure in the media: some call him a hero, and others believe that he should be locked away in Guantanamo. On November [...]
Posted in National | Tagged November 2006, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Drew Edwards on October 20, 2006
On October 5th, the Watson Institute for International Studies broadcast a day-long series of discussion panels entitled “Guantanamo: How Should We Respond?” The various speakers at the event provided a fairly direct, if perhaps rather shortsighted, answer to this question: we should either shut the place down immediately, or else bring it entirely within the [...]
Posted in International | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Drew Edwards on October 6, 2006
As University faculty, students, and prospective applicants have known for over a month now, brown.edu has undergone the digital equivalent of a botched plastic surgery. Many assumed the new site was a joke; I know I laughed the first time I saw it. And on August 21st, when [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Drew Edwards on September 1, 2006
I recently had the pleasure of walking by a large protest against the prison at Guantanamo Bay. As I happened past, a youngish and obviously passionate man with long hair was screaming about inequity and human rights. He was wearing a Che Guevara shirt.
It is unfortunate and perhaps ironic that today’s Left continue to idolize [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
