Big brother is shopping with you. Last weekend, I went into the Walgreens convenience store in my town to develop a roll of film that I had exposed during my vacation on Cape Cod. I filled out the form, got out my money, and waited to hand a coupon to the sales clerk when she [...]

The dance was slated to begin at 6:00 p.m. sharp on Friday, April 18. The time was relatively early compared to the dances most students partake in at Brown University. This particular instance, however, would not feature some student DJ showcasing his iTunes library, or a bar with one dollar drinks in a crowded room. [...]

BCA is a business, and its private decisions regarding fairness are its own business. Once the tickets are sold, they are in a free market.
In nearly all of the heated discussions ensuing after the last tickets to Spring Weekend were sold, I noticed that most people’s opinions were largely devoid of one underlying consideration: capitalism. [...]

Too many times have I heard the gripe, “I wish our University would stop acting like it is so poor.” I had to laugh when I saw the heaping pile of booklets stacked up next to the newspapers in the Mail Room. Despite the best efforts put forth by the University to get all of [...]

Emotions were strong at the SexPowerGod debate on November 6th. There were heated shouts from the back row, sarcastic comments from every aisle, and an overwhelming feeling that the two opponents of the dance had not the slightest chance of changing the minds of anybody in the audience; they knew that the audience would not [...]

How do you define racism? If you answer that question in a literal sense, racism is “the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferior.” In today’s day and age, most of us (hopefully) know and believe that this is not true, that [...]