By Jason Carr on July 9, 2009
Two weeks before the spring break of my freshman year at Brown, I had a difficult choice to make.
My father had offered to me the opportunity to spend the break in Cancun with my stepmother and their three children. While the prospect of finally exposing my skin to sunlight after a long tenure in [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Jason Carr on July 7, 2009
While Asian-Americans continually achieve America’s top test scores, University’s affirmative action policies put them at a disadvantage.
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Jason Carr on May 1, 2007
The term “organic” brings to mind two attributes: unwashed and primitively natural. Take these two descriptors, add tie-dye shirts, a suspicious odor, and a complete lack of concern for one’s future income, and you have the group membership of the Sustainable Food Initiative or SuFI. These kindly hippies, fresh off their last hit of marijuana, [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2007, Volume V Number VII
By Jason Carr on February 1, 2007
The Darfur tragedy has gutted the Washingtonian isolationist imperative. The allowance of genocide by states with the means to prevent it has become tantamount to complicity in that heinous act – for good reason. As national indignation grows over the Darfur insult, Brown’s Darfur Action Network finds itself a part of a wave that has [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Jason Carr on November 16, 2006
The Communists are back, and this time, they mean business – or rather, socially responsible, ecologically balanced, justly managed cooperatives. Yes, Brown’s Young Communist League has nothing but disdain for the current individualist order. However, the YCL’s collectivist instincts stop at the “mission” level: there is wide disagreement in the group as to the [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged November 2006, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Jason Carr on October 20, 2006
Question 2 on Rhode Island’s ballot this November is a measure backed by the Right to Vote campaign that would allow for the enfranchisement of all felons once they have completed their prison term, eliminating the previous requirement that a person serve out his or her parole or probation before being allowed to vote. Opponents [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Jason Carr on October 20, 2006
Every Tuesday and Thursday, after getting out of my Investments class, I dash to the Ratty in an effort to beat the lunch rush. This has more times than not proven to be an unsuccessful strategy, as many who have tried can testify. On one particular Tuesday two weeks ago, I rounded the corner near [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Jason Carr on October 6, 2006
The gender gap in the Class of 2010 applicant pool was too large to escape attention; the applicant pool was 39.4 percent male, while the entering class was 49 percent male. With a gap this large, my natural inclination was to assume that some sort of preferential selection had taken place, and I went to [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Jason Carr on October 6, 2006
On September 14th, 2006, I interviewed James Miller, Brown’s brand new Dean of Admission. We spoke about gender balance in the Brown admissions process and how it relates to a fascinating national trend of declining percentages of
males in colleges. ?e following is a precise transcript of our conversation. [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Jason Carr on September 1, 2006
Slubice, Poland – Having spent my summer in Germany and having made excursions into both the Czech Republic and Poland while staying in East Germany, I gained an interesting perspective on the economic and cultural development of Eastern Europe. Economic expansion of the European Union (EU) into Eastern Europe is sure to be a mixed-bag. [...]
Posted in International | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
