By Joshua Unseth on July 9, 2009
In 2006, Brown’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) was accused of racism after Chipalo Street ’06 MA’07, an African-American masters student, received an abrasion above his eye after being arrested. More recently, DPS has been accused of suppressing sexual assault data. Needless to say, after receiving its lumps DPS’s morale is at an all-time low. [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Joshua Unseth on April 3, 2009
This Week’s Top 5 Spectator Staff Articles
1) Morse vs. Frederick
2) Asian Americans and Affirmative Action
3) T. S. Eliot and the Idea of a Christian Society
4) The Gender Neutral Bathroom Debate
5) The Third World Transition Program
Posted in Web Only
By Joshua Unseth on January 28, 2009
Over the past eight years, my political ears have grown deaf as leftists have not put down their Bush-bashing bullhorns for even a second. Like jocund cheerleaders inciting the demise of their own team, liberals have been praying that Americans would be worse off than they were during the Internet-boom era of the Clinton years.
Day [...]
Posted in National | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By Joshua Unseth on November 8, 2008
The Brown Spectator has just received the Collegiate Network’s 2008 Award for Website Content and Design. The Brown Spectator, now in its sixth year of operation, beat out 109 other publications to receive the award. Consider this our pat on the back. Yay us!
We look forward to continuing to serve the Brown Community with our [...]
Posted in Editorials
By Joshua Unseth on October 24, 2008
Last year, a number of Brown’s eating establishments invited students to put their original art on the walls. Since then, the walls have slowly become smattered with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the sometimes funny art of Brown University students. Despite the seemingly innocuous nature of wall art, however, here is where we [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Joshua Unseth on February 20, 2008
Last year, as a group of black students were put on a very public trial in a case known as the Jena Six, we saw a reemergence of the often sugar-coated race debate. For those of us who do not come from towns where there is a high amount of racial tension, we have no [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Joshua Unseth on January 17, 2008
I ran into this cartoon today at World on the Web. I couldn’t stop laughing.
Posted in Blog
By Joshua Unseth on January 11, 2008
If you haven’t seen the video yet, here it is. Hillary crying. Boo hoo hoo!! I can’t believe it, but a lot of analysts are saying that this moment of rehearsed pitiful weakness won a bunch of female voters over. I even heard one woman interviewed who said the moment changed everything for her because [...]
Posted in Blog
By Joshua Unseth on December 6, 2007
FemSex and MSex, please accept my deepest, most sincere apology.You’re right. I was ill-informed, and I didn’t mean to spread my ill-information like a plague. How could I have been so ignorant as to not assume that those things done in FemSex (discussions of dildos, vibrators, strap-ons, and other various as-sistors of deviancy) are also [...]
Posted in Response | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Joshua Unseth on December 6, 2007
A couple weeks back I got an email from Dean Takesue. It read: “FALL RETREAT FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR. Leaders with a Life: Balancing Organizational Demands with Personal Responsibilities or Why am I licking envelopes at 3:00am?” The event was to take place on Friday, October 12 in Arnold Lounge. The invite went on to [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
