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 [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged allegiances, american culture, confederacy, culture and history, declaration of independence, federalist, May 2009, national identity, Volume VII Number IV
By Susannah Kroeber on October 24, 2008
Three months ago, an exhibit on Soviet political posters and cartoons might have (to the detriment of all) come to Brown and left without much ado or notice. As a Slavic Studies concentrator and political cartoon enthusiast, I thank Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev for returning international attention to where it belongs: the former Soviet [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Susannah Kroeber on September 15, 2008
The very definition of a liberal arts education is a contrast of educations, rather than a concrete methodology. In ancient Rome, liberal education distinguished between the vocations taught to a slave,and the education imparted upon a freeman.Liberal arts were the foundation of the medieval Western university, a form requiring all students to master grammar, rhetoric, [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Susannah Kroeber on May 8, 2008
Boycotting threats by Olympic athletes represent the most heinous realization of growing international anti-Chinese sentiment, beyond the refusal of politicians to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The boycotts will inevitably be ineffective at realizing their aims because the aims are elusive to everyone involved. The hysteria caused partially by [...]
Posted in International | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
