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 Kevin Kay on July 9, 2009
Esquire magazine recently called Brown “That Maoist collective in Rhode Island.” Bill O’Reilly lambasted both the institution and the administration as “pinheads” and “liberals.” The Princeton Review ranked us as #18 on their list of “Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians.” Yet as I spend more and more time at Brown, the question for me is not [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
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 Peter Catsimpiris on July 9, 2009
Christianity is rational, scientific, and has a place in the ivory tower. If that’s the case, then why has it been shunned from the modern academy?
Posted in Brown University | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Brian Bishop on July 9, 2009
Lest anyone imagine this a paean to the spring ritual of Brown’s varsity baseball season, we’re speaking here of an intellectual squeeze play. We’ll leave for another day the question of whether our vernal worship in the ‘house that Ruth [Babe not Simmons] built’ is but another of Marx or Sade’s opiates of the masses.
Still, [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Hari Tyagi on July 9, 2009
Last semester, I went to a dean to petition for two independent studies which I wanted to add to my schedule. One was a Russian Literature class about the influence of the KGB in modern Russia, with Professor Claude Carey. The other independent study was about opening an Indian restaurant in Providence that my two [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
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 Andy Golodny on July 7, 2009
While anecdotal evidence has typically been used to show that faculty at Ivy League universities are politically slanted towards the left, only recently have actual statistical studies been conducted to show the true extent of that bias. The results only confirmed what had been obvious to many students – that the faculty of humanities departments [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged November 2002, Volume I Number I
By Lindsey Meyers on May 4, 2009
As a freshman who lives in Keeney Quad, I often walk by the John Carter Brown Library, where the words “Speak to the Past and It Shall Teach Thee” are fittingly carved in stone. Some might regard this exhortation as more than passing strange. But, as a nascent classicist, I particularly like it.
That is [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged brown twtp, January 2006, third world center, twtp, Volume IV Number I
By Hari Tyagi on January 28, 2009
I get a sympathetic response from my friends when I talk about my relationship with my parents. Growing up, video games and television were virtually non-existent in my household. Discipline from intensive education and sports dominated my childhood. I rarely have phone conversations with my parents. Our communication is primarily through email and usually about [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
