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 Bryan Smith on September 15, 2008
I used to joke that the number of students in the Young Communist League at Brown outnumbered the students in the Brown College Republicans group. Yet after coming to campus and seeing life first hand, I have learned a sobering fact: this is not far from the truth. Hopefully the fact that Brown is a [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
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 The Brown Spectator on May 8, 2008
Anyone who knows a group of conservatives and libertarians will affirm that we often do not agree on much. But one thing on which there is widespread agreement at the Spectator is that the departing seniors of our journal of opinion have made many important contributions.
Ms. Roxanne Palmer
Perhaps the greatest contribution of all came from [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Sean Quigley on May 8, 2008
In the two years that I have been attending Brown, one aspect of the school’s environment has been particularly annoying, and even infuriating at times. And while I am tempted to write that the statist impulses and cries of many fellow students are the cause of this deep-felt annoyance, such is actually not the [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Brian Bishop on May 8, 2008
The Janus Lecture Series at Brown concluded with an Earth Day theme presenting an unlikely triumvirate of socio-economic thinkers discussing climate change. Global Warming wreaked havoc upon the presentation with glorious spring weather filling the Pembroke Green rather than the lecture at Alumnae Hall (although weather-norming could only report that the event was quite well [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Keith Dellagrotta on May 8, 2008
While not as prominent a figure in my lifetime as in the generation before me, I figured it would be worthwhile to see Tom Brokaw in person, and to hear the voice that filled the living rooms of so many American households before me. Known as one of the “Big Three” news anchors, along [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Bryan Smith on May 8, 2008
As some of you may know, April 15th-16th brought A Day on College Hill (ADOCH) to Brown, when about 700 accepted students descended on our campus to see all that Brown has to offer. Now, to most Brown students, all ADOCH meant was that some classes were more crowded than usual, or that hoards [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Christina Cozzetto on May 8, 2008
According to a recent article in The Brown Daily Herald (“Unique no more? U. may require Common App,” Apr. 9), there is a very real possibility that Brown will require its Class of 2013 to apply using the Common Application, and only the Common Application. Luckily, there has been very little complaining or controversy [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged May 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Andrew Migneault on April 17, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
