The Great Global Warming Swindle is a new documentary from British television producer Martin Durkin, which casts aside environmental taboos and challenges the notion of “Global Warming” as a man-produced phenomenon.
Before I begin addressing the film’s arguments, I would like to discuss why such a film is so important. Whether or not one [...]

Earth Day at Brown University has, in years past, been a fairly reasonable, if perhaps one-sided, celebration of environmentalism. The College Republicans have always been invited, and have accepted this invitation as an opportunity to set up an “Industrial Revolution” table as a modest counterpoint. This has always been conducted in a respectful manner.
This year, [...]

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, [...]

I don’t drink. Anyone who meets me knows this fact within our first fifteen minutes of conversation. The closest I’ve come to over-consumption of alcohol is during Communion at Mass – and I’m pretty sure it’s both impossible and sacrilegious to get drunk off the blood of Jesus Christ. I choose to surround myself with [...]

In the aftermath of this year’s Sex Power God party, sophomore Amy Littlefield drew attention to a group of students standing outside the party and using numbered signs to rate the attractiveness of the attendees. Her Brown Daily Herald column highlighted several important issues concerning sexual harassment. None were surprised when freshman Sean Quigley soon [...]

Where are the moderates of the Islamic world? The question has befuddled Americans since the September 11 attacks. Indeed, while President Bush and other leaders of the West have fervently defended Islam as a “religion of peace,” there has been a conspicuous dearth of prominent Middle Eastern leaders openly willing to criticize radical Islam or [...]

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 [...]

In the November/December issue of the Brown Alumni Magazine, Lawrence Goodman in “Party Animals” attempted to dissect campus politics at Brown through a profile of Zachary Drew, President, and myself, Vice President, of the College Republicans as well as Tor Tarantola, President, and Craig Auster, Vice President of the College Democrats, respectively. In his balanced [...]

Mary Beth Reynolds, Catholic campus Minister at Brown since 1999, left October 29 to accept a position as spiritual care coordinator for Home and Hospice Center of Rhode Island. In a Brown-RISD Catholic community wide e-mail on October 13, she wrote in part:
After more than seven years of Sunday bagels and class suppers, weekly Cenacles, [...]

In her article about the alleged police brutality on campus two months ago, Sheila Dugan was disappointed in the lack of calm, critical, and well-informed discussion about the incident. Discussions on race characterized by these attributes are indeed scarce. In part, this is because people still have different fundamental beliefs about race. Some still believe [...]