Andrew Migneault
Hold your judgments, but I had been eagerly awaiting the completion of Pembroke Hall since I first set foot on this campus over a year ago. An amateur architect myself, I always enjoy musing over the brickwork and window styles of our predominantly nineteenth-century East Side, often making sketches of the buildings that [...]

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 masturbatory pat on the back. Yay us!
We look forward to continuing to serve the Brown Community with [...]

Anish K. Mitra ‘10
Apparently, “[Senator] McCain doesn’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed.” Ludacris, the southern rapper responsible for the aforementioned quote, has supported Sen. Barack Obama in many colorful ways; his latest rap freestyle is the most interesting one. Not only does McCain get a majority of the verbal lashing, but even Sen. [...]

With so many on the Left ranting and raving about how President Bush has violated key constitutional rights and liberties during the so-called War on Terrorism – a charge, for the record, with which we do not wholly disagree – it is breathtakingly hypocritical to see their indifference about the blatant, long-standing violation of the [...]

Sean B.Quigley ‘10
Sincere congratulations go to the players on the Brown football squad, which was voted third in the Ivy League pre-season media poll, as advertised on Brown University’s website. The crimson and blue Congregationalists to our North and West were tied for first place, with a ranking of 124 points each, but the industrious [...]

Susannah Kroeber
The last ten days of April were chock full of reminders that the spring flowers have finally heralded in the belated season. Not only did “grass” and other such natural products dominate on what I will term Brown’s Spring Appreciation Day, held annually on 4/20, but in addition Earth Day brought with its festivities [...]

Susannah Kroeber ‘11
The Princeton Review recently gave Brown the dubious honor of being ranked 10th among parents when asked what their dream university would be, or parenthetically, where they would like to see their children attend. I remember when students would be deterred from applying and matriculating towards any parentally- approved institution. Perhaps the corresponding [...]

Sean B. Quigley
William F. Buckley, Jr., as I trust you know, passed away on February 27. He was a man who injected class into conservatism, teeth into traditionalism, and vocabulary into even the most verbose. He was a man truly grounded by conservative first principles - so much so that his life story, [...]

Anish Mitra
The economic stimulus package debated by Congress and supported by President Bush calls for tax rebates; $600 per person, $1200 per couple. Instead of immediately passing the bill, Democrats wanted to add a few things to the stimulus package to make sure America’s families could cope while the crisis subsided; amongst extra unemployment insurance [...]

Anish Mitra
I have been to India three times in my life,and thus,I believe that I should be George W.Bush’s Secretary of State because I have developed foreign policy experience beyond human comprehension. I know how others view America, especially Indians. I also believe that I am more qualified in the foreign policy realm than Democratic [...]