By Ryan Fleming on December 8, 2010
Racism, by its nature, stems from ignorance. For that reason there is a touch of bitter irony when opponents of Arizona’s law SB 1070 call it, out of ignorance, racist. I plan on shedding light on the merits of Arizona’s law and show why it is not the law many perceive. It retains [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged Arizona, Immigration, SB:1070
By Poppy Addison on May 6, 2010
Sarah Palin may appear an earthy cookie-baker, but the cutesy provincialism neither advances nor represents conservatism. Rather than garnering public trust, the hockey mom routine has made her primetime laughingstock.
The winks, insipid buzzphrases (“You betcha!”), and muddled policy perscriptions show Palin to be fatally flawed and not of, for, or by the real right.
Cursory [...]
Posted in Lead, National
By Ivayla Ivanova on May 6, 2010
Pro:
Not long ago, I was at a dinner with a couple; a professor and his wife. When they discovered that I was a conservative, and that on top of that I like Sarah Palin, the wife exclaimed: “Sarah Palin is a bitch! And I never, ever use that word.” This from a woman [...]
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By Hari Tyagi on May 6, 2010
Greedy, money-grubbing, arrogant. These are a few of the many insults bandied about by President Obama and his media allies to describe the scapegoat du jour: Wall Street bankers.
Similar epithets can be heard all over this campus, spat by aggrieved students and professors, their faces flushed with the venom of self-righteousness. These loudmouths [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on November 16, 2009
This month the Brown Spectator put together a best of issue in celebrating our storied 8-year history. We are proud of our publication, and are excited to dig up some of our forgotten history. And so, sit back, and enjoy the Brown Spectator’s greatest hits!
Sexual Assult Victims
Intellectual Diversity
Waterboarding is Not Torture
War Poetry Politics
TS Eliot and [...]
Posted in Lead | Tagged October 2009, Volume VIII Number I
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 The Brown Spectator on July 7, 2009
Dr. Daniel S. Harrop is a libertarian candidate for RI Representative in District 3, Providence. Dr. Harrop is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University and an Instructor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. In addition to his faculty positions, Dr. Harrop also maintains a private practice of psychiatry. In an interview with [...]
Posted in Culture, Lead | 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 Ivayla Ivanova on January 28, 2009
Through her candidacy for the Vice Presidency…
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
By Kristina Kelleher on January 28, 2009
“This New Louisiana will not come easily…but it will come…
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged January 2009, Volume VII Number III
