Sir:
For a Spectator writer who claims to be an official in Brown’s “Model UN”, the intellectual arrogance coupled with utter ignorance about the subject under discussion astonishing. I am a highly educated American living and teaching in Venezuela. I see the operations of the Chavez government on a daily basis and it should serve as [...]

Sir:
In 2004 President Bush received 284 electoral votes, fourteen more than needed to secure the Presidency. Bush won Ohio by less than 119 thousand votes, so a swing of less than 80 thousand votes would have meant a Kerry presidency. Meanwhile, in the last three years, Ohio’s economy has floundered, protectionist ideals are on the [...]

Sir:
Mr. Halenda and Mr. Mitra make detailed arguments regarding the technique, the legality, the effect and the catagorization of “waterboarding”, but both (as do most) miss the salient point. Let me use this example: You are a soldier who comes upon an Iraqi who has a weapon. Do you shoot him, talk to him, or [...]

To the Editor:
Reading “Against Waterboarding: A Question of Values” in February’s Spectator, I was dismayed that Mr. Halenda does not explain exactly which “values” urge the prohibition of this infamous interrogation tactic, a failure leading to his muddled nonsolution to this ethical dilemma that ultimately decries what is doubtless a reasonable means of foiling terrorist [...]

Sir:
Peter Catsimpiris’s comparison of Christianity with science was somewhat offensive and contained a variety of logical fallacies. Straight to the point: he dismissed Islam and Mormonism for being founded in “secret” and claimed that Christianity’s birth, on the other hand, was the paragon of openness, with historically verifiable evidence. [...]

Sir:
For the first time in the 15 years I have worked here at Brown University I find myself agreeing with not one but two articles printed in a campus publication. The publication I refer to is the December issue of the Brown University Spectator.
First Joshua Unseth ‘09 spoke eloquently of the folly of exclusion in [...]

Sir:
As the Coordinator for MSex here at Brown, I am compelled to correct a factual error I noticed in your recent article “FemSex: Caught in the Act” by Senior Editor Joshua Unseth: “…Brown University now has the male version called MSex (it is like FemSex without the need to discuss how to use a strap-on).” [...]

Sir:
Joshua Unseth’s inaccurate, sexist rant on FemSex exemplified many of the less-flattering stereotypes circulating about conser-vatives: that they are uptight, sexually repressed, and anti-women.Although I agree with Unseth that students have a right to spaces that are free from sexual harassment, his article’s presumptions rendered it practically unreadable.
What he lacked in factual accuracy (or did [...]

Sir:
In his article, “Don’t Panic: A Movie Review of The Great Global Warming Swindle” (Brown Spectator, May 2007), Andrew Kurtzman attempts to refute the scientific consensus that humans, in burning fossil fuels, cause global warming. Kurtzman does not explicitly deny a link between greenhouse gas emissions and rising global temperature; he leaves that to the [...]

Below is a letter I received in the mail from a Brown University administrator who wished to remain anonymous. Is the University endangering student safety to protect its public image and appease the Queer Alliance?
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to express my concerns about an upcoming event at Brown [...]