By Ed Mullen on February 20, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Martin Quinones on December 6, 2007
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).” [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Katherine Stoeffel on December 6, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged December 2007, Volume VI Number III
By Josh Stern on September 9, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By The Brown Spectator on November 16, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged brown university sexpowergod, November 2006, o reilly sexpowergod, sexpowergod, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Jonathan Harris on October 3, 2003
To the Editor:
While visiting Brown to deliver a series of lectures at the Watson Institute for International Studies, I happened to pick up a copy of the March 2003 Brown Spectator. I was pleased to see that, unlike some campus conservative journals, the Spectator relies on argument rather than invective, and is [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged October 2003, Volume II Number II
By Brookes C. Brown on March 1, 2003
In “Taking Brown off the Blacklist” (November, 2002), Alex Schulman presents a wandering attack on the current state of academics at Brown. Shulman builds his critique primarily from a list of courses published late last year by the Young American’s Foundation, with the intent of deriding the included courses as “ridiculous” and “ideological”. Recognizing the [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged March 2003, Volume I Number II
