By Brian Bishop on May 8, 2008
The Janus Lecture Series at Brown concluded with an Earth Day theme presenting an unlikely triumvirate of socio-economic thinkers discussing climate change. Global Warming wreaked havoc upon the presentation with glorious spring weather filling the Pembroke Green rather than the lecture at Alumnae Hall (although weather-norming could only report that the event was quite well [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VII
By Anish Mitra on April 17, 2008
I greatly appreciate your comments, Mr. Barbata; however, I am disappointed that you ultimately refused to take a stance. While your commentary was very insightful, and your personal anecdote about becoming a Navy SEAL added much credibility to your opinions, I still fail to see “the salient point.” It seems to me that you’re using [...]
Posted in Response | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Andrew Migneault on April 17, 2008
BCA is a business, and its private decisions regarding fairness are its own business. Once the tickets are sold, they are in a free market.
In nearly all of the heated discussions ensuing after the last tickets to Spring Weekend were sold, I noticed that most people’s opinions were largely devoid of one underlying consideration: capitalism. [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Marc Frank on April 17, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By The Brown Spectator on April 17, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Drew Edwards on April 17, 2008
On March 29, 2008, the world celebrated its second annual Earth Hour, an epic sixty minutes of energy-saving, organized to draw attention to “The Greatest Threat Our Planet Has Ever Faced” – global warming, of course. A number of cities across the globe agreed simultaneously to shut off power together for a period of one [...]
Posted in International | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By The Brown Spectator on April 17, 2008
In late February, we expressed gratitude for Gov. Romney’s (R-MA) decision to withdraw from the race and work toward party unity; we also predicted that post-partisanship, if it were to happen, would come from the Right. These predictions have proved entirely correct. The Democratic Party is hastening its degeneration along race and gender divisions with [...]
Posted in Winner | Tagged April 2008
By The Brown Spectator on April 17, 2008
Dutch MP Geert Wilders may have hoped that his incendiary documentary Fitna would incite extremists to commit horrible human-rights violations. And it did, though not from the Middle East. Throughout the European Union, fear and political correctness drove politicians and journalists alike to call for the documentary to be censored, and for Wilders to be [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Brian Barbata on April 17, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
By Keith Dellagrotta on April 17, 2008
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” These words, the first in the United States Constitution, were likewise at the beginning of Senator Barack Obama’s (D-IL) recent speech regarding Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.’s comments. It is fitting that Obama, the presidential candidate who is supposed to be above racial politics, [...]
Posted in National | Tagged April 2008, Volume VI Number VI
