By The Brown Spectator on February 21, 2008
As it turns out, the John Carter Brown Library may be in possession of one of the most important relics of early America: a map, dated to 1505 or 1506. What makes this relic special is its use of the word “America” over a mass of land approximating the location of Brazil. This makes the [...]
Posted in Loser | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By The Brown Spectator on February 21, 2008
In January 2008, Bobby Jindal ‘91.5 was formally inaugurated as Louisiana’s youngest, and first non-white Governor since the Reconstruction era. Although Jindal faces many daunting challenges (cleaning up the state’s politics and shores), his website (www.BobbyJindal.com) has a few interesting statistics that show he’ll certainly have help along the way. Since the beginning of his [...]
Posted in Winner | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Christina Cozzetto on February 20, 2008
The Brown Daily Herald’s latest poll, conducted back in November, attempted to summarize many things about Brown students, from our drug habits to our cars, and from our level of sexual activity to whom we want in the White House. The question on the poll that asked how many sexual partners we each have had [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Sean Quigley on February 20, 2008
It hardly needs to be proven, beyond the years of personal experience which we each possess, that human beings are creatures of habit, that we often prefer the humdrum of daily bourgeois life to the uncertainties of political activity and civic action. The present writer is no exception to this general trend – it would [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Peter Catsimpiris on February 20, 2008
Dear Mr. Rosenbaum:
I’d like to thank you for offering feedback to my article and to apologize for those aspects of it that seemed “offensive “; I assure you I never intended to offend anyone, but merely to provide a robust apology of the Christian worldview in an academic context.
I’ll move now to respond to a [...]
Posted in Response | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Anish Mitra on February 20, 2008
On October 18th, 2007, during day two of Michael Mukasey’s Senate confirmation hearing, the prospective Attorney General refused to label waterboarding as torture. Although he was criticized heavily by the media, Mukasey hesitated to allow public opinion to guide his conscience. On January 30th, 2008, now-Attorney General Mukasey continued to deliberate on whether or not [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
By Joshua Unseth on February 20, 2008
Last year, as a group of black students were put on a very public trial in a case known as the Jena Six, we saw a reemergence of the often sugar-coated race debate. For those of us who do not come from towns where there is a high amount of racial tension, we have no [...]
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By Drew Edwards on February 20, 2008
What does Brown have against the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC)? The program faced heavy student and faculty opposition during the Vietnam War, producing its last graduate in 1972. It remains barred from access to the University, allegedly because of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, established under President Bill Clinton, that restricts openly [...]
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By Gregory Halenda on February 20, 2008
In some sort of magical trick involving water, bad guys, and heroes, terrorists are thwarted and disasters are averted. The CIA itself purportedly waterboarded top Al-Qaeda suspects after the 9/11 attacks. What exactly, then, happens in a waterboarding session? The details are somewhat murky—skewed by media and word of mouth—but general procedure states that a [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on February 20, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged February 2008, Volume VI Number IV
