By Joanna Liu on October 20, 2006
Inside Manning Chapel on a sunny Sunday morning, the dozens of polished, oak pews stretch from front to back, but only the first three rows are occupied at today’s 12:30 PM “Call to Worship,” the Progressive Protestant service held by Brown University each week. Some fifteen students sit dutifully and piously, in jeans and sweaters [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Taylor Stearns on October 20, 2006
With Rhode Island’s housing crisis reaching more residents and gaining more attention, politicians have stepped in to offer their solutions to the problem. One such solution is the so-called “Question 9,” a ballot initiative that authorizes a $50 million bond to raise funds for affordable housing development. If the bill’s wide bipartisan support and positive [...]
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By Pratik Chougule on October 20, 2006
In the inaugural lecture of the Janus Forum lecture series, “Ideology in the American Academy,” Mr. James Piereson and Professor Stanley Fish squared off in a discussion on the issue of intellectual diversity in academe. Piereson is president of the William E. Simon Foundation, a private grant-making foundation with broad charitable interests in education, religion, [...]
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By John Nagler on October 20, 2006
House Representative Mark Foley(R., Fla.) resigned last month after a string of sexually explicit Internet messages and emails he sent to young, male House pages were made public. Mr. Foley is reported to have written some of these messages from just off the House floor and has been up to no good since at least [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Sean Quigley on October 20, 2006
He is the perennial punchline. We have all heard a multitude of good jokes about Robert Kennedy Jr., most especially the more serious one about how every day he metaphorically spits on the grave of his uncle, JFK, by continuing to tarnish the Kennedy name that once stood for greatness, but which now stands for [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Sheila Dugan on October 20, 2006
If you happen to be a homosexual male, you are barred from donating blood with the claim you are at a higher risk of obtaining HIV, which causes AIDS. Contaminating the blood supply is nothing to dismiss lightly, but one wonders if this precaution unfairly targets a segment of our population. If so, should not [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on October 20, 2006
For storming the stage and shouting down Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist. So much for free speech. The incident raises the question, is Brown no longer the most liberal Ivy?
Posted in Loser | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By The Brown Spectator on October 6, 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rants against the United States in front of the General Assembly, combined with the organization’s ongoing ineptitude in confronting the Darfur genocide, remind us once again what the UN has become: a safe haven and public forum for the world’s greatest tyrants.
Posted in Loser | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Jason Carr on October 6, 2006
The gender gap in the Class of 2010 applicant pool was too large to escape attention; the applicant pool was 39.4 percent male, while the entering class was 49 percent male. With a gap this large, my natural inclination was to assume that some sort of preferential selection had taken place, and I went to [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By The Brown Spectator on October 6, 2006
As the issue of human rights for suspected terrorists threatened to divide an already beleagured GOP, Senator McCain and the White House were able to reach a sensible compromise, demonstrating to the country which party is serious about waging the war on terrorism. Bush and McCain: The Spectator salutes you.
Posted in Winner | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
