By Brian Bishop on March 1, 2005
The Reagan Revolution has been properly feted of late as its architect bid a final farewell to the field of battle. Given that one says nothing but good of the dead unless they were President, his critics have been remarkably quiet – largely limiting their contributions to suggestions that the Soviet Union would have collapsed [...]
Posted in National | Tagged March 2005, Volume III Number I
By Sheila Dugan on March 1, 2005
After November 2nd, the Republican Party magically transformed itself from a group of white men smoking cigars at the country club to a mess of slack-jawed yokels with their eyes cast towards the sky looking for signs of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Analyses of the 2004 election made much of the fact that [...]
Posted in Essay | Tagged March 2005, Volume III Number I
By Sheila Dugan on March 1, 2005
In an op-ed to the New York Times, William Broyles Jr. writes of allowing “other people’s children” to fight our wars. Noting the scarcity of politicians’ family members fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Broyles ends his column by advocating the return of the draft; only then “chance, not connection or clever manipulation, would determine who [...]
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By Stephen Beale on March 1, 2005
Almost one year has elapsed since its disastrous debut, yet the mission of Brown University’s committee on slavery and justice remains unclear. Is the controversial committee a good-faith attempt to instruct the campus community in the virtues of disinterested dialogue, as university officials insist, or is Brown flirting with yet another intellectual fad, as many [...]
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By Christopher McAuliffe on March 1, 2005
Intellectual diversity has been all the rage at Brown this semester. So far, the Brown Daily Herald has featured no fewer than six articles directly addressing the subject. President Ruth Simmons devoted the better part of her Spring Semester Opening Address to issues of intellectual diversity at Brown. Even many professors have been recently opining [...]
Posted in Editorials, Lead | Tagged March 2005, Volume III Number I
By Pratik Chougule on March 1, 2005
No community can be built on the basis of preferential treatment and double standards, and their existence belies university rhetoric about equality.
-Dinesh D’Souza
In the name of diversity, multiculturalism, and political correctness, Brown University has deliberately broken with the ideals of a classical liberal education. Perhaps this academic revolution can be most plainly witnessed in the [...]
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By Travis Rowley on March 1, 2005
One of my early encounters with liberalism at Brown University wasn’t even on campus. I met a girl while I was at a bar called the Yellow Kitten on Block Island, a small old-style colonial island off the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, my hometown. The area is a popular tourist spot in the summer, [...]
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By Stephen Beale on March 1, 2005
The Brown Spectator’s Stephen Beale asks six questions of President Ruth Simmons regarding the University’s steering committee on slavery and justice, formed last year.
Stephen Beale: What were the motives for the creation of the committee? Who participated in the decision? What is the chain of events that led up to the formation of this committee?
Ruth [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged March 2005, Volume III Number I
