By Jason Carr on July 9, 2009
Two weeks before the spring break of my freshman year at Brown, I had a difficult choice to make.
My father had offered to me the opportunity to spend the break in Cancun with my stepmother and their three children. While the prospect of finally exposing my skin to sunlight after a long tenure in [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Pratik Chougule on September 1, 2006
On May 17, 1954, the cultural landscape of America was changed forever. The United States Supreme Court unanimously and explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities. The landmark decision placed the force of the law behind civil rights, inspiring the subsequent Civil Rights movement, which dramatically strengthened minority rights within one generation. [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Jason Carr on September 1, 2006
Slubice, Poland – Having spent my summer in Germany and having made excursions into both the Czech Republic and Poland while staying in East Germany, I gained an interesting perspective on the economic and cultural development of Eastern Europe. Economic expansion of the European Union (EU) into Eastern Europe is sure to be a mixed-bag. [...]
Posted in International | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Boris Ryvkin on September 1, 2006
Brown University does not have its shortage of controversies. To the Brown student, the controversial is the every day. The issue may be the imminent collapse of the global environment, another devilish creation emerging from the detested Bush administration, or the desire to place a knife into the heart of the nation’s economy to [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Brian Bishop on September 1, 2006
Noted atheist philosopher Daniel Dennett was spreading his ‘gospel’ at Harvard recently, i.e., his new book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon. Dennett opened ironically by embracing naturalism, a religion rooted in natural phenomenon. He even encouraged donations to the lecture’s sponsor, the Center for Naturalism. This immediately brought to mind what might [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By The Brown Spectator on September 1, 2006
On July 21st, The Providence Journal reported that Brown Economics Professor Dennis Michaud was disqualified from running for governor this term. Who was this professor of ours who almost appeared on the November ballot? Let’s take a look…
Dennis W. Michaud teaches a business economics courses at Brown as an adjunct professor. He received his PhD [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Kristina Kelleher on September 1, 2006
In December, the House passed, by 239-182 vote, House Resolution 4437 sponsored by Representative F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) a bill making it a federal felony, with criminal penalties, to live in the United States illegally or to help illegal immigrants enter or stay in the country. It also requires the construction of 700 miles of [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Sean Quigley on September 1, 2006
When you hear the word poverty, what are your first reactions? Be honest. Most likely, and most unfortunately, you have bought into the Left’s fiery accusations that it is the result of failed government, failed economic systems, and failed societies. But is that the truth? How can one possibly contend that [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By The Brown Spectator on September 1, 2006
For joining the chorus of leftist defeatism on both Iraq and Israel’s war against Hezbollah
Posted in Loser | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
By Sheila Dugan on September 1, 2006
As I read Watchdogs of Democracy? written by Helen Thomas, at times I felt the greatest crime of President Bush was his failure to charm her. The way she writes of state dinners as if it were her senior prom, describing her “long, black velvet skirt, with a matching jacket, and a fancy satin [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2006, Volume V Number I
