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
By Kristina Kelleher on October 6, 2006
Five years ago, as the twin towers burned in a crude effigy of otherworldly hatred, Americans were profoundly affected. No one imagined that the tallest buildings in our largest city could be brought to the ground by nineteen fanatical men flying on commercial airliners.
All of us here at the Spectator would like to express our [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Travis Rowley on October 6, 2006
Below is a small sample of responses I received from Brown students in response to my book, Out of Ivy. The big point here is not the vulgarity, but the hate. And also the inclination to avoid discourse, and spit vitriolic insults meant to make me feel dumb and bigoted. Ironically, this is the Left [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Joshua Unseth on October 6, 2006
On a campus such as this, there is a tendency to be quite unreasonably left politically. Political extremities tend to breed political polarity of an equal and opposite nature. Thus, those that hold to an opposite viewpoint tend to think themselves as the proprietors of real truth. My
purpose for writing this article is not to [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Boris Ryvkin on October 6, 2006
There is a divide brewing in American politics. It is a divide over values, priorities, and perceptions of interest. It has split one of the most politically uniform voting blocs in the country and may impact the face of the entire community for generations to come. What I am speaking of is the growing rift [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Sheila Dugan on October 6, 2006
At first it appeared as if Brown students were taking fashion cues from the rapper Nelly, choosing to place a band-aid above their eyes instead of below. Instead this was a response to an incident taking place on Brown’s campus wherein a black male student was [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Sean Quigley on October 6, 2006
Where did I go wrong?” my father jokingly asks every time he and I engage in a serious debate about politics. As a fairly strong Democrat who raised a robustly conservative Republican for a younger son (me) and a moderately conservative Republican for an older son (my brother), my father was stampeded by a herd [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
By Pratik Chougule on October 6, 2006
The popular perception of the Cold War lends itself to the idea that during this time innocent lives were destroyed amidst the irrational fear of Communist subversion. In this narrative, Sen. Joseph McCarthy is the main villain. Typified as a bumbling liar and rightwing opportunist, the term McCarthyism has gained acceptance in American political dialogue [...]
Posted in International | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
