By Jason Carr on July 7, 2009
While Asian-Americans continually achieve America’s top test scores, University’s affirmative action policies put them at a disadvantage.
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Lindsey Meyers on February 1, 2007
James Joyce once observed that “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.” But what if existence were even worse than Joyce imagined? What if we lived in a present with no hope of a future, one where human history was about to end? Would reality become a nightmare [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Gregory Halenda on February 1, 2007
In the aftermath of this year’s Sex Power God party, sophomore Amy Littlefield drew attention to a group of students standing outside the party and using numbered signs to rate the attractiveness of the attendees. Her Brown Daily Herald column highlighted several important issues concerning sexual harassment. None were surprised when freshman Sean Quigley soon [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Boris Ryvkin on February 1, 2007
American labor unions have a turbulent history. Fighting for tangible benefits with little to no federal assistance, early union activities were highly romanticized and encouraged important reforms to a nearly unchecked capitalism. Union influence throughout the early part of the last century was driven by a manufacturing-based economy, domestic industries protected by high tariffs, and [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Pratik Chougule on February 1, 2007
Where are the moderates of the Islamic world? The question has befuddled Americans since the September 11 attacks. Indeed, while President Bush and other leaders of the West have fervently defended Islam as a “religion of peace,” there has been a conspicuous dearth of prominent Middle Eastern leaders openly willing to criticize radical Islam or [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By The Brown Spectator on February 1, 2007
For organizing a concerted grassroots movement against Iranian tyrant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At a recent protest, students forced Ahmadinejad to cut short his speech amidst shouts of “Death to the dictator.” The students’ complaints include Iran’s crackdown on democracy and civil liberties, failed economic policies, and hard-line propaganda campaign against the West.
Posted in Winner | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Marc Frank on February 1, 2007
The right to privacy is not constitutionally protected, yet, cases like Griswold v. Connecticut have established it as intractable jurisprudence.
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Taylor Stearns on February 1, 2007
There is an old joke that starts like this: a Democrat walks into a bookstore. He looks for George Soros’s latest book, The Age of Fallibility, and upon finding it, decides to pay the cashier $24 for it, and then goes home satisfied with his new purchase. Wait, back up. Actually, the man does not [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Anish Mitra on February 1, 2007
On January 16th, Barack Obama (D-Illinois) announced the creation of his Presidential “exploratory committee”. In other words, Senator Obama will be testing the waters about the feasibility of his presidential campaign in the upcoming months. The Senator’s future looks fairly bright; in a recent poll targeted towards registered members of the Democratic Party, [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Sean Quigley on February 1, 2007
August 19, 1976, deservedly, was a landmark date in recent Republican Party history. On this day, in Kansas City, Kansas, Ronald W. Reagan came excruciatingly close to accomplishing the unthinkable—he almost took the party nomination from a one-term incumbent president, Gerald Ford. Snatching up 47.4 % of the delegates’ votes (1070 out of [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
