By Anish Mitra on September 15, 2008
Senator Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) superstar popularity has certainly been no surprise. Virtually all media outlets act as if he is the center of the universe,and record his every move,no matter how insignificant or irrelevant. Courtesy of CNN news, I’ve learned more about his affinity for basketball, his quasi-addiction to cigarettes, and his exorbitant gym hours [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Travis Rowley on September 15, 2008
Consequences are the results of choices. So, as Rhode Islanders confront a half-billion dollar budget deficit, they should reflect upon the decisions that caused their State’s economic distress. After all, the State’s current fiscal condition was never a fated scenario. Alternate policies could have been employed.
So what decisions led to Rhode Island’s economic crisis?
The easy [...]
Posted in Local | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
With so many on the Left ranting and raving about how President Bush has violated key constitutional rights and liberties during the so-called War on Terrorism – a charge, for the record, with which we do not wholly disagree – it is breathtakingly hypocritical to see their indifference about the blatant, long-standing violation of the [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
Sean B.Quigley ‘10
Sincere congratulations go to the players on the Brown football squad, which was voted third in the Ivy League pre-season media poll, as advertised on Brown University’s website. The crimson and blue Congregationalists to our North and West were tied for first place, with a ranking of 124 points each, but the industrious [...]
Posted in Editorials | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Keith Dellagrotta on September 15, 2008
Whether you like the man or not, President George W. Bush was liked by enough Americans to get elected in 2000 and then re-elected in 2004. A major reason: his outspoken faith in God. Today, with around three quarters of Americans identifying as Christians, it is no wonder that a man who openly professes his [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Rafael Chaiken on September 15, 2008
Dear Madam:
In the past year,my reading of the Spectator has exposed a rather glaring inconsistency which I hope you will address. The last page of each issue gives credit to the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity and its motto, “ideas without labels.”This is a laudable goal that deserves currency in the contemporary political climate.Institutions such as [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Kristina Kelleher on September 15, 2008
Dear Mr. Radford:
While I appreciate your kind words on our mission, I must take issue with a number of you characterizations and criticisms of my article.First,I believe that you will be sadly mistaken about “the inevitable verdict of history”of the Bush foreign policy. Certainly future generations of Iraqi and Afghan women will enjoy lives of [...]
Posted in Response | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Anthony Badami on September 15, 2008
My fellow Americans, I beseech you, discontinue this asinine discussion. Iraq never was nor will it ever be Vietnam. Nor is Iraq a “war of choice.” To say so displays a profound lack of recollection. How quickly the most astute of us is struck with historical amnesia. And even more quickly that collective stupor has [...]
Posted in National | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By Bryan Smith on September 15, 2008
I used to joke that the number of students in the Young Communist League at Brown outnumbered the students in the Brown College Republicans group. Yet after coming to campus and seeing life first hand, I have learned a sobering fact: this is not far from the truth. Hopefully the fact that Brown is a [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
By The Brown Spectator on September 15, 2008
The Foundation for Intellectual Diversity Responds—
Dear Mr. Chaiken:
However laudable Brown University’s ostensible commitment to the ideal of a liberal education through free and open inquiry may be,its actual adherence to this mission remains a fan-tasy, a far-off Nirvana which is undercut every step of the way by overbearing ideologies and the faddish prerogatives of various [...]
Posted in Response | Tagged September 2008, Volume VII Number I
