By Evan Schmidt on October 24, 2008
I just wanted to say God bless each and every one of you for speaking out and writing against the sea of liberal bullshit that is Brown University. Not only are most of the kids here Left-wing, but so is the majority of the professors and staff and it drives me crazy when I [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Anish Mitra on October 24, 2008
Dear Sir:
First, I’d like to reveal to the reader that Mr. Gould and I are actually good friends; further, Mr. Gould is very sympathetic to The Spectator’s cause, if I can say so myself. However, he is also a true joker. With these sentiments in mind, let me address this rather humorous, yet valid letter [...]
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By Devin Gould on October 24, 2008
Dear Madam:
I was first surprised, then elated, and subsequently enlightened, after reading about Anish K. Mitra’s discovery of an egotistical politician. Barack Obama is no doubt the first politician ever who, to quote Mr. Mitra, “is primarily driven by an over-inflated ego.” This is a discovery of the highest magnitude, one which will surely rank [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on October 24, 2008
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) should perhaps be renamed “The Students for Disturbing Society” after another month of act-before-you-think protests. From disrupting a RIPTA board meeting to the point where police had to be called to making career decisions for Brown students as they entered the career fair, when will it become obvious [...]
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By Frank Rinaldi on October 24, 2008
Federal legislators recently passed a $850 billion plan taking many assets off the hands of our troubled financial institutions with the goal of reviving credit markets. While this may at first sound like logical policy that would jump start the staggering economy, the reality is that it is an incredibly flawed one without any [...]
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By Kristina Kelleher on October 24, 2008
After Governor Sarah Palin said that her executive experience as a mayor and a governor had prepared her to serve as Vice-President, the Obama campaign responded by claiming that he had equal or greater experience as an executive—due to his leadership of a presidential campaign, which has more employees and a much larger budget than [...]
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By Brian Bishop on October 24, 2008
Massachusetts, once so known for outpacing its neighbors in government theft that it was labeled Taxachusetts, can brag about its comparative improvement – at least to other New England states. But its proclivity for holidays – Bunker Hill Day, Patriots Day, Evacuation Day, Juneteenth – still outpaces Rhode Island, which holds stubbornly to only VJ [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Christina Cozzetto on October 24, 2008
This past July, the presidents of 130 colleges (and counting) all over the United States formed the Amethyst Initiative, a group whose goal is to “re-examine the drinking age.” These presidents want to “support a debate” about the current drinking age because they believe that the forbidden nature of alcohol—due to a nationwide drinking [...]
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By Bryan Smith on October 24, 2008
Over the course of the last month, Brown has witnessed some of the stupidest, most offensive, ignorant, and downright disrespectful protests in its storied history. The Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, put on two demonstrations that still have me scratching my head.
On September 12th, SDS pranced around campus, banging pots and pans, [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
By Kristina Kelleher on October 24, 2008
If media reports are to be believed, Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the most knowledgeable constitutional scholars since James Madison. In a September article for The New Republic, Jeffery Rosen wrote, “The Obama-Biden slate is historic in many ways, but for law professors it has a special cachet: It’s the first time that [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2008, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VII Number II
