Franklin: Contemporary discussions of race should be rooted in history
For a man who has dedicated his life to researching, writing and teaching about race in America, John Hope Franklin says he seldom stops to note a person’s skin color. “I myself, I go for a long time...
View ArticleBall ’82, award-winning author, to speak this afternoon
The University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice continues its program tonight with a lecture by Edward Ball ’82, the National Book Award-winning author of “Slaves in the Family.” Ball’s...
View ArticleAs Iraq conflict continues, young voters wonder if a draft is coming
When former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean visited Brown on Sept. 9, he told The Herald that college students should mobilize against the possibility of a military draft. “(Bush) has now...
View ArticleTop supermarket
You will go through a Whole Foods stage, infatuated with the huge selection of tofu consistencies. Then you will graduate to East Side Marketplace, realizing that a supermarket isn’t worthy of the name...
View ArticleTask force overhauls Museum structure, searches for new director
Last month, Peter Weiss, chair of the RISD Museum’s Board of Governors, visited a Student Alliance meeting to discuss the relationship between the Museum and the college’s undergraduates, a...
View ArticleGender offender?
The volume of responses to Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ comments last month on the supposed futility of achieving gender equality on his science and mathematics faculty seems to represent a...
View ArticleBetween minimum wage and a moral conscience
In our consumption culture, buying and not buying are becoming preferred modes of activism. Isn’t it easier, after all, to boycott labor-abusing Wal-Mart than to lobby for a national living wage?...
View ArticleOld white guys on ‘diversity’
Is diversity ever a bad thing? The right wing’s use of the word is as ironic as it is savvy. Although they are a party whose platform actively combats attempts to diversify the sexual, racial and...
View ArticleDo women have opinions?
This semester, you’ll see four female writers contributing regularly to this opinions page – Maha Atal ’08, Laura Martin ’06, Courtney Jenkins ’07 and myself. That’s four writers out of a current...
View ArticleDana Goldstein ’06: Work and motherhood: a Brown study
What do women want to be when they grow up? Results of a new study of Yale University undergrads suggest that for about 60 percent of Ivy League undergrads, the answer is “mom.” The resulting article...
View ArticleHe said, she can’t remember: the Adam Lack case
On the night of February 3, 1996, a first-year drank with her girlfriends before heading to a party at Delta Tau. A few hours later, a male junior found the girl lying next to a pool of vomit and...
View ArticleFranklin: Contemporary discussions of race should be rooted in history
For a man who has dedicated his life to researching, writing and teaching about race in America, John Hope Franklin says he seldom stops to note a person’s skin color. “I myself, I go for a long time...
View ArticleHe said, she can’t remember: the Adam Lack case
On the night of February 3, 1996, a first-year drank with her girlfriends before heading to a party at Delta Tau. A few hours later, a male junior found the girl lying next to a pool of vomit and...
View ArticleFranklin: Contemporary discussions of race should be rooted in history
For a man who has dedicated his life to researching, writing and teaching about race in America, John Hope Franklin says he seldom stops to note a person’s skin color. “I myself, I go for a long time...
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