Tag Archives: brown university

Apr
20
2009

Torture, Doctors, $

Today, the BDH published my last column of the semester, which argued that the Political Theory Project acted irresponsibly when it paid John Yoo to speak at Brown in February. Though the column is a little late on the Brown side of things, the case(s) against Yoo and company have only gotten stronger with further [...]

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Apr
12
2009

Dear Writing Fellows

Dear Writing Fellow Selection Committee,
When I applied to be a Writing Fellow during the spring semester of my freshman year, I remember having some trouble with part B. Simply put, I hadn’t done enough college writing yet. After a spending much of that fall and winter holed away in Barus and Holley, MacMillan, and the [...]

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Mar
17
2009

BDH refuses to publish Op-Ed criticizing its coverage

I won’t argue that the piece I wrote for my BDH column this week was well written. But there’s something fishy going on with the BDH Opinions section. Allow me to explain.
On Monday, the BDH published a front page story criticizing Brown VP for International Relations David Kennedy’s ‘76 agenda for the Watson Institute. He’s [...]

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Feb
02
2009

How to improve Morning mail

In my first BDH column today, I discussed how the new Brown policy restricting advertising in Morning Mail to events expecting more than 300 people harms student groups. Building the Critical Theory Project has shown me how important access to Morning Mail is for forming and organizing a student group. This policy will also harm university [...]

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