Rowland ’17: What Brown students get wrong about Trump
This is not the first column written about Donald Trump’s ascension in the polls, nor will it be the last. Despite his popularity most pollsters and pundits expect that Trump will fade once we get past...
View ArticleRowland ’17: Time in and outside of the college bubble
My hometown is a college town — it houses three small liberal arts schools whose students are a fixture of our demographic. Growing up, I would cut through a college campus to get to elementary school,...
View ArticleRowland ’17: Economics and Enlightenment
I always laugh at the idea of taking a “fourth class” — the idea that three of the courses we take relate to our concentration and the fourth is “just for fun.” I understand the principle behind the...
View ArticleHu ’18 and Rowland ’17: A letter from the editors
As opinions editors, we have a vested interest in how the Brown community forms and expresses opinions. And as Brown students, we acknowledge that our privilege affords us the opportunity to deeply...
View ArticleRowland ’17: Refuting Fox News’s take on undocumented admission policy
Last week, The Herald reported Brown’s announcement that it will consider undocumented applicants and applicants who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program as domestic...
View ArticleRowland ’17: Brown voters can do better
The presidential election has been the spectacle most on my mind recently, as many of my classmates likely understand. Each new repulsive discovery shakes me, but the bombast fails to surprise me. I...
View ArticleRowland ’17: UFB: the true nucleus of the cell
Over Thanksgiving break, I used my brief leisure time to do something I generally don’t get to do: read a book for pleasure. I picked up Doris Kearn Goodwin’s biography of President Lyndon Johnson and...
View ArticleRowland ’17: Questioning the budget
The University released its budget for fiscal year 2018 this week, which unsurprisingly includes tuition increases that outpace inflation by almost twice as much. Because Brown is a tuition-dependent...
View ArticleRowland ’17: 4/20 has no chill
Unpopular opinion: 4/20 at Brown sucks. Seriously. The marijuana-centric celebrations of 4/20 indulgently highlight inequities and entitlement while staging an exclusive takeover of public spaces. I’m...
View ArticleLainie Rowland: Anything but a cheesy column
This article is part of the series Commencement Magazine 2017My senior year of high school I wrote a paper for my AP Language class trying to figure out what makes going to college worth the money. I...
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