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Livening Up the Classroom at Brown
Brown has a history as an innovative university. In 1970, Brown established the New Curriculum, known today as the Open Curriculum. A radical idea then that remains controversial today, the Open...
View ArticleDorner’s Legacy
The movie Zero Dark Thirty’s portrayal of the manhunt for Osama bin Laden took Pakistani compounds, theaters, and award ceremonies by storm. Bin Laden was the bad guy. The 9/11 attacks bin Laden...
View ArticleThe Need for Financial Literacy
One day in the not so far-off future, you’re going to have your own salary. You’re going to live on your own and perhaps buy your own house someday. You’ll have to keep a budget, invest for the future,...
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How to Study to Remember Everything
Ever feel like you just don’t have enough time to memorize everything for that exam? What would you do if there were a way to memorize names, faces, dates, numbers, and formulae that was foolproof and...
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How Do We Get Our Energy?
With the recent debate over coal divestment on Brown’s campus, there has been a renewed interest in looking at where our energy comes from. More specifically, how do coal, sunlight, and wind turn into...
View ArticleLetter from the Editors
Thanks for reading this copy of The Spectator, our last issue of the year. Next year, we’ll print two issues in the fall semester and two in the spring semester. If this is your first contact with The...
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Loser: Brown Environmentalists
In late April, passersby on the Main Green were robbed of a view of a pleasant New England spring afternoon. Obstructing the sight was an enormous black blob, allegedly containing one ton of carbon...
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Winner: Brown Lecture Board
Brown students pay lip service to the idea of “intellectual diversity,” but no group on campus better fosters intellectual diversity than the Brown Lecture Board. In the past seven years, the group...
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For the Love of Money: Are Entrepreneurs the New I-Banking Analysts?
I remember watching The Social Network when Justin Timberlake, in the character of eccentric entrepreneur cum venture capitalist cum bon vivant Sean Parker, said to Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse...
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Ron Paul: “It’s the cause of liberty that I stand for”
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) championed the cause of liberty in front of a packed and enthusiastic crowd in Salomon 101 at Brown April 16. Hosted by the Brown Lecture Board, Paul touched upon foreign...
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Paul @ Brown: Liberty Among Liberals
On April 16th, an angelic choir alighted from the Heavens for Brown’s comparative-handful of libertarians. When the door opened on stage left of Salomon’s upper-level auditorium, and Dr. Ron Paul came...
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular...
As summer approaches, we avidly seek books to read that will enrich us and give us something to say at the next social gathering, especially after summer ends and we return to school. Perhaps you’re...
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Cybersecurity and the Importance of Privacy
It’s easy to feel that Big Brother is watching you. In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, then-President George W. Bush signed into a law a controversial wiretapping bill in 2001. The USA...
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Optical Solution
A fiber-optic grid is an infrastructure project everyone can get behind. Brown-EZ. Brown-Secure. Brown-Guest. These, as every Brown student knows, are the main wi-fi networks on campus. Forgive me if...
View ArticleHot: Brown’s Computer Security Team
We thank the Department of Public Safety for keeping us safe on campus, but we tend to forget that Brown’s Information Security Group guards our information on the Internet. Last month, the Brown Daily...
View ArticleNot: Brown’s Strategic Plan
At 11 pages, the University’s strategic plan, Building on Distinction: A New Plan for Brown, is not too short in length, but it is certainly short on specifics. Many of the goals laid out in the plan...
View ArticleLawsuits and Health Care: Where will it end?
Civil lawsuit fairness in a world with ‘free’ services.’ Lawsuit abuse is a widespread problem in the United States, affecting people from all walks of life. Among those impacted most are medical...
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The Model Congressman
Justin Amash (R-MI) is Brown’s unlikely bedfellow for good government. ‘Good Government’ is not only an ideal — it’s a class at Brown. Public policy concentrators who’ve taken the requisite intro class...
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The Predictive Failure of the NSA
How wide-sweeping ‘security’ attacks our freedom and makes us less safe. We know who caught Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Federal Bureau of Investigation agents storming at a boat after a daylong manhunt across...
View ArticleRadical, Illiberal, Leftist
Richard J. Ellis’s The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America While the Right is stereotypically considered rigid and dogmatic, inflexibility and illiberality exist just as firmly...
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