The Brown University Spectator

Consensual Sex Day

Ryan Fleming — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:56:13 +0000

The event has noble goals (make sure people know their boundaries, ensure all sexual intercourse is consensual), but the message is blurred by the condom dart throw and the dildo ring toss. Instead of talking about anything related to consensual sex, the event mostly just involved games using sexual objects while people mentioned facts about STDs or sexual assault. Unfortunately [...]

Brown Corporation

Ryan Fleming — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:55:24 +0000

Despite what many students think their beloved “university-college” Brown University is at its core a business. Like any business, Brown must compete in the free market and continue to produce the best possible product that it can. To the chagrin of many students who would like to see the expansion of Brown halted in order [...]

The Next Mayor of Providence

The Brown Spectator — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:43:23 +0000

As many know, Angel Taveras, the Harvard and Georgetown educated lawyer and former city housing court judge won he democratic primary with forty nine percent of the vote. He defeated John Lombardi (twenty nine percent of the vote), who has been a fixture for the last twenty-six years on the Providence City Council and has [...]

51 Park Place

Philip Primeau — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:27:08 +0000

The question of the Ground Zero mosque is not a matter of “can” but “should.” Imam Rauf and his Muslim brethren can build their house of culture and worship at 51 Park Place, several blocks from the tomblike footprints of the Twin Towers — but should they? Contrary to liberal insinuations, nobody doubts Rauf’s rights, but [...]

Fear Not the Radical Professor

The Brown Spectator — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:03:32 +0000

Though it may not have been the intended reaction, I was greatly amused that William F. Buckley, Jr. actually seemed to take his professors so seriously in his classic God and Man at Yale. Of course, this book was published before the countercultural movements of the 1960s. That era and the subsequent generation of academics [...]

SB:1070 Debating the Merits of the Arizona Immigration Law

Ryan Fleming — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:53:49 +0000

Racism, by its nature, stems from ignorance. For that reason there is a touch of bitter irony when opponents of Arizona’s law SB 1070 call it, out of ignorance, racist. I plan on shedding light on the merits of Arizona’s law and show why it is not the law many perceive. It retains [...]

Help Cure Paralysis and See the Office on Set

The Brown Spectator — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:57:20 +0000

Marcus York, who plays Billy Merchant on the hit show “The Office”, is teaming up with SCI Research Advancement, www.SCICure.org, to help find a cure for spinal cord injuries.

Man, Misery and Mystery

Sean Quigley — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:38:45 +0000

As a member of a family that has been Presbyterian for many centuries, and as one who regularly communicates at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal on George Street, I feel comfortable writing on behalf of orthodox Protestants. I am just a layman, to be sure, and make no claim to clerical expertise; but in addressing the [...]

The Great Debate Over Sarah Palin Con

Poppy Addison — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:36:06 +0000

Sarah Palin may appear an earthy cookie-baker, but the cutesy provincialism neither advances nor represents conservatism. Rather than garnering public trust, the hockey mom routine has made her primetime laughingstock. The winks, insipid buzzphrases (“You betcha!”), and muddled policy perscriptions show Palin to be fatally flawed and not of, for, or by the real right. Cursory [...]

The Great Debate Over Sarah Palin Pro

Ivayla Ivanova — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:33:09 +0000

Pro: Not long ago, I was at a dinner with a couple; a professor and his wife. When they discovered that I was a conservative, and that on top of that I like Sarah Palin, the wife exclaimed: “Sarah Palin is a bitch! And I never, ever use that word.” This from a woman [...]