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Black Girl Magic

In the wake of the 1968 Black Student Walkout, a chapter of the politically engaged, storied Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta was born at Brown.

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The Arts
Oscar Rousseau ’21 (left) and Ben Doyle ’21

Comedy of the Century

The Brown Jug is back
The Arts
Ruth Bader Ginsburg illustration from book Decisions and Dissents of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Selection

Created Equal

RBG’s brilliant arguments in the fight for gender and racial equality.
Science & Tech
photo of a pool of honey

You Just Need a Few Common Household Items...

Oh, and an Arduino board, a Venturi sensor, Navier-Stokes equations, plus Bernoulli.
The Arts
Barker in a closet recording

The Actress, the Mic, and the Wardrobe

Crisis, meet opportunity
Student Life

Eerie Silence

College Hill meets COVID.
Kimberly Collins ’22 on Campus Hill
Politics & Law

Capitalism on the Couch

A history course analyzes the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of our economic system.
photo of Professor Seth Rockman on campus

The Classes

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January 14th, 2021

Terence A. Harkin announces that his debut novel, The Big Buddha Bicycle Race, was named a finalist for the Military Writers Society of America’s 2020 prize in Literary Fiction. His second novel,...
January 14th, 2021

David Shields’s documentary film Lynch: A History streamed in the fall on the Sundance Channel/AMC; the film was also available on a variety of other platforms, such as Amazon Prime, iTunes/AppleTV, GooglePlay,...
January 14th, 2021

Barbara Heller, a set decorator for film and television and the writer and director of award-winning short films, designed the new deluxe edition of Pride and Prejudice. The edition contains replicas of...
January 14th, 2021

Ayanna MacCalla Howard explores how the tech world’s racial and sexual biases are infecting the next generation of artificial intelligence in her audiobook Sex, Race, and Robots. Narrated by Hollywood actress Amandla...

Sports

Sports & Recreation
Jackie Court image by Stew Milne

Joy and Determination

Women’s gymnastics coach Jackie Court led the team through many victories.
Sports & Recreation
Heather Marini playing tackle football in Australia

Mind Game

Brown hires Division 1 football’s first female position coach
In Memoriam
Photo of Arlene Gorton ’52

Fighting the Good Fight

Arlene Gorton ’52: a warrior for female athletes through turbulent times, including the Brown-Pembroke merger and the passage of Title IX.
Sports & Recreation
Ijeoma Uche Brown Track

Flying High

Record-breaking long jumps
Sports & Recreation

State of Play

This spring, Brown overhauled its athletics program. Varsity teams went club and vice versa, protests and lawsuits ensued, and some teams were reinstated.
portrait of Brynn Smith ’11
Sports & Recreation

Stroke of Luck

How a ragtag team of club rowers from Brown almost took the national varsity championship in 1960.
varsity rowing team 1960

What Do
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“ My principal objections to the varsity demotion decision are not Brown’s foolish “go-it-alone” approach to restoring competitive imbalances in the Ivy League nor the meager funds to be saved. Rather, my objections,...”
—Roger Sherman ’69
Tamarac, Fla.
In response to State of Play (N–D’20):
“Eldridge Gilbert’s words in “Now!” (September-October) carried a note of desperation: “The work that needs to be done amongst white people in white communities across the United States can’t be done fast...”
—Andrew Speno ’88
Cincinnati
spenoa@zoomtown.com
In response to NOW! (S–O’20):
“Mr. Cicilline, by all means, deal with Zuckerberg. Just don’t mess with my YouTube (“Going Up Against Goliath,” November/December). ”
—Bill Tukey Jr. ’72
Wakefield, R.I.
wptukeyjr@aol.com
 
In response to Going Up Against Goliath (N–D’20):
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