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Brown alums on this year’s nationwide demands for racial justice and the urgent need for lasting change

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On Campus

Service & Advocacy
Illustration by Anthony Russo

Justice, in Community

A non-punitive approach
Sports & Recreation
Ijeoma Uche Brown Track

Flying High

Record-breaking long jumps
Education
Marie-Anne Barron ’22

Remote Reimagined

Thrown onto Zoom last spring, professors prep for whatever “back to school” might mean.
The Arts
Hasiba Zandi cyanography self-portrait

Old-School Photography

Five minutes with Hasiba Zandi ’21
Humanities & Culture

Rotten Culture

Why removing “bad apples” won’t fix the police
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

The Classes

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August 28th, 2020

Michael Levy writes: “After 50 years as a lawyer, 37 with the U.S. Department of Justice, I retired last September. I have spent the spring semester teaching Cybercrime and Evidence at the...
August 28th, 2020

Leslie Armstrong announces the publication of her memoir, Girl Intrepid - A New York Story of Privilege and Perseverance. Leslie writes: “It covers the first third of my life: my upbringing in...
August 28th, 2020

Russ Kinne writes: “I’m still living in mid-coast Maine; will be here forever, I think. Great place, great people. Living in a nifty little log house and driving my 11th Subaru (Maine’s...
August 28th, 2020

Al Gerstein writes: “Naomi and I continue to do well, no great increase in the negative aspects of the aging process. As with everyone else, we are now embarked on a significant...

Sports

Sports & Recreation
varsity rowing team 1960

Stroke of Luck

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

High Climbing

An alum takes up "highpointing" at age 60
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

Joy and Determination

Women’s gymnastics coach Jackie Court led the team through many victories.
Jackie Court image by Stew Milne
Sports & Recreation

Flying High

Record-breaking long jumps
Ijeoma Uche Brown Track

What Do
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“Thank you for yet another outstanding issue of BAM! I read with particular interest the article “Nevertheless, They Persisted” (June-August) and specifically the section describing work being done by Vanessa Garcia in...”
—L. Pearce McCarty III ’93
Chair, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery
Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Long Lake, Minn.
 
In response to Nevertheless, They Persisted (J–A’20):
“In “Parenting Rules You Can Break” (April/May), I agree that women are under pressure to carefully consider recommendations about behaviors while pregnant and be wary of those that lack solid research. However,...”
—Paul Macaruso ’83
Ashaway, R.I.
pmacaruso@ccri.edu
 
In response to Parenting Rules You Can Break (A–M’20):
“I’ve just now come to read the issue of BAM focusing on the 50th anniversary of the New Curriculum. Lockdown has jumbled my reading schedule—I’m reading now for the first time, as...”
—Steven Guarnaccia ’75
Brooklyn, N.Y.
sguarnaccia@hotmail.com
In response to Father of the Open Curriculum (J–F’20):
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