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At the Fork of the Stream

In 1964, Brown entered into a partnership with Tougaloo, a historically Black college. From that first year to today, Brown students have been mentored by physician, civil rights leader, and “living legend” Dr. Robert Smith.

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History
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger of the List Arts Center, Brown University

List: Love It or Hate It?

50 years of Brown brutalism
Student Life
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Walking Through Cemeteries

Five minutes with Adrian Oteiza ’23
The Arts
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Interrogating Home

A student play explores sexual awakening at sleepaway camp
The Arts
An illustration of a professor teaching students and everyone is standing on oversized books with letters sitting among them

A New Language, in a Hurry

Intensive, double-credit language courses mean fast learning and instant community
Education

Bon Voyage, Brown

These pandemic point-fivers are following a nontraditional study-abroad path for their final semesters.
Illustration by Tim Cook of a bicyclist in front of row houses
The Arts

Mobsters and Lobsters

Journalism professor on a career uncovering Rhode Island’s wrongs
Image of Tracy Breton mid-explanation with green grass and trees in the background.

The Classes

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August 24th, 2022

Jerry Levine writes: “In February and early March, I underwent cataract removal and new lens implants in each eye leading to amazing improvement. This operation is commonplace for people in our age...
August 24th, 2022

As Vesuvio has changed from a classic San Francisco beatnik bar to a Bubba Gump-y tourist trap, Tony Lioce has been deemed too old to tend bar there anymore but has relocated...
August 24th, 2022

Jenny Perlin’s feature documentary film Bunker (2021) opened the Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 Doc Fortnight Film Festival. The film has also played at the Museum of the Moving Image’s “First Look/Science...
August 24th, 2022

Harry Aspinwall joined the ranks of Merlin and Maleficent as the magical lead in the new original Disney+ show The Quest, which premiered on May 11. The Quest, a ground-breaking hybrid scripted...

Sports

Sports & Recreation
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No Long Shot

Brown Bear sets new record in the javelin
Sports & Recreation
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Ready to Roar!

Quarterback E.J. Perry signs with Jaguars
Sports & Recreation
Image of Chie Chie Yard in a stairwell holding a hockey helmet

A Life on the Ice

NHL veep Chie Chie Yard ’94
In Memoriam
Photo of Kathy Flores and rugby teammates

Play Hard, Love Harder

Rugby legend and beloved coach Kathy Flores took Brown’s women’s team from club to varsity
Sports & Recreation

Ultimate Success

Azeez Adeyemi ’21 is national MVP
Image of Azeez Adeyemi in 2019 Ultimate College Championships

What Do
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“It is dishonest to attribute the motives of neo-Nazis who have appropriated selective aspects of classics to the field of study or to its professionals. It is even more ludicrous to look...”
—Christopher Kox ’81
San Francisco
 
In response to Classics: Dead or Alive? (J–A’22):
“The single course that has stuck with me up to this, my 90th year, was Arlan Coolidge’s 20th Century Music because in that course we learned about composers who broke with the...”
—Larry Lundgren ’53
Gothenburg, Sweden
 
In response to Storytelling through Song (A–M’22):
“Permissive abortion laws impede movement toward social justice. ”
—Lauren Michaud Winn ’83, Carlisle, Pa.
In response to Holding the Line (A–M’22):
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