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“Old Brick” at 250

University Hall is no stranger to pandemics or cancelled commencements. Since 1770, Brown’s first “College Edifice” has seen the horrors of slavery, a visit from a Founding Father, dormitory hijinks, U.S. soldiers, and student protests….lots of protests. A brief history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On Campus

Politics & Law
photo of Professor Seth Rockman on campus

Capitalism on the Couch

A history course analyzes the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of our economic system.
The Arts
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Furnace and Fugue

A digital project brings a book on alchemy to life
Student Life
Kimberly Collins ’22 on Campus Hill

Eerie Silence

College Hill meets COVID.
Humanities & Culture
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger

Everything Old Is New Again

Technology and new questions bring long-studied archaeological sites to life.
Education

The Power Within

TWTP’s annual welcome meets Afrofuturism, over Zoom
Image of Briannah Cook
Student Life

COVID Convocation

First-year students arrived in bleak midwinter, trading family overload for solo quarantine.
Image of Noble Brigham ’24

The Classes

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April 8th, 2021

Teresa Gagnon Mellone ’39, ’62 AM, of Barrington, R.I.; Sept. 21, three weeks shy of her 101st birthday. She graduated with a degree in French and Italian, having entered as a freshman...
April 12th, 2021

James A. McIntyre ’60, of San Diego; Aug. 16. He earned his JD from Stanford University Law School and spent his career at the San Diego law firm of McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees,...
April 12th, 2021

Margaret O’Brien Donohoe ’62 MAT, of Narragansett, R.I., formerly of Forest Hills, N.Y.; Nov. 7. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1962 to 1964. She came back to the...
April 12th, 2021

Dan W. Brock, of Newton, Mass.; Sept. 26. Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor and professor emeritus in philosophy. Professor Brock joined the philosophy department at Brown in 1969, where he became professor...

Sports

Sports & Recreation
Ijeoma Uche Brown Track

Flying High

Record-breaking long jumps
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
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.
Ever True

Ever True

Artemis A.W. Joukowsky ’55 was one of Brown’s biggest cheerleaders and fundraisers.
Artemis A.W. Joukowsky and Ruth Simmons
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

What Do
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“In response to a previous reader who wrote in about the decision to capitalize Black but not white, I searched “capitalizing black” on the internet and immediately found articles from multiple prominent...”
—Caroline Malin-Mayaor ’17
Arlington, Va.
In response to In This Together (S–O’20):
“Jack Brook’s wide-ranging article “Lit.” in the January-March ’21 issue interested me very much, partly for a personal reason. My brother served in the Korean War as a Marine artillery officer. Upon...”
—Irene Westing ’58
Peabody, Mass.
In response to Lit. (J–M’21):
“I hope those who evidently felt very uncomfortable with discussions of policing in earlier editions read the conversation with Deborah Witzberg (“Use of Force,” Beyond the Gates, January-March ’21). Paradoxically, a defensive...”
—Alejandra Zamora ’18 
In response to Use of Force (J–M’21):
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