January–February 2020

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Open Minds

For 50 years, Brown's Open Curriculum has produced innovative leaders. What's the next Big Idea? 

““Losers for the Win” (November/December, 2019) reprints a version of a 2004 essay from Ira Glass ’81. As a “sulky little kid,” he wrote, “I thought of myself as a loser and...”
—Martha Cornog ’66, ’68 AM
Philadelphia
In response to Losers for the Win (N/D’19):
“Hooray for Lauren Maunus ’19 and Emma Bouton ’20 for speaking out on climate change with the urgency it deserves (“Fighting for Their Future,” November/December 2019). My generation made the mistake of...”
—Alex Morgan ’91
Brookline, Mass. 
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):
“Offer us actionable solutions rather than attacking folks who disagree. If we have an honest road map, people are more likely to get behind it. ”
—Tim Truby ’73 
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):

Ender the Elms

Politics & Law

From Scholarship to Shelter

Student research bolstered legislation to stop housing discrimination in R.I. Read More
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Beyond the Gates

The Arts
Image of Charlotte (Martin) Smith ’97 at her third fixer-upper in suburban Connecticut

DIY Influencer

A craft blogger takes off
Filmmaking
Image of Alejandro Landes ’03 on set of Monos

Portrait of Conflict

Filmed in the jungles of Colombia, Monos is being compared to Apocalypse Now.
Medicine & Health
Image of Dr. Christopher Dodson ’99, MD ’03, with the Philadelphia 76ers

Locker-Room Doc

Philadelphia’s top orthopedic surgeon for star athletes
Science & Tech
Illustration of John Daley of American Forests by Meg Moore

Speaking for Trees

As head of American Forests, Jad Daley ’90 looks to the woods to help solve climate change.
Hospitality

Word of Mouth

There are no recipes at King, in Manhattan’s SoHo. “Everything is verbal in the kitchen,” says Clare de Boer ’12.
Clare de Boer ’12 in her Soho, Manhattan, restaurant King
The Arts

“You’re Not a Monster”

New bite-size series starring Kelsey Grammer and Eric Stonestreet
portrait of Frank Lesser ’02

The Classes

January 8th, 2020
Photo of author Thelma Austin ’69

On October 26, the Brown University Corporation dedicated a memorial to Trustee Ken McDaniel. The memorial is an engraved concrete block lining a brick walkway in the Maddock Alumni Center gardens. Ken...
January 8th, 2020

“I hope that somewhere in an English department in the sky, my creative writing teacher, author Jack Hawkes, and my beloved classmate, author, attorney, and thoroughbred racehorse trainer Cary Robertson ’70, are...
January 8th, 2020

David Shields’s film Lynch: A History, a documentary about retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch’s use of silence as a form of protest, appeared in the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam, “the...
January 8th, 2020

Lily Cohen writes: “After spending four years living in a cabin without running water, I mastered the art of the one pot meal and the one baby wipe shower. I have since...

Obituaries

January 6th, 2020

Jean Tanner Edwards ’45, of Providence; Sept. 13. She served in the U.S. Navy Women’s Reserve, married, and obtained a graduate degree at Harvard prior to settling in Rhode Island. In 1970...
January 6th, 2020

Carol-Ann Lantz ’49, of Warwick and Wakefield, R.I.; Oct. 1. She served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years and rose to the rank of captain. After returning to civilian life,...
January 15th, 2021

Peter H. Laurie ’75 PhD (see ’65).
January 6th, 2020

Laura Cutler Aoki ’81, of Fukuoka, Japan; Sept. 29, of ovarian cancer. She moved to Japan in 1983 and taught English at the university level. She was involved with Buddhism and engrossed...

Current Obsession

First Person

Not Even Looking at My Grades

Oren Karp ’20 "went crazy" with the New Curriculum. Read More