April-May 2020

Cover Story

Stroke of Luck

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

What Do
You Think?

“In the article by Jack Brook, and in the Green New Deal literature it seems that the possibility of increasing the use of nuclear energy, which generates no green house gases, is...”
—Stephen Schmitt ’70
Boxborough, Mass.
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):
“With respect to your correspondent’s advocacy of an industry destroying “carbon tax”, the major determinants of Earth climate are the planet’s ecliptic around the sun, the absence or presence of “sunspots” and...”
—Roger G. Smith ’53
Cornelius, Ore.
92rgs@coho.net
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):
“I was pleased to read BAM’s coverage of the Sunrise Movement and the excellent work that Lauren Maunus ’19, Emma Bouton ’20, and their collaborators at Brown and beyond have been doing...”
—Joshua Stern ’08.5
Silver Spring, Md.
joshstern6@gmail.com
 
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):

Under the Elms

the Brown endowment’s Percentage of investments in
Fossil Fuels.Two years ago, that percentage was 6.5,
similar to other ivies. Brown vows to Divest from REmaining
fossil fuel holdings aSAP. 


Sports & Recreation
Heather Marini playing tackle football in Australia

Mind Game

Brown hires Division 1 football’s first female position coach
The Arts
Sindura Sriram ’21, Suzanne Antoniou ’20, Allie Arnold ’20, Zara Norman ’22, Elisheva Goldberg ’22.

Funny Girls

The Rib launches women into comedy careers
Science & Tech
Illustration by Brian Stauffer

Code Red

Is that tech job worth taking?
The Arts

1,000 Rejections

How to get a cartoon in the New Yorker
Self-portrait by Pia Mileaf-Patel
The Arts

Dirty Filthy Basement

A faculty band rocks out
Kerry Smith, Joe Meisel, Janet Blume and Baylor Fox-Kemper of Dirty Filthy Basement