Archive: Mar 2001

Why vote? It is a question that faces each of us every time there is an election. Take, for instance, the recent Students' Association presidential race. There was a call for each student on campus to exert his voice by voting to choose the next student body president and senators. But why should we vote […]

On Tuesday, March 13, the Brown Daily Herald published an advertisement. Every paper does this on most pages of every issue. It wasn?t unique.Advertisements take many different shapes and sizes. Sometimes they sell things, sometimes they invite and sometimes they take a position on a controversial issue. This particular advertisement took a position on reparations […]

What will you be doing Friday at 11 p.m.?If you?re not already drunk and stumbling around UR?s fraternity quad, you might want to go to Eastman. Charles Castleman, professor of violin, will be putting on a lighthearted show called the April Fools? Weekend Concert with some seriously first-rate music. Several professors will assist him, including […]

Don?t forget to go to the MS walk Sunday, April 1 at 8 a.m. It will be starting from the Al Sigl Center. Groups co-sponsoring the MS walk include the Students? Association Senate, the Community Service Network, Students Together In Networking Graduates, Hill Court Community Assistants and the undergraduate neuroscience council.

Mark your calendars for 8 p.m. Saturday, March 31 and head on down to Strong Auditorium for Vocal Point?s annual spring extravaganza. UR?s only all-female a cappella group is celebrating 32 years of existence with its largest concert of the year. This year?s concert will feature an assortment of new tunes that Vocal Point has […]

John La Boda was announced as the new Student Association President late Wednesday night. Full coverage will be available Thursday in the CT.VOTE TOTALS:Presidential RaceMindy Fountain-270Samay Gheewala-140John La Boda-477Meng Wang-182Who Cares Guy-45Other-37JT-16Class of 2002Daryl DuLong-131Sarah Driansky-144Other-55Class of 2003Elizabeth Conway-161Lana Knox-202Jorge Villali-145Class of 2004Carl Chastain-73Ajay Dhar-69Patty Heckman-62Peter Ordal-120Ruthie Varkovitzy-94At LargeJack Collins-359Zachary Feldman-256Kevin Gemp-339Kris Kiefer-590Lucas McCarthy-309Adam Simmons-493Other-137GLCAshley […]

Remember the last time you played beer pong and thought you were king of the world after making your opponent drink that warm nasty beer? Now there is a real reason to claim yourself the king of the world ? it?s called the beer mile. The club sports department is happy to be forming a […]

The sounds of laughter and helicopter blades reverberated through the George Goergen Athletic Center this past Friday afternoon.?One minute he was shaking his booty on the elliptical machine and the next he was flat out on his face,? sophomore Itsa Boy said. UR Professor of Linguistics Shaquan Goldstein, however, told a much more complicated tale […]

On Oct. 27, my wife died from lung cancer at age 68. In 1950, while a freshman in college, she started smoking and she continued for about 42 years, gradually working up to over two packs a day. She stopped smoking about eight years ago after hypnosis sessions with a clinical psychologist at the University […]

When I think back on my life, I often wonder why I became a musician.It?s not for the love of the music, and it?s definitely not for the joy of sharing it with others.Nope ? I would have to say that the reason I became a musician was for the prospect of spending hours a […]