New Issue of Closing Remarks Out

February 9, 2010

We are pleased to announce that a new issue of Closing Remarks is out on campus. Closing Remarks is a Christian arts and culture magazine that the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity supports on campus, in addition to The Brown Spectator. Topics in the new issue include God and mathematics and the relationship between faith and [...]

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Simmons Awards Bonus to Goldman Sachs CEO

February 9, 2010

It’s no secret that President Ruth Simmons has aligned herself with leftist causes—her backing of the reparations movement being the most obvious example—so it was interesting to see how her ideology influenced her decision, as a board member, on whether to give a bonus to the CEO of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Well, the [...]

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FID in The Providence Journal

February 3, 2010

The Providence Journal news blog covered our criticism of the ACORN event. Here is the complete post:

Ex-ACORN official to speak at Brown, prompting criticism

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University’s invitation for Wade Rathke, co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, to speak at Brown next Tuesday has prompted criticism from a group whose [...]

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Brown Invites ACORN Co-Founder to Speak

February 3, 2010

One of the co-founders of ACORN is coming to speak at Brown, according to The Providence Journal. After several employees were caught on tape giving advice on how to pay taxes and secure housing for a prostitution ring, most people on the Left, including President Obama, did the common sense thing and distanced themselves from [...]

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Brown Classes Resume

February 1, 2010

With the start of classes last week, the spring semester is gearing up, and so is this blog. This semester is already off to an exciting start—a new issue of Closing Remarks is out, The Brown Spectator is due for another issue soon, and The Providence Journal is reporting today that the co-founder of ACORN [...]

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Affirmative action for men, revisited.

December 19, 2009

What is the best kept secret in higher education? Women now make up 58% of those enrolled in all two and four-year colleges. On the one hand, this turnaround in opportunity is to be welcomed; our culture is now that much more open and free. On the other, due to entrenched interests and political correctness, [...]

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Brown Getting Greener

December 15, 2009

The below mentioned Providence Journal article about Brown’s delegation to the Copenhagen climate summit also alludes to the University’s own program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Here is what Aron Buffen, a Ph.D. student in geology, told The Journal about these efforts:

Buffen said he is proud that Brown has already committed to reducing [...]

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Climate of Conformity at Brown

December 14, 2009

It should come as little suprise that Brown University is well-represented at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this week and last. According to The Providence Journal, three students and the director of Brown’s Center for Environmental Studies are attending.
The students and their professor are writing for a University blog about the summit, where readers [...]

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Classes End, Semester Winds Down

December 11, 2009

As classes end today and things on campus wind down, so will this blog. In the meantime, as news breaks during winter vacation, we will be posting updates. Some things to look out for:
● Closing Remarks, the magazine of Christian thought that we support, is due for an issue to be published soon. Past issues [...]

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Foundation Calls on Brown to Suspend Reparations Payments

December 10, 2009

PROVIDENCE, RI – The Foundation for Intellectual Diversity today called on Brown University to suspend a $10 million plan for slavery reparations and instead use the funds to make up its budget deficit.
The Providence Journal reported Dec. 5 that the University had given $30,000 to three Providence elementary schools and planned to raise a $10 [...]

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