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Question More, Not Less

A reporter should consider a source’s motivations in addition to confirming whether the information is reliable.

Report Card

Not enough can be written about public education. 

All Wet

The omission of a dehumidification system in an indoor swimming pool is something Brown should have picked up on when the Smith Swim Center was first being built. 

Tips from the Trenches

As teenagers and their parents were concluding a grueling fourteen-month therapeutic program, author David Marcus asked them to offer advice to other parents of teens. Some of their pointers:

Barely Eating

For one of the girls in David Marcus’s book, the most basic challenge was to feed herself.

Quintet

Why would students with first-rate musical talent choose Brown over a music conservatory and then opt not to concentrate in music? And why, while taking a full load of courses, would they continue to spend hours each day rehearsing and performing?

Fritz’s Fame

In an honor many think was long overdue, Fritz Pollard ’19 enters the NFL Hall of Fame this year. His induction is the perfect time to recognize that this African American pioneer’s most far-reaching successes had little to do with football.

Close to Home

After covering drug wars in Colombia and civil war in Angola, journalist David Marcus ’82 thought he was emotionally bulletproof. Writing a book about troubled teenagers in pastoral western Massachusetts shattered that illusion.

Seen in Action

Frozen moments from indoor and outdoor winter seasons.

The Man for the Job

The medical school has a new dean. Can he keep the hospitals happy, the school growing, and his sanity intact?

The Ultimate Dance Partner

Way beyond fusion, Chris Elam ’98 is creating a new dance language. And he’s using Brown students as his verbs.

Waiting for the Word

Among this year’s record-breaking 16,835 applicants to Brown is an anxious Midwestern blogger named Pete.