January–March 2024 Politics & Law Rights + Wrong No one’s pro-domestic-violence. Until you start looking at state laws, where protecting victims often loses out to protecting gun rights. Business & Entrepreneurship Cover of the Rolling Stone Gus Wenner ’12 has a fresh take on his dad’s 1967 hit. Will it play for Gen Z and beyond? Education The Art of Spectacle Luis Campos ’14 gets real with his research into combat sports as a pro wrestler in Shanghai. Under the Elms Student Life Reborn Celebrating a renovated Churchill House at Black Alumni Reunion Sports & Recreation Hot Play Women’s soccer is dominating the Ivy League. It all started at a bonfire. University News Town and Gown Brown boosts voluntary payments to the city of Providence Student Life Tragedy, Far Away and Close to Home Campus activism becomes deeply personal after a Brown student is shot in Vermont Obituaries In Memoriam Preservation Pioneer Beverly Moss Spatt ’45 helped save countless NYC landmarks In Memoriam Accessible Academic English professor and prolific author Mari Ruti ’88 was—like the body of work she leaves behind—authentic, irreverent, and wise The Classes Sports & Recreation Invisible Champions Women’s basketball won Brown’s first Ivy title. But the accolades did a disappearing act. Student Life Snowball From the Archives Current Obsession First Person Climbing the Walls Five minutes with Samantha Reisman ’28 PhD Courses of Study Science & Tech Artificial Intelligence Is as Unfair as We Are. A new course asks how we can harness AI without teaching it all of our biases and automating oppression. Beyond the Gates The Arts The Family Business Military Spot the Lie Truth-seeking tactics from a former Naval Intelligence officer The Arts Life Sentence A new podcast explores the ripple effects of a brutal 1986 murder Science & Tech Electric Switch Alan Taub ’76 hopes to turn Motor City into E-Motor City. The Arts Pioneering Poetry A new book, Understanding Michael S. Harper, seeks to decode the complex work. Business & Entrepreneurship Vegan Triumph A Mississippi native takes meatless Southern cooking to the West Coast Sports & Recreation Running Man Fresh Ink The Arts Fresh Ink for January–March 2024 Books by Boo Trundle ’89, Benjamin Weber ’08 MAT, and Linda Mason ’64 From the President University News Brown Collegiate Scholars A letter from the President The Big Issue Medicine & Health A Judgment Free Zone for Drug Use Does providing safer spaces to use drugs help or hurt?
