Posts with the tag Brown

Distortion By FIRE

Justin Elliott — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:20:30 EST

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a favorite civil liberties group of many conservatives--which I agree has done some good work in the past--has released a year in review for 2007. This item is listed under "successes":

Ending Brown University’s semester-long suspension of an evangelical student group, which was imposed on dubious grounds and without any explanation from Brown

This item is a complete distortion. It provides a neat case study on the problematics of national groups swooping onto individual campuses at first whiff of a perceived misdeed.

What Good Is $160,000?

Justin Elliott — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:39:06 EDT

One hipster’s answer to what the price of four years of college gets you:

$160,000 “...so as to end up flaccid, immobile, alone on the carpet of a dorm room, shirtless, wheezing, intellectually menopausal, cutting lines on an iBook with a pre-paid Discover card, watching consecutive hours of user-generated porn, in the dark, in a hoodie, apolitical, remorseless, eating salt-and-vinegar potato chips from a bag without a napkin: like some hero, pretending to be otherwise, on a Wednesday, during discussion section.”

InsideHigherEd (Via the Brown Daily Herald) explains:

Should University Presidents Weigh In On Iraq?

Zach Marks — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:14:45 EDT

If you’re like what I imagine to be the typical Campus Progress reader – a politically-conscious student engaged in important issues on campus – Inside Higher Ed’s series on “students and campus leadership” is worth a peek. One of the articles is by Justin Elliott, a 2007 Brown grad whose article on university ties to slavery ran on CampusProgress.org.