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Commencement 2011 | May 29, 2011 | Serving the community daily since 1891
raduation is a time for cliches, and in this moment of finality, we have decided to embrace
it. And indeed, oh, the places well go!
But as we reflect on our four years at Brown, it
is hard not to also look back on the places weve
gone. Weve moved from Keeney to Keene Street,
from Convocation to Commencement. And as we
have grown and changed over the past four years,
Brown has, too.
Out there things can happen and frequently
do, Dr. Seuss wrote. As we sat on our perch atop
College Hill and in our newsroom, things did happen. Brown spread across the world, recruiting the
best and brightest from around the globe in droves.
The University turned old factories into a medical
school, gave the arts a new home and drastically
expanded its physical footprint. Science took on
new prominence with buildings, departments and
research programs.
In many ways, Brown is now a different school
than the one we entered in 2007. And with double
the applications for the class of 2015 than when we
applied, whos to say if we would even make the cut
today? But as we the class of 2011 walk out
the same gates we walked through four years ago,
we will have changed, too.
So, Brown, we pass on the message to you that
Dr. Seuss has written to us: You have brains in
your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can
steer yourself in any direction you choose. In four
years, youve gone many places, and yet there is still
growing to do. There are changes to be made and
new things to see. But everyone keeps telling us
thats the fun part.
commencement
2 Schedule of events
3 Senior orators
5 Baccalaureate address and
honorary degree recipients
cover story
10 Oh, the places Browns gone
13 Mingling cultures
17 Closer to home: growing campus
19 Where Brown didnt go
19 The consequences of expansion
21 Growth in science
features
24 Richard Holbrooke 62
28 Putting the Blog in Daily Herald
editors
Ben Hyman
Sophia Li
Emmy Liss
Chaz Kelsh
George Miller
Seth Motel
Joanna Wohlmuth
looking back
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senior survey
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senior columns
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48
final thoughts
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writers
Rebecca Ballhaus
David Chung
Greg Jordan-Detamore
Sarah Forman
Talia Kagan
Brian Mastroianni
Lindor Qunaj
Mark Raymond
Anne Simons
Emma Wohl
creative
Jonathan Bateman
Gili Kliger
Anna Migliaccio
Hilary Rosenthal
Nick Sinnott-Armstrong
C O M M E N C E M E N T 2 011
schedule of major events
Fr i d a y ,
M a y 27
Sunday,
May 29
9:45 a.m.
Commencement Procession Starts
Faunce Arch, Main Green
9 p.m. 1 a.m.
Campus Dance,
sponsored by the Brown
Alumni Association.
Main Green, Lincoln Field
10:30 a.m.
The Medical School Convocation
Ceremonial awarding of degrees.
The First Unitarian Church
Saturday,
9:30 a.m. 2 p.m.
Commencement
Forums, a series of
academic colloquia
by faculty, alums and
distinguished guests.
May 28
2:30 p.m.
Baccalaureate Service
1:30 p.m.
The multi-faith
Baccalaureate
ceremony will be videoProcession Formation
broadcast on the Main
Graduating seniors
Green and in Salomon
assemble on Waterman
Center and Sayles Hall.
Street, facing east
The First Baptist
toward Thayer Street,
Church in America
with the line beginning
at Faunce Arch wearing 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
cap and gown. In
Brown Daily Herald
case of heavy rain,
Alumni Reunion
graduating seniors
195 Angell St.
10:15 a.m.
Graduate School Convocation
Ceremonial awarding of degrees.
Lincoln Field
Commencement 2011
SENIOR ORATORS
JACOB COMBS 11
When Combs attended Browns Summer
Session after his sophomore year in high
school, he fell in love with the University.
He decided Brown was the place for him,
and he applied early decision.
An English concentrator from Los Angeles, Combs recently completed a thesis comparing the adolescent experiences of Juliet
from Romeo and Juliet and Maria from
West Side Story. He produced his own interpretation, examining literary adaptations
and theoretical frameworks of adolescence
as well as the characters experiences in the
context of their families and ancestors.
Combs will speak about the effect Virginia
Woolfs work has had on him. He first discovered her work in a class last semester,
and he said Woolf taught him to read and
write in a new way and appreciate what it
can do for us as people.
David Chung
photos by Hilary Rosenthal
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Kenneth Roth 77
Roth has served as the executive director of Human
Rights Watch since 1993, during which time the organization has grown substantially and now operates in
more than 90 countries, documenting war crimes in
the Balkans and working to convict Latin American
dictators, among many other accomplishments.
After graduating from Brown, Roth continued his
studies at Yale Law School and worked in the U.S. Attorneys Office in New York as a federal prosecutor.
Roth continues to write pieces on many human rights
issues for a wide range of newspapers and academic
journals.
Roth will be the speaker at this years Baccalaureate Ser vice on Saturday, May 28, at 2:30 p.m. There
will be a live video broadcast of the ceremony on the
Main Green. He will be awarded an honorar y degree
along with the nine other chosen individuals during
Sundays University Ceremony.
Arianna Huffington
Co-founder of the widely
read news site the Huffington Post, Huffington
is also an author, syndicated columnist and host
of Both Sides Now, a
radio program focused
on political issues in the
United States. Originally
from Greece, Huffington moved to the United
Kingdom during her
teenage years and studied economics at Cambridge University, where
she was also the president of the institutions large
debating society. In 2009, Forbes magazine included
her in its list of the most influential women in media.
Huffington has also been involved in California politics,
running for governor against Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Zhenkai Zhao
Zhao, also known by his pseudonym Bei Dao,
is a Chinese poet of international fame, best
recognized for his poem Answer. Though
he was initially a member of the pro-Mao Red
Guards, he eventually grew critical of the
government and his poetry became popular among pro-democracy groups in China.
In the late 1980s, he was not permitted to
return to his home country and has written,
lived and taught throughout Europe and
the United States ever since. Zhaos work
has been translated into many different languages and he has been nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Literature multiple times. Just
four years ago, Zhao moved back to Asia with
his family, accepting an offer as a professor
of humanities at the Chinese University of
Hong Kong. Some of his compilations of
poetry include The August Sleepwalker,
Landscape Over Zero and The Rose of
Time.
Nicholas D. Kristof
Kristof, a two-time recipient
of the prestigious Pulitzer
Prize and a New York Times
op-ed columnist, has traveled
extensively to report on issues
such as human rights abuses,
global health and the environment. In the past seven years,
he has traveled to the Darfur
region nearly a dozen times
and written many columns on
the conflict. A 1981 graduate
of Harvard, Kristof also studied at Oxford University as a
Rhodes Scholar and has written a number of books with
his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, including the bestseller Half
the Sky: Turning Oppression
into Opportunity for Women
Worldwide. He was the New
York Times first blogger and
has a particular interest in online journalism.
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David R. Scott
Scott, a retired Air Force pilot who
studied at West Point and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has
been in outer space for more than 500
hours. A Gemini and Apollo astronaut,
Scott has been involved in numerous
missions, including three excursions
onto the moon. He also worked as an
executive at NASA and was awarded
three Distinguished Service Medals
for his work with the agency. Since
then, Scott has served as a consultant
for various TV shows and movies about
outer space flight, such as Apollo 13.
He is currently the president of Baron
Company Ltd., a company looking into
potential opportunities in the commercial space sector.
Lisa Randall
Currently a professor at Harvard, Randall is one of the
most cited figures in the field
of theoretical physics. She previously taught at Princeton,
where she became the first
woman to receive tenure in the
schools physics department.
Randall, who has been admitted into the National Academy of Sciences and has won
numerous awards and prizes
for her work, researches elementary particles and cosmology in an effort to refine
and expand understanding of
the interactions of matter and
the extra dimensions of space.
Her regular articles, TV and
radio appearances and lectures
have put her very much in the
public eye. In 2007, she was
named one of the most influential people of the year by Time
magazine.
Lindor Qunaj
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BY SARAH FORMAN
Since 2006, when the youngest reunion class last passed through the Van
Wickle Gates, Brown has embarked on an internationalization process with more
fervor and coordination than ever before. Brown has more applicants and alums
living abroad, more rigorous requirements for International Relations concentrators
and more partnerships with research institutions around the world, making it, undeniably, a more internationally focused school.
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Year of series
Some of those area-studies programs have
also been heavily involved in the Year of
series, a new initiative that has brought two
semesters of University-wide focus to several
major world centers.
The Year of Latin America, Year of Africa
and Year of India were implemented for 200708, 2008-09 and 2009-10 academic years,
respectively, and the upcoming year has already been established as the Year of China.
The months of lectures, video screenings,
conferences and discussions that compose
these endeavors bring energy and attention
to Browns efforts to expand its connections
to these parts of the world, said Dean of the
Faculty Rajiv Vohra P07, who spearheaded
the Year of India.
With its 70 panel discussions, student
productions, lectures and more, the Year of
India provided a structure and framework for
a plethora of short-term programs that drew
immediate attention to Indias importance
on the global stage. Salman Rushdies talk
in February 2010 filled nearly every seat
in the Salomon Center, and the thousands
of attendees at last years Commencement
ceremonies saw President Ruth Simmons
present Indian historian Romila Thapar with
an honorary degree.
But the Year of Indias biggest success,
Vohra said, was in encouraging long term
initiatives which have strengthened our relationship to partners in India.
The real aim was to think of it as an investment in our future, Vohra added. He
accompanied Simmons on a trip to Delhi
and Mumbai last March, as part of the Year
of India, and said her visit allowed Brown to
expand an existing exchange program with
St. Stephens College, an Indian university in
Delhi. While Brown students had travelled to
St. Stephens for study abroad in the past, the
program only became a full exchange when
they agreed to send a masters student from
India to study at Brown.
While that had been under discussion for
some time, we were able to use President
Simmons visit to St. Stephens College to
renew that agreement, he said. The visit
also generated a lot of media attention in
India, making many more Indians aware
of Brown as a world-class academic center.
That media buzz, alongside longer-term efforts by the Office for International Affairs
to increase Browns visibility, has lead to an
ever-growing alumni base and applicant pool
in India, Gutmann said.
In part to support alums and applicants,
Brown is now planning to build a new office
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Year of Africa,
200809
Year of India,
200910
Year of China,
201112
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meeting with the Council for Advanced Studies Abroad to discuss coordinating with other
American universities to start new consortium programs in Turkey, Argentina, China
and other countries.
These sorts of new initiatives all take time
and money, and not everything has been
easy. Even after years of effort, the Office
for International Affairs has yet to create a
system that lets Brown researchers know that
their peers in other fields are doing research
in the same countries, Gutmann said. Brown
is still not as well known as some of its peer
institutions in countries like China and India,
and it needs to continue to build its presence
before it will be fully competitive.
But administrators agree that despite the
financial burden and immense challenge
of working on an international stage, the
University will continue to focus its efforts
on building its global profile.
Its really the entire administration that
is permeated with these international goals,
Kertzer said. It all comes down to making
Brown better known as one of the greatest
universities in the world.
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International applicants,
Class of 2015
Canada
240 applicants
785 applicants
Singapore
162 applicants
Peoples
Republic of
China
United
Kingdom
129 applicants
Canada
489 applicants
112 applicants
United
Kingdom
353 applicants
Korea
Peoples
Republic of
China
100 applicants
Singapore
341 applicants
India
317 applicants
to other (cultures).
Buxton International House is a program
house also open to both international and
American students. Often I see students
from the same country sticking to others
from the same country and I think I would
be opposed to that, Buxton resident Stamatiadis said. But, she added, Buxton is a
great place because you have the opportunity to go into a house that students are
chosen to go in.
Lloyd Rajoo 13, who is from Singapore,
agreed that it can be tempting to associate
with people from similar backgrounds. But,
he said, I think the best thing for me was
living with a local (from Rhode Island). It
was a lot of fun and really important.
For some, the idea of adapting to the
American lifestyle can seem intimidating.
I guess feeling a little helpless at first is
part of the freshman experience, but Id like
to avoid being the awkward European kid
next year, Windemuth wrote. It sounds
silly, but the prospect of Americanizing my
habits seems a little daunting right now.
Ruiz said she felt welcomed by the community when she arrived. I think people
really are fascinated when youre international so it actually makes it really easy,
she explained.
American students are very receptive
to hearing about other peoples experiences
and perspectives on issues that we talk about
inside and outside the classroom, said Minoo Ramanathan 11, who was born in India
and attended school in Oman. I realized it
was actually a big advantage to have that perspective as long as you were open minded
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Closer to home:
Growing Browns campus
BY MARK RAYMOND
by students.
Medical Education Building
The University is moving off College Hill
for the new Medical Education Building,
which will be home to the Alpert Medical
School. The $45 million facility, a renovated
factory in the Jewelry District of Providence,
will open this summer to medical students
and faculty.
This is a huge deal for the medical students, said Ed Wing, dean of medicine and
biological sciences. They felt that theyve
never really had a home.
Wing added that medical students are
wildly enthusiastic about the new facility
and that it will provide them with three times
the amount of space they currently have.
The project has received much attention
due to its location in the Jewelry District,
an area the city is trying to re-brand as the
Knowledge District.
This is really symbolic, Wing said. This
is Brown moving off the hill.
Wing said the medical school project is
rejuvenating the whole Jewelry District
and also providing hundreds of jobs to local
unionized workers.
He said that in addition to providing
around 350 construction and 200 related
jobs, the district will see an uptick in eco-
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A $20 million renovation transformed Faunce House into the Stephen Robert 62 Campus
Center.
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By Greg Jordan-Detamore
By Emma Wohl
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Research catalyzes
growth in science
By Talia Kagan
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The new Medical Education building, which opens this summer, may provide an anchor for
other Brown science departments to migrate to the Jewelry District as expansion continues.
thanks
for
reading
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Justin,
From the day you were born you
have given us endless moments of
happiness, pride and joy.
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Looking Back
Dec. 27, 2007
Republican Bobby
Jindal 91.5 is elected
as governor of Louisiana with 54 percent of
the vote in a four-way
race.
World
july
august
september
Jan. 2, 2008
Feb. 3, 2008
2007
january
Dec. 5, 2007
february
march
april
may
2008
june
Brown
December 2007
Lupe Fiasco, Vampire Weekend, Umphreys McGee, Girl Talk and M.I.A. play
Spring Weekend shows in Meehan.
April 22,
2008
A pair of students
throw pies at
New York Times
columnist Thomas
Friedman during
a lecture in
Salomon 101.
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Oct. 3, 2008
Feb. 5, 2009
july
august
Nov. 4, 2008
World
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january
february
march
2009
April 2009
2008
september
april
may
june
Brown
April 1, 2009
Administrators announce
that two students did not
return to campus from their
spring break trip to Trinidad.
The students are later found
and a parent says no foul
play was involved.
April 7, 2009
Nov. 4, 2008
March 10,
2009
Former Senator
John Edwards
emphasizes
the nations
responsibility
to end poverty
during a lecture
in Salomon 101.
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Looking Back
September 10,
2009
February 2010
2009
World
july
august
september
january
february
march
april
2010
may
june
Brown
October 2009
February 2010
October 2009
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March 2011
The United States, along with United Nations allies, conducts air strikes on Libya,
which had seen weeks of violence between
those who want to depost dictator Muammar Gaddafi and pro-Gadaffi forces.
November 2, 2010
World
july
august
2010
september
May 2, 2011
january
february
January 2011
march
april
may
june
2011 B r o w n
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The Heralds highly unscientific senior survey was conducted online through MyCourses, from May 3 to May 13.
621 seniors completed the survey.
...choose Brown?
Yes:
No:
94%
6%
I dont know
Yes:
No:
19%
3%
73%
27%
Another job
Graduate or
professional school
15%
30%
34%
Government
employment
Nonprofit
employment
4%
12%
27%
33%
Corporate
employment
17%
Other
Yes:
No:
5%
95%
Second Middle
20%
20%
1%
Top
20%
6%
Fourth
20%
Bottom
20%
Yes, for better: 11%
Yes, for worse: 17%
Its pretty much the same: 72%
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...housing?
Have
you ever
...UCS?
70%
30%
Yes:
No:
38%
62%
Yes:
No:
31%
69%
...meal plan?
Not
very
7%
Yes:
No:
Yes:
No:
libraries?
Yes:
No:
Somewhat
54%
Not very
27%
Not
at all
6%
Extremely 12%
Somewhat
52%
...UCS?
Not very
29%
Not
at all
13%
Extremely 7%
Extremely
54%
...campus safety?
Not
very
6%
Somewhat
40%
...Providence?
Extremely
45%
Not Not
very at all
7% 2%
Somewhat
46%
Not at all
14%
23%
86%
hooked
up with a teaching assistant?
...teaching?
...University
Not
at all
5%
71%
29%
Not very
19%
Extremely 17%
...Providence?
Somewhat
Somewhat
59%
59%
...housing?
...campus safety?
Yes:
No:
9%
91%
Not very
26%
Somewhat
40%
...advising?
Not at all
23%
Extremely 10%
...teaching?
Extremely
55%
...libraries?
Extremely
56%
Not
very
2%
Somewhat
41%
...tuition?
Yes:
No:
65%
35%
completed
the SciLi Challenge?
...Banner?
Yes:
No:
16%
84%
Yes:
No:
54%
46%
Somewhat
34%
...tuition?
Not
very
4%
Somewhat
40%
Not very
41%
Not at all
19%
Extremely 6%
...Banner?
Extremely
16%
0.0
Not very
23%
Somewhat
51%
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
Not
at all
10%
1.0
Organizing sexuality events Going abroad to Australia my first kiss with my now fiancee on a roof top Staying up until 5 a.m. at a cast
party singing random musical theatre pieces Winning Ivy League championship Rooftop climbing, especially Faunce when it was under
construction being with my significant other (cheesy, I know) Freshman year Eighties Party Covering the Brown bear statue on the Main
Green with sparkles and colorful fabric as part of the Ultimate Frisbee programs pump up traditions Late night, drunken rants about
every pretentious topic under the sun Nothing appropriate enough for this survey comes to mind Coming back after every summer and
realizing everything I had idealized about Brown during the break was actually true the SciLi Varsity Athletics Freshman year cuddle
puddles Quiet Green Snoop Dogg The changing seasons Meeting my best friends freshman year who are still my best friends today
Late night at Thete Spring Weekend sophomore year The entire experience late nights with friends, conversations with professors,
being in my fraternity Having our own SexPowerGod party Kiva Ball Swaying in a circle of love with all my best girls listening to
MGMT at Spring Weekend and staring at the green green leaves on the trees Having a threesome during a naked party Walking into
a class on metaphysics and hearing, Oh, do come in. We were just talking about space and time Losing my virginity Late night NCIS
marathons Ultimate frisbee Breaking into the pool at 3 a.m. during finals last year with about 15 of my best friends and being chased
out by Brown Police in our underwear Binder Dinner at the Ratty Every small seminar Ive had, every scintillating section that spilled
over after class Meeting my best friend Gala My sophomore roommate experience going to drinks with my professor at the bar Walking through the gates Away football games with the Brown University Band Completing the SciLi challenge and then impulsively going
to a naked party with some of my closest friends Beer pong tournaments Fish Co. Wednesdays Late nights early mornings Doing
Mande outside in the sunshine in the spring Rewiring the Champlin elevator for April Fools Day Drinking champagne on the roof of The
Rock Beating UConn in the NCAA tournament Mud sliding on Lincoln Field Going abroad sledding on Ratty trays my varsity team
1.2
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17%
16%
16%
13%
13%
13%
11%
10%
10%
9%
8%
7%
6%
6%
4% 4%
4%
3% 3%
4%
3%
1%
2%
0 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11+
9 10
More
than 10
22 votes 15
Barrett Hazeltine
5
4
3
1
James Morone
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Richard Bungiro
Mark Blyth
Jan Tullis
Gary Wessel
Gregory Elliott, Heather Leslie, James Egan, John Tomasi, Josef Mittlemann, Kym Moore, Lundy Braun, Mary Flynn, Meera Viswanathan,
Rebecca Molholt, Robert Hurt, Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda, Timothy Harris
Andy van Dam, Ann Dill, Bruce Becker, Cristina Abbona-Sneider, David
Berson, Ethan Pollock, Gail Cohee, James Green, Kaivan Munshi,
Karl Jacoby, Kenneth Sacks, Lynne Joyrich, Manher Jariwala, Maria
Carkovic, Michael Paradiso, Nicholas Townsend, Onesimo Almeida,
Patrick Malone, Peter Andreas, Ralph Rodriguez, Ravit Reichman, Rick
Benjamin, Ross Levine, Susan Harvey
Deak Nabers
Minh Luong
Wendy Schiller
Arnold Weinstein
Laurel Bestock
Peter Saval
Joseph Pucci
Barbara Tannenbaum
Matthew Harrison
Rashid Zia
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SEnior COLUMNS
An economic approach to college
Claire Kiely
U = A(
concentration
+
professor
notoriety
+
electives
+
research
+
thesis
) + S(
friendships
+
GCB, Fish Co.,
Spats, house
parties
+
lazy dorm time
+
activities
+
what do you
call it, is it a
relationship?
) + H(
exercise
+
Ratty
cereal bar
+
beer, wine,
vodka, tequila
) + F(
job
+
graduate
school
+
salary
+
satisfaction
Commencement 2011
Proud songsters
Ben Hyman
obsessed with building and rebuilding things recently, the University likes to say we are the architects of our own educations.
But, as a musician, I think composition is an equally appropriate
metaphor. Like architects, composers weave together different
themes and materials to create a
coherent whole. Both architects
and composers will pay attention
to form, structure and ornamentation, and the designs they produce
on the page (or, increasingly, on
the screen) will not be complete
until they are, respectively, built
and performed.
The first crucial difference is
repetition. The architects creation,
the building, will stand until it
rots. It will be strong, and though
over time the buildings many occupants may put it to different
uses, its not really in the nature
of buildings to move around or be
reproduced.
The composers song is different. You hope its first performance
wont be its last. It can still be
repeated, endlessly. A song is
less a space that we move in, and
more something that comes alive
through us as we sing it, or hum
it, or listen and press repeat. In
a similar way, we will spend the
rest of our lives singing the educations we composed for ourselves
at Brown. Because our learning
will inform our actions, our education will never simply exist, but will
constantly be coming into being.
The other difference is time.
Whether they fade out or stop brutally, songs end. Temporality is the
mystery of music, the thing that
gives the sound value. Whereas
buildings outlast the people who
build them, the songs performance will die, as we will. In that
sense, Commencement is one of
our first tastes of the finite, and
the knowledge of its approach
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SEnior COLUMNS
Learning to swim
Chaz Kelsh
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FInal thoughts
from The Heralds senior survey
This is the best place on earth Brown is the s 4-year-long orgasm four years well-spent I dont want to leave
The Open Curriculum is the best part of Brown dont let it die I dont want to grow up Part of me is very sad
to be leaving because I feel that there are many aspects of the Brown experience that I did not participate in fully I
never realized until I was filling out this survey just how much of the typical college experience I skipped by never
going to class drunk or having sex in the library I think the Brown bubble has insulated a lot of people I met so many
amazing people and I like to think most people who met me feel I fall into that category for them I am happy with
what Ive learned about myself at Brown You can only go to Spats so many times in a week Its been so real I feel
like Ive just climbed Mt. Everest after breaking out of Alcatraz Ill miss the comfortableness and expressiveness of
Brown I love Brown, but it wasnt the place for me, so to speak I wish I could do it all again Life only goes downhill
after I want more Will miss college. Will not miss Brown Nerds are the coolest part of Brown In Deo Speramus
All these people reminding me its the end, and Id rather think of it as the beginning If only we could relocate Brown
to SoCal Wish I had one more year Ever true Ill even miss the SciLi Where am I going to get laid free and easy
after college? I wish I didnt have to have final thoughts Brown should hook up its seniors with jobs F, this made
me sad Brown was a massive disappointment in some ways, but was still probably the best 4 years of my life The
small size of the endowment seemed to put a damper on opportunities for student activities This school allows you
to Rock and Roll Thank you Josiah I think these years have set us up for even better years People are lying on this
survey work doesnt sound like fun I hope my little brother has a better time at Brown than I did Good Stuff I
really dont know how people can stay at Brown for four years I transferred here, and I am pretty darn glad I did
The Brown experience has very little to do with school and academics and a whole lot to do with the wonderful people
in this community When and where is the last one of these naked parties, and why was I the only one not to see the
naked donut run? Ive had my ups and downs, but senior year has been a blast Every year here was so different I
came to Brown before the financial crisis hit, and I wish that my family had some of my tuition money now The key
is finding the secrets whether they be classes, rooftops, or funding sources Four years went by in a flash Ruth
hugged me once. It made my life Work like an engineer, party like a frat brother This place is amazing but it could
be so much better I wish more people were into dating than this stupid effing hook-up scene I cant wait to get my
diploma havent thought all semester reinstate the donkey mural on the side of the SciLi Chicken Finger Friday
kept me at Brown The people are the best part The name on the degree is the only thing that I found truly invaluable
about Brown, but what a name D this place is awesome I used to be frustrated that people at Brown werent as
politically/socially active but I think Im fine with that now Dont ever look back, dont ever look back. There is a
sad lack of school spirit but most know it and accept it as normal Brown is the most amazing thing that could have
happened to me The general atmosphere hasnt changed but the weathers gotten worse I learned that I can question
anything and I can dare to do anything as long as I think I can Not everyone is looking to hook up with you so dont go
into it with that mind set Why couldnt my Brown degree get me a job? It has been an amazing 4 years. Times up
data from dining services, health services and the university library
Health services
90,035
Mean number of items checked out by each student:
Median: 35.5
Mode: 2
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Dining SERVICES
37,000 cups of coffee at the Blue Room
22,000 iced coffees at the Blue Room
100,500 slices of pizza at the Gate
49,300 spicy chicken sandwiches at Jos