Mary Margaret Olohan on October 12, 2020 Schools have not become the super-spreaders that officials feared, according to Brown University economist Emily Oster. “It’s now October,” Oster wrote in an Atlantic op-ed. “We are starting to get an evidence-based picture of how school reopenings and remote learning are going (those photos of hallways don’t count),…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Brown University is putting on a play concerning Islamophobia, “institutional bias,” and “media spin” as they pertain to Arab males. Written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Brown’s production of the satirical play “Invasion!” is produced by Sock & Buskin, a student-faculty group at Brown, and by the Brown…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman People who use the internet more often are less likely to be politically divided, contradicting the popular belief that the web definitively perpetuates polarization, according to a new study. Trying to decipher what is exactly causing the apparent growing schism in contemporary politics, researchers at Stanford University…
By Elena Weissmann The Washington Post published an article in June featuring a list of universities and their respective number of reported rape cases for 2014. While Brown University and the University of Connecticut topped the list—at 43 reported rapes each—schools like Northwestern and Johns Hopkins nearly bottomed out at just three. Although the Post noted a degree of progress,…