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Valdes ’27: Lessons from America’s largest labor trafficking case
After Hurricane Katrina, widespread flooding caused significant damage to roads, power lines and other utility systems across several states. Tasked with rebuilding American cities, many companies turned abroad. One company, Signal International, a marine and fabrication firm based in the U.S. Gulf Coast, recruited around 500 Indian workers under the short-term H-2B guest worker visa program.
Valdes ’27: Behind Brown - Rachel Fontes
Behind Brown is a series of vignettes about staff members of the University. The Engineering Research Center Cafe, located on the first floor of Barus and Holley, boasts ceiling-to-floor windows and enough caffeine to see you through any problem set. It’s known to be home to an ecosystem of busy students who thrive in its outlet-rich environment.
Valdes ‘27: Will America be made “great again”? Architecture says no.
Yes, neoclassical buildings are beautiful. Yes, boring glass boxes and federal concrete facades can be eyesores to some. And yes, it would be cool if every new I.M. Pei-style building on Brown’s campus was a beautiful Romanesque palace like Sayles. But imagine for a second neon-clad construction workers hauling rock-faced Westerly granite, all while someone wearing Apple AirPod Maxes walks by, late for their seminar on anti-colonialism. Wouldn’t it be a little uncanny?
Valdes ’27: On finding a cure for apathy
I once took a tour of the Centre Pompidou led by an older man, about fifty or so, with small blackened teeth and old clothes that snowed ash. He led us past every Chagall, Duchamp, Herring, and de Kooning in favor of the lesser known artists of the expressionist movement. In a cadence vaguely resembling that of Slavoj Žižek, he asked us: “What, of the primary colors, is the deepest?” To which the murmuring consensus of the tour group was blue, then red, then yellow.
Valdes ‘27: The Argument For Ozempic
Ozempic. Oprah, doctors and aunts everywhere seem to be raving about its miraculous weight loss effects. Since its approval by the FDA in 2017, the drug has somehow made its way into bariatric clinics and spas alike. But beyond the infamous brand name, what is it? The golden child of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, Ozempic is 2.5 milligrams of injectable semaglutide, a type of GLP-1 receptor agonist.
Valdes ’27: Behind Brown — Rose Silveira - The Brown Daily Herald
Behind Brown is a series of vignettes about staff members of the University. In the mornings, you can find Miss Rose by her storage-room-turned-office on the ground floor between Morris and Champlin halls.
Valdes ’27: Coming to terms with the pre-med experience
A sulfuric puddle of yolk erupted against the fence, pooling in the cracks of the simmering Havana sidewalk. Having watched me nudge along the small, white “ball” for two blocks, oblivious, my cousins roared with laughter as I stood in shock at the mess on the concrete like a runny yellow punchline. An egg. In Cuban folk magic, Lukumi is the practice of rubbing a chicken egg over the body and head to trap negative energies, often used to treat common illnesses.
Valdes ’27: Irony won’t save you anymore
It’s 2014. You see a picture of a toddler triumphantly clenching his fist to his chest with the superimposed text, “Ate spaghetti while wearing a white shirt. Didn’t get sauce on it.” You like a comment that says he has “just won the internet for the day.” It’s 2014. This is absolutely hilarious. You blink. It’s 2024, and your friend reposts the same image on their story, fried and pixelated to the point of abstraction, from some Instagram account called @postcolonialozempicinjections.
Valdes ’27: In defense of the Open Curriculum
“So … why would you not just take everything pass/fail again? Why buy the cow when the milk is free?” Sitting on a dorm floor during the blur of the gameday weekend, a semi-well-intentioned Harvard computer science major poses a genuine question about Brown students. Why is it that we still register for graded classes, sometimes risking our “GPA,” when we don’t have to? Why buy the cow? It is no secret that Brown’s unique approach to interdisciplinary study attracts a very specific kind of person.
City Council declares Providence country’s first Climate Jobs City
On Sept. 17, the Providence City Council passed a resolution declaring Providence the country’s first “Climate Jobs City,” resolving to work on decarbonizing and retrofitting buildings, investing in carbon-neutral and climate-friendly infrastructure and increasing climate literacy and environmental education, among other goals. The resolution will be followed by a series of supplemental ordinances, according to Ward 3 Councilor Sue AnderBois, a member of the Council’s environment committee.
Big Plans | Harness Magazine
Poetry by Nicole Spears • November 6, 2019 All the things you told me That we would do And never did Are carried with me now Weights and tethers Keeping my head from the clouds Comment by nspears I'm a digital marketer and grad student interested in the intersection of digital communities, human culture and behavior. Website More From Poetry
The Lesson | Harness Magazine
Poetry by Stephanie Nieves • November 5, 2019 I learned a lesson, a peculiar lesson, from a moth. And it is that one should not envy the butterflies. One should not wait for the candle to burn. Or resent their chrysalised pasts. One should spread their wings while they still can. And take up space when no one’s watching. Because what’s the point of melting into memory when you can choose to lean into light?
Not Tired Just Sad
“You look tired’ It is easier to disguise being tired with being sad, No one will question why you have under eye-bags the size of spoons or if you stayed up too late doing nothing but everything. They will assume being tired is due to your ambition of creating, to stay productive. But what they don’t know is how instead you lay in bed at night with tears running down your cheek, re-imagining the life you wanted, scenarios playing re-wind, how you wish you could have done things differently.
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