January / February 2006

On Page

What is Trafficking?

Facts and myths

Since Last Time

Homeless

Data Points

Fresh Ink

Critic's Corner

The Cyborg

If a computer filters everything you hear, are you still human?

Everything You Wanted to Know About Broadway

Karen Hauser '92 puts theater trivia at your fingertips.

Little Lust Stories

Two new novels by Roland Merullo explore the nature of love, both earthly and divine.

Music to Die For

Marco Beltrami '88 is Hollywood's go-to composer for horror films.

She Wants to Make You Cook

Suzanne Goin has written a cookbook for people whose idea of fun is to make ossobucco. 

Order in the Court

Song of Himself

An author's exercise in self-promotion.

Mail Room

She's Got Rhythm

A middle-aged woman lives out her fantasy, alone in her basement. [ALUMNI POV]

How It Went

A look back at the fall season.

Cub Attack

With so many talented freshmen leading the way, the Ivy champion men's soccer team has yet to peak. 

The Collector

Maury A. Bromsen

Obituaries

In the News

Rock On

Erin Pettit '94: A geologist is climbing new heights to encourage high school girls to check out science.

Beyond the Numbers

Warren Marcus '74: Teaching teachers how to talk to kids about the Holocaust.

Intellectual Capital

Raising money by raising ideas.

One Really Bad Weekend

Drunken students, an undercover reporter, and gunshots - all in two nights.

He Won't Eat Your Grandma. We Promise.

A wolf comes to class to prove it.

Brilliant Stuff

A prominent science writer reveals how it's done.

Republican Reformer

Christine Todd Whitman calls for the GOP to return to its roots.

On the Road to Oxford

Two seniors win Rhodes and Marshall scholarships.

Rhody's Edge

Some local and state politicians like to portray Brown as a wealthy, tax-exempt drain on state and city resources. What are the facts?

"Hi, Neighbor. Have A 'Gansett."

Mark Hellendrung '90: Okay, the Red Sox finally won it all. And now the team's one-time favorite beer is coming back.

A Century of Summers

Venetia Mott Rountree '27: How do you live to be 100? Venetia Rountree did it thanks to summer sun, salty air, and a family that still gathers around her.

Radio Heads

In 1936 two Brown students strung copper wire around campus and invented college radio. Seventy years later, two stations - WBRU and Brown Student Radio - are still fighting over what it meant.

Alone at the Top

For the third time ever, the football Bears are Ivy Champions. But this time it's different. Here's why.

Against Their Will

The U.S. government estimates that each year as many as 800,000 people around the world are enslaved as laborers or sex workers - 15,000 of them in the United States. Katherine Chon '02 and Derek Ellerman '00 are determined to set them free.