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January–March 2024
Politics & Law
Rights + Wrong
No one’s pro-domestic-violence. Until you start looking at state laws, where protecting victims often loses out to protecting gun rights.
Business & Entrepreneurship
Cover of the Rolling Stone
Gus Wenner ’12 has a fresh take on his dad’s 1967 hit. Will it play for Gen Z and beyond?
Education
The Art of Spectacle
Luis Campos ’14 gets real with his research into combat sports as a pro wrestler in Shanghai.
Under the Elms
Student Life
Reborn
Celebrating a renovated Churchill House at Black Alumni Reunion
Sports & Recreation
Hot Play
Women’s soccer is dominating the Ivy League. It all started at a bonfire.
University News
Town and Gown
Brown boosts voluntary payments to the city of Providence
Student Life
Tragedy, Far Away and Close to Home
Campus activism becomes deeply personal after a Brown student is shot in Vermont
Obituaries
In Memoriam
Preservation Pioneer
Beverly Moss Spatt ’45 helped save countless NYC landmarks
In Memoriam
Accessible Academic
English professor and prolific author Mari Ruti ’88 was—like the body of work she leaves behind—authentic, irreverent, and wise
The Classes
Sports & Recreation
Invisible Champions
Women’s basketball won Brown’s first Ivy title. But the accolades did a disappearing act.
Student Life
Snowball
From the Archives
Current Obsession
First Person
Climbing the Walls
Five minutes with Samantha Reisman ’28 PhD
Courses of Study
Science & Tech
Artificial Intelligence Is as Unfair as We Are.
A new course asks how we can harness AI without teaching it all of our biases and automating oppression.
Beyond the Gates
The Arts
The Family Business
Military
Spot the Lie
Truth-seeking tactics from a former Naval Intelligence officer
The Arts
Life Sentence
A new podcast explores the ripple effects of a brutal 1986 murder
Science & Tech
Electric Switch
Alan Taub ’76 hopes to turn Motor City into E-Motor City.
The Arts
Pioneering Poetry
A new book,
Understanding Michael S. Harper
, seeks to decode the complex work.
Business & Entrepreneurship
Vegan Triumph
A Mississippi native takes meatless Southern cooking to the West Coast
Sports & Recreation
Running Man
Fresh Ink
The Arts
Fresh Ink for January–March 2024
Books by Boo Trundle ’89, Benjamin Weber ’08 MAT, and Linda Mason ’64
From the President
University News
Brown Collegiate Scholars
A letter from the President
The Big Issue
Medicine & Health
A Judgment Free Zone for Drug Use
Does providing safer spaces to use drugs help or hurt?