“Don’t name them,” I remember my dad said on our way home from Brooks Feed and Farm. “Why? We name everything else.” I replied. “It’s just easier.” I named one Gammon, anyway. They arrived at the store two weeks after I ordered them, shipped in a cardboard box with holes punched in it. After spending countless nights flipping endlessly through Brooks’ catalog, I was confident these pheasants were going to be perfect. There were four, the minimum order...

Against the backdrop of rapidly advancing technology, the world is experiencing a ceaseless barrage of problems and conflict. After addresses started ending with ‘.com’ and phones became smart, our world was connected in a way never seen before. In this interconnected world, solutions to our endless problems can only be achieved through interdisciplinary action and deep academic understanding. The world needs people of diverse opinions and backgrounds and a place that brings them together to enact change around the world....

Every August starts the same. Each year I know it’s coming, but this does nothing to prepare me for when the first truck bounces up our driveway. They arrive full, one and then another, and leave empty, their collective nine cords of wood sprawled on our lawn. Then it begins. The family throw we like to call it, perhaps too pithy for stacking wood but it makes an arduous task sound slightly more bearable. Each weekend morning after those...

Why Brown? The Open Curriculum that provides a space to pursue any and all academic interest — immersion into learning, not a single, stringent path. Why Brown? The University’s idea of liberal learning and its ability to prepare students to advance the community around them, in and beyond Providence. Advancement at Brown is Social Analysis and Research, it is qualitative and quantitative analyses weighed equally. Advancement is being an Engaged Scholar in Environmental Studies, where both the natural and social...

Being a banjo player, my music and ability are often defined explicitly. I am supposed to be found by my neighbors in the acoustic music scene of Portland, not Blue Hill’s rich classical culture. My goal as a musician, then, has been to break these bounds. My aim is to show Maine's bluegrass community that banjo players can discuss the syncopated piano ostinatos in 8 Lines by Reich. My purpose is to demonstrate to my classical neighbors that I can...