Politically Harmful Percentage of Black Athletes
Waciuma Wanjohi ‘02
Whenever a significant event or planning session is underway and under-attended, one question floats through the crowd and is voiced by the organizers. “Where is our community?” Where are all the Black students that we pass on the green, see in the PO, the Ratty, the dorms, but not in the TWC, Salomon, and Petterutti? The answer lies in a single word. Practice.
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The Prison Flow
Carl Quindel ‘04
Imagine a dam that is badly leaking, with the world downstream gradually being drowned. What if the current procedure to deal with a dysfunctional dam was for each individual to immediately get as many buckets as they can and quickly start to bail the water from their streets and their houses? Eventually, there would be no place left to store all the water as the leak worsens and becomes more violent. The dam would continue to leak, but the problem would go unnoticed because everyone is so busy attempting to save his own street.
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A Message to Student Leaders Today and our Society’s
Leaders of Tomorrow
Dean Karen McLaurin-Chesson,
Director of the Third World Center
As student leaders at Brown you have several responsibilities to yourself and the population you serve. As a student, it is imperative to take advantage of and access the many resources Brown University has to offer. You must be the best that you can be at Brown by engaging in dialogue with faculty, staff, and peers.
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A Space for Reflection:
Rethinking Black Leadership
Rodrick Echols ’03, UCS President

No one can pinpoint exactly when the ground shifted, when it became possible for a black American male to join the high ranks of the corporate universe. Like the moment when darkness yields to dawn, it crept up quietly, largely unperceived. We awakened and a new (or, at least, perceived new) day had come. But if we must mark our awareness of that day’s arrival, put down Jan. 1, 1999, the day Franklin Raines, former director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, took over as chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, becoming the first African American to head a major American corporation.
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