[sbeaulieu]

A laughable article exposing Brown University's history in using slave labor, monetary acceptance from slave traders, etc. Although this initiative was driven by its student population, the university should have foreseen this backlash.

Brown University Should Consider Name Change, Critics Say

~ Shane

[Bill P]

sbeaulieu, on Apr 18 2009, 06:36 AM, said:

A laughable article exposing Brown University's history in using slave labor, monetary acceptance from slave traders, etc. Although this initiative was driven by its student population, the university should have foreseen this backlash.

Brown University Should Consider Name Change, Critics Say

~ Shane

I like the closing jibe about renaming Brown "Columbus University."

Bill P

[Brant Gaede]

My sister Joan was accepted at Brown. She never attended a class. The school physical revealed she had Juvenile Diabetes. A lot of physical damage had already been done. She came home to Tucson and married an archaeologist and died at the age of 70 four years ago of end-stage renal disease caused by the diabetes.

After the diagnosis she spent some time with our Dad and step-Mother in Queens and then went to Columbus for a semester or two at Ohio State University after her eye operation(s). Earlier at the age of 7 but not 7 and a half--the airline wouldn't let a seven year-old fly alone but would a seven and a half year old but let me do it anyway out of the goodness of its heart or my Mother's lie--I had flown on a Lockheed Super-Constellation out of Tucson to Chicago and out of Chicago on a DC-3 to Columbus to spend a year with my paternal grandparents while Mom went to Mexico with my brother Marc for what reason I could never figure out except it was cheap but it wasn't. Nasty. They served tomato soup and the airplane jiggled and I had tomato soup in my lap. Suffering that I pointed out to the stewardess--they were all beautiful through the 1960s--that there was a loose bolt on the engine cowling (AND WE WERE ALL GOING TO DIE: TELL THE PILOT!). So I joined my sister in Columbus and she taught me how to ride a bike in a small park on the banks of the Olentangy River. I rode her home. I was eight and she was 18.

Because Brown discovered her diabetes she was able to subsequently have substantial quality of life, but it was hard. She was extremely smart and Hollywood beautiful plus.

--Brant

This post has been edited by Brant Gaede: 19 April 2009 - 02:05 AM