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Throughout the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Brown University over the past year, we have told the story of Brown’s past, present and

This is a working-draft of an intended longer piece which critically interrogates the spatial politics of Providence and explores the revolutionary potential of a radical urban social movement. My ...

It has been a matter of pride to administrators who were at Brown University in the 1960's that the campus survived the turmoil of that time without major disruption. ''Brown was the only school in the Ivy League that did not call the cops in the Vietnam era,'' says Robert A. Reichley, vice president for university relations, who came to Brown in 1968. But today, when much of the country is floating in what Mr. Reichley calls a ''a sea of conservatism,'' students at Brown have attracted wide attention with campus protests. In October students voted to ask the university to stock suicide pills for use in the event of nuclear war. Although the university said from the outset that it would not consider stocking cyanide for students, the referendum was praised by administrators, faculty members and students who endorsed its message - that the arms race is suicidal - and applauded its success in making the point to the public.