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BROWN: Brown University’s highest paid employee, vice president and chief investment officer Cynthia Frost, will retire at the end of the school year in order to help her mother after her father’s death, according to the Brown Daily Herald. Frost is the only person to have held Brown’s CIO position, and during her 12 years at the University, she was responsible for the endowment’s growth from $1.4 to $2.5 billion.
This term I am working with the non-governmental organization Awamaki in the small town of Ollantaytambo in Peru. Ollantaytambo, known as “Ollanta,” is about an hour-and-a-half drive outside of the city of Cusco, near Machu Picchu.
Yet I think that for most of us, the shock soon gives way to anger, and a conviction that something must change. We’ve heard a lot of propositions, from mental health reform to armed security guards to bans on gun shows and certain types of weapons. Which proposals are appropriate, which are effective and how can we prevent this from happening again? There are high passions on both sides and many difficulties to tease out before something can be done. That’s The Conversation.
I think that the National Rifle Association is really extreme but they have the right idea with the whole “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” thing. The Second Amendment is in place so that Americans are protected from an oppressive government. Regulating guns won’t prevent people from doing the illegal things that they’re doing with them. —Kelsey Weimer ’16
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