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Volume 49 Issue 4 - October 18th, 2024
After a brief and well-deserved break, The Indy is back. We missed you so dearly. We hope that you did, too.
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Cover (Pattern, Interrupted) by Waleed Mustafa.
Featured Articles
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In World for the Bravado Issue, Angela Lian B’26 calls to attention the threat of bringing in a new arena nearby the heart of the longstanding Philadelphia Chinatown, a safe hub for immigrants and elderly Asian-American populations to create community. She emphasizes the cultural loss that gentrification of the area can cause, from the loss of community institutions to the mass displacement of residents, threatening marginalized communities and erasing their histories.
“The arena will not, as the billionaire developers claim, ‘revitalize’ and ‘bring prosperity to’ the area, nor will it benefit the people of Chinatown or Philadelphia as a whole. Chinatown is home to many, even those who don’t live there. It is a site of history, culture, and identity that should not and cannot be destroyed by predatory development. The arena is not simply a sports venue. It is a threat to our existence.”
Read No Arena in Chinatown in print or online here.
Illustration by Nicole Zhu.
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In Metro for the Bravado Issue, Lily Seltz B’25 confronts both the perfidious and the privileged realities of students renting off-campus housing from Providence slumlords, reiterates the role of Brown and its students in the gentrification of the city, and calls students to action for a more collective future.
“But thinking of our situations as categorically different only serves to grant Providence landlords license to keep mistreating not only us, but future tenants too. Even more essentially, it discourages Brown students from taking a good hard look at the systems and policies that keep all Rhode Island tenants—not just students—down.”
Read A Racket in the Attic or on our website here.
Illustration by Benjamin Natan.
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Also in this Week’s Issue
Week in Review
Week in Newlywed Bliss by Kat Lopez B’27
Arts
Red Noses, Rasputin, and Reclaiming the Clown by Zoe Redlich B’25
Literary
bath/rest/wash/room by Daniella Pozo B/R’27
Science & Technology
CYBERFEMINISM INDEX by Angela Lian B’26
Schema
Airplane Skin Diagram by Nan Dickerson B’26
Dear Indy
Astro-Mania by ***** ***** B’27
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