Articles By: Candice Brown

Buna Ziua From Buchresti!

It was with mild reluctance that I finally purchased a plane ticket to Bucharest, Romania- two days before the flight. I finally gave in to a friend’s persistence to sojourn to Eastern Europe. Thus I ended up in an area of the world, and a country in which I never imagined going. What did I know about...

June 3rd, 2010 | INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

A Tale of Two Countries

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” We can capture the state of United States education system with this classic Dickens quote. Cities are posting staggering dropout rates while there is an upward trend of over-accomplished, over-booked kids. Shouts ring across America – in...

May 25th, 2010 | DOMESTIC, HEADLINES | Read More

Indiana Prairies In Bloom

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May 7th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LOCAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

Asian Invasion

Doomsayers may add something new to their list— an Asian Carp Invasion of the Great Lakes. Successive waves of invasive species are always accompanied by panic and heavy investment trying to stop them. There is infighting among officials, who sometimes cannot agree on how to fix the problem. This...

April 19th, 2010 | DOMESTIC, HEADLINES, LOCAL | Read More

U of C Voices from Abroad: Italy’s Two-Faced Liberties

The culture shock inherent in traveling does not spare you in Rome. Its ubiquitous police force comes in four easily identifiable divisions, including military police. They all patrol the city streets. The shocking numbers of police seem to parallel the crushing volume of tourists trawling the city....

April 9th, 2010 | INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

Grenada’s Imaginary Subversives

The specter of Communism swept across the world until the late 1980s, haunting the collective minds of Westerners. Western governments safeguarded their citizens against this threat by stringently guarding their buffer countries. The tiny island nation of Grenada purportedly fell to Communism from 1979-1983,...

April 9th, 2010 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Stories of a Patchwork Coup

The events read like exerts from a spy novel: secrecy, mass deaths and corruption coupled with guiltless decadence. Guinea is an impoverished country in West Africa with virtually no industry or infrastructure. It suffers from the paradox of plenty. It has vast natural resources including gems and petroleum,...

April 3rd, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, VOICES | Read More

Eye on Conakry, Guinea: Poverty

Guinea is a country heavily burdened by poverty. The population sells anything possible. Drugged dogs can be purchased on roadways, from the comfort of your car, if you’re lucky enough to have one. Almost all food is imported. My friend tells me that, “you can’t look at prices when go to grocery.”...

March 2nd, 2010 | HEADLINES, ISSUES | Read More

Three Days in Barcelona

Barcelona’s heritage is etched in the lines of antiquity but definitively defined by modernity. It is one the notable cities where the ubiquitous glassy facades of modernist architecture works, even when juxtaposed against the stone of centuries old buildings. It is home to architectural heavyweights,...

January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More