Political Scandals
This scandal, uncovered by Woodward and Bernstein, eventually led to the resignation of a US President.
What is Watergate?
This EBoard member is a RISD student.
Who is Grace Liu?
This is the largest student-run political publication in the Ivy League.
What is BPR?!?!
This former US Representative for Rhode Island visited Brown for a BPR event last February.
Who is David Cicilline?
Bryce Vist's "False Discoveries, Real Consequences" was under this special feature in the second issue from Fall 2024.
What is Silence?
This mayor of a major American city accepted contributions from Turkish business people.
Who is Eric Adams?
This EBoard member's birthday was yesterday.
Who is Amina Fayaz?
This building is BPR's home on campus.
What is the PPE Center?
This English-born minister founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Who is Roger Williams?
Gus LaFave's "The Cost of Belonging" was under this special feature in the first issue from Fall 2024.
What is Change?
In 2013, aides to a prominent New Jersey official orchestrated deliberate traffic gridlock on a major bridge as political payback—a scheme that earned this nickname.
What is Bridgegate?
These two EBoard members share the same double-concentration of IAPA/APMA.
Who are Jordan Lac and Mitsuki Jiang?
This board used to be two separate boards.
What is Editorial?
In 1938, a hurricane destroyed the right arm of this campus statue.
What is the statue of Caesar Augustus?
Mitsuki Jiang's "A New Prescription" was under this special feature in the second issue from Spring 2024.
What is Competition?
This scandal, in which allegations that a leaked CIA operative's identity was used to discredit a political opponent, culminated in multiple hearings in the early 2000s.
What is the Plame affair?
This EBoard member was a varsity fencer in high school.
Who is Nikhil Das?
BPR was founded in this year.
What is 2012?
This television show takes place in a small town in Newport County.
What is Family Guy?
Isabel Greider's "Weighing the Options" was under this special feature in the first issue from Spring 2024.
What is Excess?
This was the nickname given to the five US senators who accepted questionable campaign contributions from a troubled savings-and-loan executive, shaking Washington in the late 1980s.
Who are the Keating Five?
This EBoard member went viral for crying on "My Cat From Hell."
Who is Ashton Higgins?
BPR has this many members.
What is 202 (+/- 10)?
This Rhode Island governor and senator popularized having sideburns.
Who is Ambrose Burnside?
Ashton Higgins's "Clouds of Colonialism" was under this special feature in the second issue from Fall 2023.
What is Shadows?