On Tuesday afternoon, students began to pack away their tents and supplies, disassembling a seven-day encampment for divestment that drew over 100 protestors.
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The Corporation, Brown’s highest governing body, will vote on divestment from companies affiliated with Israel at its October meeting following an agreement between encampment organizers and University administrators this afternoon. Organizers announced the agreement at a rally.
On Wednesday, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced 250 new members for 2024, including three Brown University academics: Provost Francis Doyle, Professor of Sociology Prudence Carter, and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Greg Hirth.
A letter by three City Council members — published Monday on Instagram and dated April 18 — urged the Solicitor's office to drop the charges against the 41 students arrested during a Dec. 11 sit-in at University Hall.
Brown University has agreed to hear a divestment proposal in May, according to a letter sent by President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 to encampment demonstrators at around 11:00 a.m. This requires the current encampment to be disbanded and no further unauthorized protest.
On Friday, Reps. Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Ritchie Torres (NY-15) introduced a bill to monitor antisemitism on college campuses, named the College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability Act, or COLUMBIA act.
On Saturday morning, some students affiliated with the encampment received a disciplinary email from the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards alleging that the students have violated five specific statutes in the Student Code of Conduct.
U.S. Representative Deborah Ross ’85 (D-N.C. 2) visited the Watson Institute on Thursday to discuss the 118th Congress.
At a Tuesday press conference, advocates and community members discussed homelessness in Rhode Island and Gov. Dan McKee’s budget amendment, which provides an estimated $31 million for housing navigation, housing production, stabilization services, housing subsidies and homelessness prevention.
About 40 protesters from Jewish Voice for Peace Rhode Island gathered in front of Senator Jack Reed’s (D-R.I.) Providence office at 8 a.m. Thursday to demand that he call for a ceasefire in Gaza, stop supporting military aid for Israel and restore funding for humanitarian aid organizations like the ...
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As pro-Palestinian encampments continue to proliferate on college campuses around the country, Jewish students have found themselves in a unique spotlight. Some have participated in these demonstrations. Others have publicly renounced them. But many have more nuanced views that lie somewhere in the ...
At the encampment on the Main Green Thursday afternoon, graduate student workers rallied at a demonstration organized by the Graduate Labor Organization to protest recent updates to Brown’s communications around activism.
The number of students participating in the encampment, which is now on its second day, has risen to over 100. As of 9 a.m., there were about 45 tents on the Main Green.
In a special meeting today, the Brown University Community Council voted to recommend that five student representatives “conducting activism for divestment” be allowed to present their case for divestment from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine” before the Corporation. ...
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