Updated Friday, Oct. 31 at 2:29 a.m. As a crowd of students huddled near bare mattresses and others joined the group outside Faunce, one enflamed candle began to light another. As students helped their neighbors ignite their wicks, an evening vigil Wednesday to display solidarity with sexual assault ...
UNC academic fraud scandal increased students’ athletic eligibility, report reveals Administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released a report Oct. 22 that revealed new information about a two-decade-long academic fraud scheme involving the university’s varsity athletes. ...
The University’s deficit and progress in meeting its sustainability goals took center stage Tuesday at the Brown University Community Council’s second meeting of the semester. The Student Labor Alliance also delivered a presentation reflecting on the University’s decision to outsource mail operations, ...
As a recent national study predicts that job opportunities for the graduating class of 2015 will increase by 16 percent, CareerLAB has seen signs of a strong hiring cycle for Brown seniors, administrators said. There have been more job postings on the Job and Internship Board and more technology companies ...
After the Corporation approved construction on a new applied math building, designs are being finalized and foundation work is kicking into full swing over the next few weeks. The Corporation’s Committee on Budget and Finance gave the go-ahead at its meeting this month for construction to begin. ...
Unfamiliar faces dotted the audiences at a cappella concerts and dance shows this weekend as parents, siblings and other guests flocked to campus theaters and auditoriums to support student performers and experience a taste of Brown culture. But what was afternoon entertainment for many visiting families ...
The African Students Association staged a walk through campus Sunday in honor of those who have died from the Ebola virus. The walk comes after the group’s publishing of a letter Wednesday in Obsidian, a literary magazine about black culture, that stated, “too often have the narratives of dark ...
With brightly colored flyers and petitions in hand, unionized library workers and Brown Student Labor Alliance members gathered Friday to show support for workers in the ongoing library contract negotiations with the University. Unionized workers are seeking to gain more opportunities for professional ...
Former President Ruth Simmons spoke on the role of universities in recognizing historical and current civil and human rights violations at the inauguration of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Friday afternoon. Her speech, entitled “Confronting Historic Wrongs: A University’s Dilemma,” ...
Updated Monday, Oct. 27 at 9:20 a.m. Two students informed the Office of Student Life and the Department of Public Safety that they suspected they were given alcoholic drinks containing a date-rape drug at a fraternity party in Sears House Oct. 17, wrote Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus ...
Due to the recent Ebola outbreak, the University is placing restrictions on travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia except for purposes of eradicating or containing the disease, Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, Unab Khan, medical director of University ...
Brown dropped this year from 10th to 18th place in Teach for America’s top contributing medium-sized college and university rankings. Only 17 alums joined the 2014 corps, compared to 31 in 2013 and 36 in 2012. All other Ivy League universities in the medium-sized category also dropped in rankings ...
George R.R. Martin was always interested in fantasy, dreaming of the world beyond the five blocks he walked to and from school each day in his childhood hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey. His first published work was released in 1971, just after he graduated college, marking an auspicious start to a successful ...
The world is in a “golden age of fantasy,” proclaimed best-selling author George R.R. Martin, invoking an image as whimsical as his stories to a packed Salomon 101, where he and publisher Tom Doherty were interviewed about their experiences in science fiction and fantasy writing Thursday. The powerful ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students reflected on its interactions and relationship with the Corporation, which were on display at its open forum last week featuring Corporation members, at its general body meeting Wednesday night. The open forum last week included guest speakers Chancellor Thomas ...
Harvard law school professors criticize new sexual harassment policy A group of 28 current and former Harvard law school professors wrote a letter published in the Boston Globe Oct. 14 lambasting the university’s new sexual harassment policy. The criticism comes as Harvard is being investigated ...
A squirrel that climbed into a metal pipe and made contact with an electric current in the Manchester Street Power Station, located in the Jewelry District, caused more than 4,500 Providence National Grid customers to lose power for about two hours Tuesday morning. Power outages usually occur in ...
Financial aid emerged as the top priority for respondents to the Undergraduate Council of Students’ fall poll for the second year in a row, with sexual assault policy reform claiming second place, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15. Advising and off-campus safety were also high-ranking issues ...
Neel Virdy ’17 didn’t tell his parents when he decided to take Hindi during his first semester at Brown. Both his parents were born in India, and his mother speaks the language, so they were both delighted when Virdy came home for break and surprised them by stringing together sentences in the language. “They ...
Four professors and two Providence community members will receive support for research tied to public engagement as the inaugural recipients of the Public Humanities Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year, according to a University press release this month. The fellowship provides recipients with ...
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