Au Bon Pain and Antonios are the only Thayer Street establishments open, and the latter is only accepting cash. The Sharpe Refectory will be open until 7:30 p.m. to all students, including those not on meal plan, wrote Russell Carey, vice president for planning and policy, in an email to the Brown ...
In anticipation of Winter Storm Nemo, the Corporation canceled its Saturday meeting and made plans to end its Friday meeting early at 10:30 a.m., delaying a vote on a school of public health and decisions about potential tuition or financial aid changes for at least a week, wrote Vice President for ...
Due to warnings about Winter Storm Nemo, which hit New England this morning, the University canceled today’s classes — the third time this academic year administrators have shut down the University due to inclement weather. The University has not yet made plans to compensate for the lost day of ...
Several residence halls will no longer be available to the class years for which they had originally been designated, according to an updated housing lottery plan the Residential Council posted on its webpage Wednesday. With the number of doubles in Perkins, the building will be able to house enough ...
Progress as society perceives it may not always be positive, said Cristovam Buarque, a member of the Brazilian Senate, in a lecture Tuesday to a full room at the Joukowsky Forum in the Watson Institute. “Scientific and technical knowledge is accelerating with a stagnation of ethical development,” ...
Residential Council is creating plans for next semester aimed to reduce dorm damage across campus, members of ResCouncil said. Following the recent renovations of residence halls including the Keeney Quadrangle and Andrews Hall, dorm vandalism has remained prevalent on campus. Members of ResCouncil ...
Feb. 7, 2003 The University’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety removed asbestos insulation during winter break from nearly 60 rooms in Wriston Quadrangle, The Herald reported. Though EHS Director Stephen Morin said asbestos is only dangerous when it is damaged, the University moved quickly ...
In an effort to control grade inflation, many professors in the Department of Economics will follow an official departmental recommendation to award 30 percent of students As, 40 percent Bs and 30 percent Cs in ECON 0110: "Principles of Economics," said Roberto Serrano, professor of economics. Serrano ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will vote next week on a proposal to formally oppose the federal sequester, said UCS Treasurer Sam Gilman ’15. The sequester — which was announced by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan — would cut six percent of federal student aid for millions of students, ...
The University’s graduate students could stand to benefit from a proposed immigration reform that would grant more cards for international graduate students studying science, technology, engineering and math. The legislation was announced Jan. 28 by a bipartisan group of four Democrats and four Republicans ...
The Corporation will address a host of priorities when it meets this weekend, including potential tuition and financial aid increases and the approval of the annual budget, said Russell Carey, executive vice president for planning and policy. The meeting will mark the second time the Corporation — ...
DJ A-Trak and rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline Friday and Saturday night, respectively, for this year’s Spring Weekend. The concert, scheduled for the weekend of April 19 to 21, will also feature Providence’s What Cheer? Brigade, New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia, experimental rock band ...
Brown email addresses can be impersonated by any user inside or outside of the Brown network through email spoofing websites, evidenced by an email supposedly sent from Brown Concert Agency Publicity Chair Raillan Brooks ’13 to multiple press outlets Tuesday with a false Spring Weekend lineup. “(Email ...
Clad in purple and wearing strips of gray duct tape across their mouths, several dozen students streamed into the Sharpe Refectory at lunchtime Tuesday to stage a demonstration against sexual assault at Brown. The event, organized and led by a group of Minority Peer Counselors, was intended to raise ...
Brown faculty members may see increased tuition assistance and retirement benefits, as the faculty endorsed a report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Employee Benefits at its meeting Tuesday night. Faculty members all voted in favor of the report, with no abstentions. One of the report’s major recommendations ...
The Brown Student Health Insurance Plan will cover 14 different sexual reassignment surgery procedures starting in August, Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services Jeanne Hebert confirmed in an email to The Herald. The move makes Brown one of a handful of schools and healthcare providers nationwide ...
Starting next semester, SafeRide will still be on call — but it will be called a different name. First Transit Inc., a company used by Yale and Princeton, will replace University Shuttle LLC as the campus shuttle service provider July 1, said Beth Gentry, assistant vice president of administration ...
Students, faculty members and community members alike huddled in the corner of Brown Bookstore Monday evening to hear Professor Emeritus of History James T. Patterson discuss his new book, “The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America.” Patterson began by playing a recording of “Eve ...
“Today miracles occupy the same place as illusive effects,” but they should be distinguished from magic, said Hent de Vries, professor in the humanities and philosophy and director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, in a talk Tuesday night about miraculous events. Before an audience ...
Students who go off meal plan may face a critical challenge — finding a way to save as much money on food as humanly possible. One group of students has attempted to tackle that problem — a team of four, including juniors from both Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, launched freefoodatbrown.com ...
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