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Election day, by the numbers

By Marlis Flinn | November 4

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Spring 2018 Herald poll results

By Emily Davies | April 8

Spring 2018 poll results can be found here. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 19.8% Strongly approve 39.6% Somewhat approve 6.0% Somewhat disapprove 0.2% Strongly Disapprove 34.4% No opinion Do you approve or disapprove of the ...

Gov. Raimondo proposes two years of free tuition at state colleges

By Isabel Gensler | February 6

Gov. Gina Raimondo introduced the Rhode Island’s Promise proposal — which guarantees two years of free college for the state’s students if they choose to attend the Community College of Rhode Island, the University of Rhode Island or Rhode Island College — as a part of her FY2018 budget proposal ...

Corporation grants Paxson second five-year term

By Anna Kramer | February 3

The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, granted President Christina Paxson P’19 a second five-year term Thursday, extending her tenure to 2021. “The support for President Paxson was unanimous — there was never a thought of not renewing (her) contract,” said Chancellor Samuel ...

U. accepts 22 percent of early decision applicants

By Suvy Qin | December 14

Updated Dec. 15 at 11:35 p.m. The University accepted 22 percent of its early decision applicants to the class of 2021, offering spots to 695 students — the largest number of students ever admitted early decision. The accepted applicants were chosen from the University’s largest early decision ...

Third-party support jumps this election cycle

By Nicholas Wey | November 4

According to The Herald’s 2016 fall undergraduate poll, nearly 5 percent of respondents indicated that they will be voting for third-party candidates come Election Day. About 58 percent of these students indicated that they would vote for Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, while 42 percent indicated ...

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U. hosts free speech series to promote open dialogue

By Shira Buchsbaum | September 14

Provost Richard Locke P’17 announced the new “Reaffirming University Values: Campus Dialogue and Discourse” event series coming to campus this year in a community-wide email Sept. 2, adding to the ongoing national conversation regarding open discourse on college campuses. Locke began planning ...

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Poll finds athletes, BEO concentrators hook up at higher rates

By Rose Sheehan | April 28

Data from a recent Herald poll indicated that 85 percent of business, entrepreneurship and organizations and economics concentrators and 91 percent of athletes have hooked up with someone during their time at Brown, compared to 76 percent of overall students. The poll defined hooking up as “making ...

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Class popularity driven by rarity of subject matter, word of mouth

By Suvy Qin | April 28

Each semester, many classes from a variety of departments fill up quickly during pre-registration for the following semester — sometimes leading to packed classrooms, other times to empty seats on the first day of class. With pre-registration for the fall 2016 semester currently underway, The Herald ...

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U.S. colleges provide alternative to China’s rigid education system

By Julia Choi | April 27

Students from China constitute the largest portion of Brown’s international undergraduate body. In 2007, 144 students from China applied to Brown, comprising less than one percent of all applicants. Last year, that number jumped to 1,146 applicants and quadrupled that percentage, wrote Jim Miller ...

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Sanders, Trump sweep R.I. primaries

By Kyle Borowski | April 27

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, and Donald Trump emerged victorious in Rhode Island’s presidential primary Tuesday, winning 13 and nine delegates in the state’s Democratic and Republican races, respectively. Sanders won 55 percent of the vote compared to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s ...

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Unsuccessful teams reflect institutional athletic changes

By Ben Shumate | April 27

This story is the second in a three-part series about Brown athletics. The ’90s were arguably the most successful era for Brown athletics, as its teams won 47 Ivy League titles in the decade. Since 2010, Brown teams have won five, placing them last in the conference by a large margin. Harvard won ...

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Low attendance perennial plague for athletics

By Ben Shumate | April 26

This story is the first in a three-part series about Brown athletics. In The Herald’s own “Completely Unofficial Guide to Brown,” first-years are given an A-Z listing of Brown-related terms to know. The only term related to Brown athletics is “stadium,” with the description: “It’s over ...

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Clinton, Trump lead R.I. polls by about 10 percent

By Elena Renken | April 26

With Rhode Islanders heading to the polls today, the unsettled races in both parties place more importance on voters in the Ocean State than in past years. A poll conducted by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy in February showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton topping U.S. ...

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Perceived job prospects impact concentration choices

By Suvy Qin | April 21

Students concentrating in business, entrepreneurship and organizations or economics were less likely to indicate passion for the subject as the reason behind their concentration choices than students in the humanities, social sciences other than these two concentrations, life sciences and physical sciences, ...

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R.I. college students demand expanded diversity initiatives

By Gwen Everett | April 20

As students at Brown urge the administration to take greater measures to address the lack of diversity and inclusion on campus, students and faculty members at other colleges in Rhode Island are also working to have their voices heard on their campuses. Such events represent students’ and faculty ...

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Composting to be implemented campus-wide by fall 2016

By Nicholas Wey | April 19

As of the fall 2016 semester, the University will have implemented composting programs across all dining halls, a development that follows a pilot program launched in spring 2015 in Andrews Dining Commons. The revitalized composting program will be introduced in the Sharpe Refectory, the Blue Room ...

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Spring 2016 Poll Results and Methodology

By Brown Daily Herald | April 14

1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 8.3% Strongly approve 37.8% Somewhat approve 34.2% No opinion 17.4% Somewhat disapprove 2.2% Strongly disapprove 2. How informed do you feel about events on campus? 16.7% Very informed 63.2% ...

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Half of students say Hillel sponsorship of Mock lecture acceptable

By Lauren Aratani | April 14

Screen Shot 2016-04-13 at 3.23.13 PM The Herald’s spring undergraduate poll, conducted April 6, 7 and 11 in J. Walter Wilson, the Faunce Campus Center and the Sciences Library, found that about half of students polled disagreed that Brown/RISD Hillel should not have sponsored a talk by Janet Mock, ...

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Engaged Scholars Program expands to 12 concentrations

By Melissa Cruz | April 13

The Engaged Scholars Program — a collaborative initiative between the Swearer Center for Public Service, the Dean of the College and multiple academic departments — will expand to encompass 12 concentrations, an increase of seven from the previous year. The new concentrations will include business, ...