Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. addressed budgetary concerns, the Affordable Care Act and foreign policy issues in a speech to the Brown Democrats Tuesday night in Wilson Hall. Reed has served in Congress for 25 years — including 18 as a Senator — and is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services ...
Updated April 1, 2015 at 2:25 a.m. Hyoun Ju Sohn GS died Tuesday after falling through a 12th floor window of the Sciences Library just before noon. Sohn was a first-year physics doctoral student from South Korea, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Tuesday evening. He graduated ...
This series will explore the first 1,000 days of Christina Paxson’s presidency. This story, the second of three, will look at how the University’s female leadership team represents, motivates and responds to students. Brown is the only Ivy League school where both the president and the provost, ...
The University offered admission to just under 8.5 percent of applicants to the class of 2019, breaking last year’s record-low acceptance rate of 8.6 percent, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Out of the 30,397 students who applied — the second largest pool in University history — 2,580 ...
Justice Gaines ’16, Sazzy Gourley ’16 and Zachary Nelkin ’17 will vie for the presidency of the Undergraduate Council of Students, while Alana Bhatla ’16 and Ryan Lessing ’17 will face off for the UCS vice presidency. Candidates submitted their official applications at a UCS Elections Board ...
This series will explore the first 1,000 days of Christina Paxson’s presidency. This story, the first of three, will look at the way her policies have affected the University’s identity. As Christina Paxson’s P’19 presidency passes its thousandth day, a debate that has been brewing since before ...
Elections start this week for the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board, but past races have run into hiccups due to occurrences ranging from joke campaigns to candidate withdrawals. Joke campaigns Eric Mukherjee ’09 did not know he had run for UCS president until after ...
Rhodes Scholarship eligibility to expand Individuals from China will soon be eligible for Rhodes Scholarships, the New York Times reported Monday. The change is part of a larger plan to expand into additional countries, marking the first major growth of the program since the 1970s, when women became ...
Stalling Shark A Providence Board of Licenses hearing regarding the liquor license issued to Shark Bar and Grille in exchange for bribes of $52,500 in 2008 was halted yesterday by Associate Justice Michael Silverstein, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge, the Providence Journal reported. Silverstein ...
The Providence Board of Licenses elected Jeffrey Williams ’85 and Sen. Juan Pichardo, D-Providence, to its most senior positions earlier this month. Following their election, Williams and Pichardo now serve as chair and vice-chair of the board, respectively. Each member of the five-person board is ...
A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted March 16-17 found that more than two-thirds of students disapprove of the University’s decision to cancel a hearing for a student accused of serving a drink with GHB at an October Phi Kappa Psi party. In addition, over 60 percent of respondents disapproved ...
See accompanying article. Please click the image to access the poll chord diagram. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 6.4% Strongly approve 35.0% Somewhat approve 33.6% No opinion 21.7% Somewhat disapprove 3.4% Strongly disapprove 2. ...
See accompanying article. Please click the image to access the poll chord diagram. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 3.3% Strongly approve 30.2% Somewhat approve 30.2% No opinion 28.7% Somewhat disapprove 7.6% Strongly disapprove 2. ...
“I stand with Nan-Hui because our women and children should be protected and supported at all costs.” These are just some of the words of empowerment that Brown Asian Sisters Empowered collected from Brown community members during its four-day #DearNanHui letter-writing campaign. Other tributes ...
Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ — a longtime staple of the College Hill food scene — is now for sale, owner Don Fecher announced on the business’ Twitter and Facebook last Wednesday. The business, which now includes both a restaurant in Cranston and the well-known food truck, was founded by Sook Kim P’01 ...
The Engaged Scholars program will expand to five more concentrations next year, adding to the five concentrations piloting the program this year, said Kathleen McSharry, associate dean of the College for writing and curriculum. Business, entrepreneurship and organizations and contemplative studies, ...
“(Let’s) do what we did for gay marriage for clean energy. Start the momentum at the state level and spur the momentum to actually push this,” said Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16 regarding a Feb. 25 bill he authored to tax carbon at the state level. “But no state individually can fix global warming,” ...
“Mike Brown is no Rosa Parks, and he ain’t Emmett Till either,” said Glenn Loury, professor of economics, at a discussion on “Black Communities and the Police: The Meaning of Ferguson” at the Watson Institute for International Studies Thursday night. Approximately 30 graduate students, faculty ...
Ask a group of undergraduates why they applied to Brown and most will give similar answers: the open curriculum, high-quality faculty or an affinity for Providence, among others. Though many students enjoy their time on College Hill, most use their undergraduate experience as a gateway to future careers. ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 sent a letter Wednesday to the Task Force on Sexual Assault endorsing the student movement Act4RJ’s demands for sexual assault policy change, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15 at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Srinivasan said she and Sazzy Gourley ...
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