Gov. Gina Raimondo outlined her budget proposal — stressing the importance of attracting businesses, reforming Medicaid and improving education — in her State of the State address Thursday night. Delivered before a joint session of the General Assembly, the address marks the first budget recommendation ...
Minority Peer Counselors Chrys Tran ’17, Genesis Medina ’17, Regine Rosas ’17, Ryan Lee ’17 and Fernando Ayala ’17 facilitated “There’s No Place Like Home: An MPC Workshop on Immigration” in Wilson 101 Thursday. The workshop featured a presentation focusing on contemporary and historical ...
About 400 community members marched silently from Wriston Quadrangle, through University Hall and onto the Quiet Green Wednesday to protest the University’s handling of the widely discussed date-rape drug and sexual assault cases. Demonstrators gathered in front of the Sharpe Refectory just before ...
While many students must monitor only their personal savings accounts, members of the Brown Socially Responsible Investment Fund are now responsible for managing $100,000. The Investment Office granted SRIF an additional $70,000 last week, Jane Dietze, managing director of the office, wrote in an email ...
Responding to the list of demands recently released by the campus movement Act4RJ, the Undergraduate Council of Students adopted a statement at its general body meeting Wednesday. The Council chose seven items from Act4RJ’s list to restate as recommendations, rather than demands, for feasible policy ...
“Our criminal justice system is a bias and a broken system,” said Chris Burbank, chief of police at the Salt Lake City Police Department, during a panel entitled “Police Profiling: Causes and Consequences” Tuesday evening. About 40 community members gathered to hear three panelists speak about ...
A bill proposed in January that would require all institutions of higher education in Rhode Island to report incidents of sexual assault to law enforcement will likely undergo significant amendments to give greater autonomy to victims, according to a Feb. 23 press release from the General Assembly. ...
Responding to protestors at Tuesday’s Brown University Community Council meeting, President Christina Paxson P’19 denied that the father of the student accused of spiking a drink with the date-rape drug GHB — a Corporation trustee — influenced his son’s case. Paxson said she told Vice President ...
Marijuana legalization bills introduced in Rhode Island Sen. Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, Providence, and Rep. Scott Slater, D-Providence, introduced identical bills last week that would make the possession, growth and sale of marijuana legal in Rhode Island. The drug would be taxed at a rate of 10 percent ...
“Males are ready to get on board, but now they’re asking ‘How do I help?’” said Emma Watson ’14 in a question-and-answer session promoting the HeForShe campaign, an initiative that encourages men to join the movement toward gender equality. A live stream of the event, which was held in Wilson ...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council at the University of California at Los Angeles has come under fire for inappropriately questioning a Jewish candidate for the Student Judicial Board and subsequently removing a video of the Feb. 10 meeting from its website, the Huffington Post reported. The ...
Leaders of the Associated Students of the University of California at Irvine met Saturday to veto resolution R50-70, a motion to ban the American flag on campus, NBC Los Angeles and CBS Los Angeles reported. In a six-to-four vote Thursday, with two abstaining, the group’s general body passed a resolution ...
A 10-second video has surfaced showing members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chanting racist slurs, the Washington Post reported Monday. The clip was first posted online Sunday night by Unheard, a black student activist group, with the caption “Racism ...
The School of Professional Studies will offer five online undergraduate courses this summer, marking an uptick from last year’s two. Each course will last seven weeks and provide full semester credit. James Chansky, director of summer session and pre-college programs at the School of Professional ...
The University will likely have a site selected for its new performing arts venue by this summer, said Michael Steinberg, vice provost for the arts. Other key initiatives Steinberg is currently pursuing include better integrating the arts into the greater Brown curriculum and establishing a “global ...
Hundreds of students from 22 Rhode Island high schools conversed with Brown community members on College Hill Sunday and grappled with issues of feminism, gender identity and sexuality at the first annual Feminist Leadership and Mentorship for Equality Conference. The event was coordinated by Feminists ...
Many students have reacted with frustration and anger toward the University following new revelations in the date-rape drug and sexual assault cases. Several people expressed concern that the Phi Kappa Psi member accused of administering GHB to two female students Oct. 17 may have benefitted from his ...
The student accused of sexual assault by one of two female students who reported being drugged at an October party has been found not responsible by the University’s Student Conduct Board, according to a Feb. 20 letter reviewed by The Herald from Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel to the complainant. Meisel, ...
Individuals familiar with the case surrounding the alleged use of a date-rape drug raised concerns that the University may have unfairly handled the disciplinary proceedings due to the accused student’s family ties to the Corporation, according to sources and documents reviewed by The Herald. Charges ...
“When it comes to Palestine, the laws of physics do not apply. You cannot say that for every action there is an incurrent opposite reaction,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian legislator, activist and scholar to a crowded Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Thursday evening. Ashrawi ...
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