Same-sex marriage is the “defining civil rights issue of the century,” said David Boies, one of the two lawyers who helped overturn Proposition 8, to a packed Starr Auditorium Thursday night. Boies and fellow lawyer Ted Olson first came to the public’s attention during the 2000 Supreme Court case ...
Jerome Sanes, professor of neuroscience, and Paul Williard, professor of chemistry, have won Fulbright Scholar Awards to conduct research in France, according to a Feb. 27 University press release. “It was a wonderful opportunity,” said Sanes, who will study Parkinson’s disease at the Brain and ...
Students protesting the University’s handling of cases surrounding the alleged drugging of two female students and sexual assault of one attended “Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Women Presidents and the Changing University” Thursday evening. The event’s roundtable discussion featured President ...
Gordon Fox, former Speaker of the House for the General Assembly, pleaded guilty to federal charges of accepting bribes, wire fraud and filing a false tax return Tuesday. By pleading guilty to these charges, Fox accepted a plea deal that includes a three-year federal prison sentence. In 2008, while ...
1962 Brown undergraduates were among 300 college students from Rhode Island traveling to Maryland to protest racial segregation through peaceful demonstrations and sit-ins, The Herald reported at the time. Roger Wilson ’62, treasurer of the Northern Student Movement — the group organizing the protests ...
As new details surrounding the Phi Kappa Psi case broke across campus Wednesday, many students reacted with frustration at what they perceived as the University’s lack of transparency. Others stressed the importance of respecting the two female students who reported being served a drink containing ...
Alum tapped as DOH director Nicole Alexander-Scott MPH’11, assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at the Alpert Medical School, was nominated Tuesday by Gov. Gina Raimondo to serve as the next director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, multiple news outlets reported. Her nomination ...
Chung Cho, owner of the Gourmet Heaven grocery chain with locations in Providence and New Haven, must respond by March 12 to a summons, or he will lose a federal wage theft suit. Three former Gourmet Heaven employees from the Providence locations at Meeting Street and Weybosset Street filed the suit ...
“Asia’s rise is the opportunity of this century,” said Julia Gillard, Australian prime minister from 2010 to 2013, during the 90th Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs Wednesday. Attendees of the talk nearly filled the DeCiccio Family Auditorium in the Salomon Center, ...
The South Street Landing Project — a Jewelry District development plan that involves renovating the district’s historic South Street Power Station as well as building two apartment complexes and a parking garage — is “barreling rapidly towards construction,” said Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students decided not to adopt a formal position on the new details surrounding the Phi Kappa Psi case revealed in The Herald this week, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15 at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Following extensive discussion amongst the UCS Executive ...
The University has assembled a search committee charged with hiring a dean of students for the next academic year, said Ricky Gresh, director of campus life projects and committee chair. The committee convened for the first time in late January and will meet again Tuesday, Gresh said. The position of ...
Faculty members unanimously supported the institution of a new Executive Master’s Program in Cybersecurity at a faculty meeting Tuesday. The proposal, presented by Roberto Tamassia, professor of computer science and chair of the department, will next be brought to the Corporation for approval at ...
Erskine College clarifies anti-gay statement Erskine College, a private Christian college in Due West, South Carolina released a follow-up statement Friday clarifying its controversial Feb. 20 statement decried same-sex and extramarital sexual relationships on campus, the Washington Post reported Friday. The ...
Within the next two weeks, all members of Greek organizations will sign a new zero-tolerance sexual misconduct policy mandating yearly bystander training for members and expulsion from Greek organizations for any student found responsible for sexual misconduct, Greek Council members said. Signing the ...
For the third consecutive year, Brown failed to make the list of the top 25 medium-sized colleges and universities to send graduates to the Peace Corps. Following more than a decade of maintaining steady placement in the ranking — with between 20 and 38 alums serving each year between 2002 and 2013 ...
The University will not proceed with a hearing against the Phi Kappa Psi member initially charged with serving a drink containing the date-rape drug GHB at a party held by the fraternity in October, according to multiple documents reviewed by The Herald. In a two-sentence letter dated Feb. 21, the University ...
The two companies involved in conducting a flawed hair test in the Phi Kappa Psi case have drawn criticism for their work on several other cases prior to working with the University. The Carlson Company, which the University hired to produce the toxicology report, and Ernest Lykissa, the director of ...
Over the last week, Phi Kappa Psi has blanketed campus with flyers bearing a scannable barcode that links to a letter detailing evidence from its recent misconduct case. In that letter, the fraternity falsely asserts that laboratory results were “conclusively negative” for a hair test on one of ...
This series explores the racial dynamics of Rhode Island’s school-to-prison pipeline. This story, the last of three, looks at racial profiling and policing in Rhode Island. A new report released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island Feb. 19 outlines the disproportionate rates at which ...
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