Building on this year’s discussions over students’ role in University governance, a group of students led by Alex Drechsler ’15 is petitioning to add an undergraduate representative to the Corporation. The group formed in response to student activists’ frustration over the Corporation’s decision ...
Updated at 1:34 a.m. on March 31, 2014. The University extended offers of admission to 8.6 percent of applicants to the class of 2018, marking the lowest percentage of admitted students in University history, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. From a pool of 30,432 applicants, the second-largest ...
As sophomores scramble to declare their concentrations ahead of tomorrow’s deadline, increasing numbers of students are opting to design their own. The number of independent concentration applications filed has spiked in recent years — in the 2012-2013 academic year, 31 independent concentration ...
The University plans to implement a questionnaire as soon as next month that will let students provide feedback on their meetings with deans and staff members, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services and interim dean of the College. Health Services has offered a similar ...
House Majority Leader Nicholas Mattiello, D-Cranston, was elected to serve as speaker of the House Tuesday afternoon, replacing Rep. Gordon Fox, D-Providence, who resigned the position March 22. Federal and state officials raided Fox’s Statehouse office and personal home March 21, though no information ...
Updated March 31, 2014 at 1:30 a.m. Rhode Island Speaker of the House Gordon Fox, D-Providence, resigned March 22 after federal and state law enforcement officials raided his Statehouse office and home March 21 to collect evidence regarding an “undisclosed matter,” the Providence Journal reported. Fox, ...
In anticipation of the April 1 announcement of the list of candidates running for leadership positions on the Undergraduate Council of Students executive board, including president and vice president, many students said they hope the election will address issues — including community inclusiveness ...
Will Guzzardi ’09 paved the way to becoming one of the youngest Brown alums in elected office with his victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for a seat in the Illinois General Assembly. As he faces no Republican opponent in the November general election, Guzzardi has all but assured his entrance ...
As students struggle to fund summer plans, the University has expanded its Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards program, accommodating 50 additional students and increasing the award from $3,000 to $3,500 for summer 2014, said Oludurotimi Adetunji, assistant dean of the College and director of ...
Four members of the Committee on the Events of October 29 solicited feedback from the Undergraduate Council of Students on the second phase of the committee’s mission, which involves establishing guidelines for how the University should address similar events in the future, at the UCS general body ...
Brown students and Rhode Island residents on both sides of the abortion debate descended on the State House March 11 to hear the House Judiciary Committee discuss eight reproductive health bills. All eight have since been recommended for further review, according to the General Assembly’s Legislative ...
More than two months after Computing and Information Services made Microsoft Office packages available for free to the student body, 480 packages have been downloaded, and administrators said few glitches have occurred. Ravi Pendse, vice president for computing and information services, said he is ...
Zipcar is negotiating the terms of a new agreement with Providence to extend the company’s contract for an additional three years. While the original contract expired in January, current negotiations would extend the city’s agreement with Zipcar into 2017. Under Zipcar’s proposal, the city would ...
The Brown University Community Council passed a resolution at its meeting Wednesday about an ongoing labor dispute between the owners of the Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel — the Procaccianti Group — and workers at the hotel. The resolution recommends that Brown community members refrain ...
The General Assembly this week considered a bill to alter gun-buyer screening procedures and legislation that would review racial disparities in out-of-school suspensions in the state’s public schools. Rhode Island legislators also conducted their annual St. Patrick’s Day and St. Joseph’s Day ...
Two more state officials took steps toward forming campaigns in anticipation of the 2014 election season. Rep. Ray Hull, D-Providence, announced Tuesday he is exploring a run for Providence mayor, potentially joining a crowded race for the Sept. 9 Democratic mayoral primary. Raymond McKay, network and ...
NCAA faces second lawsuit this year A lawsuit was filed Monday in a New Jersey federal court against the National Collegiate Athletic Association on behalf of college football and men’s basketball players, ESPN reported Monday. The lawsuit alleges that the NCAA has violated antitrust laws for capping ...
A group of students has formed a Sexual Assault Policy Task Force to gather information in preparation for the University’s Code of Student Conduct policy review next semester. The task force aims to provide support to survivors and promote awareness about sexual assault on campus, said Kevin Carty ...
Professor Emeritus of History Gordon Wood P’86 found it strange one day after he had retired that his mailbox was empty when all the other boxes on the wall in his department’s building held a copy of the Brown Alumni Magazine. When he started teaching at Brown in 1969, the provost of Wood’s ...
Exploring the traditional association of anger with revenge, Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Law School professor and former Brown professor, cited the “Transition” anger utilized by political reformers such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi as its more productive counterpart during ...
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