After 36 years of publication, the Providence Phoenix, an alternative weekly newspaper, is releasing its final issue Thursday. The paper began in March 1978 as the NewPaper under the leadership of Ty Davis before merging with the Phoenix Media/Communications Group in 1988, said Lou Papineau, the Phoenix’s ...
As the 2014 election season ramps up, a number of Brown alums vying for office are demonstrating that Rhode Island captured their hearts and interests during their time on College Hill. Alums running to assume new positions include Seth Magaziner ’06 for Rhode Island general treasurer, Daniel Harrop ...
“You can’t choose your family,” the saying goes. But kin relations are inevitably defined by participants and outside sources, said philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler in a Tuesday lecture entitled “Fallible Recognition: The Politics of Kinship in the Bacchae.” Butler, a professor ...
A female Providence College student who accused two Brown students of sexual assault last year filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Saturday against the University for allegedly mishandling her case, the Providence Journal reported Tuesday. The Education Department’s ...
No referee off the field for FSU football players A New York Times investigation published Friday revealed a pattern of action by Tallahassee, Fla. police designed to protect Florida State University football players accused of crimes. The most prominent of the cases involves star quarterback Jameis ...
After several years of significant decline, the number of students studying abroad has rebounded modestly over the past two years. From 2007-08 to 2012-13, the number of students studying abroad during the academic year fell from a high of 565 to a low of 381 — a 33 percent drop over five years, ...
Rhode Island’s public charter school network received high marks in a report issued by the National Alliance for Charter Schools Sept. 29, placing 10th out of 25 qualifying states and the District of Columbia and eliciting praise from experts in the field. Over 4 percent of the state’s 142,000 ...
With increasing usage in Providence, the short-term rental website Airbnb has garnered support from some residents who praise the site for expanding housing and supplementary income opportunities. But the website’s rising popularity has also led local authorities to consider how to enforce local tax ...
As deadlines approach for many higher education institutions’ early admission programs, more elite universities have decided to allow applicants to use either the Common Application or an online alternative following widespread technical problems last year for the Common App. But the University has ...
As the November election date draws closer, the debate has heated up over ballot Question 3, which asks voters whether the state should host a constitutional convention to amend the state’s constitution. While supporters of the initiative argue the convention provides an opportunity to decrease government ...
“Staff, stuff and systems” are the keys to remedying the recent Ebola outbreak, said Sheena Wood ’13, a strategist for the nongovernmental organization Partners in Health, at a teach-in about the disease Thursday evening. The roadblock to the remedy, she added, lies in the fact that most Ebola ...
Following its founding last year, the Outreach and Advocacy Committee of the Undergraduate Council of Students has established a plan for the semester, which will include facilitating student groups’ communications with administrators, prioritizing those groups’ needs and continuing to pursue last ...
When most students begin the search for on-campus jobs, they head to the libraries or dining halls. But some select students follow their entrepreneurial spirit, juggling small businesses and full courseloads. By setting up service-based businesses, students can work according to their own schedule ...
One year after the Corporation decided not to divest the University’s endowment from the country’s 15 biggest coal companies, the Brown Divest Coal Campaign is redoubling its efforts, changing its name to Fossil Free Brown and altering its mission to divesting from the top 200 fossil fuel companies ...
Though several of the world’s current human rights crises can be attributed to several potentially valid explanations, “a big part of the problem has been a seeming pragmatism that Obama has sometimes been championed for, but has too often degenerated into a short-sightedness that has repeatedly ...
A new Providence zoning ordinance could go into effect by the end of this year that would streamline commercial corridor guidelines, reform parking regulations, create new transit-oriented development zones and form a new landmarked historical district. The ordinance, which is currently in its fifth ...
When national science competition winners from high-performing Rhode Island schools score poorly on the New England Common Assessment Program Science exam, it is apparent that “something is wrong here,” said Lawrence Filippelli, assistant superintendent of the Scituate School Department. After ...
As prominent donors to Seth Moulton, the Democratic candidate to represent Massachusetts’ sixth district, strolled into the lobby of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts, they were greeted with a friendly handshake. “Hi, how are you? I’m Haley Scott.” Haley Scott ’15.5 took this semester ...
Princeton ditches grade deflation policy Princeton’s faculty voted to repeal the university’s controversial grade deflation policy after sustained criticism of its effectiveness, the Daily Princetonian reported Monday. Administrators implemented the policy 10 years ago to combat what they saw ...
The University will replace the online student group platform MyGroups with a more efficient software in January, said Timothy Shiner, director of student activities and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting Wednesday night. Undergraduate ...
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