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Yield rate up for fifth consecutive year

Despite University intentions to create a 1,500-member class, the class of 2017 — which includes 1,537 members — continued the trend of increasing numbers of admitted students choosing to matriculate at Brown, said James Miller ’73, dean of admission. The percentage of admitted students enrolling, ...


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Negotiations stymie proposed Jewelry District construction

A University construction project in the Jewelry District could be delayed as a consequence of ongoing negotiations with public utilities company National Grid and the discovery of unsafe soil under building sites. The project, slated to begin in 2014 and announced by President Christina Paxson in ...


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Rosh Hashanah class cancellations

Several courses will not meet this week due to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. The following classes will not meet on the days listed.   Wednesday, September 4 BIOL 1290: “Cancer Biology” COLT 1430I: “Poetry of Europe: Montale, Celan, Hill” HIST 1974A: “Modern Mexico” HMAN ...


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Strategic plan draft to be unveiled this month

The University will distribute a draft of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan and solicit feedback from faculty members and students later this month, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 said during Tuesday’s faculty meeting.  The draft was compiled last week after a special New York meeting ...


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Housing lottery potentially to move online

The housing lottery may move out of Sayles Hall and onto the Internet later this academic year. The proposal for this change is under review by Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services, and Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services. A decision ...


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U. welcomes new classes at convocation

New students fought intermittent downpours, flooded streets and echoes of thunder to celebrate the opening of the University’s 250th academic year yesterday on the Main Green. After officially commencing the new year, President Christina Paxson welcomed the 1,537 members of the class of 2017, 120 ...


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Campus afflicted by summer crime

Four armed robberies took place on campus this summer, leaving one student injured, according to Department of Public Safety crime alerts. Two students were robbed together by a male with dark skin armed with a knife on Waterman Street around 11 p.m. on June 24. One student was robbed at gunpoint by ...


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Revitalization may include Dynamo House renovation

The University may undertake an extensive renovation of the Dynamo House, a former power plant in the Jewelry District, in partnership with the nursing programs at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College and a private developer, President Christina Paxson announced in a school-wide email ...


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Trustee’s hedge fund indicted for fraud

After years of mounting investigations into alleged insider trading at his hedge fund, Corporation Trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16 took two big hits this summer when federal authorities filed a civil case against him and criminal charges against the fund, SAC Capital Advisors L.P. Administrators ...


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SLA members join labor march

About 20 Brown students marched Monday to Old Navy at the Providence Place Mall, where they joined the Rhode Island Jobs with Justice coalition to mark Labor Day by rallying for workers’ rights both abroad and closer to home. Around 100 protesters — including members of the Brown Student Labor ...


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R.I. House, Senate oppose graduation requirement

In the final hours of the 2013 legislative session, the Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives passed a joint resolution calling on the state Board of Education to stop a controversial high school graduation requirement developed by Education Commissioner Deborah Gist, set to take effect at ...


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Bergeron to step down at semester’s end

Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron will leave the University to become president of Connecticut College beginning Jan. 1. She will continue her duties as dean this fall. Bergeron has been a prominent voice in President Christina Paxson’s strategic planning efforts and recently emerged as a major ...


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R.I. issues first same-sex marriage certificates

Rhode Island became the 10th state in the country to begin offering marriage certificates to same-sex couples Aug. 1. Same-sex couples across the state celebrated the day with weddings and by trading in their “civil union” licenses for marriage certificates. The bill legalizing same-sex marriage ...


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Chafee ’75 to seek second term as Democrat

Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 announced May 29 that he will join the Democratic Party, setting the stage for what analysts anticipate will be a heated three-way Democratic primary during the 2014 gubernatorial election. Chafee was the nation’s  only independent governor during his first ...


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Anti-gay rally sparks community response

Four members of the Westboro Baptist Church staged pickets across the state Aug. 1 to protest Rhode Island’s first day recognizing same-sex marriage. They protested at Cranston City Hall, Providence City Hall, the Rhode Island State House, Pawtucket City Hall and Brown, meeting crowds of counter-protesters ...


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Trustee's hedge fund faces criminal charges

Federal officials announced an indictment Thursday of Corporation trustee Steven A. Cohen’s P’08 P’16 hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors L.P. for multiple counts of fraud. The indictment did not include any charges against Cohen himself. Prosecutors allege that multiple divisions and employees ...


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New VP for CIS joins U. leadership

Ravi Pendse, former vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Wichita State University, was named vice president for computing and information services and chief information officer in a University press release July 11. Pendse, who had been at Wichita State since he ...




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