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U. starts search for new athletics director

The University is in the initial stages of its search for a new director of athletics and, with an independent search firm currently looking for qualified candidates, the search committee hopes to announce a decision in April in conjunction the announcement of a new University president. Current Director ...

GOP to sue over new district lines

At forum, residents criticize MBTA cuts

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'Activist intellectual' discusses social change

"Blessings be upon you all," began Rami Nashashibi, executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network in Chicago, at the 2012 K. Brooke Anderson Lecture Monday night. IMAN, a community-based nonprofit incorporated in 1997 and based in Chicago, works to foster social justice in urban communities, ...

New patent liaison to focus on engineering

The University will be adding a new position in the Technology Ventures Office to assist engineering faculty members in identifying research suitable for patents and then guide them through the patenting process. The position was added as part of the University's recently approved budget for fiscal ...

Stimulus funds for U. dry up

The most recent budget passed by the Corporation, the University's highest governing body, marks the end of the University's use of federal funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Student-founded nonprofit tackles HIV problems

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Man shot outside popular club

Corp. approves activities fee hike

Social action program house approved

The Office of Residential Life approved a proposal Wednesday to create a Social Action Program House  in Diman House on Wriston Quadrangle. The house was approved after nearly three months of deliberation by ResLife and the student-comprised Residential Council.

Forum explores destructive effects of hip hop lyrics

"If I could name one thing that would improve black America the most, and I had a choice between getting rid of the (Ku Klux Klan) and getting rid of (Black Entertainment Television), getting rid of BET would take the cake," said Boyce Watkins, a speaker at a Janus Forum lecture Thursday evening entitled ...

Occupiers urge Biden to tax the rich

About 20 demonstrators lined up outside the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence Thursday to protest the arrival of Vice President Joe Biden, who was in town to support Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse at a fundraiser for his re-election campaign.

Admins discuss campus safety at UCS meeting

Due to a spike in crime near campus this semester, the University has increased police presence in the area from 23 to 36 officers, said Russell Carey '91 MA '06, senior vice president for Corporation affairs and governance, at Wednesday's general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students. ...

Proposal for civil rights library under advisement

Though Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 declined a proposal Monday to fund an on-campus Civil Rights Library for Racial Justice, he gave the project's supporters a "detailed message of how to move forward," said Geoffrey Eaton, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's ...

Higher ed news roundup, Feb. 23

Debate league expands after U. split

Since gaining its independence from the Swearer Center for Public Service two years ago, the Rhode Island Urban Debate League has increased its impact and continued to create learning opportunities for high school students by allowing them to receive academic credit for debating. Though the league is ...

U. sexual misconduct policies appropriate, admins say

After a smattering of widely publicized sexual misconduct cases on its campus in recent years, Yale officials announced last month they will begin providing the university community with details twice each year about misconduct cases filed with the administration. 

Chafee joins re-election team

Proposed firing policy faces opposition