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Concern over expansion of research at presidential search forum
By Morgan Johnson | November 1Since President Ruth Simmons' announcement of her resignation, many have professed the need to find a successor equally open and responsive. Yet few students answered the call to provide input on selecting her successor at yesterday's open forum. The informal discussion, initiated by members of the ...
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With letters, U. strives to increase minority enrollment
By Gadi Cohen | October 31By the time she opened a letter from President Ruth Simmons at the beginning of her senior year of high school, Taylor Bright '15 already knew Brown was her top choice. But reading the letter — one of 11,000 sent that year to a pool of prospective minority applicants — reassured her of her ...
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Humanities fund will open for faculty use
By Shefali Luthra | October 31The University will use a $6.9 million fund containing multiple grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an anonymous $3 million donation to promote collaborative teaching and research in the humanities and hire six faculty members, said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P'12.
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Bank of America cancels planned debit card fee
By Aparna Bansal | October 31In a surprising reversal, Bank of America announced yesterday it will not charge a monthly fee for debit card use. The bank's decision in September to charge customers $5 per month for card use spurred popular petitions, protests and even graffiti at some bank locations.
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Eyeing international students, U. ups aid
By Mathias Heller | October 31Correction appended.
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Expectations high for drug safety proposal, prof says
By Katherine Long | October 31Every year, medicines with dangerous side effects enter the market, but the Federal Drug Administration is unaware which medicines these are.
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Jocular journalism: The Onion greets Providence
By Alexandra Macfarlane | October 31Correction appended.
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Committees to seek input on presidential search
By Shefali Luthra | October 31The presidential search committees will host eight forums and four department chair meetings in the next two weeks as part of the search for the University‘s 19th president, Chung-I Tan, chair of the Campus Advisory Committee and professor of physics, said at yesterday's faculty meeting.
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Ex-prof holds forth on gender gap in politics
By Eli Okun | October 30The primary election was only three days away, so when a woman started running toward Jennifer Lawless in a grocery store parking lot yelling, "Don't worry," the then-candidate assumed it was an expression of good luck. Then the woman got close enough to finish her sentence. "Don't worry," she said, ...
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Online hub streamlines grant search
By Katherine Cusumano | October 30Students and faculty will no longer need to complete tedious piles of paperwork to apply for University funding for academic projects, thanks to a new website launched by the Office of the Dean of the College.
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Course preview site restored
By David Chung | October 30The course preview feature at courses.brown.edu is up and running for spring semester courses after Computing and Information Services discovered and fixed a glitch in the system yesterday. Next semester's course data had not been processed and uploaded onto the site as intended, wrote Jerrod O'Connor, ...
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Lil' Rhody to get electric car charging stations
By Sofia Castello y Tickell | October 30The streets of College Hill may soon be populated with more environmentally friendly vehicles after the Northeast Electric Vehicle Network — a coalition of 10 states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island — announced a plan last month to increase electric transportation by installing ...
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College prep: A tale of three schools
By Elizabeth Carr | October 30As Brown students savored their spicies with at Josiah's last night, high school students all over the country were slaving away to finish college applications before the University's Nov. 1 early decision deadline. Students in Providence were no exception. For some, the moment represented the culmination ...
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After delay, 315 Thayer renovations will begin this week
By Caitlin Trujillo | October 30Renovations to 315 Thayer St., the future home of a 60-bed, upperclass residence hall, are expected to begin this week after budget issues pushed the project's start date back from this summer. The hall will open to students next fall.
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U. to hit sustainability goals ahead of schedule
By Mathias Heller | October 29The University is well ahead of schedule on President Ruth Simmons' goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 42 percent below 2007 levels by 2020, according to the Office of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Initiatives' fall 2011 report released Oct. 18.
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Program could give alums JSTOR access
By Adam Asher | October 29Alums may soon have access to the online journal database JSTOR, according to Steven Thompson, head of acquisitions and electronic resources for the Library. The University is looking to join a JSTOR pilot program that gives alums from affiliated institutions continued access to the database.
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72-hour deadline passes quietly
By Adam Toobin | October 29A cheer rang out at Burnside Park at 9 p.m. last night. As the clock ticked past the hour, protesters had officially begun to defy Providence Mayor Angel Taveras' order to leave, and there were no police in sight.
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New course tool links to Facebook
By Elizabeth Carr | October 29Correction appended.
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In inspections, low-level violations found in 18 percent of dorm rooms
By Alison Silver | October 29This semester's health and safety inspections found violations in 18 percent of dormitory rooms and resulted in one fine for the possession of a candle. Most of the violations were low-level.
