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Athletics program enters new era

As the University prepares to enter a new phase with the impending retirements of President Ruth Simmons and Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger, the athletics department, though a top priority, remains in flux with major changes planned or already underway. Those changes include cutting roughly ...


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Alum's nonprofit revamps science education

William Brucker '04 spent the last few years perfecting a technique that relies on stories and analogies to teach young adults science. Brucker, whose speech shows the clear influence of the technique he developed, drew comparisons to an eggplant, a ship and a French film to explain his teaching philosophy. ...


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LaHood steers students toward public service

Life in public service may not always be a path to prestige, but that should not deter Brown students from pursuing it, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood told a full Salomon 101 Wednesday afternoon. As a moderate Republican serving in the Obama administration, LaHood has worked to reach across ...


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Q&A with Ray LaHood

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood spoke about his 35 years in public service and his time in Obama's cabinet in Salomon 101 yesterday. After the talk, he sat down with The Herald.


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UCS aims to bring Bear Bucks to Thayer

The Undergraduate Council of Students is discussing a proposal that would allow students to use their Bear Bucks accounts at restaurants and local businesses on Thayer Street. The Bear Bucks system replaced the declining balance account this semester and functions as a centralized vending system through ...


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Lecturer criticizes 'new Jim Crow reality' of prisons

Michelle Alexander, associate professor of law at Ohio State University, discussed problems with the nation's criminal justice system last night in this year's Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice. Alexander spoke to a packed audience that included President Ruth Simmons and Provost Mark Schlissel ...


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Market Shares recognized by White House

The Brown Market Shares Program, which supplies produce from local farms to students, faculty and staff shareholders, was recently named a finalist in the first national Campus Champions of Change Challenge sponsored by the White House. Choosing from a group of 15 finalists, the public can cast votes ...


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Teach-in dissects marriage equality

Tax differences between gay and heterosexual couples and the local marriage equality situation, as well as its judicial progress, were the focus of a teach-in hosted by the Queer Alliance last night. The event featured law professors from Roger Williams University and a representative from Marriage ...


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Panel addresses social influences on health

Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts said she is amazed by how often health care financing is discussed and how rarely actual health policy is addressed during the first part of a three-seminar series called "Social Determinants of Health: Law and Public Policy," presented by the Taubman ...


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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, ...


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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 ...





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