Ignoring the convention of separating personal stories from academic discourse, President Ruth Simmons shared her connection to slavery as the great-granddaughter of slaves in an emotional keynote address that kicked off this weekend's "Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development" ...
Most on-campus residential spaces are primarily used by the students that live in the building, but Room 004 in North Wayland House serves as home to the Jabberwocks, the University's oldest a cappella group. The Jabberwocks is the only student group on campus to have space in a dormitory allotted solely ...
For the first time, Brown's acceptance rate for transfer applications may drop below its acceptance rate for first-year applications, according to Dean of Admission Jim Miller '73. The University received around 1,950 transfer applications this year — a 20 percent increase from last year's 1,621 ...
"That whisper in your heart has strength," Salman Ahmad told the audience in the Underground Friday evening. The Pakistani star of Sufi rock combined songs in Urdu and Punjabi with conversation about his experiences growing up in America and Pakistan in a presentation entitled "Rock and Roll Jihad." ...
Matthew Strickland, who was enrolled as an undergraduate from 2005 to 2009, was found dead in his Alabama apartment Tuesday. Strickland was on leave from Brown and was studying full-time at the University of Montevallo during the 2010-11 academic year.
Candidates for Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board leadership positions echoed one another as they called for increased communication, pointed to their experience and accomplishments and answered questions from the crowd at a debate in a largely empty MacMillan 117 last ...
Civil liberties are "nothing more than the list of things the government is not allowed to do," said Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional law and civil rights lawyer, in his lecture before a full Salomon 001 last night. The best-selling author discussed the characteristics of civil liberties and ...
The first 460 housing groups arrived yesterday in Sayles Hall to select their rooms for next year during the first night of this year's housing lottery. The lottery began a few minutes after 6 p.m., kicking off a two-night event that promised to deliver tension, panic and elation.
The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee heard a bill March 22 that would require all non-governmental employers with more than three employees to check the immigration status of job applicants in E-Verify, a federal employment verification database.
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras signed an agreement Wednesday morning with the city's largest labor union that will affect nearly 900 workers and save more than $26 million over the next four years. The city faces a $180 million two-year budget deficit.
The University does not intend to make any further budget cuts in response to the economic decline of 2008 and is moving forward with a number of initiatives including expansion of the School of Engineering and improvement of student residences, President Ruth Simmons told the Undergraduate Council ...
Facing declining advertising revenue and circulation, national newspapers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are erecting pay walls to stay afloat. The Providence Journal could be next.
After an aberration last year, the Alpert Medical School jumped 21 spots to 28th in the U.S. News and World Report primary care rankings. Except for last year, when it ranked 49th, the Med School's primary care ranking has hovered in the 20s for the past several years.
Now in its second year, the University's subsidized care program for family of faculty and staff members has received overwhelmingly positive feedback, according to Drew Murphy, director of benefits for human resources. About 340 — or 7.5 percent — of employees are registered for the program. ...
Malicious outside software may have interfered with the Brown Concert Agency's ticketing website Wednesday morning. BCA made Spring Weekend concert tickets available for sale at 8 a.m., but students were unable to access the website until 8:30 a.m.
"Let's lift the beam!" President Ruth Simmons urged a crowd of about 150 yesterday at a "topping off" ceremony for the new fitness and aquatics center currently under construction. Moments later, the last piece of steel for the building's structure fell into place. "No longer will our cardio equipment ...
"This is the decade of Latin America," President Juan Manuel Santos P'12 of Colombia told a packed Salomon 101 last night. In his talk, part of the Stephen A. Ogden '60 Memorial Lecture series, Santos urged the United States to look to Latin America as a strategic partner in the coming years. Santos, ...
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