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Wertheimer '10 wins UCS presidency
By Ben Schreckinger | April 22Correction appended.
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Community argues against restaurant
By Melissa Shube | April 22Problems with rowdy crowds at a Providence nightclub, including reports of fights, underage drinking and weapons, may keep the owner from getting the city's permission to open another establishment in Fox Point.
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Local relations director to leave Brown
By George Miller | April 22Darrell Brown, director for state and community relations, will leave his post at Brown this May to start a new job in Washington, with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
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Brown lags in RecycleMania ranking
By Sarah Julian | April 21Though students might not have known it, from January to March they were engaged in a friendly competition with universities across the United States and Canada. Known as RecycleMania, the competition encourages participating campuses to recycle more and to decrease the amount of waste they produce. ...
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More econ. students head to grad school
By Brian Mastroianni | April 21After commencement, more Brown economics concentrators and graduate students will be heading to graduate school or taking on professorships than pursuing jobs on Wall Street this year, according to Andrew Foster, professor of economics and chair of the department.
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The New Curriculum turns 40: How's it holding up?
By Ellen Cushing | April 21The New Curriculum started with a handful of undergraduates who wanted to improve their college experience. Now it is the defining aspect of one of the world's top universities — and Brown students and faculty have come to take it for granted.
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Prefrosh, rainfall hit campus as annual ADOCH begins
By Kevin Pratt | April 21Rain clouds met the approximately 650 students who converged on Brown's campus Tuesday to get a taste of University life during A Day On College Hill.
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Safewalk pilots cellular safety device
By Anne Speyer | April 21The Department of Public Safety, with the help of Safewalk, is currently testing a new product that can turn a cell phone into a personal safety device.
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Simmons touts New Curriculum's virtues
By Sarah Husk | April 21In a packed tent on the Main Green, waterlogged students with muddy shoes crowded in to hear President Ruth Simmons speak for the first time to potential members of the Class of 2013.
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Associate dean of Grad School to replace Allen
By Jenna Stark | April 21Valerie Wilson, currently associate dean of the Graduate School, will replace Brenda Allen as associate provost and director of institutional diversity starting July 1.
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Campus veterans create new group
By Sara Chimene-Weiss | April 21The Brown University Student Veterans Society, a newly formed group on campus, met officially for the first time last week.
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Mall owner files for bankruptcy
By Sara Sunshine | April 20Though General Growth Properties Inc., the national real estate investment company that owns Providence Place Mall, filed for bankruptcy last Thursday, students will still be able to shop and catch a movie as usual.
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Artists' dressing room robbed during show
By Sydney Ember | April 20An unidentified suspect broke into the Faunce House dressing room of one of the Spring Weekend artists during Friday's concert and stole two laptops and some cash, according to Brown Concert Agency Administrative Chair Stephen Hazeltine '09 and the Department of Public Safety.
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Hiring freeze may hit athletics hard
By Dan Alexander | April 20The Department of Athletics expects to lose about 30 coaches and staff this summer, but with a University-wide hiring freeze in place, it is unclear whether the department will be able to get approval to fill vacancies with new hires, Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger said.
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Interfaith House falls short in numbers
By Sarah Husk | April 20After a poor recruitment season, Interfaith House will lose its Type B status as a program house beginning in the fall due to a lack of residential members planning to live in the organization's space in Diman House.
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Liberian refugees get extra year in U.S.
By Lauren Fedor | April 20Liberians in Rhode Island rejoiced last month at news that refugees from the West African country would be granted an additional 12 months of amnesty in the United States, thanks to an executive order signed by President Obama.
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Pre-frosh flock to campus for ADOCH
By Sarah Husk | April 20At 5:30 p.m. on March 31 — a mere 30 minutes after thousands of students received their admission decisions — 15 students had already registered to confirm a place at A Day on College Hill.
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Bike-sharing program up and running
By Alicia Dang | April 20Charging a membership fee of $5 for the year, a bike-sharing program operating out of a room in Faunce House was officially launched last week.
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Bookstore owner, alum donates rare science books
By Andrew Sia | April 20The John Hay Library has received a gift of 130 rare books and manuscripts, including the first two editions of Nicolaus Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium," from Daniel Siegel '57, the owner of M&S Rare Books, a bookstore in Wayland Square on the East Side.
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Changes in store for Thayer Street
By Joanna Wohlmuth | April 20The recession has hit Rhode Island hard, and Thayer Street businesses have not been immune to the slumping economy.
