Inperson, a recently launched student website, is giving new meaning to talking to strangers. The site, talktosomeonenew.com, facilitates conversations between students who may otherwise never meet, said Evan Schwartz ’13, its developer. Using the site is fairly simple — interested students can ...
President Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 per hour is unlikely to affect either student employment in college or financial aid packages, Brown administrators and professors told The Herald. “If federal minimum wage goes to $9, that would have no impact on Brown student ...
When Liza Gibbs ’16 enrolled in CHEM 0330: “Equilibrium, Rate and Structure” last semester, she quickly found herself lost. After the first exam, she was in danger of failing. “I realized I had no idea what was going on,” she said. “My first and only (Chem) 33 midterm was a horrifying ...
Just over 400 children of University employees currently receive benefits from the Tuition Aid Program, including 57 TAP recipients who attend Brown, said Harold Roth, professor of religious studies and member of the Faculty Executive Committee. The program provides financial aid to University employees’ ...
“Why were people so mean to other people?” Corey D. B. Walker recalled his young daughter asking upon learning about the racial injustice of slavery. In “Racial Slavery and Its Reverberations,” the second of four teach-ins that the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has organized, ...
Planning for the 250th anniversary of the University’s founding and efforts in student engagement were the main points of discussion at an open forum between students and Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy and chair of the committee on reimagining the campus ...
There is no simple solution to the problem of gun-related violence in the United States, three panelists said in “Guns in America: Reducing Crime,” the first in a three-part Janus Forum miniseries. Though the panelists agreed on the absence of an easy solution, they clashed in their evaluations ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to support the Brown Divest Coal campaign’s resolution calling for the University to divest from the 15 “filthiest” coal technology companies at its general body meeting Wednesday. Council members said they supported the resolution because of its ideological, ...
Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 has rejected a proposal from the Faculty Exeuctive Committee to compensate faculty members for service in University governance, according to minutes from a Feb. 12 FEC meeting. The proposal was drafted to address the chronic shortage of candidates for faculty governance ...
Extending need-blind admission to all students — including international, transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students — would cost the University around $250 million, said President Christina Paxson in her State of Brown address Wednesday. Paxson also highlighted the current state of ...
Administrators and faculty members have expressed concern about what they called the small share of University funds allocated to the grad school, a subject currently being discussed by members of the Committee on Doctoral Education. Faculty members criticized the level of funds the graduate school ...
“If one more person tells me that ‘all gender is performance,’ I think I am going to strangle them,” proclaimed Julia Serano, author and spoken word performer, in the opening of her spoken word piece “Performance Piece.” The piece was one of two Serano performed after her lecture about ...
The Political Theory Project will co-sponsor a three-part Janus Forum Lecture miniseries with the Office of the President starting this Thursday entitled “Guns in America” to address gun culture, gun violence and the question of gun ownership based on mental health. “Guns in America” differs ...
Harvard administration draws fire for searching deans’ emails Several Harvard officials have confirmed that university administrators secretly accessed 16 resident deans’ email accounts last fall to find evidence of a leak to the media about an undergraduate cheating scandal that occurred last ...
University parking officers are set to unionize under the United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island, pending final signatures on a draft agreement between the University and union officials. Under the current draft of the agreement between the University and the union, parking officers will ...
Around 60 students have officially joined the ranks of Kappa Delta, the University’s newest sorority, said Susan Chen ’15. The sorority has secured housing in Harkness Hall for next year, said Bethany Cutmore-Scott ’16. Emails containing bids were sent out on Sunday, said Clara Beyer ’14, who ...
Rachel Bishop ’13 was arrested on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct at the TransCanada Corporation’s Northeast Regional Office while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline yesterday in Westborough, Mass. Three other Brown undergraduates — Emily Kirkland ’13, Rebecca Rast ’13.5 ...
Free Spring Weekend tickets will no longer be offered to residents of Hope College and Slater Hall starting this semester, according to an announcement in Morning Mail in February. The Brown Concert Agency has also changed the way students will purchase tickets, said Emma Ramadan ’13, BCA booking ...
Thomas Perez ’83, current assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, will be nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor during the president’s second term, multiple national news sources reported this weekend. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Perez will become the first ...
The University may repurpose the top four floors of the Sciences Library based on recommendations from the Campus Planning Advisory Board’s February report. The project is still in the planning stages, and no official timeline has been set. Planners said they expect potential uses for the space to ...
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