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‘Gang of Eight’ proposes new immigration policy

The University’s graduate students could stand to benefit from a proposed immigration reform that would grant more cards for international graduate students studying science, technology, engineering and math. The legislation was announced Jan. 28 by a bipartisan group of four Democrats and four Republicans ...


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Corporation to discuss tuition, financial aid

The Corporation will address a host of priorities when it meets this weekend, including potential tuition and financial aid increases and the approval of the annual budget, said Russell Carey, executive vice president for planning and policy. The meeting will mark the second time the Corporation — ...


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A-Trak, Kendrick Lamar to headline Spring Weekend

DJ A-Trak and rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline Friday and Saturday night, respectively, for this year’s Spring Weekend. The concert, scheduled for the weekend of April 19 to 21, will also feature Providence’s What Cheer? Brigade, New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia, experimental rock band ...


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Demonstrators give voice to victims of sexual assault

Clad in purple and wearing strips of gray duct tape across their mouths, several dozen students streamed into the Sharpe Refectory at lunchtime Tuesday to stage a demonstration against sexual assault at Brown. The event, organized and led by a group of Minority Peer Counselors, was intended to raise ...


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Faculty votes unanimously for improved benefits

Brown faculty members may see increased tuition assistance and retirement benefits, as the faculty endorsed a report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Employee Benefits at its meeting Tuesday night. Faculty members all voted in favor of the report, with no abstentions. One of the report’s major recommendations ...


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Student health plan to cover sex reassignment

The Brown Student Health Insurance Plan will cover 14 different sexual reassignment surgery procedures starting in August, Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services Jeanne Hebert confirmed in an email to The Herald. The move makes Brown one of a handful of schools and healthcare providers nationwide ...


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SafeRide contract ends, new service hired

Starting next semester, SafeRide will still be on call ­— but it will be called a different name. First Transit Inc., a company used by Yale and Princeton, will replace University Shuttle LLC as the campus shuttle service provider July 1, said Beth Gentry, assistant vice president of administration ...


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Lecture examines history of miracles

“Today miracles occupy the same place as illusive effects,” but they should be distinguished from magic, said Hent de Vries, professor in the humanities and philosophy and director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, in a talk Tuesday night about miraculous events. Before an audience ...


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New site sniffs out free food on campus

Students who go off meal plan may face a critical challenge — finding a way to save as much money on food as humanly possible. One group of students has attempted to tackle that problem — a team of four, including juniors from both Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, launched freefoodatbrown.com ...


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BCA to announce Spring Weekend lineup today

The Brown Concert Agency will announce the full Spring Weekend 2013 lineup today, BCA Publicity Chair Raillan Brooks '13 wrote in an email to The Herald. Spring Weekend is currently scheduled April 19 to 21, a weekend that overlaps with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, The Herald previously ...


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Weekend crime update: Feb. 1-3, 2013

The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley: 1. Between Thursday night and Friday morning An unknown suspect broke into the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching ...


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Twitter, Square co-founder talks innovation at RISD

Entrepreneurship does not mean the desire to start a company but rather considering the world and creating the tools you think it needs, said Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, during his talk, “Square: Designing Commerce to Feel Amazing,” Friday at the Rhode Island School of Design. “An ...


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Kappa Delta approved as U.’s newest sorority

The Kappa Delta Sorority will join Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Chi Omega this year as the third sorority on campus in response to increasing student demand for another sorority, the Panhellenic Council announced Feb. 1. The year-long selection process to bring Kappa Delta to campus was spurred by unmet ...


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BEAR day lauds dedicated staff

“When your spouse or loved one or child asks you, ‘What did you do today?’, you probably don’t say, ‘I helped put a child through college,’ or ‘I supported first-rate, cutting-edge research for the common good,’” quipped President Christina Paxson Monday to a filled-to-capacity Salomon ...


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Financial aid petition seeks support

Brown for Financial Aid released an online petition at the beginning of the semester calling for President Christina Paxson, Provost Mark Schlissel P ’15 and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, to commit to universal need-blind admission within the next 10 years. The petition ...


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New Med School program to admit first class in 2015

The Alpert Medical School’s new integrated primary care and public health curriculum will begin admitting 24 students per class starting in 2015, the school announced Jan. 28. The program may allow students to receive both a master’s degree in population health and a medical degree during their ...



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