More than a quarter - and in some cases nearly half - of black students at selective American colleges and universities are first- or second-generation immigrants, according to a new study appearing in the February issue of the American Journal of Education. Some sociologists say the data throw into ...
Patrons squeezed past one another to admire everything from model bugs sculpted from computer parts to customized watercolor drawings during an art show held by the Rhode Island School of Design Saturday. The show is one of three slated for this academic year that will feature the work of RISD alums. ...
In Musical Forum's production of "Assassins," written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, eight figures spanning over a century of American history recount the stories behind their real-life attempted (and sometimes successful) killings of United States presidents through a mixture of metaphor, vignettes ...
As suggested by their alliterative title, the self-proclaimed Peripatetic Playwrights - Emily Drumsta '06, Matthew Kelly '06, Krista Knight '06 and Jen Silverman '06 - spent a frantic December wandering everywhere across campus from Johnny Rockets on Thayer Street to the Sciences Library elevator searching ...
Despite a lower attendance than anticipated, Saturday's 20th Annual Islamic Conference of New England, sponsored by the Islamic Council of New England and hosted by the Brown Muslim Students' Association, set a strong precedent for future large-scale undertakings of the BMSA, according to its organizers. ...
The Brown Muslim Students Association, in conjunction with the Islamic Council of New England, will host a daylong conference, "Islamic Vision of Democracy and Geopolitical Realities," Sat-urday at the Salomon Center. The conference will examine basic Muslim concepts regarding government, politics and ...
Koji Masutani '05 never took a film class while at Brown, or even in high school. Yet his short documentary "The Japanese Textbook Controver-sy: Through the Eyes of the Next Generation" earned screenings at international film festivals, including the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival in ...
Originally scheduled for a pre-Thanksgiving opening, Spats - a sports bar and restaurant to be located at 184 Angell St., next to Roba! Dolce - will now open its doors "a couple of weeks before Christmas," according to owner and local restaurateur Andy Mitrelis.
Before last night's screening of "Darfur Diaries," Jen Marlowe, one of the film's three creators, described her experiences visiting genocide-torn Darfur, a region in western Sudan, in October and November of 2004. Marlowe - who traveled with colleagues Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro to collect stories ...
At the end of Musical Forum's "Urinetown," directed by Kathryn Wallem '07, the musical's narrator, Officer Lockstock (Alex Clifford '06), tells the pig-tailed urchin Little Sally (Emily Roberts '08), "Like I said...this isn't a happy musical." Sally quips back, "But the music's so happy!"
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