Arts & Culture
Visions celebrates release with open mic night
By Anna Lillkung | November 30Correction appended.
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University News
Undergrads satisfied with class sizes
By Anna Lillkung | November 19About 65 percent of students think their classes are just right — neither too big nor too small — according to a recent Herald poll. Twenty-seven percent of students, especially first-years and sophomores, reported that their classes are too large. This semester's largest class has 506 students ...
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Occupiers march in opposition to BoA
By Anna Lillkung | November 5In solidarity with Occupy movements nationwide, about 70 Occupy Providence protesters marched Saturday to support the closing of Bank of America accounts. The march coincided with National Bank Transfer Day, when Occupiers across the country staged actions to encourage people to withdraw their money ...
University News
Town-gown relations increasingly economic
By Anna Lillkung | October 26The University's recent work to develop a Knowledge District downtown places it in the center of a nationwide trend of schools becoming increasingly interested in exploring their relationships with surrounding cities. Representatives from five universities gathered yesterday to discuss how their institutions ...
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Immigrant tuition break protested by hundreds
By Anna Lillkung | October 5Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the State House yesterday afternoon to protest a policy approved by the Board of Governors for Higher Education last week that would make undocumented students in Rhode Island eligible for in-state tuition. The rally, organized by Rhode Islanders for Immigration ...
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Grant will increase lab research opportunities for undergrads
By Anna Lillkung | March 8For the first time since 1993, undergraduates will receive funding from a Hughes Grant to conduct biomedical research. This summer, 24 sophomores and juniors will take part in a research program funded by the $1 million grant, but this number will increase to 32 students in summers to come, according ...
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Facilities: Pests pose no problem
By Anna Lillkung | March 1Katherine Pleet '12 was sitting in her first-floor Barbour Hall kitchen at the beginning of her sophomore year when she saw a mouse run across the floor. She called a friend for help, but the mouse was nowhere to be found that evening. Some days later, the mouse was spotted again, and this time Pleet ...
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UCS considers permanent e-mail accounts
By Anna Lillkung | February 14The Undergraduate Council of Students is trying to institute a policy in which student e-mail accounts could remain active after their owners have graduated. The idea was suggested by Jake Heimark '11, who said he was tired of having to keep in contact by phone with friends who had graduated.
Arts & Culture
Exhibition features diverse faculty artists
By Anna Lillkung | January 27Faculty Triennial 2010, a gallery exhibition which includes the work of 24 faculty members, is now on display in the David Winton Bell Gallery. The show provides an opportunity for viewers to experience a mix of different art forms, as it features faculty artists from the departments of Visual ...
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It's gals only in new Angell Street gym
By Anna Lillkung | November 8Striking Beauties may sound like College Hill's newest salon, but in fact it is nothing like a day at the spa. This all-female boxing gym — which opened at 189 Angell St. at the end of October — offers classes in boxing and yoga to women of all ages and experience levels.
