The registrar's office may not keep track of students' official grade point average, but Brown itself recently received a different kind of GPA. The Advocate, a gay and lesbian magazine, released "The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students" last month, assigning a "Gay Point Average" to colleges and ...
Computing and Information Services embarked this summer on a project to provide wireless Internet access to all on-campus residence halls. As a result, several dorms now offer wireless access. University officials call the project a significant improvement to campus life, but several students interviewed ...
During the week leading up to Commencement, Production Workshop will present "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," a work from award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh that chronicles the mounting cruelty between a mother and her daughter as the daughter encounters her last chance at love.
Though roughly 200 students transfer to Brown each year, a small number of Brunonians choose to leave the University - which the Princeton Review reports has the "happiest students" in the Ivy League - and pursue their undergraduate educations elsewhere.
While other Brown students may spend the summer as camp counselors, in office internships or investment banks, Patrick Cook-Deegan '07 will bike along the entire length of Laos, alone. Cook-Deegan will cycle 900 miles in an effort to raise $15,500 toward building a new Laotian school.
This year's Ivy Film Festival promises to showcase some of the most impressive and diverse student films seen since the festival's inception, according to the festival's publicity coordinator, Victoria Hoen '06. The festival will be held at Brown from April 5-9.
Though Brown has had bhangra, Brazilian, ballroom and break-dancing clubs for years, the University had long gone without a belly-dancing club. That changed recently with the formation of the Amira Belly Dance Company, founded by Anna Chacon '08, which put on its first performance Friday.
Of the 181 members of the faculty who responded to a 2003 poll conducted by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, 82 percent were in favor of adding pluses and minuses to the University's grading system. Though there has been no new survey, it is clear that, three years later, many faculty ...
Ron McClarty's novel "The Memory of Running" would most likely have remained unread by the public if an audio version of the book had not fallen into the hands of Stephen King in 2003, McLarty told a packed East Providence City Hall Feb. 6. Three years later, McLarty has sold the rights to Warner Brothers ...
On a drizzly Monday morning last November, Jed Resnick '06 lined up with approximately 12 thousand other people outside New York City's 37 Arts Theatre to wait for an audition. A few weeks later, Resnick received a phone call and decided to take a semester off from studying at Brown in order to star ...
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