Kyle McNamara

'Spring Awakening' exposes teenage taboos

City may allow overnight parking

City officials met last night to review a proposal to overturn Providence's long-standing overnight parking ban, currently in effect between the hours of 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. Officials plan to vote on the issue in upcoming months.

Program markets College Hill homes

Brown plans to put more than 20 houses on the market to sell to faculty and staff at 80 percent of their assessed market value.

School closure vote pushed to Thursday

The Providence School Board held a meeting last night to discuss Mayor Angel Taveras' recommendation to close four of the city's public schools and convert a middle school to an elementary school. The board, which was originally scheduled to vote on the decision yesterday, decided to postpone the vote ...

After hit-and-run, campus questions pedestrian safety

Despite the University's effort to increase pedestrian safety on campus over the past year, the April 9 hit-and-run accident that injured Amanda Chew '14 and Juliana Unanue Banuchi '14  has renewed concern across campus. A vehicle, allegedly driven by 30-year-old Jessica Paden of Providence, struck ...

Two female students struck in hit-and-run

Housing lottery sees tears, jeers

The first 460 housing groups arrived yesterday in Sayles Hall to select their rooms for next year during the first night of this year's housing lottery. The lottery began a few minutes after 6 p.m., kicking off a two-night event that promised to deliver tension, panic and elation.

Heating plant upgrade in final phase

A nearly $30 million upgrade to Brown's central heating plant is well underway, part of a three-phase series of renovations totaling approximately $100 million. The upgrades began in 2005 with a phase that involved replacing seven miles of underground piping below the University and cost about $40 million, ...

Relief concert hits fundraising goal

Shaky camera footage taken of the March 11 earthquake that hit Japan ignited Salomon 101 last night. In the recording — shot by a civilian during the 9.0 magnitude quake — the ground heaves up and down, wiping out an entire neighborhood. Observers at a higher elevation watch in horror.

First-ever admit event for early decision lures students to U.

Approximately 140 members of the class of 2015 arrived on College Hill yesterday for the first-ever admitted students event geared toward early decision applicants. Admitted students attended panels, toured a first-year residence hall and ate lunch with admissions officers and Bruin Club members at ...