Genocide allegations lead to visiting prof's suspension at Goucher College
By Matthew Varley | February 3Goucher College has suspended, without pay, a visiting professor accused of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Goucher College has suspended, without pay, a visiting professor accused of participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
In the wake of a brutal on-campus murder at Virginia Tech University last Wednesday, an emergency alert system put in place after the April 2007 shootings there was called into use, sending emergency messages to approximately 30,000 mobile devices. The death of graduate student Xin Yang marked the first ...
"Welcome to spring semester and American history," Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown library, told a full Salomon 101 Tuesday morning. "History is moving very much in the right direction today."
Halfway through his lecture Monday afternoon, Stanley Fish, author of the New York Times blog "Think Again," told a mostly filled Salomon 101 that universities have their stated goals all wrong. University mission statements are "all unbearable," Fish said, and "they should all be burned."
Before beginning his lecture Thursday evening, J. Peter Scoblic '97, executive editor of The New Republic, took a quick political poll of his audience. Of the roughly 30 students and others in attendance, not one supported John McCain for president.
At five minutes before 11 p.m. on Wednesday night, four vivacious Fish Co. bartenders poured red drinks for four eager Fish Co. bouncers. Then the eight young employees raised their plastic cups in a toast to impending debauchery.
Grade point averages may be taboo on Brown's campus, but this year the University has a 3.31 according to a decidedly non-academic source - the makers of Trojan condoms.
Consuelo Sherba, a teaching associate in music, has won a 2008 Rhode Island Pell Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts from Trinity Repertory Company, a Providence theater organization.
As they peruse the Course Announcement Bulletins stuffed into university mailboxes this week, students are paying more attention to one detail - prerequisite classes.
Brown students split evenly over their assessment of academic advising, a recent Herald poll shows, with 49.2 percent of respondents saying they are satisfied and 48.8 percent saying they are dissatisfied with the University's academic guidance.