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The men’s hockey team’s playoff run ends with a 3–0 loss to Cornell. More photos and news on the blog Full story

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Simmons: Dorms, grad school, internationalization on agenda

Large tuition increases "absolutely will not be an option" to balance the budget in the future, President Ruth Simmons told a less than half full Salomon 101 in her State of Brown address Thursday afternoon. She also announced that the University is designing a plan to expand and overhaul student residence halls on campus. The "long-overdue" study will be completed next year, she said. Full story

Hockey’s Kellar ’97, mom and gold-medal Olympian

When Becky Kellar '97 was on the women's ice hockey team in the mid-1990s, she was "extremely superstitious," according to Head Coach Digit Murphy. Kellar wore the same pair of "bright green neon socks" during all of her games and most likely did not wash them for "the entire four years," Murphy said. He said the socks were meant to bring good luck to Kellar and the team, helping them perform well in their games. Full story

Brownbrokers’ mini-musicals supersize fun

What do fat camps, elevators and Snuggies all have in common? They are all featured in Brownbrokers’ third annual Mini-Musical Festival, running Friday through Monday night in the downstairs space of T.F. Green Hall.

Simmons warns HEI over rights

President Ruth Simmons wrote a letter to HEI Hotels and Resorts’ CEO last month to publicly express concern over reports of workers’ rights violations, becoming the first university leader to do so, according to a March 15 press release from the Brown Student Labor Alliance.

Diamonds and Coal

A diamond to the money that will be saved from tableslip elimination after spring break. Maybe we’ll have enough for Cancun by the time the next break rolls around.