For Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose PhD'93, Barack Obama's election Tuesday as the nation's first black president is just the beginning of a larger story.
Wednesdays are slow news days this year at the University of California at Berkeley. Or at least that's how it might seem to students and community members looking for copies of the university's independent student newspaper, the Daily Californian.
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. So while students may have been slow to embrace the new Brown.edu home page when it launched in August 2006, at least two schools have taken to it - or simply taken it.
For students at the University of Florida, the path to socially responsible investment is one of empty stomachs.
A year ago, Aaron Bartnick '11 was sitting in a dorm room with three other admitted high school students during A Day on College Hill. Two of these students came to ADOCH undecided about where they would spend the next four years, and at least one of them would leave settled on Brown. That student was ...
At 7 a.m. one day in the last week of February, freshmen living on the east side of Littlefield Hall groggily dragged their blankets anxd pillows into the lounge on the other side of the building, trying to ignore the deafening roar of jackhammers that came bursting through their windows.
David Gumbiner '08 had never smoked a cigarette before he spent a semester in India, China and South Africa last spring. But while he was abroad, Gumbiner started to smoke bidis - small cigarettes popular in South Asia - with some participants in his program. Gumbiner said it became "part of our friendship ...
The University's new financial aid policy has sparked mixed reaction among students, with some pleased about the changes and others saying they do not go far enough.
Julia Beamesderfer '09 couldn't quite see Professor of Biology Gary Wessel as the dancing type. But on Friday night, after Wessel performed a fast-paced, feet-stomping jive with Hilary Johnson '09 in a packed Alumnae Hall, she took that back.
Students who were admitted early decision will not be invited to A Day on College Hill this year, as the Office of Admission prepares to make the event more intimate and address increased competition with peer schools.
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