Madeleine Andersen '06.5 took time off during her junior year to travel to Guatemala for the first time and realized something - though "it was such a gift to be at Brown, to be reading all the time," she felt like she "was always reading these beautiful things and never doing them."
Campus spoken-word poetry group WORD! is performing three shows on campus this weekend at Rites and Reason Theatre, beginning last night.
Erica Sagrans '05 - who left Providence a few weeks ago to join the staff of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. - is now an online writer and member of a small team working in Washington, D.C. on Pelosi's Web site.
Illegal immigrants will face more difficulty living and working in Rhode Island if the General Assembly approves several bills introduced this month.
Human trafficking isn't just a problem for the developing world - it's an issue gaining attention here in Rhode Island. As local interest in anti-trafficking activism grows, two coalitions are now fighting to raise awareness and lobby for legislation - the recently formed Rhode Island Coalition Against ...
Internet protocol television, which allows students to watch TV on their computers, is more than an alternative to cable television - it's a replacement. At the beginning of the semester, Computing and Information Services expanded IPTV, doubling the number of channels, and plans to extend IPTV to television ...
The office of Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75 is working to provide the public with access to the state's highest piece of land at Jerimoth Hill, located about 25 miles outside of Providence in Foster, R.I. The high point - which was the subject of a July 1996 Wall Street Journal article that focused ...
University officials who manage the Late Night Fund, which began last semester as a pilot program to provide alcohol-free weekend activities, have requested that the University Resources Committee create permanent funding for the program, said Shelley Adriance, coordinator for student activities.
The Taiwan Strait has been a political quagmire for leaders in China, Taiwan and the United States for decades. Last week's second annual Strait Talk symposium brought students from the three countries to Brown to discuss and create their own solutions to the ongoing conflict.
Though the University has taken steps in the past year toward potentially adopting the Designated Suppliers Program, certain details of the DSP have not yet been finalized. Administrators from schools across the country are reviewing a recent proposal for the program and "are watching the developments ...
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