Whether it was the ubiquitous badges, abundant a capella concerts, an influx of out-of-state license plates, unusually tidy dorms or the hushed mentions of "Al Forno" and "Capital Grille," the changes on campus this weekend could mean only one thing - the prospect of parental visitors.
Unwelcome rodent visitors, doorbells that no longer ring, unhinged doors and clogged drains are probably not what students have in mind when they sign off-campus leases. But some students living off campus are forced to deal with these minor nuisances and the frustration of trying to convince their ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A missed opportunity.
The University approves of the latest changes in the city's comprehensive plan, a document the city is crafting to guide future development.
New details and questions are emerging about what caused the Smith Swim Center's demise - primarily, University officials say, the building's lack of a dehumidification system, causing support beams to rot away over the course of almost 35 years.
The new building will replace the Smith Swim Center, which closed for good in February because of irreversible deterioration in the structures that support the facility's roof.
For most graduating Brown athletes, Commencement is a bittersweet time, marking what will likely be the end of their athletic careers. The adage of the NCAA's often-played commercial - "Most of us will be going pro in something other than sports" - rings especially true for Brown's student-athletes, ...
The condition of the roof is "beyond reasonable repair" and the cost to repair the problem is "prohibitively high," Russell Carey '91 MA'06, interim vice president for campus life and student services, and Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger wrote April 27 in an e-mail to Brown swimmers and divers. ...
Speaking before an audience of both professors and students in the Alpert Medical School's first Alpha Omega Alpha visiting professor lecture, Drazen presented a detailed and incisive look at how researchers for pharmaceutical giant Merck withheld data from a clinical trial published in the New England ...
The University is continuing to evaluate its plans for the Smith Swim Center, which was closed indefinitely on Feb. 13 over concerns about the integrity of the building's roof.
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