The inaugural issue of the Brown Daily Herald is almost 117 years old. The pages (there are four) are brittle and cracking around the edges, with library call numbers scrawled in the top margins. On that day - Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1891 - the Herald editors wrote somberly of their purpose in undertaking ...
Brown is gearing up for a substantial overhaul of its outreach efforts in Providence public schools, as evidenced by last spring's appointment of the University's first director of education outreach and a focus on local schools in the final recommendations from the University Steering Committee on ...
Regardless of how you may vote, what do you usually consider yourself - a Republican, a Democrat, a Green, an Independent or some other party?Republican: 5.65%Democrat: 61.9%Green: 2.2%Independent and Other: 21.1%Don't Know/No Answer: 9.3%
Over 40 percent of the undergraduate student body either has not heard of or is uninterested in the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and its recently released report, according to a poll conducted by The Herald in late October and early November. 44.9 percent of respondents said ...
The results of a recent Herald poll and voting records from last week's election suggest that voter participation among Brown students has increased since 2004.
Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse decisively defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee '75 in yesterday's midterm election, as Democrats celebrated overwhelming success in statewide races as well as House and Senate races across the country.
Only 18 states in the country elect the offices of lieutenant governor and governor separately. Of these, Rhode Island is one of just a few states in which the current lieutenant governor and governor do not belong to the same political party.
The long-awaited final report of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice will be posted on Brown's Web site "as early as tomorrow," according to Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations. The announcement of the report's release came at a Tuesday afternoon ...
As of Friday, 677 Brown students were registered to vote in Rhode Island using their 75 Waterman St. campus box addresses, according to the Office of the Secretary of State.
First-years received their first formal exposure to the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice Friday afternoon during their third class meeting, titled "Uncovering Our Past: Brown University and the Slave Trade."
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