The impact of the Internet on politics has yet to reach its full potential, according to a panel of students who spoke Thursday night in Salomon 001 as part of the Brown College Democrats' Democracy Awareness Week.
Copies of the New York Times and the Providence Journal will be available in the Sharpe Refectory and Verney-Woolley Dining Hall starting Wednesday. Last year, newspapers in the dining halls became available after a yearlong absence. This year, the Journal will replace the Boston Globe.
While serving as the chairman of President Bill Clinton's initiative on race relations, historian John Hope Franklin received letters that questioned the nature and purpose of his work. Why, some asked, does slavery deserve more recognition than the hardships of European immigrants in the United States? ...
In 1991, Brown University was seen as a model school when it came to female athletics. Brown claimed 17 women's teams out of 35 total, the second largest number in the Ivy League. So when a federal court in 1995 found Brown's athletic department guilty of violating Title IX, a 1972 law prohibiting gender ...
David Greene, interim vice president for campus life and student services, has been hired by the University to remain in that position, effective July 1. After a national search, Greene was chosen for the position by a committee of students, faculty and administrators.
Members of the College Curriculum Council proposed the addition of sophomore seminars to next year's curriculum at a meeting Tuesday. The CCC also discussed possible changes in admissions requirements for next year as a result of a newly restructured Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Not every lecturer who visits Brown can expect to draw an audience of more than 800 people, as former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean did when he gave the 2004 Noah Krieger memorial lecture. While famed experts in fields from art to medicine come to Brown every year, prominent figures ...
The 1,434 members of the Class of 2008, along with hundreds of incoming transfer, graduate, medical and Resumed Undergraduate Education students, received a healthy dose of Brown tradition Tuesday, after passing en masse through the Van Wickle Gates.
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