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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At Sunday morning's Parents Weekend tradition, "An Hour With the President," no parent or student asked President Ruth Simmons about the report from the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, ...
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 ...
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.
A center for the study of slavery, a memorial commemorating the slave trade, recruitment of students from the West Indies and Africa and an annual day of remembrance are among the possible outcomes of ...
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 ...
All Providence Police Department officers working on paid University details will be phased out, according to Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter.
Framed documents line the hallway just north of President Ruth Simmons' office in University Hall. They are reproductions of pages from the account book of Nicholas Brown and Company, which oversaw the ...
When the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice releases its recommendations, it will address the University's involvement in slavery and the slave trade along with a much bigger question: ...
With national attention focused on a handful of contentious U.S. Senate races in the upcoming November election, celebrity politicians are coming out in full force to support Rhode Island Democratic Senate ...
Though North American ships represented a relatively small portion of the global slave trade, Rhode Island was the epicenter of the North American slave trade. At least two-thirds of North American slave-trading ...
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., spoke to an overflowing Salomon 101 Thursday night about the dangers of political cynicism and the importance of hope in his remarks for the fourth annual Gov. Frank Licht '38 ...
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will deliver the fourth annual Licht Lecture tonight at 9 p.m. in Salomon 101. Obama was elected Illinois' junior senator in 2004 with 70 percent of the vote and delivered the ...
About 100 Providence residents attended an opening reception Wednesday night for a citywide charrette that will involve community members in planning the future of the city. The upcoming community workshops ...