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‘There weren’t really words’: Brown community members react to shooting of Hisham Awartani ’25 in Vermont
Two days after he was shot and injured in a potential hate crime in Burlington, Vermont, students in ARAB 0500: “Third-Year Arabic” sat at their desks as the voice of Hisham Awartani ’25 played ...
At vigil for Palestinian junior, crowd shouts Paxson off microphone amid calls for divestment
At a Monday night vigil at 4:30 p.m. for Hisham Awartani ’25 — a Palestinian student shot in Vermont this weekend in what police have described as a possible hate crime — students shouted President ...
UCS calls on Brown to acknowledge oppression of Palestinian people, support end to violence in Palestine, Israel
This story is part of The Herald's ongoing coverage of student arrests following a Nov. 8 sit-in at University Hall. To get more context and read our full coverage, click here.
Over 100 attend UCS listening session on Israel-Palestine, campus climate
Over 100 students attended a listening session hosted by the Undergraduate Council of Students last Wednesday evening in the Petteruti Lounge, according to UCS President Mina Sarmas ’24.
Over 1,400 alums call for Brown to support divestment, ceasefire in Gaza in open letter
This story is part of The Herald's ongoing coverage of student arrests following a Nov. 8 sit-in at University Hall. To get more context and read our full coverage, click here.
Installation at Brown-RISD Hillel expresses solidarity with 242 Israeli hostages held by Hamas
Two-hundred and forty-two empty chairs at Shabbat tables dressed with white cloth, plates and cups were set up on the terrace of Brown-RISD Hillel from Nov. 2 to Nov. 6. The installation, titled “The ...
‘We’ve had enough catastrophe’: Students raise over $3,000 for earthquake relief in Afghanistan
On Saturday, Oct. 7, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit the Zinda Jan district of Afghanistan’s Herat Province. The initial shock was quickly followed by three powerful aftershocks of magnitudes 5.5, 6.3 ...
‘Gut-wrenching’: Community members process recent violence in Israel, Gaza
Content warning: This article contains descriptions of violence and discussions of death.
Campus roundup: U. expands staff, programs in support of international students
The University has expanded its programmatic support for international students through an extended pre-orientation program and the onboarding of new staff members as it works to achieve need-blind international ...
A cappella, dance groups no longer permitted to perform, rehearse during University breaks
In an Aug. 31 email, the Student Activities Office announced to some student groups that SAO will no longer make exceptions to their “University Breaks” policy, which prohibits student group meetings ...
Spring Weekend 2024 will be a one-day festival
This year’s Spring Weekend will be a one-day festival as a result of rising production costs and University-wide student group budget cuts, according to a Wednesday announcement from Brown Concert Agency. ...
Clubs face lowered budgets after UFB spends full surplus
The University’s Undergraduate Finance Board faced a $1.5 million gap between the funding requested by student groups and the money it could disperse to them this year, UFB President Arjun Krishna Chopra ...
Flooding, leakages strike campus following flash flood warning
Several campus buildings faced flooding and leakages following a flash flood warning in some parts of Providence County Sunday afternoon.
‘Connect your life’s experiences to an artwork’: Artists Karen Hu ’24, Alaina Cherry ’24, Jo Ouyang ’26 discuss queerness, art
Through the queer rights movement of the 20th and 21st century — and well before — art has played a pivotal role in self-expression, activism and community-building for queer people.
‘Someone who just embodies so much’: Remembering Panetha Ott, director of admission and international recruitment
When Hlib Burtsev ’26 — a Ukrainian student admitted to Brown last year — was crossing the Hungary-Ukraine border in May 2022, it was “2 or 3 a.m.” in Providence. Panetha Ott, the Office of ...
Breaking down gender diversity in student government
In fall 2020, the Undergraduate Finance Board had seven female and four male students on their board. Today, it only has two female members.
Brown, RISD students launch New England’s first publication for South Asian diaspora
When Siddharth Thuppil, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, introduced Yukti Agarwal ’24.5 to his “birth child,” Agarwal jumped at the opportunity immediately. Together, they created ...
Restructuring, runoffs and recalls: Here's what you need to know about Brown's student government
In spring 2022, leadership of the three branches of student government — the Undergraduate Council of Students, the Undergraduate Finance Board and the Class Coordinating Board — formed the Student ...
What you need to know about campus fundraising
When Umeed@Brown, a group that advocates for low-income cancer patients in developing countries, wanted to host a fundraiser event, they had to separately request event support from their Student Activities ...