On Tuesday, Rhode Islanders will go to the polls and make some important decisions regarding the state's future. A new governor will be elected, along with General Assembly members and other statewide officials. But further down the ballot there will be a set of questions also under consideration.
Earlier this year, the Providence City Council eliminated a provision for rental homes in the city's budget that allowed owners to exempt the first 33 percent of the homes' value from the city's property tax. The change is expected to raise approximately $20 million from the roughly 12,000 rental properties ...
MyCourses is on its way out, The Herald reported last week. The current version of the system will no longer be available beyond 2013 and Brown will either have to upgrade to the newer version or find a new platform all together.
Earlier this month, the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card ranked the University fifth in the nation in a study of sexual health on college campuses.
Last year, the Corporation announced that it had approved a new, mandatory $64 "recreational facilities" fee to be paid by every undergraduate student. As President Ruth Simmons wrote in an e-mail to students, the fee would "reduce the amount we will need to cut from the Athletics or other budgets." ...
For the second time in as many years, the University is engaged in a tense labor dispute with a segment of employees who are fundamental to the school's functioning. Last October, Brown Dining Services workers threatened to strike in response to a proposed increase in workers' contributions to health ...
Last week, the candidates for governor of Rhode Island came to campus for a debate. On Thursday night, the campaign will return to Brown as Democrat Angel Taveras and independent Jon Scott, candidates for mayor of Providence, debate in MacMillan 117 at 7 p.m.
In an op-ed about the upcoming elections last week in the New York Times, Gail Collins asked, "How far back in a candidate's history do we want to travel?" With multiple campaigns across the country bringing up opponents' college writings and actions, what counts as fair game is a now a particularly ...
Like many other debates this election season, the debate between the four Rhode Island gubernatorial candidates that took place at Brown last Thursday was at times enlightening, at times entertaining and occasionally a little disconcerting. But amid the fray, one idea stood out as particularly fresh ...
The Herald reported last week that students' grades have been improving steadily in recent years, and that last year 54.4 percent of all grades were A's. While this trend is worth keeping an eye on, we certainly wouldn't support a Princeton-like policy in response.
Thursday night, Brown will host a debate between the four candidates to succeed term-limited Gov. Donald Carcieri '65. The candidates — Democrat Frank Caprio, independent Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14, Republican John Robitaille and Moderate Ken Block — will debate in Salomon 101 at 7 p.m. The ...
Those who saw the "The Social Network" over the long weekend might have been surprised by the reminder of how different life was before Facebook — when "networking website" was a euphemism for online matchmaking and writing on someone's wall would have been considered vandalism. It's undeniable ...
The process to reform the University's tenure review procedures stalled last week after the faculty voted to withdraw the proposals from consideration and refer them to the Faculty Executive Committee. The proposals would, for instance, stop departments from revealing the identities of outside references ...
When Congress reauthorized the Higher Education Opportunity Act in 2008, a provision in the bill required the Government Accountability Office to study "the feasibility of developing a national student loan clearinghouse on the (Education) Department's website that helps prospective borrowers make informed ...
Last week, The Herald reported on a study that found that delaying school start times could improve students' academic performance. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Judith Owens '77 MD'80 conducted an experiment at St. George's School in Newport, R.I., that observed the impact of a later start time ...
We were deeply saddened to learn that Raymond Chase, a student at Johnson and Wales University, took his own life last Wednesday. Chase, who was openly gay, was the fifth LGBT teenager to commit suicide in the past three weeks. All of the students are believed to be victims of bullying and harassment ...
We were extremely disappointed to read last month that the U.S. Senate failed to pass the National Defense Authorization Act because only 57 of its 100 members supported the bill on a party-line vote. We miss the days when the defeat of a bill authorizing military operations at the hands of arcane procedural ...
To the people who shoplift from Brown Dining Services eateries —
Brown is undoubtedly a world-class university, and there are very few things the school does not provide to its students. But as we read in The Herald last Friday, the University lacks a formal program for advising students and recent graduates who want to pursue a master's degree in business administration. ...
On Sept. 14, Mayor David Cicilline '83 won the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. Cicilline will now face the former state House minority whip from Tiverton, Republican John Loughlin II, in vying for the right to represent Rhode Island's first district, ...
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