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Everywhere but here: Introduction
By Brown Daily Herald | May 291,466 — that's how many of us walked through the Van Wickle Gates on a sunny late summer Tuesday nearly four years ago.
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Seeing double
By Sarah Forman | May 29Vero Testa likes to defy conventions – especially when those conventions double as Brunonian superstitions.
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Turning a lens on the world
By Brian Mastroianni | May 29At a time of year when many seniors are getting ready to graduate, Emma LeBlanc is far away from end-of-the-year parties with friends and the annual march through Van Wickle Gates.
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Life in the fast lane
By Ellen Cushing | May 29For most of the students who will walk the stage and accept diplomas this weekend, graduation comes at the giddy end of a whirlwind few weeks of final exams and projects — frenetic all-nighters giving way to the rush of Senior Week and Commencement weekend.
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The wounded warrior
By Fred Milgrim | May 29When Jeremy Russell changed from the class of 2010 to the class of 2011, he didn't make the decision with his head or his heart — his leg made the call for him.
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A rare mind, taken too soon
By Sydney Ember | May 29Until he got a whiteboard, Scott Zager wrote equations on his window in Everett House with black and blue magic markers. During his freshman year, he bought old books to fill his bare bookshelf — he liked the smell and the look of them. He windsurfed, fished and kayaked. He loved pizza.
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The candidate
By Sophia Li | May 29Teresa Tanzi may well have been the first-ever member of Brown's class of 2010, but she won't share the stage this weekend with her one-time classmates. In fact, she never even took a class with them.
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A date with destiny
By Nicole Boucher | May 29As most seniors march down the aisles to receive long-awaited diplomas this weekend, the seniors of the women's rowing team are thousands of miles from College Hill, eyeing a literal finish line. Their aisles? The buoyed lanes of Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif., where they are racing for their third ...
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Parting ways
By Ellen Cushing | May 29Statistically speaking, it is much, much easier to get into Brown than it is to get out early. Of the 1,466 students who walked through the Van Wickle Gates as first-years four years ago, only 12 — less than one-tenth of one percent — have separated from the University for good, many with ...
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David Rohde '90 to give baccalaureate address
By Kristina Fazzalaro | May 28David Rohde '90 is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times whose kidnapping by the Taliban and subsequent escape made international headlines last year.
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A place to talk and understand
By Clare De Boer | April 28The Muslim Students Association offers a ritual, intellectual and social experience to approximately 150 Muslim students, faculty, and staff, as well as around 150 non-Muslims over the course of the academic year, according to Robert Coolidge, the Muslim chaplain for the University.
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Thinking freely and radically
By Brigitta Greene | April 28Every other Tuesday evening, members of Brown Freethought assemble at 5:30 on the third floor of Wilson Hall, united by a common interest in skepticism and rationalism.
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Exploring Hindu culture
By Clare De Boer | April 28"I see many Hindus on campus, but very few actually come for Hindu Student Association" meetings, said Swami Yogatmananda, chaplain of Hinduism at Brown. Only four or five students regularly attend the Monday evening meetings, he said.
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Spotlight on Religion
By Hannah Moser | April 28In a poll conducted earlier this semester, The Herald asked, "How important or unimportant is religion in your life?"
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With Brown's Zen group, focusing on breathing
By Brigitta Greene | April 28There is no "correct" style to sit on the Zafu. The plump meditation cushion — filled with buckwheat or kapok fiber — can be firm or soft. It can placed directly on the floor or on a zabuton — a stuffed floor mat to cushion the knees and the ankles. Legs can be cross-legged ...
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For local contractors and workers, 'Building Brown' a boon
By Ashley Aydin | April 27The site of the new Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts building is bustling with sound, and there are hard hats everywhere. Inside the construction site office, a sign reads: "The Five Stages of a Construction Project: Enthusiasm — Disillusionment — Panic — Search ...
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The wonders Rhode Island Hall once held
By Brian Mastroianni | April 27Last October marked another phase in Rhode Island Hall's ever-evolving story. The hall, which was built in 1840, is the fourth-oldest building on the Main Green — and in the fall was rededicated the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, establishing ...
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Students soak up the sights and sounds of Spring Weekend
By Sara Luxenberg | April 25"Life, liberty and the pursuit of frattiness" –– that's how some students defined this weekend's atmosphere, according to Sami Horneff '12. Students danced, drank and were merry as great weather and popular musicians arrived on College Hill. The campus came alive with activity — whether ...
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U. looks to ensure Spring Weekend safety
By Brian Mastroianni | April 21Two years ago, Kathleen McSharry, associate dean for writing and issues of chemical dependency, wanted to see for herself what Spring Weekend was like. Coming into work on a Saturday, she put her hair up in a ponytail, wore jeans, a windbreaker and tennis shoes and walked around the Main Green. The ...
