The Undergraduate Finance Board voted Sept. 16 to pass a budget that fully covers club sports costs, eliminating the prior requirement that club sports members fundraise a percentage of their budgets determined by the Athletics Department, according to UFB Chair Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23.
Last spring, as most students prepared for the end of the academic year, Thomas Varley went on strike. Along with the rest of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition at Indiana University Bloomington, Varley — a union representative for students in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ...
Tristan Glenn was named as the inaugural assistant vice president for inclusion, campus culture and engagement in the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, according to an Oct. 11 Today@Brown announcement ...
It seems hard to imagine Providence without the river that runs through its core — or to imagine that same river without WaterFire. Created by Barnaby Evans ’75 almost 30 years ago, WaterFire has brought crowds of people from all different backgrounds to Providence’s riverfront, ...
Legal scholar and author Catharine MacKinnon critiqued the legal construct of consent in a lecture entitled “Sexual Assault and Inequality: A Critique of Consent” hosted by the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics Friday evening. In her lecture, MacKinnon ...
Construction is currently underway for the South Quay Marine Terminal, a new hub for the shipping and assembly of wind turbines in East Providence, just south of India Point Park. The terminal will facilitate the development of wind turbine technology and the installation of wind farms across the ...
This Thursday, around 15 people stood outside Page-Robinson Hall, holding signs that read “Modernize Medical Training” and “Brown: Stop Killing Animals.” The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit health organization with more than 17,000 doctor members, organized the ...
The University’s endowment saw a -4.6% return on investment for fiscal year 2022, according to a Thursday news release. The endowment ...
An athlete suspended in fall 2022 for an alleged sexual assault that took place in October 2021 has sued the University, claiming that it unfairly suspended him after conducting a biased Title IX investigation, according to court documents. Smith v. Brown University was filed in Rhode Island District ...
Each semester, a swarm of students runs nude through the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Sciences Libraries, delivering donuts to their peers in the most prominent example of nudity on Brown’s campus. The Naked Donut Run is a tradition that has existed for decades, with The Herald first taking note ...
In the second half of a club soccer game against Providence College earlier this semester, Kate Collier ’25 was shoved from behind and fell on top of her left leg. She felt her leg bend and pop, which “was kind of scary because usually for women, that means an ACL tear,” she said. Some of her ...
With midterm elections approaching rapidly, many Brown students have encountered barriers to voting as a college student. This election day will mark the second consecutive election year that the University has given a holiday for students, staff and faculty to help alleviate obstacles to ...
Taking after her grandmother, Leonarda Bermejo Aguilar comes from a family of Mexican bakers and dreamed of owning a bakery when she came to the United States. Her daughter, Andrea Aguilar, vividly remembers accompanying her mother to different locations across the country as she worked to set up ...
More than 50 Rhode Island School of Design and Brown students squeezed into a yellow school bus Thursday night, doubling and tripling up in seats. They wore sweats and athletic shorts and carried training and drawstring bags. It was dark outside, and cars were scarce on the corner of North Main and ...
“Taste of Thayer Street” returned for its second year Wednesday evening, featuring 17 restaurants and seven retail stores, including the Brown Bookstore.
The Undergraduate Council of Students announced the results of its first-year election for positions on UCS, the Undergraduate Finance Board, and Class Coordinating Board on Sept. 27, electing ten first-year students into office. Approximately a quarter of all first years, or 772 students from the ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted a town hall meeting focused on residential life Wednesday, which included staff from the Office of Residential Life addressing student questions on the recently announced updates to the housing lottery.
On Oct. 4, Jacob Gelman ’25 left the Duke University School of Law admissions information session with the same confusion he had brought with him. After an hour of listening to admissions officers detail the school’s application cycle, requirements, strategies and more, Gelman still ...
A class action complaint filed Sept. 23 claims that the University’s websites, including the athletics website and the campus shop website, violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by not being ...
Student protesters interrupted an ExxonMobil recruiting event Tuesday in the Lincoln Field Building to call attention to the company’s lack of action to prevent climate change.
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