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“They basically had their lives ripped from under them”: Students grapple with mental health concerns amidst an unexpected academic year

By Livia Gimenes | October 13

In the first of a two-part series about how the pandemic has impacted mental health, CAPS and mental health advocacy leaders describe these effects at Brown. As colleges shut down across the country in March, many students saw their lives completely change without warning. Intensely packed days scrambling ...

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Brown COVID-19 testing update: 1 confirmed positive case in last week

By Henry Dawson | October 13

As COVID-19 cases rise nationally, the University continues to report scant occurrences of the virus on College Hill. The past week has seen one confirmed positive case out of 9,250 asymptomatic tests completed, according to the University’s COVID-19 Dashboard. This gives the University community ...

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Cress Health provides mental wellness through mobile application

By Shilpa Sajja | October 13

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to fill hospitals with patients, healthcare workers battle the virus while trying to maintain their own mental health. Cress Health, a mental wellness company, seeks to help address burnout among healthcare workers. The company was co-founded by student entrepreneurs ...

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Theta and KD chapters at Brown remain affiliated to national chapters after holding votes

By Nitya Thakkar | October 12

As internal calls to disband Greek life organizations have spread across the country, amidst a reckoning of their historical, systematic exclusion of people of color, two sororities at Brown have held votes to disaffiliate from their national chapters since the start of the fall semester. The votes ...

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BIPOC-led nonprofits weather pandemic

By Ben Glickman | October 12

Ray Rickman, executive director of nonprofit Stages of Freedom, is used to getting a few calls and emails each day from community members. But when the organization decided to give away masks at the height of the pandemic, he received 1,400 calls and emails in a single day. “You have to answer them ...

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UCS votes to delay first year representatives’ election

By Jack Borris | October 12

The Undergraduate Council of Students voted on two constitutional amendments related to elections code updates and grade representatives at its general body meeting Wednesday. The Council also proposed an additional amendment to be voted on at its next general body meeting. The first amendment changes ...

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Cultural groups at Brown forge connections online

By Caroline Nash | October 12

As the pandemic continues to restrict in-person social interaction, cultural student groups are turning to Zoom and social media to maintain community and build connections with new members. In interviews with The Herald, executive board members of five on-campus organizations discussed the difficulties ...

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Veritas Forum panel discusses pursuit of racial justice in the prison system

By Aanchal Sheth | October 12

Dehlia Umunna clicks play. The voice of a Black disabled mother whose 19-year-old son was just denied bail echoes, slowly at first, then her cries intensify. She screams his name over and over again. “JORDAN” “JORDAN” “JORDAN” “JORDAN MY BABY!” In the background, almost inaudible ...

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VP Carey: Personal travel for Brown students ‘strongly discouraged’ over long weekend

By Marlene Goetz | October 9

Executive Vice President of Planning and Policy Russell Carey and University Spokesperson Brian Clark discussed the results of asymptomatic testing, the first week of undergraduate in-person classes and the travel risks of the upcoming long weekend in a conversation with The Herald Oct. 8. Since COVID-19 ...

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Transportation tussle: RIPTA riders and community organizations push back on RIDOT bus hub plan

By Katie Chen | October 8

It takes Edilberta Trejo one whole hour on the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority every day to travel from her home to the library where she works. Trejo says this isn’t unusual for transit riders like her, and she worries that the Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s new proposed multi-hub ...

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Connecting through the screen during COVID-19

By Claire Liu | October 8

The college experience is an innately social one, drawing students, faculty and all community members to interact together. Now, with health and safety concerns at the forefront, physically communing on campus and forming relationships in person have been restricted. Social life has transitioned online, ...

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Brown libraries welcome back undergraduate students

By Victoria Yin | October 8

As the University welcomed back undergraduate students into classrooms Monday, it also allowed students back into three of the University’s libraries as part of the school’s move to a Level 2 Campus Activity Status. Starting on Oct. 5, undergraduate students were able to reserve two-hour time ...

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A timeline of University COVID-19 decision-making

By Jack Walker | October 8

Since early March, the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic have forced the University to reconsider important aspects of campus life and the student experience. The following is a timeline of the University’s historic moments and administrative decision-making, as it was announced to the Brown ...

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In-person classes elicit mixed reviews from on-campus, remote students

By Caelyn Pender | October 8

Eleven students take their seats in a lecture hall meant for more than 100 people, each staggered among the rows and wearing a mask. A professor stands at the front of the room, 50 feet away from the closest student. On a projector screen are seven faces: the students who are attending class virtually. ...

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Armed guards and campus lockdown: Brown’s 1918 pandemic experience

By Olivia George | October 8

When Brown University students woke up on the morning of Oct. 8, 1918, they learned they had two choices: pack up and return home or remain on campus indefinitely. A campus-wide quarantine was being imposed, due to the growing threat of a raging strain of influenza. Armed guards were stationed at the ...

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Exercise in the time of COVID-19

By Tyler Jacobson | October 8

When the University shuttered its doors in March along with gyms and recreational facilities across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, many students found themselves forced to adapt how they work out and reflect on the significance of their exercise. Before the Jonathan Nelson ‘77 Fitness ...

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse talks RBG’s legacy, future of U.S. politics at Taubman panel

By Benjamin Pollard | October 8

To Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy comes most notably from her persistence. “While many things are won through great battles that suddenly shift everything at once,” he said, “some things are won with small, determined, continued demonstrations of persistence, ...

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Flu season is approaching — here’s where to get your vaccine at Brown

By Grace Park | October 7

With the weather getting colder, flu season is rapidly approaching. To best prepare for potential flu outbreaks within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Services is hosting multiple flu vaccine clinics for students this October. Health Services will offer 12 flu vaccine clinics in the Olney-Margolies ...

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Brown suspends Spring 2021 study abroad programming

By Olivia George | October 7

All study abroad programming for the Spring 2021 semester has been canceled, Brown’s Office of International Programs announced Wednesday morning. The decision took into account factors such as student safety, disruptions in visa processing and persisting travel restrictions due to the novel coronavirus ...

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Paxson hopes to announce spring semester plans by end of October

By Samantha Molina | October 6

Although University plans for the spring semester are not yet “set in stone,” President Christina Paxson P’19 announced at a faculty meeting Tuesday that she hopes to make an initial decision by late October. Paxson said at the meeting that the University is now preparing “as if all students ...