“Racism equals a societal cancer,” said author Lawrence Ross as he opened his lecture, “Blackballed: The Politics of Race on America’s Campuses,” Saturday evening. Ross discussed the presence of black students on university campuses and student activism with regard to social justice across ...
Two days ago, high school athletes around the world fulfilled their dreams of signing to competitive colleges. It was National Signing Day. For athletes fortunate enough to be recruited, a whole high school may gather while local TV crews wait to get the breaking news of a student’s choice between ...
Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr., lawyer, radio host and Providence’s longest-serving mayor died Jan. 28 at the age of 74, leaving behind a memorable legacy that has incalculably affected the city and its residents. Cianci was mayor of Providence first between 1975 and 1984 and then between 1991 and ...
With the spring semester well underway, many students have embarked on the summer internship hunt — an endeavor that some international students might find “tricky,” said Sujay Natson ’16. A large factor that hinders international students is that they often “can’t get paid in the U.S.,” ...
Chas Freeman Jr., a long-time bureaucrat serving as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, presented his opinions on the fall of American superiority on the international stage in his talk, “The Crumbling of the Pax Americana,” Thursday night in the Salomon ...
The bathrooms in the basement of the Friedman Study Center in the Sciences Library are in the midst of a major upgrade, said Michael Guglielmo, facilities management director of design and construction. The bathrooms were the subjects of numerous complaints and had not been renovated since 2008, he ...
The Office of Residential Life is allocating $5 million for the renovations of Perkins Hall, Barbour Hall and Barbour Hall Apartments this summer. The dorms will undergo renewal renovations, as opposed to full renovations, which would entail closing the buildings, said Senior Associate Dean of ResLife ...
Wage Increases Gov. Gina Raimondo will push for an increase in Rhode Island’s minimum wage from $9.60 to $10.10 per hour, she said at the State House last week. Last year, state lawmakers did not agree to her proposal, but Raimondo pledged to make the push again this year. Business owners have argued ...
Providence Journal sports columnist Bill Reynolds ’68 was featured at the Brown Bookstore Tuesday to showcase his novel “Hope: a School, a Team, a Dream,” based on the troubled basketball team at Hope High School, just two minutes away from Brown’s campus. Reynolds said he was inspired by the ...
Faculty members voted Tuesday at the monthly faculty meeting to officially change the name of Fall Weekend to Indigenous People’s Day on the academic calendar in response to a student movement led by Native Americans at Brown and other student groups. The name change will be effective next fall. NAB ...
Rhode Island Public Radio finds its home within a manila-folder, commonplace office that does not at all reflect the personality of the station’s newest CEO. In a studio off the hall to the left, a couple of guys — whose voices were familiar, though not their faces — stood over the controls, preparing ...
Jan. 20, high school students protested outside of the Providence School Department headquarters for the inclusion of ethnic studies in Providence public school curricula. Several other student and community activism organizations — including Youth In Action and Direct Action for Rights and Equality ...
A world where robots and humans coexist is becoming a reality, thanks in part to a team of researchers at Brown. The Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative — a group of students and faculty members aiming to investigate and meet societal needs through human-robot interaction — recently received new ...
Sixteen months ago, Shreena Thakore ’17.5 was about to embark on what she thought would be a semester-long project conducting gender discrimination workshops in India. Since then, she has traveled to over 70 schools and colleges across the country, creating dialogue with students about gender policing, ...
Instead of spending Martin Luther King Jr. weekend relaxing or catching up on sleep, Amelia Friedman ’14 and her business partner Param Jaggi challenged themselves to complete a “startup weekend,” during which they launched a product in just three days. By the end of the weekend, the pair successfully ...
The University released a final draft of its diversity and inclusion action plan Monday. The plan sets aside $165 million — 5.5 percent of the $3 billion to be raised in BrownTogether, President Christina Paxson’s P’19 capital campaign — to bolster the representation of historically underrepresented ...
Sororities will allow all students who identify as female to apply for membership when formal spring recruitment begins Feb. 12. The decision was made by the University’s Panhellenic Council, which oversees the annual recruitment processes for all sororities. “In the context of Brown and the way ...
The Office of Campus Life and Student Services arranged a day-long retreat for its staff Jan. 19, holding workshops to create an open atmosphere for discussing matters related to diversity and inclusion. The retreat, which was open to all staff members from campus life, bore the title of “Social Justice ...
Students are hoping to pass the United States’ first carbon tax, Energize Rhode Island, a bill written by Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16. It is “a push to create a clean energy and jobs fund in Rhode Island,” said Kaya Salem ’18, coordinator and intern at Energize R.I. The bill proposes putting ...
“Why did I come back to Brown?” Camela Logan ’07 mused during a CareerCon lunch mixer Saturday in the Faculty Lounge. She looked at the group of expectant students sitting around her and answered, “For Meeting Street cookies!” CareerCon, formerly known as JanLAB, marks a revamp of Brown’s ...
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