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Rally aims to fuel library workers’ negotiations

While University officials and administrators, including President Christina Paxson, attended a private dedication  of  a new reading room at the Rockefeller Library Friday evening, about 100 students, staff members and community members rallied on the library’s steps to support unionized library ...


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Snow removal budget set at $350,000

After last year’s polar vortex left Providence and much of the country feeling the effects of extreme winter weather, the Department of Facilities Management is hoping for milder weather this year. And it seems, at least in terms of temperature, the department may be in luck. Unlike last year, when ...


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Local students share views on education

In an effort to shift the discussion on education away from the “ivory tower of academics and policymakers,” Brown student organizations — Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment, Generation Citizen, Rhode Island Urban Debate League and the Providence Student Union — handed the discussion ...


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Faculty members discuss Ebola’s effects

Ebola and its epidemiological, political and cultural consequences took the stage during a multi-disciplinary panel of four Brown faculty members in Salomon 101 Thursday evening. The discussion took place a day after the World Health Organization announced that the death toll in the current Ebola epidemic ...


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OMAC fire causes damage, injury

An electrical fire broke out in the men’s track and field locker room at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center Thursday morning, destroying runners’ personal belongings and injuring one student. Just after 7 a.m., several runners were preparing for a morning run when they noticed a “weird smell” ...


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U. launches initiative to assist internship hunt

BrownConnect, the University’s new initiative for students to find summer internships and research opportunities through Brown alums and parents, launched Thursday morning, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email. The initiative is part of a goal in Paxson’s strategic plan ...


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This week in higher ed: Nov. 13, 2014

Princeton violated Title IX, federal government finds The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights found Princeton violated the Title IX federal statute in its handling of sexual misconduct cases, the New York Times reported Nov. 5. OCR’s decision, which concludes its investigation ...


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Scholars debate incarceration

“What do we owe the offending class?” asked Glenn Loury, professor of economics, in a discussion-based talk on mass incarceration at the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions Wednesday afternoon.  Steven Teles, associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, ...


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Casinos in neighboring Mass. could hurt state revenue

Gaming revenues for casinos in the state will drop between 30 and 38 percent in the next five years, mostly due to increased competition from Massachusetts, according to a new study published Nov. 5 by the Rhode Island Department of Revenue. The study found that this decrease will significantly hurt ...


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Students help assess needs of state’s homeless

Just an hour before heading out to survey people on the streets, Keenan Line ’18 received unsettling precautions: be careful with personal items, be ready to call 911 in case of an emergency and do not interact with hostile people. Though she realized that these were merely precautionary measures, ...


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Many Assembly leaders to retain positions

While statewide elections Nov. 4 yielded new leaders in multiple top offices, party leadership seems to remain stagnant in the General Assembly.  At a Democratic caucus held Friday in the Senate Lounge at the State House, Sen. Dominick Ruggerio, D-North Providence, was reelected Senate Majority Leader ...


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Gourmet Heaven owner requests leniency in court

After his arrest in February on 42 felony and misdemeanor charges of wage theft, owner of Gourmet Heaven Chung Cho sat for a final hearing Nov. 3, the Yale Daily News reported. The court heard his request for accelerated rehabilitation, which if granted would allow Cho to avoid a trial and prison sentence ...


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Nick Offerman to speak on campus

Actor, writer and carpenter Nick Offerman will be Brown Lecture Board’s fall speaker, said Lecture Board President Kaivan Shroff ’15.   Offerman, who portrays Ron Swanson on the acclaimed sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” will give his lecture Dec. 4 in Salomon 101. His 45-minute talk will be ...


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Slavic studies enrollment drops 75 percent in four years

The Department of Slavic Studies has seen enrollment in its courses decrease about 75 percent over a four-year period, from 1,153 students in the 2009-10 academic year to a low of 287 students in the 2013-14 academic year, according to data from the Office of Institutional Research. This decline resulted ...


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Post-Election Roundup: Nov. 11, 2014

One week after Democrats swept elections across the state, securing the gubernatorial and Providence mayoral seats as well as many smaller offices, winners, losers and pundits have already started discussing Rhode Island’s potential over the next term.   Raimondo readies agenda Governor-elect ...


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