Instead of lining up to watch the 250th anniversary fireworks and eat cake last Friday, Student Labor Alliance members passed out flyers urging the Brown community to support the Renaissance Hotel boycott. Sophia Gluskin-Braun ’17 and other SLA members distributed approximately 200 flyers to students ...
“Resolved: The United States government should seek to try Edward Snowden for treason,” read the chalkboard at last week’s inaugural meeting of the Brown Policy Union. Modeled after the Oxford Union, the student-run BPU gives “just a little bit more formality” to a standard political conversation, ...
Using a video camera attached to a robot in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter and the mobile payment company Square, took the audience at his Salomon 101 lecture yesterday on a tour of the headquarters of Square, where he serves as CEO. “What’re you doing?” Dorsey asked a pair ...
See accompanying article. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? (Circle one.) 7.2% Strongly approve 34.7% Somewhat approve 33.1% No opinion 20.6% Somewhat disapprove 4.4% Strongly disapprove 2. Do you ...
“It is not easy to kill without repercussions,” said Ashis Nandy, an Indian political psychologist, while speaking about the 1947-48 partition of India to a crowded room in Pembroke Hall. “Even though the participants of the partition say they do not feel guilty about their action, their bodies ...
Marina Tolou-Shams, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine the prevalence of risk behaviors and certain other outcomes in formerly incarcerated Rhode Island juveniles now reentering the community. Tolou-Shams’s ...
Though Brown celebrated its 250th anniversary last weekend, the University is a baby compared to some of its peer institutions. Princeton commemorated its 250th in 1996, while Harvard kicked off its 375th anniversary festivities in 2011. The University studied and learned from its peers’ past birthday ...
In proposed resolutions and legislation this week, the General Assembly targeted childhood education, renewable energy and health care delivery. Kindergarten program The Senate Education Committee considered a joint resolution Wednesday to study the feasibility of creating full-day kindergarten programs ...
Rep. Patricia Morgan, R-Coventry, West Warwick, Warwick, introduced a bill that would require people using electronic benefit transfer cards to show proof of identity to redeem food stamp benefits. The bill aims to reduce fraud in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and was introduced ...
White House seeks to boost federal aid applications The White House will redouble its efforts to ensure more students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, President Obama announced Friday, March 7. The new initiative expands a Department of Education pilot program launched in 2010 ...
See full results and methodology. A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted March 3-4 found both approval and disapproval of President Christina Paxson’s job performance have each declined since November. A plurality of undergraduates endorsed providing financial aid for middle-income students ...
Undergraduate Council of Students members raised issues regarding Psychological Services’ commitment to student confidentiality, the hiring of minority staff members and student outreach at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday featuring Sherri Nelson, director of Psychological Services, Maria Suarez, ...
PopUp Providence, a tactical urbanism program that introduces inexpensive and temporary installations designed to engage its residents and invigorate the area is now accepting proposals from the community. The program is a partnership between the Providence Redevelopment Agency and the Providence Department ...
“The fraction of the As is getting pretty high — too high for comfort,” said President Christina Paxson, adding, “It’s clear that there has been grade inflation” at Brown and its peer institutions. Across the Ivy League, university administrators are grappling with skyrocketing grades. Harvard ...
With the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses more than doubling over the last 10 years, some of Brown’s peer institutions have stopped accepting AP and International Baccalaureate test scores for course credit. And while the University does not grant course credit for ...
A new position in the Graduate School — the associate dean of master’s education, created last month — is seeking to improve master’s students’ experiences as this segment of the Brown student body becomes its fastest-growing. Don Operario, associate professor of public health and director ...
Rep. Joseph Almeida, D-Providence, introduced legislation to the Rhode Island General Assembly Feb. 25 that would form the 1696 Historical Commission. The commission, named for the year enslaved Africans were first documented to have arrived in Rhode Island, would create a comprehensive curriculum ...
As the national unemployment rate inches back toward pre-crisis figures, Rhode Island’s rate has followed the general trend. But the state’s stubbornly high unemployment distinguishes it from national progress. As lawmakers attempt to identify the cause of the Ocean State’s struggles, a range ...
Approval of the finalized Thayer Street Planning Study in late January marked the conclusion of exploratory research on potential Thayer Street improvements, signalling a transition into the plan’s implementation phase. Following months of revision, the approved outline calls for the long-term development ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students is set to consider another resolution in support of Brown Divest Coal, said Todd Harris ’14.5, UCS president. After Council leaders attended a Divest Coal meeting earlier this month, Divest Coal members are drafting a resolution to present to a UCS “working ...
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