The Third World Center’s Minority Peer Counselor Program is celebrating its 40th anniversary on campus this year. Celebration festivities have included a “Back to Campus” weekend for former MPCs, which took place Oct. 18-20, and an oral history project on the program and student activism on campus. “The ...
Greek Council Chair Michael Coates ’14 and Treasurer Alexander Sherry ’15 laid out a plan at a Sunday meeting of the Council to halve Greek Council’s budget — cutting it from about $7,000 to $3,300 a semester — and require houses with more than 30 members to pay a flat rate of $300 rather ...
The University has reduced its carbon emissions by 30.6 percent since 2007, putting it ahead of the schedule laid out in its 12-year plan, according to a sustainability progress report released earlier this semester. “We’re supposed to be at 22 percent — we’re at 30.6, so that’s the good ...
Against all odds and after much struggle, The Brown Daily Herald’s staff successfully infiltrated a heavily guarded CAV restaurant Friday night for an evening of high-class cheese and cracker consumption. The event also featured a vital announcement made by the members of the 123rd Editorial Board: ...
Nirupama Rao, who finished her tenure as India’s ambassador to the United States earlier this month, has been appointed a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies for 2014, the University announced last week. Rao is the third recipient of the Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellowship ...
Students gathered yesterday at a talk organized by the Janus Forum to discuss the issues of free speech raised by the protest and eventual cancellation of a planned lecture by New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly Oct. 29. Supporters and organizers of the protest, who hosted the event with the Janus ...
The GeoChem Building will likely undergo a renovation in the next few years, Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management, confirmed to The Herald. “In general, the age of certain buildings on campus” leaves much to be desired in terms of the state of the facilities, Maiorisi said. ...
“To be against fracking is like being against a cure for cancer,” said Stephen Moore, a Wall Street Journal columnist and economist, who argued in favor of fracking and free market principles in a talk Thursday. Moore, who founded the fiscally conservative Club for Growth and serves on the Journal’s ...
Students will be able to download up to five free packages of Microsoft Office programs to their personal computers by Jan. 1, Chief Information Officer for Computing and Information Services Ravi Pendse announced at Wednesday’s meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students. The packages will ...
Superintendent Susan Lusi presented her strategic plan to revitalize the Providence Public School District to about 50 community members, teachers and city council members Wednesday night at William D’Abate Elementary School. The bulk of the plan, Opening Doors to Our Children’s Futures, explains ...
New study finds nationwide spike in science and engineering degrees The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded nationally in engineering and the sciences rose over the past five years by a substantially higher rate than those in other fields, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. The ...
Mayor Angel Taveras and the Providence Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission unveiled “Bike Providence,” the city’s master plan to make Providence a more bike-friendly city, Nov. 5. Under “Bike Providence,” officials plan to install a comprehensive network of bike lanes throughout the ...
The University is about $15 million away from the funding threshold required before it can select an architect and a site for a new College Hill engineering building, said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15. Administrators decided in the spring that the new engineering building will be constructed somewhere ...
Renowned author and creator of the blog Black Girl Dangerous Mia McKenzie interwove comedic descriptions and personal anecdotes with discussion of serious topics including racism in America and growing up as a queer child in a packed Metcalf Auditorium lecture Wednesday night. “You guys seem cool ...
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras leads the pack of 2014 gubernatorial candidates in job performance rating and perceived ability to improve the state’s economy, according to a WPRI poll of 506 registered state voters released Tuesday. When asked to choose among the five probable candidates, almost ...
Funding for student groups has seen vast changes this year, with finances now going toward service groups and covering food at events. This semester, the new Service Group Funding Board began allocating funds to service groups that meet its criteria. Last spring, the Undergraduate Finance Board started ...
The University has teamed up with the Filipino Alliance to coordinate aid for relief efforts in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the island nation Nov. 8. The Filipino Alliance will participate in a “global weekend of solidarity” this weekend in collaboration with international ...
The Office of Admission received 3,086 early decision applications for the class of 2018, a record high and a 2 percent increase in applicants from last year’s early pool, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. The University received 3,010 early applicants last year. Minority students make up ...
As the national climate emphasizes putting more resources toward the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, some critics have questioned the career opportunities for students in these fields after they graduate. But Brown students and faculty members said they did not notice ...
The ethnic studies program has merged with the Department of American Studies this semester in what administrators and faculty members called an effort to provide more structured support to the ethnic studies concentration. Ethnic studies will remain a separate concentration, but faculty members and ...
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