Leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Students canceled the group’s weekly general body meeting Wednesday due to its overlap with President Christina Paxson’s open forum to discuss campus norms and dialogue. The Council would have spent the meeting approving categorizations of student groups ...
For the past 20 years, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has carried a blank book with him, jotting down inspiring quotations as he hears and reads them, from the tenets of Boy Scout Law to a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem on the Providence War Memorial. When a friend advised him to publish his personal adversaria ...
Gender-neutral housing may receive vote from Harvard undergrads Activists garnered the number of signatures required for their petition to put up universal gender-neutral housing for undergraduate vote, the Harvard Crimson reported Tuesday. Harvard, like Brown, does not allow gender-neutral housing ...
Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., joined with the Rhode Island Foundation last week for a three-city tour in an effort to raise Rhode Island’s self-esteem as a part of the “It’s All in Our Backyard” campaign. The campaign stems from a partnership between the Foundation and media consulting firms Basics ...
More than 600 students and multiple professors and administrators gathered Wednesday night in Alumnae Hall for an open forum addressing issues surrounding free speech and race on campus and the cancellation of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s lecture Tuesday. At the Tuesday event, ...
The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life has replaced its former nondenominational Protestant services with two new ones this year. Sunday Worship and Wednesday Inspiration: 30 Minutes for Your Soul both begin at 5:30 p.m. in Manning Chapel and last for approximately 30 minutes each. Kirstin ...
Portsmouth High School revamped its drug policy last month to strengthen consequences for drug use and authorize random breathalyzer tests at extracurricular events. These changes stem from the release of an April report documenting high rates of student substance abuse from the Portsmouth Prevention ...
Newport, R.I., may soon add another city to its list of “sister cities” — a relationship that encourages an economic, cultural and social exchange between similar municipalities — after being approached by a representative for Tamsui, Taiwan. Newport already has six established relationships ...
A lecture by New York City Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly scheduled for Tuesday afternoon was canceled after protesters halted Kelly’s speech and would not yield the floor. Controversy preceded the talk — titled, “Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City” — due to its ...
Following the University’s announcement that it will not divest from major coal companies,around 100 students gathered Sunday and Monday nights in the Underground in response to what they called the University’s unwillingness to listen to student voices. The student organizers refused to elaborate ...
After the discovery of an unidentified material initially believed to be hazardous in Graduate Center last Thursday, officials from the University and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the building is safe, and the eight people who were evaluated by medical professionals are not seriously ill. No ...
Five days after Michael Dawkins ’13.5 was confirmed to have died in Peru, few details have emerged about the circumstances of his death. Dawkins was not “taking part of any Brown-sponsored activity” while in Peru, and the University does not have any information about his travels, wrote Marisa ...
Controversy has flared among students and community members — with students putting forth a petition, holding a vigil Monday night and planning a protest march for this afternoon — over the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions’ decision to host a lecture today by Ray Kelly, ...
A majority of students — 56 percent — have no opinion on how the Undergraduate Council of Students is handling its job, according to a Herald poll conducted Sept. 30 to Oct. 1. Students who did have an opinion tended to approve of the Council’s job performance, with 23 percent of poll respondents ...
The State Investment Commission voted unanimously in favor of Rhode Island divesting from its stakes in gun distributors Wednesday. Wellspring Capital Partners IV invests $3.8 million of state money in United Sporting Companies, an organization that distributes firearms, gun accessories and hunting ...
The world premiere of the film “Ocean Frontiers II: A New England Story for Sustaining the Sea” highlighted Rhode Island as a leading example of collaborative marine spatial planning in a public screening at the Providence Public Library Monday night. Public premieres will continue in other states ...
Improving the University’s efforts to connect students with internships will be a key priority as part of the implementation of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan, administrators said. The strategic plan, “Building on Distinction,” highlighted the need to incorporate more “real-world” ...
The Corporation unanimously approved President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan and decided not to divest the University’s endowment from coal companies at its triannual meeting this weekend, Paxson announced in community-wide emails Sunday afternoon. The approval of “Building on Distinction: ...
The University will not divest its endowment from coal companies, President Christina Paxson wrote in a community-wide email Sunday. The Corporation found “the existence of social harm is a necessary but not sufficient rationale for Brown to divest,” Paxson wrote. “At the end of the meeting, ...
As the Corporation convenes this weekend for its triannual meeting, most of its 52 fellows and trustees have arrived on Brown’s campus. They range from President Christina Paxson to power players who make the news almost daily, like Brian Moynihan ’81 P’14, president of Bank of America. But one ...
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