Inperson, a recently launched student website, is giving new meaning to talking to strangers. The site, talktosomeonenew.com, facilitates conversations between students who may otherwise never meet, said Evan Schwartz ’13, its developer. Using the site is fairly simple — interested students can ...
President Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 per hour is unlikely to affect either student employment in college or financial aid packages, Brown administrators and professors told The Herald. “If federal minimum wage goes to $9, that would have no impact on Brown student ...
When Liza Gibbs ’16 enrolled in CHEM 0330: “Equilibrium, Rate and Structure” last semester, she quickly found herself lost. After the first exam, she was in danger of failing. “I realized I had no idea what was going on,” she said. “My first and only (Chem) 33 midterm was a horrifying ...
Just over 400 children of University employees currently receive benefits from the Tuition Aid Program, including 57 TAP recipients who attend Brown, said Harold Roth, professor of religious studies and member of the Faculty Executive Committee. The program provides financial aid to University employees’ ...
“Why were people so mean to other people?” Corey D. B. Walker recalled his young daughter asking upon learning about the racial injustice of slavery. In “Racial Slavery and Its Reverberations,” the second of four teach-ins that the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has organized, ...
Planning for the 250th anniversary of the University’s founding and efforts in student engagement were the main points of discussion at an open forum between students and Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy and chair of the committee on reimagining the campus ...
There is no simple solution to the problem of gun-related violence in the United States, three panelists said in “Guns in America: Reducing Crime,” the first in a three-part Janus Forum miniseries. Though the panelists agreed on the absence of an easy solution, they clashed in their evaluations ...
State Sen. Juan Pichardo, D-Providence, recently introduced a joint resolution — which has the legal standing of a normal bill — that would allocate $1.75 million to build homes for veterans. The money would fund up to 69 units, which would house about half of the state’s homeless veterans. Though ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to support the Brown Divest Coal campaign’s resolution calling for the University to divest from the 15 “filthiest” coal technology companies at its general body meeting Wednesday. Council members said they supported the resolution because of its ideological, ...
Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 has rejected a proposal from the Faculty Exeuctive Committee to compensate faculty members for service in University governance, according to minutes from a Feb. 12 FEC meeting. The proposal was drafted to address the chronic shortage of candidates for faculty governance ...
Extending need-blind admission to all students — including international, transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students — would cost the University around $250 million, said President Christina Paxson in her State of Brown address Wednesday. Paxson also highlighted the current state of ...
Administrators and faculty members have expressed concern about what they called the small share of University funds allocated to the grad school, a subject currently being discussed by members of the Committee on Doctoral Education. Faculty members criticized the level of funds the graduate school ...
A bill introduced in the R. I. House of Representatives Feb. 14 would require the state’s gun owners register their firearms with a state licensing authority and pay a $100 registration fee per gun. Gun owners who fail to register their firearms could face up to three years in prison or a $3,000 ...
Providence won the $5 million grand prize in the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge yesterday, according to a press release from Mayor Angel Taveras’ office. The contest — sponsored by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s charitable organization — called for submissions of inventive ideas ...
Kelsey Smith The House Corporations Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the Kelsey Smith Act, a piece of legislation that would require telecommunications companies provide law enforcement officials information about the location of an individual who has been abducted if calls placed to or from the ...
“If one more person tells me that ‘all gender is performance,’ I think I am going to strangle them,” proclaimed Julia Serano, author and spoken word performer, in the opening of her spoken word piece “Performance Piece.” The piece was one of two Serano performed after her lecture about ...
The Political Theory Project will co-sponsor a three-part Janus Forum Lecture miniseries with the Office of the President starting this Thursday entitled “Guns in America” to address gun culture, gun violence and the question of gun ownership based on mental health. “Guns in America” differs ...
Harvard administration draws fire for searching deans’ emails Several Harvard officials have confirmed that university administrators secretly accessed 16 resident deans’ email accounts last fall to find evidence of a leak to the media about an undergraduate cheating scandal that occurred last ...
President Christina Paxson signed a petition in February calling for the Rhode Island General Assembly to legalize same-sex marriage. Her signature on the petition marks the first time she has taken a public stance on the issue. Paxson signed onto the Rhode Island Business Leaders for Marriage Equality ...
University parking officers are set to unionize under the United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island, pending final signatures on a draft agreement between the University and union officials. Under the current draft of the agreement between the University and the union, parking officers will ...
Solutions by The State News
