Since former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death March 5, the country has been preparing for elections April 14 to elect a new leader after Chavez’s 14-year rule. The election will present opportunities for change in U.S.-Venezuelan relations, and some Venezuelan students and scholars said ...
Students voiced sharp disagreement against proposed changes to the environmental studies concentration at a public forum Friday. Approximately 40 students and three of the 10 faculty members who served on the Committee to Review the Environmental Studies Concentration attended the forum, which was held ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students sponsored five events to bolster awareness of student government projects during UCS Week. UCS officials attributed low attendance at events featuring administrators to students being busy with midterms. Multiple students said either they knew about UCS Week but ...
“The problem of the present time is that the future is not what it used to be,” said Sonia Hirt, professor of urban planning at Virginia Tech, at a conference at the Watson Institute for International Studies Friday. Professors of various disciplines from universities around the world gathered for ...
“Our image on campus might be different than our self-perception,” said Simon de Jesus Rodrigues ’15 of Phi Kappa Psi at a panel on Greek Life and Social Inequalities, a Minority Peer Counselor Friends Unity Day event Friday afternoon. “I came into Brown with a lot of negative stereotypes about ...
An unidentified woman walking with a Brown student was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Thayer and Waterman Streets around 8 p.m. Friday. The Department of Public Safety arrived at the scene within “three to five minutes,” said Natasha Nguyen ’15, who witnessed the accident. The Providence ...
The parents of Ryan Sims ’11 have filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, seeking surveillance footage that could reveal further details about the 23 year old’s death last December, according to a March 14 article in the New York Daily News. Sims’ parents hope to use ...
Homeless individuals in Rhode Island who have used emergency medical services feel they were treated like “non-persons” by medical staff, according to a 2010 survey conducted by the Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project. Members of student group Rhode Island Medical Advocacy Project, two members ...
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 ...
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