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 ...
Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Sarah Taft-Carter voted to uphold last year’s Providence pension reform Monday. Taft-Carter ruled that the pension agreement was “fair, reasonable and adequate,” according to a press release. Providence Mayor Angel Taveras negotiated last year’s reform as ...
Around 60 students have officially joined the ranks of Kappa Delta, the University’s newest sorority, said Susan Chen ’15. The sorority has secured housing in Harkness Hall for next year, said Bethany Cutmore-Scott ’16. Emails containing bids were sent out on Sunday, said Clara Beyer ’14, who ...
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority recently released two proposed scenarios for sweeping changes to its operations, which will change RIPTA’s 50-plus routes in order to enhance its speed, convenience and ease of use. Services will be redirected from underused lines to routes with higher demand, ...
Rachel Bishop ’13 was arrested on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct at the TransCanada Corporation’s Northeast Regional Office while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline yesterday in Westborough, Mass. Three other Brown undergraduates — Emily Kirkland ’13, Rebecca Rast ’13.5 ...
Free Spring Weekend tickets will no longer be offered to residents of Hope College and Slater Hall starting this semester, according to an announcement in Morning Mail in February. The Brown Concert Agency has also changed the way students will purchase tickets, said Emma Ramadan ’13, BCA booking ...
Thomas Perez ’83, current assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, will be nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor during the president’s second term, multiple national news sources reported this weekend. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Perez will become the first ...
Cluck!, a new farming and supplies store, will open this month on the West Side after receiving approval from the Providence Zoning Board Feb. 20. The board approved the store’s zoning variance in a 4-1 vote, allowing Cluck! to open at the corner of Broadway and Courtland streets. The store’s ...
The University may repurpose the top four floors of the Sciences Library based on recommendations from the Campus Planning Advisory Board’s February report. The project is still in the planning stages, and no official timeline has been set. Planners said they expect potential uses for the space to ...
The Rhode Island Foundation, the state’s only community nonprofit foundation, announced the establishment of a new department of Strategy and Public Affairs last month. Jessica David, vice president for strategy and public affairs, will preside over the new department, according to a foundation press ...
The lack of a large-scale concert venue on or near campus — an issue many students and faculty members in the Department of Music consider a priority — has come to the forefront since the Jan. 25 release of the strategic planning interim reports. In its interim report, the Committee on Reimagining ...
Students purchasing salads at both Josiah’s and the Blue Room can elect to use compostable salad containers, an option introduced by Brown Dining Services this semester. The new containers, made out of compostable wheat straw materials, are longer and more shallow than the old containers, which are ...
International peace and birth control are more closely related than one would think, said Aiko Takeuchi, visiting assistant professor of American Studies. Twelve people sat in a circle in the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center lounge Friday — International Women’s Day — to hear Takeuchi deliver a talk ...
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