Two state representatives proposed legislation in January to eliminate the master lever — a tool that allows voters to select every candidate from any party with a single mark on the ballot. The bill’s sponsors, Rep. Michael Marcello, D-Cranston, and Rep. Brian Newberry, R-North Smithfield, Burrillville, ...
In an effort to control grade inflation, many professors in the Department of Economics will follow an official departmental recommendation to award 30 percent of students As, 40 percent Bs and 30 percent Cs in ECON 0110: "Principles of Economics," said Roberto Serrano, professor of economics. Serrano ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will vote next week on a proposal to formally oppose the federal sequester, said UCS Treasurer Sam Gilman ’15. The sequester — which was announced by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan — would cut six percent of federal student aid for millions of students, ...
The University’s graduate students could stand to benefit from a proposed immigration reform that would grant more cards for international graduate students studying science, technology, engineering and math. The legislation was announced Jan. 28 by a bipartisan group of four Democrats and four Republicans ...
The Corporation will address a host of priorities when it meets this weekend, including potential tuition and financial aid increases and the approval of the annual budget, said Russell Carey, executive vice president for planning and policy. The meeting will mark the second time the Corporation — ...
DJ A-Trak and rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline Friday and Saturday night, respectively, for this year’s Spring Weekend. The concert, scheduled for the weekend of April 19 to 21, will also feature Providence’s What Cheer? Brigade, New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia, experimental rock band ...
Brown email addresses can be impersonated by any user inside or outside of the Brown network through email spoofing websites, evidenced by an email supposedly sent from Brown Concert Agency Publicity Chair Raillan Brooks ’13 to multiple press outlets Tuesday with a false Spring Weekend lineup. “(Email ...
Clad in purple and wearing strips of gray duct tape across their mouths, several dozen students streamed into the Sharpe Refectory at lunchtime Tuesday to stage a demonstration against sexual assault at Brown. The event, organized and led by a group of Minority Peer Counselors, was intended to raise ...
Brown faculty members may see increased tuition assistance and retirement benefits, as the faculty endorsed a report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Employee Benefits at its meeting Tuesday night. Faculty members all voted in favor of the report, with no abstentions. One of the report’s major recommendations ...
The Brown Student Health Insurance Plan will cover 14 different sexual reassignment surgery procedures starting in August, Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services Jeanne Hebert confirmed in an email to The Herald. The move makes Brown one of a handful of schools and healthcare providers nationwide ...
Starting next semester, SafeRide will still be on call — but it will be called a different name. First Transit Inc., a company used by Yale and Princeton, will replace University Shuttle LLC as the campus shuttle service provider July 1, said Beth Gentry, assistant vice president of administration ...
Students, faculty members and community members alike huddled in the corner of Brown Bookstore Monday evening to hear Professor Emeritus of History James T. Patterson discuss his new book, “The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America.” Patterson began by playing a recording of “Eve ...
“Today miracles occupy the same place as illusive effects,” but they should be distinguished from magic, said Hent de Vries, professor in the humanities and philosophy and director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, in a talk Tuesday night about miraculous events. Before an audience ...
Students who go off meal plan may face a critical challenge — finding a way to save as much money on food as humanly possible. One group of students has attempted to tackle that problem — a team of four, including juniors from both Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, launched freefoodatbrown.com ...
The Brown Concert Agency will announce the full Spring Weekend 2013 lineup today, BCA Publicity Chair Raillan Brooks '13 wrote in an email to The Herald. Spring Weekend is currently scheduled April 19 to 21, a weekend that overlaps with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, The Herald previously ...
The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley: 1. Between Thursday night and Friday morning An unknown suspect broke into the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching ...
As India and South Asia increase their geopolitical influence, both the country and the region will receive increased attention from the United States while China grows more powerful, said Nirupama Rao, India’s ambassador to the United States, in a seminar late Monday afternoon. The seminar was the ...
Mayor Angel Taveras announced a partnership with Southside Community Land Trust and the Rhode Island Foundation Jan. 14 in a project aimed at renovating the vacant lots that sprinkle the city’s undeveloped land parcels and turning them into small farming plots. The Florida-based Local Sustainability ...
Entrepreneurship does not mean the desire to start a company but rather considering the world and creating the tools you think it needs, said Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, during his talk, “Square: Designing Commerce to Feel Amazing,” Friday at the Rhode Island School of Design. “An ...
Rhode Island’s public education system was ranked fifth in the nation in a January report from StudentsFirst, the advocacy group founded by education reform proponent Michelle Rhee. While only receiving a grade of “C+,” Rhode Island scored higher than neighboring Massachusetts, New Hampshire ...
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