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New groups grapple with UCS procedures

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Spotlight: New female group satirizes gender stereotypes

After one year, 200 subscribers and dozens of emails from an old man who blogs about love and cats, the RIB —  Brown's first all-female comedy group — is finally on the map. The group attained Category I student group status in the fall from the Undergraduate Council of Students, making ...

Med School streamlines for more efficient health care

The Warren Alpert Medical School is in the first stages of streamlining its structure to more closely align the school with its clinical faculty and teaching hospitals. Centralizing the current system to improve co- ordination between the three actors will make delivering health care in the state more ...

Spotlight: Student group aspires to raise fashion consciousness

The stereotypical college dress code, immortalized in films and books, includes ripped jeans, untied sneakers and a sweatshirt bearing the college's name. But looking around Brown yields a different conclusion — students are more inclined toward stylish, sporty chic and dapper get-ups rather than ...

Campuses collaborate in R.I. Occupy Movement

Q&A with David Rohde '90

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde '90, adjunct professor of English, spoke about investigative reporting and the future of online journalism last night. After the talk, he sat down with The Herald.

Amorous alums play matchmakers

Some Ivy League students may be single this Valentine's Day, but they don't have to be. Two dating websites started by alums in the past two years are helping Brown students and others find love. 

Allen '12 receives prestigious scholarship

Pulitzer Prize winner discusses future of journalism

"You're going to feel hopeless," Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Rohde '90 told a room of almost 50 students and community members last night. "You're going to feel there's no future in journalism. Breaks will come."

Job board restored yesterday

Taveras declares Providence 'in peril'

Mayor Angel Taveras stressed the importance of making sacrifices as the city faces the looming threat of bankruptcy during his annual State of the City address last night. In an unprecedented gesture, Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 attended the speech, standing behind Taveras as he spoke.

Job board failure causes stress

Pipe burst sends crowds to Ratty

A pipe burst in the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall Friday, closing the facility before lunchtime for the rest of the day. The cause of the leak was still unclear as of Sunday, but the V-Dub will reopen today, wrote Ann Hoffman, director of administration and human resources for Brown Dining Services in ...

UCS extends vote, plans forum

The Undergraduate Council of Students has extended the deadline for students to vote on its proposed constitutional change to 11:59 p.m.  Wednesday. The original deadline was last night. The proposed amendment would allow UCS to draw its budget directly from the Student Activities Fund rather than ...

Campus housing to be renovated, transformed

The Corporation, the University's highest governing body, approved a $56 million overhaul of campus housing at its meeting this weekend, bringing to fruition a plan administrators have been developing for years. Most dorms will be renovated or improved by fall 2013. According to the plan, all first-years ...

Endowment increases by 19 percent in 2011

The University's endowment grew approximately 16 percent over the past fiscal year, according to the 2011 Study of Endowments released last month by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. College endowments included in the study experienced an average growth of about 19 ...

'Dudes' explore cultures in food blog

Protesters ask Corp. to boost contributions to Providence

Corporation ups tuition by 3.5 percent

The Corporation, the University's highest governing body, approved an $865.2 million budget for the coming fiscal year — raising tuition by 3.5 percent — at its meeting this past weekend.

New Metcalf dedicated as space for collaboration

Members of the Brown community gathered Friday evening to rededicate the Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory, the new home of the department of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, which underwent a $42 million renovation over the past year and a half.