Four men who were "harassing" Department of Public Safety officers outside a party in Alumnae Hall were arrested Saturday night by Providence police officers for disorderly conduct, according to Lt. John Ryan, commander of PPD Dist. 9.A student who attended the Delta Sigma Theta party, called "Scandalous," ...
"The non-violence of King and Gandhi had a strong element of courtesy and forgiveness," Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, told a packed Salomon 101 Sunday.The former member of India's Upper House of Parliament, current president of Initiatives of Change International and renowned author and ...
Time is running out when it comes to reforming health care and passing legislation to curb damage to the environment, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., told a crowd of about 100 in a talk at Salomon 101 Friday.The talk was the second of a two-part series organized by the Brown Democrats.One of the biggest ...
Fifteen student delegates from Taiwan, China and the United States have been on campus since last week to discuss and mediate disputes among the three countries at the fifth annual Strait Talk symposium. Originally founded by Johnny Lin '08, this year's Strait Talk ended Thursday after a week of workshops, ...
More than three in four students — 77.2 percent — approve of the way President Obama is handling his job, with 19.8 percent strongly approving and 57.4 percent somewhat approving, according to a recent Herald poll.
The Brown Gives Green campaign, an annual employee-centered charity drive, has kicked off a new season of giving after raising nearly $180,000 last year.
Diana Wells '88, president of the global social entrepreneurship organization Ashoka, spoke about the future of business-based ventures for achieving social change before a small crowd in Barus and Holley Wednesday night. Wells outlined Ashoka's mission and discussed the group's future in the rapidly ...
Strains of bagpipe music lingered in the air as students, faculty and Providence community members gathered on the Main Green Wednesday to honor the soldiers who have served in armed duty. But unlike previous Veteran's Day ceremonies at Brown, for the first time in 20 years a University president and ...
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Providence Public Schools recently finished the first round of community meetings to update their Facilities Master Plan, drawing on comments from parents and community members to craft a set of recommendations to improve the school system's facilities.According to Chief Operating Officer Carleton Jones, ...
Following last week's special session at the General Assembly, Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 issued a number of vetoes this week, canceling bills that would have allowed domestic partners to plan each other's funerals and provide for special elections to fill Senate vacancies.The bill to allow domestic partners ...
Correction appended. Newly appointed Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe was officially welcomed into the Brown community Tuesday afternoon with a public conversation between the celebrated Nigerian author and President Ruth Simmons. Achebe, a world-renowned novelist, poet and critic, was ...
The number of students on academic probation has declined for the third year in a row, according to the Faculty Committee on Academic Standing's annual report presented at last week's faculty meeting.
State Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Dist. 3, and Sen. Rhoda Perry P'91, D-Dist. 3 — whose districts include College Hill — spoke to about 40 Brown students about Rhode Island government and politics in Wilson 101 Tuesday night. The event was part of the Brown Democrats' "Better Know Your District" ...
A series of reforms is underway that the University hopes will streamline Institutional Review Board procedures involving the ethical treatment of human research subjects. In response to recommendations in a report issued by a Research Advisory Board subcommittee last spring, the IRB and the Research ...
Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe sat down with The Herald Tuesday before a welcome event to discuss his motivations for joining Brown's Africana studies faculty, his past work and his thoughts on being referred to as the "father of modern African literature." The Herald: You were a professor ...
More than 40 percent of students said they had no opinion of the job that the Undergraduate Council of Students is doing, while almost half said they approved of UCS' job, according to a recent Herald poll.
A year before voters go to the polls, the race for the governorship of Rhode Island already promises to be different from most political contests in the United States. Along with one Republican and two Democratic candidates currently in the running, the race features a high-profile independent candidate ...
Brown's Population Studies and Training Center, a research facility that studies demographics, has been awarded a half-million dollar Hewlett Foundation grant to recruit more graduate students from sub-Saharan Africa and provide more support to students and alumni.
When Jonathan Cohn asked how many members of his Salomon 001 audience would identify themselves as left-of-center, nearly all the people in attendance in the half-full auditorium raised their hands. When he further narrowed the group — asking "how many of you are excited about the way health care ...
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