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To the beat of drums, a night at Burnside Park
By Rebecca Ballhaus, Talia Kagan and Claire Peracchio | October 19Correction appended.
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SEC again probing Corporation trustee
By Tony Bakshi | October 19As the Corporation descends on campus — and the Occupy movement prepares to protest its arrival — one of its trustees is finding himself under renewed legal scrutiny. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that SAC Capital Advisors, founded by billionaire Trustee Steven Cohen P'08, is ...
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Hay renovations put staff at odds
By Louisa Chafee | October 19Renovations to restore the John Hay Library's reading room to its original size have ignited tensions among library staff members.
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Waitlist fluctuations make admittance unpredictable
By David Chung | October 19How tough is it to get into Brown off the waitlist? It depends.
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NSF launches virtual institute
By Katherine Long | October 19The National Science Foundation, in part looking to moderate the effect of reduced federal funding, is investing in a pilot program to encourage international support of American research. Brown's Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics will play a key role in the project, ...
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Corporation to review athletics, ROTC
By Tony Bakshi | October 18The Corporation will review President Ruth Simmons' recently released recommendations on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Department of Athletics at its meeting this weekend.
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First winter shelter opens to homeless
By Dan Jeon | October 18For most Rhode Islanders, colder winter temperatures are a seasonal inconvenience. But for the state's homeless — a group that has grown due to the ongoing economic downturn — winter adds a new urgency to the daily struggle to find shelter.
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Initiative provides free food to Occupiers
By Max Ernst | October 18Through a combination of volunteer efforts and food donations, Providence People's Kitchen is providing three meals per day to members of the Occupy Providence movement, who have been residing in Burnside Park since Saturday evening.
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UCS proposes raising student activities fee by $10
By Katrina Phillips | October 18The Undergraduate Council of Students introduced a resolution to increase next year's student activities fee by $10 last night. The council also spoke with Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 and Lauren Kolodny '08, former UCS vice president and current member of the Corporation.
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ProJo establishes pay wall online
By Elizabeth Carr | October 18The Providence Journal established a pay wall and redesigned its website Tuesday. The website now features breaking news briefs for free and provides full stories only to subscribers through an eEdition of the paper.
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Med faculty to teach first-year seminars
By Gadi Cohen | October 18Until recently, first-years interested in face time with the University's top doctors would have to resort to hour-long keg stands or December dips in the Narragansett River. But thanks to a new University initiative, freshmen will soon be able to take first-year seminars with Alpert Medical School ...
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Loan forgiveness program receives $250,000 grant
By Kate Nussenbaum | October 18UnitedHealthcare of New England donated $250,000 to the Rhode Island Foundation's loan forgiveness program last week as part of a series of grants from state and national organizations encouraging medical students, including those at Alpert Medical School, to pursue careers in primary care.
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Adviser changes confuse English concentrators
By Greg Jordan-Detamore | October 18When the Department of English began allotting concentration advisers alphabetically this summer, it left many students surprised to find they had been reassigned to new advisers.
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Masturbator sighted Tuesday
By Lucy Feldman | October 18College Hill's public masturbation spree continued with yet another incident Tuesday night.
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Program may lower faculty, staff travel costs
By Nora McDonnell | October 18A new Commuter Choice Assistance Program will allow employees to create pre-tax debit accounts to lower the costs of public transportation and off-site parking starting Jan. 1.
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Granoff Center, Med Ed expand outreach
By Sona Mkrttchian | October 17The University is looking to integrate community programs with the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and the Medical Education Building, according to the most recent update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment, President Ruth Simmons' blueprint for academic improvement.
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Initiative connects classrooms to the community
By Nic Cavell | October 17Every three weeks at the Swearer Center for Public Service, 22 professors across 17 disciplines collide behind closed doors to discuss exciting new directions in education at Brown. Food justice is discussed with sandwiches in hand, education finds common ground with engineering and the medieval studies ...
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Simmons: No change to campus ROTC ban
By Mark Raymond | October 17President Ruth Simmons recommended the University not change its academic policies toward the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, according to a letter released to the community yesterday. Current policies do not permit ROTC's presence on campus.
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Students debate need-aware admission
By Eli Okun | October 17Nick Petersdorf '12.5 is happy to be in a long-term relationship with Brown, but he wants to spread the love.
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Pension bill promises end to shortfalls
By Morgan Johnson | October 17State and municipal employees will see dramatic changes to their pensions in 2012 if the General Assembly adopts a proposal outlined in a joint address Tuesday.
