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Club Plan offers fine dining for seniors
By Leonardo Moauro | March 2Brown Dining Services' new Club Plan meal option, which allows seniors to enjoy gourmet food at the Faculty Club, kicked off this year and attracted four subscribers.
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UCS recommends new lounge on Pembroke campus
By Ben Noble | March 2The Undergraduate Council of Students is recommending that the University create a new study lounge on Pembroke campus after conducting an audit of all student lounges and study spaces on campus, according to Admissions and Student Services Chair Andrew Bergmanson '11.
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Lieutenant governor candidate will abolish office if elected
By Caitlin Trujillo | March 1Robert Healey thumbed through papers that detail the duties and obligations of the lieutenant governor of Rhode Island — largely consisting of appointments and commission memberships.
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PPD officer charged with assault
By Thomas Jarus | March 1Detective Robert DeCarlo, a 16-year veteran of the Providence Police Department, was arraigned Wednesday at the Rhode Island Superior Court in Providence on two counts of assault. The charges stemmed from an incident last October in which DeCarlo took part in the arrest of a trespassing suspect at the ...
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Joint MBA program will start next year
By Talia Kagan | March 1The IE Brown Executive M.B.A. Program, an experimental business master's program resulting from a partnership between the University and the Instituto Empresa Business School, will begin next spring, Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 announced Monday.Instituto Empresa is a top-tier international business ...
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After troubles, campus co-ops look to future
By Casey Bleho | March 1Watermyn and Finlandia, the two co-operatives that are part of the Brown Association for Cooperative Housing, have recently undergone significant changes, including financial restructuring and complete turnover of their residents since last September, the association's coordinator said.
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UCS continues to work on advising
By Roberto Ferdman | February 28When the Undergraduate Council of Students released its 2009–10 agenda, it highlighted the goal of reviewing advising at Brown. Following its pledge, UCS delivered an "Advising Review" report to the Office of the Dean of the College at the end of last semester. In a brief list of recommendations, ...
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A merging of minds: cognitive sciences and psychology departments to merge
By Nicole Friedman | February 28The Corporation approved the merging of the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and the Department of Psychology into a single department at its meeting Feb. 27. While the two departments will merge when the next fiscal year begins July 1, they will not move into the renovated Metcalf Chemistry ...
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Corporation balances budget, raises tuition
By Sydney Ember | February 28The Corporation approved a $786.6 million budget for the next fiscal year, authorized construction for capital projects and voted to reappoint two of its top members for second terms at its meeting Saturday. The University will also lay off employees at the end of this fiscal year.
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TWC sponsors Cape Verdean culture event
By Ashley Aydin | February 28Claire Andrade-Watkins grew up minutes away from Brown's campus. Andrade-Watkins, an associate professor at Emerson College and a visiting scholar at Brown's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, lived in Providence's Fox Point neighborhood — an experience she shared at the opening ...
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Building projects approved
By Heeyoung Min | February 28The Corporation authorized construction of two capital projects to begin this spring and summer at its meeting Feb. 27.
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Professor creates culturally adapted smoking treatment
By Sofia Castello | February 28Latino smokers respond better to a specially adapted smoking cessation program that is "culturally appropriate," according to a new study from Belinda Borrelli, professor of psychiatry and human behavior.
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Student coalition rallies for budget transparency
By Max Godnick | February 28Correction appended.
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Prop. 8 panel discusses race and sexuality
By Kristina Klara | February 25Civil unions give same-sex couples "only half a loaf" because they are still denied many federal rights and the title of marriage, Occidental College professor and LGBT advocate Ron Buckmire told a nearly empty Salomon 101 Thursday night.
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Corp. to consider ways to balance budget
By Sydney Ember | February 25Faced with the task of further reducing the University's projected budget deficit by $30 million, the Corporation will convene this weekend to finalize plans to balance next fiscal year's operating budget and discuss academic priorities.
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Student robbed at gunpoint
By Claire Peracchio | February 25A Brown student was robbed at gunpoint at approximately 7:41 p.m. on Tuesday, according to an e-mail sent to members of the Brown community yesterday.
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RISD senior creates energy-conserving gadget
By Jonathan Chou | February 25Bloodsucking leeches have always had a bad reputation, but now there's a new leech that doesn't suck.
