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Commission would examine challenges of election reform
By Elizabeth Carr | March 23Correction appended.
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Ed. commissioner maintains positive outlook for R.I. schools
By Elizabeth Carr | March 23Education Commissioner Deborah Gist expressed optimism about the implementation of federal Race to the Top funding and the current outlook for the state's education program in front of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Health, Education and Welfare Committee yesterday. She did not touch on recent ...
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At forum, community laments school closings
By Kat Thornton | March 23At a meeting to address the announced Providence school closings yesterday at Classical High School, upset students, teachers and parents loudly expressed opposition and urged the Providence Public School Board to reconsider the city's decision to close their schools.
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Study abroad apps up, but none to Egypt
By Shanoor Seervai | March 23Study abroad applications for this fall jumped to 310, up from 243 applications for last fall. But applications for programs in the Middle East did not see a similar rise — the Office of International Programs received 11 applications for programs in the region, the same number as last year.
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UCS calls for water options in Faunce
By David Chung | March 23The Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution to increase water availability in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center and discussed the categorizations of approximately 30 student groups at its general body meeting last night. In response to complaints the council has received from students ...
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Feedback scarce on library database
By Jeffrey Handler | March 23The University Library is struggling to obtain student and faculty feedback on a one-month trial of a materials science database, said Lee Pedersen, scholarly resources librarian. The database — called Material ConneXion — provides information about a wide variety of materials often used ...
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Students rally against anti-gay marriage demonstrators
By Amy Rasmussen | March 23Garbed in formal black and red attire and hoisting medieval-looking banners, a faction of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property — a national organization that opposes gay marriage — descended on the Main Green at approximately 11 a.m. yesterday. The men were there ...
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Facing pay wall, Library to offer digital Times
By Talia Kagan | March 23The University Library will continue to provide students with full same-day online access to New York Times articles after the paper erects its pay wall March 28, though the format for reading articles will be different from the Times' website.
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U. looks to industry for sponsored research support
By Mark Raymond | March 22As stimulus funds run dry and federal agencies tighten their budgets, the University plans to increasingly turn to corporate-sponsored research.
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Off the mark: ditching grades for S/NC
By Rebecca Ballhaus | March 22During finals season, throngs of bleary-eyed students flock to the libraries and do not emerge for what seems like eons. People stare angrily at textbooks, willing themselves to absorb the information — and praying to just get a good grade in that class.
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Panelists offer perspective on earthquake and effects
By Claire Schlessinger | March 22A panel of four professors with expertise relating to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami met yesterday evening to ask how a country should preemptively prepare for an event that may or may not happen — but could have a catastrophic effect. In front of a half-full MacMillan 115, the professors ...
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Bands hope to drum up more space
By Leah Bromberg | March 22The Coalition of Bands at Brown is hoping to increase funds and equipment to better accommodate independent musicians on campus.
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Electron tracking yields prize for physics professor
By Emily Rosen | March 22Professor of Physics Humphrey Maris will receive the 2011 Fritz London Memorial Prize at the 26th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics for developing a method to track the activity of a single electron in liquid helium.
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Students reestablish historically black frat
By Samier Saeed | March 22Two students have reactivated the Brown chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. this year. The historically black fraternity was deactivated in 2003 — when its last member graduated — but has been revived by Raymond Jackson '12 and Marc Howland '11.
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Japan study abroad canceled
By Shefali Luthra | March 22The University will not allow students to study abroad in Japan this spring, Kendall Brostuen, associate dean of the College and director of international programs, wrote last night in an email to The Herald. The six students who would have studied in Japan will be offered spots at Dartmouth for its ...
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New fund targets student start-ups
By Hannah Loewentheil | March 22Innovative students now have access to a new source of funding, as the University continues to increase its entrepreneurial support. The Brown Venture Launch Fund — a collaboration between the Dean of the College, the Social Innovation Initiative at the Swearer Center for Public Service and the ...
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City waits to approach U. for increased contribution
By Morgan Johnson | March 21Though Providence Mayor Angel Taveras is reviewing recommendations to garner more revenue from non-profits, representatives of the city's hospitals and higher education institutions said officials have not yet approached them about increasing contributions to the city.
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Professor sues U. over research protocol
By Amy Rasmussen | March 21Associate Professor of Education Jin Li filed a complaint in federal court late last month against the University in response to a Brown Institutional Review Board decision that blocked her from publishing three years worth of data from her study on the education and socialization of Chinese immigrant ...
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Spring 2011 Herald poll results
By Brown Daily Herald | March 21Do you think the ban on ROTC should be lifted? Strongly approve: 16.94% Somewhat approve: 25.93% Not familiar enough to answer: 20.45% Somewhat disapprove: 13.95% Strongly disapprove: 9.71% No opinion: 13.02% What school was your first choice when applying to college? Brown: 64.25% Harvard: ...
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Providence still reeling from school closing announcement
By Claire Peracchio | March 21Without his Providence public school education, Mayor Angel Taveras would not be where he is today, he told audience members at a forum to address pending school closings. But, he said, the city's fiscal challenges require overhauling the school system to cut costs, meaning fewer schools and unwanted ...
