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BCA: Spring Weekend lineup limited by Coachella Festival
By Miriam Furst | March 10Clarification appended.
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Communities may consolidate first-years
By Joseph Rosales | March 10The Office of Residential Life has initiated discussion about possible reorganization and expansion of campus residence and dining halls. The ideas proposed include moving all first-years to either Keeney Quandrangle or Pembroke Campus, expanding the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall, renovating the Sharpe ...
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Impact of Brown's education outreach unclear
By Kat Thornton | March 10Despite the University's perch atop College Hill, students have a long history of engagement with the Providence Public School District. With more than 60 outreach programs in local schools, Brown has a sizable presence within the district. But Rhode Island's education system is in dire straits, and ...
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Grad School refines sixth-year funding plan
By Lindor Qunaj | March 9The Graduate School finalized a new standardized method of awarding funds to sixth-year doctoral candidates yesterday. Funding available for sixth-year students used to depend on the size of the incoming graduate class, but the Grad School will now put aside a set amount of funding for sixth-year students ...
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U. considers energy science concentration
By Jordan Hendricks | March 9The University is considering the creation of an energy science concentration, according to Peter Weber P'12, dean of the Graduate School. The Academic Priorities Committee recommended increasing support for energy science in the October update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment.
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Bills on alcohol hit General Assembly
By Jennifer Kaplan | March 9A bill in the General Assembly would prohibit people ages 18 to 21 from attending nightclubs where alcohol is served — just one of a series of measures related to alcohol and drunk driving under consideration by state lawmakers.
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New police chief named after immigration policy dispute
By Morgan Johnson | March 9Brendan Doherty, superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, announced his resignation March 3, a week after he spoke out in support of the federal immigration enforcement program known as Secure Communities. The public resignation followed a high-profile exchange in which top law enforcement officials ...
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U. considers proposal for new public health master's
By Samier Saeed | March 9The faculty approved a proposal from the Graduate School to create a master's program in clinical and translational research at its meeting March 1.
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More cameras installed on campus
By Greg Jordan-Detamore | March 9The number of security cameras on campus has increased by nearly 40 percent in the past three years to about 250 cameras this year, according to Chief of Police Mark Porter. In 2008, there were 180 security cameras on campus, up from just 60 in 2000.
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After Egypt, students take separate paths
By Katrina Phillips | March 9Since studying abroad together in Alexandria, Egypt, and then evacuating the country together by way of Prague, Michael Dawkins '12 and Amanda Labora '12.5 have taken very different paths. While Dawkins has returned to campus to resume classes, Labora is taking a semester off for Arabic study in Syria ...
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Bill proposes to levy fee on U., hospitals
By Amy Rasmussen | March 9A bill proposed by state Rep. John Carnevale, D-Providence and Cranston, would grant cities and towns the authority to assess a fee on tax-exempt hospitals and private institutions of higher education like Brown. Carnavales introduced the bill on the same day that Providence Mayor Angel Taveras announced ...
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McCormick Timeline
By Brown Daily Herald | March 9Aug. 30, 2006 — First-year orientation begins for William McCormick, then a member of the Class of 2010 and a wrestling recruit.
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Simmons: Increasing revenue 'a defining issue'
By Margaret Yi | March 9Seven top University administrators pulled back the curtain on hot-button issues including the international student experience and faculty tenure during the second annual State of Brown address yesterday in Salomon 101. In a departure from last year's format, which featured a keynote address from President ...
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URI responds to bias-related incidents
By Elizabeth Carr | March 8In response to recent bias-related incidents, University of Rhode Island President David Dooley issued a campus-wide memo Feb. 23 stating that hate-related behavior would not be tolerated.
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Librarian eases pain of orgo
By Hannah Loewentheil | March 8Lee Pedersen, scholarly resource librarian for physical sciences, holds office hours in the lobbies of MacMillan Hall and the Barus and Holley Building to serve as a resource for chemistry and engineering students. Pedersen said she relocated outside the Sciences Library in April 2005 because she wanted ...
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Corporation to decide on creation of lit arts dept.
By Ashley Aydin | March 8The faculty voted to approve a proposal from the literary arts program to become the Department of Literary Arts during its March 1 meeting. The proposal will now go to the Corporation — the University's highest governing body — for approval at its May meeting.
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College-advising org. gets $1.5m grant
By Claire Schlessinger | March 8Four alums will receive federal funding to advise low-income Rhode Island high school students in the college advising process thanks to a recent grant to the National College Advising Corps.
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After hiatus, U. Hall bell ringing out once more
By Aparna Bansal | March 8There's just 20 minutes left. It's quarter of, and — finally — 10 'til. But the minutes keep dragging on. Time is up. Make it stop.
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U. overhauls event planning process
By Leigh Carroll | March 8The University eliminated "several" staff positions to consolidate campus event planning, though no salaries were reduced, wrote Karen Davis, vice president for human resources, in an e-mail to The Herald.
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After switch, U. saves on health insurance
By Jonathan Staloff | March 8Last year's shift to a new prescription drug plan has saved the University an estimated $300,000 while keeping employees satisfied, said Drew Murphy, director of benefits for Human Resources.
