Providence’s Comprehensive Plan sparks debate on student housing
By Avani Ghosh | October 17On Monday, Providence’s City Council will vote on an updated Comprehensive Plan, a ten-year roadmap for the city.
On Monday, Providence’s City Council will vote on an updated Comprehensive Plan, a ten-year roadmap for the city.
Transparency, campus dining and mental health services — in addition to divestment and democratization — are the top issues for the Undergraduate Council of Students this year, according to an email sent to all undergraduates on Oct. 7.
At a growing number of institutions, including Brown, student labor organizations allege that administrators’ crackdowns on their pro-Palestine demonstrations violate federal labor law that protects certain types of work-related protest activity.
On Tuesday, Rhode Island’s largest hospital system, Lifespan, was officially renamed Brown University Health. The change comes as part of expanded affiliation agreements and a multi-million dollar annual investment from Brown.
Undergraduate students are voting on a referendum proposing student representation in Brown’s highest governing body, the Corporation.
Last week, the District Court of Connecticut dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Brown and the other Ivy League universities violated federal antitrust law by not offering scholarships to student athletes. Despite the setback, the plaintiffs plan to appeal the decision, further complicating the University’s ...
On Wednesday evening, members of Jews for Ceasefire Now erected a “Gaza Solidarity Sukkah” on the Quiet Green to mark the week-long holiday of Sukkot, one of the Jewish High Holy Days.
International students at Brown now have access to Interstride, an online portal to assist in their career search.
The Underground Coffee Company, Brown’s only student-run coffee shop, received 10 violations from the Rhode Island Department of Health in an Oct. 3 report.
The approval rating for President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 climbed 8.5 points to 25.2% this semester, according to data from The Herald’s fall poll, which surveyed 1,177 students. Last semester, her approval ratings hit their lowest point since at least 2018, with disapproval rates soaring ...
Mark Gould and his toddler son, Tommy, have been visiting the Roger Williams Park Zoo since Tommy was born. On their first trip, an endangered snow leopard came up to the edge of its exhibit and looked right at Tommy, Gould recalled. “His eyes lit up.”
A Herald poll found that female students are less likely to study the physical sciences compared to their male counterparts at Brown. 45% of female students study the physical sciences compared to 59% of men — a 14 percentage point gap.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militants invaded southern Israel in a surprise attack, killing around 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages back to Gaza. The Israeli military responded by launching airstrikes and a ground invasion in Gaza, setting into motion an ongoing offensive that has killed more ...
Southeastern New England leads the way for the up-and-coming offshore wind industry.
It’s a seemingly age-old question: which of Brown’s general chemistry courses should first-semester pre-medical students take?
On Wednesday afternoon, students and faculty received a rare email from Brown’s Corporation. The email announced that the governing body voted in a special meeting to strike down a student-written proposal to divest from companies with Israeli military ties.
Pro-divestment activists want student representation in the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.
With the 2024 presidential election fast approaching and the University considering changes to legacy admissions, The Herald polled 1,177 undergraduates about their opinions on the issues facing Brown students.
On Wednesday, the University announced that the Corporation will not divest from 10 companies with ties to Israel after an advisory body recommended against a divestment proposal.
A new proposed class action lawsuit filed Monday claims the University and 39 other elite colleges participated in a price-fixing scheme that increased the cost of attendance for students with separated or divorced parents.