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Diddy tweet hints at Spring Weekend appearance

Yes, Diddy did it.

Body of assistant coach found

The body of Denis Chartier, an assistant coach of the women's soccer team, was found Saturday morning inside his parked car in a commuter lot near Route 395 in Griswold, Conn., according to the Providence Journal. Chartier was last seen by his family Feb. 6. He was reported missing to the Burrillville ...

Events celebrate Cape Verdean culture

As nearly 100 guests trickled into Sayles Hall and sampled exotic Cape Verdean cuisine Friday evening, a live band added to the flavor with traditional music from the island nation. The event opened the Third World Center's Cape Verdean Heritage Weekend, which featured a screening of two documentaries ...

New Bookstore return policy proves efficient

Under the Brown Bookstore's new return policy, students returned fewer textbooks, with higher return rates earlier in the semester.

Students head to Boston, rally for tomato pickers

BOSTON —Joining a crowd of almost 1,000, more than two dozen Brown students traveled to Massachusetts on Sunday to protest the low wages and poor working conditions of Florida tomato pickers in the "March to Stop Sweatshops." The march, organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the national ...

Mande rhythms ring through campus

By Kristina Fazzalaro

BuDS ends temporary student hiring freeze

Egypt GISP examines impact of social media

University officials read Brown e-mails

The University has accessed e-mails sent and received on brown.edu accounts 11 times since July 2008, according to David Sherry, chief information security officer for Computing and Information Services. According to the University's e-mail policy, Brown accounts may be accessed "by authorized University ...

Colosseum owner apologizes for alleged assault

Colosseum owner Anthony Santurri apologized for the alleged assault on two students by bouncers inside his downtown nightclub last night.

ResLife: Rise in enrollment will not exacerbate housing crunch

Clarification appended.

TWC to hire new diversity director

The Third World Center will increase its core staff positions to five by hiring an assistant director for diversity initiatives in an effort to foster cultural awareness. The new staff member will work most directly with ethnic student groups on campus and will also serve as an adviser for international ...

Hiroshima survivor calls for peace

"As long as we live on this Earth, we have a responsibility to keep it a happy Earth," said Shigeko Sasamori, a survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, last night during her talk in Salomon 101 about her life and anti-war philosophy. Sasamori was one of 25 Japanese women, known as the Hiroshima Maidens, ...

UCS considers permanent e-mail addresses for alums

The Undergraduate Council of Students reviewed a proposed project to allow alums to maintain their Brown e-mail addresses, approved changes to its Student Activities Code of Operations and discussed the agendas of its constituent committees at its general body meeting Wednesday night.

Humanities departments tout practicality

Though faculty members said they are not concerned about the level of student interest in the humanities, University data show Brown is not immune to the decades-long nationwide decline in the proportion of bachelor's degrees granted in the humanities.

Chafee '75 returns from Houston tour

Governor Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 returned Monday from a two-day tour of the Texas Medical Center. The trip to Houston was the first in a series of tours that Chafee hopes will provide models for technology-fueled growth in Providence's Jewelry District.

Radio host 'plays' with science, octopi, Saddam

What do Saddam Hussein and an octopus have in common? If you are stumped, Radiolab's Robert Krulwich could give you a clue.

Prof dies after long illness

Meiqing Zhang, a senior lecturer in East Asian studies who had taught Chinese since 1988, died Saturday after a long illness.

Student robbed at Brown and Barnes

 The Department of Public Safety e-mailed a crime alert to the campus community at 7:59 p.m. last night regarding the robbery of a male student. According to the alert, the robbery took place near the intersection of Barnes and Brown streets around 1 p.m. yesterday.

No leads in search for asst. women's soccer coach

There are no new leads in the disappearance of Denis Chartier, an assistant coach of the women's soccer team, according to Lt. Kevin San Antonio of the Town of Burrillville Police Department Chartier, 56, was last seen Feb. 6.