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College Hill sports new clothing store
By Sydney Ember | November 16Friday the 13th wasn't so unlucky for the storefront at 183 Angell St.
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Time honors former president Gee
By Brigitta Greene | November 16Former Brown president Gordon Gee, the current president of Ohio State University, was named "The Big Man on Campus" among the top 10 college presidents by Time Magazine earlier this month.
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Research explores nerve cell regeneration
By Julia Kim | November 16A team of scientists led by a Brown professor is conducting research that could lead to the regeneration of injured nerve cells and renewed feeling in numb, damaged body parts.
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Four months later, Rohde '90 recounts captivity
By Jenna Stark | November 16Few people captured by the Taliban live to tell the tale.
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Q&A with Rajmohan Gandhi
By Sydney Ember | November 15Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of the Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi, sat down with The Herald before his lecture Sunday to discuss his grandfather's legacy and his views on East-West relations.The Herald: Both of your grandfathers were very prominent freedom fighters in the Indian independence movement. ...
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Four arrested in fight at sorority party
By Alexandra Ulmer | November 15Four men who were "harassing" Department of Public Safety officers outside a party in Alumnae Hall were arrested Saturday night by Providence police officers for disorderly conduct, according to Lt. John Ryan, commander of PPD Dist. 9.A student who attended the Delta Sigma Theta party, called "Scandalous," ...
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Gandhi explains a confluence of ideas
By Sydney Ember | November 15"The non-violence of King and Gandhi had a strong element of courtesy and forgiveness," Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, told a packed Salomon 101 Sunday.The former member of India's Upper House of Parliament, current president of Initiatives of Change International and renowned author and ...
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Whitehouse: Time isn't on Congress' side
By Alicia Dang | November 14Time is running out when it comes to reforming health care and passing legislation to curb damage to the environment, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., told a crowd of about 100 in a talk at Salomon 101 Friday.The talk was the second of a two-part series organized by the Brown Democrats.One of the biggest ...
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In fifth year, Strait Talk builds bridges once again
By Max Godnick | November 12Fifteen student delegates from Taiwan, China and the United States have been on campus since last week to discuss and mediate disputes among the three countries at the fifth annual Strait Talk symposium. Originally founded by Johnny Lin '08, this year's Strait Talk ended Thursday after a week of workshops, ...
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A year after election, three in four approve of Obama
By Sarah Julian | November 12More than three in four students — 77.2 percent — approve of the way President Obama is handling his job, with 19.8 percent strongly approving and 57.4 percent somewhat approving, according to a recent Herald poll.
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Employee campaign for charity underway
By Leonardo Moauro | November 12The Brown Gives Green campaign, an annual employee-centered charity drive, has kicked off a new season of giving after raising nearly $180,000 last year.
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Nonprofit founder talks up innovation
By Emily Rosen | November 11Diana Wells '88, president of the global social entrepreneurship organization Ashoka, spoke about the future of business-based ventures for achieving social change before a small crowd in Barus and Holley Wednesday night. Wells outlined Ashoka's mission and discussed the group's future in the rapidly ...
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Simmons, Reed honor Veterans Day on campus
By Monique Vernon | November 11Strains of bagpipe music lingered in the air as students, faculty and Providence community members gathered on the Main Green Wednesday to honor the soldiers who have served in armed duty. But unlike previous Veteran's Day ceremonies at Brown, for the first time in 20 years a University president and ...
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Tricks and non-fiction truths with writer Shenk '88
By Lindor Qunaj | November 11Data smog: the impenetrable mass of information available online.
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City schools re-evaluate facilities
By Anish Gonchigar | November 11Providence Public Schools recently finished the first round of community meetings to update their Facilities Master Plan, drawing on comments from parents and community members to craft a set of recommendations to improve the school system's facilities.According to Chief Operating Officer Carleton Jones, ...
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Carcieri vetoes domestic partner bill
By George Miller | November 11Following last week's special session at the General Assembly, Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 issued a number of vetoes this week, canceling bills that would have allowed domestic partners to plan each other's funerals and provide for special elections to fill Senate vacancies.The bill to allow domestic partners ...
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Simmons, campus welcome Achebe
By Ana Alvarez | November 10Correction appended. Newly appointed Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe was officially welcomed into the Brown community Tuesday afternoon with a public conversation between the celebrated Nigerian author and President Ruth Simmons. Achebe, a world-renowned novelist, poet and critic, was ...
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Drop in probations credited to advising changes
By Alex Bell | November 10The number of students on academic probation has declined for the third year in a row, according to the Faculty Committee on Academic Standing's annual report presented at last week's faculty meeting.
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State pols talk prostitution at Dems event
By Ben Schreckinger | November 10State Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Dist. 3, and Sen. Rhoda Perry P'91, D-Dist. 3 — whose districts include College Hill — spoke to about 40 Brown students about Rhode Island government and politics in Wilson 101 Tuesday night. The event was part of the Brown Democrats' "Better Know Your District" ...
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Reform in the works for research review board
By Sydney Ember | November 10A series of reforms is underway that the University hopes will streamline Institutional Review Board procedures involving the ethical treatment of human research subjects. In response to recommendations in a report issued by a Research Advisory Board subcommittee last spring, the IRB and the Research ...
