This story is the first in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown University. Students and community members gathered at the State House Monday to protest the non-profit organization Americans for Peace and Tolerance, which assembled to ask Gov. Gina Raimondo to rescind her welcome ...
The University will review a judge's decision regarding a lawsuit filed against it in April after a judge ruled Monday to allow the case to proceed. A former member of the Class of 2017 filed the case against the University and alleges that he was discriminated against due to his gender in a sexual ...
Following the release of the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, the University hosted its first series of diversity training workshops Tuesday titled “Unpacking Diversity and Inclusion in the Academy.” The event was aimed at individuals responsible for undergraduate instruction and co-curricular ...
This year, President’s Day — Feb. 15 — came and went, as students trudged through the cold to make it to a day of classes typically designated a vacation day. Vacation will come a week later in the form of a four-day weekend. As it happens, the long weekend from Feb. 20 to 23, so highly anticipated ...
Members of the Brown University Security Patrolpersons’ Association conducted a secret ballot vote of “no confidence” in Chief of Police Mark Porter and Deputy Chief of Police Paul Shanley of Brown University’s Department of Public Safety Jan. 18, according to BUSPA President Justin Pace. Motions ...
A record-high 293 female-identifying undergraduates participated in sorority recruitment this past weekend, said Emily Serrano ’17, president of the Panhellenic Council. Of these 293 potential new members, 188 received invitations to join one of the three sororities on campus — Alpha Chi Omega, ...
Amara Majeed ’19 was interviewed by “Good Morning America” anchor Amy Robach last week for her #GirlPower series. A self-described feminist and Muslim activist, Majeed is the founder of the Hijab Project, a “social experiment” in which women were encouraged to wear a hijab for a day in public ...
The directors of three University resource centers emphasized the importance of creating safe spaces for a diverse student body in a meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday. Brown Center for Students of Color Interim Director Joshua Segui, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Director Gail ...
Two weeks ago, the University released the final version of its diversity and inclusion action plan, which could not have been compiled without the exhaustive efforts of students throughout last semester. “There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism ...
Updated Feb. 18, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. Emmy Award-winning actress Viola Davis will speak at the University Feb. 29, representatives of the Brown Lecture Board told The Herald. “She did very well in the speaker poll,” said Allie Schaefer ’17, vice president of campus relations for Lecture Board, ...
As part of the “How Structural Racism Works” lecture series, faculty members participated in a round-table discussion about the normalization of structural racism and the ways in which it manifests itself Wednesday night. Organized by Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in ...
A Rhode Island Public Transit Authority bus crashed into a building on Post Road in Warwick Jan. 25. Will Adams ’16, who was aboard the bus, suffered serious injuries and has been recovering at an in-patient rehabilitation clinic in Providence. According to RIPTA’s accident summary — provided ...
Last night in a room of about thirty students, the Brown Democrats hosted its “Candidate Political Forum” in Wilson Hall to present the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates — Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — and the stances they take on various ...
Student activists at Princeton have called for the reconsideration of the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in light of Wilson’s anti-civil rights, pro-segregation and racist views. Brown, too, has honored complicated figures through endowed positions — one of ...
Dean of the College Maud Mandel announced a slight change to the writing requirement, effective for the Class of 2018 and beyond, in an email to all first-years and sophomores Feb. 10. Students could previously submit a piece of written work to satisfy the second writing requirement, but that option ...
In the last decade, many medical schools have removed the requirement for a second semester of organic chemistry and added a semester of biochemistry, said Joanne McEvoy, director of admission at the Warren Alpert Medical School. With recent changes to the MCAT adding material on biochemistry and behavioral ...
Over 40 company booths filled Sayles Hall for the Spring Career Fair Wednesday, as corporate giants from Microsoft to CVS set up shop next to smaller companies to attract potential interns and employees. CareerLAB Director Matthew Donato advised students to consider the fair as “an exercise in relationship-building” ...
In March, the high school class of 2016 will receive word from the universities and colleges to which they submitted regular decision applications, and yet another year of what Frank Bruni of the New York Times has dubbed “college admissions mania” will come to a close. Meanwhile, a new report ...
Video released of Princeton professor’s arrest The Princeton, NJ Police Department released a video Feb. 11 showing the arrest of a black Princeton professor, Imani Perry, for speeding and having several unpaid parking tickets on her record, according to the New York Times. Perry described her arrest ...
While the Office of Residential Life has allowed students with registered disabilities to keep emotional support animals in residence halls for several years, Student and Employee Accessibility Services will publish a clear policy on the matter to its website later in the semester, wrote Catherine Axe, ...
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