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‘Ginger with soul’: Seniors see start-up success

After getting their hands dirty juicing hundreds of pounds of ginger root, Max Easton ’16 and Nico Enriquez ’16 can now see their product — Farmer Willie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer — at 40 retail locations on Cape Cod. Enriquez, a former Herald opinions columnist, and Easton used seed money from ...


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Meal plan offerings dish out varied per-meal values

Students have just one week left to decide on a meal plan before the Sept. 30 deadline for changing or canceling a meal plan. The eight primary meal plans — three “flex” varieties, four fixed meal varieties and an off-campus plan ­— are priced differently and offer dramatically different values. The ...


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Title IX Office improves sexual misconduct policies

It has been nearly a year since the date-rape drug and sexual assault cases following a party at the former Phi Kappa Psi fraternity ignited a campus-wide conversation on the University’s perceived mishandling of sexual misconduct cases. It has been six months since Act4RJ — a student organization ...


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Forum offers details, feedback on operational plan

The University will spend more than $1 billion over the next decade on investments in people as it pursues the “Operational Plan for Building Brown’s Excellence,” said President Christina Paxson P’19 at an open forum Monday afternoon. The plan “focuses on investing in the people who make ...


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Students appointed to Title IX Council, Oversight Board

The University has appointed undergraduates, graduate students and medical students to the newly formed Title IX Council and the Title IX Oversight Board. The move, recommended by the Task Force on Sexual Assault in its April final report, comes as part of a larger effort to improve campus sexual misconduct ...


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Blow decries racial inequality in America

“Equality must be won by every generation because it will never be freely granted,” New York Times columnist Charles Blow told a sold-out crowd of students, faculty and community members Thursday in Salomon 101. Blow’s lecture, entitled “The New Civil Rights Movement,” addressed the implications ...


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Sorting the stats: the college rankings craze

Depending on whom you ask, Brown may be the nation’s sexiest, smartest college. It might also be the best, smartest party school. It may even rank in the top ten U.S. colleges. But each ranking stacks the various factors differently and has its own idea of which should be taken into consideration, ...


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Grad students begin ResLife enforcement

Graduate students have been hired to patrol first-year residence halls and program houses to reduce disturbances and increase alcohol safety on weekend nights. This initiative was one of several recommendations from the Alcohol and Social Event Review committee’s report — released to the community ...


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UCS gathers feedback on plans for semester

The Undergraduate Council of Students sought internal feedback on the thematic areas it plans to address this year at its first general body meeting Wednesday night. UCS President Sazzy Gourley ’16 said the council has struggled in the past with a lack of transparency and a retroactive confrontation ...


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Andrews Commons composting program sees uncertain future

The University has discontinued the composting program in Andrews Commons following the end of the pilot program last semester. The Office of Energy and Environment is currently weighing strategies for proceeding with sustainability efforts in regards to composting. Brown is the only Ivy League institution ...


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Brown hires strategic sourcing manager

As part of the University’s efforts to reduce its structural deficit, a strategic sourcing manager will begin working at Insurance and Purchasing Services Monday, said Jeanne Hebert, purchasing director. Hebert declined to identify the new hire before Monday due to confidentiality concerns, though ...


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This week in higher ed: Sept. 16, 2015

Baruch students face murder charges for hazing death Five students from Manhattan’s Baruch College will face murder charges for the December 2013 death of Chun Hsein Deng, almost two years after a hazing incident for the fraternity Pi Delta Psi led to Deng’s fatal head injury, the New York Times ...


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Malala doc takes human look at girl behind a movement

“It is better to live like a lion for one day than to live like a slave for 1,000 years,” Malala Yousafzai says over the beautiful opening sequence of, “He Named Me Malala.” The quote comes from Malalai, her namesake and a girl who led Afghani forces over the British Empire in 1880. This name ...


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Hack halts first-year sexual assault training

The University’s new online sexual assault prevention training for first-years was hacked last month. As a result, the website was taken down Aug. 26, and some first-years have not completed the program, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for Computing and Information Services. The program, called ...



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