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CAPS may join national health initiative

Counseling and Psychological Services is considering signing on to the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, a four-year commitment to reducing substance abuse and preventing suicides among college students, said CAPS Director Sherri Nelson. Since the program’s  launch in June, 56 colleges ...


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Year later, Kelly still fuels campus debates

The shutdown of former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s guest lecture by student and community member protesters cemented the events of Oct. 29, 2013 in Brown’s collective memory. The discourse that followed shook the foundation of the campus, pushing many to reassess and verbally ...


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Sara Overstreet ’16 dies

Sara Overstreet ’16 has died, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Thursday afternoon. Paxson’s email did not specificy a cause of death. A native of San Jose, California, Overstreet was an international relations and English double-concentrator. She was interested in ...


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Fall 2014 Student Poll Results

See accompanying article. 1.  Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University?  8.5%     Strongly approve 33.4%   Somewhat approve 35.5%   No opinion 18.1%   Somewhat disapprove 4.4%     Strongly disapprove   2. Do you approve ...


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Number of TRI-Lab applications holds steady

The University received approximately twice the number of applicants for the number of spots available in the 2015 TRI-Lab by the Oct. 19 deadline, a statistic consistent with past semesters, said Allen Hance, director of the TRI-Lab. Spring 2015 will mark the start of the third iteration of the TRI-Lab, ...


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Undergrads favor student rep on Corp.

Please click the picture to view the matrix. A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted last week found that about 82 percent of the student body supports some form of student representation on the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, while undergraduate opinion of President Christina ...


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This Week in Higher Ed: Oct. 29, 2014

UNC academic fraud scandal increased students’ athletic eligibility, report reveals Administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released a report Oct. 22 that revealed new information about a two-decade-long academic fraud scheme involving the university’s varsity athletes. ...


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CareerLAB sees rise in undergrad job postings

As a recent national study predicts that job opportunities for the graduating class of 2015 will increase by 16 percent, CareerLAB has seen signs of a strong hiring cycle for Brown seniors, administrators said. There have been more job postings on the Job and Internship Board and more technology companies ...


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Performance groups juggle Family Weekend ticket prices

Unfamiliar faces dotted the audiences at a cappella concerts and dance shows this weekend as parents, siblings and other guests flocked to campus theaters and auditoriums to support student performers and experience a taste of Brown culture. But what was afternoon entertainment for many visiting families ...


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Ruth Simmons inaugurates Slavery and Justice Center

Former President Ruth Simmons spoke on the role of universities in recognizing historical and current civil and human rights violations at the inauguration of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Friday afternoon. Her speech, entitled “Confronting Historic Wrongs: A University’s Dilemma,” ...


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U. restricts travel due to threat of Ebola

Due to the recent Ebola outbreak, the University is placing restrictions on travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia except for purposes of eradicating or containing the disease, Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, Unab Khan, medical director of University ...


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Number of Brown grads entering TFA drops sharply

Brown dropped this year from 10th to 18th place in Teach for America’s top contributing medium-sized college and university rankings. Only 17 alums joined the 2014 corps, compared to 31 in 2013 and 36 in 2012. All other Ivy League universities in the medium-sized category also dropped in rankings ...


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In conversation: George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin was always interested in fantasy, dreaming of the world beyond the five blocks he walked to and from school each day in his childhood hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey. His first published work was released in 1971, just after he graduated college, marking an auspicious start to a successful ...


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Pop culture, science fiction intersect at talk

The world is in a “golden age of fantasy,” proclaimed best-selling author George R.R. Martin, invoking an image as whimsical as his stories to a packed Salomon 101, where he and publisher Tom Doherty were interviewed about their experiences in science fiction and fantasy writing Thursday. The powerful ...




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