A consistent rise in crime throughout 2011 and 2012 — punctuated by 14 robbery cases in the spring of 2012 and prominent incidents of violence — left many students concerned about their safety on campus. This rise in violent crime prompted the Department of Public Safety to focus on initiatives ...
A small fire broke out on the third floor of Jameson House in Keeney Quadrangle Monday evening, said Captain David Soscia of the Providence Fire Department. The cause of the fire was unknown and was under investigation by the fire marshal at press time, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus ...
Warning: This article contains graphic material regarding sexual assault. On a campus that openly celebrates consensual sex, many students do not regularly confront what happens when lines of consent are violated or blurred. “Brown students love talking about sex,” said Devon Reynolds ...
The strategic planning committees are working on condensing their individual recommendations into a “single, integrated, strategic plan for Brown,” said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 at a community forum on the strategic planning process Friday. Schlissel and nine chairs of the six planning committees ...
Spring Weekend festivities elicited praise from concert attendees this year, as many students indicated satisfaction with the Main Green performances of headliners A-Trak and Kendrick Lamar Friday and Saturday. “The concerts ran really smoothly,” said BCA Publicity Chair Raillan Brooks ’13, adding ...
Claims on social media platforms that Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012, was a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings were dispelled Friday morning when Boston Police Department officers named Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the two suspects. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed ...
The race for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students will be determined by a run-off between Todd Harris ’14.5 and Afia Kwakwa ’14, the UCS Elections Board announced at 12:01 a.m. Friday on the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center. A run-off is employed when no candidate receives ...
About 31 percent of the faculty strongly approves of Christina Paxson’s performance as president, and 35 percent reported they somewhat approve, according to a poll of the faculty The Herald conducted April 8 to April 12. Another 30 percent said they were not familiar enough to answer or had no opinion ...
The race for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students may develop into a close contest between Todd Harris ’14.5 and Afia Kwakwa ’14, according to polling conducted by The Herald. Out of 230 students polled, 110 — 47.8 percent of the total — said they voted for Harris, and 99 students, ...
Students from North Carolina could face difficulty voting in their home state if legislation passes removing a tax credit for familities whose children vote from outside of the state. The bill, introduced by state legislators, has prompted outcry from opponents who allege the measures are designed ...
Five Brown students were selected to join the fellowship class of 2013 of Venture for America, a non-profit organization that connects new college graduates with two-year positions helping entrepreneurial startups in economically disadvantaged cities. The students — Moss Amer ’13, Zoe Chaves ...
A student group affiliated with the Dean of the College, 6,000 Voices, is working with the Undergraduate Council of Students to extend the First Readings program — in which incoming first years are assigned a summer reading assignment — to include all four years of college. The program, which would ...
Brown Concert Agency’s decision to hold a re-vote for the Spring Weekend student DJ sparked an outcry from some students who alleged the decision was unwarranted and not communicated in a clear and timely manner. BCA held an initial poll from March 22 to April 5 for students to choose a DJ, who will ...
Ron Paul skirted around potentially controversial issues and was met with respectful enthusiasm at a lecture Tuesday night in Salomon 101. Sharing his views on a plethora of political issues, Paul punctuated his lecture by voicing his distrust of politicians and government, at one point saying he wanted ...
A Day on College Hill had record-high attendance among students admitted through the regular decision process, with 823 of 2,649 students accepted to the class of 2017 flocking to campus from Sunday to Tuesday. This year also marked the first time the Third World Welcome was incorporated into the ADOCH ...
College social life is often perceived to be characterized by rampant drug and alcohol use, a stereotype reinforced by movies, television, books and popular culture. It may come as little surprise, then, that just shy of 85 percent of Brown students reported they have consumed alcohol and 49 percent ...
After controversy flared online Sunday over a proposed budget cut to the literary arts publication Visions, a meeting Monday afternoon between Undergraduate Finance Board representatives and Visions leaders appeared to partially resolve what UFB members described as a misunderstanding. But Visions ...
Seniors will present on topics ranging from Algebra in Motion to the use of classical music in television advertisements during the fourth annual Theories in Action conference April 26-28. Ninety-six seniors will participate, up from 21 participants last year and nearly twice as many as in 2010, when ...
No Brown students were reported injured after two bombs exploded by the Boston Marathon’s finish line around 2:50 p.m. yesterday, though at least 20 students and alums attended the event. Three people were killed, and almost 150 people were injured in the incident, multiple news outlets reported ...
As the University undertakes major changes to its housing system with a multimillion-dollar investment on the line, students expressed mixed views on how well residential life builds community. First-year units and mutual friends are the most common ways students form connections that lead to housing ...
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