Planning for the 250th anniversary of the University’s founding and efforts in student engagement were the main points of discussion at an open forum between students and Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy and chair of the committee on reimagining the campus ...
There is no simple solution to the problem of gun-related violence in the United States, three panelists said in “Guns in America: Reducing Crime,” the first in a three-part Janus Forum miniseries. Though the panelists agreed on the absence of an easy solution, they clashed in their evaluations ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to support the Brown Divest Coal campaign’s resolution calling for the University to divest from the 15 “filthiest” coal technology companies at its general body meeting Wednesday. Council members said they supported the resolution because of its ideological, ...
Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 has rejected a proposal from the Faculty Exeuctive Committee to compensate faculty members for service in University governance, according to minutes from a Feb. 12 FEC meeting. The proposal was drafted to address the chronic shortage of candidates for faculty governance ...
Extending need-blind admission to all students — including international, transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students — would cost the University around $250 million, said President Christina Paxson in her State of Brown address Wednesday. Paxson also highlighted the current state of ...
Administrators and faculty members have expressed concern about what they called the small share of University funds allocated to the grad school, a subject currently being discussed by members of the Committee on Doctoral Education. Faculty members criticized the level of funds the graduate school ...
“If one more person tells me that ‘all gender is performance,’ I think I am going to strangle them,” proclaimed Julia Serano, author and spoken word performer, in the opening of her spoken word piece “Performance Piece.” The piece was one of two Serano performed after her lecture about ...
The Political Theory Project will co-sponsor a three-part Janus Forum Lecture miniseries with the Office of the President starting this Thursday entitled “Guns in America” to address gun culture, gun violence and the question of gun ownership based on mental health. “Guns in America” differs ...
Harvard administration draws fire for searching deans’ emails Several Harvard officials have confirmed that university administrators secretly accessed 16 resident deans’ email accounts last fall to find evidence of a leak to the media about an undergraduate cheating scandal that occurred last ...
University parking officers are set to unionize under the United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island, pending final signatures on a draft agreement between the University and union officials. Under the current draft of the agreement between the University and the union, parking officers will ...
Around 60 students have officially joined the ranks of Kappa Delta, the University’s newest sorority, said Susan Chen ’15. The sorority has secured housing in Harkness Hall for next year, said Bethany Cutmore-Scott ’16. Emails containing bids were sent out on Sunday, said Clara Beyer ’14, who ...
Rachel Bishop ’13 was arrested on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct at the TransCanada Corporation’s Northeast Regional Office while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline yesterday in Westborough, Mass. Three other Brown undergraduates — Emily Kirkland ’13, Rebecca Rast ’13.5 ...
Free Spring Weekend tickets will no longer be offered to residents of Hope College and Slater Hall starting this semester, according to an announcement in Morning Mail in February. The Brown Concert Agency has also changed the way students will purchase tickets, said Emma Ramadan ’13, BCA booking ...
Thomas Perez ’83, current assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, will be nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor during the president’s second term, multiple national news sources reported this weekend. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Perez will become the first ...
The University may repurpose the top four floors of the Sciences Library based on recommendations from the Campus Planning Advisory Board’s February report. The project is still in the planning stages, and no official timeline has been set. Planners said they expect potential uses for the space to ...
The lack of a large-scale concert venue on or near campus — an issue many students and faculty members in the Department of Music consider a priority — has come to the forefront since the Jan. 25 release of the strategic planning interim reports. In its interim report, the Committee on Reimagining ...
Students purchasing salads at both Josiah’s and the Blue Room can elect to use compostable salad containers, an option introduced by Brown Dining Services this semester. The new containers, made out of compostable wheat straw materials, are longer and more shallow than the old containers, which are ...
International peace and birth control are more closely related than one would think, said Aiko Takeuchi, visiting assistant professor of American Studies. Twelve people sat in a circle in the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center lounge Friday — International Women’s Day — to hear Takeuchi deliver a talk ...
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education announced that Alpert Medical School will continue its accreditation for the next eight years after passing in all 120 categories with no citations. “Having no citations is extraordinary,” said Michele Cyr, associate dean for academic affairs, noting that ...
The University will likely not be seriously affected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the affirmative action admissions case Fisher v. University of Texas, which is expected to be decided by the court in May or June. “There’s a very strong expectation that the court will do away with (affirmative ...
Solutions by The State News
