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Goldman cancels campus event

Following Occupy Harvard's protest of a Goldman Sachs recruiting event Nov. 28, the firm canceled an information session for Brown students scheduled for last night. Hours before the event was scheduled to begin, the firm replaced its planned function at the CareerLAB with a webinar. The firm denied ...


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Campus ROTC office gains favor

Correction appended. While faculty and students remain divided over the University's policy on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, many community members said they are in favor of the formation of the office for ROTC called for by the Corporation at its October meeting. The on-campus resource, whose ...


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121 commence at midyear ceremony

The philosophies of Eleanor Roosevelt, Kermit the Frog and Pink Floyd were invoked as faculty, students and President Ruth Simmons took the stage of Salomon 101 Saturday to recognize the 121 members of the class of 2011.5.


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Colloquium spurs talk on African politics, language

Poetry married politics in the third Achebe Colloquium on Africa held on campus this weekend. This year marked the first time the two-day colloquium, which included panel discussions and speeches on political issues across Africa, featured poetry readings and literary discussion. The walls of the Martinos ...


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Guided by green, Brown tests uncharted waters

Before the 2008 economic downturn, the University had grand plans. President Simmons' ambitious fundraising campaign was on track to surpass its goal of $1.4 billion. Administrators were eyeing a new home for the Alpert Medical School, construction of state-of-the-art brain science laboratories, increases ...


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Alum launches web magazine

Tired of hearing the girls she mentored at the Wheeler School complain about being bored after school, Amie Darboe '10 decided she wanted to give her students an outlet to express themselves. Near the time of her graduation, she took a leap and launched her own business venture — "High School ...


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Activist discusses politics of AIDS

"It's always been a great time to talk about HIV," Soraya Elcock, HIV/AIDS policy advocate and former vice president for policy and government affairs at Harlem United Community AIDS Center, told The Herald following the lecture she held to top off yesterday's World AIDS Day events on campus.


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BSA to fund social innovation fellowship

Brown Student Agencies has decided to reinvest the proceeds generated from student business ventures to fund an additional C.V. Starr Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship, a summer grant awarded through the Swearer Center for Public Service to support socially responsible entrepreneurship. According to ...


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Library obtains rare Chinese text

The University Library has acquired one of only 10 copies worldwide of the first European-printed book on Chinese medicine, entitled "Les Secrets de la Medecine des Chinois." An addition to the Library's Special Collections, the book was purchased in connection with Brown's Year of China celebration. ...


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Applying math to biology 'nets' success

Imagine the Epcot Center at Disney World — a network of triangular elements curl together to form a silver sphere. Shaped in exactly the same way, viruses are self-assembled from two-dimensional "nets." Scientists show how this folding process could be mimicked to develop new technologies, such as ...


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Despite advances, AIDS still poses threat

When the first American diagnosis of AIDS catapulted it onto the national health scene 30 years ago, the disease was shrouded in mystery and stigma. Since then, major medical breakthroughs and heightened public awareness have made AIDS a more treatable and recognizable threat. But these advances can ...


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Chafee '75 asks DEA to loosen pot restrictions

Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 and Christine Gregoire, governor of Washington, filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to request that marijuana be reclassified as a Schedule II controlled substance, allowing it to be prescribed in states that legalized medical marijuana.


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UCS denounces UC Davis pepper spraying

In response to the recent pepper spraying of students at the University of California at Davis by campus police, the University Council of Students passed a statement defending students' "inalienable right to peaceful assembly" during its final general body meeting of the semester last night.


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