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Police rescue URI student from 8-inch alleyway

Providence Fire and Rescue and the Providence Police Department led a rescue effort early Friday morning after an apparently intoxicated woman became trapped in a narrow space between FedEx Kinko's and City Sports near the corner of Meeting and Thayer streets.   Courtney Malloy, a University of ...


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World Bank economist discusses past, future of India

Discussing India's politics and economic prospects, World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu emphasized the importance of incorporating sound economic theory into practical policy making work in a lecture Friday afternoon. The lecture, entitled "From the Slopes of Raisina Hill: India's Economic Reforms ...


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Psych director to step down

Belinda Johnson, director of Psychological Services, will retire at the end of this year, wrote Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, in an email Friday. Johnson will step down after 20 years as director and 35 years with Psychological Services, where she started as ...


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URC opens up budget discussion to community

The University Resources Council held its annual open forum to discuss the budgeting process and how it affects members of the University community Thursday evening.  A crowd of staff, students and faculty crowded into Petterutti Lounge to hear Provost Mark Schlissel P'15, chair of the URC, speak ...


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Expanded printing reinstated for engineers

The School of Engineering implemented a 20-page-per-week printing quota for most of its students last Wednesday. The new policy comes after students objected to the revoking of  more extensive printing privileges for concentrators this semester, said David Mycue, the school's director of information ...


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Faculty unanimously approves public health school

The Program in Public Health took a major step toward becoming an officially accredited school as the faculty unanimously approved the school's formation at their meeting Tuesday. The faculty vote marks "the last of the campus approval steps" in the 12-year effort to establish the school for public ...


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U. ranks first for 2012 undergrad Fulbrights

Brown ranked third among research universities in the number of Fulbright grants awarded this year, according to a report published Oct. 28 by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Twenty-seven recent alums from the classes of 2012 and 2011 and two graduate students received the scholarship out of Brown's ...


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Students track results at SPEC event

The Leung Gallery in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center normally inspires a strict code of silence - even heavy footsteps can draw angry glares during a midterms week. But on election night, the space pulsed with excited anticipation as it played host to the Special Event Committee's ReSPECt the Exec ...


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Faculty profile: Q&A with Brian Evenson

Professor of Literary Arts Brian Evenson has authored novels, short story collections and even a few video game-based books, all falling within the genre of horror and science fiction. He recently published a novel entitled "Dead Space: Catalyst," the second book he has written based on the third-person ...


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Students report faring well in pursuit of happiness

Nearly 84 percent of students said they feel at least as happy as their peers on average, according to a poll conducted by The Herald earlier this month. About half the students polled reported feeling equally as happy as their peers. More than 35 percent reported feeling happier, while only around ...


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UCS strategizes athlete integration

 Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students spoke to representatives from the Student Athletic Advising Committee, Ryan McDuff '13 and Lindsay Nickel '13, as well as Director of Athletics Jack Hayes, at their weekly meeting. The guests presented an agenda to promote the greater integration of ...


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Speaker studies amendment to the letter

Americans talk a lot about First Amendment rights. But how much do we really stop to think about its punctuation and the specially chosen words that give it meaning? Not enough, says Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover ...




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