The stereotypical college dress code, immortalized in films and books, includes ripped jeans, untied sneakers and a sweatshirt bearing the college's name. But looking around Brown yields a different conclusion — students are more inclined toward stylish, sporty chic and dapper get-ups rather than ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde '90, adjunct professor of English, spoke about investigative reporting and the future of online journalism last night. After the talk, he sat down with The Herald.
Some Ivy League students may be single this Valentine's Day, but they don't have to be. Two dating websites started by alums in the past two years are helping Brown students and others find love.
"You're going to feel hopeless," Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Rohde '90 told a room of almost 50 students and community members last night. "You're going to feel there's no future in journalism. Breaks will come."
Mayor Angel Taveras stressed the importance of making sacrifices as the city faces the looming threat of bankruptcy during his annual State of the City address last night. In an unprecedented gesture, Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 attended the speech, standing behind Taveras as he spoke.
A pipe burst in the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall Friday, closing the facility before lunchtime for the rest of the day. The cause of the leak was still unclear as of Sunday, but the V-Dub will reopen today, wrote Ann Hoffman, director of administration and human resources for Brown Dining Services in ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students has extended the deadline for students to vote on its proposed constitutional change to 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. The original deadline was last night. The proposed amendment would allow UCS to draw its budget directly from the Student Activities Fund rather than ...
The Corporation, the University's highest governing body, approved a $56 million overhaul of campus housing at its meeting this weekend, bringing to fruition a plan administrators have been developing for years. Most dorms will be renovated or improved by fall 2013. According to the plan, all first-years ...
The University's endowment grew approximately 16 percent over the past fiscal year, according to the 2011 Study of Endowments released last month by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. College endowments included in the study experienced an average growth of about 19 ...
The Corporation, the University's highest governing body, approved an $865.2 million budget for the coming fiscal year — raising tuition by 3.5 percent — at its meeting this past weekend.
Members of the Brown community gathered Friday evening to rededicate the Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory, the new home of the department of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences, which underwent a $42 million renovation over the past year and a half.
A proposed amendment to the Undergraduate Council of Students' constitution has been met with mixed response, though many student group leaders have expressed concern that the amendment would place additional power in the council's hands at the expense of other groups.
It all started when Malcolm Burnley '12 went digging in the John Hay Library archives for a historical narrative assignment in his creative nonfiction class. What he found catapulted him into the national spotlight — a tape of a speech given by then-Nation of Islam Minister Malcolm X in ...
In its annual report released last November, the Diversity Advisory Board announced that it will seek to recruit more Native American students, faculty and staff. The report noted that the board has not actively worked to increase this group's presence on campus in the past.
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