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Firm to collect unpaid parking tickets
By Sahil Luthra | October 31The Transportation Office now uses a third-party company to collect fines for unpaid parking tickets issued on campus.
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At home, no Gmail for Chinese students
By Margaret Yi | October 31Some students check their Brown e-mail every day. Some do it every hour. But imagine not being able to access it for three months — that's what some international students from China were dealing with this past summer.
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Computer science tops in academic violations last year
By Tony Bakshi | October 31Forty-two students were cited with potential violations of the Academic Code last academic year — with nearly 70 percent of the cases coming from the Department of Computer Science, according to a faculty committee's report released this month.
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Number of history concentrators falls
By David Chung | October 31The number of students concentrating in history has sharply declined over the past few years, according to Nancy Jacobs, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History.
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Program's small size a strength, say medieval students
By Elizabeth Carr | October 31Students in large concentrations often relish the opportunity to trade big lecture halls for the intimacy of the seminar room. For students in small concentrations, tight-knit seminars and personal attention are the rule, not the exception.
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NYC education chancellor: U.S. schools 'in crisis'
By Kat Thornton | October 28Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, is not quite sure how he got his job, or how he has kept it for eight years. The nontraditional education reformer spoke Thursday about the problems in the American education system, and the difficult, but necessary, task of improvement. ...
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GLISPs more popular in second year
By Rebecca Ballhaus | October 28Global Independent Study Projects — GLISPs — are entering their second year with more students than ever. This fall, 19 students embarked on the projects, compared to the 14 students who participated in the pilot program last fall, and 11 last spring.
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Contract for library workers expires today
By Alex Bell | October 28Nearly a month after its original Sept. 30 expiration date, the twice-extended contract between the University and the library workers union is set to expire today.
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Political scientist: Jewish vote not crucial
By Katherine Sola | October 28The Jewish vote "doesn't seem to matter" in determining the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, political scientist Bryan Daves argued Thursday evening. The Yeshiva University professor presented his study of election data to about 15 students and faculty at the Watson Institute for International ...
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Provost talks tuition, financial aid at URC forum
By Chip Lebovitz | October 27Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 delved into budgetary matters at Wednesday's open forum of the University Resources Committee, discussing the role of tuition increases and financial aid in the University's plan to balance its books after losing nearly $740 million from the endowment in fiscal year ...
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Group combats international students' culture shock
By Nicole Boucher | October 27In one solitary corner of an otherwise still Pembroke campus last Thursday, freshly carved jack o' lanterns illuminated the beaming faces of first-years hailing from Africa to Asia, from Brazil to Beijing. The pumpkin-carving event, a program sponsored annually by the International Mentorship Program, ...
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University speaks on library contract negotiations
By Alex Bell | October 27The University defended its specific positions on the ongoing library contract negotiations for the first time since the contract was extended after the two sides failed to reach an agreement.
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ResLife to push off-campus option
By Sydney Ember | October 27The Office of Residential Life is aggressively attempting to move more students to off-campus housing next year to combat the overcrowding that has continued to plague the University's residence halls, said Senior Associate Dean of Residential and Dining Services Richard Bova.
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Achebe honored for literary arts
By Sydney Ember | October 27Acclaimed Nigerian writer and Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe was awarded the 2010 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize at a ceremony at the Hudson Theatre in New York City Wednesday evening.
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New TA pay plan sparks protests from CS department
By David Chung | October 27The Department of Computer Science has implemented a new compensation policy for undergraduate teaching assistants in response to a University-wide review of undergraduate student employment practices, said Donald Schanck, assistant vice president and University controller.
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LGBTQ center increases support
By Nicole Boucher | October 27The LGBTQ Resource Center seeks to increase its visibility on campus to help students understand available resources and to combat negative representation in the media by creating a positive spirit of unity on campus, said Kelly Garrett, the center's coordinator, at the Undergraduate Council of Students' ...
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Pop icon speaks about gay Israeli experience
By Katherine Sola | October 26Correction appended.
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1,700 students receive free on-campus flu vaccines
By Hannah Abelow | October 26During the past two weeks, University Health Services held 12 free walk-in flu shot clinics at Josiah's.
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Grants to improve primary care medicine
By Alejandro Dauguet | October 26The Alpert Medical School's Department of Family Medicine received four federal grants totaling more than $4.4 million in September. This funding, spaced out in $900,000 increments over five years, will go toward improving family medical practice alongside further education and research.
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GISPs gain student support
By David Chung | October 25As the Nov. 5 deadline for Group Independent Study Project proposals nears, students are busy again creating syllabi, advertising to their peers and recruiting faculty members to sponsor them.
