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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.
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A new path to walk through Lincoln Field
By Louisa Chafee | October 25A new asphalt path has temporarily been put in place on Lincoln Field to replace the existing sidewalk currently blocked by the construction of the Metcalf Laboratory Building.
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English professor nominated for Book Award
By Katrina Phillips | October 25Professor of English C.D. Wright is among the finalists for this year's National Book Award. Her book, "One With Others: [a little book of her days]," was announced as a finalist in the poetry category Oct. 13.
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CIT staff working to fix computing freezes
By Claire Gianotti | October 25Major changes to the Center for Information Technology's computing facilities have caused computers in the building to freeze, aggravating students trying to complete projects on deadline and professors conducting research.
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COE program finds a new home
By Daniel Sack | October 25The Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship program has moved to a Sayles Hall suite that
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Simmons addresses families
By Abby Kerson | October 24Students, parents and alums gathered under a tent on the Main Green Saturday for the annual Hour with the President event to hear President Ruth Simmons give an update on the University.
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University serves it up family-style to 2,400
By Fei Cai | October 24Brown invited parents and siblings to experience life on College Hill this Family Weekend.
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Sexual assault potentially underreported due to stigma, report suggests
By Ana Alvarez | October 24A recent University report suggests extensive underreporting of sex crimes on campus, students and administrators said.
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New stats show campus crime dropped in 2009
By Chip Lebovitz | October 24There were zero arrests on campus for drug or alcohol crimes in 2009, according to the most recent Department of Public Safety annual report.
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Wireless routers reported missing in Barbour
By Gao Xuan | October 21During Fall Weekend, 10 wireless routers were removed from Barbour Hall leaving residents without wireless internet access, Doug Wilkinson, a network technology manager at Computing and Information Services, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.
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University partners with Indian tech school
By Shefali Luthra | October 21The University formalized a two-part partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay Oct. 5, according to a University press release.
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'Car czar' Rattner '74 talks bailout
By Alex Bell | October 21Former "car czar" Steven Rattner '74 P'10 P'13 — who oversaw President Obama's 2009 government bailout of the automobile industry — says he's been a "free market guy" since his days in ECON 0110: "Principles of Economics."
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Campus ranks 5th in sexual health survey, gets 3.5 'GPA'
By Kat Thornton | October 21Brown ranked fifth out of 141 schools surveyed on Trojan Condoms' annual Sexual Health Report Card this year, with a 3.50 sexual health "GPA." Columbia took the number one spot, with a 3.70 GPA.
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U. buildings feel the heat
By Kenny McDowell | October 21It's that time of year again — to stop worrying about staying cool and to start worrying about staying warm.
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Med School to host behavioral epigenetics conference
By Nick Lourie | October 21Alpert Medical School and the New York Academy of Sciences will sponsor a conference on the emerging field of behavioral epigenetics Oct. 29 and 30, according to a recent announcement on the New York Academy of Sciences website.
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Despite hot summer, less energy consumed
By Qian Yin | October 21During summer 2010 — the second hottest on record in Rhode Island — Brown consumed an additional 1.6 million kilowatt hours of electricity compared to the summer before, according to Christopher Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives for the Department of Facilities ...
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Auxiliary housing offered to students on summer waiting list
By Margaret Yi | October 21Ending up in summer assignment is a dreaded situation for many. But for some lucky students, it could mean living in Brown-owned auxiliary housing.
