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The New Curriculum: ready for new times?
By George Miller | April 12It's not so new anymore.
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U.'s $215 million wish-list not likely to be funded
By Sydney Ember | April 12Looking to grab a share of the federal economic stimulus bill, Brown has submitted funding requests totaling $215 million to the state's Office of Economic Recovery and Reinvestment for five proposed construction projects. The proposals, which according to Brown would create a total of 460 jobs, include ...
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Brown-RISD dual degree accepts just 3.5 percent
By Brian Mastroianni | April 12Brown may have set a record for admissions stinginess this year — just 10.8 percent of undergraduate applicants got in — but a spot in the College was not College Hill's most difficult ticket to punch.That distinction goes to the fledgling Brown-RISD Dual-Degree program, which invited just ...
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Longtime psychiatry chair resigns
By Sydney Ember | April 6Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Martin Keller will step down as chair of the department this June, amid ongoing federal scrutiny directed at him and other researchers with financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.
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Across campus, puzzlers get down with Shortz
By Emmy Liss | April 5The room was silent except for the squeak of markers against whiteboards. Messy letters filled the boxes, building corners with words intertwined. As white space disappeared, the crowd held its breath until, suddenly, Aaron Mazel-Gee '09 took a step back and threw up his hands. He had finished.
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Students support 'Fall Weekend'
By Hannah Moser and Seth Motel | March 29More than two-thirds of Brown undergraduates favor changing the name of "Columbus Day" on the University calendar, according to a Herald poll conducted earlier this month. Though 27.2 percent of students polled indicated that they would like the holiday to remain "Columbus Day," 67.2 percent said they ...
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WEB UPDATE: Disciplinary hearing for 8 SDS members concludes
By Joanna Wohlmuth | January 4The University Disciplinary Council panel convened to arbitrate charges against eight students involved in a heated protest of the Corporation in October concluded a hearing early Wednesday afternoon after two days of meetings, according to Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student ...
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Students storm onto Main Green
By Hannah Moser | November 6Correction appended. Click here to view "Main Green jubilance: A post-election slideshow" Many Brown students had waited nearly two years for this. President-elect Obama swept the West Coast around 11 p.m. last night, essentially clinching the 44th presidency and propelling hundreds of exuberant students ...
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Main Green jubilance: A post-election slideshow
By Steve DeLucia | November 4Photos by Min Wu, Eunice Hong, Kim Perley and Steve DeLucia Click here to read the accompanying article, "Students storm onto Main Green" Click here to view photos and videos of election day in Providence.
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Student found sleeping on SciLi roof; fry thief nabbed
By Brown Daily Herald | October 31View Larger Map The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Oct. 16 and Oct. 22. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information ...
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86.1 percent of students support Obama, poll finds
By Anne Simons and Sara Sunshine | October 30Brown undergraduates overwhelmingly support Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, according to a Herald poll conducted earlier this week. 86.1 percent of students said they support Obama for president of the United States, versus 6.3 percent who said they favor Sen. John McCain. Independent ...
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DPS catches Hay intruders, New Dorm microbrewers
By Brown Daily Herald | October 23View Larger Map The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Oct. 9 and Oct. 15. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information ...
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Knife-wielding student charged with assault
By Brown Daily Herald | October 17View Larger MapThe following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Oct. 2 and Oct. 8 It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information ...
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Aid money, advising split student opinion
By Isabel Gottlieb and Franklin Kanin | March 17The overwhelming majority of undergraduates support the University's new financial aid policy, a recent Herald poll found. 92.7 percent of undergrads approve of the new financial aid plan. When asked about the University's decision to ease the financial burden on students from lower- and middle-income ...
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Students favor Obama, Herald poll finds
By Isabel Gottlieb and Franklin Kanin | November 12Brown undergraduates overwhelmingly favor Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the 2008 presidential election, according to a Herald poll conducted last week. 37.5 percent of students said they believe Obama would make the best president of the United States, versus 18.4 percent who said they favored Sen. ...
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Students support early admission, affirmative action, Herald poll finds
By Stu Woo | February 11Students overwhelmingly support the College's early admission program and largely favor considering racial diversity in the admission process, a recent Herald poll found. Though Harvard and Princeton universities made headlines last fall when they announced plans to drop their early admission programs, ...
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Students support center for study of slavery; fewer than one in five will read report
By Anne Wootton | November 13Over 40 percent of the undergraduate student body either has not heard of or is uninterested in the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and its recently released report, according to a poll conducted by The Herald in late October and early November. 44.9 percent of respondents said ...
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The Herald Poll: Support for arming generates little shock
By Simmi Aujla | February 16The results of a Herald poll released last week - which revealed that 60 percent of students approved of the decision to arm Department of Public Safety police officers - did not surprise students and administrators. Only 12 percent of students expressed strong disapproval of arming, while 18.7 percent ...
