On April 21, 1992, 253 students were arrested after taking over University Hall in protest of the University's need-aware admissions policy for all students. Now, 20 years later, a new campus group, Brown For Financial Aid, has formed to protest the University's need-aware policy for international and ...
Nearly 100 Providence firefighters, police officers and community members protested the University's exemption from paying taxes on many of its properties Jan. 11, blasting fog horns, chanting and holding signs that read "pay your share." The protest was the latest sign of escalating tensions in an ...
Nearly 100 Providence firefighters, police officers and community members protested the University's exemption from paying taxes on many of its properties Wednesday evening, blasting fog horns, chanting and holding signs that read "pay your share." The protest was the latest sign of escalating tensions ...
After nearly six months of contentious debate over the prospect of cutting the ski, fencing and wrestling programs, President Ruth Simmons recommended yesterday that the Corporation, the University's highest governing body, keep all three programs this year. In a report sent to the Brown community ...
Seventy students across four teams—wrestling, men's and women's fencing and women's skiing — learned yesterday that their teams will not exist next year if President Ruth Simmons and the Corporation accept the Athletics Review Committee's recommendations to cut their programs. Students' and coaches' ...
It was 6:28 a.m. Tight end Colin Cloherty '09 was walking into the Cleveland Browns weight room for a lift that was to begin in two minutes when his phone rang. A Browns representative told him he wouldn't need to work out today. He had been cut.Cloherty had until 11 a.m. to be out of his hotel room, ...
The first Monday after New Years Day, Bobby Sewall '10 walked into Mike Boyle's strength and conditioning gym for his first day of high-intensity training for the NFL. The top football talents in New England came in with him — from Boston College, the University of Massachusetts, the University ...
David Howard '09.5 slept zero hours the night before day three of the NFL draft. He didn't yet know the Tennessee Titans would select him in the seventh round. He didn't know which NFL city, if any, would be his next home. He didn't know if the last four months of high-intensity training — after ...
Defensive end David Howard '09.5 and wide receiver Bobby Sewall '10 aren't done playing football together. The Tennessee Titans drafted Howard as the 241st overall pick in the seventh round of the NFL Draft as they were on the phone with Sewall, working out a free-agent contract. The two Brown standouts ...
Former Brown basketball captain Patrick Lynch '87 waited in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for President Barack Obama.Lynch, now the attorney general of Rhode Island, was in Washington in March to meet with Obama and a group of attorneys general from around the country. When Obama walked in, ...
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