With interests ranging from avant-garde to Christian rock, high school seniors seeking a spot in the class of 2010 sent more than 900 music portfolios with their applications. The number of music portfolios increased by 10 percent over the previous year, according to Dean of Admission Jim Miller '73. ...
A typical weekend party at Brown might involve cramming students into a small lounge area, playing loud club music and filling hundreds of plastic cups with cheap beer and vodka. However, students and faculty on the board that administers the newly created Late Night Fund are working to change this ...
Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to President Ruth Simmons this spring, it is unclear when the report will be submitted or whether it will be released publicly before summer. In this, the fourth in a series on the committee and its work, ...
The University Resources Committee held its second open forum of the semester in Salomon 202 Monday evening. Issues raised at the forum ranged from wireless Internet to health insurance for graduate students in masters' programs. About 25 students, faculty and staff attended the event.
When Max Mathias '10 heads home to nearby Sharon, Mass., for Thanksgiving break, he won't be going alone - he will be joined by Brown students who live too far away to go home for just a few days and have been invited to his house for the holiday. "My mom really likes to meet kids from college," he ...
Blogging may be re-inventing the news media landscape and causing a stir in Democratic politics, but has the online journal phenomenon hit College Hill? Three Brown students share their very different reasons for starting Weblogs of their own.
A yearlong Activist-in-Residence pilot program, which began this fall, will bring a variety of activists to campus for periods of time ranging from a few days to a semester. The program seeks to expose Brown students to people who have dedicated their lives to social change.
This year's class of transfer students - the first in three years to be eligible for financial aid - arrived on campus last month for their second college orientation. But while the transfer students were eager to adjust to their new surroundings, few seemed excited about the prospect of being first-years ...
A prospective student searching for the University on Google might come across another Brown University - John Brown University. But despite the similarities in namesakes, the school atop College Hill has little in common - at least at first glance - with the small Christian college in Siloam Springs, ...
When Henry Shepherd '08 transferred to Brown from New York University last fall, he thought he might be interested in pursuing an independent concentration, as none of the University's existing concentrations matched his desire to combine political and social theory. When Shepherd approached John Tomasi, ...
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