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Honesty is tour guides' policy
By Max Godnick | April 11Red brick buildings, wide campus greens, the New Curriculum, the Van Wickle Gates: these ideas represent Brown to the outside world.
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UFB proposes changes to appointment process
By Max Godnick | March 10The Undergraduate Council of Students reviewed proposed amendments to the Undergraduate Finance Board's constitution at their general body meeting Wednesday.
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Princeton prof. asks: What is whiteness?
By Max Godnick | March 8What makes white people white?
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Student coalition rallies for budget transparency
By Max Godnick | February 28Correction appended.
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UCS to institute instant runoff for internal elections
By Max Godnick | February 24The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to approve a number of changes to the elections section in its Code of Operations. The proposed alterations would allow the UCS president to nominate members of the elections board, create an ad hoc appeals board to hear complaints filed against the elections ...
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Students weigh in on budget
By Max Godnick | February 23Most college students rarely have the opportunity to help craft nine-figure institutional budgets. But five Brown students — the student representatives to the University Resources Committee — do just that as they advise senior administrators on the University's annual budget.
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UCS elects new secretary and UFB representative
By Max Godnick | February 10The Undergraduate Council of Students elected a new representative to the Undergraduate Finance Board and a new secretary at its general body meeting on Wednesday night.
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Salary freeze may be lifted for faculty and staff for next year
By Max Godnick | February 8The University Resources Committee made a recommendation to the Corporation earlier this month that the freeze placed on faculty and staff salaries be lifted in the next year's budget. Last year's budget initiated a freeze on all University employee wages due to the harsh economic climate.
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Group promotes electric car in R.I.
By Max Godnick | February 3Project Get Ready, a national nonprofit initiative to promote the usage of plug-in electric vehicles, announced on Jan. 21 that it would add Rhode Island to its list of pilot sites. Rhode Island, the first entire state to become a pilot site, joins Houston, Indianapolis, Denver and Toronto.
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RIPTA dreams big for revamped transit
By Max Godnick | January 27The Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement Study — a joint project conducted by the Rhode Island Public Transportation Agency and Mayor David Cicilline's '83 office — was released Dec. 10. The study, which recommends future strategies for Providence public transport, represents the ...
