On Thursday, April 12, the University announced a multi-million dollar renovation of the Sharpe Refectory鈥檚 infrastructure, with the eventual goal of installing permanent cooling abilities there in the summer of 2019. The current plan includes two phases: first, a $4 million upgrade of the electrical ...
On April 10, hundreds of community members gathered at the Rhode Island State House for a House Judiciary Committee hearing, which featured the introduction of six bills governing reproductive rights in Rhode Island. Five of the bills proposed limitations on abortion access; the lone bill aimed at safeguarding ...
During orientation week, all first-year students are given a welcome package that includes a reusable water bottle. This policy can be traced back to 2008, when the student organization Beyond the Bottle pushed the University to scale back its use of disposable water bottles. Today, Brown Dining Services ...
Since 2007, the University has requested all its incoming first-year students to read a single book (or, in one case, watch a movie) and then discuss it in small seminars during first-year orientation. The First Readings program, as it is called, was designed to create a 鈥渟hared intellectual endeavor ...
On the evening of March 22, Elections Board Chairs Katherine Barry 鈥�19 and Kathryn Stack 鈥�19 announced the results of the 2018 elections for the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board. Shanz茅 Tahir 鈥�19 won the UCS presidency, with 82 percent of the vote; Lisa Schold ...
On Feb. 14, the #FullDisclosure campaign 鈥� a coalition of student organizations from 12 colleges across the country that has been significantly influenced by former Undergraduate Council of Students president Viet Nguyen 鈥�17 鈥� issued a letter asking universities to release their internal data ...
On Feb. 21, The Herald reported that a collective of Brown students and activists had proposed to University administrators the creation of a student-led disability identity and cultural center. The proposed center 鈥� which aims to fill a void in campus life and establish a robust sense of community ...
At 10 a.m. this morning, students, staff members and community residents will gather on the Main Green to participate in the National School Walkout against gun violence. In some schools, the national walkout, organized by the youth branch of the Women鈥檚 March, will last for 17 minutes 鈥� one minute ...
On Jan. 22, the School of Professional Studies decided to place the Master of Arts in Teaching program under review and to suspend the elementary track of the program for the 2018-19 academic year. Dean of the School of Professional Studies and Vice Chair of the Department of Education Karen Sibley ...
On Feb. 3, a series of appalling racist and anti-black pamphlets were found around the University and surrounding neighborhoods. These flyers 鈥� which were allegedly distributed by the white supremacist group Vanguard America, a primary organizer of the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally in Charlottesville, ...
On Feb. 20, the University announced plans to change the proposed location of its new performing arts center 鈥渢o a smaller plot on The Walk between Angell and Olive streets, facing the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.鈥� The choice of the original site would have resulted in the demolition of ...
On Jan. 4, the University announced that it had successfully raised more than half of its BrownTogether fundraising goal, collecting over $1.64 billion since the campaign鈥檚 official launch in fall 2015. The previous month, the University also announced that it had reached its $30 million target to ...
The Herald announced the members of the 128th Editorial Board Friday at its annual banquet at CAV Restaurant Dec. 1. The 128th Editorial Board will be led by Editor-in-Chief and President Elena Renken 鈥�19, a science and society concentrator from St. Paul, Minnesota. Kasturi Pananjady 鈥�19, a comparative ...
Students accepted early decision 鈥� including a few members of the 127th Editorial Board 鈥� love to complain about not getting invited to Brown鈥檚 admitted students鈥� event: A Day on College Hill. They groan about how they never got to join in on the late night arch sings, sigh longingly when someone ...
When the House, with 227 Republican votes, passed its tax bill, it vowed to cut $1.5 trillion in taxes, with many of those cuts going to the richest in our country. But the bill will increase taxes for those who can afford it the least 鈥� among those, graduate students. As The Herald reported Friday, ...
The men鈥檚 basketball team stayed active during its holiday break, returning home to face Long Island University at Brooklyn Saturday at the Pizzitola 猫咪社区 Center. After a midweek road loss to Stony Brook University, the Bears used a second half push to defend their home court, ousting the Blackbirds ...
195 Angell St. The back room, and the slightly inferior front room. Late night texts from TCI Press. Alice Chin and the words of inspiration she provides. Office Manager Diane Silvia. All the office chairs, except for that one with the wheel missing from it. Herald alums, including but not limited ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students recently decided to increase the student activities fee from $274 to $295. In the meeting, the leaders of the Undergraduate Finance Board recommended the increase, attributing the board鈥檚 $130,000 deficit to an influx of clubs requesting categorization that were ...
When, in December 2012, a shooter fatally killed 20 elementary school children in a town just two hours away from our own campus, President Christina Paxson P鈥�19 decided to sponsor a series of forums on school shootings. She urged the Janus Forum to sponsor a talk on gun violence and signed a letter ...
On Nov. 16, the Providence City Council will decide whether a street on College Hill will continue to share the name of a slave trader or if it should instead find a new namesake in two of Providence鈥檚 most influential black activists. The decision is clear 鈥� Providence should change the name of ...
