Brown Daily Herald

Editorial: The great race

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:08:36 -0400

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The Rhode Island General Assembly is weighing a considerable gamble, but the odds are in the state’s favor. Today, legislators will vote on several bills dealing with public charter schools. The key proposals include increasing the cap on the number...

Jewelry District's new road design includes Med School

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:03:54 -0400

By: Leonardo Moauro

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation’s project to reshape the road skeleton of the Jewelry District is at the end of its planning phase, said Lambri Zerva, design project manager for the Iway relocation project at the RIDOT. The plans are c...

Bill would counteract skewed census figures

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:56:51 -0400

By: Nicole Friedman

Pending bills in the Rhode Island General Assembly would require the state to count prisoners as residents of their hometowns — not the town the prison is in — when determining state and county legislative districts....

Letter: Oxford's system more than just tutorials

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:54:43 -0400

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To the Editor: As someone who studied at Oxford in my junior year abroad, I am naturally sympathetic to arguments offered by David Sheffield ’11 and Sean Quigley ’10 in their recent columns in favor of adopting the tut...

Editorial cartoon, March 15, 2010

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:54:37 -0400

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David Sheffield '11: Organic food is bovine manure

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:47:27 -0400

By: David Sheffield

Many forms of pseudoscience are linked to political ideology. The last presidential administration perfectly demonstrated how some sets of pseudoscientific ideas can tag along with other political beliefs. While President Barack Obama has done a good job ...

Editorial: Make it count

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:44:38 -0400

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This month, Rhode Island residents will receive surveys for the 2010 census. The only problem is there aren’t enough people to go door-to-door surveying households that fail to return the form by mail. We encourage students to help resolve this issu...

M. hockey shocks No. 6 Yale, heads to ECAC semis

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:42:26 -0400

By: Dan Alexander

Goalie Michael Clemente ’12 stared through his metal facemask out onto the ice as the final minutes of game three of the ECAC quarterfinals winded down. He had held No. 6 Yale, the top goal-scoring team in the league, scoreless so far....

Sex week kicks off with ‘Kink’ documentary

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:41:11 -0400

By: Luisa Robledo

As the images of lashing whips and spanking fill the screen, the showing of the documentary “Kink,” followed by a panel discussion on Sunday night, provided a kickoff for what promises to be a mind-blowing Sex Week. Using the film as a platfor...

Curriculum council look at concs. well underway

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:38:32 -0400

By: Anita Matthews

In keeping with a recommendation by the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, the College Curriculum Council is continuing its reviews of concentrations in seven departments this year, said Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron. On the 2009-10 agenda ar...

William Tomasko '13: Charlie bit my Common App

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:37:29 -0400

By: William Tomasko

A high school senior speaks to the camera in a fake British accent and describes his passions for video games and philosophy. Another displays her drawings and paintings. Another shows off original dance moves representing pie charts and scatter plots. Th...

Fitness, aquatics center to open in Jan. 2012

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:35:06 -0400

By: Talia Kagan

Right now, Brown’s athletic complex is unattractive, inconveniently located and insufficient to meet the community’s needs. But come January 2012, the fenced construction site and asphalt parking lot will be replaced by a red-bricked fitness a...

U. informs neighbors of construction

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:30:00 -0400

By: Qian Yin

The University is reaching out to its neighbors to inform them of the impending construction of the new aquatics and fitness center, said Jennifer Braga, government relations and community affairs liaison. ...

Incessant rain and clouds dampen spirits of w. lacrosse

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:24:03 -0400

By: Tory Elmore

If you were at the women’s lacrosse game on Saturday, you might remember the weather — or be scarred by it....

M. lax shuts down St. Joe’s despite weather

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:21:19 -0400

By: Andrew Braca

The No. 17 men’s lacrosse team demolished St. Joseph’s, 18-4, on a rainy, windswept Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia to advance to 2-1 on the season, but Head Coach Lars Tiffany ’90 was more pleased with his team’s effort than th...

Parker Brown '12: For the name on the front, and back, of my jersey

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:17:31 -0400

By: Parker Brown

The men’s lacrosse team hit mauled St. Joe’s, 18-4, in Philadelphia on Saturday, and Parker Brown ’12 helped lead the Bears’ attack with two goals and two assists. Here is how it went down from his perspective....

After fourth 'fifth symphony,' Beethoven up next

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:16:15 -0400

By: Jonathan Chou

Music filled Sayles Hall as the Brown University Orchestra amazed audiences with a wonderful performance of “Music from the Year 1915.” Led by Senior Lecturer in Music Paul Phillips, the orchestra held its third concert of the academic year Fr...

Raffel '79 brings book to campus

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:14:29 -0400

By: Fei Cai

Vanity Fair has called her book “as sharp and bright as stars.” O, The Oprah Magazine says her stories “strikingly explore how small moments can influence personal and familial identity.” And on April 14, she will be coming to Brow...

New incentive program to support graduate students

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:12:27 -0400

By: Sarah Mancone

The Graduate School is launching a new research assistantship incentive program designed to bring in a greater number of research assistants during the 2010–11 academic year....

Students whip up tastes of the world

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:12:12 -0400

By: Alicia Chen

While most Brown students have to rely on the Sharpe Refectory for some Tastes of the World, the participants in the Office of International Programs’ Top Chef competition last Thursday displayed some of the foods that these students enjoyed when th...