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Wilson Commons celebrates its 25th birthday Wednesday, April 4.The festivities will kick off with a performance by the Eastman Trombone Choir at noon. The Student Activities Office will offer free pizza and birthday cake at 7 p.m. ?Vertical Limit? will play for free at 8:30 p.m. in the Gowen Room. There will be a commemorative […]

A fight that had broken out Sunday on the Fraternity Quad near Drama House was reported to UR Security at 2:47 a.m.About 25 to 30 students seemed to be agitated in the area, Security Investigator Dan Lafferty said. Two students reported that they had been punched in the face. One sustained a laceration to his […]

The university has announced a new meal plan structure that will drastically redistribute meal costs across the campus community.This structure, which will go into effect next year, is designed to encourage people to purchase a plan.It eliminates the fixed cost fee built into the current plans. Students will no longer be required to purchase specific […]

Why vote? It is a question that faces each of us every time there is an election. Take, for instance, the recent Students' Association presidential race. There was a call for each student on campus to exert his voice by voting to choose the next student body president and senators. But why should we vote […]

On Tuesday, March 13, the Brown Daily Herald published an advertisement. Every paper does this on most pages of every issue. It wasn?t unique.Advertisements take many different shapes and sizes. Sometimes they sell things, sometimes they invite and sometimes they take a position on a controversial issue. This particular advertisement took a position on reparations […]

What will you be doing Friday at 11 p.m.?If you?re not already drunk and stumbling around UR?s fraternity quad, you might want to go to Eastman. Charles Castleman, professor of violin, will be putting on a lighthearted show called the April Fools? Weekend Concert with some seriously first-rate music. Several professors will assist him, including […]

Don?t forget to go to the MS walk Sunday, April 1 at 8 a.m. It will be starting from the Al Sigl Center. Groups co-sponsoring the MS walk include the Students? Association Senate, the Community Service Network, Students Together In Networking Graduates, Hill Court Community Assistants and the undergraduate neuroscience council.

Mark your calendars for 8 p.m. Saturday, March 31 and head on down to Strong Auditorium for Vocal Point?s annual spring extravaganza. UR?s only all-female a cappella group is celebrating 32 years of existence with its largest concert of the year. This year?s concert will feature an assortment of new tunes that Vocal Point has […]

John La Boda was announced as the new Student Association President late Wednesday night. Full coverage will be available Thursday in the CT.VOTE TOTALS:Presidential RaceMindy Fountain-270Samay Gheewala-140John La Boda-477Meng Wang-182Who Cares Guy-45Other-37JT-16Class of 2002Daryl DuLong-131Sarah Driansky-144Other-55Class of 2003Elizabeth Conway-161Lana Knox-202Jorge Villali-145Class of 2004Carl Chastain-73Ajay Dhar-69Patty Heckman-62Peter Ordal-120Ruthie Varkovitzy-94At LargeJack Collins-359Zachary Feldman-256Kevin Gemp-339Kris Kiefer-590Lucas McCarthy-309Adam Simmons-493Other-137GLCAshley […]

Remember the last time you played beer pong and thought you were king of the world after making your opponent drink that warm nasty beer? Now there is a real reason to claim yourself the king of the world ? it?s called the beer mile. The club sports department is happy to be forming a […]