Brown Transfer Applications Up 40 Percent
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - April 3, 2009
Officials partially attribute increase to a new online application system.
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Top Colleges See Record-Low Acceptance Rates
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - March 31, 2009
Number of applicants spike, forcing acceptance rates down, while schools expect yield rates to increase.
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MCAT Administrator Apologizes for Incorrect E-Mail
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - February 5, 2009
Message said exam at Rhode Island test site had been canceled.
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Brown Tuition Leniency Helps 360 Students
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - January 26, 2009
University allows students to register and enroll despite outstanding balances.
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More Madoff Victims: Columbia Law and Brown
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - January 22, 2009
Law school loses $3 million from endowment, while Brown benefactor folds.
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Brown's Chief Investment Officer Made $1.3 Million in 2007
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - December 8, 2008
It made her the university's top-paid administrator at the time.
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More Than Half of Brown Grades are A’s
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - November 18, 2008
The percentage has been steadily increasing for more than a decade.
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More Schools Impose Hiring Freezes
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - November 7, 2008
Cornell, Brown, and the University of Michigan Health System among institutions trying to save cash.
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At Brown, Friedman Pie-Thrower Suspended
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - May 22, 2008
University says her actions violated student conduct standards.
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Tom Friedman Gets Pied at Brown
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - April 23, 2008
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman—globalization's well-versed Joan of Arc—was pied in the face yesterday evening at Brown University.
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Firebombing of an Employee's Home Leaves Brown Shaken
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - March 19, 2008
Two molotov cocktails were thrown at the victim's off-campus apartment.
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Brown Med Students Feel Mistreated
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - March 7, 2008
Medical school students at Brown University are feeling especially abused, according to a med school survey.
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Brown Gets on Financial Aid Bandwagon
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - February 25, 2008
'Extraordinary endowment returns' make the increased aid possible.
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Who Needs Football When Your President's a Rock Star?
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - November 27, 2007
One Ivy League leader is so cool, she's "Ruth."
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Ruth Simmons | educator
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Alex Kingsbury
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Nation & World - November 12, 2007
More proof that mentors matter.
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Trail Mix
By
Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - November 2, 2007
Brown housing authorities are doling out $100 fines for candles in dorms; Syracuse officials arrested a man dressed as a construction worker for stealing a laptop
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Brown Police Put It All on the Table. Students Not Hungry.
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - October 24, 2007
In an attempt to foster community, Brown University's Dept. of Public Safety held an open forum, but no students attended.
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Helmets That Study Head-on Collisions
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Lucia Graves
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The Paper Trail - October 16, 2007
Brown University football players are wearing special helmets to measure collision impact.
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Trail Mix
By
Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - October 1, 2007
A Georgia bus accident, lead-contamination at Brown University, and the University of Michigan embraces between-class golf.
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If at First You Don't Succeed...
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Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - July 19, 2007
Ohio State University's former president is returning after stints at Brown and Vanderbilt.
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Trail Mix
By
Alison Go
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The Paper Trail - July 16, 2007
*According to the Brown Daily Herald, Brown University prefreshmen say: Summer reading is fun! (They have to read How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton.).
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail - December 8, 2006
The audience at a student play to debut at Brown University tonight will be very dazzled--and also swarmed by 30,000 fruit flies, the Brown Daily Herald reports.
"There's not a lot of people who, if something happened to you, you would want them to raise your children," the Indiana University men's basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson, told the Daily Student.
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