College Headlines

Sacramone '10 going to Olympics

Brown Daily Herald, Brown University , RI

3 days ago by Erin Frauenhofer

The best gymnast in Brown's history will be heading to Beijing this summer. USA Gymnastics announced Thursday that Alicia Sacramone '10 has been chosen as one of six athletes who will compete for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team for women's gymnastics.

In a trend, 21 grads awarded Fulbrights

Brown Daily Herald, Brown University , RI

3 days ago by Emmy Liss

Jacob Izenberg '08 always wanted to go to medical school, but first he planned to take a year off and hoped to live in a foreign country. He found "the ideal way to go abroad," he said - a Fulbright grant. Izenberg is one of 21 recent Brown graduates to receive a Fulbright scholarship this year.

Three Brown properties top endangered list

Brown Daily Herald, Brown University , RI

3 days ago by Marielle Segarra

The Providence Preservation Society has placed three historic Angell Street buildings at the top of its annual Most Endangered Properties List.

let the first times roll

The Post - Brown Daily Herald, Brown, RI

11 hours ago

Riding a bike. Driving. Sky

Diving. Kissing. Drinking. Piercing.

Sex.

What do these activities have

in common? Importance of epic

proportions is placed on the First

Time. It's an

importance so

huge, it even

comes with its

own capital letters.

The First

Time phenomenon

for sex is

surely the biggest of them all.

what you can do for brown

The Post - Brown Daily Herald, Brown, RI

19 hours ago by matt hill

You'll hear it - or at least

think it - a hundred times:

You're at a crossroads in your

life. Childhood has ended;

adulthood is setting in. College

is where you'll find yourself,

where you'll meet the

best friends you'll ever make,

where you'll have the best

time of your life - and then,

when it's over, you'll venture

into "the great abyss.

building brown

The Post - Brown Daily Herald, Brown, RI

19 minutes ago by matt hill

summer, you'll see construction

everywhere. Dump

trucks and caution tape line

the streets, and along every

fence there's a banner reading

"Building Brown." It's

a process that goes faster

during dog day afternoons,

when the Quad's taken up

mainly by high school students

and the streets are devoid of

Brunonians, but it's one that

continues throughout the year

- not just behind closed-off

streets, but also closed doors.

Clinton campaign in debt to Penn

The Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania, PA

6 days ago by Colin Kavanaugh

Last March, Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke to a small crowd at Houston Hall about the housing crisis. That same month, Chelsea Clinton came to Wynn Commons to talk about issues relevant to students during the campaign. Almost a month later, Clinton held her final rally before the Pennsylvania primary at the Palestra with her family cheering behind her.

Market Street to be re-designed

The Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania, PA

6 days ago by Andrew Kener

When University City District Executive Director Lewis Wendell exited the subway station at 40th and Market streets for the first time three years ago, he was greeted by an unwelcoming scene.

He contrasted the "uninviting" area with what is otherwise a "relatively vibrant city.

Beijing Bound | Once a walk-on, now an Olympian

The Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania, PA

6 days ago by Neil Fanaroff

United States Olympic athletes often take up their sports at a young age, practicing for over a dozen years before competing at the Summer Games.

Gymnast Shawn Johnson began perfecting her craft when she was three years old. Swimmer Michael Phelps got in the water at age seven.

NU students claim coercion

Northeastern News, Northeastern University, MA

1 day ago by Michele Richinik

Northeastern officials have withdrawn four students from a program in New Jersey, following an incident in which two of the students were dressed like members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) on July 6 by paramedics affiliated with the program.

The students alleged to university officials that they were forced by paramedics from Newark's University Hospital, which is operated by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), to dress in white sheets to echo the attire worn by KKK members, said Jim Chiavelli, interim director of communications.