Kathy Wang

Brown students raised over $3,000 for humanitarian relief efforts after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit Afghanistan on Saturday, Oct. 7.

In an Aug. 31 email, the Student Activities Office announced to some student groups that SAO will no longer make exceptions to their “University Breaks” policy, which prohibits student group meetings and events during breaks.

The University’s Undergraduate Finance Board faced a $1.5 million gap between the funding requested by student groups and the money it could disperse to them this year, UFB President Arjun Krishna Chopra ’25 told The Herald. UFB, the student government branch that allocates student group funding, spent aggressively last academic year in an effort to distribute the vast majority of their $1.2 million surplus, according to Chopra. But that spending, which ended up exceeding projections, has created shortfalls this year, Chopra said — creating lower budgets for groups ranging from the University’s South Asian Students’ Association and The College Hill Independent to Brown Mock Trial and the Class Coordinating Board.

Panetha Ott, the Office of College Admission’s director of admission and international recruitment, died in early December after 33 years of serving the University community.

desi-gned, New England’s first publication for the South Asian diaspora, has just been released.

The Student Government Association passed a new unified election code for all three branches in an attempt to standardize election guidelines.

The University’s annual celebration of International Education Week showed “two sides of the same coin” about Brown and the globe, according to Andrew Heald, program director at the Global Brown Center. The two weeks of events, part of a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote America’s role in education domestically and internationally, focused on the “world at Brown” and “Brown in the world,” Heald said.

It seems hard to imagine Providence without the river that runs through its core — or to imagine that same river without WaterFire.  Created by Barnaby Evans ’75 almost 30 years ago, WaterFire has brought crowds of people from all different backgrounds to Providence’s riverfront, with families,…

The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted a town hall meeting focused on residential life Wednesday, which included staff from the Office of Residential Life addressing student questions on the recently announced updates to the housing lottery.

A Sept. 30 petition called for a recall election of Undergraduate Council of Students President Ricky Zhong ’23 shortly after members of the UCS executive board expressed concerns about internal proceedings last week.