Kathy Wang

Brown students and faculty discuss devastation, anger, following the potential hate crime in which Brown junior Hisham Awartani ’25 was shot and injured.

While speakers’ comments ranged from condemnations of the shooting to political demands, they also highlighted Awartani’s character and values — a witty polyglot with a talent for archaeology and math who is intensely focused on others.

The event encouraged students to share their “feelings and experiences regarding campus climate, the Israel-Palestine conflict, student activism … (and) how UCS can be supportive through this time,” according to a UCS email to students.

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

Recent violence in Israel and Gaza, students told The Herald, has reverberated through campus — leading them to seek community and space to mourn.

Global Brown Center grows international advising team, extends pre-orientation program

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.

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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.

Several campus buildings faced flooding and leakages following a flash flood warning in some parts of Providence County Sunday afternoon.