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Brown Daily Herald
Student teams at Hack for Humanity develop projects to combat mis- and disinformation
This weekend, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies hosted its annual Hack for Humanity, a project competition focused on creating policy solutions for pressing humanitarian issues. This year, 55 students across 12 teams developed projects around this year’s theme of combatting “mis/disinformation.”. Two teams won first...
Brown Daily Herald
Students in Brown Investment Group seek to put Brown on the investing map with first Ivy Investment Competition
This past week, the inaugural Ivy Investment Competition, hosted by Brown Investment Group, held two competitive pitching days at Brown for investment teams from each Ivy League. The Cornell team’s pitch to invest in Unity Software won, taking home the $15,000 prize for first place. Yale’s team placed second and...
Brown Daily Herald
Tao ’27: Providence’s divestment initiative shows that the left at Brown should build movements outside College Hill
Last Tuesday, Providence voters approved Ballot Question 7, divesting city funds from foreign countries conducting severe violations of human rights and companies that enable those violations, by a wide majority: 74.45% for and 25.55% against. Its wide margin of success was the result of months of campaigning by the Providence for Palestine coalition. Despite not mentioning Israel or Palestine by name, both the question’s proponents and opponents understood that Israel was the primary focus. Today, I’m not interested in relitigating the merits of divestment from Israel — I’ve written in favor of a divestment proposal for Brown in the past, and there’s been plenty of robust discourse in this section both for and against it in Providence. Rather, I want to draw from it a lesson for student activists at Brown: Progressive victories are better achieved through local democracy than by appealing to unaccountable university committees.
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Students create new home for old tradition
Ryder Pavao, Adelaide Zell and Emily Best with their finished work. Submitted photo. Lakeville Historical Commission member Delia Murphy with the display case. Photo by Sandy Quadros Bowles. The students signed their names to their work. Photo by Sandy Quadros Bowles. Ryder Pavao, Adelaide Zell and Emily Best with their...
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Boston mom says son with Type 1 diabetes may lose place at Catholic school amid nursing shortage
A Boston mom is fighting for her type 1 diabetic son after she was told he may no longer be able to attend his Catholic elementary school because the school no longer has the staff needed to help care for him.
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BC’s Prison Education Program Launches Work-Study Program For Incarcerated Graduates
Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP) recently launched a six-month pilot program offering paid remote internships for incarcerated graduates in collaboration with the Alliance for Higher Education in Prisons and the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. “This is not only a first for our program, this is a first for the...
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Elks Lodge names students of the month
The Wareham-New Bedford Elks Lodge #73 recognized local high school Students of the Month for September and October. Each student received a certificate and a $100 check. September students of the month were Nathan Bruttanitti of Wareham High School, Liam Cassidy of Old Rochester Regional High School, Jacob LeBeau of Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School and Tyson Munk of Upper Cape Cod Reigonal Technical School.
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Scientists from 33 institutions challenge MIT to revisit David Sabatini case
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USA TODAY
Court ruling ends Boston high school football team’s playoff hopes after clerical error
Earlier in the week it was announced a Massachusetts high school football program would miss the postseason due a clerical error regarding its schedule. Days later, that ruling was upheld despite an injunction filed by Boston Public Schools. The Boston Globe reported Friday, Nov. 6, that the injunction filed to allow Boston English/New Mission into the postseason was denied by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Gillian Feiner . English's game against O'Bryant (MA) on Oct. 30 was the game in question as no one from Boston Public Schools submitted it on the scheduling platform the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) uses with its Sept. 18 deadline. Because of that, the game was counted as a scrimmage and not a regular season game. Boston Public Schools argued the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association did not correctly apply its own rule, MIAA rule 34.6 , and game against Bryant should have been counted as a forfeit. The Bulldogs finished the season 4-2 and did not meet the seven games needed to qualify for the postseason. Had it been counted as a forfeit, they would have qualified for the postseason playing as a lower seed. “We are disappointed that our MIAA appeal was denied,” a