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Community Coordinators rallied on the Main Green this Tuesday requesting the University to voluntarily recognize their proposed union. In this episode of the Bruno Brief, we learn more about the details of this story and fill you in on other important news from the week. 

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Editors’ Note: On Friday, Vice President for Campus Life Eric Estes informed the Labor Organization of Community Coordinators that the University was prepared to recognize the proposed union pending a check of authorization cards, The Herald previously reported. This podcast was recorded before that news broke.

Music Credits:

Denzel Sprak: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/203142 

Bauxite: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/206800 

Woonsocket Middle School has been closed for 14 years, but developers are working to breathe new life into the school and transform it into approximately 150 apartments. The project is just one of the new adaptive reuse projects underway in Rhode Island as developers work to repurpose unused buildings such as old schools and factories to address the state’s housing crisis. In this episode of the Bruno Brief, we learn more about the details of this story and fill you in on other important news from the week. 

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Music Credits:

Denzel Sprak: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/203142 

Following years of student activism, Brown has officially launched the Critical Native American and Indigenous Studies concentration, which will see its first graduating students this spring. The concentration was part of five commitments adopted by the University in May 2022 alongside its official land acknowledgement statement. In this episode of the Bruno Brief, we learn more about the details of this story, and fill you in on other important news from the week.

Music Credits:
Denzel Sprak: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/203142
Our only Lark: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/203142

While Health Services has offered emergency and prescription contraceptives for over a decade, until recently students had to pay for or use their insurance in order to attain them. But, per a recent announcement, over the counter emergency contraceptives with be available for free at Health Services’s on-campus pharmacy. In this episode of the Bruno Brief, we learn more about the details of this story as well as filling you in on other important stories from the week. 

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Music Credits:

Denzel Sprak: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/203142 

Our Only Lark 

Hakodate Line (piano lead) 

In the finale of The Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Finn Kirkpatrick and Elysee Barakett discuss their reporting on the history of marijuana at the University. Though the National Institute on Drug Abuse found in 2020 that 44% of American college students used marijuana in the last year, Brown has gained the reputation of being a “stoner” school. Is this title earned? Where did it come from? What is happening on campus now?

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Music:

Denzel Sprak by Blue Dot Sessionshttps://www.sessions.blue

Crumpet by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue

Our Only Lark by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue

In the fifth episode of The Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Producers Elysee Barakett and Samantha Renzulli talk about their reporting on happiness at the University. Brown is ranked by the Princeton Review as the 10th happiest campus in the country and the happiest school in the Ivy League, and has a general reputation for being the “Happy Ivy.” But why does Brown have this reputation? Is it really true? 

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Listen to last week’s episode about the way income impacts students’ experiences at Brown here.

KeoKeo by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue

Denzel Sprak by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue

Our Only Lark by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue

Hakodate Line by Blue Dot Sessions  https://www.sessions.blue

Four Cluster by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue

In the fourth episode of The Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Matias Gersberg speaks with fellow Bruno Brief producer Carter Moyer about some of the ways in which class impacts social life, academics and admissions on College Hill.

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In the third episode of The Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Producer Carter Moyer speaks with Jacob Smollen, Bruno Brief and Metro editor, about his reporting on Brown’s left-leaning reputation. 

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In the second episode of the Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Producer Sonya McNatt speaks with Finn Kirkpatrick, Arts & Culture editor and Bruno Brief editor, about his reporting on the now closed-off tunnels that run underneath Brown’s campus and Providence's East Side. What’s the deal with these tunnels? What are their histories? And what’s their status today? 

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Clarification: This podcast has been updated to add additional information about safety conditions inside tunnels and guidance surrounding them.

Sources:

Brown Daily Herald — March 15, 2007 

Archeology of College Hill and Brown University

The New Yorker: “Peculiar Institutions”

Encyclopedia Brunoniana

New York Times: “Providence Tunnel Opened”

Art in Ruins: East Side Train Tunnel

Providence Daily Dose: “East Side Cultist Riot 1993”

Providence Daily Dose: “East Side Tunnel Inspires New Russom Album”

Providence Police 1994 Documentary by Josh Oreck and Ivan Hurzeler

The Brown Daily Herald — May 1, 1985

In the first episode of The Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Elysee Barakett, Bruno Brief producer and staff writer, and Daphne Dluzniewski, producer and senior staff writer, talk about their reporting on secret societies on campus. What secret societies exist on campus, and why are they so secret? How have students moved away from campus-affiliated organizations? And how has the influence of Greek “secret societies” on campus evolved?

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