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'''Brown University''' is an [[American]] university located in Providence, [[Rhode Island]].  It is one of the most [[liberal]] members of the [[Ivy League]], with pervasive pass-fail grading and the unlimited ability to drop a class without penalty at almost any time during the course.  The school featured a student prostitution ring in the 1980s<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/08/us/ex-students-testify-on-prostitution-at-brown.html</ref><ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19860313&id=TX0zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6930,1408644</ref> and a [[Title IX]] lawsuit in the 1990s.

'''Brown University''' is an [[American]] university located in Providence, [[Rhode Island]].  It is one of the most [[liberal]] members of the [[Ivy League]], with pervasive pass-fail grading and the unlimited ability to drop a class without penalty at almost any time during the course.  The school featured a student prostitution ring in the 1980s<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/08/us/ex-students-testify-on-prostitution-at-brown.html</ref><ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19860313&id=TX0zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6930,1408644</ref> and a [[Title IX]] lawsuit in the 1990s.

Brown was founded in 1764, making it the 7th oldest university in the United States.  The University motto is ''In Deo Speramus'', which means "In God We Hope" or "In God is our Hope."  The current President of Brown is Christina Paxson<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/president/|title=President}}</ref>; it has 628 full-time faculty members and 7,595 students.

Brown was founded in 1764, making it the 7th oldest university in the United States.  The University motto is ''In Deo Speramus'', which means "In God We Hope" or "In God is our Hope."  The current President of Brown is Christina Paxson;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/president/|title=President}}</ref> it has 628 full-time faculty members and 7,595 students.

==History==

==History==

Brown had "compulsory chapel"&mdash;a requirement that students attend Sunday services&mdash;from its founding until 1872.<ref>[http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=C0330 Chapel], from ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana.''</ref> After 1872 services were, of course, still conducted and students encouraged to attend them.  At some point, services again became mandatory (although not strictly enforced) until the requirement was finally abolished in 1959. A 1904 book of student verse includes a lament by one C. S. Mitchell entitled "Chapel Bell" which parodied [[Edgar Allen Poe|Poe]]'s ''The Bells:''

Brown had "compulsory chapel"&mdash;a requirement that students attend Sunday services&mdash;from its founding until 1872.<ref>[http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=C0330 Chapel], from ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana.''</ref> After 1872 services were, of course, still conducted and students encouraged to attend them.  At some point, services again became mandatory (although not strictly enforced) until the requirement was finally abolished in 1959. A 1904 book of student verse includes a lament by one C. S. Mitchell entitled "Chapel Bell" which parodied [[Edgar Allen Poe|Poe]]'s ''The Bells:''

:Hark! the bell&mdash;brazen bell<br>

:Hark! the bell&mdash;brazen bell

:What a world of agony its clanging notes foretell<br>

:What a world of agony its clanging notes foretell

:To the slumbrous sleepy student<br>

:To the slumbrous sleepy student

:As he bids his rest farewell...<ref>Boone, Ilsley (1904), College Hill Verse: Being Selections from Student Publications of Brown University, 1894-1904, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Ov889qyeUnxOVt4ej&id=zufLsuEUEHgC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=%22brown+university%22&as_brr=1#PPA4,M1 p. 4]</ref><br>

:As he bids his rest farewell...<ref>Boone, Ilsley (1904), College Hill Verse: Being Selections from Student Publications of Brown University, 1894-1904, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Ov889qyeUnxOVt4ej&id=zufLsuEUEHgC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=%22brown+university%22&as_brr=1#PPA4,M1 p. 4]</ref>

Brown University accepts applications for admission from homeschooled children.<ref>Christian Examiner, Sept. 2007, Vol 25, No 9, Pg. 12</ref>

Brown University accepts applications for admission from homeschooled children.<ref>Christian Examiner, Sept. 2007, Vol 25, No 9, Pg. 12</ref>

==Hypertext==

==Hypertext==

Brown University has been a pioneer in the development of [[HTML|hypertext]]. This technology was championed by Andries van Dam, who founded Brown's computer science department and chaired it from 1975 to 1989<ref>[http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/avd/ Andries van Dam]]'s home page</ref>. The first hypertext editing system, HES, was developed at Brown in 1967 by [[Ted Nelson]] (coiner of the word ''hypertext'') working under van Dam's direction.<ref>[http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/cpace/ht/HTatBrown/BrownHT.html Hypertext at Brown]</ref>, short summary by George P. Landow, professor of English and Art History]. Brown's Iris Intermedia project was important and influential; several significant bodies of hypertext developed in that system have since been ported to the Web, notably <ref>[http://www.victorianweb.org/ The Victorian Web]</ref>, an encyclopedic collection of information and source texts about the [[Victorian era]].

Brown University has been a pioneer in the development of [[HTML|hypertext]]. This technology was championed by Andries van Dam, who founded Brown's computer science department and chaired it from 1975 to 1989.<ref>[http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/avd/ Andries van Dam]'s home page</ref> The first hypertext editing system, HES, was developed at Brown in 1967 by [[Ted Nelson]] (coiner of the word ''hypertext'') working under van Dam's direction.,<ref>[http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/cpace/ht/HTatBrown/BrownHT.html Hypertext at Brown]</ref> short summary by George P. Landow, professor of English and Art History]. Brown's Iris Intermedia project was important and influential; several significant bodies of hypertext developed in that system have since been ported to the Web, notably,<ref>[http://www.victorianweb.org/ The Victorian Web]</ref> an encyclopedic collection of information and source texts about the [[Victorian era]].

==The New Curriculum==

==The New Curriculum==

Brown prides itself on its "New Curriculum," first established in 1969, which allows students to take virtually any course they want, with no general distribution requirements. Any course can be taken pass/fail. <ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=adp5xdxUBo78</ref>  However, the current undergraduate curriculum is currently under review, with recommendations set to be made in the spring of 2008. <ref>http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/03/01/CampusNews/New-Task.Force.Will.Review.College-2751247.shtml</ref>

Brown prides itself on its "New Curriculum," first established in 1969, which allows students to take virtually any course they want, with no general distribution requirements. Any course can be taken pass/fail.<ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=adp5xdxUBo78</ref>  However, the current undergraduate curriculum is currently under review, with recommendations set to be made in the spring of 2008.<ref>http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/03/01/CampusNews/New-Task.Force.Will.Review.College-2751247.shtml</ref>

==Controversies==

==Controversies==