<p>I visited both Brown and Stanford last week and i’m still torn between both. I have a few questions I forgot to ask about Brown that might help me out</p>
<li><p>When will Brown start paying students to work for the newspaper? Do students get paid to write for the College Hill Indep.? Also, can you use the newspaper as your work-study?</p></li>
<li><p>How much money does Brown give for undergraduate research?</p></li>
<li><p>Are there any dance parties at Brown? From what I saw, it was just stand around and drink parties…</p></li>
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<li><p>Both the Brown Daily Herald and the Indy are independent of the university, and I believe that you should not expect to be paid by either.</p></li>
<li><p>That’s a complicated question. I’m not the best to answer it, but I get the sense that undergraduate research is more feasable here than at a lot of research universities with grad schools. The UTRA program has given grants to a number of my friends, and those are fairly large stipends.</p></li>
<li><p>There are MANY dance parties, at least one MAJOR one almost every weekend. The majority of parties here have a large and well-used dance floor, and there’s plenty of beer and cocktails to go around to help loosen you up, if that’s your thing. If you want dancing, be it to rock or euro-trash or whatever, expect to have a good time here.</p></li>
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<p>Maybe someone else can provide some insight into these issues particularly in re Stanford?</p>
<p>I got an UTRA for this summer, and having talked to many students who have done it before, it sounds like an incredibly sweet deal, provided that your professor and you are on the same page. Look it up on Brown’s website for more details. It’s a pretty great program that makes it easy for even humanities students to get paid research experience.</p>
<p>For the record for the people involved with the Brown Daily Herald at the highest levels, there is some sort of assistance given the heavy commitment.</p>
<p>As I understand it (see <a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/home/generalinformation/[/url]”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/home/generalinformation/</a> ) the only people actually getting paid for working on the Herald are two full-time business staffers. I don’t think you can really be paid (maybe get some benefits, though) for actually writing for the paper, and either way this would not be the University paying you.</p>