Acronyms
Commencement
Nicknames
Quads
Buildings & Landmarks
100

DIAP

What is the Diversity Inclusion Action Plan

100

The student traditionally walk through these!

What are the Van Wickle Gates?
100

Dining Hall in Sharpe Refectory

What is the Ratty?

100

It used to be called Lincoln Field.

What is Ruth Simmons Quad?

100

The Blue Room is here!

What is the Stephen Robert Campus Center?

200

SAC

Staff Advisory Council

200

The library on Prospect & College Streets.

What is the Rock?

200

Known for being surrounded by Greek houses & famous for the large "slip and slide" on Spring Weekend!

What is Wriston Quad?
200

The address for the house where the Brown President resides.

What is 55 Power Street?

300

BCSC

What is the Brown Center for Students of Color?

300

We often refer to President Christina Paxson with this nickname.

What is CPax?

300

The name of the area between Alumni Hall and Smith Buonnano!

What is Pembroke Green?

400

CSSJ

What is the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice?

400

Periodical put out by OUC with a focus on alumni.

What is the BAM (Brown Alumni Magazine?)

400

The building on Thayer Street where our BIARI program used to be housed.

What is the Watson Intitute?

500

OIED

What is the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity?
500

Another name for the Front Green (this is what the students usually call it!)

What is the Quiet Green!

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