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Brown sophomore Alex Shieh is facing disciplinary action for the crime of . . . emailing people who work at the school to ask them what they do all day.
That’s right: The Rhode Island Ivy is so desperate to keep its administrative bloat as big as possible (and likely to conceal a bunch of now-banned DEI shenanigans) that it’s going after a kid for doing basic journalism.
The complaints against Shieh are absurd: The school whines about his “derogatory descriptions” of jobs and “misrepresenting” himself as a journalist (which he 100% is); it also claims he used “information and data that could only be obtained from non-public sources and systems” and says it’s in no way a free speech issue.
Yeah, right: It’s the usual academic kangaroo court, so beloved by the woke left.
But it’s a sign Shieh is over the target.
His actual sin: Wanting to know from the 3,805 people who work non-faculty jobs at Brown how they spend their time at the $90,000 a year school.
With 7,272 undergrads, Brown staffs a non-faculty worker for basically every two kids enrolled. What work can possibly keep them busy?
Shieh got only 20 responses (the school reportedly told workers not to respond), many profane or hostile.
Yet he now faces Stalin-style punishment.
Hmm: Guess when you run a hedge fund with an adult daycare attached — sorry, an “Ivy League University” — keeping thousands of lazy losers on the payroll is more important than anything else.
Otherwise, why tell them to keep mum? Any employee, anywhere, should be 100% capable of explaining his job with zero problems.
Happily, Shieh’s unfazed by the school’s response and is even set to expand his DOGE-style initiative across the Ivy League — and Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) is now backing him and demanding answers from Brown.
Good on ya, Alex.
This is an opportunity for students of good faith everywhere to demand their schools come clean about their addiction to endless administrative expansion and DEI poison — and the tuition hikes to pay for it all.