Brown University Tag

Brown Chooses DEI Official With No Security Expertise to Lead Post-Shooting ‘Physical Security’ Initiative

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 12, 2026 5 Comments

"a professor of Africana Studies and American Studies whose expertise centers on race relations, civil and human rights, and empire"...

Brown University Killer Recorded Video Confessions After Shootings

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 08, 2026 9 Comments

"I never wanted to do it in an auditorium, I wanted to do it in a regular room. And I had plenty of opportunities, especially this semester."...

Brown University Launches ‘Healing and Recovery Effort’ Following Campus Shooting

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 06, 2026 4 Comments

"The effort also includes planning remembrances for Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov"...

Brown University Implements Campus Security Overhaul in Wake of Shooting

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 31, 2025 3 Comments

"immediate actions will include increased public safety staffing across campus, and continued use of card access, keys or ID checks for building entry"...

Brown University Board of Trustees Curiously Silent Following Murders on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 24, 2025 5 Comments

"The board conducts regular reviews of the university president, and has authority over the president’s employment."...

Feds Open Investigation Into Brown Univ Over Security Failures, as Campus Police Chief Placed on Leave

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2025 41 Comments

As more facts come out, Brown's handling of campus security will look worse and worse, and should result in more firings and resignations....

Brown U. Custodian Claims He Warned Security Twice About Suspected Gunman

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 22, 2025 13 Comments

Who did he see? The alleged shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente....

RI Whistleblower Ramona Bessinger Barred from Serving on Public Health Board, Sues for Discrimination

Posted by Jane Coleman on December 22, 2025 21 Comments

First DEI drove her out of the classroom, then it drove her out of the doctors' office. Now Ramona Bessinger is suing officials at the RI Dept. of Health for rejecting her board membership based on race and sex....

Stolen Valor on Display as Providence Officials Take Bows

Posted by Ben Smith on December 21, 2025 25 Comments

No suspect was stopped. No second victim was saved. No accountability has followed. But the mayor and police chief are still taking bows....

Brown University Students and Staff Claim Security Worries Were Brushed Off for Years

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 21, 2025 3 Comments

"The engineering building where the shooting took place didn’t have a swipe-card mechanism and could be accessed by anyone through the public-facing coffee shop, students said."...

Did Hostility To Policing Contribute To Brown U. Failures?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2025 13 Comments

"A lot of colleges, and Brown also, are under enormous pressure not to cooperate with police, not to have surveillance cameras, not to have mask bans...