On Wednesday, Bloat@Brown creator Alex Shieh ’27 will testify at a congressional hearing about alleged antitrust violations ...

A Student Takes a Stand Against University Waste** In a remarkable turn of events at Brown University, student journalist Alex Shieh has bravely challenged the inflated bureaucracy of elite academia, ...

Brown University has cleared student Alex Shieh as well as the board of The Brown Spectator of allegations that they violated ...

Alex Shieh says he’s fighting for universities to be ‘filled with the best and the brightest, not the richest and most well ...

So, he sent them a DOGE-style email asking that exact question. Now, he’s facing disciplinary action. “The inspiration for ...

All members of the legal board of the Brown Spectator — Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Marcus ’26, Managing Editor Gray Bittker ’27 ...

Alex Shieh, a student journalist at Brown University, asked questions about administrators' spending. Then the university ...

A Brown University student journalist who sought to investigate administrative bloat was cleared of alleged student conduct ...