Posted on 05/09/2025 3:35:04 PM PDT by CFW
Brown University has cracked down on the Brown Spectator, a right-leaning student newspaper, hitting the paper with charges of trademark violations just weeks after a Spectator board member created a website exposing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials.
Associate Dean Kirsten Wolfe charged the Spectator with "violating Brown's 'Name Use, Trademark, and Licensing Policy' for having the word 'Brown' in the name of our independent non-profit and our website domain," Brown sophomore Alex Shieh, a reporter and board member for the Spectator, told Fox News on Thursday. On Wednesday, the board members sat for a disciplinary hearing over the charges.
"This isn't about trademarks. This is about retaliation," Shieh wrote in a post on X, calling the charges "the latest measure in [Brown's] crusade against independent student journalism." The university will make its ruling in the coming weeks, according to Fox.
"There's a reason every student newspaper in the country alludes to their school in its name without issue," Shieh wrote, noting that the university has not charged the Brown Daily Herald.
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This is crazy.
Most student newspapers use the college logo.
Not to mention the full, undivided attention of Trump and his staff eager to stamp out DEI.
Perhaps their DEI attorney advised them to proceed.
Let the Brown Student Journalists and Editors write all the stories they want, punish ‘em by not paying ‘em, that’ll teach ‘em!
“Brown University has cracked down on the Brown Spectator, a right-leaning student newspaper”
Do I have to permission from Brown University in order to note the color of my dining room table?
Violations of free speech of the media (school newspaper).
The newspaper should release a statement that their publication is intended for the advancement of Brown people.
Run that through your DEI filter!
Remember when Ivy League universities were respected?
Even if there is no lawsuit or legal case, Brown has regardless fed the flames of their own scandal.
Do they expect to get any good result from this?
As Nassim Taleb calls them: "The Educated Yet Idiot."
I can just smell all the cats she has in her dingy studio apartment.
“Even if there is no lawsuit or legal case, Brown has regardless fed the flames of their own scandal.”
This is a example of the fact that there IS such a thing as bad publicity!
This story is a complete fake. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, right leaning when it comes to Brown, the looniest of the ivy leaguers.
“Apparently Brown University wants to make a large pay-out to Mr. Xiao.”
Mr. Shieh. Alex Shieh is the Brown student.
Matthew Xiao wrote the article.
Brown, as well as Yale, were both founded by the wealthy slave traders, for whom they are named. Their statues adorn their campuses.
Hardly anyone knows this. It would destroy the credibility of those virtue signaling elites.
Mrs. BlackElk (RIP) went to Yale, and the University tried that with a conservative publication using the word “Yale”. The Yalies were crafty, though. They quickly provided a letter from the “Yale Locksmith Shop” allowing them to use the business’ name in their publication.
The conservative publication I worked on in college was at U of Chicago. Not much for them to trademark there.
Brown U? Should be DEI U.
I’m shocked that they are are still printing college newspapers. I drew political cartoons for our school newspaper back in the early 1970s.
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