Brown University funding questioned by House Republican after DOGE-like email

First on the fox: A dismantling controversy of an “bog” email message in one of the best American universities has acquired the attention of the Capitol Hill.

Representative Troy Niels, R-TEXAS, wrote to Brown University on Friday morning urging the school to reconsider any disciplinary action against Alex Shih, a second year student who sent an email that reflects a method in the government efficiency department in Elon Musk (Doug) who asked workers who are not faculty members about what they did “throughout the day.”

“Reports indicate that Mr. Shih participated in a journalistic work to contact university administrative employees to inquire about their roles and responsibilities. This procedure appears to have arisen from his view as a student who pays important fees and suffers from concerns about university facilities, which led him to question the allocation of administrative resources.”

“The student’s punishment apparently is an attempt to understand the university’s administrative structure raises serious questions about the Foundation’s commitment to opening the investigation and tolerance with the opposition views.”

A student of the University of Brown sings employees who are not faculty members through the question “What do you do throughout the day”, he faces punishment

He also called for more information on how to use Braun to his 7.2 billion dollars to reduce tuition fees and improve students ’lives.

It comes at a time when the American League Championships were pushed under the microscope by the Trump administration, both due to the high tuition rates and the differences surrounding the anti -Semitism on the campus.

Sheh has created a database of 3,805 faculty employees who worked at Brown University and sent an email to them to ask, “What do you do throughout the day?”

He wrote on X that he had obtained a disciplinary session after “he was charged with distortion and violating the information technology policy.”

The tuition fees alone at the University of Brown for the academic year 2025 to 2026 are $ 71,700. Foods, food and housing are about $ 93,000 a year, according to the school site – and with indirect fees, annual costs are estimated at $ 96,000.

Alex Shih, a student at the University of Brown, said that he sent a Doug email to employees who are not faculty who ask them what they are doing throughout the day to try to know the reason that the tuition fees were expensive. (Photo: Specification of the screenshot)

“I urge you to reconsider any disciplinary action taken against Mr. Shih and reaffirm the commitment of the University of Brown to protect freedom of expressing all its students,” Nilz wrote.

“In addition, below you can see screenshots from the Brown site, which shows the performance of its 7.2 billion dollars, which includes a 10 % annual return. Please explain how this money is used to improve the student’s experience or reduce the cost of tuition fees.”

Nehls previously introduced a draft law that would significantly raise taxes taxes on most college gift funds from 1.4 % to 21 %, in line with the company’s tax rate.

A Braun University official declined to comment on the Nehls letter directly upon reaching it by Fox News Digital, but he refused that freedom of expression was the biggest issue.

The Trump official stops more than $ 500 million in the Federal Federal Finance of the University of Brown due to the anti -Semitic response

“Despite what has been publicly reported, this is the issue of freedom of expression, as this is not at all,” Brian Clark, Vice President of Strategic University campuses, said in the email statement to Fox News Digital.

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“In the Brown Review Center, questions focus on whether the non -proper use of non -public brown data, non -public data systems and/or targeting individual employees violates law or politics.”

Clark added: “Brown has detailed procedures in force to investigate the violations of the alleged behavior law, resolve it and implement discipline in cases where the responsible students are found, and this will continue to direct our actions.” “Students have a great opportunity to provide information and participate directly in this process to ensure that all decisions are taken with a full understanding of the conditions.”

Rachel Del Guidice from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.