Exclusive | Brown student who sent admin DOGE-style email tells The Post he wont stop hunting out bullst jobs, despite facing disciplinary hearing

Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh wants to take a Department of Government Efficiency-style chainsaw to the college’s bureaucracy — and he started by emailing thousands of school administrators to ask what they do all day.“I’m a big fan of cutting wasteful spending,” Shieh, 20, told The Post.“This is no different to what Elon Musk is uncovering in the federal government,” he added, referring to the DOGE head and Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump.

The computer science major had emailed Brown’s 3,805 administrators in March, and, in the style of email Musk sent to federal workers in February, asked them to “explain [their] role,” “describe what tasks [they] performed in the past week,” and “explain how Brown students would be impacted if [their] position was eliminated.”Now he’s fighting multiple counts of school rule violations and faces a disciplinary hearing on Thursday.“I don’t think it’s inherently antagonistic to ask them what their job is,” the New Hampshire native said.“It’s just journalistic inquiry.”Shieh, who identifies as a libertarian, complained that there are 3,805 full-time non-professor staff members at Brown — more than one for every two of the school’s 7,272 undergraduates.“Bureaucrats don’t feel any pain if they’re wasting a bunch of money by hiring a bunch of assistants or telling their underlings to do stuff that is useless,” he said.

“Their assistants become a status symbol themselves, like, ‘Hey, I have a lot of assistants.I must be a pretty important guy.’”This, he believes, is part of why tuition costs are skyrocketing.“Across the Ivy League, the price of tuition is rising far faster than inflation, and it seems to correlate very strongly with the number of non-professor staff members and administrators,” Shieh said.Next year, the cost to attend Brown is set to be $95,984, according to the school’s website — up from $78,706 in just 2019.

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