A student sent DOGE-style emails to Brown administrators. Congress gave him a spotlight.

A student sent DOGE-style emails to Brown administrators. Congress gave him a spotlight.

Alex Shieh, a rising junior at Brown University, sent DOGE-style emails to college administrators, prompting disciplinary actions.

A Muzzle Award to Brown University, which investigated a student for committing journalism

Sayles Hall at Brown University. Photo (cc) 2021 by Chris Rycroft. Recalcitrant administrators, emails and phone calls that go unreturned, and complaints from the people they write about — student journalists have a hard time, just as journalists do everywhere. What happened to Brown University student Alex Shieh, though, went well beyond that. According to Jeremy W. Peters of The New York Times, Shieh was investigated to determine whether he ha…