Inside a Chaotic Digital Record of the Brown University Shooting

How Brown University students documented a campus shooting online in real time

Students' posts—raw, fragmented, and sometimes panicked—formed a digital time capsule of how a college campus experienced a mass shooting.

Inside a chaotic digital record of the Brown University shooting

As a shooting unfolded at Brown University on Dec. 13, students turned to the anonymous app Sidechat to document fear, confusion and grief in real time — often before receiving official alerts.

Dartmouth to undergo ‘complete review’ of safety policies after shooting at Brown

Following a mass shooting at Brown University last month, Dartmouth's Safety and Security is undergoing a "complete review" of its emergency preparedness plans, senior vice president for operations Josh Keniston said.The review, set to be completed later this month, will aim to improve emergency "information flows" and implement concerns prompted by the shooting at Brown.On Dec. 14, 2025, a lone gunman opened fire on a study session at Brown, fa…