Brown University financing questioned by the Republican Chamber after a dogle email

First in Fox: A beer elaboration controversy on an email “Dux” in one of the best universities in the United States has caught the attention of Capitol Hill.

The Troy Nehls representative, a Texas Republican, wrote to Brown University on Friday morning urging school to reconsider any disciplinary action against Alex Shieh, a second -year student who sent an email that reflects the style of the efficiency department of the Government of Elon Musk (Doge) that asked the workers of the university not empowered what they did “all day.”

“The reports indicate that Mr. Shieh participated in a journalistic act of contacting university administrative employees to ask about their roles and responsibilities. This action appears, emerged from his perspective as a student who pays a substantial registration and experiences concerns regarding university facilities, which leads him to question the assignment of administrative resources,” Nehls wrote.

“Penalize a student so it seems to be an attempt to understand the administrative structure of the university raises serious questions about the institution’s commitment to open the research and tolerance of dissident views.”

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The Troy Nehls representative is writing to Brown University about student Alex Shieh. (Getty/Reuters)

He also demanded more information on how Brown uses its endowment of $ 7.2 billion to reduce registration and improve students’ lives.

It arrives at a time when Ivy American Leagues have been pushed under the microscope by the Trump administration, both for its high registration rates and by controversies that surround anti -Semitism on the campus.

Shieh had created a database of the 3,805 non -professionals who worked at Brown University and sent them an email to ask: “What do you do all day?”

He wrote in X that they had given him a disciplinary hearing after being “accused of misrepresentation and violating the politics of IT.”

The registration alone at Brown University for academic year 2025 to 2026 is $ 71,700. Foods, food and housing positions carry it up to approximately $ 93,000 per year, according to the school’s website, and with indirect positions, annual costs are estimated at almost $ 96,000.

Alex Shieh, a second year student at Brown University, said he sent an email similar to Doge to uncompassed employees who asked them what they do all day to try to discover why the enrollment has become so expensive. (Photo: Zoom screen capture)

“I urge you to reconsider any disciplinary action taken against Mr. Shieh and reaffirm the commitment of Brown University to protect the free expression of all its students,” Nehls wrote.

“In addition, you can then see screenshots of the Brown website that show the performance of its endowment of $ 7.2 billion, with an annual yield of 10%. Explain how these funds are used to improve the student’s experience or reduce the cost of registration.”

Nehls previously presented a bill that would significantly increase special taxes in the endowment funds of most the largest universities from 1.4% to 21%, in line with the corporate tax rate.

A Brown University official declined to comment on the Nehls letter directly when he was contacted by Fox News Digital, but denied that freedom of expression was the broader problem.

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“Despite what has been informed, publicly frame this as a problem of freedom of expression, it is absolutely not,” said Brian Clark, vice president of news and strategic communications of the campus, in a statement by email to Fox News Digital.

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“In the center of Brown’s review they focus on the questions focused on whether the inappropriate use of non -public Brown, non -public data systems and/or orientation of individual employees violated the law or politics.”

“Brown has detailed procedures to investigate alleged violations of the Code of Conduct, resolve them and implement discipline in cases where students are considered responsible, and they will continue to guide our actions,” Clark added. “Students have a wide opportunity to provide information and participate directly in that process to ensure that all decisions are made with a complete understanding of circumstances.”

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