predecessor Brown University Students and friends of Ella Cook, who was murdered by a lone gunman at the university earlier this month, say it’s not surprising that Ivy League schools lack the preparation and resources to catch her killer.
Alex Xie said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital that misdirected financial priorities at Brown University were the root cause of why the killer was able to enter and exit university facilities largely undetected,
“I don’t think it’s particularly surprising that older buildings on campus have never been renovated with updated security systems because that’s not the focus of the spending and they know that regardless of the facilities, people are going to want to come to Brown because of the Ivy League name,” Hsieh said.
“People are a little confused that you have a school that spends $100,000 a year and has an endowment of $8 billion,” Shieh said. “How come there are no cameras in this building?”
Split images show Brown University victims Ella Cook and Mohammad Aziz Umurzokov, as well as slain MIT professor Nuno Loureiro.
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Sheikh is no stranger to what he calls Brown’s bloated and wasteful spending. While there, he served as publisher of the school’s student newspaper, the Brown Observer, causing a stir when he began asking questions about how much administrators earned and what they did on the job.
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Xie sent out a survey to managers asking them to elaborate on their jobs after being inspired by President Donald Trump’s Governorbut encountered opposition from the hospital. He noted that administrators make millions of dollars while facilities and students’ quality of life suffer.
Brown took disciplinary action against the former student, first claiming he caused emotional and psychological harm, invaded privacy, misrepresented the university and violated operating rules.
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“A school with about 11,000 students has about 4,000 administrators,” Shieh said. “That struck me as odd, and it’s clear to me that the growth and expansion of the number of administrators is causing tuition to rise dramatically across the country, especially at schools like Brown.”
“Class is not necessarily a differentiating factor [Brown] Compared with other schools, it is not the level of facilities or the level of dormitories, but [what] What really sets Brown apart and makes it worthwhile in some people’s eyes is the fact that Brown is an Ivy Leaguer,” Shieh added.
Brown’s heated reaction to the Sheikh report prompted a June House Judiciary Committee hearing in which Sheikh served as a witness to discuss free speech issues and the Ivy League’s misleading and excessive spending.
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The university eventually dropped all charges against Sheikh, who wondered whether some of the waste he hoped to expose might be the reason the facility wasn’t equipped with cameras or better security.
“The way they spend their money is very stupid,” Xie said. “It’s like paying the athletic director of a small Ivy League school millions of dollars a year and having a plethora of administrators.”
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Shaikh, who like Cook was a member of the school’s College Republicans, said he was shocked when he learned she had been murdered.
“She was a very nice person and treated everyone with respect and no one on campus really had a problem with her, which is why it was the most surprising of all that this happened to her,” Xie said.
On Nov. 13, Claudio Neves-Valente entered the Brown University campus and took the lives of Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, then drove 50 miles to Brookline, Massachusetts, where two days later he killed MIT nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro, according to authorities.
Neves-Valente avoided arrest, and a manhunt ensued that lasted several days. He was found dead after he shot himself in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday night.
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Law enforcement officials and investigators believe a homeless man who lives on Brown University’s campus provided an account of his interactions with Neves-Valente that ultimately led to the shooting.
If Brown had been equipped with preventive technology and installed cameras in the facilities targeted by the shooter, the shooter might have been arrested and the MIT professor would not have been killed.
Original source of the article: Former Brown student, friend of Ella Cook blames insecurity on ‘spending priorities’
