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Let's go to Brown University. I know it well, sir. One of four to be named after a color.

Navy, Brown, Crimson, No, Rose, Auburn, Navy, Brown, and Sienna.

Yeah, Sienna. What's up? Brown University is implementing a change to its graduate school

application that will allow applicants to self-identify as persons of color.

Multiple efforts by the college fixed to clarify the details of this change were ignored by

campus officials. The policy comes as a result of complaints made by graduate students on the

Graduate School Advisory Board that international and Asian American students are not treated as

members of historically underrepresented groups by the university, according to the Brown Daily

Herald. One graduate student, Lydia Kilo-Benet from Diversityville, told the Herald that this

decision has led to institutional invisibility for these students. Brown defines historically

underrepresented groups as American Indian, Alaska, and Native African American Hispanic or Latinx,

Latinx. I didn't know that was, was Latinos. And Native Hawaiian, Native Hawaiian, they're

Americans and or Pacific Islander. The school's diversity initiatives are intended to benefit

members of these groups. Brown's criteria for historical underrepresentation cause some students

to not receive invitations to certain events such as a multicultural student dinner.

Ah, yeah. Yeah, he's available. How allowing applicants to self-identify as people of color

will affect policy relating to the diversity initiatives and whether the university will take any

steps to verify applicant self-identification remain unclear. Brown University, you say.

This is not institute. This is university. Reach by email, Campus spokesman Brian Clark provided

a link to an article from Brown's online news department celebrating the graduate school's

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