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The Glenn Show

Alex Shieh – Bloat at Brown University

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In this bonus episode of The Glenn Show, I talk with Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh about Bloat@Brown, his website calling out Brown administrators whose roles, he says, may violate federal discrimination laws. We talk about why he started Bloat@Brown, diversity of thought on campus, class-based affirmative action, and the role of diversity on campus.

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0:00.0

Brown told people not towards...

0:01.2

You sent an email to everyone who was on a list of AI-determined administrative positions here at Brown.

0:09.7

Well, not just the ones determined by AI, but just everyone, just to get their side of the story.

0:14.8

And sort of Elon sent a similar email.

0:17.4

What did you do last week?

0:19.3

But who gave you... I mean, Elonon is appointed by President Trump to do a review of

0:25.4

administrative government. Who appointed you, Alex?

0:30.0

Well, this is where the controversy begins. But it was a press request, sort of our big school newspaper here to the

0:40.7

Brown Daily Herald, whenever they want to, whenever they run a story about someone, it's the

0:45.4

journalistically ethical thing to do is if you mention someone in your store, you have to

0:49.7

contact them and ask them for comments. And the way that my AI site worked is it sort of assessed people based on their perceived operational importance.

0:58.4

But that's just based on their LinkedIn and based on job postsings on Brown.edu.

1:03.7

And obviously, that's not totally fair.

1:06.4

So wait a minute.

1:07.1

Let me see.

1:07.7

You're justifying asking these administrators, the Elon Musk question,

1:15.4

what did you do for me last week? By saying you're soliciting comment as a journalist and you're

1:21.9

giving them an opportunity to tell you what they do? I mean, is that your story? I mean, I'm pretty much, that's, that's

1:29.2

pretty much the gist of it, is that we're naming all these names. And so it's the, it's the ethical

1:34.5

thing to do is, is to give them a chance to respond and sort of get a gist of what, what,

1:39.7

what, what, what are your job tasks? And so, so, but in this climate, you know, with the new administration and the house

1:47.2

cleaning that's going on, people losing their jobs and the rejection of DEI across

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