At 1:55 p.m., multiple students whose ID information was recorded by the Department of Public Safety officers during the encampment were notified that the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards was processing a student conduct violation, according to an email shared with The Herald.
The email alleged that students “were involved in an unauthorized encampment on the Main Green that was disruptive to the community and University activities … When approached about this and told to leave, you did not comply,” the email stated.
It added that the Office of Student Conduct is “currently processing this case” and students will “receive a separate communication about this incident soon.”
The Herald could not confirm the number of students who received this email at this time.
Provost Francis Doyle wrote in a community-wide email yesterday that while an “encampment itself is not an arrestable offense, it is a violation of University policy” and may lead to disciplinary action “up to and including separation from the institution,” The Herald previously reported.
At around 2:00 p.m., around 200 students gathered on the Main Green for an “emergency rally” organized by the Brown Divest Coalition in solidarity with the indefinite encampment that began earlier today. Participants chanted “From Columbia to Brown, we won’t let Gaza down” during the rally.
At the rally, Lily Gardner ’26 told the crowd that students whose IDs were scanned during the encampment were notified of forthcoming student conduct consequences.
“We are all ready to be ID’d and we are all ready to publicly stand up and fight for Palestine,” Gardner said. “The risks shrink for every single (additional) person who does it.”
During the rally, a representative of Jews For Ceasefire Now reiterated student demands for the University “to divest its endowment from all companies … enabling and profiting from the genocide in Gaza and the broader Israeli occupation of Palestinians as outlined by the 2019 ACCRIP report and the 2024 critical edition of the ACCRIP report.”
At 6:50 a.m. and 12:35 p.m., DPS officers scanned IDs of students participating in the encampment.
BDC spokesperson Sam Stewart ’24 wrote in a message to The Herald that there would be “a call to action for people not participating in the encampment to offer their IDs to administration to declare their support of the encampment.”
“The only response to Brown’s attempt to single out individual students encamping will be to flood them with hundreds of people willing to go on the record to Student Conduct,” BDC shared in an Instagram announcement.
During the rally, attendants were not asked to hand their IDs to BDC. DPS officers were not present at the rally.
In the announcement, BDC asked students to consider their “visa status, length of time spent breaking policy, history of past conduct violations and number of policies broken” before participating in any solidarity demonstrations.
Approximately an hour after the rally concluded, organizers distributed a flier with a QR code linking to a Google Form titled “Encampment Support Form,” which asked students to enter their full name as appears on their Brown ID card and Brown ID number “to indicate support for the encampment,” according to the form obtained by The Herald.
The form warns participants that by submitting their ID number, they may be subject to the University’s conduct review process.
They claim that the more student IDs they collect, the less likely the University will “single out individual students encamping” as they believe the cause has “safety in numbers.”
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
Owen Dahlkamp is a section editor overseeing coverage for University News and Science and Research. Hailing from San Diego, CA, he is concentrating in Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience with an interest in data analytics. In his free time, you can find him making spreadsheets at Dave’s Coffee.
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