College students have long complained about cafeteria food that is less than appetizing, or more recently, culturally offensive, such as purported Vietnamese sandwiches made with ciabatta and pulled pork.
But Brown University student Alex Shieh, publisher of the Brown Spectator and creator of the Department of Government Efficiency-like Bloat@Brown database of administrators, may be the first student in American history to claim campus food is evidence of antitrust violations.
He testified at a House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing Wednesday on the “elite universities cartel” that has allegedly kept the cost of attendance artificially high in the Ivy League and near-Ivies and suppressed competition by making comparison shopping nearly impossible, even after a congressional antitrust exemption expired in 2022.
The sticker price of Shieh’s school is $93,000 a year, yet it has a $46 million deficit, “my dorm floods when it rains and the burger patties in our dining hall have been replaced by an unappetizing beef-mushroom blend” under a red-meat-reducing sustainability program that is “really about the cost,” Shieh told lawmakers.
It’s not a coincidence that the cost of higher education nationally has risen about 180% since the 1990s and Brown’s bureaucracy has grown about 160% in “recent decades,” Shieh said.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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