Students Say Brown Decision on Sex Assault Case Was Motivated by Money

Last week, about 30 Brown University students crashed a campus panel on female university presidents. They dressed all in red and taped dollar bills emblazoned with "IX" over their mouths—a stunt to make the point that the university administration had let concerns about fundraising infringe on students' Title IX rights. At the start of the panel, they stood silently in an expression of protest. And during the Q&A session that followed, they peppered administrators with questions about how they've handled sexual assaults on campus.

The students, joined by a growing crowd, are accusing the administration of wrongly ending an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations because the accused student's father is a university donor and trustee. In the last few weeks, dozens of students have decried Brown for allegedly violating sexual assault victims' rights—tweeting #MoneyTalksAtBrown and #GHBGetOutOfRapeFree, changing their Facebook profile pictures to images of themselves with money taped over their mouths, and organizing marches and demonstrations across campus.