College Hill is quiet these days. With Brown undergraduates enjoying the last few weeks of summer vacation, the few people on campus seem to have the place to themselves.

But the mood on campus is not so sunny, not after President Trump gloated about the deal the Brown struck last week to get the administration to unfreeze $510 million in frozen grant money.

“We have gotten rid of woke. Woke is dead,” Trump said the day the deal was announced.

Already at Brown there are rumblings of discontent that the university chose to appease Trump.

“Universities should not be negotiating with this administration — I feel strongly about that,” said Jacinda Lomba, a 2017 graduate now doing her pediatric residency at Brown Medical Center.

Lomba sees the deal as a betrayal of some of the progressi

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