Brown University students overwhelmed by class, activism

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Students at Brown University are claiming that the combination of classwork and social activism is causing them mental anguish as they try to keep up with academics while maintaining a busy protest schedule, the Brown Daily Herald reported on February 18. David, an undergraduate student whose name was changed, told the student-run paper that students are "breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on." He added that

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Students at Brown University are claiming that the combination of classwork and social activism is causing them mental anguish as they try to keep up with academics while maintaining a busy protest schedule, the Brown Daily Herald reported on February 18. David, an undergraduate student whose name was changed, told the student-run paper that students are "breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on." He added that…