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{{Short description|Brown University student journal}}
{{Infobox Newspaper
|caption = A Journal of Conservative and Libertarian Thought
| name = The Brown Spectator
|type caption = AMonthly Journal of Conservative and Libertarian Thought
| owners = The Foundation for Intellectual Diversity
| type = Monthly Journal
| chiefeditor = Olivia Conetta, Oliver Hudson
| owners = The Foundation for Intellectual Diversity
| circulation = 2,000<ref>{{cite web | url = http://thebrownspectator.com/the-staff/ | title = About Us | publisher = The Foundation of Intellectual Diversity | accessdate =18 October 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020163023/http://thebrownspectator.com/the-10-18staff/|archivedate=20 October 2009}}</ref>
| chiefeditor = Olivia Conetta, Oliver Hudson
| political = Conservative
| circulation = 2,000<ref>{{cite web | url = http://thebrownspectator.com/the-staff/ | title = About Us | publisher = The Foundation of Intellectual Diversity | accessdate = 2009-10-18 }}</ref>
| foundation = 1984/1986/2002
| political = Conservative
| headquarters = [[Providence, RI|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]]
| foundation = 2002
|website =
| headquarters = [[Providence, RI|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]]
| website = [http://www.brown-spectator.com/ Brown-Spectator.com]
| weblog = [http://www.brownivy.com/ BrownIvy.com]
}}
'''''The Brown Spectator''''' iswas a student-run journal of [[conservative]] and [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] political writing at [[Brown University]]. It was originally the product of a student independent project. It was first published in 1984 "as a two-page offering of student writing on brightly colored paper".<ref name="brown.edu">http{{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0510|title=Encyclopedia Brunoniana - Brown Spectator|author=|date=|website=www.brown.edu}}</ref>
 
It was revived in 1986 as a Brown University, student-run opinion journal that published articles of both national and campus concern that other publications ignored. BegunIt was produced by Jennifer Polli ('87) and Karen Engel ('87), putand outdescribed theitself as "alternative journal" of conservative thought .<ref>http://www. name="brown.edu"/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0510</ref>
 
After disappearing for some time, ''The Brown Spectator'' was re-revived by Stephen Beale<ref name="brown-spectator.com">{{cite web |url=http://brown-spectator.com/ |title=Brown Spectator |accessdate=2011-10-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106031620/http://brown-spectator.com/ |archivedate=2011-11-06 }} </ref> during the 2002-2003 school year and survives in its current formfunctioned as Brown University's only journal of conservative and libertarian thought.<ref>http:// name="brown-spectator.com"/</ref> ''The Brown Spectator'' currently runsran with a wide array of political and non-political topics ranging from campus issues to national issues, as well as music reviews and political cartoons. Current co-editors-in-chief are Olivia Conetta and Oliver Hudson.
 
The journal's most recent article was published in July 2014, and its website has not been updated since.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Krishnamurthy|first=Anuj|date=2019-01-31|title=Krishnamurthy '19: Bring back the Brown Spectator|url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/01/31/bring-back-brown-spectator/|access-date=2020-10-15|website=Brown Daily Herald|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Controversy==
 
In 2012 ''The Brown Spectator'' uncovered important never before published documents about Brown University's misdeeds in a 2006 false rape accusation.<ref>http://brown-spectator.com/2012/05/a-universitys-shame-how-brown-betrayed-one-of-its-students/</ref> Ryan Fleming received praise for his investigative reporting, although feminist groups decried his decision to publish the name of an alleged rape victim. <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/BrownU/comments/u8u60/misogynist_ryan_fleming_13_editor_of_the/</ref>
 
==See also==
{{portal|Conservatism}}
* [[Collegiate Network]]
* ''[[The Stanford Review]]''
* ''[[The Dartmouth Review]]''
* ''[[The Cornell Review]]''
* ''[[Berkeley Political Review]]''
* ''[[Columbia Political Review]]''
* ''[[Harvard Political Review]]''
 
== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://brown-spectator.com/ The Brown Spectator] (official website)
*[httphttps://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0510 The Brown Spectator] at ''[[Encyclopedia Brunoniana]]''
 
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